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Chapter 73 - Chapter 17 part 1

Optimus opened the entrance door and went inside where Prowl guided him to the main area. He saw Bumblebee looking a lot better now and Alexa was chatting to him. Both noticed him and was surprised, he was inexplicably exhausted, way more than he should be and while most of the effects had gone away, Optimus still felt a little sick. He sat down looking at them "Have much happened?" They looked at each other, unsure on what to say. "You okay?" Alexa asked as Optimus said "Yeah, I went through a spot of trouble. I resolved it at least for now." But his mind was set on what that TV said. Alexa nodded before saying "Do you need something, energon maybe?" Optimus felt his fuel tank rumbling and got up "I'll get it for myself, do you two want any drinks?" Alexa said juice while Bumblebee wanted that mocktail. Optimus went to grab both of them their drinks in the mess hall.

Alexa suddenly got a call from her mother as she heard her say "Alexa, where are you right now!? You need to come back to our home as quickly as you can." Alexa knew her mother wouldn't allow her outside as much due to what happened before as she said "Mom, I'm at a friend's place, can I stay here for one more hour, please?" She heard her mother sighed before Mrs Lilian said "Okay, until 6 pm. Then come back." Alexa said yes before turning off her phone as she went over to the couch as Bumblebee also sat down next to her. "I swear, I should probably start introducing you to human culture but I don't know if the time for it." Bumblebee clasped his hand around her shoulder before he said "That's no trouble, maybe in fact, you can give small suggestions." She nodded before taking out a CD disc and went to put it inside. Soon the movie started. "Hey wait a minute, isn't this the Lego batman movie? You kept talking about it all of the time." He said as she nodded.

"Yep, it's a movie that a comfort of mine. I watched it in cinema." Her smile noticeably fell as she looked at Bumblebee who's optics softened. "Look I know everything hurts, Alexa. But you can't blame yourself for something you didn't do." Bumblebee said as Alexa nodded silently as she saw Optimus come in with two energon cubes and a glass of apple juice on the wooden table as both of them began to grab their drinks and he sat down next to them. "Hey what are you two watching?" Alexa soon said "We are watching the Lego Batman film." Optimus looks confused "The Lego- What now?" Immediately Alexa just pointed to the screen as they all began watching it until Optimus started to cough and they looked at him in concern. Immediately he threw up as they got up and backed off. It was a white shimmery liquid which smelt extremely sweet as Alexa asked "What in the name of hell is that?" As Bumblebee soon said "Jeez, you didn't have like throw up in front of us." With disgust on his face.

"Sorry, I need a moment or so I've been feeling sick." He excused himself as Alexa began to drink out of her cup to not feel nauseous. Bumblebee nodded as well as he left outside to get a breath of fresh air. She turned around and un-paused the movie as she began to watch it through. Until a long banging at the door was heard as she turned her head around to look at the as she slowly got up from the couch. She slowly stepped forward and opened the door as she saw not much behind it except for a large box. She picked up the cardboard box and began to move back inside of the room. She got out a pair of scissors and began to open the box as she saw a couple of things inside. Some were blankets, some were notebooks, some were canned food but what concerned her most was there was a black thing that looked like a heart and seemed to be pumping slightly.

Alexa grabbed it out seeing a bright green liquid pump out of it and her expression immediately turned into concern as she recognised what this liquid was. She backed off as the heart pumping got quicker. She had not much of a choice as she grabbed a plastic bag and threw the human hear-shaped object into there before tying it up. She put it onto the counter before swearing it was beating quicker now and smelt a weird metallic smell that had a hint of flowery aroma. She heard someone came in and saw Bumblebee come in as she quickly put it in her backpack. Bumblebee soon said to her "Hey, did you recently heard of a package coming here?" She nodded and pointed at the box that was open. Bumblebee went over to examine it before he noticed something "Hey wait a minute, why is this book stained with energon? Huh, that's really, really weird I will say." And Alexa had a sinking feeling from what caused the stain.

Bumblebee looked at the other object before saying "Well at least those things aren't stained. But why does it smell like soil of all things!?" That smell was so unappealing as a Cybertronain as Alexa had her hands behind her back. Bumblebee grabbed out one of the notebooks before opening it them. There seemed to be concept sketches of the Decepitcons as Bumblebee closed the book. Alexa's mind was running with different questions, how did Bumblebee know about the package? Did he know about the heart in there? No! That wouldn't be like her friend, she knew he wasn't malicious enough to do that. Her mind could only get to one conclusion that the thing was sabotaged, she cautiously began to move as Bumblebee began to notice her movement "Alexa?" She replied half-truthfully "There was someone unknown knocking on the door. They disappeared afterwards." Immediately Bumblebee realized that possibly wasn't good and opened the door looking around seeing no-one there. "So your saying, you saw someone?" He asked as she nodded as he sighed "I'll keep a watch for tonight, okay?" He questioned with worry as she said "That would be okay."

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