"About a month or so Starscream fell in my land. I helped him because I knew he needed help. Little did I know he needed help in so many other ways," chuckled Alexis ever so slightly as she and Sam sat at her table and he listened to her story. "Spending so much time with him I began to . . . fall in love with him . . . and he me."
Sam and Hot Shot found this very strange hearing Starscream actually having the capability to love someone or any thing, but they still continued to listen with an open mind. Alexis told of all the things that had happened with the new decepticons arriving and the battle issue how it was her and why Starscream took her. Both now understood so well.
"So that's why," said Sam reflecting on things.
Alexis just shook her head and cast the gaze of her eyes down. She then said-
"You won't tell the autobots will you?"
"Well . . . I don't know about that," said Hot Shot as he still sat outside her house, but could clearly hear their conversation and speak to her when he wanted to. "I think Prime and the others have a right to know where the decepticons are hiding out . . . I just still can't believe they were hear all along and no one listened to me!"
"Yea, Alexis you're gonna need to tell them," said Sam turning to her.
"But I can't," said Alexis. "I can't let them hurt them . . . like before."
"But Alexis they are cold blooded killers," said Sam pointing out the hard truth. "They might even turn against you and kill you."
"No," smiled Alexis shaking her head. "Not me."
"Why are you like this Alexis?" asked Hot Shot. "They are the dangerous ones and yet you want them to win. If they do then the world will be destroyed. Don't you care for your kind?"
"I do Hot Shot," said Alexis closing her eyes. "But they are like family to me now . . . bad family, but family nonetheless."
"Alright," sighed Sam. "We won't tell."
"Yea, I guess so," sighed Hot Shot. "But you have to try and convince them to not hurt any more people."
"Like they'll listen to me," chuckled Alexis.
"By the way you speak of him, Starscream will," said Hot Shot.
"Believe me I tried," said Alexis getting up. "I know what I got myself into by helping him. I know what they are like."
"Okay then," sighed Sam. "But just remember who they are."
"I will," said Alexis cupping her hands and shaking her head.
All of the sudden they heard the sound of metal slamming against metal and something large and heavy hitting the ground.
"What was that?!" gasped Sam jumping to his feet.
"Oh no!!" gasped Alexis knowing exactly what it was.
She then ran out to see the decepticons had come out from their base and had seen the young autobot. He was a threat to their hiding place and so they had to rid themselves of that threat. They had Hot Shot on the ground and just decided to kick and hit him. Alexis ran out and saw this and ever she hated that.
"Take that autoboob!" giggled Cyclonus, but the pain in his face stopped his laughter and smile. "Ow, ow."
Hot Shot tried to block himself from all the hard hits he was taking but there were just too many. He couldn't take it all and so he would die if no one did anything to stop this.
"I haven't beaten up an autobot since . . . I don't know when, but it feels good to be doing it again," smiled Skywarp.
Starscream did not partake in the beating, but he just watched with his weapons ready for when his men would stop and he could finish of the young one. Alexis saw him and so ran to him crying-
"Please, you have to stop this. He didn't mean any harm!"
"He knows the whereabouts of our base. If we let him live then he will tell his comrades and they shall come and destroy what we worked so hard to build," said Starscream looking at her. "We cannot let him live to tell a word."
"But he said he wouldn't!" cried Alexis not wanting to see anyone get hurt.
Alexis then gazed at Hot Shot who had just gotten a kick in the face and as he laid on his back and the decepticons beat in his chest he managed to look at Alexis and gasp out-
"Why do you protect them . . . Alexis?"
Sam then ran outside to see this and froze in spot seeing Hot Shot get mutually beaten.
"NO!" he gasped.
Barricade then noticed Sam and recognized him.
"You?!" he growled looking at the annoying human.
"Oh god!!" gasped Sam seeing Barricade look at him and the two recognize each other.
"Skorponok, attack him!" ordered Barricade pointing at Sam.
Sam looked around to see who was going to attack him, but his attacker came up from under the ground instead of above.
"NO!" cried Sam trying to get away from the metallic scorpion.
Alexis then ran before Sam and blocked him from Skorponok which halted his attack from him to not hit her.
"STOP THIS!!!" she cried at the top of her lungs making sure everyone could hear her and place their attention on her.
"Alexis get out of that way," said Barricade wanting to finish Sam off.
"No!" said Alexis firm and standing tall and straight. "I will not unless you let the both of them go!"
"Alexis you have to understand," said Starscream coming closer to her. "This is who we are. No autobot must live to know our whereabouts or any one of their . . . humans."
Alexis said nothing though. She was firm and would not move. She would rather leave than see them hurt and all could tell this. Starscream then sighed and so ordered his men off Hot Shot and to back down from Sam.
"Now bring them back to their base," said Alexis with order in her voice.
"But," started Cyclonus.
"Do it!" said Alexis almost yelling.
"Do what she says," ordered Starscream.
"Alright," sighed Skywarp as he took Hot Shot in his arms and then took Sam ready to teleport them both.
"Go," said Starscream.
And so he teleported but where no one knew but him. Instead of taking them back to the autobots he took them near to where they were, but not near enough. It was out in the middle of a desert and so hardly any life existed out there.
"There . . . get out of here," said Skywarp as he put the two down.
"You can't be serious!" said Sam.
"Oh I am, now git," he said pushing him along. "Go and find your friends . . . if you can."
Then with a smile he vanished and left the two under the scorching sun. Sam looked up and then looked at Hot Shot who looked in pretty bad shape.
"Are you okay buddy, can you move?" he asked coming to the aching bot.
"No," gasped Hot Shot his sensors going dead. "You have to go find the others Sam."
"But it could take days," said Sam.
"Just go!" said Hot Shot.
"Do you want me to tell them what happened? They will want to know," continued Sam.
After some pain passed by Hot Shot he decided it would be better if they didn't.
"No," struggled Hot Shot. "We gave her . . . our word . . . we gave her our word, erm."
"So did you do it?" asked Barricade when Skywarp came back.
"Oh yea I got them there . . . just a couple of hundred miles away," he giggled.
Alexis heard this and so she came to him and said-
"How dare you! Starscream ordered you to take them back to the autobots and so now you have sent them to their deaths!!"
"Take it easy Alexis," said Starscream coming up next to her. "They should be fine."
"Where did you leave them?" asked Alexis.
"Out in the middle of the desert," said Skywarp.
Alexis then began to show tears and so she ran off. She knew the decepticons were like this, but why did they have to be?
"Alexis," called Starscream trying to stop her but she ran off instead out in the middle of the forest.
"Just let her go," said Barricade. "I think these humans emotions need to cool for some time when alone. It is good for them."
"But is it good for her?" wondered Starscream as he watched her leave.
"Sam what happened to you?!" gasped Makeala seeing Sam numbly walk up to her and the autobots.
"I . . . I," tried Sam, but he fell from tiredness and thirst.
"Oh my god Sam!" she gasped as she came up to him and looked at his condition.
He was burnt all over his body like he was out in the sun too long. He was so thirsty he couldn't speak and so she knew something had to be wrong. The autobots then came and helped Sam get back to normal but when so he told them where Hot Shot was and so they left to go find him.
Hot Shot didn't know how long Sam had been gone, but as night came he could barely stay online any more. His sensors were nearly dead and he feared of not ever being able to recover. The decepticons had beat him up pretty bad. The light of the moon was bright out there and so many a shadow was cast on him as he tried to stay awake and online.
Soon there came some shadows upon then that were large and wide and tall. He couldn't move his head to see who or what it was, but after hearing a distinctive sound he just smiled and let his sensors shut off and him rest knowing he was safe.
"He could be anywhere," said Makeala as the autobots scanned the vast desert land from the air and land.
"He's near . . . I just know it," said Sam looking around trying to recall anything familiar.
It was night and so it was hard to see anything like Hot Shot, but they still looked. Optimus was, in a way, mad that he had left to find out things for himself all alone, but more so he was concerned for his wellbeing for most of the time he wouldn't take care of himself to find out something he himself believed was true . . . like finding the decepticons' whereabouts, if he did.
"Wait! I see something!" said Bumblebee noticing some rather very odd rocks all bunched together.
"Is it him?" asked Optimus.
"I think you need to see this sir," said Bumblebee as he transformed and gazed at them.
And so all the autobots came and saw this. Sam then recognized where he was. This was the same place where that decepticon dropped them off, but where was Hot Shot? There was no way he could have moved and where did these strange rocks come from?
"What are those?" asked Sam.
Then all of the sudden the rocks moved and all saw they were not rocks anymore.
"What the?!" gasped Sam and Makeala backing up a little.
All saw the boulders moved to reveal an unconscious, if even alive, Hot Shot.
"Hot Shot!" all gasped as they came to him.
Optimus then picked the beaten bot up and then looked at what they thought were boulders and said-
"Thank-you my friends . . . for protecting him."
"Me Grimlock glad to help friends," replied the leader of the dinobots all starred at.
Alexis fled to a place where she could just get away from the transformers. She was tired of all this. She was tired of putting up with those . . . mercenaries. She was just so tired of seeing her friends get hurt.
She came to a small meadow out in the middle of the forest and just sat there watching the lovely flowers dance in the soft summer breeze. The sun was so delicate on her skin and the wind on her face and through her hair. This place was a nice place. She could always come here to think.
She sat there for hours just gazing at the flowers dance and dance. She sighed as the sun grew high and she ever felt so alone, but this time . . . at peace. She wished now that the other decepticons would have never come. She liked being alone with Starscream . . . at least he listened to her and cared for how she felt, but not the others . . . no they were the decepticons.
It was a beautiful day it was, but Alexis was in too bad of a mood to enjoy it. She hated the decepticons for making her feel this way. If she could she'd tell them all to leave . . . she'd tell them all. Even though she didn't want to admit it she even wanted Starscream gone.
She had, in a way, made up her mind. She was tired of being their little servant and hiding them all the time when she, herself, could get hurt. She was tired of hearing them talk about killing and destroying the better transformers the autobots. She wished that she could have met the autobots first than the decepticons and so she wouldn't have gotten into this mess . . . but then . . . she would have never cared so much as she did now for Starscream.
She didn't know what to think though and so she shoved her face in her legs that her against her chest. She groaned to herself for not knowing what to do in this situation. Why her? Why now?
Alexis then looked back at the field of flowers and just smiled as they began to dance once more for her to try and cheer her up. It was working as well. She got up and as the wind brushed against and by her body she swayed to and fro like the flowers of the field and began to dance. This is what she used to do when she was little and scared or confused or angry . . . she'd dance.
She let herself smile and she slowly moved around the meadow. She gave out a sigh and let all her worries vanish. It felt good to be alone again, but then the sun went behind the clouds and so it grew cold and Alexis hugged herself as she looked up to see this. Why would the clouds take away her warmth and happiness?
But it hadn't taken away all of it. She then found a lovely pink flower dancing before her in the hand of someone who brought her happiness every now and then. She looked up and saw Starscream standing beside her just smiling with that loving smile of his he had gotten from being with her so long. It was such a beautiful smile and Alexis loved seeing it.
The sun then came out and shined off Starscream making him look like he was glowing like an angel. With that smile of his it was hard to believe he wasn't. He was a devil to most, but an angel to her. Alexis took the lovely flower in her tender hands and just smelt it's soft fragrance.
She then glanced over the flower with her shimmering teal eyes and just smiled. Starscream then put down his pride as he said-
"I am sorry Alexis. It was wrong for my men to do what they did and I should have made them follow my orders to the very letter. Forgive me."
"I do," blushed Alexis. "Thank-you Starscream."
"Barricade said it would be better to leave you alone and let you contain your feeling more, but I couldn't leave you the way you were. I'm sorry if I intruded on anything," he said.
"You didn't," smiled Alexis as she hugged him tight.
Starscream then placed his hand on the back of her body and just smiled and he took in her forgiving hug. That was another thing he loved about her. She was always so forgiving. No one had ever been like that to him and so he very much adored this feeling and her.
This is all Alexis needed. Him. She was glad he was there with her now. After a while they came back to the farm and Starscream made everyone say their apologies to Alexis.
Alexis gladly took them and so everything got back to normal again. No more fighting or nothing, just peace . . . for now. One day Barricade had called Alexis in to the medical bay to discus something with her. She wondered what it was and so she went.
"What is it Barricade?" she asked as she came to him.
"Ah Alexis, I'm glad you're here. You see ever since Skorponok almost died it has gotten me on high alerts and so I have decided to make spare bodies for everyone and since you are so attached to Starscream I was wondering which body do you prefer."
"O . . . kay," said Alexis as she went to look at the choices.
She looked at them all and so she picked the one she liked the most. The one she pointed to was a slimmer body than what Starscream had at first and if he ever died she would have loved to of seen him in it.
"Ah, that one would do just fine for him. Thank-you Alexis," smiled Barricade.
"Sure thing," smiled Alexis as she readied to leave.
But as she did Cyclonus came in crying that all the autobots were gathering again and so when he decepticons spoke about this Alexis knew Starscream was going to engage them in one last battle. As she looked at him she could read his mind through and through . . . and so could he. He knew Alexis wanted to come and so he couldn't stop her from doing what she wanted. She was coming.