Equestria: The Fallen Utopia

I awoke in pitch blackness. Confused, I tried looking around, but saw nothing. Only darkness. Just then, I heard the sounds of me yelling. I couldn’t quite make out what I was saying, but I sounded pissed. The yelling stopped, followed by sounds of machinery and screaming. Screams of pain. Torture. I heard somepony saying something, this time much clearer.

“Let him go,” the voice said. “He’ll never make it back to his home alive. He'll bleed to death.” After a moment of silence, Rainbow Dash was then heard.

“I’ll fucking kill her, I swear!” she was yelling. Rainbow’s voice was cut off, followed by more silence. The silence was abruptly cut off by the sound of more screams of torture, this time coming from me. I snapped awake with a quick inhale. I breathed heavily for a few minutes before pulling myself together. I got out of the bed and opened a window to let in some air. I looked towards Cloudsdale. The weather factory was still going strong. But as I looked down at the front of the mansion, dimly lit by Luna’s glow was a small, black carriage. In the dim light of the moon, I could tell that it was being drawn by two Pegasus, one blue with a yellow mane, and another tan one with a green and yellow mane. Another mare with a black cloak and mask was standing next to the carriage, speaking to the drivers. I flew to Rainbow’s room.

“Hey Rainbow?” I asked as I opened the door. She wasn’t in her room. I looked around. There didn’t seem to be any sign of intrusion. The only thing out of the ordinary was that her closet was left open. I turned on the closet light and looked inside. I saw her Gala Outfit, her crown she had won at the Young Flyers Competition, and an empty hanger on the floor. I picked it up. It had been broken at the base, as if somepony had taken whatever was on it in a huge hurry. I felt a draft. I looked over at her window. It had been opened and never shut. I noticed a piece of cloth hanging from the locking hook. It had been torn off. I looked at it for a moment, threw it in the garbage, then flew after the carriage.
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I flew after that carriage for about two hours. The drivers seemed to never tire. I couldn't understand how they could keep flying for so long. The carriage never slowed down for a moment. I had a hard time keeping up. When it did finally stop, I landed on a distant cloud to catch my breath and rest my wings. I was absolutely wiped out after that seemingly endless flight. After I had rested, I got up and flew to where the carriage was. The drivers, along with the cloaked mare, were gone. I looked around. It was hard to see because the only light came from the moon. What I could make out was some sort of giant building. I walked up to its large gates. I felt unauthorized, but I still wanted to see what was inside. I saw a small air vent up in a corner. I flew up to it and crawled inside. The vents smelled like something had died in there. I tried to block out the smell as I crawled onward. I heard mass amounts of sound. Machinery, crying, screams, and talking. I didn't know what the fuck was going on, so I kept crawling.

As I crawled through the air vent, I found another grate below me. I opened it and dropped onto a small girder beam. From this spot, I had a full view of the facility, and it was bloody, smelled rank, and was very loud. Machine gears turning, hydraulics moving up and down, alarm horns blaring, valves opening and closing, and pistons pounding. The machinery was moving to a pulsing beat. From looking closer, this factory seemed to be the place where rainbows are created, then shipped to the dispenser in Cloudsdale. I looked around, fascinated by the complexity of the machinery. But my fascination ended when I looked deeper into the factory. Hundreds of young mares and stallions were held in a pit. I watched the captive ponies. Some were crying with another patting their shoulder, others were sitting in a corner or against a wall, and of them looked sad and starved. I couldn't believe this.

“What the...?” I quietly wondered. A light gray pony with a blonde mane and robotic wings was operating on a machine near the pit. What I saw next would scar me for life. A mechanical arm with a claw on it grabbed a young Pegasus mare and hoisted her up out of the pit. She was roughly laid onto a restraining board attached to another mechanical arm. That arm lifted her into full view of the workers and myself. A third arm moved a large and very sharp blade to the Pegasus's chest. It moved back, then impaled her. I was horrified. I nearly threw up, but I stopped myself at the last second.

“What the fuck is this?!” I quietly yelled. But the machines weren't done yet. The blade was removed from the Pegasus mare and left her to bleed. A final mechanical arm injected a needle into the wide slit in the mare's chest. It drew the remainder of her blood, which was quite a lot, and sent it through a tube. The tube connected to a filter. It activated as the blood passed through it, brightening the blood with the colors of a rainbow. This machine was extracting the Spectra from the blood. The Spectra went through a mixing chamber which I couldn't see, then into a barrel for storage and shipment. I decided that I had seen enough. As I flew back up to the vent, a worker spotted me. He sounded an alarm which blasted through the whole factory. I jumped at the noise and my wings snapped shut. I fell, crashing back onto the girder. I hit the girder and fell to the ground. I recovered in the air and tried to fly back to the vent, but blast doors slammed shut, trapping me in the factory. I panicked and tried to find another way out, but before I could, a jolt of electricity was forced into my system, and everything went black.