This is the first part of the "My Little Gears of War" Trilogy. As all of ponykind wages war on underground dwellers known as the locust, a rag tag squad of ponies fighting for the "C.O.G" or "Clydesdales of Ordered Governments", who rule all of Equestria after the fall of the two sisters, find themselves fighting for their lives, families, and the survival of the pony race. They soon discover that their role in the war is much more significant then they could have ever imagined.