Rainbow Dash had been flying for what felt like months before her wings started to get tired. Spotting a soft looking cloud down below she put herself into a bank and came down to land, touching down softly and resting her head against the soft fluffyness.

That's when the cloud decided to turn violent and hit her with a burst of lightning, shocking her awake.

The cyan pegasus shot up in her hospital bed, gasping for air as her wings twitched against their slings.

"She's alive. And awake." A gruff sounding doctor told the nurse.

"Wha- what the..." Rainbow stuttered.

The doctor put a gentle but firm hoof on her chest and gently pushed her so she was laying down. "Take it easy miss Dash. You've been out cold for about a week."

"What?!?"

"I know that may come as a shock to you, but you were in a bad way when your friends brought you in here." The doctor turned and said something to the nurse, but Rainbow couldn't hear him. After half a minute of back and forth talking the doctor looked back towards her. "Sorry about that. But as I was saying, you were pretty banged up, and for about ten seconds there, you were clinically dead."

Rainbow's eyes went wide. "I was... dead?"

The doctor nodded. "Your muscles, including your heart, all seized up due to over exertion, how I don't know. All I know is that your friend, Miss Pinkamena Pie, was sitting by your bed when your wings suddenly shot out to your side and your legs started flailing like..." The doctor stopped and looked at the clipboard with the recount on it. "Like one of those big inflatable pony things that they put out front of carriage stores to mark a sale."

Rainbow Dash gave the doctor an odd look.

He cleared his throat. "Her words. I'm simply reading what the nurse took down for the report."

He shrugged. "At any rate, it seems you had a seizure and we'll need to keep you here for a few more days to make sure you are fine but now that you are awake, any time after that period is up, you can leave of your own volition. However. If you do I'd advise you to take it easy and rest."

"um excuse me doctor." Nurse Redheart called from the door. "A moment please."

"Yes of course." The doctor said before turning back to Rainbow Dash. "I will be back momentarily."

The doctor trotted out into the hallway and closed the door. "What is it nurse?"

"Well.. this came in the mail for miss Dash. It's a summons to Canterlot signed by Princess Celestia herself." Nurse Redheart explained as she passed a note to the doctor.

"Let's see here." the doctor said to nopony in particular as he read, his brow furrowing. "Well... I can't just tell the Princess that she can't have this young mare perform, and if the date is correct, she should be fully healed and ready well before hoof."

Inside her room, Rainbow Dash was amusing herself by reading through the stack of newspapers detailing what had happened that had been left by Pinkie Pie. She frowned as she read, all the reports, though not identifying her as the Shadowbolt, called her a lunatic pegasi who was stopped by the efforts of the one brave mare, also not identified.

She rubbed her jaw where Twilight's last strike had connected, it was still a bit sore, but bearable compared to the pain across her chest where she had been slammed with a table leg.

'Probably some internal bruising that caused my heart to seize up. Maybe the doc is right and I should take it easy...'

It was at that point that the doctor opened the door and trotted back in. "Good news it seems. Princess Celestia has put out a summon for you to head to Canterlot tomorrow. Now it says here you will be traveling with Miss Sparkle and the rest of your friends so we'll pass on some instructions for them to keep you healthy."

"Canterlot? What for? Is something wrong?" Rainbow asked, putting the newspaper down.

"No. It seems the princess wants you to do a Sonic Rainboom to close off the wedding of her niece and the Captain of the Royal Day Guard."