(A/N) Thought I would update this one today 'Not sure why' but I do hope you all enjoy it.
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Xander blinked as the fist collided with his mask and the owner of the appendage screamed as he held his broken hand. Staring down at the injured vampire wanna-be, Xander frowned before looking around in confusion for the new slayer.
His frown was replaced by a look of rage as he finally noticed the dark skinned girl lying at the bottom of the stairs.
Spinning on the one time friend of Buffy Summers, Xander jerked Ford off the floor and slammed him into a wall, "What did you do to her?"
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Billy Fordham groaned as he hit the cement wall, his hand currently matched his head in the amount of pain it was transmitting and blinking away the spots that dominated his vision, he stared into the emotionless mask of the one responsible for ruining his perfect plan to ascend.
His internal musing of anger was interrupted as the armored man slammed him into the wall a second time.
"What did you do to her?" the distorted voice demanded again.
"I-" Billy stopped as a wave of vertigo from so many quick movements overwhelmed him for a moment, "I hit her with the pipe," The Los Angeles native said proudly before worry set in when the massive armored hand pulled itself back and curled into a fist.
"No."
Ford blinked in shock at the quiet voice before looking over the armored shoulder at the dark skinned girl he had hit, standing unsteadily on the stairs.
"Please sir, he just be scared o' death," She said before taking an unsteady step up, resting most of her weight on the railing.
For a moment, Ford thought the armored form would refuse and simply splatter him like a bug, then the moment passed and he was thrown to the floor with a flick of the armored hand.
Billy Fordham's last sight was of the armored form moving to help the girl before the events of the day overloaded his damaged mind, sending the young man into blissful unconsciousness.
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Kendra felt the world slip sideways for a moment before strong arms picked her up off the hard stairs and for a moment the young Slayer wondered how metal arms could be so much more comfortable than metal stairs before her concussion shaken mind simply shrugged it off. At least she was safe now.
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Willow looked around the dark warehouse in fear as the memories of her time here loomed in her mind's eye.
Taking a deep breath, she let the emotions flow away before walking over to the massive heap that lay on the concrete floor.
"Hello Malcolm. I know your real name, but…" she trailed off as the robotic heap just lay there. "I saw some of your design, I know you managed a bio-fusion energy of some sort and I- I need it," She said before reaching down towards the monster that had come so close to killing her.
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Xander walked slowly up the steps as he tried not to jostle his cargo, he was worried about Kendra. Slayers could bounce back from a lot, but a pipe to the head before a roll down some steps could put anyone out for the count.
Getting to the top, Xander froze as he realized he had another problem, throughout it all Buffy had remained unconscious on the hard concrete sidewalk where he had left her. "Great, what the heck am I going to do with you?" He asked rhetorically as he started working on plans to get both slayers somewhere safe.
"What the hell are you doing to her?"
Xander turned in surprise as an enraged Angel rushed towards him. Taking in the situation, the young man shifted his load slightly before raising his left hand in the universal 'Stop' motion. "Hold on there, I didn't touch her, well other than grabbing her after Spike threw her at me."
Angel growled as he felt his inner demon fighting its way up, "You work with Spike," The reformed vampire snarled as he got ready to charge again.
"What? No I- oh hell," Xander cursed from behind his mask before stretching his arm out to it's full extension and with a puff of compressed air the small disk embedded in the palm of his hand launched itself towards the enraged vampire. With a soft 'click' three sharp legs pop out of the body before plunging into the undead flesh. A surge of electricity later and the vampire collapsed to the ground before twitching violently as the small, self contained taser continued to shock him.
Xander resisted the urge to watch the results of yet another one of his 'less than lethal' weapons. Not because he thought it would fail, but more for the fact that he had been hit by the small device himself and wanted to be as far away from Angel as possible before the vampire managed to recover and catch him.
"God I hope I never have to use that on Buffy," He whispered before shifting Kendra to a more comfortable position and running into the gathering darkness.
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Tony Stark growled as his systems ran into the exact same interference as it had the night before, shifting around, Tony found the small switch that shifted everything to a secondary system, while nowhere as accurate or efficient as the main systems, they were also far harder to jam.
'System detects shutdown of primary sensors, this course is not recommended,' the voice of the suit droned on before a terse order overrode the warnings. Looking the system over, Tony was pleased that the basic sensors were managing far better than the primaries.
"Looks like I'm up against some very advanced tech here," Tony whispered before launching himself into the night sky.
Below him, Tony missed the return of the young redhead that had helped him with directions the night before and due to the loss of his more sensitive sensors, the suit didn't pick up the advanced energy signature she was now carrying.
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