Disclaimer: I don't own Dark Angel, Roswell, or BTVS. I only own my own characters Coco, Emerald, Ruby, Aqua, and Crystal.
A/N: Please review and give me feedback. This story is posted in two or three places. The Dark Angel category, the BTVS Crossovers category, and maybe the TV crossovers section.
Summary: This is a crossover between BTVS, Dark Angel, and Roswell. This is after the siege at Terminal city, set in the Dark Angel timeline, so some time around the year 2020 or so. Max (Dark Angel Max, not Roswell Max) finds out that White has gotten hold of Lydecker's old list of the rogue X5s' locations, and must race against him to save her siblings and once they're all together, they must fight against White and his Familiars and the new enemy, the Purests, who have formed an alliance with White. P.S. I'll make sure you know when I'm talking about Max from Roswell and Max from Dark Angel.
"Hey, B!" Faith said. "Over here!" She waved her friend over to where she, Xander, Willow, Spike and Dawn were sitting. Buffy made her way over to the table, squeezing through the people in the bar. When she finally got there and sat down, she wiped the sweat off her forehead and whistled.
"Whoa, there are a lot of people here tonight," she said.
"Yeah, well it is New Years," Xander pointed out.
"True," Buffy said.
"You look wiped B," Willow said.
"Yeah, just kicked a few vampire heads off their bodies," she said nonchalantly. "No big."
Dawn laughed. "You must have a nice neck sis 'cause they always seem to go after you."
"Yeah well, I will only allow one vamp to bite my neck," Buffy said, and Spike grinned.
"Oh, get a room, this is sickening, and in front of a youngster too," Willow said.
"Hey!" Dawn said. "I resent that."
Just then their friends Coco and Crystal came over. For some reason, Buffy always felt like Faith had some special connection to these girls, because when Buffy first introduced the three, they almost seemed to know each other already, except that they didn't recognize each other at first. She shrugged it off, but the feeling always came back. These girls reminded Buffy of Faith, the way they moved and acted. Faith had an annoying habit to sneak up on her without her knowing, which is odd because being a slayer made Buffy very alert. She also felt a little hurt because she and Faith had always been best friends, but when Coco and Crystal were there it was almost as if they knew Faith better than her.
"Hey girls," Faith said brightly.
"Hey," Coco said. She looked at Buffy a little concerned. "You okay? Seem a little out of breath."
"Kick some vampire ass?" Crystal said, grinning.
Buffy smiled at them. 'I can't believe I was jealous of them before,' she thought. 'They're the nicest girls.' "Damn straight," Buffy said.
Coco laughed. "Nice." She looked at everyone else. "Any of you guys wanna burn off the dance floor?"
"I'm up," Willow said.
"Sure thing," Dawn said, getting up.
"Ready," Faith said, then she looked at Buffy. Buffy shrugged. "Oh, why the hell not? You boys coming?" she asked.
Xander and Spike shook their heads. "Nah, you lasses go have fun," Spike said.
"Aiight, cool," Crystal said, and the 6 girls headed for the dance floor.
Liz DeLuca sat in her physics class, bored out of her mind. 'This stuff's so easy, I have the friggin' IQ of a genius, and I have to listen to this snore teaching me stuff that I already know,' she thought. She considered showing the teacher up when he made a mistake in one of his calculations just to shake things up a little but then sighed and went back to being bored. 'I have to play things down, make sure they don't realize that I'm different.'
The bell rang, and she trudged out, books weighing her arms down.
"Liz!" someone called. "Wait up!" Max Evans ran down the hall to catch up with his girlfriend. "You okay? You seem sorta out of it."
"Just bored out of my mind," she said. "Don't worry, I'm fine." They walked to their next class together and sat down, waiting for their friends to arrive. A few minutes later, Isabel, Michael, Maria, Jesse and Kyle all walked in and took their seats.
Then their math teacher walked in and made a special announcement. "Everybody, we have 3 new students joining us today. I want you to be nice to them and show them around." She waved three equally beautiful girls into the classroom. Almost all the boys practically drooled. "This is Emerald Vice," she said, pointing to a girl dressed in a green halter top and blue hip huggers, with long jet black hair and tanned skin, "Ruby Trout," she continued, pointing to a girl with wavy, fiery red hair and a pale complexion with a few freckles, shorter than the first by a bit, wearing a blood red camisole top and tight fitting jeans, "And finally Aqua Stevenson," she finished off, pointing to a girl with short blonde hair, wearing a sky blue tank top and black leather pants. "Welcome them and make them feel at home at our school."
The teacher nodded to the three girls and they took their seats close to where Liz and her friends were sitting. When the three girls passed Liz, she felt a jolt of electricity shoot up her spine, and apparently the girls did too because they stopped and looked at her curiously.
Flashback
On the night of the escape, four girls were running through the snow wearing only grey hospital gowns, the cold wind chilling them as they ran. Even though they all had buzz cuts, you could tell that two girls had dark black hair, one had blonde and the other red. One of the girls with black hair was lagging behind. The redhead turned. "Liz! Hurry up! They're coming!"
"Wait up Ruby! I'm so tired."
The blonde ran to her younger sister and took her hand. "Keep running Liz. The Tac Teams are out there. We can't get caught."
"I know Aqua," the young Liz said. "I'm trying." She put on a little more speed but the Tac Teams were right behind them on their snowmobiles. One of them taser shocked Liz and she fell to the ground. "Liz!" the other dark haired girl screamed.
"Run!" Liz screamed. "Aqua, Ruby, Emerald, run! Leave me and go!"
They looked at each other in indecision but after Liz told them to go once more, they turned around and ran. The Tac Team surrounded Liz but there was no way they were going to take her back to that hell. Manticore. She took up a fighting stance and knocked out every last soldier. 'I won't be the only one left behind,' she thought, and continued running, jumping over the perimeter fence. At last she was free.
End flashback
Liz's friends looked between Liz and the three new girls. They were just staring at each other, eyes glazed over. "Liz?" Maria asked. "You in there?"
At the same time, all four girls snapped out of their flashback, instantly recognizing each other. They all smiled but didn't say anything and Emerald, Ruby, and Aqua took their seats. Maria looked at the others, wondering why Liz spaced out. Liz just smiled to herself. Maybe things were looking up.
Max sat at her desk, writing down a list of things that Terminal City was running low on.
"Weapons, food, and just about everything else in this God forsaken world," she muttered. She slammed her pencil down and ran her fingers through her hair. She was tired, she hadn't slept for days, and she felt dull. She needed a change in herself and a break from all the work. She stood up and looked at herself in a mirror.
"Where did I go?" she asked herself. She used to be a tough, bad-ass chick who oozed fire and attitude, and the person she saw in the mirror was dull and boring with no personality at all. She got an idea and left her office to go to her room.
"Hey guys, any of you seen Max?" Alec asked. "She's not in her office."
"I'm right here," she said, in a voice that was different than usual. It portrayed confidence, playfulness and a bit of sexuality. He turned around and got sticker shock. She looked completely different! Her hair was now curly and up to her shoulders, and she looked like she was glowing. It was so different than what she looked like before, still beautiful but before she sort of became withdrawn.
"Maxie, you look… Well, like someone else!" Alec exclaimed. "Your hair looks great by the way."
She blushed, which was very unlike Max. "Thanks, I decided I needed a change. This was actually how it looked like before I went back to Manticore." "This is how I used to be," she said in a quieter tone.
"Well, it's great," Alec said grinning. "Come on, time for dinner."
Her face fell. "Oh crap, I forgot about the list of what we needed. I was supposed to line up some buyers. All just to change my stupid hair," she muttered.
"Maxie, it's fine, I did it," he said. "It's about time you had a break, it's well deserved."
"Thanks," she said warmly. "I really do appreciate the help you've been giving me."
Alec laughed. "If I had known you would actually be nice and not so physically abusive to me just by changing your hair, I would have made you do this a long time ago."
Max rolled her eyes and punched his shoulder. "Come on, Golden Boy, dinner awaits."
Alec rubbed his arm and followed her. "And the abuse lives on," he muttered, then grinned.
Logan was all set up to go to Terminal City. Dix had found out that the toxins weren't as bad as they thought and that it would be safe for ordinaries to be there. 'This way I can help Max with whatever she needs,' he thought. Original Cindy walked into his penthouse apartment.
"Hey boo, ya ready to go see Max?" she asked.
"Yeah, let's go."
Max, still in a good mood from her change, waltzed into T.C.'s HQ.
"How's it going, boys?" she asked Dix, Luke and Mole, three anomalies.
Mole looked at her. "What's up with you princess? Get laid or something?"
"Nope," she said grinning. "Oh." She reached into her jacket pocket and pulled out a bag and handed it to Mole. "Here ya go."
He looked at it, and curiously opened the bag. He grinned at her. "You know princess, you should stay on whatever drug you're taking if it makes you buy me Cuban cigars."
"Consider it a New Years gift," she said.
"I like your hair Max," Dix said shyly.
She smiled. "Thanks Dix. Whatcha got for me? White up to anything?"
"So far no," Dix said.
"Probably doesn't want to show his face for a while after that humiliation at Jam Pony," Luke said. He brightened. "Oh well, the better for us."
"Yeah," Max said.
"Hey Max," a voice said.
She whirled around. "Logan. Hey. Oh right, you're moving in today. So sorry, I forgot. Where's Cindy?"
"Settling in," he said. "Like your hair. It's like it was before."
"Yeah," she said.
Mole made a grunting sound. It was no secret that he didn't like this ordinary. Sketchy he didn't mind because he was an idiot and good entertainment, Cindy he didn't mind because she had an attitude similar to his own, but Logan… well, the computer nerd just got on his nerves.
"Hey Mole," Logan said politely. He walked towards the lizard man. "Here. New Years gift."
Mole took the bag and inside found more Cuban cigars. He grinned again. "I'm starting to like this ordinary holiday."
Logan gave Dix a nice piece of computer equipment, Luke a really nice baseball and Max a necklace.
They all said their thanks, then Dix said, "Holy jamolee."
"What?" Max asked.
"I just hacked into White's main database," he said, stunned.
"You girls have fun?" Xander asked.
"Yup," Coco said.
"I'm wiped," Buffy said. "But it was a blast."
"We better get home, it's getting late," Crystal said.
"K, see you guys," Faith said.
They left. "We better get going too," Buffy said. "Are all of you staying over at our place tonight?"
"Yeah," Willow said.
"Let's go then," Dawn said.
They made their way home, but Buffy held out an arm when she heard something. They all looked at each other and said, "Vamps."
They headed towards the park where the noise was coming from. Just then a hideously ugly vampire jumped up and wrapped his hand around Buffy's throat. She did a roundhouse kick to his head which flew off and burst into dust. Faith punched another in the gut, did a triple back flip then landed and gave it a solid blow to the neck, dusting that one too. When she was done the others were staring at her.
"What?" she asked.
"How did you do that?" Buffy asked. "You're fighting differently than usual."
"Just a new technique I picked up," she said, trying to sound as casual as she could. 'Yeah, that and the fact that kicking ass is sort of bred into me,' she thought.
"Right," Willow said. "Come on, it's dark, let's get home."
They all headed back towards Buffy's and Dawn's house, Faith trying to ignore the inquisitive looks Buffy was giving her.
'She's hiding something from me again,' Buffy thought, hurt. 'Why doesn't she trust me?'
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