I woke up and it appeared to be already the afternoon...I really must've worked myself out after that DJ gig with Vinyl last night. But that's not on my mind right now, I wanted to see the six mares and find out if they're alright and hope they're not angry or disappointed for me not being around. As soon as I got myself ready, I saw them altogether at the park where they were watching Rainbow Dash flying around in the sky, possibly trying to master a few new moves.

I sighed and walked on over to them. "Afternoon girls."

"Oh hey there darling." Rarity replied.

"Bond, where were you yesterday and this morning?" Twilight asked gently.

"I'm surprised...I thought I was going to be greeted with a not so positive reception after the way I just flew off when those Flim Flam brothers were bragging to the extreme." I said.

"We're not sugarcube, we all would've done the same if we were in your hooves." Applejack assured.

Sighing in relief, I told them about my time with Vinyl Scratch and being at one of her DJ gigs because I was neglecting my cutie mark, they seemed to be smiling about it though.

"If I wasn't feeling the way I was yesterday, maybe I would've been able to help...speaking of which, what happened to those two show-offs?" I asked.

"Well after you left, the Flim Flam brothers offered to do a partnership with the apple family because of the cider shortage." Fluttershy explained.

"But we flat out refused and they then challenged us to a comeptition, whichever side produced the most cider barrels in the morning wins control of the business." Applejack added.

"The brothers won by ten barrels more and we were about to feel upset when the customers drank their cider, but it wasn't good at all and hitting a problem, they packed up and fled the town." Twilight added in.

"So the apple family is still in business!" Applejack finished.

"Wow, guess I missed out quite a bit...so what's going on with Dash today?"

"Oh she's working on a new stunt move." Pinkie answered, "Isn't she the most daring devil, I mean the most devilish darer, I mean-"

"She's dazzling." Rarity intervened, cutting Pinkie off.

"Simple and to the point, just how I like it." I replied, winking at Rarity.

"Oh Bond, you're becoming such a flatterer." Rarity complimented.

I smiled back, before we knew it, there was a loud crash on the field.

"Ohhhh!" the girls exclaimed, seeing that Dash must've fallen to the ground or something.

"So much for dazzling." Pinkie sighed.

I galloped over to see Dash was knocked out and in a lot of pain.

"Girls, we gotta get her to the hospital, stat!" I yelled.

I placed Dash on my back and we all began to run to the hospital as fast we could.

Sometime later, the six of us were watching over Dash, hoping she would be alright if she wakes up.

"You think she's gonna be okay?" Applejack asked worryingly.

"Oh, I'm so worried." Fluttershy added.

"Is her face gonna stay that way?" Pinkie asked as we noticed her odd expression.

Eventually, Dash opened her eyes slowly and she woke up, noticing she had a bandage around her right wing....hah, take that, Conservatives!

"Awwww." Dash groaned.

Meanwhile, the doctor was looking at some x-rays of Rainbow Dash's wing, which seemed to be broken.

"How is she, doctor?" Twilight asked my question again to him.

"She's going to be fine. Luckily she has friends like you who got her over here in a jiffy."

"Huh, how long do I need to lie here? I've got things I need to do!" Rainbow Dash argued.

"Well, that all depends on your recovery, but I'd say a few days minimum."

"You guys have gotta get me out of here, I'm gonna climb the walls!"

Pinkie Pie quickly ran over to Rainbow Dash. "Ooh, just like a spider!" She turned her body towards the doctor and placed her hooves on him. "Did the crash somehow give her super-duper spider powers?"

"Nnnno…" He turned away, causing Pinkie Pie to fall on the ground. "Nor did it give her amazing healing powers. She needs to stay in bed for a few days."

"Few days?" Rainbow questioned, falling back on the pillow and lying down. "Might as well be a few months, or few years!"

"It's not so bad Rainbow Dash." Fluttershy assured.

"I bet the chow in here is hoof-lickin' good." Applejack encouraged.

"And the hospital gowns, they match the curtains!" Rarity added, holding one up near the window where the curtains presented themselves.

"And look, you have a roommate!" Pinkie Pie said as she pulled back a curtain to find a pony covered in bandages all over.

Twilight rubbed her chin and noticed a cart of books being pushed past the room. She smiled and ran towards the cart bringing back a book for Rainbow Dash. She held it near her and poked her with it, placing it by the side of her bed afterwards.

"What's this?" Rainbow Dash questioned in an irritable tone. She picked it up and analysed the cover. "'Daring Do and the Quest for the Sapphire Stone'."

"This is the first story in the series." Twilight patted the book cover. "I own all of them." She released a squee.

However, Rainbow Dash returned an annoyed look at her. "No thanks. I so don't read. I'm a world-class athlete. Reading's for eggheads like you, Twilight." Rainbow Dash responded as Twilight formed narrowed eyes. "Heh, no offence, but I am not reading. It's undeniably, unquestionably, uncool."

I stood there in confusion as to what she just said...whilst the other girls laughed.

"Is she serious?" Applejack asked. "Who doesn't like to read a bang-up tale from time to time?"

"Why, a good book is almost as magnificent as silk pyjamas on a Sunday morning, heh!" Rarity expressed.

"Reading is for everypony, Rainbow Dash!" Twilight agreed, placing the book back in front of her.

"Yeah! I love reading!" Pinkie Pie added, hopping excitedly. "And my head isn't even close to the shape of an egg! It's more the shape of an apple, or maybe an orange, but a big orange, more like a grapefruit really..." She placed her hoof to her chin to think about it.

"All right, my little ponies." One of the nurses announced from the door. "Rainbow Dash needs her rest. You'll have to come back tomorrow."

We all began walking out before Twilight stopped to look at Dash once more.

"I think you'd like Daring." Twilight explained to Rainbow Dash as she began walking out as well. "She's a lot like you. Adventurous, fierce, and undeniably, unquestionably, unstoppable." She stood at the door, waiting for a response from Rainbow Dash, but she merely flicked her hoof away.

As we left the hospital and noticing it was sunset already, we began talking about having just a couple of us visit her once a day when it's right to go see her.

"I know, Fluttershy and I will visit her tomorrow." Twilight suggested.

"And I'm sure you can take care of the animals for an hour while we're there, right, Bond?" Fluttershy asked.

"Why I sure can, after all, I learned a lot from your work experience." I answered.

"Thanks." she replied with a tiny amount of blush.

Man, I'm on a roll with the flattering today...I wonder if I can keep it up.

We soon called it a day and headed to our homes whilst thinking that Dash will recover soon in a few days.

When the morning arrived, I visited Fluttershy's cottage to find her just about to leave and meet up with Twilight to visit Dash at the hospital. Sharing a quick hug before she left, I got to work on watching over the animals, especially keeping an eye on Angel, her bunny who seems to be behaving like a spoiled bunny as of late, I'm hoping it doesn't get worse for Fluttershy.

When Fluttershy came back by the afternoon, I was glad that my animal work was over, even though I had complete control over it.

"Thanks for watching over my animals." Fluttershy said.

"Not a problem." I replied.

"Oh, by the way, Pinkie, Rarity and Applejack are going to visit Dash and Applejack wants you to help Big Mac with the apple trees."

"Alright, I might as well fly over there. See you soon, Fluttershy."

I waved and then flew to the apple farm, when I arrived, Big Mac gave me a wave and I flew down to land.

"I guess you were waiting for me to help with the farm?" I asked.

"Eeyup." he replied. "Ah need you to take down the apples on that side of the orchard, ah've got this one covered."

"Got it."

"But, ah dare you to do so without your wings or magic, ah wanna see how strong you are at bucking trees."

"Are you serious?"

"Eeyup."

There was no point in arguing really, I got to work right away, walking over to one side of the orchard and began to buck the first tree with my backlegs and a few apples came falling down into the baskets below, it took me a while to get hang of it before I started gathering improved psychical strength which might come in handy later on if evil arises again.

After a while of tree bucking for apples, it was almost sunset and Big Mac came on over and shook hooves with me.

"Good job, ah think you have a knack of taking down apples the traditional way." he complimented.

"Really? So I have proven to be more that just a flyer with magic?" I asked.

"Eeyup, ya can head on home now."

"Cool see you around."

After I left the farm, I flew on up and I wanted to go back home to rest, but along the way, I saw Dash outside the hospital and looking well rested but she seemed to have something on her mind.

"Is Ahuizotl gonna get away with the statue head, what's gonna happen to Daring?"

"Hey there Dash, you healed up quite quick." I said to her.

"Oh hey Bond, yeah my wing's back to normal." she replied but not so happily.

"But there's something on your mind right and is it to do with the daring do book?"

"How do you know?" she gasped.

"You were pacing about saying it when I saw you." I replied. "Have you thought where else to look for the book?

"Aha!" Dash said with a smile, "Twilight has a copy of the book..." she paused after reminding herself of something else. "..but I can't ask her after I called her an egghead and all." she then fell backwards softly.

"Come on Dash, Twilight's gone through much worse than that. I'm sure won't mind you coming around."

"Really, that's it?"

"Why of course, you accepted Twilight's apology after that mare do well incident, I'm sure she'll accept yours much easily."

"Ugh, don't remind me...alright, I'll go to her home and ask."

I grabbed her hoof and pulled her up so she was back on her hooves and we walked to Twilight's library, we then knocked the door.

"Oh hi Bond...and Dash, you're out of the hospital?" she asked noticing Dash without her bandage.

"Yeah, but I have to let my wing a rest for a few more days before I can fly well again."

"Cool, so what brings you here?"

"Just to say that I didn't mean to say that's you're an egghead, because I'm an egghead…"

"Huh?" Twilight questioned.

"See, I was thinking of coming to you, because you have the book I needed to read and finish the last chapter of-"

"-'Daring Do and the Quest for the Sapphire Stone'?" Twilight finished Rainbow Dash's sentence.

"You got me…" Rainbow Dash responded, lowering her head in angry shame.

"Wow, I knew the book was good, but I didn't know it could drive a pony to being crazy over it!" Twilight commented.

"Good? Try awesomely amazing." Rainbow corrected. "That book is undeniably, unquestionably, un-put-down-able! But then I had to put it down and I was sent home before I could finish it."

"Well, why don't you come on in..." Twilight then looked at me "...you can come in too, Bond, there may be a book for you."

"Okay." I replied with a smile.

We walked on inside as Twilight grabbed a book that Dash wanted.

"Like I said, I have every book in the series and you can borrow them all, anytime you like." she said as she lifted out the same book Dash wanted to read.

"Uh thanks Twilight...I actually feel happy to be doing something new like reading." Dash said, "I thought reading was for smart ponies like you."

"Rainbow Dash, just because your athletic, doesn't mean you're not smart." Twilight assured.

"Yeah, just look at me." Spike added as he tried to show his arm muscles which was met with confused faces...he then grabbed up his broom and resumed cleaning in a huff.

"Reading is something everypony can enjoy, if they just give it a try." Twilight assured.

"Yeah, I get it." Dash replied. "I shouldn't knock something until I tried it."

As I grabbed a book called 'History Of The Alicorns.', I intervened into the conversation. "That sounds like a great lesson and it would make a great letter to the Princess."

"Did you get all that?" Dash asked Spike.

"Yeah." Spike answered who was unsure.

"Great...you write the letter, I'll gotta finish this book."

Dash then took the book with her mouth and flew out of the library...she was very eager to read it I have to say.

"And as for me, I'll borrow this book for a while...it just seemed to grab my attention." I said as I lifted the book from a shelf.

"History Of The Alicorns, that's a great book, I'm sure you'll find it interesting."

"I'm sure I will, have a good evening."

"You too, Bond."

I then waved and with my magic, I brought the book with me out of the library and to my home. When I got inside, I got undressed and into bed, I switched on my night light and got into bed before opening the first page of the book and began to read. It was great to see Dash finding a new hobby and interest in reading and so did I, I haven't read a book for a long time either and as I continued to read, I learnt one other thing...Indiana Jones is awesome! Next Chapter: Hearts & Hooves Day Estimated time remaining: 19 Hours