BUFFY: Willow!

(We see Willow crouching beside the counter, with one hand stretched up to keep pressure on Giles's wound while her other hand is flipping the pages of a magic book. )

WILLOW: I'm working on it!

(Buffy and Spike together shove a large coffee machine in front of the door and tip it over on its side. Cut to outside. The general sits on his horse watching the action. )

KNIGHTS: Go! Go! Go! Let's move! Come on, move it!

(they start attacking. A knight's arm breaks in right by Dawn, tries to grab her.)

DAWN: Buffy!

(Buffy runs, but is intercepted by another knight. Spike pitches in before being knocked aside, and Buffy finishes the job, knocking the knight out. Xander drags the knight off. The general enters. Buffy turns to look at him. He points his sword. )

GREGOR: The key.

(Buffy attacls, knocks him out)

WILLOW: Enemies, fly and fall. Circling arms, raise a wall.

(She raises her arms and a circle of light emits from them, expanding outward, forming a bubble around the station which the knights cannot penetrate)

DANTE: (angry growl) They have the general. Clerics!

(Two elderly men in long black robes come forward. They walk up to the barrier and hold up their hands to it. One begins to chant while the other turns back to Dante.)

CLERIC: Energy barrier. A most powerful one.

DANTE: Can it be breached?

CLERIC: The witch's magic pales to the might of our god. The infidels' wall ... shall tumble before us.

(inside)

BUFFY: Will? How long will it hold?

WILLOW: (uncertain) Half a day maybe. (seeing the two clerics working outside) Or till Heckle and Jeckle punch a hole through it.

SPIKE: So. What's the story with these role-playing rejects?

BUFFY: Let's find out.

• Willow's Witchiness

written by: Steven S. DeKnight; Typed the partial transcript of this episode myself. Full transcript at:
http://www.studiesinwords.de/98spiral.html