Once all their classes were over, Buffy, Willow headed straight to the
warehouse. The werewolf parked his van nearby and the little group quickly
walked up to the front door.
"Do you know why Xander wants to see us," Willow asked, while Buffy tapped the security code into the num-pad. A second later the light at the door turned from red to green and Buffy pushed the handle down.
"I have no idea," she admitted while the Scoobies entered the warehouse. "Xander?" Buffy called out.
"I'm here guys," Xander called out, stepping out from the door that lead to the armoury while he arried a heavy box. Seconds later Giles followed him, carrying a equal box in his hands.
"What are you doing there?" Buffy asked confused as the two loaded the boxes into the trunk of the Hummer.
"Remember the vampire we bugged last night?" Xander asked. Buffy nodded at that. "We have a steady signal and definite location," he said and produced a city map from his pocket. One area of the map was marked in a red circle.
"You sure," Oz asked, when the group had taken a closer look at the map. "It might be just another normal safe-house."
"That might be the case," Xander admitted. "But it's been our best lead up to now. And it wouldn't be such a bad thing to take out one of Sanchez's safe-houses."
Buffy again looked at the various boxes strapped in the Hummer's trunk. "I guess you have already prepared our attack."
"Yes indeed," Giles spoke up. "Xander and I thought it would be in everyone's interest to attack this important target during daylight. It will give us an extra advantage."
"That," Xander continued "and they won't be able to call in reinforcements."
"Well, what are we waiting for?" Buffy declared and pratically jumped into the passenger's seat of the army jeep. A moment later the rest of the Scoobies followed her.
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Sanchez currently stood on top of the warehouse he had chosen for his headquarter. The unusual thing was, that he stood in broad daylight. But the normally so deadly rays of the sun did nothing more to create a warm feeling on his skin. A feeling he hadn't felt in over one hundred years.
"That a very interesting experience," he said and turned to Michael, who prefered the security of the dark staircase. "Is everything prepared?"
"Yes sir," Michael told him with a smile. "None of our men knows about their attack."
"Good," Sanchez said with an equal smile. "With the lack of resistance the slayer will underestimate me. And that will give me the chance to personally kill her."
"Understood sir," Michael said.
"Good," Sanchez said and again looked over the sun flooded landscape that was Sunnydale. "With killing the most successful slayer in history I will get back a lot of the reputation I lost in the last few months."
"Sir," Michael interrupted the vampire leader. "I just got a message from one of our check points," he said and deactivated the radio he had with him. "An unidentified vehicle just entered the area around the warehouse. It might be the slayer and her friends."
"Excellent," Sanchez exclaimed and turned around. "Everything is falling into place."
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"Oh man," Xander said as he climbed out of the sewer entrance. "The smell down there is horrible."
Giles reached out with his hand and pulled him out of the manhole. "I think when you are wandering around in the sewers below a vampire lair the smell should be the least of your worries."
"That's you opinion Giles," Buffy exclaimed, while Xander now helped her out of the sewer. "I'll get this smell never out of my hair."
"Well," Giles asked a bit annoyed. "Did you two at least finish your work?"
"Yeah G-Man," Xander exclaimed and walked up to the open trunk of the Hummer. "We placed all the mines in the tunnels that lead to the warehouse and away from it. If one of the vamps decides to run away and steps in front of one of the motion detectors," Xander said and clapped his hands in a fast motion.
"Very good," Giles exclaimed. "When you two are finished we can start."
Xander nodded and quickly reached inside the Hummer's trunk and handed Buffy her Baretta and her sword. Oz, Willow and Giles were already fully prepared. The werewolf and the watcher wore again the Mp5s and the Barettas they had already used during their mission a month ago and also during the various raids against Sanchez.
Willow instead only wore the bullet proof vest all the Scoobies wore. The only difference with hers was, that a great amount of stakes were strapped to hers.
Xander quickly put the USP in the holster on his vest and pulled a big box out of the trunk. The rest of the Scoobies were a bit shocked when he pulled a machine-gun out of it.
"What the hell is that?" Buffy asked bewildered.
"Let me introduce my little friend. That's the M-249 SAW," Xander said and loaded the gun with its ammo belt, the tips of the bullets marked with red and blue paint. "Shoots about one thousand rounds per minute. I've loaded it with a mix of tracer rounds and blessed bullets. Should be enough for any vamp we encounter."
"Don't you think that's a bit of a overkill?" Willow asked.
"Maybe," he said with a shrug. "But that doesn't have to be bad thing."
After a finally look at his friends and their equipment, Xander decided that they should start.
"Okay, I think we are ready to rock and roll," he said and stepped into the Hummer. But he didn't choose the drivers seat. Xander stepped into the backseat of the car and sat down between Willow and Oz. Giles instead took the wheel with Buffy at his side.
"Okay Giles," Xander told the watcher. "Let's go."
And with this command Giles stepped on the gas pedal, accelerating the car as fast as he could. He turned around the other abandoned warehouse they hid the car behind and drove directly up to Sanchez's headquaters. Giles didn't stop, he merely redirected the direction and drove at the gate that lead to the interior.
The Hummer had little trouble crashing through the old and rusty gate. Right after they had passed this first barrier Giles stepped on the brakes, bringing the car to a screeching halt. Unfortunately for the vamp that stood guard on the opposite side of the gate he didn't stop fast enough. The Hummer drove over his fallen body and smashed his head under his heavy tires.
The remaining three vampire that were present in the main hall were momentary shocked, but quickly came out of their daze and started firing at the big car. But even if most of the bullets hit the car, none of them were able to penetrate the shell of the hummer.
"You just gotta love bullet proof glass," Xander exclaimed with a smile. He waited until the vampire's weapons ran dry, he then stood up and opened the sunroof. He placed the SAW on top of the Hummer's roof and aimed it at the next vampire. He immediately opened fire, taking the vampires by surprise and dusting one of them before the rest of them decided that taking cover was probably a good idea.
But the boxes and crates provided very little cover for bullets that were able to penetrate nearly everything they encountered. After a few controlled bursts the two remaining vampires shared the fate of their partner.
The sudden noise and activity in the main hall alarmed the rest of the vampires in the warehouse. About a dozen of them stormed into the entrance hall and fired at the Hummer. Xander spun around and opened fire at the new group, taking down three of them before forcing them into cover.
"Okay, get out," he shouted over the noise and instantly the Scoobies left the security the Hummer provided and joined into the fight.
While Xander held the vampires busy, Oz and Giles took cover behind some Boxes that stood besides the left side of the vehicle, Willow and Buffy did the same on the right side of the Hummer.
The werewolf and the watcher immediately joined Xander's fire on the vampires and were able to hit one of them behind his cover.
Buffy meanwhile hit two of the approaching vampires with her Baretta. One of them fell to the floor once the blessed bullet kicked in, the other one's head simply exploded and turned him into dust.
Even if Willow didn't have any firearm with her, she was far from helpless. She took one of the stakes from her vest and threw it in the direction of one of the vampires. That the stake would never hit its marks was a given. But Willow concentrated on the flying piece of wood and redirected its path into the heart of the vampire. Even before the stake had hit its mark Willow had already drawn another one and aimed at her next victim.
Xander continued firing and was able to kill two more vampires, while Oz smashed the head of another one with a three round burst from his Mp5. The last vampire tried to escape the massacre, but Buffy simply shot him twice in the back, separating his spinal cord and leaving the helpless vampire on the ground.
"Do you think that was all of them?" Buffy asked in the direction of her friends.
"What?" Xander shouted while trying to get the ringing out of his ears.
"I asked if we got them all," Buffy tried again, louder this time.
"Oh," Xander said sheepishly. "Don't think so. We haven't even encountered Sanchez yet," he said and reloaded the SAW with thirty round magazine.
"Oh, I think I can help with that," came the voice of the vampire leader from the other side of the warehouse. The Scoobies all turned their eyes in the direction of the voice and immediately spotted the thirty men vampire group that accompanied their leader.
The Scoobies instantly raised their weapons, the vampires doing the same on the other side of the room.
"So, you are the slayer that caused me so much trouble during the last few months," Sanchez exclaimed casually and took some steps forward.
"Yep, that's me. Trouble maker," Buffy replied warily at the approaching vampire. "So you are Sanchez. You are not that impressive."
"Watch it girl," Sanchez said angrily and pointed with his finger at her, " You will speak with respect from me after I'm finished with you, "he said and turned around. "You," he addressed his vampires. " All out here. I will deal with the slayer."
The vampires first looked confused at each other, but after a moment and encouraging motions from Michael, they turned around searching the nearest sewer entrance.
Sanchez meanwhile continued walking up to the scoobies. He casually drew a sword from under his coat and pointed it at Buffy. "This is something between you and me,"
Buffy looked back at the Scoobies and Xander nodded encouragingly at her. "Okay let's get it on," she finally said and drew her own sword.
While Buffy approached the vampire, Giles walked up to Xander.
"Are you insane Xander," Giles asked irritated "We could have taken him out without problems. Without risking Buffy's life."
"I have confidence in Buffy," Xander said without looking up from the fight. "She will take him out."
"And what if not?" Giles asked.
"Then we still have this," Xander said and tapped the SAW in his hands.
While they spoke, the fight between Buffy and Sanchez came to sudden halt. Neither the slayer, nor the vampire leader had been able to gain any advantage in the fight. But now Sanchez had been able to trap both his and Buffy's sword on the ground, using his foot to hold them there.
"You are good," the vampire admitted. "It will be a pleasure killing you."
"Always the same dumb speeches," Buffy exclaimed annoyed. Before the vampire could react, she had already let loose the handle of the sword and punched the surprised vampire in the face. Sanchez also lost hold on his sword, so none of the combatants now had a weapon to their disposal.
Unfortunately Buffy always kept a stake at hand, for this kind of emergencies. Before Sanchez could regain his composure, Buffy had already slammed the stake into the vampire's chest.
She was however surprised when the vampire didn't turn into dust, so where the rest of the Scoobies. Sanchez used her momentary distraction and slugged her hard, sending Buffy to the ground.
Buffy still couldn't understand what was happening in front her. She just stared open mouthed as the vampire leader removed the stake from his chest.
"You think you can kill me that easily," Sanchez said with an amused expression and retrieved his fallen sword from the ground.
Xander was the first of the Scoobies to come out of the shock. He immediately lifted the SAW and opened fire at the vampire leader. The staccato of the machine-gun brought also Giles and Oz out of their trance and they joined into the attack.
But even their combined fire had little effect on Sanchez. The bullets that didn't go right through his body, merely threw him back a few meters. But once the vampire brought his whole supernatural strength in the direction of the attack, the bullets did nothing more than annoy him.
Giles' and Oz' guns were the first to run dry, Xander followed shortly after.
"Shit," Xander cursed and took another magazine out of his pockets."The fucker should be on his knees know. I don't understand that."
Meanwhile Sanchez had approached Buffy and pointed the tip of his sword directly at the fallen slayer.
"My first slayer," he exclaimed and prepared to bring the blade down.
"Do you know why Xander wants to see us," Willow asked, while Buffy tapped the security code into the num-pad. A second later the light at the door turned from red to green and Buffy pushed the handle down.
"I have no idea," she admitted while the Scoobies entered the warehouse. "Xander?" Buffy called out.
"I'm here guys," Xander called out, stepping out from the door that lead to the armoury while he arried a heavy box. Seconds later Giles followed him, carrying a equal box in his hands.
"What are you doing there?" Buffy asked confused as the two loaded the boxes into the trunk of the Hummer.
"Remember the vampire we bugged last night?" Xander asked. Buffy nodded at that. "We have a steady signal and definite location," he said and produced a city map from his pocket. One area of the map was marked in a red circle.
"You sure," Oz asked, when the group had taken a closer look at the map. "It might be just another normal safe-house."
"That might be the case," Xander admitted. "But it's been our best lead up to now. And it wouldn't be such a bad thing to take out one of Sanchez's safe-houses."
Buffy again looked at the various boxes strapped in the Hummer's trunk. "I guess you have already prepared our attack."
"Yes indeed," Giles spoke up. "Xander and I thought it would be in everyone's interest to attack this important target during daylight. It will give us an extra advantage."
"That," Xander continued "and they won't be able to call in reinforcements."
"Well, what are we waiting for?" Buffy declared and pratically jumped into the passenger's seat of the army jeep. A moment later the rest of the Scoobies followed her.
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Sanchez currently stood on top of the warehouse he had chosen for his headquarter. The unusual thing was, that he stood in broad daylight. But the normally so deadly rays of the sun did nothing more to create a warm feeling on his skin. A feeling he hadn't felt in over one hundred years.
"That a very interesting experience," he said and turned to Michael, who prefered the security of the dark staircase. "Is everything prepared?"
"Yes sir," Michael told him with a smile. "None of our men knows about their attack."
"Good," Sanchez said with an equal smile. "With the lack of resistance the slayer will underestimate me. And that will give me the chance to personally kill her."
"Understood sir," Michael said.
"Good," Sanchez said and again looked over the sun flooded landscape that was Sunnydale. "With killing the most successful slayer in history I will get back a lot of the reputation I lost in the last few months."
"Sir," Michael interrupted the vampire leader. "I just got a message from one of our check points," he said and deactivated the radio he had with him. "An unidentified vehicle just entered the area around the warehouse. It might be the slayer and her friends."
"Excellent," Sanchez exclaimed and turned around. "Everything is falling into place."
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"Oh man," Xander said as he climbed out of the sewer entrance. "The smell down there is horrible."
Giles reached out with his hand and pulled him out of the manhole. "I think when you are wandering around in the sewers below a vampire lair the smell should be the least of your worries."
"That's you opinion Giles," Buffy exclaimed, while Xander now helped her out of the sewer. "I'll get this smell never out of my hair."
"Well," Giles asked a bit annoyed. "Did you two at least finish your work?"
"Yeah G-Man," Xander exclaimed and walked up to the open trunk of the Hummer. "We placed all the mines in the tunnels that lead to the warehouse and away from it. If one of the vamps decides to run away and steps in front of one of the motion detectors," Xander said and clapped his hands in a fast motion.
"Very good," Giles exclaimed. "When you two are finished we can start."
Xander nodded and quickly reached inside the Hummer's trunk and handed Buffy her Baretta and her sword. Oz, Willow and Giles were already fully prepared. The werewolf and the watcher wore again the Mp5s and the Barettas they had already used during their mission a month ago and also during the various raids against Sanchez.
Willow instead only wore the bullet proof vest all the Scoobies wore. The only difference with hers was, that a great amount of stakes were strapped to hers.
Xander quickly put the USP in the holster on his vest and pulled a big box out of the trunk. The rest of the Scoobies were a bit shocked when he pulled a machine-gun out of it.
"What the hell is that?" Buffy asked bewildered.
"Let me introduce my little friend. That's the M-249 SAW," Xander said and loaded the gun with its ammo belt, the tips of the bullets marked with red and blue paint. "Shoots about one thousand rounds per minute. I've loaded it with a mix of tracer rounds and blessed bullets. Should be enough for any vamp we encounter."
"Don't you think that's a bit of a overkill?" Willow asked.
"Maybe," he said with a shrug. "But that doesn't have to be bad thing."
After a finally look at his friends and their equipment, Xander decided that they should start.
"Okay, I think we are ready to rock and roll," he said and stepped into the Hummer. But he didn't choose the drivers seat. Xander stepped into the backseat of the car and sat down between Willow and Oz. Giles instead took the wheel with Buffy at his side.
"Okay Giles," Xander told the watcher. "Let's go."
And with this command Giles stepped on the gas pedal, accelerating the car as fast as he could. He turned around the other abandoned warehouse they hid the car behind and drove directly up to Sanchez's headquaters. Giles didn't stop, he merely redirected the direction and drove at the gate that lead to the interior.
The Hummer had little trouble crashing through the old and rusty gate. Right after they had passed this first barrier Giles stepped on the brakes, bringing the car to a screeching halt. Unfortunately for the vamp that stood guard on the opposite side of the gate he didn't stop fast enough. The Hummer drove over his fallen body and smashed his head under his heavy tires.
The remaining three vampire that were present in the main hall were momentary shocked, but quickly came out of their daze and started firing at the big car. But even if most of the bullets hit the car, none of them were able to penetrate the shell of the hummer.
"You just gotta love bullet proof glass," Xander exclaimed with a smile. He waited until the vampire's weapons ran dry, he then stood up and opened the sunroof. He placed the SAW on top of the Hummer's roof and aimed it at the next vampire. He immediately opened fire, taking the vampires by surprise and dusting one of them before the rest of them decided that taking cover was probably a good idea.
But the boxes and crates provided very little cover for bullets that were able to penetrate nearly everything they encountered. After a few controlled bursts the two remaining vampires shared the fate of their partner.
The sudden noise and activity in the main hall alarmed the rest of the vampires in the warehouse. About a dozen of them stormed into the entrance hall and fired at the Hummer. Xander spun around and opened fire at the new group, taking down three of them before forcing them into cover.
"Okay, get out," he shouted over the noise and instantly the Scoobies left the security the Hummer provided and joined into the fight.
While Xander held the vampires busy, Oz and Giles took cover behind some Boxes that stood besides the left side of the vehicle, Willow and Buffy did the same on the right side of the Hummer.
The werewolf and the watcher immediately joined Xander's fire on the vampires and were able to hit one of them behind his cover.
Buffy meanwhile hit two of the approaching vampires with her Baretta. One of them fell to the floor once the blessed bullet kicked in, the other one's head simply exploded and turned him into dust.
Even if Willow didn't have any firearm with her, she was far from helpless. She took one of the stakes from her vest and threw it in the direction of one of the vampires. That the stake would never hit its marks was a given. But Willow concentrated on the flying piece of wood and redirected its path into the heart of the vampire. Even before the stake had hit its mark Willow had already drawn another one and aimed at her next victim.
Xander continued firing and was able to kill two more vampires, while Oz smashed the head of another one with a three round burst from his Mp5. The last vampire tried to escape the massacre, but Buffy simply shot him twice in the back, separating his spinal cord and leaving the helpless vampire on the ground.
"Do you think that was all of them?" Buffy asked in the direction of her friends.
"What?" Xander shouted while trying to get the ringing out of his ears.
"I asked if we got them all," Buffy tried again, louder this time.
"Oh," Xander said sheepishly. "Don't think so. We haven't even encountered Sanchez yet," he said and reloaded the SAW with thirty round magazine.
"Oh, I think I can help with that," came the voice of the vampire leader from the other side of the warehouse. The Scoobies all turned their eyes in the direction of the voice and immediately spotted the thirty men vampire group that accompanied their leader.
The Scoobies instantly raised their weapons, the vampires doing the same on the other side of the room.
"So, you are the slayer that caused me so much trouble during the last few months," Sanchez exclaimed casually and took some steps forward.
"Yep, that's me. Trouble maker," Buffy replied warily at the approaching vampire. "So you are Sanchez. You are not that impressive."
"Watch it girl," Sanchez said angrily and pointed with his finger at her, " You will speak with respect from me after I'm finished with you, "he said and turned around. "You," he addressed his vampires. " All out here. I will deal with the slayer."
The vampires first looked confused at each other, but after a moment and encouraging motions from Michael, they turned around searching the nearest sewer entrance.
Sanchez meanwhile continued walking up to the scoobies. He casually drew a sword from under his coat and pointed it at Buffy. "This is something between you and me,"
Buffy looked back at the Scoobies and Xander nodded encouragingly at her. "Okay let's get it on," she finally said and drew her own sword.
While Buffy approached the vampire, Giles walked up to Xander.
"Are you insane Xander," Giles asked irritated "We could have taken him out without problems. Without risking Buffy's life."
"I have confidence in Buffy," Xander said without looking up from the fight. "She will take him out."
"And what if not?" Giles asked.
"Then we still have this," Xander said and tapped the SAW in his hands.
While they spoke, the fight between Buffy and Sanchez came to sudden halt. Neither the slayer, nor the vampire leader had been able to gain any advantage in the fight. But now Sanchez had been able to trap both his and Buffy's sword on the ground, using his foot to hold them there.
"You are good," the vampire admitted. "It will be a pleasure killing you."
"Always the same dumb speeches," Buffy exclaimed annoyed. Before the vampire could react, she had already let loose the handle of the sword and punched the surprised vampire in the face. Sanchez also lost hold on his sword, so none of the combatants now had a weapon to their disposal.
Unfortunately Buffy always kept a stake at hand, for this kind of emergencies. Before Sanchez could regain his composure, Buffy had already slammed the stake into the vampire's chest.
She was however surprised when the vampire didn't turn into dust, so where the rest of the Scoobies. Sanchez used her momentary distraction and slugged her hard, sending Buffy to the ground.
Buffy still couldn't understand what was happening in front her. She just stared open mouthed as the vampire leader removed the stake from his chest.
"You think you can kill me that easily," Sanchez said with an amused expression and retrieved his fallen sword from the ground.
Xander was the first of the Scoobies to come out of the shock. He immediately lifted the SAW and opened fire at the vampire leader. The staccato of the machine-gun brought also Giles and Oz out of their trance and they joined into the attack.
But even their combined fire had little effect on Sanchez. The bullets that didn't go right through his body, merely threw him back a few meters. But once the vampire brought his whole supernatural strength in the direction of the attack, the bullets did nothing more than annoy him.
Giles' and Oz' guns were the first to run dry, Xander followed shortly after.
"Shit," Xander cursed and took another magazine out of his pockets."The fucker should be on his knees know. I don't understand that."
Meanwhile Sanchez had approached Buffy and pointed the tip of his sword directly at the fallen slayer.
"My first slayer," he exclaimed and prepared to bring the blade down.
