A Trek to the Hellmouth by Antonio CabaƱas

Chapter 3

Disclaimer: Star Trek in all its incarnations and all related characters are property of Paramount Pictures. Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and all related characters were created and are owned by Joss Whedon. Star Trek, and Star Trek: The Next Generation created by Gene Roddenberry. I'm only borrowing them for fun. Tony Castro and the USS Corsair were created by me, other adventures of her can be found in my site http://www.geocities.com/borg31de777/fanfic

E-mail: borg31de777@yahoo.es. I hope that the reviews will be more than the flames.

Spoilers: Buffy to season 4, Angel to season 1, although due to the nature of the story there is some spoilers to later seasons. Star Trek to Star Trek: First Contact, and to Deep Space Nine season 5.

Author Note: I have borrowed some concepts from the two Star Trek / Buffy crossovers by Scott Eiland, and from the story "Time Slayer", another Star Trek / Buffy crossover that I found in the net a few years ago.

Answer to Reviewers:

Harry2: the truth is that when I wrote the scene I was thinking more in Trinity from Matrix than in the MIB.

Summary: a month after the events of Star Trek: First Contact, remnants of Borg technology aboard the Enterprise launch the ship to the moment when Buffy destroyed Adam.

Sunnydale Cemetery, Sunnydale CA

Not too much time had passed from the sunset, and they were already embroiled in a fight. They were trying to find a way out of the cemetery when they saw themselves surrounded by a group of persons. At least they thought that they were people, until their faces changed to a demonic visage and the group tried to attack them.

They produced their phasers and shoot to them, with surprising results. The phaser buzzing sounded much weaker than normal, and the beam resembled more that of a laser sight than anything else.

- What's that? A laser pointer? - said jokingly the leader of the creatures.

Soon all of them were embroiled in combat. The Starfleet officers found themselves in the losing side soon, with Data locked in combat with the lead creature, Tony immobilized by another and the rest trying to get out of the reach of the creatures. The creature that had immobilized Tony bite her in the neck, but then the things began to go badly for the vampires.

The century-old vampire had thought the woman to be an easy prey, but she fought with the agility of a panther. But he had managed to immobilize and bite her in the neck. Immediately he noticed that she wasn't a normal woman, as her blood began to burn his mouth and throat. He released her immediately, but it was late for him, he burst in flames before exploding.

- Vampires, I might have known. - she said between her teeth.

She broke a branch from a nearby tree and impaled the one that was fighting with Geordi. Then she went to help the security men.

Deanna tripped over a tomb and the creature immobilized her. She was trying to free herself from the iron grip of the creature, but he was almost as strong as a klingon. Then the creature exploded in dust bad she was free. A blonde young woman was beside her with a short pointy stick in her hand.

An abandoned mansion. Outskirts of Sunnydale CA.

The necessary equipment was being moved, and he had the other drones collecting the specimens that they were going to need. A Corporation that wanted to transform it into a secret research center had bought the mansion only a few months ago. The Corporation had even move already some lab equipment to the partially rebuilt basement, which now had several levels below the original basement.

Adam emerged into a small storeroom in the eastern wall of the basement. The new owners hadn't noticed that there was a crack in the wall that connected with the immense net of caves and passageways below Sunnydale. Currently there was nobody in the underground levels, as the research project seemed to be stopped. He stepped out and saw the drones connecting electronic equipment. Part of it came from the Initiative complex and the other part came from the labs in the basement, as proved by the polygonal red and white symbol of the Corporation engraved all over them.

The Magic Box shop. Sunnydale CA

Giles had closed the shop and was preparing to leave when he noticed that one of the talismans on his desk was glowing. He went to see it.

It was the Eye of Fafnir, a yellow quartz sphere which supposedly warned its owner about an imminent danger. He tried to take the Eye on his hand, but when he touched the sphere he stood there, paralyzed, his eyes unfocused and his mouth opened in a silent scream of terror.

Willow Rosenberg house. Sunnydale CA

Willow and her girlfriend Tara were watching TV when they felt an earthquake. At least they thought that it was a quake until they noticed that nothing was moving.

Angel Investigations. Los Angeles CA

Cordelia Chase was typing on the computer of the office when the familiar headache assaulted her. Unconnected images about the remains of Giles library in the high school, Buffy and some woman clad in black leather fighting an horde of zombie-like creatures, and the Hellmouth opening again. After that, the last images made her scream like a banshee.

Ruins of the Sunnydale High School. Sunnydale CA

The crack in the floor of the former library began to glow with a strange light. The Hellmouth was beginning to open.

Sunnydale Cemetery. Sunnydale CA

Tony staked the last vampire in the heart and found herself before Buffy Summers.

- The Slayer, I suppose? - she said, struck by the resemblance of Buffy, whose portrait, kept by the Watchers' Council, she had seen, to the actress Sarah Michelle Gelar.

She didn't lower her guard, but nodded.

- How did you do that to the vampire that bit you? -

- I didn't do anything. My blood made the charm. - to ease the suspicious expression on the face of their rescuer she added. - I was born as human, but I was... changed. -

- Like a Scottish friend of mine? He was from the Highlands. -

- Not exactly. Although I'm also good with a sword. -

Tony's group began to go near the two women.

- Ad... Tony, who is this girl? What were those creatures? - asked Geordi.

- Those creatures were vampires, Geordi. Yes, and they are real. And this woman is Buffy Summers, the Vampire Slayer. -

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