Wolverines Bite Back: Part Five
by Kirbyclause
"Let's go, bub."

I grabbed at least three of the monsters and heaved 'em straight into that cage. With all eyes on me (and off the kids), I jumped into that cage with 'em and did what I do best-and I'm the best there is at what I do.

The cage swung back and forth while I was clawwin' the jerks. They put up a good resistance for all of nothin'. I gave an elbow to one, slashed out with the same arm and caught the other two in the face. The one to my back tried to bite my neck, and he got a taste of a claw straight into the misberable joker's brain cavity. I hacked and sliced and diced, probably my best form yet. I even started to enjoy it like the old days. And all I had to do to make this work was to keep from decapitating them. So I rained down piece upon piece of vampire on the floor below.

When there wasn't much left to hack, the kids had gotten away, and the Slayer had pulled a stake from somewhere (can't imagine where, kids don't have any flamin' modesty these days); but everybody was still lookin' at me. "Come on.", I said. "Who wants some?"

I turned, and stared down the vampires behind me. "You want a peice o' me?", I asked 'em hard as I could. I smelled one in the shadows. "You.", I said, and leveled my right claws at him. He stepped out of the shadow into plain sight and I took a step toward him. "Huh?", I asked cupping my hand around my ear and steping forward. "You want a piece o' me?", I said. The monster was shaking his head and whimperin', but I was close now. I gave him a shove. "You want some?", I asked him. He still shook his head. "Then get the hell out of here.", I told him. As soon as he started running, I turned to the others.

"That goes for you bozos too!", I snarled at them. The only people that were left were me, Sabretooth, the Slayer, and Angelus. Sabretooth snarled. "Rookies.", he spat. First time I ever sympathized with the man. Then I smelled the worst thing I could smell... indecision.

Buffy might not have shown it, but she sure didn't want to stake angel boy. Then it clicked. The vampire was attractive, especially to a young teen girl like her. And she did take the possibility of a vampire being able to get someone pregnant pretty hard. This guy must've used her and then turned on her. Pretty bad if Sabretooth's involved. "Kid!", I snapped at her. "Yeah Tiger?", she asked. "Can you keep the vamp off my back long enough for me to take that die out of Sabretooth's hair?", I asked.

Buffy nodded slightly but still replied. "You mean that he isn't a natural blonde?", she said. "Who is nowadays?", I responded. "Are you two going to discuss beauty products all day, or are we going to do some *business*?", Angelus called out. I looked him dead on in his vampire face. "With you, beauty would have to be a corporation." Then they rushed us. Me and the kid rushed them.

Sabretooth and I passed each other. I cut him deep, he cut me long. We both started healing and circled each other. Eying each other up for the right time to strike.

By the time I caught sight of the kid, her and Angelus were into it. She did a good spin kick, lots a technique and strength, but he blocked it. She came back with the turn of her momentum and landed a few punches on him, and he took that too. Took it with a smile. Kind a makes you wonder what they did when they were still freindly.

Sabretooth slashed high with his nails. I ducked in low and reached my claws forward. He darted back, and I barely got a touch on his uniform. Sabre tried to kick me in the jaw when I was off balance, but I blocked it with both claws crossed. Back when they were andimantinum he might have lost the foot, but now they just left a scratch.

"You lost a step shorty?", Sabretooth snarled. "I got everything I had when I gave you a frontal lobotomy. Maybe this time I'll take out the half of the brain you're using.", I shot back. [Wolverine stabbed a claw into the front of Sabretooth's brain, causing him to go comatose for a period. X-Men ###...yeah, like I know]. Sabretooth stabbed a hand aimed straight through me, I passed him behind me like a basketball. I lept at his back, but he flipped over me to where we began. Damn, he was big-his shadow took a full second to pass over my head.

I caught another take of Buffy and Angelus. She was shaking the remains of one of the freight boxes lying about. He lunged in, but she got her legs up in time and passed him over her.

I was still spinning when I found myself meeting Sabretooth's lunge. "You know why they call it a Hellmouth?!", I yelled at him. My claw got under his arm and struck his lip. "Because my claws are hotter than Betty Lou's Burn Your Butt/Ass Kickin' Chili." Shouldn'ta said that-the arm I got under grabbed me by the back of my head and threw me across the factory.

"Hey Tooth face!", a kids voice called out. I spotted Xander by the exit. I remeber thinkin', "That kid had better have a good plan." Sabretooth turned to him. "Yeah, I'm talking to you, Golden Yette. Are you a ballerina, cause those tights sure look like it. Maybe you could take some of this money and buy yourself some male clothing." Xander held up the breif case, full of the loot. "I got your money, gonna buy a donkey.", he chanted. Sabretooth lost it, went into a full blaze roaring frenzy. But even before he could take the first step, Xander was out the door.

I ran behind him, hoping to at least get the drop on Sabretooth even if he did rip the kid to shreds. When I got outside, Sabretooth was nearly on top of the kid. The kid darted to the side...and Sabretooth didn't even follow him. Then the librarian turned my bike right, and I saw way. He was waving the breif case like a flag in front of a bull, using my bike to keep in front of Sabretooth but letting him keep close enough to think he could get it. The oldest play in the book, keep Sabretooth running until he dropped from exhaustion.

I went back inside. There was no sign of Angelus, but Buffy was stepping over the gore of the vampires I got in the cage relatively unharmed. I looked at her. "He ran as soon as Sabretooth left.", she told me. "Humph-rookie.", I said. She turned to me just like any other teenager. "Hey, I got a piece of him.", she told me. "I got a piece of Magneto, with metal strapped to my bones.", I told her. "Well, I blew up Moloch the Corrupter.", Buffy countered. "I out slashed the Silver Samarai.", I continued. "Well, I...


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