Ha ha! Evil I am! Cliff-hanger leave did I!
Oops, sorry, fell into yoda speak for a second. As ever, I own neither Buffy nor Young Justice. Buffy belongs to Joss Whedon, YJ and Batman to DC Comics.
Oh, I don't own yoda either!
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-------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Do what?" asks Willow as she teleports back from LA, bringing Spike with her.
"Willow!" shouts Buffy "what, how, why's Spike here and not, ya know, bursting into flame?"
"Hey, well…" begins Willow
"The bleedin' Poofters that Be decided that I'd done so much soddin' evil that my sacrifice only cancelled it out made me neutral. So the berks sent me back to see what I'd do. So, I'm not a vampire, but I still got me strength, speed an' healin'. Peaches was pissed, kept muttering 'bout some 'Shansu' thing and glaring. Great innit!"
"It's great Spike, and I meant what I said, I do love you, but, as a brother, not a boyfriend." Buffy looks down, not wanting to hurt Spike, but desperate to tell him the truth and not give him false hope of something that wasn't."
"Slayer, Buffy, I told you that the best night of my un-life was watching you that night, when you felt safe. My feelings ain't changed. Long as you're safe and not dead, I'm happy."
"Thank you."
"No prob, now, where's Nibblet?"
Spike begins to move off, but Buffy stopped him.
"Spike, you know we lost some of the potentials, well, we lost Anya too. Just, leave Xander and Dawn a bit will you."
"Aw hell, sure Slayer, sure."
Spike stalks off to do violence to a small tree that suddenly seemed to offend him. He paused, then turned back.
"Um, is that Batman? And a load of those teen hero kids? Do they know I'm not evil now?" Spike asked, looking panicky
"Well, yes, yes, don't know. Why"
I kind of, tried to kill the Bat once. Poofter broke six of my ribs and handcuffed me to a lamppost."
"You go hide, explanations can wait.
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Willow Rosenberg" stated Batman "would you like to explain to me the events of last June, and the current whereabouts of Warren Meers, reported missing around the same time as your girlfriend was killed and, it's been reported, you went insane with grief and nearly ended the world?"
"Back off tall, dark and not-so-scary." snaps Buffy
"Well, Buffy…" begins Willow
"No Willow, ever since he got here he's been judging us, as if he's the judge of what we do. Well hear this 'Bratman', we've been fighting the good fight for a long time, and sure, we've all had a little problem along the way, but Willow just helped us save the world, again. So get off that high-horse of yours and tell me what you'd achieved by age 20, hmm?"
"Your defensiveness suggests that she killed him. As such, she's a murderer and must be brought to justice."
"Well here we go again." Says Buffy as she snaps a punch out at Batman's head.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------"Willow, while he's occupied, would you mind taking the slayers and Principal Wood back to LA, make sure they're all fine, and then come back here. His resources would make running difficult, so we're back to the convincing. Dear God, I sound American!" asks Giles.
"Sure Giles, but won't Buffy get in trouble for attacking him?"
"I'll worry about that, just take them and go."
"Okey-dokey." And in a flash, Willow and the mini-slayers were gone.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------As the fight continued, punch, block, kick, roll, punch, punch, jump, chop, etc. Batman noticed that all of the Slayers attacks were non-lethal. Though it went against his normal ROE, he decided to try distracting her with talk.
"I thought you were a slayer, killing the forces of darkness with a happy smile on your face." He growled after a particularly difficult combination, which Buffy had blocked with seeming ease.
"I am. This is me, and here's my happy smile!" she replied using a modified judo throw to fling him away.
"Then why are you using less than lethal force?" reverse punch followed by a sweep of the legs.
"You're human and not a) evil, or b) trying to end the world. If I could've, Willow would have died that day, but she was too strong. She trapped me in a grave with Dawn. Xander talked her down." Block, block, jump kick.
"Stop."
Both fighters paused in a ready stance, ready to resume at the slightest provocation.
"If you were going to kill her to save the world, why is she in your group?"
"Because she didn't. Because she reformed, learnt white magic to counter the black. I don't know how you do things, but in this group, anyone gets a second chance. We don't bother the peaceful, live-and-let-live demons, just those that prey on humans or try to end the world. Anya, the woman who died holding back the Bringers, was an ex-vengeance demon who had done terrible things to men for over a thousand years. Yet today she fought to save the world. Everyone deserves a second chance, even you."
"What?"
"Whatever it is that drives you, seems like a mix of guilt, vengeance and hope, shouldn't take over your entire life. If you let it, you're dead inside, believe me, I know. Spend some time with friends, live a little, relax, oh, and leave us alone."
"I'll, consider what you've said."
Batman steps back to consult with Oracle, oddly affected by the slayer's words and intent on checking for toxins which may account for this. (For the last time, he's Batman, read: very, very, (justifiably) paranoid.).
"Faith, Xander, Spike, let's see if the bus will get to LA or not." Called Buffy.
"B, we'll check it out, you stay far away from 'the metal doohickeys which move the bus', 'kay?"
"Sure 'F', wouldn't want to make it blow up on the way!"
"She thinks she's joking." Muttered Xander
As the three begin to check over the bus, Faith checks the tyres and brake pads, Spike takes the engine and gauges while Xander checks the main compartment for damage.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Dawn walks over to a patch of disturbed earth about ten meters out from where the 'Welcome to Sunnydale' sign had once been.
"Andrew, come give me a hand please." She called.
"Sure Dawn, and can I say, it will be a pleasure to help in any way I can…"
"Shut it and dig."
"Yes ma'am!"
They dug down. Under a thin layer of dirt there was a pair of spades, which they then used to uncover three huge boxes.
"Buried treasure! Gold! Silver! Amazing Fantasy #15! I can't wait."
"Shut up Andrew."
From the direction of the school bus, Xander's voice could be heard
"Did somebody say 'Amazing Fantasy #15'!"
"It's just Andrew's imagination." Yelled back Dawn.
An 'aww' could be heard. Buffy shook her head.
"You can take the nerd from the Hellmouth, but you can't take the nerd from Xander." She muttered. "At least when it was just him, we could, with care, avoid setting him off, but with two of them…"
Hearing this, Robin grinned, thinking of Superboy and Impulse. While they weren't nerds per say, boy did they set each other off. Although, to be fair, anything set Impulse off.
Having heaved one box each over to the bus, Dawn sends Andrew back for the other one, while she carefully opens the one she'd moved. Taking an envelope from the top of the stuff inside it, she goes in the bus, just behind Giles, who'd gone in to ask Xander about how he was coping.
"Xander, remember the road trip you tried to take me on." She began.
"Dawnie, I've said I'm sorry…" he began.
"No, I mean, I buried some of the stuff from the trailer just in case and, well, there's a letter for you. From Anya."
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