Nightmare Night in the Rainbow Factoryby TetrahedronDashChaptersNightmare Night in the Rainbow FactoryChoice: Hangable BannersChoice: Red LED LightsChoice: Use a Mix of all Three DecorationsChoice: Rainbow Dash Cardboard CutoutsNightmare Night in the Rainbow FactoryInside the Castle of Friendship, the Elements of Harmony were sitting down on their thrones in the Cutie Map room while Twilight was ready to discuss something with them. "Oh boy, it's finally time! Everypony, I am officially happy to announce that this year's Nightmare Night has finally begun!" Said Twilight as she was jumping off of her throne with excitement. "I can't wait for another tootin' Nightmare Night! This will be an amazing night! Maybe I can even sell some food!" Said Applejack, who was clearly excited as well. "It really is going to darling!" Rarity replied to Applejack, in approval. "I.. just hope no pony scares... me.." Said Fluttershy, who was clearly nervous. "Hey Fluttershy..." Said Rainbow Dash in a creepy tone. "U..um, yes Rainbow Dash...?" Replied a very nervous Fluttershy. "BOO!!" Said Rainbow Dash, as she scared Fluttershy. "Rainbow Dash! P..please don't do that to me..." Said Fluttershy as she was leaning down in her throne out of fear. "Hehehe... Sorry Fluttershy.." Replied Rainbow Dash. "Um, where is Pinkie Pie? Girls, do you have a clue to where she is?" Said a confused Twilight as she looked left and right. As soon as Twilight finished saying that, Pinkie Pie arrived in the room from the doors, holding two plates of freshly baked cookies in both of her hooves as she walked bipedally to the Cutie Map before setting the plates down and hopping over to her throne. "I'm backkk! Teehee! Sorry if I took long girls! I was busy making some Nightmare Night cookies for all of you!" Said a happy and excited Pinkie Pie. "Pinkie Pie! These cookies..." "They're..." "AWESOME!!" "GORGEOUS!!" "And amazing sugarcube!" "Aww.. Girls... That means so much to me..." Said a emotional Pinkie Pie, as she teared up in happiness. The six friends began eating the cookies together as they continued to sit down in their thrones. Once they were done, Twilight spoke up. "Alright girls! I think we're all ready to go to the Nightmare Night festival now!" Said Twilight excitedly. The others were very excited as they followed Twilight outside the Castle to the Nightmare Night festival in the center of Ponyville. They were all excited in their own ways, with Rainbow Dash Twilight, and Pinkie Pie showing it the most in their excited expressions. After about two minutes, they finally arrived in the center of Ponyville. They started to notice the decorations that were put up for Nightmare Night, and tons of Ponies there as well. "Here we are girls! Let's make this Nightmare Night be amazing as usual!" Twilight said to the others. "But of course darling! I'm sure it will be a amazing night to behold, just like all the other Nightmare Nights we had!" Said Rarity in a happy tone. "It sure will sugarcube!" Replied Applejack as well. "We always have a amazing Nightmare Night experience Twilight! What are you talking about silly?" Replied Pinkie Pie as well. "Even though I... get s..scared alot of it... I'm going to have to agree with Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie!" Replied Fluttershy as well, while still slightly nervous. "I know girls, I was just saying for this one to be amazing just like all the other ones." Said Twilight in response to her friends replies. "Are you alright Rainbow Dash? You didn't reply alongside us, darling! Is something wrong, dear?" Said Rarity. "Oh, uh, yeah! I'm alright Rarity. I'm just deep in thought. But anyways girls, I need to go to the Weather Factory in Cloudadale for something regarding Nightmare Night, like usual." Replied Rainbow Dash. "Are you going to be alright Sugarcube?" Said Applejack to Rainbow Dash. "Yeah, are you going to be okay Rainbow Dash?" Said Twilight to Rainbow Dash as well. "Yeah! I'm going to be okay girls, don't worry! You remember I do this every Nightmare Night after all! Hehe. Anyways catch ya girls later!" Replied Rainbow Dash as she flew off towards Cloudsdale after talking. "She sure is weird during Nightmare Night..." Said Twilight as she watched Rainbow Dash flying in the distance. "You're telling me sugarcube!" Replied Applejack, as she watched Rainbow Dash flying as well. "Who's ready to start Apple bobbing?" Said a excited Pinkie Pie. "YOU BETCHA I AM SUGARCUBE!!" Replied Applejack immediately with a tone of excitement. As soon as Rainbow Dash arrived at the factory located inside the upper area of the Weather Factory, she could only help but ponder about everything. "What am I going to do if they find out one day..." Said Rainbow Dash to herself. She walked past the guards who upon seeing her, knew it was their manager and saluted her as she walked past them to the entrance room. She continued walking, until reaching the work room. When she was in the work room, she grabbed her hung labcoat to put it on before noticing Doctor Atmosphere walking around, clearly stressed about something. "What's wrong Atmosphere?" Said Rainbow Dash. "You're finally here Rainbow Dash! Listen... We don't have any more leftover Nightmare Night decorations for this years Nightmare Night in the factory...! We might have to pass out on Nightmare Night in the factory for this year, Rainbow Dash!!" Said a worried Doctor Atmosphere as he began running around panicking, causing Rainbow Dash to sigh in annoyance. "It's going to be one of those nights again, isn't it..." Replied Rainbow Dash in annoyance as she proceeds to facehoof. "What are we going to do? We can't miss out on celebrating the best holiday this year in the factory! We simply cannot, Rainbow Dash!" Responded Doctor Atmosphere, who was still worried. The two began to walk into the work room on the metal catwalk on the top of the room, as the workers noticed them. "LOOK, I'll go buy some more decorations and materials, OKAY?" Replied Rainbow Dash, starting to get agitated with Doctor Atmosphere. "Thank Celestia! You hear that everypony? We will be able to celebrate Nightmare Night again in the factory, all thanks to our wonderful manager, Rainbow Dash! Give it all up for her!" Said Doctor Atmosphere, as most of the worker Pegasi began chanting out Rainbow Dash's name in praise. "Jeez... Thanks Atmosphere..." Said a annoyed Rainbow Dash as she rolled her eyes. Rainbow Dash was about to leave the work room to go back to the entrance room to exit the factory. Before she left, Glaze walked by behind her in the room and spoke to her. "Stressful night like usual, eh? Welcome to the club." Said Glaze. "Yep.... Ugh... Tell me about it!" Replied Rainbow Dash, as she took off her labcoat and hung it up before exiting the factory. Back in Ponyville, everypony was having the time of their life celebrating this years Nightmare Night festival. Applejack recently finished setting up shop for some delicious caramel apples with Granny Smith, Big Macintosh, and Apple Bloom next to the stall as well. Twilight was next to Princess Luna and Pinkie Pie sitting down in the stage area watching the show on the stage going on alongside the other Ponies watching it as well. Fluttershy was hosting a free service to get your picture taken in the festival. Last but least, Rarity was hosting a service for Colts and FIllies to be able to get their muzzle painted from a selection of designs. "YEEHAW! This shop is doin' as well as a golden Timberwolf! I'll be able to use the Bits to help with the support for Sweet Apple Acres!" Said Applejack enthusiastically, as she was counting how much Bits she had earned from her Caramel Apple stall. "Mine is doing good as well, darling! All the little ones love getting their muzzle painted for the holiday! Not to mention, it's cheap, dear!" Replied Rarity, who's stall was situated right next to Applejack's and Fluttershy's. "Wait a second, take that back, sugarcube! You're darn tootin' that my business is cheaper!" Responded Applejack, who was clearly in a little fight with Rarity. "You, cheap, darling? Don't make me laugh, dear!" Replied Rarity. "Oh that's it SUGARCUBE!" Responded Applejack, as the two were close to each other with expressions of anger. "Um.. Girls... Please don't fight... Please...?" Said Fluttershy, addressing the fight that had just transpired. Granny Smith, Big Macintosh, and Apple Bloom could only help but stare at what was going on. Before everything got worse, Applejack and Rarity did something else instead. "Oh you! I could never get mad at a best friend of mine, dear!" Replied Rarity, as she proceeded to laugh. "Hehe, same sugarcube! After all, I'm tootin' down to earth like a country Pony!" Responded Applejack, as she proceeded to laugh alongside Rarity. Granny Smith, Big Macintosh, and Apple Bloom shrugged at each other, as they began to laugh as well at what had just happened. Meanwhile, at the stage, Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, and Princess Luna were still watching the show going on featuring a light blue wireframe Nightmare Moon that was being emitted from a projector on the stage. "THE NIGHT WILL LAST FOREVER! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!" Said the wireframe Nightmare Moon. "This is still amazing years later!" Said Twilight, who was in awe at the wireframe Nightmare Moon. "She looks so funny! Hahaha!" Said Pinkie Pie, as she proceeded to laugh. As the two were watching the show, Luna couldn't help but feel a sadness inside of her from when she was evil like the wireframe projection of her evil form. Eventually, she ended up speaking up to Twilight and Pinkie Pie. "We... Wait no... Forgive our royal Canterlot voice... I still sometimes wonder.. If I could have prevented myself... from snapping at my big sister... that fateful night many years ago..." Said Luna, who was clearly starting to tear up. "Luna... It wasn't your fault... Please don't cry Luna... We all make mistakes! I understand that you must feel bad from the old memory of when you turned into Nightmare Moon long ago.. but you have nothing to be sad about! That was in the past. You know your big sister Celestia loves you to death, right...?" Replied Twilight. By now, the other ponies sitting down near the stage had started turning around to look at what's going on. "Y-you're right Twilight... That was lots of years ago after all... My big sister has forgiven me ever since you and your best friends helped turn me back to normal that one night in me and my big sister's old castle, which has been in ruins for a long time in Everfree Forest..." Responded Luna, as she started to feel better, regaining her composure. "I know how much she loves you Luna... She loves you to pieces your big sister! I know she would be devastated if she ended up losing you... Same for you if you ended up losing her..." Replied Twilight. "I do.. not want to think about that..." Responded Luna, with sadness in her voice. "That was my bad for saying that Luna... I should have known it would only make you feel more sad..." Replied Twilight, as she felt bad for making Luna sad again. "Luna, why don't you try my very own Happiness Cupcake? It's certified to make you feel better! It's on the house!" Said Pinkie Pie, as she pulled out a cupcake out of nowhere. "I guess it can't hurt to try..." Replied Luna, as she took the cupcake Pinkie Pie offered to her. As soon as Luna ate the cupcake, she suddenly started feeling happier again. She was confused, so she decided to ask Pinkie Pie. "W-wow, it actually worked very well..! Pinkie Pie, we wish.. Erm.. I wish to know of how a cupcake is able to make a Pony happier!" Said a confused Luna. "Simple! I just added a pinch of artificial happiness, and all things that make you just want to smile in life! Teehee!!" Replied Pinkie Pie in happiness. As the three of them laughed, Rainbow Dash arrived back in Ponyville, landing on the ground. The three turned around to see Rainbow Dash. "Oh hey Rainbow Dash! I thought you were at the Weather Factory?" Said Twilight, in confusion. "I still am working there right now. I just need to find some Nightmare Night decorations I can buy to bring there. They really messed up with their decoration supplies this year..." Said Rainbow Dash. "Nightmare Night decorations... Hmm... I think Mayor Mare has some leftover ones that she will be willing to give to you to bring to the Weather Factory! After all, everypony deserves to celebrate this amazing holiday!" Replied Twilight. "Thanks Twi! You're the best! Also heya Luna!" Said Rainbow Dash, before flying off to find where Mayor Mare is in the festival. "No problem Rainbow Dash!" Replied Twilight, as she watched Rainbow Dash fly off. "She certainly is strange..." Said Luna, before proceeding to laugh. "You aren't wrong about that, Luna, even though she is one of my best friends!" Said Twilight, before proceeding to laugh as well. After flying for a good three minutes, Rainbow Dash found Mayor Mare inside the decorated Town Hall with the helpers for the festival. She walked up to her before talking with her. "Hey Mayor Mare, do you happen to have any leftover Nightmare Night decorations? Cloudsdale ran out of their decorations for this year's Nightmare Night." Said Rainbow Dash, hoping that she will give her some spare decorations. "Why yes I do! I happen to have some leftover decorations that me and the helpers for the festival thought they were too flashy or like they didn't suit the theme right. You can have them for free though to help Cloudsdale celebrate Nightmare Night too! No Pony deserves to be left out after all!" Replied Mayor Mare. "Thank you so much Mayor Mare!" Responded Rainbow Dash, as she picked up the box containing the decorations and began to fly back to the factory with it. "You're very welcome Rainbow Dash!" Replied Mayor Mare. Once Rainbow Dash got back to the factory, she flew inside while still holding the box and flew past the guards into the work room's metal catwalk. Doctor Atmosphere noticed her and turned around on the catwalk to speak to her. "About bloody time you came back, Rainbow Dash!" Said Doctor Atmosphere, who clearly was impatient with her. "Oh give me a break Atmosphere... I didn't take that long." Replied Rainbow Dash, who became agitated at Doctor Atmosphere. Rainbow Dash flew to the ground level of the work room and placed the box down on the steel floor. She then went back to pick up her labcoat and put it back on. Once she had her labcoat on again, she went back to the box before opening the lids and taking out the decorations. Inside the box, there was hangable banners, cardboard standups, and red LED lights! "Aw YEAH! Now we're talking!" Said Rainbow Dash, in happiness as she was looking at the various decorations. "Which ones should we decide to place?" Replied Doctor Atmosphere, curiously. "Now you got me thinking too, Atmosphere..." Responded Rainbow Dash, as she thought deeply. "Actually... We can decide that later. For now, we have to do our daily routine involving the failures. You know? Those utterly useless Pegasi..." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Oh. Right... Hehehe... This will be amusing...." Responded Rainbow Dash, with a sadistic tone to her voice as Doctor Atmosphere obtained the same tone for his voice. The two of them walked past the work room onto the metal catwalk in a long corridor filled with prison cages containing failures that they had captured who failed the Cloudsdale entrance exam. Rainbow Dash got up to the controls for one of the giant claw cranes to pick up a cage to bring a failure into the Pegasus Device room for later. Rainbow Dash and Doctor Atmosphere controlled the levers for two of them and controlled the claw to pick up two cages of failures. The claws raised to the top of the railing which directs into the Pegasus Device room. "Failures. They never get boring after awhile." Said Doctor Atmosphere, facing Rainbow Dash. "My thoughts exactly. I love their cries for help honestly! Hehehe. Anyways, we have a task at hoof. Lets go back in the work room." Replied Rainbow Dash, as the two walked back into the work room. As soon as the two of them got back to the work room, Rainbow Dash went back to the box of decorations before thinking, deep in thought. "So, now it comes to the decision of what decoration should be the one we choose to use?" Said Rainbow Dash. "Hmmm...." "We could use the hangable banners with a nice graphical design of the factory on it and have it hang from the walls." "Or, we could use the hangable red LED lights that remind me of the same kind of lights Ponies typically use on their houses for Hearth's Warming." "Or, last but least, We could y'know... Use cardboard cutouts of me! After all, I am damn fabulous..." "Yeah... You sure are...." Said Doctor Atmosphere, as he rolled his eyes at Rainbow Dash's choice. "Oh come on! Even you have to admit that I'm pretty fabulous!" Replied Rainbow Dash. "Fine... I do admit that you know how to be rather fabulous..." Responded Doctor Atmosphere, as he finally gave in. "You know, we could just have a mix of all three decorations." "Glaze? Where'd you come from?" Said Rainbow Dash, out of shock. "I'm pretty sure she was in the work room here with us." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Oh right, I forgot honestly." Said Rainbow Dash. "Anyways... What's our choice going to be about what decorations to use?" Author's Note If you haven't figured it out by now, you can choose what decorations they use! Just click on the respective link in the three choices! Choice: Hangable Banners "I think we should use the hangable banners personally. It'll add a nice touch to the rooms in the factory!" Said Rainbow Dash, eagerly. "I dunno. Might feel like a promotional sellout." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Eh, not really. It has potential to be good like Rainbow Dash said." Replied Glaze, out of nowhere. "Anyways, let's start hanging up these banners!" Said Rainbow Dash, enthusiastically. "Alright!" The three began putting up the banners on the walls in each room of the factory. Slowly, the rooms started to slightly change with the feel of it as more and more banners were hung on the walls. Eventually after a good twenty minutes, the three finished putting the banners up in all the rooms. "Yeah! That looks pretty damn good!" Said a enthusiastic Rainbow Dash, as she looked up at the banners in the work room. "Honestly, it kind of does a bit, I guess? Having too much of the same decoration though makes it look bland though, at the same time." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Honestly... Going to have to agree with Doctor Atmosphere on this one." Replied Glaze as well. "Ugh.... Why didn't I think to put a mix of all three decorations..." Said Rainbow Dash, feeling stupid. "It doesn't matter anyways, there's no use wasting more time to take them down and put a mix of all three up. We'll just stay with this." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. By now, all the worker Pegasi in the work room have noticed the hanging banners in the room. A few of them liked it, while most of them disliked it. Even the caged failures in the prison corridor noticed the hanging banners. Even the two caged failures that were sent in the Pegasus Device room. "At least we still got the snacks and food for this years Nightmare Night in the factory. Right? Right...?" Said Rainbow Dash, clearly worried. "About that... I checked our supplies for the snacks a few minutes ago when we finished putting the decorations up, and well... We're missing those as well..." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "ARE YOU KIDDING ME ATMOSPHERE? ONCE AGAIN, YOU FAIL TO DO A SIMPLE THING!!" Yelled Rainbow Dash, in anger. "Well thanks for blaming me for something that clearly WAS NOT MY FAULT! And nice job on ruining the decorations with your LOUSY choice!" Said Doctor Atmosphere, angry as well. "Can the two of you just chill down a bit?" Said Glaze, who was the only calm one amongst the three of them. "Glaze is right... Fighting won't get us anywhere... Sorry for going crazy..." Said Rainbow Dash, in apology to Doctor Atmosphere. "I guess I'm sorry too for snapping at you as well..." Said Doctor Atmosphere, in apology to Rainbow Dash. "I'll go get my bits and go back to Ponyville to buy lots of Caramel Apples from Applejack..." Said Rainbow Dash, as she took off her labcoat to hang it up once again, and let out a stressed sigh before exiting the factory to head to her cloud house. "I feel bad for our manager... She has to go through so much just for us..." Said Glaze. "You think that's hard? Try catching a fast escaped failure before they get away from the factory!" Replied Doctor Atmosphere, with a slightly angry tone. Rainbow Dash flew to her cloud house upon exiting the factory the second time this night. Once she got there, she went inside and headed upstairs to her bedroom and pulled out her personal bank she keeps her Bits in from under the nightstand. She took the lid off of it and took 300 Bits out before putting the lid back on it and sliding it under the nightstand before heading back out of her cloud house to fly back to Ponyville. As soon as she got back to Ponyville, she headed to Applejack's Caramel Apple stall, but upon arriving, realized she had finished selling out of them, much to her disappointment. "Oh COME ON..." Said a disappointed and stressed Rainbow Dash. "Rainbow Dash, what are you doing back here? I thought you were back at Cloudsdale, sugarcube!" Replied Applejack. "Applejack, PLEASE TELL ME YOU STILL HAVE SOME CARAMEL APPLES!!" Responded Rainbow Dash, who was nervous. "Sorry Dash, I ran out of them faster than a Timberwolf! Sorry about that sugarcube..." Replied Applejack. "Ugh... What am I going to tell them..." Said Rainbow Dash, with defeat in her voice. "Eh, tell who?" Replied a confused Applejack. "The Pegasi I'm helping with Nightmare Night back in the Weather Factory, you remember?" Responded Rainbow Dash. "Oh right!" Replied Applejack. "Ugh... I guess I have to come back to them empty handed..." Said a sad Rainbow Dash, as she started slowly flying back to the factory. "Hey, don't you worry Dash. On the bright side, there will be lots of apples in Sweet Apple Acres for the next Cider season, which I know you love as much as I love all of ya!" Replied Applejack, knowing that would perk her up. "That's good to know at least..." Responded Rainbow Dash, before flying off back to the factory. As she flew back to the factory, she couldn't help but continue to feel defeated and depressed. This years Nightmare Night would be surely ruined for the factory, right? Maybe even bad enough that they would decide to never do it ever again from how bad this year's one was... As she approached the factory, she couldn't help but take a big gulp, as she was nervous when re-entering the factory, not knowing what she was going to tell them. Once she got back inside the factory, she walked over to the work room, expecting the worst. "I'm... back..." Said Rainbow Dash, before falling down muzzle first onto the steel flooring of the work room. "Rainbow Dash." Said Doctor Atmosphere, with a stern voice. "Yes....." Replied Rainbow Dash, with no emotion in her voice. None except defeat. "Guess what? We got lucky! Glaze checked the supplies room again, and found a barrel that was out of sight at first before, containing all the food and snacks we originally planned for this year's Nightmare Night! With the caramel apples you got, we will have a LOT of snacks and food! Chips! Candy bars! And even more!!" Responded a ecstatic Doctor Atmosphere, until he finally read her emotions. "W-whats wrong? I just noticed now that you clearly aren't in the best of moods.." Said a confused Doctor Atmosphere. "W-WAIT? There actually is still the snacks and food?! This is a MIRACLE!" Said a happy Rainbow Dash, as she jumped up from the floor in happiness and relief. "What had happened when you went back to Ponyville?" Replied Doctor Atmosphere, out of curiosity. "Applejack had sold out of her caramel apples, and I felt so defeated. I really felt like this year's Nightmare Night would be ruined for us. Ruined so bad even that we wouldn't have another one in the future years to come... But it's fortunately a good thing that we still have the food and snacks!" Said Rainbow Dash. "It really is! I can't imagine if we didn't have any..." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Well, what are you two waiting for? Lets go get it out for everypony in the factory!" Replied Glaze to the two of them. The three of them went back in the supplies room to get the food and snacks out, and some folding tables as well to put the food and snacks on. Once they got back in the work room with the tables in Rainbow Dash's hooves, and the food and snacks in the hooves of Doctor Atmosphere and Glaze, they set it all down and began the final preparations. Once it was all done, the workers were in awe. folding tables set across the entire work room, filled with food and snacks at the disposal on it. The three knew they did a good job, despite Rainbow Dash's poor choice of decorations. It made up for that, since the workers were enjoying their selves. "Welp, we all did a good job! This will go down as yet another amazing Nightmare Night inside the factory!" Said Doctor Atmosphere, with a grin. "Yeah! This is honestly still amazing!" Replied Glaze. "Hey.. Rainbow Dash, what's the matter?" Said Doctor Atmosphere, while facing Rainbow Dash. "Yeah, you still seem a bit.. Down, if you know what I mean." Said Glaze. "You have no reason to be down Rainbow Dash. Everything worked out well in the end! This was a team effort like usual that you helped tremendously with!" Said Doctor Atmosphere. "I guess you're both right the two of you. I just was worried.. I would end up ruining it for you and all the entire factory... But at least it worked out in the end, right?" Said Rainbow Dash, as she slowly regained her composure. "What are you all waiting for! Lets get this Nightmare Night STARTED IN THE FACTORY!!" Said Glaze, in excitement. "Rainbow Dash, you still up for it?" Said Doctor Atmosphere, to Rainbow Dash. "Hell yeah! Of course I'm still up for a amazing night filled with beloved spooks, and snacks! You know I love me some grub to stuff my face with after all! Hehe!" Replied Rainbow Dash, as she was clearly happy again. The three of them continued hosting what would go down as the best Nightmare Night of all time in the factory. They would still do the same thing each year without it growing old or boring for them, as it was a amazing holiday that brings out all the spooky things that Ponies love in Equestria. For the factory however, it couldn't be any more perfect this perfect holiday for them. Author's Note And that's the end of this short but sweet story of mine for 2022's Halloween/Nightmare Night! I hope you enjoyed it, and remember to have a amazing Halloween/Nightmare Night! Choice: Red LED Lights "I think we should use the hangable red LED lights personally. It'll add a cool glowing ambient feel to the rooms in the factory!" Said Rainbow Dash, eagerly. "That sounds pretty good actually!" Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Eh, I don't really think it would be good to have. Sure, having ambient lighting in a room is nice, but it gets old quickly on it's own." Replied Glaze, out of nowhere. "Anyways, let's start hanging up these LED lights!" Said Rainbow Dash, enthusiastically. "Alright!" The three began putting up the LED lights on the walls in each room of the factory. Slowly, the rooms started to slightly change with the red glow of them as more and more lights were hung on the walls. Eventually after a good twenty minutes, the three finished putting the lights up in all the rooms. "Yeah! That looks pretty ambient and snazzy!" Said a enthusiastic Rainbow Dash, as she looked up at the banners in the work room. "It honestly does!" Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Like I said before, gonna have to disagree on this one. It's kinda bad on it's own." Replied Glaze as well. "Ugh.... Why didn't I think to put a mix of all three decorations..." Said Rainbow Dash, feeling stupid. "It doesn't matter anyways, there's no use wasting more time to take them down and put a mix of all three up. We'll just stay with this." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. By now, all the worker Pegasi in the work room have noticed the hanging LED lights in the room. Most of them liked it, while some of them disliked it. Even the caged failures in the prison corridor noticed the lights. Even the two caged failures that were sent in the Pegasus Device room. "At least we still got the snacks and food for this years Nightmare Night in the factory. Right? Right...?" Said Rainbow Dash, clearly worried. "About that... I checked our supplies for the snacks a few minutes ago when we finished putting the decorations up, and well... We're missing those as well..." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "ARE YOU KIDDING ME ATMOSPHERE? ONCE AGAIN, YOU FAIL TO DO A SIMPLE THING!!" Yelled Rainbow Dash, in anger. "Well thanks for blaming me for something that clearly WAS NOT MY FAULT! And nice job on ruining the decorations with your choice!" Said Doctor Atmosphere, angry as well. "Can the two of you just chill down a bit?" Said Glaze, who was the only calm one amongst the three of them. "Glaze is right... Fighting won't get us anywhere... Sorry for going crazy..." Said Rainbow Dash, in apology to Doctor Atmosphere. "I guess I'm sorry too for snapping at you as well..." Said Doctor Atmosphere, in apology to Rainbow Dash. "I'll go get my bits and go back to Ponyville to buy lots of Caramel Apples from Applejack..." Said Rainbow Dash, as she took off her labcoat to hang it up once again, and let out a stressed sigh before exiting the factory to head to her cloud house. "I feel bad for our manager... She has to go through so much just for us..." Said Glaze. "You think that's hard? Try catching a fast escaped failure before they get away from the factory!" Replied Doctor Atmosphere, with a slightly angry tone. Rainbow Dash flew to her cloud house upon exiting the factory the second time this night. Once she got there, she went inside and headed upstairs to her bedroom and pulled out her personal bank she keeps her Bits in from under the nightstand. She took the lid off of it and took 300 Bits out before putting the lid back on it and sliding it under the nightstand before heading back out of her cloud house to fly back to Ponyville. As soon as she got back to Ponyville, she headed to Applejack's Caramel Apple stall, but upon arriving, realized she had finished selling out of them, much to her disappointment. "Oh COME ON..." Said a disappointed and stressed Rainbow Dash. "Rainbow Dash, what are you doing back here? I thought you were back at Cloudsdale, sugarcube!" Replied Applejack. "Applejack, PLEASE TELL ME YOU STILL HAVE SOME CARAMEL APPLES!!" Responded Rainbow Dash, who was nervous. "Sorry Dash, I ran out of them faster than a Timberwolf! Sorry about that sugarcube..." Replied Applejack. "Ugh... What am I going to tell them..." Said Rainbow Dash, with defeat in her voice. "Eh, tell who?" Replied a confused Applejack. "The Pegasi I'm helping with Nightmare Night back in the Weather Factory, you remember?" Responded Rainbow Dash. "Oh right!" Replied Applejack. "Ugh... I guess I have to come back to them empty handed..." Said a sad Rainbow Dash, as she started slowly flying back to the factory. "Hey, don't you worry Dash. On the bright side, there will be lots of apples in Sweet Apple Acres for the next Cider season, which I know you love as much as I love all of ya!" Replied Applejack, knowing that would perk her up. "That's good to know at least..." Responded Rainbow Dash, before flying off back to the factory. As she flew back to the factory, she couldn't help but continue to feel defeated and depressed. This years Nightmare Night would be surely ruined for the factory, right? Maybe even bad enough that they would decide to never do it ever again from how bad this year's one was... As she approached the factory, she couldn't help but take a big gulp, as she was nervous when re-entering the factory, not knowing what she was going to tell them. Once she got back inside the factory, she walked over to the work room, expecting the worst. "I'm... back..." Said Rainbow Dash, before falling down muzzle first onto the steel flooring of the work room. "Rainbow Dash." Said Doctor Atmosphere, with a stern voice. "Yes....." Replied Rainbow Dash, with no emotion in her voice. None except defeat. "Guess what? We got lucky! Glaze checked the supplies room again, and found a barrel that was out of sight at first before, containing all the food and snacks we originally planned for this year's Nightmare Night! With the caramel apples you got, we will have a LOT of snacks and food! Chips! Candy bars! And even more!!" Responded a ecstatic Doctor Atmosphere, until he finally read her emotions. "W-whats wrong? I just noticed now that you clearly aren't in the best of moods.." Said a confused Doctor Atmosphere. "W-WAIT? There actually is still the snacks and food?! This is a MIRACLE!" Said a happy Rainbow Dash, as she jumped up from the floor in happiness and relief. "What had happened when you went back to Ponyville?" Replied Doctor Atmosphere, out of curiosity. "Applejack had sold out of her caramel apples, and I felt so defeated. I really felt like this year's Nightmare Night would be ruined for us. Ruined so bad even that we wouldn't have another one in the future years to come... But it's fortunately a good thing that we still have the food and snacks!" Said Rainbow Dash. "It really is! I can't imagine if we didn't have any..." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Well, what are you two waiting for? Lets go get it out for everypony in the factory!" Replied Glaze to the two of them. The three of them went back in the supplies room to get the food and snacks out, and some folding tables as well to put the food and snacks on. Once they got back in the work room with the tables in Rainbow Dash's hooves, and the food and snacks in the hooves of Doctor Atmosphere and Glaze, they set it all down and began the final preparations. Once it was all done, the workers were in awe. folding tables set across the entire work room, filled with food and snacks at the disposal on it. The three knew they did a good job, despite Rainbow Dash's poor choice of decorations. It made up for that, since the workers were enjoying their selves. "Welp, we all did a good job! This will go down as yet another amazing Nightmare Night inside the factory!" Said Doctor Atmosphere, with a grin. "Yeah! This is honestly still amazing!" Replied Glaze. "Hey.. Rainbow Dash, what's the matter?" Said Doctor Atmosphere, while facing Rainbow Dash. "Yeah, you still seem a bit.. Down, if you know what I mean." Said Glaze. "You have no reason to be down Rainbow Dash. Everything worked out well in the end! This was a team effort like usual that you helped tremendously with!" Said Doctor Atmosphere. "I guess you're both right the two of you. I just was worried.. I would end up ruining it for you and all the entire factory... But at least it worked out in the end, right?" Said Rainbow Dash, as she slowly regained her composure. "What are you all waiting for! Lets get this Nightmare Night STARTED IN THE FACTORY!!" Said Glaze, in excitement. "Rainbow Dash, you still up for it?" Said Doctor Atmosphere, to Rainbow Dash. "Hell yeah! Of course I'm still up for a amazing night filled with beloved spooks, and snacks! You know I love me some grub to stuff my face with after all! Hehe!" Replied Rainbow Dash, as she was clearly happy again. The three of them continued hosting what would go down as the best Nightmare Night of all time in the factory. They would still do the same thing each year without it growing old or boring for them, as it was a amazing holiday that brings out all the spooky things that Ponies love in Equestria. For the factory however, it couldn't be any more perfect this perfect holiday for them. Author's Note And that's the end of this short but sweet story of mine for 2022's Halloween/Nightmare Night! I hope you enjoyed it, and remember to have a amazing Halloween/Nightmare Night! Choice: Use a Mix of all Three Decorations"Actually, why don't we use a mix of all three decorations?" Said Rainbow Dash. "That's actually a brilliant idea!" Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "I told ya that's a good idea!." Replied Glaze, out of nowhere. "Anyways, let's start setting all the decorations up!" Said Rainbow Dash, enthusiastically. "Alright!" The three began putting up the banners and red LED lights on the walls in each room of the factory, alongside the Rainbow Dash cardboard cutouts against the walls. Slowly, the rooms started to slightly change with the feel of it as more and more decorations were added. Eventually after a good thirty minutes, the three finished putting the banners up in all the rooms. "Yeah! That looks really AMAZING!" Said a enthusiastic Rainbow Dash, as she looked up at the banners in the work room. "Oh my Celestia, it really does!." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Yeah! It does look amazing! Wait no. PERFECT!" Replied Glaze as well. "Imagine if I had ended up putting only one kind of decorations in the factory!" Said Rainbow Dash, laughing at the thought. "That would have probably not been as amazing honestly!" Replied Doctor Atmosphere. By now, all the worker Pegasi in the work room have noticed all the decorations in the room. All of them agreed that it looks perfect. Even the caged failures in the prison corridor noticed the decorations. Even the two caged failures that were sent in the Pegasus Device room. "So, now, time to place the food and snacks, and then we will be all ready! We still have the food and snacks Atmosphere, right? Right..?" Said Rainbow Dash, slightly worried. "About that... I checked our supplies for the snacks a few minutes ago when we finished putting the decorations up, and well... We're missing those as well..." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "ARE YOU KIDDING ME ATMOSPHERE? What are we going to DO?" Said Rainbow Dash, in fear. "It was clearly not my fault! Glaze is the one in charge of keeping the food for our Nightmare Nights!" Said Doctor Atmosphere, slightly angry at Rainbow Dash's accusation to him. "Can the two of you just chill down a bit?" Said Glaze, who was the only calm one amongst the three of them. "Glaze is right... Panicking won't get us anywhere... Sorry for going a bit crazy..." Said Rainbow Dash, in apology to Doctor Atmosphere. "I guess I'm sorry too..." Said Doctor Atmosphere, in apology to Rainbow Dash. "I'll go get my bits and go back to Ponyville to buy lots of Caramel Apples from Applejack..." Said Rainbow Dash, as she took off her labcoat to hang it up once again, and let out a stressed sigh before exiting the factory to head to her cloud house. "I feel bad for our manager... She has to go through so much just for us..." Said Glaze. "I guess I can understand how she must feel." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. Rainbow Dash flew to her cloud house upon exiting the factory the second time this night. Once she got there, she went inside and headed upstairs to her bedroom and pulled out her personal bank she keeps her Bits in from under the nightstand. She took the lid off of it and took 300 Bits out before putting the lid back on it and sliding it under the nightstand before heading back out of her cloud house to fly back to Ponyville. As soon as she got back to Ponyville, she headed to Applejack's Caramel Apple stall, but upon arriving, realized she had finished selling out of them, much to her disappointment. "Oh COME ON..." Said a disappointed and stressed Rainbow Dash. "Rainbow Dash, what are you doing back here? I thought you were back at Cloudsdale, sugarcube!" Replied Applejack. "Applejack, PLEASE TELL ME YOU STILL HAVE SOME CARAMEL APPLES!!" Responded Rainbow Dash, who was nervous. "Sorry Dash, I ran out of them faster than a Timberwolf! Sorry about that sugarcube..." Replied Applejack. "Ugh... What am I going to tell them..." Said Rainbow Dash, with defeat in her voice. "Eh, tell who?" Replied a confused Applejack. "The Pegasi I'm helping with Nightmare Night back in the Weather Factory, you remember?" Responded Rainbow Dash. "Oh right!" Replied Applejack. "Ugh... I guess I have to come back to them empty handed..." Said a sad Rainbow Dash, as she started slowly flying back to the factory. "Hey, don't you worry Dash. On the bright side, there will be lots of apples in Sweet Apple Acres for the next Cider season, which I know you love as much as I love all of ya!" Replied Applejack, knowing that would perk her up. "That's good to know at least..." Responded Rainbow Dash, before flying off back to the factory. As she flew back to the factory, she couldn't help but continue to feel defeated and depressed. This years Nightmare Night would be surely ruined for the factory, right? Maybe even bad enough that they would decide to never do it ever again from how bad this year's one was... As she approached the factory, she couldn't help but take a big gulp, as she was nervous when re-entering the factory, not knowing what she was going to tell them. Once she got back inside the factory, she walked over to the work room, expecting the worst. "I'm... back..." Said Rainbow Dash, before falling down muzzle first onto the steel flooring of the work room. "Rainbow Dash." Said Doctor Atmosphere, with a stern voice. "Yes....." Replied Rainbow Dash, with no emotion in her voice. None except defeat. "Guess what? We got lucky! Glaze checked the supplies room again, and found a barrel that was out of sight at first before, containing all the food and snacks we originally planned for this year's Nightmare Night! With the caramel apples you got, we will have a LOT of snacks and food! Chips! Candy bars! And even more!!" Responded a ecstatic Doctor Atmosphere, until he finally read her emotions. "W-whats wrong? I just noticed now that you clearly aren't in the best of moods.." Said a confused Doctor Atmosphere. "W-WAIT? There actually is still the snacks and food?! This is a MIRACLE!" Said a happy Rainbow Dash, as she jumped up from the floor in happiness and relief. "What had happened when you went back to Ponyville?" Replied Doctor Atmosphere, out of curiosity. "Applejack had sold out of her caramel apples, and I felt so defeated. I really felt like this year's Nightmare Night would be ruined for us. Ruined so bad even that we wouldn't have another one in the future years to come... But it's fortunately a good thing that we still have the food and snacks!" Said Rainbow Dash. "It really is! I can't imagine if we didn't have any..." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Well, what are you two waiting for? Lets go get it out for everypony in the factory!" Replied Glaze to the two of them. The three of them went back in the supplies room to get the food and snacks out, and some folding tables as well to put the food and snacks on. Once they got back in the work room with the tables in Rainbow Dash's hooves, and the food and snacks in the hooves of Doctor Atmosphere and Glaze, they set it all down and began the final preparations. Once it was all done, the workers were in awe. folding tables set across the entire work room, filled with food and snacks at the disposal on it. The three knew they did a good job, despite Rainbow Dash's poor choice of decorations. It made up for that, since the workers were enjoying their selves. "Welp, we all did a good job! This will go down as yet another amazing Nightmare Night inside the factory!" Said Doctor Atmosphere, with a grin. "Yeah! This is honestly still amazing!" Replied Glaze. "Hey.. Rainbow Dash, what's the matter?" Said Doctor Atmosphere, while facing Rainbow Dash. "Yeah, you still seem a bit.. Down, if you know what I mean." Said Glaze. "You have no reason to be down Rainbow Dash. Everything worked out well in the end! This was a team effort like usual that you helped tremendously with!" Said Doctor Atmosphere. "I guess you're both right the two of you. I just was worried.. I would end up ruining it for you and all the entire factory... But at least it worked out in the end, right?" Said Rainbow Dash, as she slowly regained her composure. "What are you all waiting for! Lets get this Nightmare Night STARTED IN THE FACTORY!!" Said Glaze, in excitement. "Rainbow Dash, you still up for it?" Said Doctor Atmosphere, to Rainbow Dash. "Hell yeah! Of course I'm still up for a amazing night filled with beloved spooks, and snacks! You know I love me some grub to stuff my face with after all! Hehe!" Replied Rainbow Dash, as she was clearly happy again. The three of them continued hosting what would go down as the best Nightmare Night of all time in the factory. They would still do the same thing each year without it growing old or boring for them, as it was a amazing holiday that brings out all the spooky things that Ponies love in Equestria. For the factory however, it couldn't be any more perfect this perfect holiday for them. Author's Note And that's the end of this short but sweet story of mine for 2022's Halloween/Nightmare Night! I hope you enjoyed it, and remember to have a amazing Halloween/Nightmare Night! Choice: Rainbow Dash Cardboard Cutouts "I think we should use the cardboard cutouts of me personally. After all, I am the most awesome Pony ever...!" Said Rainbow Dash, narcissistically. "Seriously...?" Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Honestly... Yeah..." Replied Glaze, out of nowhere. "So? What are you two waiting for? Let's start hanging up these cutouts of me! Hehe." Said Rainbow Dash, with a grin. "Fine..." The three began putting up the cardboard cutouts against the walls in each room of the factory. Slowly, the rooms started to slightly change with how narcissistic Rainbow Dash is, as more and more cutouts were set next to the walls. Eventually after a short ten minutes, the three finished putting the cutouts against the walls in all the rooms. "Yeah! Now THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!" Said a enthusiastic Rainbow Dash, as she looked at the cutouts in the work room narcissistically. "Yeah... No." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Gonna have to definitely agree with Doctor Atmosphere on that." Replied Glaze as well. "Ugh.... Why didn't I think to put a mix of all three decorations..." Said Rainbow Dash, feeling stupid. "It doesn't matter anyways, there's no use wasting more time to take them down and put a mix of all three up. We'll just stay with this." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. By now, all the worker Pegasi in the work room have noticed the cardboard cutouts of Rainbow Dash in the room. Almost all of them disliked it. Even the caged failures in the prison corridor noticed the cutouts. Even the two caged failures that were sent in the Pegasus Device room. "At least we still got the snacks and food for this years Nightmare Night in the factory. Right? Right...?" Said Rainbow Dash, clearly worried. "About that... I checked our supplies for the snacks a few minutes ago when we finished putting the decorations up, and well... We're missing those as well..." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "ARE YOU KIDDING ME ATMOSPHERE? ONCE AGAIN, YOU FAIL TO DO A SIMPLE THING!!" Yelled Rainbow Dash, in anger. "Well thanks for blaming me for something that clearly WAS NOT MY FAULT! And nice job on ruining the decorations with your CLEARLY STUPID choice!" Said Doctor Atmosphere, angry as well. "Can the two of you just chill down a bit?" Said Glaze, who was the only calm one amongst the three of them. "Glaze is right... Fighting won't get us anywhere... Sorry for going crazy..." Said Rainbow Dash, in apology to Doctor Atmosphere. "I guess I'm sorry too for snapping at you as well..." Said Doctor Atmosphere, in apology to Rainbow Dash. "I'll go get my bits and go back to Ponyville to buy lots of Caramel Apples from Applejack..." Said Rainbow Dash, as she took off her labcoat to hang it up once again, and let out a stressed sigh before exiting the factory to head to her cloud house. "I feel bad for our manager... She has to go through so much just for us..." Said Glaze. "You think that's hard? Try catching a fast escaped failure before they get away from the factory!" Replied Doctor Atmosphere, with a slightly angry tone. Rainbow Dash flew to her cloud house upon exiting the factory the second time this night. Once she got there, she went inside and headed upstairs to her bedroom and pulled out her personal bank she keeps her Bits in from under the nightstand. She took the lid off of it and took 300 Bits out before putting the lid back on it and sliding it under the nightstand before heading back out of her cloud house to fly back to Ponyville. As soon as she got back to Ponyville, she headed to Applejack's Caramel Apple stall, but upon arriving, realized she had finished selling out of them, much to her disappointment. "Oh COME ON..." Said a disappointed and stressed Rainbow Dash. "Rainbow Dash, what are you doing back here? I thought you were back at Cloudsdale, sugarcube!" Replied Applejack. "Applejack, PLEASE TELL ME YOU STILL HAVE SOME CARAMEL APPLES!!" Responded Rainbow Dash, who was nervous. "Sorry Dash, I ran out of them faster than a Timberwolf! Sorry about that sugarcube..." Replied Applejack. "Ugh... What am I going to tell them..." Said Rainbow Dash, with defeat in her voice. "Eh, tell who?" Replied a confused Applejack. "The Pegasi I'm helping with Nightmare Night back in the Weather Factory, you remember?" Responded Rainbow Dash. "Oh right!" Replied Applejack. "Ugh... I guess I have to come back to them empty handed..." Said a sad Rainbow Dash, as she started slowly flying back to the factory. "Hey, don't you worry Dash. On the bright side, there will be lots of apples in Sweet Apple Acres for the next Cider season, which I know you love as much as I love all of ya!" Replied Applejack, knowing that would perk her up. "That's good to know at least..." Responded Rainbow Dash, before flying off back to the factory. As she flew back to the factory, she couldn't help but continue to feel defeated and depressed. This years Nightmare Night would be surely ruined for the factory, right? Maybe even bad enough that they would decide to never do it ever again from how bad this year's one was... As she approached the factory, she couldn't help but take a big gulp, as she was nervous when re-entering the factory, not knowing what she was going to tell them. Once she got back inside the factory, she walked over to the work room, expecting the worst. "I'm... back..." Said Rainbow Dash, before falling down muzzle first onto the steel flooring of the work room. "Rainbow Dash." Said Doctor Atmosphere, with a stern voice. "Yes....." Replied Rainbow Dash, with no emotion in her voice. None except defeat. "Guess what? We got lucky! Glaze checked the supplies room again, and found a barrel that was out of sight at first before, containing all the food and snacks we originally planned for this year's Nightmare Night! With the caramel apples you got, we will have a LOT of snacks and food! Chips! Candy bars! And even more!!" Responded a ecstatic Doctor Atmosphere, until he finally read her emotions. "W-whats wrong? I just noticed now that you clearly aren't in the best of moods.." Said a confused Doctor Atmosphere. "W-WAIT? There actually is still the snacks and food?! This is a MIRACLE!" Said a happy Rainbow Dash, as she jumped up from the floor in happiness and relief. "What had happened when you went back to Ponyville?" Replied Doctor Atmosphere, out of curiosity. "Applejack had sold out of her caramel apples, and I felt so defeated. I really felt like this year's Nightmare Night would be ruined for us. Ruined so bad even that we wouldn't have another one in the future years to come... But it's fortunately a good thing that we still have the food and snacks!" Said Rainbow Dash. "It really is! I can't imagine if we didn't have any..." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Well, what are you two waiting for? Lets go get it out for everypony in the factory!" Replied Glaze to the two of them. The three of them went back in the supplies room to get the food and snacks out, and some folding tables as well to put the food and snacks on. Once they got back in the work room with the tables in Rainbow Dash's hooves, and the food and snacks in the hooves of Doctor Atmosphere and Glaze, they set it all down and began the final preparations. Once it was all done, the workers were in awe. folding tables set across the entire work room, filled with food and snacks at the disposal on it. The three knew they did a good job, despite Rainbow Dash's poor choice of decorations. It made up for that, since the workers were enjoying their selves. "Welp, we all did a good job! This will go down as yet another amazing Nightmare Night inside the factory!" Said Doctor Atmosphere, with a grin. "Yeah! This is honestly still amazing!" Replied Glaze. "Hey.. Rainbow Dash, what's the matter?" Said Doctor Atmosphere, while facing Rainbow Dash. "Yeah, you still seem a bit.. Down, if you know what I mean." Said Glaze. "You have no reason to be down Rainbow Dash. Everything worked out well in the end! This was a team effort like usual that you helped tremendously with!" Said Doctor Atmosphere. "I guess you're both right the two of you. I just was worried.. I would end up ruining it for you and all the entire factory... But at least it worked out in the end, right?" Said Rainbow Dash, as she slowly regained her composure. "What are you all waiting for! Lets get this Nightmare Night STARTED IN THE FACTORY!!" Said Glaze, in excitement. "Rainbow Dash, you still up for it?" Said Doctor Atmosphere, to Rainbow Dash. "Hell yeah! Of course I'm still up for a amazing night filled with beloved spooks, and snacks! You know I love me some grub to stuff my face with after all! Hehe!" Replied Rainbow Dash, as she was clearly happy again. The three of them continued hosting what would go down as the best Nightmare Night of all time in the factory. They would still do the same thing each year without it growing old or boring for them, as it was a amazing holiday that brings out all the spooky things that Ponies love in Equestria. For the factory however, it couldn't be any more perfect this perfect holiday for them. Author's Note And that's the end of this short but sweet story of mine for 2022's Halloween/Nightmare Night! I hope you enjoyed it, and remember to have a amazing Halloween/Nightmare Night!
Nightmare Night in the Rainbow FactoryInside the Castle of Friendship, the Elements of Harmony were sitting down on their thrones in the Cutie Map room while Twilight was ready to discuss something with them. "Oh boy, it's finally time! Everypony, I am officially happy to announce that this year's Nightmare Night has finally begun!" Said Twilight as she was jumping off of her throne with excitement. "I can't wait for another tootin' Nightmare Night! This will be an amazing night! Maybe I can even sell some food!" Said Applejack, who was clearly excited as well. "It really is going to darling!" Rarity replied to Applejack, in approval. "I.. just hope no pony scares... me.." Said Fluttershy, who was clearly nervous. "Hey Fluttershy..." Said Rainbow Dash in a creepy tone. "U..um, yes Rainbow Dash...?" Replied a very nervous Fluttershy. "BOO!!" Said Rainbow Dash, as she scared Fluttershy. "Rainbow Dash! P..please don't do that to me..." Said Fluttershy as she was leaning down in her throne out of fear. "Hehehe... Sorry Fluttershy.." Replied Rainbow Dash. "Um, where is Pinkie Pie? Girls, do you have a clue to where she is?" Said a confused Twilight as she looked left and right. As soon as Twilight finished saying that, Pinkie Pie arrived in the room from the doors, holding two plates of freshly baked cookies in both of her hooves as she walked bipedally to the Cutie Map before setting the plates down and hopping over to her throne. "I'm backkk! Teehee! Sorry if I took long girls! I was busy making some Nightmare Night cookies for all of you!" Said a happy and excited Pinkie Pie. "Pinkie Pie! These cookies..." "They're..." "AWESOME!!" "GORGEOUS!!" "And amazing sugarcube!" "Aww.. Girls... That means so much to me..." Said a emotional Pinkie Pie, as she teared up in happiness. The six friends began eating the cookies together as they continued to sit down in their thrones. Once they were done, Twilight spoke up. "Alright girls! I think we're all ready to go to the Nightmare Night festival now!" Said Twilight excitedly. The others were very excited as they followed Twilight outside the Castle to the Nightmare Night festival in the center of Ponyville. They were all excited in their own ways, with Rainbow Dash Twilight, and Pinkie Pie showing it the most in their excited expressions. After about two minutes, they finally arrived in the center of Ponyville. They started to notice the decorations that were put up for Nightmare Night, and tons of Ponies there as well. "Here we are girls! Let's make this Nightmare Night be amazing as usual!" Twilight said to the others. "But of course darling! I'm sure it will be a amazing night to behold, just like all the other Nightmare Nights we had!" Said Rarity in a happy tone. "It sure will sugarcube!" Replied Applejack as well. "We always have a amazing Nightmare Night experience Twilight! What are you talking about silly?" Replied Pinkie Pie as well. "Even though I... get s..scared alot of it... I'm going to have to agree with Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie!" Replied Fluttershy as well, while still slightly nervous. "I know girls, I was just saying for this one to be amazing just like all the other ones." Said Twilight in response to her friends replies. "Are you alright Rainbow Dash? You didn't reply alongside us, darling! Is something wrong, dear?" Said Rarity. "Oh, uh, yeah! I'm alright Rarity. I'm just deep in thought. But anyways girls, I need to go to the Weather Factory in Cloudadale for something regarding Nightmare Night, like usual." Replied Rainbow Dash. "Are you going to be alright Sugarcube?" Said Applejack to Rainbow Dash. "Yeah, are you going to be okay Rainbow Dash?" Said Twilight to Rainbow Dash as well. "Yeah! I'm going to be okay girls, don't worry! You remember I do this every Nightmare Night after all! Hehe. Anyways catch ya girls later!" Replied Rainbow Dash as she flew off towards Cloudsdale after talking. "She sure is weird during Nightmare Night..." Said Twilight as she watched Rainbow Dash flying in the distance. "You're telling me sugarcube!" Replied Applejack, as she watched Rainbow Dash flying as well. "Who's ready to start Apple bobbing?" Said a excited Pinkie Pie. "YOU BETCHA I AM SUGARCUBE!!" Replied Applejack immediately with a tone of excitement. As soon as Rainbow Dash arrived at the factory located inside the upper area of the Weather Factory, she could only help but ponder about everything. "What am I going to do if they find out one day..." Said Rainbow Dash to herself. She walked past the guards who upon seeing her, knew it was their manager and saluted her as she walked past them to the entrance room. She continued walking, until reaching the work room. When she was in the work room, she grabbed her hung labcoat to put it on before noticing Doctor Atmosphere walking around, clearly stressed about something. "What's wrong Atmosphere?" Said Rainbow Dash. "You're finally here Rainbow Dash! Listen... We don't have any more leftover Nightmare Night decorations for this years Nightmare Night in the factory...! We might have to pass out on Nightmare Night in the factory for this year, Rainbow Dash!!" Said a worried Doctor Atmosphere as he began running around panicking, causing Rainbow Dash to sigh in annoyance. "It's going to be one of those nights again, isn't it..." Replied Rainbow Dash in annoyance as she proceeds to facehoof. "What are we going to do? We can't miss out on celebrating the best holiday this year in the factory! We simply cannot, Rainbow Dash!" Responded Doctor Atmosphere, who was still worried. The two began to walk into the work room on the metal catwalk on the top of the room, as the workers noticed them. "LOOK, I'll go buy some more decorations and materials, OKAY?" Replied Rainbow Dash, starting to get agitated with Doctor Atmosphere. "Thank Celestia! You hear that everypony? We will be able to celebrate Nightmare Night again in the factory, all thanks to our wonderful manager, Rainbow Dash! Give it all up for her!" Said Doctor Atmosphere, as most of the worker Pegasi began chanting out Rainbow Dash's name in praise. "Jeez... Thanks Atmosphere..." Said a annoyed Rainbow Dash as she rolled her eyes. Rainbow Dash was about to leave the work room to go back to the entrance room to exit the factory. Before she left, Glaze walked by behind her in the room and spoke to her. "Stressful night like usual, eh? Welcome to the club." Said Glaze. "Yep.... Ugh... Tell me about it!" Replied Rainbow Dash, as she took off her labcoat and hung it up before exiting the factory. Back in Ponyville, everypony was having the time of their life celebrating this years Nightmare Night festival. Applejack recently finished setting up shop for some delicious caramel apples with Granny Smith, Big Macintosh, and Apple Bloom next to the stall as well. Twilight was next to Princess Luna and Pinkie Pie sitting down in the stage area watching the show on the stage going on alongside the other Ponies watching it as well. Fluttershy was hosting a free service to get your picture taken in the festival. Last but least, Rarity was hosting a service for Colts and FIllies to be able to get their muzzle painted from a selection of designs. "YEEHAW! This shop is doin' as well as a golden Timberwolf! I'll be able to use the Bits to help with the support for Sweet Apple Acres!" Said Applejack enthusiastically, as she was counting how much Bits she had earned from her Caramel Apple stall. "Mine is doing good as well, darling! All the little ones love getting their muzzle painted for the holiday! Not to mention, it's cheap, dear!" Replied Rarity, who's stall was situated right next to Applejack's and Fluttershy's. "Wait a second, take that back, sugarcube! You're darn tootin' that my business is cheaper!" Responded Applejack, who was clearly in a little fight with Rarity. "You, cheap, darling? Don't make me laugh, dear!" Replied Rarity. "Oh that's it SUGARCUBE!" Responded Applejack, as the two were close to each other with expressions of anger. "Um.. Girls... Please don't fight... Please...?" Said Fluttershy, addressing the fight that had just transpired. Granny Smith, Big Macintosh, and Apple Bloom could only help but stare at what was going on. Before everything got worse, Applejack and Rarity did something else instead. "Oh you! I could never get mad at a best friend of mine, dear!" Replied Rarity, as she proceeded to laugh. "Hehe, same sugarcube! After all, I'm tootin' down to earth like a country Pony!" Responded Applejack, as she proceeded to laugh alongside Rarity. Granny Smith, Big Macintosh, and Apple Bloom shrugged at each other, as they began to laugh as well at what had just happened. Meanwhile, at the stage, Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, and Princess Luna were still watching the show going on featuring a light blue wireframe Nightmare Moon that was being emitted from a projector on the stage. "THE NIGHT WILL LAST FOREVER! MUAHAHAHAHAHA!!" Said the wireframe Nightmare Moon. "This is still amazing years later!" Said Twilight, who was in awe at the wireframe Nightmare Moon. "She looks so funny! Hahaha!" Said Pinkie Pie, as she proceeded to laugh. As the two were watching the show, Luna couldn't help but feel a sadness inside of her from when she was evil like the wireframe projection of her evil form. Eventually, she ended up speaking up to Twilight and Pinkie Pie. "We... Wait no... Forgive our royal Canterlot voice... I still sometimes wonder.. If I could have prevented myself... from snapping at my big sister... that fateful night many years ago..." Said Luna, who was clearly starting to tear up. "Luna... It wasn't your fault... Please don't cry Luna... We all make mistakes! I understand that you must feel bad from the old memory of when you turned into Nightmare Moon long ago.. but you have nothing to be sad about! That was in the past. You know your big sister Celestia loves you to death, right...?" Replied Twilight. By now, the other ponies sitting down near the stage had started turning around to look at what's going on. "Y-you're right Twilight... That was lots of years ago after all... My big sister has forgiven me ever since you and your best friends helped turn me back to normal that one night in me and my big sister's old castle, which has been in ruins for a long time in Everfree Forest..." Responded Luna, as she started to feel better, regaining her composure. "I know how much she loves you Luna... She loves you to pieces your big sister! I know she would be devastated if she ended up losing you... Same for you if you ended up losing her..." Replied Twilight. "I do.. not want to think about that..." Responded Luna, with sadness in her voice. "That was my bad for saying that Luna... I should have known it would only make you feel more sad..." Replied Twilight, as she felt bad for making Luna sad again. "Luna, why don't you try my very own Happiness Cupcake? It's certified to make you feel better! It's on the house!" Said Pinkie Pie, as she pulled out a cupcake out of nowhere. "I guess it can't hurt to try..." Replied Luna, as she took the cupcake Pinkie Pie offered to her. As soon as Luna ate the cupcake, she suddenly started feeling happier again. She was confused, so she decided to ask Pinkie Pie. "W-wow, it actually worked very well..! Pinkie Pie, we wish.. Erm.. I wish to know of how a cupcake is able to make a Pony happier!" Said a confused Luna. "Simple! I just added a pinch of artificial happiness, and all things that make you just want to smile in life! Teehee!!" Replied Pinkie Pie in happiness. As the three of them laughed, Rainbow Dash arrived back in Ponyville, landing on the ground. The three turned around to see Rainbow Dash. "Oh hey Rainbow Dash! I thought you were at the Weather Factory?" Said Twilight, in confusion. "I still am working there right now. I just need to find some Nightmare Night decorations I can buy to bring there. They really messed up with their decoration supplies this year..." Said Rainbow Dash. "Nightmare Night decorations... Hmm... I think Mayor Mare has some leftover ones that she will be willing to give to you to bring to the Weather Factory! After all, everypony deserves to celebrate this amazing holiday!" Replied Twilight. "Thanks Twi! You're the best! Also heya Luna!" Said Rainbow Dash, before flying off to find where Mayor Mare is in the festival. "No problem Rainbow Dash!" Replied Twilight, as she watched Rainbow Dash fly off. "She certainly is strange..." Said Luna, before proceeding to laugh. "You aren't wrong about that, Luna, even though she is one of my best friends!" Said Twilight, before proceeding to laugh as well. After flying for a good three minutes, Rainbow Dash found Mayor Mare inside the decorated Town Hall with the helpers for the festival. She walked up to her before talking with her. "Hey Mayor Mare, do you happen to have any leftover Nightmare Night decorations? Cloudsdale ran out of their decorations for this year's Nightmare Night." Said Rainbow Dash, hoping that she will give her some spare decorations. "Why yes I do! I happen to have some leftover decorations that me and the helpers for the festival thought they were too flashy or like they didn't suit the theme right. You can have them for free though to help Cloudsdale celebrate Nightmare Night too! No Pony deserves to be left out after all!" Replied Mayor Mare. "Thank you so much Mayor Mare!" Responded Rainbow Dash, as she picked up the box containing the decorations and began to fly back to the factory with it. "You're very welcome Rainbow Dash!" Replied Mayor Mare. Once Rainbow Dash got back to the factory, she flew inside while still holding the box and flew past the guards into the work room's metal catwalk. Doctor Atmosphere noticed her and turned around on the catwalk to speak to her. "About bloody time you came back, Rainbow Dash!" Said Doctor Atmosphere, who clearly was impatient with her. "Oh give me a break Atmosphere... I didn't take that long." Replied Rainbow Dash, who became agitated at Doctor Atmosphere. Rainbow Dash flew to the ground level of the work room and placed the box down on the steel floor. She then went back to pick up her labcoat and put it back on. Once she had her labcoat on again, she went back to the box before opening the lids and taking out the decorations. Inside the box, there was hangable banners, cardboard standups, and red LED lights! "Aw YEAH! Now we're talking!" Said Rainbow Dash, in happiness as she was looking at the various decorations. "Which ones should we decide to place?" Replied Doctor Atmosphere, curiously. "Now you got me thinking too, Atmosphere..." Responded Rainbow Dash, as she thought deeply. "Actually... We can decide that later. For now, we have to do our daily routine involving the failures. You know? Those utterly useless Pegasi..." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Oh. Right... Hehehe... This will be amusing...." Responded Rainbow Dash, with a sadistic tone to her voice as Doctor Atmosphere obtained the same tone for his voice. The two of them walked past the work room onto the metal catwalk in a long corridor filled with prison cages containing failures that they had captured who failed the Cloudsdale entrance exam. Rainbow Dash got up to the controls for one of the giant claw cranes to pick up a cage to bring a failure into the Pegasus Device room for later. Rainbow Dash and Doctor Atmosphere controlled the levers for two of them and controlled the claw to pick up two cages of failures. The claws raised to the top of the railing which directs into the Pegasus Device room. "Failures. They never get boring after awhile." Said Doctor Atmosphere, facing Rainbow Dash. "My thoughts exactly. I love their cries for help honestly! Hehehe. Anyways, we have a task at hoof. Lets go back in the work room." Replied Rainbow Dash, as the two walked back into the work room. As soon as the two of them got back to the work room, Rainbow Dash went back to the box of decorations before thinking, deep in thought. "So, now it comes to the decision of what decoration should be the one we choose to use?" Said Rainbow Dash. "Hmmm...." "We could use the hangable banners with a nice graphical design of the factory on it and have it hang from the walls." "Or, we could use the hangable red LED lights that remind me of the same kind of lights Ponies typically use on their houses for Hearth's Warming." "Or, last but least, We could y'know... Use cardboard cutouts of me! After all, I am damn fabulous..." "Yeah... You sure are...." Said Doctor Atmosphere, as he rolled his eyes at Rainbow Dash's choice. "Oh come on! Even you have to admit that I'm pretty fabulous!" Replied Rainbow Dash. "Fine... I do admit that you know how to be rather fabulous..." Responded Doctor Atmosphere, as he finally gave in. "You know, we could just have a mix of all three decorations." "Glaze? Where'd you come from?" Said Rainbow Dash, out of shock. "I'm pretty sure she was in the work room here with us." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Oh right, I forgot honestly." Said Rainbow Dash. "Anyways... What's our choice going to be about what decorations to use?" Author's Note If you haven't figured it out by now, you can choose what decorations they use! Just click on the respective link in the three choices!
Choice: Hangable Banners "I think we should use the hangable banners personally. It'll add a nice touch to the rooms in the factory!" Said Rainbow Dash, eagerly. "I dunno. Might feel like a promotional sellout." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Eh, not really. It has potential to be good like Rainbow Dash said." Replied Glaze, out of nowhere. "Anyways, let's start hanging up these banners!" Said Rainbow Dash, enthusiastically. "Alright!" The three began putting up the banners on the walls in each room of the factory. Slowly, the rooms started to slightly change with the feel of it as more and more banners were hung on the walls. Eventually after a good twenty minutes, the three finished putting the banners up in all the rooms. "Yeah! That looks pretty damn good!" Said a enthusiastic Rainbow Dash, as she looked up at the banners in the work room. "Honestly, it kind of does a bit, I guess? Having too much of the same decoration though makes it look bland though, at the same time." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Honestly... Going to have to agree with Doctor Atmosphere on this one." Replied Glaze as well. "Ugh.... Why didn't I think to put a mix of all three decorations..." Said Rainbow Dash, feeling stupid. "It doesn't matter anyways, there's no use wasting more time to take them down and put a mix of all three up. We'll just stay with this." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. By now, all the worker Pegasi in the work room have noticed the hanging banners in the room. A few of them liked it, while most of them disliked it. Even the caged failures in the prison corridor noticed the hanging banners. Even the two caged failures that were sent in the Pegasus Device room. "At least we still got the snacks and food for this years Nightmare Night in the factory. Right? Right...?" Said Rainbow Dash, clearly worried. "About that... I checked our supplies for the snacks a few minutes ago when we finished putting the decorations up, and well... We're missing those as well..." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "ARE YOU KIDDING ME ATMOSPHERE? ONCE AGAIN, YOU FAIL TO DO A SIMPLE THING!!" Yelled Rainbow Dash, in anger. "Well thanks for blaming me for something that clearly WAS NOT MY FAULT! And nice job on ruining the decorations with your LOUSY choice!" Said Doctor Atmosphere, angry as well. "Can the two of you just chill down a bit?" Said Glaze, who was the only calm one amongst the three of them. "Glaze is right... Fighting won't get us anywhere... Sorry for going crazy..." Said Rainbow Dash, in apology to Doctor Atmosphere. "I guess I'm sorry too for snapping at you as well..." Said Doctor Atmosphere, in apology to Rainbow Dash. "I'll go get my bits and go back to Ponyville to buy lots of Caramel Apples from Applejack..." Said Rainbow Dash, as she took off her labcoat to hang it up once again, and let out a stressed sigh before exiting the factory to head to her cloud house. "I feel bad for our manager... She has to go through so much just for us..." Said Glaze. "You think that's hard? Try catching a fast escaped failure before they get away from the factory!" Replied Doctor Atmosphere, with a slightly angry tone. Rainbow Dash flew to her cloud house upon exiting the factory the second time this night. Once she got there, she went inside and headed upstairs to her bedroom and pulled out her personal bank she keeps her Bits in from under the nightstand. She took the lid off of it and took 300 Bits out before putting the lid back on it and sliding it under the nightstand before heading back out of her cloud house to fly back to Ponyville. As soon as she got back to Ponyville, she headed to Applejack's Caramel Apple stall, but upon arriving, realized she had finished selling out of them, much to her disappointment. "Oh COME ON..." Said a disappointed and stressed Rainbow Dash. "Rainbow Dash, what are you doing back here? I thought you were back at Cloudsdale, sugarcube!" Replied Applejack. "Applejack, PLEASE TELL ME YOU STILL HAVE SOME CARAMEL APPLES!!" Responded Rainbow Dash, who was nervous. "Sorry Dash, I ran out of them faster than a Timberwolf! Sorry about that sugarcube..." Replied Applejack. "Ugh... What am I going to tell them..." Said Rainbow Dash, with defeat in her voice. "Eh, tell who?" Replied a confused Applejack. "The Pegasi I'm helping with Nightmare Night back in the Weather Factory, you remember?" Responded Rainbow Dash. "Oh right!" Replied Applejack. "Ugh... I guess I have to come back to them empty handed..." Said a sad Rainbow Dash, as she started slowly flying back to the factory. "Hey, don't you worry Dash. On the bright side, there will be lots of apples in Sweet Apple Acres for the next Cider season, which I know you love as much as I love all of ya!" Replied Applejack, knowing that would perk her up. "That's good to know at least..." Responded Rainbow Dash, before flying off back to the factory. As she flew back to the factory, she couldn't help but continue to feel defeated and depressed. This years Nightmare Night would be surely ruined for the factory, right? Maybe even bad enough that they would decide to never do it ever again from how bad this year's one was... As she approached the factory, she couldn't help but take a big gulp, as she was nervous when re-entering the factory, not knowing what she was going to tell them. Once she got back inside the factory, she walked over to the work room, expecting the worst. "I'm... back..." Said Rainbow Dash, before falling down muzzle first onto the steel flooring of the work room. "Rainbow Dash." Said Doctor Atmosphere, with a stern voice. "Yes....." Replied Rainbow Dash, with no emotion in her voice. None except defeat. "Guess what? We got lucky! Glaze checked the supplies room again, and found a barrel that was out of sight at first before, containing all the food and snacks we originally planned for this year's Nightmare Night! With the caramel apples you got, we will have a LOT of snacks and food! Chips! Candy bars! And even more!!" Responded a ecstatic Doctor Atmosphere, until he finally read her emotions. "W-whats wrong? I just noticed now that you clearly aren't in the best of moods.." Said a confused Doctor Atmosphere. "W-WAIT? There actually is still the snacks and food?! This is a MIRACLE!" Said a happy Rainbow Dash, as she jumped up from the floor in happiness and relief. "What had happened when you went back to Ponyville?" Replied Doctor Atmosphere, out of curiosity. "Applejack had sold out of her caramel apples, and I felt so defeated. I really felt like this year's Nightmare Night would be ruined for us. Ruined so bad even that we wouldn't have another one in the future years to come... But it's fortunately a good thing that we still have the food and snacks!" Said Rainbow Dash. "It really is! I can't imagine if we didn't have any..." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Well, what are you two waiting for? Lets go get it out for everypony in the factory!" Replied Glaze to the two of them. The three of them went back in the supplies room to get the food and snacks out, and some folding tables as well to put the food and snacks on. Once they got back in the work room with the tables in Rainbow Dash's hooves, and the food and snacks in the hooves of Doctor Atmosphere and Glaze, they set it all down and began the final preparations. Once it was all done, the workers were in awe. folding tables set across the entire work room, filled with food and snacks at the disposal on it. The three knew they did a good job, despite Rainbow Dash's poor choice of decorations. It made up for that, since the workers were enjoying their selves. "Welp, we all did a good job! This will go down as yet another amazing Nightmare Night inside the factory!" Said Doctor Atmosphere, with a grin. "Yeah! This is honestly still amazing!" Replied Glaze. "Hey.. Rainbow Dash, what's the matter?" Said Doctor Atmosphere, while facing Rainbow Dash. "Yeah, you still seem a bit.. Down, if you know what I mean." Said Glaze. "You have no reason to be down Rainbow Dash. Everything worked out well in the end! This was a team effort like usual that you helped tremendously with!" Said Doctor Atmosphere. "I guess you're both right the two of you. I just was worried.. I would end up ruining it for you and all the entire factory... But at least it worked out in the end, right?" Said Rainbow Dash, as she slowly regained her composure. "What are you all waiting for! Lets get this Nightmare Night STARTED IN THE FACTORY!!" Said Glaze, in excitement. "Rainbow Dash, you still up for it?" Said Doctor Atmosphere, to Rainbow Dash. "Hell yeah! Of course I'm still up for a amazing night filled with beloved spooks, and snacks! You know I love me some grub to stuff my face with after all! Hehe!" Replied Rainbow Dash, as she was clearly happy again. The three of them continued hosting what would go down as the best Nightmare Night of all time in the factory. They would still do the same thing each year without it growing old or boring for them, as it was a amazing holiday that brings out all the spooky things that Ponies love in Equestria. For the factory however, it couldn't be any more perfect this perfect holiday for them. Author's Note And that's the end of this short but sweet story of mine for 2022's Halloween/Nightmare Night! I hope you enjoyed it, and remember to have a amazing Halloween/Nightmare Night!
Choice: Red LED Lights "I think we should use the hangable red LED lights personally. It'll add a cool glowing ambient feel to the rooms in the factory!" Said Rainbow Dash, eagerly. "That sounds pretty good actually!" Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Eh, I don't really think it would be good to have. Sure, having ambient lighting in a room is nice, but it gets old quickly on it's own." Replied Glaze, out of nowhere. "Anyways, let's start hanging up these LED lights!" Said Rainbow Dash, enthusiastically. "Alright!" The three began putting up the LED lights on the walls in each room of the factory. Slowly, the rooms started to slightly change with the red glow of them as more and more lights were hung on the walls. Eventually after a good twenty minutes, the three finished putting the lights up in all the rooms. "Yeah! That looks pretty ambient and snazzy!" Said a enthusiastic Rainbow Dash, as she looked up at the banners in the work room. "It honestly does!" Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Like I said before, gonna have to disagree on this one. It's kinda bad on it's own." Replied Glaze as well. "Ugh.... Why didn't I think to put a mix of all three decorations..." Said Rainbow Dash, feeling stupid. "It doesn't matter anyways, there's no use wasting more time to take them down and put a mix of all three up. We'll just stay with this." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. By now, all the worker Pegasi in the work room have noticed the hanging LED lights in the room. Most of them liked it, while some of them disliked it. Even the caged failures in the prison corridor noticed the lights. Even the two caged failures that were sent in the Pegasus Device room. "At least we still got the snacks and food for this years Nightmare Night in the factory. Right? Right...?" Said Rainbow Dash, clearly worried. "About that... I checked our supplies for the snacks a few minutes ago when we finished putting the decorations up, and well... We're missing those as well..." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "ARE YOU KIDDING ME ATMOSPHERE? ONCE AGAIN, YOU FAIL TO DO A SIMPLE THING!!" Yelled Rainbow Dash, in anger. "Well thanks for blaming me for something that clearly WAS NOT MY FAULT! And nice job on ruining the decorations with your choice!" Said Doctor Atmosphere, angry as well. "Can the two of you just chill down a bit?" Said Glaze, who was the only calm one amongst the three of them. "Glaze is right... Fighting won't get us anywhere... Sorry for going crazy..." Said Rainbow Dash, in apology to Doctor Atmosphere. "I guess I'm sorry too for snapping at you as well..." Said Doctor Atmosphere, in apology to Rainbow Dash. "I'll go get my bits and go back to Ponyville to buy lots of Caramel Apples from Applejack..." Said Rainbow Dash, as she took off her labcoat to hang it up once again, and let out a stressed sigh before exiting the factory to head to her cloud house. "I feel bad for our manager... She has to go through so much just for us..." Said Glaze. "You think that's hard? Try catching a fast escaped failure before they get away from the factory!" Replied Doctor Atmosphere, with a slightly angry tone. Rainbow Dash flew to her cloud house upon exiting the factory the second time this night. Once she got there, she went inside and headed upstairs to her bedroom and pulled out her personal bank she keeps her Bits in from under the nightstand. She took the lid off of it and took 300 Bits out before putting the lid back on it and sliding it under the nightstand before heading back out of her cloud house to fly back to Ponyville. As soon as she got back to Ponyville, she headed to Applejack's Caramel Apple stall, but upon arriving, realized she had finished selling out of them, much to her disappointment. "Oh COME ON..." Said a disappointed and stressed Rainbow Dash. "Rainbow Dash, what are you doing back here? I thought you were back at Cloudsdale, sugarcube!" Replied Applejack. "Applejack, PLEASE TELL ME YOU STILL HAVE SOME CARAMEL APPLES!!" Responded Rainbow Dash, who was nervous. "Sorry Dash, I ran out of them faster than a Timberwolf! Sorry about that sugarcube..." Replied Applejack. "Ugh... What am I going to tell them..." Said Rainbow Dash, with defeat in her voice. "Eh, tell who?" Replied a confused Applejack. "The Pegasi I'm helping with Nightmare Night back in the Weather Factory, you remember?" Responded Rainbow Dash. "Oh right!" Replied Applejack. "Ugh... I guess I have to come back to them empty handed..." Said a sad Rainbow Dash, as she started slowly flying back to the factory. "Hey, don't you worry Dash. On the bright side, there will be lots of apples in Sweet Apple Acres for the next Cider season, which I know you love as much as I love all of ya!" Replied Applejack, knowing that would perk her up. "That's good to know at least..." Responded Rainbow Dash, before flying off back to the factory. As she flew back to the factory, she couldn't help but continue to feel defeated and depressed. This years Nightmare Night would be surely ruined for the factory, right? Maybe even bad enough that they would decide to never do it ever again from how bad this year's one was... As she approached the factory, she couldn't help but take a big gulp, as she was nervous when re-entering the factory, not knowing what she was going to tell them. Once she got back inside the factory, she walked over to the work room, expecting the worst. "I'm... back..." Said Rainbow Dash, before falling down muzzle first onto the steel flooring of the work room. "Rainbow Dash." Said Doctor Atmosphere, with a stern voice. "Yes....." Replied Rainbow Dash, with no emotion in her voice. None except defeat. "Guess what? We got lucky! Glaze checked the supplies room again, and found a barrel that was out of sight at first before, containing all the food and snacks we originally planned for this year's Nightmare Night! With the caramel apples you got, we will have a LOT of snacks and food! Chips! Candy bars! And even more!!" Responded a ecstatic Doctor Atmosphere, until he finally read her emotions. "W-whats wrong? I just noticed now that you clearly aren't in the best of moods.." Said a confused Doctor Atmosphere. "W-WAIT? There actually is still the snacks and food?! This is a MIRACLE!" Said a happy Rainbow Dash, as she jumped up from the floor in happiness and relief. "What had happened when you went back to Ponyville?" Replied Doctor Atmosphere, out of curiosity. "Applejack had sold out of her caramel apples, and I felt so defeated. I really felt like this year's Nightmare Night would be ruined for us. Ruined so bad even that we wouldn't have another one in the future years to come... But it's fortunately a good thing that we still have the food and snacks!" Said Rainbow Dash. "It really is! I can't imagine if we didn't have any..." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Well, what are you two waiting for? Lets go get it out for everypony in the factory!" Replied Glaze to the two of them. The three of them went back in the supplies room to get the food and snacks out, and some folding tables as well to put the food and snacks on. Once they got back in the work room with the tables in Rainbow Dash's hooves, and the food and snacks in the hooves of Doctor Atmosphere and Glaze, they set it all down and began the final preparations. Once it was all done, the workers were in awe. folding tables set across the entire work room, filled with food and snacks at the disposal on it. The three knew they did a good job, despite Rainbow Dash's poor choice of decorations. It made up for that, since the workers were enjoying their selves. "Welp, we all did a good job! This will go down as yet another amazing Nightmare Night inside the factory!" Said Doctor Atmosphere, with a grin. "Yeah! This is honestly still amazing!" Replied Glaze. "Hey.. Rainbow Dash, what's the matter?" Said Doctor Atmosphere, while facing Rainbow Dash. "Yeah, you still seem a bit.. Down, if you know what I mean." Said Glaze. "You have no reason to be down Rainbow Dash. Everything worked out well in the end! This was a team effort like usual that you helped tremendously with!" Said Doctor Atmosphere. "I guess you're both right the two of you. I just was worried.. I would end up ruining it for you and all the entire factory... But at least it worked out in the end, right?" Said Rainbow Dash, as she slowly regained her composure. "What are you all waiting for! Lets get this Nightmare Night STARTED IN THE FACTORY!!" Said Glaze, in excitement. "Rainbow Dash, you still up for it?" Said Doctor Atmosphere, to Rainbow Dash. "Hell yeah! Of course I'm still up for a amazing night filled with beloved spooks, and snacks! You know I love me some grub to stuff my face with after all! Hehe!" Replied Rainbow Dash, as she was clearly happy again. The three of them continued hosting what would go down as the best Nightmare Night of all time in the factory. They would still do the same thing each year without it growing old or boring for them, as it was a amazing holiday that brings out all the spooky things that Ponies love in Equestria. For the factory however, it couldn't be any more perfect this perfect holiday for them. Author's Note And that's the end of this short but sweet story of mine for 2022's Halloween/Nightmare Night! I hope you enjoyed it, and remember to have a amazing Halloween/Nightmare Night!
Choice: Use a Mix of all Three Decorations"Actually, why don't we use a mix of all three decorations?" Said Rainbow Dash. "That's actually a brilliant idea!" Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "I told ya that's a good idea!." Replied Glaze, out of nowhere. "Anyways, let's start setting all the decorations up!" Said Rainbow Dash, enthusiastically. "Alright!" The three began putting up the banners and red LED lights on the walls in each room of the factory, alongside the Rainbow Dash cardboard cutouts against the walls. Slowly, the rooms started to slightly change with the feel of it as more and more decorations were added. Eventually after a good thirty minutes, the three finished putting the banners up in all the rooms. "Yeah! That looks really AMAZING!" Said a enthusiastic Rainbow Dash, as she looked up at the banners in the work room. "Oh my Celestia, it really does!." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Yeah! It does look amazing! Wait no. PERFECT!" Replied Glaze as well. "Imagine if I had ended up putting only one kind of decorations in the factory!" Said Rainbow Dash, laughing at the thought. "That would have probably not been as amazing honestly!" Replied Doctor Atmosphere. By now, all the worker Pegasi in the work room have noticed all the decorations in the room. All of them agreed that it looks perfect. Even the caged failures in the prison corridor noticed the decorations. Even the two caged failures that were sent in the Pegasus Device room. "So, now, time to place the food and snacks, and then we will be all ready! We still have the food and snacks Atmosphere, right? Right..?" Said Rainbow Dash, slightly worried. "About that... I checked our supplies for the snacks a few minutes ago when we finished putting the decorations up, and well... We're missing those as well..." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "ARE YOU KIDDING ME ATMOSPHERE? What are we going to DO?" Said Rainbow Dash, in fear. "It was clearly not my fault! Glaze is the one in charge of keeping the food for our Nightmare Nights!" Said Doctor Atmosphere, slightly angry at Rainbow Dash's accusation to him. "Can the two of you just chill down a bit?" Said Glaze, who was the only calm one amongst the three of them. "Glaze is right... Panicking won't get us anywhere... Sorry for going a bit crazy..." Said Rainbow Dash, in apology to Doctor Atmosphere. "I guess I'm sorry too..." Said Doctor Atmosphere, in apology to Rainbow Dash. "I'll go get my bits and go back to Ponyville to buy lots of Caramel Apples from Applejack..." Said Rainbow Dash, as she took off her labcoat to hang it up once again, and let out a stressed sigh before exiting the factory to head to her cloud house. "I feel bad for our manager... She has to go through so much just for us..." Said Glaze. "I guess I can understand how she must feel." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. Rainbow Dash flew to her cloud house upon exiting the factory the second time this night. Once she got there, she went inside and headed upstairs to her bedroom and pulled out her personal bank she keeps her Bits in from under the nightstand. She took the lid off of it and took 300 Bits out before putting the lid back on it and sliding it under the nightstand before heading back out of her cloud house to fly back to Ponyville. As soon as she got back to Ponyville, she headed to Applejack's Caramel Apple stall, but upon arriving, realized she had finished selling out of them, much to her disappointment. "Oh COME ON..." Said a disappointed and stressed Rainbow Dash. "Rainbow Dash, what are you doing back here? I thought you were back at Cloudsdale, sugarcube!" Replied Applejack. "Applejack, PLEASE TELL ME YOU STILL HAVE SOME CARAMEL APPLES!!" Responded Rainbow Dash, who was nervous. "Sorry Dash, I ran out of them faster than a Timberwolf! Sorry about that sugarcube..." Replied Applejack. "Ugh... What am I going to tell them..." Said Rainbow Dash, with defeat in her voice. "Eh, tell who?" Replied a confused Applejack. "The Pegasi I'm helping with Nightmare Night back in the Weather Factory, you remember?" Responded Rainbow Dash. "Oh right!" Replied Applejack. "Ugh... I guess I have to come back to them empty handed..." Said a sad Rainbow Dash, as she started slowly flying back to the factory. "Hey, don't you worry Dash. On the bright side, there will be lots of apples in Sweet Apple Acres for the next Cider season, which I know you love as much as I love all of ya!" Replied Applejack, knowing that would perk her up. "That's good to know at least..." Responded Rainbow Dash, before flying off back to the factory. As she flew back to the factory, she couldn't help but continue to feel defeated and depressed. This years Nightmare Night would be surely ruined for the factory, right? Maybe even bad enough that they would decide to never do it ever again from how bad this year's one was... As she approached the factory, she couldn't help but take a big gulp, as she was nervous when re-entering the factory, not knowing what she was going to tell them. Once she got back inside the factory, she walked over to the work room, expecting the worst. "I'm... back..." Said Rainbow Dash, before falling down muzzle first onto the steel flooring of the work room. "Rainbow Dash." Said Doctor Atmosphere, with a stern voice. "Yes....." Replied Rainbow Dash, with no emotion in her voice. None except defeat. "Guess what? We got lucky! Glaze checked the supplies room again, and found a barrel that was out of sight at first before, containing all the food and snacks we originally planned for this year's Nightmare Night! With the caramel apples you got, we will have a LOT of snacks and food! Chips! Candy bars! And even more!!" Responded a ecstatic Doctor Atmosphere, until he finally read her emotions. "W-whats wrong? I just noticed now that you clearly aren't in the best of moods.." Said a confused Doctor Atmosphere. "W-WAIT? There actually is still the snacks and food?! This is a MIRACLE!" Said a happy Rainbow Dash, as she jumped up from the floor in happiness and relief. "What had happened when you went back to Ponyville?" Replied Doctor Atmosphere, out of curiosity. "Applejack had sold out of her caramel apples, and I felt so defeated. I really felt like this year's Nightmare Night would be ruined for us. Ruined so bad even that we wouldn't have another one in the future years to come... But it's fortunately a good thing that we still have the food and snacks!" Said Rainbow Dash. "It really is! I can't imagine if we didn't have any..." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Well, what are you two waiting for? Lets go get it out for everypony in the factory!" Replied Glaze to the two of them. The three of them went back in the supplies room to get the food and snacks out, and some folding tables as well to put the food and snacks on. Once they got back in the work room with the tables in Rainbow Dash's hooves, and the food and snacks in the hooves of Doctor Atmosphere and Glaze, they set it all down and began the final preparations. Once it was all done, the workers were in awe. folding tables set across the entire work room, filled with food and snacks at the disposal on it. The three knew they did a good job, despite Rainbow Dash's poor choice of decorations. It made up for that, since the workers were enjoying their selves. "Welp, we all did a good job! This will go down as yet another amazing Nightmare Night inside the factory!" Said Doctor Atmosphere, with a grin. "Yeah! This is honestly still amazing!" Replied Glaze. "Hey.. Rainbow Dash, what's the matter?" Said Doctor Atmosphere, while facing Rainbow Dash. "Yeah, you still seem a bit.. Down, if you know what I mean." Said Glaze. "You have no reason to be down Rainbow Dash. Everything worked out well in the end! This was a team effort like usual that you helped tremendously with!" Said Doctor Atmosphere. "I guess you're both right the two of you. I just was worried.. I would end up ruining it for you and all the entire factory... But at least it worked out in the end, right?" Said Rainbow Dash, as she slowly regained her composure. "What are you all waiting for! Lets get this Nightmare Night STARTED IN THE FACTORY!!" Said Glaze, in excitement. "Rainbow Dash, you still up for it?" Said Doctor Atmosphere, to Rainbow Dash. "Hell yeah! Of course I'm still up for a amazing night filled with beloved spooks, and snacks! You know I love me some grub to stuff my face with after all! Hehe!" Replied Rainbow Dash, as she was clearly happy again. The three of them continued hosting what would go down as the best Nightmare Night of all time in the factory. They would still do the same thing each year without it growing old or boring for them, as it was a amazing holiday that brings out all the spooky things that Ponies love in Equestria. For the factory however, it couldn't be any more perfect this perfect holiday for them. Author's Note And that's the end of this short but sweet story of mine for 2022's Halloween/Nightmare Night! I hope you enjoyed it, and remember to have a amazing Halloween/Nightmare Night!
Choice: Rainbow Dash Cardboard Cutouts "I think we should use the cardboard cutouts of me personally. After all, I am the most awesome Pony ever...!" Said Rainbow Dash, narcissistically. "Seriously...?" Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Honestly... Yeah..." Replied Glaze, out of nowhere. "So? What are you two waiting for? Let's start hanging up these cutouts of me! Hehe." Said Rainbow Dash, with a grin. "Fine..." The three began putting up the cardboard cutouts against the walls in each room of the factory. Slowly, the rooms started to slightly change with how narcissistic Rainbow Dash is, as more and more cutouts were set next to the walls. Eventually after a short ten minutes, the three finished putting the cutouts against the walls in all the rooms. "Yeah! Now THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!!" Said a enthusiastic Rainbow Dash, as she looked at the cutouts in the work room narcissistically. "Yeah... No." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Gonna have to definitely agree with Doctor Atmosphere on that." Replied Glaze as well. "Ugh.... Why didn't I think to put a mix of all three decorations..." Said Rainbow Dash, feeling stupid. "It doesn't matter anyways, there's no use wasting more time to take them down and put a mix of all three up. We'll just stay with this." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. By now, all the worker Pegasi in the work room have noticed the cardboard cutouts of Rainbow Dash in the room. Almost all of them disliked it. Even the caged failures in the prison corridor noticed the cutouts. Even the two caged failures that were sent in the Pegasus Device room. "At least we still got the snacks and food for this years Nightmare Night in the factory. Right? Right...?" Said Rainbow Dash, clearly worried. "About that... I checked our supplies for the snacks a few minutes ago when we finished putting the decorations up, and well... We're missing those as well..." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "ARE YOU KIDDING ME ATMOSPHERE? ONCE AGAIN, YOU FAIL TO DO A SIMPLE THING!!" Yelled Rainbow Dash, in anger. "Well thanks for blaming me for something that clearly WAS NOT MY FAULT! And nice job on ruining the decorations with your CLEARLY STUPID choice!" Said Doctor Atmosphere, angry as well. "Can the two of you just chill down a bit?" Said Glaze, who was the only calm one amongst the three of them. "Glaze is right... Fighting won't get us anywhere... Sorry for going crazy..." Said Rainbow Dash, in apology to Doctor Atmosphere. "I guess I'm sorry too for snapping at you as well..." Said Doctor Atmosphere, in apology to Rainbow Dash. "I'll go get my bits and go back to Ponyville to buy lots of Caramel Apples from Applejack..." Said Rainbow Dash, as she took off her labcoat to hang it up once again, and let out a stressed sigh before exiting the factory to head to her cloud house. "I feel bad for our manager... She has to go through so much just for us..." Said Glaze. "You think that's hard? Try catching a fast escaped failure before they get away from the factory!" Replied Doctor Atmosphere, with a slightly angry tone. Rainbow Dash flew to her cloud house upon exiting the factory the second time this night. Once she got there, she went inside and headed upstairs to her bedroom and pulled out her personal bank she keeps her Bits in from under the nightstand. She took the lid off of it and took 300 Bits out before putting the lid back on it and sliding it under the nightstand before heading back out of her cloud house to fly back to Ponyville. As soon as she got back to Ponyville, she headed to Applejack's Caramel Apple stall, but upon arriving, realized she had finished selling out of them, much to her disappointment. "Oh COME ON..." Said a disappointed and stressed Rainbow Dash. "Rainbow Dash, what are you doing back here? I thought you were back at Cloudsdale, sugarcube!" Replied Applejack. "Applejack, PLEASE TELL ME YOU STILL HAVE SOME CARAMEL APPLES!!" Responded Rainbow Dash, who was nervous. "Sorry Dash, I ran out of them faster than a Timberwolf! Sorry about that sugarcube..." Replied Applejack. "Ugh... What am I going to tell them..." Said Rainbow Dash, with defeat in her voice. "Eh, tell who?" Replied a confused Applejack. "The Pegasi I'm helping with Nightmare Night back in the Weather Factory, you remember?" Responded Rainbow Dash. "Oh right!" Replied Applejack. "Ugh... I guess I have to come back to them empty handed..." Said a sad Rainbow Dash, as she started slowly flying back to the factory. "Hey, don't you worry Dash. On the bright side, there will be lots of apples in Sweet Apple Acres for the next Cider season, which I know you love as much as I love all of ya!" Replied Applejack, knowing that would perk her up. "That's good to know at least..." Responded Rainbow Dash, before flying off back to the factory. As she flew back to the factory, she couldn't help but continue to feel defeated and depressed. This years Nightmare Night would be surely ruined for the factory, right? Maybe even bad enough that they would decide to never do it ever again from how bad this year's one was... As she approached the factory, she couldn't help but take a big gulp, as she was nervous when re-entering the factory, not knowing what she was going to tell them. Once she got back inside the factory, she walked over to the work room, expecting the worst. "I'm... back..." Said Rainbow Dash, before falling down muzzle first onto the steel flooring of the work room. "Rainbow Dash." Said Doctor Atmosphere, with a stern voice. "Yes....." Replied Rainbow Dash, with no emotion in her voice. None except defeat. "Guess what? We got lucky! Glaze checked the supplies room again, and found a barrel that was out of sight at first before, containing all the food and snacks we originally planned for this year's Nightmare Night! With the caramel apples you got, we will have a LOT of snacks and food! Chips! Candy bars! And even more!!" Responded a ecstatic Doctor Atmosphere, until he finally read her emotions. "W-whats wrong? I just noticed now that you clearly aren't in the best of moods.." Said a confused Doctor Atmosphere. "W-WAIT? There actually is still the snacks and food?! This is a MIRACLE!" Said a happy Rainbow Dash, as she jumped up from the floor in happiness and relief. "What had happened when you went back to Ponyville?" Replied Doctor Atmosphere, out of curiosity. "Applejack had sold out of her caramel apples, and I felt so defeated. I really felt like this year's Nightmare Night would be ruined for us. Ruined so bad even that we wouldn't have another one in the future years to come... But it's fortunately a good thing that we still have the food and snacks!" Said Rainbow Dash. "It really is! I can't imagine if we didn't have any..." Replied Doctor Atmosphere. "Well, what are you two waiting for? Lets go get it out for everypony in the factory!" Replied Glaze to the two of them. The three of them went back in the supplies room to get the food and snacks out, and some folding tables as well to put the food and snacks on. Once they got back in the work room with the tables in Rainbow Dash's hooves, and the food and snacks in the hooves of Doctor Atmosphere and Glaze, they set it all down and began the final preparations. Once it was all done, the workers were in awe. folding tables set across the entire work room, filled with food and snacks at the disposal on it. The three knew they did a good job, despite Rainbow Dash's poor choice of decorations. It made up for that, since the workers were enjoying their selves. "Welp, we all did a good job! This will go down as yet another amazing Nightmare Night inside the factory!" Said Doctor Atmosphere, with a grin. "Yeah! This is honestly still amazing!" Replied Glaze. "Hey.. Rainbow Dash, what's the matter?" Said Doctor Atmosphere, while facing Rainbow Dash. "Yeah, you still seem a bit.. Down, if you know what I mean." Said Glaze. "You have no reason to be down Rainbow Dash. Everything worked out well in the end! This was a team effort like usual that you helped tremendously with!" Said Doctor Atmosphere. "I guess you're both right the two of you. I just was worried.. I would end up ruining it for you and all the entire factory... But at least it worked out in the end, right?" Said Rainbow Dash, as she slowly regained her composure. "What are you all waiting for! Lets get this Nightmare Night STARTED IN THE FACTORY!!" Said Glaze, in excitement. "Rainbow Dash, you still up for it?" Said Doctor Atmosphere, to Rainbow Dash. "Hell yeah! Of course I'm still up for a amazing night filled with beloved spooks, and snacks! You know I love me some grub to stuff my face with after all! Hehe!" Replied Rainbow Dash, as she was clearly happy again. The three of them continued hosting what would go down as the best Nightmare Night of all time in the factory. They would still do the same thing each year without it growing old or boring for them, as it was a amazing holiday that brings out all the spooky things that Ponies love in Equestria. For the factory however, it couldn't be any more perfect this perfect holiday for them. Author's Note And that's the end of this short but sweet story of mine for 2022's Halloween/Nightmare Night! I hope you enjoyed it, and remember to have a amazing Halloween/Nightmare Night!
