Xander looked uneasy it was a simple hole but it was a sight he never saw before with such interest. Willow came in suits ready. Where they're going, they have no idea what the atmosphere will be like. Hell, honestly, she's just hoping they don't end up stuck in a door. Willow walks up and looks down the hole. "Are you sure, you want to do this? I mean, I can do it by myself."

Xander turned his head looking at his best friend. "Will, I'm going with you, I just…"

Willow nodded. "Yeah, I know, it's just, we're stealing suits." She changed the subject.

"Well if we make it back we'll return them and if we don't I'd say six gold bars is more then enough payment for two suits." Xander pointed out. "I'll be right behind you."

Xander climbed down the hole and it led to River's bunk watching the young girl sleep. He has to admit he never thought he's see himself married after how bad he screwed things up with Anya. If he ever was he imagines living that long it would be with a girl like her. Xander simply kisses her on the forehead and goes back up to meet Willow.

Xander walked in a little upset.

Willow looked at him. "Xander, if you don't want to go…"

Xander put a hand up. "Just say the spell. And how does this work again?"

Willow shrugged. "I call upon the Phoenix to take us to what I tagged through time and space."

Xander looked at her that better be a joke. "So, we're traveling in hellfire, and you don't see anything wrong with that?"

"I know what I'm doing." Willow assured him.

"Heard that one five hundred years ago." Xander quipped.

Jayne stretched his legs wondering who's up at this hour. He went to the kitchen and got a bottle of whiskey for the night to celebrate their incoming wealth from the Ariel job. He looks and sees Xander and Willow. He ain't concerned about his wife bailing as neither shuttle can get that far. He looks and sees her talking to Xander as the floor around them suddenly bursts into flame surrounding the two. "Hey no burning holes in the ship." Jayne stopped as Willow's eyes glowed white. "Or weird little… angel eyes."

Xander looked at her and here we go again.

Willow felt the pull and smiled it's time. "Deslegrate muri tempi et intervalia!"

Xander looked calm until something familiar jumped on his back, oh not good. "Willow wait!"

Jayne could only watch as his wife, her best friend, and River all disappeared in the fire. Jayne looked at the whiskey and quietly put it aside as he goes to check on his wife's… bunk.

Willow looked around and saw Twilight's ship from Ariel on this seemingly army base on planet with a blue sun as a logo of the building. At least they'll be able to breath on their own as she shook out of her suit. She turned and her eyes widened seeing River on her husband's back. "What is she doing here?"

Xander rolled his eyes. "As I was trying to tell you, she jumped on my back at the last second."

River hopped down and had a simple smile. "For better or worse"

"This isn't your fight." Xander said. "Will, can you get us back to Serenity?"

Willow shook her head. "I need my strength and if we go back like this… It won't take an hour for Twilight to find, us in the black."

Xander nodded he's stuck with his wife, in the middle of hell. "If it was Dawn I'd say its only Monday."

"It's 1:38 AM on Tuesday." River corrected him with a smile as Xander held his head.

Willow looked at the two it really is like looking at a married couple. "Just be careful you two. River will be able to go through the computer much easier then I can anyway." Willow walked over to the nearest computer port and touched it with her hands as magic coursed the information into her. "OK, two doors down, take a left, three doors down; take a right, one final left at the number seventeen. Wait for the guards to go after my distraction."

Xander looked at her they never talked about this. "What's the distraction?"

"Trust me you'll know it." Willow assured them.

Xander nodded knowing that look, yeah, he'll definitely know it.

Willow hands lit in fire as she easily she threw a fireball at the roof and went up as high as she could she can't risk the computers being destroyed before they find out about Buffy and the others.

Twilight saw the witch and flew near her with an escort of shuttles. "You came alone; let me guess you're protecting Harris."

Willow looked at him. "Something like that."

Twilight shrugged his mission was to apprehend her. "Take her into the facility and then have it ripped apart to look for Mr. Harris." He turned back to Willow hearing her chant.

"Tropo, Strato, Meso, Aero, Iono, Exo. Elements are brought to bear. Wind, earth, and water churn amidst the fire. Let the air be burned!" Willow shouted.

Xander watched from the windows taking off the last of his suit as multiple aircrafts came crashing down as he quickly backed away from the window. Yeah, he got it alright. "OK, I think that's the signal let's go."

Jayne stood there wondering how to explain this. There's no trace bu those three are definitely not on Serenity, he looked everywhere. He simply closed the doors to Willow and Xander's bunks. As far as the rest of the crew knows they're asleep. He sees Simon coming his way and wonders what the doc could want at this late hour. "Doctor reckon there's something I can do for you."

"I'm just going to check in on my sister." Simon explained kind of surprised by Jayne's interest, or show of kindness.

Jayne looked at him not good. "Why you checking in on her? Don't you got some fancy new medicine or something shiny."

Simon looked. "Yes, but I want to make sure she's sleeping normally, no new side effects from the medication."

"Oh" Jayne replied. "Well, you can't."

Simon looked at him. "And why not?"

"She's spending time with her husband." Jayne answered. Technically wherever Xander and Willow went, River is there with them.

Simon looked at the merc. "What are they doing?"

Jayne looked at him; oh he can have fun with this. "Xander's a man, and despite how kwong-juh duh your sister is. She's also a grown woman… you really need to know that. Proper man like yourself, I reckon mommy and daddy got you your very own personal companion for your sixteenth birthday." Jayne had a smile as Simon turned beat red. "Of course if you want to interrupt that?"

Simon quickly left the bunk. Next time Xander is in the open he's dead.

Jayne sighed in relief. Whatever those three are risking dying for, it better be worth it.

Xander smile seeing the three alliance grunts. "I'll take on these three."

"OK" River replied.

Xander ran over and pushed one into the wall taking the stun rifle off of him. Xander quickly aimed and shot the second one knocking him out as the first one pushed him back. The third one grabbed him from behind and Xander used the leverage to jump and smash both feet into the first one's face.

Willow looked to the air and saw the flying duster jacket as Twilight hit her knocking her straight up.

The… god knows what kind of vampire he is looked at her and asked. "Your world is gone witch, and yet you still exist. How have you come to be here?"

Willow looked at the creature and with a wave of her hand a medallion flew off the vampire's neck and into her hand. "Now, let's try this one again." She throws a fireball and knocks Twilight back.

Xander hit the wall stunned stupid right hook. He ducked the attack and hit the alliance grunt in the side before quickly smashing his head into the wall knocking the last guard out, three down, about a hundred to go. He looked around and saw his wife is gone. Damn it where did she go. Xander ran up ahead and to him this was a surprise. There was another twenty guards on the way to the computer room, all of them are unconscious. "Shpedoinkle, what the hell?"

Xander walked into the computer room and over the unconscious bodies. He saw River at the computers working away and scrambling communications between the airships. "How did you do that?"

"I killed them with my brain." River answered.

"Really?" Xander asked.

River looked at him in a look between hilarity and contempt. "BEE-jway bao bay."

Xander looked at the monitors and took a side, River wasn't on. He did a simple search for his own curiosity that even took him by surprise. "Oh… my… goddess!" He turned to River. "Are you going to be OK here?"

"Go, I'll guide you in." River ordered as Xander quickly went to the elevator.

Twilight recovered being blasted by another mystical blast to the body. This red headed witch is getting on his last nerve; this day can't get any worse.

Willow was set to charge him but the PA went off.

"Attention all personal the Yǎdiǎn nà chamber has been opened. All personal report to the Yǎdiǎn nà chamber at once." Xander listened as the order was repeated in Chinese. Well, now he definitely knows.

Willow looked in surprise as she saw fear under Twilight's mask as the vampire quietly shook.

Twilight looked at her and it quickly hit him. This has to be the third time this has happened to her now. "Harris!"

Twilight turned around and saw the Blue Sun infantry try to go back in but the steel blast doors came down trapping them outside. Twilight immediately broke the fight with Willow and went for the side walls. They're still steel but they're easier to break.

Willow came down and tackled him to the floor fireball in hand.

Twilight easily got his foot up knocking her aside as she floats into the air. He quickly put his hand to his head. "All carriers keep that red witch off me."

Willow watched a missile approach her as she quickly waved her hand turning it into a flock of doves as three airships approached her, not good.

"Take out your gun and shoot 45 degrees low."

Xander stopped in his tracks. "River, I'm not going to."

"Now!"

Xander quickly pulled out his gun and fired as specified as it went to someone's leg and he hit his head on the wall knocking him out cold. "Thanks for the advice."

Xander looked up and saw all the glass and climbed down he had to get the very bottom of the facility. "So is anything good on the telly?"

"Locking grunts out so they can't find you." River answered. "Are you in the cryogenic room?"

Xander nodded looking at what can be described as the spirit of Christmas with all the red and green lights. "Yeah, I'm in the cryogenics room. It's like a TV mixed with the freezer here."

"Just walk to the blinking console." Xander did as told and River saw him looking at it. "You need to release the coolant generators and then reverse the ionized…"

"I can't do that." Xander replied, he should be out there fighting people.

River rolled her eyes. " What can you tell me?"

Xander looked at it seeing 30 red lights and 50 green lights. This was a Willow job if there ever was one. "It seems to run on some form of electricity."

Twilight punched through the steel finally getting into the facility as he pushes a button but realizes Xander has put the emergency brake on the elevator. Stairs and wall punching it is then.

River pulled up a screen and found him. "3rd green" Xander went for a button. "3rd from the right" Xander quickly switched and hit the other one. "17th red from the left." Xander hit the button. "25th green from the right." Xander hit the button and watched as two handles shot out at opposite ends of the room. "Turn each and push it in."

Xander nodded and turned the first one before pushing it back in. "See, twist, push, much easier instructions." He goes to the second one and repeats the process only for the first one to shoot back up. He walks back to the first one and pushes it in only for the second one to come back. "They're Bugs Bunnying me."

River tilted her head. "Bugs Bunny?"

"We're watching some Looney Toons as soon as we get back, I think they have to be turned simultaneously and I'm not a yoga master." Xander explained.

"I'll be right there." River replied.

Xander nodded and turned to the left when to his surprise he heard a loud crashing sound down the hall. River locked those doors up but something is punching through them. Xander looked as the other doors opened and his wife came in. River ran over to the switch on the left while he took the switch on the right.

River looked at it the sound and listened. "Nothing, no noise, it's Twlight."

Xander looked at her and went for the first key. "We gotta hurry, turn the key clockwise simultaneously on 3" River nodded. "1, 2… 3" Both pushed it and turned as the chamber in the center of the room started spraying gas out as the rattling sound revealed a fist as Twilight punched through the last door.

Xander looked at River and the genius replied before her husband could even talk. "Not this time, we only have to stall. Ping Ming"

Xander smiled and pulled out a knife as magic flowed through and it became a sword.

Twilight looked at the two. "Mr. and Mrs. Harris, you know I was wondering what to get you two for a wedding present. Torture, evisceration, Gigli"

Xander looked at him. "You still sound like a chipmunk, and weren't you taller back then."

"Reactivate the machine" Twilight ordered taking out his own sword. He's been upgrading since he's going up against legitimate scoobies.

Xander shook his head and pushed River behind him. "Say please"

Xander went for an overhead strike but Twilight easily deflected the power swing, only to be hit with clean elbow to the ribs knocking the vampire back.

"You learned a thing or two, only took just shy of forever." Twilight complimented them as their steels collide repeatedly constantly attacking, parrying, and defending.

River watched as the two metals collided and a smile spread on her face, it's almost time.

Xander made a swift thrust for the chest only for Twilight to entwine their blades. Xander quickly moved out the attack narrowly avoiding Twilight's foot breaking his sword. Xander instantly rammed his sword through twilight from the right piercing his heart as Twilight dropped his sword. Guess the armor only covers his chest. "That had to hurt."

"Could be worse." Twilight quipped pulling the sword out at inhuman speed hitting Xander in the face with the hilt and throwing him down the steps before dropping the sword. "It could have been made out of wood you Liou coe shway duh biao-tze huh hoe-tze duh ur-tze!"

Xander got to his feet dazed. "Don't call my father that… it's insulting to monkeys."

Twilight walked down and only to be kicked in the head from behind by River. River struck him in the throat and went to hit him but the vampire caught her hand. "That would have been an effective attack if I still breathed."

Xander went for his gun and Twilight held River in front of him knowing Harris doesn't have the stomach to shoot.

Twilight manipulates River's body using her head to headbutt Xander before launching her into the air with such very velocity she flips in the air taking down Xander as Mr. and Mrs. Harris both fall to the floor. Xander limped up but Twilight hit him with one swift hook knocking him down and keeping him down. River went for Xander's gun but Twilight kicked it out of her hand. "So that's it for Mr. and Mrs. Harris huh, no quips, no weapons, so what does that leave?"

Twilight shouted in pain seeing the blade of Xander's sword punched through his stomach with quite a bit of strength easily going through the armor. "What… the… fu…" Twilight was cut off as the broke the blade and the small hilt piece was shoved into his neck damn near decapitating him.

Twilight fell to the floor coughing up blood as his eye switch from yellow to human. River looked up and saw a naked blond woman that was actually a little shorter then her. Her hair wet however she seemed to do a lot better out of cryo then the teenage telepath did.

"He has me." The blond finished looking at the faux Twilight fall to the floor thriving in pain.

Xander smiled looking up at her. It's not that she's naked because as beautiful as she still is, he hasn't felt that way in a long time. "Hey Buff, it's good to see you again."

Buffy Summers smiled for the first time in five centuries not that she knows it. "Likewise, now where the hell have you been?" She started lifting up Twilight's mask and saw the same machine that meant death for many slayers as she ripped off the big piece connected to his mouth that made him sound like a chipmunk. "And who the hell is that?"

"River Tam my ow…" Xander whined holding his ankle.

River smiled Book was right someone would want to attend. "Mrs. River Harris, Xander's wife."

Buffy looked at her as her eyes widened. Well it has been three years and Riley got married in less then one. "I'm sorry, Mrs. what?"

Author's notes

Translations

kwong-juh duh- nuts

BEE-jway bao bay- Shut up sweetheart

Liou coe shway duh biao-tze huh hoe-tze duh ur-tze!- Stupid son of a drooling whore and a monkey

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Up Next: Twilight revealed along with some Willow and Jayne scenes that have been lacking.