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// The Silenced Autobot 
// Story: Transformers: Fall of Equestria 
// by JDPrime22 
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Optimus Prime and Megatron were still going at it while Discord watched in amusement. 

Optimus slashed and blocked Megatron's attacks while Megatron did the same. Discord was obviously enjoying this little game he had created. He had found truly the strongest of the strong, they were both equally matched when they battled, and Discord loved every second of it.

Megatron kicked Optimus in the stomach and went for his neck. Megatron grabbed Optimus by the throat and held him there. Discord leaned in for what was to happen.

"I'll rip out your functioning cycle!" Megatron roared and reached for Optimus's face. Prime kicked Megatron off of him and charged forward.

Another lightning bolt landed in front of Optimus before he could bring his sword down on Megatron. Optimus fell on his back and looked at Discord for an explanation; Discord looked innocent and said, "The storm is controlling itself, why would I ever interfere?"

Before Optimus could answer back, Megatron picked him up and threw him to the side of the floating concrete. Optimus grabbed on to the ledge and held on for dear life, knowing that fall could permanently damage his circuits.

He looked up to see Megatron pointing his cannon directly in his face. Megatron smirked and said, "I thought you would put more of a fight, Optimus Prime."

Optimus grabbed Megatron's foot and yelled, "I got a lot more fight to give!"

Optimus pulled himself up which caused Megatron to fall on his back. As Megatron looked up, he saw Optimus jumping in mid-air and bringing the sword down on him. Megatron reacted quickly and moved out of the way when Optimus brought the sword on the ground.
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Flying high above was Starscream, dive-bombing and shooting the Autobots was his major plan until he caught sight of Bumblebee and those dreaded ponies leaving the battle.

"What the...why are they going over there?" Starscream asked himself and turned in their direction. He gasped when he saw the floating concrete arena slowly moving away. Wherever it was going, Bumblebee and the ponies were following it.

"Oh no....this can't possibly be good....I'll have to tell Shockwave....ughhh I’ll HAVE to tell Shockwave." Starscream grumbled and flew off towards the Decepticons.

He transformed and landed right by Shockwave who was standing by Soundwave and some familiar Decepticons. Starscream stood up straight and got to the point, "Shockwave, I have just witnessed Bumblebee and those stupid ponies leaving the battle and following Megatron on that flying piece of concrete!"

Shockwave faced Starscream with that disturbing purple eye.

"Optimus is on that piece of concrete, Starscream, they could planning something that interferes with their battle, why didn't you attack them?!" Shockwave yelled

Starscream smirked and answered, "I wanted to tell our temporary leader before I did anything."

Shockwave smacked his own face and turned towards the Combaticons behind him, "Combaticons, you will go on a special mission with only one objective: killing the ponies!"

"I like it already." Onslaught cracked his knuckles.

Shockwave continued, "You will be commanded by Starscream while I lead the Decepticons onward to the Autobots and then-"

"NO!" Onslaught shouted.

Shockwave took a step back and asked, "Is there a problem?"

Onslaught pointed at Starscream and shouted, "We will NOT be taking orders from him! Not after what happened last time!"

Starscream frowned and said, "Well then, I didn't want to lead you idiots anyway!"

With that, Starscream transformed and flew off towards the road to battle the Autobots. Shockwave turned to the next best Decepticon: Soundwave.

"Soundwave, you will lead the Combaticons on one mission to terminate the ponies." Shockwave told him.

Soundwave stepped towards Onslaught and the rest of them and nodded, "Affirmative. Onslaught, do you have the altered Dimensional Decimator?"

Onslaught pulled out the said device and handed it to Soundwave.

"There you go, Soundwave, all altered up like you wanted it. Now what are you gonna do with it?" Onslaught asked.

Soundwave eyed the Dimensional Decimator in his hand with interest. He faced Onslaught and said, "I will use it on the ponies, in order to do that we will need them trapped, so explain our plan to the Combaticons."

Onslaught nodded and faced his group; he began his long battle plan.

"Vortex, you and Blast Off are to do one thing: scare the scrap out of Bumblebee and the ponies. Chase them down the street they're on right now and get them in the position I want."

Vortex nodded and said, "Sounds simple enough."

Onslaught faced Swindle and said, "Swindle, get to the rooftops and follow Vortex and Blast Off. When they got Bumblebee and the ponies in position, use your nucleon charge rifle to take out Bumblebee's legs."

Swindle nodded, "You bet."

"Brawl, after Bumblebee falls to the ground and the ponies are distracted, blast all the exits they could escape from so we have them trapped." Onslaught finished.

Brawl smashed his fists together and shouted, "I like blastin' stuff!"

Onslaught faced Soundwave and said, "Soundwave and I will do the rest while the rest of you block the road so they can't escape." Onslaught pointed at Vortex and Blast Off, "Get moving you two!"

Vortex stood back up while Blast Off held his fists in the air, "Well I'm inspired." Blast Off shouted, "Let's hit it, Vortex!"

Vortex put his hands forward and said, "After you, Blast Off."

With that go, Blast Off and Vortex transformed and flew off towards the flying arena since they knew Bumblebee would be near there....even the ponies. Swindle activated his grappling hook and shot at the closest building, he was instantly pulled forward and landed perfectly on the rooftop with a little front flip to go with it. He took off after Vortex and Blast Off. Brawl transformed into his tank form and blasted an entrance through a building, several screams were heard, possibly from frightened Canterlot ponies as Brawl drove through his made entrance.

Onslaught and Soundwave nodded to each other, transformed, and took off down the road to find the flying arena. Shockwave sighed and aimed his blast cannon forward.

"Continue the assault, Decepticons!"
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The street was quiet, too quiet. Canterlot was never this silent; then again, Canterlot was never invaded by giant alien robots. The same couldn't be said for Pinkie Pie who kept rambling on to Bumblebee about what his gun did, or if he could transform so it could be easier to get to Optimus, and of course, Bee couldn't answer anything.

Bumblebee still couldn't see the floating battle arena that Discord created, it obviously was moving fast, maybe transforming and letting the ponies get inside him was a good idea, then again, if he drove too fast, he could miss the arena.

The Mane six were getting soaked, the chocolate rain kept pouring harder with no end. All the pony's bangs were in their faces as they tried to push it away. Rarity was having another fit.

"Oh, this horrid milk is ruining my gorgeous mane!" Rarity whined. Rainbow Dash groaned and flew by her.

"You know Rarity; the milk is getting on all of us too! All our manes are getting ruined and we're not complaining!" Rainbow Dash told her.

"That's easy for you to say!" Rarity pointed a hoof at Rainbow, "You look as if you never even combed your mane!"

"Well duh," Rainbow said, "I kinda don't need to since it always goes back to its normal position."

"But what if you-" Rarity began before the cracking thunder interrupted her. It made such a loud boom, that Fluttershy squeaked in fear and flew towards Bumblebee. She landed on his shoulder and cowered by his face with eyes closed and body curled into a ball.

Bumblebee reached back with his left hand and cradled Fluttershy in it. She looked at him with fear filled eyes while Bumblebee rubbed her mane. She took this as a sign that meant 'Everything in going to be alright.'

Bumblebee looked back and placed Fluttershy with the rest of her friends. He brought a finger to his lips and pressed a button on his chest that brought out a hologram of a Decepticon symbol. The ponies nodded, understanding what he meant, 'We have to be quiet, Decepticons could be anywhere.'

While Bumblebee looked up into the skies while walking, the ponies decided to talk, but remembered to whisper.

"So, how long until we get to Optimus?" Pinkie asked pushing her wet mane out of her eyes.

"I don't know, Pinkie, remember, that thing Discord made moves. So it could be a while." Twilight answered.

Rainbow groaned and said, "Ugh, this is getting so boring just walking, or should I say, flying." Rainbow grinned looking down at Applejack.

"Oh ha, ha." Applejack faked laughed, "Borin' huh? Would ya rather us risk our lives runnin' from them Decepticon varmints?" Applejack asked, "Or is the mighty Rainbow Dash chicken?"

"Hey, I'm not chicken." Rainbow Dash raised her voice.

"Hehehe, are too." Applejack chuckled.

"Are not."

"Are too."

"Are not!"

"Are too!"

"Are not!!!"

Applejack and Rainbow Dash stopped when they face planted into Bumblebee's leg. Bee turned around and glared down at the ponies. Applejack and Rainbow Dash suddenly felt ashamed, especially after Bumblebee told them to be quiet.

Bee put his finger to his lips again, this time more sharply, when he stood up to full height, AJ and Rainbow nodded but still felt ashamed.

Bumblebee looked down feeling a bit too harsh and prepared to turn back around, until two flying objects caught his optics. He acted quickly and shot his assault rifle at the supposed Decepticons, and he was right. The Decepticons charged forward, ignoring the weak bullets hitting their armor, and getting low to make sure they were scaring them.

They succeeded.

Twilight, Fluttershy, Rainbow, Pinkie, Rarity, and Applejack screamed when they saw the two Decepticons heading straight for them; as if attempting to ram them! The six mares took off down the road while Bumblebee continued to fire.

Bee decided that it wasn't worth it and tried to catch up with the ponies, he was on a mission to protect them after all. Vortex chuckled and said, "All according to plan."

Twilight turned back around for a split second to see Bumblebee catching up to them and the two flying Decepticons getting very close. But before they could get any closer, they took off towards the skies. Twilight stopped in her tracks and tried to turn around to try and decipher what just happened, until all her friends crashed into her.

When Bumblebee finally reached his friends, he found them to be just a pile of adorable ponies struggling to get back up. 

Before Bee could let out a smile, he heard a loud bang and felt a sharp pain in his leg. The mares screamed when Bee fell to one knee and clutched his pained leg, he looked and saw there was a hole in it. Did he just get shot?! Before Bumblebee could come up with an answer, he got shot in his other leg.
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Swindle chuckled to himself as he brought his head up from the sniper. He pressed his comms link and announced, "Brawl, Bumblebee is taken out, you know what to do."
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Bumblebee fell on his back clutching both of his legs in pain, the mares came to his side while Rainbow Dash and Applejack pushed on his back in an attempt to try and get him back up. When they actually succeeded in getting his head up, Bumblebee's optics grew wide with what he saw coming towards them.

Twilight saw this as well and turned in Bee's direction to see what he was so worried about.

It definitely wasn't good.

A giant green object with a nozzle at the front of it was heading right for them. But what was strange is what it did; it turned its nozzle and fired a strange purple ball at the side of one of the buildings. Several hundred pieces of debris fell to the ground and filled up an escape route.

Twilight still didn't know what it was doing until it shot and filled up a couple more exits.

"Girls," Twilight screamed, "we have to get out of here!"

"But what about Bumblebee!?" Fluttershy screamed with tears at the rims of her eyes. Before Twilight could answer, the green object fired one more blast and covered up the last escape.

"Oh horse apples...." Twilight muttered in defeat.

The green object faced all of Twilight's friends again and caused them to back up close to Bee. Not really as shocking but the green object transformed into another Decepticon. This one was completely green with purple slits on its body. It had a yellow visor and of course a Decepticon symbol on its chest. It had two long poles on its back as it slowly made its way towards the ponies.

Before they could back up anymore, the two flying Decepticons came from behind them and blocked their only escape. Rainbow Dash looked back and saw these hovering aircrafts.

One was brown with a glowing purple backside, while the other one was tan and red with spinning blades at the top of it. Twilight and her friends tried to back away again only to look back and see that same green Decepticon closer than before.

They were trapped!

Twilight began to whimper until she felt a nudge on her shoulder. She turned back and saw Rarity with tears streaming down her face, Rarity breathed in deeply and began, "Like you said, no matter what....we'll be through this together." Rarity held out her hoof and Twilight clutched it with her own.

Twilight and Rarity hugged each other and prepared for the deaths to come from these Decepticons. But they had something else in mind.

Twilight opened her eye slightly to see the green Decepticon backing away and allowing two more Decepticons to pass. The first one was a giant blue box and transformed into a dark blue Decepticon with a yellow visor and wheels on his shoulders. The second Decepticon looked very familiar, when it transformed Rainbow Dash scowled in disgust.

They knew this Decepticon all too well....

Soundwave.

This Decepticon stood back to full height and glared down at the Mane six. The mares backed away quickly as Soundwave's right hand pulled out some strange device that looked nothing like any kind of weapon Twilight had seen. Bumblebee got back up and cringed in pain when his legs began leaking again, he jumped in front of his pony friends and pointed his rifle at the communications officer who simply stared at him.

"Good job, Combaticons!" The blue one announced.

The Element Bearers flinched when they heard a loud crash and turned to their heads left to see a dull yellow Decepticon with a purple visor walking forward with a smug face.

"It was easy taking out that stupid Autobot!" The yellow one yelled.

Rainbow Dash looked at Bee's legs that continued to leak Energon and back at the yellow Decepticon. She frowned and shouted, "You wanna go you stupid punk?! I'll take you all on!"

Rainbow attempted to fly off and attack the powerful robotic aliens, only to be stopped by Applejack grabbing her tail and pulling her back in. Onslaught and Swindle laughed but brought their attention to the two Decepticons behind the ponies.

Both of them transformed and landed perfectly on the ground. The mares quickly took observation of them and saw that the first one was brown and had two glowing purple eyes with a chest that glowed just as purple. The second one was recognized as the Decepticon they saw when they were captured by Soundwave.

"Scaring these organics was the funniest thing I've done all day." The red and tan one stated.

Soundwave put his hand up in front of Onslaught; the Combaticon leader understood and shouted, "Combaticons, get over here where it's safe!"

The three Combaticons passed Bumblebee and the ponies while Rainbow Dash shouted taunts at them. "Ah, too scared I see huh?! You don't want any of this!" Rainbow Dash shouted.

The brown one turned around and chuckled evilly, "You definitely don't want any of THIS." Rainbow Dash was confused until Soundwave interrupted her thoughts.

Soundwave spoke, "Successful, Error: Autobot still standing, defending targets, no matter, I will finish you all off before you could reach Optimus Prime. Begin operation: Dimensional Teleportation!"

With those words said, Soundwave began pressing buttons on the device. It began to spin as Soundwave chuckled to himself, "I have altered the Dimensional Decimator, no longer will it simply kill you, but it will do something far worse...."

Bumblebee put his hand behind the mares motioning them to get away, but it was too late.

The Dimensional Decimator was fully charged and Soundwave unleashed its full fury.

"It will teleport you to a random location across the galaxy!!!!!" Soundwave shouted as he chucked the device in front of his targets. At once, the black hole came out and began to do the one thing black holes are supposed to do....

......absorb and destroy.

The six mares screamed and tried their best to run away, but to no use as they felt themselves being sucked into the small black hole. Twilight grabbed onto a lamppost and looked back to see Bee holding on the ground for dear life as he was being sucked in as well. The Combaticons were laughing insanely.

Twilight looked upward and saw the black hole. She knew black holes existed after stars would die, but she never knew it could be handled and used as a weapon. But as her grasp slowly began to slip, she heard Rarity's screams and looked straight to see Rarity being sucked right towards her!

Twilight caught Rarity's hoof with her own and held on for dear life as Rarity continued to scream. Twilight looked over and saw the rest of her friends: Rainbow Dash was using her full strength to fly the other way, but the black hole was too strong. Pinkie, Applejack, and Fluttershy's grips on the carriage broke off as they were being sucked in as well.

Twilight used her magic and teleported the crushed carriage in front of them, giving them some support. But using her last strength on saving her friends cost her grip she had.

"Twilight, you're slipping!" Rarity screamed.

Twilight panicked and screamed, "I can't hold on anymore!"

Twilight released her grip and was flung back by the intense gravitational pull. She felt herself and Rarity land on something wooden. Twilight opened her eyes and saw it was the carriage; she looked to her left and saw the rest of her friends with terrified looks.

The worst possible thing happened next.

The carriage split in half.

All six mares were sucked straight to the portal with nothing else to grab onto. Bumblebee looked up and saw his friends about to be sucked in and sent to some weird dimension all alone....

.....he could not allow this.

Bumblebee released his grip and grabbed all six ponies in his arms. His tight grasp held onto each of them as Bumblebee was sucked into the black hole. The black hole began to grow with its victims now inside, but since Soundwave altered it; it would not kill them but send them somewhere completely random.

The black hole exploded leaving a huge hole in the ground where it just was. Soundwave narrowed his head in closer and saw that it was successful, the Autobot and the ponies were terminated. Any kind of laughter from before was intensified from the Combaticons.

"That was fun!" Brawl shouted.

"Definitely one we'll have to remember!" Vortex added in.

"I sure wish I could've used some of Bumblebee's scraps to make a profit." Swindle looked down sadly.

"It doesn't matter, now that we know for sure that Megatron is safe to kill off Optimus!" Blast Off shouted.

"Good throw, Soundwave, now what?" Onslaught asked.

"Return to battle." Soundwave muttered and transformed, the other Combaticons transformed and followed him.

They drove or flew off leaving the carnage area behind.
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Rainbow Dash fluttered her eyes open, the sun was seeping through a small crack in the concealed area she was in. Dash yawned and stretched out her wings, that was one CRAZY dream she had.

Rainbow Dash stood up and took one step forward.

CLANG.

"What the...?" Dash looked down and stomped her hoof on the ground harder.

CLANG!

"This is weird." Dash muttered to herself, "Maybe I should go outside to see better."

Rainbow Dash placed her hoof on what appeared to be the entrance. It didn't budge. Rainbow pushed harder and it still wouldn't move. She snorted and bucked the entrance. A loud clang was heard followed by the smashing of metal against metal.

Dash peeked over her shoulder and saw a very bright light. She stepped forward and shielded her eyes from the sun's rays. She stepped out and immediately felt heat her velvet skin, she cringed but continued to move forward. The sun's rays cooled down and Dash could finally see what was in front of her.

A cliff.

Rainbow took one step and nearly fell off; luckily her wings caught her and levitated her back to the ground. Dash's breathing calmed down and she looked back at the cliff.....

Rainbow Dash gasped and put her hooves over her mouth at what she saw.

Several destroyed buildings and fires spreading all around the ground. Ashes were falling from the skies and some hit her skin. Lying all over the ground are what appeared to be several bodies of unknown creatures that Dash could not see clearly. Just this horrid scene was enough to bring tears to anypony's eyes, but not Dash's.

"Whoa...." That was all the Rainbow could manage to say.

Her thoughts were interrupted by her name being called.

"RAINBOW DASH, WHERE ARE YOU?!"

Rainbow turned around and was preparing to fly off; she took one last look at the destroyed city and gave it a respectful look before she flew off. She came to a stop and landed on the metal ground by her friends who were just relieved to see her.

"Oh Dashie, you're okay!" Pinkie shouted and hugged her closest friend.

Dash patted her back and broke the embrace, "Where are we, Twilight?"

Applejack faced the lavender unicorn and agreed, "Yeah, this place don't look anythin' like Equestria."

Twilight rubbed her head and felt an ash land on her hoof. She brought her hoof down and stared at the single ash. She faced the other way and stared at the raining ashes, lost in thought. After several seconds, Twilight turned back around and admitted it.

"I don't know...."

Fluttershy, Dash, Pinkie, Rarity, and Applejack lowered their heads in defeat. They had no idea where they were or how they could get back. They obviously weren't in Equestria anymore since all the ground around them was made of metal and that this city was on fire and war-torn.

They were lost.

Loud footsteps brought them back to reality. Twilight and her friends turned around to see their Autobot friend Bumblebee, slightly limping but okay. The six mares rushed up to him while Bee went to one knee. They hugged his chest while Bumblebee returned the embrace.

Twilight looked back up at him and asked, "Bee, where are we?"

Bumblebee gave them a sorrowful look and lowered his head to the ground. The mares didn't know what Bee was trying to tell them this time. Were they lost on another world, did they all die and get sent to this weird dimension?

Bumblebee stood back up and walked to the edge of the platform they were all on. Bee looked at the fire spread ground below him and his shoulders shrugged lower. The six mares sat next to him and Rarity patted his leg.

"It's okay, darling, we're still together." Rarity assured him.

Pinkie stood back up and said, "Yeah, and we lost the Decepti-meanies, so we could find Optimus easier now."

Bumblebee simply shook his head and closed his optics. Twilight looked back at the fire and stared at the flames that rose from the grounds. She looked back at Bee who was staring at the flames as well. Twilight couldn't tell for sure, but she thought she saw.......sadness in those glowing blue eyes of his.

Realization finally hit her.

Twilight stood back up and paced around the metal ground, her eyes as big as saucers. All the while she was muttering to herself.

"What are you doin', sugercube?" Applejack asked.

Twilight looked at her friends and back at Bumblebee.

"Bumblebee!" Twilight panicked.

Bee turned back around and looked at her with a tilted head. Twilight gulped and managed to say these words, just to see if she was correct. If she wasn't, then all would be good. If she was.......well.....let's just hope she wasn't right.

"Bee......are we.....on another world?" Twilight asked.

Bumblebee gave a slight nod. Twilight cringed at the thought but forced herself to say it.

"And.......are we......on.......Cybertron?"

Bee looked at her for several seconds until Twilight's horrible prediction had come to a conclusion.

Bumblebee nodded.