Hehe lets go! Get her Dashie, kick that bubble butted mare into next week!

@Background Pony #9A6D  
She probably only passed out, Octavia didn’t strangle her enough to kill her.

Quite the fake out from RD; this fight should be interesting.

Rainbow? How the hell is she still alive? Octavia strangled her!

@Hoofies  
I was always taught that strangling someone to death was easier if you concentrated your pressure on the veins on either side of the esophagus. About 20 seconds into that and you can get them unconscious which makes crushing them further easier. When they aren’t all wriggling about and wasting everyone’s time, it’s easier to crush the wind pipe and make sure they can’t breath again.
 
A garrote wire like she was using though should either be thin enough to sever the windpipe, or strong enough to constrict more like a snake.
 
Considering no blood, I’m going to go with the second. Especially as she was literally pulling her body weight with it around he neck. If she was heavier, it could have given her an internal decapitation by breaking the spine in the neck.
 
Since RD isn’t dead and woke up maybe a minute or two later, Olivia didn’t want her dead.
 
Debate club in high school had all kinds of fun topics.

I’m sorry but when I saw RD’s face the only thing that came to mind was this here

Dashie!? You alive and breathing well? (Whew!) Thank Celestia and god!

Props to Rainbow Dash for the hostage situation. This definitely makes up for her little debacle with the guns earlier.

Honestly i thought that RD was saying that comment at Spike, but better vire of the image and context shows otherwise…I think my thoughts sometime show up before the sense…hands/mouth are faster than the brain…

Oh how the turns have tabled.
 
Seems they’re in quite a stalemate here.

@FanOfMostEverything  
Well, (spoiler alert: this is going to be quite the nerdy post) it’s almost impossible to strangle someone to death. After passing out from oxygen deprivation, the body automatically spasms to make your lungs expand, hence you have to physically crush the trachea in order to succeed…
 
Alas, this is a fanmade comic with anime logic, the plot armor needs no explanations

@Background Pony #2B0B  
Looks like a flash bang or a concussion grenade.

Rainbow used Fake Out! It was super effective!

SHE WAS FAKING IT THIS WHOLE TIME?!

So they’re at an impasse.

Oh good, Rainbow regained consciousness.
 
@Background Pony #2B0B  
Looks like a flash grenade.

I have several questions.

Did she just fake her death so Spike other side can come out. Also she have a bomb in her hand.