Rainbow's Revenge

          Everyone sat still and silent after Scootaloo uttered those words

         "What do you mean my eyes are beautiful!?" shouted Rainbow Dash.

          "The eyes that looked at me with love and appreciation like the sister I believed and wanted you to be!" she threw into RainbowDash’s face.

           RD stepped back incredulously, "You FAILED me! I taught you all I knew, I did love you and you showed me you didn't care by failing!"

          "I only failed because I chose to keep my loyalty to my friend! I thought you of all people would understand." she finished quietly, then said, “I only wished you would remember the loyalty between us". Scootaloo hung her head down feeling defeated.

             Dash was leaning back, unbelieving what she was hearing. Scootaloo raised her head and looked into RD's eyes pleadingly. RD just stared back. Scootaloo's shoulders drooped more, giving in. Scootaloo was about to drop her head when she saw the smallest of sparks flash in RD's eyes. RD's eyes softened and gazed at Scootaloo between the black garbed guards. She gave Scoot a lightning wink where one eye closes a hair before the other, so fast that she thought she imagined it.

             The Dash’s eyes hardened again, "Chain her up to the machine!" she ordered. "No, wait. On second thought, I'll manually feed her to the machine myself". She turned and walked up the stairs to the walkway that led to the blood stained entrance of the machine.

            The guards pulled Scootaloo forward and dragged her up the steps, stun gunning her when she resisted.

            She walked silently with her head and shoulders down in submission. All the guards below watched silently, anticipating what RD was going to do. Rainbow Dash stopped at the end of the walkway that hung over the mouth of the machine back turned to her. She turned and approached Scootaloo and took her from the guards who followed close behind. Scootaloo got to the edge and RD put her hooves on Scootaloo's back.

             "Sorry for all of this," RD said softly.

              Scootaloo turned to look into Dash's eyes seeing them soft again and said, "Just do what you have to do". That seemed to shake RD who turned her head away from Scootaloo.

              Violently and suddenly RD exploded back, crashing into the two guards, landing on one and kicking the other in the jaw, breaking it, and sent him tumbling into the machine below. Rainbow forcefully relived the remaining guard of his Taser and knocked him out.

        "Well?" she turned to Scootaloo, "Let's fly!" She leapt off the walkway and spread her wings to soar over the machine and land by the heavy door that led out of the room. "Come on!" she yelled already fighting off guards that were trying to stop her from opening the door. Scootaloo closed her eyes and imagined she was back in Cloud's Dale doing a little hop of a flight. She launched herself over the machine and flew over to where RD was effectively taking out the guards. Her Taser pulled out to the longest position, flashed and dance around the guards’ defensives. She would fight on three legs, or two, depending on the opponent and would sometimes hover and dispatch them from above.

         Scootaloo landed and immediately started to open the door while RD kept incapacitating the guards. She jammed the door open and called to RD, "Door's open time to go!" Rainbow cracked her front hoof on the guard's face she was fighting and sprinted to Scootaloo racing past while Scootaloo hurriedly followed and closed the door with a thud and locked it.

          RD was waiting close by, and hugged Scootaloo until her ribs hurt. "I'm so sorry, Scoot! I really tried to hold on to a normal life with you but I didn't realize how badly I failed!" She sobbed lightly on Scootaloo's shoulder, tears running down her bloodstained face.

            "We aren't out of the woods yet," she said, calming herself down. "Let's get out of here while we still can.”

        Rainbow took off at a gallop with Scoot next to her. "How long before they come after us?" she asked.

        “Depends, could be now or a little later, apparently now" RD said as three guards raced around a corner charging at them. Dash let out a savage cry and flew into one downing him immediately and lashed out as one of the others leapt on top of her. The remaining guard seemed unsure of what to do and stood there. Scootaloo charged at him and bowled him over, then, leaping on top of him, pummeling him with her hooves. Rainbow kicked off the guard that was on her then leaped on him kicking his head once to knock him out. "Take their clothes, it might make it easier if they see  two "guards" running than you and me, albeit I'm a little covered in um...a..." stuttered Rainbow Dash.

         Scootaloo hastily pulled on one of the guard uniforms and they took off running again this time down some stairs out of the restricted area and into the public allowed part off the facility. Two guards were guarding the bottom of the stairs. Not breaking stride, they jumped off the stairs to land on the guards’ backs and incapacitated them. They charged around a corner trying to get to the exit of the factory.

       Guards poured down the stairs after them, yelling for them to stop. They ran through the maze of corridors and twisting pipes and spotted the glass door that led into the lobby. Guards charged around the corner, spotted them and sprinted, trying to stop them from leaving the building. Rainbow poured on more speed that was matched by Scootaloo and together they smashed through the glass door soon tumbling and falling onto the floor. Scootaloo rubbed her head and stood up next to Rainbow who was standing with her mouth open, staring at the school tour group that was checking out. The young Pegasus fillies screamed at the sight of RD and her blood stained body, they recognized her by the patches of her rainbow mane that weren’t covered in blood. Their teacher stared at them with her mouth open. Miss SureFlight. She had taught both RainbowDash and Scootaloo and instantly recognized them. RainbowDash shook her head and ran out the main door into the darkening day outside. "Where do we go now?" Scootaloo asked RD nervously.

           "Well we sure as hell aren't going back in there," she thought about it, "We need to get back to Ponyville as fast as possible without them being able to follow us." she mused, "But how?" she asked nobody in particular. The doors behind them exploded and guards raced out desperate to catch them.

            "Over there!" yelled out Dr. Atmosphere pointing at them.

            "Follow me!" shouted Rainbow Dash who flew up above Cloud's Dale with Scootaloo right behind her. The guards gave chase but soon fell behind the faster ponies running away.

           "What are we doing?" she asked into the thinning air.

           "Gaining altitude to dive down to gain speed," RD answered and soared up a little higher.

           "You don't mean...” Scootaloo started.

           "Of course I do! Stay right behind me in my wake and whatever you do, don't leave the wake." the guards were still relatively low, barely above Cloud's Dale waiting and watching to see what the duo were going to do.

            "Three. Two. And one." With the final number, RD pointed herself down and started pouring on speed. Scootaloo stayed no more than a foot behind her, feeling the air form a small "bubble" around her. Scootaloo saw the water in the air start to form a thin barrier in front of RD as she went faster. RD shot out her legs for Scootaloo to hold onto and hold on she did. She watched the thin water barrier in front of Dash become more aerodynamic and the edge move past her waist.

            Ten feet above the group of guards Dash lived up to her reputation and shouted "Sonic Rain BOOOOOOMMM!" As she said ‘Boom’ she broke the sound barrier and creating a rainbow circle spreading out in every direction. A split-second later a rainbow appeared that stretched out behind them. They blew through the guards sending them reeling and falling towards the earth.

              Dash turned and sped off towards Ponyville. All Scootaloo could do was hold on as everything blurred around them from speed while dusk turned to night.  Upon getting close to Ponyville, Rainbow slowed down to a crawl. "I've never flown the Sonic RainBoom in rain before and don't want to chance a freak accident." she said exhausted.

              "Don't even bother, I know that was the farthest you ever even thought of going in RainBoom fashion. Plus you were dragging me behind you." Scootaloo pointed out gently. "Now, let's fly through this depressing rain to your house."

                 They headed over Ponyville under the pitch black clouds that were pouring rain all over Ponyville and the surrounding land. Scootaloo watched the rain start to wash off the blood that still stained RD, she wasn't even sure that flying through this rain would wash all that blood out. As they flew, hunks of coagulated blood fell off RD revealing parts of her mane and coat. They flew up to the front door of RD's house and landed on the porch, blood pouring off RD making little red puddles and hoof prints on the cloud bank. RD opened the front door while Scootaloo watched some of the blood flow off the edge of the cloud.

           "Come on in, It's not like you've never slept here before," said RD who was almost asleep on her feet.

           Scootaloo walked in and looked around the foyer which used to be inviting and comforting but now seemed creepy and sinister. "Won't Dr. Atmosphere be able to come up and in here with his cronies?" she asked nervous to even think about sleeping here.

            "Nah, Twilight had put a ward around this cloud that keeps any Pony, with any intent other than being my true friend, out." She said tiredly. "As it is, I'm going to be sleeping with one eye open and a hoof shank close if not on my hoof," she added. Scootaloo looked at her mortified. RD just ignored her expression, "There's some weapons in that closet if you feel the same." she pointed to the door to the closet in her room. Scootaloo opened the door only to find a closet filled with what looked like a Wonderbolt shrine. She looked back at RD who smiled faintly, "Pull the third first plate cup from the left." she did so and the shrine slid back into the wall and the ceiling lowered to ground level showing rows of weapons, body armor, and tactical gear. "I find that hoof shanks are the most comfortable to sleep with." she said collapsing onto her bed. Scootaloo picked up one of the shanks and held it up wondering how to hold it. "Put the base of the shank in your hoof straightly and strap the base around your wrist." she explained.

              Scootaloo found the base which was a circle to fit inside the cup of the hoof and the straps held it there.

            "Now just fold the blade back behind your forearm."

             Scootaloo did so and the blade detached from the base to bend and rest locked in this "safety" position.

             "Thanks," she said not knowing what else to say. "I'm going to sleep in the spare bedroom next to yours,”

              "Ok night," was all RD said.

               Scootaloo left and closed the door behind her and turned into the plain little spare bedroom. She flopped on the bed and soon found a comfortable position but sleep was not going to be that easy to acquire. The adrenaline rush that had propelled her out of the Factory had also pushed the memories to the back of her head and now they all came back. Each one a face of the fillies that had died there, the biggest one being Orion who just hovered in Scootaloo's memories. She did her best to push them to the back of her head and tossed restlessly. After the memories left completely she heard a soft sound coming from the other side of the wall. She got up softly and pressed her ear against the wall and heard Rainbow sobbing heavily and saying "What have I done?" and "I'm a monster" to herself.

               Scootaloo returned to her bed and blocked out RD's crying to finally get some sleep. Too bad it was filled with nightmares.

The Next Morning.

         "RAINBOWDASH!!" Scootaloo woke up and bolted out of bed. She threw open the door, hoof shank at the ready and pointed at Twilight Sparkle who had her head in RD's door partially. She yanked her head out and saw Scootaloo with the blade and bloodlust in her eyes and was sent reeling over the table in the living room.

         "Twilight! Wait!" called Rainbow who charged out the door, “I can explain!" she ran out and was confused to find Twilight hiding behind the coffee table and looked back to Scootaloo and said, "Put that up, you scared the shit out of Twi."

          "Twilight? Are you ok? I heard a crash from up there?"

           "All's fine Spike, RD apparently has a little explaining to do is all." she said, not moving from behind the table. "Okay then, I'm coming up." he said.

             Dash sighed and said, "Might as well, a teenage dragon could greatly benefit my plan."

              "What plan?" asked Twilight," and why are you both covered in blood?" she asked with horror as she realized that Scootaloo was also covered red in spots.

             "Why did you come up here Twi?" RD asked really not wanting to have this confrontation.

            "Me and Spike saw a trail of blood through Ponyville and followed it to your place where it dribbled of the edge by the front door." she said timidly. "I feared the worst and Spike threw me up here to find out what, now tell me why you are both covered in blood!"

             "I'm not covered in the stuff, so I'm going to see what else you got in you armory," said Scootaloo. "'Cause we are going back right?"

            "Of course we are, we're going to shut down the Rainbow Factory once and for all." RD said.

            "WILL SOMEPONY TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON!?" shouted Twilight enraged now.

            "Depends, do you want me looking like this?" she gestured to herself. "Or should I clean up first?"

Twilight shook her head, “No, I've already seen you two and Spike is a Dragon after all."

                With Twilight saying that the front door opened and Spike walked in. Legend says that the only way for a dragon to grow is greed but the legend left out science. Spike had hit puberty and grown practically overnight to a good two feet taller than Big Mac rearing. Spike had also grown wings which now rested folded on his back. His skin hard grown harder turning into armor, which was supposed to be able to stop anything a pony could dish out. He turned his head towards the bloody duo and his eyes widened a little but he said nothing. RD turned back to Scootaloo and looked at her pleadingly, "Please stay, Scoot. I don't know if I can do this alone,”

                  Scootaloo sighed and sat down on the now righted coffee table. Dash began from the beginning when she was recruited after the Sonic RainBoom incident. She began to explain what happens to the flight school failures and how Scootaloo ended up there. She left out the part of her losing Sanity and barely being able to retain it. Throughout the telling she stole glances at Spike and Twilight. Spike just sat and listened impassively while Twilight listened and looked on incredulously.

                  When RD finished, she stood up and shouted at the ceiling, "What the FUCK Celestia!? How could these monsters keep this up for this long? How could she not know?!? We have to stop them at once! When do we leave?" she asked RD.

                "We?" Dash asked back, "No way, me and Scoot are going back to settle a personal problem. We are not bringing any other Ponies into this!"

                "Too late" said Spike, standing. "I'm gonna go back to the library and get my 16th birthday present." He grimes maliciously, "I've been dying to try it out but I knew Twi would never let me."

                With the last few words, Twilight looked over at him with one eyebrow raised. "Would this present be a highly dangerous piece of dragon equipment?" she asked innocently, and he nodded. "You thought right" she said and turned back to RD,"We're coming whether you like it or not." she glanced up and down RD, "But before we do move out, clean up bit will ya?”

                RD walked into her room without a backwards glance and they soon heard water running.

                Twilight walked over to Scootaloo and but an arm on her shoulder, "I can't even imagine how hard this must be for you."

              "I don't even know if I can go back," she said almost crying. Knowing that going back would make the memories and nightmares back in full force.

              "I know, it will be hard, but I promise you this, if you don't suit up and come with us you will feel like you failed all those Ponies that died there. And you will never forget it."

"Ok," Scootaloo sniffled, "Let me go get ready"

1 hour later.

                 When RainbowDash came out of her armory she was wearing a bullet proof suit that covered her chest and abdominals and went all down her back. Under that she was wearing a black long-sleeved shirt. She had a hoof shank on he left hoof with the blade folded and hidden under the sleeve. She had a single edged dagger on her left shoulder for her right hand. A long handled taser was strapped to her back with the handle above her right shoulder. To top it off, she had a hand gun attached to her under her chest. She headed over to the table where Twilight and Scootaloo were planning. Twilight had borrowed a combat vest but declined any weapons, instead she would be relaying on magic and her potions which were in numerous vials strapped all around her body.

                Scootaloo had acquired another hoof shank for her left hoof and had holstered two Tasers onto the back of her vest. They all wore matching black and all had black combat pants on. As RD drew closer to the table she asked, "Is there any back entrance or secret passage that will allow us access?"

                "Not that I know of. Beside the Factory main entrance there is a door beside that one that bypasses the lobby. Only problem is that it is generally heavily guarded, I wouldn't want to go in that way." explained Dash.

                "Well then, looks like it's a straight assault through the front gates of hell." said Scootaloo.

               "Did someone say straight assult?" asked Spike who was walking in. RD turned to look and her jaw dropped. Spike was wearing a full suit of legendary Dragon armor, forged by dragons themselves who used a closely guarded secret to temper the medal even stronger then Titanium.  He strutted in. Only Twilight ignored his entrance, "We can't do a straight assault. We'd be stopped by an overflow of guards."

               "Well then," said Scootaloo, "How do we get in?"

     Twilight thought for a moment, face squinted in thought. "The only way we could even get close would have to be by surprise and they are going to be expecting us, so how. I know! Everyone grab your gear and meet me on RD's top porch!" Twilight grabbed her trench coat and raced up the stairs. RD and Scootaloo followed albeit more slowly taking time to put on their coats to cover up all the combat gear they had on. Spike stayed behind them and didn't bother with a coat, he was just going to show up in his armor.

               RD came out onto the roof where Twilight had drawn a quick circle. "Het Dash, how far away is Cloud's Dale and which direction?" Twilight asked. "Roughly 120 miles to the Northeast I think." Answered RD.

              "Ok, form up on me" she said and moved to the center of the circle. Dash and Scootaloo went to both side of her and a little back while Spike just stood behind her. "Spike won't get there when the three of us arrive, the bigger you are the slower you travel," and with that Twilight summoned all her magic and a glowing white ball appeared on the end of her horn. Her entire body tensed and her eyes were clamped shut as the ball got bigger, encompassing the little group. When the bubble completely covered all of them, Twilight opened her eyes. They were a pure glowing white as the Magic coursed through her and into the bubble. Twilight held the Magic a little longer and then released with all four of them disappearing in a flash of light.