The Scooby Gang

The Scooby Gang - Book 4 Babylon 5

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Summery: The fourth book of the Scooby Gang. The group has found a ship in the yellow space; this leads them to a space station named Babylon 5, the last best hope for peace. How will the chaos that seems to thrive around Xander survive on Babylon 5, how will the manor reaction to space travel in normal space?

Sequel to 'The Scooby Gang Book 1, 2, & 3'

Multi-Ships: m/f/f/f/f f/f/f f/f m/f

Crossovers: Harry Potter, Stargate, Honor Harrington, Highlander, and Babylon 5

Chapter 18: Restock, Games, Sex and Teachers

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Xander sighs as he hits the send key on the datapad. He was thankful for the verbal interface capability that the limited AIs they'd only recently installed allowed. The datapads all had their very own AI and a few of the people from the Earths that were early twentieth Century thought of them as some kind of cross between a Furby and a digital pet. Xander hadn't really paid that much attention to the toys that he was sure were meant for five year olds regardless of their following.

"Send a copy care of Giles please attach video file of the following: "Hey G-Man. I've sent a casualty and death reports for the latest dustup to General Hammond and Captain Sheridan."."

He shrugs and looked sighs, "I'm happy it wasn't more than seven dead. The number of Death Gliders and Starfuries we pumped out before the end of the battle was probably close to a couple thousand and I shudder to think of those in terms of life and death. Unfortunately none of the Jaffa pilots were able to be retrieved and saved in cryogenics but I've already heard from General Jack that Thor informed them the Asgard has officially dissolved the protected planets treaty. He now has a list of contacts they need to keep tabs on but after this recent dust up I have a hard time seeing them trying to do a power grab against the Asgard."

Xander paused and shrugs, "If it wasn't for Mr. Kamikaze ramming his ship into the Goa'uld mother ship I doubt I would have ever thought of attaching a Manticoran Missile to the death gliders or Starfuries. His life was well spent but I guess it did prove that no system is foolproof or perfect. However I have also ensured that the skinsuits will act as skinsuits when it comes to vacuum regardless of if their headgear is sealed or not, I can't blame them for not taking in the habit of sealing it properly, it is after all the Manticoran and the humans there that have grown accustom to it so regularly. I have made a point to General Hammond that they should have drills for that one aspect as it is done that way on Manticore with fresh recruits regardless of rank."

He glanced at the received button on the first copy of the report that showed John having received it on his own datapad and had opened it.

"We restocked all the ships we lost easily enough and I believe they have already started to salvage the lost metal from the battle. I have a feeling the science geeks are going to geek over the extra material they can try to fit together other ways. I've started to work on a few designs to integrate Manticoran missiles into the Starfuries and death gliders on a manufacturing level not just a quick sloppy add on. I wouldn't mind, if you or Egeria stumble across the missile pod launchers Manticore is experimenting with, or something similar for the Prometheus and Babylon 5. I'd like to augment them with a cloaking field of some sort and a bit more Electronic Warfare if Egeria can manage it. I'm copying this note to my file as well so I'll remember to talk to her when I get back to the Manor."

"Oh yes one other issue. I'm sending some replacement straps. I'm sending another note to John. We need a way to make sure some traitorous NID spy doesn't put himself in danger and pop here to do some damage or attempt theft without our knowing it. I can see a half a dozen security breaches waiting to happen and I'm surprised I didn't see it before we started using the Receiving Center."

He sighs, "If you have any ideas on how to relay information as it happens to General Hammond and his people I'd appreciate it. Send now!"

He watched and smiled as Giles's icon lit up and showed he received the report and his verbal log and felt along the connection at the consternation and humor at his 'G-Man' greeting.

'Xander must you?'

'I must, I must, it's mandatory!'

He could feel Giles's amusement at his commentary and asks, 'Any ideas on how to tie an alert rune to something General Hammond will see and read or that a computer can record?'

'Not off hand but perhaps you should sleep on it, and now I'm receiving accusing looks from your wives, for keeping you away longer than you should be.'

Xander smirks and sends, 'I'm on my way now, I just want to say goodnight to Rose she's playing in the hot sand right now and her sleep cycle isn't nearly as routine as mine needs to be.'

Cordelia's voice entered his mind, 'Xander if you say goodnight that's fine but myself and the others are in our sexy negligee and waiting for you to come ravish us, and no matter how tired you are tonight we want our Xander time before we're going to allow you to sleep so remember that when you're playing with your daughter!'

Xander shivered, whenever Cordy or the others were impatient with him over his getting carried away when playing with Rose it was 'your daughter' and ship was hardly what one could consider an offspring of a human, she had different needs and according to Kosh she was much more chaotic and spontaneous than most of her species. In fact she was very much her own persona ripe with personal choice and affection which Kosh tried to encourage in Rose's mother, his companion, but his influence in her personal choices were there, quite obviously. He simply wasn't inventive or chaotic enough to bring that about in her.

He did play a bit with Rose but she practically shooed him home having already felt his sexual tension as Cordelia's thought sent included a randy emotion and imagery of them doing things which lingered much to 'his daughter's' amusement. Besides Rose had recently seen the Earth film Dune and playing Sand Worm didn't quite work out well when she was that small unless there were no humans about. If he'd seen the small GI Joe like toys she was playing at smashing he would have been more than amused.

The theater they'd built they added an add-on in the back for her with room to grow to the estimated full size. It was quite strange to use the sensors for old magnetic recorded film reflected on a wall but as they didn't have enough of a record to record the emoting of the actors it was a very good way for Rose to observe human like behavior. Though she at first thought it was all real, until a very bad special effects made it obvious on a B Rated film, after that she took them for plays and mostly fiction. That had made the ship shiver with pleasure at the fun of imagination. She was mentally as smart as an old genius but emotionally she wanted to play and had the naivety of a seven to ten year old.

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Lemon

Xander entered the Manor, which he knew was where the girls were and made his way to bed. Once naked he'd flamed himself off which nicely removed the scent of BO and other nasties built up from the day's work. He noticed the girls pretending to be asleep and sensed a preplanned prank on his behalf.

They were all in their night shirts and lingerie. He decided he was going to play his own prank, he had one of two options - play along and pretend to be disappointed or he could play the pervert and meticulously check out each and every one of the sexy sleeping girls pretending they were asleep the entire time and really work them up. He decided to do both, he would do the latter first and then pretend, just as they were all on edge, that he was tired and need to go to sleep.

He felt the amusement build in his own mind at the turning of the tables as he hummed and lifted Cordelia's leg.

"I guess she was right those are very sexy lingerie." He reached down and felt the fabric softly and ignored the catching of Cordy's breath as he almost fingered her. He pulled the material away form her nearly soaked crotch as if he was feeling the fabric between his finger and thumb.

"I really must buy more of this fabric it is so soft and yet strong and…" he bends down and sniffs the fabric, "It doesn't smell bad either, it doesn't really hold the scent of the sweat for long so it could really last after a long day."

His voice didn't change but the back of his finger was rubbing just a touch against the smooth skin and slight bit of hair Cordelia left on her labia. She did that on purpose because it added some pleasure when it was rubbed, either from sex with Xander or the other girls.

Xander pulled his finger along the bands of the legs as if straightening the sexy wear but feeling the firm butt at the same time, if any of the girls had individual buttons Cordelia's was the most profound, she liked her butt cheeks played with during sex.

Cordelia thrust her crotch up as he caresses it, as if inviting him to put his mouth to her pussy and pleasure her.

He moved and put his hip against her crotch and yawned, half laying down before pulling the shirt aside on Dawnie. "I see someone helped Dawnie put on this particular piece, at least I hope one of you were kind enough to do that, but it explains why she fell asleep, putting that on would have taken hours, although for me I most say it's definitely worth it."

He bend down and licked the material, it was an edible lingerie and licking it made it stick to her chest which he would lick off later, or one of the girls would. Her moaning was ignored as well and he moved his knee to press just a bit against her crotch. He reached over and kissed her neck at a point that worked only on Dawnie and Dawn, a pressure point he was sure but one that sent shivers up and down their spines with pleasure.

Turning to Dawn he kissed the same spot and then rubbed his hand over her breasts and smiled as he felt the top edge of her underwear covering her crotch.

He bent down a bit putting some pressure on both Cordelia and Dawnie in just the right places, "I don't believe these are regulation."

They were regular panties not actually part of a Teddy or sex play outfit. He pulled them down and she sucked in her breath as her damp hair was exposed to the open air.

He stuck his finger into her without any preamble, and pulled it out, "I had suspected an egg up there but there's nothing there. I guess she just forgot to take them off… Oh well best remove them from the scene before she wakes."

He removed the panties and made sure to 'accidentally' bump her several times.

He spread his legs so his leg not pressed against Dawnie could rub against Dawn with every bit of movement. Willow and Kendra were next.

"Willow looks so pretty trussed up like that, I'll have to make sure to let her know that in the morning." He rubbed his hands over her body moving to feel every bit of her, "She has a very tight and loveable body." He played a bit more with Kendra's ass but did the same thing to her before sighing, "I guess it's time to sleep then…" he put his hands over the two ladies crotch and pressed the legs into Dawn and Dawnie's heat and his hip into Cordy's as he half turns and lays his head down and pretends to be completely asleep, pretends so hard that he mutes the link he had as if his mind went to sleep.

The girls didn't let him stay that way. His fondling them had them very hot and bothered and Dawn was the first to find his manhood and slam her pussy onto it. He'd stuck his finger in her and didn't move it around enough.

They had sex for the next four hours before they slowed down and an hour after that they were asleep, exhausted.

Lemon End

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For some reason Xander woke up early the next morning. He'd only slept about three and a half hours. With the copious amounts of sex he regularly has perhaps the aspect of the demon and mental exercises helped to regulate that or maybe it was something else entirely, but he managed to exit the bed and the entangled girls without apparating out, his apparating wasn't silent so that would have woken them, and his girls, all of them, were grouchy and cute when they didn't garner enough sleep.

He took his shower and Dobby provided some breakfast for himself and Eric who was quite pleased to have breakfast with Xander. Xander was often seen by Eric as the daddy of the group but hadn't said that to anyone. He didn't need to; Xander smiled at the young boy and noticed he was playing with a game, one he'd picked up from Sunnydale. There were plenty of things to play as a child in the other realms but sometimes it was nice to have some low tech games.

"What're you playing Eric?"

He shrugs, "Sonic!"

He smiled and glanced at the room, "You have that on the larger screen too?"

Eric paused and looked up nodding and Xander smirks and Eric rushes, beating Xander to the game consul in the common room. They grew bored with it after about an hour, but it was a good competitive fun time.

"What other games do we have?"

Eric opened up the cupboard where the games went; it was actually where anything of his in the common room was put, kid's toys and such.

As Eric was looking, not really interested in playing any of the games but not willing to turn down any time spent with Xander, Xander spotted an old Etch A Sketch and picked it up, for some reason he felt an - urge, to look it over. It was almost like a mind guiding him only as he was familiar with other minds in his he knew it was only his subconscious.

Suddenly his eyes light up as he realizes what exactly it was that he was looking at and why his subconscious was demanding he pay it closer attention.

"I think we're done for now Eric, but do you mind if I take this?"

Eric gave him a look, both upset at his not being with him and indifferent at the toy. Toys were there to enjoy with people. Xander smiled, razzed his hair and gestures, "You can come with me to bug Egeria but you do have class in about three hours so make sure you have your Giga Pet remind you of it."

Eric rolled his eyes, he'd been the most reluctant when it came to interaction with AIs but once he started it was like he had a new best friend, calling the AI a Giga Pet was Xander's way of reminding the boy that he was not in an equal relationship with the AI at the moment and that his actions carried more weight as he was responsible for both his actions and the AI's actions. The AIs programmed from his former home being the fault of the programmers and the people that allowed them to run unchecked which allowed Sky-Net to produce terminators.

As the two made their way to Egeria's lab, she was wide awake and working on some contraption that appeared to be from a death glider but was… different.

"Good morning Xander, and Eric?"

Xander handed her the Etch A Sketch, "Can you make a screen like this and have a computer record whatever is on it whenever it changes?"

She looked a bit and then quickly took the screws out to look inside. "I suppose I could. I'm not sure why I would though…"

"Here's my idea - I can etch some runes, really small runes on the spinners, remove the handles, and the spinners will work in concert to produce an image or whatever on the surface. In this case they would work to produce names, and a picture, it would be a black and white picture unless you can make it so there are five controls with black White, and the three colors like a laser printer…"

She looked and nodded, "It would be the same design as this. I've seen the laser printers, an inventive method of producing pages of detailed material."

Xander nods, "But it needs to be controlled remotely by physical turns or being pressed physically. That mechanism is essential."

She nods understanding now, "You want to interface a runic schema with a computer?"

Xander nods "That is it exactly! I can key the runes to a keystone which I can key to a rune added to the collars and a few runes added to the receiving room and ops station at the Four Domes. Because the visual its producing isn't actually made up of magic or magical light it will be easily read by the computers and we can track whoever entered and have their picture so if there is a security breach we will have their name, their true name that is and the image they are, not only what they appear but we can have their true face as well as what they appear as."

She nods, she too had watched the Babylon 5 series and the technology of the holographic impersonation ability was something she'd never thought of, and something she could see the Goa'uld being able to use in similar fashion as was used on Babylon 5.

"I should have it done in a couple of days, if you want to write out the runes you'll be using, there will be…" she looked over the device and frowned, "There will be fourteen knobs that's two per color, Black, White, Red, Blue, Yellow, and Clear."

Xander grinned at missing the clear color but nodded, that would make sure there was not skewing of the lines between images. In fact, he frowned, "Do they all act independently, I mean there is one marker there can you make it so every color, aside from clear, is independent of the other colors and the clear can be a physical pull up or push down on the knobs?"

She looked and nodded, "It should be a bit easier to put a switch on all of them, that will help to mix the color. I'll add a clear screen switch to the top as well that will clear the entire thing of any color."

"That sounds like fun. Can I try it out when you're done before Xander uses it?"

Egeria smirks, "I'll make a few of them and you can have one."

"Make his baby blue or pink for all the toys. The ones I'm going to be adding to runes to the knobs of, make black or brown. I'm going to need a few of them, ones for here, ones for the Four Domes, ones for B5, and another is for Hammond on the Prometheus."

She nodded, "I'll make a dozen and I'll set them to interface with the datapads."

"Good, the AIs can help sift through general or expected changes to alert us if anyone is not as they appear or highlight. I'll add a few runes for their intention as well…" he was off in his own little world writing out ideas and Eric grins and rushes off to get ready for school if they did this he'd have a new toy to show off at the EDC High or the Four Domes School for the Gifted. The name sounded cool and considering the students they might end up with more than a few magicals or alien equivalent so it was apt.

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With the number of people in and out of the Four Domes, there seems to be a growing number of children that interacted there. Slowly but surely the number of children grew. The former Ra slaves from Abydos had also started to flourish in number and with an encouragement to learn there was bound to be some debate on how to do that best. So far that had been to send the elder children that knew certain things about naquadah harvesting to the Prometheus to exchange some understanding and hopefully they would learn some too. There were simply too many children to do that and then there was the fact that only half of them understood English so far and only a tenth of the elder children, adults by Abydos custom, could read at all, none of them could read English.

Cordelia shared her idea with the rest of the representatives from the residents of the Four Domes, which ironically included two people that were actually from Babylon 5 dock workers. "Alright what we need is a common room with the enchanting spells to make sure we're understood no matter the language."

One of the dock workers from Babylon 5, Daryl Morgan spoke up, "Common room, what do you mean and you can do that?"

Hermione frowns, "They put the same enchantments on this room, how else to you think everyone of us could be understood by everyone else?"

Magic was a forgone conclusion for anyone living here so it shouldn't be a surprise that they were discussing it but sometimes things just appeared out of left field.

A rugged man asks, "So we set up this common room for the entire school?"

The rugged man was Abasi, son of Masud and he was one of the first leaders of the free people of Abydos and he was doing this strictly for his people. There was no notoriety or power that went with this position and quite a bit of work.

"No" Hermione said, "We need a set of classrooms that we use for the purpose and one common area that can be used the same between students but the rest of the school we leave as is because in the rest of the world or worlds they won't have that enchantment working for them and if they grow dependent on it, they will grow lazy, we want them to understand with ease everything in those areas and then work their minds into using what they remember in those areas in other places. This is just a tool to use not a crutch to remain invalid mentally."

They all nod slowly understanding that, "We need to have some understanding of the different technologies used, and perhaps even a few classes on magic. Even if we don't have the ability to use it, I want my children to be able to recognize it for what it is and not some divine ability that makes the user of magic a god."

They all agree and Hermione speaks up, "I think most of the people here have some moderate ability with magic. I'm not sure why but I've noticed that everyone here seems to react to magic in similar ways, as though they have magic but are unaware of how to use it, and as magic is normally passed down genetically if there are a few that don't have the ability it will likely pop up in their children or grandchildren."

Masika, Abasi's wife asks, "What about teachers? I mean we don't have anyone here that is learned completely on magic, you are still students… yes?"

Hermione wanted to frown but shrugs instead, "Many of us have had about seven years of education in magic but you are right we're still not masters of any field, though Harry probably has the experience to be a master in defensive magic he still remains dependant on me for factual information concerning new spells. I can speak with Albus and Minerva about it, to see what Hogwarts uses as a qualification base for normal teachers and we can speak with General Hammond and perhaps arrange to have the younger students taught here and snag one of his teachers."

Cordelia spoke up, "We also want to have a few classes on the history and traditions of Abydos, we'll be working on putting it down from several viewpoints but we don't want the culture of your people to fade away. We also don't want future wars fought over who is right about history and who is wrong."

They all wince at that and seemed to come to an agreement.

Hermione smiled and shared with the group as they started to separate, "I'm heading with Harry to Hogwarts, it is summer there and we wanted to visit with Hagrid anyway."

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Cordy sighs at Xander, "It's lots of work, but I think the outcome will be a major benefit. I also think magic like it was taught at Hogwarts is something that can be used by more people than even wizards and witches believe. Eric's little spell casting friend that used that memory crystal to open doors is just an example of an unexpected magic user and with the exercises to stretch the magical core or fortify control which I know you still practice some I think that a good number of people could make use of a magical education."

Xander nods, "I'll talk with General Hammond about testing potential privately and ensuring those that have a strong potential are able given the opportunity. I think he would like to have more people stationed at Four Dorms and after the dust up in Sol and unleashing the Asgardian… I believe that he wouldn't mind having a good place the children could be sent to if it occurs again, a place that wouldn't be suddenly surprised by the arrival of several hundred kids and civilian family members. The fact that a good portion of the education they would need is not magical in nature gives him a way to repay any help we've given him. At least the way he sees it."

Cordy smiled widely at that, the way he said that and what he felt it was just him doing the right thing and not something he needed to be paid back for. She reached up and kissed his lips with a soft inviting kiss.

The planning for a meeting with General Hammond would wait; a few hours wouldn't help or hurt the situation.

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General Hammond had come to nearly expect surprise visits from Xander LeVelle; so far he really was a godsend. After he found out that they had a TV show made of the realm his home had been transported to he'd given up trying to rationalize the strange bringer of creative chaos. At least he did not have to constantly take antacids after every time he had a sit down with the man, the way he had regularly with SG1. Thank god he didn't need to put up being the Commanding Officer for the SGC anymore. He was sure that Jack was going to be making use of the Dargol Serum soon to correct the new General's new ulcer.

"Xander, good to see you, I hope?"

The smile and nod had the General sigh in relief.

"I've come to talk about something and maybe get some help as well as offer up some help. You are aware about magical talent, there are plenty of records of it in the centralized database and I know that Eric's friends did that opening door spell with the memory crystal…"

General Hammond grunted, "I'm aware, our geeks have already tested several people and found correlating genes for the children that show potential. Not that I was informed of this, they did this all on their own. It was quite a conundrum that they only found the potential on those that were still maturing, those given the Dargol Serum and prolong and had the proper genes were able to utilize the memory crystal to some degree but nothing like the children who had the potential, children either had it or didn't for… spell casting."

Xander smiled widely, "And they all took it as an adventure that had nothing to do with aliens so didn't need to tell you?"

George groaned at the reasoning and nods, "I've since reprimanded them for not informing the proper chain of command and recommended a wider testing bed and publishing their results in the database."

Xander smirked at that, "Did Jack tell you about the Abydos in the Hogwarts Realm… and the one in the Sunnydale Realm?"

George nods, "He did; I made sure there were enough covering shifts that needed it for that."

"Well they all are potential magic users. And their children, well the number of children I should say, are skyrocketing; far too many to send them all here and far too young for the younger children. I was wondering if you wanted to help set up your own people there, at least some in the way of teachers and a school that could be easily used as a bunker or safe harbor if Sol is attacked again. Not only that but we also have a number of trained magicals of both schools of thought that can help teach and bring out potential for magic use. But the real kicker is that hardly any of them know how to read at all and that's increasing in number but they didn't even know spoken English much less reading. I'm hoping that by having a teacher there to teach them more than we can it will take the load off those that can teach magic to so they can instead teach magic."

By the time he was done he was babbling. General Hammond was smiling. The young man never really asked for something unless he felt he needed it and it was never selfish in nature. The fact was that he'd saved the Earth and helped devise a system that saved thousands lives in battle as well, and that was only that battle, it would save millions in the future. This new idea would work to both their benefit and it would also help separate the classes, EDC High would be a secondary school of higher learning, rather than a general all student school that had problems already.

"I'll give a tentative yes, but the details will need to be evaluated. I think the kids learning to read, basic math, science, and safety would be covered in general; magic and such would be additional, we can go from there. I'm sure our educators can help establish a baseline separation for what is taught at the Four Domes and what's taught on ship."

Xander nods at that and they set about calling in the principal of the local EDC High.

After a few hours of talks a short term solution was reached.

Principal Gladys smiles, "I think the solution is simple enough for now. It's only temporary until we can establish a better feel for what needs to be taught beyond the basics. Because the EDC High isn't on Earth there are some accrediting issues for graduates. It is something like a base school which would fine but we can't exactly allow state educators in to evaluate our standards. It's almost as if we were oversees in some ways and that can cause issues for early graduation, or accelerated course work. That isn't even touching on the added classes for safety or general space education needed for spacer life. Because of the situation I have a half a dozen kids that are ranged between 15 and 17 that are lingering but really have earned enough credits that they could graduate, not to mention that EDC is a year round school and the number of days we've actually had classes this last year far exceeds the required attendance. This is in part because we've actually done away with several practices the US has on education that didn't make sense to our allies. The reason I point this out is that out of that dozen or so kids about three fourths of them could teach. I mean they would enjoy it and have the ability to help. I'm thinking of some names who have oftentimes taken the time to help out younger students in their class. The classmates in question weren't from Earth and they made connections and had no trouble putting it into familiar easy to understand terms for the fellow students. I might also add that those were a few of the people that tested those data crystals that Sarah used to open the locked armory door."

George winced at the reminder.

"That does sound like a plan and if they are helping others…" Xander smirks, "They may have an affinity for education. By that mean magic may help them understand where they were having trouble, a mild form of an empathy and telepathy mix. I myself have very little wand casting capability."

George nearly snorted but realized the young man was serious, he was quite powerful but that was not the case with casting magics.

Mrs. Gladys found the young man to be humorous, that he didn't have power but had the mental fortitude and telepathy she heard stories about and she had visited the Four Domes once so new his prowess with magic was nothing to sneeze at… it was all quite humorous that he felt the need to say he was not powerful or at least imply it… and actually meant it.

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