“Tell me again. Why do I have to be invisible?”
Starscream was floating along side Alexis in the corridor of her passage way. It was morning and she was heading downwards to her kitchen.
“Because, if the other humans see you, trust me, they’ll go nuts.” Alexis replied to the disgruntled ghost.
He grumbled something about ‘pipsqueak humans’ and ‘lack of backbone’ as he floated though a wall and sat in the air, watching Alexis get her food and set it down on the bench. She ate quickly and told Starscream it was time to go.
“Well, we better go. You can follow me in the air if you want. I go by car.” She said.
“I don’t expect to be able to follow in any other way.” Starscream said sarcastically and transformed.
Alexis giggled at the thought of him in the car and started it up.
They traveled along the road though the semi-country and headed to the big city. She drove for the usual 20 minutes, occasionally checking to see if Starscream was following her. She set the communicator in her car to the same wavelength as Starscream’s and told him to go invisible as they entered the city.
Soon enough, they arrived at the Science Development Centre. She got out and went inside.
It was there the sight of two of her old friends greeted her.
“Alexis!”
Rad and Carlos ran over and each gave her a hug in turn.
“Hey guys!” Alexis said as she pulled away, “What brings ya?”
“We came to see that transformer that you lot are working on.” Rad said. He had grown a fair amount over the years and had let his hair grow a little, but it still retained that classic spikiness.
“Yeah! We heard it looks almost exactly the same as Screamer.” Carlos said. He looked the same as ever, but of course, grown up to be a handsome young man.
“Yeah that’s right.” Alexis said. She didn’t know why, but she didn’t want to tell the boys her news just yet.
“Well, lets go and see him!” Rad said and started walking, but soon stopped and turned, rather sheepishly to Alexis.
“Um…where is it?”
She rolled her eyes and led the way.

“So, what have you two got up to during the years?” Alexis asked as they went along the hallway.
“Well, Rad here is a mechanic and has come to help out and I’m an astronomer.” Carlos said.
“Then, why are you here Carlos?” Alexis asked.
“Eh. I had a day off so I decided to come with Rad.” He answered.
“Cool” Alexis answered. “Ah. We’re here.”
She reached a huge door and slipped a card though the security slot on the wall. She typed the password and the doors opened…

Inside was a truly spectacular site. A huge table with the transformer on it was in the middle of the room. Many wires came off its body and many more parts were lying around it too. People were walking (some running) around the body and welding, wiring, fixing and adding things to the body. Many computers and gages lined the wall to the end of the room and equipment was lying along the sidewalls on tables that were labeled and numbered. It was evidently a huge project and an expensive one at that.
“My oh my…” Carlos said as he gazed around the room.
“Well, I best get to work!” Rad said and waving to the other two, he ran off.
“I think I’ll join him.” Carlos said, “Seeya later Alexis!” He also ran off.
Alexis waved to them both and made her way out. She got out her old pocket communicator and said, “Hey Starscream?”
“About time!!” He said sounding highly annoyed.
“Sorry, I had an unexpected meeting.”
“Who?” He asked.
“Rad and Carlos.”
“You didn’t tell-“ He started.
“Of course not!” Alexis interrupted. “An you better come up here. The body is almost complete.”
“So, when am I going to come into this? I’m sick of staring at your twin suns!”
Alexis did a double take, “Twin suns?”
There was a pause. “Eh. It’s probably a star or something.”
“Well, anyway, do you know if you can possess things or not?”
“Yes I think I can.”
“Then it’s all going to plan.” Alexis said.
Starscream shut off the communicator. He looked at the sun and the bright spot next to it. He had a feeling that it was no innocent star…