The laboratory in Maretropolis was much different than the usual ones, this one was usually developing things to help those who would defend the city. but for most of this month they had been working on something that would help the most well known defenders of the city, The Power Ponies. An enemy of theirs, a multiversal demon by the name of Kul'as, had occasionally escaped in the crimes he committed and the Lab knew something had to be done before Kul'as' crime had gotten out of hoof. They had developed a serum that would enhance the Power Ponies powers to help them Hopefully get ahead of Kul'as and turn his crime wave around. A scientist had contacted the Power Ponies and they were now on their way to collect the serum. The Scientist was at a desk looking at the serums structure when a wall bursted and walking through was the black Helmeted demon Kul'as himself who than looked at the scientist grinning. he walked to the scientist and pushed him out of the way, grabbing the serum than looked at him.
"so how does this work, do i drink it? inject it? suppository?"
"I'd rather die than tell you how to put it in properly."
"eh i'll just take a shot in the dark." Kul'as tossed the serum into the air and it fell in his mouth where he than swallowed it. "ugh tastes like cough medicine, and you can count on the i'd rather die after i waaaaaaaaaaaake uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuup." Kul'as than fell to the floor unconscious and than a black ooze he secreted covered his whole body, until his cocoon appeared like a black pearl. the scientist than turned to the opening as The Power Ponies came in. Masked Matterhorn walked to the scientist. "Note Taker what happened?"
"Kul'as came bursting in through the wall and took some of the serum. Next thing we know he's a giant black cocoon."
"Doesn't matter if he has it is there still some left for us?"
"yes just enough for all of you."
Masked Matterhorn grabbed the vial and gave one each to the other members, all of which who then put it in a syringe and injected into themselves except for Filli-Second who drank the whole thing. The girls felt woozy but managed to correct themselves feeling much healthier. Their thoughts were interrupted as the Cocoon floated into the air and spun around. Cracks appeared all over it than it suddenly exploded with dark energy and something stood where it laid. It was a demon than could at least come up to Saddle Rager's head when angered, and had spikes all over it's body. It had four arms and it's chest glowed purple and it had a colossal tail that swung a little.
what scared them was the two Purple sadistic eyes that came with a matching smile that spoke only one word.
"Smokin"
Kul’as looked at the Power Ponies than looked at his lower right hand, which developed a small ball of energy in his claw.
“Pretty upgrades.” He threw the ball at the Power Ponies but they dodged and the orb blew up behind them, creating an even bigger hole than there was before. Masked Matterhorn felt like she had a new arsenal added to her list of beams, she was proven right as she shot a beam at Kul’as hitting him square in his chest but not leaving a mark. Kul’as looked at her grinning.
“Nice Plasma, here’s mine.” Kul’as raised his head and as he drew in a colossal breath causing a few papers to fly towards him as his mouth began to glow purple as energy condensed in his mouth. He swung his head forward facing Masked Matterhorn, sending a colossal beam of Pure Purple energy spiraling towards her. In a split second Matterhorn disappeared, but not via teleportation and the beam hit the wall behind where she was, melting it like ice and the rest of the beam going through it at some point and blowing up a parked car behind it. Kul’as scratched his head in confusion than looked to his right shoulder as Filly-Second was on it. “Hi.”
Kul’as slammed his upper left hand on his right shoulder, but was surprised, as when he lifted it up there was no gory mess that was Filly-Second on his shoulder, or on his hand when he checked. He than looked down and found Filly-Second at his feet. “You’ve gotten slow at this haven’t you?” Kul’as tried to stomp on her but she disappeared as Kul’as realized she’s gotten faster. Kul’as cleared his insane mind and looked around seeing everything slow down and Filly-Second running at super speed through the lab. He ran for her, managing to catch up with her but than was interrupted by a lightning bolt struck him in the side sending him into a wall. He looked up seeing Zapp looking at him smug. She held her pendent in the air than lightning came down and wrapped around her front hooves. “I’m loving this.”
She dove for Kul’as punching him several times, and electric shock going through his body each time. He managed to grab her right hoof as she swung of a right hook, and was a about to deliver a punch when a pink chain pulled it back, causing him to lose his grip on Zapp’s hoof and her to fly away as another chain pulled back his other arm. He looked expecting to see Radiance but saw a hardlight construct of her creating the chains and Radiance on her side, visible sweat on her face showing making a construct of herself was very tasking. Kul’as grabbed the chains and swung them together knocking out Radiance and destroying her duplicate. Kul’as felt a lasso around his neck and managed to turn around seeing the Lasso of Mistress Marevelous even longer than usual pulling him back. It turned into a tug of war as he pulled back, Marevelous pulled back harder in response. Kul’as let himself slip, causing Marevelous to stumble in surprise than was propelled forward by Kul’as and than socked in the face sending her stumbling to the floor.
Kul’as turned and saw Saddle Rager in the middle of the room, seething looking like she was about to go off like a set of Fireworks. Kul’as grinned, as this was the part where he saw if he got his money’s worth from the serum. He stuck his face in front of her expecting a super punch from her but nothing came, so he went with plan B: Astral Plane style. His Astral form left his body and flew around the room, hitting all of the Power Ponies minus Saddle Rager as he flew around than flew straight for Saddle Rager, only to have a clawed fist to impact his face sending him spiraling back into his body which than flew back a wall behind him. He shook his head to regain his senses, than saw he spat out a tooth and grinned, as now he would enjoy killing Saddle Rager.
He rose but was impacted by a golden beam, this one leaving a mark in his chest. Kul’as looked up and scowled, the Sun Knight flying down followed by those annoying tin cans, the Mighty Machines. Kul’as shot a plasma ball at Rodan blasting him to Ashes, a surprise since Rodan would usually just have a burnt mark on his chest, but the ashes than swirled together reforming into Rodan who than shot a fireball at him. Masque dropped down in front of Kul’as and a green flame rose around him, the flame dispersed and in it’s place Kul’as was looking at himself who than condensed a ball of plasma in his fist and punched Kul’as sending back a few feet. Timberwolf jumped onto his back followed by a couple clones that began to hit him Kul’as looked to the original.
“How’d you think they made sure the serum worked?”
Kul’as charged his body releasing a large burst of plasma, destroying the Timberwolf Clones and sending the original flying into a trash compactor. Kul’as Punched Masque, knocking him out and smacked away a few blobs Shadow Blot shot at him but one was large enough to survive the hit and landed on the ground, then attempted to use a vacuum to suck up Kul’as but was than simply squished under his foot, causing a green liquid to come out and burn Kul’as’ foot, who than held his foot hoping.
“Ow! Ow! Ow! Why did I do that! Bad idea! Bad idea!” Dusk came up through Kul’as shadow and tackled him, sending Kul’as down on his belly but Kul’as than used his tail to grab Dusk and slam him on the ground than threw him to Timberwolf who tried to crawl out of the Trash Compactor but was hit back in by the falling Dusk.
Kul’as turned and saw several machines combining and the rising outcome was Devastator who looked the Demon dead in the eye. Devastator began to beat up Kul’as but was careful enough that he didn’t smash any of the lab equipment.
‘Great’ Kul’as thought. ‘He’s in control so he’s holding back. But that doesn’t mean I have to.’
Kul’as formed plasma balls in all four of his claws than clenched his fists and proceeded to hit Devastator with all four of his fists. Kul’as raised his upper right fist but the Sun Knight held it in her telekinetic grip and twisted it around to face his face and released the plasma ball, making a scar that went over the right side of his face but did not blind his eye. Kul’as smacked away Devastator and grabbed Sun Knight with his hand that was fixing itself. “You think that did anything? You only make me look cooler with each scar you give me. Now enjoy Oblivion.” Kul’as rose in the Astral Plane, almost blinded by the light given off by Sun Knight there but came into focus and raised his claw but a beam struck him in the back and sent him back into his body than a clawed fist like before hit him square in the face, shattering his jaw. Kul’as saw there might be no victory here so retreating would be the best idea.
Kul’as brought his claws together making a concentrated Plasma Ball and shot it at a wall, but it didn’t explode, instead it made a large oval shaped portal in the wall. Kul’as ran through it than on the other side he unclenched his fists and the portal collapsed on itself.
Timberwolf walked through the hole in the wall Kul’as first made and looked around, seeing Sun Knight disappeared leaving just both teams. “Where did big tall and purple go?” Zapp responded to his question.
“Through the portal he somehow made.”
“Totally fair he can make portal’s now.” Terry than looked to the other Power Ponies. “How are you girls liking your upgrades?”
“Mines are naturally awesome, like me. I’m gonna have so much fun knocking out a few guys with electro fists.” Filly-Second concurred with how Zapp felt with her new powers.
“Feels awesome to go even faster now. All though it’s kinda tougher to see what’s in front of me so I don’t go splat on a wall. I’m gonna use my usual speed.” Radiance sympathized with Filly-Second.
“Same here. Sure it’s interesting to be able to make constructs of other ponies but it takes a whole lot out of you. I think I’ll keep that for drastic measures. Oh and by the way…” Radiance than fainted from exhaustion, Her couch catching her just in time.
Timberwolf than looked to Saddle Rager. “What about you Saddles?” Saddle Rager tried to ignore Timberwolf and walked away.
“I don’t wanna talk about it.”
“You sure? Cause I’m willing to listen if you have a-”
“I said I don’t wanna talk about it!” Saddle Rager lashed out at Timberwolf than flew off to the Power Ponies HQ fuming. Timberwolf than looked to the others, who were just as surprised at the outburst as he was.
“We should go talk to her, cause with the mood she’s in I don’t wanna see what she can do now thanks to the upgrades.”
Saddle Rager made it to the HQ than walked to her room angry. The other Power Ponies and the Might Machines came in, Matterhorn in front of the rest. “Fluttershy are you okay? We’re you friends you can trust us on anything. We’ll even Pinkie Promise.”
“I sad I don’t wanna talk about it Twilight.” Timberwolf stepped in front of Twilight.
“Is this because you couldn’t get mad and deliver a beat down to Kul’as?”
“That’s only part of the reason. That serum brought up some bad memories and I felt powerless in each of those.”
“That is the past, this is the present, and Frank Welker is the greatest voice actor who has ever lived.”
“What does that have to do with anything?”
“I just felt like getting that out there. The point is if you open us up to your past a little, you might not feel so built up inside. You said you had files on the project that gave you your powers, maybe you share those with us and we can-” Fluttershy flew up coming eye to eye with Timberwolf causing him to back up.
“What’s in those files is my business and mine alone. You try and read those files and I catch you, you better wish I won’t change than, cause if I do, you’re gonna be more sorry than you’ve ever been in you’re whole life.” Fluttershy turned around and began to walk away but Timberwolf spoke again.
“I thought we were friends Shy. Friends tell each other secrets, and if you don’t, I could ask one of your old coworkers and they’ll probably tell-” Fluttershy grabbed Timberwolf by the neck and lifted him off the ground a little. She than looked him directly in the eye, hers glowing a tinge of red.
“I’m in a bad mood. Understand?”
Timberwolf made a guttery “Uh-huh” through the choke and Fluttershy let him go, than stomped her way to her room and slammed the door. Zapp flew to Terry and helped him up. “You’re still gonna get those files aren’t you?”
“You know me so well Dash.”
D’ohvastator was the byproduct of the aftermath of the fight between Saddle Rager and Devastator. He sort of represented the sloth of Devastator, his gluttony, and Timberwolf said he sounded like Dan Castellaneta. He paced around the main room in the Power Ponies HQ than looked to the ceiling thinking about his origin. “Faust? If you are Faust, you’ll let me know where I come from.” He heard a knock on the door and saw Dash and Timberwolf with a bunch of spy-gear on, Timberwolf smiling seeing the machine. “Hey Stator, wanna help us find out Saddle Rager’s origin? We might even find out your-” D’ohvastator slammed the door angry and looked back to the ceiling. “Why do you mock me oh Lady?” Twilight walked through looking at the ceiling.
“D’ohvastator that’s not Faust, that’s a waffle Spike got up there that incident he made some pancakes.” Twilight used her magic to pry it from the ceiling and D’ohvastator caught it in his claws while Twilight walked away. D’ohvastator looked at it as if he was about to do something he would feel guilty about. “I know I shouldn’t eat thee but…” D’ohvastator ate half of the Waffle. “Mmm…Sacrilicious.”
Timberwolf took his face away from the wall and walked back to Dash. “Looks like it’s just us, that glutton is busy eating a waffle he thinks is Faust.” Timberwolf took out four spy suction cups and put them on all four of his limbs. He jumped to the ceiling and walked across while Dash put on her stuff and flew to the ceiling than did the same. They both stopped above the door to Fluttershy’s room. Dash looked to Timberwolf. “So what’s the plan?”
“We wait here and sometime tonight, Fluttershy will walk out with the files and put them in my fridge I have here for emergency’s.”
“How do ya know she’ll do that?”
“You girls always put your secret stuff in there. One time I found a Love letter Spike had for Rarity in there and almost ate it thinking it was a slice of white cheese.”
“So we wait here all night.”
“More or less stay up the whole night.”
Dash was bored out of her mind while Timberwolf was passed out but still on the ceiling. She saw the door open and Fluttershy walked out, file in her mouth, looking around as if there was someone watching her. She walked down the hallway and Dash poked Timberwolf.
“Terry wake up, you were right.”
Terry woke up groggily but than came to his senses grinning. “Told ya.”
Both of them followed Fluttershy and found her in Terry’s Fridge putting the file in-between some slices of a large stack of cheese, than walking back to her room. Terry and Dash walked on the ceiling right above the door of the fridge and was about to drop down, when someone walked into the room causing them to freeze. They looked and saw D’ohvastator to the fridge and grab the cheese. “Mmm… 64 slices of American cheese.” D’ohvastator pulled up a chair and sat down than swallowed every slice than passed out on the chair. Terry scowled. “So that’s who kept stealing my food, that cheese is imported you know. Well I got a surprise for him tomorrow.”
D’ohvastator woke up found himself dangling from the ceiling tied to a chair. Terry than stuck his face in D’ohvastator’s face and got to the point. “Cheese. Now.”
“What makes you think I took it?”
“I saw you do it with my own two optics, now cough it up and I won’t play Operation with your body.”
D’ohvastator threw up the cheese which had mild saliva on it and it landed in Terry’s claws. He counted all the slices and it came up to 65. He flipped through the slices and pulled out the file he was looking for, than cut the rope causing D’ohvastator to fall flat on his head and was stuck doing a headstand. Terry walked away and approached Dash with the files. “Told ya I’d have a surprise for him. To the Supercomputer!”
Dash and Terry looked at the papers in the file but found that the data only mentioned a gas that had energy fluctuations like it got mad. Terry shook the folder annoyed. “Give away the secrets you manila piece of folded paper.” He shook it and a flash drive fell out of it and hit the floor. Dash looked at Terry with a deadpan stare, Terry just shrugged. “Don’t know how I missed that.” Terry grabbed the Flash Drive and plugged it into the Supercomputer causing a file to appear on screen. Terry used the mouse to click it and grinned as he found Pictures of newspapers detailing first sightings of Saddle Rager when she couldn’t really control herself, his grin was because he found what he and Dash looking for. They went back in the file, the gaps between the incidents she changed drawing closer until they approached a data sheet on the gas from the papers. Something Caught Dash’s eye and she grabbed the mouse and clicked on it. It showed Fluttershy’s DNA after the incident and Dash brought up a file that had Fluttershy’s DNA after the serum angered. Terry had a revelation and brought up a file with his regular DNA and compared it to the New DNA Saddle Rager had and saw they were almost a perfect match. He was about to say something when a voice spoke behind both of them.
“Give me one reason not to get angry about this situation.”
Terry and Dash both screamed startled as they looked behind them and saw Fluttershy look at both of them angry. Terry than looked at Dash Nonchalantly. “Don’t worry Rainbow I’ve prepared for this.” He pulled a cord on his side and a parachute deployed on his back, he than looked at it and realized something. “Oh yeah we’re not in a plane.”
Dash than approached Fluttershy hoping she would be able to calm her down. “Shy if you’ll just hear us out.”
“On what!? I told you guys not to look into the files and you did! Now you see I could barely control myself, I was a…” Fluttershy broke down and started to cry a little. Dash wrapped a wing a wing around Fluttershy trying to calm her down. “It’s ok Fluttershy, we didn’t even care about any of that, we just wanted to know why you didn’t change.”
“It just left me thinking. Everyone only remembers me as the monster with the Power Ponies, without that, who am I?” Terry looked to Fluttershy.
“You could be my cousin.”
Both Fluttershy and Dash did a double take at this. “What?”
“Yeah, according to the data here, that gas had Wirewolf DNA in it, but only a portion of the strength it had but your body still needed to change to accommodate the power, hence why you would usually go Bruce Banner. The serum enhanced those parts and now when angry more Wirewolf DNA appeared almost completely over your pony DNA. But the reason we didn’t get a colossal Wirewolf is probably because your body didn’t know how to accommodate the new limbs. Claws, wings, giant prehensile tail, etcetera, you get the point. It could also be a physiological block, as we have been known to drop knowledge on the mind at the drop of a hat.” Dash and Fluttershy looked dumbfounded at how Terry deduced the reason this happened so quickly.
“What a Wirewolf can’t know Biology, and Psychology that well?”
An alarm went off and Twilight’s face appeared on screen. “Hate to end the seminar, I really do, but there’s a break-in at Python Industries and reports say Kul’as is behind it. Pony Power up and get over there. I’m doing the same here.”
Terry grinned. “Finally after a whole night of waiting for some action I finally get some!”
Dash looked to Fluttershy. “C’mon maybe you can get over that block and we can see what you can do.”
“I hope so.” Fluttershy said feeling like her usual self and walked off, hoping Dash was right and she could find out who she really was in life.
The Mighty Machines and the Power Ponies approached the building seeing a large hole at the entrance signifying Kul’as did it. Dusk blended into the shadow than slithered through and found no traps but a large hole behind the clerk desk, absent of clerk. Dusk motion the others to move forward and they did, approaching the hole with caution but found nothing waiting for them. Rarity created a light allowing them to see the stairs and reach the bottom. Terry felt the wall searching for a switch flicked something up causing a light to turn on. Everyone but Terry screamed as the head of a red-eyed scary looking robot stared at them lifeless. Terry walked up to it interested. “Megatron from the 2007 movie? How’d he get down here?” Terry looked around and found a red robot that looked like it had the body of a truck, and a robot that had parts of a jet. “And Energon Optimus Prime and Starscream. If I didn’t see more I’d say this place was a graveyard for Transformeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrs.” Terry was shocked as when he turned around more lights flickered on and he saw hundreds and hundreds of Transformers from different timelines piled lifelessly together.
Terry walked through in awe at how many were down here, some copies of others, but the sheer number of them down there was jaw gaping, than a thought occurred to him. “How did the CEO get all these guys down here? For that matter how did he even get a hold of these guys anyway?” Terry turned and shrieked like a little girl as he saw the faces of evil: Decepticons by the dozen’s lifeless but some of them were staring lifelessly at him. Terry grabbed Devastator and converted him into a handheld cannon and aimed at one of them. Dash grabbed Terry’s arm and lowered it.
“Calm down, they look dead like the rest.” Terry felt calm as he looked around the Con corpses and found the Movie section, but his heart stopped as he fell upon a specific pile: it was a bunch of life-size toys of AOE Galvatron, but the horrifying part was the empty imprint in the middle that looked like the Galvatron there was Directly from the movie. “G-g-guys, if all these Galvatron’s are here, does that mean the one from the movie is here?”
Twilight pondered the question, as She never heard of Galvatron but the tone in Terry’s voice meant this guy was bad news. “I guess.”
Terry lost all calmness in his voice as that confirmed his worst fear. “THAN WHY IS HIS SPOT EMPTY!?”
Twilight thought Galvatron must be powerful if Terry is this terrified of the guy. Twilight would’ve said something to try and calm Terry down when something caught her eye. “Hey Terry who’re those guys?”
Terry looked and saw several Decepticons of the same guy but the large one in the middle caught his eye. It was a large Grey and Blue one, with a visor on his mouth, his head looking similar to the Decepticon symbol, and a red visor, and on his shoulder was a red and grey robot shaped condor. Terry perked up at this. “Soundwave!” he ran to the robot and got onto his shoulder than got a hold on the bird and brought it down and inspected the body. “If I remember, Laserbeak should have…” he found the camera on Laserbeak’s forehead sticking out as he hoped. He opened up the right side of Laserbeak’s face and brought out a red wire. Devastator got out of the blaster form and Terry connected the wire to Devastator’s head. Devastator transformed his head into a Projector and shoot at a blank wall. Images began to form on it until a clear view came in of the pile of Galvatron’s from Laserbeak’s perspective. In the image where the hole in the pile was, was Galvatron exactly as he looked in the movie but staring up at the ceiling dead. The image was a bit hazy but the Power Ponies and Mighty Machines could make out the three silhouettes in the video, the one in the middle was large and purple, so it didn’t take much to figure out that was Kul’as. But what was a concern was how Kul’as’ hand glowed and shot at Galvatron’s chest causing the chest to power up glowing a bright orange. The eyes opened and a voice was heard as the robot tore himself from the pile and looked directly at Kul’as than spoke, Fearlessness and evil dripping from his voice.
“Who are you?”
“I am Kul’as I have summoned you from the dead for a purpose.”
“Nobody summons Galvatron.”
“Than it pleases me to be the first.”
“State your business.”
“I require an army, and the two ladies by my sides are simply not enough to suffice. With your abilities and strategic expertise, we can concur this world with relative ease with the general fight the inhabitants put up.”
“And just who are the inhabitants exactly?”
“Ponies.”
Galvatron looked at Kul’as for a second than let out a hearty laugh at Kul’as’ response. “Ponies? What’s wrong? Are their frilly tea parties too much for you to handle by yourself? Or is it their dress up time?” Galvatron let out another laugh but was cut short as Kul’as wrapped a plasma whip around Galvatron’s neck.
“Do not underestimate these little ponies. I did so and paid with my own life. I’m lucky an associate was generous enough to donate her time to raising me back from the dead so I could make it this far. Now you will help me raise and army with these corpses and we will lead them. Comprehension?”
Galvatron choked but managed to respond to Kul’as. “Yes Lord Kul’as.”
“I like the sound of that.” Kul’as dissipated the chain and Galvatron knelled taking in every breath he could now take. Kul’as turned to his associates who were fuzzy in the camera. “Tia, Lulu, let’s get a move on, Alfreda and Moe are looking for some guys to use but I know which ones I want. Let’s go get them.” Kul’as walked forward with his associates and the video started to go out and eventually all that showed was static. Devastator turned off the projector and transformed his head back. “Looks like Kul’as made a new friend.” Dash was more concerned on the two Kul’as called “Tia’ and ‘Lulu’.
“I’m thinking more about are the princesses working with him cause those nicknames sounded awfully close to the originals.” Twilight was a little nervous as a small part of her agreed with Dash. “The better question is, if Alfreda and Moe are down here, where exactly are they?”
Alfreda was a one of a kind Wirewolf. He was built by the Mane-iac herself in an attempt to make the ultimate weapon to destroy the Power Ponies. Her attempt was naught but she couldn’t bring herself to throw away the guy. He enjoyed the crimes but eventually hated it. He was built 55% luck, from horseshoes of the luckiest ponies in Ireland and a giant metal four-leaf clover, so it was pretty hard to kill him. But what angered him was that the Mane-iac made an unique serum that once used could never be made again, it who make whoever it was used on Immortal, and the Mane-iac use it on him. He liked the idea of being not able to die, but after the 19th or 20th time of getting smashed to pieces by Saddle Rager, he found it torture that he wouldn’t be able to die for good. But than he had a vision one day, that he would actually die for real. Ever since than he’s been extra careful in some of the plans he gets involved in as the vision wasn’t specific on the details.
And now here he was with his best friend Moe, searching through corpses of metal giants, any of which could come alive and kill him, seeing if any of them would be good for Kul’as army of Transformers. He looked to Moe hoping something good was found. “Anything Moe?”
“Not unless Kul’as wants a bunch of traitors whose names start with St and end with Arscream.”
“I caught a glimpse of the list of guys the Boss wanted but none of the ones I see were on the list.” He gestured to the bodies around him. “The Terrorcons, the Sharkticons, The Power Ponies, the Horrorcons, the-” Alfreda realized what he just said and dragged Moe down laying down behind a pile of some Mini-Cons. “THE POWER PONIES!?” Alfreda had a nervous tic that caused him to scream most of the time when he was scared. Timberwolf of the Mighty Machines turned his head curious.
Alfreda panicked, as he had no idea what do if they ran into the Power Ponies. “Uh…uh…”
Terry was curious at what yelled than heard something else.
“Quack!”
“False alarm guys it was just a duck.”
Fluttershy was confused at Terry’s response. “A Duck this deep underground?”
“Probably a cave duck.” An explosion was heard and everyone looked up to see a bunch of green wasp-like transformers shoot at them. Masque changed into a boomerang and Rodan threw him causing him to hit the wasp’s wings causing them all to fall and smash to pieces. Masque changed back and looked at Terry. “So that’s what hitting Waspinator is like: a metal version of you.” Terry looked at Masque.
“Sorry was zoning out listening to the Cave Duck.”
“Quack! Quack!”
“What a majestic creature.” Terry said oblivious to how the duck’s quacking sounded panicked.
“Almost as majestic as the sounds of your screams will be.” Everyone turned around seeing Kul’as on top of a Masterpiece Optimus Prime’s head looking at them grinning. On his side were two ponies that looked like Celestia and Luna but weren’t. On his left was Celestia, but she had a purple cape, purple boots with gold trimmings at the top of them, a darker mane, and a crown shaped like a pair of devil horns. On his right was Luna with red gleaming boots, red necklace, and bat shaped crown. Luna stood on a corpse of Animated Lugnut, while Celestia stood between the corpses of a G1 Shockwave and an Aligned Shockwave.
“Where are my manners? Meet my associates from the Mirrorverse. Mirrorlestia my strategist and logic thinker. And MirrorLuna, great fighter and lover.” They exchanged a romantic kiss causing everyone to gag while Terry puked up a bunch of leaves and twigs.
“Enough with introductions, you probably know why I’m here.” Twilight stepped forward.
“Aside from mentally scarring us, you plans to use some of the Decepticons down here for some plan to conquer Equestria with Galvatron helping.”
“Actually that’s only part of the plan, while I explored down here, Mirrorlestia discovered something.” Kul’as looked to Mirrorlestia and she brought out two files in her magic grip.
“Apparently the CEO of Python Industries wanted a Twilight Sparkle dead so he hired an assassin to dispose of her and my other counterpart as he could turn this into a democracy and swoop in for control. But a few miscalculations and it’s just her, but my counterpart is devastated. This could be a logical detour as eventually the sorrow will be too much for her and she’ll retire letting the county go into democracy and the CEO will turn this into a military state.” Kul’as intervened.
“And I’ll kindly take control. Hopefully he won’t lose a… head over it.” Kul’as felt a little giddy at this next part. “But that isn’t the juiciest part.”
Mirrorlestia took out the other document. “The ‘juiciest part’ as it were is a little mark on how he had a brief collaboration with the CEO of Stardust Labs, Ocean Stardust. Apparently Stardust found an interesting meteorite and Python Industries sought to capitalize the opportunity. Some events happened that lead to the death of a Wirewolf named Green Leaf.” Fluttershy’s heart stopped at the name and memories came in, from that day and how she should’ve been there. “ Not long after Ocean cut off relations with Python Industries saying their only interest was in the profits they gained from warfare. Stock went down but Python recovered but Stardust still having a lead on them. Stardust took the meteorite and studied it themselves hoping to use it for benefits of Ponies, not war. They had managed to break it down from solid to gas to see if it would yield better results. But one day and incident occurred and a Pegasus was bombarded with the whole chamber of the gas protecting the pony. Not long after a friend of hers reported the Pegasus changing not that different from…” Mirrorlestia grinned as the climax had been reached. “Saddle Rager, was it?” Memories came flooding back to Fluttershy. She protected a downed Wirewolf and caught full blast of the gas. Not long after that she changed and smashed a couple of building losing a bit of control.
Kul’as grinned as the icing had been laid on the cake; he just needed Mirrorlestia to cut the piece. “And what was the Pegasus’s name?”
“Fluttershy.”
“Ah yes I remember her. I cause the incident that killed her husband. The last look on his face he had was one I’ll cherish forever. Now, what’s say we have some fun?” a truck drove right over a pile of Starscreams and molecularly transformed mid-air. “You took the words right out of my mouth Kul’as!” Galvatron landed in the middle of the group and everyone began to attack While Kul’as, Mirrorlestia and MirrorLuna snuck away from the commotion.
Fluttershy felt more rage than she ever did in her entire life. Kul’as killed her loving husband that she hoped to start a family with, and he inadvertently caused her to become a monster. She felt more rage surface; this being from when she was picked on in flight school and every time someone hurt an innocent animal. She opened her eyes ready to go ballistic and she saw she was in a void and was completely calm than an angelic voice spoke.
“Fluttershy…”
She turned around and saw a large female wirewolf looking at her giving off an angelic aura. “Welcome Fluttershy.”
“Who are you?”
“I am the First Wirewolfess. More specifically, in a technical matter, I am you.”
“What!?”
“Allow me to explain. I came from the Wirewolf’s native world of Canis Capullus. We had grown to show care and would’ve welcomed other races with open arms. But than the Astrobots came and enslaved our species for their own greed. I was lucky to be the few to escape off world. I soon succumbed to time but left with no hatred for the Astrobots, as they were machines that only did what they programmed to do. Eventually my remains found their way to your planet and crashed their where your scientists found them and began to study them. I sensed a dark presence influencing one half of the project and used what powers I had from beyond the grave to stop them. I am sorry as it resulted in the loss of your husband. Later after they attempted again but for the first time I felt anger as I believed they would use my power for acts of evil and even attempted to overload their systems in an attempt to stop them again. I did but saw you had risked your life for one of my children. I looked into your mind and felt guilt as I had cost my child and your husband his life. I used what power remained to save you and give you the power to transform in order to protect others. They had made something that would’ve helped you with this new foe but it appears to have hindered your abilities”
The Wirewolfess put a single claw on Fluttershy’s forehead and a brief glow happened than faded. Fluttershy suddenly felt pain all over as if something inside her was moving. “Calm down, go with the pain. You are changing as I have removed the mental block that stopped you but you will change back when you figure out this question: who are you without the Power Ponies?”
And with that the void turned bright.
Fluttershy came back to reality and found Rarity and Pinkie Pie were getting desperate as they were using their last ditch powers to stop him but they only slowed him down. She felt anger like normal but than winced and groaned a little as this was actually painful unlike usual. She looked at her hooves and saw wirewolf hands tear out from the costume, claws sharpen and spikes point out above them. ‘Ride through the pain Fluttershy’ she thought. ‘Just let it run its Course.’ She managed that last word in her thoughts as she felt more bones shift.
Moe looked to Alfreda as they just laid behind the pile of Mini-Cons. “uh Alfreda, sounds like Saddle Rager is transforming and sounds different than usual.”
“No Moe we stick to the plan.” Alfreda stuck his snout out and shouted. “QUACK!”
“That’s not a plan, you just keep saying quack.”
“And we’re still alive.” Alfreda stuck his snout out again. “QUACK!”
“Just look up quit being a wuss.”
“Fine I’m telling you it’s gonna be ba-” Alfreda looked up and saw Saddle Rager changing, and found it absolutely 10 times more terrifying than usual because this wasn’t just muscle, this was bone, skin, the whole thing. And only one word came to Alfreda’s mind at the site. “Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack!…” Alfreda kept repeating this and Moe looked up curious.
“What’re you quacking about-” Moe turned and saw Saddle Rager having the same sentiments as Alfreda. “Quack! Quack! Quack! Quack!…” Both of them kept repeating this feeling sheer terror and hoping this would keep them alive.
Saddle Rager let out a roar of pain that sounded like an Ursa Major as her back arched and became shell like and two spikes protruded out of her back. Her wings physically changed and looked like they broke than spread out revealing them now dragon-like. Her arm extended becoming Wirewolf like arms and a two large spike protruding out of each one, the same went for the two small shoulder shells that connected on her shoulders. Her hind legs changed and became boots, the toes of them opening and clawing at the ground like talons. Something poked through the back of her costume and eventually tore through, revealing it as a large spike tail that swung a little. Her snout elongated as her eyes became eyes of a wirewolf and her hair ran down her back smoothly. Her eyes became the classic red Alfreda was too familiar with and her skin becoming that terrifying gold yellow.
Alfreda turned to Moe. “Is that smell of fertilizer from around her is that you.
“I think that’s both of us.”
Galvatron looked at the downed heroes than at the Wirewolfess who began to get a look around her surroundings and looked at her claws. “All I want is to be in control. Each Power Pony is unique for something by themselves. So the question is, who would you be without them, Saddle Rager?”
Saddle Rager looked at Galvatron her eyes going blue signifying new control. “Time to Find out.” Two fangs protruded out of the front of her snout. She lunged for Galvatron slicing his left arm off, he raised his right arm but she smashed it with her tail. She smacked him facing away from her and tore his head off with his mouth, than spat it out and stomped on it with her right foot, smashing it to pieces. The Mighty Machines and Power Ponies got up and were shocked at the giant Wirewolf that just saved them. Terry nudged Devastator. “Hey Gears maybe now you have a shot at that.” Gears rolled his eyes as Dash stepped forward. “Fluttershy is that you?”
Fluttershy responded smiling, voice not deep like it usually was when she changed. “It’s me Zapp and I feel more in control than before.” Kul’as rose from a pile of Megatron’s with Mirrorlestia and MirrorLuna at his sides clapping slowly holding the files in his lower hands. “Well done Power Ponies, you’ve given me the challenge I hoped to face, but I’d be more concerned with Galvatron, he wouldn’t let himself die like that again and he’s not dumb like those KSI drones. I’d give you 2-3 minutes tops. I’d also give you the file that could bring down Python Industries but I’m not that stu-.”
“Quack!”
“Ah! Cave Duck!” Kul’as jumped startled dropping the file, which landed on Twilight’s back. Kul’as grumbled. “Every Bucking time. Decepticons attack!”
A bunch of Decepticons jumped form the hill and attacked but a few crashed into each other while others just spontaneously combusted. One MP-02 Soundwave made it to the bottom but his visor was red and flickered to orange a bit. He grabbed Dusk and threw him. “Dusk, eject. Operation: Space wanna go to Space.” He than ran around sporadically. Kul’as rubbed his temples. “I knew we shouldn’t have gotten these guys out of the reject pile.”
Terry dug into his chest hatch and got out a weird looking black and white gun with claws. Space Soundwave shot at the ceiling in insanity allowing Luna’s moon to be seen. Terry shot a blue ball at the moon than looked for something else to shoot. Than Galvatron rose up repaired and activated the Vortex Grinder in his chest. “Do you think I will die that easily? I am reborn! Now prepare as I send you-”
Terry used his slow-mo voice to make the moment just that awesome. “Tooooooooo Thhhhhhhhhheeeeeee Mooooooooooooooooooooooooooooon!” He shot an orange ball at the Center of Galvatron’s vortex grinder not knowing a bit of lightning Zapp Summoned hit the gun before he shot it. Galvatron screamed as the portal in his chest tore him apart and the gravitational force of his Vortex Grinder amplified the vacuum inside causing several things got sucked in, Space Soundwave being one and he was to first to find out he was sent to the moon. “Space! Get to go to Space!”
Zapp yelled to Terry hanging on to Fluttershy. “What did you do?”
“I use that gun to make a portal to the moon, your lightning shorted it out and know it’s the moon in a different universe!”
Ricky felt something come out of him and saw a thinner bottle fall out and to the portal, and panicked. “No! If that thing breaks it’s over!” the bottle did not break but it fell into the portal unscathed. Galvatron try to tear the Vortex Grinder out of his chest but it only fixed itself and cemented into his chest. “I refuse! I am Galvatron! I am Galvatron! I am…” eventually his body gave in and molecularly he was sucked by each individual piece into the portal.
“Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!”
Mirrorlestia and MirrorLuna met the same fate as Space Soundwave and luckily they learned how to breathe in space so they were straight for the time there. Kul’as used all four of his arms to prevent himself form being dragged in eventually reaching the event horizon and was hanging on by his upper right arm. Saddle Rager approached looking at him with anger in her eyes. “C’mon Flutters you can’t do this! Think about it, you’re in control so you’re not a monster, and I created you in a way I’m your arch nemesis. So think, what are you without me?”
Saddle Rager changed back and gave her response. “A hero.” She yelled and slammed on the elbow of his arm causing it to sever. Kul’as and his limb fell into the portal, the former bellowing in defeat as he vanished on the other side of the portal. Galvatron’s vortex grinder gave into the portal’s vacuum and collapsed in on itself causing the vacuum to fade and everyone to find their footing at last. Ricky was about to speak when Alfreda rammed through with Moe on his back. He blasted Rodan and Masque and stole a jetpack of an Animated Optimus Prime than said one thing to the heroes.
“Quack!”
Alfreda flew off through the hole in the roof Space Soundwave made. Rodan got up and turned to the others. “Guys, what the Faust was that?”
Terry responded looking confidant. “That was the mighty Cave Duck gone to live with it’s own kind.” Masque was blunt in the truth.
“That was Alfreda with Moe on his back, Termite skull.” Twilight gave the file To Shadow Blot who tucked it in his pocket than she turned to the others. “C’mon guys let’s go home, we’ve got a long day tomorrow.”
Celestia sighed looking out the window in her throne room. It was not a day since Kul’as was confirmed to be on the moon of the different planet, and she was still depressed, Luna was back but she felt empty inside because Twilight was gone. She was about to make plans to retire later this month and turn it over to Luna when there was a knock on the door. “Come in.” the door opened and coming through was Ricky with a file in his hand.
“Celestia, I found something I thought you would like.”
Celestia took the folder in her magic grip wondering what it was and looked inside.
Her jaw dropped slowly and tears of joy developed in her eyes at this news. She put the file on the table next to her chair and walked to Ricky. “This is for not stopping to find the truth.” She lunged and gave him a passionate kiss on the lips. Ricky blushed like a tomato but than went in for it than they broke the kiss. Celestia looked at Ricky happy. “Should I organize the reporters?”
“Actually Terry’s on that. He’s surprisingly happy that we’re taking something this big down.”
“Can you get some tickets for Maretropolis, I need to make a stop there after the news.”
The Power Ponies were enjoying breakfast when Spike ran into the room and brought down the big TV in there. “Girls, Check out the News! You’re gonna love this Twilight.”
The TV came on and on it was a reporter the girls knew well. “This is Note Pad with a very special report. Celestia has just announced that the presumed dead Princess Twilight Sparkle is in fact alive. We know go Live to the conference.”
The screen than shifted to show Celestia and Ricky in front of a bunch of ponies with cameras and microphones. “My little Ponies, it is with great joy I tell you that Princess Twilight Sparkle is in fact alive. She has been living in a city in hopes she can help with some of its problems. I will now take questions. You sir in the front.”
“Who was responsible for the attempted murder?”
“It was in fact a conspiracy by a single company known a Python Industries in hopes the tragedy would invoke me to have go into democracy and they would swoop in for control. But rest assured their plot is revealed and we shall shut down their operations swiftly.”
Celestia moved to the side as Ricky moved forward. “And the CEO who organized the whole plan will face the fullest extent of the law. If you’ll excuse us, we are going on a train to take care of some things in a city. Terry will now cover economy.”
The screen switched and Terry was in a business suit with the stocked moving behind him with Python Industries and Stardust Labs highlighted. “Thanks Ricky. As you can see here, with the honesty they show and the unfolded situation, Stardust Labs stock is skyrocketing.” Python Industries Stock graph was shown descending. “Python Industries with their backstabbing plans has been slowing down, and now with the revelation of their involvement with the attempted murder of Twilight, they’re dropping like a rock.” Python Industries stock just dropped like a hot air balloon basket minus the balloon. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I…am…outta here!” Terry tore off his suit and flew out, Spike than chose that moment to turn off the TV.
“This is great. Cause now Twilight cans sometimes go to Canterlot to hang out with Celestia.” Applejack second how Spike felt.
“Ah agree with ya Spike. Ah never trusted Python Industries, Ah knew there was a snake in the name for a reason.”
Twilight just wondered something. “I wonder if she knows about the Power Ponies?”
“I think she may.”
The girls and Spike turned seeing the Sun Knight, Ricky and Terry walking form the elevator. Twilight was curious. “How’d you know that?”
“Let’s just say…” the Sun Knight took off her mask revealing the Sun Princess’ face under it. “I’m close to her.”
“Celestia!” Twilight ran to Celestia and embrace in a hug. “How’d you know?”
“I always suspected the Masked Matterhorn was you. And Terry blabbed about it in his sleep.” Terry looked around sheepishly hoping his name would not get mentioned. “But I’m proud of each and every one of you are helping out the law in your own way together. But to be honest, I’m still a little confused at this. It looks I’m your student now Twilight.” An alarm went off and Terry pressed a few buttons and a screen came up. “Hey guys remember how we tore down the ceiling to the Transformers graveyard and melted down all the bodies so no one could use the bodies for evil?”
Everyone but Celestia Replied. “Yeaaah?”
“We’ll I think we missed a few.” Terry responded as Animated Starscream shot at a building while behind him Blackout from the Movie released Scorponok causing a bunch of destruction. “Celestia looks like you get a day on fiel-” Terry made his way to the elevator but Fluttershy stopped him. “You guys take a rest, I need to learn what I can do now anyway.” Fluttershy flew for the window but stopped to looked at Terry. “Looks like I’m taking your advice for once Terry.” She than flew off. Terry than realized what she said and shouted with joy. “She finally went with what I said since I started this!”
Terry reached into his chest hatch and got out a dusty bottle of Zap Apple Cider with a label saying ‘sit back and let Fluttershy take care of it.’ He gestured his elbow to Rainbow Dash. “Shall we malady?” Dash chuckled. “Aren’t we the gentleman?” they sat down in front of the screen to see how Fluttershy did and Terry poured them both a mug. Ricky looked to Celestia. “If you can’t beat ‘em join ‘em.” They both sat pulled up chairs and sat by the table to see how this unfolds.
Starscream with laughing as he was given another chance at life and a world to Conquer, ponies no less with no annoying organic children on their backs. Other Decepticons were there, some of them he never even seen but he would lead them. “Yes Decepticons! Conquer this pathetic world for the glory of Cybertron-” his speech was interrupted as a flying pony approached him. She had on a sea green costume and a purple mask on. “Surrender and I won’t need to hurt you.” Starscream laughed at this pony’s feeble threat. “Like I will surrender to a weak pony like you.” Starscream laughed again but stopped as the Pony transformed into a large female Wirewolf. “The creatures of Canis Capullus! Not again! I dent like Tinfoil.” Fluttershy grinned and grabbed him in her jaws than threw him across the city into Star Swirl Asylum maximum-security wing. Several colossal Decepticons around her size looked at her and prepared to attack. “Anyone else?” several of them ran for her. “Figured.” She flew for them thinking this would be a good and long day.
The CEO of Python industries watched as Terry rubbed in his face how Python Industries was dropping dead. He threw the remote at the TV shattering than turned to the creatures in front of him. “As you know, thanks to Kul’as I’m down the toilet. If the one who was supposed to kill her and burn those files, this wouldn’t have to happen.” A few of them scooted away from the Wirewolf with a skull and crossbones etched into his chest. “And I need to make an example, and who better than the man who ruined all this.”
The Wirewolf looked around seeing he was singled out. “This won’t end this way you snake!”
“No Lead. It’ll end this way.” A minigun popped up and fired and Lead got lead sent through his chest and when it stopped firing, a skull shaped hole was left in his chest but nothing seeped out. He looked at his chest and said his last sentence. “Didn’t feel it. Like Houdini except my chest is his stomach and the bullets are a bunch of fists.” Lead then fell to the floor dead. The CEO looked around. “Care to take out the trash?” all the goons grabbed the body and brought it out. “Yes Pythor.”
The Anacondrai looked out the window thinking of his next move since he was #1 on list of most wanted. “I wonder if Diablo Corps has a job opening…”
Author's Note
Ocean Stardust and Stardust labs belongs to the user of the same name
