I was born in Germany, on August 14th, 1988. I was created by an automotive company, Ford, for an Artificial Intelligence project, which purpose was the production of cars that are able to transform into robots and viceversa, using the "Transformers" as a model. I was the prototype. The model of car used to build me was a green Fiesta, produced by Ford.

I spent my first year of life in a laboratory, between several tests and examinations, some of them being painful too… and I'm not speaking only about the "crash-test" to which cars are normally subjected… but they've also taken me apart several times to modify the car structure and the motors, or to verify my resistance to pain.

I was sold on 1990. It was a mistake, to say the truth, as they had to disassemble me, since the Ford had renounced to the AI project… but I was in vehicle mode and the technicians didn't realized that I was a prototype of an earthen Transformer. Thus they sold me together to other Ford Fiestas that had been exported to Italy.

So, my first master bought me in a plant when I was just 2 years old; he used to live in Genzano, next to the psychiatric hospital "FateBeneFratelli". He used to me for some years as a private car, always unaware of the fact that I was a robot. To be honest, I hadn't transformed into robot mode since I had the last laboratory test… One of the engineers was somehow… "dusgusted" (and saying that is even saying too little) by my robotic appearance, and this thing had really traumatized me… After approximately a year that I was with my master, I found the courage to transform again… Transformation is a painful process when it's not done frequently, so at the very beginning it wasn't so tempting to me… but I decided to try it because I was NOT a car! I was a robot! A sentient being!

I transformed only at night, though, when my master was asleep. I ate what I managed to find and I often got drank too, when I succeeded in escaping and sheltering in some tavern in Microform-mode.

After thirteen years of "service", my alt-mode had become "outdated", so I started being considered an old piece of rust… My master abandoned me under an olive tree of its vine, for months, and he bought new cars.

I had become a useless thing… and since I was not considered one of the family (and not even a living being ), I suffered from a deep depression, besides the fear… I was alone, in that vine, neglected, half rusted… I succeeded in escaping for some time during the night only, to get drunk, to remove the rust from my body, to calm the bites of hunger and the cold (for what I could find).

Then, on 2004, a man came to visit my master… He examined me a little, then he asked him if he could buy me for his daughter, who was about to achieve her driver's license. I couldn't believe it! O__O I still had a hope!!

The man's name was Stefano, and he was Luana's dad, the girl who would have become my mother later. Well… Mr. Stefano repaired me completely and I was as new (but he hadn't found out that I was a robot) and he used me as a personal car for some time. In the meantime, I was living part of my day with a boy, Mario, who had seen me while I transformed (at night) and he had the good heart to give to me food and a bed, for some time, in exchange of walks, transformations, and of explanations on how robots are built. He was a good boy… but he didn't love me for what I was… simply, he was curious about a machine like me.

I'd to wait some time before I could become Luana's and Black Jack's son… but actually it was worth the time. I have a wonderful family, which I could never thank enough for all the affection it's giving to me, and… I have a sweet mother who loves me from the deep of her heart. The mother I always wished to have.

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