Low Earth Orbit, 2047
Prophet's Perspective
As I hacked into Archangel’s systems, I positioned the machine to be pointing right at the stage three ceph. I activated the laser and watched as the giant space squid exploded into bursts of blue fire.
Eventually, the whole body exploded altogether and I was caught in the blast radius. The force was strong enough to send me around the world in a matter of minutes. By the time I came back around, the portal to the Ceph home world had somehow reversed it’s direction and began pulling me in. The thrusters on my nanosuit weren’t enough to pull me away and I went zooming into what I thought would be the Ceph’s home planet. Instead, I was forced somewhere else. The place I had landed appeared to be Earth but there were too many differences for it to be MY version of Earth.
First of all, this Earth was missing a dimension, making it look like something out of a cartoon (so was I for that matter.) Second, the green shapes of the land didn’t match those of the normal Earth. But all the same, I was barreling towards it at an extreme speed.
The moment I entered the planet’s atmosphere, my suit began to malfunction and caught fire. Random static was appearing in my vision from the nanosuit’s HUD and my skin was starting to hurt really bad. Behind the static, I could see obvious signs of civilization, and boy, were they obvious. I was staring straight at a small province colored with perfect mixtures of white, purple and gold; I was also speeding straight towards one of the buildings.
“OH SHIT!” I yelled to myself. Quickly, I pulled myself together and tried to engage maximum armor. My prayers were answered with the familiar mechanical voice of the nanosuit.
“Maximum Armor.” It said. Although I had heard it say those words a thousand times before, I was especially happy to hear them since they were likely to be the last thing that I would ever hear if I didn’t survive. However, fate was working in my favor tonight, as the last thing I heard before losing consciousness was a very loud crash with some screaming.
Meanwhile, in the Transformers universe.
Optimus’ Perspective
I flew as fast as I could towards the Decepticon Driller, readied my weapons, and opened fire. The Driller tried to grab at me with its tentacles but ended up succeeding with its mouth. As I flew head first into the Driller’s sharp teeth, something told me that the Driller didn’t intend on having me land in his mouth since he spit me back out only seconds after I had lodged myself in the throat.
I went soaring upward and stabilized myself with my engines. Just as I continued my flight back the Driller, it grabbed me by the leg and threw me against the building it was inside of. I fired my thrusters and soared straight towards its belly, cutting right through it with my sword. Once I exited through the top of the building, I was hit by one of Shockwave’s lasers, which sent me straight into the spacebridge beam. Upon being hit by the beam, I was forced into unconsciousness.
Canterlot Board of Education Meeting, 10:30 PM
Twilight’s Perspective
Before tonight, I thought that my life had already changed forever since my coronation. Silly me, I should know better than to think that. It all started last night during a board meeting. Ironically, we were discussing the pros and cons of letting our schools teach about the possibilities of alien life.
“What if the children take it the wrong way and think that we might get invaded?” argued one pony.
“Don’t loose your head,” responded another “Children aren’t that paranoid. Besides, most of them would probably like it. I know I would.”
“Everypony please, calm down.” I said when I was interrupted by a loud, masculine scream.
“OH SHIT!” the voice yelled.
“Hey, watch your-“ my sentence was cut off when the source of the voice crashed in through the ceiling. Once the dust had settled, a crater sat in the middle of the room holding a large, black figure with one red, oddly shaped eye.
“See? This is what I think the children would be afraid of.” Said the stallion from before.
One Hour Later…
I stood outside of the creature’s room in Canterlot Hospital, debating weather or not I should go in. What if it woke up and tried to hurt me? What if it spoke some alien language that I wouldn’t be able to translate? My head was spinning with questions about it. I decided to just go home and worry about it later. I had a busy schedule tonight, not to mention Cadence and Shining Armor had invited my friends and I the annual Crystal Ball tomorrow, and I couldn’t miss out on that.
“Your Majesty,” said the voice of one of the doctors. ”I think you ought to head home, visiting hours are almost over.”
“Just be sure that that…whatever it is doesn’t cause any trouble if it wakes up. You may want to keep it restrained.” I told him.
“As you wish princess.” He responded. He left to do other work.
“Perhaps I could look after him.” Said another, more familiar voice.
“Discord.” I said with excitement. I rarely saw him what with my royal duties.
“But why?” I asked, “You’re not even a doctor.”
“I’ve just been so bored lately, I’d like to make friends that I have something in common with. Like this thing for example, we’re both the only ones of our species on this planet and we enjoy causing trouble.”
“You’ve got me there.” I said “ Alright, but don’t go causing trouble with him until I get to meet him.” Finishing my sentence with a stern voice but happy look.
“Scout’s honor.” Discord said as he magically put on a Colt scout’s uniform.
And with that, I returned home to bed.
The next day, I went to Ponyville to gather up the girls for the Crystal Ball. It was nice seeing the old town every now and then. Being a princess is nice but it makes it difficult to see your friends very often. Speaking of friends, the first one I was greeted with was the ever, excited Pinkie Pie.
“Oh My Gosh, Twilight! It’s so good to see you; it feels like forever since we last got together with the girls, we all miss you so much, everypony in Ponyville misses you. What’s it like being a princess? Is it fun? Is it boring? Do you always have a lot of work? Do you know anything about that crash from last night? Are you okay? Did anypony get hurt?” She said in her usual speedy manner
“Pinkie calm down.” I said reassuringly. “Nopony was hurt in the meteor strike.”
“Oh did the meteor have anything cool? Did it have space rocks in it? Was it really an alien spaceship? Are the aliens okay? OOH I know, we can throw them a WELCOME PARTY!”
“PINKIE!” I yelled.
“Sorry” She said softly.
“I’ll admit, something cool did fall from the sky last night and whatever it is, it’s in good hooves. By the way, where are the rest of the girls?”
“Oh, Fluttershy is out playing with her forest friends, Applejack is working on the farm, Rarity is at the Carousel Boutique getting everyone’s dresses ready for the Crystal Ball, and Rainbow Dash is out cloud busting. They should be ready to go soon.”
“Good, it’ll be nice catching up with everyone.”
After all of the hellos, hugs, and long talks about what everypony has been up to, we headed for the train the Crystal Empire. Only a few minutes after departing, the girls (not surprisingly) began badgering me with questions about the meteor that hit Canterlot.
“So Twilight.” Pinkie Pie started. “What was the cool thing that you said fell from the sky last night?”
“I don’t think I should tell you guys.” I said, “I’m afraid it would worry you.”
“Aw, c’mon Twi,” Rainbow Dash begged, “We can take it.”
“Yes Darling,” Rarity chimed in, ”We’re all dying to know.”
“Alright fine.” I said.
“YAY! Story Time!” Pinkie yelled flipping into the air like a gymnast.
“It goes like this…” After finishing the story, everyone looked at me mouths agape and eyes wide. Again, not unexpected.
“That Discord better not try any funny business with that thing.” Applejack said with a stern look on her face.
“Oh, I’m sure they’ll be just fine.” Fluttershy said reassuring her.
“I don’t know, Discord still likes causing trouble even after his reformation.” AJ continued.
“He gave me his word that he wouldn’t do anything with the creature if it woke up before I could meet it.” I said.
“I’m just glad that this creature had some fashion sense,” said Rarity “The description of the armor it was wearing sounds fabulous. Black with silver linings and a red faceplate, that gives me an idea for a new fashion line.”
“Oh yeah?” Rainbow Dash said sternly, “what if this isn’t some kind of invasion plot huh? Have us suck up to his kind words and BOOM! All of Equestria nothing but rubble in a second.”
Fluttershy responded to this with a quick squeak and hiding under he seat. I looked at Rainbow Dash in frustration and she smiled back sheepishly. Before I could retaliate, the train stopped and we got off only to be greeted by Cadence and Shining Armor. I hugged Shining and Cadence and I did our usual sunshine, sunshine greeting.
“Are you guys all excited?” Cadence asked.
“You bet we are!” Pinkie responded.
Just then a massive, earth-shaking boom lowered our spirits.
“What was that?” Shining asked.
In just a few minutes, we were at the source of the boom. There was a massive crater with smoke billowing from it. As soon as the smoke cleared, the crater revealed a giant metal being at the bottom. It wasn’t wearing a mask this time and sported a flame paint job on its chest.
What is it with things falling from the sky all of a sudden? I thought.
“See, I told you it was an invasion.” Rainbow Dash yelled.
“I’m gonna need to throw a really big welcome party.” Pinkie said.
Author's Note
Just to make things clear, I'm using the Optimus Prime from Transformers: Dark of the Moon. Not the HUB cartoon.
Waking Up
Discord's Perspective
I tried getting into the creatures head to talk to him but it was just so chaotic that I couldn’t get to the guy. All that I could find out about him himself was his name. He was called Lawrence Barnes. He had spent the last twenty-four years battling alien invaders called the Ceph and had lost a lot of really good friends. The black suit that he was wearing was permanently clung to his skin like a part of his body. He was part of a race called humans, but thanks to the suit, he wasn’t considered to be human anymore. Some people didn’t even think that he should be called Lawrence anymore. They called him by a simple call sign. They called him, Prophet.
Just then, I heard a crackling noise coming from his feet and hands. The suit was starting to recede into his skin, revealing the man inside. Once it was finished, all that laid in that hospital bed was a dark skinned human with no muzzle or mane at all, dressed in nothing but simple white linens. The only proof of the suit still being a part of him was the blue, glowing hexagon patterns on the sides of his face.
Meanwhile, in Prophet’s mind
Prophet’s Perspective
While lying in my bed, having flashback after flashback of the Ceph vs. human war that I had survived, this strange creature (or mix of creatures) named Discord kept appearing and calling my name for seconds at a time. Suddenly, the nightmares stopped, and the nanosuit voice played in my head.
“Loading complete, commencing nanite fusion sequence.”
Just then a pressing sensation began moving up my body, starting at my hands and feet. It didn’t hurt that much and only lasted for a few seconds.
“Nanite fusion sequence complete, beginning awakening process.” Said the nanosuit.
After hours of lying in bed, unconscious and unstable, I woke up only to be greeted by the creature from my previous dreams. He was real, trying to fuck with my head. I wasn’t going to have any of that, and I attacked.
I got up out of my bed rather quickly and grabbed his neck, forcing him to the ground. I saw my arm and noticed that it was my arm. That must’ve been what the nanite fusion sequence was. I quickly ignored it and began to interrogate Discord.
“Are you the one who was trying to fuck with my head?” I yelled.
“What? NO! I was just trying to talk to you.” He said in a British accent.
“Yeah, likely story. Listen buddy, I’ve had enough aliens trying to get into my mind, so don’t you EVER pull that shit on me again. GOT IT?” He looked back at me with a mixture of confusion and disgust. After a few seconds with no response, Discord pushed me back through some sort of invisible force. He pinned me to the wall just a few feet off of the ground. Then he retaliated.
“I don’t take kindly to ponies who try and attack me when I’m only trying to help them Mr. Barnes.” He said with anger in his eyes. “I have a lot more power than just entering ponies’ minds, and unless you want to see me use it, you best treat me with respect.” He put me down and allowed me to speak.
“I’m sorry.” I said, feeling like a little kid being forced to apologize for something I didn’t regret doing. “It’s just that, I’ve been through a lot, and the last thing I wanted to deal with was someone or something trying to get inside my head. By the way, did you call me a pony?”
“Oh…shoot, I forgot about that. Let me explain…” Discord opened the window to my hospital bedroom and to my disbelief all I saw were ponies. Sentient, talking, ponies. He then went on to explain that the name of the world I was in was called Equestria, and the entire planet was filled with different creatures. Each of these creatures was a different thing that I had only learned about in myths and stories. There were Griffins, Dragons, Minotaurs, but the dominant species were Earth ponies, Unicorns, and Pegasi. The leaders of this world were winged Unicorns called Alicorns. Discord himself however, was something different. He was a mixture of creatures called a Draconaquus. This was to represent chaos and disharmony since he was the spirit of such. Once he was done, my jaw hit the floor.
“But what about you?” he asked, “Most of the information I got from your head was about your adventures against these Ceph creatures. I’d like to know more about your suit.”
“Well, it’s called the nanosuit.” I began, “It allows me to become invulnerable, turn invisible, run faster, jump higher, see in the dark… the list goes on.” He listened intently as I continued my little lecture on the nanosuit.
“But what about the fact of it receding into your skin?” he asked once I was finished.
“That’s because of these things in my suit called nanites. Somehow, somewhere in my adventures, they had become free, and according to an old friend of mine, that allows me to take on any form imaginable.”
“So what? You can shape shift now or something?” he asked.
“I guess so.” I responded. I honestly didn’t know myself.
“Well, why not try and change back into your suit.” Discord suggested. I did what he said and tried numerous methods until I tried thinking the words Change form to nanosuit. As soon as I said that a voice played in my head.
“New pigmentation code accepted. Switching to new form.” Said the nanosuit. Before I new it, I was wearing the suit again.
“Alright then, I guess it works.” I said.
“I am going to have so much fun with you.” Discord said with a devilish grin.
Oh crap. I thought, what does that mean?
Back at The Crystal Empire…
Optimus’ Perspective.
I awoke from my slumber and immediately unsheathed my weapons, a gun in one hand and a sword in the other. I stabbed the open air in front of me in the belief that a Decepticon might be in front of me ready to fire at my head. Springing up from the ground, I heard the dozens of terrified screams from multiple people. Startled by this, I stumbled back and accidentally stepped on someone’s house.
“I’m sorry!” I yelled out in vain. By the time my cry of apology had left my mouth, everyone had gone into hiding. Suddenly, out came a little blue Pegasus with a mane that had all six colors of the rainbow.
“What? Did the aliens send a bumbling grunt by mistake?” she asked. The little flying horse then proceeded to do the fisticuffs stance in midair. “You’re nothing. C’mon, I’ll take you on myself.”
“You can talk?” I asked, ignoring her fruitless intimidation.
“Of course I can talk!” she responded, insult and aggravation in her voice.
“Rainbow, let me handle this” said another, stern sounding voice.
Slowly, six other horses came out from their hiding spots. They were all two dimensional and multicolored. I looked at my body for the first time and saw the same features about myself.
Something else was wrong. I was only able to spot two normal looking horses. The rest of them all had wings, horns, or even both. Not to mention they were dressed in very elegant clothing. Finally, the purple one with both wings and a horn spoke to me first.
“Um… Hello, my name is princess Twilight Sparkle. These are my friends…”
She introduced me to all of her friends one by one. Applejack, the orange one with a Stetson hat similar to a human farmer’s. Rainbow Dash, the cyan Pegasus with a rainbow mane and cyan coat. Pinkie Pie, the… well pink, happy, and kind of creepy earth pony with a curly mane of the same color. Rarity, the white unicorn with purple mane and slight accent. Fluttershy, the yellow Pegasus with light pink mane and fear in her eyes. Princess Cadence, pink pony with a horn and wings as well as the sister in law of Twilight. Shining Armor, the only male of the group, sporting a white coat and a turquoise mane, brother of Twilight and husband of Cadence.
“What’s your name?” she asked when she was done. I answered, and my voice must’ve scared them.
“My name is Optimus Prime.” I said. “I come from the planet of Cybertron. I am leader of the Autobots and defender of planet Earth.”
I stood up and was immediately met with horrified faces and a look of intimidation from Rainbow Dash.
“So why are you here?” she asked angrily, flying up to my face and going into a midair boxing stance. “Are you some kind of invasion force?”
“Rainbow Dash, don’t be so rude.” Twilight said sternly.
“I’m not even sure how I got here.” I told them. “The last thing I remember, I was hit by a rocket and shot by a portal, generating laser. However, the portal should’ve only brought my home planet of Cybertron to Earth. Apparently, I have been sent to a different dimension.”
“I hate to interrupt, but you said you were from a place called Cybertron right?” asked Twilight.
“That is correct.” I responded.
“But you said you defend a planet called Earth. How does that work?”
“Well, it’s a pretty long story-“
“Ohhh! I LOVE stories! Can you tell us please?” Asked the overexcited Pinkie Pie.
“It all began on my home world of Cybertron…” I proceeded to tell them the story of how Cybertron fell to the tragedy of war. Everything from the Allspark, to The Fallen, to the Great War between the Autobots and Decepticons was covered. Then came the part about finding planet Earth and its inhabitants called humans. I talked about Sam Witwickey, and of course, my comrades, the other Autobots. I ended my story with how I was able to get here through the Decepticon spacebridge. Once I was finished, their jaws hit the floor, as humans would say.
“Oh my, you come from a very hard life.” Said Fluttershy as I finished.
“You truly are a brave soul darling.” Added Rarity.
“Thank you.” I responded, ”What keeps me going is the hope that one day, my race can go home and live in the harmony that it once knew.”
Then Twilight told me something that I thought I’d never hear from any other race.
“Well, here in Equestria, we’ve lived in harmony for thousands of years. Sure, we’ve had a few attacks here and there, and people still argue and get angry with each other but there’s never been anything that’s been able to completely destroy us.”
“But how?” I asked, interested beyond belief, “How have you been able to maintain such unprecedented harmony?”
“With the Elements of Harmony silly.” Said Pinkie Pie, “Me, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Fluttershy and Applejack are all bearers of different ones.”
“Fascinating, what kinds of elements would these be?” I asked, getting more intrigued by the minute.
“They’re basically the same things that form a healthy relationship.” Answered Applejack. “I’m the element of honesty, Rainbow dash is loyalty, Pinkie Pie is laughter, Fluttershy is kindness, Rarity is generosity, and Twilight is magic.”
“Magic?” My mind had officially been blown at this point.
“Yeah, you know, Magic.” Twilight said, “Unicorns and Alicorns have the ability to control it through their horns and when you combine the first five elements you get magic which is the sixth.”
“Where I come from, magic is a thing of legend, instead we have science which is like magic but instead of spells and potions, we have machines and chemicals.”
“WHAT?!” They all asked in unison, eyes wide with shock.
“Is something wrong?”
“It’s just that…we find it a little strange that two entire species could’ve survived so many eons without the use of magic.” Twilight answered. Then she whispered something that I still managed to hear.
“I wonder if the other alien we found comes from a world without magic.”
“Other alien?” I asked in a bit confusion.
“Drat, did I just say that out loud?” She said, “Oh well, no sense in hiding it now. Last night, an alien with similar anatomy to your description of a human landed in the middle of an Equestrian education meeting and ironically enough, we were debating weather or not to teach children about the possibility of alien life on other planets. Suddenly, he just crashed through the ceiling. To my knowledge, it’s still recovering in the hospital. It was wearing some sort of black suit.”
Pinkie Pie started laughing uncontrollably as soon as Twilight finished her story. “HAHAHA, while you were wheeze he just crashed through.” Suddenly, she gasped as if having some sort of epiphany, then started talking in a very, very fast manor “oh my gosh, we should totally have two meet each other. We could throw a welcome party, you two could be friends, that would so super, duper, uper, extra spectabulous.”
“Calm down Pinkie, Optimus has only been here for a few minutes. A welcome party is the last thing we should be dealing with right now.” Cadence broke in.
“What do you suggest we do?” Rainbow Dash asked, “Just show him around town in hopes that nopony will run away in terror?”
“To be honest, I think meeting this other specimen of yours would be nice.” I responded
“Well I guess it is your decision.” Said Twilight, “But I don’t think you’ll be able to fit inside of a train car.”
“No need, I can just turn into a vehicle and follow you there.” I said
“Wait, What?” she asked with surprise and confusion.
“Here, let me show you.” I responded. I then shifted my body into my signature form of a semi truck. Needless to say, I got a few astonished stares.
“That’s AWESOME!” yelled Rainbow Dash while performing an acrobatic loop through the air. “The only question is, how fast are you?” she asked, a slight tone of competition in her voice.
“Not to brag but I can go up one hundred and thirty-five miles per hour in this form.” I said with a bit of friendly pride.
“That’s it?” she asked both disappointed and proud at the same time, “I was once able to reach MACH 10 with my two wings and I can do it again if I wanted to.” She bragged.
“Rainbow, you can boast once you and Optimus have gotten to know each other better.” Said Twilight, “For now, we need to get back to Canterlot to we can figure out if Optimus and this other alien know each other.”
Rainbow Dash responded with a slump of her shoulders and a frown. Once we said our goodbyes to Cadence and Shining Armor the six ponies got onto the train while I followed in truck mode. I was more than eager to meet this other alien who was most likely another human. It could’ve even been Sam or Captain Lennox. However, I also wondered how he and I were going to get home and of course, if all of my comrades were still all right.
Author's Note
Hey everyone.
Sorry this chapter took more than the whole flipping summer to post.
I have a REALLY bad problem of jumping into ideas without thinking them through a whole lot.
I also just started school today so don't be surprised if if the next chapter, let alone the whole story, takes another bajillion years.
Hope you had a great summer,
-LTrain.
