AN: Just the start to the whole thing. Basically you can skip over this, as it's just how Orion's family gets to Earth, and then his odd birth. Miles, Epps, Sam, and Will use Allspark energy to create a new body, since Orion is still attached to his mother's spark. Flameshower, Burrow, Nerov, and Firearm are just Cybertronians I created, and Rianon is a made up city. If it matches the name of anything in the fandom, woops! Ch.2 is where the real Misadventures of Orion begin!
The Great War has managed to ravage Cybertron to the bare bone, and the people have separated into three factions. The Autobots, led by Optimus Prime, fight against the Decepticons, led by Megatron. Everyone who didn't support either cause, or wanted to remain peaceful, became a Neutral. The Neutrals were constantly being reached to from both sides, and after the Decepticons sieged the Neutral city of Rianon, laying waste to any who didn't join them, all Neutrals fled from Cybertron.
One of the Neutral ships, designated Kindred, sailed away with a team of two femmes and two mechs. Burrow was designated as the driver and engineer, though before he had mainly spent his life in the mines. His Sparkmate was Flameshower, a medic in training. Firearm was the only one on board who had any fighting experience, and had actually been a Decepticon for a while. Then he had met Flameshower's sparktwin, Nerov, and had fallen hard for the somewhat shy femme. Nerov acted as their special ops leader, communicating with other Neutrals and picking up signals from Decepticon and Autobot ships so they could avoid them.
They would pass the years together, occasionally meeting up with other Neutral ships to socialize. Nearing a galaxy they had never traversed before, Flameshower would tell everyone that she was sparked. The happy news was ruined when Nerov told of an incoming Decepticon ship, threatening them to join or die fighting them.
Burrow decided to try to outrun them, though the Kindred had very little chance. When they entered the galaxy Nerov picked up a message from Optimus Prime, saying that the war had ended, and any seeking refuge could join them on a planet called Earth. The message also spoke of organic sentients living on the planet, but that didn't give any of the four Cybertronians pause. If they could make it to Prime then they would be safe, and could even raise the Sparkling.
But dealing with the Decepticons could never be that easy. Nearing a planet called Saturn, the Decepticons had said they would be willing to talk to one of them, and listen to if they really did not wish to join the Decepticon cause. Nerov had went, ignoring Firearm's pleas not to. All had seemed well even when Nerov reentered the ship, but a few joors later Nerov would be on a berth and dying from a virus that she had never noticed that had been planted.
Being Sparkmates, Firearm had soon followed the femme. Flameshower could do nothing to stop the progress of the virus, and did everything she could to ease her twin's pain.
Burrow would spend all his energy on making sure Kindred stayed in good enough working condition to run from the Decepticon ship. He would get them to Earth before a shot from the Decepticon ship had taken him out, and Kindred crash landed.
The mech would never know that a team of Autobots, including Optimus Prime himself and a Decepticon Neutral, was waiting for them. Flameshower would be the only one of her team to meet the planet's organics, but she would be dying.
The combination of losing her sparkmate and being wounded from the crash was doing her in quickly, but she stayed on to try to get her sparkling saved. The organics did not speak Cybertronian, but she could sense Allspark energy coming off them, and grabbed two of them, bringing them to her spark.
Primus would smile down on her, as soon the organics could understand her, and her them. But the protoform that had been built for when she separated with the Sparkling had been damaged, and they had no extras. The two organics in her servo froze, and the older organic that was near them did as well. Then the medic came in, and she could have cared less to see if the organics were okay or not.
The medic, Ratchet, put Flameshower into stasis. This actually helped the femme, as she could feel the organics, and how they intended to help her Sparkling. She could not reach them, but did not feel any worry. They were working through the hands of Primus, and that was enough.
She did manage to send a single word through to them, the name of what she thought her Sparkling should be. The leader of the Autobots was a Prime, but before his name had been changed he was called Orion. Her Sparkling would be called the same.
Flameshower would die twenty minutes after landing on Earth, going to the well of Sparks knowing that her Sparkling was saved and in the hands of the Autobots, and the organics they had teamed up with.