Chapter 11
Celestia yelled at Megatron. “How dare you attack my home! And how do you know of my name? We have never met!”
Megatron smirked. “Oh I assure you your majesty, Soundwave here is more than competent as my communications officer. And what better time than now to attack your city? With the Autobots low on energy, and my own troops freshly energized, your pathetically defended land will soon be mine!”
“Guards! Seize them!”
Celestia’s guards quickly flew up to Megatron and began delivering kicks and punches. Megatron merely laughed and swatted them away as if they were flies. Then, to Megatron’s surprise, Celestia herself tackled him at his mid- section at such a speed that they both flew out of the castle’s now blown apart entrance and landed in the middle of a battlefield.
All around Canterlot the Decepticons were wreaking havoc. Skywarp and Thundercracker flew around in their jet modes, taking shots at buildings and dive-bombing civilians. Hook, Scavenger, Mixmaster, Bonecrusher, and Long Haul were spread throughout the city, chasing ponies and lighting fire to everything in their sight. Rumble, Frenzy, Ravage, Laserbeak, and even the rarely released Buzzsaw, were also terrorizing the ponies of Canterlot. The guards of the city could do little other than draw the Decepticons’ fire.
Starscream, Soundwave, Shockwave, and Scrapper, after snapping out of a surprised state from seeing Celestia successfully tackle Megatron, quickly ran back out of the castle to witness their fight. Megatron threw many punches at Celestia, who was hovering at Megatron’s shoulder height. While the alicorn managed to dodge most of them, some of Megatron’s blows landed on her. The force of power Megatron inflicted upon Celestia was brutal. The normally invulnerable deity had never felt such pain before. Each time Megatron landed one of his fists on her, she bruised, and began to falter. Then, Megatron winded Celestia by hitting her square in the stomach. Celestia grasped her torso and gasped for breath. Then, Celestia felt a warm liquid slowly running down the side of her mouth. She raised a hoof and wiped it off to see what it was.
Blood.
Celestia’s condition was worse than she feared. If she lost, her ponies would lose hope and all of Equestria would fall under Decepticon rule. Celestia would have none of it. She gathered her strength, and falcon- punched Megatron dead center in his face. Megatron toppled over onto his back, and sat up. Megatron was also bleeding from his mouth. He wiped the corner of his mouth with a finger and looked at the energon. Megatron gave a quiet chuckle.
“What’s so funny?” asked a battle- ready Celestia.
“Oh, just the notion that it took me several hits to make you bleed, while it took only one for you, is quite amusing,” Megatron responded.
The two resumed combat. Celestia was fighting more aggressively now, refusing to let Megatron win. She rained a hundred blows on him, but none of them did as much damage as her first one. She had used most of her willpower on that hit. Then Celestia began firing blasts of energy at Megatron from her horn. These seemed to do a little more damage, but still not enough to down Megatron. The other Decepticons began to move in closer.
“I said stay back,” Megatron yelled to them, “The princess is my kill!”
The watching ‘Cons backed away.
Megatron delivered an uppercut to Celestia. Celestia fell to the ground and skidded to a halt a way’s off from Megatron. Megatron laughed and aimed his fusion cannon at Celestia, who was trying to get back on her feet. Then, a blinding light flashed across Megatron’s optics. As Megatron struggled against the light to see what was happening, he could hear the other Decepticons yelling. Starscream in particular sounded panicky. Then Megatron felt his body temperature rising. His thermostat read five hundred degrees Celsius, five hundred and fifty degrees Celsius, six hundred degrees Celsius. The source of the light and heat was no doubt coming from Princess Celestia. Megatron fought against the blinding light, seeking Celestia’s location. Finally, he found her. He could just barely see her silhouette against the light. Megatron fired two shots from his cannon, but missed. He could not get a good shot at her in this position. After looking upwards to where the light was less forceful, Megatron smiled. He took aim not at Celestia, but at one of the castle towers that was directly above Celestia.
Megatron fired at the tower. A good portion of it was blown out from the blast. Megatron fired again, but this time a little higher. His second shot hit directly above the first, creating a massive gap in the tower. The unbalanced mass and weight of the tower began to take effect, and it slowly tilted in Celestia’s direction. Finally, the tower broke in half, fell over, and landed on top of Celestia.
The blinding light and heat immediately disappeared. Megatron looked over to Starscream and the others. They had been forced to the ground due to the pain of the heat, and were beginning to shake off its effects.
“Weaklings,” Megatron said to himself.
Megatron turned his attention back to Celestia, who was now buried under the rubble of the castle tower. He shifted through the rubble, searching for her. Megatron overturned a large chunk of debris and found Celestia, lying on her side, unconscious.
“Now, to rid my soon- to- be- world of this futile resistance.”
Megatron raised his cannon to the helpless Celestia, charged it, and was knocked to his side by a fist. Megatron got to his feet and looked to who interrupted him: Optimus Prime.
“Prime! I should’ve known you would show up sooner or later,” Megatron said.
“Just as I knew you would eventually attack the ponies, Megatron,” Optimus responded.
“Why do you bother protecting these vermin? You could have easily left me and my Decepticons here. We no longer would have been a problem for you!”
“Megatron, freedom is the right of all sentient beings, no matter what world, what dimension, or what species. I will continue to resist Decepticon rule.”
“So be it. Decepticons, ATTACK!”
The five Decepticons all fired upon Optimus, but before Optimus could take any damage a purple force shield appeared in front of him and deflected the shots. Behind Optimus, was Twilight Sparkle, at the head of a small army that consisted of the Autobots and the residents of Ponyville and Cloudsdale.
Ironhide cracked his knuckles. “Ar’ight Decepticreeps, yer time’s up.”
Behind Megatron and the other ‘Cons arrived Skywarp, Thundercracker, the Minicons, and the rest of the Constructicons.
“We beg to differ,” Shockwave said.
The two small armies stood at opposite ends of the courtyard, waiting for the other side to make the first move. Megatron broke the silence.
“Decepticons, CHARGE!”
“Autobots, ponies, charge!” yelled Optimus.
The two sides charged forward in a sprint, with Optimus and Megatron at the lead of either side. The two leaders both raised their fists, and swung forward.