Epilogue
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A Day minus 446
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The Marines had been guarding one of the roads into Sunnydale since, well, ever since battalion HQ dropped them of here with the strict orders not to let anything through that didn't have the proper ID. It was a boring job, but hey, it beat clearing rubble in the town. Maybe they were in the boonies but even here the occasional vehicle came by, telling them how the town was a battlefield of epic proportions.
Since they had little to do but check the occasional vehicle coming in and out they had switched on a radio in one of the humvees to at least pass the time.
"And on the news today, General Moore, head of the relief operation in Sunnydale held a press conference today in Oxnard. When asked what exactly happened in the town the general said that a chemical explosion had taken place. The general produced documents taken from Sunnydale City Hall which proved that Mayor Wilkins was involved in a corruption scandal whereby chemical waste was being stored in the local high school. And that improper storage led to a chemical burn responsible for hallucinations and then to a massive explosion."
"When a reporter asked about strange sightings of flying men the general produced a sample of the chemical and asked the reporter to 'take a whiff and see what else you'll see.' General Moore has specified no time when the residents of Sunnydale could return but said that the Marines and the National Guard where haulin' ass to clean the town up ASAP."
"In Washington Californian senator….."
With a click the radio switched channels to a music station.
"Hey, I was listening to that," one of the Marines standing outside of the humvee complained.
"Shut up, Thomas," the Marine who switched channels said back, "I had my dose of daily bullshit and that was bullshit. Chemical explosion my ass!"
"Yeah, but I wanted to hear the football results," Thomas complained.
"Chemical explosion ain't that implausible," a third Marine said, "besides, how would you know, you weren't in town."
"Shut up, dickface," 2nd Marine said, "Remember that convoy that came through earlier? I talked to the drivers. And they told me it weren't no chemical explosion. They're covering something up. As usual."
"You're full of crap, Jackson," 3rd Marine countered, "You and your crazy conspiracy theories. Ooh, the government burned down Waco, ooh, the government blew up the Oklahoma building. Shut the fuck up!"
"Jackson, Harris, knock it off," a 4th Marine said, "and get out of the humvee. We have visitors.
"Yes, Gunny," the Marines said as they left the humvee and joined the gunnery sergeant at the road block. Three humvees were coming outbound from Sunnydale and slowed down as the gunnery sergeant approached the vehicles. Their markings identified them as Army.
The lead vehicle stopped just before the gunnery sergeant, then the gunnery sergeant walked to the passenger side where a window was being lowered. A lieutenant could be seen sitting there.
"Good day, Gunny," the lieutenant smiled, "busy day?"
"Not really, sir," the gunnery sergeant said shaking his head, "it's pretty much the ass end of the world here, can I see some ID and papers please sir?"
The lieutenant handed over an ID card and a slip of paper. Which the gunnery sergeant briefly glanced over, then he handed them both back.
"Everything looks in order, sir," the gunnery sergeant said, then he signaled his men to clear the road block, "Anything interesting happening in town, sir?"
"Not unless you consider cleaning detail interesting, Gunny," the lieutenant said, then he leaned out of his window, "grapevine has it the Air Force had something to do with it. Something experimental. Some sort of stealth gizmo. Used to be an Army base in town but the Air Force took it over recently. And since jets from Edwards come over Sunnydale regularly…."
"I get the point, sir," the gunnery sergeant winked, then he saluted, "have a safe journey, sir."
"Semper fi, Gunny," the lieutenant smiled back. Then the three humvees drove through the check point.
Inside the lead humvee the lieutenant rolled up the window and took off his helmet.
"Dumbass Marine," the driver next to him muttered annoyed.
"Now now," the lieutenant said chiding, "don't let Harris hear you, he's a Marine."
"He's also in the car behind us, sir," the driver sniggered. The lieutenant rummaged in a bag that lay between his feet.
"Keep an eye on things, will ya," the lieutenant said as he took out a box from the bag..
"Sure thing, sir," the driver replied.
The lieutenant opened the box. Inside the box there was a device of unknown origin. The lieutenant pressed a few controls, then he took a small booklet from his breast pocket. Next he held his booklet open in one hand, then used the other to press some more controls on the device.
Suddenly what looked like a holographic sphere formed above the device.
"Control, this Gator leader," he said and read from the notebook, "calling command on NC853E4R8X."
For a moment nothing happened, then inside the holographic sphere the face appeared of a blond woman in her late forties.
"Report, Lieutenant Graham," she said sternly.
"We have it, director Walsh," the black lieutenant said excited, "my men just recovered the remains of Android #13."
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THE END
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To be continued in Part 3 The Robots and the Saiyan
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Postscript
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Yes!
Done!
Finally!
You guys have no idea how elated I'm feeling. This has been the longest story I've worked on, ever! All chapters of epic length! And to think there were times I thought it would never get finished.
This was my first attempt at doing it on the fly, instead of finishing it all and then posting it as I used to do. As a result it probably came out a little less coherent as parts 1 and 2A. Still, it required less rewrites as I finished the story chapter by chapter in chronological order. No doing the ends first and then some of the middle chapters only to touch up the prologue. I have to say even though it was more hard work, and sometimes I had no idea where I was going I liked writing it like this.
The downside was that it probably became a little less about Wilkins and his shenanigans and more and more about , Xander, a porn star and a crazy Saiyan chick. Which was totally unplanned. It didn't help that I had no idea whatsoever what I was going to write after Döppelgangland. As a result of that Xander and his girlfriends more or less stepped forward and began to dominate the story, pushing it in ways not originally intended.
Originally I never intended to focus on Xander's travels and places like Tanjecterly. Originally it was going to be Sunnydale mostly, and Android shenanigans, with Xander showing up again around Ascension day. But by the time I had to write those chapters I had grown bored with rehashing Buffy scripts and decided to strike for more original ground. As a result getting it back on track in the final two chapters got harder and harder. And I think especially chapter 14 suffered from it. But I like to think I made up for it in the last chapter.
Okay, now that I'm finished it's time to take a breather. Nothing long, as I already have the general lines of part 3 worked out. And it's probably good to hit the ground running while I'm still in the zone. Especially now that I have a new computer..
While I enjoyed posting these chapters as I went along I'm probably going to stick to finishing it all in one go for the next installment. You hopefully don't have to wait a year and a half for this next installment (knocks on wood), as I don't intend to make it a long story. Part 3 will deal with events from season 4 of Buffy and the final year before the coming of the androids and I plan on making it a single continuous story, just like 2A was about Amūn.
And after that, finally, I can get to the Cell games. I can't wait for it!
I'd like to thank DoWnEr for most of the beta work, for giving me the occasional comments on my abuse of the English language. But even more for being a soundboard to bounce ideas of for the first half of this story. While most of his ideas and suggestions didn't make it, those that did helped build this story. You da man!
I also like to thank Shadowmaster, who really, really likes this story and kept pestering me for updates and offering me ideas, most of them even weirder then DoWnEr. I'm sorry I can't give you your favorite Xander pairing dude, but the story has to go where the story wants to go. Still, you helped me greatly when I was in a creative funk. And your plot bunny's even weirder then mine.
And finally I'd like to thank 3DMaster. For without his Buffy Z there would be no Original of the Species. His story inspired me to write my own. For that I salute you. And for the love of Kami, could you please update Buffy Z once in a while?
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AN 2017: Next part tomorrow, you lucky sods!
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Appendix
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Powerlevels.
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I just don't yank my powerlevels for the Scoobies out of thin air. Okay, I did for most of them. But some are the result of well thought out formulas and Excel spreadsheets.
Honest!
The key to DBZ powerlevels in my opinion is that they seem to go faster as you get bigger. Which means you will go slowly for a long time. But once you reach a large number it takes off.
Early levels, the Glove of Myhnegon
Before:
Buffy - 876
Xander - 410
Oz - 170
WereOz - 680
Faith - 224
Angel - ?
After:
Buffy - 4643
Xander - 2173
Oz - 901
WereOz - 3604
Faith - 1187
Angel - ?
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The androids:
Unlike their later models, these were basically converted test models that Gero had lying about. Because of that they had fairly low power levels. But also remember Gero was greatly surprised by how much Goku and his friends had advanced, so he probably thought a 5 figure powerlevel was still pretty good. In true DBZ tradition I made the leader who normally does the least, #13, the strongest, while the apparent big strong guy who does most of the dirty work, #14, gets a lower level. As an infiltrator #15's the weakest.
#13 - 25000
#14 - 22000
#15 - 5000
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Doublegangland:
I reason that as Slayers Buffy and Faith go fastest, while more 'normal' humans like Xander and Oz go slower. So over time the Slayers will grow apart more and more from their 'normal' friends. Angel on the other hand advances faster then humans but since he didn't get a boost from the destruction of the Glove of Myhnegon he's still at the bottom. After a year in the RoSaT both Xander and made significant gains. And because she's a Slayer she almost managed to overtake Xander despite his head start. Thanks to Belmo giving her a boost thanks to the spell he learned from Angel she returns to her universe at a very healthy level.
Doublegang:
Buffy - 6309
Xander - 2850
Oz - 1056
WereOz - 4224
Faith - 1709
Angel - 960
alt-Buffy - 132
PostRoSaT / Angel's spell:
Xander - 14706
alt-Buffy - 13796 / 151756
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The Scoobies split:
Because he regularly fights and gets beaten up Xander still advances, but not as fast as he would with regular training.
Buffy - 8292
Xander - 16000
Oz - 1267
WereOz - 5069
Faith - 2246
Angel - 1229
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Tanjecterly:
After nearly dying and healing very fast Xander receives a major boost. He doesn't get a real boost from being liberated because he then heals at a normal rate. Although Angela and Ferucca inhabit the same body, Ferucca knows how to use it to its maximum best. Ozaru of course is just a simple 10x multiplier. Angela as Super Saiyan makes for a fairly weak Super Saiyan as her base level is exceptionally low.
Xander - 20.000
Angela - 4.000
Ferucca - 6.000
Ozaru Ferucca - 60.000
SSJ Angela - 5.000.000
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Graduation:
Belmo gets sick so he's out as a fighter. Riley stands for the average trainee. If you think the Scoobies are still very low, don't fear. After all, they've only done part-time training so far. The figures for Goku and his friends is pure guesswork at this time, the last canon figure given in the series was 5 for Trunks as one of Freeza's henchmen took a reading. Planet Namek lists him and Piccolo of having 25 and 8 million each, with no mention of his friends. Note that the Genki Dama is extremely high. As it should be, it really is a weapon of last resort. After all, King Kai gave him permission to use it only once, and he did blew a hole with it on Namek.
The good guys:
Belmo (sick) - ?
Buffy - 14.326
Xander - 21.000
Oz - 1825
WereOz - 7299
Willow - 200
Angel - 2013
Goku - 22.000.000
Goku's genki dama - 60.000.000
Piccolo - 5.730.000
Tien - 80.000
Krillin - 72.000
Yamcha - 55.000
Riley - 600
Faith got both the 10x times spell and a 2nd upgrade from the mayor, which is why she's so strong. Wilkins the pure demon is a better version of Freeza. The increase in strength from form 2 to 3 was never that great in the series so it is the same for Wilkins, the real kick coming from 4.
The bad guys
#13 - 25.000
Faith - 55.459
Wilkins 2nd form - 18.000.000
Wilkins 3rd form - 24.000.000
Wilkins 4th form - 36.000.000