"No... well, kind of." It was a long story, but it required an explanation.

"So... I died back home. The robot lion that I piloted pulled my consciousness into its own so I lived even though my body was gone. No one knew this had happened. But since they didn't see me around, the group that had caused the problem released a clone of me so my group thought the clone was me and the clone did too, but it was essentially breaking up my team without completely realizing it was doing it."