A/N I took some liberty's with this chapter Bad Eggs, I really hope you guys like it, because it took me a long time to try to get the chapter right. Also I'm planning on doing a few Faith interlude chapters after this one, so you can see what she's doing. Also this chapter takes place a few minutes after Chapter 10.
Chapter 11
Bad Eggs
"Hey guy's wait up!" Buffy shouted out as she caught up to Xander and Kendra. They had only left the school library for ten minutes and they had nearly made it to the park. She was a bit surprised that, Xander had his arm around her shoulder and Kendra in turn had her head rested on his chest.
"Hey, Buff what's up?" Xander asked as he turned around to regard his friend.
"Giles, wanted me to tell you that he's going to call the Council about Mr. Zabuto. It seems that Kendra is going to stay with us indefinately." she said as she smiled at the other Slayer.
"That reminds me." Xander said as he let go of Kendra. "I have to go and tell Giles to forge some documents for you. Principal Snyder saw you the other day and called the cops. They said that you fit the description of a girl that attacked a baggage handler, so I lied and said that you were my adoptive sister. Needless to say, Snyder wants your paperwork on his desk by the end of the week."
"Okay." Kendra said with a nod of her head.
"Alright, I'll meet you at the house sis." Xander said as he turned to run off. "You two be good." he called over his shoulder as he ran out of sight.
"What time is it?" Buffy asked Kendra as she watched the retreating form of Xander.
"It's seven thirty." Kendra replied as she glanced at the Mickey Mouse watch, Xander had bought for her. "Why?"
"Because..." Buffy started with a heavy sigh. "my mom grounded me after she found out I was the Slayer. I have to be home by nine."
"Oh, um... has Xander always been like dat?" Kendra asked changing the subject as she and Buffy continued to walk.
"Like what?" Buffy asked with an arched eyebrow.
"Has he always been so noble?"
"Noble? Xander?" Buffy asked with a chuckle. "Xander was just being...Xander."
"Still, I can't believe dat he was abused his whole life and still he's so good."
"What did you say?" Buffy asked as she stopped and stared at Kendra.
"I'm sorry, you...you didn't know."
"Who told you something like that?" Buffy asked as she grabbed Kendra's arm. "I've known Xander for almost two years and he never told me anything like that."
"It's going to be alright." Kendra said as she gently pushed Buffy back. "Xander made his fodder move out, so he and his modder want be hurt again."
"But still he didn't tell me." but now it all made sense. All those times Xander would have all of those bruises on his body, weren't because of the demon attacks, they were because of what his father was doing to him.
'I wonder if even Willow know's?' Buffy asked herself. Just as she was about to ask Kendra more about Xander a scream permeated the air. For a second, neither girl said anything. Kendra just looked around to assess where the scream came from, but Buffy already knew.
"Come on. This way." Buffy said, getting in full Slayer mode as they ran threw some bushes. As they stopped and peered through them they saw an older black man with a suit on standing over a brunette haired boy.
"Isn't that Mr. Zabuto?" Buffy asked.
"I don't know." a voice said behind them. Startled both girls turned around only to see Trish standing there with a grin on her face.
"Scare us to death why don'tcha?" Buffy asked. Wordlessly Kendra stood to her feet and ran to stop whatever her old Watcher was doing. With a sigh Buffy stood to her feet and nodded to Trish as they both ran to backup Kendra.
Jonathan Levinson lived in Sunnydale all of his life and he knew not to be outside at night. 'But when there's only one copy of the first addition of Spiderman at the comic book store, then what are you going to do?' he thought to himself.
Taking a shortcut home through the park, he was only vaguely aware of the people from town watching him. Even though he was used to people looking down on him as if he was just merely a nerd, it was odd that everyone that he passed in the street turned to look at him.
Getting a little wierded out, he quickened his pace and not looking where he was going he bumped into someone. The force of the impact caused him to fall on the ground. Looking up he saw an older black man, looking down at him blankly.
"S...sorry." Jonathan said nervously.
"You will be." the man replied as he took a pinkish, spidery thing out of a bag causing Jonathan to close his eyes and scream.
As the black man bent down some more intent on putting the demon on Jonathan, someone football tackled him. Opening his eyes he saw that it was that pretty black girl that he had saw from school. He didn't know her name, but at the moment he didn't really care.
"Jonathan." Suddenly it was Buffy's voice. "Get out of ..." before she could complete her sentence the other blonde girl that was standing beside her sucker punched her in the face. The force of the blow sent Buffy flying almost fifteen feet back, where she crashed in a heap on the dusty ground.
"Yeah Jon get out of here?" Trish said as she winked at him. "But don't go far, I have something for you."
Scared witless, Jonathan stood numbly to his feet, took one last look at Buffy, and then ran into the night.
"What's going on?" Kendra asked from her position of holding down Mr. Zabuto.
"Only this." Trish said nonchalantly as she put a hatchling on Kendra's back. With a scream, Kendra keeled over desperately clawing at her back to try to get the demon off of her.
"What the hell are you doing?" Buffy asked as she stood to her feet with a wince. She knew she didn't like that Trish girl, but now she knew why, she was obviously a traitor.
"I'm doing as the queen commands." Trish replied almost puppet-like as she slowly started to approach Buffy.
"And soon," Kendra continued as she stood to her feet and cracked her neck. "you will be too." Getting into a fighting stance Buffy mentally prepared for war.
She simultaneously blocked high kicks from Trish and her sister Slayer, on her forearms and winced with the effort. Ducking under a spin kick from both of them, she was totally caught off guard, as if they were mirror images, when they open palmed her in the chest.
"Hey, I have boobs too you know." Buffy quipped as she backhanded Trish, while at the same time, striking out blindly and hitting Kendra on the forehead with her elbow.
As the fight continued, Buffy was totally unaware of Mr. Zabuto creeping up behind her. But all the same it was too late, he lifted his cane and if he wasn't emotionless even he would have winced at the sickening wet sound of the wood crashing against the back of Buffy's skull. Eye's glazing over, Buffy fell face first onto the muddy ground.
Zabuto, Kendra, and Trish stood over her unblinking until, Zabuto picked up the symbiote, that was meant for Jonathan, and placed it on her back. After a few moments Buffy started to twitch and spasm, then just like the others she stood to her feet and had an emotionless expression on her face.
"The queen..." was all Zabuto managed to get out before he started to violently shake and his eyes rolled up in the back of his head. After a few moments he got control over himself and looked at the others who were just looking at him blankly. "There's been a change in plans." he said to them, as he informed them of what the new voice had told him what to do. Looking at each other with that same, expressionless masks, they all turned and headed for different directions.
Sunnydale High
The next day
Xander walked the halls of the school looking around desperately for Kendra. Even though Buffy had called him last night and said that, she was spending the night at her house, something still didn't feel right. Ever since, he had left them in the park and slayed two wanna be cowboy vamps, he had smelled something wrong in the air. Almost as if it were an alien force, was around.
Heading for his locker, to get some books, someone ran into him almost knocking him off of his feet. Looking up, or rather down he saw that it was...
"Jonathan?" he asked as he helped him to his feet. "Um, are you okay man?"
"X...Xander..." Jonathan started out of breathe. "there's...there's something wierd going on. In fact everybodies acting wierd. Last night, when I was walking home, I was attacked by this black guy, then Buffy and that black girl you hang out with saved me..."
Xander was intently listening to what Jonathan was saying, until he looked over the short boy's head and saw something that made him scowl. It was Larry, leaning up against some lockers, chatting up Kendra.
"Hold that thought Jonno." Xander said as he walked passed him and over towards the highschool jock. Not caring what he was saying to her, Xander put his hand around Larry's throat and lifted him off of his feet. "I thought I told you to stay away from her?" Xander asked lowly.
"Actually," Kendra said as she put a delicate hand on his shoulder. "I was talking to him." And then Xander turned around and finally took a good look at Kendra.
She had taken her hair out of braids and cut it shorter. Now it was shoulder length, in curls, and it brought out her beautiful face, eye's, and pouty lips. But the new hairstyle wasn't all she had changed. She wore skin tight leather pants and a simple white tank top, with no bra. She even had a leather backpack.
"Wow." Xander muttered as he looked her up and down.
"That's the same thing, I was thinking." Larry suddenly murmured, making Xander remember that he still had him in a tight grip and to scowl again.
"Go ahead and get out of here." Xander said as he let him go.
"This isn't over Harris." Larry said as he rubbed at his sore neck. "We're going to handle this real soon." and with that he turned and walked away, leaving Xander and Kendra to stand together.
"So, um you're going with a new look?" Xander asked as he gave Kendra another look.
"Yes." Kendra purred at him as she got into his personal space. "Buffy and Trish gave me a makeover last night. Do you like it?"
"Um..."
"I never said tank you for being dare when I needed you did I?" Kendra asked as she ran her hand down his jaw and then his chest.
"Ken...Kendra are you feeling okay?" Xander asked as he stepped back some. Sure Kendra was beautiful and all, but she was about to become his sister and he was dating Trish now. And taking a closer look at her, Xander saw a spark of something that just wasn't right about her.
"I'm feeling fine." Kendra said as she softly licked her lips. "Now dat's go to de janitor's closet so we can...talk." she said as she grabbed his hand and started to pull him forward.
"I'm glad, I caught you Kendra." Miss Calendar said as she walked up to them. Then she gave them a look as she saw them holding hands. "I'm not interrupting anything am I?"
"N...no." Xander said as he let go of Kendra's hand.
"Well good." she said as she gave him another look. "Rupert has your paperwork and your class schedules in his office. There's about fifteen minutes before school starts so you should go to see him now."
"Alright." Kendra said with a nod to the teacher. "I'll see you later, Xander." Kendra said with a wink as she walked off with Miss Calendar. Before Xander turned around he heard Miss Calendar say... "Hey Kendra that's a nice outfit."
"Okay Jonno." Xander said as he marched back over to where Jonathan was waiting. "Tell me everything you saw last night and start from the beginning."
"Ah, Kendra you've finally arrived." Giles said as he saw her and Miss Calendar enter the room. Then he took a good look at what Kendra was wearing. "Good lord." he muttered to himself. Using her Slayer hearing, Kendra heard what he muttered and smiled.
"Rupert the papers." Miss Calendar said as she saw him staring at Kendra. She knew it wasn't right too still hold a grudge against him, for the whole Eyghon incident especially since she had secrets of her own, but she had nightmares everynight about that demon inside of her.
"Oh, right." Giles said as he picked up some papers from his desk. "I called the council last night and informed them about Mr. Zabuto. They were shocked and appaulled that he would do such a thing and they agreed that I am to be your new Watcher." he said with a pause, to let that sink in, but to his surprise Kendra looked at him as though she didn't care.
"Also, Xander informed me of what he had absentmindedly said to Principal Snyder, so I had some more documents forged for you." he said as he handed her a birth certificate, passport, some I.D. and a class schedule. Giles was surprised though about the school thing. It seemed that at least that bloody pillock Mr. Zabuto had made Kendra go through home schooling, so because of that she was at an equal grade with the rest of the gang.
"So from this moment on, you will be Kendra Elizabeth Harris." Giles informed her with a smile.
"Hey guys what's going on?" Buffy asked as she strolled into the room.
"Kendra's officially a Harris." Miss Calendar said with a smile.
"That's great news, Ken." Buffy said as she gave the younger girl a hug.
"Do you have de eggs?" Kendra whispered to Buffy, as they still hugged.
After Kendra's makeover, they had spent most of the night going to the school basement gathering eggs from the queen symbiote demon. Whoever the mysterious voice was, told them to gather the eggs and infect most of the school population, which is what they were doing. The voice also explained that by Kendra getting a makeover that she could help the other girls seduce men, so they could easily infect them with the hatchling demons, without a struggle or resistance.
"Yeah." Buffy whispered back. "Are you ready to do this?" she asked, only for Kendra to give her a slight nod. "Oh, that reminds me Giles, I have something to show you in your office." Buffy said as she walked into his personal room.
"I don't understand what I have to see, that you can't show me out here." Giles said as he went in his private room and a moment later screamed.
"Rupert?" Jenny yelled as she prepared to run into the office. That was until Kendra put the symbiote, that Buffy had handed to her when they hugged, and put it on the computer teacher's back. Kendra only stared blankly ahead as Miss Calendar pitched forward and thrashed about on the floor.
Xander stepped out of his fifth period class happy and content that he had his next period free. Jonathan was right when he said that eveybody was acting wierdly. As he sat through his classes, most of the other students just seemed like they were watching him. And the other wierd thing was that he hadn't seen Buffy all day. They had two classes together and she was nowhere to be seen.
"So do you believe me now?" Jonathan asked as he ran up to Xander in the strangely empty school. It was the last period of the day and the school should have been buzzing with hundreds of teens but no one else was in sight.
"Yeah, man I..." before he could continue his sentence they both heard a blood curdling scream, coming from further down the hall in the library. A scream that sounded a lot like... "Willow." Xander said as he and Jonathan ran for the library doors. As Xander pushed through the swinging doors, with the force to knock them off of it's hinges, he saw Giles helping Willow off of the floor.
"Will's I heard you scream, are you okay?" Xander asked as he ran fully into the room and saw that Buffy, Oz, Miss Calendar, and Kendra were also in the room.
"Yeah, I'm fine." Willow replied as she dusted off her clothes. "I just tripped and fell, that's why I screamed."
"You see man." Xander said as he turned around to look at Jonathan. "The Scooby Gang..."
"Xander watch out!" Jonathan yelled out. Heart thundering Xander turned around and saw that Giles was trying to put a spider like thing on his back. Letting out a quick "Oh Shit!" Xander jumped back and took another look at his friends. All of them had glazed over looks on their faces and they looked at him as though they didn't know him.
"No..." Xander muttered as he continued to back up.
"Xander, man come on!" Jonathan yelled as he took off running, Xander right behind him. Buffy and Kendra prepared to run after them, but Mr. Zabuto stepped out of Giles office and stood in their way.
"Let them go." Sam told them all. "We must prepare to unearth our queen."
"I can't believe this is happening." Xander said to Jonathan as they stopped, further down in the hallway.
"See man, I told you we're being invaded by aliens."
"I don't think, they're aliens, Jonno." Xander said as he looked over at him. "I'm pretty sure that they're demons."
"Demons?" Jonathan repeated with a raised eyebrow.
"I'll explain later. Come on we need to head over to my house." he said as they took off running again. As they rounded a corner, Jonathan ran smackdab into Cordelia Chase.
"What's your damage freak?" Cordelia asked as she brushed off her clothes. She didn't want to taint them with some geeks germs.
"At least you're still you." Xander muttered with a cough.
"What was that dweeb?" Cordelia asked as she gave Xander a sharp look.
"No time." Xander said as he grabbed her by the arm. He had heard alot of feet shuffling in the opposite direction and he knew that they were coming to get them. "Come on!"
"What's your childhood trauma?" she asked as they picked up speed.
"Less talking, more running." Xander told her as they busted through the front door of the school. As they do, it seemed that every student in Sunnydale high was standing outside, milling about.
"Alright, here's the deal." Xander whispered to the others. "Run straight to the parking lot. We'll all go together and try to stay calm."
"Why, what's going on?" Cordelia asked. Ignoring her question they walked through the sea of students and she felt wierded out. The kids all stared at them oddly, while whispering their names. Picking up her pace they finally reached the parking lot and walked up to a convertible.
"My car." Cordy whispered as she pushed the car clicker button and opened all of the doors.
"Where are we going?" Jonathan asked as he got in the back of the car.
"Anywhere but here." Cordy said back to him as she got in the car. She didn't know what was going on, and she hated to admit it, but when Xander said there was trouble, then there was trouble.
Just as Xander rounded the car and was about to get in, Larry and some other members of the football team called out to him.
"Hey Harris, schools not over yet buddy. Where you going?" Larry asked.
"We're uh..."
"Xander just get in the car." Jonathan begged him.
"I heard you wanted to join the football team?" Larry then asked. "Don't you want to stay and practice with us?"
"Nah, Lar I'm good." Xander said as he got in the car, as Cordelia started to peel away. "But thanks." he said as Cordelia pulled out of the parking lot.
"So where do we go now?" Cordelia asked as she looked over at Xander.
"My house." Xander replied. "I have to pick up some hardware." 'And to try to find out what the hell is going on.' he thought to himself.
Harris Manor
A few minutes later
Xander got out of the car and looked up at his house. So far so good, everything looked completely normal.
"You guys stay here." Xander said as he closed the door to Cordelia's car and walked into his house.
"Xander, you're home early." His mom greeted as she came out of another room and gave him a hug.
"Yeah." Xander said as they broke their hug. 'At least they didn't get my mom' "I just came by to get some stuff."
"Oh, Trish is here too." she said as the girl in question came out of the other room. And then Xander became instantly suspicious. He knew that Trish loved his mom, but she never hung around his house unless he was there.
"Hey baby." Trish greeted as she walked up to him with her hands behind her back.
"Hey sweetie." Xander greeted back, trying to figure out how to get out of this mess. Then he looked over Trish's shoulder and saw his duster and his sword hanging up by a coat rack. Last night he was cleaning them as he waited up for Kendra to come home.
With a plan forming in his head, he waited until Trish walked just a few feet in front of him and he threw out a punch. Not expecting that action, Trish took the full force of the punch on the jaw and was lifted off of her feet and into a wall. Plaster and wood crumbled under her as she fell to the floor unconcious.
The creature that she was holding behind her back, exploded in black and grey ooze, because of the impact.Grabbing his duster and sword, he merely used his demonic speed and ran past his mom and was out of the door. As he got outside he saw Cordelia on top of Jonathan trying to attach a symbiote to him.
"Hold still dweeb." Cordelia said monotonely, as she sat on Jonathan's lower back. "This'll only hurt a little." and then her world exploded in pain as Xander smacked the butt of Ivory on the back of her skull knocking her unconcious.
Grabbing the demon on the back, he opened up Cordelia's trunk and threw it inside.
"Come on Jonno." Xander said as Jonathan got to his feet. "Let's get out of here." Making sure Cordelia was safe, where she was they both got in the car and drove off.
Jonathan's garage
15 minutes later
There's a table covered with test tubes full of gold-colored and green liquid. Next to it are a few dozen capsules. Beside that is a cage with a white experiment rat named Tabitha.
"Where's your mom and dad?" Xander asked as he looked around.
"They're at work...I think." he said with a shrug. He then started to mess with the test tubes, while Xander admired the hundreds of test tubes, full of experimental fluids.
"What is this thing?" Xander asked, as he indicated the now dead symbiote demon lying on Jonathan's work bench.
"I don't know." Jonathan replied as he snapped on his surgical gloves. "But I'm gonna find out."
a couple of hours later
"See it's a parasite." Jonathan told Xander as he had the creature under a microscope. "It attaches itself to a host by going on their back and then it controls it." He then split the side of the creature open, revealing body parts. "Hmmm... it's incomplete."
"What do you mean?" Xander asked as he started to pace.
"It can survive on it's own but it's really part of a greater organism."
"So these things are sort of like ant drones then?" Xander asked.
"Yeah." Jonathan said as he gave him a look. He had always thought that Xander was just a goofball, but he really was hiding behind a mask. "So in theory if we kill the master or the queen then we should get them all. That is in theory though."
"What happens to everybody else?" Xander asked concerned. "The ones that've been taken over, do they just die?"
"No, they don't." Jonathan theorized. "They'd all, they'd all become human again."
"Alright then." Xander said as he took out Ebony and Ivory to twirl them. "Then let's go and kill us a queen.
Sunnydale High
Later that night
All was quiet as Xander and Jonathan snuck into the school. No student was in sight at all.
"How can you be sure, that the queen is here?" Jonathan asked as they slowly walked down the hall.
"Trust me Jonno." Xander said as he looked at the scared teen. "Everything, goes down at school."
"Hey Jonathan." Kendra said as she suddenly ran and put her hands up on either side of him. Pinning him against a group of lockers. "Long time no see." she said making the now horny and scared boy squirm.
"Get away from him, Ken." Xander said as he held up Ebony and pointed it at her.
"Really, Xander." Kendra said as she put her hands on her hips. "If we're gonna be Brodder and sister den you have to let me talk to boys."
"You're not my sister." Xander said as he held the gun up higher. At least he hoped not, he really didn't want to hurt any of his friends. "Now get away from him."
"Dat really hurt." Kendra said as she put her hand on her heart.
"But hopefully, we'll make you hurt more." a voice said behind him. Turning, he saw that it was Buffy, Trish, Willow, and Cordelia.
"Jonathan take these and go and kill the queen." Xander said as he threw Ebony and Ivory in his hands. "She's in the boiler room." Xander said as he reached out with his powers. When he did he felt a horrible force coming from under the school.
Not waiting to see what happened next, Jonathan ran for the boiler room. The girls didn't even look after him, they just all concentrated on Xander.
"Hey honey." Xander said as he looked at Trish. "You're not still mad that I hit you, are you?" he asked only for her to growl at him.
"I guess so." he quipped as all five girls attacked him.
As Jonathan emerged in the boiler room, he heard a bumping and clanging noise. Almost like metal hitting metal. Walking fully into the room, he saw a huge hole in the wall. Walking through it, he saw lots of the students and some teachers using pick axes on the ground. They were trying to unearth something, that he couldn't see.
A deafening animal cry then filled the room, and at the same instant, a tremor struck, a bad one, the ground shaking so hard that Jonathan was taken off his feet. Then the earth erupted, what Jonathan thought was an explosion at first, a fountain of dirt and rock spraying upward- but it kept rising, and Jonathan could see thick tentacles coming out of the ground.
"Holy shit." Jonathan muttered under his breathe, as he nervously lifted up Ebony and Ivory. The others didn't seem to notice him or didn't care if he was there. They just mindlessly kept working.
The queen symbiote then shreiked again and rose out of the ground, just as a black man, the same one that attacked him yesterday walked in front of it. The queen looked to be a larger version of the spider symbiotes, with the exception of it's three basketball sized black eyes and instead of having spider legs like the others it had tentacles. It seemed like they were communicating with each other telepathicly then suddenly the queen snacthed him up with one of it's tentacles, lifted him in the air, and ate him whole.
As it finished it's meal, it then turned it's attention to Jonathan and let out another wail. Seeing that the wail got, everyone's attention, Jonathan lifted up Ebony and Ivory and fired.
There were more bruises on Xander's body, now then when Anthony Harris used to beat him. It seemed that Willow, had kept more of her powers from Halloween than he originally thought. It was funny really, because she was dealing out most of the punishment. He had managed to keep Buffy, Trish, and Kendra at bay, but she kept getting through his defenses and striking out. Cordelia's fighting skills seemed to improve as well, but he just figured that it was because of the demon.
Just as Willow was about to do a spin kick on him, her eyes rolled up in the back of her head and all the girls fell over on him. Because of all of the weight from the girls and because of his fatigue, they all fell to the floor in a tangle of arms and legs.
"Xand." Buffy muffled into his shoulder. "Why am I on top of you?"
"Because we were having an orgy." he replied with a smile. He was proud of Jonathan because he had obviously succeeded.
"In your dreams dweeb." Cordelia said as she stood to her feet.
"Yeah, every night." Xander said with a wince as he stood up.
"Xander, what happened to you?" Willow asked as she looked at his bruised face. Then she remembered. "Oh I'm..."
"It's okay." Xander said, stopping her before she could babble. "I'll be fine." then suddenly a mass of students started to fill the hallway, grumbling about going home. Xander could tell that they were all going to be in denile at what they saw. Especially because of what Giles was saying to them.
"It's going to be alright everyone." Giles said as he rubbed his head, completely flabbergasted at what took place. "It was just a...a gas leak, that's all. Do go home." He said as he, Oz, and Miss Calendar walked up to them. "Do tell me you know what's going on, Buffy?"
"Hey, I didn't do anything this time." Buffy said as she threw her hands up. "Ask Rambo over here." she said as she looked at Xander, who just shrugged.
"I'll explain everything later." he said with a smile as Jonathan ran up to him.
"I did, it...I did it."
"Yeah, man you did and welcome to the Scooby Gang."
"Hey, everybody." Angel said as he suddenly appeared out of nowhere. "What's going on. Why are there so many students here this late at night?"
"Like I was saying, Deadboy, I'll explain everything later. Just come to my...our house." he said as he gave Kendra a smile, which she returned. "I have alot to tell you guys."
A/N 2 this is to summarize what happened in this chapter to those who didn't get what was going on. In Chapter ten someone infected Trish with a symbiote after she left Xander's home and she in turn infected Mr. Zabuto. The scene where they infected Buffy, the queen demon was talking to Mr. Zabuto telepathicly and the First intercepted that thought and told Zabuto to make the others do something different. That's why in the cave she ate Mr. Zabuto because he disobeyed a direct order from her. Also Xander killed those two Cowboy brothers that were supposed to be in this chapter, shortly after he talked to Buffy and Kendra, in the beginning of this chapter. I did it like that because I really didn't see a purpose for them in this chapter.
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