Sometimes meeting as many people as possible means just running up to the first person who catches his eye, so it was pretty much inevitable that Ben would end up noticing the guy in all the purple and the cape before too long.

(He seems kind of familiar actually, but Ben shuts down that train of thought as soon as it comes to mind - he feels like intentionally figuring out someone else's secret identity must be breaching some kind of Superhero Code or something.)

He rushes up to the guy (he's kind of been rushing everywhere for the past couple minutes, this form is good for that), skidding to a stop on XLR8's weird foot-wheel-things. "Hey, what's up!"