Equestria Girls In Disguise: Rise Of The Toxibolts

“How does it feel, Rainbooms?” Acid knelt down at Sunset and the girls, peering through the bars of his inky cage. “Knowing that everything you’ve worked so hard for is about to be taken away from you?”

“Nngh…” Rainbow Dash turned away. “We’ve got nothing to say to you. And we never will, you hunk of tar!”

“Your resistance is pointless, humans.” Acid hooked the top of the cage with his hand and walked the girls down a tunnel. “Once my latest invention is complete, we’ll drain away all that ooey gooey stuff inside of you and leave only the bad. Nobody will see you again, nor remember you for that matter.”

“That’s not going to happen.” Sunset crossed her arms. “Once Teletraan-1 comes back online, every Autobot we have is gonna come down here and turn you and those sludge Shadowbolts into puddles.”

“Which is why we’ve made sure to scrap it so bad that you’ll never get any help,” said Acid. “The toxin is burrowing deep into that supercomputer’s core. One of two things will happen from there. It’ll either; A, turn the system into a toxic system that exterminates every Autobot inside; or B, deactivate and destroy the system beyond repair. Win-win for the Toxibolts.”

Sunset looked away from the corrupted ally, and back to the rest of the girls who were trying to recover from their last encounter. Fluttershy and Rarity were busy comforting Pinkie Pie, who was still tear heavy from her own heart being pulled out of her insides.

“Humans are such a feeble race,” Acid spoke to himself. “They can do so much, but they let petty emotions, age, genders, and meaningless quarrels break them down. We Toxibolts are devoid of that. We are flawless. And soon, everyone on this wretched world will be like that, Autobots and Decepticons included. A true haven where everyone can be themselves with no barriers in their paths…”

Twilight and some of the other girls scowled. But at the same time, they were deep in thought. They had to find a way out of here, they couldn’t let their dark shell of Wheeljack turn them into the others. But how?

“You know, it’s kinda funny, really. All this time, I thought I was being held back by Optimus and the others. But now that I’ve defected, I can make anything. There’s no walls anymore.” Acid chuckled. “Who would’ve thought that a de-toxifier would give Wheeljack all the freedom he wants? And the ironic thing is, he doesn’t even have a mind of his own to enjoy it!” Acid cackled like a mad scientist.

Sunset pulled Twilight close to whisper, thankfully without ‘Wheeljack’ to hear them. “We’ve got to find a way out of here. I don’t know about you, but I don’t want any of my bad side back out again. Not like at the Fall Formal,” she said.

“But how? It’s not like we can smash through the cage.” Twilight whispered.

“Forget it, girls. It’s hopeless.” Pinkie just moaned and pulled a tube of cake sprinkles out of her hair. “We can’t break outta here and I’m in a lotta pain…”

“And whenever Pinkie gets sad, it really does mean that we’re up a creek without a paddle, Sunset.” Rarity nodded. “Maybe… this is the end.”

Rainbow stood on up with a scowl. “No. Not like this. If I’m going to die, I want to die having accomplished everything I wanted in life. I’m not letting some angry sides of our friends end me, and I’m not letting them end you guys too.”

“Aww… don’t be sad, Rainbow Dash,” mocked Acid. “Once we get all that bad stuff outta you, you’ll be fine. Problem is, though, your good sides’ll end up in some cotton-candy lovey-dovey world with singing sunflowers or something like that. Still, it’s kinda soothing for you humans last I heard.”

Rainbow just stood there with wide, dilated eyes. Then, out of nowhere, she leapt at the cage like a wild monkey and swung it from the bars. “LET US OUTTA THIS CAGE RIGHT NOW, YOU PIECE OF SHIT!”

“Ease up there, Rainbow, just a few more minutes and you’ll be clean like all of us…” Acid chuckled. “Hehe, I wonder how the rest of the Bolts will react to seeing you guys. Sure, Sugarcoat might want to chop your heads off every second, butk you’ll learn to stick by her command. Plus, your heads grow back in a toxic state. And Sour definitely has some questionable relationship issues with that cyborg,” Acid shuddered, “Seriously, she’s got a messed up mind. What kind of girl wants to have angry sex with a fucking cyborg of all people?”

“Alright. That’s enough!” Applejack grabbed her geode and tried forcing the bars open.

“Don’t bother. Those bars are immovab—“ but then, Applejack bent the bars wide open “—GAH! What the hell?!”

“Now!” Applejack yelled. She jumped out and bashed Acid down like a cannonball being thrown, kicking him down onto his back. With the distraction made, the rest of the Rainbooms quickly got out of the cage before Acid could get back up on his feet.

“Ya’ll dare threaten mah friends and rip out their hearts?!” Applejack punched Acid across his bubbling face repeatedly. “I oughta put you through a cleaner of mah own and drink ya right up!”

Rainbow blinked. “Uh, Applejack? I think he’s down now. You don’t have to keep punching him.”

“Nah, I say keep punching him! The bad guys never stay down.” Pinkie replied as her hair puffed back up to its fluffy state.

“Enough of this!” Acid’s body burst out black balls of goo that knocked Applejack against the wall. “Guess it’s time to start writing out your epitaphs!” And he metamorphed his hands into copies of his trusty blasters. “Here lies the Rainbooms. They drowned stupidly in the sewers!” And he opened fire on all of them.

Rainbow Dash and Rarity activated their crystals and rushed into the fray. Rarity managed to repel a large number of Acid’s shots, while Rainbow Dash picked Applejack and Pinkie up and rushed them out of the tunnel.

“Try this!” Acid stomped the ground, causing the black toxin to rush underneath the Rainbooms’ feet and pull them under, as if he had replaced the ground with quicksand. “And just for good measure…” He clicked his fingers, causing hundreds of black hands to rise up from the goo and pull the girls down faster.

“I… don’t… think so!” Pinkie grabbed a can of sprinkles from her hair, poured some out into her hand, and she tossed them straight at Acid which began to glow. Within seconds, they all exploded, throwing him down, and loosening his grip on the Rainbooms.

But the hands were still there. Sunset and Twilight were almost swallowed up by the toxic pool and the souls that it had snagged. The two of them grunted as they tried fighting the hands, but to no avail.

“Help!” Sunset groaned. “We can’t stop these things!”

“Pinkie! Throw some sprinkles at them!”

“Got it!” Pinkie grabbed some more, and chucked them at the black hands that were trying desperately to pull them in. Once they all sprinkled on top of the hands, they exploded, destroying the limbs that held them. Having the chance to run, Twilight and Sunset quickly ran out and got near the girls.

“Let's get out of here! I don’t know about you, but we cannot stay one more second in these sewers!” Rarity cried.

“Not in that state you won’t!” The sound of a transformer turning into vehicle mode echoed throughout the tunnel, and Acid drove straight up to them. “You’re all coming with me! Right now!”

Applejack bashed her fist on the front hood, creating a large dent. With the opportunity open, Pinkie grabbed a can of sprinkles and squeezed it into the hood to keep him occupied.

“No… no… NO!!!” Acid screamed and he swerved back trying to get the can off of him, but he couldn’t get it off.

“Girls, let's go!”

“This is not over yet, you maggots!” The slime that was once Acid bubbled up and flew through the grates and pipes. “You are not getting out of here that easily. And so help me, I will hunt you down!”

Taking their chance, the Rainbooms began to run from the sewers, and headed for the nearest grate to climb out of. Once they were near, Applejack bashed the top off, and one by one, all of them climbed out, quickly making their escape.

“Get back here!” Acid burst out right behind them and was met with the almost blinding daylight. “You will be converted!”

“Not today we won’t!” Pinkie threw another can down but Acid caught it and threw it right back onto her face. It blew up and knocked her unconscious. “Oh. You caught… it?” And she collapsed into Applejack’s hands.

“No, she’s down! Hurry, we’ve got to cover it!” Applejack cried.

Twilight, using her pendant, levitated an armored truck as best as she could and slid it over the grate. It might not be completely indestructible, but it would at least slow him down.

“Come on, let's run for it!” Applejack said, picking up Pinkie and starting up a pace.

“Nothing… will… stop… me!” Acid blasted the manhole cover off, causing it to fly into the air and strike Applejack square on the head, knocking her down too. “Everything will crumble before us!”

Rainbow growled. “Oh, come on! We JUST got out!”

“And now you’re just going back in! The Toxibolts and I will ensure that you seven don’t interfere in getting their other halves back!” He smirked. “And if that means killing you all in cold blood… so be it.”

The girls stood quaking in fear for a brief second. Their doom was about to come to them, but before any of them said a thing, a giant slam of feet hit the ground right behind Acid. He slowly turned around to look. His expression quickly went from fearless to fearful. Standing before him was a Combiner, composed of five rescue vehicles all in one.

“Defensor?! What in blazes are you doing here?!” He staggered back.

Defensor’s gun pointed at Acid, charging up. Without saying a word, he fired at Acid. However, he failed to shoot him and Acid jumped out of theway.

“You may have a Combiner by your side, girls, but I’m not done with you!” Acid transformed, and he skidded away out of the streets, fleeing the scene.

Once he was gone, Defensor uncombined into the five Protectobots that formed him: Blades, Streetwise, Groove, First Aid, and their leader, Hotspot.

“Great timing, Hotspot.” Sunset smiled. “I wish you could have gotten here earlier. How come you aren’t at base?”

“We were on patrol duty. Now what exactly was that thing and why did it look like Wheeljack?” Hotspot asked.

“Well, we’d be happy to explain, but we’re kinda in a bad situation as it is…” Rainbow Dash rubbed the back of her head.

“Well, well, well. It looks like the babies climbed out of their crib. How clever, but utterly pointless…”

Everyone turned to see Toxic Sugarcoat and the other Toxibolts standing high on the rooftops. They all stared down at the Rainbooms with vicious glares.

“It won’t do us good to fight anymore. Not with two of you down for the count. We better escape!” Hotspot transformed with the others, with open doors. “Come on girls, we’re getting out of here!”

“Go ahead. I won’t hurt you. So long as you don’t give our other halves any ideas.” Toxic Sugar leapt down in front of Sunset and Twilight. “Run, screaming in utter terror and I’ll let you all live. But cross us again, and Pinkie’s heart come and stays out, along with the rest of yours.”

Sunset and Twilight tried putting on a brave face, but the other Rainbooms just backed up and got into the Protectobots. As they drove off, they looked back at Toxic Sugar and the other Bolts and watched as they simply leapt away.

“What are we going to do?” Fluttershy asked Blades. “We can’t go back to Autobot HQ and we can’t tell the Shadowbolts about their gooey clones…”

“The best thing we can do now is get you all to safety,” said First Aid. “Since Autobot HQ is out of commission, we’re taking you somewhere safe and isolated. A quiet part of a nearby forest should give you some time to rest and recuperate.” She also heard Pinkie and Applejack give off faint and almost lifeless breaths. “Given what you’ve all been through, you’re going to need it…”

And the Protectobots all drove out of Canterlot and into the forest, as far away from the city, the Shadowbolts, and Toxibolts, and everything else. They knew that the Rainbooms wouldn’t be able to survive with Acid hunting them down and the Toxibolts’ ultimatum lingering in their minds. All that they could do now was do the one thing they could: Serve and protect.