Kup to Arcee, Pee-Dee, Bumblebee, Mirage, Synapse

[Kup]

Kup takes things off the Autobot broadband.

//Heads up, folks. Maybe I'm seeing things wrong, what with the distance and night time and such, but the intruders look like Emirate Xaaron and Swerve.//

[Pee-Dee]

//Hnh. Always 'fun' when the perps look like your guys.//

[Synapse]

// You are not mistaken. The two look resemble Emirate Xaaron and Swerve exactly. //

[Arcee]

//Oh, <i>joy</i>.//

[Mirage]

Mirage had, of course, started heading for Perceptor's lab as Kup's original hail, even if he had not acknowledged the hail on broadband. Anyone listening (and it was always a possibility, given the odd nature of their situation) might now know that Mirage has been called in, but no point in letting them know the for sure or from where. Then Kup takes to more private channels and Mirage replies:

//Duplicate individuals were bound to happen sooner or later. I'm covering the west, stealthed .//

Meaning Mirage won't post into the thread until he's needed. Element of surprise and all that.

[Synapse]

// Then they are heading your way, Mirage. //

[Kup]

//We've sort of already got a duplicate situation, between Goldbug and Bumblebee, but what's screwy about this one is design. Emirate Xaaron and Swerve are from different enough realities that you can see it in design, and that seems to carry over. So if they're two new arrivals from two different realities, why are they working together this quick, but running from the rest of us? Doesn't quite fit.//

[Arcee]

//This place just gets screwier and screwier, doesn't it?// Arcee grouses.

[Kup]

//Eh. Things could get pretty screwy back home, really, what with the zombies and ghosts and Transorganics and tentacle monsters and galaxy-spanning violence-inducing plagues...//

//If an old warrior like me can adapt to this place's level of screwieness, you should be able to do all right.//