Nothings gonna stand in our way!

Chapter 16

When Sentinel and Optimus drove up, Nitro-x, Bumblebee, Ratchet, and Bluestreak were already there. "Hi boss!" Bluestreak greeted. Optimus turned to Prowl and asked. "Are you positive this is the Decepticon base?"

"Yes, we saw Frenzy and Rumble exit this cave."

"Did they see you?"

"Yes sir, but uh," Prowl paused and the slightest hint of a faint smile flitted across his features briefly, "We took care of them." He stepped aside and the Primes saw the cassette twins; tied up. "When Megatron finds out about this he's gonna tan your-" But before Rumble could finish his not-so-threatening-threat, Prowl interrupted, saying.

"Perhaps we should gag them as well." Bluestreak thought that was a great idea, so he did just that. "Hey guys?" Nitro-x asked.

"What is it, Nitro-x?" Optimus answered.

"We might want to go over there." He pointed to the forest that Optimus, Sentinel, and the ponies emerged from.

"Why?" Shining Armor inquired.

"'Cuz I put some bombs on the cave entrance and it might blow us all the way back to Gobotron." That was all it took, they raced towards the forest with a tied, and gagged, Frenzy and Rumble hot on their tail.

"Are ya'll sure this is gonna work?" Applejack asked.

"Do pigs fly?" Nitro asked, to which the three ponies shook their heads in response.

"Then it'll work," Nitro confirmed, though at the same time he confused the equine trio, "Okay, here we go: in 3…2…1!"

There was a huge explosion which caused the entrance to rip wide open. After the dust settled, the Autobots and ponies began to charge inside the base, where a black and purple Decepticon named Spinister roared. "Intruders! Autobots!"

Prowl ran up to him and gave him a precise punch in the jaw, knocking Spinister out cold. Suddenly the Autobots were met with heavy fire from Skywarp and Thundercracker, who were hovering above them. "I got this one!" With that Nitro-x jumped and slashed Skywarp's foot thruster with his sword, "Gahhhhh!" The purple seeker crumpled to the ground, landing with a thud.

Inside one of the cells…

"…And that's how we defeated Nightmare Moon." Twilight finished. She had been telling Nightwatch some stories about far off places and stories about the early days of Equestria, but unfortunately for her, Nightwatch knew of her "reputation" as the Element of magic and wanted stories about her and her friends. She didn't normally like to tell ponies about her life but she made an exception to calm the little unicorn (even though she did downplay some of the role she played the best she could).

"Wow," Nightwatch breathed, staring at Twilight with wide eyes, causing her face to blush a bright shade of red. "You're amazing." Nightwatch finished.

"I don't know about amazing, I couldn't have done it without my friends." That last word made her wonder, what happened to her friends? Did they escape? Did the Decepticons recapture them? Were they- Twilight shook her head as she tried not to finish that dreadful thought.

"I wish I could do magic like you do."

"Why can't you?"

"I never learned. My dad's a pegasus and my mom-" His eyes began to water; "My mom was an earth pony." The word "was" stuck out to the purple unicorn; she couldn't imagine how hard it must've been to lose a parent.

"I'm sorry." Was all she managed to say, she knew it wasn't much, but that was all she could think of to say.

"I really miss her." The little unicorn sniffled before bursting into tears. "Why did you have to die, mommy?! Why?!" More tears came. It hurt Twilight to see this little foal having to deal with the death of a loved one at such a young age. She tried to think of something- ANYTHING-that might comfort him.

But her years of magic training had never taught her how to comfort somepony after they had lost a loved one. That's when it hit her like a load of Fluttershy's frogs; it wouldn't be easy, she'd have to reschedule some things but maybe… "Nightwatch, would you like me to teach you magic?" She heard him sniffle and then ask. "Could you?"

"Sure, if it's all right with your dad."

"I'll ask him, but I'm sure he'll say yes! Would you really?!" Twilight saw the happiness in his eyes and she couldn't help but smile. "I'd love to." Nightwatch bounded over to her and gave her a great, big bear hug.

Outside…

"Boom! There goes another one!" Bumblebee shouted after knocking down Thundercracker.

"Focus on the task at hand Bumblebee, freeing the ponies is our one goal today." Optimus reminded the young scout.

"Yeah, but it couldn't hurt to take a few out for later." Bumblebee chirped happily. He, Optimus, Shining Armor, Fluttershy, and Nitro-x ran down the hall looking every which way for the 'Cons prisoners, they had found a few but not all. "Where is she?" Shining muttered under his breath, but just loud enough for Nitro-x to hear. "She who?" He asked

"My little sister, in all the excitement I forgot she was in Ponyville. Shoot!" He grimaced at the thought.

"Don't worry we'll find her," Nitro then muttered under his breath, "I hope."