"Where is it?! I know I have one somewhere," Dash muttered to herself, ripping through boxes and drawers, looking for the first aid kit that she always kept in the kitchen.

"Hah, found 'em!" she exclaimed, eyes flickering yellow before returning to purple as she remembered why she needed medical supplies. Rainbow trotted upstairs as she calmed herself, she didn't want to puke all over the poor changeling while bandaging him.

Rainbow tended the changeling's wounds carefully. After several hours of cleaning cuts, sticking together chitin breaks, and putting on a few casts, she wiped her brow. That was easier than she had planned for. Rainbow quietly closed the door and walked back downstairs to clean herself.

Twilight smirked at the other ponies before her,
"Well, it's been two hours and no sign of Dash, now we go to the police."

"Uh, maybe we could go to her house, just to be sure?" Fluttershy asked, voice barely above a whisper. She didn't want this to turn into an argument.

"I agree, maybe she found her way back and went straight home to clean up." Nature was always butting in on adult conversations.

"Fine, but if she's not there I'm alerting the Police. Got it?" Everyone else nodded, agreeing with both the purple unicorn and the yellow pegasus.

Rainbow's purple eyes flickered as she cleaned the green blood off of her hooves and torso. Her ears perked up as someone knocked on the door. Dash quickened her cleaning process so that the pony at the door didn't get offended by the long wait.
"Who is it?"

"It's us, your friends. Remedy came too." Rainbow went back to her slow pace, not caring how long that they had to wait. Her eyes glowed red, memories of what her friends had said echoing through her mind.

When she finally finished cleaning herself, the cyan mare hesitantly opened the door, her eyes swirling red and purple as she did so. Once the door was open, her friends blasted through, tackling her to the ground in a group hug. Rainbow squirmed a bit, not expecting the sudden weight, luckily clouds were soft and it didn't hurt her when she fell to the ground.

"Oh, Rainbow, we were so worried about you!" Fluttershy's usual quiet voice cut through the sound of ponies laughing as she nuzzled Rainbow like a mother would a child. Rainbow stopped struggling, realizing that she wouldn't be getting out of her predicament until the other ponies got off first, instead, the rainbow maned mare replied to Fluttershy's comment,

"I'm fine, might have took me a little while to get out but I'm fine!"

After a few more minutes of laying on the ground and cuddling Rainbow, the other mares got off. Twilight sighed as she looked at Rainbow,
"You worried us. Remedy came and she told us that you were in the forest. Do you know how dangerous that is!? You could've been attacked by a hundred different creatures! What if you ran into a cockatrice!? Or a pack of Timberwolves! Honestly, do you ever think before you do!?" Rainbow zoned out Twilight, pretending like she was listening. When Twilight stopped talking, Rainbow sighed,
"A whole bunch of things could've happened, but they didn't. Besides, I didn't intentionally go into the forest, I was kind of lost in my thoughts, only snapping out of it when Remedy approached me." Rainbow prodded the filly in the stomach, making her giggle. Fluttershy smiled at the scene, Remedy always liked Rainbow as a big sister, not having one herself.

Applejack spoke up and sighed, she patted Rainbow's head condescendingly,
"Honestly, Ah wonder what goes on in that brain. Sometimes Ah wonder if ya even have one." Applejack chuckled at the angry expression on Rainbow's face. Twilight silently took in the scene, noticing her friends eyes change to red. Twilight didn't question it, but she filed it away for further research, she wondered if Rainbow could have a disease or a special ability.

Rarity walked up to the already tortured mare and placed her manicured hoof on the other mare's shoulder. Rarity smiled at her sweetly,
"You need not worry darling, we understand that you aren't ready for a special somepony, which I assume was the reason that you were lost in your thoughts enough to go into the forest unintentionally. Rainbow, just take your time, we are sorry for rushing you darling." Rainbow nodded, blushing at the idea of a special somepony. Twilight gave a fake smile, something that Dash noticed rather quickly, and she gathered all of the mare's,
"Well, we'll get out of your mane. I'm sure that you want to rest after this incident. Just make sure not to enter the forest without another pony." Rainbow nodded, giving an unnoticeable glare to Twilight,
"Sure." Twilight nodded in satisfaction, not noticing the seething look that Rainbow's eyes gave her,
"Okay then, bye Dash!" Rainbow waved to them as the group floated back to Twilight's house in her hot air balloon, she inwardly wondered where Twilight hid the thing.

Rainbow shook her head and smiled, a small one of course, to her friends, mostly Rarity, Fluttershy and Remedy, she wondered where Pinkie had been, she always makes time for her friends. Maybe she just slept in, until 2:00, yeah she definitely slept in. With that thought pushed out of her mind, Rainbow went to check on Midnight, to make sure that he wasn't awakened by the noise of the other mares.

Rainbow quietly opened the door, silently thankful that cloud doors don't creak, and gazed at Midnight's still sleeping form. Good, she thought, Midnight isn't a light sleeper. Rainbow closed the door, smiling to herself for no reason, eyes tinted pink more so than usual, and walked to her room down the hall. She grinned, those extra rooms had come in handy after all. Dash decided not to sleep, but instead do some light flying and some exploring until sunset.

Author's Note

Alright, I've got this edited, it's now 9:14 AM, not bad since I started at 8:41, although I really need to get faster at this. Good morning! Bye!