AN: I do not own anything... MLP belongs to Hasbro, and Cupcakes and Rainbow Factory to their respective owners
When they arrived back at the factory, Dash and Pinkamena found everypony hard at work.
"Looks like everything is going smoothly," Dash said, "I really hate to interrupt them"
"I know that dear," Pinkamena said as they entered the office, "but we have to let all our workers know about the rule changes. I think they are not gonna like it, but oh well, their party will be over if they oppose it."
"Attention all workers," Dash said over the intercom, "there will be a manditory meeting in the cafeteria in 30 minutes. Somepony please go get Dr. Atmosphere, Sir, and Scootaloo out of solitary for the meeting, also, any workers not present will suffer. See you all then for debriefing." She then shut the intercom off.
"How many do you think are gonna flip?"
"I don't know," Pinkamena said, "but I do know this...you are the only pony who cares about me..and for that, I am thankful."
"Well, we got 30 minutes..." Dash said as they started to kiss
-30 minutes later-
"I am glad we had just enough time to clean ourselves" Dash whispered
"As to I dear" Pinkamena responded before addressing the crowd "Greetings everypony, we have some things that need to be discussed, but first..." She held up her right hoof showing off the ring, causing a roar of cheers. "Now since that matter is out of the way," she continued when the cheers died down, "there is to be a change in the way we make rainbows."
This caused a panic, which Dash quickly silenced, "If you do not settle down, you ALL will be put in the Device." The crowd quickly calmed so Dash could continue "Luna and Celestia somehow were tipped off about what really goes on here, but instead of life in prison, they are letting us do a public good. We will still recieve failures as always, but they will be used as workers only. In one month, we will start using criminals from not just Equestria, but from all the kingdoms as the resources for rainbows."
"Correct Dashie," Pinkamena continued, "so we need our R&D team to work on a way to use all species as materials. As for space, the princesses will personally have a wearhouse built as an extention to house our materials and we will be getting small batches of every species to experiment on. That is all, now, are there any objections?"
"Yeah, I got one" A young mare with a sunshine yellow coat and electic blue mane said, "What happens if we don't want to go along with it? It sounds like more work, and we all have our hooves full already, count me out."
Dash softly sighed "Are you sure you want to do that?"
"If you do," Pinkamena said, "you will be part of the next rainbow and the next batch of cupcakes I make."
"I do not care at this point," the mare replied as she flew up on the platform where Dash and Pinkamena were standing and held out her hooves, "put me out of my misery. By doing this, it ensures my freedom from this death trap, I would rather be in Tartarus with Tirak than work in this cursed building any longer. Also, these are my last words, so don't bother asking when we get into the main theater room."
All the workers then experienced something that made their jaws drop, Dash hesitated to put the cuffs on. "You all stay here, me and Pinkamena want a word with her in private." The three of them made thier way to the office, where the mare was told to sit across from both Dash and Pinkamena.
"Why did you bring me in here, adding to my torture?" the mare asked
"Actually, no," Dash said, "it is just that you have no idea just how true those words you said back there are"
The mare nearly fell out of her chair "What do you mean?"
"Me being with Pinkamena made me realize just how precious an innocent life can be. I have been doing a lot of soul searching since we got together, and I realize now that has been the problem, killing innocent lives is why moral has been so low. What we were doing was just cold-blooded murder, my vision of what we were doing was twisted. I thought we were doing the pegasi race a favor, but now I see we were doing more harm than good, am I right or wrong?"
The mare didn't say a word, she just slowly nodded her head as Pinkamena got up and walked over to her
"What Dashie said also goes for me, I killed thinking nopony cared or loved me, Dashie showed me I was wrong. Also think of this, in a month we will be killing because those that come here deserve it. Now I will ask again, do you still want to be Pegasus Deviced and your organs be used for cupcakes, or hang in there for a month and start to feel better about your purpose?"
"Mrs. Dash, Mrs. Pinkamena, you both are right. Killing innocent pegasi hurt all of us, they had no reason to die, they just could not fly. Things are not the same as when we started Mrs. Dash, remember, we started at the same time. They are ponies just like us, heck, your very sister was one of the failures but you spared her life. Family aside, let me ask you, if she was not your sister, would you have sent her into the device?"
Dash just stared off into space, taken aback about the question "I probably would have if I didn't personally know her" she said as tears formed in her eyes
"This talk has made me change my mind, I am jus going to wait a month until we start killing criminals, but the emotion destruction has been done. All the innocents we have killed, we will have to live with that fact for the rest of our lives." The mare calmly stated
"We know" Dash and Pinkamena said with a sad tone in their voices
Pinkamena walked over to the intercom "Everypony get back to work, except Sir, Dr. Atmosphere, and Scootaloo, report to the office"
A few minutes later, the three walked in confused
"Mrs. Pinkamena, sis, what is going on?" Scootaloo asked
"You can call me your aunt now Scootaloo, you will be the only one allowed to." Pinkamena said, "As for an answer to your question, we have a lot of work to do," she turned her attention to the mare and uncuffed her, "and train Sunny Whooves here as an assistant."
