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Another usual day at Iacon city, another day full of adventure for the young sparkling…or perhaps you can say…Primeling.
Orion Pax, the only sparkling of Megatronus Prime & Prima Prime, wandering right at the halls of the Iacon city hall with his favorite little toy that was gifted by one of his uncles, Onyx. But he wasn’t wandering around alone, not far from him, Prima Prime was keeping an eye on his son as he ventures around the halls full of curiosity while greets anyone that he passes by with the sweetest smile in all of Cybertron.
RIght at the end of the hall, the sparkling was too busy greeting every single mech or femme he sees, that he accidentally bumped into another mech’s pedes, landing himself on his arft on the hard floor and dropping his toy.
“Woah woah there young one. Careful there little one.” The larger mech commented and chucked as he swiftly picked up Orion off from the floor and carried him between his arms. “Seems like you’re having a busy day greeting others huh?” He teases him before bending down to grab the toy from the floor and hands it back to the little one. “Good morning Uncle Zeta!” Orion greeted the younger prime. “Good morning to you, little one” Zeta greeted back.
“Ah good morning, Zeta.” Prima greeted his fellow prime with a warm smile as he approached the both of them. “Seems like the little one wasn’t looking around carefully, isn’t it true, Orion?” Prima bent down enough to look at Orion optics directly before letting out a small chuckle and smile. “Be Careful more next time, my little star.” He suggested and patted his helm. Orion let out a small chuckle and nodded. “Ok dada.”
“How’s your conjunx doing?” Zeta asked the white and gold mech out of curiosity, “He’s doing well enough, in fact, we’re going to pay him a visit right now.” Prima answered. “We’re going to see daddy??” Orion asked his carrier with sparkles and excitement written all over his face plate and optics. Orion’s carrier and uncle both immediately let out a chuckle and small laughter. “Yes my sparkling. We’re going to see daddy train with the other elite guards in the training grounds right now.” He answered the little mech’s question.
“Speaking of the elite guards, didn’t they take in a young orphan sparkling recently?” Zeta asked another question before handing his nephew back to his carrier, Prima nodded as he took his sparkling from Zeta’s servos and onto his own, “They did. They rescued him from one of their recent missions and decided to take care of him as Tronus saw raw talent in the young spark. If my memory is running well, his name is D-16. I was also hoping that my little spark would meet him as well when we get there.”
“And here I thought that the two of you will have another sparkling.” Zeta commented before being hit on the side of his helm by Prima’s Servo while the owner of the servo was heavily blushing. “Not in front of the little mech Zeta…” Prima whispered with a hint of annoyance. “Alright alright, I should get going now before Quintus makes a fuss.” Zeta explained himself before passing by them but turned around for a bit. “See ya later at dinner tonight you both.” Zeta waved off and walked away.
The carrier and his sparkling waved at the young prime before they continued his journey. The whole walk to the arena was peaceful as Orion just played his toy peacefully while Prima carried him in his servo. It took a few astro minutes…well not a few, more like a whole 30 astro-minutes just to get there. They can already hear the loud sound of swords and spears clashing with each other as they enter the training grounds through the designated entrance.
Once they had reached the inner part of the training ground, Orion’s eyes instantly sparkled as he watched two large mechs clashed their spears together. He also spotted a few of them also doing the same thing as the mechs in front of them but a little further from them then a few other mechs that seemed to be doing some exercises and a few more practicing using other weapons.
“Hello there my sweetpark and little spark.”
A voice was heard behind Prima, almost instantly spooked his spark away as he turned around to see his beloved conjunx.
“Tronus my dearly beloved. You scared me for a bit.” Prima sighed in relief while the sparkling immediately reached his hands out for his Sire. “Daddy!!” He called him out. “Sorry dear, it wasn’t intentional.” The larger purple mech apologies as he approaches his conjunx and gives him a quick kiss before showering even more kisses to make up for his unintentional mistake. “That wouldn’t be enough to make up.” Prima teases him with a small chuckle. “But I’ll accept it with all my spark.” Prima added with a soft smile.
After a while, Megatronus stops before slowly takes his sparkling away from his carrier and carries him onto his own servos. “Hello there my little spark, have you been behaving well?” He asked his sparkling gently. Orion nodded innocently with a cute smile in response to the question. “That’s my boy.” His sire said and patted gently on top of his helm. “My love, have you seen the Elite guard’s child here?” Prima pops the question. “He’s with Solus right now, she offered to look after the young bot for a while today since they’re servos are all full right now.” His lover responded and pointed at the pink-purple femme watching over a sparkling.
“Are you gonna introduce our sparkling to him?” He asked out of curiosity, Prima usually shows up to the training grounds without the sparkling, with intentions always either wanting to train together or disturb his conjunx.
“Mhm, I want our Orion to have a friend that’s around his age and it would be good for the both of them to have a small development knowing how to make friends with their age aren’t too far.” Prima explained his reasoning of bringing their sparkling to an area that’s considerably dangerous for him to be here. “Then I’ll leave him with Solus for a bit, there’s something I wanna discuss regarding a new action plan against the Quintessons.” Megatronus suggested as he started walking towards the only two bots that weren’t training, followed by Prima beside him.
“A new strategy? How delightful. The war is finally gonna end soon and the sooner it ends, the more peaceful our lives will be, our sparkling’s life be.” Prima agreed with him as the three of them walked over to Solus. Meanwhile, Solus was watching over the small black and grey mech as he tried to copy what his caretakers were doing but noticed the family of 3 coming towards them.
“I thought having one sparkling far more than enough in this dangerous area.” Solus teases, repeating almost precisely what the large purple mech said before training started. “Seems like there’s another exception here.” She smiled and waved to Orion, who immediately called out her name. “Aunty Solus!!” He shouted as his parents let out a small chuckle while the other young sparkling turned to his direction, and for a moment, he thought he was dreaming.
His optics layed on the young red and blue mech who’s smile’s as bright as the summer skies. Anyone can say that he’s currently starstruck or perhaps something else. D-16 didn’t realize that he was staring at the young mech that long till Solus started calling his name, ending his daydream. “D-16, meet my nephew, Orion Pax.” Solus introduces Orion to the grey-black sparkling, but all he can do is just gaze back as he can feel his faceplate heat up a little that wasn’t unnoticeable. Meanwhile, Orion was finally put down to the ground by his sire and instantly went up to the other sparkling.
“Hello Dee! I’m Orion” Orion greeted and introduced himself with the sweetest smile that D-16 ever seen while offering his servo for a servoshake, even though he didn’t properly pronounce his name but he didn't mind it one bit. “N-n-nice to meet you…” D-16 greeted back as he fumbled his words while acting all shy as his faceplate gets even bluer and felt like he’s gonna overheat and pass out anytime soon at this rate.
Meanwhile, Orion’s carrier looked at them with a smile. “Seems like they’re getting along pretty well. I’m sure they will be great friends.” Prima commented on the young sparks, who now seem to be busy in their own little world before looking at his conjunx, shifting his expression to a surprise. “My sweetspark?” Prima called him out softly because even with the mask, Prima knows his lover more than anyone and right now, he can sense that Megatronus is a little mad.
At that moment, he knew something was up.“Solus, can you watch the little ones for a bit? We both need to deal with something first.It won’t be long.” Prima excused themselves as he grabbed his tronus’s servo and walked away from the three. Solus nodded and watched them slowly disappear from her sight.
“What’s like being with the Elite Guard???” Orion asked with curiosity towards D-16, who looked like a blushing mess as he started answering the other’s question. “Hehe, sparkling these days.” Solus thought to herself before letting out a chuckle.
Meanwhile, the parent’s of Orion went to a space that’s not small enough for the sire but far away enough so no mech can hear them. “My beloved, what’s wrong?” Prima asked him softly as he looked at his lover's optics. Silence. There was no response from his lover. “You can hide from others, but you can’t hide it from me, dear.” The white-yellow mech warned his conjunx.
“So if you won’t spit it out-”
“That young mech.”
Oh?
“You mean D-16? What’s wrong with him? He seems fine to me and he’s getting along with our Orion” He asked another question, cause this is the first time that he seems mad at the Elite Guard’s sparkling but whatever reason he’s mad at him, it’s definitely gonna be something stupid.
“It’s just…something feels off when he talks to our spark .” Megatronus added to his statement. “That sparkling has never been this open to anyone ever since he arrived here, he has always kept things to himself and only hangs out with either Shockwave, Soundwave & Starscream. And have you seen his optics and his faceplate??”
“Oh my sweetspark, you don’t have to worry about anything.” He reassured him and placed his servo on his chassis. “They’re just started out as friends, nothing goes wrong plus they;re just sparklings.” He chucked. “They’re too young and too early to be what? To be each other ‘s Conjux?” Prima jokes about it with a chuckle. “Or worse, Enemies.” The purple mech suggested with a sigh. “I don’t know about this sweet spark..every time I have this ‘feeling’, it’s always right. Like how I told you about this feeling a few astro-cycles ago then at that same cycle we almost lost Liege Maximo & Alchemist from the Quintessons. Then one time, that feeling happened again and then a tower collapsed, injuring and killing a few mechs and femme here.”
Megatronus explained a couple of the past incidents that happened that kept him up all night for how many astro-weeks. He isn’t the type of mech to express or even tell his personal thoughts to anyone other than Prima, who shall always be an exception since he’s more of a listener than a yapper since the very beginning, only using his voice when it’s only necessary and when he truly wants to.
“My dear..” Prima let his servo off from his chassis and immediately went for a hug and lay his helm onto his Conjux chassis. His servo and arms barely wrapped around his Hexa-Lateral Scapula. “All I want to know is that our sparkling will be safe with D-16, considering that he will be an elite guard when he’s a little older.” Megatronus expressed himself with words, with a hint of worry and fear in his voice. “I want him to be safe and happy.”
“He is safe right now, if anything happens, we will be there to protect our spark. Our little Orion..” Prima reassures him, trying to calm his conjunx as much as possible, knowing that he couldn’t do much as well. Because what Megatronus told him also made him doubt some things as well, what if neither of them were able to be there when he needed the most…”I would do anything just to know that you both will be safe.” Prima added and he felt the warmth from Megatronus' body. “I would do the same thing as well.” He responded with an agreement as he hugged back his conjunx before leaning down to give him a gentle kiss. All can Prima do is just smile, reassure himself that everything will be alright, and kiss him back.
After a while, they finally went back while holding servos to where they left Solus, D-16, and their sparkling. Only to see Solus without the sparklings but with Shockwave, Soundwave & Starscream instead.
“Where’s Orion & D-16?” Prima asked the four of them as he looked around for them.
Solus only pointed at a direction, where both of their heads turned to, to see Orion & D-16 sitting next to each other while talking in the further corner of the training grounds as if they’re having a little date that shouldn’t be disturbed.
“They have been like that since you guys left your sparkling with him” Starscream pointed out with hints of surprise in his tone while Shockwave & Soundwave only nodded in agreement about what the seeker just said. Almost instantly, Prima felt a tight grip on his servo from Megatronus’s servo. Perhaps his beloved isn’t worried about them being enemies as well.