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Dais Clash:
Dais' coat was looking somewhat more pale blue than usual, as it often did when he was being overworked. The mayor always managed to find a lot for him to do, most of which seemed designed to just generate a whole lot of meaningless paperwork to convince the ponyfolk of Ponyville that the mayor was generally busier than she actually was. Which - Dais was slowly starting to discover - wasn't actually all that much. Still, Dais persevered happily through the long thankless hours, both because he cared deeply about Ponyville, and because one day he was going to be the mayor.

And as a somewhat more guilty pleasure - as soon as all the work blew over, the mayor did give him the papers to build a new homeless shelter on the site of an old abandoned house in Ponyville. Dais had neglected to mention to the mayor that two young fillies were squatting there already, but he figured at least one of them should probably be sent to hospital anyway, and the other he could ensure found room at the shelter. He also thought he had her todo list for some reason that he couldn't remember very well. He'd return that as soon as he could.

Now that his work was finally over, the time for the fireworks had arrived. It had been several days since he was supposed to have blown up the house but he had done his best. A few days behind schedule was nothing to worry about, but it would not be wise to put it off any longer either.

Soon enough Dais left his office to find three bulky ponies carrying several large barrels and charges outside the town hall. They probably would have been very suspicious to any random passing pony, but since Dais had become mayoral assistant, his wacky plans often drew all sorts of strange ponies to town. And besides, the TNT Bros. vests they were wearing made them look much like construction ponies.

"Mister Dais Clash?" asked one of the ponies.
"Indeed - and you must be the explosives guys ready to blow up that old house I wrote to you about."
"Torpex, Nitro and Tovex - the TNT brothers at your service, purveyors o' the finest explosives in Equestria."
"I see. And are you sure this will blow up the house completely? I don't want any debris falling around the neighborhood."
"This is a magically enhanced explosive" explained Torpex "You can rest assured that anything within the explosive range will be completely obliterated forever. Even the magic of an alicorn princess would have a very hard time bringing anything back that's been properly exploded with this stuff. Just a brief flash, a loud boom and then it's all quite cleanly gone."
"Perfect!" Dais lit up "So how much does it cost?"
"Well as you can imagine, an explosive as great as this doesn't come cheap" said Nitro "It takes forever to get the magical spell just right."
"And as such" continued Tovex "We do charge something of a premium."
"Uhh - how much?" continued Dais, wondering why spooky music seemed to be playing in his ears.
"Oh - we don't want your bits" laughed Torpex "We have more than enough of those. What we want from you, Dais, is a concession."

"That's it?!" asked Dais "Perfect - I concede that I am the coolest mayoral assistant in..."
"Not that kind of concession!" snapped Tovex "We want you to lobby the mayor to change the law!"
"Change the law?" asked Dais "You got it - I've long thought we could save so much on ink if we only printed our laws in another font..."
"Not a font change Dais" said Nitro "We want to be able to sell our explosives to Diamond Dogs."

Dais looked confused "Diamond Dogs? You do know those things enslave ponies right?"
"Come on" replied Torpex "Just because Diamond Dogs are usually cruel doesn't mean they're going to use our explosives for evil."
"Yeah - if Diamond Dogs had our explosives" pointed out Nitro "They won't need to enslave ponies to do their dirty work - the explosives will do it all!"
"And think how much money we'll make!" added Tovex. The other two brothers seemed to glare at him for saying this.
"I don't know" said Dais uneasily. He knew the mayor could be something of a pushover when an official asked her to change the law.
"Come on" said Torpex "It's only slightly corrupt, but the benefit for ponies throughout the region will be huge."
"And besides, that's the only price at which you're getting your hooves on these explosives" threw in Nitro.
Dais sighed. "Alright fine" he said "I'll ask the mayor tomorrow."
"It sounds like we have a deal, mister Dais Clash" smiled Torpex "Now let's move out and blow that house up."

Carri Air:
Returning from the marketplace, Carri flies into her second floor window and shortly after strolls out the front door.

The house's renovations would fool nearly anypony into thinking they'd made the wrong turn if they were looking for the old desolate building that stood there just yesterday. The help of as skilled unicorn and a few strong stallions had turned the place into an elegant abode that a philistine such as Brash would attack on sight.

Patrolling the area in front of the house, Carri waits for Brash to return.

Dais Clash:
"So anyway" said Dais, strolling up to the street the house stood on confidently "The house we're looking to demolish is right..."

Dais blinked twice to make sure his eyes weren't deceiving him. This wasn't the same house.

"Uh - should be this one right here?"

Torpex laughed a little to himself "This house here? This isn't the old run-down house you described."
Dais looked confused. "But... it was right here! Must be some sort of magic spell or something!"
"Sorry Dais" said Nitro "This house looks like somepony lives here. We can't just go demolishing somepony's house while they're in it!"
Frantically, Dais magically summoned a map of Ponyville. "See? Right here. Old abandoned house. It says so pretty clearly."
"Well then the map must be out of date" replied Tovex "This is a house alright, but it looks neither old nor abandoned."
"Hey" said Torpex "What's with that little foal patrolling in front of the house? Is she your guard or something Dais?"

Dais looked around shiftily as he caused the map to disappear again. "Uh - would you excuse me for a moment? I might want to go over there and talk to her. You know, ummm, just in case she knows what's going on."
"Alright" said Nitro "Although... I think we would be willing to blow it up, if the price was right Dais. Just remember that."
"Don't worry, I can assure you it's both old and abandoned!" called Dais as he left the three demolition ponies behind.

"Hey Carri!" called Dais "I've got my demolition crew all ready. How're you doing?"

Carri Air:
"Oh, hey, uh...." Carri stops patrolling and stares blankly at Dais, having not actually been prepared to have to defend the house. She gulps and begins shifting frantically, thinking of another excuse to have the house not be blown up. She looks around for ideas and her eyes go to her wings for a moment before her head snaps back to Dias, "Cotton wing! I, uh, have cotton wing, it makes my wings... not so good, so I can't move my stuff out, so please do not blow up the house."

Her legs shake and her eyes go wide as she expects to be caught in her lie and the house be destroyed.

Dais Clash:
"I'll help you move your stuff Carri!" said Dais heroically. He was really glad that he could be of service.

Then he looked around, puzzled. There was a long awkward moment where Dais didn't really know what to do or say. "Um, where's your house gone anyway? Did you move it somewhere? Did that moving give you cotton wing?" he asked quickly.

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