Lily shivered and rubbed at the goose bumps on her arms as she and Breena crept to the edge of the forest and its concealing mist. The excitement of sneaking off the ship had long since vanished by the time the girls had reached the edge of the forest. She couldn't help but feel nervous as she looked out over the storm covered battlefield. They knew that if they got caught they were either dead or in so much trouble they would almost wish they were when Lexie got done with them. They were supposed to have stayed on the ship but they had wanted to see what the armies looked like. They had convinced themselves that as long as they stayed near the forest they would be safe enough, after all Anakin had been sent with the Queen and Jedi so how dangerous could things really be. Lily was having second thoughts as she took in the number of Gungan warriors on the field compared to the vast army of battle droids. She knew it was one thing to see it in a movie and another to see it with your own eyes but she admitted she hadn't been ready for the reality.

Breena twitched as she glanced up from the battle and noticed the storm wracked sky. She trembled slightly as she pointed a shaking hand toward the sky. Her voice was a mere whisper, "Is that normal?"

Lily frowned as she realized that the already dark storm clouds were growing even darker almost black as they watched. "No I can't say this is normal, maybe…" The rest of her words were cut off as a bolt of lightening shot from the heavens and blasted into the droid army with a thunderous boom.

Breena shivered, she was glad that she was too far away from the battle to see the individual droids blasted apart.

Lily was still blinking away the afterimage as another bolt tore through the ranks of droids. By the third blast Lily was sure that Lexie's magic was responsible, by the tenth blast in as many seconds Lily wanted to crawl out of her skin as her mind worked out just how much magic it would take to toss lightening bolts continuously. Her heart was pounding faster than the lightening flashes as her carefully constructed world came crashing down. She had always assumed that her sweet lovable babysitter was just an average slayer gifted with some magical ability that got stuck as their babysitter. The fact that she could call that many lightening bolts proved that she was in no way, shape or form average. Lily found herself holding a shaking Breena as she wondered just how powerful Lexie really was.

Breena leaned into Lily's embrace as she tried to figure out why the world had stopped making sense.

Lexie wore an annoyed expression as she dropped the weave of magic that controlled and called the lightening strikes. While she knew she could have continued to toss lightening around for a long time, she was glad to stop as the constant booming sound was starting to get rather painful even with the makeshift earplugs stuffed in her ears. She reached up and pulled the cotton like material from her ears as she raked her eyes across the battlefield. She wanted to kick herself, she had hoped that the lightening would cause more disorder, forgetting for a moment that the army was composed of droids and not flesh and blood creatures that knew fear. While the strikes had caused a lot of damage to the larger vehicles she had been aiming at they had completely failed at breaking the army's forward movement. As she was standing just inside the shield with an army of droids advancing toward her she figured it was time to try the next trick on her list.

Breena took her hands away from her ears as the lightening stopped. She watched in dismay as the droids regrouped and made a push for the shield.

Lily was more than a little relieved not to be anywhere close to the battle when huge funnel clouds started forming on the battlefield. Lily shouted to be heard over the ringing in her ears, "We need to get out of here."

Breena nodded vigorously as they made their way back toward the ship.

Lexie relaxed as she felt the sonic shower massage away the dirt from the battle. She hadn't exactly been happy with how many droids had broken through near the end but there had been only so much she could do once the Gungan's had engaged the droids without endangering them. She tried to push all of that behind her as she got ready for the party the Queen was throwing. Lexie was tired enough of dealing with politics that she just wanted to take possession of the droids laying around the battle field and go home as per her and the Queen's agreement. She wasn't however naïve enough to believe it would be that easy. She figured with a little luck she could trade her share of the droid army for the mining and manufacturing equipment she needed to start mining asteroids back in Buffy's world. She smiled at the thought of the ships she could build with the untapped supplies of Buffy's world.

Breena smiled as she watched Anakin being treated like a hero. When she had first heard that her brother was a hero she could hardly believe it. Apparently he had blown up the droid's control ship by flying a ship into it's hanger and firing on the ship's reactors from inside. She smiled at the memory of him privately admitting that it was an accident. She was pulled from her musing by Lily's finger poking her in the arm.

"You sad that you're not a hero?"

"I'm sure I'll get many chances to be a hero, besides being a hero is dangerous work."

Lily chuckled as she raised her glass of cider and looked at Lexie and Anakin, "To heroes."

The crowd around the banquet table echoed her cheer.