A few moments later, as the stars finally came out, and the moon crept above the horizon, Spitfire had Lightning Dust pinned to the ground. Daring had sent the surprised the Cat King flying into a wall unconscious, having turned a mid-air leap into a hard buck to the face.
With the battle finally over, Spitfire whispered down to Lightning Dust
“I 'should' leave you here at their mercy, but I'm going to let you go. But you should know, If you ever return to a civilized part Equestria again, know that there is going to be a Bounty on your head, so large that it's going to make whatever you got paid for this job look like petty cash. Do you understand?”
Lightning Dust nodded silently and Spitfire slowly let the turquoise mare get to her feet before she scrambled away into the jungle undergrowth.
Meanwhile, Daring flew up to the cage and unlocked it, and with Spitfires help, they slowly pulled a badly injured Rainbow Dash out and helped her onto the floor.
Spitfire asked “Can you stand?”
“I, I think so? But my wings, I think they're both broken?”
Daring carefully inspected both wings. “Yep, they're broken. But I can put together a couple of make-shift braces until we can get you back and into a hospital.”
Daring quickly rounded up some strong sticks and bits of cloth to bandage up Rainbow Dash's wings, while Spitfire thought of a way to distract the cyan mare from the pain.
Spitfire raised her voice at Dash “So what kind of squalid place do you call this as an excuse to get out of training and practice Crash!”
Caught off guard Rainbow Dash replied “Wha? What? I was kidnapped by a Changeling and Lightning Dust!”
Spitfire retorted. “That's not a good enough excuse if you'd been working as hard as you were supposed to be doing, like I told you, those two would have been paste on your bathroom floor!”
Rainbow went red. “You... you went inside my house? The... The posters? The signed autographs? Everything?”
Spitfire pressed home her verbal attack. “This better be a lesson to you to work harder, so next time you'll be ready to take on 4 of them!”
Daring cut in: “And I'm done”
Rainbow looked around. “Wait? What?” As realization dawned that Spitfire was just getting into a heated argument so Daring could put the braces on her wings.
Spitfire then pulled Rainbow in for a nuggy. “Yes we both saw everything, and really you should see my place sometime, I've got more Wonderbolt memorabilia than just about anyone. You should know by now that our fans are us. I can't think of a single Wonderbolt who doesn't have at least 5 pictures of you, and at least two copies of your autograph stashed away somewhere.”
Rainbow blushed
Daring gave Spitfire a nudge. “Hey, don't forget she's also my biggest fan.”
Pulling out of the nuggy. “So how come you two teamed up anyway?”
The pair looked at each other before turning back to Dash.
They said in unison: “It's a long story.”
Daring said: “We'll fill you in on the way back, we've got a long way to go, so if your up for walking, I suggest we make the most of this moonlight.” she silently whispered “Thank you Luna.” acknowledging that a bright moon tonight would help with the trek back through the woods.