"Ellynne G." wrote:

But, if you get rid of the Space Rats, please, replace them with something. Spike and Dru from Buffy the Vampire Slayer would fill the same ecological niche with so much more style.

'Druther see _Spike_ drop-kick the Space Rats into next week, please; or he can use them for Avon-fodder.

Better yet, Spike shows up on Virn, munches on Tarrant and Servalan, turns them, grabs Tarrant's bracelet and gets teleported up to Scorpio, where he pretends to be a helpless strandee. They take him back to Xenon base, where he shows his true colours. Shortly thereafter, Vamp Tarrant and Vamp Servalan (nothing new there, eh?) arrive in the Federation ship. Soolin recognizes vampires and knows how to kill them (amazing what stories farmers tell on the long winter nights), so the vampires escape in their ship (but not before Spike has been badly hurt and humiliated, and gets a real mad on at Our Heroes).

Intent on plotting his revenge, he gets every last bit of information he can out of his new children - enough to decide that if he gets his hands on Orac he can be the Big Bad of the Galaxy (okay, Servalan tried it and failed, but she was only a human, after all). Now Our Heroes, driven from their base because Vamp Tarrant knows too much about it, have to avoid the expanding Federation on the one side, and Spike's relentless pursuit on the other - unfortunately this doesn't leave them any time to go looking for Blake on Gauda Prime, but hey, you can't have everything, can you? And so the fifth season begins...

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