Midi didn't know quite where she was. The setting was nothing but inky blackness; it would remind someone of space, but without the beautiful, guiding stars. Midi looked everywhere around herself, trying to grasp her location, but couldn't find anything that would shed light on to the situation, anything that would help her find her way back. She found herself scared and frightened, wishing that someone was there to help her out of wherever "here" was. After a while, she found herself doing something she never expected to do in a million years. Midi began calling for someone to help her. But not just anyone; she called for a red seeker. "Starscream?!!" she cried, fear grasping her spark. "Starscream?! Please answer me!!" Midi dropped to the ground, clutching her shoulders while trying to keep herself together.

"Starscream," she whispered, "I need you . . ."

Alexis looked up at the slouched crimson seeker. She could've sworn she was looking at a completely different Transformer! The Starscream that she knew, as well as everyone else at the base, was a closed-up, untrusting mech who only knew seriousness and anger. This Transformer appeared to have lost all emotion; his angry and solemn nature had died, and an empty shell was left. Starscream didn't even look at people's faces. He just answered by keeping his face down and staring at the ground . . .

Hot Shot couldn't believe how different his rival had become until now. Wow, he looks worse than I did when Smokescreen was shot the yellow Autobot thought to himself. I never thought I'd think this, but poor guy . . .

It was at that moment that everyone in the room heard what the seeker was muttering under his breath, staring down at the metal flooring of the base. The seeker's shoulders began shaking, and his became notably rigid. The children, especially Alexis, now noticed puddles on the ground below, the area where Starscream stared at. "It's my fault . . . she's leaving and it's my fault . . ."

Everyone had no idea what the seeker was talking about, and a few of them suspected that he may have fried a few circuits with his last battle; only Blurr, Sideswipe and Alexis understood the gravidity of the situation.

Warm tears began swelling in Alexis's eyes, now realizing that her best friend, her only feminine aid was going to be forced away. Girls at school treated her as a nerd, and Rad, Carlos, Billy and Fred were literally her only (human) friends in the entire universe, and after her parents died in a car accident three years ago, Alexis didn't think she'd ever feel the secure warmth of another woman to talk to. Midi provided that security by listening and comforting her when she had a rough day at school, or provided assurance and guidance whenever the young teenager needed it. And now, all of that was going to be sent packing back to Cybertron . . .

The brunette walked over to Starscream, who was still slouched on the ground, and rested a kind hand on the wing armor protruding from his leg. The seeker finally noticed the human was in the room at that moment, and looked up to see many other concerned faces looking down at him, wanting to offer support and aid. Even Hot Shot, his former hated rival, wanted to help him. The sight left Starscream voiceless. He was so captivated by the sight of so many people, Transformers and humans alike, wanting to help him in his time of need that the seeker didn't even notice Optimus Prime walk in.

Red Alert was completing his diagnosis of Breaker's condition at the moment where he heard someone muttering. The medic looked up from the portable computer screen and looked around the med-bay, wondering who it was. He finally looked at his patient, and noticed that Breaker was not only muttering, but shaking violently. The blue seeker's face displayed panic and worry, and on closer examination by the medic, he noticed that the seeker was displaying all of this in sleep-mode.

Red Alert walked over to the former-Decepticon, and checked on the wounds that were being treated. All of them had healed significantly, although the shot to Breaker's shoulder would need extra time to recover. While inspecting, Red Alert heard Breaker murmuring again, and this time finally comprehended what his patient was saying. "Starscream, I need you . . ."

The first thing that Optimus Prime noticed when he walked into the waiting room was not the group of worry-struck Autobot soldiers, nor was it the slouched red seeker; what caught the Autobot leader's attention the most was Alexis resting a kind hand on Starscream's leg armor. She didn't show any emotion on her face, and this worried Optimus greatly. But what worried him the most was when the human femme rested her forehead against the seeker's armor, practically collapsing to the ground, and watching Alexis cry. She didn't sniffle or weep like most girls would in a sad situation; no, Alexis cried. She cried as if something inside her was being torn out.

Rad, Carlos, Billy and Fred had no idea what had just happened! It was extremely rare for Alexis to break down and cry. Alexis was and is a tough girl. Once, Billy had gotten their basketball stuck in a tree next to the net, and Alexis climbed up to get it, and accidentally fell and broke her arm. When that happened, the most she had done from the pain was cringe her teeth and acted as if she had stubbed her toe. However, the only time that they had ever seen their friend shatter like she had just now in the waiting room would be when Alexis's parents had died!

Optimus walked over to the weeping brunette and gently rubbed one of his massive metallic fingers against the crying girl. "Alexis, what's wro-"

However, before the Autobot leader was able to finish his concerned question, Alexis jumped up and darted behind Starscream's foot, keeping herself as far away as possible at the current moment from him. Starscream, surprisingly to most, made no attempted to stop the girl from hiding.

"Alexis!" Rad declared, finally regaining his mind from being dumbstruck. "What the heck is going on? You haven't cried like this since your parents d-" Rad stopped himself there, mentally smacking himself in the face for almost saying something very personal about Alexis in front of the Autobots.

"First Mom and Dad," Alexis wailed, her tears flowing heavily down her soft face, "and now the only person I feel I can talk to . . ." With that having been said, Alexis sat on the ground, still behind Starscream's foot and away from Optimus Prime's kind yet misunderstood reasoning towards Midi. Alexis drew in her legs, squeezing them into her chest, buried her face in her knees and continued crying.

At the moment where Alexis had stated this new news (at least, to the Autobots it was new) about her parents, Red Alert had walked out from the med-bay and into the waiting room. Everyone, human and Transformer, turned to the medic, hoping or good news. Sideswipe was the first one to pipe up and ask how Breaker's condition was.

Red Alert smiled with slight depression, knowing what the consequences would be for his statement, and said, "She'll be just fine."

Alexis ran out of the med-bay and didn't stop running until she made it to her room. She threw herself onto her bed, rubbed her face into her goose-down pillow, and continued to cry there, now knowing for certain that Optimus would send Midi away.