Summary: Xander is sent to Cleveland after some apocalyptic rumours have started to circulate
Warnings: Whole lot of swearing and violence don't forget the violence
Disclaimer: I own nothing, at all, not even a little, most certainly not BtVS and its characters.
Authors Note: Feedback appreciated as always.
Spoilers: Post Chosen BtVS Post Not Fade Away AtS
The noise in the cavern was deafening, a small group of what appeared to be people were firing automatic weapons towards a much larger group who most certainly weren't people in fact they shared a major resemblance to big lizards, who were throwing fireballs back at them. Whilst the rounds the people were firing didn't seem to be having a major effect they were slowing down the group, however the fireballs were doing more than slowing down the people they hit. As one man stood up from behind the rock he was using as cover he was immediately struck by a fireball which blew a hole straight through him, giving him time to speak one word "Bollocks" before falling over dead.
Upon seeing this another man began to take in the scene in its entirety, his comrades were either dead, dieing or well that was pretty much it. Turning to the man next to him he spoke quickly "Gabriel, we're fucked", this caused his friend to look back at him and reply "You certainly don't mince words do you Luc you'd better get out here, I'll try to hold them here while you escape". Upon hearing this Luc extended his middle finger and angrily said "You can swivel on that if you think I'm leaving you here and besides what are you going to hold them back with a strong argument if you hadn't noticed our weapons not so much with the effectiveness, so unless you're hiding some dynamite up your shirt i don..." seeing the grin breaking out on his friends face he paused, "you have haven't you, you actually have got some dynamite stuck up their you stupid prick!",
"Of course I have, when have I let you down" this caused Luc to raise both of his eyebrows pointedly at his friend, and Gabriel had the good sense to look a bit sheepish but stood his ground "Get out of here you pillock the mission is too important and anyway I think one of these rejects from Walking with Dinosaurs is trying to sneak up on us" as he was saying this he removed a stick of dynamite from under his T-shirt lit the end and threw it over his head "Get going you stubborn bastard and I'll see you in heaven"
"Like I'm ever going to get in there" replied Luc with a grin he tossed his gun to Gabriel and continued "hope you can use that you old fool, and I'll see ya when I see ya" with that he took off a was running for the entrance to the cavern several of the Lizard creatures turned to follow when Gabriel stepped out from behind the rock and began throwing lit sticks of dynamite in all directions scattering the creatures, when he ran out he opened fire with his guns but it wasn't enough and as Luc reached the daylight he turned just in time to his friend blown apart.
Xander was angry, not at anyone in particular, no he was angry at everyone in particular. Two days ago the group at the Cleveland hellmouth had sent out a message asking for assistance due to some apocalyptic murmurings that were occurring. As he had just come off assignment in Africa it had been 'decided' that he should be the one to go, so instead of sleeping solidly for about three weeks in his apartment in London he was freezing his ass off patrolling in Cleveland, and nothing was happening. As if that wasn't enough he had to share a room with Andrew, for God's sake what had he done in a previous life to deserve this crap, had he molested children, been a serial killer, talked in the theatre, what! All he knew was that his life sucked.
What he didn't know was that his life was about to enter a whole new level of shit, but if he did he probably wouldn't have been surprised. He was having that kind of a day.
He was on the return leg of one of the most uneventful patrols of his long history of fighting evil, now this part hadn't bothered him particularly as he had no desire to see his own grisly death as of yet, no the part that was really getting to him was the trainee slayers that had come out with him, the only one that he recognised was Vi and she was the only one who wasn't pissing him off. Vi was bringing up the rear and between him and her there were Vicki, Becca and Joan and they were all staring at him like he was god or something, it had been like that since he had got there, it appeared Andrew and been makin' like Shakespeare and telling some stories about him and the other original members of the scooby gang, for the 56th time that evening Xander reminded himself to have 'words' with the guy when he got back. Faith of course thought it was unbelievably funny and of course Giles was too busy actually doing this to notice.
As they walked up to the front door Xander thanked his lucky stars and prayed there would be news that would let him leave, let him go back to Africa where everything was simple, find slayer, talk to slayer (sometimes quite difficult as Xander had all the linguistic skills of a small twig), send slayer to England and repeat. Here it was complicated and involved human interaction beyond waving your arms around and talking slowly, and Xander was no longer talkative joker guy, that guy had disappeared with Sunnyhell when it fell into the sinkhole.
"At least here he didn't have to keep fixing the window." just as he said this a man came bursting through said window followed by by some big lizards whose arms appeared to be on fire. "I just had to say it didn't I, oh yes good move there" Xander continued muttering as he hefted his ax and moved into the lounge.
