Flawed Harmony

Anon turned to the soldiers he had brought with him, Solid Will and Sonar Wisp at his sides. "Everyone, what you are going to see in the horror known as the Rainbow Factory will disturb you. Your mission is simple, rescue any captured ponies and kill all the scientists that have gone mad. If you come across a scientist that still have their sanity you are to take them into custody. Understood?"

"SIR, YES SIR!!!" Anon smiled at his soldiers, all in full body purple armour.

"Very good, we touch down in two minutes." Everyone began preparing themselves as Anon turned to Sonar. "Those ponies in the factory are going to need serious therapy and mental treatment, are the preparations met?"

Sonar nodded and spoke through her helmet. "Yes sire, the medical staff in the badlands have been notified and are awaiting their patients arrival." Anon nodded and walked over to the edge of the deck of the airship. Looking down at the approaching city of clouds he scowled.

"I won't allow this madness to continue, 'harmony' is not worth all of this suffering. Equestria can do without it's precious rainbows, it's not worth the lives of the ponies within the factory." Anon still didn't know why Celestia allowed this to even start, from what he could tell there was budget cuts with the economy in a state of crisis and rainbow production could not continue. Celestias solution to keep her 'harmony?' Kill innocent ponies and turn their blood to rainbows.

"Anon, what are we gonna do when we get everyone out of the factory?" Solid asked as he readied his giant hammer.

"Since their won't be any colour left afterwards, I think we'll just have to do what we do best..." Anon held his glowing hand out and aimed it at the wall of the main factory, "...we paint it black."

He fire a beam of magic at the wall and it exploded on impact, leaving a huge hole for them to invade. Looking over his shoulder he spotted Celestia, Twilight, Screwball and Abigail. Frowning Anon jumped into the building, his two generals and soldiers following him in.

As he landed he looked around at the bloodstained walls and the insane workers of the factory. As a mare was passing him strapped to a conveyer belt he unsheathed his sword and cut the bonds, freeing the mare. A Pegasus soldier flew over to her and took her back to the airship. Looking around at the wires of the machines in the factory he spotted the power generators. He pointed to them and Solid ran over and began smashing them with his hammer. Hearing a cry of terror Anon looked up to see another mare about to be drained by the huge machine of the ceiling.

Running up the wall of the factory he jumped and cut the machine in half as it was about to pierce the mares chest. He unstrapped the mare from the machine and she hugged him.

"Thank you, thank you so much!" She cried and he brushed her mane.

"It's ok, we're here to get you and everyone else out of here." He called another soldier over and it carried the mare away. He watched as his men ran through multiple doors of the factory, searching for others to save. "Sonar, you lead squad two down to the labs and capture as many scientists as you can while clearing the upper floors. Solid, you take the lower cell blocks with Squad three. Squad one is to do what they see fit!"

"What about you?!" Solid called up.

"I'm going to kill the bastard in charge of this place!" With that he jumped down. As he walked a scientist with multiple blood stains on its coat tried to stab him with a knife, only to get his throat slit. "Amateurs." He then began charging down a long hallway, slicing through multiple security systems and blockades. Once he came to a red door he stopped and threw a bucket of black paint onto it. "Much better."

As he approached the final blockade he began spinning and formed his drill attack. Quickly digging through the steel doors he landed on the other side and saw a stallion with a cream/green coat with electric green hair.

"Ah the Shadow King, I've heard much about you, it is a pleasure to see you in person." His voice was like any typical mad scientist.

"I didn't come here to talk. Shut down the factory." Anon ordered, surrounding his sword in blue flames.

"No can do Nonn-" His sentence was cut short as his head was sent flying off his body.

"Like I said, I didn't come here to talk." Pushing the headless corpse off the chair in the dark office he sat down and began shutting off the main systems for the machines. "There we go." He watched as Solid ripped the bars of multiple cells and led a large group of ponies to safety from the camera systems. "That takes care of that." Just then he felt a strong magical presence. "So, you've shown that you aren't a coward then Celestia, but are you brave enough to face what's to come?" He teleported to the main factory where Celestia was waiting in her golden armour with her spear.

"Why here as your first target? Why the factory?" She asked, reading her enchanted spear.

"You were the one that declared war on us Solena. Why do I strike here first? Simple, what do you think your subjects would think if word that you allowed ponies to be kidnapped and killed, their blood turned into the happy rainbows got out?" A look of horror replaced Celestias stern glare.

"You wouldn't."

"Why wouldn't I?" He swung his sword slightly, showing that he was willing to face off against her. "Your move Celestia."

"Sire, I have a situation." He heard Sonar say through his telepathic link with his generals.

"What is it Sonar?"

"Taht human girl is here, as well as another."

"Fight off the girl but do not kill, have Solid take care of the other one. Be careful, she is skilled with a blade."

"Roger that sire, intercepting targets now." Anon nodded and turned back to Celestia.

"Well then..." he stabbed his blade into the ground and a small ring of blue flames surrounded him, "...shall we dance?"

Abigail held her new sword in her hands. It was a similar design to Anons except it was made of a gold-like material and had the symbol of the sun on the guard. She stared down Sonar who held her dark purple spear in her hoof.

Solid burst through a wall, spinning his hammer to deflect the wave of bullets that SweetieBot was firing. He swung his hammer with great force and knocked the robot through another wall, following her through. Abigail charged forward and swung her sword, sending a slash wave at Sonar. Dodging Sonar nailed her in the stomach with the bottom of her spear, knocking the wind out of her.

Recovering they both clashed, sparks of purple and yellow flew as they pushed against each other. Suddenly the floor gave out under them and started to slowly fall with fiery debris falling all around them. Sonar flew up to a more secure location and Abigail jumped from falling piece to falling piece until she reached stable ground.

As soon as she turned around Abigail put up her sword to Cunard against the oncoming attack. Pushing Sonar away Abigail managed to land a few hits on the general, damaging the armour but not the pony within. Sonar leapt into the air and shot towards Abigail, pining her down and raising an armoured hoof. As she was about to bring it down when the ground shook. Taking advantage of this Abigail sunk her sword into a gap in the mares armour.

Backing away in pain Sonar hissed, Abigail got to her feet and took a few more slashes at be mare. Her armour was now scrapped badly and she had suffered a shoulder injury. "You win this round girly." With that Sonar flapped her bat wings and retreated to the airship. Abigail ran down the hallway leading to the area that Anon and Celestia were facing off in, on the way she heard loud crashes and clanging of blades. As she entered the area she stared in awe at the sight before her.

Anon and Celestia were standing on a fallen stone pillar in the middle of a sea of fire, trading blows and firing magic spells at each other. As Celestia was about to thrust her spear into Anon he dodged and quickly sunk his own blade into the spot between Celestias wings. Not deep enough to kill her but enough to put her out of commission for awhile. He teleported her and everyone else out of the factory. Those on his side to the airship while all others to Cloudsdale.

As Abigail looked around for Celestia in the field of clouds a screen appeared in the sky and she saw Anon standing just outside the ruined rainbow factory. The broadcast was being sent to every town and city in Equestria.

"Citizens of Equestria. I am King Anon, ruler of the Shadow Empire. I am here today to bring you a message regarding your supposed merciful leader Princess Celestia!" The shot moved from Anon to the ruined factory room. "This was once the place where you rainbows were created and spread across the skies! Now it is but a pile of burning rubble. But what were the rainbows actually made of? The answer is the blood of innocent ponies Taht were kidnapped and killed in this very factory!" Abigail put a hand to her mouth in shock. She wasn't able to pay attention to what was in that factory when she was facing Sonar. "What's worse is this factory that killed your kidnapped loved ones was payed for and built by Princess Celestia herself! Your ruler allowed the slaughter of thousands of ponies to create rainbows! The process is of as follows, the pony is cut open and a knife like needle is stabbed into their hearts! Then this machine you see here would drain the blood from the body. While the pony is still alive! Then once drained of the blood the pony is put onto a conveyor belt, diced up and grinded into dust to hide the bodies! Your ruler allowed this for centuries! I, with the help of my empire, have destroyed this monstrosity and are merely showing who is to blame for this madness. Princess Celestia!" The transmission cut off and Abigail fell to her knees in shock.

"No... No Celestia wouldn't." Tears ran down her cheek as she started to cry, her trust was broken, her faith in Celestia destroyed.

Anon stood at the front of his airship as it flew towards the castle in the badlands.

"I believe that should cause enough damage for awhile. Try to repair what has been completely destroyed Celestia, and know that this is only the beginning of my master plan." Holding his arm which had been stabbed by Celestia he winced in pain. "For now, I have to recover as well as let my generals know of phase three, The Sixth General." He turned his head towards the mare that had talked to him before the trip to Cloudsdale. "Also, I would like to welcome you to my empire...Rainbow Dash."