After I finished raising the moon I made my way to the watch tower where I encountered my dear sister, who was weary from a full day of watch. I descended and landed next to her.
"Rest my sister, as always I will guard the night." Celestia exited the tower without any sort of resistance, eager for some rest for tomorrow.
Ever since we received a anonymous warning that something would befall Canterlot security was increased almost triple what it normally is. I had also received word that Starscream was possibly behind the threat from one of my spies I keep in Ponyville that I keep to watch over the...visitors, and I hoped that he would be the only problem.
Moments later something moving quickly caught my eye, a ripple of wind almost. I turned and shouted "Who goes there?!" To my relief I saw only Twilight Sparkle running in the distance, "Stay indoors Twilight Sparkle." I warned as I returned back to the telescope on the tower. All was silent for but a moment after, until I heard a voice whisper directly behind me.
"You should worry about yourself more." a shrill voice said ominously. I turned to face the intruder only to have my vision darkened, and the feel of cold metal encompass and silence me.
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The alarm in our room was buzzing loudly, until I heard the distinct noise of Grimlock's grumbling and the sound of metal being crushed. I lifted my head and looked about my room for a brief moment before I started to get myself prepared for the day. I wanted to run by the castle early so I can triple check all of my equipment for my performance tonight. I made my way into the kitchen and began to make myself breakfast when I noticed the actual time.
"Guys!" I shouted to all of them, getting a collective groan "You were supposed to be up and out of here hours ago!"
At that moment Tracks shot up eyes filled with panic. "My word, did we really sleep in that long, oh this won't do not at all, no sir. Autobots get up! We simply must be ready, I do not wish to be late, especially when I promised Rarity that we would be there early so that she-" a pillow to his face effectively cut his rambling off as Grimlock slowly began to stand up and tower over all the other Autobots.
"Grimlock no care about weddings. Grimlock tired and want sleep."
"But don't you see if we're not dressed and looking our best we'll make a..." he gasped over-dramatically "Bad impression!"
Jazz rolled onto his stomach, stood up, walked over to Tracks and grabbed him by the shoulders "Ro-Bro...calm down"
"But what about getting ready, there's a chance if we hurry we can still make it but-"
Tracks was cut off by the sound of metal plates shifting and clanking as Jazz transformed, but not into a robot, instead the plates making up his torso flipped around and made a tuxedo and his mane and tail retracted and came back out styled and ready.
Jazz released his grip of Tracks, who crossed his forelegs "That just ruins the principle of things."
They shared a brief laugh as the rest of them followed Jazz's lead and just transformed to look ready for the wedding. By this time I was eating my cereal and I noticed something was amiss again. "Hey where's Shockwave, Soundwave, and the Minicons?"
"Well knowing those two, they've trained themselves to wake up at any moment, cuz from what I heard Decepticons who didn't wake up on time where punished pretty hard." Blaster said, "So it's my guess that they already made there way to the wedding. As for the Minicons, Rumble and Frenzy spent the night with those girls they always hang with, and Ravage and Laserbeak stayed with that other mare, the shy one"
"So why didn't they wake us up?"
Blaster shrugged "Who knows, but like Tracks said if we hurry we can make it on time."
I nodded "I"ll catch up with you guys," I said waving them off with my hoof. They nodded as they all hurried out of my apartment. I was able to take my time, because unlike them I could show up at a later time. I grabbed my sunglasses, style my mane, and hurried out of the door. As I was getting ready I began thinking about the possibility for today and I smiled. "It's gonna be a good day."
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I stood in the crowd next to Rumble and Frenzy as the wedding ceremony began. The three fillies who Rumble and Frenzy spent their time with began to hop into the room, their mouths holing flower baskets which they let swing to allow the petals inside to fall out. I rolled my eyes at how disturbingly similar the ceremony on this planet was to that of the humans. I scanned the crowd, generally ignoring the bride-to-be's entrance, spotting Shockwave standing in the first row. Apparently the pony who was supposed to watch over him was missing, but she and Cadence apparently had a disagreement the night before and was uninvited. I spotted him, but I also spotted an off looking purple stallion in the crowd. I tried to recognize him when I noticed what was going on at the altar.
"Princess Cadence and Shining Armor, t is my great pleasure to announce you-" I heard Celestia say before she was cut off by a distant voice shouting 'STOOOOP!'
Everyone in the room turned to see Twilight Sparkle standing in the door way, sending mummers throughout the crowd
Cadence grunted and stomped her hoof "Why does she have to be so protective of her brother?" she said angrily. Celestia and Shining Armor looked at her and noticed something was terribly wrong, she began t o cry the most forced cry I've ever heard "Why does she have to ruin my special day?"
"Because it's not your special day! It's mine!" another Cadence, who looked beat up, said.
"What?!" The first Cadence, who I could tell was an obvious fake said. "But how did you escape my bride's maids?"
Twilight and Cadence exchanged knowing glances and explained in vivid detail how they did it.
"Hmph, clever, but you're still too late!" the fake Cadence said
"I-I don't understand," Applejack started "How can there be two of 'em?"
"She's a changeling!" The real Cadence began "She takes the form of somepony you love and gains power by feeding off your love for them!" At that moment I rolled my eyes and I could tell Shockwave did as well.
The fake Cadence's eyes began to glow green as a ring of green energy surrounded her and formed a pillar. He skin began to shed itself revealing a black twisted insectoid form. She let out an evil laugh when she was done "Right you are princess!" she began, her voice sounded like two over lapping each other. "And as queen of the changelings, it is up to me to find food for my subjects. Equestria has more love than any place I've ever encountered. My fellow changelings will be able to devour so much of it, that we will gain more power than we have ever dreamed off."
"They'll never get the chance, Shining Armor's protection spell will keep them from ever even reaching us!" Cadence shouted at her, making her laugh
"Oh I doubt that." She turned to Shining Armor, her horn glowing green "Isn't that right dear?"
"Mmmhmmm" he hummed as he nodded his head
Cadence looked furious as she charged forward, attempting to help her husband, but was blocked by the queen
"Uh uh uh." she began charging her jagged horn again "Don't want to go back to the cage again now do you?" the queen said, causing Cadence to back down. "Ever since I took your place I've been feeding of Shining Armor's love for you. Every moment he grows weaker, and so does his spell. Even now my minions are chipping away at it." the queen said as she looked upward and laughed again. "He may not be my husband, but he is under my total control now!" the queen boasted eliciting gasps from Twilight and Cadence. the queen continued "And I'm sorry to say, he will be unable to preform his duties as captain of the royal guard!"
"Not my Shining Armor!" Cadence cried out.
"Soon my changeling army will break through. First we take Canterlot, and then all of Equestria!" she said flying up as a flourish
'Telling her plan in detail...that's a Starscream move right there' I heard Laserbeak say from cross the room, forcing Rumble and Frenzy to try and hold in their stifle laughs.
"No." Princess Celestia said with authority "You won't. You may have made it impossible for Shining Armor to preform his spell, but now that you have so foolishly revealed your true self..." Celestia said as she and the queen locked horns "I will protect my subjects from you!" she shouted as she took to the air. Her horn brimmed with power as she fired a golden bolt of energy at the queen, who fired her own green bolt at the princess. At first the princess's energy seemed to be overwhelming the queen, until the queen began pushing back and her energy powered through Celestia' and struck her horn, sending her to the ground.
"Princess Celestia!" Twilight Shouted as she ran to her teacher's side
The queen looked baffled and began gloating about her victory, until she was interrupted by the laughter of Shockwave.
"What is so funny, I just defeated you're precious princess!" The queen shouted at him angrily
"Oh no..." he said ominously "You just defeated my last variable."
"What are you talking about!" the queen shouted, at that moment the barrier above shattered and several changelings broke into the room and surrounded their queen. "No matter, my invasion has begun and there is nothing you can do to stop me!"
"Oh, but I already have...tell me something. You work on a hive mind correct." He pointed to two changelings floating by the queen "Can you hear the thoughts of those two?"
She turned her head around to see that the two changelings he pointed to weren't changelings at all, but instead were Hardshell and Sharpshot
"Decepticons! Transform and rise up!" Shockwave shouted as he began to transform, along with the two changelings and the one pony I spotted in the crowd.
"A neat trick!" the queen shouted "But ultimately pointless, attack them my changelings!" the queen shouted, but her minions did not respond to her orders "I said attack!" she shouted again, but again no changeling followed her order. Instead they turned they're attention to her and began to slowly move towards her. "What is this? Why can't I hear the voices of my children?!" she shouted
"They're no longer you're minions organic," Shockwave began as he held up his hand "They're mine," he snapped his fingers and all at the same time each changeling enveloped themselves in green energy which disappeared and each changeling had a Deceptiocon logo on their torso's. Shockwave snapped his fingers again and the changelings began to fire this green matter from their horns at the queen and Celestia ensnaring them.
"How did you turn my children against me!" the queen shouted as she struggled to break free of the ooze covering her entire body, but her head.
"I simply had one of my own minions infiltrate your hive, and detect the frequency at which you control your hive mind with. From there it was a simple matter of accessing that frequency, disrupting it, and replacing it with my own. It is how I gained control of the Insecticons the first time. However, I cannot have you trying to gain command once more so I'll do what I did to the queen of the Insectiocon hive." He leaned over and got face to face with her " And dispose of you" He took her in his grasp and released a large amount of energy, electrocuting her and causing her to cry out in pain. Once her body went limp her simply tossed her aside and turned his attention to Celestia, who was still surrounded Twilight and her friends.
"As for you, I'd never let good possible experiments go to waste." he said looking at Celestia "Where as you, Twilight, you and your friends will be executed, I wouldn't want you to prepare the weapon you call 'The elements of harmony."
"May we eat the organics Shockwave wave wave!" Kickback squealed excitedly!
"No, I need you to find the designated targets bring them to me, if you encounter the Autobots destroy them."
The Insecticons chattered eagerly as each one transformed and leaped out the windows to find their prey. Shockwave turned his attention back to the six mares who were cowering in fear of the massive being before them. "A pity you had to be organic Twilight, it's rare to find someone as like minded as me." he held up his gun arm and began to charge it. Shockwave was just about to fire until a metal fist interrupted his aim and he fired a bolt off in a random direction.
"Soundwave! I should've known you would have betrayed me." he shouted at me as he regained his balance
"Rumble, Frenzy, Laserbeak, Ravage. Locate the Autobots."
My Minicons all transformed and began their assigned order. A few changelings still in the room made a dive bomb for the girls, but they were easily deflected by Rumble's pile drivers. Frenzy drew his guns and began firing at the others.
"If ya wanna live follow us!" Frenzy shouted, causing all then ponies still in the room to rush out the door.
Once the room was clear Shockwave and I stood our ground and stared at one another in silence. We each began calculating every possible move and attack, we both knew that for one of us, this would be our last battle.
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A/N: Sorry to bring bad news guys, but after this chapter will be the last one for a while. Next week is 'biketober fest' *rolls eyes* and I work at a popular biker spot and I'm am gonna be busy all that week so no chapter then