It had been said that the course of true love never did run smooth.

Iacon had been a relatively safe place to live and grow up. Orion Pax had had two loving creators to raise and love him. They taught him to see the good in other bots and to help those in need when ever possible.

He had passed the public and private graduations necessary with ordinary grades and ordinary honors. Orion Pax was never one to stick out, be loud, or get into trouble. To find the shy and quiet Orion Pax in the Gladiator pits of Kaon caused much confusion to those who knew the data clerk. To those who asked they would be even more dumbfounded to hear the reason he was in Kaon, Megatronous.

Kaon was a harsh city. Its main tourist attraction was the Gladiator pits, the enforcers were far few and in between. Megatronous had grown up on the streets, his creators having abandoned him as a mechling. When he had been big enough to he competed in the Gladiator tournaments to earn some extra credits to get him by. Quickly Megatronous became a fan favorite, he had defeated all of the rookies at the time he was in, if any bot was to win it was Megatronous.

Orion had met Megatronous after a tournament that one of Orions friends had dragged him to. Jazz the bot who had taken him told him it would be fun and he would enjoy himself. Orion Pax found that the whole experience was opposite of what his so called best friend had stated he would enjoy.

Megatronous was heading to his apartment close to the pits, he had noticed the smaller innocent looking mech in the alley way. Cautiously Megatronous approached the red and blue mech.

"You shouldn't stand in dark alleys like this," started Megatronous, "Kaons not a very kind city."

Orion quickly spun around and backed away from the large silver gladiator. "Oh, I am sorry," stated Orion. "I was waiting for a friend of mine."

"No need to apologize," stated Megatronous taking a glance at the mechs beautiful blue optics. "Whats a good looking mech like yourself doing here in Kaon anyway?"

"My friend thought that I needed a vacation so he decided to bring me to Kaon to see a real pit fight." stated Orion.

"I hope you at least enjoyed it."stated Megatronous.

"I guess, I am not one for crowds." Orion replied.

"I completely understand." stated Megatronous. "How long are you going to be in Kaon?"

Orion looked up to the silver gladiator, "I am not entirely sure, why?"

Megatronous held out a small datapad, "Call me some time, I'd love to see you again, uh"

"Orion Pax," smiled the red and blue bot. "And you are?"

"Megatronous."

Orion did a double take, "The Gladiator that won tonight's tournament?"

Megatronous smiled to the smaller bot, "The very same." Megatronous had waited with Orion until Jazz had showed up to take them to the hotel they were staying at.

Eventually Orion Pax and Megatronous had become great friends. Orion attended a majority of the tournaments that Megatronous was competing in, when he had the time off of work. Orns had passed since the day Orion Pax had left the safety of Iacon and went with Jazz to see his first Gladiator tournament.

Megatronous would often spend gigacycles thinking about the red and blue mech. Often he would find himself missing the mechs company or voice. Orion Pax often found himself in the same position either at work or sitting alone at home in his small apartment in Iacon.

Orion had managed to get two weeks off of work, Alpha Trion had wanted to upgrade the space and servers of the Hall of records. Letting all of the librarians off. Orion planned to stay a majority of the time with Megatronous.

It had been one of the orbital cycles that Megatronous had acted upon these feelings, he stood in front of Orion Pax. Orion was busy watching the news feeds coming from all over Cybertron.

"Orion," started Megatronous awaiting a response. Orion looked up from the news feed and stared into the blue optics of Megatronous. "Lets date."

Orion stared his blue optics widening a little, Orion had felt the same urges as his companion though he didn't know it. The only logical answer was yes, so why was he thinking about it? "Okay." Orion smiled to the Gladiator as the gladiator smiled back.

Since that moment they had gone on dates and had a few fights. Several Decivorns had passed,and Megatronous had ended up hurt.

Everyone in the crowd gasped as Megatronous fell bleeding energon onto the pits hard concrete floor. It was Megatronous' first loss, and against a rookie. Orion Pax stood from his seat waiting for the guards to pull the leaking mech off the platform.

"Winner: Soundwave!" stated the announcer in shock. The guards had helped the silver mech to his peds and were shoo-ed away by the gladiator. Megatronous took his leave from the arena as Soundwave was offered the prizes. Orion got up from his seats in front row and took off toward the back room where the gladiators got ready.

Orion walked into Megatronous' chambers and saw the mech being attended to by a pit physician. Megatronous looked to Orion, the medic also turned to face the disturbance.

"I'm sorry, but no interviews," stated the red and silver medic.

"Let him stay Knock Out, we are dating." Knock Out shrugged and returned to welding the leaking line.

Several cycles had passed as they waited for the welded area to cool. "Alright," stated Knock Out, "take it easy for the next few rotation cycles."

Megatronous nodded as Knock Out left hurriedly. Orion Pax watched as Knock Out left.

"He's young, too young." stated Megatronous. Orion looked to the gladiator bewildered. "Soundwave."

"Is that why your stance changed in the fight?" asked Orion.

"How did you-"

"I fix programs for a living Megatronous, I notice things others don't."

"There is something up with that mechling, I would like to find out what it is." stated Megatronous.

"And then what?" asked Orion.

"Not sure, but if he's anything like me, he shouldn't be here. I know what its like to have to be on your own at a young age. No Mechling or Femmeling should have to go through that."

"I agree Megatronous," started Orion, "but you can't save every bot from their fate."

"Lets find Soundwave, I would like to speak with him." stated Megatronous as he got up off the bench and toward the door.

It had taken some walking to get to the rookies locker room. Orion looked around carefully, noticing just how different it was from the veteran Gladiators. Megatronous pushed the door open to find Soundwave looking right at the silver mech with empty energon cubes being filled with energon from the pits stash.

Soundwave backed away from the seasoned gladiator.

"Its okay Soundwave, we won't tell." stated Megatronous. "I just want to know why such a young bot like you is fighting for credits."

Soundwave looked to the floor in guilt. Orion looked to the Mechling feeling the need to protect and care for him rise.

"You have done nothing wrong," stated Orion, "Will you speak to us?" Orion could see the Mechling visibly twitch at the word speak. "Are you mute?" Soundwave nodded. "Do you have any where to go?" asked Orion. Soundwave didn't answer, he looked to the floor again.

Megatronous looked toward the Librarian, and the librarian looked back. They had the same look on their visages. They new that they would be bringing home a mechling.

"Would you like to come home with us?" asked Megatronous. The small blue mech took another step back, "Theres heat."

"Stay the night." stated Orion. "It would be a warm safe place to stay."

The small blue mech looked up to the two taller, full grown, mechs. Soundwave pointed to the energon cubes, "You can have Energon for free too if you want."

Soundwave thought silently about the veteran gladiators offer, it was too good to be true. But with such little choices with the weather getting colder and his already sick state he decided to stay with the two older mechs.

Megatronous lead the way to his apartment as Orion walked next to Soundwave. They had made it to Megatronous' apartment, the one berthroom apartment was small but it did the trick. Orion had already made the couch his berth for the time he was staying and allowed the young Mech to sleep there for the night. After making sure that the young mech was in recharge Orion turned to Megatronous standing in the kitchen.

"He fell into recharge alarmingly fast," whispered Orion.

"He's going to recharge well tonight." smiled Megatronous. "Now about the new recharging arrangements" smirked the gladiator.

Orion visibly twitched at what Megatronous was implying. "I am sorry Megatronous but I can't, not yet."

"I understand," stated Megatronous pulling a tired Orion closer to his chassis kissing the top of his helm. "I promise to keep my servos to myself. We can both sleep on my berth."

Orion nodded, "I'm sorry." stated Orion quietly.

Megatronous lead them to his berth leaving the door open in case their guest needed them. "Its okay Orion every one gets used to physical contact at different rates, its nothing to be ashamed of. I'm thankful to have gotten you to this stage."

Orion was the first to wake. Quietly Orion left the recharge chambers and headed toward the kitchen, stopping at the couch to make sure their guest was still in recharge. Orion took out some cubes of energon and minicubes and set them out for when their guest stirred from recharge.

It didn't take too long Orion had sat at the table datapad in his servos as he read, and Soundwave had woken from recharge sitting up on the couch and looking around trying to remember where he was.

Orion looked to the couch to see Soundwave looking around the strange apartment. Soundwave had calmed down at the site of the librarian reading at the table.

Orion looked up from the datapad he was reading to look at the mute bot. Soundwave looked back to Orion. Orion smiled to the younger mech and placed a cube of energon on the table, "Come and get some, I won't hurt you, I promise."

Soundwave cautiously left the couch he had recharged on and headed toward the table that Orion was sitting at with some energon goodies and cubes. Soundwave looked the cube over and smelt the blue liquid, finally taking a sip, convinced that the cube was not tampered with.

Orion looked up from the data pad to his guest. Looking around Orion found an empty datapad, handing it over Soundwave looked to the red and blue bot confused.

"Take it its yours. But I would like to ask you some questions, this will make communication easier for the both of us."

Soundwave nodded and took the datapad into his servos, ready to type.

"How old are you?"

Mechling second mold wrote Soundwave. Orion gasped.

"Thats really young, why were you fighting in the pits?"

needed credits

Orion looked to the datapad in his hand when it lit up errors appearing over the data pad. "Sorry, run time error"paused Orion concentration on the program on the data pad. Fixing the data pad Orion handed the pad back.

Programmer?

Orion looked up to the data pad held in front of him. "Yes. Do you have any interest?" The silent mech nodded. "I could teach you some programming languages if you want, but you would have to stay away from fighting in the pits, enroll in a proper school, and live with Megatronous or myself. Kaon is no place for a mechling like yourself."

Soundwave seemed to think it over as he weighed his options, finally he took the pen and wrote on the datapad, Don't want to be a burden

Orion smiled, "You will not be a burden. Megatronous would enjoy the company while I am stuck in Iacon at work."

Soundwave looked to the mech confused, you do not live with Megatronous?

"Not yet, maybe in the future, but not yet."

orns had passed and Soundwave had gotten used to the living arrangements at Megatronous' apartment. He had been adjusting well to life in an actual living unit. Orion Pax had come back to Kaon when he could to see how Soundwave was doing and teach him everything he could about programming. For all intensive purposes Orion and Megatronous had become his guardians. They attended creator/instructor meetings and treated him like their creation.

Soundwave still hadn't said a word, Instructors were worried about him. Megatronous had even explained that Soundwave had never revealed anything about his past and that might have something to do with his silence.

Orion Pax had convinced Megatronous to buy a bigger apartment weeks into having Soundwave live with him. When Orion Pax came it would be time to move the Gladiator to the new apartment, apparently it had three rooms, impressive compared to the one they were living in now.

"Megatronous," started Orion, "I'm here."

Megatronous looked to the door way and walked over ready to greet the red and blue mech. Orion smiled and hugged the bigger silver gladiator. "Been a while Orion."

"I know, I apologize, Alpha Trion has had trouble getting around lately, rust in his joints."

Megatronous smiled planting light kisses on the crest in his helm. Soundwave entered the room from the hallway, datapads in hand and a blue and red seeker following him. Both mechs turned to the two bots, the seeker was given odd looks.

"Hey, Soundwave," started Orion, "Who's this?"

"I'm Starscream." stated the Seeker servo digit pointed to his chest.

"Are you a friend of Soundwaves?" asked Megatronous.

Soundwave shrugged as an answer, typing on the data pad he handed the data pad over to the Librarian, He just followed me home

"Whoa," started the seeker, "Your Megatronous!"

Orion and Megatronous looked to each other, then to Soundwave who shrugged again. Starscream turned to the mute bot, "I can't believe it!" yelled Starscream, "Your creator is Megatronous!"

Soundwave stared at the seeker, confused. Who would draw that conclusion? He's just living there. Orion noticed the way Soundwave stood, emotions becoming clear through his optics.

"Starscream is it?" asked Orion, The seeker nodded, "He's just living with us, he's not our creation."

Starscream continued to stare at the mech from Iacon. Orion had a feeling that the seeker didn't care. "My Sire just got a job working guard for the pits! Could you sign this for me?" asked the seeker grabbing a datapad and holding it out for the gladiator to sign. Megatronous took the data pad and signed it after handing it to the seeker the seeker bounced out of the apartment happy as ever.

"That was..." started Megatronous.

"Weird?" asked Orion.

"We'll go with that one." Megatronous answered.

After the seeker had left no doubt to go home, the next evening Megatronous was approached by a blue red and white seeker.

"Can I help you?" he asked getting warmed up for the night tournaments.

"No, sir," started the seeker, "I would like to apologize for my creation, Starscream can be a little intimidating I would also like to apologize to your mate and creation."

Megatronous turned to the seeker smiling lightly, "No harm done, Soundwave didn't seem to register him as a bother, no need to apologize, if anything Orion and I were caught off guard when he asked for an autograph."

"If you are sure, good luck out there." waved the red and blue seeker.

"Thanks, keep up the good work." stated Megatronous. Megatronous stood at his end of the gate to the arena, he was ready. Upon entering the arena Megatronous saw Orion and Soundwave in their normal spot cheering as all the other fans of Megatronous did.

Megatronous had won that nights tournament. Soundwave and Orion had went to wait for the gladiator at his personal locker room.

Sound wave replayed the cheers that had gone on at the fights earlier, Orion smiled to the mute bot, "Soundwaves right, Great job tonight."

Megatronous smiled back to the adolescent mech, "Thank you Soundwave."

The walk to their apartment was short, Soundwave went to his room and silently did what ever it was he did when he got back from the tournaments. Orion turned to the gladiator and smiled, "You were awesome Megatronous."

"Of course I was Sweetspark." said Megatronous between tender kisses placed on Orions lip plates.

Orion leaned into Megatronous, sparks close to each other, Orion could feel the violent vibrations of Megatronous' engine.

Carefully Megatronous lead the smaller mech to the berth room and closed the door.

Slowly Megatronous laid the Iaconian librarian on the berth. Gently caressing the armored plates as he busied his mouth plates with the others neck cables. Orion arched up trying to muffle the moans. Megatronous smiled at him.

Megatronous touched the abdominal plates lightly and Orion moaned in pleasure. Orion wrapped his servos around Megatronous.

"Orion," moaned Megatronous into the younger mechs audial port.

"Megatronous-" Orion moaned back.

Megatronous played with the younger mechs plating a little bit more and bit the younger mechs neck cables.

Orion moved his servos over the gladiators silver frame and poked and prodded a few of the Transformation seems, causing Megatronous to moan in pleasure.

"Let me hack your Kernel tonight?" asked Megatronous, whispering the pick up line into Orion audial port.

Megatronous gently guided himself down on top of Orion, both of their air pumps working overtime to cool their systems, radiators and cooling fans could heard whirring in the after glow of recent activities.

Slowly both bots went into recharge, Orion completely drained of energy. Megatronous held the smaller mech close to him as they slept, each recharging peacefully.

The next morning Orion woke up sore, but warm. Slowly turning to the large thing of heat next to him Orion kissed the silver mechs helm, Megatronous onlined his optics to the touch of Orion lip plates on to his helm.

Megatronous smiled to his now lover, "Good morning Beautiful."

Orion smiled back, "Good morning."

"How do you feel?" asked the silver gladiator rubbing his servos up and down Orions waist.

"A little sore, but I'm okay."

"Good," smirked Megatronous. "I think we should wash up." stated Megatronous getting up off of Orion, allowing the smaller red and blue mech to get off the recharge berth. Megatronous got off the berth easily and walked over to Orions side to help him up, joints creaking and soreness running through his neural net.

Megatronous helped Orion to the wash racks connected to his quarters. Megatronous turned on the faucet and joined Orion in the wash racks. Coming in behind Orion as he washed the dried transfluid from his stomach Megatronous embraced the librarian. Kissing the back of Orions neck cables, gently sucking on them. Orion moaned softly with each kiss, "Megatronous, I do not think that this is wise." stated Orion between moans and gasps.

"Hmm, maybe, maybe not. Your gorgeous."

Orion was taken back by the simple statement Megatronous said, "um, thank you?"

"No need the thank me for the truth," stated Megatronous gliding his hands up and down Orions back.

Orion smiled at the relaxing touch, his back was releasing tension at Megatronous' touches.

Megatronus took the cleaning solvent and gently slid the cloth up and down Orions back struts, sending waves of relaxation and pleasure through Orion.

They emerged from the wash racks a few breems later and they emerged cleaned and waxed looking the best they had ever been in planetary cycles. Soundwave was sitting with his head down on the table still groggy from what ever it was that kept him out all night.

"Hey Soundwave," stated Orion walking into the kitchen area followed by Megatronous. "Where did you go last night?"

Soundwave looked to Orion then the Megatronous and put his head back down.

"That bad huh?" asked Megatronous.

hopefully this was enjoyable, please feel free to point out any errors, I'll try to fix them as best I can.