"Good morning, sleepy head."

I slowly woke up, still groggy. Dash was lying on my chest and kissed me.

"Good morning, how'd you sleep?" I said.

"I slept pretty good. You make a nice pillow, nice and warm, and your heartbeat is relaxing to hear."

"Beats sleeping on the clouds, huh?"

"Well the clouds are comfy, but they don't really keep me warm during the night."

"How about we go get some breakfast before I have to go to work?"

"Alright. But do you have to go to work today, cause I was hoping we could spend more time together, maybe get some flight training in."

"Unless Applejack lets me have the day off, I have to go."

"Fine, just try to finish up quickly."

"I will."

We raced down to Sugar Cube Corner, Rainbow winning obviously because I'm still not all that experienced, and we both bought some muffins as I was nervous of trying a dandelion and lily sandwich.

I ate mine slowly, 1. to spend a little more time with Dash before the workday started, and 2. because the muffin was too good not to make it last.

We trotted up to Sweet Apple Acres and were greeted by Applebloom.

"Hi, y'all I heard about you two. That's so sweet. Anyway Applejack told me to tell y'all you won't have to be comin' to work for a few days."

"Wait, what? Why?"

"Because, y'all did so well with the buckin' last time, she's sure you can do one large quota once a week."

"So, I only have to come in once a week now?"

"Eeyup, unless we start fallin' behind, then we'll get Twilight to get you."

"Ok, works for us."

"Also if we finish Applebuck season too early, Granny Smith has a hard time gettin' to all the apples before they go bad, so that's another reason why you only come once a week."

"Ok, so what days should I come in?"

"I think she said Tuesday, and besides, with all this work, we do need a day to rest, so you would take all the work for that day, and I hear y'all are gonna get paid extra for all that work."

"So, I just buck the trees and then carry the baskets back?"

"Eeyup. That's all there is to it."

"That doesn't sound too hard, and it would be good exercise for my wings."

"See y'all next week."

"See you guys next week."

"Haha, you work too fast for them to keep up." Dash said laughing.

"Hehe, I know. This works out perfectly, actually. So what do you wanna do now?"

"How about we do some flight exercises? We could work on your speed and control, and if you're up for it, we can move to advanced training with tricks."

"You don't have to ask me twice."

We flew over to Fluttershy's cabin, who wanted to see how well I could fly, and started our flight training.

"Alright, I want you to gain some height for this first one."

I flew as high as I could, barely being able to hear Dash's instructions in the distance.

"Ok, good. Now I want you to fall and open your wings right before you hit the ground."

I closed my wings and started to fall. So this is what skydiving must feel like, the wind pushing up on you, it's pretty similar to flying, only you are plummeting from hundreds or thousands of feet.

I thought it would be funny to spin like a downed airplane and descend that way.

Worst mistake ever.

By spinning, I made myself more aerodynamic increasing my speed.

I could see the ground slowly getting closer, when a loud boom was heard directly behind me, scaring me into opening my wings.

My wings broke under the pressure of trying to stop so suddenly and the shockwave threw me into the Everfree Forest.

Unable to stop myself due to my broken and bleeding wings, I crashed into what felt soft and wet, only to bounce into a nearby briar patch.

There were thorns sticking in me everywhere, like a bunch of needles stabbing me in various spots on my body, slowly making me bleed out.

I knew I couldn't move or the cuts would just get deeper, or that I may get even more cuts, so I just sat there trying my hardest not to scream out in pain.

I heard two sets of beating wings, and called to get their attention.

Rainbow was the first to appear.

She rushed over to me and started trying to get me out of the briar patch.

After a few pulls and grunts of pain later, I was in Dash's arms, inspecting the damage.

She quickly saw my wings and told Fluttershy to get some help from Zecora, as we were pretty close to her hut.

As Dash put me in her back I saw a small area of blue flowers crushed, most likely what I bounced off.

I knew this was bad as that was the poison joke flower.

We were at Zecora's hut in a matter of seconds while she was already making a remedy to heal my cuts.

After a few moments and ingredients added later, "Once you take a dip in my brew, you will start feeling good as new."

I was in too much pain to walk, so Dash and Fluttershy lifted me up and lowered me into the pot.

The brew was warm and I started to feel my skin crawl.

My skin started to grow back where my cuts were; my wings were healing themselves, bone and all, and after some time resting in the brew, I hopped out, like Zecora said, good as new.

"Thank you, Zecora. Oh and I think I may need another brew because I think I might have fallen into some poison joke flowers."

"Not a problem my young lad, but if they got in your bloodstream it would be very bad."

"What would happen? Would the effects become permanent?" said Dash in a very worried tone.

"What you ask is very true, and if it is so there is nothing I can do."

"I remember landing on my belly, not my back where the first cuts were. I got the rest of the cuts after I bounced into the briar."

"Ah, this news is very good, soon I will have you as you should."

"So, are you wings alright?" I gave them a little flap without a problem.

"Ok, good. I think that's enough training for today."

"So what exactly happened back there? I heard a large boom before all this happened."

Rainbow had a half proud half confused face.

"I don't know how you did it, but you did a different version of my sonic rainboom. The only difference was it let out a gray ring instead of my rainbow one."

"So…I did…a sonic grayboom?"

"Yes, you did, only problem is it didn't turn out so well at the end."

"Yeah, I noticed."

"So, you're okay now?"

"I feel fine."

"Good." She slapped me across the face.

"Ow. I take that as a 'that's what you get for scaring me' slap."

"You'd be right. How about we just relax for the rest of the day?"

"Has Fluttershy seen your house yet?"

"No, actually. None of my friends have, seeing how they could always find me on a cloud just above the ground."

"We should show her after I get treated for the poison joke."

"Sounds like a plan, and I have a plan for when we get there."

"What's your plan?"

"You'll just have to find out when we get there."

When the brew was ready, I sat in and waited a few minutes and got out after Zecora had said so.

"Hey, Fluttershy, want to go to my house?"

"Ooh, I'd love to. I've never been to your house before."

The three of us flew up to Rainbow's house where she was ready to pull off her plan.