Rainbows and choices

1

I woke up. The screams of my nightmare were still buzzing in my ears. I got up and went to the bathroom. I looked at myself in the mirror. A white pegasus with black and blue mane's looked back. I often had these nightmares. Actually almost every night since I was here. I still remembered the first nightmare I had. It didn't surprise me then. I had just seen for the first time what horrors happened at the Rainbow factory. I thought the nightmares would disappear after a while, but they didn't.

The night was now the only moment that I felt emotion. As a worker in the Rainbow factory, I quickly learned to switch off my emotions during the day. Otherwise I would not have lasted long. I remember that for the first 10 ponies I had killed I had closed my eyes. Now I had seen so many ponies in the pegasus device that it didn't touch me anymore. This place just made me crazy. Although I was not bodered with random ponies that died, my dreams were about the pegasus device. In my dreams the ponies who I cared about were thrown into the pegasus device. My friends from the past at school. Yona, Sandbar, Ocellus, Smolder, Silverstream, Gallus and Devo. Devo was my very best friend. On my ninth birthday I had left cloudsdale. I was just on the ground when I met Devo. We had been traveling through Equestria for 3 years until we arrived in Ponyville. There we went to The school of friendship together.

I was terrified that one of my friends would be brought here one day. That was nonsense of course. None of my friends was a pegasus. At least, none of my friends at the school of friendship. Ever since I was a little filly I had a best friend in cloudsdale. A white pegasus with a light blue mane and tail. Her name was Snow Star. For a long time I had been afraid that we might not pass the flight test together. I wasn't worried about myself. I was strong, determined, afraid of nothing and could fly incredibly well. Against Snow Star, you can compare her case a bit with Professor Fluttershy. She was insecure, shy, something on the weak side and could not fly so well. She almost failed her test. Freeing the air and flying through the rings was no problem. She didn't do it really fast, but she did. Then she closed her wings for the full 3 seconds. She had fluttered violently with her wings to go back into the sky before she hit the cloud floor. Maybe she would not have succeeded if I had not given her an upward gust of wind from the side with my wings. Honest or not, I didn't care. We were both through. And certainly now that I had seen what happened to those who did not pass their test, I was glad I had done it.

I smile slightly at the thought that everyone I care about was safe. Besides Snow Star, there were only a few other pegasi that I cared about. My big brother and sister for example. They were not my real brother and sister. I was adopted and grew up with them. At least I didn't have to worry about them. The entire family consisted of fantastic fliers. Both my brother and sister are older. So both of them have already done their flight test. They were also very successful. Not very surprising when you see where my sister Spitfire is now. Leader of the wonderbolts. My brother Cloud Walker against it did not need to be in the spotlight. He is therefore the only one in the family who has no cutie mark about flying. Even I have a fly-related cutie mark. My cutie mark is a wing. Not that I can fly a lot in here. My brother's cutie mark is a cloud. His future was in the Weather factory. As a cloud maker. That is also where the future of Snow Star lay. But then in the winter facility . She made snowflakes. The nicest I have ever seen. I can proudly say that I am the one who convinced her to give it a try. After her first snowflake, which looked very much like an ice flower, she got her cutie mark. Her cutie mark looks exactly the same as the ice flower she had just made at the time.

I threw a splash of water in my face and looked at my alarm clock. It didn't make sense anymore to go back to bed. I had to get up in 10 minutes. I had a meeting with a few important ponies in the Rainbow factory. Ponies such as sisters Robo Fly and Techno Fly and especially with Rainbow Dash. Headmare Dash, or Proffessor Dash as I once called her, was the leader here. At first I didn't want to believe it. Apparently, Rainbow Dash's loyalty was not for Equestria or her friends, but for the pegasi and the Rainbow factory. Rainbow Dash had given some excuse at the school of friendship for my sudden disappearance.  I'm very sure that my friends would not settle for it and come looking for me. On one side they would not find me and on the other side they would not get away alive here. With or without me. I turned off my alarm clock and put on my work clothes. I thought of all my friends one last time before I took a deep breath, switched off my emotions, opened the door, and then closed it behind me. Another new working day that starts. And we had to be ready, because a new load of failures would arrive tomorrow.