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 15

Rise of the Juggernaut

The walk was uneventful. Mostly those demons that could walk around
town during the day took the back roads of Sunny Dale. So there
wasn't any trouble with normal people. Not that Faith was too
pleased with the demons scampering away from Xander with horror in
their eyes, those that had eyes.

To think out of all the inhabitants of the hellmouth both human and
demon Xander only had a handful of friends. That just pissed Faith
off.

"So, you planning on getting soldier boy to skip school with you
too?" Xander asked absently.

"Huh? Oh, yeah Riley." Got to remember that name, Faith mused. After
all there's little chance the real Buffy would go around forgetting
her boyfriend's name.

"You and him aren't having problems, are you?" He hoped not. Riley
was good for her. Much better then Angel. At least he could take her
to the movies during the day. It was her chance to have a normal
life. He'd do anything to keep them happy.

"Naw. I'm just feeling a bit out of sorts today." Damn him, Faith
thought. Why did he always have to act so damn nice?

Finally they reached 'The Magic Shop'. Giles was there already hard
at work. The Council had sent down a retrieval unit to pick up
Faith. And of course they were making asses of themselves every
chance they got. There were four of them in all.

"This must be the other slayer, Buffy?" The leader asked with a
sneer on his pompous face.

"Yeah, that's me." Faith said nervously. Why weren't they headed
back to England with a drugged up Buffy? Them sticking around wasn't
part of her plan.

Xander had been behind the front door once he'd heard the people in
there. He was debating whether or not to turn around and head back
to Joyce's basement. But it didn't sit well with him leaving Buffy
with them. There was just something in their voices that sat him on
edge. So he walked in.

"Fuck!" At once they were scrambling to get at their weapons.

"Edward, stop this very instant. And call off your men. He's not a
danger to anyone." Giles leaped into action grabbed one of the men
by the back of the neck and slamming his face into a bookshelf.

Faith grabbed the nearest two and punched them in the stomach
knocking the air out of them. Edward was still standing and had a
pistol aimed at Xander's heart. A deafening 'BANG' filled the shop.
There's no telling who was more surprised when the bullet hit
Xander's chest and just bounced off, Edward or Xander himself.

"Wha..." The head of the watcher's strike force didn't finish his
statement because there was an angry slayer holding him by the
throat.

"You son of a bitch! You could have killed him!" He was quickly
turning blue from the lack of oxygen.

"Buff, I'm ok. I'm ok." The juggernaut said it disbelievingly. He
could see the hole the bullet put in his leather chest guard, but
there was no wound underneath. Faith dropped the watcher and walked
over to him and looked for herself.

"Why didn't you tell me you were bulletproof? I nearly had a god
damn heart attack!" Her heart was beating so fast she was scared it
might explode.

"I didn't know. This is the first time I've been shot." Faith
reached out and ran her hand over his chest were the hole was in his
clothing.

"Good lord Xander. Are you sure your alright?" Giles asked as he
held Edwards gun pointed at the four watchers on the ground looking
up at Xander with dread.

"What the hell is that thing Rupert?" One of the watchers asked.
He'd seen vampires and some other demons keep coming after being
shot, but he'd never seen a bullet just bounce right off like that.
He crawled over to where it hit the ground. It was almost completely
flat.

"What is it made out of." He whispered as he and the others peered
at the ruined peace of lead.

"His names Xander! He is not an it, or a thing. Understand?" Giles
growled out still clutching the gun in his hands.

"What are you going on about Ripper? That thing can't be human. Just
look at it." Edward pointed at him.

Finally Xander lost his temper. In two steps he made it over to the
downed watcher and grabbed him by the throat much like Faith had. He
hoisted the man by the throat over his head. So he was hanging there
in Xander's right hand at least fourteen feet in the air. His head
was touching the ceiling.

"Call me a thing again. You hear me! Call me a thing just one more
time." The other watchers had jumped up and ran to the other side of
the shop behind the far table. Giles was watching his old 'friend'
chocking before him with great amusement. Faith was torn. She wanted
the watcher beaten to a pulp but not dead, and not by Xander's hand.
She didn't want him to become like her, not him. "Xan, put him
down." She pleaded. "He's not worth it."

After a few seconds he dropped him. The head of the strike unit
gasped and tried his best not to vomit. "The head of the Council
will hear of this Rupert!"

"Get out of town Eddie. Your not welcome." The ex-watcher wasn't
afraid in the least of idle threats.

"We would but that other damned slayer broke out. She's on the
loose."

"Why the hell did it take you that long to tell us?" Giles shouted.
"You didn't ask." He had gotten over his coughing fit and gone back
to his pompous self.

"Faith's still running around town? Then we should call the gang,
let them know." Xander walked over and grabbed the shop's phone and
started to make the calls.

Edward gave the large mutant a wide amount of room to get around as
he stepped back quickly. 'Buffy' was looking even more worried.
Why couldn't B have stayed out until they left town? Faith's mind
shouted bitterly. She still wasn't out of the woods. If Buffy
convinced one of her friends that she was the real Buffy then they'd
switch them back and she would be off to England. Either that or
these watcher bastards would just shoot her in the heart like they
tried to do to Xander.

Without saying a word Faith took off through the front door looking
for her hated sister slayer.