Artificial Mind

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Optimus nodded slowly, he caught her words which was surprising considering how quick she spoke. "What is it?"

Minnie tapped her fingers together thoughtfully. "Obviously, for all purposes there is more to you than just being a truck, catch my drift?" He nodded. "I think I have it on good grounds to say the same applies for me." He looked down at her for a long while. "You erm, don't get what I'm on about really do you?"

"Not really."

"At least you're honest." Minnie laughed. She was glad he wasn't humouring her like he humoured Fowler at times. "Maybe a show and tell would be better." Minnie sighed heavily. "No freaking out." She held a finger up at him, Optimus gave a low nod and watched interestedly as she repeated what she had done earlier on.

Optimus looked at her, leaning down he lifted her arm up with a digit. "What did Shockwave do to you?" He asked lowly, his tone was angry and Minnie hadn't heard him speak like that before. It worried her, that he would feel such a strong emotion for little her.

"Nothing! Nothing, I swear...but as I said to Ratchet-"

"He created you on Cybertron?"

"Well...yeah..." Minnie blinked, Optimus let her arm drop back to her side. He shook his head slowly, "It's bad isn't it? It's bad to admit that I have no family I know of because my family doesn't exist, nor do my friends, other than you guys naturally. It also explains why I feel so at home here with you all. But, it's bad to know that I was created as a weapon against you all." Minnie looked thoughtful before slapping a hand to her forehead. "If Shockwave created me...does that make him my father? Oh wow, how screwed up is that?!" Minnie crossed her arms. "Am I some sort of freak show? I feel like Frankenstein's Monster."

Optimus held out a hand, Minnie hesitantly clambered up. "You are none of those things. But what you are may be more complicated than what we originally thought. Perhaps we should return to Ratchet?" He started forwards as Minnie sat down in his hand. Out of all things, he wasn't expecting this. He knew that the Decepticon scientist would have done something, but he didn't know he would be behind Minnie's origin. That certainly made things more complicated. Although it was safe to say, that Minnie was definitely sided with the Autobots. Looking down at the human in his hand, he sighed. What was to say that there wasn't a homing chip in her? But if there was, Decepticons would be crawling all on the base by now.

Ratchet looked at them both as they appeared. Minnie stood up and jumped down when Optimus had lowered his hand. Minnie looked up at the medic. "Can we avoid weapons testing? I found that as far from enjoyable as possible...well...it was until I shot Knock Out." Minnie sniggered, against his better judgement Ratchet let out a short quiet laugh.

"So, you're the culprit behind the three hours of buffering?" Optimus questioned, Minnie looked up at him with a smirk and nodded. "Quite the aim it seems you have."

Soon others joined them, curious really as to what was going on. Ironhide and Bumblebee sat and watched the rather odd turn of events. Bumblebee tilted his head to the side and let out a low beep, "I hear that," Ironhide said. "Weird."

Minnie walked up to them, "Yes?"

"Nice gun." Ironhide pointed at the gun which was formally her arm. The chromatic appearance of it was shining rather brilliantly in the large, overhead bright lights within the room.

Minnie smirked. "We can't compete, I'm afraid." She giggled.

"Minnie, get back here, I need to finish some tests." Ratchet called out from the medi-bay.

Ironhide smiled. "Hiding from the Doc?"

"No, merely strolling away."

Bumblebee made a chorus of beeps which could be similar to laughing. Ironhide laughed too and shook his head. "He'll come get you, if you're not careful."

"He would not- woah!" Minnie said defiantly and gave a start when she was carefully scooped up. "Optimus, can you put me down?"

"Ratchet hasn't finished his work." The leader said while placing her back down. Ratchet shook his head and pointed to a metal bed. Minnie scrambled and climbed up onto it.

"What do you think?" Minnie looked to the medic.

"I think you may be one of a kind, on this planet that is."

"There were some like me on Cybertron?"

"Not exactly," Optimus answered as Ratchet picked up some small tools, he shone his scanner on her and looked to the computer as the results popped up.

"Which means there weren't." Minnie huffed. "Am I an endangered species?" She laughed, trying to make light of this situation.

"You can fall into that category." Optimus answered, he was glad Minnie wasn't being upset over this matter. Most people wouldn't cope well with finding out they weren't exactly human. But when he thought over it, she had spent a day and a half coming to terms with everything. Just a shame Shockwave was her companion for the moment.

"This is...amazing..."

"All right, Doc." Ironhide said cutting Ratchet's moment off. Him and Bumblebee had moved over to see what was going on. Bulkhead, Arcee and Smokescreen were currently out doing patrols.

Ratchet coughed and put a hand to his chin. "Exterior is organic, organs are too. But her blood, veins and skeleton isn't." Ratchet explained as he continued to look upon his findings.

Minnie sat up. "At least my bones can't break." She said quietly. "So...what does this mean exactly?" She looked around confused.

Ratchet looked down at her as she stood. "It means...well..."

"You're one of us," Ironhide reached down and nudged Minnie on the shoulder. She tottered about and smiled up at him. Well, it was definitely a nice feeling to get the approval and acceptance of one of the hardest and more serious bots about the base.

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(Edited: 6/August/2020)