Author: MagnusXXN
Disclaimer: Disclaimer: BTVS doesn't belong to me, it's Joss
Whendon's baby as is Angel. I don't own X-Men or the concept of
mutants that's Marvel's baby. I just own this story but I don't have
any money so sue someone else. Part 5

Rise of the Juggernaut

The patrol was pretty much a bust. Anytime they came across a vamp
or demon they gave Xander one look and turned tail. Buffy did catch
up with a pair of newbies and dispatched them quickly. Riley got one
a few minutes later, but the juggernaut couldn't get near them
without scaring them away.

That's not to say he didn't get one. After the breakup with Anya and
everything else that had happened in the last few days he was raging
for a fight. So the first demon he saw he broke into a dead run
after him before it got the chance to flee.

"Your mine stinky." He shouted at the frightened slime demon through
gritted teeth. The creature was too surprised to even think about
retreating.

Xander hit him in full run like a football player. The small demon
flew threw the air like he'd been shot out of a cannon straight into
a stone tomb thirty feet away. The small creature's body was hit so
hard that it knocked down the outer wall.

Riley inspected the body. "Shit, you damn near vaporized it." He
lifted its arms and poked its still chest. There was no mistaking
how very dead it was. "You pretty much broke every bone in its
body." He would have toyed with it some more but its stink was
starting to get to him.

"These things are disgusting." He walked away from it and joined
back up with Xander and Buffy who were talking about heading to the
caves were they'd seen Adam last.

"Remind me never to play football with you." The Ohio born soldier
joked. Before they could go over any plans for attacking the cyborg
demon Riley's radio went off.

#Pinned down....can't....need.....help.# The transmission was pretty
poor but it was clear that some commandos were in need of help.

"Where's it coming from?" Buffy asked.

"It's coming from the north side of the cemetery. Come on." He broke
off and started running towards his fellow soldier's battle zone.
Neither Buffy nor Xander argued.

In about two minutes they had made it across the graveyard and were
standing off the side of the battlefield. There were six commandos
penned down by four vampires and three feral demons. There were
another two commandos lying dead behind their former friends.

"Shit." Riley cursed as he jumped into the fray and started blasting
away at the demons that until then didn't realize they were there.
Buffy shifted her grip on the stake in her hand then followed suit.
Xander held back for a moment but only for a moment before he too
joined them.

The vampires were to busy fighting the soldiers and slayer to notice
him, but all three feral demons did and attacked without a moments
thought.

They were faster then he was but nowhere near as strong. He landed
one solid kick to the nearest demon's chest and it collapsed on
itself. The second landed numerous hits that seemed to hurt him more
then his attacker; that is until Xander grabbed him by the head and
crushed it within his powerful hands.

"You want to test your luck?" He taunted the last feral demon. The
warrior demons might not have been known for their brains but they
knew when they were beat. Like many demons before him he turned and
ran.

The soldiers had killed off the last vampires with little injury
after Riley and Buffy joined in. They were ready to start thanking
their lucky stars until their eyes fell on Xander.
"Sweet Jesus, what the hell is it?" One of the men yelled pointing
his weapon at the massive dark figure standing a few feet away. The
others did the same.

"Stand down!" Riley ordered.

"But sir, its a hostile!" One argued the rest never taking their
eyes or guns off Xander.

"I told you to stand down solider!" The slayers boyfriend said
starting to loose his calm with the younger man.

"Yes, sir." He told him with a hard look in his eyes. He and the
other men slowly lowered their weapons. Buffy had made her way to
Xander once the stunners were pointed in other directions.

"You want to head out? Or maybe you could explain some stuff to
them?"

"I don't think they'd be very thrilled if I stayed." There was
sorrow in his voice and if she could have seen his face underneath
that massive helmet she was sure the pain would be clearly
showing. "Look at them Buff. They're looking at me like I'm.... a
monster...a thing."

The slayer turned and had to agree. All present besides Riley were
casting angry and hateful looks towards her large friend. "I'm just
going to go."

"No! Don't let them win Xan. They...just have to get to know you,
that's all." She tried her best to make her friend feel better. But
this seemed to be turning out just like when Angel had shown up. All
the soldiers were ready to stake him on sight without even knowing
what the bottom line was.

"Its ok Buff. I guess I'm just going to have to get used to it." And
with that our leather clad juggernaut turned and walked away into
the night. He didn't even cast a second look behind him. But he
could hear Buffy and Riley ripping into the soldiers for their
actions. He just couldn't hear any of them apologizing.