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Buffy watched four men approach from the East and knew Tina had the West covered. Even though the slayers were projecting a sense of peace and ease, the hunters, and the Wizards were on guard, and she had the feeling her two Wizards were looking for a bit of a spar. When they all got back home she'd have to make sure to get them some sparring time mapped out. After the Hell they'd been through, and the feeling of complete and utter helplessness… she couldn't blame them for wanting to prove themselves now.

"Weren't expectin' guests," Logan growled out.

"No, sorry about that," Buffy shot back. "We just happened to be out cruising the neighborhoods and thought we'd stop by," she finished with a wry smirk.

"Ya know," Tina grinned her wide Texas smile," we could all turn this into a 'my dick's bigger than your's contest" which, of course you'd win there tiger," she addressed Logan, "cuz our Buff is the prettiest little filly. Point is," now her face became deadly serious and her words were cold, "we don't have the fuckin' time for a pissin' contest becuz' this world is gonna implode. And as far as I'm concerned, come with us or not, I don't want to be here when it does. I got me some babies to be thinking about… green or not."

"She's a strange bird, that one," Marcus murmured to Draco.

The last blonde coming from the west was panting, "If we can escape we have to do it now! Magneto's coming, and if that weren't bad enough, the black has taken him."

A brunette man with thick sunglasses grimaced, "You've convinced us. Time to go."

Buffy turned, "Dawnie, can you go from here?"

Dawn looked up at her with a grin, her eyes already glowing green, "Could you stand in for a representative of the Lollipop Guild?" Just as she was raising her hands to raise her protective shield a sheet of metal came flying out of nowhere heading towards one of the survivors, and a man could be seen floating off in the distance.

Juliet had to admit, she was quite surprised when the thin blonde man was actually able to teleport them into the lobby of the police station. She kept that surprise to a minimum however, because as soon as they were in moaning could be heard. No creatures were immediately seen. "Well, it seems that we're definitely not alone," she murmured.

"Yeah," Vi agreed, "I was just hoping we'd be greeted with cheers of happiness."

"Where should we start searching first?" Tonks wondered.

"Shall we check the cellar first? Assuming this building has a cellar?" Charlie, the redhead Wizard added.

"They're called basements here," Jordy told the older man before turning back to Andrew, "Andrew, any ideas which way we should head?"

"The stone Willow gave me directs us to go up."

"Should we set up here and head up?" Helena, the third slayer asked.

Vi shook her head in the negative, "No, I think we should stay together, and follow the trajectory of the stone. We've been lucky so far and I want to keep it that way," she told them grim faced. "I'll take point. Rossi and Brittany, you're next, Tonks and Charlie, Andrew and Juliet, Callen and Hanna and Jordy and Helena."

The only time Quinn had seen so much stuff had been when she'd been shopping at the mall, oh and now she could add looting the mall. Now the hotel seemed like it was filled to the brim with everything they'd brought back with them, and the Wizards weren't even finished enlarging everything they'd shrunk. Willow was telling them to only enlarge the necessities. Quinn was pretty sure some of this stuff was NOT necessary. Although… well, she certainly couldn't fault them for cleaning out the Taco Shack freezer. She was having huge cinnamon churro cravings.

A young slayer, slightly younger than she, by the name of Alexis Castle had been assigned to the pregnant women, it helped though that Elizabeth Burke was also a slayer, Samantha Finn was Special Forces and Hermione Granger was a Wizarding Witch. Quinn knew she herself was a Witch now, but she had no idea how to do anything with it, so she felt pretty useless. At least they had let her carry a bag of shrunken stuff.

"You okay?"

She jumped a little and turned to face Finn. "I'm fine. Are you okay?"

"I'm fine," he assured her. "Heck, we all got back safely except for that Neville guy breaking his nose after the fight. But I know the fight might of upset you."

"No, I'm okay. I think Neville's okay too."

"Then what's wrong?"

"I'm worried about Rachel," she admitted. "I have this sick feeling that something is wrong."

Finn pulled her into his arms, "We have to just keep good thoughts in our heads and hearts, Quinn. We have to just pray she's safe."

Puck had been approaching and heard the last of the conversation. "Berry's gonna be all right. Buffy and Gibbs are with her."

Tina and Artie came hurrying up. "We're so glad you guys are back and safe," Tina blurted out.

"What do you mean?" Puck asked. Now his stomach twisted.

"Some of the other groups have come back and a few of them have had casualties," Artie broke it to them.

"Who?" Quinn whispered, her heart fluttering.

"We lost Theo, he was one of the Wizards, Brian O'Connor…"

"Is Mia okay?" Quinn broke in.

"Her brother's taking care of her," Tina told them. "The group sent to Vegas lost Caridad. She was killed right in front of Ayane. Vi's group just got back, they brought six survivors, one of which is a slayer, and eight babies."

"Was someone new called when Caridad was taken?" Quinn asked, her training she was receiving from Willow.

The two looked at each other. "Yes. And just to be honest from the start, Your mom already knows," Tina said calmly trying reassure Puck. "But Sarah was called."

"Oh Hell no!" he snapped, but before he could stride off looking for his mother or sister, Dawn's green portal whipped into existence startling everyone. A man in sunglasses came slamming through hitting the wall behind him, a teenager following, the man barely catching her to cushion her.

The green portal seemed unstable, and as the people began flying through, most wounded in some fashion, some still firing weaponry or some sort of innate ability behind them, Dean screamed, "Running Hot, Running Hot, get medics in here, innocents out, fighters in!" and the scrambling began as Finn and Puck shoved pushed Quinn to Tina and Artie.

A tall, well built man, full sideburns and wild hair, came through next, though of his own accord, and Puck's heart almost stopped beating. In the man's arms lay an unconscious Rachel.