Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Transformers nor am I making any money off of this piece of crap.
Author's Note: If I get anything from Transformers wrong, sorry guys the backstory I'm using is from the Transformers: War for Cybertron game, pretty awesome stuff you should check it out. And sorry if the dialogue is bad, its not really my forte. Again any suggestions to make my writing better would be really appreciated.
Crank
Chapter Two – Alliance
The Autobot groaned in annoyance, he just could NOT find someone worthy of sharing his power with that he actually liked. They were either too stiff or just plain weird, that guy with the green spandex suit and bowl haircut was the best choice so far, but he just could not see himself not committing suicide within a week from his flamboyant nature.
Since none of the experienced ninja of this village were worthy of being his partner, he decided to go to the younger generation, they weren't as powerful as the older ones but at least he could at least have a laugh with the younglings. He resolved to observe the academy training and see if he could find a partner there.
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At the Konoha Ninja Academy
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The Autobot had to fight the urge to groan as he watched the close combat or Taijutsu training of the students. Some blonde kid was getting nearly every movement wrong and the teacher just ignored him, if Zeta Prime saw instructors blatantly refusing to correct Autobot trainees the instructor would find himself in the front lines being massacred by Decepticons. There he did it again, he saw the blonde's movements were wrong and didn't even do anything about it.
Well, he couldn't gain much from their personal skills from observing them 100 metres away and zooming in with his eyes. It would take some time, but he decided he would follow each child around after school and after that he would choose who was the best choice. From what he could see however, most of these kids weren't worthy. But, you never know, maybe he would be proven wrong.
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Three weeks later
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The tiny Autobot had narrowed down his choices to a select few; Hyuuga Hinata, Uchiha Sasuke, Nara Shikamaru, Aburame Shino, Inuzuka Kiba and Akimichi Chouji. But as he thought on which to choose, he figured out that while all of them had the skill to be his equal, they either weren't suited personally or circumstances would prevent the partnership from working out.
Hyuuga Hinata, while a nice girl, was shy and lacked the ability to work with him properly and her clan prevented her from learning anything except their own Taijutsu and the basic academy jutsu.
Uchiha Sasuke was light years ahead of his peers in terms of skill but he had a stick up his ass that bigger than Omega Supreme, he also would try to use the Autobot as a way to make himself more powerful to exact revenge against some guy called Itachi.
Nara Shikamaru had the brain power to strategically use the Autobot's power to destroy his opponents. The boy was extremely intelligent, able to formulate complex strategies very fast. But, he was lazy, which was a thing the Autobot HATED, so he was out of the question.
Inuzuka Kiba was good at close combat but he learned when observing Kiba at home that the Inuzuka Clan have a close relationship with dogs, to the point that an Inuzuka was only at 60% of their full power without his dog partner there to assist them. Kiba and his family also seemed very excited about getting his personal nindog and personally the Autobot didn't want to ruin that for them.
Akimichi Chouji was a rather fat boy that had the physical strength to make the most of the Autobot's sheer destructive power, but had next to no speed. And, judging by his family and their techniques, that wasn't going to change. Bummer.
Aburame Shino was the most logical choice. He was a textbook model of a shinobi, quiet, calculating, intelligent, and ruthless. These qualities however make the Autobot uncomfortable, Shino was good, that was for certain, but the Autobot didn't feel like Shino and him had well, anything to make them friends.
So none of the best choices fit him. Damn. He decided to just look around the training grounds again. Maybe he would find someone that was okay, if not, he'll simply go to another village and try there.
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Training Ground 2
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'He may not have much power, but at least he never gives up.' The Autobot thought in amazement, this kid had been practicing the same technique for hours and hadn't stopped, he hadn't gotten better at it either, in fact, he was getting worse at it. But, the Autobot could tell, by observing the kid train in class a few weeks ago, that that wasn't his fault, it was his dumbass teacher's.
He saw the kid was getting frustrated and left to go to some place called 'Ichariku's' to get some ramen. He thought he might as well follow the kid, maybe, just maybe, he was worthy.
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Konoha
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The Autobot looked at these villagers with disgust. This boy had been just walking around minding his own business when some drunk nobody called him a demon and started shoving him around for no reason. The thing that pissed him off though, was that the villagers saw it and didn't do anything about it all. They just glanced at the scene before returning to their business. Disgusting. But the strange thing is, that after the scene the boy said that he wanted to become Hokage, the strongest ninja in the village and protect these cretins. That settles it, tomorrow he was introducing himself to this boy, he had just earned his respect.
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The next day at Training Ground 2
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Naruto was currently kicking a dummy in the middle of his favourite training ground. The problem was he wasn't doing any damage to it, it was barely even moving with his kicks. Suddenly he felt a presence behind him, immediately spinning around to yell at the intruder that he was using the training ground, he paused when he saw what it was.
It was the strangest looking thing he had ever seen, it was small, just over 4 feet tall and constructed entirely of metal. It had large blue eyes and a strange emblem on it's left breast. (Basically, he looks like a mix between Proxy from Star Wars: The Force Unleashed and Frenzy from the 2007 Transformers movie.)
He suddenly became very scared, maybe it was some kind of assassin built by the villagers to kill him, he would never have ramen again, never wear Jiji's hat, never see Ayame and Teuchi.
The Autobot, seeing the kid suddenly become VERY scared, almost to the point of spraying coolant everywhere decided that he should say something to make the kid calm down.
"Relax kid im not gonna hurt you" He said in a calm voice hoping to god that the kid didn't spray coolant everywhere,
"You weren't sent here to kill me?" Naruto asked in a small, quivering voice.
"What? No, why would I even want to do that?" he asked the kid, maybe he could get the kid to tell him why he was hated.
"Because the whole village hates me, they call me bad names and push me around all the time and I don't know why."
"The whole village eh? What about the Hokage? Does he hate you too?"
"No! Jiji would never hate me! He's the Hokage! The Protector of the village!" The Blonde yelled in an extremely defensive voice.
"Whoa calm down kid I was just asking. Anyway, my names Crank who are you?"
"Uzumaki Naruto, future Hokage of Konoha believe it!"
"I can help you with that you know."
Naruto looked at the Autobot. Why would he, a total stranger, want to help him, the village idiot, the dobe, the loser, the one that everybody hated and despised. He was about to tell the robot to piss off until a thought occurred to him.
'Maybe he's telling the truth, maybe he does want to help me?' The young blonde thought hopefully. 'But, what is he anyway? Some kind of alien, an experiment that escaped?' The small boy decided to ask the robot standing in front of him exactly what he is.
"So, what are you anyway?" He asked, trying to sound as casual as possible.
"Im an Autobot kid."
"What's an Autobot?" The small child asked curiously.
"Long story."
"I don't care just tell me!" He yelled, his confidence returning to him.
And so, Crank told Naruto all about Cybertron and it's previous occupants, telling him of the war between the two factions, the Autobots, which he was a part of, and the Decepticons. He told him of the betrayal of Megatron, the death of Zeta Prime, the defection of Starscream, the capture of Omega Supreme, the defeat of Trypticon, and finally, the corruption of the core, forcing all Transformers to flee the now inhospitable wasteland ravaged by way and Dark Energon. When he was finished, he saw Naruto sitting cross-legged on the floor, staring up at him in wonder. He decided now was the time to ask the kid for his answer.
"So kid, you want my help or what?"
The kid looked in amazement of him. This robot in front of him, a member of the mighty Autobots, seemed to genuinely help him. He grinned and nodded, trying (and failing) to not look excited.
Crank just laughed.
"So Naruto, you got a place to live in?"
