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This episode is a bit shorter from the others, but not a lot really happens in it, so just try to enjoy it. However, next week's episode will be decent, and let me tell you, the fourth is going to be even better, by far! So, just stick with me, and you'll be glad you did!
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Season One, Episode Two
Lost in Shrimp (part 2)
Buffy is the first to get there. Dawn is screaming bloody murder. Right in front of her are both a gigantic shrimp and a reaver, fighting with each other. It seemed that if one won, it would be the one to take Dawn.
As Buffy leaps forward to slay the reaver, she is knocked out of the air midway by a shrimp. she is now busied with the task of fighting off a shrimp first (a very big shrimp). Xander comes up. Rachel comes up not far behind him. He turns to her.
Xander: Are you following me?
Rachel: Well... you're Xander!
Xander: Thanks. You know, you seem like a fun person.
They smile at each other. It's a pretty awkward moment for both of them.
Buffy: Uh, guys, a little help!
They rush to pull the shrimp off of her. Kate arrives. She stands staring at the spectacle, especially at Dawn and the fight between the shrimp and the reaver.
Dawn: Do something!
Suddenly the shrimp flies apart. We see that Jayne has come, and with a rather large gun. He then proceeds in taking down the reaver.
Kate: Ok does anybody know what the hell those things are!
Giles: They're demons, minions of evil...
Buffy: I don't know Giles that was a shrimp, an actual 5 foot tall shrimp, but that other thing, it seemed dangerous.
Kate: Ya think!
Giles: But Buffy, they're like shrimp demons, minions of the slain Kakistos.
Buffy: Willow, can you set up some sort of magical barrier around us, we can't afford to have anyone killed.
Kate: A magical barrier, you people are crazy! There's no such thing as magic!
Willow: You so sure about that?
Suddenly Kate is lifted out of the air.
Willow: Believe in magic now?
Kate: LET ME DOWN!
Buffy: She is just making you see the truth, there are demons, and vampires that lurk the streets at night. There are witches who can do unimaginable things by casting a spell. I mean how do you explain the five foot tall shrimp that keep attacking us!
Kate: I don't know, I mean I have seen weirder things before like that monster that just pulls people up off their feet and kills them.
Dawn: That does sound pretty weird and I've seen some crazy things. Like this one time I accidentally wished that nobody could leave the house and we were all literally stuck in the house for like two days.
Kate: Okay...
Buffy: Will, you gonna get started on that spell?
Willow: Sure, right away
Willow closes her eyes and focuses, drawing in dead leaves to the area in front of her. The small pile that had now formed burst into brilliant purple flames as Willow wiggled her fingers and raised her arms.
Willow: Goddesses of the earth and sky, hear my plea. Create perfect safety, a barrier to stop all from entering. None shall penetrate, and we may have our own utopia. Servo nos tutus ex totus creatura!
Suddenly the fire goes out. Willow looks pleased.
Buffy: Why can't we see the barrier?
Willow: I guess 'cause it's a big one.
Everybody starts heading back to camp.
Angel: Umm… You're gonna have to get off of me.
Angel is sitting on a log. Janie is kneeled down on the ground in next to him, her head rested on his knee, staring up into his face.
Janie: Right, sorry…
She starts to get up, then gives him an enormous bear hug
Janie: I love you Angel!
Then Janie walks of to sit next to Holly, and she starts chatting away excitedly. Buffy goes over and sits next to Angel.
Buffy: Who is that girl, and why does she keep doing that?
Angel: I don't know, I guess she's just a fan.
Angel smiles
Buffy: You like it, don't you?
Angel: Like what?
Buffy: Her hanging all over you like that!
Angel: It feels good to be admired. And it's not like you don't have your own little fan club.
Buffy and Angel both look over to a rock where Nick, Doug, Hannah, and Isa are sitting, staring wide-eyed at Buffy's every move like little school girls with a crush.
Angel: And what do you care anyway? Spike's your guy, right?
Buffy: Well yeah, kind of...
Angel: Kind of? You've had sex with him how many times?
Buffy rolls her eyes, gets up, and walks over to sit with Xander and Willow.
A few hours later, everyone is sitting, grumbling about their hunger.
Nick: Can't we just have Locke catch a boar?
Malcom: That'd be a great idea, if the boar wanna just start runnin' to us.
Buffy: Besides, Willow's barrier should be keeping out the boar.
Jack: Well, we need to find something.
Jack points at Malcom
Jack; You go look for anything eatable.
Malcom: Don't order me around, this is my sh- umm, just don't order me around.
Sawyer: (to Jack) Yeah, listen to him! He knows we shouldn't always just listen to you.
Buffy: Look, let's just go and split up to look.
They all agree. They set off in separate groups, mostly the ones from what used to be just TV shows going with others from the same TV show.
Locke: This blood's very fresh.
Locke is staring at a trail of blood on the ground. As he follows it, he sees a boar, very dead, and a reaver sitting over it. Suddenly, Spike and Angel show up with the members of their groups.
Spike: I smelled blood, and- what the blood hell is that?
The reaver leaps right towards Buffy. Buffy kicks her leg extremely high and sends her foot into its head. The reaver falls to the ground, as dead as the boar next to it.
Buffy: Guys! You others! Malcom, and all you others! Get over here, now!
Malcom, the rest of Serenity's crew, Jaye, and a few others come over through the bushes and trees on the right.
Buffy: Willow, I thought you said you got the barrier up!
Willow: I did! I mean, it should have worked! I did everything right, and the spell looked like it worked.
Buffy: Try doing another spell. Anything.
Willow stares at the boar expectantly, as if something she were thinking was supposed to happen to it, but nothing did.
Willow: No! Something's interfering with my magic!
Back at camp, everyone is worried. They're not sure what to do, but for the moment they're glad they can eat. Spike and Angel are drinking the boar's blood out of makeshift cups.
Sawyer: (To Jack) If you ask me, I think they were lying to us. Ain't no barrier because the witch never made one. Tryin' to let us get killed.
Kate: (To Jack) For all we know, he's right. I mean, we don't know anything about these people, except that they're all lunatics.
Jaye, who seems to have joined the Lost group, speaks
Jaye: I think we should get away from them.
Buffy: So you have no clue what happened?
Willow: No.
Suddenly Jayne stands up to talk to everybody.
Jayne: it was them! They're the ones that done it!
He's pointing to the Buffy and Angel groups.
Jayne: or maybe them!
He's now pointing towards the Lost group.
Jayne: All I know is, we're not compatible! We can't be hanging around each other like we're best friends when we don't even have a clue who the hell each other is!
Buffy: Now wait a minute!
Spike vamps up
Spike: Do any of you really want to mess with me?
Kate: Actually, he's right!
Holly: Guys, what are you doing?
Jack: Listen up! He's right, most of us know it. It'd be best if we all just… split up into separate groups.
Malcom: Agreed.
Buffy: Fine.
Doug: Hey! Whatever happened to "live together, or die alone"?
Jack: We just can't make this work. I'm not saying this is how it's always gonna be-
Jayne: Who says you get to say?
Buffy: Guys… Let's just split up and get some rest. If we want to, we can talk about this more tomorrow. It's been too long of a day, and we need some sleep.
Sawyer: Fine
Malcom: Okay.
Everybody goes to separate spots on the beach and put their heads down, waiting for sleep to take them and awaiting a new day.
End Episode
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