"With Some Scoobies on the Side Series"

By: Lynn

DISCLAIMERS: Duh guys! Nothing's mine!

DISTRIBUTION: You ask me, I ask you... you know the process. I got the transcripts from Link to previous parts: http: This is a re-write of most of the Angel episodes with the Scoobies in the mix. Whoohoo! This is gonna be fun!

SPOILERS: I guess the beginning of Ats.

E-MAIL: A/N: Okay, so during the Ascension thing, Angel didn't tell Buffy he wasn't saying goodbye, and the whole "one last look by the fire trucks" thing didn't happen. And Faith didn't go all psycho. In my story, her association with the mayor was just a decoy.

Part 4

Walking through the hallway between her and Willow's apartment and the guys' apartment, Buffy felt the vibration of her phone going off in her pocket. She had just came back from telling the guys about Angel. Of course, Xander was vehement about the vampire being back in their lives, but eventually cooled off due to some forceful tactics used by Buffy and Willow.

"Hello?"

"Buffy," came Angel's deep voice.

"Angel. What's-"

"That girl, Denise Perkins. I did some research last night. I think she was really murdered."

"Oh my God. Did you tell Tina?"

There was an elongated pause before Angel confessed, "Tina's dead."

"What? How?"

"She ran when we had a little disagreement, and I found her at her apartment... with bite marks."

"Oh no." Buffy leaned back against her apartment door. "Do you think it was Russell?"

"You read my mind. Doyle found out where that guy Stacy is at. I think we can get some information out of him. Can you meet me at Stacy's Gym Supplies?"

"Yeah sure. Just tell me where it is."

Not long after, Buffy met up with Angel and Doyle in front of the building. Doyle didn't seem to be surprised that the slayer was there, he had a vision before Tina, giving him a heads up on the Scoobies arrival. Of course he didn't tell Angel that, he had to find that out on his own.

Through the big window, they saw Stacy talking to another man. Angel grabbed a nearby trash can and hurled it, effectively shattering the glass.

With not much difficulty, Angel had Stacy pinned with a weight bar (A/N: I have no idea what those are called).

"Where does he live, how much security does have," Angel growled out.

"Listen Hot Shot. Whatever she was to you, you better forget it. You have no idea who you're dealing with here."

Buffy stepped up next to them with her arms crossed, "Russell? Let me guess. Not big on the daylight and the mirrors? Drinks a lot of V-8."

Stacy was stunned that these two weren't intimidated one bit and weren't backing down.

"You get in his way, he'll kill you. He'll kill everyone you care about."

Angel stole a glance toward Buffy. "There is nobody left I care about who doesn't know how to take care of themselves."

They finally managed to get the information they needed not long after. They traveled back to Angel's apartment, and Doyle watched as the two warriors filled a black bag with weapons.

"Wow, you two are really going to war here," Doyle observed, and then said to Angel, "I guess you, ah, you've seen a few in you time, yeah?"

"Fourteen, not including Vietnam. They never declared it."

"Well, listen, best of luck to you man," he gave a friendly slap to Angel's back and nodded at Buffy, "I've got some fairly large coin riding on the Vikings tonight, but I'll be there with you in spirit, yeah?"

Without missing a beat, Buffy returned, "You're driving."

"Now wait a minute. Nah-no-no, I'm not combat ready. I'm just the messenger!"

Angel threw Doyle the bag and signaled Buffy that they were ready to go. "And we're the message," she said while following the determined vampire out the apartment with Doyle unwillingly behind them.

When they reached the gates of Russell's mansion, Angel tossed Doyle his keys and got out of the car wearing one of Doyle's jackets and weirdly printed shirts to talk to the guard.

"How are you doing," Angel cheerfully greeted, "I think we're lost. We are looking for a Roscamere. What are you watching? Is that the game," he leaned into the guard booth to discreetly get a better view of where the security cameras were positioned, "The Vikings on?"

Unexpectedly, Angel landed a hard right across the guard's face. Smoothly, he pulled the cable from the security camera pointing at the gate. He took off the clothes that he borrowed from Doyle and threw them in the back of the car, leaving him in his all black attire. Buffy was right by his side within seconds, holding the bag of weapons.

"Tie him up. We're out in ten minutes or we're not coming out," Angel told Doyle and then said Buffy, "Let's go."

When the two reached the side of the house, Buffy reached into the bag and handed an explosive device to Angel, which made her wonder where he got the heavy artillery from. He attached it to the fuse box in front of him and set it on thirty seconds. As soon as he hit the button, he nodded to Buffy, silently telling her they were moving on to the next part of their plan.

Buffy quickly scanned the area, and found a balcony they could enter from. The dark vampire threw the grappling hook he brought along up onto the balcony. When they both made the jump over the railing and smoothly and swiftly entered the house, Buffy couldn't help but get the theme from Mission Impossible stuck in her head.

Right on time, the timer on the explosive device went off and blew up the fuse box, causing the whole mansion to become enveloped in darkness.

The two warriors hid in the shadows, and found Russell with his new victim, who was none other than Miss Cordelia Chase. Though they wouldn't let her get in their way. She was but a minor obstacle to get to their target.

"Russell Winters," Angel growled in his deep menacing voice, both him and his former lover still cloaked in darkness.

Coming off as scared and hopeful that she was about to be saved, Cordelia looked in their direction. "Angel?"

Using that as their cue, Buffy and Angel emerged from the shadows.

"We have a message for you," Buffy said smoothly, "from Tina."

The vampire that appeared to be in his mid-forties and had a game face that made the Master look like GQ material, looked from the other vampire to the slayer.

"You made a very big mistake coming here."

Cordelia's confidence kicked in ten fold and she looked at Russell. "You don't know who they are do you," Smugness washed over her face, "Oh boy! You are about to get your ass kicked!"

Buffy pulled out a stake and she and Angel simultaneously attacked Russell. Although the odds were two against one, Russell proved to be quite the challenge. After some few exchanged hits, Russell managed to throw Buffy across the hall and Angel to the ground.

Angel looked up and saw bodyguards with drawn guns charging up the stairs. He waited until they were all on the runner he was lying on and pulled it from under all three of his opponents as he got up.

"Kill them," Russell barked out in rage.

With slayer speed, Buffy quickly made her to Angel. When a shot rang out, Angel instinctively jumped in front of Buffy and took a bullet to the chest. Not letting it bring him down, he turned and promptly scooped up Cordelia and tried his best to use himself as a shield to cover her and Buffy from the oncoming bullets. While more bullets hit him on the back, he jumped over the banister with the girls in his arms, to the floor below.

"Angel! Ah," Buffy and Cordelia screamed.

As soon as they hit the ground, they took off running and escaped through the front door. The girls helped a hunched over Angel to the gates, and found Doyle by the car, which was steaming and dented.

"You know I've had a bit of an accident," Doyle was about to explain, but heard the gunshots in the background, "but we'll talk later..."

Cordelia got in the passenger seat while Buffy jumped in the back, with cradled Angel in her arms.

TBC...

Lynn