(Writer's note important: This story does not completely follow every detail of the Rainbow Factory. Just say it's my own version of what I think the Rainbow Factory is like. It also takes place WAY before Scootalo came in the picture.)

I never would have thought I would live such a short life, to live such a painful life… What's wrong with it you ask? Well, for starters two ponies are taking me to my death. I'll die in the same machine I used to kill a hundred others! I guess what goes around comes around, funny way to start the story of my life, right? Well, I have to tell it now before the machine takes me. So I better start fast!

My name is Jay Sparkle, but I prefer to call myself Jay BloodSparkle. And No, I'm not related to Twilight Sparkle. But I have heard of her as being Celestia's favorite student. Having the same last name I felt special but I truly was not. I never really wished to have a horn or to just be normal. I loved my wings and being a Pegasus, the problem was I was slow. I never really joined races with my fellow friends and classmates. I just like to fly slowly and think… think of what my life will became. My mother had shunned me from her life, she was a single mom. But don't judge her for it; she knew I was a slow flyer. She was just helping herself by taking me out. You see, when you get to spot in your life when your part teen part adult- there is this test. It tested your flying skills and athletic skill. It shows rather or not you'll be able to help with the weather later in your future. Being a Pegasus it's your destiny to take on the responsibility of the weather. However, if you fail the test, you're shunned and banished from Cloudsdale. Where I live, after you banished it's as if no one even knows you. No one dares to speak or name again, because you're considered a failure. You failed your home and your duty. Then they take you away, no one knows where. And today, I was about to take that test along with my friend Cakeria. Both of us where slow, but Cakeria was WAY faster than me. I knew she would pass. However, I already saw my future…. banishment.

I sighed as I hopped out the door of my house. My mom had kissed my forehead and wished me good luck. But I knew it was no use, I was going to fail. I walked slowly to the path of the test. My friend Cakeria had run to my side with happiness. "Let's go pass this thing, alright?" She smiled at me. "Cakeria, please don't make this any harder than it is…" I said, but she only looked at with confusion. "What do you mean?" She asked, "You know what I mean! I'm not going to pass… you might as well just forget me now…" I yelled, "Of course you're going to fail with an attitude like that! Please be more confident! I don't want to lose my best friend…. Not being able to say her name. It's too painful!" Cakeria was always a little emotional. She put head down to hide away her sadness. My face was also full of sadness; I picked up her head and hugged her. "You will always be my best friend… I'll miss you…" then I let her go. She raised her right hoof and wiped her eyes. "Please… at least try not to fail." I looked at her with all the honesty I had in me, "I promise, I'll try…"

We both entered the testing grounds. A pony with a very strait look on her face looked at me, "Come this way-" She said, I followed her and sat down next to a couple of other young ponies. We all watched as ponies took their test- there was a big path of clouds and signs to tell you what to do and where to go. I could do all these hoops, twist and turns they had set up for the test. But you had to do it all under a time limit. In order to pass you had to finish before 60 seconds, 1 minute. I stood deep in thought, "There's no way I'm going to make it…" I thought to myself. But then I heard, "Jay Sparkle! Please take your mark!" I stood up and walked to the starting points of the test. "Get ready Miss. Sparkle." I stretched my legs and wings and pulled myself back to start flying. Then the mare said, "Start!" I flew off in a rush. I turned left, right, up, down, spin, and flip, all these I had done correctly. But then the final test was a long path with no spins or flips just a straight line. The point of it is to see your final speed, you have to fly as fast as you can and still have a good landing. I put my hoofs in front of me and speeded my way down the path. All the judges looked me as I flew by- then I landed. My landing was perfect. Complete great landing! But then I looked at the judges, they were very unimpressed. One looked at its timer, "1 minute and 23 seconds!" he said. All the judges looked at each other with strait faces. Then they all shook their heads in agreement and the mane judge took his paper on me and said, "Jay Sparkle, dew to your lack of speed and concentration, you have failed this flying test and will be moved from Cloudsdale soon after the final contesters." I looked down at myself. My classmates all bent down their heads in guilt. But they were not surprised; all knew I was slow… All of them never picked on me. But they did shun me like my mother did, just for this reason. Now when they have to forget I even existed, it will be easy since they never really connected with me. I sat and waited for someone to take me away, but then I heard, "Cakeria Sweet, please take your mark!" I looked over and saw Cakeria take her place at the starting point. But something seemed off, and then the pony said, "Start!" Cakeria flew off into the air! I couldn't believe it! She seemed as if she could not see anything. She missed most of her marks and hoops, and then when it came to the landed she flipped over on the ground. All of the students including me looked at in shock! She was one of the best flyers in the school! Even the judges seemed stunned. "1 minute and 17 seconds." All the judges looked at each other; it felt as if they didn't want to let her go. But they knew what had to be done. "Miss Sweet, dew to your lack of concentration along with bad coordination, you have failed this flying test and will be moved from Cloudsdale soon after the final contesters along with Miss Sparkle. Please take your seat over there!" The judge pointed next to me. Cakeria cam hopping along with a smile on her face as she sat next to me, tears weld up in my eyes. "Cakeria…. Why? Why did you do that? You had more than enough speed and coordination to pass the test! Why did you let yourself fail?" I asked in sadness along with guilt. "I wasn't about to let my best friend go away alone… She would not survive 1 minute!" She laughed at me, I cried then we both hugged each other. "We are in this together…" she said to me, "Friends forever!" I replied.

It was not long before we were put into a stage coach. It seemed a little silly since this is Cloudsdale. But when I made a little giggle about it a very rude pony pushed me inside the stage. Two ponies pulled the stage, both quiet and anger was written on their faces. However we both didn't pay too much attention to them, we watched Cloudsdale disappear as they slowly pulled the stage away. "I'm going to miss it…. I don't know what will happen… once the stage stops." I said sadly, "As long as we are together we will figure something out! I'm pretty shore wherever we are going there should be other ponies. We aren't the only ones out their!" Cakeria replied to me as she looked beyond the stage. "We will find a way…" finally the stage stopped in the middle of nowhere. "This is where we stop!" I jumped off the stage and on the cloud ground. "But there is nothing here!" I said, "There is a place to go… we have to stop here. But just follow that flat path there-"The pony pointed at a flat white surface leading farther up the sky, "I heard if you follow that path there should be a place for ponies such as you and your friend. But I don't know if it's true or not." He said, "Looks like we will have to find out for ourselves! Come on Jay!" said Cakeria as she pulled my hoof, "Wait, "I looked over at the stage ponies, "Thanks for not being- mean." I said in kindness, "We look mean don't we? We just feel bad… We are sorry this had to happen to you. We wish you farewell and good luck." And with that- the ponies turned around and walked away.

I looked up the path, "Let's go! They said they didn't know if it was true but it's worth a try! After all, we are in the middle of Cloud nowhere!" Cakeria said to me. I just shook my head and agreement and followed her up the path. We both walked upward, but as we did so the more it seemed as if the sky was getting darker. Not storm darker- but smoke was in the air from somewhere, black smoke. And it was making every single cloud around it all dark and scary ugly like. "Yuck! I wonder what is up there!" I said, "Hey look at that!" Cakeria pointed at the clear sky above us, a rainbow had blasted in the air and across the world. I never saw such a beautiful rainbow in my life, not to mention so close before. "Wow! Where do you think it came from?" I asked, "Probably from where that black smoke is coming from… we better keep moving!" I agreed with Cakeria and we both walked up the path the stage ponies told us to take. As we walked closer we began to see a building- or not a building a factory! But something was not right- it seemed off-