> Ponies and Robots Wars > by Magenta Cat > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > The sketchbook (warning, it may contain spoilers) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It all stars with Twilight stargazing in her library (this is post Crystal Empire but pre everything else) when she sees a strange disturbance in Mars but she simply ignores it, thinking that it's just volcanic activity (just like in War of the Worlds). In Mars, Galvatron and Dr. Hell with their respective armies. At first they battle but they are too balanced for any side to win. A mysterious voice sound inside their heads, claiming to be responsible of them being there and orders them to stop fighting and go conquer earth/equus. At first Hell isn't convinced and threatens to destroy whoever the voice is but Galvatron recognizes it as Unicron's voice and quickly explains who he is to the other. One exposition later and nobody wants to argue with something bigger than Jupiter. One year later. War. The attack began in Canterlot, where Cyclonus and Baron Ashura almost destroyed the capital city if not for the Elements of Harmony. since then, the attacks had been more and more frequent, making the Elements useless against multiple fronts. But Celestia and Luna had a plan. to fight fire with fire. The first mecha unit was the Gundam RX-78-2, piloted by Shining Armor. It was effective enough to prove that they weren't defenseless against this new enemy. Then, the mass production mobile suits units were created (the Leos from Gundam Wing). The Princess then created the first magi-tech hybrid, the White Tigerzord. It was supposed to be Celestia's personal mecha but she ends wounded during an attack on Manehattan, so Twilight is forced to drive the zord against a Garada/Doublas couple. At first she's terrible at doing it, crashing the zord against buildings and receiving a hellish beat down from the mechanical beasts. But, through the communicator, her friends tell her that they believe in her and that gives her the will to fight. This triggers an outburst of magic that re-energizes the Tigerzord, enabling the Warrior Mode and ending the fight in a curb stomp battle. Months latter and Celestia started three new Gundam models based on heavy weaponry, melee attack and sky warfare. The mane six are in Canterlot to see these new models during a test in order to help Twilight in battles but the test is interrupted when they receive an emergency call from Ponyville. Cyclonus is leading a Sweeps squadron to take over the town in retaliation for Twilight defeating him in the past. The Tigerzord arrives but is not enough as the Sweeps are basically a sea of enemies and the closest mobile suit's station is also being attacked. With no time and thinking in their sisters being in danger, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Rarity jump inside the new Gundams piloting them to Ponyville. Rainbow has the Wing Gundam and promptly engages herself in a one-on-one battle with Cyclonus. Rarity picked the Deathscythe Gundam and uses its stealth system to break the enemy lines while Applejack in the Heavyarms Gundam finish them off. With the new additions to the Equestrian Army, they're finally driving the invaders away from their land and forcing them to stay in their base at the moon. Is there where Galvatron proposes a joint attack on Equestria in one single avalanche of monsters and soldiers. Dr. Hell agrees, bringing also the Hell's King (his personal mechanical beast). At first the attack is terrifyingly effective since the combined force of hundreds of Sweeps and mechanical beasts alongside the Hell's King destructive power. The mass production mobile suits are promptly curb stomped, leaving only the Tigerzord and the Gundams alongside Shining Armor in the Tallgeese holding a last stand in Canterlot but in the last moment one of the Sweeps stars attacking its allies. Galvatron reveals his master plan. His mind was always a conflict between the servile program installed by Unicron and his original Megatron personality, driving him insane. But since the interdimentional transportation, the program was destroyed and Megatron took over again, so he awaited for a good moment to strike (Unicron's voice was a fake pulled by him). Now that one enemy is no more, the Sweeps reveal themselves as the original Decepticons trapped inside the Sweep programming but Megatron managed to hack those and freed his old armada. With the Sweep programming out of the way they are way more effective as a force and proceed to ravage Hell's army as Soundwave hacks Hell's King, forcing Dr. Hell to surrender. All seems lost for the ponies but out of nowhere a group of giant metal animals attack the Decepticons. They are the Wild Zords (falcon, deer, giraffe, rhino and armadillo), the ancient animal spirits from the Everfree Forest. Fluttershy reveals that she has been hearing their call since months now, only she refused to join the fight because she truly believes that peace is still a way. But seeing Megatron betraying his own ally is enough to prove her that he's beyond any possibility of making peace. So now it's nature's turn to fight back. She is transported inside the falcon and uses it to form the Isis Megazord. The Decepticons retreat but now the enemy will be more organized under one single leader. The heroes can only wait for the next attack. The attack comes in the form of the rebuilt Decepticons, now showing individual designs (G1) instead of the Sweep standard. Now with their old weapons they are also more versatile. Point made when Starscream alone is enough to defeat the Tallgeese and the Tigerzord as Blitzwing does the same with the Isis Megazord and the Heavyarms. Only Rainbow Dash in the Wing Gundam and Rarity in the Deathscythe are able to avoid this against Thundercracker but then Devastator shows up. Back in Canterlot, Celestia receives a 'code Z' message. Nopony understand but she orders to launch the 'Z model'. Celestia reveals that all of the mechas they have been using (sans the Wild Zords) were reverse engineered from something they found hidden under Fillydelphia years ago. Something they never thought would move again. In the distance is coming a small red hovercraft, followed by three jet like machines and a red mechanical dragon. "Launch the Mazinger Z." Orders the Princess. The Palace Garden to reveal a secret hangar from where a black and white mecha emerges. Pinkie Pie's voice shouts "PILDER ON!" The red hovercraft docks on the Mazinger Z's head, its eyes glows as it raises both arms. The metal god-devil is awake. "MAZIN GO!" The Mazinger runs to attack Devastator. The Rust Huricane combined with the Breast Fire slow him down enough for a pair of Rocket Punches to knock the colossal robot out. The robot dragon goes for Starscream, transforming at Spike's command. "Red Dragonzord, Warrior Mode!" He can't defeat Starscream and Thundercracker alone, but with the Talllgeees and the Tigerzord back online, the Sparkle siblings overpower the Decepticons. Blitzwing is battling the three jet machines and actually winning till Apple Bloom says they can fight back. Sweetie Belle shouts "Change Getter Two!" attacking Blitzwing with the Getter 2's drill at breakneck speed "Open Get!" "Change Getter Three!" Apple Bloom uses the Getter 3's extending arms to trow Blitzwing to the air. "Open Get!" "Change Getter One!" Scootaloo finish the fight with a single hit of the Getter 1's tomahawk. Badly beaten and overpowered the Decepticons are forced to escape. Pinkie explains that the Mazinger Z is actually her Granny Pie's creation but she never finished it so it remained hidden in Granny's secret lab where Celestia found it. When the war began, and old friend of Granny took the responsibility to finish the Pie's creation by building the Hover Pilder and sending it to Pinkie. She's also created the Getter Machines, inspired on the Mazinger but modified to have different modes and was on the Tigerzord development team, designing her own version 'just in case'. Everypony ask who is this mysterious pony. It's revealed to be Black Smith Apple a.k.a. Granny Smith. Twilight, Applejack, Rarity and Rainbow Dash confront her for putting the CMC's and Spike on the line of fire but she calmly shows them what could have happened if she didn't. It results that the four of them were building their own robot (the Boss Borot) and were just about to use it in combat when she caught them. Granny reasoned that they would have went anyways so instead of letting them in a scrap metal clunker she gave them the safest seats she could provide. The discussion is interrupted by Spike and the CMC stating that it doesn't matter if they have the most advanced pieces of technology or just scrap metal, there's no way in tartarus they will stay away while their very own home is being attacked. On the Decepticon fortress on the moon. Shockwave and Dr. Hell are working together in a way to counter these new 'super robots' that are the Mazinger and the Getter (one knocked out a combiner and the other a triple changer, both being the most advanced Decepticons weapons). In a quick hit a run battle, Shockwave scanned the Mazinger and now they are developing two different models. A simpler one for mass production and an upgraded version to overpower their enemies. Dr. Hell proposes to use a pony pilot for the improved version, so it would respond in similar ways to the pilot inside the new model, making it more effective and he has the perfect candidate for that. Megatron is growing impatient, these ponies had the nerve of confronting him. HIM! Back on Equestria, Waspinator lands as a messenger with a peace proposal. They will send their best warrior, if the Mane Six and only the Mane Six cand defeat said warrior, the Decepticons will abandon Equus forever. At first they are reluctant, there's no way to say that Megatron would respect his word. Even if he did it, they knew nothing about this ultimate warrior. But Rainbow and Applejack don't want to cover at a chalenge and convice the rest of the six to agree too. The send they response. "Tomorrow, sunrise." The next day, Megatron escolted by Starscream and Soundwave, arrives at Canterlot. At first they think that he's the mysterious Decepticon warrior but he tells them that he only wnat to witness how Equestria falls in front of him. Rainbow loses her cool and attacks Megatron but she's stopped by a spinning rocket punch. The Six look in disbelief at the rocket punch that looks almost identical to the Mazinger's one and follow it to its owner. Megatron's secret weapon is an upgraded version of the Mazinger. "Well, well, well." Its pilot says. "It seems we got some neigh sayers in the audience. Don't act so surprised, who else is great and powerful enough to command the Great Mazinger?" Before anypony can respond, Trixie shouts. "Great Typhoon!" A storm comes from the Great Mazinger's mouth that sends the six mechas to fly. "Scrander Dash!" She chases them in midair and delivers a devastating Breast Burn attack, but the Isis Megazord takes the full blast and gets heavily damaged. The next ones are the Gundams. "Mazin Blades!" With the dual swords, Trixie overpowers the Wing Gundam, Pinkie tries to save Rainbow by shotting everything she has on the Great Mazinger but to her surprise, Trixie's mecha is invulnerable to the Mazinger Z's attacks. After disposing of the rest, the only mecha standing is the White Tigerzord. Celestia launch the armor prototypes for the zord (the other Thunderzords) assembling the Mega Tigerzord leaving the battle equal on both sides. At first it seems that both robots will destroy each other in an EPIC! fight. Instead they stare at each other as Twilight ask why. Trixie tells her how bad her life wnet after the Ursa Minor incident. How she not only lost everything but also how her reputation prevented her from getting back on her hooves. She comes to the crying point when she tells her about one town where the ponies not only chased her but they also hit her to a bloody pulp, leaving her only when they thought she was dead. It's at this point when Dr. Hell finds her and takes care of her. She explains that she's not a vengeful pony, that this is only her way of thanking Hell for basically saving her life and that proving herself better than Twilight is just an added bonus. With no more to say, she attacks the Mega Tigerzord Twilight is able to defend herself. She doesn't want to fight, feeling responsible for what happened to Trixie and trying to convince her to stop fighting too. Trixie tells her that it doesn't matters now, and if she really cared she could have offered her help when she saw how the Ursa destroyed her home in front of her while her friends only watched. The Great Mazinger's attacks becomes more and more savage till she delivers a Thunder Break that ultimately deactivates the Thunderzords, leaving only the Tigerzord to her mercy. But from behind, the Wing Gundam grabs the Mazinger's neck. Rainbow and the others are back on the fight. Each one of the grabs the Great Mazinger (Isis Megazord and Deathscythe the arms, Mazinger Z and Heavyarms the legs). They hold it still for Twilight to give the final blow. But Megatron interrupts the fight by shooting at them. The seven mechas are down and the three Decepticons attack again with only the Tallgeese, Getter and Red Dragonzord to fight them. At first it seems like a stalemate, but then Dr. Hell arrives with an army of mass production Energer Z The attack is terrifying. The mass produced Energers have no problem in defeating Shining Armor, Spike and the CMC's. Luna tries to join the fight in the new Torozord model but doesn't do too much against a whole army. In he meantime, Trixie calls for help since the Great Mazinger is heavily damaged but Dr. Hell replies that she already served to her purpose so he doesn't need her anymore. She asks him ho he can just leave her when months ago he saved her life. Hell replies that the ponies that almost killed her where actually very convincing robots that he built. He needed a native specimen to study and she never anything else but that to him. The rage and pain trigger a magical surge in Trixie, energizing the Great Mazinger just as Twilight did with the Tigerzord the first time. Unleashing the full power of the Great Mazinger, Trixie devastates the Energer units and even saves the CMC inside the Getter. She confronts the Dr. Hell and fights the Hell's King. The resulting battle only ends with Trixie forcing the Great Mazinger to its limit and overcharging a Thunder Break powerful enough to tear apart the the Hell's King. Trixie feels all the remorse in the world for believing in Dr. Hell and betraying her very own home. She surrender herself to Celestia's mercy. The Princess lets her go, stating that she's innocent and that she could help to win the war but Trixie gives up the Great Mazinger to Celestia and decides to walk the earth, looking for redemption somewhere else. Celestia gives her a parting gift, a wooden box with the instructions of only opening it when she decides to come back. The Gundams are upgraded to the Custom Models and the Jet Scrander is built for he Mazinger Z to fly. In the moon, Megatron decides that enough is enough and decides to trow a final assault on Equestri with every Decepticon under his command as also with every mechanical beast left after Dr. Hell's death. Without even a warning, the assault begins. Simultaneously on evey mayor city and town in Equestria, it forces the mecha pilots to go in different directions each one. Trixie sees this and decides she can't just walk away and hide. She runs back at Canterlot when she remembers the box from Celestia. Inside it is a teleportation device, she activates it and is transported inside the Brain Condor's cabin. The Grat Mazinger is launched as she flies the Condor to the launch site. "PILDER ON! SCRANDER DASH!" And she flies to aid in the final battle. > Chapter 1: First Strike, the last night of Equestria. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note: multiple POV changing between sections. Something evil's watching over you. It was a cold night of winter. I remember being with Cadence, dancing all night an endless waltz. It was the New Year's Eve and we were celebrating in Canterlot. There was my sister, Twily, waiting for the countdown with her friends near the goods table. A few steps to the right and Fancy Pants has managed to get A.K. Yearling to come too, she seemed like having a great time too. There were also the Regal Sisters, saluting a talking to everyone as equals. All of us, just having a good time in the last celebration of the year. Ready for a fresh start, making plans and promises to fulfill as soon as possible, right after midnight. We were happy. We were at peace. I still remember the peace. *** Ponies and Robots WARS Chapter One: First strike, the last night of Equestria. *** The attack began in Canterlot, during New Year's Eve. We never saw it coming. I usually dream about that night. Comin' from the sky above, and there's nothing you can do. "Ten! Nine!" Everypony in the hall room starts the countdown. "Eight! Seven!" Celestia and Luna are ready to give each other the traditional 'New Year's Hug'. "Six! Five!" I'm with my friends, ready for a group hug too. "Four!" Shining Armor is with Cadance, they really love each other. "Three!" "Two!" "One!" The first thing that happened was that all the lights went out, everything electric inside the city was dead. Then, just like an earthquake, the earth started to shake but there was something off. I was in the balcony, with my friends and the Princesses. We all saw how down in the streets there was a total chaos of ponies running and screaming. All of them possessed by fear. Then, between all the confusion, a thunderous sound, like a roar, eclipsed all the noises. Everypony was silent, some even fainted from the impression. I saw Princess Celestia gazing at north, from where the roar came. I followed her gaze and just then I realized that there was a fire in there. Flames and smoke towering over the largest buildings. My friends and I didn't know what was happening, not even a clue, and just could see in horror how a whole neighborhood of Canterlot was burning. Even Pinkie was silent. I felt a rush of wind at my back and saw how Princess Luna went airborne, racing towards the fire. I remember how Princess Celestia shouted at her, telling her that it could be dangerous, but Luna didn't listen to her. Why she didn't listen? There was another roar, this time it felt louder, as if the thing that made it was getting closer. I asked Shiny to keep Spike safe before we all ran for the Elements' chamber. Only halfway I remembered that they weren't there. After Discord's reformation, they were secured in my house, back in Ponyville. I never felt so dumb and so useless in my entire life. We went down to the streets, if we couldn't use the Element we could at least help to guide the crowds to the safety of the Palace. Then I heard another roar, closer this time. The gargantuan wall of dust and smoke that devoured half of the city was advancing at us. Pinkie pointed at the rain of objects falling in our direction. It was thanks to her that I managed to deploy a shield quick enough to protect us and close ponies from the falling debris. When Pinkie assured me that it was safe, I lifted the spell, only to see two ponies lying in the ground, not too far from us. The others must have seen them too, because we all she raced to attend them. Fluttershy was at the head, but for some reason she froze right before them. I didn't know what made her do that till I saw it myself. The image still assaults me in my nightmares. Before us, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna were barely standing, covered in cuts and bruises. Luna even had a dislocated wing. We were about to take them out of there when another roar shook the ground beneath us. The smoke in front of us flinched, as if something was moving behind it, then it dissipated. I managed to outline a figure bigger than any building I've ever seen, bigger than the castle itself. I saw two glowing red eyes glaring at us. "Faust helps us." Prepare to strike, there'll be no place to run. When you’re caught within the grip, of the evil Unicron. I was in Cloudsdale when the attack began. Although New Year meant a free night in the Wonderbolt's base, that year was my turn to 'stay on guard' and by 'stand on guard' it means 'no alcohol'. I used to damn those moments, standing alone while literally everyone else was having fun at the party outside. All of them except Li'l-thing Dust, always doing all the dirty jobs. Now I really miss that. I was on the main post when I heard it. It was like the sound of a pony about to break the sound barrier, but the only pony capable of it that wasn't in Cloudsdale already was Rainbow Dash. At first I fantasized that she was finally not angry at me anymore and was visiting. But then I remembered that she was invited at Canterlot, so it couldn't be her. I looked in the direction of where the sound was coming with the night vision goggles. There, in the distance and coming really fast was coming some kind of object. It hadn't wings but it still advanced toward us, hovering like some vast, predatory bird. It wasn't till I took the goggles off that I noticed two things. First, it was big, dragon-like big. The second thing was that it wasn't alone. Dozens of identical-looking objects were following in 'V' formation. I sounded the alarm, or at least I remember trying to reach it. The moment my hoof touched the button there was an explosion at the base of the watchtower and the whole building started to shake. I jumped out of the window and saw how it crumbled. I was too distracted to notice how the metallic thing was now behind me until I turned around and saw a giant claw coming for me. I would've been crushed right there and then if it wasn't for Captain Spitfire taking me in her hooves and dragging me away from that. When we were out of danger, I saw how a squadron of Wonderbolts flew at whatever was attacking us. In that moment, I could finally see it. The closer thing I can think of is a blue dragon made out of metal, flapping its wings and waving its claws at the pegasi around it. Captain Spitfire snapped me out of my trance, I don’t remember the exact words, only that she wanted us to go to the city and alert the civilians. Then, the dragon-thing shot something like a light ray from the horn on its head. Instead of passing through the clouds, it dissipated them by just a mere touch. One single burst and the rainbow factory was seized to nothing but machinery falling apart. That’s when I saw a little filly flying really slowly, too young to go any faster. I saw how she struggled to even stay above the clouds. The dragon lowed its head, as if looking at the filly, and I could see how it smiled before his horn started to shine again. I don’t know how I did it. To be honest I only thought of getting the filly out of danger, could I do less? Somehow I managed to get at the filly before the ray of light and to a safe distance. I think I overdid it, because the next thing I remember is awakening two days later in the Ponyville’s medic center. The last thing I remember before that is a red light. Strong enough to break the bravest heart. "This is S. Martin, transmitting for the KMO Radio from Manehattan.” “Manehattan, the city that never sleeps, now is facing its darkest hour. Around thirty minutes ago, the city’s electric system had a critical failure, resulting in a massive blackout. Minutes after that, a 4.7 degree earthquake on the Richter scale happened.” “What started as an unusual, but still mundane natural phenomenon turned into a real nightmare.” “Coming from the skies above, three giant creatures landed in the Ponx, Trots Square and in the coast near to Harmony Island. The three gargantuan monsters started to ravage everything on their reach.” “The one in the Ponx, named Skull by our reporters, is a bipedal creature made out of metal. It has two sharp blades that it used to both as melee and as throwing weapons, to cut clean entire buildings with minimal effort.” “Meanwhile, in Trots Square, the monster attacking was identified as two-heads, due to the dual snake-like heads it has. With the same size of Skull, and apparently made of the same metal, Two-Heads has sighted firing some kind of destructive laser that has already destroyed half of the area.” “But none of them was as terrifying as the one in Harmony Island. At first it only stood still, staring at the Statue of Liberty. But then it drawn some kind of gun and shot the Statue’s head. After that, it spoke.” “It identified itself as Cyclonus, air commander of ‘The Unicron Empire’, and announced that the attack was only the beginning of a planetary scale conquest. It then called for the mayor of the city to surrender in exchange of stopping the attack.” “What could have been Manehattan’s capitulation was interrupted by a purple light that shone over the city as a new sun. Immediately, both the mechanical beasts in the city and the one called Cyclonus were driven away from the city’s limit as a dome made of light covered the islands.” “At the moment of this transmission, the dome of light is still surrounding our city. We don’t have any news on what is happening in other cities nor we know what saved us either. We only have the rumor that similar events have been happening around Equestria and, maybe, the world.” "Gentlecolts, our nation could be facing its first war in centuries." So we have to pull together, we can't stay worlds apart. The crystal ponies were having their first New Year's Even in centuries. The Department of Culture was having the day of their lives by preparing and adapting the costumes they hadn't used since King Sombra took over. They were celebrating a new year, a new chance. They were having a good time, crystal natives and newcomers, all of them having fun at the party. They were happy. What happened next, struck them as a lightning that splits a tree in half. Being a thousand years old city that still had a long path to follow before adapting to modern time, the first sign of problems wasn't easy to spot. The very few electrical devices died, all at the same time, but the ponies demised it as a failure of a too new device. The next one though, gave them the right indication that there was something wrong. *Vrooooooom* The loud noise of machinery assaulted the air around them. Nopony could figure out what could be making such noise, but it grew by the second. Whatever it was, it was getting closer. "Up in the sky, look!" Golden Laurel said, pointing up with her hoof. The ponies close enough to hear her over the noise followed her hoof and got shocked of what they saw. Seeing them, other ponies followed their gaze, the same reaction expanding like a wave in the water till everypony on the Crystal City was silent, gazing at the night sky and unable to react. Hovering over them, there was a flying machine. It was a shell made of metal, with two triangular wings and two chimney-like tubes coming from its backside. A smaller section, shaped like a reptilian head and connected to the main body gave and its gigantic size gave it the appearance of a dragon. "This is Count Brocken speaking. Surrender now!" said a voice coming from the aerial fortress. "From now on, this city is under the Unicron Empire's control." It sounded as if the talker was enjoying sating that. "Surrender now and your lives may be spared.” As the self-named Count said that, the ponies could see how multiple objects were falling from the flying machine. Over a hundred of creatures, strapped to white parachutes, descended over the city. They were like minotaurs, bipedal and two hands, only than thinner and without horns. Instead of fur, they were all covered by the same gray blue uniforms with bronze helmets. All of them were holding guns. “We are the Iron Cross Corps,” all of them said on unison. “You’re under siege now. Go back to your houses and don’t come out.” “The heck we will!” A pegasus roared and air-charged at one of the Iron Crosses. It didn't even flinch, reacting quick, as a machine would do, and kicking the poor pegasus in the ribs, sending him to the ground. Three more Iron Crosses were already surrounding the fallen pony as the first one pointed his gun at him. "You think you have an option." Pointing the sub-machine gun at his head. "We will have to teach you a short, sharp lesson in discipline," he said as pressing the trigger. But the bullets never hit their target. Instead, the rain of bullets was stopped in midair by a blue light. From the city’s center, the Crystal Heart started to pulsate, as reacting to the ponies’ time of need. Understanding what was happening, all the inhabitants of the Crystal Empire focused, activating the Heart’s magic and raising a magic shield that drove the invaders away and covered the Empire from any damage. Seeing how his army being tossed into the air, Count Brocken stared in anger. "Resistance huh? You can't resist me, I'm Count Brocken I cannot and will not be stopped.". One round after another, the Air Fortress Gool unleashed enough fire to reduce anything under it. But the barrier resisted. The Count was ready to release something far worse. But before he could do so, a retreat order came through the communicator. Count Brocken wasn't going to yield, but an order is and order. Reluctantly, Brocken turned his machine around, not before swearing to come back and reduce the Empire to ashes the next time. To stand divided we will surely fall. Until our darkest hour, when the light will save us all. "Faust helps us," said Twilight as facing the imposing figure of the metallic giant. It was a bipedal creature, purple and silver. His head was adorned whit something that looked like a three spiked crown. It's was firm, and it looked down at the ponies with an expression that only showed contempt. "So, this is the best this planet has to offer?" the giant said in mockery. "Two horses who can't take ONE hit from me, Galvatron." His eyes glowed even more as he said his own name. Twilight's friends could only watch, still shocked by seeing the Princesses, two of the most powerful beings they knew, defeated. Dread invaded their thoughts But the purple alicorn had another idea. For a moment, Twilight was only seeing red. "So be it." Galvatron announced. "If there's no more fight left." It was time for someone to make a stand. Time for someone to fight back. "You shall now bow to me, to Galvatron, your conqueror and new ruler." Galvatron chuckled. "Or you can die screaming." He smirked as charging a barrage of the cannon on his arm. "NEVER!" Twilight Sparkle, the student turned ruler. The pony that never thought of herself of the violent type, now confronting something she had never seen before. The same pony that studied friendship and learned about its power over anything as the force that bounds an entire world. She was now ready to make a stand. Ready to fight back. Ready to defend her friends and family, to defend her home, with everything she has. Ready to give even the last drop, to sacrifice everything, for those who she loved. Till the bitter end. Galvatron barely managed to step back and cover his face with a hand to shield his optics from the blinding light coming from the small creatures at his feet. The purple one, was now floating high, near his face' level, as her eyes glowed in white. Twilight charged all her magic in one spell. Her enemy was powerful, maybe even more than the previous ones if it managed to defeat the Regal Sisters- She would need everything, maybe even more for what she was about to do. "Aaaaahhhhh!!!!!" She roared in pain and exhaustion, for using all the magic she had and forcing her body to every limit. She had one shot, and she was going to make it count. With one final scream from the Princess of Friendship, the light finally expanded, covering everything in the city block they were. Galvatron was thrown away by the sheer amount of energy, landing heavily on a building, smashing it to bits. As the light disappeared, only a thick wall of dust was covering everything, blocking any sight. The leader of the Decepticons, the very spawn of Unicron, didn't know what was happening or what to do. Galvatron did what he usually did in these cases; aim and shot. "You'll suffer for that!" He screamed, pointing his fusion cannon at where he supposed were the small creatures. "A whole world of pain!" The barrage of energy was so powerful that it dissipated the dust on its path, revealing a small sphere made of light, floating several meters over the ground that deflected the deadly blast of energy. Galvatron shot again; one, two, three... "DIE!" Galvatron shrieked in rage. His cannon was about to overload itself, but the sphere didn't flinch. He changed to alternate form, concentrating all of his energy reserves into the weapon. He concentrated every drop of energon available on his system in one single shot. The blast left his cannon in a hurricane of destruction. The blast never hit its target. Instead, the sphere of light started to expand. Galvatron could finally see how the eight creatures were floating inside it, five of them wearing something in their necks as the purple one had something in its head. The Elements of Harmony released their power. A power beyond measure. It's judgement day and now we've made our stand And now the powers of darkness Have been driven from our land -One week later. “Ahh!” A purple alicorn awoke in a hospital bed. After calming herself, she noticed all kind of beeps around her indicating the machines monitoring her heartbeat and other vital signs. Twilight Sparkle looked around, noticing that only her right eye was open. She tried to feel her left one with a hoof, but when she raised it the pain stopped her. Moving her head, she realized that her right fore hoof was all bandaged from her bicep to the tip of the hoof. She tried with her left hoof and could also feel bandages around her head and covering her left eye. “Twilight!” A pink voice called from the door. Pinkie Pie entered the room, stared at Twilight in silence and stormed out. ‘Whoa, deja vu’ Twilight thought, wondering where did Pinkie go. Her answer came in the form of nine ponies and a dragon entering in her room, all at the same time, to surround her. “Twilight?!” Spike shouted at seeing her. “Oh, thank Faust, you’re awake, you’re alright.” He said as hugging her as strong as he could. “Spike, let her breath dude.” Shining Armor joked as coming closer to the bed. “It’s good to see you awake and fine, Twilight.” “Apparently you’re a hard tree to buck,” Applejack said. “Indeed.” Rarity added. “How are you feeling, Twilight?” “As if the whole city of Canterlot decided to use me as their stomping ground.” Twilight commented, still a little disoriented. Then realization struck her. “Wait!” Twilight said as raising the eyebrow that wasn’t covered in bandages. “You mean my crazy plan worked?!” “All we know is that the Elements were transported from Ponyville to Canterlot by a pony who doesn’t know when to quit.” Princess Luna answered. “A sharp mind and an unbreakable will, now I see what my sister saw in you, Princess Twilight.” “So, it’s over? Did we win?” Twilight asked, hoping whatever that struck them, was now away from them. To her surprise, nopony answered. Instead, all of them looked away, too afraid to give her the uncomfortable answer that was the reality now. All of them except from her mentor. Princess Celestia walked next to her faithful student. Celestia was showing only determination. “Yes and no," she said in a neutral tone. “Yes, we won. Countless lives were saved and are now safe thanks to you but.” She cut herself. “But what?” Twilight asked, growing impatient. “What’s wrong, Princess?” “That should have been the end.” The Sun Princess was looking out the window. "But I'm afraid it's just the beginning." The battle's over but the war has just begun, and this way it will remain till the day when all are one.