Rainbow's Revenge

    With a bright flash the three ponies materialized in the factory's main lobby. Twilight slumped her shoulders and nearly fell over, physically drained. RainbowDash looked around, "I was wishing that we'd be a little closer but this'll do." She walked up to the front desk flanked by Scootaloo and a Twilight that had regained enough will power to move.

    The front desk manager had regained enough composure after having three ponies appear in the lobby dressed in heavy black to ask, "Um, hello. Do you have an appointment?" the nervous mare reached under the desk and pressed the small red alarm button unseen to the avenging three.

   "Actually, we do. I believe we have a very important meeting to have with one Dr. Atmosphere. Can you tell him we've arrived?" asked Dash, sounding civil enough.

    The mare behind the counter started pressing the button more rapidly, she gasped as she finally noticed the unruly rainbow mane that adorned the speaker. 'Oh please get here soon guards,' she thought, 'like now!'

    The glass door that Dash and Scootaloo broke through on their way out was thrown open as guards flooded into the lobby. Scootaloo swung both her hoof shanks into position and reared, front hoofs in an attack stance. Twilight's horn began to glow as she picked two of her vials, placing one in each hoof. RD grabbed her knife in her right and readied the hoof shank on her left. The guards were carrying mainly night sticks, but RD spotted a few flashing blades and humming tasers.

    The guards piled into the room, cramping the space except the area where the three were. Leaving enough distance between them and the three to stay out of weapon range, they sat there. No one moved, no one talked, no one dared ignite the spark to this powder keg.

   Sweat dripped down Scootaloo's face, and she shifted her posture around. Dash was the first to grow tired of the stalemate.

"Awww hail yeah!" she cried as she flung herself into the mob of guards with Scootaloo right behind her. All sibilance of order vanished, being replaced by a swarming, violent melee. The avenging two hoof to hoof fighters quickly pulled back to Twilight, protecting her by lancing out and killing anything that came in reach. Twilight hurled one of the vials and it exploded in a bright flash, blinding the guards in the immediate vicinity. She hurled the other vial which blew much more powerfully; throwing the blinded guard across the room to land slumped on the floor.

   "What the hell is that stuff, Twi?" asked RD as she spun and kicked  a guard in the jaw that had gotten two close.

    "Boom juice! Zecora showed me how to make it," came back the strained reply as Twilight hurled another into the crowd.

   "Fucker!" cried RD as a guard got close and hit her left forearm with a nightstick. She hooked her left hoof around and sunk the shank into his shoulder. Using it like a handhold, she yanked him closer and stabbed her knife into his throat from the side and yanked it out forwards, severing his larynx.

    The skirmish was going well from a statistic view; the avenging three were incapacitating guards by the handful, but there was just too many guards and the three got pushed back against one of the walls.

    A guard slipped under Dash's guard and sliced the straps holding her vest over her chest to leave it flapping annoyingly while she fought. It also left her chest open to easy attack.

   Scootaloo became distracted as a guard hurled himself on her. She stabbed him with both blades into his chest, killing him, but then had a heavy body on her. In the brief moment it took her to get the body off, a guard raced past heading for Twilight.

    Twilight turned and saw the guard. He raised the small blade in his hoof, emotionless behind his mask. Twilight cried out as her ran the blade down her flank, going from shoulder to rump, easily cutting through the coat she wore. Scootaloo jumped onto the guards back and severed his spinal cord with a quick jab. RD got in front of the pair as Scootaloo helped up a bleeding Twilight. RainbowDash sheathed her knife and pulled out her taser, sweeping it from side to side to clear the area in front of the three.

   "Well this isn't good," said Scoot. In despair, the three watched the guards form around them again, this time only on three sides thanks to the wall.

    "Wait! What's that?" said Twilight, snapping her head up, as an ethereally roar sounded out from seemingly space and time.

   The guard looked around nervous as they worried and wondered what the hell that roar belonged to.

    Suddenly and unbefitting of a killing zone, Twilight smiled. "You guys are so fuuuucked," she said drawing in out. She added, "I was wondering when he was gonna get here."

     With a blinding white flash a pure white sphere appeared above the guards. With an audible pop the sphere burst releasing a very big (by pony standards), very mean, very armored, and very pissed off dragon.

  With a savage roar, Spike crashed into the mass of guards, crushing a few. He quickly regained his footing and proceeded to rip through the guards near his position.

     Scootaloo and Dash immediately jumped into the fray again, stabbing and slashing.

    Soon, all the guards lay around the lobby, dead or otherwise not moving. The group of (now) four walked back up to the front desk. The traumatized mare peeked up at them. RD looked at her.

"I believe we have an meeting to attend?” she asked quizzically.

       The mare nodded shakily, and sunk back below the desk.

      "Ok, game plan," said Twilight as she stuck her head in close.

    "Find Dr. Atmosphere and make him wish we only kicked him in the balls!", growled Scootaloo.

"Sounds as game a plan can be," said RD with a agreeing grunt from Spike.

   They broke the group and headed for the still open door that had once held the now incapacitated guards. Scootaloo put her hoof through the threshold, and like some trip wire, the front doors to the lobby blew open. Fresh guards poured in, these guards not lightly armed like the earlier ones; no, these guards all held taser and some carried hand guns.

   "Go!" yelled Twilight as she shoved RD and Scootaloo through the door and closed it with a burst of magic.

    Twilight turned and braced herself for the onslaught of combat; Spike just grinned and lifted his armored fists...

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     Dash sped down the corridor with Scootaloo right behind her. Dash turned a corner and stopped, listening. She heard a few muffled gunshots and a roar of massive proportions. She grinned, "Those guards will wish they had ran," said Scootaloo.

   "Come on Scoots, let's go," said Dash, walking again.

    They walked a little bit before RainbowDash stopped again, “Scoots, I just want you to know, I love you more than I would any real sister,”

     “I know, and I love you more, big sister,” she said smiling.

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     Spike roared in triumph as he sank his claws into the side of another guard. He throw his victim across the room where he landed he landed on the floor with a sickening thud.

     Twilight threw vial after vial, blowing groups of them apart and sending others sprawling. She looked down at her vest, dismayed to see her dwindling supply of potions.

    She pulled out another, and dropped it in a fumbling mess of hooves.

   "Shit," she muttered and fumbled for another as a guard pointed his pistol at her. She ran her hooves down her vest finding nothing to throw. She looked up in horror as the guard grinned and began to squeeze the trigger. She closed her eyes, bracing herself.

     The guard fired.

     With a savage roar, Spike thrust himself between her and the guard. The bullet dug into Spike's shoulder and he bellowed in pain. Spike stalked over to the guard who was now fumbling with his gun, not so unlike Twilight had, as Spike ripped into his shoulder and nearly severed the guard's head.

    From behind Spike, another guard fired a taser that hit him between the shoulder blades. Spike reeled backwards towards the guard, causing him to run. As the enraged Spike gave chase to his attacker, two more guards fired pistols, both finding targets on Spike's chest plate.

   Spike roared and thrashed as he was hit by another taser. He collapsed and the guards gathered around to deal the death blow.

   Twilight jumped over Spike and blew the guards apart with a little force push magic.

    "Spike, there's nothing we can do to keep these guards off," said Twilight rushed.

     "I know. We need t-to leave Twi," said Spike as he struggled to get back up with no luck. "Can y-you teleport us-s?" he asked in a strained voice. The guards started to regroup again and headed for them.

    "No," she said defeated, "Don't have the energy," she worked her mind, desperately trying to come up with something. Then a light bulb inside her head lit. A dark and scary light bulb.

    "I'm gonna do the Life Drain spell," said Twilight.

    "No! I read that spell book and nothing good happens to the user, you could die..." he trailed off.

      "Well, we all die if I don't," she grunted.

      As she spoke, more reinforcements came through the door and formed up with the few remaining guards. They surrounded the collapsed dragon and magic protégé Twilight drew in what she feared to be one of her last breaths.

   Twilight's horn began to glow darkly, and the small field around her horn grew to encompass her head. Shafts of dark energy shot out, capturing each of the guards and held them within it's grip, causing them to rear and stand stiffly. Paralyzed and manipulated by the dark magic, their arms shot out and they shrieked an unnatural scream that would haunt anypony forever. The shafts of dark energy began draining the life from the guards and shifted them to Twilight, each tendril of energy swelling up like a python digesting it's dinner. Twilight furiously casted a protection spell, hoping to dissipate the energy building inside her as the lives of the guards threatened to burn her from the inside out.

    The guards haunting shrieking grew more intense and more energy threatened to consume Twilight. The guards’ bodies started to shrivel, the skin shrinking around the bone, turning them gaunt. Twilight's horn itself began to glow darkly as the evil spell started to work against Twilight now. The guards’ skin started to burn away revealing nothing but bone as the muscle and tissue burned with skin.

    The shrieking began dimming as the weaker guards succumbed to the dark magic. Abruptly, the shrieks stopped and the magic released the little that remained of the guards. Guard suits collapsed on the ground and bones spilled out of the suits, skeletons being all that remained of the poor bastards.

   Twilight collapsed next to Spike. Her pelt steamed profusely as the energy was spent from her body. Her eyelids drooped lower and lower while she fought to stay awake to no avail. As she closed her eyes she saw more guards poor through the front doors, but that didn't matter, as Twilight had already lost consciousness.

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      Dash crept down the hall as they approach the office door that they thought led to the office that overlooked the machine. Rainbow placed the side of her head on the door, listening. Muted voices sounded inside, hopefully one belonging to Dr. Atmosphere. Dash looked at Scootaloo on the other side of the door and nodded. Rainbow drew her hand gun and stepped away the door. Scootaloo drew both tasers and stood next to the door.

    Without a sound, Dash reared and kicked the door open while charging in. Scootaloo followed close behind.

      The room held four ponies, three guards and one certain doctor. The doctor was beside the window overlooking the rainbow machine and he appeared to be ordering the guards to do something but stopped when Dash kicked in.

RD raised the pistol and emptied the magazine into the farthest two guards, dropping them. Instead of reloading, she chucked the pistol at the last one, causing him to shrink back, and looked at Dr. Atmosphere. Scootaloo hurled herself at the remaining guard and jammed the two tasers into him, one in the gut and another under his chin. She then turned to face the doctor with her sister.

    "You're mine!" snarled Dash and she threw herself into him, hurtling them both out the window and into the machine room. Scootaloo glided down to a spot away from the fight. Dr. Atmosphere had sustained the worst from the fall but had landed a few good hits as Dash became blind with rage. She straddled him and slammed her hooves into his face repeatedly. He bucked her off and stood, drawing a hand gun of his own. He didn't point it at Dash though; he pointed it unwavering at Scootaloo.

   "I suggest you stop now or my hoof might slip," he said sinisterly.

    Dash drew her taser and prepared to charge.

   "Drop the weapon or I will shoot," he threatened again.

    Dash growled, realizing attacking him would only mean the death of her sister. She threw the weapon down savagely, and it rolled towards the Doctor slowly.

"Even if you kill us, you won't be able to continue to commit these atrocities. The world of Equestria won't let you!", she spat out at him.

  He laughed a long and sinister, evil, laugh. "You really think Equestria would go on without it's rainbows?" he laughed hysterically, his mind far gone now. "Those pathetic ponies would never live without their precious rainbows!!"

   He laughed again manically. "Dash, you were always such a great manager. I hate how this must end on a sour note."

   He swung the gun to point it a RainbowDash and Scootaloo lunged.

     Her hoof connected with his wrist and sent the gun flying into a dark corner. She lashed out and suckered punched him harshly. Her hoof connected with a protective vest and her wrist broke against the unyielding surface.

   She jumped back and lashed out with another. He swung his forearm to catch it and hurled his knee into her thigh, dislocating it. She fell back with a cry of pain.

   The doctor scooped up RD's fallen taser as Dash charged with knife in hand. She swung it across his stomach and he leapt back, narrowly avoiding the blade. As he jumped back, he slammed the taser onto Dash's forehead, missing with the electricity but created a nasty gash over one eye, causing blood to blind it. She sliced up at his head and he ducked aside, though not fast enough, as the blade hit the base of his ear and cleanly took it off.

   He bellowed in pain and lunged in fury. RD sidestepped and slashed at his thigh, creating a bloody strip down it. He stumbled through his lunge and steadied out. She swung the knife in an uppercut heading for the slot underneath his vest.

   The doctor swung the taser from Dash's blind side and slammed in into her diaphragm.

   Dash fell back, winded and barely breathing.

  Scootaloo, who had been limping heavily, had crept behind the doctor and charged forward with a hoof shank. She reared up to deliver the killing blow... And a gunshot rang out.

  Scootaloo's hip gave out as the bullet slammed into her hip and she collapsed. She looked up slowly, hardly feeling the pain and more of a numb throbbing. Her eyes scanned the room and stopped when they met with Dash's, who was having difficulty breathing.

  The guard walked down the steps to stand next to Dr. Atmosphere, his eyes showing triumphantly.

   "Thank you dear sir, impeccable timing as always," said the doctor, "May I see your pistol?"

   The guard wordlessly handed the pistol over. "Let this be a lesson to you for standing against bigger apples," said the doctor. "Well, cherish the lesson for the few moments you have to live." He chuckled at his cruel little joke as he turned and fired into Dash's chest.

   Dash's eyes flew open in shock and slowly started to drift shut, never losing eye contact with Scootaloo.

  The doctor viewed his handiwork for a moment before he turned to face Scootaloo. “Now that that deed is done, you're next," he said as the gun aimed at her forehead.

   "What do you hope to gain by this?" she asked desperately, trying to keep him talking.

  "What do I gain?!" he laughed manically. "First, lots of power, as almost everypony likes a good rainbow. Second, heaps of money! Rainbows aren't cheap as you figured out, so we get government funding. Third, I just like feeling evil. But you know that already, don't you?” he ended cheerily and moved the barrel to Scootaloo's temple.

   A soft scuffle sounded behind him.

   The doctor turned to see RainbowDash standing and slitting the throat of his guard. She smiled at him.

"I told you, you're mine," she grinned maliciously.

   He growled and fired at her as she jerked the guard's body in front of her to catch the bullets, twitching repeatedly with every impact.

   When she heard the magazine hit the floor, Dash threw the body down and charged him with flared wings. She rushed behind him and lifted him up by his armpits, rocketing up with a protesting doctor. She flew over the machine that started the whole mess.

   "You can't have more than a few more moments to live!" he said savagely.

   "I don't need a few moments to make sure you go to hell with me!!" she snarled and kicked him. The doctor broke free and flew off away from the machine.

   Dash took off after him and midair tackled him. She grabbed him in a head lock a hovered over the machine, her eyes locked with Scootaloo.

   A line of blood dripped out of her mouth. "You.... Have....... Beautiful........" she coughed up blood.

   "Eyes...." and Dash locked her wings, falling down, eyes locked with Scootaloo. The doctor roared in anger and fear pummeled into Dash. Scootaloo saw the life fade from Dash's eyes and she turned her head away as the two ponies plunged into the machine.

    The machine chugged as it woke up and processed the Spectra.

    Scootaloo hung her head down and collapsed again, sobbing on the floor as the machine moaned and groaned violently. She yanked her head up as a thought occurred to her; the machine was designed to take only one pony at a time. Her eyes darted to the pressure gauges as they climbed into the red zone.

   "Well shit," she muttered. "Guess I'm not making it out of here either." She sighed, content with what she had accomplished in her life and knowing she would see her sister soon enough.

The gauges maxed out.

  Seals blew and gas flew out in pressurized air.

    The heavy door leading into the room blew open and a heavily armed squad of royal guard stormed in.

"Scootaloo!" said a barely conscious Twilight. "Armor! We have to get her out of her."

   "Knight Wing!" Shining Armor called, "Help her!"

   A dark steel grey Pegasus trotted over to her, "Miss, we have to go," he said gently. She looked up into his eyes, seeing gentleness and caring there.

   "Alright, let's go!" she said determinedly. Knight Wing helped her up and she leaned heavily on him.

    The group traveled as fast as they could. Uninjured royal guards formed a perimeter around the wounded factory personnel. They hurried down a corridor. The front runner guards full on bucked a door open, letting sunlight stream in.

    Outside were multiple royal chariots. The Pegasus guards strapped themselves into their respective chariots as Armor pulled Twilight into the lead one while Spike was loaded into a heavy duty one. Knight Wing led Scootaloo over to his chariot; a sleek, fast one, pulled by only one Pegasus with a dark helm covering his face. Knight Wing helped her up and hurried to strap himself next to the other Pegasus; he then slipped on a helmet that matched his counter-part. His partner was a dark vibrant blue pony.

    "Alright Lunar, quick and easy, we have a, uh... Injured passenger," he looked back at Scootaloo and winked, "Hold on little missy."

  The lead chariot took off and Knight Wing and his Co-pilot, Lunar-Tic, lurched into the air. Scootaloo death gripped the handle as the two stallions weaved through the flying chariots to form half of a two flight escort around the lead chariot.

  The chariot flight banked gently around the factor

  It was pandemonium on the ground. Ponies and guards ran back and forth as the entire cloud shook violently.

  Scootaloo yelled at the two flying stallions, "We have to get out of here!"

  Knight Wing nodded and said into his mic, "Lead Chariot, this is Knight Wing requesting permission to disengage."

   "Negative, everypony turn and head with all speed to Cantorlot!"

   All the chariots accelerated and headed directly away from the factory. Scootaloo turned and looked back.

    The cloud stopped shaking and an eerie silence ensued. Then the factory blew.

   The sides blew out as a rainbow circle stretched out in all directions. The entire roof blew off as a massive solid shaft of rainbow shot out to the heavens. The royal guards and chariot pegasi stared in awe at the beautiful colors, vivid blues and bright purples dancing around the formation. They started to ask each other what could have made such a beautiful rainbow, nopony paying attention to Scootaloo's reaction. A tear ran down her face. Not a sad tear, but a happy tear knowing that the nightmare she and her sister had lived was finally over. She glanced back at the receding rainbow.

   "I'll miss you RainbowDash. I don't think anypony will ever forget you or what you've done on this day," Scootaloo said softly.

Authors Note,

Hello, this is my very first published complete story, hope you enjoyed it.

Special thanks to Lunar-tic for proof reading and killing my Writer’s block. Seriously, if you ever have a bad case of Writer’s block, go to him.

                                                                                                                                 ~Knight Wing