"I'm Skip. So where's your champion?"
"My champion? What is going on here? Better
yet where is here?"
"Well here is inside your head. It is time for your
champion to decide your fate, so where is he?"
"Ummmm," Buffy started unsure of what to do. "Xander,"
she called wanting him to appear so badly.
"Interesting, the slayer puts her fate in that of
a mortal," Skip said as he opened a portal. Buffy saw herself and Xander
asleep on the couch. She saw part of Xander get up and come over. She could
tell he was mumbling something.
"What?" she asked as he stood next to her.
"I said that is the last time I sleep on a couch with you. First tine the first slayer tries to kill me and now there is this demon thing."
"Skip," the demon thing said holding out his
hand.
Stunned Xander shook it. "So what are we doing here?"
"It seems the Slayer has picked you for her champion,
mortal. We will begin."
At once two other demons came and began to
take Buffy away. Skip kept hold of Xander as he tried to help her. Tired
of her struggles one of the demons whispered a spell. Immediately Buffy
slumped between the two of them and was carried away.
Skip let Xander go. He tried to run after Buffy
but couldn't move. "The task will start now mortal."
Skip left Xander where he was. Slowly am image of
a bar took shape. He recognized it from Buffy's freshman year of college.
"No power on earth" Xander told Buffy as she stared up at him.
Someone called Buffy's name and she left
him at the bar.
"No this isn't how it happened, she got the story
out of me." Xander strained to move.
Skip appeared next to him. "You have to watch then
you will find out more."
The scene changed again, Buffy was in a psychology
class and talking to Riley Finn.
It moved to Thanksgiving, Buffy went to LA for
a day and Angel was human.
Then there was Adam and only Buffy was with Riley
and he was a Scooby. They fought Adam and the spell was preformed but it
was different somehow, Riley was there, with Buffy.
Then there was Dracula and he was eating bugs,
and turning Buffy over to him.
Dawn and Joyce where there as well and still
Riley for awhile then he left Buffy.
Xander proposing to Anya that girl from high
school an ex demon of all things.
Defeating Glory and Buffy's death.
She came back and a musical demon. Giles gone for good and Willow an addict. And his Buffy with Spike. Only she wasn't his Buffy.
The images came quicker, a geek trio and then…
"Now for your challenge," Skip said appearing near him once again. He snapped his fingers and four demons now appeared. Between each pair was a Buffy. His Buffy who he loved and then the other Buffy. Her hair was shorter and she looked broken somehow.
"You must choice what life to lead. Only know that with the choice of one you kill the other." Skip told him. At Xander's horrified look Skip continued, "since you are a mortal the Powers have agreed to wipe your memories of this consequences. Otherwise it would drive you mad. You will have five minutes with each of them to decide."
Ten minutes later Xander came out having made his decision.