Bright Haze: The Sky Dwellers

"I was reading your file. Shame you were Celestial born, we could have used a warrior like you." the Dweller captain said to Rainbow Dash, she was tempted to ignore him again but decided against it this time.

"File?" Dash asked, the captains face lilt up slightly at the sound of Rainbow talking but she ignored it, repeating the question.

"Every pony from Celestia's side has a file, even that Haze friend of yours. Terrible fall he went through." The captain said. Rainbow Dash nodded.

"Saved both worlds, even the fuckers of this one." She replied, the captain gave a face at the swear but otherwise ignored the remark.

"Yeah, I read about your stallion reject." The captain said, deliberately annoying Rainbow.

"Excuse me?" Rainbow was pissed.

"What's his name, Spectra Speed. Parents died over twenty years ago, something like that. By one of my friends, a Sky Dweller." The captain said, Rainbow was losing her cool but kept it because she knew it was what the Dweller was waiting for.

"I see." Rainbow tried to play the Dwellers game. "Well what about the Alicorn in our group?" Rainbow asked, the Dweller looked confused. Bingo.

"I saw no mention of an Alicorn. Or the Serpent." The Dweller replied.

"Ah well, if you have missed out some members then woe to you. The Alicorn, Soul Breaker and the Pegasus Lost Haze are mercs, trained Dweller killers."

"Never heard of them."

"You wouldn't of, they leave nopony to spread the news."

"We have been losing a few patrols in the Canterlot-Everfree area."

"There you go then. You never know where either of the two will be, if they find any Dweller, they will die. Any Dweller." Rainbow said, the captain was showing signs of fear.

"And if my stallionfriend has discovered his parents were killed by a Dweller, woe to you, now not only do you have two killers on their way, now you have three." Rainbow added and just gave a cute wink. The captain paused for a second.

"Let me tell you a story Rainbow. Why do you think we live in floating cites, why do you think we took Cloudsdale." The captain asked, changing the subject.

"You didn't take it, you burned it." Rainbow said, spitting at the stallions feet. He smiled.

"We didn't need to take it, just raid an old, factory. For some, material. That's it really." Rainbow Dash shuddered.

"Oh, does a factory scare you? Thought Cloudsdale was a fine, glorious city?" The captain said.

"With all great things... Comes a great responsibility.. I was young, I never pulled the lever!" Rainbow said, then shouted, curling up into a ball.

"Cloudsdale Rainbow Factory. Now the thing about that is, it created us..-" The captain said and Rainbow looked up to the captain.

"Yes Rainbow, the Sky Dwellers are the decendents of those hundred ponies released during the first sack of Cloudsdale, nopony knew why us Pegasi were in that building, but we did. Being part of the Spectra, the retards of Cloudsdale. Well Miss Dash, we are the survivors of Cloudsdale! We are the master race. We didn't need Cloudsdale, only the blueprints to make our own factories, what do you think we were gonna use all our prisoners for?" The captain said, proud of himself.

"You monsters!" Rarity spat.

"We are the monsters? We are the survivors Unicorn! We escaped a fate worse than death, it was your friend here, Rainbow Dash, CEO of Cloudsdale factories, who worked there." The captain shouted, all eyes were on Rainbow, she was crying.

"Rainbow? Is this true?" Applejack asked. Rainbow bowed her head.

"I was young, had no money, I never killed nopony, just the manager for less than a month, I broke the machines more than the engineers could fix them. Hell I was the one who shut the place down. They were going to kill Scoots guys. I saved her, and countless lives!" Rainbow shouted, then cried, and didn't stop. Only thinking of Spectra, only him.

Nopony spoke to Rainbow the rest of the day, and as the barren land of outer Equestria slowly passed by, Rainbow was glad, when they stopped for the night Rainbow ate no food, nor drank water, she didn't sleep and kept thinking of Spectra, but it didn't help. The screams began to come back, haunting her again after so long avoiding them. The Dwellers were dumb, but they knew how to hurt a pony. Rainbow didn't move from her spot of her side the entire time. Even whilst everypony was sleeping, Dash quietly sobbed to herself.

"Not a single soul gets through." Rainbow muttered. "But I saved them, just as my ancestors saved the Dwellers. Its over, no more need die. So long as we win this fucking war..." Rainbow muttered at around midnight then finally dozed of too sleep.