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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.]

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

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[You made him say it. It's you're fault. He's never going to forgive you. But you're him, so he's never going to...forgive...himself? Slag, this is complicated.]

None, I hope. Bad enough that it happened in one.

I'm perfectly calm!

[Look: not a single thing is getting stabbed in his vicinity. He's totally calm. ]

[we are an asshole]

Okay. Okay, how about this. What's the last thing you remember before you ended up here?

No no, it's fine. I believe you.

[He totally believes you. Totally.]

[We are our own worst enemy.]

Dying of the Red Rust. I'm pretty sure I, you know, died. Back home.

[Of gross leaky death.]

[we are oh god it's TRUE]

Wait! Okay, no, now I'm definitely convinced that we're the same person. Delphi, right? Ratchet and Pipes were there!

[gross leaky rust WAS kind of horrible but just look how excited this loser is all of a sudden!]

[Wise in spite of himself: that's Drift!]

Yeah and Pharma and First Aid.

[First Aid was really nice. Pharma...not so much.]

Wow, this is unreal!

[YEAH Pharma. Yeeaaaaaah.]

Well, in light of this new information, I have some good news! You definitely survived the Red Rust! and Ratchet stole Pharma's hands.

Yeah, that's...one word for it.

[Unreal, messed up, somewhere in that general vicinity/tagcloud.]

I did? Because here, Pharma...yeah, he didn't really help. Apparently I did something to piss him off.

[Pharma and his fake 'cure' that made Drift even sicker. Not cool. Not. Cool.]

[hey he was going for... as optimistic as possible. Points for effort?]

What, he was here? Nobody told me about that.

Just guessing here, but I think what you did was chop his hands off while he was hanging from a ledge because he was about to shoot Ratchet, and let him fall to his death? Because that's what I did. As for the Red Rust thing, Ratchet took care of that back home.

[Points for effort indeed.]

Yeah, he was here. One of Liege Maximo's. Tarn was here, too.

[A veritable parade of baddies. Fun? But if this Drift was really him, he'd know all about the DJD.]

Hmmm. That sounds like something I'd--we'd do. [Trufax.]

Oh good. So...did anyone die? Other than Pharma? [Because who cares about him boooo.]

[Yeah no he totally cringes. Just a little.]

I'd heard about Tarn. Apparently Overlord was here too? That's what people have told me.

[Which yeah Overlord that's a whole other can of worms bro]

Not... not that I remember. Not there, anyway. But we did take Fortress Maximus back to the Lost Light.

Yeah. Uh. Him too.

[Shared guilty brofist hopefully over that can of worms, keeping it safely closed.]

I don't know why the frag they were brought here. Can't say I miss any of them.

[Unlike some of his human friends, who he does miss.]

Oh. So, Ratchet fixed him, then. [Good news!]

Hey. What's the last thing you remember? [Turnabout, it is fair play!]

[guilty brofist. Guiltfist.]

Well. Hang on.

[heeee's just gonna private the rest of this little conversation. Not that it's going to stop nosy Wings from looking over their shoulders but hey.]

Short version, Overlord broke out of his cell, and tore through the Lost Light. He was stopped, but he'd already done a lot of damage. I took the fall for him being there. I'm sure I don't have to explain why to you. Rodimus stripped me of my Autobrand and banished me from the ship, aaand now I'm here.

[Oh. Yeah, good thinking, self. That should definitely be, you know, not public information. Maybe. Yet.]

...

Did anyone...uh...

[Handwavey thing. You know, did anyone die?]

[Yeaaaah his thoughts exactly]

We lost Pipes, Rewind... too many. Ultra Magnus wasn't looking too good when I left, either.

Oh. That's... that's not good.

Rodimus is....is he okay with, uh, everything?

Not... not really. I had to convince him to let me take the fall for it. I'm still pretty worried about him.

[An unhappy nod. He figured.]

And, uh, us. Was it...how did it go?

[He kind of wants to give himself a hug. FRAG this is weird.]

About how you'd expect, I bet. The crew was furious. It was... it was difficult.

[drift could use a drift hug everyone should have a drift hug]

[There is a drift hug in your future, other Drift. In fact he may be trying to mentally hug you right now. Weeaboo powers: activate. ]

I'm...really sorry. So you were all alone, I mean, you left?

[maybe if we try REALLY REALLY HARD our auras can connect. or something.

Anyway he shakes his head]

Don't worry about it. But yeah, I left by myself. Ratchet saw me off. Sort of.

[AURATWINS POWER. Or something. Yeah, still working on that.]

Ratchet. Oh.

At least there was someone?

[bright side yay?}

[we need a super hero team name.]

Yeah. I mean, it could have been worse.

True. It could have been, like...Ultra Magnus or something.

[That would have been a terrible last sight: a MIGHTY frown to haunt him the rest of his days.]

And so, now you're just...I mean, not here, but back home, you're just floating around?

True, true.

As for that, I didn't really have any plans in place for something like that. I'd only been off the ship for a couple hours before I ended up here, though.

[Yeah, well, how do you plan for 'mass murderer escapes and you nobly take the rap for it?]

What matters is back home you're alive and that means there's still hope.

[Right? RIGHT?!?!]

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