Based on the Heartstringscomic Tumblr (or at least the comic at the end of Chapter 3.
Rainbow Dash always boasts about how she isn't scared of anything, but it gets even worse during Nightmare Night. Now Rarity and Applejack, with the help of Lyra Heartstrings, want to give her a real scare, and they get more help from some ponies they really didn't expect.
Many thanks to tritestbristle, the author of the comic, for giving me some feedback on this story.
...And for telling me how canonically incorrect this will soon be. heheh...
Also many thanks to my loyal follower Nightmare Nyx for prereading.
"You only asked me because my alias has 'Nightmare' in it..."
Don't be silly, Nightmare Nyx.
Chapters (3)
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I do what I can, and what I can do is fit stories to the show's canon.
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P.S.: I can't believe I didn't think to write costumed Bon Bon into the story. I shall troll readers with it in the epilogue.
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Hmm... I tried that, but I wasn't sure if it looked creepy-voice...y... enough. I'll consider it, though.
Just as good as I remembered
Let's go to the next chapter!
Really good chapter here, bro. Laughed so hard when Fluttershy scared Rainbow nearly to death
What's going on here Scoots? Did you got scared so hard that you forgot proper talking?
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Dpn't be silly. Pbvipusly she's excited, npt scared.
Sweet epiloge. Now that the story is finally finished I can say that it was just as I thought it would be.
Awesome and hilarious. Again you did an awesome job on your story
Going to see you in the next one!
Yay, I ended up really enjoying this.
ReFaved. fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/357/c/0/fave_by_comeha-d6z0jqh.png
--Sollace
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Glad to hear that.
For now, I have three more days to write the second part of my contest entry for that MLPchan contest.
I'll go about fixing the first chapter sometime when I remember it.
I'd love to see a sequel where Rainbow Dash gets some kind of revenge on them.
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As if Rainbow Dash would ever need an excuse to prank ponies. I'm not sure if Fluttershy wouldn't still be off-limits, though.
Either way, no sequel planned so far. You could take a look at the comic it was inspired by, though.
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5463172 I don't think RD would ever prank Fluttershy, no matter what.
This story actually got me thinking...
the show needs an episode like this.
There have already been several episodes about facing fears, but in this case, the episode would be about Rainbow Dash learning that it's okay for even a grown mare to admit that they're scared.
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Screw underlying morals and life lessons. I just want to see her scream and faint!
(P.S.: What about the Castle Maneia episode?)
5538409 that would probably be included in the episode.
Castle-Mania is one that is more about dealing with fears. Besides, rainbow never once said out loud that she was scared
Sequel based on the idea that Lyra really is a Monster?