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Abandoned warehouse in Sunnydale's industrial district, November 17th 1997
"Like I said, luv, don't turn him. Kill him if you want, though - hell, either way, Dru... this git won't live long enough ta finish high school!" Spike shouted, before he turned and left the bedroom without another word.
"Awww. You're no fun today, Spoike!" Drusilla pouted, still in her vampire face.
Deep down, Xander knew Spike was right. { If Buffy hadn't come to Sunnyhell, I might not have lived even this long. } Managing to focus, he edged away from Drusilla, not liking the way she was now looking at him...
Westworld facility, 1999
In one of the various DELOS labs scattered throughout the theme park, the Gunslinger was finally rebuilt. Dismissing Warren Mears from his presence, Jareth uploaded all the data he'd gotten from the Willow-bot and Oz-bot. Kendra's data was also downloaded into the Gunslinger robot's brain. Ethan stood around, feeling more or less like a fifth wheel, until he decided to ask:
"Why put both Slayers' data into the Gunslinger?"
"I have my reasons, Ethan. Right, that's done. Oh, almost forgot - I've created a new prototype robot. I want you to see it - come!"
They departed the lab and headed towards to Jareth's hidden lab within DELOS. "Here we are, Ethan. Behind this wall is my hidden lab," Jareth told his minion.
{ First the hidden area where the witch and her boyfriend were being kept, now this. How many other 'hidden' areas does this demon have? } Ethan suddenly asked himself.
Jareth put his hand on the wall, and the wall immediately slid to one side. They entered, and straightaway Ethan saw within the hidden lab - robots, working on dead bodies of young women (Slayers, most likely, since one or two of them still clutched a wooden stake in their hand) that had been killed off over many centuries (judging from the period clothing).
"What the devil are you up to in here, Jareth?!" Seeing the lab robots cut the human corpses apart made Rayne feel almost ill (but not quite. He'd seen worse in his time, after all.)
"Ethan, my dear friend, I'm creating an army of undead followers!" Jareth laughed in a darkly wicked way.
"Zombies? What exactly are you planning, then?" Ethan didn't like where this shit appeared to be going.
Jareth sighed and told him, "A seer once foretold my fate, Ethan. That's why I have been doing this for a long time. Don't ask for details - all I'll say is that it was foretold to me that the undead army won't be finished 'til after my death. Hmm - should I tell you what the seer told me about your fate, then?"
The Chaos mage grinned at him. "Oh, no thanks. That'd suck the fun out of everything!"
They walked through the lab to another room. They entered the room, and there was the prototype robot Jareth had mentioned before; a samurai, of all things.
"This is my new prototype robot for the new theme park, Ethan. I plan to open called Feudal Japan World later this summer. We have already have Medieval World, Roman World and Westworld, after all."
"A new theme park, Jareth, really?" Ethan had a puzzled look on his face. "Now why-?"
"I'm running a business here, after all, Ethan."
{ Of course. Ask a silly question, and all that. } Still, Rayne knew better than to say that aloud. Plus, he had to admit, such a thing would definitely appear to the Asian market - and being an entrepreneur himself, Ethan figured Feudal Japan World might actually be a big hit with the ignorant tourists...
Sunnydale, November 17th 1997
The Scooby gang, Angel and Kendra had split into teams: Buffy with Angel, Kendra with Giles, and Cordy with both Willow and Oz. They were all looking for Xander, and they knew they had to hurry; the guy might have already been killed, the undead were not known for their ability to keep human captives alive for long.
An hour or so after they'd left the library, Angel and Buffy got lucky; they found some of Spike's minions, who'd been told to go feast on the human citizens and bring 'take out' back to the warehouse later on. They were dragging two people with them...
"HEY!" Buffy snap-kicked one of the vampires directly in the face. Naturally, the bloodsuckers let go of their meals in order to fight the Slayer and Angel. Equally naturally, the two former captives ran for it without looking back even once.
After Buffy finished off her vampire, Angel managed to take his one prisoner - in order to find out where Spike and Dru's lair was.
"You know the drill. Where's Spike and Drusilla holed up?" Angel demanded calmly.
"What makes ya think I'm gonna tell a traitor like you anything?" the vampire snarled, struggling to get loose from Angel's grip.
"How about this?" Buffy took off her crucifix necklace that Angel had gifted to her nearly a year ago, wrenched open the vamp's mouth and shoved the cross inside, before slamming the minion's mouth shut.
The muffled screams of agony were ignored for nearly fifteen seconds, before Buffy ended the torture and yanked out the holy icon, shuddering from the smell. "Like Angel said, you know the drill. We can keep torturing you like this all night, so you may as well spill and save yourself a lot of pain. So, how about it?"
"Okay, look. You gotta let me go afterwards, or I'm not giving you squat!" the undead guy demanded, looking desperate.
"Fine, I'll let you go," Angel promised, raising his eyebrows to Buffy - who instantly managed to get his meaning.
"Okay. Alright. The lair's located in an abandoned warehouse on the edge of the industrial district, roughly a quarter-mile from the docks -" the minion started to babble.
"I know where that is," Angel nodded to Buffy.
"So let me go, already!" the vamp started to struggle again. Angel abruptly released him...
"Thanks for the info!" Buffy smirked, as she staked the vampire directly in the heart, who exploded into a pile of dust with the typical scream of an escaping demon. "And just so it's clear, *I* didn't promise to let you go!" Wasting no more time, she got out her cell phone and called Willow first and then Giles...
The two other teams promised to meet up with Angel and Buffy. Kendra and Giles got into the Watcher's car, while elsewhere Cordy and Willow and Oz got into Oz's van. They all drove to the warehouse in question to save Xander, and the brunette cheerleader hoped and prayed that they weren't racing to rescue a corpse...
At the warehouse, the other minions came back with flesh bags. "Boss? Which one do you want?" one of the dumber ones asked.
"Hang about..." Spike quickly retrieved Drusilla from the bedroom.
"Stay put, Kitten!" she told Xander, before leaving with Spike.
{ Thank God the nutcase is gone, } Xander thought to himself. He got up from the bed and looked around, but the makeshift bedroom had only one door and no windows - he was trapped, and he knew it.
Spike and Drusilla entered the main room. "Dinner's ready, everyone!" Spike grinned then vamped out. The rest as well, as Drusilla also vamped out. The vampires quickly bled their victims dry; and Xander could hear the death screams from the people being fed on, without being able to save them...
A few minutes later, the Scooby gang, Angel and Kendra finally showed up at the warehouse, quickly vacating the van and car. All of them had weapons! Kendra and Buffy took care of the undead guards outside of the warehouse, and then...
"Oh! The Slayer and her little friends are here to get my Kitten, Spoike!" Dru pouted again.
"Good, let them come for the git. But whatever happens, the Slayer will die tonight!" Spike grinned, wickedly evil.
The big showdown was about to begin...