Alexa woke up finding herself high up somewhere where she isn't supposed to be at. She felt very chilly, her skin pricking at the sensation of the art. She found herself in the stratosphere. The sky was still red and she saw that the black spot was way higher then she thought it was at. Her eyes blinked as she felt like she was falling slowly as the air was hard to breathe through her lungs. She wasn't sure why she was so high up and she remembered what happened. Starscream inserting that object in the ground, Optimus getting stabbed by Starscream, Alexa herself throwing up on the ground and something else. She began to fall at a faster speed and she fell through a different direction as the curls of her hair flowed through the wind. She curled up in herself, her eyes wide and her arms around her legs as she struggled to breathe. Her skin which was already pale couldn't lose anymore colour. Her ears ached at the feeling of rough winds and heat started to increase. The heat and cold combined together made Alexa feel an sensation that was clear as day. She fell to a digital pit where it had a mix of green, orange and pink coded mess. She felt hundreds of digital parasitic tendrils wrap around her body and she screamed out loud. She plunged deep into the code was her eyes glitched in fear. And a monstrous laughter came mixed with Alexa's screaming. Alexa managed to find a wall full of code and immediately grabbed onto a code line that was made up numbers and letters. She couldn't explain the feeling of touching such concepts.
She heard someone nearby and turned her head around and saw what looked to be Ratchet nearby, searching for something while his body was extremely glitchy. "What is he doing here?" Alexa wondered as she asked before suddenly yelling "Ratchet!" Ratchet turned and his optics widened seeing Alexa was here. "What are you doing here?" Ratchet asked roughly as Alexa responded with "It's Starscream." And the Medic sighed knowing how troublesome he was. "Understandable. But you have to get out of here, this place is extremely unsafe." He soon got up on the coded wall and grabbed Alexa with his servos. "I think you have to get up there." And he looked up at the blinding shining light that came through the area and Alexa turned her head away. "How are we supposed to get up there?" She questioned and Ratchet had an idea. He hoped he had enough energon to allow him to move through with his old ragged structure. He began to grab onto lines of code that flickered in his hand and his foot stayed firmly against the walls before moving with the small girl. Alexa looked quietly as Ratchet held without trying to slip off. Soon the light came into view and Ratchet threw Alexa upwards and she noticed she was out of the pit. Ratchet couldn't get out since his dead spark was constricted to areas that weren't a physical plane or solid. "Alexa?" He asked as Alexa rubbed her head feeling dazed as she responded with "I'm okay." And Ratchet sighed in relief. "The last thing I wanted was for you to get hurt. You need to get out, quick." Alexa got up in worry and Ratchet said he would be fine as she left afterwards.
Bumblebee meanwhile was trying to find the rest of the Autobots. He had spilt up from everyone again and his frustration was starting to become increasingly obvious. He ran across the forest, struggling to catch his breath as he held his hands on his knees when he had stopped somewhere for an moment. His optics burned up and he coughed before trying to breathe properly again. His breathing started to slow down and he felt really, really sick in all honesty. Oh Primus, how he wished he didn't separate from Alexa when he was in the vortex out of anything. And now Optimus is somewhere else, things had become far worser than he himself understood. He just wanted to defeat the Decepticons, was that so complicated to understand? He paused somewhere and immediately looked up and shadowy glimpses of Cliffjumper appeared and the voice came in his head "Bumblebee you are certainly immature. But don't just stand there!" And Bumblebee snapped out of it before he said to himself "I better get going again." He hated being called immature but that reminded himself that he needed to find his teammates. He couldn't afford to waste time anymore not with Starscream becoming way more hostile than people had expected him to. He moved and fear was heard in his voice once he saw the supernova energy was high around here "Oh no. Oh no, no, no."
Hoist meanwhile had found Alexa who came up to him. "Hoist! Okay, your here. Did you find where Soundwave went?" Alexa asked and Hoist nodded before pointing nearby where the blue communication officer was busy working on something important. "Huh, I didn't expect him to be nearby." Alexa continued suddenly Soundwave turned around and Alexa noticed that he was looking directly at them. Hoist said "We really could have gotten ourselves in a better position my friend." And Alexa swore "Crap-" And immediately Soundwave pointed his gun at Alexa with his visor gleaming. He held up the device which connected to a weapon and immediately pressed the command run button. Soon it activated and immediately gun shots were heard from the turrets. Soon they hid behind cover before Alexa asked "Do you think they are working on nuclear bombs again?" And Hoist shook their head "No probably something else. Decepticons do become quite bored of repeated ideas anyways." That was true. The nuclear bombs were a catastrophic event that was used since Decepticons were getting tired of not killing humans properly. And now they warming up to make another destructive weapon. But what for? "By the way Hoist, I saw Ratchet." Alexa mentioned and Hoist immediately turned around in surprise. "You saw who now?" Hoist questioned and Alexa confirmed her answer "Ratchet."
Soundwave turned remembering he needed to go after Shockwave. So he just left the turrets on while carrying the device and jumped off the cliff. "What?" Alexa looked confused from what just happened. "Soundwave doesn't just leave like that." She said and Hoist had his servo on his chin. "It's something important." He said simply as his yellow visor looked at Alexa. "Don't rush after him. You will get hurt." He continued gently grabbing the human and put her over his shoulders. Alexa insisted and Hoist just kept her there. She needed rest, Hoist saw how tired she was and needed to get her to her family. She risked herself way too much and now by seeing Ratchet... He didn't know if it was a vision or not. But he knew that the primary objective was getting her to her family again. Hoist didn't need to get reminded of the vortex, he had seen when the hallucination where Grapple got hurt. It was still pretty disgusting. He just wondered if the real Grapple was okay after all. Alexa wondered where Soundwave went and the past 2 weeks played out in her mind. The vortex, the nuclear bombs, the black spot now increasing and the chemical still being involved in some way... Way too much for a young girl to remember. She looked upwards seeing that there might be another energy increase. And she was just so exhausted mentally. "Did you wish that... If Starscream hadn't become absent, things would be better?" And Hoist thought as well. Things actually became the way they were two months ago or so. "Yeah probably." He said.
Soon they arrived to where they detected Bluestreak's signal and he seemed to be chatting again with that sort of annoying tone of his. "Bluestreak!" Alexa yelled perking up as she looked at the scanner that was in Hoist's servos. Soon they saw him nearby talking to Gears who rolled his optics. "Good day." Hoist greeted them and they saw both of them. "Oh it's that human again." Gears rolled his eyes as Alexa shut up. "Do not be rude Gears! Or I will blast your audio receptors with loud noise." Bluestreak scolded him and the Autobot huffed. "So what has been going on here?" Hoist gave a query as they replied that they been stuck with eachother trying to find Optimus. "I just with him." Alexa said adjusting herself on Hoist's shoulders they listened to her. "We got separated for the 7th or 8th time again and it's starting to make me get sick of it." Bluestreak said "Right! No more separation. And if someone wants to say something to that, we will just deal with them." And they all understood finally agreeing that they shouldn't get away from each other. Suddenly they heard a loud screaming noise and they saw that one of the Autobots were killed with their neck snapped. And they saw Shockwave standing nearby looking coldly.