Rainbow Dash was still upset at her friends for stating she should find a special somepony sometime soon. She thought they had understood that she wouldn't be interested in anypony anytime soon, and even if she was, it took time to build relationships. Her eyes flickered red, not that it was noticeable in her dark surroundings.

Just because each of her friends were in a relationship, didn't mean she should have to be. She could perfectly list all of their relationships; Fluttershy had married Big Macintosh and they had a 9 year old daughter, Pinkie Pie was married to Cheese Sandwich, Rarity was engaged to Fancy Pants, Twilight dating Comet Tail, and Applejack was dating Flim, but that didn't mean Rainbow needed to get involved with somepony, not yet anyway. She just didn't fly that way.

"Uh, Rainbow? What are you doing in the Everfree?" Rainbow jumped in surprise and squeaked, not something that she would ever admit to. She calmed down after a few seconds, before taking in her surroundings,

"Huh?" Rainbow rubbed her eyes, now green, and blinked, trying to make sure that they were working correctly. "The Everfree?"

Remedy rubbed her hind legs together, wondering how Rainbow hadn't noticed her surroundings earlier. "Yeah."

A roar echoed through the forest, sounding oddly like the creaking of wood. Nature, forgetting the awkward conversation, screamed in panic, bolting so fast it could be safely assumed that she had teleported. Rainbow, unfortunately, did not know her way through the forest like the filly, who had darted away before she could ask. She flew up to see where she was, groaning when she realized that she was completely lost, having wandered farther than she'd originally guessed.

"I hate being lost," Rainbow muttered, her eyes returning to their normal magenta hue. She turned around, guessing her direction, and set off, not caring if it made her situation worse.
Flying up a couple hours later, the young mare groaned as she saw that she was still surrounded by trees. Never. Ending. Trees...

"Still lost...This sucks! Why couldn't I have just gone home!? Why?!?!" Her eyes became two shades darker as she shouted dramatically to the heavens, knowing that nopony would be within range to be able hear her. Rainbow's eyes continued to darken as she continued her flight through the wild forest.

Natural Remedy bolted out of the woods, screaming like she had just seen a horde of zombies. Fluttershy, worried for her daughter, quickly fluttered over and began checking for wounds.
"What happened? Are you hurt?" Remedy shook her head in embarrassment as she realized what she had done.
"It's okay, it was just the Timberwolves howl again." Fluttershy sighed in relief and smiled in amusement at her little filly. Fluttershy's smile quickly fell into a frown as she recalled why she was outside with her friends in the first place.

"Okay honey, have you seen Rainbow Dash? I haven't seen her since this morning and I may need her help." Remedy tilted her head, not knowing how to answer the question without getting in trouble,

"Well, I did see her, but she was pretty deep in the forest." Twilight, who had overheard the conversation, gasped and exclaimed,
"We need to find her, the forest is dangerous! Do you know where you were!?" Remedy shuffled, her face reddening in embarrassment,
"Um, I kinda, forgot. Hehe."

Rainbow stomped through the woods, her eyes a darkened mixture of orange and red.

"I hate this. Now I can't even get home, and even if Twilight cast a tracking spell on me, she'd probably blow something up," the agitated mare muttered, her eyes flicking back and forth, trying desperately to find a way out of the cursed forest.

Something rustled nearby. Rainbow froze, eyes turning purple as she turned around apprehensively. At first she saw nothing, then the bush right next to her rustled a second time, though this one was weaker than the last. Something was inside the bush, and from her memory of Daring Do books, she knew that it had to be either very good, or very very bad. Judging by the weak movements of the bush, it was probably the latter. Extremely carefully, Rainbow moved the wet twigs and damp leaves aside to get a clear view of whatever was in the bush.

She froze again, eyes turning a mix of blood red and deep purple as uncontrollable panic and horror flooded through her. She stared, unable to move or even scream, not that anypony would hear her at this point.

"Oh, it's no use, darling, we've been searching for hours now!" Rarity fussed with her now dirty mane, trying to get the twigs, leaves, and thorns out with varying levels of success."I think we should just wait by her house and see if she comes back, if she isn't back by morning, then we can resume searching."

"Ya know, fer once Ah agree with her. Let's wait," said Applejack, who was becoming increasingly irritated as she watched Rarity fumble with her mane.

"Fine. But if she isn't back when we check her house tomorrow, I'm contacting the police," Twilight replied, rather begrudgingly.

Fluttershy gasped. "But...what if she gets hurt? What if they can't find her?! She could DIE!!!" Applejack and Rarity kept their opinions to themselves, Fluttershy was far too worried for her own good.

Rainbow just stood there in complete horror, she was looking at a changeling, and it hadn't so much as hissed in her direction. She shook her head, deeming it safe enough to approach.

"Are... are you alright? Why haven't you attacked me?" As Dash asked this, her eyes swirled with different shades and hues of green.

The changeling hissed in pain as it turned to look at her. "I... hate those changelings... *cough* I hate... their rules... I ... *hack* can't live in this state," the changeling said, voice echoing and hissing at the same time.

Rainbow was surprised to say the least. Who would hate their own race? She blurted out the question, green, orange, and purple raced through her eyes as she realized how rude that was, Dash blushed a bit and apologized for her rudeness. "Sorry."

The changeling coughed up a little green slime and chuckled at her weakly. "It's... okay... my name... Midnight Wonder... get bush... off *hack* you'll see," Midnight's breaths came in ragged gasps.

Puzzled, Dash did as the male changeling requested. As she moved the bush, a strange smell and an aura of panic assaulted her. She gasped, eyes shining like red blood in complete horror at the scene that lay before her.

The changeling had a large gash running down his back, oozing green fluid. His wings were tattered, large gashes ripped through them. One leg was so bloody he looked as if he should have died of blood loss, although, thankfully, he didn't. Many wide, bloody cracks intersected on his shell, green blood pouring down his side. Rainbow held back a gag, now she knew why the bush was wet. Struggling to remain conscious, she sat down. Seeing someone in this much pain made Dash feel a little pain herself, it was in her nature.
"W-Who did this?" She stared as Midnight hacked,
"Siblings..*cough**hack*."

Her eyes became and odd shade of yellow as she weighed he options, choosing not to acknowledge his response, knowing that it would anger her. She eventually decided that, changeling or not, she was not going to let somepony die, especially not in the sacred and wild forests of the Everfree.

"My name is Rainbow Dash, and I'm going to help you."

Midnight coughed again and beamed at her. "Thank you... Dassshh... Ponyville is.... that way..." He pointed west with his least battered hoof. "Can... feel... pony love..."

Rainbow nodded, carefully putting the changeling on her back before flying to her house at top speed, no hospital would accept a changeling, luckily she had enough experience to help him. Her rainbow trail was broken in several places by green streaks as she raced through the skies.

Author's Note

Okay, so this was edited by me because I lost contact with TodayIwriteFanfics and I really didn't like the short chapters, so I'm going to try to fix that. Just know that it will take a while because I don't really have much time between all three of my accounts. Bye and have a great day, luckily school is almost out. I had to edit this three times because it kept deleting itself. My head hurts, I'm going to sleep, it's currently 11:12 PM, not bad. Bye!