Transformers: War for Friendship

Transformers: War for Friendship

Episode 1: The Bot in the Bedroom

Twilight Sparkle went upstairs that night expecting a break from friend-making. She did not at all expect to see this* sitting back against the far wall.

*

Naturally, she did what any sane pony would do in this situation, and screamed at the top of her lungs. How the ponies partying downstairs didn’t hear her was anybody’s guess.

Her “guest” backed against the wall, scurrying into a sitting position, and watched her cautiously. “Bip-bip-beep-beep-do-weep?” buzzed the robot unsurely.

Twilight Sparkle blinked and looked at him, perplexed. Her new guest stared back with his wide, youthful eyes. “I’m sorry?” she asked.

The robot beeped at her again, then widened his eyes in realization and pointed to his throat.

“Uh… something’s wrong with your throat?” she asked. Her guest nodded. “Don’t worry, I think I have something for that,” she said. She concentrated hard, and fired a beam of light into the robot’s throat, taking him by surprise.

“Whoa! What the heck was… wait… my voice! I have my pipes back!” the robot cried in joy, picking up the purple unicorn in a hug and twirling, still holding her.

“Putmedownputmedownputmedown!” screamed Twilight.

“Whoops! Sorry!” he apologized, “It’s just… I never thought I’d be able to talk again!”

Twilight took a moment to gather herself, then looked up at him apologetically. “It’s a temporary spell. I’m sorry. It temporarily allows me to talk to inanimate objects. I guess it works on giant robots, too.”

“Oh…” said the robot, looking down sadly.

Twilight decided to change the subject for his sake. “What’s your name?” she asked.

“My name’s Bumblebee,” the mechanoid grinned underneath his mouth guard.

Twilight Sparkle simply stared. Then she blinked. Finally, she burst into an uncontrollable guffaw.

“Hey!” remarked the offended extraterrestrial, crossing his arms in front of his chest “My name isn’t funny!”

“I’m… I’m sorry,” she said, trying to recover, “it’s just… I didn’t expect such a… normal sounding name from, well, from an alien.”

“Oh…” said Bumblebee. “Well, what’s yours?”

“Twilight Sparkle,” she said, professionally.

Bumblebee blinked. “Huh.”

“What?” asked Twilight apprehensively.

“Nothing, it’s probably a normal name for your species,” he explained. “Is it?” he asked, for clarification.

“Well, I was named after my mother,” she said, simply. She looked at him quizzically. “Why did you even come to this planet in the first place?” she asked.

“It’s a long story…” he said.

“I have some time,” she said.

“Well… it started a long time ago, on my home planet, Cybertron,” he began. “A long time before I was made, a war broke out. This really bad Transformer called Megatron went mad for power and rose up an army of Decepticons. To counter them, a Transformer known as Optimus Prime formed the Autobots, and the two sides clashed. The war carried on for centuries until our world was devastated in its wake. We left our dying world, but the war followed us…”

“Oh my gosh… but, why did you come here?” she asked.

“We fought the Decepticons on a planet called Earth, trying to stop them from using a substance known as Dark Energon to raise up an army of the dead. They planned to use it to destroy Cybertron, but we attacked the Space Bridge they were using to reach Cybertron. The Space Bridge exploded, but before it did, the coordinates randomized, and blasted us, Megatron, and his ship to random coordinates in space,” he explained.

“You mean there might be an army of giant, vicious robots bent on destruction here, in Equestria?!” exclaimed Twilight.

“Maybe… but if they are, and they did survive, me and my friends will stop them! I promise! At least, if they’re alive…” Bumblebee tried to reassure her.

“Are you sure? What if those… Decepticons… survived, but not your friends…?” asked Twilight, hesitantly.

“They did survive! I know it!” insisted Bumblebee. “And when I find them, we’ll stop old bucket head in his tracks and save the universe from him once and for all!”

Twilight let out a soft chuckle at the young Autobot’s enthusiasm. “If you say so…” she smiled.

“That reminds me, I’m going to have to finish scouting for Decepticons before I report back to them. Uh, promise you won’t tell anyone you saw me? I’m kind of supposed to avoid being seen by locals…” requested Bumblebee.

“Sure, no problem,” assured Twilight Sparkle.

“Thanks! See you, oh! Sorry about the hole in-bip-beep!” apologized the Autobot, as the spell wore off and he climbed up the way he fell in.

“Wait, what hole where?!” exclaimed the unicorn, but it was too late. Bumblebee had gone, and even if he’d remained, he wouldn’t be able to tell her. “Oh well…” she sighed, as she began repairing the hole with her magic, “he does a planet to save...”

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Deep within the Everfree Forest, a titan* lay on his back. He was completely still. There was no glow from his massive arm cannon, there was no twitch in his claws, and there was no breath from his sharp-toothed mouth. There was absolutely no sign he was alive…

*

Then… a sparkling, deep violet cloud drifted over, and filled his circuity. His armor began to glow an eerie violet, and his eyes shone bright red. He stood to his feet and as the violet cloud drifted away. He then turned to the night sky, before shifted and changing into a jet unlike anything this world or the last had seen before. Megatron had awoken…