Timeline: Mid season 4, just before 'Apocalypse Nowish.' Just allow a bit more time for these events to happen hehe.
Connor sprinted across the road, power cable in his hands, towards the remaining
Sha'Tan'Uo. He heard Kate mutter something about crazy kids behind
him, and then he was there, right in front of the thing.
It was the one filled with bullet holes.
"
Fancy seeing you here," said Kate from beside him.
It turned to look down at them, and Connor plunged the cable into its chest,
leaping away once he had done so.
An enormous pop sounded as every light in the building the cable came from
overloaded, and every muscle in the demons body locked into place. The only
sound it made was a low groan in the back of its throat, but Connor was sure
it was so low only his enhanced hearing could pick it up.
Its eyes bored into Connor, willing the rest of its body to move and attack
him, kill him, for what he'd done, but the current was simply too much.
It toppled slowly back and collapsed onto the road, the ooze from its skin
spraying everywhere as it impacted.
Kate inspected the body. "Looks dead enough to me." Connor just
nodded and checked the surrounding area.
There were no soldiers left, or if there were they'd ran away when Connor
had appeared. The other demon was further up the street, fighting who looked
like…
"
Angel?" Kate asked, incredulous.
Connor spun to face her. "You know Angel?"
"
Yeah, he's the one who saved my life, the one who I said you reminded
me of."
Connor shook his head, half smiling.
"
Why, what's your story?"
"
He's my father," he said, starting down the road.
Kate gasped behind him.
A shotgun blast echoed from the other guy fighting the demon.
"
And that looks like…" she whispered.
"Wesley!" cried Angel, rolling to avoid the demon's stamping
foot.
Wesley swung at the Sha'Tan'Uo, but it was simply too strong for
him to fight. It grabbed hold of him, lifted him up into the air and threw
him against the convertible. Angel grabbed hold of the demons leg and yanked
on it, knocking it off balance. A new figure crashed into the demon, knocking
it to the ground.
"
Connor?" asked Angel. But then he leaped to his feet and punched the
small of the demons back. He drew his arm away and flicked his wrist, causing
a stake to appear. He plunged it into the demon's back, making it scream
with pain. It pushed itself up, throwing Angel to the ground. Connor kicked
at it but his foot shot through the mist the demon's midsection suddenly
became. Wesley slashed at it, but the same thing happened.
Angel flew forward, stabbing at the demon. The stake plunged into the demon
again and again, and it grabbed the vampire and threw him against the wall
of a nearby building.
A blonde woman ran up to join the melee against the Sha'Tan'Uo.
"
Kate!?" Angel said in surprise.
The demon had hold of Wesley.
"
Stop saying names and fight the bloody thing!" he rasped before chopping
at the demon's arm and making it let go of him. He spun through the mist
just as it reformed, swinging at the demon once again.
Kate drew her pistol and took aim at the creature, opening fire. As before,
the demon phased out causing the bullets to pass through it harmlessly.
Angel got to his feet, tackling the demon at the waist. It didn't do
much, but the Sha'Tan'Uo was knocked off balance for a few seconds.
Connor went to punch it in the face, but it misted away for the brief seconds
Connor's fist was in contact with its skin.
Angel attacked it with the stake again, opening more wounds in the demons side.
The Sha'Tan'Uo brought its elbow down onto Angel's back and
he crumbled to the ground on all fours.
It kicked him in the stomach with enough force to lift him off the ground and
sent him spinning along the ground.
It turned to Wesley, who stared grimly back at it.
Wesley gave the Sha'Tan'Uo an odd look, and feigned a swing at
it. Nothing misted away. The demon advanced on him, and Connor ran at it, jumping
through the air…
And sailing straight through the Sha'Tan'Uo, which became almost
totally immaterial, reforming when Connor hit the concrete on the other side.
Kate was standing off to one side, obviously frustrated – she wasn't
physically strong enough to take on the demon and she couldn't kill it
with her pistol.
Suddenly something flashed on the periphery of Wesley's vision and before
he could blink, Angel had clubbed the demon in its head with the butt of the
shotgun. Its snout crumpled, making it stagger backwards, clawing at its face
while at the same time attempting to attack Angel.
Wesley lunged forward, stabbing at the demons chest. Then something quite bizarre
happened.
The Sha'Tan'Uo became immaterial as before, but before Wesley had
time to withdraw the sword, the mist turned back into flesh and the sword was
suddenly wedged inside the demon. It struggled vainly to remove it with one
clawed hand while keeping the other on its face. Wesley tried pulling his arm
away but as the sword was attached to his arm, and the sword was stuck inside
the demon…
It snarled at him and went to swipe at Wesley's face, but Connor blocked
the attack, in a manner of speaking. As the demon misted its arm to block Connor's
block, it also caused the swipe to pass through both Connor's arm and
through Wesley.
Taking careful aim, Kate shot a few rounds at the demon. Several passed right
through as before, but a couple actually wounded it.
The Sha'Tan'Uo was roaring in frustration and agony now, it was
definitely growing weaker.
Suddenly the sword shot loose out of the demon and Wesley, thrown off balance,
flew backwards onto the concrete.
"
Connor, get down!" called Angel, and Connor instinctively threw himself
to the side.
The Sha'Tan'Uo turned to face Angel.
Angel levelled the shotgun at the demon and smiled.
"
Do you feel lucky, punk?"
The demon growled.
"
Well…do you?"
It lunged forward and Angel shot it at point blank range, fatally wounding
it. Gore shot out in all directions and the Sha'Tan'Uo collapsed
with a sigh of air onto the concrete.
A slow, final gurgle emanated from the back of the demons throat…and
then the night was silent again.
Wesley sat up, muscles aching. Connor slouched against the car beside him.
Kate removed the clip from the pistol and replaced it with a new one.
Angel walked over and handed the shotgun to Wesley, who accepted it.
"
Now I see why you like that thing, Wes," he smiled.
Wesley grinned wearily and started checking over the weapon.
He crouched next to Connor. "Are you okay, son?"
Connor nodded and turned his head away. Angel looked on sadly for a moment
but knew when not to press a situation. Then he turned to Kate.
"
And I don't think I should have to say that you're the last person
I expected to see here."
Kate shrugged. "Someone needs to keep the order around here, seeing as
you're doing such a half-ass job of it." She planted her hands
firmly on her hips. Angel looked away, trying to look suitably ashamed of the
mess he'd let the street get into.
The power cable still sparked further down the street, now fused completely
to the blackened Sha'Tan'Uos chest. Corpses from all walks of life
lay at various angles on either side of the road and the humvee still lay on
its side. And now the lifeless body of the third Sha'Tan'Uo added
to the body pile.
Kate smirked. "I'm only joking. None of this was your fault."
"
Yeah, well, somehow it feels like it," said Angel.
"
If anything it was that woman's fault," said Connor.
"
What woman?" asked Wesley.
"
The woman in the suit running the show from the other side of the street when
we arrived," said Kate.
Angel looked at Wesley. "Lilah," they said together.
"
Who's Lilah?"
"
Senior member of the Special Projects division at Wolfram and Hart," answered
Wesley.
Kate blinked. "Wow, those guys certainly get around if a law firm is
trying to kill demons on the streets."
"
They aren't good guys, Kate, they were probably trying to bargain with
it using this kid as some kind of lure," said Angel. Then he glanced
down the street. "Except it obviously didn't…quite…work." He
winced as he realised just how many dead Wolfram and Hart operatives lay on
the road. Then he looked back at his car. "Speaking of which…"
He walked towards the car and looked into the back seat.
"
Oh," he said. "Oh, man!" He clambered inside the convertible
making the others wonder just what he was doing. Wesley stood up and looked
inside the car.
"
Dear God…"
The kid was convulsing slightly, blood seeping from the small holes in his
chest. Angel was trying to decide to do – he couldn't give first
aid and he didn't want to move the kid. Wesley tugged on his coat.
"
Move!" Angel scrambled out of the car letting Wesley in. He could hear
him check the kids pulse.
"
What's going on?" asked Connor, actually sounding concerned.
"
It's the kid," said Angel. "He's bleeding pretty badly."
"
Why? Did the demon catch up to him?" asked Kate.
Angel was about to answer her when he stopped himself and looked at Kate's
hip.
"
What?" she asked.
"
It was you," he said.
She put her hand onto her hip and felt cold metal. Her pistol.
"
Oh my God, when the demon turned into that mist…" she gasped.
"
We need to get him stabilised!" cried Wesley from inside of the car.
Connor stood with Kate, looking on, helpless, while Angel ran around the other
side of the car and opened the back door on the other side.
"
No," said Kate all of a sudden. "He's not gonna make it."
Connor glanced sideways at her, then she grabbed his sleeve and shoved him
at the car, opening the passenger door.
"
We have to get him to a hospital!" She ran to the driver's side,
opening the door.
Then she looked up. "Oh my God," she muttered.
The Sha'Tan'Uo was pulling the power cable from its chest, standing
up and looking down the street at them.
The closer demon's arm started to twitch.
"
Angel!" she called. Angel clambered out of the car and looked at what
she was staring at.
"
Oh, man…"
Wesley was shouting for them to get a move on, that the kid wasn't going
to survive. Connor stared at the demon he'd helped kill twice now.
"
Angel, what do we do?" asked Kate.
"
Uhm…I…I don't know," said Angel. There wasn't
enough time to get away from the demons, they'd catch up to the car and
kill them.
His mind raced, but no alternatives presented themselves. The further demon
was now on its feet, lumbering towards them.
"
I don't know," he whispered.
******
Eagle eyed readers may have noticed a few S4 nods in the past couple of chapters
hehe. We're still in the same night as the start of the chapter btw – I
think it works out as two nights before the Beast bursts through the ground.
I'm trying to write it as a lost episode, which would be episode 6.5,
after 'Spin the Bottle' and just before 'Apocalypse Nowish'.
Review please, and the next chapter'll probably be up in the next week.