Sunnydale's Angels: Nightmares
Disclaimer: Don't own em, but I'm hoping to inherit Syl and Gwen Raiden from Angel for my birthday.
Pairings: Buffy/Angel, Xander/Willow, Jesse/Cordelia, Syl/Oz eventually
Author's Note: This Story is just starting, so sit back and enjoy the ride. I would like to thank Kcoll for his story 'Faith the Series', and Spanishwon for his stories 'California Trippin' and 'Los Angeles Livin'. Those three stories are the inspiration for this story. I suggest that you check those stories out if you are reading this. Thank you and enjoy. Don't forget to hit up the little blue button at the bottom of the page either.
Underground
Buffy makes her way into the underground chambers of the Master's underground lair. The Master is hiding behind a pillar and out of sight of Buffy. Buffy slowly walks by his hiding spot. She spins around when she senses that the Master is behind her, and raises the stake. The Master hisses and Buffy freezes in fear and drops the stake. She slowly backs up as the Master advances on her. She backs up against the wall and the Master wraps his hand around her neck and moves in to bite her.
Buffy's Bedroom
"Noooooooo!" Buffy screams and jerks awake. A few seconds later, Syl blurs into the room, half asleep.
"Whazz going on ere?" Syl says drowzily, as Joyce runs in as well.
"It's nothing. I just had a nightmare. I'm okay."
Syl looks at her for a moment, then nods. "I'm going to take a shower. See you downstairs." She turns and leaves the room, heading for the bathroom.
"Are you sure you're okay?" Joyce says.
"Yeah. I'm fine." Buffy says quickly.
"Well, you should get ready for school." Joyce tells her daughter.
"School… Yes, good. I'll go." Buffy stammers and gets up.
"Oh, by the way, your father will be picking you up at school today, he's bringing you and Syl to LA for the weekend. Meet him outside the front at 2." Joyce told her daughter. "Make sure Syl knows too." Joyce added
"I will." Buffy yawned as she slowly got off of the bed and headed for the other bathroom.
School Courtyard
Buffy, Syl and Willow are walking along, heading up to the school.
"So you do you guys, see your dad a lot?" Willow asks.
"Not very often." Buffy replies.
"They divorced about seven years ago, a couple months before Joyce found me. I'm not his daughter, I'm just collateral." Syl says bitterly.
"That isn't true." Buffy protests. "Dad is just a bit old-fashioned, but he does love you."
"So the divorce must have been harsh." Willow says, changing the subject.
"Yeah, but the pulse happened about seven months after that, so in comparison, it wasn't that bad."
"I can't even recall my parents bickering….ever." Willow says, thinking. "So how often do you guys see him?" Willow asks.
"One weekend every other month." Syl tells her as the three of them enter the school., then pauses and says, "Sometimes."
Classroom
Aura is checking her makeup in a mirror. Wendell walks over to the window and holds up his history paper in the light so that he can look at it.
"Hello? Doofus." Aura snaps, looking over at Wendell. "You're in my light."
Xander walks over with a smirk. "Wendell, whats wrong with you? Don't you know that Aura is the center of the universe and that the rest of us merely revolve around her." Xander says sarcastically.
The bell rings and Wendell and Xander take their seats near Buffy, Syl and Willow.
"What was that all about?" Syl asked, straightening out her hair with her hand.
"Wendell was in Aura's light." Xander says, reaching out and taking Willow's hand in his.
"Yeah, I'm so ashamed." Wendell says with a grin
"Why is she so Evita-like?" Willow asks.
"Well with Cordelia joining our little gang, and Harmony's death, Aura would be next in line to be queen bitch of Sunnydale High." Syl comments. "Or it could be the hair."
"It does weigh heavily on the cerebral cortex." Willow notes with a smile.
"Hey guys, was there any homework?" Xander asks.
"Yeah, we're doing active listening today." Buffy replies, turning around to face him and sees a young boy standing in the doorway with a frown on his face. She starts to say something, but Wendell's sudden screams take any thought of it out of her head. She turns around and gapes in horror. Several large tarantulas were crawling all over him.'
"Get them off!" Wendell's screams fill the room. "Get them off!"
Later that day – School Quad
Buffy, Xander and Jesse slowly approach Wendell, who is sitting on a picnic table, his knees pulled up to his chest. He looks over at them as the three of them approach.
"Do you guys want something." Wendell asks, shakily.
"We just thought that you might want to talk about what happened earlier." Buffy says.
"What do you want to know?" Wendell asks.
"Has this ever happened before?" Jesse inquires.
"Only in my nightmares." Wendell answers and Buffy, Xander, and Jesse exchange a look.
"Find Syl, Willow and Cordy and tell them to meet us in the library." Buffy says urgently.
Library
Willow walks in and sees Giles. She runs up to him.
"Giles, there is some really weird stuff going on and it's not even nighttime right now. Everyone's is panicking for some reason or another." Willow says quickly.
"I know, I seem to be experiencing some of the same hysteria myself. I can't seem to read any of these books." Giles says. "I may have a solution to our current problem though, seems that a week ago, a young boy was attacked after a little league game. He's in the hospital. It's the same boy that Buffy described seeing right before Wendell's incident."
Buffy, Jesse, Cordy and Xander come bursting through the doors. Jesse and Xander are naked except for their underwear and Cordy seems to be having the worst hairday ever.
"Clothes, Clothes, hide." Xander and Jesse chorus ducking into Giles office.
"It's the nightmares. Our nightmares are coming true." Buffy says, then looks around. "Hey guys, where's Syl?"
School Hallway
Syl is standing at her locker going through her books. She senses someone standing behind her and spins around. A shocked look appears on her face.
"No, i-i-it can't b-be." Syl stutters.
"Did you really think that you could hide from us, soldier?" Colonel Donald Lydecker says, facing Syl, flanked by four black ops soldiers, all armed and aiming tazers at her.
"I'm not going back there." Syl says, tensing for a fight.
"Come quietly and your friends and adopted sister will live, try and escape and their blood may be on your hands." Lydecker tells her.
"You sick bastard!" Syl screams at him, then calms herself, realizing that if Manticore finds out about Buffy being a slayer, they would take her too. "If I go, you'll leave my friends alone?" Syl says with a quivering voice.
"They will be left alone. It's not their fault, they didn't know that they were harboring a genetically engineered killer in their town." Lydecker says and Syl nods. Lydecker turns to one of his operatives. "Bind and cuff her." He says and the operative nods. He moves to Syl, who steps forward and allow the man to get behind her and pull her hands together behind her back and bind them with a pair of handcuffs. Lydecker leads the way out of the building followed by Syl, who is surrounded by the four black ops. They force her into a transport and drive off.
Buffy comes running out a few moments later and sees the military vehicle peeling out.
"Syl." She realizes and gives chase.
Inside the Military Convoy
Syl is seated on a steel bench on the side of the van, a black ops agent on each side. She stares pointedly at the floor, fighting back tears. Her wrists and ankles are shackled and the other ends of the chains are soldered to the floor. Lydecker and the other two are sitting across from her.
"There a chopper at the airport standing by to take her back to Manticore." One of the operatives says. Syl looks up at Lydecker, who is staring back at her with a stern look on his face.
"Am I the first?" Syl asks sadly.
"Excuse me?" Lydecker says.
"Am I the first you've recaptured?" Syl asked.
"Yes. Your 'mother' contacted the authorities after witnessing you jump fifteen feet onto the roof of the house you've been staying at." Lydecker says.
"Joyce sold me out?" Syl asks, incredulously. "I don't believe you."
"It doesn't matter what you believe, Soldier."
Syl looks around for a moment. "Then I have nothing to lose." She says and whips out her 9mm that she had been hiding, and shoots the four black ops members in the head and turns the gun on Lydecker. "Unlock my cuffs you son of a bitch."
Lydecker slowly gets up and pulls the key out of his pocket, then unlocks the cuffs around Syl's ankles. He then does the same to her wrists, but leaves the handcuffs on. She gets up and pushes him backwards onto the bench.
"Donald, I aught to put a bullet in you head right now." Syl sneers. "But I'm feeling charitable, so I'm just gonna leave and call it a day. You ever come near me again, I will end you."
Syl kicks open the backdoor and jumps out of the vehicle, running at full speed for town.
Hospital
Willow and Giles enter a room that is occupied by the boy that Buffy saw earlier. They go over to where he is laying.
"It says that his name is Billy Jacobs." Willow says, reading the clipboard.
"He caught me after the baseball game." Billy says, walking into the room. "He said that I was his lucky nineteen. Then he started hitting me."
"We've got a lot of trouble on our plates right now." Buffy says, entering the room as well. "Some army guys just took off with Syl."
Willow and Giles look at her horrified
"Buffy….Your face!" Willow gasps.
"What?" Buffy says, feeling her face with her hand. It's all bumpy. "Don't look at me!" Buffy snaps, turning away and into the hallway. There is a large ugly man coming towards her, growling angrily. "Oh wonderful, another party crasher." Buffy says and attacks the monster. The monster backhands her through the hallway window of Billy's room, sending glass shards flying everywhere. She jumps up and attacks the monster again. Pummeling him all over, and knocking him into the hospital room. She is about to finish him off, but he lands a kick to her midsection, doubling her over gasping for breath. He raises his huge club and prepares to bring it down on her head, but is tackled by a blonde blur. Syl gets up and begins beating on the monster. Buffy gets up as well and assists Syl in the beating until the monster is hanging onto life by a thread.
"Billy has to finish it." Giles announces, "He's the only one who can end the nightmares."
Willow leads Billy over to where the monster is laying down.
"What do I do?" Billy asks.
"Just make contact with it and get rid of your fear of it and this nightmare world should collapse.' Giles says.
Billy complies and does what Giles instructs. After a few moments the monster disappears, the handcuffs on Syl, and Buffy's face returns to normal. Billy's astral form disapears and the four people in the room look over to the bed as Billy begins to wake up. They all gather around.
"I had the weirdest dream.' Billy says with a yawn. "And you were in it, and you…. Who are you people?"
"Lets get a doctor." Giles says. Billy's coach comes in as Giles and Syl are about to go get a doctor.
"Oh! Billy's got company, I-I-I'm his little league coach. I come by here every day, just hoping against hope that he's gonna wake up soon. He's, uh, my lucky nineteen."
Buffy, Syl and Giles exchange a look. Buffy moves out of the way to show the coach that Billy is awake.
"You got your wish, he's awake." Syl said.
"What!" The coach asks, startled.
"You blamed him for losing the game. So you caught up with him afterwards, didn't you?" Buffy accused.
"What are you talking about?" The coach asks innocently.
"You said that it was my fault that we lost." Billy says.
The coach realizes that he has been caught and tries to make a run for it, but Syl grabs him by the back of the lapels and pulls him back in the room and puts him in a chokehold.
"It wasn't my fault, there are eight other players on the team, you know that."
Syl drags the coach out of the room. "Come on, we're going to visit the police station and you can give them a full confession of what you've done."
Buffy turns to Billy. "Good Job." She says with a smile. Billy smiles back.
Sunnydale High School – exterior
Buffy, Syl, Willow, Xander, Jesse and Cordy are standing outside the school talking.
"I cannot believe that a little league coach would do that to one of the kids like that." Buffy says, disgusted.
"You obviously haven't played little league." Xander counters. "I'm surprised it wasn't one of the parents."
"I'm just glad that he is behind bars where he belongs." Cordy says.
Hank Summers drives up and he gets out of his car.
"Hey girls." He greets, giving them each a hug. Buffy and Syl both return the hugs with gusto. "You ready to go?"
"Yep." Syl says, getting in the back of the car.
"Have a killer weekend guys." Buffy says as she gets in to the car as well. Hank gets in and starts up the engine. Buffy and Syl wave at Xander, Willow, Jesse, and Cordelia as the car pulls away, heading for Los Angeles.
To Be Continued…….
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