[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! ))

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[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

[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 - 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!?!]

[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!

[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.]

[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]

[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]

[sword_redemption]

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

But.

[Too many buts. ]

Are you a clone or something?

[Tact? Drift??!]

Re: [Video]

[knight_light]

[He laughs] No, more likely an alternate.

You may find yourself talking to...yourself here soon too. [Sorry, he just can't leave that as a shock. It's bad enough he'a having trouble tracking down his roommate to warn the Drift who's been here the last few months.]

[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.

[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]

Is that, uh, is that happening now?

[Is this a thing? Alternates? Does it mean he and Wing weren't good enough or had made the wrong choice?]

Me? [Hahahahaaaaaaaaaa.] I hope he had a better start here than I did.

[Then again, it's hard to have a worse one!]

He may not be too far off...guess we'll just have to see. XD

[knight_light]

[He nods at the first.] There is. I'm sure he'll be responding soon. [wry amusement all over his face at that.]

Certainly not something for you to apologize for. [Aaaand, have a mirrored chuckle there...that cuts a little short, because wow, that was weird.] Er, it is reassuring, though. It's quite disconcerting being told you've forgotten a place and people so unforgettable.

[perma-Video]

[knight_light]

[He shrugs.] We'd not be the first to find versions of ourselves from alternate realities here.

[Really, he doesn't think it has anything to do with who good or not you two were.]

I couldn't say, he arrived before I did. [You'll have to ask him.]

[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. ]

[video] OH NO POOR HAVEN

[happyclappyhippydrippy]

[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.]

[video] DORKSPLOSION

[sword_redemption]

[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?

[video] DORKAGEDDON

[happyclappyhippydrippy]

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

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

[video] this is going...well.

[sword_redemption]

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.]