Chapter 7
captured
*On the Nemesis*
A cloaked, tall, thin figure came unto the bridge of the Decepticon wars ship, holding in his servos, a small (well small to them) blue sphere, which he kept behind his back.
"Megatron," The figure said.
Megatron turned to the figure, he responded with. "Ah Lockdown, have you brought me the cloaking device?"
The figure put the hood of his cloak back to reveal the face of an infamous Cybertronian bounty hunter. He pulled the blue sphere out from behind his back and answered. "I said I would didn't I?"
"Good. Now that we have this cloaking device for our new friend, the Autobots will be crushed beneath our stabilizing servoes."
"Whatever. I just want my pay," Lockdown replied, not giving the slightest cares about this con-bot war.
Megatron motioned for one of his troops to bring the cart which contained the remains of a red Autobot scout named Cliffjumper.
"Is that it?" Lockdown asked, hinting that the pay would not be enough for him.
"It was a great deal of trouble to recover the remains, but if you insist on more payment-" Megatron flipped out his sword "-then I would be more than happy to oblige."
"It'll do, but might I add that it was also a great deal of trouble to 'borrow' that thing from those Romulans." Lockdown complained, but he walked out with his prize- and his spark still in his body. Megatron turned to the vehicon who carried in the corpse and commanded him. "Take this to Knock Out, I believe he will be most pleased." The vehicon obeyed Megatrons command and took the cloaking device, walking off the bridge. Megatron then transferred his attention to Soundwave, who was monitoring the Autobots activity. "Report Soundwave," Megatron commanded. The blue, thin, faceless Decepticon played back, in a female voice: "Good! We'll meet you at Canterlot castle. That's where the Elements are kept."
"Excellent. Soundwave, you will accompany me to this 'castle' then we must find how our old ship is faring." Megatron said, very pleased with the news. Soundwave merely nodded his head once, and followed his leader off the ship.
*Onboard the Jackhammer (or if you're Hasbro, the Starhammer)*
(Rainbow dash's point of view)
"Rainbow dash do you know how silly that sounds?" Applejack asked, obviously not believing my story about the Autobots and my awesomeness with handling some of those Decepticlowns. "I mean you're beginning to sound like Applebloom. But at least she didn't brag about killin' giant aliens."
If my awesome story wasn't enough to convince her, then maybe Wheeljack could. "So you want proof?" I asked.
"Yeah, right," Applejack snorted before continuing on kicking trees and putting the apples in the baskets.
'This is gonna be fun.' I thought to myself before flying over to where Wheeljack had landed the Jackhammer. "What's goin on Dash? Your friend not comin'?"
"She doesn't believe me. Maybe you could you go over and get Applejack? She doesn't apparently know an awesomely true story when she hears one."
"You're telling me she doesn't even hear them cons shooting at everything?"
"Guess not."
"Well come on, let's go."
'Yes!' I thought to myself, 'This is going to be priceless. Where's a camera when you need one?'
Later...
"So we need them Elements?" Applejack asked.
"Right."
"'Cuz old What's-his-name wants 'em."
"Megatron."
"And if he gets 'em his creepy one eyed weirdoes-"
"Decepticons."
"Would either enslave us or kill us."
"Right. Whew that was hard."
"You're tellin' me."
"Scrap!" Wheeljack exclaimed.
"What's wrong?" I asked.
There was a large explosion which caused the ship to shake. There were Decepticons and Insecticons all over the place and shooting at us "Hang on! I'll try and land her!" Wheeljack exclaimed, gripping the wheel as hard as he could, probably hoping to miss the giant wall coming toward us. He turned it hard right, nothing. He turned it hard left, nothing. He tri-
*CRRAAASSSSSHHHHHHH!"
I guess you know how that turned out. And you know it all went black, yada yada.
Later...
The next thing I knew was that somepony was saying. "See? What did I tell you about being cocky?" I remembered that that voice didn't belong to some pony, but somebot: Arcee. I looked around to see who else was here and I saw everyone else except Optimus, Bulkhead, Twilight, and Pinkie pie.
"Hey! What makes you- Whoa!" I was about to give her the snappiest come back of my life, but the big, green, bug eyed thing that was staring me in the face stopped that. "Yeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz." It said in a really buggy voice, "Megatron-bot will be proud of me Wazzzzzzzzp. Maybe even give him-" he backed up and looked off into the center of the room, before finally finishing (in a creepy voice) "-prezzziiouuss." I tried to see what he was looking at- and I nearly broke my hooves trying to break free. Because sitting right in the middle of the room, the thing the creepy bug guy was looking at, were the Elements of Harmony. 'That can't be good.' I thought. Unfortunately I was right (as always). And sure enough a big blue and yellow guy walked in and asked the creepy green bot. "Are the Autobots or their friends giving you any trouble?"
"No Dread-bot, but me Wazp waz wondering if Megatron-bot let Wazp have prezzzziouss." Dreadwing just ignored him and took the Elements out, with a creepy green Wasp following behind.
"What's with him?" I asked no one in particular.
"Bzzz-beep-bbzz-dzzzz." Bumblebee answered.
"What?"I asked, not understanding a word he said.
"He has a little problem with his processor." Arcee translated.
"Oh," I replied, "So how are we going to get out of here?"
"If I know Optimus, he's already on the ship."
"What makes you so sure?"
*THUD*
Arcee looked over at me with a slightly smug expression on her face.
*THUD*
"What makes you think its Optimus?"
*THUD*
"I know."
*CRASH*
And sure enough Bulkhead came in first, Twilight and Pinkie close behind, and Optimus with his weapons pointed outside the door way. I looked over at Arcee and she had that smug look on her face again, so I just rolled my eyes and looked to see what our rescuers were doing. Twilight was standing over by the big thing that looked like it controlled our locks, she closed her eyes and her horn started to glow, then one of the controls on the panel started to move, slowly but steadily, before it suddenly blew up. It apparently worked because the restraints came off with ease. Twilight looked around to see what happened, and gave Bulkhead a second look, because coming from his cannon was a puff of smoke. She sighed and went over to Optimus. Wheeljack stood up, rubbed his wrists, and told Optimus. "Prime Dreadwing has the Elements, I think he's about to give them to his boss old man Megs."
"Then we haven't a moment to lose." Optimus said, then he pressed down on his ear and ordered. "Ratchet, we need a ground bridge. Lock onto our coordinates as soon as possible."
There was a pause, before a voice replied. "Optimus, as I am sure you know it is almost impossible to lock on to your coordinates with you moving so much. Wait a cycle, where are you? Bulkhead said that he destroyed the engines on the Nemesis an earth week ago."
"The Decepticons have created a new ship of greater scale then the last."
"But how is that possible?"
"Perhaps they have had help from other sources."
"M.E.C.H.?"
"Perhaps. But that is not a paramount issue at this moment. The issue is that the Decepticons have a relic far older and more destructive then the others."
"What? Primus! Do they have the Allspark?!"
"No Ratchet, however they do have the Spark of the Primes."
"By the Allspark! With that kind of power in Megatron's grasp-"
"The extinction of organic life is assured. Ratchet, the current possessors of the Spark will join us at base, understood?"
"Understood, but it will take some time. Its only worked a few times."
Optimus lowered his hand and looked toward us. "Is this suitable for you all?"
Chapter 8
Fight!
Narrator: The war between the Autobots and the Decepticons rages on as they fight to possess an ancient Cybertronian relic.
If Megatron and his Decepticon army prove victorious, then all civilization as we know it will be destroyed.
But if Optimus Prime and his heroic Autobots can rally together with their new friends and once again possess the Spark of the Primes, then the Decepticons will be forced into extinction.
Now get ready for a new battle…
(Wheeljack's point of view)
"Huh?" Rainbow dash asked after about what felt like twenty solar-cycles since Optimus asked the question.
"Because of your past interactions with the Spark then we will need you out of harm's way, if the Decepticons are aware of this then you will no doubt be in far worst circumstances then you were previously."
"Hold on an apple buckin' minute," Applejack interjected, "What about the Elements, and I don't remember anything about no Spark of Primes or whatever.
"Yeah, what gives?" Rainbow agreed.
Before Optimus could explain Ratchet interrupted and told him. "Optimus, I now have the coordinates, if you're going to go now is a good time." And sure enough ol' Doc bot came through, the thing lit up like a Christmas tree. Optimus bent down to look their leader in the eye and told her. "If we do not return, I must apologize for the destruction and violence my race has caused yours. I would have preferred to meet you all in more friendly circumstances."
"Optimus, is troop morale so bad that you have to resort to recruiting puny little ponies that couldn't even fire a Neutron Assault rifle?" A voice questioned. Optimus knew the voice and commanded. "Ratchet! Close the ground bridge now!" Ratchet closed the bridge, surprisingly keeping quiet about it (or maybe just because he knew not to ask questions).
"Ugly! Good to see you again, how's the protoforms?" I asked ol' Megs, knowing that it would surely get me a fight with him.
"Fortunately for you I am in a generous mood Wrecker, otherwise your head would be on the bow of my new ship. No, I am here to offer you all a proposition." With that Optimus stood up (still with his gun out) and sternly answered. "I am not interested in any deals Megatron, we have come for the Spark of the Primes, and if you do not give it to us peacefully, then we will be forced to more violent means." I thought that would be a cool time to pull out my swords and, apparently everyone else did to so they put out their weapons too (copybots). Megatron ignored that threat and looked Optimus in the optic and insisted. "Optimus, I will give you enough energon for twenty stellar cycles, if you will merely hand over these pathetic insects."
"Hey! Nopony calls me or my friends insects!" Rainbow dash yelled, before flying at him and hitting him in the chest. She landed and looked up at him with fire in her opti- er, eyes. Megatron bent down and laughed. 'Oh yeah, now's as good a time as any.' I thought to myself. I lunged at him and put my sword directly in his shoulder. I then pulled the sword out and saw Megatron reach for his brand new wound. He looked at me and yelled. "I shall have your spark for that!" He pointed his gun at me and fire, I tried to pull a summersault and I just got away in time, unfortunately for the cons the blast caused a huge hole in the wall and a huge gust of wind started, I engaged my magnetize stabilizing servos and stayed practically glued to the ground. Unfortunately the ponies didn't have magnetized stabilizing servos, when Rainbow started falling out she extended her wings, but unfortunatley that just made the problem worse. The force was too much and she crashed right into Megs (again). A very annoyed Megatron yelled at the nearest Vehicon. "Fool! Reinforce the wall!" The con nervously nodded his head and started punching some buttons on a nearby control pad. A door closed up the wall and everything returned to normal. Well, except for one little thing; a Vehicon was carrying a small box and dropped it when the hole opened up, Twilight had caught it with her horn and laid down on it during the commotion. She secretly gave it to Optimus, who called for a ground bridge.
We all got up and I pointed my sword at the still rising con boss. "Alright ugly, you ready to join the well of Allsparks?" He looked up at me and hissed. "One will join the Allspark, but not me." Before I could figure out what he was talking about a piercing pain went through my gut, I looked down and peeking out was a green blade, it grew longer and the pain increased, I looked behind me and saw one of the ugliest Decepticons I had ever seen. He had a black paint job, his head was also black and he had green eyes and a big green mouth. After what felt like stellar cycles he pulled it out and I collapsed onto the ground. I felt disoriented and flipped onto my back, he looked at me and mocked in a low voice. "Fool. No one faces Dead end and lives." After that he vanished, either I was imagining things, or he was a ghost. I looked over to my right and saw the ground bridge had opened up. I saw the ponies and the other Autobots were still fighting, Ratchet ran out and bent down beside me. My vision started to get blurry so I couldn't see much but I saw enough. He looked over at Optimus and yelled. "Optimus! Wheeljack has been injured, if we are to go now is a good time." I heard Optimus reply. "Understood, Autobots fall back!" They stopped fighting and started running. Bulkhead came over helped Ratchet get me on my feet. "Easy Jackie, you got a hole in you the size of Tyger Pax." Bulky joked. I leaned on Ratch as the others covered the retreat.
Later...
When we got through Bumblebee quickly closed the ground bridge, while Ratchet was putting me on the nearest metal bed. He pulled out his tricorder and analyzed the damage. "How bad is it doc?" I asked him. He looked at me with a serious expression and explained. "I am afraid the wounds are fatal, the sword cut too close to your spark chamber, it also knocked out your T-cog, by my estimations you won't last the night." He walked over to Prime and the others and told them the news. When he was done I got up and went over to Bulkhead and asked. "Hey Bulk, you know when Miko usually comes by?" He looked at me with a puzzled expression and exclaimed. "Oh! I got to pick the kids up, do you mind?"
"No its ok, I just want to see them before I go." I answered. Bulkhead nodded his head and drove out of the base. Suddenly a pain entered the spot where I had been hit, I collapsed on the ground as Ratchet broke out his tricorder and looked me over. "I am afraid this is it."
"Wait! Can I try something?" Twilight asked.
"I'm not su-" he was going to continue on, but he stopped when the small unicorn looked at him, "I don't think it will work."
"But it wouldn't hurt." Twilight argued. Ratchet was going to continue but Twilight had already started, uh, doing something. Her horn glowed pink, and I felt a strange feeling in my wound. I looked down and saw the hole shrinking, it kept shrinking and shrinking until it was gone! I looked at her and she just gave me a knowing smile and walked off. I got up and tried to transform.
*chh-cchhh-chkkk-chk*
"Remarkable!" Ratchet exclaimed.
*khc-kkkhc-hhhcc-hhc*
"Not bad, she might outdo you Ratch." I told him, he just glared at me and replied. "Well if you are in working order then if you'll excuse me, I have more important things to do besides sparkling-sitting a insubordinate Wrecker."
"Whatever works doc."
"STOP CALLING ME DOC!"
"What? Would you prefer Puddin'?"
"Would you stop that?! It's hard enough with Bulkhead, the children, and Agent Fowler, but now we have a bunch these- whatever they are, and you. And you're more trouble than all four put together!"
"Whatever you say Tubby." I said, holding back a laugh. He glared at me and started typing on his best friend: the computer (I think he watches old reruns of that medical show "House").
"*Beep Beep*!" Bulkhead honked, he drove in and let the kids out before transforming. He looked at me with a puzzled expression on his face, I tilted my head gasket in the direction of the ponies. He imitated me with the same puzzled expression, I nodded my head and he shrugged his shoulders. Walking away with a grin on his face.
"Wheeljack!" Miko yelled, she ran over with her guitar around her back and gave me a light punch on the rim. "How's it going kid?" I asked her.
"Oh same old, same old. How about you?"
"Nothin' I gotta get the Jackhammer out of a castle wall later, and I nearly got killed by some weird Deceptighost, but other than that, not bad."
"Whoa!" A far away Raf exclaimed.
"Miko," I said. " I think it's time to introduce you to some new friends of mine."
Notes: If the injury thing was too gruesome then I'll move it to T (but I have seen things just as gruesome on the actual show). If you are wondering what Dead end and Wasp look like here is a basic description:
Wasp: He has the same chassis as Bumblebee, but his left side is heavily damaged, his eyes are purple, and he has insect like wings on his back. His head is the same but he does have a mouth.
Dead end: He looks like the toy version.
Thanks for reading and I'll try and get the next part done as soon as I can!
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