//------------------------------// // Prologue: Brace For Impact // Story: Ocean Bound Colossus // by Seth Typofather //------------------------------// Power systems malfunctioning. The giant battleship shook in the gravitational pull of his assigned planet, it was no ordinary ship however. It had no driver, no crew and no inhabitants of any kind but one. Itself. The ship bore an insignia on the bow of it’s form, the insignia for the Decepticon empire. This was the mightiest Decepticon, rivalling even his leader and Devastator alongside Bruticus combined. He was Tidal Wave. How it had come to this, the mighty transport and war vessel for the Decepticon cause at the mercy of a faulty thruster running low on energon and the gravity of a planet. Prepare for impact in T-minus 60 seconds. The atmosphere burned his body, in a desperate attempt he tried transforming, only for his cogs to lock from the stress. His body was red hot and careening towards a large body of water, hopefully this would cool the colossal ship down. If the impact didn’t decimate him before the atmospheric heat first. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. Impact imminent. The crash shook the oceans, causing a shockwave to rumble across the surface in the form of a tsunami spreading outwards which slowly dissipated as it went on. Rising to the surface of the water, still in his battleship form Tidal Wave scanned his surroundings. Energon signature not found, energon tracker beyond repair, initiating recon mode. His body split into three sections, one a flight transport, the second a destroyer and the third a troop transport. All three sections started floating in separate directions to find land, the flight transport releasing his Minicon, Ramjet. Tidal Wave’s Minicon took to the skies to speed up the search, if either one found land, their universal tracking beacons would alert each other to reconnect at the specified location. ——— “Breakfast is served, m’lady.” Black Tuxedo, Celestia’s personal bowed to the vanilla coated alicorn, her otherwise perfectly magnificent mane frazzled from the rough sleep. “Disturbances, m’lady?” He enquired, setting down the tray of toast and fries eggs with hay bacon strips on the bedside table. “Yes it was,” She replied. “Remind me to drink less at one of Pinkie Pie’s parties.” Celestia half joked. Luna meanwhile snored in her tower as loudly as two orcs doing battle, sighing and shaking her head the older co-rule rod Equestria sat up on the bed. “Actually, remind me to install sound proof coating on my sister’s tower. Her and that colt last night were too loud.” Rubbing a hoof on her face to eject the images. “Understood, m’lady.” He nodded, leaving the bedroom to do his duty at once. Once the door shut the princess rubbed her hooves together in anticipation for her meal, her golden aura raising a hay bacon strip to her awaiting mouth. With a thunderous crash the room shook, no, the entire foundation shook like terrified puppy. “What the Tartarus?!?!” Celestia screamed, the tray crashing to the floor. “Who disturbs our rest?!?” A nearby scream from the other tower overshadowed the rumbling, no doubt Luna using her Royal Canterlot Voice. The ‘our’ being used to describe her and the colt currently sleeping in the same bed as her rather than herself. Rolling her eyes Celestia began to conjure a scroll and quill once the rumbling subsided she paused. Rolling her eyes again with an audible scoff to herself she forgot Twilight had decided to take residence in the castle for a while. ——— Ramjet sailed the skies, his optic sensors dead set on below. This was an advantage for him as he had to not worry about encountering air activity from anything at this height, hopefully. He beeped a message towards Tidal Wave, Ancient Cybertronian language that few organics understood. Ramjet was ordered by his host to keep him addressed on current sightings every 10 minutes, the ocean seems to be getting brighter from the deep ocean blue. A sure sign that land was nearby. To make things even better, the energon signature had returned. ——— Message received, setting location. The destroyer, which housed Tidal Wave’s spark activated it’s boosters to get to the location at a faster pace only for him to stop. Energon insufficient, activating solar to energon converters. Whirring emanated from the command centre, sending signals to the rest of his parts which at the same time opened up multiple panels lining the length. It was now a matter of waiting until his power supply was charged enough to begin his conquest. Energon supply at 10%. Estimating time to be one hour before energon supply at 100% capacity. Until then Tidal Wave relied on using as little energon as possible to use his propellors, slow but effective. ——— “An earthquake? In Equestria?” Twilight questioned. “But that’s impossible, Equestria hasn’t had quake in centuries!” She exclaimed, flicking through a book of Equestrian geology. “Why one now?” “This was no ordinary earthquake, Twilight.” Her mentor replied, knowing something was wrong with the quake on a very technical level. “Tremors such as this occur when something was rising from the ground or… crashing into it…” She trailed off slowly at her younger sister entering with a disgruntled expression. “Good afternoon.” “What’s so good about it?” Luna snapped back, her mane messy. Holding their hooves to their noses Celestia gagged at the stench coming from her younger sister. “I think you should shower…” Blushing at the response Luna sniff herself before gagging and galloping off in the direction of the royal showers. “Discovering what it’s like to experience the world of mortals has resulted in this with me multiple times,” The vanilla coated alicorn blushed. “so I’m sure Luna will grow out of it and take more responsibility… I hope.” A large sonic boom echoed through the city, breaking a few windows. “Now what?!” Celestia exclaimed as she observed out the window, she was met face to nosecone with a hovering jet. Frozen in fear the jet beeped a few times, scanning her and Twilight. Beeping once more it flew up before leaving the city, another sonic boom coming minutes later as a reminder. ——— Energon signature identified, designated Protocol A and Protocol B. Energon supply at 64%. Estimated time before 100% capacity, 20 minutes.