Signs Of The End
By Silent Bob Foley
E-mail: BobRgnt@netscape.com
Rating: Don't know the American rating so equivalent of a 15 certificate in
England
Summary: Based loosely on a few Post-apocalyptic films and Drew's Enjoy The
Silence, No more summary as it'll ruin the plot.
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the BTVS Characters, Joss Whedon does
Distribution: BBTZ, Slayerette and anyone else who wants it
Feedback: Hell Yeah
Spoilers: None.
Authors Note: This is my first- First person narrative story so give me a
break.
British Words and Spelling
Thought of the day- Borrowed from Paradigm Shifter. Go into a British hospital; come out worse than you went in.
Prologue:
Well This is it, the last day of existence.
Well for us anyway.
I don't know if anyone is reading this but I suppose I should start at the beginning, It was a dark and stormy night- suddenly a shot rang out.
Sorry always wanted to do that.
The truth is it started on a clear and starry night, it was beautiful- I had volunteered to retrieve a powerful and very useful icon from a place in Chicago.
"Dammit X-man can we get some food I've starving."
Faith Williams- Rogue Slayer.
Anyone who knows the story of the scoobies and the rest if the gang knows who Faith is. Yes she was the murdering psycho who tried to kill us all and dumped me out in my skivvies after a quick 'Wham bam thank you Man' but we needed her help with something and it seemed to us all she had really been able to get over her problems in Jail and so I was sent to pick her up.
She had been moved to a low security jail in Chicago a few months ago, she had calmed down and become a model prisoner. Now she had had a few years inside, she felt different about all she had done and was determined to make amends. At least that's what she said after removing her tongue from down my throat. Surprised? I was but I digress- whoa big word, one up to thesaurus guy. Anyway she said she had wanted to do that for a few years now and who was I to argue, we both knew little would ever happen between us and I'm kinda flattered that she would be thinking of kissing me- but from that we left Chicago in mid afternoon and headed to LA.
Everything seemed to finally be working for us all, Willow had come back almost fully cured, Buffy and Dawn were closer than ever, Anya had even forgiven me for the wedding fiasco. Now Faith the last of us to return to the fold had joined us again, everything really was working out for us. We were all happy with our lot- especially me I had my best friends as close as I ever had them before.
We should have known better than that.
That was when the shit really hit the fan.
Don't get me wrong it wasn't Faith or any of the scoobies. No one had gone all dark side on us, no she was fine as were the others- it was Sunnydale itself.
Or What's left of it.
We got a call saying some big apocalypse was about to hit- but the didn't know what, some big preacher in the dark ages had seen a bright light and from it riding three horsemen. Many thought he was insane and even the watchers were amused by this silly vision. However it seemed that several of the harbingers of fate had brought the signals to earth. The whole gang was needed quickly, Buffy was sent to LA to find Angel and his gang. I don't know all the details but everyone but Angel, Buffy and the two of us were there, I was kinda looking forward to seeing them all and meeting those I hadn't yet. I was told that the new woman with that gang was really hot.
Things couldn't have gone more wrong for us.
They must have planning the first strike for years- Nuclear weapons. They detonated them across the country, Washington, Chicago, Long Island, all of New York was gone, San Francisco, Austin- Texas. All were gone in the blink of an eye, destroyed in the white heat of fission of a tactical nuclear blasts.
They detonated one in Sunnydale, it destroyed everything- not one person survived the destruction, Willow, Anya, Dawn, Giles and everyone else in the town was vaporised in less than a second. We saw the blast from over a hundred miles away, I knew instinctively that they were all gone, everyone of them- Faith felt a shift herself, the cosmic scales had just unbalanced big time.
Tears were streaming down her face and she was holding herself tight, she was terrified at the waves flooding over her- I wasn't ready for the soul- wrenching scream that ripped from her throat. It was almost inhuman in it's terrifying horror; she collapsed then and there. I slammed on the breaks and almost skidded off the road- Pulling faith back up I found Blood pouring from her nose, eyes, ears and mouth. Looking down I found blood on the floor, obviously blood was coming from other places too- I had little time to dwell though. I had to get her to a hospital and now before she lost too much blood, Slamming down on the accelerator I pulled out and racing at well over the speed limit I headed for LA.
That was a mistake.
At exactly 02:31 hrs Eastern Standard time The City of Los Angeles became the City of Lost Souls, one last Nuclear weapon had been planted. It was destroyed in a matter of minutes while we were still ninety miles out from LA, With LA gone I knew I had to do something and fast. I did the only thing I could I headed back to Sunnydale- maybe someone there could help us because I was all out of Ideas, The army barracks may have been untouched. I hoped so because it was Faith's only chance. Taking a long way round La aeway from the immediate fall out that would be around for the next few hours We made our way to Sunnydale Army base.
Seventy Miles later we found her.
A familiar-looking black convertible lay upside down on the ground, my heart jumped into my mouth and then dropped to my feet. Stopping I jumped out and over to the car. There she was- the other slayer Buffy Summers, there was dust scattered around near her and I realised that the blast- the 'glare of ten thousand suns' had more than likely instantly dusted Angel.
Buffy's right leg was twisted the wrong way and blood turned her hair almost the colour of Willow's, the same symptoms of Faith's collapse seemed to have afflicted Buffy as well, I had to move her and soon or she would die of shock and blood loss.
I checked Buffy for injuries and finding no neck or back damage I moved her to the back seat of my car, Faith was stirring in the front seat. That Slayer healing is very useful in these cases, if we could get Buffy's wounds sorted she may be up and around fast. However I realised that going Back to Sunnydale might be a bad idea, I could see the radioactive cloud floating towards this direction. LA was also off limits for the same reason. I decided to take them across country to the nearest town possible, I just hoped that I had enough fuel to get there.
Two damaged slayers and a carpenter- trapped between a rock and a hard place and a car almost out of gas. I unfortunately would find out that that was now the very least of my worries, we would all have more to worry about than we would ever want.
The problem was that a nuclear bomb gives out a massive amount of destructive energy, the energy given out by two bombs in close proximity enhances the other, this allowed megatons of free roaming energy to interact. The other problem was the millions of souls and one mystical power source were also unleashed at the same time.
Right On Top Of The Hellmouth.
The energies of the bombs were massive, destroying all in it's path and making a crate hundreds of meters in diameter and a dozen meters deep. The fates must have being laughing when we found out where the bomb had been left.
The spot the old library had been.
The atomic power combined with the latent mystical powers of the hellmouth reopened it and kept it open, where demons and vampires and the forces of true evil had failed- Man the most evil and disgusting creatures ever to walk this Earth Succeeded.
For forty days and nights the forces of darkness had full reign of the area that was once LA, massive armoured beasts and walking monstrosities made their way from the entrance to hell. They fed on the displaced souls of the humans that had been killed, some of the more powerful recognised the key and all if stood for and consumed it.
We were in serious trouble.
Thought of the day- Borrowed from Paradigm Shifter. Go into a British hospital; come out worse than you went in.
Prologue:
Well This is it, the last day of existence.
Well for us anyway.
I don't know if anyone is reading this but I suppose I should start at the beginning, It was a dark and stormy night- suddenly a shot rang out.
Sorry always wanted to do that.
The truth is it started on a clear and starry night, it was beautiful- I had volunteered to retrieve a powerful and very useful icon from a place in Chicago.
"Dammit X-man can we get some food I've starving."
Faith Williams- Rogue Slayer.
Anyone who knows the story of the scoobies and the rest if the gang knows who Faith is. Yes she was the murdering psycho who tried to kill us all and dumped me out in my skivvies after a quick 'Wham bam thank you Man' but we needed her help with something and it seemed to us all she had really been able to get over her problems in Jail and so I was sent to pick her up.
She had been moved to a low security jail in Chicago a few months ago, she had calmed down and become a model prisoner. Now she had had a few years inside, she felt different about all she had done and was determined to make amends. At least that's what she said after removing her tongue from down my throat. Surprised? I was but I digress- whoa big word, one up to thesaurus guy. Anyway she said she had wanted to do that for a few years now and who was I to argue, we both knew little would ever happen between us and I'm kinda flattered that she would be thinking of kissing me- but from that we left Chicago in mid afternoon and headed to LA.
Everything seemed to finally be working for us all, Willow had come back almost fully cured, Buffy and Dawn were closer than ever, Anya had even forgiven me for the wedding fiasco. Now Faith the last of us to return to the fold had joined us again, everything really was working out for us. We were all happy with our lot- especially me I had my best friends as close as I ever had them before.
We should have known better than that.
That was when the shit really hit the fan.
Don't get me wrong it wasn't Faith or any of the scoobies. No one had gone all dark side on us, no she was fine as were the others- it was Sunnydale itself.
Or What's left of it.
We got a call saying some big apocalypse was about to hit- but the didn't know what, some big preacher in the dark ages had seen a bright light and from it riding three horsemen. Many thought he was insane and even the watchers were amused by this silly vision. However it seemed that several of the harbingers of fate had brought the signals to earth. The whole gang was needed quickly, Buffy was sent to LA to find Angel and his gang. I don't know all the details but everyone but Angel, Buffy and the two of us were there, I was kinda looking forward to seeing them all and meeting those I hadn't yet. I was told that the new woman with that gang was really hot.
Things couldn't have gone more wrong for us.
They must have planning the first strike for years- Nuclear weapons. They detonated them across the country, Washington, Chicago, Long Island, all of New York was gone, San Francisco, Austin- Texas. All were gone in the blink of an eye, destroyed in the white heat of fission of a tactical nuclear blasts.
They detonated one in Sunnydale, it destroyed everything- not one person survived the destruction, Willow, Anya, Dawn, Giles and everyone else in the town was vaporised in less than a second. We saw the blast from over a hundred miles away, I knew instinctively that they were all gone, everyone of them- Faith felt a shift herself, the cosmic scales had just unbalanced big time.
Tears were streaming down her face and she was holding herself tight, she was terrified at the waves flooding over her- I wasn't ready for the soul- wrenching scream that ripped from her throat. It was almost inhuman in it's terrifying horror; she collapsed then and there. I slammed on the breaks and almost skidded off the road- Pulling faith back up I found Blood pouring from her nose, eyes, ears and mouth. Looking down I found blood on the floor, obviously blood was coming from other places too- I had little time to dwell though. I had to get her to a hospital and now before she lost too much blood, Slamming down on the accelerator I pulled out and racing at well over the speed limit I headed for LA.
That was a mistake.
At exactly 02:31 hrs Eastern Standard time The City of Los Angeles became the City of Lost Souls, one last Nuclear weapon had been planted. It was destroyed in a matter of minutes while we were still ninety miles out from LA, With LA gone I knew I had to do something and fast. I did the only thing I could I headed back to Sunnydale- maybe someone there could help us because I was all out of Ideas, The army barracks may have been untouched. I hoped so because it was Faith's only chance. Taking a long way round La aeway from the immediate fall out that would be around for the next few hours We made our way to Sunnydale Army base.
Seventy Miles later we found her.
A familiar-looking black convertible lay upside down on the ground, my heart jumped into my mouth and then dropped to my feet. Stopping I jumped out and over to the car. There she was- the other slayer Buffy Summers, there was dust scattered around near her and I realised that the blast- the 'glare of ten thousand suns' had more than likely instantly dusted Angel.
Buffy's right leg was twisted the wrong way and blood turned her hair almost the colour of Willow's, the same symptoms of Faith's collapse seemed to have afflicted Buffy as well, I had to move her and soon or she would die of shock and blood loss.
I checked Buffy for injuries and finding no neck or back damage I moved her to the back seat of my car, Faith was stirring in the front seat. That Slayer healing is very useful in these cases, if we could get Buffy's wounds sorted she may be up and around fast. However I realised that going Back to Sunnydale might be a bad idea, I could see the radioactive cloud floating towards this direction. LA was also off limits for the same reason. I decided to take them across country to the nearest town possible, I just hoped that I had enough fuel to get there.
Two damaged slayers and a carpenter- trapped between a rock and a hard place and a car almost out of gas. I unfortunately would find out that that was now the very least of my worries, we would all have more to worry about than we would ever want.
The problem was that a nuclear bomb gives out a massive amount of destructive energy, the energy given out by two bombs in close proximity enhances the other, this allowed megatons of free roaming energy to interact. The other problem was the millions of souls and one mystical power source were also unleashed at the same time.
Right On Top Of The Hellmouth.
The energies of the bombs were massive, destroying all in it's path and making a crate hundreds of meters in diameter and a dozen meters deep. The fates must have being laughing when we found out where the bomb had been left.
The spot the old library had been.
The atomic power combined with the latent mystical powers of the hellmouth reopened it and kept it open, where demons and vampires and the forces of true evil had failed- Man the most evil and disgusting creatures ever to walk this Earth Succeeded.
For forty days and nights the forces of darkness had full reign of the area that was once LA, massive armoured beasts and walking monstrosities made their way from the entrance to hell. They fed on the displaced souls of the humans that had been killed, some of the more powerful recognised the key and all if stood for and consumed it.
We were in serious trouble.