Well General Mac here's more

What! mystjadeWizard doesn't know everything! How can you say that? Oh well I guess you already did. I'll consider the B/D pairing now at least

Your right dogbertcarroll, the chaps are extremely short because some of my other tales that have longer chaps aren't doing so well I'm trying to approach the whole story writing thing from a different angle maybe eventually I'll do longer chaps but for now I'll stick to my shorter ones hope that doesn't dissapoint you to much. Glad you like the story enough to give some feedback. Chapters 9 and 10 will be much longer though just kind of happened.

You actually like it when I update,lilguji well thank you I had to resort to a trivia game to have some people to give me any feedback with a Marvel/Star Wars story and my last and longest chap didn't even get a stinking review, thinking about removing the whole dang fic.

Don't own anything Whedon owns all BTVS characters and whoever owns the D.C universe owns the Batman and his family

A lot of thanks to SiN again!

I have changed to a PG 13 rating cause I can't have faith talk the way she should cause face it most of the timewhen you think of her talking you think cussing at least I do.

Ch 8

"All right Will's, talk to me." Buffy said as she threw herself into her chair at the large table in the
library. Her jacket thrown back in the bag it came from. "Like where the heck is my sister?"

"Well Buffy, whoever these guys are they were prepared." Willow said, frustrated, "They've placed blocking spells on several layers of wherever they're
hiding Dawnie, it'll take time to find them, and maybe even longer to break through all of the spells they're using." The woman pushed her hair out of her face as she tried to concentrate on what she was doing.
"Do we have time, Red?" Faith asked as she and Xander leaned against the doorframe as far from the angry lead slayer as possible and still stay in the room.

"I'm pretty sure that whatever these guys are, we can handle them," Xander said nonchalantly, but the question is what will these guys do to the Dawnster while we're out looking for her?"

"If they're as smart as they seem to be, nothing." Willow said shrugging hoping that she was hiding her fear better than she thought she was, and that no one noticed the quiver in her voice. She looked at the paper note that Buffy had handed off to her after they had left the very annoyed looking Batman, that was a benefit of having the mind link, they could all see through each other's eyes.

"I'm just glad I was able to find all those tracks before the police came and messed them all up." The slayer said.

"So it looks like the lessons I gave you paid off tonight." Xander said smiling proudly at the blonde.

She nodded and grinned a bit at the remark, after the deal with the First the threesome agreed that there would be no more secrets amongst them, one of the secrets to be disposed of had been that Xander told them that he had retained all of his Hyena memories and could still track for some odd reason.

"How else could I always find someone in good old
Sunnydale after all?" He had asked them." The enhanced senses were truly gone but the instinct was still there. He had coached Buffy and Faith in tracking with all of their senses since they were both just a couple of city girls who had little knowledge about such things, adding yet another advantage to their already impressive slayer arsenals.

"Good," he said standing up to his full height, "so we got a bunch of half demons holding a lot of rich snobby Cordelia wannabe's somewhere around the city. They either have a real powerful regular demon/vampire boss or a really good witch or wizard working for them. If its just a vamp witch or wizard and not some butt ugly wannabe ruler".

"Warlock, Xander, the term is Warlock." Willow said glaring at her friend.

"Aw c'mon Will's, with all of the Harry Potter crap going on your telling me no one has decided to go and change the name?"

"He's got a point there, Red." Faith said in as serious a tone as she could muster without laughing
her guts out all over the floor. "It would make things easier on them if they called them Wizards, and not to mention Warlock, sounds more like a demon, than a guy, you know?"

"I don't care." Willow said shaking her head, "its Warlock not wizard. Wizardry is a whole different branch of magic."

"So there really are people that walk around shooting magic out of their sticks?" Buff asked despite her impatience at finding her sister, she knew they were all trying to think of a way to save the girl, they were just doing the Scooby gang method of calming themselves down. When they found the ugly creeps that had captured the kids the things would wish that they had never been born or at the very least never come to this little city that was fast becoming Hell Central.

"Anyway," The witch said evading the question. "Every spell I've tried so far on that has left me with no clues at all. I also tried a locater spell but that's being blocked as well so it will take time for me to find the right method to get at them."

"Right, um Xand, did you check the answering machine yet." Buffy asked looking for something to do.

" Huh? Oh, not yet." The young man rushed to check the machine hoping it wasn't a way to just get rid of him. He saw the flashing light on the top grabbing a sticky note and a pen he hit the play button to hear a familiar cultured voice coming at him and one that he kind of didn't want to hear at the moment all things considered. "Ah crud."

"Buffy, it's Giles, I'm at my place and England, that piece of bloody enchanted jewelry Willow insists that we all wear actually got hot and glowed tonight. Call me when you have the chance."

"Oh that is just so great!" Buffy said as she heard the message from the other room groaning. "He'll be down here faster than Willow was if were not careful." She laid her head into her arms as she contemplated her options. "And there is no way I'm going convince him to stay home or to wear a mask."

"Well if he were to have a glamour or something done to him, maybe you could take him with you then." Willow said smiling.

"Lets hope so, because it's going to be hard to sneak a whole lot past the guy who runs the night life out here."

"Yeah, especially since you went and made him all angry." Xander said laughing.

"Yeah B, and did you see all those muscles on him? Faith grinned evilly as she thought about the Dark Knight.

"Forget it Faith. I hear he has a zero tolerance program going with anyone who killed, no matter what the circumstances, or how much major progress you made," Buffy said sadly. "I don't think I could even make much of an impression on him, and he might be more of a pain in the ass than other people."

"Damn, all of the good looking ones never seem to be able to have the half conscience they do in movies." Faith said scowling as she hooked her thumbs into her belt loops.

"Yeah." Buffy agreed as she tried to think of some other way to find her sister's kidnappers.

"How about fingerprints? Any chance that we might find our boy's fingerprints if their part demon?"

"Its certainly worth a shot." Willow nodded, "but I don't own the right kind of equipment to make a real close study. Cause I mean hello, where's the trail of blood and guts or all the smashed in walls that we usually follow I hate this whole wait and see style this city has," the redhead griped before she considered all of her options. "Well it will take time to get that kind of equipment, but we could always ask Batman to run the test if we can't think of anything to work you know."

"Oh yeah I can just see that now Red, after our girl B here, walks off with the info. We just turn it over to him and will you please tell us what is on there."

"So his whole dark warrior image was old news to me." Buffy said shrugging, "I mean seriously that guy could have been Angel under that mask, the way he was treating this kidnapping."

"Well we could always ask dead-boy if he's been making Gotham his second home." Xander joked. "What?" He asked at the glares he received.

"Did you forget the whole staying out of other people's way till we got our degrees deal?" Buffy
asked. "I mean Giles knew we wouldn't be able to totally stay away from all things demony so he agreed to let us study in a place with a large demon un-life but there aren't supposed to be any kinds of end of the world things happening here.

"Yeah and besides the only watcher that Angel would bother asking anything is Wes not that other guy that he was talking to."

"Yeah, and Giles said nothing big is supposed to happen here for probably the next hundred and fifty years or so. Which means that a watcher shouldn't really be in this area. Not even one who was stuck in an observatory post.

"Ooh, nicely done with the whole big word selection Buffy, but it's a hundred and forty three, actually." Willow piped up as she got back up and went to the small library of occult books that the original Scooby team kept on hand. "Lets see," she said glancing at the books hoping to find just the right book to let them find their missing teen.

"Um Will, you do know that most of the major stuff is kept hidden and out of reach from wannabe magic Dawn right?" Xander asked from his spot in the doorway as he saw the disappointed wiccan's face as she looked confusedly around the room.

"Oh yeah." She grinned, "Where is the dangerous stuff kept?"

"Show her Xan, she's going to love this." Buffy said trying to stay grim, but a small smile was threatening the edges of her frown.

"Right-O, one selection of super powerful magic books coming up, my lady." Xander said grinning rubbing his hands together as he twisted a knob on a mirror opening a small chamber that held a cage, a bed, various weapons, and three large shelves of books that were built into each of the walls. "Pretty cool huh?" Xander said grinning at their stunned witch and slayer guests. Before proudly gesturing to the Scooby Doo movie posters that had there own places of honor in the room.

"Where did you get all of that stuff?" Willow said surprised as she held herself back as she looked
around till she saw the desk with a high powered computer on it and rushed over to the desk letting out a squeal of excitement completely oblivious of the chuckling group of people.

"Found the access when Dawn was at school actually." Buffy said getting out of her chair as she forced herself up and watched the red head go through several windows as she tried to access the information that was on it. "The joy of buildings the council owned then sold when they got to scared eh?" She grinned a bit fuller at having a building that the council was to scared to own for the Scoobies the mental battle with the council would never end. "One of the best parts is the room can only be accessed by Xander or me."

"But Will's got in there just fine." Faith said gesturing to the witch.

"Only cause Xan opened the barrier for the two of you." Buffy said grinning, "sure Will could have
eventually broken through but there would have been a lot of damage done to the stuff in there and anybody willing to waste that much power on the door will definitely not want any of that stuff messed up."

"But how? Neither of you has ever been real big on the whole magic thing." Faith argued suspiciously.

"You're right there," Xander said shrugging. "We found this room already protected by its magic barrier actually, evidently the spell was that the owner or whatever of the house is allowed to know about the room. Then there are all of the fancy, shmancy talismans and amulets all over that we managed to get our hands on, and activate."

"Okay, if you're sure that that no one else even knows about your Bond style headquarters." Faith shrugged and peered in watching the red head summon book after book as she searched for just the right locater spell.

"And another fun night of going into research mode." Xander drawled as he saw the red head delving happily into the research materials she now had access to.

"What's the bet that she wouldn't notice if we went bar hopping for demons with loose tongues?" Faith asked suggestively.

"No bet here." Xander shook his head as the two slayers grinned like the predators they were. "I'll go get the outfits out again," he said leading the two out of the room

"Let's try not to scare them too much, Faith. I don't want to have all of the people scared speechless when Xan and I have to deal with a problem on our own in this lovely piece of Urban Hell, that we're guarding now." Buffy said grinning at her wild, dark haired counterpart.

"Your no fun at all, B." The other girl complained as the three prepared to leave for an information hunt, at all of the demon bars that they knew about so far.

"Have fun, Will!" Xander said waving to his oblivious red headed buddy, as they left the secret room and headed back to the streets.