Disclaimer: Buffy belongs to Joss Whedon and Andromeda and all characters belong to Gene Roddenberry

Chapter 1: Exclamations and Wakings

"What the hell?" asked Dylan, eyeing the blonde that had fallen into Tyr's lap. "Rommi!"

"I don't know sir," Rommi said, "She just appeared, it is like when our invisible friends came to visit. Bring her to sick bay, we can run an analyse on her blood and make sure she is alright."

Dylan watched as Tyr carried the blonde to the medic room, he seemed unintersted in putting her down. Tyr actually seemed to be quite attached to the blonde and Dylan found that odd, since Tyr had just lost his pride and she looked human.

"And what have we here?" Harper asked.

'Isn't she good looking?' Harper thought and then noticed Tyr's glare, 'Isn't that always the way? She's gonna wake up and be in love with Tyr or Dylan!' Harper pouted at the thought. He set to work on attending her wounds, but was amazed when the cuts seemed to close by themselves in the matter of seconds.

"Dylan!"

"Yea, Harper?"

"Watch this," Harper said, before cutting the blonde on the arm, but before Dylan could yell at him, the cut was gone. "That ain't human." Dylan stared at the cut in amazement, he couldn't think of a single species anywhere that healed as fast as the tiny blonde.

"Dylan?"

"Yes, Rommi."

"We have an incoming hail, from a Nietzschean ship."

"I will be right there." Dylan took one last look and took off toward the command station and Trance entered the room. She took one look at Buffy and ushered all the males out of the room. She placed her hand on Buffy's,

'You have come.' She thought, she felt the girl jump, she wasn't surprised, afterall she was supposed to be dead. Gift had been her gift, but she was needed her to help save her world in the future. Trance sat down next to her and started filling Buffy in on what she missed, without waking her, but instead sending images into her mind, amazingly she was unable to retrieve images from Buffy and when she tried again, she was forcibly removed from her mind, unable to do anything. The shock sent Trance into blissful unconsciousness.

Awake:

Buffy awoke with a start, she felt whatever she was on make a startled movement, like a plane touching down or something like that. She darted out of the bed and looked around, realizing that she had information about a ship that she had never been on. She remembered someone speaking to her and the first slayer telling her that she must help these people also.

'Damn the Powers! Death was my gift, I gave it, I don't need to be here anymore.' Buffy thought as she crept towards the door, she grabbed a pipe that looked like a staff, 'They might not be Friar Tuck, but it will do.' She walked out the door and took a right, following the corridor, she felt her slayer sense kick in and reacted instantly.

She hit the man with her makeshift staff, once she was satisfied that he wasn't getting up, she took a good look at him. He looked human, dark skinned, dreds, well muscled, and cute. Buffy groaned as she realized that this was Tyr and then she shook her head, her slayer sense was telling her that he wasn't human and right now, that was what she was going with. She dragged him back to the medical room and left him there. She then proceeded back down the hallway.

"Dylan, we would like to join the Commonwealth," She shook her head in disbelief, it sounded like Spike, peaking her head around the corner,

'It sure as hell looks like Spike,' she was tempted to attack, but stopped when she heard,

"Captain, our visitor is awake." Startled Buffy turned around and saw Rommi. Dylan and the Spike-look alike turned around and found the blonde directly behind them, with a pipe.

"Uhh, hi." Buffy said, looking a bit sheepishly.

"Captain, I can't find where." Trance started, then noticing Buffy, "Never mind, found her. Oh! Tyr is unconscious in the medic room, is there a reason." Buff looked very sheepish about that.

"Sorry, but."

"You?!?" the Spike look alike said, "You're nothing more than a girl, what could you have possibly done with that pipe?"

"Step a little closer and I'll show you." Dylan stepped in between the two, silently siding with Charlamagne, but not about to voice that opinion. "Never mind that, I can kick your ass later." She looked to Rommi, "What are you?" she asked, "Cause I can sense that you aren't human, neither was that Tyr fellow or the Spike look alike over there or her." Buffy said pointing to Trance.

"Well, I am an,"

"Alright, who hit me with a pipe?" Tyr asked, and then noticed the blonde was awake. "I am Tyr and you are?"

"Buffy and I'm the one that hit you with the pipe, sorry." She apologized, although she still wasn't sure what he was.

"I am Dylan Hunt, captain of the Andromeda," he said, pointing to the Spike look alike, "This is Charlamagne, she is Trance, and that is Rommi, she is the Andromeda Ascendant."

"Oh," Buffy said, taking it all in, "So, you're a ship, what's it like?" Rommi looked offended, but before she could say anything Dylan was once again taking a hold of the situation.

"So, where are you from?"