"The Brighter The Picture, The Darker The Negative"

by Carycomic

Summary: What if the Marvel Movie-verse and the Wish-verses from BTVS and HIGHLANDER THE SERIES finale' were one and the same?

Disclaimer: if you recognize it, I don't own or profit from it.

Chapter 1.

Excerpts from the journal of Rupert Giles:

"12 Mar. 1997

We have failed. The Master of the Order of Aurelius has been freed, despite the best efforts of myself and Dr. Strange. If Buffy Summers had been stationed here, instead of her hometown of Cleveland, we might have stood a chance. But, Dr. Strange has been critically wounded (by ordinary gunfire, no less!). And, it will take some time for the magicks of Nurse Pomfrey to rehabilitate him."

"We have not been incommunicado, however. We have kept in touch, via owl-mail. And, through him, I have gathered four people who might be able to help me keep the Master and his minions in check. James Coltec, a Native American Immortal, will use his tracking abilities and shamanic powers to gather intelligence for our little group. Carl Kolchak will see if some of the more street-wise students--in his journalism class at U.C. Sunnydale--can be recruited to aid him. Kwai Chang Caine II will train them in the Chinese arts of self-defense. And, I, of course, will head up the research."

"Our chances for success might be the slimmest in the history of the world. But, right now, like it or not, we four are the only true defenders of Sunnydale!"

GLOSSARY OF CHARACTERS

Rupert Giles: Connected to the Watchers but receives little help from the Watcher Council due to this is the wish-verse version and he had never been given a Slayer to train. – from the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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Dr. Strange: Sorcerer Supreme of the Universe. – from Marvel Comics

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The Master: A powerful vampire lord who had been trapped at the entrance of the Hellmouth. – from the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer

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Buffy Summers of the Wish-verse: Buffy Summers is of course the Vampire Slayer. But Buffy from the Wish-verse never came to Sunnydale as a result of Anya, the wish demon, granting Cordelia Chase's wish that Buffy Summers to have never come to Sunnydale.

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Nurse Pomfrey: The head nurse at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. – from the Harry Potter book series

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James Coltec: An Immortal of the Cahokia Indian tribe whose specialty was the absorption of negative psychic energy. Especially, Dark Quickenings! It finally drove him mad, forcing Duncan MacLeod to behead him...and likewise go bad. At least, for three parts of the fifth season! – from the TV show Highlander

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Carl Kolchak: A former newspaper reporter who had investigated many strange supernatural occurrences in Chicago. – from the TV show Kolchak: The Night Stalker

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Kwai Chang Caine: A Shaolin priest - from the TV show Kung Fu: The Legend Continues