Meanwhile, across town Willow was at Buffy's house gathering up her belongings. She picked up her favorite sweater, some money, and a picture album. She dropped it and her pictures poured out on the floor. There were pictures of her family. The gang. Oz. Even one of Cordelia. Then there was the picture of Tara she owned. Her mind instantly drifted back to the love sonnet Tara had sung her while under a demon's spell.
Willow soon began to cry there on the floor looking at those haunting eyes. She had lost her. She had lost her by the abuse of power she had. She looked over and saw some herbs that she used to erase Tara's memory once. She could do it again, erase all their memories so that it would be like this had never happened. She reached out for them.
"No." She sobbed pulling her hand back.
The herbs were a huge temptation. Too much of one. In the next instant they were tossed outside her window and she began to leave the room with her belongings.
Outside a large slimy boot smashed the herbs and its owner strode towards the house. Willow was walking down the stairs when the front door exploded in front of her. She froze when she saw what had caused it. Being Xander's best friend for years, she had seen a good deal of movies with him. She instantly recognized the figure in front of her and quickly turned and ran to the back. The figure walked maliciously after her. He would not be denied this kill.
"Okay, so we have a flying saucer from a fictional movie parked over Sunnydale. In fact parked over every Hellmouth on earth." Buffy said aloud
"Yeah. Doesn't really help things that these ships cause things to explode either now does it luv?" Spike added smoking a cigarette.
"Should we try to leave town? I mean Giles told us to leave in case anything about the situation changed right?" Tara added
"Well a lot of people are trying to leave right now. I don't think we'll get that far." Anya said examining the crowded street outside, "I hope they don't try to loot the place."
"Well Hon, given what happened to the cities in Independence Day, I don't think that will be a problem. Okay, so we have spaceships. Anybody have a handy computer virus?" Xander asked
"Well Willow is kind of the computer expert." Buffy explained
Willow had her own problems at the moment as she was running down the back alleys of Sunnydale, being chased by her huge assailant. What was he doing here? How? Why was there a spaceship in the sky? What's going on?
"Why am I running?" She suddenly asked herself amidst all the other questions, "I'm a witch! I abused my power but jeez, I kinda need it now!"
Willow turned and looked at her attacker.
"Burn" She said angrily as her opponent burst into flame at her command.
He didn't stop.
She surveyed the area. A fire hydrant was near him.
"Burst and flow!", Willow commanded as the hydrant burst and the water pressure not only put out the fire and sent her enemy off his feet. She then looked up above him. Power lines.
"Break." Willow said again as the line broke and hit her pursuer sending him into convulsions. He stopped moving and lay still. Willow looked at him and began to walk over to see if he was dead. "Wait a minute. I'm doing what they do in those movies!"
Willow then turned and ran for the Magic Box as her enemy began to stand up.
"There are spaceships outside?!" the newly awakened Dawn asked
"Not just any spaceships, fictional ones!" Xander added
"Cool. Can I see?" She asked
"Not until Willow gets back." Buffy said to her
"Why then?" Dawn asked puzzled
"We're leaving." Buffy answered.
"Oh here comes Willow now. People are scattering." Anya said looking out the window.
Spike walked up beside her.
"Why are they doing that?" Buffy asked
"Probably because of the big bloke with the machete." Spike added.
He calmly walked over to the door and waited for Willow. She burst threw the door and screamed exasperatedly. Spike nonchalantly pulled the cord that lowered the barricade that kept vandals out.
"Xander! He was after me!" Willow screamed
"Who was?!" Xander asked
Willow made a ton of hand motions before uttering "Him!"
Xander and the others just looked at her oddly. Suddenly the store windows exploded inward, barricade and all. In through the window came a large, rotting man wielding a machete and sporting a hockey mask.
"OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! IT'S JASON VOORHEES!" Xander screamed girlishly. Anya and Dawn instantly leapt behind him. He was right too. It was indeed Jason Voorhees from the Friday the 13th series.
"Hey, Slap Shot!" Buffy yelled to Jason before taking a fighting stance
Jason knew a challenge when he saw it. He walked towards Buffy machete raised. She raced towards him and grabbed a set of knives from the counter. He swung: she leapt up over him and landed at the window. She turned and threw the knives at him. Each blade hit the large zombie in the back and stuck there to boot. Buffy smiled, until Jason turned around and looked at her seemingly oblivious to the knives.
"Xander! Get Dawn and Anya out of here! Willow, Tara, watch their backs and then try to figure out a way to help! Spike, lend me a hand?" Buffy shouted out
"Love to Slayer but he ripped the windows out and he's standing in direct sunlight. I can't get close." Spike yelled
"Okay, I'll get you some room." Buffy said running up to confront Jason head on. Again he swung and she managed to block it this time countering his super strength with her own. She was only barely doing so however. She quickly recalled her training and delivered seven right hooks and one huge kick to Jason's head. His head barely turned with each blow and then he delivered one of his own. Buffy went sailing into the air near Spike. Jason began to stride over only to have an arrow enter one eye hole of his mask. Spike stood by Buffy calmly sporting a crossbow.
"You want some? Come get some you bleeding git." Spike snarled.
Jason pulled the arrow out and walked towards Spike and Buffy, who was recovering. Spike looked at her and wiped the blood from her mouth and fought the urge to taste it. An instant later they were raining blows on Jason. A body shot here, a head shot there. It was smooth and precise. They both delivered two sidekicks at the same time that sent Jason into the counter shattering it.
Jason regained his composure and walked mindlessly to them again. Spike again began to rain arrows on him with his crossbow. Buffy had grabbed an ornate axe and walked right up to Jason and hacked him in the shoulder. He seemed to feel it but then swung at her with his machete. Buffy pulled the axe from Jason's body and began to deflect his machete. They did this for minutes on end with Spike, careful not to get in the sun or shoot Buffy by mistake, firing arrows on Jason.
Jason didn't seem to slow and eventually by sheer power alone he knocked the axe from Buffy's hand and grabbed her by the throat lifting her. Spike then immediately attacked Jason with an unmatched ferocity. He dropped Buffy and had blow after powerful blow nail him. Spike even made a huge crack in the hockey mask. Jason did not take kindly to that and head butted Spike, breaking what remained of his mask to pieces. Spike was stunned but didn't fall. Jason took this moment to run Spike through with his machete. Spike grimaced in pain as he looked into the nearly rotted face of Jason. Spike then spit on it.
"There. It's an improvement." he muttered before being thrown off the machete and across the room. Buffy rose and kicked the machete from Jason's hand sending sailing through the air as well. He turned to her and they locked eyes. Buffy threw a left then a right. She side kicked him and savate kicked him, but to avail. He barely moved each time. He was absorbing her blows and gathering his strength for one of his own. A similar blow had decapitated a man once. He was hoping for the same effect.
Twin blasts of magic however knocked him off balance and into Buffy who flipped him into the store wall. Jason got up to see Spike was standing along side Willow and Tara, the hands of the two Wicca blazing with energy. And Spike had a shotgun. The blast from the gun hit Jason directly in the head dazing him.
"I'm insanely glad Anya kept this under the counter." Spike smirked.
Buffy looked to the two witches.
"Time to end this." Buffy smiled.
Willow and Tara joined hands and soon a large bookshelf turned onto its back and careened into Jason's mid section holding him fast. Small daggers, swords and even the axe Buffy wielded went flying to Jason. They stuck in his arms, ran him through the chest, and the axe even nailed him in the head causing him to black out temporarily. He awoke a moment later to see Buffy standing in front of him. He growled and tried to reach for her but the blades held his arms fast. Buffy sneered.
"Know what part of the movie it is now? The part where the girl kills you." Buffy said swinging Jason's own machete, beheading him.
"Okay. So one fictional villain is down. What now?" Willow asked
"We leave." Buffy said.
The gang quickly loaded up into Spike's car. Buffy drove, scary as that seemed, as Spike was temporarily wounded from the fight with Jason. That and he utterly refused to let Xander drive.
"So are we going to L.A.?" Xander asked
"Yeah. Glad we got around that little traffic problem." Buffy added, "Back roads are a boon."
"That road was too bumpy." Dawn said rubbing her head.
"Bit, some pressure on the wound until it heals." Spike asked
"Oh. Sorry Spike." Dawn apologized.
Willow and Tara had the fortune to be seated together and were looking at each other.
"Mad I used magic?" Willow asked
"No. You had to. I understand that you had to use it to survive. I don't hold that against you." Tara said looking at Willow
"Tara, I'm so sorry." Willow cried burying her head in Tara's shoulder
"Shh. It's okay. We'll talk about it. I promise we will." Tara said glowing with understanding perhaps for the first time in a while.
"Okay here's what I don't get about the ships." Xander stated
"What's that?" Buffy asked
"Why gather over top of Sunnydale?" Xander questioned
"Huh?" Spike asked
"Well in the movie they were all over big cities? Why a Hellmouth?" Xander asked again
"Well, Giles didn't know and when he doesn't know something we're pretty much left to wonder for ourselves." Buffy said to Xander
"That's not good." Xander added
"Nope. See what they're doing is getting ready to fire those laser blaster thingies down through the town into the Hellmouth." Anya said
"That's so not good." Xander said turning pale
"So what would it do?" Buffy asked, and feeling incredibly stupid for asking.
"In all likelihood unleash a wave of Hell energy outwards that would be capable of destroying a good chunk of California. Or anywhere else those Hellmouths are." Anya started again.
"Ah how do you know this?" Spike asked
"I was a vengeance demon for a thousand years. I caused it once. In Tunguska, Siberia about a hundred years ago." Anya said almost proudly, "Boy did I get punished for that one."
"You're just kidding right? Right? TELL ME YOU'RE KIDDING!" Xander screamed
"I'm kidding." Anya pouted
"Sorry Anya but you're about as convincing as O.J." Buffy added in again.
"So you honestly think that's what they're going to do?" Dawn asked afraid.
"Oh yeah." Anya said not helping Dawn's fears.
"Well now that we have that Scoob-a-rific mystery solved, the only question is when will it happen?" Xander asked
He was greeted by an enormous boom and flash of light. Spike looked out the back windshield.
"Oh…my…..God!" he muttered
Miles away, the town of Sunnydale was gone, replaced by a large burst of Hellfire escaping from the earth's surface like a geyser erupting. It was miles long and it flowed upwards into the air. It hit the ship but did not destroy it. Spike could still make it out amongst the flame. That's about when the shockwave hit the car sending it flipping down the interstate. Dawn, Anya, Willow, and Tara screamed at the top of their lungs. Xander kept repeating "Oh my God, Oh my God, Oh my God." over and over.
Spike himself fell forward nearly breaking his tinted windshield. Buffy tried to remain calm but amidst all the chaos, her fear was showing. The car slammed into the ground. Small amounts off sunlight beamed through the fractured windshield searing Spike, who roared in pain. Buffy looked around. Xander was out cold. Dawn was awake but crying. Anya was desperately trying to awaken Xander. Buffy looked at Tara and Willow who were embracing one another. Their magic had held the car in one piece as best as could be expected.
"Everyone ok?" Buffy asked
"NO!!!" Spike yelled in pain.
"I guess so." Dawn sobbed quietly.
"Xander's out cold but he's breathing. I'm okay." Anya said
"We're good. What about you Buffy?" Willow asked
"Right as rain. Thanks guys. You just saved us all." Buffy smiled
Willow smiled but then quickly began to cry.
"My parents!" She wailed
"Buffy….my friends." Dawn sobbed. Buffy embraced Dawn and looked out the window behind her younger sister.
"We'll be okay Dawn. Just hold me tight." Buffy said turning pale
Spike looked at Buffy's face and could see she was looking at something. He looked out the window at the wall of Hellfire sweeping towards them.
On a passenger jet above the Atlantic Ocean, one Rupert Giles had the feeling that he had just lost something of great importance.