"Indeed," Megatron said dryly, almost not able to keep his snort or a toothy grin to himself. "Not that I didn't suspect something like this might happen, but..."

Pausing, he gave Orion a side-long glance.

"I didn't expect it to be quite this bad. I hope you've had some progress, at least?"

Both for Orion's sake and his, and he didn't even (mostly) mean that he sure was interested in Orion's finds for his own reasons, but because he suspected that Orion might get cranky if he got no results.