Title : End of a Dynasty
Author : Tobias Spiegler
Disclaimer: I own nothing
Summary: Xander and the Scoobies prepare themselves for the final battle against Sanchez, but they will soon realize that the vampire leader still has an ace up in his sleeve
Author's notes: Just some things I want to say before I continue with Stolen Innocence (which is about 65% finished). I know that a lot of people hate Buffy (can't blame them, I fell the same way). But I also know that all this is mainly based on her behavior in seasons six and seven. Regarding the Late Night series, I also had my doubts if I should continue with B/X, since season seven really made me dislike the Buffy character.
But after I watched seasons one and two again (which I consider the best ones) and after reading tons of B/X fics again (mainly Ozmandyus' , Lori Bush's and Joanne W's fics) I found new courage to continue.
So, if you read the next chapter of the series, please block out the image of bitchy Buffy from the previous seasons and remember seasons one and two, where she still was a great character and not a train wreck waiting to happen.
Okay, I hope that cleared some things out.
Just a minor thing for Dirty Mind: I will basically ignore everything else that happened during the last season. Why? Well, mainly because the episodes were only there to justify Buffy's decisions in Dirty Girls. And I will not repeat this shit, that's for sure.
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"Fuck," Buffy cursed. The situation she was currently in didn't appeal to her very much. She was running through one of Sunnydale's many cemeteries. That alone wouldn't be that bad, if not for dozen vampires chased the blonde slayer.
Buffy quickly leaped over a small wall and immediately took cover behind it. The vampires stopped and opened fire, tearing chunks of stone out of the wall, showering her with the debris.
When the vampire's guns ran dry Buffy looked over her cover and fired at the vampires. Like Xander had taught her, two quick shots to centre mass. Two of the vampire went down, the blessed bullets immediately kicking in, leaving the vampires moaning in pain on the ground.
The vampires finished reloading and again fired at her position, Buffy taking immediately cover.
"Xander," Buffy spoke into her throat mic. "Where are you?"
"I'm here Buff," came the reply back. "Just run down that path. I've already prepared everything."
"Great idea," Buffy muttered and took quick peek over the wall and hastily crouched right back into her cover. "How am I supposed to do that? These guys are keeping me real busy here."
"Do you need help?" Xander asked worried.
"Nope," Buffy said and took a flash bang out of her pocket. "I'm good."
Buffy threw the grenade over the wall. It landed only a few feet away from the vampires. Unfortunately they were not ass dumb as the normal vampires in Sunnydale. They quickly ran for cover.
The basic idea of blinding the enemy didn't work this time. The grenade exploded, but the vampires were already on the ground. But the bright flash gave Buffy enough time to leave her cover, running down the path as Xander instructed her.
The distraction didn't last long and the vampire immediately gave chase, firing while they ran after her. One of them was able to hit the fleeing Slayer with a grazing shot to her left shoulder.
Buffy stumbled and fell down, rolling with the motion and landed behind a tree. She was however surprised to find Xander here.
"Hey darling," Xander greeted her with a smile. "Hard day at the office?"
"Oh, shut up," Buffy said annoyed. "Just push the damn button."
"As you wish," Xander said and pushed the button on the detonator. Behind them the four claymore mines detonated in a deafening explosion, sending their deadly contents into the advancing vampires. The vamps were literally ripped into pieces, the razor sharp shrapnel tearing through them like through tissue paper. None of them survived the thunderstorm that rained down on them and they quickly vanished into a big cloud of dust.
"Whoa that's a lot of dust," Buffy exclaimed as she looked out of her cover.
"Yep," Xander said, but spotted the six more vampire that ran into the clearing. "And it's getting more."
The vamps immediately opened fire at their position. Xander returned the attack with his USP while Buffy fired some random shots with her Baretta.
"Man, I hate it when that happens," Buffy said as she reloaded her pistol.
"Don't worry," Xander told her with a knowing smile. "It will soon be over."
"Huh," Buffy asked confused. But before she could ask him what he meant she could already hear the shots of various guns echoing behind the group of vampires. And another sound she couldn't place.
When she looked again out of her cover, only two of the vampires were still there, both lying obviously unconscious on the ground. The rest of swirled as dust through the air.
"Wow, that's surprising," Buffy exclaimed.
"Not that much," Xander said and stood up. "Nice job Riley. You can come out know."
Right on that mark the five initiative soldiers appeared from the same path Buffy and the vampires had taken.
Xander could immediately tell the difference between the amateur demon hunters he had met a few month earlier and the team that stood now in front of him. Stakes have found their permanent way into the Initiatives arsenal, each one of the team member had three strapped to his leg. The now also carried sidearms, a mix between the Baretta 92 and the old Colt Government. But gone were the electrical tazers as the standard weapons, only two of the soldiers still had them. The rest of them, including Riley, carried Daewoo full automatic shotguns with a 20 round drum magazine.
Xander walked up to the team and shook Riley's hand.
"It' been a while Xander," Riley said and looked over at Buffy, who had finally lost the initial confusion and walked over to Xander's side. "Your friend over here seemed liked she needed help, so we followed her and her friends."
"I see," Xander said and nodded. "Well at least your equipment has improved," he said and motioned for the self loading shotgun.
"Yeah," Riley said with a chuckle. "You should see what else we have in our armoury."
"Ah, Riley this is Buffy Summers," Xander introduced his friend. Both shook hands."Buffy, Riley Finn."
"I know you," Riley said as he inspected her more closely. "You are in Professor Walsh's psychology class."
"That's right," she told him with a smile.
"So, you are helping Xander out with the vampire hunting?" Riley asked. Xander immediately noticed Buff's shocked look and her growing anger. So he quickly interrupted the conversation.
"Yeah, you could say that," he said, but that only earned him another glare from Buffy.
"Well alt least we got two more hostiles for research," Riley said and motioned at the two vampires.
"Whoa, not that fast," Xander said. "Remember. You owe me at vampire. For the one you dusted two months ago"
"Huh," Riley asked confused. "What do you want with a vampire?"
"My business," Xander said.
"I think I don't want to know," Riley said. "Anything we can help you with?"
"No," Xander said. "Everything is under control."
"Yeah. Look, I talked with the higher ups in our base. They would really like to meet you sometime," Riley explained.
"Well, at the moment I have all my hands full," Xander responded. "I'll give you a call once I have some time left."
"Good enough for me," Riley said as his men carried the still unconscious vampire out of the cemetery. "Good luck Xander," Riley called as he followed his men.
"You too," Xander called back.
When the five men team was out of sight Buffy finally couldn't hold it in any longer.
"Can you believe this?" Buffy screamed outraged. "He thought I was helping you out? Who does he think he is? I could kick his ass through the whole graveyard without breaking sweat and he talks to me like I'm a little schoolgirl."
Xander looked at his friend and smiled at her reaction. "Well, you did help me out. You lured the vampires in our trap,"
"And don't get me started on you Harris," Buffy told him menacingly and poked him with her index finger in he chest. "You still owe me for the 'race' joke you pulled on me."
"Hey, that was months ago. No use whining over spilled milk,okay?" Xander tried to calm her down. "What do you want to do? You want to tell him that you are a mystical warrior that fights evil? As far as we know you could join the fangfaces they capture."
"Okay, I get what you are saying," Buffy said in defeat."No mentioning our supernatural abilities until we know what's the deal iswith them. By the way, how did you know that they were there?"
"Smelled them," Xander said and tapped his nose "The smell of gun oil is pretty easily to detect."
"And what are you doing now with this one?" Buffy asked and motioned for the vampire on the ground.
"The little bastard will help us," he said and took a small electronic device out of his pocket. He kneeled down and placed the small bug under the collar of the vampire's leather jacket. "That will help us to find Sanchez's headquarter."
"I hope," Buffy said as they both walked in the direction of Xander's parked SUV, leaving the vampire on the ground. "We have been playing hit and run too long with these guys. It's time we put an end to the whole thing."
"Hope it really ends with Sanchez," Xander said and sighed "I still expect that Carver will stab us in the back as soon as we kill his enemy."
"Yeah," Buffy agreed. "But let's deal with Sanchez first. We still can worry about Carver after we finished him off."
Xander nodded, but smelled something odd about Buffy.
"You are hurt," he stated and looked at Buffy.
Buffy looked at her shoulder and just now noted the wound.
"Yeah," she admitted. "One of he vamps hit me."
Xander stopped and examined the wound more closely. "Nothing real bad. But it needs some stitching"
"Great. Another trip to the hospital," Buffy muttered.
"Not necessary, "Xander said and lead her to the SUV. "I can patch you up at my apartment."
"My big hero," Buffy said mock admiring. "What would I do without you."
"You don't want to know;" Xander said as they steeppd in to the car.
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"That's absolutely unacceptable" Sanchez shouted and looked at the assembled vampires in his office. Those were his leaders, each one of them controlling a group of vampires, "We lost more than forty vampires in the last week. I want to know exactly what happened out there."
"They took us by surprise," one of the leaders finally spoke up. "They hit us hard and disappeared immediately afterwards."
Sanchez took a pistol from under his desk and shot the vampire in to the head. The rest of the vampires could only watch as the body of their comrade turned into dust.
Sanchez waited a few more minutes, to let the example sink in.
"The next on who loses men with share his fate," he declared and pointed at the dustpile. "Now go and kill that slayer."
When all the vampires left, Michael spoke up.
"Boss, even killing your men won't change the situation," Michael told him
"I know that," Sanchez admitted angrily. "But I have a reputation to keep."
"The problem with the slayer has to be solved," he continued. "Another week like that and Carver might overpower us here."
"Which brings us to our next topic," Sanchez declared and stood up. "How is our little project going?"
"I just got a new update," Michael told him with a smile and handed him a folder. "The leader of the group reports that they found something.
"Really," Sanchez exclaimed with an evil smile and went through the folder.
"Yes," Michael said. "And we also have the reports from the researcher."
"And?" Sanchez asked with anticipation.
"It's the artifact," Michael finally declared.
The vampire leader immediately stood up and rushed for the exit. "I want inspect the site immediately," he told Michael on their way. "Soon the slayer will be dead."
Author : Tobias Spiegler
Disclaimer: I own nothing
Summary: Xander and the Scoobies prepare themselves for the final battle against Sanchez, but they will soon realize that the vampire leader still has an ace up in his sleeve
Author's notes: Just some things I want to say before I continue with Stolen Innocence (which is about 65% finished). I know that a lot of people hate Buffy (can't blame them, I fell the same way). But I also know that all this is mainly based on her behavior in seasons six and seven. Regarding the Late Night series, I also had my doubts if I should continue with B/X, since season seven really made me dislike the Buffy character.
But after I watched seasons one and two again (which I consider the best ones) and after reading tons of B/X fics again (mainly Ozmandyus' , Lori Bush's and Joanne W's fics) I found new courage to continue.
So, if you read the next chapter of the series, please block out the image of bitchy Buffy from the previous seasons and remember seasons one and two, where she still was a great character and not a train wreck waiting to happen.
Okay, I hope that cleared some things out.
Just a minor thing for Dirty Mind: I will basically ignore everything else that happened during the last season. Why? Well, mainly because the episodes were only there to justify Buffy's decisions in Dirty Girls. And I will not repeat this shit, that's for sure.
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"Fuck," Buffy cursed. The situation she was currently in didn't appeal to her very much. She was running through one of Sunnydale's many cemeteries. That alone wouldn't be that bad, if not for dozen vampires chased the blonde slayer.
Buffy quickly leaped over a small wall and immediately took cover behind it. The vampires stopped and opened fire, tearing chunks of stone out of the wall, showering her with the debris.
When the vampire's guns ran dry Buffy looked over her cover and fired at the vampires. Like Xander had taught her, two quick shots to centre mass. Two of the vampire went down, the blessed bullets immediately kicking in, leaving the vampires moaning in pain on the ground.
The vampires finished reloading and again fired at her position, Buffy taking immediately cover.
"Xander," Buffy spoke into her throat mic. "Where are you?"
"I'm here Buff," came the reply back. "Just run down that path. I've already prepared everything."
"Great idea," Buffy muttered and took quick peek over the wall and hastily crouched right back into her cover. "How am I supposed to do that? These guys are keeping me real busy here."
"Do you need help?" Xander asked worried.
"Nope," Buffy said and took a flash bang out of her pocket. "I'm good."
Buffy threw the grenade over the wall. It landed only a few feet away from the vampires. Unfortunately they were not ass dumb as the normal vampires in Sunnydale. They quickly ran for cover.
The basic idea of blinding the enemy didn't work this time. The grenade exploded, but the vampires were already on the ground. But the bright flash gave Buffy enough time to leave her cover, running down the path as Xander instructed her.
The distraction didn't last long and the vampire immediately gave chase, firing while they ran after her. One of them was able to hit the fleeing Slayer with a grazing shot to her left shoulder.
Buffy stumbled and fell down, rolling with the motion and landed behind a tree. She was however surprised to find Xander here.
"Hey darling," Xander greeted her with a smile. "Hard day at the office?"
"Oh, shut up," Buffy said annoyed. "Just push the damn button."
"As you wish," Xander said and pushed the button on the detonator. Behind them the four claymore mines detonated in a deafening explosion, sending their deadly contents into the advancing vampires. The vamps were literally ripped into pieces, the razor sharp shrapnel tearing through them like through tissue paper. None of them survived the thunderstorm that rained down on them and they quickly vanished into a big cloud of dust.
"Whoa that's a lot of dust," Buffy exclaimed as she looked out of her cover.
"Yep," Xander said, but spotted the six more vampire that ran into the clearing. "And it's getting more."
The vamps immediately opened fire at their position. Xander returned the attack with his USP while Buffy fired some random shots with her Baretta.
"Man, I hate it when that happens," Buffy said as she reloaded her pistol.
"Don't worry," Xander told her with a knowing smile. "It will soon be over."
"Huh," Buffy asked confused. But before she could ask him what he meant she could already hear the shots of various guns echoing behind the group of vampires. And another sound she couldn't place.
When she looked again out of her cover, only two of the vampires were still there, both lying obviously unconscious on the ground. The rest of swirled as dust through the air.
"Wow, that's surprising," Buffy exclaimed.
"Not that much," Xander said and stood up. "Nice job Riley. You can come out know."
Right on that mark the five initiative soldiers appeared from the same path Buffy and the vampires had taken.
Xander could immediately tell the difference between the amateur demon hunters he had met a few month earlier and the team that stood now in front of him. Stakes have found their permanent way into the Initiatives arsenal, each one of the team member had three strapped to his leg. The now also carried sidearms, a mix between the Baretta 92 and the old Colt Government. But gone were the electrical tazers as the standard weapons, only two of the soldiers still had them. The rest of them, including Riley, carried Daewoo full automatic shotguns with a 20 round drum magazine.
Xander walked up to the team and shook Riley's hand.
"It' been a while Xander," Riley said and looked over at Buffy, who had finally lost the initial confusion and walked over to Xander's side. "Your friend over here seemed liked she needed help, so we followed her and her friends."
"I see," Xander said and nodded. "Well at least your equipment has improved," he said and motioned for the self loading shotgun.
"Yeah," Riley said with a chuckle. "You should see what else we have in our armoury."
"Ah, Riley this is Buffy Summers," Xander introduced his friend. Both shook hands."Buffy, Riley Finn."
"I know you," Riley said as he inspected her more closely. "You are in Professor Walsh's psychology class."
"That's right," she told him with a smile.
"So, you are helping Xander out with the vampire hunting?" Riley asked. Xander immediately noticed Buff's shocked look and her growing anger. So he quickly interrupted the conversation.
"Yeah, you could say that," he said, but that only earned him another glare from Buffy.
"Well alt least we got two more hostiles for research," Riley said and motioned at the two vampires.
"Whoa, not that fast," Xander said. "Remember. You owe me at vampire. For the one you dusted two months ago"
"Huh," Riley asked confused. "What do you want with a vampire?"
"My business," Xander said.
"I think I don't want to know," Riley said. "Anything we can help you with?"
"No," Xander said. "Everything is under control."
"Yeah. Look, I talked with the higher ups in our base. They would really like to meet you sometime," Riley explained.
"Well, at the moment I have all my hands full," Xander responded. "I'll give you a call once I have some time left."
"Good enough for me," Riley said as his men carried the still unconscious vampire out of the cemetery. "Good luck Xander," Riley called as he followed his men.
"You too," Xander called back.
When the five men team was out of sight Buffy finally couldn't hold it in any longer.
"Can you believe this?" Buffy screamed outraged. "He thought I was helping you out? Who does he think he is? I could kick his ass through the whole graveyard without breaking sweat and he talks to me like I'm a little schoolgirl."
Xander looked at his friend and smiled at her reaction. "Well, you did help me out. You lured the vampires in our trap,"
"And don't get me started on you Harris," Buffy told him menacingly and poked him with her index finger in he chest. "You still owe me for the 'race' joke you pulled on me."
"Hey, that was months ago. No use whining over spilled milk,okay?" Xander tried to calm her down. "What do you want to do? You want to tell him that you are a mystical warrior that fights evil? As far as we know you could join the fangfaces they capture."
"Okay, I get what you are saying," Buffy said in defeat."No mentioning our supernatural abilities until we know what's the deal iswith them. By the way, how did you know that they were there?"
"Smelled them," Xander said and tapped his nose "The smell of gun oil is pretty easily to detect."
"And what are you doing now with this one?" Buffy asked and motioned for the vampire on the ground.
"The little bastard will help us," he said and took a small electronic device out of his pocket. He kneeled down and placed the small bug under the collar of the vampire's leather jacket. "That will help us to find Sanchez's headquarter."
"I hope," Buffy said as they both walked in the direction of Xander's parked SUV, leaving the vampire on the ground. "We have been playing hit and run too long with these guys. It's time we put an end to the whole thing."
"Hope it really ends with Sanchez," Xander said and sighed "I still expect that Carver will stab us in the back as soon as we kill his enemy."
"Yeah," Buffy agreed. "But let's deal with Sanchez first. We still can worry about Carver after we finished him off."
Xander nodded, but smelled something odd about Buffy.
"You are hurt," he stated and looked at Buffy.
Buffy looked at her shoulder and just now noted the wound.
"Yeah," she admitted. "One of he vamps hit me."
Xander stopped and examined the wound more closely. "Nothing real bad. But it needs some stitching"
"Great. Another trip to the hospital," Buffy muttered.
"Not necessary, "Xander said and lead her to the SUV. "I can patch you up at my apartment."
"My big hero," Buffy said mock admiring. "What would I do without you."
"You don't want to know;" Xander said as they steeppd in to the car.
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"That's absolutely unacceptable" Sanchez shouted and looked at the assembled vampires in his office. Those were his leaders, each one of them controlling a group of vampires, "We lost more than forty vampires in the last week. I want to know exactly what happened out there."
"They took us by surprise," one of the leaders finally spoke up. "They hit us hard and disappeared immediately afterwards."
Sanchez took a pistol from under his desk and shot the vampire in to the head. The rest of the vampires could only watch as the body of their comrade turned into dust.
Sanchez waited a few more minutes, to let the example sink in.
"The next on who loses men with share his fate," he declared and pointed at the dustpile. "Now go and kill that slayer."
When all the vampires left, Michael spoke up.
"Boss, even killing your men won't change the situation," Michael told him
"I know that," Sanchez admitted angrily. "But I have a reputation to keep."
"The problem with the slayer has to be solved," he continued. "Another week like that and Carver might overpower us here."
"Which brings us to our next topic," Sanchez declared and stood up. "How is our little project going?"
"I just got a new update," Michael told him with a smile and handed him a folder. "The leader of the group reports that they found something.
"Really," Sanchez exclaimed with an evil smile and went through the folder.
"Yes," Michael said. "And we also have the reports from the researcher."
"And?" Sanchez asked with anticipation.
"It's the artifact," Michael finally declared.
The vampire leader immediately stood up and rushed for the exit. "I want inspect the site immediately," he told Michael on their way. "Soon the slayer will be dead."