Each and everyone of you knows the story of Twilight and her friends. I believe, it would be a lie to say otherwise. A story of a righteous mares that saved Equestria numerous times. The brave adventurers that walked Equestria back and forth. And all of this in the bright world of Equestria, an utopia. Paradise.

But... There is another story. A story where Equestria drowns in waves of corruption and brigandage. A darker Equestria, where honest ponies live like garbage and die young, while thieves and burglars, bandits and thugs prosper.

Maybe, there is a hope. Maybe, Twilight, the star pupil of Princess Celestia, will come to Ponyville, find friends and Elements of Harmony, defeat Nightmare Moon and start to cleanse their world. To treat it, that illness that consumed them completely.

But there isn't. Twilight and her friends are a part of this system. The gears that twist in that hideous machine. Though, they still managed to find the Elements of Harmony. But it's more like being in wrong place and in the wrong time, so, basically, the consequences of using the artifacts are not the one they would like to have.

…So, take a sit. This story begins.

Author's notes. I have no proofreaders, so I need all your feedbacks, corrections and criticism.
Author of the original cover-art is darkflame75
About the settings of the story.
I was inspired by the Forge World and also by the Blackguards game series,
(So it's a Arcane/Clockpunk Equestria, in which the hope of the world lies in the hands of misfits and criminals).
The Sex tag is for sexual innuendos. This story has no actual description of sex.
Outtake chapters are not obligatory to read. They have information about certain aspects about the setting or lore, which I don't know how to add to the actual story. By the way, if you don't like what you read in them or you don't understand the information in them, you can apply your own ideas to the story.
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