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A/N: Wow! Thanks for all the reviews! Oooh I feel so special! Though I am sorry about how I wrote the first chapter, I re-read it and holy cow...it was bad. But not too bad, I didn't like how it was written like a movie script. When I have time, I'll rewrite it. Right now I'm going to focus more on the Alien Hunt rather than Buffy's vampire slaying. I'll either A: tie that into the plot later on, or B: have them hunt the demons of Sunnydale in a sequel to this story. I'll get it in there somewhere.....
Mountain King: Thanks, I didn't know there were any other Buffy/Predator crossovers because I've only checked in the Buffy crossover section. Before, the most review I've ever gotten was 7. But with this story, I was totally suprised. But thanks for the review.
jammincat9: Well, here's your whole chapter, well...it's actually split into three sections, but yeah. Enjoy!
AVP Fan: Thanks! I'm actually going to draw Buffy with her oversized armor, I'll post the link as soon as I get it up in my gallery.
Crystal Cheyenne: Thank you very much, I'll do my best to keep writing good.
memet: Yeah, I'm gonna try and make it more story-like. I've been writing an outline to this story (where I just write the basic information down) and I guess I've been stuck in 'outline' mode. I'm trying to shake it off. = )
lady sakura: Thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying the story so far.
Iceflame55: I'm very pleased to hear that you like it. But might I ask (because I'm so dumb) what would be a significant change? Seriously, I am very dense. But hey, everyone has their blonde moments (no offense to any blondes out there).
oomOOnstar: Thank you much. And thanks for reviewing. = )
Bina: Yes, AVP is a great movie. The second section of this chapter is when she gets her Slayer powers, I hope you like it.
Shadow Master: Yeah, when I re-read the first chapter, I was disappointed. But like I said, I'll try to rewrite it when I have time. I'll look into that story by Darwin, and hopefully he getting the Predator concepts from books out there, because when it comes to the culture of Predators....I'm at a serious loss. Any help would be very much appreciated.
captuniv: Yay! I'm on a favorite stories list! = ) Is that what they're called? Yautja? I sure heck don't know. As for her name....I guess the Predators see Buffy as a lowly human and don't give her a Predator name.....yet. So, her prize at the end will be the choosing of a name for her. And speaking of Predator names for Buffy....any ideas? I don't know any names from their kind.
Punked Out Btch: Thank you, you're too kind. = )
packrat: I think I rushed it through the whole thing, except maybe at the beginning, heh heh....
Alien Pitt: You have very interesting and cool ideas. But like I said, I'm focusing more on the alien hunt. No worries though, cuz I'll somehow tie in the vampire slaying. And as for spotting a vampire-Predator....I, for one, think that it would be kind of hard to tell, because the already have the yellow eyes, fangs, and sort of crinkly foreheads. Who could tell the difference? lol.
evil manda: Thank you very much for your review.
Andrea: I'm very glad my story caught your attention, my other stories under my other account didn't really do that. = )
HecatonchiresLM: Yeah, it was meant to be in italics, cuz it was sort of the prologue/1st chapter, all past events. That and I felt like writing in italics...lol
dan andrews: Thanks, I hope you enjoy the story.
Godessa39: Thank, and yes, the Buffy/Ada thing would be really creepy, because Ada is like her adoptive father, pedophile much? lol. I'll figure out the pairings later, and I'll keep the Buffy/Angel pairing in mind.
Thank you to all who have reviewed. I very much appreciate it. You guys, and girls, inspire me to write more (-cough-morebetter-cough-) and I hope you enjoy the story.
Alien vs Slayer
by Ashelin Rayne
Chapter Two
From Ugly Duckling to Fighting Machine
Everything was so strange to Buffy. The rooms were strange. The objects in the room were stange. Heck, even the walls in the room were strange. She was sitting in very large room, a sort of living area. There wasn't very much furniture, at least ones she could identify. Buffy was sitting on some sort of cushion in front of a low, metal table. A few feet to her right was a door that led out to the corridor, to her left was a large window that covered almost all of the wall. The view was breathtaking. The ship was currently orbiting the Earth and the planet seemed to swell, taking up most of the window. Buffy turned away from the window to examine more of the room. She was facing a door leading to some unknown room. There was a set of double doors behind her, maybe leading to the sleeping area. To the left of the double doors was some sort of trophy mantle with skulls of various types of beasts on it. To the right was a weapons case, Buffy was immediately drawn to it. But before she could get up and examine it, the door leading to the corridor slid open.
Ada stepped in carrying a bundle of clothes in one arm and what looked like a sleeping bag in the other. Buffy looked up at him. Now even Ada looked strange, or at least different from what she was used to. He was missing his armor, instead, he was wearing loose, dusty-brown breeches and high, brown boots. He was also missing his metal mask, and although his actual face didn't scare her at all, she still wasn't used to it. Ada handed Buffy the clothes, then disappeared through the double doors. She followed him in the room and found, as she had expected, the sleeping chamber. Ada was rolling out her sleeping bag near the bed in the center of the room. Now Buffy understood the discussion Ada was having with the other Gods earlier on.
- Earlier On -
When Buffy had boarded the very large and very strange ship, the other Gods had tried to take her from Ada. But as soon as Buffy realized what they were trying to do, she ran to Ada and clung to his leg, refusing to let go.
Ak'ron, the leader of the Gods, chuckled at the comical scene before him. A few of his subjects were trying to get a human child off his son, Tlak'han's leg. He also found it amusing how fond the girl was of Tlak'han. But now he was curious as to how his son happened to stumble upon the child and how she had come to recieve the mark of a warrior on her forehead. Ak'ron called off his subjects and informed Tlak'han that the child would be under his care. Now that would be a formidable challange for his son who was barely into his adulthood.
The Gods, or at least that's what Buffy thought they were called, she would have to ask.....but how would she ask? She decided she would find out later because the other 'Gods' were leaving and Ada was signaling her to follow him through a door on her left
They walked down several corridors and up several ladders and Buffy was getting tired. Everytime they passed one of Ada's people, they would look at her as if she sprouted two other heads, turned a shade of neon pink, and had an Alien pop out of her chest. She began to grow nerverous and she, oddly enough, clutched the Alien head she used as an arm guard closer to her. Buffy started to quietly sing her favorite song, she always would to get her mind off of something that was troubling her.
"My bologna has a first name, its O-S-C-A-R,
my bologna has a second name, its M-E-Y-E-R.
Oh, I like to eat it everyday,
and if you ask my why I'll say.....
cuz Oscar Meyer has a way
with B-O-L-O-G-N-A."
As Buffy began to feel more relaxed, she began to sing louder. And she would say the last line faster everytime, errupting in giggles after, then starting the song over. Buffy smiled up at Ada who had been, for the whole time, staring at her with what would have most likey been a look nothing short of quizical. She couldn't really tell since he had his mask on.
"Ada?" She called up to him, knowing that he wouldn't understand, "What do you call your people?"
- Present Time -
Ada helped Buffy into the clothes he had brought her. First, she slipped into the undergarments, they were black and stretchy, much like a two-piece bathing suit. Ada then helped her into a layer of some sort of net that covered her torso, arms, and legs. The net-like material reminded Buffy of large fish nets and every once in while she would have a cartoon-like mental image of herself being pulled out of a river in a fish net, sending her into a fit of giggles and leaving poor Ada confused. When she had finally stopped giggling, he slipped a small, sandy-colored tunic that left her stomach uncovered and sleeves that reached just below her elbows over her head. Buffy slipped on a sandy-colored skirt that covered her front and back side, leaving the sides exposed. The skirt was too big around the waist so Ada pulled a belt with an assortment of beads hanging off the belt rings onto it.. Finally, he helped her pull on her sandy-colored leggings that wrapped around her shins.
Buffy was finally dressed and Ada sent her to bed.
The next day, Ada took Buffy to another room, there was a high, metal table and he set her on it. Buffy looked around the room, there were counters all around and some had strange objects lying on them. Most of the objects looked very sharp and deadly. She began to fidget but with one look, Ada stilled her. After a few minutes, Ike came in through the door with a syringe in one hand. Buffy watched as he injected her with a clear liquid and almost immediately she was completely numb.
Ike lay her on her stomach, moved her hair away from her neck, and pulled something over it. There was a slight tingling at the base of her neck, where her brain stem and spine connected, and Buffy wondered what he was doing. Not even five minutes later, Buffy could feel again. Ike had long been done with whatever it was he was doing and she was sitting up on the table. The place where there was tingling now began to slightly sting. She reached up to rub it but Ada caught her hand.
- Do not touch it, - he spoke. Buffy looked up at him, shocked. - It has not completely healed. - Ada's voice was inside her head and she looked around, confused. - We have implanted a microchip directly into your nueral system, allowing us to understand eachother and you to be able to use our technology. - He explained, forgetting that she was only a seven year old child. Buffy stared up at him with a blank look on her face. - Nevermind. Now onto names. -
- Ada? - Buffy pointed up at him.
- I am called Tlak'han, - he corrected her.
- Ada. - Ada shook his head but let it go. - I'm Buffy. -
- Buffy, an odd name, - he lifted the girl up off the table and set her on the ground. - Now, let us begin your training. -
- Training? -
- Eight Years Later -
Buffy was slammed into the cushioned wall of the training room, she grunted when she felt her side begin throb with pain as she crumpled to the floor. Buffy wiped the sweat off her arched brow and slowly stood up, using the wall as a support. She was wearing the same outfit that Ada had given her eight years ago, except a larger version of it to accomodate her growth. Her hair was bound into soft, shimmering, golden dreadlocks with each lock containing a ribbon, weaved around it to keep it in place. Her body was lean, slim, and toned due to years of hard physical training provided by her three tormentors, Mike, Ada, and Ike. She had not grown in heighth much, and she suspected she wouldn't be doing much more of it anymore. Buffy stood at a whopping five feet and two inches, a whole foot shorter than the shortest God her age. Eight years and she was still calling them Gods, she had to ask Ada what his people were called.
Her side throbed, focusing her attention back to her sparring session. Buffy's fierce, hazel-green eyes locked onto her opponent: Grishnak.
Grishnak.
Oh, how she despised Grishnak.
She disliked him with a very, very, strong passion.
He had been tormenting her ever since he had seen her in the training room eight years ago. Grishnak had only been a few years older than her and had begun his training with his father, who had the same training schedule as their leader's son, Tlak'han. At first he had been overjoyed to share his training time with the praised warrior and had hopes that Tlak'han would help train him along with his father. But then, he saw him with his own trainee, a human female to boot. Grishnaks hopes were shot down and he dispised the flithy human girl for even being on their ship.
When the two sparred, he was ruthless and unmerciful, and his father scolded him for it, in front of Tlak'han and the girl. His pride was shot down. But Tlak'han would stop his father, saying that it was for the best if Grishnak didn't hold back on Buffy, so she would learn, so she could improve her fighting skills. Why his idol warrior favored a human girl over a growing warrior of his kind, he could not understand.
Unfortunately, even Grishnak had to admit, Buffy was learning at a very fast, and very steady pace. No one could tell if she was equally as skilled as Grishnak in their fighting abilities, or if she was holding back.
But today, Buffy had been feeling weird, she felt as if her body was changing. Not changing into something, just....changing. And because of that, she couldn't focus, her body felt almost foreign to her. And Grishnak took advantage of her dazed state, allowing himself to happily thrash Buffy thoroughly around the large, padded training room. So, all in all, Buffy was not a happy camper.
- What's wrong? - Grishnak sneered at her, - Finally realize that you're just filthy, weak, and ugly human? You can yield now and save yourself from the pain. -
"Sure, just as soon as you slap on a tutu, dance across the ship singing 'I'm a Little Tea Pot', and proclaim yourself Princess of the Universe, you damn-ugly bastard," Buffy smirked as she watched his expression change from triumph to utter confusion when he couldn't understand her language.
Grishnak was about to launch another attack on the defenseless girl when Ada's voice rang out.
- That's enough for today, - he halted their sparring session, - Buffy, let's go. - Buffy nodded weakly and followed Ada out of the training room, immediately feeling lighter as she adjusted to the gravity shift. In the training room, the gravity was set higher than normal.
Ada noticed Buffy looked a little forlorn.
- Something troubles you, - he stated, more than asked. When he recieved no response, he continued. - If you are disappointed with your sparring session, you should not be. You will not be in top condition every day of your life. - Buffy shook her head.
- It's not that, it's just- - she paused, - -it's just that....he called me weak, filthy, and ugly. - Ada raised an eyebrow, never had he known anyone to be concerned with insults thrown back and forth between a fighting pair. But he understood her insecurity, Buffy was the only human on the ship and saying that she was different from everyone else was the understatement of the century.
- You are not any of those, - Ada felt a little akward, he still wasn't used to trying to cheer the teenager up. How the humans dealt with their adolescents, he did not know. Buffy looked up at him, insecurity shining in her eyes. - If you were weak, you wouldn't have been able to defeat Grishnak in half of your sparring sessions. -
- Yeah, I guess... - Buffy smiled a little.
- And you're not filthy. In fact, I'd say you were the exact opposite, you always insist on being clean, - Buffy raised an eyebrow as Ada continued, - and I'm sure you are not, in your people's standards, ugly. Though it does not always matter what you look like on the outside, you are a fierce warrior and that's all that matters. - Her smile widened. - And I'm sure that someday, you will strike fear in the hearts of your enemies when they look upon your face. - Buffy turned away and frowned.
At least he tried, she thought as she shook her head, at least he tried.
- At Dinner -
Buffy sat in the mess hall at a small table by herself, poking at her chunky soup-like food with her eating utensil. After eight years of eating their food, she still didn't know what it was they were feeding her and Buffy wanted to keep it that way. Though, she did developed a taste for the red chunks, even if it did look like balls of raw beef. The smell wasn't too bad either, it reminded her of steamed spinach. Their deserts mostly consisted of wierd little granola bars that Ada said were nutritious for the body. They shouldn't even be called desert, but they were the closest thing to it. And everytime Buffy thought about desert, she thought about chocolate.
Oh, how she longed for chocolate.
Nothing could top chocolate on the desert charts.
- Stop playing with your food, - Ada scolded as he took the seat in front of her.
- I don't feel hungry, - she said as she continued rolling the chunks around in her soup. But her guardian took her eating utensil, scooped up some food into it, and inserted it into her mouth.
- I don't care, you will eat, - Ada commanded as he turned back to his own food. Buffy pouted and kept poking her food, but then she heard a series of clicking and growling sounds coming from Ada.
- Okay, okay, I'll eat, - she said as she quickly began eating. The sound he had made was very familiar to Buffy, she called it his 'You-better-do-what-I-say-or-I'll-make-your-life-very-very-miserable' sound.
Buffy was laying on her cot in the corner of Ada's sleeping chamber, right beside the window. She watched as the stars slowly drifted by. Buffy would never get tired of stargazing, the colors the gas clusters made were always beautiful. Buffy especially loved watching supernovas, at a safe distance mind you, everything in space was beautiful. Her eyes slowly closed as she watched creatures she called space angels, made completely of radient energy, dance around the ship and passing her window. Buffy remembered, as she drifted to sleep, Ada telling her, in his soothing mind-voice, about the space angels. How they were attracted to passing ships. That was one of her favorite memories after moving onto the ship.
It was only a couple of hours after she had fallen asleep when Buffy felt something insider her stir. Her eyes fluttered open and she looked around the pitch black room that wasn't so pitch black anymore. She knew the lights were off and the window's shade was closed, but she could still see as if it were as bright as day. Buffy sat up, the weird feeling she had earlier was now completely gone, she felt renewed and re-energized. Hell, she felt like the freakin' Energizer Bunny. Buffy looked over at Ada, he was in a deep sleep, she could tell by the slow and ryhthmic rise and fall of his chest. Very quietly, she crept to the door and exited the room. Buffy made her way around the pitch black living room with ease and out into the dimly lit corridor. She smiled before she spinted to the her usual training room. All the training rooms were three levels up and on the far end of the ship, but Buffy had made it there in no time at all, sprinting and climbing as fast as she could the whole way.
When she got to the training room, Buffy began to warm up. She did laps, sit ups, pull ups, push ups....anything you could name, she had never felt this much in shape in her entire life, and she was pretty fit. Buffy slipped into the weapon room looked at the array of weapons, Ada had only let her use the staff and hadn't trained her in any other weapon. But as she ran her hand over the unfamiliar weapons, it felt like she had used them before, like she was trained and very skilled at using them. Buffy selected a few of the deadliest looking weapons, mostly sword and lance-like and surprisingly light. She made a couple practices swings and did a couple moves that she didn't know she could do. She was completely comfortable with every weapon she held. Buffy set up in the training room and began testing out ther weapons
Ada awoke to find Buffy missing, how did he not hear her leaving? Even in a deep sleep, he could wake himself if there was even the tiniest sound other than breathing. So, she had either knocked him out, or was extremely quite. Problem was....Buffy was never quiet,
He had been searching the ship for her, he looked in all the places she would most likely go to. So that left the only place she wouldn't go, the training room. Imagine Ada's surprise when he found Buffy, in the training room, the last place she would ever go, practicing with a weapon that was at least twice her weight, and wielding it like it was an extension of her arm. He was surprised alright.
Ada must have been standing outside of the door window, watching his charge execute a very complicated and increasingly difficult combonation of moves, flowing from one stance to another like water. She made it look so easy, like it wasn't fighting at all, more like a perfectly choreographed dance. He hadn't noticed when Buffy finished until she was waving her hand infront of his face.
Buffy finshed her workout and noticed Ada standing outside of the door window. She smiled and waved at him but he didn't seem to notice her. She opened the sliding door and waved her hand in front of his face, he finally seemed tosnap back into reality.
- How long have you been standing there? - Buffy asked as she moved the big lance so she could shift her weight onto it.
- A while,- Ada eyed the weapon in her hand, - How are you able to carry that? -
- This thing? - Buffy looked at the lance, - It's not that heavy, it's barely heavier than a staff. - She looked up at him quizically.
- That is nearly 200 of your pounds, I would not consider that as light. - He looked at her in disbelief.
- Well, I don't think it's heavy, - Buffy headed over to the small pile of weapons and lifted another big lance in her other hand. Ada's eyes shot open. She was carrying nearly 400 pounds, he didn't know why her arms weren't falling off yet. - Are you just going to stand there or are you going to help me put these babies away? - Ada helped her in placing the weapons back in the weapon room just before Grishnak and his father arrived.
- So, human, - Grishnak stood in front of Buffy, arms crossed over his broad chest, - are you ready for me to, as you say, beat you to a bloody pulp? - Buffy only smirked.
- You can try, Grish, - she growled mischeviously, - you can try.-
Buffy and Grishnak stood in the center of the padded training room, they bowed to eachother, then jumped itno fighting positions, Buffy on the defensive. She studied the God. Buffy scoffed, he was far from being a God, she still had yet to ask Ada about what his people were called.
While she was distracted, Grishnak lashed out at Buffy and knocked her on her back. That's when her instincts kicked in. Buffy flipped to her feet and executed a series of punches and kicks to Grishnak's torso so fast that he had no time to react, she finished off the attack with a spinning, roundhouse kick to his jaw. Grishnak spit out neon green blood and looked up at the young girl standing above him. He angrily leapt back into their fight, blinding strikiing out at Buffy.
Grishnak's father had brought some of his friends to train with him and his son, but now they were watching the fight with great interest. All who were watching could see that Buffy was toying with Grishnak, that she was definately holding back some unknown strength. The fight was over even before it had begun.
Buffy dealt the winning blow with a side kick to Grishnak's chest. The force of her blow sent him flying to the farthest side of the room. Buffy stood there, shocked.
- Whoa, - she looked towards Ada, he too was staring on in shock, his jaw hit the floor and his madibles were flaping open. - Did I do that? -
Buffy was sitting in the same room she had sat in eight years ago when they implanted the chip in her. Ada was leaning against one of the counters next to the table. They were waiting for the results of her physical. Mike came through the door holding some sort of data pad.
- Well, the results show you are in perfect condition, - he bgean, - extremely perfect condition. Your physical cababilities seemed to have increased dramatically......overnight.....somehow. It seems that the weakness and fatigue you felt the previous day was due to the fact that your body was changing, to compensate for your increased physical abilities. So, I'd say you're more than just okay. But out of curiosity, how exactly did this change come about? -
- I have no idea, - Buffy shrugged, - I didn't do anything different the day before, nothing out of the ordinary, except sleep in. - Buffy sniggered as she remembered how Ada couldn't get her out of bed, resulting in him having her run four extra miles. At that thought she frowned, she didn't like that part. - Maybe someone up there likes me and decided to give me a nice little gift. - Buffy smiled.
- I highly doubt that, - Ada snorted. Buffy sent him a glare.
- You know, I could probably kick your ass now. -
- Uh huh......suuuure.... - Ada left the room followed by Buffy.
- You're gonna regret those words later, buster. -
And regret them he did.
A/N: Finally! Jeez, this took me a long time to write. I hope you guys like this chapter. Eh, I didn't mean for it to be so long, it's just that I got caught up in writing the first part and I wanted to finish this thing. So the fight between Buffy and Grishnak was cut a little short, no worries, there'll be more fights, and the explination about how she got her powers was vague. But I hope this chapter was better than the first. God, longest chapter I've written in my life. Feedback would be very much appreciated, read and review! Please and Thank you! = )
Oh yeah, I drew a picture of Ada, it's on , I can't get the link. So, if you want to go look at it just go to , go to Search by Artist, there should be four bars labeled First Name, Last Name, Username, and Alias. Type this info in: First Name: Mal, Last Name: Cabiling, or Username: AnyankaTaylor and I forgot my alias...lol. The picture should be titled: Ada.