TITLE: BUFFY'S TURN 16\?
AUTHOR: RICK
E-MAIL: amulet@my-dejanews.com
SUMMARY: Lest everyone forgets. This fic has Buffy going off the deep end with Spike and Faith in the beginning. Xander doesn't give up on her. He saves her so to speak, nothing new there. Buffy falls in love with him, big time. He doesn't know it of course, partly because he and the Scooby gang are involved in extra-curricular activities. They are about to come up against an evil that dwarfs the usual hell mouth variety, where the bad guys all wear white hats too.
Chapter: 16- The Mother Of All Setups.
Buffy is invited to take part in the next job. It is the type of job both Xander and Oz hate. They have to break into a warehouse and steal something. So they have to get in and out without being noticed. It is much easier to b low something and take off running. But theirs is not to reason why!
Buffy is in the van with Willow, Tara and Giles. She is very nervous. She is not use to being on this side of things. But she is not experienced enough just yet to be in on the action part. She watches anxiously as Xander and Oz approach an electrified fence. Willow speaks.
"You'll have 8 seconds to get over it. On my mark...go!"
Willow disables the fence for a brief period. Our heroes get over without incident. They make their way to a series of buildings.
"Any reading yet?"
Tara answers. "Get closer, Xander."
The witch goes through a series of scans." The two on your left are empty. The two in the middle are connected underground. There is a separate fence around them. It is electrified but different than the front fence. I'm turning you over to Willow."
"Xander, in your front right hand pouch I put a gadget we call an absorber. Clip it onto the fence in two different places. It will absorb the power without interrupting the flow of electricity "
They do it. Buffy is very impressed. Both Willow and Tara are very efficient
"Okay fellows, approach the door with caution. Three hostiles...all vamps."
Buffy watches our boys make short work of them. Tara adds.
"Right in the door, five more, all fang boys and girls."
They pick the door open. Oz cuts down two vamps. Xander stakes one and starts to wrestle with another. He stakes it too but the last vamp is a good one. He gets into a martial arts pose. Xander gives him as hellacious a sidekick as Buffy has ever seen. Oz disposes of it.
"Wow, Is that really Xander?"
"Oz, straight down twenty yards the, right about twenty more.. On your right...you'll have to blow the door."
As they get closer Tara tells them excitedly.
"Xander, Oz, there's ten more...be careful."
Xander looks to Oz. "I'll do my thing, Oz, just tell me when to freeze."
Xander has his sword positioned on his back. He casually strolls very close to the guards. When he gets all their attention Willow gives Oz instructions.
"Oz, take out the three directly in front of Xander first. Xander, go for the ones furthest from you, Oz will get those who attack your rear."
"Sounds like a plan, Will.
Willow can't help it. "Oz, I love you, please be careful."
Willow looks at her Tara with a sad face but the other witch holds out her hand to Willow and gives her an understanding smile.
Before any of the Vamps can respond Oz has cut down three of them...bing...bing...bing!
Xander beheads one then another. Oz rips down two more. Xander is on fire; the other two don't know what hit them. Buffy is flabbergasted.
"Giles, they are very good!"
Tara talks to them.
"You're going to have to blow that door."
"How many guards inside, Tara."
The witch doesn't respond. Oz asks. "Tara...how many?"
Tara looks at Giles and Willow. Giles speaks. "Tara, what's the matter?"
"There doesn't appear to be any guards, Giles!"
Giles gets on the mic. "Xander, there doesn't appear to be any guards inside."
Xander and Oz look at each other. Buffy addresses Willow.
"So, there's no guards inside, isn't that a good thing?"
"No, there should be more inside if it was something they were guarding very tightly."
"So, what does it mean?"
Before the witch can answer Xander asks her something.
"Willow, put Giles on again."
"Yes, Xander?"
"What should we do, Giles?"
"Do the mission as planned, Xander but...be careful."
Oz blows the door and the fly into the room. All is quiet.
Tara speaks. "Blue cabinet ten feet to your right. And, Xander, something else is in that room with you, something living. Get the canister and get out!"
As they take hold of a hard metal cylinder they hear the floor moving. A large panel opens up. Oz speaks for both of them.
"Shit, Xander, this can't be a good development!"
It isn't. A large ferocious looking hairy thing jumps from a chamber below. It stares our heroes in the eye. Oz and Xander instinctively split apart. Xander decides to try a little humor.
"You're not by any chance a distant relative of Chewbacca and...Like, you're here to help us."
It answers Xander's question by diving into him. Buffy can't believe it.
"Goddamn it Giles, what is that?"
"That, Buffy is what is called an unplanned variable."
Xander smashes it with both hands. Oz pops in a fresh clip and empties it into the beast. It slows but does not stop it.
"Xander, we're in a lot of trouble."
Xander dropkicks the thing into a table. It jumps up roaring, swatting Xander across the face. Oz pumps in a few more rifle blasts as it attacks him. The wolf kicks it groin high but it still picks him up. Giles talks.
"Willow, Tara, reduce to minimum, get ready for possible abort!"
Xander chops at the thing with his sword. It still smashes Oz down into a glass supply cabinet. The Wolf's body shatters the glass. He doesn't move. Xander backs away from it. Giles talks to Willow.
"Tell Xander fifteen minutes!"
"Xander, can you hear me?"......he waves his hand. "Fifteen minutes, Xander!"
Willow is in tears. Buffy can't believe it. "What happens in fifteen minutes, Willow?"
"We have to leave, Buffy."
The Slayer looks to Giles. "Giles, we can't leave tem!"
"We can and we will, Buffy, in fifteen minutes if they don't get out."
Xander chops at the monster with his sword. It roars, throwing him into the wall. Tara sees something.
"Oh, shit, Xander, many hostiles headed your way!"
"Book, now!"
Buffy hears that. "No, Xander!"
"Get out now! But, Willow, we're not dead yet!"
They close up shop and take off. Everyone is crying.
Oz is still out. Xander is bleeding. He only has a little energy left. He spots an electric circuit box. He cuts the wires bare as the monster dives at him. Xander goes to the opposite wall as the monster grabs him. He pushes as hard as he can off the wall sending the monster and he reeling for the open electric panel. Just as they are to hit it he grabs hold of a metal table, which is bolted to the floor. Xander barely pulls himself away as the electricity vibrates through the monster and almost through him. He lies on the floor for a minute to catch his breathe. Then he jumps up going to Oz. He furiously looks for a way out. The plant is about twenty feet from a river. He knocks out a window. Oz is beginning to stir. He throws the Wolf and himself out the window down into the river as the hostiles break into the room.
The crash into the water wakes Oz. The two of them tred water for a mile or so before they can latch onto a tree branch to stop their flow. They crawl to the shore and collapse. Xander had scouted the area. A fiend of theirs has a cabin not far away. As soon as they are able they make their way to it. Their friend, Kathleen is a contact of Xanders. One with whom he has spent some intimate time. Through all their trouble Xander was a good little soldier. He never lost the metal canister they were supposed to liberate. They give it to Kathleen with orders to deliver it to Giles at the magic shop.
The crew goes back home. Buffy still can't believe they left Xander.
"What happens now, Giles?"
"We give them three hours then we report a failure."
"And then what?"
"And then nothing, Buffy! It's just over."
"I don't accept that, Giles!"
"It doesn't matter whether you accept it or not, Buffy."
"That was Xander and Oz back there, Giles! I need Xander, Willow needs Oz! I'll never forgive you if something happens to them, Giles."
Giles is angry. "Buffy, I love Xander as a son. Do you think I don't want him back? Oz and Xander are an integral part of our lives. We were next, Buffy. We cut our loses. Now we give them three hours. Let's just pray they're even better than we thought they were!"
"We all saw the scene, Giles, how the hell would they get out of there?"
"Buffy, what do you want me to do?"
"I'll tell you one thing. I'm going on my own rampage if they don't come back I love Xander, Giles! I don't care who did this, they're going down!"
Willow adds to the conversation. "We were obviously set up."
"Yes, but, unfortunately the only way to prove that is to actually see what was in the cylinder. And, under the circumstances..."
Kathleen comes to the magic shop. She looks at the gang.
"Both Xander and Oz made it through the assignment. They are both banged up but nothing life threatening."
Buffy starts to cry, for joy mostly. She and Willow hug. Kathleen gives the cylinder to Giles. He opens it up. It is empty.
"I knew it!"
Buffy asks. "What's in it?"
"Nothing, it was a setup."
Tara adds. "And it was just for them. Everyone knew we would abort once the reinforcements came."
"What are we going to do, Giles?"
"We are going to make a visit to a certain Ethan Hawke. Kathleen, can Oz and Xander recover with you?"
Kathleen nods yes but Buffy doesn't like that idea at all?
"I'll go with her and help, Giles."
"Okay, we can handle Ethan. Just be careful Buffy, they may not be finished with our friends."
"Well, they can add one pissed off Slayer to their list of problems."
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AUTHOR: RICK
E-MAIL: amulet@my-dejanews.com
SUMMARY: Lest everyone forgets. This fic has Buffy going off the deep end with Spike and Faith in the beginning. Xander doesn't give up on her. He saves her so to speak, nothing new there. Buffy falls in love with him, big time. He doesn't know it of course, partly because he and the Scooby gang are involved in extra-curricular activities. They are about to come up against an evil that dwarfs the usual hell mouth variety, where the bad guys all wear white hats too.
Chapter: 16- The Mother Of All Setups.
Buffy is invited to take part in the next job. It is the type of job both Xander and Oz hate. They have to break into a warehouse and steal something. So they have to get in and out without being noticed. It is much easier to b low something and take off running. But theirs is not to reason why!
Buffy is in the van with Willow, Tara and Giles. She is very nervous. She is not use to being on this side of things. But she is not experienced enough just yet to be in on the action part. She watches anxiously as Xander and Oz approach an electrified fence. Willow speaks.
"You'll have 8 seconds to get over it. On my mark...go!"
Willow disables the fence for a brief period. Our heroes get over without incident. They make their way to a series of buildings.
"Any reading yet?"
Tara answers. "Get closer, Xander."
The witch goes through a series of scans." The two on your left are empty. The two in the middle are connected underground. There is a separate fence around them. It is electrified but different than the front fence. I'm turning you over to Willow."
"Xander, in your front right hand pouch I put a gadget we call an absorber. Clip it onto the fence in two different places. It will absorb the power without interrupting the flow of electricity "
They do it. Buffy is very impressed. Both Willow and Tara are very efficient
"Okay fellows, approach the door with caution. Three hostiles...all vamps."
Buffy watches our boys make short work of them. Tara adds.
"Right in the door, five more, all fang boys and girls."
They pick the door open. Oz cuts down two vamps. Xander stakes one and starts to wrestle with another. He stakes it too but the last vamp is a good one. He gets into a martial arts pose. Xander gives him as hellacious a sidekick as Buffy has ever seen. Oz disposes of it.
"Wow, Is that really Xander?"
"Oz, straight down twenty yards the, right about twenty more.. On your right...you'll have to blow the door."
As they get closer Tara tells them excitedly.
"Xander, Oz, there's ten more...be careful."
Xander looks to Oz. "I'll do my thing, Oz, just tell me when to freeze."
Xander has his sword positioned on his back. He casually strolls very close to the guards. When he gets all their attention Willow gives Oz instructions.
"Oz, take out the three directly in front of Xander first. Xander, go for the ones furthest from you, Oz will get those who attack your rear."
"Sounds like a plan, Will.
Willow can't help it. "Oz, I love you, please be careful."
Willow looks at her Tara with a sad face but the other witch holds out her hand to Willow and gives her an understanding smile.
Before any of the Vamps can respond Oz has cut down three of them...bing...bing...bing!
Xander beheads one then another. Oz rips down two more. Xander is on fire; the other two don't know what hit them. Buffy is flabbergasted.
"Giles, they are very good!"
Tara talks to them.
"You're going to have to blow that door."
"How many guards inside, Tara."
The witch doesn't respond. Oz asks. "Tara...how many?"
Tara looks at Giles and Willow. Giles speaks. "Tara, what's the matter?"
"There doesn't appear to be any guards, Giles!"
Giles gets on the mic. "Xander, there doesn't appear to be any guards inside."
Xander and Oz look at each other. Buffy addresses Willow.
"So, there's no guards inside, isn't that a good thing?"
"No, there should be more inside if it was something they were guarding very tightly."
"So, what does it mean?"
Before the witch can answer Xander asks her something.
"Willow, put Giles on again."
"Yes, Xander?"
"What should we do, Giles?"
"Do the mission as planned, Xander but...be careful."
Oz blows the door and the fly into the room. All is quiet.
Tara speaks. "Blue cabinet ten feet to your right. And, Xander, something else is in that room with you, something living. Get the canister and get out!"
As they take hold of a hard metal cylinder they hear the floor moving. A large panel opens up. Oz speaks for both of them.
"Shit, Xander, this can't be a good development!"
It isn't. A large ferocious looking hairy thing jumps from a chamber below. It stares our heroes in the eye. Oz and Xander instinctively split apart. Xander decides to try a little humor.
"You're not by any chance a distant relative of Chewbacca and...Like, you're here to help us."
It answers Xander's question by diving into him. Buffy can't believe it.
"Goddamn it Giles, what is that?"
"That, Buffy is what is called an unplanned variable."
Xander smashes it with both hands. Oz pops in a fresh clip and empties it into the beast. It slows but does not stop it.
"Xander, we're in a lot of trouble."
Xander dropkicks the thing into a table. It jumps up roaring, swatting Xander across the face. Oz pumps in a few more rifle blasts as it attacks him. The wolf kicks it groin high but it still picks him up. Giles talks.
"Willow, Tara, reduce to minimum, get ready for possible abort!"
Xander chops at the thing with his sword. It still smashes Oz down into a glass supply cabinet. The Wolf's body shatters the glass. He doesn't move. Xander backs away from it. Giles talks to Willow.
"Tell Xander fifteen minutes!"
"Xander, can you hear me?"......he waves his hand. "Fifteen minutes, Xander!"
Willow is in tears. Buffy can't believe it. "What happens in fifteen minutes, Willow?"
"We have to leave, Buffy."
The Slayer looks to Giles. "Giles, we can't leave tem!"
"We can and we will, Buffy, in fifteen minutes if they don't get out."
Xander chops at the monster with his sword. It roars, throwing him into the wall. Tara sees something.
"Oh, shit, Xander, many hostiles headed your way!"
"Book, now!"
Buffy hears that. "No, Xander!"
"Get out now! But, Willow, we're not dead yet!"
They close up shop and take off. Everyone is crying.
Oz is still out. Xander is bleeding. He only has a little energy left. He spots an electric circuit box. He cuts the wires bare as the monster dives at him. Xander goes to the opposite wall as the monster grabs him. He pushes as hard as he can off the wall sending the monster and he reeling for the open electric panel. Just as they are to hit it he grabs hold of a metal table, which is bolted to the floor. Xander barely pulls himself away as the electricity vibrates through the monster and almost through him. He lies on the floor for a minute to catch his breathe. Then he jumps up going to Oz. He furiously looks for a way out. The plant is about twenty feet from a river. He knocks out a window. Oz is beginning to stir. He throws the Wolf and himself out the window down into the river as the hostiles break into the room.
The crash into the water wakes Oz. The two of them tred water for a mile or so before they can latch onto a tree branch to stop their flow. They crawl to the shore and collapse. Xander had scouted the area. A fiend of theirs has a cabin not far away. As soon as they are able they make their way to it. Their friend, Kathleen is a contact of Xanders. One with whom he has spent some intimate time. Through all their trouble Xander was a good little soldier. He never lost the metal canister they were supposed to liberate. They give it to Kathleen with orders to deliver it to Giles at the magic shop.
The crew goes back home. Buffy still can't believe they left Xander.
"What happens now, Giles?"
"We give them three hours then we report a failure."
"And then what?"
"And then nothing, Buffy! It's just over."
"I don't accept that, Giles!"
"It doesn't matter whether you accept it or not, Buffy."
"That was Xander and Oz back there, Giles! I need Xander, Willow needs Oz! I'll never forgive you if something happens to them, Giles."
Giles is angry. "Buffy, I love Xander as a son. Do you think I don't want him back? Oz and Xander are an integral part of our lives. We were next, Buffy. We cut our loses. Now we give them three hours. Let's just pray they're even better than we thought they were!"
"We all saw the scene, Giles, how the hell would they get out of there?"
"Buffy, what do you want me to do?"
"I'll tell you one thing. I'm going on my own rampage if they don't come back I love Xander, Giles! I don't care who did this, they're going down!"
Willow adds to the conversation. "We were obviously set up."
"Yes, but, unfortunately the only way to prove that is to actually see what was in the cylinder. And, under the circumstances..."
Kathleen comes to the magic shop. She looks at the gang.
"Both Xander and Oz made it through the assignment. They are both banged up but nothing life threatening."
Buffy starts to cry, for joy mostly. She and Willow hug. Kathleen gives the cylinder to Giles. He opens it up. It is empty.
"I knew it!"
Buffy asks. "What's in it?"
"Nothing, it was a setup."
Tara adds. "And it was just for them. Everyone knew we would abort once the reinforcements came."
"What are we going to do, Giles?"
"We are going to make a visit to a certain Ethan Hawke. Kathleen, can Oz and Xander recover with you?"
Kathleen nods yes but Buffy doesn't like that idea at all?
"I'll go with her and help, Giles."
"Okay, we can handle Ethan. Just be careful Buffy, they may not be finished with our friends."
"Well, they can add one pissed off Slayer to their list of problems."
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