Equestria Girls In Disguise: The Gallows of CHS

The mood of the day was bright and sunny compared to the dark and spooky night before. The leaves everywhere were on the ground, in a majority of colored orange, red, and yellow. The birds were chirping in the leafless trees. And everywhere, there were people walking about running their everyday lives.

But at CHS, there wasn't any peace at all. Everyone was worried out of their minds when they found the passed out security guard in his office... after they managed to get past the barricades that were set against the door. They didn't know why the guard was suddenly passed on out the ground, or even why he had set up a barricade against the door. All of the details were very disconcerting.

Luckily someone was called over to take a look at the situation. Two someone's in fact; specifically Rainbow Dash and her Autobot partner and guardian, Sideswipe. Sideswipe was colored in red and black and white, and he could convert into a 1980s sports car. Compared to Rainbow Dash, he would be able to pick her up with his own two hands, but thanks to an experiment done by a scientist that was part of their Autobot group, he built devices to make the Autobots shrink down to human size. With Sideswipe's size down to human, he entered inside the school with Rainbow Dash without any issues to the security office to see if they could look for clues.

But once they arrived at the office, their eyes bulged with a big shock. The monster had left its trace on the office. The door was bashed down with a little bit of some scratches and claw marks dented into it, there was some spilled coffee and a sandwich that was no longer together, and one or two monitors were knocked down either onto the desk or on the floor.

"What happened here?" Rainbow asked.

"No idea. But that's something we've got to find out." Sideswipe replied.

He walked over to one side of the room and found a part of a ceiling tile on the ground. He walked towards it and bent down to get a closer look at it. While he analyzed it, he noticed something that seemed very odd. There was a bit of a purple substance that was on the edge of it, and it looked as if it had spilled on the floor. His curiosity got the better of him, and he looked back up and saw there was some more leaking from the ceiling.

He slowly wiped his finger on the substance took a closer look at it with his eye.

"Hm... interesting." Sideswipe muttered. He turned his head to the cyan-skinned girl, "We're going to need to take a sample of this to Wheeljack, see what he can find out about it."

Rainbow nodded and continued to look around the desk. Curious, she hit the buttons to turn the monitor back on to check if it was still working. Power was shown as evident by the screen turning back on revealing a screen with a program to show playbacks of old camera footage. Rainbow hit a few more buttons, looking around on the program to see what the cameras had caught on that night. Her eyes widened when she saw the static on the camera.

"Looks like the security cameras went lights out," Rainbow said, "any chance we can get some of this footage? I think Sunset and Optimus will want to see it."

Sideswipe grinned.

"You got it Rainbow."

Sideswipe opened a finger up, and the tip of his finger extended a cord that swung around like a snake until it stuck itself inside of the USB port.once the cord was in, the red Autobot downloading the information that was captured from the night before. He waited for a few moments, and then his eyes made a flash of blue, signaling him that the information had been extracted.

"I've got the footage. But let me tell you, whatever that thing is, its not good," Sideswipe said, shaking his head.

"No kidding."

"Yep. But now that we have what need, lets go!"

Rainbow Dash and Sideswipe returned back to base, and they took Sunset and her friends along with them so they may see too.

"Blaster, relay the information." Optimus instructed.

"Got it Prime."

Blaster transformed into radio mode and he flew onto the panel. From the side of the radio a little plug went into an outlet, and all of the security cam footage began to display. Everyone saw the dark hallways, but they also saw something else that seemed a little... off.

"Blaster, pause the footage."

The footage paused to show a single shot of the shadowy figure right up towards the camera lense with the eyes gazing purple and there being a purple glow in its mouth.

Everyone couldn't believe their eyes. This... thing. It was terrifying to look at, and even worse... that thing looked like a Transformer.

"What... is... that?" Fluttershy quivered.

"You don't think its--" Bumblebee began.

"It can't be, Bee. That's impossible." Jazz replied.

"Can't be what? What are you talking about?" Sunset asked.

The Autobots looked at one another with disbelief. They didn't want to tell the girls what they knew. But at the same time, they couldn't hide any secrets from them.

"I'm afraid there are dark pasts and legends that we haven't told you girls about. And from what we've seen in the security footage, we believe one of them has come back." Optimus said.

"Who? What was that?" Rainbow asked.

Optimus eyes closed for a moment and he looked at the girls dead on. "We believe the host of the Shadowbots, have come back."

"What are the Shadowbots?" Rainbow asked.

Sideswipe transformed into vehicle mode and rolled right next to Rainbow. "Feel free to take a seat on my hood. This is gonna be a little bit."

Rainbow just shrugged and sat on Sideswipe's hood, with her arms clenched around her knees, ready to listen to Optimus's story.

"What began as an experiment, transformed into a dangerous plague..." Optimus said. "Back on Cybertron during one of our battles, the Decepticons were continuing to outmaneuver all of our forces. But the next attack they set, nearly wiped all Cybertronians out. An Autobot that they had massacred in the fight was experimented, but their experiments did far worse than they imagined. It corrupted him; made him into an undead monster. It continued to make its attacks against us, but little did the Decepticons know that they started a plague. It became Autobot against Autobot, and then Decepticon against Decepticon."

"With no choice, we had to destroy each and every one of them. They couldn't be cured, nor helped." Knockout said somberly. "At least I think. Those things overran us so much we barely had the time to even try and find out a cure."

The girls looked at each other with worry.

"But one thing we do know is this. They are attracted to the darkness, not the light; and there is always a host for their plague, the one who rules them all. If the host is destroyed, then all of the undead fall. But it seems as if we haven't destroyed them all. For every one of them that we destroy, there is always one that's infected that escapes. It seems as if one of them has come into your world." Optimus said.

The girls waited for Optimus to finish speaking so that they could speak up. "But that's impossible. How could they have gotten aboard?" Sunset asked.

The Autobots looked at one another with some concern.

"There may have been a chance one of them have come aboard with us." Optimus replied. "Wheeljack, run a scan with Teletraan-1 to check on how many Autobots have come here on Earth."

Wheeljack nodded and he began walking to another part of the base.

"But wait, if its here on Earth, and if its attracted to the school, shouldn't we go and stop it?" Rainbow said.

"That is correct. But if came to your school, then we have a place for us to stop it. I'll go." Optimus said.

"Optimus." Sideswipe interrupted. "With all due respect, if our own leader gets infected, we won't know what to do. I'll go and handle it."

"By yourself?" Rainbow sputtered.

"Yes."

"Not happening. You're not doing this on your own." Rainbow said. "I'm going with you. I've always got your back."

"Rainbow, I don't even know how its gonna react to you? What if it kills you?" Sideswipe said.

"I do have an armored suit, right?" Rainbow said, a smirk creeping on her face.

Sideswipe wanted to argue with her, but he couldn't find it in himself to argue. She was right. He would need help in catching that thing. And if she had a Headmaster suit, then there was a high chance of her being safe.

"Alright. I suppose you can come with." Sideswipe sighed.

"In fact, I'll come with too." Sunset said with a smile.

"Me too. You're gonna need another Autobot." Bumblebee replied.

"Then its settled. We've got our mission. Tonight, we take down that Transformer, once and for all!" Rainbow cheered.

Bumblebee transformed into car mode and opened up a door for Sunset to climb in, and Rainbow got off the hood and got inside of Sideswipe. The two cars revved their engines, and they drove away back to CHS, leaving a worried Twilight and Autobots.

They knew they were strong, but they didn't know if they had any confidence with dealing with that infected... thing. But for now, all they could do was check the entire base for anything that stood out....