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Leon had always come up smelling like roses, and Amanda wanted to see it for herself. The man was an exceptionally importunate Agent; a guy any independent bureau wanted on their side. Not to mention, he has the cutest ass! Amanda slapped herself mentally and forcefully concentrated at her created coliseum. She knew Leon wasn't as latitudinarian as Krauser; while one actually got off on perfidious displays of combat; Leon was a rulebook-practically-genius Government lackey.

Amanda would soon find out just how fast, and how efficient these two hard knocks worked together. The approaching gigantic sized flesh-filled boulders on two legs stomped their way first to the bigger man, giving Leon the discretion to take his opponent openly.

The first shots Leon took from his Matilda managed to get one of the towering colossal to reveal the Las Plagas inside; worm-like multi arms similar to tentacles pushed out of the skin on the creature's back. The Agent grabbed this open opportunity to rush at the vulnerable El Gigante, attempting first hand to climb it; however, its twin monster blocked the attack, sending Leon into a pile of carefully stacked up logs which toppled over him. This, needless to say, produced more of an influx of pain than the monster's back handed assault.

Krauser imbibed this exchange, thereby concentrated on energizing his body; an implosion of unnatural power coursed all around him; a rush of pink electrical current focused on his flexuous arm. This caused a glowing sensation, outside and inside, revealing his secret weapon. Amanda gasped at the sight; she was easily impressed by the big guy. Krauser's arm would bring down his enemies by impinging them; with it a foreseeable death. But in this occasion, it was not a quick and easy kill.

The moving mountains needed the Las Plagas to break out of the epidermis to reveal the creature's defenseless position. Krauser's earlier assessment of Leon's attack gave the bigger man an open chance to take down these creatures easily and swiftly. He aggressively swiveled his arm, lunging forward his weapon into the thick leg of the monster; this caused the victim of the parasitic organisms to have a hemialgia; the convulsion started on one side, speeding up to eclipse the entire empty head. The condition caused the predator into a prey; Krauser's prey – giving him easy access on its back, his arm moved forward, slicing viciously at the parasite.

At this time, Leon painfully got up to avoid the other creature, rolling away from the physical attack. By using a classic pedagogue method, the big boss followed his quarry to the other side, giving wide berth for Leon to take a timely crack at the creature. Instinctively, Kennedy knew if he took a shot now, he'd get pulverized again. Not one to take that chance, he immediately rolled his body forward, going underneath the El Gigante; just enough to pass between the tree trunk sized legs and fire away.

Leon fired two shots out of his Matilda as he gracefully rose with a genuflection ease, and as the parasites opened up from the victim's body; the Agent rushed forward, his knife in his hand now replaced his gun, and continued to slash vigorously at the poisonous organisms. As the first El Gigante went down with a crash, Leon's victim came crashing down right after, sounding like an earth-shattering explosion. Krauser grinned at his former comrade, "Looks like you got lucky again, Leon."

"Humpf." Leon smirked; his blue eyes narrowed as he looked through the rain of sun-kissed brown bangs at his former friend. "No thanks to our new friend up there."His head moved towards Amanda in a gesture, who at the moment was awed at the performance. She clapped her hands enthusiastically.

"Wow! That was awesome."

Before she could say anything more, an arrow hit the panel next to her, causing her to gasp aloud. She looked below, over at Krauser now holding a bow on his once glowing pink arm. "Shame on you, Krauser. You could easily hurt a girl this way."

"That's the point!" He growled, then rushed forward to the tower.

"Krauser! Wait! No!" She bit her lip, looked over at Leon, as he was her saving grace. " Leon?"

This time, Leon didn't even bother to stop Krauser.

"Okay, great! Now I have to deal with mister macho here." She rubbed her hands together. "You going to teach me a lesson?"

"More than that." He grunted as he started to climb the tower with quick upward paces.

"If it's a spanking, I can deal with it. But please not too rough!"

Leon stood there, watched until Krauser got close to his quarry, and because of his moral fiber, the government agent couldn't just stand there and allow a maniac to go and punish the girl. Sure, she was crazy, crazy to send them two El Gigante's, but he wasn't that crazy to watch an innocent go down despite her strange tactics.

Taking out his rifle, Leon shot at Krauser's arm. He figured that damned arm was invulnerable and would at least put the man out of commission so as it wouldn't go back to that 'weapon' he saw earlier.

Krauser felt the sting of the rifle bullet hit his skin, puncturing through and causing him to fall slightly off the tower. He had barely, just barely got there.

"What the hell, Leon?" He cried out in pain, "You on her side still?"

"I don't know what to think, Krauser. But I can't just let you take her on like that."

Amanda secretly smiled. She knew his character alright. Good ole' Leon

"Now, I ask you again, young lady," Leon said, asceticism in his voice, "Mind telling me what's going on?"

The bigger man grunted, "You're always so easy to predict, Leon, I wonder why you get to live all the time?" He jumped down with a loud thud on the earthen ground, the dust pushed up around his combat boots. "She has that serum on her possession. I want it."

Before Leon could say or do anything, Krauser made his move – a cloud of white smoke obscured the Agent's vision at once.

Coughing, Leon squinted, trying to focus what was happening and heard Amanda's scream, "Let go of me!"

Since Leon couldn't see what was going on, he could not know that Amanda didn't just stand there to get hit over the head with a bear-club by this Neanderthal; so she landed a sucker punch into Krauser's scarred face -that did nothing. But at the same time, kicked him in the groin, causing the bigger man to involuntarily bend his knees.

"OOF!" Growling, he gritted his teeth, "Why you little – "

She jumped on his back while he had bent down low enough to climb on, proceeding to rain punches on his backside. "Let go of me, you dumb brute!"

"Me?" He cried, flabbergasted with fury, "You're the one kicking me in the groin! Those are my jewels, woman!"

"And you? You're the one picking on those smaller than yourself!" she continued to flail at his back. He lifted her off easily and she screamed, her legs wrapped around his waist so as he wouldn't attack her with that scary arm.

She couldn't believe that he was so close! And her heart was thumping wildly against her chest, as Krauser's menacing visage dangerously closed in. No! He's going to kiss me! Yes! No! Yes! Amanda perplexed with anxiety and unwarranted excitement, she screamed those strange words in her head.

But she knew – deep down, he's not the kissing kind.

So she took action.

Planting a deliberate kiss on his harsh lips, he was stunned at Amanda's bold action - their lips locked. Krauser held on to Amanda with his hands gripping her sides, not knowing what to do for a moment. It was too shocking!

As the smoke cleared, Leon widened his eyes to see something shocking too. "What the -?" His mouth agape, he staggered forward. "Am I in some kind of alternative universe?" Just seeing Krauser lip locking with a girl was too much for this government agent to witness. In all his time working under cover to unveil unnatural events, it was overwhelmingly just not right.. No, not even zombies or Las Plagas could top this.