Rainbow's POV:
I slowly paced through the exit way of the Rainbow Factory. I knew who I was up against, who I was looking for. There was no reason to rush. My eyes attempted to scan for her in her darkness, but to my surprise, I couldn't see her. I tried again. This time, I spotted her short mangled hair gleaming in the little light that was provided by illuminated exit sign.
"Well, well!", I said, "What do we have here? An escape artist, hey?"
The little girl looked up me, her eyes shedding tears. Fresh blood trickling down her legs. She tried to scramble for the stairs, but I yanked at her scruffy shirt to prevent her from escaping.
"LET ME GO, PLEASE! I WON'T TELL A SOUL! I'M BEGGING YOU..." she bawled.
"You're right you won't tell a soul, you know why?" I asked as I felt smirk spreading across my face.
The girl pushed her mangled hair behind her ears and gave a hopeful smile, "Is it because you're letting me go?" I grinned.
"What do you think? I'm doing." I muttered taking a slight step back.
The girl's eyes lit up with bliss. "Oh thank you! Thank you!" she exclaimed as she raced up the stairs, three at a time.
I uttered "Three, two, one....." CRASH! The stairs collapsed from beneath the girl's feet, plunging her downwards. Snapping, her knee when it met contract with the metal floor of the factory. Screaming, the girl attempted to stand back up, but the pain seemed to be too much handle.
"HELP! PLEASE!" she screamed, addressing me. "Oh I wish I could kiddo, but the thing is..", I grabbed her by the shirt and brought her closer, "I couldn't care less!" I let go of her shirt and she fell back onto the cold hard ground.
Before I could turn away, I heard her whisper what would be her last words "You're a monster!"
Rainbow P.O.V
"I'M NOT A MONSTER!" I screamed making my lungs screech with pain in the process. My breathing started to rapidly increase. My chest going up and down in time with each breath. I opened my eyes only to realise where I was. Hundreds of eyes were upon me, each one giving me baffled looks. An awkward silence fell over the factory.
It lasted for a good two to three minutes, until the realisation of what I had said hit me like a ton of bricks. "Uh... well.... let's move on everyone, the quicker we get the machines set up the quicker we make Rainbows!", I stumbled, a nervous grin on my face. The employees shrugged and proceeded to do whatever they were doing before. I sighed and gazed at the employees from up above.
Did they look tired? Stressed? Dolorous? I couldn't describe it exactly, but by the look on their faces, I could tell that they didn't want to be here. At that moment in time, I didn't want to be there either. I reached backwards to grab my white jacket, but couldn't feel it. I continued to blindly search for it as I didn't want to take my eyes of the workers for a second.
"Finally!", I muttered as I felt my hand grab the soft material. I yanked at it, flinging it over my shoulder. I was about to make my way down the stairs, to join the workers when I heard a clang from behind me. "Huh?", I turned around but saw no one there. "That's odd, I could have swore I heard some sort of noise.", I murmured to myself. Before I turned I spotted what might have caused the noise. It was a mobile phone, my mobile phone. What it was doing on the ground I didn't know, but it wasn't on the ground before so maybe it fell from somewhere or something along those lines.
Shrugging, I bent down to pick it up. The metal phone felt cold against the palm of my hand, but that was to be expected. After all, It was freezing in this place. As I looked at the phone I noticed a giant crack on the glass screen. "Great, there goes most of my pay check this month!", I groaned, "Hopefully, it still works, though." I pressed the button on top of the phone and sure enough, it worked. As it loaded, I was surprised to see a notification pop up. It said one new message from.... Twilight.
Author's Note
Please note that is my first fan fiction that I've published as you can tell by the some what bad quality. If you have any questions or suggestions please let me know. I also apologise for the how short this chapter is.
Twilight's P.O.V
I glanced at my watch, half past two. She was late. Not only was she late, but half an hour late. "Uh!" I groaned, "Hurry up Rainbow, we don't have all day!" Stress was starting to get to me, this meeting was really important and we needed all the carriers of the Elements of Harmony. "Calm down sugar cube, she'll get here, eventually," Applejack said, placing her hand my shoulder. I knew she was trying to reassure me, but it really wasn't working.
We were abruptly interrupted as the crystal doors of the palace swung open with a loud bang. Standing, there was Rainbow Dash. Her hair was scruffy. Beads of sweats were pouring down her face as she tried to grasp for air.
"I'm... so... sorry that I'm late... everybody. ", she panted, "I was at work and.... I didn't see your text..... Twilight.
Rainbow still stood in the entrance of the meeting room, trying to cool down.
I was about to speak when Applejack placed her hand over my mouth. I gave her an evil glare, but she rolled her eyes and said, "It's fine sweetheart. We're glad that you're here now." She gestured for Rainbow to sit down. Rainbow nodded and started to walk to her seat only to find that it was already taken. Gently, I brushed Applejack's hand away from my mouth to speak, "Starlight, could you move, please? Rainbow needs to sit down." I asked. Starlight jolted upright and looked at Rainbow and then at the seat she was sitting in.
"Of course Princess. I'm ever so sorry Rainbow, I... I didn't realise", Starlight stuttered, "Let me get out of your seat.." Starlight was about to get out of Rainbow's seat when Rainbow pushed her back down. A surprised look spread across Starlight's flustered face. "Nah, it's ok. You got here first, you deserve to sit down." Rainbow politely said, removing her hands from Starlight's shoulders as she turned her attention to me.
"So boss, what did you call me out here for?"
Author's Note
I'm sorry that this chapter is especially short.
Trouble is on the horzian.
Rainbow's P.O.V
I looked at Twilight, waiting for her to answer my question, let's just say that she didn't look impressed. Twilight gave me challenging glare.
"Well, for one don't call me boss, ok? As for the answer to your question, I called you out here to discuss a recent issue" Twilight said, reaching under the table to grab something.
She pulled out an old piece of folded up the paper. It even had some of the corners torn off.
"This," Twilight announced, waving the piece of paper in the air, "is a map of the whole of Equestria!"
She held the map in the air in the same way my teacher would have done back when I was a child.
"How exciting!" Pinkie gasped, bouncing from her seat and snatching the map from Twilight's grasp.
I jumped back slightly. I didn't even know Pinkie was there. Speaking, of which she had been surprisingly quiet.
"What do we need the map of Equestria for sugar cube?" Applejack questioned, a baffled expression on her face.
"I would show/tell you if Pinkie gave MY map back," Twilight replied. Never the less Pinkie just kept studying the map in her hands,, as if she hadn't heard what Twilight had just said.
"I'm going to unfold it!" Pinkie declared as she started an attempt to unfold it.
I snickered at her remark. It was good to know that Pinkie was still the same laughable, random person
"Here, let me do it for you Pinkie." Fluttershy kindly said as she walked over to Pinkie. Removing, the map from Pinkie's grasp as gently as possible, she unfolded it and spread it on the table in front of her.
A little taken back, I looked at Fluttershy. She had always been the quiet type, so I wasn't surprised that I hadn't noticed her presence. There was something else though. Something, else that was bugging me. She seemed ... different. I studied her from head to toe. I noticed there were a few appearance differences. Her usually long, pink dainty hair was now a lot shorter and more jagged. The best way I could describe it was that it looked like the hair the guys in the teen boy bands had.
Her sculpture wasn't as dainty as her hair had once been - it was more muscular. The most noticeable thing however was a scar that ran down the side of her neck. The crimson red shade of scar stuck out like a sore thumb against Fluttershy's pale skin.
I wasn't that which was bugging me though. It was something else, but I just couldn't think what. Shifting in discomfort, I turned my attention to the map.
"Wow!" I said in awe as I stared at the map.
I could almost sense my eyes lighting up. Just looking at the mass of land that was Equestria made me pumped. It had been so long since I gone anywhere outside the walls of Ponyville. Hey, maybe that was why Twilight had invited us over. Yes! That had to be it! Why else would Twilight call over the elements of Harmony? Maybe Discord was causing chaos? Maybe the changelings where back?!
The excitement was just too much. So much, that I couldn't help, but blurt out,
"I almost forgot that Equestria was this big. It's amazing what so many years in the factory..."
I cut my own sentence short after realising the last word that had escaped my lips.
"You never told us that you worked in a factory dear." Rarity said, finally taking an interest in the conversation now that there was a chance to get some juicy gossip.
I shrunk further back into my chair, trying to hide my face from Rarity. I was a terrible liar and Rarity was good at prying her nose where it didn't damn belong. If I at least hid my face, it would be harder for her to read me like a tabloid newspaper.
"Of course, she does!" Pinkie chipped in, "She works in a paint factory. Can't you see the fresh paint on her jacket?"
I looked down at my jacket, which I had taken off and placed on my lap. "Shit," I thought. The jacket still had splotches all over it.
I was in such a hurry, I had no time to clean it. I kept my face hidden.
"No Pinkie dear, I can't see her jacket because It's on her lap. Do you mind passing it over Rainbow? I would just love to take a look at it." Rarity asked.
From what I could tell she had gotten up from her seat and was making her way towards me. Her steps echoed through out the room as her heels clicked against the crystal floor.
Everyone had fallen silent, even Pinkie. As if they were too surprised or scared to say anything. Heat started to creep down my neck. The thought of the six people who I considered my friends staring at me made me feel strange. Around others I was usually fine, but them. What if I screwed up? What if they found out? They might not forgive me... or my sins.
The clicking had stopped and I felt the warmth of Rarity's hand brush against my cheek. She managed to spin my chair around so when I looked up I would be facing her. My face grew hotter as I felt her slid one of her long fingers down my chin and flick my head up. Grabbing, my jaw with her hand she narrowed her eyes at me. I tried to look back down, but she had practically dug her nails into my skin. Then grip on my jacket tightened.
Just as felt the felt Rarity's had brush past mine, I heard the sound of Twilight's impatience voice.
"I think you can wait till later Rarity!" Twilight stated, by the look of her, she had enough of all this. I gave a silent sigh of relief as Rarity's grasp on my jaw loosened.
Rarity looked at Twilight, then at me. Giving me a some what awkward smile, she trotted back to her seat. "Right, what were you going to say Twilight?" she chuckled, as if the scene she had made a few minutes ago hadn't happened.
"As I was going to say," Twilight said, pointing at our hometown on the map, "Recently, people in Ponyville have been going missing."
A few glances where shared between the people in the room. Turning, my chair back around, I returned to staring at the floor in an attempt to hide my face.
I knew where this was starting to go and I didn't like it. I didn't like it one bit.
Author's Note
The next chapter will be a lot longer.
