Sometime in the past, Maud took Pinkie on a journey, though she doesn't remember when they started or why. Not that it matters anymore, because now Pinkie Pie is sick and Maud needs to find a doctor, no matter the cost.

Five ponies wake up in a lighthouse in the middle of a storm. It all goes downhill from here.

Daring Do gets dragged down to Tartarus. Rainbow Dash has to save her.

Babs Seed is just another foal, and she lives her daily life looking for her cutie mark together with her friends: The Manehattan Cutie Mark Crusaders. She gets involved with a group of ponies who defend the city from monsters.

A young Redheart finds herself as a soldier in a war she wanted to go into, facing enemies she wanted to face, together with her friends and comrades. But when all is said and done, she is happy that the rain falls on the trenches.

On a continent far to the east, where the mountainous kingdom of the griffons lies, there lives a girl by the name of Gilda. Having grown up sheltered and far away from the world, she is called upon for the Great Hunt and determines her fate there.

In an alternate Equestria, an assassin, an orphan and a witch all try to reach a princess, all have their own circumstances and their own goals.

What once was Equestria is but a wasteland coated in darkness nowadays and what remains of ponykind drifts from one oasis to another in caravans. The cowardly pony Stardust is a guard of one such and after a disastrous event is forced to leave home.

In an alternate timeline where magic has vanished together with Discord, six fillies from the city of Canterlot go to find its burial ground and reawaken the ancient powers.