I am so sorry for the long wait even though I promised that I would have it out yesterday at the latest. If there is somebody to blame, blame Mauricio. It was his request to make the chapters longer. And so because of it I was really starting to enjoy writing again so it should be awesome. But if you have any complaints give it to him in the comments or thank or whatever. Anyway, you better enjoy this unusually long chapter! It's over 4,400 words and 12 pages, my longest yet! Anyway enjoy!

Special thanks to Mauricio for saying that chapters should be longer, I'll try.

Thanks to genralc46 and readerofthenight for reviewing!

This is so awesome you should all kiss my feet since it took 3 days to type.

Chapter 10: Tales of a 1,700 Year Old Robot

"Cybertron, that is my home."

Princess Celestia, Princess Luna and the mane six drew their heads closer so that they could listen to the story better. The cool night air was starting to get a little chilly, but something was amiss.

"WAIT!" Exclaimed Luna.

"What?" Said Rainbow with an exasperated look on her face.

"I need to raise the moon, judging by how you're telling it your story will be very long, no?"

Live Wire nodded, but had no idea what she meant by raising the moon.

"This will only take a second." She took a few steps back and her horn began to glow a dark bluish aura. In the sky the sun slowly began to set and was replaced by the moon rising with the same aura that was surrounding Luna's horn.

Live Wire could only stare in amazement.

When Luna was done she moved back with the group and stared at the ground.

"You can continue now."

"H-how did you do that?" Live Wire stuttered out the sentence.

"What? Isn't that how you raise the moon from where you're from?" Twilight asked.

Live Wire shook his head. "We don't raise the moon, it happens naturally."

Twilight seemed appalled by this answer. "Naturally! That- that's not natural err- normal at all!"

"I will tell you about it later, but for now I must continue with my story." Everypony nodded in agreement, especially a certain rainbow mare that was bored out of her mind.

"So, where was I?"

"Some place called Cybertron?" Said Applejack.

Live Wire nodded and continued.

"Cybertron was a vast and peaceful planet, transformers used to live happy lives for eons, never having a care in the world." As he said this his eyes began to flicker and a static image of Cybertron appeared before the ponies. The planet seemed massive, even compared to the small scale that was show to them, and had large spires poking out of it in several places. Metal chasms can be clearly seen over its metallic like frame and large cities filled with light dotted the planet all over, giving the impression that it was a living being made of energy. It almost seemed to breathe with healthy and clean energy radiating a neon blue glow. The ponies stared at it with awe; this was clearly a very beautiful and peaceful planet.

"It's gorgeous…" Rarity trailed off, ideas and inspiration flowing into her in waves.

Live Wire nodded grimly. "Yes, I was told this is how it looked before the war."

"W-war?" Fluttershy inquired.

"Before, decepticons and autobots used to coexist, living peaceful lives and living in harmony. In the ancient archives it showed that the decepticons and autobots working together to live happily. Decepticons would go out and protect the planet or conquer unknown worlds while the autobots stayed home and took care of building massive cities and raising as well as training the young." (Just to let you guys know this part is technically true. Want to know how I know? It's because I'm actually going a bit with the history of Cybertron from Transformers G1. I just changed it a little to make it about 20% cooler. Lol. But I'm dead serious about this being true.) The last part seemed to bring back bad memories but he refrained from thinking much on it to prevent it from being showed on the hologram.

"This is what it looks like now." He stated as the image on the hologram slowly changed shape, becoming slightly deformed and changing color before turning back to normal. The pony's gasped, including Celestia, at what was now Cybertron. The planet didn't have that new shiny metallic look to it anymore instead it looked to be covered in rust and many of the spires on it had broken off. There were several large craters in it and it seemed to be surrounded by debris in space. A large piece of it that broke away from it looked to appear to have become a moon that slowly crept its way around the planet. There were no longer as many bright lights and instead of the healthy blue glow it was replaced by a sickening red color. The planet looked to be dying instead of breathing, like it was in pain.

"What happened to it? I mean, it was all cool looking and stuff, but now…" Rainbow trailed off.

"The war changed everything." He said, bringing up a picture of an autobot and decepticon holding hands as if they've been best friends forever. In the background was what Cybertron used to look before the war, beautiful. "Autobots and decepticons used to be best friends, working together for similar goals," He paused and the picture changed to one where it showed the same two transformers, this time they were trying to kill each other with swords. The background this time though, showed it to be a nearly uninhabitable wasteland. "But now fight over the smallest things, arguments that would have been dismissed before are now one of the beginning of huge wars."

He paused as the scene switched to back to that of the modern day Cybertron.

"How did this entire fight start? Couldn't you have come to an agreement to sort it out?" Twilight asked out loud.

Live Wire shook his head and chuckled. "If not for this war then planet's like yours would already be destroyed and uninhabited."

At this the ponies gave him surprised looks.

"Excuse me?" Came Princess Celestia's response.

"Well," Live Wire continued. "You know that the decepticons were conquerors, right?"

Every pony nodded.

"Then think, what justifies conquering if you have no need for the extra space?"

"Then it becomes murder." Said Pinkie at last, which surprised everyone else. Her mane wasn't as poufy as before and she was staring at the ground. She didn't seem to give off her normal happy appearance.

"Exactly. The decepticons kept at it, despite the autobots protests. Eventually things got violent and war eventually broke out."

"Why did the autobots try and stop the decepticons? I mean, why try and protect other planets, like ours?" Inquired Twilight.

"Simple, we felt pity for you."

"Pity!" Rainbow quipped in. "Why?"

"Because," He said, leaning back. "We felt responsible for what was going on. We are an ancient race. Almost as old as time itself, some believe. And watching the beginning of civilizations dying without accomplishing great things yet felt wrong. We couldn't stand to watch so we intervened."

Every pony paused to think on this.

"So, which side are you on?" Pinkie asked, breaking the silence.

A couple of the pony's glanced warily over at Live Wire.

"You're and autobot, right?"

Everyone turned to Fluttershy, shocked at the unusual confidence. As soon as everybody looked in her direction though she hid behind her mane and went back to her normal self.

"W-well, it's just that you s-saved us before, r-right? So, you sound like one of the g-good guys." She said again, looking away to avoid everyone's gave.

At the mention of this all the pony's visually relaxed.

Live Wire nodded. "Correct, I am an autobot. One reason you could also tell whether or not a transformer is an autobot or a decepticon is what their symbol looks like." He tapped his chest plate where his autobot symbol was.

The hologram then changed to two different symbols. One of them looked like the one on his chest, a bright red face that had a comforting feel to it. And on the other one was the same one that was on the decepticons from earlier, a purple face that seemed to give off fear to those around it.

"The red symbol belongs to the autobots, it's a symbol of peace from where I come from." The face of the autobot moved down to reveal an old picture that showed the autobots, as well as their leader, holding a giant flag that he held into the air. There seemed to be a friendly air of confidence around him.

"Who's that?" Rainbow pointed out to the leader of the group.

Live Wire couldn't help but smile at this, she seemed to take incredible interest in the important looking transformers.

"That is Optimus Prime, current leader of the autobots. He leads us with compassion and shows mercy to all those we meet. He is one of the best leaders in the history of autobots and only fights when necessary."

Rainbow nodded to this with satisfaction, glad that she picked out an important character. Twilight was already on her third note pad from all the notes she's been taking and there were pencil shavings everywhere.

"What about the other symbol?"

The decepticon symbol lowered itself to reveal the decepticon army being led by none other than Megatron himself.

"The purple symbol represents the decepticons, they are known for their brutality and treacherous ways. Even in their own army they don't trust each other, only looking out for themselves."

"That pony looks like a big meanie mc meaner pants!" Exclaimed Pinkie Pie, pointing at Megatron.

Live Wire nodded. "Megatron; leader of the decepticons. Some say he was the reason the war started in the first place. He enjoys others pain, almost like he feeds off of it, you could say."

"Sounds like you know him fairly well, darling." Rarity replied.

"I do."

"Hey, how long has this war of yours been going on for anyway?" Asked Applejack.

Live Wire paused. He never really gave it much thought about it before.

"About, give or take a decade, 2000 years maybe?"

Everypony gasped.

"How are you still fighting? I know it might make sense if it's been about a few years, even a decade at most, but 2000 years?" Applejack responded.

"How old are you ponies and how long are your usual life times?" Live Wire asked.

"Is that really a question to be asking a lady?" Rarity gasped.

Everypony gave her an "R U Serious?" look.

"Fine, fine, 21."

"Ah'm 21 too." Applejack said.

"16 for me!" Came Pinkie's reply.

"Oh, um, 17." Fluttershy said in a whisper.

"18!" Said Rainbow proudly.

"And I'm 19." Twilight ended.

Live Wire turned to Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.

"We live longer than normal pony's since we're the rulers of this land but I'm 1,587 and Luna is 1,219, correct?" Said Princess Celestia as she turned to her sister.

"Y-yes, normal pony's live till about a hundred."

"Oh! Oh! How old are you?" Said Pinkie Pie jumping up and down.

"1,700"

Every ponies eyes opened in surprise, he was older then the princesses and that was unheard of before.

"Wow! That must be, like, 1,700 candles on your birthday cake! It must be huge!" (Guess who said that.)

"How old does your race get?" Asked Twilight, jotting more notes down.

"We usually go off-line after 10,000 years but some could go even longer."

"So in other words, you're a teenager?" Pinkie said out loud.

"You're a teenager!" Exclaimed Rainbow Dash.

"H-hey, I may be a teenager where I come from but I'm mature for my age."

"Wow, who woulda thunk it that we get stuck with a teenage alien." Replied Applejack.

Live Wire grumbled. "Back to topic."

The hologram changed to one that showed Optimus Prime, standing tall and proud in front of the autobot academy. Next to him were Ratchet, Prowl, and Ironhide. They looked like they were having a good time and enjoying themselves.

"Prime should be around 4,907 years old, he's one of the lucky few that are still alive that seen Cybertron before the war started."

"Where's that?" Applejack pointed to the building in the background.

"That's the autobot academy; it's where we train new recruits for the war. Back then in the photo though it was used to teach transformers about anything you could think of, architecture, astronomy, anything at all."

"Sounds wonderful." Twilight said, staring at the building dreamily.

Rainbow snickered and leaned over. "Egghead." She whispered.

Twilight rolled her eyes. "So, can you tell us more about your race? We've never seen anything like you before and I'm really interested."

"Very well." He changed the hologram to a basic design of the transformers body. "Each transformer, when born, belongs to a certain class. The build of a transformer helps determine what class they belong too." The image then split up to four other images, each one showed a different class and what the transformer looked like. "One of the most common ones are scouts." As he said this the picture on the upper left zoomed in and showed a small but agile transformer. He appeared to be moving quickly and doing something similar to parkore along a giant expanse of obstacles, clearing them all effortlessly.

"Hey, that guy looks pretty fast." Remarked Rainbow.

"He is, scouts are known to have smaller bodies but can easily be the most agile of all classes. They move quickly and are great for reconnaissance missions as well as being messengers. Watch, this is where the course gets difficult." He pointed out as the scout doing tricks came up to the hard part. He had to clear a chasm in one jump and it looked like he wouldn't make it, but that didn't slow him down.

"Oh I can't watch!" Said Fluttershy, quickly covering her face with her hooves.

At the last 10ft before launching the scout turned into a strange vehicle that sped off the cliff at an even faster pace. As soon as he went airborne over the ledge there was a small light behind him and he propelled himself across. Before he landed though he transformed back to normal, on impact he did a barrel roll forward and continued on with the course as if nothing had happened.

"How, what, he just! What?" Twilight said, dropping the current pencil and note pad she was using. This was her 7th. The other ponies gave him quizzical looks, not understanding what just happened. "What did he do?" Twilight finally got out.

Live Wire shrugged. "He just transformed, that's all."

"Can all transformers do that?" Inquired Rainbow Dash, sounding excited.

"Yes, that's why we're called transformers, really. We can change from being humanoid into a vehicle at will anytime. Scouts are usually small but have a sleek design which make them more aerodynamic and faster as well."

"D-does it hurt?" Asked Fluttershy.

"No, that's a plus side to not being organic. Transformers are almost impervious to pain."

"Organic?" Rarity said out loud.

"Being Organic is anything made up of cells. All living creatures are made up of cells so that means…" Twilight trailed. When realization hit her she snapped her head to Live Wire and gasped. "Y-you're not organic!"

Live Wire nodded.

"C'mon, Twi, what does being organic have to do with anything?" Inquired Applejack.

"Don't you guys get it? You have to be organic to be alive. If Live Wire is not organic then how is he alive?" This got the other pony's wondering.

"I have a way to find out." Said Celestia standing up. She looked up at Live Wire. "I'm going to use a spell on you. Don't worry, it won't harm you, but you might feel a little strange. That is, if you feel at all."

"Go ahead." Live Wire didn't mind. Besides, he was interested to see how this spell she talked about worked.

Celestia stood in front of the autobot and charged her horn, making it glow a bright yellowish white, almost similar to the sun, illuminating the night. Then, a beam of light struck Live Wire at the top of his head and began to slowly move down, expanding and contrasting with his body.

"Is she scanning me? If so, then what is this strange feeling in my circuitry? Almost similar to an electromagnetic pulse…" He thought as the beam slowly made its way all the way down his body. Once fully scanned there was a strange glowing circle that was on his chest.

"That is how you're alive; you have a high concentration of pure magic within you that keeps you going. Judging by the amount, though, you only have enough to last you for about a year at most." Princess Celestia said finally.

To this answer Live Wire was clueless while other ponies gasped.

"I'm afraid I have no idea what you mean when you say that but you must be talking about my spark." He finally said. "I'll get to that in a sec though as soon as I finish going through the classes."

Celestia nodded and sat back down next to her sister. About a good 30 minutes passed before Live Wire finished describing the other classes to the ponies. Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie took interest in the scout class while Applejack seemed more into the soldier class. Fluttershy and Rarity liked the idea of the medic's class while Twilight was engrossed in the leader class.

"What class do you belong to?" Luna asked for the first time.

The entire group pony's looked up at Live Wire in anticipation. He looked like he very well qualifies for any of the classes but that still didn't say which one he was.

"I am an all-purpose unit so I can actually qualify for all of them at the same time."

"All-purpose unit? What type of class is that?" Twilight put in.

"It isn't a class; it's a rare breed of transformer that can have the abilities of all the other classes."

"That sounds awesome." Rainbow replied.

"In some ways it is, I have general knowledge of all the classes. But at other times it's the exact opposite, the knowledge I have is general. I'm not exactly good at any of the classes, but that doesn't mean that I can't do them."

"So in other words, a misfit." Rainbow stated.

"Rainbow Dash!" Rarity scolded. "Sorry, don't listen to her-" Live Wire raised his hand.

"No, she's actually right. In the end, I have no real special talent like the rest of the autobots." He replied sadly.

Most of the ponies shot glares at Rainbow for making their new friend feel bad.

In hopes of changing the topic Twilight asked the big question. "So what exactly is a spark?"

"It is the one thing that keeps all transformers living, without it we would be like an empty shell. It's similar to a certain organ that you creatures have which I think is called a heart?"

The pony's nodded.

"All sparks comes from an even greater spark that resides in the center of Cybertron called the all-spark." The hologram's image changed from the diagram that it had up earlier to that of Cybertron. Slowly the camera zoomed in till eventually they were looking at the inside of the planet. It was a giant circular room and at the very middle of it hanging in midair was a giant massive ball of energy that gave off a blue glow. It was almost as bright as the sun, even on the hologram so all the ponies except Celestia raised their hooves to block the bright light. "The all-spark is the beginning of all life on Cybertron. Without it the planet would be a dead rock in space."

"I've never seen a greater concentration of magic such as this. There is enough magical energy here to even…" Twilight trailed off, glancing up at her mentor.

Celestia smiled. "It's ok, Twilight. I understand what you mean. I too am impressed by this. In all my time of ruling Equestria I have never seen this much magic in its purest form."

Live Wire glanced at Celestia. "You talk so much about magic but I have no idea what it is, could you please explain it to me?" He asked.

"Magic is an essence of all living things, if you will. There is a small part of it in everypony. Each breed of pony can use their magic in certain ways. Earth ponies have natural magic in them that make them get along exceptionally well with plant and also make them stronger than most pony's." She indicated to Pinkie Pie and Applejack. "Pegasus ponies have natural magic that allow them to manipulate the clouds and even let them walk on them." This time she indicated Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. "And finally, Unicorn ponies have the ability to control magic at will which can allow them to perform tasks that any other pony couldn't normally do." She finally indicated Rarity and Twilight Sparkle. As if to prove this Twilight's horn began to glow a purple aura and all the note pads that she filled out before (21 and counting) glowed with the same aura and levitated off of the ground on their own.

"Incredible." Live Wire said, coming in for a closer look.

"Indeed, but the strongest magic comes from the heart and it's feelings that it has with others known as friendship." Celestia concluded with a smile.

"Sooo, is this how the all-spark looked before the war?" Twilight said.

Live Wire nodded solemnly. The hologram began to change shape, this time it was the same area but darker. The all spark had a sickly red glow like the planet and it was much smaller than before. Everywhere around it was swallowed in rust.

"This is what it looks like now, due to Megatron's constant abuse to the core whenever he gets to it. Prime is doing all he can to restore it to normal but there has been too much war for too long. The planet needs to rest and recuperate but there is no end to the fighting. If this keeps up then we'll just end up killing ourselves."

The ponies stared sadly at the all-spark, just looking at it you could tell that it's in pain.

"Can't Optimus Prime and Megatron come to an agreement to stop fighting, if only for a while? They must know the problem that's going on now."

Live Wire shook his head. "The moment that happens Megatron will take advantage of the pause to attack the autobots base directly. Megatron doesn't care about the core. He only wants to control it so that way he could win the war. Other than that he doesn't care what happens to it."

"Not all ponies are completely bad; maybe you should give him a chance? Maybe you're all in one big understanding." Said Fluttershy confidently.

"You don't know him like I do!" Live Wire shouted back at the yellow pegasus's face. Fluttershy hid behind her mane again, this time there was fear in her eyes. The ponies were shocked by his outburst. "You don't know what he's done to achieve his goals. You don't know who he's destroyed to get to the top, and what more still to stay there." He was so focused on his anger that his mind wandered to the picture of him and his family before they went off-line. Being connected, the picture then showed up on the hologram by accident. The last part he said no louder than a whisper. "You don't know what I've lost to that monster." A single oil streak came down from his good optic before he noticed what was on the hologram. The ponies noticed this and began to draw a connection. He took a deep breath and turned it off, his eyes returning back to normal.

"I-I-I'm s-s-so s-" Fluttershy stuttered, still sniffling, but he cut her off.

"No, I am sorry that I exploded like that." He sighed heavily. "I have told you all that I could have known so if you'll excuse me I need to go somewhere so that I may recharge." He got up and walked away, his coloring making him disappear into the night.

The pony's sat there for a few minutes in silence; Fluttershy's whimpering slowly quieting as she began to calm down.

"Gee, I wonder what that was all about. Either way, he didn't have to be a big jerk about it." Rainbow stated in a huff.

"I agree with Rainbow, that brute didn't have to say those things to Fluttershy to get his point across." Rarity agreed.

"Ah' don't know, I do know he shouldn't have shouted but I think those ponies- err, transformers in the picture mean a lot to him." Came Applejack's reply.

"Maybe that's what he meant by losing something important." Twilight said.

"Yeah, but still, come on! He should know better if he's so mature." Rainbow countered.

"You all must consider what he's told us today, my little ponies." Said Princess Celestia. "He may have said that he was more mature but he's still a teenager at heart." She gazed at the direction that Live Wire left in. "He probably has feelings mixed up inside him that he has never told anypony before. He has a heavy heart and has lost much. He just needs time to let it out."

"Well, if you say so your majesty." Came Rarity's reply.

Twilight yawned. "C'mon girls, we have a lot to do tomorrow. Thank you for coming Princess Celestia, Princess Luna." She smiled at her mentor.

"Not a problem Twilight, good night." Celestia turned to her younger sister. "Shall we head home?"

"Yes. I feel tired after a long discussion like the one we just had."

Celestia nodded and with a flash of her horn the two alicorns were gone.

The six ponies slowly made their way back to their homes, each pondering about what they have learned from the new visitor in the silence of the night.

And there you go! I hope you enjoy the history I gave Cybertron. I literally spent day's writing this because I care about you guys so much. This better get me at least 20 reviews for this chapter or I will snap. Also, I'm exhausted from all this and I need a break. Hope you loved the chapter! :D

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