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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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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?!?!]

Yeah, I've been trying to look at it that way. It's driving me crazy not knowing whats going on there, though.

Yeah, believe me, I know that feeling.

[And he's a little jealous of all the time you had he didn't.] So. Uh. How's it been here for you?

[deal with it neeeeerrrrrrrd]

Mostly good, actually. It's been extremely confusing at times, but Wing's here. Big tick right there.

[Watch who you're calling nerd, nerd.] </small. Yeah, Wing here was...kind of huge. After, you know, not dying of the Red Rust. Or maybe before. Never ranked them before.

[i'll nerd you in a minute]

I hear you. Call it even?

[Nerd him at your peril, Drift! ]

Yeah, mostly because I don't want to think about it.

[And you can't make him. Nyah.]

So. How have you been, you know, adapting here?

[NERD BATTLE.]

Yeaaah, don't blame you.

[DON'T WORRY he totally won't make you.]

Ah, you know. Kinda awkwardly. But uh, managing. When I first got here, tons of people mistook me for you. Which... yeah, kind of unavoidable, all things considered. One or two people seemed pretty upset that I didn't remember them.

[Good, because there's been enough thinking about bad stuff already in this conversation. They need to derail the bad vibes train.]

Oh, yeah. Sorry. That must have been, you know, awkward.

But it's all good now, right?

Well, besides the whole being attacked by radioactive mutants thing, I'd say it's all good.

Yeah, about that.

[Better or worse than grody spiders? Hard to tell.]

What's that all about. I mean, radiation? Did something explode?

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