A/N: Thank you for the reviews guys! I honestly wasn't expecting to get any for this fic, as Alice and Leo is such a weird combination. I guess the storyline makes more sense if you've seen how I characterise Alice in "One More Time". Oh well, I'm going to stop now before I write an essay for my author's note. I hope you enjoy the chapter :D
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Summary: Abandoned by the Decepticons until she can prove herself again, Alice decides to go against Megatron to find a way for peace. To do so, she accidently enlists the help of Leo Spitz. Can they put the past aside and find a way to attempt to end the Cybertronian War?
Rating: T
Before It's Too Late
Chapter 1: Leo
Three weeks after the incident in Egypt, Leo Spitz was back at college and being debriefed on Diego Garcia. He was slightly jumpy and convinced the Decepticons were coming to kill him and Sam, but he was back at college and relatively pleased about discovering the truth about the Extra-Terrestrials. He was even more pleased amount the large government cash deposit sitting in his bank account to keep him quiet, and the fact that he had been promised a high grade in any exams he took, no matter how badly he did.
Leo threw his holdall down onto the floor and sat down onto his bed, completely exhausted. They had just back from Egypt and he was still finding sand everywhere. Leo took off his hoodie and flung it across the room, covering Sam in a shower of sand. The other teen looked up and frowned at Leo.
"Thank you so much for the sand shower." Sam scowled.
"You're welcome." Leo grinned and flopped down onto his back, staring up at the ceiling. "I wish we were back in Egypt. It was nice and hot there..."
"What about the sand?" Sam asked.
"Okay... I wish we were back at Diego Garcia. It was hot there and there was only sand on the beach." Leo sighed. "You wanna get some pizza later?"
"Sorry, I can't." Sam apologised. "I'm seeing 'Kaela tonight – she said she was going to come and visit to see how I was getting on after Egypt and then she was going to head back home in a couple of days to make sure her dad's getting on okay. I'm hoping she is, then she might move here and we'll be able to get an apartment together."
"Does that mean you two want to be alone tonight?" Leo asked.
"If you don't mind..." Sam said.
"Nah, it's fine. I'll just grab some people... like Sharsky and Fassbinder. We'll go out and get some pizza. Text me when it's safe for me to come back, yeah?" Leo laughed. "If it is ever safe for me to come back. It'll be a good thing if Mikaela moves her and you guys get an apartment together."
"Really?" Sam asked.
"No." Leo scoffed. "Who would I have to do all of the cleaning? I'm the messiest person in the world – trust me. If you moved out this room would turn into a bombsite."
"Nice to know I'm appreciated for something around here." Sam said.
"Well... I'm gonna unpack everything and then head out. I don't really want to be here when Mikaela arrives. The lovey-dovey talk that'll be going on between the two of you will actually make me want to vomit." Leo wrinkled his nose. "Seriously, when did you two start getting like that?"
"Ever since she said 'I love you' in Egypt." Sam shrugged.
"Wait – she said 'I love you'. Did you say it back?" Leo asked. Sam was silent. "You didn't, did you? Oh, she's going to kill you. She's actually going to kill you."
"I didn't say it back because it didn't feel like the right time." Sam confessed. "Trust me, Leo. I will say it to her one day and she knows that."
"Of course she does." Leo said. Sam hit him.
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"Okay then. I guess I'll see you guys around." Leo ended the phone call. After ditching Sharsky and Fassbinder to hang around with Sam, they didn't seem to want to hang out with him anymore. He guessed it had something to do with disappearing for a couple of days and coming back afterwards as Sam's best friend. With sand everywhere and in a flash looking yellow and black sports car with a hot girl in it. Yeah, they might be the reasons why Sharsky and Fassbinder didn't want to see him. Leo headed down the street grumbling to himself. He should've made Sam and Mikaela go somewhere else for the night – that way he could be enjoying a takeaway pizza at home on his own, not going to a restaurant to sit in the building and eat on his own.
When Leo reached the restaurant, he sat down in the corner, as far away from everyone as possible and made sure that there was some sort of fake plant in front of him, so that he wasn't visible to everyone eating in the restaurant. If anyone asked, he would just tell them that his date was running late. He wished his date was running late, but sadly, he had never had a date in his life, and wasn't likely to in the future – distant or otherwise. In his opinion, the only person he had come close to having a date with was a psycho-chick who turned out to be an alien robot who was trying to kill or capture him... and Sam and Mikaela, but they were only a minor part of it.
Leo could swear he just spotted said psycho-chick alien robot standing across the road in a phone booth.
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Alice was trying to work directory enquiries and find out where Sam Witwicky was. If she found him, he would be able to help her. He had absorbed the knowledge and power from the All Spark, hadn't he? Sam could help her find what she was looking for if it meant stopping the war... or he would call his friends in NEST and have them take her away and tortured... but it was worth a try. However, directory enquiries was not going to tell her anything about Sam Witwicky. She guessed the government wouldn't let him be tracked that easily. She slammed the phone down in annoyance and leant against the wall of the phone booth, wondering what to do.
"Excuse me, miss? Are you done with the phone?" A man asked, opening the door to the phone booth.
"Oh, yes I am." Alice smiled sweetly. She stepped out of the booth and saw the man's eyes widen in horror. She looked down, and saw that one of her arms was mechanical from the elbow downwards.
"What are you, some sort of freak?" the man exclaimed, stepping backwards from her. He was creating a scene, and people were stopping to look. Many of them were noticing Alice's mechanical arm and muttering to others standing nearby.
"No... it's a... prosthetic. I lost my arm in... erm..." Alice hid her arm behind her back. She didn't think she was able to transform after being run over by Mikaela.
"Alice!" Someone called from across the street. She whipped around and saw Leo walking towards her. He pushed his way through the crowd, over to where she was standing with the man, who didn't look convinced by what Alice had said. "Hey you, how have you been?" He didn't know why he was trying to help her... he just was.
"Leo, get out of here." She hissed. "I can handle this myself."
"Excuse me, but who are you?" the man asked Leo.
"I'm Leonardo Ponce de Leon Spitz. Who the hell are you?"
"I meant who are you to get involved in this?" the man asked. "This is between me and the lady."
"The 'lady' and me go way back." Leo protested. "Why don't you let me get her out of here and I'll sort her out?"
"She's got a mechanical arm." The man pointed at Alice.
"Do you?" Leo asked. Alice held out her arm, and jumped in surprise. It was covered with smooth skin again. Leo turned to the man. "I don't know what the hell you're on, but it gives you no excuse to bother people in the street. Alice, let's go."
"But –" Alice didn't have the chance to protest, because Leo grabbed her by the arm and dragged her away down the street, into a small coffee shop that was nearing closing time. He shoved Alice into a seat, and sat down opposite her. He pulled his phone out of his pocket and dialled a number, then laid it on the table in front of him.
"Give me one good reason why I shouldn't call NEST right now and tell them where you are." Leo ordered.
"I've found a way to end the war." Alice complied. Leo stared at her, dumbstruck.
A/N: I thought that would be a good place to end this chapter, so that I could explain more in the next chapter and Alice can try and get Leo to let her talk to Sam.
I'm not sure when the next chapter will be up, but hopefully it won't be too long :)
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