I think If rumors are going to fly they better be more imaginative ones!
My addition to the rumor mill.
Kier was cleaning out his garage with mike to look for things to sell on ebay, well kier had alot on his mind and accidentally packed mike in with a used toaster oven
a few hours later he got a txt "in box.. toaster.. battery low.." ofcourse this jogged kiers memory so he raced to the courier office to find the parcel had already gone
"no worries" kier thought, i can trace the package..
racing to his computer he went to the couriers website and entered the tracking number
to his dread "package missing.. £6.95 courier fee reimbursed" appeared next to the tracking number
So in conclusion poor mike is trapped somewhere in a box with a 1980's toaster oven!
ofcourse poor kier is walking barefoot around the country searching every depot for his beloved co-dev!
Or other rumours
Jake bunce is really...Kier and mike! using n advanced particle accelerator they have combined to form one super human (notice he never seems to sleep? a side affect of the merge, kier's brain is awake half of the time and the other half of the time its mike!)
This is all a dream, none of it is real.. we are dreaming 1.2 never come out when in reality 1.2 coming out tore a rip in space and time and created a reality without its existence, therefore destroying the space time continuum!