Blitzwing watched Unicron start to chomp his way through the second Moon Base. And on the monitor he had security footage of every corner and position of the base since the Decepticons had gained control of it. And on the screen he watched every second that happened with Sour and Smallfoot. He saw Sour proposing to her, their final kiss, and watched as they were about to set off the bomb.

He turned away to look outside in space and watched saw a very powerful explosion go off in the mouth of Unicron as he finished the rest of the Moon. Blitzwing only stood in horror as he saw the monstrosity even eat their moons at all. What was this thing!? And more importantly, should they tell Galvatron? No. Galvatron was insane on the face of Cybertron at this point. He wouldn't listen! Those Shadowcons had twisted his mind up so much, turning him against his own allies and himself. If he talked out of line, he would be facing Galvatron's wrath. Or worse, the Shadowcons could find out about him and take him down.

But what about the Autobots? Would they listen to him? Sure, they were their enemies... but they never were this insane. No other choice, he pulled out the rest of the security footage into a small security chip and placed it in a compartment in his chest. Once it was sealed up, he grabbed more files from a few chips that he had downloaded earlier.

After collecting all of his information, he ran straight out of the room and down the hallways.

Blitzwing ran for about a good hour just trying to get out of the building, and eventually made it outside and near a Decepticon Spacebridge. Once he arrived, he accessed the coordinates needed and the Spacebridge began to turn on. Not looking back, the Decepticon jumped through the bridge and it closed behind him.

Everyone was still standing in shock and awe in Sunset's new look. They just couldn't put the pieces together that she was alive.

"H-How..." Ratchet sputtered.

"By the Primes..." Wheeljack mumbled.

"Sunset." Ultra Magnus cleared his throat, standing straight with a friendly smile. "Its great to see you're still alive. How, exactly did you survive?"

"Its a little hard to explain. Back in the volcano, I swore I thought I saw Optimus Prime in the Matrix. And then when I refused to say no to going with Megatron, he shot me and I fell into the lava. I thought I was gonna be dead, but thanks to Wheeljack and Ratchet's invention, I bridged out into the Everfree Forest."

Wheeljack smirked under his mask. "Guess my inventions don't break after all."

Sunset grinned. "No they don't Wheeljack. Anyways, what has been happening in the few hours of my departure?"

"Wheeljack went bat-scrap crazy, brought a dead Bot from the grave back, and now we're standing here with you." A voice spoke.

"Well, either way, I'm glad all of you are okay. But right now we've got bigger issues."

She was about to speak up, but she listened to a whispering by one of the Bots who moved close to her ear. She blinked and blushed a bit.

"Oh, oops... Sorry. I forgot, Ultra Magnus, you have the center stage."

"Actually Sunset... if you don't mind, I prefer if you take leadership back under your hands. And you have my support." Ultra Magnus saluted.

Sunset smiled back. "Thanks, Ultra Magnus. But getting back to business..."

Sunset stood in front of all of the gathered warriors and the girls who were nothing but happy and crying in joy over their friend's return.

"The Decepticons turned the tide on us when they took some of our friends. By my count, that's eleven hostages that they have. And we need to get them all back."

"But how? Its not like we can just fly off this rock, oh wait I forgot, we crashed here! Oh, but what about our shuttle, well that got blown up too! Ooh, what about Canterlot Colossus and Omega Supreme? Oh yeah, they aren't strong enough to depart off this rock!"

"We get it Van Guard!" Sugarcoat yelled, before looking back to Sunset much calmer. "Please, continue."

"Anyways, what I was saying was--"

The alarm systems blinked loud, making all of them stop their conversations. On the monitor, a purple Decepticon signal was blinking.

"We're picking up a Decepticon and a Groundbridge signal. And its..." Ratchet blinked. "Its Blitzwing."

"Just Blitzwing?" Sunset asked.

Everyone listened to a giant slam outside of the base, and all of them turned around. A body was found face first dug into the sand, groaning in agony and pain. Instantly, they pulled out their guns out of recognition of the body. The wings, the barrel in the back of the head, the fins, the purple and tan colors.

"Alright Blitzwing. Up on your feet."

The Decepticon quickly got up on one knee, upon hearing their guns and raised his arms up in surrender.

"Wait, don't shoot! I beg you!"

The Autobots stared at Blitzwing in awkward silence and exchanged a few glances with the person on their left or right.

"He begs us?" Twilight asked.

"Listen. We are all in grave peril, and that counts for the Decepticons as well. I know none of you will listen to a Decepticon, but you need to hear me out."

Sunset walked up to Blitzwing with a serious look.

"Are you serious?"

He nodded.

"What do you mean by everyone's in danger?"

"I'll explain everything to you all. But I must warn you, what you are about to see isn't going to be met with tranquility."

Blitzwing pulled out a few chips and key cards from his chest compartment, showing them.

"The recordings that I have plucked from Cybertron's atmosphere is something you all need to see. I would have shown Galvatron, but he's gone insane. He doesn't even know those Shadowcons are pulling wool over his eyes."

Sunset sighed. "Alright. I'll give you a chance to prove yourself. But I'm only warning you, if you try to trick us or lie to any of us..."

"I know."

"Alright. Come on in."

The Decepticon walked with Sunset inside of the Autobot base, and everyone held their guns out pointed at the Triple-Changer, waiting for him to make a move.

"Alright, now what is it that you just had to come all the way out here to tell us?" Rainbow scoffed. "You come here to hack into our base? Is that what you want?"

"If I was going to do that, I would have tried by now. But that's not my reason for arriving here this morning." Blitzwing showed the chip to Sunset Shimmer. "Am I allowed to show you what I have in my possession?"

"You are."

Blitzwing put the chip into the computer, and began to access the mainframe. An image appeared on screen, showing Cybertron's atmosphere with the two moons orbiting the planet.

"There is a bigger reason I've come here to talk to you, and we've come to a low in our Decepticon ranks. I thought we would have acted upon this travesty, but no one seems to care but me. This is Cybertron before we arrived back with your friends."

Everyone nodded.

"But this... was just half an hour ago."

A new image appeared on screen. Unicron was in the atmosphere and the image was showing him chomping through the first Moon Base like a hungry pig, eating away at every plate and fracture that was out.

Everyone gasped in shock and terror.

"No... it can't be..." Leader-1 gasped.

"That's impossible!" Pathfinder squeaked.

“It only gets worse.”

The last seconds of security footage on Moon Base Two began to play. Sour Sweet and Smallfoot sharing their final kiss in a smoke-filled filter, right until the dead static interrupted just before a burst of flame.

“No… that can’t be… that’s impossible!” Indigo cried. She tried to run up to Blitzwing to pound on him, but Hound grabbed her before she made her move. “No, let me at him! Those scrapheaps left them to die, I swear I’ll—“

“Everyone, please. We don’t know if they’re actually dead. For all we know, they could be still alive. Blitzwing, do you remember your last orders?”

“Unfortunately no. We never received orders when we got back. We just came back with our prisoners, and that was it. No other orders. And that’s when we caught something on… Those Shadowcons all have been working in secret. Just listen to this.”

Blitzwing played back a recording of Jet Black Spark muttering to herself, followed up by another recording of them talking to an unfamiliar man with a very thunderous voice. The recording stopped.

“If I am correct, all of these Shadowcons have been serving one lord the entire time we’ve been after you. They’re working for… Unicron.”

Everyone let out a gasp.

“Wait a minute… wasn’t Unicron the planet that ate Gobotron?” Fluttershy asked

“And if that was Unicron… then that means—“

“He’s back from a long period of exile.” Blitzwing finished.

“But why?” Twilight asked.

“From what we remember from Starscream, Unicron sent Megatron and his new Shadowcon army after you and your friends. He said that Unicron explained that the magic from Sunset Shimmer, her friends, and from the Matrix of Leadership, were the only things that could stop him.”

Sunset looked at the girls. “So that’s why they’ve been after us all this time!”

“Exactly. But this is no ordinary monster..."

Blitzwing popped in another file onto the screen, revealing ancient Cybertronian text.

"Long before any of us were ever forged and before the universe became what it is now..."

There existed two gods. Unicron... and Primus. Unicron's purpose was to devour everything in the universe, until nothing but himself existed in the void, all in his own image. Nothing but complete darkness and emptiness, an endless void. But Unicron wasn't alone. Out in the emptiness of space, existed our own god, Primus. The two of them battled for eons, but unfortunately neither side could gain the upper hand. But then, Primus created the original Thirteen Primes.

The Thirteen were all that could stand to fight Unicron, and eventually Unicron was defeated, leading to a millennial long exile. The Thirteen finally had peace, and Unicron was gone. But they knew one day he would return. So, in the event that he would return, Primus created the Matrix of Leadership which would carry all of the wisdom of the Primes, for a new leader to carry. Eventually, we Cybertronians began to populate Cybertron, and the one you all know as Optimus Prime was next in line to be bearer of the Matrix. He held the wisdom of the Primes, and then that's when he would rise to lead the Autobots to fight against all of us... and Megatron.

"... And if I am correct, you Sunset Shimmer, have been chosen to protect the Matrix of Leadership." Blitzwing finished.

Everyone let what Blitzwing explained sink in. All of them had a hard time just trying to process that a god from millions of years ago had returned.

Sunset looked back at Blitzwing. “What about Optimus? He's the one who is supposed to bear the Matrix, where is he?”

“I’m afraid I don’t know. I thought we were just going to move him down a look into his mind using the cortical psychic patch, but we never found him. I think those Shadowcons moved him somewhere, but I don’t know where. No one does.”

Applejack snapped her fingers. "Wait... Sunset, didn't you share part of your magic with Optimus? You could communicate with him telepathically."

"Well, yes, but--"

"Come on, see if you can call him up!" Rainbow replied.

Sunset shrugged. "Its worth a shot.

Sunset closed her eyes, and everyone around her went dead silent. She would need all concentration in the world if she was going to communicate with him. Sunset's eyes twitched, and her teeth grit. But nothing happened. Not a thing. Not even a sign.

Her eyes opened back up and she looked at the others with a worried look.

"I can't talk to him. I'm serious, I can't. I'm not getting any sign that he's got my magic."

The cluster glanced to one another.

"You don't think--"

"No, I'm not going to jump to conclusions." Sunset interrupted. "For all we know, he could be alright. We'll just have to try and get back ourselves."

"But... what are we gonna do?" Fluttershy asked.

Sunset scratched at her chin again and paced back and forth to think. What could they do? what could they do with their limited supplies, and their small remains of Autobots and reformed Decepticons? Wait... Autobots and Decepticons. Decepticons. That was it!

Sunset snapped her fingers.

"I've got an idea! Its a little crazy, but it just might work. If we're going to get off Earth, we'll need to find someone who's knowledgeable in spaceships. And if we're going to stop Unicron, then we're going to need to assemble an army."

"But we're not enough, and I don't think it'd be a good idea to bring a bunch of teenagers into space. Its dangerous out there, and their fleshy bodies don't have enough training for something this catastrophic." Wheeljack replied.

"Hold on, you don't think Sunset would be crazy enough to wrangle a bunch of untrained high school students into joining this?" Applejack thought for a good second and looked back at Sunset with a worried look. "You're seriously not thinking that, are you?"

"I'm not suggesting that. I'm thinking of bringing in a different kind of army... but before I say anything else I want to ask. Does everyone here know that all of the Decepticons from the prison ship are roaming freely?"

"Yeah." Everyone replied.

"Well our plan's gonna involve them. We're gonna need to round up every Decepticon fugitive to join us, only this time we're going to offer them the things only they would love."

"Hold on, who exactly do you plan on talking to?" Leader-1 interrupted.

"Trust me, there's a lot of people we've got to find, and I know just who!" Sunset said with a big grin.

--

In an abandoned scrap yard, a giant Cybertronian muscle car rolled up. The form itself transformed revealing an animal like form, with a big jaw, strong enough to crunch up tons of metal. And surely enough, it grabbed some metal, and threw it into its mouth. Once it ate it, a burst of neon flashed around his body, making the Decepticon chuckle.

"Feel the burn!"

"We're going to enlist the greatest Decepticon fugitives in the galaxy, including..."

The Decepticon bashed through a wall, and drooled at the sight of more metal for him to devour.

"I'm gonna save you little darlin's for dessert." The Decepticon chuckled.

"...Underbite!"

--

In the ocean, a giant metallic shark form jumped up onto a cruise ship adn transformed into a bipedal state with an angry look.

"Hammerstrike!"

The shark growled as he walked towards his treasures.

"Never again will I walk the land on two legs..." He growled.

--

A lobster like form blasted a cement brick wall, and inside was tons of metal paneling, controls, and computer consoles.

"Bisk!"

--

A red and maroon Decepticon with hulking shoulders and four yellow eyes ran down a street in England, holding a giant stash of Energon cubes in his arms, all the while armed forces pursued.

"Begging your pardon lads..." the Decepticon smirked.

"Chop Shop!"

--

"Contrail!!!" A massive armored rig with horns on the top yelled, ramming past several civilians.

"Terrashock!"

--

With each Decepticon she called out, their profiles appeared on Teletraan-1's monitor. And Ratchet flipped through every one of them.

"--Thunderhoof! Springload! Ped! Quillfire! Fracture! Malador! Clampdown! Nightstrike! Vertebreak! Octopunch! Groundpounder! Scowl! Zizza! Pseudo! Polarclaw! Crazybolt! Slicedice! Razorpaw! Glacius! Swelter! Simacore! Silverhound! Stockade! Saberhorn! Glowstrike! Crustacion! Ragebyte! Zorillor! Boostwing! Jacknab! Pilfer! Shadow Raker! Flamesnort! Wingcode! Fancyclaws! Wolfwire! Skullcruncher! Mindwipe! Triggerhappy! Misfire! Slugslinger! Reflector! Crankcase! Crowbar! Hatchet! Blackout! Demolisher! Wreckage! Pounce! Wingspan! Snapdragon! Apeface! Spinister! Two-Heads! And last but not least... Overload."

Everyone was now staring at Sunset in awkward silence, including Blitzwing. Sugarcoat broke the silence and raised her finger.

"Okay, I know both factions have some odd names, but did you make some of those up?"

"Nope! They're all real!" Pinkie squeaked while winking to the reader. "I checked the database twice, they're all real!"

"We even had Reflector as a spy for our team for a short while." Blitzwing nodded.

"So let me get this straight, your plan is round up all of the Decepticons that are loose, and have them join our side as a temporary alliance?"

"Yes." Sunset smiled.

Sunny Flare was hesitant for a moment, but eventually gave her a smile. "This might work."

"Its crazy, its insane... but I think that's the right amount of crazy we need." Sugarcoat nodded.

"Sunset. We'll do the best we can to make sure this plan works." Ultra Magnus replied.

Sunset smiled to her giant team. "So... are you all in?"

Everyone let out grunts and cheers.

"Alright, then lets assemble the Decepticons. Ratchet, Wheeljack, Weirdwolf, get the Groundbridge patched up as best as you can. We're going to need to make several trips if we're going to find them... and I know just the place the start!" Sunset smiled with an excited tone in her voice.