The Trotson Commonwealth, even eight years after the Day of Sunshine and Rainbows, it remains wild wasteland of intrique and mystery. A veritable tempest in a teapot, the Commonwealth seems to reject the outside world with a will of its own. The strange storms and other dangers have repelled the great powers of post war Equestria, The Goddess, Redeye, the Steel Rangers, the Grand Pegasus Enclave, the New Canterlot Republic, the Lunar Commonwealth, none have managed to claim the area in all these years. Even the fantastic magic of Gardens of Equestria was unable to penetrate the shroud cloaking the ruined metropolis. Those who live there and the few who have visited over the centuries all whisper the same thing as the cause, the Institute...
More than two centuries after the balefire bombs fell, a prewar repair-pony colt and native son of Trotson awakens in Stable 111 to find a very different Commonwealth than the one he escaped. Having spent 90% of his time in stasis, Fast Times left the old world behind and grew up in the safety of the Stable. When he wakes from going back into the freezer this time however, things are terribly wrong. The Stable's empty, his family and friends have been ponynapped, and Fast is the sole survivor waking up decades after the shadowy Institute took everything from him.
Venturing out to the surface and the wasteland waiting above, Fast soon meets those who live in a world so far removed from his foalhood memories of the surface, and he finds how they make it a world worth living in too. New friends, family and even Princesses wait for him out in the world above, setting the awkward repair-pony down a path to find his family, unravel the plots of the mysterious mad scientists in the Institute, and 'fix' his new home in the wasteland. If he survives it.