//------------------------------// // Making Friends // Story: TRANSFORMERS: Darkness Rises // by TheClownPrinceofCrime //------------------------------// Grimlock and the girls drove around town to bring them to their homes earlier because of the Decepticon incident from earlier. While he was driving in his semi-truck mode, the girls were very curious about his origin, Cybertron, and wanted to get to know him more. Pinkie was incessantly asking Grimlock a barrage of questions including random ones. “Do you have cakes on Cybertron? Parties? Do you love parties? What is your favorite color? Ohh, and do you like dinosaurs? Do you watch movies? Transformers-related? Or—“ Pinkie kept asking none stop which exceedingly annoyed Grimlock. He could not stand her jubilant behavior. “Oh dear Primus, please just shut up already!! You’re annoying me already!!” he internally whined. “Pinkie! Stop bombarding him with questions!” Twilight scolded. “Finally! Thank you!” Grimlock said in his head relieved. “What?? I’m just asking!” Pinkie innocently replied. “Anyway, I’m honestly wandering though. How long have you been at war with those Decepticons you speak of? What are they like?” Twilight asked as she always was the studious one. “(Sigh) Well, I guess I’ll tell you. Roughly four million years ago, we used to be peaceful sentient beings on Cybertron—“ Grimlock began before interrupted. “Wait, FOUR MILLION YEARS?! Are you that old?!” Pinkie shouted. The other girls glared at her for interrupting. “Oops, hehehe...sorry. Carry on.” Pinkie nervously giggled. “Ughhh. Anyway, we used to be a peaceful race on our home world. That was before the terms ‘Autobot’ and ‘Decepticon’ even existed. However, the courts of Cybertron including the Council were corrupt to the core; they made laws and rules that were against our freedom and morality. So two prominent opposers arose. They were Megatronous and Orion Pax respectively. They fought against the corrupt courts with all the resources and wisdom they had. But then, things began to go south. Megatronous had a desire to be a prime. He was no better then those rulers they fought against.” Grimlock said. “One day, Orion Pax was chosen to be a prime. That angered Megatronous to no end. Because unlike him, Orion was a wiser and compassionate leader; his diligent effort to bring peace and trust between us made him above his brother. Also, Megatronous’ ideas were centered on war, power, and total dictatorship. That’s what separated him from Orion.” “Wow! That’s really interesting.” Sunset commented. “Eventually, he shortened his name to ‘Megatron’ and formed his faction called ‘Decepticons’. Orion Pax later became Optimus Prime as he formed his band the Autobots. We were in war for over a millennium which drained Cybertron of its energon since we used all our energon and resources to destroy our enemies. I was the leader of the Lightning Strike Coalition Force.” Grimlock said. “Man...how can you guys fight against each other for so many years! It’s unbelievable!” Applejack said. “Unbelievable, you say? Well, guess what? It’s real. It happened. That’s how we survived. Any more questions?” Grimlock impatiently asked. “Well, I’m wondering how you even got to Equestria?” Sunset asked. She really wanted to know how this strange alien robot arrived in a land full of ponies. “I just crash-landed on Equestrian soil and was offline for I don’t know how long. Don’t ask me how that happened.” he firmly told her, not willing to mention the traumatic experience and encounter he had with Shockwave. He didn’t even want to mention him. “Ok. I understand.” Sunset said. “Good. Now, if there are no more questions, tell me where your home is.” Grimlock said. He didn’t want to have any further conversation with the girls considering how tired he was of answering their questions, not to mention being constantly irritated by Pinkie’s idle questions. He wanted to just drop them off and leave. “It’s just ten minutes from us. Right over the bridge. I’ll tell you the directions.” Twilight answered. “Very well.” Grimlock replied. Twilight gave him the directions as he was driving down the bridge. After ten minutes of driving, they arrived at their homes. “Thanks for the ride, Grimlock. I wish we can hang out more but you don’t want to get noticed as a robot. Quite tough, huh?” Sunset said. “You can say that again.” Grimlock agreed. The rest of the girls said their good byes as they left through the right door. However, Sunset remained in the driver seat. This confused Grimlock. “Aren’t you getting into your house?” he asked. “Yes, but I really want to know you more. I thought that maybe we can be...friends?” Sunset nervously asked while blushing. Grimlock was surprised at her words. “Friends? You want to be friends with me? Why?” Grimlock asked. “Because you saved my life and my friends’ lives. I think I really owe you much by offering you my friendship. We can even learn from each other.” Sunset said. Grimlock still had to process what she just said. She out of all creatures desired to be his friend. The only friends he considered close were the other Dinobots including Sludge before his death. Another one was Optimus despite all the rebellious sentiments he expressed to Prime during all these years ago; he still had, at least, respect for him and and firmly believed in what he stood for and against. Everyone else such as most Autobots didn’t want to associate themselves with a brutal beast of fiery rage like him. Even most of the ponies didn’t respect him that much like how they treated Discord as an annoyance. “I— don’t know what to say about that. It’s quite...surprising that you want me to be your friend. All I can say is...thanks. For a human, you’re actually not that bad as I initially thought you would be.” Grimlock said. “Thanks for the compliment.” Sunset said. “So for starters, not only am I an Autobot but also a Dinobot.” Grimlock said. “What’s a Dinobot?” she asked. “Is it like a robot dinosaur?” “Pretty much. They are the strongest subgroups of the Autobots. Their sheer brute strength and firepower such as their fire breath will wipe out the Decepticons in seconds. I’m the leader of that group.” Grimlock explained. “That’s pretty cool! Do you like being an Autobot or Dinobot more?” she asked curiously. “To be honest...as a Dinobot more. Fighting side-by-side with Optimus and the Autobots is great and all but being myself and following my own instincts instead of following orders is my preferred taste. That’s how I am who I am.” Grimlock replied. “Hmmm, I see.” Sunset commented. “Would you like to tell me your story?” Grimlock asked. “Well, sure! I was a—“ Sunset said before her phone started ringing. As she saw the notification, she gasped. “I have a dentist appointment this afternoon! I have to get ready. But I really thank you for your time with me. I hope we get to know each other more in the future. Can we meet tomorrow morning? I’ll tell you my story then.” Sunset asked her as she packed her stuff. “Tomorrow morning would be convenient.” he answered. “Great! See you tomorrow and welcome to earth!” she waved goodbye as she exited the truck and entered her house. “She’s not so bad. I’m starting to like her already. Why do I have a feeling that I’ll like this planet more than Equestria?” Grimlock thought. I sure hope Optimus and Twilight are doing all right though.”