(Note: The story takes place a few years after Pegasus Device in my own universe of Rainbow Factory where Rainbow Factory Dash stayed evil after Pegasus Device. It takes place specifically during the Factory's peak revival.)

Nightmare Night is the time when Ponies embrace all the spooky and dark things they love! What no regular Pony knows though is that the Rainbow Factory celebrates Nightmare Night as well, in secret.

Hilarity ensues as Doctor Atmosphere urgently needs Rainbow Factory Dash to get new supplies for this year's Nightmare Night, since they ran out of supplies this year. Again. After all, they can't possible end up missing out on Nightmare Night! That's preposterous!!

Rainbow Dash, having neglected her Weathermare duties for too long, was forced to give Sweet Apple Acres it’s scheduled rain for the day.

After a freak accident involving a defective cloud, she finds herself among the halls of the dreaded Rainbow Factory, told to get back to work by weird cultists and finds that, for some unknown reason, Scootaloo is here as well.

After thwarting the Prisma gathering process, Rainbow Dash has to contend with the Pegasi complicit in the murder of innocent foals, fight her way out of the factory, and put an end to the Pegasus Device once and for all.

This story is a sequel to Pegasus Device

Did she have to hurt her foes? She looked back to the valve.

She really wanted to fly.

She really, really wanted to fly.

Absentia spent twenty years chained up in the bowels of the cursed Rainbow Factory. For twenty years, she never saw the outside world, left to the mercy of the Factory. But when two foals free her from the clutches of the Pegasus Device, she remembers what it means to fly. As she helps her new friends escape the facility, she has to make a choice.

She chooses to fly.

Edited by Stinium_Ruide, preread by applejackofalltrades, Faded Echoes, and Madhatterbrony.

Cover art by the talented applejackofalltrades! Title text by yours truly!

An entry to the Thousand Words Contest.

Scootaloo's doctor's visit doesn't go well, so she's a bit down in the dumps. Maybe a book would help distract her and take her mind off her problems. Wait, not THAT book! Now, she's not sad; she's downright neurotic! The biggest problem is the fact that she's now terrified of the one pony who could help her the most.

Cover Art by Shimmer Shy; link goes to full-size version

This story is set before the events of “Rainbow Factory” by Aurora Dawn

Rainbow Dash is pushing Scootaloo to her limits to make sure she’ll pass her flight test, which is now only a week away. Scootaloo can’t help but wonder why she’s being pushed so hard. She knows it’s important, but it’s not like it’s a life or death situation, right?

Factories are meant to create something useful. Metal factories create tools. Textile factories create clothing. Both of these serve a purpose. Can a rainbow do the same? Can a rainbow be more than just a pretty picture in the sky? Is the cruel way pegasi make rainbows even worth it? Midnight Shade is determined to find out.

It doesn't take Rainbow Dash long after her promotion to the upper Rainbow Factory to figure out just how tough the work really is. There's a lot to learn about weather manufacturing, a lot to learn about the culture of where she works, and a lot to learn about herself in the process. Her most important lesson, however, is the value of songs and those who sing them.

Much thanks to Holtinater (<3) and SunlightRays for editing, and Silent Whisper for inspiration and the cover art.

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—[TVTropes Article]—No Reading Available—[Playlist of Songs that Inspired the AU]—

This story is a sequel to Rainbow Factory

Cloudsdale Weather Corporation has been running without incident for over twenty years. That is, until two foals manage to avoid being processed and find themselves in the haunted bowels of the massive facility. Can they make it out of the abandoned factory with their sanity intact? Will they uncover the secrets even a company as dark as the CWC is ashamed to keep? And what of the workers who help ensure that, in the end, not a single soul gets through...

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—[TVTropes Article]—[Plagen Shiki's Reading]—[The Song Inspired by the Story]—

[Psychological Grimdark]

This story was directly based off 'Awoken': Wooden Toaster and H8 seed's spirited successor to the Rainbow Factory.

Food for thought, folks. I wrote this story on my own time and Obab later added extra material, three years later, when she converted the story into her audio production. She did not participate in the original production (if that was not clear already). If you read the story below you'll see the original, untampered text!

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The decline into darkness had been easy enough... but when a high ranking Rainbow Factory employee begins to loose faith in the program and attempts to leave, things get out of hoof.

Having lived the majority of his life in the twisted building known as the Rainbow Factory-climbing up the brutal ladder and eventually becoming an Orchestrator-a lone colt finds the atrocity's he's committed in his past coming back to haunt him in his waking hours.

Driven by the need to return to normal society and the thought of redemption, he devises a risky plan that will ultimately decide the very fate of the Rainbow Factory as it's come to be known.

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A long list of special thanks and mentions...

Thanks to Aurora Dawn for essentially creating the world I based this story in.

Thanks to Wooden Toaster and H8 Seed for the awesome song
Thanks to Fiasko0 on Deviant art for making the picture for the song (which I snatched)
Thanks to xzenocrimzie (Starlight Sparkle) for working with me to get the story out and into public
Thanks to wandered D for the tech support (he knows what I'm talking about)
Thanks to SrPeachFuzz on YouTube for accidentally bringing the story to everyone's attention
Thanks to my brony friend Josh for helping me get the story from my head, and into an outline
Thanks to both Truesoul116 and OhOhJackarias on YouTube for their excellent readings
Most importantly, every brony out there that has read, liked, faved or commented! Without you all, this would of never happened!

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Now translated into:
Polish by Dolar84
Spanish by Moonlight Fan