I sighed as I almost had to drag Starscream through the woods away from the winner circle comprised of easily amused children.
"Why didn't you tell me you had a ship out here" Starscream whined
"Because knowing you you'd probably find some way to fix it, get shot down, and wreck it again,"
"I hope you rust slowly," he muttered.
"Anything to get me away from you."
We were one our way to investigate the ship because the sonic boom Starscream created was chock full of energon, we found that out mainly due to the fact that shortly afterword I was running at 200% capacity and my systems almost overcharged and failed me. However I was able to remove it rather easily by producing more than enough energon cubes.
As we approached the site of the crash our audio receptors picked up on some chatter coming from it. We both ducked down into some bushes and stealthy approached. The site was full of the guards wearing similar garbs that had attacked me not too long ago.
"What are they doing?" Starscream inquired
"Probably scavenging the ship"
"What makes you say that?"
I pointed to a pile of parts torn from the ships inside
"Oh..." he said feeling rather dumb for not noticing it "Well now what."
"I have a plan."
He nodded and began to transform, but I smacked him mid way and forced him to revert back "Not that."
"What would be easier than just wiping them from existence?"
"Simple"
He titled his head at me before I grabbed him by the throat and threw him out into the clearing, landing him right in front of two guards.
"Intruder!" one shouted causing Starscream to scramble to his feet and run off, a few guards giving chase. Giving me the opening to sneak onto the ship. Some guards were patrolling by, I snuck down behind the wreckage of a computer, and when they passed I jumped out behind them and smacked their heads together knocking them out cold.
I managed to make my way to the ships bridge and began to search for anything that could have been activated or accidentally repair by the energon blast. My optics almost instantly caught sight of something dreadful. The distress beacon was on...and something was trying to respond. I gulped as I approached the the consoles long range radio and pressed the button to initiate conversation, but nothing but static came through at first. I'm not sure what compelled me to try and continue making contact, be it old habits, or some hope it was a fellow Decepticon that wasn't as unbearable as Starcream.
At first it was nothing more than mere static, but I was able to eventually go from static, to a laggy voice, to a message I had dreaded to hear
"Hello, hello? This is Autobot exploration vessel Omega Supreme, do you read over?"
I tried my hardest to adjust my vocal emitters to hopefully change the sound of my trademark voice
"H-hello?"
"Ah ha! Good to see some cats out there are still functionin' where is your location and we'll come by and fix ya up"
That voice...I recognized it as my most heated rival...The Autobot Blaster.
"N-no...we're fine" Not my best excuse admittedly
"Hang on now...I got a lock on your coordinates we'll be arriving in a few astro-seconds to come get ya"
I began to panic "No need really..." My panic was making me lose my focus on my voice
"Hey...wait a moment..Ain't you-*click*" I shut the radio off and bolted out of there jumping over the unconscious bodies of the guards and running into the woods.
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I made my way back to the ship after getting some progress reports from a camp set up not farm from it. As I approached the ship the first thing I noticed was the lack of my Night Guards, the second was the two unconscious guards in the ship. I cast my magic on them to awaken them.
"Ughh my heads" on groaned
"Report solider"
"Oh Princess Luna!" He bowed making me roll my eyes "My lady we were ambushed by an unknown assailant and- and"
I was walking past him into the ship as I heard voices coming from inside. They became more coherent as I approached until I was back in the room with the glowing button
"Hello hello do you read me over?" a voice rang out from the device.
Curiously I pressed my hoof on the button "Hello?"
"Who's this?"
"This is Princess Luna, Co-ruler of Equestria, who is this?"
"Oh a Princess? Boss will want ta talk to ya let me get him"
I waited for a few seconds before another voice rang out "Hello do you read?"
"Yes now who is this?"
"This is Rodimus Prime, leader of the Autobots and head of diplomatic exploration vessel Omega Supreme"
"Diplomatic vessel?"
"I will explain more if you would allow us passage to land"
I thought for a moment, if these beings had the same technology similar to the ship and they want to be diplomatic, then perhaps we could find some way to utilize them.
"Yes as a matter of fact you may...do you know where we are?"
"We have a lock on your location now...E.T.A 60 astro-seconds"
"Uhh..."
"About an hour"
"Ah"
Eventually my guards returned to their posts claiming that the one as Starscream had intruded on the site and ran off, I figured if he was here Soundwave wasn't far off.
"I wonder what their plan was?"
"No clue Princess"
I went on to inform the guards of the situation about to unfold, and telling them that if these Autobots try anything hostile they are to be treated as war criminals.
It felt like almost an eternity waiting for them, until off in the distance one of my pegasi spotted something off in the distance, a massive vessel heading right our way.
"Guards form a perimeter around the ship as it lands!"
They loyally saluted and began to prepare as such, a few pegasi flew up along side the ship to help guide it to it's destination. It began landing sending dust every which way and pushing back a few unprepared soldiers, as it finally landed. The ship was even more massive up close and sported a color scheme of bright reds and yellows, with a large symbol on the front of it similar to the one Soundwave bore, but less menacing looking, almost as if it implied a want for peace. The back hissed and a doorway opened, I made my way to the front of it and readied myself for whatever hostile intents these beings might have planned.
The first being to step was almost larger than Soundwave. His face had a look of wisdom and experience on it. He cleared his throat and held his arms out, me and my guards readied ourselves
"Bah-weep-Graaaaagnah wheep ni ni bong!" he spoke making me and my Night Guards look at each other in confusion, yet feel a strange sense of being welcomed
"Ummm...We speak Equian here"
"Oh...Okay then"
"What was that anyways?"
"Apparently the universal greeting isn't that universal"
"I'll say"
We both shared a laugh and a few guards chuckled as well
"Allow me to introduce myself properly," he said "I am Rodimus Prime, leader of the Autobots and Head of the Universal Sentient Beings Peace Association."
"That's a mouthful."
"Yes we've trying to shorten the name to an acronym that makes sense, but with no luck"
"Well, I am Princess Luna Co-Ruler of Equestria and Princess of the Night"
He bowed respectfully "Pleasure to meet you Princess Luna. Please let me introduce my crew" a few more of them emerged from the inside of the ship "These are my crew mates, Blaster our communications expert, Arcee our scout, and for the unfortunate case where we meet someone hostile...Grimlock" Suddenly the biggest one of them all emerged from the ship, he was terrifyingly strong looking
"Me Grimlock think colorful ponies look weak!" He did however seem a little slow
"Now Grimlock be nice" The pink feminine one named Arcee said.
"Grimlock listen for now"
"This place has some pretty swweet vibes...ain't pickin up any radio waves though" Blaster said, he bore a disturbing resemblance to Soundwave
"Radio?" I asked
"The thing we used to talk...I guess your planet doesn't have them"
"Nothing of the sort." I replied
"I have to ask actually. Who's ship is that then?"
I looked to the wreckage of the ship not too far from their landing zone "That? That ship belongs to another one of your kind that landed here."
"Oh so you met them?" Rodimus said
"Yes. He's currently serving under a punishment my sister and I devised"
"Who are they?"
"Soundwave" I said non-chalantely, but the look on their faces shown that they were disturbed by this.
"What?"
"Soundwave is here!" Blaster blurted
"And another named Starscream"
They gasped "Where are they now!" Rodimus ordered at me
"Excuse me, but they are under my jurisdiction and will not be harmed"
"You don't understand, they are the most wanted war-criminals on Cybertron!" Arcee blurted
"Well I can understand Starscream...But I will not allow you to take Soundwave"
"Why do you defend him?!"
"He saved my life and the life of his friend and almost sacrificed himself"
They all looked at me in disbelief "Soundwave...The blue one with the monotone voice" Blaster said severely confused
"Yes"
"He saved you?"
"Yes"
"With his own life"
"Why is this hard for you to understand?"
"He's one the baddest cats ever to walk the surface of Cybertron. He's one of Megatron's Elite Generals"
"Who?"
"Megatron, or as he came to be known recently Glavatron, was a tyrant bent on ruling Cybertron with an iron fist and he was willing to slaughter anyone who dared oppose him."
"But the way Soundwave made it sound made him seem benevolent, albeit a bit power driven as you say, but otherwise he compared him to me and my sister"
"The Decepticons believe that strong rule the weak and Soundwave was apparently one of the weak Megatron pulled out of the gutter's to help him 'reshape Cybertron"
"Well I assure you, even if he is how you say he is, there's no damage he could do now"
"What makes you say that?"
"Follow me and I'll show you"
I began to lead the lot of them and my Royal guard to Ponyville to show them the current home of Soundwave.
