Mike, Duck, Shark and Canadien were walking the hallway to the library when Principal Snyder had showed up. Ignoring the visitor badges, he got in Mike's face. "What are you doing here? Why aren't you in class?" Mike started to answer but Snyder cut him off, "I don't want to hear your lies! You're just another delinquent urk!" Just then Shark grabbed him by the neck.
"Shut up!" He growled, as he lifted the principal up with one hand.
"We are ere to see Xander arris," said Canadien.
"Yeah dude, but you just saw Mike and talked out your ass thinking he was one of your students." Said Duck.
"Now we were told to go talk to a Mr. Giles." Said Mike, "and we are going to go see him. Now if you don't mind, we got to go Shark put the man down and let's go." Shark threw Snyder down and looked like he was going to attack, Snyder ran like the hounds of hell were on his ass. "I've never seen someone run that fast."
"Shark, mon ami you need to work on your people skills." Said the Canadien.
Meanwhile Xander, Buffy, Willow and Giles were talking about what they were going to do next. When someone came in to the room, Xander was now in a Kings T-shirt, Jeans shorts, sneakers, royal purple and silver 'Chuck Taylors' . "What I want to know is this," he said. Just then he sensed someone there, "come on out." Just then four people had walked out and Xander had some how felt he knew them. "Shark," hugs the man-shark. "Duck," hugs the SEAL. "Canadien," hugs the Frenchman. Then he saw the young man, he had tears in his eyes and hugged Xander crying on his shoulder. "Mike, come on bro. It's alright," he patted Mike on the back.
"He still feels guilty about what happened." Said Duck.
"But it wasn't his fault. Mike, Darren Dark was an asshole but he knew what he was doing. I, I mean, he had to get you out of there so don't go blaming yourself over what happened."
"Um even though this is a nice reunion," started Buffy. "Who are they?" Mike let go of Xander and wiped his eyes.
"My name is Mike Mason," he said. "I'm sort of Xander's charge."
"You've got a charge?" Said Giles to Xander.
"Canadien, Shark, Duck and myself are sort of his bodyguards. There's about thirty of us."
"Let me guess," said Willow. "Each an everyone of you could better mascots for hockey teams?"
"Yep, Shark's from San Jose, Duck's from Anaheim, Canadien's from Montreal..." started Xander.
"And you're supposed to be from LA." Said Buffy.
"Figured it out?"
"San Jose Sharks, Anaheim Ducks, Montreal Canadiens and Los Angeles Kings." Said Giles, "all of them are professional hockey teams."
"Bingo!"
Later they were walking around town and Mike was trying to convince Xander to come back to the Project. "I can't, I have to help out here." He said, "there is a reason why this is called a 'Hellmouth'. Vampires, demons and all that good stuff."
"Xander," said Canadien. "We shall elp you with zis."
"Well you'd have to get the others, because we are going to need an army for this one."
"Already on it, Xan." Said Mike with that he pressed a button on to his armband and called up the rest of the Guardians.
TBC