Chapter 2
Rainbow quickly flew to the road between the town and Sweet Apple Acres. She grinned, thinking of all that she could do now that she had this ring.
She blinked, frowning as she thought about it. What could she do with this ring, anyways? She held her hoof up, examining the ring closely. She shook her head, sighing softly. “I wonder if I should have agreed to this. Whatever the hay this is.” She looked off in the distance, her mind drifting as she became bored. “I wish something exciting would happen...”
A high-pitched scream broke into her thoughts. Rainbow, worried about what was happening and forgetting about her new appearance, rushed off to help.
A grey pegasus was falling from the sky, her yellow mane covering her face. Her body was charred from what appeared to be a horrible lightning strike. Rainbow, determined to save her, flew as fast as she could. “Come on. Just a little more...”
She reached her hooves out to catch the falling pegasus, slowing down to prevent hurting her further. Rainbow reached out a little further...
...and stared in surprise when a large pair of emerald-green hooves suddenly appeared from her ring, gently catching the grey pegasus less than a yard above the ground and absorbing the impact.
Rainbow carefully set her on a soft bed of grass, staring at her ring. “Woah.”
Sentient approaching. Concealing identity.
“Hey!” Rainbow wildly swings her arms around, caught off-balance by the mask that suddenly covered her eyes. She blinked, looking around. “What do you mean, ‘sentient’?”
At that moment, pink suddenly filled her field of vision. She reeled back, trying to recognize who or what it was.
“Hello, there! I’ve never seen you before!” It was just Pinkie Pie. Rainbow sighed in relief, but that soon became confusion. How could Pinkie not recognize her? “Oh my gosh, you look so super-duper amazing! I would love to have some clothes that looked like that! Where did you get it? Who are you?”
Green Lantern of Space Sector 3492.
“Ooh, that sounds so exciting! Formal and uptight, but exciting!” She laughed, hopping around Rainbow. "What was that pair of hooves? How did you do that, Greenie?”
Construct manifestation triggered by force of will.
Rainbow turned away from Pinkie, hissing at her ring. “Will you be quiet!?”
Activating silent mode.
Pinkie gasped, grabbing Rainbow and shaking her. “I have to tell everypony about this! We have a hero in town with spectacularly awe-inspiring abilities!” She quickly rushed off, giggling happily.
Rainbow stood there, confused. “...why didn’t Pinkie recognize me?” She immediately remembered how the ring made a mask over her face. "...what else can this ring change?" She looked at a puddle and gasped.
"My mane! It's...it's green!"
And indeed it was. Her mane, as well as her tail, was now varying shades of green, her rainbow colors gone. She thought about it for a bit, wondering why this happened.
Her mind soon drifted from that thought, as she imagined how Twilight would react to her as she was now, smirking a bit as she pictured the unicorn geeking out over her ring.
“How does your ring do that?” Rainbow snapped her attention to the emerald Twilight in front of her, who was now starting to disappear.
She blinked, then looked at her ring. “How did you do that?”
Her question was met with silence.
She sighed, shaking her head. “You can talk now, ring.”
Construct manifestation triggered by force of will.
“You said that before! What does that even mean?” She looked around, as if the answer was somewhere written into the ground. “Do I just imagine what I want to make, or something?”
Silence again. She groaned, throwing her hooves up in the air. “Fine! I’ll just figure it out myself!” She pointed her foreleg out, focusing on a character from her favorite book series, Daring Do. She watched as a light emerged from her ring, taking the form of the adventurous pegasus. As soon as she stopped focusing, the image disappeared.
She thought for a bit, then grinned, an idea coming to her head. She giggled, walking off to visit Twilight. “This is gonna be so hilarious!”