//------------------------------// // Chapter 3 // Story: Rainbow Factory Condemned // by LordCarn //------------------------------// You begin stepping backwards examining the machine at a distance. The elevated table was covered in blood. A small scalpel hung in the air, connected to a device on a small track for moving it in and out of the way. As you begin to realize what truly happened here, you become sick, and throw up on the floor causing a loud commotion. After the urge subsides, you glance back at the door you saw earlier, you wanted to put as much distance between you and this..... machine, as soon as possible. You approach the next door. From the other side you can hear pounding and the hiss of steam. You open the door slowly. Beyond it are large pressing machines that are hammering a convetor belt. Large vats, labeled different colors of the rainbow, were placed in a line so that each color lined up with its place in the spectrum. These machines still worked after 5 years of siting idle, and they didn't seem to be in terrible condition. You glance at the far wall where an already open door lay waiting. Not wasting time you begin heading towards the door but then stop, for a mechanical drone was stalking the halls and it had just spotted you. You back track and slam the door you had just come through shut and grab one of the loose tables and shove it up against the door. You return to your previous containment room and look for another way out, but there was only one. Quickly, you scramble to remove the grate from the air vent. The vent had been screwed down, but due to the lack of care it had been subjected to, the entire frame pulled off. You could hear the drones breaking through the door as you climbed Into the vent shaft. You replace the frame and slowly crawl away from the drones. You stop for a moment to catch your breath and to ensure the drones hadn't found your escape route. Silence greeted you as you turned around. Relieved at this discovery, you return to the pathway laid ahead of you. Seeing only darkness you glance at your camera to ensure it was still recording. As you do so, you notice something ahead on the camera that you couldn't see before, a divergence in the pathway. You approach the intersection, and peer down each tunnel. Each had a smell of death, but a loud pounding echoed from the one right passage. You assumed it lead back to the room where the drone had first spotted you. You turn left in hopes of finding an exit from this nightmare. You've been crawling for several minutes when you feel something scratch your back. You assume it's another one of those horrible electrocution devices. You quickly reach behind you and grab the wretched thing and attempt to pull it off of you but then you realize... it wasn't one of the devices. You glance upward and see another shaft that led into your current one. You find yourself pulling on the leg bone of an unfortunate pony who had been lodged in the ventilation shaft and now, you just pulled the entire thing on top of you.