"Hey Lucy, we're home!" Jesse called out as they entered the shop, holding open the door so Xander could pull in the wagon.

"And we've picked up some movies," Sharon added.

Amy poked her head out of the warehouse. "Good, cause Willow has about blown Elan's brain out and she could use the break."

"I doubt it's that bad," Xander said.

"No it really is," Amy assured him, "Elan knows a little science, but it's really old and there's a lot of it that's wrong. Willow has been correcting a lot of stuff using the board to explain it and she's looking frazzled."

"Best get in there and distract her," Jesse ordered Xander, "I'll set up the TV."

"Alright," Xander agreed, knowing it was his job to calm down Willow when she got too excited and let go of the wagon.

"-is a vacuum because there isn't any gravity to hold the atmosphere in," Willow explained to Elan excitedly, before Xander swept her up and sat her down with her in his lap.

"Hey!" Willow complained and was interrupted with a kiss.

"Thank god," Amy said, filling a cup with coke and handing it to Elan. "Here, drink this."

The silver dragon downed the coke and let out a tremendous burp. "Beg pardon," she said, embarrassed as she recovered.

"Willow takes a little getting used to," Sharon offered, "but she's a great friend."

"Are you sure she's not a goddess of wisdom in disguise?" Elan asked seriously.

Xander tickled Willow making her giggle as she halfheartedly tried to fight him off.

"Willow is the smartest of us," Sharon said, "though Amy isn't far behind."

"Pretty sure I'm way behind," Amy argued, "at least in some things."

Sharon shrugged. "Your grades are just behind hers."

"Xander gets better grades than I do," she pointed out.

"Yeah, but Willow bribes him to study so it doesn't count," Jesse replied, gesturing to where the two were cuddling with Xander running his fingers through Willow's hair.

"Good, it keeps her from focusing on us," Sharon said.

"What movie should we watch first?" Jesse asked as he connected the VCR.

"What do we got?" Amy asked as she poked through the collection of movies.

"Sci-fi, fantasy, or horror?" he offered.

"Fantasy to start," Sharon suggested, "we're just showing her how it works."

"Conan the Destroyer it is," Jesse said cheerfully and slid the tape in the VCR.

After the movie

"That was better than the best play I have ever witnessed," Elan said, "and I can see why my cousin was so taken with the human barbarian she's seeing. Did those events really occur?"

"Not as far as we know," Jesse replied, "but it's a big universe so I'm sure something similar happened somewhere."

"Is this why you all know so much," Elan asked, "because you have watched many such movies?"

"Partially," Jesse agreed. "We use it for entertainment, but they always make sure to sneak in a little knowledge here and there."

"Do you have any Bill Nye?" Willow asked hopefully.

"Nope," Xander replied, "pawn shops aren't big on educational videos."

"Too bad," Willow said.

"Your people are so advanced I feel like a hatchling," Elan said as she looked around the warehouse at the various devices and the wardrobes the children had constructed.

"Our world is probably older than yours," Willow said, "and it's not like you don't have time to learn all of this, dragons live for a long, long time."

"You'll share your people's knowledge with me?" Elan asked in surprise.

"Why not, you've shared your knowledge of portals," Xander said, holding Willow in his lap.

"Once we have the hub set up we can build a library," Willow said excitedly.

"Hub?" Elan asked having heard them mentioned it before, but not quite sure what they meant by it.

"We have a lot of empty worlds we've built portals to," Jesse explained, "and we're planning to build a castle or something to place all the portals in to work out of so we wouldn't be taking up all the room in here."

"Empty worlds?" Elan asked curiously, all the worlds they had shown her were filled with life so they were hardly empty in her opinion.

"Worlds without people, just plants and animals," Sharon explained.

"That's wealth beyond compare," Elan said in awe. Seeing the confused looks on the children's faces she explained, "A world without people is a world where you can mine for gold, hunt to your heart's content, or raise an enormous family in peace, secure in the knowledge that you won't come into conflict with other races."

"An entire planet worth of resources," Willow said, "and many centuries to spread out without running out of room."

"We kinda overlooked that since we're hunting for a specific magical land," Xander admitted, rethinking the worth of all their 'failed' portals. He'd known they were useful and all, but looking at it now… wow!

"Cool," Sharon said with a grin, "I always wanted to be rich and have a lot of land."

"Island in the Bahamas," Jesse said, "no big predators, plenty of beach."

"So, where are we going to place the hub?" Amy asked curiously.

"Tropical areas have huge storms," Willow said, "so the Larder is still the best place for it."

"Hurricanes are a pain, but if we're building out of stone, houses will come through much better than the wood and glass ones everyone uses right now," Sharon pointed out.

"Yeah, the igloo design should make it easy to ride out a storm," Xander agreed. "Of course before we make a hub we have to figure out how to link wardrobes."

"Free standing portals are supposed to be much harder to create than linked ones," Elan offered.

"The anchor rune!" Willow exclaimed, leaping off of Xander's lap and running to the white board.

"She is scary good at coming up with stuff," Jesse said cheerfully.

"So, since you like empty worlds and are helping us, would you like one?" Xander asked Elan.

"You'd give me a world?" Elan asked in shock, stunned by the offer.

"Of course," Xander said. "It's not like we need a lot of them or anything and no one's using them."

"Don't we need the big circle to tune in?" Sharon asked. "Since we used human blood on it it'll be occupied."

"I have a spare big circle," Xander told her, "and it's not bloodied yet."

"I'll order us a gallon of cow blood," Jesse said, hopping to his feet.

"We have more than enough candles left," Sharon said.

"Then all we have to do is make the wardrobe," Xander said with a smile, eager to get to work.

"Elan is probably going to want a big one, something sturdy," Amy pointed out.

"I'll make it out of redwood," Xander decided. "In fact, I'll make two identical ones for when Willow figures out how to connect them."

"So half an hour?" Sharon joked.

Xander glanced over where Willow was working on the board. "Maybe," he said seriously.

"Let's watch another movie," Amy said, digging through the pile. "Bladerunner!"

After the movie

After the movie had ended Elan turned to the children. "Is that what the future is going to be like?"

"No idea," Willow said, having been lured away from the whiteboard by the movie, "but probably not, since we know to avoid the mistakes they made."

"Yeah, Sci-Fi movies are just what people imagine the future is going to be like and how things can go wrong," Amy added.

"A morality tale," Elan decided.

"Pretty much," Willow agreed. "Movies have to show exciting things or no one would watch them, so people have to screw up for the plot to happen, but you want the hero to be someone the viewer can empathize with and agree with, so it has to be a good moral to go with it."

"Mostly," Jesse agreed, "we also have cartoons and porn."

Willow groaned.

"And those are?" Elan asked.

"Cartoons are just colorful things to keep you busy and pass the time," Sharon said, "though they have been getting better, so really it's only the older ones that are meaningless."

"And porn is just films of people having sex, no plot needed," Jesse said cheerfully.

"Kids don't get to watch porn, it's for adults," Xander said.

"And pretty repetitive and boring anyway," Jesse admitted. "You can watch a movie with a good plot over and over, but porn is pretty boring after the first time."

"I think we have some cartoons," Amy said quickly digging through the tapes. "Merry Melodies Medley," she announced, swapping the tapes.

"You better not have bought any porn," Willow said firmly.

"We didn't," Xander assured her, giving his girlfriend a squeeze.

"Cartoon's starting," Amy announced to get them to be quiet.

After the cartoon

"That was incredibly violent," Elan said, "colorful and with amazing music, but violent. The adults prefer you watching that to copulation?"

"I don't get it either," Xander admitted with a shrug, "it's probably something we'll understand when we're older."

"I don't know," Jesse said, "a lot of stuff they tell me I'll understand when I'm older still sounds stupid to me."

"Then you just aren't old enough yet," Willow said.

"Yeah, well… How about now?" he asked with a grin. "And now?"

Willow rolled her eyes and refused to respond.

"So, can we make a hub with connecting wardrobes?" Xander asked.

"I'll need to check some things," Willow said, "cause it looks really simple, much simpler than our second circle and not really much more complex than our first one."

"And you're sure she's not a goddess of wisdom?" Elan asked quietly.

"Mostly," Sharon said cheerfully.

"It's getting a bit late," Xander said, "do you want to stay over or should we meet up with you tomorrow?"

Elan considered the matter for a moment. "I have some things to do at home and it's probably going to take me a few days to get a hold of the books I need. The adventurers I sent after them should be back sometime in the next week and I need to be there to meet them."

"I need to go over everything we've done anyway," Willow said waving it off.

"We were planning on building a beach house on the island so the Boys should have to portal open for most of next week," Xander said. "Just drop by when you can."

"I shall," Elan said with a smile as she stepped over to the wardrobe. "I'll see you sometime in the next ten days. Fare thee well."

"Bye!" The group called out as she vanished into the wardrobe just as a figure in a trench coat came in and ducked down one of the aisles.

"You know for someone descended from divinity, she's pretty down to Earth," Jesse said.

"Told you, silver is the best," Xander said smugly.

"I really should read up on everything about her world if we're going to be visiting it a lot," Jesse said thoughtfully.

"All the books are at my house," Willow said brightly.

"Game on?" Sharon asked hopefully.

"Game on," Willow agreed. "I'm going to send you all against a bunch of dragons this time."

"Fine, but Jesse is going to walk in front of me this time," Xander said, "last time he stuck a dagger in my back."

"The look on your face was priceless!" Jesse said with a laugh.

"Not as priceless as the look on yours when it snapped," Amy reminded him.

"I know," Jesse said with a sigh. "That's the last time I buy a dagger from a Duke of Hell."

"I still say it was a con artist pretending to be a Duke of Hell," Sharon argued as Jesse started putting everything away and cleaning up the mess they'd made. "You only paid two souls, a real Duke would have charged a lot more than that."

"Maybe," Jesse said. "Anyway, I only stabbed him cause he was getting bored."

"You stabbed me with a soul stealing dagger because you thought I was getting bored?" Xander asked in disbelief.

"Dude, you'd just sliced a troll in half, perfect cut from right hip to left shoulder, and all you did was yawn," Jesse pointed out.

"Huh," Xander said thoughtfully. "Yeah, I guess I was getting a little bored. Thanks!"

"No problem," Jesse said with a smile.

"Boys," Willow groaned, rolling her eyes.

"Without a little risk it's not as much fun," Xander said, poking Willow in the side.

"Alright," Willow said with a sigh, "I was planning to save it for our next campaign… but how would you feel about hunting down a demigod?"

The four other children perked up.

"Now we're talkin!" Jesse exclaimed. "Hercules?"

"No, one of Zeus' other children," Willow said. "You do know that not every one of his kids is famous, right?"

"Plus I like Herc," Xander said, thinking of the latest episode of Hercules the Legendary Journeys they'd seen a couple of days ago.

"Fine, no offing Hercules," Jesse said.

"Well, let's go," Amy said, "if I know how things are going to go, and I do from hanging out with you guys, it's going to take at least a couple of weeks to track down the target as you get distracted by every shiny object along the way before we even get to the fight."

"Which will probably last a couple of days," Sharon added.

"Demigods are tough," Jesse said defensively, "they aren't like gods who all have some specific weakness, so you have to hit them more before they go down."

"Thankfully they also don't hit as hard," Xander said as they left.

The demon waited until the children had left before coming out from the shelves with his order. He'd ignored all the talk about how dangerous these… children were, but he could hear the sincerity in their voices as they talked about hunting gods and their spawn. If anything, the rumors were understating the danger. He shuddered and quickly hurried to make his purchase.

Another Omake by: RUGoing2writethat

Xander and Jesse had just finished yet another cabinet. Willow had used their previous attempts to plot some new coordinates. This time, she was sure she had the right settings for Narnia.

And after finishing the chanting...they opened the cabinet to yet another world that was not Narnia.

"Mr. Data, explain to me why there is a... thing, floating in midair, in the middle of my bridge with children looking through it!" demanded Captain Picard.

Data took out his tricorder and walked around and around the floating 'hole' in the middle of the bridge. The children were staring out at them while he scanned the thing. "Captain, I believe this to be some sort of dimensional rift. We're looking into another reality," said Data.

"Hah, I told you we needed to work on out aim when we build these things," Jesse told Xander.

"Such advanced technology that their children are able to build a portal to another reality?" remarked Riker looking stunned.

"Captain, I suggest we invite them to come through. I sense great excitement from them, but also some apprehension. I think they want to meet us, but aren't sure they will be welcomed," Troi explained.

The Captain rubbed his chin in thought. On the one hand they were explorers, seeking out new life, on the other he didn't do well with children. "Oh, very well," conceded the Captain. He stood up and approached the hole. "I cordially invite you children to come through and visit with us."

Willow squee'd and she jumped from the hole as she literally tried to look at every single place on the bridge at once. The rest of the children followed at a more sedate pace. Jesse and Xander climbed out last to see Willow poke Data and say, "I can't believe you're actually real. Wow!"

Deanna stood up. "How about we make our way to the conference room. I'll see to some refreshments," she said, sensing the Captain's annoyance starting to grow. The children followed her and Riker to the Conference Room. One by one the bridge officers filed into the room to find Willow and Xander quietly whispering among themselves.

"Captain, can we have two 3 foot long solid steel poles?" requested Xander.

"Why would you want two 3 foot long sold steel poles?" asked Worf suspiciously.

"Well, we need to show you something," Xander replied.

The Captain sent LaForge to get the poles after contacting the fabrication shops to make them. When LaForge returned, Xander handed a pole to Data and asked him to bend it. Data bent it easily. Xander then asked him to bend it back and Data bent it back easily.

Xander then picked up the untouched pole, bent it like a pretzel and then bent it back again. "I wanted to show you that we're stronger than humans because we're not your average human beings. That being said, we come from a world where this reality is a fictional TV series."

Picard glanced at Troi who nodded to signal that the children were being honest.

"It is theoretically possible," Riker offered, unsure how the strength of the children related to the fact.

They spent many hours talking. They refused to give them any technology, but Willow managed to sneak a peek at some schematics and take a picture of them with a camera she'd had the foresight to bring. Riker caught her, and exposed the film to light, rendering it blank. After that, it was agreed that the children should go home.

But, no one caught Amy doing the exact same thing; the fact that she was wearing an amulet that made people ignore her was probably what allowed her to get pictures of several schematics and bring them back with her. Now Willow would spend hours pouring over the pictures, trying to learn how to build 20th century equivalents. After all, she couldn't just build 24th century technology because then no one would advance and make themselves better. She'd build the 20th century equivalent and slowly improve the technology, launching improvements every 2 to 5 years.

They would be rich!

Typing By: Abyssal Angel

Typing of Omake by: …someone else.