Equestria Girls In Disguise: Rise Of The Toxibolts

The Toxibolts sent the people of Canterlot into a panic. Humans ran for their lives as Toxic Sugarcoat lead her subordinates to raid, pillage, and take whatever they could from the mall. Toxic Sour got there last, but was no stranger to property damage and taking what wasn’t nailed down.

“Take it, girls. TAKE IT ALL!” Toxic Sugarcoat smashed her fists together. “Show these worms what we can do, and let those measly little other halves come running to save the day!”

“Or in this case, get pummeled like the crybabies they are!” Toxic Indigo had a devilish smirk as she stole away some hi-tech phones.

“Isn’t this a bit excessive, Sugarcoat?” Toxic Sunny asked as she took out the contents of a liquor store. “I mean, don’t get me wrong, I like the odd drink now and again, but aren’t we kinda tempting fate here?”

“Fate is something someone says to deny the reality of the situation.” Toxic Sugarcoat punched the ground, causing the black ooze to overrun the clothing and toy stores. “There is no such thing as fate.”

From one of the sides of the buildings, the Toxic Bolts watched as Toxic Sour came around the corner.

“They’re not there. Wherever those Bolts were, they’re not in Canterlot. I’ve searched up and down in this town, they aren’t anywhere.” She punched into her hand. “Not even that wolf Con was around. Shame, I would have loved to toxify him…” Sour grumbled.

“That is why we have Acid,” said Toxic Sugarcoat. “Once he re-works Wheeljack’s de-toxifier to toxify people, we won’t even need to lay a finger on these wretched humans. We’ll just let the machine do our work for us.”

“Less talking! More taking!” Toxic Indigo stole a lot of gadgets from a gadget shop. “The more crime we cause, the more attention we attract. And that’s gonna have those little Shadowbabies come straight to us. I’m sure they’re just dying to save the day!” She teased.

As the Shadowbolts and Guardians drove down a road, they saw the humans running for their lives across the road. It wasn’t clear what they were running from, but police vehicles were hastily travelling in the opposite direction.

“Something’s not right…” Lemon whimpered.

“Optimus. Come in. Come in, Optimus!” Smallfoot called out.

“WE’RE SORRY. THE NUMBER YOU HAVE TRIED TO CALL: AUTOBOT HQ, IS NO LONGER IN SERVICE,” said Malware-1. “PLEASE TRY AGAIN IN: WHENEVER THE AUTOBOTS ARE ALL DEAD!”

“Who is this?!” Smallfoot shouted, but was met with nothing more with a dial tone. “Rrgh… We’re gonna have to stop whatever’s going on ourselves.”

“No, we have to keep moving. We’re gonna have to find another way out. Highbrow, maybe you can get a little higher? Let's find another path that can get us to the Everfree Forest.” Sugarcoat replied. “We can’t drive there with all of the police in the way.”

“Hmm…” mumbled Highbrow. “What is happening over there, may I ask?”

“I have a good feeling it’s our Toxic selves that are causing the ruckus.” Sugarcoat replied.

“Toxic selves?” Smallfoot parroted. “What do you mean?”

“If it’s whatever turned Wheeljack into that black monster, then we need to stop it. FAST,” said Bumblebee. “We can’t have them going around and converting anymore Autobots like this. We’re spread thin as it is…”

“Then it’s time I get a bird’s eye view.” Highbrow spoke.

He raised himself along with Sugarcoat a bit higher into the air, and got a better view of the city above. Looking down where the police were, Highbrow hovered above several other spots, trying to find another way around them.

“What do you see?” Outback asked.

“Well I can see the police have covered a good ounce of roads but… wait a minute. Hang on, I see another path out. Everyone, turn yourselves back around and go right. There’s an unblocked road that leads straight out of the city.”

“You heard him! Turn your wheels round!” Outback called.

The guardians hastily put themselves into a tailspin and jolted around, squishing their Shadowbolt riders against the walls and doors due to the heavy G-forces. Once they made their way down the path and turned right, the road ahead seemed clear.

“Good. Now keep moving forward, but be weary of the other police interceptors moving down the roads,” said Highbrow. “If you move fast enough, you should be out of the city in no time.”

“But not when the cops are there,” remarked Hot Shot. “Don’t want our riders to get tickets…”

“Go, go, go!” Smallfoot’s accelerator sunk into the ground and she picked up in speed. The other Autobots did the same, keeping up with her pace.

“Hurry, girls. The cops are about to come into view of the road you’re on.” Highbrow leaned forward. “MOVE!”

The girls just managed to break out of the city, leaving engine roars and tire tracks in their wake as they blasted down the road.

“Good work, everyone. Nice escape,” said Highbrow. “Now, let’s make our way to—

Before he could finish, he felt something collide with his rotors. He felt both his tail and head rotor begin to break as an alarm started to blare out through the cockpit.

“What?! I’ve been hit!” Highbrow tried his hardest to activate the rotors again, but they wouldn’t move an inch. “Heavy damage sustained. My blades have gone!”

“WHAT?!” The Shadowbolts and Guardians all chimed out.

“But that means—“ Sugarcoat crawled closer to the windscreen.

“We’re losing altitude! I repeat! We are losing altitude!” cried Highbrow as he felt the black toxin gum up his works. “I can’t reactivate my blades!”

“Sugarcoat! Get out of there!” Indigo cried.

“Use the ejector seat!” Lemon added.

“I’m trying!” Sugarcoat gazed at the massive console of buttons, trying to find a button that would get her out of Highbrow as fast as physically possible. No matter what she pressed, nothing would aid in her escape.

“We’re going down hard!” Highbrow was quickly gaining on the ground below. “Bolstering hulls! Initiating shock absorbers! Deactivating the coffee maker!”

“WE’RE GONNA CRASH!” wailed Sugarcoat.

Highbrow smashed through the glass roof of the mall and hurtled towards a propane shop. Mere split seconds before impact, he spat Sugarcoat out of her and sent her flying into the nearby fountain. With the fuel Highbrow leaked, he smashed into the shop and caused a massive explosion once his fluids met the hot air of the tanks.

All that Sugarcoat and the others could see was a massive plume of flame, rising up from the mall where Highbrow had crashed.

“HIGHBROW! SUGARCOAT!” everyone cried and grinded to a halt, looking out at the massive column of smoke and fire.

Sunny Flare collapsed out of Outback and stumbled forward towards the fires. She reached out for Sugarcoat but fell to her knees instead.

“This is not happening…” Indigo’s mouth hung wide open.

“Sugarcoat can’t die! She just can’t!” Lemon’s eyes were filled with tears.

Smallfoot and the others quickly transformed and watched the almost mesmerising chimney of smokey ash and billowing flames.

“No…” Smallfoot felt tears of her own begin to drip down from her eyes. “This can’t be…”

“Highbrow…” Outback held his blaster close to his chest. “Why? Why’d ya have to die now? And not even to a Decepticon of all things!”

“He… he saved us all.” Hot Shot transformed out of vehicle mode and looked out at the destruction. “Let’s not let his sacrifice be in vain.”

“We… we’re supposed to be a team.” Blaster struggled to get his words out. “But while he saved us, we couldn’t do the same for him…”

Everyone just stood there, in complete silence, as the flames created a big brown cloud in the skies above.

Sugarcoat groaned as her vision came back. The first thing she could feel was the water rushing all around her as she tried to stand up. The impact had done severe damage to her and she swore that she had broken some bones with her fall.

She stood up shakily and tried to keep her balance, but flopped back onto her stomach as she toppled out of the fountain. Groaning and crying at the same time, she crawled forward the best she could, slowly pulling herself forward with her splayed arms. With every inch she moved, pain shot up through her limbs, and it was growing every second.

Eventually, she tried to take another step forward but felt all of her stamina waste away to nothing. She watched a group of black feet walk towards her, but her eyes closed before she could see who it was. When she summoned the strength to open them again, she saw the feet directly in front of her. Staring up, Sugarcoat was now looking directly at her toxic half, who had an evil smile on her face.

“There you are…” Toxic Sugarcoat grinned and grabbed Sugarcoat by the face, plunging her vision into pure darkness again.