Now, somehow these ponies had found out about some silly old 'Elements' or whatever that they thought they could use to fight me. Ridiculous, isn't it? I love a good joke as much as anyone, but they were being awfully dull and annoying about it, so I...took care of things.

Except little miss Blah-Blah-Overthrow-the-Evil-Ruler picked that moment to grow a sense of spontaneity and send her little sister off to find the rest of the Elements of Boring and not get killed or whatever.