In the Senate Building, Chancellor Organa was signing some important documents, when he heard a knock at the door.

"Who is it?" said Bail.

"Delivery." said a voice.

Bail was confused as he went to answer.

"I wasn't expecting anything today." he said.

Except, when he opened the door, he saw no one. But he found a wrapped box, and when he picked it up and opened it, a bunch of fake snakes and confetti popped out and made a mess of his whole office.

"What a mess!" Bail said.

Silly Filly laughed outside his window.

"What is the meaning of this?!" said the Chancellor angrily.

Silly Filly stuck out her tongue and spat a raspberry at him.

But Bail wasn't the only one.

Other Senators' offices had been pranked too. Senator Mothma's office was filled with plastic balls, another was covered in toilet paper, and the bathrooms were flooding with a bunch of pink foamy bubbles.

And all over town, things turned silly.

People got squirted with water, shoes got stuck to the ground, balloons flew out from random spots, ordinary boxes were turned into jack-in-the-boxes with crazy things in it like pies that splattered into people's faces, windows turned into silly mirrors, vehicles turned into merry-go-round rides or bouncy spring rides like the ones at a playground.

And everywhere she went, Silly Filly managed to make some children laugh, which powered her up more and more. But occasionally, she ran into someone who was afraid of clowns, which made her dash!

The Jedi started to follow the trail of silly things.

"We must be getting close." said Master Tiin on Hydrangea's back.

Master Koth rode Zipp through the air as they searched for Silly Filly. But then tacos started falling from the sky and a silly song about it Raining Tacos (by Parry Gripp) started playing from out of nowhere.

"Ahh!" Zipp yelped, trying to fly back down to the ground. "Ow! Ow! Ow!"

"How can something that tastes so good hurt so much?" Eeth wondered out loud as he got hit by another crunchy taco. "Ouch!"

"Too bad I'm a vegetarian." Zipp said. "Or I could eat these all up."

"This is going to be a big mess to clean up."

Inconveniently, Zipp crashed right into something she didn't see.

Silly Filly laughed as the Jedi and Zipp had themselves smushed against some glass and slid into a pool of chocolate syrup.

"Yuck!" Eeth said. "Sticky chocolate."

"No problem," said Zipp, starting to lick her rider clean. "Hmm. This may take a while."

Qui-Gon felt so good after rinsing off all the sticky lemon juice. And he felt even better now that he wasn't blue anymore. He was very grateful to Mila for her help getting un-pranked.

Shmi was glad when she saw her fiance was okay, and she kissed him.

"Why do you smell like lemon juice?" Shmi asked.

"Mila gave Grandpa a bath in lemon juice to get rid of the blue dye." Gabby said, taking another whiff of her grandfather, liking the lemony fragrance. "You smell really good, Grandpa."

Qui-Gon chuckled as he held his granddaughter to the mirror back to the Temple.

"I'm probably going to be smelling like a lemonade stand for a while." He said.

Shmi accompanied her love and her granddaughter back to the Temple. When she heard of this Comedia horse who seemed to be an out-of-control prankster, she decided she might be able to help settle her down.

"Ani used to have a few temper tantrums in his earlier years." Shmi said. "Maybe I can talk to her."

"Good luck, Grandma." Gabby said. "I'm just hoping Teddy can be turned back to normal, or I'll have to change her name to Violet."

But then they saw the state of the Temple.

"What happened to the Temple?" Gabby asked, seeing how crazy everything looked.

It'd been months since they'd remodeled and rebuilt the Temple, but Gabby was pretty sure they didn't put a hall of silly mirrors. Although, the idea of having one of the most fun funhouse features in one of the halls to make funny faces and be silly any time they wanted sounded like a lot of fun.

"Did we include a hall of mirrors when we added new features to the Temple?" Gabby asked.

"Not that I'm aware of." Qui-Gon said.

"What a mess!" Shmi said. "Did you have a big birthday party in here and not invite me?"

"Nope. Comedia is a big time prankster." Gabby said. "Or as Uncle Mace called her, a comedy hazard."

Gabby called for her father and uncle, but found that they weren't in the Temple.

"Grandma, Grandpa!" Lamenta called from somewhere.

"Lamenta? Where are you?" Qui-Gon asked.

"I'm up here." Lamenta said, stuck in a branch covered in streamers.

"Lamenta!" Shmi cried, terrified seeing her granddaughter stuck so high up. "How did you get up there?!"

"Silly Filly put me up here." Lamenta said. "I'm too stuck to make my wings appear."

"Where's Crescent?" Gabby said.

"Over here." said Crescent, his back and wings stuck to a wall covered in maple syrup.

"Who's Silly Filly?" Gabby asked.

"Comedia was clavatized." Lamenta said. "Peppermint thinks the mariclava is in Comedia's hat. And she's escaped the Temple and is making everything silly all over the city!"

"Don't worry, Lamenta. We'll get you down first, and then we'll go find this Silly Filly character." Qui-Gon said. "Where are Boba and Omega?"

"They went to help search for Comedia." Crescent said, struggling to get unstuck.

"Gabriella." Qui-Gon said.

"On it." Gabby said as Qui-Gon set her down.

While Gabby made bubbles and water to get Crescent unstuck, Qui-Gon used the Force to get the streamers off Lamenta and carefully brought her down to the floor.

"Are you alright, Dear?" Shmi asked.

"I'm okay." Lamenta said.

Crescent shook himself dry as he was finally unstuck and syrup-free.

Meanwhile, Silly Filly continued to wreak havoc all across the city. She replaced the screens' videos of senators speaking with funny videos of cute animals doing silly things like a puppy riding a rocking horse or a kitten meowing the Happy Birthday song.

And the more anyone laughed at any of Silly Filly's doings, she became more powerful and made things even sillier.

The police tried to catch her, but they ended up cuffing each other, their weapons fired streamers and confetti, and their sirens started making animal sounds. And people kept on laughing.

It didn't help that Silly Filled spelled most of the Jedi too.

"Wow, that horse sure gets around." said Anakin, a pair of funny mustache glasses on his face.

Carmine couldn't help laughing when he saw his brother with the funny glasses.

"Oh, I'm the one who looks ridiculous?" said Anakin, seeing Carmine get spelled. "Look at your clothes."

Carmine yelped when he saw that Silly Filly put him in a Snow White dress.

"Ahh!"

He was so embarrassed now. And Silly Filly guffawed.

"How pretty you look, Princess Carmine."

Carmine growled and turned a bit red out of anger.

"COMEDIA!"

Qui-Gon and his younger granddaughters soon arrived on the scene.

"Daddy!" Gabby exclaimed. "Wait, which is which?"

"Right here." said Anakin. "Don't laugh."

Gabby laughed when she saw her dad's state. But Anakin covered her mouth.

"I'm serious! Don't laugh! That gives Silly Filly more power."

"Why am I not surprised?" Qui-Gon asked rhetorically, seeing Silly Filly wreaking more havoc.

"Someone's gotta teach Comedia a lesson." Gabby said, conjuring her wings. "Here I come!"

Gabby quickly flew towards Silly Filly.

"Comedia!" Gabby said, and Silly Filly turned to her, but when she did, the first thing Gabby saw was a clown! And she screamed!

Silly Filly covered her ears and became dizzy as Gabby screamed.

Gabby screamed again and flew away, still terrified of clowns as she'd been since she was three.

Anakin flew in on Sapphire, and found that the silly glasses disappeared after Gabby screamed.

"Daddy! Clown!" Gabby breathed heavily, Anakin hugging his daughter closely.

"Shh, it's okay, Princess." Anakin said. "It's just Comedia."

But then, Anakin realized something. He'd screamed in fright at Silly Filly, seeing a clown at first glance. Anakin couldn't explain why he found clowns so terrifying, but he did have a theory.

"Screaming in terror must weaken Silly Filly's power." Anakin said.

"That actually makes sense." Carmine said. "Her whole purpose has shown to be trying to make people laugh."

"And she's succeeded a little bit." Sapphire said. "But I imagine not everyone finds these pranks funny."

"And I imagine it's gonna take more than just one kid screaming to weaken Silly Filly long enough to get close enough to grab her hat." Anakin said. He thought for a moment. "I've got a plan. And it's gonna take everyone's cooperation."

Silly Filly was laughing again as she'd just filled an entire building with balloons and made it look like a huge birthday party had just occurred.

Meanwhile, all the Jedi started to sneak across down and get as many people as they could to cooperate.

Anakin contacted the others on his comm.

"Okay, everyone." Anakin whispered. "On the count of three, everyone scream as loudly as you can. Horror movie screams. Got it?"

"Got it!" Everyone confirmed.

Anakin and Gabby flew closer to Silly Filly and counted one... two... three.

The father and daughter gave their loudest, strongest horror movie screams. Silly Filly covered her ears and felt really dizzy when the screams happened. And she tried to fly away, but everywhere she went, people were screaming as though in a horror film and coming face-to-face with the monster.

Silly Filly got dizzier and dizzier as she came face to face with more and more people screaming and found herself forced to land on the ground, where her rider grabbed her and Obi-Wan destroyed the cap with his lightsaber, allowing the mariclava to fly out.

"Luminesk!" Gabby cast the spell, hitting the butterfly.

And Silly Filly slowly transformed back into Comedia.

Comedia slowly opened her eyes and groaned as she felt dizzy.

"Huh? What happened?" Comedia asked, looking around, and saw all the crazy things that happened. She couldn't believe everything that happened. "Did... did I do all that?!"

For what seemed like the first time, Comedia was not laughing at her pranks. No one who'd been pranked by Comedia previously could believe her look of shock.

"I... I didn't mean to... I didn't-"

"You were under a spell, Comedia." said Ki-Adi. "But you were not when you were pranking everyone in the Temple."

Comedia looked down, her ears drooping as she felt so guilty. Tears came to her eyes, and she started crying, feeling so guilty about everything.

"I'm sorry! I'm so sorry!" Comedia said. "I never wanted to hurt anyone. I swear."

Ki-Adi did his best to calm her down by petting her muzzle and got Comedia to look at him.

Comedia sniffed and said, "I deserve whatever punishment you have for me."

"Well, for a start, you can start apologizing to everyone you pranked and clean up this mess you made." Ki-Adi said.

"Sounds fair enough." Comedia said.

"And afterwards, we have a lot to talk about regarding your behavior."

Even with magic, it took a while for Comedia to fix the mess she'd made. And she gave an especially strong formal apology to Chancellor Organa.

"Even though I was under a spell, it's no excuse for what I did to you." Comedia said, picking up a bouquet of blue hyacinths from the floor and placing them on his desk. "These flowers are a customary apology gift where I'm from. And don't worry. They're not a trick. I promise."

And sure enough, when the chancellor checked them, they were real flowers.

"I'm so sorry, Your honor. Had I known I was causing so much trouble, clavatized or not, I would never have done it." Comedia said. "Please don't be mad."

"Well... Comedia, was it?" said the Chancellor. "Your willingness to fix the damage should be more than a fitting punishment. But if you vandalize the city again, you will face legal consequences."

"I understand, Chancellor." Comedia sniffled.

It took hours for Comedia to finish cleaning up the mess, and she gave blue hyacinths to everyone she apologized to as an apology gift. She also apologized to everyone she pranked at the Temple. But she was also exhausted from all the cleanup work.

"At first, I was just playing around." Comedia said. "But then, I got a little carried away."

"A little?" said Mace.

"I'm a teenager!" said Comedia. "I have problems, okay?!"

"You were born with a lot of them." said a voice Comedia dreaded as a thoroughbred alicorn arrived at the scene. His name was Gentry, Queen Reigna's cousin, and a duke.

"Dad?" Comedia said.

"Reigna told me you were matched and been at your joking around again." said Gentry. "Why am I not surprised you messed up again? Do you have any idea how much you've embarrassed me? Just like you always embarrass the royal family."

Comedia just started crying again and ran off.

"There we go again." Gentry shook his head. "Crying and running off, like you always do."

Ki-Adi couldn't believe the way Gentry spoke to his daughter.

"I understand if you are upset, but that is no way to speak to your child." said Ki-Adi.

"She is not a child anymore. She is fourteen."

"That doesn't matter, she is still your daughter."

Gentry snorted. "How I managed to be stuck with her, I'll never now. If she could only be more like her sister."

Qui-Gon didn't like the way Gentry was speaking about his daughter. But Shmi was the one to speak.

"Excuse me, Gentry, was it?" Shmi said. "Comedia might not be a perfect little princess, but she is still your child. And from what I can see, it appears she acts the way she does because you speak of her this way and verbally attack her instead of helping her! As a mother myself, I know the proper way to handle a child is to speak calmly to them and allow them to be heard. If you can't see what your own daughter needs now that she's older, then you don't deserve to call yourself a father."

"Exactly." Qui-Gon said, putting his foot down. "Now you better leave immediately. By order of a king."

Gentry turned his nose up at the others and left to go.

"That guy is Comedia's father?" Anakin said, unable to believe it.

"The poor girl." Kara said.

Suddenly, the others started to feel bad for Comedia.

Ki-Adi found Comedia hiding in a closet, crying.

"Comedia, why are you in the closet?" Ki-Adi asked.

Comedia turned away and hid her face behind some boots.

"Comedia... I want to help you." Ki-Adi said. "It's become clear your behavior is a cry for help. But I cannot help you if you won't tell me what is wrong. Why do you prank people? Why do you fight against authority figures?"

Comedia was silent for a bit.

"This was... how I used to get away from my father back home." Comedia said.

The green alicorn took out a picture of her family from back when she was a small filly. Back then, Comedia actually dressed more poised and gracefully. She even used to wear a tiara instead of her propeller hat. In the picture, there was Comedia's father, her mother, and a very pretty green pegasus.

"That's my sister, Emeraldi." Comedia said. "She's been the golden child her whole life. My parents give her all the best beauty treatments, the best outfits, and she never gets in trouble for anything. I could do the same thing she did, and no matter how well I did, nothing was ever good enough. They always said, 'Emeraldi does it more gracefully,' 'Your sister would never get that wrong,' 'when Emeraldi was your age, she was reciting poetry in Latin from memory'!"

It frustrated Comedia so much that her parents favored her sister over her. Nothing she ever did was good enough. She made a special painting for her mom for Mother's Day, she tossed it aside but marveled at a painting Emeraldi made. Comedia did a very cute little dance, but Emeraldi trotted like a graceful dressage horse, and she got praised.

Comedia got so frustrated, she ran off one day when she was seven. She trotted through the village and thought to herself for a while. But then, she spotted something she had never seen before. A joke and gag shop.

Little Comedia walked into the store and took a look around. She saw all sorts of fun looking stuff. Wind-up toys, scare pranks, funny glasses, joke books, and all sorts of fun gags.

The shopkeeper saw little Comedia and shook hooves with her, only for her to get joy buzzed. At first, Comedia didn't like it, but then she found it kinda funny.

"It's a classic, and one of our biggest sellers." said the shopkeeper. "Pranks can be a lot of fun, and a pretty harmless way to get back at annoying brothers and sisters by making them look silly."

And suddenly, Comedia got an idea. She asked the shopkeeper if he could teach her about pranks.

So, every day after school, Comedia told her parents she was getting tutoring, but really, she was getting lessons on how to prank people. Jokey Jackie, the shopkeeper, taught the little filly how to prank people in all sorts of ways, and Comedia proved to be a natural-born prankster. And when she told jokes from some of the joke books she read to her friends, she found out she really liked making people laugh.

Jackie even gave Comedia his first joy buzzerBut Jackie gave Comedia a warning. "Whatever you do, don't let yourself be seduced by joking juice."

At the time, Comedia didn't know what that meant. But, once she practiced enough small jokes, she got to playing a big prank on her sister Emeraldi at a fancy party at her house.

At the party, Emeraldi sat on a whoopee cushion, spilled punch on herself after drinking form a dribble cup, and sneezed during the family photos thanks to some sneezing powder on her scarf.

"For once, I actually looked better than Emeraldi, and I got a good laugh." Comedia said. "And the next day, I pranked her by putting orange dye in her shower gel and purple dye in her shampoo. It felt really good to see her feel as humiliated as my parents made me feel every day. Then, I just started pranking with little jokes for fun. But, sometimes I got carried away. Mostly when someone made really mad or embarrassed me, and I decided to teach them a lesson."

"Is that why you were pranking everyone here?" asked Ki-Adi.

"Yes." Comedia said. "You see, my dad tried to give me to a rider himself instead of going to Cousin Reigna to ask the Equinary. He didn't care if the people would love me. He just wanted me disciplined or air quote 'fixed'. So, I played a bunch of pranks to test everyone I was given to. And like I expected, they gave up on me within forty-eight hours. One even tried chaining me when I wouldn't eat the pellets they gave me to eat. I'm not a hamster."

Comedia looked down.

Ki-Adi couldn't believe Comedia went through all that. All that fuss because her family treated her so badly. After meeting her father, the Cerea Jedi could tell Comedia must have inherited more of her personality from Reigna. And even worse, who knows how many other families Comedia was given to who gave up on her immediately after discovering she was a prankster?

"Comedia... I am so sorry that happened to you." Ki-Adi said. "I don't believe you are a burden. You just have a lot of energy, and we need to discover another outlet other than reckless pranks. Some jokes are funny, but some of those you performed could hurt someone if you aren't careful."

"I know." Comedia said, looking down.

"I don't know a lot about raising a teenager. Much less a horse. But I can certainly do my best to be a better father figure to you. Starting with getting you out of this closet."

Comedia got out of the closet and moved to the spot where Ki-Adi placed a rug and some pillows for her to sleep on while her rider went to retrieve something. And he came back with a panda bear plush from the playroom. The kids had stuffed animals that helped them when they were emotionally distressed, so he figured Comedia might like one too.

"This is for you, Comedia. To help you sleep tonight." said Ki-Adi.

Comedia couldn't believe this. She nuzzled the panda bear, liking its soft furry texture. Her parents never gave her anything so sweet, so cute, or so thoughtful. She licked her rider and said thank you, and felt a lot better with how he hadn't given up on her even after all the trouble she'd caused. Instead, he learned what provoked her behavior and decided to give her any emotional support he could.

And as Comedia cuddled up with her panda bear and fell asleep, her rider placed a blanket over her. Things looked like they were going to be better for the two new friends.

Now if only Strawberry could help Mace a little more easily to get along with her.