That same night, unbeknownst to the soundly sleeping Spike, his AllyBot got dressed and ready to go out. "Time to slay."
Right around the same time, the real Ally stepped out of her home, heading to another one of Sunnydale's cemeteries, wanting to cover as much ground as possible before going to Spike's place.
Anya and Xander were patrolling the graveyard Spike lived in, soon coming face to face with the AllyBot, twirling her stake between her fingers.
"Hey there!" The bot greeted them, exceptionally cheery.
"Alls!" The man half-smiled, not noticing anything yet.
"Xander!" She shot back, smiling goofily. "And... Anya! How's your money?"
The ex demon laughed in surprise. They had gotten well almost from the beginning, as Ally didn't have anything against peaceful demons or reformed ones, she was very friendly with her. "Fine. Thank you for asking."
"Isn't it a beautiful night for killing evil things?"
Xander was beginning to find her behaviour a bit weird, but still stayed nice. "I guess."
"You're here very early." Anya noted.
"Yeah, we thought you were going to take the south first." The man added, frowning lightly at the young Potential.
"No. But thank you for asking." The bot replied, making Xander look confused, then continued. "You're my friend, and a carpenter."
Then Spike appeared from somewhere behind the bot, running towards them. "Hey! Wait up!"
"Spike!" AllyBot turned, looking at the bleach blond happily, then back to the couple. "It's Spike. And he's wearing a coat."
Said vampire was still panting from the race, trying to cover for his lover's awkwardness. "Yes. Uh... hello all." AllyBot tried to take his hand but he pulled away as discreetly as he could, not being able to wipe the loving expression from her face. "Uh, Ally's taking over, I see. Lots of patrolling all around tonight, then, is it? Uh, I'm glad you're all here, uh, 'cause, uh, 'cause... the place is crawling with vamps tonight. Uh, tons of 'em. I, uh, think we oughta split up."
Right in time, three vampires turned around the corned, menacingly closing on them.
"You're right." Anya admitted, surprisingly for even the not-really-convincing liar.
"Yep, guess so." The neutered vamp agreed.
All four of them fought the new arrivals, Xander and Anya having a bit of trouble with their vamp.
Little did they know, Glory's minions were watching from among the trees, thinking the mini Slayer, as the local demons had taken to call her, was also protecting the Key. And she seemed to care a lot about a certain blond in a black leather coat. "Spike, be careful!" She shouted before kicking an attacker, sending him flying backwards. Not a minute later she turned to watch her lover struggling with his opponent. "No, get away from him."
Once the attackers were done for, the four gathered again, Spike speaking up before the bot did something weird. "I think that was probably the big action for the night. You two can toddle on home if you want."
"Uh... Ally?" Xander asked, only trusting the Potential to assess the level of danger that night.
"Yes." She smiled, ticking Xander. He felt like something was wrong with her. "Spike and I will do it alone. You guys head home."
Spike waited until the couple was going to walk around the bot and face his lover again looking like he was planning something. The AllyBot, on the other hand, squirmed, uncomfortable. "I don't understand this. I-I did the slaying. I should be..."
"Satisfied?" He finished for her, leering.
The bot pouted, nodding. "But I'm not. I-I'm all" she squirmed again, moving her shoulders. "my skin is all hot. Do I look hot to you?"
"Always." He promised, unable to take his eyes off her.
"You better feel me to make sure." She suggested seductively, smirking.
"I can do that."
She threw her arms around his neck, joining him in a heated kiss, body pulled flush against his.
A few minutes later, Xander and Anya would find them grinding against each other, Ally pulled up with her back on a wall, moaning with his lips latched to her neck. "Oh Spike. You're the big bad." The AllyBot exclaimed, horrifying the witnesses, who soon located her jeans on the floor a couple feet from the oblivious couple. "You're the big bad!"
The real Ally was completely unaware of the situation on the other side of town, deep in a fight with a small gang of newbie vampires. The place was unusually active, she had already killed another three right at the entrance.
So she really had no idea her friends were telling her other friends they had seen 'her' banging Spike. Or that Xander was going to tell said vampire to stay away from her.
The youngest male of the Scooby Gang entered the crypt, ready to face Captain Peroxide and protect his friend.
"Oh, it's you." Spike exclaimed at seeing him, not even surprised.
The dark haired man closed the door behind him, confronting the bleach blond. "I saw you ... in the cemetery with Ally."
"Yeah? Can't see how it's any business of yours."
"It is my business because Ally's my friend .. and she's gone through some stuff lately that ... well, it's affected her, and you're taking advantage of her." He accused, nearing the culprit.
Spike only sighed, not giving it a lot of importance. She's upset about Joyce. He took a drag on his cigarette before continuing. "And if she turns to me for comfort, well, I'm not gonna deny it to her. I'm not a monster."
Xander disagreed. "Yes. You are a monster. Vampires are monsters. They make monster movies about them." He fully neared him and grabbed him by the front of his shirt. "Spike, Ally has lots of friends, and we love her very much, and we'll do whatever it takes to protect her. Now if that means killing you, then, well, that's just a bonus."
Suddenly, the door opened and Glory's minions came in, punching Xander in the gut, getting rid of him easily and several times, while Spike fought them with all his might, only to be restrained by quite a few of them, thinking he was the Key and therefore the hell god needed him intact.
Ally, the real one, run into a nasty vampire on the way towards Spike's graveyard, getting a bad hit on her left shoulder. She needed to rest for a bit, and she was close to Xander's apartment than any other safe place, so she decided to head there, knowing everyone would be there.
She was a bit surprised by Willow's attitude, getting her to the balcony to talk without disturbing the others, sleeping. Ally leant against the railing, clutching her shoulder while Willow handed her some pain meds and a glass of water, looking a bit nervous.
"Did Xander find you? He-he was looking for you."
Xander? She had no idea why he would be looking for her. They hadn't talked since the morning. She swallowed the meds and water in one swig before answering. "No. I didn't see him."
"He hasn't come back. Anya sat up waiting. Alls, we... I know you're going through a rough time, but I wanna help you. This-this is crazy. You know we're here for you, right? You can come to me if you need anything."
"Thanks. You're a good friend." She smiled, feeling the chemicals working already, before being alerted by Xander getting into the apartment and waking everyone up.
Will and her joined the other witch and ex demon in the room, waiting for what Xander had to say. His girlfriend immediately went to him, concerned. "Oh, Xander, I was scared, are you hurt? What happened?"
"Guys ... demony kinds of guys. Ally. The guys that work for Glory, Buffy said they're kind of like hobbits with leprosy?" Buffy had updated on the whole Glory thing after the showdown at the hospital, and she had researched her and her minions at the Magic Box. "Well this was a whole flock of hobbits, and they just grabbed Spike. I think they're taking him to Glory."
"But he, he knows about Dawn." Willow realized, grimacing, imagining Glory finding out about their little girl. Her long time friend nodded.
Ally's chest felt constricted for a moment, thinking about what they would do to him to get the information they wanted. "We have to get him back." She didn't miss the disturbed look the redhead shot at her, but she had been behaving strangely since she arrived at the apartment.
"So how do we find him?" Xander looked at the Potential, and she felt the weight of her duty on her shoulders. They were expecting her to guide them, to lead them as a true Slayer.
"First we need weapons." She decided, hugging her middle.
It was almost light out.
They went to the Summers' house, were a big chest in the leaving room held all kinds of weapons, Xander delivering them among the group.
"I think Buffy has more in her room. I'll go get some." She announced, leaving the group that had been acting very weird around her all the way to the house. What was going on with them?
Not two minutes later, the AllyBot arrived at the house, looking for Spike, thinking Xander, the last one to have visited him, would know where her lover was. She was joined by Buffy, back from her retreat, at the front porch.
"Hey, Alls. What are you doing here? It's early." She was hugging her coat to her, hanging from her arm, looking all the bit tired from her trip.
"I'm looking for Spike." AllyBot informed her, making her frown.
"It's day time. Why would he be here?"
"He's not at the crypt. Xander should know where to find him."
They entered the house, finding Xander, Willow and Anya in the leaving room, looking through her weapons' chest.
"Whoa. Group hang time?" The Slayer asked, making them all look up and see the Potential next to her, surprised at her speed.
"Tha-that was quick." Willow admitted, to which the blonde scoffed.
"Didn't seem like it to me. Death is my gift."
"No-no, we don't mean you, we mean her." Xander pointed at the brunette. "Ally, we need to talk."
The Slayer looked alarmed, her gaze flickering between the little group and her newest sister. "What's wrong?"
"Ally, we care about you, and we're worried about you. The way you're acting, the things you're doing..." The dark haired male started, ready to turn into the big brother figure.
"It's wrong." Anya interrupted him.
"Wait. This shouldn't be about blame." Willow stepped in, Buffy going insane from everyone talking.
"Can someone tell me what's going on?" She demanded, getting annoyed.
"Ally is having sex with Spike." Anya informed her, not taking care of her rude ways, as always.
"What?!" Buffy screeched, the AllyBot turning towards her. "Why would you do that?"
"I love Spike. Spike's mine. We have to find Spike." The bot nodded, not understanding the horrified expression on the eldest Summers' face.
The real Ally came running down the stairs with an huge ax held high, having heard the yelling. "What's with the screaming? What's going...? Whoa." She came to a halt at seeing her doppelganger, flabbergasted.
"Oh my god." Buffy muttered, astonished.
The bot smiled at her image, who was staring at her. "You look just like me! We're very pretty."
Willow just lost it, her hands flying up to her face. "Two of them!"
"Hey, I know this! They're both Ally!" He pointed at them, thinking it was a repeat of what happened to him.
Buffy shook her head, annoyed at him for not being able to tell the difference. "No, she" she pointed at the lovesick Ally obsessed with finding Spike. "is a robot. She acts just like that girlfriend-bot that Warren guy made."
"You guys couldn't tell me apart from a robot?" Ally asked, only starting to realize why they had been acting so awkwardly around her.
"I don't think I'm a robot." The AllyBot tilted her head, confused.
Xander started to explain what they were all thinking. "Spike must have had her built so he could program her t..."
Buffy couldn't take the image, horrified at the idea. "Oh god."
"Yikes. Imagine the things..." Will was certainly doing it, her face contorted, hands shaking with disgust.
Ally could help but feel embarrassed, all of them thinking about someone with her face doing... "No! No, no imagining. Any of you."
Xand had to go and make it worse for her. "Already got the visual."
The AllyBot intervened, trying to get them to focus. "People. Friends of mine. You're forgetting the most important thing. Glory has Spike and she's going to harm him."
"Glory has Spike?" Buffy hadn't received that piece of information, and it certainly worried her, not for him, but for what he knew.
"We were gonna bring that up." The only male said, laughing nervously.
"We were getting weapons." His girlfriend explained, looking at the chest.
"Grab 'em. We're going now. I have to kill him."
Ally was about to stop her, unable to understand why that was the first priority for the Slayer, but Willow beat her to it. "We don't even know where to look."
Buffy seemed to ponder for a moment, looking up at them soon. "I know where to start."
A couple hours later, Buffy, Xander and Ally barged into one of the mansions, crossbow and axes ready, to find the bitches minions next to a staircase, all ready for them. Ally thanked the universe for her recent intensive training, because even though the things were gross and dressed like monks, they knew how to fight. They were soon joined by Giles and the AllyBot, the latter still blabbering about Spike and only Spike, catching the Potential's attention when she stopped in front of the lift, doors open.
She could see a slumped form on the ground, but the bot was in the middle. She made quick work of the minion opposing her and run to the lift, helping Giles on the way. The last couple of minions escaped upstairs, letting Ally reach her battered friend, bloody and a huge mess.
