MAU: TheSlayer2 - The New Faith
This is a continuation of MUA: The Slayer and it is best if you read
that story before this one. If you insist on going forward without reading The
Slayer first, I have included a very condensed "cliff note" version below, but
reading the Slayer is still recommended.
The short version of The Slayer.
A hospital orderly named Dan Stevens watches unseen as Agents B &
W interview a user of a Morphic Adaptation Unit in a mental institute who is
being held for the murder of a police officer. The user, James, has turned
himself into an identical version of the evil slayer character of Faith, with all
of her slayer powers, from the series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. A group of
vampires attack the hospital, and James and Agent B barley manage to escape,
while Agent W and Dan Stevens are both killed and turned into vampires. Its
discovered that James's best friend Max and Max's girlfriend Karen, had
turned themselves into other characters from the show, Darla and Angelus
respectively, and in doing so had their humanity repressed by the
transformations. The now evil couple had James framed for the murder of the
police officer. The Morphic Adaptation Unit is found to be inoperative and the
vampire Agent W is slain. Agent B and James work together to track down
Darla and Angel, killing them, but both get wounded in the process. James,
who has now decided to go by the name Faith, is taken to the hospital in an
ambulance for a gunshot wound to her arm, and Agent B promises to have the
charges dropped against her, and leaves to have his broken ribs attended to
and make his report. As they pull away, the now vampire Dan Stevens
watches and thinks about the slayer.
The New Faith
"This sucks." Faith, a.k.a. James, said as she ran down an alley,
followed closely by a German Shepard police dog and three officers.
"Can my luck get any worse?" Faith thought. As she turned a corner
she saw a police car pulling in front of and blocking the far end of the alley.
"Figures." Sprinting her fastest, she could feel that the dog had nearly
caught up to her. Looking ahead she knew what to do.
Making an inhumanly high leap to the top of a dumpster, she sprang
up and grabbed onto the railing of a fire escape. Pain from her recent gunshot
wound flared in her left arm as she quickly pulled herself up. A trace of
crimson was now becoming visible and spread across the bandage she wore
on her arm. Gritting her teeth, she began climbing towards the third floor.
"Stop or we'll fire."
Two seconds later the sounds of gunfire erupted from below her as she
reached the third story. Glass shattered as she dove through the window in
front of her. She tucked into a role and came up on her feet running. A quick
scan of the apartment showed it to be empty of any occupants. She ran to the
front door and opened it. Turning to the left, she ran down the stairs and burst
out the front entrance. Fifty feet away she saw a bus stopped and three people
getting on. She sprinted, just in time to get to the doors before they closed.
Giving the driver her last dollar and collapsed into a seat. As the bus pulled
away she saw two police cars pulling up to the entrance of the building she
had just left.
Faith sat forlorn as the bus made its way through town, not paying
attention to where she was going. After a time she looked up and recognized
she was getting close to her home, or the home she had known before her
transformation. The home she had known when her name had been James.
She reached up and pulled the cord for the driver to stop. She made her way
back to her apartment, and with her slayer strength easily forced the door
open.
"I can't believe all that's happened these last six days." She picked up
the shattered picture frame up off the floor. She had smashed it the last time
she had left the house and had taken one of the edges of the wooden frame to
use as a makeshift stake when she had first feared what Max and Karen had
become. She looked at the picture of her old self, Max and Karen waiting in
line for Space Mountain at Disneyland. "If Max only hadn't found that stupid
box!" She gripped the broken frame tightly in her hand. "I wouldn't have had
to kill them!" She dropped it to the floor.
"What the hell am I going to do now?" She said to herself.
"What you do best Faith?Slayer Vampires."
Faith spun around to see a man dressed in black standing the doorway.
Her eyes narrowed as she recognized his face and in a flash she had grabbed
him by his coat and slammed him against the wall.
"B! What the hell happened to 'Don't worry about those charges
against you James?I think I have enough pull to get those cleared up for
you?"
"You're talking about Simmons." Agent B said weakly, the pain from
his broken ribs was unbearable.
"Tell Director Simmons to go to hell." Seeing the expression on his
face, Faith slowly lowered Agent B to the floor. "You don't look so good B."
"I'll be fine."
"Well you can tell Simmons that I won't be blackmailed."
Four hours earlier
"We have a gunshot wound." A paramedic called over to a nurse as he
wheeled the gurney through the doors.
"Room 3." The nurse called back.
"Name?" A nurse asked James.
"Faith." James managed to say for the second time in his new life.
"Last name?"
"Uh?"
The nurse looked at Faith. James tried to think fast.
"?Summers." He blurted out.
"I'll get the doctor Ms. Summers."
"Oh my God." Faith thought to herself. "Faith Summers. Did I really
just take Buffy's lastname? What the hell is wrong with me?"
Two hours later
Faith rested in a private room recovering, a fresh white bandage
wrapped around left her arm, when three men dressed in black came in to the
room.
"What's with you people, are your clothes government issue or do you
all shop at the same store?"
"How very drool James. Let's get right to business, shall we. I am
Director Simmons. I have just been briefed by Agent B in regards to the last
couple of days."
"Faith." Faith interrupted.
"Pardon me?"
"My name is Faith now."
"I?see." Simmons said looking at a folder. "The name of the
character from the TV show. And I see you picked a last name too. Also from
the TV show I see, you are a bit obsessed aren't you."
"I'm not keeping the last name, that was just a?"
"Let me get right to the point. Over the last five days 17 people have
been killed, including one of my agents, 3 people are missing, a hospital has
been partially shut down, and a possible infectious vampiric plague has been
created all due to your actions once you came in contact with this." He placed
a picture of a Morphic Adaptation Unit in front of Faith.
"What are?I didn't have anything to do with any of that? I turned into
Faith sure, but Max and Karen turned into Darla and Angelus. I didn't know
that they were going to do that."
"Don't misunderstand. We are not going to try to prosecute you for
these crimes?"
"I did commit any crimes."
"There is currently a warrant out for your arrest for the murder of a
police officer."
"B said that he would take care of?"
"Agent B over stepped his authority and is no longer involved with
your case. Now, what I am offering you now is a choice. You can come to
work for us and we can clear you of these charges, or you can go it alone."
"Wait a minute. You're telling me either I work for you, or I what, go
to jail?"
"In a nutshell."
"Go to Hell!" Faith said feeling a surge of adrenaline flowing though
her body.
"Have it you way Ms. Summers." He said and exited the room,
followed closely by the two men in black.
"My names not?" Faith froze as she saw through the window in the
door Simmons pull out his celphone, dial 3 numbers and hold it to his ear.
After speaking in it for a short time, he hung up, turned to see that Faith had
been watching him and smiled.
"Oh fuck!" Faith said scrabbling to get out of the hospital gown and
back into her clothes. Within a minute she was moving quickly down the
hallway and into an elevator. As the elevator reached the lobby, she saw two
police officers coming in the front door. One of the officers looked at her and
said, "Hold it right there miss."
Faith took off running towards an emergency exit, the two officers
running after her. As she burst through the door, she saw another officer with
a German Shepard coming around the corner. She turned and ran towards an
alley as the officer released the dog after her.
"Hell, I thought he was bluffing."
"He's been trained never to bluff in these situations." Agent B said,
sitting down in a chair.
"The cops almost got me. Did you hear what happened? They think
I'm a cop killer and Simmons told them right where I was. I got away by the
skin of my teeth."
"You've made quite an impression. You've shown that you can handle
yourself under pressure and in tight situations. I was impressed with you
before, but my superiors wanted to know if I had been exaggerating your
abilities."
"What the hell are you talking about? Are you talking about
Simmons?"
"No." He gave a weak laugh and put his hand to his rib in pain. "There
is no Simmons. He's just a low level operative who was playing a role in their
test. He was supposed to be the arrogant mysterious superior. Just the kind
'you' might think would be running a secret government agency. He was there
to browbeat you in to accepting a position in our organization out of fear. If
you had taken the job to avoid the conflict with the police, you would have
failed."
"What test? The police were shooting at me?"
"We all had a test of some kind, to show what we were made of. The
organization has a set of standards that every agent must pass, in which every
potential recruit has a tailor made scenario in which he is forced to make
critical decisions and his performance is evaluated. Think of it as a stress
test." A look of pride came across Agent B's face. "You surprised everyone!
You eluded your pursuers in a record time and didn't hurt any civilians in do
so."
"What are you telling me B? This was all some La Femme Nikita type
of initiation to the Men in Black club?"
"More or less." Agent B said.
"You people are fucking suck." Faith said repressing an extreme desire
to throw Agent B through the window. "So you people run me ragged and
want me to join your happy little government conspiracy? And if I don't join
what happens, do I get a bullet in the head some night or handed over to the
police?"
"Quit being so melodramatic. Nothing will happen to you, and as I
said I would, I will have all of the charges against you dropped."
"So what's to keep me from walking out that door there and
disappearing forever?"
"I can't stop you if you want to leave now, but there is something you
must know before you decide what you are going to do."
"And what's that?"
"Someone in the last 4 hours has been killed by a vampire. They not
all dead."
Faith felt the room spin for a moment. She looked down at the broken
picture frame on the floor. Picking up the frame, she shook the loose glass off
onto the floor and took the picture out of the frame. The smiling faces of Max,
Karen and her old face looked back at him. Folding the picture in half, she slid
it into her back pocket.
"OK B, let's go."
2 weeks later
A 6'5" muscular Blackman swung at Faith in an alley behind a pool
hall. She ducked under his punch, side stepped him and brought her foot
around hitting him in the back of the knee. He collapsed to his knees and she
turned, bring a fist across the side of his head, knocking him to the ground.
A young Asian woman snarled, showing her vampiric faces as she
charged at Faith. Faith stood her ground as the vampire charged at her and at
the last instance Faith somersaulted over her. As she landed, she turned to see
that the woman had collided with the man as he was just getting up and they
both tumbled to the ground.
"I guess we have ourselves a threesome." Faith said as the two
vampires fumbled over each other to get up. "Look, I'm already sporting a
stiffy." She said a she pulled out a wooden stake. "Don't worry. I can tell it's
your first time, I'll be gentle."
The two vampires snarled and separated, flanking Faith.
"You're dead girl." The male vampire snarled.
"Slayer?Hello?I know it was just a TV show, but you two should
really?" Faith was saying, when the Woman charged her grabbing at her
hand holding the stake. Faith swung her hand down and jabbed the stake up
into the woman's heart. She exploded into a cloud of dust.
"I was trying to finish my witty and taunting remarks?" Faith started
to say, but was tackled from behind by the male vampire who attacked before
it's companions dust had settled. The stake slipped from her hand as she fell
to the ground. Faith rolled on to her back and tried to get up, but the vampire
was on top of her. Straddling her, he furiously rained punches down on her.
Dazed, she felt her head getting knocked from the left, then the right, back and
forth until she thought she was about to black out. Throwing up her arms out,
she caught his left wrist with her left hand, and then his right wrist with her
right hand. She shook her head, then smiled an evil pissed off grin up at him.
"The game just changed." She said as she brought her knees up, which
flipped him over her and landed him on his back. Still holding his wrists, she
flipped over him and was now straddling him. Her right fist made contact with
his face, followed quickly by her left, right, left? She kept going until she
couldn't feel her fists anymore. Stopping she looked down at the bloody and
unconscious vampire.
"God, beating the crap out vampires does make me horny." Faith said
aloud.
"Copy that Faith. I got just what you need right here to take care of
that." A voice said in micro transmitter she had in her ear.
"Special K! Get out her and pick up the trash. Tell B we have a live
one."
A black van that had been parked at the end of the alley, made it's way
down and stopped in front of Faith. A tall man with short brown hair dressed
in a black suit, opened the driver's side door and approached Faith.
"Nice job." Agent K said looking at her.
"Where the hell were you. I almost got my ass kicked." She said
wiping the blood from her upper lip.
"And what a nice ass it is, if you don't mind me saying, but I had you
covered with the sniper rifle the whole time. A second more and his head
wouldn't have been attached to his body. Now about that last comment you
made, I can help you out with your problem."
"Dude!" Faith said feeling herself starting to get really pissed off. "I'm
a guy!"
"From what I've seen of you?" he said looking her up and down "?I
don't think you would pass the physical." He said with a smile as he opened
the side door to the van.
Faith grabbed the unconscious vampire up off the ground and tossed
him into the truck.
"I know what I look like out here." She said as she jested about her
body. "But in her here?" She said pointing at her head, "I'm still a man. So
quit making the moves on me or you'll find my fist where your teeth used to
be.
"Lighten up Faith." Agent K said lightheartedly. "I was just giving you
a hard time. Boy, you really do need to get laid." He said as he closed the
sliding side door of the van.
Faith shook her head as she climbed into the van. "Why did Agent B
set me up with a partner like you?"
"Because together we're the hottest lookin' team in the department.
Besides, no one else would put up with my shit." Agent K said as he started
the van.
Five days later
The early morning sun was shining down on Faith as she unlocked the
door to her apartment. Exhausted, she dropped the keys on the counter and
habitually looked at the answering machine, which had yet to have a single
message. There had been no new vampire sightings in five days and Faith was
beginning to wonder if they had gotten the last one. If so, what would she do
now? Since she had changed all she knew was vampire slaying, and now it
looked like she was out of a job.
She looked around her apartment with a total since of detachment. She
had moved in over a week ago, but still felt like an intruder. She had been
patrolling non-stop since she had started working with the Agent K and hadn't
had time or the motivation to find a place, so Agent B had found a beautiful
place for her. It had been completely furnished with everything she could
possibly need. It had a large entertainment center, with DVD player and a
large collection of movies. The closets were full of a variety of clothes picked
out for her, from a few formal gowns to a large selection of bikinis, which she
never had a chance to wear. There was even a large bag of makeup, which she
didn't know what to do with, so it stayed stashed in a closet. There was a maid
who would come in three times a week and clean up. And of course, there was
a large collection of weapons that she could use to fight vampires. The agency
had picked out everything she now 'owned'.
Fighting to keep her eyes open, she made her way to her bedroom.
Stripping off her clothes, she slipped on a long shirt, pulled on a pair of sweat
pants and fell into bed.
Faith closed her eyes. She tossed and turned for a few minutes, then
fell asleep.
In an instant she found herself standing in a crowded auditorium.
Thousands of people milled about her, some bumping into her as she tried to
find her bearings.
"What the hell is going on?" Faith froze as the words came out of her
mouth and put her hand to her throat. "Holy shit." She put her hands to her
chest and looked down at herself. Her breasts were now gone and she instantly
recognized her old body. "I'm me again." James said with a laugh.
Stepping to the side out of the flow of people, he saw rows of vender
booths selling a wide rang of science fiction paraphernalia. James stepped
aside and nonchalantly made sure all of his body parts were back in place. HE
was completely normal again, down to his clothes. A feeling of utter relief
flowed through him as he walked around checking out some of the cute girls
in costumes and looking at the various booths. He stopped in front of a booth
with mid-evil weapons on display. It had a wide variety of swords, axes, clubs
and knives laid out in front of him.
"Nice set. Don't you think, Faith?"
James turned to the sound of the voice in shock. It was Darla from the
Buffy TV show, but she appeared not as a vampire wearing her signature
catholic schoolgirl outfit, but instead she appeared to be human and was
wearing a white gossamer dress.
"Is that you Max?" James said, holding an impulse to reach for a
weapon.
"Does it matter?" She said with a friendly smile as she walked up to
James. "I have to show you something and time is short." With that all the
people who were moving about the auditorium suddenly froze in the place
"Now follow me quickly, an exciting special event is about to begin."
She said turning and running off into the crowd. "And for god sake grab a
weapon."
James grabbed a sword off the table and took off after her. "Wait Max!
I need to talk to you. Please!"
James tried to follow the girl as she darted in and out between the
frozen crowd members, almost effortless accelerating away from him, when
someone stepped in front of him and he tumbled to the ground.
A young, over weight man in his late teens lay in front of James on the
ground clutching a metallic looking suitcase. James got up and continued
running after Darla, then suddenly stopped. "He had one." James turned and
started running back.
Darla materialized in front of James, blocking his path. "You can
easily catch him, take the case from him and be yourself again, but if you do
the world will one day end. I know this is confusing, but you'll understand in
time. And you're needed elsewhere now. If you change back now, she's going
to die. I know what you want, but this isn't the time."
"What do you mean you know?oh no." James knew by the change in
his voice he was no longer himself. Looking down he saw that he was once
again Faith. "What the hell is going on?"
"The costume is off now, so you can save them from the vampires."
The girl said.
"Max I don't understand." Faith said.
"You will soon." She said with a wink. "Now wake up."
"Wait Max. I'm sorry, I'm so?" The auditorium faded away and
Faith sat upright in bed. "?Sorry."
Faith was drenched in sweat. She threw the covers off and climbed out
of bed. Her shirt, soaked with sweat, clung to her as she pulled it off and
tossed it aside. She removed her sweat pants and walked down the hallway
towards the kitchen. She shivered as the cool air caressed her damp body and
she felt goose bumps on her skin. Opening the refrigerator, the light from
inside momentarily made her flinch as she reached a container of orange juice.
She took a long drink and felt as some overflow spilled over the carton,
running down her chin and onto her chest.
"So thirsty." She said aloud. Putting the carton back, she froze when
she saw the picture of Max, Karen and her old self, stuck to the refrigerator.
"Was that really you Max?" Grabbing a paper towel, she wiped the juice and
pulp from her chest. Taking the picture, she made her way into the living
room and turned on the TV. Wrapping a blanket around herself, she sat
looking at the picture.
"I wonder?" She mumbled to herself. "That dream, it was so real and
surreal at the same time. In the show Buffy would have dreams that would
forewarn her of the future, but Faith never did, but she is a slayer, and the
machine could have?no, that ridiculous. It was just some funky dream."
"?the largest science fiction convention will be happening this
weekend." The TV commercial boasted in the back ground, immediately
catching Faiths attention. "Special appearances by stars from all your favorite
televisions shows: Star Trek, Babylon 5, Farscape, Lexx, Roswell, Buffy the
Vampire Slayer, ?"
Faith jumped up and ran to the phone and began dialing Agent B's
number. "B wake up. You'll never believe what just happened."
Two days later
At the entrance of the sci-fi convention, an attractive woman wearing a
long cloak that fell to her ankles bought a ticket. Several men took notice of
her as she entered the auditorium. Strands of long blond hair were visible
around the contours of her face. She made eye contact with one man through
the lenses of her black horn rimmed glasses. He smiled then went back to
looking at a display of action figures.
"Faith? Sound check, can you hear me?"
The woman in the cloak nonchalantly pressed a button on her watch
and spoke into it. "K, I think this sorry ass Clark Kent disguises of B's might
actually work. I made it through the line to get in and haven't been looked at
twice."
"So now what?" Agent K asked.
"I don't know. Just hang out waiting for something to happen I guess."
"I don't suppose your 'dream vision' gave you a time frame?"
"No it didn't."
"Well, can't you turn it on and find out?"
"It doesn't work that way. You heard what the 'lab coats' said."
"If I recall correctly, they said you were probably having a nervous
break down due to stress." Agent K said with a laugh.
"Not that one, the other guy. He theorized that when I conjured up my
image of a slayers abilities I included Buffy's dream visions of the future, and
that the machine may have had the ability to awaken some dormant part of the
brain so that it is possible that my vision could be real."
"I still think the one who said you were probably suffering from some
type of post traumatic stress was my favorite." He laughed.
Faith laughed out laud, and then looked up to see that a few people
were giving her strange looks.
"I have to go." She said hitting the button on her watch and making
her way through the crowd.
"Three hours and nothing." Faith thought to herself. "This is really
beginning to blow. I wish something would happen already."
As Faith walked by another row of vender tables, she heard a crash
and the sounds of a fight going on behind a door marked employees only. She
quickly made her way over to the doorway and peered inside. Two men
dressed as Klingon warriors standing over the forms of five unconscious men
in Star Wars storm troopers costumes.
"That will teach you to insult a Klingon Warrior."
Faith looked at the two large muscular men standing over the
unconscious storm troopers. She watched them and thought to herself, "God, I
wish I had gotten here a little sooner. It looks like it was a hell of a fight and I
could've used the distraction."
The taller Klingon noticed Faith watching them and meet her gaze.
"Well, they're not Vamps." Faith thought to herself as she turned to
leave.
"Human female." The taller Klingon called out. "My friend and I
desire companionship in celebration of our victory. We promise to be gentle
with you." They both roared with laughter.
"Come with us and we will pleasure you as no human could." The
slightly shorter Klingon called over.
Faith stopped. She smiled and turned. She reached up and turned off
the micro-transmitter in her watch.
"You two big boys think you can handle me?" She said walking up to
them. They again roared with laughter. "I'll be honest with you two and tell
you something I have been keeping a secret. I have this overactive sex drive
that has been taking everything I have to keep it under control. I am starting to
think things that are really disturbing me, things that are changing my whole
out look on my life, things I never thought I would be thinking. And believe
me, with all the weird things I have been thinking these last couple of weeks, I
never thought of 'get'n it on' with two overly developed computer annalists
who probably still live in there parents basements. So I hope you don't mind if
I deal with my 'frustrations' by beating the two of you to unconsciousness."
The two Klingons looked at one another and howled with laugher.
"She has sprit!" The taller one said. "You would make a fine Klingon female.
You may attack us now to shows us your sexually aggressive nature, but fear
not, we will be gentle with you."
"That's funny." Faith said as she took off her glasses and unbuttoned
her cloak, which fell to the floor. "I was just about to say that to you."
Faith wore black shorts and a red form fitting t-shirt. The blond wig
had been bobby pinned on and was too much trouble to take off so she left it
on.
The Klingons circled around Faith growling with lustful looks in their
eyes. The taller one reached out and grabbed her upper arm with both hands.
She pivoted, brought her hand up and over his arms and aikido threw him to
the ground. The other laughed and said something in Klingon, then charged at
Faith. She delivered a kick to his stomach, which knocked the wind out of him
and dropped him to the ground. The taller Klingon scrambled to his feet and
leaped at Faith just as she turned to face him. Caught by his weight and
momentum she stumbled backwards and they both fell to the floor. The
Klingon scrabbled on top of Faith and was trying to pin her.
"You are a fierce fighter, but you will submit before my might." He
said struggling to hold her arms down.
"Your even stronger than you look..." Faith said as she struggled under
his weight. He grinned down at her as she looked up at him helplessly for a
moment, then she smiled and said, "but so am I." With that she leveraged her
feet and with all her might, she flipped him over the front of her. She got to
her feet and saw that they were both up and again advancing towards her.
"You have proven yourself worthy human. Do you wish to continue
the foreplay or would you like to begin the mating now."
Faith moved forward towards the taller Klingon, doing a roundhouse
kick that she landed to his jaw. He stumbled backwards up against the wall
and collapsed. The other Klingon came up behind her and wrapped his arms
tightly around her, pinning her arms. Faith swung her head back and caught
the Klingon across the face. He released his grip and brought both of his
hands to his face. She turned and landed a right hook that knocked him off his
feet.
Faith put back on her glasses and picked up her cloak. She looked
down at the two unconscious Klingons and smiled. "Well, that helped a little,
but I feel so dam pent up. I think I might really need to get laid. I really need a
boyfriend." Faith stopped and shook her head. "Girlfriend! Dammit! This
body is starting to get to me. I can't let it affect me this way. I'm a guy. I'm a
guy. I'm a guy." Faith mumbled to herself as she stepped back into the main
convention room. She reached down and turned her micro?transmitter back
on.
"Faith? Where have you been? What's wrong?" She heard Agent K in
the micro-receiver in her ear.
"Nothing. I'm alright." She said into her watch. "I just had to take care
of something."
An hour later
Faith continued making her way through the convention center,
looking at the various displays as she went.
"Faith, is that spider-sense of yours tingling at all?" Agent K asked
snickering.
"For the last time, I told you it doesn't work that way." Faith
whispered into her watch. "How many times do I have to tell you? It isn't an
exact science. Hell, I'm not even sure if it works at all. Maybe it was just a
dream?" Faith froze. A few people who had been behind her bumped into
her and walked around her. She slowly edged forward out of the flow of
people and looked at the booth in front of her. A wide variety of mid-evil
swords, axes, clubs and knives lay out on display.
"Just like my dream." Faith whisper out loud. She turned and
frantically looked around. Out of the corner of her eye she saw a blond girl
walking by. Faith grabbed the girl and spun her around.
"Max!?"
The blond girl nearly screamed.
"Oh my God, I'm sorry." Faith said letting the girl go. The blond girl
stood dazed for a moment, then hurried away.
"What's going on out there?" Agent K asked.
"I think it's about to happen." Faith said as she hurried back to the
weapons table. Scanning the table she snatched up a sword off the table just as
the auditorium speakers announced, "An exciting special event is about to
begin!" Faith remembered Darla saying that in her dream. "Please make your
way to staging area B were there will be a unique presentation by Buffy the
Vampire Slayer Creator Joss Whedon and with special appearance by the
Slayer herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar."
"Oh my God." Faith thought as she slipped the sword under her cloak
and began to run towards staging area B. "The vampires are going to kill
Buffy."
"K! Come in. It's going down in staging area B at the Buffy
appearance. I think they're going after Sarah Michelle Gellar."
"Understood." Agent K said.
Faith frantically dodged through the crowd moving through it as if
people were standing still, when someone darted out in front of her. She
collided with him and they went tumbling to the ground. An over-weight
teenage boy scrambled to his feet, glanced at her, mumbled an apology and
took of running. Faith saw the case in his hands and knew what it was. She
took one step in the direction he was running, but stopped and took off
towards area B. "Alright Max." Faith thought as she ran. "I let the case go just
like in the dream. I hope you know what you were talking about."
Dan Stevens watched, as all of his planning was about to pay off. After
the death of Angel and Darla, he had began to build an army of vampires to
kill Faith, but then everything changed when he saw that Buffy, a.k.a. Sarah
Michelle Gellar, was coming to town. He then knew that he would kill her,
change her into a vampire, and send her after Faith.
He had sent vampires after Faith before, but they had all failed. He
needed to plan and form a strategy. A smile came across his face as he saw
that the show was about to begin. Any moment now Buffy would be coming
on stage and he would take her in the most public way possible. He knew it
was reckless, but he didn't care. He wanted everyone to see the slayer fall.
As he watched his thoughts turned back to when he had first awakened
as a vampire. He had been watching, unseen from the observation room as the
two men in black interviewed the attractive girl who had just been admitted to
the mental hospital, when everything went black. When he woke up he was
drinking from the wrist of an attractive blond girl in a catholic schoolgirl
outfit. He found that he was no longer in the hospital, but in an abounded
warehouse. Shocked at first, it took him a moment to realize another man was
there. He recognized him as Angel from the TV show Buffy the Vampire
Slayer. Angel had been Buffy's vampire boyfriend. He then recognized the
girl as Darla, Angel's vampire ex-girlfriend. They had taken his body from the
hospital and had turned him into a vampire. When he asked why they had
brought him back, they only laughed and asked if he would rather be dead
now. They had planned to make a legion of vampires to rule the city by night,
but first they had wanted to killer the slayer. "You'll kill her for us, won't you
Dan?" Later, Dan had feed with them on an attractive blond girl who had
resembled Darla. And once they had made her into a vampire, they had her
wear the same catholic schoolgirl outfit that Darla wore and set a trap for the
Slayer. Nothing had worked as they had planned, and they all had been killed,
except for him. He had survived. At the time he had wanted nothing to do
with their plan. He had just wanted to feed and enjoy the freedom his new
existence gave him, but now he wanted revenge against the slayer who had
killed his creators. He had made several vampires to go out and kill her but
they all failed. He discovered that she was working with a mysterious group
that was supplying her with information, and she had started getting close to
finding him, so he decided to lay low for a while. He only feed off and
changed those who wouldn't be missed right away: vagrants, truck drivers and
tourists. And when he had built a force strong enough to kill the slayer, he saw
on the television that Buffy was coming to town. Angel and Darla had told
him that they had been "changed" by some type of strange alien device, just as
the slayer had been, but Dan had never understood what they had been talking
about, and then they were dead. He knew that he was now a vampire, and
what ever else he did, he had to kill the slayers, both of them.
Dan watched as the staging area filled up with people. Once he had
heard about the Slayers plan to be here he had spent all of his time tracking
down and turning all of those necessary to make his plan happen. A head
security guard here, a technician there, and everything was set. At this point
he didn't even have to lift a finger. All he had to do was watch.
An announcer came out on stage. "This is the moment you have all
been waiting for?. Joss Whedon and Sarah Michelle Gellar."
The audience leaped to their feet and began cheering as the creator and
the star of Buffy the Vampire Slayer walked out on to the stage. They made
there way to the tables to sit down and begin there hour long session, but
stopped in surprise when they saw five men appearing to be vampires
approaching them from the fair side of the stage. They turned to look back
from the way they had come, expecting security to be charging out, but
instead saw another five men with vampiric features coming at them.
Dan's plan was working perfectly. The head security guard and the
technician had arranged it so that the rest of the staff believed there was going
to be a special stunt show, in which Buffy was to take part. No one would
suspect anything was wrong, until it was to late. Even the human security
guards had orders to prevent anyone not involved with the show from
interfering. At this point he knew nothing could go wrong.
Faith raced towards the stage. She unbuckled her cloak as she ran,
keeping it tightly wrapped around the sword to conceal it. As the cloak came
off her shoulders an image from her dream flashed through her mind. She saw
the girl Darla saying "The costume is off now, so you can save them from the
vampires."
Faith reached up with her left hand, and in an almost Clark Kent
fashion, snatched the glasses off of her face and tossed them to the side. She
felt the bobby pins give and spring off as she pulled the wig lose from her
head as she ran up towards a group of security guards standing by the front of
the stage. Three of the guards started towards her, but stopped as they
recognized Eliza Dushku, a.k.a. Faith, from the TV series.
"I have to get up on the stage now." Faith yelled as she came face to
face with the guards. Out of the corner of her eye she saw a vampire grab Joss
Whedon and toss him off to the side of the stage, where he crashed into some
chairs. She saw the other nine vampires circling Sarah Michelle Gellar. At this
point the crowd was going wild, believing this to be part of some type of
publicity stunt. One of the vampires punched Sarah, knocking her back in to
the arms of three other vampires.
"Are you part of the stunt show?" One of the guards asked.
"Yes!" Faith said without stopping.
Dan watched from a platform off stage right. He began to regret that
he hadn't included himself in with the group that was now beating Buffy
senseless. The crowd was cheering with excitement as the vampires attacked
Buffy. One vampire had his arm locked around Buffy's neck in a sleeper-hold,
with two more vampires each holding one of her arms for good measure. A
fourth moved in to punch her in the stomach. Sarah screamed as she struggled
to free herself. Dan couldn't believe how easily his minions were defeating
this slayer. It almost seemed too easy. Six of his minions were just circling
around the slayer, not needing to take any actions.
The crowd's cheers started to die down as a vampire landed a punch to
Sarah Michelle Gellar's stomach. The violence of the scene was to real, even
for a staged stunt show. The crowd fell silent as they watched the beating
begin to unfold.
Dan's smile fell from his face as saw the figure summersault on the
stage from stage left.
"Faith." He growled.
As she landed Faith produced a sword from a cloak and in a fluid
motion swung it from behind the three vampires holding Sarah. A loud
whooshing sound was heard. Sarah dropped to the floor as the three vampires
crumbled to dust a second after their heads separated from their bodies. Faith
flung the cloak into the stunned face of the vampire who had been hitting
Sarah a moment before.
A vampire tackled Faith from the right and she fell to the ground. The
sword slipped from her grasp and went sliding across the stage. She swung her
elbow around and hit him across the bridge of the nose. Rolling to the right,
she leapt back up onto her feet and saw five more vampires charging at her.
She pulled the wooden stake she had in her belt. She swung a roundhouse kick
across the first ones jaw, knocking him off his feet. The second vampire
lunged at Faith, but she was able to side step it, driving her stake into its heart
as she did so. She withdrew the stake as the vampire exploded in a cloud of
dust.
She held the stake tightly as three more vampires tackled her and she
collapsed on to the floor. Faith tried to stab one of them through the heart, but
her hand was caught and pinned by another vampire. The three of them
struggled with her, pinning her to the floor. One held her legs, while the other
two each held one of her arms. Faith struggled, kicking her legs, but the
vampire she had elbowed in the nose had recovered and now aided the other
vampire in holding her legs. The vampire who had the cloak thrown into his
face snarled as he approached. He stepped between the other vampires and sat
down on Faith, straddling her.
"Time to die, Slayer." He growled as he leaned forward to sink his
teeth into the soft white flesh of her neck.
Faith vainly struggled to free her right hand, which still held the
wooden stake, as she looked on in terror as he bent closer to her throat. As she
continued to struggle, she saw the dot of a laser scope come to rest on the
neck of the vampire on top of her. "You'll owe me a dinner for this one." She
heard the voice of Agent F in the micro-transmitter in her ear. Instantly the
weight of the vampire on her stomach disappeared with a loud whooshing
sound and a cloud of dust. Before the others could react, the vampire who held
her right hand had the red dot of the laser sight fall on to his neck, just before
he also bust into a cloud of dust. Faith instantly staked the vampire in the heart
who had been holding her left arm. She leaned forward and punched the two
vampires holding her legs, knocking them to the side. She leaped to her feet,
quickly staking the vampire that had been holding her left leg, then staking the
one holding her right.
Faith turned to the last vampire remaining who looked at her in terror.
He turned and ran towards stage right. Faith took off after him and caught up
to him just before he could exit off the stage. She grabbed him by the back of
the collar, pulled him off of his feet to the floor, and drove the stake into his
heart.
Dan Stevens screamed and leaped from the platform, hitting Faith
square in the back. She collapsed under his weight and slammed her left
shoulder hard on to the stage. Dan scrambled for the sword that was a few feet
away from him. Snatching it up off the ground he turned to face the slayer.
Faith leaped to her feet, clutching the stake in her right hand. Pain
flared though her dislocated left shoulder. She readied herself as the vampire
picked up the sword and turned to face her.
"Oh my God no." Faith whispered as she saw Dan's face, which then
shifted to vampiric features.
Dan hesitated for a moment as he saw the strange look the slayer was
giving him. He watched as the stake fell from her hand and a tear started to
run down one of her cheeks.
Faith saw the moment of hesitation, then an evil smile come across the
vampire's face as he started advancing towards her with the sword in his hand.
She tasted bile and felt a terrible sickness in her stomach as the vampire was
within five feet of her. Unable to move, she watched as the vampire drew back
the sword, getting ready to swing at her. A red laser dot appeared on the Dan's
neck.
"NO!" Faith screamed. In the blink of an eye she moved, tackling Dan
and knocking him off stage. The two of them tumbled to the floor struggling.
Dan sprang to his feet.
"Wait!" Faith screamed as he took off running. She leapt to her feet to
follow him, but was knocked back onto the stage by a vampire technician that
sprang out at her from behind a control panel. He grabbed the sword up off the
ground and charged at Faith. She snatched the wooden stake up off the stage
and ready for his attack. As he swung the sword down on her, she brought up
a foot, kicking the sword from his hand. It spun end over end up in to the air.
The vampire paused looking up at the sword and Faith drove the stake into his
heart. The vampire exploded in a cloud of dust, and as it did, she slid the stake
back in to her belt and caught the sword in mid air by the hilt.
The audience that had watched on in awe and amazement, suddenly
burst in to a thunderous standing ovation. Faith froze, now fully aware that
thousands of people had just watched everything that had just happened. She
turned to see if Joss Whedon and Sarah Michelle Gellar were all right, but
they were no longer on the stage. She looked to the stage right and was about
to take off after Dan, when she saw the man that she had known as Director
Simmons stepping out on to the stage.
"Ladies and Gentlemen, The Buffy the Vampire Slayer Special Effects
and Stunt Show!" He shouted in to a microphone excitedly as he approached
Faith.
"Just play along." She heard from the micro-transmitter in her ear. She
tossed the sword to the side as 'Simmons' approached.
"Let's hear a big round of applause for Ms. Eliza Dushku!" He
shouted.
The audience erupted into a near deafening ovation and hundreds of
camera flashes went off. After several minutes the applause began to die down
and Simmons said, "And special thanks to Joss Whedon and Sarah Michelle
Gellar for their participation." With that the lights on the stage went out and
Simmons lead Faith off of the stage.
"Alright young 'lady', what the just happened out there?" Simmons
asked as they stepped off the stage. "You just let one of them go. We have to
track it down and kill it before it gets away."
"My shoulder?" Faith groaned in pain. "It's dislocated. Help me."
"Very well." Simmons said as he took hold of her arm and held it as
Faith snapped her shoulder back into place.
Faith looked up at Simmons with a wicked grin.
"Thanks for the help." With that she head butted him and he fell to the
floor unconscious. "And that's for calling the cops on me."
Faith took off running through the backstage area.
"Where the hell is he?" She thought as she ran. There was no sigh of
the vampire she sought, but her attention was momentarily caught by an
extremely attractive, woman dressed as a harem girl screaming at a rather
typical looking man.
"What do you mean you sold it?" The woman shrieked.
"After last night and what you said this morning, I thought?"
"You fuckin' idiot! I don't want to be stuck like?this." She put her
hands on her extremely large breasts.
"But you said?."
Out of the corner of her eye, Faith noticed several people approaching
her. She turned to face them, expecting another onslaught of vampires.
"Can I have your autograph." A young man said holding a small
notebook.
"You were fantastic up there Miss Dushku." A man wearing a Spider-
man t-shirt said.
"Please sign this." A teenage boy said holding a magazine up.
"I don't have time for this." Faith said darting out of the small, but
growing crowd. She raced over to the door that lead back to the main
convention area and opened it. Opening the door she hoped to catch some sigh
on the vampire, but only saw hundreds of conventioneers leaving the staging
area. Several of them saw Faith in the doorway and instantly started moving
towards her. Within seconds a hundred or more fans were making their way
towards her. She quickly closed the door.
"Fuck!" She said aloud. "I'll never find him here. Not looking like
this." She thought of the costume she had been wearing earlier, but she wasn't
sure where she had thrown in off and couldn't go back for it now.
"Faith?" She heard the voice of Agent K in the transmitter in her ear.
"What's happened? Where are you?"
Faith stopped and spoke into her watch. "I have to handle this on my
own, K." She turned off her transmitter.
Dan Stevens raced unmolested through the convention area. He
couldn't believe that the slayer had killed all of them but him. It wasn't
possible, but he had planned for just such a possibility. He made his way to an
under ground loading area, were a truck large enough to carry all twelve of the
vampires waited. The well-paid human drive sat patiently waiting for his
cargo to arrive. Dan jumped into the back of the box truck and rolled down the
door. He gave the signal and the truck took off. Dan sat in the darkness as the
truck made its way back to his warehouse hideout.
"Why hadn't the slayer killed me when she had the chance?" He
thought.
He didn't know what to do next. He had planned to celebrate after
killing Buffy, by going home and massacring his family, but now it didn't
seem right. He had been saving that for a special occasion. He wanted to go
home a winner, proving to his family once and for all that he wasn't a failure.
And once he had done that, he would kill them all. But now all of his
'soldiers' were dead and he needed to create a new army to destroy the slayer.
So his fun would have to wait.
"But then again, I could kill two birds with one stone." He thought to
himself and smiled.
A few hours later the sun had set. Dan drove down the familiar street
in the suburbs and parked his car in front of the house he had grown up in. He
looked on in disgust. His parents made him sick, always looking down on him
as the failure of the family. He was never as good in their eyes as his brother
or sister. Everything they did was right and everything he did was wrong.
Now that was all going to come to an end tonight.
"Dam!" He thought as he saw his parent's car was gone. "They must
be out for the evening. Well the lights are on, so Linda must be home." He
smiled. His sister would be the first to go. "The precious baby of the family,
everyone's cute favorite. Followed by my fucking smug parents, and finally
I'll track down my self-righteous brother at his apartment. I was always the
runner up in the family. Never anything special, but now I'll show them. I'm
now the special one. And once I am done with them, we can finally be one big
happy undead family. A family run by me."
Dan saw Linda through the window. She was a cheerleader and had a
4.0 grade point average. She had beauty and brains, and Dan had always hated
her for it. He hated her almost as much as he hated his younger brother.
He knocked on the front door.
"Just a minute." He heard Linda call out. The door swung partway
open.
"Dan!" She said. "Where have you been? Mom has been trying to get
a hold of you for the past few weeks. She's been so worried. She was afraid
that you were going to disappear for another two months like you did a few
years ago."
"I had to get out of town then, but now things are different. I am going
to be running this town." Dan said stepping into the doorway. "I've got the
power and I want you to join me." His face shifted to a vampiric appearance.
Linda screamed and jumped back. "Oh my God its all true." She said
as tears ran down her face. She looked to the other side of the front door in
despair and said, "James." Dan hesitated for a moment in confusion. The door
swung in on him, pinning him up against the door jam. He struggled to push
the door open, but wasn't able to budge it. Looking at who was pushing the
door against him he realized why.
"Faith!" He growled as he continued to struggle.
"Listen to me Dan." Faith said. "It's me?James."
Dan stopped struggling and looked at the slayer. "James?"
"Yes. It's me."
"You're telling me that my brother is now Faith the Vampire Slayer?"
"Dan, it was this alien machine that made me like this and turned Max
and Karen into Darla and Angelus. And they turned you into a vampire.
Please let me help you. I am working with the government and we might be
able to come up with a cure for you. Please stop struggling and let me take
you in."
"Please Dan, let James help you." Linda said through her tears.
Dan went limp.
"You're the slayer?" Dan said in shock.
"Yes."
"Alright. I give up. Take me in. Help me be normal again." He said
sobbing.
Faith eased up on the door. "You're doing the right thing Dan. They
can help you."
Suddenly Dan pushed the door hard back against Faith, catching her in
the shoulder and knocking her back. He sprang forward and grabbed Linda.
"Don't move James or I'll break her neck." Dan said holding her. He
slowly started moving out the front door. "I should have known you were the
slayer! It makes perfect sense. Everything I have ever done in life you had to
out do me. Better grades, hotter girlfriends, a better job, why not be a vampire
slayer, when I am a vampire."
"Please Dan." Faith pleaded. "Your under the influence of a virus that
is suppressing your humanity. You don't want to hurt Linda. Please let me get
you help."
"I don't want any help and I don't want to be normal again. I'm finally
somebody and you want to take it all away from me." Dan said as he back
towards his car.
"You don't understand Dan, you have to?" Faith froze as she saw the
familiar dot of a laser scope sighting on Dan's neck.
Faith reached for her watch and turned on her transmitter. "K! Don't
fire!"
Faith heard in her ear. "Sorry Faith, I have my orders." With that he
sighted his target, pulled the trigger and a round silently fire from his rifle.
"No!" Faith screamed.
The round caught Dan in shoulder, pitching him and Linda to the
ground. Faith sprang forward and pulled Linda to one side.
"Oh Fuck." Dan said holding a hand to his shoulder. Checking to see
that Linda was OK, Faith scrambled over and pinned Dan to the ground. A
black van pulled up and Agent B climbed slowly out of the passenger side. He
hobbled towards Faith as two other agents dressed in black came out of the
back doors of the van.
"What's going on B? How did you find me?"
"Homing device in your watch Faith. Now let them take him in Faith
and we'll see what we can do for him."
"I want him cured B."
"I promise you, we'll do everything we can."
The two men approached Faith, but she kept her eyes locked on those
of Agent B. She nodded and let the two take Dan who no longer struggled.
"I'm sorry Dan." Faith whispered as the two men escorted her brother
away to the back of the government van.
"James?" Linda whispered as she crawled over to him and gave him a
hug. "Are they going to be able to help him?"
"I don't know?" Faith said returning the hug.
Agent B limbed up to the two young women.
"Faith. It's time to go."
"I know." Faith said breaking the hug. "Listen Linda, I am going back
with them for now to make sure that Dan is taken care of, but I'll be back to
talk later. Please remember what I said earlier and don't tell anyone about any
of this." Faith said as she got up. "It's for the best."
"OK James, but Mom and Dad have been freaked out since both of
you disappeared." Linda said getting up. She hugged Faith and walked to the
front door of her house.
A black sedan driven by Agent K pulled up behind the van in front of
the house. Agent B and Faith made their way to the car, but Faith stopped, ran
back to the front of the house and said something to Linda. Linda stepped
back into the house and returned a minute later with something in a medium
sized brown grocery bag. Faith hugged her and took the bag. She hurried and
got in the back of the sedan. Linda watched as the van and the sedan pulled
away from her house and drove off in to the night.
"Faith." Agent B said carefully turning to look at her. "I think that
your brother might be the last of those infected by the vampiric virus and we
are going to do everything we can to find a cure for him. If he is the last we
won't be needing your services as a vampire slayer any longer?but this event
has really proven how someone with your abilities would make an excellent
addition to our agency and I would like to offer you full agent status."
"No." Faith said without hesitation. "I have been going nonstop since I
got this new body and I need some time to figure some things out. I'm still
trying to find out who I am now, so I'm not ready to end up as Agent F. And
besides, I really don't take orders that well, but I'll tell you what. I am willing
to work freelance."
"I think I can make that work." Agent B said.
"I should also tell you that I saw someone earlier today with what
might be a functioning transformation unit at the convention."
Four hours later
After seeing to the safe confinement of her brother and a debriefing of
the day's events, Faith was being driven home to her apartment by Agent K.
"I'll be glad when they get all the paperwork done and I have a drivers
license. I have a government issued sports car that I'm not supposed to drive."
Faith said.
"What? You don't like having a personal chauffer?"
"It's alright, but I just want to get some semblance of a normal life."
"I guess this would be a bad time to tell you that you id will most
likely say that your jailbait."
"As long as they don't try to send me back to high school."
Agent F paused for a moment then spoke.
"Mind if I ask you something?"
"Fire away." Faith smiled. "No pun intended."
"I was just wondering, even if you didn't have time to get it yourself, I
still don't understand why you didn't tell anyone else about the transformation
unit in your dream? We could have had extra men there to take possession of
it and you could have been returned to your original form by now."
"I wasn't sure that the dream was really even going to happen, and
besides Max said it wasn't time for me to change back."
"What do you mean."
"He, well she, said that if I changed back then the world would end.
There must be some type of threat on the way that I will have to face as
Faith." She reluctantly laughed. "So I figured my days of being a slayer
weren't meant to be over just yet. The dreams are really vague. For instance,
when the dream started coming true, I thought that the 'she' that Max had said
was in danger was Sarah Michelle Gellar, but when I saw?saw that Dan was
a vampire; I knew that the 'she' really had to be Linda. He's always had a lot
of resentment for me and Linda, and now that his humanity was repressed, I
knew she was the one that Max was warning me about."
"Well, that's a pretty unique talent. Let me know if you have a dream
about any lotto numbers, will ya?"
"Listen K." Faith said after a long silence. "I really appreciate what
you did for me today. What you did for my brother, well, not killing him."
She paused. "And also for saving my life. I wish there was something I could
do for you."
"How about dinner Friday night?"
"K." She hesitated. "What is your name?"
"Kyle."
"Kyle, I can't do that. There's so much going on in my head. Who I
was, who I now am, am I going to be this way forever? All of this is so
surreal."
"I have seen so many of these cases Faith. A hillbilly who changed
himself into a centerfold model, a ranger who gave himself a set of each
sexual organs and impregnated himself, a group of college pledges who were
turned into cum addicted prostitutes, a couple who turned themselves in to
hybrid animal forms, even a couple who exchanged sexual organs, ending up
with the husband becoming pregnant. In that one even their son got involved
when he turned himself into a little sexy cheerleader type so that he could get
close to a girl he had a crush on. And there was this garage band that turned
themselves in to Josie and the Pussycats."
"OK, so maybe mines not the most out there, but I still need to come
to terms."
"Let me ask you this. If you hadn't had that dream and you were able
to change back now, would you?"
"What do you mean? Of course I would." Faith said
"I mean, isn't there a small part of you that would want to stay as you
are now?"
"I?" Faith hesitated for a few seconds.
"I think that's a yes." He said as he pulled up to her apartment. Putting
the car in park, he reached for a large manila envelope under the drivers seat.
"I mean, sure there I things I like, but this isn't who I am. I'm a man,
remember."
"Faith, I forgot to give you this earlier." He said handing her the
envelope.
"What is it?"
"Just some information the organization has put together that might
make things a little easier for you."
"Thanks." She said taking the envelope. She started to reach for the car
door.
"One thing before you go. You have the powers of a slayer, so you
could easily mop the floor with me, so what is so intimidating to you about
going out to dinner Friday night? Just think about that and checkout what's in
the envelope."
"I don't understand you Kyle." Faith said getting out of the car,
carrying the envelope and also the paper bag that Linda had given her.
"Not to much to understand when you get to know me. I'll have to tell
you my life story some time. I think you would find it really interesting."
"Right. See ya tomorrow Kyle."
"Agent K. We're only to use our code names in the organization. I
shouldn't have even told you my real name. If "the bosses" find out I told you
my real name, I could get severally reprimanded."
"Then why did you tell me?"
"Something else to think about?" He said with a wink as he headed off
to his car.
Faith watched as Agent K drove away.
"I don't get that guy?" She thought as she walked up to her apartment.
"Is he trying to seduce me or just being nice to me? Or both? And God help
me, there is a part of me that wants him to be trying."
She unlocked her front door and set the manila envelope on the
counter. Opening the bag she pulled out the photo album and walked over to
the refrigerator. Flipping through the album, she stopped and pulled out a
picture. She stuck it under a magnet next to picture that was already there. She
looked at the smiling faces of her former body, Max and Karen, and then
looked at the new picture that had been taken a few years earlier. She saw her
former body, her sister Linda, and her brother Dan all in a line, smiling with
their arms draped over each other's shoulders.
Faith sighed and turned towards the bedroom, but saw the envelope.
Opening it, she started going through the papers inside. 'Not born a
woman?what you should know and now expect.' 'Dealing with your new
gender.' 'Finding out who you are now.' 'Approved Counseling Services.'
Faith looked at the phone number of the specially trained, government
approved counselor for some time.
"Whatever." She said as she put the paper with the counselor's phone
number next to the phone.
"I wonder if I will dream tonight?" She said aloud as she headed off to
her bedroom.
Epilog
John starred in awe at the picture of the sexy harem girl displayed on
the panel of the machine. He had just gotten home with the strange metallic
suitcase and after messing with it for a few moments; it stretched and grew
until it was the size of a phone booth.
"What is it?" He said looking the box up and down. "This is to weird.
Maybe I should've told Matt about this after we dropped Steve off."
He rested his hand on the ruby control panel as he started thinking
about Matt. He watched on the screen as the form of the harem girl shifted to
that of his friend dressed as he had last seen him.
"This is to cool! It can read my mind. Let's see if this thing really
works?" He sat looking at the control panel and concentrated on the girl he
had always had a crush on. Slowly her form appeared on the screen.
"Amazing." He said in disbelief. "She is the hottest girl in school. She
the hottest girl anywhere."
He reached up and touched the purple knob by the control panel. As he
did so, a door appeared on the side of the phone booth like box. John
cautiously looked at the new opening and wondered how any of this was
possible. Inside the box he saw another purple knob.
"I wish that guy would have told me how this works?" He said
stepping in to the box and touching the knob. Within seconds the box had
changed John to match the image that he had given it. Stepping out of the box,
John dropped the pompoms he was now holding and initially thought that the
box had somehow changed his clothes into those of a cheerleader, but then he
realized that his body had been changed as well. He rushed into the bathroom
and looked in the mirror. He was greeted by the image of an attractive