Cordy sighed and looked around the costume shop. The delinquent that burned down party town will pay dearly for this. And to top off the fun thanks to Snyder's sexism only girls are in costumes tonight. Xander too but as she said only girls are in costume tonight. She looks at Harris and sees he's waiting patiently for Buffy and Willow.
Cordy looked over at him. "Hey dweeb how do I look?"
Xander's eyes widened and he can only hope he's not drooling at the moment. "Wow, I mean, wow." He just kept staring at the black leather get up. Midriff showing no cover for her arms in a black leather top and black leather pants and boots.
Cordelia nudged him with a giant toy rifle. "Knock it off pal I'll have you know I'm in special agent gear."
"Of what vice?" Xander asked.
Cordelia glared at him and went low with the end of the toy rifle another four guns attached to her side as he grunted in pain causing Ethan to tighten up a bit in sympathetic pain.
Willow let out a small glare at the two ever since Kevin's death she's been getting closer to the scooby gang, and ever since he saved her life she's been getting closer to him. "They seem happy."
Buffy looked at the two and decided to hold up the white boo to emphasize her point. "You can dress like that Will, you don't need to hide."
"Not hiding just… fleeing." Willow replied weakly.
Buffy leaned back. "Just saying we could dress you up in something similar and you'd probably look just as good if not better." Buffy smiled holding up a costume for her. "Hey, how about this one beautiful and dangerous. Come on Will, carpe diem."
Willow looked at it and smiled seeing it was a losing fight to go against Buffy. "OK but none of that metal on the face part like the picture. It gives me bad memories of Moloch."
"Fair enough." Buffy replied grabbing the costume. No one has happy memories of Moloch.
Willow looked at the costume uneasy but had a black haired little girl tugging on her leg that couldn't have been more then five. "Is something wrong?"
"You forgot the most important thing." The girl said with a smile.
Willow looked at her confused. "I did?"
The little girl nodded and grabbed a yellow sword that could collapse into itself as little knife in a little sheath. "Yeah, I know you're undercover but you need this."
Willow nodded gratefully taking the toy sword. "Thank you very much."
Buffy looked around the store and now had a trick problem Angel not one for Halloween and with Willow being brave she wanted to lay low. She looked around and saw a silver watch with no numbers from the cheap bin. She just grabbed it and went for the cashier.
Xander looked around the store and saw nothing that really worked for him.
Buffy paid for the watch thing and walked up to him. She looked at him curious. "So what are you wearing?"
Xander shook his head. "Nothing here got no money for anything big and flashy."
Buffy looked around and spotted something interesting as she held up a toy for a buck from her watch bin. "Do what I'm doing go incognito as my partner in crime, well you know what I mean."
Xander shrugged seeing a toy stick. Why not? It's just a black shirt and jeans. Still would have preferred red though as he grabbed the little toy stick.
Xander walked up to the door in a simple black muscle beater and jeans. He knocked on the door and smiled seeing Buffy open the door in a pink shirt and jean shorts. Xander looked at her with a smile. "You look good."
Buffy smiled in her little get up and seeing him dressed very similar and very cheaply. "So what do you think? Five bucks between us?"
Xander nodded. "That seems about right."
Buffy smiled and shouted. "But wait till you see this. Willow come down here."
"Don't laugh!" The redhead replied last year.
Xander let out a sigh. "Scout's honors get down here."
Willow came down with her long red hair and a metal spear a black leather bodysuit covering slightly more or less then Cordelia in areas along with a metal top and a spear.
Xander looked at her in shock. "Wow!"
Buffy smiled and clipped her arm around him. "Come on partner."
Willow smiled at the compliment but quickly followed them out the door.
Ethan smiled with all the costumes he had sold. He would have preferred more heroes but too many heroes, and no conflict, too little heroes no courage and most important of all no chaos.
Willow looked around as Ethan's spell took hold on the world. She glanced a quick look at the mirror and saw how she was dressed and the mini demons all set to go in other directions. She slammed the hilt of her spear on the ground and glared at the mini demons. "Behave yourselves and get in line!"
The mini demons quickly lined up single file and followed behind Willow.
Buffy looked around as the spell took hold as she looked around and saw three Stormtroopers bullying a little kid dressed as Princess Leia. "Hey what are you...!"
"Rebel sympathizer, blast her!"
Buffy's eyes widened in fear as the Stormtroopers shot at her but thankfully Stormtroopers being Stormtroopers missed her. Buffy backed up as she put Leia behind her, this seems familiar.
To the surprise of all three people a man in a black shirt and jeans jumped on the Stormtroopers knocking all three of them over.
Buffy smiled looking at an old friend as Xander ordered. "Go, get out of here!"
The Stormtroopers got to their feet as Xander did and held his hand out as a staff of black and gold appeared in his hand a red ball on top. He quickly grabbed the staff by the bottom and cracked a Stormtrooper in the head with it knocking him out cold. Xander quickly kneed the next one in the gut following it with a kick to the side and ending with a roundhouse kick before jumping in the air and hitting him with a spin kick knocking him out.
The last Stormtrooper glared at the boy. "OK hand to hand."
Xander watched as he pulled out a four edged baton that came to life charged with electricity as he let out a quiet groan in disbelief. "Why aren't you Stormtroopers puny like the movies?"
Xander used his staff to deflect the swing of the stormtrooper's baton as the trooper stumbled aside and Xander acted fast as his wrists glowed gold covering his hands. Xander moved his arms in a bunch of different directions until he was set to bring them together only for the Stormtrooper to swing his stun baton straight down forcing Xander to back away as the energy left his wrists as the teen shouted. "Damn it!"
The stormtrooper kept swinging left to right and up to down. Xander keeping up with each block just as the stormtrooper does for his own strikes. The Stormtrooper brought the baton straight down as Xander held the staff up blocking the attack from splitting his skull. He gets no free time it's like the guy knows what he is.
The stormtrooper looked at him angrily. "Do you think you can beat me?"
"Yes" Xander answered bluntly. "But since I don't have the time I'm going to cheat."
Xander smiled as the staff opened at the top and a bunch of red energy balls shot out and hit the stormtrooper head on knocking him down.
Xander caught his breath with a smile that was not easy but easier then other things.
The last stormtrooper got to his feet only to see a red covered hand punch through his chest.
Xander backed up as the trooper's body hit the floor only to see a full suited man that looked to be a lawyer with a blood soaked arm. "And you are?"
The lawyer let out a jovial smile. "I'm Marcus Hamilton. I represent Wolfram and Hart. May I ask your name?"
"Jason Scott."
Marcus held out his hand for a handshake and Jason just backed away from the bloody mitt. "Sorry, should have used the clean hand."
Jason looked the devil in the eyes with how little he cared for life. "What do you want?"
Marcus took a couple steps back. "What I want is to impress the senior partners with a certain glowing girl."
Jason thought it through and shook his head. "Couple zombies no vampire, sorry no glowing girl though."
Hamilton looked at him for a moment. "Well it depends. You see I see a glowing while you… well, all you'd see is a girl in a princess Leia costume. So who was the girl in the pink shirt that got her away?"
Jason just kept his calm. "Beats me. I kind of have this side where I just protect innocent people. Best of luck though pal."
Hamilton nodded in understanding and the two had different reactions. Jason got his arms glowing gold and tried to bring them together throwing but Hamilton landed a punch as Jason soared through the air and crashed on a car denting it around him. Jason tried to get up but was punched in the face three more times keeping him down. Each shot felt like he was getting hit in the face with a sledgehammer. He could have sworn bones rattled at the third one. Hamilton looked at the boy cuts on his face two black eyes one even swelled shut. "No one would jump into a situation like that unless you were protecting something. Since it's clearly not who I'm after that leaves the girl with her, who is she?"
Jason shook his head and spat at him with a blood stained spit from his mouth as the blood smeared on his face and suit.
Hamilton growled as he lifted him up and off his feet with one hand on his throat. "You sure you don't want to tell me?"
Jason shook his head in defiance. "No, I'm good."
Hamilton wound his hand back as a shot went off at their feet knocking them both down from the explosive shot.
Hamilton got to this feet and saw a girl in black leather on the second floor of a hotel. The girl jumped down from the second floor and kept her gun aimed at him. "That was a stun shot. Want to guess what it's set on now. You're under arrest."
Hamilton looked at the girl curious about the gun but seeing she's a leather clad war machine he's not that curious since he could be dead before he gets close. He looks at Jason on his knees and has his hands on the floor trying to pull himself back up. Hamilton let out one swift kick to the side Jason is sent through the air and fell on top of the woman as Hamilton took the moment to flee. He has a much more interesting girl he's after anyway.
Giles took a moment from cataloging to just enjoy the quiet of a day off. Until the library door opened of course why should he have a day off? He looked at small man with blond hair enter in black pants white work shirt and yellowish brown jacket. "Who are you and how can I help you?"
"My name is John Constantine and you can help me by breaking this spell. Preferably before that tarty woman shows up again."
Giles looked at the man in well, confusion would be an understatement. "I beg your pardon?"
"Tarty woman" Constantine quickly repeated as Harmony Kendall walked into the library in a cat suit she snagged last year that still fit.
Giles looked at the blond woman in shock. "Dear god you mean she thinks like a literal feline."
The cat looked at him confused. "What's a feline?"
Giles looked at Constantine who merely shrugged and replied. "Pain in the ass and a tart"
Harmony looked at him. "Hey if Cordy's dating someone in a band it only seemed fair."
Giles held his head. Who would thought a day would come when he missed Xander riling him. He turned to the young man. "Why do you believe I'm behind this again?"
Constantine looked at him with a broad sword hidden taken from a demon. "People are becoming their costumes, I can feel Chaos magic on you, and it seemed familiar to you so I thought it was you."
Giles quietly walked right past Constantine the little Brit keeps it up and he'll meet Ripper. He went into the trashcan and pulled out a receipt for Buffy's watch thing that somehow constituted a costume. He should have been paying attention he would have seen it coming a mile away. "Right"
Constantine watched him set to leave. "So do you remember casting the spell now?"
"I didn't cast this spell." Giles assured him. "I'm just going after who did."
Constantine quickly followed him out. Harmony giving chase not long after.
Hamilton pursued through the streets knowing what a huge boon acquiring the key will be. She sees a redhead clad in metal and black leather leading a swarm of demons. He let out an entertained smile seeing as only he knew a human lead an army of demons. If the demons knew they'd be all over her.
Hamilton smiled looking at the redhead. "Well look at you leading your own army of demons. That's interesting."
"They fear power." Willow replied and went to push forward only for Hamilton to grab her wrist. "Hey!"
Hamilton shook his head. "No, you misunderstood me. They follow you because you carry yourself like a master of evil. But I don't sense any evil in you at all. Quite the opposite really."
Willow swung the spear but Hamilton catches it. "There's a reason no one likes lawyers." She reaches into her side and Hamilton ignores it as it's only as big as a dagger.
Hamilton's eyes widen in surprise as the dagger becomes a sword that lets cut his arm freeing himself as he bellows in pain from the cut. He reaches for the hair to pull her back but only gets a red wig as a now blond haired Willow runs for the hills. The demons try to run after her but Hamilton stops them. "No! We've got business elsewhere. Now if you gentlemen play nice. I'll introduce you to the real power of this world."
Jason opened his eyes as he feels a lot better. The bruises are gone. He can see out of his left eye again. He felt blood on his face but it's closed all the wounds. "What happened?"
The woman in the black leather looked at him. "I healed you with a crystal ball."
Jason looked at her for a moment. The lawyer must have hit him harder then he thought. "Say that again."
"And the past it is." The woman in black leather replied as she held out her hand. "Jen Scotts."
"Jason Scott" He replied taking her hand as Jen helped pull him up.
Jen looked at him. "So lawyers are a lot more violent then I remember. Any idea why that is?"
Jason gets to his feet. "That wasn't a lawyer that was a monster." His eyes widen as he realizes it's a monster after a good friend. "Thank you for the help but I gotta go."
Jen looked at him and held out a blaster. "Well if it's a monster I'm going to help you. Besides all you have is a stick."
"It's a staff." Jason countered but never the less took the blaster as another leather clad blond ran out and nearly crashed into him. Jason looked at the blond. He thinks he might have saw her in the command center archives. "You look familiar have we met?"
Willow looked at him uneasy remembering him from that day. He'll never know her minions had him beat up and kidnapped till her brother killed his mentor. "No, I just have one of those faces. I'm Karone." She held out her hand and Jason shook her hand.
Jason looked at her. "Well I gotta go, lawyer after my friend."
Karone looked at the two. "You mean the blond with the girl dressed like Princess Leia?"
Jason nodded. "That would be her."
Karone pointed behind her. "They're that way."
Jason glared at her. "And you just let them?"
Karone matched his glare. That's not who she is anymore. "They were being pursued by a child of the senior partners. I tried to call him off but he called my bluff. I was looking for my friends but I can't find them here and I'm all alone. Going up against a child of the senior partners on your own is signing your own death wish."
Jason looked at her much like her he's only found one of his friends too. He's guessing there are five of them if that thing on her wrist is any indication. "Then we make do with the three we have with us."
"Four" Jen quickly corrected.
Karone nodded having a feeling they all have something in common. She'd prefer a team of five but four would do.
The three quickly followed Karone back going for Hamilton.
Leia stopped to catch her breath and saw the girl in pink heading in the other direction. "Where are you going?"
Buffy looked at her. "We didn't get away by chance. A friend of mine ran interference. I can't leave him behind."
Leia looked behind her and saw the lawyer. "I don't think we have the time to look."
Buffy looked at Hamilton and quickly pushed Leia behind her.
Harmony opened the door for Ethan's as Giles and Constantine entered behind her. The blond looked around and saw it. "Hey what's with the creepy statue?"
Constantine rolled his eyes upset. "Swell its Janus."
"The bad girl from that Secret Agent movie?" Harmony asked.
Constantine quietly looked at her. "The light bulb in your head just broke when you were a baby huh?"
Giles looked to the blond girl. "It's about balance, good and evil yin and yang."
Constantine shook his head and decided for the more practical. "Peanut Butter, Jelly"
"Oh those are totally good together. What else?" Harmony asked.
"Chunky and creamy" A new voice said as a new Englishman entered the room.
Giles glared at the older Englishman. "The two of you get out of here. I'll handle him."
Constantine looked at the older he has a feeling but not his concern at the moment. "Right, come on lady."
Buffy backed up and stood arms at her side in fighting stance. "What do you want?"
"I want the girl. If you want to die like your friend that's on you." Hamilton replied.
Buffy looked at Leia ready to start blasting like she would in the movies. "Come and take her from me."
Hamilton advanced with a group of demons only to be sent back in a flurry of laser blasts even knocking them off their feet.
Buffy turned to Leia genuinely impressed. She looked at the little princess impressed. "How did you do that?"
"I didn't." Leia replied and pointed behind the lawyer. "They did."
Buffy smiled seeing Jason with two other females each with blasters in their hands. "What took you so long?"
Jason, Jen and Karone immediately ran to them as Hamilton and the demons pulled themselves to their feet.
Jason rolled his eyes he got mauled by a lawyer what is she upset about? "Sorry Kat, kind of got held up."
Hamilton looked over and saw the man in black now surrounded by three women in pink. Well his work just got a bit harder.
Jason shook his head knowing what will happen when he gets up. "Guys, do it now."
Kat nodded as She and Jason shouted an all too familiar chant for them as two devices appeared on Cat's wrists and the golden energy emerged in Jason's arms. "IT"S MORPHIN TIME!"
"Zeo ranger one pink!"
"Gold ranger power!"
Karone smiled and simply hit the device on her wrist. "Go Galactic"
Jen quickly crossed her arms before switching out and pushing a button on her wrist. "Time for Time force"
Hamilton looked at the group dumbfounded. The girls were in different shades of pink. Jen was in a pink and white suit with a pink helmet with a bit of black and a pink visor. Karone was in white and pink but her helmet looked like a bird to him. Kat was in pink and white with a skirt and and a black oval for a helmet. Jason was in a black with with a golden shield and white gloves a six shaped symbol for a visor. Why would teenagers dress like them? "Interesting you're all in spandex now, but I'm on a deadline."
Kat jumped in the air and went for a dive kick that connected square with the lawyer's gut as she landed. To the surprise of all four rangers especially Kat, Hamilton soared backwards as the demons cleared a path in a frantic rush and Hamilton went about twenty feet through a concrete wall and into a house.
Jason turned to his fellow ranger he knows these powers are stronger then the originals but that was insane. "Kat, what was that?"
Kat gave an honest shrug. "I don't know."
"No, seriously what was that?" Jason asked. "He tore me apart and you annihilated with one little kick."
The three rangers looked as a pink bolt for lack of a better word struck the ground keeping the demons at bay.
Jen looked at the two legendary rangers and ordered them. "Maybe we can wait till later for the interrogation?"
Jason nodded. "Yeah that's a plan." Where does she keep pulling these guns out of?
Giles glared at the man he once considered a friend. "I should have known. This whole thing stinks of Ethan Rayne."
Ethan looked at his old friend. "Hello Ripper, do you really think it's that telegraphed?"
"It's dangerous and it harms the innocent," Giles replied.
Ethan smiled. "And we all know Rupert Giles is the protector of the innocent quite façade you have going old man. The tweed clad guardian of the slayer,"
Giles glared at him with a stoic unflinching face. "It's not a facade Ethan. How do I break the spell?"
"Say pleas…" Before Ethan could answer he was hit with a resounding right hand by Giles knocking him down.
Karone ran up the wall and landed in a back flip to the floor and grabbed the Queasar saber as it expanded to a full sword. She cut two demons knocking them down. A third rushed her only to be knocked down by a laser blast. Karone smiled at Leia who gave a quiet nod as she ran for the next demon.
Jen shot the two going for her and watched as a large swarm of six came after her only to be knocked aside by a blur of black energy revealed to be Jason when it came to a stop.
Kat kicked one at the leg to knock it down back first only to send it into a 1080 flip sending him spinning twice and crashing down headfirst. What is going on with her powers?
Giles looked at his old friend as coughed up blood as he wiped his hands in a cloth. "How do we break the spell Ethan?"
"It's a complicated spell… it has to be done in a tutu." Ethan replied. Giles kicked his old friend in the ribs and Ethan finally complied. "Janus spill your blood on the statue."
Giles quickly grabbed a knife from the table and sliced his palm and applied the blood to the statue. The results weren't as expected as a white light quickly rushed through the store and seemingly enveloped the entire city for a moment. "Ethan what have you done?"
Ethan got his hands up and chanted. "Vincere" A blur of energy wrapped around Giles and hoisted him two feet in the air and trapped him there for the time being. "My blood was only enough to partially complete the spell. I needed another chaos mage to finish it." Ethan got up with a smile as he walked for the door. "Welcome to a land of heroes and villains in constant conflict. Welcome the world of chaos old friend." With that he simply left.
The light hit Constantine and Harmony as the person inside Constantine was set free with everything the hellraiser knows and can do. Daniel Osborne felt the air and looked around as he can only sum up tonight. "Huh"
The light flashed on the power rangers. Xander looked around as the demons now humans trapped in the demonic bodies fled. Xander looked at his hand and white gloves. "Uh oh, power down."
"Power down" All the Sunnydale teens looked at each other in shock until Cordy finally asked the question they've all asked. "So, that really happened didn't it?"
Willow nodded as she grabbed for her hair. She finally got enough to see a patch of red. "Oh thank god I'm a red head again."
"Hey!" Buffy objected.
Willow looked at her weakly. "But it looks good on you."
Cordy shook her head she's pretty sure Buffy roots are more brunette anyway. She looked away and saw nothing… where's the princess. "Guys, Leia's gone."
Buffy's eyes widened in fear. "Dawn! Where are you? You are gonna be in so much trouble if you're hiding."
Xander ran over to the house with the wall smashed apart Cordy close by and smacked the wall in frustration. "Guys the lawyer from hell is gone too. I think he took her."
Cordy gently took his hand seeing him in pain. And she's blaming Jen's cop nature for this. "We'll get her back."
"How?" Xander asked, "He hits like an 18 wheeler."
"Angel" Buffy answered. He has the bloodho…undnose…. And…. H… e can….
Xander paused it in frustration. He finally found one where they lose Halloween and that happens. "So not fair!"
Buffy took the remote and hit skip chapter. Her as a power ranger not happening. "Can we just agree Tuesday and move on."
Willow smiled. "Tuesday"
Xander frowned given how well their lives went even with a good Halloween he'll agree. "Tuesday"
Author's notes
Thanks for the reviews
I was gonna post Doomsday Xander and Glory's story for Halloween this year but life tends to throw a barrage of hell at me every September-March anymore so I don't think I am now. It will just write it when I write it.
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