The Ponyville rumor mill attempts (badly) to make sense of terrible apocalyptic happenings; but Twilight (eventually) discovers what happened and tries to (hopefully) set things aright
"All we must do to secure our stipend is grant fair Rarity a title? By all means, do so posthaste! We cannot foresee any harm she could encounter from that!" – Princess Luna, a notoriously poor prognosticator.
Trixie's wagon wheel breaks, stranding her in the middle of Hoofington. Unable to fix it herself, she must call upon Equestrian Roadside Assistance for help. If help will ever come, that is. Which it probably won't.
Spitfire is tired of Rainbow Dash's ridiculous stories. Dash doesn't see the problem. The Ponyville chief of police had hoped for a quiet Hearth's Warming for once.
Spike thought that if a pony had checked out a book or printed a page once, they could be trusted to do it again without supervision. Spike was horribly wrong.