Here's chapter 4. Hope you enjoy it. I will be giving reasons for why certain characters are missing in action in this part of the story. I apologize in advance to the fans of Buffy the Vampire Slayer if my use of the characters isn't good.
Angel couldn't believe his eyes. "Spike, you're, you're."
"Alive. Is that the word you're looking for Angel?"
Angel approached Spike with caution just in case this turned out to be a trap. "How did you come back?" Angel asked.
"Long story. But the question isn't how I'm back. It's why I'm back." Spike then super sped over to Angel and grabbed his neck. He then hurled Angel out the window causing him to crash into the building next to Angel Investigations. Angel fell to the alley way below and hit the ground hard. Spike jumped out of the gaping hole in Angel Investigations and landed in front of Angel. As he tried to regain his composure Spike picked him up once again, pinned him up to the wall, and pulled a weird looking device from his jacket. Spike thrust it into Angel's neck, who let out a yell of pain as he felt the device drill into his neck. The pain then subsided and Angel raised his head up to see that Spike had used the device to steal some of his blood.
"Thanks Angel," Spike said as he threw him to the ground. He then looked to the sky and took off into the air. Angel got to his feet and looked like he had been staked.
"What the… since when can Spike do that?!"
"It wasn't Spike," a voice behind Angel said. Angel turned to meet the eyes of Buffy Summers and Xander Harris.
"What are you guys doing here?" Angel asked.
"It happened a few hours ago," Buffy started. "Xander, Willow, and I were busy at my place doing slayer business when the Spike "look alike" crashed things, literally. Came crashing through the door and at first didn't act. So I did. I grabbed my scythe and swung it at him, but he caught it easily and tried to assure me that he was the real Spike. I loosened my grip on the scythe and that was a big mistake. He slammed his fist into the side of my face before making short work of Xander. He then made a leap towards Willow and restrained her before the two vanished before our eyes. After about a half hour Willow managed to come through and beamed an image of were she was into our minds. We figured whoever this guy was would come for you if he was in Los Angeles."
"Well whoever that guy was, he stole some of my blood before taking off." Angel said.
"I wonder what he's going to do with it," Xander thought out loud.
Bobby's house sometime ago
"So what's the job this time Bobby," Sam asked.
"You said it was something big," Dean threw in.
"Several vampire attacks have occurred in the last few days," Bobby answered.
There was a few seconds silence before Dean said, "Um Bobby not that killing vampires isn't important or anything but what's so big about that?"
Bobby rolled his eyes before answering, "This is why." Bobby then put a map of the United States on the table. "The attacks are occurring in a straight line. Almost as if they are trying to lure someone out. If my guess is right the attacks are going to end here in Los Angeles. While I have no idea what the vamps could be doing there it's got to be big for them to be collectively working together.
"You can say that again," came a voice behind the three hunters.
Sam, Dean, and Bobby all turned around and raised their shotguns at the intruder.
"Whoa easy their hotshots," Ruby sarcastically said. Sam lowered his weapon at the sight of her while Bobby and Dean kept them pointed at her.
"Still don't trust me do you Dean?"
"Well," Dean started.
"That was a rhetorical question. Anyway I was able to find some information on what the vampires are up to. Apparently some vampire known as Spike resurfaced a week ago. He rounded up a pretty big group of vampires and is planning on opening something he calls the demon vortex."
"What the heck is that?" Dean asked.
"It's an ancient portal that leads directly to hell," Bobby answered. "It can only be opened under specific conditions. One of which involves the use of a special statue, which directly opens the portal. There's also a second way, but I have no idea what it is."
"Well what are we waiting for Sammy? Let's go," Dean said already headed for the door.
"Yeah let's," Ruby remarked causing Dean to freeze in his tracks.
"Oh no there is no way I'm letting some demon join us. Let alone ride in the Impala."
"Like it or not Dean you're going to need my help with this. LA is crawling with more vampires then you two can handle on your own."
"She has a point Dean," Sam jumped in.
"Sam I can't believe you're taking her side!"
"You know Dean I am so sick and tired of your constant paranoia concerning demons! Don't you think if I wanted you two killed I would've done it by now!" Dean opened his mouth to fire back a response when he suddenly realized Ruby did make a valid point. He took several minutes to think things over before sighing and finally saying, "Ok fine you can come with us." Dean then walked up to Ruby and held his shotgun up to her chin. "But you listen well. If you so much as think about double crossing us I will personally kill you with your own knife. Right. Through. The chest. Understood?" Dean threatened.
Ruby looked back at Dean with unblinking eyes before calmly saying, "Fine".
Metropolis
Clark was busy scanning through the police data base in hopes of finding whoever attacked Lois. The doctors managed to stabilize her, but there wasn't much they could for her. Just then his cell phone began to ring.
"Hello," Clark answered
"Clark it's Chloe how's Lois?" Chloe answered with worry in her voice.
"There isn't anything the doctors could do for her. Fortunately that's where having a billionaire as a friend comes in handy. Oliver's team managed to synthesize a serum that should counter the effects of Lois's vampire bite. But there is one problem. It can't be completed without the blood of what attacked her. So now I'm trying to find whoever that girl was by scanning the police data base."
"I wish I could be there to help Clark, but Jimmy and I missed our flight out of Gotham and won't be back for a while as a result."
In the past week Brainiac had inexplicably released his grip on Chloe. She couldn't explain how, but she needed to get her head together and decided to accompany Jimmy on an assignment to Gotham City. Partially to clear her head and partially because she knew Jimmy wouldn't last a second in Gotham City on his own.
"Just make sure you can do whatever you can to save Lois, Clark. I don't know what I would do if she died."
"I'll save her Chloe. I promise." Clark then hung up and went back to the data base.
Back in Angel Investigations
"Where do you suppose our little doppelganger could be hiding out in?" Xander asked mainly to break through the awkward silence being generated by Buffy and Angel.
"I noticed something strange going on at the old parking garage downtown. I was preparing to check it out when I was attacked."
"And "the Spike look alike" just waltzed right in here with no one noticing him." Buffy asked.
"If you're referring to my team, Buffy, I sent them all out on a mission several states away from here."
"Oh real smart Angel," Buffy said with sarcasm dripping from her words. Before Angel could react to her comment two vampires swung in through the whole in the building. Buffy pulled out her stake and stabbed the first vampire right in the heart. The vampire initially gasped, but then showed an evil smile.
"Nice try slayer. But I've evolved past that weakness." He then pulled Buffy's stake out of his heart and threw Buffy on to Angel's desk. He raised the stake and prepared to throw it when Angel grabbed his hand and pulled the stake out. He threw it at the other vampire, who was about to punch Xander's lights, hoping it would work but the result was the same. He pulled out the stake and casually tossed it aside before tossing Xander out of the hole. Buffy ran to Xander and grabbed his hand to keep him from falling while the other two vampires closed in on Angel. Suddenly one of them gasped before his body flashed. He collapsed to the floor revealing a knife sticking out of the back of his head. The other vampire's eyes widened with fear as he turned around to see two guys and one girl standing behind him.
"Boo," Dean said before he sliced off the vampire's head. Ruby casually walked over to the dead vampire and pulled her knife out of its skull.
"You do realize that staking vampires only works in the movies Ms.?" Dean started.
"Summers. Buffy Summers."
"As in Buffy the Vampire Slayer?" Dean asked.
"Ok that movie was such an inaccurate depiction of my life it's not even funny. To this day I still don't know how they got that idea in the first place." Xander shifted uncomfortably in his seat at this statement though Buffy's back was turned to him. "And I don't know what you're talking about, but I have been fighting vampires since my sophomore year in high school and up till now the stake always worked. Those two vampires said they had evolved past being staked. I've never heard of them doing that before. So how did you guys know cutting their heads off would work?"
"Because Buffy, me and my brother have been fighting every thing that goes bump in the night since we were kids. Thus far all vampire lore has been proven to be crap to us."
"Can we settle the "who's way of killing vampires is right" later?" Xander asked interrupting the argument between the two.
"And who are you supposed to be?"
"Xander. You?"
"Dean."
"Sam."
"Ruby. Who's that guy?"
"My name is Angel." Angel decided to keep his identity as a vampire a secret from Sam, Dean, and Ruby for now.
"Now that the formalities are out of the way why exactly are you here?" Buffy asked as they all began to exit AI.
"Because of a vampire named Spike." Dean answered.
"Spike is dead. That guy is some sort of imposter."
"Well whoever this imposter is he did a good job fooling the other vampires into believing he's the real thing. He's apparently trying to open something called the demon vortex," Dean replied.
"That's impossible. There's only on way to open the vortex and its miles away from here," Xander disbelievingly said.
"Not quite," Angel entered. "There is actually a second way of opening the portal. That must've been why he wanted my blood."
"That's why we trailed those two vampires hoping they would lead us to wherever it is… wait did you just say Spike stole some of your blood?" Ruby asked. "Didn't Bobby say that both ways of opening the portal required a worthy vampires' blood?"
Sam and Dean both nodded and drew their machetes.
"Hold it right there!" Buffy shouted as she stood in front of Sam and Dean. "Angel's record might not be clean, but he would never hurt an innocent person."
"See Dean? Not all supernatural creatures are evil," Ruby said.
"You are really starting to drive my patience Ruby!"
"Shut up!" Ruby and Buffy both shouted in unison.
"Whoa didn't know Buffy had a clone," Xander thought.
Suddenly three vampires came out of the alleyway and attacked. But before they could reach the team a big gust of wind picked up followed by the vampires being lifted into the air and falling to the street unconscious.
"What just happened" Sam asked confused.
"Sam?" a voice from out of the dark called. Everyone turned to see Clark Kent coming from out of the shadows.
"Oh ****!" Dean shouted in his mind. Clark turned to see Dean and his face turned from one of shock to one of rage. He ran over to Dean and grabbed him by the neck pulling his fist back for a punch.
"Clark stop!" Sam shouted as he grabbed his fist.
"Clark I can explain!" Dean shouted. Clark lowered his fist, but still kept a firm grip on Dean's jacket collar.
One already stated explanation later
"And so it turns out that Genevieve had known about me all along and what I do. She had been hoping that a hunter would show up at that morgue so she could have them finish what Jason started. She deliberately made it sound like there was some sort of unexplained reason for Jason's death knowing it would draw out a hunter. I don't know how she found out about us though. Since I was this close to finding the stones when we kidnapped Lex and Lionel I decided to keep up with the charade. I never wanted anyone to get hurt and I most certainly didn't want to hurt your family Clark." Clark and Sam looked Dean unable to know what to say. Sam couldn't believe that Dean would do such things and Clark still couldn't get over the fact that Dean still came close to murdering his parents. In the end Clark released him.
"I'll deal with you later Dean. I have something important to take care of now."
"It wouldn't happen to involve vampires would it?" Buffy asked figuring she already knew the answer.
"How did you know that?"
"A mysterious gust of wind picks up sending three vampires flying and then you come walking out of the shadows. Not a very good way to keep a low profile. Don't worry though you're secret's safe."
Clark saw no point in lying as it would only waist time and went with the truth. "One of my friends was attacked by a vampire not to long ago. She's dying but some specialists managed to create a serum that can save her. Only problem is that they need some of the vampire's blood in order to complete it. I scanned through the police records and found out that the same vampire was arrested a few times in LA back when she was human."
"So I guess we all have the same goal then. Me and these guys, Angel and Xander, have all dealt with vampires on a regular basis. My name is Buffy Summers." Buffy said.
"As in Buffy the."
"Don't finish that sentence!" Buffy ordered. "We believe the vampires are hiding out at the old parking garage. The vampire that attacked your friend is probably there as well. Maybe we could work together."
Clark thought about the situation and decided to trust Buffy for now. He did in fact have no real experience fighting actual vampires (not counting the ones on the college campus) and decided it's worth it if it meant saving Lois's life.
The walk over to the garage was completely silent. No words were exchanged between Sam and Dean while Clark shot daggers at Dean, who was doing the same to Ruby. As they began to walk inside Angel began to feel dizzy.
"Hey you guys go ahead I'll catch up." He told them. As the others walked on Angel grabbed his head and began to feel a blinding pain course through his body. It took everything he had to not yell as it would give away their positions. "What's happening to me?" He thought. The pain began to subside, but before it did Angel's eyes flashed bright red. An evil smile appeared on the face of Angelus as he walked inside to join the others.
"Here comes Angel," Xander announced. They all turned to see Angelus slowly walk towards them. He casually approached Buffy before saying, "I've wanted to do this for a long time." He drew back his fist and punched Buffy hard in the chest. Buffy let out a grunt before throwing a punch of her own. Angelus caught it and threw Buffy at a nearby car. Buffy let out a yell as she hit it. "It's Angelus! Get him!" She called out. Clark attempted to incapacitate Angelus, but he quickly turned around and bit Clark's neck. After releasing him Angelus delivered an uppercut to Clark's head sending him quite a distance. He felt a great surge of power go through him and suddenly spun around in time to stop Sam and Dean's attacks. He grabbed Dean and slammed him to the floor before wrestling Sam's machete from his hand. Angelus threw Sam towards a wall and then threw the machete. Sam hit the wall and as he fell the machete narrowly missed his head and went right through his jacket pinning him up there. Xander made and attempt to stake him, but Angelus merely threw his fist backward knocking Xander of his feet. Xander was fortunate that Angelus hadn't even bothered to use his full strength. Clark recovered from Angelus's uppercut and came running towards him. Angelus slammed his fists into the concrete at his feet and picked up a section of it. He threw it at Clark, but Clark jumped into the air and did a corkscrew spin destroying the projectile and slamming his feet into Angelus's face. As he reeled back in pain Clark smiled since he finally pulled off that maneuver. Ruby pulled out her knife and went for Angelus's heart, but was thrown back towards Buffy. He then focused the full force of his attack on Clark. He threw a right hook and then followed with a left hook. He went for a straight jab, but Clark deflected it and punched Angelus in the stomach. Clark attempted to slam his fist down on Angelus's face, but he grabbed Clark's feet and body slammed him on the concrete floor. Angelus got to his feet and walked in front of Clark. Before he could issue the final blow Angelus let out a gasp as he felt something being driven into his back. His face flashed momentarily.
"Ruby?" He chocked out.
"Guess again," came Buffy's cold voice. She drew back the knife and stabbed Angelus again this time killing him.
"Oh my aching head," Xander said as he got up to his feet.
"What made him do this?" Clark asked as he recovered.
"Angel has an evil side. He calls himself Angelus. But he shouldn't have been able to resurface. It only happens during a moment of tru happiness for him." As the three pondered about Angel's sudden transformation several growls could be heard in the darkness. Clark suddnly felt weak and fell to his knees.
"How's your girlfriend?" The vampire that was holding kryptonite asked before knocking him out cold.
"Xander, you have to get out of here now!" Buffy ordered.
"Buffy I'm not going to leave you here," Xander disobeyed.
"NOW! That's an order!" Buffy ordered officially this time. Knowing better than to disobey a direct order from Buffy Xander broke into a fast run stumbling a bit out of the parking garage just as several more vampires came out of the darkness surrounding Buffy. Buffy stood ready to fight when she heard a loud whoosh behind her.
"Hello Buffy."
"It's you." Buffy turned to punch the Spike imposter, but received a punch to the face as she did. Everything went black.
A/N: How Angel inexplicably became Angelus as well as my reason for killing him off will be explained next chapter. On another note it has never been revealed if Ruby's knife could kill anything other than demons so for now I will assume it can. It was used Castiel in season 4 but he didn't die because the only thing that can kill an angel is another angel. The second way of opening the demon vortex was made up. Angelus held his own against Clark and the others due to him biting Clark and drinking some of his blood as a result. Let me know what you thought of this chapter and anyways of improving my writing of the Buffy characters will be appreciated. Angel was able to bite Clark because he is a supernatural creature and it has been stated in other Superman media that Clark is vulnerable to all forms of supernatural attack and not just magic. It was most recently stated in the game "Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe".