A/N: Hey everyone! Yes, it's true! I finally updated! I'm really really really really sorry that it took me sooooo long. I did get several messages about people wanting to kick my ass if I didn't update soon and I totally understand that lol.

I really don't have a good excuse for taking so long. I did have this temp job for a while where I did data entry all day and that made me not want to even look at a computer after getting home, and then I went on vacation for a little over a week, but to be honest it's mostly been a case of writers block. I've already started writing the next chapter though so it shouldn't be that long again.

There's not too much of this story left actually but there will probably be a sequel in the future. I hope you all enjoy the chapter and sorry again for taking so long!

Showtime

Outside of the four hospital rooms that the prophetic children resided in, the minions of the four doctors continued to stand their ground until they received word that the final child was born. The halls were now completely crammed with people of all genders and ages, shapes and sizes. There were people in the halls, by the exits of the floor, the exits of the hospital, and even completely surrounding the building itself which was a great feat considering the sear size of the hospital.

The expression on every person's face was exactly the same. Their faces were hardened with determination and purpose as if they'd been waiting their entire lives for this very moment. And they had been. The followers of Marvix were the most loyal followers a demon god could find. They would train for their entire lives for the moment that they would be needed, and when that moment would come they would willingly give their lives for the demon's cause.

As they continued to wait, one of their expressions began to change. The man seemingly in charge of the large group, the same man who delivered his painful message to Giles, looked to the ceiling in concentration as if he were listening for something. The others looked on in anticipation awaiting instructions.

When the leader was clearly done listening to whatever it was he was listening to a conniving smile appeared on his face. "It's time," he said in a monotone voice just loud enough for a few of the others to hear and pass along the word.

"Now remember," the leader yelled out over the crowd as he turned to face them. "The children are not to be harmed. The mothers, and their protectors, however," he continued with a pause. "Do what you must to them to ensure the capture and safety of the babies."

The leader received several nods and anxious smiles from the crowd. They knew it was time, and they were prepared to do whatever it took to complete their mission. Several of them began to enclose on the four doors to the hospital rooms. Before they got the chance to open the doors, however, they slowly began to open on their own.

Those who had been advancing on the doors slowly moved back slightly, but kept on their guard ready for a fight. As the door slowly opened they waited, geared up for whatever was to come.

Out of the first opened door Angel cautiously stepped out into the hallway with both hands raised in the air. Following immediately behind him was Connor with two babies held closely to him, one in each arm. From the next door Gunn and Xander fallowed suite with babies three and four in Xander's arms, and from the last two doors came Giles and Lorne and then Spike and Wesley, babies five and six in Lorne's arms and the final two babies in Wesley's arms.

Angel, Gunn, Giles and Spike then proceeded to close the doors to the hospital rooms they walked out of. They looked around to make sure they could all see each other. When they all made sure they had eye contact with one another those without children in their arms stood protectively in front of those who did.

Then Angel began. "Listen," he instructed the people around him. "We don't want any trouble. We know that you all want these children. Maybe we can come up with some kind of deal."

The leader of the group then stepped forward, mere inches away from where Angel stood. "We are not looking to make a deal vampire," the man responded stiffly. "We want the babies alive, and we are prepared to do whatever it takes to achieve our goal."

Before Angel or any of the others could reply, the leader seemed to realize that something was up. "Where are the mothers? Get them out here," he ordered his men.

As they began to walk closer to the rooms Angel, Gunn, Giles and Spike stood their ground, not allowing the others to get to Connor, Xander, Lorne, Wesley and the hospital rooms.

"The girls are still very weak from giving birth," Giles answered. "They can't even leave their beds. Leave them out of this. We have what you want."

The goons glanced in the direction of their leader to await his orders. The leader nodded his head for his goons to back off. It was clear that their only interest was the children, no one, or thing, else.

"Now," the leader began once again, "Hand over the children, and no one gets hurt."

"I'm afraid we can't do that," Wesley responded holding the babies even tighter in his arms.

The leader of the group simply smiled an almost kind and understanding smile, but just as quickly as it appeared, it was gone. "Get the babies," he ordered, "Do whatever it takes."

Those last few words were all it took for all hell to break loose. As soon as the order was given, the Marvix followers sprang into action. The closest people lunged at the men protecting those holding the children and gave them no mercy.

Angel, Gunn, Giles and Spike were ready for them. Luckily the small confined space of the hallway actually made it easier for them to fight the people off. Less room meant lease people attacking all at once. The limited space would only allow two or three people to attack each champion at once.

All four being experienced fighters made it fairly easy to take them out. Spike had somewhat of a difficult time with the chip in his head considering most of his attackers where human, but Willow's spell had helped dull the pain significantly. The chip also helped him come to the realization that although these people all had human faces, the device proved that some of them were far from human.

"Their not all human," the bleach blonde yelled out to the others after fighting a few attackers that didn't cause his head to feel as if it might explode.

"Good," Angel yelled back after kicking an assailant, affectively sending him flying across the hall into a few others who were approaching, "If you find ones that aren't, kill them. Do whatever you have to to keep the babies safe!"

They continued to fight as they were able to push back the army inch by inch being sure to keep Angel, Giles, Gunn and Spike up front ready for battle with Connor, Xander, Lorne and Wesley safely fallowing behind with the children in their protective arms.

"It's working," Giles yelled with encouragement, "Just keep beating them back."

Just as they had finally neared an exit, their attackers had begun to retreat. The boys were beginning to smell victory as it seemed they had won.

When the last human had fled, the others looked around as if they had been expecting more. "Well that was easy," Xander remarked.

"Too easy," Gunn observed. He was far from convinced that they were out of the woods.

"Easy or not, we need to get these babies out of here and to a safe location," Wesley instructed.

"Right, lets go," Angel agreed leading the way to the stairs that would lead them to the exit of the hospital.

Just as they were almost to the door, however, the door opened and several large demons entered through it. To top things off, the Marvix followers had returned to surround them, this time carrying weapons.

Gunn sent an annoyed glance Xander's way. "You just had to go and say that it was easy now didn't you?"

XXXXXX

While the guys were out attempting to get the children away safely, creating a distraction from the mother's rooms, the girls managed to find doctors and nurses scrubs to wear as a disguise. As soon as the noises had died down in the halls Buffy, Dawn, Faith, Anya, Willow and Tara snuck out of their rooms all gently carrying something hidden underneath their stolen clothing. They quickly, but quietly, rushed over to Cordelia and Fred's room.

When they were all safely crammed into the small hospital room Cordelia and Fred barricaded the door behind them while the other six revealed their hidden secrets that had been stashed underneath their clothing.

Six infants were gently pulled from underneath the six champion's shirts. The remaining babies, Cordelia and Fred's babies had been wrapped up tightly in their blankets and placed safely on the middle of their beds. After barricading the door, the two mothers quickly moved to their beds to retrieve their children.

"Great idea Buffy," Cordelia praised with a smile, "So far it seems to be working. I mean the idea that those goons would focus only on the babies and nothing else was kind of a long shot, but I'm glad it worked."

"Yeah, well that was actually the easy part," the blonde slayer responded. "Now we have to get the babies out of here before the distraction the guys are creating wears thin."

"Well the spell that Tara and I performed to have the babies essences transferred to the fakes should hold for a while," Willow tried to reassure the others.

"That spell is kind of freaking me out," Dawn said with a disturbed look on her face.

"What do you mean?" Tara asked with confusion.

Dawn looked down to the child in her hand for a moment and then back towards Tara, Willow and the others. "Well Jamie looks like she's crying, but no sounds are coming out. It's a little disturbing is all."

"That's all part of the plan Dawnie," Willow responded. "We made their voices attach to their essences to make it more believable and also to make sure that the real babies don't give away our cover."

"I know, a-and it's a great idea, don't get me wrong," the youngest mother replied, "But that doesn't mean it's not creepy."

While Dawn, Willow and Tara were having their conversation Buffy and Faith were looking out the window of the hospital room to check and see if the reinforcements that had been out there earlier were still at their posts. Luckily enough it appeared that they had just gotten word of the guys trying to flee with the babies and were rushing to their position to provide back up. The coast was nearly clear. Only a few stayed behind as lookouts.

"Alright guys, this is it," Buffy announced. "There's only about five or six of them still down there that I can see. We're only on the third floor so Faith and I are going to jump out these two windows and take these guys out while the rest of you fashion together something that you can climb down on. Don't leave this room until Faith and I give you the signal."

The others all nodded in agreement as they all prepared for what they were about to do. Faith and Buffy quietly whispered their goodbyes to their sons as they handed them over to Dawn and Anya, placing them carefully in their free arms. Then they both proceeded to the windows, pulled up the glass hatch and then on a silent count to three they quickly yanked out the screens and jumped out the windows to the ground.

As the sounds of fighting could be heard outside Willow and Cordelia quickly, but carefully handed their babies to Tara and Fred while they swiftly began to rip off the seats of the beds and tie them together as tightly as possible.

When the two women felt satisfied enough with what they had made Cordelia looked at Willow with determination.

"It's time to get the hell out of this hospital."

XXXXXX

The guys looked around them for any possible route they could find to escape. Unfortunately, there were none. They were completely surrounded by demons and warriors with weapons, and to make matters worse, the babies were starting to cry.

"Oh great," Connor said as he looked down to the objects in his arms. "This is just what we need."

Spike looked to Angel apprehensively. "I think it may be time to use the secret weapon, mate."

As Angel continued to survey his surroundings he slowly nodded his head. "I think you might be right." He then turned his attentions to Lorne. "Lorne, do it!"

All eyes turned to the green demon as an extremely loud screeching noise began to fill the small halls. The noise rang the ears of everyone within a twenty foot radius of the demon. The humans immediately crumbled to the ground, weapons falling from their hands so that they would be free to cover their ears. Even the demons began to crumble under the unbearable sound.

Even though the screech was quite unbearable for Angel and the others as well, they took advantage of catching the others by surprise and began to push and fight their way through the humans in search of an alternate exit, those who had free hands taking up whatever weapons they could. Lorne's tactics bought them a few seconds of get away time, but they weren't out of the woods yet.

As they rushed down the halls they were fallowed by their previous attackers and met with other attackers on their way. Angel and Giles were leading the way, taking out whoever, or whatever got in their way. Spike and Gunn brought up the rear making sure none of their followers got close enough to them, and the other four were in the middle desperately trying to protect the false children in their arms so as not to arise any suspicions.

They managed to find another staircase and rushed down the three flights as quickly as possible, taking out attackers as they went. They managed to finally reach the outside of the hospital, but it appeared that reaching that point would be their final progression. As soon as they stepped foot outside, all they could see were demons and humans by the rows surrounding the entire exit.

Spike and Gunn turned around attempting to find an alternate escape, but only found more demons and humans flooding the route they had just taken, along with any other path they could possibly use. They were completely trapped by hundreds of enemies all after the same thing, the babies.

"Well this isn't good," Angel stated the obvious.

"What do we do?" Xander asked in a horse voice. He was clearly scared for his life. It was looking hopeless. There was no doubt that soon their enemies would find out that they didn't have the real babies and then they would go after Buffy and the others.

"We fight," Wesley answered. "It's the only thing we can do."

Connor looked at Wesley with worry. "What about the babies?"

"Their not going to hurt them," Angel reminded them. "Place them down gently in that corner. Xander and Lorne do whatever it takes to protect them," he ordered. "Wesley and Connor help the rest of us at the front."

"Just give it up vampire," one of the demons said as he slowly moved closer to the group. "Give the children to the humans willingly and no blood will have to be shed."

Xander, Connor, Wesley and Lorne did as they were told by Angel and gently set down the children in the corner of the outside of the hospital that they had now been backed into. Wesley and Connor then joined the other four at the front while Xander and Lorne stood at the ready in front of the babies.

After Lorne had used his voice to get them out of the last jam Angel, Spike, Giles and Gunn had taken two weapons each that had fallen to the ground. They now handed their extra weapons to Xander, Lorne, Connor and Wesley so that they were all armed and ready for action.

"Sorry," Angel responded, "I'm afraid we can't do that."

The demon shook his head in disappointment. "I guess we're just going to have to do this the hard way then." He looked around at his demon troops and the humans scattered around them. All was silent except for the scared cries of the children in the corner.

"Kill them all, but do not harm the children," the demon commanded loudly.

And that's when the real battle began.