Rainbow Factory Meltdown

“Eveypony stay calm!” yelled a voice over the turmoil.

They all looked up to see Rainbow Dash hovering over them.

“He’s ensnared you in this diabolical trap as well?” somepony called up to her.

“Seems like it,” replied Rainbow Dash, “I was in the reactor room overseeing that there would be no problems when the announcement happened.”

“I’m scared,” stammered Scootaloo.

“Well don’t be,” snapped back Rainbow Dash, “You know why? Because there are hundreds of us, and only one of him!”

Some stallion, which Scootaloo thought was named Green Gem, replied, “I guess your right…”

“Of course I’m right! What could one pony possibly do to a group of hundreds?”

Scootaloo scanned the room. This seemed to have relived many of the ponies’ fears.

“But what if he just leaves us in here to starve to death?” questioned a random worker, “It would take forever to dill through those massive steel doors!”

“That’s a good proposal, but think outside the box!” said Rainbow Dash speaking to all of them, “What if we’re not the ones being hunted? Remember he also trapped himself in here as well by sealing those doors. We can split up into groups and go searching for him!”

Eveypony seemed to murmur in agreement.

Scootaloo thought about this for awhile and then thought, “Dash is right; we outnumber him by the hundreds.”

“Who’s with me!” shouted Rainbow Dash lifting a hoof in the air.

“YEAH!” cried somepony named snowflake at the top of his lungs.

Soon many cries of agreement followed. Scootaloo was still a little creeped out, but she did think the plan was logical.

“Ok! So this is what we’re going to do. We are going to split up into groups of threes and go searching for Nimbos. If you are still scared then just wait here in the main room.” instructed Rainbow Dash.

All the ponies started to separate into groups. Scootaloo got into a group with a stallion named Sunburst and a mare named Peppermint Crunch.

“Now remember, he is out to kill; so don’t go easy on him! I want you to bring him to me dead or alive! I prefer dead… Now let’s go!”

The groups all scattered into different directions in search of the insane pony.

“Watch out Nimbos, here we come…” said Rainbow Dash under her breath.

--Green Gem’s group--

Green Gem’s group, consisting of Starsong, Tornado, and himself, flew into the gem deposit room. The conveyor belts were shut off and the lights were dim. The gem sorting machine sat there in the gloom looking like a monstrous robot from a sifi-movie.

“H-hello?” called out Tornado.

His echo bounced throughout the vast room. The place had an uncanny feeling about it. It didn’t help that they were the only group that decided to check here. Tornado, as fearless as ever, walked farther into the room. Green Gem and Starsong followed vigilantly. They continued on into the emergency gem supply room where there were crates after crates of gems. Each crate was filled with about one ton of jewels and stacked five high.

“Tornado, maybe we should stop,” said Starsong nervously, “I don’t like the fact that we are the only group here.”

“You’re such a wimp Starsong! First of all there are three of us and only one of him, not to mention the fact that Nimbos probably isn't even here…”

Tornado was cut off but a loud banging sound that made them all jump. Green Gem looked up to see the fifth crate on top of a stack that Tornado was standing beside shake and fall.

“Tornado! No!” Green Gem screamed.

With quick reactions Tornado tried to fly out of the way of the falling crate. But he wasn’t quite fast enough. The one ton crate fell on top of his hind legs crushing and pinning him. Green Gem and Starsong swung their heads in every direction trying to locate the unknown assailant.

“Bravo, you were able to dodge the crate,” echoed Nimbos voice throughout the room, “But I just made that idea up off the top of my head. Just to add some sugar and spice to this little hunt.”

His voice seemed to be calm and relaxed, but why? Green Gem had always thought that insane ponies didn’t make any sense, yet it was as if Nimbos had planned all of this. Of course this wasn’t normal insanity; this was raw spectrum insanity.

“However, I bet you wouldn’t even care if your “friend” died anyway!” laughed Nimbos finally appearing by landing next to Tornado, “You all are evil and I know it! You don’t have to try and hide it any longer! You work for the rainbows…the rainbows… The rainbows are out to kill me! They’re always watching…there’s no escape. You are all traitors! You sided with them! Dam you all to hell! Must kill all…all who follow…the evilness…I can feel it…the rainbows…they are here…”

Nimbos fell to his knees and started screaming while covering his ears.

“I can hear them! They are coming to get me! Un-unless…I kill you first! Gaaahhh!!!”

Nimbos lunged at Green Gem and Starsong with lighting speed. The whole time screaming, “I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you!”. They were barely able to sidestep his speedy attack.

“Starsong, go see if you can help Tornado while I hold this crazy bastard off,” cried Green Gem.

As Starsong galloped over to Tornado Nimbos flew up into the air and dived down at Green Gem tackling him. The two stallions brawled on the ground. Nimbos seemed to have demonic strength. Suddenly, Nimbos uppercut Green Gem with a powerful punch. He staggered backwards lights flashing before his eyes and the taste of blood in his mouth. Nimbos then kneed Green Gem in the stomach making him cry out in pain. Meanwhile, Starsong was trying to get Tornado out from under the crate.

“I think my legs are broken,” Tornado said with difficulty.

“Don’t worry I’ll get you out, we’ll get through this,” said Starsong tears forming in her eyes.

Suddenly she felt something grab her from behind and the cool blade of a knife pressed against her throat.

“Don’t make another move you-you evil betraying rainbow scum!” shouted Nimbos at Green Gem while holding Starsong hostage.

Green Gem was sprawling on the ground in pain. He recovered and shakily stood back up.

“Who am I kidding?” said Nimbos with a smirk, “You’re probably already so entranced by the rainbow’s evil power that you don't even care about your “friend” anymore.”

“NO!" howled Green Gem, but it was too late.

Starsong’s head landed onto the floor right next to her lifeless body. Nimbos picked it up and starred into the lifeless eyes.

“I hope you went to hell,” he grinned and then with all of his might he smashed the skull onto the floor cracking it open.

Nimbos then turned around. Before Green Gem could react he stabbed the bloody knife through one of Tornado’s eyes.

“Aaaaaahhhhh!” he screamed in pain.

Nimbos then continued to repeatedly kick Tornado in the head until he fell unconscious. He then tore the knife out of Tornado’s eye and raised it high above his head. He brought it down with extreme force finally killing Tornado. Slowly he turned his blood splattered face towards Green Gem, “You’re next…”

With great terror Green Gem flew off in the opposite direction. Nimbos took off after him. Exiting the emergency supply room and heading back into the gem deposit room Nimbos caught up with Green Gem. He slammed into him in midair and brought him down to the ground. They both landed onto the big conveyor belt for unsorted gems. Nimbos hoof hit a power switch and the belt way started up. The two stallions wrestled on the conveyor belt as they both drew closer to the sorting machine.

“I’ll kill you! I’ll kill you! I’ll fucking kill you!” screamed Nimbos.

He was on top of Green Gem now holding him by the shoulders and continuously slamming him up and down onto the belt. Right before Green Gem blacked out he thought he felt Nimbos throw him into the sorting machine where he would get grinded up by the small sorting instruments…