A/N: I want to point out I started this, story earlier in the Fall than I did with my other crossover: Arashi Uzumaki of the Blue Plague, but still no where in the beginning, so if you want to know what happened in Blue Plague series before the point I used, you got to read the actual books. Just don't let kids read it.
I'm also censoring curse words as it's too many used in more than just saying usual ways that I can't ignore them all. At least with censoring I'm not going against my usual way of avoiding curse wordsof the Blue Plague series Tomas W. Watson, whose wife is Tina Watson. I should also tell you Watson always based a character after himself in his books, and in the Blue Plague series that's Bruce.
Finally, I don't own the Blue Plague series or the Naruto series or it's characters. But I do know the wife of the writer of the Blue Plague series Tomas W. Watson, whose wife is Tina Watson. I should also tell you Watson always based a character after himself in his books, and in the Blue Plague series that's Bruce.
if you see letters with '-' that's me sensoring curse words in case none of you realized that.
If you haven't read it yet, read this first:
Blue Plague's Nine-Tail Fox's Son: The Fall
Blue Plague's Nine-Tail Fox's Son: The Survival
Stephanie's Tells of Her Trip to the Farm
Bruce was out of bed at 0400 Monday morning, moving at sonic speed. Finishing a brutal workout in record time , he went to watch the supply convoy leave. He didn't feel the chill in the morning air as he stood watching the convoys pull out to get the supplies to make the runway. Kankaro was assigned to the convoy hoping to field test his puppets. To be honest, Bruce didn't feel much of anything as he wore his boyish grin. A wise man once said, "Man had two heads, but only enough blood to run one at a time." Thinking about that afternoon, Bruce stood on top of the berm watching the bulldozers clear a path to the tree line and further. Tired of watching the dozers-they wouldn't let im drive one-he went to finish his inventory of weapons.
Walking into the main underground storage, Bruce started counting by himself. Buffy had gone with Danny on Jake's team to get the supplies to make the runway. Kiba Hinata and Shino were assigned instead of Naruto and Sai as well.
Naruto reassured the command group Saturday that team 8 would be fine as he doubted even the runners could catch Hinata Kiba Akamaru and Shino off guard.
Bruce didn't have any issues Kiba and Shino going, but he was hoping to keep Hinata at the farm until they got more people trained in medical aid.
Stopping at the miniguns, Bruce got sidetracked and started playing with the weapons. He set up a minigun and one of the 120mm mortars, letting time get away. Looking at his watch and seeing it was 1147, he took off to the shop.
Walking in, Bruce waved at Joe and Harry. "Hey guys."
Joe smiled. Shop's all clean up for you. If you don't finish your project, put a note on it to let us know if you want us to finish it or not. I should warn you, Kankaro has set up a corner just for his puppets maintenance.
"Thank you," Bruce replied genuinely grateful.
"No thanks required. Because of you and your family, my daughter-in-law and grandson are alive," Harry said.
"So where is Kankaro?" Bruce asked.
"He's with Sakura about some side project Sakura him for," Joe said.
"Oh," Bruce realized it must be about the poison Naruto Sakura and Temari were talking about. "Hey, there is something I wanted to ask both of you," Bruce said.
"Go ahead," Joe said, stopping.
"Do you two think each of you could find at least two apprentices and start training them?" Bruce asked.
"That'll be easy. There's several with the bug already," Joe said.
"Next, I want you two to sit down and make a list for your ultimate machine shop, and see if Kankaro have ideas for one if possible. I want you to be able to do anything in it. Only tell Kankaro about it but no one else, but I'm going to build one twice the size of this one behind the shop, roughly three thousand square feet in working floor area, with a basement the same size. I hope you two know where we can get the stuff you put on the list. PLease try to keep the search area less than three hundred miles."
"Are you kidding about any of that?" Joe asked, shocked.
"No, none of it."
"Bruce, I have always wanted to make the ultimate shop," Joe said with excitement on his face. "I'll show you the plans. I have them memorized. Let me draw them out."
"Okay, you two get together and draw up the list of equipment and shop plans. You'll help me present it to the command group Friday night," Bruce said.
"H- yeah," Harry said. He looked at Bruce. "I want to come with you if we get the equipment."
"Me too," joe said.
Bruce held up his hands. "Guys that would not be a good idea. Look at it from the clan's perspective. Each of you has a skill that's vital for the survival of the clan. We just can't run to the store to pick up spare parts anymore. Well, technically we can, but they'll run out."
Joe looked at Bruce, "We understand, but come on! This is a dream come true here."
"All right guys, I'm not promising anything. If I can put together a large security team and your place aren't that far away, I will do what I can," Bruce said. "Then he added, "Guys, I can't stop you if you want to go, but I hope you see what I'm saying."
Joe picked up a three foot long, one inch thick, steel rod off the rack by the door, looking at Bruce. "If you think I'm some liberal pussy, we're going to have a problem now."
Bruce took two steps back, holding up his hands. "At no time did I ever want to imply that. I just wanted you to know, we aren't holding anyone here by force."
"Oh, well, we know that, Bruce/ If you say we can't go, we will abide by that. You're the chief here. If we can help you carve out a small safe area, we will,:" Harry said with conviction.
Joe threw the rod back in the rack. "Dude, I thought you were trying to lump us with those d-," he said. "We knew if we want to leave now, we could. My wife and son went to check on her mother on the other side of Monroe before the s- hit the fan. I know if I wanted to go right now, you would outfit me and probably come with me."
"I have a Stryker outside. We can be there in two and a half hours," Bruce said, grabbing his rifle off the table.
"I knew you would, Bruce. I already checked out my mother-in-law's house. It was empty. I was on my way back home when the army stopped me and put me in the camp 'for my protection'. For all I know they're at the house waiting." Joe said.
"Where did you live?" Bruce asked.
"Five miles south of a little town called Womack."
"If they made it there, could they survive for this long?" Bruce asked.
"Yeah, we have about five, six months of food, but don't get your hopes up. Harry was one of my neighbors. He went to check on the house before the government moved him to be safe, and they weren't there," Joe replied with disappointment/
"Okay Joe, I'll keep them in my prayers," Bruce said.
"Thank you, Bruce," Joe said as he and Harry left.
Bruce went to the rack and pulled some metal rods out. There was a project he did want to do since Debbie was not here for the fun project. He went to the grease board and drew a rod eighteen inches long. Then a rod across it seven inches from one end. Walking over to the metal rack, he grabbed the metal rod Joe was going to beat him with. Taking the rod to the saw he cut an eighteen inch long piece and four inch piece.
Putting the eighteen inch piece in the mill, Bruce zeroed and programed it to shave the rod down on two sides leaving a 1/4 inch wide section of metal seven inches long. When the mill started, Bruce heard the door opened and closed, Looking over, hew saw Debbie coming. Bruce started running toward her and Debbie held her hand up making him stop. "You be gentle, mister. I know how you are when you get like this."
"I have no idea what you mean,"Bruce said, acting innocent.
"Bruce, you're so horny, you are actually vibrating.'
"Well yeah. These little quickies suck."
"You don't like quickies? Even if that's all we can do?" Debbie asked mockingly.
"Debbie, you know that's not my style. But if it weren't for those, I would've probably chased the goats down and humped at least one of them to death."
Debbie laughed. "Come here, baby. Leave the goats alone," she held out her arms to walked to Debbie and picked her up, saying, "The white goat with the black spot on her side was starting to look real good."Debbie laughed as Bruce sat her on one of the work tables.
...
It was over an hour and forty minutes before Debbie called it quits. Bruce could go on further until he heard Angela and Stephanie giggling and realized they were watching which killed his mood.
Only bright side in Bruce's mind was that he might have shook off Angela and Stephanie from joining anytime soon after Debbie explained Ft. Lewis.
It was when Bruce had returned from the Philippines and the Rangers were partying. And when Rangers party and get drunk, a wood run be called. Basically the rangers betted up whatever they have and have sex with their wives, girlfriends, or whoever they were with at the time right at the spot and see who can go the longest in having sex. Bruce manage to get Debbie to join him and they won $8500 after two and a half hours, and then won $1500 more after another two hours. Bruce didn't get sex for a month after that.
After hearing Bruce could go four and a half ours straight, Stephanie and Angela refused to tag in for Debbie. Bruce don't even know what has gotten into Debbie lately. Yeah, there was a time he thought of having more than one woman in his life, and he got beaten for it. Besides, Debbie might regret it if he get intimate with Stephanie or Angela much less both.
After the trip left Bruce went back to his project. Taking the bar off the mill, he took it over to the shaper and bolt it down, then put edges on the top and bottom of the seven-inch piece. Then Bruce shaped the end into a needle point.
Taking the rod with the newly-made thick bladed knife at the end, Bruce welded the four inch piece behind the blade. When the metal cooled, Bruce picked up the rod and put the four inch crass section in his right hand with the seven-inch between his ring and middle finger. Bruce looked at his creation and smiled. It was a modified punch dagger.
After taking out the gang at the convenience store in August, Bruce wanted to make something that would not require so much forearm strength to take a man out. The blade was heavy enough that he did not have to worry about it breaking. Next he would put a strap on it so he could strap it to his forearm. Bruce looked up at the clock and saw it was 1800.
"Well, that'll be for next week," he thought as he put his vest on, grabbing his rifle and new creation. Bruce left the shop, heading to the hall for supper. Before going inside, he looked over the two hundred yards inside the fence at the east field. He could see the flat area bulldozed down from the glare and going out across the field. The farm was on a small rise, which in Louisiana constituted a hill, and he could see where they had cut a channel out heading toward the wood line.
Bruce grinned as he went inside the hall and made his way to the command table. He hung his rifle up and put his new creation on the table before sitting down. Taking out his notebook, Bruce started going over notes of things to do. Bruce was in how own world as the Center started to fill up. As Joe and Harry came over to his table, Bruce looked up. "Is that what you were working on?" Joe asked, pointing at Bruce's creation.
Bruce smiled. "Yeah. I know you two could have done better, but this is my beta version."
"Can I see it?" Joe asked. Bruce handed it to him, and described what he was trying to make and why.
Joe nodded. "Well, it will do that, but it's heavy as h-. If you wouldn't be offended, can I have a crack at it?" he asked.
Bruce really didn't want thom but if a master machinist wants to make you a cool toy, you let them. "By all means, Joe," Bruce said.
"Hey cool! You think we can make something like that using kunai knives?" Naruto asked as he overheard Bruce.
"Maybe. Let me get Bruce's set up and I'll see what I can do," Joe said. 'Come tomorrow afternoon, Bruce, so I can measure your hand." With that Joe and harry left.
"Sorry Bruce, but that really does sound cool," Naruto said.
"No problem Naruto." Bruce said. He then turned toward the door to see the whole family come in together with team 8. Jame came over carrying something in his jacket. And seeing the grin on Jake's face, Bruce just prayed whatever it was would not hurt him badly.
"Dad, we found you a present," Jake said, stopping beside him. Opening his coat, Jake pulled out a German Shepherd puppy, handing it over to Bruce. Bruce took the puppy, smiling. Oh, the other dogs aren't going to like this, he thought. Although judging from Akamaru's expression Bruce realized Akamaru already made himself an exception.
The puppy looked around nervously as Bruce inspected. It was not malnourished as Bruce expected. The puppy was a male between four and six months old. As Bruce continued looking over the dog, Jake described how they found it, or rather how Akamaru had found it.
"We made it to the parish maintenance area and started loading up equipment. I motioned for everyone not on the fire team to get secure in a vehicle, them moved to the back of the yard. Then Akamaru started acting strange as he was sniffing out a small building. Kiba went to check on him and hollered that Akamaru found something. When we got over there, I heard it and knew it was a dog. Kiba managed to coax it out."
"It wasn't to hard. My clan specialize in raising and training ninja hounds," Kiba explained. "It helped Akamaru take a liking to him."
Akamaru woofed.
Jake nodded. "We found what was left of the mom and the rest of the litter. Blues had torn them apart and ate them. I figured this one hid when they were attacked. From what was left of the others, I think it was a month ago. Inside the small shed were several large bags of dog food that he had chewed open. There wasn't much left so he would've had to start going out for food before too much longer. We all know you have always wanted a German Shepherd, so he's yours, Dad."
Bruce looked at everyone. "Thank you very much," he said.
Buffy sat down. "What are you going to call him, Daddy?" she asked.
Bruce thought for a second then replied, "Max."
Buffy nodded, liking the name. Bruce petted the puppy, who was warming up to him. PJ was banging his cup on his high chair, yelling to let everyone he didn't like the dog. It was sitting in Daddy's lap, and he wasn't. PJ threw his cup on the table, yelling louder. Bruce looked at PJ. "Boy, you better rectify," Bruce told him. PJ just blew spit bubbles at Bruce.
Bruce turned to Debbie, who was sitting in her chair on Bruce's left side beside PJ, laughing. "You better control your child, woman," Bruce told her.
Debbie shook her head no. "This falls into Daddy territory," she said.
Bruce looked at PJ, who was still yelling and hitting his high chair with his hands. "Keep on, PJ and you sleep outside tonight," Bruce threatened. PJ stopped mid swing, looking at Bruce in what could only be described as shock
"He's just jealous of Max, Bruce," Naruto said picking up PJ. "Come on PJ, let me introduce you two."
Naruto brought PJ over to Max. Max was not all that thrilled at first with the small human, but after Max licked PJ's face and PJ hugged him, Max liked him.
"See, problem solved," Naruto said.
Akamaru barked and whined.
"Akamaru wants to stay with his new friend," Kiba said.
"Then pull a chair and stick around," Bruce told Kiba.
Kiba joined the command table as Jake went over what they had gotten. He told Bruce they had not seen any blues but a lot of live stock and deer. Shino suspected the Blues are probably hibernating underground or in buildings in towns and the animals is taking advantage of it. The group had brought all the heavy equipment and run convoys of dump trucks and semis with dump trailers from the maintenance area back to the farm, full of asphalt. There now was a small mountain of asphalt at the other end of the field. Paul figured it should be enough for the runway. Millie came over carrying plates and set them down as Kiba and Naruto got their own. Most of the family waited until the plates were on the table before they started eating. Naruto put PJ back in the high chair, which he didn't like at all. He wanted to play with the fuzzy animal. PJ shut up when Debbie started feeding him.
"Temari, I want you and Kankaro to start teaching those from the leaf village jutsus specialize in the sand and Naruto I expect the same about teaching Temari and Kankaro moves from the leaf. As long as you're part of this clan, I want all ninjas to share jutsus with each other no matter where they're from if its possible. If there are jutsus that takes special requirements not everyone has like the Byakugan, then don't worry about it. For example I expect each of you to know how to create chakra strings like Kankaro but I don't expect any of you to enter to use the Rasen-Shuriken."
"Got it," Naruto and Temari said as they understand.
Bruce then looked at Angela and Stephanie then turned to Debbie. "Debbie, starting this week, I want you to spend one hour every day teaching Angela and Stephanie hand-to-hand after your workout," Bruce said. Then he turned back to them. "Three days a week you two plus Mindy and Buffy will spend two hours in the afternoon with me. You'll find out what you will learn when we meet. First class is Wednesday at 1400."
Angela and Mindy nodded, but Stephanie had a look of horror on her face. "How can I prepare if I don't know what we're going over?" she asked.
"You can't. That's why I'm not telling you. I'm going to teach you to adapt and be ready for anything," Bruce informed her. Stephanie just nodded her head, thinking this wasn't a good idea.
During supper, Bruce sat Max on the floor and started working on teaching Max his name. In the hour before they left to go to bed, Max had learned his name. Bruce helped gathered up kids to head to bed. He pulled a sleeping PJ out of his high chair, after Debbie took pictures, of course. Then Bruce carried him to the house.
Bruce laid PJ down on the bed when they got to the room and asked Debbie, "Baby, when we took everyone's information, did we ask where they lived?"
"Yeah, we wanted to know who had experience living in the country," Debbie replied, heling the twins into nightshirts.
"Can you tell me Joe's address?" Bruce asked.
"Which Joe?"
"We have more than one?"
"Four," Stephanie replied.
"The machinist," Bruce clarified.
"Joe Holiday," Debbie said. "Yes, we have his address."
Bruce walked over to his laptop,started it up, and told Debbie and them what Joe had told him that afternoon. WHen his computer came up, Bruce pulled up the spreadsheet and wrote down the address. Then Bruce pulled a map out of his vest and found where Joe lived.
"Bruce, what are you doing?" Debbie asked.
"I'm going to see if anyone's home," he replied.
"Baby, if Jeo doesn't think they are there, and Harry checked it out, then the chances aren't good," Debbie said.
"I know, baby. But if they had come back on foot it would take them a little while."
"Baby, if they tried to come back on foot, they're dead," Debbie told him.
"Mike and I did," Bruce shot back
"Yeah, with training, weapons that few people possess, and a ninja fox from another world," Debbie pointed out.
Bruce cut his his eyes at her
"Oh, okay. We'll send a patrol later this week when we start back up," Debbie said.
"I want to go tomorrow and you three and Buffy with me," Bruce said. If Bruce would have told them he was an alien, he would have received the same response.
"That's not a strong enough fire team to be going that far," Debbie said, stunned.
"Naruto has the day off tomorrow. Since Jake took most of the family out, they are also down tomorrow along with Hinata. I was taking Naruto, Jake, Mary with Danny Matt and HInata in a second Stryker. With Hinata we got the Byakugan and if needed a medical ninja. They can use the transformation jutsu to shrink down like Naruto Yamato Moegi and Konohamaru did on the way to Ft. Polk."
"Please, Debbie. I want to go," Stephanie said, begging.
"Debbie, if you think we should go , I will tie Stephanie up-" Angela started to say until Stephanie came up behind Angela and put her hand over Angela's mouth.
"She didn't mean to say that, Debbie. She wants to go also," Stephanie said moving Angela's head up and down.
Debbie laughed at him. "Okay Bruce, we'll go in the morning. Stephanie, let Angela go so she can breathe." Stephanie let go of Angela and jumped in bed.
"Girl, I"ve been out there several times, and it still scares me," Angela told Stephanie. "I'll go with the family, but I don't think it is fun out there."
Stephanie looked at Angela with a hurt expression. "You think just because I only been on one patrol and a few scavenging groups, I didn't have to fight to get here."
Everyone stopped and looked at Stephanie. "Stephanie, did you have problems getting here?" Debbie asked. Stephanie nodded her head then looked down.
"Stephanie, why didn't you say anything?" Debbie asked.
"You didn't ask, I didn't want you to get in trouble if things started getting better," Stephaniesaid in a quiet voice.
Bruce turned around in bed. "Tell me about the trip, Stephanie."
Stephanie took a deep breath. "When I left the CDC, I had already put my go bag in my SUVm but I had my pistol, the SIG Sauer you and Bruce brought for me, in my purse. Running from the research building, two walkers jumped out at me. I never even thought as I aimed and fired, hitting both in the head. I really wished I would have bought a suppressor because my ears were ringing. I did not hear the runner coming up behind me. The only reason I'm here is because Bruce taught me to always clear your surroundings. WHen I turned to clear my back, the runner was less than fifteen yards from me. I snapped up and it took me the rest of my magazine to kill her. I changed the magazine and cleared again and then ran for my Blazer. When I jumped in, I locked the doors and grabbed my go bag, putting it beside me with the shotgun. Looking back, I also wish I would have bought the AR-15 like you wanted me to, but hindsight is 20/20, right, Bruce?"
"What's a go bag? Buffy asked.
"It's a bag you always keep packed with supplies to survive for several days," Bruce told her.
"It took me four hours to get out of Atlanta," Stephanie continued. "It was a war zone. I think I ran over eight blues but I'm not sure because two different groups wouldn't get out of the road. Debbie had told me to run over anyone or anything that did that, so I did. Before I left Georgia, I was stopped by a cop who said he had to take me into custody, even after I showed him my CDC badge. Just as he was fixing to call it in, blue came out of nowhere and attacked him. I sped off while the blue tore into him."
"The next time I was stopped was in Alabama. I had gotten off the interstate and was on secondary road then and came up on a checkpoint manned by two men who had armbands on that said 'Sheriff'. When I stopped, one came up to my window, the other stood in front of my SUV. That's when I remembered Bruce saying if you can't impress them with intelligence, baffle them with b- and act like a dizzy girl to throw off your opponent. They didn't care that I was CDC, and I could see that the way they were looking at me, and then at each other, I was in trouble. I told them I had a letter from the Governor in my bra and unbuttoned my shirt to act like I was getting it. The one at the front came over to join his buddy. I lifted up my pistol and shot both in the face before they could even move. After I scanned the area and didn't see anything. I got out and collect their weapons, throwing them in the back. I ran over to their car, taking the radio, a bag of magazines, and a shotgun. Then I jumped back in the Blazer and drove around their cars," Stephanie looked down at her hands.
Bruce stopped her. "You took their weapons and radio?" he asked. Stephanie nodded her head yes. "What kind of weapons did you get from them?"
"Two H&K MP5 and two Colr 1911s," he replied, then added. "You always said Once your enemy is down and he has better gear, take it,' so I did. They were the same as the ones you taught me on here."
"You did good, Stephanie. Keep going," Bruce told her, grabbing her hand.
"Well, I crossed over to Mississippi. I was really tired but didn't want to stop so I kept going. I came traffic jam from h-. I stopped, I grabbed one of the MP5s, and climbed up on the hood to see if I could make it through. That was when the small mob hit me, It was only sixteen but it seemed like a lot more. I took out most with the MP5 but forgot to grab another magazine and shot the rest with my pistol. Knowing how they have a hard-on for sound, I said screw it and drove down the ditch and median until I made it past the traffic jam. I made it through two more checkpoints with my ID. I really wanted to put on my tactical vest and gloves but was scared they wouldn't buy a scientist in tactical gear. So I just left it on the floor covered up."
Stephanie sniffed, wiping her nose. "I was almost out of Mississippi when I just got so tired, I was seeing double. I pulled over at a rest area then I drove to the back of the building. I crawled into the back and lay down, covering up with a blanket so no one could see me. I had a shotgun and MP5 with me and went right to sleep. I woke up two hours later when I heard a truck pull up in the rest area. When I heard a lot of whooping and hollering I knew that I made a mistake. I counted three voices, all male, when I heard one yell beside my Blazer. The other two came around, and I stayed real still hoping they would just leave. One of the men said it was just a civilian truck and there wouldn't be anything in it and they should go. I prayed that they would listen to him, but I heard a voice from the back of the Blazer say it had hospital ID stickers and might have drugs inside."
'When I heard that, I wanted to just cry. One of them said he would get something to open it with, and I heard him leave with another one. I felt the truck shake as someone tried the doors. The one trying to open the doors walked away from me to yell for the others to hurry. I grabbed the MP5 and my pistol and crawled to the front seat. For a split second I thought about driving off, but I remembered Bruce saying 'A vehicle will not stop a bullet.'
"Looking in the mirror. I saw one standing behind me at the corner of the building. I opened my door and jumped out, bringing the MP5 up and aiming at his chest. My gut said pull the trigger, but I waited because he had not threatened me. When his friends joined him, they rounded the corner to find me aiming a gun at them. I don't know which one said it but I heard, 'If you don't put that down, you'll get hurt, little girl.' I pulled the trigger emptying the clip into all three and then I dropped down taking a knee. That was the only the third time I had fired a weapon on full auto. I thought my ears hurt earlier. Holy s-, were they ringing after that. Seeing all of them still moving, I jumped to my feet, shooting them with my pistol. Then I jumped into my Blazer and took off. I don't know if they were dead or not or if they had friends. I just took off like a bat out of h-. One of them couldn't have been more than seventeen years old."
Stephanie looked up as she spoke. "I promised myself I was driving no matter what after that. When I crossed the Mississippi river into Louisiana, I saw a roadblock, bigger than any I been through. There were an easy two hundred men there, military and police. I pulled up, I held out my CDC ID to the state trooper and told him someone in Jonesboro had been bitten seven days ago and had not turned. I was the advance doctor, and I had to get there quick before he turned to see what types of antibodies he held. The trooper called over the radio and a major with the state police came over. I told him the same story, and he wanted to send an escort with me. I told him no and that the CDC needed the road to stay open because the rest of the team was behind me. When he looked at me funny, I told him we had tried to fly, but we had lost helicopters in Atlanta. The major wrote me a note to get through any checkpoints I ran into and asked if I needed anything. I told him I needed a few more gallons of fuel because I had taken several detours. They filled me up and sent me on my way. I only had to use his note once in Ruston, and they were expecting me. I left the interstate for the back roads, a man came out of nowhere waving at me to stop, standing in the middle of my lane. I moved to the other lane and so did. So I hit him. For all I know he needed to save his kid, but I just hit him. He was the last one before I made it here."
Bruce reached out, rubbing her hair. "You did a good job. If that man had good intentions, I don't think he would have stayed in the road. I wouldn't have changed lanes, Little Red," Bruce said, pulling Stephanie close and kissing her. "You didn't say anything about the weapons because you didn't want us to become accomplices after the fact?"
Stephanie nodded her head. "With all the people that saw me, it would've been easy to track me down. I didn't want to get y'all in any trouble," she replied sniffling.
Bruce laughed. "Girl, if the world would suddenly turn around, they would just bomb us here."
Debbie climbed across the bed to hug Stephanie as Buffy told Stephanie, "D- you can kick a-."
"Buffy, language," Debbie told her.
In tears, Angela climbed over to Stephanie, I didn't mean anything. PLease believe me. If I hurt your feelings, I'm sorry. You can hit me as many times as you want."
Stephanie smiled, wiping tears off her face. "I can't hit you. Besides Debbie, you're the best friend I have ever had."
"Well, you can spank me then," Angela said, hugging her.
Bruce laughed. I finally figured out what Angela's fetish is." This caused the three women to laugh with him.
"What's a fetish?" Buffy asked.
Bruce looked at her and said, "Run down the hall and ask Danny real quick." Buffy took off out of the room, as Debbie just looked at Bruce. "What? She's her older sister. That's part of Danny's job," Bruce replied.
They all got ready for bed, with Max lying down on the floor by Bruce's side of the bed. Buffy came back an hour later, climbing into bed, saying, "That's gross."
Bruce pulled Stephanie over to him, wrapping his arm around her as he fell asleep. Stephanie fell asleep with a smile spread across her face as she dreamed about Bruce.
A/N: Okay so i cut down the Bruce and Debbie with Stephanie and Angela watching. But I included the shop scene because that blade Bruce made and Joe be making will be significant I included Stephanie's story to give you guys an idea what it was like trying to drive during the fall. Stephanie had it easy being a CDC but still even she said she made it thanks to Bruce's teachings.
