Hell on Earth: Futures Divided: Chapter 3: The Crossing
by Timan
BANG!!
Angel paced backwards and forwards in front to of the security monitor. He folded his arms in a combination of frustration and nerves.
BANG!!
Willow sat Anxiously near by. Becky’s return stunned her greatly and she was still in denial.
BANG!!
Spike and Nina stared at the screen in confusion. They were trying to comprehend what happened yesterday. Rebecca put on the necklace, a big light show; suddenly she’s a crazy person who tried to kill Angel.
BANG!!
Gunn sat in astounded. He was the only, aside from Angel, who got attacked. Rebecca had hit him before but never this hard. It was almost as if that star gave her extra juice.
BANG!!
Becky kicked the door of the cage again. The crowd in the lobby watched the Willows magical barrier ripple with each impact. Gunn yawned and looked at his watch.
“She’s been dong this for twelve hours.” He said tiredly, “doesn’t that girl ever sleep?”
“No,” Angel replied sharply
“I don’t get it? What happened to her? She was so happy yesterday.” Nina asked
“I don’t know.” Angel replied.
“What the hell was that weird necklace thing she got anyway?” Spike asked
Angel didn’t reply he just stared at the security monitor angrily. Willow could sense his tension. Being the only other person in the room who remembered the original timeline she knew exactly what that amulet was. Willow stood up and moves over to Angel she looked him in the eye and motioned to move over to the front desk.
“I’m not trying to sound all negative here. But that is who I think that is right?” Willow asked nervously
“It’s Becky.” Angel replied
Willow shook her head in shock.
“I didn’t know the star could do that. Wasn’t she killed with vampire me?”
“I don’t think that’s her.” Angel replied, “Just look at the way she’s acting. It’s like she’s never seen us before. Or knows us as other people.”
Angel picked up the lid of the box he pulled off the label and examined it.
“Who would do this to her?” Willow asked
“Wolfram and heart.” Angel replied angrily
Willow looked at the vampire curiously.
“How do you know?”
Angel Threw the label down on the front desk bottom side up. The label turned out to be a Wolfram and Heart business card.
“They wanted us to find out.” Angel replied
The Vampire and the Witch looked back at the security monitor.
Judson Fox was writing up reports at his desk when he heard the commotion coming from out side of his office. Unphased he stopped his work and sat back patiently. Moments later the door to his office was kicked in. Angel marched through and glared at the lawyer.
“I’m with you Angel,” Judson joked, “Appointments are so passé when you can cause willful destruction of public property.”
Angel was quickly loosing his patients. He stormed up to the lawyer and threw down the label.
“What did you do?” he demanded
Judson picked up the label and examined it closely.
“I took a number three pencil and I drew curvy lines in the shape of letters . . . “
“ To Rebecca Judson! What did you do to Rebecca?”
Judson looked at the Vampire with mild amusement.
“Rebecca? Oh you mean the slayer generals niece. How is she by the way? Having strange dreams of an apocalyptic world?”
Angel gave a piercing stare to the lawyer. Judson stood up and moved around to the brooding hero.
“I heard she decided to go on a little nude walk the other night. It’s a shame I missed it she has that tight little body . . . “
Judson never got to finish his sentence. Angel grabbed him by the throat and slammed him down on his desk.
“Whoa easy there! Someone’s a little testy this morning.” Judson replied
“I’ll stop one you tell me what you did to her!” Angel growled
“I’m a lawyer Angel,” Judson replied, “my job is to make the client happy.”
“Then who’s the client?”
“I Am.” Angelus said from behind Angel
Angel released Judson slowly he stood up and turned to face his evil twin.
“You look surprised to see me.” Angelus said smugly
Angel was stunned. This is impossible Angelus was destroyed with the shanshu business. Angelus smiled and pointed at Angel playfully
“Ah! I know what you’re thinking. How come my better half is standing in front of me after I defeated the evil lawyers with my dastardly scheme?”
Angelus walked slowly up to Angel.
“It’s quite a funny story. See once I was extracted from you Wolfram and Heart sent me to the hell dimension of this world.”
Angel looked confused. Angelus rolled his eyes.
“You want to fielded this one Judson?”
Angel turned back to the lawyer. Angelus walked up and put his arm around Angel. Judson leaned against his desk and readied himself for the story telling.
“Once upon a time,” Judson said to Angel in a patronizing voice, “there was a little girl named Becky. When she was eleven a mean old man named Rupert Giles gave her super powers he grave robbed from three dead slayers. This made the vampires very cross so they decided to attack the little girl’s home and kill her mother. Little Becky cried and cried until she couldn’t cry any more. A kindly army lieutenant named Pace taught little Beck how to fight. As little Becky got older she became grumpier and grumpier and decided to hit people a lot for no good reason. Then one day mean old Giles found a magical necklace called the Star of Asgeroth. Little Becky used this star to travel way, way, way, way back in time to stop the apocalypse. In the past lots and lots of really bad things happened to her but in the end she saves the world by sacrificing herself using the magical necklace. But the story doesn’t end there. When little Becky used the localization it didn’t destroy the dimension it simply split it into two pieced. This dimension, where you and all you’re little Sunnydale friends were able to stop the apocalypse, and the hell dimension, Where Little Becky never went after the Star of Asgeroth and was still in charge of colony 17.”
“Which is where Wolfram and Heart sent me after you tried that little magic trick.” Angelus continued
Angel broke out of Angelus’ grip.
“If you already have an apocalypse why did you come back here?” Angel asked seriously
“See here’s the problem Angel baby,” Angelus explained, “This wasn’t my apocalypse. The other Angelus had already done all the hard work it was like I was house sitting for him. I want my apocalypse back.” Angelus replied
“Then why use Rebecca?” Angel asked
“Because she is the key to all of this,” Judson continued, “she was the one who sacrificed herself, forging the two Dimensions and merging her essence with the Star of Asgeroth. And it gets better. The crossing acts like inter-dimensional stitches. The longer Rebecca and Becky stay in the opposite dimension the closer they become until they eventually overlap. Do you know what happens then? The fabric of reality begins to break down. Dimensional portals open all over the world until the two dimensions become one single hell on earth where the vampire rules again.”
Angel looked at the both of them carefully.
“You two are very open with your plans.” He comments uneasily
Angelus laughs,
“Well it’s not like you can stop us. The crossing has been and gone it’s only a matter of time now.” He said
“We could undo it but we would need the Star of Asgeroth “ Judson replied, “Which if I’m not mistaken Rebecca is still wearing.”
“Oh and don’t worry Angel I’ll take good care of her.” Angelus said smugly
Angel sneered angrily at Angelus. He rushed the vampire but passed straight through him. Angelus looked at him curiously.
“You don’t actually think I’m here do you? I’m still in my universe it’s a neat trick Judson showed me you can’t touch me . . . “
Angelus reached down and grabbed Angel by the throat. He lifted him high.
“ . . . But I can touch you.”
He threw angel to the ground. Angel scurried to his feet. He glared at the both of them.
“This isn’t over.” Angel declared
“Funny, we told you that once to. Surprised you didn’t remember.” Judson commented.
Willow waited anxiously as the elevator rose to the 40th floor. As the doors opened she bolted out and dashed up to the secretary working the front desk. The secretary smiled.
“Welcome to J. R. Construction how can I help you?” she asked in an official tone.
“Is Xander Harris anywhere around? I need to speak to him.” she replied trying to hide the nerves in her tone
“One moment and I’ll check, what is you name?”
“Willow Rosenberg.” She replied
The secretary picked up the receiver and punched in a line number.
“Mr. Harris, this is jennet at the front desk, I have a Willow Rosenberg wanting to see you.”
The secretary nodded. Then hung up the phone.
“He’s waiting for you in his office. That’s the third one on the left.”
Willow thanked her then ran down the hall as quickly as possible. When she reached the right door she stopped. Willow took a moment to try and center Herself before entering.
Xander never really got over the death of Anya. He tried to keep up his watcher duties in Africa but over time he found that the memories were just too painful. Buffy understood completely when he resigned his post and decided to continue on with construction. There’s still a little joke between them that she put Andrew in Africa to try and lure Xander back. Xander got lucky when he arrived back in L.A. managed to score himself an executive Job at a big construction firm. So things were looking up.
Xander smiled at Willow as she entered the room. He stood up and gave his best friend a hug.
“Hey Will. Haven’t seen you since Rebecca’s big night. What you been up to.”
“Xander. We sorta have a problem.” Willow said anxiously
Xander looked at Willow annoyed and rolled his one good eye.
“What have those slayers done to Club Hellmoth now? I can only write off so much before people start asking questions.”
“No it’s not the Club.” Willow replied.
Xander studied the Woman closely. He leaned against his desk in preparation in shock.
“I know that face Willow, that’s apocalypse face, what happened?”
“I need a big cage.” Willow said
Xander shrugged.
“That I can do, what’s it for?”
“Becky.”
Xander stopped for a moment and tried to find the connection.
“There’s a whole bunch of story you just left out then didn’t you?”
“I’ll give you the short version. Becky’s back.”
“I know I went to her award night. I thought she wanted to be called Rebecca now.”
“You’re not listening Xander. Becky’s back.”
Xander wondered why willow was repeating herself. Suddenly it struck him.
“Becky? As in apocalypse Becky?” he asked cautiously, “if I ask how will I regret it?”
“Wolfram and heart. Did a big magic thing with the Star of Asgeroth.”
“Well regret Xander has just arrived. When do you need it?” He asked
“Soon. Make it strong to if what Angel says is right this Becky can bust her way out of a three inch steel cage.”
Becky leaned against the back wall of the cage she was trapped in this entire mission suddenly taken an unexpected turn. She wondered if it had something to do with that strange force that overwhelmed her and showed her a vision of a normal looking city full of people. Upstairs Spike, Nina and Illyria watched the monitor closely.
“This being is not the one known as ‘Rebecca Summers’.” Illyria
“What was your first clue?” Spike commented
“Her energy. She is a slayer but not a slayer.”
“Thanks for that blue. Really cleared things up for us.”
“She looks so mad. Wonders what happened to her? Maybe we should get her something to eat” Nina commented
“You heard what Angel said. No one’s to go near the cage.” Spike replied
“Never know you to follow Angels orders to the letter before.”
“Yeah, well, that’s before little slayer girl almost tied Charlie boy up in knots.”
Willow rushed back into the Hotel. She was carrying a bag of Magical Supplies. She dumps them down on the ground and returns to the monitor.
“How’s she doing?”
“She stopped pounding on the cage door about and hour ago so then she tried the Wall. Now she just mopping.” Spike said, “how long till Xander arrives to set up the new cage?”
“He said he’s gonna be a while. Something about getting a crew together or something.”
“And Angel?”
“The club. He’s talking to Wood ‘bout getting at least ten maybe fifteen slayers here to make sure she doesn’t escape.”
“This is what I don’t get,” Spike said, “We’re talking about getting a whole bunch of slayers to stop Rebecca? What’s she gonna do psychoanalyze till we cry?”
“That’s not Rebecca.” Willow replied double-checking her supplies
“Seems to be what all the cool kids are saying nowadays. What does it soddin’ mean?”
Just before Willow answered her cell phone went off. Willow moved away from the group and answered.
“Willow. It’s Angel.” Angel yelled down the line.
“What’s the news?” Willow replied
“It was definitely Wolfram and Heart. They weren’t shy in telling me.”
“So we’re thinking . . .”
“End of the world. The Becky in the cage she’s not the one from the original timeline. ”
“So where?”
“Hell dimension. It’s a version of my apocalypse. Had a real interesting chat with Angelus about this.”
“Angelus? I though he was dead.”
“So did I. He’s behind this Will. You have to find a way to send her back.”
“I’ll try but it’s gonna be tricky. Never really sent someone to a hell dimension before and I don’t think stabbing through the chest will work this time.”
“Just do you you’re best. I’ll see you in an hour or so.”
“Wait Angel! If Becky’s here Where’s Rebecca?”
The line went silent. This gave Willow all the information she needed. She placed her hand on her mouth in shock.
“Oh god. Rebecca’s in a Hell Dimension! What are we gonna tell Buffy?”
“Nothing. The least amount of people we tell the better. I’ll see you in an hour or so.”
Angel hung up the phone. He walked through the door to Club Hellmouth and made his way to the training room. Shona, Nighthawk and a few others were running through some drills with Faith. He waited by the door until he could get Woods attention. Angel and Robin walked out to the bar.
“What’s up Angel?”
“I’m gonna need a few slayers for a while?”
“What’s the deal?”
“I’m going to be moving something strong soon I just want to make sure it doesn’t escape.”
“Is it a demon of some kind?” Robin asked
Angel looked around awkwardly.
“I can’t say at the moment.”
“You want me to help you but you won’t say what it is that I’m helping you with.”
“Wish I could but it’ll only make things more difficult.”
The slayers poured out the back room. The last to leave the training room are Shona and Nighthawk. Shona walked up to Wood
“Hey Robin. You heard from Rebecca today? She was supposed to be here to help me with my drills and she never showed.” She asked
“No sorry I haven’t. Hey wile you’re here. Angel needs help with something.”
Shona looked at the vampire closely.
“So you’re ‘the angel’ huh?” she commented
“Oh my god!” nighthawk screamed from the other side of the room. She rushed over and gazed longingly at Angel.
“I am, like, you’re hugest fan.” She said excitedly
Shona rolled her eyes then looked seriously at Angel.
“What’s the gig?”
Angel remembers these two slayers. They were on Rebecca’s team.
“Not these two.” Angel said seriously
Robin looked at him curiously
“Okay I’m getting the feeling you are being less then honest with me Angel.”
Angel rubbed his head stressfully.
Willow slowly crept down the stairs to the basement. She could feel Becky’s Icy stare from the doorway. Willow sat Tentivly on the last steps and smiled at Becky. Becky glared in return.
“So this is the part where you threaten me right Vampire-Witch?” Becky said coldly
“Oh no I’m not her,” Willow replied anxiously, “I’d thought you’d like to know where you are.”
“I’ve been in a cage before.”
“No I mean where you were brought to.”
Willow shifted awkwardly. She stood up and walked towards the cage.
“Come any closer and I’ll snap you neck before you can breath!” Becky yelled
Willow stopped. She stood awkwardly on the spot.
“You’re not in you’re world Becky. See there’s this thing called the Star of Asgeroth. It switched you with our Bec, ah, Rebecca.”
“Why am I believing you again?”
“Because it’s the truth.”
“The truth. Like the time you slaughtered thirty members of my colony because you were bored?”
“Well, no.”
Becky stormed up to the cage bars. Willow jumped back in fright.
“Get the hell out of here or I will find a way out of this cage!” Becky threatened ” And when that happens there wont be enough of you left to fill an ashtray! Are we clear or would you like a physical demonstration?!”
Willow dashed back up the stairs. Nina was waiting by the door.
“How did you go?” She asked
“Not as well as I thought.” willow replied
Just then the front door opened. A Woman bounced happily in and placed a couple of bags on the ground. She looks around at the flurry of activity with interest. The woman walks casually over to the security monitor. Her happy expression was instantly switched to an angry one
“What the hell is this?” she yelled
Willow scurried from the door to the basement to see what the yelling was about. As Willow and the Woman’s eyes lock a chill ran completely down her spine.
“Oh god.” Willow said quietly
About half an hour later Angel arrived back. He walked through the entrance with purpose.
“Listen I’m having trouble organizing the slayers so we’re just going to have to be extra careful. What I need you to do is . . .”
Angel stopped dead in his tracks when he saw her standing in the middle of the hotel, arms folded, giving him a look of hellfire.
“Hello Angel.” She said infuriated.
The vampire shifted awkwardly for the moment.
“Buffy . . . hi.”
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