Disclaimer: - See Chapter One.

Chapter Two

Cordelia awoke feeling trapped and unable to move with heavy weight pressing on her legs and stinging just above her left eye; she could feel blood slowly dripping freely from the open wound down the side of her face. Wiping her hand there and looking at it she saw the dark red fluid coating her hand and grimaced. She tried to budge, tried to move her legs free but was unable to and she had started to panic. "Oh, my God! He – Help! Somebody help me!" As she screamed, she could hear movement beyond the debris and the sounds of a young girl crying.

"Cordelia, hang on! I'll have you out of there in a minute!" Said Jenny as she continued moving rubble, Xander was with Dawn, still kneeling in the crater the girl had made when her possessed form was repeatedly caving Spike's head in. His arms wrapped around her tiny frame, he tried to comfort her, but he knew that he was failing miserably. His own emotions were all over the place and the only thing that was preventing him from freaking One of his girl's needed him and he wasn't going to let her down.

"Ms. Calendar?! Is that you?! Please hurry! I can't feel my legs!" Cordelia's voice trembled as the girl continued trying to jostle and move her legs. Still trapped the girl was on the verge of panicking as she waited to be freed. "Just hang on, Cordelia!" Jenny said once again; the changed Teacher was trying to keep the trapped girl calm. "Xander, help me!" She said turning to face the young man whose arms were wrapped around Dawn. Jenny couldn't help taking in the image of Buffy's sister. She was distraught; her eyes had then shifted over to Buffy's corpse. Jenny grimaced when she saw the unnatural angle of the girl's neck. Thankfully, she noticed that the girl's eyes were closed. She had always been a little unnerved when staring at a dead body and the eyes were seemingly gazing off somewhere.

She turned back towards the rubble that Cordy was still trapped under. There was still too much rubble to move by herself. 'I can't move it all by myself. Cordelia could be injured.' She thought. "Xander!" She finally shouted; all trace of patience despite the horrific situation that the three of them were now in, gone. At the tone of the teacher's voice, Xander finally turned to her, a snarl appeared on his tear stained face. "What?" He growled out at her, Jenny was momentarily taken aback by the young man's tone but she returned his snarl with one of her own while wondering where the hell the sudden anger she was feeling came from. "Get your ass over here and help me get Cordelia free."

She didn't even wait for Xander to acknowledge her request as she turned around and resumed digging Cordelia out.

"… Don't move the debris from the base." Xander's voice reluctantly said as he had finally made his way over to the rubble and joined her in freeing Cordy. "If you move too much of it then she'll be crushed under the weight of the rest. Remove the debris from the top." The boy said as he picked out a large piece of the rubble from the top of the pile and threw it off to the side.

Jenny didn't respond as she just followed Xander's instructions and the two of them proceeded to work Cordelia free, but the young man knew that something was amiss. Wasn't Willow here just a second ago?

"Buffy!" Willow shouted out as she regained consciousness with a start; the events of the last few minutes in the warehouse were still foremost in her mind. When she had seen the body of her friend lying on the cracked floor of the warehouse, her head at an unnatural angle, she knew that Buffy was dead. Tears fell as the stark realisation hit her; Buffy was dead.

Buffy was dead. Her friend was dead. Again, Willow fell to her knees and cried.

On the Ha'tak, Carter and Daniel were walking down the gold laden corridors of the mighty vessel of destruction when they once more heard the heavy footfalls of the Jaffa. Carter motioned to Jackson to follow her as she moved behind a wall and the two waited for the guards to walk past. Curious as to where the Jaffa were going, the two Tau'ri followed them all the way to the Ha'tak Glider Bay where they witnessed numerous other Jaffa going over and preparing the Death Glider's for Apophis's impending attack on Earth.

After getting off of the phone with the President, Hammond stood in front of a large group of Air Force personnel and spoke. "The President is mobilising every breach, including the Guard and Reserve. The Air Force efforts will be co – ordinated through this facility. I need this room converted into a Command and Control Centre, ASAP. Make sure that we have a link to AF – Sat Com, for encrypted communications to all Air Force bases and to NASA." He finished addressing the soldiers and turned to Major Davis. "Any more details to what we're facing?"

"Not as yet, Sir." Davis stated as everyone else marched into action.

A few minutes after they had left the Glider Bays, Dr. Jackson and Captain Carter had made their way to the Peltak; O'Neill and Teal'c were still prisoners of Klorel as the false God continued to gloat over O'Neill's despair. Standing outside the room, Carter gave Jackson her nine – millimetre to use as she then readied a smoke bomb and shortly threw it into the corridor as the two hid behind a panel.

Distraction was the order of the day as three Jaffa came out of the Peltak to inspect what was happening; Carter and Daniel surprised the two as they jumped out firing and quickly killed them all. Hearing the gunfire outside, the Jaffa in the room readied their Staff Weapons and prepared to use them when they saw Daniel and Carter run into the room firing. Taking advantage of the confusion, O'Neill and Teal'c sprang into action by fighting the guards nearest to them hand – to – hand.

Seeing his Jaffa dying, Klorel sees Daniel and is incensed, stalking over to the Archaeologist and knocking the gun from his hand, the false God grabbed him and triggered his hand device, causing Daniel great pain.

Seeing the nine – millimetre on the floor, O'Neill picked up the gun and pointed it at Klorel. "Skarra!" He shouted but Klorel kept going. Jack watched as Daniel started shaking, he knew his friend wasn't going to last much longer. "Skarra, don't!" Teal'c watched as O'Neill looked on conflicted; he knew that it was hard for his friend watching as the host of Klorel attacked Daniel. "O'Neill, you must take action!" Shouted the former First Prime.

"Skarra!" Jack shouted once more before he finally shot Klorel. Jackson fell limply to the ground as Skarra's fell not long after his.

Trying to catch his breath, Daniel was lying on the ground trying to overcome the effects of the hand device, he saw Jack sitting with Skarra as Sam ran over to see if he was alright. "Daniel? Are you alright?" He let out a faint grunt as he was unable to speak to her.

"O'Neer…" Skarra gasped out, pain wracking his body as he convulsed. Feeling the symbiote dying inside of him, he looked up upon the guilt ridden face of the man that had first saved him and his people of Abydos from Ra and now has saved him from the demon inside him. "Aw Skarra, I'm sorry." His body had stopped convulsing; using the last erg of life left in his body Skarra died in Jack's arms, smiling up at his friend and grateful that he was finally free.

Teal'c walked over to the window as something had caught his attention. "Colonel." When he got no response from his CO, he called out, his voice sounding grave. "O'Neill!"

"Yeah, give me a second here, Teal'c." He said as he closed and rubbed his eyes; this situation was just killing him here, unfortunately, it was about to get worse. "I cannot." Jack looked up and he stared out as Earth got larger in view as the Ha'tak moved ever closer to the planet.

Carter moved over to stand beside them as she too watched as the planet got ever closer.

"Earth." Stated the woman as Daniel had recovered enough to stand and join them by the Peltak. "I thought you said we wouldn't be here for at least a year." Looking non – plussed, Carter responded as only she could.

"I guess this ship can go way faster than ten times the speed of light…" Turning towards O'Neill, she carried on. "Colonel, on our way here we saw the Death Gliders. They're preparing for launch, Sir."

Dawn had finally stopped crying; she was still kneeling near Buffy and hadn't moved for the past twenty minutes as Xander and Jenny had carried on and finally dug Cordelia free from the rubble and was currently checking her over for any other injuries but apart from the cut above her eye and some bruising on her legs, she was otherwise unharmed. "God! What kept you two? I thought that I was going to die in there!" She exclaimed as she winced once more from the stinging cut. "Can you help me up please? I need to go to the hospital." She'd asked the two hardened people. Xander and Jenny looked down at her as Cordy held her arms out, clearly expecting to be lifted up off the ground.

Xander rolled his eyes as he bent slightly and lifted the Queen of Sunnydale High from the ground and helping her to stand. Like before when he was lifting the debris from on top of her, he felt stronger. Stronger than he had felt before; looking over at Ms. Calendar, he saw the contemplative look on her face and was about to ask her what she was thinking about. "Ms. Cal – "

"Hey…" Interrupted Cordy before he could ask the teacher. "I said I need to get to the hospital, Loser. God! Why am I surrounded by such – " Xander turned to her and caught her gaze with a scowl, narrowing his eyes at the teen socialite, he growled at her. "Cordy, not now! Just… Just not now, okay?" So surprised by the intensity of his voice and the look in his cold black eyes Cordelia quietened down and waited.

"Ms. C?" He asked as the teacher finally turned her attention towards him and then briefly glanced at the motionless Dawn. She briefly saw the small girl's furry appendage twitching behind her as it had wrapped itself around her waist and her hypothesis was somewhat confirmed for Dawn and herself at least, because she could feel her own tail as well as it tightened around her lithe waist. Plus, there was now the fact that her battle armour and scouter were now real. They felt like actual Saiyan battle armour to her and the scouter felt real as well. When she had earlier bought her costume along with Xander and Dawn at the time, the smitten teen had dragged Xander to the costume shop and had bought two Saiyan costumes with help from Joyce in an effort to impress the young man.

Jenny had to hide a smirk at the time as she felt sorry for Xander, but she commended him when he acquiesced to the young girl's request of dressing as Saiyans. She had decided to join them, apparently much to Xander's relief and delight (you all know why!) because she had initially believed that it would've been fun to dress as a kick ass Saiyan warrior and she couldn't wait to show Rupert her costume and see his reaction and later show him just exactly how long her legs actually were. In private.

The battle vests were made from moulded cheap EVA rubber; as were the gloves, gauntlets and boots that were part of the costume. They were very well detailed and the scouter's to go with the costumes were made from cheap plastic. All in all, the costumes weren't very expensive to buy.

Joining the two teens, Jenny had been escorting Xander's group with Dawn following eagerly, just enjoying being with the object of her infatuation before they were suddenly overcome by something forcing its way into their bodies and that was the last thing she remembered.

Looking back at Xander, she posited whether or not if he was like her and Dawn now; looking over his armour, she noted that it too had changed from its original cheap looking material and now looked like it was made from the same stretchy, durable material that all battle armour was made from. She looked at his face, or more importantly, the scouter he sported on his face and it too now looked real as well.

Finally, she glanced down at his waist and saw his tail wrapped around him. She waited to see if it would move or if it was fake, but when she saw it twitch like Dawn's had moments ago she had her answer.

She, Dawn and Xander had been changed into Saiyans; there was no longer any denying it. How would the Kalderash react when they find out that she is no longer even human much less a part of the family? What about her mission? Only one word came to mind in her opinion over the situation now.

'Fuck!' She had a question stuck in her mind at the revelation of the extent of the changes they had gone through; did Xander know? Despite everything that happened, did Dawn?

"Ms. Calendar?" Xander's voice had brought her attention back to the boy and she looked at him, waiting to speak. "Yes, Xander?"

"Are you okay?" He asked as he showed concern for her, she was touched and she smiled, trying to alleviate the young man's concerns she thought that Dawn and… Buffy's body should be their main priority.

"I'll be alright, Xander. I think that Dawn needs us more right now. And we have to get Cordelia's wounds looked at." She looked over at the socialite who had turned to look at Dawn. See was surprised to see a look of sadness on the girl's face as she watched the younger Summers silently keep vigil over the Slayer's body.

'Poor girl. She didn't deserve this.' Cordelia thought as she watched on. Despite her condemnation of Buffy and her loser friends, she actually liked Dawn whenever she had met her. She saw a lot of potential in her and if she was older, she would've gladly accepted her as part of her clique of 'friends' and kicked Harmony to the curb. "She was right." Cordelia said. "Who was right?" Xander asked her as he started to move over to Dawn. "Buffy. I didn't believe it when she told me in School earlier, but she was right about Angel. He really was a vampire. Gross, I can't believe that I was going to try to catch him. Ugh!" Jenny looked at her, a feeling of dread suddenly bubbled in her stomach as she feared the answer to her question. "Was?"

Cordy turned and looked at her. "Yeah, the Billy Idol wannabe staked him right in front of me."

Jenny missed the look of surprise on Xander's face as he registered the news just as that feeling of dread she had turned cold. She now knew to expect a visit soon.

Angel was dead! On any other day he would've done the Snoopy dance at hearing the news, but not now. Not like this. Damn it, he was going to miss insulting him. Putting all thoughts of Dead – Angel's demise from his mind, Xander neared Dawn and knelt by her.

His heart broke at the sight of her.

"Dawnie, we need to go to the hospital. You're Mom's probably worried sick about you." Dawn turned to him but she didn't say anything as she glanced at him the turned her eyes back towards Buffy. "Dawnie?" He tried again, this time putting his arm around the girl's shoulders. "C'mon." He said as he stood a pulled Dawn up with him; offering no resistance, Dawn complied as something in her mind said 'Xander good! Xander friend.' When she saw him going to pick up Buffy's… She couldn't even think of it! She watched as Xander carefully picked up the body of his friend, her sister and with a sombre look, walked away from the destroyed building followed by Dawn, and Cordelia who was being helped by Jenny.

It was a dark time on the Hellmouth.