‘I cannot believe it, we lost the Allspark, this is bad, so very very bad.’ I thought in fear, pacing back and forth, I was currently back in my old body, thanks to the Body Transfer Chamber, it’s like the Chamber from Zoids, I can change bodies anytime, I had Wheeljack build it if you’re wondering, ‘Well, there is a plus side, we freed Ironhide and Omega, but our ships took heavy damage.’
“It’s not all bad James. We know we can free your forces from Quintessa's control and we can track the scrap piles now that they have the Allspark,” Ed says as he looked to me then his ships.
“Ed, it is bad, from what the salvage team that consisted of Wheeljack, Ratchet, and Hound, we only have a total 5 ships, 2 of them are undergoing repairs, and another two is the Ark and Omega, but he transforms into a Space bridge repair ship, not much of a fighter ship.” I said, stopping my pacing, and looking at Ed.
“I can place mine back in my vault and then bring them out right away for repairs. That way we can use my repair stations in them to produce more ships and drone mechs. Not gonna lie to ya. The only we could win a planet-scale war is if we destroy the planet itself. You know me and Pyro won’t let you do that right?” Ed says as he recalled his ships onto his vault.
“What use the Catalyst, I know you won’t let me use it, and we’re not destroying Cybertron!” I said, “Why would you even suggest that?”
“You got the wrong impression, James. I said that’s the only way we could win at this moment,” Ed looked out to space as his ships came back out of his vault. “I’m putting my facilities on full product at top speed. We’ll have our number back within thirty minutes. That goes for ammo, drones, zoids, zords, walkers, and so on.”
“Good, in the meantime, Wheeljack, I want you and every single Tech 3 Engineer on this ship making these,” I said as I showed a few images of what I want him to build.
“Along with the stuff Delta 12 has given info about.”
“On it Prime!” Wheeljack said, quickly running to the lab.
“You bots better use the machines on my ships for those. You can use the teleport circles to jump over and back in quick gents. My shadow clones will listen to any orders and make suggestions as need or just tell them to shut up,” Ed said pointing to the glowing circle on the floor he drew earlier. “Now onto our next problem James.”
“Which is what? The fact Quintessa has the Allspark or that our forces may not be enough?”
“The fact that we miscalculated. How did she get her hands on the bots you asked Primus for? How did she even know?” Ed asked angrily pacing.
“Well, when Primus and I first met, he said that the energy of Equus might have messed with him, that’s how Quintessa got my required troops.” I said trying to calm Ed.
“No, it’s more than that. Cybertronians can't use magic so it would make sense you couldn’t meet up but she still shouldn’t have been able to interfere with their summonings. She didn’t have that kind of power until after that mental conflict with me,” Ed pondered then got really mad. “THAT WITCH!”
“Ed calm down, this was before I met you or Pyro, whatever you’re thinking just tell, so that way you won’t go berserk!” I said trying to calm Ed down.
“Back home I have what’s called a Rune Teleporter. I made it before I got my teleportation magic to go back and forth between my shop in Ponyville and shop in the castle. It's ancient magic closer to tech actually but still magic. The teleporter can be powered by various mean though. She probably got some of my know-how on it and the filled in the gap with Cybertronian tech,” Ed explained trying to calm down.
“Hmm, that would explain some of it, so if Quintessa has this Rune Teleporter, how much distance can she cover with it? Different planets or just on planet?” I asked getting worried and curious.
“It can cover any distance actually. Problems is that they have to be programmed in pairs like a space bridge. If set right you could send an army through-” Ed stopped talking for a minute as he looked to he teleport circle. “Get me as many raw materials as you can. The purer the better. NOW!”
“Easy Ed, just ask nicely, Ratchet, Ironhide, get the Vehibots to bring some raw materials for Ed ASAP.” I said to them, they nodded and began ordering the Vehibots to the materials, “Why do you need them?”
“I’m going to make a back door to that two-faced bot fleet. She doesn’t know about the link Rune need to keep others Teleporters out of her. Plus mine will be purely magical and no tech influence when I combine the runes with my Teleport spell,” Ed said smiling evilly.”She won’t know what hit her.”
“So we will be on Cybertron and at Quintessa's back door, nice. But she might have a few defenses in case of something like that, so we should attack her on all sides, her forces will be too spread out,”
“Liquid metal,” Ed said as the others brought in the raw materials for the Teleporter.
“What about it?” Ironhide asked,
“What about him?” Ed asked looking over the materials. “If your wondering to use him to go through the teleporter first I wouldn’t. Quintessa already knows we have him back.”
“What does this have to with the liquid metal, you mean like the T-1000 or something?” BB asked,
“Remember the armors Pyro uses. We made one based on the T1000’s for me. What if we use the concept of from Age of Extinction with Liquid Metal’s adaptive qualities on a few willing recruits,” Ed explained as he clapped his hands together and red lightning sparked from them.
“So basically give our troops and upgrade. I like it!” Sari said,
“It’s not that simple Sari. Liquid Metal is actual thousands upon thousands of ultra-small robots. The aspect from AOE is the elemental metal that all transformers are made of. What we do is take the sparks out of the Autobots let the nanomachines integrate into their bodies. Once all that's left is a puddle of metal we release the sparks and let them return to their respective body. It’s up to James and the others but we need an edge and Adaptive transformers are something that no other has heard of,” Ed says as he fused pieces of materials together.
“I think it might be worth a shot, I’ll send a message out to any volunteers who want this,” I said, pulling out the map Primus gave me to find the Autobots I requested.
“You want to take back your troops first don’t you James?” Ed smirked as he continued to assemble the teleporter. “I reading around 9 or 10 other teleporter signals around. Plus a big one on Cybertron makes 11.”
“I do, but I am also looking to see where the remaining Cybertronians I asked are located, this map apparently zooms out, and that’s not good.” I said zooming out, and following the arrows that point to the location of the remaining bots, “They are on Cybertron’s moon, the one from WFC, I can guess who they are, TFP Arcee, Wheeljack, FOC Dinobots including Sludge, Air Raid, Warpath, G1 Perceptor, Hot Rod, Kup, Windblade, and the Combiners Victorion, and Computron.”
“Interesting, can you get an exact lock on their location?” Ed asked as he started to carve runes into a small tower-like structure he’d constructed.
“Yes, the map can show them moving to a new location, and they’re still on the space station, and they are not under the witch’s control, it would show a red mark on the symbol.” I said looking at the map, “We will contact them and tell them to guard the station, so in case the attack fails, we can go to the station and come up with a new strategy.”
“Then why don’t we go and meet them and bring them here?” Ed asked getting off the floor. “If a have the location in advance I can use Teleport to move in between locations.”
“Because Ed, if we go and leave the place unguarded, Quintessa will see she left a location undefended, she will send a armada their and we would be overrun with cons if we teleport there.” Sari said.
“I mean the others, James. We can swoop in me and you in a two-man team grab them and bring them here and let Sari free their minds. A snatch and grab,” Ed said coming over to the map and pointing at Cybertron.
“Oh you mean the ones on Cybertron, alright, we can do that, but we are using stealth, anyone of them we see, knock out, teleport them here, and have Sari free their minds, but only me and you, along with my elite team of stealth Vehibots,” I said, and several Vehibots emerged from the shadows, their color was all black, even their eyes.
“No more than three more for a group of five in total. One of them needs to be a slicer and one needs to be a scout or lookout and someone familiar with the planet,” Ed explained.
“A scout you say, alright Autobot Greninja, step forward,” I said and a robotic version of Greninja from Pokemon came forward, “Ed meet Greninja, my elite scout, he can sneak into a enemy base undetected, no camera will see him, even when he is right in front of it, and his Aqua Shurikens are plasma based, and they can’t drain his energy.”
Greninja bowed to Ed, then spoke in Japanese, “[So you are the famous Alchemist, I must say I am impressed by your skills.]”
“[Nice to meet you. I look forward to working with you.]” Ed said in Japanese. “I study Japanese cause I got tired of reading anime.”
“Alright Ed, Greninja, who is your best slicer?” I asked,
“[That would be T8M-207 or Tom, he cuts through things so fast, they stay intact for 5 seconds, not even realizing they’ve been sliced.]” Greninja said.
“Nice, now all we need is the one who knows Cybertron’s in and outs as well as all back alleys,” Ed says looking to the others.
“That would be me.” Predaking said walking towards us. “In secret I have explored nearly every inch of Cybertron, I can tell you where the most Insecticon hives are located, even backdoor entrances to the major cities, even a secret entrance to the core of Cybertron.”
“Good, but one problem is your size. No offense, but you’re way too big to sneak around and be quick about it,” Ed coomented.
“I had thought of that as well, back on Equus in my Basement, I had Wheeljack build a size transformer, allows one to shrink themselves, or enlarge. But we only have one, he can shrink down to my size.
“Why not give him the size reducer I gave you a while back. I can always make more of those. You can all use them to shrink down to the size of humans actually. Why didn’t I think of that first off?” Ed said facepalming. “Here for all of you,” Ed said as created three size reducers appear in front of the three bots.
“Good idea.” I said, “How did I forget about that?”
“Maybe because it was a year ago for us. And that we were just in a major small battle that we lost in more ways than one. Sorry to point out the obvious James,” Ed said shutting his mouth.
“It’s cool.” I said waving my hand. But in my head I was thinking, ‘NO IT ISN’T!! WE LOST THE ALLSPARK!!!!’
“Don’t hide it from me, James. I’m not as old as Pyro but I have many more years than you. This was a major blow to our forces and morale. We need to get those soldiers and the Allspark if we can. I’ll also work on getting teleport circles written throughout Cybertron as we go to mount a sneak attack for when we go all out on that witch of a transformer,” Ed whispered to me so no one else could hear.
“I can hear you Ed.” Sari said, “I have increased hearing now. Remember?”
“It’s true Ed, also knowing Quintessa, she will have the Allspark with her at all times, I wouldn’t be surprised if she turned it into a necklace.”
“You forget I was there when you came out of the chamber Sari. And your right James. What we need it a huge Distraction that can’t be brainwashed,” Ed said placing his head in his hand as he went in to think mode.
A light bulb appeared over my head, “A huge distraction you say, well, how about one that is called Trypticon. Have him outside of the Ignition Chamber, and draw out most of her forces.”
“That will definitely work have Hound and any other demo experts whip up some bombs we can set up while there to,” Ed smiled. “Operation Bomb and Grab starts in ten minutes would you agree James. Sari in the meantime set up for brain scrubbing and Ratchet will look for recruits for the Adaptive Transtech Project.”
“Alright, I’ll get Trypticon and everyone ready.” I said, “I hope this works, because if it doesn’t, we’re in trouble.”
“Shrink down and stand on the circle everyone. I’ll have us land outside the ignition room to drop off Trypticon then off to the next site,” Ed explained as he took off his red coat and put it in his bag.
“Good, I contacted Trypticon, he agreed to be a distraction,”
-I have several volunteers, BB, G1 Bee, Ironhide, TFP Bee, TLK Bee, and several Vehibots.- Ratchet said over the commlink.
“Alright, get them prepped for Adaptive Transtech Project, or ATP for short.” Ed said. -Ratchet I’ve sent you the schematics for the Nanotech bots to your personal computer along with the schematics for a painless spark extractor/infusor and a spark storage chamber.- Ed says to Ratchet over his com.
-Roger that, got the schematics now.-
“Alright, now that that's settled, lets go to Cybertron,” I said.
“Might want to close your eyes this time. Long distance teleport can do a number on ya like an extended camera flash,” Ed says as his Nano armor comes forth from his body changing into an Iron Man stealth suit. “Hang on *SNAP*” There was a bright white flash.
I closed my eyes and waited.
“Open your eye bots and behold Cybertron,” Ed said over his com.
I opened my eyes and saw the landscape of Cybertron, I also noticed were close to the ignition Chamber, I could hear Trypticons roar followed by lasers and screams, “It seems Trypticon is busy.”
“Where’s the fist bot for snatch and grab James?” Ed asked.
“According to this map, right under us.” I looked to see the unconscious form of Waspinator. “That was easy.”
“Well that’s convenient. Cuff him and send through here,” Ed say as a teleport circle back to our ship appears. -Sari first one coming your way. See if you can fix his mind a bet if you feel up to it.-
“[Sensei, there are bodies up ahead.]” Greninja said, I looked and saw a total of 15 Vehicon bodies, all dead
“What did this? Insecticons maybe?” Ed asked.
“No, these bodies don’t have any sign of Insecticons, but we're completely drained of Energon?” I said examining one.
“You don’t think is her do you? Or maybe the original one?” Ed looked over the bodies. “Don’t hesitate if the move guys blasted them.”
A Vehicon stood up, it looked over to us its eyes lifeless and filled with hunger, then it spoke, “ENERGON!” and it's jaws split and a claw like tongue emerged.
“Go for the head and cause as little attention to us as possible don’t get close either.” Ed said as he blasted the vehicon’s head clean off with a repulsor shot.
“No the spark is the best spot.” I said stabbing it in the chest with my Fusion Ax, severing its link to Dark Energon, it went limp, “These things die when you go for the spark.” I took my blade out of it, the body falling to the ground, “Kill the rest.”
“Quickly guys before the rest decide to get up. And don’t feel bad about it they’re technically already dead,” Ed said as he moved along blasting the bots in the chest.
“Why would Quintessa turn her own troops into this?” Tom asked, stabbing a Terrorcon in the chest, “I hope you find peace in the Well of Allsparks, brother.”
“Cause she doesn’t give to scraps of a fly piece of Unicron about them Tom. She’d rather let a plague spread across the planet than try and save her own kind,” Ed answered blasting the last of the down bots. “Sparkless witch.”
“Relax Ed, once we defeat her army, we can launch her into the sun and let burn.” I said, sheathing my Fusion Ax.
“Give her to Truth. Then we’ll see who the truly evil one is. Being dead in his part of the void is worse than anything I could come up with. Let’s get to the next bot,” Ed says readying the next teleport circle.
“Right, the next should be right there.” I said pointing to a rambling Skylynx from G1, they were closer to the Ignition Chamber while we were 5 miles away.
“Tom you think you can slice the security feeds to loop in less than 30 seconds?” Ed asked.
“Yes.” he disappeared, and back again in 5 seconds, “ Record time. He feed is now on a loop.”
“Greninja scout up ahead and take out any bot that might send up an alarms. Predaking lead the way to Sky Lynx via the back way. Tom back up Greninja when or if he needs it,” Ed said pointing at each bot. “Greninja you will place the bombs around the sites we visit. Tom I want you to slice into any system you come across and implant a crash virus but only a minor one that will cripple the systems here.”
“[Yes sir.]” Greninja and Tom said together, then disappearing,
“Follow me.” Predaking said, me, and followed him, we eventually made behind Skylynx, and can make out what he is saying.
“I can’t believe Queen Quintessa has the Allspark, now Earth and Equus will become two new Cybertrons, perfect for making more Cybertronians, loyal to our queen!” he said, “But honestly, turning the Allspark into a necklace, it seems a little, tacky don’t you think?”
I faced Ed, “Told you, you owe me 10 gems.”
“Later,” Ed says as his hand light up. “Binding Overdrive.”
“What does that do?” I asked in a hushed tone. “Some sort of knockout spell?”
“Sticks the overgrown plane cat in place for the knockout spell. Dream Knock,” Ed says and a white mist comes from his palms surrounding Skylynx.
“HEY! I can’t-” before Skylynx could finish, he was out cold, snoring quite loudly, the surrounding Vehicons became startled before me and Ed killed them, Ed sent Skylynx back to the Ark, and we were on our way to the next one.
“Who’s next Prime?” Predaking asked with reserve.
“Let’s see, the map doesn’t say who it is, just shows they’re symbol, right now a Decepticon symbol is walking to us.” loud footsteps shook the ground around us, quickly hiding, we see it was, “G1 Predaking, the most deadliest combiner besides the Dinobots.” and walking with him was DOTM Mirage.
“Great these guys and Skylynx is missing. Someone say red flag here I am. James We can kills these ones right?” Ed asked annoyed.
“No, Mirage is a Autobot, and like Trypticon, Predaking is a Autobot, they’re just controlled by Quintessa,”
“I want to crush Trypticon so bad, but orders are orders, we are on patrol!” Predaking said in a booming voice, then the latin accent of Mirage was heard.
“Ah, but nothing is better than serving her, sure we have to kill a few of our old commerads, but who cares,”
“Idea. James, King stay here,” Ed says walking out from where we were hiding. “Hey fat bot over here.”
“WHAT DID YOU CALL ME!?” Predaking shouted,
“Fat bot! Neh!” Ed say sticking out his tongue will pulling on his lower eyelid.
“I’LL SHOW YOU FAT!! RRR AAAAAAAA GGGHHH!!” Predaking charged at Ed,
“Gravit shift!” Ed said punching the ground causing everything in front of him to float immediately. “Binding.”
“Ah ah, you can’t touch what you can’t see.” Mirage said disappearing, Ed flew into a wall as if he was thrown. “Cloaking tech gotta love it, no?”
“Ethereal shifting won’t help you,” Ed smirked. “Also night night. Right when you hit me you touched my Dream Knock Field.”
“Crud.” then Mirage reappeared. Knock out. Along with Predaking.
“Nice work Ed, but how far can that gravity shift can reach?”
“It only lasts for a minute.” Ed said.
“Cool, but will anything else feel the gravity shift?”
“Should I don’t have more than a 20ft range. I’m still new to multiple magic uses.” Ed said now thinking.
A blaring alarm sounded out, red lights flashing, then a monotone voice was heard. “All units, we have an intruder in our base, locate and exterminate at all costs,” Soundwave said.
“Me and my big mouth. How many bot are left because this just became a dine and dash. Hehe. dash,” Ed chuckled. “Gods, Pyro is rubbing off on me.”
“Let me check!” I said quickly checking, “Let’s see we have to get DOTM Wreckers, Sideswipe, G1 Aerialbots, TLK Dinobots, and the 12 Guardian Knights!” I said.
“[Sensei, we could not reach the alarm system in time, we were stalled by this one.]” Greninja said holding the unconscious form of Sideswipe.
“Well, James do you mind if I try something drastic?” Ed asked. “If you have all the pinpoint locations that is.”
“Like what?” I said blasting a few Vehicons running towards us. “And I don’t anymore, the map is blank, they must be cloaked or something, so much for finding them, let’s just send the 3 we have back and get out of-OOF!” I said, being rammed into another corridor, seeing Ed trying to reach me, but the door sealed, a pounding sound was heard. I looked to see my attacker, “TLK Megatron.”
“Say night night.” he said pointing behind me, confused I turned to see a blaster aimed at me, a EMP blaster, then darkness.
EDS Pov
“AIR STRIKE SHIELD!” I yelled as a giant green shield appeared in front of Predaking and myself. “Lay down some cover fire while a rip this door to pieces.”
“[Ed, we need to leave, something big is coming, James can take care off himself, we can come back for him later, but no one will save him if we all die.]” Greninja said, holding a wounded Tom, ”[Please, we are not enough to fight an entire army.]”
“You aren’t but I am,” I said as a teleport circle appeared on the ground. “Go back to the ship now.”
-Ed, we are detecting a major energy, it’s coming from the Ignition Cham-AAAAAAAAA GGHH!!- Sari shouted, then static.
“Sari what’s going on over their?! Ratchet Report!” I yelled frantically.
Static.
“[ED! The others could be in trouble! We all need to leave NOW!!]”
“URAGH! Void link 5%” I shouted with my arm turning completely black as I grabbed tom, Predaking and Greninja and jumping on to the portal.
We arrived bank on the ship to see everything on fire. “SARI! ANYONE?! ANSWER ME!”
“*COUGH COUGH* Ed!” I heard Sari shout. I ran over to her voice and saw her legs and right arm pinned under a piece of rubble,
“Hang in there kid. I got ya,” I said throwing the rubble off her. “What happened?”
“T-thanks, and as what happened, a beam much like the one that killed Unicron, but smaller, hit the Ark, the Alicorns even the Princesses tried to shield us, but it was too strong.” Sari said, getting up. “I managed to free the bots you sent, can’t believe Waspinator forgives BB now.”
“Get down to med and see Ratchet. Have everyone gather in the war room and prepare for battle. No time to waste. Now,” I demanded.
“Ed? Where’s James?” Sari said, causing me to look down. “Ed?”
“He’s back on Cybertron Sari, I’m sorry there was no time. Believe me, I would have gotten him but I had the others with me and you were under attack here. But it doesn’t matter anymore. This time we’re the ones that are going on the offensive. I’ll be rotting in Tartarus if I leave James there to be anyone’s play thing,” I said as I transformed into me full demon form Deactivating My Void Link. Sari nodded.
I walked over to the nearest console and activated the com system. -This is Edward we are mounting full scale assault on Cybertron as of now. WE ARE AT WAR!-
-Wheeljack here, everything James wanted built is ready for battle. Let’s show Quintessa what happens when you mess with this family!- Wheeljack said followed by cheers of agreement.
-OPTIMUS GRAND FLEET MOVE OUT!-
As I finished that one sentence, every ship began moving to Cybertron, but we were not the only ones moving, Decepticon warships tried to intercept us, but several Experimental Gunship: Soul Rippers shot them down with several Spiderbots aiding them.
“GET OUT OF THE WAY! FUS RO DAH!” I roared from the stern of the Flagship. I then used my Gravity magic to crush anything that remotely close to our fleet. “GO!”
James Pov
‘Uuuuugh. My head, what hit me?’ I thought regaining consciousness, I noticed a few things off, 1st thing, I felt like I was being dragged, 2nd, my arms are being held by two different things, and 3rd, was the feeling of dread in my chest, I heard someone speak, but it was slightly muffled.
“Hey...slaught….coming too.” it sounded familiar, but I couldn’t place my finger on it. I finally lost the dizziness, and saw both my arms were held by FOC Brawl and Onslaught.
”Hey big guy come on. You need to wake up. We’re in a bad way.”
‘Ed? That you brother?’ I asked in my head, ‘Or are you Stone?’
‘No. It’s me Stone. ‘
‘Stone, what happened, last I remember was TLK Megatron saying night night.’
‘The ugly started to beat the living spark out of you, I was able to hear that there was an attack on the fleet too. And it was very successful but now there is a very mad Alchemist heading it and on its way here.’
“Hey, wake up Prime, you got a appointment with Quintessa.” Onslaught said, punching me. Now I’m awake, and angry, I struggled, but I got another punch to the head as a result. We made it to the main chamber, where the remaining bots were bowing to Quintessa. After I was put in front of Quintessa, chains like the ones from TLK, stabbed into me, holding me in place.
“Ah, I see you’ve brought our guest here, good, now we can begin.” She said,
‘I got your back James but I’ll keep quiet for now. Let’s see if we can get her to talk about what’s she’s planning.
“Yes, Stone you have his back, but who's got yours?” she said in a dark tone. My eyes widen
“How did you know about Stone?!”
“Simple, when I was trying to make you my servant, I knew it was pointless, so I placed a extremely hidden virus in your head, not even your friends knew, it allowed me to see their powers, everything.” She said as several images of past event between me and my friends. Form Sari’s transformation, to Operation Snatch and Grab.
‘Your in for witch. Father is already mad . And wait till Pyro joins him.’
“What the Alchemist and the old man? They won’t be able to stop me, if their brother is in the way.” she said,then faster than lightning, she stabbed her hand into my head, I heard Stones cries of pain. “And without you I can take control of Prime.”
“WITCH! YOU WILL PAY FOR TAKING MY BROTHER AND TRYING TO HARM MY CHILD!” Ed voice rang in my mind. “DID YOU REALLY THINK I WOULD LEAVE HIS MIND UNGUARDED!’
“Your too late, now to keep you out of my Prime’s head.” I heard Ed’s voice become fainter and fainter, until nothing.
“Really, look outside.” Ed said. “Hang in there James. Use the … stone....”
“E-Ed.”
“He can’t hear you anymore,” she said, yanking her hand out with stone in her hand, then she began to crush Stone, “Now to deal with you.”
’Father help James. BACK OFF WITCH!’ Stone yelled sending a surge of magic into me “Sorry I couldn’t … help .. mor..’
Then, Stone was gone. “STONE!!” I shouted, Stones pieces turned to dust, then blew away, but I could have sworn, I saw a tear coming from Stone. I felt the magic Stone gave me manifests something in me, then in a flash, a blue orb launched from my chest, and flew into the distance. “YOU WITCH!! I’lL KILL YOU!!” I shouted in anger.
“You won’t do anything.” she said, putting a finger on my head, I began to feel her control, taking over my mind, I thought of my family, their faces slowly disappearing ‘Ed….Pyro...Nyx..Sari.’ then nothing.
Sari’’s Pov
I watched as me and everyone charged at the Ignition Chamber, Trypticon was keeping his G1 counterpart at bay along with Omega. I looked to Ed. “Ed, is James going to be okay?” I asked.
“No he’s not. I just felt. Stone’s death. Without him James’ mind is no longer shielded from Quintessa. There is one more issue to. She knows of our powers that James has seen and our plans,” Ed said clenching his fist as blood started to drip from it.
I nearly tripped, “W-wait, she can see through James’ eyes?!” I asked blushing incredibly, “You don’t think she saw James proposal to me?!”
“She did. A dark virus how did we not see it sooner. She implanted it during my interference with her. She’s made a big mistake. First she takes James and than she kills me son. I will devour her body and spark,” Ed said in a dark emotionless tone draining the air around him of everything.
“Eeeeep! That was supposed to be secret.” I said, hiding my face, then charged forward with my hammer and fire in my eyes, “I GET FIRST HIT!! NO ONE, AND I MEAN NO ONE INTRUDES ON SOMETHING SPECIAL LIKE THAT!!”
“Best if you stay out of his way for now child,” A voice came from behind me. I turned to see an orange Ethereal human with a horn and wings similar to Ed wife.
“Who are you?” I said in a surprised voice.
“Calm down young one. My name is Faust. I’m Edward’s mother in-law.,” Faust said.
“Mother in law? I didn’t know that.” I said, then thought. ‘Wonder what other strange relatives Ed has.’
“I’m Luna and Celestia’s mother. I died long before Ed married my daughter but we did know each other before that. Ed came to Equestria and we met a few time as a thank you for helping my ponies. Don’t get near him in this state or he will devour your mind, body and soul. He is in Malice state right now. Worry not as my grandson has given you a fighting chance with the last of his magic and it shall be here soon. I must leave for now be careful child,” Faust said fading away,
“Grandson? You mean Stone?” I said, “Wait, who is the help?” but she was gone.
“Hey Sari, we’re at the entrance to the Ignition Chamber, come on.” Ed said, I quickly ran to him.
“Hey you seen Pyro at all, he wasn’t here during the attack.”
“Haven’t seen him, he must have went into his war room, plan another attack or something.” Ed said, killing a Decepticon I wasn’t familiar with, “That was Berserker from TLK universe, crazy con, he will suck out your brain if you let him loose.” Ed said answering my question, “WULD NAH KEST!” Ed shouted going extremely fast.
“Hey wait up!” I yelled, skating after him, we made it to a large room, most likely the Main Chamber, there we saw James on the ground, unconscious, “JAMES!!” me and Ed shouted at the same time, running to him,
“Hey brother, you’re going to be okay,” Ed said, shaking James, “James?”
“How sickenly sweet.” we heard Quintessa said, coming from behind a statue. “If I was human I would get a cavity from all this.”
“YOU!!” Ed shouted standing up. “FUS RO DAH!!”
The thu’um traveled to Quintessa but somehow she blocked it, I looked back to James, “James come on, wake up we need your help.”
Ed crashed next to us, growling he got up, he was about to attack, but a certain princess of the night started firing at Quintessa. “Foul creature! Thou will suffer for harming thy friends!” Luna from this dimension said, flying in with the rest of the ponies, except Nyx and Discord.
“How wonderful, more witnesses to see my new warriors loyalty.” Quintessa said, confusing me, I heard James waking up, I looked to him with a look of relief, that soon turned to a look of horror when I saw the mark on his head, he blasted me back with his blaster, causing me to ram into Ed, I got up to the best of my ability, that shot really hurt.
“James. No no no no NO!!” Ed shouted. I looked to him, and saw his face had a look of horror, and anger as his body started to shake and pulse.
Ed’s form started to grow with each pulse, as he started to give of a low humming noise. Ed had always kept his powers to himself saying that he knew several Magics and various other skills but he never gave details expect for the one he’d showed us. Pyro was the most powerful out of the three of them but I’d never was able to figure out who was stronger out of Ed and James. Just how dangerous can a rampaging demon be if it consume anything that just gets near it just by standing still.
“I’ll… rip… this… planet… to…shreds… and… devour… every… last… living… creature… on… it,” Ed said looking at Quintessa as if she was prey his form starting to turn solid black like when he used his Void link.
‘This is bad, last time he used 40% of that power he was able to shield us from the from Pyro’s clone fight at max power vs light and dark at full power. He said he has a phrase like Pyro to use his full power. Come on Faust where’s the help you promised.’ I thought in fear, then out of nowhere, a voice made itself known,
“Now, now, dear boy, let's not do anything rash now.” The Merchant said appearing before us. He's the help Faust was talking about? “And in case you're wondering, Faust wasn't talking about me, the help is in the Swamp, I'm just here to slightly intervene.”
“Pyro and Silphen are leading the charge in different areas across the planet. While the armies are clashing you and Edward must got the the swamps. That is where you will find Stone’s last bastion,” Faust voice spoke from behind. “Worry not as Somber will soon balance out Malice inside of Edward’s body. I will teleport you two to the outskirts of the city just outside the swamp but this is all I can do. The rest will be up to you child of Primus.”
‘Child of Primus? What is she talking about?’
“You know Quintessa, there is a lot you don’t know, like about me for example.” Pyro said sitting on primes back, his body locked up. “Like for the fact you thought it wise to use the person i see like a son and a brother against me, and thought there would not be any punishment? Or the fact i can make clones of myself, that act like a hive mind. Oh how you are so wrong.” he said hitting prime in the head knocking him out cold.
“Oh am i supposed to be sacred of a old man like you. Who is haunted by his dead wife's-” was all she could get out before she found herself buried in a wall. Pyro’s fist held out steam pouring from it and some static electricity snapping in the room.
“Don’t you even bring them up, your worthless amount of slag. If it were up to me right now, you be in the core of a sun right now, but i’m holding back until james tells me to cut loose, and trust me, witch. You don’t want to see that happen.” His voice coming out demon like. He lifts his hand up. “Just know this, we will meet again, and next time, i’m going to rip you apart atom by atom, and tear whatever you have for a soul and use it as my personal toy!” He said snapping and sending everyone on to his ship once more.
“Ed calm down, anger leads to rash decisions and that leads to trouble and if you don’t take a chill pill.” He grabs him and meets him face to face. “We will see what two demons fighting turns a world into!” his face changed into his dark eco form. He then looked right at me. “Sari get your lover and everyone else stable, we need to rethink our game plan, Again!” he said stomping over to his counsel and resting his elbows on it and placing his hands on his head.
“Sorry brother after seeing what she played on us and that she has seen all that we have talked about, it just made me so angry. And stones death it just-” pyro wrapped ed in a hug. “I know brother i know. But now it time to use my plan.”
“What would that be?” i asked worried.
“Simple sari. Operation Armageddon. We use the full power of my fleet hit whatever she is using to blast us, wipe out any and all anti air guns and orbital guns, start orbital babarments and start sending in heavy troops, vehicles, gundams and everything we, both me and ed, have to pull from. I have all my star destroyers and super star destroyers coming in to help in the fight.”
“Just how big is your fleet!?” I asked scared.
“I could take over a universe in a few hours.” He replied straight faced.
I was stunned and very happy he was on our side. But as i looked at him i could she him shaking ever so slightly. As i watch his face and looked into his eyes i could finally see the storm that was tearing him apart. The one dark and light warned us about, must be ready to rip and tear that witch apart. I could see his hand rub were his locket sat. As he grabbed it i saw faust move around him and wrap her hands around his waist, her head resting on his left shoulder. She wore something different but close to what ed’s faust was wearing.
“In all my years, i have never seen him this angry before. It frightens me, if this is his true rage, then we have only seen the tip of it when we were together.”
“What do you mean?” when i asked that both pyro and ed looked at me.
“Me and pyro have history, but here is not the place to bring it up, i don’t need to be the reason he goes into his rage.”
“You never would be the one to push me to that, my Sunrise.” Pyro said his hands laying on top of hers, his head resting against her’s. She kissed his face before rubbing it more. Ed looked to pyro then to me his eye shifted to its true form and he locked up in shock. He could see her now. “But we can talk about it later, right now we have a battle to win and a war to fight, a witch to mount on a wall, and tear her soul to shreds.”
“Agreed.” Said ed before looking right at pyro. “We are going to talk about it, remember that. I don’t know what history you have with my mother-in-law but both of you have some serious explaining to do master. ”
“I won’t forget.” he replied his hands tracing hers one last time before she faded. I saw ed’s apare behind him and shake her head, she mouthed to me, different faust. She rolled her eyes before fading.
“I’m holding you to it. Now Quintessa You think you know all we have then how about this,” Ed said pointing the sky as a familiar looking giant golden gate appeared opening up to let several of mechs, ship, destroyer, and various other space ships through bolstering our numbers even further. “Sari the watch James has, it has an emergency teleport rune on it. it will take you to the ship. Pyro and I will be right behind you should you use it.”
“I will thank you ed.” I said.
“Let’s all get suited up, we are going to do a orbital drop, using the fire fight as a distraction and to keep her looking up, me and sari are going after the troops up top and drawing her out to face me and her on the main battlefield. Ed and prime are going to the core. Church and his shards are going to join you, acting as backup heavy hitters, and nimble assassins. Your job is to free primus, by any means necessary.”
“Everyone’s suits are custom made using my designs. Ed’s can use his alchemy though, it acting as a channel. Sari yours is made to take levels me and ed can output, get back up and dish it back out. Prime yours is a powerlink build. Each giving you a much needed boost in armor and weapons, you will make my onslaught suit of armor look like a peashooter. Mine is simple, my base armor. The rest of my suits are going to be on the battle fighting. As for talking ed once the war is done and we return to your world, we will talk, best your girls hear about it as well. I not fully sure just yet, but a spot in my gut says its what my brain is putting together.” He was serious throughout the brief. Once he started talking to ed, his face took on a pained look, like whatever was there was painful. How does he know ed’s faust, what history do they have, what secrets does this man have? Were they lovers, teacher to her, met once and have found each other once more, i need to know. It’s just like the shows i used to watch.
“I’ll hear a run down first then I’ll decide if I want to let the the other hear it,” Ed said a bit of an annoyance in his eye aimed at Pyro.
“Sigh, i think i may have your met world’s faust before, i can’t confirm it right now, but something in my gut tells me I’m right. Plus, Faust seemed to know me all to well.” he looked lost in his head. I feel sorry for him, they must have a past, he just doesn’t remember it. “Or she is being a troll, either one. I hate not being able to remember right.” Both appeared behind him giggling. Ed’s faust moved over to Ed’s ear and said something, he locked up before blushing, embarrassed he said sorry to pyro. Now able to look at faust behind pyro i could see what they were wearing where close to what ed’s but still different. Now i feel like a dork for thinking they were lovers, teacher and maybe later friend.
“She was being herself Pyro. Don’t worry about it and you don’t know my mother-in-law in any way shape or form. Displaced never came to my Equus before I was woken up. It was still cut off from others for most of the time I lived there,” Ed said as he looked behind Pyro.
“Which is true Ed, but we faust’s have our meetings and well, the faust’s pyro has been with speak a lot, and i got to say ed, i know your faust see’s her late husband in my lover. But he is mine, this can be spoken of later, you both have a battle to win still.” she said before fading away. Ed looked to pyro who rolled his eyes and said “women, can’t live without them.”
“So basically there’s only-” a blaster went off, and I found myself back on the ground, clutching a bullet wound on my stomach, I looked up to see James awake, and his eyes holding nothing but the promise of death.
“Do not think you can change me back like you did with the others, my queen has added shielding to my mind,” james said, transforming into his shadow Prime form, “So i am immune to your little gauntlets.” he was about to fire again when he found himself pushed against the wall, i looked to the Merchant and saw a slight distortion coming from his hand.
“Took your sweet time, old friend. Now do you mind clearing up this so i can rest and go enjoy a full night of adult fun.” Pyro said looking to the merchet his face exhausted and tired. I’ve only once seen that face and it was when he and ed went at each other training. He turned to me and held out his hand. “Cure.” he said while growing more tired. As i healed he turned back to the merchet and placed a hand on his shoulders, “Purge whatever she did to him and whatever darkness that’s in him, i’m to old for this scrap.” he walked over to his suit grabbed a energy drink he had sitting there and drank it. He was back to being lost all over again. Ed rushed to my side and made sure i was healing right. He turned back to pyro but saw pyro was not tuned in at all anymore. His eyes were closed and he seemed to be snoring ever so lightly. We all heard the merchet chuckle.
“Alive for 7 million years, killer of 7 universers, defender of the people, soldier, lover, and king. And yet his human side still gets tired, oh zackery, never change my good friend.” he said looking right at him before turning back to james. “Now then, what to do about you and the trouble your in?”
All james did was growled, “How about freeing you, hmm? Yes that should do nicely.” a white wave was sent at James, but it was repeled back by a black aura, “Ah, so Quintessa has a shield, oh well, not much help here guys, looks you’re on your own. Bye!” and in a flash he was gone, we just stood there, shocked,
“What a troll.” Was all everyone said together.
“I’ll kill the Merchant if it’s the last thing I do, freaking jerk,” James said, the red aura glowing brighter,
“So, now what?” I asked,
“We could separate the two and let them fight it out to decide who should use the body.” Said to everyone's surprise Discord. He looked on at james while taping his arms together in thought.
“Well, out with it man!” I said, ”What do you mean seperate the two? You mean let James fight Quintessa in this state?”
“No rip this dark self from james and let them fight and at the end see who wins, or let pyro wipe the loser the moment his is pulled out, which ever one.” discord said filing his nails.
“Try to seperate me? How dense are you? This form you see is my Shadow Prime from, it allows me to use Shadow Magic, and the Shadow died, even if he was in my head, my queen would have terminated him,”
“And yet you don’t see the big picture my boy, you’re a coin, james is heads, you’re tails, and just like any coin, it can be split.”
“It’s this or let Ed do it, and trust me he won’t let you survive it. Pyro is already steps away from nuking your queen from here and ripping her apart atom from atom. And i know he wants to.”
“Sure, if he can get close to her, ever heard of the Pokemon move Double Team?”
“Oh please boy, where do you think pyro gets his afterimage or clone tricks from?”
“Well, let’s just say, you have a clone.” then James disappeared, and the ship rocked, I looked out the window to see Trypticon blasting US.
“Why is Trypticon shooting us?!” Ratchet said, then I noticed the black mist coming from his eyes, and James standing on his head,
“Sari.” said pyro eyes closed not even moving at all. “Since you and james are a couple, it means you can give commands to me as much as james can, so i will ask you here and now. Stay calm, or go off the rails and show why i’m a old king.” he said opening them his eyes where just black orbs.
“Stay calm, you can go out on Quintessa if we get my future husband back, when we do, I get first hit.”
“When i go out and face him i’m going to punch him over and over while yelling, we told you so.”
“Are you two forgetting about Stone last effort?” Ed asked look to Cybertron still visibly ticked.
“No i’m not ed, but right now i’m agreeing with rage, it's time to show why i don’t get into wars anymore.”
“FEEL THE BURN OF MY LAS- AAAGH!!” Trypticon was about to say, when a black fist hit, looking to the owner of the fist, I saw it was a titan, with big guns.
“FOC Metroplex.” Ironhide said.
“Now then ed, let's use susanoo and help him. I’m getting tired and angry.”
“I thought you’d never ask. I’m going to tear through ever con with my bare hands till the Cybertron’s ground is soaked in energon. I will make them PAY!”
“Do not continue forth, Cybertron, is lost, we must regroup and plan another attack, Maximous is waiting on Equus.” Metroplex said, as several black tendrils began slicing him,
“If we could we would, now me and ed are ready to cut lose for a moment. And as it stands.” he said his susanoo’s arm forming and grabbing one of the tendrils. “I’m really getting angry with this witch.” he said ripping it apart.
A large beam erupted from Cybertron, nearly hitting us, “Warning shot, come any closer, and my queen will kill you all, and don’t think you are immune to Primus’ energy, with the Allspark, and the Matrix, this beam will kill you instantly.”
“I’M DONE WAITING!” Ed roared jumping into the battle. “POINT ME TO THE CORE AND STAY OUT OF MY WAY!”
“SAME HERE ED, AIM FOR WHERE THAT SHOT CAME FROM, FIRE EVERYTHING AT IT!”
Every ship began firing, but they stopped halfway when a blue energy washed over them, then the planet began to transform. Into Primus.
“You have been warned, SHADOW ABSORPTION!!” James yelled, every single shadow even Trypticon began morphing into James, but instead of the beast we saw, it was much more terrifying, his arms split into multiple clawed ones, two of them had jaw like tri-claw, his wings became more demonic, his head transforming into that of a dragon, except evil looking, Venom began to ooze all over him, form a shield, like a Flood from Halo, most of Trypticons features were on him, such as the tail, “DEMON PRIME!!”
“Ed, together, Mass teleportation. We need to back off and both go at this without others around us.”
“Right. I’m really starting to think James thinks he can show us up in terms of power. Pyro,” Ed snarked.
“Very true ed, but let's get everyone out of here this is getting to our levels of danger.”
“Guys be careful, if James is going all out, it means he might be too far gone to save him.” Discord said, “We have to pull back, most of our forces can’t be fixed from offline, and not only that, if we fight him in this state, we will be killed.”
“At this point he’ll be lucky if there’s anything left of him. I’ve already died once not fun.”Ed looked to Pyro.
“We will be, as for james, i might leave him on near death while fighting. Ed the queen is yours to kill, i know she is going to use primus on us and i might be the only one to hold him back for a few hours.” he said looking to the demon that was his brother figure.
“At this point it’s either I go to the core or I kill every living thing on this world. Somber is having a hard time keeping Malice in check as is. Ground teams need to get back to the ship.” Ed said over his com.
I ran to the nearest hatch, and flew out to James, hearing Ed and Pyro on my comm.
“All fleets and ground troops ready for mass teleportation we are pulling back and using nuke option. I repeat big powers are on the field now.”
-No you are not, I know James, if you use that nuke, he will only get stronger, until he finds another power booster, like a sun, if you use that, he will be unstoppable, James told me about this form, I can beat it.-
-Sari if your going to try getting through to him go for it, but should he harm you, he won’t see the blade till his arm is gone. over- pyro sent back.
-Will do- I reached James, his face had a look of pure evil,
-10 minutes Sari. You have just 10 minutes to get through to him. If you can’t then I using a massive black hole one the entire planet, James included-
-Got it.-
“Ah, Sari, have you accepted defeat and wish to join Quintessa?” he said in that demonic tone.
“No, I’m here to help you, please, don’t do this,”
“Ahaha, if you think I will just surrender like that then-”
“Please my love, come back to the light, don’t do this,” I said with tears forming,
-gag me- pyro said over coms.
-you were like that at one point to- faust
-We all were- Ed added.
James just stood there, unmoving, I thought he might have been battling the evil, I was so wrong, he grabbed me in his massive hand. I screamed in pain as he began to crush me.
“DID YOU REALLY THINK, I WOULD JUST GO BACK JUST LIKE THAT?! HOW PATHETIC!! I WILL CRUSH YOU ALL TO OBLIVION!!” he yelled, and many weapons formed on him, and he fired everything, roaring at the same time,
“ENOUGH! GIANT WRATH!” Ed yelled as a massive explosion of light engulfed James.
“ED NO!! YOU’RE JUST GIVING HIM MORE POWER!!” I shouted,
-The light strips away the shadows to reveal where he is on Triptycon’s body Sari. Find him before I decided to use a more dangerous spell. 8 minutes left.-
“James please! STOP!” I yelled but he kept up his attack, as if nothing happened, he tightened his grip, his draconic face looking at me, I lowered my head, “Fine you win, but know this.” I looked back at him, “I will never stop loving you, even if you kill me, I will always love you.”
His weapons stopped firing, he just stared, his eyes began to flicker from red to blue, then finally, it stayed on blue, “And I, will never stop loving you Sari, even when controlled, I will not stop, you are the love of my life.”
I smiled, tears falling down my face, the weapons on him disappeared, “Welcome back James,” but the happy moment was ruined when a large beam blasted right through James’ left shoulder, he screeched in pain, turning around we saw it was Primus who fired that shot.
“So that’s why she wanted the Allspark. Should’ve guessed. With it you don’t need the omega lock or keys but she still needed James because he had the Matrix,” Ed said floating down next to me using a teleport to bring me next to him.
“Ed, take everyone and leave the area, I still feel Quintessa trying to control me, go, I will not repeat myself.” James said, his eyes flickering.
“Hang in there James. We be back.,” Ed says as he teleports us back to the swamps. “I think we should follow Faust in there. Something tells me we’ll find our help somewhere in these swamps Sari. Thing is only you can guide us there.”
We felt the ground shake as James and Primus brawled, I looked to Ed confused, “What do you mean only I can lead us there? I don’t know where it is. And Faust, what’s with the whole Child of Primus?”
“You are not born solely of Earth young one. Cybertron flows through you just as much if not more so. Cybertron was once an organic planet no matter the timeline. Only one born of both organic and Cybertronian origins can navigate these swamps to find the secret sanctuary with in them. I can do no more for you and Ed will be your guard. Good Luck and trust your spark,” Faust voice spoke to us.
“She used a lot of whatever she had earlier. We won’t be able to speak with her for awhile. You heard her Sari. Lead on.” Ed gestured to the swamp.
“Alright, let’s go,” I said as we began to walk through the swamp, a flash appeared before us, and the Main 6 and princesses were here, again. “Seriously? It’s dangerous here,”
“It’s even more dangerous in space with two planet sized titans duking it out.” Rainbow Dash said.
“Wanna make it four?” Ed said behind us. “I can always have the dreadnoughts change into humanoid mode.”
“No Ed, keep your ships back for now, besides, something’s telling me we may need their help, unfortunately,” I said, I heard slight whispers, telling me where to go, “This way.” we continued walking, until we made to a strange door, it had weird glyphs that look Cybertronian, but much more ancient, there were 13 in total
“Amazing, this appears to be a housing of some sort.” Sparkle said,
“It’s a sanctuary and a tomb. I know this place from a short series from my homeworld. I can also sense the last of my son’s magic coming from with in,” Ed said with a angry look in his eye.
“Same….here.” I said, feeling a weird energy, I raised my hand up, and pressed a symbol, it glowed, I did the same with the other symbols, until finally the door vanished, and dark hallway was before us.
“Be careful Sari. I won’t lose someone else in the same day,” Ed say pulling his lightsaber from his arm and igniting it. “Take it.” He said hold the blade’s hilt out to me.
I grabbed it, it changing size to fit my Cybertronian stature “Thanks, I guess I go alone huh?” I asked,
“Only if you want. Would does your heart say?” Ed asked as he tuned to look at the burning skies. “No matter how many times I see this sight I never get used to it.” Ed then sat down on the ground and started to mediate.
“I think I should go alone.” I said,
“Whoa whoa! We’re going with you, you may need help.” RD said flying in front of me, the rest of the ponies agreeing.
“No, you stay here, I -” a warbled screech was heard behind us, we looked and saw a least a hive of Insecticons from every universe, “Oh great, Ed, you think you can -” a green orb of some sort flew at a Insecticon, they both flew back, then disappeared, and landing front of us was the Iron Giant.
“What in tarnation?!” Aj shouted.
“Backup courtesy of James. Go now Sari. Only use that saber to defend and not to take. Girls get in the tomb. You’ll only be in the way at this point,” Ed said getting up as strange marks formed on his face.
“Right, Iron Giant, activate defense mode!” I shouted, leading the ponies inside,
“Acknowledge!” he said, his body transforming, he began blasting the bugs left and right, every weapon he has tore through them.
“Sempo: Crystalize Tsunami!” Ed say weaving hand signs then sending a wall of what at the insecticons incassing them in crystal. “Let’s go before more show up. Giant will distract any others that show up. I really want to see what my son gave his to give us a fighting chance with.”
The door appeared, blocking any bug from getting in, I just hope Giant will be fine, we felt the ground rumble again. ‘Oh James, please be okay.’ I thought.
“Man, that prime is nothing but trouble, I mean he’s bringing nothing but pain and destruction. I can’t believe he went evil, just goes to show, never trust him.” Luna said, I sent her a little shock,
“First of all, he never joined Quintessa, he was under her control, second, talk about my future husband like that, I will hunt you down for eternity. Got it.” I said, Luna nodded, I sighed, “Sorry, but he was under mind control, he couldn’t help himself, let’s just go.” we began walking in silence.
“Your race’s xenophobia has been the downfall of many of mine Luna. So many good beings walk the path of revenge for your actions upon them. While I can’t say I completely agree with them I can’t say their action aren’t completely unjustified either. You ponies judge before you ask or are even willing to ask. ‘Oh it’s strong and could be a threat let’s not talk and go ahead and seal it away without getting to know it or even ask if it is a he or she. Are you even willing to ask for its names. Makes me sick. Why do you think I hold out on judging someone until I know their name. James was in the right for what he did to you and your sister after what you did to him. And now he’s putting his life on the line to protect worlds. One that would have shunned him away and all you can do is degrade a good soul who has saved your ponies many times over.”Ed paused for a minute and looked to Luna who was about to make a reamark and Ed could tell it was about him and his Luna but before she could Ed continued. “I don’t want to hear it especially from you and not about my wife. Yes you are embodiments stemming from an original but that doesn’t make you the same person. I love my wife and I love Tia almost as much but you need to show a lot more compassion for the one defending your home when no one even bothered to ask him too and for the girl who loves him.”
We eventually made it to a small room of some sorts, it had the same glyphs like the outside, the ponies stared in awe, but I was focused on something else, mainly the figure standing in the shadows, his red eyes staring at us.
“Good, you’ve arrived. I’ve been waiting,” the figure spoke, coming out of the shadows to reveal himself,
“Um, who’s he?” RD asked,
“His name is Optimus Primal, the Beast Wars version of Optimus Prime, so you must be the last of Stone’s power.” I said, to which Primal nodded
“Yes, when Stone was about to be crushed, he knew that Jame’ mind would be unguarded, so he gave us a physical bodies.”
“Us?” Twilight asked,
“Yes us,” we looked to the other doorway and saw the other versions of Optimus Prime, TLK Prime, TFP Optimus, FOC Optimus and the Optimus from my universe,
“We were sent here in order for us not to be controlled by Quintessa,” Tfp Optimus said, “We’ve been in here for quite some time, we have decided to explore while one would stay here in case somebody would come here,”
“Nice to know my son was able to give us a fighting chance to the last of his power. That witch is gonna pay for everything she’s done. I swear on Stone’s grave that I will have her soul,”Ed said looking at the counsel of Primes. “You said you’ve here a while. What've you found in that time?”
“We’ve found multiple pathways, some of them lead to armories of each of the 13, even rooms full of Predacons, beasts that are loyal to the Primes, so we don’t have to worry about them,” Tfa Prime said, “We also found a path that leads to Cybertron’s core.”
“The core is my objective. I can also tell that’s where you guys are gonna be the most exposed. Our little friend is down there. It’s how she’s controlling Primus without the Matrix. Question is how can I shield all of your minds and wake big man up without using more than 40% of my power,” Ed looked around again.
“We figured that, we also saw how she’s controlling him, she has wires hooked up to him, every part of her body is covered in them, it’s sickening.” FOC Op said, “We also thought of that, so we had Predacons surround her, in stealth, they cannot be controlled, the Primes must have added a enhanced shielding on their minds, so they will disconnect her.”
“Hmm…,”Ed began to think. “Take us there now. I can use my alchemy to connect to one and copy it’s program or at least connection you guys, to them creating a type of hive mine shield from Quintessa. I’ll leave getting the wires from Primus up to you after I get into the core reactor.”
“Guys, wait,” I said, getting everyone’s attention, “Do you hear that?” all there was was silence.
“Uh, I don’t hear anything.” Rarity said,
“Exactly, no rumbling, no explosions, and has anyone noticed the lack of movement on the ground?”
“The fight has stopped. Which means someone is down or we’re in a space outside of the normal dimension,” Ed said “I’m not gonna like our options of its the first one.”
“Me neither, I just hope James won.” I said, “Let’s get to that core, and get rid of Quintessa for good.”
“No she’s still in the core. I know she won’t take the risk coming out of her little hidey hole with three other Displaced she has no way to try and control. I’m going to need those Predacons now. We’re spread too thin and only me or Pyro can take on Jame in a head on fight. Even his giant demon form. Let’s get moving,” Ed said making a fist.
“On it.” FOC Optimus said, pressing two finger to the side of his head.brb
“Sari, you’re in front. I’m sorry to make do this but your the only one who can let us use the doors in this place. Keep my saber at the ready to,” Ed says to the Prime’s again.
“Right,” I said, and we began to walk down the path to the core. A couple of Predacons decided to join us, if your wondering who they are, names are Sky Stalker,
And Grimwing
“Come here for a second please. Unfortunately alchemy requires a physical link,” Ed says placing his hands on either of the Predacons while using his shadow to touch all of the other Cybertronians. “Hold still, Telepathy Mind Link.” Ed instantly used something to give us the mind guard of the Predacons.
“Thanks,” Grimwing said, his voice slightly screechy.
“Don’t mention it. Nice network you guys have to,” Ed says moving to the back of the group.
“Thanks, the Elders told us in case they don’t return, we are to dig to the Ancient One, we had made several tunnels before Elder Megatronus came to us, asking us to help overthrow the other Elders.” Sky Stalker said, “We refused, thus began the Battle of Predacons, Predacons vs Megatronus, he had slayed many of us, but we managed to drive him away, after that, we had 5 tunnels, now we have many.”
“How many were there before that meany Megatronus?” Flutters asked
“We had a vast number, one hundred thousand, now, we are merely 500 hundred,” Grimwing said in a sad tone.
“Predacons were once the dominant Cybertronians on this planet. I would have loved to have been able to see their society. Animals can be so much more than mere beasts. Ponies are an example of this in many ways. I mean no offense to any of you. But the world I came from was always at its own throat. So much so that I never cared what happened to it other than what happened to my family. Human can be horrible creatures and yet beautiful at the same time,” Ed said looking around. “Sorry, get a let philosophical at times.”
“It’s fine, but quiet down now, we’re at the core, or somewhat close to it.” I said, looking over the cliff that hangs over the core, I could see various Decepticons, from G1 to the Bayverse, I even saw combiners, G1 Bruticus, Devastator, Menasor, Bayverse Devastator, and FOC Bruticus, “Man, that’s a lot of combiners, Grimwing, are the Predacons in position?” I asked Grimwing,
He nodded, “Yes, they are, they are waiting for the signal.”
-This is Ed to planet techs. We made it to the core are the Tectonic amps set up?- Ed whispered into his com.
-Team A here all done with what we could manage to throw together in the scrap mess of a fight.-
-What’s the status on James? Is he alright?-I asked.
-He’s...been defeated, he changed back, and is flying to your position, Trypticon is heavily damaged, so he may not help against G1 Trypticon, but Metroplex is on his way, Maximous is staying on Equus, in case any cons try to take over, the bots on Space Alpha are on their way as well.-
“Question is, is he still being controlled or not?” Celestia asked in a scoff.
“I’m really starting to get fed up with the holy than thou attitude from you Princesses. Even the embodiments of the Elements accept James but you still don’t. Not even my own sister is against people as much as you,” Ed said annoyed.
“Um, actually, only me and Pinkie accept him, the others don’t voice it, but they don’t trust James as much.” Fluttershy said.
“Sorry Fluttershy but I meant the Alicorns of Harmony. I also know that the only reason you don’t incaes me, Pyro, James, and Silphen in stone is cause they won’t let you,” Ed added.
“Oh, but umm, where are the Alicorns?” she asked, now that she mention it, I haven’t seen them since the Ark started taking fire.
“Not for me to say. They do what the want when they want. You guys better hope they’re willing to forgive you for not supporting their friend and Chosen protector of your world,” Ed says looking to me. “We’re ready to do this on your command Sari.”
“Alright let’s-wait look!” I pointed to a sphere, zooming in with my optics, I saw it was the Alicorns, and they seemed to be drained of energy, “What the heck, just great, the Alicorns got captured.”
“It looks like I might not have much of a choice. In the end I’ll have use more of the Void’s power than I had before,” Ed says placing his hand on his chest.
“Oh really brother.” we heard, before we were blasted off the cliff. We all landed on the ground, hard, I was dizzy from the fall and everything sounded muffled, I just laid there, I could see Ed, the Primes, and Predacons fighting, slowly getting up I heard Ed talking to me, but it was too muffled to barely make out. I finally regained my bearing to see Ed and James facing each other.
“You’d really hurt the girl you care for James. Sari, hang in there,” Ed says standing up to face James.
“Like I care anymore. Besides, try to hurt me and Luna get it.” James said holding Luna with his ax at her neck, “So surrender. Now!”
“I can see now why now the Keyblade never accepted you as a bearer. Your heart is locked in a cage of Darkness that was set up by one being and one being alone. Isn’t that right Shadow.” Ed says in anger.
“Heh, your right and wrong Ed, I did kill the Shadow after I absorbed most of his energy. So no, not the Shadow, but James. Now either surrender, or the moon will have no princess to control it anymore.” James said, bringing the blade closer to her neck.
“Hehehe.hahahahaHAAAAA.The moon doesn't glow beneath the trees
Oh, heartless nature of transience
Yet, I love the heartlessness and transience deeply
Fire discriminates, neither against good nor evil as it burns and purifies in ferocious mercy
Let the cremation begin
With red hands and black deeds damning me
Red hands feed my rage
By the sound of a thousand horns I come
Black deeds fuel my resolve for I know that they must be done
They'll take my breath but not my deeds
Before they come and dig this grave
They'll see my face in every dream
All must die and return to dust and bone
My body will become a serpent with its mouth wide open, and level everything.
Insatiable, endless emptiness
The trumpets blare and bring the moment of judgement
None in this world will live forever
Not even time itself can escape
The inescapable deeds of life as declared by God
Now open the door to the end and the start
Come forth from Nothingness and grant me everything
I am infinite and yet I end
For I am the Oroborus
Void Link 50%! SHOW THEM TRUTH”
It the next moment everyone was behind me and in front of James was an ink black form with Dust flaking off its body. “Void Link 50%.”
“Ah, I see things are about to get a little intense.” James said that last word with glee, his other hand transforming into another Fusion Ax. But what Ed said, made my heart stop.
“You child are not facing Edward. I am Truth. Or at least the corporeal manifestation through Allen’s body.”
“Truth! As in the Void Dweller Truth?! Well, I guess this calls for the big guns.” James said, as black tendrils launched from his back and latched onto the Core, and blue energy began to flow into James. “Urgh, God Energy, now this is something I can use to fight.”
“PRIME!! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?! STOP THAT AT ONCE!!!” Quintessa shouted. “You are draining me as well! Absorb the foolish Alicorns! They still have enough energy in them!”
“Whatever.” James said, and I watched in horror as the tenderills detached from the core, and latched onto the Alicorns. They screamed in pain, their energy transferring into James.
‘No, James no,’ I thought in sadness,
“MONSTER!!!” Celestia shouted, charging, but didn’t get far when a gun shot was heard,
“No interferences from you lower ones,” Truth says as we see the blast from turn to dust in mid air.” Unluckily for me but luckily for you, Allen saw it fit to limit me to 50% of the power he has access to at this time or I would’ve end this already by deconstructing this whole place. Have you ever question why Allen never relies on his true power. He’s scared of what happens, but if I’m here that means he doesn’t care as long as his friends and family are safe.”
In another blink of the alicorns we’re detached from James and with us. Quintessa now had holes riddled through her body and was on the floor gagging. In front of me was the Allspark and floating in front of me was the blackened figure of Ed/Truth.
“One thing I can’t stand is taking without giving. Stay here little ponies. I must discuss things with the Displaced now,” Truth said and was then instantly in front of James again. “You took power that is not yours and you must pay the price. The witch will continue to pay as she feels pain of the of my wrath.”
James and Quintessa were immobilized in place by strange glowing circles and symbols behind them. While James also had the heads of wolves over his hands. In the next moment a set of great Marble Doors appeared behind James, Quintessa, and all of us. The doors opened to reveal an endless blackness and then a giant vertical opened inside it. Then a bunch of shadowy hands came out and pulled us all into the gates. In the next moment I was waking up on the floor of and endless expanse of nothing but white. After I regained my composure I looked around to see a my group behind me and James and the others in front like in the Ignition Chamber but instead of the blackened Ed I now saw a white dusty figure with an erie toothy mouth and a stranger standing next to it wearing a grey trench coat, red shirt, black pants and boots. These two were standing in front of James, still immobile and struggling to try and get free with what remained of Quintessa floating next to him. They were about to start speaking about what to do. My enhanced hearing let me listen in.
“Struggle all you want to James those circles are made from all form magic, alchemy, and alchemagic to cancel, nullify, and negate all forms magic and energy. While those wolves are Hati and Skoll of from Norse mythology. Their fangs are feared by the gods as these wolves can even kill and feast upon them.You may be a strong Displaced but that doesn’t mean your on par with a Void Dweller. Your no where near the level of power you need to face Allen or Pyro in a real fight, let alone me. Even with that power you’ve stolen. Speaking of which,” The figure said as more strange circles swarmed around and over James collecting balls of magic and energy from his body. “Now these will need to go back to where they belong shortly. Now you will have pay the price for your actions young Prime.”
We then heard footsteps, looking over to the source, I saw who it was, “J-James?” indeed, the figure walking towards us, was a uncorrupted version of James, he walked pat us, and towards the other James,
“So, you are still alive hmm? I thought I got rid of you the moment I transfered my essence into you.” the other James said, but his voice changing into Quintessas, “Well, now that I am captured, what are you planning on doing?”
James just stood there, staring blankly at Quintessa, his fist slowly closed, then he punched the Black Prime, “That’s for causing my friends and family great pain!!” another punch, this time to the gut, “This for having me nearly kill Sari!!” a blow to the face knocked the faceplate off.
“Enough child. You are in my world and must play by my rules,” The white figure said. “For those Who don’t know I am Truth. And you are in my area of the void and can’t leave until I say unless you can open your own Gates Of Truth.”
“No one needs to tick him off please,” Said the man in the grey coat. “I;m Allen or Ed now. This is what I looked like before being Displaced.”
James just looked at everyone, he sighed and walked two steps before turning around punching Quintessa again, then he walked past me, his head down. I placed a hand on his shoulder, stopping him, “I used the last of my energy to seperate myself from Quintessa, and to form this projection of myself, when you are out, I will be too weak to fight, but still have enough strength to get off Cybertron,” he said, his form flickering, “Goodbye for now.”
“The war is over you have the Allspark at you feet girl. As for you young Displaced want to make a deal?” Truth asked with is toothy grin. “In exchange for the evil one I can give you a new form.”
“A new form? What kind of new form?” James asked, his form flickering slightly.
“One within set parameters of the one you're giving. My realm works in tandem with the Law of Equivalent Exchange. You gain nothing but a body with what was given up. Your abilities will be reset and reversed thou. No more shadows,” Truth grinned
“My body is separated from Quintessa, she has a dark version of me, and I have this version, the good version, and if my powers reset, I do not care, so no thanks on that body, maybe some other time. But you can keep Quintessa.” James said,
“That’s not how it works child. You’re here because I brought you here and you don’t leave until a Gate is opened. Allen is the only one who can other them me unless you pay the toll. You have no body right now. You exist by my good graces. She stays here in this form a this is what I want. If you are willing to give up you form for another you go home with your friends and lover while she stay.” Truth snickered.
“James trust me Truth is truth. I hate to admit it but there is no better outcome. Don’t forget that Pyro and I can always make you a better body. As for Quentissa, there’s nothing I can as she’s in your body and Truth is the one who brought us all here,” Allen said setting down on the floor.
James seemed to go into thought.
James Pov
In case if you’re wondering, how the heck am I here, well that’s a story for another time, so basically, the body I have is currently nothing, and if I accept the the little trade, I get a new body and I get to go home, and Quintessa will probably suffer who knows how many torture things Truth knows, win win scenario, I looked to Truth, “Alright, I accept,”
“The deal is struck,” Truth said as another pair of marble gates appeared behind me as I looked they had the Autobot symbol opened and a giant eye looked at me. “Thank you for the dark soul. Have a nice Journey and enjoy being able to use alchemy without circles. As well as being one of my avatars. Should you want to speak simply perform human or living transmutation.”
“You Quintessa I’m going to make pay for what you did to my son. First I’ll start dissecting you while you still awake,” Allen said walking over to the other bot with no life in his eyes.
“Hey maybe send us home first, my little ponies need their princesses,” Celestia said, with Luna nodding. “Besides, I don’t think we can handle anymore death.” she pointed to the now green Main 6 and Alicorns.
“Goodbye Ponies and Bots. This time it will leave you with a headache,” Truth said snapping its finger and in the next moment more gates opened pulling everyone through them sending us back to Cybertron.
To say it look like a tornado went through here, it was worse, Decepticons were currently running from Predacons, surprisingly, to me at least, the Iron Giant ordering Insecticons to help said Predacons, and an entire Cybran and Autobot army plowing through cons. I looked to the others. “Okay, what the heck happened while I was trapped within my own mind?”
Sari looked at me, and her eyes widen, “Wow, nice color.” she said, confused I looked down to see white, white and more white, oh wait, there’s some color, sort of.
“Looks like the back up Stone gave us turned the war in our favor,” Ed said coming from his Gate. “Nice look their big man how you feeling?”
“Thanks, I’m just glad I get to keep the G1 look,” I said,
“A new body calls for a new name, how about Nova Prime?” Pinkie said, “Or maybe Celestial Prime, or maybe-” a hoof managed to stop Pinkie from going any further with the names.
“Pinkie, it’s his body, he chooses the name,” Aj said,
“I’m just going to stick with Optimus Prime,” I said,
“Here James,” Ed said holding out a tome to me.”This has all your old magical knowledge in it. I use a wind read spell to condense it down for an ease read. It be like Skyrim in an instant you’ll have your magic back. Oh look Pyros here.”
“Never thought i be taking crushed con’s out of boots before.” he said walking over to the group, he was covered in energon and was bleeding as well. His face seemed to have a few new scars on it and he did have a very noticeable limp now.
“Hey you alright brother?” I asked,
“Healing factor and rings are overclocked, doing what they can, magic is drained and tectionaly i should be in a coma, but i’m still walking. Even if my leg is broken.” he said stopping and rubbing his chest.
“Want a alchestry session?” Ed asked. “I don’t think I’ll need to wake up Primus now seeing as how we have the Allspark.”
“I should be fine guys, just need a few hours to refill and let the rings calm back down. But you mind seeing if light and dark are nearby, because the fast i can get to my ship and sleep the better.” he said falling down his cybernetic limb blasting apart. “God i’m a mess.”
“Ai, that’s got to hurt, here let me use my, oh wait, got to red the book first,” I said,
“Just find the guys, i need to rest.” he said now rolling over on his back.
“I found brought them. Stupid void dweller channeling link. My body is still juiced from that link. I need to burn it off this excess energy,” Ed snarked.
“Take it out on G1 Trypticon over there, hey is that a titan Scorponok?” I asked pointing over to the two titans that are giving Metroplex, Omega, and Trypticon a hard time.
“I’m really tired of the fighting so I think I’ll just use the excess void energy to destroy the titan Scorponok,” Ed huffed make a ball of black energy in his hand and then blasting it into the titan’s chest.
“How do you think we feel.” said the twins lifting the now sleeping pyro on their shoulders. “We run out of energy like everyone else. Boss is lucky he still has muscle memory.”
“Well, I guess I get Trypticon,” I said pressing a finger to my commlink, and a giant beam hit Trypticon in the head, killing him. “Had that Nova Cannon built back on the Ark,”
SKRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOONNNNKKK
“Oh good, my beasts are here,” I said, watching as the selected beasts finally showed up, helping kill some Cons.
“Fire Dragon’s ROAR!!” shouted Natsu, coming from a nearby wreckage,
“Ah, that’s the secret beast, Natsu Dragneel.” I said pointing at the Dragon Slayer, who was currently chasing a Con, shouting insults.
“Where’s Gajeel? Wait bad idea he’d eat the planet,” Ed laughed. “I forgot I could do that too.”
“YOU’RE DARN RIGHT I WOULD!! THIS STUFF IS THE BOMB!!” said Gajeel, with a mouth full of Decepticon armor, “And don’t worry, not gonna eat the planet, I would probably take a whole hundred years.”
Ed looked at me, a deadpan expression on his face, “What?”
“I didn't say anything. Air eater,” Ed said under his breath as he looked away. “Let’s get to the ship and rest for a bit.”
A teleport circle appeared under us and then we were back on the ship.
“Ah, it feels good to just unwind from a very stressful battle.” I said sitting in a chair, leaning back. Sari came over and sat in my lap, snuggling up to me, “Alright everyone, who votes going back home?” I asked placing a hand on Saris back, everyone said aye at once. “Alright let’s go home, I’m sure Predaking can handle Cybertron for a bit,” then we blasted off for Equus.
