Chapter 9. There is No Place Like Home.
Tammy quickly rewrites the spells a little and they head out of the room. Tammy locks it as soon as they are out. Cordy and Buffy are already in contact with Giles and the others online.
"They said that they came up with the same theory," says Buffy. "The guardian of time and space."
"Well, Giles is smart like that," says Xander.
"We told them that we got a spell on how to get there," says Cordy.
"Pass the spells along," says Tammy as she hands the paper where she wrote the spells to Cordy, who is the one typing. "I'm sure Kat will be able to work with them." Cordy types the three spells down and instant messages them to Giles.
"So, what are we waiting for?" says Buffy as she gets up.
"Keep your pants on," says Tammy. Xander laughs at Tammy's comment mostly because Buffy is wearing one of Kat's skirts. "Okay, we all gotta make a circle here and hold hands. Repeat after me. Winds of time gather around, give me wings to speed my way,
Open the door through time and space; create a path to the guardian's place." They all repeated the spell with Tammy and soon were off into another plane in mere seconds
"Wow," says Cordy as she looks around. "That was fast."
Meanwhile in England, Dawn prints out the spells that Cordy instant messaged them. She pulls the paper out of the printer and hands them to Kat. Giles is surprised that she didn't hand them to him instead.
"Oh, my gosh, I can't believe she found these," says Kat.
"These are your spells?" asks Dawn. Kat nods her head and walks over to one of the tables. Giles still has not seen the spells and walks over to Kat.
"Do you mind if I have a look at them?" asks Giles. Kat hands the paper to Giles.
"They're pretty simple," says Kat. "We can easily do it right now. The more of us the better."
"Alright, let's go," says Dawn.
"No, Dawn, you're staying here with your little friend," says Giles. "It's dangerous."
"Ah but…" says Dawn.
"I don't think that's a good idea," says Kat.
"And why not?"
"You leave them alone here, Buffy will have your head; literally," says Spike in a whisper.
"Alright, Dawn, you're going."
"Yes," says Dawn with a smile. They all gather around in the circle and repeated the spell together and in an instant they were in the guardian's plane.
"I hear someone," says Angel. They stand ready to fight anything as they walk to the other side of the plane.
"Is that Cordelia?" says Wesley recognizing the voice. They all quickly follow the voice and find her.
"Angel," says Cordy as she walks over to him and hugs him. "What are you doing here? How did you get here?"
"Hopped a ride on a portal," replies Angel. "That Wesley and Kennedy conjured up."
"A spell got us here." Buffy, Xander, and Tammy join Cordy. Tammy stays behind Buffy and Xander trying not to make any eye contact with Angel. "We're waiting for Giles and the others to get here. We sent them the spell online."
"Hey, Xander," says Angel. "How's it going?"
"Pretty good," replies Xander. "Heard about you and Cordy. I'm kind of relieved. Good luck, buddy. You got yourself into that."
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"Xander," says Cordy as she slaps him on the shoulder.
"So, what's the what?" asks Buffy. "Where's the guardian?"
"Dead," replies Kennedy.
"And the octagonal crystal is missing," says Wesley in a concerned tone.
"Boy, that calls for an I told ya so," says Kat as she leads the group over to where everyone else is. "Hi, sweetie." Xander has a smile on his face when he sees Kat and she quickly kisses him lightly on the lips. "How predictable is this bad guy?"
"Why don't you ask me?" asks a man that appears out of thin air, with the octagonal crystal in his hand.
"Guess we don't need to scry," says Kennedy.
"My goodness, I have so much company," says the man. "However did you all get here?"
"The polar express," says Kat as she goes over to Tammy's side and grabs her hand. "Go with me on this."
"Okay, but if we get killed, it's all your fault," says Tammy. Kat glares at her friend.
"Guardian's crystal make your claim, return to hands with neutral state." The crystal disappears from the man's hand.
"Neutral state," says Tammy. "Hello, we are not neutral. At least I'm not."
"Oops," says Kat. "Well, the crystal is not in his hand. At least that's a plus."
"The crystal," says the warlock. "What did you do to it? Give it back to me."
"Well, it's nice meeting you, but I gotta go," says Kat as she starts to run. The man then starts shooting fire balls at Kat. Angel quickly pushes him and starts to tackle him. Everyone spreads out as some of the fire balls that the warlock threw got out of hand when Angel tackled him to the ground.
"Why didn't you use your telekinetic powers?" asks Tammy on the floor with Kat.
"Forgot about them," replies Kat. "Besides, the last time we were here we didn't find out about our powers until hours later and he is a warlock. I thought that a spell would do the job better and I kind of like the spell." Tammy glares at her friend. They quickly get up and find a barrier to protect them.
"You see this is all your fault," says Tammy. Kat rolls her eyes at her.
"Is not."
"Is to." They then see Spike and Angel being thrown across the room by the warlock. "Look what I gotta do for you." Tammy moves out of the barrier and uses her telekinetic powers to push the warlock away. He instantly crashes into some walls. Kat peaks out of the barrier and gets up. She heads over to Spike and Angel as does Tammy.
"Bloody hell," says Spike. "I hate warlocks. They think that they are so bad with their fire balls and their…"
"Spike, oh my gosh," says Buffy as she rushes over to him. She pushes Kat, who is trying to help him up aside and hugs him. "I thought…oh my gosh. I'm just so glad you're okay." Everyone looks at the two.
"Emotional outburst," says Fred. "Yep, she's pregnant alright."
"What?" says Angel in shock. "How? Why? That's not fair."
"Dude, you should of left the 'that's not fair' out," says Tammy standing next to him.
"You already had your chance, Angel," says Cordy. "And you got Connor… what are you doing here?" Angel notices this and gets up immediately. He sees that Dawn is holding his hand.
"Wait a minute," says Buffy pulling away from Spike. "You had a kid and you didn't tell me?" Angel walks behind Tammy and then Cordy as Buffy follows him with angry eyes.
"I can explain, sort of," says Angel as he finally makes it over to Connor and hides behind him. Connor then pushes Dawn to cover him.
"Hey," says Dawn as she faces her sister. "Buffy, how are you?" Dawn gives her a hug and from the back she glares at Angel.
"I think we should all head out of here before the warlock gets back up," says Kennedy. They all look over to where Tammy had tossed the warlock and sees that he is beginning to get up.
"Good idea," says Giles as they all get together and Tammy unwraps the paper that she wrote the spell on.
"In this place and in this hour, we call upon the ancient power. Send us back to where we'll find, what we wish in place and time."