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Chapter Six: - Pride Goeth… and All That Jazz Part.1

The ships looked two Pyramids. Two golden Pyramids that was surrounded by a black superstructure; As they climbed and stopped just at the edge of the Thermosphere, Xander, Jenny and Dawn observed the two alien vessels as they held their position. "Huh, not what I was expecting." Xander said; his Ki flame surrounding him as it protected the young warrior from the harsh cold that permeated the level of the planet's atmosphere. He looked over at Dawn and Jenny and saw their Ki flaring like his, protecting them from the harshness that they were currently exposed to.

"What were you expecting, Xander?" Jenny asked. Nonplussed at the male's comment. "Something like the Enterprise, maybe? Or, or a Bird of Prey?"

"Hey, I'm just surprised that's all." If these things land on the planet, can you imagine what the conspiracy nuts would think?" He asked her. "Don't many of them already think that the Pyramids were built by aliens, Lady J? These would just set them off, ya know? Before they're vaporised that is." He finished looking back at the two motherships.

"Ever the cynic aren't you, Xan." Jenny said as she shook her head. "Well then, we'll just have to make sure that they don't land then, won't we?" She asked as she began fiddling with the controls on her scouter.

"I didn't used to be, Lady J." He said. "Blame the Hellmouth for that." He finished before he turned and looked at her and smirked. "Besides, I was expecting something similar to a big ol' Cylon Basestar, if I'm honest."

Jenny chuckled as Dawn watched the two exasperatingly before her attention was diverted by an alert from her scouter.

" Ya Geek." Jenny said smirking.

"That's Saiyan Geek… Nerd." He returned in kind.

"Saiyan Nerd, if you don't mind, Xander." She replied.

"…I stand corrected, Lady J." Xander acquiesced to her with a joking flourish and bow before the two returned their attention back to the ships.

"Are you two done now?" Dawn said. "I'm only asking because there are two objects on a fast approach towards the two ships." She finished. Xander and Jenny turned to look at her and saw that the young woman was using her scouter to find out what the objects were, but Xander hazarded to guess at what they were.

"Missiles." He said looking at where they were coming from. Xander operated his scouter and tracked the course that the missiles had launched from. "Huh. Lady J, did you know that there is an US Air Force base east of LA?"

"Uh, yeah. I think so. It's, uh, its, um… Vandenberg Air Force Base, I think. Somewhere in Lompoc, I think. Why?" She asked.

"I just tracked their trajectory. That's where the missiles were launched from." He said to her and Dawn. "I'm guessing Nukes."

"Well, that's the only thing that they'd hope would be able to stop these things, isn't it?" Dawn asked them.

The two looked at one another before they looked back at her. Dawn didn't like the look on their faces.

"Dawnie…" Xander started, oblivious to the frown the girl sported at hearing her human name. "Watch." He said to her, and it was evident why as the two nukes finally passed their position and sped on towards the two motherships. They watched a minute more as the warheads on the rockets separated, the boost end of the rocket falling back to the Earth as it expended the last of its fuel and the warheads carried on under their own power.

"Just watch." He said again to her.

"The Warheads have separated… One minute to impact." At the SGC, Major Davis and Hammond watched and waited with baited breath as the warheads continued on unimpeded. Colonel Samuels watched the monitors as well as people in the Gate Room were still evacuated through to the Alpha Site.

"Any indication that the Goa'uld launched countermeasures, Major?" The General asked as he wondered still about the three other launches and what they were.

"No, Sir. There's been no indication." Davis said as he watched the monitor.

"I don't think they're gonna know what hit them." Samuels stated, still extremely confident that the missiles would end the threat the Goa'uld ships were.

Hammond looked at the arrogant man for a moment; the General knew; he just knew that within the next few moments that Samuels would get a harsh dose of reality and the worst wakeup call he'd ever had gotten before.

"What about those other three launches?" The General asked, finally giving voice to his concern about them.

"Sir, RADAR tracked their last known position at ninety – six Kilometres above the Earth. According to Vandenberg, they still haven't moved from that position." The Major said. Hammond turned to look at him and asked him what he meant by they hadn't moved from their current position. They were missiles, weren't they?

"Major, contact NASA; tell them to reposition the Hubble. I want to know exactly what was launched from Sunnydale and I want to know now." He ordered.

"Yes, Sir." Davis said as he walked back over to his station and placed his headset back on. After a few moments when he connected to NASA's radio frequency, he gave the order telling them to reposition the telescope.

"Lord Apophis, they launch weapons at us." The Jaffa Standing at the Peltak said to his God; Apophis and a loyal Jaffa watched as five weapons launched from the planet, he and the Jaffa watched as three of the weapons stopped mid – flight, still within the Tau'ri planets' atmosphere, the false God was momentarily confused as he wondered why three Tau'ri weapons would stop and not continue on towards them, but no matter, he thought after a moment more. He and the Jaffa watched as two other weapons sped on towards him and his Son's ships.

"Let them come." The God said as he readied his ships shield.

"General, NASA reports that the Hubble will be in position in three minutes." Davis replied after he had returned from his workstation. The Major watched as the two nukes kept going. "Thirty seconds to impact. Still no indication that the Goa'uld have launched any countermeasures."

At that, Colonel Samuels urged his missiles ever onward. "Go, go." He heard Davis inform the General that twenty – five seconds till impact remained.

Klorel watched as the Tau'ri weapons approached; he placed his hand on the console to activate the Ha'taks shields, but he paused.

"My lord, their weapons are near. You must activate the shield."

Xander and the others watched on their scouters as the alien devices showed the two small yellow blips on the display that were the warheads still went on unimpeded by the alien vessels position. Xander knew what was going to happen next, it was a sure bet. He also knew that Jenny did too and was expecting the same thing to happen with a bored like expression on her face. He found it a little funny that this type of thing was a universal constant.

A pan – dimensional constant if he thought more about it; the memories of Tora's extermination missions alongside Bardock and Fasha made it quite clear what the aliens orbiting his home were doing. The Saiyan warriors had done it to the countless victims they had killed whilst working for Frieza's Planet Trade. Those memories were as clear as day in the young man's mind.

They had let them throw everything that their victims had at them. Xander remembered how Tora and the others smirked as they had let every bullet, every laser and energy blast, and anti – tank rocket and every missile that they had in their possession hit them. They bred and fostered false hope that their victims' weapons would stop them, the Saiyan monsters that had come to cleanse their home, end their reign of terror and save them all. Countless times had Tora, Bardock and Fasha stood there on different worlds in front of their soon – to – be many victims and let the smoke clear.

Xander briefly remembered the look of absolute fear and sheer disbelief that Tora saw on their faces before he and the others vaporised them with a smirk on their faces. Intimidation and false hope, Xander mused; the two worst weapons in any superior enemy's arsenal.

It wasn't as if that the presence of two alien vessels weren't intimidating enough and that was what the two vessels were doing just by waiting there, he pondered. Intimidating the US Government into showing what they had to defend themselves. Foolish, the young Neo – Saiyan thought. It was understandable he mused, but still very foolish.

And it was that train of thought that made him wonder just why he, Jenny and Dawn had been changed into Saiyans. 'Sonovabitch!' He thought. 'Were we influenced to buy those costumes because of this?' He suddenly got the feeling that when he was back at the costume shop when he was with Dawn and Jenny, was the choice his and Jenny's? He pondered the answer as he and Jenny awaited the inevitable; if he hadn't dressed tonight as a Saiyan warrior alongside Jenny and Dawn and had just gone as a Soldier, he knew that he wouldn't have stood a chance against whomever or whatever the aliens were if they just straight up invaded.

Suddenly incensed by the implication that his will wasn't his own, Xander vowed that after they had dealt with the aliens, he would find out who had done this to him and his friends and he would make them pay. And he had an idea of where to start. "The store owner…" He muttered silently as he envisioned what he would do to the man when he had found him.

"What are we waiting for, Xan?" His Dawnie asked, finally fed up that they hadn't acted yet, but she was a little curious as to what her Xander and Jenny were waiting for. "Shouldn't we attack now?"

Yes, he thought. They should attack now, if only to get this over with; too much had happened tonight that couldn't be swept under a rug and ignored. One of his friends had died tonight. Murdered at the hands of a vampire. 'Like Jesse.' He thought, thinking of his former friend that he had staked to save Cordelia. Too much had happened and they all needed to sort everything out. "Just wait." He said to her and saw her cross her arms as she scowled looking at the vessels.

"Ugh, fine!" The young girl said exasperatingly.

He wanted them all to be cautious, he didn't know what the ships were truly capable of and he wanted to know. He could see that Jenny also wanted to know the capabilities of the two alien ships. All three of them may have been turned into super powered alien warriors, but he didn't know if their collective power ensured them a sure victory.

"Da… Fasha." Jenny called out to the young woman remembering at the last second her request to be called by her possessor's name. "Xander just wants to be cautious. He doesn't know if our power would be enough against these ships, so he wants to see what they're capable of."

"Oh, c'mon!" Dawn shouted as she turned to look at them. "What the fuck could they have that could stand against us?" She arrogantly asked.

"Wait and see, Dawnie. Wait and see." Xander said looking at the nukes and then the ships. On his scouter, he could see how much further the warheads had to go before they hit. "See, Dawnie, check your scouter." He said to the impatient girl. "Ten seconds till impact… Nine… Eight…" He counted down as he and the others waited to see what would happen.

"Impact in seven seconds, six, five…" Davis said as he and General Hammond and Colonel Samuels waited.

At the same time, on Apophis' ship, the golden clad false God activated the shields as he urged his Son to do the same. "Tal shak, Klorel! Tal shak!"

On the second Ha'tak, Klorel was still struggling to raise the shields; his host Skarra was still strong within his mind. Inwardly the symbiote cursed the four Tau'ri that had discovered his Father's plan to attack their world and gated to their staging area. How had they found out anyway? He mused, before he dismissed it as unimportant. They couldn't do anything to stop him and Apophis from the inside of a cell. Momentarily, their world will burn and then they will die. And it was with that determination, that sheer conviction that gave Klorel the strength to override the host as the Goa'uld eyes glowed brightly and he pressed his hand to the controls and activated the shields.

It was seconds later when the two missiles impacted and the hopes of a jackass by the name of Samuels were crushed.

"General Hammond, Sir!" Major Davis called out. "Space Command says that the warheads struck some kind of energy field just before impact. They report no damage."

"That's impossible!" Samuels called out frantically as he realised that his career was probably over. He needed to find a way to salvage the situation, he thought. Maybe if they used the Gate…

"NASA confirms that the ships are still up there, Sir." Davis replied.

Xander and the two Neo – Saiyan women watched as they saw the two ships shields raise and prevent the warheads from impacting on the ship's hull's. It was Dawn who looked at him and cocked her eyebrow at him. "A shield, you knew didn't you?" She asked him before she looked at Jenny and saw the same look mirrored on her face. "You knew as well that they'd have some type of protection."

"I suspected. And it stood to reason, Dawnie." Xander said, this time he didn't miss the look of annoyance on her face as he called her by her human name. Dawn didn't say anything about it to him now, but she would later. "Any significant space faring race would be advanced enough to develop shield technology. Probably even a type of FTL travel as well. That's probably how they got here." Xander said to her.

"What do you mean?" Dawn asked.

"I don't think that whoever they are were travelling through space for so long just to come here and attack Earth, Dawn. It just doesn't make sense." Xander said as he confirmed his theory. "I think that whoever these aliens are, their decision to attack Earth was a recent one; which begs the question: Why?" He finished.

"C'mon! You think that the US Government knows about the existence of ET, Xander?" Jenny asked. "Oh, please…" She started before she looked at him and saw the look on his face. "You do, don't you?"

"Think about it." He said. "The US launched Nuclear Missiles without a clear sign of provocation, unless they think that just orbiting the planet is provocation enough. The Government hadn't notified the public that these ships were here…"

"Surely doing that would just cause mass panic." Dawn said, seeing his thinking, but agreeing with Jenny's viewpoint on the matter.

"Yeah, but still, that doesn't exclude the fact that they're here, and that they're definitely here to attack. And if they weren't going to before, well, they are now. If I was them, I definitely wouldn't take a Nuke to the face lying down." He said as he flexed his limbs. He was getting himself ready for the aliens to make the next move, but Dawn had another thing on her mind.

"Well then, HHHHAAAAHHH!" She called out as her Ki flame flared in intensity. "I think it's time that we fucking did something about that." She finished smirking ferally as she saw the time for talking was over and the time for action was now. Jenny and Xander copied Dawn's actions and powered their Ki up as well as Dawn formed two energy balls in her palms.

"Jenny, let's make a bet." She said to the teacher. Jenny turned and looked at her. "First one to kill the most aliens claims Xander first." She finished smirking. Jenny smiled at the implication.

"Hey!" Xander shouted again. "Will you stop that?! I am not a fucking breeding stud for you two! And you're still too young!" He ranted at Dawn. "What're ya gonna do, wait until you're legal?!" He finished as he formed a ball of energy in his right palm. It was Jenny's next words to the young girl that infuriated him more while making him blush.

"You're on." The teacher said smirking before eying him up and down again and then laughing at his discomfort.

Oh, is that how it is it? It's on, Xander thought, his mentality urging him on to repay their teasing in kind. "That's it!" He said as he got a wicked idea, smirking he turned towards Jenny and replied. "How about if I make a bet with the both of you." He started. Interested jenny nodded her head for him to go on. "If I kill the most aliens…" Xander started. "Then the both of you will do as I say." He finished with a gleam in his eyes. Jenny stared at the young man. Surprised that he had turned their joke against them; he was joking wasn't he?

Looking at Dawn and already knowing about her crush on Xander, Jenny could see Dawn agreeing wholeheartedly, but her new Saiyan nature would make sure that she didn't immediately give in. It would spur the young woman on and treat it like a challenge. Plus, she knew that Dawn wouldn't pass up the opportunity to have Xander as a slave one day.

Indeed, and even she could see the appreciation the more she thought about it, and Xander certainly was a fine example for a Saiyan, she couldn't help but think. Okay then in the spirit of which his bet was given, Jenny, looking at Dawn and already seeing that the young woman agreed to it his offer, she said yes. And then they fired.

"Sir, NASA reports that the Hubble is in position." Major Davis replied. "Getting the image now, Sir." He finished as the monitor displayed an unbelievable sight.

The General and Major Davis along with every other member of the SGC all stared as the image of three individuals, two females and one male, garbed in what looked like to be outlandish armour of some kind and surrounded by fields of energy were firing blasts of… Energy at the enemy ships.

"What the…?" Hammond exclaimed as he observed the images. "Major, is this real?" He asked looking over at Davis. He waited as he saw that Davis was speaking into his headphone receiver.

"Confirm, Space Command, is this authentic?" He asked as he heard the rushing of the NASA personnel going about to ascertain whether or not that this was a prank of some kind. All it took was a minute and Major Davis had his answer. "Understood, Space Command. Stand by." Davis looked back at the General, he could see the questioning look on his Superior's face; he knew the question. Without saying a word, Major Davis nodded his head towards Hammond.

What now? The General thought.

Authors Note: -

Sorry about the delay for this. I'll admit I had a few problems with this Chapter. And RL got in the way a bit and it still rearing it's ugly head, so I've had to split this part of the story. Plus I've started writing The Fourth World as well. Second Chapter has been posted for that story earlier today as well. Check it out; I would love to hear what you think of it.

Hopefully, I'll have the next Part up and running soon. In the meantime, read and review. They make me happy.

Peace.