VII
They Survived
POV: Reaper
You'd think that would be the end of it, right? The goal was just to stop the rainbow factory from murdering innocent ponies, right? Well, that'd be too easy. We (John and I) knew that without the rainbow factory, Equestria would be deprived of rainbows. That may not seem like a big problem, but everypony would start to lose it if there was a lack of rainbows. That was where we had no plan. Rainbow dash had a hole blown through her head, we were in deep shit with the law and we had no idea what to do. John took a moment to analyze the situation thoroughly. He thought out loud going through everything as I remembered something that I had mentioned when we were still in conservation… Minority Report.
"John, I have our solution!" I blurted confidently.
"Good, what is it?" John asked.
"Minority Report."
"No seriously" he grumbled.
"I am serious" I continued. "We need to go back in time to get rid of the guy who thought of this method of making rainbow colors!"
"How?" he retaliated, sounding like he knew that the plan wouldn't work.
"Princess Celestia and Princess Luna" I countered.
"What in the Sam hell do they have to do with this?"
"They know how to go back in time" I explained. "They have spells for that somewhere in the castle. I can remember it from the show."
"Oh, okay" he said, surprisingly without sarcasm. "But we'll need to explain everything first."
"Duh."
"I've still got a lot of the evidence in my pocket" he told me.
"What the hell is it doing in your pocket?"
"I kept it just in case" he smiled.
John remembered dropping his SPAS so he went over and grabbed it. I could understand why. We didn't say another thing; instead we both rushed to Canterlot as fast as we could. We made it to the front gate of the castle where two castle guards confronted us. One of them pointed his gun at us. "Hey! What in the Sam hell are you guys doing?!" John yelled.
"Stop right there, criminal scum!" The other one said. I facehoofed at that. John laughed and said "We're here to report something that happened at Cloudsdale."
"We already know that you were the ones who caused it!" The first guard said, switching his aim between me and John. John yanked out his SPAS, switched it to pump action and pumped it to freak them out. The both backed off and let us in. I was assuming that they knew who we were.
We raced into the throne room. "PRINCESS CELESTIA! WE HAVE A PROBLEM!"
"And what would that be?" she asked, hinting that she knew that we caused the whole mess up there.
"The rainbow factory doesn't make rainbows how you think they do!" I yelled.
"Then how are they made?"
"Innocent ponies, namely ones who fail their Cloudsdale flight test, are killed and the colors of their bodies are used to make the individual colors of the rainbow" John explained. "We had to get pure evidence and we did because they tried to do the same to us."
"I wouldn't believe that" she scowled. "Would you happen to have any real proof?"
John cursed her name under his breath as he took out the proof he had in his pocket. She yanked it out of his hands with her magic and started looking over the evidence. I was expecting her to call them off as forged then ask us if we liked bananas (y'all know why), but as she looked over them her eyes widened and her jaw slowly dropped open. When she was done with looking over the documents, she gave them back to John and quietly asked "what do we do now?"
"We go back in time and get rid of the bastard who came up with the idea of making rainbows with ponies" John responded.
"We could do that" she repeated, looking down in thought. "I guess it's the only real solution. That way we don't have to explain anything to the public and us three will be the only ones who know."
"So, we're doin' it then?" I asked.
"I guess we are" the Princess answered me.
"Before thy departure!" a voice called out. Luna ran into the room and tackled John in a hug.
I stood there over them. "P.E.T.A. would have a shit fit about all of this" I laughed.
"What?" Celestia interrupted my thoughts confusedly.
I told her it was nothing as John got up and Luna wished him luck. We followed Princess Celestia to a place in the Royal Library labeled "Star Swirl The Bearded." It sounded to me like it was a character from World Of Warcraft or something like that. She rummaged through shelves of old scrolls and other ancient-looking pieces of writing. She finally found the one she was looking for because she picked it up and said "Ah! Here it is!" which made it kind of obvious that she had found it.
"We ready?" I asked, ready to do this.
"Indeed we are" Celestia responded, turning around and setting her large horn aglow.
It was a single flash of bright light and we were in that rainbow factory again, but this time it seemed less eerie. There wasn't as much metal reinforcement everywhere and there was a large table in the middle where four executive ponies sat, probably discussing the idea of murdering ponies for their color. "Come on!" one of them spoke up, more than likely the one who had the idea. "The Princess won't find out."
"She just did" I blurted, interrupting the conversation and scaring the shit out of the guys at the table.
"You!" John yelled, pointing at the one with the idea. "You're under arrest for future accounts of murder."
"FUTURE?!" he screamed in terror of his imminent death.
"Say, do you like bananas?" I asked, smiling.
He nodded in terror. "So you're a mmmmmmm-bitch that likes mmmmmm-bananas?" John asked with a devilish smile that Celestia had as well.
He nodded, now just confused. We both looked up at the Princess. "Well, you're about to go bananas…" her horn began to glow once again as she gave a little laugh and then shouted excitedly, "ON THE MOON!" And POOF! The pony was gone, never to be seen again.
We turned around to leave but before we teleported back to our own time, John stopped and said "When you come in contact with The United States Of America, buy color dyes. They'll color your rainbows far better than any pony's dead body will." And with that, we left.
We were spat back into the Princess's throne room with a disorienting flash of light. We looked around the room and luckily, nothing was different in the room. There was one thing that still remained that we needed to know… did it work? We were all thinking the same thing because we simply looked at Celestia and her horn lit up again as we were teleported to the front of the weather factory. It was mid-day so there were tourists about. As we walked by everypony, they bowed down to the Princess… Typical.
As we continued onwards, we noticed that all the doors to every factory section were open with no guards about. In Factory 16C, the Tram was still operational, but instead of being the rusted cheap metal that it was originally, it now looked very appealing with the colors of the rainbow covering it. Tourist Pegesai from all over Equestria were boarding it as a tour guide led them up into the rainbow factory. We hopped aboard just as it left. After a few minutes riding in the tram, we all raced into the factory to see regular ponies working away happily using colored dyes from the U.S. and other places. The rainbow colors were so vibrant I felt like I was getting irradiated by just standing near them. Everything looked so much more normal…
John was looking around with wide-open eyes while Princess Celestia was walking around with a large smile. I was just standing there thinking about what we had gone through just recently. I looked up at the sky through one of the windows that were now in the soft cloud walls and smiled, wondering what Bo was thinking about all of this.
Several days later, I was home with Fluttershy and John was in Canterlot with Luna. Afanasai and Connor were living in John's old house. Connor was apparently no different than he was before according to John who would come around every several days or so. Discord was also around with Connor, and Savior and Twilight were back in Twilight's tree library. Scootaloo was still alive and so was Rainbow Dash. I visited Savior with John one day to tell him what really happened here. He and Twilight both believed me easily, but I showed them John's documents just to be sure. They were dumbfounded.
It was all peaceful as far as we cared. Bo also contacted me with thanks coming from not only himself, but also the ponies that were against the original rainbow factory plan. It was peaceful for so long that I thought it would never end, but things are never that simple…
Never…
I hate to say it, but THE END! Like normal, I didn't reach my word goal, but I still enjoyed writing this one. As you could probably guess there will be another sequel. I wasn't planning on it but then I had a dream that just gave me a perfect idea. I will, however, be writing a side-story for the series first. It will be based in the same world as this story, but be based around different characters. I don't know when I will start on it or what it will be called, but I know I'm gonna do it. Anyways, thanks to everyone who read, reviewed, followed, etc. my story. I hope you enjoyed it and I will see you guys later!
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Chapter name based off of the song "Survive" by Rise Against
