"Run!" Twilight screamed, narrowly avoiding a plummeting fist from Bruticus. She could feel the seismic shockwave from the collision between his fist and the ground, and Twilight could only imagine what it would have done to her tiny body. The ponies scattered, leaving the Decepticon gestalt and scientist behind. Shockwave calculated possible counters in his logic processor. Soundwave was still unconscious but alive, and his Minicon deployments would eventually free themselves.
Bruticus just stood there confused.
"Bruticus does not know what Element to crush!" He roared at the sky.
"Hey, dummy!" Bruticus wheeled slowly to the tiny Frenzy, enraged that such a tiny weakling had the mouth and the courage to say that. "They're meeting up at the tree!" Despite the clue, it was quite obvious that Bruticus was even more confused.
"Bruticus sees many trees! Tell Bruticus where puny Elements are!" Frenzy groaned, first at not being specific for Bruticus and secondly for Bruticus' intelligence seemingly residing in the single digits. Thankfully, Shockwave was able to divert Bruticus' attention from the Minicon.
"Bruticus, it's logical that you should follow me." Bruticus huffed, normally taking orders from Megatron was his style. Shockwave, however, would lead them to the annoying Elements, which Bruticus wanted to pound into oblivion. "Megatron, this is Shockwave, come in."
/Megatron here/
"It seems that I have found several splendid targets. I am leading Bruticus to help destroy anything in our way."
/Excellent. Megatron out/
"Bruticus crush Elements! You lead Bruticus to them!" Shockwave complied, not one to put pressure on the most powerful gestalt ever, and ran towards the library and through the apple orchards, where Frenzy (somehow) saw them regroup.
Fools. Shockwave thought. Hiding yourselves in an overgrown weed will not stop the Decepticons. Transforming into his massive cannon form, Shockwave soared through the air with the stomping Bruticus right behind him. The battle at the village was easily going downhill for the Autobots. He saw Blaster missing a good portion of his right leg, lying on the ground and lifting himself with his elbow and still fighting. Ultra Magnus was easily the least damage, something unsurprising from the selfless deputy.
Bigger fools. It was then he saw what they were looking for, a large tree sitting next to some buildings. There was a small green organic reptile that was outside, as if standing guard. Behind him was the purple equine, one that could manipulate physical boundaries with ease. He transformed in mid air and out of the dragon's sight to see the purple unicorn cast a light purple oversheild on the surface of the tree.
Bruticus growled with rage. Shockwave pictured himself as some watchman, the gestalt his hound. Though he kept his emotions behind an iron will, Shockwave did have some moments. This was one of them, and he snapped his fingers.
"Sic 'em."
"Holy hay, did you see the size of that thing?" Twilight asked, her fear creeping around inside of her like a parasite. She's stood her ground against the giant Ursa Major, but that Bruticus was a steel titan.
"And who the buck was that Shockwave guy and his tube for, anyway?" Rainbow asked. "It's like he was treating us like lab rats!"
"He was probably going to do that anyway! Stuff our bodies with horrid chemicals and make us so ugly it would be a pleasure for us to be euthanized!" Rarity cried, tears slipping down her face. "I hope my little sister made it out before that monster and his cyclops master annihilated your home Applejack!" Pinkie Pie, whom had returned to Twilight's library to find a book on relationships, nuzzled the crying Rarity, and her red eyes stopped flowing just to see the pink party pony. Applejack was not so courteous and sulked in the room over the loss of her home.
"Thanks, Pinkie."
"Wait-a-tic, Celestia and Luna were back there also!" Rainbow cried, the ponies worst fears coming true.
"Is she ...?" Fluttershy asked.
"I don't know." Twilight said. "But if she is, you can be sure as hay that we'll avenge her by kicking these cretins halfway across the galaxy!" Her last statement was very triumphant, and the ponies gained hope.
Even more hope appeared when both bruised alicorn princesses teleported into the library, and Luna passed out from exhaustion. Applejack, dropping her moping, ran to the Night Princesses' side.
"W-what happened here?" She asked.
"Right after you took off with the Decepticons, me and Luna woke up from the ambush. Unfortunately, so did Soundwave. He attacked with his little chest armada and flew off, probably focused on the battle in mid-Ponyville." Celestia explained, her look worrying for her sister's health. Fluttershy spoke up.
"Well, if we know that the Combaticons were freed, what happened to them?" Twilight was about to answer when four figures rushed into the room. It was Spike and the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Sweetie Belle and Applebloom were only rustled and covered in soot. Scootaloo, however, had a shard of blackened wood sticking through her leg. She was unconscious, and Spike put her onto a table. Celestia and the Mane Six came up to see the damage, while the other two fillies babbled incoherently.
"She tried to save us!" "She blocked the wood!" "So much fire!"
The ponies and the alicorns were horrified, but the most hurt was Rainbow Dash, her number one fan out cold with a piece of wood stuck inside of her. Her eyes became slits as her rage seethed through her, tears dripping down her face. Suddenly a blue blur rushed across the room and out a window.
"What was that?" Asked Pinkie Pie.
"T-That was Rainbow! She's going after the Decepticons!" Twilight yelled, her eyes focused on the window that her cyan friend flew out of with ease. "By Celestia, she's going to be killed! We need to stop her!"
Rainbow streaked through the sky, hoping to find Bruticus or any other Decepticon. She spotted the battle ahead between the Autobots and the Decepticons, and took off. Rainbow knew that the Autobots were losing, only a couple blasts emanated from their side compared to the hail of plasma the other aliens were laying onto them. There were four, the silver one she knew as Megatron, Onslaught's leader. Next to him were two other Decepticons, one green and purple with wheels on his shoulders and a grey and purple one, bigger than Megatron. It had wings and a small dorsal fin on it's back. The Decepticon symbol was on the wings. Soundwave was also standing around, his chest minions doing the fighting for him.
She took a dive at the larger one, smacking it upside the head and causing it to drop a large purple gun it held. Rainbow groaned.
Yeesh, what is with the Decepticons and purple? Rainbow asked herself while flying higher for another shot. Just because their symbol is purple doesn't mean everything else has to be! Hay, they even SHOOT purple!
As she took another dive, but the green one with a revealed red visor shot at her with a weapon that seared her feathers and fur. Finally, one good shot impacted her right wing, sending her into a spiral towards the Decepticons. She landed, or better worded; crashed in front of the green one.
"Oh look Astrotrain, the organics have a hero. Ain't that cute?" The green one spoke with a raspy voice that creeped out Rainbow, and like Blast Off he had a mouthplate.
"Just shoot it, Scrapper. It can't hurt you anymore." The large silver Decepticon, apparently Astrotrain, talked back to his green ally Scrapper. Her veins boiled when she heard that she was crippled enough to be useless, but her anger turned to fear when she saw Scrapper's incinerary pistol pointed at her face, just inches away. She could smell the hot acid from the barrel.
"Say goodnight, little freak." As Scrapper was about to fire, a purple blast from a non-Decepticon origin smacked his body and sent him flying towards a china shop. Astrotrain turned to see ten figures approaching, nine equines and one bipedal lizard.
"Die, organic scum!" He fired a burst of plasma at the ponies, but the white and black alicorns summoned a force-field of golden light and stopped all shots. Astrotrain growled.
"You think a little light can stop me?" Astrotrain transformed and steamed over to the organics, who dived out of the way just in time to avoid getting run over by the purple steam engine.
"He turns into a train?" Twilight asked, astonished at her foe's alt-mode.
"His name is Astrotrain, silly!" Pinkie answered. The train took a wide U-turn and steamed back to the organics, the cow-catcher aimed right at the day princess. Celestia easily cast another spell, which rose the ground under her in a tall earth pillar. Astrotrain plowed through the pillar with ease and started another U-turn, but had a certain yellow pony lasso onto his smokestack. Grabbing the rope, Applejack leaped onto Astrotrain. She repeatedly bucked the purple train, greatly annoying the Decepticon.
"You fool! Like you could hurt me!" Astrotrain transformed again, this time into his shuttle form and flipped Applejack off of him.
"He's a triple changer?" Rainbow asked, now used to seeing shuttles.
Astrotrain took a dive at the group of ponies, spraying laser fire at them. The ponies shielded themselves from the lasers, but saw Astrotrain change back into his robot mode and land in front of them. The landing disrupted the shield, and shattered on impact. Astrotrain lowered his massive cannon at the ponies, his finger on the trigger. Celestia herself charged the triple-changer and fired a golden blast of energy at him, sending him into a small shop. Celestia raised his dropped cannon and melted it, the purple metal turning into white-hot soup.
"Yeah! We did it!" Pinkie cheered.
The day princess smirked as Astrotrain stood up and fumbled for another weapon. Scrapper did the same, except he had his incinerary pistol in hand. Celestia grabbed both Decepticons with her telekinesis and smashed them against each other, knocking them out cold. The princess then took sight on Megatron, whom had already overwhelmed the Autobots and was now beating Kup with Hot Rod's severed right arm.
She never got the chance when Bruticus stomped towards her in a fury and punted her like a football, and she soared across the street and into a building, forming a deep hole embedded in front.
Luna, enraged, charged at the gestalt in a black and blue magical comet. Bruticus simply slapped her down and smashed her into the ground. Now, it was just the six ponies, the baby dragon and the Decepticon gestalt. And arriving just in time was Shockwave, who was flying next to Bruticus.
"Give up, organics. None of you can stop us." Shockwave landed in front of the ponies and dragon and sprayed laser fire at the organics. Twilight easily put up a shield and blocked the laser fire. Shockwave was unimpressed.
"BRUTICUS ... SMASH!" The gestalt's massive fist smashed onto Twilight's dome-shaped shield, forming a massive spider-web of cracks on top. Bruticus slowly raised another fist.
"Twi', he's gonna crush us inta' dust! Do something!" Applejack said, her fears locking on to Bruticus' massive fist rising above the shield. Twilight reacted quickly and re-formed the shield, the cracks disappearing. Bruticus slammed another fist into the dome, and this time a galaxy of cracks formed, and the zenith of the shield slightly dipped inwards.
"Twilight, he's too strong! Every time you make your shield, he punches it harder!" Spike cried out. Twilight was sweating profusely, the energy to make the shield was taking a toll on her body. She tried to re-make the shield, but only a small amount of the cracks disappeared. Bruticus, taking advantage of their isolated weakness, roared and smashed another massive purple fist at Twilight, and her shield exploded into a million violet shards. Twilight, exhausted from using up so much energy, passed out. Spike rushed to her side, and the shadow of Bruticus' foot hovered over them both.
"BRUTICUS ... CRUSH!" He bellowed.
"Hold it right there mister!" Bruticus saw a small yellow pegasus fly up close to his face, staring intensely at the gestalt. Bruticus calmly put his foot down, and remained stoic.
"Just who do you think you are, bullying ponies who are smaller than you?" Fluttershy said, Bruticus staring back. "You might be some big robot monster that's super strong and roars loudly, but you do not, I repeat, you do not attack my FRIENDS!" Fluttershy was now just hoofs away from Bruticus' silver head. His visor had a glazed look, as if he were spacing out. Inside, the Combaticons were having a rather annoyed conversation.
-How is that organic stopping Bruticus?- Vortex asked.
-She's messing with his central processing unit, putting him into a daze. He'll wake up soon.- Onslaught said.
-When, exactly? It's not fun when you can't de-assemble.- whined Blast Off.
-Eh, now.-
Bruticus' visor glowed vividly, assuring the organics and the bored Shockwave that he was back to normal. At least, that was good on Shockwave's part. Fluttershy panicked and lost all her pride in a single squeal, and she cowered behind her friends. Bruticus looked down, his red visor shining with pure anger.
"Um, Fluttershy, I think you made him angry ..." Spike squeaked.
"BRUTICUS ... SMASH!" Bruticus roared and smashed his fist into the ground in the middle where the organics stood, knocking them about and scattering them apart. Twilight weakly looked around to see her friends knocked out, and an ominous purple figure reaching for her body ...
Megatron laughed cruelly as he saw Soundwave smacking around the Autobot Communications Officer. He knew the two had a great rivalry, and it pleasured Megatron that his most loyal soldier had the chance to pummel the snot out of Blaster. He felt a hand reaching for his leg, and looked down to see Ultra Magnus reaching for him, energon leaking in cracks all over his body.
Megatron easily kicked away the hand and pointed his fusion cannon down at Ultra Magnus' face, the deputy groaning in defeat as his only response. He would not have been the first to taste Megatron's cannon here, as Hot Rod's severed arm so clearly showed.
The whine of the cannon began to churn, and would have been able to fire if not for the random radio transmission that Megatron received.
/Lord Megatron, Shockwave sending./
/What is it, Shockwave?/
/Organic captured and Bruticus freed. It's time to go./
Megatron humbly looked down at Ultra Magnus, and decided that the Tyrest Accord enforcer would just have to die another day. His fusion cannon de-charged and the Decepticon commander sheathed his weapon.
"Decepticons, retreat!" He bellowed. As he took off, Soundwave's armada returned inside of their master. Astrotrain was carrying an incredibly dazed Scrapper, who had a dented helm and a cracked visor. Astrotrain swore that Scrapper was mumbling about a 'purple griffon'.
Bruticus disassembled, each Combaticon groaned with pleasure as they de-locked themselves from the gestalt unity. The first to leave was Blast Off, whom had transformed into his shuttle mode and took off, Vortex right behind him in his helicopter form. Onslaught was next, transforming into his anti-air truck with Swindle behind him. Onslaught could feel Swindle's sadness about leaving the planet through the bond. He knew how attached he became to the fillies. And finally the last to leave was Brawl. Onslaught knew that Brawl had a friendship with a certain pony, and feared that the bond between him and the organic would get in the way of being a Decepticon.
"Brawl! Wait!" He stopped his transformation just in time to see Pinkie Pie running after him. Though he still was mad at the ponies and mostly the Autobots for backstabbing him and his team, Pinkie had some sort of comic relief to the tank-former. Pinkie was out of breath when she caught up with Brawl. She had a satchel on her, and something small and cubical was inside.
"I wanted to give this to you." She smiled. Dropping her satchel, she reached inside and pulled out a cube with red and white striped wrappings. It also had a black bow with a painted Decepticon symbol on it. Brawl, being unsure of himself, grabbed the gift and patted the head of Pinkie Pie. He transformed and steamed off, right on time for Rainbow Dash to land in front of her, bellowing hate.
"Yeah, that's right! Run away! Go back to your metal freakshow!" Rainbow wheezed, the strain from Scrapper's pistol on her wing taking it's affect on her body. Rarity trotted lamely towards the braggart pegasus.
"Darling, I don't think calling them out will help you. Especially since they did beat us." Rarity assured.
"Calling a retreat? In the middle of a battle?" Luna walked up to them, slightly bruised from her brief attack on Bruticus. "Something doesn't seem right with this at all."
"It's definitely a good thing." All eyes locked onto Cliffjumper, who was dragging an unconscious Blaster behind him. Out of all the Autobots, Cliff was the one who suffered the least. Kup's helm was so dented it looked like a potato chip, and Hot Rod had a missing arm. Ultra Magnus slowly got up, but was too injured to move after a savage beating by Megatron. Blaster was bludgeoned by Soundwave so badly that he could barely even twitch his fingers.
Magnus was also confused about Megatron's retreat. If it really was a rescue mission, then the Decepticons would have focused on the Combaticons first and the Autobots second, instead they just sent Soundwave. Megatron was a diabolical militaristic genius, but something was off.
He decided that the questions would have to wait, as he was heavily damaged and lucky to have survived a near execution by Megatron. Other mechs and femmes were definitely not as lucky.
Gathering up the wounded Autobots, Cliffjumper and Magnus dragged their comrades back to the shuttle for the CR chambers.
Later ...
Celestia, her hoofs somewhat bandaged from her mauling by Bruticus, stood from her view point at the rebuilt Mayor's office. The old building was demolished in the battle between Megatron's and Magnus' forces, and it took quite some time to rebuild, and the Mayor was quickly escorted to the hospital.
Speaking of the hospital, Celestia has never seen so much wounded and hurt ponies since the dragon invasion of 1445, one hundred years ago. Ponies had to be treated outside due to the immense numbers of patients. The ones who had the worst injuries, such as impalement or dismemberment, were treated in the red wing.
She had seen the horrors of what war could do. The Decepticons, however, waged it as if it was the only thing they did. She saw a unicorn in the red wing with both her hind legs paralyzed, a consequence of being under Rumble's pile drivers at the wrong time. An earth pony had a leg with third-degree burns so bad that the skin was peeling off like a banana, courtesy of Scrapper and his rather obtuse aim. Scootaloo recovered very quickly from her impalement, but still has a degree of trauma and shock.
"Hey Celestia, what's shaking?" The day princess turned around to see the fully recharged and rebuilt Blaster standing beside her. His fellow Autobots were helping with rebuilding the town along with some other ponies. Blaster's cassettes were also helping, like Steeljaw and Rewind, with the construction.
"Oh, nothing Blaster." She calmly replied. "Just thinking about things."
"Like the Decepticons?" He asked.
"No. Not that. It feels like I'm missing something."
"Don't sweat it." Blaster knelt down and then gently put his hand on her back. "You and your student fought bravely against Shockwave and Bruticus. I saw the whole thing until Soundwave started to slap me silly."
Celestia's eyes widened. That's what it was! Her student! Twilight Sparkle hasn't been seen since the Decepticons took off.
"Blaster, I'll be back." She unfurled her wings and glided towards the Ponyville library, her student's home. She knocked, and Spike come out with a cast on his left arm.
"Princess!" He cried, and then bowed. "I-I wasn't expecting you to be here."
"Neither was I, Spike." The dragon then led the princess into the tree, and she saw a massive pile of notes and drawings all over the shelves and desk. The most ominous one was a large drawing of Bruticus nailed to a bookshelf. The Combaticons were under him. There were lines that traced above the five Decepticons towards Bruticus, as if Spike was trying to figure out how he worked.
"You drew these?" She levitated several drawings of Ultra Magnus and Shockwave. There was also one drawing of Astrotrain's alt-mode for a train. Celestia smiled. Her student's creativity was rubbing off onto her assistant.
"Yeah. Nothing better to do while waiting for Twilight." Spike last statement shocked the alicorn.
"She's not here?" She asked, and Spike gave a confused look.
"When I was in the hospital, I figured that Twilight would come to the library after she was healed after our fight with Bruticus. Heh. That's one name I'm never forgetting ..." Spike shrugged, as if his miraculous survival between his friends and the Decepticon gestalt was all fun and games. His head then perked up.
"She's not at the hospital?"
The alicorn shook her head. "No, she isn't. I came here to see if Twilight was here."
"Twilight's not here?" Rainbow Dash and Applejack walked inside of the library. Applejack had a band-aid under her nose from a cut, and Rainbow's wing was healing after it was hit by Scrapper's pistol. Doctors said that she was lucky to still be able to fly, the round from the pistol only grazed her wing's external surface, leaving only charred feathers.
"No."
"Ah'll get Fluttershy. Maybe she knows." Applejack ran off. She came back seconds later with Fluttershy in back of her.
"She's not at my house, I told you that." Fluttershy protested against an earlier conversation the two ponies clearly had. Applejack responded with a small smile.
"Ah know, sugarcube. We were wondering if you might have known where she was."
The yellow pegasus shook her head. "Sorry, I don't know."
"Gosh darn-it." Applejack stomped her hoof. "It's not like Twi' to run off like that."
"She didn't 'run off', Applejack." Celestia assured. "We just don't know where she is."
As the ponies debated, Spike and Rainbow Dash thought to themselves. Rainbow was easily thinking of situations of Twilight running in just in time to quell the arguments. Spike on the other hand, was thinking about where she could have gone to.
The last time we saw her was with Bruticus. She lost her shield and I defended her. Fluttershy stopped Bruticus, but that made him mad and nearly blew us to bits. Spike was on a mental roll, but that came to a grave conclusion.
Wait. There was another. He was purple, and carrying ... no ... nononono. Not him. Please, don't do this ...
"Earth to Spike, come in?" Rainbow flapped her wings in front of the dragon's face, knocking him out of the stupor he was in. Spike looked around, the ponies around him and the princess. The princess. He knows where Twilight might be, but how will the princess react? She's her number one student! She'll lose it! Will she blame him, and banish the dragon to the moon for not protecting Twilight enough? Spike had every right to fear the worst.
Gathering his wits, he sucked in a sad breath. "I might know where Twilight is."
The ponies, especially the alicorn princess asked a sudden "Where?" and leaned in for the answer. Spike felt as if Fate himself was making him suffer. He said a single word, and he came to dread it.
"Shockwave."
~Earth~
Megatron stood in front of the monitor as the officer's meeting was going on behind him. However, the meeting seemed as if it had ended several hours ago, for the gestalt leaders were either holding their heads by their arms while leaning, eyeing the monitor from afar or staring into space. Motormaster was asleep, as his closed eyes and his lack on any movement showed. Scrapper was polishing his pistol for what seemed the eighty-second time. Soundwave had long glazed over. The newly arrived Razorclaw was twirling his thumbs, easily bored as everyone else. Onslaught was reading a data-pad he snuck in.
The only thing that would really make heads turn was the occasional yelling between Starscream and Megatron, the latter slapping the SIC like a rag-doll and out of the meeting. It was loud enough to wake Motormaster.
"Are we done yet?" He grumbled, eyeing Onslaught.
"Eh, beats me." He went back into reading his pad, and the Stunticon leader grumbled about 'airhead renegades'. Onslaught had heard that so many times it was as boring as Dead End on a good day.
"Decepticons, you may leave." Everyone got up in a hurry, eager to leave.
"Except you, Onslaught." Though he hid it perfectly, Onslaught would have groaned were it not for the threat of being blasted to bits. He turned around and sat back down on his seat. Megatron, followed by Starscream, walked over to the other side and sat in the main chair.
"I understand that you were captured by the organics during your first few days on the alien planet." Megatron said. "Their leader used some sort of energy to force you out of your alt-mode. Is it true?"
"Yes, sir." He replied, not liking where this was going.
"I also understand that you let Blast Off enter an unfinished race between him and an organic." Megatron had no disgust in this sentence, or any other emotions.
"Yes, sir. Blast Off said he owed her."
"Owed her, Onslaught?" Megatron gave quiet chuckle. "Seems you and the organics were getting along fairly well, Onslaught."
"Is that a bad thing, Lord Megatron?" Onslaught asked, anxiety rising with his fear.
Megatron gave a smile to Onslaught. "It seems your friendship had proven worthy, Onslaught. For this, I am ordering you to return to Cybertron to help Shockwave with his latest experiment." Megatron rose, but not without being interrupted by Starscream.
"What an excellent idea, Lord Megatron." Starscream sneered at the Decepticon warlord. "Send your renegades to fly through space again. I'll make sure that they don't land on any pony-planets, because we all know that went well." He trotted off, Megatron scowling back at him.
"Ignore the idiot, Onslaught. Ready your team. Shockwave has already been contacted." He stood up and walked out, probably to discipline Starscream for running his vocalizer again.
Onslaught huffed and exited the officer's room, headed towards where his team was staying.
Yet another adventure, he grumbled.
~Cybertron~
The ominous purple building stood triumphant over the city of Iacon. Arching upwards into the sky, it ended into a bent rectangle with a massive tube on top. There was also a massive yellow eye which served as a large window to look out onto Cybertron. The city had been under Decepticon rule for thousands of years, but there was only one Decepticon in the tower.
Shockwave stood idly as his experiment stood behind him. The organic that he had captured could not survive Cybertron's nearly airless atmosphere without some sort of way to breathe. So, he had built an oxygen suit, all purple, to help the organic survive. She had fallen asleep for some time after he was dropped off on Cybertron. Shockwave deduced the organic as something he had seen briefly while investigating Earth traditions. She was a unicorn, a supposed mythical creature that human children adore with their majesty.
Such nauseating blindness. Shockwave thought. He turned to see the organic groan as she started to wake up, lifting herself up withing the suit.
Twilight opened her eyes to what seemed ages ago. She could feel something on her, like a foamy suit of some kind, and realized that she was wearing some sort of exo-suit with a big glass dome on top so that she could see.
The biggest thing she saw was Shockwave.
Twilight yelped in terror and jumped up, and landed off a table she was snoozing on. The suit was clunky, and Twilight tried her best to run. As she reached the door, two parallel doors closed in front of her and trapped her with Shockwave.
"Let me out, you monster!" Twilight's horn glowed vividly, and Shockwave pulled out a small remote. He pressed a small rectangular button on the side, and Twilight had ten thousand volts of electricity course through her body for a nanosecond. The intense pain stopped her casting, and she fell defeated.
"Now now, we can't have you running off." Shockwave picked up the creature and carried her back to the operating table. She was laid down, and a huge pressurization of fresh oxygen rushed into the room, allowing the Decepticon scientist to take off her suit. Shockwave had experimented on creatures before, and this pressurized lab was one of his favorites for it's work-reducing properties.
Twilight opened her eyes once more to see Shockwave again, and a massive machine that dangled over her head. Before she could even mumble a single word, she was strapped horizontally by metal bracers and was forced against the table. The machine whirred, and Shockwave pressed several buttons on the side of the machine. A long tubular object slowly descended from the machine, and a U-shaped module sprung out of the tube, with needles at the tips pointing inward. The machine's module matched itself of the angle of Twilight's head.
As if it was written from a horror movie, the module slowly came onto Twilight's forehead, placing itself underneath her horn and above her eyelashes. She could feel the needles against her temples.
"Now, if I were you," Shockwave said, "I would try to stay still. This will hurt." He pressed several other buttons and Twilight's head was forcibly braced against the table, the module still stuck to her forehead. Shockwave pressed a final button, and a slow whine was heard around her temples. The needles were charging up.
"Oh, and organic?" Shockwave said, and the needles plunged painlessly into her skull, and mapping her brain.
"Welcome to the Decepticons."
Twilight screamed.
To Be Continued
Alright, here's the deal. I'm planning a sequel with another Decepticon gestalt team and another cartoon, preferably one from Cartoon Network. So far, I've got three story ideas that will tie with CiE. Which one should I start with?
1. Stunticons Next Door- A KND and Transformer crossover. When the Stunticons are found by the KND, they are accused of being adult weaponry and are sent to Sector V. The only one who made it out was Drag Strip, on the run and with out his team. Can he overcome his selfish desires and save the Stunticons from the KND?
2. Pr-Ed-acons- And Ed, Edd 'n Eddy crossover. The Predacons are stuck in the Cul-de-Sac with no communication or data on where they are. Their only hope for survival resides with three kids, and a couple dozen scams.
3. Foster's Home for Constructicon Friends- A FHfIF crossover. Shrunk and without communications, the Constructicons are 'adopted' into Foster's when they are found by Mac. Faced with being adopted and then separated, Scrapper and his team race against time to build a way back home!
Which one should it be?