Lightning Seven: Flying Sparks

As Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie charged on hoof, Rainbow and Fluttershy took to the skies, well mostly Rainbow Dash charged while Fluttershy stayed behind her.

The muscle bound gator known as Slash heard the 'charge' and turned to see more of the "ponies" coming straight for them! "What in the heck?" Slash said before he was attacked face first by the rainbow colored one.

Scalor took quick notice and shouted, "Men don't harm them!"

"What do you suggest we do?!" The chameleon known as Kooker yelled before he was attacked by Rarity, Applejack, and Pinkie.

Rarity shot bolts of energy at Kooker, Applejack kept bucking him in his leg, and Pinkie used her party cannon and shot several pieces of party supplies at Kooker's face.

He tried to block all of this until he was faltering; Applejack was ready to buck him on the face when he fell down. As Cliffjumper fell to both knees, Applejack got in front of his face and prepared to buck, only to stop when Twilight teleported in front of her.

"STOP!!!" Twilight screamed.

Applejack stopped, along with Pinkie, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash, they were confused. Twilight turned back to Kooker who was getting back up, she sighed with relief and turned to her friends. Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie, Rainbow, and Fluttershy were ready for an explanation.

"These are the MOLLUSK Crushers, they're friendly, especially Hawk Eye over there! He saved my life!" Twilight told them. Hawk Eye shuffled nervously and waved.

"He did?" Applejack asked.

"Yes, that's why it is important to not hurt them!" Twilight told her with emphasis on the 'not'.

Suddenly, the Mane six felt giant footsteps behind them; they turned to see the most noticeable of these so called Crushers: Scalor.

Twilight finally got to see him up close, he was very taller than most of the Crushers(except for Slash and Bone crunch), he had a very sleek stature along with his silver armor. He had grey legs and yellow webbing between his toes. He wore a head plate on the left side of his head with a small antennae resting upon it. He had one brown eye and one red cybernetic eye that made Fluttershy feel slightly uncomfortable. His arms resembled his feet but they were more flexible, the same with his tail but it looked like it could be removed.

"Hello there," The fish cyborg told them, "My name is Scalor Bara-codon. We are a group of robot fighters from another world, we are not here to hurt you, we are a peaceful race, well we were...anyway, we never intended to hurt your friend Twilight, we would never attack an innocent race."

"Yer metallic whaters?" Applejack asked confused.

"You can just call us Crushers for short." Circuit Breaker told them.

"Crushers huh?" Rainbow said remembering that name. Kooker rubbed his head in pain; Rarity looked hurt when she saw the green chameleon in pain.

"Oh I'm so sorry for hurting you, we didn't know!" Rarity told him.

"It's fine." Kooker grumbled.

"No it's not! We are SO sorry; we attacked you not even knowing you were peaceful." Rarity exclaimed.

"Wait, Scalor right?" Twilight asked, "You said you WERE peaceful, so what happened?"

Scalor sighed sadly and said, "We will explain everything, but for now, Crushers, introduce yourselves to these ponies."

The very large group of Crushers stepped up and began to say their names.

"Wassup little organics? My name's Jumpstart." This robot had to be the definition of cool. His voice sounded amazing and his body looked totally awesome. He had a white exterior and white helmet and black hands; he had no eyes but a simple glowing blue visor. His chest puffed out with an Autobot symbol and two yellow lights on each side.

"The name's Slash." Now this Crusher didn't seem too thrilled to say his name, in fact he looked bored out of his mind. He had silver armor upon his shoulders. His fists were truly remarkable due to their massive size. He was mostly large in his upper body while the lower was ridiculously small. He had a scowl to go with his attitude.

"Medical Officer; Circuit Breaker." This mole wore a green jumpsuit while a red and silver monkey wrench was strapped to his back. he wore glasses that had various flashing lights going on and off.

"I'm Hawk Eye, but you already know that, Twilight." Twilight knew this soldier all too well; he had a red shirt on covered with a brown trench coat. His mouth was covered a bandana. On his head was a hat topped with a red falcon feather. What was most noticeable was that he was made completely out of bones.

"I'm Razor, need a job done I'll carry it out." This was a tiny roadrunner. She had a blue feather while the rest of his feathers were white around the edges.

"I am the mighty Outlook." This was probably Rainbow Dash's favorite. The reason for that were his wings that spread almost to Luna's wingspan, this showed that he could fly pretty well. His helmet covered most of his head while his night vision goggles covered his eyes.

"We are the Aerials: Q-duck, and Blade Saucer." Now THIS group of Crushers really reminded Rainbow Dash of the Wonder Bolts. Each of them seemed to fly in some shape or form.

"I'm Kooker, OW." Another small chameleon introduced himself while slightly rubbing his head in pain. This one was pure green with a hint of orange on his back. He had one yellow horn on his upper lip to go with his look.

"I'm Tarlok; espionage specialist." This mysterious Crushers' voice was frightening; the ponies could easily tell that this one was terrifying. He had a long black suit and red tie. He had pure red pupils while his eyes were pitch black. He had a small red flower on his coat which was mostly for decoration.

"I'm Precision; one of the greatest minds of the Crushers!" Now this one was tall, he almost reached Scalors' height! He had a very rich accent which only proved that he must be intelligent. His armor was monochromatic of black. He had a long stick only on his left shoulder. His helmet eye holes were yellow.

"I'm the communications officer; Snaggletooth." The accent of his voice just proved to Pinkie Pie that he was a truly a party animal. He looked like a cross combination of a wolf and Slash. He had a large silver canister with a hose protruding out of it strapped to his back.

"I'm WACHOW Warhead." This final Crusher was by far the buffest, he was slightly taller than Scalor! He had no mouth and his entire body was colored purple, his eyes were multicolored to show he was trigger happy. But oddest of all was the various weapons protruding from his body.

The ponies were very confused; there was no way they were going to remember all these names, so they just introduced themselves when they noticed the Autobots beginning to get closer to them.

"I'm Pinkie Pie!" Pinkie hopped around excitedly.

"I'm Rainbow Dash, best flyer in Equestria, no, no, no applause is necessary!" Rainbow said touching her chest proudly.

"Rarity, it's a pleasure to meet you all." Rarity said and bowed to each of them as if they were royalty.

"The name's Applejack, ah can smell a liar from a mile away, and ah knew ya weren't lying when ya said ya wouldn't hurtin' any of us." Applejack said taking off her hat.

"Umm.... I'm Fluttershy." Fluttershy whispered.

Twilight smiled and walked closer to the Crushers, her friends followed as they met each one personally. TheCrushers had to bend down to shake their hooves, unlike Rainbow who flew up to them. The ponies noticed that the small orange Platypus that didn't say his name.

"What's your name?" Twilight asked the blind soldier. He looked down at her sadly and turned the other way.

"It's okay," Rarity said and patted his leg, "you can tell us your name, darling."

He still didn't talk. Rainbow Dash turned to Scalor and asked, "Hey what gives? How come he's not talking?"

Scalor went by Dice and put a hand on his shoulder. "This is Dice," he explained, "the reason he didn't talk is because he can't. he has had it far worse than any of us."

"What happened to him?" Fluttershy asked.

"Many years ago, Dice here was on a recon mission but was captured by an old enemy of mine. He had his vocal cords ripped out and was left for dead." Scalor said. Dice looked at the ground and clutched his throat.

"So he can never talk again?" Twilight asked, her eyes burning but she forced the tears to stay in.

"Unfortunately, luckily Circuit Breaker here got to him before it was too late and saved him." Scalor said and patted Dice's shoulder.

"I'm so sorry to hear that, Dice." Fluttershy said with tears starting to form in her eyes.

Bumblebee just nodded and continued to look sad. Fluttershy flew up and placed her hoof on the side of his face. She looked at him with a calm smile.

"I usually don't talk either, I'm really shy, but I have a special talent that allows me to talk to animals, and so if you ever need a friend, I'm here for you." Fluttershy told Dice.

He smiled and petted Fluttershy's head. She smiled and walked back on the ground, but suddenly realized that all the Crushers were staring at her. She tried to hide behind her mane and blushed slightly. She decided to remain quiet for the rest of the night. The gang shrugged and continued to meet the ponies.

"So you can fly?" Outlook said to Rainbow, "Don't think you can fly faster than me though."

"YOU can fly?" Rainbow asked with a hint of disbelief in her voice.

"Sure can, they don't call me 'best flyer' for nothin'" he said.

"How?" Rainbow asked.

"Like this." Outlook said and flew up into the sky like a rocket. Rainbow Dash was very surprised.

"That is AWESOME!!!" Rainbow squealed.

As the Crushers continued to introduce themselves to the ponies, Applejack remembered something. She whistled, and Applebloom peeked out from the bushes.

"It's okay Applebloom, they're friendly, come meet them!" Applejack told her.

Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Spike came out from the bushes and saw the creatures. "Whoa." Was all that Spike could say. The Cutie Mark Crusaders and Spike went up closer and introduced themselves to the Crushers, they did the same.

The Crushers were excited to see these new creatures as they continued to meet them personally, but the gang did see the yellow pegasus hiding behind her hair and not moving. The Crushers didn't really want to meet something so cowardly, so they ignored her. That didn't stop Scalor.

He walked up to Fluttershy who continued to cower, He knelt down and met her eye level. Fluttershy barely looked up.

"It is alright," Scalor assured her, "my friends and I won't never hurt you, we believe in peace and prosperity, and that freedom is the right of all beings. You don't have to fear us."

Scalor placed his fin under her chin and brought her head up. Fluttershy smiled softly.

"Wow, for monsters you sure are nice." Fluttershy told him.

Slash chuckled and said, "If you want to see monsters, you gotta meet the Lightning Fisters!"

"Unfortunately, Bone Crunch and his team decided to stay on our home world." Scalor said. Twilight's head jerked back at Scalor.

She yelled, "You know Bone Crunch?!"

Scalor got up and turned to her, "Yes, he and the Lightning Fist Force were once part of our team."

"We know him!" Twilight said.

"You do?" Scalor asked her with complete confusion, “How…he never left…did he?” Scalor looked around at his fellow Autobots who shrugged.

"Yeah, he saved our lives from a dragon!" Twilight explained.

"A......dragon?" Scalor repeated the strange word.

"It's a giant monster on this planet." Twilight told him, "OH I forgot, we didn't hear where you all are from!"

Scalor suddenly remembered and said, "Crushers, circle that camp fire, it's time for a story."

"YAY, I love story time!" Pinkie yelled very excited and jumped around the camp fire.

"Hehe, that one's kinda funny." Tarlok said.
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Deep in the Everfree was Bone Crunch stomping through the forest, following Buzzer. Buzzer was locating where the other Primals were, he kept turning through the air which confused Bone Crunch.

“Stop flying in circle, Buzzer! You confusing me!” Bone Crunch yelled at him.

Buzzer flew downward and said, "Sorry, buddy, I just like flying so much, not bad for a tank eh-" Buzzer couldn't finish because a missile just hit him in the back causing him to fall to the ground with a loud thud.

"Buzzer!" Bone Crunch screamed and picked up his friend.
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Smirking satisfied was Obliterator the hippo bot. He and had just shot down the Buzzer not too far away. "Me go finish him off!" he said and walked forward, only to be stopped by his fellow Ant-droid assistant.

"No, Megatron wanted us back at headquarters 10 minutes ago! We'll finish them off later." it told him. Obliterator sighed and turned around and walked away.
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Buzzer got up and got back onto his feet.

"You okay, pal?' Bone Crunch asked.

"I’m fine; I’ll scout an area for us." he said and took off to the skies.

Bone Crunch walked slowly towards the way that Buzzer said there was another Primal. Bone Crunch came across a large open area; there inside a poorly designed jail cell, was Primal Shark Munch-Munch.

"Munch, that you?!" Bone Crunch yelled. Munch-Munch looked up and saw him.

"Bone Crunch, get me outta here!" He yelled and tried to move, only to hit the sides of the dome. Bone Crunch walked slowly to the dome, when he was halfway there, he heard a humming noise.

Bone Crunch looked up and saw an clam hop on top of the jail cell by Munch-Munch. It was animot Clam-borg. He had a larger mouth than Slicor, he was mostly grey.

"Hello Bone Crunch, come to save your friend?" Clam-borg asked.

"I thought you died on Terra-glacies!" Bone Crunch yelled and pulled out his spear. Clam-borg was unfazed.

"You can't smash us so easily, Bone Crunch, now let's see you save him this time!" Clam-borg screamed and many animots came out of the forest and attacked Bone Crunch.

Bone Crunch killed many with ease. While he did kill many with his spear, he did like smashing them alot. He stabbed with his spear, whipped out his shield and enjoyed smashing it against them. Clam-borg was getting worried.

"More! Need more animots!" Clam-borg screamed.

Even more came, Bone Crunch was being overwhelmed so he did his favorite thing, he changed.

Grimlock, now in his fighter form, bit and punched any animot in his path. Bone Crunch finished the rest of them with his laser eyes. Seeing the carnage, Clam-borg was terrified and retreated.

Bone Crunch looked up at Swoop who was flying by with several Insecticons on his tail.

"WOOOOO, Bone Crunch where ya been?!" Buzzer yelled excitedly. Bone Crunch roared as Buzzer flew past him with the animots following.

Bone Crunch changed back and destroyed the jail holder Munch-Munch was trapped in. Munch-Munch fell to the ground exhausted.

"Munch-Munch, can you transform?" Bone Crunch asked.

"I’ll...I’ll try." Munch-Munch said and struggled to transform.

Munch-Munch was back to his great white shark mode but collapsed; Bone Crunch caught him and held him by his shoulder. Bone Crunch noticed that Munch-Munch had a deep cut in his side.

"Animots hurt you?" Bone Crunch asked.

Munch-Munch nodded and winced in pain. Buzzer came by and transformed by Bone Crunch and Munch-Munch, "Is Munch-Munch okay?" Swoop asked.

"Yes, now let's go find Lighting Scale." Bone Crunch told him, "Here, you hold Munch-Munch while I'll clear us a path."

Buzzer helped Munch-Munch up and said, "Okay Bone Crunch, I know where Lighting Scale is, go forward." Bone Crunch walked calmly forward and pushed away the trees to clear a path for Munch-Munch and Buzzer.
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The Crushers circled the campfire, the ponies and Spike sat by a few of the Crushers but watched Scalor as he sat down. They stared intensively at him waiting for him to start. Scalor looked at the campfire and back at the ponies.

"So....are you all sure you want to know of our history?" he asked them. The ponies nodded, but mostly Twilight. Scalor sighed sadly and began, "It all began hundreds of years ago on a planet called Terra-glacies."

"So you are aliens!" Scootaloo interrupted.

"And you're from a place called Terra-glacies?" Twilight asked.

"And did you say you were all hundreds of years old?!" Pinkie asked intrigued.

Optimus sighed and said "Yes, you heard me right. All that I said was true. Now you may be thinking that I’m just lying about our age, but let me clear all of this for you."

"And what's that?" Twilight asked.

"Some of us are not wholly made of flesh and blood like you ponies. I, and some of my comrades, are cybernetics. Robotic creatures. We are made of metal, circuitry, and important to us, electrites. Machines last longer than organics.Except me, I'm only half robotic." Scalor told them.

"Soooo, what do you look like on the inside?" Twilight managed to say.

"Well, let me show you." Scalor then grabbed the left side of his head, and pulled it apart, revealing the wiring and electronics inside him.

The ponies and Spike gasped. Pinkie Pie ran closer to him and began to climb up to his head with lighting speed. Scalor looked at her as she was now on the opening of his head, looking at the insides.

"Woooooooah." Pinkie said as she was being hypnotized by the colorful lights and buttons.

When Pinkie fell from the bright lights, she shook her head and said, "I just saw a another planet and bright stars and stuff. The planet was made of candy and I just wanted to try it! Wait; a planet made of candy sounds amazing? Maybe it will....hmmmmm." Pinkie placed a hoof to her chin and got lost in her own weird little world.

Rainbow rolled her eyes, knowing this was just normal Pinkie Pie.

Twilight squinted at something that intrigued her in Scalor's head, it was an orange disk that glowed orange.

"What's that in your head?" Twilight asked.

Scalor sighed sadly, he closed it up and said, "That is for a different a time."

Twilight frowned wanting to hear what the story was but remained patient. Scalor closed his head back up.

"Now where were we, oh yes, it all began hundreds of years ago on a planet called Terra-glacies, we were once a peaceful race, much like you ponies, but then came the war. Between the Crushers who fought for freedom," Scalor pointed at all the members around them, "and the MOLLUSK bots who dreamt of destruction."

"MOLLUSK bots, who are they?" Spike asked before he was shushed by Twilight.

"Excellent question, Spike." Hawk Eye said. He then pulled out a strange metal ball from his coat, he pushed it and a MOLLUSK symbol came out. Twilight suddenly remembered.

"I've seen that symbol!" Twilight said the Crushers looked at her shocked.

"You....you have?" Outlook asked.

"We all did." Applejack said.

"Yeah, when that punk Bass Buster attacked us!" Rainbow Dash shouted out while punching her hooves together.

"BASS BUSTER?!" The Crushers screamed. The ponies were just as shocked as the Crushers were.

"Why, is that bad?" Pinkie asked.

Scalor looked at them and said, "Bass Buster is a cruel warrior, he is the communications officer for MOLLUSK, and he is never easy to defeat, I'm still confused how you survived against him."

"Well, you see this robot wasp, I think it was a wasp, flew down and saved us from Bass Buster." Twilight explained.

"Interesting, and none of you guys saved these ponies?" Scalor asked his team.

"Not us, bro." Outlook said.

"Very strange..." Scalor rubbed his chin.

Twilight cleared her throat; Scalor looked at the ponies that were looking at him expectantly.

"Oh, I'm sorry I should continue the story." he said as he rubbed the back of his head.

"Thank you." Twilight said smiling and closing her eyes.

"Anyway, the MOLLUSK bots, a group of Glacians who's wanting destruction and lust for power know no bounds, were led by the most hated being in the known galaxy, and my sworn enemy, Lord Jaggor." Scalor clenched his fist.

"Jag-who?" Rainbow Dash raised an eyebrow.

Scalor was getting tired of explaining and touched the side of his head, his left eye lit up and a hologram appeared in front of the ponies and Spike. It was a hologram of a giant cyborg panther with a green robes, he had a very dominating structure.

Scalor continued with the hologram still going on, "Jaggor is the leader of the MOLLUSK bots, he started the war on Terra-glacies and soon killed the planet, and we had no choice but to leave our home and find somewhere else to live in the galaxy."

"You're not living here are you?" Twilight asked.

"Well that is a question I cannot answer. For when the Space Rifter brought us here, we were all separated from our ship called The Endurance Ranger. Our head scientist Precision has told us that the Space Rifter control sequence was scrambled before it launched the portal. So either it is this world…or another…for now we must live in this world until we know for certain…that there is another world out there that can be habitable.” Scalor explained.

“Sooo…you’re just going to stay on our world for now?” Rarity inquired.

Scalor nodded and continued.

"Anyways, after years of fighting, Terra-glacies began to run increasingly low on it's stability, also the core of our home was thrown out of its center thus killing it, and we had to leave on our ship. During our flight though, the MOLLUSK bots intercepted us with their own ship, The MOLLUSK Cruiser, and we both crashed on your world.” Scalor explained.

"And then what happened?" The ponies and Spike asked.

"The crash had separated us from our ship. We do not know where it is on this planet…but we must find it quickly, because if Bass Buster is close by…then the other MOLLUSK bots must be as well." Scalor told them.

Scalor finally sighed and stopped. He stared at the ponies that had wide eyes. "Wow," Twilight began, "you guys have some story."

Scalor nodded and went silent again, until Jumpstart spoke up.

"Hey ponies, we didn't ask you what planet this was." Jumpstart said.

Twilight beamed and said, "Okay, time for us to tell you of our home!"

"Oh joy." Slash grumbled.