Fire Chief Tall Blaze looked up at the towering inferno encompassing the upper floors of the Manehatten skyscraper. The buildings listing marked those as rented out by some start up producer of candy, toys and military munitions. Years of experience helped him know the cause almost instantly and he shook his head at how easily this could have been avoided. It's against fire code to produce stuffed bears so near rainbow gumdrops, but they went one step further and added unicorn dolls and rainbows...on the same floor. If it wasn't for the munitions production floor set between them, the whole building could have exploded. Fortunately it was a weekend and the building was empty save for the owners of previously mentioned company.
Tall Blaze put all that to the back of his mind, he had a job to do. He turned towards his pegasus squad and prepared to order them on an extraction mission to the roof where they believed the two occupants had fled. Before he could give his orders, a loud pop and a bright light temporarily blinding him.
"I'll be taking over here," came a voice from where the noise had originated.
Tall Blaze rubbed at his eyes to clear the spots and managed to finally see who had caused the commotion.
"Princess Sparkle!" he quickly bowed.
"Please don't bow, there is no need," she said as she walked towards him. "Who is in charge here?"
Blaze raised himself back to standing, "That would be me. Tall Blaze, fire chief of the Manehatten Fired Departement, East Division." He gave her a salute.
"Very good. As I said I'll be taking over the operations here. We will not be sending in a pegasus rescue squad," She took the time to survey the fire as she walked beside Blaze.
"I don't understand? We believe there are two citizens trapped on the roof, why are we not sending the pegasus squad?"
"Simple chief. What we have up on that roof is a F3 friendshipping event, and we need to ensure it doesn't get interrupted."
"Friendshipping event?" he asked puzzled.
"Thats right, and we need to make sure it completes itself. Thats why we will be using this," with that she pulled a tarp out of thin air and placed it near the base of the building. A few moments of magic later and it was completely inflated to the size of a small house, with a giant X marking the top.
"What do you plan to do with that? You don't seriously expect them to jump, do you?"
"Oh, I predict just that."
"But thats insane. They wouldn't survive a fall from that height even with that bounce house under them," said Blaze in exasperation.
Princess Twilight turned towards the chief, "Do you realize how powerful a near death experience is in building a friendship? It's basically the only way I build friendships now, it's that powerful." Twilight leaned forward into the chiefs face as she continued, "If we send a pegasus squad up there, they will be rescued and might end up as friends for a time, but they will slowly drift apart. Their friendship will not be as strong as it could be and it will break. They will go their separate ways, causing a weakening in the harmony of Equestria. If that happens, the elements might not be as powerful as they once were, resulting in them being unable to beat the next foe who wants to conquer equestria, plunge into eternal night, and cover it in low fat spaghetti sauce. Do you want to be the cause of Equestria being covered in spaghetti sauce?" Twilight poked Blaze with her hoof for emphasis.
Chief Blaze meekly shook his head.
Twilight smiled and gave the fire chief some space, "Good, now lets get this show on the road. I'm going to need you to read this into that bullhorn you have." She handed him a piece of paper.
Chief Blaze took his bullhorn and began, "Hello up there?" He gave a sideways glance at the princess, then continued, "If there is..."