The news spread like wildfire. If there existed a pony living under a rock, several hundred miles from any other pony and wearing noise cancelling headphones, they still would've known within hours if not minutes. It was all anyone could talk about, and all anyone really wanted to.
The papers all had the same headline. "Luna imprisioned for crimes against the crown!" Within they described how Celestia had gotten Luna arrested and thrown in jail for her attempted takeover, citing a long dead law as her reason. The reactions from ponies on the lunar side were all pretty much the same, pure unbridled anger. On the solar side emotions were more mixed, although many celebrated few of them wanted to "win" like this. Celestia had played dirty, and everypony knew it.
Surprisingly, or unsurprisingly depending on your point of view, Pinkie decided to continue with her planned lunar party, despite the fact that any reason to celebrate was gone. One of the first guests to arrive was Ditzy Doo, and Pinkie Pie of course was on her like, well like Pinkie Pie when she saw anyone she considered a friend.
"Oh hey Ditzy, it's so good to see you. I was worried no one would show up because of all that funny business. Why do they call it funny business when it's never funny? Those silly fillies, thinking business is funny. Anyhow I'm so glad your here, I had no idea you supported Luna, which is really good because-". Ditzy cut her off at this point.
"Calm down Pinkie, I'm just here because I feel bad that Celestia threw Luna in jail. I'm here to support you guys, not either of the princesses." Pinkie still remained excited.
"Okay, that's fine too, so long as you remember to have some fun here!"
"I will Pinkie."
Ditzy took in the room around here. Although Pinkie looked the same, there was definitely something different about her. It showed in the decor as well, while the decorations at Pinkie parties was usually quite colourful and hard to ignore, today it was much more bland and reserved. The recent events were clearly getting to everypony.
Over the next hour or so many other ponies arrived at the party, including Twilight and Fluttershy. Fluttershy was being quiet as usual, but Twilight just looked upset. Most ponies present didn't notice, but of those who did most simply attributed it to Luna's imprisonment. They assumed incorrectly.
Ditzy noticeed something was amiss. Twilight seems to look... different than usual. Maybe I should ask Fluttershy what's up with her. Knowing Twilight I doubt shes probably too upset to talk about it, but Fluttershy probably already figured it out. Confident in her plan, Ditzy approached Fluttershy
"Hey Fluttershy, do you have any idea what's going on with_" Ditzy stopped as she saw Fluttershy shrink back in slight terror. This might be a little more difficult then I thought. "Just calm down Fluttershy, there's no reason to be scared of me." A very quiet voice came from the yellow pegasus.
"But everypony is so angry, I... I wouldn't want to start anything by accident. I could never let anypony get hurt because I said the wrong thing."
"Well, yeah, I guess I see what you mean-"
"And everything is just so tense late, what with the thing with Luna and all. It could erupt at any moment, and it's hurting us all so much." Fluttershy was opening up more now. "I mean just look at Twilight, her mentor threw one of her idols in jail, she's just devastated. I can't believe believe Celestia would do such a thing and-" Twilight interrupted her.
"I think that's plenty Fluttershy. No need to tell everyone about my personal life."
"Oh, um, sorry Twilight." Fluttershy shrank back again. "I'm just worried about you is all." Ditzy broke in again.
"Well I'm sure you'll be fine as long you have your friends to support you."
Ditzy started to walk away but stopped when she heard a quiet voice, like someone mumbling to themself, coming from Twilight.
"As long as I have friends to support me. Wouldn't that be nice." Ditzy turned back to speak to them again.
"What was that Twilight? Did you say something or am I just hearing things?"
"You're just hearing things," Twilight snapped back a little too quickly.
"Alright then," Ditzy said. I wonder what got Twilight so angry there. I said something about her friends being there to support her, so she shouldn't be upset at that. Unless they aren't there to support her. Then it hit her. Wait,maybe... No, there's no way the split was gotten that bad.
Her thoughts were interrupted by a loud crash coming from the door. She turned to look and saw that there was no door to speak of, instead there was a group of three brightly dressed ponies, one of which immediately began yelling at everypony present.
"What in the hay do you ponies think you're doing? Having a party at a time like this. Newsflash, you guys lost. Big time." The other two ponies snickered, but stopped when they heard somepony in the crowd yelling back.
"Hey, we're just trying to have a good time here and you disrespectful punks burst in here just to rub it in that you 'won'? You daywalkers wouldn't even have the chance if you're princess hadn't bent the rules." All of a sudden there was a full blown yelling match in which few ponies could be heard.
"Daywalkers? That's crossing the line buddy!"
"Who are you calling buddy you incandescent dunderhead!"
"Big talk coming from a moon muddler"
"That does it, you're going down!"
Ditzy flew up above the chaos and saw very much the same thing she'd seen a few days prior. Pure unbidled destruction and needless hatred. There's no place for me here. She escaped through a window just before Twilight started yelling.
"What are you ponies doing! Stop! Don't you see! None of this fighting makes any sense!" Twilight was trying to be heard over the babbling of the ponies present, but no one at the party could hear her, with the exception of a figure at the door, or more accurately where the door once stood. He spoke, bringing everypony in the room to a sudden stunned silence.
"Oh Twilight, what fun is there in making sense?"
Discord had arrived.