"So, how did it go?" Twilight Sparkle asked absent mindedly from behind her reference desk. Twilight prided herself on the ability to tell who was in the library without looking up from her book but really it wasn't all that tough. Everyone had their own manner of walking, be it bouncing or nervously pattering. Rainbow Dash was the easiest of all however, because the only time Rainbow ever came to the library was with a deafening crash as she plummeted unintentionally out of the sky. At first Twilight was shocked when Rainbow would repeatedly drop like a rock into her living room, but she learned that pegasi were made of tougher stuff than Unicorns. When Twilight eventually decided to look up however, Rainbow Dash looked like she had just gone ten rounds with a runaway bus.
"Oh my gosh Rainbow, what happened! Is Pinkie Pie alright!" Twilight squeaked out as she jumped over to console her friend. Rainbow was in the process of clearing her head when she turned to Twilight and spit out a laugh.
"Pinkie Pie is absolutely fine," Rainbow sneered. "But if she isn't careful, she's going to have one more ghost to be afraid of. And this one is going to haunt the crap out of her!"
"Oh Rainbow, I tried to warn you! Pinkie Pie isn't an easy nut too crack, and this certainly isn't the first time she's bucked someone in the face trying to help her. I remember when Applejack tried too talk her out of it and Big Mac took a big old mackintosh to the face. You know though that she doesn't mean any of it right?"
"Well obviously. She can't even think straight when a ghost even crosses her mind. Oh, and I hope you're not doing anything this week, because she has currently promised me seven forgiveness parties and counting."
"Seven? Sorry if I sound like a broken record, but what happened?" Twilight said in surprise. Ponyville's expert on friendship had seen a lot of people try and fix Pinkie Pie's fear of ghosts, but most of them had stopped after at most two tries. Even the most stubborn of ponies gave up after her fourth attempt and the subsequent burning down of her northern orchard.
"Well, I figured that this wasn't going to be easy so I had a few plans set up. I met Pinkie in the field at noon like we planned, and that was the last thing that went according to plan. You wouldn't believe what Pinkie was wearing! It was half tinfoil and half voodoo I didn't even understand. I thought she was having twitches, but she was actually just shaking with fear."
"Already? You didn't even do anything yet!"
"It turns out the field we met at is known in the spook community to be a disturbed burial ground. I guess Pinkie thought that I chose that intentionally."
"So when did she snap?"
"The same time as the twig I stepped on." Dash pointed to one of many bruises on her left flank. "Her ensuing stampede was what caused this bruise. For the next half hour she basically tried to hold it together before inevitably losing her nerve." Rainbow Dash sighed in acceptance. " You know what the funny part is? She doesn't even have the time to figure out where she's running. She just runs straight, half the time into the 'ghost'."
"Rainbow Dash, you've got to stop this! We already covered this a few months back, here let me get out my copy of that friendship report." Twilight scurried off to the back of the library. "Here, look! Ahem, 'Sometimes somethings can't be changed, and that's ok!' Rainbow Dash, just because you can't help Pinkie doesn't mean you didn't try and it doesn't mean you aren't a good friend."
"Twilight, do you want to learn a few lessons? You have to share, you have to care. How about even your crazy friends can help you out? How about giggle at the ghosties! Twilight, I haven't gone a day with Pinkie where she hasn't said something that's made me a better pony and do you know what I do in return? I fly really fast. Now of course I fly really fast, to the point where everypony that sees me should be awestruck. But I've never had a chance to help Pinkie out like this!"
"Yeah, but I'm pretty sure you've never kicked Pinkie in the face Rainbow!"
"Twilight, you know what? You're helping me out too." Anticipating her rebuttal from the look of shock on her face, Rainbow continued. "Oh, don't think you're getting out of this. First of all, I think I've just shown that I'm going to need a new perspective on this because sitting in a haunted field until I get tackled isn't going to work. Who better to think up a new strategy than the smartest pony in Ponyville? But also, Pinkie may have forgiven you for all of that crazy crap you subjected her too in your basement about her Pinkie sense but you know you owe her."
"That was purely science!"
"That doesn't prove anything. Anyway, you wrote a letter about it and how you were wrong, so check and mate."
Twilight knew she could win this fight with Rainbow. She had logic and rationale on her side and would have fired her two cannons of conflict resolution if she hadn't seen a pathetic sight cross outside her library. Rainbow Dash couldn't see it as it was directly behind her, but Pinkie was sulking back into town. Twilight could handle Pinkie being scared, that was random and fun like she should be. However, right now she was depressed and disappointed in herself. Twilight could almost see Pinkie Pie hitting herself for being such a scared little filly, and for letting her friend down ash she dragged herself down main street. It didn't last long, for when Pinkie saw someone else walk down the street she had her trademarked smile back up in a second flat.
"You know what Rainbow? Lets do this. Oh by the way Rainbow, why did you crash in through the roof?"
Rainbow just shrugged. Honestly it was just common place now.
Two hours later of brainstorming and Twilight realized that she needed to get more creative, because she was not able to use her literal library of knowledge in anyway effectively. Alas, Rainbow had already left and the plan had been locked in. Twilight looked at the sheet too her left, with its two tiny eye holes.
She was going to dress up as a ghost. And go sneak up too Pinkie Pie in it. It was funny, looking at the snow white spectre in front of her, Twilight suddenly understood Pinkie Pie's fears.