Rain started to fall upon the city of Pompeii. In times was a great city of the Roman Empire, but it wasn’t its beauty or work that became its name immortal. In 79 B.C, the volcano known as Vesuvius was reactivated and destroyed the entire city of Pompeii, killing millions of people at the same time. Now the place and the bodies preserved by the smokes from the volcano are a monumentum of Italy, a relic from the past to forever remember that horrible day. A strange silver jet flew towards the ground of Vesuvius and began to change into a gigantic robot. It was Megatron, leader of the Decepticons, conqueror of many worlds, Emperor of Destruction and future ruler of Earth and the Universe. Once he landed, he standed up and stared to the dark clouds that were realising small water drops in his silver armor. Megatron looked to the volcano and smiled. A simple flaming mountain was capable to destroy millions of lives in a few moments...A perfect place to defeat his mortal nemesis. Before he went out of the Nemesis, Megatron warned to his minions that this would be a fight between him and Prime and if any bot decided to attack his mortal nemesis was going to pay with his own spark. Suddenly, a blue portal appeared some feets in front of Megatron and a robotic creature with a red and blue armor walked out of it. A smile full of sharp teeth appeared in Megatron’s face. He did really accepted his challenge.
“Megatron, today you’ll answer for your crimes against Cybertron and against Humanity!” said Optimus Prime “One shall stand…”
“...And one shall fall!” said Megatron “You, Optimus Prime!”
With that words, both leaders began to run towards each other while screaming their battle cries. Once they were close to each other, Optimus and Megatron raised their arms back, clenched their hands and delivered a perfect punch towards their faces.
The Rainbooms and the Autobots walked towards the Ark’s bridge and probably seeing Optimus preparing for the next Decepticon attack. Thanks to Ratchet’s amazing skills as a medic, Fluttershy was going to survive to her wounds and maybe wake up later.
“Once again, thank ya for helpin’ Fluttershy, Ratchet.” said Applejack.
“Yeah!” said Pinkie Pie “Nice work, Doc!”
“It was nothing, girls. Only doing my job as a medic.” he replied “And DON’T call me ‘Doc’, okay?” said Ratchet to Pinkie.
“Sure, Doc!” saluted Pinkie Pie.
Ratchet growled while the others chuckled a little. Maybe it wasn’t a good time to laughs and jokes since her best friend was almost killed, but since Fluttershy was in the hands of Cybertron’s best medic with eons of helping his comrades’ lives, Twilight could relax for now. When the Autobots and their humans friends arrived to the bridge, they saw a brunette girl tapping in the keyboard very fast and with a very worried face.
“Sari?” asked Wheeljack “What’s going on?”
“Optimus used the Ground Bridge and now I can’t open it!” she said.
“Optimus?” asked Arcee “But why?”
“Well…” said Sari with a chuckle “It’s a funny story…”
CRASH!!! That was the sound made when both leaders’ fists collided in their faces at the same time, sending them a few steps away. Optimus recovered from the attack and charged towards Megatron, who raised up his arm and fired his cannon. With a quick reaction, Optimus pushed Megatron’s arm away as it fired the blast. The Autobot pulled the cannon up to avoid the blast and changed his hand into his blaster. When Megatron saw Optimus swinging his charged weapon towards his head, the Decepticon leader pulled Prime’s blaster up, making him to fire it. Taking this momentum, Megatron pushed Optimus with his fusion cannon and aimed it towards him once more, but Optimus was fast enough to push the gun away once more. The fight between the two most powerful Autobot and Decepticon was most like a dance. They tried to blast each other and pushed away each other weapons every time. When Megatron pushed Optimus’ blaster away, the last Prime swinged his leg with the intention to hit his enemy’s face, but the evil Con leaned backwards to avoid the kick and resumed his attacks and counterattacks. Suddenly, Optimus Prime and Megatron aimed their weapons towards each other at the same time and fired them. Both robots growled as they were sent away by the huge shockwave created by the two blasts. Both began to stand up. Once Optimus was up, he changed his blaster back to his hand and runned towards his brother. Megatron smiled and fired his cannon, but Prime quickly changed his hand into his sword and deflected the purple blast away. As he continued to run towards Megatron, Optimus deflected each blast fired from the Decepticon’s cannon. Suddenly, the Autobot made an incredible jump towards Megatron as he raised up his sword, but Megatron made a blade appear under his cannon and blocked Prime’s attack when he came back down.
“What did you feel when I blowed up that pathetic human, Optimus?” asked Megatron as he pushed forward his blade “A burning flame of hate growing each nano-second in your spark? A powerful desire to avenge your stupid pet?”
“You talk too much for a klunker.” replied Optimus.
“SARI, YOU LET OPTIMUS FACE MEGATRON ALONE?!” growled Arcee.
“I d-didn’t have a choice!” she replied “He wanted to destroy Megatron at all cost.”
“Teletraan-1,” said Ratchet “can you decode the code that Optimus insert in the Bridge’s control?”
“Yes,” replied Teletraan “but the process will take 02 hours to decode it. The code is very powerful…”
“Then decode it in minutes!” growled Arcee “If we don’t get to Optimus right now, the war will end to us.”
Twilight couldn’t believe in what was happening. Optimus Prime, the leader of the Autobots, was challenged by Megatron, his mortal enemy, in a battle to the death. She began to get worried. It was her nightmare was becoming real. Like it was...a vision. Twilight gasped when she understood in her nightmare: it was a warning. She needed to do something or Earth and her friends would suffer the Decepticons’ wrath.
“Sari, I need to get to Optimus...” whispered Twilight to Sari.
“What?!” whispered Sari “Are you crazy?!”
“If I don’t help him now, he will die…” said Twilight.
Sari looked to Twilight’s eyes. She notice that water was forming on them and slowly falling towards the ground. She couldn’t explain, but she felt sad when she saw that puppy eyes.
“I got an idea.” she said “Come with me.”
The purple girl didn’t waste more time. While the Autobots were talking to each other, Twilight whispered something into Rainbow Dash’s ear. Dashie nodded and called the other Rainbooms.
A few minutes later…
Sari threw a wheel away as the Rainbooms walked into the unknow room. Suddenly, amount of wires fell over the girls’ head, making them to growl. Sari said that since she was built, she has been working in an old device that could help Twilight to get to Optimus and Megatron. Sari threw a hammer away as she went deeper into a metallic box. She was sure that it was right there. The android smiled as she grabbed the purple belt that was under a robotic arm. In that moment, Twilight walked inside, but she was different: she was wearing a purple suit and a light purple cape with a hood. Rainbow looked at her and gasped. Twilight looked just like a superhero.
“Woah!” said Rainbow Dash “You look awesome!”
“Really?” asked Twilight while blushing “T-Thanks!”
Sari walked towards Twilight and placed the belt in her hip. She got to admit that she looked very cool in that combat suit that Rarity has made.
“So what is this device, darling?” asked Rarity as she tooked off a red wire from her hair.
“During the Great War,” said Sari while changing her finger into a torch “the Autobots attacked a Decepticon city and discovered some plans of a secret weapon that they were building.” she said as she laid her finger in the belt.
“So this is that weapon?” asked Twilight as she looked to the belt “What can it do?”
“I built this prototype. For what I read, the Decepticons called it a warp device.” replied Sari “It allows any creature to transport itself into any place in the planet.”
“Transport?” asked AJ “Like da Ground Bridge?”
“Yup!” Sari answered “Alright, Twilight, the only thing you need to do it’s to think in the last place that Optimus went called Pompeii. The belt will read your mind and take you there in few seconds.”
“Are you sure this work?” asked Twilight.
“Sure!” said Sari “If Skywarp can do this, then you can do it too.”
“Okay…” replied Twilight with a worried face.
Once she was ready, Twilight Sparkle and her friends hugged each other. Since she was going to help Optimus Prime to defeat Megatron, they knew that things could get nasty.
“Good luck, sugarcube.” said Applejack.
“Be careful.” said Rarity.
Twilight noded. Once the goodbyes were done, the Princess of Friendship closed her eyes and began to think in Pompeii. Suddenly, a purple light involved Twilight’s body and, within seconds, she disappeared in a flash.
A bright light appeared in the exit of the city of Pompeii. After the light disappeared, a purple girl opened her eyes and looked around. She smiled and looked to her belt. It was just like her horn when she use the teleportation spell.
“I must have one of these thing…” said Twilight with a smile.
But soon her smile died. Suddenly, a metallic sound was heard. Turning her head around, Twilight gasped when she saw a familiar red and blue robot clashing his blade in the silver robot’s one. Megatron stepped back and swung his sword forward, but only to be blocked by Optimus Prime. Twilight looked to their armors: filled with scratches and cracks just like in her nightmare. Megatron stepped back and delivered a swing of his blade that Optimus pushed down with his one. Using this momentum, Prime tried to punch the Decepticon in the face, but Megatron was very fast and punched him first. Taking this moment, the Decepticon leader kicked Optimus very far away. Twilight growled. She was scared, but at the same time impressed. Optimus Prime and Megatron’s skills were very uniques. She never saw attacks and defense like those ones. Optimus changed his sword back into his hand and runned towards Megatron like the last time, but after he yelled his battle cry, he transformed into a truck and drove towards Megatron, who tried to blow him apart. Using a rock as a ramp, Optimus flew and crashed into Megatron’s chest, who growled as he fell from a cliff that was behind him. Changing back into a robot as a lighting ripped in half the clouds, Optimus yelled once more his battle cry and landed on top of Megatron. Twilight took this moment and transported herself to the top of the cliff to see the rest of the battle.
“Woah…” she said.
Twilight saw Optimus using his wheels in his right leg to burn the rubber in Megatron’s optics. She may not approve that dirty move, but she thinks that a better way to fought a Decepticon is playing by his own way like she did with Trixie with that Alicorn Amulet. As the wheels began to burn his face and painted it with black, Megatron grabbed Optimus’s head and throw him away. The Autobot leader tumbled back until he stopped and runned towards the Decepticon, who was now blinded by the rubber that was burned in his face. Prime’s fist made contact with Megatron’s face, making a dark liquid to came out of his mouth. Blinded, Megatron tried to counterattack, but failed to avoid the next punch delivered by Optimus. More punches were delivered, making more purple liquid to fly from Megatron’s mouth, and Twilight smiled as each punch hitted the silver Transformer. Optimus was actually winning against Megatron and if would keep on, the war was going to end soon with the Autobots’ victory.
“Why isn’t working?!” growled Megatron before he received another punch.
After many hits, Megatron could finally took off the rubber in his optics, but nothing could save him from Prime’s last strike, who screamed his battle cry once more. The punch was so strong that sended Megatron flying until he landed on his back. Megatron sat, completely stunned as Optimus walked towards him. The Decepticon looked up to his ex-brother with another lighting spreaded across the dark clouds. Once he was closer to the monster, Optimus changed his hand. Suddenly, Twilight’s happiness turned into doubt. If Optimus kills Megatron right now, what would he achieve? Maybe intergalactic peace, but what else?
“My destiny…” said Megatron before Optimus pushed him against the ground with his foot “This isn’t how it's supposed to end!”
“On the contrary, Megatron…” said Optimus as he rose up his sword.
Even if that his failure would hunt him until his end, he knew what was must be done. For the Rainbooms, for Earth and the rest of the Universe, the leader of the Decepticons must fall today.
“I could not allow this to end otherwise.” he said.
Megatron’s optics began to get smaller when Prime’s sword was ready. It couldn’t be his end and he couldn’t be defeated by Optimus Prime. Optimus brought down the blade, but what happened next surprised both Megatron and Twilight: the sword hitted the ground next to Con’s head. Though he wanted to end their terrible war, Optimus couldn’t kill his only past. His only...family.
“What?!” said Megatron “What are you waiting for?! Destroy me!!!”
“I...I can’t…” said Optimus “You’re the only thing that is left from my past…”
Megatron grabbed Optimus’ sword and broke it in half as he yelled his battle cry. He had enough of hearing Prime’s stupid words. With a quick jump, Megatron stood up and stabbed Optimus’ shoulder with the broken piece of his sword, who growled in pain. Twilight gasped when she saw blue liquid coming out of Optimus’ wound. She couldn’t believe that Megatron just hurted Optimus even after he spared his life.
“How was it that you put it, Optimus?” said Megatron with a smile in his face “I could not allow this to end otherwise?”
Suddenly, Megatron delivered a punch in Prime’s belly side. Optimus was able to punch Megatron’s face, but it was in vain since his strength was depleting very fast. Megatron growled and punched Optimus in the face twice. Tears began to form in Twilight’s eyes. Her nightmare...It was all the same. Optimus spun until he faced Megatron again, but only to receive an massive punch that sent him flying backwards. Twilight’s tears finally began to fall from her eyes as she heard Optimus’ scream and his body hitting the ground with a loud thud. Another lighting ripped the clouds as Megatron walked towards Optimus Prime, ready to destroy him once and for…
“STOP!!!” yelled a voice.
Both Transformers looked to the bright purple light appearing between their path. Optimus gasped when he saw a purple girl standing right in front of Megatron with a war costume and a Harmony Cannon charged up. Slowly, Optimus reached the piece of the sword that was stabbed in his shoulder and pulled it off, causing a huge pain in his body. The ground began to be painted with the Energon that continued to escape from Prime’s wound.
“T-Twilight...Don’t…” he said as he tried to ignore the pain.
“So you are another Autobot pet…” said Megatron with a chuckle “Did you come to see your leader perish before the mighty Megatron, ‘Twilight’?”
“I only came to see one leader to fall, Megatron...” answered Twilight with an angry voice.
Suddenly, Twilight disappeared in a bright light and reappeared in front of Megatron’s face. With her Cannon fully charged up, Twilight blasted his face with a powerful purple laser before she teletransport herself. Megatron stepped back and growled when he recognize that familiar ability. The warp device, created by Mixmaster and Shockwave, that Skywarp uses and that was stolen by the Autobots. Optimus couldn’t believe in what Twilight just did. He was completely without words.
“...And that leader is you!” she said while aiming her weapon towards the evil Decepticon.