Equestria is a powderkeg. In the shadow of riots, political turmoil, and civil unrest, the land cannot afford another crisis. When a legal snarl over a funeral explodes into tribal scandal, there may be a chance to make things right.
Armed with total faith in the power of friendship and harmony, Twilight Sparkle arrives in Cloudsdale to talk down a faction of radical young Pegasi.
It would be a lot easier if their leader hadn't been petrified for fifty years.

Takes place between The Last Problem and MLP: A New Generation.

Entry for Imposing Sovereigns IV, with the prompt Twilight Sparkle/Persistence