Twilight Sparkle, proud personal student of Her Royal Highness Princess Celestia, has just arrived to Ponyville with a supposedly critical assignment: "make some friends." Surely there are more important matters to attend to? Surely Princess Celestia would understand if Twilight reneged just this once, for the greater good? Surely… a coin flip would help.

But it can be unwise to trust in fate.

Thanks to La Barata and Golden Vision for initial brainstorming (and FloydienSlip for the title).

Thanks to ChromeMyriad for pre-reading.

Cover image by Huussii, used with permission.

Character tags subject to change as the story progresses.