Twilight was baffled by all the strange things that had befallen her and Ponyville since she had started to research these ‘Strange Cases.’ She wanted to have some answers, but she knew that at the rate she was going, there would neither be answers, nor even logic. The troll proved that.
She had searched her library for mention of a ‘Equestrian Bureau of Investigation,’ and came up with nothing. Surely she could get some answers from her brother, who was in charge of all the security of the Royal Guard—and hence must know something about this.
Twilight resolved to write her brother, but just as she sat with the paper and quill, she heard a particularly loud sound from a particularly familiar voice.
“TWILIGHT!”
“What is it Rainbow Dash?” Twilight said, walking out onto her balcony to see her cyan friend perched.
“FOR SOME REASON I CAN’T STOP YELLING,” Rainbow Dash, well, yelled.
“You haven’t been in the Everfree have you?”
“THIS IS NOT POISON JOKE, TWILIGHT. THERE’S SERIOUSLY SOMETHING WRONG.” The yelling attracted attention from the crowd below them. Twilight would have found this strange since just hours ago there was no mare in all of Ponyville.
“Could you keep it down, Rainbow?” Lyra asked, “I am trying to make a living here!”
“I WOULD IF I COULD!” Rainbow shouted back.
With a ‘humph,’ Lyra took her lyre to a distant street corner.
“IS THERE ANYTHING YOU CAN DO TO HELP?”
“Well, if I wasn’t going half deaf from all the yelling, perhaps…”
“PLEASE, TWILIGHT! I HAVE TRAINING FOR THE WONDERBOLTS TOMORROW! I CAN’T JUST SHOW UP LIKE THIS! SPITFIRE WILL KICK ME OUT FOR SURE!”
“Everything can be solved in time, let me consult my books.”
“YOU AND YOUR BOOKS ALWAYS YOUR BOOKS. I MEAN, WHEN’S THE LAST TIME YOU FOUND YOUR OWN BOOK? SPIKE AND PINKIE ALWAYS SEEM TO BE FINDING THEM FOR YOU.”
“Yelling is disrespectful enough, Dash, I don’t need you attacking my ability to find things.” There was a caustic truth in Rainbow’s statement. Since she had Spike, she had never actually found a book she needed herself. “SPIKE!”
The purple dragon came up the stairs grudgingly. “What is all this commotion? I was trying to get relaxed for a bubble bath.”
“You just had one… oh never mind. I need that book of Super Natural cures. Do you know where it is?”
“Just give me a moment,” Spike said as he disappeared downstairs again.
“I HOPE THIS WORKS.”
“ME TOO!” a disgruntled pony shouted from the street below.
“OH, BE QUIET, ROSELUCK!”
“Well I never,” the florist said as she trotted off.
“Here it is,” Spike said, dropping off the book and heading back downstairs. Twilight sped through the book, seeking the one answer that she needed, but it didn’t seem to be in this book… there was no mention of constant yelling.
“SPIIIIKE!”
“Really?” Spike complained as he came back upstairs.
“It’s not in this one… and I don’t remember reading anywhere else about this kind of symptom.” She thought for a minute. “Have you considered trying to talk with Fluttershy? She was the one that got Princess Luna down from the Royal Canterlot Voice.”
“SHE JUST DASHES OFF EVERY TIME,” Rainbow hollered disapprovingly. “THAT PONY…”
“Then I think I should write the princesses…”
Case 39
My friend Rainbow Dash has been stuck shouting all day. This in itself is strange enough to perhaps be a strange case, but the real reason I’m writing is because I think that Princess Luna could possible know a spell concerning this.
Sincerely,
Princess Twilight Sparkle
“SPIIIKE!”
“Not until I’m out of my bath!”
It was well into the night when Luna received the letter from Twilight. She almost fell over laughing. “Oh, the old Shout it out spell… I love that one!” She began laughing so hard she snorted, and that caused another bought of laughter.
“Dearest Sister, whatever are you laughing so hard about?” a sleepy Celestia asked as she walked into the room.
“The latest strange case! Your dearest student thinks that I would know about a spell that causes uncontrolled yelling.”
“But you do,” Celestia said, unimpressed with whatever gag Luna seemed to be laughing her immortal self to death with.
“Discord is right, you are no fun at night.”
“Not when I’m awoken from my sleep by a sister who can’t stop laughing.”
“Well, should I write her back?”
“Yes. Give her the cure to the Shout it out spell. That way at least one town can get some sleep from all the ruckus you cause.”
Twilight fixed a tired Rainbow Dash with Luna’s Counterspell, and went to bed, forgetting all about the Equstria Bureau of Investigation…