Jack's eyes were beginning to glaze over. They had gone from questions and answers to researching the Amtuth and this planet. God he had never been so bored. This is what he had Carter and Daniel for . . . researching and geekfest. Now he wished he HAD gone with Buffy and Spike when they left for patrolling. They had the right idea. Get out while the getting was good.
His eyes roamed over to where Sam and Willow were gesturing in their excitement in discussing the latest theory of how two planets could have evolved similarly. Like anyone gave a crap. Just accept that they did and move one. Who cares why?
Sam had gone on about how whoever colonized this world probably had taken some poor schlubs from all around Earth and transported them here many millennia ago. Instead of just one from one culture which is how the other planets were inhabited. They took Vikings, Egyptians, Asians, Native Americans, etc. They thought the appearance of demons coming here from another dimension of this planet had been the reason for the divergence. There but for the grace of god. He had lost interest in about the first fifteen minutes of the discussion.
Jack stood and walked around to work the kinks out of his knees. He noticed that Daniel and Rupert had their heads close together discussing the language of the Amtuths. Jack had looked it over hoping to recognize something subconsciously that may have stuck in his brain since the Asgard took the knowledge of the Ancients out of his head. But nada, Jack hadn't recognized anything.
Rupert had theorized that the Amtuths might have been a relative of the Ancients or possibly the Furlings since there were no known records of the Furlings. Daniel had recognized some of the symbols in the Amtuth text that Giles showed him as some of the symbols that Ernest Littlefield discovered. At least Jack thought that's what Daniel had discovered, it was kind of hard to tell with all the excited babbling.
The sound of the doors to the Magic Box bursting open caused Jack to spin and raise his gun in one fluid motion.
"Whoa! Hey! It's just me." Buffy skidded to a stop with her hands in the air when she saw that Jack had his gun raised.
"We've got trouble, Giles."
Sam, Daniel and Teal'c all stood at attention at Buffy's announcement.
Willow tensed. If Buffy thought there was trouble something big had to be happening.
Giles turned to look at Jack, "I thought you said the Stargate was safe."
Before Jack could answer Buffy interrupted, "No, demons coming and lots of them."
Rupert immediately went into Watchermode and Willow and Xander started toward the back of the store to get weapons.
"How many?"
"I'm not sure maybe twenty five or thirty. But Giles they're like a motorcycle gang. Not your let's open the Hellmouth and destroy the world type of demon. It's like when I came BACK."
Giles looked confused while Willow and Xander tensed.
An explosion and screams stopped Giles from asking questions as they all ran out into the street.
Demons of every shape, size and color were roaring down the street. They were throwing Molotov cocktails and smashing windows as they rode by.
"Oh my lord." Giles exclaimed as what Buffy said made sense. It was like the night when Willow brought her back from the dead. The others had told him about it when he returned from England. When it was known the Slayer was back and the Hellmouth wasn't protected by just the Buffybot anymore the demons had left and they thought no more about it.
"I thought they went to isolated places."
"Yeah, well. I'm thinking they changed their minds."
"Where's Spike? Surely he didn't leave you to handle these demons alone?" Giles looked up and watched as the demons got closer.
"He's with Dawn."
"Teal'c, you're with me." Jack said as he reached for his zat weapon.
Teal'c fired up the staff weapon while Carter and Daniel powered up their zat guns. From what Willow told them about the demons and vampires on this world guns sometimes didn't work but Jack figured Goa'uld technology would.
As soon as the demon noticed the humans aiming strange weapons at him he veered the motorcycle to run them down. Teal'c's weapon powered up and he fired as an oncoming demon riding a motorcycle got closer.
The bolt from the weapon caused the motorcycle to flip and the demon to scream in pain as his arm disintegrated.
"Well that's never happened." Jack said with a slight quirk of his lips, which quickly disappeared when the demon's arm grew back.
Sam fired her zat at the demon, which only stunned it, she fired again and smiled as it twitched and fell.
She turned to Willow, "One blast stuns, two kills and with three they disappear."
"Um, you might want to try again." Xander said as he pointed at the demon getting back up.
"Why don't you people stay dead?" Jack asked as he hit the demon with the third blast and watched as it disappeared.
"You know, I think that a lot." Xander grinned over at Jack.
Buffy looked from where the demon had been and then back to Jack's zat gun and then over to Giles, "Think we can get one of those?"
More motorcycle riding demons were bearing down on them as the others continued to fire their weapons. One of the demons took a sip of beer and held up a lighter. With a smirk he spit into the fire he created that caused a large flame aimed right at Sam. She ducked behind a car as the flame flew toward her.
Giles swung an axe as one of the demons rode by decapitating it.
"Sweet." Jack said as he saw Giles strike his blow before he turned back to fire at yet another demon.
Teal'c watched as Buffy attacked a demon that had fallen off his motorcycle. He was most impressed with her fighting skills.
"You have taught her well, Rupert Giles." Teal'c said as Rupert came to stand next to him.
Giles smiled, "I'm afraid that ability is inborn to the Slayer."
As Daniel fired his weapon he caught glimpses of Willow and Xander fighting demons. Those two intrigued him more than the Slayer, though the Slayer mythology was fascinating. He watched as two 'normal' people held their own against demons stronger than them with weapons that really weren't that advanced. Willow fired crossbow bolts and she seemed to be mumbling under her breath though he couldn't hear what she was saying. Xander was deftly swinging a sword and though not killing many demons he was creating a lot of damage.
With their numbers dwindling the demons began to retreat. Giles turned to Buffy, "You say when they were here before Spike said that they normally kept to unprotected areas?"
"Yep, that's what Spike said and since I wasn't here the last time they came, Sunnydale was technically unprotected."
Willow came to quietly stand with the others. Jack noticed she was leaning on Xander. "You all right?"
"Huh? Oh . . .yes just a little tired. Fighting sometimes leaves me drained. I'll be okay once I rest." She turned to Giles, "Do you think the activation of the Stargate brought the demons here?"
"It's quite possible or it could be that a demon recognized what the gate meant when it was uncovered and when we raised it word spread. Or it might have nothing to do with the gate just that they decided to change their habits."
"So? Research on the gate?"
Giles nodded while Buffy and Jack tried to suppress a groan.