The campervan drove down the road, Buffy fighting a couple of knights on
top of it while the others followed the car on their horses. Xander and
Faith drove at top speed after the fleeing vehicle.
"Do me a favour Faith," Xander said, his eyes focused on the road.
"Yeah?" Faith exclaimed.
"Hand me that briefcase behind your seat," Xander told her.
Faith did as she was asked and reached behind her seat. She immediately found the briefcase and handed it over to Xander.
"Thanks," Xander said and flicked it open with his right, without loosing sight of the road.
"Whoa," Faith exclaimed when Xander took the Mp5k from the interior "What are you gonna do with that?" she asked.
"Shooting down knights," he told her with a grin as he switched the submachine gun to three round burst. "Take over," he told her and motioned for the steering wheel.
Faith unfastened her seatbelt and leaned over to take the steering wheel in both her hands. Xander meanwhile opened the window and began leaning out of it.
There was a slight reduction in speed when Faith had to take over the gas pedal but finally Faith sat in the drivers seat as Xander sat on the frame of the window.
Xander took the Mp5 and aimed at the nearest of the knights. Hitting was a different matter, since the road was anything but even and his shooting position was not really stable.
But finally two of his shots went through the thick chainmail and threw him of his horse. Xander shifted his aim at the second and after a few shots this one also collapsed on the road.
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The leader of the groups looked over his shoulder when the first of his comrades went down.
Cursing under his breath he motioned with his hand to his other two knights to attack their pursuer. The two knights nodded and first the on, then the other turned their horses around, riding right into Xander's direction.
Their leader meanwhile leader jumped from his horse and climbed up the ladder on the back of the campervan, grimacing as he saw another one his knights go down.
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"Uh oh," Xander muttered.
"What?" Faith asked irritated.
"I think they finally noticed us," Xander stated as he looked at the two advancing knights.
"So what. Shoot them down like the other two," Faith stated.
But Xander just grinned at her. "No."
"No?" Faith exclaimed as Xander climbed completely out of the car and first on the roof of the car, then on the hood. He stood there with his legs apart trying to balance himself as good as possible. Inside the car Faith just shook her head. "What a nutjob. I should have let him kill me. Would have spared me a lot of trouble, " Faith muttered.
Meanwhile Xander stood on the hood and focused on the first knight that advanced him. He had a spear in his hand and aimed it at Xander's chest. But before the spear could impale him, Xander grabbed the weapon behind the tip. But he didn't stop there. He lifted the knight out of his saddle, as he refused to release his hold on his weapon and threw him over his head
The knight landed about six meters behind the car, breaking his neck on the impact.
Xander shifted his attention to the second knight. He took the spear and aimed at the attacker and with all strength he threw the weapon in the direction of the knight.
The knight looked with shook at the advancing spear, but it was too late for him to react. The spear impaled itself in his chest, killing him immediately. The horse with his dead body passed the BMW, Faith looking a bit shocked at the corpse.
Xander kneeled down on the hood and looked at Faith. "Get us closer," he shouted. Faith got the message and stepped even harder on the gas pedal.
When they were about ten meters away Xander made himself ready. With all the power his hyena powers could provide him with he jumped over the distance. Xander stretched his arms out and a grabbed the ladder.
"Fuck me," Faith cursed with disbelief at the sight.
As her climbed up the ladder Xander couldn't help but smile. Sometimes it was a good feeling to let the hyena loose. He jumped the rest on the top of the campervan, where Buffy was currently fighting with three knights. Xander didn't hesitate a second and took the Mp5 from the sling around his back and fired a salvo at the one of the knights. The knight immediately collapsed and fell down the campervan.
The other one instantly spotted the absence of his comrade and advanced on Xander.
Xander just wanted to shift his aim at his attacker, but unfortunately his gun had run dry during the fight. Not having time enough to reload the submachine gun he blocked the first stike with the weapon.
He pushed the knights sword away and punched him with the Mp5 in the face. The dazed knight was not able to react when Xander simply threw him off the roof and down on the street.
When he turned around he noted that Buffy had take care of her attacker in an equal fashion. The blonde slayer looked after the body of her adversary and then focused her eyes on her unknown saviour.
Her look of concentration from the fight instantly grew to one of shock when she realised who had helped her out.
"Xander?" she finally asked shell shocked.
For one second Xander was tempted to just let the animal inside of him loose. But years of training allowed him to calm down enough not to through Buffy off the campervan.
But before anything else could happen the campervan jolted and threw both Buffy and Xander off the roof.
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While Xander and Buffy had fought the knights on the roof of the campervan, another knight had approached. Realising that his squad could not win the fight he decided to disable their enemy.
He fired a well placed crossbow bolt into the front tire of the campervan. That resulted in Giles loosing control over the vehicle. The campervan fell to the side and skidded a few more meters by its own momentum
Faith, who had been driven directly behind the vehicle, lost control over the BMW as she tried to avoid colliding with the other vehicle. The car flipped over itself and landed on it's roof.
Xander and Buffy landed on different sides of the campervan. When Xander came back to his senses he realised that he was lying on his back and that he had thankfully no broken bones.
He opened his eyes and stood up, brushing some of the dust of his clothes. The dust cloud from the crash covered nearly the whole area around the campervan. He immediately spotted his crashed car and decided to check on Faith first. So he quickly ran to the damaged car.
"Faith," Xander called out. But right on track the left door was pushed open and the dark slayer crawled out of the car.
"Well, that was a fun ride," Faith muttered as Xander helped her on her feet.
"You okay?" he asked
"Five by five stud," Faith exclaimed.
"Good," Xander said and scanned their surrounding. "Go over there and help them," Xander said and pointed at the wrecked campervan. Buffy stood on top of the now heaven facing left side of the vehicle, helping her friends out of the door.
Faith nodded and sprinted in the direction of the campervan, while Xander crawled into the BMW. He quickly took some more magazines for the Mp5 out of the briefcase. Replacing the empty clip with a new one he climbed out of the wreck and ran in the direction of the campervan.
In the distance he could already spot the next wave of knights that advanced on their position. He immediately quickened his pace.
He had already spotted the patrol station in the distance, deciding that this was their best cover they could get in this little time. The numbers of the knights were just too great to fight them on open field.
When he reached the group, Willow, Miss Calender, Giles, some blond girl he didn't know and someone under a blanket were already standing besides the campervan. He ignored their shocked stares and climbed up on the side of the vehicle.
"Where is she?" he asked Faith who stood besides the open door.
"Just went in there," she said and motioned for the entrance.
"Get them over there," Xander said and pointed at the petrol station on the other side of the road. "It will give us at least a bit of chance to fight back."
Faith nodded and jumped down the campervan, while Xander hopped inside the vehicle.
Buffy stood in the middle of the wrecked car,desperately searching for someone.
"Dawn," Buffy called out. "Where are you?"
"Who are you looking for?" he asked, trying to let his voice sound as emotionless as possible.
Buffy jumped at the sudden sound and whirled around. "My sister," She finally said. That statement caused a confused look on Xander's face."She is here somewhere. The other's lost track of her when the van collapsed."
"Get out of here," Xander said and walked around her "I will find her."
"No," Buffy interjected. "I won't leave her here."
"Go now," Xander said in his most commanding tone. "Take care of the others. They are in the petrol station on the other side of the road. I will follow with your sister."
Buffy hesitated fro another second but finally, she turned around and went to the exit.
Xander instead walked in the other direction, entering the back room of he campervan. His senses had already told him that girl was trapped under one of the fallen dressers.
He quickly lifted it up and pulled her out from under it.
"Hey," he said and slapped her softy in the face. A second later her eye fluttered. "You okay?"
"Yeah," Dawn said and tried to stand, but quickly collapsed when her sprained ankle couldn't support her weight. "Well, mostly."
"Its okay," Xander said and carried her out of the campervan. Xander carefully helped her down from the fallen vehicle and together they walked in the direction of the petrol station.
They were about twenty meters from the station when the first wave of knights appeared behind them. Xander whirled around and fired taking down three nights with well placed three round burst. But the next few knights were already approaching.
"Go," he ordered Dawn. "I'll cover you."
The young girl immediately limped in the direction of the station, Xander slowly following her by walking backwards.
Xander continued firing, taking five more knights down. But one of their leader's finally realised the situation and fired a bolt from his crossbow that hit Xander in his upper leg.
The assassin instantly collapsed on the ground, but not without taking one more knight down with his last three bullets. He quickly changed magazines and took two more down that had managed to approach up to two meters.
Suddenly Xander began moving again. He looked over his shoulder and realised that Buffy was dragging him to the petrol station, Faith taking care of Dawn in the meantime.
Xander looked back and the knights and decided to cover their retreat. He continued firing at the knights, taking down the ones that were closest to him and Buffy. When they entered the station he used his last three bullets to kill the knight that had shot him in the leg.
Buffy carefully placed him beside the door. "You okay?" she asked worried.
Xander nodded, not having the strength to start and argument right now.
Buffy quickly rushed to where Dawn sat and began checking on her. For the first time Xander noticed the three women that sat in the middle of the room. Willow, Miss Calender and the blonde girl held hands and were chanting, preparing obviously some kind of spell. He just hoped that it was a useful one.
He again changed magazines, aiming out of the door. But luckily the knights had lot of trouble regrouping thanks to the fact that he had taken care of their leader.
Xander jumped when suddenly a blue wall of energy appeared around the petrol station, shielding them from their enemies.
He sighed and placed the Mp5 besides him on the ground. Gripping the crossbow bolt with both hands he pulled it finally out.
Xander threw the bolt away and grimaced at the pain. He knew that his healing abilities would take care of the wound in a few hours, that didn't mean that it didn't hurt.
"Damn bastards," he cursed under his breath. "Someone should show them the benefits of bullets," he muttered, but right after he had said these words her realised how insane they were. "Well, when I think about it. Maybe they shouldn't."
Xander closed his eyes and took some deep breath to calm his racing heart down.
When he opened them again he saw that most of the people in the room were staring at him, the ones that knew him like they had seen a ghost.
"Xander?" Willow finally asked, not sure about the identity of her long lost friend.
Slowly standing up, while he tried not to use his bad leg, he walked up to the group, replaying one sentence over and over in his head: "Here we go," he finally whispered to himself.
"Do me a favour Faith," Xander said, his eyes focused on the road.
"Yeah?" Faith exclaimed.
"Hand me that briefcase behind your seat," Xander told her.
Faith did as she was asked and reached behind her seat. She immediately found the briefcase and handed it over to Xander.
"Thanks," Xander said and flicked it open with his right, without loosing sight of the road.
"Whoa," Faith exclaimed when Xander took the Mp5k from the interior "What are you gonna do with that?" she asked.
"Shooting down knights," he told her with a grin as he switched the submachine gun to three round burst. "Take over," he told her and motioned for the steering wheel.
Faith unfastened her seatbelt and leaned over to take the steering wheel in both her hands. Xander meanwhile opened the window and began leaning out of it.
There was a slight reduction in speed when Faith had to take over the gas pedal but finally Faith sat in the drivers seat as Xander sat on the frame of the window.
Xander took the Mp5 and aimed at the nearest of the knights. Hitting was a different matter, since the road was anything but even and his shooting position was not really stable.
But finally two of his shots went through the thick chainmail and threw him of his horse. Xander shifted his aim at the second and after a few shots this one also collapsed on the road.
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The leader of the groups looked over his shoulder when the first of his comrades went down.
Cursing under his breath he motioned with his hand to his other two knights to attack their pursuer. The two knights nodded and first the on, then the other turned their horses around, riding right into Xander's direction.
Their leader meanwhile leader jumped from his horse and climbed up the ladder on the back of the campervan, grimacing as he saw another one his knights go down.
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"Uh oh," Xander muttered.
"What?" Faith asked irritated.
"I think they finally noticed us," Xander stated as he looked at the two advancing knights.
"So what. Shoot them down like the other two," Faith stated.
But Xander just grinned at her. "No."
"No?" Faith exclaimed as Xander climbed completely out of the car and first on the roof of the car, then on the hood. He stood there with his legs apart trying to balance himself as good as possible. Inside the car Faith just shook her head. "What a nutjob. I should have let him kill me. Would have spared me a lot of trouble, " Faith muttered.
Meanwhile Xander stood on the hood and focused on the first knight that advanced him. He had a spear in his hand and aimed it at Xander's chest. But before the spear could impale him, Xander grabbed the weapon behind the tip. But he didn't stop there. He lifted the knight out of his saddle, as he refused to release his hold on his weapon and threw him over his head
The knight landed about six meters behind the car, breaking his neck on the impact.
Xander shifted his attention to the second knight. He took the spear and aimed at the attacker and with all strength he threw the weapon in the direction of the knight.
The knight looked with shook at the advancing spear, but it was too late for him to react. The spear impaled itself in his chest, killing him immediately. The horse with his dead body passed the BMW, Faith looking a bit shocked at the corpse.
Xander kneeled down on the hood and looked at Faith. "Get us closer," he shouted. Faith got the message and stepped even harder on the gas pedal.
When they were about ten meters away Xander made himself ready. With all the power his hyena powers could provide him with he jumped over the distance. Xander stretched his arms out and a grabbed the ladder.
"Fuck me," Faith cursed with disbelief at the sight.
As her climbed up the ladder Xander couldn't help but smile. Sometimes it was a good feeling to let the hyena loose. He jumped the rest on the top of the campervan, where Buffy was currently fighting with three knights. Xander didn't hesitate a second and took the Mp5 from the sling around his back and fired a salvo at the one of the knights. The knight immediately collapsed and fell down the campervan.
The other one instantly spotted the absence of his comrade and advanced on Xander.
Xander just wanted to shift his aim at his attacker, but unfortunately his gun had run dry during the fight. Not having time enough to reload the submachine gun he blocked the first stike with the weapon.
He pushed the knights sword away and punched him with the Mp5 in the face. The dazed knight was not able to react when Xander simply threw him off the roof and down on the street.
When he turned around he noted that Buffy had take care of her attacker in an equal fashion. The blonde slayer looked after the body of her adversary and then focused her eyes on her unknown saviour.
Her look of concentration from the fight instantly grew to one of shock when she realised who had helped her out.
"Xander?" she finally asked shell shocked.
For one second Xander was tempted to just let the animal inside of him loose. But years of training allowed him to calm down enough not to through Buffy off the campervan.
But before anything else could happen the campervan jolted and threw both Buffy and Xander off the roof.
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While Xander and Buffy had fought the knights on the roof of the campervan, another knight had approached. Realising that his squad could not win the fight he decided to disable their enemy.
He fired a well placed crossbow bolt into the front tire of the campervan. That resulted in Giles loosing control over the vehicle. The campervan fell to the side and skidded a few more meters by its own momentum
Faith, who had been driven directly behind the vehicle, lost control over the BMW as she tried to avoid colliding with the other vehicle. The car flipped over itself and landed on it's roof.
Xander and Buffy landed on different sides of the campervan. When Xander came back to his senses he realised that he was lying on his back and that he had thankfully no broken bones.
He opened his eyes and stood up, brushing some of the dust of his clothes. The dust cloud from the crash covered nearly the whole area around the campervan. He immediately spotted his crashed car and decided to check on Faith first. So he quickly ran to the damaged car.
"Faith," Xander called out. But right on track the left door was pushed open and the dark slayer crawled out of the car.
"Well, that was a fun ride," Faith muttered as Xander helped her on her feet.
"You okay?" he asked
"Five by five stud," Faith exclaimed.
"Good," Xander said and scanned their surrounding. "Go over there and help them," Xander said and pointed at the wrecked campervan. Buffy stood on top of the now heaven facing left side of the vehicle, helping her friends out of the door.
Faith nodded and sprinted in the direction of the campervan, while Xander crawled into the BMW. He quickly took some more magazines for the Mp5 out of the briefcase. Replacing the empty clip with a new one he climbed out of the wreck and ran in the direction of the campervan.
In the distance he could already spot the next wave of knights that advanced on their position. He immediately quickened his pace.
He had already spotted the patrol station in the distance, deciding that this was their best cover they could get in this little time. The numbers of the knights were just too great to fight them on open field.
When he reached the group, Willow, Miss Calender, Giles, some blond girl he didn't know and someone under a blanket were already standing besides the campervan. He ignored their shocked stares and climbed up on the side of the vehicle.
"Where is she?" he asked Faith who stood besides the open door.
"Just went in there," she said and motioned for the entrance.
"Get them over there," Xander said and pointed at the petrol station on the other side of the road. "It will give us at least a bit of chance to fight back."
Faith nodded and jumped down the campervan, while Xander hopped inside the vehicle.
Buffy stood in the middle of the wrecked car,desperately searching for someone.
"Dawn," Buffy called out. "Where are you?"
"Who are you looking for?" he asked, trying to let his voice sound as emotionless as possible.
Buffy jumped at the sudden sound and whirled around. "My sister," She finally said. That statement caused a confused look on Xander's face."She is here somewhere. The other's lost track of her when the van collapsed."
"Get out of here," Xander said and walked around her "I will find her."
"No," Buffy interjected. "I won't leave her here."
"Go now," Xander said in his most commanding tone. "Take care of the others. They are in the petrol station on the other side of the road. I will follow with your sister."
Buffy hesitated fro another second but finally, she turned around and went to the exit.
Xander instead walked in the other direction, entering the back room of he campervan. His senses had already told him that girl was trapped under one of the fallen dressers.
He quickly lifted it up and pulled her out from under it.
"Hey," he said and slapped her softy in the face. A second later her eye fluttered. "You okay?"
"Yeah," Dawn said and tried to stand, but quickly collapsed when her sprained ankle couldn't support her weight. "Well, mostly."
"Its okay," Xander said and carried her out of the campervan. Xander carefully helped her down from the fallen vehicle and together they walked in the direction of the petrol station.
They were about twenty meters from the station when the first wave of knights appeared behind them. Xander whirled around and fired taking down three nights with well placed three round burst. But the next few knights were already approaching.
"Go," he ordered Dawn. "I'll cover you."
The young girl immediately limped in the direction of the station, Xander slowly following her by walking backwards.
Xander continued firing, taking five more knights down. But one of their leader's finally realised the situation and fired a bolt from his crossbow that hit Xander in his upper leg.
The assassin instantly collapsed on the ground, but not without taking one more knight down with his last three bullets. He quickly changed magazines and took two more down that had managed to approach up to two meters.
Suddenly Xander began moving again. He looked over his shoulder and realised that Buffy was dragging him to the petrol station, Faith taking care of Dawn in the meantime.
Xander looked back and the knights and decided to cover their retreat. He continued firing at the knights, taking down the ones that were closest to him and Buffy. When they entered the station he used his last three bullets to kill the knight that had shot him in the leg.
Buffy carefully placed him beside the door. "You okay?" she asked worried.
Xander nodded, not having the strength to start and argument right now.
Buffy quickly rushed to where Dawn sat and began checking on her. For the first time Xander noticed the three women that sat in the middle of the room. Willow, Miss Calender and the blonde girl held hands and were chanting, preparing obviously some kind of spell. He just hoped that it was a useful one.
He again changed magazines, aiming out of the door. But luckily the knights had lot of trouble regrouping thanks to the fact that he had taken care of their leader.
Xander jumped when suddenly a blue wall of energy appeared around the petrol station, shielding them from their enemies.
He sighed and placed the Mp5 besides him on the ground. Gripping the crossbow bolt with both hands he pulled it finally out.
Xander threw the bolt away and grimaced at the pain. He knew that his healing abilities would take care of the wound in a few hours, that didn't mean that it didn't hurt.
"Damn bastards," he cursed under his breath. "Someone should show them the benefits of bullets," he muttered, but right after he had said these words her realised how insane they were. "Well, when I think about it. Maybe they shouldn't."
Xander closed his eyes and took some deep breath to calm his racing heart down.
When he opened them again he saw that most of the people in the room were staring at him, the ones that knew him like they had seen a ghost.
"Xander?" Willow finally asked, not sure about the identity of her long lost friend.
Slowly standing up, while he tried not to use his bad leg, he walked up to the group, replaying one sentence over and over in his head: "Here we go," he finally whispered to himself.