Chapter 26
"Shining I'm all right!" Twilight assured her B.B.B.F.F.
"Are you sure?" Shining asked, not sure of his L.S.B.F.F.'s answer.
"Yes, I think it was just the shock of nearly being dissected by that Shockwave character, I'm perfectly Ok now."
"But what about that dream? What if Shockwave-"
"Shining!" Twilight moaned.
"All right, all right, but are you sure?"
"Yes! I'm exhausted from helping rebuild Ponyville, and you should be too."
"Moi? You kidding? You can't wear this stallion out." The prince said, puffing out his chest.
"Oh, really?" Twilight gave him a mischievous grin, and before Shining knew what hit him, Twilight jumped on his back. "Then I guess you won't get worn out by one of your world famous Shining Armor pony back rides?"
"My pony back rides? I haven't given you one of those since you were five or six!"
"Better late than never!" The lavender unicorn giggled, Shining sighed and began to gallop around the library, with a laughing Twilight holding on to him. Shining smiled at his younger sister's giggles; he hadn't heard her laugh like that in years. They continued on for another minute or two, but when they heard a knock on the door they stopped instantaneously. Twilight quickly scooted off her brother, wiping happy tears out of her eyes and answered the door, it was Princess Celestia. "Good evening Princess." Twilight greeted, bowing.
"Good evening Twilight, how is everything?"
"Fine, how did everything go with the Autobots?"
The Princess blushed. "Well, let's just say we had a smashing time. But that's not why I came; I came to tell you that I am going to need you to talk with the Autobots. Just ask them questions about themselves."
"You mean like interviewing them?"
"Yes I suppose that's one way to put it, or perhaps you can consider yourself as the first Equestrian ambassador to Cybertronians, or aliens come to think of it."
"I would be honored your majesty."
Celestia smiled. "Good, though I fear your lessons on the magic of friendship will have to be postponed."
"I understand Princess." Celestia was about to leave, but then she remembered something. "Oh Shining?"
"Yes ma'am?" He saluted.
"I saw Cadence earlier and she said she wished you'd give her a pony back ride sometime." Celestia closed the door, leaving a fangirl-screaming Twilight Sparkle and a blushing Shining Armor.
At the Autobot base, the next day…
Twilight walked around the huge base, feeling so small around all these giant beings. She looked around, trying to find out who to interview first. The Autobots were working to fix up the base. Apparently, some more Cybertroanians decided to drop in, putting a lot of damage on the base.
Flashback:
"Hey Prowl?" Bluestreak asked, squinting at the sky.
"Yes?" The SIC inquired, not paying much attention to his younger brother.
"Is it just me, or is there something there in the sky? Like a Decepticon, or something?"
"Mostly likely it's just your imagination."
"I'm not so sure…"
Nitro-x and Electric Storm (who had just recently been let out of the brig) went over to Bluestreak and the window. They also looked out. Electric Storm was the first to speak up. "Prowler, he's telling the truth. There is something in the sky heading towards us!"
Prowl disregarded their alarm. "Nice prank but I'm not falling for it."
Nitro-x then tried. "Prowl, we're serious! There's something that's falling out of the sky and it's gonna hit us any-"
*CRASH*
"-cycle."
Three objects crash landed in the roof of the base, making a big dent. Bluestreak, Nitro-x, Prowl and Electric Storm were caught under the debris. Once the dust settled, the three unidentified objects were what clearly appeared to be meteors.
The trio of meteors began to shift, turning and twisting in complex movements. Once fully transformed, they took on the appearance of three Cybertronians the other Autobots knew quite well. Throwing the debris off themselves, Prowl, Bluestreak, and Nitro-x greeted the new transformers.
"Cliffjumper! I can't believe you're really here!" Bluestreak babbled to the short red Cybertronian, "I mean I know you're actually here, but I can't believe you're at base! I mean…" Cliffjumper basically ignored the chatty Autobot. Nitro-x walked up to the two tallest ones-who were red and yellow- who had a seemingly similar appearance to each other. He looked the two over then muttered, "Don't I know you two from somewhere…Hey! You're that guy that beat me in that race!"
The yellow Autobot clenched his servos into a fist. "You're that guy that messed up my paint job!" Just before punches started to fly, Prowl got in between the three and said, "Alright you three, break it up."
The yellow and the tallest red Autobot then shouted, "Prowler!"
Prowl's optics widened and muttered, "I thought I got rid of you, Sideswipe and Sunstreaker."
The red one put his arm around the SIC and told him, "You can't get rid of us that easily!"
"Hey! If the family reunion is over, can someone please GET ME OUT FROM UNDER THIS GIANT PIECE OF METAL THAT IS SQUISHING ME TO DEATH?!" Electric Storm yelled, annoyed and being left behind when there were new recruits. The yellow Autobot know as Sunstreaker heaved the heavy piece of metal off the smaller 'bot.
After dusting herself off, the femme regarded the mech. "Hello sir, my name is Electric Storm. Autobot who doesn't really have a job, big troublemaker, one of Prowl's favorite 'bots to head slap, currently youngest Autobot and one of the last femmes at your service!" She gave him a stiff salute before asking, "So…who in all of Cybertron are you?"
"I'm Sideswipe!" Chirped the tallest red mech and put an arm around his yellow companion, "And this is my twin, Sunn-"
"Don't even think about it!"
"-I mean Sunstreaker. The other guy over there is Cliffjumper." Electric Storm narrowed her optics and asked, "Hey…aren't you two the guys who did Jet Judo?"
"The very ones!" Sideswipe confirmed.
Before things got too out of hand-err, servo, Prowl cleared his throat. They all looked back at him. "Before we get back into old memories, there's something you all have to take care of." He pointed to the giant hole in the wall. "The roof."
"Awwwwww!" They all moaned.
End of flashback.
Twilight made her way through the wreckage, looking for an Autobot that might be willing to talk to her, after a few minutes she came across a large dinosaur/rocket creature who was lying asleep in a nearby field. It intrigued her because:
It was huge.
It was interesting looking.
She was a sucker for huge interesting looking dinosaur/rockets (Even though she didn't know what a rocket was).
"Excuse me?" She called out, the creature jolted awake and looked around. "Who said that?" He had a British accent which seemed to contrast his beast like form.
"I did." The creature whirled around and saw Twilight. "Oh, hello there, I didn't see you. Is there something you need?"
"I was just wondering if I could ask you a few questions."
"About what?"
"You, your home planet, things you like to do for fun, stuff like that."
"Oh, all right then, ask away."
"Well…" Twilight glanced around for something to start with. "What's your name?"
"They call me Sky Lynx, what about you?"
"My name is Twilight Sparkle, it's nice meet you."
"Yes it is."
Twilight cleared her throat to try and forget the Autobots apparent ego. "So what is Cybertron like?"
"Ahh, Cybertron, the most beautiful planet in the galaxy, its metal ground, rust seas, and beautiful cities, how I truly miss it. Though this planet and Earth aren't too bad either, but how I wish we could return some day."
"Why can't you?"
"Well, you see, our battle with the Decepticons had gotten so out of hand, that it was no longer inhabitable, so we left and came to Earth."
"Oh, what was Earth like?"
"Much like this planet, except it was inhabited by humans, and later other aliens, namely creatures called Vulcan."
"There were other aliens beside you and your kind on that planet?" Twilight made a mental note to try and visit that planet some day.
"Yes, though we've been there the longest of the aliens," his large reptilian mouth grew into a smile, not a sneer, but a big smile, that soon turned to laughter. "You should have seen their faces when they got off their ship, it was priceless!"
"Whatta ya talkin about Sky Lynx?" Powerglide asked.
"The time when the Vulcans landed on earth and saw us."
"Oh yeah," Powerglide began to chuckle, "I offered 'em a race and they said it was a 'pointless and primitive sport'. I think they were just scared that I'd beat 'em, I am the fastest flyer in the universe after all."
Sky Lynx frowned at his friend's self-given title. "Powerglide, you must be joking, I am the fastest flyer in the universe."
"Um, guys?" Twilight asked, hoping to settle the conflict peacefully.
"You kiddin'? I could fly circles around your sorry chassis." Powerglide challenged, ignoring Twilight's peacemaking efforts.
"Guys?"
"Beryllium baloney!"
"Guys?!"
Suddenly Swoop joined the conversation. "Ugh, me Swoop say I fastest flier in universe."
Then an Arielbot, named Air Raid, jumped in. "You sorry glitches serious? I'm the fastest flier in the universe."
Then Rainbow dash entered the quarrel. "Hay! You guys must be new, so I'll let you off easy." The four Autobots looked down at the pegasus. "What do you mean?" Air Raid questioned (Twilight was now off somewhere else hoping to find Autobots that were, as she put it, "Less Rainbow dash-y").
"I'm the best flyer in the universe."
"Yeah right." The four Autobots snorted in unison.
Real quick, this story takes place in current FIM, but on earth it takes place in the mid- 2100s, because I am planning the sequel to be an MLP/TF/ Star Trek: Enterprise x-over (if you couldn't already tell by the Vulcan refference) .
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