Construction workers finished connecting the long wires to the last wooden post in town. At the top of the post were four metal cones, painted white, each blazoned with the golden oak leaf emblem of Ponyville's seal. Following the wires led back to town hall, where they then went into the wall and straight to the mayor's office. The wires connected to a transmitter and microphone on her desk.
"Thank you for helping set this up, Princess." Ivory Scrolls, the mayor, said.
"It was my pleasure. I think its a good idea to set up a system like this to help keep the citizens of ponyville informed, especially since so much seems to happen to this town."
"I know. There's a reason they say this town is cursed." The mayor said. "Alright, I think the workers are done, shall we test it out?" The mayor pushed the button on the microphone, a loud crackling could be heard outside as the dozen or so radio towers came to life.
"Attention citizens of Ponyville!" The mayor said. "This is your mayor speaking, testing out the new town-wide alert system. Thank you, and have a nice day!"
"Well, that worked great. Glad to see you really do care about the citizens." Twilight said.
"Oh, I don't." the mayor said, taking Twilight by surprise.
"What?"
"I couldn't give a rat's rear end about this town. As far as I'm concerned everypony in this town is a low-brow dirty hick. I'm kind of glad when all these disasters destroy everything because it means everything gets rebuilt, adding a little bit more modernization each time. These ponies are stupid as well, they'll listen to anything I say without question, its actually-"
Suddenly the door burst open, the mayor's secretary ran through the door. "MAYOR! THE MICROPHONE IS STILL ON!"
The mayor stopped and looked at the microphone, the little green light was still on. The looked at Twilight with a look of worried shock on her face.
"Yeah, I can't help you with that." Twilight said, walking out of the room. The mayor cowered under her desk as she heard an angry mob forming outside. "Good luck, mayor."