"Scatter!" Megatronus shouted as the Sharkticons came charging forward.
"What are these things?" Megatronus demanded.
"Sharkticons!" Orion answered. "Big, scary monsters that serve the Quintessons!"
"The who? What?" Megatronus demanded.
"Oh yeah. You wouldn't know. We never told you about them huh." Orion replied.
"What?" Megatronus exclaimed.
"We'll tell you later! Just fight back already!" Chromia shouted.
"Okay okay!" Megatronus replied.
He jumped out from behind the stone he was crouching behind and charged towards the Sharkticons.
One Sharkticon swiped its massive claws at Megatronus. The young gladiator dodged it by jumping and flipping over the large arm and landing on it. He ran up it and shot the Sharkticon's face plates point blank.
The Sharkticon stumbled back as Megatronus sent a sharp spinning kick to the other Sharkticon.
Megatronus then landed and unsheathed his blade.
The younglings watched the young mech take on the monsters alone. Megatronus noticed this and turned to them.
"Would you care to help?" He spoke.
"Oh, yeah sure." Dion replied as he took out his staff and followed his friends towards the battle.
The younglings all joined Megatronus in his assault against the Sharkticons.
Chromia and Dion teamed up to take on one Sharkticon while Ariel joined Megatronus in defeating the other.
Orion watched as the younglings fought the monsters with a sort of ease. He smiled. Yeah, they did have a good chance of winning this war after all.
Then, the ground shook beneath Orion's pedes as something large came barreling his way.
Orion turned around to see a large, green and purple monster with armoured shoulders legs and even snout, running straight for him. It stood on two legs and wielded a long, thick spear.
Orion didn't have any time to react as it reached his spot, picked him up, and threw him across the arena, far past his friends and the Sharkticons they were fighting.
Orion collided with the wall on the other side of the arena and fell to the ground with a fairly loud thud.
"Orion!" Dion shouted.
Dion turned towards the unfamiliar beast that had just entered the fight.
"Okay, now what the Pit is that thing?" Megatronus demanded.
"We have no idea." Ariel replied.
"Great. Now we have this thing to deal with-" Megatronus was cut off by the Sharkkticon he and Ariel were previously fighting as it grabbed his leg and lifted him off the ground.
"-plus there're still these things!" He finished with a swipe of his blade going through the Sharkticon's limb.
"Yeah. Hang in there Orion!" Chromia yelled as she charged towards the beast.
Orion lay limply on the ground. He opened his optics slowly and moved his head up as much as his aching body allowed him.
"Guys...don't..." He muttered weakly. "That's a...Bailiff."
Unfortunately, the others couldn't hear him. Bailiffs were the guards in the courts of Quintessa. More intelligent than the Sharkticons, but less powerful, however, they make up for it in speed and combat capability. They are also fiercely, and almost mindlessly so to the Quintessons themselves.
The Judge was right. The seal on the Quintessons were weakening and the more powerful minions were beginning to free themselves.
Combined with the might of the Sharkticons, the younglings weren't gonna defeat the enemies in front of them, but they didn't know that.
Chromia jumped up and aimed her tonfa blasters at the Bailiff, but before she could fire, the Bailiff raised its spear and hit her down with the blade.
Chromia fell to the ground but she was able to roll and soften her fall ever so slightly. She still lay limply when her rolling stopped.
"Chromia!" Dion called. With his back turned to it, the Sharkticon threw its claw at him and left three long, deep scratches on his back. Dion screamed out in pain as he collapsed.
"No! Dion! Chromia!" Ariel exclaimed. She dug her fans deep into one of the eyes of the Sharkticon and jumped towards her friends.
"Damn it! Kid get back here!" Megatronus shouted angrily.
Ariel ran up the huge arm of the Sharkticon the siblings were fighting. She jumped up but before she could collide with the Sharkticon, the Bailiff caught her in mid air and crashed her into the ground.
The Bailiff lifted its servo up and revealed the small, unconscious femme.
Megatronus backed himself up to one corner of the arena with his sword raised and his fusion cannon aimed at the beasts.
"Get back Pit spawns!" Megatronus exclaimed.
The Bailiff moved in front of the Sharkticons and smashed the butt of its spear into the chest of the young gladiator.
Megatronus coughed and collapsed onto the ground.
On the other side of the arena, Orion was weakly, and slowly lifting himself onto his pedes. That was when the Bailiff and Sharkticon walked up to him with his friends in their servos.
"This is what you do Optronix." The Bailiff spoke. "You kill. You always have and always will because that is what you were made to do."
Orion shook his helm. "No. Not anymore."
"Well then, perhaps your mind will change after you watch the sparks of your friends crushed before you." The Bailiff finished as the monsters raised the younglings so Orion could see them as they tightened their grips on the younglings.
Ariel, Chromia, Dion and Megatronus all groaned and cried out in pain as they were crushed within the grips of the Quintesson made monsters.
"No! Stop!" Orion cried.
He looked on in horror as the life was being literally squeezed out of his friends.
"Stop it please!" Orion continued.
He looked closely to the look of pure agony on Ariel's faceplates. He hated seeing her like that. The last time he had seen a face similar to hers in that state was so long ago, and it had been his fault as well. He couldn't stop it then...but he was determined to stop it now. He was determined to never have it happen like that ever again.
"Never again." Orion growled as he lifted himself onto his pedes.
"Let them go." He ordered. Then Orion lifted his helm, revealing his now maliciously green optics to the enemies before him.
"Let them go and perhaps I'll leave you lot in one piece." Orion continued.
"What are you going to do Orion Pax?" The the Bailiff asked. "After you joined the Knights you lost all of your power. That is clear."
Orion smirked. "Oh yeah. You think so huh."
The small mech ran to the closest Sharkticon and punched it's leg. After a few seconds, long, intertwined cracks appeared in its armour.
"It seems the Quintessons aren't as adept in the Ancient Mystic Arts as much as they think." Orion proclaimed. "The Knights didn't take away my power. They merely suppressed it."
Orion reached his servos out and wrapped them around the leg of the Sharkticon. He put a firm grip around it and sent the Sharkticon flying to the other end of the arena.
The Sharkticon had let go of Chromia and Dion in the process. Orion caught them before they could crash to the ground.
He set them down carefully before turning back towards the two beast holding his other two friends.
The Bailiff growled before raising its servo to bring the other two younglings crashing down hard to the ground. Orion raised his own servo and two long, green metallic cord came arcing out if his back. It sped through the air and wrapped itself around the Bailiff's wrists right before it could crush the two younglings. Orion twisted the cords and the Bailiff dropped the younglings to the ground.
The cords let the Bailiff go and retracted back close to Orion.
That was when Orion's body began to change. His armour began unfolding itself to reveal sharper, and more angular dark green armour around his arms, legs and chassis. His helm turned into a battle helmet, covering his face leaving only his green optics to shine through.
Two more cords came out from Orion's back and he sped towards the Bailiff and the Sharkticons.
His fists collided with one Sharkticon.
"You...none of you, will ever hurt anyone that I love EVER AGAIN!" Orion proclaimed.
The other Sharkticon came barreling towards him from behind. Without even turning his helm, the cords from Orion's back shot out, grabbing the Sharkticon and sending it flying into the space next to its comrade. Orion did the same to the Bailiff.
"Never again. Never again. I am going to kill you all! Every single last damn Quintesson in the universe!" Orion shouted as he used his fists and the cords to the beat the monsters down.
Even when their helms and chassis were completely smashed in, Orion continued on screaming and shouting the whole time.
"Orion!" Chromia called from behind him.
Orion turned around to see his friends sitting up, watching him from the distance.
He stopped his assault and turned to face them. Then the cords retracted back into his body and the green armour unfolded back into the blue and red. His optics turned back into their usual blue as well.
Orion groaned as he fell from the top of the Bailiff to the ground. Chromia was able to catch him. She set him down and wiped some of the dust from his faceplates.
"Oh, Orion Pax. What are you?"
What is Orion?
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