The strange mech's intensity was unexpected, but Orion simply met it head-on with an intrigued smile before returning to his own work. His curiosity could wait.

He should have known it would not be as simple as all that.

The huge gladiator quickly became a staple figure of the library, always showing up to continue his ever-expanding research, even if his schedule was not always the same. He was a...oddly pleasant diversion from the usual monotony of sterile librarian life. And a pleasantly fierce debater.

So the cube arriving on his desk just as he was getting irritatingly hungry enough to seek one out himself was like a gift from Vector Sigma.

"Oh. Megatron! Thank you." He took the cube with a thankful grin, already working out a plan to treat the mech the next time they went out together.

"How did you know?"