Orion held the pistol spinning it around, he used to fire fake ones and was good with it too before aiming at a few targets hitting three tesf dummys but they were all on areas to leave them damaged but still movable
"Im..somewhat good with pitols.."
"Hehehe! Don't worry, I was doin' that my first time around too! Come on, let's get'ya there."
Patting Orion on the shoulder and giving him the rifle back, Ironhide led the way to the shooting range. There weren't many people there, but they probably wouldn't mind anyway.
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"This whole time there was a shooting range and ive been sneaking out to a scrap yard to do target practice..."
Well now he felt stupid for not looking around or even asking about these type of things
"...could you lead the way"
"Oh I CAN help with that, or do my best at least... Wait, what's..."
Ironhide held the weapon carefully, observing every detail of it.
"Now this is one beautiโ Wheeljack? Of course he did! And he doesn't need no excuse to make it, just... does."
For a moment he thought: +
"Well I could use some help in firing a gun first, so far ive hit scrap metal but never the exact spot im trying to aim for"
Orion pulls out a lazer riffle, its the first of its kind
"A bot by the name wheeljack made it, but never explained why he did?"
"Alpha Trion? If it's the same bot I met, damn I'm sorry for ya', kid..."
He had some pretty bad experiences with the bearded bot, but maybe Orion was luckier.
"Mimicking? I see... Okay, what do ya' wanna learn first? Let's see what I can teach'ya."
"Well the truth is I wasn't at a police academy, I used to work in cargo loading energon then became a data clerk working under alpha trion"
He blinked
"I...did mimic some moves I used to in the archives before they were destroyed.."
"Ya' don't know?! What've they been teachin' ya on the police academy, kid?"
He turned to Orion, almost in disbelief. Ironhide brought the digits to his optics and took a deep breath.
"Well, tell me what ya' know! Won't wanna waste time."
"Im not much of a fighter but id like to ask if you could train me"
He knows a few basics but doesn't really know to use the weapons or to actually fight properly
@Headstrong_Bot "I don't see any issues in training them but its the matter of how you'll do it and if they can handle it, find what their good at and push them to go beyond"
Ironhide is lining up the ammunition for his weapons. They are placed in order of caliber and size.
It's almost strange to see a bot like him being so careful!
๐: a bit of lore to my potrayal of orion/optimus.
He does not wan't to be a leader or wan't the matrix that hes searching for, being around the archives and reading the many stories they held, he fears that if he became leader he would fall under corruption.
He fell off of a seeker......that just so happened to be flying rrally high......but hes ok
"Well...note to self, if they to reach orbit let go the moment they go up"
He sits down looking at the rumble of cities, hearing the gun fires, without a prime he fear they may lose thise war
"I have hope a prime will lead us again"
After some training earlier he wen't to check on the drones data feed to see if any have had any luck to find him a safe passage but only 5 are active the others were destroyed
"Hm..."