“Good-bye, Scootaloo. You were a great filly. I actually really liked you… Sadly, you messed with the wrong pony. I’m always 20 percent cooler. 20 percent awesomer. And 20 percent normal!” Rainbow Dash laughed horribly. She turned on the Pegasus Device. It started whirring. That’s when the guards brought in Scootaloo and Button, knocked out. As one guard tied Button to a chair, Scootaloo started to wake up.

“Rai… rainbow Dash? Wha...what’s going on?” Scootaloo asked.

“I’m about to kill you, you worthless filly! You should look a little bit more scared…” Rainbow Dash muttered that last part. “I don’t know what’s worse: being you right now, or being around you right now!”

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Meanwhile, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle were right outside the ladder that lead to Cloudsdale.

“Are you sure that this’ll work? Ah’m not sure about this…” Apple Bloom said, looking at Sweetie Belle. “Scootaloo’s fine. She said so herself!”

“Yeah, no. When Scootaloo gets determined, she usually does it with no thought to the danger, which usually means she gets in trouble. We have to help!” Sweetie Belle glared at Apple Bloom. “Come on!” She kicked down the door. Well, she expected to, but the door was already off, causing Sweetie Belle to flip over and land in the middle of the abandoned Rainbow Factory. A surprised Rainbow Dash, an equally shocked Button Mash, and an also equally shocked Scootaloo stared at her.

“Well, well, well, another filly? We have 2 fillies to kill today, huh?” Rainbow Dash laughed evilly. She stepped forward to grab Sweetie Belle, but she was knocked off balance by Button Mash, who had escaped the guards and had jumped on her. As Apple Bloom (who had gotten in while everypony was distracted) untied Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle and Button Mash avoided Rainbow Dash’s guards, the now-untied Scootaloo grabbed Waterfall, and Rainbow Dash screamed for more guards, everything suddenly ended in a cloud of smoke. Everyone started coughing, and in the confusion the five fillies escaped into the night. When the smoke cleared, Rainbow Dash shook her head. “Alright, Scootaloo and her friends, prepare to- die?” She stared. Scootaloo and her friends were gone.
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“Phew!” Scootaloo sighed. “I will never get used to that place.” The 5 fillies- Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, Button Mash, Apple Bloom, and Waterfall- were finally back on the ground, looking up at the sky for a glimpse of Rainbow Dash or any of her guards. There was no sign of any guards or cyan pegasi. The Rainbow Factory, however, was shaking violently, so they watched the Factory as well. Then there was an explosion from inside.

“What… was THAT?” Apple Bloom asked. As she spoke, the Factory was shaking even more than before. Then, Rainbow Dash flew out of it.

“There they are! Get them!” she cried. The fillies screamed. As the Rainbow Factory guards flew out as well, the shaking stopped. Everything was still. Then the Factory started plummeting to the ground. Seeing that the sky had suddenly gone dark, Rainbow Dash and her guards took their eyes off of the fleeing fillies for a second to look up at the sky.

The sky was gone. In its place was the falling Rainbow Factory.

Now, everypony knows that clouds are fluffy and soft, and that they can’t hurt anypony at all. But there was a dangerous object in those clouds, which was very heavy, and which was also upside down, and it was right above Rainbow Dash.

So as Rainbow Dash tried to fly away, the Rainbow Factory fell on her. She popped her head through the clouds, only to find her own filly-killing invention land on her.

“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!” Rainbow Dash yelled, screaming in fright. The guards looked on in horror, their loyalty to their leader clashing with their want to stay alive. There was the sound of sawing, blood spurting, and finally the *GAK* of a pony being choked to death. To end it all, a beautiful rainbow flew over the sky.

Scootaloo started crying. “Don’t worry, Scootaloo,” said Waterfall. “It will be okay. She tried to kill you, remember?”

“Yeah!” added Apple Bloom. “You almost died. Isn’t it good that she’s dead instead of you? I know that she was special to you-”

“Special?!” Scootaloo jumped up in anger. “She was my sister! Well, a pony who took care of me like a sister!”

“She also tried to destroy Cloudsdale, all of Equestria, and all the fillies who live there!” Sweetie Belle retorted, annoyed. “Why can’t you look past the good? Maybe now Twilight and her friends can come back with the rest of Equestria and reinhabit it!”

“Yeah, maybe…” Scootaloo thought for a minute. Then she gasped. “But without the Element of Loyalty, who will save Equestria?”

That’s when Apple Bloom smiled. “Babs has a little plan with that in mind,” she said, smiling big. “My cousin wasn’t always evil, you know!”

Babs Seed and Maud Pie, who had survived the explosion, walked up to us. Babs, with the help of Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon (they had heard the explosion from the Flightless Birds HQ and came to see if anypony was hurt,) laid out a piece of yellowing paper. Seeing our expressions, she quickly explained why. “The Master- I’m sorry, Rainbow Dash- never really used paper. I saved this from the wreckage of your first HQ, and I used it to create a plan if Rainbow ever died or got to old to rule our crew.”

“Hey, wait a minute!” Sweetie Belle levitated the paper with her magic and turned it over. “That’s mine! I wrote a song right before the Ponyville Schoolhouse burned down so that I could remember it!” Apple Bloom stared at her. “Rarity used to sing it to me before the Incident.” Sweetie Belle replied defensively.

“Anyway,” Babs said, trying to get back on track. Taking the paper back from Sweetie Belle, she continued: “I think that it’s possible for new ponies to wield the Elements.”

“What?!” The 8 other ponies stared at Babs, shocked with the news.

“I’m just saying…” Babs suddenly turned around. There, hidden in the rubble of the Rainbow Factory, was a book. Babs smiled. “I knew that it would be safe!” She ran over to the book and picked it up. Flipping to a certain page, she showed us the words on them. However, there were no words. Just 6 gems… 6 gems that had saved Equestria from countless problems. “This book is called The Elements of Harmony: A Reference Guide. During Discord’s return, he hid the Elements of Harmony in this book. Luckily, he never removed the pages they were hidden in. When the Incident happened, Twilight placed the Elements in the book so that they couldn’t be used for evil in the other world. Apparently that had happened before. She meant to come back, but during something called the Friendship Games the portal got closed and by the time it reopened, they were fighting a magical creature that was hell-bent on destroying their world. It could even tear portals out of thin air!”

“So that’s how a hole appeared out of thin air in the sky,” Scootaloo said, now wanting to kick the creature’s butt. “Thanks to that thing, I threw up for a week!”

“Why?” asked Sweetie Belle.

“Because I saw something that looked exactly like me. ‘Cept it walked on two legs and wore clothes.” Scootaloo shuddered.

“ANYway,” Babs said, giving Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo a death glare, “they’re right here, with nopony to use them. Who wants to try them first?”

Author's Notes:

Note: I don't actually want Rainbow Dash to die.

Also, only 2 chapters left until the end! :)

Might write a sequel, but only if you want me to!