Chapter Five: - Launch

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Willy loved Halloween on the hellmouth, he always did. It was always good for business and tonight was no exception. The bar was packed tonight; the snitch spotted a couple of his regulars sitting at their usual tables or at the bar watching the TV. He spotted that flinty looking, green guy that came down from LA last night, whatsisname…? Merl! Yeah, that's was it. Merl. What was he again? Willy wondered, as he had never seen a demon like that guy before.

Willy shrugged his shoulders and paid it no further thought as he carried scanning the crowd; he saw a few of Spike's boys sitting in the booth near the back door as they were downing their blood followed by the Bourbon Chasers they ordered along with it. 'No class.' Willy thought idly as he watched good liquor going to waste on three vampires.

"Hey, Willy! C'mon, man, refill!" A vamp said as he waved his empty glass of blood in the bartender's face. Willy snapped back at the vamp in question and reached for the bottle of O Negative he had stashed on the display. It was right next to a bottle of some disgusting green stuff he'd tried one time. Just to test the merchandise, see if it was alright for selling. Big mistake. He was puking his guts out for five hours that time; he swore to himself he'd steer clear of it from then on.

"Alright, Frank, here you go." He said as he poured the vamp his drink and left the bottle for the vamp to refill his glass with later. He carried on serving for a few minutes longer until he and everyone in the bar heard a loud bang and saw a brief flash of light coming from outside.

This was never a good sign.

A few seconds later, the door to the bar opened to the outside world and everyone stopped what they were doing as they saw two kids in costumes standing in the doorway. Willy recognised one of them immediately. The kid that had been helping the Slayer for the past year, who was he again…? Harris! That was it. Tony Harris' boy. Crap. Willy thought as he watched the boy scan the bar and everyone in it before he stepped further inside, a dismissive look on his face, but for the briefest moment, Willy thought he the kid's mouth twitch a little. Willy knew something was about to go down, but as he looked to the other kid that was with Xander, a young girl that was showing more skin than a girl her age should be, given what she was wearing and the scowl that she sported on her face, the bartender knew that she would be starting it.

"Hey! No Minors allowed. Beat it." He said as he saw a few of the vamps and demons that were known to play a little rough with their food eyed the two kids with interest. The other patrons just sat and watched whatever would happen in the next few minutes. Some with expectant glee at the imminent slaughter of the two humans, some with interest and the rest with morbid curiosity. He really didn't need to deal with two soon to be dead kids right now.

"You Willy?" The girl asked as she stepped inside and closed the door. She took the lead as she walked past Xander and headed toward the bar, a few of the demons moved off to the side as she neared and made room for her tiny frame as she glared up at the tall bartender. The demons instinctively took a step back from Dawn as they could sense that the girl was dangerous despite her size. To some of the demons with enhanced or special senses, Dawn smelled of death and destruction. They turned to regard Xander for a moment as he stood near the door, but not blocking it completely. He smelt the same as the girl. He gave off the scent of blood and death as the same as the girl.

It was the stench of death lingering around them… And the promise of more to follow. There was another thing that their sense of smell could detect from the two as Xander kept near the door; they could tell the two weren't human.

"I said get lost, kid. This is no place for the likes of you." Willy said, oblivious to the inevitable carnage about to ensue as he then turned to look at Xander. "And you." He said. "Get lost. I know who you are. I don't need any trouble with the Slayer."

Oh, damn…

Dawn and Xander's eyes narrowed at the dismissal from the barman. Willy took an involuntary step back behind the bar until he bumped into the drinks behind him; the wiser demons knew that something was about to go down and that they should get the hell out of there. A few of them made for the door, but one look from Xander stopped them all cold.

"Hey, Willy, you want us to get rid of them for ya?" Asked Spike's boys as they got up from their booth and walked over to Dawn. Going for the young girl first, they thought that she would be the most vulnerable.

Ha!

"Do what you want, Lenny. Just not in here huh? I got paying customers in here." The bartender said as he paid the two no further thought, thinking that they were done for. He turned away from Dawn… And completely missed the most sadistic smirk any demon had ever seen on a human.

"Yeah, sure, Willy." Said Lenny, one of Spike's boys.

"So, you're going to get rid of us are ya, Lenny?" Xander said mockingly as he stepped away from the door; some the demons that had tried to leave before took the opportunity to run like hell as Xander strode forward, cracking his knuckles and popping his neck as he did. His smirk now matching Dawn's as he regarded the four vampires.

Lenny growled at the kid, he could hear the dismissive tone in Xander's voice and the smirk on the kid's face was beginning to piss him off. Oh, yeah, he'd take his time with this kid. Dawn turned and regarded the four vamps as Xander moved to stand by her.

"You know something, Willy?" Dawn said as she popped her neck and opened and closed her palms, stretching out her fingers. "You'd have saved yourself all of this, if you just answered my question." She said smirking at the vampires. "What happens now is on you." She finished as both she and Xander willed their Ki flame into being. "AAAAHHH!"

And just like that, Willy's bar soon erupted into chaos.

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Back at Sunnydale General, Joyce had finally emerged from Buffy's room with a doctor accompanying her followed by an attendant pushing Buffy's covered up body on a gurney. Giles and Willow looked at her. The woman looked terrible. Jenny watched on dispassionately, and she knew she shouldn't be, as she heard the doctor telling her how sorry he was for the woman's loss.

Her attention from the woman was diverted by her scouter as she had checked and rechecked the readings on the scouter again. The two objects just beyond Earth's orbit still hadn't moved. She was wondering what the hell they were waiting for if they were here to attack the planet. Ignoring them for now, Jenny activated her scouter's audio receiver and focused in on Dawn and Xander's scouters.

*You know something, Willy? You'd have saved yourself all of this, if you just answered my question. What happens now is on you. AAAAHHH!*

'Oh, fuck.' Jenny thought as she caught the end of Dawn's speechifying and then heard the sounds of Xander and Dawn powering up and beginning their massacre, the sounds of demons screaming and dying, and Ki blasts soon drowned out her compatriots and as she listened, Jenny wasn't at all surprised to discover that she wanted to be there with Xander and Dawn. And she was also surprised to find that she was okay with that.

Willow saw her checking the scouter and was curious about what Jenny was looking at and if the computer teacher would let her have a look at it.

"Ms. Calendar, are you okay?" She asked as she stepped closer to her, the teacher gave no indication that she'd heard her. Too focused on the scouter display. Willow tried to see if she could look at the display from in front of the teacher. Ever curious, she had remembered watching Dragonball Z with Xander and Jesse when they were younger. When Bulma had repaired Raditz's scouter and calibrated it to display it's readings in English during Goku's fight with Vegeta. She remembered that the scouter's lens in the anime was reflective and showed the data that it was getting to those watching. Willow hoped that the one's that had been created by Ethan's chaos magic would be the same and she could find out what had the teacher so engrossed. It never even occurred to her that she wouldn't be able to understand whatever the data was telling her but she reasoned that given time, she'd figure it out.

Why? Because she's Willow.

"Ms. Calendar…" Willow called as she reached out to the scouter. Jenny's attention snapped back to the Red – Head; instinctively, Jenny's hand snapped up and grabbed Willow by her wrist, startling the girl, it had happened literally in the blink of an eye. "Ah!" Willow exclaimed.

"What?!" Jenny snarled, her teeth bared as she stared down balefully at Willow. The Red – Head shrank back in fear at the sight of the teacher. Jenny's angered exclamation had gotten Giles' attention.

"Jenny, Willow, what is going on?" He asked as he stopped at Willow's side and tried to pry Jenny's grip off of the girl. "Jenny, let her go." He saw Willow wincing in pain as Jenny had increased her grip on the girl making her whimper. "Jenny, you're hurting her."

"Grrr…" She growled. Jenny actually growled at him. Giles stared wide – eyed at his love interest as she turned her fury filled gaze on him. "What?!" She again snarled her face twisted into a visage of anger. "What do you want?!" She snarled out as she looked at the Watcher. Joyce and the doctor also turned their attention to the costumed woman; Joyce stared wide – eyed at the woman, shocked that she would accost Willow as she was doing now.

"Ms. Calendar… What?" She started to say, but stopped when the woman turned her gaze onto her. Joyce was stunned into silence at the look the changed woman gave her as the doctor raced to a nearby phone on the wall and called for security. It was deathly silent in the hallway as everyone present waited for Jenny to make the next move.

"Ms. Calendar, please…" Willow whimpered out. "You're hurting me." She said as she tried to pull her arm free. It was after a few more pulls that Jenny looked back at Willow and saw the discomfort she was putting her through evident on her face.

'Crap!' Jenny frowned as she released Willow's arm and stepped back. Willow cradled her arm as she rubbed the area where Jenny had grabbed her. "Will…" She started to say but she caught herself; she rubbed the bridge of her nose as she started to feel frustrated. "I – I… I need some air." She said as she walked past Willow and Giles and past Joyce and the doctor and turned right at the end of the corridor and left running, her changed body carrying her off greater than an Olympic Athlete.

"Jenny!" Giles called out to her as he moved to follow her; Willow stayed with Joyce as she started wondering why Jenny and Dawn had started to be mean and aggressive to her. And then she figured it out.

'They're Saiyans.' As Cordelia would say: No, duh!

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Jenny ran past a couple of orderlies as she made it outside the hospital, she heard Giles calling out to her but she couldn't… Didn't want to talk to him. He wouldn't understand how could he? She idly wondered while she chuckled ruefully. She forced herself to calm down and took deep breaths of air a few times until she felt calm. No small feat, hearing Xander and Dawn on the other end of the scouter's transceiver having the Saiyan equivalent of fun.

"Fucking hell. What is happening to me?" She muttered as she crossed the street and sat on a park bench. As she moved she was getting quite a few looks from members of the general public nearby; some of them were a few of her students she recognised from school. Larry Blaisdell dressed in his Rambo costume for one. More were just people passing by that saw a good looking woman in a tight fitting costume that showed off her curves. She didn't care that she was turning a few heads; she did that in school anyway, but neither did she want to be ogled right now.

'I don't need this right now.' The Neo – Saiyan thought as she growled low in her throat but tried to ignore the onlookers. Getting ready to leave, Jenny stood and ran away, missing Giles' arrival as he looked for her; she reactivated her scouter's audio transceiver and listened in on Dawn and Xander's… Excursion as she channelled her Ki and decided to head to the bar and join in on Xander and Dawn's… Fun.

A Few Minutes Earlier

Dawn and Xander charged Lenny and his boys faster than the four vampires or the other demons could track them. It seemed to them that one second they were standing side by side and then… Gone! Only to reappear in front of Lenny and his flunkies. The vamps were startled by their reappearance so close to them that they didn't react in time to defend themselves. Dawn jumped as she kicked out at Lenny and watched in satisfaction as he went flying over the bar and crashed into the drinks on display.

The Saiyan girl smirked as she watched Lenny fly before she turned to her next target. A Prio Motu Demon. The demon charged at the young girl, shocked by the child's surprising display of combat strength, but its shock soon turned to one of excitement… And self – preservation. While a part of it relished the challenge it saw the girl represent, it didn't want to die at either of the 'humans' hands.

Xander saw the Prio charging as he dispatched his target, another of Lenny's vampires. Tearing its head off and delivering a snap kick to the head of a demon that he noticed trying to sneak up on them. It had green, spotty skin, sharp claws, pointed teeth and red eyes, but he had never seen it before, nor did he think that Buffy had ever gone up against something like it. Maybe he'd take the head back to Giles to identify after they'd finished here, he thought as he kept on fighting.

"Oh, no you don't!" He said as he ducked under a clawing swipe from another attacking demon he'd didn't recognise and delivered a powerful uppercut that shot the demon straight up and through the ceiling, getting its head and upper torso stuck in the process. A few of the demons stopped attacking and saw Xander's impressive display of strength. That settled it for those that stopped fighting. They turned and ran for the door, not wanting to experience that kind of end, or any sort of end at the hands of these two.

Xander and Dawn fended off their current attackers and saw those demons trying to flee. Dawn knew that if they allowed them to escape, they would spread the news about what happened here at Willy's. She was torn. Her memories gained from Fasha possessing her body taught her that a Saiyan would only allow their prey to escape to spread fear and that would happen if she had Xander let them. But there was one thing that was nagging at her: Willy said that he knew who Xander was. Obvious from his time helping her sister do her duty. It was a cause for concern; if Willy knew who Xander was, then he could know that Buffy was the Slayer and that she was the Slayer's sister. He could even know who her mom was.

Her mind made up as she dodged a clumsy punch from a vampire before she delivered a strong punch to the vampire's stomach that went through the Blood Demon's gut and made the vamp scream out in sheer agony before she pulled her arm back and then backhanded the vamp to the floor. "Xan!" She called out.

"What?" The young man called out; he turned to look at her and she quickly gestured to the door. Quickly turning, Xander saw the fleeing demons as they opened the door and had almost made it through. "On it!" He said as he brought up his hand and charged a small ball of Ki in his palm. His palm began glowing a bright, vibrant blue as he concentrated and focused his energy. The demons again stared at the young warrior as he looked at the fleeing backs of the escaping demons before he yelled out and fired.

"HAAAA!" He called out as he watched as his blast of Ki shot from his palm and encompassed all but one of the escaping demons before it exploded in a small but blinding bang. Everyone stopped fighting as they watched the screaming demons die before they turned to regard Xander and Dawn again. Xander stood impressed with himself as he regarded his own handiwork. Considering that it was his first time firing off Ki, he marvelled that he had taken to it rather quickly.

Maybe it was because of his Neo - Saiyan body's fighting instinct, he considered idly as he lowered his arm and turned to Dawn who also was looking at him in wonder. She was amazed that he had shown the ability to use Ki so quickly. Determined, Dawn began channelling her Ki into her palms as she held them out to the Prio Motu who saw the boy's display of power and decided that it would be better if he ran.

Too late. The demon turned and ran for the bar's back exit as his former intended victim, Dawn formed two balls of energy in her outstretched palms. Smirking when she felt she had drawn enough power into them, the young warrior fired the energy at the Prio's back and watched with satisfaction as the destructive spheres impacted with a loud bang and launched the big demon forward off of his feet.

Xander was impressed. He watched as the big demon went flying for a few feet, before it crashed into the wall with a heavy thud and cracked the masonry, leaving little spider cracks in the wall surrounding its now dead body. Smoke had started to rise out of the dead Prio's wounds; two charred, smoking round holes in the demons back.

From behind the bar, Willy poked his head up, fear etched on his weasel like features as sweat and liquor dripped down his face. He was shit scared. The kids had already wrecked his place and it was covered with blood on the floors and walls as well as scorch marks from Xander's blast. Willy looked up and regarded the demon that was stuck in the ceiling; it had black ichor dripping down its body. The bartender figured that the impact with the ceiling must've caved its skull in. 'Holy fuck!' He thought. 'They'll fucking bring the whole place down! I gotta get outta here.'

"Ugh…" Lenny moaned as he started to come round; He had been knocked unconscious when Dawn had sent flying over the bar and crashing into the bottles. Willy turned to look at him as Lenny noticed the human nearby. "What hit me?" The Blood Demon asked as he tried to get its bearings.

"She did." Willy said as he still watched the two warriors massacre what was left of his customers. Willy looked around the bar while he could; there were piles of ash on the ground dotted all over the place. Spatterings of blood and ichor on the walls and floor and still the place's new hanging decoration. He even spotted Merl hiding under a table in the far corner nearest the back exit. He despaired; it would cost him an arm and a leg to repair the bar and that's if the two left him a bar to repair. Lenny looked up along with Willy and saw how bad things had got for the vamps and demons; they had been completely decimated by two kids. Willy soon decided in that brief second that he had to get out of there.

"Screw this." He said as he got up and ran for the back exit.

Dawn and Xander were enjoying themselves, like earlier when they were still possessed by Tora and Fasha, they could remember how the two Saiyans felt when they were fighting and killing before they had met up with Willow back at the warehouse. It was the same sensation of feelings from before as they punched, kicked, blasted, and completely dominated the creatures in the bar. Their blood was pumping, their hearts pounding in their chests, their bodies nearly bursting with power and strength as deep down within themselves they could feel the primal force that was a part of every Saiyan howl in the back of their minds and deep within their very souls.

They heard the roar of the Oozaru resonating deep inside themselves howling in satisfaction as it sensed death in the air.

Xander saw Lenny trying to make a run for the exit at the back of the bar. Grinning maliciously, he moved quicker than Willy could see him move. Blinking, the bartender wondered where the kid had gone only to hear Lenny scream out in pain as the vampire came into his line of sight flying through the air yet again, this time only to land at Dawn's feet. The girl looked down at the imperilled vampire and lifted her leg up and brought it down on the vampire's throat keeping him there. Lenny clawed at the leg holding him in place as he tried to dislodge it but failed to. Dawn watched amused as the creature struggled to free itself.

"Alright, that's enough." She said looking at the Blood Demon. "Willy, get out here." The girl called out over at the direction of the bar. "Willy. I know you're behind there. Get out here, now."

Willy heard the menace, the promise of pain in the girl's tone. It also didn't help him that Xander had walked behind the bar and was glaring down at him. Looking up at the young man's stone cold face, staring into those black pools that were the Neo – Saiyans eyes, Willy could tell that Xander regarded him as a cat would a mouse, or a vampire regarded a human.

Prey.

"Get up, Willy." Xander said, cracking his knuckles as he moved ever closer to the man. "Get up or I will make you stand." He finished growling at the man when he didn't begin moving and Willy was inclined to believe him. Shakily standing up as he used the bar for support, Willy stood; his knees threatening to give out on him as he again took in the scene of carnage strewn about the place.

"Jesus Christ… Please, please don't hurt me." He pleaded toward the two.

"That all depends on you, Willy." Xander started. "Tell us where Spike had set up shop, Willy. Where in Sunnydale was he hiding?" He finished.

"Don't… you fucking… dare, Willy!" Lenny choked out. Still struggling and trying to move Dawn's foot from his throat. "Don't… say… fucking word!"

"Hush! Don't you know it's rude to interrupt?" Dawn chastised as she increased the pressure she was putting on the vampire's throat. Lenny's struggling stopped as he realised he wasn't getting anywhere by trying to claw the girl's leg. He couldn't even cut or pierce the skin. What was she made of?

"I – I can't. I…" Willy stuttered. "I – I can't tell you… He'll kill me…" He said afraid.

"Willy, wrong answer." Xander said as he grabbed the man's arm, Willy was pulled slightly toward Xander as the young Saiyan held the bartender's arm out with one hand and grabbed the man's small finger and bent it back. Willy started to feel the pressure building on the back of the finger, he knew what was going to happen next and he wasn't looking forward to it.

"Watch this, Lenny." Dawn said. "This is the only bit of entertainment you're ever gonna see for the next five minutes." Lenny turned his head towards Willy. He saw the grimace of pain on the man's face and the demon felt true sadistic glee that the human was suffering despite his own situation.

"Last chance, Willy. Tell us where Spike was hiding out." Xander said as he pushed back more on the man's finger.

Willy whimpered again. "I can't! Please!" He started crying as he looked at the sadistic young man. Willy hadn't known that Xander was this ruthless when he had first heard about him helping out the Slayer. "I'm a dead man if I tell you!"

"You're a dead man if you don't." Xander growled. Already tired of Willy's… Reluctance to share, Xander carried out his intention.

*SNAP!*

Willy screamed. One down, nine to go.

Now

*AAAHHHH!*

Willy's scream came through the transceiver on Jenny's scouter clearly; the woman had to smirk as she kept on running down the street toward the bar. She had made good time in getting there and was eager to join in on her compatriot's fun. She came to a stop as she arrived outside; Jenny could hear Willy's whimpering and smirked ferally before she opened the door and walked inside.

"Well, I see you two have had fun. Did you save some for me?" She asked as Xander and Dawn turned to regard her. The teacher's smirk revealed her intentions to them and they soon turned their attention back towards Willy. "Willy, is it?" She asked, looking at the small, snivelling weasel of a bartender. "I suggest you tell them what they want to know." She finished as she walked over to Dawn and regarded the vampire she had trapped under her foot. Dawn looked at Jenny and grinned a shark's grin. "Otherwise they'll hand you over to me." She said as Dawn lifted her foot off of Lenny who was tempted to move before Dawn surprised him, or the new arrival did something, but again he was too late.

Moving quickly than Lenny could track; Jenny had grabbed the vampire by the throat and lifted him off the ground as Lenny clutched at the woman's arm as his feet dangled and flailed about. Looking into the woman's dark, black eyes, Lenny saw his death in them. He knew that he wasn't long for this world. Jenny raised her other arm and balled her hand into a fist. Looking over at Xander and the bartender one more time, she made sure that she had the snivelling man's attention.

"One last time, you disgusting little maggot. Where was Spike hiding out?" She demanded growling. When she got no answer, Jenny drove her fist forward with the speed of a bullet being fired from a nine mil.

Willy stared wide – eyed. Xander and Dawn smirked. Lenny's head had been torn off as Jenny's fist connected hard as the force of the blow ripped the vampire's head off before it dusted and hit the floor. The vampire's body dusted immediately followed and Jenny turned to look at the fearful man as she dusted her arm off of Lenny's remains.

"Tell us, or the next one I punch won't be the puke stain hiding under the table near the back exit, Willy." Jenny said indicating Merl. The green skinned demon froze in fear when the hot looking woman mentioned him; fearing that he was soon going to die like the other's he had seen killed.

"Alright! I'll tell you! I'll talk. Please just don't… Don't kill me." He said fully crying now. Xander had released his grip on the bartender's arm. Willy cradled his hand as he tried to calm down and not go into shock. "Spike, oh god! Spike's hiding out in an abandoned factory."

"Which one?" Jenny asked as she moved closer to the man.

"The… Ah, the one near the Docks… Half a block away from the train station." He finished.

"I know it." Xander said to the others. "You better not be lying to us, Willy. It would end badly for you." Xander let the threat hang in the air as he looked at him stepping into his personal space. The bartender stepped back, completely afraid of Xander, just as he was completely afraid of Jenny and Dawn. The three Neo – Saiyans could tell that Willy was shit scared of them, and that was how they wanted it.

It was in that moment that the three of them decided not to kill the human. He was easy to intimidate and he was already shit scared of them. Yes, he would be more useful to them alive as a source of information. Turning as one, Dawn and Jenny headed to the door as Xander moved to follow the two young ladies.

"W – Wait! If Spike founds out that I talked…" He started; the three stopped and glanced back at the man, scowling.

"What?" Dawn asked snarling at the pitiful being.

"You… You gotta protect me. You're the good guys, right? You keep me safe from Spike and… And I'll tell ya whatever ya wanna know…" He trailed off as the look from Dawn smouldered into a blazing inferno dancing in the pools of her eyes. Did Willy really think that they owed him?

"The fuck we do." Dawn said snarling. "You're on your own, you weak, pathetic speck of human trash." Xander turned around and closed the distance to Willy in the blink of an eye.

"You will tell us whatever we want to know, Willy. If you hear about anything hellmouthy going on, you will let us about it." He said as he brought his Ki field into being surrounding him, further intimidating Willy. "If you hear of any demons or vampires causing trouble in town, you will tell us." Xander grabbed Willy by the hand again and squeezed hard, nearly crushing the bones in the hand. "You don't, well…" The Saiyan finished as he squeezed harder. The hand had started to turn purple, Willy whimpered even more at the pain. "Your bar would be the least that you'd have to worry about. You get me?"

"Y – Yeah, yeah. I get you." He said swallowing. His Adam's apple bobbing up and down as he tried to calm himself down. They weren't going to kill him, which Willy was immensely grateful for, but that didn't mean that they wouldn't kill him in the future. "I get you." He affirmed.

Satisfied, Xander turned back towards the two young women as they soon left the wreck they made of the bar. Willy looked around again as he wiped his brow of the sweat that covered it and let out the breath that he had been holding ever since the kid had nearly crushed his now throbbing hand. Damn, he needed to go to the hospital. Or a drink; yeah, a drink sounded better.

"N – N – Never again." Willy heard Merl say as the demon crawled out from under the table. "I ain't ever leaving LA ever again!" Merl stood and shakily moved to the back exit as Willy started to clear some of the demon remains as he muttered about what he was going to do about the bar's new hanging demon decoration.

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The Jaffa had loyally waited for their God to rise from his sarcophagus. He had been placed immediately inside after the soldiers of the Tau'ri had dared to strike down his vessel. They knew that once their God arose, Klorel would unleash his wrath and almighty power upon them and destroy them all. The moment that they had waited for had finally arrived, as the sarcophagus opened, they knew that its divine power had succeeded in restoring their God.

The false God opened his eyes as he sat up, the face of his host contorted into a mask of anger and rage. "Kel mak tak, Tau'ri!" Let us burn their world to ashes!" He said as his eyes flared as he stared out at the Earth.

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Elsewhere, that same mad Seer looked up and giggled as she played with Ms. Edith, the vampires that Spike had left to care for her looked at the crazy vampire as she muttered about the little worms coming to burn the world in fire, and something again about three monkeys coming to squash them. All in all, Drusilla's ramblings had revealed one thing to them: She was insane. Monkeys, really?!

*BBBBOOOMMM!*

Dru had stopped muttering and giggling with Ms. Edith when battered pieces of the doors to their hideout had shot inside the factory so suddenly. Two of the vampires had been hit by some of the debris and tried to get to their feet and see what had happened. Only a few of them had worked out that they were under attack, thinking it was the Slayer, they readied themselves for the inevitable fight.

"It looks like Willy panned out." A voice called out from the entrance. Three strangely garbed humans walked into the factory without a care in the world. A young man dressed in dark blue armour and boots with light blue accented shoulder plates and lower plates covering his calf's and crotch. As Xander stepped inside he was followed by two women, both similarly dressed as he was but less so. The Blood Drinkers smirked; the two women looked like they could be fun before they died. One of them a small girl dressed in pink and yellow wearing a dark blue chest guard, the vamps licked their lips, she looked tasty. They set their gaze upon Jenny and saw her dressed like Dawn was except in dark colours. Blues and dark greys; she and the boy they now recognised as the one that helps the Slayer, they would give them the most trouble.

"Just because there are vampires here, doesn't mean that this was Spike's place." Jenny said looking around the factory as she idly took in the positions of the vampires that were looking at them. At the mention of the name of their boss, the vampires stilled. Drusilla stepped out of the shadows holding Ms. Edith in her arms like a new born baby and regarded the three.

Jenny noticed the vampires stilled at the mention of Spike's name. "Okay, maybe this was Spike's place. So, what's here then? Why did he come to Sunnydale?" The teacher mused out loud.

"He came to heal me…" Drusilla sing songed before falling silent. "Nononononono…" She wailed. "Little monkeys shouldn't be here. Ms. Edith says should be up there with the little worms." Drusilla looked upon Xander first. Her kitten, a kitten no longer. Everything had changed this night. The events that Drusilla had foreseen since she arrived on the Hellmouth, the return of her daddy, the Judge that would burn Humanity and the demon that would swallow the world into Hell, these would never come to pass now. "Little Kitten and Key…" She rambled. "Everything's changed… Shifting. The little worms spitting their fire from the skies… Spike…" The Seer looked at Jenny and hissed. "Naughty teacher… Telling lies she does. Liar, liar pants on fire… Naughty Calendar… Naughty… Kalderash. Where's daddy? Where's my daddy? The Angel Beast is gone and so is daddy." Dru giggled again as the three Neo – Saiyans looked at one another.

"She knows what we are." Dawn hissed as she brought her Ki into being around her shocking the vampires and causing them to think that maybe, just maybe, there was something to the mad Seer's ramblings after all.

"Not gonna be a problem, Dawn. Whoever she is, she'll be joining Spike soon enough…" Xander said as he and Jenny followed suit and willed their Ki into being. "In Hell!"

Apart from Dru, the other vampires didn't know what was going to happen next, but that was soon made apparent when the three sprang into action and killed three of their number in the blink of an eye. Those that were left knew that there was no way they were going to get out of here alive as the screams of other vampires dying at the hands of three Saiyans went out inside the factory.

T – Minus 0:12:40 till Launch

Back at the SGC, Major Davis sat at his duty station as he saw the two blips on his screen moving. "They're moving."

Colonel Samuels spoke on the phone as Davis looked at the man. Everything now hinged on the Colonel's plan. "Restart the countdown." He started as General Hammond came into the Control Room. "Hold at T – Minus twenty seconds. We'll launch when the ships settle into orbit."

T – Minus 0:10:47 till Launch

"We accelerate. Klorel has risen." Teal'c stated as everyone in the Gate Room on the Ha'tak felt the great ship move.

"The attack has begun." Bra'tac said as one of his Jaffa look out into the corridor to check if the way is clear. "Once we launch, we will do what damage we can." The Jaffa Master said to O'Neill.

"How many in your wing?"

"Three, O'Neill." Bra'tac answered shocking O'Neill, Carter and Jackson. "With Teal'c, that makes four."

"Oh, well, four."

"I have trained these four warriors since they were Chal'tii, human! Like Teal'c has to you and your world, these three have sworn their lives to me and our cause in defeating the Goa'uld and exposing their lies!" The old man finished, insulted that the Tau'ri soldier would think so little of their efforts. "It is no simple thing to ask of them."

"And we appreciate it, Bra'tac, believe me. But what are the odds of taking a ship like this out with four Death Gliders and… Maybe a Shuttle?"

"A Goa'uld Ha'tak is heavily armed, shielded and is capable of launching a legion of Gliders against us, O'Neill. I would say slim." Said Teal'c.

"Right, time for a new plan." O'Neill said as he weighed his current options. There weren't many.

"We offer to lay down our lives for your homeworld, human…" Said an incensed Bra'tac. Perhaps these Tau'ri weren't worth the trouble after all he idly wondered. "You cannot ask more of us than this."

"No, I can't. But I think a better idea would be to get Apophis's guys to lay down their lives first, hm?" He finished before he turned to Carter and asked her how they had until the C4 blew.

"Forty minutes, Sir." She said after checking her watch.

"Alright, with any luck, this ship is gonna blow within an hour. It might be an idea for us to get to Apophis' ship." O'Neill said to the Jaffa. "Can you do that?"

After a brief moment of silence, Bra'tac gave his answer. "The Peltak." He led the way as everyone followed.

T – Minus 0:08:07 till Launch

The factory was in ruins. The remains of the vampires that Spike had left to care for Drusilla littered the ground as the three warriors all stood in front of the giggling mad Seer. "Ms. Edith says that you're going to play with me, little Key not Key." She rambled out looking at Dawn. The young girl smirked ferally and launched herself at the Dru. They had kept her alive because of what she had said earlier about the little worms spitting fire from the sky. Did she mean the two objects in orbit above Earth?

"Talk sense, Bitch." She said grabbing the insane vampire by her throat, Dru showed no hint of fear on her face as she stared at Dawn.

"Little Key… As bright as the Sun… Ooohhh, you'll burn… And tear everything apart, you will. The Death God will come for you, Kitten." Dru said turning her gaze towards Xander. "The black Jackal shall find you all wanting." Dru then turned to look at Jenny as the former Gypsy woman narrowed her eyes in response. She hadn't forgotten that Dru mentioned her clan name. "Naughty teacher… Satan shall ever be so cross with you… Condemned to the fires of Ne'tu you will be…"

"She's crazy." Xander said as he stared at the giggling vampire. Dawn was about to kill her when their scouters beeped and all three turned their attention to them. On the display, each of the three scouters relayed the same information. The two blips they had detected earlier had started moving and were approaching the planet.

"Heeheehee… The little worms… The little worms come to play… Father and Son..." Dru rambled. Dawn, pissed off and fed up with the insane vamps insane mutterings, formed a ball of Ki in her free hand and brought it up to Dru's face. Suddenly Dru sobered and looked at it in comprehension. "Are you going to send me on my way, little Key? Are you going to send me to my Spikey and Daddy now? I miss my William terribly so." She saw her answer on Dawn's face, and then she saw nothing else ever again as everything in her field of vision shone brightly.

The factory soon followed as well as it was destroyed from the inside and collapsed in on itself.

Moments later the three warriors walked out of the fiery factory ruins and looked up. Their scouters zeroed in on the two objects location in orbit above the planet. "She knew about whatever is up there." Jenny said. "Look, according to the scouters, they're settling into orbit over the US." She finished as the scouter display showed the ships positioning themselves.

"They're in a prime position to bombard the surface, that's if they're here to attack Earth. They'd be able to hit anything in the entire country that high up." Dawn said looking at her crush. Xander was looking up at the position the two blips were in.

"I have a bad feeling about this." He said as he still looked up at the stars. "I think that's what they're here for. AAAAHHHH!" Xander's Ki aura violently came into being as the two Neo – Saiyan women looked at him. Their scouter's registered Xander powering up, his power increasing as his muscles bulged outwardly and the ground beneath him cracked.

"The scouter is reading his power level at 2800 and still climbing… 3000… 3200… 3500! Xander, what are you doing?" Jenny shouted amidst the Saiyan male's explosive energy. She had to dig her feet into the ground to keep standing before she brought her own Ki field up to buffet against Xander's own. Turning to look at Dawn, she saw the younger woman do the same.

"AAAAHHHH!" Dawn shouted out as Jenny watched her, her scouter tuned into Dawn's power level reading and Jenny watched as the numbers kept rising. 2500… 2800… 3100… The teacher watched as the young girl's power nearly matched Xander's own before levelling off. When Dawn had finally stopped powering up, Jenny's scouter showed that the young girl's power level was 3200. "He's right Ms. Calendar. Nothing about this is giving me the warm and fuzzies. That crazy bitch did say that they were coming here to spit fire. They're going to attack Earth."

Crap, Jenny thought before she began to increase her power as well. Dawn watched as the teacher's power level began increasing on her scouter's display; Xander also turned and watched as well. His scouter indicating that Jenny's power level had already passed the 2700 mark and was still increasing. It had never dawned on either of them that they read the alien numeral figures on the lens display and could understand them. Just that they knew what they meant. When Jenny had finished, Xander and Dawn had read her power at 3200. They just hoped that their collective power was enough to get the job done.

"If we're going to do this then, shouldn't we be going?" Jenny asked. "I don't know about you, but I do not want to see Earth become a smoking ruin. Unless we caused it." She finished with a smirk at the other two.

"Heh." Xander snorted as he looked up again. "I don't know about you two. But I'm looking forward to this." He finished before he concentrated his Ki and slowly, but shakily rose off the ground. He might've had Tora's memories of flying under his own power, but doing it first hand, he wanted to be careful. Xander climbed a little higher as he grew more confident that he wouldn't fall flat on his ass. His shaking had stopped as he was now heads over the two women. "This is fantastic!" He exclaimed as he hovered in the air. His inner child coming to the fore as he marvelled in glee despite the current situation at the fact that he was flying under his own power.

"With everything going on, I almost forgot that we could fly." Dawn said before she too rose into the air followed by Jenny.

"Hey, Dawnie, don't worry. Buffy's been avenged." Xander said as he floated over to her and hugged the girl, Dawn took the opportunity the closeness provided and wrapped her own arms around her crush's manly body. Jenny watched on amused before she joined them and placed her hand on Dawn's shoulder. "Once we've dealt with whatever's up there, we'll help you and your mom out."

"…Fasha." Dawn mumbled the name out as she squeezed herself further into Xander's chest. "Call me Fasha." She said.

"Dawn?" Jenny asked as she caught the girl's request.

"Dawn Summers is a human name." She said to them. "A weak name. My name is Fasha. I am no longer human. No longer weak; I am a Saiyan and I have my pride!"

Hear her roar.

"Alright… Fasha." Jenny said to the girl with a smile. On the inside though, Jenny frowned internally. This could be troublesome down the road, but she'll deal with it then.

"Xander's right… Fasha." Jenny said. "We will help however we can. We're Saiyans." She said. "The only ones in existence, we need to look after our own."

"We don't have to be the only Saiyans." The Saiyan girl said before her hand drifted down Xander's backside and rested on his butt. The Saiyan man's eyes went wide at the young girl's statement. Surely she didn't mean …?

"Hey!"

He turned to Jenny before he backed away and saw a smirking Jenny and Dawn looking at him, humour and hunger respectively dancing in their eyes. "I'm not a breeding stud." He shouted out blushing at the fact that two women were talking about him in that way. "I'm a Saiyan warrior dammit! And you're too young!" He finished pointing at his Dawn. He didn't care about her changing her name; as he thought before back at Willy's bar, she will always be his Dawnie.

"I won't be always, Xander." Dawn said eyeing him up and down. "One day, I will claim you."

"Oh, I don't know, Xander…" Jenny said with mirth. "There certainly is a… Studly feel about you." She finished with a cheeky smirk that Dawn soon mirrored. "Aw, what's the matter?" She asked mock pouting. "Don't you wanna see…? All of me?"

"Whuh, whuh… What about G – Man, Lady J?" Xander asked as the teacher eyed him up and down as well as she stuck her chest out a bit, catching Xander's gaze with her breasts and biting her lip. Oh, this was too fun she thought as Xander tried to look away.

'Aw, so honourable.' Jenny thought. "Oh, I don't think that Giles could ever keep up with a Saiyan warrior like you, Xander." She purred at the young man. Xander didn't think it was possible, but he felt himself go redder at the woman's implication.

"Can… Can… Can we go deal with the impending alien invasion and discuss this later, please? Ideally before they start firing at the planet." Xander asked; he didn't wait for their answer as he summoned all of his power and shot straight up into the air, his halo of Ki leaving a faint trail behind him. Dawn and Jenny looked at each other before they burst out laughing.

"I see what you see in him, Da… Fasha." Jenny said sobering up after a moment.

Dawn regarded her for a moment as she too sobered up. "He's got a point though. What about the Watcher?"

Jenny sighed. "… I don't know. Maybe before all of this happened, they're could've been something. But now?" She said after a moment. "Fuck. Let's just go kill some aliens first and deal with our love lives after, huh?" She finished before she shot straight up after Xander. It wasn't long before she too was out of sight leaving only a trail of Ki in her wake.

"Heh, best thing I've heard all night." Dawn… Fasha said before she too flew straight up into the night sky.

She soon caught up with Jenny before the two soon matched their speed together and flew faster after Xander. A quick moment later as they passed through the Troposphere, the town of Sunnydale was rapidly shrinking from view as Dawn turned and looked back at the town before it had fully vanished from view, you could barely just make out the town was there from the tiny lights of the town as the two warrior women flew up and kept going after they saw Xander waiting for them a few more miles up. They increased their speed further and soon all three were flying single file laterally side by side as they raced up through the planet's Stratosphere and kept climbing ever higher until they passed through the Earth's Mesosphere… And kept climbing ever higher.

As they climbed, they hoped that their ascent had gone unnoticed. Too bad it didn't.

Launch

At Stargate Command, Colonel Samuels watched as the two Goa'uld attack ships finally settled into orbit above the planet. "That's it. They're in a Geo – Synchronous orbit over the United States. Lock in that attack profile and advise the President. We are go for launch." He said as Hammond watched on. The two men turned to look at the closest monitor and saw the two missiles launch carrying the hope of an entire world.

"Vandenberg reports a good launch." Major Davis said as she received the okay from Vandenberg on his headset. "Tracking... Two missiles, eighty kilometres and climbing. Weapons should reach their targets in… Four minutes… Wait, say again Vandenberg?" Major Davis called out, Samuels and Hammond turned their attention toward him.

"Is something wrong, Major?" Hammond asked.

"… Sir, Vandenberg reports that they are currently tracking five objects."

"Five?" Hammond asked before he turned to a perplexed Samuels. "Colonel, I thought you said you said you only built two Mark – 12's."

"That's right, Sir." The Colonel replied looking back at Davis.

"Yes, Sir, we are currently tracking the missiles, but there are three unidentified flying objects travelling at…" He stopped as the Intel came through his headset. "General, Vandenberg reports that the three objects are climbing at seventy – eight hundred miles a second, currently at seventy – five Kilometres and still climbing. Their course will take them straight to the Goa'uld motherships. They'll pass through the Mesosphere in under two minutes." He finished.

"Where did they come from?" Hammond asked the Major before he looked again at Samuels trying to find any hint of deception coming from the man, but finding none.

"Vandenberg AF Sat – Com reports that just prior to launch, they detected three simultaneous take – offs from Southern California. They placed the launch coming from… Sunnydale, California."

"And they still launched themselves?" The General asked thinking why Vandenberg didn't cancel the launch. Three unidentified simultaneous launches construed a serious threat to operational launch. Who knows where those objects could've been targeted.

"They were committed, Sir. They had passed the point of no return. It was too late to abandon the launch." Davis replied as he sat back at his station. On his monitor, RADAR was now tracking the five objects as they climbed towards their destination… And toward their inevitable destiny.