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A/N This is the LAST chapter.
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"Welcome to sunnydale high school.There's no running in the halls, no yelling, no gum chewing. Apart from that, there's only one rule. (stops walking, turns to look at the crowd) If they move, kill them"
Wood said as the group of potentials and the scoobies
barged into Sunnydale high.
This was it The final battle.
Buffy turned to face the group
"Potentials Follow Spike and Faith to the basement."
They leave
"I'm off to the principals office." Willow says
"I'll get set up" Kenedy says. taking the bag from willow
"i'll go with Wood to the lounge." Giles says
"I'll take Dawn."Xander says "We'll check out the atrium"
"Anya you got the dungen master. The noth Hall."Buffy Says to anya Anya and Andrew leave
Wood goes to his post
Dawn begins to leave
"Dawn" Buffy starts
"Don't anything you say will soun like a goodbye."
Dawn says. She leaves
Willow , Xander Bufy and Giles are left
"What do you want to do tomorrow?" Buffy asks
"Mini golf" Xander sugests
"Shopping" Willow exclaims
"I could use a few items."Xander agrees
"And i need shoes. Buffy says
"The world is doomed" Giles says.
They all begin to walk down the hall. Giles cuts off to find wood. Willow heads into the Principals office
Xander and Buffy keep walking
Xander turns and walks down a coridor.
Bufyf heads to the basement.
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"You first B" Faith hads buffy a knife
Buffy cuts her hand and passes the knife on.
All the potentials have cut hands and are holding them over the seal.
it opens
Buffy jumps in followed by everyone else.
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Willow is sitting on the floor of the Principal's office with a semi-circle of white candles lit in front of her. There are other candles in the room as well. Kennedy sits across from Willow, watching her.
WILLOW They should be in place. (sits back with her hands on her knees) OK, magic time. You ready to, heh heh, kill me?
KENNEDY Starting to be.
WILLOW Good. Fun. Great. Brace yourself.
KENNEDY
(whispering) Come on, red. Make it happen.
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Buffy Spike and Faith walk dowmand are in the hell mouth with the potentials.
SPIKE (looking at the amulet worn around his neck) Not to be a buzzkill, love, but my fabulous accessory isn't exactly tingling with power.
BUFFY (psyching herself up as she looks around slack-jawed) I'm not worried.
SPIKE I'm getting zero juice here, and I look like Elizabeth Taylor.
FAITH Cheer up, Liz. Willow's big spell doesn't work, it won't matter what you wear.
Buffy, Faith, Spike and the others walk forward to the edge of a cliff where they can look out and see thousands upon thousands of Turok-Han below them on the floor of the hellmouth.
Spike walks back Buffy follows slightly.
"Ilove you." She wisper to him
" I love you too pet."He says back
The Turok-Han are growling and making noise as they mob below them. Spike backs up.
BUFFY I'm not worried.
RONA Really? 'Cause I'm flashing back to Xander's whole bathroom speech.
AMANDA (frightened) Buffy—
BUFFY I'm not worried...as long as Willow can work her spell before they— (the Turok-Han look up at Buffy and gang) see us.
The turak hans run towards them.
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In the principals office wilow is preforming the spell with the scythe infront her. Suddenly, she's overcome with power. She looks up, as the scythe and Willow start to glow with a bright white light.
"Oh Godess." Willow exclaims softly
888888888 FLASHBACK: Buffy is addressing a living room full of potentials and her friends.
BUFFY So here's the part where you make a choice: What if you could have that power...now? In every generation, one slayer is born... because a bunch of men who died thousands of years ago made up that rule. They were powerful men. This woman (points to Willow) is more powerful than all of them combined. (Willow whimpers) So I say we change the rule. I say my power... Should be OUr power Tomorrow, Willow will use the essence of the scythe to change our destiny. From now on, every girl in the world who might be a slayer... will be a slayer. Every girl who could have the power...will have the power... can stand up,will stand up. Slayers... every one of us. Make your choice. Are you ready to be strong?
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The Turok-Han army rushes Buffy's gang. Buffy fights them off with kicks and punches as usual, but the other potentials have super strength now as well. Vi jumps and kicks a Turok-Han down. Rona punches a Turok-Han in the face, knocking it down. Faith fights one off. Amanda stakes a Turok-Han through the heart. Vi beheads a Turok-Han.
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Kennedy, smiling at her newfound power, looks around and stops in amazement when she sees Willow.
KENNEDY Willow?
Willow's hair is completely white, and she's still glowing with white light from the spell. Willow's facial expression is one of divine ecstasy as she looks heaven-ward. Willow pants as the power runs through her. When the scythe stops glowing, so does Willow. Willow's hair is back to normal, but she herself is still recovering from the incredible experience of that spell.
KENNEDY You...are a goddess.
WILLOW (smiles, weakly) And you're a slayer. Get this to Buffy.
Willow hands the scythe to Kennedy, who takes it and runs out of the office. Willow sits there, panting, then collapses to her side, still smiling.
WILLOW Ha! That was nifty.
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Buffy fights off the Turok-Han, who are starting to out number Buffy's gang. Faith and Spike and the others are still fighting them as well. Kennedy runs down into the hellmouth carrying the scythe.
KENNEDY Buffy! Catch! (throws the scythe to Buffy)
Buffy catches the scythe and is immediately able to kill the Turok-Han faster, than before, dusting them quickly. A Turok-Han attacks Kennedy, who is able to fend them off with ease now.
KENNEDY I could get used to this.
The battle is going well for Buffy's gang as they are able to keep up with the endless number of Turok-Han that come for them. Vi goes after one of the with intensity we've never before seen in her. Buffy uses the scythe to behead a Turok-Han. As their numbers increase, some of the Turok-Han are able to get past Buffy's gang and go up through the hellmouth into the school.
8888888888888 Andrew and Anya are defending an exit together, each with a sword.
ANDREW I think they're coming. (hides behind Anya)
ANYA Oh, God. I'm terrified. I didn't think. I mean, I— I just figured you'd be terrified, and I would be sarcastic about it.
ANDREW Picture happy things... a lake, candy canes, bunnies.
ANYA (gets angry) Bunnies! Floppy, hoppy... (holds up her sword, ready to attack) bunnies.
888888888888 Giles and Robin are defending an exit together. The Turok-Han flood the hallways. They far outnumber Robin and Giles, who manage to hold their own. Giles slices one of the Turok-Han across the neck as Robin punches and kicks them.
8888888888 Anya fights valiantly as the Turok-Han enter her corridor. Andrew backs away as a Turok-Han rushes him, snarling.
ANDREW I have swimmer's ear!
The Turok-Han pushes Andrew against the wall. Anya dusts two Turok-Han in a row.
88888888 Spike is fighting off Turok-Han alongside the others when he steps back and looks down at the amulet around his neck. He touches the amulet, but it burns his hand.
SPIKE Buffy! Whatever this thing does, I think it's— (Spike winces and moans in pain)
BUFFY (to the girls) Keep the line together! Drive them to the edge! We can't let them do—
Buffy looks down to see that a Turok-Han has stabbed her with a sword from behind, piercing her abdomen. She stumbles forward and collapses to the ground, face-first.
888888888 Faith and the other girls are still fighting off the Turok-Han. Faith notices Buffy lying on the floor.
FAITH Buffy! (goes to Buffy's side)
BUFFY (leans up on her elbows, weakly) Hold the line. (hands the scythe to Faith)
Faith takes the scythe and goes back into the battle as Buffy stays in place on the floor, grunting in pain.
888888888 Xander and Dawn guard their exit as the Turok-Han make their way toward them. Dawn holds a sword, but stays cautiously away from the fight as Xander engages the demons full-on. Xander can hold them back, but not kill them, so Dawn pulls a rope, dropping a sandbag and opening a skylight window in the ceiling, flooding the room with sunlight and causing the Turok-Han to burn and dust in front of them.
XANDER (to the piles of dust) We call that the greenhouse effect. Very dangerous—
Another Turok-Han attacks Xander, knocking him down. Dawn goes to help fight it off.
888888888888 Bringers have made their way to the fight and are attacking Andrew. Anya fights them off, but there are too many. While she stabs one with her sword, another slices diagonally though her torso from behind, killing her.
888888888 Bringers have found Giles and Robin as well. While they fight the Bringers, one stabs Robin in the stomach. Giles kills the Bringer that stabbed Robin, then catches Robin in his arm as he falls toward Giles.
88888 Spike continues fighting the Turok-Han, as do Faith and the others. A ground of Turok-Han attacks Faith, and she calls out.
FAITH Rona! (throws the scythe to Rona)
Rona uses the scythe to mow down a couple of Turok-Han. Buffy is still lying on the ground weak and wounded.
BUFFY/FIRST Oh no...(looks down at Buffy's wound reflected on its body) ow! Mommy, this mortal wound is all...itchy. You pulled a nice trick. You came pretty close to smacking me down. What more do you want?
BUFFY (through gritted teeth) I want you... (sits up) to get out of my face. (stands)
Rona sees Buffy standing and throws the scythe to Buffy. Buffy catches it and swings it with a mighty force, knocking three Turok-Han off the cliff at once. Faith find renewed strength and kicks her assailants off of her as well. Faith takes out a few Turok-Han, as does another slayer. Vi takes out one after another after another. Kennedy disarms one and dusts another. Buffy knocks one off the cliff and kills one with the scythe. Spike gasps and stumbles backward away from the fight as he clutches his chest, then his burned hand.
SPIKE Oh, bollocks.
A bright blue light shoots up from the amulet, knocking a hole in the ceiling, going up through the floor of the Principal's office past Willow and through to the open sky. The light turns a warm orange color.
SPIKE Buffy!
BUFFY Spike!
Before Buffy can go to his side, the amulet refracts the orange light out into the hellmouth like rays of sunshine—but with concentrated intensity like a laser. Buffy stares at Spike. As the amulet works its magic, the Turok-Han are dusting throughout the hellmouth. The ground starts shaking. Faith calls out to the others.
FAITH Everybody out, now!
Everyone rushes to the stairs that lead up to the seal. Buffy runs to Spike's side.
SPIKE (amazed) I can feel it, Buffy.
BUFFY What?
SPIKE (looks at her) My soul. It's really there. Kind of stings.
8888888888 The girls rush out of the basement up to the hallway. They go past Andrew. A Bringer is hovering over Andrew, but it falls back revealing Andrew's sword in its chest.
ANDREW (in shock) What... why?
One of the girls helps Andrew to his feet.
8888888888 Giles is helping the wounded Robin walk. As the ground starts to shake even more, they see the school bus sitting out front.
ROBIN The bus. Get them on the bus.
GILES (lets go of Robin, and yells after the girls who are coming out of the building) Everybody, this way!
888888888 Kennedy helps the weakened Willow walk. Xander and Dawn are making their way out of the building as well. As the building falls down around them, Xander screams out for Anya.
XANDER Anya! Anya!
He doesn't see her body lying limp and lifeless on the floor beneath some rubble. Dawn pulls him away toward the exit.
8888888888 Buffy and Spike are the only ones left in the hellmouth. Spike is still glowing from the amulet, sending rays of light out into the hellmouth. Buffy stands in front of him, staring, still holding her scythe.
SPIKE Go on, then.
BUFFY No. No, you've done enough. You could still—
SPIKE No, you've beat them back. It's for me to do the cleanup.
The walls are crumbling around them.
FAITH (calls down to Buffy) Buffy, come on!
SPIKE Gotta move, lamb. I think it's fair to say school's out for bloody summer.
BUFFY (worried) Spike!
SPIKE I mean it! I gotta do this. (holds out his hand to stop her)
Buffy laces her fingers through Spike's, and they burst into flame together.
BUFFY (softly, looks into his eyes) I love you.
SPIKE Ilove you too. More than you will ever know. NNevrer Forget me. Now go! (Buffy runs up the stairs) I wanna see how it ends.
88888888888 The school building explodes. Faith runs out from the cloud of smoke and jumps into the bus. The bus drives off with all the survivors, except Spike and Buffy. Dawn stares ut the back window of the bus.
88888888 Buffy runs through the hallway, still carrying the scythe, avoiding the debris that has fallen to the floor as well as what's still falling as the ground continues to shake. The door is blocked, so Buffy goes upstairs.
88888888 Spike stands in the crumbling hellmouth with light shining down on him from above, grinning from ear to ear and laughing as he burns up from the sunlight. He dusts slowly—first his skin singes, then his muscles, then his bones—then he's gone. The hellmouth crumbles in around him.
8888888 Those who are less injured tend to the badly injured survivors on the bus. Vi tends to Rona. Xander takes care of an Asian girl.
VI (grabs Rona's face) Look at me! This is nothing! Stay awake! This is nothing!
ANDREW (staring straight ahead, in shock) Why didn't I die?
Dawn looks out the back window of the bus, searching.
Buffy is running along the rooftops of the shopping mall as the bus drives down the street. The buildings are collapsing behind her as she tries to catch up to the bus. She leaps from building to building, still carrying the scythe, then finally jumps toward the street, landing on the bus.
Widen the shot vertically to show that the whole town is collapsing in on itself, being sucked back into the Earth.
FAITH (looks out the window) Ease off. We're clear.
The bus screeches to a halt with Buffy still clinging to the top. Principal Wood, who was driving even though he was wounded, turns the ignition off, leans back in his chair and sighs.
8888888 Buffy jumps down off the top of the school bus and looks around. Dawn opens the emergency exit door at the back of the bus and jumps down to give Buffy a warm hug.
GILES (looking around down the street behind them) I don't understand. Who did this?
BUFFY Spike.
As everyone who's able to gets off the bus, Buffy walks away from the bus a few feet toward Sunnydale, which is now a vast cavern. The "Welcome to Sunnydale" sign still stands, perched precariously on the edge of the canyon. The sign teeters a little before falling backwards into the pit that used to be its city.
XANDER (walks up to Andrew as he gets off the bus) So, did you see?
ANDREW (can't look at Xander) I—I was scared. I'm sorry.
XANDER Did you see what happened? I mean, was she...
ANDREW (looks at Xander) She was incredible. She died saving my life.
XANDER (puts his hand on Andrew's shoulder, nods) That's my girl. Always doing the stupid thing.
Andrew smiles a little. Xander walks away toward Buffy.
88888888888 Faith walks up to Robin Wood, who's slumped over in the driver's seat.
FAITH It's not bad. You just sit here. I'll get someone to—
ROBIN Hey... did we— did we make it?
FAITH (kneels to be on eye-level with Robin) We made it. We won.
Robin smiles and tries to laugh, but he's very weak. Still looking at Faith, he goes silent and stops breathing. Faith gets concerned, pauses, then reaches toward his face to close his eyelids. Robin coughs and sputters a moment, then smiles weakly at her.
ROBIN (breathing heavily) Surprise.
Faith lets out a sigh of relief and a smile. Vi goes to Robin's side, and Faith steps off the bus to join the others.
8888888888 Buffy is still staring at the canyon that once was Sunnydale. Dawn stands beside her, then Giles joins them, as do Xander, Willow, and Faith.
FAITH Looks like the hellmouth is officially closed for business.
GILES There is another one in Cleveland. Not to spoil the moment. (bends to pick up a rock and throws it into the canyon)
XANDER We saved the world.
WILLOW We changed the world. (walks up to Buffy's side) I can feel them, Buffy. All over. Slayers are awakening everywhere.
DAWN We'll have to find them.
WILLOW We will.
GILES (paces behind them) Yes, because the mall was actually in Sunnydale, so there's no hope of going there tomorrow.
DAWN We destroyed the mall? I fought on the wrong side.
XANDER All those shops gone. The Gap, Starbucks, Toys "R" Us. Who will remember all those landmarks unless we tell the world about them?
GILES We have a lot of work ahead of us.
FAITH (to Willow) Can I push him in?
WILLOW You've got my vote.
FAITH I just want to sleep, yo, for like a week.
DAWN I guess we all could, if we wanted to.
WILLOW Yeah. (smiles) The First is scrunched, so... what do you think we should do, Buffy?
FAITH Yeah, you're not the one and only chosen anymore. Just gotta live like a person. How's that feel?
DAWN Yeah, Buffy. What are we gonna do now?
Buffy is now sitting on the edge of sunnydale her knees tucked into her chest.
She slowly gets up.
She has tears in her eyes.
Buffy slowly makes her way back to the bus. Faith follows close behind.
"I'll never forget you Spike." Buffy wispers before she begins to sob uncontrolably
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