I pity him
Author's note: Just something I felt I had to write out. I'm not being political; some examples of real life events are used just to prove the point that Prime is trying to make.
"I don't get Devastator; he's so simple minded, no concept of free will, just cares about serving you, and you need life insurance if you're going to even think of trying to get him to change." Peaches had been saying to Optimus as he was walking her away from the combiner after the first had had an argument with the third of them.
"Peaches, you must understand that it is his programming." Optimus Prime said.
"I pity him because he's not really a 'friend' even though I call him my 'friend' and for all the stuff I already said." The Pretender said. "I know you can't help how you're first programmed but still…"
The two had now walked inside into Optimus Prime's office. He closed the door behind him.
"I know patience is not your 'strong suit' as humans say but I wish for you to have it with him while he is here and still online." He said. "Peaches, you don't know how unlucky those of us who aren't 'simple minded' can get."
The red and orange femme was stunned; how could she be the unlucky one? "What?"
"Think of one of the many tragedies that humans have gone through that have happened while you've lived here on Earth; September 11th was planned so to speak and the man who was responsible for the shootings that happened in Arizona said that he 'planned ahead'." Optimus stated.
"Those things were complicated to pull off and yet very sad things for everyone affected." Peaches realized. "I don't know how they did that or what they were thinking; and those protests going on in Egypt…how could anybody think of doing those things? I wouldn't be able to since I've never had a good reason to harm anyone…"
"Free will can be a good thing but you must be careful about how it is used." The Autobot leader explained. "If anyone on this team ever made the wrong choices, I would still respect them for doing so."
"Making the right choices is hard though." Peaches sighed sadly. "Devastator really is lucky not to understand all of this. I'm just ashamed that I grew up on a world with seemingly so many horrible people."
Optimus Prime's reply was "There are also those humans who have done many good things for others; those who rescued the miners in Chile for one thing. Also all those times that Tai has taken care of Abby and Snowball while you've been in training."
"And so many other people whose names I don't know or I forgot." The Pretender was more calmed down after saying this and got up from her chair. "I think I get it now; maybe I shouldn't be so hard on Devastator since he doesn't have to deal with making tough choices. I'll try to not argue with him again Optimus. I promise."
The Autobot leader smiled as Peaches walked out; she still had a long way to go with dealing with everybody on NEST base in general.
What is going on? Devastator had been driving one of his components around the corner.
That is between Peaches and myself; you are not to ask anymore about it. Prime replied.
Understood Master. the combiner stated...