A rumbling sound could be heard throughout the factory. "What is going on here?" asked Chief Inspector and Announcer Dash. She already knew everything that was happening though, because she had set it all up. "It sounds like something is about to go!" screamed a worker pony from the PEGASUS Device room, "We all have to get out of here!" A dark figure gently swayed into the room. A surgical needle cutie mark followed suit, stitched tightly over the flank of this devious pegasus. "What's going on in the foundry?" This was the voice of death, not panicking at all, but instead collected and well thought out. "It sounds like something is wrong with the foundry. Perhaps you should go see to it Chief Inspector and Announcer Dash?" She was deeply afraid of him, he stitched another pony's cutie mark to his flank. Dash pondered on who this pegasus was. She knew that he was at least a doctor, but not even in what. A hiss could be heard from the foundry, and the dark pegasus motioned for Dash to go through with her plan. She bolted out of the room with a gust of rancid air being kicked up in her wake. With a grin of other ponies' teeth, he said "That puts me in charge of who goes next."

He picked and clamped down each pony himself.

Dash charged into the foundry and saw other more qualified ponies tampering with rusted valves. They can't see me escape. "You, all of you! You aren't even qualified to deal with this kind of situation! Get out before this thing explodes and takes you all with it! " They quickly without even a glimpse behind their manes. On any other day, Dash would ponder whether they left in fear of Dash, the roiling spectra, or were actually following orders. *Hssss...* Turning the valves that controlled spectra flow, she twisted all of them up to max. The orange valve broke under pressure immediately. Everything was set to go any second now. Looking for a way out, she saw the pipe system that fed rainbows out into the world was opening. "Here's my chance." Making sure the doors were closed and the valves couldn't be set any more dangerously, Dash zipped out through the pipes in a storm of cyan feathers.

*Crr..Chr..Fwoooom!!*

The foundry did what was expected of it, and exploded. Though every other spectra was maxed out in the blast, the red no doubt dominated the other colors. The whole thing was red. Still in rainbow mindset, it separated itself into different shadings. Seven streams of red shot out from the rubble that was once the foundry. As soon as the blast came through the wall, the song of chaos followed suit. Every worker, scientist, and victim pony all sang out in the melody of the doomed. "In the Rainbow Factory! Where all your Fears and Horrors come true!" The torrential red rainbow gained in speed. It was coming strait for Dash with the hate and fury of all those who died to her choosing. It was conscious, and it was very hateful.

Fly!

Rainbow Dash did the one thing she thought was right. She flew as fast as she could away from the thing chasing her. It's catching up to me! I thought I was the best flyer out there! Indeed she was, but rainbow speeds were never correctly measured. Nopony ever dreamed of flying faster than, or in this case, getting away from a rainbow. Then Dash got a few ideas. "If this thing thinks that it can out maneuver me, it's dead wrong!" She flew about in aerial maneuvers. Loopty loops, hard turns, and juking, but no avail. The red behemoth was catching up. "Not good enough!" Dash said with tears streaming down her face, tears that were immediately being swallowed by the red monstrosity following close behind. A small amount of steam rushed upwards from the heat. "Time to do the best trick in the book." For Scootaloo... Dash went strait down now, the red rainbow didn't even suspect she would do such a thing. Faster and faster Dash went, breaking the walls of the red abyss the further down she went. One... Two... Three... Dash counted the walls burst through, each one a darker shade of red than the one before. Four... Five... Six... The rainbow didn't even stand a chance. "Seven!" In the blur between red and cyan, something emerged. A true rainbow.

A sonic Rainboom.

The red rainbow nearly vaporized from the quake of the rainboom. Only a few moments ago, it was roiling and enveloping the sky with different shades of red. Now seven holes shown through on each shade of it. A beautiful rainbow streamed through the sky too, victoriously pumping through air and clouds. A small cyan blob was visible leading the seven raging rays. "Wow, I wonder what happened there. I know that was Rainbow Dash, but the red rainbow, I have no idea." Twilight was as curious as she ever was. She was down at the zap apple orchard looking for Rainbow Dash when this all happened. A faint tune still rang in her ears, but the words were never audible. Dash let go of the rainbow by losing enough speed. Remembering that she was on a very small window time frame, she went down to the zap apple orchard to meet Twilight. "Sorry for the delays, I was sneaking out of the factory." "You call that sneaking? Then what do you call barging out with two explosions literally following you!?" They hugged each other and Rainbow Dash took the moment in like a sponge.

"I need a telepathy spell. Pronto."

Dandy Rose always enjoys rumors and gossip. She had been following Twilight since she walked through Ponyville. Dandy was having a fun time staying out of Twilight's line of sight. She carefully trotted with her head as low as possible so she wouldn't be noticed. Dandy had followed Twilight to make sure she was okay too though. Yesterday, she noted that Twilight had been teleporting a large rock in seemingly random places. I hope she is alright. They trotted through large fields of trees. The apples on them seemed all too vibrant and hanging on to the tree for dear life. For a brief moment, Dandy Rose was caught up with the beauty and ferocity the red apples gleamed with. Eventually the apple orchard went into a clearing of sorts. It had stopped suddenly of all trees, but beyond the void there were more peculiar trees. Blue trees that were all withered but humming with a kind of magic electricity. The blue spoke to Dandy with vivid detail. It seemed ready to leap out of the trees and barrage any unsuspecting pony who would dare to take the blue for granted. Then Rainbow Dash landed from above and a gentle breeze brought Dandy Rose back to reality. Looking around to assess anything she might have missed (A gossiper must have all details!) she spotted something gruesome. Red waves of spectrum were falling much in a way that enchanted silk would. These red streams were torn, angry, and dying though. With a swish of her unicorn magic, Dandy brought the withering red scraps to her and pulled out a needle to get to work soothing its anger. The other two ponies gasped when they saw her re-threading the red waves.

A faint yelp came from the red spectrum.

"Sorry there! I guess I should have said 'This may hurt a bit!'" Dandy couldn't believe her ears. Red folds of spectrum, or rainbows, were at her hoof tips. She was mending light itself. A cyan blur raced across to meet the sewing unicorn. "What are yo doing!? That tried to kill me!" It was Rainbow Dash. "Oh hello Dashie, Hello Twilight Sparkle. I followed you here to get something to gossip about, but I think I may have stumbled upon something more... serious..." "D-Dandy!?" Rainbow Dash took another step toward her friend of yesterday but took one back when the red stream made a slight hiss. Dandy looked down at it and gently stroked it as if testing new fabric. "Now now... love and tolerate. No matter what, I think we can be civilized ponies." Twilight looked between Rainbow Dash and Dandy Rose the whole time. She would look calmly at Dashie, then look at Dandy and her 'friend.' "So Dandy, you know that was once ponies right? I've been communicating with Dash here and kept her calm enough not to tear it to pieces... Again..." Dandy just sat there, still threading the red strips together and smiled. "Yes I know. It has been talking to me like how you are. It says that it trusted and looked up to you Rainbow Dash." The cyan pony gasped and started up with a stuttering name. "S-S-Scoota-" Dash tried a few more times and got her one word sentence across. "Scootaloo? You're... Still alive?" The red streams twisted in a calm manner, though staying still where thread was pulling across a gap. It was her. Twilight jumped, followed quickly by Rainbow Dash. "Oh... Dandy, Twilight will cast a telepathy spell on you here. I will go back the the factory to make sure they don't suspect me of anything. I am on your side on this-" "It's okay Rainbow Dash. You need to get back to where Scootaloo was killed. Both of us are okay with that. Do be safe though."

Rainbow Dash rolled around in dirt and twigs.

Then she punched her own wing.

"Time to fly with an alibi." She barely had either.

When she got back to both the factory and slaughterer based self, Chief Inspector and Announcer Dash went to see what the damage of the explosion had caused to the foundry. A gaping hole of packed cloud and stone laughed at the worker pegasi trying to 'patch it up.' They swirled about all over the sky like clowns. Some looking for clouds to pack down and move back to the flying death camp. Some went in circles really fast and compressed the air itself into clouds. Some were paying bit after bit to the earth ponies in a quarry for stone. Nopony would dare touch Dashie's cloud, maybe because clouds that dark were seen as a live wire ready to shock the mane right off anypony who came too close. It was cackling black lightning as its neighbor clouds were packed into the walls of the facility. Pipes and rubble were still falling out of the hole in the foundry. The spectrum tanks were completely unharmed by the catastrophe. Dash looked back at that moment when she was being chased by an angry elemental incarnate of Scootaloo. At least she isn't as mad anymore. I wish I could tell her about the sedative I made in honor of her. Her vision suddenly went orange. Really orange.

"Maybe I can help out with that!"

Dandy! "Yup! telepathy is weird Dashie! It's like you are right behind me, but when I turn around, you still sound like you are right there!" Yeah, Twilight said something like that too. Speaking of, where is she anyways? Then the orange blur turned half purple. "Right here! Although we might need to fix a little problem from when Dandy got brought into this link..." I'll say... I can't see anything except purple and orange. "Exactly my point Rainbow Dash. All I can see is blue and orange. A pony can get a seizure like this." The colors faded from Dash's sight and in their place stood a pony in a dark coat of fur. His teeth were of other ponies, and he now had a newer cutie mark. This time it was a smile. "Ms. Dash. Your bravery saved a few lives today. Perhaps your loyalty towards the factory can save many more in the future. But tell me... what exactly happened with that red rainbow?" All eyes were upon Rainbow Dash. The voices of Twilight and Dandy were drowned out by the awkward silence as she saluted gained her composure again. "Well sir-" "Please... call me Doctor Atmosphere. All my friends do." Dash nearly fainted from the familiarity of the phrase. Does he know of Dandy and Twilight? He can't possibly know of the telecommunication spell. I'll just play it cool. "Well then, Doctor Atmosphere, When I saw the meters on the spectrum flows I ordered the technicians out. They must have turned them up to the max instead of down to minimal for further production even in an emergency. So I kicked the out and braced for impact... In the expelling pipe itself!" Oohs and aahs went around as a little bit of Rainbow Dash's pride blushed. Pause for dramatic effect... "It exploded, and projected me in one direction without a wall in the way. The red rainbow mus have been a mis-hap due to the foundry overworking itself. I dealt with it in my own way, and it evaporated when it touched ground. The spectrum couldn't be salvaged though." Doctor Atmosphere's face went neutral for a few moments. He looked like he really needed a rest. Dash looked like she really could use a bath. "Okay Chief Inspector and Announcer Dash. For your loyalty to the rainbow factory, I'm giving you the rest of the day off. I'll take over from here and add on your remaining hours to mine. Do try to have fun in the outdoors. Speaking of... don't you find it funny that the worker pegasi are sealing themselves back in after years of isolation from the outdoors?" His horrid smile widened. "Eh, it's a humor that only insane ponies can get." Dash felt chills run down her spine when he proclaimed himself insane. "Yes sir. Thank you. This 'free day' will not go to waste sir!"

"I hope you have big plans for the day Chief Dash."

Rainbow Dash had no idea what she was doing.