Message from Author – Why has nobody done this yet? To me this crossover seems ... OBVIOUS but nobody has done it. So, here we go. I hope everybody enjoys. And don't worry, this chapter is just a prelude, the rest of it will be better. I'm using this part just to lead to when the two parties meet. I have amazing ideas for this story. What are they? Wait and see.

Chapter 1 - Problem

Sunnydale park in the middle of the night. Not many humans walked through here at night. Mostly they were the undead and those who hunted them.

Xander Harris was walking through. He said he was helping Buffy with her patrol, hoping it would earn him some points with her. It made sense at the time, but now he was actually walking through the park at night ... in the dark ... with no light ... it was getting to him.

He turned at every noise. Sure he was strong but he was no slayer, he couldn't take on a vampire by himself, let alone anything else that might appear. He turned to the woods to see a light shining through the trees. Xander swallowed his fear and made his way through.

Through the trees he made it to a small clearing, holding a single wooden shed, with an amazingly bright light emerging from it. He saw multiple shadows coming forth from the light, slouching and hobbling like ... zombies.

"JOIN UUUUUS!!!" howled a voice from the shed ... and Xander turned and ran. He knew when to retreat and this was the time.

The next day, at Giles' home, Xander tried to explain what happened, not very successfully

"Join us? Is that what they said? Well I must say ... it isn't really much to go on" Giles said

Xander sighed, he was NEVER taken seriously

"Well, big glowing light? Zombie like creatures, seems pretty nasty to me. I didn't see any more because strangely I didn't want to die!"

Giles raised his eyebrow and walked over to his bookshelf. He started flicking through his old books to see if anything was written about it. Through all of his books, there didn't seem to be any mention of the phenomenon. Strange for something so ... unique.

He looked up to the door as Buffy walked straight in

"anything new?" she asked curiously

"well, obviously you haven't learned how to knock, but apart from that not much. I still can't work out what this phenomenon is, how its come about, or how to stop it"

Buffy just smiled "Well I'll do what I usually do. Go out on patrol, hunt it down, and make it go away"

Meanwhile in the park, A portal opened, and a single human fell to the ground. He stood up , brushed himself off, and groaned.

"They never leave me alone".

He removed his shotgun from it's holster, and went hunting.

Later that night, Buffy went on Patrol. She didn't mess around tonight, she went STRAIGHT to the source of the problems, to the shed that Xander had been to the previous night. The light was there, not as strong as before, but it was still there, and there was an ... odd feeling about the place.

She stepped closer, when there was a noise ... and another. She turned to see zombie after zombie come at her. She immediately knew what to do, and fought them with all the strength she could muster. They were all VERY strong for zombies, and she could just barely keep them off her. Suddenly, one of them appeared from behind her, and grabbed her, throwing her to the floor. She looked up at it approaching.

It opened it's mouth and screamed "ILL SWALLOW YOUR SOUL!"

"Kiss my boomstick!" a voice said

and there was a great bang, the head of the zombie was blown off, and the surrounding zombies ran for cover.

The man stepped closer and gave her his hand "What's your name, girly?"

Buffy supressed the desire to kick him for calling her "Girly", and took his hand "I'm Buffy, what about you?"

"Me?" the man said. "My name is Ash ... and you have a problem!"