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"So, anyone going to tell us what's going on?"
"No, you are going to tell us where in the hezma you came from!"
"Sunnydale, California. How come you speak English now?"
D'Argo groaned expressively "I'm not speaking your language any more than I'm speaking Chiana's, you have translator microbes implanted in the base of your skull. Weren't you listening to John?"
"Not really, busy being confused at the time."
"Aliens have Earth names." Oz nodded at himself, storing this fact away in his head, Willow smiled thinking of all the strange things that her boyfriend picked up on.
"Actually no, I'm from Earth, John Crichton, astronaut."
"You're the scientist that disappeared in space, I've read papers on your work. It was brilliant, shame you didn't get to test it." Willow exclaimed in excitement.
"Actually I did, with this baby, Moya pulled it off perfectly."
"Moya, that's a nice name for a ship, who named her?"
"Her parents I would assume...Pilot"
Pilots voice quickly answered the question showing that he had been following the conversation, "You are correct Commander."
"The ship has parents!"
"Will, not to spoil this for you in any way, but Anya really needs to get to a hospital."
"I'll take you to the infirmary." Chiana chimed in obviously having decided that the newcomers weren't a threat as she had at least lowered her pulse pistol to the floor, even if she hadn't put it away quite yet. Having four people that look very like Peacekeepers fall at your feet can have that effect on a person.
Chiana and Crichton led the four intruders to the infirmary; D'Argo went to check the rest of the ship for intruders even though Pilot couldn't sense anything. At the infirmary Jool whose hair was currently bright red met them. Seeing the intruders she soon calmed down and quickly treated Anya's wounds.
Once Anya was awake the questions started in earnest. "Where are we?"
"How did we get here?"
"What are you going to do with us?"
"How do we get home?"
"Is there any food around here?"
For a moment all was silent, then Chiana burst out laughing, "He's just like Rygel, always thinking of his stomach!" She stopped laughing then and thought of her friend, not a very good friend she would readily admit. But he was a friend that saw her, not just her body.
Xander just looked confused "Who's Rygel? Are there more of you around here we haven't met?
"There were." Crichton said quietly, "But they left." Ayren had left, left him, for him. Sometimes it was too much to bear. Willow seeing the pain in their new friends eyes attempted to quickly change the topic, but Anya was faster than her...
"Went where?"
"We don't know, somewhere safe I hope with Talyn." Jool continued to potter around the room finding things to clean up keeping her mind busy with the trivial to block out reality.
Willow then thought of who they were missing, "Why isn't Buffy here, she was right with us, wasn't she?" Xander looked guilty for not having thought of Buffy earlier but he had been worrying about Anya so much it hadn't crossed his mind.
"She was still fighting, holding them off so we could get out before all the exits were blocked, she should have been close behind."
"But not near enough to get caught by the... the what?"
"The swirly thing!" It was all Xander could think of, it reminded him of the wormhole in 'Star Trek - Deep Space Nine'.
Willow grimaced at her friend for his total lack of vocabulary. "Wormhole," said Oz making his contribution to the discussion, "like on Star Trek." Xander grinned happily; he wasn't the only one to make the connection.
Willow then frowned at them both but John joined in at that point, "It was a wormhole, like the one that carried me to this side of the galaxy, but I don't know how to get back."
"That can't be it, the vamps were chanting, as if they were calling something."
"Calling a Wormhole?" it was a sensible question, but coming from Xander Willow almost dismissed it.
"Maybe." She admitted after a while, "I don't really know."
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