Once Fluttershy was recovered by the remaining 6, they brought her over to rest next to Twilight and Applejack who were still out cold. Rarity's hand scrunched her face trying to contemplate their situation.

"I can't believe that brute had the audacity to scare Fluttershy," Rarity grumbled. Her eyebrows were furled, and her mouth was growling.

Bumblebee wasn't handling Fluttershy's knockout very well either, in fact he was cross. His hands were clenched shaking, and his teeth were gritting. He wanted to take that monster on personally.

"When I get my hands on that monster he's gonna pay..." Bumblebee snarled.

"We can get revenge later Bumblebee, right now we need to figure this out first." Sunset said.

The remaining group looked at one another and gave some sincere nods.

"Okay. Let's just figure out what we know so far. So we know the monster isn't killing any of the humans, we know that, but I still question why we're going out cold. No one just drops out like that." Sunset said.

"Well I have an idea!" Pinkie squeed. Pinkie rushed over to Fluttershy's Headmaster suit that was taken off of her and pulled off the camera. "The camera's still intact, maybe we can see what she saw." Pinkie replied with a big grin on her face.

Sunset smiled underneath her helmet. "Pinkie, you're a genius!"

Pinkie removed the card reader from the camera and inserted it inside of the computer. Pinkie then hit a few keys and found a video file.

"I found it!" Pinkie said. "Wait, are all of the cameras connected so we can see all of our video files? Maybe we can see what Twilight and Applejack saw too."

Sunset shook her head no. "I'm afraid not. I didn't set them up like that."

Pinkie's hair deflated and it became lifeless and flat. "Aw..."

Sunset just responded by giving a pat on Pinkie's shoulder, and she hit the button to play the video. Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Bumblebee, and Sideswipe gathered around behind Sunset to take a look at the video as well.

As it played, they were looking through the camera mounted on Fluttershy's shoulder which captured ahead of them and a side of Fluttershy's head. They watched her frantically run down the hallway, trying to find out where Rainbow Dash and Sideswipe went, but she just kept running through dark hallways. She made a left turn looking at a dark hallway, and they listened to her freak out and they saw her pull out her gun. But from what all 6 of them were seeing, they were looking at... nothing. There wasn't anything in front of the camera that stood out, there wasn't anything scary for them to look at. It was almost as if Fluttershy was freaking out at... nothing.

The video continued, and they listened to Fluttershy start to choke and cough heavily, and without warning the camera leaned on its side and Fluttershy's entire body fell to the ground, knocked out. But the camera still kept going.

Sunset's finger hit the stop button and the group backed away from the video to look at one another.

"None of you guys saw anything, did you?" Sunset asked.

Everyone shook their heads no.

"If that's what happened with Fluttershy, then its probably what happened with Twilight and Applejack."

"But why would Fluttershy be freaking out over nothing?" Rainbow asked.

Everyone stopped for a moment to think about it. The idea still didn't make any sense to them. But what if, it wasn't something that they couldn't see... but only they could see it?

"Wait. What if we can't see it? Maybe that's the problem. They can see it, but we can't." Pinkie said with a serious voice.

The idea was possible, but still very questionable.

"But what could they be seeing that was freaking them out?" Rarity asked.

"Well, Applejack freaked out and said she was looking at a real life gallows set up on the stage, but I didn't see anything. And when she turned around she was yelling and saying someone was in there with her. And she kept wasting her bullet shells." Sunset replied.

Pinkie and Rarity's eyes widened. A gallows?

"Wait a minute darling, Applejack was just telling us about how much she was terrified of the hangman from that film she saw... and I remember, in that film, the students play performance had set up a gallows but with how they set it up, it was a real gallows." Rarity said. She thought for a moment and came to a startiling realization. "Maybe Applejack was seeing the hangman from that film..."

"But that's not possible. That's just a movie. And how does that add up with the Shadowbot. Wait, hang on. Bumblebee, Sideswipe, does the Shadowbot give off hallucinations?"

Both of them shrugged.

"We don't know about that though. We only know so much," Bumblebee replied.

"Even if it did give off hallucinations, I don't think our advanced technological brains would see it." Sideswipe said.

"But what's making us see these things?" Sunset asked.

No one had any idea. They didn't have any idea or any knowledge of something they could have come across that would be the source of their virtual realities. Rainbow however paused for a moment and her eyes bulged out of her head in the mask. She just remembered something.

"Oh my gosh, I almost forgot! Sideswipe and I ran into that Shadowbot!"

"Are you two alright?" Rarity asked sounding concerned.

"We're fine, but we still don't know who that Shadowbot is." Rainbow groaned. "Anyone have any guesses?"

"Maybe an Autobot that was captured and experimented on?" Rarity asked.

"A deformed Decepticon risen from the dead?" Sunset asked.

"An entity from Equestria that's possessed one of our allies and won't stop until we're all dead?" Bumblebee asked.

"One of our relatives who died before but is now back to haunt us?" Pinkie said as she zoomed up in Sideswipe's face. Sideswipe looked less than amused.

"Pinkie. May I ask you kindly, to please back away from my face?" Sideswipe said with a cold stare.

"Oki-doki-loki!"

Once it was calmed down, Sunset spoke up.

"Did you find any weaknesses on it? Anything we can use against it?" Sunset asked.

Rainbow shook her head.

Sunset groaned. Not only did they just lose another ally, but they still had no idea on who this entity was.

Later that night, the remaining 6 continued to do patrols. However, this time, Sunset joined the patroling. She had enough of just sitting on her butt in a rolling chair staring at a monitor. She wanted to actually get out and do something instead of nothing and be useless. She ended up walking with Rarity, while Bumblebee partnered up with Pinkie Pie, and Sideswipe continued to stay partnered up with Rainbow Dash.

Sunset kept her helmet on during the walk, while Rarity kept her head unmasked as they walked.

"How do you think this thing got here?" Sunset asked.

"Maybe it crash-landed here on Earth. Or maybe it stowed away on the Autobot's vessel," Rarity shuddered, "I'd rather not think about it if its all the same to you."

"Okay. Lets just find that undead machine, take it down, and we can get out of here in time before the night's over." Sunset said.

Both of their lights shined around the dark hallways, and the cameras on their shoulders captured everything, they wanted to make sure they got every ounce of footage in case something bad happened. The lights flashed onto some display cases and they saw the trophies inside gleam with their shininess.

Both of their eyes looked ahead to see more and more of empty hallways with sets of lockers on both sides. All of them were locked up tight. But as they kept walking, they paused when they heard a large slamming noise. It sounded like something fell onto the ground.

Their bodies zoomed to turn around and look behind them to see if there was anything there. There was nothing. No signs of anything were shown, and no indication of evil was revealed. More sounds erupted, and they stayed silent to listen to them.

They heard sounds of gigantic footsteps, like something huge was walking. The sounds were becoming bigger, and bigger, and bigger... until the sounds suddenly stopped. Both of them froze in place, unsure of where the source was and kept their ears open to listen for the sounds. Nothing.

But a booming snarl got their attention. They slowly turned around to look that behind them, standing near the window exposed to the moon light from outside, was the Shadowbot.

Both of them stood in position ready to fight, and loaded their weapons. The monster let out a giant roar and charged towards Rarity and Sunset. The two girls fired off their guns faster than speeding bullet, but the shots weren't doing anything to the monster. It just kept running towards them, brushing off the laser shells that flung towards it. Even worse, it began to run on all fours like a panther, and it made a leap into the air and pounced onto Sunset, pinning her arms to the ground, letting out a bigger roar.

Sunset struggled against the monster's giant like strength. "Rarity, get help! I can handle him for a while, but not for long! Now!"

"But Sunset, maybe I can--"

"NOW!"

Rarity didn't argue back and instead did what Sunset said and ran to go get help while Sunset kept struggling against the Shadowbot. She kept trying to move her arms, but the monster was too strong and kept her pinned down. But the sight of the thing was scary enough on its own.

"What are you!? What are you!?" Sunset yelled in fear.

Rarity ran down some more hallways to find out where the others are, but she couldn't find them.

"Rainbow Dash! Bumblebee! Pinkie Pie! Sideswipe! Please!" Rarity cried.

She looked around of where she was, but she couldn't see anyone. Not sure of what to do, she kept on running down more and more halls, the sound of her metal suit hitting the ground echoing through the hallways.

She made another turn and opened up a set of double doors leading herself into the cafeteria. The chairs were all neatly stacked on top of the tables, and the entire ground was gleaming. It was completely void of any mess or disgusting food on the ground. Rarity's head slowly panned the room, making sure there wasn't any sight of anything evil while she continued to breathe heavily and sweat ran down her head. She was just out of breath.

Her body turned around towards another set of tables, but another sound got her attention. Metallic clanking got her attention. She moved her body towards the opened up double doors and noticed something else. A pair of red eyes were glowing inside of the doors, as well as a maniacal laughter. The figure emerged out of the shadows, revealing a red and grayish looking Cybertronian, but there was a purple Decepticon logo embezzled on his chest easy to see, there were car doors on the side of his arms, tires were hanging on his back, and the figure's jaw was gaping wide with sharp fangs, and his eyes were black voids.

"K-Knockout... no..." Rarity whispered.

"Do you really think I would stay with the Autobots? You all are nothing to me... You are nothing to me Rarity..."

Just like the others who had fallen, Rarity began losing her own vision. The images appearing before her were too much and the amount of fear they had on them were enough to make Rarity lose it, Her vision became blurry, the sounds were silencing around her, and she started choking. Before she knew it, everything around her went black and her body fell to the ground.

"Sunset! Rarity!" Bumblebee and Pinkie yelled.

The two of them kept running down the hallways trying to get to Sunset and Rarity's location, but alas they couldn't find any sign of them. But the roadblock in the way had slowed them down in shock. With the moonlight from the window, they could see something in the light that wasn't a pretty sight. There was the sight of Sunset Shimmer's Headmaster helmet piece on the ground,

Pinkie moved over quickly and picked up the helmet to get a better look at it. It appeared to have a bit of purple fluid sticking to the top of the helmet. Scared out of their minds, Pinkie and Bumblebee ran off again to look for Rarity.

"Rarity!" They both yelled.

Their feet pounded against the concrete floor until they met the tile floors of the cafeteria. They gasped when they found Rarity knocked out on the ground.

"Aw! Now Rarity's axed off! I thought she was gonna make it!" Pinkie complained.

They ran over to where she was and they flipped her over onto her back so they were looking at her face and front of her body. She appeared to have no damage on her.

"Well, we know one thing. The Shadowbot's probably run off with Sunset, and Rarity probably had another hallucination."

Pinkie's lips began trembling and her hair went from puffed up and energetic to flat and limp. "W-what do we do?"

Bumblebee pat Pinkie's shoulder. "I don't know. But I know this. If we don't stop this thing soon, we're all gonna be gone by morning."

The two of them just looked back at Rarity's cold body. At least she wasn't dead. But they could only pray that Sunset was okay...

Author's Note

Apologies for this being rushed. While I'm not going to spoil anything, I will say this. The monster will probably be revealed in the next chapter.