"Haven't paid? Haw!" Maccadam guffaws, "A course you're payin, lass. Just not with money. Money ain't no good here anyway. But ol Maccadam's been around the block a time or two. There's trouble coming, and it's not just because Starscream won't stay dead. I heard Trypticon got ate by some gribbly from beyond the veil, and we couldn't have kept him out, not with thirteen Thirteens. Don't think of it as a gift if that grinds your gears. Think of it as an investment in a brighter future." He dumps the dark purple shot into the orange drink, stirs carefully with a glass rod, and garnishes it with a slice of lemon and a splash of something out of a bottle he doesn't let Tyra see the label on before sliding it over to her, "After all, I'm stuck here, but you and your friends have more stars in your skies than even my brothers and sister ever got to see."
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"Not exactly. The Blades of Time will help, but they alone do not hold the power to counter Circuit Breaker," Vector Prime states, "I was referring to you. A jet, even one as capable as an F-22, could not defeat Circuit Breaker. Her power over machines is so great that even the dark shadow of Entropy himself, Unicron, could be disrupted, if briefly. A person, with the capabilities of that jet? Well, that might be a different story. I believe you are more than the sum of your parts, Airheart, more than your gears, wires, and plates. I believe everyone is. And to defeat Circuit Breaker, you will have to be."
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"If you want the techinical description, it means that there is a you," Solus Prime informs VerTwo gently, "A being beyond the programmed facsimile that inhabited the empty shell which entered my Forge. A being with wants, desires, emotions, and feelings of her own. If you're looking for something more than the mere facts... It means that you are free. You are capable of choice. You can be... Whoever you want to be. And whether or not I agree with your choices, neither I nor anyone else can stop you from making them and holding to them. That is what having a soul gives you. The right and ability to choose things for yourself."