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Chapter 102 - Chapter 22 part 4

There was noises in the far background as Optimus soon said to them "We need to figure out what Starscream is up to for deciding that he should end everything. Or we won't stop his ruthless amount of destruction and wasted lives that we don't need to lose anymore." Alexa agreed but had a doubt as she retorted "Yeah but how are we supposed to get to him?" Honestly that was a good question that they struggled to answer. How do they get to a seeker who can engineer stuff like dimensional vortices? That was something they all wondered about. And Bumblebee had a idea and said out loud "Starscream has a specific energon type, am I not right? We probably track him down using that." Hoist knew he had a point with that and said next "Bumblebee's right! His body had that whole odd, honey sort of frame to it even if he is extremely 'damaged'." Hoist knew the word underestimated how Starscream actually looked but didn't want to be biased as Wheeljack was heard working on something nearby with his large golden wrench and looked to be placing screws inside of a new machine as he was finally done with that. "Hey, what are you working on?" Alexa asked curiously as Wheeljack responded "This is a more powerful energon signal machine. It's updated to add more rare energon signals that are out there. I think this can help track down where he is." They all came to look over it as Wheeljack decided to test it out on Optimus first. Once the signal registered first, all of a sudden the screen glitched out showing a error message: DATA NOT PROCESSED, REASON: CONTRADICTORY SIGNALS HAVE BEEN DETECTED. Which confused Wheeljack on what just happened.

"Wait, that is not supposed to happen!" He exclaimed hitting his machine in a attempt to get it to work while Optimus looked confused and asked Wheeljack "Why didn't process my signal?" As Wheeljack shook his head and responded "I am not sure, even my most haywire of inventions always work for the first time. I'm really surprised by this." Until Alexa remembered when Starscream had controlled Optimus and that memory gave her a chill down her spine. But if her theory is right then that would explain something. "Wheeljack?" She suddenly spoke up as he turned to wonder what needed, "Yes Alexa?" She heard him ask before she questioned "Can your invention take two signals at once?" And he replied "Nope, not at all." Bumblebee spoke up "So your saying basically, you can't scan two people?" And Wheeljack confirmed "Because one signal is already so advanced with information, it would struggle taking another signal and it breaks the thing. But what confuses me is that, Optimus is one entire being, not a second person." Alexa countered his observation with "What if, Optimus actually was two people?" Which made everyone including Optimus surprised. "How does that even work, Alexa?" Optimus asked and Alexa re-joined her answer with "Think about it! Optimus was controlled by Starscream when we were in Vortex right? Maybe since Starscream signal is still probably in Optimus, it makes two people in one person. So that's why it can't register him." And everyone gave noises of understanding when they heard that. "That makes sense, as I said my invention doesn't work on two people." Wheeljack said seriously.

As they discussed ways to get to Starscream, Optimus paused as he got a call from Bluestreak who sounded worried "Bluestreak? What's going on?" As the grey and red Autobot immediately talked quickly which got the Autobot leader frustrated by his teammate. "Bluestreak..." And immediately Bluestreak stopped when hearing his tone "Sorry, sorry! I'm trying to keep myself sane here but... It's bad out here. You better come see." As Bumblebee soon yelled out "What!? Bluestreak tell us-" And immediately Bluestreak exited the call. Everyone looked frustrated especially Alexa who had the expression of "what was that all about!?" As everyone couldn't get a answer on where Bluestreak was and what exactly happened. "Classic Bluestreak! Not telling us what exactly happens and tell us to come and see." Bumblebee grumbled as he crossed his arms and Hoist questioned with amusement with a hint of intensity in his voice "Now that Bluestreak left us like patients in a hospital, what are suppose to do?" And Everyone had no idea again. Starscream and the Decepitcons were running around and Bluestreak left them completely clueless which made the situation harder than it should have been. Everyone looked awkwardly as Bumblebee soon said his old usual determination "I know we been left behind but we need to help everyone else!" Optimus agreed with his optics showing his optimism in it while Hoist said his jovial tone coming in "I think we should get going. Don't worry, I be the medic for anyone who desperately needs healing." Alexa felt hopeful. It was quite rare to find some sort of happiness around here considering they keep getting hurt.

Alexa nodded now feeling set on despite her stress and exhaustion but soon said "So, we should probably get going to Bluestreak's location." Bumblebee soon noticed and yelled out loud "Where's our van!?" Which caught all of their attention as they also noticed, where was the van? Well, this became now extremely troubling for them all as they stared at each other for a moment before Optimus asked "Wait, you all had a van before I came back?" The four of them nodded as Alexa soon asked frantically with panic on her face "What the hell are we supposed to do now!?" Optimus facepalmed, Hoist looked worried and everyone else sighed "The thing is, we don't have a human GPS anymore, plus our cybertronic one is for Cybertron." Bumblebee mentioned as Optimus' calm voice came through "So we are particularly blind with where we are going?" As Wheeljack said a simple "Yeah unfortunately." Which made them all dreadful for what would happen. Soon they all transformed as Bumblebee was close to Alexa "Jump in!" He told her as she soon got inside and put her seatbelt over herself as he drove off with Optimus, Ratchet, Hoist and Wheeljack who were all discussing something in her vehicle modes. Alexa... Felt homesick now that she got time to think. She missed her own family dearly and wanted to go back to her mother and brother as she felt herself get actually sick. Alexa covered her mouth as Bumblebee saw and asked "Are you okay?" While she replied with a strained voice "Y-Yeah I'm fine." As she gulped back her own vomit.

As they moved throughout the roads, Alexa watched the changing scene as forests flew by as she leaned her head backwards against the head rest of the car seat as she could feel how bumpy the ride was, it honestly made her stomach jump as she asked "How far do you think Bluetstreak is?" And Bumblebee replied "I assume very far off, we still can't get a location out of him." Alexa groaned slightly at the answer as she looked exhausted to say the least. It wasn't the first time she felt tired or anything like that but they were in a pretty bad position after all with the constant murders of family, friends and strangers, everyone felt exhausted not just Alexa. There was a pause before Bumblebee asked "Hey, are you hurting?" Alexa slowly looked upwards from the ground before turning her head away.

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