Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy watched in awe as all their Elements began to glow.
They all suddenly felt themselves being brought back to Optimus' body by an unknown force. When they stood by his corpse, The Matrix of Leadership began to glow with pure intensity.
Ironhide was even more surprised to see The Matrix float away from his hands and hover above Optimus' body. The Mane 6 watched as their very bodies began to float off the ground. Each of them was circling around Prime's body as they continued to float; their Elements burning with raw power.
The Matrix glowed brighter than before; it glowed ten times than that! Twilight and her friends shielded their eyes as The Matrix was no longer visible.
"What's going on, Twilight?!" Rainbow managed to say.
"I....I don't know!"
Just as Twilight said that, a white beam shot from her tiara and struck The Matrix of Leadership! The beam made a powerful shocking noise when it connected, but it wasn't the only one.
Rarity's Element lit up and fired a purple beam directly at the bright Matrix. Then there was Pinkie's Element, it fired a light blue blast in the shining light. Followed by Rainbow's bright red beam of energy colliding with The Matrix, then there was Fluttershy's creating a pink beam that also stuck The Matrix, and finally there was Applejack's Element that finished the array of colors with a bright orange beam that struck The Matrix of Leadership!
All six mares were hovering around Optimus' body as The Matrix glowed brighter than the sun! All of them had their eyes closed as the light was too strong. The Autobots shielded their optics as The Matrix glowed brighter with The Elements of Harmony continuing its light show. Shining Armor and the Royal Guard turned their heads away just the same as they didn't know what was going to happen.
Suddenly, Twilight's eyes lit up to a white glow as all their Elements shot one final blast into The Matrix, the intense power displayed here was enough to fill crates of Energon cubes!
Finally, their Elements dimmed down and the six mares slowly levitated to the ground. When their hooves collided with the earth, Rainbow rubbed her head and asked, "What just happened?"
Twilight shook her head to regain some focus when she looked at The Matrix.
"Girls, look!" Twilight pointed out.
The Autobots had mouths wide open at what they were witnessing; the Royal Guard tilted their heads and moved in closer as did the mares. The bright beam slowly disintegrated and all remained was The Matrix of Leadership.
But something was different about it.....
....it's once bright blue core was now a rainbow of colors.
As The Matrix hovered above Optimus' body, the mares walked in closer and witnessed as it slowly sank to the ground. The Matrix of Leadership turned itself by some unknown force and slowly landed straight in Optimus' chest!
The Matrix glowed brighter than before and Optimus' armor began rebuilding itself!
All the dents were smoothed out, all the cuts were fixed, and best of all.....
.....the massive hole in his chest closed up.
Optimus' entire body began glowing with a red aura of an unknown force. Twilight moved in and felt Optimus' hand, she suddenly felt better, like all the evils she had endeared through this day had been forgotten. She backed away when Prime's body began to shake.
The Element Bearers stood in awe as Optimus Prime's lifeless body began to tremble with a red aura of energy surrounding him! Rarity squealed with glee when she saw Optimus' paint returning to its normal color!
The red aura disappeared and Optimus' colorful body laid on the ground.
The Autobots were flustered with what they had witnessed; none of them had ever seen something like this before, none of them knew what was going to happen. The Royal Guard felt the same way as Shining Armor stepped in closer.
The six mares were very close to Optimus now. Twilight went close to his still face and looked into the dark eyes of the fallen Autobot.
She backed away when the eyes lit up blue.
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“Die and never return!”
Megatron scowled in hatred as he swung his mace side to side in an attempt to hit Discord across the face. It made things really difficult when he kept disappearing all the time. Megatron luckily got a hit but instead Discord grabbed his mace and used it on him.
“Too slow!” Discord shouted and hit Megatron in the side of the head. The Decepticon Leader skidded to the side of the roof and laid there.
As Discord slowly approached, Megatron could hear what he was saying.
“The great Decepticon leader is at my mercy.” Discord snickered when he towered over him.
Megatron lost it and transformed into his tank mode, he shot one blast that struck his enemy directly in the chest. As Discord flew back, Megatron changed form and regained his mace.
“I have no more mercy left for you!”
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Optimus slowly but surely began to come back. His optics were now fully repaired as he began to stir on the gravel. His hearing processors were coming back as he heard several gasps from both Autobots and ponies.
As he slowly stood up, he looked forward to see the expressions of Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie. Their expressions were a mix of shock and happiness.
And they showed it.
“Optimus!” Twilight screamed and teleported on his shoulder. She then clutched the side of his faceplate and planted several kisses where his cheek was supposed to be. Optimus watched as each of his newest friends hugged his feet, he bent down so they could embrace him closer.
Twilight looked at him and smiled with tears staining her cut up face. But she didn’t care…. These were tears of joy.
“Optimus….we…I thought you died.” Twilight told him with her hooves still on his faceplate. The other mares nodded.
“Yeah…how did you come back?” Pinkie Pie asked.
Optimus gently picked up the little unicorn on his shoulder and placed her with the rest of the ponies. While the equines were busy staring at the Autobot leader, Shining Armor and his Guards were baffled at what they had just witnessed.
The Autobots were no better.
As lightning rocked through the Equestrian skies, Jazz, Cliffjumper, Ironhide, Ratchet, Bumblebee, Warpath, Wheeljack, Sideswipe, Perceptor, and Hound stared at their once dead leader now standing up as healthy as ever.
Ironhide was the first to speak.
“Optimus….how did you…I-I don’t…”
Optimus Prime raised his hand in front of his chest which made Ironhide stop speaking.
“Do not question it just yet, Ironhide, we still have a job to do,” Looking down at the shivering ponies, Optimus nodded and finished, “And the Elements of Harmony will help us save this world.”
That was almost enough for the six equines to break down into tears of joy.
Optimus walked closer to his fellow Autobots and asked, “Jazz, report!”
Jazz saluted and explained, “Discord is off somewhere deep in Canterlot! Decepticons are infested in this city with Megatron nowhere to be seen, sir!”
Optimus nodded and looked back at the mares, his expression staying the same as it has but a few seconds ago. He nodded, “Well met, Jazz.”
Facing the Autobots again, Optimus lifted up his fist and shouted, “Autobots, we are going into a target rich environment to stop Discord’s reign once and for all! This ends here, Autobots, with our combined efforts this world will see peace once more! Are you with me?!”
Each Autobot raised their fists and cheered in agreement. Optimus pointed at a couple of Autobots, “Hound, Sideswipe, let the ponies ride on top of you as we drive to our next destination!”
They nodded and looked down at Shining Armor and the Element Bearers. They had been listening to Optimus’ speech and were stunned to hear him speaking about ending this battle and stopping Discord.
It was almost over.
Optimus passed his fellow Autobots and stared at the road in front of him. The chocolate rain and burning buildings was nothing compared to the road. Tattered debris and carriages laid everywhere along with the sound of gunfire and explosions echoing off the buildings ahead.
The true Autobot leader pointed forward and shouted with triumph in his voice, “Autobots, transform and roll out!”
With that said, each Autobot transformed into their vehicle modes, Jazz twirled his legs together and revved up his engine as Cliffjumper jumped and transformed in mid-air. Warpath and Perceptor both changed form into their tanks while Sideswipe and Hound both changed into their car forms. Ironhide followed the rest of his fellow Autobots and changed form except for Ratchet who carried Bumblebee on the back of his vehicle mode.
Twilight and the others were amazed to see Optimus’ transformation again, but it was a little slower than the other times. As his engine revved up, Optimus’ wheels spun to life as he drove forward and rammed into any type of debris that was in his way.
Jazz, Cliffjumper, Ratchet, Ironhide, Warpath, and Perceptor all followed Optimus down the long road ahead, except for Sideswipe and Hound who stayed behind.
“You gonna climb on or what?” Sideswipe asked the mares next to him.
Each of them looked at each other until Rainbow Dash was the first to fly on top of Sideswipe’s vehicle top. The rest of them made their way as Twilight suddenly heard Sideswipe speak again.
“You’re gonna wanna hold on tight!”
As he said that, each mare clung onto something that appeared to be stuck onto his vehicle mode, when each of them were safely secure, Sideswipe fired up his engine and took off. Hound watched as Sideswipe drove away with the six Element Bearers on his back.
“Climb on, Shining Armor!” Hound shouted as the Royal Guard made their way to his hull. Shining was the last to climb on as Hound blasted his way to catch up to Sideswipe.
Twilight watched as they were slowly following Optimus Prime. The wind was picking up with her mane flowing backwards; she looked back at her friends and saw that same look they had when they were leaving Cybertron.
Excitement.
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“Come now, Megatron, I thought you were a powerful, unstoppable, killing machine, but alas, I have to put you in your place.” Discord chuckled as he shot several lightning bolts at Megatron who dodged them with ease.
“You had such potential for my new empire I am going to build!” Discord yelled and hit Megatron perfectly in the shoulder.
Ignoring the pain, Megatron laughed and shouted, “YOUR empire?! This is bad comedy!”
“And what makes you say that?” Discord asked eyeing Megatron as he slowly circled him. Megatron laughed a second time and moved his arms from side to side.
“This is what you call an empire?! It was at Cybertron where I proved myself to lead and now witnessing this excuse of a leader trying to make an empire out of this worthless pony world, it’s just hilarious!” Megatron finished with an evil smile.
But to his amazement, Discord laughed. The draconequus wiped away a tear as he spoke, “OH how funny! You proved yourself to lead on your world and yet half of your most elite soldiers are already dead by now! What great leadership, oh mighty Megatron!”
Megatron’s smile when deathly serious as he whipped out his riot cannon and mace, Discord smiled and clenched his fists as he was ready to defeat Megatron.
“This is just the beginning! I plan to rule with an iron fist and no PONY or CYBERTRONIAN will be able to stop me! My reign over Equestria has only just begun!!!!” Discord screamed to the heavens above as lightning struck between the two enemies.
Megatron looked up one last time to see the storm clouds becoming unstable as it formed some kind of vortex above them. But the Decepticon leader didn’t care about that right now….he had one thought in mind.
“And now…it will end.”
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“Optimus, we got the Constructicons just a few hundred feet in front of us!”
Ironhide hit the brakes when the elite Decepticons were firing their weapons at them. Hook, Scavenger, Mixmaster, Long Haul, Scrapper, and Bonecrusher had taken control of the road they were on.
But Optimus didn’t stop.
“Optimus, what are you doing?!” Twilight screamed as she almost fell off when Sideswipe hit the brakes.
The last of the Primes hit the turbo as the bullets deflected off his armor. All Twilight heard was this coming from her Autobot friend…
“Leave them to me!”
Optimus Prime hit a ramp and transformed in mid-air as he landed back on the ground and charged forward at the Constructicons. Hook and Mixmaster were terrified.
“It’s Prime, run!” Hook screamed.
Scrapper stood his ground and shouted, “No, we can take him!”
Clenching his fists and looking at his teammates, Scrapper shouted loud enough for each of them to hear. The lightning struck behind him as he screamed to the chaos filled clouds.
“Constructicons, unite to form Deves-“
He never could finish when Optimus stabbed him directly in the chest.
Any type of fear before was forgotten as the Constructicons had lost their leader, this new fear intensified to a level these Decepticons had never thought was possible when Optimus whipped out a long blade and a blaster to go with that.
“YOU DIE!” Optimus screamed as he shot three blasts from his path blaster at Scavenger. The Constructicon’s head literally exploded as Optimus Prime continued his rampage.
Optimus bent down as his blade ripped Hook’s entire body in half causing a massive explosion to erupt from the severed torso. Hook’s remains were thrown against the ground with loud crashes to go with them.
“No more war mongering for you!”
Long Haul was trying his hardest to shoot Optimus as he quickly approached his trembling form. But it just wasn’t enough to stop the great Autobot leader from slicing his arm and head completely off his body, thus killing Long Haul.
“Another Decepticon punk down!” Optimus shouted when he approached the final two Constructicons.
Bonecrusher tried to run away but Prime wouldn’t let him leave and grabbed his arm. He then violently jabbed his blade directly into Bonecrusher’s chest and finished by ripping it out and bringing it down on his head.
With Bonecrusher’s remains falling to the ground, Mixmaster had lost all hope when Optimus Prime finished with him. Firing two shots from his path blaster, Optimus charged forward at the injured Mixmaster and sliced his body in half with his blade.
Each Constructicon fell to the ground…..decimated by Optimus Prime.
Optimus turned back around to see his Autobots still several hundred feet away, he waved at them and shouted, “Path is clear, follow me, Autobots!”
With that, Optimus transformed back into his vehicle form and took off down the road deeper into Canterlot. Each Autobot followed but very slowly, each of them observed the remains of the once living Decepticons.
“By Primus…” Perceptor muttered as his tire ran over Scrapper’s head.
The six mares shivered when they passed the dead Decepticons. Even though they were glad to be rid of them, they just hated to imagine what it was like to get killed so ruthlessly.
Rainbow’s shocked expression turned into a slight smile. Rarity looked at Rainbow Dash as if she was an insane psycho killer and screamed, “Rainbow Dash, how can you smile over this carnage?!”
The cyan pegasus turned towards her friend and chuckled.
“Optimus Prime is back baby.”
Before Rarity could intervene, she witnessed Rainbow’s eyes suddenly go wide in horror. She was then pushed off of Sideswipe’s hull as Rainbow stood over her.
The mares gasped. Rarity looked up and shouted, “Rainbow, why would you push-“
She never got to finish when a red blur soared right passed them.
Twilight and the others screamed as an intense airwave hit them with such power that it made them fall off of Sideswipe. The Autobots yelled in frustration at what had just happened….
Rarity looked up to possibly see where her closest friends were.
Except….Rainbow Dash was gone.
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“Hey, l-let go of me!”
Rainbow Dash struggled over her words as if they were barely escaping from her lips. She couldn’t even move her limbs for that matter.
Slowly opening her eyes, Rainbow looked down to see the feet of she and her assailant. They were both hovering at least a hundred feet above ground. She slowly moved up to see the legs, chest, and finally….
That glowing red optic.
Rainbow’s glare deepened when her new nemesis was holding her in a tight grasp just above Canterlot.
“Starscream.”
The Decepticon sky commander hissed slightly as he squeezed a little bit harder on the tiny pony in his grasp. This is the one he needed revenge on.
“Did you really think you could escape me?!” The Decepticon screamed right in her face. Rainbow cringed in pain when his grip tightened on her body.
She looked slightly left to see his arm reattached. Even with the pain, Rainbow couldn’t help but snicker and cough out through tight lungs.
“Hehe…guess you got a new arm after I sliced it off huh?” Rainbow coughed out but immediately regretted doing just that.
Starscream’s anger exploded as he squeezed the little pony with his might. Rainbow screamed in pain when she began to feel her lungs about to burst. Starscream enjoyed this….a lot.
With a hint of disgust, Starscream stopped squeezing and calmly said, “Well now…that would be too easy now wouldn’t it?”
Rainbow opened her eyes as a tear slipped down from her face. She couldn’t hold them in, the pain was too intense. Starscream snickered at his enemy’s pain as he joyfully said, “No, I don’t want to finish you off so barbarically…I want my revenge on you to be slow and painful.”
And with that said, Starscream lowered himself to the nearest rooftop and chucked the cyan pegasus with all his might.
Rainbow hit the building with a loud thud as she skidded across the hard roof with several tumbles. When she finally stopped, Rainbow felt the cold rain hitting her pained velvet skin as she laid there motionless.
Two hard crashes were heard only a few feet away. Rainbow forced her muscles to move her head up to see Starscream literally standing above her with a smile plastered on his features.
A slight whimper escaped her lips when he whipped out his charge rifle.
“Fall before Starscream.” The Decepticon growled and pointed the end of the barrel directly in her face. Rainbow’s nose was actually touching the end of the long pole as it began to glow at the end.
“I expected more out of you, after defeating me the first time I thought you would never give up.” Starscream said to the whimpering spec at his mercy, “But no, you’re just as weak and foolish as your precious world. And now….you will know the true power….of STARSCREAM!”
Rainbow’s anger rose up. No one insults her home.
BANG!
Starscream lifted up his charge rifle and chuckled when the shot had hit his target perfectly. There was nothing left of the little pony.
“United we stand….divided you fall.” Starscream muttered and prepared to leave. But before he could get off the rooftop….he suddenly felt a mighty push ram against his chest.
Starscream fell off the roof but caught himself in mid-air. But floating with him….
“No….that’s impossible.” Starscream spoke in disbelief as he and Rainbow Dash glared each other down.
Even with the intense pain soaring through her body, Rainbow Dash would never give up. Starscream insulted her home….he was going to pay….big time!
Cracking her neck, Rainbow’s frown grew deeper as she growled at the Decepticon floating in mid-air, “You wanna go bub?! I’m right here! Come and get me!”
Starscream yelled in anger and transformed right in front of her. His body changed into some kind of jet as it hovered close to the little pony.
“You will never out-fly Starscream!” The Decepticon jet yelled and prepared his missiles, “I’m the ace of the skies!!!”
“That makes two of us.”
Before Starscream could argue, Rainbow Dash took off down Canterlot.
With a yell of frustration, Starscream activated his thrusters and chased down the nuisance known as the fastest flyer in all of Equestria.
Rainbow looked back slightly to see Starscream close on her tail. She faced forward again and felt the rain hit her face and wings. It felt good flying so high again….but she couldn’t enjoy it for long.
A missile flew right passed her and hit the side of a building.
“WHOA!” Rainbow yelped and made a sharp right. Starscream followed giving her no mercy and fired away.
Rainbow dodged left and right to escape Starscream’s attacks, but with her wings burning from pain and exhaustion it made everything so much harder.
“Alright…don’t move.” Starscream whispered and soon got a lock-on on the little pony.
She flew out of sight.
“BLASTED!”
But to his great surprise, her blue face and rainbow mane appeared right in his vision as she began to make silly faces and gloating from outside.
“What are you doing?! STOP IT!!!” Starscream wailed and did a barrel role. Rainbow Dash hung on and snickered on the top of Starscream’s jet mode.
“You’re not very good at this are you?” Rainbow joked and flew off of him. Starscream wailed in anger and fired away with his thermo burst rockets.
Rainbow kept dodging them with ease as Starscream’s anger rose with each passing second. He finally had enough of shooting and decided to finish her off the old fashion way.
With speed.
“I am UNSTOPPABLE!!!” Starscream yelled to the heavens and activated his boosters.
Now Rainbow Dash was in trouble. She looked back to see Starscream catching up fast and with no remorse….slammed into her.
Rainbow screamed in pain as her wings gave out from the massive amount of pain she had endeared. She was free-falling it now. The wind passed her ears as she looked up to see Starscream in his robot mode above laughing at his newest victim.
“NO!!!”
Rainbow pushed out her wings and almost felt a crack in one of them as she pulsed them to her advantage. Slowly…ever so slowly….she was hovering again.
Starscream’s expression was now shocked beyond belief when that rainbow annoyance blasted right passed him. The sky commander looked up to see that little pony soaring to the lightning-filled skies.
“Why won’t you just die already?!” Starscream transformed and followed the mare rise above.
Rainbow’s eyes were filled with chocolate as she blinked hard to get it out. Starscream followed close behind and almost reached his target.
“Almost…there!” Starscream struggled over his words when the lightning struck close to him. But before he could fire away at the pony, she suddenly went down.
“What is this…this…imposter of skill doing?!” Starscream questioned and took off down below; never losing sight of his newest nemesis.
Rainbow Dash could feel it.
That same intensity she had when she was just a filly. When she had gotten her cutie mark….it was back. The lightning struck close to her as she passed them with ease. From this height there is no telling what could happen when the boom comes.
Starscream could feel it.
This intensity was just right when he witnessed the so called Rainbow Dash literally rocket towards the ground. There was nothing that could protect her now. He fired two missiles.
Rainbow’s wings burned. Her eyes began to water. Her face was peeling off as the speed she was going was about to break the sound barrier. Dash could see the mach cone form around.
That itty bitty push.
“What in the name of Primus?!?!?!” Starscream gasped as the pony suddenly disappeared and a massive rainbow explosion was left in her essence. Starscream wailed in pain as he flew straight into the explosion and plummeted to the ground.
Rainbow Dash never felt so alive.
The speed was pushed tenfold as she rocketed straight to Canterlot’s ground. She looked back and smiled with glee when the Sonic Rainboom spread across the capitol. The rainbow waves destroyed any remaining glass windows there were in Canterlot causing several crashes to be heard throughout the city.
Her smile only grew when she saw Starscream flying away.
Quickly slowing down, Rainbow Dash breathed in and out many times before flipping her mane out of her vision and took off to find her friends.
It didn’t take very long.
Warpath looked down the street to see a blue blur suddenly hover above them.
“Rainbow Dash, what happened?!” Warpath screamed as she lowered herself to the ground. Rainbow looked over to see Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie, and Fluttershy make their way through the Autobots and to their friend.
Rarity was the first to hug her.
“Rainbow, don’t you ever scare us like that again!” Rarity whimpered and squeezed Dash’s neck tighter. The other Elements soon shared a group hug but suddenly stopped when Ratchet spoke.
“Rainbow Dash, did Starscream hurt you in any way?” Ratchet asked as the mares broke the embrace.
Twilight suddenly gasped and looked Dash straight in the eyes. “Starscream attacked you?!”
She was immediately silenced by a hoof on her muzzle.
Dash chuckled and winked at her egghead friend, “That dope learned his lesson.”
Before the other ponies could ask what happened, Sideswipe stepped in front of them and shouted, “We lost sight of Optimus; get on so we can catch up!”
Sideswipe suddenly transformed back and felt the six equines climb on top of his hull. The rest of the Autobots transformed and followed Sideswipe down the wet road.
With the wind in her face, Rainbow turned left to see Shining Armor and his Guards staring at her from the top of Hound’s vehicle.
Shining held up his hoof and saluted her.
Rainbow Dash blushed.
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“You are a joke to me!”
Discord yelled several insults as he hovered above Megatron. His fists bawling, with lightning striking in his hands every few seconds, he fired several shots of electricity at Megatron who tried his best to dodge the intense electrical currents hitting him.
“The only joke here is your so called empire!” Megatron roared.
To Discord’s great amazement, Megatron jumped in the air and actually flew towards him! Before he could snap his fingers, Megatron tackled him and smashed him to the roof they were battling on.
Discord was dazed when he looked up to meet a punch. Blood trickled down Discord’s snout as Megatron wailed on him with all his strength. All the while, Discord could hear Megatron’s laughs echo through his ears.
“The spirit of chaos falls today!”
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“Decepticons, attack, ATTACK!”
Starscream kept ordering his fellow teammates as they pushed forward to defeat Superion. He had lost sight of that worthless pony, he had decided to not to fight her anymore….he didn’t need to be humiliated anymore. Speaking of Superion, his battle with Bruticus was not yet over, both Autobot and Decepticon colossuses kept fighting.
Bruticus used his flame thrower on the combined Autobot who could not deflect it. The reasons for this were the several Insecticons obscuring his vision.
“Insecticons, bite him, perverate him!” Sharpshot screamed from the ground as he watched his Insecticon followers biting away at Superion’s armor.
“THERE IS TOO MANY OF THEM!” Superion yelled as he uselessly swung his fist around to hopefully hit an Insecticon or two.
Jetfire flew down from above and shot several missiles at the mighty Decepticon kicking Superion in the abdomen.
“Keep at him, Superion!” Jetfire screamed as he approached Bruticus, “Just remember, the bigger they are-“
“THE HARDER THEY HIT!” Bruticus yelled and grabbed the flying Autobot in a tight clench. He then chucked Jetfire into the nearest building causing it to collapse. Bruticus turned back to the mighty Superion and activated his spinning blades.
“HA! THIS ISN’T EVEN FAIR!”
Bruticus finished by driving the spinning blades straight into Superion’s chest. The Autobot colossus fell apart as each Aerialbot fell face first to the ground. Silverbolt looked up to see Bruticus lift up his foot.
“We are so fracked.” Silverbolt muttered and prepared for Bruticus’ wrath.
But it never came.
Instead a loud horn was heard echoing through the city. Silverbolt and Bruticus both looked back to see what it was. Starscream, Hardshell, Kickback, and Sharpshot kept charging forward now that Superion was defeated and they could exterminate the rest of the Aerialbots.
HONK HONK!!!
Starscream spun around only to be met with a red blur ramming into his legs. Starscream flipped in mid-air and landed face first on the wet concrete. He slowly looked up to see Optimus Prime on a non-stop rampage.
Sharpshot squealed like a pig when Optimus rammed into him, his body landing onto the side of where Optimus had just passed. Hardshell quickly dodged to the left as Optimus passed him and violently drove straight into Kickback.
“IT’S OPTIMUS PRIME!”
Bruticus stomped towards the attacking Autobot leader leaving Silverbolt and his wounded Aerialbots.
“Noooo!!!” Silverbolt screamed when Bruticus blocked Prime’s path.
“WHERE DO YOU THINK YOU’RE GOING, PRIME?” Bruticus threatened and shot away with his flame thrower. Optimus Prime quickly transformed and jumped high above.
To Silverbolt’s and Bruticus’ amazement, Optimus latched onto the colossus’ head and shot him several times in the supposed spot. Bruticus flailed around while trying to grab the Autobot leader off of him, but it was too late.
Optimus had shot him square in the optics.
“SCRAP! I ACTUALLY FELT THAT!” Bruticus screamed as Optimus jumped off of him and landed by his feet. But before Bruticus could actually cause any more damage, he was surrounded by the Autobots.
“SO MANY AUTOBOTS, SO LITTLE TIME!”
Before Optimus could react, the mighty Bruticus lowered his back and several missiles shot out of the poles. The Autobots hit the brakes as the missiles suddenly came down upon them.
“Get out of the way!” Sideswipe shouted and tried his best to drive off. The six mares held on tight as a missile collided in front of them.
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Twilight’s vision was groggy when she began to wake up.
She softly shook her head to see the rain pelting the ground with soft droplets hitting her face. Twilight tried her hardest to stand up but no matter how hard she tried, she just couldn’t do it. The ground rumbled with each passing second as she began to fade out of consciousness.
The pain was too intense.
“Twilight!”
“Twiiiiliiiiight!!!”
The unicorn turned her head to see her old friend Applejack from the side of a building. Her hat was missing as were there several scratch marks over her body.
This time she had to get up.
Slowly standing, Twilight limped her way across the street but immediately stopped when the sounds of stomping came her way.
“Twilight, get out of the road!” Applejack screamed.
She turned her head down the road to see what remaining Autobots there were battling Bruticus. The mighty Decepticon kicked them aside as if they were nothing in his path of destruction.
“Twilight!”
The unicorn turned back to her friend to see Fluttershy, Rainbow, Pinkie, and Rarity with her as well. Ignoring the pain, Twilight trudged over to her friends to hear what they had to say.
Fluttershy looked down the road to see the terrifying monstrosity destroying her Autobot friends. She quivered in fear and looked back at Twilight before asking.
“Twilight….what do we do?”
For what felt like so many times before, from going to Cybertron, to getting lost in Metroplex’s maze, to not knowing what was happening when they brought him back to life, Twilight Sparkle didn’t know what to do.
The fear of getting killed by this massive Decepticon brought shivers over her little body. But if they didn’t get to Discord now….they were going to fail.
Twilight looked over to see Bruticus finishing off Cliffjumper with a massive punch, sending the red Autobot into the nearest building. A strange….rage boiled inside her. How dare he hurt their friends!
Twilight’s teeth clenched as her glare on the Decepticon colossus grew more intense with each passing second. For what felt like the very first time in a long time…Twilight knew what to do now.
Turning to Fluttershy, her eyes hardened as she said these words to her closest friends.
“We’re taking down, Bruticus.”
“Wait…WHAT?!” Rainbow screamed and looked over to the colossus looking at the devastation he had just caused.
Twilight got in closer and whispered loud enough for each of them to hear, “Listen Rainbow, listen all of you, we can do this! Now with our Elements back there’s nothing that can stand in our way! We can stop Bruticus, get to Discord, and stop this once and for all!”
“But….h-h-how do we…?” Rarity began.
Twilight eyes never lost that determination she had as she finished her friend’s thought.
“Just follow my lead.”
And with that, Twilight limped out of the rubble shielding them from the colossus. Each of the Elements exchanged looks before nodding to each other. They will always listen to their friends…no matter how crazy it sounded.
Bruticus looked around until his optics caught six familiar ponies stepping out into the street. He snickered with delight and slowly approached them.
“AWWW LOOK, THE LITTLE PONIES WANT TO PLAY.”
With Bruticus approaching by the second, the six Elements stopped and glared right ahead at the colossus. Bruticus laughed and clenched his fist; utterly preparing for a pain wave.
Each of the mares exchanged worried looks….but not Twilight. She knew what to do. Looking over to Pinkie Pie, Twilight smiled deviously and spoke.
“Pinkie, I think Bruticus wants to be your friend.”
Just as Twilight had uttered those words, Pinkie’s mouth dropped and she gasped loud enough for her friends to back away at what she was preparing to do…
With unnatural speed, the pink blur somehow appeared right in Bruticus’ vision with a huge smile plastered on her face. The combiner took a step back when this pony was literally touching his faceplate with her nose.
“WHAT THE, HOW DID YOU DO THAT?!” Bruticus screamed as the pink pony tilted her head.
“I don’t know, but it looks like you need a friend!” The annoying pink pony shouted before making a silly face, “LALALA watch this!”
Bruticus’ confusion only intensified when the pink annoyance made funny faces in his obscurity. This is exactly what Twilight was hoping for.
Turning to her next friend, Twilight’s expression stayed the same as she shouted out her next order.
“Rainbow Dash, you know what to do!”
The said pegasus turned to Twilight with a little confusion until it suddenly lifted, and a look of pure hatred was visible. She spread her wings and puffed out her chest, “Time to show that punk whose boss!”
And with that, Rainbow Dash blasted over and nailed Bruticus square in the chest.
To Bruticus’ great amazement, he actually took a step back from the hit he had just received, being fully unaware of that blue pony; he couldn’t defend himself when she struck.
“HOW DID YOU-THAT’S IT, YOU’RE GOING DOWN!” Bruticus shouted and reached out for the winged pony. That is until, the pink one jumped in his face again.
“Look what I can do with my hooves!” Pinkie screamed right in Bruticus’ vision. She then put one hoof in her mouth and began to blow. Three little fingers and a thumb popped out of her other hoof as she wiggled them with glee.
“EWWWW, THAT’S DISGUSTING!” The mighty Decepticon shook his head to try and get this annoyance off of him…but she just wouldn’t let go.
“Betcha can’t make a face crazier than….” Pinkie turned around and began scrambling her face. When she turned back around, her face was much like a real horse as she screamed in Bruticus’ optics, “THIS!”
With his attention on Pinkie Pie, Rainbow swooped in and delivered more massive rams into Bruticus’ back, chest, shoulder, head, and over again. Bruticus was surprised, how even the strongest of Autobots couldn’t defeat him…..these weak little ponies were doing just that.
Maybe they weren’t so weak after all.
“GET OFF OF ME, BUG!” Bruticus screamed and tried his hardest to grab the pink chatter-box on his face. But every time he reached for her, she would just climb onto his back and onto his face again.
Primus this thing was annoying.
“We didn’t even play a game yet!” The pink one shouted as the blue one kept ramming into his chest. Bruticus had enough of this and clenched his fist. With his full strength, he reared forward and brought his fist directly to his face.
“BUGS DESERVED TO BE CRUSHED!”
But of course she moved out of the way at the last second…causing the combiner to punch himself in the face.
Taking a step back, Bruticus could hear the laughter of the winged one while the pink one jumped right in his static vision again.
“I’m not a bug. If I was a bug I would have six legs and super big eyes! That would so cool by the way. I could fly and climb walls and have several toys based off of me along with three cool movies and a just a weird spin off-“Pinkie rambled on and on.
“SHUT UP!!!” Bruticus screamed and went in for another grab.
“Rainbow Dash, get Pinkie out of there!” Came an unknown voice.
All of a sudden, the blue one came right from behind the mighty Decepticon and grabbed the pink pony just in time. Part of Bruticus was thankful that annoyance was off of him…but things just got worse.
Rainbow slowly dropped Pinkie to the ground and looked at Twilight with anticipation; it has been a long time since she clobbered something…it felt good to give this Bruticus guy a lesson.
Twilight looked back to see Bruticus slowly moving towards them….he wasn’t even fazed by Rainbow’s attacks. Turning back to the energetic pegasus, Twilight pointed towards the Decepticon and shouted, “Rainbow, Bruticus isn’t even hurt! Keep at him!”
“Aye, aye!” Rainbow saluted and sped off.
“YOU WON’T GET SO LUCKY THIS TIME!” Bruticus shouted and activated his flame thrower. The speeding pegasus barely dodged the deadly flames.
“WHOA, that was too close!” Rainbow screamed and hit Bruticus in the back. With the colossus distracted, Twilight took the time to inspect her surroundings.
Nothing around her looked usable, the carriages wouldn’t do anything against him, she didn’t have enough strength to lift a building….that would be the only thing to stop this monster. Just then….she caught something lying in the street.
“Rarity,” Twilight began causing the white unicorn to turn her way, “help me get this rope tied to these poles! We’ll trip up that beast!”
Rarity nodded and levitated the rope in front of her. She then brought it over to the end of the pole and began to tie it. Twilight did the same and brought the other end to the pole on the other side of the street.
Twilight tied it with ease and looked over to see Rarity not even done tying.
“Rarity, what’s taking so long!?” Twilight screamed as Bruticus began to get closer. Rarity kept her attention on the rope.
“I have to tie it just right!”
Rainbow zoomed in and screamed, “Dangit Rarity, we don’t have time for precise excellence! Hurry the buck up!” She then took off again as the flames nearly singed her tail.
“FINE!” Rarity yelled and finally finished tying the knot. The two unicorns pulled their hardest and soon the rope was straight out and stuck on tight.
Twilight looked over and screamed, “Rainbow, draw Bruticus over here!”
“’Bout time!” Rainbow shouted and flew over the rope. Bruticus followed and deactivated his flame thrower.
“YOU’RE STARTING TO GRIND MY GEARS!” Bruticus shouted and continued to step closer and closer….until….
“WHAT THE…OH SCRAP!”
Bruticus stumbled over the tight rope underneath his legs. Usually he would have been able to break through this rope with ease, but a strange purple glow held the rope tight causing the colossus to fall to his knees.
A loud tremor echoed through the streets as Bruticus laid before them; completely vulnerable.
Twilight looked over to see Rainbow hovering over the air, she looked down at Applejack and screamed, “AJ, let Rainbow pick you up!” She then turned to Dash, “Rainbow, drop Applejack right in Bruticus’ face, she’ll know what to do!”
“What in tarnation are ya gettin’ at Twi….OH Ah get it now!” Applejack shouted back, “Pick me up, Dash!”
“I sure hope you know what you’re doin’!” Rainbow yelled and picked up her southern speaking friend. She flew over a little slower than normal as Bruticus looked up.
She dropped her friend right in Bruticus’ vision.
“AND JUST WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU’RE DOING?!” Bruticus screamed as his glare on the orange pony intensified.
“This!”
Applejack turned around, reared her back hooves, and bucked Bruticus square in the optics.
Rarity and Fluttershy gasped as Applejack bucked Bruticus in the face at least ten times! The mighty Decepticon’s head jerked back with each powerful buck. But Bruticus wouldn’t be taken down se easily.
He soon brought his legs forward, and reached for the orange pony in his vision….but she was gone in a blue swift. Now his static vision was even worse than before as he looked down to see the orange and blue pony smirking with glee.
Applejack shouted, “How does it feel ta get bucked by the strongest mare in Ponyville?!”
Bruticus struggled to get up but successfully did it. He really didn’t want to admit that it did indeed hurt…so he came up with an excuse.
“ERRRR I’VE BEEN HIT HARDER!”
To the pony’s great horror, Bruticus brought his left arm forward and the blades began to spin with raw intensity. He slowly approached the cowering specs as he laughed to himself.
“THIS TIME I’M GONNA CUT OFF MORE THAN YOUR TAIL!” Bruticus shouted to the white unicorn specifically.
Rarity screamed and ran away with Twilight close behind her. Twilight looked back to see Bruticus slowly approaching them with the blades continuing to spin. She dared not even to imagine what would happen if she was caught in that.
Twilight got back together with her friends and tried very hard to think of a way out of this mess. Bruticus was getting closer and she was already running out of ideas.
When suddenly….one of her friends stepped up.
“Fluttershy, what are you doing?!” Twilight screamed as Fluttershy approached the massive Decepticon.
The timid pegasus turned back with a hint of fear on her face. She simply gulped and whispered loud enough for her friends to hear over the pounding rain.
“I….I…I have an idea.”
“Fluttershy, what are you talking abou-AHHHH!!!!” Rarity screamed and backed away when Bruticus had arrived to their location. The five mares backed away while Fluttershy stood her ground.
“Fluttershy, no!” Rainbow screamed when Bruticus looked down at her.
“YOU WANNA DIE FIRST? THAT CAN BE ARRANGED!” Bruticus shouted and lifted up his blades fully intending on bringing it down on the little yellow pony.
But suddenly…..he stopped.
His blades still spun above his head but his body was frozen in place. Twilight could see his intense glare caught on her friend. Why would he stop?
Her answer came from Fluttershy’s wings poofing out.
Suddenly, Bruticus’ legs began to tremble as the blades stopped instantly. He lowered his arm and began to shake from what the ponies believed to be….fear. Twilight knew what Fluttershy was doing now.
In a quick instant and ignoring the pain shooting through her right wing, Fluttershy flew up and met Bruticus’ face with “The Stare”. Bruticus backed away completely terrified and utterly shocked to feel himself acting this way. But he couldn’t control himself!
This horrid pony spoke.
“And just what do you think you were going to do, HUH?!” Fluttershy screamed right in Bruticus’ face as the colossus backed away.
Bruticus was beyond lost, he couldn’t control himself anymore. “I….UHHH I UH-“
Fluttershy poked her nose right against Bruticus’ faceplate as she screamed her hardest, “You were going to surrender weren’t you?! You were going to give up and let me and my friends go by WEREN’T YOU?!?!”
Bruticus clutched his head and screamed to the chaos-filled clouds above. Fluttershy hovered above Bruticus’ eyesight and finished when she increased the power of her “Stare”.
“Now, you are going to let my friends go by! RIGHT?!”
Bruticus lowered his head so that he met the pony’s face.
“……NO!”
In an instant, Bruticus reached forward and gripped the yellow pony in a powerful grasp. Fluttershy yelped in pain and her frightened self soon came back as this terrible beast glared down at her.
Bruticus shouted right in her face, “I WILL NEVER LISTEN TO A PONY FOR AS LONG AS I LIVE!”
But before Bruticus could crush the pony once and for all…..a high-pitched shout came from below.
“Hey Bruticus, say hello……to MY LITTLE PONY!!!”
The next thing that happened was too much.
Pinkie Pie quickly thrusted Twilight’s tail up and down as several energy beams soared out of her horn. The beams connected to Bruticus’ chest with such power and heat that it caused the mighty combiner to release Fluttershy. The little pegasus plummeted to the ground with her injured wing being no help.
“I got ya, ‘Shy!” Rainbow screamed and grabbed her friend before she could hit the ground. With the two pegasi landing peacefully by their friends, Twilight and Pinkie Pie were an unstoppable force.
Bruticus actually felt it. The heat of the energy hitting him. The power of this little unicorn. He couldn’t take it anymore. Yelling loudly and whipping out his blades to deflect the beams, Bruticus pulled his blades away and clenched his fists.
“YOU’RE REALLY STARTIN’ TO BOIL MY OIL!”
And with that, the worst possible thing happened.
Bruticus smashed his fist to the ground. The pain wave crushed any remaining debris in its path as it made its way to the target. The mares screamed and closed their eyes waiting for the wave to kill them.
But suddenly, Twilight opened her eyes to see her tiara glowing and creating a shield over her friends.
The wave hit the shield with absolutely no damage whatsoever. Twilight looked back to see each of her friends’ Elements glowing and helping support the shield. Twilight almost couldn’t believe it….The Elements of Harmony were protecting them.
“OKAY…THIS IS PISSING ME OFF A BIT!”
Rainbow Dash chuckled as the shield disintegrated allowing them to see Bruticus’ anger rise. Suddenly, Bruticus screamed and made his closer.
“I’M DONE PLAYING GAMES WITH YOU PONIES, TIME TO DIE!” Bruticus screamed and slowly approached. But before Twilight could come up with another plan, a missile soared over her friends’ heads.
The missile collided perfectly to Bruticus’ chest. The ponies took this opportunity to see what was behind them. They soon turned back to the Decepticon when several jets soared above.
As each jet passed, a missile collided to Bruticus chest and face causing him to fall to one knee.
Rainbow Dash spread her wings and pawed at the ground, “When the shields come down, the Dash comes out!”
The last thing Bruticus saw was that same blue pony ramming him right between the optics.
The mighty combiner tried his best to stand back up. It was really hard considering that fact that he had gotten his can kicked by little ponies….oh now he just felt like Starscream. It just wasn’t Bruticus’ lucky day when the sounds of several Autobots entered his hearing processors.
The six mares turned around to see the Autobots all in their robot modes charging forward and shooting from their guns. Twilight even caught sight of her brother Shining Armor and the Royal Guard charging as well.
“Autobots, take him down!” Optimus shouted from behind his brothers.
Bruticus couldn’t defend himself anymore when all the Autobots shot their missiles and bullets at his armor. Now that his optics were cracked, he barely saw the Autobot Jazz transforming and using his grapple hook on his leg.
“Timber!” Jazz shouted as he pulled away at Bruticus’ leg causing the colossus to fall backwards into a building. With Bruticus unconscious, Jetfire came out of the destroyed building and saw all the Autobots transform in front of him…..including…
“Optimus!” Jetfire screamed and raced towards his leader.
Twilight, Fluttershy, Rainbow, Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie walked closer to Optimus and Jetfire with the Autobots slowly following. Shining Armor and his Guards also moved in to hear what they had to say.
Optimus Prime looked at Jetfire who had a worried expression on his face. Optimus narrowed his optics and asked, “What is it, Jetfire?”
Jetfire looked above to see the vortex of clouds appearing above one of the buildings of Canterlot. He had little time to explain, “Optimus, as I flew by I saw Megatron and Discord battling it out on the rooftops!”
“Why would Megatron be fighting Discord?” Optimus asked Jetfire.
He shook his head and shouted, “I don’t know, but we need you to turn the tide and stop them both! Can you do that?!”
Optimus stopped himself there. Looking back at the ponies that had saved his life, Optimus Prime saw the hurt look they had in their eyes. The last battle he had with Megatron had killed him….this was his last chance.
Turning back to Jetfire, Optimus nodded and said, “I can…and I will!”
Optimus could hear the several shouts of encouragement coming from both his fellow Autobots….and pony friends. Turning back one last time, Optimus sighed happily when the look on the pony’s faces were filled with excitement.
With a single nod, Optimus Prime spoke, “I will return, Twilight, and with me shall be Discord….defeated!”
Optimus turned back towards Jetfire and asked, “Can you give me a lift, Jetfire?”
Jetfire smiled and transformed into his seeker form, “Hop on, boss bot!”
As Optimus climbed on top of Jetfire, the Autobot soared straight above and to the rooftop where Discord and Megatron were fighting. Jazz gaped in horror when the vortex above the rooftops began to grow unstable with lightning striking every few seconds around the area.
“Jazz, what’s gonna happen?”
Jazz looked back down to see the pink pony stare up at him with fearful eyes. She shivered constantly when the wind began to pick up along with the chocolate rain. Sighing deeply, Jazz stared at Jetfire as he slowly made his way to the rooftop.
“The final battle is near, Pinkie Pie.”
The other mares felt a little uneasy at how Jazz had said that. But when Twilight felt a presence behind her, she and her friends turned around to see the Autobots with shocked looks on their faces.
“What?” Rainbow asked.
Ironhide looked back at what remained of the Decepticon colossus and asked, “Did….did you just fight Bruticus?”
Each of the Elements exchanged looks before nodding.
Cliffjumper chuckled and pointed at the shivering ponies, “Wow….remind me to NEVER get on their bad side.”
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Megatron swung with all his strength but of course Discord dodged it by snapping his fingers. He spun around to meet Discord’s fist collide perfectly to his face. Megatron backed off and wiped away the liquid Energon rolling down his mouth.
“I must say, you have quite the punch for an insect!” Megatron roared. Discord seemed to find that comment very funny.
“Can an insect like me truly defeat the leader of the Decepticons?” Discord asked himself while Megatron reloaded his cannon. He smirked and finished, “Think about it, Megatron, think about it while I rip out your spark.”
“Even if I die today I will still have the honor of defeating the spirit of chaos itself!!!”
Megatron changed form into his tank to waste all his ammo on Discord. The draconequus just yawned as he deflected the shots with ease. With no ammo left, Megatron transformed back and charged at this hated creature.
With a swing of his mace, Megatron lost his balance when Discord tripped him up and ripped off his riot cannon.
Megatron laid on his back; he looked up to see the lightning make the sky light up. There he saw Discord standing over him with HIS cannon pointed straight at his face. His frown grew darker as did the end of the cannon.
“Bravo…Megatron, you have truly proven to be the most powerful warrior. But I’m afraid you have failed to defeat me and thus…..you must be destroyed for showing weakness in the new Chaos Empire!” Discord roared as the thunder echoed across the skies.
Megatron gave the worst scowl he had ever given, even worse than the one he gave his foe Optimus Prime. “Even if I fall this day, there will always be others that will rise up and defeat you!”
“What? You mean the little ponies!? How pathetic! Now you seek the equines of this world to defeat me when you have failed! I thought you were made of sterner stuff, Megatron.” Discord glared at the fallen leader of the Decepticons and pointed the cannon straight at his forehead.
“Now I will have the great honor of destroying Megatron, the killer of worlds.”
As the end of the cannon lit up, Megatron’s scowl went to a horrid expression. His death was imminent, and this time…..no Decepticon was here to save him. Megatron had once believed that he was autonomic perfection, but now…...he finally realized that no one was perfect.
With his wounds extreme, the only thing the leader of the Decepticons could do….was accept it.
“…..What the? No….NO IT CAN’T BE!”
Megatron looked back up to see the great Discord backing away and dropping the riot cannon on the ground. His face was beyond frightened as he stared straight ahead at whatever was there.
Suddenly, a deep recognizable voice came from behind them both.
“This ends here, Discord.”
Turning around, Megatron almost couldn’t believe who he saw. He had just witnessed himself the dead form but a few cycles ago so…..how in the name of Cybertron was this possible?! There was no clear fact that this could be happening!
“How is this possible?” Megatron asked himself as his foe stepped forward.
Optimus Prime looked down to see his hated brother lying on his back and injured, his optics motioned towards the cowering draconequus but a few feet away.
“Impossible, I saw you die!” Discord couldn’t hold back a fearful scream.
“Then we will share something in common, Discord.” Optimus growled with no emotion present in his voice, “Your reign over this peaceful world ends here. No matter what stands in my path, be it Decepticon or godly creature, nothing will stop me from bringing peace to this world.”
Discord gulped.
With the vortex of clouds growing stronger above, Optimus Prime brought out a short staff that didn’t seem very threatening at first. Until it transformed into a glowing red ax. Optimus held the ax tightly in both hands as Discord began to back away.
Discord gave a nervous smile, “I assure you we can discuss this with no-“
Discord couldn’t finish when Optimus charged at him.
At the last second, Discord snapped his talons and disappeared just before Optimus Prime brought his ax down on the roof creating several cracks on the impact. Another set of lightning bolts shot across the sky and even hit the rooftop they were on as Megatron slowly stood up.
Both Optimus Prime and Megatron were alone on top of the roof.
Megatron clutched his chest and looked over to Prime as he slowly got back up with his ax in hand. Optimus turned around to see Megatron fully standing up.
They locked optics.
As both leaders stared each other down, Optimus could see the frown on his enemy’s face slowly grow. The Autobot’s blue optics narrowed as they both glared at each other. There they stood, the chaos filled clouds above and the pouring rain made everything more intense until….
“I have had it with you!!!”
Optimus Prime and Megatron both faced forward as Discord suddenly appeared floating above them. His eyes were no longer yellow but glowed dark red as the lightning began striking around him. The vortex of clouds immediately drove towards the draconequus by an unknown force.
Both leaders watched with emotionless stares as the chaos clouds went directly towards Discord and soon began infusing themselves inside of him. But the horrible part of this was….Discord’s body growing in size.
“I will never go back in that stone prison! The Chaos Empire will prosper and I will rule it even if it means destroying all of Canterlot in the process!!!!!” Discord roared and flew down with the lightning and clouds following close behind. Optimus and Megatron ran forward and looked over the edge to see what Discord had done.
They soon backed away when the massive horns rose.
Megatron picked up his mace and cannon when he knew he would need all essentials for this battle. He was going to need it. Optimus held his ax closer when the massive head appeared from the edge of the rooftop.
Discord’s eyes opened up and glowed dark red. As Discord looked down at the tiny aliens that stood before him, he unleashed a screeching roar. The roar was so loud that it caused the clouds above to unleash a full throttle of lightning and thunder.
Optimus Prime and Megatron regained their balance as they heard Discord beginning to speak with an even deeper voice than before.
“I AM THROUGH PLAYING GAMES WITH YOU! THIS TIME WHEN I KILL YOU, OPTIMUS, YOU WILL STAY DEAD!!!!”
Discord’s massive fists lit up with electricity as he glared down at the little specs that called themselves warriors.
Megatron stepped forward and shouted, “Always defiant to the end aren’t you, Discord?!”
“YOU ARE THE ONE WHO IS DEFIANT, MEGATRON, BUT NO MORE!!! THIS TIME IT WILL ALL END!!!!”
Discord’s behemoth form slowly turned towards Optimus Prime who showed no sign of fear. He growled with pure hatred when he saw Optimus completely fearless. But what he was about to do was surely going to make him scream his name.
Or would he?
“OPTIMUS PRIME, WHEN I FIRST MET YOU I ALWAYS THOUGHT YOU WOULD DIE FOR THE MAGIC OF FRIENDSHIP! THERE WILL BE NO MORE MAGIC OF KINDNESS OF HAPPINESS WHEN I’M THROUGH WITH YOU!!!”
Optimus wasn’t paying him any heed….his attention was on the Autobot titan slowly standing.
“THE CHAOS EMPIRE WILL LIVE!!!!!” Discord finished and lifted up his massively glowing fist of pure electronic energy.
But before he could finish it once and for all…..IT had come.
“OMEGA SURPEME STASIS COMPLETE. ENEMY RE-LOCATED. BEGINNING FORWARD ATTACK.”
Discord slowly turned around to see the Autobot that had arrived to Equestria now standing right in front of him completely healed. He matched his size which was not good for the spirit of chaos. But worst of all….the pointed triangle on his left arm was jabbed directly into his chest.
Discord howled in pain as the pointed end met his heart with raw energy at the tip. Discord couldn’t help it….he actually screamed in terror when the right hand spun up with a glowing red ball at the end.
BOOOOM!!!!
Discord flew backwards when Omega Supreme had shot him directly in the chest. Optimus and Megatron took this time to retreat off the collapsing building when Discord’s massive form had collided against it.
The last thing Optimus Prime saw was him and Megatron falling from the collapsed building.
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“Oh sweet Primus.” Jazz muttered when he, the ponies, and the Autobots had witnessed Omega Supreme himself, step over the buildings in front of him and literally blast Discord into the structure Optimus and Megatron were on.
“Bam! Look at that.” Warpath said in astonishment.
“Optimus!” The mares screamed as they saw the building collapse along with Discord.
Jazz transformed and opened up his car doors, “Come on let’s move!” As he said that, Twilight and her friends quickly jumped inside of him.
Jazz drove off with the rest of the Autobots and Aerialbots following close behind. Twilight pressed her little face against Jazz’s window to see Omega Supreme’s legs bring themselves up and step over the building.
They made a quick turn left which caused the unicorn to fall back into the seats with her friends. Suddenly they came to a complete stop. The doors opened as each mare stumbled out to the pouring rain. Jazz transformed back and gasped when he stared at the road in front of him.
As each Autobot had arrived, they all transformed to witness the falling building. The Element Bearers gasped when they saw the two beings free falling to the hard gravel.
“OPTIMUS!!!”
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Optimus Prime quickly spun around and landed perfectly on the ground with several large pieces of debris following and making contact with the earth. The Autobot leader turned to see Megatron hover to the ground and gently land on his feet.
They locked optics again and didn’t make a single move.
As both leaders stared at each other, they almost didn’t hear the faint moaning coming from the rubble. Megatron quickly rushed forward and pushed away the debris to meet Discord in a bloody mess
“Pathetic.” Megatron spat and lifted up Discord by his throat. The powerful draconequus coughed up more blood and slowly lifted up his hand.
Optimus grew wide-eyed and held out his hand, “Megatron, stop him before-“
Discord vanished.
“What the-“ Megatron began until Discord appeared behind him and smacked him with his tail. Megatron fell forward as Discord vanished again.
Optimus got right by his old foe and brought out his Energon ax again, Megatron slowly got back up and whipped out his mace and cannon. He didn’t know it right then but….he and Optimus were back to back.
“Together now!” Optimus shouted and focused on his area in front of him. Megatron looked back slightly to see Optimus Prime right behind him and facing away.
“For now, Prime!” Megatron yelled and held his mace close and cannon pointed forward.
Each leader paid close attention to every sound and every movement in front of them. Whenever a faint voice was heard Megatron shot at the direction with his cannon.
“Megatron, stop!” Optimus ordered which only made Megatron’s anger grow.
“I am autonomic perfection! You don’t tell me what to-“
Discord appeared in front of Megatron and blasted him with a powerful energy beam. Both leaders fell back as Optimus pushed Megtron off of him.
“We have to do this together, Megatron!” Optimus yelled. As much as Megatron hated to admit it…..Optimus Prime was right.
Autobot and Decepticon stood back up and held their weapons close….waiting for the right moment. Optimus caught a quick glimpse from behind him.
“On your right!”
“I already knew he was there!”
Megatron delivered a punch directly to Discord’s jaw forcing him to vanish yet again. Megatron was amused by this little game Discord was playing while Optimus was more focused on stopping this.
He accomplished this when Discord appeared in front of him.
“NOW!” Optimus yelled and ducked down. Megatron spun around quickly and shot one blast from his cannon and hit Discord perfectly in the chest.
“Time to finish this!” Megatron roared and jumped over Optimus still on the ground. He then permanently damaged Discord’s skull by kicking him across the face. And to both of the leaders’ amazement….Discord began to shrink.
“Keep at it!”
Optimus ran forward and jumped over Megatron with his ax in both hands. Discord looked up to see Optimus land right on top of him. Optimus then proceeded to amputate his entire body with his Energon ax.
Discord howled in pain and barely snapped his talons to teleport before Optimus could bring it down on his head.
“Now where did he go?!” Megatron shouted looking around. Optimus got back up and turned around to see Discord right behind Megatron.
“Behind you, Megatron!” Optimus shouted and activated his path blaster. With one shot, Discord fell back and clutched his now injured wound. Megatron yelled in anger and picked up Discord by his throat. The next thing that happened was almost too much for even the mighty draconequus to handle.
Megatron beat the living buck out of him.
The Decepticon leader delivered a volley of punches to his chest and face and threw him on the ground. Discord tried his best to crawl away but Megatron wasn’t finished with him. He took Discord’s leg and violently smashed him against the ground several times. Each impact caused a loud tremble to echo across the ground.
Just when Discord thought he couldn’t take any more, Megatron threw him against a pile of rubble where he sat in a bloody mess. Discord looked up one last time but immediately regretted doing just that when he met the end of Megatron’s foot.
“ERRRRAAAHH!!!!” Megatron screamed as he kicked Discord directly in the snout. The force of the kick caused the rubble to break apart and the draconequus to fall on his back.
Discord slowly opened his eyes to feel the cold rain hitting his face. But he couldn’t feel the rain anymore….all he saw above him was the end of Megatron’s cannon.
Before Megatron could fire upon Discord, he heard a cocking sound behind him. Megatron looked to his left to see Optimus with his path blaster pointed directly at Discord’s face as well.
Megatron slightly growled as he and Optimus pointed their weapons at Discord. Optimus growled back and said, “Let’s finish this.”
“NOOOO!!!” Discord shrieked as both ends of the weapons lit up.
Both Optimus Prime and Megatron used their entire clips on the weak chaotic being lying before them. Discord screamed when the blasts from both leaders decimated his very being. Even the Autobots and ponies were still surprised to see this carnage placed before them.
Optimus and Megatron suddenly stopped.
Megatron put away his cannon as did Prime with his blaster. What remained of Discord was just a whimpering, torn apart, oddly bent, bloodied creature. Optimus stepped forward as did Megatron.
It still wasn’t finished.
“Twilight Sparkle!” Optimus yelled not taking his optics off of Discord.
The sudden bringing up of her name caused the little unicorn to flinch. She looked down the road to see Optimus and Megatron staring at what remained of the mighty draconequus. Optimus looked back at Twilight.
“You and your friends must use the Elements of Harmony now!” Optimus shouted.
Twilight quickly nodded as her entire body shook with anticipation; she trotted forward with Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rarity following her.
Optimus looked back at Megatron and said, “Megatron, grab Discord’s arm and help me drag him closer to the ponies.”
Megatron chuckled and gripped Discord’s limp arm, “With great pleasure, Prime.”
Optimus grabbed Discord’s remaining arm as both leaders suddenly began pulling the draconequus across the wet grounds and closer to the Element Bearers. Megatron could see them, the weak little ponies he had used in an attempt to kill Discord. Why were they so important?
Discord was in a daze as he slowly lifted up his head; he looked around and felt his legs being dragged across the hard and sharp gravel. He looked up to see Twilight Sparkle and the rest of those dreaded ponies slowly making their way towards him.
And they had the Elements of Harmony.
“No….NO….NOOOO!!!!” Discord screamed and uselessly flailed around. Megatron obviously enjoyed Discord’s torment.
“Stay down!” Megatron shouted and punched Discord across his face. Blood painted the chocolate covered ground as Discord lowered his head again. Optimus didn’t enjoy any of this; just helping the evil ruler of the Decepticons beat up an organic creature hurt him inside. But he knew it must be done…
“Are you and your friends ready, Twilight?” Optimus asked the unicorn as he and Megatron stopped but a few feet away from the tiny equines.
Twilight shuddered a little as she saw Discord’s face so viciously beaten, but she slowly nodded and said, “Yes, come on girls get in position!”
Discord looked up at the purple unicorn, and to his and the mares’ amazement, he begged.
“Please, Twilight….please do not do this to me.” Discord begged as more blood trickled down the several slashes across his faces.
Twilight Sparkle…..the precious student of Princess Celestia herself….actually felt sorry for Discord. He may have caused chaos to run rampant across her home, but just seeing him in this state almost made her…..dare she even think it…..almost made her let him go.
Instead, she frowned and growled at the draconequus, “No, Discord, your reign of terror ends here.”
“NOOOO!!!!”
Discord couldn’t move for he was petrified in fear when the six Elements began to glow. Megatron and Optimus Prime held his arms tighter when Discord was trying his hardest to snap his fingers. When he couldn’t even move his hands, Discord gave up and watched as his fate was imminent.
Twilight Sparkle, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Fluttershy…..slowly floated above the ground. Each of their necklaces glowed a violent shade of their true colors. As Twilight’s tiara shined a dark purple, Pinkie’s glowed a bright blue, Fluttershy’s erupted with a bright pink, Rarity’s exploded with an intensely bright violet, Rainbow Dash’s shined with a dark red, and Applejack’s finished if off with a bright orange.
“With all Elements combine,” Twilight shouted with her entire body off the ground, “we banish you to eternal imprisonment!”
“NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!! I will not be denied my DESTINY!!!!”
Twilight’s eyes glowed as white as snow as all her closest and loved friends joined together and erupted a bright flash of light. The light formed into a cluster of rainbows as they rocketed into the air.
“Incredible…” Megatron gasped in astonishment.
The rainbow wave suddenly came down upon the spirit of disharmony and chaos. Megatron and Optimus backed away and shielded their optics as the explosion of rainbows inflicted on their target.
Twilight Sparkle could hear Discord’s pained screams, but she didn’t care about that…..after all she and her friends had been through….it had finally come to an end. The six Elements of Harmony slowly descended to the ground. Twilight Sparkle breathed in three times before opening her eyes to see him….
Discord.
But different.
He was once again trapped in his prison of stone but different than last time. His head was screaming above with his hands above his head in a horrid display of turmoil. After a few creaking noises, the stone figure bent forward and landed on the ground with a hard thud.
“It’s over……it’s finally….over.”
Twilight almost couldn’t believe it. Discord had returned and after everything they had been through….going to Cybertron….surviving the entire Decepticon army….and it was over….
Rainbow Dash sighed the deepest sigh she ever had. It had been a tough couple of days. She would remember these days for her entire life. The days she almost abandoned her friends.
Fluttershy was just relieved that after everything…after every single death of an Autobot….after all this horror of chaos and disharmony…she realized….it was all worth it.
Pinkie Pie smiled when she felt the rain becoming softer with each passing second. The clouds were beginning to break apart now that Discord was defeated and harmony was present yet again. Pinkie smiled.
Rarity touched her necklace softly and closed her eyes. She had shed so many tears these past few days….and it was finally over. She could now go home where everything was peaceful.
Applejack looked behind her and saw the Autobots all lining up. She even spotted the Dinobots in their robot forms all staring ahead. Grimlock looked around in astonishment as rain suddenly stopped. Ironhide looked down at her with a soft smile clearly visible on his scratched up face. Applejack smiled back.
Twilight’s smile grew even larger when the clouds broke apart and the sun seeped in. The warmth of the afternoon sun gave each of the ponies the greatest feeling. It had been so cold…and now there was sun to light the darkness that had infected their souls.
Shining Armor took off his helmet and scuffled his mane. He wiped the remaining chocolate off his eyebrow and grinned when the sun hit his chest plate. The Royal Guard had suffered many losses today….but now the fallen could rest in peace.
Optimus sighed and kept staring at the statue of Discord that lay before him. This world has suffered so much. The horrors of war were brought from Cybertron to Equestria….but because of their combined efforts….it was finally time to-
CHICK-CHOCK!
The Autobots and equines gasped. Optimus looked to his right and almost backed away when he saw it.
The end of Megatron’s cannon pointed directly at him.
Neither moved a circuit….. Megatron kept threatening to shoot his old rival right here and end it once and for all. Now that the worthless creature was out of the way…he could finish what he started on Cybertron.
Terminating the Autobots.
Optimus looked at the end of the cannon and narrowed his optics, after all that Megatron has done, from causing chaos to run rampant in this glorious world, to joining forces with Optimus to stop Discord, and this is how Megatron wants to finish it?!
Megatron’s frown slowly grew, his hatred towards Prime met no ends, and now he could finally finish it…..but….
The ruthless leader of the Decepticons almost stopped himself; it felt….wrong to do this. Especially after Prime had saved his life from Discord’s wrath.
Not only that but….
Megatron heard a slight growl coming from his right.
Turning that way, Megatron’s frown went even deeper than before when he saw those little ponies pawing at the ground and their Elements shining. After watching what those things had done to Discord, Megatron didn’t want anything to do them.
Also, the pink pony suddenly pulled out of nowhere a giant hammer at least three times her size. Her glare went deeper than any of the ponies’ combined as her puffy mane deflated. The blue one punched her hooves together and hovered in mid-air as she growled at the evil Decepticon.
Her glare even pierced his red optics.
The gladiator of Kaon looked passed the ponies threatening to attack him and caught view of the Autobot scum. Each of them were preparing their weapons and getting in ready positions. But what really frightened Megatron was….
Grimlock smashed his fists together and growled with hunger.
Megatron’s optics grew a little wider than he expected. Just when things couldn’t get any worse, a loud rumble came from behind.
The Decepticon leader slowly turned his head back to see Omega Supreme glaring down at him with those dangerous blue optics. His right fist began to spin slowly; ready to attack. Megatron had barely survived the last time he battled with the strongest Autobot that ever lived.
“OMEGA SUPREME READY. POWER: OPTIMAL. MISSION: DESTROY MEGATRON.”
Megatron REALLY hated to admit it but….he had lost.
Slowly bringing down his cannon from Optimus’ head, Megatron faced Prime again. This time he didn’t feel threatened when Optimus Prime glared at him. With the Autobots completely surrounding him, and the Elements of Harmony threatening to attack along with Omega Supreme, Megatron did the one thing that even made him, Optimus, the Element Bearers, and Autobots feel shocked….
After all…..Optimus Prime did save his life.
Megatron grasped Optimus’ hand and shook it. This was all the last Prime deserved, a handshake from the leader of the Decepticons. Optimus’ bewilderment was solved when his hated brother spoke.
“There will be no more wars today, Optimus. You have earned my respect….and even though we have been fighting for countless eons….you still saved my life. So for now….we will be at peace.”
Twilight Sparkle backed away when Megatron had said these words. They were mortal enemies so why would he just warm up so quickly?! As Megatron released his hand from Optimus’, she slowly uttered these new thoughts of confusion.
“What…but I don’t….why would…HUH?!”
Megatron and Optimus Prime both stared at the six ponies in front of them. The blue pony slowly descended to the ground but dared not take her eyes off of Megatron. But what was strange was the pink pony whose smile popped back up along with her mane.
Megatron chuckled. His chuckle turned into a deep frown when the next voice was heard.
“What did you just say?!”
The Element Bearers, Optimus Prime, and Megatron all looked back to see Starscream to the far left of all the Autobots and Royal Guard. With him were Thundercracker, Skywarp, Sharpshot, Hardshell, Kickback, Shockwave, Soundwave, Motormaster, Breakdown, Dead End, Dragstrip, Wildrider, Barricade, Ramjet, Thrust, Dirge, Onslaught, Swindle, Brawl, Vortex, and Blast Off.
The Autobots flinched when the entire Decepticon army was behind them, but they were even more confused as when Megatron answered back.
Megatron pointed at Starscream and shouted, “None of you are to harm the Autobots that is an order!”
“Have you lost your mind components!?” Starscream yelled, “The Autobots are our enemies!”
“That may be true,” Megatron answered back and looked at Optimus Prime, “but they have proved themselves to be quite….resilient…and for that we will make peace with them….for now.”
Soundwave, Brawl, and Onslaught stared at Megatron as if he was crazy. The rest of the Decepticons looked at each of the Autobots and nodded slowly. After eons of conflict….they didn’t feel threatened.
“Even though we don’t like it…” Thundercracker growled.
“We will do as you command, lord Megatron.” Soundwave added.
“Yes, the Combaticons will listen to our master’s every whim.” Onslaught crossed his arms as did his team.
“The Insecticons will follow your orders without excuses.” Sharpshot exclaimed while Kickback and Hardshell nodded their heads. The Insecticon armada crawled on the building but harmed nothing as instructed by Megatron.
“No matter what it is…” Shockwave placed a hand on his hip and looked to the side.
The Decepticon army slowly turned their heads to the their sky commander obviously wanting him to say the last words.
“We. Will. Obey.” Starscream hissed with gritted teeth.
Megatron smiled.
With the sun fully out now, Optimus Prime and Megatron made their way back to the large group of Cybertronians with the six mares right by them. Well, they were standing by Optimus the entire time.
Optimus sighed with relief…..it was all over…..the Autobots had won….Equestria was saved.
Twilight Sparkle, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie couldn’t stop smiling. They had come a long way and thanks to all of their combined efforts….they saved their home from Discord once again.
The precious moment was interrupted by an unfamiliar voice.
“Permission to speak, Optimus?”
The Autobot leader gasped. He hadn’t heard that voice in many years. The young….vocals of that Autobot had once been gone….but no more. The six mares were confused as well; they hadn’t heard this voice from any Autobot or Decepticon before. It had to be an Autobot.
Scanning the crowd, Twilight realized that all the Autobots had their attention on the carriage carrying the legless yellow Autobot. Wheeljack and Ratchet backed away as if they were wondering if he had just spoken.
He had his voice chip crushed after all….
Fluttershy gasped the loudest as did her friends when their eyes landed on the Autobot scout of the team and one of their closest friends. These new tears came from each mare….especially Fluttershy.
The timid pegasus shook with glee as she approached the carriage.
“Bumblebee….did you just……talk?”
The youngest of the Autobots smiled warmly at his newest pony friend below. He lifted up his scratched up head and waited for Optimus to answer.
The great and last Prime nodded slowly.
“Permission granted…old friend.”
That was enough for Bumblebee to speak again. It had been many years since he had used his actual voice…..and he missed it a lot.
“What….do we do…now?” Bumblebee asked shifting in the carriage as Energon leaked out of his stubs for legs.
Optimus Prime blinked.
Then blinked again.
He blinked for a third time before looking back at the strongest Autobot that had ever lived. Omega Supreme stood over the ruins of the collapsed building. If it hadn’t been for him, he and Megatron would be dead.
Optimus Prime knew what to do.
“It is time for us to leave, Bumblebee.”