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Alternate Reality

Prologue

This story is co-authored by:

warriorkat21 and Vash (my sister)

Disclaimer: I do not own Transformers. I do not own Kayla, Megan, or Danni. I do, however, own the rest of the OCs unless otherwise stated.

Kayla's Motto: "We don't quit playing because we grow older, we grow older because we quit playing." – Unknown

Megan's Motto: "I'm the kind of girl that girls don't like. I'm the kind that boys fantasize. I'm the kind that your momma and your daddy were afraid you'd turn out to be like."

Eden's Motto: "To gain – something of equal value must be lost." – Fullmetal Alchemist

Danni's Motto: "The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds the most discoveries, is not Eureka! (I found it!) but 'That's funny...'" – Issac Asimov

Eden Fletcher always wanted to be able to say that she was a good child. She was a passive person who never really fought with anybody. She was the peacekeeper. She hated arguments, but when her temper flared she was right in the middle of the action. She kept her anger bottled up inside most of the time. In her entire life she only punched one person, and that was her ex-boyfriend. He had insulted her to her face, and she would not put up with such actions. Perhaps it was good she developed an extreme interest in a tough, full contact sport such as ice hockey. That way she could take her anger out on those who played against her and who were also used to such contact. Then, when arguments cropped up, she was too drained to be angry and settled for being a peacekeeper.

Eden was the youngest out of two other sisters. She was twenty, almost twenty-one, years old and had short wavy red hair. Her hair, just barely long enough to pull back into a bun on the top of her head, was usually kept down. She had green-brown eyes – hazel as most people would say. She stood at around five feet six inches and, since she played a full contact sport, she weighed more than most girls her age. In a given season, she could weigh from a hundred and forty to a hundred and fifty pounds.

Her older sister's name was Danielle, but she was mostly called Danni, and she was twenty seven. Danni was a heaver woman – around a hundred and eighty and stood at around five foot four. Like Eden, Danni also had red hair, but over the years it had faded into a sort of brownish red color. Her eyes were a shade of light brown as well.

Eden found that life could be frustrating at times. Especially when she found herself in a situation where she couldn't say or do anything to make the situation better. The red haired girl knew for a fact that if she tried to say anything that was on her mind, people would twist her words and blow it out of proportion. Eden knew a lot of people who liked to argue with one another – friends and family members alike.

She didn't like to get involved with arguments when she knew they were a lost cause. Most of her time was spent barricaded into her room. She spent quite a bit of time on her computer to stay away. Her family wasn't really that bad, but Eden lived at home while attending university. They had so many petty arguments. The red headed girl loved to write so she spent the majority of her time writing fan stories. It was a productive way to pass the time, but her parents often told her that she was spending too much time doing nothing. She didn't care though she loved writing her stories and hearing from her favorite reviewer. They found out they were a lot alike, they both like the bots, and they were complete transfans. They always talked back and forth - from the stories they read to just random thoughts that popped up in their heads. They eventually shared information to keep in contact with each other.

Kayla Ave was her name; she was twenty two almost twenty three. She had short black hair, with bright blue tips, that she spiked. She sported hazel eyes as well, but hers were blue and green, they also changed to yellow if you made her mad. She was in between five foot three and five foot four. She was fiercely protective of her friends, and carried knives on her. She was the type of person that was blunt and not afraid to tell you how it is, but still goofy like a little kid. Her favorite motto was 'we don't quit playing because we grow older... we grow older because we quit playing'. She weighed from one seventy five to two hundred depending on what she was doing. She loved writing and reading fanfiction as well. She also had a transfan little sister named Megan who loved the Decepticons. She was five foot two and she had the same eyes Kayla had. She had long brown hair, and weighed about a hundred pounds. They lived about three states away from Eden, but promised one day at least Kayla would save up the money to come and visit.

Danni was a different story. Although she didn't write fanfiction, she read enough of it to understand Eden's stories. The two sisters had a lot in common. Their shared interest in anime, manga, and video games was a couple of examples. Danni and Eden often spent long hours together, laughing their asses off at something stupid.

When Eden was younger, she would lie awake at night until midnight, and when the clock struck twelve, she would wish that she would be pulled into some sort of parallel universe. She was always hoping and wishing that it was a universe that she was familiar with – one that belonged to an anime or a video game. The red headed girl wasn't really considering the consequences of being pulled into an alternate reality, but Eden was only thirteen at the time.

The girl once admitted that the reality she wanted to be pulled into the most should have been the easiest to travel to. It was almost identical to her reality, but it held one key difference. The reality she wanted to travel to harbored mechanical sentient beings known to humans as Transformers. The Transformers could live among humans disguised as various mechanical objects, but it was unlikely that they existed in Eden's home universe. They were in the center of media; there was a movie on DVD, another in the theaters, video games, cartoons, and an entire comic book series dedicated to them. Wouldn't it jeopardize their cover if the Transformers did, indeed, exist?

It wasn't until Eden turned fourteen that she stopped wishing altogether. The red headed girl realized that it was hopeless to wish. She had no way to travel to a different universe even if she wanted to. Human scientists didn't possess the technology to even peer into another reality and if they did…something could go wrong. Just think of the movie 'The Mist.' Something horrible like that could happen.

It wasn't until just recently that Eden started to talk about alternate realities with her older sister once again. The red haired girl was bored with her current way of life. College didn't resume until the fall, so Eden turned to Danni. They had been visiting old friends in their hometown and were on their way back to the city they currently lived in. Somehow, the conversation turned to alternate realities.

Of course, Danni was classified as a science buff, so she knew more about those kinds of sciences. Since she knew about those kinds of things, she explained about the downsides of inter-dimensional travel.

"It's kind of like Equivalent Exchange." Danni said, trying to explain it to her younger sister. The older sister was smart – she knew that FullMetal Alchemist was one of the red haired girl's favorite shows. Since she knew this, she used something Eden was interested in to explain the difficult concepts. She was successful. Eden understood that in order to travel to a different dimension, one would have to replace something with something else. If a person would travel there, then a person would have to replace them in their dimension.

The concept got Eden thinking. What could cause an inter-dimensional rift? Would an explosion of some sort work? Would it have to be big? No, Eden was too timid to create that sort of mayhem. But, she couldn't help thinking about the possibilities. She truly and absolutely wanted this to happen. She could have told her friend Kayla. She was sure she would do it, however she didn't want the mayhem that Kayla was sure to make in trying to find a way.

But, now that she was older, she knew about the dangers of inter-dimensional travel. She could be killed during the process, but even if that did occur, there was always a chance that either she landed in the wrong universe or their home universe could be destroyed. There was the very real possibility that inter-dimensional travel could distort nature.

Eden couldn't help but want to go to the Transformers universe. A day passed, then two, then a week, then a month. Eventually, the situation was forgotten and the two sisters went on with their lives, but that would soon change.

It would change their lives forever.