Life couldn't be more ideal for the ponies in Ponyville, none more so than Pinkie Pie, who looks forward to the birthday party of one of her closest friends… but what she doesn't know, what nopony knows, is that dark events are unfolding, events that will see their happy lives split apart at the seams…

For this story and it's sequels each chapter is from a different character's perspective, thus a change in perspective means a new chapter, hence why the chapters are ridiculously short.