[ WP ] Two people stand at opposite ends of a closed hallway , guns pointed at one another ... .

`` Wait a second,'' said the president of the Human Coalition. 
 
 `` *BOTH of us had secret agents? *'' asked the leader of the Xargon Confederacy. 
 
 On both sides of the diplomatic table, a person was standing, each pointing a gun at the other. 
 
 Nova stood on the side I'll call `` right,'' even though this meeting took place in deep space, and describing the direction is impossible. His eye twitched. He certainly was n't expecting to have to get into actual conflict. 
 
 Dep had assumed a strange position with his arthropod legs. Had anyone else in the room watched *Attack of the Gumbo Bums, * a movie Dep had watched eight times, they would realize that it is the same position lead actor Ghor was in before he shot the villain dead. Unfortunately, nobody had watched the movie, so nobody felt threatened. 
 
 As soon as the guns had been drawn, everyone knew what was going on. This was perhaps the most important meeting between mankind and the slightly older Xargon Confederacy there had been to date, and many interstellar and interplanetary boundaries were to be decided. While the meeting would be diplomatic, the Human Coalition decided to sneak in an armed agent disguised as a diplomat onto the team in an attempt to... persuade the Xargonian leaders into being more generous. It now appears that the Xargonians had exactly the same idea. 
 
 `` Well,'' said the president of the Human Coalition as he clapped his hands. Dep immediately pointed his gun away from Nova and towards the Xargonian leader. `` Your agent here was, in fact, a double agent working for us.'' 
 
 `` Oh,'' the head of the Xargons responded, clacking their mandibles together especially loudly. `` Well, Nova over there is really a double agent working for the Xargonian Confederacy.'' Almost immediately, Nova produced another gun, this one an automatic beam weapon, and pointed the black armament towards the other human. 
 
 `` Whoa, no way!'' yelled Dep. He pulled an identical black gun out from a recess in his back. `` I have the exact same one!'' 
 
 ``... wow,'' reacted Nova, `` you know, I think we're a lot alike.'' 
 
 `` I'd have to agree,'' Dep responded, `` I do n't really want to harm any society this similar to ours. Besides, I did n't even really want this job in the first place.'' 
 
 `` Me neither!'' Nova was totally oblivious to both the leaders' complete confusion. `` I always wanted to be a...'' 
 
 ``... filmmaker?'' 
 
 `` YES! Wow, we're like, brothers from another mother!'' 
 
 `` There is a phrase in the ancient Krinlyc that's similar to what you just said. It is'united livers drinking from the same breast.''' 
 
 `` I like the English version better.'' 
 
 `` Yeah, me too. Hey dude, want to get out of here?'' Dep put away his weapons. 
 
 `` Oh, totally,'' said Nova, doing the same. 
 
 They both exited the room together, leaving the two men to squabble amongst themselves. `` Oh yeah,'' said Dep, `` I just *have* to show you *Attack of the Gumbo Bums. *''
