Twilight Sparkle’s world crashes around her as everything she once believed in, crumbles to dust. Does she rise above it to fill in the shoes of her mentor? Or does she allow it to bring her low…

Twilight is a royal princess of Equestria, an' Ah'm jus' some farm pony... So why have Ah fallen for somepony so far outta my reach? Will Ah ever reach her heart? Ah'm not so sure. But Ah have't try.

The story continues several weeks after the Rainbooms’ crushing victory over the Dazzlings at the Battle of the Bands, with an emotionally ambivalent Sunset Shimmer uncertain on what to feel about her brief and yet heated affair with Adagio Dazzle.

Cheerilee finds love from an unexpected source from a past student.

Scar, having somehow escaped from the very moment of his death, finds himself in Equestria. Unfortunately for him, being stuck in a strange new world comes at a price and he can only hope something... or somepony can change him back to normal.

A parent must make sacrifices.

Derpy loves her daughter enough to sacrifice everything to keep her precious little muffin one moment longer... but is she right?