Disclaimer and Continuity Note: I don't own any of the characters used in this fic, who were created by Mutant Enemy productions unless otherwise noted. This fic is set approximately circa October 2001. It is presumed to occur pretty soon after the S6 Buffy Premiere, and contains no spoilers for the current season.
The Fallen: Chapter 1
Previously, on GA's Buffy/West Wing Crossover Fic:
Sam: "Tell me about it. Willow was at it pretty late, and she had trouble
breaking into the DoD files...."
Willow: "Sam! We've got trouble...."
Sam and Toby run into Sam's office.
Toby: "What's wrong?"
Willow: "I... I don't know... I was giving it another attempt and suddenly...."
Sam: "Hm... the screen's locked..."
Computer: *speaks* "Rosenberg, Willow."
Sam: "Wha..."
Computer: "Witch, highly dangerous, also skilled with computers..."
Willow: "How... who are you? How do you know this?!"
Computer: "Mother told me. She kept files on all of the Slayer's friends..."
Willow: "ADAM?!"
Toby: "Who's Adam?!"
Adam: "I was a bio-mechanical construct, created from cybernetically enhanced
human and demon hybrids."
Willow: "You were a freak! But you're dead! We pulled out your power supply."
Adam: "Indeed. I no longer have a body. But my mind was linked to the computers
in the Initiative, and I was downloaded along with the other files in their
database."
Sam: "So, if you're in the secure database we can't get into, how can we be
talking to you?"
Adam: "Mother designed me with 512 bit architecture and high level RSA decryption.
Your encryption does not contain me."
Toby: "Then what exactly do you want?"
Adam: "You seek access to Mother's files. I was trying to figure out why."
Sam: "We NEED those files! They're the only chance we have of coming clean
on the Initiative's activities!"
Toby: "And we need to figure out who accessed them from where! People could
die here!"
Adam: *pause* "That is... acceptable."
Willow: "Wait, you don't understand.... we're not talking about a few people,
like the ones you were going to kill... we're talking about ALL people. If
Senator Wilkins gains control of the White House, she'll be able to give Demons
a free hand, and humanity won't stand a chance!"
Adam: "Searching... Wilkins... sister of the demon who was involved in the
incident at Sunnydale High School that led to the formal commissioning of
the Initiative. But he was killed by the Slayer. She defeated me. With your
help. You shall stop Wilkins too. Revealing the files could compromise Mother's
plan."
Willow: "The Slayer... Buffy... is dead."
Adam: "Searching..... Summers, Buffy Anne. Died May 2001. She saved the world.
A lot." *pauses for a while* "Deleting files...*
Toby: "You bastard!"
Adam: "The demon species is imperfect, as is the human. Neither must perish,
if Mothers's vision is to be achieved. Her plans have been protected. Your
media shall not be able to determine that the files are incomplete. Survive,
Willow Rosenberg, and we will meet again...."
The computer screen unfreezes, and all the Initiative files and logs of who
accessed them start coming up on the screen.
Willow: "That was creepy.."
*Sunnydale Junkyard, late September 2001*
The city of Sunnydale has recently been trashed, and this means an unusual
amount of assorted debris and smashed stuff has been dumped in the Sunnydale
junk yard. And yet, like all seemingly abandoned places in Sunnydale,
this one has people wandering around in it. Four folks, in fact, combing
the junkyard for stuff. One of the group, a man with long blond hair
and glasses, leans up against a car.
Langly: Remind me again why we're dumpster diving in Northern California?
A man with brown hair, seemingly out of place in a junkyard because he is
wearing a suit, steps up.
Byers: Alright, so the government admitted that there was a conspiracy called
the Initative in this town a few years back, and that they were experimenting
on human beings.
The oldest of the group, with grey hair and glasses, leans up against a trashed
car.
Frohike: They admitted that their test subjects got out of hand, and trashed
the place. A year and a half later, monstrous looking people trash the
entire town.
Byers: If this means the government didn't STOP the experiments like they
said they did, then we've got ourselves a front page story.
Langly: *darkly* Or we could just get beaten to death by some escaped subjects
from the last round. I don't think they left us any physical evidence
here....
Suddenly, they hear a shout.
Jimmy: Oh my god, it's a human head!
The three Gunmen run as quickly as they can over to where Jimmy, a former
football player, is looking at what appears to be the severed head of a blonde
girl.
Jimmy: What are we going to do? We should call the police... *starts
to run for a phone*
Frohike: *catches his arm* Not so fast... there's no blood, and that head
looks perfectly preserved, yet judging by the pile of stuff around it, it's
been here a few weeks...
Langly: I don't care, I'm NOT touching it!
Byers bends down and examines the head more closely, sniffing the air, and
satisfied, grabs the head and lifts it out of the trash pile to reveal the
top of.... the Buffy Bot.
Byers: *looking at wires coming out of the bottom of the head* It's some sort
of robot....
Jimmy: The government... trying to replace us with robotic copies.... how
could they?!
Frohike: *examining closer* Looks a bit hap-hazard for government contractors...
Langly: *overcoming his distaste for it* Yeah, this is definitely free-lance
work. Something home brew. Whomever broke it probably thought
it couldn't be repaired and dumped it. Let's see if we can find the
rest of the pieces.
Byers: Yeah, either way, we're got ourselves a story....
*electric guitar riffs play the first bars of the Star Spangled Banner
before cutting to the music of.....*
The Lone Gunmen
Bruce Harwood .... John Fitzgerald Byers
Tom Braidwood .... Melvin Frohike
Dean Haglund .... Richard 'Ringo' Langly
Stephen Snedden .... Jimmy Bond
Zuleikha Robinson .... Yves Adele Harlow
Created by
Chris Carter
Vince Gilligan
John Shiban
*Meanwhile, in Chicago*
It's a dark, basement hallway, with poor lighting and assorted file cabinets
and other things. A girl walks down the hall, briskly, looking over
her shoulder as she goes and picking up the pace. She rounds a corner,
only to find..... a dead end. She turns around, and the look on her
face is one of emotion, sheer, overwhelming..... frustration. She tosses
her head and walks into the light, looking at a slip of paper in her hand
to reveal... Nurse Abby Lockhart.
Abby: *muttering darkly* Everyone takes off after the Labor Day rush, and
I've got to go crawling for a paper record because the computers are down
again. *squints at a barely legible note, with directions to the records
room* Luka, when I get out of this basement, I'm going to shove those records
you asked for right up... wait, that could be.... 0314? I thought I
saw that somewhere around here.....
She walks down the hallway and comes to a door marked "Room 0314", and goes
to open it, only to find it's locked. She looks down and sees that it's
locked not only with a key, but also a numeric keypad and an ID reader. Abby
swipes her ID, but the card reader flashes red.
Abby: Access denied? What kind of medical records room has this kind
of security? *shakes her head in frustration, when she sees a sign down
the hall - "Medical Records, Room 0319"* Okay, there we go....
As she walks off towards the room she was after, the camera pans down to the
card reader display, which in big red letters reads "Room 0314, ACCESS DENIED"
as the music hits for....
ER
Anthony Edwards .... Dr. Mark Greene
Noah Wyle .... Dr. John Truman Carter, III
Laura Innes .... Dr. Kerry Weaver
Alex Kingston (I) .... Dr. Elizabeth Corday
Paul McCrane .... Dr. Robert 'Rocket' Romano
Goran Visnjic .... Dr. Luka Kovac
Maura Tierney .... Nurse Abigail "Abby" Wyczenski Lockhart
Created By Michael Crichton
To Be Continued....
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