A/N: Thank you everyone for your reviews. I had a thought I wanted to experiment with for this chapter, it took me a while to write and had to do a few rewrites as well but I really hope you, the readers, enjoy it and review. (Guess who is the guest star in this chapter. Sorry no prizes though)
A/N2: This is a response to the guest review. I do thank you for the review but I think you fail to understand that what the Scoobies did was a bad thing that simply amounted to treason. I'm not trying to bash them but it's the actions they took that lead to their arrest. Giles and Tara may be more powerful than Willow in magical terms but that doesn't mean that Willow can't be just as powerful in her own right. The way I see it, magic still needs concentration to perform and this Willow could have very easily gone into Tara's or Gile's mind and rewired their brains to make it more difficult or impossible for them to concentrate if they ever tried to initiate a spell or use their powers. But that would have gone against her as a person I think. You also seem to think that the magical Willow would have done much worse, and while that may be true for the 'magical version', it just not true in my version. The military version of Willow knows that there is a reason that certain things remain classified from the general population which was why she kept on warning the Scoobies that what they were doing was wrong. Like I said before in an author's note for a previous chapter, crossover stories are already like an alternate universe. Anything can happen.
Warning: Non-Canon character deaths
Definitions:
Nishta: A biological compound used by the Goa'uld to brainwash others to do their bidding
Shol'va: Traitor
NID Headquarters, Washington D.C, 2100hrs
Once she arrived at the NID headquarters, she asked Agent Barret a few questions about what might happen to her friends. She learnt from Agent Barret that the least thing that could be done is house arrest for all those responsible for at least a year or the most, five years in a federal prison.
The first person she tried to talk to was Buffy but she had completely shut down on Willow, as did Xander. Colonel Carter had told Willow that it was highly possible that they were still in shock about their arrest. Dawn wouldn't even talk to her, much less look at her anymore. Willow figured that as far as Dawn was concerned, she was Persona non Grata, but Willow knew that she had to do everything she could to prevent any prison time for Dawn, even though she hated her guts.
Willow didn't even want to see Giles and Tara much less talk to them, at least for now. As for Joshua the psychic, Willow decided she could care less about what happens to him.
The last person she went to see was Faith who was relieved to see Willow. She told Willow that the NID agent interviewing her had asked many questions but she had tried o answer them to he best of her ability.
"How did your meeting with the big guy go?" asked Faith
Willow: "I had to tell him everything Faith. About Sunnydale, the Watchers Council, the Slayer, everything"
"And he wasn't freaked out by it?" asked Faith
Willow: "Oh he was, he did a good job of hiding it though, but it wasn't too bad. My Commanding Officer wasn't too happy though regarding the ages of the potential Slayers or when the Slayers get activated"
"When will we know what will happen to us?" asked Faith
Willow: "I'm not sure. The president asked me stay in D.C for a few days, I think he wants to talk more about you guys before he makes a decision"
Willow knew the President would get back to her in a couple of days, but she didn't want to get Faith's hopes up.
"What will happen to us?" asked Faith
Willow: "I don't know. The least you're looking at is house arrest and the most is five years in prison"
"I feel sorry for Dawn" said Faith, "if she goes to jail, her future is effectively over"
Willow: "She hates my guts. I don't think she'll want any help from me"
"How's Buffy?" asked Faith
Willow: "She's in shock I guess. She never thought that it would come down to this"
"What about Sunnydale?" asked Faith, "it's defenceless now"
Willow: "I don't know. I think the President wants to do something about it but I think the decision on what to do about the supernatural will be made by people way above my pay grade"
"You know Buffy won't be happy with that" said Faith, "she'll hate the government interference"
Willow: "I know that too. I hope that the President will ask for my input before he does anything"
As Willow and Faith continued talking, Agent Barret and Colonel Carter opened the door, "Willow" said the Colonel, "we should going, they want to take your friends to their accommodations so that they can get some sleep"
Willow smiled and nodded as the Colonel closed the door.
"So I guess this is it?" said Faith, "Will I see you again tomorrow?"
Willow: "I hope so. I was only authorised to see you guys for today. I can ask my CO, since I'll be here for a few more days anyway"
"Then I hope I see you tomorrow" said Faith smiling
Willow: "Definitely"
Willow then got up and slowly walked out of the interview room and met up with Daniel and Teal'c, she noticed Colonel Carter off to the side talking in the phone.
"Hey guys" said Willow, "what time are you going back to Colorado Springs?"
"Well we have a flight to catch in about two hours" said Daniel, "we're waiting for Sam to fininsh talking to Pete"
"Pete, called?" asked Willow as she mentally kicked herself, she had meant to talk to the Colonel about Pete's issues back in the Tek'tak all the back when they were heading to Halla to find Thor so that he could defrost Colonel O'Neill from the Ancient stasis pod. Since then, there has been one crisis after another and it slipped her mind. "I definitely need to talk to her" thought Willow to herself.
"Everything alright?" she asked Daniel
"I'm not sure" he replied, "He sounded angry when Sam told him we were in Sunnydale and now in D.C"
"Indeed" said Teal'c as he looked on with concern at the Colonel
Willow took a quick glance over at the Colonel, she was being very animated with her hands, moving them around in frustration before she disconnected the call and walked back towards them.
"Everything alright ma'am" asked Willow
"It was just Pete, he was concerned about where I was" she said
"So ma'am" said Willow, "do you absolutely have to go back to the Springs? I mean, I was just wondering if we could talk woman to woman?"
"How about we talk once you get back to the Springs?" said the Colonel, "I really can't skip tomorrow, we're helping the Russians scour the orbital debris that was created after the defeat of Anubis' forces early tomorrow morning. Plus I've been ignoring Pete a lot for the past few days, I need to spend some time with him"
"You're doing your job Sam" said Daniel, "he should understand that"
"He's just worried about me" replied the Colonel as she turned back to Willow, "well, Willow we've got to get going now. I hope everything turns out alright for your friends"
"Thanks ma'am" replied Willow, "I'll be seeing you on base in few days then I guess"
"Good night Willow" said Daniel
"Enjoy your artefacts tonight Daniel" said Willow smiling
"Teal'c, enjoy your time with Ry'ac" said Willow, "give him my best"
"I will indeed Willow Rosenberg" said Teal'c as he bowed, "Have a good night"
Willow watched as her teammates got into a taxi and went off towards the airport. Walter had called her earlier that day to let her know that she was booked into a room at the State Plaza Hotel which was a good 40 minute walk from where she was now. Since it was a cool night in D.C, she decided to walk all the way there, especially since she needed to get a change of clothes since the decision to stay in D.C was made at the last minute at the request of the President, and how does one say no to the President. After stopping over at a store, she just got some simple shirts and slacks before she headed back towards the hotel.
State Plaza Hotel, Washington D.C, 2300hrs
As she got closer to the hotel, she got some take out from a nearby Chinese Restaurant. As she was exiting the restaurant with her food, she noticed someone familiar walking towards her.
"Angel?" said Willow as the man got closer and she noticed his face against the light of a street lamp, "What are you doing here? Are you following me"
"Sorry Miss" said the man, "I'm afraid you have the wrong person"
"Oh Sorry about that" replied Willow as she sensed no danger from the man, "You look just like a friend I used to know"
"What can I say" said the stranger, "I guess I have one of those faces"
As the strange man walked away Willow smiled to herself, "Yeah, there's no way Angel would be wearing a belt buckle with the word 'Cocky' on it" she thought to herself as she continued walking towards the hotel
After another 10 minutes of walking, she had reached her hotel room and immediately put all her shopping bags on the floor before washing up. After having her dinner and watching some TV, she decided to text Cassie who had only a month ago started to study medicine at Georgetown.
Willow: Hey Cass, I'm in D.C. You busy tomorrow?
Cassie: Kinda. How about the next day?
Willow: Sure. Lunch?
Cassie: Alright. As long as you buying
Willow: ?
Cassie: Come on, I'm a poor college student
Willow: Very well then. See you the day after tomorrow. Good night
Cassie: Good night, Willow
Smiling, Willow put her phone on the charger and turned in for the night. She was hopeful that she would have a good night's sleep, despite what's happened the past few days. As soon as Willow closed her eyes and lay her head down on the pillow, she had dozed off.
The Gateroom, SGC
All of a sudden, Willow found herself in the Gateroom at the SGC.
"What the hell?" said Willow to herself as she looked around at all the klaxons blaring and spinning that familiar red light all over the place. She looked down at herself and noticed that she was wearing her full combat BDU's complete with a P90, a nine millimetre sidearm, a Zat, along with her tactical vest and a combat knife.
"I was asleep" she told herself, "where am I?"
Then it hit her, a horrible stench that floated into her nostrils. It was something that she has smelt before, the smell of decaying bodies. Covering her nose with her arm, she walked down the ramp and that was when she noticed things were terribly wrong. It looked as if the Gateroom was shot up, she could see scorch marks from Jaffa staff weapons and bullet holes from the various Tau'ri weapons. She looked up all around her and she noticed that there was no one there, anywhere.
Then she noticed the red stains on the glass that covered the control room.
"Blood" said Willow to herself, "so much blood"
She ran as fast as she could out of the Gateroom and took the immediate right turn onto the stairs that led up to the control room. Running up the stairs, she found something that would stay in her mind forever.
"Bodies" said Willow to herself as she went back down the stairs and hurled, "My God, so many bodies"
She regained her composure and slowly walked back up to the control room, this time she unhooked her P90 from the front of her vest and moved ready to shoot any hostile that moved. Willow held her weapon by her side and pointed forward as she inspected the bodies of both SGC personnel and what looked like the Jaffa of various system lords. As she walked around, she even saw the gold forehead emblems of two first primes.
"What the hell is going on here?" said Willow to herself as she looked down and quickly jumped back as she saw the mostly decomposed face of who she thought was Walter Harriman looking back at her. As she jumped back she accidently hit a button that shut down the klaxons and got rid of the noise of the alarms before she steadied herself by grabbing the seat back of one of the chairs. She noted that even though the buttons shutting down the alarms worked, this could still be just a dream. "Not a dream" said Willow to herself, "a nightmare".
Willow felt as if she still had to send a message out, radio anyone to get some information on what was doing on. "Maybe that what this nightmare is about, I have to call people for help and survive whatever this is until I wake up" she told herself as she held down the encrypted radio button.
"This is Sierra Golf Charlie requesting immediate assistance, does anyone read, over" whispered Willow as she released the button she was holding so that the message could be transmitted. She became nervous when all she heard was static. After a few minutes, she held the button down again and sent another message, "This is Sierra Golf One dash Five, I am requesting immediate assistance, does anyone read, over?" Willow looked on in surprise as there was even more static.
"Prometheus, this is Sierra Golf One dash Five. Do you copy, over" said Willow as she tried to contact the Prometheus but all she heard again was static. Giving up on contacting anyone she got up and walked cautiously up the metal stairs to the briefing room.
Once she reached the top, she saw that there were four bodies lined up on the floor face down near the large observation windows. The bodies were so decayed that she could see maggots crawling around the uniforms of what remained of these poor souls. Looking closely with her nose covered, she noticed that the backs of the uniforms where scorched.
"These guys were executed" said Willow to herself just as she heard a loud bang from a hallway behind her.
Picking herself up, she quickly ran to where that sound was coming from but she couldn't find anything at all.
"Hello" she said, "Is there anyone here? This is Captain Willow Rosenberg, SG1"
She tried to sense for any one in her immediate vicinity or any thoughts but she had nothing to go on. As she walked around the SGC and it was the same thing everywhere, dead bodies of both SGC personnel and Jaffa on the floor. Some areas, like the commissary, looked as if it was a miniature warzone and other places looked as if there were fire fights using small calibre weapons.
After walking around for a while as she tried to make sense of it all, Willow found herself outside Colonel Carter's lab. Willow slowly stepped in the room with all her senses active and at a state of hyper alertness. She simply knew that something was very wrong as she switched on the lights in the lab. Once the lights had come on, she saw everything; all the computers, files, everything that wasn't tied down or bolted to the floor ransacked. She looked around the room in shock before she screamed and fell backwards onto the floor in a panic.
Right in front of Willow was what looked like Lt. Colonel Samantha Carter's body with half of her face blasted off and with blast holes on her chest and abdomen. Willow only thought it was Colonel Carter because there were only a few strands of blond hair covering a face that was in the advanced stages of decay. Willow slowly got up onto her trembling feet as she approached the body and using her knife, she turned the scorched dog tags that were on the floor next to the body. After looking at the dog tags, Willow closed her eyes when tears started to come out as her suspicions were confirmed, it was indeed Colonel Carter's body. She stood up slowly and walked out of the room; she knew she had to go to the surface. Hopefully she could get her answers there.
As she ran towards the main elevator, she was afraid that this would be a foothold situation. A foothold situation that went very wrong for the SGC. She was worried; she walked all over the base but the only member of SG1 she saw was Colonel Carter. Teal'c, Daniel, and General O'Neill was missing, "please tell me they got out at least" said Willow to herself as she pressed the button to call for the elevator.
"Great, even that's malfunctioning" said Willow, "This is one hell of a nightmare"
Willow now had no choice but to turn back and take the emergency escape hatch and go up all the 27 floors.
"Ah hell" said Willow to herself as she shone the torchlight on her P90 towards the next few levels to make sure the ladder was clear from obstruction and enemy Jaffa. Once everything was clear, she started her climb to the hatch on the surface; she just hoped that no one had found it.
After 45 minutes of climbing the ladder all the way to the hatch on the surface, Willow very cautiously opened the horizontal domed metal doorway and after making sure that there was no one there, got out and resealed it. She slowly and quietly moved through the foliage before she got down on her stomach and crawled until she could just look over at the entrance to Cheyenne Mountain. Reaching into her front vest pocket, she took out a pair of binoculars and used them to see what was going on. What she saw had surprised her; where the front gate used to be, there was now a Tel'tak parked along with three Jaffa on guard duty.
"So it was the Goa'uld" said Willow to herself, "but why?"
Willow searched the immediate area through her binoculars and couldn't find any other ships or any other Jaffa other than those three at the entrance.
"Three versus one" said Willow to herself as she smiled, "that's just not fair"
She knew that she needed to get some information first before anything else, so Willow concentrated on stretching her telekinetic power to encapsulate the larval Goa'uld that the Jaffa carried. Once that was done, she squeezed the symbiotes until the Jaffa were doubling over in pain. Sensing that there was no one else in the immediate vicinity, she cautiously stepped out of her hiding place and walked towards the three Jaffa who were in pain.
Willow knew that she was in the open and that there was absolutely no cover anywhere except for the Tel'tak. But she needed information, and although she could have gotten that by simply reading their minds, she needed their ship as well. Plus she was pissed off because of what the Goa'uld had done to the people in the mountain and she wanted to make sure the three Jaffa knew who was punishing them for their actions.
"HI there fella's" she said as she approached the Jaffa, "I need the answer to just one simple question, when is your next shift change?"
"No" said one of the Jaffa as he lay on the ground in pain
"Thank you" said Willow as she quickly read his mind, "so your next shift change is in four of my hours, that leaves me time to ask as many questions as I want. Why aren't there more of you here?"
"Everyone is dead" said the Jaffa whose name she learnt is Rek'an, "there is no threat from your Stargate Command, although now I see that we were mistaken"
"Who is your master?" asked Willow as she faced Rek'an
"Anubis" said another Jaffa she found was called Jet'tak, who was in pain, "stop and he may show you mercy"
"Anubis is dead" said Willow shocked, "we killed him"
"You cannot kill a god" said To'nel who was lying on the ground earlier and now trying to get up despite the pain.
"Stay down" said Willow as she discharged her Zat at To'nel, the stream of blue electricity hit him and he was instantly knocked unconscious. Willow disarmed the Zat and put it back in its holster.
"Who was responsible for the carnage in the mountain?" asked Willow angrily as she turned to face the remaining two Jaffa, her hands already tightened into fists
"Our lord Anubis walked in through their Chappa'ai with his Kull warriors" said Jet'tak as he smiled, "we did not participate in the battle but we have heard the stories of how he waged glorious war against your Stargate Command. They were punished for defying the gods"
"How did he get the Iris codes?" asked Willow angrily as she grabbed Jet'tak, "How the fuck did he get the codes?!" she screamed at Jet'tak
"He is a god" said Rek'an, "He knows all"
"If we were among the first wave" said Jet'tak gleefully as he ignored the pain from the squeezing of his symbiote, "we would have been proud to kill as many of you Tau'ri as possible"
"Then die at the hands of a Tau'ri, you murderous ass" said Willow as she used her telekinesis to take off the armour covering his torso and abdomen before plunging her hand into the Jaffa's symbiote pouch and squeezing the larval Goa'uld with her bare hands. Willow had severed Jet'tak's vocal chords so that when he screamed there would be no sounds coming out. Within a few seconds he had started convulsing as the symbiote's poisonous blood mixed with his own, and Willow accessed the pain center of his brain to make sure he could feel as much pain as possible. Then, all of a sudden he stopped moving. Willow took her hand out of the pouch and wiped the symbiote blood off on Jet'tak's body.
"You are Rek'an of Chulak" said Willow as she turned to face the only remaining conscious Jaffa
"How do you know?" asked Rek'an, still in pain
"Do you know Teal'c?" asked Willow ignoring his question
"Yes" he replied
"Where is he?" asked Willow
"The shol'va is dead" said Rek'an as he grinned, "along with his son and the shol'va Bratac, The entire rebel Jaffa leadership has been annihilated"
"What?" said Willow Incredulously
"They dared to betray their god" said Rek'an smiling, "and they were justly punished for it"
"No, no, no" said Willow as she turned away, "this is madness, what kind of a nightmare is this?"
"Where is SG1?" asked Willow softly as she reached for her Zat and turned back towards Rek'an
"The greatness that comprised SG1 was the first to perish" laughed Rek'an, "my comrades had the honor of dispatching Teal'c on Chulak, while Lord Anubis personally dispatched the Tau'ri female known as Carter. Oh, so many tales have been said about the Carter woman's demise. The most popular one is where she got on her knees and begged for her life before my lord Anubis sent her soul to the underworld. The ones known as O'Neill, Jackson the female Summers will meet their end today at sundown. With them gone, the resistance against Lord Anubis will fall"
"Wait Summers? Which Summers are you talking about?" asked Willow
"I do not know" said Rek'an, "It does not matter, they shall all perish this day"
"Where?" asked Willow livid, "Where?!" she screamed as she mentally squeezed the symbiote even tighter and then she got an image of the White House lawn, a smoking White House lawn.
"You cannot stop him" said Rek'an laughing, "this world belongs to Lord Anubis now. The Tau'ri have fallen"
"You will show me how to fly the Tel'tak" said Willow in an eerily calm voice
"Never" grinned Rek'an
"That wasn't a question" said Willow as she used her hands to grab both sides of his head, "I'll just learn what I need to from your mind". Within a few minutes of going through his mind, Willow knew the basic of how to fly a Tel'tak and run scans. After she learnt the information she needed she let go of the Jaffa and punched him in the face to knock him out. She was then reminded of what Joshua tried to do at the Slayer Council HQ, "NO! It's not the same" said Willow to herself, "they wanted information to satisfy their own curiosity and self importance, I need it to save people; no not just people, my friends. Nothing will stop me and hopefully by saving them I'll be out of this nightmare"
Willow slowly got up and walked over to the Tel'tak and started the pre-flight checks. After noting everything was alright and that the Tel'Tak was prepared to fly, she got out of the Goa'uld vessel and approached the three Jaffa who lay on the ground. Taking out her Zat out of its holster, she activated it and aimed at the three bodies. She was reminded of what then Colonel O'Neill had told her during her training with the Goa'uld weapon.
"Remember Red, the first shot stuns, the second shot kills, the third shot makes them go away for good" he had told her
Willow fired her Zat three times at Rek'an and Jet'tak, and twice at To'nel before their bodies disintegrated. After the deed was done Willow calmly walked back to the Tel'tak, closed the hatch and then took her seat at the cockpit before taking off. She had plotted a course to Washington D.C before engaging the cloak.
Since the ship was cloaked, Willow made a quick fly by over Colorado Springs and what she saw had shocked her, the entire city was almost levelled. There were huge scorch marks in many areas of the city and from the height she was flying she could see many larger scorch marks that suggested orbital bombardment by Goa'uld Hat'ak class mother ships. Next stop was the Air Force Academy, and as she flew towards it, all she could see literally nothing on the ground; no buildings, no fields, even the chapel that attracted tourists was gone. It was then that her scans using the ships sensors showed debris. There were pieces of large engines, communication arrays, computer parts; the scans even found signals from an active distress beacon and that meant what she had feared happened, the Prometheus was destroyed. It was gone; the destruction of the Academy had been caused by the Prometheus crashing into it. The Goa'uld had destroyed Earth's only space worthy battle cruiser and after she fell, Earth was defenceless.
"Why didn't our allies come? What happened to the Asgard? What happened to the Ancient defence platform in Antarctica?" asked Willow to herself as she surveyed the damage before firing up the engines to full power and headed towards D.C. She knew that all her questions could be answered there. As she flew over cities and the countryside on the way to D.C, she saw the same situation everywhere. Untold destruction, levelled cities; it looked more like a post-apocalyptic future in a cheesy science fiction movie, but her scans did show that there were survivors among the ruins of these cities.
"They must just be simply existing with no hope" said Willow to herself, "this is bad, this is soo bad"
It took Willow under thirty minutes to fly the Tel'Tak all the way from Colorado Springs to Washington D.C. Once she reached D.C she slowed the engines of the ship as she surveyed the damage with a shocked look on her face. Most of the city was destroyed, the Washington monument lay devastated with half of it lying on the grass and the other half still erect but crumbling. She saw the flag posts that encircled the monument were missing the flags, instead there were bodies that hung on them. It was an absolute perversion of the spirit of the monument. She saw the area where the capitol building used to be was now a crater, the mall was utterly devastated but among the devastation she saw lights and what looked like a tent city that had been erected.
Willow noticed that everything that was a symbol of freedom had been utterly devastated; the only thing that remained was the White House which she guessed was Anubis' seat of power. As she flew over the White House, she noticed many Jaffa guarding the entrances and plasma cannons stationed at strategic places along the perimeter and the roof.
She ran a scan on the White House for human life signs and found four. From what she was told at the gate at Cheyenne Mountain, she knew that General O'Neill, Daniel and one of the Summers sisters could be among the four life signs. She was hoping that the fourth was another Summers sister or even Faith, if they were still alive.
Willow knew in her heart that all of this was just a dream so whatever actions she took here would wake her up in the real world and she would be out of this screwed up nightmare. She also knew that there was a choice of three options; land the ship somewhere outside the White House and slowly move her way back in, land the ship in the back garden of the White House after telekinetically killing the Jaffa or simply just shove the ship into the White House and hope for the best. Willow decided to go for the second option. Since the ship was cloaked, she hovered over the defensive positions of the Jaffa and used her powers to kill the symbiotes with in turn gave the Jaffa guarding their posts a very painful death.
Once she sensed that all the Jaffa outside were killed, she landed the ship while cloaked in the White House's back garden. After landing, she stood by the closed hatch of the Tel'tak and rechecked her ammo and weapons to make sure that all the safeties were on the off position. She did a quick mental scan of the immediate area and found no threats outside the ship, no Kull Warriors and no Jaffa.
"I guess they haven't found the dead Jaffa yet" thought Willow to herself
Willow pressed the door release button and took cover as the door opened.
"Since no one's firing at me, I'd assume that my scan was right" thought Willow to herself
Unknown: "Yes, you are correct"
Willow: "Who is this?"
Unknown: "Hello Willow Rosenberg of the Tau'ri"
Willow: "I'll ask again. Who is this?"
Unknown: "I am your god. I am Anubis"
Willow was stunned, she was very confident that she couldn't be detected as she had all of her mental guards up but it seemed as though she was unsuccessful. And what the dead Jaffa at the mountain said was true, Anubis is alive. However, she knew there was something not right about Anubis' voice, she recognized it but because of the typical Goa'uld voice distortion, she couldn't place it.
Anubis: "I know why you are here. You want to rescue your friends"
Willow: "Yes"
Anubis: "Come unarmed and you may yet see them"
Willow: "how do I know that they're still alive?"
Anubis: "Here, I will connect you to their thoughts"
Once Willow was mentally connected to the thoughts of General O'Neill, Daniel, an unknown man and whichever Summers sister it was, all she could hear were their collective screams of agony as they were tortured using the Goa'uld pain sticks.
Willow: "Stop! Stop! I believe you"
Anubis: "Come unarmed into this dwelling and surrender yourself to my General, Anhur, the latest of a new generation of Goa'uld who will retake this galaxy"
Not having a choice, Willow decided to let this nightmare play itself out. However she kept her combat knife hidden away in her side pocket while abandoning her other weapons. Slowly she stepped out of the Tel'tak and cautiously headed for the door that was right front of here. She could see someone standing on the other side through the frosted glass but couldn't make out who it was. A few seconds later she opened the door slowly and was faced with the last person she expected to find.
"Buffy?" said Willow before her friend took a staff weapon and hit her on the head, knocking her out.
Anubis: "Wake up Willow Rosenberg, and bear witness to the destruction of the Tau'ri resistance"
Willow had slowly woken up and found herself in what used to be the Oval Office of the White house, she looked around and noticed that the walls were gone so it was transformed into a larger room with Goa'uld video communication devices floating at even intervals along the edge of the room. Looking at the desk where the President had sat behind during her first meeting with him, she saw a dark hooded and cloaked figure standing and looking out of the window at the destruction outside.
"You are awake, Willow Rosenberg" said Anubis
Willow slowly got up and took out the knife she had put into her pocket. Slowly she approached Anubis as his back was turned towards her when suddenly she felt a force push her backwards and she landed on the floor hard.
"You should have listened when I told you to come in unarmed" said Anubis as he turned around.
Willow looked closely at Anubis but she couldn't see the face but she knew there was something odd, looking closely, she saw that the face was hidden under a mask. Willow recalled that Colonel Carter had showed her pictures of when Anubis appeared at Stargate command as a hologram the time he tried to use Ancient technology to destroy the Earth gate. Willow noticed that the way this Anubis looked was quiet different from the one that appeared at the SGC, although the fashion sense for both were still horrible.
"Anhur" said Anubis as the Goa'uld inhabiting Buffy walked into the large room and kneeled before Anubis.
"Yes my lord?" said Anhur
"Bring the prisoners here" said Anubis still facing the window, "it is time I show the people of this wretched planet the futility in opposing me"
"Yes my lord, it shall be done" said Anhur as she walked past Willow who was trying to stand
"Buffy" said Willow, "Fight it. You're the Slayer, fight it"
Anhur stopped and walked towards Willow before she hit the back of her knees with a staff weapon, making Willow fall back down into a kneeling position.
"Kneel before your god" said Anhur as she walked away
"Damn it Buffy, fight it" said Willow shouting after her
Anhur looked back at Willow as her eyes glowed yellow, "Nothing of the host remains" she said before she turned around and walked out of the door.
"You should be proud of her" said Anubis, "She fought with all her heart, strength and will against my upgraded Kull Warriors but as you can see, she ultimately failed"
"No! No!" said Willow shaking her head, "the magic users would have stopped you"
"They tried" said Anubis, "They destroyed almost a quarter of my forces before I could release a genetically modified version of the Nishta. A strain a hundred times more potent than any other was laced onto my Kull Warriors and sent into their strongholds. The Nishta was released once the Kull Warriors were killed or disabled and began to slowly infect those vermin. They thought they could protect themselves from something they did not understand. It was simply pathetic as they tried to fight it. Then they were given the order to work for their god. They are working for me as spies who have been embedded into the resistance or as conduits to the powers of the otherworld"
"The Ancients… the Ancients should have stopped you" said Willow
"The principles of the Ancients are weak. You know that they would never interfere in the lower planes. They have left their children all alone against me, and they will not lift a finger to protect you or anyone here" said Anubis
Just as Anubis finished his explanation, Anhur had walked back into the room with the prisoners.
"My lord, I bring to you the leaders of the Tau'ri resistance" said Anhur as she kneeled before Anubis
"Willow Rosenberg" said Anubis, "take a close look at the last vestiges of the Tau'ri resistance, its vital components and leadership"
Willow looked on stunned as four people were dragged into the room in chains; General Jack O'Neill, Dawn Summers, Daniel Jackson and Henry Hayes.
"General!" shouted Willow as she stood up and started to run towards them before she was stopped midstride and thrown back against a wall and held there.
"Silence" said Anubis
"Red?" said the General as he turned towards Willow's voice, "How? You're supposed to be…. No… it's a trick.." he said before facing Anubis, "I told you that you'll never get anything from us… having her here as an illusion won't work you bastard, you killed her"
"What?!" shouted Willow, "Sir, it's me…. I'm here.. Although I have to say this is the worst nightmare ever"
"This isn't a nightmare Willow!" shouted Dawn
"What?" said Willow as she looked on surprised
"Silence!" shouted Anubis as he lifted the General up and then slammed him back onto the ground
Willow flinched and closed her eyes when she heard a sickening crunch. Slowly she opened her eyes, only to see Anhur pulling him back up by the hairs back into a kneeling position.
"Buffy please don't do this" said Dawn
"Silence Tau'ri" said Anhur, "Beg Lord Anubis and he may yet spare your life"
"No!" shouted Dawn, "give me back my sister"
Anhur simply smiled and approached Anubis, "my lord everything has been prepared, and we have a live planet wide broadcast connection"
Anubis walked towards the center of the room and stood meters always from the four prisoners before speaking.
"People of the Tau'ri, see the leaders of your precious resistance movement. Let what happens now, be a reminder that any challenge to me shall be met with devastating force. Here is your first leader, the supreme commander of the Tau'ri resistance movement; General Jack O'Neill."
Willow looked on as the General was mentally picked up by Anubis and held in the air.
"Beg for your life General" said Anubis
"No!" shouted the General
Willow looked on in horror, unable to move as the General turned his head and looked at her.
O'Neill: "This isn't your fault Red. I don't blame you for any of this. I should have done more to protect you"
Willow: "What are you talking about Sir? I don't understand. I should be sorry I couldn't do anything now… I can't move. He's too powerful for me"
"Goodbye General" said Anubis as he mentally twisted the General's neck back a hundred and eighty degrees with a sickening crack and flung his body out of the window before moving on to Daniel.
"No!" screamed Willow as she turned to Anhur, "Buffy, I know you're in there, fight it. He'll kill everyone. He'll kill you once he's done. He won't share power with anyone, there's a reason why the System Lords kicked him out of their club a thousand years ago. Stop this madness"
"Now I give you the chief historian of the resistance and the leader of the Washington chapter of the resistance, Dr. Daniel Jackson and Henry Hayes, the former President of the Tau'ri" said Anubis ignoring Willow's outburst as he hovered his hands over Daniel's and the President's heads.
Daniel: "Close your eyes Willow"
Willow: "Daniel, I'm sorry"
Daniel: "You have to prevent this from happening again. You need to go back"
Willow: "What are you talking about? I've been trying to wake up from my nightmare"
Daniel: "This isn't a nightmare Willow, you need to go back now"
Willow: "Go back where?"
Before Willow could get an answer from Daniel, she saw Anubis gathering some sort of white energy at the palms of both of his hands. It kept on growing until he released it through the heads of both Daniel and the President.
"No! You sick bastard" screamed Willow as the two headless bodies fell backwards onto the floor.
Ignoring Willow, Anubis then walked towards the last member of the resistance, Dawn.
"And now, people of the Tau'ri" said Anubis into the devices, "I bring you the final resistance leader, the one in charge of their strategy, the one who created the most problems, the one who was betrayed by her very own flesh and blood; she will finally will pay the price. Dawn Summers, do you have anything you want to say? "
"Go screw yourself" said Dawn
"Buffy!" shouted Willow, "She's your sister, help her! Damn it! Help her!"
"Silence!" shouted Anubis as he waved his hand at Willow and the next thing she knew, there were no words coming out of Willow's mouth.
Willow: "Dawnie I'm sorry"
"Dawn Summers" said Anubis, "you will not perish by my own hands, I reserve that honour for my greatest General, the one who was in charge of capturing and annihilating the remains of the Tok'ra; Anhur"
Willow looked on in horror as Anhur stepped forward and kneeled in front of Anubis, "Thank you for this great honour my lord". She then watched Anhur turn around and point her staff weapon at Dawn's head.
Willow: "Buffy, stop. Please it's your sister. You're murdering your sister in cold blood"
Willow saw Dawn put her head down crying as Anhur activated her staff weapon, with the tip opening up.
Willow: "Dawnie, close your eyes sweetie. I'm shutting down the pain center of your brain, you won't feel a thing. I'm so sorry"
Willow closed her eyes just as Anhur fired her weapon at point blank range and only opened her eyes once she heard the thud of a body falling onto the floor.
"People of the Tau'ri, let this be a lesson to you. Surrender the remains of the resistance to us and you will live. If not, I shall make sure you suffer a fate worse than death" said Anubis as he turned about and all the communications devices shut down.
"My lord" said Anhur, "The planet wide feed has been deactivated"
"Take these vermin out of my sight" said Anubis
"Yes my lord" said Anhur as she turned around and shouted, "Jaffa, kree"
Willow saw six Jaffa come into the room and carry out the bodies of the President, Daniel and Dawn.
"My lord" said Anhur as she pointed to Willow, "what are your orders for this female?"
"Leave her to me" said Anubis, "find my queen, and inform her that more symbiotes are required for implantation for the new Jaffa. And then take ships and capture more of the Asgard Protected Planets, those cowards dare not move against us after the death of Thor and their on-going war against the replicators"
"Yes my lord" said Anhur, "Hail Anubis"
Willow watched as Anhur walked out before she was released from Anubis' hold.
"You cruel bastard" shouted Willow as she felt herself being pulled towards Anubis and she just stopped as she hung in mid air.
"You are weak" said Anubis as she touched Willows cheek, "but do not worry, you will be mine once again and I will make you stronger, more powerful. You still don't realize what you are, do you?"
"What?.. What are you talking about? What do you mean by again?" asked Willow, hating where this conversation was going.
Willow stared at Anubis as he took down his hood to reveal a head of red hair and a face covered by a mask.
"You are already showing some of your power now, bringing your consciousness forward to this point in time" said Anubis as he slowly took of his mask, "very impressive, but you have so much more potential than you realize and I will unlock it"
"No!" said Willow surprised as Anubis unmasked himself, "there's no way that this is possible, I would have rather died"
Willow was stunned as she looked into a pair of very familiar green coloured eyes, her own. She started to slightly panic as she was looking at her own green eyed, red haired self.
"This is a nightmare" said Willow to herself as she closed her eyes, "just a nightmare, just a nightmare, just a nightmare!"
"I am Anubis, Willow Rosenberg" said Anubis as he pulled Willow closer to him, "and I WILL have your powers, your mind and your body"
"No!" Willow screamed as she opened her eyes and got up from her bed panting heavily. She looked around and found herself back in her hotel room.
TBC