If Mirage was trying not to scare CLiffjumper, he'd failed. Not that the minibot wasn't doing his best to pretend he wasn't unsettled, but that didn't take away the fact that he most certainly was.

"... you ain't just yanking my wires, are ya?" Staring narrowly across the room at Mirage, Cliffjumper scowled, arms crossed over his chestplates. He wasn't sure he believed all that, but on the other hand he had asked... And while he was pretty sure Mirage was perfectly capable of having him on (from a sense of revenge, if nothing else), he didn't think that was what was going on currently.

So... that probably meant the stories he mentioned either were true, or he believed them to be. Which was... scary unsettling.