One moment he’s minding his own business, and the next moment a colorful, glitchy, black-hole-like opening forms above him. He was transported from one universe into another, is what he didn’t know. All he remembered was the glitchy opening before his blurry vision cleared to reveal a familiar, yet different city, and then everything went black.

He must’ve missed the part where he was dragged from the top of a building and taken here. The blurred surroundings look familiar, yet different.. He couldn’t quite put his finger on it.

He blinks a few times to clear his vision, looking forward to see a glimpse of… the outline of someone. The mechanical tentacles were attempting to spring open at the sense of danger, but didn’t move. They were restrained with practiced accuracy to prevent movement.

“Who the hell are you?” He barks out with a hoarseness, his eyes narrowing behind the dark, awry glasses. He can feel the tentacles behind him itching to be freed and attack the person lingering in the shadows, mysteriously.

He clenched his gloved hands as you slowly approached. What he didn’t expect was to hear a whirring - similar to his tentacles whirring - being followed with four metal arms expanding and revealing themselves behind you. The clamps spin and close down in the air, as if they were studying him.

Those were… those were just like his.

The realization hits him like a train, his eyes widening in response.