Who: Kitt. Oh, and anyone who wants to talk to him.
What: Discussions of deep portent. Or not.
Where: Outside Saint Fallen Hospital, where Kitt is making sure Mikaela is healing well.
Summary: Stubborn AI is stubborn, as ever.
Notes: Some people don't have the luxury of signing up to be a hero. They just get built for the job.
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Good guys never sleep. They just recharge sometimes. )
She walked the bike next to the sleek black car and smiled, glad to see he was well. "Mr Kitt? Are you waiting to visit Miss Mikaela?
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She hadn't seen this side of him before. The side that protected humans instead of needed upgrades. He was also in a different form than she'd seen before - before, he'd been in Attack Mode. Now, he sat in his normal mode, the fins receded, his wheels back to their usual silver spokes.
"I appreciate the upgrade you were able to equip. I further appreciate that I have yet to need to use it."
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"I'm glad the upgrades were successful, and I do hope you won't have to use them. It just doesn't seem that way the longer we stay here."
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To him, that seemed to be enough. It was the grand tradition of Knight AIs.
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"Don't you like her?" Hermes asked, quriously. "Or are you angry she got herself kidnapped?"
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Then his sensors swept over Hermes - a talking motorcycle. But he detected no AI that he could recognize. "I have no emotions," he told the other mechanical. "I cannot like her, or be angry with her. I have grown accustomed to her company, however. Also, I do not recognize how it is you have the capability of speech. I have detected no discernable form of AI."
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She set Herme's kickstand and leaned against the bike. "I didn't realize you didn't have emotions. That's too bad. Did they get taken away from you on-"
Hermes interrupted impatiently. "What's an AI I don't have an AI do I Kino? Do I want an AI? Why shouldn't I speak? Don't you want to talk to me?"
Kino sighed, but still smiled at her Motorrad. "I'm sorry Mr Kitt, Hermes is my partner. He's a Motorrad." HEr tone implied that this was somehow an answer to how Hermes could speak without any equiptment to do so.
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Including the Cybertronians. He'd just had five-plus hours of immersion upon his arrival to get used to those.
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Kino interrupted quickly. "Hermes is a Motorrad." She repeated, uncertain of what more the other might want. "I haven't met any other Motorrads like him, he's very unique." He was a wonderful friend, but she'd never met anything.... else that was what Hermes was. Not that she had much idea what Hermes was. "You're the only... one like you?" She guessed from what Kitt had said, not entirely certain that she'd gotten it right.
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"I am the only known Knight-class AI," he affirmed. "I am one of a kind." Just like Hermes, it seemed. "It seems only one of us can exist at a time. Perhaps it is the same with you."
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"You were build by someone," Kino assumed, since it didn't seem as though Kitt could have made himself if he were the only one. "Did they forget to give you emotions?" That was... sad. How could they not realize what having no emotions did? It created monsters of people... what did it make of Kitt?
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You're a machine. You can't have feelings.
Kitt. You don't have emotions.
He was an AI. He could remember each instance perfectly.
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"I'm sorry," Her voice softened, slightly, watching the red scanning light as it moved back and forth. It reminded her of a targeting lazer. It probably was. "I just think that wasn't very fair to you. To have something so important kept from you... does not seem right to me." They should have given them to Kitt, and allowed him to learn to choose to follow them or not.
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Kitt reminded her, in a faraway sense, of her parents. Of the blank look in their eyes and the way they worked, every day, no matter how much they might have once wanted to do something else. Choice. Freedom. They were things no one deserved to have taken from them.
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More than many. Mike had very little rational thought at all. He was mostly a creature of hormones, as Kitt knew well.
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