Celestia almost skipped into her office, really with the upcoming bake sale nothing could bring her down! Glancing at her desk, she blinked, confusion settling in upon noticing that there was a closed envelope with her name and nothing else on it sitting on it. Picking it up, she carefully opened the letter, scanning it's contents quickly. All color drained from her as she slowly sank into her chair, the letter's content swimming through her mind. She needs extra hands for the bake sale if the threat in this note was anything to go by. Well, at least Zecora to help out. The new heroes couldn't handle this kind of danger.
Celestia hummed to herself as she sat at one of the tables in the cafeteria, so as to see what all of her students were doing of course, skimming over the sign up sheet for that night's bake sale. No surprise, Pinkie had signed up to bring close to two hundred cupcakes. What was a surprise was the fact that she signed up to bring two hundred vanilla cupcakes. The eccentric social bug normally signed up to bring more... interesting flavors for this kind of fundraiser. Actually... make that for anything at all. Shaking her head, she glanced around the cafeteria to make note of where everyone was scattered. No surprise, everyone was sitting with their cliques. Pinkie was for once sitting with the Rock Club, which was somewhat odd seeing as she didn't really get along with her older sister, Limestone Pie. Sunset was still sitting with the school bullies. Fluttershy was sitting at the same table as the Nature Lovers, while Rainbow Dash was discussing something with the rest of the soccer team. Rarity was staring intently at her phone, still waiting for a response from Amazinshine about whether or not she got the internship, the rest of the Fashionista's appeared to be talking about Lady Fashionista's latest battle. Applejack was working on some assignment, barely paying attention to the rest of the FFA.
Of course that when she noticed that she was short a student... and she knew for a fact that Twilight was present today, seeing has they had ran into each other in the hall earlier. Standing up, Celestia gathered up her stuff and left the cafeteria, figuring she better try and find Twilight, see if the still friendless girl needed any help with anything. After wandering through the empty halls for some time, she eventually made her way into the library to ask the librarian if she had seen her.
Casually scanning the room as she walked over towards the librarian's desk, she most definitely wasn't expecting to see Twilight, with Spike resting at her feet, pouring over a vast number of historical texts. "Twilight?"
"Oh! Ms. Stardust!" Twilight snapped her head up, surprise flashing in her eyes. "What brings you here?"
Celestia chuckled as she settled down in the empty chair next to her. "Believe it or not, you. I noticed that you weren't in the cafeteria and wondered if you needed any help with anything."
"I... thank you ma'am. I'm just having a smidgen of trouble with this history essay. I was hoping to use this time to do some more research. It's on this era that I'm not too familiar with." Twilight picked up a notebook, which was filled to the brim with various notes, and resources.
"I see. Well, I wish you the best of luck on that dear." Celestia glanced at her watch, startled to see that lunch was to end soon... and her meeting with the school board was going to start in another minute or so. "I have to get going, or else I'm the one that's going to be late."
"K. See you later Ms. Stardust."
The Bake sale was a success. Okay, it's only been going on for a few minutes, but come on! Give her a little credit! Everything was set up without incident, and families were mingling about the place casually like they had no care in the world, occasionally buying one of the baked good that was for sale. Celestia paused, eyeing the large courtyard almost warily. It wasn't that she didn't trust people, mainly a certain someone, to ruin the day... okay maybe she did have a good reason to worry.
Zecora slipped up to her, a frown crossing her features. "Perhaps you are worrying over nothing old friend. I do not see any signs that He Who Must Not Be Named is here at all."
"Zecora tells the truth sister. Surely you were mistaken?" Luna slipped silently next to her, seemingly melting out of the shadows.
Celestia rolled her eyes at her, before turning her attention back to the bake sale. "Perhaps you are right... Mr. Blahard doesn't appear to be here." But that doesn't mean his alter ego won't show up. Celestia hurriedly shoved that thought out of her mind, knowing from the slight frown Luna was giving her that she was probably correctly guessing where her thoughts were turning. Celestia shook her head at her, just as a loud explosion threw everyone near the entrance to the ground. Tensing, Celestia scanned them for any injuries, suddenly glad that she has heightened senses. "They're alright..."
"Yes, and soon one of our new heroes will pop in and save the day." Luna assured her, her own eyes scanning the surrounding area quickly.
"Odd." Zecora stared at the culprit, her brows furrowing in confusion. "That is not our old foe."
Startled, Celestia glanced over to see that her old friend was telling the truth, it was not Master Chaos standing in the destroyed entranceway. Instead it was a rather angry looking... clown? Oh boy.
"I hate parties!" The clown... Celestia doesn't want to know what his actual name is, bellowed out in more anger.
"This isn't a party... it's a bake sale!" Applejack informed him as she tried to pry her younger sister off of her. Apparently the explosion had terrified young Applebloom.
"Hey! If you ask me, the most boring thing in the world can be a party if you got friends with you!" The mysterious pink party themed hero that had shown up clear back when Humble Heart made her first appearance popped up, a silly grin on her face. Celestia scanned her quizzically, noting that she truly looked like she was on the way to a rather wild children's party, three balloons painted onto her cheek just like how the other three have apples, butterflies, and diamonds respectively.
The fight that took place wasn't that long, Party Bomb, as the newcomer happily introduced herself as, used her super speed and some kind of explosion, she yelled something about sprinkles before she threw them at him. By the time the police arrived, the clown was knocked out. He also turned into a homeless drunk after he lost conscience. While everyone else murmured in surprise at this new detail, Celestia glanced over to Luna and Zecora.
The three of them frowned, worry creasing their brows. Luna began to speak, worry tinting her voice. "Perhaps we should renew our search for the Lost Elements of Harmony. If he does manage to get ahold of them and corrupt them..."
"They are safe. The Chosen ones have been dealing with the villains that are not Master Chaos or his lackeys." Zecora spoke in a mere murmur, her expression more thoughtful than worried. "I believe we should worry more on saving the school, than trying to locate them."
"If you say so Zecora." Celestia sighed, vaguely wondering if this was one of those times when it was just Zecora trying to remain levelheaded... or if her old ability to peer into the future was letting her know something that they didn't know.