When spike goes on a walk for some alone time in the woods he sits down near a tree, he reflects upon and goes back through the most recent events with nightmare moon, all he had done was simply sleep while they stopped her, he did nothing... he wished that one day he'll be able to help them all in his own way, as he thinks it over a strange spider crawls on him and bites him and he passes out, when he wakes up he feels nothing different at first, but after a couple days he notices strange changes... and after a strange earthquake Spike is sucked into another world where he must learn to master his new ability's and get home