"B, where you want us?" Faith spoke into her cell as Robin drove past the ASHTON VERMONT sign, and around the bend leading into town. They had passed the first buildings when a bike shot out from no where, forcing Robin to slam on the brakes and Faith into the windshield.

[Faith,] shouted Buffy. [Faith, what's going on?]

"Some damn biker, shot out of an alley, fastern a bat outta hell," snarled the dark slayer.

[A biker? What was he wearing?]

"What was he wearing?" Faith resisted the urge to stare at her cell phone. "I'm no fashion pate, long white coat, silver hat, honking great sword. I dunno. The guy must be completely nuts."

[Where'd he go? Can you catch him?]

"Catch him? Whaffor?"

[I need to talk to him.]

Faith glanced at Robin. "Queen B wants to talk to the biker that just ran us off. Think you can catch him?"

"I can try," Robin said savagely as he floored the pedal in the direction the biker had taken. "Got me a few words to say to him myself."

It ended up being a cross town chase, which wasn't saying all that much, which ended up in a warehouse, they had reached just in time to see the oddly dressed biker crash his bike through the door. Faith was out and running almost before Robin had come to a full stop.

One look through the door was enough to send Faith running back to the car and her cell phone, which she had left on the dash.

"Hey B," she shouted after speed dialing Buffy's cell. "You want to talk to this guy, you get your ass down here pronto."

[What?]

"Your Biker Knight just crashed into a whole warehouse full of Vamps and none of them look happy to see him." Faith gave directions to the warehouse before dropping the cell onto her seat, and reaching under the dash for some stakes.

"You're not going in," Robin said sharply. "If there's as many vamps as you say, its better to wait for Buffy to get here, so we can plan how we're going to do this."

"I don't go in that guy's gonna get slaughtered," Faith said grimly. ""From what I saw he's doing major damage with that sword o' his but that's not going to last long." Faith grinned. "Besides, I got a hankering to know why he took on a whole warehouse full of vamps single handedly."

"I'm going with you," Robin said in a voice that said he would go in whether Faith liked it or not.

"So're we," said Sarah, who had become the spokes person for the New York trio."

"Count me in," said Kennedy.

"No," Faith said firmly. "You're not ready for this. Not yet. Kennedy, you and Red have babysitting duty, keep em here and wait for Buffy."

"You think we can't fight?"

"I think you're not ready for this kind of action," Faith said.

"So how're we supposed to get ready if we're gonna be sidelined?"

"She's got a point," said Robin. "We can use the help."

Faith considered. Part of her wanted to drop kick the trio into submission, but as satisfying as that might be there just wasn't time, and there wasn't time to argue either. So it looked like the trio were going to take a walk through the fire tonight.

"Kay, Willow, you be okay out here alone. Just until Buffy gets here?"

"Kennedy, I need you in there. Lucy, you go with Robin. Once you're through the door you go left, Jocy 'n me will go right. Our job is to keep a distraction going, side track as many vamps away from the Knight, and Kennedy and Sarah."

"Why can't we fight," demanded Sarah. "Dunno about her but..."

"You shut up and listen," Faith snapped at her. "You'll get plenty of chances to show your stuff" Faith turned to Kennedy. "Your job is to find out what, if anything, the vamps are guarding in there. Get it and get out quick." Kennedy nodded and Faith turned her attention back to the New York trio.

"Listen up and listen good. I teamed you with experienced fighters, but there won't be time for much in the way of babysitting. These aren't your normal hood gangsters. One, they're stronger and faster. Two, you don't kill them, put a stake through their hearts, they'll sure as hell will kill you. So, don't get killed and don't get your partner killed. You hang back a bit, and if your partner says run you get your asses back out here, Capiche?" The trio nodded, and each went to stand beside their partner, stakes gripped tightly in their hands. "Good. "First me, then Robin, then Kennedy. Red, you make sure the cars locked up tight with you on the inside. No heroics people. Let's go."

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Nathaniel Rosenberg swung the sword, two handedly, and the blade decapitated three vampires and sliced the arms off two more, beside various fingers and knuckles. He hadn't had time to yank his shield off the motorcycle before the surprise had worn off, but fortunately his Armour was making it difficult for any of the devil spawn to do any major damage to him, not that they didn't try. Sometimes, it took a few wild slashed to back them off a bit. Still he was hard pressed, and if the Good Lord chose to bring him home that day, he was ready.

He as almost surprised when the pressure on him eased as a commotion began at the door behind him. He wished he had time for a quick look as the largest vampire he had ever seen took a dive at his dancing legs.

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"Way to go Jocy," Faith said as she kicked a vamp. "But you're telegraphing, giving him a chance to get ready." She ducked and planted a foot in the vamp ahead of her before dusting him. "Do a quick in and out. No need to dance." She whirled and staked a vamp who was backing Jocy up a bit. "Like that."

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"Dunno what she was thinking," muttered Robin, as he staked another vamp, and took a desperate glance around at Lucy, who, was trying to find an opening where she could drive in her stake. "Teaming me up with an amateur. Gonna get us both killed, he said as Lucy managed to drive her stake home. "Good job," he grunted as he drove another spiked fist into a vampire.

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Kennedy and Sarah kept clear of the main fighting, moving around the edges to see what was on the other side. Not that they were out of the fighting, as Kennedy drop kicked a vamp so that Sarah could stake it.

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Nathaniel Rosenberg was aware that the fight dynamic had changes, and that he was no longer the only focus of the fight. Quick glances had shown him the three teams hat had entered. Not that he had the time to discover their motives. He was merely satisfied that they were not adding to the foe."

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Willow jumped as bright lights flashed through the car windows, and a van pulled up beside. Buffy soon exited and Willow opened the door, as she approached. "What's up," Buffy demanded.

Willow hastened to explain,the situation as best as she could, and Buffy strode to the entrance, peering inside. What she saw was a mess. Dust everywhere, fighting forms everywhere. But it looked like Faith and her group were holding her own, as was the Knight character. "Okay," she shouted as she went back to the group of Slayers standing between the vehicles. "Let's finish this thing."

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Nathaniel Rosenberg grunted as he swung the sword at another vamp. Who immediately turned to dust revealing grinning dark haired girl just behind him. Who would be minus something if he hadn't managed to turn the swing up and she hadn't been able to leap back at the same instant.

"That's no way to thank a lady," Faith grinned before spinning around to take on another.

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Buffy led the charge into the warehouse and it wasn't long before the fighting wrapped up, either with a mass dust party, or the mass exodus of the opposition. But the only people left standing were the good guys.

"Hey B," grinned Faith. "Welcome to the party." She took a fast look around. "Robin, Sarah, Jocy, Kennedy, Lucy, you guys alright?"

"Yo," called out Robin, emerging from a corner, followed by a shaken Lucy. Jocy poked her head up from behind some crates.

"Where's Kennedy and Sarah?"

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Kennedy grunted as she was slammed against the wall, and her eyes widened as the vamp's knife flashed towards her. She felt a sliding pressure just above her breasts, and she stared as a humumgous blade flashed up past her eyes, severing the vamps knife hand and causing it to leap back and the knife to clatter aside. She didn't feel the wound, or the blood, as she watched the Knight step forward and with one slash take the vamp's head off.

"Your friend needs help." The Knight brushed past her and stalked up the hallway, they had entered. With a quick glance to make sure she was alright, the knight moved on, leaving Kennedy to stare after him, before she could thing to look around for bleeding Sarah who was slumped against the wall. Kennedy rushed to her. "Think you can make it out of here? Sounds like the main fightings over."

Sarah nodded. "What are you gonna do?"

"See what this jokers up to. Tell them where we are."

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"Sarah," Faith spotted her as she emerged into the main room. "Look B, you can be pissed later. Right now, one o' my teams hurt and that comes first." She whirled away from the senior slayer, who was taking her to task for taking inexperienced girls into the fight.

"When," Buffy glared after her. "When does it get to be my turn."

"Where's Kennedy?" Faith ignored Buffy's outburst as she started inventorying Sarah's injuries. Which included a broken arm, some visible bruising and, thankfully, not much else. Sarah nodded at the hallway behind her.

"She's going after the Knight."

"B," Faith called. "You heard?"

"I heard," Buffy growled as she motioned for Giles and the others to follow her. Robin was eager for more, but the New York Trio hung back. Buffy cast a glare at Faith before entering the hallway.

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Kennedy stared. She had followed the Knight further up the hallway, and down a flight of stares, taking out the odd vamp, but keeping him in sight. Finally he had come to a double doored room, and kicked it open.

Inside it looked like a Chapel. Polished oaken Pews lined either side of a black carpeted aisle, that ended before a black cloth draped altar. On which lay the nude body of a young girl, barely into her teens. Hanging above that altar, glistening from the light of the candelabra, was a blackened cross, upside down. Hanging from the cross, in an insane parody of the Crucifiction, was the body of a young boy.

Kennedy stood and stared. She had never been one for religion, particularly one that looked down upon her lifestyle, but this was just sick. She didn't notice as the Knight dusted the last vampire. She didn't notice Buffy and the others, including Faith and the New York trio, crowding into the room behind her. She barely heard Giles' exclamation.

"Good Lord. A Black Mass."