Outside Equestria, a tainted Stable protects a crystal filled with a colt from the past, exposed by accident to an early form of the Impelled Metamorphosis Potion. However, Stable Eighty-Five is no longer safe. A young pegasus named Crusader Candy must find another location before the security detail of the former military base does something drastic. But first, she must learn the rules of the Wasteland.