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Chapter 15

Spike, Applewood, Fluttershy, and Applejack rushed through the Canterlot castle hallway as fast as their legs could carry them; they got to the door of the main room where two guards, well, guarded it. "Halt!" One of them shouted, "Who goes there?" He then looked at Applewood and exclaimed. "Oh! Hay Applewood, I didn't recognize you. I thought you were on vacation."

"Ah was, but somthin' came up. Look, we've gotta talk to Princess Celestia, can ya please let us in?" Applewood pleaded. He looked at them both and noticed they were both looking at something behind him, he turned to see what it was but all he saw was Fluttershy-looking particularly nervous-and his cousin Applejack, impatiently shifting from hoof to hoof.

He turned his attention back at the guards, they were still staring but now their mouths were hanging open. Applewood was perplexed, but then saw that they were distracted, which meant he could walk right past them. He pushed on the door and- the two guards put their hooves in front of him, but they were still drooling. "What knockouts!" The other guard exclaimed.

"No kiddin'!" The first one agreed, that's when it hit him, Applewood turned to see what the two mares' reactions would be; Fluttershy bit her lip and blushed a bit, then turned her head in a way that her mane would block her face. Applejack frowned and walked over to the one that called them a "knockout". "Look buddy, half of a town was ponynapped by a bunch u' alien robots, we got no time fur ya'll to be all gaga over me 'n' Fluttershy. Ya got it?" The guard vigorously nodded his head and they both opened the door.

'Con Base…

"In ya go!" Skywarp boomed, throwing Twilight into a dark cell and shut the door. She landed with a thud; pain jolted through her left side and she groaned. Unfortunately, she had learned the hard way that Skywarp was called Skywarp for a good reason. Every time she teleported behind him, he would do the exact same thing until he ultimately ended up capturing her, and then threw her in a prison cell.

She stood up and looked around; it was too dark to see anything so she let her horn glow to see if that might help. She soon saw that the room was large, about 75 feet around, because there was no light she figured that an escape would be difficult, and she didn't feel like teleporting again in case Skywarp was out there. She walked around the cell, looking for anything that might help her escape, that's when she heard it; a sniffle, like somepony had been crying. "Hello?" She called out, "Is anypony in here?" Suddenly she felt something gently poke her ribs; she whirled around to see what it was. Two small eyes looked at her, she moved in to see that they belonged to the little unicorn colt she had run into earlier: Nightwatch. In between sniffs and tears he managed to choke out. "Do you know where my daddy is?"

Canterlot Castle…

Prince Shining Armor was in pure awe. He looked all around at the giant robots and could only say one thing: "Wow." His wife, Princess Cadence, while in equal shock, wasn't as awestruck as her husband. Princess Celestia had called on the couple to fill them in on the Autobot/Decepticon situation. "…And that is how we ended up on your planet, we hope to finish the Decepticons once and for all." Sentinel Prime ended.

"Wow." Shining wow-ed. Cadence put her hoof to her forehead but grinned, her husband was normally well behaved and mature, but these robots did bring out the eleven year old colt in him (she actually found it kinda cute). "Excuse me," The four Autobots (The two Primes, Jazz, and Mirage) turned to see what Princess Celestia was going to say, "By finish, do you mean, 'kill'?"

"Yes." Sentinel answered the question with ease.

"Can't you simply talk to him? Surely there must be a more civil way then violence."

"No there is not, many Primes have tried to persuade Megatron to stop fighting this war in favor of peace, they were also killed the same hour. As Autobots we do not like violence, we despise it, but for a cruel, sick, disgusting tyrant like Megatron, who would enslave this planet and countless others, violence is the only way." Suddenly, Spike, Applewood, Fluttershy, and Applejack bolted through the doors; Applejack was the first to speak. "Princess Celestia, we-" She then noticed the Autobots, her eyes grew wide. After a few moments of just staring she remembered why they came and managed to tell them all about what happened in Ponyville.

When she had finished Optimus spoke up. "Autobots, we must act now. No doubt Ponyville is only the beginning. Jazz, Mirage, you stay and guard Canterlot, the rest of us will go and rescue the civilians. Autobots, Roll out!" At that (infamous) command Sentinel and Optimus began to run out the door, but Princess Celestia called out to them. "Optimus." The Autobot stopped and turned to look at the Equine leader. "I must insist that you take Applejack and Fluttershy, along with Prince Shining Armor." A quiet "Yesss" was suddenly heard but Optimus ignored it and told her. "I would prefer no unnecessary casualties in this skirmish."

"If I know them, there won't be."

The prison…

"Lord Megatron," Shockwave greeted while bowed low for his illustrious commander. Megatron glanced over at a weak Autobot on Shockwave's table. "How much information have you been able to extract from her?"

"Alas, none my lord, I was about to interrogate the purple equine next."

"Excellent, but make sure to give it a slow and painful demise, I want to see it beg for its own death."

"As you command, Lord Megatron."