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[sword_redemption]

[Haven, you know what? You look like you could really use one of Drift's wackadoodle theories right now. ]

The First Forged aren't telling us everything.

[Drift does not mince words. Bad guys, yes. Words, not so much.]

There were other settlers here before us. Over and over again. They died. We're not the first. We're not special or chosen. [And part of him hates that thought.]

And the First Forged couldn't--or didn't--protect them. [This is all review for the old-timers, but there are new people here, and besides, it's a dot he's trying to connect up.]

Wing and I and the others found a cave where some of them had lived. They died. All of them. But they're trapped here, as ghosts. [Another dot.]

And worse--we went back, and their bodies were...reanimated. Like zombies. They attacked us. They were trying to protect something in the cave.

[He frowns, because he really doesn't like public speaking, especially this next part.]

A lot of people disappeared recently. Like whatever it is--the call, Unicron, whatever--like it's gaining strength, picking up steam. We need to do something. Because I don't know about you, but, well, for a lot of reasons, I don't want to have to suddenly find myself fighting a zombie Ultra Magnus.

[Or Vandal. No, he can't even go there in his head. He's connecting dots and it is a really unpleasant picture.]

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[vectorianpolarity]

[he can learn, too, you know!]

Is there any sort of dating schematic on it...?

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[sword_redemption]

[So he's borrowed How To Manage Your Problemchild from Alpha Trion's library's self-help section?]

...no. But Alpha Trion might know. He said he knew Overclock.

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[vectorianpolarity]

[MAYBE]

I will speak with him. Together, we may be able to learn something of use.

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[sword_redemption]

[Y u gotta be like that?]

We tried to learn, Wing and I. We got stonewalled.

[By an emo Alpha Trion and a, well...Megatronus.]

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[vectorianpolarity]

[dryly] You are not me. [guess who also doesn't take no for an answer sometimes]

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[sword_redemption]

I know that.

[You with the whole freaky timeyspacey powers and all.]

We tried our best.

[He's only nettled because of Wing. They did try, after all.]

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[vectorianpolarity]

I know you did. [and he smiles] You've done well.

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[sword_redemption]

[Just a moment of bzuh. Did Vector almost say something nice? About Drift?]

[who are you and what have you done with Vector?]

We, uh, we started a ghost invasion and now there are zombies.

[That doesn't sound like 'done well'. Welcome to his slightly guilty conscience.]

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[vectorianpolarity]

I'm...uncertain as to whether it was all your doing. These...ghosts...

...there's something else. [something more than meets the eye, perhaps?]

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[sword_redemption]

It has to be. Overclock. I mean, he was the first one we saw.

....what else?

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[vectorianpolarity]

Did you...see any others? [beat] In fact. Could I convince both you and Wing to give me a full report?

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[sword_redemption]

There were others. Not just Cybertronians. I think--I think they might have been those that left with Overclock.

[He tilts his head: Vector could just order it, after all.] I'll let Wing know.

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[vectorianpolarity]

Thank you.

[he could. but with how Drift seems to react to his authority, period- asking seems like it'd get a better response.

and it seems like it has.]