𝐆𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐙𝐞𝐫𝐨 ⬈ ᵒᵖᵗⁱᵐᵘˢ ᵖʳⁱᵐᵉ

━𝐨𝐧𝐞

—parallel earth—

      She sniggered as two giant robots chased her around the jungles of the Amazon rainforest. The woman's head was tilted as she gazed upon their familiar figures, the attitudes of these Decepticons never ceased to surprise her.

Considering that they were both made of shining metal, the Cybertronians were having difficulty keeping up with the feminine human. They were built to live on a planet of metal, not one of soft soil and all things organic.

Starscream roared in fury as neither he nor Knockout was able to get any kind of grasp on the human.

Then again, it had been months and they were never able to so much as touch her with a digit.

She was too fast. Impossibly fast.

"Knock Out, get out of the way—AGHH!" Starscream shouted only for Knock Out to stray too close to him and trip on the roots of a large tree.

Unfortunately, they had been running near a dirt cliff that was directly next to a powerful river. The two Decepticons cried out as they fell, hitting the rushing waters with incredible splashes. They struggled against it, fighting to not be carried away.

The woman let out a hearty laugh from where she watched in the trees, a bright grin that spoke of the crazies stamped onto her mouth. She winked as the one named Starscream made a face of red-hot anger at her. Knock Out was too busy freaking out over his dirtying appearance to bother.

She looked toward a device strapped to her wrist, the woman fiddling with it before she was gone in the next instant. A moment later, she was back in a little apartment while patting away a small fire that appeared on her head.

She huffed in relief as she managed to put it out.

Southside Chicago was probably the worst area one could live in, but it was also the cheapest and the only thing that she could afford.

Astraea sighed as she fell back on her couch—eyes tired. She did not hear either of her two roommates around, they were probably gone.

Carly and Nicki both tended to stay at their boyfriends' places rather than home.

How long have these Cybertronians been after her? It had been a few months at this point. Then again, it was her fault for falling into that stupid portal. The stupid portal that—for as much shit as she gave it—Astraea was actually rather grateful for.

After all, it took her away from her broken reality and brought her to this better version of Earth. A nicer and safer and less eroded reality than the one she was born into.

This planet, she had come to realize in the few months that she had been living on it, had not been taken over by the evil Autobots.

In her reality, Astraea was born weeks after Optimus Prime and his heinous legion first started their attacks on Earth.

For the first time in its history, the world banded together—governments fell away as they became one Earth—one people.

Humanity vs. the machine, as it was called. Earth and her people put up one hell of a fight, they had even formed allies with the Decepticons (a party of Cybertronians who stood against the Autobots).

Alas, after over a decade of war, humanity fell against Optimus Prime. Her world—beautiful Earth—was left damaged with many of its natural species (including humans) on the brink of extinction.

Even as the Decepticons still fight and stand against the Autobots, they too are near being wiped out. Optimus Prime has all but won, his goal of plunging the galaxy into an age of darkness under one rule—his rule—is near completion.