Transformers Multi-Versal: Pony for your Thoughts

Scourge pulled the trigger.

An explosion echoed through the room- but not the echo of his gun shooting.

Scourge cried out in pain and surprise as his weapon was struck by a blue laser bolt and exploded in his hand.

The three Heralds of Unicron looked up at the source of the offending blast.

“You again?” Galvatron snarled at the green jet robot hovering above the hole in the roof. “I thought I finished you already!” With that, he shot into the air and disappeared out the hole in the roof.
A blur of rainbow color bolted in through the ceiling, flying circles around Cyclonus.

“Catch me if you can!” Rainbow Dash taunted. Annoyed, Cyclonus averted his attention to the offending blue Pegasi.

Galvatron was busy with Legatron, and Scourge was still in shock from the pain of nearly having his hand blown off, meaning the ponies were currently unguarded…

A small green robot appeared of the hole in the floor that was created when Galvatron shot Shining Armor. It quickly dashed to the captured ponies.

“Legatron?” Pinkie said in confusion. “I thought you were just up there!” She pointed skyward to where the tall green jet-robot had been moments ago.

“That was just my remote-control Transtector!” Legatron said. “Now, hold still!”

Focusing his energy, he summoned a transwarp field that warped the ponies out of the building. He could’ve teleported himself as well, but he still had a bone to pick with the Heralds of Unicron.

Galvatron noticed the flash of light from the castle too late. “No! NO, NO, NO!” he suddenly whacked Legatron’s Transtector out of the air. “This is all your fault!”
Before the real Legatron could send a remote signal for his Transtector to pick him up, he found himself shoved inside one of Galvatron’s arm-cannons.
“Let’s see you get out of this one!” the purple robot taunted as the cannon charged.

“Challenge: Accepted!” Leon said from inside the barrel of the gun. The weapon suddenly started to spark. Galvatron attempted to cancel the energy buildup, but it was too late. The weapon exploded, taking much of Galvatron’s lower arm with it.

“GAAAAAAHHHHH!” Galvatron cringed. It seemed like a lacking reaction, but that was due to his Dark Energon dulling the pain. He heard a crash; behind him, Scourge and Cyclonus had knocked into eachother and were now laying in a heap on the ground.

Looking around, Galvatron saw that their opponents had fled. Grumbling, he glanced at his demolished forearm. “Scourge, Cyclonus- we’re done here.” The three then flew through the hole in the roof, Cyclonus and Scourge converting into their vehicle forms.

“This isn’t over,” Galvatron swore. “Not by a long shot.”

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A flurry of Transwarp energy harkened the appearance of a group of ponies. They slowly picked themselves up off the ground, groaning. Rainbow Dash soon joined them, bolting out of the castle.

Twilight suddenly ran up to the group. “Guys! You’re alive!” She wrapped her arms around her five friends in a group hug, tears streaming down her eyes. For the next few minutes they shared a tearful reunion.

Legatron touched down hard next to the group. His armor was even more scorched than before. A purplish fluid was splattered in various places on his frame. He was also coughing violently.

“What happened?!” Twilight exclaimed.

Legatron growled. “I had to blow up Galvatron’s *COUGH* Arm cannon *COUGH* while inside it *COUGHCHOUGH* to avoid being slagged, hence the *COUGH* Dark Energon splatters …”

“Well, thanks to you, all of my little ponies are safe,” Celestia said.

“Not ALL of them,” Twilight said, remembering her brother.

“I wouldn’t be so *COUGH* sure,” Legatron said. “I found him alive but *COUGH* unconscious in the *COUGH* tunnel.”

Twilight’s jaw dropped as her eyes lit up. “You did?!”

The green robot nodded.

“We need to go find him NOW!” Celestia said urgently.

Legatron scoffed. “Yeah, good luck with that. *COUGH* See yah never.” He started to walk away.

“Y-you’re not going to help us?” Twilight asked.

Legatron whirled around. “NO! I’ve saved your miserable *COUGH* butts enough the way it is.”

The ponies stared at him in shock.

He turned away from them. “The scrap with this stupid world; I’m outta here.” With that he leapt into the air, morphed into his flying vehicle mode, and shot away.
For a second there was silence as he retreated into the distance. Said silence was broken as Legatron’s Transtector appeared in the sky and roared after him.

*********

“C’mon, c’mon! Answer!” Legatron tapped his foot impatiently. Waiting for Technosis to answer an interdimensional transmission was like waiting for a school day to end. Long, torturous, and, worst of all, boring.

Finally his commlink clicked. “Hello, you have reached-”

“Transwarp field. Reinforcements. Now,” Legatron ordered.

“Sheesh, what crawled up your tailpipe?”

“Here’s a hint; *COUGH*”

Technosis recognized that cough. “Dark Energon poisoning? Is Shiftech there?”

“Yup. Galvatron, Cyclonus and Scourge, too.”

“Primax stream?”

“No. Malgus.”

“Malgus? I thought that Cyclonus and Galvatron there were dead?!”

“Well, they’re here, and they almost killed me. *cough* Not to mention those ponies…” he murmured.

“I didn’t even know there was a Malgus Scourge- or that he’d play a part in our war, at least. We’ll have to add him to Teletraan-K later…”

Legatron grunted impatiently

Technosis sighed. “Alright, alright, hold your horsepower. I’m setting coordinates now. Be there in a flash!”

Tapping his foot impatiently, Legatron again waited.

A large blue sphere of energy appeared. Technosis materialized before landing softly on the ground.

Legatron suddenly punched Technosis in the face, sending him sprawling on the ground.

The white robot sat up. “What the smelt was that for?!”

Legatron scoffed, but a small smile crept onto his face. “Making me do this mission.”

Technosis got up and brushed the dirt off his armor plating. “Alright, that all the revenge you want?”

“On you, yes.”

“Good. Now-”

Waves of energy suddenly hammered them. They braced themselves, but it felt like little more than a strong wind.

The energy waves then stopped as suddenly as they had started..

“Any clue what that was?” Legatron asked his friend.

Technosis was checking a display on his arm. “I kinda figured you knew, ‘cause I sure as sludge don’t. Smelt- I can’t communicate with the ship. Someone’s jamming my interdimensional transmission.”

Legatron processed. “I don’t recall Galvatron having a power like that– any version of him. Scourge or Cyclonus either.”

“That’s because they don’t have that power! I do.”

The two small robots whirled around to the familiar voice. Hovering several yards above them was a massive Cybertronian with a primarily black and red color scheme. The rotor blades hanging off his back suggested a helicopter alternate mode.

Shiftech.

But it wasn’t so much Shiftech that caught Legatron and Technosis’ attention; it was who he had with them. Behind him, to his left, hovered Galvatron, Cyclonus, and Scourge. All fo them sported the damage they had taken in the earlier battle, but with basic repairs. To Shiftech’s right hovered Noizemaze.

Legatron and Technosis drew their laser swords.

Shiftech chuckled. “Do you honestly believe that the two of you can take on five of us?!”

The heroes glanced at eachother nervously. “Well, we can sure as smelt try!” Technosis exclaimed. “We’ve beat you all at one point or another- except tall, dark and creepy over there.”

“Ah, that’s right,” Shiftech replied, “You’ve yet to encounter Noizemaze.”

“You probably knew me as Sideways,” Noizemaze said.

“Yeah, but why change your name?” Technosis started. “I mean, if everyone already know who you are, then why-”

“We’ve actually already been over this, Legatron interrupted.

“Either way,” Shiftech cut in, “We are about to eliminate you. Any last words?”

Legatron processed a moment. “Yeah… how long ‘til I get to bust up Galvatron’s cannons again?” Galvatron roared with fury as Legatron converted into his flying vehicle mode and shot off toward where he had hid his Transtector. “Catch me if ya’ can!”

Galvatron changed to his own flying mode, a triangular jet with a long nose, and whooshed after his opponent.

Meanwhile, Technosis activated his special ability; mass shifting. His entire body glowed a brilliant blue as he began to grow larger. In a few seconds, he was about four stories tall. The glow faded, revealing he had taken on an aerial alternate form, as opposed to his immobile media device mode.

He brandished his swords. “Come an’ get me!”

Noizemaze and Cyclonus accepted the challenge. Cyclonus drew his purple laser-swords while Noizemaze pulled to thin wings off his back and wielded them like blades.

The villains’ blades clashed with Technosis’ in a flurry of sparks.

**

*******

Galvatron could barely make out the tiny green form of Legatron in the distance. But he was there. Oh, yes, he was there.

But not for long.

Enough of this chase, he thought. Galvatron charged his blasters-

Legatron made a nosedive. Galvatron cursed to himself before following.

The green jet made a break for a large, thick forest. As soon as he could, he converted into a four-wheeled vehicle and raced into the forest.

Galvatron stayed on his tail, shifting into his bulky tank mode that just barely fit through the trees. Soon, however, he didn’t have that luxury; tree trunks snapped and splintered as his treads rolled over them.

Legatron, in his Transtector this time, suddenly flew into view, swords drawn.

Time seemed to slow down for Galvatron’s his opponent rushed at him

Almost too fast to see, the purple robot’s secondary blasters rotated and shot a combined stream of laser fire. Legatron attempted to dodge it, with only marginal success. The green robot was sent spiraling out of control and out of sight, his large form disappearing into the trees.

That’s enough for now, Galvatron mused. Don’t want to have all the fun at once!

He turned around and began making his way back to the others.

*********

Technosis didn’t know how much longer he could fight these two experience opponents at once. He was already holding back; if he struck one enemy down, there was no doubt Shiftech would take his place. There was no way he’d be able to handle that.

Behind him, he heard the roar of engines. He stole a risky glance; Galvatron was barreling down on him in flight mode.

Technosis waited a split second before cutting power to his back-mounted rockets, sending him plummeting. Galvatron, still moving extremely fast, slammed into Cyclonus and Noizemaze. Hardly seeming to notice, he converted to his robot form and began firing madly at Technosis.

“DIE, AUTOBOT SCUM!” he roared, despite the fact that his opponent wasn’t technically an Autobot.

Shiftech rolled his optics.

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Legatron was at full speed in his ground vehicle mode, on account that the damage Galvatron had just inflicted on his prevented his Transtector from flying. Not to mention he still had some battle scars from his fight earlier in the day.

But for the life of him, he couldn’t figure out how Galvatron had been so lucky as to hit a previously undiscovered weak spot on his larger armor.

Without warning, his front right wheel broke off. The green vehicle flipped over several times before changing to his robot mode and doing a faceplant in mud.

“Here, you looked like you could use this.” The wheel rolled to him and clanked against his arm.

Looking up, he saw Twilight and her friends.

Annoyed, Legatron got up, wiped the mud from his face, and began reattaching his wheel to his arm. “What are you doing here?”

“I… never got to thank you for saving my friends,” Twilight said.

The wheel clicked into place. “Yeah, whatever. Now, I gotta-”

“I also wanted to offer our help to beat those oversized tin cans,” the purple unicorn finished.

Legatron burst out laughing. However, his laughter slowly died down as he realized he had little other choice.

“Alright, then,” he said reluctantly. “Whadda’ you got?”

To Be Continued…