After an extremely long day at flight school, you walk into your house, say "hi" to your mom and go into your room for a nap. Soon, your mother awakens you and calls you down for dinner. "So how was school?"Your mother asked this question everyday at the same time, and the same answer is always given, "Tiring."
"Your friends stopped over earlier, they wanted me to tell you that they wanted to see you as soon as you woke up."
"Did they say what about?"
"No, they only said to meet them outside the theater around 6:00." As you glance at the clock you notice that it's already 5:30. You knew why they wanted you to meet them.
5 hours ago
"Now now, everypony settle down, history is about to begin." Students began to scramble to get to the seats that they wanted. You sit in the back along with your herd of friends around you. As the lesson begins you realize that today's lesson is on the one thing that you had been waiting for since the beginning of school, The Rainbow Factory Incident. Your teacher begins to elaborate about the specific practices of the "Rainbow Factory" how they would take flight test failures and, through a painful process, turn them into rainbows.
The main overseer of this factory was none other than the infamous Rainbow Dash, the only one to have knowingly pulled off The 'Sonic Rainboom.' You sit upright in your desk devoting your entire energy into paying attention. Your friends around you are are paying attention quite closely as well. It had only been five years since it had occurred and no one truly knew what happened in that looming factory. What your teacher did tell you about the factory was extremely limited and censored for school purposes. Most of the class ignored this, but you could not. Your father had mysteriously disappeared from work one day and was never seen or heard from again. One of your friends leans in close to your ear and says "Hey ______________, ever wonder what they aren't telling us?" He leans back, confident that his rhetorical question sparked interest in you.
After class, your friends all gather around their usual lunch table and begin to eat. Many were talking about the lesson they just had and it all led you back to the same question "Ever wonder what they aren't telling us?" After school you and your friends are flying home and still they are talking about the factory when suddenly the subject of the conversation changed. "So ______________ are you ready for your 'test'?" The question catches you off guard and you almost lose your flight stability. "Well it's time. Remember your video camera. We'll tell you where to meet us later today. Make sure your ready."
Present
You knew what they meant by the theater, and you knew why they had chosen today. " I'm heading out mom."
"Alright ________________ , I know it's Friday but I still want you home at a reasonable time."
"Alright I'll try to get home around 9:00, I'll see you then."
You arrive at the factory 5 minutes early, but everypony is already there. You don't see the colt that had whispered in your ear earlier that day, but it didn't matter. You check the battery life on your camera to ensure it will survive the night. Your group of friends approach you. "It's time, are you ready?" You wave your video camera at them. "Alright, we've managed to force open one of the factory's doors, you have to stay in for at least 3 hours and you can't just hide in a corner." You knew the procedure. It was different for everypony who wanted to prove themselves. It was a practiced ritual among flight school attendies. They made new students do some very disturbing and horrible things but this took it all to a whole new level.
Word of what was going to happen must have spread because a much larger group had gathered around the factory, waiting to see if you would actually enter the factory, and if you would return. The factories doors had remained shut since it's condemnation and now that the doors were open, you weren't sure you wanted to go inside. Silence fell over the crowd that had gathered as they all waited for you to make the decision. The entryway to the factory was shrouded in darkness like a mystery wanting to be solved "Ever wonder what they aren't telling us?" Your mind made up, you take a step forward and enter the impenetrable darkness that shrouded this infamous facility.