All Creatures Great and Small
Directors Edition
Chapter 11

Riley and his team got back to base moments before dawn. The forces of darkness had came out in, well, force. They were trying to bully their way into a foothold before the promised reinforcements. To be honest Riley believed that the "reinforcements" were nothing but a moral booster. Nothing could stop these things if they attacked on mass, there just wasn't the man power trained to do it. So far the demons the teams met were small and not very powerful, they were scouts nothing more and they had humanity's defenders on the ropes through shear numbers.

The centre of town was now controlled by an army of Zombies, Skeletons that were pouring out of Sunnydale's almost infinite supply of graves. Not for the first time he asked himself why didn't more people cremate in this hell town. Some sort of super vampire was hiding in the abandoned buildings, so far only Williams with his napalm tank was any use against those guys. As they stumbled in Giles was telling the Colonel / Governor that he guessed the next attack would come at sunset. Apparently night enhanced the power of The First.

Riley really hoped they had a plan by then.

'Xander.' It was a faint whisper, for a moment he thought that he was hearing things. Pulling back he looked again into Dawn's revealed eye. She blinked that became a wince of pain, Dawn wasn't dead! 'Help...' it sounded like the whisper of a slow wind but it was there. Xander was stunned, the damage the pain she must be feeling. Oh god the pain.

'You must be in agony and we just dropped you in a morgue.' he gasped whipping on his helmet. Not thinking he could do any more damage Xander reached down and picked her up. 'My god, Dawnie. We'll find someone, what's his name "Fixit"? that little doctor! He can help.'

Slowly he felt something latch on to his shoulder, she had reached around his neck and opened a hatch on his shoulder. A crippling pain lanced through his mind and slowly words spread across his right field of vision. -no time.- -I've "jacked" into you.- -Sorry about the feedback- -Im doing what I can to limit it.-

'Dawn what do you mean "No time."?' Xander was moving as fast as he could. The combination of her added weight and the pain that was coming through the link left him stumbling like a drunken sailor.

-Fixit cant help- -damage 2 great.- -2 many damaged.- -Shuttle bay.- -equipment can help.-

'But…'

-Don't ask- -No time- -status lock not working- -downloaded directions- -deactivating link- -cant hold back feedback- -hurry.-

He didn't need telling twice, with the link disabled and the feedback gone he was able to almost run.

They made good time, Xander followed the hasty instructions Dawn had given him and put her into the chamber. He pushed the handle on the strange device up. The two sides swigged around like a giant pincer and the roof fell down enclosing Dawn in what looked to be an oversized box. Blinking little lights on the side flashed until they were all glowing a deep red that flipped to green

'Scanning subjects core memory.' He span around in the middle of the half room was a gold circular table with a hologram of the chamber spinning around. The bored sounding computer voice continued; 'Scan complete, schematics found. Activating C.R. chamber.' The box was replaced with a spinning image of Dawn in all her damaged glory. That image flickered red and blue for a moment before disappearing 'Accessing Autobot core conciseness.'

'Hi Xand what's up?' Dawn's human face appeared smiling in front of him but he blinked for a moment. It wasn't quite her face. It was a little bit too big in place, but never mind he thought.

'Dawn! Are you all right?' He asked urgently

She cocked an eyebrow at him before smiling 'Well lets say I will be, in about two hours or so.' She winced as the sound of sizzling bacon came from the Chamber. 'How went the battle?' Xander told her everything, the great loss of life and the final out come. He even showed off the move he used to kill Bludgeon.

'It's good that you can do that Xand, because before tonight we have to get back to Sunnydale.'

'Tonight!'

'Afraid so, and it's almost 11 now.' A small explosion from the chamber accompanied another wince. Xander was getting worried now 'Tell you what, find Buffy and get her here there's still some equipment that we can use in the crates.'

Finding Buffy wasn't very easy, the Autobots he asked had all seen her in different places in the last hour. He eventually found her outside the Ark sobbing in a tight ball. 'Buffy?'

'I should have been more firm with her. I should have locked her in there. She always had a knack for getting in trouble.' his friend looked up, she hadn't bothered taking the helmet off or opening the mask.

Xander sat beside her. 'Must have got it from you. Another thing she got was your stubborn streak.'

'Why couldn't we both be like mother? Well why couldn't she be more like her.' Buffy smiled. Being the only one of the three of them with a normal mouth as part of the mask Xander could see she was forcing a half smile.

'Your not going to give up, are you.' it wasn't a question.

Buffy looked at him before sitting up. 'No. I'll finish what she started, even if it kills me.'

'See that is your best trait. You never give up, give in. Dawn took that, she took the best of you. If she's half the person you are no force on Earth, or those guys in there, could have stopped her trying. Anymore than they could stop you. Come on, I've got something to show you.

Sunburst stepped out of the CR Chamber and stretched. She then spent a moment looking at her arm. It was sleeker and leaner than before. Instead of the bulky squares that made up her fingers they were now slender and had actual finger nails. 'Cool, new make over. Good thing they don't make toys with this many versions.'

She ran a check and found the mental link between her and Prime now had a shut off shunt; 'That might be useful' she mused out loud. The two of them were already practicing and before the battle had gotten to the point where they could talk to each other, now she could block part of that connection off.

When Xander lead Buffy into the shuttle bay Dawn's face had gone from the holographic display. 'What did you want to show me Xander, I have to find what's left of Dawn.'

CRASH! The two people span around and saw an odd shaped crate slide towards them, behind it another was being carried by a slimmer and altogether sleeker looking Sunburst.

'Dawnie?'

'Try again.' The Autobot dropped the second crate and kicked them both open before the Slayer crashed into her with a thankful hug.

'Your alive!' Buffy cried in shock. 'Do that to me again and they won't find all of the body you got me?'

The new Dawn nodded with a half laugh

'Now don't take this the wrong way but how? When I saw you…'

'Long or short of it?' She pried Buffy's arms away.

Xander was worried about the new "sleeker" look Dawn had and gave a quick mental command to scan her. 'Long please.' Buffy said taking a step back.

'O.K.' Dawn turned to the crates and started pulling all sorts of junk out of them. 'The long of it. Inside that little chamber over there,' she waved at the CR chamber Xander had half carried her to that morning; 'Is a lot of very little robots. About the same size as a cell, a couple of micrometers long at the most, and these little robots live to fix things. Xander dragged me up here and I had him put me inside. The little guys did there jobs, rebuilding, repairing and sometimes replacing my damaged systems.'

Buffy looked at it; 'Could it bring any of the Autobots back from the dead?'

'Well… I don't know. I wasn't dead and I'm half human so pure Cybertronians from this time period might have some problems interacting with the technology.'

'Huh' Buffy obviously didn't have a clue what her sister meant but Xander was already a step or so ahead.

'You're a cyborg Dawn. Most of your insides have been replaced by metal stuff and from what I can tell your brain is almost completely dead, you did die.' The scan he made was flashing up on his HUD

'Xander, Dawn died two weeks ago. That's why the Autobots built her into a Power-master. I'm still her but I can't pretend I'm not an Autobot, It's been you two pretending that I was still Dawn. I've told you a dozen times or more I'm Sunburst.'

Buffy looked at the woman / Autobot 'You're my sister. Nothing can change that.'

'Glad you realise that Buffy. Now on to business! If we're going to the Hellmouth we need weapons. And I'm not talking about those flashlights you've got at the moment.' Sunburst pulled a dirty brown and metallic cone from one of the crates. A rubber duck was stuck to the top.

Buffy giggled at the sight; 'That's a fearsome weapon Sunny, really powerful! What's it do shoot bubble bath at people?'

'Ha Ha sis,' Buffy watched as she put her hand in the bottom of the cone, a short sound came from under the duck. Suddenly the duck exploded, it had been stuck to a pair of serrated shears that were stuck half open 'watch and learn.' The sound came again and a pink/purple glow came from between the blades just before a teardrop shaped burst of sparkling energy pulsed out, sending a now empty crate flying. 'I take it you like? This "tail" cannon could punch a hole in a battleship and if shooting don't work the pincers can crush anything this side of impregnable.' the two shears flexed as if to illustrate the point.

'Cool.' Buffy took the odd thing and sat down on one of the back less chairs around the table to play with it.

Xander was right Dawn had chosen to fight. Thinking about it Buffy tried to take a step back, look at it from her sisters perspective when she saw the similarity. Buffy had become the Slayer, it had changed her but she was a better person for it. maybe the same could be true for her sister.

'So Buffy gets that tail thing, anything for me?' Xander looked at Da… Sunburst, he corrected himself.

'Lets see. I've got a crate full of demotion charges so you can have a few of them. Squeeze the two sides together and get rid of them before the big bang.' she explained. 'Got some for you too Buffy if you need it.

'I'm a gun in my other form Sunburst. Or did you forget?'

'Oops, kinda did. Sorry' As Sunburst apologised Xander took the two boxes she had handed him and looked for some where to put them. With a short sigh the Autobot put another on his chest. 'They're magnetic. Put them anywhere you want, ah.' She reached into the back of the crate. 'Here we go, a heavy repeater slug thrower. Or a chain cannon, whatever.' She pulled out an over sized green box with a wooden handle at one end and a flat on buss saw blade with maces attached on the other.

'That's a chain cannon?' Xander didn't recognise any barrels or ammo belts

'What's a "chain cannon"?' Buffy asked, she was making an experimental swing or two with the tail weapon.

'A multi barrelled machine gun. You know, the sort of thing aircraft have.' Xander explained as Sunburst armed and fired it into the now empty box, ripping it apart.

'We've got two, have both of em.' Sunburst handed him the one she had just used and another she fished out of the junk she had spread around.

'And where do I put them?'

'Same place I put my new gun.' Sunburst simply reach behind her back and pulled out a very large rifle and "cocked" it.

'What the hell?'

'Where…?'

'You've got a little box in on the small of your back, its called a subspace fold generator. Just put your new toys there.'

'Sorry Sun, what is a "subspace fold generator" and how do you know about it' Xander was wondering what nick name Buffy would stick with.

'Sis I know your blond but try not to show it,' Xander had almost laughed out of pure shock from that quip. Sunburst had more guts than the Dawn of old and that was saying something. 'The generator takes a bit of space and folds it on its self. Becoming a pocket of something called subspace. It can be as big as a planet or as small as a flea. It just takes a lot of energy to work right. I'll get Willow to explain it better later, just think of it as a magic pocket.' She looked at the gun for a moment before putting it back to the nowhere she got it from.

Xander shrugged and tried it, behind his back he felt his new guns slide into nowhere. A moment later he tried to quick draw both of them and the frankly massive guns were back in his hands. 'Now that is cool!'

Prime sat and listened to his medics tell him the bad news. Ten Autobots were repaired, recharged and ready to fight, not including themselves. It would be some time before anyone else was fighting fit, at least a day for most including Prime himself. Preceptor volunteered to go with the nine bringing it to eleven Autobots to save the world with another fifteen to come as a second wave later. The rest would take longer, a lot longer. In the end of the day he had lost just over half his forces in one battle.

Prime didn't like those odds he was left with, conventional Earth weapons had little or no effect on demons according to the experts so Cybretronian equipment's use was questionable. Fortunately two of the Dinobots were still functioning and were with the eight, their brute strength and close combat powers were the best of most Autobots but for the others this would be fists and what the humans called "back ally fighting".

'Prime, how you doing big guy?' The three human sized Autobots came up to him, Xander, Buffy and Sunburst. It took him a moment to realise that Sunburst should be deactivated and not walking around.

'How…'he started

'CR chamber, repaired and upgraded.'

Prime smiled knowing that they couldn't see his mouth 'I believe the correct response is "cool". We need to send a force to Sunnydale as fast as we can are you three fully functional.' He was more than glad that the small Sunburst was up and ready. A dull emotional pain had quite simply vanished.

More importantly it had an effect on the group that had gathered. Sunburst was part of Primus and the young Autobot's death was just as devastating to his men. Two of the Aerialbots had actually cheered when prime had recognised her.

'When do we leave?' Buffy asked. Prowl stepped by her side, almost as if he answered to her.

Prime looked at them 'As soon as you can, I'm afraid we only have a few warriors that can fight at the moment and I'll be needing you to help the humans.'

'You want us to help the humans keep out of the way of Armageddon. Let me make a not of that "Don't almost die again." Got to remember that. Buffy's already threatened to dismember me if I do that to her again and I have no intention to be hurt like that again.'

'We can hope that never happens Sunburst. We can hope.'

Sunburst looked around the green cockpit. Xander had taken the Grimlock express as he called it while Buffy said something about always wanting to fly on concord and Dawn liked the idea of a helicopter.

The strike team were almost all flight capable so had little difficulty in travailing fast. All the Aerialbots survived and made the core of the flight formation, That's where Buffy was with their leader Silverbolt. Grimlock and Swoop took the far sides of the formation, Xander with his head master partner and Springer flew just behind the flying wedge beneath the biggest of the lot Skyfire, who was the only one capable of carrying Preceptor and Prowl at any significant speed up here. The whole flight had broke the sound barrier shortly before evening. Dusk was once again just around the corner and thinks had never looked blacker to the young Autobot.

Jack was looking out of the living room window. Last night was mad, too many good men died and the monsters just kept coming. Tonight promised more of the creatures and less people to fight them. He had gotten word from Hammond of the battle that ended that morning.

The losses reported quite frankly shattered the faint hope he had. The only reason he didn't order a retreat was the words of that damn middle aged Englishman;

///Flashback\\
Jack put the phone back on the hook, he wished there was something to drink 'That's it then.'

'That's what?' In the door-frame Giles polished his glasses on the corner of his old jumper.

'The Autobots won their war.'

'That's good news, they'll be here soon then.'

'No. From what Hammond tells me they lost a lot of men, too many. According to the officer on sight only two score or so made it back to their base under their own power and from what he saw only thirty Autobots could be salvageable.'

'At least we'll have that many.'

'What use is thirty tired, battle wary, Autobots against thousands of dead monsters and demons?' Jack dropped into a seat. 'We can't win.'

'No we can't.'

'What's the point then, were dead and "demons rule".'

'No one said we would win with a hundred Autobots with us. We hoped we could stop The First but hope is all we have. Colonel; outside you have a good thousand men, they still think that reinforcements are coming and that it could do some good. If they die tonight then they are saved from the eternity of torture they will suffer by living. This is the last day any of us will spend on this Earth, let them live it instead of fearing tonight.'
///Flashback ends\\

General George Hammond looked at the report, whatever had been salvaged was nothing more than junk. Aside from several weapons and some computers there was nothing left that humanity could use. Now with every nation of Earth knowing about the Stargate things were moving too quickly.

The only countries that could complain with any degree of effect were too busy rebuilding. George was writing a overall report for them when the sergeant came in.

'Sir, the Autobots are sending a transmission. They're asking for you.'

It took them a moment to get to the control centre, mounted next to the supercomputer's was a golden interface and monitor. Major Carter had, with a team of the SGC's best scientists, reasoned that it alone had more computing power than the entire eastern sea board and then didn't touch it again.

The blue and silver face of Optimus Prime was on the screen, 'General Hammond I have good news. Shortly before our last battle with the Decepticons I sent three of my space capable Autobots to our homeworld.'

'Yes I know. We tracked them leaving the planet but couldn't tell where they went.' That was true. The Autobots space craft accelerated, in Major Carter's words, like the laws governing space and time were siting in the corner with a dunces hat on.

'I knew we would need reinforcements. They should be here in a few hours, approaching from the same trajectory.'

George winced; 'Shortly after we tracked them out we lost our observation satellites.'

'Oh yes, so that's where megatron got his army of Insecticons. I'll patch in Telatran one's scans.' The screen switched to show a image of deep space.

'Prime I only see two ships, surly that's not all the reinforcements?'

'Those two ships carry all the Autobots that were left on Cybertron.'

'What?' George didn't catch on to what Prime was telling him. The Autobot leader couldn't mean all of them.

'General, those two ships are carrying the entire Autobot race.'

'How can two ships carry that many?'

'Size is hard to judge in space, the larger of the two is called Metroplex, he is an Autobot in his own right and about the same size as your New York state.' George felt his eyebrows try to crawl off his forehead.

'Daw… Sunburst who are Fortress Maximus and Metroplex?' Buffy asked her sister. Prime had radioed an update to them on route.

'Maximus is a big Autobot, about two miles long and a mile wide. If he wanted to he could level a city from orbit. Metroplex is his bigger friend, he doesn't need guns to level the city just his feet… hang on...'.

'That's big, a little too big.'

'No Xander that's just the right size.' the Slayer come target master knew that sound. it was the sound of her sisters voice when she had just had a particularly good, or crazy, idea. Sunburst had an idea and Buffy didn't want to guess what it could be.

'For what?' Springer, however, did.

'I think we ask our big friends to come to Sunnydale high.'

'Sun, that would crush the school and the entire town.' Buffy couldn't quite see where this was going.

'Well you guys got to blow the school up, call it family tradition. And what better way to close a hole than fill it. Think of the Hellmouth as a big bath and Metroplex as the plug.'

'Several billion tons of metal sealing the Hellmouth?' Preceptor asked, sounding more curious than horrified. 'Would that work? Calculating speed entry into the planets atmosphere Metroplex could impact with a the force of a large meteorite. He never was exactly mobile or agile in flight.'

Sunburst sounded unsure when se said; 'I think I know someone that could help. He can't intervene directly but he can help.'

'Who?' Buffy asked

'Primus' Sunburst answered

Xander's voice cracked over the radio. 'Why can't Primus do anything? I thought he was a god?'

'He is. Gods can't effect mortal wars. If he helps it tips the balance in our favour and that's bad.' that confused Buffy but Sunburst hadn't finished. 'How do I explain this to you guys. The universe is like a spinning plate on a pole. If it stops spinning or gets over balanced it falls to the floor and cracks.

'Now there is something that doesn't want that to happen. That something would try to rebalance everything. The First cold manifest, or even pull its own legion of Glory's out of it's back pocket.'

'Whoa.' Springer exclaimed; 'Is that something what you guys call God?'

'Nope, above and beyond. The Gods are the ones who made the plate. I think. Anyway the point is Primus can't do anything without major consequences but he can help stop Metroplex on his way down. The only thing I'm a bit unsure of is the continental shelf.'

'I've got some crazy glue and silly putty if that helps.' Xander supplied

'And when a third of the continent slips off that will be useful.' Buffy replied. 'What about the army of demons, or will they just get squashed flat?'

'If the surviving Autobots keep them in place that's about right. This could work guys. Sunburst to Optimus Prime we have a plan up here...'

Riley and his team were not doing very well, the instant the sun set an army of undead burst from the labyrinth of sewers beneath. Head shot were the order of the day along with whatever sharp and/or blunt things within reach. It hadn't taken long for him to give the retreat order for all the good it did.

They fought their way into the streets only to be surrounded buy the shuffling Zombies and sword wheedling skeletons. Williams's Napalm tank was dry and they were about to get swarmed under the endless hoard of undead. From high above something growled, Riley risked looking up. 'What the HELL!?!'

'GRIMLOCK CRUNCH!' It was big, grey and looked like a metal dinosaur. A two legged metal dinosaur that breathed fire. Landing amongst the thousands of dead things it seamed to smile as it moved through the monsters, crushing, stomping and burning them all. Then a hatch on its back flipped up and a metal man stood on it's shoulders. With two huge guns the man cut great swaths in the undead ranks.

'Riley, I think our reinforcements have arrived.' His wife laughed blowing another skeleton to bits.

'Sir, here comes another one' one of his men pointed to something in the sky This one had wings and two big bombs, it was kind of obvious that they were bombs because they made a big explosion at the opposite end of the road before blasting a hole in the dead army next to the rescued men.

'Me Swoop, me help. Get on, get on back. We fly away.' the giant bird landed in one of the craters it had made, biting any passing creatures with it's long beak. As they took off the two legged one he guessed was called Grimlock jumped, and a pillar of fire shot out from its feet, soon both were in the now almost completely dark sky.

Two things happened at once, the first was that one of Riley's men mentioned that there was no cockpit or controls on the bird-o-saur and the other was the fluttering cloud that was approaching. 'Bats WHAT THE HELL? I didn't know that the First was that unoriginal.'

'Those ain't bats soldier boy, they're harpies.' It was the metal man with the two chain cannons, his voice was familiar.

'Xander?' Xander Harris?' Riley called out to the other rescuer

'Sorry Xander is busy at the moment. Please leave a message with the T-REX!' With that the once Zeppo span around and fired at the close formation of behind them.

The road in front of the house fell in moments before the armies of hell burst forth and just as the sun set. 'For crying out loud!' Jack had shouted before realising just how glad he was for the defences his men set up.

A short while after the attack began and he was snapping the third mag' into his P90 only the noise of battle could be heard. Then, low and fast, came the familiar green helicopter. It slowed down almost instantly to hover ten feet above the new cave in the middle of the road. It's downdraft was enough to force most of the undead back into the hole they came from. A slim robot leaned out of the cockpit:-

'Hey, HAPPY BIRTHDAY!' Sunburst cried as she dropped two boxes into the pit before the helicopter banked away sharply.

'EVERYONE DOWN' Jack could almost see what would happen next. He wasn't disappointed.

Everything in the hole came out all at once as half the road itself was ripped up in a titanic explosion, for ten seconds it rained dust, body parts and tarmac. No one could tell which was what. Brushing himself off he looked around, most of he base survived but they were busy covering themselves from the debris. Only SG1, Faith and the two Watchers were standing to see the helicopter land and then switch into his robot mode.

'You got them.' He said to the silver blue and green Autobot that landed next to him.

'Was there any doubt?' she asked with a tilt of her head.

On the other side of town Angel looked at the high school trough a telescope. It was the closest anyone had to a vantage point over the town and his old manor house. The family that had moved in was one of the first to leave, meaning that he and two of his friends could move in with little fuss. He had seen the Autobots arrive in the centre of town and at Buffy's house, he breathed a sigh of relief. Not that he needed to these days but sometimes his old human habits were hard to shake. His vampire hearing picked up a faint flutter of leather wings. 'Oh no! Gunn!'

Wesley was back at Buffy's, only Fred and Gunn had come with him to help look out. Willow had also come with them, she wasn't comfortable in the house for obvious reasons but she still refused to use her magic. Angel knew it was cruel but he felt she wasn't as helpful as she once was, in fact she was more a target than a threat to the bat winged half human animals descending on the four of them.

Before the fight had even begun something else happened. The windows rattled as the something happened, walls shook, ears bled and everything was sent flying to the ground as the something happened. The something happened to fly so low that it destroyed the roof of the building that Angel and the gang with him had hidden in. Recovering as fast as they did all the expectant combatants looked up, trying to find out what something had happened. Four planes flew in formation behind the something, each one braking the sound barrier the same way the last had. The sonic booms like thunder cracks shattering stone.

Now the building was falling down around them. The harpies took to their wings and flew after the new foes while the humans (and vampire) ran out the door.

A Concord jet plane landed on the short driveway without any trouble. Its long fuselage with the down pointing nose cone and sweeping wings slid there in a pristine white. The only thing that shocked them more was the red face printed on his side and the opening door, 'All boarding Autobot airlines please have your luggage ready!' Buffy called out. Above them the four other jets began shooting the Harpies down.

The fourth group of Autobots also came in fast and low. While the plane was one of the biggest of all the earthbound Autobots everything in the small city of Sunnydale was more interested in kicking the crap out of each other beneath them so it passed quietly towards its target. The centre of town.

Onboard Skyfire, Preceptor transformed into his microscope mode and began scanning the area with everything he had. This was the first time the Autobots had been able to scan a stable rent in the fabric of dimensional realities. After a moment he discovered that instead of a stable rent it was a constructed crossroads between this world and many others, somehow this part of the world was a bridge into the other worlds and places in ninth dimensional space. He was so interested in the way the portal worked that he didn't notice the first demon claw its way out.

Skyfire, however, did. Quickly spiralling up he dropped his nose cone and dived at the thing, blasters firing constantly. Prowl pulled his friend back Preceptor transformed and thanked him. At first it looked like the demon was impervious to Skyfire's weapons on account of its yellow exoskeleton absorbing the shots but one shot burst through. Then another and another. Preceptor had taken the time to reset his microscope into its weapon mode and transformed again, he shattered the things armour with one shot, the exoskeleton splintered and the demon burst like a balloon. What was left of the many limb-ed, fly-eyed, thing was nothing more than green slime.

Unfortunately that was not the only Fly-eyed, many limb-ed thing with an exoskeleton to crawl out of the dimensional crossroads. 'I think it's a good idea to get out of here' Prowl cried out, firing his shoulder rocket into the widening pit. Skyfire agreed and jetted off to the human base while Preceptor joined his fire with Prowl and they shot back at the small group of true demons crawling up in to this dimension.

Landing they found little Sunburst explaining the risky and perhaps only workable plan to the humans. They were sceptical and not very pleased with the situation.

'So your going to land a city on top of Sunnydale? A city full of Autobots.'

'That's the plan, Colonel;. Look this world is falling apart, the damage Unicron's explosion did basically destroyed most of this worlds infrastructure. We both know that with the armed forces here the entire west coast of America is in chaos. Riots, crimes are all epidemic. We can help. With the entire Autobot race on this planet we can fix whatever is damaged, within ten years you can have this world better than it was before and the Autobots will leave to reclaim Cybertron from the Decepticons. As it stands even if the First wasn't attacking this world would be doomed with out our help.' Preceptor looked at the young Autobot, she had the same sense of conviction and leadership that Prime had.

The Colonel looked at her like he saw the same thing. 'This is a big decision, too big for one man to make.'

She stamped her foot in annoyance. '"O'Neill." That name is spoken from one end of this galaxy to another. Everywhere you are known as a warrior and a leader, the Asguard named their flag ship after you for crying out loud. Your fast becoming a legend Jack. Despite it all you are the ambassador of Earth. The president of the United States defers to you on this sort of stuff.'

'Only once.' the human admitted.

'You are the only person that can make a decision, do so and soon.' Sunburst finished, in reality she was just a bit shorter than him but at that moment she towered over the human.

'C... Can you give me some time to think about it?' He asked

Skyfire answered, 'We don't have the time, look!' The blast crater in the road rumbled shortly before a five headed snake demon punched its way out. The Autobots reacted immediately, those who hadn't transformed in a flash an they all fired on mass. Combined their weapons left very little mass and Sunburst was giving orders before the smoke had even cleared.

'Springer. You, me, Grimlock and Xand are sewer bound. Aerialbots, we need Superion to stand over the Hellmouth with that massive gun of his. Think of it as target practice, we need you to slow them down. Sis; you and the rest get the word out, any humans standing in Sunnydale are flat if they don't get out of dodge fast. Skyfire can you carry the wounded?'

'Sure.'

'Then boys and girls,' she pulled out a short stocked energy rifle. 'Lets play hard ball.' They were moving before they even questioned who was giving the orders.

For a moment Sunburst let her ego inflate, then she realised she had volunteered to jump into the Sunnydale sewer system to hunt demons that had a tendency to splatter like ripe melons when shot. If she still had a digestive system, she reasoned, she would be sick. Springer transformed into his car form and opened the door. 'Lets go little one.' he called and she winced, hoping that little nick name wasn't going to stick.

With a hidden gulp she jumped in mounting her new gun on the dashboard, despite it all she would not show just how scared she really was.

Buffy watch the stranger drive off. Dawn really was gone; only Willow, Xander and Giles were left in her life. With great effort she held her head up and started to look around. The big jet was already loading people and equipment. She was looking for something anyone had missed when she saw Faith half drag a beaten and dishevelled man out of her house. Buffy thought that it must be Faith's newest Boy-toy before she was outraged to see that Faith's new toy was her Spike. How dare Faith "play" with him. Spike was hers.

For the longest moment she flipped that last thought around in her mind. For some reason she laughed, a rich laugh that attracted a lot of attention.

Spike had been alone for so long, left lying there as part of the furniture trying to get better. Then all but one of the people who had plagued his dreams had faded into nothing. Now the girl with the spinning sword had carried him out and the remaining ghost was laughing. He looked up and saw someone in armour dash up to him, she through her helmet to the ground reviling a blond halo and tear filled eyes.

They held on to each other for a long time, refusing to move before a strange tall robot with a police car for a chest and doors in the place of wings picked them up and gently placed them in a plane that carried them away.

Superion dropped from the sky to a building near the Hellmouth as the girl had suggested. She had also told him to take some target practice and that's just what this was doing. His built in cannon glowed yellow before firing the first volley into the mass of limbs and teeth. He fired again and again and again before spiting into his components.

Slingshot stood on top of a building, a static figure sniping off anything he could hit. Airraid along with Skydive ran amongst the buildings shooting and fighting whatever was hiding. Silverbolt and Fireflight performed strafing runs against the demon horde crawling out. They were horribly outnumbered and there weapons had to hit many times before they did any good. While they were winning for now they were still using up a lot of energy and couldn't spare that much more.

The sewers weren't big enough for Springer or Grimlock so Grimlock went first. His bulk and shear strength pushed the walls out and left a trail that could be seen from the surface. The three Autobots looked for any signs that there were still demons down there with them. There wasn't any, well non that Grimlock hadn't squashed flat.

They broke out of the underground maze in the middle of the fire-fight at the centre of the Hellmouth and the two Autobots in front added their own brand of madness to the fight. Combined in robot mode Xander had the brains, and luck, to guide Grimlock's raw power into a effective killing machine. With a blaster in one hand and energy sword in the other demon limbs were scattered all over the place.

Sunburst jumped out of Springer and made her way to some cover, picking off the odd undead minion that survived. Springer himself mirrored Grimlock with his own two weapons.

After a few moments Sunburst switched to her radio. The Aerialbots were long out of ammo and were down to beating the demons with cars and other pieces of the landscape. Sunburst felt the dull pulse of her rifle and looked around. 'That's all we can do here guys, we've rocked and now we gotta roll.'

'You heard the boss.' Xander shouted as Grimlock stooped down to pick her up.

Colonel O'Neill looked out at the town, everyone had been evacuated and the demons had retreated for the time being. He watched as the cluster of Autobots flew into the sky when a large shadow passed over head.

Before he could react a familiar red truck pulled up next to him. 'Governor O'Neill. Sunburst filled me in on her proposal, I agree it's the best way for both our people.'

'As do I. Despite what she said I can't speak for every nation but I can just about guarantee America will take you up on the offer.'

Grimlock and Sunburst landed gently next to them. 'Good to know sir!' the small autobot girl shouted. 'Are you ready to guide the big guy down Prime?'

'Whenever you are Sunburst.' The Colonel found out what they were talking about when they merged. Jack had heard a lot about this guy but this was the first time he had met him. The only words he could use to describe this 'God' was just that, none of the false god show the Goa'uld put on. Optimus Primus was the biggest and most impressive Autobot he had ever seen. He was both sleek and well built, immense liquid steel wings acted like a cloak and as he jumped they fanned out like a birds.

The ship he carried down however dwarfed him. It was a city for Autobots stretching almost from one end of the horizon to the other. It was full of towering buildings and glorious spires. While the humans stood in wonder the earthbound Autobots waved. Those in the city could be seen pointing the different things they could see. Several were praying to the reincarnated God who silently guided the incalculable weight that was coming down.

It landed without so much as a tremor a hand span away from them. A good part touching the surface of the close ocean but not enough to over balance it. The Hellmouth was sealed forever without a sound.

For a moment all was still, Jack blinked away the shock of it all quickly but couldn't think of anything to say, eventually he settled on the most pointless thing he could come up with. 'Well that's that then. Next we find the lost city of the Ancients and then defeat Anubis.'

'A nudist?.' Everyone span around to look at Grimlock, 'What me say?'

O'Neill simply hung his head; 'Why didn't I come up with that?'

End Chapter 11