Blood, Tears and Laughter. A Rainbow Factory Fan-Fic

Chapter Two: Becoming the Monster

  It had been two days since Flash had killed that pony, and it was weighing on his conscious pretty hard.

  'I killed him, I actually killed him...' The thought would repeat itself over and over again in his mind to no end. And what made him feel worse was the fact that for doing that, they'd promoted him.

  (Flashback to the end of chapter one)

  Flash stood there, silent, a look of complete sadness on his face that was still wet with tears.

  "You did what had to be done." Said a voice from behind him. He turned around and saw the overmare. Black suit and all, standing right behind him.

  "You were attacked, you defended yourself, you won. And I congratulate you for that."

  She walked forward and sat down in front of the shocked pegasus, his face devoid of any emotion other than one last tear, rolling down his cheek. The overmare wiped it away, the first act of kindness she'd shown anyone at the factory.

  "I see great potential in you, you're stronger than what you show everyone else." She started pacing back and forth in front of him.

  "I have a proposal for you," she said, standing still now. "You show that side more often, and you can stay in my quarters, you'll get actual food, not the gruel everyone else eats, and you'll have a higher position. Why am I doing this you ask? Well, I'm thinking of retiring soon and I need a successor. What do you say?"

  Flash came back to his senses and thought about it for a moment.

  "I don't know," Flash said.

  "You do realize how things work around here, it's survival of the fittest. You should know that based on what you've just done."

  'I don't want to become like her,' Flash thought. 'But if I want to survive here I have to be mean.'

  "Alright, I'll accept your offer."

  "Great, I'll be expecting progress from you soon. See you tonight."-

  -The days went by agonizingly slowly, each day more horrible than the last. He had even been forced to hurt Sapphire, which still haunted him to this day.

  {Flashback}

  The flunk-outs were all moving the vats of Spectra to another part of The Factory. Sapphire and a pale yellow pegasus were moving the huge vat of green Spectra when Sapphire slipped in a puddle that had sloshed out of one of the vats that a previous groups of ponies had spilled. It drenched her in green slime, staining her entire figure.

  Many thoughts raced through his mind at that moment.

  'I have to punish her, she spilled the entire vat of Spectra! But I know her, she's my friend, I can't do that.' But eventually, one thought prevailed.

  ' "Don't you know how things work around here? It's  survival of the fittest." '

  He cleared his face of any emotion and approached her. She looked up at him with sheer terror in her eyes.

  "Please don't do this!" She begged, "I thought you were my friend!"

  Those words stabbed his heart like a knife, but he shook it off and continued with what he was about to do.

  "AAAAHHHHHHH!" She screamed in pain as he electrocuted her with his tazer-stick. He let go after a few moments and she lay there, gasping for breath.

  "Please..." She said weakly. But he did not stop. He repeated the process over and over again until his tazer ran out of power. At this point the tips of Sapphire's feathers and fur were smoking and she had severe burns where he had zapped her.

  "H-How... Could... You..?" She barely managed to say.

  All he said in response was: "You're lucky I didn't kill you." His voice devoid of any emotion. "Mess up like that again and I will."-

"Help me believe,

It's not the real me,

Somebody help me tame this animal!"