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Chapter 130 - Chapter 26 part 8

Alexa finished up her food and Mrs Lilian looked stopping her by holding her shoulder. "Mum?" Alexa asked confused before Mrs Lilian sat her down again. "We need to talk." Mrs Lilian said as Harold and Lili looked over. "About what?" Alexa asked before Mrs Lilian took out one of Alexa's sticky notes. "I had found these when you went missing." She gave it out, which showed a marker drawing which had black shadows and red eyes looking at a shadowed human and giving out another note which had the word Nightmare on it as Alexa recognised these, she used to put them on the door of her closet. Did Mrs Lilian decide to look through her room again? The woman who was in her 40s clearly looked concerned as she asked "Have you been having nightmares as of late?" Alexa responded with "And Flashbacks. These have been getting worse ever since the whole thing happened two days ago." There was an uneasy feeling in the air as Harold questioned "Wait is that why you been drawing that? I been wondering why you kept asking for my sticky notes." Harold said and Alexa apologised "Yeah sorry about that." Harold said it was fine and Lili put in her thought, "You know, I heard there was a book on nightmares. I think it could interest you." She said trying to help and Alexa actually turned by saying "Yeah, give me the link." Lili found the shopping website for it and gave the link to her. Soon Alexa got up stretching and told them that she is going to her room to organise some things before leaving. Mrs Lilian looked over the menu while the two kids chatted about hobbies and activities.

Alexa opened and closed the door behind her as she looked at the cupboard that had the drawings. She grabbed up the first drawing and sat downwards on her bed as she decided to go through a few more sketches before she would go back to drawing. She removed the drawings she already saw and came across two different drawing made with the same scratchy ink as every other drawing but here it seems to be comparing Sky Robots to normal Seekers. Then she remembered that when in the vortex that flyer had attacked her aggressively while asking for a unknown type of cube. She was sure that Cybertronian had the same frame as the Sky Robots and she had a theory that they were a sub-group of the main seekers but she wasn't certain. She did see only one or two types of Sky Robots to be completely sure of her theory. She put away that drawing and took out another one which she said "So these Seekers and 'Sky Robots' are similar yet different, hm." She uttered before voicing out as well "What was that cube anyways?" She didn't know but it was definitely suspicious. She grabbed an torn map from the drawings which circled the area of Wales and a blue arrow had the words underneath it which said "Our next location for cryptic hunting." And there was lines from the city of Cardiff to Bangor to get to the mountains of Carnedd Llewelyn which by the side of the map said "Disturbance there." While underlined. "So, the first drawing showed an drawn map of Scotland and now Wales." Alexa had a headache from this mystery and decided to just leave the map on the cupboard.

She got up and began to tidy up her temporary room as she began to clean the cupboard of dust, cobwebs and crumbs. She didn't want to tire herself with the drawings anymore since they sent her in a complete loop of confusion. She hummed and said "Okay, so let me get this straight. Starscream is using a plant chemical and has supernova energy and now there is this whole other thing with other flyers." She may have oversimplified it however it did get the point across to herself. She saw a soft hair ball under her bed and took it out with the brush before throwing it in a bin. After cleaning, she turned seeing Searchlight there who looked at with a unreadable expression. "Oh hello there, Searchlight, whatcha need?" She questioned. Searchlight asked "Did you see any recent bodies?" While Alexa thought for a long minute, then she remembered. "The museum has a bunch of those littered around, why?" She asked again and he just muttered something like "Doing his job." Before leaving the room, Searchlight had to be the most creepiest of the Autobots to her. Next to Shifter and that one Autobot's name she couldn't remember. Searchlight commonly stood in dark places and he was so focused on dark stuff like death that he would go to a body to bury it instead of focusing on his mission. His blue optics that had a yellow tint always stared at everyone. To everyone else, Searchlight is definitely in top 5 of most creepiest, just below Shifter who has got to be most eerie Autobot ever.

Alexa finished up organising her room and went to the bed so she could try to fall asleep, only to find herself struggling as she mumbled "Why can't I sleep? I'm exhausted." She said with a heavy voice as she yawned out loud. She got up, moving to the desk before deciding to draw again. The first drawing which took about 45 minutes had Alexa draw herself in a cartoony manner again as a silhouette. Alexa was seen in the drawing holding her head in a panicked manner with round wide eyes. The large letters showed the words "I CAN'T SLEEP" appeared above Alexa's head and Zs appeared around her. Red eyes were in a really dark shaded area were watching her. The next drawing which took less time was a inky drawings of an orchid that wilted under a fresh, healthy daffodil with more commentary "What does this mean?" In less large and rough words. The next drawing showed basically a replication of when she was with Bumblebee looking over the slaughterhouse-like area with words like "He mentioned that the body looked bad. But why?" She started the fourth drawing which was a hand holding a feather but heard someone coming through the corridor. Alexa turned around in a instant and went outside to see who was there. She saw that there was nothing there, maybe it was just someone passing. There was little to no noises as she saw an ball roll to her. She grabbed it up and looked confused before deciding to turn and saw Jazz there who looked curious. "Hey, what are you doing?" And she told him she was just checking out the corridor.

"Ah okay, I was wondering why there was some sort of loud noise, yeah." Then Jazz suddenly remembered "Boss wants to see you. You better be coming over." He winked when he told her before she looked after him. "Great, now what?" She looked displeased. Soon she managed to arrive and Optimus told her to sit down. "Your here. Did you know what I wanted?" She shook her head and replied "No, Jazz just told me to see you." Optimus nodded and asked "How are you feeling, Alexa?" Alexa looked away frowning as her shoulders fell. "What about you?" She asked instead and Optimus took a bit before saying "I haven't been feeling too well. But I'm not under pressure." He said as he looked over Alexa and suddenly reminded himself of Bumblebee which made him quiet. Alexa's head was downwards and she seemed worried in a way. Her eyes, not adult-like but ones that clearly faced trauma looked at him and she clearly looked like she needed an hug. In Alexa's view, Optimus kept looking at the pictures of Ratchet, Bumblebee and Cliffjumper. And she felt empty all of a sudden. Both looked at each other in complete silence struggling to find words for one could say. Optimus questioned "Does it hurt, when people miss you?" Alexa answered it with "I always thought it was about me missing them, not them missing me." Optimus looked at her understanding why she said that. Alexa's coloured eyes glanced at Optimus' optics, he had the tiredness of an war veteran who couldn't ask for anymore violence.

Alexa remembered how Bumblebee had kept his tiredness hidden quietly but he told her he wished to speak to Optimus. "Optimus, I think Bumblebee wants to speak to you." Alexa said as the tired leader sat up interested. "He said he misses talking to you and you promised to hang out with him." Optimus got up feeling Starscream's spark surge at the feeling and he looked at her. "Bumblebee... Alright. Just give me a moment to drag him here." Optimus went outside and for a few minutes came back with Bumblebee who looked confused. "You called me here?" Alexa questioned "You want to talk to each other?" And both looked in disbelief though in different ways. Optimus was more surprised than shocked at Alexa's suggestion and Bumblebee had this relieved disbelief on his face. "Yeah and with you. I wish Starscream didn't do all of that." Bumblebee said with what happened afterwards, everyone wished that. There was a long, long moment of reflection that everything happened. From September to end of December, so much has happened. She turned to look at the window, dreading the death count that happened in three long months. It was over the millions she guessed with the last explosion managing to close up the vortex but risk so many deaths in the process, human and Cybertronian.

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