On top of that, they probably hadn’t gotten any of the groundwork done before he and Kate had arrived. How chaotic would it have been if the first lunar mission had not only found aliens, but those aliens had hitched a ride back to earth on the Apollo? The ponies must have been terrified that they’d do something else wrong, and perhaps further injure their unwitting visitors. No wonder Twilight was so exhausted; she’d probably been frantically preparing things for the last couple of days, waiting for the cavalry to arrive.