Title: BtVS 2117: THE SG-FORCE
Series: BtVS 2117
Book:
II
Section 1.3: Shockwaves
Section 1.4: End Assault
Section 1.5:
Happily Ever After?
Section 1.6: Secrets
Author: Cilia
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cilia@xxxxx
Pairings: B/W
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BtVS 2117: THE SG-FORCE
Cilia
Section 1.3: Shockwaves
It was Dru
who sensed it first, or maybe it was Z that felt it like he so often did, but
the simultaneous telepathic warnings left little doubt that they had been set up
and that they were in way over their heads. In other words: Business as usual
for the SG-Force.
-Get down!-ran
through the minds of the team and everybody else within a mile radius. The noise
from the exploding factory was deafening and the blast that followed swept of
the landscape blowing up dust and knocking those over who had not listened to
the telepathic warning. Spike spun around taking the blast and covering
Rex with his body as the dust and smoke blew past him. Z stood unscathed
alongside with Angel inside a force bubble he had summoned. The others doveto
the ground and covered their heads while the blast blew
over.
"What the hell was that!?!"
Buffy shouted as she jumped to her feet and scanned the
landscape.
"A Dim-Gate," Hopesaid
over the comlink.
"Come again
Watcher-Girl?" Buffy yelled into the
comlink.
"A Dimensional Gate used
for planetary travel," Hope explained. "And get this it wasn't focused on any
co-ordinate I know about," she
added.
"Dru please tell me you
didn't know about this?" Rex asked while she helped the vampire to her
feet.
"I don't touch dimensional
travel and nobody in my company would even dream of trying it," the vampiresaid
defensively.
"Hope, I need
information," Spike said into his
wristband.
"Well what ever they
were trying it didn't work, but I'm already detecting a massive influx of energy
into the area," Hope answered from the Mansion as her hands flew over keyboards
and pressed on holographic
dataspheres.
"Not that luv, the
big bloody book what does it say?" he
asked.
"Oh sorry, let me see...
here it is: And what was once sealed shall become unsealed," Hope
read.
"What shall be sealed shall
become..." Spike recited as he ran the line through his mind and then went
paler. "Bloody hell," he muttered. "Slayer we are in deep
shit."
"No kidding," Buffy said.
"Somebody is trying to punch through the barrier we, I mean you and the original
me set up to block the Hellmouth," she said. "And don't give me that look Spike
I read my history," she added. "Now what do we do to stop it from happening?"
She said and turned to the group who was standing besides Spike waiting for
action.
"Well I could try andshut
it down," Z said. "But I'm not sure that messing with space and time is within
my power," the stoic telepath
added.
"Yet," Dru said
quietly.
"Well we can always go in
there and break stuff," Angel
suggested.
"Hate to rain on your
parade sister, but the generator is roughly one hundred meters across and goes
down about two thousand meters into the bedrock where it again branches out,"
Hope reported over the link.
"Spike?" Buffy asked as she considered asking the OA if they could nuke the
place, if only they had nukes.
"I'm just a Guardian and the light of Hope doesn't exactly work that way," Spike
explained with a shrug.
"I can
plug it," Willow said from where she just sat on the ground with her feet
crossed.
"Come again?" Angel asked
fluttering her wings to shake off the dust and dirt that had was settling on
them.
"I have the power to doit.
I'll just fuel enough of the plasma into the next rift they'll form and that
will make the rift implode on itself once I explode it and take the generator
with it," Willow explained as she generated a small ball of blue
plasma.
"I can create a pressure
pocket around it and increase the blast," Z said. "Just in case," he then
added.
"But will it be enough?"
Buffy asked. "Hope you get that?" she then asked over the
comlink.
"We got it Miss Summers,"
G.I.L.E.S. answered. "What you are proposing would yield enough destructive
power to close the rift and destroy the generator," he then
said.
"All I needed to hear,"
Buffy said.
"Need I remind you
that the installation is underground and heavily defended?" the A.I. asked
back.
"That's were we come in,"
Spike said and cracked is knuckles. "Right Slayer?" he then asked with a grin
that Buffy returned before her eyes fell upon Willow sitting on the
ground.
Section 1.4: End
Assault
We had a plan. Sure it was untested and based on the fact that
both Willow and Z should be able to do things with their powers they had never
tried before, but hey it's like Spike said once: You hit the soft parts with
your fists and the hard parts with utensils. My only concern is that we might
not survive this. That's why I'm asking Dru for
help.
"Can you teleport us out
just before it blows?" Buffy asked the master vampire as they, along with a
battalion of OA agents, made their way towards the ruins of the factory and
hopefully the entrance into the underground labyrinth that held the
generator.
"Sure," Dru said. "But
I'll need an anchor point," she
added.
"Done," Buffy said and
opened up the comlink. "Hope I'm putting Dru on, she has a back-up plan I need
you to help her make it work."
"OK," came a reluctant reply. "But her on."
Buffy punches in the commandthat
transferred the signal to Dru's wristband, what the two mystics talk about was
something beyond her knowledge so she turned her attention towards her
objective. It was obvious that Future-2 had tricked them into believing that
they wanted the cloning technology Dru Enterprises possessed, they had just
wanted Dru out of the way as master vampire of
Sunnydale.
"Why are they trying to
open the Hellmouth again, they can't be that stupid?" Rex was asking Spike and
that caught Buffy's attention.
"Not stupid, insane and looking for revenge," Buffy said and turned her full
attention on Angel. "Just what did you do to Demonique and Future, Angel?" she
asked.
"Nothing much," Angel said
and bit her lip. "Freed the test subjects, took out their commanders and blew up
the building, I think that's it. But then again I was pretty much out of itat
the time," she answered and then shot a look at Z to tell him to shut the hell
up.
"Well time to save the world
boys and girls," Spike said as they entered the ruins of the factory and all
discussions were floored for now.
The place was as both Buffy and "master
strategist" Spike had thought. A labyrinth of passageways and tunnels designed
to split up intruders and filled with all sorts of nasty surprises like guard
posts, electric traps, trapdoors and the ever classic walls that move closer and
closer until you can just skip that latest diet. Soon the team was alone
and at least a thousand feet underground. The last guard post had felt the full
force of Slayer irritation and the claustrophobia that Angel was
feeling.
"Great another fork,"
Angel muttered as she wiped the blood off her talons. The red glow from the
warning lights gave an eerie glow to the whole scene and the sounds of blaring
claxons filled the air.
"I can
feel it," Willow who had been almost catatonic since the initial blast muttered
and reached out with her hand. Spike stepped up next to the plasma-slinger and a
small point of light appeared at his
fingertip.
"Red is right boysand
girls, there is something that way that's not supposed to be there," he said
just as he finished Angel visibly tensed up and her wings started to rise and
fall.
"Angel you are making me
nervous," Rex said as she adjusted the energy
blade.
"No time," Angel muttered.
"Buffy, Dru go! Make sure that Z and Willow get to the generator it is five
hundred meters down that shaft," she said and pointed in the direction Willow
had pointed out. It didn't take too long for Spike or Buffy to realize that
Angel had just taken charge.
"Alright," Buffy shouted. "Spike, Rex and Angel, you guys stay here and make
sure we have enough time, Dru you are with me anything gets near them I want
them twitching on the floor," she said firmly and the vampire smiled. "Angel you
and me are going to have a talk after this is done," she said firmly and then
turned and disappeared into the passageway, but Z stayed
behind.
-Good luck- Angel said as
she felt Z's presence.
-Love you-
Z answered as he followed
-Noyou
don't, now go- Angel said and the telepath turned around and disappeared after
the Slayer.
"What was that all
about?" Rex asked as she took up a battle stance besides the
avian.
"Teenage crush,"
Angel answered as she opened a pouch on her belt and drew a golden
cylinder.
"Nice handle," Spike
said as he took his ever casual and carefree battle stance to her left. "And
trust me what that boy feels is no crush," he added with a
grin.
"Spike?" the comlink
crackled with Hope's voice.
"Kind
of busy here luv," Spike answered.
"Good luck," the mystic said and then the comlink went
dead.
"Here they come," Rex
shouted as they threw themselves at the guards that came rushing down the
corridor.
"Nobody passes," Spike
shouted as he severed a gunarm and the blinded three others with a blast of
light.
"Great just great," Rex
muttered as she danced around the guards, making small cuts that seemed to grow
in numbers with each pass. But she was getting at least half of that back, in
near misses and blaster fire grazing the outside of her slay-suit.
Angelwas
silent as she went about her work, cutting the right nerves and breaking the
right bones with almost surgical precision and so the wave diminished and then
trickled to a stop. There was a small clapping sound that grew louder as a
demonic form emerged from the
shadows.
"My, my you are a brutal
bunch if need be," Demonique said with a gleeful smile. "Why don't we take this
outside," she then said with a snap of her clawed fingers and Angel vanished
leaving only Spike, Rex and a whole lot of guards coming their
way.
"Shouldn't we go after her?"
Rex asked as she found herself pressing her back against
Spike's.
"Nope, we needto
make sure the powerhouses have peace to finish the job," Spike said. "Also I
don't think we'd be much help to Angel anyway," he added and Rex took a picture
of William Spike admitting that there was nothing he could do.
Willow was
scared out of her wits, she didn't know what to do, so she just followed Buffy
and Dru, both women fueled with a rage that surpassed their mutual hate foreach
other. Z wasn't much help, having gone deep into himself to gather up the
strength he would need for the coming task, if they would even make it thatfar.
Half dazed she drove plasma spikes through two guards that tried to rush her,
that made Buffy stop for a moment and give her a puzzled look, the Slayer said
something and she shrugged.
"We
are here," Dru announced in her eerie voice, a sign that the vampire was using
some of her abilities and it would help to explain the two screaming guardsthey
had past that kept mumbling about the stars calling them. The passage had come
to a dead end and below them was a shear drop into the heart of the
machine.
"Can you do it from
here?" Buffy asked as she leaned over the edge and peered into
down.
"Why haven't they noticed us
yet?" Dru asked in a very controlled
voice.
"I've been running
telepathic interference so any backup is persuaded to stay away from us," Zsaid
opening his red eyes.
"Need I
remind little brother that we have about a thousand OA agents running around
above you," Hope said over the comlink. "Men! Always thinking that they are
saving the world single handedly" she then
mumbled.
"Alright," Buffy said
firmly. "Willow, Z get started, Hope give me status and Dru anybody comes that
way," she said and pointed down the way they had
come.
"I'll fry his brains," Dru
said with a wishful smile.
"Right," Buffy said slowly. "Hope talk to
me!"
"OA is cleaning up the upper
levels, but Spike and Rex are pinned down about a kilometer behind you," the
Watcher reported.
"What about
Angel?" Buffy asked as a blue glow started to fill the small
passage.
"Feeding you the newsfeed
coverage," Hope said and the small holoscreen on the wristbands flickered to
life.
The fight was brutal, Angel still sore from her last run in with
her sister, the fighting in the compound and beginning to feel the slight
withdrawal from the jumpstart pills Z had flushed was fighting her sister,
Demonique , high above the ruined remains of the factory and news crews hadjust
showed up. Now she was huddled behind the wreck of a hovercar waiting for the
end, on live Holo-v.
"Angel you
there?" Hope's voice crackled over the comlink, the crackle was due to the
rather nasty blow Angel had blocked with her wristband.
"Not a good time
Hope," Angel said as she dodged another blast from Demonique's shoulder mounted
blasters. Her sister was taking a near demonic glee in this, playing with her,
and right now Angel knew that was the only thing keeping her alive. She was
tired, beaten and...
-Snap out of
it Angelica- a firm voice rang inside her
mind.
-Z but...- she
started.
-You are not tired and
you are not beaten- the telepath answered
firmly.
-You shouldn't be wasting
your time like this- she answered back
firmly.
-Time has no meaning right
now- he answered. -Now get up off your behind and do what you did to this harpy
five years ago-
Angel looked up at her sister, just hovering above her,
taunting her and like five years ago completely underestimating
her.
"No boyfriend to save you
this time Angelica," she said.
"No
hovercar to break your fall this time Demonique," Angel answered as she sprang
up from behind the wrecked hovercar she'd been hiding
behind.
"Oh crap," was just about
the last audible thing Demonique muttered as Angel bore down on her with her
full fury. No pills to keep her going, no worrying about her friends getting
hurt or seeing her like this and most of all knowing that Z now knew everything
and that he literally would never leave her.
Inside the mansion maproom
Hope smiled as she watched the monitors showing the status of each team member.
The holofeed of Angel taking Demonique apart played on the main screen and the
various readings from the armor flowed around it.
Rex's heart was racing, her
pain threshold was proving high though and the wristbands were releasing
adrenaline and a mild painkiller into her system. Spike was for all purposes
dead, but his brainwaves were off the chart and according to some of the
instruments he wasn't even there, but somewhere else. She smiled despite herself
as the Guardian cracked jokes while cutting down the
guards.
"I think they did usethe
cloning technology," Hope said as she brought up a small display with
information on the guards that seemed to be in unending
supply.
"Then converted it into
the generator," G.I.L.E.S. said. "Or at least used the power source."
"So Dru
wasn't in control of her company anymore," Hope nodded.
"OA agents reporting
levels one to five cleared," G.I.L.E.S. reported.
"Great tell them to start
moving out, cause the A-Team is getting ready for the big finale," she saidas
she caught a glimpse of the energy reading coming from Willow and her
brother.
-Be carefully little brother- she sent out and felt the caring touch
of her brother's mind on hers.
-Always am- was the
answer.
"Okay G.I.L.E.S. get ready
to move, cause after they set that rift to critical we'll have about half a
heartbeat to get them out," Hope said and stood up from her post, with a last
glance at the Codex she pulled her red vestments on and started to focus her
mind. Nobody knew except for Z and G.I.L.E.S. that Hope wasn't just any
spell-caster.
Buffy felt very helpless since all she could do was look
down into the forming rift below them and hope that Willow could pull this off.
First it wasn't much, a small blue spark appeared in the rift and blinked out,
then another slightly bigger appeared and stayed there by the force of Z's will.
The light both from below and from Willow began to grow brighter and both Buffy
and Dru had to shield their eyes. This was the point of no return.
The
first sign Rex saw that they might be on the verge of victory was when she cut
down yet another guard who looked just like the one before that and nobody
stepped up to take his place. Much to her continued annoyance, Spike wasn't
breaking a sweat, but that's what you get from being appointed Guardian of
Earth. Rex a mere human herself, was bleeding and bruised in places she didn't
even know she could get bruised in. The cape that she had insisted on adding to
her slay-suit kept getting in the
way.
"Get ready for a slight case
of nausea guys," Hope's voice came of the
comlink.
"Teleporting," Spikesaid
as he kicked one of the guards squarely in the gut. "Kind of like bungee jumping
from a supersonic jet," he
added.
"Oh
freaking perfect," Hope muttered as she snapped another shot, this one of Spike
being smug.
Willow was sweating and obviously in pain. Z stood with his
eyes closed and if he was in any way uncomfortable he wasn't showing it and
Buffy was on the verge of tears from watching her girlfriend go through
what had to be a personal hell. Dru on the other hand was strangely calm, aside
from the occasional giggle.
From what she had read teleportation was a weird
mix of magic and technology, you need to be adept at magic but you needed a
computer to make sure that the bodies being transported arrived at the sametime
and at the same place.
"It's
ready," Z said opening his eyes and before the words had left her mouth Willow
slumped down.
"Is she okay?" Dru
asked.
"A little drained but
otherwise fine," Z answered.
"Dru
do it," Buffy said and when nothing happened for a moment or two and claxons
became louder Buffy became worried. "Dru!" she
hissed.
"Problem," Dru
said.
"Problem," Hope said over
the comlink.
"Not my
favorite word right now people," Buffy said as she held Willow
upright.
"G.I.L.E.S. has been
running the numbers and we can't port everybody out at once," Hope
said.
"Why?" Buffy asked in acold
voice.
"Too much mass," Hope
answered.
"By how much?" Z
asked.
"Why can only port four and
since Angel is already on the surface two of you have to stay behind," Hope
answered and there was a long
silence.
"I have my revenge, so
I'll stay," Dru said offhandedly.
"I'll stay too," Z said. "Someone's got to keep the plasma from going off too
early," he added.
"No!" was Hope's
flat reply.
Buffy looked between the vampire and the telepath and ran some
scenarios through her mind, before letting out a
sigh.
"Dru you connected to Hope
and G.I.L.E.S?" she asked.
"Yes,"
the vampire nodded.
"Get Spike and
Rex out and then you'll port us out," she said. "Can we do it that way Hope, two
at a time?" she asked.
"Negative
Miss Summers, the module we are using is a one trip only," G.I.L.E.S.
answered.
"And we didn't knowthis
in advance," Buffy screamed into the
comlink.
"Just go," Z said
calmly.
"No way," Buffy said
firmly.
"Then I'm sorry," Z said
as he put Buffy to sleep before the Slayer could protest and then turned ofthe
comlink. "Dru do it," he said firmly. The vampire just nodded and Buffy and
Willow vanished, along with Spike and Rex who were fighting in the halls. Angel
vanished from where she was pounding on Demonique above
them.
"They are away," Drusilla
said.
"It's been a pleasure Miss
Drusilla," Z said with a smile as he offered her his
hand.
"Likewise Mister Zoëga,
likewise," Dru said as Z released his hold on the pressurized plasma. Just as
the light became too bright a stray memory entered Z's mind and he smiled and
pulled Dru closer.
Angel and Demonique were grappling high above the
ground when it heaved and then started to fall in on itself as the rift imploded
deep below the surface and a cold feeling washed over Angel moments
later.
"Z," she screamed as she
slammed past Demonique, sending her sister into a downward spiral since shehad
shredded her left wing during the high speed pass.
All thoughts of fighting
rushing from her mind in the realization that she couldn't feel her boyfriend's
thoughts anymore. Her first instinct was to head back to the mansion where the
body should have been teleported.
Hope collapsed to the floor when the
team appeared in the maproom, there was a vast emptiness in her mind, she and
her brother had always shared a strong connection and a sense of each other, now
that sense was shattered. The red vestments pooled around her kneeling bodyas
she started to sob.
"Spike take
care of her," Buffy, now fully awake as the effects of Z's sleep order faded
fast, ordered and the Guardian silently picked up the crying
watcher.
"What happened?" Willow
asked weakly as she opened her
eyes.
"He's dead Wills," a cold
voice said from the window, where Angel sat perched, covered in brown dirt and
blood. "Felt his presence go out, can't imagine what it must have been likefor
Hope. He was a good soldier..." she whispered sadly and for the first time since
joining the team Rex didn't take a picture and the only sounds that were heard
were Hope's crying and Angel's monologue.
Section 1.5: Happily Ever
After?
The remaining SG-Force sat and watched the newsfeeds and listened
to OA-frequencies for news of the
blast.
"Heavy toll on the
SG-Force..."
"Two members presumed
dead..."
"OA agents moving into
the area..."
"Nothing remainsof
the facility where the terrorists faction Future-2 attempted to reopen the
Hellmouth closed by..."
"Turnit
off," Buffy ordered from where she sat on the sofa cradling Willow's head in her
lap. "Turn it all off," she added.
"Miss Summers there still might be a..." G.I.L.E.S. started but stopped when
Buffy glared at it. The scene in the maproom was a mess, uniform pieces and
wristbands strewn all over the room. Rex was sitting at the holomap constantly
updating the satellite view of the area, her cape slung over the back of the
chair and her rose tinted glasses lying on the table next to her energy blade.
Spike had given Hope something to calm her and the Watcher now slept peacefully
on the rooms second sofa with the Guardian standing watch over her and
occasionally stroking her cheek or tucking away a lock of stray hair and Angel,
Angel was gone, pieces of her armor lay around the room where she had thrown
them and her torn slay-suit lay in one corner. After having dressed in a clean
one she had taken one of Spike's blades and taken off. Where to exactly nobody
knew.
Angel was heading for the one place where she knew she could get
help from; the Angel Foundation building. When she arrived, all the lights were
on in the massive tower and the skylight she usually used was wide opened.
Waiting in the landing bay was her father, William Harris. They just stood and
watched each other before William walked up to her and embraced her
firmly.
"I'm sorry," he said in a
deep voice. William Harris was the descendant of Alexander Harris whom had
founded the Angel Foundation after he reportedly had a visitation from the
Foundations namesake. He was a tall, dark haired man graying at the templesand
bore a striking resemblance to his
great-grandfather.
"Did they find
them?" Angel asked in a low voice.
"Come with me," William said and placed a hand on her back and led her to the
elevator.
"I haven't been on that
floor," Angel said when her father pressed his thumb against the control panel
and a blue button appeared.
"We
built it after the Future takeover five years ago," he said as the elevatortook
them down.
"What is it?" Angel
asked.
"A emergency teleporter,"
he answered and Angel's eyes lit up.
The doors opened with a bell chime to
reveal a long white corridor. Angel took her father's hand like a little girl
when he led her down it and into a white medical bay, there were two people
lying in medical units, heavily bandaged, but the holo-monitors peeped
regularly.
"We pulled them out
just after he started the explosion," William said in a low voice. "Drusilla is
on a blood-supplement drip and should be fine given time, but Mister Zoëga..."
he stopped when Angel silently walked over to the medical unit and looked down
at Z's face behind the glass.
"He's dead isn't he?" Angel asked. "You may be keeping him alive, but his
mind... his presence is gone."
-Now what gave you a silly idea like that Angelica?- a familiar voice askedfrom
the back of her mind.
-Z?- she
asked.
-The one and only- the
voice that answered was carefree.
-Where are you?- she asked.
-Here
and there, but mostly with you and Dru- he
answered.
"Angelica is something
wrong?" her father asked her with a worried
look.
"Dad call the SG, bringthem
here now," Angel said.
"Of course
they are entitled to know after all," he said in a low
voice.
"No he's not dead, runa
pattern scan on Drusilla and me," she said.
William looked at his daughter
for a moment and seeing the spark of hope in her eyes motioned for the doctor
who was watching the patients to come over. The doctor ran one scan and then the
other to verify his findings and then his eyes went wide and Angel
smiled.
"This is unheard of,"the
young doctor stammered.
"No it's
just my boyfriend," Angel said with a smile.
Section 1.6:
Secrets
Z was slightly confused when he woke up in his own body and not
in heaven, with his friends and family smiling and waving at him from behind a
glass window. He raised a hand and waved. On the table besides him was
forest of flowers and a balloons saying happy birthday. He smiled to himself.
Granted it had been a gamble but he knew that Angel would eventually have ended
up in the Angel building. So he thought back a few nights, when he had taken off
into the night sky. He had flown to the Angel Foundation building and met up
with William Harris, Angel's father, to discuss the recent changes in his power
levels and, he stopped for moment to search his memory, the moment when William
had placed his hand on his shoulder and told him to go after his
daughter.
"The son of a bitch," he
muttered to himself.
"Never could
trust daddy," Angel said and Z smiled as he turned around to regard his now
girlfriend, he hoped. "I asked him to stay out of my love life, but I guessthat
in some cases he is worse than Hope," she explained with a
grin.
"Thank you," he
whispered.
"For what?" Angel asked
with a confused look on her face.
"For saving me five years ago. It was you that led the assault on Future and I
saw in your memories a little boy, maybe about twelve years old," he said with a
smile. "How long have I been out?" he then asked, before Angel got a
chance to answer him.
"Not long,
you'll make the New Years party," she said with a smile. Glad that he was giving
her an escape route from walking down memory
lane.
"But I don't have a date,"
he said with a grin.
"Oh you'd
better not go looking far then," Angel said and bent over to kiss him and then
she heard somebody holler from behind the glass. It was Buffy and Spike giving
thumbs up. She just sighed and Willow turned the shades. When she came up from
the kiss she just smiled.
"What?"
the telepath asked.
"Oh like you
don't know?" she asked.
"WellI do
know, but I don't think I'm fit for that kind of activity just yet," he answered
with a grin that earned him a light punch on the shoulder.
Dru entered
Buffy's office nervously on New Years day, the Slayer sat behind her desk going
through the messages that never seemed to stop. She motioned for her to sitand
then waited awhile before looking up from the letter she was composing, with a
pen and paper no less.
"You wanted
to see my Elisabeth?" Dru asked in her cold business like
voice.
"Yes," Buffy said as she
leveled her gaze on the vampire. "Christina Rex has already signed on as a
full-time member of the team, pending the completion of her training," she
said.
"That's good, one less
reporter," Dru said with a small
smile.
"Which brings us to you,"
Buffy said. " Now I would really hate to stake you and you are harboring a nasty
little secret aren't you?"
"How
did you know?" Dru asked without
blinking.
"Well your last attempt
was half-hearted at best so lets just leave it at that shall we," Buffy said
with a smile.
"What's the price of
your silence," Dru asked very businesslike and Buffy slid a folder across the
table.
"That's a contract. Sign
that and we will clear your name and make you disappear, Future-2 is still out
there and they want you dead. Badly," Buffy
explained.
"And the catch?" Dru
asked opening the folder and reading the contract
over.
"You join the team and go on
the blood supplement and agree never to take another human life other than in
the service of the team," Buffy
said.
"Can I get a pen?" Dru asked
with a smile.
"Of course," Buffy
said and slid a fountain pen over the table.
Drusilla signed the contract
with a flourish, then closed the folder stood and slid it back over the table.
Buffy stood and offered the vampire her
hand.
"Welcome to the SG-Force,
Drusilla Giles," Buffy said and Dru just nodded and
left.
"Aren't you being a tad
lenient with her?" Willow asked as she stepped in from the side room and took up
a perch on the corner of the desk.
"Well we can't stake her and I'd rather have a level five telepath and seeron
our side than against us," Buffy said as she regarded her girlfriend with awarm
smile gracing her lips. "You did great you know," she said.
Willow turned to
face her and when she saw the radiant smile that Buffy was giving her she
decided that her little secret could wait another day. For now she was happy and
there was no need to spoil it. So she just nodded and
grinned.
"I know, but remember it
was you who taught me how," she
said.
"Now onto more important
matters," Buffy said with a smile. "Last time I checked we still have two single
team members," she explained.
...It was quite an adventure I must admit,
the thrill of dressing up in a cape and dispensing justice to those who sought
to harm the innocent. That's why this will be my last report for the Star. I
have found a higher calling, not that reporting the truth isn't an honorable
profession mind you. But I feel that I'm needed here, fighting the good
fight.
All the members of SG-FORCE have made a full recovery, even Stefan
Zoëga who was presumed dead after supposedly giving his life to prevent a
dimensional rift from opening. Which just goes to prove that heroes are hard to
kill. Still the Future-2 group is still mostly at large and Demonique De'Light,
the groups leader, escaped from police custody on New Years Eve. Also therewill
be a press conference in the New Year to enounce the team's expansions, so to my
collogues I say: "I'll meet you there."
So they... we have our work cut out
for us. This is Christina Rex, SG-FORCE member 008 signing off.
Rex looked up
from her computer, took off her image glasses, folded them, put them in thetop
drawer of her desk and closed it with a smile.
Open Personal log foruser
Rupert...
Entry one...
I am G.I.L.E.S., a Genetic Isolinear Lifeform
Emulating Sphere. I contain the memories and neural connections of Sir Rupert
Giles. I was activated on the 1st of January 2020. It has been my duty as
assigned to me by my maker to watch over the Rosenberg and Giles bloodlinesand
to ensure the return of the Prime Slayer. That is my function and my purpose.
Now that I have completed that task and to my best knowledge ensured her
happiness I find that I'm restless. Still I will continue to watch over those
who are in my care and their descendants. For that is the purpose that is built
into me, thus seeing them all happy makes me feel proud that I have accomplished
something.
Save and close...
Log of user Rupert...
The
End
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I'm so sorry I didn't realize how big the first three were until it was too late.