After a distressing experience, Spike volunteers around town to make amends. When he gets to Berry Punch, he isn't quite prepared for her… particular brand of eccentricity.
Adult Spike is trying to work out exactly how dragon magic works, and after he expresses frustration at not being able to use the only text ever written on it, his boyfriend decides to find it for him.
What does it mean to be a deity? It's not all fun and games; with unlimited power comes all the weight of being a ruler, a leader, a god. Right? Unless you're a team of chaos gods, then it really IS all fun and games...
Discord decides to retire and a strange being not only took his place as the new God of Chaos, but choose Spike to be it's new protégé. The age of Discord has ended. Thus rises the dawn of Maelstrom.
Spike will embark on an incredible adventure where he will meet new friends and do great deeds worthy of the hero of the Crystal Empire, so he will find his true purpose in life.
"Harmony doomed us. I killed Cozy Glow (although she was always a robot). If anycreature remains, heed this warning." -Former Princess Twilight Sparkle.
Starlight had done it: She successfully prevented the rainboom and destroyed the time spell. Now, there's only one way Twilight and Spike can save the future: Help their friends earn their cutie marks.