HEAR ME OUT
Jazz is a human pilot of an Evangelion-type mech who anime-adventured too close to the sun and accidentally teleported himself (with his mech) to an unknown and very dangerous part of space.
Prowl is a Cybertronian. And one day he meets this very weird but funny guy that looks (and talks) nothing like any kind of mechanical form of life known to Prowl.
Thinking very hard about the fact that in G1 Prowl canonically can be remotely controlled from a human computer.
Like. He canonically can. fucking. Lose control of his own body. If his battle computer gets damaged in a funny way
Do you see where I am going with this