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PG-13 BTVS/Firefly Crossover

Summary: Faith finds her self transported 500 years into the future and on board Serenity. Who brought her here and why and what does it have to with Slayers?

A/N: Takes place after season 5 of Angel and after Serenity.

Ripple Effect

Ch 2

She looked up and all around the medical room as the Doctor prepared to clean her wounds. The stuff in here was hi-tech, stuff she'd never seen before. Computer screens were all over the place and the pictures moved on them. There was lots of blue in them and she wondered what that was about.

Jayne licked his lips as the doc lifted up her shirt revealing her taut stomach. She was hot and knew how to handle herself in a fight.

"This may hurt" Simon tells her as he prepares his needle. "Do you want something for the pain?"

"No, no drugs. Had a bad experience once and I don't want to go through that again" She replies. She had never done drugs until her little Orpheus trip with Angel and that was enough of a say no to drugs ad for her.

"Ok" Simon replies and begins.

She had to find the Slayer on this ship because she figured she was the one that know what was going on. "Ok, so are you gonna tell me your name space cowboy?" she asks as the leader entered the room.

"Mal" he replies watching the doc stitch her up.

"I'm Jayne" he said barging into the room still holding his gun.

Faith smiled at him, now this guy was more her type, strong and not much for talking. "Nice gun" Jayne continued to smile at her.

"Zoe" is all the taller woman says.

"I'm Kaylee" the smaller woman said. "Earth that was, wow. What's it like?"

"Kaylee, we have more pressing questions to ask her." Mal says. "I still want to know how she got on my ship"

"Look Texas Ranger, I told you I was mindin' my own business. I heard this popping sound and I was on your ship. This little detour screwed up my plans too; I was supposed to be going to the Pub with G." She tried to remember if anything was else was strange, she followed the five vamps to Carnaby street so they wouldn't take out a clueless tourist. So it wasn't much different then what she did every day. "And I'd like to get back to my time where there's the Earth that still is"

"You don't know how you got here?" Mal says trying to think. He had just gotten used to first stowaway and he wasn't keen on taking on another.

"Yeah, that's what I've been sayin'" She replies.

"I'm Simon, by the way" The doctor putting away his supplies. "Your wounds were not as deep as I thought"

"I told you it was just a scratch, they caught me off guard that's all" She says getting ready to jump off the chair and Mal points a gun at her head again. "I don't like really like guns and you really don't want to piss me off"

"I don't know you, so I can't have you runnin' around on my ship" Mal says to her as he waves his gun at the door signaling her to walk in front. Faith shrugged and complied, there was nowhere for her to go and she didn't want to be thrown out in to space.

"Mal, do we have to this?" Kaylee asks.

"I don't know if this is necessary" Simon adds.

"When you two have your own ship you can make the decisions of what to do with stowaways" Mal replies. They walk to one of the rooms and Faith walks in.

"She was chosen. It's no use, it won't hold her" River says joining them. Mal ignores her and looks at Faith and closes the door, locking it.

"I don't know what she's sayin, but tell her to get back up there and fly the ship, we can't be late for the pickup" He tells Simon and storms off.

Faith walked over and sat on the bed and leaned against the wall. It was lucky she got used to being in small spaces in prison, although this room was more comfortable then a prison cell. She'd been through a lot and the fact that she was still alive was shocking enough. But now she was a prisoner to a bunch of cowboys in space. Giles was probably wondering where she was, she promised him a beer when she was done patrolling. He would probably think she met a guy and would be home the next morning, so he wouldn't start looking until then. She really hoped he didn't think she ditched him. She and Giles had grown close since they decided to be partners, they'd been living together for two years and she'd grown used to having him there, as a roommate of course. She didn't want to screw that up. So she hoped he thought something happened to her and was figuring out a way to get her back.

"Cuttin it close Reynolds" Storger says as he walks up to him.

"Had some…woman troubles, you know them can't decide what to wear to smuggling job" he jokes. "But were all ready now"

"Good" Storger says and points him to the crates to load on his ship. Mal signals his crew and they get to work loading.

"Heavier than the usual load, Sir" Zoe says as she and Jayne struggle to lift up a crate.

"Don't matter, just load 'er up" Mal replies grunting as he tries to push his crate up the ramp. All of sudden they hear a commotion and look up to see a dust storm coming at them.

"Aiya Huaile!" Zoe says looking at Mal.

A lone man runs out of the dust and says one word. "Reavers!"

"Tzao gao!" Mal screams into the air. "We don't need this"

They all look to each other and Storger's man get in their vehicles and take off. "That stuff better reach Jiangyin, Reynolds" Stroger screams out as they disappear.

"Come on, hurry up" Mal yells as they try to push the crates up the ramp but they wouldn't budge, they were too heavy and they didn't have enough time.

Her eyes fly open as she hears screaming, she bolts upright and goes to the door ripping it apart and running out. She runs to the cargo area and sees them struggling to push crates up the ramp with fear in their eyes. She runs out and puts her hands on the crates that Jayne and Zoe were struggling with, she pushes them and Kaylee jumps out of the way as they slide easily up the ramp. "You need all these crates?" She asks. Zoe nods and she runs outside and grabs a crate and throws it up the ramp. Zoe and Jayne watch in awe as she picks up two boxes at time.

The Reavers descend on the planet from above and make their way towards them. Mal shoots a few as he backs up onto his ship. He hits the button as Faith throws the last crate up the ramp as it starts to rise. A Reaver grabs Faith and she backs her head into its face and does a spinning kick knocking him to ground. Two more appear snarling and angry. She ducks down as they reach for her and she spins around knocking their feet from under them.

"We can't just leave her, Capt" Kaylee says her voice fraught with worry as the ramp kept rising.

Mal looks out as Faith breaks the neck of one and sends it flying into the other two. He shoots two more that are making their way towards her. "Faith, come on" he says to her.

She turns around and sees that the ramp is closing and she wasn't about to be stuck on some strange planet. She swings her legs around for a roundhouse kick knocking them down like dominos and runs towards the ramp. The ramp was almost up just a few inches left to go. Then they see two hands gripping it as Faith pulls herself up and over the ramp just as it slams shut; she slides the rest of the way down and leans against it. The other's stare at her in shock as the ship takes off.

They all stare at her in awe as she picks herself off the ground and wipes the dust off of her clothes.

"She carried the boxes like there weren't nothin' in them" Kaylee whipers to Mal.

"I saw that" Mal replies as he looks over at Jayne trying to lift one of the crates. They were right, her technique made her a trained fighter, but she was strong, stronger than normal. He knew how heavy those crates were and they were like nothing to her. He closes his eyes; now he wasn't worried about who she was but what she was.

"I've only seen one person fight off Reavers like that, Sir" Zoe says moving to stand next to him.

"River" Simon says for all of them.

Tbc…