[Welp. Go big or go home. No mildly off course plans for this girl.] I guess it was more of a group effort. It wasn't just Giles doing the research. He and Willow were the brains. She's a witch. There were others too. Then myself and...[There's a slight hesitation in her voice.] Buffy, the other slayer, the muscle. [She's just going to skip over that time she'd betrayed them all and joined the enemy and then went to prison. Ahem. Totally not important.] The last mission we went on went off the rails in a big way. We were fighting this thing called the First Evil. It had an army that two slayers alone couldn't hope to fight.

So we decided to use Willow's power to do something about it. Straight up changed the game, made every girl who could be a Slayer, now a full blown ass-kicking Slayer. Called hundreds all at once. And we had some of them with us to help fight when the time came. We didn't go in expecting to live, but we couldn't do nothing or they'd have destroyed the whole world... [Faith's expression falters then. Many of those girls called who'd come with them had died in the ensuing battle.] It was a shitshow, honestly, but it evened the odds enough to see them through. That alone wasn't enough though. But we had this amulet. This scythe weapon too. It was all supposed to help us fight the First. We had it all, just to give us any advantages we could.

[she frowns deeper then, staring out at the rain again. As though she needed any more reason to be sad.] Lots of people died. But we won.

[Maybe that hadn't been the best example. And now she's even more depressed than before. Wonderful. Should have gone with the slaying vampires while naked story, Faith, what's wrong with you?]