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One month ago, Scotland

Buffy, Xander and Giles were in the main hall going over some strategies with regarding the Slayers, when they heard footsteps as Willow, Faith and Dawn burst in.

"Buffy! We have a problem!" Willow exclaimed.

"We sent Andrew and few of the Slayers to check in on the armory but they weren't reporting in. When we went down there, four of the recruits were dead." Dawn said.

"Half of the weapons, firearms included, is unaccounted for." Xander said.

"Who did it?" Buffy asked.

"You'll have to ask him." Faith said with an annoyed look as they gestured to Giles talking with Andrew, who had a black eye and Buffy had to refrained herself from rolling her eyes. Of course this was his screw-up.

Buffy neared Andrew and took a deep breath, trying to keep her anger in check. "What happened here? And don't give me some embellished hero version again."

Andrew looked sheepish as began talking. "I went to do the inventory to check if we have all the weapons in order and then I saw someone breaking into the armory. I went down and saw the thieves try to steal the weapons and I began fighting them valiantly—"

One glare from Buffy and Faith shut him up as no one was in the mood for his embellishments, where he was trying to make himself look better.

"Get. To. The. Point." Buffy said with a forced calm tone and Andrew paled, knowing she was in no mood for his stories. "Who did it?"

"Some of the recruits. I didn't recognize all of them but they were led by Simone." Andrew said and the Scoobies and the Potentials paled.

Simone Doffler. She got on Buffy's radar, when they were recruiting and training new Slayers after what had happened back in Sunnydale and she had assigned her among other Potentials to Giles and Andrew to train and guide them, but Simone was going extreme by suggesting guns to kick things up a notch with the Slayer's duties, despite Giles's and Andrew's adamant protests, considering what had happened to Tara.

"Let me guess, you caught them, the recruits fought them and you were hiding before they knocked you out and stole our weapons." Buffy said.

"Hey, that's not how it happened, I helped—" Andrew began.

"Save it. I don't want to hear it." Buffy said dismissively, waving her hand as Andrew shut up as she turned and walked off, deciding for the next course of action immediately. "We need to track them down, now."

"I can come up with a locator spell, I'll find them." Willow said as they walked off.

"I knew I shouldn't have trusted Andrew to supervise Simone of all people." Buffy grumbled. She was already angry, when she had heard about how Andrew, per Giles's orders, extracted Dana from Wolfram & Hart and told Angel that no one from the Scoobies trusted him anymore, driving a wedge between Buffy and Angel, for which she had deservedly given Andrew and Giles a verbal.

"That woman was trouble, but we never expected her to do something like this." Xander said.

"That's what I get for trusting Giles and Andrew." Buffy grumbled. Rona was a pessimist and had shown no desire to be a Slayer and had gone to Buffy only for protection and from what Buffy had been told, Giles had assigned Rona to look out for Simone who was already unstable and Rona had later passed the buck to Andrew and now Buffy had to clean up their mess.

"This is bad, Buffy." Xander said.

"I know. The last thing we need is…" Buffy trailed off as she turned to Faith, who shrugged.

"Someone like me, maybe even worse, on the loose. You can say it, B., it's fine." Faith said, unbothered by Buffy's hesitance to remind Faith of when she had gone off the deep end.

"Do we even know where to begin looking for her?" Xander pointed out.

"Well…"

They turned to Andrew, who hesitantly spoke up and the phrase 'if looks could kill' came to mind as they turned to him.

"I overheard her saying something about more weapons." Andrew said.

"More weapons." Xander said and Andrew nodded.

"If you know something useful, spit it out already." Buffy snarled.

"And Simone talked a lot about wanting to use guns, even though I told her Slayers don't use guns, ever, especially since…" Andrew trailed off sheepishly and Buffy and Xander didn't need him to finish that sentence. "I kept telling her, no Slayer carries a gun, ever. But she said that guns can do real damage that she wanted to up the ante."

"She already took some weapons here, but if she wants guns…" Buffy trailed off.

"It means she'll look for an armory. Military bases, police stations, anything that stocks up heavy ordnance." Xander said.

"Alright, we need to spread out and look for any military installations or police stations within nearby area." Buffy nodded.

"Awesome." Andrew said, enthusiastic. "This is like—"

"Zip it!"

Buffy and Xander whirled on him and he immediately shut up.

"If I were you, I'd think fast about how to clean up my mess instead of treating this like a game. Get out of my sight and make yourself useful." Buffy sneered.

Andrew nodded fearfully as he walked off, not wanting to agitate her further, like when he had told Angel the Scoobies didn't trust him anymore, for which Buffy was beyond furious, once Angel had told her about this, alongside with what had happened to Fred.

"When did this happen exactly?" Buffy asked, turning to Xander.

"Almost two hours ago." Xander said and Buffy and Faith sighed.

"Which means they already got a big head-start. We need to find them, fast, before they do some serious damage." Faith said.

"Yeah." Buffy said as she and Faith began walking off before Faith looked at Buffy, about to say something as she opened her mouth but closed it, which Buffy noticed as they stopped. "Is there something you wanna say, Faith?"

Faith looked at Buffy reluctantly and sighed. "I don't mean this the wrong way, B. and I'm not saying this because I blame you but… this is on you. You made the choice for thousands, maybe millions of girls for all of them to become like us, even when they never asked for it and you don't even know if anyone of them is alright with it or if they become…" She trailed off but Buffy knew what was she going to say and nodded. Like Faith. Or worse, the situation with Dana.

"I know and I've been doing my best to mitigate the damage I've done and make amends with Angel after how Andrew and Giles tried to put a wedge between us and them." Buffy said as she clenched her fist. When Angel had told her about Fred, she and Willow were beyond furious at Giles, Buffy even broke his nose and Willow slapped him for it and Buffy stripped Giles of any authority within her team to do anything on her behalf and he lost the majority of her trust.

"I know. What matters now is that we gotta fix as much as we can what we broke, right?" Faith asked and Buffy nodded.

Elsewhere

In a military compound, hallways were littered with bodies in military outfits, floor and walls stained with blood and walls riddled with bullet holes, while some women were in an armory taking guns, RPGs and various military equipment.

One of the soldiers, who was bloodied was crawling on the floor, when a woman with a Mohawk pink punk haircut wearing an olive green jacket and beige pants approached him.

"Why… are… you… doing this?" The soldier asked hoarsely.

"Because I'm the change." Simone said, smirking as she stepped on his leg and bones cracked as he screamed in pain. "And it's time the world saw it for real."

She loaded her gun and shot him in the head, blood spattering on the floor before she began confiscating more weaponry and left the compound with more rogue Slayers.

Simone Doffler was a Slayer recruited by Buffy in Season 8 comic books and she was basically a worse version of Faith, since she was a violent sociopath who felt that her Slayer powers gave her the right to do whatever she wanted as she relished in the idea of basically Slayers ruling the worlds. Plus, she was assigned to Rona's and then later Andrew's group due to how unstable she was (Stupid move, since both of them are annoying useless idiots, plusit was highly hinted Rona just didn't want to do the heavy lifting of handling someone as unstable as Simone and just dumped the load and passed the buck on Andrew) and she just kept going extreme to the point of suggesting guns instead of traditional weapons, which Andrew dismissed because of what had happened to Tara, but Simone then went rogue with some like-minded Slayers as she began going on her crusade of Slayers ruling the world as the superior species. For the face, imagine Bex Taylor-Klaus with pink hair playing her.

Buffy's plan was to be blunt, stupid, even though I get it was a desperate move, she decided to make the choice for thousands, maybe millions of girls, for them to become Slayers, when none of them asked for it and who knows whether some of them would abuse their powers for their own personal gain or become unstable like Faith, Dana and the follow-up comics were glaring examples of that.

Regarding Andrew Wells, let me make myself as clear as I can about him:
The idiot is an ogling creep and perv and he was willing to help Warren get away with murdering Katrina and framing Buffy for it, plus, the only reason he helped the Scoobies in Season 7 was to save his own skin and he never showed genuine remorse, he only showed regret, when Buffy scared him into it, when he thought she was going to kill him, which makes his so called 'redemption' BS. Plus, his 'storytelling' where he tries to make himself look better than the lame idiot he actually is maybe is supposed to be funny for comedic effect but I found it redundant, annoying and stupid, even more when in Angel 5x11 he said that 'he and Spike saved the world'. *Scoffs* More like Spike saved the world, while Anya gave up her life saving the useless meat of sack Andrew was.

And Andrew telling Angel that Buffy didn't trust him anymore because of his association with W&H is also a load of crap. Buffy, Willow and Faith would at least give Angel the benefit of the doubt and Giles was the one who sent Andrew, not Buffy, so it's likely that Giles was just trying to put a wedge between Angel and Buffy or Andrew, being the idiot he is, was just trying to impress Giles because of Giles's dislike of Angel in general and it's unlikely that Buffy knew about Dana anyway, we never got a confirmation she did in comics and also, on one instance in comics, Giles sent Faith undercover to join a group of rogue Slayers behind Buffy's back and didn't tell her, when Buffy was after those rogue Slayers and attacked Faith in misunderstanding, thinking Faith had gone rogue again and they almost killed each other because Giles didn't loop Buffy in. Also, when Willow was turned into Warren, Andrew was actually happy to see Warren again, which showed he hadn't changed at all, so only a completely braindead retarded moron would actually like Andrew, so if I were you, I'd get my brain examined if you still like Andrew despite these facts. He had some uses in follow-up comics for sure but he was still annoying creep who still embellished with nonsense stories and spouted nonsense crap and Buffy and Spike had to clean up the idiot's mess and fix his screw-ups more than once.

Plus there's the fact Giles refused to help Angel in stopping Illyria and saving Fred just because Angel was associated with Wolfram & Hart and any excuses that 'the Scoobies were too busy to help Angel, since they had to deal with other threats' aren't going to work, since there's no proof of that in comics. There's a rumor that the way Giles was ruined further was because of unavailability of Anthony Head at the time and considering what a jerk Joss Whedon is, this wouldn't surprise me.

Andrew is going to get his in due time, just wait. Though he had his uses in the follow-up comics, despite his screw-ups and messes that Buffy and Spike ended up cleaning up after him, so he will be less of a moron than in the show and he will have some uses to the Scoobies, so I won't be needlessly trashing on him unless he really needs to be called out, but like I said, he is going to get his in due time.

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