> THE WHITE PRIME OF EQUESTERIA > by OPTIMUSPRIMEG1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- James Pov Me and Sari were walking down the Crystal Towers halls, rubbing my head due to a slight headache, 'I told her once and I will tell her again, we are not giving her our technology.' we just got out of a meeting between the rulers of different species, the princesses, Dragon Lord Torch, Queen Novo of the Hippogriffs, Queen Chrysalis, and many others. Now the last rulers of the list were only asking for better trade, such as food, clothing and medical supplies or medics for their wounded, but Celestia wanted me to give her some of Cybertronian technology, which she plans to better protect her ponies and help them, but I know her, she just wants to make weapons, so I told her no, every single meeting. "James, you okay?" Sari said, oh how I love my wife, always looking to help others, I sighed then responded, "I'm fine Sari, it's just I'm getting tired of telling Celestia no, we already gave them some Vehibots, who are also under orders not to tell the ponies anything about our technology." we arrived to the main throne room, a lot of changes have been made, after Sari became my wife, two more thrones were made, one for Nyx, and one for Sari. And speaking of Nyx, she has grown up since the War, she was nearly as tall as Twilight, minus the horn, her magical capabilities have improved were she outclass Starswirl the Bearded, Twilight asked Nyx to teach her but Nyx said no. "Daddy! Mommy!" Nyx shouted running to us, with Venom in his slime form slithering behind her, I brought my hand down for her to climb on, bringing up to my shoulder I smiled as she began talking about how Venom helped her with her school assignments, yep Nyx is homeschooled, who is teaching her you ask, well, Wheeljack and Ratchet. "That's great my little munchkin," Sari said, smiling, "Now go turn in your homework, and maybe we can go visit Predaking, k?" Nyx nodded, and she galloped to the inventor and medic, I looked to Sari, "So what did you want to talk about?" I asked her, sitting on my throne, Sari sitting on hers, "It's about the Megatrons, I'm worried they might rally their forces and launch another attack, and probably start another War," she said, I sighed, "Sari, we've been over this, the remaining Megatron's are Beast Wars, Tfa, and TLK, two of them are pretty much weaker, sort of, but we have 3 planets full of Autobots thanks to the Allspark being one with Primus again, and said God and his brother are two of those planets, we'll be alright." I said, trying to ease Sari's worries, "But what if they come back with more beings like Quintessa? What if-" I placed my hand on her shoulder, before she can go on. "Sari, calm down, whatever thought you have, just let it go, don't think about it, if the Megatron's do come with a army, just know, I will do everything in my power to protect my family." I said, calming Sari down, she let out a sigh, and nodded her head, "You're right James, I need to calm down, I'm letting some little worry get the better of me, it's just," she paused, looking unsure, "I still have nightmares about the War, mostly about you getting killed in the worst ways possible, some were you were standing in the middle of Canterlot, fire around you along with the dead bodies of our friends," I was shocked, I knew the War might have a toll on some people, but this was too much, I stood up,grabbed her hand and we started walking, "James, where are we going?" she asked, "We are going to see Luna, I want to know why she cannot change your nightmares," I said, luckily, we manged to catch them before they left, I told them we need to speak in private, we entered the meeting room, making sure everything was soundproof and locked,we began to talk, "Alright Luna, I know you can enter people's dreams so why is my wife experincing nightmares?" "I, well, uh," Luna said, sweat trickling down her face, "Alright FINE!! I didn't bother to check her dreams because I thought being married and everything,she might have good dreams, not nightmares!" "So, you just let my wife suffer horrifying nightmares that would make all of Tartarus look like a piece of grass, because you thought she might have good dreams?!" I shouted, my voice full of anger, I would have probably scolded Luna for the rest of her life is Sari didn't decide to calm me down, sighing, I pinched the bridge of my nose, "Look, sorry about that but, always do a double check before you just decide on something ok?" Luna nodded, "I-I'll try, just no more of anger please, you become all sorts of scary when you're angry," she said, I nodded, pounding was heard on one of the doors, Celestia deactivated the spell, and I unlocked the doors, BB came bursting in, he was panting, as if he was running for hours, "T-thank the Allspark I found you, somebody just robbed Twilight," BB said. > Chapter 2 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- James Pov Me, Sari, the princesses, Alicorns of Harmony, Main 6, Wheeljack, Arcee, and Windblade were all by the mirror to the human world, "So, it looks like Sunset Shimmer stole your crown, aka Magic Gleam, yes Celestia I know about Sunset Shimmer, Displaced remember?" I said to a gawking Celestia, "So, what's the plan? Send Twilight into the human world so that way she can retrieve her crown, bring the human versions of her friends together again, and reform Sunset." "Actually, I was thinking of sending YOU to the human world with Twilight and her friends." Celestia said, shocking me, "WHOA WHOA WHOA!! TIME OUT!!" I shouted, making the timeout sign with my hands, "You want me to go into the human world with the Main 6 and get the crown back?!" she nodded, Sombra's Pov Me and Hound were training the Crystal Guards at magic and combat, when we heard something, "ARE YOU NUUUUUUUTTTTTSSS?!?!?!?" it managed to shake the ground and possibly the whole Empire, I looked to Hound, "Optimus shouts outmatched the Royal Canterlot voice, you win the bet." I said passing him several blueprints of weapons that I was hoping to have the pleasure of making and testing them out, he looked at me smugly, "No one can outmatch a Prime." Hound said, James Pov I was currently staring at slightly ear bleeding, cringing, screaming Celestia, my left eye twitching, she casted a spell, and her ears stopped bleeding, healing spell, she began to stand up, "N-n-no I am not nuts, just simply suggesting, seeing how you know what's going to happen, you can go to the human world, and help the Bearers." I calmed down a little, "Only Twilight can go, but I can take some Autobots, because we will encounter the human counterparts of her friends, except for her counterpart, so everybody agree with this plan?" I asked, getting a chorus of yes. "Good, let me get the Autobots that will go with us," I walked out of the room with the Mirror Gate, I found Tfp Arcee, and Windblade, FOC Warpath and Swoop in the Training Arena, They stopped what they were doing and walked over to me, "What ya need Prime?" Swoop asked, "I need you four to come with me on a mission," I said, Arcee stepped up, "What's the mission sir?" Arcee asked, "It's a retrieval mission, I have chosen you four because I need speed and strength," I said, they nodded, we walked back to the Mirror Gate, Twilight had a saddlebag ready, my Autobots and Sari made sure their weapons were locked and loaded, me, I was having a mental debate with myself, 'Should I bring the Book, the one that had every power I had before I gotten a new body?' I told them I'll be right back, I walked to the throne room, I stood in front of my throne, and using the spell Twilight used to find the Crystal Heart in the series, except different, the throne started moving upwards, revealing a dark hallway, I entered. I kept walking, walking to two columns, one holding the Catalyst with a very tough shield, and the other, holding the book that holds all my powers, just opening it, I can regain all my powers, my Chaos Magic, and....my Shadow Magic, I looked at the book, it's brown leather surface seemed almost too smooth if the Autobot symbol wasn't on the front of it, I slowly reached for it, but a image of my Demon Prime form crushing Sari flashed through my eyes, I flinched back, my hand going back to my side, I walked out of Vault D, a place where dangerous weapons and/or relics stay to keep them from falling into the wrong hands. I walked down the hallway to the others, but stopped, I looked at a doorway that was guarded by elite Vehibot troopers and Ironhide, "Need something?" Ironhide asked, I nodded and told him I need to grab a few things, I entered and saw the relics of the primes, and the weapons me, Pyro, and Ed made in the Time Chamber. I walked over to the Star Saber and the Forge of Solus Prime. Grabbing them, I made it back to the others, and we set off for the human world. > Chapter 3 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- James Pov As we passed through the mirror, only a few words can describe how it felt, it stings like Tartarus! I felt how it tries to morph my body, but it was unsuccessful, a white flash appeared, then I felt the familiar feeling of grass, I opened my eyes, groaning as I do, but all I saw was dirt, I got up, and doing so, I noticed the me shaped implant in the ground, I got up in kneeling position, I looked around, seeing Canterlot High, I also noticed it.....was....daytime. Let's see, one giant Autobot, I heard groaning, looking to my left I saw Arcee, Windblade, Warpath, Sari and Swoop, make that 6 giant Autobots, near a school that is filled with kids that have phones, who can take pictures and videos of us, and post it on the internet, and will most likely catch the attention of the military, who will come and capture or kill us, and take our bodies, and possibly take them apart and reverse engineer them, yeah, I can see how that will end up in our favor. I shook my head, I walked over to the others, helping them get up and everything, once we were all up, I noticed Twilight still unconscious, and Spike is with her, in their respective forms, Spike the dog, and Twilight the human, "Alright we are all here, now to discuss the matter at hand, but first," I said, walking over to the street and transformed, "We need to stay incognito." the others followed my lead, but I saw a few errors, like for instance, a giant Pterodactyl, a tank, a space jet and a Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor also Sari's vehicle form, pretty much stands out. "Sari, Swoop, Warpath, you may need to choose another vehicle form, your current ones stands out." They agreed, so they chose the nearest vehicles, Swoop gotten a LaFerrari, it's colors matching his, Warpath he chose the same vehicle form like Ironhides, Sari, she chose a 2019 Acura NSX, Windblade chose the same thing as Swoop, "Now, we can get back to-" an ear splitting scream was heard, and unfortunately, we couldn't cover our ears, "TWILIGHT KNOCK IT OFF!!" Swoop yelled, I saw Twilight clamp her hands over her mouth, seems like she found she turned into a human, she looked over to us, her eyes still wide, "We're right here Twilight, yes you transformed, but it's a good thing, it allows you to blend in with the locals, so...calm.....down." I said, suddenly getting tired for some reason, I heard snoring, but I couldn't transform, then darkness. "J...es...ake..p!" I heard someone say, as I slowly woke up, "James wake up!" I opened my eyes to see a human Sari, "Sari? H-h-how?" I asked, my voice sounding different, for some reason, "You should take a look at yourself," she said, I sat up in front of the Mirror Gate to see a human version of me, I had slicked back white hair, a white leather jacket with a black v-neck shirt underneath, white jeans, along with white sneakers, my face had a normal human peach color, my eyes a ruby red. And I looked to be around 18 years old, "Woah. I'm a human," I said, looking at my hands, "You think the mirror has anything to do with this?" "No doubt about it, I guess when it tried to change us when we were in our robot mode, it couldn't but instead went for the T-Cog, which caused this." Sari said, looking to her left, I looked in the direction she was looking, and saw the human versions of my Autobots. Warpath had a muscular build, he wore a red military jacket and pants, his face was mostly concealed by a face mask and a blue visor, the only thing standing out was his blackish red hair. Swoop, was currently wearing a leather aviator jacket that matched his his colors, same with his pants, his eyes covered by a blue visor, his blonde hair slicked almost like a strong wind blew it back. Arcee, she wore a standard blue sweater with pink highlights, blue jeans, high heel shoes her hair a slight blue with a few pink streaks, her eyes a blazing blue. Windblade, she had a outfit like Swoops, except hers was red, she also wore black jeans with highheel boots, her face had the same markings from her bot form, her red hair pulled bak into a bun, her crest holding it in place. "So, this happened," Swoop said, looking over his new form, "We turned into humans, I'm not even gonna argue with Arcee, magic caused this." "Well, um, maybe we should go ahead and stop Sunset Shimmer?" we heard Twilight say, we looked to her, and nodded at the same time, I got up with help of Sari, we made our way to the entrance of Canterlot High, wait, I just remembered something! Turning around I placed my hand on Twilights head, she looked up at me confused, I pointed to my legs, and made a waling motion with my fingers, she made a oh face, and shakily got up. We made it to the entrance, I opened the door, then closing it after everyone got inside, I explained how the human world worked, and what to expect while here, we went down one hallway were we heard voices, one sounded angry, another sound meek, I kew who it was, looking around the corner, I saw Sunset Shimmer yelling at Fluttershy's human counterpart. "You stupid little girl! You just had to go ahead and turn that crown when I was about to!! I should just clobber you, but that means I might get suspension, so how about public humiliation?" Sunset said to Fluttershy, who was cowering, her kness tucked into her chest, her arms covered her head and tears felk down her face. "P-please, I'm s-s-sorry!I didn't know you were about to grab it!" Fluttershy said, having enough I stepped out of the corner, "HEY!! Leave her alone ya big bully!" I shouted, causing everybody, but Sunset,to look at me. "Ya hear me, ya pile of horse dung!!!" "What...was....THAT!!!" Sunset shouted, looking at me, a promise of pain in her eyes, "Ya heard me!!" I shouted, unfazed by her glare, she stomped towards me, I was a little taller than her, but our eyes still met in a glaring contest. > Chapter 4 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- James Pov Me and Sunset just glared at each other, teal blue eyes meeting fiery ruby eyes, I could see my wife and Autobots look between us, Sunset then smirked, "You must be new here, becaue here at Canterlot High," she said, shoving me a little, "I call the shots around here," "How? By scaring the other students, threatening them? Well, I got news for you, I am not easily scared." I said, she looked at me, her smirk ever present, "Really? Well you should be." she said, walking away, scaring a kid into his locker, "Because I'm gonna make your life here, miserable." I let out a growl, before turning my attention to Fluttershy, "You ok?" I asked, offering my hand to help her up, she accepted it, pulling her up, she looked at me with teary eyes, "T-thank you, but nobody ever stood up to Sunset Shimmer, and I mean nobody," she said, "Well I ain't nobody, and your welcome," I said as Sari stood by me, "My name is Orion Pax, and this is my girlfriend Sari," "My name is Fluttershy," she said, loud enough for us to hear, "And who are your friends?" "There names are Warpath, Twilight, Swoop, Arcee, and Windblade," I said pointing at each member of my team, they said there own greetings when I felt the familiar pull of a Displaced summoning me, "It was nice talking to you, just let me know when Sunset bothers you again, k?" she shyly nodded, then me and my team began to walk away, though Twilight stayed to talk with Fluttershy. "Displaced?" Sari asked, I simply nodded, "I'm coming with you." "Sari, we don't know what kind of Displaced is summoning me, for all we know, they could-" "Don't care, you're my husband James, not only that, you only have the powers of G1 Optimus, you need all the help you can get." Sari said, she's got a point there, sighing in defeat, "Alright, you can come, man, you look out for everyone don't you." "Yep, and you know you love me for it." she had smile on her face, a smile was on my face as well, I kissed her cheek, gaining a giggle out of her. "I sure do." we eventually made it the gym, nobody was in sight, not even Pinkie, if the undecorated gym was any indication, I looked to the rest of my Autobots, "You four will remain here and watch over Twilight, and keep an eye on you know who." "Yes sir!" they responded at the same time, then, a portal appeared, I looked to Sari, seeing her give a nod, we both ran into it. > Robot Riot > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sky's Pov It did not take us long to find the epicenter of this panic and I sighed as I got a good look at the doc. He was an earth pony but what really stood out was his completely mechanical body and red on black eyes with his emblem being interlocking gears and his army was definitely looking based off the badniks from the sonic series just not as goofy or cute looking... And as Rainbow said they have terrible aim when it came to shooting people. Buildings and trees though became solid chrome on being hit. I counted up the robots and sighed. "Okay there are around four hundred of the things way too many for us to take on if we were normal but well the four of us never actually fought before I can distract about a fourth of them sure" I said frowning as I pulled out crescent rose. Swift reluctantly agreed. "Yeah I maybe super fast now but I still have trouble with avoiding obstacles" Swift admitted. " With our skills we can at most take out half the army before getting overwhelmed we need a bit of an equalizer " breeze agreed. Gale and dark nodded not liking these odds. That was until something hit me upside my head and landed in my hand. I blinked as I saw it was a golden autobot insignia as a voice sounded out in my head. "To all Displaced out in the multiverse, my name is Optimus Prime, if you need my aid, then simply crush this token, and I will aid you in your darkest hour!" " What the heck is a displaced? But if this token can help us then we might have just got our equalizer." I said rubbing my head. Sharing a look we nodded. "Okay Optimus we need some help taking out some robots so any help is appreciated!" I said before I used crescent rose to crush the token as we jumped to confront metallous and his army of machines! As a portal appeared in between us as two vehicles came out, one a white cubed shaped truck, the other a orange jet, both speeding out of the portal then the sound of shifting gears was heard as they both changed into two giant robots, one looked like Optimus, he was all white except for his face mask which was blue while his eyes were a ruby red, the other was female, she had red hair and bright blue optic, she looked to be wearing a metallic skirt. Both seemed to scan the area, then their eyes landed on me and my friends. "Okay when I heard Optimus prime I thought it was the classic red and blue" I admitted tilting my head. " You were not the only one" Gale said. "Nice to meet you I'm Swift the other hedgehog is my sister Gale the hawk is my wife Breeze and this is our friend Flutterbat. The unicorn is Dark Hunter" Swift said waving to the two. " That looked like a dimensional gateway spell but didn't feel magic from it at all" Dark mused. " Yep you are Twilight's cousin alright. Anyway we got about four hundred robots armed with guns that convert anything they hit to metal. All led by a guy calling himself Doctor Metallous. Lucky us the robots have bad aim. Though it's only a matter of time before they hit someone" I said pointing a wing at the army we were heading to. I switched crescent rose to rifle mode as my friends pulled out their weapons. "Thanks for the info, and judging by the way the robots look I'd say they're pretty easy to handle. Also sorry to disappoint but lost my old body, long story." Optimus said his hand switching to a blue glowing ax while the other one had a giant hammer,. "Let's go." then he and the girl charged at the army slicing or crushing them. Metallous ordered his robots to fight back, which they did poorly as they kept missing,  "Oh come one! They're like the size of buildings!!" Metallous shouted in rag "Man these things are terrible shots, I bet they can't even hit the side of a barn." the girl said, slamming her hammer down on a bunch of robots. "It's hammer time!!" "They can too hit the side of a barn, there one now!" he said pointing at a torn barn. The bots fired at it, only to not come close to hitting it.  We all deadpan,  “I'm really betting he's the local version of eggman. How these guys injured fluttershy and the others I have no clue” I said as I sniped ten with one bullet. This was at least good accuracy training. “It was mainly debris from the surroundings… And who in tartarus is eggman” Mettalous admitted. “A guy from the dimension we are from who has a similar army. Just similar enough it was just numbers that is giving us trouble” swift answered dodging the badnik copies. "And he at least had robots that can put up a decent fight. He even had one that can basically turn into a giant creature of mass destruction." Optimus said, crushing a Badnik copy under his foot. “Please don't give him ideas… Though I am wondering why he is a mechanical pony in the first place” I said frowning. “Blame princess celestia she told me the magic I was studying was to unstable but I did stabize it if she didn't accidently broke off my horn when charging into the room I wouldn't be in this state!” Metallous informed. “Oh so you have issues with celestia too. I swear just because I'm a vampony version of fluttershy doesn't mean I am her. Lucky we can clear that up at the gala” I said. "Huh, I can relate to Celestia trying to attack you for what you can or what you are, when I got here I beat Discord but later befriended him, he gave some Chaos magic and when old sun butt saw me use it, she immediately went on a 'he uses Chaos magic let's kill him' fit." We gave optimus looks. “That hasn't happened as far as I know and my cousin is her personal student” dark said. “Wait that ensignia said something about displaced… Are there multiple equestrians?” I asked. "Will explain later, as these things learned how to aim." Optimus said, ducking behind a building as multiple badniks fired on him, he returned fire while the girl spun her hammer really fast deflecting the blasts. “Fair enough time to reap some bots” I said going scythe mode before flying at the bots and becoming a whirlwind. “She learns fast though aren't you made of metal optimus? Their guns shouldn't even affect you” dark said. He just stood there looking at Dark, "You serious, just because I'm made of metal doesn't mean their guns won't harden my gears and servos to where I'm basically a talking statue." “I didn't design them to make solid statues just convert ponies to be in a similar state to me misery loves company” metallous informed.  “You need therapy” me, breeze, gale and swift deadpanned before we finished off the last of the badniks.  “Plus couldn't you have asked twilight to see about reversing the backfired spell on you before deciding to weaponize your accident?” I asked resting my scythe sniper rifle on my shoulder. “I tried to but well something set off my gollems into firing randomly” metallous sheepishly replied. “Must have been the chaos energy I'm holding seven magic gems that give off chaos like magic that might have caused it” swift said. "Idiot, you might have given him an idea on the emeralds, he could be planning something right now." The girl said, lightly slapping Swift upside the head gently due to her being made of metal and being huge. “actually I just want to return to normal if those emeralds work like the elements of harmony there might just be a way to restore me to normal. I only built these gollems because people run on seeing me and causing a panic it was mainly to try and keep me safe” mettalous said. “So pinkie likely over dramatized the situation. I'm going to double team her with sis to punish her” I said facepalming. “So why nearly four hundred robots?” Dark asked. "Well me and my friend could help as we are basically machines, and know a thing or two about magic and energy." Optimus said with his arms crossed and leaning against a building. "And wouldn't have four hundred robots if you were nearly all machine and ponies think you a freak of nature, not to mention crazy ponies bent on advanced evolution might experiment on him." “I developed a gollem for a project and when I was infusing metal into it celestia caused my horn to break and I ended up this. The only reason there was so many was that the gollem wandered off and found a cloning pond of all things. I was keeping them in line due to having set a master control in the gollem.” Metallous deadpanned. “Well lucky us we got the elements of harmony. So if anything else we can fix the damage to the area” I said looking around at the now metal plaza of manehatten. It was at this point fluttershy and her friends arrived and I leveled pinkie with a Look. “Pinkie are you even aware he was trying to ask you guys for help because his state was a spell massively backfiring on him?” I told the pink mare not amused. “Wait so he wasn't an evil mad scientist bent on world domination? Whoops” pinkie said shrinking as fluttershy joined me in the Look. “Let's just grab the elements and try to get this situation cleared up I'm starting to feel a migraine from today” twilight sighed. “You have no idea any way the big guy here is optimus prime and no offense but I don't think his friend here introduced herself” I said motioning to optimus. "My name is Sari Sumdac, from the Transformers Animated show. And I believe someone still owes an explanation on Displaced." " Yeah what is Displaced that Token thing mentioned that but I don't really know what that really is" I said frowning. "I'll explain it somewhere we won't draw attention from a certain sum goddess." he said, "But first, we need to shrink down, know any spells?" "I got one so don't worry about that it is just a mass compression spell." Twilight said her horn glowing before the two were suddenly our height in a literal flash. "Thank you, now let's go before the cursed reporters or worse paparazzi show up." Optimus said, to which all nodded. With that we relocated to dark's office. The vampony unicorn detective gave the two a look. "So what exactly are Displaced" he asked. "Well Displaced is short for Dimensionally Misplaced, is a person who went to a party or Con dressed as their favorite characters, like me, and we meet a person who just so happens to have an item that suits our costume, or was a missing piece of said costume. They are called Displacers, and why they do this unknown. So when a person buys something from them, they immediately get sent to a different version of Equestria, like this one were all the ponies are anthro. And you think that would be it but no, the costume wearing, you become that being you went as, like me. And there is no way home." "Oh you mean like flutterbat!" Pinkie said making me and Fluttershy stare at her.  " You knew!" We both asked shocked. "Yes, like Flutterbat, but each Displaced also gets sent to a different time in Equestria, like before Nightmare Moon or before the princesses themselves. But not many are good, some are evil while others are somewhat good. Be lucky you didn't summon a crazed Displaced, sometimes the thought of never seeing your family can drive one insane." Sari said, obviously thinking. " Don't have to worry about that with me I didn't have a family at all except for Gale, breeze and Swift here. And guess Gale's Boyfriend is somewhere in a different Equestria. Besides Fluttershy and I are definitely sisters I'm practically her after all" I said smiling. "That's good to hear, I've heard of Displaced becoming either a sister, brother or father/ mother to most of the Main 6 or princesses. Now, tell me, I can tell when one is in trouble, need any help?" Optimus asked me.  " Well besides celestia confusing me for a corrupted Fluttershy we already have a plan to clear up the issue. We are before the grand galloping gala by three months. So that is going to be interesting. And If you're wondering I bought a dress cause of an issue with my costume and I ended up running into sis just after the dragon causing a dark sky event. My suit was pretty skintight so I needed the dress to not give perverts ideas, my name used to be skyline" "Well nice to meet you Skyline, my name is James, and I think you made the right call on the dress, and what about the scythe/rifle, bought that too?" "Not from the displacer I bought a replica of crescent rose from RWBY along side a albino bat plushy and a purse before the dress. The only thing I did buy from the displacer was my outfit. Gale and her family ended up displaced two years after I did when to me it was two months" I said. "Hmm, yes time works differently for us Displaced, so, think you can use my help, I could teach how to defend yourself against Celestia in case things don't go as planned, and I wasn't kidding about us being bodyguards, trust me, Celestia is no joke, the show did her no justice, she is more powerful than what the show described her." "Maybe for your Celestia but ours is like the show only has a tendency to jump to conclusions and having a stubborn streak. Once I show up to the gala with Fluttershy we might shock her into actually listening this time" I said. "Still, better safe than sorry. And what if she thinks you are justing using an illusion." "For one I'm a Pegasus no unicorn magic for that and secondly Celestia isnt that bad just needs solid proof. Plus we look too identical with minor differences that even a doppleganger can't copy." "Alright, just offering my help. But I can see you have everything thought out." James said, "So what was that whole token thing about?" Gale asked. "Ah yes, the Token is a way for Displaced to communicate, not like a phone, but a teleporter, anyone can make one. They just have to picture what they want it to look like, something that relates to them, like the golden Autobots symbol is to me,  and insert their message, then the Void will do the rest, sending out copies of said to every Displaced. I can help make one if you want, but what you want it to look like and what message you Displaced to hear is up to you." " I got one in mind for myself but can I also make a shared token with Gale and her family? We just got reunited today and I don't want to separate from them just yet" I asked. "That can happen, after all, most Displaced often have friends or family with them so they often use on Token for all of them. Like the Power Rangers for example, if they each had an individual Token it would be a pain for them and the summoner. So one Token for a whole team is the best idea, it would teleport all of you to the summoner." Sari said, which James nodded in agreement. "Then for my solo token I'm using my cutie mark pendent I made before I went to the convention that should really make sure people know who they are summoning" I said taking said necklace off. "Alright just hand it here, and I'll give it a little void energy, then you can say your message." James said.  I did so and I had just the message in mind as I looked to Fluttershy. "Alright, stand back a little, this is the first time I'm helping someone make Token." we did as he closed his eyes, a strange glow surrounded the necklace as it began to hover in his hand. Opening his eyes, we could see that he was exhausted. "Done, now state your message." he brought the necklace close to me. "My name is flutterbat if you need a kind shoulder to listen to or just someone to vent give me a call but those with ill intent beware my anger for I will give them a lesson they won't forget" I said clearly. A portal opened up next to James, he tossed the Token in as it fell back out before it closes. We looked at him confused. "It does that so that way you have one to give to a Displaced you summoned." "Right are you up to helping with our group Token? You look dead on your feet" Gale asked concerned. "I can try, but it's not up to me on what your Token is, just focus on what you want it to look like. And I might be a little exhausted after giving Flutterbat Token a little void energy." James said as Sari helped him stay on his feet. "Don't worry we got a feel of the energy so we can help take the strain" twilight said motioning to her cousin. " It feels a lot like dimensional space/time magic so we should be able to pull it off" dark nodded. "I'm just gonna say it, Eggheads!" James shouted, "Sometimes hearing some speak smart can give a guy a headache." " Wow he actually beat me on saying it" Rainbow said surprised. "Of course, I came from a Equestria too, so I know what a Rainbow Dash is thinking." James said, raising his fist for fist bump, "But I know that if a Rainbow Dash that can perform a Rainboom, is awesome." just before Rainbow returned the fist bump, I saw a ring around James' finger. "Well good to know i will master the move at some point" Rainbow said beaming. " So you two an item? I can see the wedding rings" I said raising an eyebrow. "Yes, but we were married after...a terrible war." James said as he and Sari tensed, I could even see Sari tremble a little. " By that look it must have been like that stop motion transformers prime time video on YouTube. Only with multiple Megatron's as the enemy" I said. "We wished it was only them back then, but the person that caused so much pain was Quintessa." Sari said, anger in her voice. " Oh God a quintesson? What did those split personality jerks do this time try to revive Unicron again?" I said with a groan. "Actually, it was only Quintessa, and she used Primus to kill Unicron, and used James to try and kill his friends. She caused so much pain and suffering." "So lead up from armarda into energon into Cybertron of the series did you have to deal with that black hole issue?" I asked. "No, never watched Energon, but we did lead and Armada against her, but what is a few ships against a god? We even had two Displaced help us. We...barely survived, but the Swift thinking of Ed, a Displaced who I call a brother, she now suffers in a place worse than Tartarus. But the damage was done, she corrupted me, turning against my friends, I nearly killed them." James said, his fist clenched in anger, "So you ended up in a nemesis prime situation. Can't imagine how that feels I mean I am a vampony version of sis at least I'm not feral" I said knowing how that could have gone. "Trust me, you don't want to know. She not only corrupted me, but put her mind inside my body, so when we were in a place where Ed's friend Truth lives, I couldn't leave, so I lost a body but gained a new one, the one you see now, but even with a new body, the scars are ever present." " Huh so you know the Fullmetal alchemist? Guess there is a lot out there" I said smiling. "Yes, but the past is in the past, for now, let's see if we can work on that Token shall we." James said. Gale looked to her siblings and shared a nod before they each pulled out a new medallion that had a tornado as it's shape. "Seeing as the four of us have names referring to the sky or a aspect of it this feels appropriate" Gale said. "Alright, hand them over, I'll fill them with void energy." like before, James was given the medallions then he began to fill them void energy. "And done!" he said, with what looked sweat covered his head, "Now state your message." Sharing a look the four of us nodded. "We are the Whirlwinds if you need someone to jam with give us a call and if you want a friend don't look too far" we said. Then another portal appeared, tossing them in as another fell out, they could briefly see the Tokens split into billions before the portal closed. We heard a loud thud and looked to see James had collapsed, just barely staying awake. "Sari he's pushed himself too far hasn't he?" I deadpanned. "Yes, but he is okay, just needs some Energon and a good night's sleep." Sari said kneeling down to James.  " So I'm a bit curious you look very different from the sari sumdac we grew up on. For one you look fully cybertronian instead of a human hybrid?" Breeze asked tilting her head. "Well, during the war, I was just too easy of a target being mostly human, so with help of Transformers Prime Megatron and Soundwave, yes they are our side, I built a machine similar to the one Blackarachnia made to change Wasp in to Waspinator, but without the whole going crazy and malfunctioning part, so using it I became this." Sari said, "Hey, do you think we could spend the night here? We kinda were in the Equestria Girls world, so we have no place to stay." " Oh you mean where sunset shimmer is? Huh that sounds interesting" twilight said. " I hinted to twilight to ask about her to distract Celestia while they got the elements" I explained.  "Good call." Sari said, giving James a cube of Energon after she deactivated the faceplate, "Is it weird how a G1 Optimus looks without the faceplate?" " Not really Optimus primal got us used to that kind of thing. Anyway good night because twilight looks to be wanting an explanation from me and Fluttershy on why we technically lied to them" I said as said unicorn dragged us off. One explanation and night later I looked at Optimus. "So Optimus let's both agree that next time you help make tokens that it might be better to teach the displaced how to access the void energy themselves because apparently for now one is your limit for a while. So now that I properly scolded you on how reckless that was, how do I send you two back?" I asked. "Just hold my Token in front of you and the Void will create a portal." James said " Uh how the Token made itself into the portal you came from and you said to crush it in that message so how am I going to send you back if the token isn't present? It's not like saying something like contract complete would do it" I said only for a portal to open up. " You have to be kidding! it was that easy" I deadpanned in surprise. “Basically. Though sometimes it’s something different.” James said, then twin bolts of lightning came from the portal and struck the two Autobots, though it didn’t look like it hurt, that’s when the two began to glow. When the glow went away, standing in front of us were two humans. One was Sari as a human, while the other had a white leather jacket with a black v-neck shirt underneath, white jeans, along with white sneakers, he had white slick back hair with a single bang over his right eye, and he had ruby red eyes. "Well later guys we'll call if you want to hang out or need someone to listen to" I said smiling. “Sure thing, and good luck with Celestia and helping Metallous.” James said as he and Sari entered the portal. With that the portal collapsed leaving the autobot insignia back in the condition I received it as I picked it up. "Well today has been strange but I think it was worth it" I said as dark stumbled out still not a morning person.  "Well got a case guys so we better get going Mettalous is waiting outside the city so we better get his case done before we focus on Celestia" Dark said leading us off. > Chapter 6 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- James POV Once me and Sari exited the portal, we saw that Swoop and Warpath were waiting for us, Swoop was sitting on a rock while Warpath was looking at a datapad. "About time. Thought you two would never get back." Swoop said, getting up, and he and Warpath walked over to us. "Forgive us, but we were helping out a fellow Displaced, but anyway, how long were we gone for?" I asked them, curious on what part of the Equestria Girls timeline we were in now. "Not long, probably half an hour. Twilight and Spike are in the library with the others researching everything there is to know about this world." Warpath said as we entered Canterlot High. "Which is great for us seeing how we don't have to ask a human for information, though I think some of them might be in there for a while." I nodded my head in agreement as Sari let a small laugh, just as we were about to reach the library, we spotted two trouble makers, AKA, Snips and Snails. They had their phones out but didn't look like they were taking any pictures, in fact. They looked bored as hell. "Man, this stinks, if those losers weren't with her, we would have had plenty of embarrassing pictures of her. Maybe we should tell Sunset that we had no luck?" Snips asked Snails, "Um, maybe we shouldn't, remember what she said, we have, oh wait look! She just made a face after the printer blinded her! Take a picture now!" Snails whispered to Snips, both aiming their phones and taking pictures and chuckling. "Yes, now we just need some-Snips, why are you pointing behind me?" "Because of us." I said, causing Snails to turn around slowly, only to see me, Sari's, Swoops and Warpaths angry looks, I made a give me gesture with my hand, they both gave me their phones immediately, I crushed them with my hand, feeling a little bit of pain. "You two leave and tell Suns**t Shimmer to leave Twilight alone, or else." They both ran away, once they were far away, I grabbed my hand and I had to bite my tongue from screaming, I looked at it and saw it was bleeding with two large cuts. "James, that was stupid, you are not a giant robot anymore remember." Sari scolded me, looking at my hand, Warpath handed her a first aid kit. She grabbed it as we entered the library, seeing Twilight and the others reading various books, they all gave us a worried look the moment they saw my hand. "He's fine, just needs to be more careful next time." Warpath and Swoop left to go help Spike get more books as Twilight walked to me and Sari's table, "What happened?" "Saw Snips and Snails trying to take embarrassing pictures of you for Sunset. I crushed their phones, which resulted this." I said, pointing at nearly bandaged hand, then noticed the blood on the sleeve of my jacket, "Gonna have to get that washed, otherwise we might attract unwanted attention." "So, I managed to learn a lot about this world, like the first po-er, person made a lightbulb." Twilight said, correcting herself, "Oh, and the fact that dragons, griffons and any other creature that usually is in Equestria are noting more than myths." I nodded, "Good, you may need to know a lot if you want to get your crown back." Sari said, finishing up tending to my hand, "Also, I think I should enter the competition so that way our chances of getting the crown back are greater." I held my chin in thought, it did sound like a good idea, and Sunset couldn't really mess with her. I looked to Sari and nodded. "Sounds like a plan." I said, she gave me a confident smile while sticking her fist into the air, "I'll be sure to kick Sunsets a**." Sari said, "Hey, if we really want to increase our chances, why don't we have Arcee join-" before Swoop could finish that sentence, Arcee grabbed his shirt and forced him to look her in the eye. "Finish that sentence, and I'll be sure you will be in a world of pain." she said, causing Swoop to laugh nervously and back off. "Besides, I don't think I am very, convincing to be chosen as the winner." "That true." Warpath said quietly, "So, it is decided that both Sari and Twilight will enter the Canterlot High Fall Formal, which also means we have to keep a lookout for any one of Sunsets plans to get rid of them." Spike said, popping his head out of Twilights backpack. I nodded my head in agreement, "If we ever split up, this the group I want for both of them, Swoop, Arcee and Windblade are with Twilight and Spike, while me and Warpath are with Sari." they all gave their voice of agreements, "Good, now. Let's get back to studying." after that, we went back to reading books, everyone was intrigued by what was in them, except for me and Sari, both of were taught this stuff since we were kids. I noticed a strange sight, a car that was all black was in front of the school building, i tapped Sari's shoulder and pointed at the car. "Want to check it out?" she asked, I nodded, we both left the library and were about to exit the main doors when a kid entered the car, most likely the owner, and took off. I shook my head while chuckling, "Guess we were getting paranoid, with the whole war and everything." "I agree, maybe we are too stressed." I said, then noticed that the sun was about to set, "Let's get back to the others and get some sleep." she nodded as we went back into the library. "Alright, enough book time, we have a big day tomorrow, with getting everybody to vote for either Sari or Twilight." they all nodded and we were about to exit when Spike spoke up. "Um, where are supposed to stay?" we all froze, a look of realization on our faces. I slammed my head against the door, groaning in frustration. "I forgot that we have no place to stay, and if we stay here, the school might consider us homeless and call the cops." I said, "But, then again, they didn't when Twilight did it, so I guess we could stay in the library." with that said, everyone went to find a spot to sleep, Spike showed Twilight the book bed he made while everyone was busy, and she laid down on that, Swoop decided to sleep in a corner of the room, Arcee and Windblade slept by the heaters, Warpath chose to continue reading about weapons and military vehicles. Me and Sari slept next each other, using my jacket as a blanket. "You know, this isn't so bad, I get to sleep next to my loving wife while the stars shine on us." Sari just let out a giggle, "You charmer. But if we want to keep our cover up we may need to say we are boyfriend-girlfriend." she said, a small put on her face, "If somebody decides to hit on me, I might punch them." I just gave a small laugh and kissed her forehead. "Maybe, for now, let's sleep." with that both of us fell asleep. > "You better start running." > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- James POV I woke up with an terrible pain in my back, guess sleeping on a floor can do that to you. Getting up while feeling some of my bones pop, I looked at the assembled Autobots and pony turned human, all of them still sleeping, I looked at the clock on the wall and saw that school would be starting soon, so I decided to walk around a bit. As I was walking through the halls of the school, I saw that some students were already at their lockers, I even saw Rainbow Dash heading towards the gym, after a few more minutes of walking, my thoughts turned to Sunset and the crown, aka Magic Gleam. How did Sunset managed to beat Magic Gleam? She's the Alicorn of magic and daughter of Primus, which I'm still trying to figure out how that happened, anyway, there is no way Sunset could have beaten Magic Gleam in magic battle, nor could she knock her out. So, how? I was brought out of my thoughts when I heard someone gasp from behind me, turning around I saw Rarity, and she looked like she is looking at the most disgusting thing in the world. "Um, can I help you?" I asked her, then she grabbed my hand and led me into a empty classroom and somehow got me into a new set of clothes in an instant. I had a black sleeveless shirt with a white trench coat that had blue stripes on the sleeves, which were rolled up, and grey pants with blue shoes, honestly, I look a bit like Dante from Devil May Cry, "There we go, now you look much better now." Rarity said, "What was wrong with my other outfit? No offense this does look cool, but I liked my original look better." I said to her, "Well, it does look nice, if you want to look like you don't wear anything else but this." Rarity said, looking at my old jacket, "Honestly how can you go around wearing such a thing? It has more tears than it has color!" that made me frown as I grabbed my jacket from her, it couldn't be that bad could it? Looking it over I realized that there were more tears on it than color, I wondered how I got them. I sighed, "Alright, you may have a point on that. But it was a but rude of you to just drag me in here and forcefully change me into something else." I told her, causing her to blush in embarrassment. She coughs and says. "Yes well, I had to for the one who helped poor FLuttershy when that brute Sunset Shimmer threatened her." Rarity said, causing me to frown after hearing Sunsets name. "Well I couldn't stand by and watch now could I? Besides, it was the right thing to do." I said to her, she smiled at me. "Well aren't you a kind hearted man." Rarity said, just as the door to the room burst open with Applejack walking and looking around before spotting me, "Well well well, if it isn't the guy who stood up to Sunset Shimmer, I've been looking all over for you." Applejack said with a smile. "You have?" I asked her and she nodded her head, "Yep, I wanted to say congratulations on standing up to Sunset Shimmer and give you a bit of a warning." Applejack replied, her face going serious, "Better watch your back, Sunset ain't the kind of person to ignore people like you and your friends. So watch out for her and her lackeys." "If you mean those two who always follow her around, then don't worry, she can throw whatever it is she got at me and my friends, we can take it." I told her with a firm nod, not even bothered by the threat of Sunset Shimmer, well, not unless she puts on the crown, then I have to worry as I don't have powers and I am stuck as a human, and unless I can somehow trick her into the portal and get my body and powers back, I'm screwed if she puts on the crown. "But I appreciate the warning." "No problem." Applejack said and held out her hand which I gladly took and braced my arm as she shook it as if she was trying to rip my arm off. "Names Applejack partner." "James, it's nice to meet you Applejack." I said to her, then Rarity walked up to me, "And I'm Rarity darling, sorry if I haven't introduced myself, but there were more important things to be dealt with." Rarity said, motioning to my torn jacket. "I'll have that fixed and returned to you in no time. Don't you worry." "Thank you Rarity, but you don't have to do that." I said, she merely shook her head. "I insist darling, I can tell this jacket is one of your favorites and if it didn't have any tears in it, I'd say it looked good on you." she said, then held her hand up when I opened my mouth, "No no, I've already made my decision, and I won't be told otherwise." I closed my mouth and nodded my head with a smile, even in different realities, the Mane 6 are still the same. "Well, I guess I better get going then, my friends are probably wondering where I am right now." "But of course, sorry to keep you." Rarity said, "Hey, mind if I come with ya? I want to have a word with Twilight." Applejack said and I shook my head, "I don't mind at all." I replied to which she smiled, "Great, well let's get going then." Applejack said as me and her walked out of the room, saying by to Rarity as we did, we walked through the halls of the school in silence, though I can see from the corner of my eye that she was glancing at me. After a couple of minutes of this I turn my head to face her. "Is something the matter?" I asked her, she had a surprised look on her face before chuckling, "It's nothing really, just something about you is a bit off is all." she said, causing me to raise an eyebrow in confusion. She saw my confused look and explained, "The other day I saw you and your friends threaten Snips and Snails, I also saw you crush their phones without even flinching, and you crushed the phones with ease. Now I've heard of people being strong and all, but looking at you, I can tell you don't work out much, so forgive me for being a little curious." "Ah, yes, not the smartest move on my part honestly. As for how I easily crushed those phones, I honestly have no idea really." I replied with a shrug, though it did make me wonder about something. Is it possible that some of my strength from my Cybertronian body transferred to my human body when I changed into a human? Or maybe my Cybertronian strength was always there and I'm just starting use it? Whatever the reason, I'll have to look into it later. For now though, is answering Applejacks questions. "Really? You have no idea how you managed to do that?" she asked me with a raised eyebrow. "Let me answer your question with another question, do you question Pinkie Pie?" I asked her which she immediately responded with. "Of course not, that only leads to headaches and-oh I see what you did there." she said, laughing a bit and playfully punched my arm, "You pulled the 'don't question it' bit on me!" "Yes I did." I replied with a laugh of my own, not even bothered by the punch, "But you get what I'm saying right? Sometimes it's better to not question some things, trust me, I've learned that the hard way." "I'll take your word for it. So you and your friends new to Canterlot High?" she asked me, and I wondered if I should tell her or not, Twilight told them but that was when she brought them all back together again. "Something like that." I answered, just as we arrived at the library, I looked in and saw Twilight talking with Sari while the others were busy doing their own thing. SWoop and Warpath were currently talking about something, Arcee was just leaning against a wall, arms crossed and Windblade was currently reading a book. The moment me and Applejack walked in, Twilight and Sari turned to look at us, smiles on their faces as we walked over to them. "Hey James." Sari said to me, causing me to smile. "Hey Sari, sorry I left without saying anything." I replied, apologizing as I did. She merely shook her head, "It's fine, I'd probably done the same too. I can tell that you needed to think about something." Sair said, and I replied with a nod, glancing to see Applejack and Twilight talking, having left the table and went behind some bookshelves. I motioned for the other Autobots to come over, once they did I leaned in close and whispered. "Do any of you know how Sunset managed to beat Magic Gleam?" I asked them, getting no's in response. "Then we may have a problem, someone must have helped Sunset either beat or forced Magic Gleam into her Element form, which means that Sunset is the least of our worries. Warpath, were the Megatrons put in the Shadow Zone?" "Yeah, and put in enough stasis cuffs to basically make everything but their heads not move until someone unlocks them, even then, they would need specific keys in order to free them, and we've been monitoring them 24/7." Warpath replied, causing me to frown. "That means the only ones who could have helped her were the last Megatrons, but they won't work with organics." Sari said, "Unless they had to. Think about it, Quintessa was locked up in a void where she would be tortured for who knows how long, we destroyed or captured nearly every Decepticon and are still flushing them out of hiding, and we have literally, enough soldiers to defeat an entire planet filled with Decepticons." "I'm gonna have to agree with her on that, we basically hit the Megatrons where it hurt the most, we hurt their pride. They had a shit ton of advantages against us. And we took them out like they were nothing." Warpath said but added, "Okay yes it was Ed and Pyro who defeated them, but even then, we still beat them." "Both of you are correct, but we can't jump to conclusions just yet. For all we know, this could be someone else entirely." Windblade said, "Who else is there to suspect? The Megatrons-" before I could continue, we hear a voice that immediately angered us. "Well well well. If it isn't the loser who thought he could stand up to me, and the rest of his circus freaks? Well isn't this a just grand." we turned and glared at Sunset Shimmer in anger, she wasn't fazed in the slightest as she just gave a cocky smirk back while leaning against the doorframe to the library, arms crossed. "What do you want Sunshit Shimmer." Sari said. clearly angry at the girl. "Oh nothing, just to give you freaks a warning." Sunset replied, still not bothered by the harsh glares we're giving her. "And that would be?" I asked her, she walked up to me and got in my face and said. "Simple, stay out of my way or else." "And I got two words for you." I said, holding up two fingers, "Fuck. You." I said, leaving my middle finger up so I could give her the bird. Sunset nearly frowned but kept her cocky smirk. "Oh well, don't say I didn't warn you. Guess the whole world will know about the group of aliens are at a high school. I'm sure that will catch someone's attention, especially with the photos I've gotten." Sunset pulled out her phone and showed us pictures of me and Sari going in and out of a portal, "No way is anyone gonna believe that!" Warpath said angrily, "For all they know, that could be special effects!" "Luckily, I have a video." Sunset replied, showing us a video of the same thing. "And I'm pretty sure the government would love to see how you guys work. I won't send it if you agree not to get in my way, and don't help princess Twilight." I looked at the other Autobots, I can tell they knew that if the government came, we wouldn't last long, but I knew something they didn't and Sari knew it too as she gave me a nod, causing me to smile slightly and turned to Sunset and said. "Go ahead." Everyone minus Sari looked at me in shock, Sunset trying to find words, "W-wh-what?! F-fine!" she said, and soon enough, sent the photos and video to the internet and stared at her phone. Moments later, her face soon became one of rage and she threw her phone at a wall, confirming my suspicion. "You see Sunset, the human world is a place where people hardly believe everything they read on the internet." I said to her, "THERE'S ALIENS IN OUR SCHOOL!! EVERYBODY RUN FOR YOUR LIFE!!" we heard Pinkie shout as she ran by the library, making us stare in confusion. "Well, everyone except Pinkie that is." I said, snapping out of my stupor and smirk at Sunset, "So, you can threaten to reveal us all you want, no one is going to believe you." She grit her teeth and growled and if looks could kill, I would be six feet under right now. "Guess I'd better smash that portal and leave you trapped here forever!" That got us to go wide eye in shock and fear, if Sunset destroyed the portal, then who knows what would happen if a major villain or something comes and easily defeats the Autobots, I had left TFP Megatron and Soundwave in charge till we got back, but even then I don't know what will happen if the Decepticons decide to attack, Megatron can only do so much, and with limited knowledge of what his counterparts are like, I fear the worst. You might also be wondering why I believe her, for one thing, she is different from the show, she's much more violent and easily angered, which would stand to reason that i have to believe her when she says she can destroy the portal and leave us trapped here. I glared at Sunset. "You wouldn't dare. That would mean you would be stuck here as well! Then you wouldn't get what you want from Equestria!" I said to her, she just smirked in response. "Oh that's where you are wrong prime, I was Celestia's student, which means I know how to look for other ways of getting to Equestria, while the rest of you will be trapped here." Sunset siad, then began to leave the library while we were in shock, we only snapped out of when she left. "Get after her and keep her away from the portal!" I said to the others, we got up and ran out of the library but didn't see Sunset anywhere. "Alright guys, whatever you do, don't split-" I stopped when I realized that everyone had done the exact opposite of what I was trying to say. "-up, doesn't anybody learn from movies?" I then ran down a hallway to look for both my Autobots and Sunset, praying to Primus that nothing bad happens to them. 3rd POV Warpath slammed opened the gm doors, hoping that Sunset was in there but didn't see her anywhere, not even when he searched everywhere in the gym. "Scrap! she's not here, better keep looking elsewhere." Warpath said to himself as he was about to leave the gym, only for a dodge ball to hit the back of his head causing him to turn around with a growl. Both Snips and Snails had terrified looks on their faces as Warpath walked over to them, "Alright you two, start talking. Where the frag is Sunset?" he asked them, causing them to shake in fear. "W-w-we don't k-k-know. S-s-she ju-just told u-us to get y-your attention." Snips said as he and Snails held each other in fear. "Oh really? And why did want you two to get my attention?" Warpath asked them, "So that way you won't see what's coming next." he heard the voice of Sunset say before turning around, the last thing he saw was a glowing orb. "Come out come out wherever you are." Swoop said as he the halls of the school, kinda glad that school was still starting up otherwise he would have gotten in trouble with the principles, or worse, the police! A noise snapped Swoop out of his thoughts, making him turn and see a bit of red and yellow disappear around a corner, making him run in the direction he saw Sunset, only to bump into someone, making him fall to the ground. "Hey! Watch where you're-" Swoop stopped speaking when he saw who it was he bumped into. "Warpath? What are you doing here? I thought you went to check out the gym?" Swoop asked as he stood up, getting no response from the Autobot, which confused him. "Uh Warpath? You okay bud?" Warpath suddenly grabbed Swoop by the collar of his jacket and lifted him in the air before punching his face, causing Swoop to shout in pain and surprise. "Warpath! What the fuck?!" Swoop shouted as he blocked a punch from Warpath before pushing him back, "What's gotten into you?!" "You'll soon find out." Swoop heard Sunset say before said girl walked form behind Warpath, a smirk on her face. "Warpath, hold him." Warpath remained silent as he tackled Swoop and pinned him to the ground. "Warpath snap out of it!!" Swoop shouted as he struggled to break free of his friends grasp but to no avail. Sunset suddenly stepped in front of him, causing him to look up to see a glowing orb then nothing. James POV I ran around the halls of the school, trying to find my Autobots and Sari, as well as any signs of Sunset. But so far I haven't seen any of them, which was starting to both worry and annoy me, annoy cause I haven't found any signs of Sunset so I have no clue what she is planning. I held my head while shaking my head with an annoyed groan. "Scrap, this is why you don't split up. It always lead to either not finding anyone while they are getting picked off one by one, ending up lost, or better yet, the one you're chasing gets away." I complained as I resumed my search before a flash appeared in the corner of my eye, causing me to turn to see where the flash came from. I saw nothing but a dark hallway. "You know, this is by far the strangest thing, why does a school even have one of these?" I asked no one before I heard footsteps. I kept my guard up as I heard the footsteps get closer and closer before I see who was making them, "Sari? What are doing here?" I asked in confusion as Sari walked out of the shadows, but there was something off about her, for one her eyes had a bit of greenish glow to them. "Sari?" I asked again, only to dodge a fist from Warpath. "Warpath!? What the fuck are you doing?!" "He's doing what I tell him to do." I heard someone say before turning around and going wide eyed when I see Sunset with the rest of my Autobots behind her, "Him and the rest of your friends Prime." she said, a smirk on her face. "Wha? But how?" I asked in shock, there's no way Sunset could have gotten her hands on magic without anyone knowing. So how? I was brought out of my thoughts by Sunsets chuckling. "I would tell you, but that would ruin the surprise. Now," Sunset snapped her fingers, and I was immediately tackled by Swoop but I managed to throw him off of me only to side step another tackle from Warpath. "Everyone snap out of it! You can't let her control you!" I said to them, trying to get through to them but was unsuccessful as Windblade had grabbed my arm and pinned it behind my back, I winced in pain before silently apologizing to her and stepped on her foot, causing her to shout in pain and surprise before I got out of her grip and pushed her away from me. I looked around me to see that everyone had surrounded me, their glowing green eyes glaring daggers at me. "Scrap." was all I said before I was tackled and pinned to the ground, I struggled to get free but with all the weight on me, I knew it was pointless. Boots stepped in front of me before Sunset kneeled down, a smirk on her face while she held some sort of crystal in her hand. "You know, having a Prime would be useful for my plans. I can easily get all the power I want and no one will stop me." she said before she slammed my head down on the ground and placed the crystal on the back of my neck. I screamed in pain as I felt its magic enter my brain. I glared at Sunset before everything went dark. 3rd POV Twilight, Spike and Applejack were currently walking through the halls of Canterlot High, looking for James and his friends after realizing they had disappeared after Twilight decided to talk with Applejack about competing in the Fall Formal. "James! Where are you?" Twilight called out as she looked around. "Where y'all run off to?" Applejack called out as well, still glad that school doesn't start for another half hour. "Come on this ain't funny! Where are y'all?!" "Psst, Twilight." Spike whispered from Twilights backpack, causing her to glance at Applejack to make sure she wasn't listening. "What is it?" Twilight whispered while she continued to looked around for James and the others, "I think I might know where our friends are." Spike said, causing Twilight to nearly shout before he covered her mouth. "Don't shout, you know we're trying to keep a low profile." Twilight removed his paw from her mouth before looking back at Applejack, who was peeking into a room. "I know, just tell me where they went." "Well, while you and Applejack were talking, I decided to check up on the others, but when I got close, I heard them and Sunset Shimmer." Spike said, "What?! What would she want from them?!" Twilight asked in shock and confusion. Trying to think of why Sunset Shimmer would talk to the Autobots. "From what I could hear, she was threatening them, trying to expose them to the world but failed. Then she threatened to destroy something, but I didn't hear what." Spike replied, a nervous look on his face. "That seemed to get a reaction as they chased after her." Twilight had a worried look, whatever Sunset had threatened them with, it got them to chase after her. While she knew the Autobots can handle themselves, she can't help but feel like them chasing Sunset is exactly what she wanted. "Hey Twilight! I think I found them!" she heard Applejack call out, making her realize the farmer had walked away from her and Spike. She quickly ran over to where she heard Applejacks voice, turning a corner as she did. Only to bump into someone causing her to fall on her ass. "Ow!" Twilight said as she looked up to see who she bumped into, only to go a bit wide eyed when she saw that it was James. "James! I'm so glad we found you! Spike told me you and the others had chased after Sunset after she threatened to smash something. What happened with her? What did she threaten you with? And..." Twilight paused when she saw that his eyes were glowing a slight green. "Um, James? You okay?" James didn't respond and just glared at Twilight, making both her and Spike a bit nervous. Spike then saw movement out of the corner of his eye and looked and went wide eyed, "U-uh Twilight?" Spike said, tapping on the girls head, making look at him only for him to point. Twilight looked over in the direction Spike was pointing and went wide eyed when she saw both Warpath and Swoop holding Applejacks arms while Warpath covered her mouth. Applejack managed to get her mouth free to shout. "Twilight! Run!" Twilight heard the sound of shifting gears and looked only to yelp and duck under Sari's energy sword before running away, or at least, tried to if she didn't bump into someone. "Going somewhere princess?" Sunset asked Twilight snidely while smirking. "The fun's just getting started." Twilight glared at Sunset, "You. What did you do to the Autobots!?" Twilight shouted while Spike growled. "Isn't it obvious? I took control of them, making them obey my every command like how all machines are supposed to." Sunset said as she walked around Twilight. "Let them go now!" demanded Twilight, only for Sunset to laugh mockingly, "You're not in no position to give me orders princess, I have your alien guards under my control, I have you outnumbered, I hold all the cards. You? You have nothing but a pet dragon turned pet dog." Sunset said, causing Twilight to hold Spike back when he tried to jump from her backpack, a pissed look on his face. "I am not a pet!" Spike yelled, shocking Applejack. "Really? Could have fooled me." Sunset said, standing next to James and Sari. "Now here's what's gonna happen, you're gonna walk right on back through that portal, and never return, otherwise, I'll have my new guards here destroy you." Twilight looked at James and the other Autobots, knowing that if she refused, Sunset would have them kill her. Twilight sighed, "Fine, I'll leave." Twilight said and causing Sunset to smirk. "Good, then you better start running." Sunset said, making Twilight and Spike confused as she snapped just as the two realized what she means as the Autobots glared at Twilight before Arcee tried to punch her only for the pony turned human to yelp as she ducked undet the punch and started to run away, the Autobots, minus Warpath as he was holding Applejack prisoner, chasing after her. Sunset chuckled darkly as she watched Twilight run from her friends. "Now that that's taken care of, what to do with you?" Sunset asked as she turned to look at Applejack, only to see Warpath and Swoop on the ground, groaning in pain. Sunset angrily grits her teeth with a growl. "Where did she go?!" With Twilight and Spike "Faster Twilight! They're gaining on us!" Spike shouted as he ran next to Twilight after getting out of the backpack to make it easier for Twilight to run away from the mind controlled Autobots who were rapidly gaining on the two just like Spike said. "I'm going as fast as I can!!" Twilight shouted in reply as she kept running, hearing the multitude of footsteps behind her quickly gaining on her, making her ran even faster. She needed to get back to the portal and fast, not for her survival, but so she can get help and save James and the others. That's if she can make it. "Duck!" Spike shouted in warning, which Twilight did just as Sari's energy blade swung over her and Spike's heads. "That was too close!" "You're telling me!" Twilight shouted in agreement as she ran faster, turning around the corner and nearly smiled in relief when she the front doors to the school. That relief didn't last long when she felt someones hand grab hers and pulled her, panic welled up as Twilight fought against whoever grabbed her. "Knock it off Twi! I'm trying to save ya!" Twilight went wide eyed when she heard the voice of Applejack, who was pulling her towards the front doors. "A-Applejack! But I-I thought-" "Nevermind that right now! We got to get you outta here!" Applejack cut Twilight off, making the pony turned human nod as she ran with Applejack. "Keep running! Don't look back!" Twilight did the opposite and looked back, running even faster when she saw the bots gaining on them to the point where their hands barely grazed her hair. The two burst through the front doors and ran towards the statue, only to abruptly stop when they saw both Warpath and Swoop standing in front of the statue. "Oh no." Twilight said fearfully as she looked behind her, seeing James and the others walking towards her, Applejack and Spike. "Don't worry Twi! I won't let them get you!" Applejack said as she raised her fists, though Twilight and Spike could see the uncertainty in her eyes when she looked at Sari's blades. While the mind controlled Autobots surrounded Twilight, Spike and Applejack, Sunset Shimmer was watching from the school roof, a dark smirk on her face as she was about to watch the end of Twilight Sparkle. Only for a portal to appear behind James, making him look at it in confusion before he started to get pulled into it, and not just him, but the other Autobots as well. They had tried to resist the pull by either running or grabbing large objects but it was futile as they were pulled in, the last one remaining was James as he tried to grab Twilight only Applejack to punch him in the jaw, causing him to fly into the portal which closed when he went through. Silence filled the air as the two girls and dog just stared at the spot where the portal was. Then Applejack turned to Twilight who gave her a nervous look. "Y'all got some explaining to do." was all Applejack said. > Autobots Vs The Gamer > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I walk through my displaced hallway and a knife falls in front of me. I picked it up hearing Jake’s message and set it into my inventory. I then continue walking while pulling out the spell books that I got from this little adventure. New skill: Bubbled shields. This skill allows you to create bubble-like shields of various sizes. can take one hit before popping. Costs a minimum of 10 MP to cast. Do you wish to learn? Yes?          no? New skill: hexagonal magic shields. This skill allows you to make a hexagonal shield. Can block one hit. Costs 20 MP Do you wish to learn? Yes?      No? I tap yes on both and absorb the books as I make it back to my door and open it. I step through and see Blaze standing on something. “Sir I found a token.” When I looked at the Token, I can see it was big, maybe at least half my size and looked to be a golden Autobot symbol, when I reached for it, it suddenly began to shrink till it could easily fit in the palm of my hand, when I picked it up, I heard the Tokens message. "To all Displaced out in the multiverse, my name is Optimus Prime, if you need my aid, then simply crush this token, and I will aid you in your darkest hour!" “Huh, a transformer displaced, sounds interesting, well I suppose I have time. Thanks Blaze, can you do me a favor and go make some more liquid emotions? I'll need it when I go meet with Chrysalis in a few days.”  I tell him then head out of my smithy and hold the token up. “Here goes nothing.” I crushed the token. A portal suddenly appeared and coming through it was a white version of Optimus and a few others, like Warpath, Swoop from that Fall of Cybertron game, Windblade, Transformers Prime Arcee, and another Autobot I wasn’t familiar with. name: Optimus prime Level:??? Title: The Last of The Primes name: Swoop Level: 35 name: Windblade Level: 52 Title: Cityspeaker name: Arcee Level: 40  name: Warpath Level: 59 name: Sari Sumdac Level: ??? I look them over and they seem lost and I float up to their eye level and wave. “Hi there, sorry if I pulled you away from something.” I noticed that their eyes had a bit of a greenish glow to them, but I didn’t think much of it, until the prime tried to hit me. “Whoa! Hey no need to get violent with me!” The prime didn’t respond, he only kept trying to hit me, I saw that the other Autbots had weapons out and were taking aim at me. “Oh for fuckes sake.” I frown and use my new skill and make a bubble shield around myself, just as they opened fire on me, thankfully the bubble shield held up, I looked and saw that Sari had a hammer out, and it was heading straight for me, once it connected with the bubble shield, it sent me flying. I growl and change my eyes to have an advantage. I flew straight at her and when she tried to hit me with her hammer I moved out of the way and grabbed her hair before slamming her onto the ground. While she is close and on the ground I look her over and see a crystal in the back of her head. Before I could do anything I got shot in the side knocking me off her. -300 life points I looked over to see who shot me, only for Prime to grab me and slam me down on the ground, his other hand becoming a blue glowing ax.  -200 life points “Damn it, I guess I shouldn't hold back. D-link Rick!” a transparent image of Rick appears behind me then phases into me before my scales turn golden as a gold aura sparks around me freeing me from his grip. “Take this!” and I punched his face denting his mouth guard. -50 life points I shake my hand from the pain, Prime however looked like he barely noticed, he pulled out a gun and began to try and shoot me, but I kept flying out of the shots and flew straight at him, delivering an uppercut followed by a kick to the face causing the prime to step back from my hits. The other Autbots stood next to him, the prime glared at me then shouted, “Autobots, combine to form!” After he said that, Swoop and Warpath transformed into legs with Prime forming the body, Sari and Windblade formed the arms and hands, and Arcee had become a helmet for the combiner, “Optimus Maximus 2.0!” he shouted,  My left eye twitches and I glare. “Oh it's like that huh?” I make forty clones of myself and we all hold our hands up to him. “Magic arrow!” Then four hundred arrows rain down at him at a time. The combiner tried to block most of the arrows but nearly all of them hit him, the combiner let out shout as he charged at me and the clones,most of them managed to get out of the way but the combiner had managed to stomp on a few of them, his right arm, which was Sari, turned into a blaster and released a blast of fire. While my clones fight them I take this chance to get something new. I hide behind a rock and open my story and use the last of my money to buy a full copy of Gurren Lagann. It appears in a flurry of pixels getting their attention. I quickly get into the cockpit and try to turn it all but it wont work. “Come on! I know I'm not  Simon but I Need your help!” I grip the controls tighter but no power comes to the robot. The combiner stomps over to me, blaster aimed at the robot's head and fires, blasting it clean off. The combiner then picked up the headless robot and threw it and me straight into some trees.  I climb out of the head and frown before kicking the robot. “Fine, I'll win without you!”  I pulled out my lantern ring and slid it on. “This is my power, this is my light, be it bright of day or black of night, I lay claim to all that falls within my sight, to take what I want is my right, DELTORIX WANT!” the orange lantern uniform appears on me as the orange flames of greed cover me. I then fire a beam of energy at the transformer and cut into their back. “Hey bot head over here!” The combiner glared at me and charged, blaster aimed at me as it fired, I made an orange shield that brakes but stopped the attack. Then I make a huge fist and punch him across the face and grab the legs pulling as hard as I can while spinning him around. The combiner tried to get free but couldn’t, I then let go of him and set him flying, the combiner crashed through some trees before falling down a canyon, I heard a loud crash and looked, seeing the Autobots no longer combined with all but one of them knocked out, the Prime glared at me as he got up and shakily aimed his gun at me and fired. I make a bat and swing it at the bolt knocking it back at him but I miss. “I'm getting tired of this!” i drop down to his level and cup my hands. “KA...ME...HA….” The prime glared at me and charged, his hand transforming into his ax, once he got close I released my attack. “ME.. HA!” I fire my blast of ki right at him but he jumps to the right and I end up hitting his left arm and left leg, melting them down completely. Once he was off balance thanks to his missing limbs he fell over and hit the back of his head on a boulder and I hear the sound of crystal braking. He went wide eyed as he yelled in pain, then he tried to get up only to fall abc down, knocked out. I frown and land next to him and look him over seeing the crystal is broken. I pick it up but it turns to dust. “strange.” I heard footsteps behind me and looked to see that Warpath and Sari were back up, their eyes back to normal, “W-what happened?” Sari asked, looking around. “From the looks of it, you were all being mind controlled and I had the bad luck of summoning Optimus Prime here.” I pat his shoulder as it sparks. “Once I kicked his ass you all seem to snap out of it, so mind telling me who here is the human turned robot?” “If you are asking who is the Displaced, that would be him.” Warpath said, pointing at the prime. I nod and sigh. “Well damn, I can't leave him like this…can one of you carry him up to my smithy?” I ask as I point up the cliff. “I can. But what about the others?” Wapath asked, pointing at the still knocked out bots, “We can probably make more than one trip Warpath.” Sari said,  I make more clones as I turn off my eye powers and they work together to lift them. “I got them, they are banged up but not anything life threatening like him.” I told them before I floated up to the top of the cliff. “Thanks.” Sari said, flying up and landing next to me. “No problem, it was my fault he is like that. Say i know this is rude but who are you?” I asked her. “My name is Sari Sumdac.” Sari said,  Del scratches his chin. “I don't remember your tv show counterpart, then again I only saw beast wars and prime.”  “It’s fine.” Sari replied, “So are some sort of OC?” I chuckle and shake my head. “Nope, I died on earth and got a second chance at life, along with a power.” i tell her then after everyone is up on the cliff i lead them to my smithy. “And what is this power, may I ask?” Warpath asked me, “Because it’s not everyday we see someone beat Prime with those types of injuries.” “I have a power called ‘the gamer,’ it lets me pick up skills and other abilities extremely easily and make them even stronger and thanks to my ability of being a displaced I've met people from across the multiverse and gained their powers as well. The technique that did that to Optimus is called the Kamehameha wave; it's a focused beam of light force energy known as ki.” I explain to them as I use alchemy to create a slab of earth high enough for the autobots to work on prime. Sari and Warpath nodded their heads as they began to work on Prime, I jumped up and leaned in looking over the damage. “So how can I help?” “Well we need a new arm and leg for him, we also need to close up any open wounds before he loses energon.” Warpath said,  I rub my chin and jump on his right arm and use my eye ability to look through it and study it. “Hmmm, I think I can do this, do you have any spare pieces?” I ask the others. “Hmmm.” Wapath said, “Define spare pieces? Cause you could be asking for any type of piece really, do you need a small piece or a big piece?” “Mostly things that can't be forged.” I tell him as I hop down to the ground and walk ro my forge. “Also i'm going to be using my strongest metal, and add a few things.”  Warpath nodded his head and he and Sari handed me a few items, like wires, gears, stuff that’ll help with the arm and leg. “Ok i'll be back in a few seconds.”  I tell them and head into the smithy. I work for days and make an arm and leg out of beskar steel and once I finish I come out with them. “Tada!” they seem surprised as to them it was only a few minutes. “How did you?” Warpath began to ask, “It has only been a few minutes since you left!” “A friend of mine created a time dilation field inside my Smithy. I can work for days and only minutes will happen outside of it now then how about you hook up the leg while I hook up the arm?” I tell him as I lift the arm up onto the slab. Then I lean down and start working to connect it. “Let's see this goes here, that goes there, don't know where this goes so I'll just put it here and cut her cauterize with some ki and done!” New skill learned. New skill:Analyze This skill  allows you to get blueprints and recipes from any item it is used on. No energy is required for this skill. Sari and Warpath got to work on connecting the new leg to the prime, then stepped back once they were done. “There, good as new.” Warpath said, “It's better than new, go ahead and fire a shot at one of his new limbs.” I tell him while smirking. “Why would I do that?” Warpath asked me,  “Yeah we just fixed him!” Sari said, I chuckle and wave an arm. “I used a material called beskar steel, it's highly blaster resistant in the universe it comes from, meaning it should be able to bounce your blaster fire right off. but just to be sure, use the lowest setting you have.” Warpath nodded, then hesitantly shot Primes arm, seeing that it wasn’t even scratched. “Amazing, this type of metal could really be useful against cons.” Warpath said, I nod and then say “it would but unfortunately I'm the only one they can get the material and it's from a completely different universe. if you want I could have my clones start working on gathering some for you guys for you to take home when you leave but I'll ask for a favor in return, anything you're willing to give even if it's just a blueprint of something.”  “Alright, sounds fair.” Sari said, nodding her head. “Cool, then we have a deal.” All of my clones enter an I.D. and then I look at them. “So while we wait for them to gather the resources I need, what do you all want to do obviously we have to wait till this guy wakes up.” I knock on Optimus’ head. “I got it.” Sari then whispered something in Primes ear and he stood up, “I’m up!” he said, I chuckle and smirk. “I see who wears the pants in this relationship then.” “Who are you?” Prime asked me, getting off the slab, “and are we in another Equestria?” “In order, I am Deltorix the gamer, and yes this is my Equestria, i had to kick your ass.” I tell him as I fly up into his eyesight. “Wait what? When did you?” he asked me, I smirk and point down to his arm and leg that are silver now. “I had to blast your arm and leg off but don't worry I fixed you.” Prime looked at his new limbs with interest, “What did you make them out of?” he asked me,  “It is beskar steel, from star wars.” I told him, then pulled out my notebook. “Seeing as you're awake now, do you or any of your friends want any of these powers?” I see the prime go wide eyed, and I can see the faint traces of fear on his face. “U-um, did you say powers?” he asked me, I raise an eyebrow. “Yeah, I can give people some of my powers.” I told him. “I-I have a bad experience with using powers.” the Prime said, I nod and scratch my chin. “Well you can give my list a look over at least.” i say then realized with his size he couldn’t and looked to the minicon looking bot. “How about you read him the list.”  Sari nodded her head, and began to read the notebook, while also telling the prime what they do. After naming all the abilities Prime had a thoughtful look on his face then he sighed,  “this deal goes for all of you.” I added looking at all the bots. They all nodded their heads, “Alright. Most of those abilities sound awesome.” Wapath said, I pat my chin then think out loud. “Would a robot even be able to get chakra, Ki, wrath, Epster energy or spirit energy?” “Well we know Prime here was able to use magic.” Swoop said, “And I know Sari knows some magic as well.” “Yes well, normally chakra, Ki, wrath, Esper and Spirit energy are something that organics have.” I tell him as I think it over but shrug. “Eh even if it doesn't work the word that will happen is you don't get the skill.” “What about Grimlock from Fall of Cybertron? He literally was glowing orange when he was enraged, so wouldn’t that make him able to use wrath?” Optimus asked me, “Hmm, I don't know about that series but if you say that's what happens then it is highly possible, as I said the worst that can happen is you guys won't get the scale so ask for whatever you want.” I said shrugging.  They nodded their heads, Swoop was the first one to speak, “The only ability I want is this sense danger one, sounds like it could be useful.” he said, “Sounds simple enough.” I float over his head and hold out my hand. “Teach Swoop sense danger.” My hand glows then so does he. While he is blinking and looking himself over, I gesture to one of the bots behind him to throw something at him. Arcee smirks as she picks a large rock and throws it at the back of Swoops head, only for him to duck under it, causing it to fly over his head and to a tree. Breaking it in half, “Nice.” Swoop said, I chuckle and smirk. “Something tells me you will be getting a lot of workouts using that skill, just remember, just because you can feel danger close by does not mean that you will automatically be fast enough to dodge it. you have to hone your reflexes to dodge the moment you feel that you are in danger.” I explain and then turn to Optimus. “Oh before I forget I added a new weapon to your arm, go ahead and check out your new blade.” I tell him and smirk. “Just so you know, it cost me a pretty penny, or should I say a bit.” Prime looked at his new arm and with some effort, his hand transformed into a blue lightsaber, “Thanks.” he said, transforming his hand back. I smirk and point at his arm. “It's both attached to your arm and detachable like a normal lightsaber. Now then who is next for getting powers?” I look around at them. Warpath was the next one to speak, “Me, and I think I’ll have Marksman and Stone Skin. Need some extra defense when out fighting Cons.” he said, I nod and float over to him. “Alright, just so you know the stranger you get with this skill, the more lava-like the skin will be like.” I hold my hand over his head. “Teach Warpath marksman and stone skin.” My hand glows then so does Warpath as the information is out into him and he glows orange for a second.  “Congratulations you possess the power of wrath now. just so you know for me it only recharges when I hit an opponent, I don't know how it works with someone without game-based powers so good luck.” I told him then smile. “Next?” “Guess I’ll just have Flame Hollow or whatever it’s called.” Arcee said,  “And I will have God’s Arms.” Windblade said after Arcee. “Alright then.” I fly over Arcee first. “Teach Arcee flame hollow.” my hand glows and then so does she and like Warpath she sparks with orange energy. Then I fly over Windblsde’s head and say. “Teach Windblade God’s Arms.” she glows after my hand then I land between them.  “So how do you all feel?” I ask with a smirk. “A bit different but still the same.” Windbalde said, shrugging her shoulders. I smile and then clap my hands. “Good, so do you want to skip out Optimus? And what about you Sari?” “I already have enough abilities, so thanks but no thanks.” Sari said, while Prime shook his head no. I shrug then say. “Well, seeing as I gave you all a few of my powers and fixed your leaders arm and leg.” I float up and sit on a tree branch. “And we are still waiting on my clones to get the funds for that metal, what do I get from all of you and what will we do as we wait?”  The group of Autbots looked at each other until Optimus spoke, “What do you want?” he asked me, I tap my chin thinking. “Well, anything I can use as a non-lethal weapon would be great but I'd also like any blueprints for vehicles, I have big plans for this world.” I say with a smile. “Well I have a few blueprints on me but not sure if they’ll be much use to you.” Prime said, handing me the blueprints he had, looking them over, I saw that one was for a smaller version of the Ark, like it could hold at least ten copies of me with a lot of weapons on it, another was a copy of the Star Sabre, the last one he had was a blueprint for a new Dinobot. A Stygimoloch if I’m guessing correctly, “Trust me, with these I could do a lot, thanks.” I put them into my inventory. “Anything else we can do while we wait?” “I don’t know, what do you want to do?” Optimus asked me, “Well, how about you guys take a look at my robot? I just got it but it wont work for me.” I say pointing at the mech that is still laying on the ground in two pieces. Optimus walked over to the head of it and picked it, “I would make a joke but it would be too corny.” he said,  “Go ahead.” I chuckle as I float over to him. “I found a bit of comedy helps the mood when things get too serious.” “Nah, the opportunity’s gone.” Prime said, then picked up the rest of the robot and carried it over to the stone slab and placed it on it. “So, you said it wouldn’t work for you?” “Nope, it is supposed to run on spiral energy, basically anything with a double helix DNA strand should be able to power it.” I explain and stand on the slab. “Maybe because of your gamer ability?” Sari suggested,  I blink and groan. “If that's the case then I just wasted a ton of money.” I scratch the back of my head. “Well even if I can’t use it, I can give it to someone who can.” “Maybe I can use it?” Sari asked, I tilt my head as I look at her. “No offence but you are almost the same size as it is.”  Just as I said that, Sari suddenly shrinks until she was the size of a regular human. “You were saying?” she asked smugly. I blink the sigh. “Ok consider my last statement invalad. There are two cockpits, one in the head, the other in the body. To test them out just get inside and squeeze the control sticks if the panel lights up do you have a spiral power if not then you don't.” Sari nodded as she got in the head of the robot, and after a few seconds, it lit up if only slightly, I blink and grin. “It works! Ok squeeze it as hard as you can while using that feeling of a fighting spirit, imagine you are in the middle of a fight for your life.” I told her. “But it’s just a head, not much I can do with a head.” Sari replied,  I chuckle and lean into the cockpit. “The head is its own mini mech, just will it to stand up.” Sari nods as she squeezes the control sticks more and moves them back and the main screen lights up as a spiral pattern starts to grow. The pattern gets to five lights before arms and legs pop out of the mech’s sides and he slowly stands up but then it just falls to its butt and shuts down. “Damn, looks like you don't have enough spiral power to run it.” “Yeah but at least I managed to make it at least stand up, so that counts for something.” Sari said, getting out of the robot and going back to her original size. I nod and open my inventory and then stretch the screen wide enough to slide in both pieces of the robot and when I check I see that it was moved into a new screen vehicle screen. “Huh, that's new.”  “What is?” Optimus asked me, “I have a screen for any vehicles that I put in my inventory apparently.” I tell him then there is some rustling from the bushes nearby. The bots immediately pulled out their weapons and aimed at the bush, causing me to look at them in surprise at how jumpy they were. I make hexagonal shields in front of each of them and step to the edge of the slab. “No need to be trigger happy here.” I tell them. Then out of the bush comes a single changeling. She looks familiar till I remember it is the one I help save. She looks around and squeaks in fear till she sees me and flies up to me. “Oh thank the hive I found you!” “Oh it's you, what brings you here?” I ask her while using earth bending to put the slab back into the ground. “I need your help! Please my whole hive has been taken by Diamond dogs.” she yells as she grabs my legs and starts to beg. “Diamond Dogs? Great, those things.” Optimus said, as he and the others put their weapons away.  I frowned and looked at her. “Tell me everything.” she nods and proceeds to tell me that when she got back to her hive it was completely empty with signs of a struggle. while she was panicking elite guards show up and they inform her that diamond dogs have rated the hive and they took everyone including the queen. they are planning a rescue mission but she decided to come here and get my help. “Hmmm that is troubling.” I look at the bots. “You guys may want to go home, you'd be too big for this mission anyway.”  “Does that mean you'll help!?” she asks looking like she is gonna cry and I nod. “Forget it, if innocent lives are in danger, then we’ll be ready to help.” Optimus said, “Even if you send us back, I’ll literally fight it and stay here if it means I get to save lives.” I look up at him. “And how would you help? The only one that could fit underground is Sari.”  “I can’t believe I’m saying this but, I’ll take that Size COntrol ability.” Optimus said,  I look at the rest of them. “And do you all want to have that power?” “Hey, saving lives is what we do, and I’d rather be scrapped than let someone get hurt knowing I could have done something about it.” Warpath said, the others nodded their heads. I ndo and fly above them all and hold out my hands. “Teach size control to all the Autobots!”  my hands glow them; they all glow as a bit of magic is put into each of them. “done.” Optimus nodded his head, “Now let’s go save those Changelings.” he said, I nod and summon my golden tiger claws. “Everyone gets near me and shrink down, And you I need you to take us to your hive.” I tell the bots then the changeling. They nodded their heads as they shrunk down to the size of humans. The changeling takes the claws and opens a portal. She gives them back to me and I wave forward and then step through. On the other side it is a rainforest like area and a mountain that looks to be alive. Soon the Atobots and changeling come through the portal. “Ok, lead us to your friends and we can work together to get your hive back.” i tell the changeling and she nods and starts walking to the living mountain. “Interesting, what kind of mountain is this? Or is it really a mountain?” Optimus asked, “It looks like Chrysalis' hive.” i say but that made the changeling in front of us trip and look back at me wide eyed. “You know of her?! But you still want to help me and my people, why?” she asked shocked. “Just because there's one bad leader in your species doesn't mean your whole species is like her.” was my answer.  “Yeah, one shouldn’t judge an entire species just because of one being, that would be wrong.” Sari said, “Besides, even if Chrysalis was bad, the Changelings are still one of my favorite species.” Optimus said, That got a strange look from her but she looked forward and continued to the mountain that is a hive. Just as we get to the entrance five changelings drop down from the sky in battle stances. I quickly us my bubble shields ro stop the bots from grabbing their weapons. “Who are you? Why are you here? Wait…47?! Why did you bring outsiders to the hive!?”  one taller changeling asked stepping forward and glaring at her. “She got us because your hive is in trouble, but now you have backup.” I tell him stepping forward. “So you can either let us help or get out of our way as we do your job.” I heard Optimus speak, “Maybe not threaten them.” he said to me, I hold up a hand as I stare at the changeling in the eyes. He stares back then sighs. “Fine, you can help us. what can you do?”  he asks me.  “I can do many things just know I can find your Queen once we are in the Diamond dog tunnels.” I told him then I look at the rest of them. “Now, do you know which way they are?” “Yes, we found their trail and their den isn't far from here.” he told me.  “Well what are we waiting for? Let’s get going so we can pound some dogs!” Warpath said, punching his open palm. I nod and smirk as I follow the changelings but I look back at the bots. “Just a heads up, if red flames start coming off me, run ok?” “Why? These flames can’t be that bad can they?” Swoop asked, “Swoop, if the man said run, run.” Optimus said, I stand walking backwards as I explain. “When a dragon loses himself to an emotion his body is covered in flames, normally the dragon would just get bigger and stronger, but for me, each color flame has a different effect on me. The red one doubles my strength but divides my intelligence by half.” “So basically you become Grimlock.” Sari jokes,  I shrug and say. “The only version of him I know of is the michael Bay version.” I then turn around to face where we are going. “Joke wasted.” Sari said,  I roll my eyes but smile. “Well, I can feel we are getting close so here are the rolls, the changelings and I will be going after the queen and alpha, the rest of you will be rescuing every other species that could be held by them.” “Right, and what will happen after we get them out?” Optimus asked, “Knowing the Diamond Dogs they’ll most likely chase after us.” I frown and my ki starts to spike around me making small pebbles float around me. “I don't think they will have the courage to chase me after I'm done with them.” I can see the Autobots nod their heads as they pulled out their weapons. “We are ready when you are.” Optimus said, I nod and we come up to a cave entrance. I hold up my hand and fire two death beams killing the two diamond dogs. “Lets go.”  I walk right past the dead dogs.  I can see the Autbots walked by the dead Diamond Dogs without a second glance, which meant they were used to death. We walk down the tunnel and when we get to a intercesion I stomp my foot and close my eyes. “Ok, a large group of beings are down the left tunnel, they are weak so take my clones with you.”  I made five clones. “Right.” Optimus said, nodding his head as he and the others headed down the left tunnel. Optimus’ POV One of Del’s clones looks to me as we walk down the tunnel. “Just so you know us clones only have one life point, a single hit and we go poof.” “Well that’s just great.” Swoop said, “Our backup goes down in just one hit.” “Knock it off Swoop, help is still help.” I said to him. The clones frown and cross their arms while one lifts their arm and a rock pillar shoots up between Swoop’s legs. “We can still kick ass, scrap head.”  Swoop fell to the ground in pain, “Ow!” he said, I shook my head as I chuckled.  “See? Even with one life point they can still kick your ass Swoop.” I said to him,  The clones smirk and continue walking before they stop. “We have company coming, three dogs coming from ahead and two coming from below.” one clone said as they all got in to battle stances. I nodded my head, “Arcee, Sari.” I said to them, they nodded their heads, both of them heading up to meet the three Diamond Dogs while  the rest of us prepared for the two underground, soon the two returned nodding their heads. “Three down, two to go, where are the two that are underground now?” I asked one of the clones. One of the clones stomped their right foot and twisted his arm. Then there is a sickening crunch as part of the ground crushes one of the dogs and the other pops up and holds up a mace but sees all of us and whimpers. I smirked behind my mask as I grabbed the Diamond Dog, “You are going to take us to any saves you have, and not sound the alarm as you do, got it?” I asked him,  He looks around and shakes his head. “Alpha kill traitors, me not traitor!” “Oh really?” I said, transforming my had into my Fusion Ax and held it close to the Diamond Dogs head, “You think you Diamond Dogs are the toughest right? Well I have been in a war that has killed my home, I have fought creatures that can easily snap you like toothpicks. And I can easily kill you.” I moved the Fusion Ax closer to the Diamond Dog, “So what’s it going to be?” The dog whimpers and nods his head. “I take I take! No hurt!” one of the clones uses magic to tie the dog in magic rope. “Good, now get moving.” I said, once the Diamond Dog was tied, shoving him to start moving. “Wow, compared to the OG Opimus you are super violent, not that i'm complaining.” one of the clones says as he walks by my side. “In my Equestria, I was in a terrible war against Quintessa and the Decepticons, she took control of me and nearly killed those I cared about with my powers, that’s why I was so hesitant to accept more abilities. Cause I had feared what harm I would do if I fall under someone else’s control again.” I said, “I see, well that is messed up. Hope the nitch burned for that.” he said and crossed his arms watching the dog. “Oh trust me, she is suffering for what she has done.” I said, “And I can thank a fellow Displaced for that.” “Oh? Huh well that sucks for you man.” he said surprising and confusing me. “And why is that?” I ask the clone.  “Well, most Equestia’s run on tv logic, meaning we can invoke Murphy's Law not only that but you would technically be considered the main character as you're the new character introduced to that world, and you had someone else face your big bad. true you helped take them down but you weren't the one that finished them off, meaning that now the universe is going to throw an even stronger opponent at you eventually.” He told me calmly. I stopped walking after he said, “Fuck.” I said, then continued walking, “So I’ll have to deal with someone who is way worse than Quintessa? Well that’s just fantastic.” Another clone nods and answers. “Most likely, I've read a lot of different displaced stories before I got displaced and I can tell you this, almost every single one of them follows TV logic, meaning that we are under TV logic as well, which is why I don't explain my plans all the way through and I am trying to prepare for every eventuality if I'm prepared for every eventuality then I'll be able to take on my big bad by myself.” “You are the most paranoid Displaced I have ever met.” I said, shaking my head, then stopped when I heard noises. The ceiling opens up as five dogs jump out but all the clones fire flames up burning them alive. “Maybe, but it pays off to be paranoid sometimes.” the closest one said. “Now then two of us are gonna go off.” two clones earth bend a hole and jump down the hole. I looked down the hole and shook my head, then looked at the tied up Diamond Dog, “Are we close?” I asked him, “Yes yes slaves down tunnel!” he said scared and pointed with his head. The remaining clones head in that direction and one of them nods. “He is telling the truth we can feel them.” “Good, now say goodnight Diamond Dog.” I said to him before punching the back of his head, knocking him out. “Now to free those slaves.” We travel down the tunnel and we make it to a slave pen and see pups whipping slaves, even one trying to bite an earth ponies leg off. “Optimus...get the slaves out now.” one of the clones says as all of them are covered in red flames and start growing and becoming more muscular.  I nodded and me and the other Autbots immediately charged in and started to free the slaves while also blasting any Diamond Dog that was stupid enough to try and attack us.  The clones use their magic and bending skills to kill every dog in sight and once the area is clear one turns to me. “Metal men go to surface, keep hurt people safe, move far before boom.” I nodded my head and looked at the tunnel then had an idea, transforming into my vehicle form, my trailer appearing and connecting with me, I then increased my size a bit, I was  big enough for the slaves to get in my trailer, but still small enough to get through the tunnel. “Get them in my trailer.” I told the Autbots,  They all helped the weak prisoners into my trailer, once they were all loaded up and my trailer was closed I started driving down the tunnel. Along my way I feel the ground shake and see dogs running around like they are headless chickens. Deltorix’s POV a few minutes ago I walk down the tunnel and kill each dog that comes after me. Even the children are attacking me with knives. Soon I make it to the main chamber and see tons of diamond dogs. “Hey, who is in charge here!?” “Who asking?” one of them asked, pointing a spear at me. Without looking and using the force and snap their neck. “A pissed off dragon looking for a changeling Queen, so here's what's going to happen, You are going to set all your slaves free or i'm going to kill every last one of you.” They all growled as they charged at me, “big mistake.” I stomp my foot and earth spikes shoot up in front of me. Then I use the force to pull one of their spears to me and charge it with charcramand throw it hard enough to go through ten of them. The Diamond Dogs looked at their dead comrades in shock at how fast I killed them, one of my clones poofed and I got their memories and I growl flames sparking off me. “Now then where is the changeling Queen?”  One of them nervously pointed down a tunnel. “She with alpha.” I smirk and make a fire in my hand. “Good dogs, now play dead!” I blast them with fire. The Diamond Dogs couldn’t dodge in time and were immediately set on fire, they kept yelping and howling in pain as they ran away. I turn and walk down the tunnel and come up to a door and growl as I smell a nasty smell. I use the force to grab the door and crush it. Inside is the Alpha and a changeling queen. “So you're the one in charge here?” “Who asking?!” the alpha said, a large sword in his hand. I frown as I pop my knuckles. “The dragon that is going to kill you.” Then I launch myself at him and slam him against the wall and growl in his face as red flames cover me. “Slavory is bad!” He kicked me off of him and charged with a howl, swinging his blade at me. -200 life points I let him stab me then grab onto him and head butt him hard enough I hear his head crack. -300 life points “Like i said, i'm going to KILL you!” I stab my sharp claws into his throat and growl in his face. “Bad dogs die.” He went wide eyed as he tried to pry my claws out of his throat, I blew a small bit of flames onto his face before pulling my claw out and let him bleed out as I walked to the changeling queen. Name: Vespiqueen Level: 65 “Are you ok?” I ask her as I take a few breaths and calm down. She nodded her head, “Yes, thank you.” she said, “W-who are you?” “My name is Deltorix, one of your people came to me for help.” I tell her as I look her over and frown. “You are bleeding internally, and fast...I have a way to save your life but it will be extremely painful and you would be bonded to me forever.” I told her as I pulled out the vile holding the lust philosopher stone. “I-I don’t care, if it means I can keep protecting my people, then I’ll do anything.” she said I sigh and nod then pop the cork out and help her drink it. A few seconds after she swallows it red lightning sparks around her as she is deconstructed and reconstructed simultaneously. this process happened for five whole minutes while she was screaming in agony until finally it stopped as the mark of a homunculus appeared on her chest.  “Im sorry but are you feeling better?” I ask her as I help her stand up. “I-I am, but that really hurt!” she said, I sigh and nod. “I did warn you.” I tell her but then I feel a dog coming up behind me. “Look out!” she yells and points a hoof over my shoulder then suddenly her hoof shoots a long sharp spike out from it killing the dog before retracting. She looks at her hooff. “How did i do that?” “That is your new ability called the Ultimate Spear.” I said to her,  “I see...we must save my changelings.” She said with a determined look on her face. “Already taken care of everyone is out.” I told her as I used the golden tiger claws to open a portal to the surface. “Queens first.” “I really hope this isn’t a trap.” she said, then entered the portal. I roll my eyes but go through the portal and on the other side is the surface and I see the bots and every creature that we rescued, ponies, changelings, a dragon, and even a yak. “See safe and sound now then.” I turn to the cave and take a deep breath before I stomp my foot and lift my hands. The queen asked who I assume is one of the bots. “What is he doing?” “My guess, he’s going to crush every Diamond Dog in there.” I heard Optimus reply back. I smirk and the whole mountain starts to shake before i throw my arms down and almost instantly the whole mountain collapses into a mile deep hole the sound of rock being crushed and the cries of the dogs suddenly going silent indicates that I have done my job the diamond  dogs are no more. Deltorix clone #40’s POV a minute earlier “Come on we don't have much time!” I tell my fellow clones as we found the treasure room in our currently putting every piece of gold and jewels we can find into the inventory. I feel the ground start to shake and we quickly use as many powers as we can to get as much into the inventory as possible. We manage to get the last of it in just before the mountain comes down on top of us. Deltorix’s POV “There it is done, we can go now.” i say then turn to the changeling queen and pull out some wedding invitations and hold them out to her. “you weren't the one I was originally going to invite but you obviously need this more than she does so I'm inviting you to the wedding of princess cadence and shining armor there you can make a peace treaty with the ponies and get as much love as you need.” “Thank you.” she said, smiling at me,  I smile then say. “It's the least I can do as now that technically I am your master as once you took the philosopher's stone into you I have complete control over, you still have your free will but any order I gave you cannot refuse.” I then rub the back of my head. “I originally planned on giving that to queen chrysalis to keep her from being evil, well eviller, but you needed it more.” “Wait, so you have full control over me?” she asked me, going wide eyed,  I wiggle my hand in a so-so gesture. “Kina, from what I understand you have your free will but if I give an order you have to follow it. For example, I order you to hug Optimus.” I say pointing at him. She starts walking over to him and hugs him.  “Really?” Optimus asked me,  I shrug while saying. “I wanted to demonstrate it without causing too much embarrassment for her.” “Can I stop hugging him now?” Vespiqueen asks me, “Oh yes sorry you are free to do as you wish. One more thing before we go, your code name is lust, that is what the stone was. I'm sorry but like I said I originally planned to give that to chrysalis to keep her in line but obviously you're not like her so I won't need to order you around I hope to see you at the wedding.” I tell her as I walk over to the bots. “So, now what?” Sari asked me,  I open a portal back to the castle and say. “Next we head back to my shithy then I buy you a ton of that metal I promised you.” I see Optimus nodded his head as he shrunk down again. “Then let’s go.” he said, We all travel through the portal and I wave at the queen before I leave. We get back to the castle and I open my store as I speak. “Is there anything else you guys want? It is almost hearts warming here.” “Not that I can think of, what do you have?” Sari asked me,  “My store from what I can tell is a multiverse store, meaning i can buy anything and everything, even if it doesn't exist in your world or my world so long as it exist somewhere in the multiverse I can get it hell if I wanted to I could probably buy another version of the all spark.” I tell her as I find the beskar steel and buy a large amount making multiple stacks of it to appear in a flurry of pixels. “We’ll just take the Beskar Steel.” Optimus said, walking over to the stacks, “Question, does anyone here know how to make items out of these?” I shake my head with a smirk and add a Mandalorian forge. It too appears in a flurry of pixels. “There you go, that should help.” “Thanks.” Optimus said,  I smile as I have enough left over for the presents for the mane six. “Well if that is everything, maybe i should send you all back, oh!” I take out my token and throw it up to Optimus. “If you ever need an overpowered helper give me a call.” He nodded his head, “I will, thanks.” he said, then looked at the forge, “Is there any way for us to shrink this down, we are kinda in the Equestria Girls universe right now.” I tap my chin thinking before I snap my fingers and boy Jimmy Neutron's Infinity storage cube. “Here, with this you can put anything in it, just don't put it in a second storage device that has infinite space in it, otherwise you're gonna create a black hole, basically a portable hole plus a bag of holding scenario.” “Alright.” Optimus said, “Thank you.” “Not a problem, well I hope to see you all again one day, just don't try to kill me next time.” I laughed a bit. “Hey, not our fault. We were being mind controlled by Sunset Shimmer.” Swoop said, “Oh? Well don't hold it against her, she is blinded by her ambitions. she's just taking the wrong path at the moment, help twilight and Sunset will become a seventh element of harmony but only in the Equestria girls universe.” I tell them then get an idea and look to Optimus. “Have you seen all the episodes? If not I could get you the dvds for my little pony.” “That would be helpful thank you.” Sari said, I raise an eyebrow. “Do you guys even have a tv and dvd player? Or do I need to get you all that too?” I asked as I went through the store and found the dvds of all the seasons, the movie and all the Equestria girls movies. “We’ll most likely need that as well.” Warpath said, “We literally slept in a library.” “Oh? Damn well i better hurry if i dont send you back in time you'll be stuck in the Equestria girls universe until the sirens show up.” I add a dvd player and tv for them and buy it all making them all appear in a flurry of pixels.  “Thanks, and please do, Twilight is probably freaking out on where we are.” Optimus said, putting the stuff into the Infinity Storage Cube. I nod and say. “Last piece of advice, tell Twilight that Sunset is the one that is keeping the school divided. Now then our contract is complete.” A portal appeared behind the group of Autbots, then lightning came out of it and struck them and in a flash, I saw they had become humans. “Minor side effect of going into the Equestria Girls universe.” Sari said, I shug and say. “Kinda saw that coming I mean if you were robots you couldn’t fit through the mirror portal, Good luck to all of you.” “Thanks, and the same to you as well.” Optimus said as he and the other Autbots entered the portal. I watch as the portal closes and then I cross my arms. “Well, hearts warming is tomorrow so I better get everything ready.”  I then head into my smithy and start buying presents and wrapping them. > The Return of The Autobots > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3rd POV Twilight and the others were waiting outside of Canterlot High after James and the other Autobots almost attacked them before a portal pulled them in and bringing them....somewhere. Of course Twilight knew as she knew that James was a Displaced and Displaced often are summoned suddenly without warning whatsoever. But still, wherever James and the others ended up, she hoped that they, the Displaced that's summoning them or both are alright. Twilight felt a hand on her shoulder, making her turn to see Rarity giving her a comforting smile. "I'm sure they're alright darling, it's like you said, James fought beings far stronger than him and survived." Rarity said,  "She's right Twilight, remember when James told us he fought Discord and won? So whoever is summoning him will no doubt help him and the other Autobots out. I'm sure of it." Spike said, causing Twilight to smile. "Thanks guys, but I can't help but worry, I'm mean, I still feel guilty for nearly turning him to stone or banishing him to the moon, and now he ended up  under Sunsets control because he and the others wanted to come with me to help me, and can't help but feel like it's my fault." Twilight replied, frowning as she looked down at the ground. “What should we do now?” Rarity asked Twilight. “Well for now we wait I guess. Or we could find out where Sunset is, cause right now, if she managed to control the Autobots, she’s very dangerous.” Twilight replied,  “I think we should look for her, so that way James and the others won’t get surprised like earlier. We got lucky when a Displaced summoned them, but we never know when another might summon James again if he is controlled.” Spike said, making a good point. “I agree with ya Spike, let’s go find that snake in the grass Sunset.” Applejack said while tilting her hat. Shouts of agreement was heard, “Alright, we won’t split up as that is how Sunset managed to beat the Autobots,cso stick together no matter what.” Twilight said, receiving voices of agreements in reply before they went off to look for Sunset, unaware of said person watching them from the roof of the school. Glaring at them. Sunsets POV “They must be fools to think they can stop my plans.” I said as I watch the Princess and her friends head into the school. “They may be fools, but they’ll still give you trouble if you’re not careful Shimmer.” a voice said behind me, causing me to look and see a figure hidden in the shadows, their red eyes the only thing that could be seen, “So, I heard that the crystals were a success. Yet I don’t see James or his band of Autobots, where are they?” “I don’t know, they just disappeared through some portal just before they could capture Twilight.” I said as she crossed her arms. “A shame, but I got a feeling that they'll be back, but probably won’t be under your control anymore.” the figure told me,  Sunset scoffs and glares at the figure. “So your crystals didn’t work after all, figures. I will be doing things my way now, so buzz off.”  “You misunderstand, the crystals did work, but they are easily destroyed, mind control magic is very difficult, especially when making into a much more physical object.” the figure replied, “Besides, we both know that once James and the Autobots return, you’ll be beaten within seconds.” I glare at the figure. “Then why don’t you stop him! I will get the crown while you deal with that annoying bodyguard of hers.”  The figure growled at me, causing me to step back as their eyes seemed to glow, “Do not test me Shimmer, I would gladly deal with that sad excuse of a prime personally, but I am weak after making those crystals for you! So, you will be wise to watch your tone around me. Understand?” I look away from them. “Whatever, just tell me when he comes back, I can come up with something.” I then start heading back to the door to go inside.  I heard the figure growl before I heard them walk away, causing me to sigh in relief, he may have given me plenty of advantages over the Element of Magic and against the Priem, but he scares the hell out of me! 3rd POV “She’s got to be around here somewhere!” Twilight said as she and the other looked inside classrooms for any signs of Sunset, they even interrogated SNips and Snails into revealing her location, but even they didn’t know. “Um maybe she is in the lunch room?” Fluttershy shy said but it was too quiet for any of them to hear. “Hey let’s check the lunch room!” Rainbow said. “Yeah! She might be in there! I mean, it’s the one place we haven’t checked yet.” Twilight said as everyone ran to the lunchroom, once they arrive they looked around but still found no trace of her. “Seriously?! She’s not even in here either?!” Spike shouted from Twilights backpack, he was there in case Principal and Vice Principal Celestia and Luna showed up. “We checked everywhere! Did she leave or something?!” Twilight said, then gasped, “What if she knew we were gonna look for her and left?! What if she’s already too far away for us to look for her?! What-” Applejack immediately covered Twilights mouth to stop her from freaking out. “Calm down there sugarcube. We will find her in time. For now why don’t ya take a breath and think it out.” Applejack said. Twilight nodded and Applejack removed her hand from her mouth, letting Twilight take three deep breaths, calming down. “Okay, I’m calm. I’m calm.” she said, then held her chin in thought, “Now, we know Sunset is nowhere on the school ground, so what should we do now?” Pinkie then pops up next to Twilight. “Ooooh I know! Let’s go to my house and have a sleepover. Then we can make a plan to catch that evil Sunset and that shadowy guy!” She said with cheer. Everyone looked at her in confusion, “What shadowy guy?” Spike asked her, Pinkie looks at her friends with an innocent smile and shrugs her shoulders. “I don’t know, just had a feeling I should say that.”  They kept looking at her in confusion before shaking their heads, thinking, ‘She’s Pinkie, don’t question it.’  “A sleepover does sound like a good idea, just until James and the others get back.” Twilight said,  “But I think I should stay near the area where the portal opened up, you know, just in case they come back?” Spike suggested. “I am sure that guy will call you when he gets back.” Rainbow said with a dismissive wave of her hand. “I don’t know, he might not have a way to contact us, I still think I should be here just in case. Plus, I’m small enough to hide if Sunset or her minions come around.” Spike said,. “Oh my, are you sure? it gets scary at night.” fluttershy said. “I’m pretty sure hanging out with a giant, fire breathing, easily angered, transforming T-rex is much scarier than the dark.” Spike replied. “Don’t worry, I’ll be fine.” “Well if you’re sure.” Fluttershy said. “Don’t worry shy, if the little fella says he can handle it I am sure he can. Oh but you may need this.” Applejack said before giving Spike her cellphone. “Thanks, but uh, how do I use this thing?” Spike asked, looking at the phone in curiosity. “Ya just open it and go to contacts and find any of us and call us, this James fella should know how to work it.” Applejack explained. “Alright. I’ll have him give you a call or I’ll call you if something happens.” Spike said, Each of the girls tell him to be safe before they leave heading to Pinkie pie’s home.  “So, what should we do once we get there?” Twilight asked,  “What? Haven’t you ever had a sleep over before?” Rainbow said while putting her arm over Twilights shoulder. “Of course I’ve had, but I was just wondering what we should that’s all.” Twilight replied,  “Maybe we can watch a horror movie and scare the shit out of each other.” Rainbow said, saying boo to Fluttershy, making her a little annoyed than scared. “It’ll be fun!” “As fun as that sounds darling, we still need to find out how to stop Sunset.” Rarity said. “Aw come on. I get that Sunset is like a huge threat, but let's at least try and chill for the night! We can worry more about her tomorrow!” Rainbow Dash argued, “As much as I would like to just not worry about Sunset, she is too big of a threat Rainbow.” Twilight said, “Sorry.” RRainbow wasn’t having none of it as she ran and stopped in front of the group. “Look, if we worry too much about her tonight, we might end up getting too tired to deal with her when she actually does do something!” Rainbow Dash said, making the group stop and think about her words. “She does have a point you know.” Pinkie sing songs as she hops past them.  “Well, zI guess we can take a break from worrying and stuff.” Twilight said, causing Rainbow to smile, “But, if Sunset does something tonight we’ll immediately go and stop her.” “Eh, that’s fair.” Rainbow Dash replied.   The girls make their way down the road to Pinkies home. They laugh as they talk and come up with ideas of what to do tonight and when they get to Pinkie's room, Rarity pulls Twilight over to the walk-in closet and helps her change into pajamas.  After that, the group kept deciding on what to do, soon agreeing on a game of Uno and played it as well as other games, having fun despite them not knowing what was currently happening on the other side of town. Other Side of Town, Abandoned Warehouse District The same hidden figure that talked to Sunset earlier was currently waiting in the shadows of a warehouse, waiting for his allies to arrive, he heard the door slid open and in walked two more figures, both he easily recognized. “About time you arrived. I was getting tired of waiting.” “Bite me.” the second figure replied, and the two were about to start arguing if it wasn’t for the third figure stopping them. (AU: Yeah I’m not gonna do the whole ‘first figure’ that or ‘second figure’ this bullshit. I’ll give them nicknames, first figure is called Crismon, second is called Hothead, and third is Peacebreaker. You’ll see why soon.) “Gentleman gentleman gentleman! We shouldn’t fight amongst each other.” Peacebreaker replied, causing the two to growl at him, “Not without making sure we fight fair that is.”  (AU: Now you know why he is called Peacebreaker.) “I might fight fair, but surely not this sad excuse of a warrior.” Crimson said, making Hothead growl at him, clenching his fist in anger. “I am far superior to you, you mostly did nothing! I at least did something!” Hothead said, making Crimson laugh while Peacebreaker idly watched them fight and hopefully kill  each other. “Like die everytime? Oh yes, that is something. Something to be ashamed of!” before Crismon could react, Hothead had tackled him and the two were rolling across the ground, punching, kicking and trying to attack each other with knives, much to the amusement of Peacebreaker. They all stopped when they heard another voice. “Stop your fighting now!!” a holographic screen popped up and showed an image of a cracked red eye. “You three are disgraces to our name! And I will not tolerate you two fighting any longer!” two bolts of electricity shot of the screen and struck Crimson and Hothead, causing them to spasm and shout in pain. The arc cut off and the red eye turned its gaze to Peacebreaker. “Report!” “Well the crystals were a success. James and the Autobots were under Sunsets control if it wasn’t for a Displaced summoning James, pulling in the other Autobots as well.” Peacebreaker replied, “but this just shows we are getting better with using magic outside of Equestria.” “At least there is that. Do you know if the crystals will still be active upon their return?” Headmaster asked. (AU: That’s the name of the red eye.) “Most likely not, the Displaced that usually interact with James are heroes, so the likelihood of them being freed is a 100% certaintanty.” Peacebreaker replied, causing Headmaster to growl in annoyance. “Damn it, now that they know that we can control them they will be on guard for it next time.” Headmaster said. “Indeed, but due to this, Sunset might take the crown before the…..what was that stupid dance called again? Nevermind, doesn’t matter, she’ll try and steal the crown, which would mean that it would be a perfect opportunity to relieve her of it.” Peacebreaker said, smiling darkly, “Then we can move on to the next part of our-” a harsh glare from Headmaster, “Your plan.” “Yes, my army is already producing enough weapons to last against at least Metroplex, but once we get that crown. Revenge will be ours.” Hothead said,  The red eye glares. “Do not get overconfident fool. That is how the Primes always defeat us. we grow arrogant and believe ourselves unbeatable and just as victory is within our grasps the Primes take it away.” “Like Quintessa, she thought she was invincible, all because she had more troops than James and the Autobots, now she is currently suffering for all eternity.” Crimson said,  “Exactly we must follow the plan and be ready to take James and the other Primes down. If they are alive when the third part of the plan starts then, they will stop us.” Headmaster said, then added. “Ensure that the girl gets the crown and our involvement is unknown to James otherwise all three of you will be punished for your failure.” “Very well. We won’t fail you.” Peacebreaker said, “You better not. I have lost my patience for failures.” Headmaster said. “Haven’t we all.” Hothead said, Headmaster giving him a glare. “What? It’s true.” “I do have a question though, once we take the crown from Shimmer, what do we do with her? Can’t dispose of her, James and the others will know it was us who was working with cause we tend to end our partnerships in a...messy kind of way.” Crimson asked, “And James knows this and can easily trace it back to us.” “Simple, you can either take her with you and Dispose of her later or simply knock her unconscious with how little time James would have to return to Equestria he wouldn’t be able to stay until she awakens to tell him who she worked with.” Headmaster said. “Very well.” Crimson replied with a nod. “Anything else we should know?” “Just one more thing. If you get caught by James don’t bother coming back.” Headmaster said before the hologram cut out. “Why is he in charge again?” Hothead asked,  “Hmmm, I don’t know, maybe because he is the one who came up with the plan?” Peacebreaker said, “Oh shut up!” Crimson said before one of their devices starts beeping. “Ah it seems James has returned.”  “No doubt no longer under Sunsets control.” Peacebreaker said, “No shit sherlock.” Hothead replied, before talking to Crimson, “You will continue to monitor Sunset and the Autobots, we will continue with our duties of bringing up our ranks and making weapons.” “Ugh fine, but she is getting on my last nerve.” Crimson said before leaving.  “And that’s our problem because?” Hothead asked and Crimson just flipped him off before leaving the warehouse.  “Hmm he may be spending too much time with the humans here, he is starting to act like them.” Peacebreaker said rubbing his chin. “At least he isn't caring about them, trust me, I’ve spent enough time on Earth to pick up a few things from them. Trust me, this planet is hell but at least it has interesting weapons for us to use.” Hothead replied, “Now shut up and help raid a nearby power plant, we need fuel for our weapons and ships. And remember, no killing, we can’t have James be suspicious.” “Ah yes, can’t go making a big scene. No” Peacebreaker said with a grin.  “Correct, but, that doesn’t we can’t cause a few ‘accidents’” Hothead said, “After all, accidents happen every time.” The two of them laugh evilly as they too leave the warehouse  Meanwhile, near Canterlot High. James POV Me, Sari and the others had gotten back from Dels world, only to see that it was starting to get dark out. “Man, we sure been gone a while huh?” Warpath said, causing me to nod, “Yes, but that’s the least of our concerns, we need to make sure Twilight is alright.” I said, “Question is, where is she?” “Are you and the others back to yourselves James?” I hear Spike’s voice from some bushes.  “Spike, let me answer your question with another question,” I replied, “Do I look like I’m under someones control like a fucking puppet being controlled by a puppet master or some shit?” Spike comes out of the bush with an orange cell phone in his mouth. “Oood, I aas oorried.” He said with his mouth full.  “Well worry no more Spike, the Autobots are back. Also…..” I paused, then cursed, “Damn, I had a good joke but I forgot what it was.” Spike rolls his eyes before spitting out the phone. “Applejack said you would know how to call them.”  I nodded and picked up the phone and started to call the others, soon I heard Rainbows voice answer, “Well, this probably means a few things, one, Sunset just captured SPike and is currently the one I’m talking to, two, a still under mind controlled James is calling, or three, a non mind controlled James is calling.” “Have you been taking lessons from Twilight in paranoia?” I asked Rainbow Dash with a chuckle, “Anyway, yes me and my friends are no longer under Sunsets control.” “Oh yeah? Prove it! How do we know you aren’t just acting normal?” Rainbow said. “Rainbow, if I was under Sunsets control, we wouldn’t having this conversation right now.” I told her. “Right, well we are at Pinkies. Do you need the address?” rainbow asked. “Yes please.” I replied, and after I said that,, she then told me the address as well as how to get there from the school. “Thanks, see you guys soon, oh and please don’t try to kick my ass once you see me cause you think I might be still under Sunsets control.” “Yeah yeah, just don’t do anything to deserve the butt kicking.” She said before she hung up. I shook my head, “Thanks Spike for waiting for us.” I said to Spike, who nodded in reply. “No problem, they needed one of us to wait for you. Now mind taking me to the others? I want to lay on Rarity’s lap.” Spike said with a love struck look.  I shook my head with a smile, “Alright alright.” I said as me, SPike and the others walked towards Pinkies house, though, me and the Autobots kept an eye out for any sign of Sunset SHimmer in case she tried anything. When we get there a gray teenager opens the door with a deadpan look on her face. “Are you friends of Pinkie?” She asked, looking at us before blinking slowly.  “Yes we are, my name is James,” I said, holding my hand out for a hand shake, “And these are my friends, Sari, Swoop, Windblade, Warpath and Arcee.” She blinks slowly then steps aside. “They are upstairs last door on the left.”  “Thank you.” I said as we entered and went upstairs. But as we were walking up the stairs, I heard Warpath and Sari talking. “Are you guys sure she is related to Pinkie?” Warpath asked Sari, causing her to chuckle. “I’m 100% positive they are sisters.” she replied. We walk down the hallway, once we get to the door we can hear giggling and the girls talking. “Come on I want to see Rarity again.” Spike said hopping up and down in front of the door. “Geez calm down Spike, you act like this is the only time you’re gonna see her.” I replied with a chuckle as I opened the door, letting Spike run inside, then walked in myself. I stop in my tracks seeing Twilight and the rest of the girls except Rainbow in the middle of changing. They are standing shocked staring at me, all of them in just bras and panties. “Oh scrap.” I whisper to myself. The girls let out screams and covered themselves up while Pinkie threw something at me, which I painfully found out was a frying pan, why the fuck does she have a frying pan is beyond me. I fell on my back just as Rarity closed the door. The door opens and Spike is thrown out before the door slams closed again. Sari then leans over me. “You really need to learn to knock before walking into a girls room.” “Yeah, I’m pretty sure the frying pan already will forever be a constant reminder.” I replied, getting up. “Speaking of which, how did that not hurt?” Warpath asked me,  “Well, we already established that some of our original Autobot abilities might have sticked with us, if only lessened to some degree.” I said and wiped the blood off my nose, Soon I hear Rainbow dash laughing as she opens the door. “Oh man that was hilarious, come on in they are changed now.”  “It may have been hilarious for you, for me, I got hit in the face with a frying pan.” I said, not amused at all as me and the others walked in, “Sorry girls, I walked right into a Rainbow Dash prank.” Some of them were still blushing but Applejack put Rainbow dash into a headlock. “Don’t worry none, we know you wouldn’t just walk in on us like some creep.” Applejack said. I nodded in response, “Anyway, you probably have some questions on what the actual fuck just happened?” “Not really, we know you guys are really giant shape shifting robots form a magical world filled with ponies and more giant shape shifting robots and that there was terrible war and-” Rarity had covered Pinkie's mouth to try and stop her from talking so much. “I guess Twilight already told you about us then.” Sari said, “Yes, I told them. We need their help to stop Sunset, and they need to know the truth for them to trust us.” Twilight said, bowing her head a little. “Sorry for telling your secret without your permission.”  “It’s fine, we had agreed that they needed to be told the truth at some point.” I replied, “This just means we can stop Sunsets plan much faster.” “Speaking of her, how did you free yourselves from her control darlings?” Rarity asked, as she sat on the bed. “Well, as Twilight has already told you, a Displaced had summoned us, and after a battle that costed me an arm and leg, we were freed from Sunset's control.” I explained. “Wait, you lost an arm and leg? Did you grow them back or something?” Rainbow Dash asked me, “No, the Displaced whose name is Del by the way, made me a new arm and leg, with a few upgrades of course.” I said, lifting said amr, seeing that it was purely mechanical, which kinda surprised me as I thought it would turn into flesh once I returned to my world, guess I was wrong. “Huh, that’s a surprise. But this is the new arm I was telling you about.” Pinkie got very close looking at her reflection making silly faces. “Oooo shiny!”  “Well looks like somebody likes the new arm.” Sari said with a chuckle, I chuckled as well. “But still, we need a plan on dealing with Sunset and finding out who the hell made those crystals in the first place.” “I agree, what should we do?” Twilight said then asked the human five. “Maybe we can set a trap for her? Like use the bots to lure her in to try and control them again then the rest of us ambush her?” Rainbow suggested, “Can’t, she’ll know we’ll be on our guard and will expect something is up if we just wait for her to use those crystals again, plus, if she succeeds, then what’s gonna stop us from attacking you girls?” I asked, “Darn those are good points.” Rainbow said, crossing her arms as we all thought about it.  “Ooh ooh I have an idea!” Pinkie said hoping up and down. “What if we let her wing the crown then steal it from her while she is gloating?”  “That is a good plan, but  she knows what she’s up against, she’ll skip gloating and just use the crown, so no to that plan, good try though Pinkie.” Sari said, “Then, what can we do?” Twilight asked, “Every plan we think of is easily countered.” “Why not just tell the principal what’s going on and switch the crown with a fake.” Someone said from behind us. I turn to see maud standing in the doorway still looking bored.  “Do you honestly think she’ll believe us? Even if we come up with some lie, it’ll have to be a pretty darn good one.” Applejack said,  Maud shrugs and walks off saying. “I would just tell her the truth.”  Pinkie giggle snorts. “Oh that's my silly maud always making jokes.”  “I don’t think she was joking.” Swoop whispered to me. I laugh a bit, “No she wasn’t.” I replied, and we just kept brainstorming ideas on how to beat Sunset, none of them really good but not all were bad, well, Pinkies were a bit crazy but still. We eventually gave up and decided to come up with a plan in the morning, but we needed a plan soon, the portal was gonna close soon and we have no idea what would happen if me and the other Autobots end up stuck here in the EQG universe. > Meanwhile In The Crystal Empire > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Megatron sighed as he and Soundwave walked through the halls of the Crystal Tower, a datapad in his hand. "Alright, so with Metroplex no longer being a part of Canterlot Mountain, it give us another suitable base for us. The question is, where are we gonna put him?" Megatron asked Soundwave, whose visor showed an image of the moon. "Hmm, while a good choice, we already have the Cybran troops stationed there." The two then saw both Optimus Primal, TFP Optimus, and Shining Armor walking around a corner. “Megatron.” TFP Optimus said to Megatron. “Prime.” Megatron said in reply. “Still planning on where to put Metroplex?” Primal asked, receiving an exhausted sigh. “Thought so.” “We have nearly both planets heavily defended, plus the Crystal Empire is perfectly defended thanks to those Cybran units.” Megaton said, “The only thing we can do with Metroplex is put him into stasis until he is needed.” “Is Metroplex able to transform into some kind of mobile base?” Shining armor asked. Megatron nods his head. Yes, he can. Why?”  “Then why not have him be a mobile base that travels the world keeping an eye out for trouble.” He suggested. Megatron holds his chin in thought, “Hmm, that is a good idea, it would help us solve the problem of where to put him, and if he does travel the world, it would make protecting certain areas we can’t get to in time much easier.” Megatron said before nodding in thanks to Shining Armor. “Thank you for the idea Captain.” “It's no problem, it was just an idea that turned out to work.” He said while rubbing the back of his head. “You still had a different point of view that opened a new opportunity for us.” Primal said to Shining. “Indeed, if we had focused on where Metroplex would be stationed, we would have missed or not think about the possibility of having him be mobile.” Tfp Prime said,  Shining chuckles a bit. “Maybe, but I am sure you guys would have thought of it eventually.” “Maybe, but that wouldn’t happen till after a major processor ache.” Megatron said as he typed the new orders for Metroplex onto the datapad. “Well I am happy I could help.” Shining said. “Now with that out of the way, we can focus on other things, such as-” a loud explosion rocked the tower, knocking Shining Armor off his hooves while the four Cybertronians stumbled a bit. “What the pit was that?!” Primal runs over to a window and looks out it. “We’ve got trouble.” He said seeing an army of Decepticons. The others looked out the window and saw the army as well and were shocked to see that it range to the thousands.  “By the Allspark.” Megatron said in shock before he quickly snapped out of it. “We need to set up defensive positions now! Soundwave, send word to the Cybran units to engage the enemy so they can buy us some time right now!” Soundwave nodded his head. “What can we do?” Shining asked, stepping forward.  “You will start to herd the Crystal Ponies into the shelters until this is over.” Megatron said to Shining Armor. “Right, stay safe out there.” Shining said before he runs off.  “Are you ready to enter battle once more, old friend?” Prime asked Megatron. Megatron nods his head while his blade pops out. “I am. Hope you haven’t gotten rusty since the battle against Quintessa.”  “I may prefer diplomacy but I'm still capable of fighting for what's right.” Prime said. “Ever the noble one.” Megatron said before looking at Primal, “And you? What will you do during the battle?” “I will help defend this city, it isn’t right that our war destroys their home.” Primal said while shaking his head. “To think I started out as just an explorer.” Both Megatron and Prime nodded their heads before they looked out the window, seeing the Cybran forces just barely holding off the Decepticons. “Then let us meet the enemy head-on and show them that the Autobots won’t cower in fear!” the three then jumped out the window with Prime having to carry Megatron as they flew due to Megatron having switched his alt mode to a land-based one. They flew till they reached the wall of the city, where Autobot soldiers were desperately trying to hold off the attack. “Come and get some you sons of bitches!” Hound shouted as he fired his minigun at the army before getting shot in the shoulder, he then sees the three landing on the wall, making him a bit relieved. “Finally! We were having trouble pushing back the Cons so we can use some leadership right now.”  “Having troubles? Impossible, our army is much more advanced in weaponry and numbers, how is it that we are the ones being overwhelmed?!” Megatron asked, completely shocked that somehow, the Decepticons were actually overwhelming them despite the advantage they had. “I don’t have a damn clue other than the fact that the cons are packing some new weapons and armor, our blasters barely making a dent in them.” Hound said before he continued to fire into the cons. This made the three even more shocked, the Cons having better weapons and armor?! But how?! A sudden explosion caught their attention, making them all turn to see a large tower with a large cannon attached to it. “Warp Cannons!” a soldier shouted in fear just as the Warp Cannon fired onto the wall, completely destroying it and any Autobot that was unlucky to be in that area. “We have to take out those warp cannons before they devastate our forces!” Primal said. “Agreed, but how? It takes a massive artillery strike in order to destroy them, and our current forces don’t have that kind of fire power.” Megatron said, angry at himself that he has yet to order the construction of the artillery cannon. “Then we destroy it from the inside.” Prime said before changing his left hand into a blaster. Megatron looked at the large army between them and the Warp Cannons, “It won’t be easy with an army standing in our way.” Megatron said,  “We will find a way, we always do.” Prime said before looking out at the battlefield. “Perhaps we could come at it from above, a flier could drop one of us off at the top where they could force their way inside.” Megatron nods his head in agreement. “Or we could just Groundbridge ourselves into it instead of flying over an army that would shoot us out of the sky.” Megatron said before pressing two talons to his head. “Soundwave, I need you to open a Groundbridge at my coordinates and into the Warp Cannon.” After a few moments, Soundwave responds. “I am afraid I can not. The cannon is protected from groundbridges. I am sorry Megatron.” Megatron curses under his breath. “It is alright, I should have expected the Decepticons to be not so foolish as to leave their weapon unprotected.” “That just means we need to make an opening enough for me to get inside.” Primal said before ducking a stray shot. “You? No, I will destroy the Warp Cannon.” Megatron said, blasting a Decepticon in the head as they were trying to get over the wall. “You can’t fly, and I am a smaller target.” Primal said with a frown before firing his guns into the enemy. “But do you know how a Warp Cannon works? No, because you came from a time where such weapons never existed. I on the other hand know how a Warp Cannon works.” Megatron said then the group saw Shining Armor and some pony soldiers run up to them. “What in the pit are you doing here?! You’re supposed to be in the shelters!” “I am not going to sit by while my home is under attack, besides-” Shining looks back at the carts they brought with them as the guards pull tarps off revealing brand new weapons. “-we have a few new tricks. Alright, men show them what ponies can do!” He yells and the guards grab the rifle looking weapons before taking positions on top of the wall and firing out at the army. To all the Cybertronion’s surprise, the weapons are dealing some damage as they are strong enough and precise enough to hit between the armor joints of the enemy soldiers and still do damage. “Impressive, maybe I underestimated you ponies.” Megatron said just as the Warp Cannon fired at the city again, destroying more of it. “That thing needs to be destroyed!” Shining said looking up at the warp cannon. “I can help get to it, my shields are strong enough to block a few shots from your weapons.”  “It is still too dangerous.” Prime said just as part of the tower was blown up by the Warp Cannon. “It’s even more dangerous if that thing isn’t destroyed. Fly me and Armor to it and we’ll destroy it!” Megatron commanded. Primal grumbles and looks at Shining. “Are you sure you want to do this?” “We don’t have time! Just take us!” He yelled back before looking at the ponies. “Follow the Primes orders and keep the enemy out of our city!” The guards yell in affirmative and continue to fire at the enemy. Megatron nods in agreement. “He is right, we must destroy it at once!” the Primes still looked unsure but nodded their heads with Prime activating his jetpack. “Alright, I’ll bring you both to the Warp Cannon, but be careful.” Prime said as Megatron puts Shining Armor on his shoulder.  Shining nodded his head before he covered them in his shield, and at that signal all the ponies opened fire at once making an opening for them.  Prime grabbed Megatron and took off in the direction of the Warp Cannon. Many Decepticons saw them and began to try and shoot them down but thanks to Shining Armor’s shield, they were unsuccessful. The trio soon made it to the Warp Cannon and Prime put Megatron on the Cannon. “Head back to the city, they’ll need more leaders to keep up the defense.” Megatron said to Prime. “Once we have done enough damage, Soundwave will open a Groundbridge for us to escape.” Prime nods and gives Megatron a smile. “It is good to be on the same side again…brother.” He said before flying back to the others tanking a few shots. “What did he mean by brother?” Shining asked as he looked around them for an opening. Megatron sighed as he didn’t bother with finding an opening and decided to make his own by tearing at the Warp Cannon with his talons. “Prime and I have a history, we used to be friends back before the war, which led to us feeling like brothers.”  “If you were so close what made you two end up on opposing sides?” Shining asked as he followed Megatron into the hole he made. Megatron frowned as he remembered why the two became enemies. “It was because we had different views of peace and justice on Cybertron, where I wanted to just overthrow the old guard and demanded to be the next Prime. Where Prime, originally known as Orion Pax back then, claimed that you do not need to be violent in means of achieving justice. Once he gave his speech, he was deemed worthy of being the next Prime.” Megatron said as they made their way through the Warp Cannon, “Which led me to grow spiteful and angered to the point I created the Decepticon faction and waged war against all who oppose me.” Shining Armor was silent as he listened then he finally said. “I suppose I can see your point of view but at least now you fight on the right side.” They soon come up to a large cable running through the whole Warp Cannon. “Yes, and it was thanks to Quintessa who showed me what I had done to others when she controlled me.” Megatron said, angry at the mention of the Quintesson. “But that doesn’t mean I don’t hope she suffers the worst pain unimaginable for controlling me and nearly dooming our worlds with her little quest.” Shining frowns and looks at the ground. “I can understand how you feel, I was mind-controlled at one time too, on my wedding day to boot.” “Hmph, seems like we have something in common.” Megatron said before his blade pops out from under his Fusion Cannon. “But we have spoken long enough, it’s time to destroy this blasted thing.” “Right, I suppose I better try out my new sword.” Shining said with a smirk and lifts a hilt of a sword before pressing a button and a large blue blade of energon sparks to life.  Megatron smirks a bit. “Ponies, full of surprises.” he said before looking at the cable, “On three. One, two.” both then swung their blades at the cable, easily cutting it and causing the whole Cannon to shake.  “That sounds both good and bad.” Shining said as he looked around as energy sparks around where they cut and the cannon shakes even harder as an explosion is heard. “Let's get out of-” Before Shining can finish his sentence, another cable shoots upward from the ground floor, repairing the damage as a force shield is activated around the new cable. “Oh come on! Since when do you guys have automatic repair stuff!?” Megatron frowned at this, even he knew the Decepticons could not have thought of something like this yet there it was. “This is troubling. The Decepticons have vastly improved their technology beyond what I had thought.” Megatron said, then looked around.  “I will be honest I don't know much about your technology but isn't there a way we can make it blow itself up? Like putting too much gun powder in a cannon, making it destroy itself?” Shining asked. That made Megatron think before nodding his head, “Yes, there is a way, a gun like this will need to cool off after use otherwise it will overheat. We destroy or overload the cooling system, then the gun will overheat and destroy itself.” “Perfect, let’s get to work.” Shining said and deactivated his sword. Megatron nodded before they went looking for the main cooling system. “We need to hurry, who knows how much damage the Cannon is doing to the Empire.” Megatron said. “Yeah, I hope Cadie can keep the shield up around the shelter while we deal with this.” Shining said mostly to himself as they travel deeper into the cannon. “Do you think this war can end peacefully?”  Megatron frowns a bit at that question. He knew the Decepticons would not stop as they have waged was for millions of years. “I do not think it is possible, there are Decepticons who do not wish to see peace.” Shining frowns. “Still, it should at least be an option, and if we could get the majority of them on our side then the ones that keep pushing the war forward could be locked away for war crimes.” Shining looked ahead and saw a small gun pop out of the wall and quickly put up a shield around its barrel, making it blow itself up. “Do not think most Decepticons would just join our side, they’ll most likely do it for their own nefarious purpose.” Megatron said,  “A shame, I would think after so long they would be tired of fighting.” Shining shook his head. “You would think that but the war between Autobots and Decepticons has been raging on for millions of years.” Megatron said, shocking Shining Armor before they ended up in the cool system. “That is…insane! I can’t even comprehend something like that.” Shining said in shock, then he looks at the cooling system. “Do we just hack and slash it?” “No, it would just repair itself, we need to overload it.” Megatron said as he walked over to the control panel.  “How do we do that?” Shining asked, following him at a trot. “By redirecting all the coolant back into the main system.” Megatron said as he pressed a few buttons. “Oh, then we just need to get out of there right?” Shining asked while keeping an eye out for any more blasters. “Yes, I will contact Soundwave to ground bridge us out of here before the system overloads.” Megatron said, finishing rerouting the coolant. “Alright sounds like a plan.” Shining said before an energy bolt shot past him hitting the wall. He looks back seeing a few drones. “Oh crud.” Megatron powers up his Fusion Cannon and fires at the drones but they managed to withstand the attacks thanks to their new armor but were being pushed back due to the force of blasts. “Die damn it!” Megatron shouted in rage. Shining fires his energon rifle at them, hitting their joints in hopes of disabling that. “This is not good! We need to make this thing blow up but they could just fix it before we even escape.” Shining looks back at the coolant. “You leave, I am gonna stay and make sure they don’t fix what you started.”  Megatron looked at Shining Armor before pressing two digits to his helm. “Soundwave! I need a Groundbridge at my coordinates now.” he said and not a second later, a Groundbridge appeared behind the two and suddenly, Megatron grabbed Shining Armor, shocking him. “You will go, you have a wife to get back to.” Megatron said as he continued to fire at the Cons, though some of them got a few lucky shots, damaging him. “What about you?! You are a better warrior than I am, you could do so much more than I can.” Shining said as he struggles in Megatron’s hand. “And that is why I will stay behind and make sure the Warp Cannon is destroyed.” Megatron said as he was shot in the shoulder, making him wince from the burning pain but continued to fire at the Cons. “Tell my version of Prime, it was an honor to fight alongside him once more.” he then tossed Shining Armor through the Gorundbridge. He then glared at the Decepticons before he unsheathed his blade and with a determined roar, charged at them. “Megatron!” Shining yelled before he passed through the groundbridge.  The drones do their best to defeat Megatron but the whole warp cannon starts to shake after its last firing sequence, the walls starting to turn red from heat. The drones turn to run but Megatron doesn’t let them. “It seems, today is the day I fall, but I do so, so others may rise!” Megatron said before stabbing a drone through the spark chamber with his sword just as the whole cannon explodes. Everyone watched as the Cannon explodes, pieces of it flying through the air before crushing most of the attacking army much to Autobots and Ponies' relief when they see the invader's numbers dwindle down. The Decepticons, after seeing most of their forces and main weapon be destroyed, made the wise move and began to retreat. Everyone let out a cheer as they watched the Cons leave, well, not everyone. Soundwave and Shining Armor walked over to Prime, their heads hung low in sadness. “Shining Armor, what is wrong? And where is Megatron?” he asked him. “He…he stayed behind to make sure the cannon was destroyed.” Shining said before stomping a hoof. “I wanted to do more but…he threw me through the groundbridge.” He sighs before looking up at Prime. “He also told me to tell you, ‘it was an honor to fight alongside you once more.’” Optimus frowned as he looked at the burning wreckage of the Warp Cannon with sadness in his eyes. “It was an honor to fight alongside you as well brother.” he said quietly to himself before an Autobot trooper ran up to them. “What is it?” and what he said next, instilled fear in their hearts. “One of the Megatrons has escaped!”