Equestria: Castle of Friendship: Two months after Rainbow rocks

Today was a hot one in the land of Equestria as Celestia’s sun decided to go into overdrive for the summer, this had the habit of inconveniencing many a pony who wanted to enjoy the outdoors and thus suffered a bad case of boredom.

For a certain Alicorn Princess however she was nothing if not adaptable, something she had to learn since her first few weeks of coming to the lovely town of ponyville in central Equestria.

Currently she and her friends plus her assistant were in the castle throne room with the map they have to call the “Friendship problem map” and were so far left to their own chores.

Rainbow Dash was busy napping whilst laying across in her throne, she was as usual doing very dash stunts which normally wouldn’t have bothered her but that was before the sun got unbearable. Now she was resting with an ice pack on her forehead provided by Fluttershy and will likely be doing her second favourite activity for the day, sleeping her flank off.

Fluttershy meanwhile was busy providing everypony with ice heaven in the form of ice packs, cold drinks from the castle kitchen and water. Since the castle was more roomy and was much cooler even on days like these Twilight had permitted Flutters to bring many of her animal friends over to ease the burden on her cottage which given the amount of animals that would be there on a normal day would make for a very hot environment, Fluttershy had made sure to remind many of her animals to be on their best behaviour which wasn’t that hard to do given the sun’s ability to sap their energy for activities.

Pinkie Pie despite being Pinkie was also feeling the heat as even as she bounced around to help Fluttershy she had a few ice packs warped around her limbs which crunked loudly as she bounced, still she held that same cheery aura since the day she first saw a rainbow.

Applejack was busy unloading and rolling some barrels of her cold apple cider into the castle, the sun’s rays so hot that even the hard working apples had to stay in the shade for much of the day. Before the sun’s rays could truly take effect AJ managed to get a good sized stockpile to the castle so the Mane six won’t have to risk going out again for a while during the hot day.

Rarity was also on her throne using the map as a place to help her draw some new summer designs, she sadly had been one of the few who were caught outside when the worst of today’s heat hit the land and because of that her neat and well kept coat and mane were stained with dried sweat even after she had used the castle’s showers with Twilight’s permission of course since as Rarity would say “It would be very impolite of me.”

As for the young purple alicorn herself?

She was busy working on the last of some documents before she could truly have the week off, earlier in the day she received a message from Princess Celestia via Spike telling her that she can take the week off until the sun cools as she doesn't want Twilight to hurt herself by overworking in a hot environment.

Ever since she officially became the Princess of Friendship Twilight was told that she’ll be only doing light work in her capacity as a princess, this was due to the fact that for over a thousand years Celestia had been the main head of state doing much of the work that kept the nation together only ever delegating work to ponies who had much more experience in certain fields then the Solar Princess despite her age, however as Luna and later Twilight entered the picture the Solar Princess had to do a lot of reorganising so that the others could have an equal share of the responsibility of governance.

This of course takes time and only recently has Luna begun to fully perform her duties as a princess aside from patrolling the dream world.

As a result Twilight had more free time then she’d expected but was grateful to Celestia all the same.

“Alright y'all! This is the last batch, Pinkie helped with thi-” Applejack said before said pinkie jumping jack banged into one of the barrels on the top of the pile Applejack managed to make with the remaining barrels she brought.

Before the Barrel could hit the ground and lose all that ice cold heaven it was engulfed in a familiar purple aura.

“Pinkie! Be careful you could’ve broke something or worse hurt somepony!” Twilight said as she carefully placed the barrel back on its pile.

“Sorry Twi!” Pinkie said as she got up off the floor with the help of Fluttershy.

“Gota say sugarcube, that was some fine quick drawing you did there.” AJ said as she continued rolling the last few barrels into the kitchen for later whilst the baby dragon Spike came out with an ice pack in claw.

“Yeah but compared to what she did in the past? I’d say her being a U-spirit is not surprising.” Spike said as he walked over to Twilight to grab the completed documents and using his magic dragon breath he sent them to Canterlot.

“YEAH!....What’s a U-spirit?” Pinkie asked which got the rest of the group’s attention.

“Have I never told you guys about that?” Twilight asked right back.

“No darling as far as we’ve known you this is the first time you were mentioned as being this U-spirit thing.” Rarity said.

“Huh” was all Twilight said before she shrugged and started to explain, thinking she might as well whilst she had the chance.

“Well you know how everypony is different in a way right?” Most of either shrugged their shoulders or shook their heads.

“Well to put in a way you could understand a certain Starswirl came up with a theory of how to categorise different beings based on what kind of spirit they have, like Fluttershy for example she has such a kind spirit and thus she would most likely be very kind in a way. The theory itself was actually based using the elements of harmony so it could only account for the “good” kinds of spirits if that makes any sense.”

“Alright..” Applejack said as she came back into the throne room having heard the whole conversation.

“So what does that have to do with this U-spirit thing your supposedly are?” she asked.

“Well to put Starswirl’s theory in another way whilst each being is unique they do fall into a pattern of sorts of how they could behave, U-spirits or Unique Spirits are those who don’t fall under that pattern. But it's not just behaviour that can make a U-spirit as with the case in my entrance exam U-spirits can also have a very strong magical aptitude whether they are Unicorns or not.” Twilight spoke before Spike jumped in.

“Basically Twilight’s a rare kind of pony that most ponies don’t see very often, kinda like in the human world where they have people with…uh what’s that called again Twi?” He asked

“Autism I believe.” Twilight answered before she noticed a familiar book vibrating.

“Speaking of the human world.” Twilight muttered before reading the newest entry in the book.

“Dear Twilight are you doing anything this weekend? Me and the girls are gonna spend it at Flutters house and I wondered if you were free, it would be a good opportunity for you to meet Wallflower, the one who tried to steal our friends' memories? And it probably be the best time to introduce you to my favourite human invention which are CARS. I got one last weekend after passing my drivers test and would love to show you how they work and the history behind them.

Your friend and kinda student Sunset Shimmer.”

“What's a car?” Fluttershy asked after Twilight finished reading the entry.

“Kinda like a moving carriage that humans drive.” Twilight answered as she wrote her reply.

“The Human world sure is strange, but aye wouldn’t mind seeing it to be honest.” Applejack commented.

“Well maybe one day when we find out how to make sure you girls have different appearances when you cross over, like I said two months ago it wouldn’t look normal if two sets of you were in the same place plus I doubt the US government would be okay with that either.” Twilight said as she finished her reply to Sunset and got to gathering her things.

She figured since there wasn’t much room for activities in her world then maybe she’d have the time to spend in the human world, she also did promised to come and see her human friends whenever she got the chance so might as well.

“Wait the who?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“The USA which stands for United States of America or simply the United States or US, it's a human nation like Equestria that took interest in the mirror portal after the Fall formal but really interacted with the girls and I after the Battle of the Bands. To keep a long story short they agreed to leave Canterlot High alone as long as they get to send someone to watch the school and help Sunset and the others over there if anything like the sirens happens again.” Twilight said finishing packing up with the help of Fluttershy and Rarity.

“So I guess we’ll see you in a few days darling?” Rarity asked.

“Yep! Spike send a message to Celestia and while I’m gone and BEHAVE!” Twilight said before she went out of the throne room and headed to the library where the portal was.

“I will!” Spike yelled back.

Before long Twilight would arrive at the library where the Portal room was, opening the door she would trot through the rows and rows of books that Celestia was able to send her after the ones in the Golden Oak Tree Library was destroyed, after find the door in a secluded section of the library Twilight would enter the room before stopping in front of the portal.

“Hmm why do I get the feeling something big is happening?” She thought before she steadied herself after having activated the portal using her book and once it was fully ready she jumped through.

The jump through the portal was instant like the past the few times she came to the human world, only this time she was able to land on her feet.

For a few seconds.

As she tried to stand steady her momentum caused her to tiptoe uncontrollably until she landed in a small patch of flowers right next to the school entrance.

“At least I can get a few metres away from my usual landing spot without falling this time.” Twilight as she tried to get herself up when a familiar hand was offered to her.

“I say 5 out of 10.” Sunset Shimmer said as she pulled Twilight out of the patch before embracing her in a hug which Twilight returned.

Soon enough the rest of her human friends joined in the hug whilst Twilight noticed a seventh person standing near them looking a bit nervous.

“Oh right.” Sunset said noticing Twilight’s gaze, breaking the hug with the others. She walked over to the new girl and put an arm around her shoulder which seemed to ease her a bit.

“Princess Twilight meet Wallflower, the one who nearly cost us everything because of past me but is now a friend like everyone else here.” She said giving Wallflower a playful nuggie.

Twilight smiled before taking Wallflower’s hand in her own gently and said “Nice to finally meet you, Wallflower.”

Wallflower smiled nervously at that before saying “Uh likewise princess?”

Twilight and the others giggled a bit at that.

“So girls, what did you have in mind for this weekend?” Twilight asked as they all headed inside the school.

It was a friday and according to Sunset school was over a few seconds ago so I’d make sense for the girls to grab their things before heading off for the weekend.

“Well first off, why don’t we head to Sugarcube Corner and grab a bite to eat THEN we could talk about what we’ll do for the weekend.” Sunset replied as they walked through the halls to their lockers.

As the girls went to get their things from the lockers which lined the sides of the hallway Twilight patiently waited in the middle before a voice called out to her.

“Ah Twilight! I’m glad to see you could make it this weekend.” Principal Celestia said as she walked towards the group with a man beside her, he had black skin as well as some weight and had a business suit on.

“Glad I could be here Celestia and you are?” Twilight asked as the others finished gathering their things.

“Special Agent William Fowler your majesty, US government DIA.” The man introduced himself.

“Oh! So you're the one who's keeping an eye on things then?” Twilight asked as the others gathered around to see Agent Fowler.

“Pretty much, I wasn't really convinced that the stuff I’m to watch out for was real until I first saw your friends band practice.” Fowler said, chuckling.

“I swear when I saw them grow pony ears and longer hair I thought I was drinking too much.”

Everyone had a good laugh at that.

“Anyway, mind if I join you to go wherever you kids were going after school?” Fowler asked as they all made their way back outside whilst Celestia bide the group farewell for now as she had to tend to some last minute principle work she had to do.

“We’re going to Sugar Cube Corner but are you sure you want to come Mister Fowler?” Sunset asked.

“Well since your dimensional Princess decided to stop by I can’t well leave her unprotected even if she doesn't need it as she qualifies as a foreign ambassador and thus must be escorted. Plus I hear SCC has the best drinks in the city so that’s a plus.” Fowler answered as they exited the school.

“So if we are all in favour I think now would be a great time to show off my new car!” Sunset said gesturing to a yellow and black-striped sports car.

Twilight for a second stood there admiring it, it was one thing to hear and read about it but it was another thing entirely to see it in person.

“Woah, it's amazing Sunset!” She said after a moment

“Thanks so this is a Urbana 500-” Sunset started before Rarity intruded.

“Um darling?”

“Yeah Rares?” Sunset asked, looking at the fashiona.

“You do realise there’s nine of us correct and a car like that could at best hold five people.” Rarity said as Sunset started to piece together the conundrum.

“Uh oops?” Sunset meeped whilst rubbing her head sheepishly.

Walking over to the car Applejack tapped the door a couple of times thinking before saying “Well I think we could fit two more in there if me, Dash, Pinke, Sunset and Rares take the seats and the two others sit in either of our laps.”

Fowler shifted a bit before saying “That won’t be me, I haven't exactly been keeping in shape lately.”

“Fluttershy and Wallflower would be able to sit in our laps but Twilight..” Dash commented before Fowler said.

“I’ll take her with me in my car and we can meet you guys at Sugar Cube Corner.”

The girls except for Wallflower looked unsure for a moment before Twilight cleared her throat.

“I’m sure it’ll be fine girls, you go on ahead and we’ll catch up with you later.” she said as Applejack started to carefully climb into the car followed by the rest of the girls.

Once everyone was in Sunset started the car and once the engine was running she looked at Twilight and said “See ya there Twi! We’ll save you the best!”

Sunset then drove off down the road leaving Twilight and Fowler in the school yard.

“Agent Fowler! Can I talk to you for a moment?” Celestia said coming out of the school at a jog.

Turning towards her Fowler shouted “Sure! Just a second!” Before turning to Twilight and handed her a Car-key.

“Black car over there is mine in front of the red big rig, press this button to unlock it. I’ll see you there after I’ve spoken with the principal.” He said nodding to a black car in front of a large red truck.

“Okay Agent Fowler.” Twilight replied, taking the Car-keys and heading to the black car whilst Fowler went to chat with the principal.

As she approach the car however Twilight felt a slight..buzzing in her head, a feeling of fuzziness that she can faintly relate to when she was using her magic but very distinct like when she was using a new spell for the first time or even when she and her friends first used the rainbow power to banish Triek.

“Strange” Twilight thought as she got closer to the car. “Could this be something magic related?”

As she got closer however she noticed with some uncertainty that the buzzing feeling was coming from the red truck behind Fowler’s car, curious Twilight took a step closer to said human vehicle to see if she gleam something from it.

Standing just a few centimetres away from the door of the truck Twilight could definitely say that whatever was causing the buzzing feeling was coming from this truck, how that was possible was as of yet unknown to the Alicorn Princess because as far as she could see this was just an ordinary Human truck.

Yet aside from the buzzing feeling she was getting Twilight also couldn’t shake the feeling there was more to this truck than meets the eye, it was like she was standing next to a great dragon sleeping, waiting or simply resting.

“What are you?” Twilight wondered as she raised a hand and placed it on the red door of the truck.

She was then bombarded with thousands of feelings, of power, of will, compassion, brotherhood just to name a few and in her mind's eye for just a moment she saw the eyes of a titanic being staring right back at her its eyes a bright blue and looked to be the size of planets which Twilight would assume could go ways to explain the size of the being if it wasn’t in her mind.

As quickly as it came it vanished just in time for Twilight to see the red truck slowly driving away.

She could only look at her hand in shock for but a moment before looking up just in time to see the red truck rounding the corner further up the road and out of sight.

“What. What was that?” Twilight thought as she feared what this could mean.

You don’t just receive visions and odd feelings of magic from any red trucks after all.

“Princess Twilight?” Agent Fowler asked as he came up behind Twilight.

“Y-Yes?” Twilight asked a bit too loudly as she turned to face the US Agent.

“Something wrong?” Fowler asked as he took the keys from Twilight and opened the car for her to get in.

“I,I don’t know Agent Fowler to be honest.” Twilight replied truthfully as she got into the car after Fowler got into the driver’s seat.

“Tell me about it on the way, we'll have at least a few minutes before we get to Sugar Cube Corner.” Fowler said as he started up the car and drove it in the same direction as the red truck had gone.

Unbeknownst to either of them they were being watched by a black and purple drone and two identical Black and Purple Cars who drove after them once they got a head start.

Later

As the two Black cars stalked Fowler’s Car the Agent himself was listening to what Twilight saw before he arrived.

“And you’re sure it was the red and blue truck?” Fowler asked as he kept his eyes on the road.

Twilight meanwhile was in the seat next to him as she tried to explain what had happened “The feeling in my head at the time was becoming stronger as I got close to the truck, I did think it was coming from something or someone inside or maybe even from your car but as I said as soon as I touched the truck that powerful sensation happened along with that brief vision.”

“About that, do you have any idea what that was about?” Fowler asked as he eyed the rear view mirror unbeknownst to Twilight.

“Not really except that I may have gained the attention of something old and very powerful but aside from that I really couldn’t say.” Twilight said.

“So you’ve never seen anything like that before?” Fowler asked as he made a turn after stopping at a red light which went green after a few moments.

“No not that I could remember, maybe there was something in my book collection back in Equestria that might have shed some light on that but I have a very strong feeling that I won’t find anything.” Twilight replied again thinking back to those large eyes, they held the power of something or someone very powerful like that of Faust but in what way she couldn’t say. It was similar to magic or at least it was in the same plane as magic but Twilight was having trouble convincing herself that the vision she had was related to anything magical that originated from Equestria.

“Why’s that?” Fowler asked.

“Because I don’t think what I saw was really Equestrian in origin, let alone magical in origin though I don’t have any solid proof just a gut feeling if you will.”

Silence follows as the car stopped at another red light.

“Um Agent Fowler?” Twilight asked worriedly as she turned to look at him only to see him staring at the rear view mirror.

“What’s wro-“

“We’re being followed.” He simply said as the light turned green and the car slowly moved forwards.

Looking in the rear view mirror as well and then behind her to get a better look Twilight could see two black cars with a purple secondary cruising behind them.

“Who are they?” She asked as their car turned onto the main street of Canterlot city.

“Not sure.” Fowler said keeping one eye on the road and the other on the mirror. “But I doubt it's a coincidence.”

“What should we do?” Twilight asked.

“For now we wait and try to steer them away from your friends.” Fowler said as they began to drive onto the highway and away from the city.

No sooner had they come onto the highway that the two cars took an aggressive stance with one of them increasing speed to ram the rear end of Fowler’s car.

“Shit!” The agent said as he increased his car’s speed to get away from the two cars as they also gained speed.

The chase was now on as the two unknowns try their best to ram the car off the highway, all the while avoiding the traffic at this particular hour of the day.

“This is Agent Fowler DIA to Fort Everest! I am in need of Tier-One assistance, being pursued by two vehicles of unknown affiliation and in escort of a VIP!” Fowler shouted in his phone calling for help first from the police and then the nearby military base of Fort Everest as he continued to drive with one hand whilst avoiding his pursuers' attempts to ram them off the highway.

Twilight for her part was trying desperately to hold on whilst the car veered to the left and right back and forth.

“Dammit! I can’t get through to anyone! They must be jamming us somehow!” Fowler said as he gave up on trying to call for help and instead focused solely on trying to survive the situation they were currently in.

“Anyway I can help!?” Twilight asked as the car shook from the impact of a ram by one of their pursuers.

“Just!...Just let me concentrate-” Fowler started to say before they both heard a police siren further back behind them.

“THIS IS THE POLICE PULL OVER AT ONCE!” Behind the two pursuing cars was a police car with its sirens fully blazing.

Twilight turned in her seat to see the action behind her, her face holding a tinge of hope.

Then next thing she knew it was shattered.

It happened so fast, one moment the police car was hot on the rear end of one of the cars and the next said car JUMPED out of her view.

PHEW!

The sound of energy was all Twilight could recognise before the police car exploded in a fiery inferno, the culprit driving through the flames a second later leaving the car and its former occupants far behind.

“Sweet. Lady. Liberty.” Fowler says they both stared at the scene behind them, Twilight for her part was speechless at how so easily those humans were killed like that. Just who are they!?

As soon as it leaves the flames the car then reveals two gun ports from under its hood, as soon as they begin to glow Fowler realised just in time to say “GET DOWN!” before they ducked into the car as red laser blasts fired just inches above their heads.

Unfortunately as they do so they fail to noticed the other black car to their left as it used the destruction caused by their partner to ram into Fowler’s car sending it crashing to the right and into the barrier of a bridge they were just crossing over.

“BRACE YOURSELF!!” Fowler said as the car fell into a dried man made ravine before blackness took the both of them.

“Uhh” Fowler said as his brain rebooted itself after surviving the crash, shaking his head he realised that his car was upside down and what’s worse he could smell gasoline.

“Oh shit.” He muttered before quickly moving to unbuckle his seatbelt and fell down with a thud.

“Uhhh” Righting himself up and turning to his right he could see Twilight coming into consciousness groaning.

“Princess? Princess!” Fowler shouted as he worked to unbuckle her seatbelt as well whilst the gasoline continued leaking.

“Ahh!” Twilight fell to the upside down roof of the car with another THUD before Fowler began speaking again.

“Princess, can you move? Because we need to get away from this car.” He then began helping Twilight into a crouch position before nudging her to her car door.

“Yeah, Yeah! I can move.” The princess said as she opened the door before crawling out of the car followed by Agent Fowler.

They were able to get a good few feet away from the car when they heard two other engines roaring and turned their heads to the right looking back at the bridge.

From the hole in the barrier they’ve made they could see the flares of the car lights that they are admitting, Fowler knowing they don’t have much time searches their surroundings for an exit.

He found one, a sewer exit just across from them.

“Come on Princess there’s a-” Fowler began to say before the two cars rode off the bridge over them.

And transformed.

It happened so suddenly one moment the cars were flying over their heads the next they changed into some humanoid robots who as soon as they landed pointed one of their arms at the humans which changed from a hand to some sort of energy weapon.

“Get back Princess!” Fowler said, pulling Twilight behind him as he drew his pistol and aimed it at one of the robots.

Just then they could hear more engine noises and turned to see twelve more of those cars driving towards them before they too transformed into robots and aimed their weapons at the trapped humans.

“W-What are they?” Twilight asked not knowing what to do in this situation, in many of the past encounters with danger Twilight and her friends either from Equestria or Earth could rely on their magic to help defeat the villains before them but those were always because they were magical in nature and these robots probably wouldn’t be affected even if Twilight had a way to use her magic now.

“I wish there was a way in this situation.” She thought as the stare down continued.

“Cars that turn into robots…or maybe it's the other way round, either way these guys are definitely not from Earth.” Fowler said as one of the robots began to speak.

“Hand over the female human and we’ll give you fat one a quick death.”

Both Fowler and Twilight were taken aback, Twilight more so than Fowler who was a bit more insulted.

“What do we do?” Twilight asked fear evident in her voice but more out of concern for Fowler than herself.

Fowler was about to speak when a loud horn blew from behind the first two robots, coming at them at full speed was the same red and blue truck that Twilight saw earlier. Before any of them could react the truck slammed into the first two robots sending them flying over the two humans and right into the larger group of jetblack robots.

All eyes present just stared at the newcomer before he too transformed whilst the other robots got back on their feet.

As Twilight watched their saviour changed form she noticed that he’d probably be much larger than the robots opposing him, she was also able to see a bit of his insides through his transformation sequence which showed and told her that he wasn’t some simple robot.

Once he finished transforming the other robots made what Twilight assumed were startled noises before they all yelled.

“OPTIMUS PRIME!?”

“Optimus who?” Twilight and Fowler said in unison as they watched the red and blue robot stare at them for a moment before focusing on the robots in front of him.

“Decepticons! This war is between us and should not involve the people of this young world, leave now and we can both walk away from this unharmed.” “Optimus Prime” said to the other robots his voice deep and authoritative but carrying a tone that Twilight can tell is of a person who wants to avoid fighting if possible.

“Not a chance, Autobot! She has something our master would very much like to get AND we got you outnumbered!” One of the twelve remaining robots said back to Optimus before a green vortex opened behind him.

“Not for long.” He simply said.

Then six other cars came racing out of it before the vortex disappeared and the newcomers also transformed, four of the six were identical to each other with a red paint job and modest builds when compared to “Optimus Prime” whilst the last two were a bulky green robot and a modest but agile built yellow an black robot respectively.

“Who’s ready to rumble!” The bulky green robot shouted as he and the others got into a fighting stance.

“Scrap em!” One of the “Decepticons” shouted and thus battle was joined.

Both sides began firing their arm weapons which were energy based, bolts of energy flew past each other as both sides sought to kill each other.

All the while Twilight and Fowler were running towards the sewer entrance but not before a stray blot blew up Fowler’s car in the process.

“Keep moving!” Fowler said as he led twilight through the gauntlet of blasterfire holding onto her with his right hand whilst he still had his pistol drawn in his left.

They were about halfway to the entrance when suddenly they were both picked up in a giant hand, turning around Twilight saw it was the red robot from before “Optimus Prime”.

He was carrying them in his left hand whilst using his right which turned into a blaster fired blaster blots to his right where the enemy was.

With Prime carrying the two humans they were able to make it to the sewer entrance in record time and safely.

Taking point, Fowler climbed out of the hand first and into the sewer tunnel, he then helped Twilight out of the robot’s hand and placed himself between it and her, not fully trusting the giant robot yet.

“Stay here and keep out of sight, I’ll be back shortly.” The robot said before running back to rejoin the battle.

Once he was out of sight Fowler moved ahead of Twilight down the tunnel before saying “Come on princess we need to move.”

“Wait, what why?” Twilight asked.

“Because whilst I’m glad that the red guy and his friends helped us, we don’t know if they’ll win with the odds against them and that’s assuming they are on our side at all. So come on and let's get some distance!” Fowler replied as continued down the tunnel.

Twilight looked back at the fight for a moment before following Fowler away from the battle.

Back at the battle proper Prime had closed in on one of the Decepticons forcing both to go hand to hand.

Ducking under the con’s right hook, Optimus sends a left thrust into the con’s midsection stunning him for a moment that allows the Prime to send a right hook directly to the con’s faceplate.

The punch sent the con flying backwards however another con came behind Prime wrestling with the Autobot leader though the con didn’t get to have five seconds before he was blasted in the back and fell to the ground offlined.

Optimus turned around to see his best scout, the yellow Autobot Bumblebee holding his right blaster up whilst holding a Decepticon in a left-hand headlock.

Nodding to his scout Prime turned to the rest of the battle whilst Bumblebee finished off the Decepticon.

Although he had been worried for the safety of his Autobots going in it was clear that the Cons weren’t expecting them and were thus on the backfoot especially with three of some of the Autobots best fighters added in the mix.

Two of his Autobots were tag teaming one of the Decepticons, giving him two targets to fight simultaneously which a base line Decepticon is simply not made for.

Another bot was taking on two cons with his hands converted into melee weapons whilst the last of his baseline Autobots was on his back clutching his side which was leaking Energon.

A loud CRASH was heard and Prime looked over and saw the green Autobot Bulkhead finishing off the last of the three Decepticons he was previously fighting.

“BULKHEAD! BUMBLEBEE! Help A-236 and A-618! I shall help T-34C!” Optimus ordered as he drawed his axe from his right arm and charged one of the cons attacking the melee welding Autobot.

With a powerful swing he cut a massive gash into the back of the Decepticons, sending him flying away from T-34C and over the wounded Autobot.

Distracted by the appearance of the Autobot Leader the second of the cons attacking T-34C failed to noticed said Autobot thrusting a blade clean through his midsection, Energon leaking and spilling from the impact but the con was able to block the second blade with his own whilst using his free hand to grab T-34C’s head and started squeezing.

T-34C started to scream in pain as his head unit started to compress, small leaks of Energon appearing on the sides and his visor started to crack under the intense pressure.

“Say hi to Primus you stinking Auto-” The con never got to finish his sentence as he forgot the presence of the prime before Optimus buried his axe into his back causing the rest of his body to go limp.

Preying the con’s hands away from his head T-34C gave a nod of thanks to the last of the primes before clutching his head and taking a knee to steady himself after such a near death experience.

“I’m fine sir, check on T-803.” 34C said as Prime tried to help him before nodding and headed towards the downed Autobot.

“Soldier, can you hear me?” Prime asked as he knelt next to T-803 who was still holding onto his wound.

“Yeeeaaah I hear ya.” The bot said slurred clearly out of it judging by the loss of energon.

Optimus could see that 803 would need medical care soon but the damage isn’t too bad enough that he’d reckon the bot would fine for now so there wouldn’t be any immediate need for a medical extract

“All clear!” Bulkhead said as he, Bumblebee, A-236 and A-618 came up to the Prime, weapons still primed and ready.

“Autobots see to our wounded. I will check on the humans.” He said before heading back to the pipe entrance.

When he got there and checked inside however they were nowhere to be found.

“Optimus Prime to base, can you track the cellphones of the humans?” Optimus asked, knowing that with the Decepticons gone the airways should be clear.

“One Oment, Roment,(WHACK) MOMENT! Optimus scanning now.” The Autobot Mini-con Fixit replied on the other end.

“Got wit, tit,(WHACK) IT! They’re about sixty metres south and gaining distance possibly to return to the population section nearby.” Fixit answered a few moments later.

“Thanks Fixit.” Prime replied before looking over to where T-803 was, 618 was performing basic aid but it was clear that more advanced facilities were needed.

“Fixit tell Ratchet to bring his medkit and Groundbridge over to our location, we have a bot down and other needs to be looked at.” Optimus ordered before walking up out of the gully.

“Optimus?” Bulkhead called.

“Bulkhead you’re in charge until Ratchet gets here, keep our wounded safe whilst I search for the humans.” Optimus ordered as he was halfway up the gully.

“You sure that's wise I mean what about not getting the humans involved?” The green Autobot asked.

“Whilst it is true that we shouldn’t have the humans involved in our war we both also know that with Megatron in charge it would be only a matter of time until he had the humans involved though it is unlikely they would be equal allies if Megatron choses to ally with them and more of tools which is something I personally cannot allow. Further more there’s the fact that those Decepticons were specifically after that human female, and we must know why.” Optimus said.

Sighting in defeat and knowing he can’t easily change his commander’s mind Bulkhead simply said “Good luck and be careful boos.”

With that the Prime got up to the top of the gully before transforming and drove away down the highway back to Canterlot.

It was sundown by the time Fowler and Twilight returned to the city through the sewer, fortunately when they got up through the manhole there was nobody around to smell them or complain about how they were in the sewers to begin with.

“Uh I’m definitely gonna have a shower when I get back.” Fowler said as he smelled his arm which still had some bad smells.

Twilight didn’t reply, her face in deep thought about what had just happened today.

“That robot, Optimus Prime…he was the truck I had that vision from. What could it mean? Did he have a similar vision? Why did those other robots want me and how can I stop them?” She thought.

During the few times they saved this world from a threat Twilight and her friends had always used Magic combined with their feelings of friendship and unity to stop them but that was using Equestrian Magic on Equestrian threats in contrast those robots were at the very least not from Equestria so Twilight didn’t know if Equestrian Magic would work on them.

She sighed “I know it’s best tell Princess about this but-”

“Alright the portal isn’t far now your highness” Fowler said suddenly.

“Huh?” Twilight asked as she noticed Canterlot high dead ahead.

“Look Princess, given that those robots can apparently turn into Earth vehicles, there's not much we can do to keep you safe here, at least for tonight anyway. My advice is to head back to Equestria for now until we know more about what’s going on.” Fowler said as they crossed the street before heading towards the mirror portal statue

“What about my friends here?” Twilight asked.

“It's best we keep this between us whilst we figure out what those robots are and what they want.” Fowler replied as got his phone out which thankfully survived the ordeal.

Twilight said nothing as she processed that before saying “What about those in Equestria?”

Fowler stopped for a moment near the statue as Twilight did the same whilst he put his phone to his ear trying to call someone.

“Hmm..at least keep it tight, only your friends and the princesses can know about this. We don’t want to risk a panic in either world.” Fowler said after a moment of trying to call someone.

Putting his phone away from his ear he cursed “Dammit that jamming must have a wider area then I thought, I better get going regardless and you should too your highness-”

“Please, Agent Fowler, you can drop the formalities and just call me Twilight.” Twilight said as she approached the statue.

“Is that an order your highness?” Fowler said with a small smile.

Turning back towards him Twilight replied “Make that a royal decree while your at it won’t you?”

A small round of chuckles came from both of them at the attempt of a joke whether it was bad or not wasn’t the point, it helped relieve some of the tension that was present since they escaped the firefight.

“As you wish Twilight, stay safe. I'll be keeping an eye on the portal and make sure none of the bots know what's here.” With that Fowler headed off Phone once again up against his ear as he tried to get a signal.

Twilight meanwhile simply stood in front of the mirror section of the statue that housed the portal itself contemplating today’s events.

“Optimus Prime………who are you-” She thought to herself before she heard a engine running, knowing Fowler’s car was toast she feared it was one of the robots in its car form but she felt a bit of relief when she recognised the sound the engine was making which was of a truck.

Turning around her suspicions were proven true as the same red and blue truck that started all this pulled up along the road next to the school.

Twilight however was still a bit uneasy as whilst this red truck and his friends saved her and Fowler, it was still unknown and from her experience evil can definitely hide behind a smile.

Still somewhere deep in her heart Twilight believed that this truck “Optimus Prime” can be trusted or at the very least be given the chance to explain himself.

She was broken out of her thoughts however when one of the side doors to the truck opened.

Twilight simply stood and looked at the open door for a few seconds expecting someone to come out of it, when none did however she had a thought.

“Does he want to take me somewhere?” It seemed like the most logical answer as even with it being night time there was a chance that someone could stumble upon them talking and she doubts they both want to draw unwanted attention.

For a moment Twilight was tempted to actually take the truck up on his offer both because she might get some answers and that at least with this Transforming robot she won’t be killed, she actually took a step towards the truck before realisation set in.

“I can’t, at least not tonight. For all I know those robots could be planning on invading Equestria, a far flung idea true but I’d definitely feel better if the Princesses knew of what was going on. Sorry Mr.Prime but hopefully we will meet again soon.”

With that Twilight simply shook her head to the red truck, turned around and jumped through the mirror portal leaving behind a very confused robot in disguise.

Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean

“And she just went through it, like that!?” The white and red Autobot Ratchet asked with disbelief evident in his voice.

Optimus Prime merely nodded standing in the middle of the bridge turned command centre of their starship turned secret base, it was twenty minutes since Prime had last sighted the human female and the last of the primes had many questions in his mind.

“Indeed old friend.” He simply said.

“Perhaps it was an outage,(WHACK) Groundbridge!” Fixit theorised as he was in a section of the Command Centre built for Mini-Cons.

Ratchet snorted at the notion from his station before saying “Please! This planet doesn't even have the resources to make a space bridge like device possible and even if it did the humans themselves lack the right knowledge to produce something even remotely similar to the Space Dimensional Bridge Theory.”

“Perhaps.” The voice of another Autobot was heard as he walked onto the bridge with a black and red Autobot.

“Percepter, Ironhide.” Optimus greeted to both of them which the veteran and science officer nodded before Percepter continued.

“However I don’t believe that what we are dealing with is something modern science can understand, be it human or Cybertroian.”

He then walked over to a computer and began typing “As you all know about an Earth year ago we were all awoken from our stasis by a massive discharge of energy that has so far not been recorded as far as our records claimed.”

“Indeed” Optimus stated “I remember waking so abruptly from stasis that I at first believed the Decepticons had found us.”

“Yeah that was not the best way to wake up from stasis.” Ironhide added as he stood beside Optimus.

“Since then and when the time allows it I've been at work determining what and where that energy is.” Percepter told all present as the screen began showing two wavelengths, one above the other.

“My research has led me to believe that the energy in question is not of our dimension and that it appears that it at least is compatible with the energies of the Matrix not in terms of abilities mind you but in terms of what they represent, which would explain that one human’s episode when she made contact with prime.” The Autobots chief science officer explained as the two wavelengths were highlighted and placed over one another.

“So the reason she had that episode or whatever Prime saw was because…what they’re the same?” Ironhide asked.

“Not quite as I have to do more research but whatever is the source of these energies and the Matrix are best compared to different organic races our ancestors encountered in the past, whilst they were all unique in their own ways they also have many similarities such as the need for oxygen and food to keep their bodies active. Something like a board similarity would be the best way I can describe what the relationship between the Matrix and these energies is.” Preceptor said

Optimus nodded so far following Percepter’s explanation.

“If the humans have access to an energy source not from this dimension then why have we not seen any evidence of it being in use?” An Autobot manning a nearby console asked.

“Because from what my research has revealed it appears the Human nation known as the “United States” has apparently kept the lid on this from preventing those who know about it to talk openly and keeping it out of the human’s internet. Observe.” Percepter said before showing a video on the screen.

It showed Rainbow Dash playing the guitar, ponying up as she did, the sight surprised all who saw it, even Optimus Prime.

“Is this the work of the same energy?” He asked.

“Indeed Optimus and if I wasn’t looking for this particular energy signature I would have dismissed this as merely an edited video outright however.” Percepter then switched the screen to that of a map of the USA.

The map then zoomed in on a familiar location.

“Canterlot city?” Ratchet asked.

“Yes it appears that both the source of that energy wave that awoken us and the video you see before you originated from the same place, there also appears to have been many smaller occurrences of this energy over the course of the past Earth year the largest being around two months old.” Percepter explained.

“All within the same location?” Prime asked, referring to Canterlot City to which Percepter nodded.

“That can’t be a coincidence.” Ironhide commented.

“Indeed old friend it can’t, Fixit is there anything you can tell us about our human Female?” Optimus asked.

“She appears in much of the local media alongside six other humans, one of which had actually heh “brought” Bumblebee.” Fixit said, chuckling at the thought whilst also bringing up a series of images showing Twilight and the Wondercolts plus Sunset in the Rainbooms.

“They appear to be apart of a human band known as the “Rainbooms” which won the local human event known as the Battle of the Bands and appeared to be quite popular in the city’s local high school where much of the censored media came from.” The Mini-Con added.

“What of her name Fixit?” The last of the Primes asked.

After checking his computer for a moment Fixit said “Her name appears to be Twilight Sparkle.”

That gave Percepter a look of curiosity “An odd name for a human if my knowledge of human naming conventions is accurate.”

Optimus Prime had a thoughtful expression for a moment before asking “Where’s Bumblebee now?”

“Last I checked he was on his way back to where the Human last parked him in order to avoid suspicion, Arcee and Bulkhead went with him.” Ratchet explained.

“Can you get in contact with him? I fear Megatron may seek to use those Humans either as bait to draw out our dimensional human friend or try to glean information out of them, or even worse use them as bait to lure us out.” Optimus asked.

“I tried his comms but I think they may be damaged and in the process of rebooting but I also can’t seem to get in touch with Bulkhead or Arcee either.” Ratchet replied.

“Keep trying Ratchet and when you do reach them tell them to watch over the Rainbooms whilst I take watch over the portal.” Prime ordered as he made his way out of the bridge.

“And what happens if she comes back through?” Ironhide asked as he turned to follow his leader and friend.

Turning around Optimus Prime spoke with a defeated tone “Whilst it was my hope that the humans would stay out of this conflict, it has become clear that due to today’s events the Decepticons have targeted Twilight Sparkle and would soon target those who are close to her. Therefore it is our responsibility to protect them at any cost and to do so they must know the full extent of our war.”

With that Prime walked out of the main Bridge.

That same day in Equestria

Back in Equestria meanwhile Twilight had just come through the portal and had spent the first few moments back in Equestria just looking at where she was.

Her mind was still trying to process what had transpired that night, so much so that she didn’t notice the door to the portal room open nor did she hear who entered.

“Something wrong Twilight?”

“Sorry Spike I was-” Twilight started until her brian recognised that it wasn’t Spike speaking.

It was Princess Celestia herself.

“PRINCESS!?” Twilight couldn’t help herself but yell her surprise, it's not everyday that Celestia comes to visit.

“W-What are you doing here?” Twilight asked more calmly this time.

“I was just visiting with Luna who wanted to informally ask Rarity for a new dress for this year’s Galloping Gala.” Celestia responded.

“Oh” Twilight simply said before remembering what happened today and started telling the Princess about it with as much detail as possible.

Celestia for her part simply listened whilst Twilight recounted her tale, her gaze one of concerned intrigue as Twilight told her of the robots that saved her and Fowler.

“Hmm.” Celestia hummed after Twilight finished her tale “The presence of these “Robots” as you call them is indeed a concern and they could very much be a threat to both our worlds if left unchecked.”

Twilight nodded, coming to a similar conclusion “So what should we do then Princes-I mean Celestia?”

“Whilst your duties here in Equestria are important, know that for the time being I will endeavour to make sure you have more time in the human world, if you can stop this threat over there before they could find a way to our world then it would be all the better.” Celestia said.

Twilight nodded again before she yawned, “I’ll head back as soon as I’m able Celestia, first I’m gonna get some shut-eye. It's been a long day.”

Chuckling to herself and smiling a bit, Celestia simply said “Of course my former student get some well deserved rest, you won’t be helping anypony if you end up sleeping during a crisis.”

With that Twilight trotted out of the portal room and headed back towards her bedroom

Once she was out of sight however her small smile dropped before a familiar voice called out. “Was it truly necessary dear sister to lie to her?”

Turning around facing a darkened corner of the room the Princess of the Sun stood face to face with her counterpart Luna the Princess of the Moon who walked slowly out of the shadows.

“Yes Luna and I do wish it wasn’t so but if what he said was true and only she can survive it without endangering the other side… I don’t want to burden her as much as I am already.” Celestia said with a solemn tone.

“I still find this all hard to believe sister, were it not for the fact that SHE was with him I would have not given his warning more than a mere glance. Even then though the fact that all this foreboding news hinges on the chance encounter with young Twilight and this “Last Prime” fills me with utter disbelief.” Luna said trotting up to her sister.

“I know sister and I very very wish I could do…something but.” Celestia started but couldn’t find the words to continue.

Adopting a look of concern on her face Luna then said “But like everything else since my return you took actions that could have very much doomed our subjects if things have played out differently however you also wanted to have faith in our subjects like Young Twilight because of the hidden truths you’ve kept from them after my banishment.”

“The Faith I had in my subjects was to more or less convince myself that I trusted my little ponies and whilst that worked for the past thousand years…but recent events clearly show how arrogant I was in staying my hoof when it was needed.” Celestia said facing her sister directly.

Smiling a bit Luna replied “Well to be fair to you dear sister you DID try to defeat me whilst you were on your way to Ponyvile and you very nearly got me since you’ve Grown a tiny bit stronger over the years, it was just the thought of what your escorts and then your subjects would think when they realised how powerful you were. You were scared of painting yourself as someone who couldn’t be approached, of someone who was far above anypony else when in reality you just wanted be the one who cares for others.”

“What about the other times such as the wedding?” Celestia countered.

Smirking Luna said “Well it’s good to know that my sister can just as easily make mistakes as the next pony, which would be me in this case.”

They both laughed softly at that before Luna spoke more seriously.

“Still sister will you tell Twilight the truth? If not now but in the near future?”

“Only if the worst comes to pass, if what he said doesn’t materialise then I have no reason why I should burden Twilight with the truth of something that does not exist.” Her sister replied.

Sighing Luna began retreating back into the shadows and into the dream realm but not before saying “Very well sister, Sun’s gaze keep you safe.”

Smiling as her sister left Celestia replied “Moon’s light watch over you as well dear Luna”.

Back in the human world high in the skies was a massive warship plowing through the night’s clouds like a shark in the sea.

Its hull is jet black and has angles that give it a very aggressive appearance and posture, to any human eyes that lay on him it would be the largest vessel that ever flown the Earth’s skies. But to its crew it was merely a lighter vessel used in most fleet engagements back in their home system and made up the bulk of the fleet, now though it was the most valuable asset to its crew as not only can it defeat the primitive radars of the humans but it can also deploy multiple away teams across the globe via its onboard Light-Space-Bridge-Generator.

The ship itself is called the Nemesis, once a mere line ship in the Decepticons 4th Armada 7th Fleet 45th Squadron now the mobile Headquarters of Decepticon operations on Earth.

Within the bridge of the Nemesis standing on a raised platform was a Gray and black Cybertronian but not just any Cybertronian, he is considered the dominator, the Conquer, the Destroyer.

This was Megatron, leader of the Decepticons.

“Lord Megatron.” A Decepticon said whilst walking up the walkway that led to the raised platform.

“What?” Megatron asked his voice deep and commanding but with a tone that tells one he doesn’t like to be disturbed for no reason.

Turning around Megatron was surprised to find not only the Decepticon but also his most loyal follower and dare he say friend, Soundwave.

“Soundwave?” The lord of destruction said and Soundwave nodded before projecting a video on his visor.

“Earlier this rotation Soundwave noticed one of the humans interacting with Optimus Prime and from what he saw called a nearby patrol to capture it and ordered me to send backup.” The Decepticon from before reported.

The video on Soundwave’s visor showed an overhead view of Twilight walking towards prime’s vehicle mode and touching him as well as jumping back in shock, it then followed the events from earlier in the day from the chase to the point where Fowler’s car was pushed off the bridge and into the man made ravine.

“It was when we had them cornered that the Autobots ambushed us.” The Decepticon continued as Soundwave showed footage of Optimus and the other Autobots engaging the Decepticon pursuit team.

“Interesting.” Was all Megatron said before another voice interrupted.

“And how would this aid us lord Megatron?” Megatron’s second Starscream asked as he came onto the bridge.

“I fail to see how a simple human could know anything about the Autobots operations and that’s assuming it's even involved with them at all which given who we are talking about here is very unlikely.” The Seeker said coming to stand next to Soundwave.

In response Soundwave then showed a different video on his visor this time showing Twilight standing next to the mirror portal before jumping through it, another video showed the same mirror but this time Twilight stepped out of the mirror.

To say both Megatron and Starscream were surprised by this was an understatement.

“VERY interesting.” Megatron said with a very evil smile whilst Starscream still had a surprised face before it morphed into confusion.

“I didn’t think humans had any technology like that.” He said whilst he looked at the footage which played on repeat

“They don’t nor do I believe this has anything to do with any technology known to us, which means it's imperative that we acquire it to ensure it does not fall into Autobot hands.” Megatron said before addressing Soundwave. “Were you able to track the human?”

The Decepticon Comms Officer shook his head before bringing up a diagram of the energies emanating from the statue.

“The energies are unlike anything you’ve seen and thus can’t get a fix, is that right?” Megatron asked to which Soundwave nodded before he brought up some images and videos on the main screen of the bridge, most were from the human internet whilst a couple were from Soundwave’s Mini-Con LaserBeak though those were snap shots at human phones showing either a Rainboom Ponying up or a freeze shot of the Wondercolts already ponied up.

They ranged from the Fall formal Incident to the more recent Battle of the bands Incident in terms of age and all were shown to have been censored by one of the human governments.

“...How did we miss all this?!” Starscream exclaimed disbelief at both the nature of the evidence present and the fact they are just learning about this now.

“Because we never thought such things could be possible or if they were just merely fabricated via their global network and were more focused on combating the Autobots.” Megatron stated as he looked at a particular video which appeared to be from a government Agent overlooking the Battle of the Bands just in time to see the Sirens being defeated by the Rainbooms.

“Still” Starscream started “How would these humans help us master?”

“Given the events today it is of no doubt that Optimus would most likely keep an eye on these humans and given the Autobots tendencies to protect the weak it's likely that if we make a move on them the Autobots will have to react.” Megatron explained which made Starscream smile sinisterly.

“The perfect bait.” He said to which Megatron nodded.

“Indeed Starscream” Megatron said before explaining further.

“Sooner or later we will come into conflict with the Autobots on a much more massive scale than what we’ve done previously so by taking the initiative and striking first we can gadge Optimus’s strength before the full war can resume and these humans can provide the means of achieving that goal.”

“Then please Lord Megatron let me bring the humans in! I’m just itching to show Decepticon supremacy over these primitives.” Starscream said whilst bowing for elegance.

Megatron looked at his 2IC before nodding whilst saying “Very Starscream but you better not fail me in this simple task like so many others.”

That made Starscream falter a bit before his master continued “And bring Breakdown and Knockout with you to ensure you don’t fail, am I clear Starscream?”

Standing up straight for his master, Starscream said “I will make the necessary arrangements at once, Sargent with me!”

With that he and the Decepticon walked out of the bridge but not before Megatron said “And Starscream! As long as just one of those humans is captured, that will surely be enough bait for our plan.”

Once they were out of sight Megatron turned to Soundwave who nodded and proceeded to exit the bridge leaving his liege to himself.

“Soon Optimus we shall once again do battle, I hope you haven’t lost your edge.” He muttered to himself as he looked out of the view screen to see thunder clouds gathering.

An ill omen for the things to come.

The scene back on the highway was one of organised chaos as police and firefighters occupied the scene where a police car had suddenly exploded whilst responding to a crime in progress.

“And there was nothing you found that could cause this?” A police inspector asked one of the officers on site.

“We know for certain that someone in the vehicle that our guys were pursuing had a weapon capable of destroying a whole car it’s just we’re not sure what, we also know that whatever destroyed the car was powerful maybe an RPG but unless the guys they were chasing weren’t your run of the mill criminals I can’t see how anyone could acquire something like that.” The officer said as the inspector surveyed the wreckage.

“Chief! Need you over here!” Another officer called out to the first one who looked at the inspector.

“Get going chief, I’ll be here looking at the wreckage more closely.” The inspector said to which the officer nodded and left the inspector alone.

Taking a knee next to a large piece of the ruined police car, the inspector looks around for a moment before taking out his phone and after dialling the number and the call was picked up at the other end he spoke.

“Connect me to Commander Silas, I have something that he may find interest in.”

Next Episode Preview!

”I can’t believe what just happened yesterday!”

(Shows Twilight and Fowler standing before a kneeling Optimus in the Autobot base.)

”But now I have to believe it or otherwise my friends could get into trouble that I don’t think they can get out of of!”

(Shows Starscream, Breakdown and Knockout surrounding the Rainbooms and Wallflower in the dead of night before snapping to scenes of each of them trying to escape the Deceptions.)

”Next Time! United We Stand Part Two!

(Shows Bumblebee in his Robot mode punching Starscream in the face plate

”We can never catch a break can we girls?”

(Shows the Rainbooms plus Twilight being engulfed in a bright light before snapping to the faces of various Cybertronians who all have looks of shock on their faceplates before the preview ends on Optimus Prime’s face who is just as shocked as the rest.)

Author's Note

Here we go guys!

Was having this sort of idea for a while, can’t remember how long though but I do know that it’s gone under a lot of revisions in my head one of which was having Twilight be kidnapped by the Deceptions and Prime rescue her whilst his team was on the cons Warship.

In any case I hope you guys enjoy and until next time

TRANSFORM AND ROLL OUT!

Edit 24/10/2023: Made some changes to Prime and Celestia’s dialogue and added some additional dialogue to Perceptor’s explanation dump In response to some comments, wish I could do more but that would mean rewriting whole scenes that right now I don’t have the mental capacity for so yeah.

Edit 12/12/2023: Made some adjustments to the final scene in this chapter.

Edit 11/3/24: Added a new scene at the end.

TRANSFORM AND FULL STEAM AHEAD!