The figure walked down a dark, dirty alley. Trash was lying along both narrow buildings. She noticed the broken fire escape on her right. She thought she heard a noise and quickly turned around. After deciding that nothing was there she turned backed down the ally and continued to walk. She began to get an eerie feeling as she walking down the alley. She turned behind her and looked again. When she turned back around this time there was a man standing in front of her. He had baggy clothes and a baseball cap on that covered his face in shadows. It took her a second to realize that the man carried a knife. She screamed and turned to run only to run into a tall well dressed man who was very muscular. He grabbed the woman and pushed her behind him. The shorter man with the knife dove for the woman's savior. He quickly moved out of the way at a blinding speed. If she hadn't been watching, she probably wouldn't have seen him move. The man with the knife stumbled towards the woman. She screamed and ran out of the alley. The shorter man took two steps toward the end of the alley, only to be caught by the taller man. A couple of minute's later two police officers were walking by a dark alley when a man was thrown out of the alley. The woman who had been attacked was with the cops and identified the man who attacked her.
The next day at the Daily Planet Clark and Lois were assigned to investigate the suspected disappearance of Los Angelus. After several hours of research that was conducted on the internet they were no closer than when they started. Lois has been looking at what had happened at Sunnydal when something struck her eye. "Clark look at this. This girl burned down her school in Los Angelus because 'it was full of vampires', then she moved to Sunnydale and at her high school graduation she was suspected of blowing up her second high school. She was going to the community college when the town disappeared off the face of the Earth. Daddy general was in the basic area when it happened. He's not saying anything other than a meteor hit the town."
"Even if a meteor did hit Sunnydale, there's no way that one took out all of Los Angelus. There was no warning. The city was there one minute and gone the next."
"Well what are you suggesting Clark? That the city just grew legs and walked off."
"No Lois, but what ever happened in Los Angelus she probably has some idea as to what it was."
"Right Clark, there's just one problem. Well actually it's several." Lois was still sitting at the computer.
"What do you mean?" Clark got up and came over to Lois's computer. "Well she was admitted to the same mental institute that Chloe's mother was after burning down her first high school. On top of that she has a death certificate."
"So she's dead?" Clark was a bit surprised.
"No… the death certificate was receded…"
"So they thought she was dead, but she wasn't." Clark began to think about Chloe.
"After that she became the guidance councilor at the new high school. She was doing a pretty good job from what I can tell. After the town disappeared she showed up all over Europe. The last place was Paris where there were reports of the sky turning red and one of the richest men in Europe's mansion was completely destroyed. So every where she goes things get destroyed." Lois didn't know what to make of this.
"If she was doing this, how did she turn the sky red?" No one noticed that Chloe had come into the room, but they turned when she asked the question.
"I'm not sure, but what's her name?" Clark had decided that he should find her and figure out what happened.
"Um… her name's Buffy, Buffy Summers." Lois read the name off the computer. Chloe watched as Clark raced out of the room. Lois turned around to face Clark only to find only Chloe standing there.
On Clark's way out of the state he stopped in at his house. Surprisingly his mother Martha was there. "Hi mom." Clark greeted her with a kiss on the cheek.
"Hi Clark, what are you up to?" Martha knew he was up to something; he was always up to something.
"Not much, I was assigned to figure out what happened to Los Angelus." Clark was about to go upstairs when he stopped. "Mom, does the name Buffy Summers sound familiar? I know I've heard it somewhere, but I can't remember where."
A smile spread across Martha's face. "She's your cousin. Before you came to Earth, one of your other cousins was sick. She was in the Metropolis City Hospital. Buffy and her parents came to stay with us while she was there. She died of a rare child's disease. She was in the room when it happened… About eight years ago her mom Joyce called to tell us that she was in college. A year later Joyce died of a brain tumor."
Clark stood there for a few seconds letting the information sink in. "That was the year I found out I was an alien right?"
"Yeah, it was."
Clark took a few more seconds at the bottom of the stairs before going up them. At the top of the stairs he went into is room. He wasn't sure what he was looking for but he knew he was looking for something. After a few minutes of throwing things around Clark's cell phone went off. "Hello… No Chloe I haven't left the Country. I'm in my room… No… She's my cousin." Clark hung the phone up and ran back to the news room.
"Where'd you go?" Lois had checked half the building looking for Clark.
"I… I was in the …bathroom." Clark stumbled over his words.
"For half an hour?" Lois knew Clark was lying.
"No, I was on the phone with my mom."
"Ok, Smallville whatever you say." Lois turned back to the computer. "I found out that Buffy came back to the States." Lois was hoping that Clark was listening. "I think she got on a bus and… headed to Los Angelus." Lois looked up with a frown on her face.
"What?" Clark looked up at Louis.
"She went south across the southern border before heading towards Los Angelus. That makes no since. Why would Buffy go south instead of west?"
At that moment Chloe walked into the room with a thick file. "He guys, what's going on?" Clark was leaning over Lois's shoulder looking at the screen when Chloe walked in. He awkwardly stood up and went back to his side of the room and looked out the window.
"You said she got on a bus right?" Clark was looking out the window at two school buses that were parked across the street. Clark wouldn't have thought anything of it except that only girls were getting off and they all looked older than high school students, that on top of the fact that they all looked like they came for several different countries, set red flags off in his head. "What was she doing in Europe?" Chloe and Lois came over to the window to see several young girls steep off the buses. One woman stepped off the first bus. She was tall she had red hair and a tattoo on her arm. Behind her was a man. He was bald and looked familiar. Louis saw the man and went back to the computer.
"The guy… he was the principle at Sunnydal high." Lois began to read off his profile she'd found when looking up Buffy earlier. "His name is Robin, Robin Wood." Clark turned and started to walk out of the room. "Whoa, Smallville where you going?" Lois stopped Clark.
"Lois, Buffy's my cousin. They" He pointed out the window "Might know where she is, and if they don't they may know how to get in contact with her."
"So ask them, and get the information?" Lois did not look surprised by his deduction. "Fine, but were coming with you." Lois and Chloe grabbed their purses and followed Clark out the door.
When they got the ground floor Clark looked around before going out side. Once outside they quickly looked both ways before heading towards the buses. When they got there, there were several girls standing in front of the bus. Clark looked around for the red head. "Hey, tall dark and… very handsome." Clark turned around to see the red head in black leather standing behind him. "Back away from the girls, or I'm going have to get ruff." She motioned for the girls to get on the buses. Another girl and Robin came up behind her. "What do you want?"
"What do you mean, What do I want?" Clark was playing dumb.
"I saw you." She motioned to the window in the building across the road, more specifically to his window. Clark looked to where she pointed and knew he'd been caught.
"Ok, so you saw me." He crossed his arms over his chest. "I'm looking for my cousin, maybe you've heard of her. I know he has." Clark motioned to Robin. "Her name's Buffy." The red head's face changed.
"You Know Buffy?" The red head was suspicious.
"I don't actually; I didn't know she was my cousin until half an hour ago." Clark was not sure were the conversation was going. Lois was shocked. She quickly recovered from the shock and came back to the conversation.
"What do they call you?" The red head asked.
"Smallville, we call him Smallville." Lois cut in.
"I'm sorry, not talking to the tall bimbo." Lois frowned at the red head. "So Smallville, that's a weird name, I'm going to assume that it's a nick name and that it's for where farm boy is from." She looked behind Clark to Lois for conformation.
"That's his other name." Lois looked like she was going to kill the red head.
"Look, I just need to talk to her." Clark tried to redirect the conversation.
"Hey, Smallville no one from." She looked at the top of the building. "The Daily Planet is going anywhere near Buffy." The red head noticed a cop a few blocks away and hid her self with the bus. Clark noticed the discrete jump behind the bus. Robin and the other women shielded her from the cop as well.
"So you know Buffy, err… um…"
"Faith, my name's Faith."
The cop noticed the two buses stopped on the side of the road and came to see if they were having trouble. As the cop got closer Faith got jumpier. "Hey, is there a problem here?" The cop asked.
"No, No problem, we were just ah… just ah asking for directions from this nice reporter here." The girl behind Faith answered. Faith never turned around to face the cop.
"Where are you headed?" The cop asked. He moved to pull out his radio.
"There on there way to Smallville for a cheerleading competition." Clark answered. "It just so happens that I'm from there and I was going home, so they could follow me. Although I have to let security know so they let them through the barricade." Clark was hoping the cop would back down.
"You're from Smallville, that's where the senator lives right?" The cop asked.
"Um… yeah, she's my mom." Clark was hoping the conversation was going well.
"Yeah, I voted for your dad, It's a shame he died before he could do anything, but your mom she's doing a great job." The cop began to ramble. Faith got on one of the buses and waited.
"Um… were going to be late to our competition if we don't get moving soon." The other girl interjected.
While the conversation was taking place, Chloe had slipped away and gotten her car. She pulled up in front of the buses and the officer offered to escort them out of the city. Robin took the offer seeing that he had no choice and everyone piled into the buses while Clark and Lois got in Chloe's car. "Great, now there coming home with us. Clark you know there's no security at your house." Lois was aggravated.
"Yeah… but the cop doesn't." Clark was hoping that he would leave before they made it out of the city.
When they got to the edge of the city the cop pulled off to the side of the road and let Chloe pass. After the buses were out of the city everyone was breathing easier. The rest of the drive to Smallville was uneventful. When they pulled up to Clarks house. He got out and went inside. Chloe gave Lois the keys and Louis went to her apartment. Faith, Robin, and the other girl followed Clark and Chloe into the house.
"Where's Lois?" Clark asked.
"She took the car and went to the apartment." Chloe answered.
"Thanks for getting me out of that jam."
"No problem, so you know Buffy or not?"
"Know her, you could say that. She put me in a coma, and then when I woke up, which I wasn't supposed to be able to do. She chased me to Los Angelus and helped the cops arrest me. Well maybe not arrest me; I went in on my own."
"Why were the cops after you?"
"I Killed a man."
"And you're out now?" Chloe asked.
"Well, I'm not out on bail or anything."
"You broke out?"
"Yeah, not like they could have kept me there anyway. I chose to stay there; at least there people didn't try to kill me as often." Faith looked around. "Look, I learned from my mistakes."
Clark broke into her ramble. "Was the high school she burned down really full of vampires?"
"Clark? Not again." Martha walked into the room to over hear more talk of vampires, she remembered the last time he'd ran into a vampire.
"Again?" Faith's eyebrow went up.
"There was a girl at the community college. Lana didn't get housing in time and joined a sorority. The sorority happened to be run by this girl who had been attacked by bats during a meteor attack. See the weird thing is this girl went by the name Buffy Sanders, that's why I recognized it. The meteor dropped this stuff called kryptonite into everything around here. Anyway she became infected; she had all the symptoms of a classic vampire. She'd turned the entire sorority, Lex Luther and I came up with a cure and managed to inject them with it effectively reversing the infection."
"Right and how'd you injected them with this stuff?"
"I'm strong; I held her down and injected her."
'You deal with weird stuff a lot?" Faith was curious now.
"Yeah, we deal with anything from meteorite infected people with superpowers to bums on the street to actual people with superpowers." Chloe interjected.
"Look, I'm not sure if we can trust him but…" Robin was about to finish his sentence when Clark's pocket began beeping.
Clark pulled out his cell phone; Chloe realized right off the bat that it was the wrong cell phone. The phone Clark was answering was the one the Green Arrow gave him. Clark put a fingerer up to stop Robin then he proceeded to listen to Oliver. After a few seconds Clark put his hand over the receiver. "Chloe turn on the Metropolis news." Chloe went to the television and turned it on. The screen showed a church that was connected to a bank that had been taken over by bank robbers. The reporters on the seen were making crazy reports about two dead officers. One had been the guy that got them out of town. Both officers had been drained of blood and the swat team was sure they'd hit the robbers several times but they were still up. Somehow they'd broken through the wall and taken church members as hostages. The Green Arrow was on his way back to Metropolis and wanted to know if the Boy Scout wanted in on the action. "Can I bring a new player?" Clark asked Oliver. After Clark and Oliver finished the conversation, Clark hung up the phone. Clark went upstairs and pulled the Katana off the wall Lex had given him and came back down stairs. "Chloe, Faith lets go."
"Go where?" Faith asked. Chloe pulled a small box out of her purse and turned on her computer. She pulled an ear piece out of the small box and threw one to Clark and put the other on in her ear before handing one to Faith.
"In about oh about two minutes a jets going to land in the pasture, there you'll meet the Green Arrow, Impulse, Cyborg, Aqua Man, and Black Canary, they call them selves the Justice League." Clark fitted the ear piece into his ear.
"Right and I'm going on this field trip because why?"
"Those are vampires right?" Clark pointed to the screen.
"Yeah, but getting in there with all those cameras is going to be tricky." Faith was not sure about this.
"Don't worry leave the cameras to me." Chloe had pulled up the blueprints of the two buildings already.
"Right and what exactly do you do?" Faith so far was not impressed, but she was intrigued. She put the ear piece into her ear and heard the Green Arrow on the other end.
"Boy Scout, Watch Tower you guys ready."
"Yeah." Chloe answered.
"So who's this new player? Is she hot?" Impulse asked over the intercom.
"Who's that, I'm going to kill him." Faith was getting her self ready. She turned around and put a large duffel bag on the counter. Inside the bag were several long swords, a crossbow and some stakes. Faith put the stakes in her belt loops, the crossbow on her arm and the swords she attached to her back. "You're actually going to use that?" Faith indicated the Katana.
"I was thinking about it."
"No, man that weapon doesn't speak you… you need…" Faith thought about it for a few seconds and then pulled out a battle axe and handed it to Clark. "That looks more you. Just swing it."
Clark held the axe in his hands for a few seconds before the Green Arrow broke in. "Hey, Boy Scout, you seem to know what's going on so debrief us."
"Actually, the Slayer is the one that knows what's happening. So she'll debrief you guys." Faith looked at Clark and then took charge.
"Ok, we've got five maybe six vampires accounted for, there maybe more. Cut off their head, stake them in the heart, or put them in the sun those are the only was to kill them. Hey is there video feed on these?"
"Yes Slayer." Chloe answered her, she also handed her a piece of paper explaining the reason for code names.
"Can I get a copy for training purposes later?"
"Um… sure." Chloe grabbed the computer and headed out the door.
Faith followed and stopped in the door way. "Someone else is probably pulling their strings, but their still blood thirsty monsters. Don't let them bite you. Kennedy you're in charge."
The jet landed in the pasture and Chloe and Faith got on and the jet took off. Faith turned to see Clark run faster than the speed of light and decided that he probably was related to Buffy. "Well you don't see that every day, but then again I take orders for a girl who's died three times and somehow has come back from the dead." Faith was talking to her self but every one else in the jet had their eyes on Chloe.
"Hi, I'm Impulse." He put his had out to greet her and she crushed his hand in the shake.
"I'm Cyborg, that's Black Canary, Aqua Man, and Green Arrow." He pointed out everyone else in the jet.
"Why do they call you the Slayer?" Impulse was just asking away and didn't notice that Faith was annoyed.
"Because I'm a vampire Slayer. There's only ever one, well that was until B showed up, now there's thousands. And after this I have to get my section to Los Angelus to help B pull it out of a hell dimension and avert an apocalypse." Faith wanted to ignore the kid but he kept asking questions.
"How do you know Boy Scout?"
"I ran into him this morning, he's B's cousin."
"Who's B's?"
"Man he asks a lot of questions, if you don't stop I'm going to stuff your foot in your mouth."
"You'd have to catch me first." Impulse stopped asking questions, he knew that she'd catch him easily in the jet because there wasn't a lot of room. Shortly after take off the jet arrived at the seen. The jet landed on a roof top and when they got out Faith learned that it was cloaked.
"Nifty"
"You ready for this" Green Arrow asked.
"Five by Five." Faith walked to the side of the building and dropped down four stories into the alley. Clark was already waiting there for them.
"What does that mean?" Impulse asked. Cyborg shrugged before descending down the fire escape into the alley. Once everyone was down minus Watch Tower who was monitoring the situation from the jet, Faith kicked in the bank's back door. Since the alarm was already going off, no one heard the commotion.
As she walked into the building she stepped over the body of security guard. She stopped on the other side of her and checked her vitals. "She's dead." Faith stood up and proceeded down the dark hall way she was about to turn the corner when she heard a noise and stopped the team. Faith pulled a mirror out of her pocket and as she attempted to see what was on the other side of the wall, Clark used his x-ray vision to see two people tied up sitting in the middle of the room with several people standing around them. The guards didn't have a heat signature.
"There are five vampires and two hostages." Clark listened for any movement and used his x-ray vision to check the other shadows. He spotted a vampire hiding in the shadows across the hall and pointed it out to Faith. Faith threw a stake at the vampire and hit it in the chest. She then ran across the opening and jumped on the vampire causing the stake to penetrate his heart. She dusted her self off as he turned to dust in a loud scream.
The other vampires in the room all heard the scream. The head vampire sent a short stocky vampire into the hall way to see what happened. As he rounded the corner, he was met by Clark and his heat vision. The vampire turned to run as he felt his body internally combust and turn to flames.
Faith decided that she liked Clark's style. "Nice going Boy Scout." Faith moved into the room keeping her back to the wall to protect her self from sneak attacks. The rest of the team moved into the room and Green Arrow took aim as the three remaining vampires tried to use the hostages as a shield. Flash ran by and grabbed them out of the way and the Green Arrow released and took out the last three vampires in a matter of seconds. While he was retrieving his weapons Faith thought about the situation. "Look, we've run into five vamps, we know there's one more at least. And we still haven't gotten twenty feet in the door. I have a feeling that this is going to get hairy."
The rest of the team stopped congratulating themselves as Watch Tower broke in. "Um guys, there are still hostiles in the buildings and the SWAT team is coming in… in ten minutes. So you need to get moving."
Clark began walking down hallways as the team split up looking for more hostages and vampires. Cyborg and Black Canary were the first ones to find more hostages. They helped them to a window and Cyborg broke it and pushed two out the window. As he was pushing the third out the window she caught fire and turned into a pile of ash on national television.
Impulse and Green Arrow were rounding a corner when they ran into Faith and Boy Scout. Evidently the two hallways reconnected. As they walked down the hall way the found the main lobby. In the main lobby were the two dead police officers. Six vampires were in this room they had their victims rapped in duck tape and explosives. Faith was close to one of the hostages. She reached out and grabbed her. As she pulled her back into the shadows the vampires continued walking around. Faith untapped the women and had Cyborg escort her to the same window the others had escaped from. When he returned Clark used his heat vision to set the fire alarms off and distract the vampires as water came rushing to the floor. Flash was in and out of the room before the vampires noticed that the hostages were gone. Cyborg went to a computer and hacked into the security footage to see if there were more vampires around as Faith went to town. All six vampires attacked her at once. She was ducking and rolling and moving. Before anyone could come to her aid, she pulled out her swords and began cutting away. Within seconds the six vampires were six piles of dust. Black Canary walked across the room to find several more people dead on the other side of a counter. The group looked around before quickly finding the hole in the wall that lead to the church. Aqua Man was the first one through the hole. Off to his right was a large fish tank that spanned the length of the room. As the rest of the team came into the church, Aqua Man talked to the fish in the tank. He discovered that several vampires had come through the room and gone into another. The group followed him as they snuck along the wall into a viewing room. There were several vampires sitting in chairs around a casket. They seemed to be waiting for something to happen when they noticed the group behind the wall. One vampire punched his arm through the wall and grabbed the Black Canary. She pushed back and then pulled the guy's arm out and down instantly breaking it.
Faith and Clark came out form behind the wall as more vampires came down the hall way blocking them in. "Not good. Where'd they come from?" Faith asked. Before anyone could answer she had jumped on top of the closed casket and was fighting several vampires. One vampire went after Clark, as the vampire closed in Clark pulled the battle axe up and side ways cutting his head off and turning him to ash. Cyborg was throwing vampires across the room when one came up behind him with a baseball bat. When the vampire hit him and the bat bounced off the vampire stood there stunned. Cyborg turned around and staked him with a piece of a broken chair. Aqua Man and the Black Canary were back to back fighting off several vampires when Impulse ran by. When the blur was gone the vampires were nothing but a pile of dust. Faith was jumping over weapons when the casket she was standing on began to move. The vampire inside sat up sending Faith flying through the air. She landed on an old piano, smashing it as it broke her fall. When she stood up her arm was broken and she had a cut on her forehead that was dripping blood. Now she had the attention of all the vampires. They began to close in on her when Clark used his heat vision to eliminate half the vampires. The other half were dead in seconds as Faith pulled out her cross bow, the Green Arrow got the few remaining scattered vampires in the room and went to help Faith up off the floor. After a quick scan Clark was sure that the building was clear. As they retreated back through the buildings to the Jet they ran into more hostages. Well they thought they were hostages until Faith recognized one of the women as Lilah Morgan the recently deceased girl friend of Wes.
"Whoa and where do you think your going?" Faith stopped the group form letting her escape. "Lilah Morgan, shouldn't you be dead?" Faith was surprised to see the women epically since she'd helped Wes burry her. Faith continued to stare her down when she noticed the cut along her neck where Wes cut her head off incase Angelus had turned her.
"I… I don't know what your…"
"Cut the crap Lilah." Faith put the sword to her neck. Lilah turned to face her and backed away from the superheroes.
"Fine, Faith. I see were on different sides this time." Lilah was referring to the time she'd tried to pay Faith to kill Angel.
"Yeah, but seeing as I helped burry you, you shouldn't be here." The rest of the team got ready for a possible fight.
"I'm here to make a deal." Lilah was trying to gage her opponents, she knew she'd have to be smart if she was going to get out of the situation.
"No." Faith wasn't about to make another deal with the scum between her toes.
"But you haven't even heard it. I mean you're in a building surrounded by police officers and you don't want to hear my deal?" Lilah hoped she'd caught Faith's attention. "Oh well, I'll just have to leave you with the Senior Partners present then." Lilah snapped her fingers and ran out the window before anyone could stop her. Faith turned towards a door way and saw Darla standing there.
Faith instinctively grabbed her swords and was about to fight her when Watch Tower cut in. "Hey guys, you have to get out of there, the SWAT team is coming in." As soon as she said it gas containers were thrown in through the windows. As the room filled with gas, Faith and the team escaped out the back door and back up the fire escape to the jet. When they took off all the reporters turned and recorded the Justice league's jet taking off from the seen.