It was late at night. Luna and Discord had started looking for the place where the explosion had taken place, after they had agreed to work together, if only during emergencies. They had been flying for what felt like hours for both of them, and they really didn't feel like talking to one another.
And then they saw something.
"Oh look, it's a cat. Wonder why he's got a hard hat." Discord said, as he landed back on the ground from his hovering stance. "He looks suspicious. Doesn't he look suspicious, Luna?"
Luna sighed. "Whatever, Discord. Do you see any evidence of explosions anywhere around? We only came here for this, after all. Not cats with hard hats."
The cat looked at Luna as if there was something very wrong with her face. He then turned around, and started back towards some bushes.
"Why did the cat scowl at me? I'm a pretty pony princess, Discord. Nopony scowls at me. Unless.... they don't like me.." Luna started thinking about what she had seen so far. "Wait a minute, we just saw a cat wearing a hard hat, it looked at me funny, like it didn't want me here, and left as if ..."
"It was GUILTY!" Discord proclaimed, raising a finger as if to make a point to all who were present, which was only Luna and himself. "We must follow the cat, Luna. The result of our mission depends on that cat with the hard hat, so we must follow it to its den."
"Finally. Let's see where he goes." Luna answered.
"OR we could put a tracking spell on the cat and come back in the morning." said Discord, feeling rather tired.
"Or we could do that, then." Luna said as she cast the spell on the cat.
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-MORNING-
Sparky Blaze had already gotten up when Zippo came in by the open kitchen door as he prepared breakfast for the day ahead.
"Oh hey, Zippo." He said.
"Meow, meow."
That was all Sparky needed to hear to know that Zippo was all well and good. He tried to grab his cereal box from the counter with his magic as he opened a drawer to pick up a bowl, but the cereal wasn't budging.
"Dang, I guess I'm still not fully awake then." Sparky mumbled as he grabbed the cereal with his hooves.
Having both a bowl and the cereal, he then poured some milk and completed the making of his cereal bowl. The unicorn then proceeded to walk over to his living room, cereal bowl on his back, where he would then spend his time eating and reading some books he borrowed from the library to help him infuse bombs with magic.
"The bomb definitely had magic in it yesterday when it went off, but it seemed to not actually irradiate the effects of the 'No Hurting Ponies' spell I plastered on it." He spoke between spoons of cereal, " but the yield of the bomb seemed to have been tripled or even quadrupled with the magic. I mean, look at how many holes my wall has!"
His house was still a mess from the blast the day before, with shrapnel stuck on the walls facing the bomb range area, but Sparky Blaze promised himself that he would fix it up sometime some other day.
Then the doorbell rang.
Setting down his bowl of cereal, Sparky walked over to the door and opened it with as much enthusiasm as a prisoner would have locking his own cell, which is to say he took his time.
Behind the door were two very powerful individuals which the yellow unicorn was definitely not expecting, and was most definitely not going to disrespect. After all, they didn't know about the damage he caused to the fields, right?
"Uhh, can I help you, Princess Luna and 'Taxidermy Gone Wrong'?"
All he could remember was being struck in the face by multiple spells and being tossed into a glowing portal.