Things are never as bad as they seem.

Rainbow Dash taught me this. Not just because she was secretly a worrywort for so friggin' long, but mostly because she's lived long enough and survived enough hardships to realize that sometimes the best things come at the most unpredictable of times.

Stuff was about to get really... really trippy for Rainbow Dash. She didn't know it quite yet, but she was about to endure something that would test the limits of her sanity... not to mention the strength of her heartstrings. Nothing she had gone through before—no matter how awkward or extreme—could possibly have prepared her for the madness to come.

But before that harrowing event, before she found herself in a place where up was down and inside was outside, she had a pleasant week...

A pleasant week spent with pleasant ponies.

Well... pleasant for the most part...