The Cavern
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters of the Buffy the Vampire Slayer Universe or any other.
Xander found himself in a cavern with no exit and many crystal balls glowing different colors, on pedestals scattered across the floor.
He had come to Africa to officially find the slayers in the area; unofficially it was just to get away from everybody for awhile basically he was on vacation. He was visiting a small museum in a small city somewhere in the middle of nowhere he really didn't care he was just enjoying the fact that he wasn't in some sort of saving the world type of fight, he was actually a tourist, the first time in nearly five years, not since his road trip, at least this time he got farther away.
He had wondered thru the museum for an hour when he needed to use the bathroom, when he stepped into the bathroom everything went black for a second that's when he found himself in the cavern.
It seemed like he had wandered around the cavern for hours looking for an exit before he touched one of the balls. It was a bit of a shock, because it showed him a different world in which his life was a TV show based on Buffy's life in which he was an actor by the name of Nicholas Brendon, who happened to be eight years older than him, playing him, he got all of the actors memories right to the minute he had walked to the bathroom.
As he let go as if shocked he noticed that the ball glow a soft yellow. He looked around decided to try one that had a more of a golden glow to it.
This one followed his life right up to his road trip then it went a different route all together, in this world the highlander type immortals existed and he was a preimmortal and he gets turned by a vamp and becomes a hybrid, gets trained by Methos and Richie, saves Methos's life with the help of Angle and crew. When he goes back to Sunnydale that fall as he hides his abilities from the scoobies. Like the first balls he got all of the memories of his other self.
After the second ball he began to wonder what the red glowing balls would show him he also noticed that the red ones had some sort of hour glass design on the pedestal.
He Tried one of the soft yellow ones like the first and it showed him his life in a world were there were no demons or vampires. The world was fine but he had become a drunk just like his parents. This made him even more nervous in trying out the red ones and he had a suspicion that the PTB were behind his situation.
Looking around he saw one that glowed orange and tried it and wished he hadn't, the world had survived the Master but the scoobies hadn't it was the world created by Cordy's wish and he was going to have nightmares for awhile because of vamp Xan's memories, he could now sympathize with Angle.
To get some better memories, he hoped, he try out some of the other golden globes. Globe one showed him a life were he dressed up as Darth Vader for Halloween, and the next as Obi Wan, he found he got the memories and experience but not the power. The rest were similar in that he went in different costume for the Halloween incident and got different abilities, in one of the globes he went as the weather guy from the movie groundhog day and got stuck redoing the day over and over again for two years.
He decided to check out one of the red globes, so he touched the nearest one and got a shock it was his life, but it showed what was going to happen for the next century. Everything would go great until the slayers noticed that there wasn't any new slayers activating to replace the ones that were dieing, it was the spell that activated all the potentials, it stopped the birth of any more slayers, with the slayers gone it gave the darkside enough of an edge to eventually win.
He let go of the globe and on a hunch touched the hour glass design on the pedestal and understood that the design allowed him to mentally go back in time to his younger self in a Quantum leap sort of way and change the out come in the world that the globe was connected to. Now he had to decide on how to change the out come, he knew from the groundhog day world that his counterpart was able to give both Buffy and Willow a fighting chance on Halloween, by simple changing the spells out come on them by giving them a piece of paper stating who they were suppose to be or simply give them toy swords and told them that they were such and such an immortal and they really kicked Spikes ass. In the Groundhog Day world he used a spell to retain the memories and abilities; he hoped that by simply putting on the bottom of the card used to change the chaos spell, a statement "The holder of this card will retain the memories and abilities of the being possessing this body after the spell is broken and the being is gone".
Now he had to figure out how to change his world by using Ethan's spell.
TBC?
Authors note: If you want to create your own Universe by using this cavern, Go Right Ahead.