Ratchet, Wheeljack, Sugarcoat, and Twilight all put their hands in to finish the repairs on the Groundbridge. All of their efforts were getting the job done much quicker than they had anticipated, and it was nearly there to completion.

Finally, after the final circuit boards were soldered, the machine was up and running again.

"Sunset. The Groundbridge is functioning once again. Are you ready?"

"Yep! Blaster did a pretty good job with the paint."

Sugarcoat took in notice that the front of her chest now was blazed with a Decepticon logo instead of Autobot.

"And why are you wearing a Decepticon logo? I'm sure some of these guys know you."

"Some of them yes, but most of them don't. Which is why, if I'm going to convince a Decepticon to help, I need to be a Decepticon." Sunset grinned.

Sugarcoat raised a brow. "Alright... Seems like a bit of a time waste to just slap the enemy logo on you for that. But, I won't argue with your logic."

"Lets just get going."

The Groundbridge opened, glowing in front of Sunset. She stood for a moment and checked herself one last time, making sure she was presentable.

"Wish me luck."

"Good luck Sunset!" Twilight smiled.

"Go get 'em." Wheeljack complimented.

"We'll meet you back here soon." Sugarcoat replied.

Sunset Shimmer walked on through the Groundbridge and found herself in a farmer's field which was flourishing with vegetables. But the first thing she spotted with her optics was the blue tractor with a few neon lights that was just sitting there in place.

She picked up a small clod of dirt, holding it in her hand tight. Then once she had aim, she chucked it at the tractor which met with the collision. The tractor began to shake and rumble, and then it transformed into robot mode, revealing an angry Decepticon with giant antlers and elk hooves.

"Eyyo! What's going on here?" The Decepticon boomed with a Brooklyn accent. "Who's interrupting my stasis-nap?"

"That'd be me!" Sunset called, grabbing his attention.

"Eyyo, what's dis? Who you might youse be baby-doll?" The Decepticon asked.

"I'm Sunset Shimmer. I wanted to talk to you, Thunderhoof."

Thunderhoof whistled. "Ey, what about? I ain't talking to no..."

Thunderhoof stared down at the logo on her chest. It didn't bare an Autobot logo, but a Decepticon insignia. This made him give a smile instead of a sneer.

"But on the other hand, eh, I suppose I can talk to a femme with a pretty face. What can I do you for?"

Sunset cleared her throat. This was her chance.

"Okay Thunderhoof. I would like to request your help to help us depart for Cybertron and save the galaxy. All of Cybertron is in danger, including the whole galaxy, and we need everyone's help, including yours. And I know how much an expert you are in technology, so.."

Thunderhoof's once friendly look went away.

"Now why would I help someone who worked with Autobots? You and the rest of those Autobots tried to capture us and lock us back into stasis in the first place!"

Sunset shrugged. "Okay. Suit yourself." She turned around smirking, unbeknownst to Thunderhoof. "I guess you won't want to hear that the reason I'm asking you is because the entire planet is about to be devoured by a god from a long time ago. But I guess this means you're going to be stranded on this planet for the rest of your life. Later."

Sunset took a few steps forward, ready to leave.

"Hey!"

Sunset stopped and turned around. Thunderhoof had walked up to her, and was staring down at her, eye to eye.

"What do you mean by a god?"

Sunset's wrist went up, and a holoscreen exposing one of the images that Blitzwing had collected, making the Decepticon gasp in shock. Now he got the grasp of the situation.

"Is that thing Unicron? Me and my boys have heard legends about him. But we didn't think he was real."

"He's real alright." Sunset nodded.

Thunderhoof tapped his hoof, and scratched as his chin.

"Tell you what. Seeing as how you're a Cybertronian and all, and you're asking for help from me of all Decepticons, if I help you, will you drop the charges and let me free?"

"Help us save Cybertron from Unicron... and I will make sure all charges against you are dropped." Sunset replied with a serious look.

Thunderhoof paused for a good moment, and then smirked.

"Okay, lets go."

Thunderhoof held his hand out to shake on it, which Sunset complied. Both of them shook hands in agreement, and smirked.

"Welcome aboard, Thunderhoof." Sunset grinned before reaching to her ear. "Ratchet. Open up the bridge, we're ready to return."

Sunset and Thunderhoof walked through the Groudnbridge, and the Autobots stayed prepared in case that Thunderhoof was going to attack.

"Don't worry guys, its okay. Thunderhoof's going to help us." Sunset assured.

"I wouldn't put it past him to try and attack us when he has the chance." Outback stated.

"Brothers, please. We are not here to fight, but to recruit. Thunderhoof, perhaps you would like to meet some of the other Decepticons that are a part of our motley crew?" Weirdwolf asked.

Thunderhoof just grinned and he walked off to converse with the rest of the Decepticons that had joined their group. Sunset smiled as she watched Thunderhoof get along with them, and then looked to her friends.

"Looks like this is gonna work! Come on, lets go find some more!"

Over the past couple of hours, Sunset Shimmer and occasionally her friends jumped through the Groundbridge portal, returning back with Decepticons that were on their search list. It took some motivation, but the Decepticons were clearly motivated enough to join Sunset Shimmer and her army in order to regain Cybertron. There were even Cons that she didn't think she'd convince to join her.

The Groundbridge remained open for a brief moment, while everyone on the other side waited for Sunset to return with her next Decepticon. Moments later they found her running back in, and a frog Decepticon jumping through the bridge.

"Wait... this isn't where the spirits told us to go! Why do we see no signs of Doradus?" Springload asked.

Sunset sighed for a moment and raised a hand up to catch her breath. "That's one of the reasons I asked you to come here. You want the treasures of Doradus right?"

Springload nodded.

"Well here's the thing. There is a tyrant from millions of years ago who's returned and plans on destroying the galaxy. If he succeeds, then that means there will be nothing left in the galaxy, and that includes Doradus!"

Springload's red eyes bulged. "Destroying Doradus!? The unworthy will never do so!"

"Exactly! That's why we need your help, so we can stop him from destroying Doradus and his treasure!" Sunset replied.

"No, he won't do that! Okay, I'll help you and your conspirers! But only because he cannot destroy the lost city, and its fountain of Energon!" The frog croaked.

"Excellent brother. Now for the time being, how about you sit with us, and tell us how you came across this ancient city?" Weirdwolf smiled.

Springload grinned back, and he hopped away to join the others. Sunset however was recovering from her steaming wounds.

"Oh good heavens, darling! Are you alright? Did that frog cover you in its slime?" Rarity asked.

"No, I'm fine. I just uh... I tried tapping his shoulder to get his attention, and well... lets just say be careful if you try to touch him. He has acid skin." Sunset moaned from the pain.

The girls all blinked in awkward silence.

"Anyways, there's one more Bot we need to haul in, but getting him to listen to me is going to be a problem."

"Why's that?" Ultra Magnus asked.

"Overload wants us dead." Sunset bluntly said. "He despises Autobots and Decepticons since the war basically ruined Cybertron, and all they've done is kill each other without end. And I don't think he'll take too kindly to seeing me..."

"Then perhaps I should be the one to talk to him." Weirdwolf spoke, walking back. "Overload knows me well enough to not slaughter me, simply because of my defection from the Decepticons. I'm sure with some encouragement, I could persuade him to join us."

Sunset nodded. "He's not wrong. Overload trusts Weirdwolf more than us, I think he's the logical choice."

Weirdwolf nodded. "Bridge me there."

The wolf walked through the Groundbridge, walking into a dark and steam filled area. The only forms of light offered were the dark red lights that were a little dim under the smoke. Around him, he could see scraps of metal and plating all of which were used from other machines.

His tail swayed side to side, and he sniffed the air. His hand touched the ground, and he took a sniff of the scent. He could definitely smell his presence. But when he turned around, he nearly let out a gasp. He found the head of the remains of Pyra Magna laying in one of the piles, with her terrified expression lay permanent.

"Who dare disturbs me?"

A pair of red eyes hummed underneath the darkness, accompanied with a dark body that slowly wandered into the little bits of red light, clearly giving away his form. He stared ahead, looking at the wolf form and offered a small smile.

"Weirdwolf. Its so nice to see an intelligent Cybertronian... and a rather handsome looking form."

Weirdwolf chuckled. "You're too kind, Overload."

The wolf walked forward, standing under the same dark light as Overload, face to face.

"What can I do for you, my defector friend?"

"I'm afraid me and my friends require your assistance, and it is a dire call for your help."

Overload's eyebrows furled. "What kind of assistance? If you think I'll defect to the Autobots, you are dead wrong. There is nothing you can say that will entice me to join their group of children."

"I wasn't asking for you to defect. I'm asking for your help in an extreme emergency. We are all in this together now."

Overload blinked. "What are you talking about?"

"I'm afraid Cybertron is in imminent danger of being eaten by a god from long ago. Are you familiar with Unicron?"

Overload's face switched to serious. He could tell this Decepticon in front of him wasn't joking. He was 100% serious, and he needed help.

"Say no more. Lets go."

The two former Decepticons walked back through, greeted by the rest of the girls.

"Rainbooms, Sunset, meet the newest member of our crusade to save Cybertron. This is Overload." Weirdwolf gestured, acknowledged by a nod from Overload.

"Just do us a favor and don't kill anyone, okay?" Rainbow Dash scoffed.

"I don't plan on it, human. Besides, Weirdwolf's encouragement has shown me otherwise. I'm only joining you to save Cybertron, and that's it. Nothing else, no more."

"That's fine." Sunset nodded. "But it would be best if you could try to cooperate with us for the time being so we can get off Earth."

Overload just gave one sneering nod.

"Ey Sunset, I just finishing setting up the uh..." Thunderhoof stopped when he got a good long look at Overload. "EYYO!"

Overload looked back. "Do I know you, Decepticon?"

"I'm sure you will now, you murdering bag of bolts!" Thunderhoof slammed his fists together, but Sunset interrupted.

"I assume you two know each other?" Sunset asked.

"Yeah, that lowlife is the reason I wound up on that prison ship!" Thunderhoof slammed his foot down.

"Do tell how is it that I was the cause of this." Overload sneered.

"You murdered some of my boys, and no one murders my boys. You cut a deal with the Autobots to keep your own shell out of prison, by telling them about my operations! What do you call that!?"

"My payback to the Decepticon cause."

"Oh you better believe I'm gonna be getting payback for all of my boys who lost their lives to a murdering freak like you."

Thunderhoof was about to strike, but Weirdwolf stepped in between them, shoving them both aside.

"That is enough! The past is the past, Overload could be of great use to us. Sunset is the only one who is running this operation, and whether you like it or not, you two need to learn to work together, or Cybertron will die. End. Of. Discussion."

Thunderhoof and Overload scowled at each other, but eventually dropped the fight.

"Fine." The two said in unison.

"That's more like it. Now, shall we attend to more pressing matters?" Weirdwolf replied. "I'm sure we're supposed to assemble everyone for the big meeting."

Sunset nodded.

"The least I could do is at least talk to Road Rage first." Overload muttered.

The girls froze.

"Uh, oh yeah, um... about that..."

"What? Is she dead!?"

"No, she's not dead, but uh... she's seriously hurt. Really bad." Twilight weakly replied.

Overload slammed his foot down. "Who did it!? I'll tear off his head!"

"A Shadowcon named Tremors, but right now she's on Cybertron." Sunset walked up and stood in front of him. "And before you destroy something, I understand that you two have a close connection to her, but right now, I think she just needs a friend." Sunset replied.

Overload growled, but stopped to breathe in and out. "Take me to her. I'll catch up with the rest of you later."

"Allow me." Weirdwolf said, leading the way.

Sunset and the girls looked to each other.

"That was close. Now, lets go tell everyone this is really about." Sunset replied.

The girls nodded and they all walked together with the rest of their friends over to their meeting room. The place they had reserved used to be a giant kitchen and dining area for the Bots and Gobots to cook up their food, but it was populated by the Decepticons who had taken up all of the tables. Even their Mini-Cons got in on the tables with their bosses.

"I hope this works."

"It'll be okay Sunset. You have us, and you have reformed Decepticons." Fluttershy smiled.

Sunset smiled back with a heart-felt feeling.

"Thanks Fluttershy. Blitzwing, Steamer, are you two ready?" Sunset asked.

The two of them nodded.

"Perfect. Now lets make this work."

Sunset stood in the center stage of the dining facility, in the kitchen area, in front of all of the Decepticons in the dining room.

"Ahem, may I have your attention?"

All of the Decepticons stopped talking, and they looked at Sunset who stood in the middle of the girls, Steamer, and Blitzwing.

"Thank you. Now I'm sure you're all wondering why we called you all here to join us today. Well, that's because right now, we are in a real cataclysmic predicament. Real wrath-of-god anomalies. The Chaos Lord of Unicron has returned from a long exile, and he's now returned to devour Cybertron and the entire galaxy whole."

The Decepticons murmured in confusion.

"I know it sounds strange, but you need to see what we mean. Blitzwing, show them."

Blitzwing projected a bigger holoscreen which displayed all of the information and video evidence to the crowd. Understandably, the crowd let out gasps of terror and shock. The images on display were enough to make their plates turn cold.

"What you are seeing is no illusion. Unicron had devoured Cybertron's Moons over the course of a few hours ago, and we need all of your help to kill him!" Blitzwing replied.

"And why should we listen to any of you? You along with Megatron's troops kicked us out of his army, so why should we help with you? Or even with Autobots no less?"

"Yeah, you and the rest of those Autobots have been trying to lock us back into stasis!"

"You attacked us for nothing!"

"ENOUGH!" Sunset screamed, getting everyone to shut up. Her tone was enough to make them back away, unsure of her next move.

"Listen, I know you hate us, but right now the war is dropped. There is no war going on right now. This is about Unicron, and Cybertron, and the fate of the entire galaxy. We are all that's left to save the galaxy, and I can't do this alone."

Sunset opened up her chest compartment, and exposed the Matrix. She grasped it with her hands and presented it to the group.

"This trinket here, is the only thing that can stop him. And the only person who can use it is Optimus Prime who's now held captive by the Decepticons. If we can get up there and get it back to him, we might have a chance of staying alive to see the next day. I don't expect any of you to like us, but I am asking for your help. None of us want Cybertron destroyed, right? So the way I see it, is if we all work together, we might have a chance of keeping Cybertron in one piece before Unicron touches it."

Everyone was in dead silence.

"Please... I'm begging you here."

The Decepticons took in Sunset's speech into their heads. They had two choices. Either stay behind and do nothing, or join the enemy and save their home planet. It looked like the choice was clear.

"Well... perhaps it would be good of us to destroy that monstrosity." The scientist Simacore spoke.

"Yeah..." A few Decepticons murmured.

"We're not letting our planet be destroyed!"

"Yeah."

"I'm not going down that easily..."

"Yeah!"

"And if the galaxy's gone, there won't be any more experiments to perform!"

"Yeah!"

"And we won't get our payment!"

"Yeah!"

Sunset and the girls grinned.

"Now that's the spirit!" Sunset bellowed. She looked to see Overload finally joining the others. "Overload, what do you say?"

Overload looked at the Decepticon crowd, and then back to Sunset.

"I say... I will do everything in my power to kill that Shadowcon to avenge my fallen ally... even if it means I die fighting Unicron." Overload grimaced.

Everyone relapsed into uncomfortable silence. For about five seconds.

"YEAH!!!"

"Alright everyone, so are we going to save the galaxy!?" Indigo cheered.

"Yeah!"

"Wrong answer, try again! Are. We. Gonna. Save. The Galaxy!?"

"YEAH!!!!"

"That's what I'm talking about!"

"Come on everyone, lets get ourselves off this planet!" Sunset cheered.

Everyone let out a large battle cry of roaring and excitement. Sunset couldn't help but feel happy. Even in Optimus's place, she did a good job. Everyone was willing to follow her for the time being, and now they had extra hands to fight Unicron. Nothing could stop them now... and nothing could stand in their way.

Author's Notes:

Army 1 has been assembled. Lets see how the next army assembles, shall we?