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[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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[There's a quiet laugh.]

There was a time when he was, yes.

[Megatron had sent Lockdown personally after him, even.]

Maybe you'd have better luck.

[He's tried and been stonewalled by both Alpha Trion and Megatronus.]

I think. We generally have better luck talkin' with our own First Forged. The one whose Glyph we wear.

[He shrugs.]

Solus has been willin' t'talk to me in the past, anyway. Even when it didn't help.

[Which he could at least appreciate, even if he didn't like feeling useless to save his closest friends.]

Maybe you do. Then again, you're not, well...me.

[He laughs. His experiences with Vector have been sort of talking to a severely disappointed dad. ]

Would you mind asking her? The only times I'm at Solus's, I tend to be not in great shape.

[Because Barricade has been a pretty reliable mech as far as Drift knows him.]

Not much luck with Vector, I take it? I'll see if I c'n catch her when she's not working, I oughta talk to her anyway.

[To apologize for all those walls he and Knock Out took out while they were building their clinic. Oops.]

Yeah, I get the feeling most folks don't come by the temple unless one of their arms has fallen off.

[Such is the problem with clinics: no one visits unless they're bleeding everywhere.]

Vector's, uh, hard for me to talk to.

[It's the aggrieved sighing Vector seems to do all the time.]

[He winces.] Yeah. Uh. So...it's not just me. [...yay?]

Quite a few of them seem that way.

[Which is why he's wary about talking to many of them, really.]

It's not. It's pretty normal, in fact. Medics are scary. [He understands from personal experience.]

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