It was 9:30 and the sun was already up. In a parking lot, a red and blue truck sees Canterlot City slowly began to regain life after a long and quiet night. Optimus feared that Megatron may have been preparing for his next move since he had now returned and is now on Earth. He and his Decepticons were not famous for being quiet at all. Every time the Autobot leader looked to the people of the town, he started to remember what Cybertron looked like before the war destroyed it. His kind may have been the most advanced one in their galaxy and the entire universe, but, to him, the humans were indeed the most impressive race of life that he has ever seen in his entire life. It’s true that humans have had their wars for power and control over previous time, but they still have managed to save their planet and their countries, and people from their villains unlike the Autobots, who have failed to protect their home planet. But if only Autobots and Decepticons could live in peace and coexist once again...

Suddenly, a yawn drew Prime’s attention. He look to the driver seats and saw both Sunset and Sci-Twi waking up. Last night, Sunset told him that she and Princess Twilight, who the Autobots never got to meet, were not humans, but Equestrians, aka ‘ponies’, a small kind of colored equines with magical genetic powers like super strength, gravitational flying, mental telepathy and other abilities, from a planet in an alternate dimension called ‘Equestria’. Sunset also said that she used to be a student of a 1,000 year old alicorn named Princess Celestia, until she betrayed and abandoned her for her selfish conquest for power, and that the other Twilight is a princess in her world, which means that she represents the magic of friendship and protects her kind like the Primes did since the beginning of time. Sunset also did the same during the final event of the Friendship Games, when Sci-Twi was corrupted by Midnight Sparkle’s power, and when the Rainbooms were trying to stop the sirens from conquering the world with their evil musical rhythm and hypnotic singing voices.

“Good morning, Twilight,” Sunset said.

“Good morning, Sunset,” Sci-Twi said.

“Good morning, girls,” Optimus greeted.

“Good morning to you too, Optimus,” greeted Sci-Twi while rubbing her eyes and stretching, before reaching for her glasses.

“I assume you both have a pleasant rest,” Optimus said kindly.

“Yeah, we did,” Sunset said, putting her jacket back on.

Sunset and Sci-Twi chuckled a little. A sense of humor. Another thing that Optimus lost since Megatron’s wrath had brought darkness to the empire of peace of the Transformers. In that moment, the Autobot noticed that both the purple girl and the red and yellow haired girl started to recognize the place they were in. He was taking her and Sunset Shimmer to their homes yesterday, but after the rescue mission and the battle in the Energon mine to rescue Cliffjumper, who was corrupted by Dark Energon, they felt a little tired and decided to sleep with Optimus.

“We sleep right here, didn’t we?” Sunset asked while rubbing the back of her head with a smile.

“Affirmative,” Optimus answered. “After you two started to sleep, I decided to remain here in this location and watch you till was morning, and continue covert surveillance in vehicle form.” He then started turning on his engine.

“Y-You watched us all night?” Sci-Twi asked while blushing. “You...You didn’t need to do that, but thanks,” Sunset said.

When Optimus heard that words, he decided to decline what she and Sci-Twi as said. He was a Prime and an Autobot. It was his sworn duty to protect every innocent life from those who want to destroy everything for power, even if he had to give up his spark to do such a thing.

“Forgive me now, girls,” he said, while driving off the parking lot. “but your safety is my mission now. After all, it's the least I can do after we brought the Decepticons and our war to Earth, since Megatron has now returned.”

“Don’t be hard on yourself.” Sunset said. “I know how hard it is to save a planet, especially when trying to come up with a solution. I’m sure you’ll find ways to make sure Megatron’s beaten soon.”

“I’ve been there too, but I was obsessed with trying to understand with the magic going on at my new school,” Sci-Twi said. “But Principal Cinch blackmailed me into joining the Friendship Games if I wanted to apply to the Everton Independent Study Program, but after the games were over and when Sunset helped me, we all became friends and I decided to transfer to Canterlot High instead, but you may already know that.”

In that moment, Prime understood that Sci-Twi, Sunset and himself were equal. They both may look different, but we like the same thing and we are both leaders. In short, both the little nerdy purple girl and red-haired yellow girl were surely more than meets the eye.

“I understand,” he said “but first you may need to refresh yourselves while I make a little stop here before we go to the Ark.”

After saying those words, Optimus stopped a few steps away from a cafe. Through the truck’s window, Sunset and Sci-Twi saw many people entering and exiting the cafe and some of them were eating some delicious croissants, donuts, muffins, bagels and cinnamon rolls, and drinking some coffee, and other drinks related to it.

“But why?” Sci-Twi asked, while raising up her eyebrow.

“I believe that the humans usually begin their day with a special mealtime of food called ‘breakfast’, am I wrong?” Optimus asked, making the girls chuckle once more.

“GOODBYE, MAUD!” Pinkie Pie yelled while opening the front door. “I’LL SEE YOU GUYS LATER!”

Pinkie Pie then closed the door and turned her attention to a green SUV waiting for her. This vehicle was her and Applejack’s new best friend from another planet, and his name was Bulkhead. Skipping happily towards it, Pinkie stopped in front of it.

“Good morning, Bulky!” she said. “How was your night?”

“Well, I just stayed up all night watching you from being killed by a Con, so somehow it was pretty good, and a lot quiet. Ironhide’s on his way back to base from watching Applejack for me,” he said while opening the door, allowing Pinkie Pie inside. “By the way, why in Primus do you humans would like to have a rock for a pet? I just don’t get it,” he asked while the pink human was set inside of him.

“Oh, you mean Boulder?” Pinkie asked. “Only my sister, Maud Pie, does that, silly. She loves rocks and knows everything about them.”

“And they say that Blitzwing is crazy…” Bulkhead said while he drove away.

Rainbow Dash couldn’t believe that she was awakened at 10 am by Arcee’s motorcycle engine. Luckily, Rainbow Dash lived alone. The Autobot female has received orders to take the human to the Ark so that Optimus Prime and her team, including the Mini-cons and the Rainbooms, could work together to prevent another Decepticon attack or prepare for an assault to an Energon mine controlled by Megatron. During her driving, Arcee could hear Rainbow Dash frustratingly growling, while wearing her motorbike helmet from the Friendship Games tricross relay. She would never understand humans or their behavior. They are very strange, but also very funny in many ways. In that moment, the girl Autobot decided to break the silence between her and Rainbow Dash.

“Don’t worry, Rainbow Dash,” she said, attracting Rainbow Dash’s attention. “You can still watch your cart and play your video games with Bumblebee and the others,” Arcee said with a giggle.

“Hilarious…” Rainbow Dash said sarcastically as she rolled her eyes . “For a robot, you really have the strangest sense of humor.”

“First, does ‘robotic life form’ mean anything?” Arcee asked, before she continued. “Second, I’m a skilled fighter. And third, I learn from the best.”

“The best?” Rainbow asked. “You mean Optimus Prime, right?”

“Not really, but close,” Arcee replied. “He’s more the kind of a ‘serious bot’ type than ‘funny bot’.”

“I see…” Rainbow Dash said, losing interest in the Bot’s chat.

Arcee noticed that her human was getting bored again. Humans were really weird sometimes, depending on their behavior types. Suddenly, the female Autobot had a idea. Rainbow Dash let out a sudden gasp of shock when the motorcycle started to increase the speed. In that moment, Rainbow Dash held with all her strength on to Arcee’s handles when she began to do a wheelie. Arcee landed her front wheel in the ground and decreased her speed. In a few seconds, a smile suddenly started to appeared in Rainbow Dash’s face.

“THAT! WAS! AWESOME!” she shouted. “Let’s do that again!”

“Are you sure?” asked Arcee “I bet that you will not handle my speed for five seconds. But of course I also thought you might actually enjoy the ride if we weren't getting shy at it,” Arcee chuckled.

“Oh yeah?” Rainbow Dash asked. “Bring it on, Cee!” she yelled while the Autobot increased the speed once more.

“I can’t believe that you actually needed two hours to choose a simple dress!” Smokescreen said in amazement. “Crazy… How can your sister even survive with you?” Jazz asked in curiosity.

“Excuse me, darling,” Rarity protested, carrying her bag. “but I also couldn’t go to your home with a simple better dress. Better perfect than simple, to be exact.”

“You almost just sound like Ratchet.” Smokescreen commented. “To be honest, you are less worst than him...”

A silent moment fell between the human and both the Autobots. Smokescreen understood that he may have hurt the girl’s feelings. He and Jazz both knew these creatures are more sensitive than Autobots, but... Smokescreen felt more guilty for questioning Rarity.

“I’m sorry, Rarity.” Smokescreen said. “I sounded a lot like someone I knew a few nano-seconds ago…”

“It’s okay, Smokescreen darling,” Rarity said, “Unlike you two, I have my home and you lost yours. I should have more respect for you…”

If Smokescreen was in robot form, he would be smiling right now. A traffic light in front of both sports cars turned red, forcing them to stop while humans began to walk across the street in front of them both. “I see you understand traffic lights,” Rarity said.

“Just doing what we’re meant to do,” Jazz said. “My point exactly,” Smokescreen agreed.

What a nice view that Bulkhead could see while driving out of Sweet Apple Acres with both Applejack and Pinkie Pie inside. This location belonged to Applejack’s family and their job was taking care of an organic food called ‘apples’ from the trees. With this food, as Applejack said last night, they could do other food called ‘pie’ and drinks that they called ‘juice’, especially one called ‘cider’.

You got a nice place here, Applejack,” Bulkhead said. “Earth probably looks like a nice planet to live.”

“Thanks, Bulkhead,” Applejack said, leaning back with her legs on top of the radio so Bulkhead could steer.

“Ooh! Ooh! Tell us about Cybertron! Tell us! Tell us! Huh?! Please?! Please?!” Pinkie Pie excitedly exclaimed.

“Yeah, Bulkhead. I bet that is a good place to live as well,” Applejack said.

“Well…” Bulkhead started. “Before the war, it was a place of peace and joy like Optimus said, both Autobots and Decepticons lived together with each other, before we all split apart, due to our differences.”

“Whoa… Do ya miss the old days, sugarcube?” Applejack asked.

“Sometimes,” the Autobot answered. “All the time to be honest.”

“Huh… So, what was your work like back on Cybertron?” Applejack asked.

“I bet he had the best job of all time!” Pinkie said.

Bulkhead suddenly didn’t know what to say, but he hated mentioning the past. Bulkhead was going to deny telling his story, but Pinkie Pie’s puppy eyes and smile has somehow changed the Wrecker’s idea. He and his old teammates, the Wreckers could face an entire Decepticon army, huge warships, Insecticons, and other worst things that he fought in the war for Cybertron, but he couldn’t resist to a really cute pink human girl?!

Bulkhead groaned, “Well, Pinkie, I, in times before the war, was a… Energon farmer,” Bulkhead hesitated. “I was raised there and mined for Energon during the Golden Age. Before I realized I was capable for more greater things, I moved on and decided to become a Constructicon, which are a construction crew of Cybertronians meant to build things like cities, statues, streets, everything, including new highways and bridges. But I eventually went to the Autobot academy to become a warrior since the war started, but I eventually became a Wrecker, due to my size and strength. My team and I would blow stuff up, like Decepticon ships, and take on any Con in the way. But later on, I left the Wreckers to join up with Optimus. I may be a Wrecker, but I also have a sensitive side in my spark, due to being an Autobot and all. So, as you can see, I can either build stuff or break stuff, whichever works. It’s all I’m good at.”

“Wow! That was pretty tough, going through a life like that,” Applejack said.

“Yeah, but since you girls came into our lives, you all somehow changed my life,” Bulkhead said. “Aww! I’m so happy I could cry,” Pinkie Pie said.

“How about some radio while we’re driving?” Applejack asked, until Bulkhead played some 80’s music. “Now, this is nice…”

This was the most wonderful morning of Fluttershy’s life. She never knew that Bumblebee was so much sweet and gentle like she was. Even with his big metal hands and feet, Bee was very careful with her animals. He said to her that when he and his crew saw Earth’s culture for the first time, her kind and the animals inhabiting it were very interesting to him.

Now, they were in the middle of nowhere, watching a cartoon show Fluttershy loves to watch after playing a video game she loves playing. Fluttershy thought it was so much fun watching it and playing her game with Bumblebee, and she even felt safe with him.

“It’s very nice that a robot like you loves cartoons, Bumblebee,” she said while cleaning a tear from her eye after laughing so much.

“Bzzt-brpdo-brpzt,” Bumblebee said.

“And yes, it sure is nice out here. Watching the view from here makes me happy,” she said. “By the way, did you have a family or any friends, like a best friend or a girlfriend, back on Cybertron, before the war?”

“Bzzt-brpdo-brpzt…” Bumblebee answered sadly.

Fluttershy’s heart suddenly stopped. She couldn’t believe that Bumblebee never had anyone related to him in Cybertron before the war. He also said that he was a nobody before he became a warrior. What a horror it was to live a life during in such a bloody war that may have killed many Autobots or Decepticons.

“I-I’m sorry knowing that, Bumblebee…” she said while rubbing his steering wheel “We...should get to the base, d-don’t you think?”

Bumblebee bleeped in acknowledgement, and then he started driving.

At a local state park, Optimus Prime, along with Sunset Shimmer and Sci-Twi on his shoulder were watching human children and their parents playing on the playground. One human female standing next to a human male with a baby in her arms, along with their other children, have caught the Autobot leader’s attention.

“I still don't understand…” he said.

“Huh?” Sunset asked. “What is it, Optimus?”

“As Autobots, you do realize we’re sworn to preserve life and protect the beings that coexist with it, as I mentioned to you before,” Optimus asked.

“Yes?” Sci-Twi said.

“Yet, you humans seem to develop in age so easily. So… how do you create this little organic creatures?” he asked, pointing at the baby.

“You mean the babies?” Sunset asked while blushing “Well…”

Sunset approached to the Prime’s ear and whispered something into it. Suddenly, Optimus’s optics widened in shock. Sunset and Sci-Twi giggled a little after. Optimus had never heard such a awkward thing in his entire career since the beginning of time.

Back at the outpost, Ratchet was still working on the examination from last night, and the base was somehow quiet. “Thank goodness for piece and quiet,” Ratchet said, as he went back to work. “Houseguests can be such a bother.”

“Good morning, Ratchet,” Spike said, walking over to the doc bot.

“Hello, Spike,” Ratchet said. “Need any help or are you good?” Spike asked.

“I’m pretty much taken care of, but thank you,” Ratchet replied. “Okay,” Spike said, before scratching his face with his hind paw.

While looking through the microscope, he and Spike heard metal clanging loudly, “Huh?!” He then looked around to find out what it was, but then just shrugged his shoulders and looked through the microscope again.

He and Spike suddenly heard metal crawling noises, “Optimus?”

Spike gasped and barked loudly. He and Spike suddenly saw something on the floor crawling towards them, and Ratchet gasped, “BY THE ALLSPARK!!”

The Nokia-bot jumped and charged itself at Ratchet, and began to attack him but it kept crawling around as the medic tried to kill it with a crowbar while Spike barked and tried to stay behind. It suddenly sliced his microscope.

“I needed that!” Ratchet said, until the crawling critter jumped onto the ground as Spike stood in front of the Nokia-bot and growled at it, until the creature leaped towards Ratchet, but suddenly out of nowhere, a blue laser blasted the creature.

Optimus, along with Sunset and Sci-Twi, who went over to Ratchet, saved the medic’s life.

“Ratchet, are you okay?” Sunset asked.

“Yes, I’m fine, Sunset. Thank you,” Ratchet replied.

Sci-Twi saw her puppy, Spike whimpering, until she went over to him, “Spike!” She then picked him up and held him against her for a hug. “Are you okay?” Spike whimpered and cuddled with her chest.

Suddenly, the Nokia-bot re-emerged and was about to attack them both, until Optimus stepped onto it and crushed it with his foot.

“And stay broken!” Ratchet said, as Spike growled, before Sci-Twi shushed him and petted him. “Shhhhhh… It’s okay, Spike. I’m here. It’s over…” Spike then nuzzled with her again.

“Now what could’ve caused that?” Ratchet asked.

Optimus then spoke up, “I have a grave suspicion, Ratchet. Dark Energon.” They looked at the destroyed Nokia-bot, as it was sparking with electricity. Sunset and Sci-Twi knew it meant big trouble.

Author's Note

Looks like the Autobots found out Megatron’s up to something bad!