Join up
Start
Start verb - To move suddenly and sharply (as in surprise).
Both terms in one sentence
- In the One Piece anime, we meet Luffy and Nami in the first episode (though Nami doesn't join up with Luffy until episode 8, and was not introduced in the manga until the start of the Buggy arc).
Source: Debut Queue - Shortly before the start of the game, the AIs on both sides decided to join up with each other and practically wiped out humans in a couple of days.
Source: AI Is A Crapshoot / Video Games -
By the start of the series, he seems to have had a change of heart to a more Lawful Good stance, taking the opportunity to free and join up with SG-1 to act on his alignment change.
Source: Lawful Neutral
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