Silverstar wailed running into Orions study.
"Whats wrong, Silv?" He asked, scooping up the four year old.
"Bubba won't let me play!" She cried, her face soaked with tears. Orion wiped her face and kissed her cheek. He stood, still holding her.
"What do you say we get him to share?" He asked softly. She nodded, and he carried her into the living room, where Jaw and Stear were playing a video game.
"Jawstriker." He called sternly. The boy froze, pausing the game.
"Sir?" He asked nervously, turning his head to face his sire.
"Why won't you let your sister play with you boys?" Orion asked calmly.
"Because he doesn't know how to play!" Jaw wined. "She'll mess up the game! I'm winning too!" Orion frowned.
"Teach her to play. She wants to spend time with you." He said. Jaw groaned and flung himself back onto the couch. "Or you can get off the game." He added.
"Fine." Jaw mumbled. Orion set down Silver and watched as Jaw showed her the buttons to play with.
"Thank you." He said, And walked back to his study to finish with the data pads he was reading. He had just gotten started when his comm activated.
://Orion, what do you know about stuck heads?\\: Megatronus's voice rang from his comm.
://Depends on who and what.//: Orion replied.
Megatronus was silent for a long time, making Orion wonder what could've happened. He leaned back in his chair, waiting on his brother in laws advice.
://Could you...come over real quick?\\: Megatronus asked, finally speaking after a good few minutes.
://should I contact Ratchet or Knockout?\\: Orion asked.
://let it be a last resort.\\: Megatronus replied. Orion chuckled as he stood up.
://Then I'm on my way. I'll bring the younglings to occupy the boys, okay?\\: Orion said.
://yeah, that'll be fine.\\: Megatronus sounded distracted. The comm ended and Orion shook his head, smiling slightly.
"Daaaad! Star turned off the game!"
"Did not!"
"Yes She did!"
"Nuh uh liar!"
"Ow!"
Orion sighed and turned off and put up the data pads. Then he locked and left the room.
"Turn off the game and go get dressed." He said, walking into the living room. The arguing kids whined but did as they were told.
"You too Streakstear." Orion said. "Up and at it." Stear nodded and went to put up the controller.
"Um...thanks again for letting me stay while my parents are out of the city-state, Mr. Pax." Stear said. Orion smiled.
"Its no problem, Stear, now go change." He said. The youngling nodded and headed to the spare bedroom he was currently staying in.
://Elita, I'm taking the younglings over to Megatronus's. Emergency.\\: Orion said into his comm link.
://What happened?\\: She asked.
://I think Crimsontide got her head stuck again.\\: He replied. He heard Elita laugh.
://Why didn't he contact Knockout or Ratchet?\\: She asked.
://You know why.\\:
://He doesn't like doctors.\\: they said at the same time. Elita laughed again.
://Best of luck. I love you.\\: She said.
://I love you, Elita.\\: Orion said, and ended the link.
Orion closed his eyes for a second and sighed. Just like the day before, a wave of uncertainty overcame him, and he fell into a flashback.
"Orion! Help!" Said mech ran towards a red headed woman with a bullet hole in her ankle. Bullets fired at them and he shot back, hitting both of the enforcers that had fired at them. He wrapped her arm over his shoulders, and rushed as fast as he could to the building Megatronus and his other rebels hid.
The woman cried out when they stumbled. They made it inside and into the room being used as a medical room.
"Orion! You take a team and drive those enforcers off!" Megatronus ordered. Orion nodded and left with four others.
"Ironhide take left! Arcee take right! Starscream come with me!" He ordered and they nodded, going their ways. Orion and Starscream hid by the door and he looked at her.
They had just found out she was sparked, and Megatronus had pitched a fit when she refused to abort her mission and go home.
She nodded at him and they activated their faceguards and weapons; she had pistols and he had blasters. They fired at the enforcers, taking them out, but more poured in.
"Megatronus it's no good! There's more coming in than we can take down!" Starscream said into her comm link to the kaonian.
"Fall back. And I mean FALL BACK Starscream!" The mech yelled.
"Go. I will distract them." Orion said. Starscream looked like she didn't like the option, but nodded and left as he fired gaining their attention.
"Come on Orion!" He heard Elita yell into the comm link. Orion backed up, still firing. When he was clear, he turned and ran out the back, and they ran into Kaon, loosening the enforcers immediately.
"Papa?" Orion uncovered his face, hands shaking. He turned to the children, and smiled.
"We are going to uncle Megatronus's house for a little while." He said, grabbed his keys, and the four of them got in the car and drove to Megatronus's house on the outskirts of Iacon and Kaon.
The remodeling of Kaon was going smoothly, giving many Kaonians a much needed job and credits. It was Megatronus's idea, saying otherwise Kaonians would begin revolting again, perhaps causing a war. The Senant had agreed, and remodeling had taken way rapidly.
Some said it was because Megatronus and Orion grew up in Kaon that they even gave the wretched city-state a second glance. Others said he was trying to start a revision, starting from the worst place to the best, just trying to make Cybertron a better and safer place to live. But only Orion knew his brother in law's real reason for helping Kaon. Because the mech had a spark. He wanted better for the kids with literally nothing worth living for. He had three sparklings of his own now, and the mech had confined in Orion multiple times most nights that he couldnt sleep because he couldn't stop thinking about them. He kept thinking "what if they were my kids one day?"
There was one time it nearly drove his poor brother insane, until the Senant agreed to start remodeling.
Many had said it wasn't good to obsess over anything involving Kaon, and Megatronus spat in their faces.
"What makes Iacon any better?" He had snapped,
Orion pulled into the driveway and climbed out of the car. He could still feel someone watching them, an eerie shiver shot into his spark, and he had to fight another flashback.
