Equestria, once known for it's fine scenery and humble townsfolk, was now nothing more than a wasteland, being rebuilt from the ground up after recent events. A wasteland caused by lies, greed, power, deception, and corruption. Corruption that was caused by the greed of a villain, trying to get back at Celestia's most faithful student... Twilight Sparkle.

Several years ago, Twilight had moved to Ponyville in search of friendship, as Celestia had requested. When Twilight lived in Canterlot, she had no friends. She was more focused on reading and learning new spells to even care about friendship. All she needed was her books and her assistant, Spike. That was until Celestia sent her to Ponyville to check on the preparations for the Summer Sun Celebration. Her mission succeeded when she decided to give in and make five new friends who were big help to the preperations and after an adventure they had became the Elements of Harmony and they defeated Nightmare Moon, which also subsequently brought back Celestia's younger sister Luna which had not been seen in over one thousand years, as dark forces trapped her inside of Nightmare Moon, making her become some evil monster. Through thick and thin, these mares were unstoppable as the Elements of Harmony. They walked the land together, went on many adventures and thwarted evil villains along their way, which eventually led to Twilight becoming a princess. A title of which she had took so much honor in, helping ponies along the way. She was the next ruler of Equestria and everypony knew it, but things changed, in her eyes.

It has been almost five years since she has became a princess, and life had moved on seemingly without her. Her former assistant, Spike was spending time with his wife, Rarity, which at first she thought was cute that they finally admitted their feelings, but after a while, she thought the marriage would fail as she did not think a pony and a dragon could possibly even have a family. A few months later it was announced that Rarity was expecting her and Spike's first foal, what was said to be a daughter, thanks to new technology the Doctor had brought from one his trips to an alternate universe. It was a miracle that they could even conceive, most thought, but with this new technology, the foal will have a safe entrance into this world.

Applejack was overseeing things on Apple Acres along with her husband, Caramel with whom she just recently married. After, Granny Smith passed away, the farm was passed down to her, as she was the only pony who devoted their time to the barn, since Applebloom was busy with school, and colts and since Big Macintosh decided to start dating one of her best friends. She would also find a way to make the apple cider taste sweeter and with the help of Pinkie, she made it to where the once famous Apple Cider was now even more famous, as everypony was drinking the sweet apple beverage. Ever since then, sales have went up along with the stress of more demand for the new beverage.

Rainbow Dash was now a Wonderbolt, 2nd in command shall we add, flying the skies along with her boyfriend, Soarin, and her adopted little sister Scootaloo who was now a member of the Wonderbolt Academy, shattering any records that Rainbow Dash had broke when she was a member of the academy herself.

Fluttershy and Big Mac were raising their daughter, while trying to deal with the stressed out AJ who could not handle the barn by herself, and Pinkie Pie was now the 3rd owner of SugarCube Corner alongside Mr. and Mrs. Cake. She was still the hyperactive pony she was, but ever since dating Pokey Pierce, she has mellowed out so not to scare any customers away, due to her being the boss of an ever growing business in Ponyville.

Twilight Sparkle, all she did was work. She worked so much, she was starting to regret ever using any powers to even impress Celestia. Her friends had an amazing life, why couldn't she? She was a princess, that does not mean she could be overworked. Celestia and Luna were never overworked, she felt like it all fell on her. At first she did not mind, but the stress was starting to overwhelm her. She did not have time for anything. She hasn't even found time to start dating yet and even though a stallion in the Royal Guard has made advances to her, she still could not start dating as she thought she would have no time in the world to be commited to somepony.

She did not know why these thoughts were coming to her head suddenly, but she was not worried about them. As more and more of these thought went through her mind, she was starting to think she had no friends, she was starting to think nopony cared about her or her feelings and that they just used her for her powers. This was a terrible thought to start thinking about but she was slowly not regretting it ever coming across her mind. After all of the trouble she went through to be a friend to them,and to be a princess of Equestria this is what she gets? Why did she have to be the one with all the duty? She felt like dirt, she felt unimportant, and most of all she had felt lonely. Maybe she needed to call a reunion to sort of get things off of her chest, she felt like that was a good thought for once as she was starting to fade to sleep... That was until her dreams got the best of her.. and a visit from a King she once defeated being in those dreams.. Now, everything has changed..

This is the story of Twilight Sparkle, this is the story of how friendship never dies, and most importantly this is the story of how corruption can damage everything.