Chapter 11: Got Better Things To Do Than Die

Ultra Magnus watched as three of the only four Autobots to stay behind and help with the construction of their temporary base flew backwards when a green saucer like object landed on them.

"Sorry, I still need to work on my landings." Cosmos said as he helped up Warpath.

"Eh, don't mention it little buddy!" Warpath replied, smashing his fist together and getting back to work, Preceptor and Whelljack had already gotten back up and resumed their tasks.

"Cosmos what happened to the search team I deployed to find you?" Magnus asked as he approached the green and yellow Autobot.

"I'm afraid that explanations will have to wait for later, we have multiple Decepticons inbound to our position as we speak, they already trashed the Dinobots!" Cosmos said

"Preceptor tell Blaster to radio Prime for reinforcements, we'er gonna need em!" Ultra Magnus said as he checked one of the salvaged auto cannons from the ship.

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Grimlock sniffed the air again, he found that the searing heat was messing with most of his circuits, though to be honest he didn't really care. He had managed to climb to the top of a massive rock that overlooked the canyon, even though the only things he could see from that rock were more rocks and enough sand that Metroplex could probably make a sand castle like those human children often did at their beaches. The he spotted small tracks and seeing as he could no longer track the princess by her scent, he decided to see where these tracks led.

After a few hours he reached the end of the tracks, a solid rock wall. In front of the wall were multiple of the same tracks, but there was no actual way in.

"Hmm, I didn't come all this way to be stopped by a rock formation." Grimlock snarled, then roaring, transformed. First his legs materialized from his massive chrome tail, then his T-Rex chest opened as his massive head folded back thus revealing his chest plate and head, finally his dinosaur legs transformed into his arms and hands.

"WHEN SOMETHING GETS IN MY WAY, I REMOVE IT!!!" he bellowed as he slammed his sword into the rock wall, which only began to ripple like he had just dropped a stone in the water.

"What?" Grimlock stuttered, his visor still glowering red. He decided not to question it and just walk through with his double barrel particle cannon in his right hand, and flame sword in left.

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Rainbow Dash had just dodged a steady stream of dragon fire when she clipped he wing on a tree and fell back down. She had wanted to fly away and forget about trying to find out what was going on, go back to Ponyville and talk to the jolly green giant Cosmos a bit more, but the day just wasn't hers. The dragon moved closer to her as she got up, wincing at the pain in her wing.

"You... you want a piece of me!" Rainbow yelled up to the rather beat up Dragon.

The dragon didn't bother replying as he bent down and opened his jaw slightly to incinerate the cyan pegasus when a green laser tagged the beast.

"Hold it right there!" Prowl yelled, his pistol smoking from the tip.

"I will crush you for that!" the dragon yelled as he grabbed Rainbow Dash and charged Prowl.

Sergeant open fired with the stolen Decepticon blasters and peppered the Dragon with lasers. The dragon then dropped Rainbow who was caught just before having a rather smashing meeting with the ground by Prowl who had slid on his skidplate after tossing his pistol to the side to save her.

"You okay miss?" Prowl asked the rainbow maned pegasus.

"Yeah, just clipped my wing on that tree..." She started to make a gesture toward the tree when she saw the Siberian Tiger with metal wings watching the battle from afar, its green optics seemingly focused on her alone.

Prowl seemed to catch this and turned to look in the same direction, but the mysterious tiger vanished into a puff of mist as though it never existed. Then the Dragon fell over in a pool of blood, his body had holes that smoked from the heat of the lasers that punched through him.

"Shouldn't see any trouble from him anymore." Slaughter said with a frown directed towards Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow merely cringed at the sight of the dead dragon and the armored pony with the smoking alien weapons.

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Starscream entered the secret bases recharging station to find five occupied stasis pods and an assortment of weapons, grinning he outfitted himself with new charges for his null ray and reloaded his missiles before turning his attention to the stasis pods.

"Now what do we have here, ancient Autobot warriors?" he said as he rummaged through the computers data base.

"No, they are protoforms, and I just so happen to have the processors of five loyal Decepticons, loyal to me that is." He laughed as he produced the processors of his fallen comrades, the Combaticons.

He wouldn't make the same mistake the first time he recreated them, no, this time he would rewrite their memories and loyalty functions so that they would obey his command, and his command only. Starscream began his work on the protoforms laughing uncontrollably.

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Jetfire noticed the blue-green pony with neon blue and white hair grinning ear to ear below him and was sorry for doing so as soon as he made eye contact.

"My name is Lyra, can you really make me hands?" She said as she leaned her front hooves on the old air guardian.

"Hands? why would you want hands?" Jetfire asked the crazed unicorn who looked as though she had just drank one hundred espressos.

"Oh, well you know, so I can be more like a human!" Lyra said, leaning her head closer while still pressing her hooves against him.

"Okay then, why do you want to be more like a human?" the fifty two foot tall giant asked the four foot tall pony.

"Because humans are awesome!!! I even have pants!" Lyra exclaimed, pushing herself off of Jetfire in a back flip and landing on all fours.

Behind his helmet Jetfire mouth was open, he was completely dumbstruck as to why this pony wanted to be like a human when it hit him that there are no humans on this world. He looked up to the rising sun with a white glow surrounding it to think.

"Doesn't that hurt your eyes?" Lyra asked as she too tried to look directly at the sun but turned away.

"I will make you hands." Jetfire said as he turned away and walked to a more open area to begin constructing a contraption from spare parts that would resemble and work as hands would.

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"Decepticons attack!" Megatron shouted and pointed towards the crashed Autobot ship, the time had come, the sun was rising, and their foe was weak.

"Lord Megatron." Shockwave said as he approached his master.

"What is it?" the silver warrior said, watching as his seekers did combat with Ultra Magnus who tuck and rolled, dodging a missile and grabbed Skywarp, throwing him into Thundercracker, both seekers transformed and landed in a pile as Ultra Magnus fired one of his missiles to finish them off.

"What is to be gained from attacking their ship?" Shockwave asked, peering at the battle he witnessed Blitswing and Warpath circling each other all the while pounding tank shells into each others sides.

"Not only would we take a significantly advantageous location as our base, but we would have access to resources such as energon and weapons that were previously ours prior to capture." Megatron said, watching as Ultra Magnus and Wheeljack both seemingly looked up at the sky.

"My Lord..." Shockwave began before Megatron transformed into a pistol.

"Target Ultra Magnus!" and Shockwave did, it took the scientist a full two seconds to line up a shot that would go clean through.

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"What do you mean the communications just went down?" Ultra Magnus asked as both he and Wheeljack dodged another missile from the seekers that managed to escape their doom.

"Preceptor told me to tell ya that Blaster said he transmitted the S.O.S. twice before going dark." Wheeljack said as they both stopped and stared at the sky.

Several shots of white energy pierced Ultra Magnus through the spark chamber from his back and out the other side, thus neutralizing the Autobot permanently. Wheeljack sidestepped just in time to not get hit by another burst of white death from what experience had told him was Megatrons primary weapon.

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Kup had just witnessed Ultra Magnus get blasted to smithereens, he Hot Rod, and Blur had just arrived after getting the distress call from Cosmos prior to receiving a priority call from Blaster.

"What do we do now?" Hot Rod asked.

"We get our guys out of there and tell Jetfire the bad news." Kup said looking down at his feet.

"Blur whip up a cloud cover, I'll give support fire." Hot Rod shouted as he pulled out his rifle.

"Any Autobots receiving this message Ultra Magnus is down, we need to retreat!" Kup said over his comm-link as the other Autobots began moving in their general direction.

Warpath had come out victorious over Blitswing, who had decided to take him on as a jet since he failed to finish him as a tank. Blaster was helping Preceptor, who had a blown apart leg, get off the battlefield, and Wheeljack had grabbed Ultra Magnus's head and was retreating with Cosmos. The sun was now up fully, and the Autobots had been steamrolled by their Decepticon adversaries.

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Celestia was awake again, no, she had never fallen asleep. All around the exhausted alicorn who was fighting for consciousness was darkness, but she knew what was in that darkness, until she heard a roar that made her head spin.

"Oh Nooooooo" Tarantulas exclaimed, his voice once being near sounded as though her was thrown at least a mile away.

"You hurt Pinky, ME GRIMLOCK HURT YOU!!!" was all Celestia heard as she heard a loud grinding sound followed by a smashing sound, followed by a intense burst of heat that she not only felt but saw as what appeared to be a giant metal dragon roasted her abductor who squealed and vanished into one of his many holes about the den.

"You can't kill what you can't find you brute." Tarantulas said from seemingly every direction, his voice echoing.

All this did was send the metal dragon into a frenzy, he destroyed the support pillars and many machines, in which purposes was unknown to Celestia, before he hit something that sent forth a inferno and lit the room not only in green flame, but allowed the metal creature to get a view of Celestia and Tarantulas, who had been hiding next to the immobilized solar princess.

"Me Grimlock going to rip out your spinal structure!" The metal dragon yelled as it transformed into a robot even larger than Jetfire, its Autobot symbol shimmering on his golden chest-plate.

"Scrap me!" Tarantulas squeaked as he quickly transformed and left his lair when Grimlock charged with his flame sword which he them impaled the web controls with and roared as though he was still a giant metal dragon.

"You... you are an... Autobot." Celestia said as she drifted from consciousness.

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"Thank you doctor, though I am still curious... how did she recover so quickly?" Twilight asked the pony doctor as she exited the hospital with Pinky Pie and their friends.

"To be honest I don't truly know, but hey, nopony can really explain Pinky Pie." he said before walking back inside the hospital, thus leaving Twilight to the spectacle outside.

"YOU DID IT!!!" Lyra Heartstrings yelled up at Jetfire!

Author's Note

Okay so I am going to aim for uploading on a weekly bases, possibly more often. lots happened in this chapter that will lead to a good bit more happening later. I would like to know what all you, the readers, think so far, and what you believe will happen in the near future. Till then, stay brony!

Till all are one my friends.