AN: I do not own MLP, it belongs to Hasbro. Rainbow Factory belongs to Aurora Dawn. I do not own "Five Score Divided by Four" either...

The road to Tartarus is paved with good intentions...

-Halinor's p.o.v.-

"Sadness

Cold

Fear

Grief

Loneliness

Despair...These are the emotions I was currently feeling, a stew of nothing good that was tearing away at my body and soul as I watched Canterlot disappear into the distance below the cloud canopy me and the others who failed their flight exam were currently going through. Where we were going, only I knew since I had secretly followed my mothers one day to their job. The infamous Cloudsdale Weather Corporation, the Rainbow Factory, just played the front of an innocent facility. The truth, however, was far from that disguise. When I followed my mothers I used an invisibility spell to make sure I wouldn't be seen and entered through one of the tubes the rainbows come out of, reverse Shawshank Redemption style, just to get a behind the scenes look at the job. I, just like all the citizens, had been played. The things I saw changed me, all that I knew as good was ground into dust as I fled from that God-forsaken hellhole that I wished to never set another hoof, or claw depending on my form, in again. I left out of there as quick as I could but the images still burned like coals in the back of my mind. The moment I felt myself dozing off during my flight exam I knew my fate I had been sealed, I was no longer to be a free filly, I was to return to my eternal prison where I will be forced into "providing for the greater good of the flock and for our human allies." I have to hand it to my mothers for not telling me the truth, just as I covered up the fact I knew what was going to happen to me. I just hope I can make my mothers proud in this new path fate has bestowed upon me as a result of my actions...and I must face the consequences of them..." I was interrupted from from my thoughts to myself and to nopony in particular as the carriage the other failures and myself were in stopped at the secret delivery gate and we were unloaded like livestock at a slaughterhouse, which was actually a better analogy then what seemed to be occurring. The other colts and fillies that were in this batch knew who I was because of my famous last name so it was just a matter of the others introducing themselves to me.

"I never would have thought that a foal of the Dash lineage would fail their flight exam.." A young filly by the name of Crimsom Rose, who to my absolute shock was the daughter of Sunset Shimmer and Thunderlane, stated as we all trotted in a single file line to the reception desk.

"I wouldn't have if I didn't sneak out of bed for a midnight training run the night before, oh well, it is what is considering this is consequences for my actions..."

"How did your family handle it?" She asked in a tone that was signaling she was digging for info.

"Better than I did..." I said with a forced smile since I wasn't even going to dare try and tell her the full truth as it was my turn to approach the desk, where a pegasus with a mint green coat, lavender mane, and skull and crossbones cutie mark was doing the paperwork.

"What is your name you sorry excuse of a pegasus?" The mare asked in a cold steel tone but I was not going to back down.

"Hali Amelia Dash." I firmly said and it seemed like time froze, every worker within earshot stopped in place as their jaws dropped, one unfortunate colt shattered a beaker of what looked like sulfuric acid when it hit the floor and immediately got sent to the bosses' office.

"You're...you're a Dash?" She asked with a studder trying to still wrap her hooves around it.

"Indeed I am, and just like all the other failures here I failed my flight exam and I have nopony to blame but myself for that. Now, as a result, I am to spend the rest of my life here in this facility as a worker to help the betterment of the flock. I also don't want any special treatment just because I am the bosses' daughter."

"You won't be getting any you little filly..." The tension in the air thickened to the point you could cut it with a rusted butter knife as I recognized the stallion's heavy tone. "I find it funny you are here now Hali, in MY domain, and I haven't forgotten the fact you broke my fetlock."

"It was a total accident and you bucking well know it Dr. Atmosphere," I countered with a sneer as he got muzzle to muzzle with me. "And YOUR domain? Last I checked you weren't the one giving the orders around here so it might be best to take your comment back before you suffer disciplinary actions."

"Oh please, I practically run this joint since it is a stallion's job that no mare could do as well as me. Only reason your mothers are over me is because they probably clopped your dad to get it." The room fell deathly silent as some thing inside me snapped, I lundged at him and pinned him to the wall as I changed my right front hoof into a claw to hold him in place as I slowly suffocated him.

"Any last words bitch?" I growled as my eyes went dragonic but two voices behind me prevented me from ending him right then and there.

"Put...him..down...now Halinor..." I spun around and saw my parents in full uniform looking at both of us with a downright angry look on their faces, the fact they used my full first name only confirmed how much trouble I was in as I let go, sending him sliding to the floor gasping for breath.

"Dr. Atmosphere you are hereby placed on unpaid administrative leave until further notice...". My mommy said flipping her rainbow mane off to the side of her face until mom, who's mane was a deep shade of pink, addressed me.

"You Halinor are to spend 3 weeks in solitary confinement, after which you will be sentenced to the sanitation crew, any objections?"

"Not at all, now Mrs. Rainbow and Mrs. Pinkamena I'll be on my way." I could see pure shock in their eyes but they didn't say a word as they motioned for me to head to the cell. After being locked in it, I was left alone to my thoughts and realized that this was for the best, my good side was silenced as I submitted myself to the factory's influence. "Where not a single soul gets through..." I chuckled loudly to myself making the guard on duty soil himself in fear. Little did I know that elsewhere in the cosmos, Discord was playing chess against himself and a had saw the whole thing from a viewing monitor.

"And another piece falls into place..." He snickered as the took his "opponent's" bishop with one of his pawns with a look of mischief and satisfaction on his face.