Two weeks later

The surgery had went well. The fake bone was put into placed, and all was good. Rainbow Dash didn't even have to miss her meeting with Spitfire. Before going in for the surgery, Rainbow stopped by and asked Spitfire if the meeting could be moved to sometime after her procedure. Being the reasonable pony that she is, Spitfire had set up a date that Rainbow could meet and be in good health. All was good...

Upon receiving her doctor's permission, Rainbow Dash settled on testing herself by attempting to beat her previously beaten record. She knew this was a ludicrous requirement she was placing over her head, as did Twilight, but she needed to be back in those skies, pushing herself. How else was Rainbow Dash supposed to become a member of the most prestigious flying group in Equestria? So here she was, in those familiar grasses, prepping her wings for flight, a crowd gathering round her. The sky shared a prismatic glow with Rainbow's eyes, as her eye's swelled up in tears. The time she spent off her wings have caused them to lock up, and her stretching was met with a few pops.

"Somepony looks ready to soar." A familiar voice said. Rainbow turned around to see her five best friends parting their way through the crowd and trotting over to meet her. Twilight had her stopwatch, Pinkie had popcorn, Rarity had her opera glasses, but Applejack had something peculiar. Slung over her back was a first-aid kit, it's clean white cloth vivid under the glowering sun. Rainbow Dash frowned. She would expect her friends to have some faith in her. She made have gotten hurt last time, but now she was ready to rock 'n roll.

"Why the kit AJ?" Rainbow Dash asked, motioning to the saddle bag. She may have her own thoughts about why AppleJack brought the first aid kit, but she wanted to know what the orange mare's intentions were. The other five ponies formed a tight circle to talk.

"I just wanted to be careful, that's all." AppleJack replied, averting her eyes. Rainbow Dash knew she was lying. She was bad at it. Being the Element of Honesty didn't mean she couldn't lie ever, but it more or less entitled a poorly developed capacity for lying. And AJ surely represented that in her facial expressions. But Rainbow decided to let her have her way and shrugged it off, turning to Twilight.

"Are you ready to time me?" Rainbow asked the alicorn. Her wings were fluffed, her muscles were loose, and she was ready to take off. Twilight nodded her response and held up the watch, motioning for Rainbow to take flight. Rainbow Dash prepped, getting ready to take off. But instead of Twilight commanding her to begin, a different noise left the mares mouth. A hoot. It was at that moment that Rainbow Dash woke up, thrashing the covers off of her. She ended her fit and took a look around. She was in the Golden Oak Library, in the spare bed. It was the day after the accident. All was not well.

Rainbow Dash tossed herself out of the bed, and fell to the floor. Her tumble was caused by another hoot, coming from behind her. She looked up and saw Twilight's pet owl perched in the window. Rainbow mumbled to herself and rose from the floor. She had things to do, and only two weeks to do them. She headed out of the library without hesitation, and went straight to her Wonderbolts Academy. But her trek was almost instantly cut short when she stumbled upon a young orange filly zooming by on a run-down scooter. She young filly stopped right next to Rainbow and started to walk the scooter alongside the mare.

"Rainbow Dash, are you all right? I heard about the accident yesterday!" The young filly rushed, panting in between words, obviously out of breath from her ride here. Rainbow Dash didn't have time to be chatting with the admiring child, but then again, there was two weeks.

"I'm fine Scootaloo, just a little sore." Rainbow patted the filly's head, succeeding in reassuring the child. Scootaloo perked up. Rainbow watched as a smile dashed across Scootaloo's face, and a spectrum of colorful ideas sped through her mind as she wondered what the filly could be thinking. No matter, Rainbow had something she had to do.

"Hey Scoots, I gotta dash, things to do." Rainbow said. She was met with a sad nod and a wave as Scootaloo scooted off to attend to her own business. Finally, Rainbow could get something done. She kept on thinking about how She would approach Spitfire with her request, but none of her ideas seemed plausible. Drowning in worry, she decided that the best way to go about this was to take it by year. The world is full of second chances, right?

Author's Note

At one point it became a challenge to see how many times I could successfully use puns involving Rainbow Dash. I'm so sorry. Not really, they all brought a dash of flavor.

A small update to it to get the story moving along. Some may have noticed that I have the Trixie tag enabled, but haven't mentioned her yet. The next update will be larger and longer, but it might take a while to get around to doing.