As the mares came back into the damaged city, they noticed a large crowd in the streets.
“Everypony! Please calm down!” Mayor Mare shouted into her speakerphone. She was standing at the center of the mob, surrounded by bodyguards.
“My house is rubble!” yelled a mare in the crowd.
“Where are the doctors? my husband is unconscious!” shouted a stallion.
“I chipped a tooth!!!” screamed an imbecile.
“Please, we are doing our best to assess the cause and damage of the incident! Until then, please listen to the doctors and fireponies, and do what they tell you! There is a team of builders coming, but they won’t be here until tomorrow and we will begin reconstruction! In the meantime, emergency housing will be provided to all who have been affected! Do not go into your homes until they have been cleared by an inspector! They will work as fast as they can, but they must be thorough! Please settle down, your panic helps no one!” the Mayor desperately yelled. But while some ponies left, the majority remained. Mayor Mare heaved a sigh and began repeating herself. While she did so, Twilight and her friends went far enough away to ignore the sound. They found a quiet space between a caved in wall and one that was still mostly standing, though the same couldn’t be said for the rest of the building.
“This is simply terrible!” Rarity said
“Yeah. Ah didn’t think it was this bad in th’ city,” Applejack said.
“Wow.” Rainbow Dash gazed upon the mounds of rubble inside building with the caved in wall. “What do we do?”
“Isn’t it obvious!” Pinkie said. “We help!!! We have these thingamadoodads now, we can use them to fix it all up!” She held up her ring. Most of mares had forgotten about them upon seeing how bad it actually was, despite the heavy weight of the lanterns on their backs.
“Yeah! Good thinking Pinkie, with these we can fix the city up in no time!” Rainbow Dash started concentrating on her ring as the other mares nodded in agreement.
“No.”
Rainbow Dash’s concentration broke as she, along with the rest of the group, turned to face Trixie.
“I- I mean,” Trixie stammered, “Not right now. Even if we can control these things, if we start rebuilding willy-nilly, we’ll get a lot wrong. Let’s wait until tomorrow when the builders come. We can show them what we can do and they can tell us what we need to do.”
This made sense to the mares, and, despite Rainbow Dash’s slight annoyance at not getting to work right now, they agreed to wait until to tomorrow.
“So, what do we do?” Rainbow Dash asked.
The mares all looked to Twilight, expecting her to have an idea. Before she could think of one though, Fluttershy spoke up.
“I- I’m sorry, I need to leave. I need to check up on the animals. S- sorry.” Fluttershy looked down at the ground.
“No, don’t be,” Twilight said. “You’re right. Today, we need to make sure everything’s all okay. I need to check if Spike’s fine.
Pinkie Pie gasped. “I need to check on Mr- Carrot and Cup! I have to make sure they saved the cupcakes!” Pinkie sped off towards SugarCube Corner, her running making the green lantern on her back bounce back and forth.
“Yea, an’ Ah hav’ tah go make shure that Granny, Big Mac, and Applebloom are all fine.” Applejack said.
“I must go and find Sweetie Belle, then I will have to go and make certain that none of my designs were destroyed. Oh, I don’t what I would do if they were damaged!” Rarity said.
“I need to check on Spike,” Twilight said.
“And I have to go see if my apartment’s still standing,” Trixie added.
“So, it’s agreed then? We all deal with our problems and go see Mayor Mare tomorrow morning?” Twilight asked. The mares all nodded.
“Well, wait,” Rainbow Dash said. “What am I supposed to do?”
“Ah dun’ know, go take a nap, or somethin’,” Applejack said. With that the other mares all went off their separate ways, leaving Rainbow Dash standing alone on the street.
“Nap?” she said to herself. She glanced at her ring, glowing a violent crimson. “Yeah, right.” She took the red lantern off of her back and grabbed the handle between her teeth. She lifted off and flew to her training ground, where she would stay until tomorrow.