Princess Twilight has contracted a severe case of Rainbow Dash.
The following is an excerpt from the journal of Sickle Cell of the Night Guard, detailing his experience with the Princess within the confines of her laboratory, which involved complete temporal isolation from the rest of the world.
An entry for The Twilight Files contest organised by Bicyclette.
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So... what happens if Rainbow Dash gets infected with Rainbow Dash? Is she immune? It's tempting to experiment further here...
In any case, fascinating concept. Edging on the horrifying with some of those behavioral shifts, but never leaving the realm of good fun. Thank you for this, and best of luck in the judging.
Welcome to my favorites and good luck for the contest. I really enjoyed this.
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Double Rainboom?
Theory: The Cutie Pox is actually from an alternate universe where the Cutie Mark Crusaders are a disease.
See! Becoming me will make you 120% cooler than before.
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Heh, funny you should say that. The original concept involved Twilight going to Rainbow Dash for help because she expected her to be immune.
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Glad you enjoyed it.
That's a cool sickness.
Fun and original, very enjoyable reading, and a disease I'd sign up for LOL
Brilliant, creative, and cute in all the best ways.
Whatever direction their friendship takes, I find myself really rooting for these two. I hope there are more tales featuring them in the future.
No rush.
This is kind of existentially horrifying
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Oh GOD, THE IMPLICATIONS!
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20 percent cooler than the normal flu
Enjoyed the story. Also, nice reference.
Well, that was a fun little experiment. It touched on some stuff that could have been horrifying, but you were able to keep the focus on the positives and limit the impact so it stayed on the right side of the line. The only bit that pushed it was the redacted bit, but the buildup was strong enough to make it feel plausible, if rushed (unsurprising under the circumstances), and there were clearly no regrets, so it really just launched a new ship. All in all, this was a good little story and I hope you do well in the contest.
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While I would also like to see more of this duo, it seems unlikely. Raugos just doesn't write that much any more, and what he does write seems to be limited to shorts for contests which don't leave room for more than a cameo.
This is a weird but good story.
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Hmmm, If Rainbow Dash got infected and ran a fever, would that count as hot Rainbow-on-Rainbow action?
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In a way, yeah. But at least it's not permanent, and hey, if you gotta be somepony for a few days, you might as well be Rainbow Dash.
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I was waiting for someone to get that.
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Oof, straight for the throat, huh?
But yeah, fair enough.
I'm happy that I'm still able to crank one out every now and then. Thanks for reading!
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When Rainbow Dash is inside Rainbow Dash.
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I'd rather have a Twilight Sparkle or Fluttershy one if I had to choose.
on a side note, I tried coming up with some clever disease name using actual medical latin but couldn't find anything that really fit.
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Rainbow Dash will turn into collapsar under the weight of her double ego.
And please unban me.
Twilight leaving footnotes in someone else's journal is the Twilight thing she could do, much like how Rainbow having sex with an alternate version of herself is the most Rainbow thing she could do.
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Double rainbow all the way... what does it mean?
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Not bad.
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I was thinking in Lighting Dust. For her to become her greatest rival in body and mind would be a nightmare.
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That makes way too much sense for comfort.
I LOL'd. Very nice.
Hmm....
I wonder if the potential foal will be a Dash clone?
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(and me being me, I had to consider the possibility of a Rainbow Dash/batpony/alicorn foal.)
Great story. There are 2 things that stood out to me, first was that oath you had Sickle Cell say. I liked it and I recognized it from a movie called "Dragonheart" it was the oath Draco made both the evil prince and our hero Knight say. I'm surprised you remembered it in full and altered it as an oath the Night Guard say when joining. The second was the "•••••Redacted•••••" line and what you were clearly implying, I hope Twilight wasn't in Estrus when that took place or she and Sickle are going to have a very unique and unplanned foal born in a year's time. Aw who am i kidding that would be funny and ripe for the picking if you want to write a sequel based on that little indiscretion they had at the peek of their infection with Rainbow Dashities. Where they have to adapt to having a foal and raising it
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Rainbow Dash isn’t Rainbow Dash! She is the patient zero...
This was a fun read. Good stuff, good stuff ^^
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If Rainbow gets exposed, she turns into G3 Rainbow Dash.
What would have happened if they didn't quarantine?
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Well, the disease would probably spread throughout the population and cause quite a bit of chaos.
aww, a bat pony guard!??!
i do recall her teleports in the later seasons being pretty loud, but it is fun that her teleport quality is a sign of her being sick
oh no, rainbow-itis!
aww, i really like this idea! it is very much like Twilight to have such a place (though for a second i thought she was taking the narrator to the Equestria Girls world)
phrasing!
combining this with Starlight's habits, maybe this is just what being a powerful magic user does to you
well that is quite the evocative curse for a prey species!
i both love and hate the "Ponecillin" pun
yeah that is just gilding the lily
this feels like a line that is implying something more but i can't figure out what. Twilight keeping it especially stocked for bat ponies?
that sounds very fascinating and i really want to know more about that society!
hehe that is a good pun, and very fitting for the Rainbow Dash disease
:newspaper2:
that is pretty cool! and useful for telling the characters apart
hmm does quite seem like the changes in mental traits are starting to seep in
ooh, burn on Rainbow Dash
oh no...
semantic satiation is fun!
aww it's nice that he enjoys his job! i would too with such a cool motto
yeah this doesn't seem like the best use of their energy right now, but that is Rainbow Dash brain for you.
oh no!
hey it was your idea!
hehehe
aww, always love it when the Princesses call their subjects their little ponies
so true, such a breach of decorum!
i mean i'd object that "monopoly" is a technical term that doesn't need to be ponified but
aww
well that is certainly an unusual path to Rainbow Dash selfcest, but it still counts
ooh that is a really cool idea! how have i not thought of combining biopunk and My Little Pony before?
aww, now it is just a children's book series!
mmm delicious
aww yeah i imagine that is a lot to navigate
a growing alicorn needs her calories! as do fully-grown alicorns, if Princess Celestia's cake habit is anything to go by
yeah that is a doozy to think about. evolution is not teleological, so on a long enough timescale it is conceivable an evolutionary branch of a complex animal would return to something like a bacteria, and honestly that is kind of horrifying to think about too much?
so true
considering that this indicates no strict quarantine has been put into place (Twilight basically autoclaved her pocket dimension lab!), i am guessing this is how the Rainbowseum Dashcosis pandemic starts until herd (heh) immunity sets in
but as far as pandemics go this one seems kind of nice! very fitting for the universe of My Little Pony.
a very cute and fun story, making good use of the Rainbow-Dash-As-Twilight-Sparkle cover image. i enjoyed it a lot, especially the fascinating ramifications of pony characters being literal bacteria. thanks for writing!
It's a good thing getting infected with the Rainbow Dash isn't permanent, because if it was, this fanfic would've been a horror story.
Luckily, it wasn't, so I had a good time reading the story and seeing what both Sickle and Twilight experienced for several nights. 
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"Hmm, I'm Miss Rainbow Dash!"
"Hmm, I'm Miss Rainbow Dash!"
"Hmm, I'm Miss Rainbow Dash!" "Hmm, I'm Miss Rainbow Dash!"
"... Run."
I just got that joke.
Goddamnit.