The Cloudsdale Weather Corporation

Cloud Factory Square

It can't be, it really can't be. One of the workers of my factory had died yet again, but the one that died was close to me, but not too close. A dear friend to me, Nightshade, and Rainbow. Sunshower had stolen a gift of mine to Rainbow and hid it somewhere. She did explain herself, but Rainbow wasn't having it. Sunshower had been sent to the Pegasus Device, the worst way to be punished. I was still on the phone with Rainbow while I was hearing this news.

"What, so she's dead now?" I asked in a loud tone. I was also not having it.

"Yes, taking something that is valuable is breaking rule's and plus, the Dark Hour was going on when she was killed. She really was a nice pony to us, but doing this was taking it too far. I had nothing else to do. I hope you understand dear." She replied.

"Yes, I understand. She should have never stole something like that. Did she tell you where she put it?" I asked.

"No, that's the reason she was killed instead of fired. She did give us a slight indication of where it might be."

"What's that?"

"She told me that it might be in a dorm. She left it on a random doorstep in one of the dorms. I have Nightshade looking around. I will announce it that the stolen Item is in one of the rooms and I will award anypony that bring's it to me. I do have a idea where it might be." She told me.

"And where is that?" I asked.

"Well," She paused, "I think it's in Anderson Maxwell's room." I just about dropped my phone at that comment.

"Why are you thinking its in Anderson's room?" I asked.

"The room has been empty for years now. Nopony actually know's that Anderson or anypony live's in there. She must of been about to open the door when somepony was coming into the dorm's and left it there. Anderson might have picked it up and took it in his room. I guess we'll see when I ask for it." Rainbow said.

"Good, I guess I'll be back down in a bit. Tell Nightshade I said hi."

"Oh, about Night." Rainbow said behind the phone.

"What about him. Is something wrong?" I asked while making my way back to the shuttle.

"Insanity is getting to him. He told me a while ago."

"Oh no." I said, a long pause followed. My brother, going insane? It was too much to believe, but after what he's been through. It was believable at this point.

Then I started to cry.

Division C Dorm: Anderson's Room

(After Dark Hour)

Anderson was getting ready for work when yet another knock came to his door. This time, he answered with his voice.

"Come in!" He yelled, and the door opened.

"Mr. Maxwell, can I speak to you for a moment?" Said a grey pony with a black flannel and a cap on. He seemed to like his job, but his face was red.

"Yea, sure." Anderson said.

"I need you to be honest to me. Before you woke up, did you so happen get a package on your doorstep?" The pony asked.

"Yes, I did. Why?"

"I will tell you in a second, do you have it with you?"

"Yes, I do." Anderson replied, and reached under his bed to pull out a brown package, at least, there was one there before. "I'm afraid it's gone. It was under my bed when I fell asleep."

"Really, are you sure it's not under there?" The pony asked again. Anderson noticed that he was a little on edge.

"Yea, but I did take what ever was in it out of it. It was some kind of watch. It had the Doctor and Rainbow's name's engraved on it. I put it in my pocket. I was going to give it to Rainbow personally, but if you are-"

"No, it's fine. Take it to her right away. She will be pleased to have it from you then me. Thank you for your time." The pony interrupted. Then left the room to leave Anderson alone.

"You're welcome! I will need some assistance when I go with the Pony Crew, so I will talk to Rainbow about it when I see her!" Anderson yelled after the pony, and started out the door. Something told Anderson that the object that he had was very important to Rainbow Dash, but the pony that was just in his room made him think more about how this place worked. Apparently pony's can just appear out of nowhere since Anderson didn't hear the pony come through the doors to the dorms.

The alarm rang, disrupting his thoughts and made him think more about the job then anything else.

He was going to be late for his first day, or night, on the job. Anderson really couldn't really tell anymore.

Rainbow's Office and Chamber's

Rainbow had been reading the latest report's about missing filly's when I knocked on the door.

"What is it?" She said, she sounded pissed.

"It's me honey. Is everything alright?" I asked while letting myself in.

"Oh! Sorry dear, I didn't mean to snap at you. I'm just a little discouraged about my watch."

"It's fine," I started, "I bet somepony will bring it soon." After saying that, a knock came to Rainbow's door. "Come in!" I yelled. I knew if Rainbow answered, the door would be burnt down.

"H-hello? I h-have this watch that I think-" Anderson stuttered while entering the room, but stopped mid-sentence as soon as he saw me and Rainbow in the same room. I bet he thought that he was dead.

"What is it that you have again?" I asked, playing the nice cop. I saw Rainbow jump from her seat but I stopped her with my hand.

"I-its your watch Doctor. Somepony left it on my doorstep in a brown box. I'm not sure where the box went, but I have the watch right here." He said while walking towards me with the watch in his hand.

"I'm sorry, but that's not mine." I stopped him, I then pointed a thumb at Rainbow that she couldn't see.

"O-oh, Rainbow. Here you go." He said, and gave the watch to her.

"Anderson, right?" Rainbow asked, clearly calmer then before.

"Yes ma'am, that's me."

"Thank you." She said and gave him a hug, which she has never done. "You know what, take the day off, You've deserved it."

"I agree, you returned something that most worker's wouldn't. I'm guessing you got a visit from Nightshade, am I correct?" I asked.

"Yes, I guess that's his name." Anderson said. He sounded more comfortable now that he know's that he is on Rainbow's good side. "Thank you by the way for the day off."

"No problem, now get going. I need to look at the device and see where Sunshower's droppings went. Adult pony's don't usually get cut up as easily as they used to." I said, and took Anderson by the shoulder and lead him out the door.

"You know what's about to happen, right?" Rainbow asked. My eye's shot open.

It was Date Night.

Pegasus Device Catwalk

(During Dark Hour)

"I hate to do this Sunshower, but you are being accused of stealing my watch! So," Rainbow yelled over the noise of the device powering up, "Where is it Sunny?"

"I don't know, I didn't steal anything ether! Would I really steal something from a friend?" Sunshower yelled back. Nightshade stood in the background, hand on a lever. Used to kill anything in a harness, which was occupied by Sunshower.

"You might as well tell the truth Sunny, I don't want to pull this lever and neither do you. Just tell the truth." Nightshade said, though it was a little hard to hear him over the device.

"Tell the truth Sunshower. I don't have all Dark Hour!" Rainbow yelled. She was pissed off to the point that jumping up on the harness and dealing with her was beginning to be a option, though a suicide stunt.

"Never!" Sunshower cried, tears were running down her face and dripping into her multi-blue colored mane.

"Nightshade, prepare The Teeth." Rainbow said in a loud, but deep tone. The Teeth was what was inside the device, they are what get the job of killing them done, everything else is used to create a rainbow. The Pegasus device roared with life as The Teeth started spinning. More tears were running out of Sunshower's eye's. "I guess the name Sunshower really fit's you."

"SHUT UP RAINBOW!" Sunshower cried. Nightshade had to put in earplug's to keep the cry's of the victim from driving him to insanity. He does it for most of the pony's ready to be sent into the device.

"Somepony is pissed. How about you tell me where you hid the watch and this can all be over!" Rainbow yelled with a grin on her face.

"FINE! Fine... I'll tell you!" Sunshower yelled. She must of expected the device to turn off at the comment, but the machine still was in function.

"Tell away Sunshower! I expect the truth!" Yelling was still necessary for anypony to hear over the machine.

"Yes, I hid it! I can't tell you where I hid it because I didn't pay attention! But yes, I hid it!" Sunshower yelled while sobbing away. She finally
came clean.

"Thank you Sunshower, but that was not the answer I wanted! Nightshade, do the honor's. She need's to be punished." Rainbow started, "It was nice knowing you Sunshower! You're going to make a great rainbow for us!"

"Wait, WHAT!?" Was all Sunshower could say before the harness opened and dropped the confused and frightened pegasus worker to her demise.

Nightshade could be heard crying after the machine was turned off.

Division A Dorm: Nightshade's Room

Insanity was getting to Nightshade.

He slammed the door to his room and called Rainbow on his speaker. He needed to tell her what was going on.

"Rainbow, y-you there." He stuttered.

"Yes Nightshade, wait. Are you alright?" Rainbow asked through the speaker on the wall.

"No, all of this killing of friends and stuff is really getting to me! I can hear voices now. Hallucinations are starting to happen. I think i'm going insane Rainbow. I THINK I'M GOING INSANE!" Nightshade yelled. Followed by sobs. Nightshade really had experienced most of the things that come with insanity. It was killing him slowly.

"Hey, calm down Night. When Doctor returns, we can talk together. I will call a Date Night."

"HOW IS THAT GOING TO HELP?!" Nightshade yelled again. Rainbow had jumped back in her chair.

"It would help if the Doctor know's what's going on. If you really are going insane, we can send Doctor to get some supply's from Zecora if you want to."

"Could we try to contact Doctor now?" Night said in a calm tone.

"I can try. He might be busy now, but I bet if I call, he will answer." Rainbow replied.

"Ok, thank's."

"It's nothing Night. You're family, we all need to help each other." Rainbow said and hung up. Nightshade then sat on his bed with his head in his hands.

"I can't do this. Someday, someday I'm going to die in this damn place. Someday...." Nightshade whispered to himself while bringing the cover's over him. Then after calming down, he fell asleep.

Black Doctor's Office

(Present Time)

"... And can you put mushroom's on that?" A brown pony said on my phone. I was sitting at my desk looking at some plan's that a Maintenance pony thought would work with the factory. It was basically a syringe on a robot arm to extract an adult's rainbow from their body, pin-pointed around the chest area.

"Jonson, would you hurry up with the pizza before I cancel the order behind your back. This is that last time for a month." I said across the room. I didn't yell because I wasn't that mad and didn't feel like it was the time.

"Just a sec boss. I'm almost done." He whispered while putting a hand over my phone.

"Fine, just hurry up." I returned to the plan's. The arm would connect to the Pegasus Device, but instead of killing, it would just take the magic out of then to create the rainbow. Sadly, the last time I tried something like this, everything broke down. Making it a year's worth of work to get the place back together. "These plan's don't make any sense." I said to myself. The my other phone rang, the one connected to the facility.

"Black Doctor, who is this?" I asked into the phone.

"Um, my name is Wild Spark. I was wondering if I could enter the facility to talk about a possible job." Wild said through the phone.

"What race are you?"

"Earthpony."

"Enter the elevator, then go up the stairs to your left after exiting the elevator. Is anyone else with you?" I asked.

"Um, yes. A pegasus." He answered.

"Let me guess, is her name Derpy?"

"Yes. How did you-" He tried to say, but was cut off by a mare's voice.

"DOCTOR! WE'RE HERE!" Yelled the mare's voice.

"Great! Can't wait to see you both. Derpy Hooves and Wild Spark, please enter the elevator before somebody becomes suspicious." I said and pushed a button under my desk.

"See you in a sec Doctor." Wild said, and hung up the phone.

"Look's like we have some new worker's." I said, but then heard Jonson talking about mushrooms and olives again.

"Yea, I think that will be it, oh wait. Can I get some-"

"JONSON! Get off the DAMN PHONE!" I yelled. I was pissed now.

"Ok. Never mind, thanks." He said, then hung up the phone and ran out of the office.

Then I heard a scream at the Rainbow Factory Square.

"They're here." I said, then made my way out of my office.