6. Chapter Six
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[subconscious talking] seeing as his subconscious can communicate with him it's better to not see it as regular 'thought'
"Oh man I've got to stop waking up in alleys," Xander said out loud. 'How long was I out.' [About four hours. We better get to the school Buffy will most likely be there by now.]
When Xander walked through the library door he was greeted by the scream of "Demon" by a very attractive new girl. Quickly he evaded the kick meant for his head. "What is it with people attacking me lately. Do I have a big bull's eye on my back that nobody has told me about?" He quipped trying to lighten the mood while Giles and Buffy calmed down the enraged girl.
"Xander this is Kendra. She's a vampire slayer. Kendra this is Xander, though he might seem like a demon to your senses he is not," Giles quickly explained.
"Den how was he able to dodge my attack. No human is that fast," Kendra asked. While slightly calmed down she still kept her eyes on Xander.
"Due to the effects of chaos magic he was altered slightly," Giles explains to the slayer.
"My creation lives!" Xander said with a typical mad scientist cackle. Which made everyone stare at him. "What? I gave Buffy CPR which means I made Kendra a vampire slayer and made it possible for there to be two slayers."
This caused Willow to laugh slightly. She understood how her friend couldn't allow an opportunity to make a joke like this to slip away.
"Anyway I dealt with another two assassins last night. One was a bugman waiting for Buffy to come home and the other I encountered in the warehouse district. Apparently he was a quarter dragon," Xander said proudly while also hoping to leave out the part where he got severely burned.
"Good lord." Giles quickly started to clean his glasses. Willow went pale and Kendra showed him a look of respect.
"What is it with you and bugpeople?" Buffy simply stated.
"Hey this was nothing like the mantis lady. He wasn't a giant bug. He was composed of thousands of bugs," Xander quickly defended.
"Anyway miss violent and I were just going to check on Angel. She says she locked him up in room with a view facing east," Buffy said with a clear tone of anger and annoyance.
"I'll come with you," Xander quickly said.
After a small beating Willy first told them that he'd saved Angel and that Angel had gone underground. But when Xander started to talk about the possible location of the ritual Spike was planning it became obvious that Willy had delivered Angel to Spike. It took a lot to restrain Buffy after that. To save his life Willy declared that the ritual would be taking place in the abandoned church on Brendan street. After that they quickly returned to school so Buffy wouldn't incur the wrath of the Troll of Sunnydale High.
"We'll go there after school and stop the ritual. We don't know where they might be keeping him so we'll confront them where we know they'll be," Xander said in an attempt to cheer Buffy up.
"Alright. I better go to that law enforcement presentation," Buffy said dejectedly.
"Listen up and answer when I call your name. Buffy Summers?" the female cop said while looking up from her clipboard.
Buffy raises her hand. The policewoman quickly drew her gun and started to shoot. But Buffy grabbed her arms and made her shoot the ceiling. Xander hearing the gunshot came running into the room heading for the assassin formally known as Patrice. Before he could reach her Oz got shot protecting Willow. She managed to shoot Xander twice in the abdomen but they didn't even penetrate before he body checked her. Making her hit the wall behind her and drop her gun. She quickly regained her senses and got to her feet.
Meanwhile grabbing her spare gun which was kicked out of her hand by Kendra. Before the slayers or Xander can take further action Principal Snyder barges up to the gang. "What are you delinquents doing! How dare you attack an officer of the law I'll have you expelled for this." This is followed by his dumbest act to date. Approaching an armed assassin. "I'm dreadfully sorry. You're well within your right to arrest…" Seeing her chance she grabbed the disgruntled principal and holds her knife to his throat.
"This is between you and us let him go," Xander said trying to save Snyder with a great deal of reluctance.
The assassin sees her three opponents start to circle her. With only her knife left she knows she can't win. So, she cuts Snyder's throat with her blade shoves him towards her opponents and makes a break for the door.
Xander using the knowledge of a field medic and several doctors applies pressure to the wound, "somebody call for an ambulance," he said to everyone before turning to Kendra, "Kendra I suggest you hide in the library. You entered the county illegally so its best you don't appear in a police report."
Seconds later Snyder started to convulse. "Oh crap she must have poisoned the blade. There's no way I can do anything."
That was the end of principal Snyder. The local paper even declared him a hero for standing up to a crazy person threatening his students. How they received this obviously flawed information was unknown.
Several minutes later the ambulance arrived and declared him dead. Within the next half hour the police arrived and started to question all the people who had been present at the time of the event. Some had already started to suppress their memories of the event. But luckily they were able to corroborate Xander and Buffy's story that the woman who pretended to be a police officer shot first and that nobody provoked her.
The sun had already set when the officers finally let them leave.
"We have to leave now! We're already late and we need to save Angel,." Buffy screamed. With that Kendra, Xander and Buffy ran towards the church on Brendan street. Leaving Giles and Willow behind to deal with the remaining cops.
Xander shifted into his armor form and hit the church door with his full strength. The doors burst inwards with such force that the two vampires guarding it were crushed and dusted immediately by the doors.
"Ok, I'll get miss likes to shoot. You guys stop the ritual," Xander said calmly.
Remembering how Xander had withstood her bullets earlier that day Patrice had come prepared. "Nice costume. You better hope it can withstand some real bullets." Thinking it was simply a costume. She takes out her .45 filled with armor-piercing rounds and immediately unloads five shots into Xander's center of mass. She stared in amazement when the bullets didn't pierce his armor. She quickly jumped aside only for Xander to punch straight through her chest and spine. Killing her instantly.
Meanwhile the two slayers dealt with the remaining minion and started to attack Spike. "Buffy save Angel I will fend off Spike," Kendra said. Listening to the black girl Buffy heads for Angel and rips out the dagger connecting Angel and Drusilla stopping the ritual. Spike seeing that his paramour is in danger grabs Drusilla and sets the church on fire. Buffy quickly grabs the censer Spike used for the incantation and uses it to knock him against the wall. The impact causes a part of the church to collapse on top of Spike and Drusilla.
"Everybody out now. Let's go," Buffy said while supporting Angel.
"I want to thank you for the plane ticket," Kendra said showing unusual levels of shyness.
"It's my pleasure. After all I got some serious money now from Sniperguy's bank account." Leaving Kendra for some girl talk with her fellow slayer he went to talk to Giles.
"Hey G-man any news on who's going to replace Snyder?" Xander said with a clear smile on his face at calling Giles by his nickname.
"Would you please desist with that infernal nickname," Giles answered in the usual way.
"Fine. But who's it going to be?" Xander continued with his curiosity showing.
"As a matter of fact the school board has offered me the job," Giles said with a clear tone of pride.
"That would be great. It'd be a incredible improvement," Xander said with his smile broadening.
"Why thank you. I do hope I do the job justice. It will also make my job as Buffy's watcher much easier," Giles said.