Colors of a Rainbow - PROLOGUE

>”Ready… go!” you hear a female’s voice on the intercom.
>Right on cue, you press the button and pull down the lever.
>”Wonderful job, Anonymous!” you hear the voice once again after a few moments of silence, save for the sound of steam and machinery at work.
>Another job well done. She’ll be so proud of you.
>You see the bright, glowing excrement from the machine drip down the chutes into a large vat, filled with every color you could imagine.
>You’ve always wondered where the colors come from, but it’s probably a pegasus thing. You’d probably not understand.
>”Next up, we’ll have an orange source!” you hear her speak on the intercom once again. “This should be enough to even out the colors. Ready, Anonymous?”
>You smile, pressing your lips to the long, winding microphone next to you.
“Ready as I’ll ever be.”
>”Go!” she exclaims, and you repeat the same process, and watch as a glowing orange slowly winds its way down through the chutes and into the churning vat below.
>It was so convenient that Princess Celestia cast a permanent cloud-walking spell for you. You were going to make sure that you paid her back for it in full one day. But first…
>”Alright, we’ve got a blue one coming up, Anonymous! You ready?”
>You were going to make sure you did your job perfectly.
>You are Anonymous.
>And you work in the Rainbow Factory, alongside your closest childhood friend, Rainbow Dash.

>How did this all come to pass?
>Let’s start from the beginning…