Valiant Knight is a young Earth pony stallion born into the second generation of Applejack's Rangers. After finally earning his power armor and the rank of Knight, he is assigned to a safe and boring post monitoring communications for their outpost on Fetlock. His posting was just routine until he receives a coded transmission only he can decipher from their long-dead Ministry Mare Applejack.

This ain't right, not one bit, I'm sorry it came to this, to make you choose a side. But I reckon we ain't got many choices, not before them fellers break through our defenses. We need reinforcements at the Crystal Empire I'm putting the uh, what's the blasted word? Co-or-di-nates? Oh, crab apples, just don come and help us out! I need Steel Rangers, and I need em yesterday!

This transmission sent through an old Steel Ranger communications channel sends the order in a panic to send an expedition to the frozen north. Now Valiant prepares the way for this expeditionary force as a scout for the order, an Outcast Ranger. As he leads his squad of outcasts north, Valiant wonders what lies in the north, a land thought lost to time and megaspell fire.

Cover Art by: L1nkoln