Rainbow Dash had done it… one of her closest friends was now tranquilized and lying on the floor, a syringe jabbed into her neck forcefully enough that the area bled. A different kind of feeling than what was normal shot through the mare, a feeling of slight dread. After all, Twilight was one of her best friends, and one of her fellow Elements of Harmony, which bound them as friends either way. She had not wanted to do this to her, but was given no choice… the Rainbow Factory and the Pegasus Device were not to be let out into the world so… publicly. It was an experience that should be sacred; being a sacrifice to the Factory and the Pegasus Device was a great honor, below helping the Device feed off of the pony souls.
I believed what we had would last forever...
Rainbow Dash never truly understood Twilight… she was ambitious, but also cautious. She was brave, but also fearful. She was silent, but also talkative. She was kind… but also crude. Twilight was the kind of pony that would help out her friends, and yet here she was, about to reveal the biggest secret Dash had hidden away to the world for all to hear. There was no choice but to stop her, despite how close they had become. Rainbow Dash grabbed hold of Twilight's limp body, lugging it over her back, having some trouble keeping the both of them up at the same time. They were still at the Factory, quite luckily, which made Rainbow Dash's first option to take her inside, and her first decision at that. Her movements were slow, and she slowly but surely made it in.
After all the moments we spent together...
The rainbow-maned mare threw Twilight down on an operating bench with no real care of the pony's safety; she did just tranquilize her, after all. Her twisted mindset was returning, and she could feel her urge to satisfy it, watching the device feed off the energy that the pony contained… but it took all her might to resist when it came to the Princess of Friendship. This was no ordinary operating bench, in terms of equipment, as it had straps to lock down a pony firmly: two around the hooves each, two around the wings each, one around the neck, and three around their chest area. They were each locked into place after Twilight was successfully positioned to fit each of the locks.
Were they meaningless in the end..?
Around the room Twilight was placed in were many tools that doctors ordinarily used, including scalpels and even some knives, upped to a very excessive amount. The bench in which Twilight lay was turned to face more at the walls rather than the ceiling and lights above. Rainbow Dash was indeed the only pony in the room, the doors being locked and sound-proofing measures already being taken. She grabbed a nearby syringe, going to a large cabinet stored in this very strange, absurdly large room, filled to the brim with supplies used in the Factory. Filling the syringe with some liquid adrenaline, she took no precaution injecting it into Twilight's neck in almost the exact same spot in which she used the tranquilizer.
If friendship is supposed to be magic...
Twilight woke with an exasperated, loud and throat-numbing cough. She was obviously only now beginning to gain her consciousness after hours of tranquilization, and was slowly regaining her ability to see. "W-Who's there..?" she called out, still having to cough. She tried to sit up, but was greeted by the painful clang of the restraints.
"You don't recognize your friend, Twilight..?" Rainbow Dash's voice almost sounded displeased, as if expecting Twilight to know that it was her, even though it was clear she couldn't see properly yet.
"Rainbow D-Dash..? It's you..? Why am I all--" Twilight was hastily interrupted by a very unnatural state Rainbow Dash portrayed. She bared an expression that mimicked one trying to be almost seductive, making Rainbow Dash seem less like a pony and more like a succubus, preparing to begin her feast. Lucky for Rainbow Dash, Twilight's eyesight had fully returned just moments earlier, which is what made her stop dead in her tracks.
"Oh, Twilight… do you really think I can tell you all that? You know too much… about the Factory… about the Device… about the secrets I've been keeping… everything, really… and you were about to betray a very dear friend, about to tell the world of the Device… the Factory… and me? I couldn't allow that…"
Then why has ours become so tragic..?
Twilight's eyes began welling with forming tears all ready. "Why would you do this?! All these ponies are innocent, they had nothing to do with this! I thought we were supposed to protect Equestria, every pony in it, and friendship! Yet you do this! Tell me, Rainbow Dash! Why?! Why are you doing this?!" She was not only crying of the pain of having a bone nearly broken, but also because she felt betrayed from one of her best friends.
Rainbow Dash became enraged, furious, slamming her hoof right onto one of Twilight's. She had grown very strong since then, working with Bulk Biceps to keep in shape, and had nearly crushed Twilight's already weakened hoof, the sound of Twilight's crying having no meaning to the mare. "You think that you can go judging me when I know that you've been doing some dark magic behind the backs of the princesses?! Don't think that I didn't notice! Trying to open up a portal to Tartarus?! Trying to revive King Sombra?! You have your own demons!"
"How did you know about that?! I kept that behind closed doors! I even made sure no pony got in!"
"You're here, what do you think?!" The rainbow-maned pegasus only grew more profoundly angry, her sense of rationality being long-gone. Her voice had grown so dominant compared to Twilight's that the violet-maned alicorn drew back in cowardice. "You think that your pretty-little Princess of Friendship act means you can go and do whatever the Hell you want!" Rainbow Dash roared, now asserting her insanity-driven dominance over Twilight, whom didn't even have a block on her magic at the time, completely just overwhelmed by fear.
I'm no longer proud to call you my friend...
"I don't think you'll be going anywhere, Twilight… I will break you… I will make sure that you're completely in my control… and there's nothing you can do to avoid it now…"
Rainbow Dash's complete psychopathic mind drove her to put an anti-magic ring over her horn, a blindfold over her eyes, and tighteners on the restraints. The hours flew by of Rainbow Dash's highly complex and successful methods of breaking the poor Twilight's mind, and then in the passing couple of days, to the brink of insanity… and with no warning, it happened again; just as Rainbow Dash thought that she was in control of her life, the was in a completely different time than she was before, now being in a dark, empty room, with Princess Luna staring her down, the look in her eyes being of utmost disappointment, but they did not look as they should have in this situation… "I would like you to know that your precious Factory was destroyed… and with it, the Device disappeared. We were unable to find Princess Twilight Sparkle around the area, or anywhere else, me and Princess Celestia being certain that you have taken too much of a toll on the land of Equestria. But there is one more thing…"
And with a simple six words, the fate of Equestria went from questionable to flat-out uncertain. For the next few years to come, Equestria would only balance on the wings of Princess Celestia and Princess Cadence. The tone in Princess Luna's voice changed drastically, and it went down to a low whisper. She drew close to Rainbow Dash, up to her ear in fact, out of any trajectory that could have the Princess of the Sun listening in. These six words would rattle all of existence even past what would soon come. Many truths would come from this sentence, and no pony would ever hear the words spoken. These were the words that would change the world forever… While holding a simple photo of Twilight Sparkle, the Princess of the Night asked with a voice of clouded emotion to Rainbow Dash...
"Have you done as I've asked?"