The next chapter is here, and remember that I am still holding the contest that allows you to make a character, and that character just might appear in the story.
Because of the arrival of the Equestrian Army and not the royal guards, everyone in Ponyville have been feeling uneasy, knowing that these ponies have been known to kill and get away with it. In hopes to ease the feeling, Mayor Mare ordered that a temporary building was to be built; the building would be a living quarter for the Equestrian Army, everyone was happy to hear that. At the construction site two Earth Ponies, wearing orange vests and hard hats, were eating lunch.
"I can't wait for this to be finished, than those military ponies can be out of our houses,"
"I have to agree with you, I have one of them living in my house, and let me tell you, the fun in bed with my wife has been sucked out,"
As the two were talking, they did not notice that a steel beam was coming loose from the structure; it finally gave with a huge snap and began to fall in the two ponies' area. The two ponies looked up to see it, knowing that it was too late to move, they closed their eyes and awaited death, they heard a crash, but they were still alive. Opening their eyes they saw a red metal creature, who happened to be Big Macintosh in his robot mode, holding the beam with his arms, with noticeable dents in the arms from the beam.
"Are you two okay?" Big Macintosh asked, the two ponies nodded in unison, Big Macintosh put the beam down and walked away, before the two ponies could thank him for saving their lives. A Unicorn and a Pegasus from the Equestrian Army ran to the construction site and saw the dented beam in the ground.
"What happened!?" The Pegasus asked.
"The beam got loose and fell, but we were saved by one of the metal creatures that saved Ponyville,"
The two military ponies looked at each other, surprised to hear that the metal creatures are still around Ponyville.
"Inform General Thunder Bolt about this," the Pegasus commanded, the Unicorn gave a salute, and ran off to find the general
Near the Everfree Forest, two colts, both pegasi, were daring a unicorn filly to go in the forest.
"Come on, are you chicken," One of the colt said mockingly.
"No, it's just that my mom told me not go in there,"
"I think you're a chicken," The two colts proceeded to make chicken sounds and standing up so they could use their arms as chicken wings. This got the filly mad.
"Fine! I'll go into the Everfree Forest!"
The filly slowly walked into the forest, but when she was pounced on by a Timber Wolf, causing the filly two scream.
"Oh no, a Timber Wolf!" one of the colts yelled as he ran towards the Timber Wolf and the trapped filly, he saw a projectile go right by him and hit the Timber Wolf, causing a small explosion and having the Timber Wolf fly off the filly, with a crater in its wooden skin, the three young ponies looked at the one that fired the shot and saw Rainbow Dash in her robot form, with her right arm straight and a small missile going into her arm. Rainbow Dash walked up to the Timber Wolf, grabbed it by the throat and picked it up.
"You better stay away from those three, cause next time, you will get more than a crater in you," Rainbow Dash said glaring at the Timber Wolf, the wolf whimpered at her and tried its best to escape, Rainbow Dash gave it its wish and put down the wolf, the wolf ran deeper into the Everfree forest whimpering and yipping.
"Thank you," the filly said looking at Rainbow Dash, the rainbow metallic pony smiled and flew off into the sky.
The days passed and there have been more and more news about the metallic creatures, soon the papers were calling them heroes, but Thunder Bolt didn't like it.
"Look here Mayor, I don't care if you think that they are helping the town! They may be working with the Predicons!" Thunder Bolt yelled at the Mayor of Ponyville, who just sat in her chair glaring at the General.
"General Thunder Storm, I should have you know that since those metallic creatures came, Ponyville has become safer, and that the Predicons have not attacked," Mayor Mare said, leaving her chair and walked towards the General.
"Mayor Mare, you cannot be so certain, they are putting us in a false sense of security, and once we put our guard down, the Predicons will attack,"
"Than we will just have to wait and see General,"
In the library, Twilight Sparkle, Pinkie Pie, Apple Jack, and Fluttershy were talking about how the Predicons haven't attacked yet.
"Fluttershy, are you sure that you haven't seen or heard anything suspicious going on in the Everfree forest?" Twilight Sparkle asked.
"No Twilight I haven't,"
"Maybe we scared them away with our awesome moves, and surprises!" Pinkie Pie shouted, smiling as she said it in a fast matter.
"I don't think so sugarcube, the Predicons don't look like the ones that would give up after one fight, and if they do attack, us four will be the only ones that could protect Ponyville," Applejack pointed out, causing Pinkie Pie to frown at the realization that what the farm pony was saying was true, Rainbow Dash and Sourin went to Cloudsdale for the Wonderbolts show, Rarity was in Canterlot showing her new fashion to Fancy Pants, and Big Macintosh was at Appleloosa, helping with the apple harvest, leaving the four ponies alone to defend the village.
"Don't worry girls, if the Predicons do attack we will be ready for them," Twilight Sparkle said with a smile, but deep inside she knew that it would be difficult to defend Ponyville if all 7 Predicons attacked.
In the middle of the apple orchid in Sweet Apple Acres, the four Predicons Tarantulas, Waspinator, Quickstrike, and Blackaracnia were building a gun-like device.
"So tell me, what does this machine do?" Quickstrike asked, making Tarantulas sigh.
"I told you before, this device will turn all the apples in this orchid poisoness, killing the ponies in the village, and giving us the chance to dig up the Energon,"
"I say we just slag them,"
"Will you two shut up, we need this built before any of those ponies come here and ruin it," Blackaracnia said, grapping a pipe and attaching it to the device. Not knowing that Granny Smith and Applebloom were walking in their direction.
"I am too old for this," Granny Smith complained.
"But Granny Smith, since Applejack is out and Big Mac is in Appleloosa, we have to make sure that the apples are okay,"
"I wonder where your sister is right now, I can't do this job... Hey what are those four doing in my orchid!?" Granny Smith said, but then yelled when she saw the four Predicons. Applebloom recognized Tarantulas and Quickstrike, and backed away. The four Predicons looked at the two ponies, and Quickstrike got his cobra arm ready.
"Yes I finally get to slag something!" Quickstrike yelled, and fired, Applebloom closed her eyes, waiting for the pain, but felt nothing, opening her eyes, she saw that a purple forcefield was around them.
"What the slag!?" Quickstrike yelled and fired at the forcefield, but the shots just hit the shield and not penetrate it.
"Just try, you will never get through my forcefield," A voice said, the Predicons and two ponies turned their heads towards the sound to see Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, and Fluttershy in robot mode, with their weapons ready.
"Well, well, well, if it isn't the ponies," Tarantulas said.
"Actually, you can call us Maximals," Applejack said, the four Predicons suddenly got angry when she said that.
"So you call yourselves Maximals, knowing full well that we hate them," Blackarancia said.
"Yep, but also it sounds cool, much better than Ponycons, but still it could work if we do meet the other Maximals," Pinkie Pie said cheerfully. The Predicons looked at the four ponies with disbelief on their faces,
"Ponycons?"
"Long story, but we will not be telling you it," Applejack said, and fired her revolver, the shots sailed through the at the four Predicons, Waspinator flew out of the way, while the other three rolled out of the way, causing the shots to hit the device, but the shots just bounced off.
"What in tarnation!?" Applejack yelled.
"You see you stupid pony, this metal is made out of a special alloy, causing all small fire arms just to bounce off," Tarantulas explained and brought out his weapon, the other three Predicons doing the same. The four ponies took cover, and Applejack looked at Granny Smith and Applebloom and yelled at them.
"Get out of here; it's too dangerous!"
Applebloom nodded and tried to drag the old green pony with her, but Granny Smith was too old to go fast.
"So Twilight how are we going to blow that thing up, our weapons won't do anything!" Applejack yelled, Twilight thought of a plan as the Predicons fired at their cover, but then she got an idea.
"Pinkie! Can you get one or more explosives to that thing!?"
"Yes, but I can't with these meanie pants shooting at us!"
"We will cover you Pinkie, just go in and set those bombs!"
Pinkie Pie nodded and got out of cover with two explosives ready, meanwhile Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, and Fluttershy was shooting at the Predicons, with Fluttershy firing at Waspinator.
"Yellow Pony-bot cannot get Waspinator!" Waspinator yelled, overconfident at the fact that he faced the shy pony, but his confidence shattered when his two wings were blown off, causing him to fall to the ground head first.
Pinkie Pie got to the device and set up the explosives, but was interrupted when Blackarancia kicked her in the face.
"You have a lot of nerves going against us,"
"You silly spider, I don't have nerves anymore," Pinkie Pie said smiling, this caused the black widow Predicon to groan, but went forward to attack. Pinkie Pie managed to dodge some of the kicks, but ended up getting hit by some of them, during one of the kicks, Pinkie Pie managed to move to the side, and plant a bomb on Blackaracnia.
"Hope you enjoy the fireworks,"
Blackaracnia's face was replaced with fear, as the bomb exploded, causing her to fly towards the Everfree forest. Pinkie Pie ran back to cover, and pressed the detonation button, causing the bombs on the machine to explode, taking the device with it. Tarantulas and Quickstrike went flying into the opposite directions, with Tarantulas hitting a tree, and Quickstrike hitting a rock.
"Better think next time before you come to Sweet Apples Acres," Applejack said, smiling and putting away her weapon.
"This is not over Sugar-bot," Quickstrike said, and fired his cobra weapon, the green blast missing the orange pony by a couple feet.
"You missed!"
"No I didn't sugar-bot,"
When Quickstrike said that, a scream was heard, and then a thump, looking behind Applejacks eyes widened when she saw Granny Smith lying on the ground, and Applebloom screaming at the unconscious body, telling her to get up.
"See you later Sugar-bot," Quickstrike said, getting up and running off, Tarantulas and Waspinator followed. Applejack stared at the unconscious Granny Smith, not realizing that a squadron of ponies were coming to the area.
"Come on Applejack let's go!" Twilight Sparkle yelled, running into the Everfree Forest, Applejack, and the other two followed her.
Ten ponies, 3 pegasies, 3 unicorns, and 4 earth ponies from the Equestrian Army, stood to the side as Red Heart and Tender Heart carefully put Granny Smith on a stretcher, pick it up and ran off to the hospital.
"So what did the young filly say?" one of the unicorns asked one of the earth Ponies.
"She said that her grandmother was shot at by one of the Predicons, according to her the Predicons were battling another group called the Maximals, I'm guessing that one of the Predicons miss fired, or one of the Maximals dodged the shot," the earth pony explained.
"I see, we must report this to General Thunder Bolt, and tell him that the Maximals are no threat," the Pegasus said, the earth pony shook his head.
"I'm sorry to say this, but even if we told him that the Maximals were good, he wouldn't believe us,"
At the hospital, Applejack was in the waiting room, waiting to hear the news.
"Applejack calm down, it will be alright, Granny Smith will make it," Twilight Sparkle said, trying to make her friend feel better.
10 minutes passed, and the doctor came into the waiting room, with a sad look on his face.
"How is she!? Is she going to make it!?" Applejacked yelled.
"You see Applejack, when we examined her, we found a poison running through her system, we tried to extract it, but it was no use, I'm sorry, but she has gone to a better place,"
Applejacks eyes widened at this.
"No it can't be, she can't be dead!"
The doctor said nothing, Applejack ran out of the hospital, through the streets and into Sweet Apple Acres, there she tried her best to cry, but because she was no longer organic, nothing came, but soon her sadness turned to anger, then to rage, she kicked a tree causing it to fall over from the strength that she never knew she had and yelled at the sky.
"I will kill you Quickstrike! I will find you and kill you!"
As she yelled, her irises turned red for a second, than back to green.