Equestria is a sandy wasteland, one day a cloaked pony sees two ponies, one of them looking like her, they travel back in time and that gives the cloaked pony (twilight) the idea to travel back in time, but she travels to the worst time, its her and a wizards (starswirl) duty to make friends with all ponykind and save the land from windigos to stop eternal winter, with the friendship fire and found equestira