After the destruction of her home and humiliated by the very ponies who destroyed her life's work, Queen Chrysalis tries to find a plan of revenge to take back what was hers, but she's running out of time, ideas, patience, and her own sanity. She needs to amass an army to overthrow not just the ponies, but their many allies as well. She's desperate to try anything.

Even with some means she does not entirely comprehend.