Who needs the past (слэш)

He looked up and the sky was a beautiful light blue. The calm feeling it brought didn’t last as the ringing in his ears started to fade and he could hear the unmistakable sound of destruction all around him. An electric crackle was alarmingly close, he turned his head to see a bright suit of armour next to him. The helm flipped itself up to reveal the bruised stranger with peculiar facial hair within it.
"You wouldn’t happen to know…well, who we are and…. What is happening here?” he asked.