//------------------------------// // "You better start running." // Story: THE WHITE PRIME OF EQUESTERIA // by OPTIMUSPRIMEG1 //------------------------------// James POV I woke up with an terrible pain in my back, guess sleeping on a floor can do that to you. Getting up while feeling some of my bones pop, I looked at the assembled Autobots and pony turned human, all of them still sleeping, I looked at the clock on the wall and saw that school would be starting soon, so I decided to walk around a bit. As I was walking through the halls of the school, I saw that some students were already at their lockers, I even saw Rainbow Dash heading towards the gym, after a few more minutes of walking, my thoughts turned to Sunset and the crown, aka Magic Gleam. How did Sunset managed to beat Magic Gleam? She's the Alicorn of magic and daughter of Primus, which I'm still trying to figure out how that happened, anyway, there is no way Sunset could have beaten Magic Gleam in magic battle, nor could she knock her out. So, how? I was brought out of my thoughts when I heard someone gasp from behind me, turning around I saw Rarity, and she looked like she is looking at the most disgusting thing in the world. "Um, can I help you?" I asked her, then she grabbed my hand and led me into a empty classroom and somehow got me into a new set of clothes in an instant. I had a black sleeveless shirt with a white trench coat that had blue stripes on the sleeves, which were rolled up, and grey pants with blue shoes, honestly, I look a bit like Dante from Devil May Cry, "There we go, now you look much better now." Rarity said, "What was wrong with my other outfit? No offense this does look cool, but I liked my original look better." I said to her, "Well, it does look nice, if you want to look like you don't wear anything else but this." Rarity said, looking at my old jacket, "Honestly how can you go around wearing such a thing? It has more tears than it has color!" that made me frown as I grabbed my jacket from her, it couldn't be that bad could it? Looking it over I realized that there were more tears on it than color, I wondered how I got them. I sighed, "Alright, you may have a point on that. But it was a but rude of you to just drag me in here and forcefully change me into something else." I told her, causing her to blush in embarrassment. She coughs and says. "Yes well, I had to for the one who helped poor FLuttershy when that brute Sunset Shimmer threatened her." Rarity said, causing me to frown after hearing Sunsets name. "Well I couldn't stand by and watch now could I? Besides, it was the right thing to do." I said to her, she smiled at me. "Well aren't you a kind hearted man." Rarity said, just as the door to the room burst open with Applejack walking and looking around before spotting me, "Well well well, if it isn't the guy who stood up to Sunset Shimmer, I've been looking all over for you." Applejack said with a smile. "You have?" I asked her and she nodded her head, "Yep, I wanted to say congratulations on standing up to Sunset Shimmer and give you a bit of a warning." Applejack replied, her face going serious, "Better watch your back, Sunset ain't the kind of person to ignore people like you and your friends. So watch out for her and her lackeys." "If you mean those two who always follow her around, then don't worry, she can throw whatever it is she got at me and my friends, we can take it." I told her with a firm nod, not even bothered by the threat of Sunset Shimmer, well, not unless she puts on the crown, then I have to worry as I don't have powers and I am stuck as a human, and unless I can somehow trick her into the portal and get my body and powers back, I'm screwed if she puts on the crown. "But I appreciate the warning." "No problem." Applejack said and held out her hand which I gladly took and braced my arm as she shook it as if she was trying to rip my arm off. "Names Applejack partner." "James, it's nice to meet you Applejack." I said to her, then Rarity walked up to me, "And I'm Rarity darling, sorry if I haven't introduced myself, but there were more important things to be dealt with." Rarity said, motioning to my torn jacket. "I'll have that fixed and returned to you in no time. Don't you worry." "Thank you Rarity, but you don't have to do that." I said, she merely shook her head. "I insist darling, I can tell this jacket is one of your favorites and if it didn't have any tears in it, I'd say it looked good on you." she said, then held her hand up when I opened my mouth, "No no, I've already made my decision, and I won't be told otherwise." I closed my mouth and nodded my head with a smile, even in different realities, the Mane 6 are still the same. "Well, I guess I better get going then, my friends are probably wondering where I am right now." "But of course, sorry to keep you." Rarity said, "Hey, mind if I come with ya? I want to have a word with Twilight." Applejack said and I shook my head, "I don't mind at all." I replied to which she smiled, "Great, well let's get going then." Applejack said as me and her walked out of the room, saying by to Rarity as we did, we walked through the halls of the school in silence, though I can see from the corner of my eye that she was glancing at me. After a couple of minutes of this I turn my head to face her. "Is something the matter?" I asked her, she had a surprised look on her face before chuckling, "It's nothing really, just something about you is a bit off is all." she said, causing me to raise an eyebrow in confusion. She saw my confused look and explained, "The other day I saw you and your friends threaten Snips and Snails, I also saw you crush their phones without even flinching, and you crushed the phones with ease. Now I've heard of people being strong and all, but looking at you, I can tell you don't work out much, so forgive me for being a little curious." "Ah, yes, not the smartest move on my part honestly. As for how I easily crushed those phones, I honestly have no idea really." I replied with a shrug, though it did make me wonder about something. Is it possible that some of my strength from my Cybertronian body transferred to my human body when I changed into a human? Or maybe my Cybertronian strength was always there and I'm just starting use it? Whatever the reason, I'll have to look into it later. For now though, is answering Applejacks questions. "Really? You have no idea how you managed to do that?" she asked me with a raised eyebrow. "Let me answer your question with another question, do you question Pinkie Pie?" I asked her which she immediately responded with. "Of course not, that only leads to headaches and-oh I see what you did there." she said, laughing a bit and playfully punched my arm, "You pulled the 'don't question it' bit on me!" "Yes I did." I replied with a laugh of my own, not even bothered by the punch, "But you get what I'm saying right? Sometimes it's better to not question some things, trust me, I've learned that the hard way." "I'll take your word for it. So you and your friends new to Canterlot High?" she asked me, and I wondered if I should tell her or not, Twilight told them but that was when she brought them all back together again. "Something like that." I answered, just as we arrived at the library, I looked in and saw Twilight talking with Sari while the others were busy doing their own thing. SWoop and Warpath were currently talking about something, Arcee was just leaning against a wall, arms crossed and Windblade was currently reading a book. The moment me and Applejack walked in, Twilight and Sari turned to look at us, smiles on their faces as we walked over to them. "Hey James." Sari said to me, causing me to smile. "Hey Sari, sorry I left without saying anything." I replied, apologizing as I did. She merely shook her head, "It's fine, I'd probably done the same too. I can tell that you needed to think about something." Sair said, and I replied with a nod, glancing to see Applejack and Twilight talking, having left the table and went behind some bookshelves. I motioned for the other Autobots to come over, once they did I leaned in close and whispered. "Do any of you know how Sunset managed to beat Magic Gleam?" I asked them, getting no's in response. "Then we may have a problem, someone must have helped Sunset either beat or forced Magic Gleam into her Element form, which means that Sunset is the least of our worries. Warpath, were the Megatrons put in the Shadow Zone?" "Yeah, and put in enough stasis cuffs to basically make everything but their heads not move until someone unlocks them, even then, they would need specific keys in order to free them, and we've been monitoring them 24/7." Warpath replied, causing me to frown. "That means the only ones who could have helped her were the last Megatrons, but they won't work with organics." Sari said, "Unless they had to. Think about it, Quintessa was locked up in a void where she would be tortured for who knows how long, we destroyed or captured nearly every Decepticon and are still flushing them out of hiding, and we have literally, enough soldiers to defeat an entire planet filled with Decepticons." "I'm gonna have to agree with her on that, we basically hit the Megatrons where it hurt the most, we hurt their pride. They had a shit ton of advantages against us. And we took them out like they were nothing." Warpath said but added, "Okay yes it was Ed and Pyro who defeated them, but even then, we still beat them." "Both of you are correct, but we can't jump to conclusions just yet. For all we know, this could be someone else entirely." Windblade said, "Who else is there to suspect? The Megatrons-" before I could continue, we hear a voice that immediately angered us. "Well well well. If it isn't the loser who thought he could stand up to me, and the rest of his circus freaks? Well isn't this a just grand." we turned and glared at Sunset Shimmer in anger, she wasn't fazed in the slightest as she just gave a cocky smirk back while leaning against the doorframe to the library, arms crossed. "What do you want Sunshit Shimmer." Sari said. clearly angry at the girl. "Oh nothing, just to give you freaks a warning." Sunset replied, still not bothered by the harsh glares we're giving her. "And that would be?" I asked her, she walked up to me and got in my face and said. "Simple, stay out of my way or else." "And I got two words for you." I said, holding up two fingers, "Fuck. You." I said, leaving my middle finger up so I could give her the bird. Sunset nearly frowned but kept her cocky smirk. "Oh well, don't say I didn't warn you. Guess the whole world will know about the group of aliens are at a high school. I'm sure that will catch someone's attention, especially with the photos I've gotten." Sunset pulled out her phone and showed us pictures of me and Sari going in and out of a portal, "No way is anyone gonna believe that!" Warpath said angrily, "For all they know, that could be special effects!" "Luckily, I have a video." Sunset replied, showing us a video of the same thing. "And I'm pretty sure the government would love to see how you guys work. I won't send it if you agree not to get in my way, and don't help princess Twilight." I looked at the other Autobots, I can tell they knew that if the government came, we wouldn't last long, but I knew something they didn't and Sari knew it too as she gave me a nod, causing me to smile slightly and turned to Sunset and said. "Go ahead." Everyone minus Sari looked at me in shock, Sunset trying to find words, "W-wh-what?! F-fine!" she said, and soon enough, sent the photos and video to the internet and stared at her phone. Moments later, her face soon became one of rage and she threw her phone at a wall, confirming my suspicion. "You see Sunset, the human world is a place where people hardly believe everything they read on the internet." I said to her, "THERE'S ALIENS IN OUR SCHOOL!! EVERYBODY RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!" we heard Pinkie shout as she ran by the library, making us stare in confusion. "Well, everyone except Pinkie that is." I said, snapping out of my stupor and smirk at Sunset, "So, you can threaten to reveal us all you want, no one is going to believe you." She grit her teeth and growled and if looks could kill, I would be six feet under right now. "Guess I'd better smash that portal and leave you trapped here forever!" That got us to go wide eye in shock and fear, if Sunset destroyed the portal, then who knows what would happen if a major villain or something comes and easily defeats the Autobots, I had left TFP Megatron and Soundwave in charge till we got back, but even then I don't know what will happen if the Decepticons decide to attack, Megatron can only do so much, and with limited knowledge of what his counterparts are like, I fear the worst. You might also be wondering why I believe her, for one thing, she is different from the show, she's much more violent and easily angered, which would stand to reason that i have to believe her when she says she can destroy the portal and leave us trapped here. I glared at Sunset. "You wouldn't dare. That would mean you would be stuck here as well! Then you wouldn't get what you want from Equestria!" I said to her, she just smirked in response. "Oh that's where you are wrong prime, I was Celestia's student, which means I know how to look for other ways of getting to Equestria, while the rest of you will be trapped here." Sunset siad, then began to leave the library while we were in shock, we only snapped out of when she left. "Get after her and keep her away from the portal!" I said to the others, we got up and ran out of the library but didn't see Sunset anywhere. "Alright guys, whatever you do, don't split-" I stopped when I realized that everyone had done the exact opposite of what I was trying to say. "-up, doesn't anybody learn from movies?" I then ran down a hallway to look for both my Autobots and Sunset, praying to Primus that nothing bad happens to them. 3rd POV Warpath slammed opened the gm doors, hoping that Sunset was in there but didn't see her anywhere, not even when he searched everywhere in the gym. "Scrap! she's not here, better keep looking elsewhere." Warpath said to himself as he was about to leave the gym, only for a dodge ball to hit the back of his head causing him to turn around with a growl. Both Snips and Snails had terrified looks on their faces as Warpath walked over to them, "Alright you two, start talking. Where the frag is Sunset?" he asked them, causing them to shake in fear. "W-w-we don't k-k-know. S-s-she ju-just told u-us to get y-your attention." Snips said as he and Snails held each other in fear. "Oh really? And why did want you two to get my attention?" Warpath asked them, "So that way you won't see what's coming next." he heard the voice of Sunset say before turning around, the last thing he saw was a glowing orb. "Come out come out wherever you are." Swoop said as he the halls of the school, kinda glad that school was still starting up otherwise he would have gotten in trouble with the principles, or worse, the police! A noise snapped Swoop out of his thoughts, making him turn and see a bit of red and yellow disappear around a corner, making him run in the direction he saw Sunset, only to bump into someone, making him fall to the ground. "Hey! Watch where you're-" Swoop stopped speaking when he saw who it was he bumped into. "Warpath? What are you doing here? I thought you went to check out the gym?" Swoop asked as he stood up, getting no response from the Autobot, which confused him. "Uh Warpath? You okay bud?" Warpath suddenly grabbed Swoop by the collar of his jacket and lifted him in the air before punching his face, causing Swoop to shout in pain and surprise. "Warpath! What the fuck?!" Swoop shouted as he blocked a punch from Warpath before pushing him back, "What's gotten into you?!" "You'll soon find out." Swoop heard Sunset say before said girl walked form behind Warpath, a smirk on her face. "Warpath, hold him." Warpath remained silent as he tackled Swoop and pinned him to the ground. "Warpath snap out of it!!" Swoop shouted as he struggled to break free of his friends grasp but to no avail. Sunset suddenly stepped in front of him, causing him to look up to see a glowing orb then nothing. James POV I ran around the halls of the school, trying to find my Autobots and Sari, as well as any signs of Sunset. But so far I haven't seen any of them, which was starting to both worry and annoy me, annoy cause I haven't found any signs of Sunset so I have no clue what she is planning. I held my head while shaking my head with an annoyed groan. "Scrap, this is why you don't split up. It always lead to either not finding anyone while they are getting picked off one by one, ending up lost, or better yet, the one you're chasing gets away." I complained as I resumed my search before a flash appeared in the corner of my eye, causing me to turn to see where the flash came from. I saw nothing but a dark hallway. "You know, this is by far the strangest thing, why does a school even have one of these?" I asked no one before I heard footsteps. I kept my guard up as I heard the footsteps get closer and closer before I see who was making them, "Sari? What are doing here?" I asked in confusion as Sari walked out of the shadows, but there was something off about her, for one her eyes had a bit of greenish glow to them. "Sari?" I asked again, only to dodge a fist from Warpath. "Warpath!? What the fuck are you doing?!" "He's doing what I tell him to do." I heard someone say before turning around and going wide eyed when I see Sunset with the rest of my Autobots behind her, "Him and the rest of your friends Prime." she said, a smirk on her face. "Wha? But how?" I asked in shock, there's no way Sunset could have gotten her hands on magic without anyone knowing. So how? I was brought out of my thoughts by Sunsets chuckling. "I would tell you, but that would ruin the surprise. Now," Sunset snapped her fingers, and I was immediately tackled by Swoop but I managed to throw him off of me only to side step another tackle from Warpath. "Everyone snap out of it! You can't let her control you!" I said to them, trying to get through to them but was unsuccessful as Windblade had grabbed my arm and pinned it behind my back, I winced in pain before silently apologizing to her and stepped on her foot, causing her to shout in pain and surprise before I got out of her grip and pushed her away from me. I looked around me to see that everyone had surrounded me, their glowing green eyes glaring daggers at me. "Scrap." was all I said before I was tackled and pinned to the ground, I struggled to get free but with all the weight on me, I knew it was pointless. Boots stepped in front of me before Sunset kneeled down, a smirk on her face while she held some sort of crystal in her hand. "You know, having a Prime would be useful for my plans. I can easily get all the power I want and no one will stop me." she said before she slammed my head down on the ground and placed the crystal on the back of my neck. I screamed in pain as I felt its magic enter my brain. I glared at Sunset before everything went dark. 3rd POV Twilight, Spike and Applejack were currently walking through the halls of Canterlot High, looking for James and his friends after realizing they had disappeared after Twilight decided to talk with Applejack about competing in the Fall Formal. "James! Where are you?" Twilight called out as she looked around. "Where y'all run off to?" Applejack called out as well, still glad that school doesn't start for another half hour. "Come on this ain't funny! Where are y'all?!" "Psst, Twilight." Spike whispered from Twilights backpack, causing her to glance at Applejack to make sure she wasn't listening. "What is it?" Twilight whispered while she continued to looked around for James and the others, "I think I might know where our friends are." Spike said, causing Twilight to nearly shout before he covered her mouth. "Don't shout, you know we're trying to keep a low profile." Twilight removed his paw from her mouth before looking back at Applejack, who was peeking into a room. "I know, just tell me where they went." "Well, while you and Applejack were talking, I decided to check up on the others, but when I got close, I heard them and Sunset Shimmer." Spike said, "What?! What would she want from them?!" Twilight asked in shock and confusion. Trying to think of why Sunset Shimmer would talk to the Autobots. "From what I could hear, she was threatening them, trying to expose them to the world but failed. Then she threatened to destroy something, but I didn't hear what." Spike replied, a nervous look on his face. "That seemed to get a reaction as they chased after her." Twilight had a worried look, whatever Sunset had threatened them with, it got them to chase after her. While she knew the Autobots can handle themselves, she can't help but feel like them chasing Sunset is exactly what she wanted. "Hey Twilight! I think I found them!" she heard Applejack call out, making her realize the farmer had walked away from her and Spike. She quickly ran over to where she heard Applejacks voice, turning a corner as she did. Only to bump into someone causing her to fall on her ass. "Ow!" Twilight said as she looked up to see who she bumped into, only to go a bit wide eyed when she saw that it was James. "James! I'm so glad we found you! Spike told me you and the others had chased after Sunset after she threatened to smash something. What happened with her? What did she threaten you with? And..." Twilight paused when she saw that his eyes were glowing a slight green. "Um, James? You okay?" James didn't respond and just glared at Twilight, making both her and Spike a bit nervous. Spike then saw movement out of the corner of his eye and looked and went wide eyed, "U-uh Twilight?" Spike said, tapping on the girls head, making look at him only for him to point. Twilight looked over in the direction Spike was pointing and went wide eyed when she saw both Warpath and Swoop holding Applejacks arms while Warpath covered her mouth. Applejack managed to get her mouth free to shout. "Twilight! Run!" Twilight heard the sound of shifting gears and looked only to yelp and duck under Sari's energy sword before running away, or at least, tried to if she didn't bump into someone. "Going somewhere princess?" Sunset asked Twilight snidely while smirking. "The fun's just getting started." Twilight glared at Sunset, "You. What did you do to the Autobots!?" Twilight shouted while Spike growled. "Isn't it obvious? I took control of them, making them obey my every command like how all machines are supposed to." Sunset said as she walked around Twilight. "Let them go now!" demanded Twilight, only for Sunset to laugh mockingly, "You're not in no position to give me orders princess, I have your alien guards under my control, I have you outnumbered, I hold all the cards. You? You have nothing but a pet dragon turned pet dog." Sunset said, causing Twilight to hold Spike back when he tried to jump from her backpack, a pissed look on his face. "I am not a pet!" Spike yelled, shocking Applejack. "Really? Could have fooled me." Sunset said, standing next to James and Sari. "Now here's what's gonna happen, you're gonna walk right on back through that portal, and never return, otherwise, I'll have my new guards here destroy you." Twilight looked at James and the other Autobots, knowing that if she refused, Sunset would have them kill her. Twilight sighed, "Fine, I'll leave." Twilight said and causing Sunset to smirk. "Good, then you better start running." Sunset said, making Twilight and Spike confused as she snapped just as the two realized what she means as the Autobots glared at Twilight before Arcee tried to punch her only for the pony turned human to yelp as she ducked undet the punch and started to run away, the Autobots, minus Warpath as he was holding Applejack prisoner, chasing after her. Sunset chuckled darkly as she watched Twilight run from her friends. "Now that that's taken care of, what to do with you?" Sunset asked as she turned to look at Applejack, only to see Warpath and Swoop on the ground, groaning in pain. Sunset angrily grits her teeth with a growl. "Where did she go?!" With Twilight and Spike "Faster Twilight! They're gaining on us!" Spike shouted as he ran next to Twilight after getting out of the backpack to make it easier for Twilight to run away from the mind controlled Autobots who were rapidly gaining on the two just like Spike said. "I'm going as fast as I can!!" Twilight shouted in reply as she kept running, hearing the multitude of footsteps behind her quickly gaining on her, making her ran even faster. She needed to get back to the portal and fast, not for her survival, but so she can get help and save James and the others. That's if she can make it. "Duck!" Spike shouted in warning, which Twilight did just as Sari's energy blade swung over her and Spike's heads. "That was too close!" "You're telling me!" Twilight shouted in agreement as she ran faster, turning around the corner and nearly smiled in relief when she the front doors to the school. That relief didn't last long when she felt someones hand grab hers and pulled her, panic welled up as Twilight fought against whoever grabbed her. "Knock it off Twi! I'm trying to save ya!" Twilight went wide eyed when she heard the voice of Applejack, who was pulling her towards the front doors. "A-Applejack! But I-I thought-" "Nevermind that right now! We got to get you outta here!" Applejack cut Twilight off, making the pony turned human nod as she ran with Applejack. "Keep running! Don't look back!" Twilight did the opposite and looked back, running even faster when she saw the bots gaining on them to the point where their hands barely grazed her hair. The two burst through the front doors and ran towards the statue, only to abruptly stop when they saw both Warpath and Swoop standing in front of the statue. "Oh no." Twilight said fearfully as she looked behind her, seeing James and the others walking towards her, Applejack and Spike. "Don't worry Twi! I won't let them get you!" Applejack said as she raised her fists, though Twilight and Spike could see the uncertainty in her eyes when she looked at Sari's blades. While the mind controlled Autobots surrounded Twilight, Spike and Applejack, Sunset Shimmer was watching from the school roof, a dark smirk on her face as she was about to watch the end of Twilight Sparkle. Only for a portal to appear behind James, making him look at it in confusion before he started to get pulled into it, and not just him, but the other Autobots as well. They had tried to resist the pull by either running or grabbing large objects but it was futile as they were pulled in, the last one remaining was James as he tried to grab Twilight only Applejack to punch him in the jaw, causing him to fly into the portal which closed when he went through. Silence filled the air as the two girls and dog just stared at the spot where the portal was. Then Applejack turned to Twilight who gave her a nervous look. "Y'all got some explaining to do." was all Applejack said.