They managed to get the vehicles going, even as it turned out they were burning out engines from weapons fire that had passed through walls and into the sides of most of them, luckily not igniting anything. Alexander thought as they entered the portal, how close they'd come to finally losing one of their own, despite planning and resolve, 'Too close.'
The vehicles dropped several feet to the ground, struts snapping and generally tossing occupants around rather thoroughly. Red snaps of light sabers overwhelmed the dim lighting and initial gasps of surprise, four figures in all taking a defensive stance despite four others being displaced forcibly by the vehicles.
Ash laughed and turned his lead vehicle into the passage leading into their large chamber, ensuring that whoever these guys are, they wouldn't have a place to flee. It seemed to him those Powers guys had an odd way of defining the 'best place' for them to be.
Doyle, with Brandi Thorson between him and Ash who was driving, glanced over to see her pulling out a taser and a 1911 ACP as he held on for dear life, screaming 'Sith' into his headset.
Joyce quickly kicked the door of the second truck across the room, causing two of the Enemy to duck as a third used the Force to divert it back and away from himself and his master. Leaping free, she began shooting into the general cluster of foemen as she cleared the way for others.
Beth delved into her Slayer essence, allowing herself to focus solely on her opposition. Rolling out behind Joyce as Pike managed to get the truck under control, she threw twin blessed daggers and drew out her zat for putting the hurt on these guys until she could start with the hitting.
Tara despite her initial shock at once again landing in a fight against an incredible evil she could feel in her bones, Doyle's warning aside, cast two fireballs before the revulsion of the corruption even into this planet's surface prevented further magical artillery from the Wicca. Magic, different in many ways from the Force, made it through the shields at a reduced level, enough to set alight two of the humanoids. They screamed in rage, pain and surprise, distracting them for critical seconds from their engagements. Tara's disgusted feelings decorated the floorboards of the truck.
Dawn and Willow braced in the back of the second vehicle listening over the headsets, but uncovering themselves from loosened and falling cargo. Rupert and Deirdre similarly sought to extricate themselves from the rear of the stopped third vehicle as Xander brought it under control. Maggie Beckett, window already down and facing the bad guys, fired her clip of thirty wildly into the area of red light sabers, just hoping to keep the enemy unable to regroup before they could.
Sidious, Maul, and two dark Jedi were all that remained standing after the vortex had suddenly opened and the three massive wheeled transports dumped into the room atop slower recruits. He'd managed to draw unto himself two dozen who would have destroyed the Jedi over the next decades, the odd possession of the knowledgeable primitive on his world's death celebration holiday giving insight into the future and his own demise.
Maul was reduced to one light saber, the other trapped beneath a wheel. Angered, and not readied even in the Dark Side, he lunged forward, to be struck painfully to the point where only his strength in the Force and his master's fast reaction prevented him from falling unconscious or worse. The two recruits moved forward, ducking the metal object, and Maul was able to return his Lord's gesture by deflection. Projectile weapons tore into the Jedi as they sought to move forward, one dying immediately, the other protected as Sidious extended his shield briefly.
Xander gathered his Will as others moved dangerously forward, ignoring the sickly presence of the Dark Side, and concentrating Power. Willow, Tara and Dawn felt This and steadied themselves to shield their reserves from his immediate and sudden draw.
Maggie replaced her clip and simply fired around the far edges of the Force shield, hoping that it would prove at least a distraction, if not managing to slip a few into their opposition. 'That crazy bastard Ash closed off our only way out of here!' she swore internally, 'IF we survive I'm going to kill him myself.'
Beth watched in frustration as the dark guys put up some kind of magic shell around themselves, denying her the satisfaction of real damage. The twin daggers had ended up sticking into the leg of the robed man who'd also been shot…a lot…and she hoped that the zat would give her enough of an edge that she might get a sword into these bastards as she ran forward.
Joyce replaced another magazine as she leaned against the truck, moving a wheel off one of the unactivated light sabers. Kicking it free a couple of seconds later, she found the button, turned it on, and gun firing, rushed in to help her new daughter Beth survive this chaos.
Doyle activated his light saber, knowing it might concentrate attention on him, and allowed his darker emotions to build as he ran. Flanking Joyce, he let out a screeching yell and unleashed Force lightning at the nearest target, punting the shield back and causing a flicker.
Sidious was surprised and extremely unhappy, the odd poorly-stanced Jedi managing to cause a disturbance in his shield. Frustrated more, he tapped within and returned the Force Lightning attack with his own as Maul began his own attack on the two women trash.
Ash Williams fired his shotgun at Maul and the Dark Jedi, not letting anything else concern him as he heard Brandi's Colt empty in the same direction. The shield flickered, and the Dark Jedi screamed as his legs were shredded by many different attacks, light saber flying rapidly through the air toward the former (?) Promised One.
Brandi dodged down and to the left, letting the light saber pass her by as she tasered the incoming near-destroyed Dark Jedi, the voltage ending his last attempts at vengeance. She heard a screaming curse and looked back just enough to see Ash's recently restored hand, and the arm up to the elbow separate from the cutting of the light saber.
Ripper shook of his brief shock at his friend's situation, emptied his rather antiquated revolver at Sidious, then dropped it in favor of the light saber on the ground. "It's not my rapier, but has a nice weight to it," he observed allowed as moved to cover Ash, now being helped by Dawn and Willow.
Maul charged, Joyce moved to avoid the greater part of his attack, Beth launched herself into the air, zat missing Maul but flashing harmlessly against Sidious' shield. Alexander unleashed his Will under the feet of Sidious' position, "Open."
The floor nearly ten feet across and twenty feet long shattered almost into dust, Sidious having thrown lightning, now lost all control as he fell downward. Maggie's last five rounds of her third clip tore into his upper torso as he dropped, part of Buffy's zat fire spilled through, Doyle's second Force Lightning met without resistance and struck him in the chest,
And Brandi's last round struck him near the groin.
Deirdre, having run along the far side of the fight from Xander, raced pass Rupert and the fallen Ash, casting a large fire spell toward Maul. Maul's face burned horribly, but the Dark Apprentice lashed out with light saber, slashing first at Joyce, then Doyle as Beth piston-kicked him mid-air in the chest, moving him down onto the floor.
Doyle fell unconscious as his light saber in his arm jerked backward, meeting flesh and as Sidious' heavy charge of close-range Lightning struck his body full-on. Deirdre screamed as her a long, deep gash was stripped off her let arm, sending her into shock as Maul also managed to wrench the taser from an over-extended Brandi and press it into Dierdre's side.
Joyce held onto her saber as she was knocked to her knees by the Dark Apprentice's attack, his turning away allowing her time to recover and perhaps survive. Beth rolled to her feet, but teetered and went over the edge into the hole into which Sidious had fallen.
Rupert suddenly ducked back, unsettled as Xander used the Force to grab not only his saber, but Doyle's as well, causing the older man to stumble over Dawn and land next to Ash.
Xander moved toward the recovering Maul, and with great anger simply shouted "Burn!" at him, the Dark Apprentice's skin suddenly igniting for a moment, as from across the room Maggie in a Weaver stance then put two shots into Maul's head.
"Xander!" Joyce called out, "Beth's down there with that monster!"
"Stay here and make sure the others are all really dead," he told her, "Then dig out the healing device from under your truck seat first aid kit." He jumped over the edge, a thirty foot drop, using the Force to slow and cushion his fall. As he landed, a struggling Sidious was up in a kneeling position, crawling over to where Beth had suffered at least a broken ankle or leg from the sudden unexpected fall. The Dark Lord's head turned, eyes flashing with preternatural hatred, a hand gesture casting incredible Force Lightning at the approaching man.
Xander repeated "Burn!" and simply pushed hard with the Force, being knocked back and badly singed as Sidious suffered a similar fate, but with previous wounds, faltering.
Beth managed to reach for her last stake and threw it at the Sith now nearer to her, but only managed to cause more pain as it tore through his hand instead of his heart. From the darkness on the far side of the room, four alien or demonic beasts entered the light from above. Xander's memories identified two of them as ysalamiri, but the other two were like reptilian mastiffs.
"Kill them!" gasped Sidious, gesturing at Beth and Xander, "Eat them!"
Two zats fired twice from above, killing one of the reptile dogs and stinging the other, but the beasts charged as they could, somehow Sidious had them conditioned to his will.
'If it's a matter of Will,' Xander thought, raising his hands, "Burn! Freeze! Burn!" The beasts staggered and screamed in pain from the alternating punishments, Xander's untrained body staggering from the power flow, but down the beasts went for the moment, more zat shots killing and disintegrating them as Xander fired Force Lightning to protect Beth. A moment later, it was over, but there was no Sidious around. He'd made his escape during the turmoil, and must be cloaking himself from the Force.