//------------------------------// // Chapter 11: The Nightmare of the Rainbow Factory // Story: Equestria Wars Episode X: The Vampony Menace // by sonicdash123 //------------------------------// Charming Thunder and Twilight cuddled together in their bed as they slowly began to drift into a slumber. "Goodnight, Charming," Twilight said as she kissed his muzzle. "Night," Charming replied. --------------------- Charming Thunder woke up in a dreamscape and found himself in a strange room. He saw a DC-15S blaster and picked it up. He then walked to a door where he heard voices. "I’m not Pinkie…I’m not that good side of mine," a mare's voice said. "No, I am…Pinkamena Diane Pie." That name reminded him of Pinkie, but something seems of about her. He bursts open the door and stuns her with his blaster. He then sees Danny tied up on a table with metal pipes restraining him. "You could have gotten out of that," Charming Thunder said. "Why didn’t you?" "Pinkie made sure that it was anti-ghost proof," Danny replied. "I can’t use my powers." Charming Thunder came over to him and removed his bindings. Danny began to stretch himself, his wings happily opening up to stretch. "I must have accidentally sync our dreams into one, making a shared dream. Like mother, like son. Luna could do it, so can I. Come on now, we have to get out of here before the crazy horse wakes up-" "Did you just call me a horse?" Pinkie asked. Charming Thunder and Danny looked at her whose eyes were now normal size. "Do they wake up at the word ‘horse’?" Pinkamena made an angry face. "Let’s get out of here!" Charming Thunder and Danny went to the door and Danny looked out to see the coast clear. "The coast is clear, time to juice," Danny said. He then grabbed Charming Thunder's hoof and before he could react, he opened his wings and they took off like a blur. Pinkamena fired a rocket launcher at them them before they got away but missed. Pinkamena sighed in disappointment. "Looks like it’s time for Plan B," Pinkamena said. --------------------- Danny and Charming Thunder arrived at some sort of highway and Danny continued to fly them through. Charming was still holding on but he was now levitating because of his telekinesis and was even flying beside him. "Where are we?" Danny asked. "Looks like a Rainbow Factory," Charming Thunder replied. "Rainbow Factory…where have I heard of that before-oh yes, from the legends." "Do tell." "Charming, the legend says that there’s long been rumors as to how exactly rainbows are made in Equestria. While a great amount of Pegasi ponies are employed in the Rainbow department of the weather factory, almost all of them do the low-end work. What’s known is that great streams of Spectra, the individual colors of the rainbow, flow through large grates and into vast vats. From there, workers carefully and equally mix the spectra into the coagulated rainbow pools that dot and run through the factory and surrounding city. Next, that mixture is pumped to the floor below, where other employees atomize it and store it until the active weather Pegasi deploys it in field. However, no one knows how individual Spectra are made. Supplies are never seen being brought in, leaving not even a clue what goes into a rainbow. Tourists, when visiting the factory, are treated to an extremely foreboding and plain wall, with massive solid doors baring entry to anypony at any time. While most of the facilities various signs and architecture is bubbly and welcoming, the Rainbow Factory’s upper floor was protected by harsh imagery of potential hazards and death, and the cloud wall was made not out of the clean white of the rest of the city, but of a black, quietly thundering fog. To become an employee of the upper Rainbow Factory meant sacrificing any life outside those black walls. Workers are sworn to secrecy and forbidden from leaving, and live inside the facility itself. Those few who ever managed to make it out not in a body bag were twisted and disturbed, too damaged to ever bring themselves to talk about it. A lot of theories were proposed; Dark magic from captured unicorns, chemicals and environmental hazards that no sane pony would tolerate, and even thoughts of another unknown sister of Celestia’s, destined to create the Spectra instead of raising the Sun or the Moon. None of them could be farther than the truth. Besides that, I know nothing else of the legend." "That’s interesting." Before Danny could reply, something hits him and knocks him to the ground. He heard Charming Thunder falling and he looked to see him screeching to a halt. A shadow knocked him out then Danny. --------------------- Charming Thunder woke up and got up. He looked around for an exit as he said, "Where is that exit!?" He tried going down a hall, only to be intercepted by Pinkamena and two Pegasus Guards. "Welcome back, we missed you," Pinkamena said. Charming Thunder tried to run but was knocked out by Pinkamena and tied up. --------------------- Charming Thunder woke up again finding himself sitting on a chair. He looked through the window and sees Pinkamena, who was smiling creepy like. She looked to Fluttershy, who looked she was a devil creation. She push a button and Charming Thunder felt like he was being electrocuted to death. However, he felt something inside him rising up. Suddenly, Charming had transformed into his evil form, Evil Charming Thunder. However, Charming still had control over his body and immediately teleported out of the seat. Four Pegasi Guards went into the Pegasus Device to find Evil Charming, only for them to be killed. Pinkamena hears a crack and looks up to see Evil Charming coming down on top of her. She landed on the computer, accidently activating the self-destruct system. Evil Charming threw her to the window and teleported to go find Danny. --------------------- Danny and Rainbow Dash were clashing blows in the air. He charged at her but she flipped over and knocks him away. They heard hoof steps and sees pony prisoners leaving. Rainbow was about to attack and but Danny struck first and knocked her away. Evil Charming came behind her and knock her upward. He then used a teleportation spell to head up while Danny used his speed to race up there, Danny disappeared like thin air. He appeared in the sky, above the Rainbow Factory and see Evil Charming fire a magic bolt at Rainbow, sending her flying to Danny. She looked at him as she sees him crying. "Forgive me Rainbow Dash," Danny said. --------------------- Charming Thunder woke up sweating and he started crying. Twilight heard him and got up to see him crying. "What's the matter, honey?" she asked. He began to shiver as Twilight was about to cuddle him. Danny appeared in the room to see them. They looked up to see him. "Hopefully, we won’t dream about that nightmare again," Danny said. Charming Thunder nodded and Danny teleported out. "Another one?" "It was different from the last one," Charming Thunder said. "I'll tell you about it in the morning."