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The lengthy teaser comes straight from the BtVS episode The Wish, transcript courtesy of Buffyworld, first airdate 8 December 1998. The story directly follows that episode.
What if the spell didn't break? What if all parallel universes have to exist somewhere…?
Wish Unbroken
Teaser
Sunnydale High
CORDELIA: "I wish that Buffy Summers had never come to Sunnydale."
ANYANKA: "Done."
At the library
OZ: "So Cordelia wished for something? Well, if it was a long, healthy life, she should get her money back."
GILES: "She said something about everything being different, that the... the world wasn't supposed to be like this. It was, um, better. Before."
LARRY: "Okay. The entire world sucks because some dead ditz made a wish?"
(Gets looks from Giles and Oz)
"I just, I just want it clear."
Giles' apartment
GILES: "Ah! Ah! Ah! Yes!"
(Glances at Buffy and stands up)
"Here."
(Reads)
"'In order to defeat Anyanka, one must destroy her power center."
(Walks down the steps)
"This should reverse all the wishes she's granted, rendering her mortal and powerless again.'"
BUFFY: "World is what it is. We fight. We die. Wishing doesn't change that."
GILES: "I have to believe in a better world."
BUFFY: "Go ahead. I have to live in this one."
The Master's factory
The camera pans from a control panel across the crowd of gathering vampires, past a wooden cage full of humans, including Oz and Larry, and the machine waiting in front of it, and over to the Master up on a stage.
MASTER: "Vampires, come! Behold the technical wonder, which is about to alter the very fabric of our society. Some have argued that such an advancement goes against our nature. They claim that death is our art. I say to them... Well, I don't say anything to them because I kill them. Undeniably we are the world's superior race."
(The camera closes in on him)
"Yet we have always been too parochial, too bound by the mindless routine of the predator. Hunt and kill, hunt and kill. Titillating? Yes. Practical? Hardly. Meanwhile, the humans, with their plebeian minds, have brought us a truly demonic concept:"
(Spreads his arms)
"Mass production!"
Giles' apartment
He has several bags and bowls of various herbs and powders laid out on his chess table. He grabs a couple of them and goes over to his desk with them, where he has a large golden goblet already smouldering. He pulls bits of an herb from a bushel and drops them into the goblet as he recites the ritual to summon Anyanka.
GILES: "Oh... Anyanka... I-I beseech thee..."
(Puts on his glasses to read)
"Um..."
(Turns a page)
"In the name of all women scorned..."
(Adds more herb to the fire)
"Come before me."
He looks around his apartment to see where she might appear. She does so, but in the shadows under the stairs to his loft, where he doesn't notice. Slowly she walks into the dim light of the room.
GILES: "Oh!"
(Lets out a nervous breath)
ANYANKA: "Do you have any idea what I do to a man who uses that spell to summon me?"
Giles gazes at her with a look of foreboding.
The factory
MASTER: "Bring on the first!"
At the cage the vampires shove a couple of the humans back from the gate, lift off the crossbar and open it. Oz realizes what's about to happen, but is held back when he tries to help her. Two vampires go into the cage and choose a victim.
Some of the men in the cage attempt to resist and help her, but they are easily knocked aside. Once the vampires have her outside, one of them shocks her with a cattle prod. Her body goes limp. The gates to the cage are closed, and the mortals all gather to watch in horror. The two vampires drag her to the end of the machine. One of them lifts her into a long stainless steel pan like the ones used for autopsies and lays her down in it.
MASTER: "She's still alive, you see, for the freshness."
The machine is turned on, and the pan moves along the conveyor to the blood draining station. On either side are four arms that extend over the girl, each with a very large needle on the end. They all plunge into her body and begin to suck the blood from it. At one end of the contraption is a tap for sampling the blood, and a glass is filled for the Master to taste. In the cage Larry and Oz watch in horror and disbelief.
At the back of the factory, Buffy and Angel peek around a corner. On the machine the girl lets out her last few muffled sounds and dies. Xander and Willow watch with anticipation.
ANGEL: "What's the plan?"
BUFFY (holds up her stake): "Don't fall on this."
The glass with the blood sample is passed up to the Master. He holds it up to his subjects for a toast.
MASTER: "Welcome to the future."
VAMPIRES: "To the future! To the future! To the future!"
Buffy raises her crossbow at the Master and fires. Instantly the Master pulls Xander in front of him, and the bolt hits him in the right shoulder. Buffy aims the crossbow at another target, but it gets knocked from her hand. Panic sets in among the vampires. Buffy ducks a wide swing from a vampire. She jumps up and brings her foot down to smash the back of his knee. Angel attacks a vampire by the cage, punches him in the face and shoves him aside. He rushes over to the gate and throws off the crossbar.
Angel throws open the cage's gate and starts pulling people out. Buffy twists a vampire's arm around, immobilizing him, and does a jumping roundhouse kick to his gut. The crowd of humans streams into the fray. Oz reaches up and breaks a piece off of one of the wooden cage bars. He immediately jams it into the back of a vampire. All around humans and vampires fight. Xander and Willow finally decide it's time to join in and jump down from the stage.
Giles' apartment
Anyanka slowly approaches Giles, who bravely stands his ground.
GILES: "Cordelia Chase. What did she wish for?"
ANYANKA: "I had no idea her wish would be so exciting! Brave New World. I hope she likes it."
The factory
Willow swings at Buffy, but misses as Buffy ducks the punch. Buffy backhand punches Willow in the face and follows up with a roundhouse kick to her stomach. Willow falls to the ground. Buffy senses something behind her and turns around in time to backhand punch an incoming vampire. She spins around again, this time to face Xander. She grabs onto his shoulder and yanks his body down to meet her knee, getting him twice in the gut and then in the face. She turns again to find her next target. Xander gets to his feet and comes at Buffy. Angel sees him make his move, and runs to Buffy's aid.
ANGEL: "Buffy, look out!"
Still unaware of Xander's imminent attack, Buffy roundhouse kicks another vampire while holding onto his arm. She lets go of him as he falls. Angel runs past her and uppercuts Xander in the face. Xander in turn lunges at Angel with the crossbow bolt that he's pulled from his shoulder, and impales Angel. Angel turns to face Buffy and grabs his wound.
ANGEL: "Buffy..."
He crumbles to ash. Buffy takes it like he's just another dead vampire, and marches over to another fray to continue the fight.
Buffy notices a vampire run up behind her and backhand punches him, sending him flying through the air. She turns her attention back to Xander, who is just throwing a man aside. He sees her coming, and advances on her in turn. He swings at Buffy, and she punches his arm away. Taking advantage of the opening, she swings her stake into his chest, and he explodes into ashes. Without a care, Buffy turns back around and starts looking for her next victim. Willow sees her love staked and makes a move toward Buffy, but Larry grabs her by an arm and tries to pull her back. Oz shakes free of a vampire and runs to Larry's assistance, grabbing her by the waist and shoving her back into a broken piece of the cage. She instantly bursts into ashes.
Buffy high side kicks a vampire in the face, knocking him to the floor, and turns to face the Master. He slides down the stair railings from the stage and shoves aside the vampire and mortal blocking his way. Buffy begins a determined stride in his direction. The Master shoves more people and vampires aside in his determination to get at the Slayer. Buffy does the same.
Giles' Apartment
Anya holds Giles against a wall, choking him. Just then he notices the amulet around Anyanka's neck begin to glow green, and makes a grab for it, wresting it from her neck. This causes her to let go of him, and he backhand punches her in the face, sending her staggering across the room.
The factory
Buffy and the Master finally meet with swings that middle block each other. Buffy tries to wrap her hands around the Master's forearm.
Giles's apartment
He scrambles to his desk, lays the amulet on it and searches frantically for something to smash it with. He soon has his marble paperweight in his hand. Anyanka gets up from the floor.
ANYANKA: "You trusting fool! How do you know the other world is any better than this?"
GILES: "Because it has to be."
The factory
The Master does a backhand swing, snapping Buffy's head back, dazing her. He grabs her by the shoulders and pulls her to him.
Giles's apartment
He raises the paperweight and starts to swing it down with full force at Anyanka's amulet.
ANYANKA: "No!"
The factory
The Master grabs Buffy's head.
Giles's apartment
He swings the paperweight down.
The factory
The Master gives Buffy's head a hard twist, snapping her neck.
Giles's apartment
He smashes the paperweight onto Anyanka's amulet. It shatters into thousands of pieces and emits a burst of green light.
The factory
The Master watches as Buffy's body begins to fall, then moves on. The picture fades to bright white.
Wish Unbroken
Giles' apartment, night
Bright white light fades, revealing that Anyanka has disappeared without trace. Abruptly released from her grasp, GILES staggers slightly. He looks all around, half-turning in all directions.
Nothing has changed.
Giles is horribly, painfully dismayed.
GILES: "W-what? Why…?"
He sifts through the shattered remains of Anyanka's amulet, running the fragments through his fingers. Then he rushes back to his books and starts to frantically turn pages.
The factory, night
Humans and vampires are still fighting, although both sides have now lost their strongest fighters. The vampires are winning, having a field day with the human remnant. Blood and gore reign supreme. People are dying all around, in scenes of mayhem and carnage, although some have so far escaped vampiric attention by cowering in corners pretending to be invisible. As those trying to fight or escape drop like flies, it won't take long before that murderous attention reaches them, too.
Close in on LARRY as he manages to twist away from the vampire he's struggling with, and sees another one chomping down on a young woman. He rushes to her rescue.
Or tries to, at least. En route he gets sideswiped by a vampire, and is taken completely by surprise. All seems lost.
But then OZ weaves his way through the mass of bodies, his smaller size giving him a slight advantage here. He has a piece of wood in his hand, and drives it into the back of the vampire attacking Larry. The vampire crumbles into dust.
Larry nods to Oz in silent acknowledgement of assistance rendered, and then turns back to the woman he was trying to save. She is now beyond help. Rage born of helpless frustration floods across his face.
OZ: "Larry!"
Oz smacks Larry's arm to get his attention. He's spotted a possible exit – a door, the curtain that was covering it now torn half down, with junk piled up in front of it. Unguarded.
Knowing there's pretty much nothing more they can do for the other people here, except perhaps die with them, the boys try to make their way toward that exit, having to fight their way out.
They work well together, and have been pretty well trained, despite lacking any special skills or powers. They've never had any superheroes around to help them – they've had to rely on themselves. Each other. They've lasted longer than any of the other White Hats, except of course Giles. Surviving has become something they're good at.
The vampires have got sufficiently carried away with the fight to leave the lesser exits unguarded, and the boys make it to the half-hidden door Oz spotted. Larry goes first, shoving junk aside to clear the doorway. As Oz makes to follow him, an arm wraps itself around his neck, dragging him backward and half strangling him.