- Well, Earth was fucked.
Fallout
is a Transformers fanfic by Nan00k. It follow a group of eleven Autobots, Decepticons and humans in an AU universe after the '07 movie. Basically, Megatron has turned into Galvatron and he and his drones have taken over Earth, which, as the page quote says, has gotten pretty messed up...
It has two sequels, Fallout: Apocalypse and Fallout: Adaptations.
Not to be confused with the video game of the same name.
This series provides examples of:
- Aliens Speaking English: Vortex has to download a human language after meeting Jazz and Thundercracker. Wildrider can also speak Russian, and speaks with a (technically fake) accent, due to having rather liked the Russian humans he stuck with for a while. Arcee can speak Chinese.
- After the End: Earth has been rendered a wasteland from the Autobot-Decepticon war and Galvatron's takeover.
- Badass Family: Adoptive, but yes. They survived a lifetime of living in a postapocalypic wasteland populated mainly by homicidal, Hive Mind drones."Our family — the most badass family on Earth."
- Berserk Button: If you hurt one of the family, the other ten will be unhappy. Very unhappy.
- Break the Cutie: Danny. By far the most idealistic of the group, just being with Wheeljack for the entirety of her childhood and never suffering any early losses. After she joins the main cast, though, Goddard dies early on. She grieves, but grows closer to Wildrider and the rest of the team. And then Wheeljack dies sending her and the rest of the group to another timeline. Like the rest of the humans, she gets professionally diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. And, like that isn't enough, she has to deal with meeting an alternate-universe version of Wheeljack when they shift to another timeline. Yeah.
- Can't Hold His Liquor: To various degrees. Bluestreak is a hyper-drunk (off of high-grade), Rachel is an angry drunk, Danny...Barnes: "Wheeljack, please [get her off me] before you are made a grandfather!"
- Combining Mecha: Vortex and Wildrider gleefully describe this to Goddard. And some time later, Devastator shows up....
- Crapsack World: Let's just say that Earth hasn't been the same ever since Galvatron took over
- Downer Ending: The war in general (in this timeline, at least). No one even wins - not even the orchestrator of the whole mess.
- Enemy Mine: It's how the family actually starts - Jazz and Thundercracker met and figured they'd be better off working together than against each other, seeing that factions didn't really exist anymore. They unofficially adopted Rachel, and it all went downhill from there.
- Interspecies Romance: Played with. Vortex likes Rachel, Rachel likes Vortex, neither Jazz nor Thundercracker like the idea; but there's no real indication the relationship is ever going to be sexual.
- Jade-Colored Glasses: Everyone to some extent, but especially in Thundercracker, Rachel, and Vortex. Literally for all the bots, too, some time later on.
- Only Sane Woman: Arcee, to some degree. She holds on hardest to the Autobots' previous ideals.
- What Measure Is a Mook?: The main canon characters are, in order of appearance: Jazz, Thundercracker, Wheeljack, Bluestreak, Vortex, Wildrider, and Arcee. Blitzwing makes a guest appearance. A lot of them are minor characters at best, even in the original animated series.
