Starfleet Command, San Francisco, Earth.
With the Stargate on the grounds of Starfleet Command having its event horizon shielded, there were no more incoming Kull Warriors. In the meantime, engineers from the Vantage were being guarded by an SG-team while they connected a tablet to a panel near the ground. It was the control unit for the Stargate, and the engineers were now checking on the gate address that the wormhole was connected from. In the meantime, Slayers, Angel, Spike, and Kathy were taking care of the Kull Warrior all over San Francisco and Oakland; in some areas the Slayers were yelling at the remaining Starfleet officers and Federation Security Forces to take people who hadn't gone into the underground bunkers to cover.
Slowly but surely, the Kull Warriors were being cut down. The invasion was nearly over. Back in Starfleet Command, Buffy, Josie, and two other Slayers were taking out one Kull Warrior after another. With the ships above them providing information on hot zones, areas where the Kull Warriors hadn't been killed yet. For Josie, it was a surreal moment as she fought back to back with one of the Slayers she read about in the Watcher and Slayer diaries. She swung the Scythe, beheading one Kull after another while Buffy and the other three Slayers with her used their Lightblades to effortlessly take out one Kull after another.
"We have Starfleet Command nearly clear," Buffy said as she swung her blade, nearly bisecting the Kull. "Faith, take the others and…." There was an audible gasp from Buffy before she could finish her sentence. Josie was the first to hear it. The woman turned around to see Buffy stumbling back a step away from her. The Lightblade was deactivated as it fell out of her grip and to the ground while her left hand reached up to the side of her head. Josie saw Buffy's eyes widen as the Kull warrior crumpled to the ground, followed by herself as she stumbled backwards.
"Miss Summers!" yelled Josie as the Kull she just stabbed fell to the ground dead. The other two Slayers, Colleen and Karri, rushed to Buffy's side after killing the Kulls they were facing. Josie kneeled down while Karrie reached down with one hand and felt for a pulse.
"She's alive," Karri said as Colleen reached down and gently shook Buffy. In the meantime, Karri contacted Faith and told her that Buffy was unconscious. It was just then that Buffy moved her head while groaning.
"No… no…" Buffy mumbled with her eyes closed tight.
"Well, not exactly unconscious," Karri said as Buffy's eyes were rapidly moving under her eyelids, "I…"
"No," Buffy mumbled as Karri described to Faith what exactly was happening to Buffy. In the meantime, the latter found herself in a brightly lit cavern. She looked around with eyes wide open in stunned silence at the raging columns of fire that were burning from pools of black and bubbling liquid. She then stared at the rocky hard ground beneath her feet and then back up to the thousands of pale creatures that gathered around her. She stepped in front of one of them and waved her hands over its eyes, and then she put her hands down and stared while her heart beat rapidly.
Buffy was staring into what looked like a vampire, albeit a type she hadn't seen before; it was pale, faces were more demonic looking than the ones she used to fight against hundreds of years ago on Earth, they had sharp claws, teeth, yellow eyes and pointed ears just like the Master. Scattered among these vampires were thousand's of demons; tall, short, armed, unarmed, those with more than two arms, more than two legs- a virtual smorgasbord of evil surrounded Buffy.
And they were all growling as they looked upwards.
Narrowing her eyes, Buffy turned around and looked up. And her heart immediately fell. Buffy could just barely make her out, but the Slayer knew that it was her youngest daughter hanging in the air. Her body was horizontally splayed out, her front facing the thousands of demons beneath her while red and yellow energy around her wrists and ankles were keeping her in the air.
"No!" yelled Buffy as she ran towards her daughter, "Lisa! Lisa!" Buffy yelled at the top of her lung as she remained looking upwards. The closer she got to Lisa, the more Buffy could see the bruises and cuts covering her daughter's face. It was just when Buffy was nearly beneath the hanging Lisa that the older Slayer heard screams of agony escaping Lisa's lips. Buffy stopped and stared as something invisible slashed Lisa through her clothes and through her skin. "No!" Buffy yelled as blood poured down from the slashes on Lisa's body and towards the ground. Buffy took off running once again until she was in the area where the blood fell onto a group of sigils that were carved on the ground.
"It.. it can't be," Buffy thought to herself as the blood began moving on its own into the carvings on the ground She recognized the sigils that were carved, the very same sigils that were used, with drops of the bloods of several Slayers, to divert the Earth's magical energy to block the Hellmouths. Buffy covered her eyes at the bright flash of red light that followed after the blood moved into the grooves of the sigils.
Upon opening her eyes once again, Buffy stared at the red sky over her head. She looked around at the smashed remains of star ships that littered the ground as far as the eye could see. Buffy saw she wasn't in the cavern anymore, she was outside… on the grounds of Starfleet Command. Hearing a metallic screeching sound, Buffy looked up to see fiery debris falling towards the ground in the distance.
"Lisa!" yelled Buffy turning away from the large fireballs that impacted the ground with a 'boom'. "Lisa!" Buffy was rooted to the spot as she spun on her heels while yelling her daughter's name. "Willow! Xander! Jon! Dawn!" Spinning around upon hearing the sound of thunder in the distance, Buffy stared with widened eyes and a hanging jaw as the Vantage streaked down through the reddish clouds.
"No!" yelled Buffy as she shot up to a seating position, startling the three women. Buffy was panting heavily as she stared at the three women before tapping the device in her left ear. "Faith, I need you and all senior Slayers to the Vantage.
"B?" Faith asked as she stabbed a Kull before pulling back her Lightblade and at the same time kicking the Kull away, "you may be done on your end, but…" Faith swung her blade and then cut through another Kull before ducking her head as a fist from behind just missed her, "we still have a few here."
"Faith, it's about Lisa," Buffy said, "I… I think she's in the Hellmouth."
At hearing the words, 'Hellmouth', Josie and the others looked at each other before turning back to look at Buffy. "She's there, Faith," Buffy whispered, "I… I had a psychic vision, and… the demons down there are going to kill her."
"Who do you need?" Faith bluntly asked as she kicked the bottom of her boot into the face of another Kull warrior, "call 'em out, B."
"Vantage, prepare a beam out of the following Slayers directly to the armoury," Buffy said as she was being helped up, "tell Jon I need to talk to him as well. I know where Lisa is, the Hellmouth."
"Understood," Jon's First Officer said before he turned his head and told one of the bridge crew to contact Jon, "tell him a team of Slayers will meet him in the Armoury. And tell him that Colonel Summers is in the Hellmouth." The middle-aged man then told Buffy that they were ready to receive names.
"You, Rona, Angel, Spike, Kathy, Vi, Julie," Buffy gave off a list of names; names that were relayed to the Vantage which tagged the subcutaneous transmitters on each of the Slayers and vampires. Once Buffy ordered a beam out, a team of ten Slayers – most senior Slayers with the most experience – were beamed up to the Vantage. But not before Buffy told Josie that she had to remain on the surface. Josie was about to say that she needed to be with the other Slayers, but Buffy interjected by saying they would see each other again before they left orbit.
"There's a lot we need to talk about," Buffy said before she vanished in white light, leaving behind Karri and Colleen with Josie. The both of them stood up and asked Josie if she was still willing to fight; and all Josie could do was nod her head before she and the others headed for the next hotspot.
Infirmary, Vantage.
In the meantime, Jon was standing next to Willow who was lying down on a bed in the infirmary. Her head was still ringing and she was exhausted even though her body had already healed the injuries she received from the battle with Adria. As for Vala, she was lying next to Willow with her eyes closed.
"She's exhausted, and the nanites have only begun fixing her injuries," Willow whispered looking at Vala before turning her head to Jon. Jon had already told her about the destruction of the Persephone, and the fact that Atlantis would be diverting the plasma stream for the next five to six hours.
"We're running scans of the surface," Jon said nodding his head, "but so far, we haven't had any luck. We haven't even been able to detect the hyperspace window that should have brought her to Earth, and you know hyperspace windows, even the tiny ones, are hard to miss."
"This is the only planet that supports life," Willow whispered lying down, "she has to be here. Have.. have you told Buffy that the Persephone was destroyed?"
"She knows," Jon whispered, "and I already relayed what Dawn told me; a window was detected just before the particle stream destroyed the ship."
"Then she's out there somewhere, Jon," Willow whispered, "and…"
"General, sir," a screen turned on to Jon's right side. It was one of the bridge crew on the screen who continued, "we received a message from Miss Summers on the surface. She knows where Colonel Summers has gone."
"Where?" Jon asked while Willow winced in pain from her shoulder as she propped herself onto her elbow and turned to look at the screen behind her.
"The Hellmouth, in Sunnydale," the man said as a stunned Jon turned to Willow, who was just as stunned. "And sir, Miss Summers and ten of her Slayers… including Spike, Angel, and Kathy have been beamed up to the armoury for a rescue mission."
"Tell them I'm on my way," Jon said as he turned to Willow. The redhead was pushing herself to a seated position while whispering, 'I'm coming too'. But Jon shook his head, "you're not at full strength," he said as Willow looked back up at him. "Your head is still ringing, you're still dizzy, your body's in pain, and…"
"My injuries have healed," Willow said as a doctor, the grey-haired man in charge of the infirmary on the Vantage, rushed to the bed as Willow tried to get to her feet.
"General!" yelled the man, Dr. Chambers, gently at Willow "what do you think you're doing?"
"I have to go and help rescue Lisa," Willow said as she pushed herself off the bed. Jon rushed forward when Willow hunched over before she closed her eyes. She fell into Jon's arms just as the Doctor rushed to their side. Jon helped Willow back onto the bed in a seated position.
"Easy, easy," Jon said as her stepped back and the Doctor helped Willow lie down, "you're the one who told me you were dizzy, remember."
"You're exhausted, General," the Doctor said, "your body took a beating and, yes, I know it's healed up, but it'll still take time for the dizziness and the ringing in your ears to go away."
"I…."
"I'm in charge of the infirmary, General," the Doctor said with a serious tone in his voice, "my word is law here. And my word is, you are not going planet-side for any mission."
"Jon," Willow said as she started to see two of him before closing her eyes, "we need to know if we can beam them in, and then beam them back."
"I know," Jon said. Willow then sighed, and nodded her head before telling Jon to go. Jon nodded his head, and then turned around before rushing out the infirmary doors. Upon reaching the hallway, he pressed the earpiece he was wearing and ordered his Second in Command, "I want one wing of fighters to head at best possible speed to Sunnydale. I was a close up scan of the area underneath the city. We haven't been able to get Lisa's transmitter from up here using the most advanced sensors, here's hoping the sensors on the Arrows will be able to get her location."
"Understood," the middle-aged man said before he relayed the order to Red Wing.
The Enterprise, now.
Data, Picard, and the rest of the bridge crew made Main Engineering the secondary command center since the bridge was more or less inoperable. All the main controls were switched down to Engineering, and were manned by operations, tactical, and navigation officers in designated areas while the engineers were going about their own work to restore power to the rest of the ship.
The Captain was standing, his hands on the central console, in the middle of Main engineering in front of the warp core while Riker and the others, including Data and Laforge, stood on the other side of the round table.
"The city-ship's shields are… well, for lack of a better word, amazing," Riker said as he was looking down at the center table which had a screen showing several Pegasus Alliance ships surrounding Atlantis which was still diverting the particle stream away from Earth.
"Any news from DS9?" asked Picard.
"The Station has been secured, Captain," Data said, "the Cardassian's have been incapacitated by, according to Worf, a group of very able warrior women."
"I see," Picard nodded his head before turning to Data, "speaking of warrior women, have you any news on Miss Charney, the school teacher?"
"I am afraid not, Captain," Data said as her pressed the screen on the center console, which then zoomed down to the communicator he had given her earlier. It was lying among shattered glass and debris after Josie smashed through a window to escape from Kull Warriors that were trying to kill her. Data then refocused the sensors on the many women killing the Kull Warriors with blades of light. "Our sensor arrays are in need of repair, Captain. I cannot give you accurate readings on the women who are fighting on the ground."
"Captain," Lt. Daniels said as he rushed up to Picard, "we're getting a message from one of the Pegasus Alliance ships over Starfleet Command, the Tianjiang. They've given us coordinates of areas that have been cleared."
"Inform Starfleet Security," Picard said, "have them send Security personnel to those areas that have been cleared. Inform the commander of the Tianjiang that we would like to liaise with their security forces."
"Captain?" Laforge said, "we're getting energy spikes from the surface. Some of the women are being beamed away and… and we have four of the Pegasus fighters heading to…. One second… to Sunnydale."
"Sunnydale?" Picard asked as he looked up at Laforge, "what's…"
"Sir," Daniels said after he sent a message down to the Tianjiang, "I'm getting a message from the Pegasus Vessel, Vantage. General Jon O'Neil, sir."
"On audio," Picard said.
"This is General Jon O'Neill to the Enterprise," Jon said as goosebumps erupted over his arms at the knowledge that he would be the first, instead of his older self, to talk to Picard. He just wondered if the man looked like the actor, and if his voice sounded similar as well, "I'm guessing this is the Federation flag ship?"
"General," Picard said as he stared at the four fighters making their way to Sunnydale, "this is Captain Jen-Luc Picard of the Enterprise."
'Yes,' Jon mentally cheered before resolving to gloat at his older self that he talked to Picard, 'oh just stop it.' Jon shook his head before continuing to speak, "we believe that one of our life pods from the destroyed Persephone landed somewhere in Sunnydale. We've sent a retrieval team to perform a search and rescue mission. I just wanted to give you a heads-up."
"Inform Starfleet Security, Lt. Daniels," Picard said as he looked at the man before turning back to the center console, "General, I know I have a lot of questions to ask you, and… well… it seems as if the fighting's nearly at an end. I can only guess that the Federation Council and Starfleet Command would like to meet with your representatives very soon."
"Well, we'll have to wait for that moment," Jon said, "that would have to be arranged between our leaders and yours."
"Of course," Picard said just as he received news that Voyager had come alongside the Enterprise. The Captain nodded his head before turning his attention back to Jon, "General, I will have Starfleet Security escort your fighters in their search for your missing crewmember."
"That's great," Jon said nodding his head as he strode towards the armoury, "O'Neill out." Jon then ordered a secured communications channel to Admiral Adama on the Galactica, Thor on the O'Neill Two, and Teal'c on the Chulak. He told them about Lisa being in the Hellmouth, and that a group of Arrows were heading for Sunnydale to run deep scans.
"Our scans have shown no signs of a hyperspace window," Apollo said as he stared at the hologram of Earth being projected from the central table in the CIC, "are you sure she's down there?"
"Buffy had a psychic vision," Jon said as he neared the bridge while several members of the crew were running around with tools so that they could repair the internal damage done to conduits and wiring. "She said it was bad. Really, really bad. So, be prepared for anything."
The Hellmouth, 15 minutes later.
Lisa had been running through one tunnel to another. She was panting while sweat beaded on her forehead as the heat around her started to take its toll. She wasn't sure of how long she had been down in the tunnels, especially since her compass, her watch, and her flashlight stopped working. Lisa leaned back against the curved rocky and rough wall of the tunnel and bent down as she grabbed her knees with her hands.
'How long?' Lisa thought as she stared down the dark tunnel in front of her, and then turned her head towards the direction of the darkness she ran through. The breeze she felt earlier was gone, as if it was a trick to get her into the tunnels. It would be two minutes before she stopped for a rest that her equipment failed.
Even her lightblades were ineffective when she ignited them to provide some light. The tunnel, even with the light from the blade, seemed to go on forever as she ran as fast as possible. Several minutes, what seemed like hours to her, Lisa stopped running. She was panting as she looked ahead by holding up her lit blade, and then turned around and raised her blade again.
It was still darkness as far as the eye could see.
Shaking her head, Lisa turned the blade off, and was covered in darkness once again. Lisa then stopped to lean against the wall. She felt dizzy and had a sharp pain in her chest. She felt as if she was moving when she was in fact standing still against the wall. Lisa rubbed her forehead while gritting her teeth as she felt her body becoming lighter, and then a weight forced down upon her. A weight that pushed her forward from the wall she was leaning against, until she fell onto the dry and rocky tunnel floor.
Lisa was panting as she shook her head while feeling her body grow lighter once again while she lay on the floor, and then heavier once again. It felt as if she was in a plane that was making controlled movements, going up and then down in the air. 'But that's not possible, I'm in a tunnel, and…' Lisa then turned her head with a start and stared at the darkness to her left. She felt a breeze brushing past her. Slowly getting up to her feet, Lisa grabbed the handle of one of her lightblades and ignited it. The light emitted down the tunnel, lighting up the walls in her immediate area but not the darkness beyond. But now she felt the breeze again. Lisa placed her hand on the cave wall and then used it to guide her as she cautiously walked towards the breeze. She continued to walk cautiously until she saw flickering light in the distance. Lisa stopped walking and stared at the light.
Her heart was racing when she heard growls and snarls from behind. She turned around and stared into the darkness behind her while she reached for her other handle. At the same time she got into a battle stance, holding up the blade for light while igniting her second lightblade to strike whatever was running towards her.. And then she heard snarls from behind her. Lisa turned just to see the light in the distance blocked by several bodies. She felt a sharp clawed hand shove her to the floor as the light at the literal end of the tunnel vanished.
She swung the blade in her hand, but as the light reflected off a pale monster; she felt a foot slam down against the side of her face. And the darkness took her.
Pegasus Alliance Arrow Fighter Interceptor, designation Red Leader.
Lt. Topher 'Ramshackle' Barnes' Arrow was hurtling across the air with three other Arrow towards the location of Sunnydale; the site where one of their own had landed after the destruction of the Persephone. The blue glow emitting from the engines of the four fighters pushed the vessels towards the city where the Hellmouth was located. It had been only a minute since they received orders from Jon to travel to Sunnydale, and now they were two minutes away from the edge of the city.
"Stay in formation," Lt. Barnes said over the radio as he pressed sections on the panel in front of him, "activate scanners. Set them for deep scan. From what we've been told, the Hellmouth not only gives off a load of energy, it's actually being blocked by another form of energy. Energy that could…"
"You could just call it magic, Ramshackle," chuckled a woman in the tailing Arrow, Lt. Ashia 'Roller' Ishida.
"Can it, Roller," Lt. Barnes said as a smile formed on his face. "Ok, fine. There's magic energy down there that could block our scans. The higher ups are thinking that the closer we get to the ground and run scans, the more chances we'll have of getting an idea of where Colonel Summers is located."
"If the Vantage couldn't pick it up from up there, then…"
"Then we still try," said Lt. Barnes to the Arrow pilot to his port side.
"We getting two unknown contacts," Roller said as two unknown ships appeared on her scanners.
"I got it too," the fourth pilot said as he looked at his scanner and then out the clear canopy, before turning back to his scanner.
"Must be the Starfleet escorts General O'Neill told us about," Lt. Barnes said just as two shuttle craft flew on either side of the Pegasus Arrows. Barnes looked out his canopy at the sleek ships with the characteristic blue and white nacelles before he pressed a button, "this is Lt. Topher Barnes to Federation Shuttle craft, I take it you guys are our escorts?"
"Lt. Barnes, this is Ensign Sig Myers… yes, we are."
"Good then," Barnes whispered as they passed the Sunnydale border. The six ships were kilometres above the highest building in the city as they began scanning. Lt. Barnes had heard stories of Sunnydale, especially since his great- great- great-great-great grandmother was from the city. She was one of the first to board the Talon after the nuclear weapons fell and destroyed Sunnydale. The city now looked very different than the one he had seen in pictures. There were towers, high-rises, and smaller buildings all over the city. It was more of a sprawling metropolis that the city that he had heard about. He flew over Kingman's Bluff, the parts of town where the Magic Box and the Espresso Pump were once located. They were all gone now and replaced by road and buildings that were anywhere between fifteen to thirty stories tall.
But Barnes mission wasn't to go on a sightseeing tour of his past. He looked down at the scanners which were still unable to penetrate the energy that covered the Hellmouth.
"Nothing," Lt. Barnes whispered while the Federation officers in the shuttles were asking for an information on what they were looking for. Lt. Barnes explained that they believed Lisa, or rather Colonel Summers' life pod jumped into an area underneath the city. The Federation officers were curious, and they voiced their curiosity. However, all the response they received on how the Arrows knew that Lisa could be underneath the city was met with, "its classified". The Federation officers scowled at the answer, but they didn't say anything since it was highly likely that if the situation was reversed… they would say the same thing. However, they were also aware that the Arrows would need all the help they could get.
And so, the shuttles started scanning the city, but there was no luck. Even they were curious as to why their deep ground scans were not showing them anything below the waste management system.
'Still nothing', Barnes thought to himself as he continued flying for two more minutes. He was getting the same readings unchanged from the moment they began scanning. Suddenly, a thought popped to his head and he said, "The rest of you stay here and continue scanning, I'm going down there."
"What?" one of the shuttle pilots asked as he looked up from his console to see Barnes' Arrow diving down towards the city, "hey!"
"One Kilometer, nine hundred, eight hundred, seven hundred," the Arrow was diving towards the ground while Barnes stared at the screen on the console in front of him He glanced at the altimeter and the other instruments which showed that he was going down at a fast rate of speed. And then there was the voice of the Shuttle pilot behind him demanding to know what he was doing. "Four hundred, three hundred, Two… there!" Barnes pulled up and levelled off as his Arrow zipped two hundred meters over the road and pedestrians below who looked up before running panicked for cover. The pilot of the shuttlecraft behind Lt. Barnes' Arrow had to reassure everyone running on the side of the roads, and the floating vehicles that were moving aside despite the Arrow and the shuttlecraft being out of their range, that the Arrow wasn't a danger as it darted over the roads, people, and buildings while scanning.
Lt. Barnes' heart was racing as he stared at the console in front of him where he could see an unclear outline of the caverns and tunnels that formed the Hellmouth. And then he pulled up slightly when he was heading for Sunnydale High School hool as he flew over trees which were swaying every-which way as he flew over them. He approached the school, and then caught a 'ping' which lasted for a second before vanishing as he continued to pull up. The ping was from Lisa's subcutaneous transmitter, and Lt. Barnes had found her location.
She was in the center of the Hellmouth, "Red Leader to Vantage Actual, we found her. We know where she is." Barnes then slowed his ascent until joining the rest of his team. It was then that he apologized to the Shuttle craft pilot who had to follow him down until they were just a hundred meters off the ground, "but I'm guessing you have some good readings?"
"No," the pilot said confused while shaking his head, "have you?"
"All I can say is thanks for escorting us," Barnes said as he maneuvered his Arrow until he was facing the two Shuttlecraft, "we found her." Lt. Barnes then ordered Red Team back to San Francisco; and the two shuttlecraft watched them leave before sending the data they collected on the Arrows scans to Starfleet Intelligence.
Several minutes Later.
"Yoohoo." Lisa felt a tremble on the hard ground she found herself lying on. She opened her eyes slowly to find herself staring at a smirking Buffy who had her arms crossed over her chest. Lisa closed her eyes again while reaching for her lightblades handle, but her hand gripped air before landing on the side of her waist. It was gone. "Looking for those?" Buffy said as she turned her head left and nodded at the pale, fanged creature that was holding the handle of the lightblade in its hand.
Lisa narrowed her eyes at the monster as it snarled at her while holding the handle with two hands. She then, as she stood up, looked around and saw that she was surrounded by the creatures that looked like some different breed of vampires. It was when she was spinning around that she noticed the handle of her second lightblade with another vampire. She then looked down at herself when she felt a breeze hit her body.
She wasn't wearing her vest anymore. She looked around and saw that it lay torn, and all of its contents crushed on the hard ground. Lisa's heart was racing as she saw crowds surrounding her starting to grow; it seemed as if there was thousands upon thousands of vampires and other demons around her.
"My great army," the First, as Buffy, said. Lisa spun around and glared at the First while her hands were clenched into fists while she tried to come up with something… anything, that would get her out of this predicaments. However, a part of Lisa knew that there was no way for her to get out of this situation alive. She knew that even if she had her lightblades, she wouldn't be able to make a dent in the numbers of demons and vampires surrounding her… all of them howling and screaming for blood. Lisa knew that even with the nanites in her body augmenting her Slayer abilities, there was no way she would survive what's coming next.
Lisa turned to the sneering Buffy who said, "your blood will spill on the sigils." Lisa stared with a confused expression at the First who pointed downwards. Lisa then looked down and saw various symbols etched onto the ground below her. Lisa then, with her mouth hanging open, looked back up at the First.
"The end is here, little Slayer," the First said before turning to one of the pale vampires. "You know what to do." Lisa saw the vampire nod its head before staring at Lisa while licking its lips, "make sure the blood flows onto the sigils, and then… only when the ritual has begun… then you can drink the rest."
"No," Lisa shook her head.
"Turn her," the First said, as Buffy, while glaring at Lisa, "I want to see Buffy on her knees before you kill your mother."
"No," Lisa shook her head as she got into battle position, "I…"
It was then that the ground shook. The demons, vampires, and the First turned their attention to just as several meters away where there was a fireball that reached high up into the air. In the spacious and high-ceilinged cavern, the ground shook again at another fireball, and then another, and then another. There were screams and howls of pain from the demons as the First turned towards Lisa, "bleed her dry!"
Before the vampire that was ordered to bleed Lisa, and then turn her, dashed towards her. It suddenly stopped at screeching sounds about a hundred meters away. She turned her head to the right and saw a crowd of demons moved away with roars and growls as white light flashed. And then there were flashes of yellow, red, and green, and blue. Lisa smiled at the sounds of weapon fire before turning to the vampire that was gripping one of her lightblade handles.
"You have something of mine," she whispered before running towards the vampire. At the same time, the vampire that was about to kill Lisa, who was distracted by the flashes of white light, turned and narrowed its eyes as Lisa rushed for the lightblade handle. It knew that the vampire holding the handle was distracted by the sudden sounds of weapons fire and the screams and howls of death from the demons around them filling the vast chamber.
The vampire remembered its order to bleed Lisa, and that was what it would do. No matter what. It dashed for Lisa, confident that it could get the girl before she reached her weapons. He would free his brethren from the Hellmouth.
He would be responsible for the end of the world. And it would be an honour to serve at the left hand of the First Evil. Nearing Lisa, the Vampire growled. And Lisa, almost at the Lightblade handle, saw out of the corner of her eyes that the vampire leapt towards her after getting a running start. Lisa deftly shifted her body, the vampire's movement seemingly extremely slow. The vampire leapt post her before she shifted her body again. She then ran to the vampire which was holding her LIghtblade's handle, and grabbed his shoulder since his back was to her. Lisa turned him around sharply, and then punched his face while using her other hand to reach for the handle which had come loose from the surprise punch.
Lisa reached out her arm and the handle landed in her hand. Her fingers gripped the weapon tight before turning it on and then, once the plasma was ignited in the magnetic sheath, Lisa beheaded the vampire, and then turned around to slice the blade through the vampire which was ordered to kill her.
Her lightblade activated in her hand, Lisa searched for the other handle and then found it in the hands of one of a group of vampires running towards her. And she ran towards them while hearing a voice to her left shouting, "get down!"
Lisa ducked as yellow and red bursts of plasma mowed down the vampires and demons around her. Once the sounds of weapons fire were silent as she line of dead demons were formed towards her location, Lisa stood back up and turned to her left. A smile appeared on her face when she saw Buffy, Faith, Rona, and several other Slayers running towards her after putting down their arms. They had been firing their wrist repeaters while others, including Angel and Spike, were firing rapid fire plasma cannons – a Tau'ri technology that was developed for the Pegasus Alliance and Wraith war.
"Lisa!" Yelled Buffy as she ran to her daughter. The both of them hugged as the rest of the twelve Slayers, as well as Spike, Angel, and Kathy surrounded them as the vampires and demons regained their composures and were about to strike back. Parting from Buffy, Lisa looked around while Rona said that they needed to get out of the Hellmouth.
"There," Lisa cheered as she rushed out and grabbed the second lightblade handle and re-joined Buffy and the others as the demons started to get close. Faith, who was standing to Lisa's right, placed a disc shaped silver object on her skin before saying it was a transport enhancer courtesy of the Asgard. Lisa then nodded her head before noticing the same disc on the necks of the other Slayers and vampires.
"Melbourne," Faith said as she aimed the plasma repeater on her wrist up towards the snarling demons, "we need a beam up."
"Like right now," Buffy said as she aimed her repeater at the taller demons.
"Well, well," The First said in Buffy's form, "I see you really are still alive."
"The First," Angel whispered as he stared at the being that nearly had him kill himself hundreds of years ago.
"So, who will rescue the rescuers?" the First said as it looked around at the Slayers, "I mean I just needed one Slayer. And now I have even more. This is a bonus."
"Yea well, you can bite…." Buffy never got to finish what she wanted to say. Instead she trailed off as a screeching sound appeared before they vanished in a flash of white light.
The First opened its eyes wide before screaming "no!"
The light that enveloped Lisa vanished, and she found herself in a observation room looking down at the City of Sunnydale. Faith mentioned to Lisa that they were on the Melbourne before she dashed over to a panel on a bulkhead and notified the ship commander that they were on board. As the Melbourne started to rise into the air, Lisa turned and hugged Buffy tight.
"My hero," Buffy whispered. Lisa held her tighter, her heart which had been racing slowly coming to a slow beat as she continued hugging her mother.
TBC.