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Chapter Four.

Xander realised he had to do something, fast, the girls were still stunned, being told you're pregnant, with twins at that, would do that to you. Especially if you were still a virgin like most of the younger slayers. He had to get them moving, stunned slayers could quickly lose it if shock set in. He had to get them moving, they were in a totally new situation. Until they had the lay of the land the fact that the slayers were pregnant was the least of their problems. All they had to rely on were each other and their instincts, and at the moment the girls instincts were clouded.

But Xander was a slayer too, and all of his instincts told him they had to get out of the bus, they needed room to move, they couldn't risk being trapped inside the bus by whatever lived on this world.

He quickly opened the door and started guiding Buffy and the others outside. Andrew, seeing what he was doing, opened the emergency exit and did the same at the rear of the bus.

When Xander stepped outside he momentarily felt dizzy, obviously being removed from the protection of the bus the changes his body had gone through clicked into place. He felt stronger than he'd ever felt before, and more alive. His senses were heightened, he could hear and see so much more than he could before.

Then he noticed that his eye patch had moved slightly to the side and he could see light with his nonexistent eye. Except it was no longer nonexistent. His eye was back, the changes that had been made to his DNA had put his body into prime condition. And that meant 2 eyes.

As he turned to the girls he could now feel were his mates he realised that there was one other change that he couldn't see. Their eyes were now all green. Not the usual green, solid green, no white at all, a legacy of the key power that had surged through their bodies. And the only outward sign that they were no longer really human.

After Xander checked that everyone was alright he led them over to where the others were gathered. As he approached he discovered he could almost feel the family bonds that now existed within the two groups. He'd had a feeling about his own family but when he came closer to the other group he noticed a similar feeling around them. Whistler had been telling the truth, at least about becoming family.

"Well, welcome to our new home." he said as a way to open proceedings. "Seem to be a few trees here."

It was a bit of an understatement, there were trees everywhere, the only real clearing he could see was now filled with the bus, the bright yellow, very visible against the green and brown of the trees, bus.

"We have to find a new camp, we can't stay here, until we get the lie of the land we have to be very careful." Xander grinned. "Of course we are probably the nastiest, meanest life forms this world has ever seen."

"Speak for yourself Toyboy, we're just poor little girls lost in the woods." Faith quipped.

That broke the ice, everyone started to laugh, then Andrew realised he'd been one of the 'poor little girls'. His "Hey!" was followed by more laughter, which he finally joined in.

Once everyone stopped laughing Xander was relieved to see that the girls had snapped out of the period of shock and confusion they'd been going through. They were scanning their immediate area, looking for potential trouble.

"Okay." Buffy said. "We better find ourselves some better cover and work out what we can do next. Hopefully there are other people on this world, there should be from what Whistler said about the Powers only having power where humans are, and saying the prohibition against killing humans is gone, and, that the fact that it has changed is a good thing. We'll try to make peaceful contact, I for one don't want to have my children in the woods."

There was general agreement, and shortly they moved deeper, at least they hoped it was deeper, into the woods, looking for a campsite. As it turned out they didn't have far to go.

After ten minutes they were fortunate to find a small stream, and in a nearby rock face a cave, which after careful checking proved to be not only uninhabited by any predator, but to show no sign of any past habitation. Which, since it was such a good site providing both shelter and water would seem to indicate that there were probably people nearby, keeping possible animal life away.

Once all the food they had was stored in the cave, not that there was much, enough to feed a group their size for just over a week, if they hadn't been slayers, so it would last them three days, and their drink containers were filled with water, they decided to rest for a few minutes and work out their next move.

It was decided after a short discussion that they'd have to scout around the camp site, carefully. Moving in pairs they headed off in different directions, aiming to continue in the direction they were headed for twenty five minutes, or until they discovered something, or reached open ground. They weren't willing to leave the cover of the trees during daylight. After all, like the creatures they usually hunted they were designed to operate at night, it was their natural environment.

Xander and Buffy moved carefully forward, about ten yards apart, due to their heightened senses they knew exactly where the other was and were able to maintain their positions despite often losing sight of each other among the trees.

They'd been going about twelve minutes when Buffy suddenly froze, realising she'd stopped moving Xander froze as well and looked over to where she was. He relaxed when he saw she was moving towards him, obviously it wasn't a threat, at least not an immediate one.

"There's a trail entering a clearing ahead, and something strange in it." Buffy told him when she arrived.

They moved carefully back to Buffys former position, and when Xander saw the clearing himself it was his turn to freeze. Buffy glanced over at him, eyebrows raised.

Taking a deep breath Xander told her he knew what that was, "It's a Stargate." Buffy just looked at him with a confused expression, not knowing what he meant, waiting for him to explain.

"It was on a TV show, the Powers did move us a long way, they moved us to a dimension where one of our TV shows is real, and that means we could be in a lot of trouble. Let's get back to the others."

As they started to move back a figure dressed in what appeared to be chain mail armour, wearing a small, tightly fitting helmet, appeared from the trail, their movement attracted his attention and he called out to them to stop. Without waiting for them to actually follow his order he activated the weapon he was carrying and fired a burst of plasma which hit Buffy as she was turning.