Slayer Hunting
Part 3 Of Visionary
by Chaoseternus

Chapter 16: End of Days

"Okay, what's up?" Buffy said, not quite calmly, as O'Neill walked up to her, shaking his head.

"There is massive jamming around the hellmouth and all the telephone exchanges have been destroyed, we have no way of contacting the defenders to see if there is anyone there anymore"

"Great, then we have to assume Anubis has the mouth…" Buffy replied, wryly.

"Indeed," pensively, Teal'c stepped forward, "can we not use a satellite to check the status of the mouth?"

"Our primary satellite just moved out of range," Carter sighed, "the next one won't be overhead for three hours and that is pushing it"

Willow shook her head, "we cannot allow Anubis to remain on the hellmouth for that long, we must retake it now "

"Won't we be risking a blue on blue incident if the hellmouth is still under our control?" Daniel pointed out.

"Yes, but the indications are Dawnie is on the mouth and that reduces the risk of the mouth being under friendly control" Buffy replied.

"Besides," O'Neill shrugged, "we had contract with them right up till we hit the Quik-e-mart, suggests to me they got hit very hard and very fast… in that kind of assault, someone almost always escapes or gets missed. Either way, there is likely to be a few survivors out there"

"I should hope so," Buffy gritted her teeth, "slayers… well, we're a tough breed. Unfortunately, near two thirds of them are on the hellmouth"

O'Neill felt a chill in his stomach, "you mean to say, our primary defence against demons and vampires may just have gotten destroyed?"

"Perhaps," Buffy grimaced, "but I have intimate experience of how powerful the blood of a slayer can be in certain rituals…"

"Such as the Masters attempt to open the Sunnydale hellmouth" Giles noted.

"Exactly" Buffy nodded.

"Wait, you mean not only does Anubis have Dawn, he might also have a few hundred other sources of power for his ritual?" Daniel asked, slightly fearfully.

Buffy nodded, and O'Neill shook his head, grimacing, "screw waiting for reinforcements, we need to go, and now"

"Well, satellite recon just came in," O'Neill walked up to Buffy where she was briefing a small group of Generals, "it's confirmed, the defences have been shattered. Looks like they got hit with all of Anubis's remaining Supersoldiers at once"

Buffy looked at him, askance, "I thought you said we wouldn't have another satellite for at least three hours"

O'Neill grinned, "Oh, did I say satellite? I meant to say 'Ha'tak'"

"So we get fire support too, cool"

O'Neill grinned, dropping a sheaf a photos in front of the slayer, "these are the latest pictures. As you can see, supersoldiers guarding every entrance and exit to the school, backed up by Jaffa. Also note, small scattered groups of soldiers around the outer periphery"

"Good," Buffy glanced up at the Generals, "we will need to move with what we have now, linking up with as many survivors as we reasonably can before we move into the school buildings themselves. If your flyboys can drop a few HARMs on whatever is doing the jamming, it would be appreciated; otherwise we are going to have issues co-ordinating, issues which could easily get us killed"

"You know," General Grey commented, "you've told us a lot about what won't kill these supersoldiers, but you have yet to tell us what will kill them"

Buffy shot him a wry grin, "edged weapons… preferably swords and go for decapitation"

General Grey blinked, and he wasn't the only one.

"Unfortunately," O'Neill shrugged, "it's true. There are magical ways as well…"

The Blinking became disbelieving grimaces, and O'Neill glanced at them sympathetically, before he continued, "But I am afraid our magical support is limited. Most of it was deployed guarding the hellmouth itself and we have no idea if any of them survived"

"What about other primitive weapons? Bows and arrows?"

"We know blades work, and we know decapitation is permanent. Anything else… I wouldn't want to try it in the middle of a battle and find out it doesn't work" Buffy shrugged, and O'Neill muttered 'oh yea', he could still remember his teams previous encounters with those deadly warriors.

"Luckily, Giles is on the horn to… a different group of watchers and we might just be able to get a few people we are really experienced with swords here to assist" Buffy shrugged, "Daniel is putting his oar in too, though how he knew about them I don't know"