Dawn breaks through the windows pane of your personal sleeping chambers, another night of unrestfulness it seems. As the student of Celestia, there will be more mornings like this to come. She has had you worried all night long, she told you of a vague mission, one that determine the balance of the universe. Words like those don’t sit well with you, they make your hair stick out in all kinds of directions and your hooves get sweaty. She knows how much it pains you to not know the details, but she wanted you to come in person so she could tell what was going on, face to face. That’s Celestia for you, a mare that takes thing personally far too easily. Despite your worry, you can’t be late to your meeting with her, tardiness is not the stress you need right now.
You lift you hoof to remove the blanket from you, the pent up cozy warmth is released into the slightly cooler room. The room is not your own, it’s an unfamiliar sight with a royal motif that was given to you by the princess for a one night stay. Despite its unfamiliarities, you are no stranger to the castle, many nights have been spent like this once you became her student. You use your right hoof again to brush against your frizzled hair, you were smart to have Spike quadruple check the list for a brush. In your hair, you feel a familiar obstruction, your trusty horn is still where it’s always been. You rub up and down it’s length and stop at a circular object adorning it, yeah, your ring is where it’s always been too.
After you get up, you move to the bathroom of the of the castle suite to freshen up. It’s a white tiled bathroom with a full range of soaps and shampoos, one that you’d expect in a place of royalty. You turn around to the side to be greeted by a reflection of yourself, you’re still wearing your regular green outfit. It’s the average uniform of a sector E337 green lantern. It’s was a big mistake of you to sleep in your uniform, but last night’s preparations left you drained and you sort of passed out with it still on. With a quick spell of green your suit turns into a non corporeal form and shrinks back into the lantern ring on your horn. Now you may continue with your routine before you visit the princess.
The shower knob creaks as it turns, with the minor use of your ring you adjust the heat to comfortable levels. You dip your exposed fur into the running water as the steam from the shower head fills your vision. Your magic green grasp lifts a bottle of shampoo to your hair, you squeeze out a very liberal amount into your mane. Warmth from the water works well to clear your mind, it gives you time to think. Why did Celestia want you to come alone? Why did she make it so personal? What is the mission that made you so worried in the first place? Those are questions for Celestia herself when you meet her.
Once you are finished, you walk out of the shower and back to the room to prepare. You take out your brush and take slow strokes down your hair as you look out the window. Celestia’s sun is almost done rising, she said to meet her immediately after she finished. Despite the fact that it’s still rising, you leave anyway, she’d probably be done by the time you make it to the throne room. Before you head out, you bring your saddlebag that is heavy from the materials you brought. You don your green lantern suit and continue to the hallway.
In the hall you are met with the same red velvet rug that runs along the length of the room. You begin your travel to the throne room by walking to the left. In the hall you see plenty of your colleagues, all of them adorning the green suit that symbolizes the morals they protect with their lives. Despite you all carrying the same duty, you are a unique one of the group, you’re the only one that is a student of Celestia. As you pass by them, they give you greetings as a brother would, it’s a sign of unity within the corps.
As you walk further down the halls of the white castle, the less and less pony the lanterns become. The corps reaches to the farthest ends of the galaxy, and as every other sector has a protector, it has a representative that comes to Canterlot every few days. Despite the differences, there a few guidelines that a species must follow in order to have a protector. A species must have; Higher intelligence. A place to protect that has a proper amount life. And a sense of morals that uphold that of the princesses’. No matter what creature passes you by they are your brothers, you protect them as they protect you.
Once you reach the end of your journey, you see the great green doors that adorned with the symbol of the lanterns, the doors to Princess Celestia’s throne room. With your lantern’s magic as the key, the door slowly creaks as it opens to reveal Celestia on her green chair. Her horn is adorned with her usual white ring, and her chest is covered with her lantern breastplate. Her regal stature is far more strict now, it’s a sign that she’s probably just as stressed as you. There is no falter in her glare as she follows your path into the chamber with her eyes.
“You requested my presence, your highness?” you ask Celestia.
She gives a long wait time as she stares at you. “Twilight, do you know why we have the lanterns?” she asks in her caring voice.
“To protect the universes population.” you say in a confident tone.
“Very good Twilight.” She begins to walk down from her seat toward you. You follow her as she steps through the hall, giving resounding clops that echo sharply in the room. “Twilight, do you know what happened in the beginning of Equestria?” Why is she asking these questions? You already know the answer to them, and she know you know them too.
“You and Luna both defeated Discord, using the power of the black and white lanterns. You in turn created will and hope for the ponies, giving them rings to channel those emotions.”
“Correct again Twilight. But do you know what happened before that?” You’re stopped dead in your tracks at this question, you’ve never known the answer to it! Celestia sees your reaction, she obviously knew you didn’t know the answer too. She turns to the side and looks up to a stained glass window of her and her sister defeating Discord. “It is true, me and my sister did defeat Discord, but our history stems quite farther than that.”
“When I was a filly, long before I came into a position of power, I wasn’t in Equestria at all.”
“What do you mean princess?” She turns her attention to you.
“The place I grew in is a far off land, not one that can be reached through conventional means. It was a planet called, Earth. I was there when I was raised by the creators of the green power rings.”
This a lot of big news to you, you’ve always assumed that they were the creators of the rings all along. “So you didn’t create the rings?”
“That was the doing of a group of people far wiser than even I, they were called the Guardians of the Universe. They created the rings to protect the universe when it was in need, but even that came at a price. With its creation, there also were rings that utilized... less than favorable emotions. Once they had established rings, entities were formed from to symbolize the emotion in it’s purest form.”
Since when was this, why is she telling you about this now?
“The guardians could not allow them to create such rampant havoc, they had one option, to combine the emotional spectres together and seal them away. What used to be separate was then made whole, it became the Discord we know today. Once Discord had been completed, there were emotions he lacked because they are allies to the green lanterns. He lacked love for anything or anyone, he never knew what love is and never will. He was made without compassion for any cause, that was the main reason why he did whatever he wanted, he never felt any drive to complete anything that did not help him personally. There was no will or hope in whatever he did, that’s the reason he didn’t do much to stop you when you attempted to stop him, he saw no point for it was hopeless.”
“Your highness, is Discord awakening again?”
“No Twilight, but what I am telling you is far more important. Once Discord was made, there was one emotional specter so powerful and violent that the guardians couldn’t hope to contain him.”
“That emotion was fear, named Parallax, not only did Discord not have the will to fight back, he felt no fear of the end.”
“Excuse me your highness, but why am I getting the history of Discord?” You hate to interrupt, but the lack of details is too much for you!
She gives you her classic grin before continuing. “That’s because I want you to visit the land were Discord once roamed free. Discord was sent into our realm as a prison, the guardians thought they had won, but they made a grave mistake. Little did they know, our realm was inhabited by sentient creatures, the ponies. The guardians shuddered to think of life under the rule of a tyrant like him, it was against their code to allow such things to happen in the first place. The guardians knew that their mistake was one that could cost the lives of thousands, so they tried to solve their error. They went to our universe long ago and collected the two most powerful creatures in the realm, that was me and Luna at the time. They brought us back to their realm to teach us how to take our home back from Discord, they gave us the power rings that were powerful enough to stop him, the white and black lanterns. In that universe, we trained on how to use or abilities so we can defeat Discord on our return. Once me and my sister came of age, we were sent back to our home world to imprison Discord without harming anymore sentient life.”
“Princess! How can I walk the land of entities? Such a place must hardly be habitable!” you say.
“Like I said, I grew in that land, so I can assure you, it is habitable. What is more of an example, is that your brother lanterns are there, green lanterns like you. However, they do not expect you to come, they do not expect anypony at all to come. Twilight, this universe’s ponies are not sentient, they are simple creatures that are incapable of harnessing the ring. The guardians attempted to hide the existence of our world so they may keep a balance between the universes.”
So there is a universe of other lanterns, some with emotional spectrums not known to all of ponykind? Celestia must be telling you this for something big.
“Twilight... there was a disturbance in this universe that has not happened for millions of years. A power surge that touched the spectrums of light from a universe apart, this is a power signature unique to the creation of a new ring itself. My faithful student, this ring must be documented and studied, we must know if it is safe or not. Twilight Sparkle, you must go there to find this ring study its power before it reaches it’s host, and return with the information. Do you understand the mission I am giving you?”
“Y-yes princess."
“Good, now follow me, Luna must have a word with you before you embark on your journey to this new realm.”
After she says that, she walks past her throne to a secluded door behind her chair. The inside of the room is bleak and dull, very little light comes inside, giving it a feeling of night time. One thing that shines in the room is a mirror placed in the center of the room, beside it is Princess Luna. She looks at you with a blank expression, her black lantern breastplate shining in the dark.
“Twilight Sparkle, I trust that you have had the briefing from my sister?” she asks.
“Y-yes your majesty.”
“Good, I’m here to fill in the rest before your journey. What you will see is a planet of creatures unknown to me and my sister, last we were there, it had no established dominant species. However, once you reach your destination, you will take the form of that species, what you will turn into is a mystery to even us. Next, there will be rings of a far vaster variety, not all will be friendly. You will meet a red lantern, this agent is powered off of it’s rage. Despite the persons fury, he can never turn his energy into a solid shape, only energy waves. You will also meet a blue lantern, these are strong allies to the green lantern corps. Although they are trust able, you are in no way to reveal your true nature to them as well as anyone. There will also be orange ghosts, these are victims of the orange light. They are spirits of pure greed and are an enemy of every lantern corps known. They are never seen in public, so they’re not that much of an enemy, unless they see something they want. There is only one wielder of a true orange lantern, whoever it is will be the most formidable of them all. Another is indigo, they are a rare and secluded corps that is powered from compassion. Little is known of this ring, but it is common knowledge that they are not enemies to any other corps, I doubt you’ll see one anyway. Violate is another color, these rings are powered from the love of the user. Despite the innocent sounding power, they are not to be trusted, they have lost their emotion long ago and turn people into violate gems and destroy planets once given the opportunity. One more, you should see the yellow lanterns, they are an evil race of people who feast on the fears of the people around them. With the color yellow, their power is capable of breaking through the defenses of any green lantern that has not conquered their fears. Lastly, you should see your brother and sister lanterns, despite your bond, your are still not suppose to reveal your true identity. Once there, you should be able to track the power of the ring to wherever it may be. But I warn you, you are not the only one after this power. There will be all types of rings looking to control this new power for their own needs. Your mission is to judge if it is feeding wrong emotions, if so, you are to destroy is before the other lanterns may have it. If the ring is to find a bearer before you can reach it, you are to study that person and terminate him if necessary. Is your objective clear?”
“Yes, Princess Luna.”
“Good, then this mirror will act as your gateway.” she says as she motions to the mirror next to her. “Say the oath and we may continue.”
You take a deep breath before you point your horn to the mirror. “In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight! Let those who worship evil's might, beware my power, Green Lantern's light!” The mirror warps in green light as it contours. It’s a light show of green that opens the portal to another realm.
“Do I have to do this alone?” you ask. Celestia answers your question.
“I’m sorry Twilight, but your friends may alert your presence to enemy ring bearers,and with a new ring within the vicinity, it may start a full war.” You understand her sentiment, a new ring sounds like something to be dealt with carefully.
“Okay, here I go!” You say as you take a step into the portal.
...Boredom... that’s all you can feel right now. You can’t say this is a new experience for you, this has been going on ever since you joined this damned school. Your first day did hold some excitement, you felt like it held some opportunities despite the inconvenient moving. But it sort of is your fault that it was ruined, you just had to say, ‘What is wrong with these people and their colored skin?’. How someone heard you is a mystery, but all it took was one, ‘OMG SO RACIST!’ to ruin your chances of having a comfortable school year. Now you’re known as ‘Normal Norman, the Racist!’ goddamn that nickname.... But all you do is waste the day away, doing nothing. You don’t have any -real- friends because of the racist thing, but that doesn’t matter now, you wouldn’t want to do much even if you had anyone to call, you wouldn’t want to go anywhere anyway. It’s not like you would consider your behavior ‘boring’, just... lazy. Yeah lazy, that’s the word you’re looking for. Here you are, sprawled on your couch in your room with clothing articles littering every surface in the area, how could this not be lazy? It’s not like you don’t like being sort of a sloth, it’s that of a... tranquil feeling. The ability to put everything off until the last minute is just how you like spending your time. After all, doesn’t working really hard as fast as you can count as a good thing? They say lazy people work the hardest, well you like to pride yourself of being a hard working individual! Despite what others may think of you, you like being the way you are, a lazy bastard.
Your lazy meditation is broken by your mother bursting through your room doors.
“Norman!” she howells. “I thought I told you to do the dishes four hours ago! They’re not done, Norman!”
The only form of acknowledgment you give her is your lazy glare. “Look, why don’t we just get a dishwasher?” you ask.
“Because we don’t have the money! Now get your ass into the kitchen and start washing!” Her yelling infuriates you, but you don’t care enough to do anything about it.
“Maybe if we stopped running up the water bill by not washing them, we could afford one?”
“That’s not the problem, now stop being so damn lazy!” This time your mother is starting to break your lazy trance enough for you to give an honest answer.
“You want to know my honest opinion? I don’t fucking care.”
...A strong dizzy spell wraps your mind, the journey here was much more taxing than you had thought it would be. But then again, you’ve never traveled between dimensions before, it’s not like you had any expectations. You landed flat on your back, what was once a saddle bag, is now a single book bag strapped to your shoulders. You check your surroundings from your laying position, there are paved roads, a building in front of you, a minotaur grabbing you. Wait... A MINOTAUR?! You feverishly flail your limbs to release yourself if his grasp. A follow the strange extremity to its origin with our eyes, they seem to be connected to... you? You study these new limbs carefully, they react with your commands immediately, just like your hooves did. Now that you mention it, there isn’t a single hoof on this body! There are these hard covers on your lower legs, but once you move them, you quickly understand that they aren’t a part of you. Actually, your entire body is covered in these strange garments. It doesn’t look anything like your uniform, and it isn’t even colored green. Despite the random appearance of clothing, you managed to calm yourself.
Your concentration is broken when you hear a soft whimper coming from your book bag, have you been resting on something? You lift yourself off of whatever you may be resting on, you check the spot you were previously on and see nothing. The whimper cries out again, but this time you can locate it from -inside- your bag. You lift it from around your shoulders and pull it in front of you. The zipper is hard to get with you new digits, but you manage to get it. You pull it around until the bag is completely open then pry it wide. Inside is not your regular books, it’s a large purple obstruction that is breathing softly. You lift it out of your bag by its collar and bring it up to your face. It look like a purple dog, but his features are strange. He has green hair adorning his crown with lighter green on his ears. It sort of reminds you of a certain dragon who was meant to be left home....
“Spike?” you ask the strange creature. It stirs from it’s sleep and then looks at you with apologetic eyes.
“Ehh, that’s me, hehe....” he says.
“But what are you?” He inspects his person quickly but then turns back to look at you.
“I know what I am, but what are you?”
You repeat his actions, and inspect yourself. So far, the only thing you can compare this body to is that of a minotaur’s. “I have no idea, but my guess is some sort of minotaur subspecies.”
“Well that would mean it’s more of a higher species, considering it is the dominant lifeform on the planet.”
“Yeah I-... wait a second, were you hiding in my bag throughout the entire talk with the princesses?”
Spike does some sort of doggie whimper and shrinks back into into your bag. He later pops back up with a scroll in his mouth and hands it to you.
“I kept notes on everything they said!” he yaps pleadingly to you.
You review the paper, to your surprise, it’s very detailed. “Maaaybe I can overlook this small hiccup in the plan....” you say as you roll it back and place it in the book bag with Spike.
“Okay, Spike.” you say. “It looks like the lifeforms here have intelligent society. The roads are paved perfectly, and the buildings rise six stories tall! Now all we have to do is make contact with the ring.”
“You could use your ring to locate it!”
“Right!” You focus all of your energy into your horn, but no effect come to you. Spike sees your struggle and speaks up.
“Uh... I don’t think you have a horn anymore...”
“WHAT?! HOW WILL I USE MY RING?” Your hands dart up to your forehead as you feverishly search for any sign of your horn. But something catches your attention as you look at your hands. You pull down your right hand from your temple and inspect the... thingies on it. On the middle part of your hand, there is your ring, tightly fitting around these mini arms you have. You really got to find out the name for these. “Say, Spike? I found my ring, but what is it on?”
Spike takes close inspection before answering. “Those are fingers. After all the time we’ve been together, you don’t know what they are?”
“But I thought you had claws!”
“Yeah, claws -on- my fingers!”
You sort of shrink back at that. Spike is like a brother and you don’t even know what he uses every day to get things for you.
“Eh, sorry...” Now is the time to track the power surge to it’s origin. You focus your will into the power of the ring to search for any abnormalities in the spectrum. That’s odd... it seems to be moving very fast...
...It was as if you had flipped a switch... all you said was ‘I don’t fucking care.’ and then time froze. What’s going on? Your mother stares at you with the same infuriated expression she had before you finished your sentence. You approach her as she maintains her frozen face staring at the couch you were just sitting on. Just outside the window, life continues normally, the birds chirp, the chimney smoke rises, and people go about their business. All of this goes on while your mom is frozen faced in the middle of your room. You scratch your head at this, what’s going on? Did you say the magic word? It’s a perplexing conundrum, but I guess it can wait for when you feel like it.
Suddenly, the room turns into a deep shade of gray, the world around you becomes a blank grey room with a dull light emanating from nowhere. “What’s going on?” you say. Your words echo into an infinite abyss of grey, it continues until it fades away. A sudden ray of dull light breaks the void and blinds you, the light descends while cover your eyes. It’s far too dull to have any effect on you, but it still forces you to look away. The light dims and stops at your chest level, just about two feet away from your torso.
“Normal Norman.” the light says.
It sounds like a douchbag roommate's talking through it, that can’t be the things voice, can it?
“You have shown exceeding amounts of laziness, more than has ever been viewed by the universe before. As a master of slacking off you have ascended, you are now the physical embodiment of laziness itself. Claim me, and take your position as Normal Norman, the Gray Lantern!”
The light suddenly disperses itself, and in it’s place rested a single ring, floating in the air. Is this thing serious? Is this some kind of a joke? How is this happening? Whatever, it’s not like like you care too much, you’ll get around to that later. “MAXIMUM POWER ACHIEVED!” … Did that thing just react with what you were thinking? This is fucked up, this is waaaaay too creepy for you. Still... a free ring can’t hurt, right? You pluck it out of it’s levitation and hold it with your left hand. When you confirm the thing is not booby trapped, you turn it on it side and lift your right hand to it’s opening. As real kicker, you put on your middle finger so flipping people off will be twice as fun. Once placed on, the world fades back to your room, your mom is yelling her head off about dishes as though nothing happened.
“-AND IF I DON’T SEE YOU DOWN THE STEPS IN THE NEXT FIVE MINUTES, YOU ARE OUT OF HERE!” she says as she stomps out of your room and back down the steps. Damn, she seems mad, her face was red with rage. Whatever, guess you’ll go down stairs or something. Your mind is still wrapped with questions, what happened? Is this ring one of dad’s pranks again? If so, it’s a very elaborate one, you doubt even he could pull this one off. As you walk down the steps to the lower parts of your house, you twist the ring around on your finger. It’s not a very interesting design, it’s a dark grey color with a symbol that looks like a shrugging stick figure. The ring itself is made out of some sort of strong metal, that’s a really big indicator that your father didn’t make it. He doesn’t know how to work with metal, and he definitely can’t sculpt. You’d go back and investigate, but right now you’re coming down with a bad case of don’t give a fuck.
Once you reach the kitchen you look at the pile of dishes that pile high on the sink. Just one look tell you that you really can’t care less. Instead of doing what your mom said, you sit down at the kitchen table and kick your feet back. You understand that the dishes aren’t going to wash themselves, but you sure as hell ain't. When you look back at them you rest your cheek on the kitchen table and look at them from your sideways perspective. Yeah, you are -way- too lazy to do this. Suddenly you see a dark grey figure on the floor, it’s like a grey snake. It crawls closer and closer to the sink on the other end of the room. You trail the length of the snake to it’s origin. It seems to be coming from you... ring?
Your thought is broken once your mom comes storming into the kitchen with her usual red face. She seems mad, but when she sees the dishes have not been moved she gets -really- mad. “NORMAN! WHY HAVE THE DISHES NOT BEEN TOUCHED YET? I TOLD YOU TO GET THEM NOW HURRY!” Her voice trails off in your mind as you stare off into the distance. Her howling only falls on deaf ears, as you tune out the world around you. Eventually she manages to get you out of your trance by shaking you. Instead of yelling at you, she picks you up. “Look at the dishes, Norman! They're not done!” You look at what she’s talking about, but... there are no dishes....
“Uh, Mom? What dishes?” you ask. She turns her gaze to it and her eyes go wide, it’s like she didn’t even know. You pull open one of the cabinets... it’s filled with clean plates. The drawer swings open and... it’s filled with silverware. Your mother looks back at you and gives a perplexed look. Both of you are dumbfounded, did this have something to do with the ring? No, that can’t be right, there’s no way that happened.
“... This is sector E337 green lantern reporting for duty, over.” you say into your ring. An image of Celestia shows up on a projection from it.
“Roger that, Twilight."
“I’m currently establishing energy readings with the ring, I am now going to pursue.”
“Excellent, report back with your findings once you have made contact. Over and out.”
The image shrinks back into you ring on your... finger. You activate the suit function on your ring and a green glow envelopes your body. You clothing is turned into a sleek green outfit that has a hard shelled green book bag. “Okay Spike, let’s try flying, that way I don’t have to move in... these.” you say as you motion to your legs.
You point your ring high in the air with your new arm and concentrate on flight. The ground beneath you falls farther away as your gain weightlessness. Before you know it, you’re in the air the air and ready for full speed. Despite the height of these buildings, they’re easy to dodge or go over. For a quick check or directions, you pick up your hand and point it to your face. The map is summoned in front of you, and the energy readings for the strange ring are shown as a green dot. Like you said before, it’s moving fast, but it seems to be slowing down. You decide to close some ground while you can and speed up. The buildings rush by you in a blur, you try to concentrate on where you’re going, but the buildings are making it confusing. It’s about time to pull up your map again to see where you are going. You repeat the last step, and lift your hand to your face mid flight. That’s strange, it seems to have stopped. No matter, the ring must be dormant and it is your duty to catch it while it is still resting.
… You sit outside on your favorite part of the park near your house. It’s a quaint hill with tree that shades you, the view is a very peaceful over look of the city. It’s surprising that this place is not flooded with people, it has a perfect view of everything from here. The city sounds are a faint reminder of the work that the far away city goes through everyday all day, it’s sort relaxing to hear them.
As you sit with your back against the tree your mind drifts off to what just happened to make you come here. What happened back there? Did the dishes do themselves? Or... did your ring do this? No no, that’s impossible, you’re not the green lantern, he lives in Coast City. Besides, the ring is grey, not green. But what happened with that vision? That did happen, no doubt about that. What was it about? What did it mean? Why did it say you were the embodiment of laziness? You twist the ring on your finger until it chafes the skin. Maybe the answer will come up eventually.
… This can’t be right, it’s impossible! The ring’s map took you to where you wanted to be, but it’s just a guy resting on a tree! You hide behind one of the trees and study his actions from afar. He rests on the tree without sleeping, you can tell by his clear breaths. It can’t be possible, did the ring find a host? If it did, then you will have to be studying him for the duration of your stay. Time to approach this thing, and see if he really does control the ring. But first you gotta make a proper appearance, you want to make a good first impression on these creatures.
… What the fuck is going on? A green lantern! While you were resting, a huge green light shined in the air in front of you.
“Creature of Earth!” said the glow.
The light then dispersed, and in it’s place was a purple skinned kid with a green lantern outfit. She floats mid air with a green aura surrounding her. This can’t be happening, what’s going on!? She eyes your right hand carefully, her eyes go wide once she sees the ring you’re wearing. She turned to herself and mutters something, she seems to be really distraught about the ring you carry. Is this ring really what you think it is?
“What is the name of your species?” … Is she serious? “Human.” you answer lazily.
“Well, ‘human’ by order of the lanterns light, you are coming with me-AUGH!” A sudden ray contrasting red shines over your vision. The bolt quickly exchanged the purple girl’s position in the air. It’s Sunset Shimmer! She’s wearing a red spandex costume that sort of mimics the green one.
“What the fuck is going on!?” you say. Sunset snaps her head to look at you.
“Stay quiet if you wish to live!” Holy fuck she sounds mad! What does she have against the purple girl? Purple does not seem to take it well, she only narrowly avoids Sunset’s follow up attack. Despite the the purple girl being a green lantern, she’s getting her ass handed to her! Sunset slams her fists down as hard as she can against her without any sign of letting up. Purple tries to protect herself, but Sunset fights with power far greater than her’s.
You’ve got to do something! You can’t let her die!
“You know bro, you can, like, help if you want.” said a familiar douchebag voice.
“Who said that!?” you shout to nowhere. “It’s me bro, your ring!” It can talk? What kind of ring does that? “Just say the oath and you can do something.” Oh god this can’t be happening. Sunset uses a strange ring of her own to hit purple, it’s red and pulsating with energy. But can you afford to let her die? No, you can’t jet let Sunset kill someone, even if you don’t know who it is.
“Okay ring.” you say while looking at your finger. “I’ll play your game, what do I have to say? But only if you can save her and stop Sunset!”
“It’s okay bro! Just repeat after me; If early day.”
“If early day.”
“Or late at night.”
“Or late at night.”
“It’s not my problem, I’ll be alright.”
“It’s not my problem,I’ll be alright.”
“No cause you name is worth the fight.”
“No cause you name is worth the fight.”
“But if I’m bored, then yeah, I might.”
“But if I’m bored, then yeah, I might.”
A sudden grey light envelops you. You can’t see yourself past the light, but you feel your cloths suddenly constrict around you. The light disperses from around you and in it’s place is a tight spandex suit surrounding you. You still have your trusty hat and belt buckle on, but your hat is grey and your belt buckle symbol is replaced with the same shrugging man on the ring. It’s runs up your butt, but at least it’s not sweaty. “What the hell is this?” you ask the ring.
“It’s your lantern uniform, now help her like you said you would!”
“How the hell do I do that?”
“Focus all that energy from the lazy meditations you have.”
“Just focus?”
“That’s all there is to it, bra. Just remember, it’s all going to channel through me.”
Purple girl is starting to weaken, you’ve got to act fast if you want to save her. You focus on using the power of the ring while pointing it at Sunset. “Nothing’s working!”
“You’ve got to focus on making a beam to shoot with, or a shape to use!”
“Beam, gotcha!” Once you point it back at her, a ray of power bursts out straight at Sunset. It hits her square in the chest and she flies away from you and the purple girl.
This only made Sunset angrier. She rushes straight at you this time, might want to make a shape like the ring said. You focus on putting a simple brick wall in front of her. As you expected, Sunset is hit face first with a brick wall. Her nose bleeds against the grey surface, she’s stunned instead of mad now. You don’t give her time to regain composure, you follow up your attack by turning the wall into a fist and hurl it at her. Things are going good so far, but you’re still doing it all while on the ground. You lift yourself with a thought and fly closer before Sunset is done spinning in the air.
The only thing on your mind right now is “Fuck yeah!” and probably the fact that Sunset is coming straight at you. This time you don’t have time to be creative, you just pull up a smooth grey circle to protect yourself with. She hits it with a force missile and releases all of her rage on your shield. For some reason... she’s barely scratching it, her punches are like tiny gusts of wind against your aura. As your response to her advancements, you conjure a claw and pluck her out of the air with it. She roars with anger and fights the restraints, but despite the strength she showed earlier, it’s practically nothing! You feel empowered, being able to hold the schools biggest bully, and apparently most powerful student, in your grasp like puddy. As a response to her resistance you flick her away. She twirls in the air at speeds that make you dizzy just by looking at her. She a considerable away before she stops and shakes her head. Purple girl flies next to you as you watch her try and regain control of herself, good to see that you saved her from getting badly hurt.
Sunset regains control of herself and points herself at you and the purple girl. She looks at you and the other chick, obviously she is getting intimidated. Sunset looked at you and then her, before she roars in anger. “I told you to stay still, Norman! Now you’ve fucking done it! You better watch your back, you and too, green lantern!” she screams. After that, she dashes off toward somewhere. You’ll let her go this time, you’re too lazy to follow. Purple and you land back onto the hill you were just on, you need a word with her, and you’re not stopping until you get some answers. Purple attempts to calm you down. “Okay, what you just did may be shocking to you but ple-.”
“That, was, AMAZING!” is all you can say, the excitement was -way- too much for you. Purple girl giggles at your comment, maybe this the same excitement all green lanterns feel on their first time?
“You seem to have gotten the hang of this very quickly.” she says.
“Thanks, but what did I get the hang of exactly?” She straightens up after hearing your question, she obviously is trying to sound official to you.
“My name is Twilight Sparkle, green lantern of sector E337. I was sent here to find your ring before it finds you.”
“Cool, I’m Norman. So... did you want the ring?”
“That was not in the objective, I merely needed to see if the ring feeds of of negative emotion, or has a enemy host.”
“Do you do this with every new lantern?”
“No no, just with yours.” So now you got green lanterns wanting your attention, nice.
“Why is that?”
“Because yours is new, and I was the agent sent to study new rings.”
“Whoa whoa, you’re saying that my ring is completely new, as in, I’m the only one with it?!”
“Yes, that is what I’m saying.”
“Wow! Do I go do lantern missions with you guys?”
“Well, um, maybe it would be better if I were to explain it to you slowly, from the beginning.”
It was a long drawn out conversation that took up a lot of time, before you knew it, the sun was setting.
“So let me get this straight, I am the only lantern of my kind?”
“Mhmm.”
“And I am the most powerful one because I’m the charter member?”
“Yep.”
“And I have the ability to make and control all other ring of my type?”
“That is correct.”
“So the only ones that rival my power, are the leaders of the other rings?”
“That seems about right.”
“Well blow me down! I’m not only a lantern, I’m a lantern leader!”
“Don’t get too ahead of yourself hotshot, not only do we not know the abilities that this ring holds, we don’t even know what it’s powered off of! But don’t worry, that’s why I’m here, to learn how your ring works, and teach you how to use it!” So this chick, thinks that she can just follow you around wherever she wants? Well I hope she likes what you’re going to say about that, but first, time to have some fun with her.
“Tell me Purple, if you don’t mind me calling you that, where are you from?”
“Sector E337, it’s Eque-, uh, it’s another planet...”
“Well you look human enough, so I guess it can work out. But tell me, what do you know about my ring so far?”
“That’s easy, no one else can separate their projections but you.”
“So, what does that mean?”
“It means that while every other lantern needs to keep their projections tethered to their ring, yours can freely roam without being tied to you.” That’s neat, now you can keep tabs on where your projections are whenever you want. Think of the possibilities.You could; save the planet while doing your homework. Race around the planet while doing your homework. You could... you know what? You don’t have anything else to do other than do homework and go to school.
All of this is a lot to take in, but you still have a few more questions to ask before you go home. “I’m sorry, but is it okay if I ask a few more questions?”
“That’s what I’m here for.”
“Okay, what the hell happened back there? Why did Shimmer attack me? Where did she get her powers from?”
“This, ‘Shimmer’ person, must be a red lantern. They feed off of rage to fuel their energy. For how long? I’m not sure, but she seemed quite new.” That sounds like the Sunset Shimmer you know, always the aggressive type. “She must have gone after you because she had the same objective as me.”
“Why couldn’t you just, I don’t know, share notes so you don’t have to kill each other?”
“Having a new ring come by hasn’t happened in a million years, making the first contact can make the difference between having an ally, or a powerful enemy.”
“Why attack you over it?”
“She obviously needed to teach you about the ring first, that way, you would become an ally and of the red lanterns and not the green.”
“So you two are enemies?”
“Not really, just the green lanterns and the reds in general.”
“So how many of these, rings should I see?”
“Just about every color of the rainbow.”
“And they all want to be allies with me first?”
“Yes, no doubt there will be many more in the future, and they too will want to be an ally so they may control the power of two rings.”
“Well I gotta say, I like the cut of your jib Purple. I think we already are allies.” you say with a smile.
“That’s good to hear it, that means I’m one step ahead of the others already!”
“Hey, Purple?”
“Uhuh?”
“It’s getting sort of late, are you going back to your planet?”
The shys away at the question.”I can’t...”
“Well, you’ve got to have a place to stay, right?”
“Not really...” Wow, Purple doesn’t have a place to sleep? You can’t let her stay out in the streets all because she needs to help you, that’d be wrong.
“Don’t worry Purple, I know a perfect place where you can sleep.”
“You do, oh thank you!”
“Sure, just follow me!” you say as you take flight. You and Purp glide through the night sky as the twinkling city lights glow beneath you. It’s a tranquil feeling you have, one that is built through experience, rather than your usual lazy attitude. Purple really seems to be enjoying this, it’s like she’s never seen the city lights before. After a silent flight, you reach your destination and land with Purple. It’s a grimy old part of a dirty river under a bridge.
“Uh, Norman?” Purple asks. “How do I sleep here?”
“Simple.” You conjure a tiny one story house over the river and plunge it into the water. “See? Now you can go to your house whenever you want, and there’s no way Sunset will ever find you! With my separate conjuring,I can leave it here, and It will never disappear.”
“Wow, Norman! Thank you so much!”
“Don’t worry too much about it, I’m glad you don’t have to sleep in the streets. But before I go... there’s one more thing I have to say.”
“Sure what is it?”
“You did say, you have to study me and my abilities, right?”
“Right.”
Here comes the bomb. “Well it looks like you’re coming to school with me.”
Author's Note
Yet again, not use to the formatting of Fimfiction, there may be problems in the text. I apologies for any inconveniences.
