“I’ve got eyes on the Constructicons, Optimus; five kliks straight ahead.” Jetfire’s report was correct, of course; six massive green and purple construction vehicles were on the road ahead of the Autobot team.
“Autobots, keep a tight formation. And prepare for combat.” Optimus’ orders were swiftly followed as the Autobots rallied around him.
“Goin’ invisible,” Mirage reported before disappearing, his engine now practically silent. The Constructicons ahead of them quickly transformed and raised their weapons, quickly opening fire on the Autobots.
“Yow! Watch it!” Sideswipe yelled, quickly swerving to avoid several missiles fired at the Autobots. “We should’ve brought the big stuff, Optimus! No way we’re getting anywhere close to them with what we have right now.”
“We will simply have to make do.” Optimus nodded. “Applejack, drop the girls behind cover. All units, prepare for combat.” Applejack quickly did as she was told and dropped the team behind a large tree before she drove in and transformed to help the others, who had all transformed and were now returning fire. Pinkie smiled almost madly as she fired specially modified arm-mounted guns that fired sugar-paste synthesized in her bot-mode’s internal systems, flooding the battlefield with explosives. Unfortunately, it barely seemed to bother the Constructicons as they kept firing on her and the others.
“Hook, Scavenger, keep your optics peeled for the Cloaker; I don’t want him getting the drop on us.” the front-end loader yelled to the crane and excavator, before turning to a bulldozer and cement truck, and finally the dump truck with the rocket launchers. “Bonecrusher, Mixmaster, concentrate on the smaller soldiers. Long Haul, keep those missiles coming; I don’t wanna give them a chance to breathe.”
“You’re already too late on one of those, Scrapper.” That was Mirage’s voice, coming from right behind them. But when Scrapper looked, he didn’t see anything… except a large bomb behind his team, which was counting down.
“Oh, scrap, fire in the hole!” Quickly, he grabbed up the bomb and tossed it out toward the Autobots, only for it to detonate in midair and blast shrapnel everywhere, a small amount even damaging the now recloaked Mirage, forcing him to drop his disguise and find cover near the girls.
“We’re getting hammered here!” Sunstreaker noted angrily. “We need a better plan!”
“Well, unless you’re carryin’ a few barrier emitters or a couple of tons of armor, we’re scrap!” Ironhide reminded.
“Perhaps a wardrobe change would be in order.” Rarity suggested and activated her powers, quickly surrounding the Autobots with massive crystals, which reflected nearly all the blasts from the Constructicons’ weapons.
“Huh. Not bad. Blue really is my color.” Mirage smirked as he jumped out and returned fire, his new gem armor holding against every shot. “Thanks, Rarity.”
Rarity simply nodded… before she Ponied-Up and her Geode glowed brighter, with her Armor unit hovering from her pocket and locking to it as it pulsed and gave a loud ring. Scrapper saw this and instantly decided to take advantage of it. “Quickly, the Armor! Grab it!”
Bonecrusher swiftly transformed into a large bulldozer and charged toward Rarity, Autobot blasts bouncing off his shovel as he charged… only to be swiftly blasted away by a large wave of diamonds radiating out from Rarity, swirling around her in a large globe. Quickly, they each flew toward her body, with each and every gem interlocking around her before they started growing uniformly to raise her to bot-size.
Then the gems turned to metal and started changing color; her shins, lower thighs, forearms, and face turned alabaster-white while her upper thighs turned bright blue at her waist and purple below. Her torso turned bright blue with ornate white dapples around her neck and a bright purple diamond-shaped button on her collarbone. Her wrists turned the same gold as her bracelets as her hands turned sheer white, but her upper arms became more strange; two large diamond-shaped armor structures formed there in the form of massive pauldrons, as her white feet gained bright purple armor-wrappings and diamond-like high heels.
Her gleaming curly purple hair flowed from her head as steel cable held by a large blue three diamond-barrette, as a bright blue diamond-shaped light bordered by purple formed on her forehead turned on, swiftly followed by her bright blue optics with a much deeper blue in the centers. When she looked at herself, she was in awe. “This Armor is divine!” she remarked, almost giddy from her appearance.
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“I obviously made a good decision in partnering myself with you, my dear.” Tracks smiled as he slid over, firing the missiles from his backpack-mounted launchers. “Now let’s see what you can do with this Armor.”
Rarity smiled, glancing at her pauldrons. She saw small gaps between them and her arms, indicating removability. Quickly she grabbed the one on her right arm – which was in-turn instantly replaced by another – and tossed it off like a frisbee, sending it flying toward the Constructicons where it slashed through Hook and Scavenger’s blasters, causing them to explode in their hands.
“Oh, I like this,” she smirked as her hair condensed into a helmet before she grabbed the diamond off her left arm, intent on throwing it as well. But instead, it swiftly disintegrated and reformed into a large ornate basket-hilt rapier. She only smiled more at this and charged into the battlefield, easily diverting Long Haul’s missiles by slashing off their directional fins, sending them crashing to the ground around her.
The Autobots were more than impressed at how easily she managed to divert their attention and quickly opened fire… until they heard a loud scream from the other three girls. Applejack recognized it easily as she glanced over to them. “Rainbow Dash!” Sure enough; Rainbow dashed from the cover-area toward the battlefield with Twilight, Sunset, and Spike in her arms as they were being chased by a black and green 2020 Harley-Davidson SuperLow 1200T with a sidecar… with what looked like a revolver sticking out the front, and a large hook with a tattered tarp on the back.
“It’s Lockdown! I’ll get him!” Drift called and transformed, roaring after the bike. Quickly swerving into his way, Drift smirked as he saw Lockdown transform and try to jump over him, only for the samurai to transform as well, bashing the bounty hunter out of the air, prompting Rainbow to stop and place her friends back on the ground right in the middle of everything, halting the firefight. “Sending a Mercenary to pick on organics, Lockdown? I knew Megatron was a coward, but this is low even for him.”
Scrapper heard this and snarled. “You dare insult Lord Megatron, Deadlock?!”
“The name’s Drift, Scrapper, and I’ll thank you to remember it.” the samurai snarled, locking his mask as he glared back at the hook-handed bounty hunter.
“You served with Megatron yourself, pal. You know how he feels about organics.” Lockdown smirked.
“We all do.” Rarity assured, pointing her blade at the bounty hunter’s neck. “But that doesn’t mean we’re going to allow him to harm any of our friends.”
Lockdown smirked and placed his hook on the blade, lowering it a bit as he looked at Rarity. “Good to know.” He pulled the blade down and easily decked Rarity in the face, knocking her back to grip her face in pain. Once she was back, Lockdown spun around and whacked Drift in the face with the sword still held in his hook before pulling his revolver with his left hand and shooting him in the gut, knocking him to his knees. “Cover me!” The Constructicons quickly did as they were ordered, firing on the Autobots and forcing them back as Lockdown grabbed Rainbow and locked his hook under Drift’s shoulder, dragging them both behind the Constructicons. “Lockdown to Nemesis; I’ve got the traitor and an organic prisoner. Send the GroundBridge.” The order was swiftly followed as the vortex opened nearby, allowing the Decepticons to pass through before it disappeared just as Cliffjumper tried to grab the last Constructicon to pass through, forcing him to growl in anger.
He looked behind him as Optimus walked forward. “I’m sorry Optimus. I tried to get her.”
“I know, Cliffjumper,” Optimus assured. “But it would seem we have a new objective; rescue our allies.”
“I think I have an idea as to how we can do that,” Sunset smirked as she slid from cover. “Rainbow told me and Twilight her plan before she was taken. Recognize this?” she pulled something out of her pocket, which turned several heads.
“That’s Rainbow’s Armor.” Bumblebee recognized. “Why did she give you that?”
“Because whenever one of us has activated their Armor, it flies straight to their Geode.” Twilight pointed out, glancing up at the other girls. “So when Rainbow activates hers…”
“It’ll fly straight to the Nemesis and we can track it there and save her and Drift,” Jetfire smirked. “Huh. Nice plan, Rainbow.”
“It is still unknown whether or not the Spark-Shift Armor can activate at such a range.” Optimus reminded. “We will prepare for this plan, but in the event it fails, we should prepare a contingency plan.” They would definitely need it, especially given where their friends ended up.