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[knightoflight]

[He seems almost apologetic for clogging the network, but the cause is, he considers, rather serious enough.]

I'm looking for someone who looks like me.  Kind of like me.  

His name's Drift. I've heard he's here. 

[He's been looking, but he hasn't found him yet. And that only compounds Wing's worry.]

I fear he may need fuel. If so, I am hoping someone will help take some of mine.  

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[oncearanger]

[Here's Billy, looking worried.]

I know him, but I haven't seen him recently. What makes you think he's run low?

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[knightoflight]

Someone's told me that there's no energon here.

[Saying you haven't seen him recently isn't entirely comforting.]

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[oncearanger]

Can you explain energon to me, please? There might be help for him here.

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[knightoflight]

It's a fuel, a refined ore, what my kind eats.

Please, do you know where he is? Where I could look for him? I checked all the training rooms.

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[oncearanger]

He needs bigger spaces, doesn't he? I think he mentioned some abandoned buildings out in the city. I'm afraid I don't know exactly where he lives.

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[knightoflight]

Abandoned buildings?

[Wing frowns. He'd thought their hosts...well...took care of things. ] All right. I can try to find him. Thank you.

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[oncearanger]

Let me know if you ever need a smaller hand. I'm a good mechanic---healer, as he called me.

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[knightoflight]

If he needs help, I will contact you. Thank you.

Have you looked at him, since he got here?

[draconic_historian]

Yes, I have met Drift. He has never spoken of running out of fuel or food, though.

What DO Cybertronians eat, if you don't mind my asking?

[knightoflight]

Someone told me it was an issue here and that you Transports were working on it.

[He'd love to hear it's not true.]

It's energon. Or it used to be. An ore from our home planet. It exists nowhere else.

[draconic_historian]

Well I hope you get that worked out. I'd hate to hear of transports starving to death.

Unfortunately I believe this planet is called Earth, not Cybertron.

[knightoflight]

I admit I'm a bit unhappy. I thought the Initiative took us with, well, knowledge of our requirements.

But if one of us must starve, it would make sense for it to be me.

[He nods.] I believe so. Which means this might be unsolvable.

Is there a way to send us back?

[draconic_historian]

The Initiative is dabbling with forces they barely understand. They have little control over who they gather, and a return trip is...unlikely.

[knightoflight]

[You are really killing his happy, stranger. What little happy he has left.]

It doesn't sound like you trust them, friend.

[draconic_historian]

I trust them as far as I would trust any organization run by humans, but they mean well, I think. They just are in a rather desperate situation, and so have resorted to desperate measures.

They have, er, "acquired" some rather clever people, though. I would not despair on your energon problem quite yet.

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[oncearanger]

Not in a medical or repair sense, no. We've just talked and gone for a ride.

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[knightoflight]

Gone for a ride?

[There's a pleasant surprise. Drift hadn't seemed particularly friendly to xenos before.]

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[oncearanger]

Yeah. His vehicular form is quite impressive. He's a great driver, if a little daring.

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[knightoflight]

It was when I knew him. And he's always been a little...reckless.

[Not that Wing is able to hold that against him.]

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[oncearanger]

I reached my destination safely. And I promised to help him if he ever needed something else.

I hope it's not as serious as you fear.

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[knightoflight]

[A laugh] Then you're a good friend indeed.

I hope it's not, either. But if it comes to it, well, the choice is obvious what to do.

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[oncearanger]

Right.

If you find him, could you tell him that I'd like to talk to him again?

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W

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[weapabilities]

That's impossible...

But you-

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[weapabilities]

You're alive...

Wing...