Mystery

I sat in the top row of the crowd as I watched in awe at all the Pegasus ponies. I was at the Best Young Fliers competition. Then I watched the two last ponies go out. The one with the mysterious wings named Rarity, then the one named Rainbow Dash. I ignored the Rarity as she flew closer to the sun, I was to busy watching Rainbow as she hit into the cloud and miscalculated how fast she was supposed to go when she spun the clouds.

Then Rarity started plunging toward toward the ground and I stood up along with everypony else and looked down as the wonder bolts tried to catch her. Then she did it. I watched as the beautiful rainbow maned pegasus flew down and caught them all while she did a sonic rain boom which everyone thought was just an old pony's tale. I cheered my loudest along with every other pony as we watched the rainbow fill the sky.

Normally i'm stuck inside the factory making these. It was a delight to see one made that didn't come from an unsuccessful pony. I shuddered at the thought of my job. The murderous person I am on the inside and I can never let someone in. In fear that they will figure it all out. I have to get out of here but if I leave my job they will track me down and kill me.

I watched as everypony including the princess crowd around Rainbow Dash. I turned just as one of my co-workers nodded his head at me telling me it was time to go. I nodded my head back at him and I started my flight to the factory.

As I was in the air flying towards the factory all I could think of was that pony Rainbow and I wanted to be with her. I sat down at the edge of the cloud that held the Rainbow Factory atop Ponyville. I grabbed my uniform and slipped it on solemnly. Day in and day out I kill ponies and turn them into rainbows. I turned my head down and went to to the loading dock and watched as each pegasus chained and bonded together flew in with messy manes, and tear streaked faces.

In a job like this you can't have a heart, but sometimes I can feel it try to break through the cage that I keep it locked in. I look and notice a familiar pony, I went to flight school with her. I remember her failing but her dad who used to work alongside me got her a second chance. She was never a good flier and now I guess that has caught up with her. I turned my head as I felt her pleading eyes bore into my skull.

I had warned her so many times of this place but she blew it off as an old ponies tale. I switched to mixing the brew of the rainbows occasionally noticing the scarlet drops fade against the rainbow colors. I stared at the brew s a menacing reflection looked back at me of broken, heartless pony. I stared deep into the eyes and leaned over the side until I felt my body tip and just as my face felt the first of the plunge in to the pony mix. I beat my wings but the hardness of the rainbow settled over my body. I flailed wildly against the rainbow. I felt the emotions of the ponies who were sacrificed to make this. They overwhelmed me. They came rushing into me shocking me. First, fear, then surprise, anger, sadness, depression, and the strongest one of all hatred. I could sense it came from her, the one I should of saved.

I felt my rigid body pulled from the rainbow. I shook and cried as someone wrapped a blanket around me . I looked at my hooves and looked at my wings draped over my body. Both covered in rainbow. I could still faintly feel the feelings from them. As I flew home feeling the stickiness still stuck to my wings I slammed the door and immediately took a shower, scrubbing trying to get it off of me. After an hour of that i was no use. I could still feel it and I sat there, as the water's temperature changed to cold and beat down on my back across my wings.

I couldn't get up I looked across the room at the mirror and again the reflection changed to something i'm becoming, that I shouldn't be. I decided I was going to run besides the risk of getting caught. I rose up against the beating water on my back, and spread my wings shaking them off. I opened my eyes and stared at the fogged up mirror shaking my head. I shut the water off and walked out the shower. I dried my self off and walked to bed. I slipped under the sheets and closed my eyes as the images of all those helpless, useless fliers danced across my eyelids. At 6:00 am, I awoke as the sweat soaked my forehead, but now I can't even remember the dream the one that made me act this way.

I knew I couldn't leave and I flew to the factory and all day I could only think of how much of a failure I am. I can;t even leave a stupid job. I return here to kill them everyday. I am my own reflection. That reflection is true.

I flew out of there at the end of the day. I ripped off the uniform that has felt like the chains that holds those pegasis' fate. I felt my wings beat against the changing winds of the upcoming storm. I felt the wonderful cleansing rain beat down on me. It made me feel better unlike the shower water that had trapped me not freed me. I dropped down towards Ponyville and crashed into a brimming lake. I rose up out of it and shook my wings off.

But it hit me, I have no where to go, I have no relatives. I sat on the bank and stared at the rainbow that filled the sky and thought of all the ponies. Only a worker can watch the reflections of the ponies in the rainbows an then I saw her there again. The mare from flight school and I knew this was the last time I would see her. I was kind of relieved.

I walked around for a bit until the sky cleared up. I couldn't help but wonder how long it would take them to find me.. I know of only one factory worker who mad it out alive. But no one even knows if she is alive or not. She escaped, but they searched all over Equestria for her but couldn't find her. We all thought maybe she went into seclusion.

I was walking through the alley when I heard a small sniffle then a heart wrenching sob. I turned the corner and saw Rainbow Dash, and I felt my heart rattle in its cage. I went over to her and put my hoof on her back hoping it felt reassuring.
She looked up at me with her big, beautiful, brilliant rose colored eyes looked up at me. We stood there staring like that for a while as I could see the rim of her eyes constantly brim with tears then overfill and watched as they raced down her face.

She said with a shaky voice," Who are you?"

I let out a small sigh of relief when she didn't say go away and replied with,"I'm Mystery. What has such a beautiful pony so upset?"

She let out a small giggle and said," Oh, you wouldn't understand. I'm not even sure you know about this. It's too dangerous."

I said flatly," Try me."

She looked a bit surprised that I still wanted to know, but she urgently whispered," Have you ever heard of the rainbow factory."

She immediately clamped her hoof over her mouth as I turned my head trying not to let my emotions take the best of me. Instead, I just nodded my head.

She said," Well.. well... um.."

I cut her off and said," Just say it."

She let it all out in a rush," Well my friend Scootaloo, she was the president of the Rainbow Dash fan club, and she was one of my younger friends, and about a year ago her parents sent her to flight school, and now her parents were sent a letter saying she failed flight school and she was being sent to the Rainbow Factory."

I stepped back and said," Oh.."

She started shaking with sobs again and I tugged her closer to me.

She said after a while," I just don't know what to do. I didn't know how much she meant to me until now."

All I could do was nod my head in understanding.