//------------------------------// // Chapter 12 Tirek's Betrayal // Story: Transformares Fall of Ponytron // by Hairy Konquerer //------------------------------// The Kul’asepticon looked over the structure in front of her that went into where her boss Corona usually did her experiments. She than walked back into the room where some of the logs Corona kept track were stored. She looked at the monitor and noticed something then turned to face the two earth ponies that were watching TV. One was pink with light violet hair with silver streaks, a tiara and a cutie mark of the same tiara. The other was grey with a silver mane, a necklace, had glasses on, and a cutie mark of a silver spoon. “Diamond Tiara! Silver Spoon! Someone’s trying to hack Mirrorlestia’s logs. Go see what’s the trouble.” Both ponies jumped at the yell but quickly got to their feet and walked towards the stairs in the room on their left flashlights ready. Diamond took the lead and Silver Spoon followed behind her. They walked down the stairs and found the door they were looking for but found the control panel was destroyed. Diamond turned to it and fiddled with it. “Shine your light over here Silver, can’t really see in the dark.” Silver obliged and shined it allowing them to see some weird pink residue on the damaged spot. Diamond crossed a few wires and opened the door. They resumed walking through and Silver saw some distorted wind moved towards the direction they were going in. “What was that!?” “Probably your paranoia getting the better of you Silver Spoon.” They approached the spot they were looking for than Diamond turned to Silver. “You heard what Nightmare did to Tirek.” “Yeah. Tirek’s really had that coming.” “Do tell.” The ponies looked at each other surprised as neither of had had said that. Suddenly a invisible force had flung Diamond Tiara across the room to the right than the left, she reach out to Silver Spoon only for a sword to go right through her chest, and her corpse fall with a thud. Silver looked around than began to visibly shake in terror at something had just killed her best friend. “W-who’s there?” She heard something behind her and saw the infamous Minotaur they were just talking about smirking and looking at her. “Tirek! Wha-what are you doing here?” Tirek brought out his blade. The same blade that just killed Diamond Tiara. “I hear this is where all the idiots hang out.” She only looked in terror for a minute before she struck her with the blade, quickly ending her life. “Fool.” Tirek than moved Silver Spoon’s corpse off of the console than pressed a few buttons bringing some data up on the screen. “Looks like Corona’s latest experiment is in that tower.” Tirek than turned to the entrance and made his way through. “Nightmare will pay for the day she made a fool of me. She can keep her army, I will get my own.” He found an audio log belonging to Corona and tucked it away to listen to when he got the chance. He found a guard facing the door out. He snuck up behind her and placed a DecPack on her back blowing her up. It knocked the Kul’asepticon on the other side down, who Tirek shot so he would stay down. Tirek cloaked and made his way to the Turrent, and placed his DetPack on it, destroyed the controls, placing it under his control and it turned fire on the two Rocket Troopers leaving Tirek to hide behind the wall so he could hear the Audio Log. “Lab Report 1163. Experimentation continues. Effectively meshing Autopony source code with most ferocious creatures on the target planet. 2 large arms, and powerful claws with 2 powerful hind legs for support and a heavy tail as a counterbalance to a sharpest and heaviest jaw I have ever gazed upon. Spliced with Autopony solider Fluttershy. Further strength brought forth by rerouting most power from Central Processing system to legs, jaws, and arms.” A smile of intrigue formed on Tirek’s face. “So that’s it Corona? You must be more twisted than I thought.” He turned and saw a Teletran-1 store. He grabbed accessed it and switched out his Scatter Blaster for the Retro Blaster and got the Glass Gas Cannon. The things Midnight Shine could get on her hooves. He cloaked and moved to the other missiles controls around the area, and 2 of the 3 console controls as the third one was deeper in that control area than the other two. He found a safe place and set off the explosives. Listening to the screams that followed after, bringing a smile to his face. He transformed and flew to behind the farthest tower and changed back taking the helmet with the Mohawk on top giving him his look from his coronation. He flew to the final area and found the way in but could only get in through the top. Before he jumped in he saw something in the distance. A large tower shooting a beam in the air. “The tower from the Sea of Rust. What a waste of time and Energon. Your mind really is a one track processor isn’t it Corona?” he cloaked an jumped down, right behind a Kul’asepticon guard, Tirek took advantage and gave the guard kick to the Gearbox than put a DetPack on him blasting him to pieces. He walked through but than quickly hid as a Guardian scanned near him. It made the fatal mistake of turning around allowing Tirek to plant a DetPack on him, resulting in it being destroyed. Tirek than simply walked the rest of the way, a guard suddenly popped up at his side, and ran at him. Tirek looked unfazed and simply raised his blaster to in the guard’s direction and landed a headshot to the guard, causing the guard to float passed him and dissolve into a pink nothingness. Tirek approached the controls and placed a DetPack on it destroying the last one allowing the blast doors to open letting Tirek out. He transformed and flew to the last control panel, and placed the DetPack on it, than allowing him to into the tower, in which he dodged direct collision with a few fliers equipped with A-4 Pulsar Cannons. He flew through the tunnel and saw cables underneath him power up. “The power restoration the tower is happening faster than I thought.” Tirek kicked in his boosters and flew faster through the tunnel. A wall ahead of Tirek closed and he stopped directly in front of it and destroyed the cover below him, allowing him to peek from the vents above and see 4 Kul’asepticons walking below him. The one in the front was Obviously Corona but behind her was a purple earth pony in a jumpsuit with a green tentacle like mane, a red teenage dragon, and an orange Earth Pony in the back with a Black Hat and Black handkerchief around her neck. Tirek had jumped in just in time to hear a discussion. “The test subject shows discomfort even when just observed. I assume the tests were done incorrectly?” The one in the back responded, a country accent coming out. “Ah can assure you, the tests were done exactly as you instructed.” “We shall see MirrorJack.” Tirek crawled through the vents and saw a cord to his left glow blue and the lights flicker, he heard a distant grunt of pain, a mare from the sound of it. “Must be quite the test going on.” Tirek muttered to himself as he jumped down to the same floor level Corona was just on, thinking it must be very important for Corona to see to it personally. He proceeded through and found himself looking down on Corona and her acquaintances looking at a Pegasus mare locked by two arms holding her at her sides. Tirek made a second look and recognized this as Fluttershy, the mightiest of the Autoponies warriors from the battle at her home. Tirek remembered her as he saw her personally tear the Late SoundBlaster apart Servo by Servo and crushed his head. How Vinyl required the remains was beyond Tirek. He then realized Fluttershy looked substantially different, her front fore-hooves looked like striped gauntlets, her legs were spiked, her wings now bat like and her body now looked like a wirewolf shell with the Autopony symbol on her chest. He came back to reality as Corona spoke. “Lab Report 1168 changes to test subject are at expected levels. Strength levels have increased tenfold by taking away power from all but the most basic of cerebral functions.” Corona turned to the dragon that was near a control panel. “Garble, administer Stress Test number 25.” Garble pressed a button than orange electricity shot at Fluttershy causing her groan in pain but she didn’t even move. The purple earth pony remark on it. “Tasty.” MirrorJack scowled at little. “It hardly even flinched. Let me play with her.” “In due time, MirrorJack.” Corona than directed them to follow her through the door out. Tirek followed the way on the Platform he was on to a control both with a Kul’asepticon Wirewolf monitoring the controls. Tirek placed a DetPack on his back, and tried to run but the Con already spotted him. “Nice try Tirek!” he slammed Tirek’s head onto the console than flung him out the window in which he landed on the lower floor in front of Fluttershy and looked up at the Con. “you have another thing coming if you don’t think-” the DetPack went off and Con screamed as he flew through the air. Tirek smirked as he walked up to Fluttershy and the Con’s upper torso fell down below. “You must be the one called Fluttershy.” No response. “Shall I speak more… Sloooowllly-” he was interrupted as Fluttershy opened her eyes growling and some lights on her body glowed too, a angry red. “I am Tirek, I know what Corona has done to you and your team. Very gruesome stuff,” Tirek turned around in which Fluttershy struggled and tried to pull her locks off. He than turned around to face her and she stopped struggling. “But what is a Fluttershy to do? Celestia has surely written you off, and you’re clearly to dumb to think for yourself, so here is my offer: you will swear your allegiance to me, you will do my bidding, and in return, I will set you free.” Fluttershy looked at him and than grabbed him and did something that shocked him. “No thanks. I’ll free myself!” Tirek did not think that Fluttershy wasn’t even smart enough to speak and attempted to turn it around. “Wait! I can help you!” Fluttershy did not care and threw Tirek to the controls, knocking that helmet with that stupid Mohawk off his head. Fluttershy than turned her attention to the Arms restraining her, and managed to tear them off. She walked forward, smashing Tirek helmet while walking forward. She made her way to the door than pulled it apart, allowing her through. She saw two Kul’asepticons and brought out her sword. It was the same sword she used when she killed at those Kul’asepticons at her home when they killed all her friends. Luna altered it allowing her to tuck it away when she did not need it and sharpened the edge for maximum carnage. Fluttershy swung several times at the Cons slicing them to several pieces and the door. On the other side were several more Kul’asepticons all whom were running in terror. She looked over at one of them. “Where’s my team?” “I don’t wanna get deactivated!” Fluttershy sliced him in two. “Useless!” she than lumbered through killing several more of them and smashed the door in front of her and walked through the hallway on the other side. She threw a piece of debris to the console on the other side allowing her to walked into the room with the weird bird shaped symbol on top. She pulled the door apart and walked in. she got closer into the room and found a orange lanky Pegasus filly with light purple hair hanging above her in some kind of energy chains. “Scootaloo, what have they done to you?” A hologram appeared under Scootaloo, one that angered Fluttershy greatly, Corona. “Welcome Fluttershy, your escape way easily predicted. Frankly I’m surprised you can even talk. 98.7 percent of your redesign was dedicated to the total destruction of your enemy.” “Lucky you.” Snipers flew in began to fire a t Fluttershy, who raised her shield then used her wings to fly up slicing up most of them then Corona spoke. “A lot quicker execution time than I expected. I will continue to monitor your progress.” “And you’ll get a personal demonstration!” More Kul’asepticons came in through the other side of the room that just opened up. Fluttershy cut through them like water, eventually her health was starting to go down and she found the last guy. She pulled her sword back than jabbed it forward grabbing him than stabbed him 3 times and chopped him in half and chomped down on the Energon cube she got out of it. Fluttershy than heard something from behind her. “Fluttershy?” “Scootaloo. You’re alive.” “Fluttershy get me out of here!” “How?” “I saw two guards trigger two keys in unison to lock me in.” Fluttershy found an explosive and walked to where another one was. She found one and tossed the explosive to that one shorting it out. “Good now get the other one.” “Yeah, I got it!” She grabbed the their explosive and threw it at the other one shorting that one. The console in front of her turned on so she sliced it. A robotic voice went off. “Restraints unlocked.” Scootaloo screamed as she fell out and somehow transformed into a phoenix and flew around, a quick laugh came out of her voice before she hit a support and fell to the ground transforming back into her pony form. Fluttershy found a door nearby and smashed it. Finding an audio log on the other side. She was about to play it when Scootaloo spoke. “That was awesome! Can you change form?” “No, everything’s different.” “You mean better.” “No, just different.” Fluttershy than played the log, and a hologram of Scootaloo’s alt form came up. “Lab Report 1164. With thin membranes stretched from it’s frail arms to it’s narrow torso with the protection of feathers, together with it’s razor sharp jaws, the naturally occurring aviant seems almost perfectly designed to bring death from above. Almost. With only minor modifications to the Autopony Scootaloo’s source code due to her age making it easy to manipulate, true perfection appears to be have been attained.” Fluttershy Kept the Audio Log, as she would need it when she was going show how truly demented Corona was. She caught up with Scootaloo and they walked finding their way to another corridor with the path lowered and a Kul’asepticon on the other side. Scootaloo smirked. “Watch this.” She than transformed, doing a loop-de-loop and laughed. “I love being able to fly again.” She than rammed the Con into the control panel than flung him over and out the window. She transformed and pressed a few button raising the platform up. Fluttershy walked across to the door and pulled it apart just as easily as the others. Scootaloo was awestruck. “I don’t remember you being that strong.” “Makes two of us.” She walked down the hall and looked to her left finding a door covered by a Teletran-1 Store. She simply used her sword to destroy both and found an audio log on a panel along with a gun covered by a holographic sphere. When she played it, a hologram of Mirrorlestia cam up with the gun integrated into her right hoof. “Corona’s log: inspired by my enhancements on the Autoponies, I have decided to create a few upgrades for my personal arsenal. When finished this Sling Shock could generate power to rival even Nightmare Moon’s.” Fluttershy found the guns blueprints right next to the projection and grabbed them, seeing how a gun that powerful could go a long way in Autopony hands. She joined Scootaloo and saw her looking out a window looking at several Insecticons begin dissected. She turned to Fluttershy. “Is this what Corona did to us, cut us open and put us back together?” “You don’t remember?” “No… do you?” “Everything.” “I think I was in a room like this with Apple Bloom.” “Where is she?” “Don’t know, might be this way.” Fluttershy followed Scootaloo through the hall and they found themselves in a room with a large gun at the other side. Corona’s voice could be heard and a large red teenage dragon was seen at the other end. “This is Garble, he is going to test you.” Garble got into the gun and began to fire and Scootaloo and Fluttershy, they both dodged and Scootaloo pressed a few buttons on a console causing a fuel pod to come pop up. “Fluttershy! Grab that-” “On it!” Fluttershy had already grabbed it and threw it at the gun. While another one was coming up, she grabbed pieces of debris and threw those things at the gun and eventually some Cons came in attempting to back to now flaming gun up. Fluttershy grabbed the nearest Con and threw it at the gun causing it to explode than randomly shoot out, killing of the remaining Cons. Than it crashed and Garble was dangling out of the Cockpit. Fluttershy walked up to him. “Garble,” She grabbed him and he struggled a little. “Quit squirming.” She slammed him on the ground than slammed his head into the console in which a robotic voice replied. “Facial recognition recognized. Access granted.” Fluttershy flung Garble across the room than moved forward through the door. Scootaloo than caught up to Fluttershy. “If we’ve got new forms, than we need a new name. Colossus Slice Omega never did roll off the tongue.” She transformed a boosted through the corridor, triggering the shield and preventing Fluttershy from getting through. She saw a console on her side as well as Scootaloo’s. Scootaloo got an idea. “Let’s hit the console’s on three. One-” “Three!” Fluttershy smashed her console followed by Scootaloo and the shield came down. Fluttershy dashed for the end and managed to ram right through the door, but she could still see the logo under it: a rabbit. Scootaloo flew in a talked to Fluttershy. “Yeah this is Apple Bloom’s room.” They looked around and saw the place trashed. “She’s not here. Maybe Apple Bloom escaped?” Fluttershy looked at a hologram of Apple Bloom and watched it transform into a rabbit with one horn on its nose. “Maybe.” Scootaloo flew around and landed at the edge of the gaping hole in the middle of the room “Something big went through here.” Fluttershy looked down and knew there was only one way to find out. She jumped down not knowing what might come next.