AN:Not quite sure how long this one will take, namely it's constructing a special operations team that a ghost would accept that's the hard part. Only got a few down, others will follow, but the world is changing, is it for the better or worse? Chapter 2 of the Ghosts of Death now begins
Artic-Phoenix2-Yes, and it makes sense, West is the General from the Stargate movie, guess who Xanders 2IC will be.
jwolf-First off, the SWAT team situation is somewhat explained here, the watchers went after Faith, Azrael dealt with the Watchers in broad daylight to play a bit with their minds, and even the sunnydale PD has to do something when that kind of thing breaks out. With the mayor, Nukes like those in Starcraft are not that much of a wide dispersal weapon, mainly about a city block, but not much good against a moving target, mainly Xan hunted him down through the city with his other weapons. One reason he didn't eliminate the contact team is because he's curious first, and second he wants to know how they got their info. Trust me, the Initiative won't like it when Xan gets involved back in SunnyD, he's in LA for other reasons. His main reasons for being outed is Buffy freaking out over how he dealt with Angelus, not really why he dealt with him, but the torture kind of messed her up. For his abilities they come from a mix of those in the books and in the Spycraft powered fan sourcebook as well some from the novels. I mainly play the Protoss, Dark Archons make things very fun...Possession is my favorite toy.
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"Sir," the young man said, stiffening unconsciously to General West.
"Relax, your not in the military," the man chuckled, "Yet, anyway."
"Just another year and I meet the minimum age requirements."
"Actually, I have a proposition for you," West said with a smile, "I've been put in charge of forming a new unit dedicated to dealing with threats of a non-normal nature."
"You mean like what the other me goes against," the teen said, eyeing the two flanking soldiers.
"No, something similar in a way," West replied, "If you agree to join the group, you will be given the rank of Major, namely to keep the chain of command working, you will be second in command of the group."
"I'll do it," he said slowly, "So, you telling Jack, or should I?"
"Actually, he's being kept out of the loop, hopefully it prevents the NID from uncovering this new group before its togather, all funding is in place though, you fly out to LA at the end of the week to meet your new CO."
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Xander smiled as he walked into the hotel, he'd left his 'working' gear back at his apartment in a sealed case with a tracker. Especially after the military paid him a vist, he wasn't leaving that gear where it could be 'requisitioned' by anyone he didn't approve of.
He glanced down at the adress on the card and punched the number on the elevator. At dawn he had seen her enter the building so he knew it was accurate information, but he was still ready for the off chance she had slipped off.
The elevator went slowly as his mind flashed back through the memories that were his since Halloween, mostly he remembered the final test that was supposed to let Azrael have the title of Ghost.
Rei was someone that Azrael had known from the time he was young, before his talents as a psionic were uncovered, they had been engaged, but the monsters that ran the training school had grabbed her. His job was to take down the one with a gun to her head before the bastard could pull the trigger.
He pulled the trigger of his weapon in a flash, but the gun jammed, the penetrator round detonated, sending him flying as the man then pulled the trigger, leaving her dead.
His emotions reinforced his gifts and overloaded the dampners implanted in his head, disabling them. He had unleashed his full fury and the fight with the entire base he had been forced into lasted mere minutes, but he had killed them all.
But then his mind flashed back to the present as the elevator chimed and the doors opened and he stepped out, the brighter light of the windows temporarily banishing the darkness within his thoughts.
As he walked down the hall and around the corner to the rooms he sand a little song to himself.
"Shotgun shells, sniper rounds, leeches blown away..."
He paused the jaunty tune as he knocked ont the door and waited for it to open.
As it creaked open he smirked as he remembered when he'd last seen her.
The firefight with the teams the watchers had sent after her had made even the Sunnydale PD, the group that if they were called inept would give inept departments a bad name.
"Hello Faith."
