Title : Graduation XXL
Author : Tobias Spiegler
Disclaimer: I own nothing
Summary: Graduation Day is near and Xander and the Scoobies prepare for that eventful day
Authors's notes: Okay, I went through my reviews and I noticed that I got more than 120 reviews for all my stories. I can only say, that when I started writing, I never expected to get that much feedback. I just want to thank all the people that reviewed my stories and encouraged me to continue.
Dedication: I dedicate the last part to my Beta reader Dave Carter. Without him I would have never started writing. Thanx Dave.
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"That's really interesting," Faith said while she looked through the night vision binoculars on the back seat of Xander's SUV.
"What's interesting?" Willow asked from her position beside her and tried to see what Faith spotted. "Give it to me Faith. I want to see what's going on."
"You had it five minutes ago. Now it's my turn," the raven haired slayer said.
"But something interesting is happening. And nothing happened while I had the binoculars," she started and tried to grab them from Faith's hand.
But the slayer was faster and brought the glasses out of her reach. "It's not my problem that nothing happened while you had them. Now let me watch, I'm missing the best part.
"Faith.," Willow started but was interrupted by the sound of someone slamming his head repeatedly against the steering wheel.
"Xander?" the red haired hacker asked.
But the addressed person just rested his forehead on the steering wheel.
"Ladies, please. Could you stop the bitching for a moment," he pleaded with the two women.
"Not my fault X-man," Faith told him. "She started it," she said and pointed at Willow.
"That's not right Xander. She started it. You know that I'm right," Willow told him.
"Would you please stop now," he nearly shouted. "This is the fucking recon phase of this operation, okay. We don't want to attract attention. So please stop clawing each others eyes out."
"But she started it," Willow started and soon Faith also joined in. While the two continued arguing Xander left the car and started climbing up the fire ladder of the house they were paking beside.
"Should have never given them the blasted thing," he cursed under his breath. "Maybe Buffy is a bit less bitchy today."
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The mentioned slayer was currently lying on the roof of said house and observed the entrance of the vampire safe house on the other side of the street with a similar pair of binoculars.
"Hi Buff. How are you doing?" Xander greeted her.
"Good," she responded without looking up from her work. "These binoculars you gave me are really cool. I can see everything."
"Yeah, army quality," he told her and sat down beside her position. "Any more vamps?"
"Nope, seems like the house is full."
Xander nodded, "Giles and the rest hit the other safe house about twenty minutes ago. But we have no additional vampires here. That either means that they have skipped town or."
"They have a few other hideouts here in town. After all, all the other houses were either abandoned or we already cleaned them," she summed it up.
"Seems like the Mayor reacted faster than we thought," Xander said and sighed. He looked at his watch. "We wait ten more minutes, then we storm it."
"Alright. Why are you up here?" she asked and looked at him. "Willow and Faith again clawing each others eyes out?"
Xander chuckled. "Yeah, you leave those two a few minutes in the same room and you have a small apocalypse."
Buffy now also smiled. "Remember when they tried on their dresses for the prom? And both had the same one? And when they went back and exchanged them? And then again they had the same ones,?"
Both laughed at that memory. The prom was not that bad. After all it was the first school dance without the supernatural making an appearence. But the pairings were a whole different thing. Of course Oz and Willow went together, but since none of the remaining Scoobies were in a relationship they had to arrange themselves. Both Buffy's and Xander's relationships with Angel and Cordelia ended almost a year ago and they all hadn't met someone since then. And Faith never really dated during the whole time she was in Sunnydale. Finally Faith and Angel went together, after all the two were heading to LA once the whole Ascension was over. Faith was about to start college at UCLA and Angel thought it would be a good idea to leave Sunnydale and start an new life. That left Buffy, Xander and Cordelia. Cordy finally took pity on Wesley. The watcher still was in Sunnydale. After the debacle with the retrieval team and the fact that both slayers became rogue was enough reason for them to fire him. But he stayed in town, to help the with the Ascension. So Xander an Buffy hooked up. It was a nice evening and Buffy also was awarded by the pupils, so that was a plus.
"Yeah those were happy times," Xander admitted and smiled at her. "But now we have work to do. I better prepare my stuff," he said and stood up.
Buffy resumed observing their target. "Okay. Just call me when you are ready. I will join you then." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------
When Xander opened the trunk of his car. Faith and Willow were still struggling for the binoculars. He finally had enough and took the binoculars from their combined hands.
"Hey," both exclaimed at the same time.
"If you two can't stop this I will do it," he said and grabbed his M4 from one of the duffel bags in his trunk. He quickly checked the gun and loaded a full magazine.
"What are you packing this time in your guns X-Man," Faith asked interested. "Those blessed bullets again?"
"Nope. Tracer rounds," he answered.
Faith frowned at that. "Tracer rounds? How are they gonna affect the vamps?"
"You ever set a vamp on fire Faith?" Xander asked theoretically
"Yeah. And?"
"Then you should know that it doesn't take very much to burn a vamp. And these babies burn hot enough to set a vamps on fire," Xander explained, while he took a Spas-12 from the same duffel back.
"And the shotgun?" Willow asked.
"Well, that will be a surprise." Xander said and smiled. He finished loading the shotgun and pumped it for effect. He stripped out of his black leather jacket and put a SWAT vest on.. He put a few magazines for the M4 and shells for the shotgun in the vest's pockets. Finally he fastened a pistol holster around his upper leg and put one of his USPs in it. He slung the shotgun over his shoulder and took the M4 in his hands. He brought the charging handle back and loaded the first cartridge, finishing his preparations this way.
"Buffy, we are ready," he called the other slayer. "You can come down."
A few seconds later the blonde stood by the rest of her friends.
"So what's the plan?" Faith asked enthusiastically.
"We go in and kill them," Xander and Buffy both exclaimed at the same time.
"Okay, you both have a one track mind," Faith told them while she grabbed her stakes. "But it works for me."
Xander shrugged his shoulders and looked at Willow. "You ready Will?"
"Ehm, I'm not so sure," the witch answered.
Xander groaned. "Will, you said you were able to pull that trick. If you are not sure I will call the library and ask for the rest to come."
"No, I will do it. I can do it." She answered, this time a bit more confidently.
"Okay. Come on guys, let's go."
The foursome crossed the street and positioned themselves in front of the big door of the warehouse.
"How much time do you need?" he asked Willow.
"About a minute. It needs a bit of time to concentrate for all these," she said and opened her bag with about two dozen stakes in.
"We will give you your time," Xander said and grabbed the handle of the door. "On three. One, two, three," he counted and opened the door.
He, Faith and Buffy immediately stormed in, with Willow following right behind them.
The interior of the safehouse was nearly as comfortably decorated as the one Buffy and the rest found the remains of the retrieval team in. From the twenty two vampires that should inhabit the house there were now about ten in the room. The rest could either be in the restrooms or on the second floor. Six of the vampires were currently watching Tv while the rest were busy in the small kitchen area. When the Scoobies entered the room the vampires immediately turned their heads to the intruders.
Xander immediately opened fire, the red streaks of the tracer rounds flying through the room and hitting one of the vampires through the couch. The vampire and the couch immediately caught fire. The remaining vamps jumped over the couch and ran in the direction of their enemies.
Xander fired the last of his ammunition at the advancing vamps. Two caught fire and fell to the ground, where they turned to dust
Xander quickly reloaded his assault rifle. Four vamps were currently occupying Buffy and Faith while three were running in his direction.
He finished reloading his rifle, but the first vampire was too near for him to shoot. So he slammed the butt of the rifle into the vamp's face. The vampire fell to the ground where he clutched his broken nose.
That gave Xander enough room to shoot the other two vampires advancing on him.They too caught fire and burst into dust. Xander quickly aimed his rifle at the vamp lying on the ground and put three rounds into him.
Buffy and Faith in the meantime had staked two of their four vamps and were now struggling with the remaining ones.
But unseen by the three another vampire was currently running in the direction of Willow. The red haired witch was currently sitting cross legged on the floor and concentrating on the bag in front of her.
Xander aimed at the vampire, but his gun jammed.
"Damn," he cursed and took the Spas from his shoulder. He aimed at the vampire and shot.
Damm - should be: Damn
The first shot hit the vampire in the upper legs and the buckshot blew him backwards.
Xander fired again, this time hitting the vamp in the right shoulder. The last shot finally hit the vamp in his chest and a second later he burst into ashes.
Buffy and Faith now had staked the remaining vampires and looked with open mouthes at what just happened.
"Xander what," Buffy started but was interrupted.
"Not now Buffy," Xander stopped her. "Willow how long ?"
Just a few more seconds," she responded, her brows furrowed in a show of concentration.
"You better hurry up," Xander said as the rest of the vampires entered the room.
"What is going on here," the vampire leader shouted at the sight of his killed comrades, but immediately spotting the source of the disturbance. "Oh, the Mayor's ex-assassin. The boss will like it if I bring him your head on a silver platter. Get them," he ordered his vampires.
Xander, Buffy and Faith formed a circle around Willow, all eyeing the advancing vamps.
"Will, your spell would be perfect now," Xander said to her over his shoulders.
"Just a few more seconds," she repeated.
"We have no more seconds," Xander said and began shooting at the advancing vampires.
Two immediately burst into dust and a third one fell to the ground, his leg ripped from the rest of his body.
Xander was busy reloading while Buffy and Faith prepared themselves for combat.
The vamps were only a few meters away when Willow finally shouted "Ready"
"Get down," Xander ordered and he and the two slayers hit the ground.
The vampires looked confused at the unnatural behaviour of their prey. A few seconds later they wished that they had followed their example.
One after one the stakes from Willow's bag began floating in mid air. On her command each one of them flew through the room, staking the vampires in the process.
After a few seconds all the vampires were dustpiles on the floor.
Willow opened her eyes and looked proud at her work.
"It worked," she said cheerfully.
Xander and the rest stood up and brushed the dust from their clothes.
"Yeah it worked. But you let us sweat a bit here will," Xander said and picked his M4 up.
"Xander?" Buffy asked.
"Yeah Buff?"
"How did you.. dust those vamps with the shotgun?
"What do you mean?"
"Well, when you normally shoot a vamp you crack their head with bullets. But now you shot him in the chest and poof. How that?"
"Oh that. You, see I replaced the normal buckshot in the shells with wooden ones. If one of them hits the heart the vamp is dead," Xander explained.
"Oh, okay," Buffy said, now understanding.
"Cool idea X-man," Faith exclaimed. "You have to give me a few of those before I leave for the City of Angels
"I will see," Xander said and walked into another room of the warehouse.
The other three followed him confused.
"Xander what are you searching for;" Buffy asked
"This," Xander said as they walked into the last room.
"Oh," the three girls exclaimed at the sight of the various boxes filled with cocaine.
"The files said that this was also one of the Mayor's drug houses and I think it's our duty to do something against this," he told them and pulled a few C4 packages out of his vest. He placed one of them in each of the boxes.
He spotted a briefcase beside the table and opened it. He whistled at the sight.
"What?" Faith asked. Xander turned the briefcase so the three could see it's contents. It was filled with money.
The three's eyes nearly bulged out at the sight.
"How much is this," Buffy stammered.
Xander shrugged as he closed the briefcase. "About a million I would say," he said on his way out of the warehouse, the briefcase in his hands.
"A million?" the three shouted.
"Yep," he said and looked strangely at them. "Have you never seen a million bucks?" All shook their heads "Maybe Cordy was right:You are losers."
"Hey," the three exclaimed at the same time.
Xander smiled as they crossed the street. Back at the SUV he stripped out of his vest and brought it and the weapons back into the duffel back. After that the foursome went into the car and Xander started the engine.
"I have the feeling that the Mayor will be quite angry about this," he said and pushed the button of the remote control he had taken from his pockets and a second later the C4 exploded, destroying the entire stash of drugs and a large section of the warehouse.
"Let's get to the library," Xander said as he drove down the street.
Author : Tobias Spiegler
Disclaimer: I own nothing
Summary: Graduation Day is near and Xander and the Scoobies prepare for that eventful day
Authors's notes: Okay, I went through my reviews and I noticed that I got more than 120 reviews for all my stories. I can only say, that when I started writing, I never expected to get that much feedback. I just want to thank all the people that reviewed my stories and encouraged me to continue.
Dedication: I dedicate the last part to my Beta reader Dave Carter. Without him I would have never started writing. Thanx Dave.
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"That's really interesting," Faith said while she looked through the night vision binoculars on the back seat of Xander's SUV.
"What's interesting?" Willow asked from her position beside her and tried to see what Faith spotted. "Give it to me Faith. I want to see what's going on."
"You had it five minutes ago. Now it's my turn," the raven haired slayer said.
"But something interesting is happening. And nothing happened while I had the binoculars," she started and tried to grab them from Faith's hand.
But the slayer was faster and brought the glasses out of her reach. "It's not my problem that nothing happened while you had them. Now let me watch, I'm missing the best part.
"Faith.," Willow started but was interrupted by the sound of someone slamming his head repeatedly against the steering wheel.
"Xander?" the red haired hacker asked.
But the addressed person just rested his forehead on the steering wheel.
"Ladies, please. Could you stop the bitching for a moment," he pleaded with the two women.
"Not my fault X-man," Faith told him. "She started it," she said and pointed at Willow.
"That's not right Xander. She started it. You know that I'm right," Willow told him.
"Would you please stop now," he nearly shouted. "This is the fucking recon phase of this operation, okay. We don't want to attract attention. So please stop clawing each others eyes out."
"But she started it," Willow started and soon Faith also joined in. While the two continued arguing Xander left the car and started climbing up the fire ladder of the house they were paking beside.
"Should have never given them the blasted thing," he cursed under his breath. "Maybe Buffy is a bit less bitchy today."
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The mentioned slayer was currently lying on the roof of said house and observed the entrance of the vampire safe house on the other side of the street with a similar pair of binoculars.
"Hi Buff. How are you doing?" Xander greeted her.
"Good," she responded without looking up from her work. "These binoculars you gave me are really cool. I can see everything."
"Yeah, army quality," he told her and sat down beside her position. "Any more vamps?"
"Nope, seems like the house is full."
Xander nodded, "Giles and the rest hit the other safe house about twenty minutes ago. But we have no additional vampires here. That either means that they have skipped town or."
"They have a few other hideouts here in town. After all, all the other houses were either abandoned or we already cleaned them," she summed it up.
"Seems like the Mayor reacted faster than we thought," Xander said and sighed. He looked at his watch. "We wait ten more minutes, then we storm it."
"Alright. Why are you up here?" she asked and looked at him. "Willow and Faith again clawing each others eyes out?"
Xander chuckled. "Yeah, you leave those two a few minutes in the same room and you have a small apocalypse."
Buffy now also smiled. "Remember when they tried on their dresses for the prom? And both had the same one? And when they went back and exchanged them? And then again they had the same ones,?"
Both laughed at that memory. The prom was not that bad. After all it was the first school dance without the supernatural making an appearence. But the pairings were a whole different thing. Of course Oz and Willow went together, but since none of the remaining Scoobies were in a relationship they had to arrange themselves. Both Buffy's and Xander's relationships with Angel and Cordelia ended almost a year ago and they all hadn't met someone since then. And Faith never really dated during the whole time she was in Sunnydale. Finally Faith and Angel went together, after all the two were heading to LA once the whole Ascension was over. Faith was about to start college at UCLA and Angel thought it would be a good idea to leave Sunnydale and start an new life. That left Buffy, Xander and Cordelia. Cordy finally took pity on Wesley. The watcher still was in Sunnydale. After the debacle with the retrieval team and the fact that both slayers became rogue was enough reason for them to fire him. But he stayed in town, to help the with the Ascension. So Xander an Buffy hooked up. It was a nice evening and Buffy also was awarded by the pupils, so that was a plus.
"Yeah those were happy times," Xander admitted and smiled at her. "But now we have work to do. I better prepare my stuff," he said and stood up.
Buffy resumed observing their target. "Okay. Just call me when you are ready. I will join you then." ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------
When Xander opened the trunk of his car. Faith and Willow were still struggling for the binoculars. He finally had enough and took the binoculars from their combined hands.
"Hey," both exclaimed at the same time.
"If you two can't stop this I will do it," he said and grabbed his M4 from one of the duffel bags in his trunk. He quickly checked the gun and loaded a full magazine.
"What are you packing this time in your guns X-Man," Faith asked interested. "Those blessed bullets again?"
"Nope. Tracer rounds," he answered.
Faith frowned at that. "Tracer rounds? How are they gonna affect the vamps?"
"You ever set a vamp on fire Faith?" Xander asked theoretically
"Yeah. And?"
"Then you should know that it doesn't take very much to burn a vamp. And these babies burn hot enough to set a vamps on fire," Xander explained, while he took a Spas-12 from the same duffel back.
"And the shotgun?" Willow asked.
"Well, that will be a surprise." Xander said and smiled. He finished loading the shotgun and pumped it for effect. He stripped out of his black leather jacket and put a SWAT vest on.. He put a few magazines for the M4 and shells for the shotgun in the vest's pockets. Finally he fastened a pistol holster around his upper leg and put one of his USPs in it. He slung the shotgun over his shoulder and took the M4 in his hands. He brought the charging handle back and loaded the first cartridge, finishing his preparations this way.
"Buffy, we are ready," he called the other slayer. "You can come down."
A few seconds later the blonde stood by the rest of her friends.
"So what's the plan?" Faith asked enthusiastically.
"We go in and kill them," Xander and Buffy both exclaimed at the same time.
"Okay, you both have a one track mind," Faith told them while she grabbed her stakes. "But it works for me."
Xander shrugged his shoulders and looked at Willow. "You ready Will?"
"Ehm, I'm not so sure," the witch answered.
Xander groaned. "Will, you said you were able to pull that trick. If you are not sure I will call the library and ask for the rest to come."
"No, I will do it. I can do it." She answered, this time a bit more confidently.
"Okay. Come on guys, let's go."
The foursome crossed the street and positioned themselves in front of the big door of the warehouse.
"How much time do you need?" he asked Willow.
"About a minute. It needs a bit of time to concentrate for all these," she said and opened her bag with about two dozen stakes in.
"We will give you your time," Xander said and grabbed the handle of the door. "On three. One, two, three," he counted and opened the door.
He, Faith and Buffy immediately stormed in, with Willow following right behind them.
The interior of the safehouse was nearly as comfortably decorated as the one Buffy and the rest found the remains of the retrieval team in. From the twenty two vampires that should inhabit the house there were now about ten in the room. The rest could either be in the restrooms or on the second floor. Six of the vampires were currently watching Tv while the rest were busy in the small kitchen area. When the Scoobies entered the room the vampires immediately turned their heads to the intruders.
Xander immediately opened fire, the red streaks of the tracer rounds flying through the room and hitting one of the vampires through the couch. The vampire and the couch immediately caught fire. The remaining vamps jumped over the couch and ran in the direction of their enemies.
Xander fired the last of his ammunition at the advancing vamps. Two caught fire and fell to the ground, where they turned to dust
Xander quickly reloaded his assault rifle. Four vamps were currently occupying Buffy and Faith while three were running in his direction.
He finished reloading his rifle, but the first vampire was too near for him to shoot. So he slammed the butt of the rifle into the vamp's face. The vampire fell to the ground where he clutched his broken nose.
That gave Xander enough room to shoot the other two vampires advancing on him.They too caught fire and burst into dust. Xander quickly aimed his rifle at the vamp lying on the ground and put three rounds into him.
Buffy and Faith in the meantime had staked two of their four vamps and were now struggling with the remaining ones.
But unseen by the three another vampire was currently running in the direction of Willow. The red haired witch was currently sitting cross legged on the floor and concentrating on the bag in front of her.
Xander aimed at the vampire, but his gun jammed.
"Damn," he cursed and took the Spas from his shoulder. He aimed at the vampire and shot.
Damm - should be: Damn
The first shot hit the vampire in the upper legs and the buckshot blew him backwards.
Xander fired again, this time hitting the vamp in the right shoulder. The last shot finally hit the vamp in his chest and a second later he burst into ashes.
Buffy and Faith now had staked the remaining vampires and looked with open mouthes at what just happened.
"Xander what," Buffy started but was interrupted.
"Not now Buffy," Xander stopped her. "Willow how long ?"
Just a few more seconds," she responded, her brows furrowed in a show of concentration.
"You better hurry up," Xander said as the rest of the vampires entered the room.
"What is going on here," the vampire leader shouted at the sight of his killed comrades, but immediately spotting the source of the disturbance. "Oh, the Mayor's ex-assassin. The boss will like it if I bring him your head on a silver platter. Get them," he ordered his vampires.
Xander, Buffy and Faith formed a circle around Willow, all eyeing the advancing vamps.
"Will, your spell would be perfect now," Xander said to her over his shoulders.
"Just a few more seconds," she repeated.
"We have no more seconds," Xander said and began shooting at the advancing vampires.
Two immediately burst into dust and a third one fell to the ground, his leg ripped from the rest of his body.
Xander was busy reloading while Buffy and Faith prepared themselves for combat.
The vamps were only a few meters away when Willow finally shouted "Ready"
"Get down," Xander ordered and he and the two slayers hit the ground.
The vampires looked confused at the unnatural behaviour of their prey. A few seconds later they wished that they had followed their example.
One after one the stakes from Willow's bag began floating in mid air. On her command each one of them flew through the room, staking the vampires in the process.
After a few seconds all the vampires were dustpiles on the floor.
Willow opened her eyes and looked proud at her work.
"It worked," she said cheerfully.
Xander and the rest stood up and brushed the dust from their clothes.
"Yeah it worked. But you let us sweat a bit here will," Xander said and picked his M4 up.
"Xander?" Buffy asked.
"Yeah Buff?"
"How did you.. dust those vamps with the shotgun?
"What do you mean?"
"Well, when you normally shoot a vamp you crack their head with bullets. But now you shot him in the chest and poof. How that?"
"Oh that. You, see I replaced the normal buckshot in the shells with wooden ones. If one of them hits the heart the vamp is dead," Xander explained.
"Oh, okay," Buffy said, now understanding.
"Cool idea X-man," Faith exclaimed. "You have to give me a few of those before I leave for the City of Angels
"I will see," Xander said and walked into another room of the warehouse.
The other three followed him confused.
"Xander what are you searching for;" Buffy asked
"This," Xander said as they walked into the last room.
"Oh," the three girls exclaimed at the sight of the various boxes filled with cocaine.
"The files said that this was also one of the Mayor's drug houses and I think it's our duty to do something against this," he told them and pulled a few C4 packages out of his vest. He placed one of them in each of the boxes.
He spotted a briefcase beside the table and opened it. He whistled at the sight.
"What?" Faith asked. Xander turned the briefcase so the three could see it's contents. It was filled with money.
The three's eyes nearly bulged out at the sight.
"How much is this," Buffy stammered.
Xander shrugged as he closed the briefcase. "About a million I would say," he said on his way out of the warehouse, the briefcase in his hands.
"A million?" the three shouted.
"Yep," he said and looked strangely at them. "Have you never seen a million bucks?" All shook their heads "Maybe Cordy was right:You are losers."
"Hey," the three exclaimed at the same time.
Xander smiled as they crossed the street. Back at the SUV he stripped out of his vest and brought it and the weapons back into the duffel back. After that the foursome went into the car and Xander started the engine.
"I have the feeling that the Mayor will be quite angry about this," he said and pushed the button of the remote control he had taken from his pockets and a second later the C4 exploded, destroying the entire stash of drugs and a large section of the warehouse.
"Let's get to the library," Xander said as he drove down the street.