Zero to Hero

by Prime627

Orion Pax is a dataclerk with big dreams, but no room to grow. So when Megatronus rises in the Pits of Kaon, Orion jumps at the opportunity to change the world, and he finds himself on a quest to save it (Due to an outburst in a review about Orion Prime)

1. Chapter 1

I'm writing this due to this outburst in one of the reviews of another story: it's NOT Orion Prime it's Orion Pax. Know this. If I did not know what I was talking about, I would not have put in in the story.

Orion Pax woke up. He sat up and rubbed his optics, yawning. He had to get up or risk missing his shift at the Hall of Records. So he hopped out of his berth and prepped himself in his personal wash racks. He didn't bathe as often as his friends did, and at one point he had been actually concerned, but they worked below Cybertron's surface. He was basically something pretty to look at as he went through files and sorted them from the beginning of one day to the end of it. Mechs and femmes in training went Underground for fieldtrips. They did not often come to the Hall. If they did, they were quiet save the "ooh"s and "awe"s as they watched the dataclerk in his "natural environment".

Orion felt like he was in a zoo exhibit rather than in the Hall. He expected the tour guide to list his stats as well, what he did every day from beginning of his shift to the end, but the group moved on while he thought these things.

He stepped through the Hall's doors and walked right to his station where he logged in and greeted the Master Archivest when he walked down the aisles to check and make sure every clerk was in his place, which seemed rather pointless. Everyone was always in their place every day.

Orion looked out his window and watched the people of Cybertron walk around to get to their jobs, homes... He caught sight of the High Council's building, the Prime's Office, and the Thirteen's memorial, places he would love to visit, but he couldn't. They were closed to the public when he got off of work, and a dataclerk couldn't exactly walk into the Prime's Office to take a peek around, and the security officers for the High Council would usher him out faster than he had gotten in.

He sighed and went about organizing the files and news that always seemed to come pouring in. Not for the first time, he wondered if there would be a chance for him to rise up and have more privelages that some bots were born with.