Greeting: Hi, everyone. I hope you're happy because I am. More Leslie this time. Let's see how Klaus' plan works in practice. Rage wants to have fun and Leslie is about to give him that. Enjoy!
( Klaus, Alessandro and Leslie. Getting into boats at the safe house)
The safe house had gone mad. There was no one who wouldn't have something to do.
They had brought boats out of hiding. They were in the chasm that was in the other big hall, next to the safe house.
Leslie had often wondered why it was there.
Now he knew.
Those boats were relatively small compared to the other boats in the room. The room had a direct access to water and a dock of its own.
Leslie had just given the girl into the hands of a tender French nurse. The Egyptian girl would be in good hands.
Leslie had taught the nurse a few good words. Such as numbers and actions.
" Wow! How are you able to remember all this?", had the nurse asked him.
Leslie had chuckled.
" I just do. I have a good memory and I love languages", Leslie had answered.
Right then, Klaus was moving huge crates into the boats with Leslie.
" What is in these things? I think I need to transform in order to pick these up", Leslie groaned in pain.
Klaus nodded to him. Leslie had given Klaus a heads up earlier in the morning. He knew what transformation Leslie meant.
" You know, you don't have to do this. If you don't want to show us this transformation of yours, it's fine", Klaus made sure Leslie knew that.
He had probably seen the distressed expression on Leslie's face.
In truth, Leslie was thinking about Storm Jr.'s adorable face.
Leslie was interrupted by Rage.
" Did you hear him? He thinks I'm too weak. Well, he can go and..", Rage said inside Leslie.
He looked at Klaus and chuckled.
" Rage isn't too happy about it. He has his own desires and he wants you to go.. into bed with your dead great-grandfather.
I'm sorry, that makes me sound insane", Leslie apologized to Klaus.
The old guy laughed.
" It doesn't. Our emotions have their own desires. Without those desires, we would only have our intelligence left. It would be stupid.
Over half of what we do is controlled by our emotions", Klaus told Leslie.
" That's a peculiar, philosophical thought. Probably true though", Leslie nodded.
He thought about Black the cat.
" Without those emotions, death would have mowed us long ago. If you look at life through the eyes of an emotionless being, you realize that it's pointless.
Don't you agree?", Klaus was as wise as he looked.
It made Leslie feel better.
" I do. Thank you. It opened my mind", Leslie smiled and sounded very glad.
Klaus nodded and put the crate down.
He and Leslie moved on to pick up another one.
The discussion was intense inside Leslie.
" Life is pointless? What a sorrowful thought. I might cry", said Sadness.
Rage grunted in frustration. Happiness giggled and covered his mouth.
Leslie could almost see the bear trying to hide it.
" Without us, life would be pointless. Isn't that wonderful? We are more important than we thought. Even you, Fear.
Actually, you could be the most important", Happiness told the other emotions.
Fear's voice was silent.
" Are you gonna hurt me now, Rage? I don't want to be more important than Rage. He is scary", Fear said.
" And you are annoying", responded Rage.
Leslie focused on Black the cat. Klaus' philosophical thoughts had opened it up to Leslie.
" Is that what self-realization meant for Black? He lost all his overwhelming emotions.
If the vision hadn't showed me the consequences, I'd say it's a good thing", thought Leslie.
The vision was still in his mind. The look in Black's eyes had been so certain.
Black had found something better than his previous goal. The self-realization and the omniverse were real things if Black was to be trusted.
What sort of things had Leslie once known?
It scared him. And the light..what the heck had that been all about?
His hand slipped and he snorted.
Then Leslie got tired of lifting heavy crates. He looked down and his eyes turned blue.
The crate got so much lighter all of the sudden. He assisted himself with his powers. Klaus felt the difference.
When Leslie put the crate down, he turned his powers off.
" Okay! Next one", Leslie looked up, clapped his hands and wiped them on each other.
Klaus looked to his right and saw the empty dock.
" I think that's all of them actually. That should be enough ammunition for all of us", he looked proud.
" That was all just ammo? How much resistance are you expecting?", Leslie was shocked about it.
Klaus shrugged and shook his head.
" Probably an army. We still don't know if those things can use guns. We have to prepare for the worst", Klaus answered.
That creeped Leslie out. He understood why Klaus had been so nervous earlier in the morning.
Leslie wasn't sure if even he could go against bullets in the case of the monsters having guns.
" Rage? Are you sure about this? Can you actually stand bullets?", Leslie asked him just in case.
The fox grunted and sounded shocked.
" How dare you, insolent fool? What do you think I'm made out of? Plastic and metal like some other stupid animatronics?
No! I'm hardened hell fire", Rage answered rudely.
Leslie wondered if that is how he sounded when he was angry. Not that he had been angry a lot.
Usually, Jenner had come out before Leslie had had time to do anything. Rage was the embodiment of Leslie's anger and hate.
Rage was part of him whether he liked it or not.
Though, in some cases anger was needed. Like in the upcoming battle for instance.
Rage would be good in the fight. Rage was Leslie's own personal Hulk.
Now Leslie understood how Bruce Banner felt.
Except that Hulk wasn't a six-armed fox with fire coming out of its body. In many ways, Leslie enjoyed it when Rage came out.
He had never felt so much power.
Right then, Leslie felt that he could tear Black the cat apart and then move on to the rest.
When Rage was out, Leslie didn't feel trapped like with Jenner. He felt free and released.
He was scared of neither death nor future. Leslie smiled when he thought about it.
Alessandro was in front of him.
" You thinking of your girlfriends? You lucky you", Alessandro was smiling.
Leslie switched to Italian.
" I have just one. She feels like a million though", Leslie replied.
Alessandro understood it.
" In bed?", he asked.
Leslie nodded.
" In everywhere as long as the floor is soft and nice", Leslie answered to him.
Alessandro laughed. Of course, Leslie didn't mean what Alessandro thought he meant.
His girlfriend couldn't even make children due to her...exceptional physiology.
Leslie didn't want to reveal that yet. Klaus looked at the two guys as he boarded one of the boats.
He couldn't understand Italian so he had no way of knowing what they had been talking about.
" Whatever you were talking about, I hope it wasn't important because we need to go", Klaus told them.
Leslie and Alessandro nodded and boarded the boat.
" It's very wise of you to go to the base by boat. This way the monsters can't get us on the way", Leslie admired Klaus' wisdom.
The boat started and the silent warriors began their mission.
Klaus chuckled.
" It was Alessandro's idea. He's a smart cookie", Klaus pointed at his young friend.
Leslie was astonished and Alessandro loved the expression on his face.
( Soon. Near the base)
The boats stopped after an hour. Leslie had fallen asleep before that.
His sleep wasn't deep but the monotonous trip had done good job of boring him. Alessandro and the others on the boats had suited up.
Their normal clothes were too easy to see and inappropriate for their current mission.
Alessandro had spoken to Klaus when he noticed that Leslie was snoozing.
" Leslie. Americano. Hey. Wake up", Alessandro spoke English so Leslie would react to it better.
It worked. Leslie's eyes shot open and he launched up.
" What?", he asked in fear.
Alessandro looked at him and pointed at the shore.
He continued in German.
" The shore. We are here", he whispered.
Leslie saw the shore but couldn't understand what had happened to Alessandro.
" What are you wearing? You look like an evil commando or something", Leslie looked at him weirdly.
It made Alessandro smile, his face was everything Leslie could see.
He was wearing a wetsuit.
" We are going to swim all the way to the base. Do you want one of these?", he asked Leslie.
" Do not take it! I have a better idea", one of Leslie's emotions said.
Leslie shook his head.
" You go ahead. I'll come soon. Prepare for a surprise", Leslie smiled amusedly.
Alessandro shrugged and grabbed the edge of a crate.
" How are you going to get these to the shore? Just asking", Leslie thought about the ammunition.
Klaus turned around and glanced at him. He had been about to go in the water but then he had stopped.
Alessandro kept his head down.
The old man looked pleading.
" We thought you might have been able to carry them there. My original plan was to go all the way to the shore with the boats but it's full of monsters.
You were sleeping so I didn't ask you this but can you do that for us?", Klaus pleaded.
Leslie was quite shocked. Klaus didn't know that Leslie's Rage was a huge fox.
Why did he think Leslie could do that?
" He probably had no other choice. He doesn't know if I can do it but it is our only choice. If not, we have to turn around", Leslie realized.
" I can do it, Klaus. Don't worry. Just go. I'll come after you have reached the shore. I'll come like a rocket, I swear", Leslie told the worried man.
Klaus sighed in relief. Leslie had heard a voice in his head that had told him that he could do it.
In fact, Leslie had no idea of how he could carry the crates. The other people jumped in the water silently and started swimming.
They were like agents, which amused Leslie.
Then the stress hit him.
" Okay. What can I do? You said that I could so I'm trusting you. Are you still there?", Leslie asked the voice in his head.
The answerer was Ornica.
" I'm here, reincarnation boy. Wait a moment. That was Sadness. I think she's changing. Hold on, I've got this", Ornica sounded busy.
Leslie had no idea of what was going on in that world of Ornica's.
" I can't wait. If I don't bring the ammunition, all those people die", Leslie replied.
He could hear faint growling. It was weird. It was like an action movie where someone is on the phone and beating people up at the same time.
The guy, on the other side of the phone, can just hear voices and weird sounds on the phone.
Leslie felt like one of those guys. Ornica was doing something weird.
" Is that a fish? Why does that growling sound like bubbles?", Leslie was confused.
Ornica responded soon.
" I didn't tell you this but Rage isn't the only thing you can transform into. I thought you wouldn't have needed this but it looks like you do", Ornica said and cut off.
Leslie waited for a moment.
" Just what do I have to do. I should be excited but I'm not because we need to hurry", Leslie was annoyed.
" Jump! Get into the water and think about Storm Jr.'s death", Ornica commanded.
" What?", Leslie exclaimed.
" Just do it!", Ornica shouted.
Leslie had no time to remove his clothes so he jumped into the cold water and shivered.
" Geez. This is so cold. North Sea sucks", he grinned and bit his own tongue.
He didn't forget to think about Storm Jr. though. He imagined the fur as it would get covered in oil.
Storm Jr. would shriek as she was torn in half. It was a vision that Jenner had shown him once.
Leslie was almost in tears. Then it came.
Leslie felt how something grabbed his leg and pulled him under the surface. Leslie's lungs were filled with cold water.
" What is happening?", he asked the water, around him.
Then he got the answer. The surface, of the water, broke and the head of a fish, a giant fish, peeked over the edge of the boat.
" I have become a megalodon. And I have six strong hands. Let's go, Sadness", Leslie felt good.
The bunny had done something to herself. Leslie didn't know what she had done and didn't care.
The fish picked up the crates from the boats easily. Leslie had taken a look at them earlier and recalled that they were water-proof.
" Now, let's go to the shore", Leslie turned the fish's head around.
He and Sadness had become one. Now that Leslie knew what Sadness could do, he wondered what the others could do.
They had to have some tricks up their sleeves too. Then Leslie heard gunfire from the shore.
" Come on. We need to hurry. They are going to die. Each one has only one magazine", Leslie told Sadness.
She was sad for them naturally and Leslie felt it. The giant fish-like creature went under the surface and took the crates with it.
" Here we go. Get ready for a surprise, Klaus. Those freaks are gonna get it", Leslie thought.
The people had engaged the monsters and were scattered across the shoreline. There was a big runway just by the shore.
Klaus and Alessandro were by a tree as Klaus glanced behind them.
" The crates are gone and so is Leslie. Where is he?", Klaus asked himself.
Right then, Klaus ran out of bullets.
They got lucky, thank goodness! Alessandro felt the ground tremble and glanced at the shoreline.
An enormous fish came out of the water and it had six legs. It looked like a spider with fins on its feet.
" Here we go, Sadness! Time to drop those crates and let Rage do his work", Leslie told her.
The people got out of the way but Klaus cheered in happiness. He knew who had come to fight alongside them.
Those crates were held by the fish's uppermost legs.
Sadness put them down and breathed water out of Leslie's lungs. Leslie did that too since he was connected to her, his own emotion.
Leslie somehow knew how to change into the fiery fox he wanted to become. He felt it in his body.
" I am fire. I feel so angry for everything. Have you hurt my Storm Jr.? I'll make you pay for it", grinned Leslie.
The fish tried to grin with its weird mouth.
" Klaus! What is it doing?", Alessandro asked him.
Then the fish shot out fire and set itself ablaze. Rage took over and it looked horrifying.
The fish burnt to ashes and ended up looking like a giant bonfire.
" There is much to do, monsters! You should have already killed yourselves. I'm gonna do it for you now", a mighty voice said.
Rage emerged from the fire like the Devil himself. His six arms rose to the air in victory.
It was Leslie who felt mighty. Klaus and the others watched as Rage charged at the monsters.
The creatures had backed away after the fish had come out but it was pointless. Rage was fast and tall.
He sliced with his strong hands and bit with his blazing teeth. The people went for the crates to get ammunition.
They felt strong and really good.
Klaus had warned them about a surprise but they hadn't guessed it to be that amazing.
Rage was a monster himself. He heard gunfire as the people engaged the monsters again.
There was a lot of monsters and they had already surrounded Rage.
" Pitiful! I would laugh if you weren't so hateful. Come at me!", Rage gestured the monsters to come at him.
The monsters didn't need any encouragement or taunting.
" Rip that insignificant fox to pieces!", a red-eyed monster told its forces.
It grinned with its eyes glinting in the dim light. It got shot in the face by a woman but that did nothing.
" Humans", the beast witch snorted.
It launched at the woman who was by a tiny building. It was on an earthy area that was between the concrete runway and the sandy shoreline.
It was a storage for electric equipment. The woman fired at the beast as it charged at her.
" Die, die, die", the woman begged by herself.
Beasts were tougher than the normal monsters. They felt almost no pain at all and they sometimes had special abilities.
The bullets barely broke the skin.
The woman ran out and she had to change her magazine. It was too late!
The woman stopped in fear as the claws went for her face. The beast looked to its left, while in the air, and saw something powerful.
Klaus had a shotgun and he was aiming at the beast.
The shotgun let out a loud bang and the beast flew against the building. That had broken its skin, there was blood all over the wall.
" Klaus! Use this!", one German man shouted.
He threw a bottle to Klaus who caught it from the air.
" Have a drink!", Klaus smiled at the monster.
There was a tiny piece of cloth covering the bottleneck. Klaus set it on fire and threw the bottle at the beast.
The flame was calm as it flew through the air. It was like the bottle had a tail. Then the bottle smashed into the monster's thick skull and broke into so many pieces.
The liquid, inside, went all over the monster and it shrieked as the flame exploded.
It spread across the liquid within a second. The spreading was hardly seen by any eye, it was too fast for them.
The monster got covered in flames which it hated above all. There was light and warmth, two things that beast witches wanted to die out.
The woman covered her ears as the beast screamed louder than anything else.
Even Leslie could hear it.
He was staying near the shoreline and Klaus' forces. Rage's hair was fire that shot towards the sky every time he killed a monster.
Leslie was in perfect sync with his anger. It was close to intoxicating.
Leslie had not felt anything like that ever before. He could kill more and more things.
He would never stop slaughtering. He was shot at by some beasts but the bullets went through him.
They left no marks.
The beast witches seemed to be able to use guns at least. The normal monsters were way too animalistic to do that.
" You have to try harder! I'll kill all of you", Rage shouted at everything around him.
He was speaking English but who would have cared about that. Rage spoke whatever freaking language he wanted.
Thanks to Leslie's linguistic abilities, Rage could speak German too.
It was just that he didn't want to do that. Rage was focused on killing. Then Klaus came to him.
" Leslie! You have to stop that! Protect our people. They are going for the plane", Klaus woke him up.
Rage glanced at Klaus and snorted with fire coming out of his snout.
" Do as he says. We need to hold back for a moment. We need to think rationally", Leslie woke up from his murderous sleep.
Rage went for the monsters by a hangar instead of going towards the plane the people wanted.
" You can think rationally. I am angry at these things. They disgust me so much! I'm going to kill every last one of them", grinned Rage.
Klaus went to protect his people. Alessandro joined him.
" What is Leslie doing? He can't leave us now", he asked Klaus.
The old man reloaded his gun and shook his head at Alessandro.
" Leslie uses his anger too much. He is out of control. Let's hope he joins us before we are killed", explained Klaus.
" But what do we do now? We'll be killed without him. This will be our end, okay!", Alessandro slowed down a bit and his eyes widened in dread.
Farewell: Rage might be a bit too...well..full of rage.
Can Leslie stop him anymore? You guys will have to wait for another chapter to find out.
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