To rescue her friends and save Equestria, Starlight Glimmer leads an unlikely band of heroes against one of the ponies' oldest and greatest foes.

Without the assistance of Twilight Sparkle and the Mane Six, Starlight Glimmer must work alone to assemble an unlikely team of heroes to defend Equestria from the return of one of its greatest threats.

The Cutie Map summons Twilight and Rainbow Dash to the Wonderbolt Academy to solve a friendship problem between academy hopefuls Sky Stinger and Vapor Trail.

When Apple Bloom tells a white lie to cover up a mistake, Applejack shares the story of how she came to value honesty after telling a series of lies that almost destroyed the farm and landed the whole Apple family in the hospital.

Twilight must find the truth after Applejack, Rarity and Pinkie Pie have three different versions of events from their boat trip and are upset with each other.

Though Starlight Glimmer is excelling at her magical studies with Twilight Sparkle, she feels pressure to impress her teacher and takes on too many friendship problems at once.

Applejack and Fluttershy follow the map to Las Pegasus where they discover suspicious going-ons at a resort called Gladmane's; they also find Film and Flam working at the resort.

Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy turn out to be Ponyville's best buckball players; Applejack and Rainbow Dash agree to coach them against Appleoosa

When Fluttershy tries to convince her freeloading brother to move out of their parents' house, he moves in with her instead, forcing Fluttershy to stand up to him and help him get over his fear of failure.

When Rarity opens her flagship store in Manehattan, a tell-all article threatens to expose how badly her friends almost ruined the Grand Opening.

Spike is forced to compete in a dangerous Gauntlet for the title of Dragon Lord in order to save his friends.