Original of the Species 2B: The Mayor and the Saiyan: Wilkins Chapter Three, a Buffy: The Vampire Slayer + Dragon Ball Z Crossover fanfic

Chapter Three

'The Wish'

AN: This chapter was more or less written while I was still working on Part 1 and couldn't wait to get started, as I love the alternate reality. I liked how it turned out, even better when halfway I realized I had brought Vegeta along for the ride. That's when it really came together.

Cordelia was not a happy camper.

Of all the stupid things she should not have done making wishes should have been on the top of the list. She may have left the Scooby loop but at least that she should have remembered. Now she wandered the streets of this familiar yet strange Sunnydale.

It all began the day after her humiliation from Xander. Slobbering all over that stupid Willow in front of all of her friends. It had been the ultimate humiliation.

Oh, he had tried to call her a million times, leaving messages about stupid love spells. But the damage had been done and Xander should just have exhibited stronger self control. If you are strong enough to play Superman you should be able to resists love spells, right? Her friends of old now ridiculed her and she was now out of both loops. Only this new girl, Anya, still showed any interest in her. That of course should have tripped off all her alarms.

The next day it happened.

While talking with Anya she met her old friends and they ridiculed her fiercely, especially that bitch Harmony. White trash poster girl if there ever was one. But now that bitch was higher up the social food chain then she was. As she had hit the proverbial rock bottom it then occurred to her that all her problems had started because one Buffy Summers had come to Sunnydale. Which in a way, even now, she still thought was true in some form. After all, if she hadn't started hanging out with Xander his status would not have changed from living undead to barely marginal cool. It was then that she had spoken those fateful words after Anya had given her a pendant to wear. For so called luck.

"I wish Buffy Summers had never come to Sunnydale!"

It was out before she knew it.

Then the Anya girl had changed from normal teenage girl into something very nasty, wrinkled and raw looking and said that one word gleefully.

"Done."

And then the world had turned to white.

Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit!

When it returned to normal Sunnydale was still there, the school was still there. But weirdo Anya and the Scoobies on their bench were gone. The place seemed to be less crowded as well, with housekeeping not doing such a good job as well either. Litter and garbage were strewn everywhere.

She put her hand to her neck and felt she still carried Anya's pendant.

"I wish Buffy Summers had never come to Sunnydale," Cordelia said softly to herself and then it hit her, as in the proverbial ton of bricks, "Ohmigod! She was one of those vengeance things! Oh shit!"

Starting to freak out Cordelia sat down on the bench where previously the Scoobies had sat and tried to calm her breathing. After a minute she managed to get herself under control. Then she looked around. The place may be shabby. But it should still have possibilities,right? After all, she should no longer be a social outcast. And with Buffy out of the picture Xander would now be the social reject instead. And didn't Belmovekk once say to her that deep down vengeance demons weren't as evil as regular demons? Just trying to punish those that deserved punishing. Just that the punishment tended to be a bit over the top. And as a victim she surely deserved some vengeance being meeted out. Right?

Having convinced herself this may be not such a bad thing after all she went inside. In the halls there appeared to be fewer students then she was used too. Everybody also seemed to be dressed rather drab and dreary, her bright turquoise dress really standing out in the crowd. Then she saw her old friends, Harmony and the minions, and she joined them.

"Where have you been?" Harmony asked as she closed her locker. She approached Cordelia, and her friends follow. Cordelia gave them a careful smile. After all, she was new to this reality and she had seen enough sci-fi with Xander to not only last her a lifetime, but to also know things could be more different then they at first appeared.

"Ted Chervin just totally went for third with Ginger in front of everybody," Harmony said excited.

"Love the dress," one of the lesser 'minions' said all fawning over Cordy, "it's so daring."

Harmony nodded in agreement as she checked out Cordelia's dress. Then a boy came up to Cordelia. He looked kinda nervous but Cordelia could see in an instant what he wants.

"Cordelia?" the boy asked nervously.

"Yeah,' Cordelia smiled. The boy pulled her aside.

"Look, every guy on campus has probably asked, but if you're not going to the Winter Brunch with anyone, I'd be honored, and we'd have fun."

It felt so good to be on top of the social food chain again!

"I'll get back to you," Cordelia said with one of her fake smiles on her face she reserved for such occasions.

"Really?" the boy asked hopeful.

"Yeah," Cordelia replied.

"Great," the boy smiled and headed down the hall happy. Harmony steps over to her.

"Cordy, you reign," Harmony said to her in awe.

"I do," Cordelia said somewhat unsure, she did it more out of instinct then intent, then she smiled, "I mean, I do. So what's with the Winter Brunch thing?"

It was a sad indication that that little incident turned out to be her sole highlight for her day

In a class that was only half full the bell rang and everybody started gathering their stuff as if their lives depended on it.

"Alright," the teacher said, "now, don't forget, tomorrow we have our, uh, monthly memorial, so, uh, there's no class."

Before Cordelia could open her mouth the teacher practically ran out of class, as did most of the students.

"What's the rush?" Cordelia asked Harmony.

Harmony bit her lip as if looking for a good answer.

"Oh, you know, my mom hates it when I'm late."

Now that was so unlike Harmony's 'I don't give a shit about anything' mother.

"Since when?" Cordelia asked surprised, "Aren't we going out tonight?"

"Curfew starts in an hour," Harmony said as she put the last of her stuff in her bag.

"Curfew?" Cordelia said with mouth open, "Come on, I'm in a really good mood! Let's go to the Bronze!"

Harmony and her friends all stop and gave Cordelia a disbelieving look.

"Is that a joke?" Harmony said, not getting it why her troupe leader is suddenly acting so weird.

"Oh!," Cordelia said to herself, "the Bronze isn't cool in this reality. I've gotta make these little adjustments."

Meanwhile Harmony and a lesser 'minion' exchange a look. .

"Cordy, what's with you?" Harmony asked as the others leave, "I mean, you wear this come-bite-me outfit, you make jokes about the Bronze, and you're acting a little schizo?"

"You're right. I just... Well, I bumped my head yesterday, and I keep forgetting stuff," Cordelia said, trying to come up with a good excuse for her behavior. Then she remembered something.

"Not that I care, but Xander Harris, he's miserable, right? And that Willow freak he hangs with, not even a blip on the radar screen, right?"

Cordelia gave a smile that is part hungry, part sheepish that confused Harmony.

"Well, yeah," Harmony eventually responded sarcastically, "they're dead!"

The smile faded awfully fast from Cordelia's face. Them being miserable, that she would have liked. Them being dead, not so sure about that. Meanwhile Harmony rolled her eyes and leaves.

Being the last to leave class Cordelia made for the parking lot. Which to her surprise was completely empty. Granted, she was one of the last to leave class, but come on, there were always some people staying for after school activities.

"Okay. Not funny," Cordelia said, putting her hands in her side. Then she saw a janitor and hailed him.

"Hey! You! Where did you put my car?"

The janitor looked at her as if he had no clue to what she's talking about.

"Pardon?"

"My auto," Cordelia said as she pointed to the empty parking lot where the Queen C. should have been, "el convertablo?"

"You students aren't allowed to drive, and you know it," the janitor replied shaking his head at her ignorance.

"What?!"

"Go on now, Miss," the janitor said as he gathered his things, "you better get in before the sun sets!"

Now Cordelia was officially getting freaksomed. She was starting to like this reality less and less. It's not right. And the old adage that you should be careful what you wish for suddenly hit more and more closer to home. No matter how much she disliked Buffy she came to the conclusion that it was time to call in the cavalry and head for Buffy's home.

Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!

Why on Earth did she go to Buffy's home when she expressly wished for the blond Slayer not to have come to Sunnydale? She should have known better when she found 1630 Revello Drive all boarded up and unused for years.

Then she tried for the next best thing. Belmovekk's.

It was already dark by the time she got there. It had never been in the best part of town but now it looked like it was in the smack middle of a war zone. And of course it was just as boarded up as Buffy's house had been.

Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit! Shit!

She should have known these things. Xander had explained it to her, but probably when she wasn't paying much attention. The Saiyan had only come and remained in Sunnydale because of him noticing and taking pity on Buffy. So no Buffy present equaled no Belmovekk present. That would leave only Giles. But he was Buffy's Watcher and logically no Buffy present probably also equaled no Giles present either.

Walking past another dilapidated street on the way back to main street Cordelia passed a shop where a shifty store owner pulled down a metal gate very quickly. The street was incredibly dirty and had a smashed car right in the middle. In the distance sirens and screams could be heard

Suddenly something truly weird happened.

Xander appeared in front of her, wearing only a white T-Shirt and black leather jacket and pants. Startled she stopped short.

"Well, whadaya know?" Xander grinned maliciously as he leered at her, "Cordelia Chase."

"What is this?" Cordelia said angry, "Some kind of sick joke? Harmony told me you were dead."

"Now, why would she say something like that," Xander said as he assumed a thinking pose, "let's think."

"Listen to me. We have to find Buffy," Cordelia said, "she'll figure out a way to save us. She was supposed to be here, and as much as it kills me to admit it... things were better when she was around."

Hearing the name managed to get Xander's attention.

"Buffy," he exclaimed cautiously, "as in, the Slayer?

"No! Buffy the dog-faced girl! Duh!," Cordelia snorted impatiently, "who do you think I'm talking about?"

"Bored now," a familiar female voice said to her right. Slowly walking towards them Willow came, dressed as an SM dominatrix in a tight leather corset trimmed in red lace.

"This is the part that's less fun," Willow said as bored as she looked, "when there isn't any screaming."

"What's up with you two and the leather?" Cordelia asked surprised as she looked from Willow to Xander and then back to Willow.

"Play now?" Willows asked a smiling Xander.

"It's not that I don't appreciate your appetite, Will," Xander replied looking at her, "but I thought we agreed it was my turn."

Willow started to whine and touched Xander's chest with her hand and him seeming to like it.

"No. No! No way," Cordelia said as she started throwing a hissy fit, "I wish us into Bizarro Land, and you guys are still together?! I cannot win!"

"Probably not," Xander grinned as his face suddenly turned into that of a vampire's gameface, "but I'll give you a head start."

Things now really turned into Bizarro Land. There was much Cordelia wished upon Xander, but him having become a vampire was not one of them. It also seriously freaked her out.

"No!" Cordelia yelled frightened and she began to run, dropping her bag in the process.

"I love this part," Willow said as she started to French kiss Xander, with heavy emphasis on the oral interaction. Then Xander smiled at her.

"You love all the parts," he said before giving Cordelia chase.

With Willow following them at a leisurely pace Xander ran after her, jumping over the smashed car lying in the street and landed behind Cordelia. He grabbed her neck and threw her violently down the street. When she finally rolled to a stop she was already unconscious.

"No fun," Willow said disapprovingly as she walked up towards Xander, "she didn't even hardly fight."

Then around the corner came a van at full speed.

"Aw, swell," Xander groaned in disgust, "it's the White Hats."

The van came to an abrupt stop next to Cordelia and out jumped Giles, holding up a huge cross that caused vamp Xander and vamp Willow to flinch away. In the driver's seat sat Oz, holding up a crossbow and former local high school football player Larry and a girl named Nancy exited after Giles. Him holding a stake, she a cross.

"I've got them," Giles said not taking his eyes of the two vampires, "get the girl!"

Larry and Nancy picked Cordelia up and carried her into the van. Xander and Willow growled angrily as they watched their prize being stolen from them. When Larry and Nancy had tucked Cordelia safely inside, Giles hopped back in after them and they slammed the doors shut after which Oz takes off.

Inside the Bronze it's a vista of horrors if you are human. Or a wet dream made manifest if you are a vampire. Loud aggressive music played, vampires were having fun with humans, either drinking them or torturing them in cages hanging from the ceiling. Vamp Xander and vamp Willow made their way across this scene of debauchery with Willow reaching inside one cage stroking a terrified boy's cheek.

In the back of the club the Master held residence. Once scenes such as this would have reveled his undead heart. Now the Master sat rather bored on his throne in an anteroom in the back. It was to be expected though. Given enough time even sheer debauchery loses its appeal. Which is why today he mostly sat in seclusion instead of joining in the fun.

As a guard vampire pulled away the curtain, vamp Xander and vamp Willow entered the Master's unholy of unholiest. Upon seeing his two favored vampires the Master rose from his throne. While on his rise from below he had lost both Luke and Darla, Xander and Willow had proven to be more then adequate replacements though. Social misfits always made for good vampires as they held a lot of repressed anger and hatred towards the society that spat on them.

"Ahh," the Master said as they stand before him, " Xander... Willow... Hungry?"

The Master reached out and grabbed a frightened girl by her hair. By now she had learned better to scream but she still kept her eyes firmly on the Master.

"I've lost my appetite for this one," the Master said disgusted, "she keeps

looking at me. I'm trying to eat, and she 'looks' at me."

Seeing that Willow looked hungry for a kill he held out the girl's head towards her.

"Go on," he said encouragingly.

With Xander nodding approvingly, Willow smiled at the Master and vamped out as the Master tossed the girl towards her. Impressing Xander with her eagerness to kill she bit the girl hard and started drinking.

"I remember that lust for the kill," the Master sighed in a fit of melancholy as he sat down back on his throne, "now... What news on the Rialto?"

"Had a prime kill. An old crush, actually," Xander said, "till that wannaslay

Librarian showed up."

"He'll be dealt with soon enough," the Master said dismissively. Truth be told, the Librarian wasn't a real problem. If the Master wanted too he could easily crush the Librarian and his White Hats. But he served a useful purpose in keeping his vamps sharp. Vamps with no opposition whatsoever had a bad habit of turning into lazy vamps. And lazy vamps became useless vamps. And if there was one thing the Master detested it was lazy useless minions.

A finished Willow rejoined Xander's side, still licking her fingers as Xander continued his report.

"Weird thing: girl kept talking about Buffy," he said, "Gotta get Buffy here. Isn't that what they called the Slayer?"

"Hmm. Buffy, oooh. Scary," Willow said stroking Xander's chest.

"Someone has to talk to her people," Xander said smiling at Willow, "that name is striking fear in nobody's hearts."

The Master however seemed to think otherwise and rose from his throne.

"She talked of summoning the Slayer here, now, at this time, and you didn't kill her?" he said sternly.

"Well, they had crosses," Willow replied pouting.

"The plant begins operation in less than twenty-four hours," the Master said, his previous cheery mood gone as he walked up to them, "you will find this girl. You will kill her before she contacts the Slayer. Or I'll see you two kissing daylight."

Her head hurt like hell as Cordelia came around. Blurry shapes gave way to an all too familiar background. She may just have regained consciousness but she recognized the place.

The school Library.

That damned school Library!

She tried to get up but suddenly the world started to spin. Before she could fall over a pair of hands came by to steady her and she looked up into a familiar face.

"Hey! Hey...," Giles said as he held her.

Finally seeing somebody familiar who could help her in this freaked out world Cordelia let it rip.

"Giles! It's all my fault! I wasn't...," she babbled, "I made this 'stupid' wish..."

"Come on," Giles said still holding her, "please lie..."

"No! You have to get Buffy," Cordelia said as she still tried to get up from the table on which she was resting, still freaking out from her experience, "Buffy changes it. It wasn't like this. It was better. I mean, the clothes alone... "

This was getting weirder by the minute and Giles instinctively removed his glasses as he stepped back.

"But people were happy," Cordelia rambled on, "like we had the Edict. It was safe outside at night. And... Wait...?"

Cordelia looked oddly at Giles as if she suddenly remembered something.

"Why are you here and she's not? I mean, y-you were her Watcher."

It took Giles a while to get his act together as this girl somehow knew he was a Watcher. And how come she knew about the Slayer?

"H-how do you know I was a Watcher," he stammered, I've never..."

"Oh, please, like I don't know," Cordelia snorted and jumped of the table, no longer dizzy, "I hung out with you people for like two years. It feels like twenty years I can tell you. This is wrong. Buffy should be here. And that Saiyan should be here as well. Why isn't he here as well?"

"Saiyan, what's a Saiyan," Giles asked surprised. This was getting stranger by the minute.

"Shit! You don't know Belmovekk either," Cordelia gasped with growing depression, then she put her hands in her hair, "Ohmigod! We're screwed!"

Cordelia started pacing trying to come up with the right way to tell Giles how her reality had been.

"Look, Giles, Buffy was the Slayer and then suddenly Belmovekk came. He was an alien, called himself a Saiyan. They're like Conan the Barbarian meets Bruce Lee on steroids. He was really strong and fast, he started teaching her and Xander to become as strong as he was. He could fly and stuff. Oh, on a full moon he could change into a giant monkey. And he could turn into something called Super Saiyan and blow up mountains. Except he didn't of course as he was a good guy. Although he used to be bad."

Giles just looked at her like she was escaped from a lunatic asylum or something.

Proof! She needs proof, she thought. Desperately she searched her pockets. But everything she had was in her purse. Not that there was much in it. But it did carry her notebook with crucial need to now phone numbers and addresses Giles made her carry. With no evidence she bit her lip in defeat.

Then she remembered.

"Your cell phone number is 4693645," she said triumphantly.

Maybe a little too triumphantly. After all, so much was different, there was a huge chance he could have a different number as well. But it was the only thing she could still think off.

"How do you know?" Giles asked surprised, "it's a secret number!"

Well, whaddaya know? Maybe some things were the same after all.

"Oh, you have no idea how much you made us remember," she said and did an imitation of Giles, "'it is imperative that you must all have and know these critical need to know numbers!' Do you have a pen?"

Instinctively Giles gave her one.

"This is the personal emergency number of Bulma at Capsule Corp.," she said as she gave him a paper with a number on it.

"Capsule Corp.?" Giles asked surprised as he accepted the number, "What on Earth do we need the number of a defense contractor for?"

"Because Vegeta lives there," Cordelia said resuming her panic attack, "he's like the prince of all Saiyans. Only he's evil. Or used to be. Mostly he's an asshole. If anybody knows where Belmovekk is, either he or Bulma should know. We need both the Slayer and the Saiyan!"

It made less sense with every sentence, but for some reason Giles decided to play into it.

"If he's evil then why would he help us?" Giles asked.

"Because she keeps him on a leash," Cordelia said pacing, "they're doing the coupling thing, at least that's what Buffy said. She should know, she sees him regularly. Xander says they spar together occasionally."

"I'll check it out," Giles said as he folded away the paper in his pocket. Her story at times sounded plausible as she knew things she never should have known. Only then tot turn bizarre again.

"Please do," she said desperately, "it is not supposed to be like this."

"So tell again," Giles said, "this time from the start. How do you know about me being a Watcher and the Slayer?"

"Not again," Cordelia wailed, "why don't you just call..."

A sudden series of soft noises caused Giles to tense up and gesture Cordelia to shut up.

"What," she asked .

Giles looked around very nervously.

"What," Cordelia asked again, getting maxi-worried.

"I thought I heard something," Giles said and went to his cage to get a large cross and a stake.

"Maybe its best if..." he said before the cage door got slammed shut behind him. As he turned around it's vamp Willow who smiled at him.

"You're in a big cage," she said holding up the key. To his horror he saw vamp Xander holding Cordelia, his hand covering her mouth.

"Not too bright, Book Guy," Xander taunted gleefully.

All Giles can do is slam the cross against the cage and cause vamp Willow to step back and snarl at him. Vamp Xander however came closer dragging Cordelia along

"So you're a Watcher, huh," he grinned evilly, "watch this!"

Xander let go of Cordelia's mouth and sank his teeth into her neck. Unable to do anything but rattle his cage Giles was helpless to stop it. Much to vamp Willow's amusement. Then she turned around and also sank her teeth into Cordelia and together with vamp Xander they suck her dry. Reaching around Xander touched Willow's head and caressed her hair as they drank from Cordelia together.

Once Cordelia was drained dry they let her body fall to the ground and Xander made for the exit like he owned the world. Willow gave the raging Giles a smile and threw the key towards his cage as she followed Xander. Once they were gone Giles calmed down and stared panting at Cordelia's lifeless body.

Using a double-bladed battle axe Giles finally managed to break out of the cage. The first thing he did upon leaving was checking out Cordelia's body, but the girl was dead. Cursing inwardly he sat down next to her as Larry and Oz came running in.

"They hit us right outside," Larry said as he saw Giles next to the dead girl.

"Nancy?" Giles asked as he looked up.

"She's dead," Oz replied shaking his head.

It never rained when it poured, Giles thought.

"Um... Would you mind... ," he said, "could you take her to the incinerator? I have some business to..."

They are about to take Cordelia's body away when Giles noticed the pendant hanging around her neck.

"Wait a moment," he said and removed it and looked it over. The two boys meanwhile carried her body away.

Later in the evening Giles was back in his own apartment, which at least had the advantage of not being a public place. Thus keeping him safe from vampires. For a while he's been on the phone with a Watcher from Cleveland

"Yes, I understand, but it's imperative that I see her. Here," he said holding the phone while pacing, "well... when will you?...Yeah, well, you are her Watcher. I'd expect her to at least check in to...Yes, I'm aware that there's a great deal of demonic activity in Cleveland... It... Well, it happens, you know, that, that Sunnydale is on a Hellmouth too... It, it is so! ... Well... Just... Just give her the message, if you ever see her again."

Then he hang up and sighed as he sat down. Depressed and mentally tired he buried his face in his hands.

Then he remembered.

Could she actually have been right?

With one hand he took out the pendant, with the other the phone number the girl had given him. Should he?

Why not? It's not as if he hasn't got anything to lose. He picked up the phone again and started dialing. The phone rang a few times, then it was picked up.

"Hello," a young female voice answered from the other side.

"I'm sorry to bother you, miss," Giles asked hopeful, "but I am looking for somebody."

"Aren't we all?" the female voice said philosophically, "I'm sorry but I have to ask, who are you and how did you get this number?"

"Never mind," Giles replied shaking his head, "I shouldn't have bothered you."

"No bother," the female voice said in a tone that hinted it might have very well been a bother.

Before he can break the connection however Giles heard her speak to somebody else.

"Damn you, Vegeta, if you touch that last eggrole, I swear to Kami I will rip your balls off!"

Giles immediately snapped to attention.

"Was that Vegeta as in prince of all Saiyans?" he said into the telephone.

"Who is this?" the female voice suddenly asked very suspiciously.

The next day Giles was in his office in the library, while Oz and Larry were busy maintaining their weapons when suddenly Giles came out of his office.

"Here it is! I've found it," he said triumphantly holding up a book, "Look!"

He put the book on the table and it showed a drawing of the pendant Cordelia had been wearing.

"It's what, um, Cordelia was wearing," the Brit said to the puzzled teens, "It's the, the, uh, symbol of, of Anyanka."

"I don't think I know her," Oz replied shaking his head.

"Well, no," Giles said looking at the teen, "technically that would be, um, a bit difficult. Um, Anyanka is a, sort of a Patron Saint of scorned women."

"What does she do," Larry asked.

"Uh, sh-she grants wishes," Giles said as he sat down on the table.

"So Cordelia wished for something," Oz shrugged, "well, if it was a long, healthy life, she should get her money back."

Giles stared blankly ahead. Then he snapped out of it and looked at the two teens.

"She said something about everything being different, that the...the world wasn't supposed to be like this. It was, um, better. Before."

"Okay. The entire world sucks because some dead ditz made a wish," Larry said, getting weird looks from Oz and Giles, "I just, I just want it clear."

Giles nodded. In his usual idiom Larry got it straight to the point. And on target.

"She said the, uh... the Slayer and something called the Saiyan were supposed to be here, was, um, meant to have been here already."

"And you believe that?" Larry asked, not really buying any of it..

"Not at first," Giles said taking off his glasses and resting his head on his hand, "but I made some calls last night and it would seem some things do check out."

"Certainly would've helped," Oz shrugged unimpressed, "having the Slayer here."

"Yes. I tried calling her, but, um...," Giles nodded.

"Wait a sec, I get the Slayer," Larry said thinking loud, "but what is the Saiyan?"

"Yeah, what's a Saiyan?" Oz asked as he looked at Giles.

"I'm not quite sure yet, my books don't tell my anything about a Saiyan," Giles said as he got up and stood in front of the window looking outside. Then he turned around.

"Look. When I know more I will tell you. I'm, I'm gonna have to..., research this Anyanka thing further. Um, I have some more..., volumes at, at home. You two get some sleep. I have a feeling things will get hectic tomorrow."

"Watch your back," Oz called after him.

It was already late as Giles drove home in his old beaten up Citroen through Sunnydale's darkening streets. It's way past the curfew time but he couldn't stay in the Library by himself. As last nights events proved it's just not a safe place at night. At least in his car he's mobile. Over time vampires have hit traveling cars but not always with success. A car is still a potentially powerful blunt weapon, especially at high speed. And once the people learned that stopping at night was suicide, most drivers still daring enough preferred to drive very fast and without stopping.

As he passed the park something caught Giles' eyes. A bunch of people were being herded into a stepvan by two vampires. Out of instinct he hit the breaks, grabbed his large cross and rushed out to help. Holding up the cross to the two vampires doing the manhandling he walked up to them and drove them back far enough for the people in the van to escape.

"Run," he yelled to the captives. Who really didn't need much encouragement as they bolted. No sooner had they run away however as Giles tried to make for his own car, when a third vampire suddenly came out of nowhere and hit him with the van door in the face. Dazed from the hit he fell flat on his back and now ended up being the one they tried to load into the van.

Suddenly the one holding his feet got yanked away and flew through the air making a very painful landing a dozen meters away. The other two look aside, then attack, but they get similar flying lessons. Vampire #1 got up and rushed his attacker. Instead of slamming into the unknown attacker he ran into a sharp wooden stake and dusted immediately. Seeing him die disheartened the other two and they flee. Long has it been since one of their own died so casually, so instead of fighting this new threat they ran. Looking up at his rescuer Giles saw it was a short blond girl with a small scar on her upper lip.

"Buffy Summers?" Giles asked as he put his glasses back on.

"That's right," she said as she put her stake away, "wanna tell me what I'm doing here?"

In Giles' apartment Buffy the Vampire Slayer was bored witless. Despite having gone to extreme lengths to get her here the Sunnydale Watcher had taken her to his place and gone upstairs to get some books. That was ten minutes ago. At least her Watcher back in Cleveland knew better then to make her wait this long. She's about to give him a piece of her mind when she felt a sudden tingling sensation on her mind. The one that usually told her something was coming and it ain't Human. Then the door bell rang.

Carefully she went to the door and pulled out a stake from her belt. With one hand she opened the door and with the other she swung the stake in a large stabbing motion.

"If you think I'm stupid enough to invite you in you must be the dumbest..."

She had expected a vampire, maybe two. That is why she lunged with her stake. Instead it bounced off the chest of a large muscular man as if he was made of concrete. Correction, it snapped off in two, leaving her with only half a stake in her hand to her amazement.

"Is this the Rupert Giles residence?" the man asked smiling like nothing had happened. Correction, he was smirking! Sporting the most infuriating smirk she had ever seen besides her own reflection in the mirror. She took a fraction of a second to observe her opponent. He was large, well built, jeans, T-shirt, a pair of western boots and wearing one of those black cowboy hats with foldable edges. He could easily be one of those cowboy vampires that came to Cleveland last year. But she had killed those. Unlike those vamps however this guy has the weirdest black pupil eyes. And bare arms covered in tattoos of strange, alien, hideous designs.

Having seen enough she attacked him again with a series of kicks and punches that would leave most vampires begging for death within seconds. Yet he blocked her attacks with contemptible ease.

"Is that a way to greet a visitor?" Cowboy Hank asked as they both took a moment to re-appraise the situation.

"You're not human," she countered.

Cowboy Hank raised an eyebrow. Then he shrugged.

"Technically, yes," he replied offhand, "But are you? I know of only few humans who can do what you just did."

"What can I say," she said as she resumed her attack, "I was chosen."

Suddenly cowboy Hank grabbed her by the wrists in an unbreakable iron grip.

"Are you what I think you are?" he asked whispering, bringing his face close to her.

He may hold her arms, but she still had her legs and she flipped her right knee upward and hit him against the chin.

"That depends," she said as she tried to break free. Despite his head being knocked back his iron grip on her wrists never wavered. He just kept holding her like that.

"Quit toying with her, Movekk, and be done with it," an arrogant voice came from above them.

As she looked up she saw another man. He was smaller then cowboy Hank, and dressed in what looked like dark blue spandex with a white plastic breastplate. Unlike Cowboy Hank he sported no tats but he had the most freaky looking hair she has ever seen. It stood up straight like a brush, defying gravity. Like a ton of hair gel had been rubbed into it. He had his arms folded across his chest and looked at her as if she was an insect. He was also floating ten feet in the air.

"Are you the Slayer?" Cowboy Hank asked her.

"Yeah," she replied as she looked at him again defiantly. Then to her surprise Cowboy Hank let go of her.

"You have no idea how good that makes me feel," Cowboy Hank said on a tone that hinted at massive relieve, " I have been looking for you for more then a year."

"Good God," came from inside the apartment, "you can't leave open the door like this. Its..."

Giles had returned downstairs carrying the book he was looking for and instead of finding Buffy he found an empty living room and the front door wide open. Fearing the worst he went to the door only to find the Slayer outside facing a large man in Western garb and a smaller man floating high in the air.

"Are you Rupert Giles?" the man in Western garb asked.

Too surprised to say anything by the scene in front of him Giles just nodded.

"You called for me," the man said and extended a hand in greeting, "my name is Belmovekk."

Inside the apartment Giles had poured himself a strong whisky. Buffy had declined on the grounds that she only drank after the job. But the two Saiyans, as they had introduced themselves, had each accepted a glass. While Buffy stood around leaning against his stairs looking bored, together with the small Saiyan who so far hadn't said a word, the one who called himself Belmovekk had sat down on his couch. Giles sat opposite him and put a book on the table and told the story.

"Yesterday evening we rescued a young girl from a group of vampires. She claimed the world was not what it should be. That she had made a wish and the world had been changed. That both Buffy and you were supposed to be here."

"Me? Here? Puhlease," Buffy snorted in disbelief.

"Why would I be here?" the Saiyan asked surprised.

"She specifically said the Slayer and the Saiyan," Giles said at Buffy and him, "that you had been training her."

"Me training? From him? Here? Puhlease," Buffy snorted again, "Don't take this the wrong way, Belboy, cause you fight well, and you look kinda hot for an old guy, but I can do my own thing. I don't need another busybody Watcher wannabe breathing down my neck. That girl must have been insane or something. Maybe she wasn't properly drained. I hear it makes you see things."

"Well she did give the phone number that led me to him," Giles said pointing at the Saiyan, "saying that I had made her memorize it as a need to know number. And she wore this."

Giles put the pendant on the opened book, next to a drawing of it.

"And this is?" Belmovekk asked as he leaned over to study both the pendant and the drawing.

"The symbol of Anyanka," Giles said leaning back in his chair, "patron saint of scorned women. A powerful vengeance demon. She grants wishes."

"Like in I wish I'd won the lottery?" Buffy smiled.

"If only we were so lucky," Giles sighed, "I think that whatever this girl wished for spawned our current reality."

"That is some serious magic," Belmovekk nodded in agreement, "that takes some serious power."

"So she may be a worthy opponent," the small Saiyan said, finally speaking up and sounding interested for the first time.

"Not necessarily, my prince," Belmovekk said without taking his eyes of the pendant and the drawing, "if she can do temporal displacement, all she would need to do is go back in time and change the past, causing a new timeline to emerge. Physically she could be utterly weak."

The small Saiyan shrugged and lost all interest again.

"You know magic?" Giles asked hopeful.

"I have some experience in the field," the large Saiyan nodded.

"You believe this bull story?" Buffy asked him surprised.

"Look, miss Summers," Belmovekk said as he looked at Buffy, "I came to this miserable planet for a reason. I was sent to help you. For a year and a half I have been searching for you and I could not find you. Now you practically fall into my lap. That tells me something."

"Ain't I a lucky girl," Buffy snorted, folding her arms across her chest.

"And here I was thinking you were sent to help Kakarot and me," the small Saiyan said looking surprised at his fellow.

"I thought so at first, my Prince," Belmovekk replied, "but I quickly learned otherwise. Something has been wrong for all that time that I've been here and now I know why. Besides, you guys do not really need my help."

Vegeta shrugged unimpressed and said nothing.

"I, um, think there, um, is a way to reverse what she has done," Giles said and took the book back in hand, "in order to defeat Anyanka, one must destroy her powercenter. This should reverse all the wishes she's granted, rendering her also mortal and powerless again. You see? Without her powercenter, she'd just be an ordinary woman again, and all this would be, um... well, different."

"Seems simple," Belmovekk agreed, then he began to smile, "in theory at least. Like what actually is her powercenter?"

"Um, well, um, um," Giles stuttered as he looked at his book, "it doesn't say."

"Why don't I just put a stake through her heart?" Buffy suggested.

"She's not a vampire," Giles said looking up at her.

"Mm, well, you'd be surprised how many things that'll kill," Buffy shrugged indifferent.

"It didn't kill me," Belmovekk said looking amused over his shoulder at Buffy.

"Well, excuse me, General Zod," she snorted, "we can't all be Seances!"

"Saiyans, you stupid girl," the small Saiyan said annoyed.

"Whatever," she replied rolling her eyes.

"But I don't want to kill her, Miss Summers," Giles said, "I want to reverse

whatever effect she's had on this, this... world."

"Pff, you're taking an awful lot on faith here, Jeeves," Buffy replied.

"The name is Giles," Giles said, closing his eyes in annoyance at her flippant behavior. Buffy meanwhile shrugged again at his annoyance.

"Kill the bad fairy... destroy the bad fairy's powercenter, whatever, and all the troubles go away?"

Giles looked at her, then at Belmovekk, then at her again.

"Yeah, well, I'm sure it's not that simple, but..."

"Look," Buffy said indifferent, "world is what it is. We fight. We die. Wishing doesn't change that."

That sounded so harsh and so without hope it nearly broke Giles' heart to hear it from somebody so young. Yet from what he'd heard it often was the way Slayers came to view the world.

"I have to believe in a better world," Giles replied eventually.

"Go ahead. I have to live in this one," Buffy said as she put her right leg on Giles' chess table. She then spit in her hand and started polishing her boot.

"I'm bored," the small Saiyan said, "all this talk bores me. Either give me some food or something to kill."

"Finally somebody starts talking sense," Buffy said looking at the small Saiyan.

"Good luck finding anything to eat at this time," Giles sighed, "This late only the minions of the Master are out roaming the town."

"The Master?" both Buffy and the small Saiyan said suddenly very interested.

"Um, supreme vampire around these parts," Giles said leaning back again, eyes closed, "he, he lives on the outskirts of town in an old club."

"Only a vampire," the small Saiyan said disappointed, "not worth my effort."

"You know where he lives, and no one's ever tried to take him out?" Buffy asked surprised.

"People have tried," Giles said in a tone that told them they tried in vain. In fact, last year he himself had led an attempt to take out the Master. Of the group he'd led in, only he, Oz, Larry, Nancy and one other had made it out alive. 12 others weren't so lucky.

"Well, point the way," Buffy said as she started looking for her bag with weapons, "I might as well do some good while I'm in this town."

"Now wait a minute," Giles objected, "you can't just walk in there and..."

"Look, you wanna stay here and play make-believe, fine," Buffy said as she opened her bag and strapped on a crossbow, "I'm not gonna be any help to you anyway. There's only one thing I'm good at. You want some?"

Buffy offered a cross and a stake to the small Saiyan.

"You need weapons?" the small Saiyan snorted in disgust.

"Suit yourself," Buffy shrugged, "just don't call for me when they put their teeth in your neck."

"For that remark alone I'm not going to lift a finger," the small Saiyan said annoyed.

"Nobody ever does," Buffy shrugged indifferent as she continued her Rambo-style strapping-on-of-the-weapons routine.

"But this is folly," Giles said as he walked to Buffy to try and plead with her.

"Don't worry, Master Giles," Belmovekk suddenly said as he put his cowboy hat back on and also rose, "I won't let any harm come to her. You take care of this Anyanka. We will accompany Miss Summers and see what Slayers are made of."

"I don't need any chaperone's, General Zod," Buffy said all ready to go, "I don't play well with others."

"Strictly observer guy," Belmovekk smiled as he put up his hands as they made for Giles' front door.

"The Earth is doomed," Giles said as they were gone.

While Giles prepared his ritual Buffy and her two Saiyan followers made for the Bronze. Expecting loads of vampires they were hard pressed to find a single one.

"I thought Jeeves said this place was crawling with vamps at night," Buffy said, still on her guard though, "but this town is quieter then an Appalachian town on a sunday morning."

"Bah, this place feels wrong," the small Saiyan said in disgust," we should just blow it up and be done with it."

"Good idea," Buffy said peering around a corner, "the way I see it, two birds with one stone."

"There will be no blowing up," Belmovekk said vehemently.

"You sound like Bulma with a penis," the small Saiyan sniggered.

"Coming from you that is a compliment," Belmovekk bit back.

"What's got you so uptight, Tweedledee?" Buffy smirked back at Belmovekk, "Tweedledum rattling your chain?"

"Why me?" Belmovekk said as he looking up to the sky in despair, "Was it to much to ask to save me a Saiyan regiment? An Elite strike force? A fellow infiltrator? Instead I get these two?"

"You know the only god who's listening is Kami, fool," the small Saiyan said, "and that's all he ever does."

"Oh shut up," Belmovekk said, "I should have accepted Kakarot's offer to stay with him instead."

"You stayed at Capsule Corp. for the same reason I did," the small Saiyan smirked, "Bulma's gravity gym."

"At least I am not fucking her," Belmovekk bit back.

"Maybe you should? Or maybe you can get laid with her," the small one smirked back and pointed at Buffy, "after all, you've wasted more then a year looking for her."

Vegeta's remark caused Buffy to look back.

"Him?" she snorted, "He's passable, but he's too old."

"Oh, you have no idea how old," the small Saiyan smirked.

"I prefer them more my own age," Buffy said peering around a corner, "club 'm, fuck 'm and then dump them."

Belmovekk didn't bother to reply but slammed his face with one hand in a loud facepalm.

"I'm starting to like her," the small Saiyan said amused, "not enough to lift a finger but anybody who can annoy you this much I like."

"Lucky me," Buffy sighed.

Around the next corner they found the Bronze night club. Like the whole town so far it was deserted and they entered unopposed.

Inside in the Master's sitting area it looked like a club suddenly closed for business. An S & M club maybe with cages, ropes and chains. A snuff S & M club since one of the cages contained a dead boy.

"Gaudy," the small Saiyan snorted in disgust, "they call themselves immortal yet they lack but the basest of tastes."

"Yeah, well, that's vamps for you," Buffy nodded in agreement, "lets see what's downstairs."

The two Saiyans don't object and followed her below.

In the basement they came upon a cell with a forlorn and shivering individual in it. Still weary for surprises Buffy approached the cage slowly. When she's close the individual looked up. It's Angel and even though he now means nothing to her, he recognized her instantly as his eyes light up. She quickly loses interest in him however and turned to walk away.

"Buffy?" Angel said weakly.

She stopped and turned around to face him.

"Buffy Summers," he said again weakly.

Buffy walked up to the bars again and examined him closely. The man we know as Angel examined her as well as if to be sure.

"It's you," Angel said, hardly believing this turn of events, "I mean... you don't remember. How could you?"

"How did you know my name?" Buffy asked weary.

"I waited. I waited here for you. But you never... ," Angels said as he averted her gaze, "I was supposed to help you."

"You were gonna help me?" Buffy snorted and nodded to the largest of the two men behind her, "Tweedledee here also said something like that."

Angel looked at Belmovekk, standing there with arms folded across his chest looking at him with great interest. Then he looked at Buffy again.

"The Master rose. He let me live..." Angel said, in an instant relieving 18 months of constant torture, "to punish me. I kept hoping maybe you'd come. My destiny…."

"Is this a get-in-my-pants thing?" Buffy huffed, not believing what she's hearing, "you guys in Sunnydale talk like I'm the Second Coming."

"I'm sorry," Angel said, realizing he had overdone it, "I just meant..."

"Look, I don't have time for stories," Buffy said sternly, "where's the Master?"

"They're at his factory," Angel said, looking somewhere else, "it starts tonight."

"Factory?" Buffy asked not knowing what to make of it.

"I...I can take you there," Angel grunted as he tried to get up.

"We don't need him," the small Saiyan said, "I saw where he looked. Now that I know where to look I can feel his kind there."

"Kind?" Buffy said looking surprised at the small Saiyan and then at Angel, finally connecting the dots.

"Oh, you gotta be kidding me!" she said as she slowly backed away, "You're a bloody vamp!"

She turned around and looked at the small Saiyan.

"You knew he was a vamp and you let me waste time with him?"

"Of course," the small Saiyan smirked, "I can sense his kind miles away. Except in this forsaken place. Somehow it's harder here."

"Let's go," Buffy said as she was about to stomp out.

"Wait! I won't hurt you," Angels cried after her.

"No. You'll leave that to your Master," Buffy spat without looking at him.

"Wait," Belmovekk said as he ripped open the cage like the bars were made from rubber and knelt next to Angel and looked him deep in the eyes.

"You are different," he said peering curiously at the vampire.

"Just kill him and be done with it, Movekk," the small Saiyan said impatiently.

"Shut up, Vegeta!" Belmovekk said annoyed, then he put his hand on Angel's forehead. Then he gasped.

"You have a soul!" Belmovekk exclaimed.

"I do," Angel said and took off his shirt to reveal countless scars and wounds of torture, "that is why they did this."

"Most cruel," Belmovekk said impressed. Some wounds seem very recent, as if they happened not that long ago. Very recently!

Angel looked up at Buffy.

"Now you believe I wanna help you? I want him dead!"

Angel tried to get up as Belmovekk broke his chains as if they were nothing but he fell back flat on his ass.

"You are in no condition to help us," Buffy said impatiently, "we should go."

"Take this," Belmovekk said and took out a small bean which he gave it to Angel, "it was given to me by a friend in case of need. I guess you need it more then I do."

"What do I need a bean for?" Angel asked surprised.

"Just eat it and you'll see," Belmovekk smiles.

Still unsure Angel did as he was told and ate the bean. As soon as he had swallowed he felt a tingling sensation. It started in his stomach, then it spread like wildfire throughout his body and the feeling of tiredness and exhaustion that had been his constant companion for 18 constant months disappeared. Without effort he got up as Belmovekk smiled.

"Nifty," Buffy said impressed.

"Movekk you fool," Vegeta said angrily, "that was a perfect waste of a good senzu bean!"

"I still have one," Belmovekk said as he and Angel move out of Angel's cage.

"Shall I find you another vampire to waste it on?" Vegeta snorted as they left.

Inside the Master's factory a crowd of vampires had gathered. A large wooden cage held dozens of frightened humans, including Oz and Larry. Unbeknown to Giles, the people he tried to rescue were caught as part of a massive drive throughout town. Which also netted his two teen fighters. Meanwhile on a stage the Master stood and drank in the scene. Then he addressed the crowd.

"Vampires, come! Behold the technical wonder, which is about to alter the very fabric of our society. Some have argued that such an advancement goes against our nature. They claim that death is our art. I say to them... Well, I don't say anything to them because I kill them. Undeniably we are the world's superior race. Yet we have always been too parochial, too bound by the mindless routine of the predator. Hunt and kill, hunt and kill. Titillating? Yes. Practical? Hardly. Meanwhile, the humans, with their plebeian minds, have brought us a truly demonic concept: mass production!

"Yeah! Yeah!" the gathered vampires cheer en masse.

"We really are living in a golden age," Xander said to Willow as he's moved by the Master's speech. Willow looked at him and smiled.

In Giles' apartment Giles had finally assembled all the stuff he needed to summon a vengeance demon. Pausing a moment he reflected on the task ahead and on the Slayer and the two Saiyans gunning down for the master. It was absolute folly. But on the other hand, if anyone stood a chance it probably was that strange trio.

He had several bags and bowls of various herbs and powders laid out on his chess table. Grabbing a couple of them he went over to his desk where a goblet stood smoldering. Pulling some herbs from a bushel he dropped them into the goblet as he recited the ritual to summon Anyanka.

"Oh... Anyanka... I-I beseech thee..."he said as he put his glasses back on, "um... In the name of all women scorned... Come before me."

Having finished the ritual he looked around to see if she had appeared. She had, but not where he expected it. From the shadows underneath his stairs she slowly walked into the dim light of the room.

"Oh," Giles gasped as he finally saw her.

"Do you have any idea what I do to a man who uses that spell to summon me?" Anyanka said on a tone that suggested she was not amused.

Her being pissed off and in full demonic visage caused Giles to feel a tightening knot forming in his stomach.

"Bring on the first," the Master called.

The vampires at the cage door start shoving humans back before opening it. Fearless yet easily captured vampire hunter Oz Osbourne realized what's going to happen but can't do anything to stop it as two vampires enter the cage to select a victim.

"You," one of the two said and grabbed a girl, one of Cordelia's minor 'minions' and together they drag her out.

"Nooo! No! Please," Cordelia's minor 'minion' yelled in vain, "no! Help me! No! Noooo!

A few men inside the cage try to help her but get easily knocked aside. The vampires drag the girl out and closed the cage. Then one of them grabbed a cattle prod and shocked the girl. As the other humans watch in horror her body went limp and gets dragged to the machine. There she is put in a long stainless steel pan, possible stolen from a hospital autopsy lab and gets secured.

"She's still alive, you see," the Master pointed out to the other vampires, "for the freshness."

The machine is turned on, and the pan moved along the conveyor to the blood draining station. On either side are four arms that extend over the poor girl, each with a very large needle on the end. They all plunge into her body and begin to suck the blood from it. At one end of the contraption is a tap for sampling the blood, and a glass is filled for the Master to taste.

In the cage Larry and Oz watch in disbelief as they feel they had somehow moved from Bram Stoker's Dracula to Schindler's List.

In the back of the factory Buffy peeked around a corner, with Angel and the two Saiyans behind her. On the machine Cordelia's minor 'minion' mad a few more soft sounds and then died. To the delight of both vamp Xander and vamp Willow.

"What's the plan?" Angel asked looking at her and the two Saiyans.

"Don't fall on this," Buffy said holding up a stake which she then gave to Angel. Who accepted the thing uneasily, like he had never been at the other end of a stake.

"Do you want us to do anything?" Belmovekk asked. Vegeta just stood there, engrossed in the scene below, but not enough to care and jump in to stop it.

"Don't get in my way," Buffy replied.

As the glass with the blood sample is passed up to the Master, Buffy, Angel and the two Saiyans walk through the crowd of vampires towards the stage holding the Master. Everybody is too engrossed in the Master to take notice of them.

Meanwhile the Master held up the glass as if it were a fine wine of an exquisite vintage he gets to sample for the first time. On the conveyor belt the arms disengage from the dead girl and the pan with her body moves along for disposal.

"Welcome to the future," the Master said holding up the glass in a toast.

The assembled vamps start chanting.

"TO THE FUTURE! TO THE FUTURE! TO THE FUTURE!"

At that point Buffy started her attack and fired her crossbow at the Master. The Master however is a very old and wily master vampire. While not as old as Kakistos he had lived long enough to not be easily surprised. And also to be very fast as just before the arrow was about to strike he grabbed Xander and pulled him in front of him as a shield, causing the arrow to hit Xander in the shoulder.

Annoyed that she had missed Buffy tried to re-arm the crossbow for another attack but a vampire next to her knocked it from her hand

"Pathetic weapon," Vegeta snorted in disgust, "even by human standards. If she needed weapons so much she should have brought something more rapid firing."

"Modern human weapons do not kill vampires," Belmovekk said as he casually put his fist through an attacking vampire's undead heart, turning him to dust, "a wooden arrow however still does."

A panic had now set in amongst the attending vampires. While the two Saiyans stand back, occasionally killing off an attacking vamp stupid enough to attack them while they discuss her weapons and tactics, Buffy swiftly dispatched a vamp the more traditional way by kicking its knees to shreds and continued her advance towards the Master. Angel meanwhile had moved towards the cage and killed the vamp on guard and began to open the cage.

"Uh-oh. Puppy got out," Willow smiled as she saw him.

Angel threw open the cage's gate and started to pull people out. Who then joined in the fray. There was no escape other then through the multitude of vampires. So all the humans could do to escape was to fight their way out.

Meanwhile Buffy took on another vampire and kicked the unliving snot out of him.

As more humans get out and started fighting Oz broke off a piece of wood and started staking vamps left and right.

With things descending into complete chaos Xander and Willow decide it was time to join in and jumped from the stage.

In Giles' apartment Anyanka slowly approached Giles, who tried to stand his ground.

"Cordelia Chase. What did she wish for?" he asked her defiantly.

"I had no idea her wish would be so exciting," Anyanka replied cheerily, "brave New World. I hope she likes it."

Buffy took on a group of vampires all at once. One she crippled by stamping on his knees then threw him away, another got a punch in the face that causes him to stagger back while he clasped his mouth in pain. A vamp who attacked her from behind ate an elbow, then she threw number two into number three.

"She's got some good moves," Belmovekk said appreciatively.

"She's barely better then an average human," Vegeta snorted unimpressed, "even Yamcha would already have cleaned house."

A vampire slammed a piece of wood against the back of Belmovekk's head causing him to lose his hat. Unfazed by the attack Belmovekk leaned over and picked it up to put it back on and only then turned around to face the flabbergasted vampire.

"Do you mind?" the Saiyan said more annoyed then angry, then he belched up a fireball at the vampire that incinerated him.

"You're gonna change it back," Giles demanded of Anyanka who didn't seem that impressed by his strong language. Instead she stepped even closer, causing the librarian to involuntarily step back.

"I'm not afraid of you," Giles said, "your only power lies in the wishing."

Anyanka proved him wrong by making a sudden and hard grab for his neck.

"Wrong," Anyanka grinned as she effortlessly lifted him up and slammed him against the wall.

In the factory Buffy was slogging it out with Willow and with little problem she punched the red haired vampire and then kicked Willow down. Coming from behind her back another vampire's attack prevented Buffy from finishing off Willow for good however. The other vamp is quickly dealt with instead before she then faced a raging Xander. She grabbed him by the shoulders and kneed him hard several times. She then dropped him looking for another target. Behind her Xander got up and tried to attack her from behind. Angel sees it and ran towards her.

"Buffy, look out," he yelled.

While she's busy dealing with another vamp Angel ran past her and punched Xander. Xander in turn grabbed the crossbow bolt in his shoulder and stuck it into Angel who staggered back looking at the bolt embedded in his chest.

"Buffy," he cried out before crumbling into dust.

Not caring one bit about his demise she continued on her fight and took on another vamp.

"See?" Vegeta said as he causally swatted aside a vampire that was stupid enough to attack him, "perfect waste of a good senzu."

Belmovekk just shrugged.

"This is your real world now," Anyanka hissed, still pinning Giles against his own wall. Then she looked around as if in drinking in the world she'd created,

"This is the world we made. Isn't it wonderful?

In the factory Buffy dispatched another vampire coming from behind with a knuckle sandwich and turned her attention towards Xander again. Xander threw a human away as if he were nothing and made a swing at her. Swatting his punch away she used the opening to plant a stake in his chest.

Poof!

Exit Xander.

Seeing her love staked put Willow into a frenzy and she tried to make for Buffy. Instead Larry grabbed her and tried to pull her back. Seeing his friend wrestle with a particular vicious and much hated vamp caused Oz to come to his aid. Grabbing her by the waist the two of them shove her back onto a piece of wood sticking out from the cage and she gets impaled.

Woosh!

Exit Willow.

Giving another vampire a knuckle sandwich Buffy turned to face the Master. The Master slid off the stage and starts shoving both vampires and humans alike aside to get to her. Seeing him come towards her she started walking resolutely towards him and their showdown.

"The girl has good fighting spirit," Vegeta says impressed as he drove off a vampire just by scowling at it.

"She has got a fucking deathwish," Belmovekk replied disapproving, "I must train that out of her."

Meanwhile Giles was really starting to choke when he suddenly noticed that the amulet around Anyanka's neck was beginning to glow green. He let go of her choke hold and made a grab for it. To her surprise he took hold of it easily and yanked it off her neck, causing her to let go of him. With her confused he punched her in the face, sending her staggering back across the room.

Buffy and the Master finally meet up and start their fight. They seem to be evenly matched as both initial attacks get easily blocked. Instead Buffy tried to grab the Master's forearm.

"Now it gets interesting," Vegeta said.

Belmovekk said nothing. By this time no vampire tried to attack them anymore and a zone of non-brawling existed around them amidst a sea of brawling.

Giles slammed the amulet on his desk and looked around desperately for something heavy to smash it with. Seeing his marble paperweight he grabbed it as Anyanka got up from the floor.

"You trusting fool!" Anyanka yelled desperately , "How do you know the other world is any better than this?"

"Because it has to be!" Giles replied desperately as he looked at her.

The Master easily stopped Buffy's attempt at grabbing him and instead used Buffy's momentum to grab her instead. Pulling her by the shoulders he yanked her to him in an iron grip, his face suddenly grinning in victorious elation.

"No," Belmovekk suddenly yelled as he transformed into Super Saiyan.

Giles raised the paperweight to start the long swing to crush Anyanka's amulet.

"No," she yelled desperately.

The Master grabbed Buffy's head in a fatal hold from which there is no escape. This can only end in one way.

Seeing his fellow Saiyan transform and attack Vegeta shrugged, then he yelled and also transformed into Super Saiyan.

Giles had reached the high point of his swing.

The Master gave Buffy's head a hard twist, snapping her neck vertebrae. He grinned victorious only to see a being surrounded in golden flames strike at him and tear his head clean off.

Giles had begun his downward swing.

As the Master's head flew through the room and Buffy's limp body started to fall, her brain still registered how the small Saiyan had turned to gold and was shooting beams of energy left and right at every vampire in the room.

Behind her the Master disintegrated and the last thing Buffy noticed was Belmovekk holding her body, tears in his eyes and howling in frustration. Then everything turned to black for her.

"NO!" the Saiyan sorcerer bellowed like a wounded animal as his power skyrocketed even further, and like a volcano it blew up the entire factory.

Just as he was about to smash Anyanka's amulet a massive explosion rocked Sunnydale with a massive earthquake, causing him to miss at the last moment. Using the moment of confusion Anyanka managed to grab her amulet back and held it up triumphantly.

"Ha," she said, "you lose."

Giles cursed inside, then he tried to lunge for her amulet again. But this time she's ready and swatted him aside and he crashed against the wall.

Giles ribs hurts like hell, he probably cracked several on his left side. Anyanka came over and hunched down next to him.

"You might as well kill me," Giles said defiantly, "I have nothing worth living for."

"Don't blame yourself, you came so close," Anyanka gloated as she put her amulet back around her neck, "closer then anyone ever has come."

"But it wasn't enough," Giles said with increasing pain from his ribs impairing him.

"No, it wasn't," Anyanka smiled. Then she got up and turned towards his books, one after the other they started burning until none are left.

"I think I will let you live," she said smiling over her shoulder at his misery, "to let you live in this horror of a world is the greatest punishment I can think of."

"You bitch! Giles hissed after her as she walked towards his door.

"Sticks and stones," Anyanka replied offhand without looking back. Then she opened the door and stepped out.

Giles bowed down in defeat. He had failed everybody.

Next thing he knew his door blew open, splinters raining inside and Anyanka came back in, crashing hard into a wall. Then Belmovekk stepped inside, followed by the small Saiyan. Yet they have changed. Their hair had turned to gold, their eyes to the coldest blue green that bugged out Giles in no small way. Belmovekk eyes however looked sad beyond belief as he carried a small limp body. The small one just carried his bored expression.

Belmovekk walked towards the couch and gently he put the body down. To his dismay Giles could see it was Buffy's and her neck had been broken.

"I failed her, Master Giles," Belmovekk said shaking his head as he made sure her body was in what he deemed a dignified position, "I was too busy appraising her when the Master grabbed her and snapped her neck. I could not intervene in time."

"And the Master?" Giles asked as he got up.

"I killed him," Belmovekk said as he tenderly straightened Buffy's hair, "Vegeta killed the rest. I doubt that there is now a single vampire left in this town."

"I see," Giles said, "this is, um, most unfortunate. But as the Slayer dies a new one is chosen."

"What do I care!" Belmovekk yelled back angry, causing Giles to flinch, "I travelled for 22 of your years through the deepest of space so I could help this girl. She was supposed to be the One. The One that would help me end it all. She, not some other girl!"

The Saiyan transformed back to normal and sat down on the ground in front of the couch in utter defeat.

"If you care so much, why don't you use the Dragonballs?" Vegeta said, still in the hallway.

"We cannot," Belmovekk snapped back angry at his fellow Saiyan, "they were used three months ago, remember? I can't keep her on ice for 9 months!"

Then something occurred to him.

"I could go to the Mountain," Belmovekk said, "and travel to a Goa'uld world."

"What, borrow one of their sarcophagi?" Vegeta asked surprised, "Goa'uld worlds are heavily defended."

"They are no match for a Super Saiyan," Belmovekk said as he got up.

"That is true," Vegeta smirked, "still, those sarcophagi do tend to damage the soul."

"If you have a better idea I would really appreciate it if you told me!" Belmovekk snapped, "If not, shut the fuck up!"

"We could beat the location of the new Namek homeworld out of Kakarot or Kami?" Vegeta said unimpressed.

Belmovekk thought of that for a while. Then he shook no.

"They would not know," he said, "they left for places unknown."

"Then I guess it's either the ice or some sarcophagus," Vegeta shrugged.

Giles had heard the whole conversation and didn't understand most of it. But he thought he understood what the big Saiyan had in mind. He wanted to revive Buffy. And to his surprise he actually knew several means to do so. Then he looked at Anyanka's unconscious body.

"Why not her?" he said and pointed at the unconscious vengeance demon.

"What, that demon bitch I smacked?" Belmovekk replied looking at the demon.

"She's the cause of it all," Giles said, "she granted Cordelia's wish. If we destroy the amulet around her neck everything would return to normal."

"What, this little trinket," Vegeta said as he walked over to Anyanka and ripped the amulet from her neck, "you mean all that babble about another reality was true?"

"Destroy it and Buffy would be alive again as Sunnydale's resident Slayer," Giles said hopeful.

"Then lets destroy it, Vegeta," Belmovekk said hopeful, "crush it!"

Vegeta looked at the amulet in his hand.

"Oh, my head," Anyanka moaned as she started stirring. The first thing she saw was a being with golden hair standing above her holding her amulet.

"Have the Golden Ones arrived?" Anyanka said groggy. Then it hit her. How she had went outside the Watcher's apartment and ran into the fist of a big guy with golden hair, dark blue eyes, a golden glow around him and a big temper to boot.

"Oh crap," Anyanka said. She never really did read the memos D'Hoffryn sent to his demons. One had mentioned something about the Golden Ones and something about California. Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!

"Crush it Vegeta," another man said, standing next to a dead body on a couch, "destroy it so she comes back to life!"

The Saiyan prince looked at the amulet, then at his fellow Saiyan.

"No," he said and carefully pocketed the amulet behind his breast shield

"What?" Belmovekk exclaimed in surprise.

"How do I know the other reality is better then this one for me?" Vegeta said and pointed at Giles, "He said you were supposed to live here. Not at Capsule Corp. You helped me ascend to Super Saiyan, Movekk. How do I know I'm still a Super Saiyan in that other reality?"

"Vegeta, this is not the time," Belmovekk hissed slowly, "either crush that amulet or give me that amulet to me. Or so help me Aldur I will beat it out of you, my prince!"

The words my prince dripped with pure venom.

"Try me?" Vegeta smirked as he folded his arms across his chest.

Suddenly Belmovekk yelled and transformed from normal into Super Saiyan, his chi flame blazing fiercely causing strong winds to blow throughout the apartment.

"I will," Belmovekk said.

"Look," Anyanka said, "if it's about the girl, maybe I can wish her back to life."

"Don't listen to her," Giles yelled, "this reality is wrong!"

"Shut up," Vegeta said and lashed out with his chi throwing the Watcher against the wall again with great force, "don't interfere! She makes the best offer yet!"

"In exchange for my amulet you can have her back," Anyanka said as she slowly got up, "just make the right wish and I can do it."

Belmovekk looked over his shoulder, at Buffy's lifeless body shaking in his chi winds. It was tempting. It was so tempting!

"It would still be the wrong reality," came Giles' voice as he coughed up blood. Anyanka had hit hard, but whatever the small Saiyan had done had hit him like a demolition truck.

"Shut up!" Anyanka hissed and was about to lash out some serious magic with her hand when it was grabbed by Belmovekk.

"No more of you, demon," he said and looked at Vegeta, "I could kill the demon instead and also let it be done with."

"Wouldn't work," Anyanka grinned at the Saiyan, "kill me, my wishes would still remain in effect."

"So we are back to square one, Movekk," Vegeta smirked as he held all the cards.

"Maybe," Belmovekk said and yanked Anyanka towards him and snapped her neck in half. With a crack she went limp and fell on the ground.

"At least it shut her up," Belmovekk said.

"Now you burned your bridges though," Vegeta said and nodded at Buffy's body, "now she can't bring her back."

"I know," Belmovekk said and threw something to Giles, "eat!"

A small bean fell before Giles on the ground.

"Again you waste a bean on an insect," Vegeta said disapprovingly.

"If I destroy that amulet it will not matter," Belmovekk said and launched his attack. Faster then was humanly possible he clashed into Vegeta and the two crashed through the wall of Giles' apartment. And as Giles lay against the wall bleeding he could hear noises coming outside of titanic proportions.

Seeing the strange bean lying in front of him Giles reached out and took it. Normally he wouldn't do this but Belmovekk had said to eat it. And the other Saiyan seemed genuinely upset that Belmovekk had given it to him. So clearly it must have value. He popped it in his mouth and chewed it down. No sooner had he swallowed it down when he felt his body tingle and the pain gone. Without effort he got up.

First thing he did was examine the body of Anyanka. To his surprise her eyes still move around and follow his every move. She's still alive! Anger rose up in Giles.

"I can't believe you're still alive," he said to her and started kicking her body violently.

"Stupid!"

Kick!

"Bloody!"

Kick!

"Vengeance!"

Kick!

"Demon!"

Kick!

"Ah," Giles said afterwards, "I feel better."

Next he checked out Buffy's body. The whole glowing in the room and chi wind business had done terrible things to his home and hadn't been kind to her body either.

"All this trouble over you," Giles sighed regretfully and tried to put her body back in a dignified pose.

"Rest, good Slayer," he said gently afterwards, "be at peace!"

Then he kicked Anyanka some more for good measure and went out through the hole in the wall to see what the two Saiyans were up.

No sooner was he outside as he saw flashes of light and heard the rumble of detonations all over Sunnydale.

"Good God," he gasped, "they are tearing Sunnydale apart!"

He can't actually see them, just blurs and the after effects of their actions. An explosion high in the air lights up the night. A fireball came down crashing in a residential area and blew it up whole. A beam of light flashed across Sunnydale and disappeared inland. Ten seconds later a flash can be seen, with the sound taking even longer to reach Sunnydale.

Suddenly one of the Saiyans, glowing fiercely golden becomes visible and lanced out with a beam of energy going into the sky. Then a massive fireball came down in response and hit the Saiyan, exploding with the lights of a thousand suns. Another district goes up in flames.

For the first time in a year the people of Sunnydale take to the streets at night. They are no longer afraid of vampires and try to flee however they can as area after area, district after district, gets reduced to rubble by unseen forces. Suddenly Giles is no longer so certain that the other reality was that much better.

"What have I done?" he said softly. Then he sees a massive fireball coming towards his position.

It's the last thing he will ever see.

To Belmovekk's surprise Vegeta was putting up a stronger resistance then expected. Ever since coming to this planet he had pegged the Saiyan prince as the weakest Saiyan, but now he's going all out and still Vegeta has kept up effortlessly. Which meant by now Vegeta should also be way stronger then Goku.

He also seemed more clever then Goku, mainly staying close to the residential areas, forcing Belmovekk to either desist from using large yield energy attacks or risk killing a lot of people. But he wasn't falling for that. None of it mattered if he managed to destroy the amulet. And if he did hold back Vegeta would use it against him. At least by showing equal ruthlessness he had a chance that Vegeta might give up hiding in the city.

Belmovekk unleashed a whopper of an chi attack and sent it towards Vegeta. Immediately he followed his own attacking in the hope of catching Vegeta as he is slightly disorientated. So he dove straight into the explosion a fraction of a second after it's happened and crashed into the disorientated Saiyan prince.

The Saiyan prince however isn't as disorientated as expected and the two end up trading and blocking punches and kicks as their fight takes them all over the place.

Amidst devastated ruins of their previous energy attacks. Amidst fleeing citizens who suddenly get thrown around, cars displaced as the after effects of lightning fast chi hand to hand combat throw them around like mere leaves in the wind. Through a hole in the ground into the sewers where even the demons were desperately trying to escape the carnage.

Vegeta got in a lucky kick and Belmovekk goes crashing upwards and emerged above in the streets again. He recovered immediately and punched down Vegeta back into the sewers as he came up after him. He tried to go in and follow the Saiyan prince and instead gets greeted by a massive chi blast in the face. In response he held out his hands and pumped enough chi into Sunnydale's underground to cause every manhole cover in the town to erupt sky high with geysers of yellow chi. And in doing so caused most of Sunnydale's underground population to die in the process and live out real reality Xander's wet dream.

And so it goes forth until both take a breather and come to a stop, floating over the town.

"You have improved," Belmovekk panted as he sized up Vegeta. He cannot for some reason fathom why Vegeta had improved so much so recently. Then again, since he became a Super Saiyan half a year ago he has still been training non-stop at 500 G's.

"You haven't," Vegeta panted back, "you have grown soft looking for that girl all the time."

It's not quite true though. Belmovekk was putting up stiff resistance. And the other Saiyan has taken out a toll on him but he can take him, he could feel it in his gut. He knew Movekk was stronger then Kakarot. Which means that by beating Movekk he can make mincemeat out of Kakarot. This will be the day of Vegeta ascendant!

Still, he has no desire to see Movekk dead. An empire of one is no empire at all. And he does have designs on this world of his own that involve Saiyan genes. Kakarot, yes, he must pay for past injuries with his blood. But Movekk should be won over if possible. Even though he couldn't for the life understand what he sees in that dead Slayer girl Vegeta can understand an obsession when he sees one.

"Listen to reason, Movekk," Vegeta said, "I don't want to kill you. We still have the Androids to kill. And then we can rebuild the Saiyan Empire. We wish for immortality and use the people of Earth to rebuild our race. This will be the new Vegeta. We don't even have to exterminate other worlds if it bothers you that much. We just sweep aside those Worms out there and take this galaxy over. It will be glorious!"

He could envision it now, a new crusade of human-Saiyan hybrids with him and Movekk at the helm sweeping aside the paltry Goa'uld. And then the Asgard. It would indeed be glorious. Better then even the most optimistic dreams his own father might have hoped for.

"Still dreaming the same old dream, Vegeta?" Belmovekk panted.

"Well, what else is there to dream?" Vegeta shrugged, "Eternal servitude to some God far, far away? If it's the girl you want, I will hereby swear to move Heaven and Earth at your side to bring her back. We will do whatever it takes. I will assault any Worm planet at your side if it's a sarcophagus you want. I'll travel to New-Namek if need be, wherever it is. My word as the prince of all Saiyans "

"You could also just give me the amulet," Belmovekk panted.

"Everything but that, Movekk," Vegeta said as he fumbled the amulet, "so what will it be?"

"I guess I will have to beat it out of you then," Belmovekk said and assumed a fighting stance.

"Good," Vegeta smirked, "I'm tired of talking. I'll beat some sense in you instead!"

The fight resumed as dark clouds gathered over Sunnydale. Soon detonations could be heard again over what remained of the town. Flashes of explosions in land and air soon obliterated what remained of the town and those people that hadn't escaped yet soon were beyond wishing they had.

Death does have that kind of effect.

The fight still went on, with both fighters more or less equal. Belmovekk took a 10 megaton blast head on, Vegeta received a kick in the face that would have cause the Empire State building to collapse. A fireball the size of a football field hit Belmovekk and dragged him up high in the sky where it exploded with enough power to light up the sky over Southern California. A raging Belmovekk slammed into Vegeta with so much force it caused a crater a mile wide and a quarter mile deep.

Seismographs all over the world were going off like madmen. From the International Space Station in Earth orbit flashes of the battle could be seen with the naked eye through the cloud cover. In the command room of NORAD the operators were being bombarded with messages and generals are hanging on the phone to the Pentagon. F-16's are being scrambled by the US Air Force from March and Edwards Air Force bases, the USMC scrambled F/A-18's from Camp Pendleton and the US Navy scrambled similar planes from Naval Air Station Lemoore.

Below NORAD, deeper inside Cheyenne Mountain sat the SGC and even they were on the highest alert.

"What's going on, general?" Colonel O'Neill asked as he and Teal'c entered the command center and find things hectic and frantic, the general at the heart of it all, peering at screens.

"All hell is breaking lose, colonel, over Southern California, northwest of Los Angeles," General Hammond replied without taking his eyes of the NORAD data.

"And that is bad, because...?" O'Neill grinned. But his joke falls on infertile ground.

"So is it the big one?" he shrugged.

"If only we were so lucky, colonel," General Hammond said as he studied the incoming data coming from NORAD, "if only we were so lucky. From the readings it seems like somebody is playing dodge ball with a set of nukes."

"Are the Goa'uld unleashing some sort of surprise attack on us?" O' Neill asked, getting really concerned now.

"NORAD has nothing on radar, nor on the deep space sensors," tech sergeant Walters said.

"If it is not the Goa'uld, then who else has that kind of power?" Teal' c asks.

O'Neill and Hammond looked at each other.

"Not those people?" O'Neill groaned as he buried his face in his hands.

"This breaking news is coming in from our CNN-bureau in Los Angeles," CNN anchorman Bernard Shaw said as CNN switched over to live images showing flashes and the sounds of explosions.

"So far no news from the authorities," continued Shaw's voice over, "but the weather office reports freak weather and storm clouds coming in from all over the place. Geologists from the University of California have told CNN that they are measuring results equal to either earthquakes or nuclear detonations near and in the town of Sunnydale, California. All phone lines to the town are down but there are rumors of massive refugees..."

"VEGETA!" an angry Bulma yelled as she threw her TV remote through her big screen TV in frustration.

"That does it," Vegeta yelled as he crawled out of the latest crater he found himself in. He lifted himself up into the sky until he and Belmovekk found each other opposite one another, some 200 meters in the air over the ruins of Sunnydale. The town itself is now a wasteland, nothing remains of it, or the people and the demons that once lived there.

Vegeta spread out his arms and legs and gathered in his energy. His power began to skyrocket and Belmovekk could sense it. He didn't need to see the yellow energy gathering in each hand to see that.

The Saiyan sorcerer is hurting badly. So far he has kept up with Vegeta because the Saiyan Prince seemed intent on just hurting him. But he can sense this is going to be it. Vegeta is preparing some new uber-finishing move. Well, the Saiyan prince may think himself clever, always coming up with new ultimate attacks. Time to show him he was not the only one who could come up with them.

Belmovekk straightened himself out. Then using his fingernails he slashed himself diagonally in each of his hand palms. Blood started to well as he lowered his arms, hand palms to the front. As the blood ran, red energy starts to form in both hands and his own power started to skyrocket as well. The energy outpouring from both of them fuelling the dark clouds overhanging the wasteland of Sunnydale.

But not just the weather. Underneath what was once the Sunnydale high school library something had been stirring for some while and was now really beginning to take off. The Hellmouth was about to open.

Vegeta can sense that Belmovekk was up to something similar as he was. So finally having gathered enough power he launched his attack.

"Final Flash!"

Vegeta brings together both of his hands in front of him and combines the massive power into one single coherent yellow beam that travelled towards his fellow Saiyan. Belmovekk however responded in kind and brought up both of his hands in front of him and launched his own attack

"Fire and Blood!"

A blood red beam sprang forth from Belmovekk and met Vegeta's head on. Where the two beams meet a large half yellow, half blood red sphere came forth, the colored event horizon determining which of the two fighters has the upper hand. For now it gently sways forth in the center.

"So you finally came up with an original move of your own, Movekk?" Vegeta yelled as he tried to get a feel of what this new attack entailed. Belmovekk meanwhile tried to do the same with Vegeta's move. Both were so focused on each other that they don't even notice the two F-16's coming up fast behind them from Edwards AFB.

In the NORAD command center they have a direct line to the first quick reaction alert fighters coming up. And through NORAD so does the SGC. So Hammond, O'Neill and by now the rest of SG-1 can enjoy the banter of the pilots and NORAD.

"Eagle flight, this is NORAD. What do you see?"

"NORAD, this is Eagle One. You're not going to fucking believe this."

"Oh, I think we will," O'Neill couldn't help but comment.

"Eagle flight, this is NORAD, give us a status report."

"I'm not sure how to tell this, NORAD, " the voice of Eagle One said, pausing for a moment, "I have two guys glowing in the dark, they're floating in the air and they are shooting beams of light at each other. There is this big ball of energy in between them and I don't think I want to be there when that goes off."

It took a while for the NORAD controller to respond.

"Eagle flight, this is NORAD, can you tell us anything about Sunnydale? What is the town's status?"

"It's gone, NORAD."

O'Neill and Hammond looked at each other then shook their heads..

"Repeat that Eagle One?"

"The town is gone. It's like flying over the field of nuclear mushrooms in Nevada, NORAD. It is totally gone."

The fields of nuclear mushrooms was of course the US nuclear test site where they held open air nuclear tests up till the '60's. Even Daniel Jackson seemed to know this.

"We have to do something?" Daniel said desperately.

"Do what?" O'Neill said looking at Daniel, "The Edwards fighters carry no weapons, its a test base."

"The fighters from the other bases carry weapons," Major Samantha Carter said.

"And do what," O'Neill said out loud, "fire a sidewinder up their ass and annoy these people? They're lobbing the equivalent of nuclear grenades at each other. Didn't you hear that pilot? Sunnydale looks like a nuclear test zone! Anything those planes carry will do nothing to phase those peoples."

"According to these figures the whole of southern California is experiencing massive earthquakes," Sam said, "from San Diego to San Francisco to Las Vegas.

"O'Neill, what of that Ha'tak that was brought in," Teal'c suggested.

"Now we're talking," O'Neill said and looked hopeful at Hammond who shook no.

"Unfortunately it's being taken apart for tests at Area 51," the portly general explained.

"We're doomed," O'Neill said only to look at Major Carter, "unless you have a brilliant idea to save the planet, Sam?"

Before she could answer new voices came over the wireless.

"NORAD this is Whiskey flight leader. We're approaching the target area. What do you want us to do?"

"F/A-18's from Lemoore," Hammond said looking at the tactical screen.

"Whiskey flight leader, this is NORAD. Take out the targets with extreme prejudice."

"Copy that, NORAD. Starting attack run. NORAD, AMRAAM's cannot get a lock. Switching to AIM-9. AIM-9 having a lock. Firing!"

The two F/A-18's launched 4 sidewinder infra red missiles and banked off. The missiles streaked towards the two Saiyans. A distance of half a mile away however they all exploded against nothing.

"NORAD, this is Eagle One, strike is a failure, I repeat, strike is a failure."

"Copy that Eagle One." NORAD replied, "Stay in the area to observe the attacks of Coyote flight (F-16's from March AFB) and Cobra flight (F/A-18's from Camp Pendleton).

"Oh shit," Eagle One's voice exclaimed in horror, "oh shit!"

"Eagle One, this is NORAD, what's going on."

"You're not going to believe this, NORAD."

"I think we are believing quite a lot at the moment, Eagle One," the NORAD controller said. And he probably meant it.

"The ground is opening up underneath them, NORAD, and an army is coming out of the most ...they're straight from...it's like a mix between fairytale monsters and the Evil Dead! Fuck sidewinders! I think we're going to need clusterbombs, NORAD!"

The missile attack had gone largely unnoticed to the two Saiyans. To Vegeta's chagrin Belmovekk's Fire and Blood attack was stronger then his Final Flash. But since he was stronger it evened out. And pouring this much additional over the top energy in his attack meant that the other Saiyan would tire out earlier.

The opening of the Hellmouth however, that they did notice.

"By the seven..." Vegeta said and stole a glance below. The Hellmouth, source of all that felt evil in the area was opening and a vast demonic army was coming forth. Demons in all sorts and sizes streamed over what was once Sunnydale like an army of ants.

"If you don't give up, demons will overrun the earth, Movekk," he yelled at his opposite.

"It is of no matter," Belmovekk replied through gritted teeth, "I have nothing left to lose. Everything is destroyed. She is destroyed. If I lose you inherit a world riddled with demons and you are welcome to it. If I win none of this ever happened."

"I could always go to other worlds," replied Vegeta, "humans don't just exist here."

As if to illustrate his point Vegeta increased the power of his beam causing the event horizon to shift towards Belmovekk.

Belmovekk knew he could not keep up his attack forever. It was time for his final trump card to be played. For more then an hour he had been using his Will to gather together as much storm clouds as he could and steadily build up quite an overhead storm front. Luckily Vegeta had thought nothing wrong in that. Massive chi tended to wreak havoc with the weather anyway, so abnormal weather was to be expected. It had however never occurred to any of the Z-fighter to harness the power of the weather. But to a sorcerer like Belmovekk playing with the weather was part of the job.

"Now," he yelled and unleashed his Will. All the energy of warm moist clouds coming from the ocean mixing with all the energy of the chi laden freak weather discharged all at once into Vegeta. And for once it fucked up the Saiyan prince real good. For a second he lost control of his Final Flash and that was all the time Belmovekk needed to send the full force of two combined attacks his way.

"NO," Vegeta yelled but it was too late and it all detonated against him.

All over the world seismographs went tilt. From space a massive blast could be seen, the flash of which could be seen by everybody where it happened to be night. A blast plume spread material up into space. Blastwaves reached across the states of California and Nevada and beyond. At ground zero a massive crater re-arranged the Californian coastline creating a new bay bigger then San Francisco's Golden Bay. Nearby Los Angeles burned, as did the entire San Joaquin Valley.

The devastation was massive and would cause the worlds economy to collapse in the coming days. But at least the world was spared one horror. The vast demonic army coming from the Hellmouth had also been wiped out. Together with the Hellmouth itself.

While this part of the world ceased to be and the ocean rushed in to fill the new bay a lonely figure descended from the sky. At the northern edge of the new bay a mangled body lay on the ground and the figure landed next to it.

"Vegeta, you idiot," Belmovekk panted, "look at what you made me do, and to yourself."

"Well fought, Movekk," Vegeta grunted one last time. His opponent had fought well and honorably, he saw no shame in this defeat. Then the Prince of all Saiyans blew out his last breath and died.

"All for nothing," Belmovekk said in disgust and reached inside Vegeta's breast shield to take out a small amulet.

"So much misery and mayhem over such a small thing," Belmovekk said shaking his head as he examined the amulet, "such a little thing."

Then he pulled it into his hand and crushed it. A burst of green light came from his fingers.

And then the world turned into white.

"I wish Buffy Summers had never come to Sunnydale," Cordelia said out loud. Anya turned back to face her.

"Done," she grinned in glee.

Nothing happened.

Anya looked around. Something went wrong, but what?

"That would be cool," Cordelia said more to herself then anyone else, "No, wait. I wish Buffy Summers had never been born!"

"Done," Anya said again.

Again nothing happened and now Anya was getting worried as she started examining herself.

"And I wish that Xander Harris never again knows the touch of a woman," Cordelia smiled and started walking away," and that Willow wakes up tomorrow covered in monkey hair."

"Done," Anya said again quite desperate now as still nothing happened.

As Cordelia dreamed dreams of vengeance and a soon to be ex-vengeance demon tried in vain to fulfill those wishes Buffy sat in the Californian winter sun with her friends when they noticed Giles running towards them.

"Buffy," Giles panted breathless and leaned over, resting with his hands on his knees.

"You're trying to tell me something, I can tell," Buffy smiled at the panting Librarian.

"And here it comes," Xander said as Giles looked at Buffy in that exasperated way he so often did.

"Buffy," he panted, "your mother….. she's given birth!"

AN: Originally I intended to stick to the story as it was, keeping Belmo's influence and impact minimal. It ending with Giles crushing the amulet. And to really shake up the alternate reality in the upcoming Doppelgangland chapter. But then I realized, I had brought Vegeta along for the ride. And I made him a Super Saiyan. Why would he go along with Giles and Belmovekk changing reality when as far as he's concerned things are optimal? So I rewrote it and have him act accordingly and together they changed the course of the chapter. Hope you liked it.