AN: On Buffy's Earth, things are getting really heated up with two beings
watching the whole affair, and Zero is being, well Zero and wreaking his
own special brand of havoc upon the demonic population of LA. For those of
you who don't know what this story is coming from, it's from the Anne
plotline, can't remember which season, three I think, but I'm not sure at
the moment.
As for the guardian and his raven winged friend, their identities will eventually be revealed, but they're fun to write about, the pieces can be put together for one of them, but not the other. Janus was originally equal to them before he got his power lessened on Halloween and then stripped during the end of Overdrive. I'm playing around with a few of the characters and setting a few things up to effect more than just LA and Sunnydale in the base Earth in this, mainly through Zero's search for knowledge as to who he is.
Also as a side note, if anyone would like to compile Overdrive into a PDF file for me, I'd be happy to send you the originals of it and put it on my site for anyone who wants to download it, I still can't figure out how to get FF.net to use the asterisk lines like I do when typing these out.
His mind came to; memories flashed for a bare instant, the cybernetic systems inside of him bringing them to the forefront of his thoughts.
Zero's automated defenses triggered next, sending nanobots to repair the damage to his tissue that was sensed. The sensors read damage all through his system, his mind playing back the fight he had given to his foes, most of them lay dead around him, but there were far too many to kill them all, or even disable them, he had been beaten after that and tossed into a cage to be used as a slave later, the mental modifications understood that, but it also was counting the seconds until he was back at full power, ready for another killing spree of the tormentors.
His sensors were monitoring him, sensing something slowly changing within; his mind was far sharper, far more deadly and prepared for what was to come.
His mind buzzed for a second, he sensed motion, but not the way he normally did, it was instantly identified, tracked and located precisely.
"Who are you," he asked calmly, his mind assuring him that it was humanoid, but non-hostile.
"Well, let's just say a few people up there really like you."
"Up where, I am inside a cavern, in a pocket dimension off of Earth, infact, my sensors confirm the roof of the cavern as the roof of this chamber, there is no further up in here."
"Erm, well...that's not quite what I meant."
"Clarify."
"Two gods are getting involved in your fate; one of them has pegged you as his choice to aid in the future and sent me to inform you that you're getting an upgrade of sorts."
"Just great, more ways to deal with hostiles," Zero responded.
"Tough crowd."
"There isn't a crowd, only you and me, and who are you, and more importantly, what are you?"
"I'm Whistler, and I'm supposed to be keeping the balance, or rather I'm supposed to play messenger for the people up there who are supposed to keep the balance, but after what happened last Halloween, one of them got rather cranky and all the gods went and started viewing it as a game of Survivor."
"Define Survivor."
"Erm, well, I won't go into that, but how the hell do you know I'm here, your eyes are closed."
"I am a cyborg, I am equipped with sensors, and apparently the upgrades included them."
"They didn't tell me that, what are you planning, I recognize that look in any creature..."
Zero was up, on his feet now, collecting energy as the balance demon vanished to the same place he had come from, the only light in the cell came from the cyborgs glowing eyes and the energy he was preparing to use to shatter the doors.
A smile that would have frozen hell crossed his lips and a cold chuckle escaped his throat as he prepared to cause what he viewed as an appropriate punishment for those who had nearly slain him.
The killing machine that lay dormant even in his last battle came out to play, and hell itself would be amazed at the sheer number of "guests" it would have before his anger died down for his normal personality to reemerge.
He cackled, a high pitched and frightening sound that had been designed to cause a panic in those he faced. With no effort he fired, turning the foot thick metal door into a crater that tore through the floor and roof as well as the walls around it, vaporization, not shattering, Zero was through playing.
"Well, that certainly wasn't what I expected," the raven winged one muttered to himself as he watched the proceedings.
"But it went well all things considered, although I would have liked some time to sell tickets to watch this conflagration when the triplets realize that their lawyers missed a cataclysm coming for one of their other operations in the City of 'Angels' and that it wasn't seen by the twins," Whistler said with a slight chuckle at what was coming.
"Would you go and warn Lucy that most of the inhabitants of another dimension are about to need accommodations," the other said, leaning back as he slowly shook his head.
"If he kills me for this, I'll haunt you for eternity," the balance demon said as he turned to leave, "I just hope he doesn't do to me what he did to the last messenger that got sent there, after Super Sonic blew up a hell dimension instantaneously, I wanted to claw my own eyes out after seeing that."
"Even he would not dare to touch the messenger of another one of the number, that one was his own, and thus he could do as he wished."
Whistler gulped loudly, but vanished to do his task.
"Well at least this one is better than your last choice," the guardian said with a slight chuckle, "He doesn't have that spark of darkness within him, or a cursed soul, he may have a violent and sadistic mind, but he's on our side."
"Yes, although Ares did have it out with me that he fit his requirements more than mine as Death."
"He's still rather annoyed that my chosen managed to blow up a good portion of the leadership of the Watchers, their insistence that the line of his chosen was under their control, he started finding those with the possibility outside of those he normally would."
"Ares still ended up with more than one, now he has three of those he empowered and a bunch of others he 'helps' from time to time."
"Do you have any idea who they have in mind to replace Janus?"
"With the order of Succession disturbed in two ways, Vaulk was to get it when Janus died or anything happened to remove his power, such as what did happen, but Sonic eliminated him as well, the others are running around like chickens with their heads chopped off, one of the more horrific suggestions was to adopt Glorificus into our number, thanks the Creator that that particular suggestion was canned, she was bad enough in her own dimension, even the triplets avoid her."
"Most of us are still trying to find a way to eliminate that particular threat; the twins say that there is only a few years left before she finds where we have hidden the Key."
"Then steps will have to be taken, has the Lord of Vengeance decided to stand with us on this, or against us?"
"He has elected to remain neutral in this situation."
"Good, at least his favorite pet isn't going to be mucking up the Hellmouth for a time,"
"Anyanaka isn't someone to annoy, the power of a wish is something not to be underestimated."
"True, but then again, she isn't much in fact, she preys on the weak and doesn't dare to seek larger prey, she learned that after her run it with the Paleontologist chick, she had no idea that Utahraptors would prefer demon flesh over human, that one was amusing."
"But did you have to get Whistler to then deliver them to her in a box he liberated from a pet store?"
"I was bored then."
"That scared the heck out of all the messengers, a pack of hungry and irritated predators nearing sentience level with more sadism in them than your current chosen."
As for the guardian and his raven winged friend, their identities will eventually be revealed, but they're fun to write about, the pieces can be put together for one of them, but not the other. Janus was originally equal to them before he got his power lessened on Halloween and then stripped during the end of Overdrive. I'm playing around with a few of the characters and setting a few things up to effect more than just LA and Sunnydale in the base Earth in this, mainly through Zero's search for knowledge as to who he is.
Also as a side note, if anyone would like to compile Overdrive into a PDF file for me, I'd be happy to send you the originals of it and put it on my site for anyone who wants to download it, I still can't figure out how to get FF.net to use the asterisk lines like I do when typing these out.
His mind came to; memories flashed for a bare instant, the cybernetic systems inside of him bringing them to the forefront of his thoughts.
Zero's automated defenses triggered next, sending nanobots to repair the damage to his tissue that was sensed. The sensors read damage all through his system, his mind playing back the fight he had given to his foes, most of them lay dead around him, but there were far too many to kill them all, or even disable them, he had been beaten after that and tossed into a cage to be used as a slave later, the mental modifications understood that, but it also was counting the seconds until he was back at full power, ready for another killing spree of the tormentors.
His sensors were monitoring him, sensing something slowly changing within; his mind was far sharper, far more deadly and prepared for what was to come.
His mind buzzed for a second, he sensed motion, but not the way he normally did, it was instantly identified, tracked and located precisely.
"Who are you," he asked calmly, his mind assuring him that it was humanoid, but non-hostile.
"Well, let's just say a few people up there really like you."
"Up where, I am inside a cavern, in a pocket dimension off of Earth, infact, my sensors confirm the roof of the cavern as the roof of this chamber, there is no further up in here."
"Erm, well...that's not quite what I meant."
"Clarify."
"Two gods are getting involved in your fate; one of them has pegged you as his choice to aid in the future and sent me to inform you that you're getting an upgrade of sorts."
"Just great, more ways to deal with hostiles," Zero responded.
"Tough crowd."
"There isn't a crowd, only you and me, and who are you, and more importantly, what are you?"
"I'm Whistler, and I'm supposed to be keeping the balance, or rather I'm supposed to play messenger for the people up there who are supposed to keep the balance, but after what happened last Halloween, one of them got rather cranky and all the gods went and started viewing it as a game of Survivor."
"Define Survivor."
"Erm, well, I won't go into that, but how the hell do you know I'm here, your eyes are closed."
"I am a cyborg, I am equipped with sensors, and apparently the upgrades included them."
"They didn't tell me that, what are you planning, I recognize that look in any creature..."
Zero was up, on his feet now, collecting energy as the balance demon vanished to the same place he had come from, the only light in the cell came from the cyborgs glowing eyes and the energy he was preparing to use to shatter the doors.
A smile that would have frozen hell crossed his lips and a cold chuckle escaped his throat as he prepared to cause what he viewed as an appropriate punishment for those who had nearly slain him.
The killing machine that lay dormant even in his last battle came out to play, and hell itself would be amazed at the sheer number of "guests" it would have before his anger died down for his normal personality to reemerge.
He cackled, a high pitched and frightening sound that had been designed to cause a panic in those he faced. With no effort he fired, turning the foot thick metal door into a crater that tore through the floor and roof as well as the walls around it, vaporization, not shattering, Zero was through playing.
"Well, that certainly wasn't what I expected," the raven winged one muttered to himself as he watched the proceedings.
"But it went well all things considered, although I would have liked some time to sell tickets to watch this conflagration when the triplets realize that their lawyers missed a cataclysm coming for one of their other operations in the City of 'Angels' and that it wasn't seen by the twins," Whistler said with a slight chuckle at what was coming.
"Would you go and warn Lucy that most of the inhabitants of another dimension are about to need accommodations," the other said, leaning back as he slowly shook his head.
"If he kills me for this, I'll haunt you for eternity," the balance demon said as he turned to leave, "I just hope he doesn't do to me what he did to the last messenger that got sent there, after Super Sonic blew up a hell dimension instantaneously, I wanted to claw my own eyes out after seeing that."
"Even he would not dare to touch the messenger of another one of the number, that one was his own, and thus he could do as he wished."
Whistler gulped loudly, but vanished to do his task.
"Well at least this one is better than your last choice," the guardian said with a slight chuckle, "He doesn't have that spark of darkness within him, or a cursed soul, he may have a violent and sadistic mind, but he's on our side."
"Yes, although Ares did have it out with me that he fit his requirements more than mine as Death."
"He's still rather annoyed that my chosen managed to blow up a good portion of the leadership of the Watchers, their insistence that the line of his chosen was under their control, he started finding those with the possibility outside of those he normally would."
"Ares still ended up with more than one, now he has three of those he empowered and a bunch of others he 'helps' from time to time."
"Do you have any idea who they have in mind to replace Janus?"
"With the order of Succession disturbed in two ways, Vaulk was to get it when Janus died or anything happened to remove his power, such as what did happen, but Sonic eliminated him as well, the others are running around like chickens with their heads chopped off, one of the more horrific suggestions was to adopt Glorificus into our number, thanks the Creator that that particular suggestion was canned, she was bad enough in her own dimension, even the triplets avoid her."
"Most of us are still trying to find a way to eliminate that particular threat; the twins say that there is only a few years left before she finds where we have hidden the Key."
"Then steps will have to be taken, has the Lord of Vengeance decided to stand with us on this, or against us?"
"He has elected to remain neutral in this situation."
"Good, at least his favorite pet isn't going to be mucking up the Hellmouth for a time,"
"Anyanaka isn't someone to annoy, the power of a wish is something not to be underestimated."
"True, but then again, she isn't much in fact, she preys on the weak and doesn't dare to seek larger prey, she learned that after her run it with the Paleontologist chick, she had no idea that Utahraptors would prefer demon flesh over human, that one was amusing."
"But did you have to get Whistler to then deliver them to her in a box he liberated from a pet store?"
"I was bored then."
"That scared the heck out of all the messengers, a pack of hungry and irritated predators nearing sentience level with more sadism in them than your current chosen."