Chapter 6: The Day After Part 1
Nov. 1st, 1997
Summers Residence - 9 a.m.
Joyce woke to the sound of beeping. At first she thought it was her alarm clock. "Buffy, Dawn," she said, receiving no response. She ignored the beeping for the moment and made her way to her daughters' rooms and found them empty, and unslept in. It was then that she turned her attention to the beeping as she tried to place it and wondering if it was related to her daughters. She followed the sound back to her bedroom and to her closet. She realized what the beeping was, her hyperspace communicator and that only meant one thing, her mother.
Joyce opened the closet and reach to a hidden panel and tapped it. It slid aside to reveal her steel fans, her old outfit and the hyperspace communicator. As she pulled out the communicator she let out a sigh. "Kitana here, mother," she said as she spoke into the communicator.
"We detected two Goa'uld vessels exiting hyperspace last night in the Sol System, daughter. Are you and your sisters alright?"
"Yes, mother." Joyce said. "We saw no evidence on the surface of the Goa'uld." She had a nagging feeling that the chaos spell that Etan had cast could somehow be the answer to why the Goa'uld had not attacked Earth. "But Buffy and Dawn, are missing."
"Your daughters?"
"Yes, mother," Joyce said with a sigh.
"I will bring a ship to pick you up and we'll find out what is going on."
Battlestar Valkeryie – Same time
Xander slowly opened his eyes and looked around the Commander's quarters, his first thoughts were where was he. Then the memories of the night before came flooding back to him. Finding the Raptor, flying it up to the Valkyrie, discovering Caprica Six, the Cylons, Captain James Kirk, Commander Buffy Summers and the USS Enterprise, then destroying a threat to Earth and then finally as he looked at the blonde in the bed with him, sleeping with his wife Shira Brynn aka Buffy.
In difference for his best friend he got out of the bed and quickly got dressed before waking her.
"Buffy," he said.
"Xander, what are you doing in my room?" Buffy said still groggy with sleep.
"We're not in your room," Xander said.
Buffy shot upright, how she managed to keep the sheet covering her Xander could only guess. "Where are we?"
"Our quarters on the Valkyrie," Xander said.
Buffy looked to Xander and he could see in her eyes that the memories were returning to her as well. "You and I …" she said as she peeked beneath the sheet and her eyes went wide.
"Buffy," Xander said. "Putting aside for a moment we had sex. You should get dressed and then we should find the others; Becca … er I mean Willow, Giles, Dawn, Ms. Calendar and Cordy and then try and find out what happened and why we're still onboard."
"Agreed," Buffy said as Xander turned to leave. "Later we should talk about." She motioned toward the bed and Xander nodded in agreement before leaving.
On Hapes in Tenel Ka's bedchambers – Same Time
Dawn woke to find herself in a room in Tenel Ka's bedchambers on Hapes, next to her lay a blonde woman. At first she thought the blonde was Buffy before realizing the blonde was not her sister. It was then that memories of the night before began to flood into her mind and she remembered the events of the night before including sleeping with someone named Revan.
Dawn shook the blonde awake. "Uhm …" she said.
"Who are you?" the blonde asked.
"That was going to be my question," Dawn replied. "The name you gave last night was Sarryn Baill. I expect you like me were possessed and that was the entity's name."
The blonde nodded as the memories came back into her mind. "Yes," she said as she realized she wasn't stuttering. A problem she had for as long as she could remember when around people she did not know very well. "My name is Tara, Tara Maclay."
"Dawn Summers," Dawn replied. "This is a bit embarrassing."
"Agreed."
"I think we need to find the my sister and the others. Later we might want to," Dawn said with sweep of her hand toward the bed."
Tara could only nod in agreement.
Onboard the USS Enterprise – Same Time
Jenny Calendar woke to find herself still onboard the Enterprise. She looked over and saw Dawn sleeping next to her. "Dawn?" she said.
Dawn looked at her and smiled. "Morning, Buffy."
Jenny realized as the memories of the night before returned that this was not the Dawn she knew from school. This was the Dawn from the Enterprise. "She's gone."
Dawn nodded in understanding. She could feel Jenny's emotions and how the teacher wondered how she was still on the Enterprise and how Dawn herself existed. "There was a spell last night, Ms. Calendar. Apprently the events of the spell differed from what I know from talking to my Buffy."
"Your from the future aren't you?" Jenny asked.
"More of a future of a parallel reality," Dawn answered. "In that reality I am from, I am what is known as a Millennial. Someone …"
"Who will live for a thousand years experiencing the world's emotions," Jenny said as Dawn looked at her surprised that Jenny knew that. "Her memories are bouncing around in my head."
"That's right," Dawn said with a nod. "Hmm there is now two of me in this reality, you know. Since the other Dawn is native to this reality, maybe I should go by my middle name of Marie."
"Probably a good idea," Jenny agreed. "Uhm may I ask…"
"How old I am," Marie said. "Physically in my mid twenties. Actually over two hundred. I get the reason you are asking is because we made love last night. And yes in my reality Buffy and I are lovers."
Cylon Basestar – Same Time
On the Cylon Basestar Cordelia woke to find herself in Caprica Six's quarters. "What did that dweeb do to me?" she wondered as memories of the night before flooded into her mind.
Onboard the Edenian First Fleet Flagship Burning Away the Shadows – 10 AM
Joyce sat next to her mother, Sindel, on the bridge of the Edenian first fleet flagship Burning Away the Shadows. She let out a small sigh, she had planned not to return to Edenia or see her mother when she and her sisters each had decided to start a family. "How did you pick up the hyperspace travel? Edenia is in another galaxy far enough away that …"
"I have a satellite at the edge of the Terran system that monitors all traffic into and out of the system as well as acts as a hyperspace communications relay," Sindel said. "It's why your long-range hyperspace communicator worked despite the distance between us." Joyce sighed and shook her head. "I'm sorry, Kitana, I wanted to know when my little girls wanted to come home. Is that so bad?"
"I guess not," Joyce said.
"So what do we know about my granddaughters disappearance?" Sindel asked.
"Not much," Joyce replied. "It could simply be a result of occurrences related to Buffy being the slayer. Buffy being half-human was called as the Slayer last year."
"She is a Slayer?" Sindel asked. "She will be a most useful, most powerful Edenian in the fight against not only our native enemies, but the Goa'uld and Earth's supernatural threats as well."
"I know," Joyce replied. "I had been thinking of revealing to her and Dawn my true identity so that I could train her."
"Why were you hiding it to begin with?" Sindel wondered as she glanced at her daughter.
"Because I wanted Buffy and Dawn to grow up not knowing the pressure they might be under later," Joyce said. "After all they are heirs to the Edenian throne."
Stargate Command – Same Time
Hammond sighed as he looked at the scientist of his front line team. "You're sure, their ships are in orbit of Counter Earth?" he asked Samantha Carter as she sat next to the rest of the team at the table of the briefing room.
"Yes," Sam said. "The Ha'tak they captured as well as the rest of the ships, all headed for the new planet."
Hammond sighed. "This new planet is going to make it difficult to explain away."
"Thankfully," Sam said, "this new planet is in the position of Counter Earth which except during certain times of the year make it difficult to spot. It's why it took scientists so long to disprove the possibility of Counter Earth. It actually wasn't till we launched probes out into space going to other planets in our solar system that we had concrete evidence that Counter Earth did not exist. If Counter Earth had existed the probes would never have arrived at the planets they were destined for without course corrections to account for Counter Earth."
"Counter Earth may not be visible, yet, but we may have other problems," Daniel said as he picked up a remote control for the TV on the wall. "This was on this morning's news."
"Hoax or Halloween publicity stunt. That is the question, here this station got multiple calls about both a Battlestar similar to that of the Battlestar Galactica seen in the 1970's series of the same name and the USS Enterprise from Star Trek: The Original Series appearing in the sky last night."
Daniel clicked off the TV. "That is just one news report."
"Others will likely run the story eventually," Jack said. "Thankfully we can deny their existence at least till this other planet is found. When it is we are going to have exposure on the existence of aliens very quickly."
"I have contacted the Joint Chiefs and they have contracted NASA to try and make sure it's existance stays secret for now as they are the ones likely to reveal its existence," Hammond said. "Now what about the fact that the people I talked to believed they were really Commander Shira Brynn, Caprica Six and Captain James T. Kirk."
"We're in the dark as much as you are, sir," Jack said.
"It's possible," Sam said, "they are the people they said they are, since we have seen them and their ships, they may have been sent from their realities via some sort of transportation device. Kind of like the mirror device that Daniel used to travel to the alternate reality that gave us the address for the Goa'uld invasion. Which means they or someone else from their reality might have been here before, and relayed their life stories to Gene Roddenberry and Glen Larson. Which would fit in part on why there is such a discrepancy between Battlestar Galactica and its sequel Galactica 1980 as Mr. Larson took some liberties on the source material since they may never have returned after his initial meeting."
"It's possible," Daniel said. "That the beginning of the Galactica 1980 series is true. Think about it, they may have gone to Mr. Larson to tell their story so that we would be prepared for their arrival instead of the scientist in the show. Then for whatever reason they left and he took the liberties he had with the show to finish out their story."
"Maybe we should talk to Mr. Larson and Mr. Roddenberry." Jack said. "Try and find out where they got their story ideas from."
"Sadly we can't talk to Mr. Roddenberry," Daniel said. "He passed away six years ago. And the question would be did he tell his wife or was she present."
"She may not know," Hammond said, "which leaves Mr. Larson. You have a go, people."
In a conference room in the Hapan Presidential Palace – Same Time
Everyone from Sunnydale had convened on Hapes to discuss what had happened the night before. Giles, Jenny Calender and Marie came from the Enterprise. Cordelia had come with an escort of two Cylon Centurians from the Cylon Basestar. Tara and Dawn had been on Hapes. And Buffy, Xander and Willow had come from the Valkyrie.
"What we know so far," Giles said, "is this. We are on the planet …"
"Hapes," Dawn supplied.
"That did not exist before yesterday," Giles concluded. "And that each group represented here with the exclusion of Ms. Maclay and Dawn have a spaceship at their disposal. I am the commanding officer of the USS Enterprise."
"I'm in command of the Battlestar Valkyrie," Buffy said.
"I'm a humanoid Cylon," Cordelia said, "and leader of the Cylons on the Basestar."
"I am the Queen Mother of Hapes," Dawn said, "and former Padawan of the Jedi Order."
"And I am a Jedi Master of the Jedi Order," Tara finished.
"For several hours last night we did not have control over our bodies," Giles said. "Instead personas that came with the memories did. And that those personas fought with demonic forces from beyond the stars intent on our destruction and we managed to capture one of their spaceships which now sits out there also."
"Now the question is," Willow said, "how are we still here. And more importantly how did we manage to get possessed and how did those ships and this planet come into existence. All of this was fictional before last night. I know the Enterprise should have been since Star Trek is one of my favorite pasttimes."
"Yes," Giles said with a sigh as he remembered how he had been talked into going as a theme to a costume ball for a date with Jenny. "On all of this," he made a sweeping motion to indicate the ships and the planet they were on, "I would assume a chaos spell. Possibly one invoking Janus."
"It was," Marie said as everyone turned to look at her. "I'm from a parallel reality. The events of last night happened differently from what happened in my reality. But an old friend of yours, Giles, by the name of Ethan Rayne cast a chaos spell. In my reality you ended the spell when you broke the statue."
"I couldn't have done that since I too was under the spell," Giles said.
"Which means," Marie said. "That someone else did it."
"Marie's right," Jenny agreed. "Janus would have loved the chaos such a spell would have caused and wouldn't have let one end so easily."
"The question is who," Buffy said.
"This is all good," Xander said. "But we should also think about how we get back home."
"We could take the Blackbirds," Buffy said. "Their equipped with stealth capabilities. We could land them in the woods outside Sunnydale and then walk back into town."
"I have a problem with that. I'm a Cylon," Cordelia said. "I don't know how to fly the Colonial ships."
"There is another," Willow said. "Even amongst us." She motioned towards herself, Buffy, and Xander. "I am about the only person that knows how to fly them. They were experimental. My alter ego designed them and only a handful were built. She was to teach some of the Colonial pilots to fly them so they could work out the kinks."
"We could try beaming down," Giles said. "Dawn… I mean, Marie, you have an engineering background. Would it be possible to launch a transporter relay and put it in orbit of say the moon?"
"It is possible," Marie said. "We should do that soon. I know mine and Buffy's mom will be looking for us."
"She's right," Buffy said.
"I doubt my parents are missing me," Xander said as he thought his drunken and abusive parents.
"And mine," Willow said, "are out of town till later today."
"Mine won't be missing me yet," Cordelia said. "Likely they will think I was at a party all night. But if I don't show up soon they will call the police."
"My parents, my dad in particular, would likely look for me," Tara said.
Suddenly Giles' communicator beeped. He pulled it out and flipped it open. "Giles here," he said. He, Jenny and Marie had filled in the senior staff in on what had happened. The hardest to believe it had of course been Spock.
"Captain, we are detecting a ship that is approaching Hapes," said Spock.