The heat is on!

Chapter 19

Applewood's eyes darted everywhere. 'Where's Twilight?' He kept looking and looking for his lavender friend but couldn't find her. But when he looked up and to the left a bit, he saw something amazing: a mare. Now yes there were thousands of mares all throughout Equestria, but this one was different, for a minute she even made him forget about the problem with Twilight. He gazed at her; he definitely thought she was the most beautiful mare he had ever seen. She was a light blue pegasus, with a rainbow mane, and a rainbow in the shape of a lightning bolt for a cutie mark. He didn't know how long he stared at her, but apparently whatever time had passed it was too long because then the pegasus turned to him. "Hay!" She called out.

'Uh-oh.' Applewood thought. The pegasus swooped down and landed just a few feet from him. "And just what do you think you're doing?" She demanded sternly.

"Ah was- uh, um-" She gave him a hard look. "I was lookin' fer one ov mah friends." He gave her a sheepish grin, hoping maybe his southern charm might help him get outta this pickle. "Oh really? 'Cuz it sure looked like you were drooling, at me." Applewood swallowed, the pickle just got a whole lot bigger. "W-well-"

"Look, I don't have time for this. I gotta find my friends and, unless you've seen them, take your drooling somewhere else."

"What if ah have?" Applewood instantly slapped his hoof over his mouth after he said that. The pegasus moved closer, causing sweat to pore down Applewood's face. "Yeah, unless you've seen a pink earth pony or a purple unicorn, I doubt it." Purple unicorn?

"Wait," Applewood asked, "That purple unicorn's name wouldn't happen be Twilight Sparkle, would it?" The pegasus narrowed her eyes. "How do you know Twilight?"

"Oh, she's an old friend."

"Really?" Applewood answered the mare's question with a nod of the head.

"Hmm, maybe you can help me after all," She backed away and held out a hoof, "Name's dash, Rainbow dash." Applewood put his hoof to hers and shook it. "Applewood."

"All right Applewood, how do you feel about goin' back in there?" She pointed towards the mouth of a cave, A.K.A the Decepticon base. "Ah just got here so-"

"Perfect!" Rainbow half smiled and put her foreleg around him. "'Bout time I found somepony not scared to go in there."

"What?!"

The prison cell…

"What did you say, Ratchet?" Optimus asked.

"The Decepticons seemed to have vanished," Ratchet answered.

A light tapping on Ratchet's stabilizing-servo caught his attention. He looked down to see Twilight. "Uh, Ratchet?" She asked, her voice soft and hesitant. Ratchet held up a finger indicating "wait". "Just a moment, Prime," He looked down at Twilight. "Yes?"

"Um, well, uh, I kinda saw an Autobot somewhere around here and-" Ratchet instantly became an alert. "An Autobot? Here? Where? Lead me to him at once."

Twilight nodded and showed him where she remembered seeing him, pausing every so often to try and remember if it was this way or that way. They finally arrived at the destination.

"By the Allspark…" Ratchet muttered. The Autobot lifted up his helm, giving a weak but cocky smirk. "Hey, Ratchet. You miss your old pal, Singe?"

"Singe?" Ratchet asked, shocked, "Is it really you?!" A frown produced on the wounded prisoner's lip components. "'Course it's me, who else would it be?"

"Nitro-x, Electric Strom," Ratchet called over the comm. link, "Gather everyone up and report to my coordinates as soon as possible."

The two siblings gave a short word of conformation before setting off to the task.

Everybody seemed to have something to say about the recently discovered Autobot. "He must be new because I've seen a lot of those giant minotaurs and he isn't one of them and [insert more talking here]," Pinkie pie babbled.

"Wow," Nightwatch commented, "He's really beat up."

"Cool!" Nitro-x exclaimed, "A new Autobot!"

"What's so cool about him?" Electric Storm asked.

"Don't you see?! He's a Turbomaster!"

"A Turbomaster?"

They both turned to Singe with admiring optics and murmured in unison, "A Turbomaster."

Until Electric Storm asked, "Wait. What's a Turbomaster?"

"All right, all right!" Ratchet growled, "Everybody quiet down. You can all fawn over him later." Everybody voiced their objections. "Right now I have to get him out of there." Just as Ratchet's servo was about to make contact with Singe, Singe shouted, "NO!"

Ratchet froze, stunned. "I can't move from this position," Singe explained, "This whole prison is rigged to blow if I do."

"Hmm, this is a dilemma." Ratchet thought aloud. Twilight put a hoof to her chin, trying to think how to get them all out of here in one piece; she looked around then saw Nightwatch on Nitro-x's shoulder, that's when an idea hit her. "Ratchet? Can Autobots teleport like that Decepticon?"

"No, there are a lot of things Decepticons can do that us Autobots cannot and teleporting is one of them."

"OK, but what if I could teleport Singe, while the rest of you run out?"

"You have teleportation abilities?" Ratchet asked in disbelief, to which Twilight answered with a simple nod of the head.

"Remarkable!" Ratchet exclaimed, "I must say your race is one of the more intriguing ones I have met in my time."

"Thank you," Twilight smiled at the compliment, "And might I say yours is as well." Shining couldn't believe his ears, was Twilight-? No, that's silly.

Electric Storm then decided to join the conversation. "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, Ratchet, you think a little purple-" Twilight's horn began to glow, "- unicorn is gonna be able to teleport giant robots like-" She vanished…

Outside…

"-us? Well then-" She stopped, "Hey! Where did everyone go? Oh no! I'm all alone, how in the-" She looked ahead and saw a literal sea of ponies. "Oh, it worked, who knew?" She then saw Bluetsreak and began making her way towards him.

Prison cell…

"Well I'll be…" Ratchet was astonished; these ponies were amazing little creatures. First, the ability to produce energon, and now teleporting Autobots? Amazing. "Superb! Now we must set off." At the mention of that Nitro-x, with Nightwatch on his shoulder, Ratchet and Pinkie pie all ran out, but Shining stayed behind. "Twiliy are you sure you can do this?" He asked worriedly.

"Don't worry," Twilight answered as Singe lifted her up in his large servo, "I'll be fine."

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, but you need to get out of here as fast as you can."

"But-" Shining began.

"What?"

"I can't, I promised you I wouldn't leave you and-"

"Don't worry, I'll be fine." Twilight smiled as she tried to reassure her older brother. After a few seconds Shining nodded his head and was about to bolt out of the room, but then Twilight remembered something. "Shining?" He peaked his head in. "Yeah?"

"If I don't make it out, thanks for being the best big brother I could have ever had."

"Sure, and thanks for being the best little sister I could have ever had." They both smiled, and Shining bolted out of the door as fast as he could. Twilight got up on Singe's shoulder and asked. "Are you ready?"

"I think so, but can I ask you something first?" Singe asked.

"What?"

"Why are you doing this? I mean, you don't even know me, and you're risking your life."

"Yes, but I could never forgive myself if I left you in here, that'd be almost as bad as if I killed you."

"Hmm, I think I like you." The two smiled at Singe's statement.

"Singe? We've all made it out and safely evacuated the perimeter, you can begin when ready, Twilight."

"You ready?" Singe asked the purple unicorn.

"Yes, I think so. But did my brother make it out?"

"Yes, he's here."

"Good," She whispered to herself, then raised her voice so Singe could hear what she said, "Okay, I'm ready."

"All right, here we come."

As Twilight was beginning the spell, she heard a voice. "Twilight!" She gasped, it was Rainbow, she tried to stop, but it was too late! "Rainbow!Get out of here as quickly as you can there's going to be a-"

But it was too late; she was already with the others in the Everfree forest. Her face was pale as she got off Singe. "Don't worry Twilight, I'll get her!" Singe said quickly rising to his feet, but then he collapsed. Twilight bit her lip and suddenly rushed towards the base, hoping to save her friends' lives. But when she cleared the forest and was in the grass field that surrounded it, she heard a noise. She turned ever so slightly to see who it was and saw Optimus' truck mode rushing past her, valiantly going into the doomed base.

"Warning! Self destruct sequence initiated, 35 seconds till detonation."

"Uh oh!" Applewood exclaimed.

"We gotta get outta here, now!" Rainbow shouted, at that second they started running for their lives.