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// Episode 18: Throwing the Kitchen Sink 
// Story: Star Trek Equestria: Reformatted: Wild Access 
// by Captain_Cosmos 
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Last time on Star Trek Equestria Reformatted...

“You are a month away from your entrance exam.”

“Put in 5 hours a day of studying.”

“As the old saying goes, treat her like a lady, she’ll always bring you home.”

“We were thinking of adopting again, grow our family.”

“Captain, there’s something you need to see.”

“Is that…my pod?”

“We need a new plan and we need it soon!”

“It will strike fear into their hearts knowing we can now match their capabilities.”

And now the continuation...

On the asteroid discovery site, Proxima, Blitz, and Obelisk saw the three ships closing in. “Aww fudge.” Blitzwing said.

“Orders Captain?” Obelisk asked.

“What do you think?” Proxima asked. “Get that pod into the shuttle and let’s throttle it back to the Equestria!” She ordered, Blitz and Obelisk springing into action.

On the lead Terrorcon ship, a minion turned to its captain. “Sir, it would seem that that Federation ship is here, and we are almost directly on top of one of their away teams.” It reported.

“Then what are you waiting for? DESTROY THEM!” The captain growled.




(Start to about 1:24)
Space: The final frontier. This is the story of the USS Equestria. A ship fresh out of construction, with a crew fresh from the Academy. Together they will embark on a mission of discovery, and evolution. They will explore a strange new frontier, seek out new life and a new civilization, and boldly go farther than anyone has ever gone.



On the Asteroid ground, Proxima’s ears twitched as she heard, through magic, the ship’s weapons powering up. She turned and glanced up to see a weapon port aimed right at them. “Incoming!” She exclaimed as she lit her horn and erected a shield around herself and the shuttle while Obelisk and Blitz secured the precious cargo on the shuttle. The shield went up just in time to get hit by the shockwave of a powerful dark Energon blast that missed it by just a hair. The resulting explosion knocked Proxima off her hooves and sent her flying back right through the shuttle’s door into the shuttle itself, slamming against a console. “Oof!” She grunted before her world blacked out, falling into unconsciousness.

Obelisk, seeing what happened, immediately rushed to her side and activated his Combadge Tricorder to make sure that Proxima was still alive. “Blitzwing! I think we’re gonna need some cover.” He told the jet cybertronian.

Blitzwing understood what Obelisk meant, and rushed back outside, transformed into his jet mode, and rocketed up towards the three ships. “Bring it on Scrapheads! Eat Energon!” He exclaimed as he opened up his weapons on them.

Obelisk meanwhile got into the shuttle pilot seat and immediately took off from the asteroid at full speed. “Shuttle 122327-01 to USS Equestria. Captain Maxima’s down. She’s still alive but unconscious. Blitz is providing cover so we can escape, but some support would be appreciated right now!” He reported.

On the Bridge of the Equestria, Shron, Yamik, and Harmony returned to the bridge and took their stations. Norman Meanwhile spoke up. “Our Energon reserves are at 85%, we were at 75% when we arrived earlier this morning.” He reported.

“So packing up and leaving the area isn’t an option?” Asked Cmdr Prestine.

“I would prefer not to leave.” Sela responded. “Red Alert! Weapons hot deflector to full. Paris, plot intercept course, best reasonable speed.” She ordered as the ship reacted to Red Alert accordingly.

“Cmdr. It took our shuttle 3 hours to get there. At our best possible speed as opposed to their best. It will still take an hour and a half to get there.” Paris reported.

“Then take us to black alert.” Sela responded. “We shall use our spore bridge to get there quickly.” She explained.

“Are you sure commander?” Norman asked, remembering the recharge time that Baker said their Spore Bridge generator needed.

“They will encounter us soon enough. Best to engage our enemy away from the volatile Energon.” Sela reasoned.

“Aye sir.” Everyone on the bridge responded as Prestine readied the deflector. “Cmdr Baker. Is the Spore Bridge ready?” She asked through the com.

“Spore Bridge?” Asked Baker in response. “What do we need to activate that for?”

“Terrorcons are enroute to our location. Currently chasing down one of our shuttles, and we need to get there as soon as possible.” Prestine responded.

“So that’s why we went to red alert. Priming Spore Bridge now.” Baker responded.

Norman, taking initiative, contacted their shuttle in distress. “Lt Obelisk, we’re preparing to spore bridge directly to your location. Once we arrive, beeline to the shuttlebay, and prepare for a rough ride.” He added.

Meanwhile, Shron glanced at Harmony as he checked to make sure all the weapons systems were online. “CyberSpark, prime the MultiVector system, and be ready to engage it on command.” He ordered.

“Aye sir.” Harmony responded as she did as she was told. While she worked, a probably dumb thought occurred to her. “Sir, should we try to route Energon into our weapons system? To give our weapons a kick?” She asked.

“I like where your head’s at thinking tactically, but there’s no time to even test if it’s possible.” Shron responded. “Especially with our people in great peril.”

“Baker to bridge. Spore Bridge is charged and ready. Baker’s voice came from the intercom.

“Mr Paris, on your mark.” Sela responded.

“Engaging Spore Bridge, setting exit portal coordinates in our shuttle’s flight path.” Paris responded. The Equestria’s deflector dish glowed bright until it shot a beam into space. The beam widened and created a Space Bridge portal.

Meanwhile, Obelisk and Blitzwing soared through the asteroid cluster with a squadron of Terrorcon fighters chasing after them and firing, causing them to fly erratically to avoid being shot. Blitzwing growled as he turned on his center axis, and let his momentum continue to carry him forward as he unleashed a round of blasts at the fighters. “I hope the Equestria gets here soon! Because otherwise these things are going to get a LOT of time to shoot at us!” He exclaimed.

As if on Cue, Obelisk saw a portal open up in the distance, and out soared the USS Equestria, making him smile. “Ask and you shall receive Blitz. The Cavalry has arrived!” He reported.

As the Equestria approached the dog chase, the crew got a good look at the three starships that were approaching from the other side. “Whoa. Never seen a ship like that before.” Paris Commented.

“Cmdr Shron, target the fighters chasing our people out there and disable with extreme prejudice.” Sela ordered.

“Aye sir.” Shron responded. As the USS Equestria flew overhead of the dog chase, it opened up its phasers and destroyed the entire squadron. Blitzwing smiled with glee in his jet form. “Thanks for the assist Equestria!” He called out.

“Anytime Blitz.” Norman on Coms responded. “Obelisk, land in the shuttle bay.” He ordered.

“Aye sir.” Obelisk responded, setting course for the shuttlebay.

“Now, let us dispatch those ships quickly. Engage Multivector Mode. Attack Pattern Gamma 7.” Sela ordered.

“Aye captain.” Harmony responded. “All hands, we are engaging Multivector mode. Brace yourselves.” She announced as she pressed the button.

“MultiVector Mode engaging. Separation sequence initiated.” The computer said.

On the bridge of the lead Terrorcon ship, the commanding officer saw the Equestria split into its three parts. “Ah. They have engaged their separation capability. Let’s show them our new trick. All megabots, disengage and transform!” He ordered.

The ships, as soon as the order was given, began to split into three parts, much to the shock of everyone on the Equestria. “Uh, I’m not the only one seeing that right?” Yamik asked as the three parts came to a stop.

“You have got to be kidding me. Those scrapheads stole our trick?!” Shron exclaimed.

Norman was pulled out of his own shock by an alert on his console. “They’re hailing us.” He reported.

“On screen.” Sela responded as she stood up and approached the viewscreen. The Viewscreen changed images to the Terrorcon captain. 

“Attention USS Equestria. As you can see, you are no longer the only ones with the ability to multiply your numbers. Now we have your power.” He announced.

“That is evident. What do you expect to change from any other time we have sparred?” Sela asked.

“You are outnumbered three to one. Surely you can see how hopeless your situation is.” The Terrorcon responded.

“We have overcome being outnumbered in the past. We shall see if that streak continues today.” Sela replied simply.

“You are foolish to think you will survive this battle. Hand over the Cyber Compass, or we will take it.” The Terrorcon captain responded.

At that moment, the 9 detached ships began to transform, converting themselves from ships to robots. Blitzwing, who was still in space, witnessed this. “Oh bloody hell.” He exclaimed.

On the bridge, the crew also saw what the Terrorcon ships did and all stared at the screen in shock, as if they didn’t think that would happen. “The ships...” Prestine said.

“They’re titans?” Harmony asked. Her mind racing. She did not think she would meet others like her so soon. And make matters worse, they worked for the Terrorcons?

“No, not titans.” Blitzwing responded through the Coms. “They’re Megabots. Smaller than Titans but still many times larger than a normal Cybertronian.” He explained. “Not only that, as we just saw, they were also combined into just 3 ships a second ago. Those scrapheads actually managed something thought to be impossible. MEGABOT COMBINERS!” He deduced.

The Terrorcon captain smirked. “I see one of you at least has a brain module.” He said. “Now, the Cyber Compass.” He demanded.

Sela’s mind raced. While before she had been confident that they could take on this force, now her confidence was waning. After a moment to consider, she made a signal to cut the connection, which Norman did. With the screen going out back to its normal view of space, she turned to her fellow officers. “We need options. We cannot leave the cluster until our Energon reserves are at 100%, and I would rather we keep the battle as far away from our mining team as possible.” She told them.

“What we need to do is divide and conquer.” Blitzwing suggested. “We can’t take all of them on together. We need to split up and get them to chase us.”

Shron ran through the strategy in his head before nodding. “That might be best Cmdr.” Shron spoke up. “Except by my count, each segment would need to get three of those giants to chase them. Even with our firepower, not sure we can stand up to three of those with one segment.” He explained.

Sela considered the plan. She glanced back around to look outside, and noticed the asteroids, at that moment, an idea came to her. “Then we shall use our environment to our advantage. Paris, set all three segments to fly in a random direction in the asteroid field. Blitzwing, follow the alpha segment.” She ordered.

“Aye sir.” Paris responded as he did as he was told.

“What did you have in mind Cmdr?” Blitzwing asked.

“We are going to see how well our adversaries fly in a landmine of obstacles.” Sela responded as she sat back in the captain’s chair. “Mr Paris, Engage on your mark.” She said.

“Aye sir. Hang on to something.” Paris said as he hit a button and sent all three segments blasting off at full speed, going over the Terrorcon Megabots and scattering.

The Terrorcon captain saw what was happening and he growled. “After them! Three to a segment!” He ordered. The Megabots complied and went after the segments in groups of three.

In the shuttle bay situated in the beta segment, Obelisk had managed to get the shuttle landed just before the segment started its combat maneuvering. He opened the hatch in the back and let a pair of doctors rush in to tend to the Captain. “Has her condition changed at all since you took off?” Asked one of them to Obelisk.

Obelisk shook his head in response. “I don’t know. I scanned her once before I took the pilot’s seat to avoid being turned into space dust by those scrapheads.” He responded, glancing at the pod, which now had two green dots and two red dots. “As for that thing, someone ought to do a deeper scan on it. I heard something about there being a life form in there.” He added.

One of the doctors turned their attention to the pod and scanned it with their medically tuned tricorder combadge. “There’s definitely something in there. We need to get both the captain and this pod to the medbay.”

“Nnngh…god those have one hell of a kick.” Came a groggy voice. All eyes turned to see Proxima waking up.

Proxima’s eyes fluttered open as she tried to sit up. “Ugh. Please tell me we’re back on the Equestria.” She said groggily.

The doctor by her side helped ease her up into a sitting position. “Technically yes.” He said. “But currently the Equestria is in three pieces and we’re being chased by the Terrorcons.” He explained.

“The pod?” Proxima asked, glancing around until she saw the pod. She breathed a sigh or relief that it appeared everything got back to the Equestria ok.

“We made it back intact Captain.” Obelisk responded.

“Good.” Proxima responded as she began to stand. “I gotta get back to the—“

“Hold it right there. You were unconscious not even 20 seconds ago.” The doctor beside her cut her off. “You resuming command mid battle without a medical examination is out of the question.” He explained. “Both you and the pod are going right to the medbay.”

Proxima opened her mouth to say she was fine, but she saw the stern look on the doctor’s face, and sighed. “Fine.” She relented.

“Now let’s go.” The doctor said. Obelisk got behind the pod and pushed it out of the shuttle as they all got out, Proxima looking out the stone bay force field and seeing three robots chasing them. ‘Ok maybe me resuming command mid battle isn’t the best idea after all.’ She thought, recognizing that she didn’t have enough information.

Back over to the Alpha Segment, Blitz trailed behind to intercept whatever torpedoes the three megabots fired, but that was about all he could do. He fired his lasers and shot down another torpedo. “We need to find some way to get these guys to crash!” He commed the Equestria. “In their robot modes they can more easily dodge our weapons.” He explained.

“We are open to ideas Blitzwing.” Sela said from the bridge. “You know more about these things than we do.”

“The best way to get the drop on these things is to flank them. But you’re too far away for that to pull a bait and switch and my weapons ain’t gonna do jack squat.” Blitzwing responded.

At the Tactical console with Shron. Harmony heard the conversation, and had started running through possible things they could try, when she suddenly saw something appear on her area of the console. It appeared to be a simulation of the Alpha Segment using its tractor beam to hurl asteroidal debris at the megabots chasing them. Her mind raced as she struggled to process what she was seeing, because the simulation had come up on its own.

She was pulled out of her thoughts when she heard Shron Addressing her. “JWO CyberSpark. Fire a spread of Quantum Torpedoes, set them to heat seeking--” Shron started before he noticed Harmony’s area of the console, and the simulation that to him, Harmony had been running. “Is that the Alpha Segment using the Riker Beta Maneuver?” He asked.

Harmony looked at Shron, then glanced at the Simulation. “Uh...If this is what you call it then I...guess so?” She asked, confused still.

Shron, after thinking about it, smiled. “Harmony you are a genius!” He said. “Prestine! Prime the Tractor Beam, target Asteroidal Debris.” He called out.

“What is it that you are planning to do Cmdr Shron?” Sela asked, looking back at him from the Captain’s chair.

“Harmony had the idea that we pull a Will Riker from the 25th century and hurl rocks at our opponents.” Shron said.

Everyone on the bridge glanced at Harmony, who was at a loss for words. She wanted to say that it actually wasn’t her idea, but she was too stunned to come up with anything. “Unorthodox, unexpected, will probably blindside them. If this Will Riker person invented that tactic, They have my respect.” Blitzwing commented. “Nice work Harmony.”

“B-But I didn’t--” Harmony tried to say before being cut off. Everyone turning their attention away from her.

“Blitzwing, you might want to get out of the way.” Prestine said as she primed the Tractor Beam and set its target. “Tractor Beam Primed and suitable debris targeted. Don’t miss Shron.” She told Shron.

Shron nodded and activated the tractor beam. Snagging one of the debris they were coming up on. He then swiped the console to make the tractor beam pull the debris straight towards one of the Megabots. Before the targeted bot could react, the asteroid slammed into them and slammed them against a larger asteroid, destroying them. Shron pumped his fist when they confirmed the kill. “Direct hit. One Megabot down.” He announced.

“Target another asteroid. See if you cannot get two in one shot.” Sela ordered.

On the bridge of the lead Megabot, which was chasing the Beta Segment, a Terrorcon turned to its captain. “Sir, we just lost 3 Megabots.” It reported.

“What?!” The captain asked, shocked. “How is that possible?!”

“It appears they threw rocks at us.” The Terrorcon reported, only to get disintegrated by the Captain’s transformed hand blaster.

“Imbeciles!” He declared.

“Captain. The three Megabots chasing their Gamma Segment just collided with thrown asteroids!” Another Terrorcon reported.

The captain glanced at his console, and saw three enemy signals changing course to Converge on their location. “Destroy that Segment we’re chasing. If we’re going to go down we’re taking one of their own with us.” He declared.

“Aye sir. Focusing fire.” The Terrorcon responded.

In the Beta Segment, Doctor Boimler finished his scan of Maxima and deactivated his HUD. “You’re lucky that blast didn’t do more serious harm. Just knocked you out.” He commented to the captain.

“Yeah. Lucky.” Proxima responded. “So, am I clear?” She asked.

“Once this battle’s over you’re cleared to resume command.” Phlox responded as the segment rocked. “If we still have a ship left after this.” He added.

Proxima called up her combadge HUD and connected it to the ship’s sensors, it showed three enemies chasing the Beta Segment, but it also showed three friendly signals converging on them. “I think we’ll be fine.” She said as she breathed a sigh of relief. During the examination Boimler told her about the Terrorcons’ new trick. She was glad to see that Sela managed to overcome the odds, Once again reaffirming she was the right choice for First Officer. Proxima deactivated her HUD, and glanced over at the pod, which had a team of blue and white Shirts huddled around it.

“Another pod like yours. I guess that proves Starfleet’s theory on yours not being the only one.” Boimler commented.

“Indeed. But the question remains, what’s inside? What will come out when--” Proxima started before she saw the third dot in the row turn from Red to green. “What will come out when that last dot turns Green.” Proxima corrected herself. Her mind racing with possibilities.

“Whatever it will be, Teletran’s now got another pod to pick apart to get it’s flight path.”

“If this pod is anything like mine it will be tough to crack. And Teletran had a 22 year head start thanks to Starfleet spending 22 years trying to crack the code.” Proxima responded. “This one, he’ll be going at it with the Pod at full strength.”

Meanwhile, in the Alpha Segment, Paris turned an Asteroid and saw the three remaining megabots chasing their Beta counterpart. “Cmdr, we have a visual on the three remaining bogeys, and Gamma Segment is coming up next to us.” He reported.

“Stay on them Ensign. Cmdr Shron, unleash the Hydra on them.” Sela ordered.

“Gladly.” Shron responded before he powered up both phasers and Quantum Torpedoes, unleashing all hell on the Megabots from behind.

On the lead Megabot, the captain was thrown off their seat when the Quantum Torpedoes slammed into their Megabot’s body. Sparks were flying everywhere as consoles exploded. The last thing he saw was the Beta segment of the USS Equestria firing Quantum Torpedoes directly at the head of the Megabot. It hit before he could react, and like the other Megabots, the lead Megabot exploded in a raging inferno, Blitzwing did a barrel roll in celebration. “And THAT is how we roll!” He said.

On the Bridge, the crew breathed a sigh of relief. “For a moment there, I feared the worst.” Yamik commented.

“Yeah. But thanks to Harmony’s quick thinking.” Shron responded, smiling at Harmony. “We pulled through.”

Harmony winced when Shron said it was her idea. At that moment she didn’t know what to do. Would they believe her if she said the Simulation ran on its own without her prompting it? It sounded ridiculous even to her. ‘I need to talk to the captain later.’ She deduced, before she noticed something pop up on her area of the Tactical Console. It showed a schematic of the ship...and a red dot blinked highlighting the docking bay for the captain’s yacht. ‘What?” She thought to herself.

Oblivious to Harmony’s conundrum, Sela sat back in the captain’s chair. “Mr Paris, Dock up the three segments and set a course back to our Mining Operation.” She ordered.

“Aye captain.” Paris responded, complying with the order.

Just moments later, A voice came over the intercom. “Cmdr Sela report to the medbay...there’s something you need to see.” Said Proxima.

Sela raised an eyebrow, curious what Proxima meant by that. “On my way.” She responded as she stood up and tapped her combadge to insta-beam over to the beta segment where sickbay was located.

To Be Continued...