Chapter 21-Discovery
The world could never know of what they’ve done here.
Equestria wasn’t a land of sunshine and happiness as most would believe. It had crime, like the rest of the world. Villains, tyranny, theft, vandalism, forces of evil that could only be stopped by an opposing force of justice. Noctune believed this more than anypony.
And he embraced it.
Noctune created the Alliance of Alien Activity to spread hope to the newfound fear rising across the world. The Decepticon invasion a year ago is what caused his rise to power in the first place. If you could offer protection, even hope to those trapped behind the heavy bars of fear and death…you could acquire their trust.
Their trust helped immensely. Along with Celestia and Luna’s aid to their cause, their headquarters remained in Vanhoover, on Equestrian soil. That was possibly the only thing Noctune truly needed: Celestia’s trust.
She never knew of his true intentions.
Noctune was perched on a high glass podium overlooking a massive supply line. His massive supply line. This is where all the magic happened. Below the dark brown stallion, scientist and worker ponies of all races worked vigorously to imagine, create, and develop the next stages of advanced weaponry the Alliance was known for.
Princess Celestia outlawed the advancement of weapons a long time ago due to the alleged fact that they could be used for “evil purposes”. However, Noctune managed to hit Celestia’s sweet spot, promising that his team would only use their technology for good and the protection of the pony race, as well as the planet.
He never broke his promise.
But he did find a way around it.
Many before Noctune have tried to do what he has accomplished and failed. That’s because they didn’t have the one key component that made every device and weapon in his company function.
Energon.
This, as well as certain products his scouts have acquired over several months of research, sent the Alliance on an explosion of development and innovation since the invention of the steam engine. Their company strived on developing weapons of mass destruction, and Celestia had no idea. The best part was keeping it all a secret.
Lately…
Noctune was…displeased to say the least with Brass Hoof’s performance in Ponyville. Not only was his company’s weapons displayed for Princess Twilight to witness first hoof, but now Princess Celestia had ordered a national investigation on all major activities in Equestria. He had even heard word that it was spread to other countries…even the Griffon Kingdom.
Brass Hoof was…dealt with.
To make matters worse, his spies have reported more alien activity being spotted in unpopulated areas such as San Palomino Desert, Galloping Gorge, and even the Frozen North. Approximately four aliens have been found in different locations…and counting.
Thanks to Celestia’s watch dogs, Noctune could only send small groups of ten for search and destroy missions. Sadly, each mission was announced a failure…with the same, bucking excuse.
The aliens stole their weapon’s source of power and transformed.
Noctune knew what they were dealing with. The Transformers were back. They weren’t the only ones back.
The doors behind Noctune gently creaked open. Noctune shut his eyes at the sound, a heavy breath escaping his nostrils. He didn’t need to turn his head around to know who it was. The pony showed up at least eight times earlier that day. This was basically a routine at this point.
“Um…sir…mind if I come in?” a raspy voice asked quietly.
Noctune didn’t respond for nearly a minute. The pony knew that whenever Noctune was pissed it took him a while to answer any question thrown at him. He definitely wouldn’t enjoy what he was going to tell him this time.
The pony waited for his superior to answer him.
“Why is it that you bring me all the bad news, Brimstone?” Noctune asked as friendly as he could have forced. “Is everypony really that afraid of their leader?”
Brimstone shut the door with a kick from his back hoof. “Uh…I don’t really know, sir,” he said.
The dark brown stallion wore a face filled with pure rage. He breathed out heavily, growling, “Then what news did you bring this time?”
Brimstone went into heavy detail of the recent changes his armed forces were dealing with. So far, no news of anymore failed attempts at eliminating alien threats. Autobots were bad enough…the thought of a Decepticon on Equestrian soil was horrifying. It seems Brimstone just loved wrecking Noctune’s hopes even more.
“…and they had no idea. Anyways…uh…the scouts have uh…found another Transformer in the Everfree Forest.” Noctune’s head spun around to stare at the stallion. His expression only terrified Brimstone even more. He quickly began to explain, “But I think it would be wise to not intervene and send a task force to destroy the threat! Not only would we have to deal with more wounded soldiers-”
Noctune interrupted him. “I understand your concern, Brimstone, but it is our duty to protect Equestria from alien threats by any means necessary. Wounds will heal…but a mark acquired during the Decepticon invasion will not. I know our tactics have been sloppy, which is why a new strategy is needed for this threat in the Everfree.”
Brimstone’s expression showed signs of true worry.
“Sir, you don’t understand,” he whispered, gulping in fear. “The spies…mentioned it was…nothing they’ve ever seen before. They described it as…a monster.”
Noctune looked at him with an eyebrow raised.
“Not…a Transformer?” Noctune asked, his curiosity rising higher and higher. Brimstone seemed to show signs of deep consideration, as if he really didn’t want to be asked this kind of question, especially from his boss.
The stallion shrugged, his eyes closed. “They don’t really know what they saw, sir. It was definitely not of this world, though. Unfortunately, the scouts couldn’t make any more research. They had to get out of the Everfree as quickly as possible. Not only was the threat of Timberwolves or manticores very high, but they spotted Celestia’s Royal Guard flying overhead. They even mentioned the Royal Guard stationed in Ponyville.”
Noctune grimaced in pure unfathomable hatred.
He caught Brimstone’s polite cough behind him.
“Ahem…um…your orders, sir?”
The stallion’s eyes stared down at the hard work the brains of the corporation performed below the glass window. Brass Hoof’s tactics haven’t worked, previous tactics haven’t worked, perhaps search and destroy missions with small squads just wasn’t the way to execute missions with success. Perhaps…a new strategy was needed. It would no doubt endanger the secrecy the AAA had to enact thanks to Celestia’s new order, but if Brimstone’s news was true, then they would need much stronger firepower in order to eliminate this…new alien.
He made his decision rather quickly.
“Send in the Spider Tanks and forty of our best fighters. I want that monster wiped off the face of the planet.” He looked back to notice Brimstone’s ears flatten against his skull and his eyes take a shade of disappointment. “If it’s a Transformer…I know that it can take our Energon. Just…tell them to fight back.”
Brimstone sighed, but saluted either way. As he turned to make his exit, he made sure to keep his voice low as he muttered, “Celestia, what is this madpony getting us into?”
The doors closed, leaving Noctune in his beloved silence once more.
“More than you know,” the leader of the Alliance told himself. His eyes gazed down to see worker ponies push and pull many levers, eventually bringing up the device they’ve been working on for quite some time.
The Electro Bolter, the massive cannon that’s purpose was to control the power of lightning itself, harnessing it to be used as a weapon of mass destruction. Noctune noticed that the cannon had two barrels once it rose out of the splitting ground, very different from the blueprints he saw for himself. Still, the two barrels began to show some signs of electricity coursing through the tips. This was one of the many new types of weaponry Noctune wanted his military to use on the battlefield. It would be absolutely catastrophic…for the enemy. That is if it even worked.
But that’s what testing was for.
Noctune’s ear flinched when the intercom rang throughout the facility.
“Attention. Clear the area at once. Electro Bolter test commencing in thirty seconds. Bring out the coward.”
The dark brown stallion’s uninterested gaze settled on the firing range. The doors from below were violently pushed open, two ponies struggling to hold the thrashing and screaming stallion in their hooves. They pushed the crying pony right in front of a large red target, snapping his hind leg with their powerful hooves.
Brass Hoof cried in pain as his hind leg broke in two. He lied below the red target, the two stallions locking his forelegs to the chains attached to the floor. Just as quickly as they entered, the two heavily-built ponies backed away from the broken equine when they noticed the cannon being pointed directly at him.
The tan-colored stallion began to hyperventilate when he noticed the glowing end of the cannon, followed by the announcement of the intercom.
“Ten seconds.”
In that span of ten seconds, Brass Hoof pulled, bit, and yanked as hard as he could on the chain that held him down. It would not shatter. He screamed in horror, looking up to his master hidden behind the glass above. He begged for forgiveness, praying for another chance at redemption. Noctune only stared at him with those lifeless grey orbs, not a chance of redemption passing his mind.
The Electro Bolter began to glow bright blue, little bits of electricity sending sparks across the metal floor. Brass Hoof gasped his final breath, his tear-filled eyes staring at the end of the barrel.
It fired. Two shots of lightning flew out of the barrels with speeds even faster than a bullet. Brass Hoof couldn’t even close his eyes fast enough once the blast hit him square in the chest. The pony exploded.
He exploded.
Not a single body part was found. Every bit, every molecule of his existence was eradicated faster than the blink of an eye. Brass Hoff’s blood spread out from the aftermath of the blast, coating most of the Alliance workers, the entire firing range, as well as the glass Noctune stared at.
The dark brown stallion showed no emotion as all that remained of his top solider dripped slowly down the glass. He breathed in, and he breathed out.
The intercom rang, announcing, “Test successful.”
The world could never know of what they’ve done here.
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These guys... these guys are monsters.
Noctune is consumed with power and corruption that he doesn't realize that the 'hope' he's spreading is nothing more than a false hope, a lie to cover his own selfish and misguided intentions and the way he deals with his followers who fail him just completely disgusts me. He's like Equestria's very own version of Megatron.
Something must've happened to him or to something dear to him during the events of 'Equestria's Darkest Hour' that turned him into the monster he is now.
"Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." -John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton
5001520 maybe the Decepticons will get to them.
5001663 I would love for that to happen. Maybe the Autobots just stand by and let them do it this time.
Why do I have a feeling the 'monster' is Grimlock?!
Richtofen: MOAR. I NEED MOAR!
L.P: Shut up, damn it! Anyways, very good chapter. Looking forward to the next
5001613 "You see it takes patience to make a man. The patience to watch and wait.... for God and country, without any recognition at all."- Harold Attinger.
5001613 Well spoken, good sir!
5001721 What would give you that thought?
5001860 CHRIST.
5002007 Dempsey: God damn it, Richtofen! You're a brony too?!
No one but Primus, Luna, and so on.
Awesome work, JDPrime22. Sad, but can't wait for more!
5001613
Power is an Illussion
Absolute power is a seemingles illusion- Polygon Man
It looks like Nocturne is losing the war before it's even started. The AAA was made for situations like this and yet now that they are finally doing what they were made too, has only been met with constant failure.
And these are suppose to be the ones to defend Equestria against aliens, like the royal guards, they're a joke.
So now they have a new weapon to use. We've what it does against
meatbagsponies, but how will it work with a transformer?5002705 Who else could be a giant metal monster?
I am Optimus Prime and I send this message to my creators, leave planet earth alone because I'm coming for you.
I feel like at some point Nuctune will monologue something close to this. Which I think matches up with his mind set, maybe a result of witnessing the brutally of the Decepticon's invasion?
5004684 The other Dinobots, Trypticon, Omega Supreme.
My Dad
5001613 Except you know the Decepticons are actually trying to do something good.
Believe it or not the Decepticons are better then this guy.
Vanhoover is totally a rename Vancouver you Canadian?
and the spider tanks are soooo these guys
tfwiki.net/mediawiki/images2/a/a9/DOTM-toy_Thunderhead_MajorTungsten.jpg
Do you remember Thunderhead? Tall, storm powers? Nice bot, good with kids.
The Alliance of Alien Activity is in abundance, and it's all thanks to Nocturne, with his obsession with power and wanting to destroy the Transformers and any other aliens.
5006278 Indeed... even if what the Decepticons did in the last story was for the wrong intentions, it was only so that Cybertron could somehow live again even though it was they themselves and mostly Megatron that were responsible for Cybertron's fall.
Megatron himself knew this, he put his kind before others, sacrificing Equestria would've been his way at getting back at Prime and his Autobots for ruining his plans for domination and would not let anyone stop him. That doesn't mean though that he is completely devoid of some good and honor, there are times when Megatron is willing to temporarily put aside his rivalry with Optimus to fight a common enemy they both have and even spared Prime after the latter saved him from Discord when he had the chance to finally end it. So there is still some hope for him to change but only if he wants it.
What Noctune is doing, there is no good reason for it... no good reason at all... At this rate, there may be no hope for him at all.
C>>5006278 even though the Decepticon's goal was to save Cybertron the problem was that they we willing to do whatever it took even sacrificing an entire planet full of life to do so. In that regard Nuctune and his group arn't that different given that they were willing to kill the good guys and possibly innocent civilians that got in their way to maintain the safety of Equestria. The only difference is that the Decepticons were around long enough that most of their high ranking solders became filled with violent sociopaths that enjoyed destroying and killing just for the fun of it and in the comic miniseries "all hail Megatron" Megatron knew of that and exploited it believing that the more cruel and brutal the Decepticons were the faster the war with the Autobots would end.
5006482 Yeah but still Nocturne is just doing this for selfish reasons
Megatron is trying to do good but his methods are wrong.
5006398 And that is why Nocturne is worse then Megatron.
Just because he has tried to kill humans and ponies does not mean that is his goal he only fights them because they are in his way of his goals.
Megatron wants to bring Cybertron back into the Golden Age.
Nocturne just wants power and Alien genocide (including the ones that fought for them) and buries that in fake noble deeds.
5006731 true, but reading the IDW comics and spoiler Megatron realized his errors is now an Autobot , it happened in the story arc "Dark Cybertron", anyways in the resent issue 32 of "more than meets the eye" he has a conversation with Ravage explaining why he switched sides saying that once he told Optimus that he would kill just for the sake of killing. He wanted to provoke Optimus into torturing him knowing that when Optimus hurts others he hurts himself. He said he didn't think he meant it in his head but as soon as said them outloud he realized that he did, he realized that he was no longer the freedom fighter he used to be and had become a monster. Just saying that these two are doing horrible things while lying to themselves that they're doing the right thing.
5006437 the thing about the Decepticons is that they started out as political reformers against an oppressive government but over time had become freedom fighters and when that government finally fell they became brutal genocidal conquerors. I think that the only real difference between them and the AAA is time.
5006848 Not talking about the comics
Talking about the cybertron games JD's stories are based off.
5007164 well according to Hasbro the official canon is that the games and the show TF: Prime are in the same universe and TF: Prime ended with Megatron being reformed. The only differences us that in the comics I mentioned is that they expanded on that.
5007374 Yes but I'm not talking about the comics.
5007383 the point I'm making is that Megatron and Noctune aren't that different from each other in that they both are or have done horrible things for their oun selfish reasons and they both have deluded themselves that its for a greater good. But if I was to pick which is worse then its still Megatron because while its still not known the extent of Noctune's crimes, Megatron is guilty of the deaths of billions both on Cybertron and on other planets through genocide, mass murder, torture, forced experimentations, using WMDs and death camps. Point is Noctune is a noob compared to Megatron.
5006269 Well if you read the last two stories omega supreme and trypticon are dead
5006288 Nah, I'm American through and through.
5004506 Basically the Electro Bolter from Fall of Cybertron, a little reference I put in there. It's basically a lightning gun, so you could imagine what it could do to a Transformer.
5006437 Right in the heart, bro.
5008569
The Electro Bolter was a more of a harpoon that electrify its opponents once they're impaled to a wall. This one sounds like the E.D.K. Techvolt or at the very most a two barrel Riot Cannon.
5008678 someone should lay some hate on Noctune.
5008569 Yeah Shadow is right JD
I think you mean the Techvolt
5008678 Riot cannon is just a modified fusion cannon.
So you mean Tarn's fusion cannons?
5011725
I said riot cannon because that's what it was called in the game.
5011739 Yeah but the Riot cannon is just a fusion cannon but given a different name and its modifications.
How long will it be before Shockwave reveals his cruel and dark trick on the ponies. Is he the main antagonist?
5027438 Shockwave is the main antagonist, though I don't think he'd be so foolish as to tell the ponies what he did to Optimus. If anything, it'll only inspire them to get the Matrix back as fast as possible.
5027467 is Megatron gone for good? Because I can totally see Shockwave walk towards an injured Optimus with his ship behind him like Lockdown. When is the next chapter?
5027618 Megatron might return, or he may not, who knows? I knows.
As for the next chapter...probably around Sunday. I don't know to be honest I've just been extremely busy with school starting again. 
5028410 cool. I am curious to how this works out. Will we have a seed or the Dark Spark .
5028572 We'll have the Dark Spark.
5028660 I'll finish mine eventually.
5030094 No it didn't I watched game play of it and there was no Maximals or Predacons in it.
5030106 you are correct. Why would we have maximals and predacons in that game?