Cadence finds a strange little magical light floating about, and makes the perhaps unwise decision to investigate. Unbeknownst to her, she is lost the moment she sees it. And all of Equestria might just be lost with her.
Her eyes swirl with the hypnotic colors of the little darting light, as it begins to mold her mind and body into something more suited for it’s purposes. It feeds on her bountiful alicorn magic to strengthen itself, and funnels the corrupted, twisted magical byproducts into new… reserves.