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

Chapter Four: A State of Revolt

  The following day everything went to hell.

  Under the noses of everyone else at The Factory, a group of workers had staged a revolt, and guess who their priority target was? The recently promoted second in command, Flash Lightning, otherwise known as by the workers, The Wolf.

  He had 'earned' this title from being so ruthless, merciless, and downright evil. Some might even say that he was cold-blooded, but no matter what they called him, they feared him. He only took orders from the Overmare herself, and had the power to order around his inferiors to do whatever he wanted. And if you messed up or made him mad, he would kill you, but some suffered far worse at his hooves, like Sapphire had. She couldn't even use her wings properly anymore, the electrocution had messed up her wing muscles and she couldn't fly at all.

  The workers were fed up with suffering under him, so they had planned on killing him. This is how it happened.

  It was the day after the last bunch of  flunk-outs had arrived, they struck hard and fast. Capturing around two-dozen higher-ups and cornering Flash in the Machine's control room.

  "You're going to pay for everything you've done to us! Justice will be swift, it will be painful, it will be delicious!"

Said the leader of the group, a reddish-brown pony with a golden brown mane and eyes as green as dragon fire, and they were burning with rage.

  They slowly encircled Flash as he said; "You won't win, just because the Overmare is away doesn't mean taking control will be so easy."

  Then they all converged on Flash at once, and the fight that ensued was both brutal and short, with Flash putting up a fierce amount of resistance, but eventually he fell to their numbers.  He came to hanging upside-down by his hind-legs, dazed and confused. Once his vision stopped spinning, he realized where he was. He was right above the Machine, his wings tied to his sides with ropes and his fore-legs bound in the same way.

  He looked over at the catwalk to see the brown pegasus from earlier standing there, a sinister look on his face. He moved his gaze to the Factory floor and saw the other higher-ups bound and gagged with workers standing around them, guarding their captives.

  "So you're finally awake huh? It's about time, I've waited for this moment for over three years now. Do you remember the first pony you killed here? I doubt you do, but he was my little brother. And today you're going to pay for killing him. An eye for an eye..."

  "A life for a life." Flash said before his captor could finish.

  The pony smirked at Flash, a look of burning hatred in his green eyes as he said, "Lower him in." The pony in the control room where they had all been a few hours ago started the Machine and the chains began to descend.

  Then pegasus the said, "Goodbye you heartless wolf, may your soul burn in Tartarus." Right as his head was about to be crushed, the chains suddenly stopped. Flash looked over at the control room to see the Overmare at the controls, the pony who had been in there previously unconscious on the floor. The Machine then powered down and She flew out of the room and tackled the workers who were guarding their prisoners. After subduing them she released the higher-ups and the battle that ensued was long and bloody. But in the end, the workers lost, taken prisoner and sentenced to recycling.

  The Overmare flew up to the machine and undid the ropes binding Flash and the shackles on his hind- legs released their grip.

  "I leave for one day and you almost get yourself killed?! You're lucky I came back when I did, or all of you would be dead." The black suited pony said, a decent amount of anger in her voice. But Flash didn't hear a word She'd said, because when he had come so close to death, something inside him snapped. Any remnants of the old Flash were gone now, all that was left was his shadow. The hate, the anger, the sadness, the rage, and the cruelty.

  Once he landed on the catwalk next to Her, he just started laughing, an insane laugh from one who isn't quite stable anymore. It echoed throughout the Factory and everyone was silent. Once he stopped laughing, he took a deep breath and then he spoke.

  "I request permission to personally execute them." He said, in a voice that can only be described as coming from one who has lost their sanity.-

"Somebody help me through this nightmare,

I can't control myself!

Somebody wake me from this nightmare,

'Cause I can't escape this hell!

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