Alexa felt the fresh air against her face and suddenly heard something running at her as she turned around. There her eyes widened in surprise seeing her brother run at a quick speed to her. He suddenly hugged her roughly as Alexa felt the rough gesture but also hugged back since she desperately needed it from all that she had experienced with vortex and everything else. Harold let go off her and was about to say "Alexa! You're- Okay?" He paused after the last word seeing all her wounds especially the recent ones caused by Starscream. "I think I need a moment, Harold." Alex said trying to recollect her thoughts before she heard footsteps nearby and saw her friend Kirin, her mother Mrs Lilian along with who she presumed to be Lili. They all looked worried seeing how pale and exhausted their family and friend was. Included Lili, because even though she didn't know her – she knew that this wasn't normal in any way possible. Harold began to help her up by wrapping his hand around her shoulder. "Can she walk?" Mrs Lilian questioned and he said "She's in pain, I should help her." And they began to move with Harold trying to help her up. it was surprisingly not the first time he had to do this with his sister. They soon moved outside of the forest and into a more open area where less trees is covering their position. They soon found themselves at a quiet little shelter and entered as it was comfy enough...
Alexa entered first as she washed her hands and sat down on the couch, feeling her head paining as she tried to focus on reading a book she found nearby. She opened it up turning through the pages while Harold was speaking to Kirin nearby who was listening. Meanwhile Lili was playing with the skipping rope before Mrs Lilian went to Alexa and asked "Can I check your wounds?" Alexa gave a yes as Mrs Lilian looked at her face first of all. There was scratches, bruises and that claw mark Starscream gave to Alexa on her forehead. Mrs Lilian saw that her collarbone had stained blood and was bleeding a little bit as she grabbed tissues and began pressing against the wound while grabbing wet tissues to wipe around the top part of her chest. "Just what have you been getting into for the past few weeks or so?" And Alexa looked away nervously. Three weeks in total, she has been dealing with a lot. It was starting to get into the the month of December soon anyways. "A lot." Alexa only responded with that as Mrs Lilian went to clean the other parts of her face with care. Mrs Lilian paused for a long moment and said "Well, you all are reckless kids. But you have been killed." And Alexa sighed by responding "But I needed to do this-" Mrs Lilian interrupted her by saying "I know you had to sweetie." And that made Alexa feel guilty. Too many deaths and too many losses.
Harold suddenly spoke up "You hungry Alexa?" And Alexa nodded snapping out of her sadness. "Yeah, we got anything?" She asked as Mrs Lilian grabbed out still a hot pizza that was in a pizza box. Lili sat down next to Alexa and Kirin sat down nearby them both. They opened the pizza box and immediately got out their own slices in a plate. Alexa began to eat hers at a normal pace, Harold ate the slice quickly and Lili needed to pause before continuing while Kirin ate the slowest. They soon finished as they all chatted over each other. "Okay, Lili and Kirin, you might be worried about your parents, well I told them that you two will be staying with us for another week at best." And they both nodded as Lili looked away "..." She didn't know what to say as Alexa looked at her by asking if she was okay. "I'm thinking about Arthur, I had lost him a month or so ago." Lili responded as Alexa immediately became silent as she began to think about Ratchet. She had no idea what Ratchet's dead body looked like but had a guess. She soon needed to get with her Autobot friends soon with her family. Soon she heard someone at the door and saw Cliffjumper come in. "Finally I'm back." He sighed before noticing that Alexa was here. "Alexa?" He questioned as Alexa responded with "Is that you, Cliff?" And he nodded. Her family and friends looked surprised to see the fact that she recognises him. "Is this one of your 'Autobot friends'?" Mrs Lilian asked as Alexa said "Yeah."
"Is your voice box working now?" She continued before Cliffjumper answered "It still strains whenever I tried to speak but most of the time I can speak properly." She understood as she hadn't talked to him in a while. "So, have you found everyone else?" She asked as Cliffjumper began to tell her what had happened with the rest of the Autobots. "I heard Bluestreak's mission to investigate the signal station had gone completely haywire, Sunstreaker and Sideswipe had found energon resources, Tracks had found where Thundercracker was. However, most of everyone has spilt up and Megatron has left traces of odd energon." Alexa nodded and told him about her situation. "I had gone with Bumblebee to the vortex, Hoist had caught up to us and now I don't know where everyone else is." So they were stuck trying to figure out what is going on. "Starscream had made this extra confusing." She stated afterwards and he agreed. The chemicals, the vortex, the black spot, flowers and the generators had made it far more difficult to stop some of the Decepticons. What else were they suppose to do now? That was a question that they all couldn't answer. Meanwhile Mrs Lilian spoke up "So who are we gathering?" Cliffjumper thought of the names. Optimus and Ultra Magnus definitely, Bumblebee, Wheeljack, Hoist, Sideswipe, Trailbreaker, Searchlight, Gears, Huffer, Bluestreak and everyone who was still alive.
"Alright enough with the boring talk. Come with me Alexa." Harold went to the other room as Alexa followed him with curiosity as they both arrived at their temporary room as he gave her a book about star and shapes about stars. "Look at this page." Immediately he flipped the page to page 116 which had the chapter about supernovas. Supernovas were a bright, luminous explosion caused by the collapse of an sun's core. It violently removes out layers, leaving behind neutron star or black holes (for massive stars). But in some cases, it can leave out behind remnants of dead stars. Alexa's mind began to whir around with thoughts. If Starscream somehow managed to control the energy of an collapsed star, who knows what he would do next? He did leave a lot of destruction in the process. "So these supernovas. They are some of the causes of black holes?" Alexa asked herself before Harold heard what she had said. "Yeah, that's creepy to think about." And she couldn't blame him when she said that. Black Holes were actually made up of broken matter that was crushed up into a singularity. Soon she heard someone knocking at their door and heard their mother's voice. "Alexa, you might want to see this." Alexa got up along with Harold as Mrs Lilian took them outside. There, standing 40ft tall was a familiar red and blue leader. "Optimus! Thank goodness that your alive." She exclaimed as he responded "Fear not, we are not hurt." As he looked at the rest of them curiously "Is that your family?" He questioned as she nodded at him.
"Yeah that's my mother and my brother." She pointed at both of them as Optimus nodded. Cliffjumper came out and Optimus noticed him "Cliffjumper, we haven't seen you in a while, where is Ultra Magnus?" Cliffjumper shrugged as he had honestly no idea where he went. Honestly it was a mess trying to keep up with which Autobot is with which. "Ugh great, we are never going to find anyone around here at this point." Harold said as Mrs Lilian responded to him "I'm sure, Harold, we will fine them soon. We don't know who they are but Alexa can help us with her friendships with them." And they all stared at Alexa who was like "What?" And they gave each other a knowing look. Soon both Cybertronians transformed as they all moved to the road. "So Alexa what happened in the vortex?" Cliffjumper asked and Alexa immediately froze up. From Optimus getting controlled, Ratchet death and that nightmarish room full of bodies to Starscream messing with her, Alexa felt like the words were stuck in her mouth. Optimus didn't know what she had experienced today but knew the vortex was bad enough that he told Cliffjumper to drop it for now. Alexa looked away feeling his vision blur until Harold hit her. "Come on. Let's go inside." As she moved, sitting down in one of the seats that Optimus has while everyone else got into Cliffjumper's car. Buildings passed by them as Alexa put her head down slightly and is looking distracted.
She closed her eyes and flashes of metallic bugs covering an Cybertronian's arm, an gas tank thrown in the river, a cry of a mother and the sound of shredded skin filling the air. A distant voice came through the void "Alexa?" As the injured human gasped for air. Alexa snapped out of it hearing Optimus calling her and asking if she was okay. "Yeah." She said distantly.
Bloody battlefields was what Megatron's point of view saw. His cables from his torn arm fell downwards, human blood dripping from them as his red optic saw the dead adult soldiers, adult women and wounded children. His fusion cannon was smoking from those he hurt and killed. After all, his ideals had changed from enslaving humans to killing all of them but for the Autobots, he had something different in mind. A soft human bone was held in his hand, the sharp point aiming downwards while dripping with blood. He gave a very small smirk, something not noticeable at a first glance. He also had killed some of the rogue Cybertronians that had found themselves on earth. Processors had become mush, their legs were amputated and slick energon fell out of them. Slick blue 'glue' fell on Megatron's leg. It was a messy and calm image to himself as large stones had skin on them.