After convincing the Captain of the guard to help rose with dumping the old colours, he took his new role with her very seriously. He looked out for her and helped her when she tripped out was unable to carry or push the old colours in the dump. Also yesterdays conference with rainbow dash gave him an advantage and how to escape this factory. Although things have now changed in the factory. The guards have now been given permission to treat them badly and do what ever they want to do with them. Some guards would hit them for no reason and punish then. Some would even take it to far, some would even rape the mares in their cells or when they are on duty away from everyone else. But that wasn't that's not all. The stallions would be tazed or drowned to their deaths.
The mares that got raped they would fall pregnant and the medical stations were for the guards only in the factory. This was very dangerous for the mares since they didn't have any doctors to come and help them give birth.

Some would die giving child birth, some would die from blood lose when giving birth or their bodies weren't ready yet and would die from internal bleeding. If they did survive the guards would come and take away their foals, kill them or just leave them and wait for their foals to die from starvation. Food and water was now also becoming a problem. The guards would bring less and less of it everyday. It was becoming a struggle in the factory then it ever was.

We have to get out of hereShadow said in his head as he trotted along with rose to dump the old colours that were left behind by the machineEveryday it is becoming more and more of torture and we cant stand this much longer as they continued to walk to where they would dump the colours. When they came a cross some of the guards shadow would stay close to rose to protect her from the guards and to show that they should not try any 'funny' businesses when he was near her. Some would try their luck on hitting on her but failed when shadow shoot a cold glare at them.

As they arrived at to where they would dump the old colours two guards walked up to them. "Hello beautiful" one of them said as they looked to rose.
Rose ignored them and continued her duty as shadow helped her dump the colours.

"HEY, we are talking to you!" One of them commanded as he trotted towards her. Shadow saw this and stood in front of him.

"Out of my way!" The guard commanded

"Sorry but I won't let you do that" Shadow said with hate in his tone "If I were you I would walk away and never come back"

The guard laughed at him when he heard this "Make me" the guard responded

"Alright then" Without hesitation shadow punched the guard in his face right in the jaw. The guard fell on the floor with a thud. The second saw this and came to check on his friend. He was unconscious.

"I'll make you pay for that!" as the guard ran towards him with his fist coming towards his face. Shadow dodged this and punched him in the stomach hard. The guard fell on the floor and spat out blood as he lyied down on the floor. He got up and walked to his friend.

"This isn't over" The guard said as he pulled his friend away from where they were.

"I believe it already is" as shadow stood firmly in front of rose.

When they guard had left with his unconscious friend in the distance shadow sighed and looked at rose. "Looks like your a target now rose, due to your condition"

"Yea but I have you luckly to protect me from them." as she smiled at him.

"Yea" shadow smiled back at her. She was healing but very slowly. Her broken leg was healing but the bandage was getting old and dirty.

Once they were done they headed back to their cells to see if stronghold and light were done with their duties. As they arrived they saw stronghold hugging light as she cried. Rose immediately ran to her to check if she was alright.

"What happened to you?" Rose asked with concern

Before light could answer and tell them what had happened shadow spoke

"They raped you didn't they?" Shadow asked with a bit of anger in him

Light nodded her head.

"I'm so sorry light" Rose said with empathy and concern

"They did it when I wasn't there to stop them" Stronghold said "Those bastards when I see them again I am going to give them a piece of me mind" as he punched the wall to lower his anger

Shadow put a hoof on his shoulder "Don't worry stronghold you will, once we get out of here"

Stronghold sighed and walked to light to help her stop crying.

Rose was still comforting light and telling her to calm down. Shadow didn't really pay attention to her appearance when they first meet but now her peach hair was a mess and her light blue body was now going to change.

"Thank you rose" Light said as she smiled "I'm glad I meet you and shadow in this factory other wise me and stronghold would be lonely"

Rose smiled "Your welcome"

Shadow walked up to stronghold "Any luck with the volunteers?" Shadow asked

Stronghold sighed "Only five wanted to join us the rest are to scared or don't want to get involved"

"Well that's good enough" Shadow said with a bit of hope "May I see them?" he asked

"Ok then" Stronghold said as he got up "Follow me"

Shadow followed stronghold to where the volunteers were. It was better to have a few volunteers than zero. They walked to the end of the room where the volunteers where.

"Here they are" Stronghold said as he pointed towards them.

Shadow looked at the five volunteers that wanted to help them escape and bring an end to the factory. The first one was a stallion. He had a orange mane and tail and a dark grey coat almost like him but he had a light grey coat. The second one was also a stallion. He had was yellow and had a red mane and tail. The third was almost the same except he had a dark red coat and a yellow mane and tail. The other two were mares. One had a violet coat and a pinkish mane and tail. The other was indigo and a white mane and tail. Expect she was pregnant. She looked six months pregnant to be precise as he saw a little kick in her belly.

"Excuse me miss" Shadow asked "What is your name?"

"My name is Megan" She said

"And are you sure you want to join us?" Shadow asked

The mare sighed "Hey just because I'm pregnant doesn't mean I can't join you." She said annoyed by his question "Also I want my foal to have a better life than this" She said as she pointed to her swollen belly

"Very well than" Shadow said as he walked away from her "Just remember you are taking a big step to put a stop to the factory"

They all nodded as they returned to their cells as shadow walked to stronghold.
"Alright to what is the plan?" Stronghold asked

"We shall attack when the guards change shift" Shadow responded "The inexperinced wont know whats going on and will give us a chance to escape"

Stronghold smiled at this but then frowned again "What about rainbow dash?" Stronghold said "Surely she will know about this and what is going on"

Shadow grind and said "She won't because we will create a diversion"

Stronghold gave a confused look "And what will that be?"

Shadow smiled at this "We are going to sabotage the machine"

"WHAT!" Stronghold exclaimed "But the machine is heavily guarded and it is impossible to get even near it"

"Not unless you go fetch the old colours and dump them" Shadow said "During my new duty with rose I have been unscrewing the bolts of the machine each time I was with rose"

Stronghold had no words expect looked shocked at shadows accomplishment with the machine. Stronghold sat down "So when do we escape?" he asked

"Today, today we shall escape this living hell and free ourselves" Shadow said

Stronghold sat up in a blink of an eye "WHAT!? But we have only been planning this for only two days"

Shadow gave him a serious "Do you want to stay here any longer?" Shadow asked

Stronghold opened his mouth to say something but closed it

"Thought so" Shadow said "Now we shall meet back here when we are done with our duties and begin the plan, understood?"

Stronghold nodded his head and went off to do his duty. Shadow walked to rose to do his duty with her. Two days was short but was enough to plan and get out of here.

Rose stood up when she saw him coming towards her

"You ready rose?" Shadow asked

"Yip" Rose responded with confidence in her voice.

"Alright then, lets go" as they both walked off to their duty

***

Shadow and rose did what they also did. Fetch the old colours from the machine, dump the old colours and return to machine to fetch the rest and so on. When they heard that Rainbow dash had something 'special' for them, shadow knew this was a either a trap or another 'offer'. When they approached they dumping five guards were waiting for them.

"Why hello there" One of them said with a smile on his face

Shadow sighed "What do you want?" as he spoke with annoyance

"Oh nothing really" The guard said "We just wanted to make sure you arrived here safe and sound" He said as a grin started to form on his face

Shadow didn't liked the look of this. He knew something was up but what was it they were planning.

"Also we are here to give that 'special' thing Dash told us" He said "She said we must give two pegasus a something special to them" They said as they started to approach them with smiles on their faces.
I've got a bad feeling about this as shadow started to look worried. One of the guards stepped into the light where they were standing. It didn't take a second for shadow to not recognize one of them. It was one of the guards he beat earlier when they were here. He immediately turned to face rose and before he could warn her a guard from behind them pinned him down. Shadow struggled to break free and warn rose what was about to happen to her, but the guards strength that was holding him down was to strong.

One of the guards approached him and whispered something in his ear "Told you this wasn't over" as a grin formed on his face. When the guard looked up, he pointed to rose how was trembling in fear. "Now what shall we do with you?" the guard said

"We could have some fun with her" One of the other guards said

"Indeed" He responded

Rose started to back away but was stopped when she bumped into one of them behind her

"Where do you think your going sweetheart?" The guard behind her said. The guard behind her pinned her down on her back to prevent her from escaping and do what he was about to do. The guard sighed as he looked at the mare that was trying to escape him but couldn't because one of his hoofs were on her good one "Such a beautiful mare" he said "yet wasted" he said as he looked to shadow

"Don't worry I'll be very gentle with her" He said as he looked to shadow

NO! Shadow continued to struggle against the guards strength that was holding him down, but got a punch to the eye for it.

"Stop struggling and enjoy the show" as he lifted shadows head to where rose was

Rose had to think of something and fast. She didn't want to get raped by these guards. She could continue to struggle but that would make him enjoy it more. Her thoughts were interrupted when she felt the guards cold breath and sniff her neck and hair. She wanted to vomit as he did it the second time, when she looked down at herself she saw that her back legs were free. This was her chance to free herself, but she only had one chance of doing it, if she misses he will ask the others guards to pin her back legs and render herself helpless. Rose lifted her back leg and aimed for his groan as the guards to continue to smell her but his getting a bit close to her face now.
Good he hasn't realized what I'm doing As she got her leg into position and with one powerful kick she it his groan. The guard fell to the ground in pain as he put his hooves on his groan. Rose got up as quickly as possible so they don't pin her down again.

"ROSE RUN!" Shadow screamed

"But I can't just leave you here!?" Rose exclaimed

"DON'T WORRY ABOUT ME JUST GO"

"But..." Rose said as she stood there

"GO NOW!!!!" Shadow said as he screamed at her

Rose didn't have to be told twice as she ran through the passage.

"AFTER HER!" One the guards exclaimed

The rest of them ran to her as two stayed behind to make sure shadow didn't escape

Now's my chance as he did the same trick rose did with the her guard. Shadow hit his groan and got up

"Oh hoh hoh I'm not done with you!?" as the guard stood in his way. Shadow smiled at this as he attacked the guard

***

Rose ran as fast as her hooves could take her down the passage. She didn't know where she was going but she needed to get away from the guards and return to her cell with her friends where she was safe. Just when rose thought she was safe she heard hoofsteps in the distance

"This way!" One of the guards called

No, no no no, noooo Rose continued to ran in through the passage I need to hide they will catch up with me if I keep running
Rose came to a room where there where carts and a dead end. I could hide in the cart but that would take to long and the guards will see my crawl in and it will be a challenge for me as she looked at her broken arm. The hoof steps were getting closer as they started coming closer to where she was. Rose sighed and walked towards the cart.

"Search the area!" One of the guards said as they arrived where she was. "DO NOT LEAVE THIS PLACE UNCHECKED" The head guard said

"Come out, come out where ever you are?" One of the guards said as he grinned devilishly "We just want to have some fun with you" as they walked around the area

Rose closed her mouth in hope that it will be harder to find her. She could her one of them coming closer to her as he trotted past her hiding place

"Captain why do we need her" the guard asked as he walked towards the captain

"Because private, that mare is his weakness he cares about her, he 'loves' her" as he stuck his tongue out in disgust "If we capture her or rape her he will break down and feel bad about himself and will want to join us so it wont happen again"

The private smiled as he heard this "Oh I'm going to enjoy that" as he continued the search

"Yea it will be, unlike my brother" The captain said "He always hated working here and hated what we did"

"So what happened to him?" One of the guards asked

"He quitted and left for Canterlot" The captain responded

"Why?"

"Something about becoming a Royal guard and training them to save lives" The captain responded "He also got attached to a colt called Shadow Hunter"

Rose gasped at this but immediately regretted as she closed her mouth by putting a hoof on it.

"Did you hear that?" one of the guards said

"Why don't you find out private" The captain said

The private rolled his eyes and walked towards the cart. Rose closed her eyes as he walked closer and closer to her.
Please don't find me, please don't find me she said as she repeated it in her head. She didn't want to be found and all her effort will be for nothing.

As the guard approached the cart he stopped and looked over to see what was there. When he arrived there was no one to be seen in it.

"So whats there?" The captain said

"Nothing sir, its empty." The guard responded

"Well keep looking we are not going to leave this area until we find her" The captain said

After a few hours of waiting the guards finally left and exited the area rose was in. Rose breathed a sigh of relief. It was a good thing she hid behind the cart and not in or else she would of been already found. She got up and walked back the way she came. She wondered if shadow was alright since he was pinned down and had to fight the other guard. Just when she thought it was all over she heard hoofsteps in the distance and they were getting closer. No, no, no, no as rose froze in her spot, there was no where to hide now. The hoofsteps were getting closer as the echoed through the passage. Rose stood there in fear waiting for the guards to take her and do whatever they were going do to her. Just before she ran for her life, she heard the hoofsteps were...limping. Since when do the guards limp.
She stood still waiting for however was there. Maybe she can help them, maybe she try to tell them to stop. When the figure came out of the darkness it was no other than Shadow and he was badly hurt. He had bruises on his front leg and right eye.
Rose immediately ran towards. Shadow saw her ran to him and stopped in his place.

"What happened to you?" Rose asked

"Well...Lets just say the guards don't go down until they are dead or severely injured." Shadow said

"So you killed them?!" Rose said with shock

"What, No! I just left them unconscious and I'm better than that."

"Ok but what happened to your eye and leg?" Rose asked

"Well...while we were fighting I didnt see the guard coming for my face, nor did I see the one with a baton aiming for my leg" Shadow said

"Well lets head back to our cells to I can see what I can do to help you with your bruises" Rose said

"Alright" Shadow said as they both walked to their cells. Although shadow was surprised to see the leadership she had in her. Maybe she isn't the much of a scaredy cat after all.

Author's Note

Hey guys sorry that this one took longer than the others its just I was very buzy with life and I kinda forgot about so yea sorry. Anyways its nearly december so I hope you guys have a wonderful holiday and christmas.