First Encounter Edition/Series.

Summary: Buffy's life is more or less de-Slayerized. The timeline of this story sets during the time period of Spike's death and "revival." (End of Season 7 of Buffy and Season 5 of Angel) Buffy's life is about to reveal itself into a thicker plot where the risk in her game includes her relationship with the Scoobie gang (yes, including Dawn), is up for bets.

The danger and the issue: The mysterious amulet sent to Spike may belong to the Slayer after all. However, there is something much more powerful lies ahead. There is much more to worry about, sometimes, it isn't about the danger on the "surface," meaning demons getting more powerful and exotic in species but would there be a give and take in having a share of control over the Slayer's ability and powers. Would she fall under the wrong hands?

Yes Ideology: She'll meet Spike but the million-dollar question is, would they remain friends or mortal enemies? Whilst her relationship with the Scoobies' are on the rocky roads, Buffy flies solo (with Andrew by her side and maybe a few Slayers of hers) in order to gain more information on the next battle to come. Andrew's research ability combined a little with Willow's and Giles (hey, a mission is still a mission) took a lead, leading her to possibility no where but every part of the world. Along her way, to battle, going against Angel and Spike who were each flying solo, Buffy befriends her enemies in order to claim the upcoming battle as hers.

Yeesh Factor: Buffy needs time for things to settle down before she is about to pick it up again, would it be too much for the Slayer to cope? Why does it seem that Andrew's Slayers and her 'descendents' seem to hate her so much, why are they avoiding her?

Disclaimers: Be warned for character's death. This story does not concentrate/focus much on Spuffy relationship or any other characters including Fred and Weasley (maybe describes a little on how they were saved and survived), may not go according to what happened in Angel. Note: Don't be surprised if the story does not go as the plot or the "Yes Ideology" says because it's not a one-shot. This story is series/season based.

Someone combatable rustled through the peaceful wild thorn bushes as a pair of combat legs and boots ran along a small muddy path way. "Run! Run! Run!" a lady commander from somewhere far behind him, ordered. She was the toughest front of the troop, yet she had her squad running away like chickens, the fast-runner with combat legs and boots thought.

First Step: Getting them in line, more specifically dividing them to do their tasks. "Willow, get it running towards me." Willow? Since when did she call Willow by her name? No time to think about it, Buffy decided. It got quite awhile before Willow answered her as she was setting up a natural barrier against the baddies as ordered by her friend. Since when was Buffy just a 'friend' ? Willow wondered but answered her friend "Roger that, roger. Um...I mean Buffy." She was just too distracted but they all acted as one. Buffy continued to give out her commands as she was looking out for her friends back from her binoculars. She stood in between two tree brunches, as her left booted feet rested high on the left tree brunch. Buffy wore her usual leather jacket and pants; this was a mission with flare. Touching her head-phone look-alike, hands-free microphone (with Willow's enchanting to operate it as a communication asset without other than her team mates to hear anything from it) between her index finger and her middle finger, continuing with her commands, "Xander, creature alert at three o'clock, fully armed with guns and heavily loaded." "Copy that, Buff." He replied, as reception wasn't good, Buffy hears a little of buzzing over what he had just said, but she mange to see to it that he got to his position from where she positioned herself. "And Giles… urm...do whatever you need to find their weaknesses." Buffy could hear from the background, "How do you use this thing?" He wasn't wearing it, Buffy thought. "Right. Places guys." Buffy's caught sight of something that looked like binoculars focusing at her. Buffy took her eyes away from the binoculars, the creatures have had the same tactic and idea as Buffy, the only demon and creature that she had been fighting against for so many years had had the same idea as her and it seemed to have spotted her at the precise moment as she did. Buffy pushed her hands-free microphone backwards, ripping it off-connection to the beige box pinned behind her. She too, ripped the beige box out from her pants, throwing it to the ground. So, she has got to go down on her feet to see to it (the situation). Buffy jumped off the tree like a cat from the height of a two-storey building. She wasn't sure if this was going to work, but she's got to try. Buffy pulled down her masked goggles and uncapped a canister which emits blue colour smoke, leaving barely a trail behind her. Giles had his hands-free microphone placed levelly to his mouth but at the wrong side, he continued reading something urgently from an old book, "…The First Encounter, is through the Slayer." Giles was confused with what he had just read. He was sure the creatures had somehow tempered with his readings or his eyesight. "Oh dear…" Giles said wiping his glasses at this point. "Buffy, you've got to back up."

Dawn with her binoculars had her own troop somewhere in the jungle to give away her commands to, but before she could someone with loose eye-goggles and protection mask placed above his head came. "I don't expect slack from you, boy. This is a battle." Dawn's boyfriend who was of her assistant told off the comic-man as they were in the middle of a serious battling issues here, with Dawn leading her very own troop for the first time. "Coming to that, Sir." Andrew said, giving a salute and holding onto his long gun on one side. Dawn rolled her eyes. "Come on… there is no time to waste." Wow, Dawn was convinced that she could fight and win this battle against the creatures I sound like Giles. Despite the battle, the sense of style coming (off) from her troop which consists of her boyfriend, her best friend and Andrew was a loud splash of teenagers, from geeky-red comic boy t-shirt, to piercings and metal chains. Most of all, with satisfactory Dawn wants to make her sister and the Slayer proud, all the same.

"We need to get to it, before Buffy gets entangled in harms way." Giles explained through the microphone where he held it with his hands whilst speaking into it. "Hello? Buffy, are you listening here?" "She's 'logged-out' a while ago." Xander said. "Logged out? How can she be logged out? Xander are you sure she did not just-you know, disconnected the communication line?" Silent for a moment. "Yeah. Great. Maybe. I think so. Whatever. I'm battling off these creatures, alone here. Someone send me some help or at least someone send me someone." Xander said as he panted, obviously fighting off more creatures on his way. "Okay, stay put Xander." Willow said with full-concentration. She was somewhere off in the forest-jungle thingy she held her breathe as a huge blinding flash of white light came from Willow which shined towards the sky. Lucky for them that the light remained only with Willow and the part of jungle-forest she is in and not the entire forest-jungle. "Yeah, good idea Willow, why can't you just kill the creatures off instead of getting them blind?" Xander asked. "We're not killing them, Xander."

"What was that? Did you see that?" Dawn asked. "I-I think it's Willow." Andrew said shakily. "We got to split." Annabeth said. "No, we stick. As planned." Mark said. "No, I think you're both right." Dawn said. Annabeth and Mark gave her a mixture of pained and questioned look. "Andrew and I and Annabeth with you, Mark, off to different directions."

Second Step to Winning : Take action.

Buffy threw the metal canister towards four confused creatures, smoked the place up like a bomb equally in the smell of a stink bomb. Buffy smiled to herself, this would instantly mark them blue. What was that light all about coming towards her, somewhere from a far distance. Buffy's instincts could tell that it was something big which looked much like something that would come from the works of the Wicca Willow. Will! She corrected herself. Oh, this was bad. Willow and magic equal consequences. Always. Buffy shocked herself to the core with the fact that she have just admitted. Than again, a little magic coming from her Little Wicca Friend always does wonders. Buffy consoled herself.

Buffy yells out for Willow, Xander and Giles. How in the world, did she come to a conclusion that she did not need any form of communication with her friends? "Buffy!!!" Dawn shouts. Buffy's instinct worked itself to overdrive, her sister was in danger and she needed desperately to do something but she also knew at once that she had lost herself to her Slayer instinct and skills as her mind and everything else internally went haywire (no decisions could be made) followed by her external "features" which could not make out what action is appropriate. What should she do? Follow her heart which thumped and pumped violently against her chest, which somehow she is pretty sure it's faster than someone who had a heart-attack right there and than as her rib cage could have break open by now. Should she follow her normal instinct? What normal instinct? She was the Slayer, she does not have any Plan B or Option B plant into her, no, Plan B is always part of Plan A too. With no immediate plan and no immediate decision came to her sound mind, Buffy panicked. A wave of cold sweat hits her, Buffy ran towards the direction of where she thought Dawn's voice came from. In the background was the soft growling of hungry creatures as Buffy wasn't trapped in any of their "settings." Willow, Xander and Giles ran towards Buffy, seeing them was what she needed most. "What happened, Buffy? I heard Dawn - " "No time to explain. We have to - "A plan. She had a plan and her friends! Buffy directed, "Will, cast a locating spell on Dawn, Xander and Giles 'pull the plug,' if you need to, I'll go with Will. Xan and Giles - " A balloon filled with yellow paint came on Buffy's way, Buffy who had her glasses above her head, wiped off paint across her face, she spat a little off her mouth. "Plegh!" From behind 'dancing' Andrew, came Mark, "How did you do that, when she missed all our trappings?" Andrew shrugged. "I'm a Watcher, I guess I know the Slayers better than you do." Giles looked down and cleared his throat. "Oh, and of course, I learnt all that from Mr Giles here." Andrew went towards Giles and had his arm draped over Giles. "Precisely." Giles said looking uncomfortable with Andrew's arms as he shrugged it off. Buffy couldn't have felt any better if it was not for this. Dawn came along with Annabeth. "So, our plan worked?" Dawn asked. "Well, it looks like the little Watcher got the Slayer down, all by himself. You do us proud." Annabeth said.

Third Step to Winning: A Game is A Game.

"Okay, we're out of pallets." Andrew said. Buffy rolled her eyes. "Okay…you got me. All the time. In this game." Buffy said surrendering with her hands up, rolling her eyes. "Yay, for the King of Comic." Dawn said. Andrew clears his throat, "and Games," he said it into Dawn's ear, who was standing beside him. Dawn nodded. "On second thought…I think I have a little something more for you, coming from…Giles' bag?" Buffy said, as she rummaged through Giles bag on the ground. "It was you-you switched my readings." Buffy rolled her eyes; "why'd you need books in a jungle-forest, Giles? Could be useful if it's a manual or a guide." Buffy said sing-song-ed-ly. "Well, t-thanks for the tip." Giles said sarcastically. Buffy took out what looked like balloons filled with water. Buffy threw it towards Andrew, with that a water-balloon war was on but the only thing was… a blackout. "Hey…," Buffy, Dawn, Mark and Annabeth, Andrew, Willow, Xander and Giles who had a fun time, remarked at the same time. Buffy, Dawn, Mark and Annabeth were back in their own hotel rooms in Mexico with Giles back in his home in London, Andrew in Rome, Willow in Russia and Xander somewhere making his way across "north-pole." They were lucky that they were not stuck in the game's sudden dark background. "I-I'll look into that." Willow told the gang through telepathy across the world. That was the power of Wicca Willow. Something was not right, a black-out occurred simultaneously in the countries they were respectively in. Buffy sighed. "Okay, game over with the visual game-gadget." "We must have blown the world's supply of electricity-huh?" Dawn asked. "What if the water balloon fight - " Annabeth started. "You're not blue-are you?" Buffy asked. "That was you?" Mark asked. Buffy nodded.

Faith came into the centre, "hey, do you know what's going on…the electricity - " "A black out-globally. Something's not right, but I-(yawns) I'll get some research done, tomorrow. Boy, am I drained." "Um…okay…" Giles got up to go to bed, so did Buffy, Dawn, Mark, Annabeth, Andrew, Xander and Willow who promised to look things up.

*Note: Buffy (alongside with Dawn, Mark and Annabeth), Andrew, Xander, Willow and Giles met up in a private virtual reality game where they got themselves in the game itself, as technology allows it to happen. This also means that they did not meet one another in reality.