Disclaimer: Transformers is owned by Hasbro and Takara. All characters are owned by their respective brands.
This story is in response of a challenge made by Storylover213. Since I've never done one before please no flames.
The Spark of A Lion
Prologue:
Leonardo Azure sighed as he watched some morons run off from KO Burger without paying. It was a usual occurrence in the town of Jasper Nevada since it was out there in the middle of nowhere and bullied liked to taunt his friend Jack Darby.
He liked Jack. Despite his troubles he was a decent young man. They became fast friends since they both liked bikes and it was a bike that almost crippled him a few weeks ago.
Leon's body fame was like Jack's, wiry but fit. They were always teased to be almost like twins however he begged to differ. Jack's hair was a dark brown as opposed to his light brown. His eyes were a deep blue as opposed to Leon's violet that were behind a pair of trendy prescription glasses. They didn't look alike. But from a distance they could be brothers.
Leon remembered the license plate of the car the sped off and limped towards his friend using a hand crutch.
"Rough day Jack?" Leon called out making Jack smile sadly.
"You have no idea," Jack sighed as he slumped on the counter. He hated his job but what could he do, he was saving up for a motorcycle and help his mom at the same time. "Now probably I've got to pay for those moron's food as well."
"I know where they live," Leon said as he leaned on the drive thru counter.
"I don't know. I don't think I'm petty enough to seek revenge," Jack said with a smile. Leon was glad to hear those words. He never saw such responsibility on a kid before despite the fact that he was a kid himself. "Though, what would you do to them?"
"I have some neon paint left over," Leon chuckled. Jack laughed as well. He knew his friend had a naughty streak. It was one of the only things he had to get even with the bullies. Only Jack could handle his reigns.
"Tempting but no," the young man shook his head. "My mom thought me to be responsible and fair. Even if they're bullies it's not right to get back at them for something this small."
"Your mom is great," Leon said in admiration. "If she could make more of you we'd have peace and prosperity in the world."
"I'll tell her you said that," Jack laughed as he looked at him almost sternly. "You're not buttering me up so you could date her?"
"I love your mom and she's one beautiful woman," Leon smiled. "But she taught me how to treat a lady and thinking her like that... I breaks everything she pounded into me. May be if we're still single when I'm thirty and I might have a chance. Then I could be your step-dad and I'd have a son I could hang with." Jack took of his hat and smacked his friend on the head with it. It was a sore subject to him that his father left him and his mom when he was growing up. He sometime saw how lonely she was and it made him want to protect her more. Even though she worries a lot.
"Dream on, Leon," Jack laughed at his friend's joke. At least he thought it was a joke. "And I thought that you already have a crush. You know that girl from Japan with the pink highlights."
"Miko?" Leon smiled softly. "You know me. I love the ladies."
"You're a geek and you know it," Jack said at Leon's affronted face.
"A handsome geek," Leon recovered. "A handsome and very suave super-robot geek."
"Leon. If a very beautiful robot would stand here today you'd totally fall in love with her" Jack simply said making his friend shrug.
"As long as she could love me back," Leon returned. "I have standards. What use is love if it's only one-sided?"
"Have to work for love," Jack said in wisdom beyond his years.
"Ooh, haven't thought of that," Leon jested as he stood straight. "But I swear that I, Leonardo Azure will fight for love with all my life, spirit and soul!" a couple of passing students giggled at his expense but he didn't care. He never did care about what they thought of him.
"Well, if I see a hot looking robot I'll hook you up," Jack said, his worries demolished by his friend's antics but he also could see the seriousness in Leon's eyes. He believed what Jack had said. And that was enough for him.
"I'll hold you to that, Jackson Darby," he said as they bumped fists and he began to walk away. "Tell her about me and make sure to lay it in thick." Jack only laughed as he saw his friend disappear around the store's corner.
"That guy's sniffed a lot of glue," Jack shook his head and was surprised that Leon's head poked back to smile at him.
"Plastic Models this days are snap-ons," he said. "See ya!" Jack only laughed and prepared to get out of work.
/****
Arcee retracted Sadie as she parked at KO Burger's parking lot. She watched as the two 'Cons pass by her as she maintained her cover. She wanted to bash their chassis to what they have done to her partner but she also knew that discretion is the best tactic she could opted at that time. She would get the Cons but not without back up.
"Wow," Arcee heard a human exclaimed as he neared her. "You are the most beautiful thing I have ever seen in my life. And if Jack would see you he would say the same thing." Arcee froze. Did this human know about her? She felt his fingers gently caress her metal workings and it made her shiver. Not out of disgust but out of pleasure. No one had garnered such reaction from her, not even the Autobots she had worked with or those she admired.
Somehow, this fleshling, his tiny human was making her spark crave more of his touch.
The human crouched down in front of her and caressed the side of her headlamp. As she looked at him, it looked like he was looking deep into her spark. And seeing those amethyst orbs of his, she felt like seeing into his soul.
"You're tired," he stated. It shocked her on how he could be so precise. He simply smiled softly and gave her a light kiss on the nose of her front end. "You'll be fine. There are people who cares about you. You must think that I'm crazy talking to a motorcycle. Maybe I am. My friend thinks I'm crazy but I'm harmless. Most of the time. Though I have this irresistible urge to wax you." the youth stood up using his crutch and bowed elegantly at her.
"My name is Leon. I hope we dance someday," with that he left whistling a tune. Arcee simply parked there in wonder. There were a lot of crazy being in the galaxy and this one was one of the craziest.
But... she liked him.
And despite the pain in her spark for losing yet another friend, she really hoped that she would dance with him. Despite the face that they were of two separate species.
/**8***
A few minutes later, Leon was puttering along in his battered Mini when he saw Jack and a young boy walking back towards town. Curious, he stopped and honked them making Jack smile as he and the boy walked towards him.
"My hero," Jack smiled as he opened the door, letting the young boy sit at the back before he himself sat in front.
"What the hell happened?" Leon asked confusingly. "I few moments ago I left you at KO Burger."
"I'm not sure myself," Jack sighed as he leaned back at the seat. "I'll tell you later." Leon then looked at the boy who had an awed expression on his face.
"Got a name kid?" he asked.
"Raf," he smiled. "You must be Leon."
"You know me?" Leon blinked. It was rare that people know him.
"Dude with looks that hangs around the toy store and drives a beat up Mini," Raf recited. "The guys at the comic book store says you're a legend."
"Don't know if I'm thrilled or disappointed at that," Leon said as he shifted in gear and headed back into town.
"Going somewhere?" Jack asked as he noticed a large backpack beside Raf.
"Convention," Leon smiled. "Three days of nothing but Super-robots and merchandise."
"Sorry if we delayed your trip," Jack said but Leon waved him off.
"Come on, what are friends for?" Leon smiled as the car slowly made its way towards town.
"Drop us of on KO. I left my bike there," Jack sighed suddenly tired of the day's events. The trip was silent as they reached the place. When Leon stopped the car, he got out and help Raf out of the small compact. "I owe you one."
"Remember to send the lady robots my way and we're even," Leon said making Jack nervously smile and shake his head.
"If I meet her again I'll ask for her phone number," Jack said as he knocked at the car's roof. Leon simply laughed and finally was on his way. He and Jack were friends for a long time and he knew it Jack wanted to let him know what had happened he would tell him later.
For now, it was him and the road and nothing would stand in his way in getting to that convention.
Nothing except a couple of mean looking cars that blocked his path.
Leon frowned as he stopped the car. Looking at the two cars they were identical in every way and he had a bad feeling about this. The two cars suddenly changed. Transformed into giant robots and Leon would have thought that it was cool, until they fired at him.