> Megatron... Saviour? > by The Spot > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Episode Prologue: Waking up > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Pain. Anger. Betrayal. Rage. These were all that I have felt for almost over three-thousand years as a statue in the gardens of Canterlot Castle; the only companions that I have ever known since being transported onto this rock by that damned sword. Oh, but dear old Celestia made sure that I was maintained, even if my appearance scared everypony, from foal to guard and everything in-between, including the few brave nobles like that Fancy Pants fellow. I was frozen in a cowardly position, with my hands covering my face from when I futilely tried to block the effects of those colored rocks. And inscribed on the plaque that was put on my pedestal was just one word that every. Fucking. Creature that ever meet me, save for one, ever thought me as: Monster. *** "This is going to be great!" said Peter as he was dressed in a full cosplay attire, choosing to cosplay as Professor Isaac Sundaac from Transformers Animated. Well at least he had the voice down pat... I on the other hand decided to pick Megatron from Transformers Prime. All good people need evil to fight, right? Of course few of Peter's friends joined us dressed up as various people and 'bots from across the ages, including *shudders* the movies. We all got together at a field at a local park and had a duel. It was amazing, swords clashed, fake plasma guns were fired, a cosplayer dream all happening in front of me and everyone else. I was watching the fight by some bushes, but tripped on something as I stepped out of the way of an Ironhide from Fall of CybertronWhen I looked at the obstacle, my eyes widened. "No way..." I said under my breath, but there it was: a perfect replica of my cosplay's greatest weapon: the Dark Star Saber, Slayer of Primes, forged from the blood of Unicron; sure it was plastic, but I was drawn to it, like a moth to a flame. Unfortunately for me, as soon as I touched the damn sword, I was blinded by a flash of bright light, and passed out. *** Systems: Rebooting I slowly opened my eyes, pain was throbbing through my brain. "Ugh... what happened?", I thought aloud as I raised my left hand to my forehead. I saw five sharp claws- wait... WHAT!? My eyes immediately widened as I brought my hand in front of my face, and sure enough, in place of a human hand is a Cybertronian one with five wicked sharp claws at the end. My gaze slowly followed the rest of my forearm and, like my hand, has been replaced with grey metal. I jumped to my feet and saw a pond just a few feet from me and ran over to look in it and my suspicions were confirmed. Looking back at me, was the image of the arguably most evil villain that media has ever created. My face is now smooth metal that shines like silver, ending with a long chin, matching the now sinister helmet. My shoulder pads became jagged and sharp, and welded to my right forearm is Megatron's iconic Fusion Cannon. But what threw me in for a loop was that my optics, instead of blood-red or purple from the Dark Energon that flows through my veins, are sky blue, like an Autobots', the Decepticon insignia on my chest is red instead of purple as well, and when I opened my mouth, instead of jagged, shark-like teeth are... I guess tooth-plates...? For some reason, I became Megatron before he went nuts. Just as I got up on both of my legs, I saw something out of the corner of my eye: the Dark Star Saber. Like me, it had changed; what was once plastic and painted aluminum was now a sinister jagged blade made out of raw Dark Energon attached to a Cybertonium hilt, and had a purple aura coming off it. I walked over and picked it up off of the ground, the blade now feeling quite well-balanced in my left hand; I strapped the sword to my back as I took in my surroundings. I was in a large forest of some kind, which confirmed that I was most likely not the size of the show's Megatron, as it was hardly likely that any of these trees were THAT big. I saw a pink and gold spire jutting above the tree-line. Perhaps whoever lives there could tell me where I am... I thought as I started walking towards the structure, not knowing just what was waiting for me. *** A large boom interrupted my trip down memory lane. I strained hear just what was going on, which is kinda hard to do when you're stone, but I'll get to that later. After a few minutes, there it was again, this time louder, and resembled a roar that I knew all too well from being in the body of one of the two most powerful beings on Cybertron: it was the sound of a creature that has power, and it belonged to only one pony, or should I say, Draconnequuis. It was the bastard that got me trapped in stone by Princess Luna and Sunbutt! I felt a fresh anger that I haven't felt in three millennia course through me; Discord was free, and that means that if I don't act now, then either he will come to finish me in this state or the sisters' will somehow defeat him again. Never again... *** "Uh, sir," said a Royal Guard with some uncertainty in his voice. "Yes, what is it?" asked Shining Armor, Captain of the Canterlot Day Guard, as he was conversing with the Captain of the Night Guard, Silver Blade. "Why does Princess Celestia want both branches of the Royal Guard watching this statue, when we should be fighting this chaos?" the soldier asked as he gestured to the absurd events happening around them, caused by the Mad God, Discord. The white unicorn simply pointed to the statute in question: a sort of golem with its' claws covering the face, with a plaque that read 'Monster'. "The princess believes that whatever this statue is, it's just as alive as Discord, and we are to bring it down if it breaks free," Shining Armor said, before a rumble was felt, seeming to stretch from the statue to the core of the mountain they were on itself. Purple cracks started spreading across the body of the statue, and before either captain could issue an order a purple shockwave exploded from the sculpture, scattering stone and pony alike in all directions; an animalistic roar that chilled all the still-conscious soldiers was heard. *** Discord could hardly believe it; he won! He was able to beat Celestia at her own game, by isolating the six wielders of the Elements of Harmony from each other, and making them the polar opposites of their true selves. Honest Applejack can't tell a truth to save her life. Kind Fluttershy now bullies any who fall under her gaze. Loyal Rainbow Dash has abandoned her friends. Laughing Pinkie Pie now frowns. Generous Rarity guards a boulder like a dragon does its' own hoard. And Magical Twilight Sparkle has lost her friends. Everything was perfect, before a purple shockwave originating from Canterlot exploded forth, followed by a roar that he knew all too well, and even feared. "DISCORD!" > Episode 1: Monster > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Find new jobs outside of government.” I then concentrated, focusing on the mental image of my alternate form, before backflipping. I could feel my body change; my cannon was moved to the back, its rear opening up into an engine, while wings sprouted from my form, and my helmet centered itself on my vehicle mode: a Cybertronian Commander Jet, symbolizing MY status as a commanding officer. I then used the Dark Energon that flowed through my veins to locate Discord, which pointed me to a small village on the edge of the Everfree Forest that was half-floating and half-upside-down while a black throne stood in the town square. And that smug little bastard was sitting right in it. Without delay, my engines roared to life as I launched myself towards the village, murder on my processors. *** (Twilight’s POV) We had Rainbow Dash tied down. It took us longer than I liked to get her; Discord made her betray us by getting her wings back, but thanks to Fluttershy, we were finally able to capture our friend. The Rainbow struggled and kept thrashing and bucking, trying to throw one of our friends off as I carefully trotted up to her and cast my memory spell; just like the rest, her memories came rushing back, reminding Rainbow Dash of her loyalty as she regained her cyan coat and rainbow-colored mane and tail. The athletic Pegasus shook her head and took in her surroundings, before getting in our faces. “How’s Ponyville; where are the Elements; did we stop Discord?” she asked all of us, and we all hugged her, happy to have our friend, as well as the final Element of Harmony back. I relayed to Rainbow all that happened, and after profuse apologies, we all marched back to Ponyville to confront Discord and finally put him back in stone. But, we stopped as we heard some kind of… noise. “Do ya’ll hear that?” asked Applejack as she turned her ears in every direction, trying to pinpoint the noise. “What in Equestria is that awful noise?” whined Rarity as what could only be described as a “scream” was heard and-WHAT IN THE NAME OF CELESTIA’S PLOT IS THAT?! A… weird looking jet just flew past us, faster than even Rainbow Dash at her top speed; from what little I saw of it, it appeared silverish-grey with purple accents, with a giant cylinder spewing out purple-colored fire mounted on the top, with four smaller flames aligning the rear under said cylinder, while two giant wings arced from either side of the weird looking jet. And it was heading straight for Ponyville. We all started galloping, or flying in Rainbow’s case, towards the town, hoping that whatever that thing was, it would just ignore our home… (Megatron’s POV) I rocketed through into the village, weaving and ducking through the floating homes and shops, before I was in range of the God of Chaos, and even from here, I could see the frightened expression on his face as I opened fire on him. One thing I learned about my body: I didn’t fire regular energon like most transformers, but instead Dark Energon, just like in the show; and I also learned early on that Dark Energon, while it couldn’t physically affect Discord, wreaked havoc on his powers, meaning he couldn’t use them without some horrible backlash. The first shot knocked him off the throne, while the other two I fired obliterated the seat; I transformed in mid-air before slamming my left fist into the ground, my right prepared to fire or unleash my sword, before I looked at the Draconequus, purple lightning arcing across parts of his body, while he looked fearfully at me. “Hey, Megatron, buddy,” he said, looking at me with a nervous grin while I continued to glare at him, “funny thing, I was just on my way to free you, when-” his sentence was cut short as I put my foot on his neck. “You will not speak to me as if nothing happened.” I growled, “You lied to me. You said that you KNEW how to get me back home, or at least out of this body, but you used me; corrupted my purpose, got me turned into a statue for three thousand years while you roamed free.” “If it makes you feel any better, the sisters finally caught up to me about a few hundred years after.” said Discord, trying to get my foot off his windpipe, before I increased the amount of force on it. “It doesn’t.” I lifted my foot off before grabbing his neck and throwing him into a house, “You go your whole life, never thinking about the consequences; you believe that you will never answer for your crimes, because a hero will either be defeated or even killed under your chaotic rule; I tried to be the hero, and all it did was get me imprisoned and hated. But I refuse to lower myself to your level by becoming the cliche diabolical villain, so this is what I decided on while I was in stone.” This time I grabbed his tail, dragging Discord along like a ragdoll, before slamming the god of chaos into the ground and aiming my cannon at him. “I will become the monster that you and Celestia fear.” Then there was a sound of thunder. (Rainbow Dash POV) WHAT THE BUCK IS THAT?! Was that a ship and not a jet?! Like, the kind that aliens like in the stories pilot to invade Equis and kidnap ponies to experiment on us?! No some kind of protoype jet?! We were racing through the town where we started to hear some noise coming from where Discord’s... throne... is… All we found at the hill where the Spirit of Chaos placed his seat was a smoking crater and behind the hill was the most terrifying thing I have ever saw (not that I would ever tell anypony that). It was some kind of...creature, that was covered in metal, even the openings in its’ armor didn’t show any fur or flesh, not even scales! It had a ginormous cylinder-thingy attached to its’ right arm, it also had spikes on its shoulders, and is easily taller than Celestia. Under the creature’s foot, however, was what actually surprised me. “Discord?” I heard Twilight whisper next to me, “but, how did that thing take him down? Only the Elements of Harmony can defeat him.” I was about to fly in there and ask that thing myself, before we were shushed by Fluttershy of all ponies, who seemed to notice that the creature was talking to Discord. “What’s it sayin’?” asked Applejack. “Not ‘it’,” Fluttershy responded, “‘he’; he’s male...” “Wait, how do you know that thing is a dude?” I asked. “Oh! Well, his voice obviously points to that of a stallion in range and pitch, and you can tell by the body structure and stance that he lacks birthing hips, and his shoulders are too broad to be anything else, like a Minot-” Before she could go any further, the ‘guy’ lifted his foot off Discord’s throat before grabbing him and throwing the Draconequus into a wall!! We started to notice the purple lightning that was going off across Discord’s body, which is probably how the creature beat him. Then the thing spoke loud enough for all of us to hear. “... your whole life, never thinking about the consequences; you believe that you will never answer for your crimes, because a hero will either be defeated or even killed under your chaotic rule; I tried to be the hero, and all it did was get me imprisoned and hated. But I refuse to lower myself to your level by becoming the cliche diabolical villain...” his voice faded again, but grabbed Discord’s tail, proceeding to drag the chaos spirit out of the building and then slammed him into the ground, pointing the cylinder at hi-why is it glowing? We suddenly hear him speak up again saying with pure venom and hatred. "I will become the monster that you and Celestia fear.” Before any of us could react, a sound that could only be described as thunder roared from the object as a purple beam was fired out of it, point-blank into Discord’s face. We all heard the scream that came after... > Episode 2: New Age > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- (Megatron POV) I'd shot Discord with my fusion cannon as he screamed in pain from using his powers to send me back a few feet. I give a evil laugh that I am infamous for. I grab his head and slams him against the ground a bunch of times after I'd did what Hulk did to Loki in 2012 Avengers movie. "Time to show you the full power of Dark Energon!" I said as I lift my arms up into the sky as I shoot dark energon lightning from my digits into the sky that went down and hit Discord right on target. Discord lies there feeling the pain from the impact as I draw my Dark Star Saber and stabs him right in his heart. "What the buck are you?" He says as he coughs up blood as he's bleeding from his chest, desperately trying remove my chaotic blade from it. I say with sadistic glee. "I am the one who fights for what's right, and those who worship the chaos bringer or anything like him shall face my warth! For I am the Monster! I am the Dominator! I am the fallen hero! I am MEGATRON!!!" Suddenly a portal opens as the Dark Star Saber that's in my hand and Discord’s chest flies out of it and splits into copies of itself into it as the original comes back to my hand. I turn and see the Elements staring at me with fear, awe and shock of what happened and what I did to Discord and I saw Sunbutt coming with fear in her eyes as I put my Saber on my back. I'd grab Discord and threw him at their hooves beaten and battered. "We'll meet again, Elements of Harmony, also Princess Sunbutt; I hope you spread the word as Megatron has returned!" I said as I backflip and transform then flew off. I fly through the sky and into space where I reached the Trypticon Station from Fall of Cybertron game as I superhero or should say monster landing. I walk through the halls as I reached the command center and looked at the mirror. When Discord corrupted me long ago, I looked like after Show Megatron looked like got corrupted; red optics and all since then when a deep voice spoke. "Lord Megatron, you have returned... "Ah Trypticon how I missed this." I thought as I said. "Trypticon awake the Decepticons from stasis and activate the Nemesis Protocol!" I heard Trypticon transforming like he did in the games as my throne formed as I sat in it. As I remembered when I threw Discord at the Elements, he layed there in Yamcha pose as I laughed at that. *** (3rd POV) The Elements of Harmony wonders who is Megatron and what did Discord and Celestia did to him to make them that vengeful. As Discord has already in statue form once again this time in his Yamcha pose with the label saying 'Megatron's Punching Bag'. "I thank you my little ponies for saving imprisoning Discord again but with Megatron returning, I fear it be catastrophic." She says as she is shaking visibly with fear. Fluttershy asked her with hers and rest of Mane 6's ears perking up at this. "Umm Princess Celestia, what happened as Megatron said he'll become the Monster you and Discord feared?" "Well in order for you to understand we have to go to the beginning." Celestia sighs as she thinks right where to start. ***Flashback*** Megatron is shown (before corrupted state) greeting Celestia and Luna as Celestia begins narrating. "Megatron was a Cybertronian from the Planet Cybertron, with no memory of he got here, made friends with us and became a well known hero." The scene changes to Megatron training with metallic training dummies. "He didn't have regular Energon like rest of his kind did, but Dark Energon which represents opposite of Energon and binded his Spark to the Chaos Bringer: Unicron's Anti-Spark. Despite this; he helped us in times of great need, even introducing us to technology." Celestia continues as her voice grew with sadness. The scene changes again as Megatron is shaking Discord's claw. "Discord tricked Megatron to becoming his servant, corrupted him into something he wasn't." The scene changes for a final time showing Megatron as a stone statue and Luna crying next to it as Celestia finishes narrating. "Me and my sister used the Elements on him, turning him to stone but at a cost that didn't happen til eons later where Luna became Nightmare Moon." ***Flashback ends*** "So let me get this straight, Megatron was a good guy but Discord changed him, that still doesn't explain why he hates you." Rainbow says which Celestia hung her head down as she says. "It's all my fault; if I didn't shun him away and said what I said then maybe none this would have happened." The Elements didn't know what to feel as on one hoof, Celestia is going probably deserve what Megatron has planned for her, on the other they should help heal Megatron's heart as Rarity spoke saying. "We should find a way to heal Megatron's heart, thou what's a Spark and the other stuff?" Celestia gives a small smile. "Come, I have much to tell you about Cybertronians and their legends." Mane 6 and Celestia heads to Canterlots castle as Celestia explains Cybertronian culture. When they arrive at the castle as Luna is pacing around worried as she saw them come. "Where is he?" She asks as she noticed Megatron isn't among them as her fears becoming true. The others are confused of who's she's talking about so Celestia asks her sister in confusion, "Where is who?" "MEGATRON! Where is Megatron?!" She shouts at Celestia and she is very angry now. Applejack says very afraid as she doesn'twant to anger the Princess of the Night anymore than she is now. "We don't know where Megatron went. He just transformed and flew off." Luna is practically seething right now as she yells; "This is all your FAULT! If you didn't shun him away because of something I said, none of this scrap would have happened Sunbutt because of you, he has became what you and Discord feared turned him into!" Everyone is shocked even the guards that Luna used Cybertronian slang and used Megatron's nickname for the Princess of the Sun as Luna storms off to her room in mix of emotions. *** (MegatronPOV) Shockwave kneels in front of me as he says in his usual tone. "Lord Megatron, Project: Predacon and Project: Titan is on schedule." I grin evily as I let off a evil chuckle, "Excellent job Shockwave, now bring me Starscream, it's his daily beatings." Shockwave nods as he walks off. I look off into space as I suddenly hear that annoying voice that keeps trying to subtlety manipulate me when I got turned to stone also the one that breached my mental defenses again, "Megatron... Megatron.... Megatron!!" "Shut up; Unicron! I know you got in here again! Leave me alone!" I mentally shouted and blasted Unicron out of my psyche and patched up the hole he tried breaking in without me noticing. > Episode 3: Civil War starts again... Part 1 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Soundwave tell me how our troops in the mines doing as well as what have you brought me." Soundwave nods and pulls up camera's footage of the mines going well on their way on the monitor of my right as he hands me a Golden Autobot logo. "To all Displaced out in the multiverse, my name is Optimus Prime, if you need my aid, then simply crush this token, and I will aid you in your darkest hour!" I heard this in my processor as soon as it was placed in my servo, huh interesting; might summon Optimus now or maybe later. "Lord Megatron; I believe this Autobot symbol is capable of summoning beings as all we need to is crush it as the voice of Prime says. I believe we should be on guard and speaking of Autobots, Trypticon detects them coming as well as three Cybertronians not affiliated with us nor with the Autobots coming in metallic meteor form." Soundwave says which surprises me somewhat, I knew the Autobots were coming at some point but these three Cybertronians; I have no idea what the frag these Cybertronians are. "Soundwave do they run on Dark Energon like me?" I commanded Soundwave as he nods, I sigh as I look at the logo in my hand. "Both them and the Autobots be here in 24 hours, my liege." Starscream says as he walks in, repaired from his latest beating. I am still surprised, I am commanding different versions of the Decepticons, Shockwave is his Bumblebee incarnation, Starscream is good mix of G1 and WFC/FOC games, Soundwave is just plain WFC/FOC, and Trypticon is the TFP one to name a few. *** I sigh as I activate my comm link; "Shockwave pls tell me, you have something at least?" Shockwave responds with; "Of course my liege, come to my lab in the Nemesis, I'll get them ready." Me, Soundwave and Starscream walk to Shockwaves lab with Knockout and Breakdown and Cylas (all TFP expect for Breakdown, he's WFC/FOC version) already there. I noticed there's two Protoforms ready with Shockwave holding a spark in a container; "Shockwave why you have that spark?" I ordered him to tell me because I am not allowing this unless good reason. "Well this is half a spark actually and it belongs to my clone, you see these two Protoforms are clones of me and Soundwave. This is because we have no idea how my clones personality be like since the shadowplay is still active on me as you know." I nod at this explanation as he activated the protoforms as they take shape. Soundwaves clone looks like a recolor of him, as for the other well looks like Shockwaves Transformers Energon counterpart down to every last detail. Shockwave hands me the container as Shockwaves clone wakes up first and immediately tries to fire his arm cannon at me. "We had a feeling your going be like this, you be Shockblast so we came prepared so remember I hold your life in my servos, as for the other one be Soundblaster." I said as I squeeze the container making Shockblast kneel in pain as Soundblaster nods, after he woke up being the silent type, reminding me of TFP Soundwave. "Frag, you Megatron!, I'll kill everyone! MUHAH-AAAAGGHHH!" I sigh as I squeeze the container once more, why did get a bot that acts like Shockblast from that anime even though, same name, color scheme, frame etc. "You'll listen to me regardless, Shockblast or you simply cease to be since a being of your nature should be locked up forever to rot or killed off immediately." I told Shockblast this with a sneer as he stopped, now finally realizing I'll keep my word to snuff his spark; should he step out of line. I'll give over to first subject of Project: Titan as I input both of his alt modes and give him, almost same color scheme as Shockblast as Shockwave asks; "Are you sure that's wise to give him that specific alt mode, my lord?" "Yes it is, no one would see this coming." I retort Shockwave for doubting me, Megatron leader of the Decepticons. Cylas and Shockblast start conversing about life as Cylas explains what's it like being a Decepticon, same with Soundwave and Soundblaster. Starscream starts helping Shockwave on his Projects as I stare at Predacob test subjects in their tube's. *** Suddenly the Nemesis alarms went off as we all rush to the bridge and I look at my vehicons. "What's wrong?!" I commanded as the monitors showing the purple Autobot logo as the alarms still going off. "The Autobots are coming, they are hacking into our space bridge and using their own and ours to bring themselves here!" One drone shouted as I grew very worried this world ain't ready yet and I thought we had more time! "I need some time to prepare for my old friend." I say as I looked at my space bridge as I am starting to get ideas how to send the Autobots back to delay time as I am not ready yet. *** I turn to Shockwave as I commanded him; "What's the current situation with Projects: Predacon and Titan?" Shockwave taps his cannon arm as a holographic screen pops up. "Project Predacon, still needs time but Project Titan is ready to go as I have one Titan protoform ready my liege." I nod in confirmation to activate the Protoform as Trypticon sends the protoform to the planet as it grew to Titan size, entering the atmosphere. Suddenly the space bridge activates as the Ark comes out with it's white and purple color scheme with two giant red blasters on top as I knew what to do, I slam the big button on right side of my thrones armrest as I gave the order to all my Decepticons; "Crush them!" As Trypticon fires his tow cables on to the Ark as the battle begun.