Today was a special day in Ponyville. It was a day that caught the attention of almost every pony not just in Ponyville, but Equestria. Today was a day where every pony showed their thanks towards Equestria's kindest pony; Fluttershy. Today was her birthday. Lots of ponies were at her cottage helping set up for her special day. Much to her protest though, Fluttershy was a pony who didn't like attention, so having almost every pony come to her home for a party wasn't her idea of a good time. But it didn't matter, all the ponies wanted to show their thanks for all the kind things the yellow Pegasus had done for them over the years.
The Pegasus ponies were in charge of setting up a banner that read "Happy birthday Fluttershy!" on top of her house and were even helping tie balloons to some of the surrounding trees. Unicorn ponies were in charge of decorations, and Applejack and the earth ponies were setting up the tables for Fluttershy's big day.
"Err... come on...” Applejack mumbled to herself as she was trying to open a small plastic bag full of paper forks and knives. She was having a lot of trouble; she tried using her hooves and had now resorted to using her mouth. She pulled hard as she could, and finally ripped it open, sending forks and knives all over the ground.
"Aw dang it..."
Applejack bent down to pick the mess she had made put felt someone tap her on the back. She turned around to see the pink party pony herself, Pinkie Pie. She had a very eager look on her face.
"Hey Applejack, I just thought I should tell you that you never told me what I can do to help out with Fluttershy's party! Now where do you want me?"
Applejack had to roll her eyes at her pink friend before telling her, "Pinkie, now what di ah' say 'bout you helping out?"
A look of disappointment came across Pinkie's face as she answered, "That Fluttershy doesn’t want a big party and if I helped out it would become a big party and she wouldn't like it..."
"That's right. It's not that we don't want ya to help; it's just that we want this day ta be as special as possible for Fluttershy. Although it would be nice if some ponies helped out a bit..."
Applejacks eyes were now trained on the sky above her, and up there was Equestria's fastest Pegasus pony; Rainbow Dash, who was now relaxing on a cloud she had plucked from the sky.
"Ah' said, it would be nice if some ponies helped out!"
Applejack was obviously referring to Dash, who responded, "Hey! Quiet down! I'm trying to sleep up here!"
Applejack did her best to contain her anger, but she just had to give her a scolding, "Now listen here, Fluttershy is your best friend! She's done so much fer' you! Would it kill ya to just help out?"
"I am helping!", Rainbow Dash snapped back.
"How?"
"I'm supervising. I can see almost everything from up here, so if anything goes wrong, I'll know about it! Now do me a favor and get back to work!"
If Applejack could fly, then she would've gone up to that cloud and given Rainbow Dash the beating of a life time.
But then, a soft voice could be heard from inside Fluttershy's home, "Uh... Applejack? Can I come out now? If you don't me asking..."
Applejack's anger seemed to disappear completely, and a tiny grin appeared on her face as she answered the voice, "Sorry Fluttershy, but no can do. I wouldn't want you to come outside while we're still workin' on yer' party, it would spoil the surprise!"
"But Applejack, it's time for me to feed the chickens. I can't just let them starve..."
"Don't worry 'bout that, we got it covered."
"But, I barely even want a party..."
Applejacks grin was replaced with a look of shock, "Fluttershy! How could you say that! Everpony wants to have a party on their birthday! Don't tell me that you don't want one! Now don't lie to me, I can tell when somepony's lying to me."
Nothing but silence was heard from inside Fluttershy's home; causing Applejack to assumeshe had one this argument.
"Now where was ah'... oh yeah." Applejacke proceeded to continue to pick all the forks and knives she dropped, but then a loud 'boom!' was heard. The southern pony's head shot straight up out of surprise, but she wasn't alone. Nearly everypony there was out trying to find the source of the sound.
"Hey! Over there! In the everfree forest!” a Pegasus pony shouted.
All cocked their heads to where the Pegasus had pointed, and he was right to point. Smoke could be seen rising into the sky from deep within the forest. But the smoke wasn't the only thing rising in the sky, if you squinted hard enough, you could see a large object ascending into the sky, seemingly being blown away from some sort of blast.
"What in tarnation...” Applejack quietly said to herself.
“Twitchy twitch! Twitchy twitch!”
Applejack turned to Pinkie Pie who’s tail was twitching like there was no tomorrow. A part of Pinkie’s body always twitched when something big was about to happen. Applejack then turned back to the sky to see that the object had stopped rising, and was now falling, straight for them!
"Everypony move! That thing's heading straight fer' us!” yelled Applejack.
All the ponies complied as they scattered, trying to find a place to hide from the falling object.
"Don't worry Applejack!” Rainbow Dash proclaimed while getting off of her cloud, "I can stop it!"
Dash took off as fast as she could towards the object, but was stopped when she felt a tug against her waist. She looked down to see that she had been tied up by Applejack's trademarked lasso.
She then pulled down to the ground and landed with a loud 'thud!’
"Hey! What was that for?!"
"Are you tryin' to get yer'self killed?! Not even you could stop-"
Applejack was cut off when the object landed right in front of them, sending smoke and dust everywhere. When the smoke cleared, all that could be seen was a large crater in the place of where a picnic table used to be.
Just then, the door to Fluttershy's house had slammed open, and a frantic looking Fluttershy had come running out of her home.
"I heard a noise! What happened?!” she asked.
Everypony had come out of their hiding spots to see what had fallen from the sky. They all crouded around the crater. They all looked down inside and their jaws dropped. What fell from the sky wasn't an object, but a creature! It was big, about as tall as an average house. Most of its body also seemed to be yellow, with two small horns on the top of its head. The creature turned its head to see all the curious but frightened eyes staring at it.
"Uh... I come in peace?"
"Wow Fluttershy!” Pinkie exclaimed, "I guess I didn't need to help with your party at all! It just got way more exciting!"
Fluttershy just simply fainted.
One hour earlier...
Twilight Sparkle had no idea what she was looking at. In all her years of being Princess Celestia's studnet, she had never seen anything like this! Just a few moments ago, her friend Rarity had went inside a cave, thinking it to be filled with gems. But when she got there, she screamed at something, and, being the concerned friend that she was, Twilight and her dragon assistant, Spike, ran to her aid. And now here there they were, being stared down by a huge face. Well, a head to be more exact. Twilight covered her eyes, expecting something to happen. A few seconds passed, and, to her surprise, nothing happened. Twilight slowly opened her eyes, and saw that the head was still there, but it wasn't doing anything. The purple unicorn let out a sigh of relief, "Oh thank Celestia. Its ok guys, I don't it's alive. We're safe."
Twilight heard nothing from her friends.
"Guys?"
Twilight turned around to see that Rarity was still lying on the ground, shaking with fear. She turned back to Spike, who was still entranced by the gigantic head before him.
"Spike? Did you hear me? I said it's harmless. You don't have to be scared anymore."
"L-look... behind it..."
Twilight was a bit confused, "Behind it? What're you talking about?"
Twilight did as she was told, and cranked her head to look behind it. And, once again, she was awestruck. For behind the head were bodies, lots and lots of ginormous bodies.
"Spike... take Rarity and find somewhere to hide...” ordered Twilight.
"What're you going to do?"
"I'm going to get a closer look at these things. Now go!"`
Spike nodded his head and gave a hefty salute. He walked over to Rarity and grabbed by the tail. He then tried his best to drag the frightened pony out of the cave.
Twilight turned back around to inspect these things. She was more curious then scared now. When she got closer to them she noticed just how big these bodies really were. It also made her realize just how big this cave really was in order to fit all these giant beings. She moved in closer towards a red one. She inspected its body closely. She walked up to one of its arms and noticed a small engraving.
"Ironhide...” she silently read to herself, "Could this be its name?"
Just then, she realized something; these things are almost exactly like the creature she encountered in her dream! Could her dream and the discovery of these creatures be a coincidence? She walked over to other ones and noticed they all had engravings as well.
"Bumblebee... Jazz... Ratchet... Sunstreaker... Cliffjumper... interesting, these must be codenames. Why else would they have these strange names engraved on themselves?"
They seemed to be robotic in nature. They were obviously made out of technology that Twilight had never seen before. She also noticed something that they all had in common. Each and every one of them had a strange looking red symbol somewhere on their bodies. What did it mean? Are they cutie marks? No. They couldn't be. As far as she knew, ponies were the only species in Equestria that could get them. Besides, she has never heard of a group of ponies that had the same cutie mark, it was just impossible! But they had to of meant something, maybe the symbols represented an allegiance, but to what? They could've been gang symbols for all she knew.
And then she came across it, the biggest one in the whole cave. It was laid down completely on its back. There were also cracks and dents all over its body, possibly wounds, but from what? She climbed on top of it and read it's engraving, "Optimus Prime... I hope I'm reading this right."
She stood there on its chest. She closed her eyes and her horn began to glow.
"Let's see if I'm right about my suspicions..."
She was using her magic to do something. It was like she was looking for something, and then she found it. Her eyes shot open, and a look of excitement appeared on her face.
"I was right... it's alive!"
Twilight was right. Her magic told her that this creature was alive, but only by a thread. It seemed to be asleep, or in some kind of stasis. But it didn't matter to her. She may of just possibly found a new species of animal native to Equestria. Twilight now found herself jumping all around with glee.
"I just can't believe it... a whole new species... and I found it! Oh I just can't wait to tell the Princess about this!"
Twilight's prancing came to an abrupt end when she felt a sharp pain on the bottom of her right hoof. She looked down and saw that she had stepped on a piece of glass that had broken off the creature. She also held her hoof up to her face that she had cut herself as well.
"Ow... I really need to watch where I'm going. Good thing it's not a deep cut..."
A single drop of blood rolled off her hoof and landed on the creature below her. The blood seeped into an open crack and made its way deep inside the creature's chest. It finally reached what it appeared to be its heart. But it was different than a heart; it was more like a spark. When the drop of blood touched the spark, it reacted, in a big way.
Suddenly, the creature’s eyes glowed a bright blue, and started to lift itself up, much to Twilight's surprise. She didn't know what to do; it was her dream all over again!
"Psst, Twilight!"
Twilight turned around to see Spike peaking his head out from behind a huge rock he found, waving one of his arms to signal her to come over to him.
"Twilight! Come on!” he whispered.
It didn't even take her five seconds to jump off the now awake creature and hide behind that rock.
"What's going on?! What'd you do?!” Spike asked franticly.
"I-I don't know, he just got up and-"
"Shhh!"
They both turned around to see Rarity with a hoof over her mouth, signaling them to be quiet.
"Rarity! You're ok!"
"Twilight! Hush!” shushed Rarity, "It's getting up."
The creature was now standing up, fully awake. It kept looking back and forth, seemingly checking its surroundings. Twilight studied all of its movements. This thing may potentially harm her or friends, but she still wanted to know more about it. It scratched the bottom of its chin, and then lifted its hand up the side of its head. Two antennas appeared to pop out of its "ears" and it began to speak, "Wheeljack, come in Wheeljack. This is Optimus Prime. I repeat, this is Optimus Prime. Is anyone out there?"
The creature now known as Optimus Prime continued to pace back and forth, seemingly talking to himself.
"Wheeljack? Do you read me? What's your status?"
"Who's Wheeljack?” Spike silently asked Twilight.
"I don't know Spike, but I think we should be more worried about what this thing's going to do to us if it finds us here."
Optimus stopped in his tracks when he came across the head the all saw when they first came in the cave. He bent down to get a better look at it.
"Aw Sideswipe... I'm so sorry old friend. I wish there was more I could do."
Optimus backed away from the head, and gave it a quick salute before getting back to what he was doing.
"What was that all about?” Spike asked again.
"I'm... not really sure.” answered Twilight, "Maybe it was some sort of tribute. That could've been his friend."
Optimus now walked over to the other bodies. He surveyed each and every one of them.
"I don't know if this will work, but I have to try.” Optimus said to himself.
"What's he doing?” Twilight asked no one in particular.
But then she realized it, "Uh oh..."
"Uh oh? What do you mean uh oh?!” asked a now frantic Spike.
"I might be wrong, but I think he's going to try to revive his friends."
Spike was now in a panic. "What?! They'll find us for sure if he does that!"
"Then let's stop lollygagging and leave while he's distracted!” suggested Rarity.
"Agreed. On the count of three, we make a run for it, ok?"
Both Spike and Rarity nodded their heads in agreement.
"Ok, here we go...one... two... thre-"
"Wait!", Spike interrupted.
"What?"
"Are we going on three, or after three?"
Twilight simply facehoofed, "Ugh, let's just go!"
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Optimus could've sworn that he saw something run out of the cave. But that didn't matter now, what mattered is that he had to revive his fallen allies. They seemed to be alive, but only by a thread. They needed energon, the powersource that all Cybertronians require, and for some strange reason, he almost an overload of energon within his body. He had plenty to spare, but he just hopped that the transfer he was about to do would work. He held out his hands, and out of his fingers extended what appeared to be tendrils. Each one connected with a nearby Autobot, transfering as much energon as possible from Optimus into them. But he still had his limits; Optimus could already feel his energy droping at an increasing rate. If he knew that he wouldn't have enough energon for all his comrades, so he only focused on a select few, two of his greatest officers; Prowl and Jazz, His most skilled medic; Ratchet, and possibly his most trusted ally; Bumblebee. He retracted the tendrills, waiting to see if his plan worked. And, sure enough, it did. One by one the Autobots awoken, and were confused.
"What the? Optimus, is that you? What happened?", asked Prowl. Prowl also took a moment to check his surroundings, which made him more confused, "And just where the hell are we?"
"I have no idea Prowl," answered the Autobot leader, "I was hoping that possibly one of you would know."
All four Autobots did their best to try and remember, but, like Optimus, they just couldn't.
"Sorry Optimus," apologized Prowl, "But I just can't seem to remember. I think it might've had something to do with the Decepticons..."
"You always blame the Decepticons." pointed out Bumblebee, "Besides; I don't think they had anything to do with this. Although I do recall them being there when this all happened. I think they captured us, but then something else happened... I just can't remember."
"Well, whatever happened," said Jazz, "it defiantly messed us up. Just look at all these dents and scratchs! It's gonna take me forever to buff them out!"
Seeing as how Bumblebee, Prowl, and Jazz didn't have any answers, Optimus turned to Ratchet to see if he had any input on this crisis, "What about you Ratchet? Do you know anything about what happened to his?"
Ratchet scratched his head out of confusion, "Sorry Optimus, but for the first time since I joined the Autobots, I don't know what's going on. I don't know anything at all about this situation. And I almost always know! All I can gather is that we've been in some sort of stasis, for how long? Well, once again, I don't know."
“And what about the other Autobots? I know we weren’t the only ones Megatron captured.”
“Dead? Missing? Who knows, like I said before, I just don’t know. I’ll mark them down as MIA until we come across them.”
Optimus was stumped. Nor he or his men knew where they were, or what was going on. The only solution he could think of was to investigate his surroundings more.
"Hey guys! Check it out!"
Everyone turned to Bumblebee who was standing by a pile of what appeared to be guns.
"Check it out! I found our weapons! Let’s hope they still work..."
"Well this is somewhat of a start," Prowl stated as he picked up his laser rifle, "We can grab our guns and get the heck out of this cave. Maybe even do some recons work? Hopefully we'll find another Autobot or a human that might know something about what's going on."
"Great idea Prowl, I want you, Jazz, and Bumblebee to set out and try to find some sort of civilization. Do not use deadly force unless absolutely necessary, is that understood?"
"Yes sir!” they all answered in unison.
"Good. Ratchet, I want you to stay here with me and try to help revive the other Autobots."
"I'll try..."
"That's all I need from you Ratchet." Optimus then turned to Prowl, Jazz and Bumblebee, "Autobots, do I even need to say it? Transform and roll out!"
Note: If you’re confused about which version of the Transformers I’m using, it’s generation one, well sort of, it defiantly has the same mythology as generation one, but I wouldn’t say it has the same continuity. As far as appearance wise, they look the same as like they did in generation one, but sort of battle damaged. Anyways, I'm sure you're wondering what was going on near the beginning of this chapter, well, you'll find out next chapter. I don't want to spoil anything. Again, sorry if it was rushed. 'till next time!