Mouth opened to verbally retaliate, Orion froze at the stare, vocalizer gone inexplicably quiet. Instinctively, he tried to lean away, bonds slowly going taunt; such was the intensity of the look that Megatron felt far too close, uncomfortably close, despite being several frame-lengths apart.

Even worse, his optics dropped unwillingly to the...display involving Megatron's spark that silenced him.

He watched silently, jaw clenched along with the rest of his frame from the tension, venting a heated sigh when the tyrant finally slumped in completion.