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[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.]

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.... [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. ]

[His optics narrow as he studies the TOTALLY A HALLUCINATION closely.]

Oh no you don't. Even if my brain module is damaged, your hallucination mind games aren't going to work on me. I'm onto you.

[He's not onto anything.]

[Study all you want, impostor. This is the Real Deal. Deal with it.]

You're the one trying the mind games. I'm the one trying to kill the...creepy two headed things.

And we--I--didn't damage our fraggin' brain module. Unless...

[PEER.]

You do something I don't know about?

[I'll deal with your face in a minute. Your face that's my face.]

I dunno hallucination, why don't you tell me?

Stop calling me that!

[Srsly.]

And how the frag would I know what you've been up to?

[Because *cough* he's not a hallucination.]

Wait, wait. Maybe this is like the thing with the different Starscreams and Ratchets. Maybe we're just from different universes or something.

[OK weird panicky stage over we got this.]

That... sounds ridiculous, but it makes slightly more sense. Which also sounds ridiculous.

[For a second he's honestly not sure who to interrupt, there's so much Drift~~ing~~ going on here it makes his processor spin. If Wing weren't standing right next to his Drift, this would so much harder.]

Now, now, gentlemechs. Is this entirely necessary?

[Maybe not necessary but amusing as heck. It's taking all of Wing's self control to keep a straight face.]

You might have something in that theory of yours.

[Forgive him, he's facepalming over here and redoubling his effort to find his roommate. Had the other Wing not spoken up, he would have. Probably best, for now, to let just one....him handle this.]

I am so incredibly confused right now, and frankly, it's throwing my energies completely out of whack.

But yeah, maybe. Maybe I've got this figured out.

[Heee doesn't sound very confident about that]

Any puzzle can be solved with patience, any problem with fortitude of spirit.

[ Deep breaths, Drift, deep breaths.]

Do tell?

[CHINHANDS]

...Okay. You're definitely Wing.

[seriously who the hell else in the universe TALKS like that]

It could be an alternate universe thing or... or a different timeline thing? I've heard of that happening here before.

Was there any doubt?

[He flashes a smile at you, just in case you were going to say 'yes'.]

You mean like those that arrive who share the same name but not the same world? Like the two Megatrons?

[heeeere's a weirdish grin and a shrug. Everything is weird bro.]

Yeah, like the two Ratchets and the two Starscreams. Two Megatrons, though, I hadn't heard about that.

[Everything is indeed Weird. He's seen worse, though. At least neither of these two alternates seem evil ~~despite certain speculations~~. Given that he's spent a week as his evil alternate AND looking like Drift? Yeah. It could be far worse.]

We had three Starscreams at one point. [You have no idea what herding that many Starscreams is like.] One of the Megatrons was reverse polarity. The other....well. He was ours. But young. And apparently had been swayed by a version of me in another place.

So, I would say your theory is correct, at least in the basics of it. The chaos at work here, when it takes us from our worlds, must leave copies behind somehow...

[Which is...pretty creepy. But also reassuring in a way. That people at home aren't fretting over some loss. Which in his case would just be, well, a body.]

That's... I don't know how I feel about that. Like, any of that.

[weird and creepy EVERYTHING IS WEIRD AND CREEPY. Especially triple Starscream oh god poor Haven.]

Focus on the fact that you're right? And that you have more friends here now?

[At least he hopes they can be friends.]

WOOOOYEAH

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[Harrumph. Maybe. It's...possible. it would be more possible if Drift had thought of it first, of course, instead of fakeDrift, here. ]

So, what. Are you from one of those weird 'everyone is evil' universes?

[NGL you look a little sketchy.]

I most certainly am not! How do I know you aren't!?

[SKETCHY WHAT we have the same FACE]

You know, that's exactly the kind of thing a mech from an all-evil universe would say.

[He's totally onto you, EvilDrift. Stop trying to contaminate his mind with your evil-alternate-universe mojo.]

Oh, for the love of Primus. I don't have an evil circuit in my body.

[you leave mojo out of this you weenie]

Hnf. Then we must be from different universes.

[Dammit, stop being so dashingly handsome and now apparently nicer than Drift. He liked you better when you were sketchy evil Drift.]

Which one are you from, then?

[well he likes to think he's nice anyway. comes with the whole trying to get people to like him thing.]

The...uh...MINE. The one that's mine!

[Which is the one that's not yours. Get your own.]

You know, with the war and everything.

That really doesn't narrow it down. They've all had war, at least the ones I've heard about.

You know, maybe we ought to just take a step back from all this and calm down, get a little positive energy flowing.

Ours had the, you know, the D-void.

[Oh god you made him say it. You FIEND.]

I am perfectly fraggin' calm.

[LOOK at how calm his energy is. Just. Look.]