Willow had been surprised by how easy it was to convince Buffy that they should take a portal to Los Angeles. She simply had to remind her that with the Los Angeles International airport out in hell, they would have to fly 13 hours to San Diego, and then drive another 2 ½ hours up to Los Angeles. Not only would the trip cost a fortune, but then they would run the risk of being late. Normally Buffy would do anything to avoid using a portal because they made her sick, but this time there was almost nothing that could make her even want to run the risk of being late.

Tonight was the night, the night that they were going to bring Los Angeles back from hell. For most of the girls this was an exciting night. For Buffy and her friends, it was bitter sweet. They all knew that they were doing the right thing, but they weren't sure what the consequences of ripping an entire major metropolitan area out of hell were going to be. They were also worried as to how the people of Los Angeles were going to deal with having spent months in a hell dimension. Worst of all though, they were pretty sure that not all of their friends were going to be coming back. They weren't entirely sure who all had made it after the fall, and they weren't sure who was going to survive the coming battle, which would provide the distraction necessary for them to get out of hell. They did know one thing; Angel was going to die in order for this to work.

Telling him had been one of the hardest things Buffy had done in a while. She thought that he should have been more upset, should have cared that he wasn't going to make it out of this alive, but he didn't seem to care at all. He just agreed to go along with their plan, with very little hesitation at all. Buffy knew better than anyone what it's like to die in order to save the world, but even she thought that this should have been harder for him. She was asking him to die to get people out of hell. Again.

They weren't sure what to expect when Los Angeles returned so to be on the safe side, they were bringing about thirty slayers with them. They also had another 30 slayers on call ready to go at the castle if something went wrong. She told the girls that they were going to where the Santa Monica beach was before the city disappeared to wait for it to reappear. They were not to leave the beach until she told them to. The plan was simple; all they had to do was get the matching orb from their dimension to the same location as the orb in hell. They would use a GPS system to make sure they were in the right place since all of the landmarks were gone. Then they would wait on the beach for the city to reappear. Angel and his friends would take care of the rest from their side. Angel's blood was the key to activating the portal, just like with Acathla. They had to be ready to rid the city of any demons, which had hitched a ride back to Los Angeles. Buffy made sure to warn them that if they found any annoying bleached blonde men, that they are to call her right away, and under no circumstances kill him. Also any demons claiming to know her, Willow, Faith, Angel, or Spike, are not to be killed. She purposely had left out that Angel and Spike were vampires, well at least Spike is, she wasn't sure what Angel is now. She didn't know how the girls would react to the idea of working with vampires, souls or not.

As they were about to enter the portal Buffy reminded them all one last time to have their bags ready in case the portal made them sick. Then she walked into the portal. Each of the girls followed behind her two at a time, with Willow and Faith brining up the rear. Xander, Giles, Andrew, and Dawn wished them luck as Faith and Willow walked through the portal. The portal closed behind them with a flash.

When they had all arrived, and all gotten control of their gag reflexes once more, Willow grabbed the GPS out of her bag and walked over to the location they had decided on. There she placed the rhod chan cyneua on the ground. She then proceeded to walk back over to the others and wait. They all sat there facing what looked like a large barren desert. Of course, that large barren desert had once been Los Angeles. None of them had actually seen the city since it had been sucked into hell. It was hard for any of them to look at, but particularly hard for Buffy, Faith, and Willow since they had been there before. When choosing which girls to bring with them, they had specifically brought girls who had never been to LA so that they wouldn't be as disturbed by the sight. Although it hadn't really worked since no one seemed able to take their eyes off the barren wasteland. It was so weird to think that it had once been a large city. It was only thirty minutes, but it felt like forever, before the ground started to shake. A few of the girls looked scared, some looked terrified, but all of them stood their ground. They all knew what was coming. All of a sudden the rhod chan cyneua started to hum and grow. It got larger and louder until it was too bright to look at and all of them had to cover their ears. Then there was a large sonic boom, and the rhod chan cyneua seemed to explode flashing a light so bright that it blinded all of them temporarily before disappearing. When were finally able to see again the barren wasteland wasn't there anymore. In it's place was a large city gleaming in the night.