[video]

[sword_redemption]

[The feed that opens is staticky, coming as it is from the outer edges of the network's range, and bears a face that should be familiar to many. Upon closer inspection though, one might notice this Wing is a little rougher around the edges compared to recent newer arrivals. His glyph too, is a brilliant Vectorian gold edged with a strong violet glow. A touch of concern marks Wing's face as he looks right and left before speaking into the feed. The jet is clearly wary of his surroundings.]

Haveners! It's been quite a long time. I wish happier news brought me to this, but alas, the recent disruption of the Lamdba affects us all.

[Behind Wing, over his shoulder, there's a stealthy, disturbingly flesh colored shape slithering down the slope on all fours.]

We hope--

[There's a flash of steel and white and red behind the jet: Drift doing what he does best, which is, apparently, slicing things into sushi, the two--the whatever-it-is and Drift--disappearing offscreen in a grunting flail.]

[The sound of combat rings out off screen, grabbing Wing's attention. The feed is jostled as he almost ends it--clearly Wing is tempted to join the fray--but he seems to change his mind at the last moment.]

Please. Please be wary if you leave the Haven. The wastelands is strewn with foreign debris and creatures stranger than ever roam the land!

[Yeah, and on that note... Drift appears--victorious, of course--holding what appears to be a severed head--actually two, one a smaller, almost vestigial one like a goiter from the neck of the main one--into the camera's range. ]

Anyone else running into these , for example?

[Stay classy, Drift.]

((OOC: Action and network both fine! Responses will be from either--if you have a preference, let us know! ))

Comments

[Video] /bad and tags while at work

[knight_light]

[He debates a long moment before finally turning on the video feed. How strange it is to face...himself.]

I assume a welcome back is in order. I must say, this certainly confirms a few suspicions I've had since arriving.

[Primus, he wonders what Kagerou will think of this...and...Drift, um...the other one...]

[Video - 1/2] best kind of bad IMO!

[winged_knight]

[Excuse him as he peers into his comm, trying to figure out if that's a reflection on the screen and the light's playing tricks on him or if Wing's talking to himself.]




...

I, ah, er.....

[WAT]

[Video - 2/2]

[winged_knight]

[After living on this world for a while you get used to strange things. Meeting yourself though, that's shockingly new!]

Er, rather, yes, a welcome back would be appropriate. Among...a few other things perhaps...?

[Like why he has a doppleganger and Primus tell him that's not Unicon's doing? Also wow, does his voice really sound like that!?!]

[perma-video]

[knight_light]

Such as an explanation, I'm sure. [Wow, this was so strange!]

Well, apparently some time after the two of you left, another Drift arrived here, and shortly after that I arrived. [There, hopefully his alternate won't be so shocked to find another Drift flailing over this later...maybe he can find his roommate and warn him before he sees the video...maybe.]

I have to admit, it bothered me that I'd apparently forgotten this place and the people here. I wondered if perhaps there was another... [shrugs] "me" out there. Seems that is the case.

[And yes, that is what your voice sounds like...apparently. Primus this is so strange.]

[perma-video, indeed!] Don't mind Wing as he makes gross assumptions!

[winged_knight]

If you have one...

[By the Five he hopes so.]

W-wait... You mean to say. There's another Drift here as well? [Well that's. Hmm. Interesting. It's like they were meant to be together regardless. What are the odds? The idea makes him smile a secret little smile. Oh Other!Wing, just you wait!]

Forgotten it? Oh! But of course the other Haveners thought you were me. [A soft chuckle] Terribly sorry for that confusion. I can see how it'd be reassuring to know those memories weren't actually yours.

[Your voice? Our voice? Oh dear this is getting quite existential.]

[Video]

[sword_redemption]

.....


[Someone doesn't have Wing's couth to actually have the mental debate before turning on the video feed.]

Wing?

[But. What. How. Huh? this is a kink he didn't know he had: two Wings.]

Re: [Video]

[knight_light]

[Sorry, Drift, he can't help but be mildly amused and rather weirded out by this.]

Yes.

[Video]

[sword_redemption]

[Well, they can agree on the 'weirded out' part.]

But.

[Too many buts. ]

Are you a clone or something?

[Tact? Drift??!]

[Video] 1/2

[neverputincharge]

Wing, Drift? What are you--

[Wait wait. The glyph, the glyph changes. Could it be?]

[Video]

[neverputincharge]

[His eyes widen. No way. But, it has to be them.]

You guys came back.

[Don't mind him as he looks reieved. Oh thank Primus. They're not gone!]

[Video]

[winged_knight]

[It's good to see a familiar face...that doesn't come with the strange awkwardness of being his own that is!]

...Bulkhead? [Wing brightens.] It's good to see you!

[Video]

[neverputincharge]

[He's trying very hard not to laugh at the meeting of the Wings.]

Yeah, me. Still around and kickin'. [He smiles, and there's relief and some hope there. Maybe everybody that followed them is alive too.]

Man, it's such a relief to see you! When the other Drift and Wing arrived, I thought something had happened to you guys.

Never been more glad to have thought wrong.

[Video]

[sword_redemption]

[Drift likes the little camp they've built but seeing a familiar face, wow. He hasn't realized how much he missed it.]

We thought, you know, we might be able to help.

[Drift with the chopsocky, Wing with the, uh, everything else.]

[Video]

[neverputincharge]

[Maybe Bulk'll get to see the camp one day.]

Yeah, think we can use all the help we can get. [He lets out a smile. This was definiely a boost he needed after thinking they were all gone.]

It's good to see you again, Drift. Wish it was uder better circumstances, though.

[video]

[happyclappyhippydrippy]

[MY OWN CLONE. NOW NEITHER OF US WILL BE okay wait

ooookay so this loser here probably isn't handling this quite as well as his Wing was. Like at all.]

...What.

[Good job Drift that was totally eloquent.]

[video] DORK INTENSIFIES

[sword_redemption]

[At least Drift had been, uh, kind of prepared for this, by the OtherWing. Who is not his Wing.

[Still it's kind of a weird trip thing to see, you know, yourself. Does he normally sound that dorky?]

What? I don't know, honestly. Fraggin' ugly, though, isn't it?

[Because obviously you--he--uh youDrift--are talking about the heads he's holding.]

[video] I CAN'T HANDLE ALL THIS DORK

[happyclappyhippydrippy]

Hahah! Okay! No. I know what this is!

[NO he's not talking about those nasty heads at ALL bro he's talking about your dork face. Which is also his dork face.]

I'm hallucinating! Of course, it all makes sense. I must have... have damaged something in my brain all those years ago!

[HE'S FIGURED IT OUT CLEARLY.]

[video] NO ONE CAN *haven explodes*

[sword_redemption]

.... [wut.]

No! What? Hey!

[He doesn't know if he should be offended or not. What's the right etiquette about being called a hallucination by your clone? Those Decepticons taught him nothing useful. ]

[But okay, you wanna do it that way, self? FINE.]

Maybe you're the hallucination.

[He should probably stick to stabbing things. ]

1/3

[raceme]

Wha...

2/3

[raceme]

But you were...and now...but... there's two...

3/3

[raceme]

IdontunderstandwhatishappeningISTHISanothertrickoftheLambda?

Drift, Wing, is it really you...?

[winged_knight]

[There's a few people he's been hoping to see upon his return, and here's one of them.]

Blurr. Blurr! Yes it's me!

I'm so glad you're safe~

[later action]

[winged_knight]

[It's been a strange day. Stranger than most. The sheer nature of this place--Unicon's influence most likely--seems to always find new things to throw at them that they're unprepared for.

Wing comes up behind Drift, a hand sliding over a red pauldron before they slip around his middle in an offered embrace. The jet says nothing, he doesn't really need to. But if he feels the need for comfort, he gets the sense that Drift may as well.]

[later action]

[sword_redemption]

[This certainly wasn't quite the welcome they'd expected when they'd decided to come back. Well, not that it was bad, it was just...yeah, not what he'd expected, to run into himself.

And after some of the things he--the other him--had told him--uh, him him--he needed the hug maybe more than he should let on, his shoulder panels softening in the circle of the jet's arms. He's never been quite so happy to almost get poked in the optic by a pinion. ]

Weird day, right?

[later action]

[winged_knight]

[Wing doesn't know the details, but he knows his conjunx endura well enough to see the tension, to feel the dismay, and know things are not entirely well.]

Very weird. [He presses a kiss to one of the little winglets on Drift's back.] But there have been worse, right? More friends are better than less.

[Even if they're yourself. Right?]

....Anything I can help with?