A Timely Rescue - August 19
Title: A Timely Rescue
Author: LadyWinterlight (songs_of_winter)
Fandoms: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D./MCU
Rating: PG-13
Word Count: 441
Notes: Whitehall mistakes Xander for a SHIELD agent and has him kidnapped. In the same 'verse as the rest of my challenge submissions so far. I haven't actually picked a point in the timeline as yet - most likely sometime after CA:TWS and the mid-point of Agents of SHIELD S2 (because we all know what happened to Whitehall at that point in canon). So... mid to late 2014-ish?
If I owned either BTVS or the MCU, I wouldn't need to write fanfic about it. Obviously not mine.
“I hope you guys have written your wills, because you’re going to be in so much trouble when my backup arrives,” Xander claimed with all the bravado he could muster. He’d managed to hang on through interrogation and now these asshats wanted to “make him comply.” Well, that was total bullshit. Wasn’t gonna work.
And he really was being serious, despite the brave front. Willow knew he’d been captured, and Xander was fairly certain the Chosen Two were on the way with a squad of minis.
Just because the Slayers didn’t kill humans didn’t mean these guys would get away without a world of hurt.
I could really use that rescue, ladies, he called silently as Whitehall’s minions strapped him into some kind of device that would force his body to strain and his eyes to stay open.
Just a few more seconds, Willow’s voice soothed his agitation. Xander counted his breaths; at six, he saw the telltale glow of a portal being opened right in the middle of the lab.
“What the hell is that?” demanded Whitehall.
“Justice,” Xander managed, despite the punch in the stomach he received in response.
Then Buffy jumped through the portal before it fully finished opening. Faith rolled her eyes as she led the rest, waiting for the magic to stabilize but only just. Xander gave his best grin as ten pissed off Slayers poured into the lab, intent upon crashing the party.
Normal soldiers, and even some of the enhanced, didn’t stand a chance against the ladies in the rescue party. Most of them were down before they could put up much of a fight, though one or two of the younger Slayers were shot - non-fatally, thankfully, but Xander knew that bullet wounds were seldom “minor” even if they hit extremities.
Unfortunately, Whitehall himself did manage to escape. But Xander thought they’d caught one of his deputies.
“We’ll take them back to question, and then turn them over to law enforcement,” Buffy said firmly. “This is out of our jurisdiction, more or less, but they can’t say anything about our involvement given the circumstances.”
“Makes sense,” Xander agreed.
“You be sure to get checked over, Xan,” Faith reminded him as she helped him through the return portal.
“I will. Promise. I’m not near-indestructible like you and the Buffster.” Xander grinned, and Faith smirked in return.
“See that you do. And god, I’m starting to sound like Giles,” Faith lamented with a dramatic sigh.
Xander laughed. It was always a relief when his belief in his friends and teammates was rewarded; it always had been, ever since high school.
It was good to be home.