Pegasus Device

Rainbow Factory #2

by Aurora Dawn

Cloudsdale Weather Corporation has been running without incident for over twenty years. That is, until two foals manage to avoid being processed and find themselves in the haunted bowels of the massive facility. Can they make it out of the abandoned factory with their sanity intact? Will they uncover the secrets even a company as dark as the CWC is ashamed to keep? And what of the workers who help ensure that, in the end, not a single soul gets through...

197 pages, ebook

First published December 7, 2012

Reviews

[Rocky (RosewaterMallard) · Rating 4 out of 5]

My favourite MLP grimdark to date, followed closely by The Friendship Test. Pegasus Device lacks accuracy in portraying the show-canon characteristics of characters, but that in no way as a fault - the story embraces what it is, sticking to it’s dark and somewhat OOC roots made by the original story (Rainbow Factory), but expands the worldbuilding and explores the hazy morality of various characters in a way that kept me hooked. I’m usually not too fond of stories that are riddled with tons of OCs, but I found myself getting excited whenever the storytelling swapped back to the workers and their stories; Gentle, Contrail, Gauge and Hide were definitely the standout characters among the whole story’s cast. Overall, this was a great read, and if you managed to be hooked by AuroraDawn’s “Rainbow Factory”, you will most certainly love this gorey yet surprisingly philosophical sequel.

[Ben Loucas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Words. Words cannot describe the grotesque, eldritch horrors represented in this story. A gruesomely well-written tale of murderous insanity, and yet a beautiful work of literature. Being forced to sever all ties to the outside, forced to live and work in the shadow of killing machines, forced to murder under the delusion of self preservation and unity of a pure society. Grasping what little remains of your sanity, living on the ideals of purity and fear, until finally falling into the darkness of soulless existence. Living on a lie until the mind breaks, and all that you are is broken. Pegasus Device is a story of atrocity, pain, fear, and death. A story that truly encompasses the burden of guilt and the insanity that follows. A story that truly brings us to question just what loyalties are, just what is the greater good. A story that truly strips us down to our core and challenges our moral beliefs and ethical values.........
(I think I went a little overboard, but the book really brought out some emotions