Chapters Lightning Seven: Flying Sparks
Fluttershy couldn't believe it could speak.
This monster was beyond anything she had ever seen in her entire life, she knew almost every animal, so what in the name of Celestia was this thing?! She did the only thing she knew what to do when she saw a creature that was horrifying.
She screamed as loud as she could. Bone Crunch grabbed his hearing processors from the loud shriek. He clutched his head as she continued to scream. "AHHHHH!!! Why would you do that?!" Bone Crunch asked.
Fluttershy stopped screaming and looked frantically, she saw Ponyville and knew exactly what to do. She spread her wings and flew as fast as she could away from the creature and towards Ponyville.
Bone Crunch watched the strange creature fly away; he scratched his head and asked himself, "What was that about?" Bone Crunch thought that if that creature with wings was going towards that town, then there must be others there. "I just know this will turn out bad." Bone Crunch said and stomped towards the town.
As he stepped, he made loud thunderous footsteps every time he took a step. Animals were frightened and either flew or scurried away at this massive beast. He finally came up to a bridge. On it were to carriages, each filled with trash.
In the front were two more of those creatures talking. Bone Crunch didn't want to step in the water around the bridge, the water on Terra-glacies was mostly toxic, Bone Crunch didn’t trust anything on this new world, and he had to pass on the bridge. But before he could get any closer, he heard them speaking.
"And so he put his foreleg around me and started nuzzling me!" Lyra said.
"OH MY GOODNESS! Then what happened?!" Bon Bon asked.
"Well, he-" Lyra began but was interrupted by a loud male voice.
"Out of way!"
The two mares looked as a giant foot landed in front of them, then another. Soon they saw a giant monster walking in front of them. It was headed for Ponyville!
"MONSTER!!!" Lyra and Bon Bon screamed.
"What?" Bone Crunch turned around to see the two little creatures screaming and running passed him. They were both headed for the town.
"This planet is very strange…must find the others." Bone Crunch said and stomped towards the town.
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She smiled as she went down the steps and saw Spike eating some breakfast. "Morning, Spike." Twilight smiled as she walked towards the table.
"Morning, Twilight!" Spike said as he ate another apple.
"Did you finish your morning chores?" Twilight asked.
Spike stopped and said, "Ummm, I couldn't finish them because I went to Rarity's to help out with stuff."
"Spike, you know it's your job to clean the bookshelves in the morning!" Twilight said a little angry.
"I'm sorry Twilight! Please, I only came here to get some food; can I please go back to Rarity's to finish helping her?" Spike pleaded.
Twilight raised an eyebrow sternly. "I'll do extra chores tomorrow I swear!" Spike pleaded.
Twilight giggled and said, "Oh, okay Spike." Spike smiled and hugged Twilight.
"Thank you!" Spike said.
"No problem, but you have to do more chores tomorrow." Twilight told him.
"I will!" Spike said. Twilight smiled and let Spike run out the door to Rarity's.
Twilight sighed happily and bit into an apple. She sat down on the couch and began reading until she heard several knocks on the door. She trotted up to it and opened the door. To Twilight's surprise, she saw Fluttershy who was shaking with fear, and tears streaking down her face.
"Fluttershy, are you okay?!" Twilight asked. Fluttershy began crying again, she went up and hugged Twilight still crying. "It's okay Fluttershy, just tell me what happened." Twilight told her. Fluttershy let go and stared at Twilight, her eyes were full of tears.
Fluttershy began to speak but it came out as a stutter, "I-I-I-I s-s-s-saw a-a m-m-m-m-m-"
"What is it?!" Twilight almost yelled.
"I SAW A MONSTER!" Fluttershy wept and cried again.
"You saw a monster?” Twilight asked, “What kind of monster?"
"I don't know Twilight, I know almost every animal there is, but I have never seen an animal like that." Fluttershy wiped her nose.
"Did it hurt you?" Twilight asked.
"No, but it was sooooo scary," Fluttershy shook in fear, "And.... OH NO, it could be harming my animals!"
Twilight patted her on the back, "Don't worry Fluttershy, we’ll gather the girls and go to where you last saw the monster okay?"
Fluttershy wiped her nose and said, "Okay."
"Now come on, let's go get the rest of our friends and we'll see what this this monster really is." Twilight said and walked out the door with Fluttershy behind her.
Twilight turned back to Fluttershy who was still shaking, Twilight probably thought that Fluttershy just saw a strange animal and ran away from it. Maybe the so called monster wasn’t so scary after all.
The two mares kept walking until they came to a loud scream. Twilight looked over and saw Lyra and Bon Bon galloping as fast as they could inside Ponyville. They were both screaming their heads off, "MONSTER!!! MONSTER!!! EVEYPONY RUN!!!!" They said as they sped by Twilight and Fluttershy.
All of the ponies started running as they heard the word "monster". Fluttershy’s fear was even worse now that all the ponies of Ponyville were in terror.
Twilight yelled at the top of her lungs, “Everypony stop!!!” Of course, none of them listened and continued to scream and panic. Twilight looked at Fluttershy and said, “What did the monster look like, Fluttershy, because Lyra and Bon Bon are terrified, what exactly did you see?”
All of a sudden, the ground shook. Then it shook again, like a bomb was just going off every two seconds. Twilight looked at Fluttershy who was cowering even more.
All the ponies were getting worried as the ground shook. Suddenly many more screams were heard. Twilight looked over as she saw many ponies running in a direction and screaming.
Twilight looked up and saw what they were running from.
A giant ble eyed monster with glowing lights all over him. It was very tall, taller than the buildings. It had shiny crimson, black, and silver armor. It turned and started walking down the road Twilight was on. All the ponies started running and screaming in terror except for Twilight and Fluttershy.
It stopped and looked around; Twilight was in total shock and backed away as the monster looked down at her.
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‘Dangit, Buzzer, now you got me calling us primal squad.’ Bone Crunch thought to himself and watched the strange creatures shake in fear.
“This was just a big waste of time.” Bone Crunch said and turned around, starting to walk away, but when he took one step, a fast blue blur rammed into him straight in the chest.
Bone Crunch took a few steps back from the force of the hit but stood his ground. He looked around at who was foolish enough to hit him.
Suddenly, a blue four legged creature appeared in Bone Crunch's face. It had a rainbow mane and cyan wings. Bone Crunch looked at how mad it was.
It spoke and said, "Alright big guy, you think you can come here and try to step on us ponies?! You got another thing coming! Now put em' up!"
Rainbow Dash held up her hooves ready to fight. Bone Crunch just stared at this foolish creature wanting to fight him. He finally just walked past her and continued to walk away from the town.
Rainbow wouldn't let this thing go so easily. She flew up from behind it and bucked it as hard as she could in the back of its head.
This time, Bone Crunch was angry. He turned around in anger and glared at this rainbow creature. It flew back a little but continued her menacing stare.
Rainbow spoke again, "You think you can just walk away?! After scaring these ponies, you’re gonna give up or I'm GACK!!!"
Rainbow was suddenly grasped in a giant three fingered fist.
Twilight and Fluttershy gasped as the monster grabbed Rainbow Dash. Rainbow struggled to get free but the grip kept getting tighter. All but Rainbow's head was shown as she looked up in utter terror at the monster's face. Bone Crunch brought the rainbow creature close to his face. He glared at down at this tiny unknown species.
Rainbow felt her lungs getting smaller and smaller as she gasped for breath. She suddenly stopped and stared at the creature. Her eyes were getting wider and her mouth hung open.
Suddenly the creature spoke.
"Shut.....up." Bone Crunch said.
Rainbow's lower lip began to quiver. Bone Crunch shook his head in disgust and let go of his grasp. Rainbow Dash fell to the ground and gasped for air. Twilight and Fluttershy went by her side and looked up at the creature. It was walking away out of Ponyville and no pony stopped it this time.
"Dash, are you okay?" Fluttershy asked.
Rainbow coughed and said, "I'm..... I'm fine."
Twilight looked at where the monster walked, straight into the Everfree Forest. Holy horse apples that thing can walk fast!
"What in the hay was that thing?" Twilight asked.
"I don't know Twilight, we have to get Rainbow back to your library, and we need our other friends there too." Fluttershy explained.
Twilight nodded and helped Rainbow up. The three mares walked to the library and got inside. "Okay girls, I'll go get Rarity, Pinkie, and Applejack, you stay here." Twilight said and galloped out of the library.
Fluttershy went by Rainbow’s side and rubbed her sore wings.
As Twilight was going to get her friends, she felt scared at what this monster just did to Rainbow, what could it do to all the ponies in Equestria? And how was she able to stop it before it caused some serious damage?
He laid his head back and stared at the bright sun for a long time. Bone Crunch got tired and shut himself down. Now he was charging up, when he awoke, he would begin his search for the other members of the primal squad.
‘I should have never smashed those controls.’
"I'm saying we should go into the Everfree and capture that monster, it is very dangerous and we can't let it be on the loose!" Twilight explained.
Twilight had gotten Applejack, Pinkie, and Rarity into her library as well as Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash, to discuss what they should do about that monster.
"How can we capture such a dangerous monster, from the way you described it. It sounded even worse than that Ursa Minor that attacked." Rarity said.
"I'll use my paralyzing spell on it, it will pass out and we can subdue it and take it to the Princess!" Twilight said.
"What will she do with it?" Fluttershy asked.
"I don't know, but we can't let it just roam Equestria, you saw what it did to Rainbow!" Twilight said pointing at Dash.
"Oh do we have to go in that dreadful forest?" Rarity complained.
"Yes Rarity. It could hurt somepony or some animal." Twilight told her.
Fluttershy looked up and said, "You're right, I can't let it hurt an animal."
"Of course I'm going! That thing is going to pay for what it did." Rainbow threatened.
"Ah just can't let you girls go alone, Ah'm comin' too." Applejack said.
"Well, I suppose I can get my hooves dirty for you all." Rarity smiled.
"Count me in! That scary monster could use a party and turn out to be friendly!" Pinkie Pie shouted next. Pinkie’s friends shook their heads in annoyance.
At that moment, Spike came in. "Hey everyone," Spike said, "What's going on?"
"Spike, take a letter." Twilight ordered.
“Well…..okay.” Spike said and got some paper and was ready to write down whatever Twilight said.
An hour later, the six friends were standing in front of the entrance that led into the Everfree Forest. After Spike had sent off a written letter explaining the events that had happened, the Princess’s letter had come back instantly.
In the letter, she wrote that while she did not want them going anywhere near the creature that attacked Ponyville, but she knew that nothing she could say would stop them. Instead, the Princess wished them luck and that they are to transport the subdued creature on the train to Canterlot for observational research. She also wrote that if they had failed, they were to return to Ponyville at once.
Twilight turned to her friends and said, "You heard the Princess, subdue the creature and send it on a one way ticket to Canterlot."
The five mares nodded and stared at the Everfree. Pinkie Pie stepped in.
"Let’s do this!" Pinkie shouted with a determined look on her face.
"Ughhh, hate rain." Bone Crunch said and remembered the rain of Terra-glacies. It was poisonous and deadly, and could melt metal at the slightest touch, but this wasn’t melting his armor, what was it? Grimlock brought his hand to his head. But it wasn't rain, he felt it and it was slobbery and sticky. Grimlock looked up and saw small red eyes glaring at him.
The creature jumped at Grimlock's face and started biting him. Bone Crunch stood up, grabbed the creature and analyzed it. It seemed to be a winged lion-like creature with a tail that had a stinger on it. Bone Crunch knew what a lion was when he battled the Predatorains back home .
Oh how Bone Crunch hated Razorian the lion leader of the group.
"What are you?" Bone Crunch asked as it continued to squirm and slash. It bit his finger and Bone Crunch simply crushed it in his massive hand. He let his grasp go and let the dead body of the strange creature land on the ground.
Bone Crunch sighed and turned around only to find more of the creatures surrounding him. Soon Bone Crunch was surrounded by at least ten of them.
They all glared and prepared to strike. Bone Crunch shook his head and said, "You think you kill me? You think you kill Bone Crunch ?! Bring it on." Soon, all ten of them attacked at once. Bone Crunch punched and kicked and crushed any of them that got close. But one was smart and jumped on his back and bit his neck. Bone Crunch yelled in pain.
Bone Crunch's neck was his only soft spot on his body, full of circuitry and wires. The Manticore bit down hard on the wires. Bone Crunch grabbed it and threw it hard at the rocky wall. A loud crack was heard as its skull penetrated the rocky surface.
“Little creatures do worst!” Bone Crunch released his full anger on these creatures. He wouldn't let up and continued to kill all the Manticores attacking him.
"Wait Fluttershy, we don't know if the monster is doing it!" Twilight yelled but Fluttershy was already gone.
"Let’s follow her anyway; she could be on ta somethin'!" Applejack said and galloped towards Fluttershy. All of them followed Fluttershy towards the whimpering.
Soon all six of them came to a clearing, but they all remained hidden. They did indeed see the monster, but what surrounded the monster were dead Manticores. All was left, but one Manticore. It glared at Bone Crunch hatefully.
Bone Crunch looked at the last beast and said, "You not give up? Why?" The Manticore continued to glare. Bone Crunch took notice, "I see......you not give up because you think it make you weak. I respect you for that." Bone Crunch pointed a massive finger at the Manticore.
The Manticore started to walk closer to him, still wanting to attack. Bone Crunch sighed and said, "But you stupid, you want fight me but you lose. Well, come get me."
The Manticore charged at Bone Crunch. He brought up his foot and crushed it with relative ease. The Mane six gasped at what happened. Bone Crunch brought up his foot and looked at the massacre.
Twilight stepped out of the bush along with her friends. They froze in their steps when Bone Crunch looked down at them.
Bone Crunch groaned in annoyance as he saw the same ponies from before, why won’t they just leave him alone?! He also noticed some new faces, one with a curly purple hair, one with a strange thing on its head, Bone Crunch had no idea what that was, and one with puffy pink hair.
After several moments of staring at each other, Bone Crunch was getting bored, so he turned and walked away towards the forest, not caring for what the ponies were doing there following him. Bone Crunch just wanted to be alone right now; he kept staring into that Prime forsaken forest not knowing what lay ahead.
He didn't even look back to notice the ponies were charging at him.
Lightning Seven: Flying Sparks
Bone Crunch kept walking and didn't turn back. That is, until he felt a tug at his right hand.
Bone Crunch brought up his right hand and saw that there was a rope tied around his pointing finger. Did one of the ponies just try to capture him?
Turning around, he saw the orange horse holding the end of the rope with her mouth. Bone Crunch gave a little tug and the orange pony struggled to say, “Woo nelly, this varmint is strong!”
This orange pony sounded just like Slash, only more feminine and country.
Bone Crunch could easily break this rope off, but before he could even try to touch it, the orange pony yelled, "Now Twilight!"
The purple one, whose name was Twilight apparently, shot some kind of purple light out of her horn that struck him in the chest.
To Bone Crunch's surprise, he felt tired and weaker; Bone Crunch fell to one knee and was barely awake. He then looked down and saw the blue pony say, "Twilight, I thought that paralyzing spell would work?!"
"It was, I don't know how he's still standing!" Twilight yelled back.
"Well hit him again!" The blue one said.
Bone Crunch looked up just in time to get hit by another purple light. He felt himself nearly black out, but he forced himself to stay awake. His vision was going static. One more hit, and Bone Crunch would be put into stasis lock, not again!
Twilight was beginning to charge another blast, but Bone Crunch had regained his strength and broke the rope. He heard that same orange pony from before yelp in pain since he just yanked the rope free from her mouth. Twilight backed up as Bone Crunch raised his massive fist in an attempt to crush her. But before he could bring it down, he heard a faint scream.
Bone Crunch looked behind him to see the white unicorn trembling in fear. Obviously who wouldn't be afraid of the leader of the Lightning fisters? Before the mighty robot could strike, a new voice was heard that only Bone Crunch could hear.
‘Dino-punk….punk….punk.’
Bone Crunch clutched his head and screamed in pain.
“Stay out of head!!!”
Bone Crunch suddenly couldn’t control his body anymore…it was as if someone was controlling him. Rarity began to back away from this monstrosity, but the worst possible thing stopped her from doing that. The monster reached forward and grabbed her.
“NO! Let me go!” Rarity screamed as she struggled against Bone Crunch’s strength. If she thought things couldn’t get any worse….
Next thing she knew she was chucked right towards her fellow unicorn.
Bone Crunch watched as the white unicorn crashed into the purple one named Twilight. Both of them tumbled to the ground and crashed into a tree not too far away. Bone Crunch chuckled and looked over when he felt a small touch by his foot.
The orange pony was kicking him.
“Do you think you hurt me with little kick?” Grimlock chuckled and scooped up the equine.
“What the hay do ya think yer doin-OW!!!” Applejack screamed in pain as the monster began squeezing her entire body, attempting to crush her.
Seeing her orange face suddenly go blue from the lack of oxygen, the voices returned in Bone Crunch’s head.
‘Kill……kill…..KILL!’
Bone Crunch released his grip and watched as the pony gasped for air.
“NO…..n-not kill!” Grimlock begged.
"Hey! Leave my friend alone!"
Bone Crunch tried to locate who had just yelled at him, his visosr landing on the blue pony from before trying to put on a brave face.
Bone Crunch dropped Applejack and slowly began walking to Rainbow. "You say something to me, organic?" Bone Crunch pointed a finger at her as he moved closer.
Rainbow began to feel the same fear as when she first saw the creature. Every time Bone Crunch moved closer, Rainbow felt the ground rumble beneath her from his massive footsteps. Bone Crunch stood in front of her and glared down hatefully.
Rainbow began to shake with fear.
"What wrong? You act brave while ago, now just scared." Bone Crunch said hatefully. The only noise that Rainbow made was a small squeak of fear. Bone Crunch shook his head in disgust.
"You no talk huh? Well, you just another bug in way, and bugs deserved be crushed!!!" Bone Crunch yelled and raised his massive foot, in an attempt to crush Rainbow Dash.
"YOU LEAVE HER ALONE!!!" Shouted a female voice.
Bone Crunch put his foot down and was ready to face another pony............only to find himself frozen with terror.
There on the ground, was the same yellow pony with wings, but it had its wings spread out and its eyes glared right through Bone Crunch's eyes. Bone Crunch backed up in fear and held his hands out. But his hands slowly went up to his head when Grimlock clutched it in pain.
'What happening to me?!' Grimlock thought to himself.
The yellow pony started yelling. "How dare you! I don’t care how scary and strong you are, you do NOT attack my friends. Now you are going to stop this right now and come with us!"
Bone Crunch struggled harder and clutched his head even more. He didn't know what to do in this crazy situation. As he continued to struggle, Fluttershy flew up to his face and continued “The Stare”.
"I SAID STOP THIS NOW AND GIVE UP!!!!" Fluttershy screamed.
"Shut....the slag.....up." Grimlock struggled with his words.
Fluttershy was really mad now.
"HOW DARE-" Fluttershy began but was hit by Grimlock.
Bone Crunch swatted Fluttershy away with his tail, it was a weak hit, but it was still enough to make her fly back and ram into a tree. Fluttershy passed out on impact and fell to the ground.
Bone Crunch was weakened, as he eyed his surroundings he noticed that the white pony was passed out on the ground, the orange one was barely getting up but continued to fall, the blue one was laying on her stomach in fear, the yellow one was passed out by the tree, and the pink one was watching the entire time with water falling from her large eyes.
That left......
Bone Crunch looked at his last opponent.
Twilight.
Twilight tried to put on a brave face, but inside she was terrified. This creature had managed to defeat every single one of her friends. He took a direct buck from Applejack and even resisted “The Stare”. How could she fight this thing?! To Twilight's surprise, the creature began to stand up and walk away. Part of her wanted to let it go, the other part wanted to stop it before it hurt any pony else.
Twilight knew what to do. She stood on all fours and poured every drop of magic she had on this blast. She fired the energy beam at the monster.
Bone Crunch felt his back being hit with an extremely hot beam of energy. The heat was immediately forgotten when he was launched forward and smacked face first into a bundle of trees. After several feet of skidding and tumbling, Bone Crunch came to a stop and faced the sky.
"Uggggghhhh, did pony do that?" Grimlock asked no one in particular. This time, Bone Crunch was in pain, the beam of energy was stronger than anything he ever felt. Maybe this world wasn’t so weak and pathetic after all.
Before Bone Crunch could pass out, his vision was suddenly filled with a small purple face. It was Twilight looking straight in his visor, the look in her eyes made Grimlock assume that she thought she had just won, that she had conquered the mighty Bone Crunch .
Oh how wrong she was.
Bone Crunch began to lift himself off the ground. Twilight yelped and jumped off of his chest. She looked in awe as the strange creature rose from the tattered trees and shrub. When he was at his full height, Bone Crunch looked down at Twilight.
Twilight was completely shocked and confused. She had just used her full power on that blast, and this “thing” wasn’t even hurt! It simply just stood up like nothing had ever happened!
But what frightened Twilight the most is what the creature did next.
He pulled out something on his chest and balled it into his fisst. Suddenly, the thing in his hands began to grow longer and made a noise that sounded like it was changing. The once small object was now a long red spear that the creature gripped in his hands.
Twilight’s eyes grew and her breathing increased as the creature faced her holding the spear menacingly. Twilight’s heart skipped a beat when it said these words,
"My turn."
The creature gripped the spear with both hands. He lifted the spear above his head and brought it down to the earth.
Bone Crunch never intended to kill the pony, that is why he missed on purpose and smashed the spear a few feet away from her.
The shockwave, however; created by the sword when it hit the ground caused Twilight to fly back several feet. Trees shattered by the massive blast created by the sword and Bone Crunch’s strength together. Twilight finally landed on the ground and laid on her side facing where she was launched.
Twilight was really hurt now; she was covered in scratches and bruises from that massive blast. Twilight Sparkle couldn’t hold on anymore and was going to pass out, but when her vision was going blurry, she heard the footsteps heading her way.
She barely stayed awake to see that deadly monster walking right for her, the sword still gripped in his right hand.
Twilight felt the ground rumble beneath her as it drew nearer. She looked up to see the creature standing over her and watching with both anger and intent.
Bone Crunch couldn’t help but take one last look at this pitiful creature. Twilight shivered when she looked in his visors. Now she knew why Rainbow was so terrified, the amount of horror in those blue visors would freeze anyone in their tracks.
Bone Crunch was not surprised, many things were afraid of him, even some of his fellow Crushers were afraid of his strength. As Twilight opened her mouth, Bone Crunch expected her to beg for her life, but he didn't expect what she just said.
"Pl-please.....don't hurt my friends." She begged as Bone Crunch bent down a little to understand if he heard her correctly. "Do whatever you want with me, just please don’t hurt any of them."
Bone Crunch was surprised, she was begging for her friends’ lives! No Crusher he knew would dare do that. Not even the Lightning Fisters. Bone Crunch began to feel...... respect for the pony.
As Bone Crunch slowly got up, his spear reverted back and he put it where it belonged. To finish it, Bone Crunch turned around and walked into the forest. Twilight was about to pass out herself when she heard the creature say one more thing.
"Follow me again…..and die."
And then Twilight blacked out from the pain.
Lightning Seven: Flying Sparks
"...Twilight! .......Twilight! ....Twilight can you hear me?" Twilight slowly opened her eyes and groaned, above her was Pinkie Pie with a sad face. Twilight got up and rubbed her head, she was still in the forest; all her friends were barely getting up.
To her right, she saw Rainbow Dash sitting on her haunches and staring at the ground, she was shaking with fear. To her left she saw the rest of her friends. Pinkie Pie, her hair still straight, was looking at her with a worried expression. Applejack and Rarity were trying to wake up Fluttershy.
"Are you girls okay?" Twilight asked remembering her last few minutes of consciousness. How that monster had created such a powerful wave of energy and knocked her out cold.
"I'm fine." Pinkie said in a very depressed tone.
"Ah'm a little sore, but I’ll make it." Applejack answered next as she helped the awakened Fluttershy to her hooves.
"I have a few cuts, but I'll be fine darlings." Rarity brought herself up.
Fluttershy rubbed her head, "I think I'll be okay."
Twilight looked at Rainbow Dash who still hadn't moved. "Is Rainbow okay?" Twilight asked.
"I don't know, she hasn't moved from that spot ever since the monster left." Pinkie said.
A moment of silence came in until Rarity spoke. "Well, what do we do now?" Rarity asked.
Twilight sighed and looked around; it was still day time so she hadn’t been knocked out for that long. She looked at Rarity and answered, “We’re going back to Ponyville and alert the Princess at what happened. The Royal Guard will take care of that creature.”
"Ah sure hope so." Applejack said and turned back to Rainbow Dash who was still sitting down. Rainbow Dash was still thinking of what happened.
Inside her mind, she replayed the events of the last few minutes again and again, trying to understand what happened. Twilight went by her side and asked, "Rainbow, are you okay?"
Rainbow Dash came back to reality and looked at Twilight, "Yeah….I umm…I’m fine."
Applejack looked at her with a sympathetic look, "You don’t look fine, sugercube."
"Well I am, AJ!" Rainbow Dash retorted
Applejack was taken aback by this sudden outburst, Twilight got in closer and said, "Rainbow, you have nothing to be ashamed of, that creature was terrifying, and it’s okay to be afraid."
Rainbow Dash looked at Twilight with disbelief in her eyes, "Me, the greatest flier in Equestria afraid? Twilight, I’m not afraid of anything!"
Fluttershy limped forward and said, "Dashie, it’s okay to be afraid of something, especially that monster."
Rainbow took her attention to Fluttershy and snapped, "I’M NOT AFRAID!!!! I was just…." Dash remembered the last few minutes of facing that unknown creature. The thought of it brought tears to her eyes, but she fought them back and turned back to Twilight.
"I’m the Element of Loyalty! And how do I show it? By letting that monster attack all of you while I just stood here like a bucking idiot?!" Rainbow screamed with a tear falling down her face.
"Rainbow…" Twilight began but was interrupted by Dash.
"Now," Rainbow said and spread her wings, "where did that creature go?"
Pinkie Pie pointed in the direction where she last saw the monster stomp off too.
"Right over there….but…why?" Pinkie asked. Rainbow looked back at her friends with a determined frown on her face.
Twilight gasped and said, "No Rainbow Dash don’t do it!!!" But it was too late. Rainbow Dash zoomed into the sky in the direction where Pinkie had pointed.
Bone Crunch kept walking through the endless forest, feeling very embarrassed at what just happened. He almost was defeated by colorful ponies. How weak of him. Bone Crunch finally stopped at an open cave and sat by the outside, thinking of what to do next.
"No more of freaks, good, now I find the Primal-Lightning Fisters!” Bone Crunch corrected himself, “Dangit Buzzer!" Bone Crunch said and tried his communication device again.
"Lightning Fisters: Buzzer, Munch-Munch, or Lighting Scale, you copy?" Bone Crunch asked.
There was still no answer. Bone Crunch sighed and put his arms to his knees, he was going to have to look even harder. Bone Crunch rubbed the back of his head and thought about what he did to the ponies.
"Maybe...I no harm race anymore. Does hurting them make me any better than those Snail bots?" Bone Crunch asked himself. "They are innocent, I'm Crusher, and I not hurt innocent....no matter how mad they make me." Bone Crunch put his hands down and stared at the dirt, his peaceful moment was interrupted by a strange but recognizable voice entering his hearing processors.
‘Bone Crunch....Crunch...Crunch...Crunch.’
The powerful robot looked up at once and turned around in full motion just to make sure he heard that correctly. He clenched his fists and shouted, "Where are you, Clam-borg?! I know it's you, ya wimpy oyster!"
The voice of Clam-borg returned in his head, ‘Hee, hee, hee, ohhhh Bone Crunch, how stupid can you be? Be? Be?’
Before Bone Crunch could yell out in anger, a blue blur landed right in front of him. Bone Crunch looked at the blue pony yet again. Its eyes were filled with anger and it crouched low to the ground.
"Ohhhh, please not you again." Bone Crunch said, "Can't you take a hint?"
Rainbow Dash ignored it and flew at Bone Crunch full speed. That is, until she was grabbed in Bone Crunch's massive fist yet again.
Rainbow struggled to get free, but yet again, she couldn't. Rainbow was brought up to the monster's face again, Rainbow tried to act brave this time, and it was very hard for her considering the fact that she was in this scary situation before.
Bone Crunch stood up and brought the pony to his face. They stared at each other for a while until Rainbow yelled, "Let me go and fight me!!!"
"You have big guts wanting fight me, Bone Crunch. I respect you for that." Bone Crunch told her. Rainbow stopped struggling and stared at him with an eyebrow raised. Bone Crunch continued, "But you stupid, you know you not gonna win, so why you keep trying?"
Rainbow answered, "Because you hurt my friends!"
Bone Crunch cocked his head and said, "I protecting myself, minding own business, but you ponies just not leave me alone." Rainbow opened her mouth slightly.
Bone Crunch continued, "But since you show bravery, I let you go.......this time."
Bone Crunch brought his arm back and said, "Now goodbye."
With his full strength, Bone Crunch threw Rainbow Dash far away from him into the air. Rainbow tried to regain herself and soon she was flying in mid-air.
"Oh, you'll pay for that!" Rainbow yelled and flew back towards the creature.
But when she got there, it was walking away. Rainbow Dash flew straight in front of its face. She yelled, "I am NOT letting you get away without a fight!"
Bone Crunch didn't move and simply glared at her. Rainbow glared back, she wouldn't fall prey to fear again.
But what this horrid creature did next.....scared her straight to the bone.
Rainbow's glare turned to a shocked expression when the creature yelled so loud it shook the forest around her. Rainbow looked back and saw the creature's visor was now glowing red with pure hatred.
It spoke in an even deeper voice than before.
"I gave you choice, to leave and stop following me. I not want to have use this on you, but you leave me no choice!!! FEEL THE POWER OF THE PRIMAL SQUAD!!!!"
Rainbow stopped breathing when this demon smashed both his arms to the ground and started changing! Rainbow Dash looked over and saw both of his arms turned into feet. The feet of the monster grew and turned into arms while the head turned into a torso . Rainbow couldn't help it, she actually screamed in terror when a large head erupted from the body and roared so loud Rainbow had to cover her ears.
It kept roaring into the heavens above as Rainbow saw the rest of the body change. A large jetpack came out of the chest and positioned itself on his back. When the sound of changing had stopped, Rainbow Dash fell to the ground and crawled away on her back but still eyeing this monster.
Rainbow Dash had just witnessed the monster transform into a wingless metal dragon!
It took two steps in front of her and reared down. Bone Crunch performed various gestures and soon spikes emerged everywhere on his body that made Rainbow Dash shake with fear. Grimlock reared back and yelled right in her face. Rainbow Dash felt the sudden push of wind hit her face and body as this monster continued to yell.
Grimlock stopped yelling and closed his mouth. Rainbow Dash opened her eyes, still shaken up from that loud sound. The creature got closer and finally spoke.
"Leave......now."
But before Dash could even move......another yell was heard.
Bone Crunch turned around and looked straight at the cave he was just sitting by a while ago. The yell stopped and loud footsteps came out of the cave. Bone Crunch wasn't prepared for what came out.
A dragon.
"Oh no." Rainbow Dash whispered still on her back.
Bone Crunch glared at this new monster that appeared out of the cave. The dragon took notice to this smaller wingless creature in front of him, he hated it when other beings trespassed, especially after a certain baby dragon came and ate his jewels.
The dragon roared and went straight for the trespassing enemy. Bone Crunch reacted quickly and used his hook arm to trip this unknown creature to him. The dragon fell face first and got back up quickly. He kicked Bone Crunch which sent him back into the side of the mountain.
Bone Crunch got back up and charged straight for the creature. But this dragon reacted quickly and grabbed Bone Crunch with both of his hands. The dragon then chucked this enemy into the Everfree Forest.
Rainbow Dash looked over and saw the creature that attacked her land deep in the Everfree with a loud tremor following.
Rainbow looked back and saw the dragon look down at her with a wicked grin.
Rainbow Dash got back and flew away as fast as possible, but she heard the dragon following close behind her. Rainbow flew up straight in the air and looked down; the dragon was below her, glaring with those red eyes. But the dragon wasn’t finished with her yet and breathed in deeply. It released a large amount of flames at Dash who barely dodged it. Rainbow screamed in pain and realized that her wing got singed.
She felt herself slowly falling to the ground, she panted her wings as hard as she could but kept falling. She eventually crashed into the side of a mountain and slid down. She landed on the ground with a hard thud. She laid there, completely tired and weakened from ramming into the side of that mountain.
Dash looked up and saw the dragon walk right in front of her. It glared down and licked its lips. It opened its mouth and said, "Well that was fun. But now it’s time to eat my prize."
Rainbow Dash tried to fly away, but her wing was broken, she screamed in agony as she tried to move it. Rainbow Dash looked up and saw the dragon open his mouth, his fangs dripping saliva.
This was the end. Rainbow Dash was dead meat. The thought of her dying brought Rainbow to tears, she never accomplished her dream of becoming a member of the Wonderbolts, she never found the special somepony in her life, she never got to say goodbye to...... her friends.
After a few seconds of waiting, Rainbow breathed again and noticed that she was still alive.
Rainbow Dash opened her eyes and saw she was protected with a purple shield of energy above her. The dragon couldn't break it as it continued to smash his fist against the dome.
Rainbow looked over and saw Applejack running towards her, followed by Rarity, Pinkie, Fluttershy, and Twilight who had her horn glowing.
"Ah got ya Rainbow!" Applejack yelled as she lifted Dash on her back.
Twilight couldn't hold the shield anymore and yelled, "Girls, get out of the way!"
All six of them darted to a clearing in the dirt and looked up as the dragon raised a fist to crush them. Rarity shot several beams of energy at the dragon who simply chuckled at this weak attack. He raised his tail and prepared to smash the white unicorn.
When he brought it down, Applejack quickly pushed Rarity out of the way just in time before the tail hit the ground causing a loud tremor. Applejack regained her composure and looked at Twilight who was still trying to hurt the dragon with her energy beams.
The dragon reared back and unleashed its full fury of fire on the lavender unicorn. Rarity created a shield in front of Twilight before the flames could overcome her. The dragon looked back at the white unicorn and orange earth pony. He swiped his tail and hit both of them.
Rarity and Applejack crashed into Twilight, Fluttershy, and Dash. They all looked up and saw the dragon open his mouth and was about to unleash another torrent of flames.
Twilight focused again and created a dome of energy protecting them. The dragon’s fire kept on exploding on the dome. Twilight couldn't hold it for much longer as it began to crack from the intense heat.
But Bone Crunch knew he could defeat that creature, but still.......should he? Bone Crunch watched as the giant monster tried smashing the dome over the ponies, trying to consume them.
On one hand, the ponies had definitely gained his respect.
On the other hand…they had attacked him and used some kind of mind trick on him. Attempted to capture him and do God knows what to him.
Bone Crunch put a hand to his chin and said to himself, "Why I care about stupid creatures? They annoying little pests who not deserve to live......besides......"
Bone Crunch put his hand down and looked at the ground sadly.
"I no hero, it my fault shell Cracker dead, I not want be my fault innocent organics die." That's when he heard the screams. Bone Crunch looked back forward and clenched his fists in anger.
Now that the dome was broken, he could eat them. Opening his mouth wide, he prepared to consume his meal...only to feel something collide with his face.
The force of the blow knocked him off his feet and sent him skidding along the ground on his back. Once he had stopped, he groaned in pain as he lifted his head up, trying to spot what had struck him.
There in front of the ponies, in a defensive stature, was a giant metallic like creature with a glowing Blue visors. It had black, red, and silver armor. It stood in front of the ponies and glared at the dragon.
The ponies looked up to see the creature that hurt them, suddenly blocking the path of the dragon.
The dragon took another look at the strange creature; he had never seen anything like this before!
It spoke in a deep voice and threatening voice.
"You made bad mistake! Make trouble, me Bone Crunch crush you!"
Lightning Seven: Flying Sparks
The forest was silent as both predators stared at each other for what felt like hours.
"You dare attack me, a dragon?! Well, whatever you are, you won't live long enough to try and apologize." Breathing in deeply, the dragon let loose a huge amount of flames at Bone Crunch.
Bone Crunch dodged it with ease, and looked back at the dragon.
"You breathe fire huh?" Bone Crunch asked, "Well....let me make things more even."
After Grimlock had said that, he smashed both his fists to the ground and began to make a changing noise the dragon didn't understand. Grimlock's legs transformed into arms, his arms were now legs and his body was changing before the dragon's eyes. Soon enough, a knights helmet erupted from Bone Crunch's body and roared so loud it made the forest shake.
The dragon couldn't believe what he just saw, the creature had changed into another monster, and this one was even more freighting than the last. It had razor sharp spikes across his body and long arms, its eyes glowed red with hatred and hunger.
Grimlock was now in his robot knight form.
The dragon had wide eyes, until he finally said, "You’re that same stupid dragon from before!"
Bone Crunch shook his head, "I'm not stupid dragon, I'm stupid Primal! Or I mean Primal!"
The dragon rolled his eyes and looked back at Bone Crunch, apparently that was his name because he said it so many times. The dragon eyed him and noticed that he had smoke coming out of his large jaws. He looked down and noticed he was standing in front of the ponies.
"Are you protecting those ponies?!" The dragon asked.
Bone Crunch growled and said, "You not the hurt innocent ponies, I not let you."
Below the beasts, Twilight, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and Pinkie Pie saw the creature that attacked them suddenly change into something even scarier. It was giant metal two legged guard, and it looked as if it was defending them. The six mares had wide eyes and mouths agape as Bone Crunch growled and moved closer to the dragon. Rainbow Dash on the other hoof was not that surprised since she saw this beast change into the knight before, still she was terrified of this beast.
"Fine, I'll finish you off and then I'll eat my prize." The dragon said as Bone Crunch got closer. The two beasts stared each other down, Bone Crunch was barely smaller than the dragon but he didn't care how big the dragon was. Size didn’t matter to him.
Suddenly, Bone Crunch roared and charged the dragon, the dragon was about to punch Bone Crunch, but it was too late. Bone Crunch rammed the dragon; head first, in the stomach. The dragon was being pushed back by the mighty Primal. They stopped when the dragon hit a mountain side. Bone Crunch reared back and unleashed a torrent of flames from his mouth on the dragon's chest.
The dragon yelled in pain when he realized this beast would not die easily. The dragon brought one hand up and punched Bone Crunch in the side of the head. The flames from Bone Crunch's mouth stopped and he backed up, shaking his head to regain focus.
But the dragon was really mad now; he grabbed Bone Crunch's face with his left hand and held his mouth shut. Bone Crunch struggled to get free. The dragon was suddenly laughing at how easily he just tamed this beast that is until his fingers got caught in the razor sharp jaws.
Bone Crunch bit down with all his strength and the fingers began to break. The dragon was screaming in pain and tried to release his fingers from Bone Crunch's jaw. With one final bite, Bone Crunch ripped two fingers off the left hand of the dragon with his mouth.
The dragon screamed in pain and held his left hand. "AHHHHHH, you little freak of nature!" The dragon yelled.
Bone Crunch turned back, but this time he was lifted up by the dragon. The dragon held Bone Crunch above his head and threw him violently away from him, on the ground. Bone Crunch transformed back into his beast form and landed perfectly. The dragon saw this and glared at the old form of his opponent.
"HA, you are back to your weak form! You cannot stop me now!" The dragon taunted.
Bone Crunch, unfazed by his taunting, slowly brought out his hands and a large red spear emerged. Bone Crunch held his spear with his hands and glared back at the dragon.
The dragon saw this and said, "WHAT?! You have weapons too?!"
Bone Crunch ignored what he said and charged at the dragon, spear raised. The dragon released another fury of flames at Bone Crunch. The mighty robot acted fast and held his left arm in front of him. On cue, a green shield transformed in his left hand and the flames were stopped before they could hit him.
Bone Crunch put his shield away and charged forward to see the dragon rearing down to bite him. Bone Crunch dodged the sharp jaws of the dragon and sliced its nose. The dragon reared up and clutched his bloody snout; he glared down at Bone Crunch who had already gotten too close.
"DIE!!!" The dragon yelled and brought up his foot in an attempt to crush the Dinosaur-bot. Bone Crunch dodged the foot when it came down. He quickly lifted up his spear and brought it down on the dragon's foot. The dragon screeched as his foot was stabbed by this razor sharp sword stuck in it.
"You give up yet." Bone Crunch spoke evilly. "I keep up all day."
"I'LL KILL YOU!!!" The dragon screamed and unleashed more flames from his mouth.
Bone Crunch ripped his spear from the foot of the dragon and dodged the flames barely. Bone Crunch looked at his leg and saw it was scorched badly from the fire. Unfazed by this, he charged forward at the dragon who reared back and unleashed yet another torrent of flames at the mighty robot.
Bone Crunch was done playing.
“So much….rage building!”
Just before the flames covered him, Bone Crunch gained enough rage from this worthless battle he was having and transformed into his godly form. Bone Crunch roared and charged forward at the dragon, ramming him in the gut.
The dragon fell on its back and looked up to see the metal knight bite down on his neck. The dragon immediately lost all the air in his lungs from the force of the bite. With his last bit of strength, the dragon pushed off his enemy and slowly got back up.
Bone Crunch transformed back into his animal mode and picked his spear back up. The dragon clutched his throat and watched in fear as this unknown monster was walking towards him! The dragon backed up in fear and put a hand up.
"Please, no more, I give up! Leave me be!" The dragon pleaded.
Bone Crunch stopped and looked at his spear; he looked back at the pleading creature and came up with the best solution to this entire predicament. "Should've given up before."
The dragon smiled noticing Bone Crunch had let down his guard and breathed in deeply.
The fire struck Bone Crunch before he could react.
The dragon kept the flames going for a few more seconds just wanting to be sure that this thing would be dead. He felt his breath leaving and he stopped the flames from his mouth. The dragon closed his eyes and smiled when he realized he had just won. There was no way any creature could survive that amount of fire on their skin.
He chuckled to himself and prepared to turn around to eat the ponies he had almost forgotten about. He looked down at their terrified faces and licked his lips as he drew nearer. Their expressions were still in a petrified stare as the dragon leaned down and opened his bloody mouth.
Right before he could finish off these ponies, a deep growl was heard behind him.
The dragon slowly turned around and saw the creature with his shield out and not a burn mark on him. He had protected himself at the last second. The dragon backed away from the ponies and stood in fear as Bone Crunch put away his shield and gripped his spear.
The dragon gulped but immediately clutched his throat remembering what that monster had done to it. After a few seconds of scary silence, the dragon screamed, "WHY WON'T YOU DIE?!"
Grimlock growled while looking at his sword and back at the dragon. He answered with his most terrifying voice. "Never give up."
Suddenly, Bone Crunch threw his sword at the dragon; it stuck with a deadly cutting sound into the stomach of the dragon. The dragon coughed up blood and looked to see Bone Crunch charging at him.
Bone Crunch jumped on the dragon and ripped the spear out with a deadly slice. The guts and organs of the dragon came pouring out along with a lot of blood. The dragon screamed in agony and clutched his open stomach. Bone Crunch climbed up onto the dragon's back and soon his head!
The dragon looked up to see Bone Crunch with his sword raised and letting out a deadly battle cry. With one powerful slice, Bone Crunch ripped the dragon's head from his body. Bone Crunch and the head fell to the ground. The large body of the dragon came soon afterwards. After the ground shook a while, all was silent.
Bone Crunch sighed and realized that he had just won. That dragon was one tough opponent, but nothing Bone Crunch couldn’t handle. He looked up and slowly got to his feet. Bone Crunch stuck his spear in the ground and put his foot on the severed head of the dragon. The robot raised his tail in triumph.
"ME BONE CRUNCH KIIIIIIINNNNNNNG!!!!" Bone Crunch yelled to the heavens and pounded his fists against his chest.
"ME BONE CHRUNCH GREATEST WARRIOR!!!!" Bone Crunch yelled.
Bone Crunch felt stupid using his vocabulary, but he didn’t care. Victory was his, as it always should be. Suddenly Bone Crunch remembered something.
He looked over to where the ponies were. They were mentally scarred at the events that just happened. The yellow one had tears flowing and the white one looked as if she was going to throw up.
Bone Crunch took his foot off the dragon head and picked his spear off the ground. The Mane 6 shivered with fear and cuddled closer. But what they thought he was going to do, he didn't.
Bone Crunch's spear reverted back. He took one last look at the ponies and turned around and ran into the forest. Loud footsteps became quieter and soon.....silence.
The equines were scared beyond belief, they slowly got up and walked over towards the clearing into the forest. The creature was gone yet again.
Fluttershy broke the scary silence, "Can we go home now? The monster is gone."
"Bone Crunch..." Twilight said. Her friends looked at her.
"His...his name’s Bone Crunch." Twilight finished.
The other five looked at each other and proceeded to walk onto the trail and out of the Everfree Forest. Twilight followed behind them.
It was a silent walk, and the entire time, Twilight was still confused.
"Bone Crunch just saved us," Twilight whispered to herself, "But...... why?"
Lightning Seven: Flying Sparks
Recovering
The six mares had just made it back to Ponyville. Rainbow Dash was sent to the hospital at once to heal her wounded wing. The doctors still didn't believe the story the mares told them, about her trying a new stunt and ended up crashing.
Nurse Redheart looked at the bruises and claw marks on Dash. "That must have been one heck of a fall." Redheart said.
"Yeah.... it was." Twilight rubbed the back of her head. Rainbow Dash laid in a hospital bed and picked up a book. Her friends walked by her giving soft smiles.
"Don't worry Dash; we'll pick ya up first thing tomorrow." Applejack told her.
"Don't worry guys, I'll be fine here." Rainbow said and began reading another Daring Do book she found on the table next to her. The other five mares walked out of the hospital and into Ponyville. It was beginning to get dark out, and Twilight wanted to ask her friends something.
"Girls, why did Bone Crunch save us?” She asked, “I mean, we attacked it and it still protected us.” Twilight asked her friends.
"I don't know, Twilight, maybe it saw us in trouble and it wanted to protect us I guess." Rarity said.
"That still doesn't make sense." Twilight said shaking her head. The five mares finally came into Ponyville after several minutes had passed; they were still discussing the topic on hoof.
"No Pinkie, we can't throw a party for it." Applejack told her.
"But why not, it saved us; a party is the least we can do!" Pinkie said smiling.
"It tried to kill us remember!" Applejack retorted.
"After we attacked it." Fluttershy quietly said.
"Girls, don't be so loud." Twilight shushed them.
"Ah'm sorry, ah didn't want all of Ponyville ta run amuck over the fact that there is a monster in the Everfree!" Applejack yelled.
"Applejack, be quiet! Somepony could hear!" Rarity yelled.
"Ya hear that?” Applebloom asked falling down from the crates, “There is a monster in the Everfree."
"Yeah, I bet we could catch it!" Scootaloo said excitedly.
"I don't know girls; it sounds kind of dangerous, my sister sounded like she was scared." Sweetie Belle explained while slightly shaking.
Scootaloo answered back, "Are you kidding?! We could earn our cutie marks lickity split if we caught a monster!"
"Well......I guess we could. But we need Spike to come along!" Sweetie Belle said.
"Awww, why?" Scootaloo asked with a hint of groaning.
"Because remember what happened last time?” Sweetie Belle explained, “Besides, he could help us not get lost."
"Okay." Scootaloo admitted.
Applebloom jumped in and said, "Cutie Mark Crusader Monster Hunters!"
"YAY!" They all said and ran off to the library. Applebloom had noticed that it was about to get very dark out, hopefully they could get their cutie marks and then get back home before anypony noticed they were gone. But Applebloom couldn't finish her plan when they had arrived to Twilight's house. When the three of them got inside, they saw Spike sweeping.
"SPIKE!" Applebloom yelled.
"Wha…?" Spike looked up and saw the three fillies looking up at him with a sparkle in their eyes.
"Spike, we want you to come with us!" Sweetie Belle said.
"Why, I have work to do." Spike said.
Scootaloo knocked the broom out of his hands and said, "We want you to come monster hunting with us."
"Monster hunting?” Spike repeated the word, “Is this another one of your cutie mark attempts?" Spike asked.
"We'll get it this time!" Scootaloo shouted, "But we need you to come with us so you could guide us back." Scootaloo told him.
Spike leaned in and said, "Okay look, I can't leave the library until Twilight gets back, but if you three are going into the Everfree alone, then I have to go and look after you three."
Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Applebloom beamed and hugged Spike.
"Okay, okay, you're making me blush. Now let's get going.” Just as they were about to leave, Spike got in front of them and blocked the door, “AND we have to be back before nighttime okay?" Spike asked.
"Okay!" The Cutie Mark Crusaders said together.
So Spike led them out of the library and towards the exit of Ponyville.
"Oh great, now where did that dragon go?" Twilight looked around and still nothing, the other mares began to look as well.
Twilight was getting worried, "SPIKE!!!!"
"Where are you Spikey Wikey?!" Rarity yelled, she knew if it was her voice that was heard, Spike would come at once. But Spike still didn't come.
"Where is Spike?" Twilight said. Suddenly the door opened and Big Macintosh came in with a worried face.
"What is it, Big Mac?" Applejack asked.
"Have you seen your sister?!" Big Mac asked Applejack who was breathing profusely.
"No....I thought she was with you." Applejack said.
"She hasn't come home, and it's almost night!" Big Mac yelled.
Applejack was worried now; her sister was nowhere to be seen. "Wait a minute; did Sweetie Belle get back to the Boutique?" Rarity asked Macintosh.
"Nope."
"Oh no...." Rarity muttered in horror.
"What?!" Applejack yelled on the verge of crying.
"Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, Spike. They went on another cutie mark adventure and they took Spike with them!" Rarity panicked.
Twilight began to stomp her hooves on the ground in fear. Pinkie Pie jumped around the room and literally screamed, "We have to go get them, it's not safe out there with the mon-" Pinkie began but was shushed by Rarity.
"What?" Big Mac asked.
"Nothing, we'll go find them, Big Mac." Twilight said and galloped out the door with the other mares. But before any of them could go any farther, Applejack suddenly remembered something and stopped.
Applejack turned around and said, "We have to go tell Rainbow!"
They all nodded and sped off towards the hospital. When they got to Rainbow's room, they saw her still reading. "What's up?" Rainbow asked.
"Rainbow, we're going to find the Cutie Mark Crusaders and Spike, they got out somewhere and Bone Crunch is still out in the forest, they can't go in the Everfree with him still in there! Who knows what Bone Crunch will do to them?!" Twilight explained.
"What?! My biggest fan is out in the forest?! I'm coming too!" Rainbow said and got out of bed.
"But....you're still in the hospital." Rarity said.
Rainbow shook off the bandages and cringed in pain just a bit. She passed the pain aside when she knew there were more important things about to happen, "I'm fine, now let's go!"
The Mane six sped off out of the hospital, with doctors yelling at them. It was nighttime now, Applejack was running faster with the thought of her little sister being attacked by that monster.
Scootaloo started to walk inside and said, "Come on, those cutie marks won't get themselves!"
"Stay together though." Spike said and walked alongside Sweetie Belle and Applebloom. Scootaloo was leading the pack in the dark forest. She wasn't scared, but her friends were. Just as they were getting closer to another route, they heard galloping behind them. They turned to see the older mares galloping towards them.
When Applejack got close she hugged Applebloom. Rarity hugged Sweetie Belle and Twilight hugged Spike. Rainbow went by and put her arm around Scootaloo’s neck.
Applejack released herself and yelled, "What were you thinkin'?! Going in the Everfree at night, ah told ya never ta come here!"
"Ah'm sorry Applejack, we just wanted out cutie-" Applebloom began.
"Yer Cutie Marks, yeah ah heard it before." Applejack said and gently stroked Applebloom’s mane. "Don't ever scare me like that again." Applejack told her.
"Spike what were you thinking?!" Twilight yelled.
"I'm sorry Twilight!" Spike said.
"No, you're grounded!" Twilight yelled.
"But-" Spike began but had a hoof put to his mouth. Spike knew this was going to happen, and now he was grounded because of the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
"Sweetie Belle how could you?! Scaring your big sister like that!" Rarity yelled.
"I'm sorry, Rarity." Sweetie said with tears in her eyes.
"No, I'm telling mom and dad what you just did; going in the Everfree when there is a dangerous monster in here!" Rarity said.
"But we thought we could catch it!" Sweetie said.
Rarity looked at her in disbelief, "You would have NEVER caught it."
"You guys....." Came a timid voice. They turned to see Fluttershy cowering and staring at some trees. They looked to see what she was looking at, it made them all freeze with terror.
There in the darkness, were glowing red ovals staring at them.
It was taller than some trees and it remained in the shadows. For several seconds, the ovals continued its silent stare not moving an inch.
Sweetie Belle began to say, "It's.... it's the monster.....right?"
"RUN!!!" Applebloom yelled only to be stopped by Applejack.
"No, don't run." Applejack told her.
Twilight stepped a little closer and said, "Don't worry girls, it's just Bone Crunch ."
"Bone-what?" Spike asked.
"Bone Crunch , it's the monster that saved us from the dragon. We really never properly thanked it, so we can now." Twilight explained. The other mares nodded, Rarity held her sister close and so did Applejack, Spike went closer to Pinkie, and Scootaloo cuddled closer to Rainbow Dash as Twilight approached the so called Grimlock.
As Twilight stepped closer to the trees, the visor stared down at her.
"Hello ummmm Bone Crunch , we never thanked you for saving us from the dragon, especially after we tried to capture you. But seriously, thank you for saving us. We don't want to be enemies, so will you please be our friend?" Twilight asked.
The glowing red ovals continued staring at them. Twilight felt uneasy as it just stared at her with such…..creepiness. Finally, after a few more seconds, the visor began moving closer.
Twilight backed up with her friends and was ready to see the creature that saved them.
Only... when it stepped into the moonlight....Twilight and her friends froze in shock.
It wasn't Bone Crunch .
When it spoke, it spoke with a chilling, voice.
"Mini-bots, attack!"
Lightning Seven: Flying Sparks
Twilight, Fluttershy, Pinkie, Rarity, Rainbow, Applejack, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, and Spike were frozen in fear.
This creature was even more freighting than Bone Crunch! If that was even possible.
It had red DJ glasses, its head resembled an upside down tear, yet it had no mouth. It was smaller than Bone Crunch was, but taller than the Princesses. It had blue armor and some multi-colored lights on its chest.
“Mini-bots, attack!”
When it spoke, it sent shivers down Fluttershy's spine. It suddenly pressed a button on his arm and to the pony's and dragon's amazement, its chest opened and two orbs came out.
The ball square transformed into a kind of bird, it squawked and landed on a branch, staring at the ponies. The second ball transformed into some kind of miniature version of the being before them only on a wheel
The ponies turned around to see this strange creature; they were scared when it started smiling maniacally.
"Alright little organics, lets tumble, Bass Booster style!" The creature shouted and fired its sound canon at the ground, causing a tremor that made the ponies shake as they tried to regain their balance.
Applejack got in front of her friends and sister, "Y-ya stay back ya here!"
Bass Buster smirked and started laughing. Fluttershy backed up frightened until she felt her rump hit something cold and hard. She turned around slowly and saw the giant monster staring down at her.
"Eep!" Fluttershy squeaked and ran back towards her friends. Bass Buster got in closer and put his hand up, the Mini-bots backed off as ordered.
"Scanning..." Bass Buster said and pressed a button on his torso. His glasses glowed green and a scan went over all the ponies and dragon. Rarity looked shocked as the scan went over her.
"How dare you look at me you brute?!" Rarity screamed and covered herself in embarrassment.
Bass Buster's glasses went back to red as he spoke, "Scanning complete, species: horse, subspecies: pony, other species: dragon. Requiring more data, Bass Booster, subdue the equines."
"With pleasure, Bass Buster," Bass Booster said and grabbed Rarity.
"Don't you touch me!" Rarity screamed and bucked Bass Booster, which made him fall backwards.
"Rarity, run and get help!" Twilight screamed.
Rarity took off galloping towards the way they came, Bass Buster acted quickly. "Talon, attack, the pony must not escape!" Bass Buster ordered. Talon flew down and scooped up Rarity, she started screaming and slashing around.
"Somepony help me!" Rarity screamed. Rainbow Dash took to the skies and knocked Talon out with her full speed, he fell to the ground. "Yeah, taste this you overgrown parrot!" Rainbow yelled holding Rarity.
Applejack was busy fighting off Bass Buster who tried attacking Applebloom. Applejack bucked Bass Booster with her full strength which made him fly back and hit a tree.
"Ponies battle worthy, prepare for annihilation." Bass Buster said and his right hand transformed into some kind of weapon that began to create electricity at the end. Rainbow flew toward him, but he simply swatted her aside. Rainbow landed by her friends with a loud grunt, they all looked up to Bass Buster pointing his gun at them.
The ponies didn't know what to expect from that strange weapon in Bass Buster's right hand, but it seemed dangerous. When he was about to fire a loud screech filled the air. The ponies, and dragon looked up and so did Bass Buster, they all saw a sleek metal air boat heading right for them!
The boat changed in front of the ponies eyes; it landed on the ground and was now a two legged creature like Bass Buster. The difference was that it had a wasp stinger and wings protruding from its back.
"Buzzer!" Bass Buster yelled and fired his gun at him. Buzzer dodged the lightning and kicked Bass Buster, sending him into a cluster of trees.
Buzzer turned towards the ponies and screamed, "Go organics! I'll protect you, just get out!"
Ignoring the confusion, the ponies and Spike ran towards a clearing deeper into the forest. But suddenly Bass Booster came and blocked their path. "You're not getting away that easy!" Bass Booster yelled but was kicked by Buzzer.
“I said go!!!" Buzzer yelled before he was tackled by Bass Buster. The ponies watched in awe at this clash of the titans going on. Bass Buster punched and fired at Swoop who retaliated with punches of his own.
He needed electrans…he couldn’t live like this.
“Hear…voices.” Bone Crunch muttered and pushed down a couple of trees.
‘Starving….starving…..starving.’ The voices continued their little games with the mighty robot. Bone Crunch shook his head and collapsed on one knee.
"Me give up, I never find Prima-" He began but heard fighting and metal being pounded not far from him. "Fighting? Me love fighting!" Bone Crunch said but then heard a screech.
"That sounds like..... BUZZER!!!" Bone Crunch said and transformed into his dino form. Several forest creatures scurried away in fear when this new beast suddenly appeared in the Everfree. He roared and took off towards the sound of the fighting.
"Hee, hee, hee, hee, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!" Bass Buster continued to laugh as he was wailing on Buzzer.
Suddenly, Bass Buster stopped laughing as a loud roar was heard. Bass Buster turned to his right and saw two trees topple over, revealing the large metal T-Rex that growled with hunger at the Decepticon.
Twilight smiled and shouted, "It's Bone Crunch!"
"THAT'S Bone Crunch?!" Spike yelled very confused at this point.
Bone Crunch roared again and charged at Bass Buster, the communications officer tried to run but was caught in the massive jaws of the Dinosaur robot. Bone Crunch soon flung him to the ground.
Bass Buster got up and said, "Bass Booster, Talon return!"
The two Mini-bots transformed back and rolled into Bass Buster's chest compartment. Bass Buster transformed into a jet and flew off into the forest.
Twilight and Spike felt a nudge behind them, they turned to see Rarity. "Come on Twilight! Let's get out of here!" Rarity sharply whispered.
"But Bone Crunch, he saved us again!" Twilight whispered just as sharp.
"It doesn't matter let's go!" Rarity yelled a little and took off after the group, Spike and Twilight followed.
"Bone Crunch, is that you?" Buzzer asked.
"Yes, me glad found you." Bone Crunch told him.
Swoop stood up on his own and said, "Bone Crunch, do you remember anything that happened after you destroyed the Space Bridge?”
“No…do you?” Bone Crunch asked.
Buzzer nodded and explained, “Lighting Scale, Munch-Munch and I watched as the Space Bridge began to collapse. We didn’t know what happened to ya and we didn’t like it. But it only got worse…”
“What happened?” Bone Crunch asked obviously expecting to get an answer this time.
Buzzer sighed and said, “A massive explosion came from the tower. It overcame all of us and the last thing I knew…I was here.”
Bone Crunch sighed and said, “So that’s how we got here. We need to find the others.”
Buzzer nodded and transformed back into his plane form. He floated above his leader and shouted, “Bone Crunch, I have a locater, we can find the others!”
"You can?! Buzzer, lead way!" Bone Crunch said.
Buzzer did as he was told and flew into the air. "Bone Crunch, follow me!" Buzzer yelled and flew off. Bone Crunch ran close behind him.
"Hey, wait!" Twilight yelled, but it was too late, she was alone now.
Twilight shivered and looked around; she was really deep in the Everfree Forest now. She began to get teary eyed but held back tears as she looked for a way out. She began walking slowly through the forest, flinching at every little sound that was made.
Twilight finally came across a large field of grass in the middle of the forest; she sighed happily and walked inside. It was a good spot to be when you were lost; you could find a way out easier.
As Twilight walked in the center she stopped and listened to what sounded like buzzing. The buzzing became very loud and Twilight looked up and saw what was making the strange sound.
Many large jagged creatures were flying towards her!
Twilight screamed and started to run, but her path was blocked by a giant frilled lizard that licked its lips with what appeared to be a forked metal arms. Twilight looked at it and saw the same symbol of a snail shell.
She turned and ran the other way but was stopped by a turtle clock robot. Finally, Twilight was surrounded by several giant robotic animals. Twilight cowered and saw one of them emerged. It had a red visor; this creature was green and black. It glared down at Twilight.
One of the androids spoke up, "So C0rrup7@r, can we eat this organic?" Slicor looked at Twilight again; she was shaking with fear as she heard the words 'eat this organic.'
"Do whatever you want with it brothers, Jaggor doesn't us bringing back anything that seems as worthless as this. This. This." C0rrup7@r explained.
The bots moved forward on Twilight who backed up until she saw the third one behind her. She was trapped, there was no way out! Twilight closed her eyes and curled up in a ball, she let the tears fall this time.
"Somepony, help me!" Twilight screamed in a hope that her friends had heard. The Insecticons laughed and continued to move forward on their lunch. Twilight waited for her death to come, she just wished it would be fast.
That is, until Twilight heard a loud beeping sound.
She opened her eyes slightly to see the animots taking defensive poses. She looked over at what they were looking at and it made Twilight gasp in shock.
There from the forest, came a skinny biped with a hat that resembled Applejack's. It started to kick and punch the animots. Twilight could not see its face, but a bright red bandana.
Suddenly, the robots charged at the creature that kicked and punched them away. Slicor got angry and charged at the skeletal creature, they locked hands and pushed at each other. Slicor gave in, and the bony creature threw him against the others.
"Animots, retreat!" Slicor yelled and ran off, his allies did the same and soon.......all was quiet.
Twilight didn't stop shaking and barely looked up at this new creature. It suddenly looked at Twilight which made her close her eyes and whimper. She heard loud footsteps headed her way. She opened one eye barely to see the creature get lower to her.
The violet unicorn felt herself being gently lifted up. The creature cradled her in his hands and Twilight stopped shaking. She opened her eyes and looked up to the giant face staring at her with glowing blue eyes.
It spoke, "Don't worry little one, you're safe now." When it spoke, its bandana moved up and down. Its mouth was more of a bird.
Twilight spoke after a few seconds, "Th-thank you."
The head went back a few inches and said, "You can talk?"
Twilight gulped and said, "Y-yes I can.....thank you for saving my life."
"Eh don't sweat it, I wasn't just gonna let those animots eat ya up." It said.
Twilight smiled a little and asked, "What's your name?"
The creature answered, "The name's Hawk Eye."
Wait…was anything even chasing them?
"Is... is everypony okay?" Applejack asked.
"Wait, where's Twilight?!" Pinkie screamed. They all looked around; Twilight was nowhere to be seen.
"Oh this is terrible!!" Rarity exclaimed.
"Twilight is alone, and there are monsters everywhere!" Sweetie Belle screamed.
"Now, now, calm down everypony, all we have to do is look fer her, she can't be far." Applejack explained.
"Oh, I hope we find her." Fluttershy said.
"Yeah...." Spike said with tears in his eyes.
"Now come on, let's go.....this way!" Applejack pointed and trotted towards an open clearing. The others followed.
They finally came across what Hawk Eye was looking for, the Crushers base camp. Hawk Eye covered Twilight with his spare jacket and told her to be quiet. She did and waited. The Crusher camp didn't have much, just a big fire spot that the soldiers made to see well.
Hawk Eye walked into the camp and saw his brothers talking.
"So, anymore ideas that could get us back to The Ranger, Precision?" Skydive asked.
Precision looked at the fire and said, "I still cannot locate The Ranger. In fact, I can’t even get any readings on this planet.”
The Crushers were in a sad silence until the dingodile Snaggletooth said, "Hey, how 'bout some music? That ought to cheer us up!”
"Shut up, Snaggletooth!" Slash yelled obviously not in the mood.
"But I just-" Snaggletooth began until he heard Hawk Eye behind him.
"Guys, you'll never believe what I found!" Hawk Eye said very excited. The Crushers came closer to him as he went by and stood near them.
"What is it?!" The mole known as Circuit Breaker said looking at Hawk Eye's hands holding his jacket.
"Okay, but you can't tell Scalor about it.....wait, where is he?" Hawk Eye asked.
"He went scouting, he'll be back soon." The Roadrunner Razor told him not taking his eyes off Hawk Eye’s jacket.
"Okay....guys, I found a species on this planet, the first alien we will ever interact with is in my hands." Hawk Eye explained and moved the jacket.
The Crushers gasped and looked with wide eyes at the purple pony. Twilight began to cower again and she shook with fear at all the strange creatures staring at her.
"It's okay Twilight, these are my friends, and we won't hurt you." Hawk Eye explained and rubbed her mane with his bony finger. Twilight stopped shaking and forced a smile.
"What is that?" Tarlok a slender being of the dark asked.
"Twilight, would you like to tell them?" Hawk Eye asked looking down at her. She nodded and smiled.
"My name is Twilight Sparkle, I'm a unicorn." Twilight told them.
"What's a unicorn?" Precision asked.
"What planet are we on?" Circuit Breaker asked her.
"You can talk?!" Slash yelled in confusion.
Twilight got confused at all the questions that were asked, but she thought and answered the simple ones.
"You are all on the planet of Equis, why, are you.......aliens?!" Twilight's ears perked up and she scrunched her face up adorably.
Kooker dawed and said, "Awww you're so cute!" Twilight blushed and smiled a little. But she remembered what she asked.
"Are you aliens?" Twilight asked. Circuit Breaker was about to answer when a stern and deep voice came from behind them.
"What's going on here?" The Crushers leader turned to see their leader, Scalor, walking towards them with arms crossed. Obviously the Crushers were making quite a ruckus and Scalor wanted to know why.
"Hehe..... Hey Scalor," Hawk Eye nervously said.
"Oh no, Twilight was probably captured by some beast!" Rarity panicked.
"No, don't think that!" Applejack yelled back.
"Everypony look, a campsite!" Pinkie said excitedly.
All of them looked from the bushes and saw many creatures surrounding a camp fire. Each of them had many different forms which was odd. All of them had a strange symbol they saw on Bass Buster but it looked like a mallet. Rainbow Dash looked and saw Twilight being touched by one.
"They got Twilight." Rainbow whispered.
"We'll get her back." Applejack said and glared at the creatures.
Fluttershy put the Cutie Mark Crusaders and Spike behind a tree and said, "Stay here, until we say it's safe."
They nodded. Fluttershy, Rarity, Pinkie, Rainbow, and Applejack looked at Twilight one more time. "Okay.....one...... two...... three..... CHARGE!!!!" Applejack yelled and they charged out of the bushes, toward their friend.
Twilight heard the scream and looked to see her friends charging at the creatures that she had suddenly made friends with. "Oh no...." Twilight whispered to herself as her friends attacked.
Lightning Seven: Flying Sparks
Twilight had suddenly remembered what Scalor showed her friends and her, that strange light show that had a picture of a powerful being; it was Jaggor, the leader of the MOLLUSK bots. This was Scalors' greatest foe? He didn't seem so dangerous.
"Hello, Fish." Jaggor smirked and walked closer. Scalor got in front of the ponies and put his hand up.
"Not now Jaggor, there are innocents here!" Optimus yelled.
Jaggor laughed and the ponies got a little frightened, it was a dark and evil laugh that caused the ponies to shiver. "There were innocents on Terra-glacies, that never seemed to stop you." he smiled evilly.
Scalor clenched his fins and glared at his nemesis. All the ponies stayed behind him and looked from behind his massive legs, but of course, Pinkie's curiosity got the best of her.
Pinkie dashed forward and looked up at Jaggor, smiling from ear to ear.
"Pinkie Pie, no!" Scalor yelled but it was far too late.
"Hi, I'm Pinkie Pie, so you know Scalor? That's so cool! So what are you here to do? Be friends with us? Party with us? Eat us? Jaggor sounds like a cool name, don’t you think? Pinkie Pie is a cool name too but Jaggor just sounds so STRONG! You kinda remind me of some song my pal Lyra danced to once." Pinkie said and flexed out her arm to show how strong she was, which she wasn’t.
Jaggor looked at her disgusted and lowered his cannon at her. "Get away you little germ!" Jaggor yelled and fired his hook shot claw.
The ponies, Spike, and Royal Guard gasped. Pinkie's eyes got bigger as the claw went straight for her. Luckily, Dice grabbed her and got out of the way as the claw broke the ground where Pinkie was just a few seconds ago.
Pinkie stuck her head out of Dice's arms and said, "You big meanie!"
"I've had it with this world! I'm going to bring it to fiery hell! I will kill every living being on this planet and suck it dry of energy!" Jaggor yelled in anger but then looked back at the Crushers.
"But first, I'll finish all of you off." Jaggor threatened and raised his hand forward.
"MOLLUSK bots, attack!!!"
The forest erupted with many metallic beings they fired blasts from guns at the Crushers who fired back. The ponies, Spike, and Royal Guard were too frightened and confused to know what to do. Many flying beings came from the skies and shot at the Mane 6, they closed their eyes not expecting what to happen.
Fluttershy opened her eyes to see Scalor in front of them with a smoking chest, he had just been shot! He looked back at them and picked them up in his arms. The Mane six, Cutie Mark Crusaders, and Spike were placed on the outside of the battlefield. "You'll be safe here." he told them.
Twilight looked frantically and screamed, "Where’s Shining Armor?!"
Scalor looked back and saw Shining Armor shooting strange beams from his horn at the bot Pin-sar, who merely laughed and swatted him aside with his spiked side of his claw. Twilight screamed again.
Scalor charged in and punched Pin-sar in his face plate, sending him crashing to the ground. He picked up the unconscious Shining Armor and placed him with the rest of the ponies. Twilight nudged him with her nose and Shining didn't move. Twilight was getting worried.
"He's okay, just unconscious." Scalor assured her and got back up. To the ponies amazement, Scalors' right fin transformed into a shining gray barrel. He cocked it and looked back at the ponies. "Stay here." He told them, the ponies got the message, don't try and be heroes.
Scalor charged forward and shot blasts from his path blaster at the bots who fired back. Jaggor saw Scalor coming for him and brought his hand towards a group of bots.
"Men, activate Destructus!" Jaggor ordered. The ponies were even more amazed when they saw a towering colossus turn on. He had to be at least 90 feet tall! He trudged through the battlefield and shot at the Crushers who tried to block the massive blasts.
When this mighty MOLLUSK bot named Destructus was getting close to Scalor, the unthinkable happened…
….a giant roar was heard coming from the forest.
Bone Crunch, Munch-Munch, Lighting Scale, and Buzzer, were pacing themselves through this never ending forest, all except Buzzer who was flying above them, locating the Crushers. Bone Crunch was just relieved to be reunited with his Primal brothers.
"This is taking too long; I want to fight some MOLLUSK-goons!" Lighting complained as he was assisting the injured Munch-Munch.
"We will not fight until we found the others, than we find bots who we can crush." Bone Crunch explained.
Lighting grumbled and looked up at Buzzer, "What is taking so long, Buzzer?!" Lighting yelled.
“I can't find the guys. My locator is actin’ weird." Buzzer said. Bone Crunch and Lighting grumbled in anger, except Munch who winced in pain again and held his injured side. After another few minutes, Buzzer heard the sound of gun fire.
"I here gun fire! YES, Bots and Crushers are fighting not too far away!" Buzzer cheered and dashed forward.
"Yes! I finally get to fight!" Lighting Scale yelled and dropped Munch-Munch. Lighting Scale ran forward, only to be stopped by Bone Crunch.
"No, I'll go in first and then you follow!" Bone Crunch said.
"NO!!! I want to fight now!!!" Lighting Scale yelled.
"I am your leader, you do what I say!!!" Bone Crunch said and moved his face in closer. Lighting Scale backed up in fear.
"Okay Bone Crunch, but I shall assist when I want to." Lighting Scale said and picked up Munch again.
Bone Crunch looked up and yelled, "Buzzer, get back here!!!"
On cue, he landed. He looked at Bone Crunch with anticipation. Bone Crunch stepped forward in front of the Primals and transformed into his fighting robot form. Bone Crunch's head looked back and said, "I will go first, you follow."
Lighting Scale and Buzzer nodded. Munch-Munch just put his head down in disappointment, knowing that he can’t be much of help. Bone Crunch reared his head back and shouted as loud as he could. He then suddenly charged towards the sound of fighting.
Twilight beamed and said, "Bone Crunch is back!"
"Is that a good thing?!" Scootaloo screamed.
"You'll see!" Rainbow Dash said and stared forward at Bone Crunch charging Destructus.
Destructus looked down and saw the mighty Dino heading right for him! Bone Crunch brought his hands forward and bit down on Destructus' leg. Destructus shook him off and punched Bone Crunch in the face. Jumpstart fought through the battle and somehow, got behind Destructus. Jumpstart used his grappling hook and launched himself to his back. When he climbed all the way up to Destructus’ head, he shot him several times with his gun.
Destructus shook his head trying to get Jazz off; until the ponies noticed two other Crushers come from the forest too! The first one electrified itself, it was a four-legged beast with horns on its head, it charged at Destructus with sparks coming from its mouth. The second one, the ponies recognized, it was the one that saved them. This one flew straight towards Destructus.
The first one rammed its head into Destructus' leg; he fell to one knee as Bone Crunch punched him all over his chest. The second one flew up above and shot blasts at Destructus' back.
Destructus had enough and swatted Buzzer out of the sky, he crashed on the ground with a loud screech. Destructus got back up lifted up Bone Crunch and threw him against Lighting. Scalor saw this and acted quickly.
Fluttershy covered her eyes and said, "I can't watch!"
Applejack nudged her and said, "Look!"
Fluttershy opened her eyes and saw a shark come out of the forest where the other ones did. This one struggled to turn primal but eventually did and it was now a giant spiked monster. This Primal swung its fin and knocked Destructus on the ground.
Jaggor was getting frustrated after his greatest fighters were being defeated. He then saw something that made his circuitry freeze.
Scalor was charging right for him.
Jaggor shook away the fear and charged as well. Two Crushers tried to attack Jaggor but the mighty panther cyborg brought out his sharp claws and smacked the Crushers Warhead and Hawk Eye with his claws. They landed on the ground in pain.
Jaggor aimed a rocket launcher and shot twice at Scalor. He hit both shots perfectly on Scalors' chest but he kept moving forward! Jaggor looked up and saw Overseer heading for Scalor.
Overseer shot at Scalor with his neutron rifle. He soon brought out a sword, and sliced at Scalor. He blocked the sword and hit Overseer with his true shot pistol. Overseer sliced again but Scalor was too quick and shot him in the eye. He was soon out of the battle.
Scalor brought his gun back up but Jaggor kicked him in the chest. Scalor fell to one knee as Jaggor stood above him. Scalor looked up to see the face of his old enemy.
"I've waited years for this, fish, time to meet your maker." Jaggor said and raised his paw.
"NO!" Twilight shouted but immediately covered her mouth.
Jaggor looked over and saw the ponies hiding in the bushes. "Awww, so these are the species of this planet." he said as he began walking towards the ponies. Scalor grabbed his foot and Jaggor looked down.
"Please old friend, don't harm them!" Scalor pleaded.
"Friend?!" Rainbow shouted with as much confusion as all the other ponies were feeling.
Jaggor raised his paw and shouted, "You don't tell me what to do!"
Jaggor finished with smashing his mace against Scalor's face. He fell back, unconscious. Jaggor continued to move forward. He glared down at the ponies when he was close enough. "You, Bass Buster lost to you?!" Jaggor yelled, "That is just pathetic!!!"
Applejack gulped and said, "You...you stay back ya here!"
Megatron glared at her and roared, "YOU CAN'T CONTROL ME!!! BASS BUSTER MAY HAVE LOST TO YOU, BUT I WON'T!!!!"
The ponies were terrified now and got close to each other. Even Rainbow thought that this guy was more terrifying than Bone Crunch.
Megatron activated his hook shot claw at the ponies as it changed the claw to a spiked ball.
"Oh no... Not again." Pinkie whimpered.
As Jaggor was about to fire, he heard a loud roar and turned to see a giant robot charging at him!
Bone Crunch grabbed Jaggor's right arm and lifted him up. Jaggor struggled to get free, and eventually freed himself by punching Bone Crunch in the eye. Bone Crunch released him and shook his head to regain his focus; Jaggor shot more blasts at Bone Crunch who couldn't block them due to Jaggor's cat relfexes.
Jaggor jumped on Bone Crunch's back and slashed him several times in the head. Bone Crunch was faltering and fell on the ground. Jaggor got up and put his foot on the side of Bone Crunch's face.
"I have defeated the mighty Bone-AHHH" Jaggor said as he was tackled by Scalor.
Scalor gave Jaggor the beating of a lifetime. He punched his face several times while Jaggor tried to block. Jaggor caught one punch and pushed Scalor off of him. Jaggor aimed his paw at Scalor and shot him in the leg. Scalor screamed in pain and clutched his now destroyed leg.
"I should have killed you on Terra-glacies!" Jaggor yelled and picked up his mace.
Jaggor lifted up his arm with his claw was about to bring it down on Scalor....
....only to have his left arm ripped off.
Jaggor, in utter horror, grabbed where his left arm used to be. He looked back to see Bone Crunch holding his arm in his mighty arms. Jaggor lifted up his right arm and aimed his cannon at Bone Crunch ....
....but got the surprise of his life when Bone Crunch's spear impaled his stomach.
Jaggor coughed up oil and fell on his knees. He screamed in pain when Bone Crunch pulled his spear out along with several pieces of fur and circuitry. Jaggor fell to his knees and clutched his wound with his only remaining arm. The ponies and Spike have never seen such carnage before; these Crushers and MOLLUSK bots had quite a history of rivalry. But before they could think of anything else, they looked over to see Scalor limping towards Jaggor.
Jaggor looked up at Scalor who kept a simple glare.
"So Scalor.....are you going to finish this?" Jaggor said coughing up more oil. Scalor glared down and aimed his pistol at Jaggor's head.
Jaggor smirked and said, "So you choose to end this by killing me huh? Maybe you're not as weak as I thought."
Scalor waited a few seconds and put his gun down. Jaggor was surprised. "If I kill you, it wouldn't make me any better than that of what you have become." Scalor said.
Jaggor was stunned, after everything he did to him, Scalor still wouldn't kill him.
Scalor grabbed Jaggor's throat and said, "But one day….keep this in mind…..one will stand......one will fall."
Scalor was interrupted by a laser hitting his shoulder. Bone Crunch dropped the arm and looked up to see several
Megatron groaned in pain and fell on his back; as the walking junkyard Trash Heap smirked at how much pain Megatron was in.
"How do you feel, oh mighty leader?" Trash Heap joked and kicked Jaggor in the side. Jaggor groaned even more but didn't move. He urned towards the rest of the bots and said, "Let's get out of here! The Crushers are overwhelming us!" All the bots that were surrounding Jaggor flew off. He looked up to see Bass Buster staring at him blankly.
"Bass Buster.....don't leave me." Jaggor actually begged!
Bass Buster went down and him picked up, "As you command, my lord."
Bass Buster walked off with his master, Bass Booster was following behind him carrying Jaggor's severed arm. Scalor looked as the bots were retreating, either flying or running away into the forest.
All was quiet yet again.
Scalor sighed with relief and got up. He walked by the ponies and motioned them to come out.
The ponies didn't move as they were frozen in fear. Scalor went closer to them and said, "It is alright, we are here, they are gone." he held out his hand and the ponies slowly emerged, as well as Spike and Applejack carrying the unconscious Shining Armor.
Scalor walked to where his fellow Crushers were. They were in serious pain and could barely move from the massive onslaught. Optimus went closer to his team.
"Are all the Crushers okay?" Scalor asked.
Circiut Breaker came up and said, "The team is fine, all except Razor, she got shot up pretty bad."
"Awww, Razor." Scalor looked down at his friend who was getting medical treatment from Precision and Hawk Eye. Scalor went down and held Razor's wing. Twilight was very surprised, not only was this Razor chick Scalor's teammate, he was like family to him.
"Scalor....is-is that you?" Razor could barely talk.
"It is I friend, you don't have to worry anymore, the bots are gone." Scalor assured him.
Razor winced in pain and said, "I'm....I'm dying Scalor."
"No, you will live old friend; we will never let you die in this accursed forest." Scalor told him and held his hand harder. Fluttershy couldn't help it and started crying. Rainbow tried her hardest to fight back tears.
Razor coughed and closed her eyes, "NO!" Scalor yelled and shook him. Hawk Eye pushed him off.
"It's okay buddy, she didn't die she's just tired." Wheeljack told him. Optimus sighed with relief. Twilight nudged Scalors' leg which caused him to kneel down to her eye level looked.
"Scalor...we can take you and your team to Canterlot, your friend Razor can get medical attention." Twilight told him feeling very sorry about what just happened. It was the least they could do for these brave aliens.
"Thank you, Twilight Sparkle." Scalor said and stood up. "Men, let's roll." Scalor said and looked at the ponies, "You lead the way."
Twilight nodded and walked forward, her friends followed with Applejack carrying Shining Armor the whole way. Spike and the Cutie Mark Crusaders stayed close this time. The Royal Guard walked with the Crushers or flew by them. Twilight walked past some trees and Scalor had saw the natural beauty of the plants around them since beautiful flora was rare on Terra-glacies. Rainbow Dash suddenly saw someone behind her as they were walking through the forest.
Bone Crunch, in his dino mode, was with his primal brothers. They followed behind the pack of Crushers not really wanting to talk right now. Rainbow flew up to Bone Crunch's face and flew beside him as they walked.
"Oh..... You again." Bone Crunch said with a hint of boredom in his voice.
Rainbow smiled softly and said, "Hey, I just want to say thank you, for saving us twice I mean. And even after I attacked you."
Bone Crunch suddenly remembered his past with this pony; he sighed and looked at her, "You're welcome, what is your name?" he asked.
"I'm Rainbow Dash!" Rainbow beamed and touched her chest.
"Nice to meet you." Bone Crunch told her. Normally he wouldn’t pay any heed to these ponies but this rainbow one in particular had definitely gained his respect, especially after trying to pick a fight with a primal, which was insane, but brave of her. Bone Crunch touched his chest and said, "I am Bone Crunch."
"Yeah, I figured that." Rainbow said.
Bone Crunch pointed to his team, "That is Lighting Scale, he is Munch-Munch, and that is Buzzer.
"Wow, a lot of spaces in your names huh?" Rainbow asked.
Twilight walked by Scalor. She felt safer next to him, his heroism, his bravery, and his friendship of his teammates proved to her that Scalor was truly a great leader. Twilight felt respect for him; he risked his life to rescue her brother. This confused Twilight, how can giant aliens be so powerful, yet so gentle?
Twilight had many more questions to ask when they got to Canterlot.
Lightning Seven: Flying Sparks
Lost.
The Mollusk bots have lost in a major battle with the Crushers in this cursed forest. Deep in an abandoned cave, was the badly injured Jaggor and his evil bots. He was never in so much pain; he had lost an arm and got stabbed in the abdomen. The rhino bot Rampage was doing his best to heal his wounded master.
Jaggor winced in pain yet again as his wiring in his arm was being tampered with. His arm had to be re-attached at once. Rampage was trying his hardest but Jaggor wouldn't ease up on him.
"Careful you idiot. You might destroy all the components in my arm socket!" Jagoor said.
"Sorry sir.......why were you easily beaten? You're our master, you can't fall so easily." Rampage said.
"How would you like to face Scalor and Bone Crunch at the same exact time?" Jaggor asked him.
"I wouldn't." Rampage admitted.
"That's what I thought. OW!!!" Jaggor yelled as Rampage began working on his abdomen areas, putting the wiring and circuitry back in.
Jaggor was beginning to feel dizzy and his right optic was going dark. He was never in so much pain before, usually his over shields would begin repairing him but something wasn’t right here. Obliterator came to his side. He looked over to see the hippo bot smirking.
"What are you smiling about, Obliterator?!" Jaggor asked.
"You're dying Jaggor, and when you do, I will be the new leader of MOLLUSK." Obliterator calmly said knowing Jaggor can't do anything to him in this state.
"You will never be the leader of MOLLUSK! I shall not die!" Jaggor yelled but moaned in agony as his circuits were being torn out in place of new ones.
"Are you sure about that oh mighty leader?" Slicor asked smiling insanely.
Jaggor didn't know what to think. As the horrible surgery kept on going, he soon heard footsteps coming inside the cave. "Who....is...that?" Megatron could barely talk.
"It's.....It's..." Pin-sar said as he pointed his claw at the unknown person. Jaggor couldn't see who it was.
"Hello fellow bots, I bring you no harm, but I do bring you information involving our mighty and powerful master."
That voice, Jaggor recognized it immediately. Blade Wing.
"Show yourself....coward." Jaggor stuttered.
The rest of the bots raised their weapons and prepared to fire but Blade Wing put up both wings. "I have information on how to heal Jaggor you fools; you would be wise not to hurt me!" Blade Wing yelled.
"Lower your weapons bots." Jaggor wheezed. The army obeyed. Blade Wing smirked as he walked closer to the panther. Jaggor looked at him. "How can I be healed?" he asked.
"I will only tell you if you take the bounty off me." Blade Wing said.
"What bounty?!" Jaggor yelled.
"You wanted to kill me; you thought it was my fault that we got sent to this cursed planet, so I want you to simply say that I, Blade Wing, will have his rightful place as the sky commander of the bots." Blade Wing explained.
Jaggor thought about this for a moment and looked at his torn apart insides. "Okay Blade Wing, you are part of the Decepticon ranks yet again." he scowled.
Blade Wing chuckled and got closer to Jaggor. He began, "Simple surgery cannot save you Jaggor, and instead I have found a new powerful artifact that has the power to do just that."
"Powerful....artifact?" Jaggor repeated Blade Wing’s words.
"Artifacts to be precise," Blade Wing corrected himself, "they are called The Elements of Harmony, and they’re extremely powerful and located in the capitol of this world."
"What is this world called.....Blade Wing?" Jaggor asked.
"It is called Equestria." Blade Wing answered.
"I see..." Bass Buster began. The bots looked at the communications officer. "Equestria, as in equine, which is another expression for horse or pony." he explained.
Jaggor looked at Blade Wing again. "Blade Wing...." Jaggor wheezed. Blade Wing looked at his fallen master. "To prove yourself worthy to me again, you must collect these Elements of Harmony and bring them to me." Jaggor told him.
Blade Wing bowed and said, "I will not fail you, my lord!"
"Take as many bots as you please......do NOT fail me Blade Wing!" Jaggor threatened and laid back down.
Blade Wing looked at the massive group of bots and pointed out the ones he wanted to take. "Overseer, Junk Heap, Cutting Shooter, Pin-sar, Rampage, and Bass Buster, you are all to come with me, I will be your commander!" Blade Wing said.
"Oh great…" Cutting Shooter groaned.
"Get going Blade Wing! I don't have much time!" Jaggor threatened.
"Time is of the essence, we wouldn't want our leader to die now would we?" Blade Wing smirked.
"I hate your jokes so much Blade Wing, now go!!!" Jaggor roared and lay back down.
Blade Wing, and the other bots and marched out of the cave. As Blade Wing left, Jaggor laid his head back down and remembered how much he hated Blade Wing.
The painful memories returned.
As Jaggor stood at his control post, he waited patiently for Blade Wing to return with his special prize. Jaggor stared out the window of his throne room with several MOLLUSK soldiers behind him. All of a sudden, a loud roar of cheers filled his hearing processors.
Jaggor turned around to see Blade Wing walking right for him, laughing at what he had captured. The MOLLUSK soldiers were cheering and clapping from Blade Wing’s prize.
“HAHAHA!!!” Blade Winglaughed and stopped in front of Jaggor. “Jaggor, look what I found.”
Talon squawked from Bass Buster’s shoulder as Pinsar and Cutting Shooter pushed down the body of the Crushers leader at Jaggor's feet. He turned around and smiled deviously.
“Scalor Bara-codon. That is what they call you now isn’t it?” Jaggor asked.
“Lord Jaggor…” Scalor spat out as he pushed to the ground by the two MOLLUSK combaters.
Blade Wing smirked at his master and said, “Funny, isn’t it, Jaggor? How easily I defeated the one adversary you couldn’t.”
“Silence..!” Jaggor shouted and swatted Blade Wing with his claw which sent him crashing to the ground behind Scalor.
“It didn’t have to come to this…” Scalor said as Jaggor approached.
Jaggor gloated as he approached, “This is what you chose, fish, when you defied me! All of this is your doing!”
Two Crushers soldiers were being held captive and watched in horror as Jaggor was about to finish off their leader. “Scalor!” A soldier shouted before Jaggor slashed him, killing him instantly.
Scalor saw as his brethren being killed viciously. “Jaggor, stop!” Scalor shouted.
Jaggor turned back to him and said, “I’ll stop…when all of you are dead!” Jaggor finished off the last captive Crusher with one slash.
“This is needless; all we want is to leave!” Scalor shouted until Jaggor smacked him with the back of his right hand, silencing him.
Jaggor turned back towards his control post and walked calmly back. He looked at a group of soldiers and said, “Charge up the laser Cannon. Wipe their precious Ranger off the face of this rock!”
“Yes sir!” A bot soldier said and began the Cannon on one of the computers.
Jaggor turned back to Scalor and shouted, “No one leaves without my permission!”
Scalor stood back up and glared at his hated rival, “I wasn’t asking.”
Jaggor scowled at how resilient Scalor was to him.
“Always defiant to the end aren’t you, fish! At every turn you have thwarted my efforts to save this planet! To return it to its former glory!”
Jaggor didn’t even notice the large being of ice lumbering behind him. “No more! This day it all ends! Once and for all!” he finished as his command post suddenly began to shake.
“Jaggor, look out!” Bass Buster shouted and ran away.
Ultimos ripped the roof off of Jaggor’s command post and looked down at Scalor. Jaggor shot several blasts from his plasma cannon at the mighty ice beast but it did little damage.
“Stop running you cowards! Stand and fight like men!”Jaggor shouted at his retreating robot soldiers and continued to fire.
Ultimos lifted up his massive club and brought it down on Jaggor, crushing him! Scalor watched in awe as Ultimos crushed Jaggor again and again.
Jaggor lifted up his cannon and fired one more shot before meeting Ultimos’s fist.
The MOLLUSK leader lay in the ruins of the command post and barely looked up to see Ultimos crush him again.
And what a surprise….Metroplex crushed him one more time.
The MOLLUSK command post was decimated. As Ultimos slowly raised his fist, Blade Wing, Bass Buster, Pin-sar, and Cutting Shooter walked forward to see Optimus glaring at them.
“Leave. NOW.” Scalor threatened.
Blade Wing glared at Scalor but suddenly looked down to see Jaggor’s destroyed paw sticking out of the tattered ground. Blade Wing looked back up at the mighty Ultimos. Blade Wing did the math.
“Bots, Jaggor has perished, betrayed by his foolish pride.” Blade Wing said.
The bots stared at Blade Wing as he continued.
“I, Blade Wing, am your leader now!” Blade Wing took one last look at Scalor who glared right back. “Men, return to base!”
With that, Blade Wing flew away, while Bass Buster stayed where he was. He couldn’t believe it, his master….was gone. With one final look, Bass Buster turned away and retreated. Little did Blade Wing know…..that Jaggor had listened to every word he had said.
It was still night, but the moon was getting lower, it was to be day very soon. Rarity was lagging behind; she didn't get any sleep at all. Applejack shook her head to keep herself awake, Rainbow yawned constantly, Fluttershy was already asleep and Dice carried her on his back, it was quite adorable and he couldn't help but smile. Pinkie wasn't tired at all, and hopped the entire way.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders were sent to their homes right when they got to Ponyville. Hopefully, they will have learned their lesson. The walk to Canterlot was very quiet; all except Pinkie who kept asking the Jumpstart to transform and take her for a ride. He tried their best to ignore her. Twilight looked over at Scalor again and saw that he was limping.
"Oh no, Scalor, are you okay?!" Twilight asked.
Scalor touched his leg and saw that it was static with circuitry coming out along with oil. He groaned in pain. "I'll be fine for now, just got to.....ignore it." he said.
"No you're injured; we'll get you help right away when we get to Canterlot." Twilight finished with a smile. Scalor felt happier now that this pony cared so much about him and his team.
Shining Armor awoke on the back of Applejack. He shook his head to regain his senses.
"Oh my aching back." Shining began.
"OH Shiny you're awake!" Twilight walked by him and nuzzled her brother.
"What happened?" Shining asked.
"You got attacked by a MOLLUSK bot, but Scalor saved your life." Twilight said and smiled at the fish cyborg.
Shining looked up at Scalor, he nodded and continued to walk. "Oh, thank you Scalor, I owe you my life." Shining told him.
"You don't owe me anything, the bots attacked you, and it was my sworn duty to protect every living thing from their wrath." Scalor explained.
"Wow." Twilight felt even more respect for Scalor than before.
Dice back at the sleeping pony on his back; Fluttershy's silent breaths were barely heard as her tiny chest went up and down. He felt warm inside, how this pony could make Dicee's worn-torn soul warm up, he didn't know.
The rest of the walk was quiet, after a few hours, the sun came up and the Crushers, ponies, dragon, and Royal Guard had arrived at Canterlot. Shining Armor got off of Applejack's back and walked by himself slightly limping.
The front gates were closed; two Royal Guard stepped up and saw the massive giants in front of them. They panicked but suddenly saw Shining Armor putting his hoof up. "It is alright Guards! They're friendly; we're here to see Princess Celestia, royal business." Shining Armor explained.
The Guards backed up in fear and opened the gates. The Crushers walked past them and some waved to the Guards. The walk through Canterlot was just what the Mane 6 had expected; fear. All the up-tight ponies were terrified as the Crushers calmly walked through the city. Scalor paid them no heed and continued to lead the Autobots; of course the ponies led the way.
After a few minutes of walking, they had arrived to the royal grounds. Shining Armor waved at his Royal Guards to go away, they did and soon it was just the Mane 6, Spike, Shining Armor, and the Crushers.
Shining gulped and walked in Celestia’s throne room first. The group shuffled nervously, not knowing what to expect. Twilight saw this and acted quickly. "Don't worry guys, the Princess is very nice and very fair, she will understand you're not a threat to this world." Twilight said smiling.
"Yeah, you saved our lives after all!" Rainbow Dash said.
"And saved mah sister." Applejack smiled.
"Oh yes, you are all very nice, the Princess will just love you!" Rarity gushed.
"Yeah…" Fluttershy quietly agreed and yawned from just awakening.
"Celestia is the nicest Princess ever! You guys will be just fine!" Pinkie Pie told them.
Just then, the doors busted open and hundreds of Royal Guard spilled out with spears raised. They circled the Crushers and pointed the spears at them. "Hooves up where we can see them!" A Royal Guard shouted.
"Hooves?" Outlook whispered to Hawk Eye. He shrugged not knowing what it was either.
Scalor quickly thought that hooves must mean hands in this world. So Scalor raised his fins in the air making him not a threat. The Crushers saw their leader do this and did the exact same thing. All of them had the hands in the air except for Razor who laid on the ground unconscious.
Similar to Razor, but with a stubborn attitude, Bone Crunch and the Primals didn’t raise their hands as well.
"You will never make me raise my hands, organics!" Bone Crunch shouted. The Guards backed up but continued to hold their spears.
"Yes, yes! No!!! I agree!!!" Lighting Scale said glaring at the Guards.
Scalor turned to the Primals, "Bone Crunch, you and your team put your hands in the air now! We can't be seen as a threat to this world!" he ordered.
The Primals groaned and slowly raised their hands. The six mares were very stunned to see the Royal Guard acting this way. Celestia wouldn't do this to innocent creatures, what did Shining Armor tell her?
Ironhide chuckled and leaned down to Twilight a little, he said, "Hehe, Celestia obviously thinks we are not a threat to this world."
Twilight didn't say anything and moved where the Royal Guard wanted her and her friends to go, behind the Crushers as they were forced inside the royal room of Celestia. Snaggletooth picked up Razor this time and followed the rest of the team.
As the Crushers were being forced to walk down the long hallway with hands in the air, Jumpstart nudged Scalor and said, "What do we do, buddy?"
Scalor answered not even looking at him. "We will wait and see, old friend."
Lightning Seven: Flying Sparks
As the Crushers were forced into the throne room of Celestia, they didn't know what to expect.
Even Scalor was surprised to see what Celestia looked like. She was bigger than the ponies; her mane flowed majestically, even though there was no wind. She stared at the beings that entered her throne room.
Shining Armor was standing by her side, looking quite nervous. The Royal Guard were still holding their spears at the Crushers, Celestia saw the monsters with their hands raised and spoke up.
"Royal Guard, you may leave us now, this is a royal discussion only." Celestia raised a hoof.
The Royal Guard were stunned and stayed where they were, until one spoke up, "Uhhh.... Princess.... I think we should... ummm.... stay here and protect..."
"Now, Royal Guards," Celestia said sternly, "that's an order."
The Royal Guard poured out of the room, leaving only the large group of Crushers, Mane six, Spike, Celestia, and Shining Armor. Scalor put his fins down, so did the others. Celestia stood up and announced herself.
"I am Princess Celestia." She said. The Mane 6 and Spike bowed, the Crushers didn't.
Twilight looked up at Prime who had his arms crossed; Scalor heard a sharp 'pssst' from below him. He looked down and saw Twilight bowing. "Oh......do you want us to bow?" he asked. Twilight nodded and eyed the Princess.
With very confused looks Scalor received from his fellow Autobots, he went to one knee and bowed before Princess Celestia. Twilight smiled calmly......that is until the other Crushers didn't bow.
"Scalor...what do you think you're doing?" Jumpstart asked.
Scalor stopped bowing and looked back at him, "It is a sign of respect, men. We want to make a good impression on the ruler of this world, so bow."
Bone Crunch had enough. "NO!!!" he yelled. Scalor looked at him confused and waiting for an explanation.
Bone Crunch looked directly at this so called Princess and said, "I have been through living hell when I arrived! I've fought a strange monster, I battled the MOLLUSK bots, and I did all of this for ponies! But I will NOT bow!"
"Yes! This is going too far!" Lighting Scale agreed as he always does.
"I will never bow to a creature like that!!!" Buzzer shouted and pointed at Celestia.
"Neither will I!!!" Munch-Munch finished for the group.
The ponies gasped at how rudely these creatures were acting, especially in front of the Princess! Twilight turned to Celestia but was confused to see her with a normal calm face.
Scalor placed a hand on his face and had enough of the Primals' ignorance.
"Primals bow to the leader of this world!" Optimus said with sternness in his voice.
"NEVER!!!" Bone Crunch shouted.
"That is an order!" Scalor yelled back.
Bone Crunch was about to give Scalor a piece of his mind when he looked over to the rest of the Crushers who were already bowing. Hawk Eye looked up at Bone Crunch and said, "Just do it, man. Just think, the sooner we bow, the sooner we’ll get back to The Ranger.”
Bone Crunch thought of the offer and rubbed his chin. With a loud and deep groan, Bone Crunch went to a knee and bowed before Princess Celestia. The other Primals had no choice but bowed as well.
"You know...." A very calming voice caught all of the Crushers' attention. They looked to see this Princess speak.
Celestia continued, "You didn't have to bow to me, I wouldn't have forced you to if you didn't."
Bone Crunch immediately placed both hands on his head in regret. Oh he didn't even NEED to bow! The other Primals stood up quickly and looked around the room nervously. Celestia gave a whole hearted chuckle at the embarrassment these aliens were feeling.
After a pregnant pause, Twilight remembered something that bothered her.
Twilight looked at Shining Armor and asked, "What happened, Shiny, you know these Crushers are peaceful, why did the Royal Guard subdue them?"
Shining looked at Celestia who explained, "I sent the Royal Guard to do it, when Shining Armor told me that aliens were here to meet me, I had to take precaution, even if they are peaceful, we can't trust them."
"But... but Celestia..." Twilight stuttered but Scalor held a hand in front of Twilight stopping her.
"I do not blame you for not trusting us, Princess. We are indeed a very violent race, but we believe in peace and prosperity, we need to be violent only when we need to, and that only to protect ourselves or protect someone else." Scalor explained looking down at the ponies.
Celestia thought about this for a moment and said, "Well, that's what we're here to discuss, right Shining Armor?" Celestia looked at him.
Shining coughed and said, "Um, Princess, maybe Twilight should speak first. She was the one who first encountered the alien and could probably tell you more than I could."
"Twilight, please step forward." Twilight shivered when her name was called and slowly trotted towards the Princess, stopping just a few feet away from her throne.
"Now I want you to describe everything that happened after you sent me the letter describing the monster incident in Ponyville." Celestia said.
Twilight gulped and began, "Well, to start, Bone Crunch was the monster that came into Ponyville..."
"Bone Crunch?" Scalor asked looking back at the Dinobot; all the Autobots had their attention on him.
Bone Crunchlooked down and said, "Oh great..."
Twilight cleared her throat and began, she went over everything; how they had found Bone Crunch surrounded by the corpses of the Manticores, how they had tried to capture him only for him to defeat all of them and escape, and how Rainbow Dash had chased after him on her own.
Stopping Twilight at that point, Celestia sent a disapproving gaze towards Rainbow Dash who looked down in shame. The Crushers were very mad at Bone Crunch at what he did.
"Bone Crunch, you hurt the ponies?!" Scalor sternly asked.
"They were attacking me, I was defending myself." Bone Crunch said.
"You threw Rarity, swatted Fluttershy, and attempted to crush Twilight and Rainbow Dash, yeah, that is really defending yourself." Jumpstart said sarcastically.
Celestia looked back at Twilight. "Continue please..." she said.
Twilight continued to the part where Bone Crunch saved their lives from the dragon and ran away from them. Celestia smiled and looked at the mighty leader of the Primals.
"Bone Crunch....is it?" Celestia asked, Bone Crunch nodded once and crossed his arms again, Celestia cleared her throat and began, "Well then, I thank you for saving my pupil and her friends. If it hadn't been for you, they would have been killed by that dragon, thank you once again, good sir."
Bone Crunch nodded again and put his arms down, he looked down at the ponies he had saved and they looked back. Twilight no longer felt frightened when she looked into his blue optics, she felt calm, knowing that this Crusher would not hurt them anymore.
"Well Bone Crunch, you did well. Saving the ponies from a monster after they tried to capture you, I'm proud of you." Scalor told him.
Bone Crunch took his attention off the ponies and onto Scalor, "It was nothing, Scalor."
Celestia was silent as Twilight finished the story; she looked around the room until her eyes settled on what appeared to be the leader of these creatures.
"Well, it seems you have all been through a lot this past day, I will allow each of you to stay in one of our guest rooms and take a long deserved rest." Celestia smiled at each of the ponies, they smiled and nodded with enthusiasm.
Celestia looked at Shining Armor and said, "Okay Shining, I would like you to leave now, and to settle down the ponies outside."
"Bu-but your highness that would mean leaving you with-" Shining began.
"With the aliens, yes. But they aren't dangerous by the looks of them, so just go and calm the city ponies down okay?" Celestia told him.
Shining Armor ran out the door a little faster than normal, looking back at the giant Dinobots, Swoop and Snarl looked at him, which caused Shining to shiver and run out of the room. The mares giggled at the sight of Shining being afraid.
"Well now, I guess we can discuss the matter at hoof now." Celestia said. "What are all of your names?" Celestia asked.
The Crushers groaned, not wanting to spend a longer time introducing all of them. So only Scalor introduced himself. "My name is Scalor Bara-codon, but everyone just calls me Scalor." he said.
"Well Scalor, what are all of you doing in Equestria, when obviously you're not from here?" Celestia said.
"We come from a planet called Terra-glacies, hundreds of years ago; a war ravaged the planet until our race was almost depleted. We got in a ship called The Endurance Ranger, and found a new world to live on until the war was over and we could rebuild. Unfortunately, the Mollusk bots ruled Terra-Glacies after we left years ago. When we arrived on this world, we were separated from our ship. Oh and I apologize for how Bone Crunch here acted with the ponies, he can get angry easily which is why he is one of my best fighters." Scalor finally finished.
Celestia was.....stunned to say the least. These were aliens that fought in a war, and tried their hardest just to survive on a new world. Celestia couldn't bear the thought of leaving Equestria and finding a new world to live on. These Crusher were very brave.
"Is there any way you could get home?" Celestia asked.
"No, we don't have the technology to make a Space Rifter, and this world is far too primitive, we may be stuck here for a long time." Scalor said. The Crushers looked down sadly.
Celestia didn't feel afraid of these aliens anymore, she felt sad for them. There must be some way she could make it up to them. "Well, as long as you stay in Equestria, you may live here with the ponies until we find a solution." Celestia smiled at them.
"That is great news, because the Decepticons are here as well, we have to protect this world from their wrath." Optimus told her.
"Who are the MOLLUSK?" Celestia asked remembering Optimus mention them in his speech a while ago.
Scalor looked straight at her and said, "The MOLLUSK bots are an evil race of Terra-glacians. They destroyed Terra-glacies, which made us have to leave. They were and are still lead by the power hungry leader of the bot; Lord Jaggor."
"Where are they now?" Celestia was concerned about the safety of her kingdom, if these bots destroyed a planet, who knows what could they do to a planet filled with peace loving ponies?
"We do not know, they are on this world though, and we will defend it from them." Scallor told her.
"Thank you Scalor, you would really do that for us?" Celestia asked.
"We will not just stand by and let this world end up like Terra-glacies, we will never let that happen to an innocent race." Scalor said.
Celestia smiled and said, "Well, we will need living arrangements while you are all here. You may all stay at the castle or Ponyville."
"Wait!" Snaggletooth shouted. Celestia looked at the dingodile who was holding someone in his arms. "What about Razor and all of us, we need to be healed!" he said.
"Yeah!" Outlook agreed.
Soon all the Crushers began arguing with unnoticeable words until Scalor yelled, "ENOUGH!" The Crushers stopped instantly and looked at their leader. Scalor turned to Celestia and asked, "We do need to be healed, is there anything you can do for us?"
Celestia thought for a moment and said, "Guards!" At that moment, two Guards busted through the doors, past the Crushers and bowed in front of their Princess. Celestia smiled and said, "Take the Crushers to the medical hut and have them fixed up; it is the least we can do to thank them for saving Twilight and her friends."
The two Guards stepped out the door and said, "Follow us, we will get you fixed." The Crushers walked out the door, Scalor turned back to Celestia and said, "Thank you, your highness." Celestia nodded and watched as his friends left the room, along with the ponies and Spike. The only one left was Twilight.
"Thank you Princess." Twilight smiled.
"You’re welcome, my most faithful student." Celestia said back. Twilight galloped up to her throne and hugged her. Celestia smiled and nuzzled her.
"Thanks for giving them a chance, Princess." Twilight said.
"It was my pleasure, they seem very nice." Celestia cooed. Twilight let go and galloped out of the room. Celestia sighed happily; she had accomplished something great today.
Little did Celestia know, that she had sparked a great war approaching.
Bone Crunch stared at those shining stars above. It was funny. Bone Crunch felt……peaceful, on this world of ponies. He shook his head and grumbled. These ponies must be getting to him, making him soft, he wasn’t soft! He was a stone cold warrior!
Bone Crunch sighed and crossed his arms as he stared at the stars…..maybe he could see Terra-glacies from here…..maybe. His thoughts were interrupted by a slight cough.
“Hey…”
Bone Crunch leaned forward and looked to his right side; the soft voice he had heard had come from that same cyan pony with wings. Bone Crunch noticed she had bags under her eyes, probably from the lack of sleep or something; Bone Crunch didn’t know much about these organics.
“Oh….hello again…” Bone Crunch answered and continued to observe her.
Rainbow Dash walked nearer and looked up at him expectantly. Bone Crunch looked back and saw his fellow Primals sleeping. He looked back and still saw Rainbow looking at him with a quizzical look on her face.
“What do you want, pony?” Bone Crunch asked really not in the mood.
Rainbow frowned and asked, “Why are you so mad all the time?”
Bone Crunch growled at her and looked back at the stars. After a few more seconds, Rainbow decided that he wasn’t going to talk. When she was about to leave with her head hung low, Bone Crunch spoke.
“You really want to know?” Rainbow Dash spun her head around and saw Bone Crunch staring at her. She turned back around and nodded once. Bone Crunch sighed and looked back at the stars.
“Hundreds of years ago, I was the leader of the Lightning Fist Fighting Team on Terra-glacies. I was a brave and powerful warrior, until one day, everything turned for the worst.” Bone Crunch explained looking down in sorrow.
“What happened?” Rainbow asked.
Bone Crunch looked directly at her huge magenta eyes, “Me, Lighting Scale, Munch-Munch, Buzzer, and Amoe-brawl were sent to the Rusted Jungles to investigate what a MOLLUSK bot scientist was planning. We were attacked and overrun by Animots. I was captured by the scientist and experimented on; but I escaped and rescued the other Primals. But something horrible happened….”
“Yeah...?” Rainbow said wanting Bone Crunch to continue.
Bone Crunch sighed and said, “My teammate, Amoe-brawl, was killed and we Primals didn’t have enough time to save him….for I am the reason we are on this world.”
Rainbow Dash gasped.
“I destroyed the controls on the Space Rifter, causing us to be sent here. But now, we are nowhere near The Ranger. I know Amoe-brawl lives, his soul is still active……I can feel it.” Bone Crunch finished.
Bone Crunch looked at Rainbow Dash who had wide eyes at what he just told her. Bone Crunch expected this much from a little pony, not knowing the true horrors of war, losing the ones closest to you, and giving up everything for what you believed in.
But what this little pony said confused Bone Crunch.
“Wow…. you’re even cooler than I thought.” Rainbow said and gave him a little smile.
Bone Crunch looked at her confused and asked, “What do you mean?”
Rainbow got closer to him and said, “Well, you fought in this war you guys had on your planet, and even though you lost one of your closest friends, you still won’t give up. That takes guts, dude.”
Bone Crunch absorbed her words and finally nodded.
“Thank you, Rainbow Dash.” Bone Crunch said.
Rainbow smirked and said, “Hehe, anytime, dude.”
With that, Rainbow yawned and started to walk away. She turned around slightly and said, “G’night, Bone Crunch.”
Bone Crunch rubbed his head and said, “Ummm, goodnight, Rainbow Dash.”
Dash chuckled and flew off towards her room she was staying in. Bone Crunch watched her fly and land on top of a balcony and walk inside. Bone Crunch sighed and laid his head back down. And with that, Bone Crunch went to sleep.
All was quiet yet again.
All too quiet until the sound of jets came soaring above.
Blade Wing, Overseer, and a few MOLLUSK flyers, flew quietly above the capitol, not wanting to bring attention to them. Bass buster, Pin-sar, and Rampage had to walk through Canterlot, very quietly.
They all came upon the Elements of Harmony tower. Blade Wing hovered in the air and spoke, "My scanners show the Elements of Harmony are in that structure, we must be very quiet."
Blade Wing said to the jets hovering next to him. "Flyer 1, tell the others below us to follow very quietly." he whispered sharply.
The flyer flew down and met the others. "Blade Wing's orders; follow us inside, make an entrance, but DON'T make noise." he said.
"Affirmative, bots create an entrance." Bass Buster ordered.
Pin-sar rolled over to the wall and sawed a giant circle for them to enter. Blade Wing, Overseer, and the other flyers landed on the ground and got behind Rampage.
Soon the entrance was made and Rampage pushed the piece of wall to the side. "Success…" he whispered.
The nine bots slowly walked inside. Wincing at every step they took as they made noise. They came across a locked door that had a magical seal. "This is it. My scanners show this is the door that holds the Elements of Harmony." Blade Wing said and tried to open the door, it wouldn't budge.
"Blade Wing, the door has a seal that can't be opened normally." Bass Buster explained.
"Then you open it you big nerd!" Blade Wing whispered sharply and stepped away from the door.
Bass Buster's chest opened and out came a long cable; the cable locked on a hole in the door and began making an electric sound. "It is working." he said.
The door slowly opened, Blade Wing pushed Bass Buster out of the way. He looked inside and brought out a small box covered in jewels. "This is it, bots, return to Jaggor at once, time to heal our master." Blade Wing said and flew out.
He took off to the skies, followed by Overseer, and the flyers. Rampage, Pin-sar, and Bass Buster had to walk out of the city.
As they passed a few buildings, Rampage's optics caught something moving on the side of a building. He looked straight at the movement but saw nothing. He shrugged and continued to walk out of Canterlot.
"I gotta go tell Scalor." Kooker said and ran straight for the Crushers camp.
Kooker had a feeling deep in his circuitry...
This was not going to end well.
Lightning Seven: Flying Sparks
Bass BustJaggor wasn't holding up well.
He was in intense pain from his damaged insides. If Blade Wing didn't get there soon, he would be a goner. Obliterator on the other hand, wanted Blade Wing to be late. He had always wanted to be leader of the bots, but Jaggor was just too strong to die.
As the bots were sitting in the cave bored, Steam Punker was giving Jaggor some of his oil to keep his master alive. he cut his arm again and poured the liquid into Jaggor's open wound to keep him alive.
"I live to serve you lord Jaggor." Steam Punker muttered.
"Your loyalty shall be rewarded....someday." Jaggor wheezed.
As the bots continued to mope around, Slicor spotted something outside the cave. "Blade Wing and his brigade have arrived sir!" he shouted
Starscream, overseer, and the flyers, landed on the ground. They walked slowly inside the cave as Bass Buster, Pin-sar, and Rampage came as well. Blade Wing and his team walked inside the cave with Jaggor looking at him. "Did you bring it?" Jaggor stuttered a little.
"Yes, sir." Blade Wing said and pulled out the box. He placed it on the ground while the bots circled around it.
"Bass Buster, eject Blast, get the Elements out of the box." Jaggor said weakly.
Bass Buster ejected Blast from his chest; The hacker bot walked over and slowly got the Elements out and placed them on the ground in front of Jaggor. "How do these things work, Jaggor?" Blast asked.
"I don't know you little creep! Soundwave, how do these work?" Megatron asked.
Bass Buster explained fully, "The Elements of Harmony can't be used normally, although they are extremely powerful, they must be activated by the Element Bearers for them to work."
"The Element Bearers, who are they?" Blade wing asked.
"I don't have time to find them, or enough time to know who they are! I'm going to die if we don't use these Elements now!" Jaggor weakly yelled.
"But how do we activate them without these so called 'Element Bearers'?" Overseer asked.
Jaggor thought for a moment and suddenly looked up, he answered Overseer’s question with the simplest answer. "With Electrodes…"
The bots were stunned to hear that. Bass Buster spoke first, "Jaggor, using Electrodes on the Elements of Harmony could bring unknown chaos and disharmony to this world, the Elements of Harmony are what keep this world peaceful, we could be endangering ourselves."
"I do not care for this world; our safety is a sacrifice I will have to make!" Jaggor yelled and clutched his stomach again.
“But how do you know it will even work, like Bass Buster said, we need the Element Bearers for them to fully function.” Clam-borg asked.
Jaggor looked at Clam-borg and said, “Do you remember how Electrodes react to whatever it touches?”
“Uhhhhh…..yeah…” Clam-borg said.
“Well then, this is how it will happen, I use Electrodes on these six Elements and with the power of Electrodes fused with the power of these strange Elements, the combined power will do exactly as I say! Electrodes has always done what I said, and it will do what I say now!” Jaggor finished.
The bots were rubbing their heads in confusion. To prove Jaggor’s theory, he turned to Bass Buster and ordered, “Bass Buster, observe these Elements and prove that Electrodes can be inflicted, and the resulting substance will do as I command!”
Bass Buster walked forward and bent down to observe the Elements closer. After a few seconds, Bass Buster stood back up and announced, “Jaggor, the Elements of Harmony combined with the power of Electrodes will be enough to heal you. But at a price, the Elements of Harmony will be destroyed in the process.”
“I do not care if this entire world is destroyed in the process! I will be saved!” Jaggor roared. "Now stand back!" Jaggor said as his fist began to glow with raw, yellow energy.
Jaggor let loose a blast of Elecrodes straight at the ground where the Elements were. The Elements began to shake and change color when the energy penetrated them. When Jaggor was done he collapsed on the ground after he had just used the last of his strength. Jaggor looked up and saw as the Elements started to float above him.
The Elements were no longer the colors they were before; they were now yellow and glowed violently. The Elements continued to rise until they shot a blast together at Jaggor. He screamed in pain when the blast hit him. But his screams of pain turned to grunting.
Jaggor slowly rose as the long stream of yellow energy kept going into his chest. The bots were surprised to see Megatron's wounds healing up, his severed arm reattached and all the components did as well. Jaggor stood up and clenched his claws. "I am the dominator! I am the destroyer of worlds of ! I am LORD JAGGOR!!!!!" He screamed as the stream of energy stopped and the Elements fell to the ground, completely drained of their energy.
Jaggor looked more powerful than before, his red eye glowed brighter, his appearance was more dominating, and he looked as if he just came out of the production lines.
"Wow Jaggor, you look brand new." Overseer said.
"I feel so much stronger too." Jaggor said looking at his fist and clenching it over and over again.
Blade Wing coughed and said, "I believe you owe someone some gratitude."
Jaggor turned to him and said, "You did well, Blade Wing."
Blade Wing smirked only for Jaggor to curse under his breath. Bass Buster touched the Elements and analyzed them, he began, "Jaggor, scanners show that the Elements have been depleted of energy. What will we do with them?"
Jaggor thought for a moment and smiled deviously as an idea struck in his head. "Do we have radio contact?" Jaggor asked Bass Buster .
"Affirmative, who do you want to contact?" Bass Buster asked.
Jaggor looked at Bass Buster , still smiling. "An old friend of mine..." he said. Bass Buster transformed his arms into a radio set, ready to contact.
Jaggor began, "Send this message to.....Terra-glacies."
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-Terra-glacies-
The mechanical head in a jar Tenta-box stood at where his precious Space Rifter was just hundreds of years ago.
Those horrible memories came rushing back into his mind. How Kooker had managed to meltdown the tower and escape his wrath. How his creation, that stupid Primal, destroyed his last remaining Space Rifter, and Jaggor leaving him on this horrid dead rock.
Still, he managed to win the war with the remaining bots and the last Crushers fled the planet, leaving the MOLLUSK scientist to rule Terra-glacies. Oh how Jaggor would be proud.
But Tenta-box couldn’t get over the thought that when Bone Crunch destroyed the controls…where did it send Jaggor? He hadn’t gotten word of his master since….maybe he was safe.
Bass Buster stared at the destroyed Space Rifter for a while longer until he heard a voice behind him. Tent-box turned around to see a rolling tin can minion “What is it, minion?” he asked.
The minion coughed and said, “Ummm…you’ve received a message from Jaggor.”
Tenta-box turned fully around and said, “Lord Jaggor?!”
“Yes, follow me.” the minion finished and walked away. Tenta-box followed him with anticipation.
Both bots came to Tenta-box’s personal command post. He couldn’t wait for what his master had to say. When the two bots came across his communications room, Tenta-box turned back to his minion and said, “Leave me, I must answer his call alone.”
“Understood…” The minion muttered and rolled out of the room.
Tenta-box turned back to his computer and began typing. The message came up abruptly and he observed it with his glowing red eye.
“Hmmmmm….a mission from Jaggor himself, wants me to act out a special mission for Jaggor. Let’s see…..” Tenta-box said to himself and began reading.
“I see….Tenta-box, go to the primitive world we have arrived on and bring several containers of Electrodes, for our ship is depleted of it. Follow these coordinates Tenta-box deciphered.” Tenta-box read the message out loud.
Tenta-box read the coordinates and tilted his head in confusion.
“Odd….that shouldn’t be there…” Tenta-box said and went to his star charts.
He remembered the coordinates and placed his tentacles where it should be…..
….there was nothing there.
“Why would Jaggor want me to go to an unknown sector?” Tenta-box asked no one in particular.
Tenta-box got back to full height and said, “I will go to edges of the galaxy to do Jaggor’s bidding! But first, I must repair the Space Rifter…”
Tenta-box went back outside and saw as his bot soldiers were just standing around. Tenta-box went up to them and said, “Bots, I have received a message, from lord Jaggor.”
Saying Jaggor’s name caught their attention, Tenta-box continued, “Jaggor wants me to send several quantities of Electrodes to his ship on the world he arrived on. But I will need the Space Rifter to be operational yet again, and I will need a ship to carry the Electrodes in.”
A bot soldier looked at Tenta-box and said, “Sooo….you want us tooooo…..”
“Rebuild the Space Rifter, yes.” Tenta-box finished.
The bots looked at each other and turned away. “Alright bots, you heard Tenta-box, all of you get going on the Space Rifter!” One bot yelled to the rest.
Tenta-box sighed and turned towards another group of bots.
“Prepare my ship for launch; fill it with a plentiful supply of Electrodes.” Tenta-box ordered. They saluted, and headed for Tenta-box’s ship.
Tenta-box knew this would take a very long time to prepare his ship and fix the Space Rifter, so he took the time to go to his star room and investigate this new world. When he got to his base, he went straight the star room and typed in the coordinates that Jaggor gave him.
The room lit up and sent a wave over the entire room, Tenta-box observed as the coordinates showed a new world he had never seen before. Tenta-box climbed up the staircase and stood by the hologram of this strange planet.
“Interesting….” Tenta-box said as he observed this world closer.
There was a small moon circling around this new planet as Tenta-box drew nearer. It realized that this world was very similar to the first one that he presumed to have life, and the same world that had the strange monsters Bone Crunch resembled.
“Very interesting….”
Tenta-box studied this world and it looked VERY much like the other one, this interested Tenta-box….maybe there was life on this planet as well. And maybe this is where Jaggor went.
This observational research went on for hours until a minion interrupted Tenta-box’s studying. “What is it, minion; can’t you see that I am very busy?” Tenta-box told him.
The minion nodded and said, “I know, Tenta-box, but your ship is ready to launch.”
“And the Space Rifter…?” Tenta-box asked taking his attention off of the new planet.
“The Space Rifter is not fully repaired, but it will do the job, you just have to hurry and get to it. Also, we used the coordinates that the Space Rifter had last time so you can go straight to the planet where Jaggor is.” The minion finished.
“Very well, minion; take me to my ship.” Tenta-box ordered. The minion nodded and walked down the staircase with Tenta-box following.
Tenta-box turned off the star room and walked out with the minion, They both arrived to Tenta-box’s small transport ship just underneath the Space Rifter Tower. A bot soldier came up to Tenta-box and saluted.
“Tenta-box , your ship is ready along with the Space Rifter.”
Tenta-box nodded and said, “Prepare the launch code; I will be going to where Scalor and the Crushers escaped.”
“You mean that primitive world?” Another minion inquired.
Tenta-box nodded and said, “I have feeling…..that is may not be the same world.”
With that, he rolled off towards his ship. A minion with a traffic cone on its head turned towards other minions and said, “I guess I’m in command now that Tenta-box is gone, now send in the coordinates to the Space Rifter!”
The others saluted and took off towards the control post. Tenta-box arrived towards his ship and stepped inside. He found the Electrode cells and nodded.
“Good….the Electrodes are here…let’s get out of here.” Tenta-box said to himself and walked to the bridge. He sat down on the pilot seat and activated the control thrusters. He pressed the coms link and announced, “Bots, prepare the launch sequence!”
The robotic soldiers activated the Space Rifter. The tower lit up and shot a powerful beam into space, past Terra-glacies moons, and stopped on a supposed spot. The black vortex lit up and exploded, sending waves of energy out in space.
Tenta-box saw the vortex from Terra-glacies itself, he pressed the coms link and announced, “Commence countdown!”
The traffic cone minion looked at the soldiers and ordered, “Launch in 10…9…8…7…6...5…4…3…2…1...”
“NOW!!!!”
The ships thrusters erupted and shot itself off of Terra-glacies surface. Tenta-box held onto the control panel as he broke free from Terra-glacies gravitational pull. Tenta-box watched in awe as his ship closed into the portal…..closing it.
The portal reopened again and Shockwave’s ship flew right through it.
As Tenta-box approached the ground below, he realized that this world was definitely what he had expected: primitive. He activated the forward thrusters and the ship came to a halt above the ground. Tenta-box pressed a few more buttons and the ship lowered just above a few trees. He slowly searched above the tree lines in this dense forest until he finally found it.
“Yes, I have found The Cruiser.” Tenta-box said and activated the back thrusters.
His ship was launched forward towards The Cruiser, as Tenta-box approached it, he noticed all the wreckages the ship had, it must have been through a lot. Tenta-box halted the ship right by The Cruiser and prepared to dock.
He went back into the Electrode cells and grabbed three pieces of Electrode spheres. “This will do for now.” Tenta-box said and stepped to the latch.
He pressed a button on the door and it opened to allow Tenta-box to make first contact with the alien ground.
He found it was….soft. Much like he deciphered on Terra-glacies. Tenta-box quickly made his way to The Cruiser and unlocked the latch. He immediately realized that this ship was far from repaired. The ship was destroyed!
Tenta-box walked through the halls of this tattered command ship when he stumbled upon the bridge.
“Finally…” Tenta-box told himself and walked up to a computer.
He began typing frantically to try and receive anything from this ship, he found out that it was at least operational, all defense systems were down unfortunately, and the Electrode levels were almost depleted.
“Well we can’t have that now.” Tenta-box said and put an Electrode sphere in the power supply. He pressed the activation switch and The Cruiser roared to life. All the lights came back on and it was much better than it was just a few seconds ago from being a dark area. He sighed with relief and was about to leave to collect the rest of the Electrodes…..
….only to be stopped by a deep groan.
Tenta-box froze in his tracks and turned back to the computer. It kept the same screen as how he left it. What made that noise? Another groan was heard spread through The Cruiser. Tenta-box took a defensive posture and said, “Who are you?!”
All of a sudden…..The Nemesis spoke.
“WHO DAREEES ENTER TARLUSSS THE UNBREAKABLE?”
Tenta-box was speechless. He shook his head to make sure he heard that correctly. “T…T…Ta-Tarlus…..is that you?” He muttered loud enough to be heard.
“I AM TARLUSSS!”
When Tenta-box knew for sure this was truly Tarlus, he suddenly realized he was a ship, “Tarlus, what happened to you, why are you in this state?”
“I HAVE BEEN DAMAGED AND BASS BUSTER FOUND ME!”
“But why are you a ship?” Tenta-box asked.
Tarlus thought for a moment until he remembered everything.
“Bass Buster, report!”
“Tarlus remains in deep stasis. Power core at 64% integrity. Catalytic overdrive generator is severly damaged. Estimating repair time-“
“No, there will be no need for that.”
Tarlus heard what this familiar voice had said and couldn’t believe it. He wasn’t going to be repaired!
The voice continued, “Tarlus, if you can hear me, understand that this isn't a rescue mission. Despite your great power, you failed to destroy the Crushers. You failed ME. Henceforth, your chassis will be redesigned to my specifications.”
Tarlus couldn’t believe it. That voice was Jaggor! What was he going to do to him?
Soundwave’s familiar voice echoed in Tarlus’ hearing processors, “Jaggor, in his damaged state, Tarlus’ alternate form will become permanent.”
“All the better. Buster, initiate the Cruiser protocol.”
Tarlus was stunned, he wanted to do something but couldn’t in this state he is in, all he could was suffer through it as he felt his entire body beginning to transform.
“What did Jaggor do to you?” Tenta-box asked regaining his stance.
“JAGGOR DID THIS TO ME!!! HE TURNED ME INTO THIS SHIP AND NOW I CAN NEVER TRANSFORM!!!”
“Why would Jaggor do this to you?” Tenta-box asked a little surprised.
“JAGGOR BELIEVED I HAVE FAILED HIM!!!! BUT SCALOR WAS TOO STRONG, NO ONE CAN DEFEAT HIM!!!!!”
“Hmmmmm….” Tenta-box rubbed the bottom of his jar thinking of a solution to this predicament. He didn’t have to think long. “Tarlus, I’ll tell you what, I will heal you so you can transform yet again.”
“WHY DO YOU AID ME?”
Tenta-box walked towards the computer and began typing, “I see it was unfair what Jaggor did to you, you are indeed a powerful warrior and will help the MOLLUSK cause. So I will just have to take off the Cruiser protocol and you will be back to normal.”
Tarlus remained silent until Tenta-box was getting frustrated. “Ugh, Bass Buster’s schematics are far too advanced for this. But it will not get in the way.”
“WHAT'S HAPPENEING?”
“You are being healed, Trypticon. I am almost finished…” Tenta-box answered. After a few more minutes, he pressed one final button.
“There we go; the Cruiser protocol has been lifted.” Tenta-box said in accomplishment.
“THANK YOU, TENTA-BOX. YOU ARE PROVEN WORTHY TO TARLUS.”
Tenta-box nodded and said, “Okay Tarlus, transform.”
A few struggling noises followed by some sparks going off was all that was heard. “I CAN'T TRANSFORM!”
Tenta-box checked the computer again, he had done everything right, and the protocol was lifted. Then he realized it. “Oh, you are very low on Electrodes, I forgot. You cannot transform without being properly filled. But the Electrode on my ship is not nearly enough for you to even transform once!” He explained.
“I WILL GO INTO STASIS TO REPAIR MYSELF. UNTIL THEN, I WILL BE NOTHING BUT A SHIP.”
“Are you sure, Tarlus, it may take a while for Megatron to get back, I am heading for his location right now.” Tenta-box told him.
“I AM SURE OF IT. NOW GO!”
Tenta-box nodded and walked out of the bridge. He entered his ship and began the thrusters. As he activated all backward thrusters and was launched with a powerful thrust, he knew that wherever Jaggor was……he was going to find him….no matter the cost.
She was in a normal room, all her friends got to stay in rooms of their own, except Spike, he slept in the same room Twilight was in, he just slept on the couch in the room.
"Spike, wake up." Twilight cooed and saw Spike squirm and yawn. He scratched his back and stretched out his limbs. "Morning, Twilight." He said.
"Morning, Spike." Twilight smiled and got out of bed. She walked over to the bathroom and got some water. She walked back out and heard a knock at the door.
"Coming…" Twilight gracefully said.
She opened the door to see Rarity looking worried. "What's wrong Rarity?" Twilight asked.
"Uhhh, Celestia is outside talking with the Crushers, something happened last night, and Celestia is not very happy about it." Rarity said.
Twilight was taken aback by this and looked at Spike. "Spike, let's go." Twilight sternly said and walked out the door. Spike got up and saw Rarity.
"OH! Hehe, hey Rarity." Spike nervously said.
"Come on Spike, we don't have time to talk!" Rarity said and grabbed Spike's hand. Spike blushed.
"You're....holding my hand." Spike smiled nervously. Rarity rolled her eyes and practically dragged Spike outside to the royal grounds.
When Spike and Rarity got there, they saw Twilight, Fluttershy, Pinkie, Rainbow, and Applejack standing next to Shining Armor. The Crushers were looking around nervously as Celestia was speaking with Scalor. Rarity and Spike joined the group and looked at the Crushers. Rarity sighed with relief when she saw Razor fully healed and standing with her friendss.
"Well, all the Crushers were here as accounted for, and none left the area." Scalor told Celestia.
"What about your friend over there?" Celestia pointed at the small green chameleon that hid behind Slash.
"Kooker, come here." Scalor said. The chameleon trudged over to Celestia and his fish friend . "Kooker, what did you do last night?" He asked.
Kooker looked at Celestia. "I swear, I didn't steal anything, the MOLLUSK bots were here leaving Canterlot!" he explained.
"Never the less, the Elements of Harmony were found missing last night and there was a massive hole in the Element Chambers, I'm not blaming you or your team Scalor, but still, we may have a problem here." Celestia explained.
"The Elements are gone?!" Twilight screamed.
"Calm down Twilight, Celestia has told us the intense power they hold, and in the hands of the bots it could be catastrophic." Scalor said.
"I told you the Bots stole the Elements!" Kooker yelled while crossing his arms.
"What do we do?" Fluttershy asked.
"We will have to get the Elements back; Celestia said that without them in Equestria it could mean never ending chaos." Scalor said.
"Well where do we look first Scalor?" Hawk Eye asked, "We don't exactly know where the bots are."
Scalor rubbed the back of his head and didn't say anything for a while. "Maybe we could…" he began but was interrupted by Blaster.
Snaggletooth's gas tank opened and a small radar dish came up. "The scanners located bot activity heading this bloody way!" He shouted.
"Celestia, you need to get somewhere safe, we will hold off the bots." Scalor said.
"No Scalor, we will negotiate with these bots, and I will find out what happened to the Elements of Harmony." Celestia told him.
Scalor sighed and said, "At least get behind me." Celestia did and stood behind the aquatic cyborg.
The Mane 6 and Spike began to get scared, Shining Armor assured them, "Don't worry, the Crushers and I will protect you."
Snaggletooth walked closer to the street, "It sounds like the bots are coming......right....about....no-" He couldn't finish when he was shot in the shoulder by a laser. He landed on his back and looked up.
A cylindrical, flying blue object flew past the Autobots. It made a U-turn and shot several lasers at the group. The lasers connected with several Crushers. One was headed for the Mane six, as they saw it draw nearer; Warhead got in front and used his own body as a shield to defend the equines.
The flying bot hovered above the Autobots and was about to fire more at the group, until Scalor used his eye laser to shoot down the bot. The android landed on the ground and crashed into some debris. Scalor pulled out his machete attachment and prepared to fight. The bot morphed and knocked the debris off of him.
Revealing none other than Tenta-box.
"Bara-codon!!!" Tenta-box growled. Scalor holding his machete in front of him and glared at the mad scientist. Twilight was terrified at this bot; he was all machinery, and had a glowing red eye that lit up when he said 'Bara-codon'. His arms were truly like an octopuses with mechanical tools protruded from them. His color was mainly dark blue and red for most of his head.
Tenta-box looked at the Crushers, and then at the ponies. "What interesting subjects, I might have to get a closer look." He said and began to walk closer to the ponies. Bone Crunch stepped in front of the ponies and glared at his old enemy.
"Awww, hello Bone Crunch, long time no see, how is the new body treating you?" Tenta-box asked.
Bone Crunch clenched his claws. It was Tenta-box who turned him and his team into freaks. Now Bone Crunch is glad to be stronger with his fighter form, but Tenta-box did horrible things to him and Grimlock hates him for it.
"What are you doing here you maniac?!" Circuit Breaker yelled. Tenta-box suddenly remembered.
"Lord Jaggor called me here, said he needed a job done, I've just come to deliver this." Tenta-box said and opened his chest compartment. Six little pieces of metal landed on the ground.
Tenta-box looked back at Scalor and pointed one of his tentacles at him.
"Bara-codon," Tenta-box began, "one day......but not today."
Shockwave finished by morphing back and flying off. It was all quiet and Shining Armor was the first to speak. "What the hay was that thing?" Shining asked looking at where the bot had dropped the metal pieces.
"That......is Tenta-box." Scalor said, having his machete revert back into his mechanical fin. Scalor walked over to what Tenta-box dropped and went to one knee to get a better look. Celestia walked next to him, Twilight and her friends followed.
Celestia gasped at what was on the ground, so did the Mane 6. It was the Elements of Harmony, completely void of color and emotion. "What happened to the Elements?!" Applejack asked frantically.
"It can't be true." Scalor muttered. The ponies looked up at him with worried expressions.
"What is it, Scalor?" Spike asked.
Scalor got a closer look and examined the Elements for a few seconds until he spoke up, "The Elements of Harmony have been infected with Dar Electrodes."
"Electrodes…?" Rainbow thought out loud.
"I thought Electrodes is what kept you all alive?" Twilight looked at Scalor expectantly.
"Electrites is what keeps us alive it has a light purple glow, but Electrodes is a deadly yellow substance that kills on touch." When Optimus said that, the ponies and Celestia backed away from the Elements.
"Oh no, this Electrode source is already depleted, it is not harmful now but the Elements are still infected with it." Scalor explained.
"Wait, so the Elements can't work anymore?" Twilight asked. Scalor looked over to the Crushers.
"Precision, we need a diagnosis." Scalor said. Precision came over and used his shoulder microscope. He examined the Elements.
"It appears the Electrodes have infected its magical qualities. So they cannot work for.....whatever it is you use them for." Precision explained.
"But...we need the Elements to keep order right?" Pinkie asked.
"And to keep peace in Equestria." Rarity included.
Twilight looked at her mentor who had a slightly opened mouth, and a very worried expression.
"Princess, what happens if the Elements are not working?" Twilight asked. Celestia didn't even move and continued with her worried expression.
"Princess…?" Twilight nudged her a little.
Finally, Celestia looked at Precision and said, "Did you say the magical qualities have been infected and won't work anymore?"
"Y-yes, why?" Precision asked.
Celestia's breathing increased and her eyes got wide. She looked at Scalor and said, "The Elements are what kept order and peace to Equestria, without them, chaos and disharmony will reign."
"Celestia, what are you trying to say?" Rainbow Dash asked.
Twilight also was wondering when suddenly...
...it hit her like a slap to the face.
"Oh no..." Twilight muttered.
"What is it Twi?" Applejack asked.
Twilight looked at her with a fear-filled face. Applejack suddenly realized as well. "Uh oh." Applejack muttered and shook with fear.
Suddenly, the obvious struck each of the ponies. Scalor was still confused. "What is so bad, Princess?" he asked.
Celestia looked at him and said, "We have to get to the statue garden at once!"
As Celestia said that, thunder was heard in the skies. Shining Armor looked up to see clouds covering the sun and lighting striking in the distance, "I thought it was supposed to be clear skies today, Princess?" Shining wondered.
"It was..." Celestia muttered in horror.
Rain started to fall; Celestia looked at Optimus and said, "We must get to the statue garden now! Follow me!" Celestia took off flying out of Canterlot. Scalor acted quickly.
"Men, follow Celestia!" Scalor yelled as his pals ran past him. The Primals transformed into their fighter forms and took off with the others. Scalor soon followed his allies towards the area the princess was heading to.
"Get in ponies, even you Shining Armor." Jumpstart said. Pinkie was the first to jump in, followed by Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, Rainbow, Shining, Spike, and Twilight. There were front seats and back seats. Pinkie, Fluttershy, Applejack, and Rarity got in the back. And Rainbow, Shining, Spike, and Twilight got in the front.
Twilight looked out and saw the road in front of her. She suddenly heard Jumpstart say, "Hold on!"
His tires spun to life as he drove down the long road, leading the Crushers. Pinkie stuck her head out the window and say, "This is so cool!"
Applejack pulled her in and said, "Sugercube, now is not the time!"
Jumpstart went faster and saw Celestia flying in front of him. Twilight looked back and saw they had already left Canterlot and were headed for the statue garden in Ponyville. They had all arrived, Celestia landed on the ground and walked inside the garden. All the Crushers watched as the ponies entered the garden too as they arrived.
Scalor soon walked in front of them and said, "Jumpstart, Dice, Slash, Warhead, and Razor, accompany me, something isn't right here."
"You got it, SB." Jumpstart said and walked inside the garden with Scalor, the rest followed.
Q-duck looked to the skies and saw as lighting happened every few seconds followed by thunder. The rain was hitting the ground harder, "Something bad is gonna happen. I bet my wings on it." Q-duck said. "C.B, what is going to happen?" He asked.
Circuit Breaker analyzed the skies and said, "It appears that this is no ordinary storm, these clouds and this lighting are coming together to this exact spot, in the statue garden!"
"This is gonna be crazy." Kooker muttered.
"Come on, it has to be here somewhere!" Celestia said to herself.
"What are we looking for anyway?!" Shining asked.
"We're looking for-" Twilight began but stopped to see Celestia staring straight ahead.
The ponies and Spike looked past her and saw the statue they were looking for. It was shaking and had cracks forming in it. "Oh no... Not again." Celestia said. Scalor, Jumpstart, Dice,Slash, Warhead, and Razor came around the corner and saw the ponies.
"Celestia, we're here to-" Scalor began but was interrupted by a loud cracking noise and a bright flash.
The ponies and the Princess covered their eyes, what they heard next, froze them to the spot.
A loud maniacal laughter.
Twilight looked up to see their old enemy speak.
"I'M BACK!!!!"
Author's Note
finally new chapter. More to come soon.
Lightning Seven: Flying Sparks
Twilight fluttered her eyes open and yawned.
Yesterday was really crazy with Discord returning and all, but Scalor swore that he would protect Equestria from his wrath, so she really had nothing to worry about. But still, could even Scalor conquer Discord?
When Twilight was about to get up, she couldn’t. She realized she was strapped down by some metal clamp around her chest. She tried to move her head but it as well was held down by a metal clamp. Moving her hooves was also a failed attempt as all four of her hooves were clamped down.
What was going on?!
Twilight squinted in an attempt to see where she was, but all she could see was darkness around her. Now Twilight began to panic.
“Hello?!” Twilight screamed, “Is anypony out there? I could use some help!”
That’s when Twilight heard the groaning.
“Who’s there?!” Twilight panicked.
“Oh my aching head…..Twilight, is that you?” An elegant voice spoke.
“Rarity, oh thank Celestia it’s you! Where are we?” Twilight asked.
“I can’t see anything, Twilight! I’m blind!” Rarity screamed.
“No, Rarity, it’s just too dark to see anything.” Twilight said a little irritated.
A slight whimper caught both of the unicorn’s attention.
“Ohhh, I don’t feel good.”
“Fluttershy? Darling, is that really you?” Rarity asked.
“Yeah, but uhhh my head is killing me.” Fluttershy said.
“Fluttershy, do you remember anything? How did we get here?” Twilight asked.
“I would like to answer that.”
The three mares froze in place and turned their heads forward, they didn’t see anything in the darkness….all except that glowing red square. The square began moving closer to three of them. Twilight was in full panic not knowing what that thing was.
Two claps were heard and a large light appeared above the mares. Twilight closed her eyes not used to that bright of light hitting her face. She slowly opened her eyes and gasped at what she saw.
The same one-eyed MOLLUSK bot was standing above them. What was going on?!
“How you got here is simple really…” The bot said.
“Yo-you’re that same robot from yesterday! What was your name, ummm…Tenta-cruel?” Twilight looked at that red eye in confusion not remembering his name.
“Tenta-box actually…” He corrected her and walked to a table with what appeared to be several supplies on it. Rarity gulped when she saw what Tenta-box was grabbing and analyzing. Twilight couldn’t see for she was too far away.
Twilight had enough of this silence and shouted, “Where are we?!”
Tenta-box brought his head back up and said, “Ah, yes, how could I be so rude? Well then, I welcome you to The MOLLUSK Cruiser, Jaggor’s ship.”
“We’re on a ship?” Fluttershy asked eyeing her surroundings.
“Jaggor’s ship?!” Twilight screamed.
Tenta-box nodded and said, “Yes, all those statements are true."
Rarity scowled and shouted, “What do you want with us you lab reject?!”
Tenta-box turned to her and spoke in a very threatening voice, “Do not speak to me like that, patient #458301!”
“Patient, what are you talking about?” Twilight asked.
Tenta-box turned his attention to Twilight and began walking towards her, Twilight gulped in fear as his glowing eye met her face.
“Why, you are all my patients. For experimentation of course, I just hope you all turn out better than the others three…” Shockwave announced.
Twilight shuddered when he said that. Fluttershy gasped and asked, “Wh-what other three?”
Tenta-box raised a tentacle and said, “Ah, of course, let me show you.” he walked over to the wall and pulled back a curtain. He clapped his hands and the light appeared above it showing the three mares.
Fluttershy regretted asking that, for what she saw caused her to scream in pure terror and cry immediately. Twilight screamed even louder along with Rarity as they closed their eyes to erase the scene out of their heads.
Twilight slowly opened her eyes and really wanted her mind to play tricks on her, but it didn’t.
Hanging on the wall, was Pinkie Pie, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack, with blood dripping down their stomachs and each of them with their heads hung low. Rainbow Dash’s wings were missing and blood dripped from the little stubs that were once her wings. The top of Applejack’s head was dripping blood at a fast pace, Twilight didn’t even want to know what happened to her.
Fluttershy continued to cry as Rarity threw up all over herself. Their once living friends were hanging from their hooves as Tenta-box chuckled to himself.
“That orange one was a real fighter, she just wouldn’t give up. That rainbow haired one one right there was a real loud mouth. And that pink one just wouldn’t shut up, but she calmed down after a few minutes of our little……surgery, and then all was quiet.” Tenta-box explained.
“Y-you k-k-killed them!!!!” Twilight cried.
Tenta-box turned to her, “Yes, but they were failed experiments which made the surgery more painful than it should have been, hopefully I won’t make the same mistakes with you.”
Rarity forced to keep in her remaining breakfast and spoke calmly, tears still streaming down her face, “How…d-did we get here?”
Tenta-box faced the white unicorn and said, “Very well, I'll tell you. You see when Scalor was escorting all of you; it was easy for the bots to plan a little ambush. So before he could take all of you back to that place called Canterlot, we attacked and annihilated all the Crushers! We captured you after you all passed out, and I brought you to this ship.”
Twilight was still in shock from her closest friends’ death but she came back and shouted, “You’re lying! You can’t kill Scalor!”
“Am I lying?” Tenta-box clapped his tentacles again and a giant door lifted itself off the ground. It revealed shelves of what appeared to be several oblong objects. Tenta-box pressed a button on the wall and a light shone above the shelf.
Twilight, Fluttershy, and Rarity gasped at what they saw.
Several heads of dead Crushers.
Fluttershy cried even harder than before and Rarity wasn’t holding up any better. Twilight held in her tears because she knew that Tenta-box would just enjoy her suffering. Twilight looked on the shelves and remembered all the Crushers from their heads.
There was Outlook, Slash, Circuit Breaker, Jumpstart, and Bone Crunch!
Twilight shuddered but forced to move forward down the line.
Kooker, Razor, Warhead, Hawk Eye, Precision, Dice! Twilight began to cry when she saw Dice’s head but forced to keep going.
But the last head was the worst.
Scalor.
Twilight couldn’t hold it anymore and screamed along with several tears falling onto her chest. Rarity’s screams echoed through the ships and it didn’t make anything any better. Twilight opened her eyes and saw Tenta-box holding Scalors' head.
He began to play a tape recording of his last words.
“Oh Jaggor, please do not hurt the ponies, they are too weak to fend for themselves against you. Take me instead!”
Twilight cried even harder than before when Tenta-box dropped Scalors’ head on the ground and began moving toward them.
“You monster! YOU MONSTER!!!!” Rarity screamed.
Tenta-box shrugged and said, “I prefer the term ‘mad scientist’ than ‘monster’.”
Twilight had enough and attempted to attack Tenta-box with one of her spells. Only when she lit up her horn……nothing happened. Tenta-box turned back to Twilight and chuckled.
“I see the magical cuffs I’ve placed on yours and hers horn are working just as planned.” Shockwave told her and raised his finger, “Which reminds me…”
Shockwave stepped over to his little table and picked up some kind of knife that curved at the end. The three mares shivered when he slid his finger down the sharp blade.
“You ponies are a interesting species. I can tell from your little rainbow friend that she was very athletic from her sleek body, and how her tiny wings were able to allow her to create various acrobatic stunts.” Shockwave explained not even looking back.
“Don’t you talk about Rainbow Dash!” Twilight cried, “Princess Celestia and Luna will stop you!”
Tenta-box turned back to her and simply stared, Twilight felt uneasy with that emotionless glare she was receiving.
Tenta-box turned fully around gripping the blade and said, “Which brings us to our next topic, your world….”
Fluttershy stopped crying and looked at Shockwave, “What did you do to Equestria?!”
Tenta-box turned towards her and began, “Since all the Crushers were exterminated, Jaggor realized that your world would have been a perfect location for roboticizing. And so, the rulers of the world were killed for their rebellious ways to the MOLLUSK cause.”
Twilight’s lower lip quivered at just the thought of her mentor being killed by these aliens, and it was true!
Tenta-box continued, “The one called Discord became the bots ally and he is now the ruler of Equestria…..or should I say…..The Chaos county.” Tenta-box sighed happily and said, “The bots use the remaining ponies as slaves. It is a true pity…..but Jaggor did allow me to continue my research on you….ponies.”
Just hearing this broke the three mares into tears again. Tenta-box pointed at them and said, “Like that, I want to learn how you leak liquid from your eyes. But in order to do that, I need have to remove your eyelids.”
“WHAT?!” Rarity screamed.
Tenta-box put up a tentacle and said, “Do not worry, your'e not planned for that, I have other plans for you, my dear.” Rarity screamed as loud as she could in an attempt to see if anyone was out there to save them.
“HELLLP!!! HEELLLLP!!! SOMEPONY, ANYPONY, PLEASE HELP US!!!!!!” Rarity screamed.
A deep groan was the only response.
“WHO DARES AWAKEN TARLUS THE UNBREAKABLE?!”
Fluttershy shivered and asked, “Wh-who’s that?”
Tenta-box shook his head and said, “You have woke up Tarlus, he cannot be awakened when he is trying to repair himself….you all must be quiet….which I doubt will happen for what is to come.”
Twilight couldn’t bear this anymore and moved her body all around to try and get out; these clamps were stuck on tight! Tenta-box rolled towards her and said, “Don’t move, you don’t want to ruin the restraints I worked so hard to fix for each of you.”
Twilight realized there was no use and closed her eyes, Tenta-box chuckled and said, “There we go, just relax it will be over soon.”
Tenta-box got back up and slowly walked towards the white unicorn. He brought out the curved blade and stood right by her. He brought up the blade and said, “I think we wasted enough time, it is time to begin the experiments.”
Rarity whimpered when he slowly brought his head close to hers. When his eye was so close to her face, Rarity scowled and spit in his eye. Tenta-box simply chuckled and wiped the part of his jar where his eye was at with his tentacle. He glared at her and said, “This one is a little unstable, I’ll be sure to remember that.”
Rarity watched in horror as he slowly lifted up his hand with the curved blade and brought it to her tiny chest. Twilight couldn’t see anything from her head being clamped down to the table but she could hear how uncomfortable Rarity sounded. Along with the cries from Fluttershy, Twilight heard Rarity’s scream echoing through the walls of the ship.
“PLEASE DON’T, PLEEEEASE!!!!” Rarity screamed.
Tenta-box ignored her and dug the blade deeply into her stomach, Rarity’s scream increased as he slowly brought the blade down and rip out a plentiful of skin. Rarity was gagging at this point, probably from blood in her throat, but Twilight couldn’t get the painful screams out of her head.
Rarity cried as she realized that Tenta-box was now holding a chunk of her skin on his arm attachment. He looked at it with much interest.
“Such a beautiful coat, I’ll be sure to examine this very close to learn more about you ponies.”
Rarity didn’t say anything for she was in too much pain, she simply groaned and cried. The sound was unbearable and Twilight was not holding up good. Fluttershy had passed out already so only Twilight could witness the sounds of pain her closest friend was endearing.
Tenta-box put the bloody blade back on the table and picked up a new device. He rolled over to Rarity and said, “Now you might feel a slight pinch.”
With that, he stuck the device in her open wound with a deep cutting sound. Rarity wailed in agony and coughed up enough blood to fill a large bowl. Tenta-box pressed a button on the device and it made a suction sound.
Twilight didn’t even want to know what happened next, for the suction sound stopped followed by Rarity’s whimpers. Shockwave pulled out the now filled device and analyzed the contents.
“The insides of this pony are different than the others…..interesting.”
Twilight shook in fear when she realized what Shockwave had just done.
Tenta-box turned back to Rarity who was losing consciousness. He got in very close and Rarity got wide eyed when she was staring face to face with this maniac.
Tenta-box whispered into her ear, “It appears that I am finished.”
With that, Tenta-box stood back to full height and brought his tentacle down on Rarity’s wound. With her last breath, Rarity screamed in agony and slowly closed her eyes. Shockwave chuckled and brought his bloodied tentacle out.
Twilight’s face was in pure horror when the realization struck her. Rarity…..was dead.
Twilight’s breathing increased as Tenta-box cleaned his instruments and slowly moved towards Fluttershy who was still passed out.
“Yellow one……yellow one wake up….” Tenta-box said and gripped her face.
“LEAVE HER ALONE!!!” Twilight screamed.
Tenta-box turned back to Twilight and made his way towards her. Twilight’s heart sped up as that glowing purple eye reached her face.
“You will have to wait your turn!” Tenta-box finished and sliced Twilight’s cheek with a scalpel. Twilight’s cheek bled instantly as he went back to Fluttershy.
Fluttershy opened her eyes but immediately regretted it when she saw Tenta-box’s eye watching her. Fluttershy looked over and saw the remains of one of her closest friends. This only made Fluttershy scream. He clutched his jar and closed her mouth with one of his tentacles.
“Your screech can puncture even the strongest MOLLUSK bots hearing processors’….it is very intriguing.” Tenta-box told her and let go.
Twilight whispered, “Fluttershy!”
Fluttershy looked over at Twilight in utter horror when she saw her cheek.
“Oh Twilight, your cheek!” Fluttershy told her.
“I’m fine, Fluttershy, but you have to figure out a way to get out of here.” Twilight whispered sharply.
“I can’t, Rarity is dead, and I can’t leave you.” Fluttershy hung her head in defeat.
“Listen Fluttershy, you have to, if anypony is making it out of this it’s you!” Twilight finished and watched as Tenta-box came back to Fluttershy.
“Now my sweet little Fluttershy, it appears that I will have to do this quick since Twilight’s operation will take a long time.” Tenta-box explained and pulled out his saw.
It spun violently as Tenta-box brought it close to her stomach. Twilight couldn’t bear to watch again and closed her eyes.
But the sound of screams didn’t come.
“YOU WILL NOT HURT ME!!!”
Twilight opened her eyes and saw Tenta-box backing away from Fluttershy with his attachments raised. Fluttershy had her wings spread and her eyes wide as she used “The Stare” on Tenta-box.
Tenta-box tilted his head as Fluttershy continued her stare on him. He began to move closer to her still clutching the saw.
“STAND BACK!!!” Fluttershy screamed.
Tenta-box stopped for a brief moment and looked at his tentacles. “Intriguing….” He said, “I seem to have no control over my body when you stare at me like that….very interesting…” He began to move closer to Fluttershy’s face as her stare intensified.
“WHY WON’T YOU STAY BACK?!” Fluttershy screamed. Her stare faded as Tenta-box’s eye glared at her, she went back to her normal frightened self.
“Humph, I guess the frightening stare has no effect on one with no emotions.” Tenta-box said as he stared into Fluttershy’s eyes with interest.
“I must have those eyes.”
‘WHAT?!” Fluttershy screamed.
“Those eyes are intriguing, for having me to back away like that, it must hold special qualities.” Tenta-box said and grabbed her face. “Forget the operation; I will have to make an exception here.” He finished and slowly brought the saw close to Fluttershy’s eyes.
Fluttershy screamed as loud as her little heart could take it as the saw was dug into her eyebrow. Twilight closed her eyes and suffered through the pained screams that filled the room. This was the most horrid thing Twilight ever had to endure; one of her friends was being brutally tortured by this insane robot.
And no one could save them.
As Fluttershy continued to scream, deep groans filled the room as Tarlus was awakening. Tarlus suddenly screeched so loud it made the entire ship shake. That sound was the most disturbing thing Twilight ever heard and Tarlus continued to do it along with Fluttershy’s screams.
It was the most horrid sounds ever played in Twilight’s brain and overflowed it with terrible thoughts. This went on for several seconds until……the screaming stopped along with the saw.
Twilight opened her eyes and looked around. She saw what remained of Fluttershy and immediately turned the other way….
….only to be greeted by that horrible red eye.
“It seems some blood got on you.” Shockwave told her.
Twilight looked over and saw her hoof completely red with streaks of blood. Her entire body had been covered in Fluttershy’s blood!
Twilight couldn’t help it anymore and cried as she never cried before. A pure, broken-heart, cry filled the room as Twilight wailed in despair. She was soon silenced by a slap to the face.
“You pitiful creatures can’t even accept death! I’m actually glad I’m doing this!” Tenta-box yelled and brought out a long, jagged knife.
Twilight’s breathing increased and her heart felt as if it was in her throat as Shockwave slowly brought it to her tiny chest. Tenta-box put a little tap on the blade and Twilight winced in pain as the blade struck some skin. She looked up to see Shockwave looking directly at her.
He leaned in and whispered into her ear.
“Facing dreams is more real than reality isn't it?”
With that, Tenta-box struck the knife deep into Twilight’s chest. Twilight screamed in pain and just wished that her death would be the less agonizing. That is, until the unthinkable happened….
Twilight Sparkle woke up screaming.
Author's Note
This is where the dark comes into play for those reading this don't hate me. :'(
Lightning Seven: Flying Sparks
"Terra-glacies......the home world MOLLUSK crushers have strived to protect from MOLLUSK laboratories .......can no longer sustain itself. Decades of civil war have caused the greatest of casualties: our planets stability within the Gamma quadrant of Omega 7. Most of our people have abandoned our home, in hopes of finding new life among the stars. We do not know how many of our brothers escaped MOLLUSK's blockade; I can only be certain of this........just one ship remains. No matter what, I, Scalor, will never succumb to such tyranny, our race shall survive."
"This is what you chose fish! When you defied me, Lord Jaggor! All of this....this war, horror , and tragedy....is your doing!!!"
"Tenta-box reporting lord Jaggor. This world that Scalor and the crushers are retreating to....it is a primitive world.......but ready for the taking."
"You're weak Scalor! Me Bone Crunch fight while you run!"
"ULTIMOS HEEDS THE CALL OF THE LAST SAVIOR. THIS IS MY CHOICE, SCALOR. YOU MUST USE MY ENERGY SOURCE TO LEAVE TERRA-GLACIES."
"Scalor would never abandon Terra-glacies!"
"Stay and fight Scalor, I, Jaggor command you!!!"
"crusher scum!"
"MOLLUSK punk!"
"Never forget us Scalor.......never."
"Till all is done!"
"The crushers had no choice but to leave Terra-glacies, and find a new home using the space bridge. There is a portal waiting for us out in space; we have to hurry before MOLLUSK forces get there first."
"I am Scalor Barra-codon, and this is my final message to all residents on Terra-glacies..... Sir Slicer and the Silver Sword Clad will lead you now.....I and an elite group of Crushers will go to a new world and hopefully, someday, return to our true home. But until then......we will fight and survive on this new planet.......till all is done."
*The Portal*
“Pathetic. This is the so called Endurance Ranger?” Lord Jaggor a black panther cyborg asked himself as his newest ship sailed across the endless void of space just above Terra-glacies. He and his robotic armada had been slowly approaching the Crusher's ship….and they were closing in fast.
“The Crushers have placed all of their hopes into a glorified cargo ship .” Jaggor finished when his loyal subject approached him. Jaggor faced his communications officer and said, “Bass Buster, head to the launching bay and ready the two cables. You will lead the first wave of the assault.”
The walking stereo android bowed saying. “Yes, lord Jaggor.”
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As Bass Buster approached the launch bay, he couldn’t help but admire his work. The MOLLUSK cruiser had been successfully constructed out of the remains of the mighty Molloscus. It was a most dangerous ship.
As the soldier dispersed, Bass Buster approached a robot as he spoke, “Your chariot awaits, Bass Buster. Watch that first step, it’s a doozy.”
“Affirmative.” he responded.
As Bass Buster approached the door, a soldier walked up to him and explained the situation.
“Ahh, cannon fire jammed the door release. You got any ideas, Bass Buster?” The soldier asked.
Bass Buster nodded and approached the jammed door. “Bass Booster, standby for ejection.”
As he said that, Bass Buster pressed a button on his left shoulder, out came the wheeled nuisance Bass Booster as he approached the door with his big mallets.
“Let’s Tango!” The mini-bot shouted and destroyed the door.
“Return.” Bass Buster ordered as Bass Booster turned back into a juke box and returned to Bass Buster's chest compartment. Now that the door was opened, Bass Buster approached the tow cable and held on tight.
*WHOOSH!*
Bass Buster held on as the tow cable suddenly blasted out of The Nemesis and was headed for Endurance Ranger.
Bass Buster gripped the sides as several missiles and explosions appeared in front of him. The Ark was approaching fast as Bass Buster blasted through the window to land inside the Crushers’ sanctum.In his way was another door.
“Talons, eject. Carve an entrance.” The bird-bot did as he was told and began opening the door with his laser. Bass Buster turned around in panic as several alarms were heard inside the enemy ship.
“MOLLUSK bots have breached the ship!”
All of a sudden, Jaggor’s voice was heard through Bass Buster’s comm link. “Autobots on your right!”
Bass Buster quickly spun around and fired away with his electro-gun. The resistence soldiers burst to death in an electric explosion. Talons suddenly screeched loud enough for Bass Buster to turn back around. “Excellent, Talons. Access acquired.” As Bass Buster approached the now open door, he looked up and said, “Talons, return.” The bird-bot transformed back in Bass Buster’s compartment as he busted his way through the door.
When Bass Buster entered the new facility, Jaggor’s voice returned to his comm link.
“Bass Buster, the Ranger’s defensive cannons are taking their toll. Destroy them!”
“Yes, lord Jaggor.” Bass Buster watched as several resistence soldiers and snipers appeared in the room to defend the ammunition. “Rumble, Talons, eject!”
Both mini-bots charged forward and attacked the soldiers as Bass Buster peacefully walked forward.
“Yeah, they’re everywhere! How ‘bout less squawkin’ and more shootin’!” Bass Booster shouted to his fellow mini-bot above. Talons acknowledged by killing off the remaining snipers.
Bass Buster approached The Ark’s defense cannon ammunition and pulled the lever. The shield came down allowing Bass Buster to destroy the ammunition. Bass Buster pressed his comms link and announced.“Ranger defense systems eliminated.”
Jaggor answered, “Excellent, Bass Buster. brothers, all attack groups clear to traverse cables!”
Outside of the battle, the tow cables latched themselves onto The Ark’s hull now that nothing could stop them. The robots flooded inside the defenseless hope for the crushers.
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Running.
Outlook had to hurry as Scalors’ signal echoed through his comm link.
“All Fliers to launch bays! Sever those tow cables! We’re being overrun!”
Outlook flew as the door in front of him opened, allowing him to speed through to the endless void of space.
The owl shouted in his comm link, “Outlook, launch tube niner en route!” As he entered the battle between The Ranger and Cruiser, he fired away at his machine gun while shouting over the explosions. “Alright, crushers, let’s exterminate!” Outlook shot down several Decepticon fliers before spotting the tow cable connecting the two massive ships.
“Pound the armor and the outer skin will shatter!” Outlook shouted and shot away at the two cables. The armor began breaking off as it floated away in little chunks.
After several blasts, a slight bit of red was spotted after he shot at the armor. Scalors’ voice was heard through the comms link, “There, a chink in the armor! Now destroy it!”
Outlook quickly saw it and flew in the zero gravity as he shot one missile at the chink. The entire tow cable disintegrated before his optics. “Boom, there it is!” Outlook shouted. He fired away at the next tow cable until another chink was found.
“There! Another weak point! Destroy it!” Scalor shouted as Outlook eliminated the tow cable with ease. “Nice work, old friend! You’re stemming the tide!”
“Target acquired.” Outlook announced and fired away at the final tow cable. With its destruction, he finished off what remaining androids there were before flying back to the ship.
“Cables are severed, Scalor! We needn’t worry about anymore MOLLUSK-bots crashing the party!” Just as Outlook finished that sentence, the mighty MOLLUSK war machine soared passed him. “Whoa!” Outlook screamed and watched the colossus approach The Ranger.
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When he stopped, Destructus faced forward when he knew that this would be too much fun.
“THIS PLACE IS CRAWLING WITH STINKING BUGS!” Destructus shouted and punched away at The Ra’nger's towers and structures. All the while enjoying stepping on the Crushers. “GET OUTTA MY WAY!!!”
Jaggor’s voice suddenly appeared in his comm link, “No mercy, Destructus. Make your way to the propulsion deck and gut their engines! The Crushers must NOT reach that space portal!”
“ON MY WAY.” Destructus said and activated his flame thrower to burn any remaining Crushers. He suddenly approached a large wall filled with soldiers firing at him.
Bringing his fist down, the pain wave decimated the wall in mere seconds as Destructus stomped his way inside.
“I LOVE THE SOUND OF AUTOBOTS CRUNCHING UNDER MY FEET!”
The soilders began firing all they had on the titan. It still wasn’t enough as he reached the next wall. He began punching it causing the entire wall to shatter.
“Hit him with something that will slow him down!” A soldier yelled and fired three missiles at the war machine.
Another soldier spoke out, “Like what?! A sun?”
As Destructus broke through the wall, he continued his massacre when he reached the second wave of crushers. His spinning blades finished off what remained of them as he destroyed several structures along with two sentry guns.
He was an unstoppable killing machine. “Jaggor, I’VE REACHED THE ARK’S PRIMARY FUEL TANK!” Destructus announced and broke through the wall, thus destroying the only barrier separating him from the tanks. “HA! THIS ISN’T EVEN FAIR!”
Outlook swooped down and shot a volley of missiles that struck Destructus armor with no effect. As he passed, he sent a distress signal throughout The Ark to see if any bot out there could hear. “Crushers, Destructus is targeting our fuel tanks!”
“Copy, Outlook. Jumpstart's is in play.” The transforming robot said as he jumped into his car form. In his vehicle mode, Jumpstart revved up his engine and drove through the tattered areas of Destructus' destruction. There he passed several wounded soldiers picking themselves up. He quickly transformed with his laser blaster in his arsenal along with his trusty grapple hook, and electro-sword.
He grappled over the highest wall and gasped when he saw it all.
Destructus' rampage had caused so much destruction on The Ark. He had to hurry right now or else they were all going to be goners.
Quickly sprinting forward, Jumpstart stopped when he saw Outlook and his team. Outlook was holding an injured Cusher in his arms.
“Go Outlook,” The soldier wheezed, “My time is done.”
Outlook's expression was soft as he spoke to his injured brother, “Keep your focus, soldier! We’ll get through this!” Outlook softly released his grasp from the injured solider and turned to face Jumpstart.
“Jumpstart, I need to find Circuit Breaker!” Outlook quickly flew along with Q-duck and Blade Saucer, “When I return I can back you up with an airstrike!”
Jumpstart chuckled and said, “Don’t keep me waiting long, flyboy.” Outlook, Q-duck, and Blade Saucer took to the skies as he passed the injured Crushers and made his way to the sound of screaming.
“It’s Jumpstart, we gotta chance now!” A Crusher solider shouted and charged to where the mighty destroyer was. Jumpstart followed but stopped at the entrance when he saw it.
Destructus.
There he was just a few feet away from the fuel supply and the brave Crushers were trying their hardest to stop him. Jumpstart gasped and slowly made his way into the battle. “Whoa, Destructus, boy you are even uglier up close.”
Destructus turned his way from the sudden insult and chuckled. “HOW CUTE. THE LITTLE ROBOT WANTS TO PLAY.” A massive explosion soon came from the engine deck. Destructus was getting the scrap kicked out of him by the Autobot Jazz and Outlook. Outlook flew down and shot two missiles that collided to Destructus' chest, sending him straight for the MOLLUSK bots.
“Get out of the way before he-“ Pin-sar the crab-bot screamed before the massive body rammed into him causing both robots to fly over The Ranger’s outer hull.
Both Destructus and Pin-sar flew passed The Ranger’s engines and out into deep space.
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-Present-
As the bind samurai Dice crawled towards Scalor, he could see the carnage placed before him. There was Scalor, with his massive sword taking on his old foe; Jaggor, with a sword of his own. Dice was weakened from age, he could barely crawl anymore, but he had to push forward.
When Dice stood up, Jaggor had kicked Prime to the ground. As Scalor dropped his sword, Jaggor ripped a massive cannon off from a destroyed ship they had been fighting by. Jaggor pointed the cannon at Scalor. “This ought to do the job!” he shouted.
Dice crawled in closer to hear his friend speak, “Even if you kill me, Jaggor, others shall rise to defeat your tyranny.”
“Then I’ll just have to destroy you all!” Jaggor shouted and shot the missile at Scalor. Dice quickly got up and jumped in front of Scalor. The missile collided perfectly to Dice’s chest and he flew back and hit Scalor. He got up and looked at the sacrifice his friend had just committed.
“Dice..!” Scalor shouted with hopes for his friend was still alive.
Jaggor threw down the cannon and spat out, “What a waste of Energy!”
Scalor lifted up Dice with his left hand, he still didn’t move as he noticed the large hole in his chest. Scalor looked at his hated enemy and spoke, “After eons of conflict I finally see the truth of your words, Jaggor.”
Jaggor regained his sword and walked closer to Scalor. “And what might that be, Scalor?” Jaggor asked as he brought down his sword on Scalors' head. But the great leader of the Crushers caught Jaggor’s hand before he could bring down the sword. Jaggor glared at Scalor as he spoke.
“This universe, no matter how big, will never be big enough for you and I to live together.” With that, Scalor brought back his fist and punched Jaggor straight in the stomach. Jaggor flew back from the massive punch and landed on a platform. He looked up to see Scalor flying straight for him.
Jaggor rolled over as Scalor brought down his sword where Jaggor was but seconds ago. Jaggor got back up and noticed Scalor was already standing with his sword gripped. Jaggor gripped the sword of his own and stared down his most hated enemy.
Then they struck.
Scalor and Jaggor went at it like two animals in a cage. Slashing and stabbing with each second, Jaggor dodged Scalors’ slash and punched him in the back. Unfazed by this, Scalor turned around and smacked Jaggor in the face with his sword.
Jaggor fell back and lay down as Scalor approached. Jaggor looked up to see Scalor raise his sword and bring it down on his abdomen.
“ARRRRRGGGGGHHHH!!!” Jaggor wailed in pain as Scalor dug the sword in deeper.
Before Scalor could finish it, a powerful tremor erupted in The Ranger. Both leaders flew back and landed on their chests. The sword had fallen off of Jaggor as he began to stand up. The reason for the tremor was clear. Scalor looked up from the ground and saw the portal growing so near, it was literally tearing The Endurance Ranger apart!
Scalor got back up and picked up his sword, Jaggor did the same and charged at Prime. Scalor defended himself to the best of his abilities but it still wasn’t enough. Jaggor brought up his sword and hit Prime in the chest! The large gash instantly leaked oil and sent sparks everywhere as Scalor fell to one knee.
Jaggor lifted up his sword but Scalor reacted quickly and charged his sword straight for Jaggor’s chest. Jaggor dodged it with ease and punched Scalor in the back. With Scalor facing away, Jaggor brought back his sword and impaled Scalor in the back, the sword going straight through his abdomen.
“GRAAAAAA!!!” Scalor screamed in pain as the sword was ripped out sending shrapnel all over the ground.
Jaggor’s victorious moment was interrupted by yet another tremor in The Ranger sending both leaders off the platform and headed for the portal!
Scalor and Jaggor held on for dear life as they both noticed the portal was very close now!
“No, the portal!” Jaggor yelled in fear as he felt himself being sucked in.
“The vortex is tearing the ship apart!” Scalor yelled and grabbed onto the hull of The Ranger as he as well felt himself being sucked in.
Jaggor looked over for a split second and saw Scalor holding on to the ship. He lifted his right hand and punched Scalor in the face. Scalor retorted back by kicking Jaggor in the face. Jaggor almost fell off but grabbed onto the ship just in time.
“Nooooo, I will not be denied victory!!!” Jaggor shouted as his grip loosened and he was sucked into the portal to go to Primus knows where. Scalor couldn’t hold on anymore as the powerful vortex was sucking him in with intense force. Scalor had let go and flew back with Jaggor .
As of Scalor Prime and Jaggor , The Ark and The Nemesis were being sucked into that unforgiving portal closer and closer. The tentacles of The MOLLUSK cruiser broke off of The Ranger as the ship began spinning from the force of the vortex. Several explosions rocketed through The Ark as it drew nearer to that portal. Both ships suddenly were sucked in violently as the portal closed……forever.
Then all was quiet in space.
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A new portal opened.
Both the Ranger and Cruiser blasted through it and hovered in space just above a new planet. The massive ships collided once more before breaking apart and heading for the nearest planet’s atmosphere.
The planet was very colorful, its oceans and grounds spread across the landscape as both Ranger and Cruiser slowly approached.
The intense gravitational pull of this new world was too much as The Ranger and Cruiser began to explode, sending several Crushers and Mollo-droids out of the ships and into the atmosphere.
Scalor fell like a meteor as the gravity of the planet brought him in closer. Jaggor was just the same as his metal armor burnt against the gravity of this new world.
The Ranger and Cruiser exploded with several beams of explosive light that spread through the atmosphere and reached the ground of very….observing eyes.
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Suddenly, a bright light seeped through her window, causing the farm mare to wake up. Applejack rose from the bed and scratched her mane. Whatever was making that light…it was coming from outside.
She slowly got out of bed and made her way to the window…where to her great amazement…she saw two shooting stars sailing down from the sky. The orange mare gasped and held her breathe when she witnessed these two meteors heading into her home’s orbit.
“Oh mah stars…” Applejack gasped and watched as both meteors crashed into the Everfree Forest.
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Twilight Sparkle opened her eyes to see a bright light coming from her window. It was the middle of the night…who would be doing this? Just as Twilight rose out of bed, she just imagined it would be one of Pinkie’s parties late at night. But when she stepped out onto her balcony, the unicorn knew it was no kind of party.
Two shooting stars were falling straight into Equestria’s orbit, one was the color orange…and the other was purple.
“In Celestia’s name…” Twilight gasped and watched both meteors. Suddenly, several pieces of space debris, or what Twilight assumed to be, broke off from the meteors and followed them deep into the closest Forest.
Which was the Everfree.
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He barely got up to see he was in a dark area, surrounded by many trees. When Bone Crunch was fully awake, he stood up and saw that he was taller than the trees. He looked on the ground and saw a crash landing.
"Where am I?” he asked himself and rubbed his head, “All I remember is smashing the controls on Tenta-box’s computer and trying to escape the Space Bridge….then nothing.”
Bone Crunch walked around and saw the bright moon and stars in the sky. "LIGHTING SCALE!!! MUNCH-MUNCH!!!! BUZZER!!!!! WHERE ARE YOU?!" Bone Crunch yelled in the open. He wasn't mad; he was just worried that his Primal squad brothers were nowhere to be seen.
Many strange things came out of the trees that Bone Crunch didn't know what they were. Some could fly while others scrambled away.
“This is not Terra-glacies…that space portal that Shockwave was talking about…is this the world?” Bone Crunch asked himself and touched the closest tree.
“I have to find my team…maybe they know what happened.”
Bone Crunch kept walking for many hours until the sun came up. Whenever he took a step, it sounded like a bomb going off. He came to a clearing and stared at the rising sun.
Bone Crunch felt himself calm down while staring at that peaceful sun; he just hoped that this world was just as peaceful. He didn’t want it to be another Terra-glacies like planet, brothers against brothers, fighting for what you believed in, and no end whatsoever.
Bone Crunch sighed and kept walking until he came to a grassy meadow. "This world sure is nice…I wonder what it’s called?" Bone Crunch said and stomped into the meadow. Bone Crunch looked around, still no sign of any Primal squad members. Until, Bone Crunch saw something that interested him.
A small cottage on top of a small hill, it was close to the forest he came from.
"A dwelling? Who would live in such a small house? Whoever lives there….they will tell me where my team is…or I will force them to." Bone Crunch said and began stomping towards the small cottage. Little did Bone Crunch know…that what he was about to see….would change his life.
Bone Crunch stomped closer and closer to the little cottage. He came across a small bridge; he easily stepped over it and bent down to have his head close to the door to meet whoever lived here. Bone Crunch brought his finger up and slowly, brought it to the door.
"Now come on Angel Bunny, eat up." Fluttershy said with a smile. Angel pushed away the food in total disgust.
"Oh come now Angel, you have to eat something?" Fluttershy pleaded.
Angel crossed his arms and looked away. Fluttershy put on a stern face. "Angel, you are eating this food right now or you will not get any dinner." Fluttershy warned.
Angel glared at her. Fluttershy put on an even sterner face. "Either you eat this food or-" Fluttershy began but was interrupted by three loud knocks on her door.
A deep male voice began to speak from the outside. It said, "Who lives here?"
"I’m coming!" Fluttershy quietly yelled. She trotted to the door and slowly opened it.
"Yes hello, how can I help yo-" Fluttershy began but stopped as she saw who was at the door. Her mouth hung open and her eyes kept growing wider and wider.
At the door, was a giant long silver face with a glowing blue slits for an eye, it had razor sharp teeth in his mouth. He was truly terrifying to look at. The creature backed up slowly as it was surprised as well. Fluttershy looked at how massive it was. It had to be as big as a dragon!
It had shiny crimson armor along with some black and silver armor here and there. It had many glowing lights on it, Fluttershy didn’t understand what the purposes for those lights were, then again, and she didn’t understand what she was looking at.
The creature finally spoke.
"What the......?"
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.
“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.
"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.
"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.
"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.
Lightning Seven: Flying Sparks
Even deeper in the Everfree Forest, was the great and powerful Lord Jaggor and his army of elite robots, recovering from their little incident. Jaggor had a deep gash across his leg; he was being repaired by Steam Punker, one of the repairbots. Jaggor winced in pain as his leg was being operated on.
"Careful you fool, if you wreck my leg you will suffer!" He warned.
"Forgive me my lord." Steam Punker said and continued to work.
A flying orb zoomed in and landed near Megatron. It was Overseer.
Overseer sounded hurt, "Oh my poor, sweet master, how it pains me to see you so injured, so weak." He told Jaggor.
"Spare me your words you insolent nitwit, you know what you were told and that is to shut up!" Jaggor roared.
Talon flew in and shot down a phoenix from the skies that flew off of a tree branch, the phoenix died instantly and fell to the ground. Talon then landed on Bass Buster's arm as Bass Buster approached Jaggor.
"Bass Buster reporting, lord Jaggor." Bass Buster announced himself.
Jaggor winced in pain again, "And what news from our communications officer?"
Bass Buster began, "I, and my Mini-bots have discovered alien life on this planet. These are horses or specifically known as ponies. They rule this world, unknown of the planet’s name."
"You couldn't capture one of these "ponies" for observational research?" Jaggor asked.
"Negative, the ponies got away before I could capture them but-" Bass Buster was cut off by Jaggor.
"You have failed me yet again Bass Buster, you’re supposed to me my special agent and NOT fail missions, tell me why I should spare your miserable artificial life?" Jaggor asked crossing his arms.
"The Crusher Buzzer defended the ponies, and then Bone Crunch came and attacked me, I had no choice but to escape." Bass Buster explained.
Jaggor rubbed his chin and said, "So the Lightning Fisters are on this world as well."
All of a sudden, the air was filled with a buzzing noise. Megatron looked up to see two animots heading for him while one of them crawled out of the tree lines. They landed on the ground. It was the three main animots: Time Box, Slicor, and Clam-borg.
"Lord Jaggor, Crusher Hawk Eye was found on this world! World! World!" Slicor said.
"Hawk Eye? Then the other Crushers must be here as well. Even Scalor." Jaggor clenched his fists.
Obliterator came up to Jaggor and said, "Uhh sir, everyone is here and accounted for all except Blade Wing."
Jaggor narrowed his eyes at Obliterator and said, "Blade Wing is now an enemy to us, he has betrayed us and allowed the one called Bone Crunch to escape and destroy the Space Rifter. He snuck his way onto The Cruiser like the weasel he is! If any of you see him, shoot him on sight!"
"OW! My leg is leaking oil! This is just perfect, lost in a forest when all the soldiers want to kill you!" he complained to himself.
Blade Wing heard a noise above him and saw Overseer fly by him. Blade Wing got to cover and luckily wasn't seen. "Ugh, great, now his idiot companion trying to kill me. It wasn't my fault we were sent here!" Blade Wing rambled on.
Blade Wing sighed and got up to keep moving, limping with every step.
"I can't be found by Jaggor, I just can't."
Scalor was stunned to say the least, this history was quite interesting, with all its conflicts and resolutions, oh how he wished Terra-glacies was like this planet.
"Your planet has quite the history, Twilight." Scalor told her.
"Thank you, I'm still sorry about what happened to your world, Scalor." Twilight gave him a sorrowful look.
Scalor raised his hand forward and said, "Don't be, it was us who killed our planet, I just wish we could have done better."
There was a moment of silence before Rainbow Dash remembered something that bugged her. "Hey Scalor," Rainbow spoke up, he looked at her, "your friend here uhhh, Sky Burner right?"
"Outlook, but Sky Burner does sound like an awesome name." Outlook corrected her.
"Yeah Outlook, he has that weird triangle thing, do all of you have something like that?" Rainbow asked.
"Well sure we can Dash, We call it 'weapon assist'." Slash answered.
"'Weapon assisst'? How does that work?" Rarity asked.
"Well, let me show you!" Jumpstart answered and transformed into his car mode. His engine revved up and the ponies backed up a little in amazement, all except Pinkie.
Pinkie placed her chest on the hood of Jazz's car mode; she started to shake from the engine.
"ThIs FeElS aMaZiNg!" Pinkie shook as the engine kept going. The other ponies touched the hood as well and felt themselves vibrating.
"How is this happening?" Twilight asked.
"He's using one of his assists." Optimus answered.
"How?" Twilight asked.
"I'd like to answer that." Hawk Eye stated and walked up. He put one finger in the air. "Now let's start with how an assist is used." Wheeljack said.
"Oh great, here we go." Razor grumbled.
"Who are we gonna find next?" Munch-Munch managed to say.
"Lighting Scale, he's the last one. I hope he's okay." Buzzer said.
"I hope so too, we can't afford another loss of a Primal." Bone Crunch said as he pushed down more trees.
Buzzer chuckled and said, "So you finally admit that we can be called Primals now?" Bone Crunch ignored him and continued onward. Bone Crunch soon saw a blue and orange lizard; it was Lighting Scale. Bone Crunch walked up to Lighting Scale to surprise him.
"We are together once again, I thought I would never see any of you again, I thought I would be lost in this pony world forever." Bone Crunch explained.
Buzzer chuckled, "Love you too, buddy."
"Bone Crunch, the blast from the Space Rifter sent us to this new world, where do we go now?" Lighting Scale asked.
"Buzzer has the locater, ask him." Bone Crunch pointed at Buzzer.
"Yeah.....yeah I can find the others!" Buzzer yelled.
"GOOD! I hate this damn forest!" Lighting Scale raised his fists.
Bone Crunch pounded his fists to his chest, "Let's move, Primals!" Buzzer took off slowly; Lighting Scale helped Munch-Munch up while Bone Crunch followed Buzzer through the forest, with his pals behind them.
"Okay Hawk, we understand, but you're confusing the ponies." Scalor pointed at the group who were rubbing their heads in confusing, Twilight regretted asking that question.
"Okay, well, what are all of you going to do now?" Twilight asked.
Scalor rubbed the back of his head and answered, "I.....I truly don't know, we don't have the right supplies to return back home, we might be stuck here for a while." The Crushers hung their heads in sorrow, the ponies and Spike couldn't help but feel sad for all of them, they were lost in a world they did not know, and they didn't know how to get back.
When Twilight was about to say something, Scalor stood up in alert and looked at the forest. The ponies looked behind them and saw nothing.
"Men, defensive positions!" Optimus ordered.
The large team got up and held their fists forward, ready. Fluttershy looked back at Scalor who narrowed his eyes deeper into the forest; he obviously saw something the ponies didn't.
After a moment of scary silence, the forest erupted with many ponies who wore golden armor. They flooded the Crushers who tried to block them.
"DO NOT HARM THEM!!!" Scalor yelled and continued to block, not harming a single one.
Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Spike, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Applebloom backed away from the Crushers and tried to get to cover when they were surrounded by many unicorns with golden armor.
Shining Armor came in the center and hugged Twilight. "I'm so glad you're safe!" Shining said and continued to hug Twilight.
Twilight broke off and glared at him.
"What are you doing, Shining?!" Twilight demanded.
"We're saving you from the monsters! After we heard of what happened to you and your friends with the first monster, Celestia ordered we come in the Everfree and capture the beasts, we didn't know you and your friends would come in tonight!" Shining explained.
"No, they're friendly! Stop with the attack!" Spike yelled.
"Yeah, they’re nice!" Fluttershy quietly shouted.
"How do you know?!" Shining asked.
"Call off the attack and we'll tell you!" Twilight glared at her brother even more. Shining thought for a minute and held up his hoof.
"All Royal Guard, seize the attack!!!!!" Shining Armor yelled. All the Royal Guard stopped at once and landed on the ground, staring at their captain.
Shining looked at Twilight waiting for an answer, Twilight looked at Scalor and waved her hoof towards her, wanting him to come closer. Scalor did and walked up to them, he went to one knee to meet Shining Armor's eye level.
"This is Scalor," Twilight began, "He is the leader of the Crushers, they’re aliens and they ARE peaceful, or somewhat peaceful."
"Somewhat peaceful?" Shining repeated Twilight’s words and looked back at Optimus Prime.
"Well they have been through a war, Shiny, but they believe in peace, right Scalor?" Twilight asked.
"Indeed, you have nothing to fear Shiny; we will never harm this planet's race." Scalor assured him. Shining Armor didn't take too kindly to an alien calling him by the nickname his sister gives him.
"First of all, my name is Shining Armor. Second, we got the information that a monster like you attacked my sister and her friends earlier today." Shining growled.
"Are you sure it was not a MOLLUSK bot?" Scalor asked keeping his attitude at a minimum.
"A MOLLUSK-what?" Shining was confused.
"No, it was Bone Crunch," Twilight answered, "and you said he was part of the Crushers." Twilight looked up at Scalor.
After Twilight had said that, Shining glared at Scalor since one of his men attacked his sister, Applejack took quick notice. "But, we attacked him first, so it's all fair to say that he was defendin' himself." Applejack told Shining Armor.
"Self-defense huh?" Shining said and rubbed the back of his head. He thought for a long moment before looking at Optimus. "I'm sorry about that; we didn't know you were peaceful and all." Shining said.
"It is alright, we would never have harmed you anyway if you still attacked us." Scalor told him.
"Uhhh thanks and uhh sorry, Twily." Shining apologized.
"It's okay Shiny." Twilight smiled at him.
"Now, how would you and the Royal Guard like to meet the Crushers?" Pinkie asked Shining Armor with a wide smile.
"That would be great." Shining smiled and shook Scalors' hand.
The Royal Guard went around and met each of the members, mostly they were apologizing. After that was done, Shining went up to Twilight and her friends.
"Okay, let's get back to Canterlot, all of you." Shining Armor said.
"What about the Crushers, we can't just leave them here." Twilight pleaded.
Shining Armor looked at Scalor and his team, he smiled and said, "Would you all like to come to Canterlot, we can get you better places to rest besides this forest."
"Hey, that would be great!" Warhead yelled.
"Yeah, I need to fix some of these scratch marks on my armor." Jumpstart said rubbing his scratch marks.
"Can we go, Scalor?" Q-duck asked.
Scalor rubbed his chin and asked, "Are you sure it is alright, Shining Armor?"
"Oh there is no trouble; the Princess will love to meet you." Shining explained.
"Well okay then, men, lets roll-" Scalor began.
"Leaving so soon?" Came a deep and threatening voice.
Scalor turned around and thought to himself, 'Cod.....not now.'
There, standing in the front of the massive forest, was the leader of the MOLLUSK bots and Scalor’s old rival....
….Lord Jaggor.
Lightning Seven: Flying Sparks
Twilight almost believed that it wasn't true.
She wanted to believe that it wasn't true, but reality kept going into her mind, telling her that Discord is back. Discord laughed into the heavens above, he stopped laughing and cracked his back.
"Oh, it feels so good to be free yet again!" Discord said out loud and turned his attention to Princess Celestia while stretching his limbs.
"Celestia, good to see you again!" Discord said and teleported next to her.
"But I must say, you have grown quite old the last time I've seen you, I can see the bags under your eyes! What's it been like....5 months?" Discord jokingly said and chuckled at his own joke.
Celestia snorted and glared at her enemy. Discord turned back and looked at Twilight and her friends. His smile grew wider and wider, "Twilight, my old friend!" Discord said and teleported by all of them. He walked by each one and gave them a handshake.
"How have you all been? Oh this is just like old times!" Discord said as he shook Applejack's hoof. Applejack pulled her hoof back in disgust and glared at Discord.
"What good times you sneaky yella bellied varmint?!" Applejack questioned him. Discord put a hand to his chest and pretended to look hurt.
"Surely the good times we had together as friends." Discord smirked.
"We are not friends!" Twilight yelled as her horn glowed.
"Oh Twilight, so lost in this Magic of Friendship, it's so disgusting really!" Discord chuckled and turned around to hear deep voices behind him.
Discord had a raised eyebrow and crossed arms at what he saw; weird (weirder than him) creatures with many colors on them. They all eyed Discord with curiosity. The half metallic one stepped up and looked down at him.
"Hello there," Scalor began, "my name is Scalor Bara-codon, who are you and what are you exactly?" he asked. Discord smiled deviously.
"Well, at least someone here as good manners," Discord stated, "I'm Discord, the spirit of chaos and disharmony."
"Chaos…?" Warhead thought out loud, "That sounds bad."
"Well of course it sounds bad, it is bad you dolt!" Slash smacked Warhead's shoulder.
"Anyway, I would just adore staying and chatting with you all, but I've got some chaos to spread around Equestria." Discord said as he was about to snap his fingers to disappear.
"Wait!" Scalor yelled, Discord stopped and looked at him, "Why would you want to do that, to spread chaos in this peaceful world?" he asked.
Discord laughed to himself, "HAHAHA, you really didn't hear me clear did you? I'm the SPIRIT OF CHAOS AND DISHARMONY!" Discord slowly said.
"You still cannot spread chaos through this peaceful world, we won't let you." Optimus said and brought his fists up. His Autobots did the same.
"No Scalor, he's stronger than he looks!" Rarity screamed.
"This little punk looks like he can barely fight a piece of scrap! We can take him!" Slash yelled.
With that, Discord chuckle and soon blurted out laughing. He snapped his fingers, and suddenly a giant fist that looked just like Discord's lion paw was hovering above the Crushers. Discord brought his hand down and the giant lion paw landed right on the Crushers.
"NOOOOO!!! YOU MONSTER!!!" Twilight screamed and looked in horror as the lion paw lifted itself off the ground and disappeared. The Crushers groaned in pain as they laid on the ground barely moving.
"Well, that was fun. Now if any of you don't mind, I would like to spread my lovely chaos now." Discord said as he was about to snap his fingers.
"NO DISCORD!!!" Celestia roared. Discord turned around to see Celestia with her mane almost burning red with rage. Discord crossed his arms and yawned in his hand, this made Celestia furious.
"You think you're so cocky Discord, but we will never let you escape this time, especially after you hurt our Crusher friends!" Celestia said.
Discord smirked and said, "Oh, and how do you plan to do that without your precious Elements?" Discord placed his hands on his cheeks when he saw Celestia's expression.
Celestia backed up a little, completely shocked, "H-how did you-"
"Know about the Elements being infected?" Discord finished her thought, "Well, when they were, I felt myself becoming stronger knowing that the Elements of Harmony were destroyed, and now that I'm free, there is nothing that any of you can do to stop me." Discord chuckled to himself.
Celestia placed her hoof down hard, the ground cracked where she was. The rain was hitting the ground harder, and the wind was blowing furiously. Twilight tried to push her mane out of her eyes to see her mentor about to attack Discord.
"Even though the Elements are gone," Celestia glared at Discord as her horn glowed, "I'm still here to stop you and defend my kingdom!"
With that, Celestia shot an energy blast at Discord; Discord snapped his fingers and teleported just before the blast hit him. Celestia looked above her to see Discord floating in midair. Discord snapped his fingers again just as Celestia was about to shoot him with another blast.
Celestia was trapped in a giant bubble, as she shot more blasts to try and break it, Discord lifted up his hand and the bubble rose to the lightning above. Celestia was horrified to see the bubble being electrocuted and her as well.
After a few seconds of horrified screams of pain from Celestia, Discord lowered the bubble and let Celestia fall to the ground. She laid unconscious as the rain pelted her mane, Discord laughed maniacally and turned his attention to sniffling behind him.
Twilight had tears flowing down her face, well Discord couldn't tell as the rain was making it difficult. All the other ponies had horrified expressions, even Spike. Rainbow Dash stepped up and glared at Discord.
"This time," Rainbow choked back tears, "I'm gonna beat the living buck out of you."
"Ooooooo, so scary." Discord said sarcastically. Rainbow snorted and spread her wings, ready to charge. She flew at him with unreal speed! Discord snapped his fingers and a shield of grass appeared in front of him. Rainbow crashed into it and with another snap of his fingers, the grass rolled up and Rainbow was trapped inside.
Discord waved his hand in the air and the grass shield flew Rainbow towards her friends. They all fell back as the grass shield fell on top of them. Rainbow broke out and shook her head to regain her focus.
Shining Armor had enough and shot energy blasts at Discord who simply blocked them and snapped his fingers that caused the wet grass around Shining Armor to turn into ice. Shining Armor slipped and fell on his back.
Discord's hand lit up and a lightning bolt struck down in front of the ponies. They covered their eyes and saw as path between them and Discord was covered in flames. Discord was standing there, laughing to the heavens above.
"Oh, it feels good to be back!" Discord yelled.
Discord stopped laughing as he heard a cocking sound and looked to see Scalor pointing something at him. It was a long, silver barrel that glowed blue at the end. Scalor stood behind the ponies, not saying a word, but threatening to shoot Discord.
Discord's smile faded as Scalor glared at him, still pointing the stick and not saying a word.
Soon after a few seconds, Scalor spoke, "This is your last warning, give up or else."
The ponies felt frightened, this wasn't Scalors calm and nice state this was something completely different. Scalor was now a stone cold warrior, not afraid of anything. As his glare intensified, Fluttershy squeaked in fear. Scalor looked down at them to see how scared they appeared, out of guilt, he lowered his gun and looked calmly towards them.
Discord rubbed his chin as he saw Scalor looking at the ponies with such calmness, when he was threatening him just a few seconds ago. Discord's smile grew wider and wider.
"Awww," Discord said, "so that's your weakness."
Discord's hand glowed and Twilight flew from the group and into Discord's hand. Twilight screamed as Discord held her above the raging fires below.
"Twilight!!!!!" The ponies and Spike screamed. Scalor put his gun up again, this time he was mad.
"PUT HER DOWN!!!" Scalor yelled as his gun started glowing at the end. Twilight struggled against Discord's grasp on her.
"I see you have a soft side on these ponies," Discord said as the grip on Twilight increased, "for a powerful warrior like yourself, I expected you to just attack me with that weapon of yours, but no, you're just another fool who believes in the Magic of Friendship. Disgusting!"
"Scalor, help me!" Twilight screamed as Discord began to loosen his grip on her, threatening to drop her in the fires.
"Why do you do it? What do you get out of helping these ponies? I see absolutely nothing!" Discord yelled and held Twilight with one hand, Twilight was trying her best not to move, and she didn't want to fall.
"I do it because they are a proud and peaceful race, and I must protect them from the likes of you. Now I ask you again, put her down." Scalor calmly said.
Discord smirked, "As you wish." With that, Discord dropped Twilight. Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, Pinkie, and Rainbow gasped as Twilight was falling to her death. Twilight screamed as she fell to the deadly fires below. Scalor reacted quickly and caught Twilight before she landed in the fires. Scalor placed Twilight near her friends and turned back to Discord to shoot him.
But he was gone.
Scalor looked around and saw nothing; he sighed and looked down at the ponies. Twilight looked up to him and sniffed, "Th-thank you, Scalor."
Scalor nodded and looked over at the still unconscious Celestia. He went down and nudged her a little with his right fin, she still didn't wake up. Twilight had been crying at this point, her mentor was badly injured. Discord never tried to kill them before, so why now?
Twilight walked over and nudged Celestia with her muzzle. The rest of the ponies weren't holding up to good either. Fluttershy was already crying, Rarity's mascara was streaming down her face, from both the rain and her tears, Pinkie had a river of tears flowing from her eyes like long streams, Applejack wiped her nose and tried her best not to cry, Rainbow flicked her mane out of her face and turned the other way.
Slash, Dice, Warhead, Jumpstart, and Razor got up and rubbed their heads. They gasped as they saw Celestia injured and not moving. Razor got in close and placed a wing on Celestia. "She's still alive," She said, "but we need her to get medical attention at once."
"But Discord is still out there." Fluttershy quietly said between tears.
"I'm sorry Fluttershy, I truly am, but we need to get Celestia out of here. I promise you, we will get Discord." Scalor said and picked up Celestia. "Men, let’s roll." Scalor said and trudged past them, the Crushers slowly walked behind him.
The ponies looked at each other and just followed the Crushers out of the statue garden. When they got out, they saw Scalor talking with Circuit Breaker and Hawk Eye. Circuit Breaker doing his best carried Celestia, Hawk Eye was rubbing his chin as Scalor told him what happened.
"Scalor..." Twilight spoke up. Scalor looked at her and so did Hawk Eye.
"What do we do now?" Twilight finished. Scalor sighed and said, "We will figure it out, but now let’s get back to Canterlot."
With that, Scalor activated his umbrella attachment and adjusted it above the ponies and Spike, not allowing the rain to get them wet anymore. Optimus trudged through the grassy meadows, all the Crushers followed him. Each one was beginning to question Scalor in their own thoughts, how could he let the creature that hurt Celestia get away?
Twilight began to whimper and Shining Armor put his foreleg around her shoulder. Twilight looked at her brother with sad eyes, beginning to form tears. "It's alright Twily, we'll figure this out." Shining said as Twilight placed her head on his chest and cried silently. Scalor picked up the sound of crying, he sighed and continued to move on. This was a good time for him to think to himself.
'What happened? This strange creature was so powerful that it beat me and my strongest Crushers. Whatever it was, it's on the loose and we must capture it. But Discord said that only the Elements could defeat him, how can we take him down without the Elements of Harmony? Whatever the answer is, I hope we find out fast, because now we have two enemies to think about; Discord....... and Megatron.'
Lightning Seven: Flying Sparks
To anyone who reads this, I am cancelling this story. I'm sorry to those who liked it enough to favorite it and follow it, but I can not just get myself to finish it. To those who want to know what happens Discord assists Lord Jaggor's robotic army and the Lightnings and their allies eventually defeat them.
It's been fun writing this, this will be the first of my stories to be put down in my life. I never thought I would have to pull the plug on it.
