WARNING:This chapter contains very dark themes, and one scene of beheading and multiple ponies dying in quick succession in very bloody ways

As I came to I noticed several things. Thing number one; I was really, really uncomfortable. Thing number two; I was suspended upright via what felt like cold, metal chains. Thing number three; it was dark. Thing number four; I had no armour, and finally; I could heard a constant *BOOM-HISSSSSS…BOOM-HISSSSS* in the background. The part of me that loved industry was curious as to what sort of facility I was in, but I pushed that thought to the back of my mind, now wasn’t the time.

“Ungh…Vuur Koning?” I heard Autumn say.

“Autumn?” I asked.

“Hello?” I heard Boris say.

“Boris?” I asked, my vision was starting adjust to the dark, we were in some kind of open topped cell and we were all in a line “Where the hell are we?” at that moment I heard Minion groan.

“Jesus fucking Christ, my head” he mumbled “wait, where am I…Vinyl!?”

“Bucking hell!” Vinyl exclaimed “not so loud”

“What the hell?” I heard Scar mutter.

“Great” I muttered “we’re all chained up and…oh yeah, we have no fucking armour”

“Sorry about that” I heard a familiar voice say, before chuckling “can’t have you pulling any surprises, now can we?” at that moment Rainbow Dash trotted into view.

“Rainbow Dash!?” I asked in surprise.

“Uh, do I know you?” she asked.

“Parallel world it is” I said “to answer your question, no, you don’t know me, but I know a version of you from an alternate world”

“Uh…what?” she asked with a blank look on her face.

“Notice the planets in the sky?” I asked “we’re from one of those worlds”

“Oh” she said.

“Say, R.D.” Vinyl said “would you mind letting us down…” Rainbow burst out laughing.

“Ha! Why would I do that?” she asked, smirking.

“Uh, where are we?” I asked.

“You really don’t get it do you?” she said “I would have thought you’d be a heck of a lot smarter, you’re currently in Cloudsdale weather facility, hence why you’re chained to the wall, and you’re gonna be part of something beautiful”

“Oh shit” Autumn said.

“And the bit drops” Rainbow said “so I got this letter, from Queen Celestia herself…”

“Queen!?” I exclaimed, through the dark I could see her giving me a deadpan look “sorry, continue”

“…from Queen Celestia herself” she said “saying we were gonna get some rather…interesting individuals, who needed taking care of for a friend of hers”

“Teridax” I said, Rainbow just shrugged.

“The buck should I know?” she asked “anyway, a few weeks later we get a knock on the door with some guys straight out of a freak show holding you six and saying ‘enjoy’ next thing we know, you’re all chained to the wall waiting to have your spectra extracted”

“Oh shit-shit-shit-shit-shit-shit-shit” Autumn muttered under her breath, trying to pull free of the chains.

“Autumn?” I asked “what’s wrong?”

“Autumn?” Rainbow asked “as in Autumn Skies, famous Equestrian elite guard? Damn, small bucking universe”

“Maybe on this world” I said “What has gotten her so spooked?” Rainbow Dash chuckled darkly

“How is a rainbow made?” she asked.

“Oh shit” Autumn muttered, sounding panicky “that’s impossible, they shut that facility down hundreds of centuries ago”

“Would you stop being so mysterious-vague?” Boris asked “because I’m getting really confused”

“You don’t want to know” Autumn said, panicking “listen, if you kill us, you’ll be making a really bad mistake, trust me”

“Why should I care?” Rainbow Dash asked nonchalantly “I just help make rainbows, nothing personal, just business”

“WHAT THE FUCK!?” I shouted “the Rainbow Dash I know wouldn’t be so nonchalant about killing, hell, she was in a dump for months because she accidentally killed her friend…”

“Don’t you bucking dare accuse me of not caring, I feel guilty about every bucking foal we kill!” she shouted, before turning away and walking towards a barred window, she sat down and her shoulders slumped, she sighed and when she next spoke she sounded tired “we do this because we have to, even if the one you have to kill…is practically a sister to you”

“Scootaloo?” I guess, she hummed in agreement “help us escape, and you can come with us”

“Why would I do that?” she asked, not looking at me “and furthermore, why would you even offer to let me come with you, I was about to order you to be killed”

“Did I mention Scootaloo is still alive on our world?” I asked, her ears perked up “in fact, she’s travelling on the same ship as us” she turned to look at me.

“You better not be saying this just so you can get out of here” she said, before bolting over and prodding my chest with a hoof “because if you’re lying, I’ll kill you myself”

“I wouldn’t lie about that sort of thing” I said “I’m guessing this world doesn’t have the elements of harmony”

“The what?” she asked.

“That’ll be a no then” I said “that makes thing so much easier” Rainbow Dash landed on the cloud floor and looked out of the window before saying.

“Fine, I’ll help you escape, it’s not like I have anything left in this shithole of a country” she went to release us but I stopped her.

“We’re gonna need our armour back” I said “they adapt to the environment allowing us to walk on clouds” she looked at me warily before walking out the room.

“Vuur” Autumn said “as much as I love you very dearly, sometimes it’s better to just kill them and get the buck out of Dodge”

“And after we were to kill her, how would we escape?” I asked “we don’t know our way around this place” she didn’t answer. At that moment Rainbow Dash walked in with a small bag.

“It’s all in here” she said, she then began sorting through each piece until we all had our armour “What sort of ponies are you? You sure as buck aren’t any kind of Royal guard”

“Neue-Toa” I said, adjusting the strap on my shoulder pad before getting out my power sword and powering it up “outside the government and beyond the royal guard, it’s our job to take down the things that go bump in the night, and I don’t take kindly to people threatening my family, so do exactly as I say and I won’t feel the urge to kill you before you get to see scoots” Rainbow Dash gulped.

“S-sure” she said “the exit is this way” I stopped her.

“Why find the exit when I can just make my own?” flames began to swirl around me and my sword began to glow “it’s going to get very hot in here”

*POV 3rd Person*

As the scientists watch the failures having their spectra extracted the power cut out, causing the facility to cut to emergency power and the machinery to turn off. They look around in confusion

THUD…THUD…BOOM

The door to one of the containment cells exploded in a fireball and a bipedal being in red metal armour walked along the walkway with a large sword in one hand and a pistol in the other, he walked over to one of the scientists, who had a part of the metal door sticking through this chest.

*POV 1st Person Vuur Koning

“The prisoners” I said, quietly “where are they kept, tell the truth and I’ll make it quick” the scientist spat out some blood.

“They’re kept on the detention block” he said “5th floor, you’re on the 7th at the moment” I responded by shooting the scientist and doing likewise with the other, Rainbow Dash walked over and stopped when she saw the scientists.

“Y-you killed them” she said.

“They were dead anyway” I said “I was putting them out of their misery, detention block; 5th floor, now!” Rainbow Dash nodded by leading me down a set of stairs.

*POV 3rd Person*

Minion stepped onto the walkway, followed by the other Toa.

“Damn” Vinyl said “Vuur’s pissed”

“To him, and me if I’m totally honest, this place just screams ‘Auschwitz’” Minion said, taking aim at one of the giant pistons and firing, causing it to crash through the floor and keep going, he began shooting at random equipment, at this moment two things happened, one, the factory started back up. Two, several ponies wielding arc-sticks landed on the metal walkway.

“Why don’t you just run back to your cell like good freaks?” one of them said through the handle of the ark-stick being held in his mouth, smirking. Autumn responded by activating her mask of stealth “where did she go!?” he heard a *shink* and turned towards the source of the sound to see one of his fellow ponies standing there with a vacant look in his eyes.

“Uh…dude, are you okay?” the pegasus responded in the form of his head falling off and rolling over the edge as his headless body collapsed “What the buck!? Aaah!” an invisible, albeit blood coated sword went through his chest and began to lift him up before throwing him over the edge, causing him to land on the conveyer belt below and get crushed by one of the cylinders.

“What the buck is going on!?” one of the pegasi asked as they began to back up, only to receive a sword through the head for his trouble and launched off the edge. Another pegasi was picked up, chucked onto the conveyor belt and crushed alive. Autumn deactivated her mask and stepped toward the remaining pegasi.

“This is your last chance, surrender, or run” she said, they wasted no time in getting the fuck out of there. Autumn turned to her fellow Toa “feel free to step in at any time” she then walked off.

“I’d hate to be Vuur Koning whilst she’s in heat” Vinyl said.

“Time and a fucking place” Minion muttered, before unloading his clip at the surrounding equipment and running out of the room, followed closely by his team mates as the factory began destroying itself.

*POV 1st Person Vuur Koning*

Now that we were in a much better lit area, I began to notice several differences between ‘my’ Terra’s Rainbow Dash, and this one. The most noticeable of which was she bore a huge scar over her left eye.

“How did you get the scar?” I asked.

“Scootaloo tried to escape” she replied tersely “this was just a result of the struggle, now if it’s okay with you, I’d rather not talk about it” I began tapping at my smart watch, trying to see if I could communicate with the Jörmungandr, only to receive a ‘no signal’ notification.

“Bugger” I muttered.

“’Sup?”  Rainbow asked.

“I have quite a large ship, it’s out of range” I said, she had a confused expression on her face “put simply, we’re stuck on this planet for the time being, something I would rather avoid”

“Why?” Rainbow asked, as we began to descend a flight of stairs.

“Your world’s Celestia seems like the type that isn’t afraid to show her authority” I said, Rainbow snorted “considering

“Understatement of the millennium” she said “they say she once had a sister who tried to bring eternal night, apparently Celestia sent her to the sun” I stopped dead in my tracks.

“Shit” I said.

“Your Celestia different?” she asked.

“Let’s just say she that if anything she’s too lenient some of the time” I said “not that that’s a bad thing, she can be bloody terrifying when provoked”

“So” Rainbow said “what’s she like?”

“I just told you…” Rainbow shook her head.

“Not Celestia” she said “I meant me, what am I like”

“Like you I guess” I said “but she doesn’t kill kids as a day job”

“One more comment like that and I’ll split your skull” she said

“Fine” I said, I supressed a shiver “I really don’t like this place, it reminds me of Auschwitz”

“Mousevitch?” she asked.

“No” I said “Auschwitz, it’s from my home world, and I don’t mean the other Terra”

“What kind of place was it?” she asked.

“A concentration camp” I said.

“You guys have changeling where you’re from!?” she asked.

“WHAT!?” I asked.

“Why else would you need a concentration camp?” I stopped dead in my tracks “Uh, are you okay?”

“When I’m done with Queen Celestia” I said, my voice barely a whisper, I suddenly punched a wall “she will be begging for death!”

“H-hey” she said “now isn’t the time to be getting too angry”

“Do you have any fucking idea what they do at concentration camp!?” I asked “they are places of misery, where they reduce you to shadows of your former self, and then, when you are no longer of use, they send you to the showers and pump them full of cyanide!” by this point I was looming over her, and she was backed against the wall. I took a breath before drawing back and carrying on walking. After a few meters I stopped and turned to see Rainbow Dash still in the same spot, I sighed.

“Sorry about that” I said “my grandfather was imprisoned in a concentration camp during a war, thankfully he wasn’t killed in the showers. But it’s still a touchy subject with me”

“Dude” she said, walking over to catch up “don’t worry about it, we both have touchy subjects, let’s just bust the kids out and get the heck out of here” I nodded and we continued walking.

“You know” I said “if you’re so willing to help us liberate this place, then why work here, all these years?”

“I didn’t get a choice” she said “I just wanted to be a simple weather mare who practiced stunts in her spare time” I wanted to say something but we came across a door with a guard in front of it.

“What are you doing?” the guard asked “return to your post”

“You know” Rainbow Dash said, her eyes beginning to glow blue “I’ve never liked this place, I never even wanted to work here. And furthermore…” lightning began to crawl across her fur and an aura of fire enveloped her.

“I QUIT!” she unleashed a blast that knocked me back and blew the door off its hinges. I shook my head and looked up to see that Rainbow had undergone a transformation. She was now a honest to gods, full blown, mother fucking Neue-Toa of Plasma.

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