A/N ~ Okay sorry this one took so long but I had so much to write and
trying not to make it sound like a bullet pint list of every piece of
information I wanted to give you took me ages. Anyway hope you like it and
please r&r.
Chapter Four
Anya, Spike and Xander were first getting back to the store with their box. Buffy and Jack arrived a few minutes later who, in her opinion still looked pretty shook up from his close encounter of the fanged kind despite his assurances. The blonde, specks and the big guy faces lit up with relief when they spotted him. Coming over to stand in front of us they hugged and checked each other out for injuries reassuring themselves that everything was okay. My spidey-sense which had been all tingly since we'd entered went into hyper-drive as they got closer.
Danger was emanating from the big guy. Moving quicker than he could anticipate I grabbed him around the neck and picked him off his feet, no small task since he was on the level below me. His friends got into a defensive stance behind us pointing their weapons at me ready to move in. It didn't seem to matter to the Colonel that I knew that their guns weren't working since their grey stone experience.
"Hi, we haven't been introduced. I'm Daniel, this is Sam and your strangling Teal'c….." the man in question made a choking noise getting Daniel into action, "And I was wondering if you could please put him down." he added speaking in a soft voice which you would use on a jumper.
The Scooby's moved closer to me as well but I didn't take my attention away from the thing which was now holding onto my arm. Spike stayed sitting on the counter observing.
"Buffy put him down he's a good guy." Willow worriedly said.
"He's not human." I answered knowing it would explain my actions to them.
"From what I've seen neither are you." Jack retorted getting closer lowering his voice to a threatening growl.
"Buff, why don't you put him down and we can discuss this without the turning blue and passing out." Willow suggested while the others stayed quiet trusting Buffy's judgement.
"Rip his head off Slayer!" Spike cheered looking forward to licking up the mess.
If Spike was on my side there is something seriously wrong, thought Buffy as she slowly lowered Teal'c to the ground and released him. His friends quickly moved him to the other side of the table while Buffy went to lean against the counter; as far from each other as possible. Xander, Anya and Willow sat down at the table where Dawn was watching everything with great interest.
They looked at each other not saying anything.
"Okay why don't we start? Your right Teal'c isn't human he's a Jaffa." Daniel started.
"Well that explains everything! We can all go home." Spiked mocked between lighting a fag and puffing merrily away at it.
"Here's something I'd like to know. What's with the Blond?" Buffy growled at Jack, "How come she can pick people up and stuff?"
With Buffy unwilling to answer Willow did it for her, "She's the Slayer."
It was obvious from their confused looks that there was a need for elaboration. Anya added, "In this dimension there are vampires, demons and such. So they have this one girl picked out in every generation who's job it is to stop the darkness from over spilling into the 'real' world and save it and stuff."
Looking for help she poked Xander, "Ye…oh, she has superpowers like knowing when something evil is about. And super strength, stamina and making super plans to save the world and then saving it. Oh…and being really hot and innocent looking while saving the world." this earned him a scowl from his fiancé who hit him hard across the back of the head.
"Sounds like you do that a lot." Sam added sitting down at the table. "We have some experience in that area too."
"How many times have you saved the world in a week?" Dawn asked getting a look from Buffy.
Jack laughed, "Oh just once and twice." his tone suggesting far more often.
Dawn smiled proudly at her sister, "Buffy saves the world daily. She's by far the bestest slayer ever."
"Yea!" Spike said smirking, "For a dead women."
Buffy didn't even look at Spike merely shoved his arm lightly causing him to fall backwards off the counter and then bounced back up trying to look cool and collected but failing miserably. His crooked cigarette and twitchy looks at her giving him away.
"This is amazing. I can't believe there are actually vampires and demons. I wish I could see one." Daniel added.
Buffy raised her hand ready to punch Spike who spotted the move; giving him the chance to jump away to sit on the stairs in the back of the shop.
"If you want me to go all growly face all you have to do is ask. But now you can go stick it." he stomped refusing to answer Sg-1 questioning stare.
"Danny believe me you don't wanna. I've never seen anything like it and I've seen a lot." Jack commented putting his hands in his pockets so not to brush away the silky gold strands of Sam's hair that had just fallen into her face.
"I wish you could go back to the time when you hadn't seen anything." Dawn thought aloud causing everyone to look at her. The Scooby's in parental concern and Sg-1 touched by the sadness in her voice and the look of loss in her unusually green eyes. They were silent each thinking their own list of things they wished they'd never seen.
"So?" Xander asked resting his chin on his hand "What's a Jaffa, Goa'uld and can I have one of your nifty space guns?"
Before Sg-1 could explain Anya put her hand up like in school to answer the teacher's question.
"What is it, honey?" Xander asked pulling her hand down into his free one.
"I know what the Goa'uld are?" Sg-1 looked at her unconvinced.
"It is doubtful that you know anything about the Goa'uld or our situation." Teal'c stated.
"Are you calling me a liar? I never lie. I always tell the absolute truth." Anya looked to her friends incredulously seeking back up.
"I believe you." Dawn reassured "Tell us what you know."
Jack grunted giving them a look that implied that this was a waste of time and they should just be quiet and listen to them. If it didn't work for Giles it sure in hell isn't going to for him, Anya thought.
Importantly she cleared her throat. "The Goa'uld were thought to be Gods but they were actually these snake things that take over your body and mind effectively silencing you inside. They have advance technology which they take from other cultures, one of which is the stargate. Using this ring thing which is actually a transportation device they took hundreds of human from earth and dropped them around the universe as slaves. However on their world they revolted and buried the gate. Until these guys who are probably the best of the best military type except for Daniel found it, started it and stupidly bumped into the Goa'uld." Everyone just looked at her.
"Oh and the Jaffa are the main soldiers of the Gods who carry the wormy things until they are mature enough to take a host.
"Who are you?" Jack demanded, turning back to his team mates he asked, "Are you sure that this isn't our dimension?"
"I'm just as confused as you are sir." Carter supplied.
"Why is it obvious I'm not the military type?" questioned Daniel.
Moving over to sit beside Anya, Teal'c requested, "How did you come by this knowledge?" the others hushed waiting for an answer.
Inspecting her nails she let out a bored sigh, "I used to be a vengeance demon. Hopping from wounded woman to woman wreaking their revenge. I was worshipped for a thousand years. In your dimension my best work was getting revenge for all the witches killed during the Salem incident," she smiled happily remembering a time that none there could understand.
"You never told me that." Willow said incredulous.
"Just because most of the women weren't witches doesn't mean a few were." she answered shrugging her delicate shoulders.
"If I remember correctly lots of credit for my work was given to those stupid Furies or their equivalent in your dimension. They were three very stupid obsessive compulsives who wouldn't wash and know an original idea to torture men if it bit them in the ass." she looked around for understanding but found none.
"Xander you're a lucky man." Spike smiled stumping out his cigarette.
"You were a vengeance demon for the last thousand years seeing history change first hand." Daniel stated reverence in his voice.
"Cool" Jack commented wondering how a vengeance demon had ended up with this weird little band of fighters. "So that's basically what we do. Stop the Goa'uld from taking earth and helping others along the way."
Buffy snorted, "Yeah. Sure. Whatever." she dismissed making it clear that she didn't believe them. "So guys' running around with little tattoos on their heads is normal were you come from?"
"Yes." Sam answered.
"Good then you can probably tell me why I've a got bunch of demons, vampires and humans working together which if that wasn't so strange on its own, the symbol would have pushed it over the edge of sane."
Startled Sg-1 looked at each other. "As we told Willow we were exploring a planet where the civilisation looked extinct and then got zapped here. You wouldn't happen to remember what the tattoo looked like would you?" Daniel asked hopefully not expecting much because of his experience with laymen.
"Sure it's on the bottom left corner, three in on the box that Anya and Xander mugged from the two guys in the park." picking it up with one hand she brought it over to Daniel. Handing it to him he thought he would be able to hold it in one hand also but couldn't, dropping it with a loud bang onto the wooden table.
"Sorry." he guiltily apologised, "….These definitely look like Goa'uld writings." turning the box around he studied it from every angle and was about to open it when Buffy slammed her hand over the lib preventing him.
"Let me give you a good piece of advice. Never open anything here that you don't know what's inside. That's just looking for trouble. Nothing the baddies like is ever nice. Willow got any ideas?"
The box was dragged over to her and she ran her hands slowly over it feeling the grain of the wood, noting the inscription.
"The text is familiar, a variation on some of the more obscure Egyptian texts found but disregarded because they didn't fit into the nice little time line. The symbol which was the tattoo looks like Thoth. The god of time or record keeping." suddenly looking up she smiled. "The box isn't special but what's inside is. There's a protection spell around it, a very powerful one. If he'd opened the box we'd all be mush." the man in question looked even guiltier.
"This is strange. There seems to be bits of demonic writing running through the Goa'uld. I don't see a pattern but I've got a programme that can find it."
Getting into action mode Buffy moved forward clapping her hands together. "Right Willow you do your computer bit and find the text. Oh and give Daniel a sample and some books which it's likely to be in so we know the language to translate it. Xander, Anya research any weird incidents concerning our bad guys so we have some clue what their doing. Dawn, home and bed. Spike your with me digging up some dirt."
"It would be faster if you let me go alone. The little darlings aren't very talkative when your around. Their being dead an' all." Spike argued.
"Fine. Come straight back if you find out anything." she shouted after him as he walked purposely out. "I know Teal'c's Mr.Like-to-fight and Daniel's watcher guy but what about you two. What's your thing?"
Sg-1 just looked at her impressed by her immediate evaluation of the situation and action to understand and kick its ass. "I'm the Colonel. I make the decisions and am a soldier." Jack added waving his hands about unsure what to say.
"I'm a Major but also a quantum physicist who worked out how the gate worked." you could tell by her own voice that she had even impressed herself by that.
"So you're smart." Buffy asked.
"Way smart." Jack put in.
"Great you can help our resident genius Willow." she turned her attention to Teal'c. "I'm sorry for the whole attacking you thing but your little bug was really setting of my spidey-sense."
He raised an eyebrow, "I am not familiar with the term 'Spidey-sense'."
"It's this super power that spider man has from marvel comics which alerts him of danger." Jack explained causing Xander to burst out laughing.
Looking over at him for a reason Xander shrugged his shoulders. "There are guys. Were fighting with guys. Even better their military ones so they'll understand the hand movement and sentences like, 'This is a death con three situation.'; it's just cool to have guys around. I'm usually the only one and Giles didn't count cause he was English"
"Good to know that your female friends are good enough for you." Willow retorted.
"I could try to be manlier if you want but I'll never be as good at it as you." Anya lovingly said brushing the side of his face and snuggling up to him.
"Buffy we can start all this tomorrow can't we?" Xander asked hopefully.
"Sure if you really want to. It's too late to do anything now……" the pair rushed out leaving Buffy before she could finish
"Not oblivious are they." jack said.
Smiling Sam enquired, "So what are we doing?"
"You guys can stay at our place and well bring the box with us. Get some sleep. Find you guys' some civilian clothing and sort out this mess."
"Aren't we going to stick out dressed as we are now?" Sam asked.
Dawn giggled putting on her backpack heading for the door behind Buffy who was carrying the box. "Believe me no one's going to notice a few more camouflaged soldier crime fighter types running around; you'll be considered normal. But you might wanna lose the guns.
"She's right also they don't work. Already tried them and almost got myself eaten because of it. We'll leave them here and check them out in the morning. Oh and by the way were just peachy about this fabulous plan you've come up with. Thanks for asking" Jack shouted at Buffy's retreating back.
Gathering their gear together but leaving their guns Sg-1 hurried after the two girls while Willow closed up the Magic Shop. Tightly walking together they headed for the Summer's residence unaware of the shadows watching their every move.
A/N ~ Writing the next part as you read which should be up by Monday. Thanks for the suggestion on what I should call my evil Goa'uld; they were really helpful.
Chapter Four
Anya, Spike and Xander were first getting back to the store with their box. Buffy and Jack arrived a few minutes later who, in her opinion still looked pretty shook up from his close encounter of the fanged kind despite his assurances. The blonde, specks and the big guy faces lit up with relief when they spotted him. Coming over to stand in front of us they hugged and checked each other out for injuries reassuring themselves that everything was okay. My spidey-sense which had been all tingly since we'd entered went into hyper-drive as they got closer.
Danger was emanating from the big guy. Moving quicker than he could anticipate I grabbed him around the neck and picked him off his feet, no small task since he was on the level below me. His friends got into a defensive stance behind us pointing their weapons at me ready to move in. It didn't seem to matter to the Colonel that I knew that their guns weren't working since their grey stone experience.
"Hi, we haven't been introduced. I'm Daniel, this is Sam and your strangling Teal'c….." the man in question made a choking noise getting Daniel into action, "And I was wondering if you could please put him down." he added speaking in a soft voice which you would use on a jumper.
The Scooby's moved closer to me as well but I didn't take my attention away from the thing which was now holding onto my arm. Spike stayed sitting on the counter observing.
"Buffy put him down he's a good guy." Willow worriedly said.
"He's not human." I answered knowing it would explain my actions to them.
"From what I've seen neither are you." Jack retorted getting closer lowering his voice to a threatening growl.
"Buff, why don't you put him down and we can discuss this without the turning blue and passing out." Willow suggested while the others stayed quiet trusting Buffy's judgement.
"Rip his head off Slayer!" Spike cheered looking forward to licking up the mess.
If Spike was on my side there is something seriously wrong, thought Buffy as she slowly lowered Teal'c to the ground and released him. His friends quickly moved him to the other side of the table while Buffy went to lean against the counter; as far from each other as possible. Xander, Anya and Willow sat down at the table where Dawn was watching everything with great interest.
They looked at each other not saying anything.
"Okay why don't we start? Your right Teal'c isn't human he's a Jaffa." Daniel started.
"Well that explains everything! We can all go home." Spiked mocked between lighting a fag and puffing merrily away at it.
"Here's something I'd like to know. What's with the Blond?" Buffy growled at Jack, "How come she can pick people up and stuff?"
With Buffy unwilling to answer Willow did it for her, "She's the Slayer."
It was obvious from their confused looks that there was a need for elaboration. Anya added, "In this dimension there are vampires, demons and such. So they have this one girl picked out in every generation who's job it is to stop the darkness from over spilling into the 'real' world and save it and stuff."
Looking for help she poked Xander, "Ye…oh, she has superpowers like knowing when something evil is about. And super strength, stamina and making super plans to save the world and then saving it. Oh…and being really hot and innocent looking while saving the world." this earned him a scowl from his fiancé who hit him hard across the back of the head.
"Sounds like you do that a lot." Sam added sitting down at the table. "We have some experience in that area too."
"How many times have you saved the world in a week?" Dawn asked getting a look from Buffy.
Jack laughed, "Oh just once and twice." his tone suggesting far more often.
Dawn smiled proudly at her sister, "Buffy saves the world daily. She's by far the bestest slayer ever."
"Yea!" Spike said smirking, "For a dead women."
Buffy didn't even look at Spike merely shoved his arm lightly causing him to fall backwards off the counter and then bounced back up trying to look cool and collected but failing miserably. His crooked cigarette and twitchy looks at her giving him away.
"This is amazing. I can't believe there are actually vampires and demons. I wish I could see one." Daniel added.
Buffy raised her hand ready to punch Spike who spotted the move; giving him the chance to jump away to sit on the stairs in the back of the shop.
"If you want me to go all growly face all you have to do is ask. But now you can go stick it." he stomped refusing to answer Sg-1 questioning stare.
"Danny believe me you don't wanna. I've never seen anything like it and I've seen a lot." Jack commented putting his hands in his pockets so not to brush away the silky gold strands of Sam's hair that had just fallen into her face.
"I wish you could go back to the time when you hadn't seen anything." Dawn thought aloud causing everyone to look at her. The Scooby's in parental concern and Sg-1 touched by the sadness in her voice and the look of loss in her unusually green eyes. They were silent each thinking their own list of things they wished they'd never seen.
"So?" Xander asked resting his chin on his hand "What's a Jaffa, Goa'uld and can I have one of your nifty space guns?"
Before Sg-1 could explain Anya put her hand up like in school to answer the teacher's question.
"What is it, honey?" Xander asked pulling her hand down into his free one.
"I know what the Goa'uld are?" Sg-1 looked at her unconvinced.
"It is doubtful that you know anything about the Goa'uld or our situation." Teal'c stated.
"Are you calling me a liar? I never lie. I always tell the absolute truth." Anya looked to her friends incredulously seeking back up.
"I believe you." Dawn reassured "Tell us what you know."
Jack grunted giving them a look that implied that this was a waste of time and they should just be quiet and listen to them. If it didn't work for Giles it sure in hell isn't going to for him, Anya thought.
Importantly she cleared her throat. "The Goa'uld were thought to be Gods but they were actually these snake things that take over your body and mind effectively silencing you inside. They have advance technology which they take from other cultures, one of which is the stargate. Using this ring thing which is actually a transportation device they took hundreds of human from earth and dropped them around the universe as slaves. However on their world they revolted and buried the gate. Until these guys who are probably the best of the best military type except for Daniel found it, started it and stupidly bumped into the Goa'uld." Everyone just looked at her.
"Oh and the Jaffa are the main soldiers of the Gods who carry the wormy things until they are mature enough to take a host.
"Who are you?" Jack demanded, turning back to his team mates he asked, "Are you sure that this isn't our dimension?"
"I'm just as confused as you are sir." Carter supplied.
"Why is it obvious I'm not the military type?" questioned Daniel.
Moving over to sit beside Anya, Teal'c requested, "How did you come by this knowledge?" the others hushed waiting for an answer.
Inspecting her nails she let out a bored sigh, "I used to be a vengeance demon. Hopping from wounded woman to woman wreaking their revenge. I was worshipped for a thousand years. In your dimension my best work was getting revenge for all the witches killed during the Salem incident," she smiled happily remembering a time that none there could understand.
"You never told me that." Willow said incredulous.
"Just because most of the women weren't witches doesn't mean a few were." she answered shrugging her delicate shoulders.
"If I remember correctly lots of credit for my work was given to those stupid Furies or their equivalent in your dimension. They were three very stupid obsessive compulsives who wouldn't wash and know an original idea to torture men if it bit them in the ass." she looked around for understanding but found none.
"Xander you're a lucky man." Spike smiled stumping out his cigarette.
"You were a vengeance demon for the last thousand years seeing history change first hand." Daniel stated reverence in his voice.
"Cool" Jack commented wondering how a vengeance demon had ended up with this weird little band of fighters. "So that's basically what we do. Stop the Goa'uld from taking earth and helping others along the way."
Buffy snorted, "Yeah. Sure. Whatever." she dismissed making it clear that she didn't believe them. "So guys' running around with little tattoos on their heads is normal were you come from?"
"Yes." Sam answered.
"Good then you can probably tell me why I've a got bunch of demons, vampires and humans working together which if that wasn't so strange on its own, the symbol would have pushed it over the edge of sane."
Startled Sg-1 looked at each other. "As we told Willow we were exploring a planet where the civilisation looked extinct and then got zapped here. You wouldn't happen to remember what the tattoo looked like would you?" Daniel asked hopefully not expecting much because of his experience with laymen.
"Sure it's on the bottom left corner, three in on the box that Anya and Xander mugged from the two guys in the park." picking it up with one hand she brought it over to Daniel. Handing it to him he thought he would be able to hold it in one hand also but couldn't, dropping it with a loud bang onto the wooden table.
"Sorry." he guiltily apologised, "….These definitely look like Goa'uld writings." turning the box around he studied it from every angle and was about to open it when Buffy slammed her hand over the lib preventing him.
"Let me give you a good piece of advice. Never open anything here that you don't know what's inside. That's just looking for trouble. Nothing the baddies like is ever nice. Willow got any ideas?"
The box was dragged over to her and she ran her hands slowly over it feeling the grain of the wood, noting the inscription.
"The text is familiar, a variation on some of the more obscure Egyptian texts found but disregarded because they didn't fit into the nice little time line. The symbol which was the tattoo looks like Thoth. The god of time or record keeping." suddenly looking up she smiled. "The box isn't special but what's inside is. There's a protection spell around it, a very powerful one. If he'd opened the box we'd all be mush." the man in question looked even guiltier.
"This is strange. There seems to be bits of demonic writing running through the Goa'uld. I don't see a pattern but I've got a programme that can find it."
Getting into action mode Buffy moved forward clapping her hands together. "Right Willow you do your computer bit and find the text. Oh and give Daniel a sample and some books which it's likely to be in so we know the language to translate it. Xander, Anya research any weird incidents concerning our bad guys so we have some clue what their doing. Dawn, home and bed. Spike your with me digging up some dirt."
"It would be faster if you let me go alone. The little darlings aren't very talkative when your around. Their being dead an' all." Spike argued.
"Fine. Come straight back if you find out anything." she shouted after him as he walked purposely out. "I know Teal'c's Mr.Like-to-fight and Daniel's watcher guy but what about you two. What's your thing?"
Sg-1 just looked at her impressed by her immediate evaluation of the situation and action to understand and kick its ass. "I'm the Colonel. I make the decisions and am a soldier." Jack added waving his hands about unsure what to say.
"I'm a Major but also a quantum physicist who worked out how the gate worked." you could tell by her own voice that she had even impressed herself by that.
"So you're smart." Buffy asked.
"Way smart." Jack put in.
"Great you can help our resident genius Willow." she turned her attention to Teal'c. "I'm sorry for the whole attacking you thing but your little bug was really setting of my spidey-sense."
He raised an eyebrow, "I am not familiar with the term 'Spidey-sense'."
"It's this super power that spider man has from marvel comics which alerts him of danger." Jack explained causing Xander to burst out laughing.
Looking over at him for a reason Xander shrugged his shoulders. "There are guys. Were fighting with guys. Even better their military ones so they'll understand the hand movement and sentences like, 'This is a death con three situation.'; it's just cool to have guys around. I'm usually the only one and Giles didn't count cause he was English"
"Good to know that your female friends are good enough for you." Willow retorted.
"I could try to be manlier if you want but I'll never be as good at it as you." Anya lovingly said brushing the side of his face and snuggling up to him.
"Buffy we can start all this tomorrow can't we?" Xander asked hopefully.
"Sure if you really want to. It's too late to do anything now……" the pair rushed out leaving Buffy before she could finish
"Not oblivious are they." jack said.
Smiling Sam enquired, "So what are we doing?"
"You guys can stay at our place and well bring the box with us. Get some sleep. Find you guys' some civilian clothing and sort out this mess."
"Aren't we going to stick out dressed as we are now?" Sam asked.
Dawn giggled putting on her backpack heading for the door behind Buffy who was carrying the box. "Believe me no one's going to notice a few more camouflaged soldier crime fighter types running around; you'll be considered normal. But you might wanna lose the guns.
"She's right also they don't work. Already tried them and almost got myself eaten because of it. We'll leave them here and check them out in the morning. Oh and by the way were just peachy about this fabulous plan you've come up with. Thanks for asking" Jack shouted at Buffy's retreating back.
Gathering their gear together but leaving their guns Sg-1 hurried after the two girls while Willow closed up the Magic Shop. Tightly walking together they headed for the Summer's residence unaware of the shadows watching their every move.
A/N ~ Writing the next part as you read which should be up by Monday. Thanks for the suggestion on what I should call my evil Goa'uld; they were really helpful.