"I have to stop Galvatron... even if this means I have to take his life to do it."

Sunset's suit transformed into its truck mode and it began to drive into the desert towards the battle. She had to stop them now.

Driving towards the fight, she let out a large blaring honk which caught the enemy's attention. Now they were focused on her.

Running towards her were several of the new Decepticon soldiers who came to join in the slaughter. But none of them were ready to face Sunset's wrath. The first of the unlucky bunch was the Insecticon Shrapnel who was pushed out of the way after the truck's grill slammed into him. Next to follow was the Conehead Thrust, followed by Dirge and Ramjet who were all slammed into; and she kept going!

"We're..."

"Yeah."

Slipstream decided to jump out of the way as Sunset drove right past another group, slamming herself into the two new recruits Barricade and Sideways.

Soon another group stood in her way, forcing her to transform mid-air. She held a gun in her hand and pulled the first shot onto Thundercracker, which blew through some of the plating on the right side of his chest. Skywarp was followed as well, as Sunset shot his left foot and ankle, sending him down to the ground.

Her mid-air flight came to a halt as she landed on her feet, perfectly safe and okay. In her hands were two matching pistols, and her head unit's facial expression was determined and serious. She was ready for action, and nothing was going to stand in her way.

Luckily for her, she only had a few more Decepticons to handle before going towards Galvatron.

"Lets take her!" Stinger yelled, swinging out rocket guns.

Sunset just charged at them without dwelling any fear.

"Your tenacity is magnificent, but your optimism is a fatal error in judgement," Shockwave said pointing his weapon towards Sunset and shooting at her.

"That's what you think Shockwave!"

Sunset made another jump into the air, and she took down the Cons in her way like a sharpshooter. Strika was nailed in the face with a laser round, while Soundwave was met with shots to his cassette door, Shockwave's eye was shot making him fall to the ground, losing his vision, and Stinger was slammed into the ground by Sunset using her feet and bashing his body into the sand.

The final bunch of Decepticons came to her, and much like the others, she didn't hold back but she didn't kill any of them. The triple-changer Blitzwing was met with Sunset slamming her head into his really hard, and pounding his chest, Astrotrain was kicked off to the side, and Steamer was slammed into and ran over.

Sunset kept on running and eventually found herself standing before the Shadowcons who turned their attention to her. With them distracted, the girls managed to pull away from their capture and moved back to stand with Sunset.

"You girls handle the rest... I'll finish Sunset," Galvatron spoke.

The Shadowcons gave one nod to obey, and they began to attack the others, while Sunset and Galvatron stood, staring off at one another, with hard cold glares.

"Sunset Shimmer..."

"Galvatron."

"Taking leadership under Prime's wing, aren't you? Quite sad, now that your leader isn't here to help you..."

"Optimus doesn't need to save me."

Galvatron readied his orange arm cannon, and Sunset pulled out her guns.

"As Optimus Prime always said, 'one shall stand, one shall fall'."

"Poetic, but you lack Prime's courage!"

Galvatron charged forward and tackled Sunset to the ground, pinning her arms down to try and pound her. Sunset fought back with what she did and she delivered a swift kick to his groin, and pushed him off of her. Getting back on her feet, she readied her guns and pointed them at Galvatron, pulling the triggers and shooting a few shots into Galvatron's plating.

The lasers only merely angered the Decepticon leader for a short period of time, but he quickly came around and threw a punch into Sunset's face. Sunset didn't feel pain from the wound, so she threw a punch back at the Decepticon. The two of them looked at each other and soon the two of them began to circle around each other.

"So Megatron, what brings you back from the dead?"

"I could ask you the same thing, and the name, is GALVATRON!"

Galvatron punched Sunset's chest, multiple times, but it didn't make any dents or damage. Sunset fought back and gave Galvatron a punch in the gut, in the face, and even jumped into the air, spinning around and performing a kick to the head.

Galvatron only sneered and he fired a blast from his arm cannon, which actually made some damage onto Sunset's suit. The blast incinerated her suit's left arm, disconnecting it from the rest of the body.

"I think I've shown myself the upper hand, Sunset Shimmer," Galvatron said, pointing the gun at her.

"Eh, its just a scratch," Sunset smirked with a smug look.

Galvatron's eyes glowed and he shook his head violently, "A scratch!? Your arm is off!"

"No it isn't."

"Well what do you call that then!?"

Sunset's other arm equipped with a heavy gatling gun and she began to unleash a shower of lasers onto Galvatron which pierced his armor. Galvatron raised an arm up to cover his face from the lasers, and Sunset raised the gun up to blast Galvatron's arm cannon which fired at the right spot. The orange arm cannon came off of his arm and landed on the ground and Galvatron was shot even more and thrown onto his back.

Sunset smirked again, and moved to fight some more, but Galvatron came back up and tackled Sunset to the ground and pounded her senselessly. But this time he had another option. Pounding her wasn't going to work, so why not tear her apart? And if she carried the Matrix with her, she had to have it.

Galvatron's hands dug into the chest pieces, and he ripped them off, throwing the glass cockpit pieces up behind him to see if the Matrix was placed there. But he only growled when he looked to see the Matrix wasn't hiding.

"Where is the Matrix!?"

Sunset didn't respond but instead her legs moved up and kicked the leader off of her body. Then as she stood back on her feet, Galvatron looked up and his eyes widened as a new weapon unfolded before his eyes. Two more gatling guns sprung out from the top of Sunset's shoulders, and they violently shot at the leader, firing him down on his back with more holes and pain to his body.

Rainbow Dash who stood from the sides, watched as Sunset was gaining the upper hand on her own two feet. The suit she had was now destroyed and she had to eject before her body was going to be impaled by a sword.

"Finish him off Sunset! Get him now!"

Sunset didn't hold back, and she moved closer. With Galvatron down again, it was time to finish this fight. It was now or never. Her once chance to finally win this fight. She had to take it.

Galvatron who slowly got back up, looked to see Sunset stomping at him with guns at the ready. What could he do? He had no gun to use. But wait? There was a gun in front of him that he could grab. If he could get close to it, he could take the chance and finally kill her.

Sunset stomped a few more feet until she halted in front of the purple Decepticon. Standing ready, her gun loaded to finally finish the job, she--

"Wait!"

Galvatron with one hand raised up, with a look of pain and fear on his face, looked to Sunset.

"No more Sunset... You've won, I've lost... I can't fight any more, please, grant me mercy, I beg of you!"

Sunset growled and she felt a bit of rage boiling her blood. This Decepticon had the audacity to beg for mercy after everything he's done? After killing thousands of their friends, attacking her own friends, enslaving a world, killing a world no less, and after more of her allies, people she called family had died, he had the gall to beg her for mercy?

"You... you have no mercy, and you suddenly have the gall to beg me!? You've enslaved a world, killed thousands of lives, and you even killed my best friend! Not to mention, terrorizing my entire town, my family, and all of my friends, and you are here begging for mercy!?"

Sunset just held her gun tightly and pointed at the Decepticon.

"I thought you were made of sterner stuff..."

Galvatron smirked and he took the gun and pointed it back at Sunset.

"I am."

Galvatron shot Sunset with a hard blast which pentetrated her armor, but Galvatron just kept on pulling the trigger, forcing her backwards which gave him enough time to grab his arm cannon. Once he had the right time, he placed his arm cannon back on and took a knee down and pointed his cannon at her.

"You lack Prime's courage... and his dignity."

Galvatron fired a large blast at Sunset's suit and at that very moment, Sunset's head unit shot up into the air and transformed back into her Headmaster form, following which she landed on her feet. She looked up in horror and watched as her very own suit blew up into nothing but charred rubble and ashes right in front of her.

Seeing that she was still around he pointed his gun at her and yelled.

"Get her!"

Sunset ran the other direction and started running for the base. Soon the rest of the Rainbooms were running with her, all in their small Headmaster suits.

"I take it your power suits are down too?"

"Yep!"

"Come on, get inside!"

Thankfully the girls were far enough from the Decepticons to get inside. Only a few more steps into their base and they'd be safe.

The Decepticons came closer and closer to the girls, ready to finally knab them until a red sports car came veering at the group of charging Decepticons, knocking them all over and halting in front of the girls.

"Hop on!"

Everyone without question, hopped on top of the sports car and clinged tightly as it sped up and zoomed right through the open doors far from the Decepticons. With everyone back inside, the doors slammed shut, and locked themselves up. Sealing up tightly.

"Decepticons... breach their defenses!"

The doors were sealed tight, but they weren't going to be sealed for long. The Decepticon army was still approaching them, and they were busy trying to bash the doors down.

"Those doors won't hold for long. You girls need to leave now," Wheeljack said.

"But what about you guys?"

"We'll do what we can to buy you time to escape. But you have to go, now!"

All of them flinched as they felt an explosion rock the base for a short period of time before feeling like normal again.

"Okay, but before we leave, I have something to say to you all."

"Can you make it quick?"

"Yes, I can," Sunset replied, looking to all of her friends, "I want to say thank you all. All of you are putting this much risk to yourselves to protect me, and, well... I guess I can say, I'm glad you guys, everyone around here, are some of the best, and most wonderful friends I could ask for. I know we may have to split up, but I promise, we will find each other again. And I guarantee you, Galvatron will never get his hands on the Matrix... even if I have to die to protect it."

"Darling that's... that's quite bold of you," Rarity gasped.

"I don't know about you, but, I hope it doesn't come down to that," Fluttershy quivered.

"I hope so too. But for now, lets do what we can to stop them. I wish I had more help..."

"Well, I'm sure you can get more help soon, but right now, lets do what we can," Ultra Magnus said.

"Alright. Girls... thank you. And I hope you all stay safe. Whatever happens... don't let those Decepticons hurt you," Sunset said, looking at her friends.

The girls all gave big grins and serious looks, and a few of the Autobots gave sharing looks.

"We Dinobots won't let Decepticons hurt our Shadowbolt friends," Grimlock boomed.

"Same goes for me," Hound replied.

"Great. Now lets do what we can. Autobots..."

Sugarcoat's hand slapped her own face, and the others groaned.

"Seriously?"

"Is now really the best time?" Sunny snarled.

"Trust me, I've got this one. Autobots...", Sunset pointed up into the air and with high spirit she yelled. "Lets drive to divide!"

Everyone stayed in silence. Well, mostly silence, there was still the sounds of explosions going on outside setting off, and the pounding on their base door.

"That. Is. Terrible," Sugarcoat replied.

Sunset huffed and glared at the bespectacled girl.

"Oh really? You think its bad? I'd like to see you come up with a battle cry."

Sugarcoat's eyes bulged. "Me?"

"Yeah, you think its so easy? I'd like to see you try it."

Sugarcoat cleared her throat, and adjusted her clothes. Walking to where Sunset stood, she turned around and looked to the Autobots with a serious expression.

"Autobots... its now, or never!" Sugarcoat yelled, raising her fist in the air.

Everyone remained in silence once again. But the silence was broken by the single sound of one person clapping. But then another person joined in, and soon there three more people clapping, and then everyone around them was giving a round of applause, except for Sunset and Ultra Magnus.

Ultra Magnus couldn't even believe everyone was actually standing here and having this conversation, while the Decepticons on the other side were trying to bash their way inside the base.

"Yeah, alright!" Blaster shouted.

"Now that's how you do a proper battle cry," Highbrow replied, "Very impressed Sugarcoat."

Sugarcoat just grinned back, before looking back to Ultra Magnus clearing his throat.

"Okay, I hate to break up the conversation, but the Decepticons are still trying to break through and you're sitting around discussing battle cries!"

"Alright, alright, lets get going," Sugarcoat replied.

Everyone quickly went to get their gear together, but Sugarcoat stopped to look at Sunset with a smirk on her face.

"Try to top that," Sugarcoat said before walking away with a smug look on her face.

Sunset's face stayed frozen, just hearing Sugarcoat's remark, and her eye twitched.

"I... She... UGH! Lets just go!"

Sunset stomped away with a steaming face.

The doors stayed closed with all of their might, and the Decepticons kept on trying to bash on through. But none of them were making any dents in.

"Try harder you incompetent scraplets!", Galvatron yelled. "If they escape, I will have your heads!"

The former Renegade Steamer kept on pounding the wall with as much strength as he could.

"Too bad Screwhead isn't here to drill here, we'd be getting through this wall a lot faster," Steamer stated.

"Eh, those Renegades took off like the cowards they are. We don't need to deal with their rusting carcasses," another Decepticon replied.

Galvatron just growled, "What is taking Trypticon and Scorponok so long!?"

"They're not built for speed mighty Galvatron," Jet replied, flying up and standing next to him with a devious smile, hanging his arm around his neck, "They'll get here, and we will get Sunset Shimmer soon enough..."

Galvatron sneered and he pushed the femme's arm off of him, "You better hope for your sake that they do succeed, or else heads are going to be rolling... and I don't care who's."

Back inside, the girls were all standing by, prepared and ready to go. They took what they needed, they had the gear they needed, and they felt ready.

"Alright girls, everyone got their sets of clothes?" Sunset asked.

"Check," Rainbow called out.

"Lots of money and food?"

"I have it covered," Rarity replied.

"And do you have weapons to defend yourselves?"

"Yepperooni!"

"Fake Matrix of Leadership shell?"

"We got it!"

"Oh, wait! I almost forgot, I need to tell you all something important!"

Everyone's heads turned to look at Wheeljack who rushed to the group.

"I've put in a few hidden devices inside of your Headmaster suits in case of an emergency. All of them have plenty of devices and equipment that should help you get out of a jam. And, I've put in an extra Groundbridge boost. If you need to get somewhere quick, there should be enough juice in there to get you through three Groundbridge portals. But use them wisely, or else you won't be getting out of any location fast," Wheeljack said.

"We will Wheeljack, we promise," Applejack replied.

"Perfect, that's all I had to tell you. Now get moving!"

Sunset, Twilight, and the rest of their friends stood grouped together as they looked to each other just before they had their goodbyes.

"Good luck girls," Sunset smiled.

"We will. And stay safe, won't you?"

"I think we'll be perfectly safe Fluttershy."

Everyone huddled together for one last group hug, and gave each other a few pats on their backs.

"Time to go girls, we gotta run," Ironhide interrupted.

"Right. Stay safe out there," Applejack replied.

Twilight and Sunset nodded.

"Til all are one," Sunset quoted.

The other girls just smirked and a few rolled their eyes.

"Til all are one!", Everyone quipped.

Ratchet moved himself over to the control console of the Groundbridge, and he started the controls. A green portal opened up, set for the destination the girls needed to go to.

One by one Ironhide, Knockout, Sideswipe, Bumblebee and Jazz all transformed to their alternate forms and the girls climbed into the drivers seats of all cars, with their equipment all collected.

"Stay safe Autobots," Ultra Magnus replied.

"We will. Good luck!"

Sideswipe was the first to roll out, driving on through the portal. Not too long did Bumblebee, then Jazz, and it ended with Knockout and Ironhide who all crossed the portal to the other side.

Once everyone made it through, Ratchet shut down the portal.

"Okay, Crystal Preps, its time for you to depart as well."

The girls all gave their nods and looked at Sunset and Twilight.

"Stay safe you two, and hopefully you'll be alive by the time we meet up again," Sunny Flare replied.

"I'm positive we will. Now get going!"

"Wait! One more thing!"

"This better be important Lemon," Sour growled.

"It is, I promise! I wanted to ask if maybe, we could... uh... take some Allspark fragments?"

Everyone stared at Lemon with a bewildered look on their faces. Why was she suddenly demanding their remaining fragments out of nowhere?

"Lemon? Care to explain why you're suddenly asking this?"

"Well, something just occurred to me! You girls turned into robots because of the Allspark fragments, right? I figured if we had some fragments on our hands, we could use them if we don't have any options left! Be Autobots in case we don't have anything left! Or, we could, you know... give our ship a little extra nitro boost..."

Ratchet scrunched his face and groaned. "I'll go see what remains we have left..."

Five minutes later, Ratchet came back and in his hand were five tiny fragments in his hand. And he passed the fragments off to Highbrow who accepted them.

"Use them wisely, and use them well. But I should let you know, we are down to only a few fragments left. All we'll have left is enough to power our entire facility," Ratchet explained.

"We'll use them with care and omniscient thinking," Highbrow replied.

"Good. Now get moving!"

The girls nodded and so they began to run off to the hangar towards their shuttle. And right behind them were the rest of their guardians, along with the Dinobots.

"Alright everyone, lets get out of here!"

Everyone rushed inside, and soon everyone sat in their assigned seats and and control consoles. Hound and Indigo sat in the back, sitting in the main control chairs to get the ship started.

"Is everyone strapped in?", Indigo asked.

"We're all strapped in."

"Good, start up the engines and lets light this candle!"

The engines began to pulsate with energy, and it pushed the ship off from the landing pad. The landing gear lifted up and folded itself underneath the ship as it was beginning to take off. Its back thrusters began to rupture flames outside. The hangar doors opened up, and the ship began to move itself through the doors and take off for the sky. A big whoosh sent shockwaves through the hangar as it took flight, going off to the skies.

On the ground, the Decepticons looked up and saw the ship leaving the area. This only made Galvatron even more angry.

"Trypticon... destroy that spaceship, until there's nothing left. Do not allow any of them to survive. And if there are survivors... kill them all."

The giant city only gave one roar and it stomped its foot into the ground and took a few steps back. A pair of rocket engines from its back began to burst with flame, and the giant slowly pulled up from the ground, ready to chase after the ship. But before it did, it picked up a little too close to the front of the base and so its giant feet bashed into the top of the base, sending more rocks and concrete crumbling.

However, despite the small slam, the giant still took off into the sky, chasing the spaceship. With it gone, the Decepticons continued to make their assault on the front of the base.

"Its defenses have weakened! Bruticus, Indominita, finish it! Reduce that base to rumble!"

The two teams obliged and they changed into their gestalt forms, towering above their warriors and standing with their heads meeting right at the roof of the base.

"Destroy Autobot base! DESTROY! DESTROY!!!"

Back inside the base, the top of the ceiling began to crumble and pieces of granite fell down on the ground, clattering into pieces.

"Oh no... girls, its time to go, now."

Sunset and Twilight stood with their power suits, and standing by was their principals, Perceptor, Ultra Magnus, and Leader-1.

"So, Ratchet, what will you do now?"

"I'm going to do what I can to keep them off. And if they demand to know where you are, we won't say a thing. Agh!"

Ratchet ducked as another piece of debris came down.

"Where the devil is Strongarm and Tracks!?"

"I don't know!" Sunset yelled.

"We cannot worry about that now, we must run, now!", Principal Celestia yelled.

"Well... here goes nothing!" Sunset gulped.

Sunset and Twilight looked at each other, and with one nod, the two of them jumped on through the spinning green portal, sent to their next location.

Back near the front of the base, the doors and the top of the base were being bashed hard, and more and more pieces were falling apart.

"This place isn't going to stay stable for long!" Hoist yelled.

"It doesn't matter, the girls, and their Autobots have made it through," Ratchet yelled, "Now if only Strongarm and Tracks would actually get up here as per order, I--"

Ratchet turned his head and his eyes widened when he saw some Bots standing near the Groundbridge controls. Standing there was Strongarm who punched in the commands, and standing near was Tracks who was... handcuffed to her left wrist? And it wasn't just him, there were a few other bots that were standing near handcuffed to one another, all in a chain together.

"Wait a minute, Strongarm, what are you doing!?"

But it was too late. For at that moment, the top of the base fell into more pieces and it came down, covering all four of them in the debris, burying Ratchet, Wheeljack, Hoist and Grapple all alive. Once the top of the base fell, soon the front entrance, and the door with a loud SLAM. Standing at the door was Galvatron, the Shadowcons, and everyone else who arrived.

"Storm their base, find Sunset Shimmer... now."

Everyone did as they were told and they stomped right on through the open base, and then walked right into a set of doors connected a building that was a part of the base that was... not destroyed.

"Ugh, we should destroy the entire base while we can... those Autobots won't have anywhere to go if its--"

"Patience, Lord Galvatron," Jet Black Spark interrupted, speaking a sultry like voice. "Those Autobots won't get very far--"

"They're gone!"

Galvatron snarled and glared at the Decepticon double to Twilight.

"You better hope for your sake that I don't kill you," Galvatron snarled as he stomped on past her. Jet just sneered as Galvatron walked on by.

"Want me to slag him?" Tremors asked.

"No. That would be... unethical. Let him be as infuriated as he wants, and let his insanity grow. His own usefulness and whatever is left of his mental capacity will be gone soon enough. Besides, its the right amount we need if our lord and master is to be completely free from Sunset Shimmer... but I think we may need to do something else with our little, prisoner..."

"What exactly do you have in mind?", Hypermind asked.

"Well... I'm sure its bad enough that Sunset has to go all alone without his master...", Jet said in a mocking voice, "But what if we made it even worse for her? Turning her dear friend, Optimus Prime into something she hopes to never face..."

The Shadowcons all grinned and gave chuckles.

"I like where you're going with this," Rush stated.

"Yes, I know... its so diabolical," Jet chuckled, "But back to business, we'll turn Optimus over to Unicron as a last resort. For now, lets keep Galvatron and his little Decepticons focused on the primary task. Oh, and just to keep you all in mind... make sure that if you do report to one another, or our own master... make sure that the Decepticons are kept out of the loop. No need to have interference with our true plans..."

They all chuckled again, but they didn't realize that one of the Decepticon individuals had been listening in the entire time. He listened carefully and he sneered when he heard them speak. Something about them had seen suspicious from the start. And now things were starting to become more clear, but not enough. Who was their master, and what exactly is their real intentions?

Everyone looked around in the base, but so far, nothing. No one was home, and there was barely anyone here. They checked every single room for any remaining Autobots, or even if the girls were hiding, but they weren't anywhere to be seen.

Coming out of one of the rooms was two Decepticon twins, both of which could transform into cars. But there was difference between them, one was black and the other was white. And as they came to the entrance of the base where everyone else gathered, held in their hands was a small model of a tower that had little metal reflectors at the top.

"We didn't see anyone Lord Galvatron," the black twin spoke.

"But we did find this pretty cool model in their construction room. Think we could get some more Energon this way?"

Galvatron sneered and he fired a blast at the little model that was held, smoldering it into pieces.

"Our top priority is finishing Sunset Shimmer and the Matrix. We have no time for any stupid energy towers," Galvatron growled. "Now... I don't know where they have gone, but one thing's for sure. We need to get up in the air and find out where they are. As soon as we're up, split up into groups across this globe. Find them, I don't care how, but if you do, report back to me! I want to destroy the Matrix and I want to crush Sunset in my arms, personally..."

"Yes Lord Galvatron," everyone spoke.

"Good. Now lets go! Scorponok, transform for city mode and lets take off!"

The giant scorpion obeyed and he transformed back into its city mode, and opened the doors. With Galvatron marching in first, everyone else slowly began to follow and they stomped back inside the giant city.

Then with a loud boom, the city took off into the sky, leaving only the remaining survivors, and the crumbled base standing. They didn't want to waste any of their time with the Autobots, they now had to get out and find where Sunset was now.

All around the outside, there was only the aftermath and the ruins of the battle. The atmosphere was somber, the clouds were filled with black and gray smoke from the amount of destruction, clashing with a bright red of the sun. The Autobots had more casualties than the Decepticons, and all of the other Autobots who weren't killed were badly hurt.

One of the girls who looked at the remains of the battle, Trixie, felt her heart sink into the pits of her stomach. She didn't know a lot of these Autobots, but she couldn't believe that they died in front of her. These poor Autobots all lost their lives. It was here now she got a clear understanding of what the Autobots suffered on Cybertron. Many of their friends dying for what they believed in, and losing many allies that they called friends, family. All in front of her.

She stood in front of the pile of the remains of their deceased warriors and took in the full harrowing view of their lost brethren. Many of them had died, but there were still a few warriors who weren't dead. Well, mostly. A lot of them were still alive, but they were badly hurt.

As for the countless corpses, Trixie could see a few of their remains and she did remember a few faces who died; Ace, Bent Wing, Wrong Way, Spay-C, Mach-3, Goldbug, Tailpipe, Major Mo, just to name a few. Who knew how many more had added onto the pile.

The white haired girl could only look for a few more seconds, before turning her head to face a groaning warrior. Taking a knee out and breathing in and out was the still functional, Pipes. And coming near him were the rest of the Canterlot High and Crystal Prep students who had joined the battle, all of which were okay.

"Pipes? Are you okay?"

Pipes raised a hand up, still breathing heavily as he pulled himself up.

"I'll be fine. Are you alright Trixie?"

"Well, Trixie's a little shaken up from the fight but, other than that, Trixie's okay," the magician replied.

"How many did we lose?", Octavia spoke up.

"Ace. Bent Wing. Wrong Way. Spay-C. Mach-3. Goldbug. Tailpipe. Major Mo. That's ten--"

"--eight, Pipes, eight."

"Right, eight. Either way, our body count just grew some more," Pipes replied. "Those titans are impossible to take down. None of our attacks made any dents in them." Pipes sighed, "I wish we had Metroplex here."

"Um... what's Metroplex?"

The Autobot looked down at the gray-skinned girl, giving her his undivided attention.

"Oh, its uh... long story, lets just see if we can help the others out of that rumble."

Pipes slowly began walking, but every step forward, his left leg kept limping from the pain. He winced and hissed at every time he moved his leg, but he didn't stop moving. He wasn't about to let one hurt leg stand in the way. He had to find out if the others are okay.

And walking with him were the rest of the students. All of them were okay, but they were covered with a few bruises, cuts, and small wounds. They would probably need to see a doctor once this was over.

Soon as the group made it to the front of the base, they began to look around. Smoke and dust were forming clouds from the damage. The front entrance of the base was nothing but a pile of rocks and concrete. Nothing to be seen, no signs of any survivors in the mess.

"Did anyone stay behind?", Vinyl asked.

"Ratchet and Wheeljack stayed. Hoist and Grapple, they stayed too. Wait... no they aren't the only ones. Hold on, let me try something."

Pipes raised up his finger and pressed the side of his ear to try and call someone on a comlink channel.

"Strongarm, this is Pipes. Are you in there? Strongarm?"

Pipes didn't receive a reply.

"Okay... Tracks, are you there? Tracks? Tracks?"

Still nothing.

"Come on, there's got to be someone else still here. Wasp? Road Rage? Arcee? Cliffjumper? Where are you guys?"

"Maybe their energy signatures are still here," Micro Chips chipped in.

"Can't be. I'm not picking up their traces. I'm only picking up four bots, all of which belong to Doc, Wheeljack, and our construction workers. Come on, we got to pull them out! More hands make less work, chop chop!"

Pipes and the others began to throw parts of the debris out of the way, hopefully uncovering some of their friends. With the multitude of hands that were helping, they were getting a lot of the rocks and rubble off of the metal floor that they recognized as their base ground.

"Ratchet! Wheeljack! Hoist! Grapple! You under there?" Pipes yelled.

"Fear not, fellow Autobots! The Great and Powerful Trixie has found them!"

Trixie got Pipes, the CHS, and CPA students attention onto her, and looked to where she pointed. They could see a few limbs sticking out from the ground.

First to emerge was Ratchet who groaned in pain.

"This is like a recurring nightmare...", Ratchet groaned.

"Are you okay?"

"I'm quite alright Trixie, thank you. Wheeljack?"

Wheeljack's head popped up as well and his eyes were rolling around for a moment.

"Oh, stars all around...", Wheeljack rattled his head to wake himself up, "Wait... are we dead yet?"

"No, you're quite alive Wheeljack," Octavia spoke up.

Another head popped from the rubble, this one belonging to Hoist who groaned in pain.

"Okay... if anyone finds Grapple, please don't tell him that I heard Galvatron just blew up his solar power tower model."

"THEY WHAT!?"

Grapple's head popped out of the rubble with an angry look on his face and snarling teeth. Then with a shaking fist and a pounding on the rubble, he yelled.

"This. Means. WAAAARRRRRRR!!!!!"

Part 3 Has Ended

Author's Notes:

Special nod to Shadowmane for helping me with a joke here, particularly the battle cry.

Also, something I just realized... Sunset's got an orange, and yellow suit, and she's trying to be a new leader and the best to her abilities. And she's fighting Galvatron. Does this sound a little familiar to anyone? A character in mind who shares a few similar qualities to her?

And another thing, slight change in plan... I'm not gonna throw in some bounty hunter characters. I think we've got enough characters that any more is just gonna make this hard to follow.. as if this wasn't hard to follow already. Lets just go with the characters we already have.