Chapter 12: Abduction

Nov. 4th, 1997

Unknown Location, Outside Sunnydale – Noon

Tara woke to find herself strapped to a hospital gurney. She looked around to assess the situation and saw except for the gurney there was nothing in the room to help free her. Three of the walls were white and the forth was made of glass. Which meant she would need to use the Force to influence someone to release her.

Just then a woman in a white lab coat walked up to the glass partition. "Ah good your awake. I've got some questions for you."

"Why am I here?" Tara asked deciding to get some information first. She did not want to reveal the Force to this woman to early.

"Simply put we want the Enterprise, Valkyrie, Basestar and the Goa'uld vessel."

"You won't get them," Tara replied and with a minute gesture and an inflection the next words spoken had the power of the Force behind them. "You will release me."

"I will release you," the woman said as she walked into the room and over to the gurney and began undoing the straps.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you," came a male voice from the doorway.

Tara and the woman looked at the door to see Kinsey standing there.

"Senator Kinsey," the woman said. "I …"

"Don't worry, doctor," Kinsey said. "The Force can be used to influce the weak minded." The woman simply nodded as she quickly left the room. "Obviously, she never saw the Star Wars movies as a kid. I on the otherhand, did. I do have to ask, how did you manage to let yourself get caught?"

"Who says I let myself?" Tara asked. She and Dawn had decided to walk to school so they could talk about their feelings for one another. "Where's Dawn?"

"Around," Kinsey said as he walked over to a TV monitor on the wall and turned it on. It showed Dawn strapped down to gurney in another room. "Now this is the easy part, you give me what I want and you both get to live."

"And that is what?"

"The Enterprise, Valkyrie, Basestar and the Goa'uld vessel."

Tara smiled. "Neither Dawn nor I could do that as we command none of them. Giles is in command of the Enterprise. Buffy is in command of the Valkyrie and Cordelia is in command of the Basestar."

"True," Kinsey said. "And if these people had been smart they would have brought me Ms. Summers, Mr. Giles and Ms. Chase. But they didn't so I am hoping you and our current Ms. Summers will be able to persuade them."

Summers Residence – Same Time

Joyce paced the living room of her home as she watched Marie with her eyes closed trying to sense Dawn and Tara's emotions to see if she could pinpoint their location. The pair had been gone for hours now with no word. At first she had wondered if Tara had taken Dawn to train her in the Jedi Arts. But when neither Tara nor Dawn returned her worry increased.

In the kitchen Buffy was on the phone with General Hammond. "That's right, General," she said as she spoke into the phone. "Dawn and Tara have yet to return home. At first my mom thought they might be out training, they are after all Jedi. Right now Xander and Cordelia are out canvasing our neighborhood. If there is anything you can do …"

"I'll get right on it," Hammond promised.

"Thank you," Buffy said berfore she hung up the phone.

On Revello Drive, Sunnydale – Same Time

Xander walked up to the door of one of the Summers neighbors, Lily Aldrin and her husband Marshall Erikson, home and knocked.

Lily came to the door a minute later. "Can I help you?" she asked.

"Mrs. Erikson …"

"Aldrin," Lily corrected.

"Mrs. Aldrin," Xander said. "I am a friend of Buffy and Dawn Summers."

"Ah, yes," Lily said. "Good girls."

"Dawn has gone missing. Do you remember the last time you saw her?"

"This morning," Lily answered. "She and that blonde girl, I thought might be Buffy..."

"You mean Tara?" Xander asked.

"Is that her name?" Lily asked as Xander nodded. "I couldn't tell from the house very easily. Anyways I saw them walking down the sidewalk on the otherside of the street."

"Thank you for the information," Xander said.

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Cordelia had gone down the opposite side of the street from Xander. She was now at the third house she had visited so far. "Good afternoon sir," she said as a blonde haired man in a well appointed suit answered the door. "I'm a friend of your neighbor Dawn Summers. I was wondering if you had seen her this morning? She's missing."

"First off the name is Barney, Barney Stinson. Secondly are you talking about the van?" Barney asked. "I saw the whole thing."

"You saw Dawn being kidnapped?" Cordelia asked. "And you didn't call the police?"

"Well in my own defense I had this real hot babe …" Barney said.

Cordelia rolled her eyes. She should have known the moment the guy introduced himself as Barney Stinson. She knew of his reputation from snippets of conversations she had overhead. He was one of those men interested in only one thing, sex. "Did you at least see the color of the van or the license plate number?"

"It was black," Barney said. "I remember that. Hold on a second maybe my front yard camera caught the license plate number." He walked into the house followed by Corrdelia and into what might have been a bedroom at one time. He sat at a computer and pulled up the footage. "I always look at this footage to see if any new babes have moved into the neighborhood." He rewound the tape and stopped at the van and zoomed in on it. "Here we are. 3XZZ999."

"Thanks, Mr. Stinson," Cordelia said as she left the man's house pulling out her communicator and flipping it open.

Unknown Location – 11 am

Dawn looked around her room, since Kinsey had came in and told her that she and Tara were being held hostage to force Giles, Buffy and Cordelia to turn over their ships. She had been trying to find a means to escape. She had been left pretty much alone for two hours now. She centered herself and pulled on Tenel Ka's memories, looking for anything to help her open the handcuffs. Then she smiled and using what control of the Force she had mastered, which according to Tenel Ka's memories was not as much as what Tara could accomplish. Once she escaped she would make a point in asking Tara to train her.

Utilizing the Force she opened the lock on the cuffs and got off the gurney. "Now to find out where I am." She moved to the door and could hear someone on the otherside. Probably a guard with a gun. She walked over to what looked to possibly be a window. She pulled back the curtain and frowned. It was a brick wall.

Stargate Command – Same Time

"General," Jack said as he walked into the Hammond's office. "Any word on that license plate that Captain Chase called in?"

"Yes," Hammond said. "I had to call in a few favors but it appears it belongs to the NID. As a show of good faith on our part so not to burn any bridges over this mess. I am going to have you, Major Carter, Teal'c and Dr. Jackson head for Sunnydale. Since they will likely call in some of their own troops, that should give you time to get to Sunnydale."

"Yes, sir," Jack said as he left Hammond's office.

Hammond pulled out the communicator that Giles had given him and flipped it open. "Hammond to Captain Giles, Princess Summers or Captain Chase."

"Summers here," came Buffy's voice from the communicator. "And please go back to the rank instead."

"Understood," Hammond said. "The license plate that Captain Chase gave me is registered to the NID. We even have a location. It's just on the outskirts of Sunnydale in what was an abandoned hospital."

"Thank you, General."

"I have SG-1 on their way to assist you. They should arrive around the same time as any of your own troops you call in to assist do."

"That is most appreciated."

Abandoned Hospital, Sunnydale – 1 pm

Willow, Xander, Jenny, and Buffy stood in the woods behind the abandoned hospital with Jack, Sam, Teal'c and Daniel waiting for Giles and Cordelia to return with security officers from the Enterprise and Centurians from the Basestar.

"How …" Jack was about to ask for like the hundredth time when Giles, Cordelia followed by Cylons and the Enterprise security officers came out of the trees. "Okay, it's your show."

"Lieutenant," Giles said as he looked toward the security men.

The Lieutenant nodded and he and his men marched toward the abandoned hospital. SG-1, the Scoobies and the Cylons followed. As the security detail entered the building all hell broke loose. The men in the building did not know what to expect when they spotted the the phasers or the Cylons. They weren't sure if this was someone's idea of a joke or a real invasion. Regardless all their weapons were locked in the armory on the second floor above them.

"Who is in charge?" Buffy asked. "And don't think of lying," she said. "We won't take kindly to being lied to."

A tall older looking man, with an open and honest face, stepped forward. "I'm Agent Fordham, Ms. Summers."

"Billy said you were working in the army's recruitment center," Buffy said as she looked at the Agent.

Marc Fordham sighed. "That was a cover, you understand. That said thank you for what your group did for Billy. This facility is yours."

"That isn't your call, Mark," said a soldier.

Mark turned toward the soldier and shook his head. "Think for a second and look at our opposition. You really think we could win with the only weapons we have is our sidearms. After all you yourself activated one of the lightsabers and saw it was a real weapon. You think their phasers are any less real. Or the …" He looked at the Scoobies as he was unsure what to call the Centurians.

"They are Cylons," Cordelia said. "Centurians to be exact."

Marc nodded as he looked back at the solder. "The Centurians?"

The soldier looked toward the group and then shook his head. "No."

Mark nodded and looked back at the group. "I take it you want the people we were ordered to take prisoner."

"Yes," Buffy replied.

"So where are they?" Xander asked.

"This way," Mark led the group and the Cylons and led them to an elevator.

The security detail remained behind to guard the soldiers with SG-1. Giles even gave an order should they not return in an hour that they are to take appropriate action. Jack agreed with the order to a small degree. He just disagreed on what the appropriate reaction might be. These people after all were American citizens.

Marc stood at a panel on the wall next to the elevator as a hidden scanner scanned his eyes. The elevator doors then slid aside and they entered the elevator. As the elevator went up, Mark spoke into a panel giving his passcode.

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Maggie Walsh frowned as she looked at the monitor in front of her which showed Mark, the Scoobies and the Cylons. She then turned and looked at Senator Kinsey. "I told you till the facily at the University of Sunnydale was completed we weren't ready to hold any hostiles, human or sub-terrestrial. Now you have an invasion force coming to rescue those hostiles."

"Director Walsh," Kinsey said as he looked at the woman. He would never understand why the NID hired her for this project. "Consider this your first test. If you can contain this threat. Think about what you can do when the base is finished and ready to begin Project Adam."

Walsh nodded and looked toward Colonel Haviland. "Mobilize what troops we have in the base."

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Tara stood at the door to her cell and listened as sirens went off. She smiled as she heard her guard leave his post. "Now to find Dawn and Harmony and get out of here." She threw herself at the door trying to break it down. Instead it stood fast. "Ow! They would have had to use steel." She knew if she had her lightsaber, it would have been easy to cut her way through. But alas she did not.

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The elevator door opened and Mark, the Scoobies and the Cylons found themselves face to face with ten armed army guys. The Cylons reacted automatically as they stepped out of the elevator and raised their weapon arms pointing them at the soldiers.

"Tell them to lower their weapons," Cordelia said to Mark. "We don't want any casualties."

"Seeing how I as far as they know I am your hostage," Mark said. "I'd say the guys out there would think I am being coerced."

"And they would be right," Giles said. "You're being coerced into saving their lives."

"Mark!" someone yelled from outside. "You alright in there?"

"I'm fine," Mark yelled back. "They wanted me to tell you that if you don't lower your weapons the Cylons would possibly open fire."

"Not hap …" the man was cut off as there was a burst of fire from one of his men who had an itchy trigger finger. Then all hell broke lose as the Cylons opened fire.

Two Cylons were taken down by the armed men, while the Centurians felled six of them easily.

"I'd reconsider if I were you," Cordelia said.

"We, surrender!" the man said.

Cordelia looked at the Cylons who with the silent order rounded up the soldiers.

"Mr. Fordham," Buffy said. "Now take us to your commanding officer."

Giles and Jenny decided to stay with the Cylons and the prisoners while Mark led Buffy, Willow, Cordelia and Xander to the control room only to find it empty.

"Where is your commanding officer?" Buffy asked.

"If he isn't here then I don't know," Mark said.

"Who is he?" Willow wondered.

"Senator Kinsey."

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Joyce sat in the living room as the Scoobies entered through front door.

"Mom," Dawn said. "I'm home."

Joyce leapt up and ran into the foyer pulling Dawn into an embrace.

Dawn turned and looked at Tara. "This whole thing has told me one thing. I need further training. Tenel Ka never completed hers when she had to return home and become Queen Mother of Hapes."

Tara looked at Dawn and then nodded. "You and I could be considered the beginnings of a Jedi Order." She looked at Joyce. "With your permission, I will take Dawn as my Padawan learner."

"You have it," Joyce said.