Faith's POV
I hit the roof of the elevator and my slayer shock absorbers absorb the shock of the probably 20 foot drop.
Well that was fun.
After a second something drops beside me. I look over.
Oh, right... HER.
"Are you okay?"
I wish she'd stop asking stupid questions.
"I'm fine... you?"
"I'm good, one of the benefits of having slayer shock absorbers."
I watch her ass jiggle as she slaps it, indicating her absorbers. I roll my eyes at her. I look down and unhook the latch on the currently underfoot overhead escape hatch, opening it. I motion for her to go first.
"Ladies first."
She comes over and stands over the hatch.
"Oh that's right, you're not a lady... but you're one hell of a hot woman."
She smiles at me before jumping into the elevator.
God that's even worse than the mirror joke.
I jump in after her. I hit the elevator floor and Buffy's already working on the door. She doesn't need help as the doors come open.
"Okay let's..."
The elevator comes open and all we hear is guns cocking.
"... go."
Outside the elevator there are six soldiers with their guns pointed at each of us.
Oh good, this looks like fun.
"The slayer... what are you doing here?"
"Looks like the party's already started eh B?"
"Maybe so."
"Party? What party?"
Buffy explains.
"The big massacre party Adam has planned for you and your boys."
"A massacre? Have you gone insane? We've had every possible entrance under constant surveillance since Adam woke up. There's no way he could get in without us knowing much less commit a massacre."
Are these people morons?
"You really think one little guard is gonna stop an evil killing machine?"
"All right, I've heard enough, these two are under arrest for breaking into a secret government building, and the murder of Agent Riley Finn. Let's go."
The toy soldiers cock their guns again.
I bet it's not the only thing they cock themselves.
I look over at B and she rolls her eyes at me. I let out a deep sigh before I step out of the elevator and surrender to the army brats.
I can't believe I'm doing this.
One of the action figures pokes me with his big stick, urging me to walk faster.
These boys are really starting to annoy me. Boys didn't used to annoy me, even the insane ones. Maybe it's this whole new orientation thing that's making these guys seem a little less than interesting. Bah, whatever.
The Colonel tries to assert his manly dominance over his prisoners as we walk by a big pit with demons strapped to gurneys and scientists doing experiments on them at the bottom.
"Take the slayer and her bitch to a holding cell."
Her bitch?
"There are no more..."
Okay that's it.
I spin around, grabbing the gun of the guy behind me and use the handle to hit him in the forehead, knocking him out. I point the gun at the Colonel's head.
"Her BITCH? YOU BASTARD! I am NOT her BITCH!"
I aim the gun and put my finger on the trigger. Four of the five guns are pointed at me, the last one still pointed at B.
"Faith calm down."
"Calm down? Did you hear what he called me? He called me your BITCH."
"I know."
"I'm NOT your BITCH."
"No, no you're not. You're far from it, but now is not the time."
"I'm not gonna let this Colonel Clink reject talk to me like that."
Fucking bastard.
"Faith this isn't the time."
Not the time?
"Why not?"
All of the sudden the lights go out and the emergency lights come on. The alarm sounds and I look at B.
"Because we've got bigger things to worry about right now."
I look around at the flashing orange lights spinning against the poorly lit blue over head lights.
She's right.
I lower the gun and take my finger off the trigger.
"Adam must know we're here."
"That'd be my bet."
"I told you people, Adam is NOT here."
B and I look around the room and we both have the same thought.
"Your security system begs to differ."
All seven guys look at us like we're insane. We look at each other and shrug. I speak first.
"It's a slayer thing. We're both slayers by the way."
One of the toy soldiers breaks in.
"Sir, what do we do?"
"Well I..."
He doesn't finish as one of the scientists bursts through a door on the other end of the room.
"They've escaped, dear god they've escaped!"
The Colonel yells at him as he approaches.
"Who? Who's escaped?"
A demon bursts through the door, chasing the panicked scientist.
"The..."
The demon catches up and tackles the scientist and sinks its teeth and claws into him. It almost looks like a werewolf with all the fur covering it, except there's no full moon tonight, or this morning I should say since it's almost dawn. The situation finally clicks in for the Colonel as the demon finishes off the scientist about 10 feet from us and starts looking for its next victim.
"The H.S.T.s... they've escaped."
You think?
One of the action figures with brains speaks up.
"How many do you suppose sir?"
I guess having brains was going too far.
"If I had to guess, probably all of them, but maybe that's just me."
Three more demons burst through the door and they are joined by a couple more demons from some other part of the Initiative.
"It's not just you Faith."
She smiles at me and I check my gun.
"We have to take the armoury before it's too late."
If I were him? I'd know it's already too late, but that's just me.
"But sir, what about... them?"
The Colonel looks at me and B.
"Leave them, with any luck the H.S.T.s will take them out for us. Move out."
Not likely.
I look down at the gun in my hands.
What do I need this for?
"Hey kid."
The guy I knocked out starts to get up and tries to shake it off. I lob the gun to him and he catches it.
"You'll need this more than I will."
He turns and follows his troop toward what I'm assuming is the armoury, fighting demons along the way. Screams start to come from the pit as the demons in there start to break free of their restraints.
"Rude much? HEY! Where's my thank you?"
I turn to B.
"See, this is why I hate helping people, they're never grateful."
"Yeah, I know."
I look around at the growing number of demons and soldiers in the room.
"Hmm, quite a little massacre Adam's got going eh?"
"Yeah pretty good plan, he doesn't have to do any of the massacring himself."
"Well, what do you want to do now? Take the demons down one by one till there aren't any left? Cause I could use the big fight about now."
"Nah, we'd never make it. I have a feeling this place is gonna be swarming with demons in a matter of minutes. I say we go for the head. We go for the master in this master plan."
"Adam."
"Any idea where to start looking?"
"Well, he was created in room 314. I figured we'd start there."
"Sounds like as good an idea as any."
"It's over this way, let's go."
I follow her to that room 314.