The beginning of the end

Chapter 400

"Lord Megatron." Soundwave greeted the tyrant, who was sitting on his new throne in the Crystal Empire's castle with The Fallen standing near him.

"Yes Soundwave," The tyrant answered.

"The Autobots are just outside the city, within attacking range."

"Excellent, attack them at once, leave no survivors."

"We cannot, my lord. There is a large dome over the Autobots' location."

"What?!"

Outside the city…

"You're doing wonderful Shinning," Princess Cadence praised her husband.

"Thanks Cadey," He replied lovingly before the two shared a long kiss.

"Ugh, Me Grimlock say no time for kissing, me Grimlock say we bash brains!"

"Yeah," Nitro-x stated weakly, "I feel like I'm gonna puke."

The couple stopped but giggled happily.

"Sweet Primus!" Nitro-x exclaimed, then a though hit him, "Hmm, maybe National Geographic might want pictures of two mythological creatures during their mating ritual."

This instantly got glares from a certain couple to which Nitro-x ignored. He spotted Optimus Prime and Prowl looking over battle plans, and decided to see what they were doing.

"How's it going?" The mech asked.

"Hm," The SIC hummed absent mindedly.

"Working on battle plans?"

"Yes."

"Well why don't we just go in there and attack them?" Prowl stared at him. "One does not simply barge in and fight the Decepticons. We must have a plan because the Decepticons are a cunning and ruthless enemy and something that simple would obviously not get past the Decepticons!" Nitro-x paused before stating, "Well, yeah, but it still could work."

*FFFZZZTTT*

*CLANG*

Nitro-x stared at the now unconscious Prowl on the ground and gasped. "I killed him!"

Ratchet bent down over the SIC to check his vitals. "No, you just made him glitch. But now one of our top officers is out. Way to go, Nitro-x!"

"Hey!" Said knocker-outer-of-bots defended, "My plan is just too brilliant for his pea for a processor to cope with!"

Optimus vented. "It appears as that since our lead strategist is out, we will have to go with Nitro-x's plan."

"Yeah!" Nitro-x cheered, "We're going with the plan that I thought up! Ow!" He looked around. "That's weird. It felt like someone just headslapped me but Prowl's…" He trailed off as he looked Prowl. His optics widened and he slowly backed away

"Who's gonna lead the assault as S.I.C. since Prowler's out?" Jazz asked.

"That would be the one who thought up the plan," The Prime answered.

"Hey, that's me!" Nitro-x exclaimed before realization dawned on him, "Wait…that's me. Oh scrap."

Optimus turned to the others. "Autobots, this could be the solar cycle we finally rid ourselves of the Decepticons."

Cheers erupted from the 'Bots.

"Our plan is simple: destroy every Decepticon you see, leave none standing."

"Optimus, sir," Princess Cadence began, "Is that the plan? Just attack?"

"Hey!" Nitro-x shouted, "It's a great plan, thought up by the new and improved S.I.C, A.K.A me." Suddenly Nitro-x felt another slap, "Ow! Prowl cut it-" He turned around and saw no one.

"Me Grimlock say this plan best ever! Dinobots, Transform and bash Decepticon brains!" With that the Dinobots transformed and made their way to the city.

"Well," Nitro-x began, "Let's, uh, follow 'em!"

More cheers from the Autobots and a few from some ponies. They began following the Dinobots towards the battlefield.

Rarity and Starblast looked at each other, they continued their stare for who-knows how long. After a while Rarity finally gave Starblast a small kiss on the cheek, and told softly him. "Starblast, please, don't die."

"Don't worry Rarity, I don't plan to." He dug his hoof into the dirt and asked, "Will you stay close to me in the battle?"

"Yes, I will try to." The two ponies smiled at each other and touched the other one's nose with their own, and after a while joined the rest of the team.

"Why do these organics make so much mouth contact? Seriously it's disgusting." Nitro-x said after seeing Rarity kiss Starblast.

Applewood and Rainbow dash were also talking to each other. "Good luck AW, hope to see ya on the other side." Rainbow dash told him.

"Yeah, you too." Applewood answered.

Rainbow smiled and put her wing around Applewood.

"Okay," Nitro-x began, "Scratch that, why do organics make so much physical contact?"