Orion doesn't know what to say, at first, and so instead he just focuses on making sure he's got everything hooked up right. There is a lurking sense of inevitability, now. Despite everything that's been said...Optimus Prime is still in a past tense. And if Megatron really does have the Matrix...

He vents slowly, feeling the edge of his wound up nerves again now that he doesn't have anything to do with his hands. He looks at her, his optics soft but still mournful.

"I will do everything I am able to aid you in that task," he says, at last. And he knows, in the end, what that will mean.