AN: I don't own BTVS.
Buffy barged into the Lowell house and, luckily for the residents, no one was in the main hall. Stopping in front of the hidden elevator behind the mirror, Buffy looked at her friends and Faith for confirmation that they were ready to go. The Scoobies nodded back at her and Buffy spun on her heel high kicking the mirror, breaking it into a ton of little pieces. After securing the ropes, Buffy and Willow rappelled down first next were Giles and Xander then Faith bringing up the rear to make sure everyone else got to the bottom. Unfortunately for them as they went to open the elevator doors, they had about ten M16s pointed at them and the leader smirking down at them.
They were led into a circular command center. There were soldiers stationed at every desk, in front of a camera monitor. The men were monitoring the prison cells and, from the monitors, you could see the restless demons piled in a cage slamming at the electric glass.
"What did you expect to come in here and do exactly?" Colonel McNamara demanded.
"Colonel, you have to believe me when I say that Adam is planning to unleash all the monsters that you have locked up down here." Buffy said in a desperate attempt at getting the Colonel to listen to her.
"You have some nerve. There is no way that Adam can get in here to do that." McNamara scoffed back.
"I don't know we got down here no problem." Faith remarked sarcastically.
"You didn't even make it out of the elevator." The colonel scowled at, in his opinion, the mouthy brunette.
"Adam has had enough time to learn all the ways to get in here, assuming Professor Walsh didn't just give him all that info, and he has a stealthy partner named Lilith." Buffy stated logically.
In the final 314 stage, Adam, Riley, and Lilith were standing in an operating room. Riley was refusing to believe that he couldn't control his own motor functions.
"I'm not like yo." Riley stops mid-sentence as Adam ordered him to be quiet.
"Sit." He ordered again and Riley futilely tried to resist.
"Where is his chip, Brother? Is in the head like your double agent?" Lilith wondered to her superior.
"No, his is attached to his Thoracic Nerve. It's in the left side of his chest." Adam answered back before continuing, "Now, Mother and the good doctor here will make you more than you are. Isn't that right, Forrest?" pointing to the two zombie scientist and a half-demon/half-human Forrest.
"No, Forrest, god what happened to you." Riley mourned for his friend.
"God had nothing to do with. I was made better and I am surging with life and soon you will join us." Forrest boasted.
"I'm sorry, Forrest." Riley said honestly.
"After this final attack, I will have enough to make the perfect army. No one will be able to stop us." Adam spoke with something of pride.
"Well, now isn't that all nice and dandy. I would love to stick around for your big perfect army plot but I just want this bloody chip out." Spike commented as he walked up to the group.
"Only if you have got the Slayer down into the Initiative, then I will remove your chip." Adam reminded.
"The last I knew, she was ready to take off on a bloody suicide mission just to come for Captain Cardboard, here, and maybe if you were watching the cameras you might know if the Slayer has entered." Spike shot back with attitude.
"Fine, Lilith and Spike come with me. Forrest watch Riley." Adam ordered as he walked down the hall into his control room.
Adam smiled when he saw the Slayer and her friends standing in the Initiative command center arguing with the Colonel. Adam nods his head at Lilith, who Spike hadn't noticed slipped her arm blades on, but Spike hadn't lived for so long and defeated two slayers with nothing going for him. So when Lilith jumped up ready to cut his head off, Spike ducked, kicked Lilith in the gut, and fled through the base. Adam paid him no mind as he was already working on shutting off the electricity to the Initiative.
In the command center, the Scoobies were trying to make Colonel McNamara see logic but the stubborn officer was not convinced. The lights suddenly shut off, shocking everyone in the place.
"Sir, the containment cells have lost power and the demons are escaping." One of the soldiers frighteningly informed.
"All units take out the demons in the Containment areas. Shoot to kill." The colonel said through the comms system and the gang used that time to quickly get out of the office unseen.
They were headed for one specific place with Buffy leading the way taking out any demons in their way and stunning any soldiers with Faith again bringing up the rear of the group. They made it to the door of the 314 area and Willow informed Buffy that the all the doors should be unlocked except the exits. Willow was right, of course, and once Faith got past the doorway Buffy moved a filing cabinet in front of the door. They looked around and found the entrance to the entrance to the final 314 area.
"Okay, guys, you should be fine in here until we get back. Faith and I will head to Adam and rescue Riley." Buffy shouted as Faith and she ran down the hallway.
"Hey, B. I got a serious question. How are you not going crazy feeling this many demons in one spot?" Faith asked as they ran.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Buffy replied confused.
"I am fighting every instinct to go back out there and kill every one of those demons." Faith answers.
"You're just an instinctual person, no offence." Buffy said guessingly.
They quieted as they ran into the operating room. Buffy saw Riley sitting down in one of the chairs and started questioning him on if he was okay. Buffy grew worried that Riley wasn't answering. Faith caught Forrest's surprise attack and threw a punch to his face. Buffy kicked at Walsh that had started to attack as well and Faith threw Forrest into a wall breaking glass. Forest was about to attack again when a light voice from behind surprised everyone.
"Enough, Soldier. Adam wants to see to these two personally." Lilith orders the hybrid.
"Screw you! I don't take orders from a teenager." Forrest shouts back.
Forest goes to hit the brunette slayer again when Faith sees a black blade go up through between his legs and another down between his head and shoulder. His two pieces fell forward and Lilith stood there with a deep angry look. If they didn't already know that Lilith was cloned from Faith, they would have figured it out then.
"Now, you will come with me or I will kill the boy." Lilith bluffed figuring out, from watching the group travel across the Initiative, that they valued life no matter what.
"Fine, take us to Adam." Buffy said looking one last time at Riley.
When they approached the control room, Adam turned around and, for the first time, looked surprised. He turned to Lilith with shock that she would betray him like this.
"What are you doing, Lilith?" He demanded as he got close to the little girl.
"Your logic has become questionable and your methods have not shown success. The soldiers, despite your surprise attack, have started to come back and will eventually overrun all of your troops. I want to know you are a competent leader and if you defeat these two then you have won." Lilith explained feeling her madness diminish as more demons died.
She turned to walk over to a corner to watch the fight but as she was turning her head Adam slashed at her with his skewer. He caught her on the bridge of her nose leading in a deep diagonal cut down the right side of her face ending at her jaw. Lilith clutched the cut and fell to the floor and started to slowly stand but couldn't see out of her right eye. Faith ran at Adam to stop his next attack and Buffy came up behind him. Faith kicked at Adam's skewer arm and Buffy went for his legs, barely knocking him off balance. Adam changed his arm into a machine gun and trained it on the slayers. They were almost to cover as Adam went to fire and, to an outsider, it look like he might succeed.
BANG, BANG, BANG
Faith and Buffy looked at each other in shock at not seeing bullet holes in them. Adam was grunting in pain from the black blade sticking from his kneecap. He smacked the injured teenager into a wall. Buffy felt something go through her and suddenly it was like she couldn't control herself. Adam turned his gun back to the blonde slayer, who had stood up, and fired. Faith watched in amazement when Buffy stopped the bullets but then made them disintegrate. Seeing that the spell was obviously working, Faith ran to help the younger brunette.
Buffy forced Adam's arm back to a regular hand after he had tried to use a rocket on her. She blocked every punch Adam threw at her then kneed him in the stomach.
"You could never hope to grasp the source of our power. Yours on the other hand is right here." An echo of the four voices sounded in the sentence as she shoved her hand into Adam's chest and ripped out his core, destroying it instantly.
After the spell wore off, they headed back to Riley, who had only moved his hand so far to get the glass. Quickly dispatching the two zombie scientist, Lilith explained about the chip and where it was. Faith volunteered to cut the chip from his body as Buffy was too jittery even thinking about cutting into her boyfriend and Lilith had blood in her eyes and couldn't see. After a struggling attempt by Faith, the chip was removed and they were making their way back to the room with the gang.
"Why did you help us, Lilith?" Faith questioned as the girl was leaning against her.
"A group of five got into a government facility and still got all the way into our base." Lilith answered promptly and tiredly.
"Guys, we're back but we need to get these two some medical attention." Buffy said as they entered the room.
"Why is she coming with us?" Willow asked pointing to Lilith.
"She saved our lives… possibly twice." Buffy answered as she pushed the cabinet out of the way and the group fled the building, knowing the soldiers had it handled.
AN: There you go and if you have any questions please ask. Also please review.