Minor's lookalike opens the door. "Pelape! - thought you might've run off -"

"Nope, I'm right here, but I'm about to run off, wanna come to an alternate universe future Earth and meddle in its war with me?"

"- yeah, all right."

"Well, go on."

             "Plane Shift," says one of the robed men in Merenre's entourage.

He disappears and takes the two of them with him.

"Thank you!" Pelape tells him. They are in a shrub outside a glitzy casino. "I'll wave at a scry in a few hours for pickup. How many passengers can come along?"

"Total of eight people."

"Okay, cool! I appreciate this a lot." She takes Kefin's hand and saunters out onto the Las Vegas strip. "So this is what human cities look like in the future, huh. Kind of over the top."

"It looks like they just invented neon and they're incredibly excited about it. It's kind of cute. I'm glad they clean up well. What are we, uh, doing here."

"We're going that way." Point. "I'll know it when I see it."

"Sure."

She changes direction to veer toward some unremarkable looking humans who are approaching a hotel.

The unremarkable humans look tired and sad and walk with only a tiny bit of unsteadiness owing to inexperience with having two legs.

<- Matirin, look, on our left ->

< - looks like you but not very - and like Cayaldwin ->

<Older than me with different colored hair and taller. Otherwise very like.>

"Hi!" says the one who looks like Bella, waving. "Fancy seeing you here. Caranth's okay, alive and uncaptured. There are still operational shuttles, right? I need to borrow one to go meet one of our allies."

"...have we met?"

"Nope, I'm an alternate universe version of you and I'm also on a lot of magic drugs."

The Andalites stiffen and step apart slightly. 

"And I'm - am I an alternate universe version of one of them, there's not enough of them -"

"A lot of people are dead," he says coldly.

"The magic people have resurrection."

"What do you want."

"A shuttle. My magic drugs are telling me I need one. I am afraid they don't provide very good documentation."

 - he glances at Butterfly.