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// Chapter 29 
// Story: Rainbow Factory Condemned 
// by LordCarn 
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	Dash's journal seemed to have been recently updated. You push back from the desk and proceed back toward the next door. It was an ordinary door, no locks of any kind held is closed. You reach your hoof out toward the door knob but then hesitate. A chill runs down your spine. Something told you that you were close to the end, close to freedom from this nightmare. You take a deep breath and open the door. This room appeared to be some kind of worker checkpoint. Metal detectors lined the middle of the room. There was a single door on the far side of the room. Several ventilation shafts led into the room, papers littered the floor. You cautiously walk over to the security checkpoint. A control box to your left held the skeleton of a who you assumed was a guard. You pass through one of the metal detectors and head for the next door. After opening it, you peer into the next room. Two doors, one on your left and the other to your right. You hear a metallic crash come from behind you. You look back, and see that the ventilation shaft that was on the ceiling's grate had fallen of its frame. A wrench dropped down into the room. You slam the door shut and run to the door on your right.

You open it and see a maintenance shaft in the middle of the room. The walls were lined with an assortment of strange tools. There was a ladder that lead down into the shaft but you ignored it and flew down instead. The shaft continued horizontally from the ladder. A loud boom echoed from your left.It seemed very familiar. You proceed running left. Gears spun around along the sides of the wall, making seem as though this hallway was some sort of clockwork machine. It almost seemed alive. As you progressed, the pounding grew louder. You reached the end of the maintenance shaft and start climbing up the ladder. You hear a thunk on the other end of the tunnel. You could only assume it was Dash. She would have a much harder time traversing the narrow shaft. You reach the top of the ladder and scramble off of the ladder into the room that looked eerily like the one you entered into it from. 

You throw open the door and are bombarded with sound. This room was a fully operational rainbow compression room. The spectra flowed freely within clear tubes throughout the room. Steam hissed next to your ear causing you to cringe from the sound. Further down the room are more pressing machines. Why was this all still operational? You look around and see two other doors in the in the room. The room you exited from was in the middle of this compressor room. You estimate that the door to your right would lead you back into the factory. You head left toward the door farthest away from you. The hammers on the machine seemed to shake the entire room. You could feel its energy traveling through the floor into your body. It made you dizzy and sick.

You reach the door and open it. You hear hoofsteps behind you. They were close. You bolt through the door toward the strange view in front of you. The sunlight was blinding, but there were shadows among it. Had your friends waited for you to return? The shadows began cheering, at first it seemed they were cheering you on, but as you got closer, their voices began chanting in unison. "RAINBOW DASH! RAINBOW DASH! RAINBOW DASH!" You stop dead in your tracks. What? These were your classmates,you recognized some of their voices and a few of their faces. You reach the exit and try to push your way out, but everyone outside shoves you back in. No... Why was this happening? It was like an angry mob begging for the exectioner to finish his work. Your primal instincts took over. I must keep fighting. Twenty of my classmates, or Rainbow Dash? You pull the taser from your saddlebag. You only had one shot... The wrench connected perfectly with the taser in your hoof, sending it flying across the room. You turn toward the thrower only to see the forehoof about to connect itself with your skull.

Your camera flies off of your neck and rolls across the ground. The time read 8:00am. Your unconscious body lies in the middle of the room. Dash triumphantly walks over to your body and begins to arrange it into a manageable pile. She glances over to the camera and smiles. "Ooo, home movies." She picks it up and drapes it over your body. She picks up your body, places it in a nearby cart, and begins rolling it back into the factory. She started humming softly to herself. "Where not a single soul gets through..."