TeeVee made his way through the base looking for ways to be helpful. He liked helping people. It was one of the few personality traits Cam had specifically programed into him. Most of the rest of his personality she had allowed TeeVee to develop on his own.

TeeVee knew himself inside and out and he knew even if he couldn't find people to help today, he'd certainly find questions to ask. He was very curious, especially when it came to living beings. He had often seen them do things that he didn't need to do. HE saw all the agents enjoy eating meals 3 times a day. He saw them sleep every night. Once in a while he'd see them take medicine.

Medicine…now there was something to think about. How come the agents needed to take medicine sometimes? Why didn't they need to do this as often as other things he'd observed?

He wandered into the training room and gym. Crunch was there lifting weights. TeeVee's screen flashed a smiling face to show his emotion. Then he went up to Crunch.

"Hello Crunch. Is there anything I can assist you with?" he asked.

Even though his voice was synthetic, it wasn't a monotone. It too could convey how the little robot was feeling.

"Not right now thanks," Crunch puffed.

TeeVee didn't immediately leave. Often if he waited long enough the agents would realize he wanted to know something and allow him to ask.

Sure enough a few minutes later crunch puts down his weights, took a drink of water and looked over noticing TeeVee had not yet left.

"Something on your mind?" He asked wiping his brow.

"Why do living people take medicine?" TeeVee asked.

"Sometimes our bodies don't work properly just like yours doesn't. It's called getting ill. However if we break cam can't take us apart and fix us like she can with you. So we have to take medicine to try to fix the problem from the outside," Crunch explained.

"How do you know when someone is ill?" TeeVee asked.

"It depends on what's wrong with them. Radia could probably give you more details there. However every time we can feel that something isn't right," Crunch answered.

"Radia knows a lot about getting ill? Does it happen to her more than the rest of you?" TeeVee asked a bit concerned.

"No, TeeVee. But she knows how to help us when something is wrong. That's why whenever we do get ill we're supposed to tell her we don't feel well," Crunch explained.

Charge came into the room then.

"TeeVee bothering you with his questions Crunch?" he asked, "Want me to help explain things?"

"It's not a bother to me," Crunch smiled, "TeeVee's just curious, aren't you, TeeVee?"

"Yes sir," TeeVee said excitedly, "I like learning."

"Naïve is the word I would have chosen," said Charge, "Not that it's a bad thing, but you've also got a bit of a child like mind with how little you understand."

"That's mean Charge!" Crunch said standing.

Crunch easily towered over charge but Charge seemed to show no fear.

"Like I said it's not a bad thing," Charge said, "Just something I hope TeeVee keeps in mind when he starts asking questions."

TeeVee decided he'd had enough of this conversation.

"Thanks for the information," he said politely to Crunch.

Then he left the room.

Charge had a point. He was naïve. He'd overheard other agents call him that before. But it had never occurred to him that the agents might get tired of his questions.

He came up to the main room and overheard Cam and Dash talking.

"So this will help TeeVee become more like a living being?" Dash asked.

TeeVee stopped listening.

"Yes. It will allow him to have the pleasures we do such as eating and dreaming. Also it will mean he can recharge his batteries without my help , and better understand the needs of the agents," said Cam.

"Nifty little thing," Dash complimented.

"Thank you!" Cam beamed.

"When are you going to install it?" dash asked.

"Oh, probably not for a while. A few months at least,"

An angry face flashed on TeeVee's screen and he stormed away.

"Cam's holding out on the key the answers to me questions! That's not fair!" He muttered to himself, "Well I'll show her."

Hours later when Cam was using the restroom Teevee slipped into her workshop and found the chip cam had told Dash about. Carefully, he inserted it into his systems using his mechanical arm.

Now the fun would start!