Orbit over Earth.

"Please elaborate, Miss Maclay," the Colonel said while Anika stared in surprise at Tara. Tara glanced at the former drone string at her, wondering who she was, before looking back down towards the Colonel. There was no time to get into a full explanation since Tara felt the seal in Sunnydale High had shattered open. The blonde witch felt a massive fluctuation of dark magic before the feeling of dread in her very soul started to increase. She felt her knees trembling in fear, as did her hands, while sweat began collecting on her forehead as she turned her head to stare at the planet below. Tara was aware of the existence of Starfleet and had a basic understanding of the ins and out of the 'Star Trek' universes on Television and movies. But this was real life. This was something that was never supposed to have happened... the seals were all encompassing, meaning the demons stuck inside the Hellmouth could not leave or influence the outside world. They were supposed to be stuck in there for eternity. Tara and the other witches knew that there could be nothing done about the trickle of dark energy that would be escaping the Hellmouth, but the presence of the Slayer in Sunnydale would be enough to beat back any demons that were attracted by the trickle of energy.

'There was nothing about this in the series, or movies, or novels,' Tara thought as she watched blue, purple, and white lightning arch within the red clouds that covered the planet . She gulped before turning to the Colonel once again and saying, "Colonel, there is no time for explanations. At least not right now. All I can tell you is that I can feel dark energy pouring out of the Hellmouth… I can feel something evil, a dread that's trying to take me over,"

Tara glanced at the confusion on Anika's face before looking back at the serious expression on the Colonel, "the seals on the Hellmouth have opened. Something or someone has cracked it somehow… and everything that was trapped three hundred years ago is getting out now. Or rather, they are starting to get out."

"Miss Tara?" one of the witches she was training on Gaia named Ta'asekno, a girl from the Ralletite race - a race known for their pale blue skin with two small visible bumps on either side of her forehead - and hailing from the Pegasus galaxy, said as her arms shook even as she clasped her hands together, "I.. I'm not feeling so well."

Tara looked back and nodded at the girl before turning towards the Colonel, "please move this ship back as far as possible from Earth. I'll let you know when to stop, Colonel." Tara then turned towards the front section of the bridge as several other gasps could be heard from people manning the consoles – with many in the Tau'ri having some form of emphatic ability, Tara was sure that they were feeling a sense of immense dread as well.

"Colonel, I'm sure that crew on the ships in orbit are feeling scared; some more than others," Tara said looking at the Starfleet vessels, her eyes focusing on the one which had 'Enterprise' on the hull, "please inform all of them to move away from Earth. I think the feeling of evil... the feeling of dread will lessen the further away we are from Earth." Tara then looked back down at the Colonel, "please, Colonel, we're losing a lot of time.."

The Colonel nodded his head before pressing a button on his chair, "to all Starfleet vessels, this is Colonel Edison, I am certain there are crew members on your ships that are feeling… well, a bit off. The feeling will dissipate the further you move away from the planet." The Colonel then turned to the officer manning the navigation console and ordered her to reverse all engines until they received an order from Tara to stop.

"Understood, sir," was the reply before the woman, a Lieutenant from New Lantea, pressed down on the panel in front of her, "reversing engines now."

The crew heard a hum before they could see the Earth slowly getting further away; indicating that the Resolute itself was slowly moving back. The Colonel was then notified that the Starfleet vessels were moving away from the Earth as well, with the crew of the McKinley station being beamed over to three of the Starfleet ships. The Colonel looked up at Tara, silently asking her when he should stop reversing the ship.

"I'll let you know, Colonel," was Tara's gentle reply. She then glanced at the questioning look Anika was giving her. Tara felt as if her eyes were being locked onto the mysterious woman's eyes; and then, suddenly, Tara become self-conscious and looked away while pushing her thoughts about the identity of the woman to the side. Tara reminded herself that they still had the Hellmouth to deal with, along with the fact that demons were escaping.

The Colonel nodded his head before Tara continued in a calm and measured voice, "sir, is there anyway to beam out everyone from Sunnydale high?"

"We can't get a signal through the atmosphere," an officer in the rear section of the bridge said, "we can't even scan through those clouds."

Tara stared at the planet before sensing she was being watched. She glanced at Anika looking back at her with a look of confusion before shifting her eyes towards the forward section. Tara continued to wonder about the identity of the mysterious woman. She then reminded herself that she had been training new magic users on the Nox homeworld of Gaia for the past several months; she and her trainees would be travelling to and fro from Pegasus via the Gaia Stargate a few times a year for special occasions. So she hadn't been updated on the new happenings in Pegasus - although she was very much aware that they had been completely victorious against the Wraith. It was something she was told of when she and her team were sent supplies from Atlantis a little more that six months ago.

Actually, she was told that the war started tapering off some time ago with a very likely Pegasus Alliance victory. Tara felt that the magic users currently in the field were enough to handle anything coming their way. So she began training a new generation of witches and warlocks in Pegasus, before continuing their education on Gaia in the Milky Way.

'Whoever she is, she's beautiful,' Tara felt her ears warm up before she glanced at Anika looking back at the trainees. When Anika started to turned her head, Tara quickly shifted her gaze to the Colonel and said, "Colonel, the seal at the edge of the city is already broken, I can sense…"

It was now that Anika interjected by asking, "I am sorry, I have remained quiet for long enough." Tara turned her head back towards Anika who continued, "what seal do you speak of? What is broken? You are speaking of something called a Hellmouth… a designation I am completely unaware of, and I have absorbed many things during my time as a drone and a member of Voyager's crew." Tara looked over at Anika, wondering what she meant by her last two points: that she was once a drone and a member of Voyager's crew.

The name 'Voyager' was familiar to Tara, but for now she couldn't place it. Instead, she pushed it to the back of her mind and turned her head back towards the view of the Earth, before looking back at Anika once again, "it's complicated to explain." Tara could see that Anika didn't like that answer, so she added while holding up her hands in a calming gesture, "right now, Earth is in grave danger. I promise to explain everything, but for right now… whatever I say may not make sense, but it is the truth. I'll just give you a quick run down."

Anika frowned, but nodded her head, signalling Tara to continue.

Tara then turned to the Colonel while Anika looked over at the girls accompanying Tara before looking back down towards the Colonel who was listening intently as Tara said, "Sunnydale High is about to be overrun. If the things trapped in the Hellmouth for the past three hundred years break through the school doors, then the demons… every single thing that we worked so hard to prevent from escaping the Hellmouth... will have a foothold inside Sunnydale."

Tara then looked back up at the planet, she sensed magic being used at the edge of the city before continuing, "there's already a force from one of the covens fighting the demons that broke out from the destruction of the first seal… but the one in Sunnydale is the bigger danger right now."

"How bad could it get?"

Tara looked away from the front window and turned towards the Colonel in his Command Chair, and then up to Anika before saying, "we're looking at what the SGC, Homeworld Command, and the BPRI once catagorized as an Omega level event – possible foothold by the legions of darkness, leading to the extinction of life on Earth."

'Legions of darkness?' Anika thought to herself with a look of disbelief on her face, 'what is she speaking of? Demons? Did she just refer to demons?'

"What do you mean by demons?" Anika had her eyes opened wide in surprise while her brain raced to find some sort of explanation for what Tara was talking about. She searched for any knowledge she assimilated during her time as a drone in regards to everything Tara said, but she only found information on demons and nothing on something called the Hellmouth - but even the word Demons, and the information Anika assimilated, was based on theological and theoretical beliefs of various assimilated species including humans. And here was a woman telling her that demons really existed, and that they were about to cause an extinction level event.

The thing that surprised Anika much more was that the people on the bridge were accepting of this 'theory', and it made her wonder what it was that she hadn't been told about on Atlantis.

"Imagine your worst nightmare made flesh," one of the girls who accompanied Tara said, "I have seen things that… well… things that can eat a person's soul."

Anika was surprised, 'what?'

"And I mean that literally. Literally kill a living being by extracting a soul and then eating it."

The former drone, in disbelief, turned towards Tara with eyes wide open and silently demanding an explanation.

"I am sorry," Tara said, "But it would be best if I talk to you and the people in charge on the Enterprise in one go."

'I was introduced to Buffy Summers and several other women calling themselves Slayers,' Anika thought, 'they had enhanced strength, and several other improvements over the typical human… but I believed they were caused by genetic engineering.'

Before she could continue with her thoughts, Anika was pulled out of them by Tara who said that she didn't have any feelings of dread anymore. Anika looked out across the bridge as people breathed sighs of relief; she then turned to the window and stared at the Starfleet vessels and wondered if any of the crew had feelings of, what were apparently, certain doom.

'There will be time to find out, I suppose,' Anika thought while the Colonel said that she, Tara, the three witches in training, and Major Wittings were to beam over to the Enterprise and brief them on what was happening planet-side.

"We'll be using hyperspace to go through the red clouds," the Colonel said as the Resolute hung in the darkness of space just behind the moon. He the turned his head towards a female officer and asked, "do we have the coordinates for the Enterprise transporter room?"

"Yes, sir," the officer from one of the port side consoles.

"Beam Miss Maclay and the others to the Enterprise, and then prepare for a hyperspace jump into the planet's atmosphere," the Colonel said before turning towards Tara, "I'll get us directly over Sunnydale High and then activate the shields." The Colonel continued, "we'll expand the shield to cover all the school buildings as well as ten stories underground. We'll make sure nothing escapes, and will beam up anyone still alive."

Tara nodded her head before the Colonel gave the order for them to be beamed over to the Enterprise. Once they were beamed over to the Enterprise, the Colonel turned back to his crew and ordered, "Prepare all energy weapons, reduce power to three percent… that should be enough to burn anything that leaves the buildings."

"Yes, sir," the bridge crew said.

"Jump!"

Just before the Resolute opened a hyperspace window and sped through, Anika and the others heard the screeching sound of the teleportation system before they were washed in white light. They felt their bodies tingle for a few seconds before the light faded away and the group found themselves standing in a small room. Anika recognised the room, as well as the pads they were standing on, almost immediately. It was a transporter room. Her eyes then focused on the people who were standing in front of them.

"I am Commander William Riker," the bearded man in the red uniform, one who Anika recognized as the current First Officer of the Enterprise, said as he took a step forward while three other people in yellow uniforms stood just behind him. Anika glanced at the weapons on their hips and the stances they had taken as soon as she and the others were beamed over.

'Security personnel,' Anika thought to herself.

Riker stepped forwards and said, "Welcome to the USS Enterprise."

"Commander," Major Wittings then introduced himself, Tara, and then the three young women before motioning towards Anika, "and this is Anika Hansen, formerly of the USS Voyager."

"Ah," Riker said with a smile as he reached out to shake Anika's hand, "we've heard a lot about you from Captain Janeway and Commander Chakotay."

Anika nodded her head before a message came through his comm-badge that the Resolute was gone. It was a female voice that Anika didn't recognize as she looked over at the Major before turning towards a surprised Riker who demanded an explanation.

"Gone? Where did your ship go to?" Riker asked while looking at Wittings, and then at Tara and her charges, "what's going on?"

"The Resolute would be exiting the hyperspace window into the skies over Sunnydale," the MAjor said to Riker's surprise.

"Commander," Tara said, while thinking to herself that the real Riker did look handsome, "there are some things we need to talk about. Can we go somewhere private?"

"Of course," Riker sighed as he rubbed his forehead before putting his hands on his hips and staring confusedly at Tara – whose group had gotten off the pad. Tara noticed the look of exasperation mixed with confusion and a bit of fear on the Commander's face... in fact, she could feel those emotions emanating from him. Now that she thought about it, Tara felt her own skin tingling and a feeling of coldness that was slowly radiating from deep within her chest. Tara knew this chill within her wasn't from the cool air coming out of the vents along the walls of the room... this feeling was a result of the dark energy around them.

'The Hellmouth's energies are reaching higher and higher out into space, something that I never could have predicted,' Tara thought as Riker shook hands with the two human trainee witches, Alice and Rebekkah, 'so we'll have to move all ships further away from the Earth. The energy from the Hellmouth should not be able to reach any of us here... but since it does, then any magical being that could teleport could decide to appear. And if they are strong enough in the magics, if they could be a danger to non-magic users, then the crew on those ships would be in danger.' Taking a deep breath, Tara walked towards Riker and asked if he could asked the other ships to move furter away from the Earth.

"Why?" Riker asked as Anika walked up to the both of them.

"Perhaps it is time you explain what is happening," Anika said as she stood between Riker and Tara while the Major stood next to Tara. As the tension started to rise in the transporter room, Tara and the trainee witches were feeling increasingly uneasy about the situation... as if there was something in the atmosphere that was trying to push them towards a confrontation. It wasn't something that Tara missed... she sensed the unease growing in her trainees ever since beaming aboard the Enterprise, and now she sensed a 'push' in her very gut to start a violent confrontation. She felt as if t here was something struggling to take control of her and her magic even if there was no cause for there to a confrontation. She could sense the unease behind her from her trainees too. They were not as trained as her, and Tara was proud that they were able to resist the temptation to strike out with their magic.

'Magic against advanced technology,' Tara thought to herself as she glanced at the security officer while they took positions, their hands on the weapons which were still holstered, 'being able to use magic in space, at least for now, we could take them out... but we could still get hit by the weapons.' Tara needed to calm everyone down, the tension was getting heavier in the transporter room. She could feel the dark energy from the Hellmouth trying to goad her... to goad the people in the room into taking some form of action. Tara mentally spoke out a spell meant to suppress the worst of emotions... and she saw the results almost immediately. Everybody visibly relaxed just before Riker gently repeated Anika's question, the latter shaking her head before rubbing the left side of her temple.

'What is happening to Earth?" he asked, "there is no signal going through that... that disturbance in the atmosphere."

"Commander Riker," a female voice came over the comm-badge before Tara could say anything.

"Deanna?" Riker said while he glanced at Anika who was still confused about the sudden feeling of calmness going through her body. Even the Security personnel, she verbally noted, seemed more at east now than a minute ago. Tara said that she would explain everything once they had someplace to speak in private. At that same time, Deanna said that she was feeelin strange... just like they were feeling several minutes ago before the ships were asked to move away from the Earth the first time.

At hearing this, Tara spoke, "Commander Riker, I would suggest moving further away from the planet."

"But why?" Riker asked calmly.

"There is an energy being released right as we speak," Tara said, "this energy is... for lack of a better term... capable of influencing emotions."

Tara glanced at the confusion on Anika's face, and then she shifted her shift towards Riker and the Security personnel, before looking back at Riker, "so if you please? For now, please indulge us, Commander. After all, I think it would be best to talk about what is happening when us, and the rest of the crew on the other ships, are not scared out of their wits." Once Riker gave the go ahead for the ships to move further away from the Earth, Tara formed a small smile on her face before saying, "if there is somewhere we could talk in private?"

Sunnydale High, now.

They were almost at the doors to the outside world.

It was so close but yet so far.

Their hearts were racing. Their minds processing the acts of terror they were witness to in the space of the past few minutes… inexplicable terror threatened to take them over. It would only take one misstep to trip and fall onto the floor for any of them, and there was no assurances that any of the others would stop and go back to help the one who fell. That would be an honest assessment given what they had seen; given what was chasing them.

"Run! Keep on running!" Calley, a human girl, seventeen years old, one of the Sunnydale High School cheerleaders helping in decorating the gymnasium, yelled as she and the other two students with her reached a corner of the hallway. She skidded slightly on the limonium floor as she turned, almost falling on her rear-end, but keeping her balance in the last moment before taking off towards the doors at the end of the hallway… doors that led to an outside world that had a dark red tinge to it.

On the other side of the steel framed glass doors, it looked just as it would if the sky was covered in dark grey rain clouds just before a heavy storm – only this time, the clouds were red instead of grey; at least that's what was going through her mind.

A small part of Calley shuddered at the thought of red clouds in the sky, but she would face a whole horde of angry Klingons just to escape the THINGS that were chasing her and her friends. Just behind her were Komar, a sixteen year old Vulcan boy, and Bezar, a female Andorian; they were running as if they were being chased by the most deadliest of nightmares.

And they technically were; the three of them were in the gymnasium when their surroundings shook after what sounded like an underground explosion. And then the lights went out and then, about ten minutes later, there were screams from the students and snarls, roars, and growls from… well… something else.

All they had seen were yellow eyes and flashes of pale skin, some of those things that attacked the students had purple skin with red blotches, some had sharp swords for hands. Other creatures attacking them had fangs – all visible momentarily thanks to the lights produced by the screens from the PADDs that fell onto the blood covered gymnasium floor.

As bodies of students fell to the floor after being drained, sliced apart, or devoured; the three students ran into the hallway as fast as they could. They could hear the screams of other students as they ran; they even encountered those creatures tearing off limbs of friends and acquaintances before turning around and rushing the other way. They encountered Principal Valar, or at least what remained of him. The heads of two monstrous creatures were stuffed into the Vulcan's abdomen which was torn open… the 'slurp' and 'crunch' sounds caused by the beasts feeding on the poor man was sickening.

But the students ran as fast as they could through another hallway, and eventually their scent was caught on by the creatures in the adjacent hallways. So they ran faster, hopeful that they could outrun then creatures.

"We're close to the door!" Calley yelled out, her hair flailing behind her as she ran.

"Move!" Bezar yelled, her antennae were waving from side to side as she yelled again, "run!"

The three of them were aiming for the door with Bezar, as the last among them, looked back at the monsters rushing towards them. They were gaining faster and faster, her heart was beating ever quicker, sweat covered her face before she sprinted towards the now open glass doors. The three of them rushed out into the front pathway, a green grassy lawn on either side with trees and decorated bushes. They glanced at the thick red clouds that covered the usually blue sky before rushing out towards the parking lot as the glass door behind them was shattered by the horde of monstrosities.

The creatures had shattered the doors, the usually strong steel frame bent easily under the feet of the creatures as they chased the screaming children down to the parking lot. The creatures fanning out every which way from every exit in Sunnydale High.

"My car's this way and…." Calley yelled pointing to a blue four doored sedan, "we can…"

Calley suddenly came to a stop with a gasp escaping her lips; the other two stopping next to her with terrified looks on their faces.

The creatures were much faster in the open, and many of them already surrounded the three students. The students stood back to back, watching the monsters surrounding them – it was if the nightmarish creatures wanted the three of them to feel fear. To know that they could not do anything to survive.

Calley started to cry in fear, tears pouring down her cheeks, as she imagined being torn apart; Bezar imagined herself being dragged into the group of monsters before she was eaten, and Komar was shaking as he tried his very best to keep his emotions in check.

"Please, please, please," Calley begged through her sobs as she and the others were already pressed close together back to back, each staring out at the snarling and swiping creatures surrounding them. Suddenly, there was a blue hued tear above them; the group of demons and students looked up before there was a buzzing sound and a white light surrounding Calley, Bezar, and Komar. At the same time, there were 'thuck' sounds coming from the low powered bursts of plasma rapidly being fired from the Resolute's ventral section decimating the demons just as a shield was extended from the ship to several feet below ground level. The demons were trapped inside the shield, and were being killed.

Any of the creatures out in the open were killed or dusted by the energy weapons. Any of the demons that were already out of the shield's range were killed by pin-point plasma bursts from the ship, and any demons that continued to rush out the exits were promptly shot by the ship's weapons. In the meantime, a tearful Calley, Bezar, and a shaking Komar were beamed into the infirmary.

"Don't worry," a nurse said as she gently held onto Calley's arm while two others held on to the others before gaining them to three bio-beds, "you're among friends."

"I.. I did not recognize…" Komar took a deep breath, "the configuration of this ship. It is not Federation?"

"You're on the Pegasus Alliance vessel Resolute," the nurse said, "we'll make sure you girls and guy have no injuries, and then you'll be debriefed. In the mean, I'm sure the Commanding Officer of the ship is informing your government of the situation."

The three teens nodded their head before being gently told to lie down on their individual beds. In the meantime, the Colonel was already speaking to someone from Starfleet Command of the situation in Sunnydale.

"Yes, Admiral," The Colonel said over the subspace-radio. He was speaking to one Admiral Novachek located in San Francisco, "there was no other choice. Unless we made it down here via hyperspace, Sunnydale would have completely fallen. As it is, some of our allies are already fighting this invasion on the outskirts of the city."

"Colonel, we still do not understand the threat in Sunnydale," the Admiral said, "we are still trying to understand the reasoning behind this sudden atmospheric change… as you can see, the skies all over the planet have turned red."

"I want all visual sensor feeds rerouted to Starfleet Headquarters," the Colonel said to the officer on his right before pressing a button that reconnected him to Starfleet Headquarter, "Admiral, I'm sending you a visual feed of what we're firing at." The visuals of the demons of various shapes and sizes were being relayed to Starfleet HQ where the Admiral, and several of her colleagues, had their mouths hanging open at the sight of the creatures being burned to a crisp or turned to dust.

"What the…"

"These are not aliens from another world, Admiral," the Colonel said, "trust me when I say that I've seen things that very few people have seen. What you are seeing right now are the stuff of nightmares… and they are not here to make peace or trade."

"According to you, that is," another Admiral said just as Admiral Paris walked into the conference room, the man stopped and stared at the screen on the other side of the long table as several monstrous beings were killed, "according to what we have learned from your own records, the Tau'ri waged a campaign of…"

"We.. or rather my ancestors, did what needed to be done," the Colonel said as he thought about his great grandfather who was spending his retirement between tending to his garden on New Eden and teaching at the local College, "just as hundreds of other people have sacrificed their lives to keep the Earth spinning. But that's for another time, Admiral… what I'm telling you now is that…"

"Sir," a voice yelled out from behind the Colonel, interrupting the conversation with Starfleet, "sensors aren't detecting anymore of those things coming out of the school."

The colonel turned his command chair around and said, "what? Are you sure?" in disbelief.

"Looks like they're retreating," the male officer manning one of the scanning consoles said as he looked up from the screen in front of him.

"Give me a deep subterranean scan of the immediate area," the Colonel said, "according to Miss Maclay, those things came out of the Hellmouth after the seal broke. So where are they going… are they going back in or…"

The Colonel stopped talking before he turned back towards the Starfleet officers waiting to hear from him, "Admiral Novachek, I suggest sending as many people and planes… or shuttles… anything that you can provide to the following coordinates."

"Why?"

The front window of the Resolute's bridge now had an overlay of the underground caverns that made up part of the Hellmouth beneath the school. While the scanners couldn't distinguish vampires from the other types of demons, they did show movement. What the Colonel saw as he got up off his command chair with a look of surprise on his face was that many of the demons were heading back into the Hellmouth, while others were amassing on one of the lowers basements of the school.

"Where are they going? The ones on sub-basement five, I mean."

"They are trying to get into some ancient access tunnels that would..." the officer's face turned pale before looking up from the panel, "sir, scans indicate the tunnels lead close to the center of the city."

"Population of Sunnydale?"

"Approximately three million," was the reply.

The Colonel frowned before saying, "is the shield holding?"

"Yes, sir," a female officer said, "even if those things made it into the tunnels, they couldn't get a meter through before they meet the shield. And they cannot get past it."

"Good, and what about the others?" the Colonel asked as his finger hovered over the button that would reconnect him to Starfleet Headquarters, "how about the other demons?"

"It looks like many of the other demons on the other side of the shield are moving towards the outside edge of the city, sir."

"Prepare to send all data to Starfleet Headquarters," the Colonel said to that particular officer before he turned and stared at the overlay of the entire city against the front window, "Admiral Novachek, I am sending you data on the current situation. We've trapped the enemy within the school, however the rest of the enemy forces are heading towards another location. Sending you the details now."

"Colonel.." Novachek said as she and the other admirals stared at the data they were receiving; surprise and disbelief etched on their faces even as they watched exactly what the Colonel was seeing through the Resolute's sensors.

"Admiral Novachek," the Colonel said as he sat on the Command Chair, "these things are a danger to everyone on Earth. We need to do everything possible to destroy them before they could terrorize the population."

"You are speaking of indiscriminately killing beings no one understands or…"

"These things will kill everyone on Earth.. the ones who survive what's coming would be living in hell," the Colonel spoke before he took in a deep breath, "we need to work together until the experts get here and reseal the Hellmouth."

"Hellmouth," Admiral Novachek shook her head in disbelief, "Colonel, you can't expect a civilized society to…"

"Admiral," the Colonel said, "a lot of people, including my grandmother, risked their lives to stop the things that are threatening the Earth. And there is no way I'm standing by while demons build up a force that would have them walk on the Earth again."

"Colonel," Admiral Paris, who was briefed on the current situation by the other Admirals, interjected, "there must be some form of negotiated peace between…"

"Sir," the Colonel interrupted, "like I said, they would either kill you… or turn you into something else… but they will not negotiate. We are holding them back for now. But our allies need help, if we release the shield around Sunnydale High, then these things will get into the city and we will be looking at a massacre."

The Admirals all looked at each others in disbelief.

"What will you do?"

Novachek, despite her misgivings, then said, "contact the President, he needs to know what's going on."

TBC.