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Chapter 6: The Day After - Part 1

Nov. 1st, 1997 – Summers Residence - 9 a.m.

Joyce woke to the sound of beeping. At first she thought it was her alarm clock. "Buffy, Dawn," she said, receiving no response. She ignored the beeping for the moment and made her way to her daughters rooms and found them empty, and unslept in. It was then that she turned her attention to the beeping as she tried to place it and wondering if it was related to her daughters. She followed the sound back to her bedroom and to her closet. She realized what the beeping was, her hyperspace communicator and the only meant one thing, her mother.

Joyce opened the closet and reach to a hidden panel and tapped it. It slid aside to reveal her steel fans, her old outfit and the hyperspace communicator. As she pulled out the communicator she let out a sigh. "Kitana here, mother," she said as she spoke into the communicator.

"We detected a Goa'uld hyperspace last night opening in the Sol System, daughter. Are you and your sisters alright?"

"Yes, mother." Joyce said. "We saw no evidence on the surface of the Goa'uld." She had a nagging feeling that the chaos spell that Ethan Rayne had cast could somehow be the answer to why the Goa'uld had not attacked Earth. "But Buffy and Dawn, they are missing."

"Your daughters?"

"Yes, mother," Joyce said with a sigh.

"I will send a ship to pick you up and we'll find out what is going on."

Battlestar Valkeryie – Same time

Xander slowly opened his eyes and looked around the Commander's quarters, his first thoughts were where was he. Then the memories of the night before came flooding back to him. Finding the Raptor, flying it up to the Valkyrie, discovering Caprica Six, the Cylons and the Starfleet officers and the USS Prometheus, then destroying a threat to Earth and then finally as he looked at the blonde in the bed with him, sleeping with his wife Shira Brynn aka Buffy.

In difference for his best friend he got out of the bed and quickly got dressed before waking her.

"Buffy," he said.

"Xander, what are you doing in my room?" Buffy said still groggy with sleep.

"We're not in your room," Xander said.

Buffy shot upright, how she managed to keep the sheet covering her Xander could only guess. "Where are we?"

"Our quarters on the Valkyrie," Xander said.

Buffy looked to Xander and he could see in her eyes that the memories were returning to her as well. "You and I …" she said as she peeked beneath the sheet and her eyes went wide.

"Buffy," Xander said. "Putting aside for a moment we had sex. You should get dressed and then we should find the others; Becca and Eliza … er I mean Dawn and Willow and then try and find out what happened and why we're still onboard."

"Agreed," Buffy said as Xander turned to leave. "Later we should talk about." She motioned toward the bed and Xander nodded in agreement before leaving.

StarForge – Same Time

Dawn woke to find herself in a room onboard the Starforge, next to her lay a blonde woman. At first she thought the blonde was Buffy before realizing the blonde was not her sister. It was then that memories of the night before began to flood into her mind and she remembered the events of the night before including sleeping with someone named Revan.

Dawn shook the blonde awake. "Uhm …" she said.

"Who are you?" the blonde asked.

"That was going to be my question," Dawn replied. "The name you gave last night was Revan. I expect you like me were possessed and that was the entity's name."

The blonde nodded as the memories came back into her mind. "Yes," she said as she realized she wasn't stuttering. A problem she had for as long as she could remember when around people she did not know very well. "My name is Tara, Tara Maclay."

"Dawn Summers," Dawn replied. "This is a bit embarrassing."

"Agreed."

"I think we need to find the my sister and the others. Later we might want to," Dawn said with sweep of her hand toward the bed."

Tara could only nod in agreement.

Cylon Basestar – Same Time

On the Cylon Basestar Cordelia woke to find herself in Caprica Six's quarters. "What did that dweeb do to me?" she wondered as memories of the night before flooded into her mind.

Onboard the Edenian First Fleet Flagship Burning Away the Shadows – 10 AM

Joyce sat next to her mother, Sindel, on the bridge of the Edenian first fleet flagship Burning Away the Shadows. She let out a small sigh, she had planned not to return to Edenia or see her mother when she and her sisters each had decided to start a family. "How did you pick up the hyperspace travel? Edenia is in another galaxy far enough away that …"

"I have a satellite at the edge of the Terran system that monitors all traffic into and out of the system as well as acts as a hyperspace communications relay," Sindel said. "It's why your long-range hyperspace communicator worked despite the distance between us." Joyce sighed and shook her head. "I'm sorry Kitana, I wanted to know when my little girls wanted to come home. Is that so bad?"

"I guess not," Joyce said.

"So what do we know about my granddaughters disappearance?" Sindel asked.

"Not much," Joyce replied. "It could simply be a result of occurrences related to Buffy being the slayer. Buffy being half-human was called as the Slayer last year."

"She is a Slayer?" Sindel asked. "She will be a most useful, most powerful Edenian in the fight against not only our native enemies, but the Goa'uld and Earth's supernatural threats as well."

"I know," Joyce replied. "I had been thinking of revealing to her and Dawn my true identity so that I could train her."

"Why were you hiding it to begin with?" Sindel wondered as she glanced at her daughter.

"Because I wanted Buffy and Dawn to grow up not knowing the pressure they might be under later," Joyce said. "After all they are heirs to the Edenian throne."

Stargate Command – Same Time

Hammond sighed as he looked at the scientist of his front line team. "You're sure, their gone?" he asked Samantha Carter as she sat next to the rest of the team at the table of the briefing room.

"Well gone may not be the right word," Sam said. "The Ha'tak they captured as well as the rest of the ships, all headed for Jupiter and entered the planet's atmosphere."

"Isn't Jupiter supposed to be a big ball of gas?" Jack asked.

"It is, it's mainly comprised of hydrogen gas and helium," Sam said.

"In another words a big ball of gas," Jack said as Sam rolled her eyes.

"Yes, sir," Sam replied. "Why they would go there I don't know. There would be no resources to repair their ships there."

"Then it is safe to say for the time being that their disappearance we got lucky and no one noticed …" Hammond said.

"I'm afraid not," Daniel interrupted as he picked up a remote control for the TV on the wall. "This was on this morning's news."

"Hoax or Halloween publicity stunt. That is the question, here this station got multiple calls about both a Battlestar similar to that of the Battlestar Galactica seen in the 1970's series of the same name as well as what looked like a Star Trek ship from the Next Generation and Deep Space Nine era appearing in the sky last night."

Daniel clicked off the TV. "That is just one news report."

"Others will likely run the story eventually," Jack said. "Thankfully we can deny their existence at least till they return. But once they do, we are going to have exposure on the existence of aliens very quickly."

"What about the fact that the people I talked to believed they were really Shira Brynn, Caprica Six and Ashley Jones," Hammond said.

"We're in the dark as much as you are, sir," Jack said.

"It's possible," Sam said, "they are the people they said they are, since we have seen them and their ships and they were sent thru time via some sort of transportation device I doubt it very highly though of course. But if they aren't real the question is how did they get here?"

"Could they have come from a reality in which they are real?" Daniel wondered.

"Kind of like the alternate reality you visited," Sam said as Daniel nodded. "It's possible. Which means they or someone else from their reality might have been here before, and relayed their life stories to Gene Roddenberry and Glen Larson. Which would fit in part on why Paramount Pictures and Mr. Roddenberry took a decade from the end of the original series to the The Motion Picture and possibly to a degree why there is such a discrepancy between Battlestar Galactica and its sequel Galactica 1980 as Mr. Larson took some liberties on the source material since they never returned after his initial meeting."

"It's possible," Daniel said. "That the beginning of the Galactica 1980 is true. Think about it, they may have gone to Mr. Larson to tell their story so that we would be prepared for their arrival instead of the scientist in the show. Then for whatever reason they left and he took the liberties he had with the show."

"Maybe we should talk to Mr. Larson or Mrs. Roddenbery. Isn't her husband …" Jack said.

"Deceased," Daniel said. "Six years ago."

Jack nodded. "Try and find out where they got their story ideas from."

"Good idea," Hammond agreed. "What about this fourth group that came from Jupiter?"

"We don't know," Sam said. "Since they came from Jupiter it is possible they are far more advanced than we are by far. The Great Red Spot as its called is a giant storm that has been around since the seventeenth century. There are other such storms that have not been named which are smaller in size. The atmosphere of Jupiter is littered with them. They would make navigation through Jupiter's atmosphere a dangerous venture. Think of it like this, you wouldn't want to fly an airplane through a hurricane, it's the same thing with Jupiter. They must have a way to compensate for those storms. But why they would harbor the ones that helped us I don't know or why they would suddenly appear when they never showed themselves before."

Onboard the StarForge – Same Time

Everyone from Sunnydale had convened onboard to discuss what had happened the night before. Giles, Jenny Calender, Daniel Osbourne and Harmony Kendall came from the Prometheus. Cordelia had come with an escort of two Cylon Centurians from the Cylon Basestar. Tara Maclay had been on the fleet of droid controlled ships the StarForge had produced for her. And Buffy, Xander, Dawn and Willow had come from the Valkyrie.

"What we know so far," Giles said, "is this. We are on a space station …"

"The Star Forge," Tara supplied.

"Inside the atmosphere of Jupiter," Giles concluded. "And that each group represented here has a spaceship at their disposal."

"I'm in command of the Battlestar Valkyrie," Buffy said.

"And I am the Captain of the Prometheus," added Jenny Calender.

"I'm a humanoid Cylon," Cordelia said, "and leader of the Cylons on the Basestar."

"And I guess this is my Star Forge," Tara said.

"For several hours last night we did not have control over our bodies," Giles said. "Instead personas that came with the memories did. And that those personas fought with demonic forces from beyond the stars intent on our destruction and we managed to capture one of their spaceships which now sits out there also."

"Now the question is," Jenny said, "how are we still here. And more importantly how did we manage to get possessed and how did those ships and this station come into existence. I assume all of this was fictional before last night. I know the Prometheus should have been since Star Trek is one of my favorite pasttimes."

"Yes," Giles said with a sigh as he remembered how he had been talked into going as a theme to a costume ball for a date with Jenny. "On all of this," he made a sweeping motion to indicate the ships and the space station they were on, "I would assume a chaos spell. Possibly one invoking Janus."

Jenny nodded in agreement. "It sounds likely," she agreed. "Janus would have loved the chaos such a spell would have caused. But how did the spell end? I doubt Janus would have let one end so easily."

"I doubt he would have had a choice," Giles said. "I expect someone managed to stop the spell somehow. Either by physically ending the spell, usually by breaking a totem of some sort. Or by casting a counter spell."

"Either would be likely," Jenny agreed.

"This is all good," Xander said. "But we should also think about how we get back home."

"We could take the Blackbirds," Buffy said. "Their equipped with stealth capabilities. We could land them in the woods outside Sunnydale and then walk back into town."

"I have a problem with that. I'm a Cylon," Cordelia said. "I don't know how to fly the Colonial ships."

"There is another," Willow said. "Even amongst us." She motioned towards herself, Buffy, Xander and Dawn. "Dawn would likely be the only person to know how to fly them."

"Willow's right," Dawn agreed. "They were experimental. My alter ego designed them and only a handful were built. She was to teach some of the Colonial pilots to fly them so they could work out the kinks."

"We could try beaming down," Oz said. "The Prometheus transporters theoretically could reach Earth, especially if we launched into the moon's orbit on the dark side of the moon a transmission relay. That would act as both a communications relay and a transporter relay."

"We should do that soon," Harmony said. "Some if not all of our parents might be looking for us."

"Agreed," Xander said. "I doubt my parents are missing me though."

"And mine," Willow said. "Are out of town till later today."

"Mine won't be missing me yet," Cordelia said. "Likely they will think I was at a party all night. But if I don't show up soon they will call the police."

"Same here," Harmony said.

"I'm emancipated," Oz said.

"Ours," Buffy said as she motioned towards herself and her sister. "Would look."

"So would my dad," Tara said.

Suddenly Jenny's commbadge beeped. "Destiny to Captain Calender. I am detecting a ship entering the atmosphere of the gas giant."