Author: Sacrificial Angel
Email: sunless_undead@hotmail.com
Homepage: http://www.geocities.com/cof_girl
Title: The Lexx's Visit to Sunnydale
Rating: PG13
Archiving: Imajica's page, anyone else, please tell me before using it
Disclaimer: Paul Donovan, Jeffrey Hirschfield and Lex Giggerhof own the Lexx universe, characters, etc. Joss Whedon owns the Buffy universe, characters, etc. No profit is made from my stories, and sueing me is a waste of time because I have about 10p to my name. Kai will be mine someday... but that's a whole different issue.

The Lexx's Visit to Sunnydale

Old Friends

Kai remained in the crypt where he had sat unmoving all night. It had occurred to him how fitting a place this was for him, but it seemed like Prince was not going to return here. He stood up and turned to walk out, heading back to the library.

"Kai!" called Xev, and she ran to him, throwing her arms around his cold, dead shoulders in tears. Kai had been unaware of the chaos that had ensued in his absence, and was naturally somewhat surprised at Xev's reaction to seeing him. She stood back after a minute.
"What is it?" asked Kai, but then he saw himself, or his exact double, sitting across the library from him and looking very pleased with himself. "Prince." he said, his expression seeming to hold an eerie trace of amusement.
"Welcome back, Kai." he said. "Thanks for the body by the way, mate."
"I should have known." said Xev, shaking her head. "I knew it was too good to be true... but I wanted to believe so badly."
"Xev, you were wonderful." said Prince. "I've half a mind to visit this Cluster and get a love slave myself if they're all this good." Kai looked at Prince questioningly. "Kai, you missed something quite important last night. Xev and I had an intimate moment... or rather, you and Xev did, it's all very complicated. Still, it doesn't matter, I enjoyed it. And so did Xev, even though she'd hate to admit it." Giles walked back into the library and saw the real Kai, then turned to Prince.
"So it is true." he said. "Spike, you truly are a monster. I mean, I've seen evil, but..." Prince, still in Kai's form, grinned.
"Really?" he asked, standing up. "How evil on a scale of one to ten would you say I am? With one being not evil at all, and ten being... Angelus." Giles glared at him darkly, not replying. Xev suspected that this was a personal matter to him. Prince/Spike/Kai raised his eyebrows. "Nine, maybe? Or eight? I really can't match that whole Miss Calendar thing, can I?" Giles started towards him in a blind fury, and Prince calmly raised his wrist, releasing a well aimed shot at Giles, which was instantly knocked out of the air by Kai's own brace. Prince turned to Kai.
"Now that's what I call reflexes!" he said. "I've been practising all morning and I still can't get it that good. Still, you've had 2000 years of practise."
"Which gives me a considerable advantage." added Kai, before immediately firing again at Prince. He disappeared. In a second he returned at the door, in his original "Prince" form. He walked to Xev.
"Be honest." he said. "You enjoyed last night just as much as I did." Xev shook her head. She didn't feel so strongly about it all as Giles seemed to, but she hadn't liked the betrayal.
"I enjoyed it because I thought of Kai." she said. "It is not something I would have done had I known who you really were."
"I know." said Prince. "But you'll think of me, when you look up at the stars." Xev looked at him coldly before storming out of the library. Kai stayed.
"You have a gift for angering people." he said to Prince.
"Yes," said Prince, "but you seem forever beyond my reach with that. Quite annoying, really. I mean, I steal your body, you don't care. I sleep with the woman who loves you, you don't care. You probably don't even care that I killed Stan."
"I would have stopped that from happening if I had been there." said Kai. "If you killed Stan, who has the key?"
"I do." said Prince. "Bet you didn't expect that."
"If you had the key you would have passed it on at death." Kai pointed out. "Who has the key?"
"Oh, for crying out loud, Stan has the key!" Prince was exasperated. "He's alive and kicking you idiot."
"Where is he?" asked Kai.
"Xander's basement, probably." Prince said, his temper seeming to vanish in the odd way it did sometimes. "Well I can't stay here all day, I'm off for a nice walk in the broad daylight, something I've not done in quite a long time. Bye, Kai."
"Where is that?" Kai asked Prince as he walked away, but received no answer. Kai turned to Giles, who took out a pen and paper to write directions.

"Hello, Slayer." said Prince, meeting Buffy on the street. She had no idea who he was, and frowned.
"Who are you?" she asked. Prince kept an entirely straight face although he felt like laughing at the fact that she didn't recognise her arch-enemy. "Tell me who you are and how you know who I am." she said, defensive. "You wouldn't call me Slayer if you weren't a demon."
"I'm human, Slayer." he said. "A friend of Angel's as it so happens. Funny story about when we first met, it was a hot place... nah, it doesn't matter."
"Right." she said. "So you know Angel? Then chances are you've heard of Spike."
"Oh, yes." he said. "I remember him - the one people call 'the big bad', right? Killed two slayers?"
"You sound like an admirer." Buffy jibed. "Just don't let him hear you talk like that, his ego's already bigger than this State." Prince shrugged.
"Well don't underestimate him." said Prince. "By all accounts he's strong, fearless, devastatingly handsome and very skilled in combat. He could have you for breakfast, my little Slayer."
"Hey!" she said. "He could not! I'm a match for him any day."
"Ok, ok, I get it." he said. "You're the Slayer, and I suppose when you come down to it he is just a vampire."
"Well..." said Buffy, "that's what I thought. But now all of a sudden there's these space aliens from nowhere calling him "Prince", and he does a weird voice thing. And then, one of the aliens turns out to be this kind of un-stakeable vampire... god, things have been weird recently."
"Apparently so." he said. "So where are you going now?"
"Xander's basement." she said. "That's where the aliens are, actually."
"Do you think I could see them?" he asked. "If it wouldn't bother them, of course."
"Oh, sure, come with me." she said.
They went to Xander's house, and then down the stairs into the basement. Stan had his back turned to them, watching TV. Willow and Xander faced them, sitting on the sofa.
"Hey Buffy." said Xander. "Who's this?"
"Some friend of Angel's who wanted to see the aliens." said Buffy. Prince smiled at them. "One of them's there, but where are the other two?"
"Oh, Xev and Kai... went off together. All of a sudden dead guy decides to be alive, and steals the girl from right under my nose."
"Our noses." said Stan, not turning in his chair to face them.
"Impressive, wasn't it?" Prince said, grinning. "Definitely one of my more enjoyable lives." Stan leapt up at the familiar voice, and turned, pointing an accusative finger at him.
"You!" he exclaimed. "You're back! Help, someone, get Kai or something."
"Stanley." called Prince in reply. "How's it going? Neck feeling a little better I hope?"
"Shut up Prince!" Stan shouted. "Or Spike, or whatever you're called now."
"Last time I checked, you were calling me Kai..." said Prince, smiling smugly as he imitated Kai's voice perfectly - "I feel as if I'm... alive!" Xander gasped.
"That's what the dead guy said!" he exclaimed.
"No, you stupid bint." said Prince in his 'Spike' voice. "That's what I said, not Kai."
"It's Spike!" exclaimed Buffy. "He can really come back from the dead?"
"Well observed, Slayer." he said. "Its an ability I've had for a while... forever, I think."
"Great." she said. "Well I'm still up for a little one on one. I'll kill you so you can never come back."
"Not in here!" shouted Xander. "Please, I have to live here, I don't want a bed of rubble if that's ok with you two?"
"Fine." said Prince. "We'll take it outside."
"I'm going back to find Xev." said Stan, hurrying to the door. "And Kai, the real Kai."
"See you later, Stan." said Prince. Willow smiled a goodbye to them all, and then turned back to talking to Xander. The door slammed. Then suddenly there was a knocking at the basement window.
"Let me in!" called Xev. Xander hurried to open the window, letting her in. She jumped down, and smiled at him brightly, making him blush again. Willow glanced between them, then rolled her eyes.
"Ok, ok, I'm leaving." she said. Neither of them paid much attention to this, so she left the basement.
"Xev, Kai wasn't Kai." said Xander. "It was Spike, he stole his body."
"I know." said Xev. "I was stupid to believe it could be true. I came because I can trust you, Xander, I know you're what you say are." Xander shrugged.
"You trust me. Great, just like every other girl I know. You trust me and you like me as a... brother, or a friend. Don't think I've not heard it before."
"What?" Xev asked. "I didn't say that. I don't think of you as my brother at all. In fact, its impossible, I never knew any of my family."
"That's a shame." said Xander. "I suppose you'll want to sit here and talk all about it with your new trusted friend then?"
"No." said Xev. "Xander, don't you like me now? I'm sorry about what happened with Prince, but you have to understand... I've been trapped in space for so long with just Kai and Stan. Kai has obviously been the only object of my affections for all this time, but I know now that he can't really be alive again. And I need someone who is alive." Xander blinked.
"I do like you." he said. "Really I do, and the whole Kai - Prince thing, I don't mind that."
"You make me happy." said Xev, and then she kissed him.

Kai was wandering around the streets, unable to make sense of the directions Giles had given him. The problem was, he couldn't make out the handwriting. Suddenly a face came out of the darkness.
"You look a little lost." said the man. He was the same height as Kai, dressed in black with a long coat, with light brown hair.
"Do you know where to find Xander's basement?" asked Kai. The man shrugged.
"Maybe I do." he said. "That doesn't mean I'm going to tell you though. You don't look like you're likely to be one of her classmates, and I don't usually tell demons where they can find friends of mine."
"I am not a demon." said Kai. "I am Kai, last of the Brunnen G. Tell me where it is."
"I'm Angel." said the man. "And you don't seem to have a heartbeat my friend, so..." he pulled out the stake from under his coat, "no deal."
"The dead do not have any heartbeat." said Kai, ignoring the piece of wood.
"Oh, you're dead?" asked Angel. "What a coincidence - me too." he lunged forwards. Kai looked down at his chest, which now had a stake lodged in the heart area.
"You're the second person to do that in the few days I have been on this planet." said Kai.
"Great." said Angel. "Just when you think you've got the dead pretty much figured out, something like this happens. Why is it you want to find Xander anyway, of all people?"
"People I know are staying with him." said Kai. "Stanley and Xev. They are in danger from Prince."
"Prince?" said Angel. "I don't know any Prince. There's still absolutely no reason why I should help you." Kai pulled the stake from his chest and held it to Angels. "Go on then, kill me. At least then I'll be free of this damned existence."
"Tell me where I can find them." said Kai. "Prince is dangerous, and needs to be stopped. He has taken on a new form here, and he calls himself Spike."
"Spike? Oh, right, you should have said." Angel pushed the stake away. "Come on, I'll show you where to find them. I'm headed that way myself." They walked, and then footsteps could be heard approaching. Stan ran into them.
"Help!" he cried. "This place is full of... weird people. Kai, are you really you?"
"Yes." said Kai.
"Who's the other guy?" Stan asked, looking at Angel.
"Angel." he said. "And you are?"
"Stanley Tweedle, captain of the Lexx." he said, shaking Angels hand. "I'm lost here, do you know how I can get back? I haven't seen Xev since last night. And why is this place full of psychos?"
"You're on a hell mouth." said Angel. "Come on, we're going to Xander's basement just now, I have some important news for them all."

As they approached Xander's house, Angel caught sight of Buffy fighting a man. He felt an urge to go and help her, but then with a sudden movement of her axe, she removed the head from his body.
"Buffy!" called Angel. Buffy ran over to them, smiling.
"Hi Angel." she said. "He's dead just now, but this happened before today, he keeps coming back." Suddenly Spike appeared behind Angel.
"Boo!" he said, effectively making them all jump.
"Spike." said Angel. "What's going on?" Spike smiled.
"Well well well." he said looking at them. "Night of the living dead, isnt it?"
"Forget it." Angel walked to the door of Xander's house and knocked. Sounds could be heard from inside, but noone answered the door. Kai broke the door down.
"Hey!" shouted Xander, wrapped up in a duvet on his bed. An exceptionally lumpy duvet.
"Xander?" asked Angel. "What's going on here?" Xev reluctantly showed her face.
"Xev!" Stanley and Spike called out in unison.
"Be quiet." she said, moodily. "I was trying to sleep."
"I can't believe it." said Spike. "Of all the people... Xander? Honestly, anything with a pulse..."
"Or without." said Stanley, bitterly. "Except me for some reason."
"I should think that reason is obvious to everyone." said Spike, looking at Stanley. Angel shook his head.
"Look, stop this now, it's not important. I have news. The army guys that have been going about for the last few months here, they're called the initiative, and they seem to have some link to the local college."
"Oh yeah." said Spike. "Miss Walsh, she's the leader. Any other news, preferably something we don't already know?" Angel frowned.
"How did you know?" he asked. Spike grinned.
"I never forget a soul." he said. "Now there's evil for you, a woman toying with the very fabric of life and death. Another soul sent here when you destroyed Fire, Stan. I think you know this one though... in her last life she lived in your Cluster."
"Oh that helps." said Stan, sarcastically. "Not like there were millions of people there or anything, should be pretty easy to recognise her."
"She's changed a lot." said Spike. "For a start, the female-ness is a new development. But her personality, her soul, will never change, and you do know her. Especially you, Kai."
"We shall see." said Kai, and they headed off to the Initiative.

They managed to break into the initiative, through a tunnel that had been left when it had been built. They were low down in the initiative here, but could hear voices above them. Professor Walsh was talking to the military clad young men in front of her. Spike grinned, then ran up, causing them all to jump.
"Evening, Miss Walsh." he said, his face contorting to the demonic attack face. Her eyes widened.
"It's an HST!" she called. "A vampire, capture him, but don't kill him." Several of the soldiers ran to arrest Spike, who fought back well, but was eventually caught between three young men.
"Miss Walsh, would you please tell them to let me go?" It was the voice usually associated with Prince. Professor Walsh, however, didn't recognise it.
"I will do no such thing." she said. "You are a valuable specimen for study."
"Hardly valuable if killing me should cause you to lose your own life," he threatened, "Bio-visir." Professor Walsh blinked, and walked over to him.
"Let go of me." said Spike, and Professor Walsh nodded to them. They did so. Spike stood alone.
"How... where did you hear that word?" she asked, still unable to place the hauntingly familiar voice.
"From you." said Spike. "Now tell your soldier boys to get out of here."
"I don't care if you know who I once was," she said, "but I will not be ordered around by anyone in my Initiative. Understood?" Spike glared at her.
"Bio-visir, you will OBEY YOUR PRINCE!" he demanded. Professor Walsh stumbled backwards in shock.
"Leave, all of you, leave now!" she called to the soldiers, who all immediately ran away... except for one.
"No." said the last remaining man. "I'm not going to stand for you being pushed around by some dumb HST."
"Look Riley, you're in way over your head here. Just go." Riley sulkily walked down the stairs, but bumped into Kai.
"Argh!" he called out. "Another HST! Prepare to die, demon!" He high-kicked Kai, bringing him to the floor. Kai sat up and shot Riley with his brace, which didn't kill him instantly, but left him bleeding slowly to death. Then he went up to where Prince and Professor Walsh stood.
"Kai." said Professor Walsh. "My creation. You're here? Its a miracle!"
Kai looked Professor Walsh up and down. There was only one person this could be.
"Mantrid." said Kai.