A/N: Ok, so, my updates are going to be a little slower on this story. Because i'm trying to update a lot of my stories. That means i have to divide my time between them. Also, there is only one more fandom i'm going to be adding, but it won't be for a few more chapters. So, I'm not sure if i should do a character list now, or after that last chapter is done. Once the list is done i will definitely post it here for you all.
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It was a slow process, everybody moving to the conference area, as the group had continued to grow as more and more people had been brought into the Resort. Giles stood and moved to the front, addressing everyone. "I believe we should let our newest friends understand what we heard on our end, and then we'll let one of them explain what happened on their end. Does this suit everyone?"
Everyone murmured in agreement, and Dean and Sam moved forward. Dean began speaking first. "We were meeting to discuss the beginning of a training schedule. Assigning individuals into groups to handle the everyday mundane such as meals, cleaning, laundry, things like that. Some of our new federal agent friends thought it would be a good idea to add to the groups. We were discussing adding self defense training, hand to hand combat, blades training and firearms training. During the discussion Sammy got hit by a vision, seems like those have been going around quite a bit lately. Sam?"
Sam stood up and faced the large group. "In the vision I felt like perhaps I was military, or at least working with the military. We were in an underground facility, and it was total chaos around me. Loud, buzzing sirens were echoing through the halls, and people were passing through this huge metal ring with blue rippling matter which looked like water in the middle. Everyone seemed to be rushing, taking as many belongings with them as they went. We were in large groups, but I don't know where we were going. The group that went through in front of us? I think they went through fine. But just as we started going through the gate started flickering and I heard horrible buzzing alarms. They were loud and pulsing. It was too late to stop, we were already moving through it. The next thing I knew was that the circle was back and my voice was echoing through the halls of the mountain. 'Incoming Wormhole. SG-1's IDC code, shields lowered…. SG-1's taking heavy fire, Sir!' And that was it. I came back from the vision and everyone was looking at me. Oh, and I'd moved to the back of the room.
Jack O'Neill stood up next. He'd given this a lot of thought as the young man had healed both Samantha and Daniel, as they shot at zombies from the roof along with other survivors, and as they'd listened to the vision of the tall kid.
Everything from where they'd come from was gone. Destroyed by both Ori and Wraith. Now it was up to those two groups to fight to the death. Hell, maybe there would be a few replicators around to do some damage too. But there would be no more humans. As soon as the two groups had attacked he'd known. Just as much as he'd known going to the Alpha site would only delay the inevitable for a short time. It wasn't that he'd given up hope, but a good soldier knew when he was outclassed. The enemy had overwhelming odds, and overwhelming technology.
Before he could begin speaking there was a chiming noise and Giles held up a hand. "I do apologize General O'Neill, but it appears our second team is returning with their evacuees. We should make sure they don't need medical assistance, and get them set up with beds and clothing, perhaps food if needed." Jack just nodded and followed the man as he and the others rushed for the room his team had tumbled into earlier.
The first person through the green portal was Kit and she was flanked by two teenage girls. One a big boned girl with beautiful chestnut hair flowing down her back, and deep blue eyes surrounded by thick, long eyelashes. The other girl was very pretty with raven-black hair, pulled back into a French braid, and she looked at everyone from pale blue eyes. Both girls were extremely thin and filthy. Kit stopped a short way in, looking around. "All right, I don't want anyone to freak out. Everything is fine, everyone's good sure we got some injuries but nothing that won't heal… so just… don't freak out."
Twin redhead boys came through next, helping an injured slightly older red-haired man and a beautiful golden haired woman. A preteen girl, looking very much like the golden haired woman, clasped the woman's hand in her own. Brittany came through next, clothing torn, blood still oozing from several injuries. She was flanked by a tall, muscular scowling older teen, and another large older teen with a slightly crooked nose and dark, thick hair.
People kept coming through, and when Rachel made it through, Puck raced to her side, frowning as soon as he saw she'd been wounded. Rachel, being exhausted didn't stop his lecture, instead just leaning into him and letting his voice soothe her. It didn't take long for one of the doctors, Dr. Hadley actually, to move to her side and start cleaning her wounds.
Xander walked through helping a young pregnant teen, a tall boy with white blonde hair on the girl's other side. Behind him a tall man, the same color hair, although his hung down past his mid back.
"Alexander LaVelle Harris!" Everyone noticed his wince at hearing his full name. "What in the name of all that is holy did you do to yourself to make you green!" Tina Armstrong strode forward hands on hips.
"Some chick cast a spell on me," he explained simply. Then he moved forward to hug her to him. "I was worried. You were gone so long."
The pale blonde boy, who scowled quite a bit and who reminded Buffy and Dawn of a miniature Spike, spoke from the pregnant teen's other side, "Bellatrix threw the Killing Curse at him… The Killing Curse. He should be dead… instead, he's green… never seen anything like it in my life," the boy finished in a mumble. "Crazy muggles."
"Does this mean I'm no longer the Boy Who Lived?" Harry asked, his voice showing confusion, from his spot leaning on Rona with Sarah McGee nearby. Tim stood next to Lucius Malfoy who was leaning on Nora.
"You alive?" Rona asked.
"Yes," Harry answered, perhaps a bit confused.
"Then you're still the Boy Who Lived," she teased, not knowing the history behind the nickname.
Tina was inspecting Xander, still in his arms, and definitely entering his personal bubble. Buffy hid a smirk, and met Faith's twinkling eyes. The two had been betting on how long it would take for those two to finally let their fears be damned and just get together.
"How long is this gonna last?" Tina asked, running her hands down his cheeks.
"We don't know," Snape responded to the pushy blonde. When she whipped around to stare at him with those angry eyes he just ignored it. "There IS a reason it's called the Killing Curse, and that reason is because it does just that; it kills its intended victim. We have never seen it have this effect upon a person. In fact, the only other person to survive the Killing Curse is Potter over there, and that's because he was protected by his mother's love. For some reason our magicks don't work the same on your friend… or any of you really."
"That's me… Good ol' Xander and the wonky magic."
"Oh dear lord," Giles began rubbing his glasses. "Most magic doesn't exactly work the way it's supposed to around Alexander. Perhaps our witches can whip something up to turn his skin back to its normal color."
"That would be ideal," Xander snapped.
"You'd better get 'em all changed back! We ain't havin' no green babies!" Tina glowered, first at Giles then at the kids they'd just rescued. At her words Buffy and Faith began laughing out loud.
"Babies," Xander squeaked and noticed a deep rosy blush cover Tina's face. He was definitely attracted to the gorgeous blonde, but he'd never made a move always figuring she'd probably go for someone more like her dad… or someone more like Dean Winchester or Graham Miller with their looks.
"Dude, we could call you the Hulk!" Dean was choking on his laughter. He decided to skip the baby comment, and give his friend a break.
"Or, hey, how about the Jolly Green Giant!" Jordy added with a snicker.
"Ha Ha, very funny," Xander scowled.
"It's not like I suggested we call you Sprout…" Dean told him matter of fact.
"Actually, a lot of us survived that stupid avocado curse," Brittany was raising her hand as she spoke. "It kind of tickled."
"That's the spell that turned you green?" Buffy asked Xander. "Moldy tossed that one at me, it didn't do anything, but I don't think any of their spells worked on us the way they were supposed to. Which probably means we should be careful and make sure of their magic before they just start flinging it around out here."
"Dude, if your kids came out green, we could call them Sprout," Dean kept on.
Xander rolled his eyes and chose to turn his back on the annoying Winchester brother. Instead he looked at Tina. "When did you all get back?"
"About an hour ago."
"And all of you were all right, no injuries?" his eyes roamed over her as if to make sure for himself.
"Nah, we weren't hurt. We did some hurtin' though. Saved a slayer, a real young one, and a lady brought here from a different reality." She shuddered. "It was horrible. They have this whole lab set up down there underneath that mountain. They'd gotten slayers. They'd been experimentin' on slayers, and most of the slayers didn't make it out. They didn't die from Angelspawn though. They were bein' killed before Angelspawn. They were starvin'. Tortured."
"Goddess," Xander whispered. "How's Kennedy?"
"Not takin' it well. Wanted Willow as soon as we got back."
Xander nodded. "Right after Sunnydale, when we went to England and started going through the wreckage of the Council buildings… They'd been doing something similar with Potentials, trying to figure out how to Call them by chemical means. Kennedy didn't take it well."
"Makes me glad the bastards blew up," Tina muttered. "And now we got a group that made their own portal and came rolling in on their own right before we got here."
Xander took in a breath. "The world has gone completely insane. I remember years ago the PTBs told us to stay out of other realities, and now we're getting visions telling us to go there and save others."
It finally seemed that everyone was through, but Dawn still hadn't come through. "What's going on?" Connor asked.
"Just wait," Buffy told him.
Willow walked through the portal just as a snowy white owl swooped through. After that owl, more owls began to fly through and alight on different high areas. Everyone went silent as first what appeared to be cats followed through after the owls, next came sprites, a little bit larger folk- fairies, followed by unicorns, hippogriffs, baby dragons, small midget sized beings with large round heads, large ears, large eyes and thin bodies, more small humanoids vaguely resembling the first but definitely different and last but not least centaurs. Dawn walked through with the last centaur, the two talking, and finally her green portal flashed out of existence.
The room was entirely silent for a moment until Giles began clearing his throat. "Buffy?" he asked, a bit lightheaded.
"So," she began. "I know you're probably wondering where all the animals and Cinnataurs.."
Willow leaned forward, "Centaurs," she corrected softly.
"Right, Centaurs, my bad… I know you're all wondering where they all came from, but you see it's sort of like this. That world, totally on it's way out. Like as it boom, big implosion." She made hand motions to show something squeezing in on itself. "And we totally took out the bad dudes."
"Red and Kit did a kickass shield over our new friends' hidey hole," Faith high-fived the two witches. "And I got to totally hack up this massive bitch of a snake. I totally have the snake skin to prove it!"
"That was a really big snake!" Brittany started shaking her head, her eyes wide at the memory.
"I totally chopped Moldy-warts head off." Buffy was smiling brightly even as Dr. Chase began working her shoulder where one of his spells had actually worked and it had cut strips into her flesh. "So we got ready to go through the gate and these guys, er, magical creatures and people, showed up, and seeing as their world is literally falling apart into nothing, well, it wasn't like we could just leave them there. So, yeah, we can keep 'em, right?"