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flipping-the-coin · 1 year ago

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From the desk of

Head Archivist: Orion Pax

Hall of Records

East Trion Square

Iacon

I would like to extend my greatest thanks to the esteemed members of this Council for hearing my proposal on such short notice. It is to my understanding that the Council has been accepting proposals for public works projects. I would like to propose one of my own.

We have several monuments available to our citizens to pay their respects to the fallen Prime, who so graciously sacrificed his life so that our home could be fully restored. These memorials have provided the public with much needed spaces to come together in reverence, ceremony, brotherhood, and remembrance for our dear Prime. What these spaces do not allow, however, is an appropriate place to grieve those lost in the war.

I propose a pool of funds to be dedicated to the design, building and maintenance of a memorial dedicated to all those fallen during our great civil war. The monument should include but should not to be limited to: One(1) standing monument of artistic quality to represent those lost, Six (6) types of public seating, fitting all frame sizes, from sparklings to warframes, four (4) gardens, two (2) buildings to be dedicated to the public’s personal memorials and as many plaques as needed to legibly engrave the designations of those whose sparks were snuffed during the war.

As well as requesting funding, I also seek the appointment of those I know to be capable and trustworthy in their work to lead this project. I humbly request the Council consider lead Architect Bulkead for the drafting, planning and building stages of this project. For the designing and creation of the monument itself, I request that the council consider Grapple for the position. For the design and creation of the gardens, I request the council consider the combined efforts of Councilor Deepstreak and civilian crystal tender Cloudbeam. If I may be so bold, I humbly request that our Primal Steward, Ratchet oversee the management of funds and general project oversight to ensure that the needs of our citizens are properly considered.

The needs of all of our citizens are being considered… aren’t they? I know that this council has several times been told of the horrendous lack of support for those living on the sublevels. Perhaps the severity of the issue simply 𐌃Ꝋ𐌃Ᏽ𐌄𐌔 the members of this Councils’ attention. None of you have ever lived in the sublevels, so how can you be expected to truly grasp the lack of attention being given to those who live there? Perhaps now is the perfect time for me to elaborate my grievances.

Upper Iacon has a marvelous assistance program to caretakers of new sparklings. It provides a modest income for the purchase of purified energon, medical aid and other necessities. All one must do is register the little one and present it for verification. Perhaps you were unaware, but this much needed assistance program is 𐌂𐌵𐌕 Ꝋ𐌅𐌅 to those in the Lower Levels. Upon filling out the required forms, it becomes obvious that only addresses from Upper Iacon are accepted. Perhaps this is simply an oversight, but I suppose it is easy for some to forget about the sparklings who's caretakers chose neutrality over violence.

Were you aware that there are no proper educational facilities available to sparklings and younglings living in the sublevels? This would not be much of an issue if registration of addresses from the lower levels was accepted, but alas, as I have already pointed out to you, they are not. I have 𐌕𐌐𐌉𐌄𐌃 𐌔Ꝋ 𐋅𐌀𐌐𐌃 to see this oversight as a benevolent one, but with how blatantly 𐌃𐌄𐌀𐌃 𐌔𐌄𐌕 this council has been upon silently reintroducing a caste system, I can only assume this serves a dual purpose in to preventing neutral views from 𐌉𐌍𐌅𐌄𐌂𐌕𐌉𐌍Ᏽ the propaganda you have so dutifully taught to your own younglings and to force citizens of the lower level into a state of functionalism. If the only education opportunities available to you are apprenticeships that match your frame type, you have no choice but to 𐌔𐌵𐌁𐌌𐌉𐌕 just to survive.

Frankly, the way this Council prioritizes Upper level, Autobot sparklings above the rest 𐌃𐌉𐌔Ᏽ𐌵𐌔𐌕𐌔 me. The members in this very room have, on more occasions than I can recount directly 𐌕𐋅𐌐𐌄𐌀𐌕𐌄𐌍𐌄𐌃 the lives of sparklings living in the sublevels. 𐌄ᕓ𐌄𐌐𐌙 𐌔𐌉𐌍Ᏽ𐌋𐌄 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌄 you have voted to ‘redistribute’ energy to meet the demands of your frivolous ‘grand openings’ or galas, you throw everyone below your pedes into darkness. I have lived there. I have heard the Ꮤ𐌀𐌉𐌋𐌔 of hungry sparklings at the mercy of the length of your festivities as they are forced to endure without their purifiers to cleanse the 𐌓𐌉𐌔𐌔 𐌓ꝊꝊ𐌐 quality of fuels shipped and sold there.

If they do manage to survive and are hopeful enough to attempt to ��𐌋𐌉𐌌𐌁 𐌕𐋅𐌄 𐌋𐌀𐌃𐌃𐌄𐌐 and make a life for themselves on the surface, they are left stranded. It is perfectly legal to deny housing and employment to anyone on this planet. Of course, those of the upper levels, mostly registered Autobots, do not face this issue. They are Ꝋ𐌍 𐌕𐋅𐌄 Ꮤ𐌉𐌍𐌍𐌉𐌍Ᏽ 𐌕𐌄𐌀𐌌 after all. The only guaranteed pathway to employment and housing available to those coming up from the sublevels is to join the Elite Guard and be subject to 𐌁𐌐𐌀𐌉𐌍Ꮤ𐌀𐌔𐋅𐌉𐌍Ᏽ techniques and massive 𐌅Ꝋ𐌐𐌂𐌄𐌃 alterations to their personality matrices through 𐌁𐌐𐌵𐌕𐌀𐌋 𐌀𐌍𐌃 𐌀𐌁𐌵𐌔𐌉ᕓ𐌄 methods of reprogramming. 𐌕𐋅𐌄 Ꝋ𐌍𐌋𐌙 𐌐𐌄𐌀𐌔Ꝋ𐌍 I secured my position despite being unregistered in Upper Iacon was because 𐌉 Ꮤ𐌀𐌔 𐌃𐌀𐌌𐌍 ᏵꝊꝊ𐌃 𐌀𐌕 𐌌𐌙 ᏖꝊ𐌁 before the war and everyone knew who had personally trained me.

Which brings me to my second point of grievance against this council: the constant belittling of myself by nearly all present in these chambers. Not a single other member of this government is subject to the levels of 𐌂𐌐𐌵𐌄𐌋𐌕𐌙 𐌀𐌍𐌃 𐌃𐌄Ᏽ𐌐𐌄𐌃𐌀𐌕𐌉Ꝋ𐌍 that these courts allow me to be subject to. There is no other member of this government who must endure the blatant disrespect I am subject to anytime I must physically reside in this room. I am certain it has happened during the reading of this very proposal. How many laughed or groaned out as soon as my designation was uttered as author of this proposal? How many Ꮤ𐌐𐌄𐌕𐌂𐋅𐌄𐌃 𐌀𐌍𐌃 𐋅𐌵𐌌𐌉𐌋𐌉𐌀𐌕𐌉𐌍Ᏽ designations was I called before the Primal Stewart finally called for order? Ꮤ𐋅𐌉𐌂𐋅 Ꝋ𐌍𐌄𐌔 𐌃𐌉𐌃 𐌕𐋅𐌄𐌙 𐌂𐌀𐌋𐌋 𐌌𐌄 𐌕𐋅𐌉𐌔 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌄? ‘Megatron’s Little Mouthpiece?’ ‘Primus’s Largest Mistake?’ Perhaps someone even muttered that I am a ‘glitch?’ Perhaps some of you immediately voted ‘’no’ simply because this proposal has my designation attached. How many times has the orator been forced to stop as I am denigrated by my peers?

Do not think that I am 𐌉𐌍 𐌕𐋅𐌄 𐌃𐌀𐌐𐌊 regarding the ulterior motives behind the recently passed blasphemy laws. How else can you 𐌊𐌄𐌄𐌓 𐌙Ꝋ𐌵𐌐 Ᏽ𐌐𐌀𐌔𐌓 Ꝋ𐌍 𐌙Ꝋ𐌵𐌐 𐌋𐌉𐌄𐌔 regarding my life? You’ve already disrespected me by ignoring every single petition for records correction I have turned in. You would rather keep telling the 𐌓𐌐𐌄𐌕𐌕𐌙 𐌋𐌉𐌕𐌕𐌋𐌄 𐌋𐌉𐌄 that I willingly took that 𐌓𐌀𐌐𐌀𐌔𐌉𐌕𐌉𐌂 𐌀𐌁Ꝋ𐌌𐌉𐌍𐌀𐌕𐌉Ꝋ𐌍 you call the Matrix of Leadership into my chassis and 𐌌𐌄Ᏽ𐌀𐌕𐌐Ꝋ𐌍𐌵𐌔 𐌕𐋅𐌐𐌄Ꮤ 𐌀 𐌅𐌉𐌕 over it instead of 𐌕𐋅𐌄 𐋅𐌀𐌐𐌔𐋅 𐌕𐌐𐌵𐌕𐋅 𐌕𐋅𐌀𐌕 𐌉 Ꮤ𐌀𐌔 𐌔𐌕Ꝋ𐌋𐌄𐌍 𐌅𐌐Ꝋ𐌌 𐋅𐌉𐌌 (Which is, need I remind you, a war crime as stated in the Codices of Proper Warfare: Article 4, Paragraph 2, subsection C, point XVI: harassment, assault, seizure, torture or killing of noncombatant spouses of hostile party leaders.) He did what was his right as my Conjunx in seeking to retrieve me! Instead, you mock my attempts at 𐌐𐌉Ᏽ𐋅𐌕𐌉𐌍Ᏽ 𐌕𐋅𐌉𐌔 𐌂𐌐𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌕𐋅𐌀𐌕 Ꮤ𐌀𐌔 𐌂Ꝋ𐌌𐌌𐌉𐌕𐌕𐌄𐌃 𐌀Ᏽ𐌀𐌉𐌍𐌔𐌕 𐌵𐌔 by refusing to even acknowledge that he and I 𐌔𐋅𐌀𐌐𐌄𐌃 Ꝋ𐌵𐌐 𐌔𐌓𐌀𐌐𐌊𐌔 before some of you were even 𐌓𐌋𐌵𐌂𐌊𐌄𐌃 𐌅𐌐Ꝋ𐌌 𐌕𐋅𐌄 Ꮤ𐌉𐌋𐌃𐌔!

Furthermore, your 𐌂𐌐𐌵𐌄𐌋 𐌐𐌄𐌅𐌵𐌔𐌀𐌋 to acknowledge said bond between 𐌌𐌄Ᏽ𐌀𐌕𐌐Ꝋ𐌍𐌵𐌔 Ꝋ𐌅 𐌊𐌀Ꝋ𐌍 and myself is further proof of how low this Council has sunk into pettiness. Bondings are sacred for all Cybertronians, yet for this Council it seems that 𐌔Ꝋ𐌌𐌄 𐌐𐌉𐌕𐌄𐌔 𐌀𐌐𐌄 𐌌Ꝋ𐌐𐌄 𐌔𐌀𐌂𐌐𐌄𐌃 𐌕𐋅𐌀𐌍 Ꝋ𐌕𐋅𐌄𐌐𐌔 as my repeated pleadings for not only our 𐌊𐌀Ꝋ𐌍𐌉 bond to be accepted, but those of all other city-states to be registered properly as well. This Council is intentionally violating our rights as a 𐌁Ꝋ𐌍𐌃𐌄𐌃 𐌓𐌀𐌉𐌐 by trying to 𐌅Ꝋ𐌐𐌂𐌄 us to adopt Iaconian standards over those of my Conjunx’s culture and you 𐌓𐌉𐌕𐌔𐌓𐌀Ꮤ𐌍 are cruel enough to force this punishment on our citizens just so that you may 𐌔𐌉𐌋𐌄𐌍𐌕𐌋𐌙 𐌊𐌄𐌄𐌓 𐌙Ꝋ𐌵𐌐 𐌂𐌀𐌔𐌕𐌄 𐌔𐌙𐌔𐌕𐌄𐌌 𐌀𐌍𐌃 𐌊𐌄𐌄𐌓 𐌌𐌄Ᏽ𐌀𐌕𐌐Ꝋ𐌍𐌵𐌔 𐌅𐌐Ꝋ𐌌 𐌐𐌄𐌂𐌉𐌄ᕓ𐌉𐌍Ᏽ 𐌕𐋅𐌄 𐌔𐌀𐌌𐌄 𐌋𐌵𐋄𐌵𐌐𐌉𐌄𐌔 𐌀𐌍𐌃 𐌔𐌕𐌀𐌕𐌵𐌔 𐌙Ꝋ𐌵𐌐 𐌂Ꝋ𐌍Ꮦ𐌵𐌍𐋄𐌄𐌔 𐌀𐌐𐌄 𐌀Ꮤ𐌀𐌐𐌃𐌄𐌃.

𐌌𐌄Ᏽ𐌀𐌕𐌐Ꝋ𐌍𐌵𐌔 is the only Conjunx of a member of this Council who is never awarded the appropriate subglyph designations to signify his bond to me when he is spoken of by this Council, whilst yours receive titles such as ‘Beloved Conjunx of…’ and ‘Conjunx Endura of…’ Instead, you speak of him with 𐌄ᕓ𐌄𐌍 𐌌Ꝋ𐌐𐌄 ᕓ𐌄𐌍Ꝋ𐌌 than you speak of me, sometimes in 𐌃𐌉𐌐𐌄𐌂𐌕 𐌀𐌕𐌕𐌄𐌌𐌓𐌕𐌔 𐌕Ꝋ 𐌀𐌍𐌕𐌀ᏵꝊ𐌍𐌉Ɀ𐌄 𐌌𐌄. Our relationship is regularly 𐌃𐌉𐌔𐌌𐌉𐌔𐌔𐌄𐌃, 𐌂Ꝋ𐌍𐌃𐌄𐌌𐌍𐌄𐌃, 𐌀𐌍𐌃 ᕓ𐌉𐌋𐌉𐌅𐌉𐌄𐌃 in my presence with the express purpose of Ᏽ𐌄𐌕𐌕𐌉𐌍Ᏽ 𐌵𐌍𐌃𐌄𐌐 𐌌𐌙 𐌓𐌋𐌀𐌕𐌉𐌍Ᏽ to cause me to 𐌋𐌀𐌔𐋅 Ꝋ𐌵𐌕 so that I may be reprimanded for defending my relationship.

𐌌𐌙 𐌂𐋅𐌀𐌌𐌓𐌉Ꝋ𐌍 has never once received a formal invitation to an open Council session. 𐌕𐋅𐌄 Ꝋ𐌍𐌄 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌄 𐋅𐌄 𐌕𐌐𐌉𐌄𐌃 𐌕Ꝋ 𐌂Ꝋ𐌌𐌄 to offer me support, he was 𐌔𐌕Ꝋ𐌓𐌓𐌄𐌃 𐌀𐌍𐌃 𐌕𐋅𐌐𐌄𐌀𐌕𐌄𐌍𐌄𐌃 by the guard when, as my Conjunx, he has every right to 𐌔𐌕𐌀𐌍𐌃 𐌀𐌕 𐌌𐌙 𐌔𐌉𐌃𐌄. Even if he is merely 𐌓𐌉𐌂𐌊𐌉𐌍Ᏽ 𐌌𐌄 𐌵𐌓 to walk me home, he is ᕓ𐌉Ꝋ𐌋𐌄𐌍𐌕𐌋𐌙 𐌕𐋅𐌐𐌄𐌀𐌕𐌄𐌍𐌄𐌃 until either I or the Primal Stewart can intervene.

𐌍𐌄ᕓ𐌄𐌐 has he been invited to 𐌔𐌕𐌀𐌍𐌃 𐌉𐌍 𐌌𐌙 𐌓𐌋𐌀𐌂𐌄 at the Grand Openings to your superfluous memorials to the Prime, as is standard protocol when a Council member cannot attend such festivities. 𐌕𐋅𐌄𐌐𐌄 𐋅𐌀𐌔𐌍'𐌕 𐌁𐌄𐌄𐌍 𐌀 𐌔𐌉𐌍Ᏽ𐌋𐌄 gala, party or fundraising event I have been able to attend as my Conjunx was explicitly 𐌅Ꝋ𐌐𐌁𐌉𐌃𐌃Ꝋ𐌍 from attendance. He is 𐌍Ꝋ𐌕 𐌄ᕓ𐌄𐌍 𐌕Ꝋ𐌋𐌄𐌐𐌀𐌕𐌄𐌃 𐌀𐌕 𐌕𐋅𐌄 𐌐𐌄Ᏽ𐌉Ꝋ𐌍��𐌋 𐌀𐌃𐌃𐌐𐌄𐌔𐌔𐌄𐌔 regarding 𐌊𐌀Ꝋ𐌍, 𐋅𐌉𐌔 𐋅Ꝋ𐌌𐌄! Tell me, are there any citizens 𐌁𐌀𐌐𐌐𐌄𐌃 𐌅𐌐Ꝋ𐌌 𐌄𐌍𐌕𐌐𐌙 to all public events other than my 𐌌𐌄Ᏽ𐌀𐌕𐌐Ꝋ𐌍𐌵𐌔?

This Council has restricted his involvement at every level, even though 𐋅𐌄 𐋅𐌀𐌔 𐌁𐌄𐌄𐌍 𐌓𐌀𐌐𐌃Ꝋ𐌍𐌄𐌃 𐌅Ꝋ𐌐 𐋅𐌉𐌔 𐌂𐌐𐌉𐌌𐌄𐌔 by the one you hold sacred. He has not even been provided 𐌕𐋅𐌄 𐌌Ꝋ𐌔𐌕 𐌁𐌀𐌔𐌉𐌂 of benefits awarded to Conjunxes of government workers. He has been granted 𐌍Ꝋ 𐌓𐌐𐌉Ꝋ𐌐𐌉𐌕𐌙 in employment even for positions he is 𐋅𐌉Ᏽ𐋅𐌋𐌙 𐌔𐌵𐌉𐌕𐌄𐌃 𐌅Ꝋ𐌐, such as Hall of Record security, the counterterrorism task force, or leading the 𐌓𐌐𐌀𐌂𐌕𐌉𐌂𐌀𐌋𐌋𐌙 𐌵𐌔𐌄𐌋𐌄𐌔𐌔 Decepticon Refugee Outreach program. Ꮤ𐋅𐌀𐌕'𐌔 𐌄ᕓ𐌄𐌍 ᏔꝊ𐌐𐌔𐌄? He has been barred from enrolling in any government funded educational programs, including ones hosted in 𐌌𐌙 Archives! You have 𐌁𐌋𐌀𐌂𐌊𐌋𐌉𐌔𐌕𐌄𐌃 𐋅𐌉𐌌 from every means of self betterment available to him 𐌀𐌍𐌃 𐌂𐌀𐌋𐌋𐌄𐌃 𐋅𐌉𐌌 𐌀 𐌌Ꝋ𐌍𐌔𐌕𐌄𐌐 𐌅Ꝋ𐌐 𐌍Ꝋ𐌕 𐌋𐌉ᕓ𐌉𐌍Ᏽ 𐌵𐌓 𐌕Ꝋ 𐌙Ꝋ𐌵𐌐 𐌉𐌀𐌂Ꝋ𐌍𐌉𐌀𐌍 𐌔𐌕𐌀𐌍𐌃𐌀𐌐𐌃𐌔.

𐌕𐋅𐌄 𐌐𐌄𐌀𐌋 𐌌Ꝋ𐌍𐌔𐌕𐌄𐌐𐌔 sit in these very chambers. They are those 𐌔𐌓𐌀𐌐𐌊𐌋𐌄𐌔𐌔 enough to vote in favor of measures that leave new Caretakers 𐋅𐌄𐌋𐌓𐌋𐌄𐌔𐌔 as you deny them needed aid and cut off their power. 𐌕𐋅𐌄 𐌐𐌄𐌀𐌋 𐌁𐌄𐌀𐌔𐌕𐌔 are the ones who can 𐌐𐌄𐌂𐋅𐌀𐌐Ᏽ𐌄 𐌀𐌕 𐌍𐌉Ᏽ𐋅𐌕 after knowing they 𐌃𐌄𐌓𐌐𐌉ᕓ𐌄𐌃 𐌉𐌍𐌍Ꝋ𐌂𐌄𐌍𐌕 𐌔𐌓𐌀𐌐𐌊𐌋𐌉𐌍Ᏽ𐌔 𐌕𐋅𐌄𐌉𐌐 𐌅𐌵𐌄𐌋. Your 𐌂𐌐𐌵𐌄𐌋𐌕𐌙 is 𐌀 𐌐Ꝋ𐌕𐌕𐌄𐌍 𐌔𐌕𐌀𐌉𐌍 that shames all of us. 𐌕𐋅𐌄 𐌋𐌄𐌀𐌔𐌕 𐌙Ꝋ𐌵 𐌕𐌀𐌂𐌕𐌋𐌄𐌔𐌔 𐌅𐌐𐌀ᏵᏵ𐌄𐌐𐌔 𐌂𐌀𐌍 𐌃Ꝋ 𐌉𐌔 𐌀𐌋𐌋ꝊᏔ 𐌕𐋅𐌄𐌌 𐌀 𐌓𐌋𐌀𐌂𐌄 𐌕Ꝋ 𐌓𐌐Ꝋ𐌓𐌄𐌐𐌋𐌙 Ᏽ𐌐𐌉𐌄ᕓ𐌄!

In conclusion, the public would greatly benefit from the construction and maintenance of a proper monument memorializing the sparks lost in our great conflict. I humbly request this prestigious council consider the disbursement of funding to allow such a memorial to be realized. With the esteemed Primal Steward Ratchet as the head of funding, there is no chance for this project to fall into corruption. I have it on greatest confidence and trust that lead Architect Bulkhead, Council member Deepstreak, Cloudbeam and Grapple are the ones best suited for the construction of all phases of planning and building. It is my hope that this Council will accept my proposal for the good of all of Cybertron.

Head Archivist Orion Pax

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spreadwardiard · 10 months ago

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Megatron Does NOT Drunk Call His Ex

Rating: Teen and Up Audiences

Megatron/Orion Pax, Megatron/Optimus Prime

Summary: Megatron laments his break up while watching Orion Pax's coronation as Prime on the holoscreen.

Notes: I wanted to try my hand at the whole 'drunk calling your ex' trope, and had some fun with it. Takes place in that time between the disasterous senate meeting and optimus being formally named prime by the government. This is TFP/ Aligned

Megatron scowled as he smashed his digits roughly against the keypad to his door. The numerals on the far left section of the pad were stuck again, not wanting to register his touch. He swiftly punched the mechanism in annoyance, and then tried again. Percussive maintenance did its job and the pin finally registered.

He tried not to think about how Orion had complained about the lock for at least a vorn before… Megatron grumbled at himself to stop that thought. Thinking about Orion Pax brought nothing but pain, but even Megatron knew that nothing would stop the onslaught of thoughts, memories and feelings that were certain to come for him in the night.

It was a battle he had lost many times before, ever since their separation. It was easier to call it that, rather than what it really was: a break up. One he hadn’t actually even wanted to happen. One that was his fault-

Megatron took in a deep vent, tried to reorient his thoughts to anything but Orion Pax. How the slag was he supposed to do that when he fragger’s coronation as Prime was scheduled to air any klik now? He hadn’t even seen the mech in what felt like ages… not since the argument.

Frag… He’d already lost the battle, and it had hardly even begun. Megatron’s scowl deepened as he admitted defeat, and against his better judgement, grabbed a bottle of his finest high grade. He grimaced as he actually looked at the bottle in his servo, decorated in golden filigree and ornately etched glyphs. It was the bottle Orion had given him in preparation for their Rites. The thought stung like acid rain.

He snorted out a forced laugh. The idea of he and Orion binding their sparks seemed laughably distant now. How fitting that he consume the high grade now, for Orion’s big hurrah. He didn’t even grab a cube to pour it in. He wouldn’t need one, he knew himself. The bottle would be empty before the night was over.

Megatron popped the lid and brought the bottle to his derma, prepared for a harsh, but effective, high grade to assault his glossa. He hated that it was delicious, that Orion had probably paid more for this bottle than Megatron spent on fuels for half a vorn. He hated that it was supposed to be special… shared between them… that he had ruined it.

At least his revolution was still going strong. The betrayal of Orion Pax may have hurt Megatron personally, but it ultimately strengthened the resolve of his followers. It was a bitter victory, he thought as he slunk back into his sofa, limp as an old thermal sheet.

If he hadn’t lost his temper and let his paranoia get the better of him, he’d be at that coronation with Orion, not having to watch it on the holoscreen. He took another drink, as large as his intake would allow, before he turned on the screen, and found the correct broadcast.

The newsmech drawled on about the excitement happening in Trion Square. Thousands of mechs had arrived to meet the newly designated Prime. Megatron snorted again as the crowd cheered in excitement. They were imagining a glorious leader to light their darkest hour, but all Megatron could envision was the dorky archivist that used to recharge in his arms and who couldn’t remember to fuel himself.

The bottle was at his derma before the grief that followed the previous thought could hit him. It settled hot in his tanks, and he forced a smile at the knowledge that liquid relief would be imminent. Once the warmth set in, the dulling of his processor would soon follow, and that aching emptiness wouldn’t be so painful.

He missed Orion Pax and now that nearly a dozen stellar cycles had passed, he would finally get to see him again. On the holoscreen… But that was better than nothing, right?

The newsmech continued their useless prattle, and Megatron watched lazily as the cameras panned the crowd, every so often freezing on the ornately draped balcony that he assumed Orion would appear from. Even from his out of date holoscreen, he could tell how exquisite the embroidery on the drapery was. It must have taken vorns to do by servo. It looked distastefully splendent next to the polished golden accents that Iacon was known for.

How many drinks had he had already? His processor was starting to feel a bit foggy. He couldn’t remember. He took another. It didn’t matter anyway. It wouldn’t change what he’d done. It wouldn’t bring back what he’d carelessly thrown away in a foolish fit of paranoia.

Megatron was ruthless with his words that cycle. He tore into Orion like a vicious beast. Orion visibly crumbled at his accusations of betrayal, and when he accused him of using their relationship as a means to gain power, Orion looked as if Megatron had stabbed him through his spark chamber. He would never forget the pain that had flashed through Orion’s field…

He was such a slagging fool… It wasn’t until after Orion went off the grid to seek out the Matrix that Megatron put it all together. Orion had never betrayed him at all. The entire situation was carefully orchestrated by the Council to drive a wedge between them, and it had succeeded in that aim. Now, Orion was their puppet, without Megatron there to fend them off and it was all his fault.

Megatron tore his optics from the holoscreen and looked at the bottle in his servos. It felt too light, and it took him a moment to register that he’d already drank nearly half of it. Orion hadn’t even appeared yet… It wasn’t his fault this stuff was so slagging good. Besides… this was a ‘drink to forget’ sort of night, and he sure as slag hadn’t forgotten scrap yet. Megatron took another drink.

It was harder to focus on the holoscreen. The newsmech was now apologizing for delays. Megatron couldn’t stop a laugh at that. Typical Orion Pax; late for literally everything. He’d have been late to his own forging if that were possible.

Slag… he felt heavy as a load of cement… What the frag was in this? He hauled the bottle up to his helm, and shuttered his optics, before squinting at the glyphs. He couldn’t focus on them, they just appeared as far off, fuzzy and jumbled nonsense. There was about a third of the bottle left…. Maybe he’d had enough?

He should apologize. Megatron knew that. He’d thought about it time and time again, usually when he was like this and had nothing else to distract him from his woes, but his pride refused to allow that. He never had been good at admitting when he was wrong, and was even worse when it came to apologizing for it.

What would he even say? Where even was he to start? ‘I’m sorry’ didn’t feel sincere enough, and anything beyond that was likely to just be excuses for his behavior. He deserved this… what he’d said was inexcusable.

Megatron ex-vented heavily. His frame felt like dead weight, and the longer he allowed it to melt into his sofa, the more annoying the constant pinging in his hip strut was. How long had it been alerting him of his discomfort now? He wasn’t paying attention. The ache in his spark was worse anyway. He took another drink.

It wasn’t fair. He wished he could share the enthusiasm shown by the crowd on the holoscreen, but how could that even be possible? With Orion now under the watchful optics of the Primacy, he was as good as lost. The Prime may have had power of his own, but they always followed the will of the Council. Orion would be no different. The Council had too much sway, too much power, for one mech to defy them alone.

The pinging of discomfort in his hip was becoming too much to ignore. He shifted his mass to the side just enough to allow gravity to crash his upper frame into the sofa cushions. The high grade sloshed dangerously in its bottle, but miraculously did not spill from his sudden readjustment, even as he pulled his legs up with him and shifted for relief.

The holoscreen was mostly forgotten. Instead, he pulled up his HUD and braced for the inevitable sting as he selected an image from his gallery, of Orion Pax lounging in berth. He had a datapad in his servo, and a soft, gentle smile on his face as he read aloud some poetry from the collection he’d been browsing. The poem had been romantic, though Megatron couldn’t remember it now. Orion had only read it to him once, and afterwards they’d ended up indulging in each other’s frames.

Megatron remembered the interfacing, not the poem, and it stung more than he would admit even to himself. He wished he would have saved a memory file so he could hear Orion recite it over and over again. He wished he could hear him recite anything right now. He hadn’t heard his voice since-

He cut himself off by forcibly closing the image, which, unfortunately, landed him right at Orion’s commlink. He stared at it for several kliks, toyed with the idea of calling before shooting that idea down with a slovenly scoff. No, the time for that had long passed, and Orion would be too busy to answer anyway, if he even wanted to. He’d convinced himself long ago that Orion had likely already blocked him from contacting him anyway.

He closed out of his HUD and shuttered his optics. His frame was running hot from the high grade, and his fans finally kicked in to dispel the excess heat. Slag… he must look as pitiful as he felt. The great and mighty Megatron, The Champion of the Pits, brought to his knees over a slagging break-up. He was patheti-

His self degradation was cut off by a loud and sudden ping. It was a comm request, marked urgent. It was from Orion. It flashed at him across his HUD in bold, red glyphs, but that was impossible. There was no way it was real… His mind was playing tricks on him again.

His optics darted to the holoscreen. Orion was supposed to have made his debut some time ago, but even with his optical inputs distorted from the drink, he could plainly see that Orion Pax was not where he was supposed to be. The ornately decorated balcony was still empty, and several important looking mechs shuffled around in distress at Orion’s truancy.

Megatron’s intake went dry, and that aching emptiness in his chassis returned full force as he, against his better judgement, accepted the incoming request. He tried to speak, but found his vocalizer needed rebooting.

“Megatron?... Please, don’t hang up…” It was him… He sounded different than Megatron remembered. The reverberation of his voice was slightly off, like his vocalizer was now housed in a larger frame, but the voice was unmistakably Orion.

Megatron wanted to respond, but his rebooting vocalizer prevented him from uttering more than a distorted and shaky “Hmmm?”

“Thank Primus, you accepted my call. I was worried you wouldn’t wish to speak with me. I’m sorry I didn’t contact you sooner. There was so much happening, I hardly had a moment to myself befor-” It almost didn’t feel real. He’d so deeply convinced himself that he and Orion were too damaged for him to ever reach out. He had been certain that Orion had blocked him from contact.

“...and after that I was taken to this strange tunnel system where they placed me in some purification pool…” Orion was rambling, but it didn’t matter. It just felt good to hear his voice again. It slid into Megatron’s processor like the richest of energon, and he was starving.

“... -fter that I was chased by a small hoard of hibernating scraplets. I genuinely thought that I was going to offline down there…” This whole thing felt far too good to be true. Orion didn’t sound upset with him at all. There was anxiety in his tone, and judging by the speed of which he was speaking, he had a lot to say that he wanted, or needed to say quickly, but there was no anger or resentment, like Megatron expected.

“...-atrix of Leadership…” Slag… he wasn’t actually paying attention to what Orion had been saying this whole time, the high grade had only allowed him to process the smooth timbre of his voice. He tried to think back over what he’d heard, something about a pool of scraplets in a tunnel? . Slag… he still wasn’t paying attenti-

“Megatron… are you listening to me?” He flinched at the question. He was really regretting drinking as much as he had. If he’d have known Orion was going to comm him, he wouldn’t have had nearly as much. Megatron wet his derma before replying.

“I’m listening.” He sounded weak, and he knew it. He hoped Orion didn’t catch the waver in his tone, his tell that he wasn’t being entirely truthful.

Orion audibly sighed, but whether it was in annoyance or relief, Megatron couldn’t tell.

“I know, I’m rambling, I’m sorry. What I’m trying to say is that the Matrix makes me feel things far more intensely than I did before. All it lets me think about is you, and our last meeting… how I fragged everything up that cycle… How much I miss you. I’m sor-”

It took him several kliks to actually process what Orion was saying. Did he say: missed? He felt his spark practically jump in its chamber. Was that actually what he’d heard? That couldn’t be right… not after the cruel things he’d said.

“You miss me?” Orion went silent, and Megatron realized that he’d cut him off, mid-sentence, likely in the middle of something important. Something that he, again, wasn’t listening to. He grimaced at his stupid mistake.

“Yes, I did say that.” Megatron tried to sit up, but found he only had the strength to roll onto his back. His frame was too heavy for him to hoist up. He draped his arm over his optics instead, to quell the spinning as his processor tried to adjust to his movement. He definitely had too much. The high grade was flooding his frame now. It was a struggle just to keep his optics open.

“Will you say it again?” He cursed himself for how desperate his request must sound. Orion was silent for several kliks, but the time felt like eons as Megatron waited.

“Have you been drinking?”

Megatron groaned at the question, and that seemed to suffice as an answer for Orion.

“I miss you, Megatronus.” He let out an ex-vent that he wasn’t aware he was even holding in. Maybe all hope wasn’t lost after all? Maybe he hadn’t completely destroyed the bond he held so dear to his spark.

“I miss you too…” Megatron’s words slurred together and came out a jumbled mess. He barely got them out. The bottle he forgot he was holding fell from his servos, and he flinched at the sound of it crashing into the floor, the remainder of its content’s splattering across the tiles.

“Primus… you are absolutely slagged…” Orion laughed softly, and it sounded like bells to his audials. The soothing sound reminded him of cycles long past, when they were happy together.

“I miss you, Orion.” That wasn’t what he’d meant to say… He meant to ask Orion what the slag was in that fancy high grade to make him act like this. He’d be embarrassed if he weren’t fighting a system shutdown with all of his might.

“Mega…” Orion’s voice wavered, and the pet name burrowed into his audials. Megatron wondered if he was going to cut the link. He wouldn’t blame him for doing so. He’d fumbled this opportunity in a grand fashion. “Can I come see you? Please?”

Megatron almost couldn’t process that request. It was so far off from what he was expecting Orion to say that the glyphs simply didn’t make sense for several kliks.

“Where are you?” Wasn’t Orion supposed to be doing that important thing right now? In Iacon? Halfway across the planet from him? Megatron turned his helm just enough to see the holoscreen. The balcony was still empty. The crowd was still in place.

“I’m in Kaon… I-I fled my coronation and I… I didn’t know who else to run t-”

“Please…” He didn’t even attempt to hide the desperation in his tone, he was too tired at this point. His frame may have been in the process of powering down, but his spark thrummed in a mixture of disbelief, longing and joy.

“Give me just a few kliks… I won’t be long.” Orion laughed again, clearly with relief and again Megatron was soothed by the sound more than he would care to ever admit. “Thank you, Mega. I was afraid you would turn me away. I was afraid we were…. Over.”

“I don’t want us to be.” Megatron mumbled and vented softly. His processing subroutines were shutting down faster than he could reboot them. Orion said something after that, but Megatron could no longer process his vocals into anything that made sense. But at that moment, it didn’t matter. The blackout took him as Orion continued to croon softly to him.

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Megatron came online slowly in the morning. His helm was aching, but not as badly as he expected. He sank into his berth comfortably, and that helped to ease the discomfort his frame should have been feeling. After rolling onto his side, he slowly shuttered his optics, half expecting to be struck with pain, but pleasantly surprised that he was granted a painless view of his berth-side table.

There was a nearly empty energon cube sitting precariously close to the edge of the table, with a straw sticking out of if. He couldn’t remember getting a cube before he shutdown… Come to think of it… he didn’t remember much of anything that happened after he fell sideways onto the sofa last cycle.

He slowly sat up, while scratching the back of his helm as he tried to remember how the slag he’d gotten into his berth to begin with. He made a point of not recharging here. It was too big without Orion beside him.

Orion!

Orion had commed him last night! The ache in his processor surged as the memory of their conversation struck him all once. Orion called him and he bungled the entire conversation, but Orion had asked to see him.

Against his better judgement, Megatron swung his legs out of berth. His left pede hitting the rim of something, and sending it careening against the berth-side table: a trash bin, likely set there in case he purged during the night. As he stood, the scent of fuel preparation struck his olfactory sensors. It smelled like fried mineral cakes and thickened energon syrup, the scent of the warmed syrup almost sickeningly sweet. His intake watered, and his tanks clenched in discomfort at their emptiness.

There was no way… that had to have been a dream, a recharge flux from the high grade and the torture of watching Orion’s coronation. A hallucination created to torment him for his mistakes.. Right?? There was no way Orion had really come and put him to berth, with a drink… right?

He lurched towards the door, pausing only long enough for it to register him and open before stumbling out into his living quarters. He could hear the fuels sizzling in his prep station. Slung over the back of the sofa was a thermal sheet, folded, with a pillow resting on top.

It must be Soundwave… he must have checked in on the security feeds and saw him passed out on the sofa, and had come to clean up the mess. That had to be it… Even so, it he found more difficult to draw in a vent the closer he came to the dividing wall separating his living space from his fuel preparation area.

“Megatron? Are you online?”

Megatron paused in his steps as the unmistakable voice filled his audials. His intake went dry the moment he tried to speak, and he found himself at a loss for words. It wasn’t all a dream. Orion had called him. He had wanted to see him. He was here… Right there, on the other side of the wall.

He rounded the corner, needing to see it to truly believe it. Orion stood with his back towards him, obviously engrossed in the meal he was preparing. His frame was new…. He no longer wore a civilian model. He was taller, with a much sturdier chassis than before, and his arms thick with armor and weaponry. It was clearly the make of a warframe, but his colors were the same, familiar red and blue.

He finally felt like he could vent again, and when he did so, Orion turned his helm with a hopeful grin on his face. Their optics met, and Megatron had to rest his weight upon the wall to keep upright. He was beautiful.

“Orion…” It was all he could say as a million thoughts and words tried to bombard him at once. There was so much he wanted to say, so much he needed to apologize for, so many questions he wanted to ask.

Orion shut off the flame on the unit, and slid something onto a plate before turning around fully.

“I know there are many things we need to discuss. But I hope that it can wait until after breakfast. I made your favorite.” Orion held up one of the plates, stacked with mineral cakes, to emphasize his point, and as if on queue, Megatron’s systems loudly pinged a low fuel warning.

Orion laughed. “I guess I still have perfect timing. Sit down, I’ll bring it to you.”

It was like they hadn’t fought at all… Megatron sat at the table, forcing a reboot to his vocalizer. Orion sat a hefty plate of mineral cakes in front of him, followed by utensils and the thickened syrup, ready to be poured.

Orion sat down across from him, and reached across the table, where Megatron eagerly met him with his own servo, curling their digits together, as they used to do before meals in the past. His palm was warm, and it radiated down his frame, directly to his spark. Megatron looked up to see Orion smiling at him, in what appeared to be relief.

Megatron returned the smile, before withdrawing his servo, his nerves now eased. Things were going to be okay, better than okay, if the cakes were anything to judge it by. Orion’s field tentatively reached out to his own, and he replied with his own. It was a quiet reunion, but it let him know that their love still stood strong, and that knowledge allowed him to fully enjoy his refueling.

Afterwards, they would work out the rest, together.

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