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this idea was inspired by Legendary Brony. originally i was going to post his story up on my account temporarily since he was having trouble with his computer and couldn't post on his own. but now it seems that he has lost time to write the story and has abandoned it... but i'm going to save it. this is his story... everything you read is his idea but it's written by me. hopefully this will inspire you to try and find the time to work on this story legendary brony... i would be glad to pass it on to you at any time.

the story itself is going to be an elongated version of rainbow factory. it's going to have a different story line where it's not pegasi being taken but unicorns instead. other than making rainbows we will be making something else, something that will be later revealed as the story progresses. i plan on finishing this story if legendary brony still doesn't want to write it. he says that he's bad at writing .. but i dont accept that as an excuse.

the following story is rated R

there will be violence

there will be death

and there will be blood... oh yes, there will be blood.

-YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED-

everything around me was so... so cold, so desolate. i felt like somepony had sucked all the life and energy out of the air and replaced it with bitterness and despair. my head was throbbing, i could feel it in my sleep. i can't remember much of what happened the other night. i was just at home, brushing my teeth, then the lights go out. i couldn't see anything and the next thing i knew i was asleep. i'm afraid that i don't know where i am. i'm scared, i don't know what i will be waking up to and i don't look forward to seeing it. i could feel the floor beneath me, it was stone cold and rock hard too. the air around me was cold, it blew through my fur and chilled my skin.

my name is colgate, i'm a dentist back in ponyville. i love that town to pieces, but some of the ponies there should really eat more fruits and vegetables instead of sweets and sugar. especially a certain pink maned party pony, who is the base of my whole business. she comes in every month with cavities in her teeth. she says she gets them from all the party's she goes to, and she goes to at least three or four party's every month. i often keep good care of my teeth and have good dental hygiene. my pearly white teeth nicely compliment my sapphire blue mane and tail with an off white swirl. my slightly lighter blue fur and sharp horn. my cutie mark is of an hourglass. i don't get how this makes sense when i'm a dentist, but ponies often tell me that i'm very patient.

as i slowly started to bat my eyes open my sight was flooded with a large view of grey and depressing colors. everything was still a bit fuzzy, but i seemed to be in some sort of cage. the ground under me was stone and we were in some kind of large room. it was cold and i was shivering. i looked around and i couldn't see anything good out of this. i felt trapped and helpless. i climbed into a sitting position and in a desperate attempt tried to push the bars of the cage out of my way, no hope. as i pushed on the bars i felt something rub against my neck. when i looked down there was a large metal collar around my neck. i didn't like it and i made me scared, i tried grabbing it and pulling it off, but it wouldn't come off. it didn't even look like it would even open, it looked like a perfectly solid metal ring they somehow slid over my head.

"tugging on that thing isn't going to help you... the collars don't come off." said a burly voice behind me. in a fit of shock and surprise i quickly snapped back to see who was behind me. turned out there where several ponies behind me in this cage. i was laying in the far corner all by myself. "you'll take you're head off before that collar." said a large brown unicorn stallion. all of these ponies where unicorns, but not ones i was familiar with.

"what is this place!?" i asked abruptly.

"don't know..." said the stallion.

"please... you have to help me get out." i begged.

"theres no use." said a mare on the other side of the cage. "security around these parts is tight... nothing gets past those damn robot guards."

"freaking harp troopers." said one other stallion in the corner next to the mare.

"h-harp?" i asked confused. i felt like a kid in an adult conversation. i could hear what they were saying but i couldn't understand a damn thing. all i knew is that i was trapped in this cage and there didn't seem to be much hope if any at all. "what are... harp troopers."

"uhm... H.A.R.P." said a rather intelligent sounding stallion next to the first brown stallion. he was wearing glasses, had a light brown coat and light blue hair. "it's an anagram. hydraulic, anatomic, robot, ponies... harp."

"r-robot ponies?" i said softly as i was still unsure of what i just heard.

"you'll know when you see one..." said the first stallion. "they come in here every day to feed us and give us something to drink... need to keep us alive for whatever they have planned for us."

"w-what are they going to do?" i asked feeling more scared now than before. i was shaking now from fear instead of cold. i had bumps running down my skin under my fur.

"nopony knows..." said the mare. "they come in here about every other day or so and grab one of us, say they have some questions to ask us... then they drag the pony away and they're never seen again... at least they don't come back here." she said. i was scared out of my mind. i just want to go home, this has to be a bad dream, it has to be.

"no no NOOO... i want to go home..." i said covering my head and balling up. i broke from my fetal position and started pounding on the bars of the cage. "LET ME OUT..." i shouted at the top of my lungs.

"thats no use..." said the first stallion. i kept pounding until my hooves were sore from hitting the metal bars and i just fell to the cold stone ground and curled up in a ball. i felt like crying, but i didn't want to cry in front of these five other ponies. "hey... what's you're name?" asked the brown stallion. he had deep blue eyes and a cutie mark of a what seemed to be a ring of lightning.

"i... i'm colgate..." i said timidly. "i'm a dentist in ponyville

"well colgate..." said the stallion. "i'm shock wave... nice to meet you." he said smiling at me. it didn't do a good job of making me feel better, i still felt helpless and afraid.

"my names sapphron..." said the mare at the other corner of the cage. she had light green hair with a white coat. she had a picture of some kind of flower for a cutie mark. she had light green eyes and a bright smile, looks like she takes good care of her teeth. "i'm a herbalist back in tottington." she said.

"my names star burst." said the stallion next to sapphron. he had light blue fur with a deep and dark mane and tail. his hair was ragged and dirty, all of theirs was, i can imagine they've been in here for a while. his cutie mark was a cluster of stars. "i'm an astronomer all the way from canterlot."

"my names firewall." said the other stallion at the opposite side of the cage from sapphron. he had light black fur with a yellow mane and tail that had an orange frost at the end of it. his cutie mark was a picture of a shield surrounded in fire. "i'm a mechanic for the canterlot royal guard... i was stationed outside of gryphon village before i wound up here."

" and uh, my names screensaver." said the other pony next to shockwave in the middle of the cage. he was rather skinny with a light tan coat and dark brown hair. he was wearing prescription glasses and had blue eyes. his cutie mark was a computer with chains and a lock covering it. "i'm a technician from manehattan... i work with computers mostly, and i'm very good at programming."

"it's nice to... to meet you all." i said becoming a bit more comfortable knowing these ponies. they seemed like very nice ponies, and they have them all picked out too. we all seem to come from different corners of equestria. i looked back to shockwave who seemed rather distant. he had a scar on the left side of his face that reached all the way under his muzzle. "hey uh... you didn't tell us where you're from or what you do shockwave." i said still timidly.

"i... i'm an ex guard." he said. " i used to live in canterlot."

"ex guard... you look to young to have retired or get discharged." i said curiously. he pouted and then let out a deep sigh before rolling his head over to the left, hiding his scar once more.

"i... i left the force." he said. "after my bestfriend died i wanted nothing to do with the royal guard, so i went AWOL, fled to apalooza, became a farmer... haven't been bothered for a few years now... until this." he said. i didn't know what to say. i wanted to speak but i couldn't think of anything to ask or comment with. everypony else seemed to act the same way. i just sat there in a fetal position trying to keep warm. i wrapped my tail around the base of my flank so it would keep warm against the cold stone floor. soon the room was flooded with a red light that flashed all around and a loud whistle sounded off. it almost scared me out of my fur.

"well looks like its feeding time." said sapphron. soon an almost unnoticeable door opened from the ground up revealing an empty white hallway. i could hear the sound of hooves clanging on the ground, then as they grew closer they soon sounded more metallic, than natural. and soon a large robotic pony reared its ugly head. it was made of full metal and was black and shiny. it had the word ' H.A.R.P." printed on each side and for a false cutie mark there was just a single cog gear on each side of its flank. its eyes were glowing bright yellow and it was carrying a cart full of grey and disgusting looking food.

the bard of the cage opened up at one side next to the door and the metallic robot pony walked in and pulled the cart in with it. it didn't have any false mane or tail, i guess it didn't need one. once it pulled all the way in a large plate of metal slid across his back and opened up into a hole. from the hole spouted several long metallic tentacles. each one had a claw at the end of it which it used to grab the bowls and pass them over to each of us. i curled up even more afraid that the robot would grab me and take me away, but when i looked back there was a bowl of food in front of me and the robots claws were receding back into its shell.

"IN ONE HOUR(S) THE BOWLS WILL BE COLLECTED AND ONE STALLION/MARE WILL BE CHOSEN BY RANDOM INTERVALS..." said the large robot pony speaking in a scary and deep robotic and clearly fake voice. it had a fake mouth that just glowed every time he made a sound. " THE CHOSEN PONY WILL BE ESCORTED TO AN ALTERNATE LOCATION AND HE/SHE WILL BE QUESTIONED." said the robot before turning around and walking out of the cage and pushing the cart with him now. the cage closed behind him and then the door shut as well.

nopony said anything. there was really nothing to say, we were all scared, i could feel it. i looked down and stared at the bowl of food i was just given. the others started eating but i found it hard to even touch the stuff. it was grey and soggy looking like oatmeal. it looks like it definitely doesn't taste good and probably isn't good enough for a regular meal. this looks like it's just barely enough to get by on. but, i didn't have much choice, so i started eating. it tasted horrible, like Styrofoam i kept eating though, trying to force it down... i need the strength. i need to find a way out of here no matter what. but i'm not sure if i can, i'm scared, confused and alone. even with these other ponies here, i still feel abandoned and trapped.

i might never get out of here.