(Authors Note: You may be confused when reading about team Kennedy in the beginning and then later when reading the altercation….Remember back to when Buffy told Ken to get her team and run for the Hellmouth while she bit the bullet, and then Kennedy looked back to see Willow pointing at enemy corpses and started to do some magic?…that's the only hint you get. Oh and the previous chapter was short while the upcoming ones are longer than usual because I saved over the previous chapter before updating and was forced to add the last bit of content from chapter 18 into the beginning of this chapter)

Operation Slayers and Non Essentials, the Second Coming:

Previously on Buffy the Vampire Slayer

"Alright, everybody ready?" Buffy asked her band of merry…people. "Everyone, flashlights on! We're going in."

Eventually, team Buffy came to a cave opening guarded by a few bringers that was were impossible to sneak up on. Sure Willow could use magic to cloak them, but who knew if their enemies had a heavy magic detection system in place? The battle ended quickly as nothing special or out of the ordinary stood in the Slayers way. However one of the bringers a younger Slayer thought she killed had enough life left in him to roll onto a pressure plate before he died, at which time all of team Buffy was in the open space. As soon as the plate sunk into the sand, a very thick set of steel bars that was incased by barbed and electrocution wire, hit the floor with a booming thud.

"Everyone! Back to back! Watchers and non-melee's in the middle! Will, get that door open!" Buffy quickly shouted.

Continuing onwards, the trio of Giles, Faith and Dante pressed onwards. Eventually, the three came to a small opened area that was lit by torch, wooden tables and chairs in certain corners. The room appeared empty yet for some reason Dante was growling and Faith's spider senses were tingling, and not in the place she liked. Out of the corner of his eye, Giles spotted a black object on the floor stirring right before he saw skin.

"Faith!" Giles yelled with a whisper. "The bringers are sleeping, finish them quickly".

As quickly as they could, Giles and Faith both crept to each sleeping bringer in the small room and slit their throats one by one. Even Dante tore a messy chunk out of a throat or two. As smooth as the assassinations were going, Faith made one fatal mistake. The Slayer let her last bringer turn over in what she thought was his sleep, as the bringer did not move even though he was facing an approaching Faith with dagger in hand. But alas, Faith ended the bringer all the same…..and that's when it happened.

Suddenly, somehow…some magical way, an image of Joyce Summers appeared in front of Buffy and her team. "This time dear, you will lose." The former mother of two said with a heartwarming smile.

Meanwhile, the late mayor Wilkin's, third of his name, materialized in front of Faith and Giles. "You can't win firecracker." The man said with a hunched over dry laugh.

Before anyone could say boo, the walls and ceiling around Buffy and her team started to quickly move towards the center of the room; so cliché, yet so effective at rendering Willow useless.

All the while Buffy and Co were getting ready for battle, another horde of bad guys came out of the wood-work to circle around Faith, Giles and Dante.

"Dante!" Faith screamed as she connected a standing reverse roundhouse kick to a bringers jaw.

Looking up at his master after snarling like the demon he is, Faith now had her pet's attention. Standing back to back with Giles, Faith shouted out another command. "Dante!...Satsu! Go!".

Buffy and Co still fought on, as Buffy couldn't find the small opening she needed. However, given time, she found it. As soon as Buffy noticed that the enemy charging from the only way in or out started to come in less orderly and farther apart, she roared with a bellow straight from her gut and fling her body onto a bunch of Bringers who blocked the exit. Luckily, Buffy was correct in assuming that this would cause a domino effect and send the enemy still marching in the narrow tunnel crashing down. Kennedy didn't need to ask, she knew that was the signal.

"LETS GO!"

And so Kennedy and her squad, along with a few of the younger girls and watchers, all ran past the fallen blockade and straight into whatever lay ahead. The last thing Kennedy saw as she looked back, was Willow's hunched over form pointing towards a few of the corpses on the ground while chanting.

"Ok girls were going in…but quietly. Flashlights on as we run down dark halls. If we see torches, flashlights off and we sneak up. I'm taking point, and I want Slayers around Xander and Olivia at all times. Any questions?"

"No? Ok, follow up and move out." Satsu commanded as she turned on her flashlight.

Chapter 19

"Everyone ok?" Kennedy asked, panting for oxygen.

"Oh God no, I think my lungs are on fire." Andrew declared as he slumped to take a seat with his back against a rocky wall.

"Everyone take five, we have to find the Hellmouth and close it. " Kennedy quickly uttered before taking in deep breathes, the woman now bent over with her hands on her knees. "Someone give me a head count, and what supplies we have."

"All of us", *pant*. "Two youngin's", *pant*. "Olivia, and one, two…three Watchers not including home boy." Rona counted aloud.

"Supplies wise we have my medical supplies, what you carried with you and whatever is in Andrew's mountain climbing knapsack." Olivia answered as she breathed heavily.

"Great, we have next to nothing and God knows what happened to Buffy and Willow. C'mon guys, think! We need a plan!" Kennedy ordered.

Minutes past as current group tried to catch their breath and plan their next move, until they heard the sounds of quick breathing and quick footsteps approaching from the opposite entrance of whist they came..

"You guys hand me a spear and get behind a wall!" Kennedy commanded to the younger Slayers, Andrew, Olivia and watchers. "Rona, protect them! Vi, stand on one side of the opening, Dawn the other!" Kennedy commanded once more with spear now in hand, standing in front of the unknown darkness as her two team mates hide behind the neighboring rocky walls in anticipation to strike.

Moments passed as the sounds grew louder and louder, until they stopped completely. Squinting, Kennedy trying to peer into the darkness in front of her with her weapon at the ready. Suddenly, without any warning and to everyone's surprised, Kennedy was on her ass and a giant lion was on top of her….or was it a bear?...or was it a wolf? Nay, it was Dante lapping at Kennedy's face.

"Dannnte! Get off m…..plaaaahhh! Arrrhh! He got up my nose!" Kennedy hollered as her team mates did nothing but laugh all around her.

"And here I thought you liked to be licked." Satsu said as she walking into the torchlight, Xander and Dana at her sides while the rest of team Faith approached from behind.

"Ha-ha, very funny Satz." Kennedy mocked as she managed to push the large demonic pet off of her and got back to a vertical base. "So where's Faith?...And the old man?" Kennedy asked as she started to dust herself off.

"We think they've been captured, Faith took Giles and Dante to scout ahead of us and only Dante came back." Xander explained. "Where's Buffy and Willow?"

"Same" Dawn replied.

"So now we have to do a search and rescue as well as a search and destroy, any ideas anyone?" Xander asked aloud.

"Well were not splitting up, that plan already screwed up" Andrew said.

"If only we had Miss Rosenberg with us, she could perhaps do a spell to see through walls or find a way to navigate us to the Hellmouth." One of the three watchers said in his British accent.

"Thank you Captain obvious, I swear your Brit watchers are all alike-"

"That's not a half bad idea…" Andrew said while pondering.

"Andrew? Olivia asked the young man as all looked to him.

Crouching to the dirt floor, Andrew started to toss out the contents of his mountain climbing bag until a large pile of books were assembled. "Help me find something in here that can help us get to the Hellmouth or find Buffy and everyone else. Anything that has to do with seeing through walls, or following magical signatures or finding the lost." Andrew commanded as he started to look through a book. Several minutes later and after tossing useless books aside, Olivia found something that work wonders if they had the right materials…and luckily for the white hats, they did. If there was ever a time for a 'thank god Giles and his mates were bad ass rebels who experimented back in the day' speech, the time was nigh.

"I found just what we need!" Olivia excitedly exclaimed.

Walking to look at the book over Olivia's shoulder, Andrew sighed as he read aloud and pointed with his finger. "Olivia, we need ingredients for this spell and I know I didn't bring any."

"But I did" Olivia told the young man as she handed Andrew the spell book and started to look through her bag.

"Olivia, you magically happen to have…a fast acting and fast receding hallucinogen with you?" Andrew asked as he read the effects of the spell and it's ingredients in his head.

"No, but I have the right medical supplies to make them, now get my bowl and pedestal." Olivia answered.

"How do you?-"

"I don't think you wish to know about what me and Ripper did in our youth" Olivia cut Dawn off as the ebony woman started to open baggies of herbs and tossed certain ones into the bowl.

"…..ewwwwwww!" Dawn cried out.

"Remind me to check the library for Giles' stash if we live through this" Kennedy mused, Olivia giving the Slayer a scolding look as she mixed medicinal ingredients and turned them into a fine powder.

"Alright, one of you pass me a torch" Olivia ordered, handing the bowl to Andrew. "Alright, now I need a smoke."

"But you barely did notin'" Rona replied.

"No, I…" *sigh*…"There are a few chemicals in today's cigarettes which I need to create the hallucinogen that we need to help us navigate through this cave." Olivia explained.

"But…none of us smoke…" Dawn said while looking around to room to see if she was correct.

"I wouldn't be too sure about that" Olivia said while looking directly at the younger Slayers and watchers expectantly. "Well?..." Olivia asked the lot in a waiting tone. After getting nothing, Olivia sighed and spoke. "I'm a doctor as well as young once. I know that out of this group, at least 2 or 3 of the people here smoke. I also know that the older Slayers and Andrew would fear the wrath of Buffy if she caught them smoking…so that leaves you bunch. Hand them over now and if we live through this, I won't tell Giles or Buffy." Olivia finished with her free hand out as she looked to the Slayers when she said Buffy, and then to the young watchers as she said Giles.

Looking between themselves, one young watcher and what looked to be pre-tween Slayer started to whip out a pack of cig's. "One should do" Olivia said as she took a fag from the young Slayer. Right before Olivia brought the torchlight to the tip of the cancer stick, she looked up at the sound of metallic clicking. "Really? I just scolded you and your lighting up?" The doctor of Slayer Central asked the two youngin's who each had lit smokes in their mouths.

"Ah c'mon Liv, give them a break." Kennedy spoke out as she strode towards the two young smokers, took the smoke out of the young male watcher's mouth, put it in her own and then gave it a puff. "This could be their last night. We should be giving them time alone, never mind just a smoke." The leader of all the junior Slayers continued as she came to her people's defense, winking at the young male watcher and making him blush.

"Speaking of last night on earth" Satsu spoke up as she walked to Kennedy's side to remove the cigarette from her lover's mouth and then tossed it to the ground.

"Children, can we please get back to business?" Olivia asked.

"Alright, so which one of us is getting high off your stuff?" Kennedy asked.

"Me"

"What? I don't think so!" Dawn screeched.

"Hun, your all fighters and I have the most magical experience. If there any after effects, better it be on me than any of you."

"Andrew's right" Olivia agreed before Dawn could argue. "Although I don't like the idea of him being the one to inhale the drug, he is the most logical choice."

"Fine, but if you stink like weed I'm never kissing you again" Dawn huffed as she crossed her arms.

With an eye roll, Olivia lit the smoke with her torch and took a quick puff to keep it a flame. "Ready Andrew?"

"As ready as I'll ever be" Andrew replied as he held the bowl and its contents below his face.

After one more quick puff, Olivia tossed the cigarette into the bowl and stood back. As mere seconds past, a pink vapor started to rise from the bowl Andrew held and the young man then began to breathe it in while Olivia picked up the spell book she put aside and started to chant.

"Andddddy! Take it to the head! Toke! Toke! Toke! To-…OW!" Kennedy's chants were cut short with a sudden and swift slap to her shoulder from Dawn.

"Andrew…how do you feel? Do you need to lie down?" Olivia asked as she took the bowl from the young man once the vapors cleared.

With a goofy smile, Andrew started to look around the cave room with white glossed over eyes. "Coooool" Andrew stated as the female figures enter his vision. "AHHHH! OH GOD IT BURNS!" Andrew suddenly yelled as he put his hands to his eyes in hopes of covering them up….right when he looked at Xander.

"Hun what's wrong?! Speak to me!" Dawn frantically demanded as she sat her man down on a rock.

"Andrew, did it work?" Olivia asked with concern.

Peeking through the slits in his fingers, Andrew smiled once again as his head was moving left to right; from Satsu to Kennedy. "Yeaaaaaaaa"

Olivia quickly stepped in front Andrew and bent over to have a look at him. After several moments of study Olivia was flabber-gassed. "What on earth could possibly…" Olivia stopped herself as she came to a realization. Quickly, Olivia picked the spell book back up and skimmed through it. Olivia's eyes then went wide as she quickly jumped behind Xander and spoke. "Ummm… Andrew….can you see through ALL inanimate objects right now?"

Wearing a constant goofy smile on his face, Andrew answered. "Ohhhh yeahhhh".

"ANDREW! YOU STOP LOOKING AT US RIGHT NOW!"

"Olivia, what's wrong?" Dawn asked.

"He can see through ALL objects right now, including clothing."

"WHAT?!" Dawn asked, incredibly angered that her man was feasting on eye candy.

That did it….Olivia just had to announce that. "Reallllly?" Kennedy asked with a smirk.

"Ken no!" Dawn warned, quickly placing her hand over Andrew's eyes.

"CHILDREN PLEASE!" Olivia screamed uncharacteristically. "Time is a factor here! The spell won't last much longer and bringers may be torturing our loved ones as we speak!"

Bringing reality back into play, Andrew spoke as he stood. "Everyone, cover themselves with their hands, I can't see through flesh."

While covering themselves Andrew knelt beside his giant backpack and pulled out a folded piece of paper, a marker and got to work drawing out what he saw.

While Andrew was playing pre-school, Xander couldn't help but look over his shoulder and ask Olivia. "So you're gonna show me how to make that stuff right?"

"Oh, look who's awake. Ready for school honey?" Joyce asked.

"You really are evil you know that? Half-assed powerful, but evil." Buffy replied.

"Tsk tsk Buffy, you shouldn't talk to your mother in that tone. I don't have to give you a spanking like I did the rest." Joyce replied before nodding to a bringer holding a dagger.

After the bringer stepped over the circle of corpses consisting of team Kennedy which were strategically placed all along the outer lip of the Hellmouth seal, agonizing screams filled the air while the bringer was slowly carving into Buffy's cheek…or at least Buffy should have been screaming, but she merely looked past the bringer and right at the face of her fake mother with tightly lock lips and a stare that could kill. However, as bad ass as Buffy is, even she couldn't take the pain as the bringer continued to label Buffy's face with superficial cuts; flicking droplets of blood from the knife onto the Hellmouth seal, causing it to flicker and crackle with bright electric energy.

"Buffy!" Giles screamed after Buffy let loose a hair raising scream, compassion fueling his cries.

"Enough!" Joyce exclaimed.

Walking over to a half swollen faced Giles, the First also known as Joyce Summers, crouched down in front of Giles and gave him an evil yet seductive grin. "Can't wait to pop my pussy again can you Rupert? If you're good, I'll even deep throat you again."

Winking at the by now fuming man, Joyce rose to her feet and suddenly materialized into Mrs. Jenny Calendar. "Oh don't worry Ripper, I'll have plenty left for you."

"mownmwnoibnww satta lutto, wonowep-" Willow was suddenly cut off as a bringer gave the witch a fresh backhand across the face, splitting her lip open again.

"Now, now Willow" Mrs. Calendar scorned Willow while the red head's face was still tilted to the side from the force of the slap, right before evil incarnate materialized into Tara Mclay. "We talked about this remember? You're using too much magic."

Tara's wicked grin soon faded as Willow slowly looked back up at the First in disguise, eyes black as night itself. Without even needing to utter a word, black veins began to pop out of Willow' neck and face; the red head's hair flickering from red to black, and then back again. The magical metal binding Willow's hands were now making a grinding sound, red electricity crackling between the witch's hands. Even the giant cave clearing the Scoobies were detained in started to shake. However, no matter how much it looked as if the metal binding Willow would explode into shrapnel, the red head fainted before her bindings gave.

"Nice to know my toys still work." Buffy Summers replied after the power display, now walking to Faith. "Faithy, what can I say. I could say I don't love you but that pesky humming in our gut's tells us both different. So I guess there's no point looking like this eh?" Buffy said before suddenly materializing into Mayor Wilkin's, third of his name. "Firecracker? Hhhhhhhhhhhh"

"You know your imitation of the bosses laugh absolutely sucks, you need to hunch over when you do it, like you ready to laugh if the other person starts." Faith told the imposter.

"Now is that any way to talk to the man who took you in when you had nothing but a small room on the bad side of town? Heck you couldn't even pay for that really, the only way you were able to afford it was by performing immoral favors for anyone who came to your door asking for money." Mayor Wilkin's spat out before he gave a dry heaving chuckle.

"Really? You're playing that card? The ultimate evil is tryin' ta play me by reminding me I'm was a whore? Woooooooow that's just sad." Faith replied.

"Ok then, how about this one. And for this firecracker, I'm not lieing." Wilkin's told Faith with a somber, almost sad face. "When you die tonight, agonizingly and painfully slow of course. You won't go to heaven, you won't be at peace. You won't be with Buffy nor her band of merry thorns in my side." Looking down at Faith, the First saw what it was looking for in that split second Faith's eye twitched. Crouching down to meet Faith at eye level, Wilkin's continued, but this time he spoke with malice and venom as his face contorted with disgust. "You're a murderer, a killer without a cause. You know, the one thing I would have thought that sorry excuse for a vampire would have told you is that no matter how hard to try to wash the blood off your hands, how hard you atone…" Wilkin's suddenly disappeared and re-materialized as one Allan Finch, bloody hole in his heart and all. "You're a cold killer, an evil plague on humanity." Finch continued to torment Faith, except now Professor Worth was talking. "You've done evil child and that evil will never go away."

"You bought a one way ticket to Hell and evil when you joined my side firecracker." Mayor Wilkin's spoke with a smile, somehow raising Faith's chin with an immaterial finger to meet his gaze half a millimeter before touching her skin. "What do you have to say for yourself young lady?"

Smiling back, Faith answered the man. "I hope evil takes MasterCard"

While letting out a sigh Mayor Wilkins, third of his name, rose to his feet and walked away from his prisoners. Stopping just a few strides away, Wilkins commanded in a deep demonic tone. "Carve them up and feed them to the Hellmouth. Leave my firecracker and her whore for last, I want them to watch."

As soon as the image of Mayor Wilkin's left the scene, his bringers turned to the group of bound white hats with evil intent.

"Excuse me girls, I don't suppose either of you want to head-butt me unconscious." Giles asked.

"Don't worry G, I won't make fun of you for screaming like a girl."

"Well that's reassuring." Giles replied while struggling in his bonds, watching the enemy approach closer and closer.

And so the agents of the First crept towards the older members of Scoobie Central with deadly purpose, until an ear piercing shriek filled the air. Said ear piercing shriek being caused by a former airborne arrow that was now pointing its head in Giles' face; blood splattered on the man's glasses and face. As both good and evil looked from left to right, none saw the source of the flying death. However looking skyward, one could see one lone human standing at the top of a dirt platform with two smooth dirt paths leading downwards towards the Hellmouth; bow in hand and arrows face down in the dirt.

"And the glorified brick layer picks up a spare!...again"

"Gotta admit B, Xander's timing doesn't suck." Faith said with relief.

"Well you would know F." Buffy replied as she tried to free herself as her captors were now clearly distracted.

"Watchers! Aim!" Xander commanded.

And like a climactic scene from a movie, the watchers of Slayer Central dispersed from behind their commander and formed a line on either side of the Nick Fury look alike with arrow's notched then drawn. The opposition was completely taken by surprise and was trying to gather their ranks while flatfooted, clearly organizing for a defense to slowly.

"Watchers!"

"Slayers!"

Two different voices screamed in unison, one belonging to Xander Fury and the other to Andrew Wells.

"Fire!"

"Attack!"

And just like that, a volley of pointy death filled the air while Slayer's charged down both dirt ramps and into battle. The few bringers and demons standing guard didn't stand a chance, steel and Slayers meeting them head on…or rather head off. However just as a quick victory seemed to be at hand, the very earth and walls shook while the last of team evil were feebly attempting to defend themselves.

"MAGGOTS!" A loud, deep and ominous voice rang throughout the cave. "YOU THINK YOU CAN SNEAK ATTACK ME?! I AM EVIL INCARNATE AND I CANNOT BE DEFEATED!"

"ARMIES OF HELL!"

The ominous voice screamed once more. "AAAATTTACCK!"

And from God knows where, bringers and demons of every nature started to pour out of every dark crevasse and hole from within the cave; only point of relief being the way from which the white hats came.

"Damn it! Andrew, how did you not see that!" Xander hollered while reloading his bow.

"You try using magic against evil incarnate and then come talk to me!" Andrew yelled back as he let an arrow fly right through the head of some disgusting looking demon with tentacles for arms.

"Argue later! Save our people now!" Olivia ordered.

"Damn it all!" Andrew screamed in frustration. "Xander, keep them firing, I have to think." Andrew ordered.

"Oh because I was about to have lunch"

Not letting Xander's comment rattle the young watcher, Andrew dropped his bow to the dirt and started to pace. "Think. Think. Think! THINK!...". Suddenly, Andrew started to point fingers at young Slayers. "You two, go to our stash and take a spear each, help our Slayers retreat up both hills and make sure you tell them to retreat!"

"But there's only-"

"Just do it!" Andrew screamed, the strongest of the younger Slayers starting to engage the overwhelming numbers of the enemy on the battlefield below.

"Archer's keep firing! Aim for the back rows, not the front. If I see one arrow in Dawn I'll toss you down there myself! Olivia, stand by!" Andrew shouted his new set of orders after two young Slayers ran down each hill will spear in hand.

"Xander, there all yours!"

"Andrew, where could possibly be going?" The one eyed man asked after letting an arrow fly.

"Just trust me!" The young watcher yelled back as he ran into the darkness from which the good guys came.

Just as Andrew very recently planned, the Slayers were slowly retreating backwards up both sides of the dirt ramps. Some demons with long claws tried to scale the rocky dirt platform instead of going along the pathways, but were quickly shot down; setting an example of why that was a bad idea to the others. It didn't take long for the army of the First to almost reach the tops of both dirt pathways, forcing all available melee fighters to try to hold both ends. The ranged support provided by Xander Fury and the watchers were trying their best to pick off the enemies left to do nothing while in the long lines of evil, but Slayer Central's archers were not master marksmen and panic of the approaching enemy slowed their volleys greatly.

To an observer, the battle looked as if team First would undoubtedly win as they were knocking on Slayer gates for entry to the main host of their enemy. However, the battle took a completely different turn just when the army of the First least expected it. While the white hats were trying to hold the evil off, two large shadows flew overhead and landed all the way behind enemy lines. As Buffy, Giles and Faith opened one eye each to see what was now standing over them instead of continuing to play dead when the fighting started, as to not draw attention to themselves, two large ape-like creatures with wings and bronze armor stood before them. One just dropping Dante to his paws, while the other dropped long swords, short swords, daggers, some of Andrew and Willows healing vials and the Slayer Scythe. This action of coarse didn't go unnoticed as the back end of the line of evil started to turn, however going backwards didn't seem like a great idea either as one of Andrew's winged beasts just finished freeing the former white hat captives of their binds; all except Willow as the metal binding her unconscious hands were made of something much stronger than a demonic ape hyped up on an adrenaline shot and five nicotine patches could smash through, with Slayer Scythe in hand. The elder members or Slayer Central would definitely have a 'drugs are bad m'kay' speech to give the youngin's if they survive this one, that's for damn sure.

"You…whatever you are, take the red headed girl and get her back up there!" Giles commanded to one of Andrew's summons. "And you!" Giles pointed to the other summon, "Go get one of those point sticks they have up there and fly around and stab them with it!" Giles finished while pointing towards one of the pathways which held a horde of the First's minions.

With a nod, both winged demons seemed to understand and took flight. Now the only thing left to do was fight.

"So B, you take the 500 on the left…" Faith rasped out to her lover as the trio and their family pet looked upon two columns of enemies which were starting to head their way….'starting' being the key word. As the agents of the First descended towards the three white hats, a plume of black smoke rose from a wide pillar of fire on the center of the Hellmouth seal. As the smoke wafted and cleared, a pack of hellhounds stepped forth and looked skyward to their master.

"Hounds!" Andrew shouted from the edge of the dirt hill, "Kill!" The young watcher commanded as he stretched his arms in opposite directions and pointed to both dirt pathways which lead to his ground.

Upon his request, the hounds of hell turned to either side and leapt into action; jumping on the first few mix of demons and bringers who tried to get to Buffy. This of course, stopped the waves and helped to hold the two choke points, but only briefly as the enemy soon ran around the occupied hellhounds. Both Slayer's and their watcher raised their weapon and got into their fighting stances as the enemy was about to be met. Yet as they readied themselves, only the one four legged white hat stepped forward with eyes glowing. All vampiric and humanoid demons charging suddenly froze in place, clogging the path to their enemy. Slowly looking around the butt of her man, Faith smiled wide and cheered. "Yeah Dante! Good boy!"

However, only a small fraction of the First's army was halted, with a large portion still oncoming. Thus, again Buffy, Faith and Giles readied their weapons for the first wave.

Suddenly, without any warning, bright lights suddenly illuminated both the dirt pathways and bottom battleground which caused both factions to avert their vision. God knows why the bringer's halted, maybe they could sense the brightness and it hurt their eye sockets or brains or something. Or, it could have because team Kennedy and team Satsu were seen walking over dead enemies through the cracks of Buffy's fingers; the shadows of Andrew's winged demons flying overhead providing enough shade for Buffy to see anything at all.

Trying to look for shady cover, it was no use. The only non-blinding spot in the cave of the Hellmouth was on top of the dirt platform and there was no way of getting up there without blindly running into the enemy.

"Buffy!" A familiar voice rang out. "Catch!"

Just as Kennedy tossed Buffy the Slayer Scythe in Sunnydale, the Latina Slayer chucked shadow casting items to her leader.

"Owwch my nose!" Buffy screamed.

"You were supposed to catch it!" Kennedy screamed back as she decapitated some shark headed demon with a long sword.

"How am I supposed to?!...Nevermind." Buffy said as she knelt to the floor with her eyes still covered. Feeling around the ground for whatever bounced off of her, the blonde Slayer finally felt something smooth in her hands. Picking the item up and bringing it close to her eyes, Buffy smiled and then put on said item.

"Hey Faith, how do I look?" Buffy asked her love as she gracefully put a pair of sunglasses on Faith's face.

Now being able to see…barely, Faith let out a snort. "Seriously? Andy brought sunglasses to? If I see our kitchen sink in this place I'm gonna be pissed."

"Ladies….what's going on!" Giles demanded.

"G, stand still." Faith commanded as she took the last pair of sunglasses from Buffy. "There, can you see now?"

"Yes I can…Faith…are these sunglasses? Did Andrew really bring sunglasses to an apocalyptic battle?" Giles asked as his eyes were trying to adjust to the change in light.

"At least he has some style….and I bet we look bad ass." Faith replied.

"Indeed, now how about we fight yes?" Giles asked his two charges.