Out of the frying pan into the fire ((tag Victor and Clark))

[slayers_desire]

April gently touched her head, placing a cloth to the wound on her head. Someone had knocked her out. And wherever she was... it was dark. And she could hear chanting.

Her clothes were gone, and she was now wearing a simple white gown. Which meant her PINpoint was gone too. She had no idea where it was.

There was also a ward that negated her magical defenses, and that wasn't an option.

It had seemed such a good decision to come to her home universe... when she had to leave the Smallville universe because of the strange appearance of a twisted and psychopathic Clark Luthor in her bed. She had called for help from Victor Allen, and Victor told her to escape. And this was supposed to be her escape.

But when she appeared, she was taken aback by the disastrous sights and smells of LA. And she had gone looking for someone she knew, but instead was taken by surprise by a person who came up behind her and had knocked her out. And now... she whimpered... she was in trouble.

Typically... this was just typically...

She didn't know why she was here, but April had to wait and learn what she could. And hopefully she could find a way to get home soon.

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[kalel_ofkrypton]

"So long as it doesn't put you, or April, in danger." He doesn't have many qualms about torching the place either. So long as wherever April is, it's protected against the flames.

He zips in, finds a good spot to drop the device, and zips away again. He finds a few convenient locations to set spot fires, fanning the flames bigger with heat vision, enough that it will spread in short order.

[victormakesart]

"Iiiii'm not sure how I feel about murder. That is to say, I know exactly how I feel about murder, and I'm not a giant fan. I know they're bad guys, mega bad, but--I, uh."

[buffyverse_npcs]

"Sweetie... these vampires are already dead. We are not murdering them... think of it as freeing the body from the Demon." Lorne whispered. "Its how I think of it. So I can hang out with these guys."

The fire worked well... the vampires fled the night club quickly. And soon the night club is empty, and burning down.

[kalel_ofkrypton]

Clark avoids as many fatalities as he can. Killing is not in his playbook, even if it's just vampires. April is a vampire, and her having a soul makes her special, but that doesn't justify killing those who don't.

And once the club is empty, he goes around with his arctic breath to put the flames out.

[victormakesart]

Victor reaches for Lorne's hand, gives it a squeeze. "That helps, a little. I don't think it's a thing I could do, myself... because it's a slippery slope. I'm not an executioner."

[buffyverse_npcs]

"Sweetie, you are preaching to the choir. I avoid killing whenever possible. The rest of my kind think that I am broken because of that... but when I look at life..." Lorne can't explain it.

He opens his eyes. "Let's go down. And save this beautiful girl, shall we?"

[kalel_ofkrypton]

"It's safe," Clark calls when he's done playing fireman. Some surfaces have frost over the charred remains of the club's interior, and it feels oddly cold for a place that was on fire thirty seconds ago.

And then he gets immediately to finding the entrance to the underground.

[victormakesart]

Victor waltzes right in and makes herself at home, searching for some sort of trap door, some hidden opening.

[buffyverse_npcs]

Victor will find the trap door first, it was hidden behind the bar. And she finds it by pulling the third beer spigot a certain way.

As soon as it opens, Spikes growl. "I smell fresh blood."

[kalel_ofkrypton]

"I'll take point," Clark volunteers. He thinks he'll be most able to take any punishment that comes their way in the form of defenders or boobytraps. And they have no idea how extensive or large this underground facility might be.

[victormakesart]

She goes on in with Lorne, not because she wants to go to the rear, but because she knows Clark wouldn't like it if she went up front and she doesn't want to give him an extra thing to worry about.

[buffyverse_npcs]

The first area they reach has a small gathering of vampires in it. Some of them are drinking alcohol. Some of them are drinking from a fresh victim. There is music and it seems like their own private club.

They didn't even seem to know that the club above was set aflames.

"Oh... are you a stripper?" One of the vampires spots Clark.

[kalel_ofkrypton]

Seeing them using a likely-innocent person to feed from has Clark seeing red, and his eyes flash. "Get out, if you know what's good for you."

[victormakesart]

Vic steps to the side, away from the group, because if there's going to be an altercation, and she's sure that there will be, she doesn't want to be getting in the way, and her fighting style, such that it is, requires room.

[buffyverse_npcs]

"Don't let them come any further." The music stops and a tall, beautiful vampire at the DJ stand orders the others.

"They want to take our Mother away from us."

The vampires go into warrior mode. Lorne touches Victor's elbow... "Sweetheart, we have to find our path. It is hidden from me, but I know it is here somewhere."

[kalel_ofkrypton]

Clark doesn't take his eyes off the vampires. "Go. We'll handle this," he says to Doc and Lorne. It kills him to not rush off after his wife and save her, but he knows he can trust them. Or at least her. And there's a part of him that's going to relish letting out his anger against these vampires (nonlethally, of course).

[victormakesart]

She nods her head, looks to Lorne to lead the way, because she doesn't know which way is up in this place... figuratively, not literally, because literally gravity is still gravitational.

[buffyverse_npcs]

Lorne guides Victor to the left, along the back of the underground club, keeping out of sight as he feels the walls for an entrance.

Meanwhile, the vampires go for Clark, Connor, Wes and Spike. They attack in droves. Their intention is to kill.

[kalel_ofkrypton]

Clark dives right in, drawing on his years of training with April and the Fortress and bringing all his hand-to-hand combat skills to bear on the monsters who took his wife. He goes for body-blows, pressure points, anything that will give him an edge over vampiric opponents. Up to and including using heat vision to herd them, singe them, get them right where he wants them so he can knock them out.

[victormakesart]

Victor aids in feeling the walls, searching for seams, for differences in air pressure, perhaps a thin stream of cool air, anything to help out.

[buffyverse_npcs]

Through the efforts of Clark, Connor, Wes and Spike the droves of vampire are getting thinner and thinner. The other three have no qualms about staking these ones either.

The head vampires growls. And tosses several magical bolts to the four fo them. It must have been her who blocked magic being used.

Victor finds a thin stream of cool air that belongs to a tunnel. However, when she opens it, she is attacked by two vampires.

[kalel_ofkrypton]

Clark sidesteps at superspeed, and targets the head vampire, rushing her. She seems like the one in charge here, and its she that deserves most of his fury. Not just as a tactical move, but she is the one most responsible for taking his wife.

[victormakesart]

Tai chi isn't just something that old folks do in the park in slow motion. Every move has a practical fighting application. She shifts her weight to the balls of her feet, and raises her forearms, close to her chest, at different levels, because that's all she has time to do. When the first vampire comes forward, she pushes her arms ahead, shoving him back into the tunnel, giving her time to step back and give herself room to deal with them.

With the second vampire, she grabs his wrist and pulls, stepping back as she does, and lets his own momentum bring him to the ground.

[buffyverse_npcs]

The vampire leader grabs Clark by the neck. "You can't have the Mother. The God child needs us."

Both vampires were not expecting such a difficult opponent. The one who gets shoved back has to reorinate himself. Before standing up to rush at Victor again. The second vampire attempts to pull Victor to the ground with him.

[kalel_ofkrypton]

Clark takes advantage of the closeness to grab her wrist, and forces it away from his neck. "You can't have my wife." And then he headbutts her, using his hard Kryptonian head to knock her back - or knock her out, if he can manage it. It's a crude move, but nobody said he had to be fancy.