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[At first he was going to encrypt the message to only Autobots. But then he started wondering if that was what he really wanted? Maybe it was time to try other things and see what came up. In any case, no one was to see who he was, and he made sure to scrub the connection clean of his personal identifiers. He even modulated his voice a bit to sound higher. He was a trained spy, after all, and he didn't want to go giving himself away.]

Is anyone hearing this? Is anyone out there? I'm not sure where I am or what I'm supposed to be doing, but... If someone could explain it to me that's not a temple drone?

[Was that too telling? Slag. Or did everyone start at these temples?]

Is there a way out of here? Any shuttles or teleports or whatever? Let me know what you've found. I'll be here.

[That little snippet was all anyone would get from. The mission was to collect data. the source didn't matter because all information was valuable. It would of course, be evaluated based on who it came from after it was obtained. ]

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Good point. [You have a lot of good points, mysterious stranger.]

Honored? [he sounds like he's smiling a little] Yeah, well, I get the sense you probably know me from a time I wasn't so concerned with making friends.

...Okay. [his curiosity is piqued, but he's respecting Mirage's privacy, for now.] I don't blame you for being cautious.

[Well. That was easier than expected.]

Are you more concerned with making friends now?

[Because the Starscream Mirage knows seems more concerned with power above all else, and certainly wouldn't be talking to anyone he thought might be an Autobot or neutral. Or... Would he?]

[He's ever-aware of the public nature of this conversation, and abruptly decides to try encrypting it.]

First rule of friendship club is nobody discusses Starscream making friends. Or you use the word allies, it's much more palatable, should a certain everybody-knows-who show up and decide to make an example out of insert-'friend'-here.

If you agree with that, then sure, I'm all for being friendly.

"Friendship club"? Are we friends now?

[Mirage is amused and it comes across in his voice, a hint of a smirk in there.]

Oh, my apologies. Are we allies now?

I'm gonna need at least a fake name before I can really give you the glowing benefits of my association. [weirdly he sounds self deprecating there, like he realizes there are actually hardly any benefits to associating with him] I can't call you Nail, that sounds so rude.

You can call me Fox. [It was an oldie but a goodie in his box of code names. And easy to remember.] When do I get my membership card?

[It felt oddly good to just joke with someone, even if it was more or less an information quest, and even if this was Starscream he was talking to. But it just went with his theory that not all Decepticons were bad and maybe he could have been one of them in different situations.]

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