1. Chapter 1: A Humble Observer (1/1)

gather 'round, and hear the story of a heart of steel. it is a tale of great joy and sadness; of heroism and ruthlessness; of love and loss. giant mechanical beings from a distant star

ing their war to equestria, and optimus prime and his ever dwindling autobots battle megatron and his decepticon hoard. over the course of their war, they have found a series of relics that may be able to revive their dead home: the omega keys. now, however, the deceptions have the keys and plan to conquer cybertron once they revive it. friendships will be made, and flesh and blood will meet oil and steel, and from the fires of war, a passionate love will emerge between the two seemingly opposite races. the love these two beings have will be strong, and-"gummy!" uh-oh. "gummy! where are you-oh! there you are you silly 'gatoryou!" and i, a humble observer-"quit your achin', it's time for bakin'" enjoy thestory. slam!

-megatron stood on the bow of the nemesis, grinning with his shark-like teeth as the neared a massive portal. the portal was a space-

idge, a giant ring that could send anything virtually anywhere. megatron was an intimidating 'bot. he was tall, with

oad shoulders and a prominent chest. his whole body was silver, save for his blood red eyes, and the purple decepticon emblem on his chest. his right arm wasn't actually his, though. he'd taken it off the corpse of a prime, and attached it to his own body. there was a long, jagged, purple sword on his back, which was immensely powerful. his shoulder plates had two curved spines on them, and his calves sloped down to his feet. the ship he stood on was just as intimidating as he was. the nemesis was black, with red lights running along the ship. the bow was shaped like a shark's head, and it had two curved pieces of metal on either side of the bow.

suddenly, a smaller craft flew past the side of the nemesis. it was much less angular than the nemesis, almost hammer-like. it was white, and had an autobot emblem on it. it fired two missiles, which rocked the ship when the struck it. megatron removed his sword, swinging it and sending a wave of energy flying at the ship. it struck the smaller ship, but not before two figures leapt off of it. they landed on the back of the nemesis, sending sparks flying as their metal feet skidded across the metal.

the first figure was smokescreen, an autobot. he was mostly white, with blue accents, and two red streaks across his head. his was much smaller than megatron, barely coming to his chest. he had two car doors jutting out of his back, with orange thirty-eights on the side. the second was optimus prime. optimus was almost as tall as megatron, the top of his coming to megatron's eyes. his lower legs were blue with two tires on the outside, while his upper legs and abdomen were silver. his chest and arms were

ight red, and he had two windows on his upper chest. his shoulders were curved, but more smoothly than megatron's. the tops of his lower arms were two pieces of metal that made an angle, while the insides of his arms were ovalish, and his hands were black. there were two silver smokestacks on his back; he transformed into a truck. his face was silver, though the rest of his head was blue.

"ah, optimus, i was wondering when you'd arrive" megatron said, his voice deep and gruff. optimus and smokescreen both drew their guns, which were part of their arms, but megatron blocked their bolts with his sword. then, he sent another energy wave flying at them. optimus lept over the wave, but smokescreen didn't. the force carried him off the side of the ship, which he quickly latched onto, barely managing to not be thrown into space. "optimus, a little help?" he yelled. optimus didn't hear him. he changed into a semi-truck, ramming megatron before he could lose another wave. smokescreen hoisted himself up, just in time to watch prime use his sword to remove megatron's mismatched hand. his sword came from his waist, though his hand retracted into his arm whenever he drew it, and was actually two pieces of metal fused. megatron's arm, with his sword still in hand, bounced off the deck of the nemesis, and flew off into space. a blue liquid, shot out of the severed arm, pooling into tiny spheres. then, he kicked him, throwing megatron across the ship, sending small spheres of blue blood flying into space.

with megatron wounded, optimus hurried over to smokescreen, helping him onto the deck of the nemesis. they made their way into the bowels of the nemesis, encountering little resistance, since most of the decepticons were panicked without their master. they snuck through the dark halls until they reached their destination: megatron's trophy room. smokescreen stood guard over the door, while prime approached their target.

the four omega keys sat on a table, with no kind of guard or protection. optimus gazed at the keys, rubbing his fingers over one as he sighed. "okay optimus, get the keys and let's get out of here" smokescreen said. "smokescreen, we aren't taking the keys" prime told him. he drew his sword, and cut all of the keys in half. energy darted across the ship, the lights to flash as it shuddered. "optimus! what did you do?!" smokescreen shouted. the power from the keys spread from the nemesis to the autobot ship, and the space-

idge. the nemesis lisped to one side as it passed through the portal, followed by the autobot's ship. then, the space-

idge exploded in a

illiant blue fireball.