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About an hour after Daring found Rainbow's home, she woke up on her couch.
"Daring! You're awake! Thank Celestia!" cried Rainbow Dash.
"Rainbow Dash! What are we still doing here! They'll be here any second! Move, girl!" Daring screamed, consciousness retuning to her.
"No way! Your ribs are cracked, and you can't walk on your forelegs. We're now going anywhere," Rainbow Dash explained.
"What? Rainbow Dash I-" Daring started to say.
But then she felt the pain in her chest and hooves, and realized Rainbow Dash was right.
"It doesn't matter, Rainbow Dash! We are in danger! Both of us! We need to fly!" Daring explained.
"Not until you tell me why you're like this!" Rainbow Dash demanded.
The memory of what happened scared her. Daring didn't want to tell Rainbow Dash what she saw, but now she had no choice. She looked deeply into Rainbow Dash's eyes. Pleading with her one last time not to make her say a word. But Rainbow Dash seemed determined to know.
"Well?" Rainbow asked as she crossed her forelegs.
She flew in place, slowly bobbing up and down repeatedly. Her face was so angry, and Daring could sense the anger grow the longer Daring waited to tell her. Daring gave in, and started to talk.
"I was flying in the forest, going faster than I've ever gone before, and then I was taking a rest in a small clearing," Daring started to explain.
Daring didn't want to say why she was flying, at least not at that particular moment.
"Then one of Arizotal's stallions sneaked up on me! So I was ready to fight! It was a good fight, if I do say so myself, but I lost!" Daring Do started to explain, in her story telling voice no less.
"I got him bleeding, and then he bucked my ribs! So, I got his face, and got him bleeding again! And let me tell you, if I wasn't sweating from the flying, I was sweating then. I showed no mercy, and neither did he!" Daring explained further.
Rainbow Dash was no longer flying at this point, instead she was on the floor, listening intently.
"But then I was ambushed! Four other stallions came and attacked! I was half out of consciousness when they took me, and flew me to Arizotal. And let me tell you, Arizotal was not happy at all when I arrived," Daring continued, fully grabbing Rainbow Dash's attention.
"'Daring Do!' he said. 'I don't know if you know this, but you cost me my plans of destruction' he continued. I was then locked in his dungeon, and kept there for an hour! In the darkness, wet and damp darkness. I was then taken, and tortured! Arizotal didn't like what we did at all, Rainbow. I was strapped in tightly in a stretching device, I guess it broke my fore legs from stretching so much," Daring continued to explain.
"How did you escape?" Rainbow Dash asked.
Daring's eyes widened in fear, she forgot that that would be a question Rainbow Dash would ask. But she had to answer it. She ad to tell Rainbow Dash the truth. Tears returned to Daring's eyes. She couldn't hide them, they just came.
"Daring Do? How did you escape?" Rainbow asked again.
Suddenly stallions flew through the door and windows. Bloody murder on their faces. Panic and fighting instinct grew in Rainbow Dash's body. They slowly surrounded Rainbow and Daring.
"How did you escape?" Rainbow Dash asked, realization hitting her hard.
"I didn't," Daring said, defeated.
The mares were then knocked out, and swimming in their subconsciousness.
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Rainbow wakes up to being strapped to an up right table, looking at who she never thought to see again, Arizotal.
"Wait a minute," Rainbow thought. "The thing I never expected!" She thought once again.
She turned to see Daring Do still passed out. She struggled to release herself from her bonds and get herself and Daring out of there. But the more she struggled, the leather bonds got tighter.
"Oh, Rainbow Dash," Arizotal laughed.
"Let me go, Arizotal! Or else!" Rainbow Dash threatened.
"Or else what? My, my Rainbow Dash. You have as much spunk as your father did, before I ripped him, and your mother to shreds!" Arizotal boasted.
"Wh- what?" Rainbow Dash asked with tears forming in her eyes. "You're lying Arizotal!" She shouted, even though she already knew the truth.
"You doubt me? Don't dare to doubt me, Rainbow Dash! I can end you when ever I want!" Arizotal threatened.
"Then why don't you?" asked Rainbow Dash.
"Because you can play a vital piece in my game. I tell you everything you want to know about your parents, and you leave Daring to be tortured until death," Arizotal explained.
"I will never let that happen, Arizotal! Never!" Rainbow Dash shouted.
"Very well," Arizotal said as he took a hot iron rod. "I can torture you, until you give in," Arizotal said, getting closer to Rainbow Dash.
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Daring woke up abruptly! She heard screams of pain, and she was curious as to who was making them. She turned her head both right and forward, and realized that she was back in Arizotal's layer. But who was screaming? An aery realization struck her like a whip when she started to slowly turn her head left, only to see Rainbow Dash and Arizotal. The burn marks on Rainbow Dash were huge, and red. Two on her right hip the size of base balls, four smaller ones at the joint of her calf bone, several on her face and forehead, and Arizotal was raising the hot rod to Rainbow Dash's eye! Daring thrust-ed around in her straps trying to get to Rainbow Dash!
"Arizotal!" She screamed!
And that was when the other two noticed her. Daring Do didn't pay any more attention to them on the count of she needed to get Rainbow Dash out of there! Both Rainbow Dash and Arizotal starred at her. Rainbow Dash with hope, and Arizotal with disdain.
"Daring Do," Arizotal said calmly, with a threatening undertone.
Daring stopped trying to escape to look at her enemy. She was panting hard as she glared at the creature.
"Have I ever told you how much you remind me of your parents?" Arizotal said conversationally.
"No!" Rainbow Dash shouted right before Arizotal knocked her out cold.
"Rainbow Dash!" Daring screamed.
"I never thanked you for bringing her here, did I?" Arizotal asked still conversationally.
"No, you haven't," Daring said, slyly. As if she knew something he hadn't.
"I was wondering when you were going to tell Rainbow Dash the story I told you, you know the one before I threatened to to kill you unless you went and got Rainbow Dash," Arizotal explained.
"I wasn't, Arizotal. She isn't ready for a shock like that," Daring said, playing along. Any second now.
"Well I-"
BOOM! Arizotal was interrupted by Daring Do breaking out of her bonds, and fly kicking him in the face! His goons ran, and flew after Daring as she flew to avoid the stallions. She nose dived to the still passed out Rainbow Dash, and took beatings from the stallions trying to free her. One broken foot, and fractured back later, Daring did manage to free her. She flew as fat as she could dodging booby traps and goons trying to get away. And after literally breaking a wall, she did escape.
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Rainbow Dash woke up in Twilight's bed. Her memory was unreliable at most. What happened? Why was she here? What happened to Daring Do? Wait Daring Do! Arizotal! Her parents!
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Daring felt terrible about what happened to Rainbow Dash. She apologized to her friend Twilight when she found Daring carrying Rainbow Dash on her back passed out. And she was apologizing to Rainbow's other friends when they all heard Rainbow call down to Twilight and Daring.
"Yes, Rainbow Dash?" Daring asked.
"How did you escape?" Rainbow asked.
Daring Do smiled warmly at Rainbow as she explained what happened, leaving out the part about their parents.
"Really!? a nose dive!? I've always done nose dives myself, I have never actually seen one done before!" Rainbow explained excitedly.
"What? a WALL!? Are you okay!? I must have been really heavy after that," Rainbow said.
"Rest some more, Rainbow. You need to build your strength again," Twilight explained, pulling up the blankets.
"Thanks, Twi," Rainbow said, graciously.
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Rainbow felt exhaustion rise in her like water rising as it got poured in a bucket. And she slept.