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madimpossibledreamerJojo's Bizarre Adventure/Buffy the Vampire Slayer AU
Chapter Summary: Josephine puts her plan into place.
Word Count: 1,122
Rating: K
Note: HERE THERE PROBABLY BE BUFFY/JJBA SPOILERS. READ AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Josephine’s running for a huge pair of iron, ancient gates. “Bye Bye Beautiful!” she calls out, and they swing open in front of her with a judicious punch from the fay-looking green-skinned woman. Stand. It’s a Stand, not some fairy thing that might or might not be friendly and that Buffy may or may not have to Slay. It’s Josephine’s power, so it’s friendly. To her, anyway.
The enraged, bleeding monster is catching up and swoops, so Josephine has to dive like a baseball player sliding home. Buffy’s warning dies in her throat as something happens.
A portal appears, barely large enough for the monster to fit through, but just big enough. It’s green and it’s yellow and it looks like electricity, but other than that it’s far too familiar and Buffy feels herself becoming a little dizzy. Jotaro reaches out a giant’s hand to steady her with a concerned look, and the Slayer concentrates on taking deep breaths. She nods at him.
The monster seems to sense danger, but it’s too late. Its own speed has worked against it. The tips of the wings flap once, trying to pull it out of the portal, but with a slurping sound it’s pulled within, deadly tail and all. Buffy shivers.
“That’ll have done it,” Kakyoin states with satisfaction, and Willow shakes her head, trembling again.
The opaqueness of the portal wipes clear, and Buffy blinks. She can see Josephine, running full out at them with a manic grin on her face, and behind her—
It’s dazed, confused, but in a few seconds it struggles into the air with a few flaps and begins swooping after. If it catches up—if it can get out….
There are shapes lurking in the edges. It’s like a zoo, with all the monsters peeking out from between the bars, and she feels sick just looking at them. Like they don’t quite exist in this world, but are just visible enough to give her a headache and make her nauseous. And probably real and hungry enough to destroy or devour the world. That’s another danger. Josephine willingly keeps opening up portals to these places? She really is as mad as she appears. I mean, I didn’t really get to spend time in a demon dimension like everyone thought, which, okay, yeah, no loss there, but. I wouldn’t want to willingly go there, let alone potentially let anything out.
A looming giant stands beside her, a comforting presence, and she takes what comfort she can. Would this guy be so calm if they could get out? Then again, he seems like he’s generally calm. It’s kind of cool, actually. They can’t get there fast enough to make a difference. Kakyoin can’t make a move without hitting Josephine as well, and the rest of them are too far away. This is all up to Xander’s mom. Speaking of which, Buffy thinks, willing her faster, if you die before you can talk to Xander and apologize and before he can get to know you and foist Babylon 5 and his terrible jokes and Hawaiian shirts and everything else off on you, I’m never forgiving you. Even so, she hates it. Standing on the sidelines, watching the action happen, maybe someone get killed or the world ended and she can’t do anything.
Well. Maybe they’re not out of Willow’s range. Who’s already tensing at her side, mumbling under her breath, preparing a spell, just in case. It’s a good reminder. They’re the Scoobies. So far, there’s nothing they haven’t managed to do together. Even if she, as the Slayer, can’t act, she’s hardly the only one here. She has to trust that Josephine knows what she’s doing, that even if Josephine messes up, Willow can save the day.
It nearly makes it out. The other things, nightmarish things that the Slayer really, really wants to never see again, have started to climb over the sides, and if she’s not mistaken that’s anticipation. What if the former Slayer makes it out? What if the monsters do? It’d be just their luck if they took care of the original baddie only by letting out a worse one. Buffy only lets out the breath she realizes she’s been holding when the portal closes with an elaborate gesture from B3 just a second before it reaches the exit. Many of the remaining dog and frog things and the non-dusty vampires that haven’t already fled at the sight of the portal take one look at them and run. It’s a bit of a shock that none of them tried something while they were all standing gaping at Bye Bye Beautiful’s portal, but dying doesn’t seem to have done wonders for their intelligence.
It’s quick enough work cleaning up the rest, Kakyoin sending out wave upon wave of those green emerald things (“Emerald Splash,” she hears him call it) along with general area spells that Willow calls up, while Buffy and Jotaro concentrate on dealing with the ones that are hiding out of sight or range. Josephine, clearly running on adrenaline, makes it all the way to them before leaning over, still grinning. “That was an adventure, wasn’t it? Whooo!”
Kakyoin shakes his head with a smile, fluffing her hair like an indulgent uncle. Actually, given the dynamic between the newcomers, that probably wasn’t much of a stretch. He was the unrelated but-friends-with-family-so-I’m-your-uncle uncle. She sticks out her tongue, grinning, and takes another step for her Stand to punch through yet another Slaypire, who’d decided sneaking up on them was a bright idea.
The Slayer sighs suddenly. It’s not really that much of a secret base if she keeps leading people there, but they are allies, which they’re sorely lacking. And it’s another day, another big fight, another Big Bad. They’d been given enough breathing room to build up the New Slayer’s and Watcher’s Council before it all broke to pieces. The calm between storms.
They can’t afford to be picky now. Careful, yes. But so far, Josephine’s proven herself, and Buffy’s Slayer senses are telling her these two are to be trusted, too.
“You two are gonna love their HQ,” Josephine’s telling the two newcomers, practically skipping along. “I mean, it’s not their old one. Which was even more brilliant, but it kind of got set on fire and invaded and stuff, so it’s not a safe base anymore. But they still have the best food, including a warlock who’s really, really good at cooking, and given that I can’t, I was thinking maybe I could kidnap him for a while? I promise to take good care of him, so…pretty please?”
“No,” Jotaro states shortly, just as Buffy adds, “He’s our hostage. Get your own,” and grins.
