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Dream sequence: Italics

Thoughts: (Italics)

Scene opens: Xander had left to go looking for a way into the initiative base. Buffy Cordelia Gunn and Wesley had gone out on the first of the raids. Angel was still unaccounted for.

Chapter Fifteen

Count Down to Judgment Day:

T Minus Six (pt7):

(Supply Missions pt1):

Sunnydale Sewers:

Angel was thinking to himself. (It's been years but it shouldn't be this hard to find where he stashed he. It's almost like the sewer system is alive and has changed it's layout since I left town) Angel was so distracted by his thoughts that he wasn't paying enough attention to his surroundings. As he stepped into a open chamber in the sewer he was ambushed.

"Oof" Angel doubled up in pain from the kick that was just administered to his stomach from his right side.

"Die vampire!" The figure on his left called out and swung a sword to decapitate him.

The caves outside the initiative base:

(Buffy told me she'd met Adam around here. I figured when they shut the base up they'd closed all the entrances. It just never made sense for Adam to not have some access to the base except the more public ones. He would have been to easy to notice. We know he was spotted around here more often than any other location. So it makes sense that he had some way in and out from here. Otherwise this area is to remote to have been of use.) Xander mused to himself.

One hour later.

"This looks promising. The cave walls are just a bit too regular." Xander muttered. He followed the passage way until he reached a metal hatch set in the wall.

-Meanwhile-

Crouching down behind some crates on one of the more run down and less reputable docks.

"Everyone remember the plan?" Buffy hissed.

"It wasn't that much of a plan. So get over yourself." Cordelia muttered under her breath, forgetting Buffy's enhanced hearing.

"It's good enough. All you three are supposed to do is backstop me. Watch my back and bat clean up with whatever I small fry I toss at you. Lets get to our places. We'll strike in five minutes." Buffy glanced at her watch as she got up.

Buffy and Cordelia went to the personnel door next to the main overhead door. Wes and Gunn snuck over to the emergency exit that Buffy knew from her regular patrols wouldn't lock.

"You ready Cordy?" Buffy whispered.

Cordelia hefted her crossbow to her shoulder. "I'm loaded and my sword is ready for me to draw if anything looks like it's getting close. So I'm as ready as I can be to kick some demon but. Lets get it over with so I can take a shower and get the smell of this place out of my hair. Smelling like Diesel may be what you like. But I'm more high class than that."

"That's the Queen C I know and loathe." Buffy grinned. "It's time, lets do it."

Buffy kicked the door in and charged in, and saw a group of demons playing kitten poker.

Cordelia stepped into the warehouse behind Buffy and drew a bead on one of the oddest demons she'd ever seen with her crossbow and let fly. The demon was around seven feet tall had antlers and was covered in a green moss like goo.

The bolt hit it's heart dead center and the demon dropped like a rock as Buffy was drawing up on him. She switched targets and barreled into a couple of fashion victims from the seventies that simply had to be vampires that didn't know that disco was dead. She staked one of them before he'd even finished getting up from the table.

The other vamp had actually gotten up from the table and took a swing at the blonde headed blur that simply had to be the Slayer he'd heard so much about.. She spun around reversed the stake and plunged it into his heart before he'd even fully formed the thought of (Oh Fuc..) As he crumbled to dust.

By this point Wes and Gunn had gotten in through the emergency exit door. They went charging towards the stairs leading to the offices on the upper level to eliminate any possible sniper fire from above.

Codelia was amazed. Buffy had improved a lot. She'd never seen the Slayer move so swiftly and decisively. Buffy was a whirlwind among the demons. They couldn't touch her let alone hurt her.

All the demons but one that had started running away. He looked like he had some kind of skin disease with large gray folds of skin hanging off of him. And suddenly it was all over. Buffy nearly took his head off with a swing from her sword before she stopped it mere millimeters from his neck.

"Clem! What are you doing here?" Buffy sounded like she knew the guy and was surprised he was here.

"Buffy it ain't what it looks like. I was just playing some poker with Maurice there" He gestured at the demon Cordy hit with her crossbow bolt. "Why does this sort of thing happen every time I get a great hand. I had three Kings. Do you have any idea how many games I've waited for to get a hand like that, with that good of a pot."

"Clem this is starting to get old. Your hanging around in a place I really wouldn't expect you to be. This really doesn't look good for you. You know what kind of shit they deal here." Buffy had a dangerous glint in her eye.

"No sign of Shark up here." Wes called out from above.

Clem was scared out of his wits. It wasn't Buffy standing in front of him it was the Slayer. "Hey uh I might be able to help." (Please don't kill me, please don't kill me.) Was running through his mind.

"Clem what do you know?" Buffy obviously wasn't happy.

"He took some his thugs with him in his car and went to another warehouse. I swear I don't know which one. But he seemed real excited about some kind of big deal he had made." Clem was shaking in his boots, and thinking it might be time to blow off Sunnydale.

"Alright I'll let you go this time. Because you've been a friend. But hanging out with these types don't exactly thrill me. I ever catch you in anything remotely similar to this place I won't hesitate to deal with you. This is your last warning." Menace dripped from Buffy's voice.

(Yep definitely time to move from good ol SunnyDale. If the Slayer is pissed with me I'd better high tail it. I was going to hang around in Spikes crypt a bit longer hoping he'd show. But this sure put and end to that cozy little nook. I will miss Dawn though she was so nice, Buffy to, I wonder what changed her?) Clem thought to himself "OK Buffy I'll keep my nose clean and I'll be sure not to give you any trouble. Since you've been so nice to me. Shark isn't using that old caddy of his any more. He's got one of those flashy Hummers with all the extras now."

Buffy sighed as she ran her hand over her face. OK Clem you'd better get out of here now before shark or any of his boys come back."

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Sorry it's been so long between updates. My 2 year old daughter was playing with daddy's computer and managed to delete a large number of files and scramble up others. This is pretty much what I'd had written. But instead of being 4-5 weeks ahead of posting. Now I'm posting almost as soon as I get it written and read over once.