Personies

Aj, Rarity and Fluttershy are faced with the weather factory, the clouds are black, lightnings can be seen and thunder roars nearby.

Applejack looks down in confusion. "We are standing on clouds, how is this possible?"

Rarity follows Aj´s sight. "Probably because these aren´t real clouds."

Fluttershy is obvious afraid. "Can we turn back? I have a really bad feeling about this place."

"Just think about our friends and how scared they must be.” Rarity encourages Fluttershy.

The three begin to move towards the foreboding factory.

They see many workers while they walk along the dark clouds, but the workers aren´t noticing them.

Aj whispers to Rarity and Fluttershy. "Where could Rainbow be? In such a large factory it could take forever to find her."

Fluttershy has a determined look on her face. "I will fly around and when I find her I will get you two."

Fluttershy smiles and doesn´t even wait for an answer, she rises from the ground and flies away.

"We should search ourselves, because I really don’t want to wait here any longer than necessary." Rarity says to Applejack

"Why not?" Applejack asks while looking around. "Oh."

The workers are all staring at the two ponies.

Meanwhile in the other portal.

"Wow this looks more like a palace than a library I didn´t know Twilight has such an expensive taste." Pinkie says as she looks around the huge crystal entrance.

"Pinkie do you hear that?"

The sound of many hooves running towards their direction startles Hunk.

And before they can react ten guards are charging at them.

"Hold it right there traitor!" One of the guards shouts.

The sharp ends of the spears are pointed at Hunk and Pinkie.

"You are coming with us! The princess will decide about your fate."

Pinkie is still smiling and bouncing, like nothing is wrong.

"Hey Pinkie aren´t you aware of the situation we are in?" Hunk asks her quietly.

"Oh I´m well aware of the situation dummy." –She giggles- "But it isn´t that bad, I mean the more the merrier. Right?"

Back in the factory.

"Ourgh it´s useless we will never find Rainbow at this rate." Rarity says frustrated.

Aj replies, "I only hope Fluttershy is safe. She should have been back by now."

A familiar voice comes out of the speakers hanging at the celling.

"Here speaks your chairman. We found an intruder in sector A7 near the Pegasus device. The intruder was identified as Fluttershy, a yellow Pegasus, female and butterflies as a cuitiemark. Catch her immediately!"

"This voice! This was Rainbow Dash." Rarity says happily.

"The voice also said that they found Fluttershy so we better hurry!" As soon as Aj said so she starts running.

"Oh look a map that should be useful." Rarity takes a look at a map on the wall. "We are at 4B so if we take these stairs over there…"

While Rarity is memorizing the map Applejack is keeping watch for any sign of trouble.

"All right I found a way come on Applejack!"

Aj follows Rarity into the long hallway.

At Twilight´s palace.

Pinkie and Hunk are brought into a large library there they see Twilight reading a book, at her side is the teenage Spike which they met back at Rarities’ other world.

Twilight turns around. "So you decided to split up? If it weren´t such a dump idea I would say "clever you" but, you are simply idiots."

"Hey I´m no idiot and Twilight would never say such things to her friends!" Pinkie shouts at her.

"Oh you think I´m the "other" Twilight? You are wrong! You are the imposters and when I´m done with you I´ll finally be reunited with my real friends." –She sobs quietly-"I really miss them."

"Twilight if you really aren´t your other self then please remember your friends! I am the real Pinky, don´t you remember? You came to safe me right at the start of all this! It was you who gave the final blow to the other me!"

Twilight raises an eyebrow. "Guards leave me alone. I want to talk to our guests in private."

The guards salute and walk out the way they came.

"When you are the real Pinkie Pie why are you being accompanied by Tuxedo Masquerade?"

Pinkie thinks for a moment, then answering. "Because he is helping us since the beginning without him we wouldn´t have stand a chance against this threat! And also… when I returned from the hospital he was there to cheer me up. I consider him a friend as much as I consider you a friend Twilight!"

Twilight holds her front hooves at her head, clearly trying to remember, but something seems to detain her from doing so.

Teenage Spike, who was silent until now, speaks up. "You confuse the princess I better get rid of you before you do any more damage to our plan. Especially you Mr. Masquerade."

"What do you mean?" Hunk asks him eagerly.

"Oh you don´t know?"-He laughs at him-"Then you might be better off not knowing, believe me, you will be happier not knowing you goodie two shoes."

All of a sudden comes the normal Spike into the room and shouts from a balcony.

"Hey other me! I may not know why you are here or what my hidden feelings are but whatever it is I accept it as long as you don´t hurt my friends!"

Teenage Spike turns at him and laughs. "Do you really think I am you? I was just deceiving you my young friend, but as a sign of friendship I will allow you to join us, just as I asked of you. I think you had enough time to think about my offer, so what is your answer little dragon?"

Spike is confused, "What you are not me? But…no, no matter what I will stay true to my friends!"

"Mh foolish mortal, then you will die at their side."

Two guards appear behind Spike and throw him down from the balcony.

"Any last words before I destroy you?" Teenage Spike asks self-assured.

Spike gets up on his feet and prepares himself to battle teenage Spike. Hunk and Pinkie doing the same.

Meanwhile in the factory

"This door says Rainbow extraction room." Applejack says.

"Maybe we should peek inside." Rarity answers while she opens the door slightly.

A loud gasp escapes Rarities´ throat as she sees what is inside. A machine that resembles a meatgrinder, on the assembly line are sitting young Pegasus fillies, crying and howling.

Surrounded by some masked ponies sits Rainbow Dash.

Applejack and Rarity sneaking inside unseen by any of the guards.

"Ms. Chairman we captured the intruder." A masked pony says and throws Fluttershy in front of the chairman´s hooves.

"My, my! A full grown Pegasus will bring us a lot of colors." The chairman says mocking Fluttershy.

He continues, "Oh Fluttershy you are a disgrace to Cloudsdale. How where you even able to pass flight school? Ah that’s right, you didn´t! You ran away and where hiding on the ground in hope we wouldn´t get a looser like you."

Fluttershy is crying. "Why are you saying such things? You don´t know me."

The chairman breaks out in laughter. "I don´t know you?"- He puts down the mask all of the workers wear and reveals Rainbow Dash´s face.- "I know you better then you know yourself, but don´t worry Fluttershy you will serve Cloudsdale, even if it means your death. Take her to the machine!"

The workers who brought her here pull them up and carry her to the assembly line.

"What the hay should we do?!" Aj asks nervously.

"We need to do something!" Rarity whispers back slightly panicked.

But before any of them could think of a plan the real Rainbow Dash begins to shout.

"Stop it! Cloudsdale would never to something like this!-She kicks the guards around her away and flies with an incredible speed towards her other self.- "And most of all, I would never hurt Fluttershy, or anypony else."

She reaches her other self and slams it to the ground.

"Come on Rainbow Dash, think! What would Cloudsdale be with all the weak and sick? You of all ponies should know that the most important thing in life is the honor and loyalty of, and to, your country. Do you think something like the Wonderbolts could exist when the malformed wouldn´t be extinguished?"

Rainbow Dash slams her hooves with all of her might in the other Rainbow´s face.

"Nothing could ever justify something like this! My loyalty belongs to my friends! Then comes Cloudsdale and Equestria! I couldn´t live in a world without my friends."

Tears are streaming down Rainbow Dash´s face, still beating her other self in the face.

Fluttershy is bound and gagged, unable to move, slowly being pulled towards the blades of the machine.

The beaten-up other Rainbow laughs and spits blood onto the face of the real Rainbow.

"Do you want to see me suffer, or do you want to save your friend?"

Rainbow Dash stops her outrage and turns her gaze towards Fluttershy.

"No! I will save you Fluttershy!"

Some Pegasus guards are trying to block her path but Rainbow gives them a nice kick in the face and sends them flying.

"I got you Fluttershy."

Rainbow grabs Fluttershy and spots Aj and Rarity.

"Watch over her."

She brings Fluttershy down to Applejack and Rarity and flies back up to her other self.

A loud alarm sound brings the ponies to tremble.

A dozen masked pegasy flood the room.

The bathed in blood other Rainbow yells at the new ponies. "Get them! Kill them! I want to see their flesh grinding in the device!"

Rainbow Dash kicks her in the face again, towards the machine.

"You want to see something grinded in the machine so badly?! How about you?!"

The other Dash is frightened. "Wait think about what we can achieve together. We could rule Cloudsdale."

Rainbow Dash replies with a smirk on her face. "I am way too awesome to be stuck in one place."

With these words she kicks her other self into the machine and sees how she gets grinded into nothing more than her colors.

All of the guards stop dead in their track and walk away.

The blood covered Rainbow Dash says, "So this was it, right?"

At Twilights Palace

Teenage Spike breaths a green flame that the heroes can barely avoid.

"Holy moly!" Spike says as he jumps behind a bookshelf.

Teenage Spike taunts them. "Come on I will grand you a swift death, hiding is to no avail, I will find you anyway."

Pinkie casts her protection field and Hunk flies to the top of the room.

"I´m up here you pubescent Spike."

Teenage Spike looks up and spits a stream of fire towards Hunk.

The fire breaks through the protection from Pinkie.

Hunk screams in agony as he falls onto the floor.

"Foolish pony do you honestly think a low level protection spell will protect you from me?"

Spike jumps out of his cover and breaths with all of his might a flame at teenage Spike.

The fire bounces of his scales.

"Now you will die little one."

Teenage Spike slowly walks towards Spike and raises his sharp claw.

"Not so fast!" Pinkie dashes with her head into teenage Spike´s side.

He is pushed a little bit to the side but it didn´t do much to him.

"I will take care of you after the little baby dragon."

Teenage Spike grabs Spike who was trying to run for cover and clutches his head.

"Mh maybe the princess will be mad if I kill you right away."

He chokes him unconscious.

Pinkie watches in shock, Hunk lying on the ground, his wings still burning, Spike lifeless on the ground, barely breathing and teenage Spike heading for her.

"No! No! This can´t be true! I didn´t allow my friends to leave me!"

Pinkies hair becomes straight, her colors getting darker, a grin forms on her face.

"Oh you will pay for this!"

She charges at teenage Spike.

Back in the factory.

Rainbow Dash is breathing heavy. "This was it right?"

Rarity answers nervously. "If it is the same as the other “other” worlds I say no, because you didn’t accept any part of your other self."

A laughter startles the ponies.

"Muahahaha Rainbow Dash your friends are useless and you know it! You stand above those idiotic friends of yours. You always brag about yourself because you know you are better. You are unique!"

A liquefied Rainbow Dash rises from the machine.

"Pride, honor, loyalty these are the only things you need. When you kill these lowlife’s you will be awarded with a lot of shiny medals. Wouldn’t that be great?"

Rainbow Dash is near her breaking point. "Ok you know what? I love Cloudsdale and I love the appreciation, I am proud to be the first pony since forever to be able to perform a sonic rainboom, but if I have learned one thing about friendship it´s that you never should get your success on the costs of others."

The other slimy Rainbow Dash has an interested look on her face. "So what you are saying is that you still will trying to be the best without hurting anypony else? That is quite interesting. I think I can accept this, but only to see if you will fail of course."

The other Rainbow Dash laughs while disintegrating.

Rainbow Dash who is completely exhausted says, "But now it is over right?"

The others smile at her. "You really did it Rainbow."

In the library.

Pinkie pulls a knife from her saddlebag and rams it between teenage Spikes scales.

"Hahaha not bad Pinkamena."

"You don´t know real suffering, but you will when I´m done with you!"

A white Pegasus with a blond mane and tail rises from Pinkie Pie.

"Surprise surprise. Meet Surprise!"

Teenage Spike is shocked. "That´s impossible."

Surprise knocks teenage Spike over and Pinkie jumps on his head and stabs his eyes out.

He lets out a painful growl.

Pinkie keeps stabbing him while Surprise kicks him again and again.

When suddenly Twilight interferes. "Stop this madness! I acknowledge you as the real Pinkie and Spike and Hunk."

The bleeding teenage Spike tries to change her mind. "No they aren´t real you know…" Pinkie cuts his tongue out before he can finish his sentence.

"I acknowledge you because only the real Pinkie Pie would be able to summon her suppressed Pegasus self."

Teenage Spike tries to talk, but without his tongue he is unable to form any words. And soon after he vanishes into thin air.

Hunk still lying on the ground says. "*Cough* I will get us all out of here." And all of the ponies, including the ones in the factory are teleported back to Equestria.