Sunnydale Army Base, 1400 hours.
Buffy ran to one of the barracks on the Army base and pushed the door open hard, before rushing inside to her bed and picking up an elegantly curved weapon with red accents that looked similar to a scythe. She then looked at the fifteen girls who were either sleeping, or just sitting on their own beds enjoying themselves until they were called into action. Buffy looked at them and thought about that day nearly seven months ago, she could still smell the inside of the Hellmouth when she closed her eyes.
They were battling the First, who had already made its move nearly three years prior. However no one knew until later what happened. It was Dawn who came to her one afternoon while Buffy was in the kitchen. It was soon after the blonde Slayer's resurrection, a week after she met with Angel again somewhere between Sunnydale and Los Angeles. As she sat on the bed in the barracks, and looked at the wall, Buffy's grip on the Scythe tightened as she recalled reading the newspaper headline the day after she met with the ensouled vampire.
'Suspected terrorist bombing levels Hyperion Hotel' read Buffy with her eyes opened wide in shock as she ran past Dawn and into the living room where she picked up a phone and called Angel Investigations. Buffy remembered the feeling in her chest, she remembered her heart pounding when there was no signal going through to Angel, or Cordelia's cell phones. It was Dawn who quietly came up behind the Slayer and put her hand on the blonde's shoulder before telling her gently that they found bodies.
"They've identified them, Buffy" said Dawn as Buffy turned around with tears in her eyes and looked at her sister, "Cordelia Chase, Charles Gunn and… and various others identified… I mean they didn't say anything about Angel but… I mean…"
"He's gone" said Buffy in a broken voice as she fell onto her knees, as did Dawn, "I can always feel him, Dawnie.. but now… now I can't. I.. I thought I was just imagining things but… he's gone. Angel's gone, Cordy's gone."
"Buffy?" said a voice as the older Slayer wiped her eyes, and stood up before looking at the source of the voice, "you alright?"
"Kennedy" said Buffy as she looked at her second-in-command. Looking at Kennedy, Buffy shook her head as she imagined Faith standing there. The Faith who stayed back in the high school when they opened the Hellmouth so that the others could escape.
It was the previous night that Buffy had a crazy idea to activate every Slayer on Earth to help fight the First. The next day, Buffy and the others were in the Hellmouth under Sunnydale High for the battle of their lives, and eventually the numbers of what Giles called the Turok-Han vampires were just too much.
Buffy saw six girls die that day alone.
As Buffy stared at Kennedy, she remembered the stab wound in her abdomen received from one of the Turok-Han vampires, she remembered getting a second wind after the First taunted her; but it didn't last long. The numbers of Turok-Han vampires coming their way increased before she ordered a full on retreat. She knew that the other girls needed to be saved, and that they needed a new plan. Holding on to her abdomen, Buffy was pushed by Faith up a set of stairs. She knew that there were some Slayers fight the agents of the First, the Bringers, and she hoped that the other newly activated Slayers were told to retreat. As she and Faith ran out of the hole over the Hellmouth, they looked back at two, and then three, and then even more Turok-Han vampires coming out and heading towards them. The two senior Slayers ran as fast as they could through the basement of the school.
"Come on, B!" shouted Faith as the both of them headed up the stairs to the main floor of the school, the sounds of the Turok-Han close behind them.
Buffy remembered Faith helping her through the doors into a large hallway. At the end she could see the former principle of Sunnydale High, Robin Wood, signalling at them to run as fast as possible. As they headed through the hallway, they passed one of four intersecting hallways where she heard the sounds of metal against metal. Buffy recalled telling Faith that there were Layers trapped, and that the both of them needed to get them out. Shaking her head, Faith told Buffy to go to Robin and get into the school bus outside. She'll get the other Slayers out through the side entrance. She told Buffy that it was sunlight out, and that the Turok-Han won't be coming after the escaped Slayers.
"No" said Buffy shaking her head before the both of them turned around at the snarls of the Turok-Han vampires coming closer."
"We'll be outside, go…. The girls need you, B…. go!" exclaimed Faith as she pushed Buffy before heading into the adjoining hallway. Buffy ran towards Robin before she looked behind her as the Turok-Han vampires broke through the stair well door. Some ran towards her while the others ran in the direction Faith had gone. Buffy ran harder, and faster before reaching Robin who reached out for the Slayer and pulled her out into the sunlight. Taking some steps back while panting, Buffy glared at the Turok-Han who were looking back at her from inside the school; unable to come out into the open because of the sun. However, in the midst of the increasing Turok-Han, Buffy caught a glimpse of the First in her form as she stood with its arms folded over its chest, smiling at the blonde Slayer.
It was a few minutes later as Buffy stood glaring at the Turok-Han while hoping that Faith made it out of there with the remaining Slayers towards her, that she saw movement from the corner of her eye. Turning around, she ran towards the three Slayers who had tears in their eyes with Robin, as well as Xander and Dawn who until now were waiting in the yellow school bus.
"Where's Faith?" said the blonde Slayer as one of the new Slayer broke down and shook her head. The others told Buffy that Faith pushed them into a classroom before ordering them to break the windows and get out into the sunlight. They broke the windows and were climbing out when the Turok-han smashed the door open and poured in. Another of the rescued Slayers told Buffy that Faith was the last to leave, but the Turok-Han grabbed her before she was able to climb out .
"We tried to pull her out, we really did" said one of the Slayers as she avoided looking at Buffy, "the Turok-Han were pulling her inside, taking us with her. She told us to let go, and leave.. and… and…"
"She told us to get some sweet ass revenge" said another of the three rescued Slayers, "we… we saw her fall onto the floor and…. Buffy? She fought… she told us to leave and she continued to fight until… until she was overwhelmed. I.. I saw… I saw four of them bite her and… I'm sorry…"
"She didn't scream" said another Slayer as Xander and Dawn led them back into the bus, "she never screamed."
Buffy stood in shock while Robin looked at her before the blonde Slayer turned around again and looked at the First who was smiling at her from witin the mass of Turok-Han vampires. However, this time the First took on the form of Faith as it smiled, and then started laughing.
It was then confirmed to Buffy that the sixth Slayer fell.
It was later that night that Buffy alone went out under the cover of darkness back to the school. She saw the six Slayers gutted, and then impaled on six different stakes. She looked at the one who she always thought off as an enemy; and in recent days, one of her biggest allies. Buffy could only look at the body of Faith before apologizing and heading away from the school in defeat.
And now, shaking that image off her mind, Buffy looked at Kennedy who was looking back at her confused, "I.. listen… something's happened. I need all remaining Slayers out there right now. The Three sent about fifty demons and… and well, we've got another Willow out there."
"Excuse me?" asked Kennedy with her eyes wide open.
"We can talk about that later" said Buffy, "I need Slayers in a defensive formation. The towers and the tanks will try and take out most of what's out there, we've got limited ammo so… so make sure that every Slayer is armed with something sharp. Get with Xander, and Robin… go… move."
"Yeah" said Kennedy as she turned and told the other Slayers in the barracks to gear up. Buffy watched Kennedy move out as she sighed. She watched the remaining Slayers rush out the door, and looked at the empty barracks at the ghosts of all the Slayers who died the day hell came to Sunnydale, and then the world.
"Hey, B" said Faith who appeared in front of Buffy in a bright flash of light as the blonde Slayer stepped back and raised the Scythe. Buffy then screamed and ran forwards, swinging the weapon as Faith ducked, and then rolled back before getting into a defensive stance. She then ran towards Buffy and delivered a punch which the blonde blocked. Buffy then pushed the First back before knocking her back with a kick. Buffy then went on the defensive as the First, in Faith's body, came at her and came to blows which one hitting the other hard. It was a few seconds later that Faith knocked Buffy back down onto the floor and stepped back with a smile, "is that how you welcome an old friend?"
"You're the First" said Buffy as she stood up slowly and held out her Scythe in front of her, "you're not Faith."
"Come on, B" said the First, "you know I'm on here, or is there someone else you wanna see?"
"Come to gloat?" asked Buffy changing the subject, as she got the Scythe ready.
"You're finished, B" said Faith who stepped towards Buffy as the blonde Slayer swung the Scythe through the body of the First as it started to jump up and down laughing in Faith's body, "I can't believe you did that.. again. Come on, B… I'm not really here. You know where I am… so come and get me."
Buffy just looked at Faith with anger in her eyes as she brought the Scythe to her side and just stood facing the First.
"You know where I am, Slayer" said the First as it took Buffy's form, "this little mudball belongs to me. You know the things coming to you now? It's nothing, compared to what I have waiting. The Three wanted to have some fun with you, dwindle your ranks… even the other Willow won't do anything, actually can't do anything."
"What…" asked Buffy.
"Go outside and see, Slayer" said the First, "you'll see why more than three quarters of you will fall today. Then it's my turn to finish you off. It's fitting really, you're the one who brought me back into this world. Thanks to you opening the Hellmouth on a self-righteous quest to finish me off, it brought me my physical body. Complete with all the memories and abilities of everyone you know."
"We have two very powerful witches" said Buffy, "you're done."
"You mean Harkness and Amy?" asked the First, "or are you putting all your hopes in the two Willow's?"
The First smiled at Buffy and told her that she had no hope of winning, that she will die screaming at the end of all things. Before Buffy could saw anything, the First vanished.
Suddenly, the klaxons in the barracks started to blare as Buffy ran out into the open and looked out into the distance. Her eyes wide open at what she was looking at, Buffy ran to the communications building where General Landry and Giles were still standing behind Riley, who was trying to tune the radio once again. Turning around they told Buffy that they were wrong; that more than a hundred demons of all types were coming down on them.
"And the other Willow?" asked Buffy.
"I don't know how she's going to make it through" said General Landry as he looked to his right and asked one of the officers to have everyone get to battle stations, "have Dr. Lam and the other medical staff prepare for any injuries."
Nodding his head, the officer rushed past Buffy and went out the door. It was then that Willow magically contacted Buffy, General Landry and Giles through telepathy. She told them that a shield was ready, but they wouldn't be able to hold for long.
"We have to hope that the mine field around the base can take most of them out" said General Landry before telling Buffy to get the other Slayer's ready. With the minefield being in between two electrified, and razor wired, fences that surrounded the base that ran on its own generator, they had managed to keep a hold on the area for the last six months.
It's been like that ever since the Hellmouth opened, ever since every single Hellmouth on Earth opened.
Buffy nodded her head before she headed out of the building, and looked at the hundreds of demons that were snarling and growling in the distance coming towards them.
'The end of the world' thought Buffy to herself as a light breeze rushed past the scar on her cheek, 'this is my fault.'
Sunnydale, 1415 hours
Major Willow was heading towards the army base using some of the smaller roads since she was afraid that the demons that she heard was heading to the Army base would take the main streets out of the city. As she rode down another smaller street, she stopped at the small sign that told her she was heading to the Army base and stopped. She looked up as the sky started to get dark red, and in between the red clouds she saw green lighting jumping from one cloud to another. She saw a few even striking the ground.
Shaking her head, Willow continued to ride as the green around her eventually turned to brown. Looking around as she rode on the motorcycle, she saw that the direction of the Army base was barren; where there used to be live trees, everything was now dead. Stopping again, Willow looked behind her and noticed the trees, they were already brown in colour while others were still green,
'Nearly dead' thought Willow to herself as she continued to ride the motorcycle. Soon she was at an intersection, and she could feel the ground under her trembling, while at the same time she heard sounds of weapons fire, and demonic screams in the distance.
"Major Rosenberg to Army Base" said Willow as she started to move towards the sound, "what's your situation?"
There was no answer as Willow opened up her throttle and rode faster down the main road to the base.
"Major Rosenberg to anyone listening" said Willow on the radio as she made a turn past some buildings and then suddenly stopped, and looked in shock. She could see hundreds of demons in various sizes coming up on the base as weapon emplacements fired tracer rounds, tanks at the only entrance fired their shells into the mass of demons that where coming towards them. The redhead then saw some of the demons breaking off and heading towards the north side of the Army Base. She then spun her back wheel before taking off at full speed towards the breakaway demons, "Sunnydale Base, you have demons coming to the north side, I repeat.. Demons have broken off and are heading to your north side!"
Willow sped on before she got onto the bumpy terrain and after the demons. She glanced at the larger pool of demons that were slowly being taken down by weapons fire. Smiling, she then saw the other demons that were already at the fence when they were knocked back by a flashing yellow force field.
"Magic" said Major Willow to herself as she stopped and hurriedly got off the motorcycle. She took off the Zat from her holster, brought it up and fired shots at the demons who were getting up from having been knocked away by the force field. After they were disintegrated, Willow saw a few more heading towards her which she took down after multiple shots of the blue energy beam.
"You can't keep that up forever" said a familiar voice as Willow turned around and looked at Buffy who was wearing a purple shirt, and cream trousers, "you're not like the Willow here, are you? You have a choice, I'll grant you safe passage out of here so that you can go back to whatever reality you came from, or if you decide to stay here and fight… you'll die with the rest of them."
"Who are you?" asked Willow as she saw movement out of the corner of her eye, She turned and raised her Zat against the six demons coming towards her. However, they suddenly stopped and took a few steps back while growling at Willow. The redhead then turned back and looked at Buffy while at the same time having taken out her sidearm, and held it in her right hand. Major Willow saw that Buffy was looking behind the redhead with her hand up, before she smiled and then looked at the redhead.
"Curious, I don't exist in your reality?" as Buffy as she walked around the Major, who in turn continued to look at Buffy while the sounds of exploding shells, and weapons fire, continued in the background.
"I wouldn't know" said Willow as she faced the demons again, raised the weapons and fired on them until they were dead before turning back to Buffy, "Buffy's the one who handles that in my reality, and I take it that you're not her? You know… with the whole 'queen of demons' thing?"
"I'm the First."
"The First what?"
"Evil."
"Huh?"
"The First Evil" said Buffy, "I was there long before anything else existed, I was there before the word was ever spoken, I was…"
"O..k" said Major Willow, "long speech?"
The First could only smile at Willow as she took Tara's form. She raised her hand as the Major found herself flying backwards until she hit the ground a few feet away. Slowly getting up from the lifeless ground, the Major slowly stood up as the First, in Tara's form, walked towards the Major.
"Hey, Baby" said the First, "can I just kiss you now?"
"Yeah, we're not together in my reality" said Willow as she ran to her bike, but was pushed away again by the First and fell onto the ground, "ouch."
"Interesting" said the First in Tara's form as she headed towards the Major who was slowly getting up. The major saw that she dropped her Zat, and her firearm, and rushed towards them before she turned and fired. However, all that happened was the beam hit the Faith and crackled around her harmlessly, while the rounds scored direct hits on its chest, but the wounds quickly closed up.
"Ok" said Willow as she stood up and faced the First, "interesting."
"As I was saying" said Tara as she walked around Willow with her hands behind her, "you leave for your own reality, and I leave you alone. You get free passage. You stay, you be the first to die."
"I need these people to help me get back home" said the Major as she looked at the First while she put her sidearm, with its empty magazine, back into it's holster while still holding onto the Zat, "they're my only way home. How about this, this isn't my reality…. so you stop this attack. Wait for me to leave, and then you can kill everyone here."
"No" said the First.
"This isn't my war" said the Major, "but I need them to get home. I don't know how you became Tara, or Buffy… but you need to know that all I want to do is go home. Like I said, I have my own war to fight. So please, just hold off. Tell me use them and…."
"Then you die" said Tara as she pointed into the distance. Willow turned and saw even more demons coming as they edged towards the base which continued firing rounds, while the tank shelling stopped. She then saw, before hearing the screams of girls, as they ran towards the demons while the weapons from the emplacements provided covering fire, "my subjects have risen. The Three will have their day today… I will kill of the rest, including Buffy at another time. But you… you die today. Nothing can stop what's going to happen, nothing. The human race is finished, they will serve me."
"Not yet" said Willow shaking her head, suddenly having come up with a crazy idea as long as the base had what she needed while the First, who was still, in Tara's form smiled, "like I said, I need the help of these people to get home. This isn't my fight, or my war, but I will do everything I can to stop this wave. And then… then I will ask them for a way to get home. Once I find a way, I'm gone… you continue this attack, and I will stop this, and only this, attack. And it's going to be bad for you."
"No" said the First.
"I warned you" said Major Willow as she turned and ran as fast as she could.
"There over hundred and fifty demons out there" said Tara as she shouted at a retreating Willow who was running towards the motorcycle, "you will die!"
Willow turned the motorcycle and headed back to the front of the base as she rode behind the tanks that had already stopped firing. From between two tanks, Major Willow took out her binoculars and saw Buffy and various other girls fighting the demons, however she could see that they were being overrun; even with the covering fire.
"This is Major Rosenberg to anyone on the base" shouted Willow into her radio before she headed towards Buffy who was on the ground as a demon was about to stamp it's foot down on her. Willow raised her Zat and fired on the demon as it fell onto the ground as a surprised Buffy looked back over her shoulder as she stood back up.
"Buff" said Willow as she stopped the bike, "I know you got a lot of questions but I need you and the other girls out of here."
"Will" said Buffy shaking her head, still in disbelieve in regards to who she was seeing, "why…"
"Trust me" said Major Willow as she turned her bike around, "tell all your girls to run; run fast and hard back to the base. Now!"
Willow left a surprised Buffy who then called all her Slayers back to the base. As she saw the other Willow heading into the base, Buffy heard a scream behind her. Turning around, she saw one of the Slayers from Hong Kong in danger, so the blonde picked up the fallen Scythe and ran towards her, cutting off the demons head before starting their retreat.
Back in the base, the Major charged into the secured inner area as the soldier inside raised their weapons at the redhead, surprised at how she looked like the resident Witch that was in their midst.
"I need to talk to General Landry, now! Move!" said Major Willow as she got off the bike and raised her hands, her Zat still in one hand, "do it now, or else we are all dead."
"Major!" shouted General Landry as he ran towards the redhead in the tactical gear, "did you tell Miss Summers and the others to get back? What the hell are you…"
"Sir" said the Major as she looked back and saw the demons stopped their advance as Buffy and the others ran back into the safety of the base. Willow then turned back around again and asked the General if there were any rocket launchers with high explosive cartridges on base.
"Yes" said the General confused.
"Sir" said Willow as she looked at the General while noticing that a very surprised Kennedy was looking at her, "I don't have time to explain, but…"
Willow brought her hands down and deactivated her Zat. She remembered how, after they had rescued the then Major Sam Carter from the replicators, and after Colonel O'Neill's promotion to General that Willow had begun taking apart some of the Zats, and Jaffa Staff weapons to see how they worked. Using what she learned, Willow pressed a hidden button as the entire top part of the weapon fell off revealing its internals. She then reached down and carefully took out a tube that was half filled with yellow liquid; the weaponized naquada that was used to power the Zat.
"This is… sir… I can explain later" said the Major as she looked at the yellow liquid, and then at the General again, "but we really don't have time right now."
"Sergeant!" shouted the General as he pointed at one of the men who was pointing a weapon at Major Willow, who was looking at Buffy, Kennedy and some of the other girls who were looking back at her. She heard the General tell everyone to put their weapons down before telling the sergeant from earlier to take someone with him and return with one of the Anti-personnel RPG's.
Major Willow noticed that Giles was looking at her and was about to ask her something when the Major noticed movement from behind him. Looking over his shoulder, the Major saw her alternate who had just come out of a building with an older woman, and someone who seemed at awful lot like Amy Madison.
'Yeah' thought the Major to herself, 'that's Amy.'
The Major saw her alternate heading towards her just as two soldiers returned with a large box carrying the RPG, and it's launcher. Willow got on her knees and opened the box as she saw more movement from the corner of her eye. Looking to her left, and behind some of the girls who were gathered around her and whispering among themselves, she saw a shocked Xander who had a patch over his left eye. He then started to run towards the small group with a dark skinned man she didn't recognize.
Shaking her head, Willow turned her attention back to the rocket launcher as she carefully took it out of its wooden crate. She then carefully placed it on the floor and took out the rocket itself. Sensing that she was being stared at, the Major looked up and asked everyone to turn off all electronics on base. She then looked at the General and suggested that all the tanks be brought into the base, and turned off so that the coming electromagnetic pulse wouldn't fry any of the base, or weapon, circuitry.
"Do it" said the General as one of the soldiers ran outside and told the drivers of the tanks to head back into the base, while Buffy told some of the girls to help the soldiers turn everything off.
It was then that one of the remaining girls noticed that the demons were just standing there as, one by one, the tanks headed back into the base.
"They're not coming?" she asked.
"Probably wondering what the hell we're doing?" said another girl who shrugged her shoulders as the Major looked up at her, and then at her doppelganger who was running towards them. She then carefully placed the rocket casing onto the ground, and looked up at the people around her. Stopping as she noticed one of the soldiers chewing, the Major held her hand out and told him to give her the chewing gum. It was then that everyone heard the growling and the snarls again, as the ground started to shake once more.
"What are you doing, Major?" asked the General as her alternate ran up to stand at his side.
"I" said the Major as she carefully placed the gum on the explosive in the rocket, and then attached the vial of weapons grade liquid naquada alongside it, "I'm creating a crude, naquada bomb."
"A what?" asked Willow as the Major looked up and smiled.
"I take it you put up a shield?" asked the Major as Willow nodded her head, "can you make it stronger?"
"I think so, how strong?" asked Willow.
"I know that the explosion won't be that bad, but there could be a large shockwave coming this way; plus an EMP without the nuclear fallout" said the Major, "although I'm not sure if this even will work. It's very, very crude."
"Major" said the General as he looked back at the moving demons again, and then at Major Willow, "you telling me it's a nuclear device?"
Willow screwed the casing back on and loaded the racket back into the launcher and stood up while carrying it.
"No, sir" said the Major, "there should be a bright light, so…."
"What did you do?" asked Willow as she looked at her military doppelganger.
"You'll see" grinned the other redhead as she ran to the entrance of the base and fired the rocket into the mass of demons. She then dropped the launcher onto the ground as soon as she fired, and headed back into the base while shouting for everyone to prepare for impact.
The next thing anyone knew, there was a massive explosion outside the base. Everyone looked away from the bright light, but soon they were able to make out a massive fireball that rose into the sky. The General looked with his eyes wide open, as did the others, at the scale of the devastation outside as the demons in the direct zone of the blast were immediately incinerated. The others all had their insides turned into liquid by the massive shockwave that hit the shield that was already shining bright yellow as it kept out the force of the blast. Major Willow turned around and looked at her doppelganger, at the old woman and at Amy was they were brought to their knees by the force of the shockwave and the combined magical energy they needed to keep the shield up.
"Hey!" shouted Kennedy as the shield fell after the shockwave, and the blast, dissipated while pieces of demons fell back to Earth. Kennedy headed towards the Major as Buffy ran to Willow and helped her up while asking if she was alright. The Major looked at Kennedy who came up to her face and asked her what the hell she was doing.
"My job" said the Major as she walked past Kennedy and walked up to her doppelganger, "you alright?"
"Yeah" said Willow panting as she bent down to her knew, "gimme a few minutes."
The Major saw Amy, and the old woman panting as well before she looked at her alternate.
"Sorry" said the Major, "the explosion and shockwave was larger than…."
"So" shouted a voice behind the Major as she saw her doppelganger looking over her shoulder with eyes wide open. Major Willow turned around and saw Buffy, or the First, standing there with her hands behind her back while alternating looks between the group in the base, and the devastation outside it, "not bad. A new weapon that can destroy on a terrifying scale."
"We have something to beat you off with now" said Xander who was standing behind Willow who, along with everyone in the group, including the First, looked back at him, "seriously, now? I know that came out wrong."
"Doesn't matter" said the First as she grinned, "I take it you don't have any more of these?"
"Does it matter" said Major Willow, "I've already given you my terms. You didn't listen, hopefully you'll now let me do what I wanted to do in the first place."
The First could only smile before she vanished in a flash of light. The Major then turned around and looked at the people around her. In a way, she meant everything that she told the First about needed their help to get back to her own reality. She just hoped that even if General Landry didn't know about the Stargate, that at least some form of the SGC would exist. If not, then she'd be in big trouble.. especially with her alternate version in the mix.
"Sir" said the Major as she nodded at the General, "may I talk to you in private?"
"Major" said the General as he took a few steps towards the redhead in the military uniform and noticed the patches on her shoulder. He then looked back at the Major's face, and then looked back at his Willow before looking at the Air Force officer again.
"Alternate realities exist, General" said Willow as she approached the man, "in high school I brought a vampire version of myself."
"Skanky, leather wearing?" asked the Major as she raised an eyebrow while Willow nodded her head, "neat."
"Major" said the General as he interrupted something that his Willow was about to say, "you wanted to tell me something?"
"Sir" said the Major, "what I have to say requires beta level clearance or above… so…."
The Major looked at everyone around her, before looking at the General again who nodded his understanding of what she meant. The General turned and ordered everyone back to their duties, except for Buffy, Willow, Giles, Xander, Amy and the two people that the Major hadn't been introduced to yet.
"Sir" said Willow as everyone slowly started to leave while she walked next to the General, "I have a few questions of my own, what happened? Why is the sky red, and… and why is the city full of demons?"
"We'll share information, Major" said the General as he went through a door and into a large room where Riley was seated fixing a sparking radio. He then turned around and stood up straight when he saw the General. HE then looked at the redhead in tactical gear next to him and opened his mouth wide.
"Riley" said the Major.
"Will…. I mean, ma'am" said Riley as the General asked him to stand at ease while the Willow of this reality looked at Buffy and grinned at Riley's nervousness.
"Major" said the General as the group, including Riley stood in front of her, "please.. begin."
"I need some background, sir" said Willow, "do we have a computer with an internet connection available?"
"The net's down" said Willow and the Major looked at her in surprise. Buffy then went to say that the electrical grid was down in many places, that the demons had destroyed nearly everything out there, and that the base was running on several generators for the past few months. She told the Major that they would have raiding parties when the sky would be enough for them to see, and keep out most of the more dangerous demons, so that they could take whatever fuel was left in the city.
"How long?" asked the Major.
"Six months" said Buffy as she looked out into space, "six months since the world ended."
"So, no internet" said Willow as she turned to look at the General as a bad feeling grew in her gut. She knew that if the SGC did exist in this reality, then the Asgard would have been called for help at a time like this. And if they weren't here that that would mean that there was no SGC, and that the Major had to find another way back. She just hoped that the Stargates, and the Ancient outposts existed. But she needed some more information, "sir, I don't know if you know him.. but have you heard of a Jack O'Neill?"
"Yes" said the General, "he died some time ago, suicide."
"Damn" said Willow as she leaned on the table that held the radio behind her a bad feeling in her gut started to grow. She knew that in her reality, the Colonel was sent on the first Abydos mission before he tried to commit suicide again. That it was that particular mission that gave him a new lease on life, now she needed to know about the next important person in her SGC life, "how about Samantha Carter?"
"You know Sam Carter?" asked Willow excitedly as the Major looked at her.
"Yea" said the Major, "you know her?"
"I heard of her, I mean her theories on Astrophysics are still the best and, well… she's an astronaut now. At least she's what she always wanted to be, you know… how's she like in your reality?"
"Miss Rosenberg" said the General as Willow looked back at him and mouthed a sorry, "another time, perhaps?"
Willow nodded her head before looking at her alternate self who told the redhead that they'll talk soon.
"Lt. Colonel Carter's on the International Space Station" said the General, "she was supposed to be up there for a year with two other American's, and one Cosmonaut. It's already been a month since that year was over. Before SPACECOM and Houston went dark, they were ordered to stay up there… that it was too dangerous on Earth."
"Supplies?" asked Willow with her eyes wide open.
"Their rations will run out soon" said the General, "nothing we can do."
"Sir" said Willow before she took a deep breathe, "something you should know; it's big."
TBC.