An Experiment on the Loose

After a moment of thinking, Chinchiro took Midnight’s hand. Comfier leaves would be nice. Maybe from food. 

“What’s that blue thing?” She had to ask as she was lead out. 

As they walk out of the cave, Midnight casts a nervous side glance to the child. She feels her grip on her hand tighten only a little, glancing back to the forest ahead with a little bit of sweat on her brow. The crystal kept pulsing at a constant pace, almost trying to respond to Chiro in it’s own way. Ares.

“But I am tired.” Chiro sat up again, looking a touch annoyed. 

Still, she stood all the way up, looking around at the trees. “Oh. This is not my cave.” 

Midnight nods, bowing down to meet Chiro’s one eyed gaze. Despite her best efforts to stay calm, the instinct to protect was stronger than her will to scold a child for sleeping in the open. Maybe it’s one in the same…?

Well, either way, being in the cave of Ares, she was probably more antsy than normal…especially with the crystal on her chest emitting a small pulse of blue light. 

“…Please, I know a place where there’s a comfortable pile of leaves for you to sleep. I’m sure the…uh, floor is very comfy, but not here!”

After a moment of thinking, Chinchiro took Midnight’s hand. Comfier leaves would be nice. Maybe from food. 

“Hm.” More looking. She’s climbing up stuff like a tiny gremlin. Like, she seems weirdly good at it. “Do you eat anything other than Energon?” 

“–you guys can eat basically anything?” That was about as good a response as Chiro would be getting.- The ‘Con didn’t have any audio that strictly stated that he could use any organic/electrical material as fuel, so he was at a loss. There was no way he would be using his actual voice, either.

The cap reappeared on Soundwave’s cube as he placed it to the side of his desk.

“Hmmm.” Chiro actually hadn’t thought about it. There had been people she had met that looked human but might not be human. So, was she human? 

“Oh. Okay.” Chiro looked away to examine the room, quiet. Then, without even attempting eye contact, she said, “I’m Chinchiro.” 

Not that there was much eye contact to be made. He turned back towards his desk, taking a sip of the Energon cube with one of his open-ended tendrils before he started typing on the keyboard. He had to get this one away from the Nemesis.

“I don’t know.” She moved over to some green outfits and started touching them, actually avoiding the textures she didn’t like. Eventually, she did get something down, a simple light green sundress. But obviously way too big for her. 

“I was exploring. I got on a tree and jumped up here.” She tilted her head at the cube, obvious curious about the taste herself. “Can I try it?” 

Cue the Cybertronian pulling the cube closer to himself. This organic jumped up here? That– that was impossible for an ordinary organic. There was no way. No. Way.

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“Oh.” More staring from her one eye, and then another question. “What do you eat?” 

The thought process behind that was ‘if they have a mouth, they must be able to eat.’ 

As if to answer, he pulled a cube from a nearby ‘desk’- which had glowing blue grates on each side, and it hissed as the lid- which never appeared- seemed to disappear into the sides.

“Oh?” Chinchiro yawned, sitting up and rubbing at her eyes. Then she looked up. “It is still night time.” She stated, rather plainly. 

“Good night.” Then she laid right back down, like she wasn’t in any danger in the middle of the woods. 

“N-No…?”

Midnight raised a silent eyebrow as she gazes upon the child, and in a state of renewed determination, she begins poking Chinchiro again. Gods, for all she knows, they could be attacked at any given moment. 

“But I am tired.” Chiro sat up again, looking a touch annoyed.