- Dream Weaver
Chapter 8: The Tokyo Files
After we insured that the girl made it safely back to her house. We all made our way back to Buffy's house. From there everyone dispersed and I went back with Giles back to his home. After such an exciting evening, I fell asleep. As I slept, I dreamt a dream. I dreamed that I was on the summit of a mountain, a large hill overlooking Sunnydale. On that mountain was a huge cannon, which fired and destroyed all of Sunnydale. In a toadstool ring, Lucia appeared wearing the same black hooded robe, she was sobbing and when she turned her face up to see me, her eyes were crying tears of blood. "You're all in danger, terrible danger!", Lucia my angel said. "You must warn Buffy and the others. You must tell them this dream", Lucia told me.
"How will they react basing themselves on a dream?", I asked. "You may not know or think it, but they'll believe you!", Lucia said. "I was the one who possessed Buffy at the Bronze when she danced for you, it was I but this shall be kept between us which shall not be revealed but you must warn them of the Master's plan for revenge and destruction", Lucia warned. "Now wake up!", Lucia commanded. "Wake up", Buffy said as she was waking me up in my waking world. "I had a serious dream", I told Buffy. It was 12:01 PM in the afternoon. "Care to share it with me?", Buffy inquired. "I dreamed of a mountainous cliff overlooking Sunnydale, and on that cliff was a cannon which was fired and destroyed Sunnydale", I told her. "Where are the others?", I asked. "At the high school", Buffy replied.
"I was snet here by Giles to check up on you and bring you to the school", Buffy said. "Cool", I said and I got up, got my shoes and socks on and made my way with Buffy to the Sunnydale High School. We met at the library with Giles, the others were there except Angel and Emilie for obvious reasons. It was still daylight. In the caverns overlooking Sunnydale deep inside the mountain, Darla and the other vampires stood awestruck admiring the great historic monument that stood before them. It was a huge cannon with anti- aircraft capabilities. It rested on railroad tracks leading up to the ledge outside overlooking Sunnydale. "It's wonderful", Darla exclaimed with a tone of awe in her voice. She gracefully swept her hand caressing the surface of the cannon.
"To think, you once saved Sunnydale and now you'll destroy it", Darla said assuringly. "Does the ammo still work?", Darla asked. There were crates of ammo and gunpowder nearby which were left behind by the U. S. military shortly after the second world war ended. One of the vampires grabbed a crate of ammo and heaved it out of the cave into the precipice carefully avoiding the deadly sun outside in the process. A crash and explosion were heard followed by the uproaring flames and black cloud that resulted from the explosion. A park ranger was driving within the general vicinity when he saw and heard the explosion. "Egad, what the hell was that?", he asked himself in astonishment. The park ranger drove in his jeep up the mountain path.
He drove towards the direction of the explosion, as he drove up the summit he looked at the exact spot where the explosion was. He slammed the brakes to overlook the area and climbed out of the jeep. His jaw dropped. The park ranger witnessed the biggest crater he had ever seen and looked up the side of the cliff to the mouth of the cave where the cannon was housed. The park ranger climbed back into his jeep and drove further up until he reached the mouth of the cave. He walked inside to inspect, he took off his hat and looked at the super cannon that once saved his hometown and his country from an attempted invasion force by the Japanese. He walked further inside and noticed footprints.
The park ranger crouched to feel the footprints and noticed they were fresh. Darla came out from behind the massive cannon. The ranger looked up and said, "Miss, you're not allowed to be in here without a permit, this is a restricted area and if you had something to do with that explosion out there, you're in serious trouble because that's a federal offense". "Oh really?", Darla asked innocently. "Where is it written?", Darla asked. "Ma'am, you're going to have to come with me, you're under arrest!", the ranger said. "For what?", Darla asked as her face morphed into it's bestial vampire look. "Wha---!?", the ranger replied in shocked horror. He turned toward the exit only to see his way blocked by more vampires. The park ranger began to break into a cold sweat and his heart began racing.
"You all stand back or you're going to be in more serious trouble", the park ranger managed to blurt out. He pulled out his gun and began firing at the vampires to no avail and the vampires drew ever more closer, closing in on him. "What are you doing?", the ranger shouted as Darla came from behind and took a big bite out of his neck that the ranger let out a blood curdling scream which echoed out to the entrance of the cave. Meanwhile back at the Sunnydale library, Buffy asked me, "Could you repeat to everyone what you told me, the dream you had?". "Oh yes", I said, "I dreamed that there was a huge cannon in a mountain overlooking Sunnydale and the cannon was fired, killing everyone and destroying the city. Giles thought for a moment.
"Hold on", Giles said. Giles went to one of the shelves and came back with a local history book titled, "The History of Sunnydale from the 16th Century to the present". Giles flipped through the pages while he had a pencil in his mouth. His facial expression turned to shock that the pencil fell from the corner of his mouth. "What's wrong?", Buffy asked as the gang looked on awaiting a reply Giles slowly fell into a chair and finally managed to say, "Oh Lord". Buffy grabbed the book as the gang and I gathered to see what she was looking at. It was a black and white photo of the super cannon itself, so gigantic was the cannon that it dwarfed the rows of soldiers and sailors standing next to it. "So what's this cannon?", I had to ask.
"It's really a relic", Giles said. "The Great Destroyer", Giles said. "It was a super cannon that was built by the American armed forces to protect Sunnydale during World War II, the government knew that the West coast would be attacked by the Japanese shortly after Pearl Harbor", Giles explained. "One day in 1942, shortly after the cannon, the Great Destroyer was finished it really did the job well. A squadron of enemy Japanese planes were flying over Sunnydale to attack the nearby U. S. military base. When the cannon was loaded and fired, the shot wiped out every enemy plane from the sky with that one shot", Giles said."Isn't a destroyer a term ascribed to battleships?", Willow asked. "It was given that name to confuse enemy spies into believing that a ship was being built instead of a super cannon", I said. "Oh ok", Willow said. "As you were saying Giles", Cordelia prompted. Giles continued, "The Axis Powers never again attempted an invasion of the continental United States since", Giles said. "Well, we no longer have the Japs nor the Nazis to fear", Xander said.
"But we have a new enemy that may very well use that weapon against us", I said. Everybody turned to look at me. "Why should you all be surprized?", I kept saying. I continued, "What if the Master and his undead cohorts use the Great Destroyer against us". Buffy gulped as Cordy's eyes widened. "He does have a point", Willow said. "Well, we'll need to act fast since we may not have much time", Buffy said. I picked up the book and flipped through the pages. "Hey there's a declassified map showing exactly where the Great Destroyer cannon is", I announced. "Let's go we don't have much time", Buffy said. "They need to be stopped now!", said Buffy with a tone of urgency.