The Odyssey, Prime Reality.

Faith was on the bridge of the Odyssey as she looked out into space. The ship was docked with Prometheus Station as railgun ammunition, and missiles, were being loaded onto the ship.

It was preparing to go on one insane rescue mission.

It was only hours ago that the dark haired Slayer had woken up in the BPRI, and told all those present.. including Tara, what Willow had told her in regards to the situation in the alternate reality. Tara shook her head and told Faith that it wasn't possible, that what she was talking about was a scenario that the BPRI had already gone through internally; an apocalypse level event.

"But it's just a theory" said Tara in shock as she stood next to Faith who was sitting up on the bed in the infirmary while surrounded by SG-1, General Landry, and General O'Neill who came out of concern for Willow and Faith's wellbeing. All of them now looked at Tara whose hands were shaking so much that Vala quickly brought a chair and gently helped the witch sit down. Tara then leaned forward and put her hands onto her face with her elbows on her knees as she started to tell them that they had already thought of a scenario of what would happen in the event that all the Hellmouths were to be activated at the same time, "not only by the First, but by anyone crazy enough to do it. We're looking at near total extinction, we've already accounted for the Stargate… for the ships…. Angel and Cordelia were going to give you guys a copy of a workable plan once.. once it was done… but…."

"Red said that billions died" said Faith as she looked at everyone looking back at her in shock.

"Goddess" said Tara as she rubbed the side of her face before rubbing her forehead in disbelief, "our worst case scenario is happening over there."

"Miss Maclay" said General Landry, "what are we looking at here?"

"Demons of all kinds, vampires, dragons, orcs… name it, they're all going to be coming out of the woodwork" said Tara, "Willow said that the Sunnydale Hellmouth is the oldest, and so the most powerful. That will be what the forces of hell will use to occupy the Earth. They're gone…. Done for."

"Red said that the Asgard would be helping" said Faith, "I mean, they were at the High Council chambers. But they told Red it'll take three days."

"Will they be able to help immediately?" asked Tara.

"She didn't say" replied Faith.

"But if I were Major Rosenberg" said Vala as she stood next to Colonel Mitchell before hopping onto the bed to sit next to Faith, "I'd at least head to Atlantis."

"If Atlantis has not been flooded" said Teal'c, "but it is likely that she will not have any ZPM's to power the city."

"Unless" said Colonel Mitchell as he lifted a finger into the air, "she asks the Asgard for help in stealing some ZPM's."

"The Replicators" said Colonel Carter as she snapped her fingers at the Colonel who grinned, "Faith, did Willow say when the attack's going to be launched?"

"She didn't" replied Faith.

"I'd hit fast, and hard" said General O'Neill, "if it was me."

"Hold on" said Tara as she looked at everyone present, "you're thinking that you could get there…. Other than the way I just helped Faith, I can't think of any other way. I mean… well, unless you decide to punch a hole into reality and then fly a ship through, but that has downsides.."

"Like?" asked Vala.

"Destruction of both realities" said Tara with an eyebrow raised, "it's… it's… I mean… even if we could, the magic it'd take is beyond anyone here."

"How about magic and science?" asked Daniel, "if everyone's thinking the same thing… you know sending a ship there to retrieve Willow, and to help the people in that reality… then maybe we need to think outside the box? And I mean way outside the box. Ask the Asgard and the Nox. I'm sure they'd already be familiar with the mystical elements of the galaxy and… well, they like Tara."

"It would be nice to talk to Lya again" said Tara with a small smile, "but… but to do that, I'd need Faith to come with me. They need to know exactly what we're asking them to do, and since the Nox taught Willow how to create the link between her and Willow, then they'll need to know about her link."

"I did see the Nox there too" said Faith, "one of them was standing next to Red, asked her if she shared the link with me."

"Then that's what we do. We'll ask both the Asgard and the Nox for help" said General Landry, "Miss Maclay, General O'Neill and I'll go up and talk to Angel and Miss Chase about this plan. In the meantime.. I'd like for you to make your preparations."

"I'll need to go too, sir" said Colonel Carter, "if there's technology involved, then I'd need to be there to make sure I know how to use it."

"Go" said General Landry.

It had taken some time, but it was six hours later that the Nox and some Asgard, using technology that Colonel Carter, Tara, and Faith were not allowed to see, gave the Earth personnel a crystal that was meant to be inserted in the Odyssey's Hyperdrive control panel. They told the Colonel that it would be enough for a return trip, and that it was tuned to Faith's link. The Nox had described what was going to happen while walking with them on the way to the Stargate on Gaia, it was then that Faith and Tara's eyes glassed over, while Colonel Carter listened on excitedly.

It had been two hours later, almost eight hours total since the time Faith had seen Willow in the other reality, that the specifically created Hyperdrive control crystal was placed carefully into the Hyperdrive control panel. The Colonel had briefed Colonel Emerson on what was going to happen, even Tara briefed him on what they could be facing in the other reality. Colonel Emerson was told by General Landry that the Odyssey's primary mission was to ensure Willow was alive, and it's secondary mission was to help in the defence of the planet until, or if, Asgard forces arrived.

"And if they don't, Sir?" asked Colonel Emerson.

"If the odds are overwhelmingly against you, and your team" said General Landry who was now speaking to Colonel Emerson from the SGC, "orders from Home World are that the President be safe. Before that, you are to lock on to the Stargate in Antarctica and transport it to the holding bay, then attach a naquada generator and a dialling computer to the Gate. Given that we don't know if the personnel going with you will have doubles in the other reality, so we want you and your people to return in twenty four hours. If in twelve hours there is no sign of the Asgard, then you are to beam up as many military and civilians as possible, and then Gate them to a safe world."

"I'm sure Red's been to Edina" said Faith, "at least that's what I'd do."

"Take a MALP along for the ride" said the General, "Ground teams will be decked out in the full backward engineered Kull armour, including the reengineered plasma repeaters."

Faith recalled the details the General was talking about while she stood in her armour while looking out into space. Soon, Faith hard familiar voices coming down the hallway, and into the bridge.

It was then that Faith turned around and smiled at Colonel Carter, and the rest of SG-1, and SG-14… all of whom were wearing the Kull Armour; all except for Colonel Mitchell, and two others from SG-14 who would be among the sixteen pilots flying the F-302's.

"Attention" said Colonel Emerson as he took his seat at the command chair and pressed a button that connected him to the entire ship, "this is Colonel Emerson. You've all been briefed on the mission. Retrieve Major Rosenberg as soon as possible, and then we'll be helping the people on the surface. The Nox and Asgard have helped us in providing a control crystal that will open a window to a different area of subspace, the same area of subspace that a quantum mirror accesses when sending one individual from one reality to another. Our travel time is estimated to take about ten minutes, relatively speaking. To an outsider, it will be as if we've gone in one end of the portal, and out the other instantly. As for the current situation on the planet in the other reality? We do not know how bad it really is until we get there. In either case, I want all stations ready for battle. Arm all missiles, get the railguns online, charge up the Ancient weapons systems… get me a system wide countdown."

"Sir" said Colonel Carter as Colonel Emerson looked at her, "if we're going to be fighting in the atmosphere, you should know that our shields won't be as effective as when we're in space. I'm looking at it being sixty to seventy percent."

"Understood" said Colonel Emerson nodding his head at the blonde officer.

It was a few minutes later that all areas of the ship had checked in before Colonel Emerson ordered that the mooring clamps from Prometheus Station be released. As the Odyssey's port side RCS thrusters fired, the ship moved until it was clear from the Prometheus.

"Odyssey" said Colonel Pendergast, the commander of the Prometheus Station, "good luck."

"Leave the lights on for us, Colonel" said Colonel Emerson before he turned to Major Womack.

"Major Womack" said Colonel Emerson, "take us out, and engage the Hyperdrive."

"Technically, reality drive" said Faith as she shrugged her shoulders before looking at Colonel Carter and Mitchell, "just sayin'"

"Engaging Reality Drive" smiled Womack as she pressed a button.

The ship sped up as a pink hued hyperspace-like window opened, and the ship went through before the window closed behind them.

Location Unknown, Alternate Reality.

Willow was holding on to Tara's hand while smiling after she found out that Tara was in her quarters with her physical body. Just knowing that piece of information put the redhead in a state of peace as she closed her eyes before thanking her again.

"I've been watching you" said Tara as Willow opened her eyes, "I… I… saw what happened with Warren, I saw what almost happened after that."

"I killed Warren, I can't do nothing about that now. I know I tried to destroy the world in my anger and grief, and I know that it was Xander who stopped me… and I can't forget that."

"You shouldn't" said Tara as she caressed the redhead's cheek.

"I know" replied the redhead, "I know that the magic's a part of who I am, it's a part of me. Just like my memories as Athena… Oma said that I needed to let go of the weight of what happened, that I couldn't ascend if all of that was on my shoulders."

"The Powers have a similar rule" said Tara as she looked down at Willow's hands, "I had to let you go. They couldn't do anything to revive me since it was a natural death, so I… I had no choice but to let the idea of being with you go so that they could take my soul. But I still remembered you, and I was so happy that you were starting to live your life."

"I couldn't forget what I did" said Willow as she stepped closer to Tara, "I couldn't forget what I did, and tried to do, in Atlantis, or with the clones back on Earth… Sineya, Warren, almost destroying the world… I couldn't forget them. But I could accept what I did, and then move on slowly."

"You were a real goddess" said Tara with a smile as Willow closed her eyes and shook her head.

"I was never a goddess, Tara" replied Willow as Tara bought her other hand to Willow's other cheek, "that was my name, people gave up their free will by praying to my name. I don't remember my ascension, but I know enough about the transfer of power when lower beings give up their free will to ascended beings."

"That's what I wanted to hear" said Tara as she kissed Willow's forehead.

"When Kennedy called me a goddess after I shared Buffy's power with the other Slayers, I never corrected her" said Willow, "I... I liked it. It made me feel special. And now.. and now she's dead and... and I can never see her again."

"I'm sorry, Willow" said Tara as she hugged the redhead as a cold breezed went by the two women.

It was then that the darkness around them started to swirl around before the two witches found themselves in a great chamber. Willow and Tara let go of each other and looked around, the redhead recognizing where she was.

"This is the place" said Willow as she looked at the center of the room at the chains that were attached to manacles lying on the floor of the cavern. Willow then looked at an area behind Tara, who turned around and looked at the chains coming off the wall, and then she looked back at Willow with confusion on her face, "that's where they chained me."

Tara looked on as Willow then turned to look at the center of the cavern and pointed to the place where the Furlings had chained Sineya to the Earth all those years ago.

"They wanted me to see the weapon I helped them create" said Willow as she looked back at Tara who walked towards the redhead, "the demon took everything the clones had, and then forced itself into Sineya. I remember her screams before this place fell apart all around us."

"She saved you" said Tara as she gently held on to Willow's arm.

"Yeah" said Willow as she looked at the center of the cavern, and at the symbols drawn on the floor, "the Furlings ran away.. cowards. After she saved me, I was exiled from Earth, but I made her two scythes before I left for Kheb."

"Kheb?"

"Where I was trained by Oma" said Willow as she looked at Tara, and then at the symbols again, "then I had a dream she was dying. I came back to Earth and.. and I held her as she died. She told me she didn't want to ascend because…. Because she wanted to help her successors, the Chosen. She died to created the Slayer lines… mystical energy that's combined with the power the demon took from the clones as it travelled through the Earth, using the planet itself as a source of power. The First said it wanted to get rid of the line of Slayers, to totally destroy it. But it can't, because to destroy the line…"

"You destroy the planet" said Tara, "you have to blow it up."

"Even with the dark energy coming off the Hellmouths" said Willow, "the Earth will remain; even while its poisoned and even if hell takes over the planet, the Earth still exists and as long as the Earth exists, the Slayers would be forever."

"Yes" said a familiar voice as Willow and Tara looked at the source, and the redhead smiled at the ten year old girl who was standing in the center of the cavern, holding her hands behind her back.

"Tara" said Willow as she turned to the blonde, and then gasped in surprise; Tara wasn't there anymore.

"I am sorry, mother" said Sineya as she walked towards the redhead, "she is back in the real world, I thought you would like to talk to me in private."

"Yes" replied Willow as she walked towards the young girl and got on both knees in front of her. Willow then put both hands on the girl's cheeks before smiling, "look at you, still as beautiful as ever."

"I am sorry" said Sineya as she looked at Willow, "the last you tried to access the powers of the Slayer, you were…. Were not who I knew you to be. It had to be prevented."

"You mean the unification spell?" asked Willow as Sineya nodded her head.

"Yes" she replied, "and now, you have shared the power of one of the Slayers…"

"Buffy" said Willow.

"You have shared her power with the rest of the Potentials" said Sineya, "it is not the true power of a Slayer."

"I know" the redhead said, "which is why I'm here to ask for help."

"What you ask can be done" said Sineya, "but there is a cost."

'Which is?"

"The power of the Slayer lines will be strained for generations" replied Sineya, "the power will cleanse the Earth, but will not return the dead to life… but life will flow once again. The strain put on the power of the Slayer to activate the potentials will mean that there will be no Slayer's called for many, many years."

"The military can help with demons in the meantime" said Willow, "I think so would the Asgard. But.. but will you still be here?"

"Yes" replied Sineya, "I will always be here. I watched you ascend, Athena… that was the proudest day of my life on this world."

"I love you, Sineya" said Willow before she kissed the little girl's cheeks and then looked into her eyes, eyes that became harder as the little girl transformed to the First Slayer who died ten thousand years ago.

"It is time, mother" said the grown Sineya as Willow stood up with her while they both held each other's hands. Willow nodded her head before closing her eyes as she slowly rose into the air. Then Sineya let go off the redhead's hands as she slowly became blue light that was swirling around the witch like a vortex. The cavern started trembling as the light spun faster and faster around the witch when it suddenly entered Willow's chest, which was when her eyes opened wide to reveal white pupils. Willow then arched her back and screamed as blue light erupted from the Earth itself, and went into Willow, using her as a focal point for the Slayer lines.

Sunnydale Army base, Eight minutes later.

They were ready for war.

Slayers, military personnel, Lanteans, and civilians; they were all ready for the fight of their lives that, if won, had the potential to change the tide of war. It would mean that the human race had a chance to take back their world.

But they needed to fight until the Asgard, and Atlantis, got to earth.

With the shield almost depleted of power, Willow and the rest of the military had placed heavy weapons on the roofs of some of the buildings so that they could have a good vantage point when firing at the mass of demons that were pushing against the weakening shield. Willow had asked that the Jumpers that weren't being used for the shield, protect the people that would be firing the heavy weapons on the four roofs; the hope was that since each shield would be covering a much smaller area, it would be more powerful and would last longer.

Four rooftops shielded and the heavy weapons manned by the two Generals, a few of the Lanteans, a few of the military personnel who didn't have the Atanik armbands, and even Giles. In the mean time, Major Willow was holding to an axe while her personal force field was active, and the Atanik armband still on her arm. Buffy, Colonel Carter, Dawn and a few others were with her, in fact, there were Slayers combined with anyone who had an armband.. along with normal military personal grouped together all around the base.

Willow looked at Buffy, and then at Dawn who was getting ready to attack. She looked at the one who was her sister, and then smiled before looking at the horde of demons.

"Willow" said Dawn as the redhead looked back at her.

"Does your Dawn know about… you know."

"I told her" said Willow as she looked at the demons again, "but she didn't… what the…."

Everyone, including the demons outside the shield, fell onto the ground as the Earth shook.

"What the heck?" said Buffy as she tried to get up but fell back onto the ground, hitting Willow, with the both of them toppling over. Colonel Carter, who was trying to keep her own balance after getting up, then helped both Willow and Buffy stand while the Blonde Slayer looked at the alternate version of her best friend, 'Will?"

"It's not me, I…."

"Oh God" said Violet, who Xander was standing close to with Anya at another area of the base, once the shaking stopped before she stumbled back onto the ground and got on all fours as she panted, "I.. I'm losing my.. my strength."

"Vi" said Xander as he went to Violet and then noticed the other Slayers were the same way. All of them were stumbling forwards as if they were suddenly tired.

"Buffy" said Violet on her radio while she panted, "something… something's wrong.. lo… losing power."

Buffy then got calls over her radio from all of her Slayers saying that they were feeling weakened; that it was like someone turned off a switch. It was then that Buffy dropped the sword she was holding and stumbled back as her eyes flashed white.

"Buffy!" shouted Dawn as she went to catch her sister, "what's…"

"I… I feel stronger" said Buffy as she made her hands into fists after balancing herself on Dawn, "Dawnie… I.. I feel stronger."

"B" said Faith into her radio, who was at another side of the base being helped up by a Sergeant, "B, I don't know bout you, but I feel kinda stronger."

"I think both of our powers were shared with the others" said Buffy on her radio.

There was then a crashing sound as the now former Slayers protecting Willow's quarters were thrown aside onto the ground by an unseen force.

'Hey!" shouted Xander who zipped towards them just as a small explosion ripped apart the redhead's quarters, the personnel in the Atanik armbands zipped around to make sure that no one was injured by the flying debris. Once everyone was out of the way, the Earth trembled again as a pillar of blue energy shot out from where Willow's quarters used to be. Giles, and the others… even the demons… watched it rise into the sky before it broke off into the cardinal, and ordinal, compass directions. While Giles looked on confused with the two Generals and the Lanteans, Major Willow and Dawn were looking up with familiarity.

"She did it" said Willow as Dawn nodded her head.

"What?" asked Xander as Anya ran to his side, 'who did what?"

"Willow, I mean our Willow" said Dawn looking at Xander as they ran to Willow's quarters, with the one eyed man making it there before them, "she did it."

Everyone then closed their eyes as a brilliant blue flash that seemed to come from the Earth itself shone brightly for seconds. Opening their eyes again, everyone looked on as the formerly weak Slayers were slowly getting onto their feet.

Buffy looked around her as voices came over the radio, the Slayers laughing as they told the oldest living Slayer that they felt stronger as ever before.

"Willow did it" said Buffy over the radio, "I know all Slayers have been reactivated. We don't have my power, or Faith's power, shared between all of us. This is the power of the Slayer. The real power; but we celebrate later. Now we fight, the war isn't over yet. Pick up your weapons, prepare yourselves. Watch each other's backs. Get to your teams, and be ready."

"Got it" said Soledad and various other Slayers who had excitement in their voices.

In the meantime, Buffy ran to where Xander, Dawn and a few others were removing the rubble that used to be Willow's quarters. Major Willow, Dawn, Xander, Riley, Robin, and Anya were picking up the heavy pieces of concrete and then throwing it into the mass of demons outside the shield, killing a few in the process. It was when they removed one more piece that everyone looked in shock at the two women hugging each other under a shield.

"Tara?" said Buffy in surprise.

"Tara!" shouted Dawn as the blonde witch brought down the shield, which she erected to protect herself and Willow, just before the blonde stood up and then stepped back as Dawn hugged her. Riley and Xander helped a panting Willow stand up while she told Buffy that she did it, all Slayers in the world were activated.

"I can feel it" said Willow as she looked at Buffy, "and it's not like the last time… it's… it's different."

"Thanks, Will" said Buffy as she heard screams from above as the dragons started to circle overhead, "the shield's almost gone."

"Buffy" said Willow as she held the Scythe in her hand and an electrical charge went from her arm and through the entire ancient weapon. Buffy watched as the blade turned silver, it's original colour. Willow told Buffy that the nanites on the blade just re-sharpened it, that the weapon was now in its original state.

"Thanks" said Buffy as she took the Scythe, and then looked at a vision of the First Slayer standing in the distance looking at her when the image suddenly vanished. Buffy then looked at her best friend and said, "we'll win."

Willow nodded her head before she looked up and then looked at Major Willow, "ready?"

"Yep" replied Major Willow, "how about you? We need attacking magic, and a bit of defence… up to it?"

"Oh yea" said Willow as she and Tara started to gather magical energy.

"General Hammond, General Landry" said Willow on her radio, "we're ready."

"Activate the shields" said General Hammond as he radioed the Lanteans who parked the four puddle jumpers on the roofs of the four buildings. They then activated the shields that covered the four buildings as the armed personnel aimed their weapons at the mass of demons from the roofs, while some of the personnel were still covered by each of the four new shields raised shoulder mounted surface to air missiles and aimed the weapons at the flying dragons.

"Everyone with the Atanik armbands" said General Landry, "give us some breathing space, you know what to do. The main shield gets down in two minutes; I want all fire teams to fire at the incoming demons… Slayers, hit anything that gets through and hit them hard. All personnel stay close to the shields, if the dragons start attacking, get back under your assigned shield and then go back and fight."

"Everyone with armbands" said Colonel Carter as she looked at Willow, "go."

Major Willow, and all personnel wearing the armbands, then ran into the crowd of demons killing as many as possible while the teams from the roofs opened fire at the demons that were struggling to get in. It was a minutes later that there was an empty space between the demons that were pounding the shield, and the rest of the demons as the armband wearers, their weapons dripping with blood while eating their protein bars glared at the other demons that started chanting in the name of the First.

"Kill 'em" said Major Willow as she and the others started zipping around again. Major Willow had an axe in her hand as she beheaded multiple demons while running around in her sector of the exterior of the base. Sometimes she would dart past Xander who she would high five before killing more demons. It was a few minutes later that the shield failed and demons rushed in. Then half of the armband wearers darted into the base to help the others as planned while the rest tried to put space between the demons that remained, and the ones that were heading into the base. Running at super speed while cutting heads, or eviscerating demons, Major Willow caught glimpses of Liam and his brothers and sister doing what they were created to do.. killing the demons. She saw Buffy slicing demons with the Scythe and was instantly reminded of the day she saw Sineya.. the day she gave her daughter the Scythe before she left the Planet; she then saw Tara and her alternate back to back as they protected some of the soldiers as some of the shields flared when dragons swooped down to spit out fire before flying back up in the air.

Major Willow saw some people who didn't make it back to the shields get burnt to a crisp while rockets were fired at the dragons, having some effect but she knew that more hits were needed to bring them down.

In the meantime, Willow, Colonel Carter and the others did everything they could to beat back the enemy forces.

Orbit of Earth, 0720 hours.

In had been millions of years before Atlantis dropped out of hyperspace over Earth. The legends of a great city that sunk under the ocean was true. It was lying under the ocean of another planet waiting for her people to come home. And now, not only have her people come home, Atlantis itself had come home as well as it orbited the planet below. Dr. Weir was in the Control Room with Commander Helia as they watched the screen at the back of the room. It showed a view of the Earth that made Helia smiled.

"Earth" said the Commander.

"Yes" said Dr. Weir, "I never thought I'd see her again."

"Commander" said one of the technicians as Helia and Dr. Weir looked at him, "we're detecting a mass of life signs, both human and non human."

The view on the screen changed to a close up of the Sunnydale army base where Dr. Weir, Helia and some of the other personnel looked at the mass of demons that surrounded the base.

"My God" said Dr. Weir as dragons were attacking the shields that covered four of the buildings, as well as the personnel on the surface before flying away.

"Prepare for atmospheric entry" said Commander Helia as she nodded at one of the personnel before looking back at Dr. Weir, "I will return to the Tria. We will head to the place you call Area Fifty One, and I will notify your leadership of the situation, and…."

"Commander!" shouted another technician as she looked back at Dr. Weir and Helia, "we're detecting a hyperspace window."

"Asgard?" asked Dr. Weir.

"No" said the technician as he pointed at the screen which changed to a view of empty space which was soon ripped open by a pink hued hyperspace window as a ship sped through.

"Dr. Weir?" asked Commander Helia, "do you recognize that vessel?"

"No" said the diplomat when her eyes went wide upon recognizing the symbol of the Earth gate on the 'neck' section of the ship, "but.. but it's ours."

"Commander" said the technician who told Helia about the Hyperspace window opening, "we're being hailed."

"On screen" said both the Commander and Dr. Weir together as the view on the screen changed to a man in a flight suit surrounded by six people in what looked like black armour.

"This Commander Helia of the Lantean City-Ship, Atlantis. Identify yourself."

"I'm Colonel Paul Emerson of the Earth ship, Odyssey."

"Colonel Carter?" said Dr. Weir as she recognized the blonde woman, "Dr. Jackson? Teal'c?"

"Dr. Weir" said a surprised Colonel Carter, "how…"

"You're from Major Rosenberg's reality?" said Dr. Weir.

"Yea" said Faith before she introduced herself and Vala.

"Good to see you, Elizabeth" said Daniel as tears came to Dr. Weir's eyes, it had been over ten thousand years since she had seen a familiar face, or at least a familiar face who had knowledge about the Stargate.

"Introductions later" said Colonel Emerson as he looked at everyone, and then at the screen again, "Dr. Weir, it really is good to see you. But, our sensors detect a situation and we're here to rescue Major Rosenberg, and help in any way we can."

"Colonel" said Commander Helia, "we welcome it. I will launch the Tria before Atlantis lands on the surface, near what you call the Sunnydale base. Once landed and once we have some breathing room, the city will drop the shields and the Tria will beam in drones from the Southern pole's outpost into Atlantis' drone launchers. The city will then fire while connecting remotely to the outpost in what Major Rosenberg, and Dr. Weir refer to as Death Valley. But after all that, I feel we should speak."

"Once we're done" said Colonel Emerson nodding his head, "let's finish this quick. We have a day.. at most to prevent Entropic Cascade Failure."

"Understood" said Commander Helia as the screen turned off, and changed view to the surface battle.

Back on the Odyssey, Colonel Emerson turned his command chair toward the large viewing window at the forward section of the bridge. Faith told Colonel Emerson and Colonel Carter that she couldn't sense Major Willow yet.

"Her transmitter?" asked Colonel Emerson as he looked at Major Marks who turned back to look at his screen.

"She's… woah… she's moving fast… too fast. I can't get a transport lock."

"Then we go in" said Colonel Emerson as another Captain told him from the scanning station at the rear of the bridge that the Tria had already launched. Colonel Emerson then pressed a button on his chair to open the communications systems to all decks, "attention all hands, battle stations.. battle stations. Launch red and blue wings.. go.. go.. go."

The lights in the bridge of the Odyssey then dimmed as the ship headed for the planet below.

Sunnydale Army Base, two minutes later.

Willow was running past Xander, the both of them killing as many demons as possible when she suddenly stumbled while in super speed and she hit the ground hard, rolling heads over heels. Xander saw what happened and immediately stopped and then zipped towards the redhead who lay on the ground bleeding and unmoving.

"Willow!" shouted Xander as he stood over her before killing the demons that were going in to kill her while she was immobile. Once he created enough space between the demons and her, Xander ran back to Major Willow and kneeled down, "Will… hey, Will."

"She's here" said Major Willow as she slowly opened her eyes and smiled at Xander, "she came."

"Will?" asked Xander as her Atanik armband fell off her arm. It was then that Xander saw the alternate version of his best friend's wounds heal by themselves, "Will, did you use…."

"Not, magic" said Willow softly as she tried to get up while holding onto Xander, "but… but how could she be here… how.. and… oh…"

"Willow?" asked Xander as she told him to run, that she'll be being right back.

"Reinforcements are here."

"Will?" asked Xander as Willow vanished in a flash of white light, "ok… back to killing then…. Come back, Willow."

Xander then went on to killing more of the demons as he got closer, and closer to the army base.

Meanwhile, Liam and Buffy were now fighting back to back while Dawn and Anya were floating in the air, away from the demons below as one fired electrical blasts, and the other one fired white energy blasts. From her vantage point, Dawn could see the other Slayers doing everything they could to fight the demons; she even saw a few Slayers, soldiers and even demons get killed after been burned by dragon fire.

Faith noticed Dawn firing blasts before she stabbed and then gutted a demon while mentally killing a few more that was heading towards her. She then saw a soldier struggling against a few demons while he was bleeding from his side, so the dark haired slayer ran over to the injured man, threw a few demons to the side with her telekinesis while throwing her sword at another one that was coming from behind the man, and then she took his combat knife, turned around and threw it in between the eyes of a blade handed demon.

"Nice" said the soldier as he looked at the Slayer who just saved his life.

"I can read your mind, ya know?" said Faith smirking as she blasted two demons before she back flipped and then ran to the demon she stabbed earlier, and then took her sword from its gut and killed another one before looking back at the soldier and shouting at him, "you know what they say about Slayers, and slaying, right? We get hungry, and horny."

"Lunch?" shouted the soldier before he was taken to the infirmary.

Faith grinned at the soldier before she turned and kicked out at another demon while on another side of the base, soldiers were firing their weapons at the incoming demons while Tara, John, and Jane were helping the Slayers beat back and kill as many demons as possible. On another side, Willow was helping Violet and other Slayers with defending their sector while Robin and a few others were helping out by zipping to and from one demon to another.. killing each one while the fire teams from the roofs of the buildings took out more, and more demons.

To everyone, it seemed like a never-ending supply of demons was coming their way but everyone knew they had to continue the fight.

Buffy was panting as she used the Scythe to cut one demon after another while Liam blocked, and then tore apart demons with his bare hands. The entire base was in chaos with battles taking place all over; the infirmary almost at capacity from injuries to soldiers, while the other soldiers with the armbands protected the infirmary from demonic assault. Buffy then heard a scream from above before she told everyone to get back into the cover of the shield; that a dragon was incoming.

"Buffy!" shouted Dawn who was floating above her as she pointed into the distance where sixteen streaks were falling through the atmosphere.

General Landry watched the streaks as well as they headed towards the base and got closer, and closer. He and General Hammond then looked on as the black dots heading towards them then fired missiles that shot out towards the dragons, which were soon screaming as they got engulfed in naquada enhanced missiles fired from a F-302. The black planes then flew overhead before coming about and picking their own targets. The General, and Giles, saw the planes picking off a few more dragons before they heard another buzzing sound coming from above.

Willow was using her magic offensively against an array of demons when she heard the buzzing sounds as well from behind her, which was when she not only saw three more dragons crashing onto Earth dead, and the planes that shot more missiles; but she also saw the yellow lights that fell out of the sky before hitting the ground and exploding into the mass of demons. And it was then that she, and then Dawn who was at another side of the base, looked up and smiled at the large fireball that was heading towards Earth.

"Buffy!" shouted Dawn as she and Anya continued to fired blasts while landing, "it's Atlantis."

"Neat" said Buffy as the ground started to shake as the demons stopped fighting as well to see a huge snowflake shaped city fall through the atmosphere. Everyone watched with mixtures of surprise, amazement and fear as the city ship fired it's thrusters again before it landed miles away from the base, and the crater where Sunnydale used to be. There were more explosions in the skies as more dragons, including the ones the size of planes, fell to Earth dead before the planes flew around firing their railguns into the mass of demons away from the army base before heading back into the air, and disappeared beyond the white clouds.

The lull in the battle was broken by the screams of the remainder of the dragons, which were soon followed by more roars in the distance as what seemed to be even more of the flying reptiles were heading towards the Sunnydale base, and now Atlantis. Everyone, including the demons who were in shock at what was happening, watched the dragons fly off towards Atlantis before breathing fire at the city, which was protected by the shield. Everyone saw the dragons, including the plane sized three-headed ones, attack the city that dwarfed them; their attacks only to be stopped by the shield.

"Can it hold, Dawnie?" asked Buffy as Dawn landed next to her while she and Anya fired blasts into six of the still shocked demons.

"That shield can hold off a coronal mass ejection" said Dawn looking at Buffy, "so yeah."

"Neat" said Buffy as she spoke into her radio, "Slayers, the demons aren't being very demony…. Let's go Slayery on them again."

While the demons were still in surprised, the Slayers and the other personnel started attacking again. The demons quickly made to go on the defensive before they were shocked again as red energy weapons from a massive ship started attacking the dragons in the distance, while another smaller ship started going the other way, while firing red energy weapons and all of its kinetic weapons, to slaughter the incoming dragons; dragons which were flesh and blood, and had shielding of any kind… even the scales they had were nothing against energy weapons from the two ships which had a three hundred sixty degree range of fire that took down the dragons.

While the fighting was going on in the air, and on the ground, the First appeared in the middle of the battle looking at Atlantis, and then up at the ships, and finally.. she looked at the base in rage.

"No more kid gloves" said the First as it appeared in Tara's form, "this has gone on long enough, no more."

The First closed its eyes as battle raged all around it, and started to chant a spell.

"He's coming" said the First once she finished her chant when she saw Buffy killing more of her children from a distance, "you are mine. The rest… the rest are his."

The First then looked up into the sky, and raised her arms up while closing her eyes… and then it whispered.

"Arise, Leviathan."

TBC.