RAIM/MLP crossover
Chapter 25 – Cloudsdale's Dark Secret
We finally arrived in Cloudsdale a day later. When we arrived we immediately rented a penthouse room at a hotel. Right after we were done unpacking, I heard a knock at the door. I opened the door to see Glaze, he said "I am here to take Octavia and Neon to the Rainbow fac... I mean Weather facility for the tour" I notified Neon and Octavia, but right before Neon walked out the door, I said to him "Keep an eye out, if anything happens, notify us immediately" he nodded and followed Glaze.
I closed the door and walked over to Vinyl, who was taking care of the kids and said "How are they doing?" He smiled "Fine, but now it is your turn to take care of them" I sighed and took her place, as Vinyl kissed me on the cheek and said "Thank you" she then yelled to Cadance "You ready to go?" Cadance was dressed fancy as the two of them were going shopping. All that was left were me and Shining Armor. After I put Concordia and Adam to sleep, I sat on one of the bed and had a sigh of boredom. Shining Armor walked up to me and said "Wanna play video games" I shrugged and said "Sure, why not".
(Neon's viewpoint) Glaze had led us outside the main part of the city. Eventually we saw a factory like place with black smoke being expelled from the smoke stacks. Glaze waved his hand over the factory and said "Welcome to the weather facility" he led us inside and said "Though this place doesn't look large from the outside, it is begged than you think. It extends downwards into Cloudsdale, and expands around the entire city, but all of the important stuff happens here" as I observed the bubbly architecture of the facility, Glaze led us to a window that looked over a section of the facility, in there was a stream of all the colors in the rainbow, flowing into a huge cauldron of chemicals, being mixed together. Glaze pointed to this area and said "This is the heart and soul of the facility, all of the rainbow materials are atomized and restructured for the weather" I looked and noticed something, some of the equipment and machinery had bloodstains. But I decided for my sake and Octavia's, not to ask, but to wait until later. After the tour was over, as we were walking back to the hotel I said to Octavia "Am I the only one who noticed the bloodstains on the machinery?" She shook her head "I also noticed it, but didn't think anything of it" I smirked and said "I think we should investigate" Octavia's eyes widened "No, I think it's a bad idea, though... I do find it odd, when I think about the fact that there is a gruesome legend about this place, and that there are bloodstains" I rolled my eyes and said "So? Yes or no?" She sighed and said "Alright, what is the plan?" I smiled and said "We need to do a stake out, once we see an opening to get inside, we will get in and see what really goes on in there" Octavia nodded saying "It's a good plan, except for the fact that it isn't that well thought out" I scratched my head saying "Well I haven't had that much time to think about it, oh there goes Glaze, let's follow him" we followed him carefully back towards the facility. We watched for hours, with no sign of anyone entering or leaving since Glaze. Octavia looked at me and said "For a facility that makes weather with chemicals and such. There isn't much being supplied" "I know... forget this, we are breaking in" "How?" I smiled and replied "The roof" Octavia sighed "I have a bad feeling about this".
After we had managed to get on the roof, I positioned my self above an area and used my magic to cut a hole large enough to get in. We got inside and quietly made our way to the main area of the facility. Eventually we got to a set of large steel doors with signs saying stay out, and caution labels, we immediately knew that this is the place. I opened the door, Octavia went in, but as I was about to, I heard the sound of somebody coming and quickly shut it. I pretended to act confused when the guard asked "What are you doing here?" I shrugged and said "I was part of a tour, and I have been trying to find the bathroom" fortunately the guard wasn't that smart and believed me. He led me away from there, and my plan was working perfectly. As I got out of the building I telepathically contacted Octavia and asked "Are you in?" No answer, I kept trying with no answer, that's when I decided to run in there.
(As Octavia) I had just walked in when the door behind me shut. I looked around the room observing everything when I saw something that made me gasp in horror. I saw piles of dead ponies that looked like they had the life drained from them. I continued looking, to see a moderately sized line of non-pegasi ponies and unicorns in shackles heading towards a prison like area. I looked slightly upwards to see a pony strapped to a splint in mid air, then suddenly a scalpel like tool strapped him then drained him dry of his color. That's when I heard a familiar voice behind me "How are you enjoying your tour" I turned around to see Glaze in a lab coat standing there staring at me. He then knocked me out. I woke up a few minutes later tied to a pole. In front of me stood a blue pony with a yellow mane, right next to Glaze. They noticed me wake up, Glaze walked over and said "You shouldn't have gone looking for answers, now you know Cloudsdale's dark secret, and now we can't let you leave" I struggled to get out, but to no avail. Then I asked "Why do you do this?" The blue pony laughed crazily and said "For the good of Cloudsdale, few know this, but rainbows are not just made out of rain, or mist... Cloudsdale produces rainbows using the souls of ponies, and their color. Hence the name Rainbow Factory" I kept struggling and asked "But how could you do this to innocent ponies?" Then a voice out of nowhere said "We sacrifice few for the needs of many" I looked up to see to my surprise "Rainbow Dash?" She landed and continued saying "I know it's un-ethical but it needs to be done" I scowled "How could you just stand by and watch all of these ponies die, don't you have a heart, how would your friends react if they knew you were counsel to this kind of thing" Rainbow Dash laughed and said "I do it for the sake of others, and my friends will never find out about this"then Neon Lights busted into the room saying "Stop right there" Rainbow Dash, Glaze and the other pony laughed. They immediately surrounded him and said "What are you going to do, there are three of us" Neon smirked and said "What am I going to do, you ask? I told the others about this, they will be here any minute" the three looked at each other and Rainbow Dash said "Put him on the splint, he's up next" they then took Neon and started strapping him to the chair. Right as they were about to kill him. Shining Armor and Princess Cadance reluctantly charged throughout the door and said "Stop in the name of your leader!" Rainbow Dash stopped and said "Well if it isn't the cavalry. Cadance and Shining Armor, you two are supposed to scare me?" Cadance laughed and said "No, but these two are" Robert and Vinyl got into the room.
(Back to me)
Vinyl and I just got into the room to see the atrocities and horror that lie behind Cloudsdale's seemingly innocent look. I yelled "Let Neon down and no one gets hurt" Rainbow Dash replied "And if I don't?" I shook my head slimline slightly and said "If you want to live you will let him go" she shook her head. I smirked and said "You made your choice" I then jumped at the machine that extracted the life and destroyed it, and released Neon. I jumped back to the others and said "If you want all of your toys to still be working, I suggest complying" the blue one scowled and jumped at me. I grabbed his neck and said "Did you seriously think that you would get me?" He nodded and said "No but I distracted you" he got out of my grip as a stainless steel claw grabbed me and raised me to another platform where more of the equipment was waiting for me" I was motionless as one of the scalpel things stabbed me. After a few seconds I felt my power being drained from me, I said "You want my power, you can have it" I exerted as much energy as I could, trying to overload the machine's power bank and destroy it. But then I realized, it is till with standing it. Then it went dark.
(Vinyl's viewpoint) I was watching as the argument raged, when I saw Robert's body fall motionless to the ground. My eyes widened, I used my magic trying to sense his life force, but it just wasn't there, I started to cry as I noticed that they had just killed him, I screamed "No! You bastards!" My eyes and hands started glowing as I picked up the bass cannon. I yelled to Cadance and Shining Armor "Get Octavia out of here, Now!" They complied and left with Octavia. I aimed at the three of them and said "You will pay! With your lives" I pulled the trigger as my element of harmony activated merging with the power of the cannon amplifying the blast greatly. The blue pony's eyes widened as the other two dodged, and he was in front of the blast. Then out of nowhere Glaze knocked the cannon out of my hand and said "Stop ruining the factory" I scowled and used my newly obtained power to punch Glaze into a wall. I then ran at him and punched him over and over again into the wall, but before I completely killed him I asked "How do I bring him back? Tell me!" He nodded and said "Destroy the cauldron" I let him go and started to walk towards the cauldron as Rainbow Dash stopped me and said "You will have to get past me" I growled as I looked at her with my eyes glowing blue, I said "Get out of my way" and kicked her into the ground. I got to the cauldron and I put my hands together focusing my energy to a single point forming a ball of energy between my hands, I made it grow to capacity as I then threw it into the cauldron, grabbed my husband and teleported away. I got outside as the compound exploded, several seconds later a green orb flew towards me and went inside Robert. I shook him for a second and nothing, when he said "I think I may need CPR" I smiled and kissed him.
(Back to me) Vinyl and I kissed, when I saw a ball of smoke impact the ground near us. I told Vinyl "We will continue this later tonight but I have something I need to take care of" I then ran towards the impact to see Rainbow Dash covered in bruises. Her eyes opened, when she saw me she tried to escape but I put my foot on her chest and said "You will face judgement for your crimes" she gulped. I called over Cadance, when she got over here she teleported Rainbow Dash to the prison in Canterlot, and sent a message to the other princesses telling of his crimes. The same happened to Glaze.
Later that day, Vinyl and I were at the hotel resting after that huge fiasco, while everyone else was out getting food. I was lying back in my bed having yawns of boredom, when Vinyl walked over and said "I know what could keep you busy" she smirked and lied right next to me, I kissed her and said "How long are they going to be gone?" She smiled and said "A while, now stop talking" I smiled and thought 'I deserve this'.