Chapter 6: The imposter revealed

"Wait, the tests were inconclusive on that incapacitated bot. Even if I knew what I was supposed to be looking for I don’t think I could find it. These Mirror Universe bots are just too similar" Restore said in frustration.

"Maybe the answer isn’t that complex" Waitstate suggested. He walked up to the bot and rubbed the symbol on his right arm. Slowly, a LONAC symbol appeared from underneath the black symbol.

"What are you doing?" Cirrus asked.

"Take a look" Waitstate said stepping aside. Now completely revealed were the blue symbols that were LONAC’s signature. "That other Stardrive is an imposter, and he did a rather crude job of covering it up."

"I guess this puts all doubts to rest" Cirrus replied.

Satisfied, Waitstate looked at Cirrus. "We’d better go have a chat with our imposter."

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In the Brig

"Look, you guys have known me for a long time, the answer should be pretty obvious. I am the real Stardrive" Stardrive pleaded.

"If the answer should be so obvious, then why haven’t you convinced us yet?" Scope questioned.

"I think you guys just enjoy pushing me around" Stardrive replied angrily.

Artifice was getting impatient. "Alright, this has gone on long enough."

"You’re right, it has" Stardrive answered

"You’re going to the holding cell" Scope told him.

Scope and Skysiren grabbed Stardrive and began carrying him out the door. Just as the door opened, Stardrive broke free and transformed into jet mode. Scope and Skysiren transformed and followed.

After a moment, they lost him around a corner.

"[Comm] This is Skysiren to bridge, locate intruder!" Skysiren yelled into her comm unit.

Before the bridge could respond, Trilana met up with Skysiren and Scope.

"He’s headed for the docking bay!" she yelled.

Trilana transformed and they continued their chase. Shortly, the intruder arrived at the docking bay and transformed. He opened the doors, but was unpleasantly surprise. As the doors moved open, Ruse, Blacknife, and Shadowpaw met him. Their weapons were quickly drawn.

"I don’t think so" Ruse replied.

The intruder quickly turned around and tried running the opposite direction, but met up with Skysiren, Scope, and Trilana.

"Not so fast!" Scope yelled brandishing his gun. "This is your last chance to surrender!"

"I guess I lose" the intruder replied as he rose his arms.

As the group closed in on him, he made a mad dash for a nearby shuttle. He dove under it, taking several shots as he did so.

"This guy must be crazy!" Shadowpaw yelled.

Ruse turned his head towards Shadowpaw. "Heh, yah think?"

Finally, Chameleon was able to sneak up on him and bring him to the floor of the docking bay. "Now, you’re going to tell us who you are and what you’re doing here!"

"I’d rather not, and if you don’t mind, I think I’ll be leaving" Stardrive said with a smile.

"What are you talking about?" Artifice asked while inspecting the area for possible escape routes.

Before anything more could be said, Stardrive appeared as if he were melting away into nothing. Soon, he had completely vanished.