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// arrival (part 2) 
// Story: the brutality factor 
// by Celestia_X_Luna 
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systems rebooting...  
Bruticus awoke with a start. He was lying flat on his back looking strait up and he saw the strangest thing, A blue sky.
What was a blue sky doing in space, unless he wasn't in space. There where only two places he could be, Earth or Cybertron, and the last time he checked Cybertron did not have blue skies. He must be on earth. The question is, where on earth. 
He pulled himself off the ground into a sitting position and took in his surrounding, which consisted of the crater walls. He must have fallen from orbit. He got to his feet and climbed out of the crater he had made earlier. Then he saw another peculiar thing, trees, lots and lots of trees, and it was abnormally dark and dreary. "I don't think were in Kansas."

He stood at his full height and looked over the trees, they where quite tall. the trees maid it up to bruticus' waist. "Combaticons separate!" With that Bruticus fell apart and was replaced by five much smaller beings. "So what do we do now?" Swindle asked "I mean its not like we have our weapons with us." 

"No," Onslaught said "But we have our vehicle weapons. Blastoff, you and Vortex fly over the forest and try to find our weapons.
Brawl and Swindle you are with me. lets see if we can find a human establishment."





They had found the strange object in the middle of Ponyville square and Celestia had scientists and guards shipped in over night. What they found looked like a really long cylinder with some parts protruding from it here and there. It was huge, it was 20 hooves across and 5-6 blocks long. At one end it seamed to be hollow, but the other was solid. 

"Have you made any progress?" celestia asked

"We have made some progress," one of the scientists said. He was a tan earth pony with a grey mane. he was dressed in a lab coat with a pair of glasses in his pocket.

"It seams to give off a strange type of energy we have never encountered before."He began walking along the object followed by Celestia to the middle of the device. "We also found a switch in the middle of the object." He said indicating towards the switch. "We would like your permission to see what the switch does." 

"Lets not at the moment, it could be dangerous. It could do anything from make clouds to destroy everything." Celestia said

"Lets focus on getting it to a secure location, where we can test it safely."

"As you wish princess." The scientist said with a bow. "One question though."

"What is that?"

"How are we going to transport it? We cant exactly load it into a wagon." 





Vortex was a grey and blue helicopter flying over the forest when he saw something. Hey its a human establi...wait those don't look like humans, and is that? this is not good.

"Onslaught come in this is Vortex."

"Onslaught here, go ahead Vortex."

"I found a development but it is not human, and Bruticus' phase cannon is in what i believe to be their town square. I'm also seeing a lot of lab coats and clipboards."

"Keep me informed Vortex." With that he cut the transmission. "Brawl, Swindle were moving out." Swindle was a small yellow and purple CJ-5, while Brawl was a grey and green tank. Onslaught trusted Brawl with his life,  Swindle... not-so-much, he hasn't trusted Swindle since he sold him for spare parts. "Where to?" brawl asked. 

"Vortex where is this 'establishment'?" 

"Due west of the forest." Vortex stated.

"Blastoff, whats your twenty?"

"I am currently flying towards the development, with our weapons in tow."

"Good work you two, we are on our way." With that he closed the com.

"Alright lets..." Onslaught froze mid sentence. He turned around to find a four headed monster emerge from the trees and give a mighty ROAR.

"BRAWL, BRING THAT THING DOWN!" Onslaught barked. Brawl didn't have to be told twice. he immediately transformed into a tank.

"Hey Griff, can you hold this for me. IN YOUR GUT!!!"  With that brawl fired a explosive round right into the beasts gut. It screamed in pain then glared in their direction and ROARED. It began walking towards the group hell bent on killing all of them.

"Wait for it." Brawl said. Not one second later the monsters body exploded, raining flesh everywhere. "Well no that that is dead lets move out." Onslaught said as he transformed into a truck with AA-guns and a massive flat bed. Brawl and Swindle fell into position in their vehicle forms as all three made their way west toward town.





Celestia was perplexed. she needed to get this thing transported somewhere were they could conduct tests on it and figure out what it did but their was no way to move it. her train of thought was cut short however as an boom rang though the Everfree forest followed by two roars another quieter boom then... nothing. 

"What the buck was that?" Celestia said aloud.

"The roar was hydra in origin but the boom... I have no idea." one of the scientist responded. Celestia looked around and fond everyone was looking into the forest as if at any second something would run out and eat them.

"Captain Iron Hoof." Celesia said.

"Yes your majesty?" Said one of the guards. He was dresses in platinum armor with a red star on his chest and his coat was grey as stone.

"I want you to put together a team and investigate what that was." 






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