Brief Encanto cameo here, as this story takes place after my Clone Wars/Encanto crossover
Qui-Gon took another shower, but the blue dye was still there to his disappointment.
Gabby took her grandfather's hand and said, "Let's go see Mila. Maybe she knows how to get dye out of the skin."
"Why so blue?" Mila joked when she saw how blue Qui-Gon's face and hair were.
Qui-Gon sighed and said, "A prank by a new horse in the Temple. Long story."
"Well, I've treated dye in the hair and skin. How bad is it?"
Qui-Gon removed his gloves to show his hands were blue, and his shirt, which showed he was all blue underneath there too.
"Wow, this is the biggest case of being dyed I've ever seen!" Mila said when she saw Qui-Gon's condition.
Camilo laughed and said, "Even bigger than the time you turned my face orange or Isabela's hair turned pink from her shampoo."
"Can anything be done?" Gabby asked.
"I'll see what I can do," Mila said, getting out a box labeled In case of accidental dyes filled with bottles and solutions of different kinds.
Meanwhile, everyone was still looking for Comedia.
"Comedia," called Ki-Adi. "Where are you? You're in a lot of trouble, young mare."
But Comedia didn't seem to listen, and was just laughing as she'd pulled another prank on someone. Dropping water balloons on a teen girl's head, ruining her hair.
"This perm cost ninety credits!" said the girl angrily.
Ki-Adi heard galloping, but he didn't see Comedia anywhere... until he looked up.
"Here comes Comedia, the pony prankster princess!" Comedia sang, running upside-down on the ceiling!
"Comedia, get down from there right now!" Ki-Adi said.
"Can't hear ya! I'm too busy having fun!"
Comedia ran amok all around the Temple, running faster than the speed limit of running in the halls was, which was no running at all.
"Comedia, I'm serious, get down here right now!" Ki-Adi said.
Boba got out his tablet and started looking up sites on how to tame wild horses. At this point, Comedia was basically being a wild animal who didn't want to listen to anyone. All they said was talk calmly to the horse and try luring them with a treat.
"If only she would stay still long enough." Ki-Adi said.
And then, he resorted to something else to get Comedia down.
Comedia kept running and laughing until she found herself being Force-pulled down to the floor and roped.
"Got you!" Anakin said victoriously.
Comedia, of course, struggled and started to chew on the rope.
"No, no!" Ki-Adi said, getting the rope out of Comedia's mouth. "Comedia, your behavior is unacceptable! You cannot be pulling pranks on everyone like this!"
"It was funny when it was just a whoopee cushion and a joy buzzer." Carmine said. "Totally harmless. But dying my dad blue?"
"And do you have any idea how hard it is to wash grape jelly out of shoes?"
"At this point, your jokes are anything but funny!"
For what seemed like the first time, Comedia was silent. Her ears fell back as she was scared by so many people being angry at her. But she tried to chew the rope off anyway... until they got a muzzle made for horses that bite, and put it over her muzzle.
Ki-Adi brought Comedia to the stable and put her in a stall for a much-needed timeout.
"You are going to sit in here and think about what you've done." He told her as calmly as possible.
He closed the door and locked it so Comedia wouldn't escape. Comedia tried to kick the door down, but it wouldn't budge. And Anakin put a disabling spell on Comedia's horn so she couldn't use magic to escape.
Comedia grunted and whinnied as loudly as she could. She hated this so much! She struggled to get the muzzle off of her mouth using her hooves and trying to shake it off.
And when she finally did get it off, she was filled with so much anger and started crying.
"It's not fair! I was just joking! Is it my fault no one can take a joke?!" Comedia stamped her hooves in a tantrum.
Comedia started kicking at the walls and whinnying loudly at that moment.
"Comedia, stop that right now!" Ki-Adi said firmly. "Not one more sound."
Comedia scrunched her nose and did the exact opposite and was louder.
Others had to cover their ears at that point.
"Tell me I wasn't as bad as that before you adopted me." Boba said.
"No, I'd say you were calm compared to Comedia right now." Anakin said. "But thinking about then, I'm starting to wonder if Comedia acts this way out of a cry for help."
But they didn't know then that Comedia was about to be a target for something much worse.
"That's not funny, we don't like your jokes, stop messing around. Grownups can be too serious so many times." Mariverde chuckled when she spotted Comedia in the mirror. "Comedians are often misunderstood."
Mariverde summoned forth a butterfly and turned it into a mariclava.
"Go, my little clava. Let's see just how silly this pony can be."
Comedia spent some time crying in her stall as she remained in timeout. She finally started to think about what her rider told her to, and how the pranks affected the people she pranked.
"I guess it was kinda mean to dunk water on Yoda." Comedia reflected. "And Citrus might not look at marmalade the same way now. Maybe my pranks aren't as funny as I initially thought."
Inconveniently, that was when the mariclava came along and landed on Comedia's hat.
"Oh, but your pranks are hilarious. The Jedi have simply spent soo much time being serious that they don't know silly when it's right in front of them." Mariverde said. "It isn't your fault if they have no sense of humor."
"I thought they were funny. Why doesn't anyone else?" Comedia said, starting to get slowly seduced.
"Silly Filly, I am Mariverde. I'm giving you the power to make those who did not see your comic genius see just how funny you can truly be. But in return, you must bring me an artifact of at least one member of the royal family. Do we have a deal?"
"I say prank it up!" Comedia said, beginning to transform.
Lamenta was so relieved that the belch powder finally wore off, but she immediately got scared when she took a look at her clava detector.
"Daddy!" Lamenta exclaimed.
Carmine looked at his clava detector and had the same green glow appearing.
"We'd better warn the others!" He said.
Anakin's had the same results, and so did that of many other Jedi.
Ki-Adi and Anakin looked at each other.
"You don't think...?" said Ki-Adi, fearing the worst.
The two Jedi rushed to the stable, only to find the whole ground all slippery as it was covered in banana peels, and Anakin fell down and got pied in the face, while Master Mundi fell down and ended up sitting in a pie.
"Ugh! Where did all those banana peels come from?" said Anakin. "Where did this pie come from?"
They heard crazy laughter coming from nearby, and the Jedi followed inside to find the Temple was a total mess.
In the gardens, all the flowers squirted water on anyone who got too close to them.
"Agh!" Ahsoka yelped as she got squirted by a rose.
"Ay!" Fiesta whinnied as she got drenched by a bunch of daisies. She shook herself dry and wondered how Comedia could've rigged the whole garden.
In one of the halls, the walls were turned into a bunch of mirrors.
Omega laughed as she saw her reflection in one.
"Look, Estrella. I'm taller than Grandpa!" Omega laughed.
Estrella looked at her reflection and saw she looked very wide.
"Look at me in this one." she laughed.
Other kids seemed to find the mirrors hilarious and started posing or making faces at them.
And in every chair in the Temple, there was a whoopee cushion hidden in them.
"What is going on in here?" Obi-Wan said, an odd gas starting to fill the room.
"Obi-Wan!" Peppermint exclaimed, her voice suddenly sounding higher pitched.
"Peppermint, what just-?" Obi-Wan began, now his voice sounded high-pitched. "What kind of gas is this?"
"I think this must be helium!" Carmine said, his voice, sounding like a chipmunk.
"You guys sound ridiculous!" Crescent said.
"Us? You should hear you!" Peppermint laughed.
"Ha ha!" sang another voice. "Silly up!"
And the group saw a colorful tail turning the corner.
"Follow that tail!" Carmine called, running after it... until he slipped on a peel and fell into a pool of glitter sparkles.
Even sillier stuff started to happen all around the Temple.
There were bubbles coming out of the air vents, some Jedi's shoes made honking sounds whenever they walked, and in one of the halls, the floors tilted back and forth like a teeter-totter.
In the kitchen, every food either tasted disgusting or turned out to be made of rubber.
Master Mundi started to look for his horse again.
"Comedia, where are you?" Ki-Adi said. "Pulling more pranks isn't helping your case or anyone else. I won't put you back in the stall if you just come here and talk."
That was when he got pied in the back of his head.
"Comedia..." Ki-Adi groaned, sounding like he'd lose his temper any second now. "Do I need to contact your-"
Ki-Adi turned around, and then he saw a very colorful alicorn dressed as a circus clown.
"I'm not Comedia anymore," said the clown horse. "Now, I'm Silly Filly! And now it's time for you to silly up!"
Comedia, or rather Silly Filly, cast a spell, that turned Ki-Adi's Jedi robes into a silly polka-dot outfit.
"Comedia! Stop this right now!"
Silly Filly blew a noise maker and scatted off.
"Comedia!" Ki-Adi said.
"Anakin!" Obi-Wan said, finding his friend.
Anakin couldn't hold back from laughing when he heard his master's voice.
"What happened to you?" He asked.
"Helium happened!" Peppermint said.
"And now Comedia is comedy-fying everything." Carmine said, coughing and returning to his normal voice. "I suspect it's Mariverde's work."
"We'll have to lock down the Temple before Comedia gets out." Anakin said.
"Peek-a-boo!" Comedia popped up upside down in front of Anakin.
"AHH!" Anakin yelled, frightened by the sight of a clown.
That seemed to make Silly Filly dizzy and back away when he yelled in fright.
So, the Jedi guards quickly started to lock down the Temple. Except, when they tried that, instead of locking the Temple, it trapped everyone in cages made of balloons or cheese.
"You can't stop comedy!" Silly Filly laughed, the propeller on her hat spinning as she laughed. Peppermint caught a glimpse of it and realized Comedia only had two things that could've been clavatized in the stall: her muzzle and her propeller hat. And since this clown wasn't wearing a muzzle, that left only one thing that Mariverde could've targeted.
Anakin grew a cactus to pop the balloon bars of his cage and helped the others out.
"The mariclava must be in Comedia's hat." Peppermint hypothesized. "She never takes it off."
"Then let's get out of here and get her." Anakin said.
Anakin and Sapphire assembled a team consisting of everyone with a horse. They mapped out the town and split up into teams.
"Remember, look for anything that looks silly." Sapphire said.
"Someone mind helping us here?" Boba asked as he was riding Remix on the ceiling.
"I got them." Carousella said, flying up and getting her cousin and his rider down with her magic.
Gabby poured another pail of lemon juice into the tub to help her grandfather get the dye off. It seemed to be working.
"Hold still, now." Bruno said, helping Qui-Gon wash the dye out of his hair.
"You're sure this lemon juice will get it out?" Gabby asked Mila.
"It's proven very effective in the past." Mila said. "I have to admit, your friend Comedia is a pretty clever prankster. Even more devious than Camilo."
"Maybe she can give me a few tips." Camilo said.
"I don't think you'd want that." Gabby said. "She got in a lot of trouble earlier for all the pranks she pulled. If Mommy wasn't good at getting rid of stains, I probably would've strangled Comedia by now for painting Teddy purple. Hopefully by now she's learning to watch who and how she pranks."