The ashes and remains of Unicron began to rain down from the sky down onto Cybertron. Thousands of the pieces hailed down onto the ground, crashing into more buildings. Although some of them burned up in re-entry.

And as the fires burned, billowing smoke up into the skies, there was an eerie sense of silence and calm throughout the planet. The day had seemed to be won, both sides victorious. But it had come at a cost. Many Transformers and Gobots alike had lost their lives in the fight, and even during the destruction that Unicron had brought onto Cybertron. His attempt to rip the planet apart had killed many of them in the attack. And in the attacks, many Autobots and Decepticons, including Gobots alike all had lost their lives.

Among the Autobot casualties, they had lost Guardians like Van Guard, Scratch, Bullet, and Defendor. Autobots including allies that were unaligned were Wasp, Filch, and even Road Rage's friend Overload were among those who died, including the previous deaths of the Rust Renegades, Punch, Highbrow, and the Rescue Bots minus Quickshadow. The Decepticons had a fair share of losses as well; Strika, Stinger, more Seekers like Sunstorm, Acid Storm and so forth, including Sideways, Demolisher, and many others.

Down below, all of the Decepticons and Autobots were laid about, knocked out from the blast. And all of the knights that were forged were no longer in one. They had split back into the two components. Sideswipe was no longer forged with Rainbow, Fluttershy with Bumblebee, and so forth.

Fluttershy's eyes slowly winced at the light, and she rubbed her optics. She stretched herself up, and pulled herself back on her feet. And across from her was Bumblebee who was laid about. She gasped and ran right towards him.

"Bumblebee? Bumblebee! Its me, Fluttershy! Come on..."

Bumblebee's optics were dim, completely blackened with no hint of light. Fluttershy felt her eyes about to jerk up with lubricant tears, when the sudden hand on her face caught her. She looked down and saw Bumblebee's eyes restore back to their normal light and his life returning.

"Fluttershy?"

"Bumblebee!"

Fluttershy scooped up the tiny Autobot in a giant hug and she held him ever so tightly. Bumblebee was a little surprised, but at the same time very happy. He moved his arms around his friend and smiled back as he hugged her.

"Its so good to see you again Bumblebee." Fluttershy smiled.

Bumblebee smiled back. "Its good to see you again too Fluttershy. I missed that cute face."

Fluttershy blushed. "I'm not that cute..."

"Oh come on!" Bumblebee hugged her even tighter.

Sideswipe moaned as he got up on his own feet and was met with a surprise hug from Rainbow Dash.

"Rainbow! Girl, is that you?"

"Yeah it is!"

Sideswipe grinned and he hugged her back. "I missed ya sis."

Rainbow smiled and hugged him more. She backed away for a moment and gave a nervous chuckle. "Actually, um... I think there's a little something you might want to know... back on Earth, when we got seperated... I kind of ran into an old Bot from your past..."

Sideswipe gave a confused look. "Really? Who?"

"Uh, that's the thing, I don't know how to tell you this... um, this is going to sound really bad considering its kind of a revival of the dead thing, so..."

Sideswipe raised a brow. "Rainbow, I don't understand."

"Sideswipe?"

Sideswipe froze. He knew that voice anywhere. He slowly turned around and gasped when he saw a yellow Bot who had a similar face.

"S-S-S-S... I... you..."

Sunstreaker grinned.

"S-Sunstreaker? Is... Is that you?"

"Sideswipe. Bro, its so good to--"

Sunstreaker didn't get to finish his sentence. His twin brother lunged at him and gave him the biggest hug he had ever seen. Sunstreaker was a bit surprised, considering he knew his brother wasn't exactly the huggy type, but he couldn't stop him. Instead he just slowly tried to pull his arms out to get free.

"Um, bro? I'm a little squeezed here--"

"Dah!" Rainbow interrupted. "Don't ruin the moment. Just... just let him, okay?"

A few seconds of silence passed, and no one was saying a thing.

"Hey, uh, Sideswipe? Mind if I get in there? A little brothers, sister, hug?"

She got grabbed quickly and she was thrown in as well, now squeezed with Sunstreaker in a giant hug.

"Okay... Sideswipe... seriously, I can't breathe! May I have my lungs back?"

They could hear giggling coming from the rest of the girls, watching their happy reunion. All of them got back up on their feet with their friends, and they all gathered around in one giant group hug.

"We won!" Rarity beamed, with an excited squee.

"The god of chaos is gone!" Applejack cheered.

They turned around to see more of their friends walk up to them, but their cheers had died down. Walking up with them was Tracks who was deeply sad. Road Rage's body laid flat and limp in Tracks' arms. One of her eyes had been completely taken out, and she had lost an arm and a leg on opposite sides of her bodies. A puncture wound had hit her right in her abdomen, and her chest was practically steaming.

Tracks sniffled. "I never got to tell her how sorry I was for all of the prejudice and the awful judgements. I never should have been so mean to her in the first place..."

He bowed his head down in silence and he held her body close to him, touching his own head to hers, sniffling.

"R-Road Rage... if there's any sign of you that's still alive, I am sorry for every despicable act of unjustified hatred I had for you."

One of the girls walked over, offering free arms to set her on. He gently set her into the arms of Twilight, while he looked away, lubricant tears streaming down his face. He wanted to apologize to her, but based on how lifeless her body felt... it didn't seem like the chance would ever return.

He heard the sound of clattering metal, just off to the side of him. Slowly but surely, he could see Strongarm limping and trying to walk away from the debris.

"Strongarm!"

Tracks instantly rushed over and gave her a giant hug. She just left shocked.

"Tracks?"

Strongarm could hear the quiet whimpers of sadness coming from his voice.

"Tracks, are you okay?"

"N-No..." Tracks said. He looked up into her optics. "Strongarm, I am so, so, so, sorry... for everything. All of my unjustified hate, all of my rudeness, my insensitivity, I... You didn't deserve any of it, and I am sorry for inflicting unnecessary hate to you."

Strongarm offered an empathetic smile. "Tracks, its okay. Look I... I did some accusing too. And that was wrong. I'm... I'm really sorry about what happened to... Streetsmart."

Tracks' optics perked up. "Y-You know?"

"I do. And I'm really sorry for what happened to her. If I could have gone to help save her, I could have. But I was wrong to accuse you, and I'm sorry."

"No... we're both to blame. My fault, mostly. But... I don't want us to fight anymore. I don't want us to hate each other anymore, I... I want to start over. A fresh start, no hating, no bickering, nothing."

Strongarm gave a small smile.

"I would like that."

Tracks sniffled and he hugged her again. Strongarm embraced him back, patting the wings on his back.

"Tracks! Strongarm! Come here!"

Strongarm and Tracks turned around to see the girls calling for them. Both of them ran towards their group.

"What, what is it?"

"Its... Its Road Rage." Fluttershy cooed.

Tracks sighed. "I know, she's gone, and if I--"

"No silly! SHE'S ALIVE!!!" Pinkie squeed, firing confetti from her guns.

"Wait, what!? She's alive!?"

"Well, yeah, barely. She's in stasis lock, but she's not dead." Twilight smiled.

Tracks felt a moment of relief. "This... this is fantastic!"

Strongarm had another big smile on her face, feeling the joy of knowing that another one of their friends was still alive.

Elsewhere in the rubble, Sunset Shimmer's eyes were slowly waking up to the starry skies around her. And entering her view was the same mentor that she knew and cared so much for.

Optimus gave a hand, and Sunset took it with gratitude. She gave him a big hug, and Optimus hugged her back.

"Its so good to see you again Optimus... I wasn't sure we'd make it without you." Sunset cooed.

Optimus smiled. "I had every faith that you would come forward Sunset. All of the lessons that I had taught you while you were my protege, had taught you well enough to lead the team without my aid. It is because of that, I am proud to call you an Autobot."

Sunset felt herself beaming inside, and she couldn't take away the smile on her face. And right behind her, was Ultra Magnus and Leader-1 who had joined in the reunion.

"Leader-1. Ultra Magnus."

Ultra Magnus saluted. "Its great to see you back to your normal self once again Optimus."

Optimus nodded. "And it is good to see you stood by Sunset's side in my absence. I have much appreciation for your help."

Ultra Magnus nodded back.

Optimus looked at the Guardian. "And I am thankful for your help as well Leader-1. Your help was invaluable."

Leader-1 smiled. "Glad I could be of assistance. That's what Guardians are here for."

Sunset grinned at all of them. After all of this trouble, all of the intense battles, and everything that they had fought for, they were all still standing alive and proud.

But the sound of a familar cold voice made her spine tingle. She gulped and turned around with a hint of fear and terror. Megatron and his Decepticon army were stomping right towards her and her friends. Their stares were malicious and evil like their faces normally were. And taking positions, the Autobot team all gathered close together in preparation of another pro-longed skirmish.

"Never in my wildest imagination or fantasy would I say this, but... its good to see you back again, Optimus Prime." Megatron spoke.

"The same applies for me, Megatron." Optimus replied.

"So... does this mean we're gonna go in another long fight, because I don't know if the readers are going to want to read any more of this, so..." Pinkie rambled.

Megatron raised his hand up, interrupting her.

"There will be no war today Autobots. Even Decepticons need time to patch up what had been lost." Megatron explained. He looked at Sunset still a neutral face. "You my dearest, have done quite well. It would seems you do possess Prime's courage and wisdom after all; with or without the Matrix of Leadership."

He extended his hand out. "You have earned Megatron's respect."

Sunset was hesitant, but she put her hand out and shook Megatron's hand as a sign of a truce.

"So, what does this mean for the war now?" Sunset asked.

"Both sides have taken a great amount of setbacks for our troops. But I believe for the interest of my Decepticons, and for your fellow Autobots, some time must be made so that both of our armies can recuperate from combat."

Looking around, they could see many of their warriors were heavily injured, and many doctors and medical teams were trying path them up from Unicron's barrage.

"The war may not be over... but it will be awhile before any of us meet again." Megatron replied.

"And we will be ready." Optimus said back.

Both factions were at a relative ease. No one made a movement, or an attempt to start yet another attack. They were all on the same page. No one was at any condition to start another fight.

The inaction movements were broken by the sound of a laser blast, striking the ground and catching them all by surprise. Their guns instantly turned on at the other direction and they were equally sneering. For about two seconds.

Jet Black Spark who had survived Unicron's next line of attack, was now on her feet again, panting and shaking heavily. She was trembling in anger, and her teeth were grit. Her paint was faded from the explosion, and her Decepticon mark had been clawed out.

"You... you all ruined everything!" Jet whined. "And now, its time to die. Starting with you Sunset Shimmer. Cyclonus, Scourge, attack!"

The two remaining heralds of Unicron stood by close to Megatron, but they didn't move a muscle. Not one.

"Don't just stand there... attack!"

They looked at each other and shook their heads no.

"I remember my former self as Sky Jack." Cyclonus said.

"And I, of Night Fright. And despite being former Renegades, our minds still remember who our leader is... and that is Megatron."

Jet growled like a wolf. "Very well, then I'll kill you myself!"

Jet's gun was aimed at Sunset, but before she could even make the shot, Sunset's friends gathered around her with sneers and looks of derision.

"After all of this... after Unicron dies, you still want to fight?" Applejack asked. "Give it a rest!"

"You'll waste your energy if you try to fight us again." Twilight added.

"We outnumber you, seven to one!" Rainbow smirked.

"Uh, I think there's a lot more than that..." Fluttershy replied.

"Yeah! There's like, I don't know... huh, lets see add the twenty, that's..." Pinkie muttered in thought. "A couple hundred."

And she was right. Jet Black Spark was standing all alone, and with no one to aid her. No one to offer a hand. She was by herself in this predictable outcome.

With the girls, their guardians along with their new friends had joined them with battle sneers. And towering above them were the Combiners who had formed their gestalt forms. And not only were they standing, but the Decepticons too! Their combiners, and their soldiers were standing right beside each other just like when Unicron attacked, and none of them were arguing with each other.

And miles above the gestalts were Trypticon, Scorponok, and Omega Supreme who all looked down at Jet, who was no bigger than a tiny speck of dust compared to them.

She gulped and she looked at the armies in front of her. Their bodies were being slightly shoved and confused, until they saw the source. Moving out of the crowds were Sunset Shimmer who gave her a friendly smile.

"I know what its like to go down the wrong path, many of us have been there before... even myself."

Knockout spoke too. "Even a handsome Bot like myself knows the pain."

"Myself included, of course." Weirdwolf added.

"Us too!" A group of rogue Decepticons chimed in.

"It doesn't have to be like this. We can help you, we can make you an even greater bot, greater than anything Unicron was. And you don't have to be alone. Either one of us can help you--"

"NEVER!"

Jet threw her blaster onto the ground in anger and kicked it.

"Your words have nothing on me Sunset, I only serve one person, and that person is gone because of you! I will be back one day Sunset, along with an army, and I will tear all of your skins apart. And I assure you, the entire battle of today will be nothing compared to what I have planned for you, Sunset Shimmer!"

Not looking back, Jet turned around and began to run. She transformed, and jumped up into the skies above, leaving Cybertron and the combined armies full.

The two sides put their guns away and could only watch as Jet zipped her way from orbit.

"It would seem we're at an impasse. I would expect nothing less than another combined effort, should she return again." Megatron said looking at his team, and the opposition.

"So... what are you going to do now?" Sunset asked.

"Our war has taken a great toll on our home. And I can imagine you Autobots will do what you can to help repair our planet. In the meantime, I will see to it that my forces are back on their feet, healed as quickly as possible... but our next targets won't be you. I have an audience to meet with a certain Renegade who took half of my forces away."

Sunset smirked to Leader-1 and many of the others.

Megatron stared up at Scorponok and Trypticon.

"Trypticon. Scorponok! Transform for flight modes. We have Renegades to find. And I have to have a little word to word with a certain... Cy-Kill."

Both giants converged into city modes, and the doors for both opened up. The Decepticons began to storm into each city, ready for departure. The last one about to get on board was Megatron who looked at the Autobot armada. He stared one last time, but he gave them a wave goodbye. It wouldn't be the last time they'd see him, but the gesture was quite nice.

The Autobots gave a wave back, watching the two cities depart for the stars. Optimus and Sunset both took this as a sign of respect from the leader, who disappeared into Scorponok, and up into the skies.

"I have a good feeling we'll see them again sometime soon." Sunset replied.

Twilight looked across from the Autobots just far off to the right and her eyes widened. She tapped Sunset's shoulder, and pointed to the one figure in the distance.

Off in the distance was one Decepticon who didn't join the rest of Megatron's army. Sunset could easily recognize this Decepticon. The red visor, the purple and tan color scheme, the tank cannon on his back, it all added up.

Sunset slowly walked towards the figure, and the Autobots stood and watched her approach him with caution.

"Blitzwing? Aren't you going with your team?"

Blitzwing was in thought. But he didn't say a word.

"Blitzwing? Are you okay?"

Blitzwing turned his head at Sunset.

"I'm not going back with them. Not after all of the nonsense with those Shadowcons and Galvatron's insanity."

Sunset blinked. "But, they're gone. Gal- I mean Megatron is back to his normal self again, he's not gonna come back anytime soon. I hope."

"But that doesn't change what had happened. He went insane, he turned his back on us, and myself. I wouldn't betray Megatron over anything, but yet he was blind enough to let them take over without even realizing it. And now, many of my friends have died today. I..." Blitzwing turned away from Sunset. "I don't want any part of the Decepticons anymore."

Sunset felt a little sad for the Triple-Changer. But a bit of hope sparked in her eyes.

"You know... you don't have to be alone. I know things are bad now, but, I know it'll get better. In fact... I think maybe there's another team that's open for a cool Transformer like you."

Blitzwing turned around and looked behind Sunset. The Rainbooms, and the Autobots were all for once offering a friendly outlook to the Triple-Changer. Surely they'd want a good first impression if someone like him were to join.

"Be an Autobot?"

"We're not cut and dry like the Decepticons, but its better than being alone, isn't it?"

Blitzwing didn't say anything else, but he began to walk away from Sunset leaving her alone. But he stopped for one second, and looked back at her with a side view of his face.

"I'll think about it."

Blitzwing then transformed into jet form and he soared off into the destroyed cities, far away from the Autobots. Everyone watched as Blitzwing left.

"Do you think Blitzwing will turn around?" Fluttershy asked.

"I'm afraid not..." Sunset sighed.

"Aw, don't feel bad Sunset! You at least tried!" Pinkie smiled, hugging her from the side. "And hey, even if he's not going to come back to the Decepticons, that's at least one less Decepticon for us to worry about."

Sunset nodded. "I guess that's true."

"I have to agree Sunset. Besides, you've still made a lot of new friends." Twilight smiled.

Sunset's frown turned upside down, and she gave a hopeful smile to her friend.

"Thanks girls."

"Aw, come here silly filly!"

Pinkie gave a big hug, and so did everyone else apparently. All of the Rainbooms joined in for one giant group hug, sighing in relief.

The Autobots in the background smiled to see the girls finally relax and calm down from the fighting. But something that had just occurred to Sunset made her eyes open wide.

"Uh... question?"

"Yes Sunset?"

Sunset froze.

"Did anyone remember what happened to the Shadowbolts? And for that matter, where's Wheeljack and Ratchet?"

Everyone didn't say a thing. Until their eyes all bulged out of their sockets in shock.

"Weren't they with your cruiser?"

Sunset's jaw dropped. "Oh my goodness, they came with me when we crashed in Unicron's head!"

"WHAT!?" Pinkie screamed. She looked up, and her shocked face vanished. "Oh wait, there they are."

Around them, all of the escaped Autobots fell from the sky. Hound, Outback, Blaster, Hoist, Wheeljack, Ratchet, and Smallfoot all fell around them like giant sacks of potatoes. And the Shadowbolts fell with them as well.

The only one of them who seemed giddy was Lemon Zest. "WHOO!!! That was amazing!" She leaned up. "That was fun! Lets do it again!"

Her face perked up as she looked at the Autobot formed Rainbooms.

"Oh hi girls! What's up?"

Sunset giggled. "Hey Lemon Zest. I'm glad to see you girls are okay."

"They aren't the only ones..." Sour said in a sing-song voice.

"Sour!" All of them beckoned.

Sour grinned. "Yep!"

"Wait, how did you survive?" Fluttershy asked.

"That's something we asked when we were inside Unicron's head. But we didn't get an answer." Sugarcoat replied as she helped pull Indigo Zap up.

"Well, duh. I didn't want to waste time in the middle of a fight." Sour rolled her eyes. "But what happened was, Smallfoot and I were about to be swallowed up in flames, when out of nowhere, she pulls me close, and she jumps up high away from the explosion, saving the both of us!"

She was on her feet and was waving her arms around, explaining the details.

"But then, Unicron drags both of us inside, and I thought for sure we would be dead. But then, as we made our way around to survive, we... we came across all of these guys who came to rescue us." Sour bluntly replied.

"Well we're happy to see you're alive Sugarcube."

"Well, most of us..." Sour chuckled nervously, still saddened by the fate of her girlfriend. She gave Sour a sympathetic smile and patted her head, making her giggle. "Oh, speaking of which, I uh... I don't know if this a good time but, I, or, we... we have some news."

"What it is?" Fluttershy asked.

"Well, uh... this is a bit weird but uh... Smallfoot and I are no longer just girlfriends."

"Awww, did you two break up!?" Pinkie whined. "I was all for you two!"

"No, that's not what I'm saying!" Sour piped up. "Smallfoot is now my... my fiance."

Smallfoot raised her hand up, revealing the gold ring that was around her finger. Thankfully she didn't lose the finger in the explosion or in the battle.

Everyone gasped.

"You... you finally popped the question?" Lemon asked.

"It was a spur of the moment thing, honestly." Sour bashfully said. "We were about to die and, I honestly wanted to go out knowing that I had finally asked her the question."

She looked up to her new fiance who offered her the most sweetest of smiles. She got on her knees and she pulled Sour up close to her in a warm embrace. Sour just giggled and embraced her back.

"Oh come on, let me in there! Group hug!" Lemon said with a silly voice.

Lemon Zest climbed into the hug, and so did everyone else apparently. Smiles all around! And apparently giant group hugs as everyone just clinged to Sour Sweet and Smallfoot.

"Um... can uh... can we get out?"

The girls didn't want to stay for long, but they agreed to help everyone out with a cleanup operation. Cybertron had taken a big beating, and they wanted to spruce up the planet as much as they could. They didn't do much, but their efforts were appreciated. And in the midst of their cleanup, not only were their injured healed, but Smallfoot's voice was restored back to its normal tone.

After awhile, Omega Supreme along with a Guardian Command Center were prepped to transport the Autobots back to Earth. But not everyone was planning on going back to Earth. Ultra Magnus needed to stay behind with the Autobot council and negotiate for the terms of stronger communication with Earth and their own. And Leader-1, accompanied with a few Guardians and other Autobots planned on staying behind as well to provide backup to his claim.

"We'll take care of everything here." Ultra Magnus said. "You guys better get back to Earth."

"Are you sure there isn't anything else we can help you with? Unicron took a big bite out of your planet." Applejack asked.

"I'm sure Applejack. You girls better get back home, and back to the Earth bodies you belong to."

"So... does this mean we're not gonna see you anymore?"

Ultra Magnus smiled and shook his head. "I can guarantee you, Cybertron's communication with Earth will be stronger than ever. We will see each other again, I can assure you that."

Twilight smiled.

"Well, we better get loaded up then."

The Autobots started to make their way to the two shuttles, along with the rest of the friends that accompanied them. But not everyone was going on board quite yet.

"Um, Leader-1?"

Leader-1 looked to the girl that was once his new recruit.

"Sir, if you don't mind me asking... um, Sour and I are engaged now, and, I don't suppose if maybe... you could come to Earth for our wedding?" Smallfoot bashfully asked.

Leader-1 grinned. "I'd be happy to attend."

"Really? Yes!" Smallfoot cheered.

"Just call me when you have the specific time for it, okay?"

"I promise." Smallfoot smiled.

"Come on baby, lets go! Pathfinder's gonna steal the best seat!"

Smallfoot giggled and she followed her fiance to the shuttle. The only ones left were Sunset Shimmer and Ultra Magnus.

"You did a great job soldier. I can see why Optimus Prime put his faith in you." Ultra Magnus smiled.

"Its nothing, Magnus."

"Don't be modest. You have done more for Optimus Prime than any warrior that I've seen paired with him. I believe you already have become a great leader on your own. And someday, you'll be able to share the same wisdom with many others just like Prime has today."

Sunset nodded.

"Thank you, Ultra Magnus. And good luck with the cleanup operation."

"And good luck back on Earth. I believe you still have school to attend?"

"That, and there's uh... there's still some Decepticon fugitives we haven't apprehended." Sunset bashfully said.

"Then I suggest you make haste and get right to it."

"Of course!"

Sunset ran back to Omega Supreme and stood by in the door way. She looked back to the robots that were going to be left behind, and she waved them goodbye with a tear in her eye. They waved her back as they saw her disappear behind the closing door.

"Omega Supreme! Take us home." Sunset ordered.

"Prepare for departure; Omega Supreme."

The two shuttles began to accelerate the engines, and in a giant burst, the two ships launched into hyperspace now on their way to Earth. It was time to come home.

Author's Notes:

Okay folks, we're near the end!

But don't leave just yet, I have three endings planned for you guys. I have the Bittersweet, the Bouncy, and the Epilogue with a twist!

Stay tuned soon, and I do hope you enjoyed this nearing of an end.