Chapter 8

The city of Canterlot used to be a prestigious place, full of noble stallions and mares of wealth and power, of bustling shops and restaurants, despite the hardships of all the times this city has been attacked…

But it was now a flaming wreck, it looked even worse than when the Changeling's tried to invade…

The stores and restaurants are decrepit and empty, the life that it once had was now bleak and bloodied as the stains on the cobblestone ground, giving it the look of a ghost town.

Patrols of higher ranking Caribou scouted the large city in case there were Intruders, not knowing what came for them…

Up in the tower, a Caribou guard looked towards the edge of the valley, and gasped...

On the horizon, brightly clashing against the slowly setting sun, was a dark purple glow that looked menacing.

The Caribou jumped up from his stool and grabbed his binoculars sitting on the desk, then he looked toward the horizon.

What he saw chilled him to the bone…

Coming agonizingly slow towards the city was an armada of a few thousand strong, a mix of ponies and Caribou along with warships of a fierce looking appearance.

Leading the charge was the spiky looking jet that reports allegedly saw turning into a large bipedal robot that can easily kill without breaking a sweat.

It was speeding towards the city with the same purple glow that the ponies and Caribou, as well as the ships, had, but it looked more brighter somehow, as if this one was special.

The last thing that the guard saw was that the Armada weren't alive…

They were undead…

Celestia hanged from the shackles in the darkest dungeons she ever been in…

And she USED to have one!...

She weakly raised her head, noticing that her armor had been shed and not a shred of clothing was on her body.

She shivered and felt disgusted at what Dainn might've done to her while she was unconscious…

She struggled as the cell door opened, revealing two corrupted stallions peeking in, grinning like the cats that caught the bird.

One was brown with a strawberry blonde mane and tail, the other a former royal guard taken in by the Caribou's magic.

" Well well, if it isn't out most elegant Princess Celestia…" One said, both of the ponies walked into the room and shut the door behind them.

" More like our toy.~" Said the one in the guard armor, both of them naked as she was.

She stared at the two, horrified as they got closer, hands reaching out…

She screamed...

Megatron flew through the air, his thoughts gone as he focused on one thing and one thing only:

Find Celestia and Kill King Dainn…

The Cybertronian transformed into his robot mode as he spotted a large patrol of Caribou aiming upwards at him with their weak weapons.

He snarled as he fired his fusion cannon at the tower placed between him and his goal, destroying it with one shot.

He turned towards the charging organics and summoned his Star Saber, blasting a wave of Dark Energon towards them and watched as the ten Caribou got caught in it and we're pushed back and crashed into the sides of various buildings, killing them with no mercy.

He vented lightly as he could feel his legion wreaked havoc upon the Caribou population, tearing every single one limb from limb, splitting a few in half with ease, and some were biting them to join the growing horde.

He continued on his trek toward the castle, killing any Caribou unfortunate enough to cross his path...

Then the ground shook, getting Megatron's attention to look towards the entrance of the once beautiful looking castle…

Out stepped a large burly Caribou that was 8 ft feet tall, covered in muscles like a bodybuilder, wearing nothing but a large pair of pants, his dark blue eyes glowing with immense bloodlust that he used to have all that time ago…

The large Caribou chuckled, his voice rumbling as he spoke,

" So, you came for the Alicorn Whore? I must say, YOU were not expected amongst the weak ponies, Megatron." He said, mockingly towards the end.

The mech's optic ridges furrowed slightly at the recognition he was getting from this overgrown sack of flesh and muscle, then his optics glowed an even brighter violet as he caught the sentence before last, the Dark Energon reacted to his rage from the words 'whore.'

If there was something he hated even more than Unicron at this point… THAT word and his spark sister's name in the same sentence made him infuriated…

" You must be Dainn, then…" Megatron spat out the name as if it was a bad batch of high-grade Energon.

The large Caribou snorted, before puffing out his chest proudly, his muscles bulging tightly at the small movement.

" That's KING Dainn to you, you pile of scrap!" He said, his voice booming across the city.

The undead army stopped in their tracks, looking towards the large organic with something akin go outrage, their eyes bloodthirsty…

Dainn ignored the crowd of undead that surrounded him and the mech, walking till he was at least a few yards away.

"Once I take over Equestria and make the mares into our breeders, NOTHING will stop me from taking this world over! THEY WILL ALL BOW TO THE CARIBOU ARMADA!" Dainn boasted, his loud voice echoing across the city, causing a few of his fellow Caribou to cheer from the rooftops, hiding from the Terrorcons.

“ Freedom is the right of all sentient beings, Dainn, and you will not take it away from the ponies, not when I still function!” He declared, causing some of the mares that were still alive and uncaptured to lightly swoon at his bravado.

Then Megatron paused at the irony of the sentence he used by a brother turned sworn enemy…

It was something he used to scoff at during his and Optimus's battles, a sign of weakness…

But now, he was using that same line, for the people he cared about…

And he MEANT IT!

Megatron clenched his right servo, his Star Saber in hand as he prepared to fight a formidable foe.

Dainn, on the other hand, simply yawned, then cracked his neck from side to side, saying,

" A pity… That the so called mighty Princesses sent a walking tin man against my unending might."

The insults did not faze the former Gladiator/Warlord…

What did however, was what the next thing that Dainn said.

" After I beat you in battle, I will slit that Alicorn's throat when I'm done making her my personal pleasure toy..." He grinned, exposing his rotten sharp teeth to the world, " Then I'll find the rest of the Alicorns and kill them after breaking them! To show them what happens to those that dare goes against their SUPERIORS!" He said, his muscles bulging as he grabbed a weapon that appeared to be a mixture of a Warhammer and a spiked mace off of his back holster.

...That was the trigger Megatron needed…

With a bellow of sheer rage, the mech charged to what may be his final battle, his arm blade out and readied, the Star Saber put away into his back holster, his optics glowing immensely.

King Dainn bellowed out in kind, gripping the Warhammer and charged as well...

Twilight Sparkle and Tempest Shadow watched the exchange between enemies, and saw how enraged Megatron looked…

" *GULP* Glad I'm not on his bad side…" Tempest said, her eyes wide as she witnessed the ferocity in Megatron's attacks on Dainn.

Twilight only nodded, her eyes in a similar size as she saw the red optics of the 7 ft tall mech glowing violet with malice and bloodlust, his attacks swift and merciless.

The large Caribou known as King Dainn was barely managing to block off Megatron's attacks with his HammerMace...

" C'mon Tempest, we have a Princess to save…" The young lavender Alicorn mare said, turning her attention away from the battle to the looming structure before her that she once called home.

Now, it was violated by disgusting creatures and remains of pony corpses hanging from the bloodied walls...

The two mares stuck to the shadows as they snuck through the heavily guarded hallways of the castle.

" If I were an Alicorn prisoner, where would I be?" Twilight muttered under her breath as the two passed by another patrol of Caribou.

" In the dungeons." Tempest answers, making Twilight jump a little and look at her best friend in surprise and confusion.

Tempest saw this and lightly shrugged, a small sheepish look on her face.

" It's where I'd put her…" She continued.

Twilight thought it over for a moment, before nodding in agreement.

" Let's go." She said, a spark of determination in her eyes.

They have to save her mentor and friend, as well as save Megatron from his rampage...

Megatron's counterattack got blocked by the Caribou King's weapon, before being shoved back, and when he got his bearings, the mech saw the large spiked mace of the weapon swinging towards his faceplate.

POW!

" GAH!" He shouted in pain.

Megatron flew back at the force of the hit, Energon flying out of his glossa as he crashed against a stone building, making a hole in the wall as he smashed through.

Dainn sneered at the fallen mech, brandishing his MaceWarhammer, before calling out,

" Is this all the best that Celestia has? A scrap of tin? I fought worse monsters when I was a young calf!" He shouted, walking towards the shaking mech as he tried to get up from Dainn's throw.

The Cybertronian's armor was chinked and dented from Dainn's assault, and his venting was ragged from exertion…

But he will NOT give up!

Megatron got to his knee and tried to get to his pedes, when suddenly the hammer slammed against his back, sending him back on the ground, growling in pain.

Dainn stared down at him with a bored look, his blue eyes gleaming with amusement at the smaller being trying to get up off the ground again, a large dent on his backplates.

" Pathetic. I am gonna go ahead and put you out of your misery." He said, lifting the heavy MaceHammer and lifted it over his head, ready to deal the killing blow as Megatron got to a kneeling position again, shaking and his optics were closed, his shoulders slumped in defeat.

" It's such a shame that the whore you care immensely about will never see you perish." He finished, throwing down the hammer to the metal creatures helm, wanting to end this conflict…

Megatron tensed as the Warhammer came down, feeling as if this scene was familiar somehow…

His only regret… was that he never got to say goodbye before joining the Pit for his sins...

Lightning flashed against the sky under the dark clouds that formed during the battle, the hammer only a few inches from his faceplates...

CLANG!

All of time slowed down as two metal servos stopped the hammer's trajectory…

Dainn's eyes widened at the mech before him, the metal claws grasping the polished wooden handle under the giant hammer's head with ease.

Megatron lifted his helm and opened his optics, and Dainn felt fear stirring in his chest.

His optics that used to be blood red with white irises were now glowing bright violet, and his metal body showed veins that glowed the same color…

Author's Note

A/N: I am SO CLOSE to finishing!