Author's Note

When adrenaline kicks in, one may accomplish things they thought not possible.

Hospital

Jade woke up with a the steady beep of heart monitors. How long had she been out? She smelled the odor of sterilizers and a white mare with a a pink mane stood over her checking vitals.

"She's stable Highness, she got lucky today.........she that arrow I removed if it had been a few millimeters over she'd be dead."

"From what we saw before she bit the dust she was scared and desperate. I would love to know commander Quill decided to have a private join such a dangerous expedition. I didn't give him the go in that decision."

"Your highness, she's been out for several weeks now and she's showing signs of PTSD, we had to use a magic dampening ring so she'd would kill some pony."

"Corporal Redheart, I must tend to some duties notify me when she wakes."

"Yes ma'am."

She was going in and out of consciousness, so that's why she figured Celestia said when she wakes. She was now fully awake and asked a passing nurse pony for water.

Corp. Redheart arrived and sent word to Celestia. "Easy there you've been through a lot........what do you remember?"

"The ambush, everypony died didn't they? I tried to let my commanding officers know that something was wrong.......it was too Celestia damned quiet........"

"What am I damming now?"

"Y-Y-Your highness........I uh........"

"Continue dear as your were saying?"

"Something was wrong it was too quiet, like the calm before a big storm from Everfree Forrest. I felt like the hunted not the hunter. It clicked for them when we got to the point where we were ambushed. We looked back and realized we had been on a prepared track for us to walk........then they struck; I can't unsee that look on the pegasus face as his throat was ripped out......the terror.......the carnage that ensued shook me I was the youngest and shouldn't have been there everypony said it. How did I survive?"

"When we arrived on the scene and the arrow struck you, you were fighting with everything you had my little pony. You had done most of the work we just cleaned up. The amount of blood loss should've killed you........it was a miracle that we saw your magic flares. Now rest young one."

"Your Highness I'm not out of the fight, 'Celestia's own don't quit'."