Title: All Hell Breaks loose…or not
RatingPG-15
Disclaimer: Nope not mine I just borrowing them for my own amusement….and readers of course.
Summary: Buffy by mistake goes through the wrong pool and ends up in another dimension where no slayers ever existed and demons are big black clouds that posses people.
Spoilers: BtVS S4 episode Anne, SPN S2 All Hell breaks loose
Paring: Buffy/Dean
Special THANK YOU to my beta's!!!Chapter one: Misplaced
A huge steel door slowly splits open, and a group of young slaves enter. All looking fearful, all but one small, blond teenager who is looking around noting her surroundings carefully. Unfortunately her scrutiny results in a trip and she falls on the floor.
The Other slaves stop walking as a hideously looking guard enters; and walks up to the slaves. He has just a few patches of skin around his eyes and across the top of his bald head sewn together. His chin and cheeks are just flesh and muscle. The demon opens his lip-less mouth and starts to explain things to the scared crowd of teenagers. As the demon drones on, the girl who fell slowly stands back up.
"You work and you live you do not complain or laugh or do anything besides work. Whatever you thought, whatever you were does not matter. You are no one."
One of the older workers that are milling about near the new group, look up at that and grimaces. She is a tall woman with black hair threaded with silver. She knows what will come next. She dreads that the same thing will happen to them, and then she reminds herself that when she came here she was just like them, a child. And what can a child do.
Sighing sadly, she turns her head back to work. Singing songs in her mind to remind herself who she is and trying to remain sane.
She hears how the guard asks his first victim.
"Who are you?"
A boy's voice answers. "Aaron." And she winces at the thud that follows, remembering well how that felt.
"Who are you?"
A girl's voice whimpers "No one."
"Who are you?"
A boys voice whisper fearfully. "No one."
"Who are you?"
There is small moment of quiet, which make woman look up again, to see the demon looming over the pretty, small, blonde girl. She is looking at the thing and she smiles.
The Woman is shocked, didn't the child see what happened with that boy…
All her thoughts are interrupted when the girl says, like she would if introducing her self herself at some party thrown by her parents.
"I'm Buffy. And you are…?"
The demon roars and wields back his club to strike the girl…Buffy …down. And she can't help it, again she closes her eyes. But the thud of club meeting flesh doesn't come and she opens her eyes just in time to see Buffy gab the demons arm as he bends forward, then the girl slams her other forearm down on the guards arm, breaking it. The Demon falls to the ground in pain.
The Woman, at this point, is already leaving her group who just continue mindlessly working, all sense of self long beaten out of them. She reaches the new group just when the girl…Buffy smashes the guard's skull with his own club.
The other guard is racing forward but the woman grabs a metal pike and with a shove stabs it at the back. But the thing is still advancing at the girl who swings the club for a second time hitting him in the head. Then she turns around, swinging her weapon the other way hitting the third guard in the gut.
The woman, not missing a beat, pulls the pike out of the second guard and stabs the third guard through the head. She looks at the girl, who gives a tiny nod and a small smile. Then she turns to the huddled teenagers.
"So anyone who is not having fun here, follow."
They start to run and the group follows.
They are huddled together, hiding beneath the staircase. The slaves are working between vats of molten metal which illuminates their vacant expressions. Reflecting in their eyes which lost their life years ago.
Buffy looks around, spotting the two guards walking above them, the older woman gently taps her on the shoulder and shows her two more walking among the slaves.
Buffy turns back to the group, leaving the older woman to watch out for the guard's movements.
"There is no way we can get up the stairs unseen and meet the lovely new people. Okay. Lilly when those guys over there leave and they will leave. I want you to take these people and get up there. Fast and quiet. OK?"
The woman glances back as the other, taller blond girl says. "You're leaving me? But…"
But Buffy interrupts the other. "Lilly…you can handle this. 'Cause I say so."
The Woman hides her smile; it is obvious what Buffy is trying to do. She wants Lilly to stand up on her own. Suddenly the siren interrupts whatever else maybe said.
"We've gone public, people. Ok get them up. Go."
The woman claps her hand on Buffy's shoulder when she passes her, and starts helping Lilly lead them away. But Lilly only makes a few steps and then returns to Buffy.
"I'm sorry."
At Buffy's look she continues. "I said that this was your fault before."
"Lilly, this can wait."
"Well in case we die..."
Buffy gently shoves Lilly towards the group, making shooing movements with her arms.
"Go, go."
Lilly runs off after the group, while Buffy leads two guards away at a run. She wings her way between the working slaves, using her smaller frame to slip through the maze. But the huge, bulky guards manage to keep up anyway.
Then Buffy spots a pole jutting out of the floor, smirking at the irony and muttering lets 'Let's dance" under her breath, she grabs onto it, swinging around and kicking one demon with an aerial side kick.
Then she lets go and flips herself on the platform. One of her pursuers starts to jump up to the stage, and tries a backhand swing at her with his sledgehammer, but Buffy ducks and blocks his second swing. The guard kicks up with his right knee in her stomach, stunning her, then he uses Buffy's distraction and takes a swing at Buffy's head but she slams her hands around the hammer's handle and yanks him up and over her. He hits the platform hard and rolls off the platform.
Buffy, still holding his hammer, turns to two more advancing guards. The first one to reach her is greeted with her full spinning out-to-in crescent kick in his head sending him off the platform.
The other guard tries with a swing at her legs with his hammer, but she jumps to avoid the swing. Using her position she swings down with her sledgehammer into the guards face, knocking him down. Then swinging her hammer in uppercut, catching another guard in the jaw, sending him flying in the nearby wall.
Yet another guard, holding a battle-axe with a curved blade, jumps up on the platform and tackles Buffy with a roar. He takes a wide swing at Buffy, but she leans aside and he misses.
Amidst the fighting, Buffy hears a familiar voice ranting. "Humans don't fight back!" Making her roll her eyes as she ducks the guard's next swing. He swings again from above, but she blokes block it with her hammer, and the head of the axe embeds itself in the handle.
Smirking, she kicks the guard, knocking the axe out of his hands; the axe dislodges itself and is sent spinning in the air. She sweeps down, kicking the guards legs out from under him.
While she is crouched, she looks up at shiny battle-axe and catches the airborne weapon.
"You don't mind if I keep the shiny do you…It is kinda pretty." The demon roars and charges again, but Buffy does another roundhouse kick to his face and he goes flying off the platform.
She looks up at Ken, who is still shouting that humans don't fight back. Then he reaches behind him and pulls the crying Lilly, Buffy freezes. The guards quickly catch up and grab her hands and take the weapons away. Buffy briefly glares at the demon who took her new axe away.
Ken is still standing on the edge holding Lilly. "That was not permitted. Humans don't fight back." He then lets go of Lilly and moves right to, the edge staring intently at Buffy. Lilly who is cowering behind him is completely forgotten.
Buffy smirks, "Yeah, but it was fun."
"You've got guts. I think I'd like to slice you open and play with them."
Buffy gives a small chuckle. "You call that a threat…I will rip out your ribcage and wear it as a hat."
Ken scowls and opens his mouth to say something, but Lily pushes him from behind and he falls screaming from the high ledge to the floor below.
The guards holding Buffy just watch as he hits the bottom with a loud thud. Buffy quickly takes advantage of the distraction and backhand punches her captors, one in the face and the other in the groin. While the second
Is dazed, she shoves her weight against him, and he falls backward. The first one punch high, but she blocks, grabs his arm and flips him over onto a pile of something. Then bending to the downed guard number one, she retrieves her battle-axe. Then she jumps high into the air and grabs hold of a heavy chain hanging from above. She climbs it hand-over-hand as quickly as she can to the ledge where Lily is still standing. The two of them run through the door and quickly find their way to the others, struggling with a heavy iron gate.
Lilly glances behind them "They'll be coming."
Buffy crouches down and takes hold of the gate, bracing herself for a very heavy lift. She begins to raise the gate, straining as she goes. As soon as she gets it high enough, the woman waves Lily and the others to crawl underneath. They all scramble to the other side, climbing through the two pools shimmering above them.
The woman is the last one. Buffy then pushes the gate up over her head to get to the other side.
Suddenly the woman spots Ken, bloodied from his fall, running towards Buffy and wanting to tackle her. The woman pulls Buffy to her so the gate falls down an on top of Ken, whose momentum throws him on the floor.
He arches up and screams in pain. Buffy and the woman get to their hands and knees and look over at Ken as he continues to scream in pain.
Suddenly the woman stands up and takes the club that fell from Ken's hands. Ken is staring at Buffy who is still on the floor.
"You…ruined…you…" he spurts out angry. But before he can spurt any more the woman brings the club down hard onto his head, crushing it.
"Lilly…"
"Is safe." The woman rasps, "Now we must go. Only one pool is still open."
Buffy gives an old woman a lift up then jumps up after her. The woman catches her hand and pulls her clear of the water. Just in time because with a flash of light, the pool mysteriously tiles itself over to match the tiles along the edges. It now appears to be a six-inch deep, empty ceremonial pool. Buffy stretches a bit then mutters under her breath. "I'm gonna feel this for a week."
Then looking around she frowns. "Ok, this is different."
The woman looks at her. "Hi sorry about that…Hi, I'm Buffy."
The woman smiles. "I'm Kate," she rasps. "Sorry haven't talked for years."
Then she looks around. "This looks exactly as I remember."
At Buffy's look she elaborated. "I ran away from my family when I was 18," Kate let out a dry cough and continued.
"I meet a man…Ken, he said that he knew a place when I could hide. Didn't know he was a demon. I got the same welcome you did,…but I didn't let myself forget,…I recited songs, stories that my mother told me…all in my mind. So that I didn't forget."
Buffy nodded then frowned, looking about again…nothing changed, this wasn't where she entered and that left her with two possibilities. Either she was in another city, or in another dimension similar to hers.
Buffy was seriously hoping that it was the first.
But with her luck….
Tbc…