//------------------------------// // Twilight // Story: Synthetic Discord (a Rainbow Factory retake) // by discord7 //------------------------------// I wanted to find my next victem, but who would it be. Rarity would be an easy target, but getting her there would be a whole different task. As a matter of fact, getting anypony at least took any of her workers and another pony to get just one unicorn or earth pony to Cloudsdale. Then it came to me, an assistant who would do anything I said, somepony who adored me more than any other of my fans. Scootaloo would make a great assistant. I found her in the field with her two friends of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, Sweetie Bell and Apple Bloom. I landed in the field next to them, Scootaloo saw me and immediately rushed me. "Rainbow Dash, how've ya been?" She asked excitedly. "Great," I faked a smile, "hey Scootaloo, I ran into trouble a little. I was wondering if you could help me out, maybe you can get your cutie mark in the process." I enticed. She smiled but then looked at her friends. "Uh, sorry girls," I told them, "it's up in Cloudsdale, you won't be able to come." "Well, Scootaloo looks like this is a mission just for you." Sweetie Bell told her Apple Bloom nodded. Scootaloo hugged her two friends and we took off. "Ok, Rainbow so what are we gunna do?" Scootaloo asked eager to get started. "Well," I told her, I couldn't just trust her, I had to make sure she wouldn't squeel before I could take my next victem, "first I have to explain what I need help with, I have to take you to Cloudsdale." We flew to my floating home town, we flew right up to the gates of my factory. "What is this place?" Scootaloo asked warily. "This Scoot, is the Rainbow Factory, I run this place." I told her proudly. "Wow, so I get to earn my cutie mark in rainbow crafting?" she asked excitedly her wings fluttering. "Ha, you'll be doing alot more than that." I told her. I opened the door and let her inside. My engineers were already working on extracting the next six ponies. Scootaloo looked mortified, I slammed the door shut before she could run out. "Rainbow please I don't want to die, I swear I won't tell anypony." She pleaded. "That's exactly what Fluttershy said," I mumbled. "What?" she looked up at me tears in her eyes, I smiled. "Rainbow, if your going to have her extracted, then let's get her secured." Said the brown pegasus in the white lab coat by the lever. His name was Toggle, he was the only one I bothered to remember the name of, he seemed to enjoy this as much as I did. "No, Toggle this one isn't up for extraction," I told him. He raised his eyebrow as he went around making incisions in the chest cavities of each pony, so did Scootaloo. "Nope, she's here for an interview as my new assistant, I found a new supply that may as well keep Equestria safe for an extra millenia." Toggle seemed interested but didn't press. "Well, whatever you say Rainbow, your the boss." I turned to the little filly. "You see Scootaloo, this may seem like a dark process to you," I began to explain, "but it's the only way to keep Discord in imprisonment, you understand?" I got down to eye lever with her, she nodded. "We have a very important job here at the Rainbow Factory, and it's not to maintain weather stability, or make rainbows, that's only part of it. You see the unicorns protect Equestria with magic, the earth pony's do it by providing food. You remember when I played Commander Hurricane in the Hearths Warming play remember?" Again she nodded. "Ya, well there's really no need for warriors anymore, so the pegusai had to find a new way to be helpful, so I designed this factory to give us a job to do. Supposedly we just maintain the weather but this is what we really do." I told her then staring into her eyes. "To keep Equestria safe, you get it?" She looked serious now, she nodded, I smiled, "good, because "I want you to play a big part of it, you get to help me bring the single largest supply of power." Scootaloo looked at me for a bit then said, "Well, let's get started, how do I help." I grinned. As we flew over the skies we searched for our next victem, it seemed as if all my friends were inside. But then I spotted her, Twilight snooping around Fluttershy's shed. I signaled to Scootaloo who was struggling to keep up, she nodded and we dropped into a clearing in the field near Twilight. "Oh hey Rainbow," she said, "uh, what are you doing with Scootaloo?" She asked. "Oh, uh..." I had to lie fast. "Oh she's just showing me some of her sweet moves, then she saw you down here and said she wanted to get the next book in the Daring Doo series." I looked at Scootaloo, where did she learn to lie like that. She winked. "Oh, well ok, but right now I have to find Fluttershy I haven't seen her all day were supposed to go to the spa with Rarity today." She explained to us. "Um, I think she said somthing about going to visit her folks in Manehattan." I lied. "Well ok," Twilight accepted it, "then let's go get you that book." She said. As she turned around I hoofbumped Scootaloo. When we reached her library and went in she asked me which one I had read, she went over to her collection. "Um," I said looking for something to knock her out with, "I was on the Dash from Desert Dingo's I think." I saw what I would use the wooden horse head she kept as her centerpiece of the library. I grabbed it and flew up over her. "Well the next one in the series is the Sinister Silver Spider." She pulled out the green book with her magic. That's when something unexpected happened, a pile of books fell to my left and Spike shouted. "Dash what are you doing!?" Twilight spun around but too late, I whacked her in the head with the head, THWACK. Spike tried to run but Scootaloo blocked the door and tackled him, the blow knocked the wind out of him. Then she hit him in the head as head as she could. It knocked him out cold. I looked at Twilight, there was blood dribbling out of the base of her horn which was slightly askew. We cleaned the blood, then shoved the bodies into a burlap bag we found. As we left Scootaloo checked to see if the coast was clear, she switched the sign to closed. Good thinking. We flew up into the sky to continue our dastardly plan. When we got to the factory we strapped in Twilight. This would be the last extraction of the day, after all she would fill up the pool. We waited for her and Spike to wake up. They immediately panicked, like all do. "What's going on?" They asked. It was always the same question. Twilight tried to use her magic to break the leather, but it didn't seem to work. The damage to her horn seemed to disable it. I would keep that in mind for Rarity along with any other unicorns. "Let the extraction begin." I said I turned up the dial. I let Scootaloo pull the lever, she watched the whole process from start to finish. This was great not only was I making history, I had gotten a lacky to do my bidding, maybe I'd get her to bring her little cutie mark friends too. As I probed the organs of Twilight she stared into my eyes, lifelessly. Why did they do that? Nopony else did. They just stared at the celing, even Spike just stared blankly up. I pushed the thought away as I extracted the last of her. The day was once again finished, I could go home again satisfied, but who would be next?