Elita One- Well here's the royal mess. Hope you like this chap.

GrimlockX4- Yep, poor Alex…

LoveHopes- Screamer here is going to be messy…

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A chaotic parting gift

Everything is silent, not a sound is to be heard on Alex new audio receptors, at least no obvious and suspicious sounds, just the whirr of the air conditioning in the Decepticon base.

Good.

Alex poked her silver and dark grey head out of her room into the dark silent corridors of the base, looking left, right and left again. Seeing the coast clear she ducked her head back in the room and a flash of white came before the half closed door, an invisible force opened the door silently and very cautiously sneaked out and closed the door with a silent click.

Alex spent the next ten minutes wandering around the base and getting the feel of her way around. After she brought Blackout to life she saw some things around the base, like a human fridge, storage for paints, a closet, jar of metal marbles from the closet and an shack for mechanics…

Alex thanked whatever god is looking after her for the last part while picking several paint buckets, old potatoes, several rolls of toilet paper and several mechanic equipments. She grabbed the duct tape and thought of something. From experience for wrapping her brother up for a prank she knows that ripping a duct tape off from its roll are loud, so she ripped some for now and slapped them on her arm leaving a piece of tab for her to grab for later.

Then she smiled devilishly, time to let the chaos begin.

She went to the first room she saw and went in as silently as she could. In front of her proto-form she saw Barricade on his recharge bed and Frenzy in his alt form. Alex looked at her duct tape covered arm, at Frenzy and back at her arm, then she smiled that Satan himself would've been very proud at.

She duck taped his entire form, making him look like a silver CD player version of a mummy. Then she proceeded to duct tape the mummified form of Frenzy to the ground, he isn't going anywhere fast.

Then she looked at Barricade, the bucket of pink and yellow paint in one hand and several old and hard potatoes in the other. The light bulb figuratively blinked on as she got another fun ideaof a prank. She painted his form in yellow happy faces and pink flowers. After a few seconds of looking at Barricade's painted form (she tried her hardest not to laugh at how utterly ridiculous he looked) and found his exhaust pipe and (very carefully so not to wake the sleeping mech up) rammed the old, hard and moldy potato in it.

Very quietly she turned around and sneaked out of the room, laughing silently as she exited. Then she went to her next victim: Starscream.

Oh how she wanted to have gum right now so she can wad them right into his jet's engine…oh well, she did the best she can do with limited resources…

Starscream had his entire form repainted as if the hippies decided to get creative on him, she tinkered and rewired his weapon programs (he's going to get a surprise the next time he fires the weapon) all the while thanking for once that her parents were crazy ghost hunters and inventors (as they had always invented weapons...), and she loitered the entire floor with metal marbles around his recharge bed. He's also going to get a suprise when he wakes up.

She pranked all of the mechs who gave her a hard time, except Blackout.

It wasn't his fault that he was brought back to life, and plus he wasn't exactly mean to her…

Although he did keep on staring at her when he was brought back to life, 'What the hell is wrong with these mechs?! Why do they keep on staring at me...Oh god, do I have something lodged up in my nose?!' Alex's hand went up to her nose and found that nothing was in it, but she did feel weird in touching a metallic nose instead of a flesh one that she has known in her fifteen years of life…

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Alex quickly but silently rushed out of the base into freedom in her normal form after disabling the alarm. Alex also thank that she had crazy ghost hunters slash inventers. Whenever Alex and her brother Danny ever got into trouble and got grounded Alex used to hack and tinker with the alarm until she can escape for freedom. Ah the old days before the whole got-zapped-in-the-portal-and-got-ghost-power-as-the-result ordeal was fun. She thought that the mechs would install an intruder alert, escapee alert, and ground alert. Lucky Alex, she was right.

When Alex got out of the main entrance doorway she stopped short in shock. Surrounding her and the base doorway are nothing but tall pine trees towering over her. 'Oh god.' She thought in surprise, but then shook her head, 'No time to linger, I got to get the hell out of here before the others wake. No telling what they would do to me if I get caught.' She shuddered at the thought.

She quickly ran between the trees but making sure that her foot doesn't make thunderous sounds to alert anyone or any wildlife around her. As she moved further into the dense forest she noticed that the hill was steeping sharply downhill and the trees were getting thinner. The next few minutes of trekking she saw the clear night sky and a lone road in front of her. Then she looked left and right only to find that there was no civilization as far as she can see.

She cursed her luck.

She decided to go right after about ten minutes of internal war and decided that she will jump into the forest at the first sign of a car heading towards her. She walked a few miles before she halted so suddenly that she created a little cloud under her metal tri-clawed feet and promptly slapped her forehead in a 'oh duh!' fashion. In a flash of two white rings she turned into a phantom femme and disappeared form sight. While she was invisible she jumped, trying to fly, but landed firmly on the ground. She slapped her face again with a groan; apparently she lost the ability to fly as well...

From there she ran, silently thanking Sam, her Gothic friend, for the torturous exercise program.

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'Ok, its official. I'm lost.'

Her thought was sardonic as she jogged alongside the road in the first hint of dawn. The desert was bathed in soft pink light and grey early morning mildew fog. She has long passed the forest covered mountain and went well into the desert that still yet to see any human car for miles around. Then she screeched into a halt as she felt several massive emotion creeping up on her at a rapid rate. Then she heard several roars of the F-22s flying overhead, the wail of the siren and the chop-chop of the helicopter. And they are PISSED as hell at the moment.

Busted.

She remained still for a moment hoping that they won't see her. No such luck as she felt the blood-boiling anger pinpoint at her. 'SHIT, HOW CAN THEY SEE ME?!?!?!' (She forgot that they have something called a scanner…)

Dropping all sense of remaining invisible, seeing that it was pointless anyways, she ran like a mad bot.

She heard a roar of the jets engine behind her and the telltale rapid-fire shifting and grinding of the mech transforming behind her then she felt the ground beneath her shake as the mech behind her land. Without looking behind her she ran even faster (if it was possible) as her feet were barely touching the ground.

Her lungs felt like they were on fire as she was on a full on sprint for more than a few minute total.

Straight ahead, faintly visible in her line of vision, was a familiar flamed peterbilt appearing over the horizon. She could've wept in joy, but she was rudely cut off by strong hands roughly grabbing her slim waist, hoisting her a few feet off the ground. She twisted around to face the mech that grabbed her, ready to unleash the Ghostly Wail on him, but chocked it back in laughter.

Thrust had two round goofy looking eyeballs painted on either side of his coned shaped head with a crooked smile on one side and several long toilet papers hanged on the base of the cone shaped head. All in all Thrust looked like a third grader decorated squid.

She immediately gave a powerful right hook to his face, right between his optics all the while snorting in laughter. The punch made him release his vice like grip on her torso dropping her on the ground; his hand immediately went to his dented face.

She scampered on the dirt ground and tried to get to the Autobots that she can see. She can see Optimus, Ratchet, Jazz and Ironhide, but her view was cut off when Skywarp landed in front of her, all in pink glory and looking extremely pissed off. She couldn't move in time as she slammed into the pink seeker's chest. Then his arms immediately warped tightly around her chest and arms, disabling any chances of allowing her to use her arms.

Facing him, she had only one option left for her escape. She opened her mouth and took a deep gasping breath.

Skywarp saw her open her mouth and take a deep breath, remembering the last time she opened her mouth like that and he head-butted her without thinking, effectively canceling out the Ghostly Wail and knocking her half conscious.

But since she already had some energy in her throat for the Wail, she let out a high pitched audio piercing yelp, coming out a short blast of green, disabling the balance system to all mechs who were fifty to seventy feet range in diameter around her. (1) Skywarp immediately let her go and fell to the ground, disorientated while covering his audio receptor which was ringing.

Thrust toppled to the ground, face first, Starscream, in jet mode, crashed landed some twenty feet away from her, Barricade, in alt form, swerved out of the road and crashed into a jungle of cactuses (2) and Blackout, in alt form, twisted on circles and crashed onto the ground, belly first.

Apparently the Ghostly Wail is a lot stronger in her new femme form.

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Optimus saw a bunch of Decepticons surrounding a small unarmored femme from a distance. Then he heard Ratchet spoke through his com-link, "Optimus, that femme has a high reading of ectoplasm. Could it be Alex?"

"…it's possible."

Then Ironhide butted in, "If that's Alex then I'm going to blow those pit-spawned slaggers to metal scrap!"

"An' I'll help!" Jazz came through hotly, but then cringed as he heard a nearly audio deafening yelp form the femme, "Slag, tha' femme has a set o' lungs!"

Optimus and Ratchet swerved a bit but then they righted themselves, then Ratchet replied, "Yep. That's her, only two people can scream loud enough to break our audio receptors and that's Alex and Danny."

"HEY!" All of the Autobots swerved a bit in surprised that Danny heard them talk via through their com-link and was able to reply back in the same fashion. But now was not the time for questioning for they have a certain naked femme to save…

Oh joy.

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Starscream growled as he saw Optimus and the rest of the Autofreaks come close to at a rapid pace. Seeing that he and his mechs were in no condition to fight because of the balance system was still in haywire.

"Decepticons, retreat! Retreat! And leave the femme, we can get her later!"

Starscream wobbly took off in the air, swaying in the air. The other two seekers retreated in a similar fashion. Barricade reversed from the cactuses and drove away, although he did keep on driving slightly to the right almost crashing into the wall of cactuses…

Blackout had to change into his mech form and he stumbled before jumping and changing in midair and flying uncertainly away form the Autobots.

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Seeing that the Decepticons escaped Ironhide and Jazz glowered, you can practically hear their engines hiss and simmer in anger. Upon stopping Danny, in human form, opened the door and immediately sprinted out of Ratchet towards the recovering femme and stopped in front of her, just out of reach.

Alex propped herself on one hand and the other hand covered her forehead rubbing a decent sized dent, trying to ignore a massive Phariah Dark size headache. Danny wanted to make sure that it was Alex that he was seeing, "Are you Alex?"

Alex's crystal blue optics briefly flickered to Danny then squeezed her lids shut, feeling another wave of pain assault her poor head, then gave a brief nod of her head to confirm Danny.

"Then prove it, what are my biggest secrets that only Alex may know."

An few seconds of silence then, "You have ghost powers, you wanted to be an astronaut, you hate me singing '99 Beer Bottle' song, your afraid to become Dan," a pause, then, "and you had the hugest crush on Paulina, starting to crush on Valerie and you are completely clueless when it comes to Sam."

Danny balked at the last info, 'Why did everyone keep calling me clueless.' But other than that he believed that she was truly his sister in the flesh, er…metal, and was happy to know that his sister was in his sight again.

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(1) A little fun fact, did you know that when a loud noise or just plain strong sound wave hits your eardrums you loose your sense of equilibrium, thus making you loose your balance. That's why when a loud speaker is suddenly blasted into your ear you feel disorientated.

(2) think of Lightning McQueen crashing into the jungle of cactuses in the movies 'Cars'