Another Rainbow Factory Story
Chapter 1: 1. Fluttershys Past (Fluttershy)
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Fluttershy had an awful childhood. She was last in her class to fly and to this day she isn't all that strong. Her timidness let her be pushed around at school. At home things weren't much better. Her parents had died when she was a baby and she knew no one would want to adopt a ten year old blank fland who could hardly fly. She would often lock herself in her room and find herself throwing things at her reflection in her mirror. She couldn't stand mirrors. Fluttershy hated everything about herself. She hated that she had no cutie mark. She hated her stupid voice that no matter how much she yelled, no matter how much she cried, it still on came out as a timid whisper. She hated her timid personality, but could never bring herself to be assertive, no matter how hard she tried. She hated her silly wings that could barely lift her a few feet off of the ground. At flight school she would often fall, and other fillies would change "Fluttershy, Fluttershy, Fluttershy can hardly fly!" All she would do about it was cry to herself in the mirror. Now days she would sometimes hear the voices in her head say that to her whenever she flies around other ponies.
Her only real friend was Rainbow Dash, another filly at her orphanage. Fluttershy was a year older than her, but fluttershy still enovid everything about her. She wanted her loud, yet crisp crackly voice. She wanted to be the first in her class to get a cutie mark, and she wanted Dash's beautiful wings. Most of all, she wanted dashes personality. She longed to be more assertive and she wanted to cheer on her friend at races and other competitive events, but all that came out was a weak "Yay." or the occasional "woo-hoo" Dash was also the first person to stand up for her. She even had challenged a race to defend Fluttershys honor to the bullies who would often call her "Rainbow Crash," as a sick joke, but Dash never let them get to her head.
Fluttershy was held back a year in flight school. That didn't help her bullying problems, as she was still very weak even among students a year younger than her her. She had longed to fly still. She tried and tried but could never dream of being as good as her friend. But she made an effort not to let her jealousy get the best of her. It wasn't until all hope was lost that she realised, she was never going to be at Dashes level. It was the day that her friend had pulled off a sonic rainboom. As the young filly flew by her, she had been too frail that she had fallen through the clouds themselves, Almost a mile down. She was certain that she was going to die. Then, she had landed a swarm of butterflies, of all creatures. It was very awkward, but all she could think of was that she was alive. That was what was important. She almost cried when she looked up and saw a sonic rainboom. All of the animals had hid. She wanted to hide as well. She wanted to hide from herself. It should had been her. She wanted to be the best flyer in Equestria. She wanted everyone to feel the fear she felt when she was falling to her death. Those stupid animals were the only ones who mattered. For the next nine years, those stupid animals were her only friends.
Dash never came down to help her. She never even came down to see if she was ok or alive or whatever. The saddest thing, was that flutters knew nopony would. Dash was the only pony who cared and was the only one who ever would. Flutters knew that she never wanted to speak to Dash again, but she still longed to improve her flight and would sometimes take a hot air balloon up to cloudsdale to see her dear friend race. She always won.
That was how she made her money. She would bet as much as a thousand bits on dash and never lost. Nopony would had ever guessed that a pony as young as twelve years old would escalate to become the best flyer in cloudsdale. By the time she turned fifteen, she was fastest in Equestria. By next year, she will be twenty one, and she will be eligible to compete for best flyer alive.
I was when twilight came, sent from Celestia herself when flutters anxiety grew to the extremes. She hated being in a group of six. She even more hated that one of the was dash. The element of loyalty herself who had abandoned her when she was ten years old and FORGOT about her, just to finish that stupid race. Legend has it that she had gotten her cutie mark when she broke the sound AND light barrier. She had gotten accepted into jr. speedsters flight school that day as well. Dash had gotten so much gain by taking away flutters home. Maybe it was for the best. She was never truly happy until her teen years when it was only her and her animals. By her nineteenth birthday. She began to see pegasi from her old orphanage. One of the first cloudsdale residents who moved to ponyville was Derpy, who was now married to the town doctor, and took the surname "Hooves." She saw many others from her childhood, but Derpy and Dash were the only ones whose names she bothered to remember.
Dash, for obvious reasons, and Derpy, because she was bullied as well. She was born cross eyed, speech problems, and several mental disabilities. She was abandoned as soon as her parents find out that its permanent. She had a note with her that aid her name was Ditzy Doo. Sad how even the youth of today are left without families because they weren't perfect. Fillies at the orphanage would often called her "Derpy," because of her clumsiness that carried on to her adulthood. Thankfully, she did have her happy ending when she moved out on her eighteenth birthday. She is now engaged to the town doctor and has one daughter, who is completely perfect.
Another example is scootaloo, who admires Dash almost as much as Fluttershy did when she was her age. Scootaloo's parents had abandoned her when she was young because of her flight disability. Hers was much worse that flutters was when she was that age. Scootaloo may never be able to fly in her life. Dash herself even trains her personally but she still can't do it. Dash is so nice. She had felt so bad for scootaloo, and she knows first hand what its like to grow up without a loving family and what that could do to you. Last year, she agreed to, "Take scootaloo under her wing," which was sweet beyond words. Dash was too good.
After she had fallen from the clouds, she wasn't much more sane. When her and her so called friends started to hang around Dash more, she was stuck in between emotions. She was furious at Dash, but more at herself. She hated any emotions at all. Overtime, she lost them. She hid her slow trip to insanity with an image of a shy little yellow pony who only spoke in whispers. Deep inside is a monster of what she had become, and she loves this monster more than she ever could love her old self. But love is an emotion. Fluttershy doesn't do that anymore.
It wasn't until she went completely crazy, That she opened the rainbow factory,but it wasn't a real factory. Flutters was to nuts to tell the difference. It was really a large room in her basement, but it was just as powerful.
You see, as fluttershy grew crazier, she grew smarter. She wanted anyone who made her feel like she did as a filly to feel the fear he felt when she fell from the clouds. She built a machine that she made to "simulate" extreme fear, but this one didn't give the ponies the soft landing that she got on a clump of butterflies.
It was a slow torture device. It was and enclosed room with no windows. in it was a metal sheet, which she strapped ponies legs and arms on to with chains and leather. She tries the wings to the body with a strong leather strap. The unicorns horns were useless, as flutters ha found a way to absorb the magic herself with a matinee she named podestas, which meant power in latin. She made a wireless connection between Podestas and a scanner she impaled in her left eye, too small to see. Unforchantly, she had lost sight in that eye during the surgery, but she didn't care. She would use something her friends called, "The stare" to slowly drain the power of a unicorn or alicorn without them feeling anything. They will become completely powerless in a matter a hours.
In the pitch black the matinee would shake, faster, and faster until their weak stupid bodies couldn't take it any more. To make the process more efficient, she would slowly drain the oxygen.
Of course, fluttershy stood in another room, monitoring everything on a night vision camera. She had a speaker and microphone so she could see and hear everything in the show. She would often speak into the microphone and sing her favorite song, by her favorite band. It was from a game she once feared, but learned to overcome. She knew perfectly of the fourth wall and enjoyed watching humans as much as they liked watching ponies. she could be watching you right now. She found amusing that this band even enjoyed making remixes of songs that she sang.
"La, la la la la la la la la, la la la la, la la la la." She would whisper to the tune of Toreador March, as it was also the intro to the song.
"We're waiting every night, to finally rome and invite."
The pony would by then be panicking as the machine started to shake.
"Newcomers to play with us,"
The machine would shake faster, and the pony would panic further. Fluttershy would get louder and clearer, a voice she had mastered over years.
"For many years we've been all alone."
"We're forced to be still and play the same songs we've known since the day, an imposter took our lives away, and now were stuck here to decay"
The pony would then start to scream
"Please let us get in, don't lock away, were nothing what your thinking."
Fluttershy would almost yell into the mic and let the voices take over.
"WE ARE POOR LITTLE SOULS, WHO HAVE LOST ALL CONTROL, AND WE'RE FORCED HERE TO TAKE THAT ROLE!"
If the pony wasn't dead or unconscious by now, it would anger flutters so much she would just yell, "WHY! WHY! WHY! WHY! WHY!" until the pony was unconscious.
Then she would smile in the dark until shy was sure there was no oxygen left.