Thorn waited in her resting area she had found up in one of the odd shaped mountains, shining one of her Air Glider Feathers against whatever sunlight was left. It had been a rough flight up, she was nearly knocked out of the skies by strong breezes that had been caused by strange creatures.

And from what I could tell… I sure I'm not the only one who got hit by them.

A few minutes later, Lightning came into view, joining Thorn.

"Phew… glad to see you made it." Thorn said, sighing with relief.

"You and me both…" Lightning replied looking back. "I don't think Rainbow did though… I think I heard her screaming."

Thorn's eyes went wide. "Did you try finding her?"

"Tried, but got blown off course by whatever those things were in the sky, nearly ran into a building too. Couldn't find my way back to her, I have no idea where she landed."

"We should go looking for her."

"Yeah… but let's wait till it's light out. The sun is already setting and I don't want to know what comes out at night here… Let's find a place to rest and then we'll go looking for her."

Thorn nodded. "Alright then..."

Thorn got up and started leading the way. She couldn't help but look back to where they were, worry in her eyes.

Please be okay…

The world was hazy for Rainbow. She couldn't think straight and wasn't sure where she was. All she knew was she was aching all over.

"Can you do anything?" she heard a voice say… it sounded like the creature she had met. What was his name…? Dusty?

"I'll do my best, but I've never seen anything like it…"

I don't recognize that voice…

"Thanks Dottie."

It remained like this for awhile till Rainbow was finally able to come to. She opened her eyes slowly, finding herself in some kind of workshop. There were tools all over the place, and other various objects.

"Where…?"

She looked at herself, seeing she was out of her uniform, and now had what appeared to be metal braces on her wings.

She gasped, jumping up, only to fall back on her legs from the soreness.

"Ow…"

Stupid water tower…

"Easy now, you put yourself through the wringer."

Rainbow's head snapped towards the source of the voice to see some box shaped creature. It had blue coloring to it's body and had brown eyes. It sounded female.

"W-Who are you?" Rainbow asked, not sure whether to be scared or not.

"I'm Dottie, glad to finally see you awake, Dusty was worried you weren't going to wake up after he found you."

"Oh… um… nice to meet you…?"

Dottie chuckled a little. "If you worried about me hurting you don't, I'm the one who fixed you up… well tried to. I made those braces on your wings."

Rainbow looked at the braces again. They were well made and obviously made from scratch when she noticed some of the welding marks.

"So… you're a doctor?" Rainbow asked.

"For planes, I am, though not for whatever you are, I had to do a lot of guessing when it came to figuring out to help, but I was able to figure out a few things after doing a few x-rays."

Dottie rolled over to another part of the workshop, showing the pictures she had taken. Rainbow winced as she looked at them.

"How bad...?" she asked.

"Not completely, broken, but you managed to bruise your wing frame, hence the braces, that'll keep them from cracking and they should heal properly in about three weeks. From what I could tell, your structure is rather hollow so it would explain why you sustained as much damage as you did when you crashed, you're lucky one of your wings didn't break."

Rainbow gulped. "Anything else?"

"Just a few scratches and bruises, but you should be fine, you just need to rest for the time being."

Perfect… Rainbow thought, looking down.

"Hey, do you know where my uniform is? My trainers will have my head if I lost it."

Dottie gave a nod.

"Yeah, I have it hung up over there." she said, gesturing over to where the suit was currently hanging. "Which reminds me…"

"Dottie?"

Rainbow looked to the door to see Dusty looking in.

"Ah, there you are, just in time, our little visitor is awake now." Dottie smiled, gesturing over to Rainbow.

A relieved look appeared on Dusty's face as he looked over to her.

"Glad to see you're okay, how are you feeling?" he asked as he rolled over to her.

"Sore… Least my head isn't ringing anymore." Rainbow answered, giving a small smile.

"Good… Rainbow Dash, right?"

She nodded. "Thanks for helping me… it's appreciated."

Dusty gave a nod.

"Hey, Dusty."

Dusty looked over to Dottie. "Yeah?"

"Remember what we saw?"

"Oh! Right."

He turned back over to Rainbow.

"We wanted to wait till you woke up… Could you explain why you have the Jolly Wrenches insignia on that little uniform you were wearing?"

Rainbow's jaw dropped.

"You… You know about… The Wrenches?" she asked.

"Know them? I'm part of them." Dusty said, turning to his side. "See?"

Rainbow looked closely and saw the insignia near the tip of his nose. Her eyes went completely wide.

"How…?"

"I was trained by one of their squadron leaders, I was made an honorary Jolly Wrench not too long after."

"But… I… I never saw anything like you at Flysenhower, I only saw dragons, griffons, hippogriffs, ponies, not… whatever you are."

Dottie gave an odd look. "What is she talking about? I've never heard of any of those things."

Dusty returned the look. "Neither have I… and for the record, I'm a plane, a crop duster to be more correct."

Never heard of that either… I'll roll with it. Rainbow thought, shaking her head.

"Okay… and I'm what they call a pony, a Pegasus if you want specifics."

"Better than just calling you an it." Dottie said as she rolled around her workshop, putting things away. "But I've never heard of the Wrenches training anything like you."

"And neither have I." Dusty added.

"Well, we're all confused then, that's something we all know."

I gotta get out of here… I need to find Thorn and Lightning Dust.

Rainbow attempted to get back up again, still wobbly on her legs. Dusty rolled over to her, giving his wing for her to lean on. "Easy now…"

"I-I'm fine… I need to go."

"Oh no." Dottie said in a stern tone. "You heard me earlier, you need to rest."

"But I need to get back to my team! They'll be worrying their heads off if they don't know I'm okay!"

"Do you want your wings broken?"

"... No...?"

"Then you're not going anywhere, you need to stay put."

"Ugh… fine…"

Rainbow sat back down sighing.

Dusty gave a sympathetic look. "Sorry, Rainbow Dash…"

"It's okay… and please, just call me Rainbow or Dash."

Dusty nodded. "Okay then."

Rainbow lowered her head a little, trying to process everything.

So, I got in an accident… I'm with something called a plane and whatever his friend is… and I can't go anywhere because of medical reasons… great…

Rainbow heard her stomach growl. And I'm starving… what next?

"Need something?" Dusty asked.

"Food..."

Dottie rolled over. "Well… what do ponies eat?"

"Hay, apples, corn, basically just fruits and vegetables."

Dottie grinned. "Well, least we have one of those."

Dottie left and returned shortly after with another creature beside her. It was green and orange was carrying some corn with it by using a wagon.

"Dash, this is Chug, Chug, Dash." Dottie said.

Chug rolled over to Rainbow. "Nice to meet you, brought you some food."

Dottie helped him get the corn out and bring it over to her. "Eat up."

"Thanks."

Rainbow took a bite… and then immediately began devouring it.

"Wow! This tastes amazing! It's even better than the stuff Apple Jack grows!"

Chug grinned. "Thank you, we work hard on our crops, we grow some of the best corn in the world."

Dottie rolled her eyes chuckling. "Don't get him started about corn, he'll go on for hours."

Rainbow grinned, laughing a little. "He'd get along with Apple Jack, she's the same with her apples."

"Need anything else?" Chug asked.

"Water would be nice."

"You got it."

Chug raced off, leaving Rainbow to eat the rest of the corn he had left for her.

"So, I'll just be staying here?" Rainbow asked.

"We don't see a problem with it, though I would prefer you find somewhere else to sleep besides the Fill N Fly. I have machines in here every day." Dottie said. "Don't know how they would react to seeing a pony."

"She can stay in my hangar then, I got room." Dusty said with a grin. "She doesn't take up a lot of space, so she could fit in just fine."

"Well, long as she's okay with it."

Rainbow gave a nod. "That sounds fine to me, I'll just need something to keep warm, and something soft to lie on."

"I think we got a pillow lying around here somewhere, and a blanket too, so, we got you covered."

Rainbow smiled. They're all so nice…

She quickly finished up her food and pretty much chugged the water that was brought to her. After that, Dusty brought her to his hangar by carrying her on his wing.

It was a cozy little place. Few posters were hung up on the walls with pictures of what she could assume were other planes. What caught her attention though were what appeared to be trophies and awards on one side of the room. In particular, a blue silver one that had Wings Around the Globe written on the front of it.

That… That sounds like the Wings Around Equestria…

"Do… Do you race?" she asked.

Dusty grinned. "Yep, the Wings Around the Globe Rally was my first race, been racing ever since then."

"Wow…"

Rainbow yawned a little. "Sorry… tired…"

"It's okay, got your pillow and blanket?"

Rainbow nodded showing the items that had been given to her by Dottie before Dusty brought her to the hangar.

"Good, just find a corner and just make yourself comfy."

Dusty helped her around the room till she settled for a nice spot by one of the windows. It was a little hard to get comfortable since her wings were stuck as they were thanks to the braces, but eventually she was able to relax a little, starting to feel sleep take over.

"Night, Dash." Dusty said quietly as he started to drift off.

"Night…" Rainbow replied, closing her eyes.

I gotta get home… somehow.