Twilight Sparkle and Amethyst Shadow visit the Starswirl the Bearded Wing of the Canterlot Royal Archives, where the dark purple unicorn casts a time-travel spell, landing her several years into the past. She travels to Ponyville to rebuild the friendships she left behind, interacting with the ponies as they "relive" events that have already taken place in her original timeline as she tries to find a way back to the future. Eventually she is reunited with her son and daughter, but in a most unusual way. Taken to a future timeline, she soon discovers the future is not for her and she is returned to the previous timeline. She then decides to make a new life for herself in that previous timeline. Fate has certain plans in store for her, though ...

Cover Image commission by Marcus Bat (on FB).