Transformers and Equestria Girls: Robots in Disguise

The Autobots were still driving away from the fire that was destroying every Energon crystal, as it was still chasing them and getting closer any minute. They needed to return to the base, but Optimus needed to confirm something first.

“Ratchet! Are the Rainbooms and Mini-cons already in the base?!” he asked.

“Affirmative, Optimus,” Ratchet replied from the radio comm link, until Pinkie Pie interrupted. “We’ve just retrieved a HUUUUUUUUUGE---”

“PINKIE!” the girls shouted.

“Ratchet! Bridge us back! Use the arrival coordinates! Now!” Optimus yelled.

With that order, a ground bridge portal appeared in front of the Autobots. That was their ticket to the survival. Activating their turbo, the Bots drove towards the ground bridge portal with the fire still chasing them. Since Optimus was last, he could see his team arriving at the base, but he could feel the flames coming closer. As everyone already got in, Ratchet quickly ran towards the ground bridge’s control. He pulled the lever up to close the portal, but not before the flames tried to consume Prime. Optimus reacted to this blazing tsunami of fire and then transformed into robot mode. He flipped into the air and landed outside of the ground bridge with a flipping position.

“That… was… AWESOME!!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed, seeing how amazing Optimus made that move. “My goodness!” Fluttershy exclaimed. “Are y’all okay?” Applejack asked.

“Yeah, we’re fine. Never been better,” Bulkhead chuckled. “Ya said it, Bulk,” Jazz said.

“You still cracking, Bumblebee?” Smokescreen asked. Bumblebee bleeped that he was still in one piece.

“Cutting it a bit close. How about Cliffjumper?” Ratchet asked, as the Autobots looked with faces of sorrow.

“What happened to you guys, anyway?” Sunset asked, as the girls sat in their hangout space.

Pinkie Pie suddenly asked many questions excitedly, “Was that an explosion?! Was there a fight?! Can we come help fight the next time you need us?! Can we?! Can we?! Huh?! Huh?!”

“Look!” Arcee yelled.

“Are you okay, Arcee?” Rainbow Dash asked, feeling a little concerned for the blue and pink female Autobot.

“Let’s let them handle it, dear,” Rarity said, as they left the Bots alone for some privacy.

Optimus then looked at her, “Arcee, what did you see?”

Arcee then replied with her arms crossed, “Not Cliff. At least. Not anymore. He was mutated. Butchered, like something from those 'Con experiments during the war.” She then moaned and tripped over herself, as Bumblebee bleeped in concern, asking if she was okay. “No. I'm fine! Just dizzy.”

“Robots who get dizzy?” Sci-Twi asked.

“Robots with emotions,” Fluttershy commented.

“Robots who can die?” Sunset asked.

Ratchet checked his scanner on Arcee for anything until he found a purple liquid on her hand, “What is this?”

“Don't know. Cliff was covered in it. Leaking it,” Arcee replied, as Ratchet used a scalpel to remove it as he got a closer look.

Ratchet then had a solution for Arcee, “Go take a decontamination bath. Now!” Bumblebee helped her up and took her over to the medical bay.

“Arcee?!” Rainbow Dash said, as Arcee looked at her. “I’m really sorry about your loss. Will you be okay?” Arcee accepted her sympathies and nodded, until she then left with Bumblebee.

“Excuse me!” a voice called behind Optimus.

Reacting to the voice, Optimus turned back and saw Rarity holding her phone in her hand. He knew what she wanted to ask, so the leader of the Autobots walked towards the Rainbooms and stopped in front of them.

“Yes, Rarity?” Optimus asked, getting her attention.

“I don’t want to bother you or anything, darling,” Rarity said, while checking the phone’s buttons. “but I can’t seem to have any network here. No bars,” she said while showing Optimus her phone.

“A security precaution,” he answered. “The silo walls of this base isolate all radio waves. It has a shield that protects us and cloaks our position from being detected by the Decepticons.”

“Well, if I don’t call my sister, or my parents like right now,” Rarity said, tapping buttons on her phone. “I’m pretty sure the police will be out looking for me.”

Suddenly, Optimus lowered himself closer towards the girls, scaring them. While watching over them during the Friendship Games, the Autobots, especially Optimus and Bumblebee, have learned a few human customs and one that caught Prime’s interest was the laws that were somehow similar to the ones of the Elite Guard. If the police force would soon be searching for Rarity, she surely might’ve caused something bad against the government or the county.

“Have you broken a law?” Optimus asked looking confused.

“Umm… curfew,” Rarity answered. “It’s after 10 pm, and I’ve got family.”

“I better get home too,” Fluttershy said. “I have my animals to care for at the shelter.”

“And I need to get back to my farm as well. My folks are probably worried,” Applejack said.

“Earth customs,” Optimus said, while standing back up straight. “I hadn't considered. But the issue of your safety still remains.” He then turned to the big green Autobot, “Bulkhead, accompany Pinkie Pie and Applejack home.”

“SWEET!” Pinkie Pie yelled. “My folks will freak!”

“And maintenance covert surveillance… in vehicle form,” Optimus continued.

“Curbside duty. Got it!” Bulkhead acknowledged.

“Awww!” Pinkie said sadly.

“Bumblebee!” Optimus said to the yellow Bot. “Since you two have somehow created a bond, you’ll watch over Fluttershy.”

Bumblebee and Fluttershy looked over to each other. Under his faceplate, Bee somehow smiled and a soft shy smile appeared too on the girl’s face and she gently tugged her hair with her fingers. Unlike her friends, the shy girl already trusted the Autobots, but she feels that her trust belongs to the yellow Autobot.

“Still dizzy,” Arcee sighed. “You’re fine, says your physician. Just carry along,” Ratchet said.

“Ratchet!” Optimus said.

“Busy!” Ratchet replied.

“Arcee,” the Autobot leader continued. “Rainbow Dash is your responsibility now.”

“I’m on it, Optimus,” Arcee said, acknowledging his orders. “Looks like I’m your big sister, kid,” she chuckled.

Rainbow Dash somehow didn’t say a word. Of course she trusted the Autobots, but she didn’t like the fact that their planet was now a battlefield of a robotic civil war from outer space.

“Smokescreen,” Optimus said as he turned to the blue and yellow Autobot. “you must make sure that Rarity has a safe trip.”

“Will do, Optimus! Won’t let you down!” Smokescreen replied as he and Rarity left the base.

“Mind if I join in?” Jazz asked. “Be my guest!” Smokescreen replied, as they both started driving Rarity home.

“What about us?” Sunset asked.

“Since I’m the only Autobot left while the others are indeed busy, I shall take care of you both and accompany you both home,” Optimus replied.

“But I’m not…” Sci-Twi said, before Sunset placed a friendly hand in her shoulder.

“Don’t worry, Twilight,” Sunset said. “Optimus knows what he’s doing, right?”

“Affirmative,” Optimus said.

It was night in Canterlot City and Optimus Prime was the only truck driving in the empty streets of the city. Inside him were Sci-Twi, the human world’s Twilight Sparkle, and Sunset Shimmer, who told Optimus about Equestria, what Princess Twilight did during her times in Equestria and the human world. Sunset then told Optimus about her backstory, like when she was Princess Celestia’s former student until what she was now, and how she turned from evil to nice, and then explained what happened during the Friendship Games.

From all of those stories, Optimus was interested about her story of these so called ‘Royal Sisters’, her people known as ‘ponies’ and how pony Twilight became the ‘Princess of Friendship’. As Sunset shared the ponies story, she and Sci-Twi learned more about the Transformers’ culture too.

“So you’re mortals?” Sunset asked. “But how?”

“The time that my kind can live is longer than the organics,” Optimus answered. “but we all die no matter how or what we do.”

“I’m impressed, Optimus,” Sci-Twi said. “I would like to…” she then yawned. “I would like to know more about your kind.” She continued as her eyes began to close.

Suddenly, her head fell onto Sunset’s shoulder. Ignoring her tired and sleepy friend, Sunset continued to talk with Optimus.

“Me too…” Sunset yawned. “I have so many questions to… make…” she said before her eyes closed.

With those words said, Sunset fell asleep with her head resting on top of Sci-Twi’s hair, until they both laid down on the seats they were on.

“Sunset? Twilight?” Optimus asked.

But the only thing Optimus could hear was two cute sounds of soft snoring. After stopping in a parking lot, Optimus turned off his engine and lights, allowing the night to be covered with darkness again. Before Optimus started his watch, he looked inside once more to the two human girls. They were sleeping against each other peacefully. In the war of Cybertron, Optimus somehow learned to never sleep since the survival of his Autobots was the most important thing to him.

“Sleep well then,” he said, as the girls continued to sleep while Optimus stayed with them for the rest of the night.

Back on the Nemesis, Starscream went to his leader’s quarters to speak to him. “I don't think you need to worry about further Autobot interference, Master. Not with Optimus gone,” he said.

“And what evidence do you posses of this fact?” Megatron asked.

“I destroyed the mines, as you instructed,” Starscream replied.

“Optimus is not so easily destroyed. We have millenia worth of battles behind us to prove it!” Megatron said, before he turned back towards the Dark Energon.

“Maybe you should take a break, my Lord,” Starscream said. “I worry that too much contact with the Dark Energon might allow it's properties to… adversely affect you.”

“Or perhaps, Starscream, I have not permitted myself… contact enough!” Megatron commented as he took a shard from the giant boulder of Dark Energon.

Starscream suddenly realized what his leader was about to do, “Wait! Lord Megatron! No! Not your spark chamber! You do not know what it will do!”

Suddenly, it was too late. Megatron already pierced the shard into the spark inside his chest, and suddenly, its power began to flow through his entire body, causing him to react like he was on some kind of overload.

Back at the outpost, Spike was somehow asleep on his doggie bed Rarity got for him for their hangout spot for the base, and Ratchet looked through his microscope to see what the purple liquid is capable of. “Hmm. The base elements of this goo are like nothing I've ever encountered. Must be extremely concentrated to have affected Arcee so rapidly,” he said, while using some forceps to remove the microscopic plate underneath the microscope until some of the fluid fell onto one of his machinery that Bulkhead broke. “Unfortunately, complete results are slow coming without the use of proper diagnostic tools! Thank you very much, Bulkhead!”

As the purple liquid was absorbed into the technological machinery, it began to transform into a monstrous mutation, fueled by Dark Energon, and then began crawling around.