Chapter 2: Stand United
*Mountain of Hope – Dreamscape Music*
Celestia stood tall and proud her face filled with grim, ready with her speech and looked at everypony. She nodded to her sister who nodded back and both horns illuminated causing everypony to look away before the felt a strange buzzing in their ear.
“Fellow Ponies, Griffons, Dragons, and every other sentient creature on Equestria, we do not have much time, I fear our time has come, I have guarded a secret about what has passed in the history of Equestria.” Celestia said with sorrow, “I have tried to hide from it, hoping that this day would not come and I am sorry, Equestria is going to be…” Celestia choked, thinking about the death and carnage that would occur when they see the monstrous metallic creature come down upon their beloved world. The whole of Equestria was hearing her voice including all the villains of Equestria, the Draconequus Discord, Queen Chrysalis and her changelings , King Sombra, Lord Tirek, and the Demons of Tartarus. They all had listened intently to Celestia, wondering what her most guarded secret was and why they were hearing specifically Celestia voice but what they heard next surprised them.
“Destroyed,” Luna said, solemnly putting her head down, causing everypony to start panicking. The guards all around had looked intently at their Princess hoping she had a plan or the fate of Equestria would end.
“STOP!” Luna boomed, “Hear what my sister has to say.”
Celestia sighed heavily and looked to the starry sky, praying “Father, Mother I pray to you every night wanting to speak to you and now I am need of help, if you can hear give me strength to stand for what is right, give me courage to lead the creatures of Equestria into a better life and may I make the right sacrifices that are required.”
“Citizens you must stay calm, but I need you all to listen intently on the history that I have hidden from you” Celestia boomed causing everypony to stop frantically running away. Celestia told of her secret, the past with her parents and the sacrifice they had made. Twilight looked towards her friends, she wished she could do something about the threat but she knew even the element of harmony wouldn’t damage something bigger than they can see. Twilight thought long and hard while Celestia moved on the disappearance of the moon and ended it there. When Celestia finished everypony had terror in their eyes, the fear reeked in the air as some wet themselves while others where petrified. The main 6 were astounded by what they heard, as they looked towards Twilights now horrified face. Twilight didn’t realise the extremities of Unicron and his motives figuring that Unicron would just enslave the whole of Equestria but this shocked her to the bones knowing that the wonderful world she was living in was going to be destroyed. She felt herself start panicking, breathing heavily trying to think of a way to stop Unicron, her mind thinking about all the possibilities that could happen but came up with nothing.
Her friends could see her thinking intensively, it was when they saw Twilight crying that they realised that their homes would be destroyed. Applejack thought about the farm and her family, she felt the duty of caring her family and the farm till death but now Unicron was on his way to do that . She became so lost in her thoughts what made it worst was Twilight’s tears that she saw dripping. Rainbow Dash usually full of life suddenly realised that her life wasn’t important anymore, that being the fastest flier Equestria meant nothing when the world was ending when she couldn’t even fly away from Unicron that in the end she was insignificant. Rarity hugged Sweetie Belle close to her thinking about her not wanting to lose her sister to a monster, she always thought they would have died of old age retired, happy and full of grandponies and money but their hopes were crushed. Pinkie Pie was usually cheerful and optimistic but the news hit her like a train in the face, as she realised there was no good news, there was going to be no more parties no more anything and she felt her sanity start to crumble away. Celestia sighed knowing this would cause a massive panic but then it was Fluttershy that spoke for the first time in a while who was hovering above the rest of the ponies.
“We can beat him” Fluttershy said with her determination, it was unlike her for the timid Pegasus to speak but she felt inside the need to speak up as she saw her closest friends go into despair and everyponies fear. She was about to cry before, thinking about all her animal friends and pets when she realised Unicron’s full potential at destroying the whole of Equestria but when she realised that she had been bullied too many times for being weak, shy and timid. She now realised that the need to stay together as friends was important, that no matter the situation they would always be there for each other thick and thin.
“Are yah crazy?” Applejack whispered at Fluttershy, “that thing is bigger than us and could destroy you in one hit, shoot he could murder all of us in one go, how in the hell are we gonna do it,” Fluttershy on the other hand did not answer as she continued on.
“We may be smaller but with numbers we are greater than that, dragons were always bigger than us, but we still manage to stop them from bullying us,” Fluttershy said loudly looking towards everyone as she hovered in the air. Something in Twilight’s mind clicked causing her to speak aloud to as she sniffled and wiped her own tears away.
“Fluttershy is right, we must stand united, if we cower in fear, this Unicron will beat us before the battle even began, it is up to us to save ourselves but to do so we must join forces friends or foes, it does not matter, if we stand united we can accomplish anything, see the elements of harmony always needed more than one pony to wield it, whether it being 6 or 2 numbers do count, and so I ask that you stand with us to stop Unicron, we will stand up against him with all our might and magic till our dying breath, for we will not cower in the fear of Unicron, we shall overcome him and bring Equestria to a new age.” Twilight said with confidence as everypony stared intently at her. Then one shouted “For Equestria!” and soon the whole of Canterlot was reverberating with the chanting of “For Equestria!” Then from Ponyville, the echoes of chanting as it swept across the land, spreading everywhere. From city to city Equestria boomed with the words “For Equestria.” Discord smiled and looked towards Fluttershy who was picked up by all her friends and lifted up into the air for her courage and bravery, he sighed and slowly a warm feeling was felt inside of him, “FOR EQUESTRIA!” he yelled and started placing banners up for everyone to see. All around Equestria the banners started appearing causing everyone to realise that friendship and unity was very important in times like this where they must fight for their planet and the good of the world generations to come.
Meanwhile in the centre of the nest of Changelings, Chrysalis was listening intently, it was then when she heard Fluttershy and Twilight’s motivational speech that she realised that evil and good can unite for the greater good. “I may appear as an evil queen but I shall fight for life of the colony, and in doing so I shall fight for Equestria,” Queen Chrysalis said, “FOR EQUESTRIA!” The changelings all responded repeating the phrase with enthusiasm following the commands of Chrysalis.
King Sombra who was shattered, had only just regained conscious had heard of Unicron’s approach and grew angry at this, it was his destiny to change the world and this creature called Unicron will seize his opportunity. With that in mind, King Sombra grew angry and in a flying fit of rage, the crystallised parts of him formed back together, he took in deep breaths as he felt very weak and he trudged towards the Crystal Empire and yelled “For Equestria!”
*End Song*
Lord Tirek, heard the chanting of words and realised that he could help but it was then Unicron’s deep voice echoed towards Tirek scaring him.
“I am Unicron,” Unicron said, as Tirek looked up towards his prison. Beams of light danced around his cage causing the words “For Equestria” to cease.
“State your business,” Tirek said, inside Tirek was feeling jittery.
“This is my command, you are to stop the ponies at all cost, they plan something that I cannot foresee so that I can annihilate Equestria,” Unicron boomed,
“Why should I, if I do it I will die and will lose everything that I live for?” Tirek asked, realising that Unicron was manipulating him and it wasn’t succeeding because Tirek himself was a manipulator.
“I shall give you a new body, a body capable of withstanding the extremities of vacuum of space and weapons of unimaginable power and destruction.” Unicron boomed.
“And what would happen if I don’t want to?” Tirek argued.
“You belong to me now,” Unicron said as the beam of light turned a flash of red as the metal cage surrounding Tirek, started forming. The metal twisting and turning, Tirek was terrified and stood in the centre looking for a way out, but what surprised him was the metal moving towards him. It suddenly snaked towards his mouth, making him scream in pain as the metal moved throughout his body. It formed outside of his body taking over his motor functions, red metal eyes and two giant cannons on his wrist and a full metal silvery body slowly formed his shape of a centaur. Inside his body, the metal was rewiring his whole body, the brain rigged with metal synapses and a permanent link to Unicron, the insides killing the organs inside and turning it into energy for Tirek to use. Tirek on the other hand was screaming as he tried to tear himself apart from the metal with no avail as Unicron continued with the transformation. When Unicron was done, nothing of Tirek original looks except for the body shape, Unicron had formed a transformer out of a biological body which made Unicron satisfied at his accomplishment.
“Stop the ponies,” Unicron boomed as Tirek finally regained conscious but Tirek’s mind was wiped clean as a new computerized voice spoke.
“As you command Unicron!” Tirek cried.