Hey everyone! So with this chapter, seasons 5 and 2 of Buffy and Angel are done. I'll be taking a month long break to finish seasons 6 and 3 so updates will go smooth sailing afterwards. But rest assured I won't abandon this! :)
15. Angel Episode Tag 2x22 "There's No Place Like Plrtz Glrb"
"I don't have to - but I'm going to. And you and your filthy cow-princess can go straight..."
Cordelia stood behind Silas and plunged a sword through his side Silas roared in pain but shoved Cordelia to the ground and made to use the device but Wesley stretched out his arm as his eyes turned green. A green barrier separated Silas from the device.
"You…" hissed Silas to Wesley. "You are the Mage."
"Yes," began Wesley as he kept the barrier between Silas and the machine active. "Yes, I am."
"Well you failed," said Silas, through gritted teeth. "Many of your men are falling."
"You sure about that?"
Fallen men from the corridor and around the castle, though heavily injured were still breathing and alive.
"You may bring them down but they will not stay like that."
Silas glared at Wesley. "This is not the end, mage! You and your cow-princess can just—"
Cordelia then beheaded him.
"Your cow-princess is tired of hearing you yak, padre." said Cordelia.
"Nice going." commented Gunn.
"These guys stay dead without a head?" Cordelia asked one of the rebels.
"Oh yeah." replied Sasha.
"Good. We need to get back to the village now!" said Cordelia to Wesley. "The groosalug is facing a terrible beast, I saw it."
"Actually the beast he's facing is Angel." replied Wesley.
"What?!" asked Cordelia and she hurried out, Gunn following her.
xXx
"Lay down your weapons! Silas is dead. Any guard who harms a human from this day forth shall have to answer to me!" declared Cordelia.
"She loves me, too, right?" asked Angel as he turned to his friends. They had arrived in time and managed to stop the fight. Cordelia calling out that she loved Groo, much to the dismay of Angel.
"Are you okay? - Did he hurt you?" asked Cordelia as she hugged Groo,
"As a friend and co-worker." offered Angel although it is not evident if anybody else is listening to him.
"Can I get some medical attention around here, people?" asked Cordelia as she worried over Groo.
"Maybe love is too strong a term." said Angel but then more of the priests arrived.
"This is not over yet," said a figure and once again Silas walked up to them.
"I thought you said he stayed dead even without the head," said Gunn to Sasha.
"I thought so too," replied Sasha as the rebels armed themselves once again.
Silas laughed at them. "How do you think this will end?" He asked the humans. "You are just kidding yourselves. You are not strong enough to defeat us."
Wesley looked back at all the images he had been seeing ever since they had arrived in Pylea. They weren't past memories…they were clues on what could be a future…a future for Pylea if he acted correctly.
"You're right," said Wesley and everyone turned to him. "They aren't strong enough to defeat you." He began walking towards Silas, distancing himself from the rebels. "But I am."
A barrier was created protecting everyone else from the priests. Wesley stood just outside of it.
"Wesley!" came the shouts from his friends but Wesley straightened up his sword, ready to fight.
"You can't stay in this dimension forever Mage," said Silas. "You will leave and we will be back."
"Not if your dead and can't come back at all," said Wesley.
"You can't kill all of us," said Silas with a motion of his hand.
"You think?" replied Wesley, his face expressionless.
"You are the Great Mage," began Silas. "And you are incredible stupid."
"Why don't you just try me?" challenged Wesley and demons charged at him and Wesley, as his eyes turned green, defeated him instantly. The other demons and Silas made to charge at him as well and that's when Wesley stretched out his hand. A crack materialized itself on the ground between Wesley and the demons. It was emitting a white light and in a way looked like the portal the gang had come through.
"Cross then," challenged Wesley. "Come at me with what you have."
Silas glared at him. "We will come back, Mage. You won't be able to protect all of them forever. This isn't over."
Silas turned to retreat but the portal on the ground encircled them.
"I don't think I made it clear," said Wesley. "You are not going to trouble this world or any other dimension anymore." The ground underneath the priests, demons and Silas were standing on suddenly became the portal. "This is over!"
The demons fell through the portal.
"You will pay for this Gem! You will pay for this!"
The portal closed just as Wesley's eyes returned to their normal state and he sank to his knees. Angel and co. running up to him.
"Are you alright?" asked Angel as he and Gunn helped Wesley to his feet.
"I think…so," replied Wesley, a little out of breathe. "That…I just opened a portal…" He turned to Angel then to Gunn. "I just opened a portal."
"You opened one before, Wes," said Gunn with a confused look.
"But I had the spell from that book," said Wesley. "This time…I just opened a portal on my own…for the first time."
Angel smiled, shook his head and patted Wesley on the back. "I guess training is paying off."
xXx
"So you think we can open a portal by using the priests' formula?" asked Wesley as he and Fred studied the books in the palace.
"Yeah," began Fred. "I've been…you know…opening them but I didn't know where." She looked at the books then at Wesley. "But you looked like you could do so on your own."
"Oh," began Wesley, as he blushed slightly. "That was a spur of the moment. I don't really know how to do that again…I just thought…well I wanted to send those beings far away from Pylea and it sort…of well…it sort of just happened."
Fred studied him and knew he was telling the truth.
"Maybe if you concentrated hard enough you could get us back," offered Fred. "Maybe I could still try and figure out this formula…I was studying Physics before I ended up here. Then maybe you could do the magic mumbo jumbo."
Wesley smiled and Fred rewarded him with a small smile of her own. "Thank you, Fred."
"No worries, Wesley."
At she said his name, a memory of a dark place surged into Wesley's memory. Everything was dark. Everything was painful. He could pained screams, people calling for help…he saw a faint green light in a distance…he could hear his friends calling for help…and then a woman's voice…calling him, shouting his name.
"Wesley!"
Wesley snapped out of the memory to see Fred looking up at him in concern.
"Are you ok?" asked Fred as she led Wesley to a chair.
"Yes," began Wesley after taking a deep breathe. "It was just a memory…not important. Sorry to have worried you."
Fred studied him and knew that wasn't the case but did not push the topic any further. She went back to the priests' notes.
Wesley sighed and rubbed a tired had over his forehead. The time he fought to awaken his powers…he had heard Fred's voice calling out his name…but why on earth would he hear her voice as that moment? Why did her call make him run to the green light at the distance?
Wesley looked over at the girl who was pondering over many books. Maybe it was because Fred was the first person he technically saved by being the Gem. By opening a portal, Wesley was giving Fred her life back.
Wesley shook his head. That was probably the reason and nothing more.
xXx
"Who's up for a nightcap?" offered Lorne as they returned safely back into their own dimension. Fred had figured out the formula and Wesley repeated the spell from memory and there they were back in L.A.
They all got out of the car but Wesley stumbled.
"Hey," said Gunn as he helped him to his feet. The crystals weren't glowing as bright as they usually were. "Take it easy Wesley."
"That took more energy than our initial trip," said Wesley as he leaned on Gunn.
"Well you had two additional passengers," offered Cordelia. "But your barrier protected us. We're all back in one piece."
"Yes," said Wesley as he could feel his energy returning. "Why it was worth it, Cordelia."
xXx
"Okay." Began Angel with a smile as he walked to get ahead of the entire group as they crossed the hotel's courtyard. "Can I say it? I wanna say it."
"Say what?" asked Wesley with a smile. Angel was acting like a child but it was such a site to witness.
Angel pushed the double doors open and walked into the lobby.
"There's no place like..." he began but stopped short.
Willow sat hunched over on one of the chairs in the lobby. She looked up at them and Angel's smile vanishes from his face.
"Willow?"
"What's..?" began Cordelia, coming up to Angel's side.
Willow slowly got up, never taking her eyes of Angel.
"It's Buffy."
