The Autobots were too late at getting to Earth. The Decepticons had already tore up the Earth searching for the All Spark. They have left very few survivors in parts of the world. Now the Autobots are held responsible for the destruction of Earth and must take care of the survivors they find.
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E A R T H S U R V I V O R S: TRANQUILITY, NV
Chapter 1
It happened pretty fast, actually. I was up late, skimming through some channels, figuring out what to watch, when I heard one of the neighbors outside screaming like a banshee. I looked out the window and thought I saw a couple of asteroids or meteors falling from the sky and landing several miles away. In that same area, an explosion went off and the neighborhood woke up and started running outside of their houses! My mom and my dad told me to come with them down to the basement. Not knowing what else to do, I obeyed and followed them. We ran down the stairs and the whole ground started shaking!
"We gonna die!" I shouted. I meant for that to be a bit of humor in a bad situation, but my dad didn't quite get the joke and hugged me, trying to comfort me. I let him, but when my mom shouted for us to hurry up, he let go and we both ran outside; the only way to get to the basement.
We felt a couple of large footsteps as if the "fee-fie-fo-fum" giant had entered the picture and looked in its direction. Something big--insanely big--was standing right there, twenty yards away from our house! Dad pulled Mom and me away from our trance and ran down the hill to the back of the house. He unlocked the basement door and let us walk in first. He was about to come in with us, but some big freaky cat jumped him! He was pinning my dad to the ground and had its jaws locked onto his arm. My dad struggled but nothing worked.
"Hey! Bagheera!" I shouted to it. I picked up a rock and threw it at the cat. It literally bounced off the panther and landed somewhere else. The cat let go of my dad and turned to me and my whimpering mom. Its eyes seemed bright red against its black visage. I pushed my mom back into the basement and slammed the door before the cat could jump us. It clawed at the door, tearing some of the wood away, and I thought This is it.
"Ravage, return," said an electronic voice. You know, kind of like the ones a robot would say…Hold up. Robot?!
The panther went away all the same. My mom and I looked through the holes the so-called "Ravage" created and looked at my dad laying flat on the ground. He was bleeding pretty badly and his face was looking the other way.
"Dad!" I shouted, but at the same moment came a bomb that hit a house away. My face was forced back by the heat of it and both me and my mom were forced back into the basement wall. We looked ahead and saw the red-orange flame through the door pass by. My mom screamed in my ear, but I hardly noticed due to the roar of the flame. I heard her shout my dad's name several times and cried. The flame stopped after ten long minutes and I stood up. My mom was curled in a ball against the wall as I walked forward to the door. I didn't dare open it, but I looked through the claw marks caused by the panther. I looked through and wished I hadn't.
My dad's body was burned.
Completely burned! I mean, like on the old Tim Burton film of Batman, the Joker's joy buzzer that fried that guy in the suit. His clothes were half-burnt to ash, his hair nearly came off, and his skin was black and grey. It was too disgusting! I covered my mouth to try and hold back whatever was in my throat, be it a scream or a sob.
"What is it?" my mom choked.
"D-Dad's…dead!" I sobbed. My mom cried harder and I walked over to hug her. This whole thing was terrible and totally unreal. That was it! It was a dream! It had to be! I reached for the nearest crowbar and tapped myself lightly, but not enough to make me pass out. My vision went double, though. So, this wasn't a dream. It was happening. All happening.
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I woke up in Lord knows how long. My mom was still sleeping over in a different corner. I started thinking for a bit and the first thought that came to mind was Did I just cry myself to sleep? God, I'm so lame. I stood up and stretched out my arms and legs for a bit. I started seeing dots in front of my eyes and realized that I got up to fast and my blood was trying to regulate itself again. The dots went away after a long time and I walked to the door, the claw marks seeming to glare at me. I dared myself to open the door and find no grass but dirt, dead trees, burning buildings (some up, some down to the ground, and others half-way), and decaying bodies everywhere. I tried to tell the time from the sky, but it was impossible. The sky was colored red and black.
I climbed up the hill to see what happened to the rest of the world. Apparently it died, by the looks of it. The buildings in Tranquility were intact, still, and strained to stay that way. From a few miles away, I could tell that the city was as dead as its outskirts. I turned around to look at our own house; still standing. I looked back at the city buildings and wondered exactly why everything that happened did happen. There was no way a terrorist could've done this!
I kept thinking about that panther and why the rock didn't hit it as hard as I'd hoped. And the electronic voice, where the hell did that come from?
A true sign that the Apocalypse has happened, and my mom and I seemed to be the only survivors of Tranquility, Nevada.
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Author's Note: Thanks to Autobot Alythia the character was made! Hope that you guys enjoy the story!
