Xander Harris had woke up, he was in a soft bed in a nice bedroom, he noticed that he wasn't in his armor and 'Excalibur' and 'Avalon'(1) was not with him. Also he noticed that someone was holding his hand, it was a woman because the hands were tiny. He slowly brought a hand to his face and rubbed it. "Ugh!" He said, "no more dimension hopping on fumes. Circe: Status report."
[I told you to get some rest Xander, you're fine but you need more rest.]
"Circe..."
[No I almost lost you once! It's not happening again!] Out from his bracer appeared a digital woman that had long hair, a nice figure and was in a harem girl's outfit.(2) [I don't want to lose you.] She sounded like she was going to cry. Through out his journey Circe was the one constant in his battles. She was some sort of a bio-technical A.I. program that was injected in to him that acts like a sister-mother-wife to him. He mentally 'hugged' her.
"I promise that you won't lose me, not while I'm still sucking air." He said, he opened his eyes and turned his head to look at who had his hand. He saw a cute red headed young woman, she was in a black T-shirt, jeans and socks. She looked like she had been crying, but why? "Wills!" He said, she opened her eyes, they were bloodshot from her crying and watching over him. She saw him and smiled a beautiful smile then she hugged him.
"I missed you," she cried.
"I missed you too," he said. They pulled off of each other, "you've been watching over me?"
"Of course," she said. "I'm not letting you out of my sight." She sat on his bed and snuggled in his arms
Meanwhile, Giles was trying to find information on the sword and shield that was with Xander when he showed up. "There is nothing on those weapons, the closest thing I got was Excalibur and Avalon." He said, the young woman was with him.
"Giles, you don't think that they are the real thing? Do you?"
"I think so Buffy." He said.
Meanwhile Xander was eating lunch and was thinking on what to do now. "You know," he said. "I'm going to help with the kids this year. Have you picked out a costume yet?" Willow looked at him, after what had happened, Halloween wasn't her favorite holiday anymore. But now that he's back, she might want to go out trick or treating with the kids now. She shook her head, "I might come up with some thing. Do you trust me?"
"Of course Xander," she said. He started to get up but stopped when he realized that he was nude under the covers. He was red as a bing cherry, "would you like some clothes Xand?" She giggled, he looked at her non-plusedly.
Later the duo were out looking for an outfit for Willow. Then Buffy saw that Xander was up and tackled him to the ground. He was in a LA Kings T-shirt, jeans, boots and sported an arm bracer on his right arm. She hugged him tightly.
"I missed you so much," Buffy cried as Willow looked on and giggled. He hugged her back and they got up.
"I missed you too," he said. They headed for a costume shop and started to look for costumes for them. He got Willow a sorceress type of outfit that would match his 'King' armor and got Buffy the female equal to his armor. "Wow, you two look amazing." He said, giving them the once over.
"Are you sure about this Xander?" Said Buffy.
"Of course I am." He said, "come on let's go." So they left the costume shop and headed back to the library.
Next morning, Xander had went to the library to find out what did Giles thought of his armor and weapons. When he had ran in to evil personified, "HARRIS!" It was Principal Snyder.
"Principal Snyder," said Xander. "Knew I smelled dog vomit and disappointment."
"What Did You Say?"
"You heard me, you are a sad little man who's balding, out of shape and extremely pathetic."
"Why are you even here? You're dead!"
Xander smirked, "I got better. Now if you'd excuse me." Xander left and went to the library.
Giles had the armor ready for him, Willow was with him and was looking at the helmet. "This is an impressive helmet." She said not knowing she had activated a tracking device. Xander had walked in to the room and they saw him.
"Hello Xander," said Giles.
"Hey guys," he said. "So what did you think about the armor and weapons?"
"I have never seen anything like them before." Said Giles.
"Well, remind me and I'll tell how I got it. Anyway Wills we need to get ready." So they went home with Xander taking the armor and weapons with him.
A few hours later, Xander, Willow and Buffy were dressed and ready to go. "Okay, shall we?" He said and with that they started to head out to the high school.
Then it happen, people were now their costumes, Xander and Buffy were fighting vampires and demons as Willow was using spells to assist them. Meanwhile Angel had caught up with them and Buffy saw him.
"Who are you Knave?" She said, Angel just stepped back with his hands up.
"Whoa Buffy it's me." He said, she swung at him and he got scraped. The sword grazed him and slightly burned him.
"Argh!"
"Back away from me scum!" Angel did.
"Buffy what's wrong with you?" She attacked again and he started dodging her. "I'm sorry Buffy," he started to throw a kick right at her when a shield appeared out of nowhere. That was when he saw him. He was larger than life, armored and armed. His sword tip was at the vampire's neck.
"Y'know 'Dead boy'," he said. "I've always wondered what would happen if I used Excalibur on you."
"Xander? I thought you were dead."
"I'm going to tell you like I tell everyone else, I got better. Now back away from Buffy or I will kill you."
"I just wanted to help."
"How?" They said.
"You have turned in to your costumes." Willow showed up behind him.
"Guys, Giles stopped the spell that was controlling the others." She said, they looked at Angel, Xander just chuckled.
"I gave these outfits to Willow and Buffy. I used the magic of my armor and created the armor for Buffy, and the gown for Willow."
"I'll give you a month to leave me alone, if you can do that. I'll come back, but you attack Xander once, I'll let him kill you!" Angel gulped and nodded. He was the one who had murdered Xander because he was overly protective of Buffy. With that he left and they went to see if anyone was in trouble. That was when they came up to an abandoned warehouse.
There was a group of kids surrounded by vampires, one of them had platinum blond hair and was dressed in all black leather and another was a gorgeous, yet demented woman also dressed in all black. "The crown is coming!" She said, "the Lady's weapon is going to kill us!" The male looked at her.
"What are you talking about luv?"
"The King has returned, he is the Lady's weapon. The Lady's weapon has come for us!" But before he could wonder what she was talking about, the windows shatter inwards and three people, two were in armor as the last one was dressed like a sorceress. The male also had on a helmet with a crowd embedded in to it and was carrying a sword and shield. "THE KING!" She squealed in fright, they couldn't see it but the male was smirking.
"Hello Spike!" The king said, Spike gulped and looked at him.
"Who are you?"
"Oh come on Spikey, you mean you don't know who we are? Surely you recognize Buffy don't you?" He motioned to his 'queen' who smirked, "and Willow." Then he nodded to the sorceress.
"And this is..." started Buffy. The king lifted the faceplate, "Xander." He had an evil grin on his face.
"Shall we?" So the fight was on. Willow was acting as support and Xander threw 'Avalon' to where she was and the force field activated as soon as a couple of vampires tried to attack her. Then as Spike was about to attack Buffy from behind, Xander jumped and came down, sword tips first and slammed it in between them. Just then an earthquake happened and Spike and his girlfriend dropped in to the hole it made.
"Damn," said Buffy. "Spike and Drusilla got away!"
"Don't worry," said Xander as he pulled his sword out of the floor. "They'll try again, that's when we'll get them!" With that they left and took the kids home.
Meanwhile in a huge manor, a young man had went down to a secret headquarters and walked in to a huge room. "Manson, Micheal. Passcode: I love the NHL!" The doors opened and he went in the huge room and stood on the NHL logo and was scanned and was confirmed to be who he was then the lights came on and he was in the middle of a huge room.
[Oh thank god you are here Mike!] Said the CPU, [we got a problem.]
"What's wrong?" He said.
[I'll show you.] Just then the map of the locations of all the Guardians were flashed red. [What's wrong with this picture?] Mike looked at the map and saw it, there was a light for the LA King.
"But he's dead," he said. "I was at his funeral. I remember the guilt I had."
[If that's the case, then who's he?] The computer flashed the King's light.
"I don't know STANLEY, I don't know."
TBC
Notes: 1. That's what Fate/ Stay Night called the shield. I'm stick with it. 2. Picture Circe in DCUO crossed with Cortana from HALO.