Before I begin may i just say a massive HELLOOOOOOO to all my pals after that almost two day long outage. Yay! :D

Okay. For those Bronies out there who enjoy the occasional FanFiction of everybodies favourite Horse Related Cartoon, i would like to pose a question : Have you ever read something that you wished you hadnt?

Yesterday, i did.

Browsing youtube a few days ago brought me to a (may I say VERY impressive) Animated Music Video for the Fan made song "Rainbow Factory" by Wooden Toaster - if you havent heard it look it up, the song is amazingly epic and just a tad dark. :3 So, faved the song, but the music video intrigued me.

For those who havent seen it, it entails the "true" origins of Rainbows in Equestria. Bit dark, bit violent, but it none the less grabbed my attention. Upon hearing that a fanfic had been written based from the song, I soon out of my own damn curiosity found a Dramatic Reading of the Grimdark Fanfic "Rainbow Factory". Before i start on the main bulk here, may i say that the guy reading it was astounding, and were it not for the horrific story, i would definitely reccommend listening to it (hes done some funny readings too such as "And then they Did it", but thats not what Im here for.)

WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD

Okaaay. The basic story of Rainbow Factory is Scootaloo and two original ponies, Orion and Aurora, are taking their final exam at flight school. Rumours are spread about what happens to those who fail the exam, but all Pegasi have to take it. After Aurora crashes and hurts herself, Scoots and Orion ruin their chances of passing by helping her out when no one else does. Sure enough they are shipped away into "exile", but upon arriving at their destination they discover that they hve been sent to the Weather Factory. Yadda yadda yadda, turns out in order to make rainbows they need the ground up bodies of pegasi - cue one distopian/utopian twist later and we discover its better for Cloudsdale overall if the Pegasi who cant fly just dissapear - and so it begins.

Now all this i can handle - ive read Cupcakes and it was just tedious. Violence i can deal with and it didnt change my outlook on Pinkie one bit. But something about this fic made my entire core shrivel - maybe it was the guy's - MictheMicrophone, srsly check him out - reading which was amazing, the guys voices and dramatic ways are fantastic. Or maybe it was the reveal that behind all of this was my Favourite Pony, Rainbow Dash.

Yep, Dashie is the head of this final solution esque operation. The writing then becomes heart rending, as Scootaloo pleads with her "sister" and abuses her and screams "I LOVED YOU" - cudos again to the guys voice acting - and Dash simply retorts with apathy and a violent, heartbreaking speech about how she tried to help Scoots from failing in order to avoid this hell. After Orion is killed and fed through the machine, Scoots stages an uprising and attempts an escape - Im not doing it justic here, i was nearly in tears as she struggles with whats going on. After failing, Dash manages to catch her and by this point has gone completely cookoo. Theyre both physically ripped to shreds in the uprising, and mentally distraught as Dash proceeds to ready a battered and bruised scoota up to the machine. YET MORE heartbreak as Scoots breaks down as Dash beats her into submission, until finally, Dash sees what shes done to her "little sister" and goes total schizo, hating herself and ultimately killing herself. Scoots is killed by one of the engineers, and the Rainbow Factory is destroyed.

SPOILERS END

Now, fanfics dont usually affect me - but this one was so well written, well read and so very well acted that it made me cry. Didnt help that the Rainbow Dash impression and the Scootaloo impression were spot on.

So, has it changed my outlook on Rainbow Dash? I thought it had. But deep down i know its not even Fanon, its a completely non canon off the rails made up piece of fan fiction. Dash is so out of character in the story that the main baddie may as well be Fluttershy. But even so...

I certainly know Ill never look at cloudsdale the same way...