Xander smiled as he rummaged through the stuff in his attic, grabbing things occasionally and adding them to the pile. He'd spotted one thing in the costume shop and it made him totally change his plans for what he was going to dress up as for Halloween.

Originally he had planned on being a soldier, but at the shop all of the guns within his price range were sold out, but he did spot a cool looking sword with notches marking colored gems in them, and it triggered something in his head, a memory of better times when the world wasn't as dangerous, a character from an RPG he used to play while he was at Jessie's.

A wicked smile crossed his lips as he grabbed the last piece he needed and headed down the stairs. He smirked at the katana and the white wig. It was going to be a fun night, even if Flutie had managed to rope him into helping the kiddies.

Suddenly he felt weak, looking around with a startled expression, the warrior glanced around him. He was not where he had been, he didn't sense her anymore, something was wrong. The planet felt different though, not like before, it was not alive he couldn't sense the lifestream.

"Mother?" he whispered, "Where are you mother?"

"Xander?" he heard a strange voice besides him yelp, "What are you babbling about?"

Xander? He was wondering just what was going on. He spun to spot a red haired girl standing there with a confused look on her face.

"I must apologize, but I have no idea who this Xander is?" he responded, "But I have some business to attend to."

He rose from his crouch and leaped skywards, vanishing into the night sky.

"Just what on earth is going on here?" Willow whispered as she slowly shook her head.

The place was infested with parasites and monsters that had the nerve to dare to challenge him. He smiled at the carnage around him as he watched a dozen vampires catch ablaze with a slight wave of his hand as the white haired being chuckled at the destruction around him.

Collecting energy as he spotted a pair of vampires running for their life, one of them had hair that seemed to be dyed white, a perfect target. With a wave of his hand, the two were turned into frogs.

He spun and launched a comet at the cluster of stores behind him, vaporizing them in one fell swoop.

Then the one winged angel chuckled and felt an odd energy come over him and the world faded as he murmured a spell he knew, binding the powers of the WEAPONs to his form. He was feeling weak, he'd used to much energy, but it wasn't slowing him down as it normally did, but perhaps it had something to do with maintaining his connection with mother.

A moment later he felt the darkness take him.

A second after it, Xander Harris was standing in the middle of the street with a disturbed look on his face as he stared at the two vampires turned amphibians with an evil smile. But he quickly shook his head and it vanished as he remembered what else he had done through the night, glancing at the crater behind him, at the shopping center that had once held Ethan's shop.

He glanced at the full moon and laughed, feeling the raw power within him as he realized that the blade had not returned to plastic and his hair had changed to white, the power felt good, and the night was still young.