Lois looked on in shock as hair dye seemed to become the slayer's natural hair color. What the hell is this. "OK, how are you not dead?!"

Clark looked around and looked at the blood on his chest. Nope nothing suspicious there. "I'm gifted."

Lois glared at him. "Then I'll just take your head this time."

Clark smiled. "Give it your best shot."

Lois looked at him a bit baffled that wasn't anything like a slayer. They're not that smug. "Oh I'm going to enjoy this!" She ran right at him and Clark just took one of the toy guns out and to the surprise of anyone there ot under the influence the gun went off and shot the vampire in the arm.

Clark smiled seeing her hold her arm and shout but that's it. "OK that should have hurt a lot more." Lois growled at him in game face. "Oh that explains it."

Lois snarled ready for a fight until six claws shot out of her chest. Lois could barely gasp for a breath she didn't need before being slammed to the floor.

Lois' new opponent stared at the downed vampire his six metallic claws drenched in her blood. "Lady, you barely smell human and coming from me that means something."

Clark looked at the new arrival very short at barely five foot a feral and ugly man. His hair on it's sides and Clark can only do one thing as he puts his hands in the air in celebration. "YES!" Lois looked at him straight up baffled. "What? He's a friend from work. He helped me beat Galactus."

Lois looked between the two. One would seem like one hell of a challenge but watching the feral man's knuckles heal tells her he has a healing factor too. She can't fight both so she quickly bolts in the other direction.

Clark looked at her and went to go after the vampire until Ryan grabbed him. "My job is to usually kill demons."

"We have a bigger problem demon boy. We're not in our own bodies." Ryan replied.

Clark looked at him. "How do you know that?"

Ryan pointed at him. "Because the nose knows. You don't smell like pizza you reek of vampire ash and one vampire in particular."

Clark looked at him almost disgusted. "I was never with a vampire Logan!"

The even smaller Wolverine smiled and pointed to a redhead behind them. "Then explain why you reek of her."

Clark walked over to the girl she can't be a vampire can she?

Tess looked at Clark and saw his attention on her and quickly pulled her guns out as Clark was quick to pull out two of his own.

Tess kept her calm guns aimed. "And you are?"

"Dante, and you?"

"Lara, what was that girl?"

Dante looked at her with a smile. "Vampire."

Lara looked at him this can't be real...though on the other hand. "You're lucky I got into a gun fight with a T-Rex before. Makes anything believable. Any idea what's going on?"

Dante shook his head. "No, but if the past has taught me anything it won't take us long to either figure it out or walk right into it."

Lara looked at him as she lowered her gun showing a bite on her neck form a kid demon. "Then I'll stick with you so I can get out of here."

Logan nodded. "Then let's keep moving. We won't last long in a spot like this."

Dante looked around seeing all the little demons running around some attacking some hiding. "He's right we gotta go..." He turned to Logan with a bit of a smile. "Should we see if our other partner is here?"

Logan glared at him. "Even if he was here what could he possibly do!"

Dante shrugged seeing the desired effect. "He's covered wars you know

Logan grumbled about carving up demons as he left the other two behind,

Lara looked at the demon hunter. "Is he going to be OK?"

Dante nodded. "Yeah, that's normal for him." He playfully held out an arm for her.

Lara just ignored him as she walked forward Dante followed behind.


Chloe ran from another demon that makes three as she hid besides a tree to catch her breath. How did she get pulled into a night like this. Nothing happens on Halloween Clark says. Demons take the night off...jackass. She went to get out from the tree but stopped at the sight of demon number four. Chloe went to run when about a dozen loud shots were heard as the demon ran for the hills.

Chloe smiled seeing the soldier with the assault rifle. Of course who else would it be. "Xander?"

Xander just pointed his gun at her. "Hands up!"

Chloe looked at him nervously. "You too huh?"

Xander looked at her. "Me too what?"

Chloe shook her head. "Oh, never mind I already wasted five minutes trying to get the kids to see logic."

Xander looked at her confused. "You're not right in the head are you?"

Chloe pointed at him why is she the only one that went with a homemade costume. "You will pay for that when you least expect it. Right now we have to find Buffy and Clark. They can get everyone back where they belong."

Xander looked at her for a bit nuts but he doesn't really know where he is so for now he'll trust her with his one good eye open. "OK

Chloe looked at him. "So, since you're obviously not Xander what do I call you?"

"John Doe" Xander answered.

Chloe rolled her eyes. "Cute."

Xander looked at her well there goes trust. "Will it make you feel any better if I tell you I'm Big Boss?"

Chloe growled at him for a moment seeing him with the stupid eye patch. Wait is he really blind in that eye now? Better save that for later. "OK, let's just find the others." She took two step forward and quickly backed up. "And then die from Frankenstein's monster."

The two looked at the creature until the creature was surrounded by white light.

The creature turned to the light and was just hit full on by an eighteen wheeler slamming it into the wall and trapping it there.

The eighteen wheeler came to a stop followed by a blur of blue light. Chloe smiled seeing a woman in the blue blur of light because there's only one girl that can move like that.

Chloe smiled still but more surprised as to who the blur became once it took human form. "Kennedy?"

The slayer looked at her even more confused then ever. "Who's Kennedy?"

Chloe looked at her and the madness continues. "You are... just who are you?"

Kennedy looked at her confused. "How can you not know who I am?"

Chloe looked at her she looked exactly the same except for a belt buckle that said boss. "Should I?"

"I'm the president of the United States. Kinzie how can this chick not know me?"

Chloe shrugged at her weakly. "Must have voted for the other guy."

Chloe watched as Tara came out in her FBI jacket and looked at Kennedy and replied to her girlfriend. "To be fair so did I."

Big Boss looked at Chloe. "What the hell kind of place am I in where a woman like her is the President of the United States."

Chloe looked at Big Boss not really sure what she can even say about that gem. This better wear off soon. She smiled in relief seeing Clark come but the smile just as quickly fades seeing his hair is pure white as opposed to a bad rug. "Let me guess you're not Clark anymore?"

Dante, Logan, and Lara looked at her confused.

Logan looked at her assuming. "I'm assuming Clark is who demon boy is under the mask?"

Chloe nodded her head. "How do you know?"

Dante shook his head. "He's a bloodhound, what's it called again meta human?"

"Mutant" Logan clarified.

Dante nodded. "Yeah that."

Chloe rubbed her temples. "OK You know what one at a time I point you tell me who you are so we can keep track of this crap."

She pointed at Xander. "Big Boss, I'm a soldier."

To Tara. "Kinzie Kensington... White House press secretary."

To Kennedy. "Lady I'm the president of the United States how can you not know who I am?"

"I voted for the other guy." Chloe replied. "So do you have a real name Lady President?"

"It's a mystery." The president replied.

Kinzie rolled her eyes. "It's Margaret."

President Margaret looked at his secretary enraged. Kinzie what the frack man? Wait... what the frack was that? Frack... mother lover you gotta be kidding I can't curse again... poop... god I hate this."

Kinzie smirked. "Welcome back to VR hell."

The President glared at her. "Hey at least I have super mode. You're the only one of us who hasn't figured that one out."

Chloe rolled her eyes. "Moving on!" She pointed to Tess.

"Lara Croft"

Chloe nodded she finally got one. It's about time too. She pointed to Ryan.

Logan looked at her. "Name's Logan.":

"Yeah, that one was kind of obvious." Chloe replied. Wolverine of the X-men not hard to miss even without the yellow spandex. She pointed to the last person here, Clark.

Dante looked at her for a moment before replying. "Dante, demonic merc... or is it PI? Ahh... whatever it is I get paid money to kill demons... sometimes."

Chloe nodded. "OK now I know everyone so now what?"

Logan stayed silent for a moment catching the scent once more. The joys of knowing magicians and the familiar smell of mystical herbs. "Whatever did this it's this way. So whoever wants to go home follow me."

Dante nodded and followed Logan and everyone else just followed out of curiosity, to get as far away from this place as possible, or they just had nowhere else to go and are curious.


The president followed behind everyone else as they approached a bridge. She can just run up front if need be. "Why would they hide something so god dang far? Oh god dang it."

Dante rolled his eyes. "Probably to keep people from us from doing what we're going to do when we get to it."

Logan stayed quiet smelling out the source until another scent hit him. "Hey Dante, your girlfriend's back."

Dante glared at the Canadian mutant seeing Lois and an army of mini demons. "Don't even joke about that!"

Lois looked at the group. "Well you guys are a colorful group aren't you?"

Dante looked at the group getting a clear view of the army of mini demons they're about to go up against. "Well, what are we against?"

Logan looked at the swarm and simply sniffed the air. "Every single one but the girl is a little kid trapped in a costume. You kill them you die to me."

The President moved in a blur of blue light and quickly jumped in the air catching a mini demon around the neck with a flying head-scissors. Kinzie right behind her took the low class approach of smashing her handgun into the demon's junk as it collapsed to the floor.

Chloe backed up seeing a mini demon. She could only smile when Big Boss quickly trapped it in a rear naked choke.

Dante looked at the two demons... well here goes nothing... literally. Dante ducked an overhead swing form a demon only to grab the little monster and slammed him to the floor.

Lois smiled throwing punches that Tess was dodging slowly and sluggishly given she was far from a vampire anymore. Lois smiled not believing how easy it was to beat the crap out of Mercy tonight.

Three demons snarled gaining ground on Wolverine. The feral mutant just looked at them as his claws came out... and every demon but Lois ran in the other direction with a mere growl.

Lara ran and ducked a right hand running behind the vampire. She quickly pulled out her twin pistols and wasted no time and shot her in the leg with one shot.

Lois held her leg as she changed to her game face. "You son of a... You think I can't overcome a tiny piece of metal?"

"No, not all of them." Lara replied.

Lois looked at her different person but the same devious smile as Mercy. "Oh what are you up to!" She hobbled up and swung at the Tomb Raider whom tucked and rolled falling in line with the others. Lois leaned against the support of the bridge and saw a frightening line of hurt seeing Dante and Lara each with two handguns aimed right at her. The President and Kinzie each with another gun aimed at her. She finally looked to the last person of the group and saw Big Boss with his rifle aimed right at her. "OK, in hindsight..." She was cutoff by a hail of bullets tearing into her chest with such force they knocked her over the bridge.

Logan looked at Chloe. "What you don't have any guns for tonight?"

Chloe looked at him and awkwardly looked away. "Yeah... I kind of went very cheap on the costume, the only thing that's grown on me since I started high school were my legs so old schoolgirl outfit just became se... Halloween schoolgirl outfit." Ryan's 12.

Logan let out a smile it might not have been him but. "Well vampire's dead."

Chloe looked at him. "Actually unless you decapitate or stab her in the heart with a wooden stake there's a good chance she's just going to shake it off and live to see another day."

"Oh now you tell me!" Dante protested he was used to a place where those guns and his swords would kill anything even vampires.

Logan rolled his eyes not any happier that the vampire lived after what one did to the firecracker. "Let's just get Chloe's friends back. I have a feeling they'll know what to do with her."


Logan lead the group across the bridge coming up to the end getting a much stronger scent of the spell almost overloading his sensitive nose.

Chloe followed close behind as they went through the blocks she smiled seeing a blond haired woman in a purple and blackish bodysuit a steel spider with a ruby on her chest likely to draw in attention. "Well, we finally found Buffy."

Logan looked the blond over. "She might be Buffy to you but she's Jill to me."

Big Boss looked at Logan. "You know this woman?"

Logan nodded. "The hair and the clothes are different but it's still her. Her name is Jill Valentine, she's an old friend that helped me and Cap defeat Abyss. Hey Jill!"

Jill Valentine turned around and saw someone similar to her but it didn't matter to her. Whatever did this led her here. She looked at Logan right in the eyes and saw nothing but a cold hardened warrior.

Jill walked over to the feral mutant and just struck her palm out jamming it into Logan's cheat as the feral mutant went flying into the sky and out of sight causing the mutant to shriek. "WHAT THE FU..."

Big Boss looked at the sky in abstract horror what the hell are they fighting now?

Lara looked at the sky concerned for herself as well as others. "I though he said she was a friend?"

Dante shrugged innocently. "Well if half of what he told me about Jean is true she might be."

Chloe looked at her pleadingly she still has her powers. "Buffy, come on we're not your enemies you've gotta fight this."

The President held up her gun. "Don't think she's listening."

The President and Big Boss quickly aimed their guns as Dante shouted. "WAIT!"

The two fired only for a small group of bullets to bounce off Jill's head.

Dante's eyes rose what the hell are they fighting! Jill looked at the group and decided to return fire as she went to her sides and pulled out her weapons two machine guns Dante quickly pulled out his guns and the two engaged in an all out shoot out Jill trying to hit everyone else and Dante using his bullets to stop hers as all four guns run down on ammo.

Jill squeezed in frustration not one bullet connected. Her squeezing down on the machine guns crushing them making them useless. Jill threw the guns as they sailed into the air the brain washed woman watching in surprise at her own strength. Unfortunately for her the President rushed the attack at super speed seeing the monster wide open delivering a punch in the face that wobbled her and hitting her again before Jill recovered enough to grab the third punch.

The President grunted in pain before letting out a full cry of pain as Kinzie took a shot at Jill's head to absolute no effect.

Kinzie looked in frustration why is she so helpless she has to do something. Kinzie looked at it why can't she save her... why can't I save her. "Kennedy!" Kinzie let out a scream as a red aura surrounded her as he clothes changed from Baggy jeans and a FBI jacket replaced with a purple and pink leather bodysuit clung to her like a second skin with a hood, finger less gloves and cleavage window.

Kinzie looked herself over. What the hell just happened? Who the hell is Kennedy? "Is this me?"

Big Boss looked at the new Kinzie and just blessed himself a bit panicked.

"CAN YOU FRACKING FOCUS!"

Kinzie turned back to her boss in the monster's grip. "Oh right!" Kinzie moved in the same blue blur as the President and punched Jill in the face.

The President shook her arm to get feeling back and seeing Kinzie has finally supered up she took the much more practical use of her powers to hold Jill down with telekinesis and let Kinzie unload on her with punch after punch.

Jill growled in a low breath the damage Kinzie is doing but she's slowed down. She just screamed at the top of her lungs as Kinzie went to holding her ears as everyone else held their ears as all the glass on the block shattered at the noise.

Jill ran as fast as she could and grabbed Kinzie and threw her at the President knocking them both down and out. She smiled seeing how powerful she is this should work. She jumps ready to completely cave in Kinzie's chest with a stomp until she's tackled out of the air by Dante.

Dante lands on top of her when they hit the floor and rapidly unloads with punches hoping to knock her unconscious and ignoring the pain quickly forming in his hands.

Jill growled and grabbed him by the throat and easily hoisted him off her and smacked his head against the pavement as she got to her feet and pulled him up choking the life out of him.

Lara and Big Boss wasted no time and shot anywhere they could trying to find some sort of fault in this Amazonian monster.

Lara hears the click telling her she's out. These were all she had and if a bullet can't get through she doubts one of her fists will.

Dante gasped for breath trying to break free or just get for his sword.

Chloe looked at her friends terrorized this has to be some kind of nightmare. "Buffy stop you're killing him!"

Lara looked at him gasp for breath and just felt the slight push on her face as it contorted her eyes yellow and fangs dropped from her teeth as Snake quietly backed up. "What the?"

Lara rushed her feet and hands almost acting on their own. She ran to Jill and delivered a quick kick to her back wobbling her forcing her to drop Dante.

Big Boss let out a smile. "Hand to hand who knew!" Big Boss went to join the fight until Chloe grabbed him. "What?"

"I need your help, can you break into a house?" Chloe asked.

Big Boss nodded and followed her.


Jill rushed the vampiric Lara and let the Tomb Raider get the first punch in. It was mistake as Tess' magically animated corpse gave Lara the power to hurt her as Jill wobbled back. Lara quickly kicked her in the chest knocking the wind out of her. Jill opened her top a bit showing more of the metal spider.


Big Boss opened the door as Chloe ran in and started ravaging the house. "What exactly are you looking for?"

Chloe ran into the kid's room... yes nerd. "Not looking for... found."


Jill caught Lara's next fist and easily threw her into the air as she came down in a tumble.

Dante looked on as a familiar power surged but not by his control. "OK, this is new." Dante lets out a shout as he rushed Jill.

Jill rushed in a blur and grabbed Lara by her throat. Jill raised one hand up ready to punch through the vampire until she was hit in the back forcing her to drop Lara as the vampire rolled away.

Jill turned around to be punched in the chin by Dante. Followed by a kick to the shin wobbling her step as she falls back. Dante went for another kick only for Jill to grab his leg mid kick. "Ah Hell!"

Jill threw him into the air as Dante sailed twelve feet up in the air as he pulled his sword coming down and landing on his feet with a smile 50 feet away.

Dante pulled out his sword feeling power flow through. "Oh yeah, this is going to be good."

Dante ran at her full speed and Jill just ran at him catching the demon with her hand on his throat in an instant.

Dante looked at her noticing a glow on her arms particularly her veins as they turned green as Jill wobbled to her knees but still glaring at the semi demon

Dante looked at the amazonian woman as she just got weaker and weaker. He looked behind the girl to see Chloe staring at the scene and Big Boss holding a green rock similar to her arms. Dante felt the surge of power go down and shrugged in indifference knowing the fight is over now. All because of a rock... this was just disappointing.

Chloe watched Jill succumb to the kryptonite. She knew it! She knew there was a reason Giles had that rock. If Buffy was an alien and the rock was alien it only made sense that they'd have some reaction on each other.

Dante looked and saw Jill grab at her chest. Dante looked at it and quickly caught on seeing her hands as he grabbed onto the metallic spider she screamed a bit as he pulled at the metal machine until it ripped right off her chest as her eyes seemed to calm down.

Jill looked at him with almost glazed over exhausted eyes. "Thank you! What the hell did that bastard do to me to get me hitting like this?"

Chloe shook her head. "That is a long..." The rest was cut off by a truck going far beyond what Chloe thought a truck could as everyone scattered but Jill. The truck wrapped around Jill like a vice only to shoot Logan out of the wind shield like a cannon as he slid down the street creating red asphalt.

Dante shook his head as Logan got up. "For god sake your friend is fine we fixed her."

Logan looked at her and saw tacky piece on her chest was removed. "Are you you again Jill?"

Jill weakly nodded. "It's good to be back." She ran her fingers through her hair and saw the result. "Could do without the blond though."

Chloe looked at her. "Don't worry you're not keeping it for long." She turned to Logan. "Can you still track that thing down?"

Logan nodded. "It's not that far now."

Dante swung the President over his shoulders and Big Boss did the same for Kinzie and the group was once again following Logan's nose. This time flanked by Jill behind them ready to smack any demon that gets close to oblivion.


The President woke up and saw a bunch of satanic stuff as she jumped down. "I'm not marrying your damn daughter!" She hopped down and looked at everyone whom stared back at her in confusion besides the recovered Kinzie whom was just doing everything she could not laugh. "What? You're telling me I'm the only one who was nearly married to the daughter of the devil?"

"Umm... I killed some women that claimed they were the devil's daughters." Dante offered. Before he sees what he's pretty sure is why they're all here. "Janus... SON OF A BITCH! HATE THAT GUY." He turned to Jill. "You think you can de..."

Lara wasted no time and took out her pistols and unloaded every bullet she could until the statue broke apart as everyone but Chloe fell to their knees.

Clark looked around first familiarize his surroundings he's back. "Everyone OK?" He got a bunch of groans in response. Next year he puts a paper bag over his head and writes presidential supporter on it. Wait! "Buffy, why are you tired?"

Buffy glared at them. "Who do you think was keeping Jill in check so she wouldn't punch holes into each of your chests at mach 1?"

Clark looked at her. "Oh, thanks! So was that a nightmare for anyone else?"

Xander nodded. "Yeah it was like I was there but just couldn't do anything." He looked to Tara and saw she ended up keeping Kinzie's sexy leather suit and smiled as Tara flushed scarlet trying to cover up. Kenned took Clark's red duster and gave it to the young witch.

Chloe turned to Ryan seeing the boy uneasy knowing the difference between knowing and seeing first hand.. "Are you OK? You're the youngest but got smacked around worse then any of us."

Ryan nodded uncomfortably. "Logan heals. What do you say we call it a night?"

Clark nodded. "Yeah, we can look into this tomorrow."

Tess sniffed around smelling nothing but the others. "I'll look around but I'm pretty sure the caster is long gone."

Chloe opened her phone and took a couple pictures of the shrine and everything in the room.

Buffy waited till everyone else was out and once she had a clear line of sight she focused her eyes and set the room ablaze ensuring it can't be used again.


Oliver leaned back on a couch in a quiet bliss just watching the news. He watched the news as his mouth widened in a smile getting the scent of water and blood. "See what happens when you work on vacation."

Lois growled at him for a moment before moving on into her sister's room as she grabbed a bandage wrap and started on her arms. "Do you have any idea how much tonight hurt!?"

Drusilla paid her no attention and focused on clearing up Miss Edith's hair.

Lois growled as her game face made an appearance. "Hey I just went through the first fifteen minutes of Robocop because of your advice on the slayer... Say something ya mute..." Any conversation was cut off by Lois slamming her leg into the side of Dru's bed more particularly her leg with a bullet wound into the steel frame of Dru's bed. Lois immediately dropped her game face and fell onto the bed holding her leg. "Ow, ow, ow."

"You were too slow." Drusilla said calmly as she grabbed Miss Edith and left.

Lois looked at her for a bit and can't help but smile even though she's not sure if her sister was just messing with her tonight or if it really was a vision. Lois rolled her eyes and just grabbed a knife this conversation is for another day... like when she finally pulls the last bullet out.


Giles came into the library and saw Clark with a heavy bag set up and to his surprise Clark was kicking it. Clark's usually more of a brawler. "Where did the kicking come from?"

Clark shrugged. "Little something I picked up last night. Where were you last night?"

Giles looked at him. "I was with my old friend Ethan Rayne, why?"

Clark leaned back. "Well I thought we had an interesting night but, I'm more surprised that you made a friend."

Giles rolled his eyes pulling out a book for today. "So, just you today?"

Clark smiled. "Well, Chloe and Xander are in the Torch trying to figure out a good cover for what happened on Halloween. Tess would burn. I tried calling Kennedy but she said Kinzie knows things and just hung up. Ryan I think was a little overwhelmed by Halloween, and Buffy is somehow fast as lightning but slow as a tank all at the same time."

Clark felt the wind blow past him and saw Buffy in the library book bag in hand.

Buffy smiled seeing him. "Hey Clark, how you holding up?"

Clark smiled. "Pretty good I won that fight."

Giles looked at the two of them. "Wait, you two fought? What did I miss?"

Buffy shook her head. She's pretty sure she knows she'd win in a fight between the two. "You didn't beat me, you just survived long enough for Xander to hit me with a rock."

Clark shook his head. He's pretty sure he'd win in a fight between the two. "Technicality, you couldn't even shoot me with your machine guns."

Giles eyes rose. "Wait, what?"

Buffy looked at him. "Oh please, besides looking at your clothes it was more then obvious you got impaled on your own sword last night."

Clark's eyes widened. "That doesn't matter."

Giles looked at the two flabbergasted. "Seriously, what the bloody hell did I miss?"


A doctor finished writing his notes. "I don't understand, why you wanted these tests done again."

"Hopeless optimism." Ryan offered.

The doctor nodded if he was in Ryan's situation he'd probably be doing the same. "Well, I'm sorry Ryan but there's been no change."

Ryan hopped off the exam room table. "That's not possible"

"I"m sorry but there's been no change... you might."

"Shut Up!... I'm sorry I just..."

"I know." The doctor assured him. "If you have any questions feel free to call."

Ryan nodded as the doctor left the room for another patient. Last night worked perfectly Clark got a badass upgrade to keep him alive and he would get the healing power of the Wolverine to fix this mess. Why didn't it work? What the hell is he going to do now?


Author Notes

Thanks for the reviews

Given that this came out after Thanksgiving safe to say still burned out for another scoobyween.

It sucks writing a PG wolverine when you don't want him killing anyone.

And with this update I lose the right to make fun of Kentaro Miura.

Did some editing since last time and this was one of the stories cut down as the new title shows.

Up Next: The Truth among the Lies.