Rainbow watched Luna's moon set with a sigh. She was glad that Discord had admitted that he was responsible for this mess. Then she could blame somepony.
Her belly growled like a timber-wolf. She was starving, but she didn't trust the smell coming off that goop in waves, or the fact that it was goop. She was able to get down some water, though. There was a bunch of dirty cloth lining the floor of the cage. She washed it in her water bowl, and used it to bind her broken leg back to its normal position. It wasn't easy, considering she had to gasp with pain every time she touched it, but Rainbow managed to get it so that it was a dull, horrible throbbing instead of agony.
In her meantime, which was every waking moment, she would ponder Discord's riddle. Loyalty the people take. Ok, that one was pretty easy. She was loyalty and she had been taken. Duh. The real mind-twister was the second line. Twin rescue, and they integrate. What the hay did integrate mean? Rainbow wasn't a dictionary. And what about the part about the twins? Rainbow tried to contact Discord again for answers, but it was in vain. She even resorted to pleading. That time she thought she heard a chuckle, but it was gone after about two seconds. Eventually she gave up hope and lay down to sleep.
Rainbow felt like she had slept for hours. But when she woke up, the sun wasn't up yet. It was completely dark, no moon, no stars, not even a hint of dawn. Strange, she thought. Celestia should have risen the sun by now.
Suddenly she heard voices. They were deep, like a stallions. Big Macintosh? Rainbow was really confused now. But when she looked out the bars, she could just make out creatures that stood on their hind legs, with rugged, short, mane cuts on the top of their heads. These "Its" were strange creatures, and they were panicking. Rainbow only heard bits and pieces, but she caught "sun" and "lost" and "stars". The Its seemed to be controlling the "Floater", as Rainbow called the thing she was on, but they didn't know where they were going. The leader yelled to get their attention, but the Its kept on screaming like school-fillies. Rainbow found it very amusing to watch them trip over their own feet and slam into one another in their panic. She fought down a giggle as one threw Itself over the side of the Floater.
"Yes, very funny, aren't they?" mused a certain draquonicus who poof-ed into the cage.
"Discord?" Rainbow was outraged that NOW he showed his sorry snake tail. "I've been pleading for you to come back, and NOW YOU SHOW UP!" She was sick and tired of Discord's "games". "YOU GIVE ME BACK MY LIFE RIGHT NOW!!!!"
"Easy now. I just wanted to give you time to ponder the riddle. Any questions?" he asked with a smile.
Rainbow had to take a deep breath to keep herself from beating him up then and there. "What does integrate mean?" she asked as calmly as she could.
"It means to unite, my dear pegasus. That is your every-second-day-ly question. You can ask me one question every second day that you ponder the riddle. If you solve it before the event actually happens, you might win a prize!" he said happily.
"So it means to unite," the blue pegasus said to herself.
"Yes, now tootaloo!" Discord snapped his talon and disappeared. Rainbow silently went back to thinking about the riddle and the next question she would ask Discord. Probably the twins, she thought. but a silent thought nagged at her mind. Will I ever get my friends back?