Team Kendra and ParaCorp #FanficFriday

Another sub of Pratt Corp. is our paranormal investigating company, ParaCorp, which funds the monster hunting teams around the world and investigates paranormal activities for a fee. My operatives there make a nice salary for their work and the world gets a little brighter with each poltergeist or demon they deal with. ParaCorp is funded by clients and grants from organizations which need our services from time to time... The operatives mostly just call themselves slayers, hunters, agents or ops.

       

When a portal opened up in Denver and a slayer walked through and began slaying demons left and right, ParaCorp was called to deal with her as she had "superhuman strength." The Denver team tracked her down and offered her a job with the company and Kendra the Vampire Slayer became part of the Denver Team for a while....  

Led by Maggie and Natasha, former government ops, the Denver team had mostly just been dealing with spies and threats from shadow governments and hackers, but Natasha admired Kendra's fighting style and began training with her to learn from her, and she felt that the Denver team needed to be well trained for supernatural threats as well. So when Kendra awoke talking of a very dark power about to rise, Natasha and Maggie decided it was time for a new task force in Denver and Natasha was to lead it. She and Kendra began training new recruits hand picked for the team. 

While Team Natasha was forming on one front, Neo and his team of hackers began working on a line of robots designed to fight monsters but made to look like ordinary girls... The designs were based on Buffybot and the team called them Fembots in honor of those Austin Powers flicks. The battle bots were built for heavy duty battles but soft to the touch and functional as spies. All the best tech went into the program and all the known fighting styles too.     

After the techs had done all they could for the bots, they began training with Kendra and Tasha and only the bots that Natasha felt were ready were sent out on missions with the team.... The battle bots learned from the team and the team learned from them...   

When another portal opened up in Denver one day and a bunch of vamps attacked Denver Airport, Team Kendra was sent in to deal with them...   

While people were screaming and running for their lives, Kendra and the bot squad let loose on them, slaying them all in prompt fashion. Then, it happened, while Natasha was rounding up the team to head back to base, a little girl walked up to her and pulled on her coat... 

"Hello," said Natasha. 

"You cannot win, We are eternal," said the little girl who then fainted and fell into Nat's arms... 

"Possessed by a dark entity," said Kendra. "It is gone, now...." Kendra looked about the airport, but could not sense the entity any more. The battle bots surrounded them to head for home, but some how Tasha knew this was just the beginning....

  

DARKCHILDE RADIO #FanficFriday

ONE morning I got a call from Regina, my assistant at Pratt Corp., to meet Bailey at my Santa Monica office. Which was at the Asylum, a dance club I had bought interest in. Bailey was one of the leaders of my Cincinnati Team led by the enchanting witch Jennifer.

        The two of them were loyal as any Childer could be, and they often do me favours like when they got controlling interest in a local radio station there which they now run and split the profits with me.

While their day job is quite profitable, the Cincinnati team does rather well as highly paid assassins of demons and monsters who attack innocents... You might call them the Cincinnati ghost busters without Slimer....   I call them Team Bailey....

When I took the elevator back to Santa Monica, it opened to the Asylum elevator. Not surprising since Lorne was rather fond of dancing and probably had some business dealings with Jeanette, the club owner... When I got the call from Bailey to meet up, I directed her to the club and ordered a bottle of Bourbon. I took the bottle and went up the stairs to a loft over the bar and watched all the vamps and goths and ghouls dancing on the dance floor below....
Some of you are asking what a ghoul is right about now.... You see, a ghoul is human that wants to be a vampire so they do favours for them and let them feed off them until the master decides to turn them... kind of like vampire groupies... 

Bailey and Jennifer were at a convention one night in Cincinnati when they were attacked by biters and left to die, I happened upon them just in time and gave them some vampire blood to heal them, but as we left the room to take them back to their own rooms, the vamps who had drained them saw us and shot them both killing them, and turning them, due to the vitae in their systems.... By the time they were reborn... I had ripped the three vamps who killed them to shreds and bled them dry... They turned to dust before the girls eyes and I had to teach the girls how to live the life of the undead... The Danse Macabre we call it.... 

As Jen was a powerful witch before she died, she was able to create daywalker rings for all of us and  still supplies all my operatives with magical items for a fee. Today, she was sending me a care package of magical gizmos and such, that included some magic flasks that fill with fresh blood every time you close them, A handy tool for the vamps I employ to protect the innocents. Bailey handed me a flask with my initials engraved on it with a smile.... 

"Why thank you, luv... It's lovely..." says I. 

"I was going to order you one custom made, but Jennifer wanted to make it herself. She says, it is bonded to you, so you can  find it any time you are separated from it... Some kind of tracking spell or something..." says Bailey... 

"I love it. Thank you very much, my dear. How are things in Ohio?" asks I. 

"Good, good, we just collected about ten thousand in bounties this month, and the radio ads are selling well too... I deposited your share in the usual account as always..." says she.   

"Marvelous, you girls are the best, keep up the good work." says I. 

"Also, Jennifer bought some other stations out and increased our revenue by about 300 percent. They started a company to over see all the stations and Jennifer is the CEO. She calls it DarkChilde Radio. You are the major stockholder and Chairman of the Board, of course. This is a copy of the documents and list and addresses of the Directors." says she. 

"Oh, luv. Just email me a copy and put the paperwork on my desk will you..." says I. 

"Very good, sir," says she. "I'll see to them personally."   

"Actually, you know what? Get with Gina and have DarkChilde brought in as a subsidiary of Pratt Corp,," says I. 

"Very well, I will coordinate a meeting with Gina and Jennifer and see to it that's done, sir." says she. 

"Oh, and Bailey,... call me William, please" says I.   

"Very well,... William," says she, and that's how DarkChilde Radio Corp. was born... 

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MISTER DARK AND THE ROOMS WITH A VIEW #FanficFriday

The next day, I got up and checked the fridge which was full of blood bags and bottles of bourbon...
"I love this room," I told the gods of hotel rooms if there were such things...
Anya woke up and stretched, "Did I fall asleep?" She asked...
"Obviously, you did, luv..." I answered.
"Yeah, my fridge was full of food too. And when you take something out and close it, it refills itself. Think I will like it here." She got up and looked out the window at the bright and sunny day outside... "Such a lovely day, outside. There's a pizza place and a bunch of stores and a cab and the Statue of Liberty... Spike i think we are in New York..." Anya pointed to the Statue in the window...
"Cant be; we were in Sunnydale, last night..." I looked out the window in amazement.
"Lets call room service, I want some ham and eggs. Oh, I wonder if they have green eggs and ham..." Anya went to the phone as I watched the hustle and bustle of early morning New York below us....

"Yeah, the windows are magic so you can see any view you like outside," said Lorne with a smile, so proud of his Hotel floor... "Just ask nicely and they will show you whatever you want."
"Bollocks." said I.
"No really; it works. Watch this..." Lorne smiles and asks the windows nicely to show him Hollywood and the windows changed the view to Hollywood.
"Wow," says Anya. "Can it show me, Leonardo's bedroom?" Anya chuckled...
"Da Vinci or Dicaprio?" Lorne asked.
"Never mind," said Anya...
"How did you get this Hotel," I asked Lorne.
"Actually, I just won the alternate universe in a poker game from a Mr. Nightshade, nice old man... terrible poker face...."

"Who was the previous owner," asks I...
"Mr. Dark, they call him... strange gentleman, lots of tattoos. Runs a carnival in the fall, I hear... Say who wants breakfast?" Lorne walked toward the phone when a knock came at the door.
Anya opened the door to find a cart of breakfast foods waiting but no one in sight to tip... She rolled the cart inside and smiled. "Breakfast is served, " she said....    

The Madhouse, The Order of Ren, and The Unholy Three

After the club closed, Lorne offered us rooms in his new home down the street. We went there with him and looked around at what was left of Sunny d. The Bronze was surrounded by vamps and none of the other demons would go near the place, and the Magic Box was closed and locked up and advertising a GRAND RE-OPENING coming soon... I wondered for a moment what had happened to the uber demons that killed Anya in the high school but there was no sign of them now...

Lorne had found a nice house over on Elm Street and had claimed it for his own, apparently some demons had tried to throw him and his crew out and been thrashed viciously by them so no one tries to question them anymore....    

Under the stairs was a secret elevator that led to a secret hotel in a private dimension where rooms were available for everyone... how did Lorne set this up, i wondered?

"Well, its a long story,... basically, I won it in a poker game. The elevator here goes to any destination you desire. Won the elevator in one hand from a Mister Nightshade and the alternate universe in another from a Mister Dark. See the button for Madhouse. Goes straight to work. Then there's a button for Home, and one for Chicago, and Cleveland, Los Angeles, Denver, and some other Hell dimensions i do business in, and a button for your floor... 13... See this hotel has all the 13th floors that were not added to skyscrapers... Kind of confusing, but the room service is great." Lorne smiled and everyone tried to comprehend what he was saying....   

"BUT we went down not up," said Anya, always the first to point out what everyone was thinking... 

"Yes... its a magic elevator... you should see my magic carpet." said Lorne with a smile... 

"How do you set the buttons?" I asked out of curiousity. 

"I just think of where I need to go and the panel adds a button. Told you it was confusing." Lorne showed us to our rooms and advised us that the room service is excellent and we should try it." Then he went to his room. number one.   

"You dont sleep in the house?" I asked him. 

"Oh Hell no, its haunted.." Lorne went inside and closed the door and the rest of us found our rooms and turned in.... 

Later that night, Anya came to my door and asked to come in.... 

"Sure thing, luv," I told her and invited her in... She came in looking somewhat shaken and sat down at the dinner table by the fridge.... 

"You know, the fridge has fresh blood packs inside... I love this room... Whats wrong, An?" I asked her. 

"I just had this dream where i remembered... well, the Elysian Fields,... you remember that, Spike?" 

"Wasnt my dream luv.... " I remarked thoughtfully... 

"But you were there, William,... after Sunnydale... you dont recall???..." 

I shook my head having no memories of the place... 

"You and me and some others were abducted by demons from the Elysian Fields and taken to their Hell dimension,... they were going to sacrifice us to the Unholy Trinity... you tried to fight them off but they beat you down..." Anya looked at me to see if i recalled any of that... but i didnt...  "Then this other faction rescued us... the Order of Ren... they killed our abducters and asked us if we would help them overthrow the Three... They gave you some demon power through a spell to make you stronger and then they gave me demon powers sensing that I had once been a vengeance demon..." Anya created a fireball with the flick of her wrist and then flicked it away again... "We attacked the three with the Order and our leader Ren Tsa, but the Three were too strong for us and they banished us from their realm... they sent you away first..." 

"To L.A., yes, its coming back to me now... I was a ghost in L.A... i tell you from one Hell to another with me..." I recalled the attack and the banishment and the abduction now. "Yes, the three wiped my memory before they banished me to Hell,...er, Los Angeles. I remember it clearly now."   

"Yes, then they banished the rest of the Order too. And they sent Ren Tsa to another Hell dimension without his powers so he could not escape... Spike, he called out to me for help, in this dream. We have to find him. He is the one who gave me my powers back and the Order can stop the Three from destroying the world... Some thing big is coming Spike,... I can feel it..." Anya was visibly shaken by her dream and even i could sense something dark and eerie in the air... 

"We'll find him, luv.... We'll find them all..." I hugged Anya and comforted her... being a psy-sensitive i can feel other peoples feelings sometimes and her compassion and fear for her colleagues was strong... 

I knew that I had to find the Order some how, but i was not sure why. 

The Witch, the Demon and the Vampire

WHEN a portal opened in front of me in an alley in Santa Monica, it was a bit surprising, and when a bunch of people from another reality came out it was a curiousity, but when Anyanka walked out onto the street in front of me, it was a pleasant surprise. Anya was happy as could be, when she came out from a large field where she had been since the battle of Sunnydale.

At first she had no memory of her death at the hands of the ugly uber vamps and from her memories I supposed that she had been to the Elysian Fields since Sunnydale, but when a portal opened there to let the inhabitants out and bring them to this world, several of them walked out on to the street and walked around exploring their new surroundings.    
Although I had seen another Anya running about California recently, it became apparent that she was a doppelganger from another reality who was still a vengeance demon. My Anyanka was human when she crossed over, and now with the portal closed behind her, there was no returning to the Fields for any of them.  
I offered to let her stay at my flat and was relieved to hear her accept, and then she asked me if I saw Tara.
"Tara?" I asked.
"You know Tara. The witch. Willow's girl. She was there before me." Anya looked around.
"Did she come out too?" I asked Anya and looked around for her, but she was no where in sight.
"Yeah, you didnt see her?" she asked.
"No, the portal was opened before I got here. Which way did she go?" Being a Malkavian, I am some what of a psy sensitive, but not nearly as good as Dru. I tried to find her psyche, but to no avail.
"There. She went that way, I think," Anya ran down the street about a block and I followed her. No sign of Tara anywhere at first. Then Anya found Lorne and asked him if he knew where Tara was. He hummed a little and pointed us in her direction, then he invited us to visit his new club for the grand opening and gave us cards with the address on them. I slipped the card in my pocket and ran to find Tara.
When I found her, she was in a corner looking for a bullet hole and crying. We took her back to my flat and explained how she had been in another reality where she had no memories of her past life. Anya comforted her as best as she could, but I began to wonder who else had come back from alternate realities and why were portals to other dimensions opening up around the world...
That night, we went to Lorne's new club, the Madhouse, which was only accessible through a magic portal as it was in an alternate reality. I thought the name seemed somehow appropriate looking about at all the demons dancing and drinking and singing karaoke.... We danced the night away and decided to spend more time there in the future...
As the music calmed the savage beasts in the club, I thought for just a moment that I saw a familiar face, Darla, in the crowd dancing, but then she was gone, and I didn't see her again all night.... Lorne needed help at the club and offered us all jobs there. Tara was happy to help out, and Anya was willing to help too, although I could tell from talking to her, that she missed her magic shop...
Lorne offered me a job as a bouncer and promised all the bourbon I could drink as well, and I thought, well, okay,... I mean why not, right?
As Lorne poured our drinks, I asked him, "Whats the name of this dimension you found here." to which he replied....
"Thinking of calling it Sunnydale... Big sign outside...."
"You don't say," I said, but in my head I was thinking small world....
All around us, demons were smiling and laughing and dancing,... and Lorne was responsible. He had tamed the savage beasts. And more importantly, he had brought peace at last to a little place called Sunnydale...
Somehow, this Madhouse of his felt like home.....

THE DARK SLAYER AND I

SHE STOLE MY HEART
WITHOUT TRYING
WHEN I LOOKED INTO HER EYES
NOW WE WALK THE NIGHT TOGETHER
THE DARK SLAYER AND I

NO ONE WILL COME BETWEEN US 

NO ONE SMART WOULD EVEN TRY 

FOR WE ARE TWO OF A KIND 

THE DARK SLAYER AND I   

THO WE GO OUR SEPARATE WAYS 

ONE IS ALWAYS CLOSE BY 

AND WE HAVE EACH OTHERS BACKS NOW 

THE DARK SLAYER AND I 

WE FACE THE DARKNESS TOGETHER 

KNOWING WELL THAT WE MAY DIE   

AND WHATEVER MAY COME WE ARE READY  

THE DARK SLAYER AND I