Life up to this point has been difficult for Night Shade. After spending almost two centuries as little more than a designated villan, he finds himself transported to a new word and facing an all new problem: How exactly do you make friends?
Twilight discovers a strange room containing many items lost through the ages. It also contains the skeleton of a pony, but it is not quite dead, and it escapes into Equestria. But is the necromancy practicing pony truly so evil?
Given the successful befriending of Discord, Princess Celestia deems that no longer will villains be defeated but instead reformed. Brought back from the dead and stripped of his powers, Sombra only wishes he could have stayed dead all along.
Madness. Bitterness. Cold, unwavering cruelty. Could love and acceptance truly wipe these stains away, or will they only offer the chance for the creation of a new foe, far worse than any Equestria had ever seen before?