The remaining 7 sat down in a circle, in giant bean bags, staring at one another, in total silence. They were having a hard time comprehending what had just happened. Not only did they now know that the Autobots figured out who the Shadowbot is, but now they lost all communications with them, and Applejack's now down with Twilight in the passed out pile.

Rainbow looked back to the left and looked at Applejack and Twilight still passed out, lying down with one another. She looked back at the rest of the remaining allies.

"So... we're basically stuck here, until we catch that thing." Rainbow said.

Everyone nodded. Rainbow held her hand on the front of her helmet, scrunching it, giving an indication of her trying to comprehend what had just happened.

"Well I say we hunt down that thing right here, right now!" Rainbow yelled.

"Rainbow! We don't know if that thing is out there! For all we know it can kill you!" Rarity said.

"Well I'm not taking any chances, we need to put that monster in its place right here, RIGHT NOW!" Rainbow yelled, making Fluttershy droop in her bean bag.

"Rainbow stop, you're scaring her!" Sunset yelled.

"No! I'm not gonna stand by while its still running around. For all we know, it could have found a way to escape." Rainbow growled.

Sunset and Rainbow Dash stood glaring at one another under their masks, both of them sneering inside them. While none of the girls could tell what their facial expressions were looking like, it was easy to tell that they were incredibly upset. But both of them felt hands pushing them aside.

"Both of you, stop. Now!" Sideswipe yelled. "I don't like this as much as either one of you, but you can't forget. We can't split up from one another, that's how this thing gets us! If we go by ourselves, then that thing strikes."

Rainbow's face went red under the mask with anger, and her fists were clenching tight, but she just growled and walked away. Sideswipe gave a nod to Sunset, and he ran after.

Sunset just sighed and fell back in her beanbag chair.

"I hope we can trap that thing. Because this isn't going too well." Sunset moaned.

She looked back up at Fluttershy patting her shoulder, giving a small smile. "It'll be okay. I know we can stop him."

Fluttershy didn't see it, but there was a smile on Sunset's face underneath her helmet.

Out in the hallways, Rainbow Dash had ran into the main entrance underneath the moonlight, and Sideswipe stopped her from going anywhere.

"Rainbow, we can't attack that thing head on, we don't even know how this thing moves." Sideswipe said.

"We can't just stay and do nothing!" Rainbow growled.

"Well we can't go and fight that thing either!" Sideswipe said.

Rainbow was about to stomp off, but Sideswipes hands gripped onto her arms, and he pulled her back, making it hard for her to try and run off.

"Let... me... go!" Rainbow grunted.

"Rainbow, we need to stay together!" Sideswipe said.

"No!" Rainbow turned herself around facing Sideswipe, nostrils flaring under her helmet. "I don't want any of us hurt, I don't want that thing to kill any of us, I want that monster dead! I don't even know if Applejack or Twilight are dead, but if they are, THE SHADOWBOT IS GOING TO DIE! And you're trying to stop me!? I... I..."

Sideswipe moved closer to Rainbow and pulled her in, giving her a big hug. And as he listened to her try and catch her breath, the sound followed by hearing her quietly sobbing into his metallic chest. He pat her back some more, and even gave a few rubs.

"Hey... its okay. I know they're not dead." Sideswipe said.

Rainbow looked back at Sideswipe. "I'm sorry, I... I just... if they got killed, I... I wouldn't know what to do. I would never forgive myself if something happened to them."

Sideswipe gave a sincere smile. "Its going to be okay. You've been through tougher situations than this right?"

Rainbow gave a small nod.

"I promise we'll stop that thing, and its going to go down." Sideswipe said.

Rainbow still didn't feel very pleased in the slightest. Sideswipe then pulled her in for another hug, and gave her a few pats on her back. Once they pulled back, Sideswipe looked Rainbow in the visor.

"Now how about we go join up with the others?" Sideswipe offered.

Rainbow nodded, and the two of them got back up on their feet. But before they started to walk, they froze in place. There was a sound. Something moaning, something groaning, something... dangerous.

Their eyes gazed towards the hallways, they didn't see anything. They looked behind themselves, nothing. Where was that noise coming from?

Sideswipe readied his gun from his holster and positioned it in front of him, followed by Rainbow who did the same. The two of them readied their fighting positions, and gazed all around the main entrance. But there wasn't anything to be seen. They stayed silent for a moment to listen to the noise. They could hear the moaning coming from... above?

Their heads gazed up, and they heard large metallic clanking footsteps right above them. They looked at each other, and then back up at the ceiling.

"Race you to the stairs?" Sideswipe asked, looking at the ceiling.

"Last one there has to clean every Autobot for the next month!" Rainbow joked as she began running down the hallways torwards the stairs, making Sideswipe grunt in anger. She was getting ahead and he didn't want her to win.

Sideswipe chased after Rainbow, and the two of them ran up the stairs to find the source of the noise. Both of them ended reaching the top of the stairs in a tie, and they shined their lights all around, while trying to catch their breath from running up the stairs.

"Lets never run up the stairs again." Sideswipe said. "Too dangerous."

"Agreed."

The two of them cracked their knuckles, and cracked their necks, prepping themselves for the danger. They faced down one hallway and both stood in fighting positions, with their backs against one another and they held their guns in the same direction. Their eyes stared head on, their eyebrows furled, and their mouths were snarling, ready for action.

The two of them stood in complete silence, awaiting the entity to appear ahead of them. They waited, and waited, and waited. But the entire time the two of them stood, waiting to fight the demon automaton, nothing happened. They two of them were beginning to question if they were hearing things.

But the two of them still kept their fighting positions.

"So... should we just go back downstairs then?" Sideswipe asked.

"Maybe. If nothing's happening, then there's really no point in--"

*REARAGH*

Rainbow paused for a moment. Her mouth drooped to a frown and her eyes narrowed.

"There's someone behind us, isn't there?" Rainbow asked sarcastically.

"Yep." Sideswipe quaked.

The two of them slowly turned around, keeping their eyes awake and furled, and sure enough, emerging from the shadows, was dark violent glowing eyes, and a drooling mouth of purple.

Both of them slowly backed away from just how horrific it looked to them. While the entire body was blackened in the shadows making it unclear of what bot it was, there were some features that were noticeable. There were a lot of holes in its body, there was skin that was decayed, revealing the inner wiring and mechanics on the insides, there was one finger missing on each hand, and the only glows that were seen was the scratched up Autobot logo in purple, the eyes, the inside of the jaw, and the drool leaking from its mouth.

"Okay. Rainbow, I know we're in a bad situation right now, but there's one thing we can do here." Sideswipe said.

"Your plan better not be run away like chickens," Rainbow said.

"No, I'm was suggesting that we load up our guns, stand tall and proud, kick butt and take names," Sideswipe grinned with a smile.

The two of them looked at each other, and even though Sideswipe couldn't see, he could tell Rainbow was smirking, and he began smirking too. They twirled their guns around in their hands getting a tight grip on it, Rainbow drew out three barreled blasters on the sides of the arms that were locked on target, and Sideswipe drew out a rocket launcher on the top of his shoulder. Rainbow looked up and noticed the rocket.

"WHOA!" Rainbow yelled. "Sideswipe, we're here to take out the monster, not blow up the school."

Sideswipe paused, "Right. I forgot. You actually like this school."

Sideswipe grumbled a bit and the rocket pulled itself back to where it came from. They turned their heads back at the monster and listened to it growl and snarl and hiss towards the two of them.

"Alright, lets take this thing." Rainbow said.

The monster let out a giant roar and began to charge, but it began to cower back as Rainbow and Sideswipe let out a lot of laser shots onto the living dead. It raised its arm up, blocking the shots from reaching his face, while letting out some roars.

Sideswipe and Rainbow didn't stop shooting. They kept pulling the guns continuously, not wanting to take any chances and allow that thing to charge after them.

The monster moved his hands away and began a running charge towards the two living creatures. It began to make a pouncing jump, but Sideswipe made a kick spin around and performed a roundhouse kick to the chest, knocking it down to the ground. But one kick didn't keep the monster down, it got back up on its feet and began charging again, this time going for Rainbow Dash. She fired her blasters endlessly, making more shots, allowing the monster to fall and crash right in front of her feet. She made a quick ninja jump backwards, not wanting the monster to grab ahold of her feet and kept firing.

Sideswipe pulled some more shots onto the monster, and it retaliated by getting on all four of its limbs and made a body spin, with a leg out, tripping Sideswipe, making him fall flat on his back. He leaned himself up to see it make the same attack move on Rainbow, and then it began running like a panther out into the hallways. Rainbow and Sideswipe got back up onto their feet and began to give chase.

They made a right, and a left, and watched as the feet of the monster go right up into an air vent. They shined lights up into it, but they didn't see anything else sticking out of it, outside of a bit of purple fluid.

"Great." Rainbow complained.

Before anyone could say anything, a radio static went off on Rainbow's helmet.

"Sunset to Rainbow. Sunset to Rainbow. Can you hear me?"

"Yes Sunset, I'm here. What's wrong?" Rainbow asked.

"Is Fluttershy with you?"

Rainbow paused. "No..."

"She's not with you!?" Sunset yelled.

"Why are you yelling?" Sideswipe asked.

"Because she's by herself trying to find you, and the Shadowbot could be anywhere!"

Both of them stared at one another in fear, and bolted out of the hallways aiming for the stairs, going off to look for Fluttershy.

Down below, on the main floor, Fluttershy had been walking in the hallways by her lonesome self, trying to find Rainbow Dash and Sideswipe, but she wasn't having a whole lot of luck. She didn't even know where they went.

"Sideswipe? Rainbow Dash?" Fluttershy quietly called out.

She made a turn around a corner, and kept darting her eyes back and forth, looking for any sources. But she didn't see nor hear anything. But she heard something. Sounds of... whispering. Unintelligible whispering. And it sounded like it was coming across the left side of the hallway. She tip-toed her way to the source and came across a long empty hallway with no lights shining in it.

Fluttershy gulped. As much as she didn't want to go down that hall, she knew she had to look everywhere. But before she made the step down, she heard another odd noise. It sounded like three people...singing? Three girls singing in fact.

She squinted her eyes trying to look down the hall, but she could barely see anything. It was pitch black for her to see anything.

Before she knew it, there were some shapes emerging from the darkness. The first ones seen were three red lights, all of them gleaming, and slowly moving towards Fluttershy. Not wanting to get too close to where it was coming from, she backed away from the darkness. Soon more shapes began to reveal. Demonic red voids that were all eyes, all of them belong to a person. The three of them slowly walked from out of the shadows, all of them singing a demonic tune that was enough to scare anyone.

Me and you, you and me...
why don't we see who is stronger...
we don't have to be, all on the same side...
oh what's so wrong with a little mutilation?

Fluttershy's vision began to look blurry, and she felt herself choking and wheezing. She didn't know what, but everything was making her start to lose her own consciousness. The sounds, the visuals, the stench in the air, it was enough to make her feel pain. And soon enough, just like before, everything went black and she passed out, falling onto the ground, hitting the camera and making the red light go out. However, there was one plus to her situation. Her shoulder point of view camera recorded everything, and it didn't get destroyed, which now meant the remaining group could see everything she saw. But it was still a mystery of why everyone was passing out...

Author's Note

Apologies for this not being a lot, and for a very weak chapter, I didn't have a lot of ideas for this one.