It was 4 days in the city of Maretropolis since Lockdown kidnapped Saddle Rager, and everyone came up empty just like yesterday and the day before that. At the Power Ponies headquarters, they and the Mighty Machines were gathered around a round table, with Filly-second moping. Rodan spoke up. “Maybe we could contact Devastator, he might be able to find in her in no time flat when we say Fluttershy got kidnapped.”

Timberwolf shot this down like a plane. “No way. I’m not getting caught up in whatever craziness Gears is getting caught up in thanks to Red Horn. Plus my craziness tolerance ends at Pinkie Pie. And we wouldn’t even have to worry about this if you didn’t give Zapp the idea of me checking on Flutters. No offense Zapp.”

“None taken big guy.”

“Was I even on your mind on who to watch her? What about Gears?”

“He was the fifth guy I thought of.”

Everyone groaned as if they were Rodan, Gears would be number one on the list. Marevelous managed to keep the situation calm at least. “It’s okay guys, we shouldn’t blame Rodan just because he didn’t think of Gears and someone…different.”

Timberwolf didn’t care and had no problem rubbing it in Rodan’s face he screwed up.

“You a big dummy!”

Radiance stopped Timberwolf while he was ahead. “Now Terry let’s not go to name calling. Because it’s not going to help the fact that Kul’as’ criminal empire just lost ¼ of ground in the last 3 days.”

Something clicked in Shadow Blot’s head, but same thing with Terry as he beat Shadow Blot to the punch. “Rarity! Say that again!”

“Kul’as’ criminal empire just lost ¼ of ground in the last 3 days.”

Terry got a chalkboard out of nowhere from Pinkie Pie who somehow knew what Terry was gonna do. Terry ran to the chalkboard with a piece of chalk and began to write on it. “Exactly. 4 days ago, Lockdown kidnapped Fluttershy, in which Kul’as’ empire lost ground a day after. With how tight the Kul’as keeps his operations together, it’d take years just to get a piece of that.”

“Let alone ¼.”

“Exactly. Now if it’s planned to get some turf in just one day, you’ll need a pretty strong walking tank to do it. Now who is a walking tank we all know and Love?”

Pinkie Pei jumped up and down in the air with her right hoof up. “Ooh! Ooh! I know this! Fluttershy!”

“Right. And the only way to get a hold of her and mad would be if someone got hired to tick her off and keep her that way until the past three days. It’d make no sense for Kul’as to take over his own turf, and he’s a guy who likes getting his hands dirty. Who do we know who’d hire someone like Lockdown to catch Flutters? And not to mention a bounty hunter not from this universe.”

The gears clicked in Zapp’s head who darted to the board taking the piece of chalk.

“A guy who has a machine to let guys like Lockdown in! And if it’s taking heavy hitters across the multiverse being taken than it would most likely be a for a huge fight that happened 4 days ago as if it wasn’t we would’ve noticed the empire shrinking from day one! If you guys recall the reports some of them talked about someone who matched Saddle Rager’s description when she’s angry. And from what Kul’as said when he first came here, it would make sense that it would include a version of us watching.”
She threw the piece of chalk to the ground satisfied as everything they just figured out was on the board simplified into pictures. She than looked to Terry and rammed at him to lock lips and tongue him, to Terry’s surprise which than turned into him doing the same back, causing one of her back hooves to kick up. She broke the kiss and looked to him with a bit of love in her eyes for him. “Dinner after this whole thing?”

“Pick ya up at 7. And you’re hot when ya talk smart.”

Humdrum had to be the killjoy for the moment. “Uh guys. How are we gonna get to that universe anyway?”

Zapp let go and whispered to Pinkie Pie who than ran off. “Me and Pinkie were working on a universal transporter after that whole Power Syndicate incident. We luckily got some help from Iron Mane and the thing worked, we were just throwing stuff inside to see if it gets to the other side in one piece. We were gonna use it for real next week, but better now than never.” Pinkie came back with a weird ray gun with something that looked like a tablet attached to the side near the trigger. “All right guys let’s see if we live.” Zapp took the gun and shot it at a wall creating a blue portal in the wall. Timberwolf walked to it. “I’ll head through first. Plus if it kills me, I might just walk it off like Waspinator like I usually do.”

“No. Together.” Zapp and Timberwolf locked hand and hoof and jumped into the portal.

Twilight was sitting on a bench reading on a book when Lyra walked up to her. “Hey Twilight.”

Twilight put a bookmark on the page she was reading and closed it than looked to Lyra. “Hey Lyra what’s up.”

“Nothing, I’ll get to what I wanted to talk to you about.”

“What was it?”

“The mirror.”

“What?”

“You heard me. I want the to go to through the mirror.”

“Sorry Lyra but that’s a big no. Especially since you got that and desist letter 4 days ago. They were gonna have a good night and Everypony respected it and left them alone, for that matter How did you even get into Dash’s house?”

“She left the door unlocked and I borrowed the cloud walking spell.”

“You seriously need some help Lyra, this hand obsession has gotta stop.”

“It’ll stop when I get hands! None of the crazy doctors would help cause they said it was crazy even for them. Wait… you invented new magic, you could give me hands!”

“Sorry Lyra I pinkie promised not to help you in any way. And before you ask, so have the other princesses so nice try.”

Lyra levitated a sledgehammer form behind her as a crazy look entered her eyes. “I wasn’t asking.”

A blue portal suddenly opened on Lyra’s right. Two blurs slammed into Lyra knocking her out. Twilight was shocked at how much the universe apparently doesn’t want Lyra to have hands. The Objects got up and Twilight recognized one of them as Zapp, but she looked like Rainbow Dash, not a white Pegasus with a purple mane. The other ones reminded her of the new hero Spike talked about, Timberwolf, who than looked at Lyra who was unconscious.

“Oh great. Let’s throw her back in her house before she tries to take off my hands.”

Twilight was utterly confused than thought of only one logical reason. “Nice smoke and mirrors guys, and thanks for the save.”

“What save?”

Twilight was shocked and turned around to see Dash and Terry right behind her, Dash’s hair and mane ruffled a little and signs she was sweating a while ago. Twilight put two and two together from that.

“Did you guys-” Dash interrupted her.

“Yep. Last night at my place and again this morning on a cloud near the castle.”

“Okay I’ll ignore that if you explain this.” Twilight gestured a wing to Timberwolf and Zapp.

“I’m going with another universe problem.”

Zapp looked to them and spoke. “Glad you get it. We’re looking for a pony.” Terry responded.

“Pegasus, pink mane, hulks out when mad?”

“How’d ya know it was Saddle Rager?”

“That was just a guess.”

The rest of the Power Ponies and Mighty Machines came through the portal as the mane five came by. Pinkie Ran to Filly-Second and they both mimicked each other’s movements. Timberwolf felt dread go up his spine as his worst fear came to reality: two Pinkie Pie’s in the same place at the same time. He than suppressed it as he needed to stay on the subject at hand. “Did you guys do anything interesting in the past four days?”

Twilight responded in an as a matter of fact tone. “Why yes we did. I got to go to a seminar on how to make a Transformer, It was informative and awesome. And we went to a Fig-”

Pinkie stuffed her hoof in Twilight’s mouth. “Twilight! We Quadruple Pinkie Promised not to tell anyone we we’re going!”

Twilight got Pinkie’s out of her mouth. “We promised not to do that when we went. That was four days ago.”

“Oh okay.”

“We were attending a fight. Coincidentally Saddle Rager was there. I figured she was volunteering.”

Masked Matterhorn responded knowing something quite contrary to what Twilight said. “She got kidnapped by a Bounty Hunting Transformer named Lockdown. That was four days ago. And reports in Maretropolis say territory belonging to Kul’as is being taken form him by a bunch of guys with an assailant matching Saddle Rager’s description.”

“So that means whoever hired Lockdown would use Saddle Rager to take over that territory.”

“Exactly what we we’re thinking. Did you bring back any souvenirs from the fight?”

“We all got a lot of bits from the fight and put them all in a safe Terry made for a rainy day. Nothing else other than a souvenir Terry and Dash got from the ring.”

Terry dug into his chest hatch, and pulled out the head of Waspinator. “Waspinator is finally free! Now Waspinator can get revenge on four-armed bu-” Waspinator looked down and say he had no body and he looked and saw the Mane Six and Power Ponies. “YOU! You do this to Waspinator! Waspinator get in fight involving giant gold pony friend and Waspinator get torn to scrap.”

Masked Matterhorn found this interesting. “Who was the Bug man?”

“Bug man was big jerk that was bigger than Dragon-bot. But Waspinator never forget Diablo Corps.”

The Power Ponies and Mighty Machines gasped, as they knew all too well who Diablo Corps was. “The same Diablo Corps who not only has the tallest building in Maretropolis to show Kul’as he isn’t afraid of being caught but the second large criminal empire in all of Maretropolis?”

“Waspinator guesses. Bug man never tell Waspinator anything even when Waspinator ask.”

Timberwolf spoke up. “This’ll be just more of the reason that we find out if he has Saddle Rager or not for sure.”

“Waspinator was in cage and saw Fred-pony in forklift hauling angry Pony in ice tube.”

“Never mind. But we’ll need back up. And I think I know just the guys who’ll help us when it comes to Diablo Corps.” Timberwolf pressed a few buttons on the device and put it away.

“Waspinator also hear bug-man say he hope pink pony not find put bug-man break Pinkie Promise on not kidnapping friends or hurting them either.”

Filly-Second heard words ‘break Pinkie Promise’ and gasped. Her face turned into one of anger and her coat took on a tinge of red as a boiling kettle sound was heard than her head sprung up and steam blew out her ears, as her eyes became a firey orange. “NOPONY BREAKS A PINKIE PROMISE!!” she ran into the portal followed by the Mighty Machines who went in to make sure she wouldn’t break anything.
Matterhorn turned to the mane six and Terry.
“We’ll take it form here. Thanks for answering our questions.” She than jumped into the portal into the portal with the rest of the Power Ponies than it closed. Pinkie tried to go into it at the last second but it closed. Her back legs shuddered followed by fluttering eyes, a knee pinch and twitchy tail. She turned to the girls, looking similar to Filly-Second minus the jumpsuit. “Portal’s gonna open. To Applelousa! Somepony needs to take the pinkie promise serious!” she ran off hoping to get to Applelousa ASAP. Terry took a body out of his chest hatch and put Waspinator’s head on it. “There you go buddy. A new body for ya.”

“Hurray! Now Waspinator can give bug man piece of Waspinator’s mind!” Waspinator flew off to Applelousa, but than changed his direction as he was going the opposite direction of Applelousa.

Diablo Corps was at the top floor of his building allowing him to look over all of Maretropolis. It made him feel big, especially with Saddle Rager’s help these past four days. But he still felt very nervous. The Power Ponies reported back in Maretropolis and declaring a search for Saddle Rager. He was going to have to delay the full assault on Kul’as’ empire until the heat cooled down. But he knew leaving town would help seal the deal. But what worried him was how Waspinator’s head was not recovered from the arena. Since Waspinator knew all about the plan, and he could even blab about how he-

“DIABLO CORPS!!”

Diablo ran to his window where a telescope was built in and looked into it. He zoomed in on a street where a bunch of Ponies and wirewolves were running in the middle of the street and somehow landed directly on Filly-Second’s face.

“YOU PINKIE PROMISED!”

Diablo Yelped, letting go of the telescope and slammed on a button on his black desk. Outside at the entrance, several wirewolves and henchponies ran for the Power Ponies and Mighty Machines when several Blue portals opened in front of them. Through the portal came the Grimlock’s, Flutterlock, Slog and Deadpool who ran at the henchponies both armies clashing. He thought this would be a good time to good time to get the frag out so he pressed a button on his desk but nothing happened. He than saw an unplugged plug attached to his desk.
“Of course. Forgot to plug it in.” Diablo plugged it in and was about to press the button, when the doors of his office swung open and right there was Night Wolf. “Hello Diablo.”

Diablo than repeatedly pressed another button on his desk as if someone got this far, this called for the big gun. “Heyyyyyy, Night Wolf, how was your ride back?”

“Comfortable, all though I jumped at the chance if it meant I could get my claws on you. I would soon get a heart attack than pass up this opportunity.” Diablo saw someone running through the hall towards Night Wolf.

“Funny you should say that.”

The figure was revealed to be a mechanical broken fox with a hook that roared behind Night Wolf’s back, only for Night Wolf to roar louder in his face, resulting in him running back to wherever he was before.

“Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope…” the animatronic repeated this as he disappeared down the hallway. Diablo Corps simply took a tape recorder than spoke into it before putting it away. “Note to self: have Lockdown hunt Down Foxy and drag his butt over here so I can personally beat Foxy.” He than pressed a button on his desk as he put a helmet with three white lights on the front of it on. A trapdoor opened on the Diablo Corp’s left of the room. Rising from it was Saddle Rager whose eyes were closed. Diablo Corps was about to put his hand on the helmet when a lightning bolt hit the helmet, shooting it off and frying the circuits. “Oh come on! Do you know how much I spent on that thing-” he turned and saw Zapp hovering in the middle of the room and Saddle Rager just opening her eye as if she was sleeping the whole time.

“My goodness… what a dream, somepony destroyed the Zoo, made me fight some innocent ponies, than made…me…” she then turned and saw Diablo Corps repeated pressing a button on his desk but than saw Saddle Rager looking at him and smiled sheepishly. “Hey Saddle Rager, heh, here’s a story I’m sure you’ll laugh at. You see…”

“How dare you…”

“Frag.”

“Make me hurt innocent ponies like that with me knowing inside.” Her voice began to rise and her tone began to turn angry while Diablo resumed pressing the button in a panic. “And just for you own gain and amusement? Really!? You should be ashamed you Great Big MEANIE!” her voice began to become deeper, causing Diablo to smack the button at an even faster pace. He looked to Saddle Rager, regretting it as he could see visible veins on her on some parts of her body as he voice got even deeper. “What makes you think you’re so special? Like the rules of common courtesy don’t apply to you?!” Her eyes glowed red as she began to grow and her costume tore a little as her coat turned gold yellow and a few bones could be heard cracking, Diablo looking straight at the whole thing regretting every moment as fear began to leak onto his favorite spinning swivel chair. “WHY DON’T YOU PICK ON SOMEPONY YOUR OWN SIZE!?” she was now at full size and very angry, than roared, shattering the windows behind Diablo. Diablo than brought both his hands down on the button, causing the sound of opening a shook up soda bottle to go off under him. He than looked at the Hulking mare Smirking. “See ya sucker!” Saddle Rager brought her hoof down to smash him when a trap door opened under him and he fell down. “So Long Sucker!”
Diablo saw he began to slow down saw Animated Waspinator under his Swivel chair.

“Waspinator not finished with Bug-Man”

“Kick in the face!”

Diablo proceeded to so sending Waspinator down and slamming on to the ground in time for a muscle car to hit him, sending him flying through the parking lot entrance.

Diablo landed in the car as it sped out the entrance, running over Waspinator in the process. Diablo looked around as saw he was inside Lockdown. “Thanks Lockdown.”

“No problem boss.”

“By the way, when you get the chance, I want you to hunt down this guy named Foxy.”

“Heard of him. It’ll be a snap to catch.”

“Good. Get me out of their reach, from there we take a portal to Applelousa and get the Forklift outta here till the heat cools down.”

Diablo Corps put his head of the window to look back at his building. He blew a raspberry at it in satisfaction at his slightly clean getaway. But his victory was cut short when Saddle Rager jumped out of the window and landed on the ground creating a shockwave than ran for Lockdown, with Night Wolf clinging to her back, and the Grimlock’s and Flutterlock at her side in alt mode charging alongside her with Deadpool on Flutterlock’s back.
Diablo than took out the head of G1 Soundwave out his pocket. “Always hoped to use this.” he than put it on and when he spoke, he had the trademark Soundwave voice and Voicecorder.
“Fred, Blood Wing, Feralene, prepare for battle, Operation: Warfare.”
A pothole opened in an alleyway. “Eject.” Fred jumped out. “Eject.” Blood jumped out with homemade bat wings that somehow worked made a cawing noise of a condor. “Eject!” a feral-clawed otter jumped out trailing behind Fred, from several alleyways and potholes, several henchponies jumped out charging towards the titans. Diablo took out a remote and pointed it at a spot in front of them creating a portal, to which Lockdown drove through and Diablo closed the portal of after.

Author's Note

to be concluded.