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" Where are you from? Who sent you?" Interrogated Riley as he leaned foward the man strapped to a dining room chair. The man was about Riley's highet, with blonde hair and black roots, his eyes were painted black in camoflauge and he wore an army camoflauge suit. The man remained quiet. " Well who was it? You look like one The Initiave's men." Riley said crossing his arms. " I'm Sargent Riley Finn, and I order you to report soilder."

" I am not of your sector so I don't answer to you." Replied the man glaring at Riley.

" Well that answers that your from The Initaive." Riley said smirking, " What's your name soilder? Why are you here?"

" I answer no questions." Said the man sternly. Buffy sighed from behind Riley and walked up behind the man and took a knife off the table and held it to his throat.

" You might want to change that rule." She said sternly keeping the knife there.

" Okay fine I'll talk." Said the man after taking a large gulp, Buffy put back the knife and watched next to him. " My name is Hopps, I'm from the Sunnydale sector of The Intitave."

" There is no Sunnydale sector, it was destroyed years ago." Buffy said.

" We rebuilt part of it, it's just a few holding cells and an operating room. There are only 6 soilders including me, our general, and 4 scientists working there." Hopps recounted, " We had been given word a few days ago to obtain all of the infected vampires and or humans we find and then experiment on them."

" Experiment? For what purpose?" Asked Sam.

" To try to duplicate the virus, make it into a gas so it could be used in war if needed." Hopps replied. " One of our men had recounted seeing your vampire being bitten by the infected one from South America and then killed the infected one. We were to follow the vampire, we followed him back to this house then regrouped and stratigized and then took him."

" Back to your base?" Riley asked and Hopps nodded.

" Since he is the only vampire left with the virus he will be experimented on, by our records he is already in stage 2 out of 5 in the infection. We may be able to acually quicken the speed of the virus and elevate him to level 4 in an hour." Hopps smiled. Buffy glared at him and punched him across the face so hard his chair went flying across the room.

" Your lucky I didn't snap your neck!" Buffy growled at him picked up the back of the chair and set it back down on the floor with a slam. " He's not some lab rat!"

" He is a vampire." Hopps replied calmly, his lip was bleeding from Buffy's smack.

" He has a soul." Buffy growled back.

" It makes no difference, he is an abombination of this earth." Hopps said wanting to smile again but feared getting hit again.

" And your a pain in the ass but we're not gonna kill you." Buffy replied crossing her arms to keep from smacking his ass up and down main street.

" Well we won't kill you yet." Dawn said, she, Willow, and Sam were standing to the side.

" Exacually." Buffy said smirking. " How do we get into the base?"

" Do you think I'm a complete idiot to tell you?" Hopps said grunting.

" Well yeah." Buffy said shrugging, " I also do happen to have many pointy objects around the house."

" It is a reconstruction of sectur #12, find it yourself." Hopps mumbled.

" I know where secture 12 is, you guys go on a head and pack up and leave and I'll catch up, I have to get some things." Riley said nodding for the others to go on a head.

" Can I come too?" Dawn asked hopefully.

" No!" Replied Buffy, Willow, Riley, and Sam.

" Incase those agents come back I don't want you here." Buffy said shaking her head.

" Fine, I should probably go and find Giles and the others and tell them what's going on anyway." Dawn said shrugging.

" So what's the gameplan then?" Asked Willow holding open a tote bag while Sam and Buffy started loading in the new weapons Sam and Riley brought and a few crossbows and stakes just incase.

" We go in and get Spike and get out." Buffy said as she put in a few of those UV balls.

" What about security?" Willow asked again.

" Hopps said they're were only 5 other soilders then him, there are probably a couple of them already gaurding Spike so it should be easy." Buffy said shrugging.

" I could do a tracking spell so I can pinpoint where Spike is." Willow said nodding.

" Great Will, I'll go and get Spike, can you, Sam, and Riley take on the other guards?" Buffy asked as she slung a crossbow over her arm.

" Buffy what if Spike doesn't make it Buffy?" Willow asked quietly.

" He will. I know he will." Buffy said praying silently to herself.

" Are we all ready then?" Asked Sam after strapping one of her UV guns around her shoulder.

" Riley we're heading out." Called out Buffy as they started out the door.

" I'll be there in a second, I just have to get something done first." Riley called back to her, Dawn, Buffy, Willow, and Sam all started out the house and down the walkway untill they got to the end of it and Dawn split up with them and headed down the street to find Giles and the Potentials. They waited for Riley a bit longer when they heard what sounded like a gunshot from inside the house, Willow and Buffy shuddered at the sound of the shot which brought back some old memories.

" What the hell was that?" Asked Willow wide-eyed.

" Oh god did anyone take away Hopps' gun?" Asked Sam worried.

" I-I thought I did! I took away all the weapons I could see on him!" Willow studdered.

" Riley?!" Sam yelled and ran back up the walkway to the door of the house.