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Chapter One- Aftermaths
Los Angeles- Angel Investigations
The school bus pulls up to the front entrance of the Hyperion Hotel and stops All of the occupants of the bus look out the window at the damage caused by the explosion earlier that day. Buffy opens the doors and quickly gets off the bus, heading for the hotel, Spike, Faith and Vi in her wake. The others slowly get out from the bus, but do not go into the hotel. Slowly making their way into the hotel, the three slayers and Spike survey the debris scattered throughout the lobby.
"Angel's office is over there." Faith says loudly, pointing at the room behind the counter.
"Faith, is that you?" Angel's voice calls out from inside the room. "I'm kinda pinned down in here."
Faith and Buffy hurry into the room and find Angel trapped under a large portion of the ceiling, and the unconscious forms of Wesley, Gunn and Fred scattered around the room. The two slayers grab hold of the ceiling fragment and lift it off of Angel with a little bit of a struggle. Angel scoots out from under the debris and stands up
"Let's get the others out of here. It isn't safe to stay now." Angel says and picks up Fred in his arms. Faith wakes up Gunn and helps him to stand, as Buffy does the same for Wesley. After this the eight of them head back outside to the bus. After Angel puts Fred on the bus, Buffy pulls him aside and motions for Faith and Spike to join them.
"What did you find out about the First's plans?" Buffy asks.
"We need to get in touch with as many of the champions that the First has on it's hit list and bring them here to LA." Angel says. "However, for many of them it is already too late. The First launched it's preliminary attack a couple of hours ago. He continues somberly.
"How many dead?" Faith asks quietly.
"I don't have an accurate count yet, but so far the X-Men, the Avengers, Sara Pezinni, The DSA, The Winchesters, Tru Davies, Spiderman, Jack Bauer and CTU, Sidney Bristow, The Charmed Ones, the Transgenics in Terminal City and the SGC have all been hit. I don't know how many survived." Angel answers.
"What about Oz, Riley, Seth Gecko, Kate Fuller, and Gwen Raiden?" Buffy suggests.
"From what I've heard, Riley and his wife Sam were at the SGC when it was hit. The others managed to slip under the First's radar and are on their way here now."
"I can get in touch with the Winchester's, I helped them with a job a few years back, so I got their number." Faith says.
"Get them here. Angel, I need you to get in touch with the DSA and Max Guevara, have them come here too. I'll get Willow to contact the Charmed Ones." Buffy states, hoping like hell that it will be enough firepower to lodge a strike at the First.
New York City- DSA Headquarters
Erika Cleghorn had contacted Peter Petrelli as soon as she found out about the attack on the organization that she worked for. He was now pulling up to the building that housed the headquarters with Claire Bennett, DL Hawkins and Niki Sanders in the car as well. The four of them get out of the car and hurry over and into the building. They soon found Erika in one of the collapsed hallways, moving the debris that is blocking her from finding survivors. She hears them enter with her enhanced senses and turns to face them.
"Good, you're here. Help me." Erika requests and DL steps forward.
"I'll go through, see if there are any survivors." DL says and effortlessly slips through the rubble of concrete and wood blocking the way. Once through he immediately sees bodies strewn throughout the hallway.
"Ughhhnn." A moan comes drifting down from further up the hallway. He quickly moves towards the noise, and eventually comes across an injured woman he recognizes as Breanna Rollins, who incidentally has the same powers as him, and is a formidable martial artist in her own right. He leans down to help her and hears the loud click of a pistol from behind him and freezes.
"Don't move." A male voice growls and DL reluctantly complies. "Step away from her and turn around slowly." The man demands.
DL does as he's told and turns around to face Cole Perkins, the director of Project Darkstar, holding a gun on him.
"DL?" Cole asks, surprised. "What are you doing here?"
"Erika called Peter for help when she found out about the attack." DL explains.
"Erika's okay? Thank God." Cole says in relief. Looking down at the sound of another moan from Breanna, he sighs, bends down and picks her up in his arms. "Come on. Let's get out of here."
DL doesn't move. "What about the rest of your team? Lynn, Kurt, Brendon, the twins?"
Cole stops, but doesn't turn around. "Dead. Everyone else is dead. Come on, we gotta get to L.A. as soon as possible.
Seattle- Terminal City
Max slowly opened her eyes and blinked in the harsh light the quickly flooded her vision. She slowly gets to her feet and surveys the carnage all around her. Spotting a nearby body, she moves over to it and flips it over. It's Alec, his eyes are glazed over and blood is flowing from a nasty cut on the side of his head. Reaching down, she shuts his eyes as she blinks back her own tears. Looking around the room again, she spots the bodies of Logan, Mole and Joshua.
"Is there anyone else alive out there?" Max calls out, hoping for a response.
"Over here!" Syl's voice rings out, and Max hurries through the wreckage of the command center, to where Syl is lying, pinned under a large piece of computer equipment. Max and Syl work together to push it off and Syl gets up. The two transgenics leave the command center and head out into the body littered streets of the Freak Nation.
They search for survivors for several hours, but only find a handful of people left. Krit, Biggs, Cece, Zane and Jondy are the only ones left alive. The seven of them are stealthily sneaking down a street leading away from the ruins of their former home when Max's cell phone rings and she picks it up.
"Hello?" Max says quietly into the receiver.
"Max Guevara?" Angel's voice comes through the speaker.
"This is her, who is this?" Max replies, glancing around at the other survivors.
"This is Angel from L.A. We met a few years back when you were in town." Angel says
"I remember you. What do you need, I'm kinda in the middle of a crisis here." Max asks.
"I heard about the attack on Terminal City and your people, and I know who was responsible." Angel tells her.
"It was the familiars and White." Max says.
"Under orders from the First Evil." Angel corrects.
"And that is what?" Max asks.
"An ancient demon hellbent on taking over the world. Right now it's taking out any one who poses a threat to it's goals. That's why you were attacked."
"What do you need me to do?" Max asks, an angry smirk on her face.
"How many survived?" Angel asks.
"Seven, including myself." Max answers.
"How fast can you get to L.A.?"
"I can be there in 24 hours." Max says and hangs up. She turns to the others. "We're going to California."
Phoenix Arizona- Wreckage of Jane's Diner
Michael Guerin was pissed off and had one hell of a headache. He had managed to drag Maxwell, Liz, and Isabel out of the diner after it explosion. Unfortunately, he had been able to get to Tess, Alex, Kyle or Maria before the building was completely on fire. Max and Isabel were awake and were staring at the fire along with Michael, mourning the loss of their four friends. Liz is unconscious in the car. As she sleeps she has a vision of the future.
After a few moments of the flashes and impressions given to her by the powers that be, she awakens with a gasp. She gets out of the car and hurries over to her three alien friends.
"We have to go find Ava." Liz says.
"Why?" Michael asks, not taking his eyes off of the burning building.
"Because there is a battle coming and we're going to be needed to fight it in L.A. Ava too." Liz tells them.
"What are you talking about, a battle?" Isabel asks confused.
"The attack on us was an organized hit on the Earth's champions. The people who killed Alex, Maria, Kyle and Tess are going to try and end the world. We have to help stop it. To avenge our friends." Liz says, with fire burning in her eyes. "We need to get to L.A."
San Francisco- Halliwell Mansion remains
"LEO!" Piper called out for the resident whitelighter as she looked down at the immobile bodies of her sisters Paige and Phoebe. The whitelighter quickly orbed into the room and bent down to heal the two witches. After he is done, Paige and Phoebe get up and brush themselves off.
"What was that thing that attacked us?" Phoebe asks.
"It was a Turok-Han, an ancient and primal vampire. It is an agent of the first Evil. It must have been sent here by it's master to take us out." Piper answers. "Willow Rosenberg called from Los Angeles, requesting our help. Apparently, the First has broken loose from it's prison in Sunnydale and is killing all of the Earth's heroes and champions. I told her that we'd be there, so we have to leave now."
"Alright, let's go." Paige says, looking forward to working with Willow again.
Sacramento- Highway
A black 1967 Impala guns down the road. Inside the car are Sam and Dean Winchester and Ava Winters, who is sitting in the back. The three of them had just finished a job in Oregon and were heading to Mexico to investigate a series of ritualistic murders in the small town of Santa Holly. Dean's cell phone rang and he picks it up.
"Dean Winchester here."
"Dean, it's Faith." Faith Lehane's voice comes over the phone. Dean puts it on speaker.
"Faith, wow it's been a while." Dean says.
"Listen, I've got a big job for you. You interested?" Faith asks.
"Of course, where is it?" Sam says.
"Come to L.A. and meet me at the old Dagarerro Hotel. There will be a bunch of people there, so it should be easy to find, call as many of your buddies as possible and get them here, we've got a full blown war on our hands."
To Be Continued…