[Brainstorm makes a noise that's somewhere between confusion and annoyance before he waves off the idea.]

No, no. If others learn how to fix these things, then I suspect other Visitors will become less careful, since they will have options for repair that aren't the 'big cranky robot'--

[His irritable, bitterness-filled tirade is cut off as he catches just what Tachikoma said, and he crouches down to get a closer look.]

...what's all this about 'when you were a tank'?