Angel, after settling into the dingy hotel they had chosen in New Zealand sat up in bed staring at the ceiling. Wesley was in the twin bed next to his and Gunn was sleeping on the small sofa that was in the hotel room. Oddly enough Angel couldn't put his finger on why they had said yes to coming to New Zealand in the first place. Of course Cordy wanted a vacation and Fred needed to get out a little more and Lorne, who had yet to come back in from the bar in the lobby, needed to go somewhere that wasn't LA.

Angel had gotten a call from a man who lived in LA and offered him 3 million dollars to come to New Zealand and fix the supernatural problem that was going down, he paid for the flight and then said when they exterminated the demons behind it all they would get their money. Angels head was whirling, think of all of the things that a person could do with 3 million dollars.

But Angel was still not sure why he had come to New Zealand in the first place, 3 million dollars was a lot but the man had said that there was at least a dozen demons trying to run the economy and government there and his children and family lived in New Zealand so he needed Angel to help the whole place.

Wesley sat up in bed and turned to the adjoining door to the other room. Someone was knocking, he stood and answered it. Cordy stood in her pj's with Fred behind her they both looked a little freaked out. They didn't talk for a few minutes then Cordy spoke slowly the words rolling off her tongue as if she didn't believe what she had seen.

That's how it started, Cordy and Fred terrified faces and lulling silence that enveloped the whole place caught Angel as odd but he didn't attempt to do anything about it for the fact that he was not use to the night life in these parts and thought it was normal.

"What is it?" Gunn asked the two girls.

"Turn on the TV." Fred said softly.

"Why?" Angel asked

He didn't get a chance to finish. The door banged open and Lorne rushed in slamming the door hard behind him and pressing his back to it his red eyes wild. He reeked of rotting flesh and booze.

Angel got out of bed finally. He walked to the window and looked out his eyes bulged in horror at the sight.

What looked to be at least fifty zombies were charging toward the hotel through the parking lot. Angel felt fear clenching up inside him because they were on the bottom floor.

"The bathroom window." Angel barked.

The men dressed and Cordy grabbed her robe. They made it into the bathroom and looked out of the window. Behind the hotel was an alley with a sewer drain only a few feet away. Angel didn't see any zombies so he went out first and kept Gunn and Wesley in the rear in case anything happened. He opened the sewer drain slowly and held it for Lorne to drop down into.

"All clear." He hissed.

"Go." Angel whispered to the girls.

Slowly they lowered themselves into the sewer drain as quietly as humanly possible. Angel dropped down in last and they stood around in the cold sewers Angel was completely unaware of where they should go or what they should do but fighting those zombies didn't seem sane.

"I just got one thing to say." Gunn said. "What the hell."

"That was not all of them." Cordy said softly.

"On the news this guy just keeled over in his chair." Fred's voice shook slightly.

"And then he got back up and walked away all shaking and wobbling." Cordy said rubbing Fred's arm.

"This cant be good." Lorne said looking around.

"We just need to walk. Find another entrance and see if we can find someone to explain this to us." Angel said to them.

They walked, for a good hour, Angel came to the conclusion that they don't use their sewers as much as they do in LA. Finally they came to a man hole that opened into the basement of an old hospital and by the smell of it was actually operating or might have been recently.

"Where are we?" Fred asked him.

"Looks like a hospital." Gunn said quietly.

"Smells like a hospital." Cordy said playing off of Angel like she did so often.

As if in sync nearly a hundred zombies broke through different places in the walls that were falling apart. Angel felt his stomach knot and but his hands shot out in defense mode. A strange thing happened then, something that could possibly haunt the gang forever. The ceiling caved right above their heads. But in a good way.

Black combat boots hit the ground hard in front of them. Angel's eyes traveled up the leather pants and the large belt around the tiny waist that held two large guns and a tazer. She wore a black AC/DC shirt and had long black hair that hung down the middle her back in waves with long bangs that hung over her eyes. Her eyes were what caught the attention. They were the lightest blue almost white with a darker blue sunburst from the pupil. She was pale like Angel but he knew she wasn't a vampire, something about her.

Her foot shot up as a zombie came at her and she kicked it hard in the face so hard that its head flew off. She did a full front flip and landed hard on her feet. She punched one zombie in the face then jacked another in the mouth with her elbow and kicked a third one in the stomach so hard her foot broke skin.

Angel jarred into action kicking and punching and throwing. Gunn, Wesley and Cordelia did the same. Since Fred had joined the team she had become much stronger and was attempting to fight but was thrown a few feet away and hit the floor with a groan next to an already thrown Lorne.

"Get DOWN." The mysterious girl yelled to them.

As if by orders they all laid flat on the ground and watched in disbelief as the girl lit up. Literally she began to glow softly then caught on fire, a blue flame not an orange flame. Then the flame exploded, still blue but when it touched a zombie they would catch fire like anything else. Angel watched his eyes bulging. He had been alive for 200 plus years and had never seen anything like this.

In a few minutes it was over, the flame was gone and the girl was back to the way she had been when she dropped through the ceiling. The thing that astonished Angel was that she didn't have a burn on her. Nor was there a burn on anything around her that wasn't a zombie.

Wesley was the first to push himself up. She turned to him her eyes glowing a soft blue color which Angel understood now. Her power came from her eyes. Her eyes darted around the room as Wesley stood in front of her staring her eyes locked on her thin frame and the fact that she couldn't have been more then five foot five baffled him.

"What in the hell!" Gunn yelled.

"What are you?" Fred asked standing and brushing off the front of her shirt.

"I have been around a long time." Angel said to her. "And I have never seen anything like you."

"I have." Wesley said slowly.

The woman still hadn't spoken, she looked slightly frightened as if she didn't know what to say but Angel felt no fear off of her it was all superficial.

"What's your name?" Cordelia asked.

"Rander." She said looking at Cordy. "Did any of you get cut?"

"I did." Angel said looking at her.

"Me too." Lorne said standing.

"How do you feel?" She asked them.

"My head hurts." Lorne rubbed his head.

"No different." Angel said honestly.

"Again." Gunn barked. "What are you?"

"Don't let your blood mix with theirs. It's all over from there if you do. If you can, stay underground." Rander said beginning to walk to the far side of the empty white room filled with burnt to death zombies.

"No come back." Fred yelled.

"Stay underground." Rander barked back to them her black hair trailing behind her as she strode across the white floor.

Cordy followed Rander. Her short hair bobbed behind her as she attempted to advance on the mysterious girl. Cordy stopped short as Rander stopped in her tracks. She turned to them her eyes full and fearful.

"Go." She hissed turning back around and pushing Cordy.

"HEY!" Cordy yelled as loud footsteps rang out in front of the door.

"It sounds like a..." Lorne said softly.

"Army." Rander said pushing them through a door behind them.

Angel looked around the room for the few seconds he had to survey the room. There were way too many pointy objects. He came to the conclusion that it was an operating room which made him know there was probably tons of more stuff in there.

"Listen." Rander growled her eyes glowing. "There is a refuge on the other side of town. Its an army base, I need to get there and if you think that you can take those little living dead monkeys then by god be my guest but I'm going to try to make a run for it. Are you with me or do you want to die in a foreign country? Well besides the vampire, you're already dead."

"So are you." Angel said to her.

"Good guess." She said looking at him. "You aren't from around here."

"How did you know?" Fred asked.

"Because," She said turning her eyes to the door then back to them ominously. "You're alive."

She slammed her boot into the floor and a large gaping hole opened below them into the sewers. She pointed into the hole as the entrance to the hospital was busted open. They all practically jumped into the gaping hole.

She held her small palm towards the ceiling and a small blue flame erupted from it blowing away all of the monsters trying to get in the sewer through the hole.

"Where's this Refuge?" Fred said to her softly.