Buffy stared at the diner in disbelief.
So, a 1950's American diner in the middle of an alien street, in a Sci-Fi ultra futuristic city with like flying cars and spaceships zooming around overhead, and yet everyone here thought this place was normal?
It sort of sent her off balance, with flash backs to her life as Anne coming back to her in bursts. If there was a portal somewhere nearby with a Hell dimension slave thing going on she wouldn't be surprised. Maybe there was, and in that case at least she wouldn't have far to grab a demon for questioning.

Ubi-Doo was strutting towards the place now with his bathrobe hanging off the back of his shoulders, every so often swishing it about for added effect. Looked like this place was one of his favourite hang-outs, not that he'd been able to have that many being raised by droids, she bet he'd never even been taken to the park when he was a kid.

Before opening the diner door he came to a stop, as if a thought had occurred to him. "Dex is rather unusual. Umm, he is not a demon Buffy so I'd rather you didn't brandish your 'Mr Sparkly' or 'Mr Pointy' at him. He has always been very helpful to me and Master Qui-Gon Jinn in the past when we needed information."

"Ubi-Doo you're gonna get an ulcer with all this stressing. Now get in there and stop swishing your robe about you're making dust." Buffy gave him a little push towards the door.

Inside the layout was diner-like, just like any at home, until a droid waitress with one wheel came cycling towards them. "What can I do for you hunny?" The wheelie droid asked, looking at Ubi-Doo and refusing to look in Buffy's direction.

Buffy had no idea why the droids in this dimension got all nervous when they saw her, maybe she was the Chosen Droid Slayer over here or something. The only ones who didn't seem to mind her were those bucket ones who came to a halt and gave out long whistles of appreciation every time they spotted her. Which was a surprise, as the first time she saw one in a corridor she'd tried to lift the lid and throw some garbage inside it.

"Two Jawa juices please and can you let Dex know an old friend is here to pay his respects," Obi-Wan took her arm and guided her to an empty seat near the back of the diner. Slipping into the red leather effect seat in the cubicle she looked back down the aisle taking in the diner and the strange assortment of aliens who were eating there.

"This place is weird." she said. It was like Willy's Bar, filled with all sorts of odd creatures that looked like they should be demons but didn't give out the demonic vibe so must be simply aliens going about their alien daily business.

"Everything is weird to you." replied Obi-Wan with a grin. "Likely it is because you are the weird one and everyone and everything else is normal."

"Haaa haa, not funny, Jedi-boy. No, its normal for me, that's what's weird. Lots of places like this back in my dimension. Didn't think I'd... Is that your friend? The massive toad person with four arms wearing a filthy vest with holes in it? Cos it looks kinda like he's having problems with a disgruntled customer or four." Buffy spotted the signs straight away, she'd worked diners and seen this type before. Coming in, wanting something for nothing and money to go away.

"Dex is perfectly capable of looking after himself. However, you shall stay here and I shall go to see if he needs my assistance." Obi-Wan slipped out the cubicle and walked quietly up behind the aliens (who looked a cross between a dinosaur and a hammer to Buffy) that were arguing with the toad.

Muttering to herself, "Oh, shall I now?" Buffy slipped out her seat and made her way around the other side of the diner counter to come to stand next to the giant toad person.

"Are you guys gonna have a fight?" she asked chirpily, with a huge smile looking from one hammer head Dino to another.

She could see Ubi-Doo shaking his head at her from behind the hammer heads but ignored him. Honestly, the guy was such a worrier. His friend on the other hand - Dex the Crazy Toad person - gave her a big grin and sort of winked at her, or maybe some skin went across his eye, hard to tell with her not being used to Toad people.

"What you got a tiny human female as your protector now Dex? Pay up and we'll go away, don't pay up and property will get damaged..."

"And I told you before I wasn't paying you money." Dex folded one set of arms over his massive torso, and Buffy noticed he left the other set of massive hands lingering menacingly by his sides.

Buffy stepped forward, smiling brightly, "You know I only came in here for a quiet drink. Then I saw you Dino things taking up valuable breathing space and bugging Dex here... and I thought to myself, your heads would make a lovely pair of boots. So go on, make my day."

She caught a quick glimpse of Obi-Wan looking horrified, shaking his head and trying to wave his hand at the aliens to do his mind bendy thing but it was all too late.
The nearest alien threw a punch at her which she easily grabbed in her own hand, spun around and threw him over her shoulder to land on the floor in front of her, kicking him in the head as he landed. She was really chuffed with herself seeing the alien was not only unconscious but hadn't lost his head. Obi-Wan should be proud of her restraint. Normally she didn't stop until the demon was headless.
Next to her Dex had taken one of the aliens out with a single punch from his massive fist whilst he back handed the third, and Obi-Wan had finally stopped shaking his head, and was grappling the fourth alien to the floor.

"Want me to help you drag these clowns out for ya?" she asked Dex.

The huge alien opened his mouth showing a row of small but sharp teeth, "Wouldn't mind. Seeing Obi-Wan is still busy." They both turned to watch the Jedi struggling to hold down the hammer headed alien.

"Yeah, Jedi-Boy was a bit slow. Too busy wanting to do the mind-bendy thing I reckon, when a good punch can do the same job. Names Buffy by the way. I'm the Slayer," she said, holding the collar of one of the unconscious aliens with one hand as she put out her other to shake Dex's massive froggy- hand.

The pair of them dragged the three fallen hammer heads to the door (Dex dragging out two, one in each hand, opening the door with a third and waving to a passerby with his fourth) and chucking them out onto the street. Inside the diner they could hear Obi-Wan being thrown around as he fought the alien dinosaur thing.

Dex tilted his head, and looked at her considering. "Think we should go help him?"

Buffy shook her head. "Nah. He's enjoying himself in there, ya know teaching and promoting the pacifist Jedi ways throughout the galaxy, setting an example to us all on how to behave and so on."

The toad person gave a deep rumbling laugh, "So how's a Jedi got mixed up with you?"

"That Dex is a long story involving demons, wishes and interdimensional travel. How about I come into the kitchen and sit with you while you cook? If your friends," she pointed to the now stirring aliens, " wanna come back in I'll give you a hand throwing them back out again. I've worked in diners before you know."

Together they walked back in carefully stepping round Obi-Wan who was half trapped under a table grappling the hammer headed alien who was still putting up a good fight.

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