an animation based on scootaloo's traumatized mind. music from PurpleRoselyn: • Video and original song by SlyphStormARCHIVE: • Pegasus Device - Slyph...
3:15 is were reality kicks in rest is psych I believe from the Desc anyway. I'm guessing this may have been an alternative universe from the fic. Instead Scoots passed the test with flying colours and eventually became Dash's apprentice. Although this theory is contradicted by Abigail's mentioning she may have still failed Dash's expectation in becoming the next manager leaving her in the same scenario as the original fic. The fic continues normally until Abigail's confrontation with Dash in which she overthrows her. At 3:15 Abigail realizes she's about to kill her last remaining innocence seeing herself as Dash and Dash as her younger innocent self. Abigail kills Dash becoming the monster she once sought to destroy.
It's been so long It's been so long Since I last have seen my son lost to this monster To the man behind the slaughter Haha sorry, I can't contain myself 😅😅
Deep in the pages of history Lies a shadow hiding in a mystery A late night story buried far away Until it once again sees the light of day And when the little colts and fillies turn out all lights And tell a story of a factory as black as night The luxury of rainbows comes at a price So just ignore the screams, and don't think twice You've proven to yourself and to all of us That you're not fit to fly like a Pegasus You don't even deserve those wings you bear When you stand beside a legend, you don't even compare All of the failures help to fuel success In the bloody and visceral weather game of chess And just because you've disappointed you'll pay the price Now accept your fate and die in the Pegasus Device Phantom screams echo through the ruined facility A horrible silence builds an eerie tranquility The souls of many innocent fill the air And the hope that they all died with scattered here and there A mighty machine built within the wake Of a long dead dream, little demon awake The citizens sleep, never quite knowing when The device will reawaken, hungry again You've proven to yourself and to all of us That you're not fit to fly like a Pegasus You don't even deserve those wings you bear When you stand beside a legend, you don't even compare All of the failures help to fuel success In the bloody and visceral weather game of chess And just because you've disappointed you'll pay the price Now accept your fate and die in the Pegasus Device All of the failures help to fuel success In the bloody and visceral weather game of Chess And just because you've disappointed you'll pay the price Now accept your fate and die in the Pegasus Device I don't even remember my past I don't remember who I used to be I don't even remember my friends of old I don't remember my destiny My mane is purple and my coat is orange What I've become? I have no idea. I only know one simple thing The name they gave me: Absentia You've proven to yourself and to all of us That you're not fit to fly like a Pegasus You don't even deserve those little wings you bear When you stand beside a legend, you don't even compare All of the failures help to fuel success In the bloody and visceral weather game of chess And just because you've disappointed you'll pay the price Now accept your fate and die in the Pegasus Device I don't even recognize your rainbow mane When you hide it behind that mask of shame You don't even deserve those wings you bear You used to be a legend, a righteous mare All of the failures help to fuel success In the bloody and visceral weather game of chess And then you sit upon your throne and you roll your diamond dice And you send us all to die in your Pegasus Device In the Rainbow Factory, where fears and horrors come true In the Rainbow Factory, where not a single soul gets through In the Rainbow Factory, where failures pay their toll Now I've awoken, and I'm taking back control
Though the songs and story are all fan-made, it's dark. Like real dark, but it's also well done. If you integrated this into the actual canon, it could be set in a time where Discord went all-out in a chaotic reign of terror. Everyone gets driven mad, the weather factory gets changed and the location that makes rainbows is changed for the worst. Rainbow Dash is in charge of course, and now there's initiation to count yourself among those who can live in Cloudsdale. Those who fail are captured and taken to the forsaken Rainbow Factory to either work to death or be killed right away and used for your color. As things play out, Scootaloo fails the test from seeing others fail. She and the others are captured and sent to die. The friends die and Scootaloo almost escapes and ends up back where she started. What happened between then and this song, I'm not sure but I kind of have an idea. I think the protagonist is sent to work, specifically to be the executioner and extract the color of the factory's victims. This is probably because she was resilient to escape and Rainbow probably gave her another chance to maybe redeem herself, but it would require a very cold-blooded individual to succeed. The way it probably would go, workers are brainwashed, stripped of any memories outside the factory, and given new names to be completely different and soley loyal to this new work. I think several years would go on to the point of this song, and Scootaloo probably reopens her eyes to see that the killing is wrong. Dash catches on and is for sure ready to kill her this time and degrades her to the lowest point. Scootaloo, already insane from the past years, fights back against her mentor. She uses her absolute anger to fight and overpower Rainbow Dash. She straps her to the device and talks about how she only remembers her new name and nothing else anymore. Rainbow took everything away, and the one who used to look up to her now has her in the clutches of the pegasus device. With the pull of the lever and stab of the long, bloody, and rusted needle, Rainbow Dash looses her colors and dies. Scootaloo takes control of the factory, but not in a good way. Driven by insanity, she would go on to continue the work. That's how I see it played out on my head
The story this song tells and the one the video tells are very different www.fimfiction.net/story/68356/pegasus-device here's the story the song is actually based on
Overtime scootaloo does become rainbowdash, becomes as evil and insane but then remembers that's not who she is. It's like rainbowdash takes her over, and possesses her. But then she finally cracks and realizes her hatred for rd. Scootaloo returns, corrupted full of hate and realisation. Everything she's been through is too powerful for rainbowdash and she loses control and kills rainbowdash. Rainbow is surprised by this, and how powerful scootaloo has become. In a way rd overpowered scootaloo and scootaloo became even stronger and even more insane and broken than rainbowdash
Thank you angel rain for putting it so elegantly. as someone who has borderline personality disorder knows, these things stems from childhood abuse. and I totally see that when Scootaloo basically becomes rainbow dash (her abuser.) as time passed. And usually the abused developed emotional and mental disassociation and personalities to deal with the trama endured, which we see in the older scootaloo....eventually the "child" in scootaloo reawakens, breaks free from her abuser, or (programmers) hold and we see that headache as she crosses over mentally and "takes back control" that she had ripped away from her. just goes to show even someone perceived as weak can overpower their abusers or handlers eventually :)
This is incredible! Amazing job with the animation. For some reason the ending just gives me chills every time I see it. Maybe it's Rainbow Dash's expression, or the fact that what Rainbow Dash's was doing to hundreds of thousands of ponies was about to be done to her
Song lyrics: Rainbow Dash: Deep in the pages of history Lies a shadow hiding in a mystery A late night story buried far away Until it once again sees the light of day When the little colts and fillies turn out all the lights And tell a story of a factory as black as night The luxury of rainbows comes at a price Just ignore the screams and don't think twice You've proven to yourself and to all of us that your not fit to fly like a pegasus You don't even deserve those wings you bear When you stand beside a legend you don't even compare All of the failure helps to fuel success in the bloody and visceral weather game of chess And just because you've disappointed you'll pay the price Now accept your fate and die in the pegasus device Phantom screams echo through the ruined facility A horrible silence builds an eerie tranquility The souls of many innocents fill the air And the hopes that they don't die was scattered here and there A mighty machine built within the wake Of a long dead dream, little demon awake The citizens sleep, never quite knowing when The device will reawaken, hungry again You've proven to yourself and to all of us that your not fit to fly like a pegasus You don't even deserve those wings you bear When you stand beside a legend you don't even compare All of the failure helps to fuel success in the bloody and visceral weather game of chess And just because you've disappointed you'll pay the price Now accept your fate and die in the pegasus device Absentia (Scootaloo): I don't even remember my past I don't remember who I used to be I don't remember my friend of old I don't remember my destiny My mane is purple, my coat is orange What I've become, I've no idea I just remember one simple thing The name they gave me: Absentia Rainbow Dash: You've proven to yourself and to all of us that your not fit to fly like a pegasus You don't deserve those little wings you bear When you stand beside a legend you don't even compare All of the failures help to fuel success in the bloody and visceral weather game of chess And just because you've disappointed you'll pay the price Now accept you fate and die in the pegasus device Absentia (Scootaloo): I don't even recognise your rainbow mane When you hide it behind that mask of shame You don't even deserve those wings you bear You used to be a legend, a righteous mare All of the failures help to fuel success in the bloody and visceral weather game of chess And then you sit upon you throne and you roll your diamond dice And you sent us all to die in your pegasus device In the rainbow factory where fears and horrors come true In the rainbow factory where not a single soul gets through In the rainbow factory where failures pay there toll Now I've awoken and I'm taking back control...! Thanks for reading!!
Okay, so based on this song, a previous song, and a CreepyPasta I read, the story is basically this: Scootaloo took a flying test and failed. As a result, she was sent to the Rainbow Factory along with other failures. She was eventually able to try escaping with a friend she had met there. Her friend died, but she escaped. Now, she's traumatized and is determined to get back at Rainbow Dash for what she had done to others.
It's like you will be my successor! I'm surprised that in this version of rd she couldn't bring herself to kill scootaloo and instead made her into her successor. It's like dashs mind has to comprehend the value of keeping her alive and compromising between keeping her alive and killing her. In the scene with cheerlee I felt like dash still loves scoot but hates her whenever she won't do what she wants. Mabye rainbow was trying to save scootaloo cause she couldn't bring herself to kill her even though she's evil. Rainbow was successful when scoot killed applebloom I think that's the compromise that dash needed in her mind in order to keep scootaloo alive. It's like rainbow dash was fighting herself mentally but in order to do so she needed scootaloo to do whatever dash needed. however the insanity finally caught up to her, as we see.
Rainbow Dash: Deep in the pages of history Lies a shadow hiding in a mystery A late night story buried far away Until it once again sees the light of Day And when the little colts and fillies Turn out all the lights And tell a story of a factory as black as night The luxury of rainbows comes at a price Just ignore the screams and don't think twice You've proven to yourself and to all of us that your not fit to fly like a pegasus You don't even deserve those wings you bear When you stand beside a legend you don't even compare All of the failures help to fuel success In the bloody and visceral weather game of chess And just because you've disappointed you'll pay the price Now accept your fate and die In the pegasus device Phantom screams echo through the ruined facility A horrible silence builds an eerie tranquility The souls of many innocent fill the air And the hope that they all died with scattered here and there A mighty machine built within the wake Of a long dead dream, little demon awake The citizens sleep, never quite knowing when The device will reawaken, hungry again You've proven to yourself and to all of us That your not fit to fly like a pegasus You don't even deserve those wings you bear When you stand beside a legend you don't even compare All of the failures help to fuel success In the bloody and visceral weather game of chess And just because you've disappointed you'll pay the price Now accept your fate and die in the pegasus device Rainbow Dash: All of the failures help to fuel success in the bloody and visceral weather game of chess And just because you've disappointed you'll pay the price NOW ACCEPT YOUR FATE AND DIE IN THE PEGASUS DEVICE Scootalo: I don't even remember my past I don't remember who I used to be I don't remember my friends of old I don't remember my destiny My mane is purple and my coat is orange What I've become I have no idea I only know one simple thing The name they gave me: Absentia Rainbow Dash: You've proven to yourself and to all of us That you're not fit to fly like a pegasus You don't even deserve those little wings you bear When you stand beside a legend you don't even compare All of the failures help to fuel success In the bloody and visceral weather game of chess And just because you've disappointed you'll pay the price Now accept your fate and die in the pegasus device Scootalo: I don't even recognize your rainbow mane When you hide it behind that mask of shame You don't even deserve those wings you bear You used to be a legend, a righteous mare All of the failures help to fuel success In your bloody and visceral game of chess And then you sit upon your throne and you roll your diamond dice And you send us all to die in your pegasus device Rainbow Dash: In the rainbow factory, where fears and horrors come true In the rainbow factory, where not a single soul gets through In the rainbow factory, where failures pay their toll Now I've awoken, and I'm taking back control
Listening to the words when I discovered the song, I imagined an animation just like this, lol. I had it pictured a wee bit different, but this is great work. Showing what insanity could be created in a place like that
I feel like this is a just Scootaloo's nightmare, based on legends of what the pegisi did a LONG time ago, before better methods of making rainbows were created.
Melody Requiem this is amazing. So good I mean the best ever please keep this up! Also my alicorn oc is my profile pic. Just in case. I'm kidding ya don't gotta add me in. But still I love your art I hope we can be friends one day. I have other social media if your interested being my friend
"My mane is purple and my coat is orange, what ive become I have no idea!" "I only know one simple thing, the name they gave me absentia" Yes I see your point. Amazing rhyme.
i remember being so scared to this...i still kinda am...and yet i watch antisepticeye and darkipliar lol if i was scootalo i would join them,(but secretly be creating a reviving potion) lolz
I guess after all the horrible stuff Rainbow Dash forced Scootaloo ta watch then forced her to do it was bound to come back on her. After all. As the old saying goes. "What Goes Around Comes Around"
I remember what I would watch the song when I was like 6 years old and I will cry while watching it but now I'm sitting here mouthing the lyrics Oh how time changes
That moment you realize that they killed Applebloom and that makes no sense because there's no possible way that Applebloom could have failed a flying test as she's not even a pegasus.
She knew Scootaloo and tried to find her / work against the Rainbow Factory or something? And they could simply switch Sweetiebot off, or reprogram her / wipe her memory?
perhaps it was to mentally torture scootaloo or like applebloom knew about the rainbow factory and they had to get rid of her (i know nothing about this creepy pasta)
What if there was a rainbow factory family rd and her lover and their daughter and the daughter was rds successor and was trained just like scootaloo is in this video
You did so good on this MELODY!! This is my favorite cover of The Pegasus Device! The lip sync is amazing. the running animation is so cool! so is the flying animation!!! KEEP IT UP!!!!
Me: Oh Come! I Bet Im Gonna Die laughing! xDDDD The video:*The Blood Part Shows Up* Me: *Dies Crying* GOOD JOB U MADE ME CRY DIEING (NO I SERIOUSE) XDDD
I Like It Mean I thought This Was Gonna Be So Blurry But Its Pretty Good The Quality And I really Felt How Rainbowdash/Scootaloo You Know The Rainbow That Was Really Scootaloo It Looked Like They Had A Headache When She Was Turning back To Her Original Form Scootaloo
WELL IF ISN'T LITTLE PRINCESS Flurry Heart THEIRS NO WERE TO HIDE Flurry Heart YOU & YOUR SISTER STORMY HEART WILL BE KILLED NO MATTER HOW HARD YOU 2 TRY TO FIGHT US YOU 2 WILL ALWAYS LOSE!!!!!!!!!!!>:-)
Cat Craft1266 but why would Scootaloo say now I'm taking back control why wouldn't fluttershy say it because she is a Pegasus like Rainbow Dash still why why why why WHY!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Amirrah Galbon Scootaloo's a Pegasus.. and she said it because RD's getting payback for what she's done and what she put Scootaloo through at such a young age
look i see your point and yes this was intended as a spiritual successor to rainbow factory, but because of the voices that i used i'm still forced with scootaloo singing that part i can't put a random fluttershy there.
