Author's Note

Hi everyone (or everypony) this is my first story here, so I want to explain somethings:

I was motivated to write a story (a fan sequel in this case) after reading "Rainbow Factory" and "Pegasus Device", I found those stories very good and decided to make my own in this universe. This story also uses some characters from AuroraDawn.

English is not my first language, so some phrases can look weird or senseless. If you found something this way, please let me know, so I can fix it.

Please let me know if you're liking or not, if you found something good or boring or if you have any criticism about something.

This chapter is most introductory, it serves more to present the characters and the plot itself than anything else.

That is it. Now, enjoy the story!

1 - La Enkontoro / The Meeting

LA ENKONTORO

(THE MEETING)

“Good night, meres and gentlestallions. It’s been a long time since we met last time.”

“I imagine that you have a good reason to summon us. Things are going bad to worse because of the controversy surrounding the factory,” Filthy Rich said to the black host, “It’s becoming even harder to hide my relations with it.”

“Yeah, the factory was very benefic to the business,” Lemon Juice continued, “Those rainbows were pretty, they made the ponies happy, helped to regulate the weather and, considering that I never had to see in person how they were made, the price for them was very cheap.”

“Do you two never shut up? I thought that we would elaborate a plan or something,” Gray Pencil complained, “Not start crying because ‘my little death factory was closed because of most than obvious reasons’.

Just because it had a thousand years of existence, it didn’t mean that it would last forever, so much so that it was unmasked more because of the incompetence of the plumbers and electricians than because of the colts that escaped.”

“But the truth about the factory came from Hide himself. He wa-”

“Was trying to pay nice and sorry” - Pencil interrupted Lemon, and continued - “to see if the princess would not throw him in a loner like Dash. Really, do you really think that that psychopath of Atmosphere ‘realized that what he was doing was wrong and wanted to fix the things’?

He was loyal to all that shit, at least, until the things get bad for him. Then, when they got, he betrayed everypony to try to come out on top. Just like you, Lemon.

And -” he looked to the black host “- do you really want to put him in this ‘whatever you are doing’? Really, he will betray us. I know, you know, he knows, everypony knows.”

Lemon threw him shade.

“Gentlestallions, please!” The host calmed those angry ponies, “I, Cloud Flyer, summoned you here just to discuss what we will do. We lost the factory; our power is not like before.”

“Yeah, if it weren’t for those damn failures, nothing would have happened. Why didn’t they simply accept their fate and die in the Pegasus Device? Those condemned messed up with the entire enterprise.” Rich said, “Had you seen the CWC stock? It’s crumbling”

“It’s not like if I didn’t warn them,” Cloud said, “I tried a lot to say that use pegasi in the device was not only wrong, but stupid too. Pegasi are strong and smart, especially when they know that one single mistake means the death itself. That a colt will be able to escape the facility and end with it wasn’t a hypothesis, was a fact!

Unfortunately, Dash was so fool and stubborn to accept this. She betrayed her own race to serve an enterprise that genocides poor innocent pegasi.”

“Do you have compassion for the failures?” Rich asked

“Colts! Children!” Cloud exclaimed “No pegasi should be denied the title of its own race for failing a test that a lot of bureaucrats drew up. They should be judged for their choices and causes, for their personality, and, mainly, for their commitment with the pegasi race. Dash failed in those three.

She says she is the ‘element of loyalty’, but she betrayed everypony to work in a traitor enterprise. She is not one of us, she is not a real pegasus!”

“At least, the rainbows don’t cost any life now,” Lemon tried to see the good side of this, “We have rainbows as good as before, and with an irrelevant cost in comparation with the previous cost.”

“Have you seen the new rainbows?” Cloud asked, “They are ugly, their bright is weak, their color is almost a grey. Equestria deserve something better.”

Everypony became confused and Lemon asked “But didn’t you said that you don’t want colts being used in the device?”

“I said, but there are equines that serve better as color than as ponies: The criminals, of course. They are the ones who steal, betray, kill innocent ponies. They are the ones who don’t deserve to live in a society. They must substitute the colts in the factory.”

"Wait… use criminals in the factory?" Lemon asked

"Yes, it's the perfect plan. We get resources to manufacture great rainbows and we deal with those that society despises. Two birds with one stone.”

He continued, “Pegasi, unicorns, earth’s, they all have ponies who they despise. We could kidnap them, extract the spectra from their bodies, and lie saying that they were ‘transferred to another prison’, no one will really look for them.

Then, in this prison, we could simply say that they suicided or fought among themselves to the death.”

“A factory disguised as prison?” Pencil made a little smile “Finally a good idea here.”

“I didn’t even mention that the amount of spectra and magic we can get from each criminal is even bigger.”

“Magic?” Dead Flower interrupted him, “You mean the criminal unicorns, right?”

“Unicorns aren’t the only ones who have magic, everypony have. Unicorns are only the only ones that uses it naturally.” Cloud explained, “But the magic of pegasi and earth ponies can be awakened through certain rituals and studies.”

“Of cooooooourse” – Flower mocked

“And for that, I need the help of all the Elements of Chaos. Most of you already know each other, but we have fresh meat.” Cloud stretched a hoof to the door, “I introduce you to the New Element of Lie: Gentle Butterwing!”

A pretty mare went through the meeting room door. Her coat was a dark moss green that looks unnatural, it was like the glow itself had left it.

Her mane was a blood-red color, but with some flaws in a faint, but perceptive, pink, what indicated a lack of care when painting it.

“Haha! Please, Cloud, call me just Butterwing, I hate my first name,” Butterwing laughed a bit, “Cloud, my friend, could you introduce those mares and gentlestallions here to me? I am very excited to meet each one of them. ha ha!”

“Very well. This is Filthy Rich” – Cloud pointed to him – “He used to sell Apples’ jelly in distant cities from Ponyville. But after he saw the profit the rainbows give, or used to, he didn’t hesitate join us. He is the best dealer I ever met. He represents the Element of selfishness and greed.”

Rich made a reverence to greet the mare that he just met. The light brown horse had a grey mane and three money bags in his cute mark.

He wore a little “suit” that came from his neck, but it even reaches his front legs, and the wrinkles in his face indicates a certain age, but, even so, anypony who saw him would say that he is a born dealer.

“This is Lemon Juice. He is a professional in scamming,” - He pointed to the next pony - “He waits until he has your trusting, your belief that he is a good friend, then, in the first opportunity, he craves a knife in your back and takes everything from you. He takes advantage from the legal systems and the mistakes of his ‘friends’.”

“And… do you trust him?” – Butterwing asked

“No, and I never will. But his abilities are very useful, his manipulation skills are impressive,” Cloud looked to Butterwing

“He once married with a very rich earth mare, and, in the following year, convinced her to throw herself in a canyon, convincing her that she could fly. When the poor mare died, Juice inherited all her heritage.
After it, he changed his name and has never seen in that city again.

But don’t worry, he won’t betray us because he knows he can earn more being loyal to us, at least for now.”

“Cute.” – Butterwing commented.

“This one is Dead Flower, the Element of wickedness and antipathy. She sells ‘synthetic’ organs to the hospitals. She always has huge profits, because her competitors tend to disappear after a while.”

“Ooh how nice! I used to work in this kind of place -,” Butterwing said, getting closer to Flower, and then hugging her and stretching a hoof forward, like if to show something that was in her weird imagination - “We used to ‘synthetize’ a lot of rainbows, so pretty… so bright.

It’s a shame that they closed the factory, it brought so much happiness to the ponies, at such a low cost.”

“Wait, did you work in the factory!?” Flower asked her.

“Oh yeah, it was an amazing place: delicious food, sympathetic friends, beautiful happiness-producing machines… But I didn’t really operate one of them, the rebellion happened in my first or second day there.”

And she continued, “At the beginning, everything used to look so scary and ‘inequine’, but, when you least realize, when the will of the factory pulls you, you don’t want to do anything except creating rainbows and hunt failures ahahahaha!”

“And how did you get not rotting in a solitary confinement?” Flower asked

“Well… technically I never touched in a failure or in one of the machines. I was in an almost enjoyable tour around the factory with my good old Gauge. Then the failures escaped and I had to go after them using a computer. Then I had to get out the room, not sure why, and when I came back, they were there.

They were a colt and a filly, Garona and Gloud, I guess. I only remember that, in the end, the Princess’ team found me screaming against a wall in a completely empty room.”

“Ok, but…”

“Why am I not arrested? They had cameras in the entire place, but they didn’t find anything that connect me with the death of any failure.
Furthermore, our lawyer was very good. I think I am the only one who left there… safe and sound.”

“Safe and sound?” - Flower laughed softly in a mocking tone.

“And finally, we have Grey Pencil, the Element of Bad-Mood. She is the only heir of the Pencil family, one of the richests of Mountain Cloud.

Her family have companies in several branches. Grey usually defames her competitors, if there is one thing that she knows, is how to get a crowd mad at something or someone.”

“It’s my gift,” Gray said, “I feel an immense pleasure when I do it. I end with inferior companies and help my own.”

“Wow, nice. Maybe we can be frien-”

“We aren’t and we will never be friends, Gentle. And if you come to hug me, I will make you eat you own wing.”

“Hmm! Thick.”

“Wait, there is one element left. Where is the Element of Dark Magic?” Rich asked

“You are looking at him” Cloud said

Everyone, except the pegasi, started to laugh without stopping.

“A pegasus representing the Element of Dark Magic. Hahaha, that one was fucking good” Flower said, guffawing.

“Cloud, I can’t stand when you say something like this. Hahahaha” Grey continued

“Levitare Korpos” Cloud said, stretching a hoof.

Everypony was lifted from their chairs and fell in it some seconds before.

“What that fuck was that!?” Pencil asked discrediting what happened.

“Magic.” Cloud said in a mocking tone

“Wait a minute, since when a pegasus can use magic?” Flower asked

“This is the magic of the ancient Kaskea civilization,” Cloud explained, “a city composed only by pegasi.”

“I never heard of a civilization like this.”

“It didn’t surprise me, it’s basically impossible to find something about them in a conventional or even in a royal library. They were forgotten in history, just like their magic. They lived long before Celestia, Luna or any other alicorn dreams in existing.

Kaskeo pegasi fought constantly against unicorns and earth ponies. They were in advantage, their magic was powerful and the wing guarantee a great advantage, but they were defeated.

As a punishment, the earth ponies and unicorns banished the pegasi to the skies and obligated them to always bring weather stability to those who are in the ground.

With the time, the magic was lost and the history was forgotten. And live in the skies became a mere tradition of my race.”

“And why are you telling us this?” Rich asked

“Simple, you will help me to rise my race to the glory it had before. It will occupy the top in the race hierarchy.”

“Do you think we are stupid? Flower asked hitting the table with her hoofs. “Why do you think we will help you with a plan like this?”

“Because you all know that it is the best for all races, -” Cloud gave a little laugh “- Kontorolare Ideias!”

He looked at Butterwing “They are all yours, madam”

Butterwing gave a large grin.

She hit her hoof on the ground and her behavior, before relaxed, became serious.

“Listen, little fillies, you all serve the pegasi cause now. You will do exactly everything that I and cloud order without questioning.

You have the duty of submit your races to the pegasi race control. This way, we will restore the glory that was stolen from us. Was I clear?”

The four equines in trance nodded.

“I didn’t hear right!” Butterwing asked loudly.

“Yes, Miss Butterwing, we will do everything to ensure your will become reality” the four said in synchrony and in shock.

“Great” Butterwing smiled again.

We will split in three pairs,” Cloud said to the group, “two pegasi, two unicorns and two earth ponies. Each pair will go to an important city of its own race.”

“Filthy Rich and Lemon Juice,” Butterwing continued, “you will go to Manehattan. There, you will instigate the hate of the poor earth ponies that, in their majority, are in the lowest classes.

Make the rabble revolt against the elite. You don’t need much to convince that tired ponies to fight, just say what they want to hear and they will follow your orders.”

“Grey Pencil and Dead Flower, you will go to Canterlot. There, you should show to the high and refined unicornian aristocracy that they don’t need those brute and dirty earth ponies.

Unicorn magic is powerful, they are able to do the work of 10 earth ponies in half the time. Help the unicorns to expell the earth ponies from Canterlot and send they to where they should be: the lowest classes.”

“Cloud and I will go to Cloudsdale to remember the pegasi their conquer and warrior nature. When the unicorns and earth ponies became exhausted and weak because of the war, the pegasi will dominate both.”

“Here, take -” Cloud handed a notebook to each pair “- Those are ancient magic kaskeo notebooks, everything you write on it will appear on mine. Use them to keep me informed of everything relevant you discover and do.

Pay attention to this symbol -” Cloud pointed to one of the notebooks “- It will shine whenever you receive a message from our notebook, reply as soon as possible. We want to see frequent updates.”

“In an hour the train leaves for Manehattan and, a little later, other one leaves for Canterlot. Take them and let us know when you arrive.”

The four ponies made their way to the train station.

“Good night mares and gentlestallions. Let’s make history.”