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Who: Miyuki, Open (feel free to bug her :D)
When: Today
Where: Engineering Garage 1
What: Miyuki on her birthday, doing what she does best.
Rating: G-PG (for now)

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Now, if there was any one thing that defined the Tachikoma, it was their insatiable curiosity for all things . . . well, for all things. They had been the bane of the Major's patience on several occasions because of this; wandering off in the middle of a mission or leaving HQ to help a little girl find her lost dog wasn't her idea of proper robot behaviour. Still, their intelligence, reaction time, and general skills were invaluable in most situations, and Section 9 found more than enough reason to keep them despite their "eccentricities".

And Batou's Tachikoma was quite possibly the most curious of all.

And because, as a machine AI that had absolutely no programming as far as tact was concerned, it also saw absolutely nothing wrong with wheeling quietly right up behind Miyuki, watching her silently for a while, then stating (rather loudly) in its cheerful voice, "Wow, I didn't know they installed that model of car with nitromethane fuel! Do you blend it with hydrazine?"

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Miyuki had been underneath the car, fiddling with the brake connections on the passenger side of the car when the Tachikoma had asked her the hydrazine in that cheerfully irritating voice that they tend to have. It didn't even faze her, Natsumi was like that sometimes. Neither had any tact at all. "They don't, I installed it myself to help in car chases back home. I did consider blending the hydrazine, but it's incredibly unstable, so I felt that it was too much of a risk for my partner and myself." She reached out under the car, feeling for a socket wrench.

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"But if you treat it with water and certain acid compounds it can be stabilized enough not to present a safety hazard," the Tachikoma exclaimed, picking up the socket wrench with its claw-like grip and handing it to her. "Although it's illegal anyway, so I guess not."

The tank momentarily drooped, as if depressed by the lack of proper hydrazine-nitro compound-fueled cars racing around the city. It seemed to get over it rather quickly, though, and perked back up with an enthusiastic, "So you do car chases, you must be law enforcement, huh!"

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She took the socket wrench from the Tachikoma without noticing who or what handed it to her, instead concentrating on what she was doing, which currently meant installing the break pads for the rotors. Not quite what a socket wrench would be used for, but she was getting to that point.

Miyuki giggled slightly at the continued enthusiasm of the Tachikoma as she continued to work on the car. "Good guess, you'd be right. I'm just a traffic officer, though, so most of the time I don't get the high profile chases, mainly just the speeders and the like. But my Today hasn't failed me when I've needed her," she patted the underside of the car affectionately.