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As Xander's face met the pavement for the fifth time he was developing a serious headache and an even bigger self esteem problem. //'You take the little one' She says. Oh you mean the one that's only eight feet tall? Thank you.// He jumped onto the creature's back and shoved a stake into it but the wood splintered and crumbled, easily deflected by the demon's rock hard outer shell. The thing swatted him off and he slammed back into the nearest building before falling to the ground again. //Now this looks familiar.//
"INCOMING!!!!"
Everyone stopped and Buffy looked up at the swirly weirdness happening in the sky. "GET OUT OF THE WAY!!!"
They were ten feet back when Spike looked around him, "Xander?"
"Spike! I'm stuck!"
The vampire threw himself toward the boy and covered him with his own body as Five huge. . . robots? Fell from the hole in the air and landed on the demons effectively squishing them.
Buffy made a face at the gooey sound that created, "Eew!"
By the building Spike looked Xander over for wounds, "I'm ok Spike."
"Like I care?" The vampire huffed but Xander just smiled as they stood up. He knew the vampire counted him as at least a friend. Living with a person does that.
"Um. . . you come in peace?" Riley called out only half serious.
They all jumped when the Robots' chests' opened and five boys of about their age jumped the fifteen or so feet to the ground.
The American looking one with a long braid and a black ball cap snickered, "Maybe we should have taken the right turn at Albuquerque."
"What did we step in?" The blond who looked slightly arab looked at the green slime with brown crunchies that was oozing from under his robot's foot.
Giles blinked, "That would be a Volsach demon."
The Japanese boy in spandex biker shorts and a tank top shot forward and pulled a gun from somewhere, training it on the Scoobies.
"Um. . . nice alien, good alien. Bullets are a bad thing." Xander backed into Spike and the vampire rolled his eyes.
"Where are we?"
"Earth. Welcome."
"Xander!"
"Well?!"
Willow cleared her throat, "You're in Sunnydale, California."
The American robot boy turned his attention to them, "What year?"
"2000."
"Oops."
"DUO!!!" Four of the five boys rounded on the braided one in slight anger but more annoyance. Like they were used to him getting into trouble.
"What?! How was I supposed to know J was experimenting with time travel?!"
"We told you not to touch anything!" The Chinese youth glared.
"But it was a button!"
". . ."
"And it was green, not red, it's the red ones you aren't supposed to push."
The small blond sighed and shook his head, "When we get back you can talk to J about color coordination used by scientists on time machines but for now we need to find a place to stay and we need to hide the Gundams."
The Scoobys all turned to Xander.
"What? Oh! Ohhhhhh no! I already have a VAMPIRE living with me, now you want me to take in ALIENS?!"
"Baka." This was from the one with the gun and spandex.
"Hey! I took Spanish!" Xander accused, "Who're you calling a cow?!"
The one they'd called Duo, snickered.
Giles placed a calming hand on Xander's shoulder, "Xander, vaca is cow. Baka is Japanese for idiot or dummy."
"Oh. . . wait you called me a dummy?"
Buffy heaved a sigh and shook her head, "Xander, let them stay, just for tonight. I'll call Angel after sunset and see if they can stay in Angelus' mansion."
The blond smiled softly and stepped forward, "I am sorry we've been so rude. Our. . . journey, it was very unexpected. None of us feel comfortable when we don't know what is happening. I am Quatre Rabberba Winner. My companions are Trowa, Wufei, Duo and Heero. Thank you for your kindness."
Buffy blushed and smiled and Riley stepped closer to defend his claim which made the blond boy smile for some reason. "I'm Buffy. This is my watcher Giles and the Scooby gang, Willow, Tara, Riley, Xander and Spike."
Looking at the mess and then at the team before them, stakes in hand Duo dared to asked 'the question'. "Uh. . . so why did we step in a demon?"
~tbc~