AN:With West starting to build a team, Xander mending fences, and all the problems yet to come, a dark presence is about to add to the problems. A few old enemies are coming to light, and as a side note, the character Azrael is still a work in progress of sorts, I still play him twice a week so his history will be expanded as this goes along, and no, in life I am nothing like Azrael.

Stephen-I figured most people would figure that one out, I wanted to involve him in it without dragging SG-1 into it for a while, plus Azrael and Jon seem to have a lot in common.

PW-I'll explain how the Mayor survived that one later, it will be explained with one of the enemies still to come.

HolyKnight-The SGC doesn't have the cyber security to handle the Ghosts hacking training, they just aren't at the tech level, and with most of that being a function of the suit, well..As for an Ashrak, that may be interesting to have happen, though the Ashrak won't know what hit him.

Destiny's Dragon-Gracias, I will keep it up, Azrael is someone strange to play as and writing his reactions is just as fun.

Blackguard-I am working on it, thanks

The Sithspawn-Maggie won't like it when she finds out West and the President set this up, especially after Xander finds out about them. Jaffa won't be showing up for a while, though like the Ashrak, could be a short and interesting tale, very short for the Jaffa.

Magewind-For the moment, it's just West having a possibly recurring role and Jon fully involved, other characters may arrive to be guest stars in a way. Namely since Jack doesn't know where Mini-Jack went, SG-1 might show up, that would be an interesting meeting if Jack tries to confront Azrael. Still trying to write that without Jack getting shot.

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In Sunnydale, a group was activated under the orders of Senator Kinsey through the NID, but seperate under the command of a Doctor Walsh.

Its base of operations was built quickly, but they had a slight accident that they didn't realize they had, their construction opened a cavern that went deep below the surface of the city, below any of the caves and pathways the hellmouth had around it.

Now, if it had just been a cave, nothing would have come of it, but their was the essence of an ancient demon locked away there, and that essence touched the distortions caused by chaos only a relatively short time before in its perspective. Unconsciously, it followed one of the trails of power back to its source and expanded locking onto one being it matched and began to replicate that being as its new form.

A pulsating cacoon slowly developed from the shadows, a form floating within.

xXx

It had been a hard week, Xander thought, he'd finally gotten Faith to listen to him. He also went through all of his contacts and every ability he could to find out just who the hell this General West was.

It interested him as the computer uplink within his armor easily punched through the security systems and tracked down all the information available, secured connections, but available with the right tools.

The information triggered a part of his brain, memories flooded from his time with the Dark Templar, those memories gave him several interesting ideas with how to build some new toys, if something similar to a Warp Gate was possible, then perhaps he could concider constructing some of Azraels favorite toys, the Hyperion was a possibility, he'd commanded it for a time after Jimmy left to figure out just what it was with him. He now realized just what it was that Marshal James Raynar had felt when Mengsk used the girl he thought of as a sister to her death, a death that was meaningless and worthless.

He knew that before the end, Jimmy and Sarah had been meant for one another, just like Azrael and the girl he loved had been...before a flaw in a weapon cost him her life.

Xander waited patiently at the door of the house he had been given directions to meet General West at, Faith was back at the house he had obtained to store what she referred to as his toys.

He was dressed in something close to what Azrael had worn when off duty after he watched Mengsk burn on Valdin IV. After he had chosen to return to earth, he had finally faced the last of his living demons and nearly killed her.

His memories of the end there were still fuzzy, but he remembered the queen bitch herself ambushing the convoy and he was dragged before her. He learned that her per, Duran, had turned on her and she was offering him a chance to join her.

He remembered her gloating that without the psi dampners in full working order in her head, she was far beyond what any ghost could pull off. Azraels power had completely destroyed his own, and he had learned to control them to an extent that matched those of the Archons and Dark Archons, plus he had other means at his disposal, he'd also been trained by something that made him even more dangerous, he had found the entity that had awakened from the crystal monolith and followed it, he had trained at the hands of the spirits of the Xel'naga themselves.

He unleashed his full power on her minions, the full force turning them into here stains in the wind as his eyes took on an eerie glow.

Both of them unleashed their full power and the planet paid for it, he had realized that it was breaking apart, the conflicting powers ripping and tearing at the planet itself.

Then it ended, Azrael was glad that he didn't have to deal with a mind as dirty as that monster, and he was glad that he didn't have access to his full mental arsonal. He was relieved that he couldn't get in another mind duel like that and have the same effect as a Death Star, or worse.

The door opened and he stepped in.

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In the offices of Wolfram and Hart, a scrabble was going on as a box was placed on the floor with a flash and the stench of smoke from the massive packing crate, four beings were returned to the Earth.