//------------------------------// // Rainbow And The Factory // Story: True Harmony // by ddstory25 //------------------------------// Fluttershy looked at Applejack and hummed. “The weather factory. That place isn’t that safe; right now it looks like it’s in overdrive.” As she pointed in the factories direction, the four of them looked at the factory. Smoke was coming from the smokestacks in huge dense, gray puffs. The factory buildings also looked like they were in a state of disrepair, and it loomed over the city like it was a master and the ponies there were it’s puppets; just used to pump out the weather. Twilight and the others felt dread wash over them as they looked at the monstrosity, but Twilight pushed her fears aside addressing the group in a serious tone. “Well if that’s the only lead we got, then we have to go to the weather factory and try to find Rainbow.No matter how creepy the place looks.” The others looked at each other with scared faces as the very thought of going into the now decayed factory would kill them; but they had no choice - it was the only lead, so they pressed on forward to the factory. They got to the factory in a few minutes and looked at the entrance to the building. The once clean and polished doors leading into the main building no longer looked like the first time they had visited as a group, now they were rusted and falling apart. Fluttershy opened the door, a loud creak came from it and a huge gust of wind rushed by them; it felt like a pony running for their life had gone by. Inside the facility was pure and utter chaos; the snowflakes had grow to twice their size and were walking around the factory with workers on their tail. The clouds were flying all around the factory letting rain, soda, apple cider and chocolate milk rain down on the workers who were trying to get rid of them. The rainbow vats had pure rainbow creatures of all shapes and sizes, walking out of the pools and lighting bolts were now rainbowed colors, and singing around the factory - Discord’s magic had hit the factory hard. The gang looked around at the chaos and didn’t even know where to start looking for Rainbow. That's when they heard a raspy voice yell down to the other workers “Did you get the snowflakes under control yet? There causing a big draft since they are so cold. An did anypony check the lighting bolts yet, they're starting to mess with the machines in the factory.” A green pegasus with a blue wavy mane and tail yelled back to the unseen speaker, “Not yet boss, we’re trying!” The gang looked in the direction they had heard the voice and started to walk towards it. Suddenly a giant cloud monster jumped in front of them, a dopey look on its face as it blocking their path. Before any of them could react, the cloud monster vanished in a puff of, well cloud puff. From behind the dissipating clouds was Rainbow Dash, in a white factory coat, and a hard helmet on her head hiding most of her rainbow mane. She yelled at the four “Are you ponies crazy!? The weather factory isn’t for visitors, at least not at this time we’re having... difficulties!” Twilight walked closer, smiling “Rainbow Dash, we can help you out here, and then I need you to come with us and we can stop all this craziness together.” Rainbow looked at her and just ignored what she had said, telling them off again. “You can’t be here, it’s too dangerous for visitors to be in here right now.” As she said that a lighting bolt hit her in the flank she screamed in pain, recoiling before looking back to them. “See, so out you go.” She pushed the four ponies out the doors to the factory and shut them. As they heard the doors slam behind them, Twilight had a look of disbelief on her face. The rest of the gang didn’t know how to feel about what had happened; but they were glad to get out of the factory. Pinkamena spoke up, breaking the silence. “Well, we can wait for them to get things back under control in the factory. It can’t take that long can it?” Twilight said in a sassy, irritated voice “Pinkie, we don’t have time to wait and I can’t even tell if it's night or day.” Before Pinkamena could correct Twilight, Applejack butted in. “Sugarcube, calm down; we just need to wait a little. And besides, we still got time left so let's just wait for a while and see if things calm down by then, ok?” Twilight wanted to protest but didn’t, and she took in a deep breath before speaking in a calm demeanor “You’re right Applejack, lets just wait a bit and then we’ll try again.” They waited for what seemed like forever since the moon bypassed them twice, and the sun flew by a few times as well. While panicking ponies ran by every now and then, they were the only ones in a peaceful mood despite everything else going on around them. After what had to be three hours, Fluttershy spoke up. “Let’s try again now. I’m bored and Pinkamena already beat me in tic-tac-toe a hundred times already.” Pinkamena gave a dark grin, “What, I’m just good at tic-tac-toe I guess.” Twilight and Applejack looked at each other and nodded in agreement. They turned around and looked at the now pink colored doors and reentered the factory. This time everything was just covered in rainbow juice, or was it rainbow paint? Whatever is was the whole factory was covered in it. Before any of them went further into the factory they snuck into the locker room and put on extra workers clothes so nopony could throw them out again. They walked around seeing other ponies mopping up the rainbow paint since it was in every corner of the factory. That's when Pinkamena walked over to one of the ponies mopping and said “So, where did the bossy pony Rainbow Dash go?” The colt looked at her with his lavender eyes that had dulled to a gray color and said “On the second floor in her office. Duh. Rainbow Dash is there, she has to fill out all the paperwork about everything that's happened.” Pinkamena nodded at him in said in a serious tone “Thank you, now if you’ll excuse me I have a rainbow paint spill to clean in the snowflake room.” She walked away from him and back to the gang and told them exactly what the colt had said to her. So the group went up to the second floor to find Rainbow’s office, but the second floor was a mess, and all the doors had rainbow paint on them.They checked out every door they saw till after about forty minutes and a lot of paint cleaning they found Rainbow’s door.