With DIO gone, and Celestia's stand withdrawn, Equestria falls into the pains of everyday society. As the equines learn to live without help, much division arises, and with that division the opportunity for an old enemy with a new ability to seize control of the land. With the Mane Six separated, the Elements of Harmony powerless, and friendship dying, the princesses know that there is only one hope for Equestria: a morally-ambiguous vampire that can stop time.

I wanted to write more. I couldn't let this story go, and I kept telling myself "No, it's a perfect ending, don't ruin it", but everything in me says "there can be more, I can show more of this hypothetical DIO I have created, and maybe people will like it just as much as they did before". Depending on reception, I might even make a double-trilogy. I intend for this to be a very serious variation of what we saw in the first trilogy, a time to take away the metahumor and silliness to use these characters to ask bigger questions about the moral ambiguity of the world, and of course to write a compelling story in the process.

Rated Teen for depictions of violence, death, gore, suggestive themes, and mild language.