AUTHOR: Rachel
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RATING: PG-13, on account of death
SPOILERS: If you don't like semi-depressing ficcie, screw you and don't read this.
DISCLAIMER: If you believe I own these characters, you are slow. I don't own any characters. The character of Riley is owned by Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, and anyone else lucky enough to own a part of Buffy. He has been altered a slight bit, however. All the other characters are my friends on AOL, and if you take them, I am sure they will be very displeased, so you must not do so. And if you take MY character... I will have to personally hurt you. And, of course, this ficcie may start happy-like, but believe me it's depressing. You have a problem with that, don't read it. No skin off my back. Other than that, sit back and enjoy!
AUTHOR'S NOTES: You steal my ficcie, I will hunt you down so fast... Oh. And if you have and constructive critisism, I will love you forever and ever. If, however, you send me an e-mail somewhere along the lines of UR FIC SUX!!! IT WAS SOOOO STUPID!!! UR A HORRBLE RIGHTER!!!! I will be pissed. And, rest assured, I WILL e-mail you back. And I probably will not be very nice about it.

Heather, Dani, Elisabeth, Mel, Josh, Fiona and Paige reached the door to the holding center. Coincidentally, at the same time Elisa, Stacy, Sarah and Jordy showed up.

"Hey," Jordy whispered, "what are you guys doing here?"

"Trying to save the others," Dani whispered back.

"Assuming you're here for the same reason," Heather spoke in her normal voice, earning herself a glare from everyone else, "lets go save our friends, eh?"

Agreeing, the friends burst through the door, phasers up and set to kill. They were all *very* surprised to find the room empty, the cells unguarded.

"What the..." Elisabeth trailed off.

"Seems to easy, doesn't it?" Fiona worried.

"So what?" Josh said, "they want to make it easy, that's great. Lets save our friends."

Mel opened the door to a cell to find Mari and Tiffany, along with a girl she didn't recognize. Tiffany looked up and blinked, "Mel?" she asked, a little confused.

"Tiffany! Mari!" Mel hugged them both, then pointed to the girl she didn't recognize, "who's that?"

"This is Traci," Mari introduced the girl. "It's okay, she knows about us, and she wants to help."

Traci nodded, "hi," she said as the others introduced themselves.

"The other cells," Paige cut in suddenly, "we have to get them open, too." And at that point the aliens burst into the room....

There weren't very many aliens, and the friends were easily overcoming them. There was one left, and it was running for Heathers back. "Heather!!!" but it was obvious Heather wouldn't be able to turn around and defend herself in time. Suddenly, though, the alien fell, and as it was falling the friends saw Rachel, her sword in its back.

Rachel growled at Heather "you have to be more careful! You could've died!"

"C'mon Rachel," Heather argued, "it wouldn't have killed me. We're invincible, remember?"

Rachel was about to respond when they all heard a groan of pain. It was Tiffany, and she was hurt.....

"Tiffany!" Rachel shrieked, "oh my God, help her!"

"Calm down, Rachel," Mari said, "it's not that bad. I can heal her..." and she did. Quickly, at that.

"Thanks, Mari," Tiffany said.

"No problem."

Josh had opened the other cells. Grace, Quiller, Natalie, Jason and two girls who introduced themselves as Kelly and Cassie came out of the cells. When they thought noone would notice, Josh and Jason embraced, glad to see each other.

Rachel, however, was still watching Mari. "What's your deal?" Mari asked.

Rachel hesitated... "How you just healed Tiffany, can you do that for someone who's already dead?"

After a split second Mari answered, "no, I don't think so."

At that response Rachel stood, violently jerked her sword out of the aliens back and stomped out.

"Is she okay?" Grace asked.

"I don't know," Jordy answered, "she was fine earlier."

"Probably just in one of her moods," Sarah reasoned, "come on, lets get out of here."

The others agreed and they all started out. They managed to reach the opening without any major fights, and they equiped themselves with jetpacks and flew off, safe.

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