Sparks Fly
A DC fanfiction by Andrew Joshua Talon
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Leslie Questions and Training Video 2
Leslie was in Clark's apartment again. She was in her black jogging outfit again. She had black sneakers to match the look. The clothes could be from a big box store. She also had some cheapo sunglasses on her face. Her hair was still it's blue self and her skin was chalk white. "What's up Wireheads! I am still on hiatus from my radio program. So here is an update I am doing on my progress. I am trying to see about travel, after my post power meltdown, the scientist at S.T.A.R. Labs reviewed what footage they could get of my fit. They realized I could travel in an electrical form. I said DUH! But Scientists." Leslie rolled her eyes. "You will get to see me traveling through the wires or at least the cameras I have set up at a safe testing area."
"Now before I do that, I will answer some questions. these are the nice ones, or at least the ones I liked." Leslie then had a cut in the video.
"The first question is from Guk Guy 97, I hope I am saying that right." Leslie looked at the tablet. "Leslie, with your new abilities are you gonna try more anime-inspired tests? I plan to but it depends on what Dr. Hamilton will allow after I set fire to an intern indirectly. The test in this video is less destructive and had a limited chance of explosions. We'll see what Dr. Hamilton says, but it may be awhile."
"Next question, BKR 73 asks, 'Leslie are there any animes you feel intimidated to start watching.'" Leslies thought about it, "Well, there are several, nothing against One Piece but I will agree it is intimidating to jump into. But I will say the anime I find more intimidating is Detective Conan. That has been going on since 1994 for the manga and like 1996 for the anime. I mean almost a hundred volumes of manga, close to a thousand episodes, over 20 films, and numerous specials, OVAs, and spin-offs. I mean my god, that is intimidating. Especially as the main character has been shrunk and has to solve crimes as a kid. How are police forces in Japan allowing a kid to be anywhere near a crime scene? And also everywhere they go the main cast encounters a murder. It's like Murder She Wrote on steroids. How do they get invited to do shit at all?!" Leslie ranted before taking a deep breath, the video abruptly cuts, "Clark told me not to get so upset about Detective Conan, I did tell him I will zap his ass if he calls it Case Closed." Leslie grinned before the video cut again, "One of the issues I had was between work, daily life, and new animes I am interested in, I lose track of series like One Piece and others. Nothing against them just I think they're great but I am still catching up. On One Piece."
"Next question, from CellisCreepy, 'what happened to the intern I hope he is okay?'" Leslie looked at the camera, "I put this on social media, and everything but people seems unaware and that the kid is fine. What happened in the woods we were testing in were just filled with mosquitos, They were just thick. One of the stranger goof off tests I did, that may get into the clipisode in the future, was me using my abilities as a human bug zapper. Now, Timmy had sprayed himself with bug spray heavily. Now that type he used was flammable. He put a whole can's worth on his whole body. He was happy only his labcoat caught fire. I felt bad for the kid and paid for his hospital expenses, they weren't bad." Leslie then stood up, "But the tabloids decided to make a scene about it. I did not burn the kid directly, I did not mean to hurt him. I feel guilty as shit about it. The kid admitted he fucked up. I still feel bad about it."
Leslie's video cut's to her sitting on the couch but her sweatshirt top is off, and her sunglasses are removed, she had on a sports bra. "KaijuLance asked the following question; 'What changes have occurred to your body aside from the obvious skin and hair color change and powers?' While S.T.A.R. Labs is still finding out the extent of my changes, I can show off my tummy," Leslie showed fairly defined abs. "Doc McStuffins Hamilton, says weight gain is probably a part of me eating and exercising but also the needs for the new muscle mass I got, Nothing over the top but Clark likes it. I am not overly defined washboard abs yet but I'll be damned if I don't like, still have to keep in shape. And it is better in case some idiot tries something." Leslie laughs, the video cuts showing Leslie lifting weights at S.T.A.R. Labs. Then cuts video shows Clark touching the toned tummy and Leslie giggling.
"I'm a little ticklish there." Leslie grinned like the cat that ate the canary.
Leslie was now dressed in her jogging suit again, no sunglasses though, "Second to the last question is from TohoDoom! 'Leslie, have you seen Godzilla movies, and what is your favorite?' Well, I prefer anime, I grew up with it, I also grew up with power rangers, MST3K, and, Godzilla. My uncle, my mother's youngest brother, showed me some early MST3K tapes and a few Godzilla movies too. MST3K's humor may not have been as crude as I am, it did make me want to make fun of things. One of his tapes had Godzilla Vs. the Sea Monster episode. Another was Godzilla Vs. Megalon and it is one of my personal favorites. I saw Godzilla 1998 as a kid, it's a fun monster film but it is more "Beast from 20,000 Fathoms" 1998 than Godzilla. My favorite Godzilla movie was Godzilla vs. Biollante, it's weird but much like Clue it was not well received when it came out but it has gained a following."
"The final question comes from NyanCat_57!, "Leslie where do you get your generic running wear?" Leslie laughed, "I get it either online or Clark and I go to a store to get it. We've gone to Boone's, Save-Mart, Mayfield's, and Wheeler's. I go through them either through training or like in the video, you'll see what happens when I turn into electricity some times. I try to get cotton or material that is harder to melt. Polyester materials are a no-no. They melt and that fucking hurts!" Leslie also showed off other colored jogging outfits, "I have them in red and blue, I don't want them in white as that shows all dirt. Brown is okay though it doesn't look good." Leslie laughed, "But cheap clothes are the safe bet at the moment as it avoids me wrecking good leather, my nicer clothes, and the T-Shirts I got at concerts."
Leslie was on the couch again. "Next bit may show nudity, I have edited to not show anything too risky. Enjoy." Leslie clapped on the couch and the video cut to Leslie clapping in a Basketball gym/auditorium combination.
"Hello," Leslie waved, she was in a similar outfit she had at the start of the video, she was wearing sunglasses in the gym. "Hello and welcome to the S.T.A.R. Labs basketorium. This was a community college long ago and they kept the gym for physical testing and large meetings. Today, I am going to see if it is possible for me to go from one light in the gym to another. Another test will be to see if I shed my outfit, does it do damage. Additional tests are happening to see if I can put my head in a socket one place and have it come out the other side and tests on my reflexes and whatnot as well as what happens when I go through regular city-style underground electrical cables."
There were several long cables that went all over the gym. One went from beneath the buzzer above the stage to a few feet in front of Leslie. Another went from the guest stands into the opposing team locker rooms (remember former community college), a third went from in front of Leslie to the stage but turned away from the first. The fourth went from home team side to the top of the stands, these stands were built as a separate level. There were a lot of high frame rate cameras.
"I wonder if with set up if I'll be in a Slow-Mo Guys video?" Leslie teased.
After a cut to later, Leslie was ready for a test. Emile Hamilton, a gaggle of scientists, and interns were ready. "Alright Doc, we ready?"
"Ready to go Miss Willis!" Came the muffled reply, the video subtitled, Hamilton's response also put his name as Dr. Emile "McStuffins" Hamilton.
"Great, now let's see what happens." Leslie had done some pre-test exercises, Leslie smirked. In a second she turned to energy, in the blink of an eye, she was across the room. The video showed the slow-motion footage, it showed Leslie turning into energy entering the cable, it was like her body glowed, and got brighter until it lost form and became lightning-like. She entered the wire and the video showed Leslie at the other side of the gym in a flash.
"Well, that was easy." Leslie grinned.
Next, the edit then showed Leslie's second test. Leslie in the gym turned into energy again, but the slow mow captured Leslie's clothes remaining after she turned into an energy form. It was bizarre in the slow-motion seeing a set of clothing standing tall as if they still had a person inside yet were empty. The video then showed the jogging outfit slowly falling to the floor, crumpling as they had nothing to support them now. The video then cut to the regular speed showing this all happening in a second.
"Leslie you alright?!" came the voice of Emile Hamilton, After a second and becoming reply came from the locker room, "Yeah! I just need to get dressed! I am glad we put clothes in here for this test!"
The third test was not interesting but the highlights were shown, At one end Leslie had her arm in a socket, you could see at the elbow it was turned into energy, it looked as if Leslie was in one long arm sleeve. At the other end on the stage, she tapped the desk with her lower arm to elbow on a desk. They gave her a simple writing test. This was followed by seeing if she could feel them touching her at the other end. simple touch tests. Though the doctors here would heavy electrical gloves. "It's really weird, I see it over there and I feel the hand-tapping the table and the doc's touching my hand. I know this is not that weird psychology thing where you see a fake hand and you think you're being touched. "
A blow-up of Leslie's note was shown, in the poor penmanship being across the room writing usually brings. Leslie wrote, 'What up D?'
"This is the strangest test by far." said the upper half of Leslie Willis poking from the socket on the gym floor her legs were on the second floor stands through the wires. Up there were two doctors in heavy electrician's gear with the reflex hammers, feathers and other means to test her body in the wires. A doctor hit Leslie's left knee it kicked reflexively, "Left knee." Leslie said. They wanted to make sure through the wires if her reflexes remained unaltered as this her sense of touch. There was a compilation of tests, feathers, pens, and other instruments prodding Leslie's legs. Leslie then turned herself into energy and sank her body up until her neck in the socket and at the socket, there was a blue light connecting Leslie's neck and body. Hamilton did further tests, covering her head and being told with her hands to indicate what side of her head and face he touched. Leslie had slipped in her flipping the bird to the scientists. "I am tempted to sing Mr. Sandman from Eight Heads in a Duffle Bag." Leslie laughed, "Either that or recite lines from The Brain That Wouldn't Die!"
We finally see Leslie on Clark's couch. "The last tests were weird but kinda fun. Hamilton had his hypothesizing like he was some scientist from a 1950's Atomic horror movie. But I set no interns on fire, I was not naked on the video, there was a camera in the locker room but the footage would violate Terms of Service. Why they used their own cables was to prevent me from overloading or melting their electrical wiring. Though the head in a socket did give me an idea for cosplay ideas, either 'Jan in the Pan' from The Brain That Wouldn't Die, or have Clark in a headless horseman getup and we play the Hatbox Ghost from the Haunted Mansion." Leslie smirked, Clark groaning could be heard in the background.
Written by ajm8888.