Part Ten: Visible as Air
Xander was out of breath and looking around for a weapon. He still couldn't believe that he killed that freaky demon with no eyes without a weapon. As he looked around he caught Buffys eyes as she fell from the tower.
There would be lots of speculation later, mainly by Giles, on what happened. Xanders favorite was that the Slayer spirit used the eye contact and the lingering mystical energy from the joining spell to channel the portal energy into Xander in an attempt to save Buffy.
All Xander knew was that he was in more pain than he had ever been in his life. As the world began to fade into nothingness around him Xander saw Buffy hit the pile of rubble. He made a silent vow to himself that moment to never let any thing like that happen again.
The demon biker gang was circling the Buffy Bot. The leader had already cut its face revealing circuitry, confirming that the Slayer was gone and only a cheep robot was guarding Sunnydale.
"All right boys," roared the leader. "Let's trash this tin can and take this town! The Hellmouth is ours!"
Before the leader could take two steps his head exploded, causing his brains to splatter on the rest of the gang.
"You guys really are stupid," said a voice from the shadows. The demons began to panic. They knew it wasn't a ghost, they could feel those and they weren't getting anything from this being. No sound, no scent, nothing that they could use to pin down their attacker. Soon the voice that seemed to come from everywhere began to talk again, "You didn't think that if the Slayer was dead that another one would come here or in this case something even more dangerous."
In groups of twos and threes the demons began to explode. Some tried to run but soon found that they were trapped by some kind of invisible wall.
After all the demons had died Xander made himself visible again. He walked over to the Buffy Bot to see if there was any damage.
"You know there are times I wish you had a power that wasn't so messy," said Willow as she walked out of the shadows, a sickened look on her face.
"Hey, you were the one that gave me the idea to use my invisible fields this way Willow."
"I just asked if you could form them in solid objects! I never said to form them in demons and then expand them until a vital demon organ goes pop. That idea came from the icky boy mind of one Xander Harris."
"Yeah, I guess it did. Luckily being the engaged man that I am I don't have any plans to use my powers to sneak into the girls' locker rooms once college starts."
Willow simply shook her head, he may be in his early twenties but sometimes Xander seemed like he was still fourteen. "I still wish I could figure out how you see when you turn invisible."
"That's my Will, full time holder of the Scooby brain cell. We have gone over this a thousand times; I don't know how I see I just do."
Willow just smiled. It was just like high school all over again. If he didn't think it was important he would just ignore it and hope it didn't bite him later.