These were all that I have felt for almost over three-thousand years as a statue in the gardens of Canterlot Castle; the only companions that I have ever known since being transported onto this rock by that damned sword. Oh, but dear old Celestia made sure that I was maintained, even if my appearance scared everypony, from foal to guard and everything in-between, including the few brave nobles like that Fancy Pants fellow.
I was frozen in a cowardly position, with my hands covering my face from when I futilely tried to block the effects of those colored rocks. And inscribed on the plaque that was put on my pedestal was just one word that every. Fucking. Creature that ever meet me, save for one, ever thought me as:
Monster.
***
"This is going to be great!" said Peter as he was dressed in a full cosplay attire, choosing to cosplay as Professor Isaac Sundaac from Transformers Animated. Well at least he had the voice down pat...
I on the other hand decided to pick Megatron from Transformers Prime. All good people need evil to fight, right? Of course few of Peter's friends joined us dressed up as various people and 'bots from across the ages, including *shudders* the movies. We all got together at a field at a local park and had a duel. It was amazing, swords clashed, fake plasma guns were fired, a cosplayer dream all happening in front of me and everyone else. I was watching the fight by some bushes, but tripped on something as I stepped out of the way of an Ironhide from Fall of Cybertron. When I looked at the obstacle, my eyes widened.
"No way..." I said under my breath, but there it was: a perfect replica of my cosplay's greatest weapon: the Dark Star Saber, Slayer of Primes, forged from the blood of Unicron; sure it was plastic, but I was drawn to it, like a moth to a flame. Unfortunately for me, as soon as I touched the damn sword, I was blinded by a flash of bright light, and passed out.
***
Systems: Rebooting
I slowly opened my eyes, pain was throbbing through my brain.
"Ugh... what happened?", I thought aloud as I raised my left hand to my forehead. I saw five sharp claws- wait... WHAT!?
My eyes immediately widened as I brought my hand in front of my face, and sure enough, in place of a human hand is a Cybertronian one with five wicked sharp claws at the end. My gaze slowly followed the rest of my forearm and, like my hand, has been replaced with grey metal. I jumped to my feet and saw a pond just a few feet from me and ran over to look in it and my suspicions were confirmed.
Looking back at me, was the image of the arguably most evil villain that media has ever created. My face is now smooth metal that shines like silver, ending with a long chin, matching the now sinister helmet. My shoulder pads became jagged and sharp, and welded to my right forearm is Megatron's iconic Gamma Cannon.
But what threw me in for a loop was that my optics, instead of blood-red or purple from the Dark Energon that flows through my veins, are sky blue, like an Autobots', the Decepticon insignia on my chest is red instead of purple as well, and when I opened my mouth, instead of jagged, shark-like teeth are... I guess tooth-plates...?
For some reason, I became Megatron before he went nuts. Just as I got up on both of my legs, I saw something out of the corner of my eye: the Dark Star Saber. Like me, it had changed; what was once plastic and painted aluminum was now a sinister jagged blade made out of raw Dark Energon attached to a Cybertonium hilt, and had a purple aura coming off it. I walked over and picked it up off of the ground, the blade now feeling quite well-balanced in my left hand; I strapped the sword to my back as I took in my surroundings.
I was in a large forest of some kind, which confirmed that I was most likely not the size of the show's Megatron, as it was hardly likely that any of these trees were THAT big. I saw a pink and gold spire jutting above the tree-line.
Perhaps whoever lives there could tell me where I am... I thought as I started walking towards the structure, not knowing just what was waiting for me.
***
A large boom interrupted my trip down memory lane. I strained hear just what was going on, which is kinda hard to do when you're stone, but I'll get to that later. After a few minutes, there it was again, this time louder, and resembled a roar that I knew all too well from being in the body of one of the two most powerful beings on Cybertron: it was the sound of a creature that has power, and it belonged to only one pony, or should I say, Draconnequuis.
It was the bastard that got me trapped in stone by Princess Luna and Sunbutt!
I felt a fresh anger that I haven't felt in three millennia course through me; Discord was free, and that means that if I don't act now, then either he will come to finish me in this state or the sisters' will somehow defeat him again.
Never again...
***
"Uh, sir," said a Royal Guard with some uncertainty in his voice.
"Yes, what is it?" asked Shining Armor, Captain of the Canterlot Day Guard, as he was conversing with the Captain of the Night Guard, Silver Blade.
"Why does Princess Celestia want both branches of the Royal Guard watching this statue, when we should be fighting this chaos?" the soldier asked as he gestured to the absurd events happening around them, caused by the Mad God, Discord. The white unicorn simply pointed to the statute in question: a sort of golem with its' claws covering the face, with a plaque that read 'Monster'.
"The princess believes that whatever this statue is, it's just as alive as Discord, and we are to bring it down if it breaks free," Shining Armor said, before a rumble was felt, seeming to stretch from the statue to the core of the mountain they were on itself. Purple cracks started spreading across the body of the statue, and before either captain could issue an order a purple shockwave exploded from the sculpture, scattering stone and pony alike in all directions; an animalistic roar that chilled all the still-conscious soldiers was heard.
***
Discord could hardly believe it; he won! He was able to beat Celestia at her own game, by isolating the six wielders of the Elements of Harmony from each other, and making them the polar opposites of their true selves.
Honest Applejack can't tell a truth to save her life.
Kind Fluttershy now bullies any who fall under her gaze.
Loyal Rainbow Dash has abandoned her friends.
Laughing Pinkie Pie now frowns.
Generous Rarity guards a boulder like a dragon does its' own hoard.
And Magical Twilight Sparkle has lost her friends.
Everything was perfect, before a purple shockwave originating from Canterlot exploded forth, followed by a roar that he knew all too well, and even feared.
After all these centuries, I am free. I took in my surroundings, noticing guards from both the day and night factions of the Equestrian Army, and my eyes narrowed on a white Unicorn wearing purple armor with gold trim and a grey Thestral wearing black armor with a silver trim, symbolizing their statuses as commanding officers. The two ponies stared at me, mouths gaping and eyes widened; I simply said this to them.
“Find new jobs outside of government.” I then concentrated, focusing on the mental image of my alternate form, before backflipping. I could feel my body change; my cannon was moved to the back, its rear opening up into an engine, while wings sprouted from my form, and my helmet centered itself on my vehicle mode: a Cybertronian Commander Jet, symbolizing MY status as a commanding officer. I then used the Dark Energon that flowed through my veins to locate Discord, which pointed me to a small village on the edge of the Everfree Forest that was half-floating and half-upside-down while a black throne stood in the town square.
And that smug little bastard was sitting right in it. Without delay, my engines roared to life as I launched myself towards the village, murder on my processors.
***
(Twilight’s POV)
We had Rainbow Dash tied down. It took us longer than I liked to get her; Discord made her betray us by getting her wings back, but thanks to Fluttershy, we were finally able to capture our friend. The Rainbow struggled and kept thrashing and bucking, trying to throw one of our friends off as I carefully trotted up to her and cast my memory spell; just like the rest, her memories came rushing back, reminding Rainbow Dash of her loyalty as she regained her cyan coat and rainbow-colored mane and tail. The athletic Pegasus shook her head and took in her surroundings, before getting in our faces.
“How’s Ponyville; where are the Elements; did we stop Discord?” she asked all of us, and we all hugged her, happy to have our friend, as well as the final Element of Harmony back. I relayed to Rainbow all that happened, and after profuse apologies, we all marched back to Ponyville to confront Discord and finally put him back in stone. But, we stopped as we heard some kind of… noise.
“Do ya’ll hear that?” asked Applejack as she turned her ears in every direction, trying to pinpoint the noise.
“What in Equestria is that awful noise?” whined Rarity as what could only be described as a “scream” was heard and-WHAT IN THE NAME OF CELESTIA’S PLOT IS THAT?!
A… thing just flew past us, faster than even Rainbow Dash at her top speed; from what little I saw of it, it appeared silverish-grey with purple accents, with a giant cylinder spewing out purple-colored fire mounted on the top, with four smaller flames aligning the rear under said cylinder, while two giant wings arced from either side of the object. And it was heading straight for Ponyville.
We all started galloping, or flying in Rainbow’s case, towards the town, hoping that whatever that thing was, it would just ignore our home…
(Megatron’s POV)
I rocketed through into the village, weaving and ducking through the floating homes and shops, before I was in range of the God of Chaos, and even from here, I could see the frightened expression on his face as I opened fire on him. One thing I learned about my body: I didn’t fire regular energon like most transformers, but instead Dark Energon, just like in the show; and I also learned early on that Dark Energon, while it couldn’t physically affect Discord, wreaked havoc on his powers, meaning he couldn’t use them without some horrible backlash.
The first shot knocked him off the throne, while the other two I fired obliterated the seat; I transformed in mid-air before slamming my left fist into the ground, my right prepared to fire or unleash my sword, before I looked at the Draconequus, purple lightning arcing across parts of his body, while he looked fearfully at me.
“Hey, Megatron, buddy,” he said, looking at me with a nervous grin while I continued to glower at him, “funny thing, I was just on my way to free you, when-” his sentence was cut short as I put my foot on his neck.
“You will not speak to me as if nothing happened.” I growled, “You lied to me. You said that you KNEW how to get me back home, or at least out of this body, but you used me; corrupted my purpose, got me turned into a statue for three thousand years while you roamed free.”
“If it makes you feel any better, the sisters finally caught up to me about a few hundred years after.” said Discord, trying to get my foot off his windpipe, before I increased the amount of force on it.
“It doesn’t.” I lifted my foot off before grabbing his neck and throwing him into a house, “You go your whole life, never thinking about the consequences; you believe that you will never answer for your crimes, because a hero will either be defeated or even killed under your chaotic rule; I tried to be the hero, and all it did was get me imprisoned and hated. But I refuse to lower myself to your level by becoming the cliche diabolical villain, so this is what I decided on while I was in stone.” This time I grabbed his tail, dragging Discord along like a ragdoll, before slamming the god of chaos into the ground and aiming my cannon at him.
“I will become the monster that you and Celestia fear.”
Then there was a sound of thunder.
(Rainbow Dash POV)
WHAT THE BUCK IS THAT?!
Was that a ship?! Like, the kind that aliens like in the stories pilot to invade Equis and kidnap ponies to experiment on us?! We were racing through the town where we started to hear some noise coming from where Discord’s... throne... is…
All we found at the hill where the Spirit of Chaos placed his seat was a smoking crater and behind the hill was the most terrifying thing I have ever saw (not that I would ever tell anypony that). It was some kind of...creature, that was covered in metal, even the openings in its’ armor didn’t show any fur or flesh, not even scales! It had a ginormous cylinder-thingy attached to its’ right arm, it also had spikes on its shoulders, and is easily taller than Celestia. Under the creature’s foot, however, was what actually surprised me.
“Discord?” I heard Twilight whisper next to me, “but, how did that thing take him down? Only the Elements of Harmony can defeat him.” I was about to fly in there and ask that thing myself, before we were shushed by Fluttershy of all ponies, who seemed to notice that the creature was talking to Discord.
“Wait, how do you know that thing is a dude?” I asked.
“Oh! Well, his voice obviously points to that of a stallion in range and pitch, and you can tell by the body structure and stance that he lacks birthing hips, and his shoulders are too broad to be anything else, like a Minot-” Before she could go any further, the ‘guy’ lifted his foot off Discord’s throat before grabbing him and throwing the Draconequus into a wall!! We started to notice the purple lightning that was going off across Discord’s body, which is probably how the creature beat him. Then the thing spoke loud enough for all of us to hear.
“... your whole life, never thinking about the consequences; you believe that you will never answer for your crimes, because a hero will either be defeated or even killed under your chaotic rule; I tried to be the hero, and all it did was get me imprisoned and hated. But I refuse to lower myself to your level by becoming the cliche diabolical villain...” his voice faded again, but grabbed Discord’s tail, proceeding to drag the chaos spirit out of the building and then slammed him into the ground, pointing the cylinder at hi-why is it glowing?
Before any of us could react, a sound that could only be described as thunder roared from the object as a purple beam was fired out of it, point-blank into Discord’s face.
