ALL BLOODY CONSPIRACY
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Chapter Five
"Same Singularity"
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TIMELESS
Important Disclaimer: This chapter is optional, the events that are going to happen here are hallucinations that our three heroes had when they trespassed that barrier that had made the time stop at the surrounds of Buffy's house. The events may be kind of confusing, will lead to a massive crossover extravaganza and may not damage the resuming of this history. But you should take a look, it will display a different point of view of each one's mind.
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Andrew.
Andrew felt the impact of reaching inside the border the time-singularity. For a second he floated in the infinite. He felt the pain when his face hit the hot asphalt, he found himself in the middle of the street, but he was alone, no Spike, no Amanda, no MIB guys and no cars. He stood up and looked around "Guys!?? Spike - o " The midday-some made him protect his eyes and made his characteristic bitter face of problem, loneliness and fear bothered him.
"Calm down, they may be he here soon" he cheated himself will they? He speeded up her pace and ran back to Summer's house, some minutes later he reached there, he jumped the bodies of the imps that were blocking the entrance door. "Anybody! I'm here! It's Andrew! Your guest... People ..."
He walked up the stairs, looked in the rooms and it all were empty, I'm alone now. He entered Buffy's room, "Hum, cool" he said when he sighted some small pieces of intimate clothing, when he stretched his arm to grab it he felt pain in his ribs that were injured when he did a unintentional fly hit by one Imp's projectile. "Ouch, I need a doctor."
"Please state the nature of the medical emergency" a voice surprised him from behind.
Andrew gave a small leap when notice the man that were few steps behind Buffy's bed, where no one was a second before and could not get there without get noticed. The man was a middle height Caucasian guy, his advanced state of baldness indicated that his age should be at least 40 years, wearing a skin tight jersey black uniform with some blue-greenish details in his shoulder. Andrew knew who he was. It certainly should be a lack of his conscience, but the man standing in that room seemed exactly the doctor, called EMH (emergency medical hologram) a holographic doctor, the most interesting character of TV Series Star Trek Voyager.
"Were is this?" the Doctor asked "How I get here?" he approached Andrew's spot.
"Ehh... Mr. Picardo?"
"No, I am not, I do not have a name, are you human?" he took out a small piece of metal the were a medical examiner and analyzed Andrew. "Yes you certainly are, what is your post"
"I am ... I am not sure" Andrew touched the Doctor's chest to assure that he was real, and to check that he was not The First.
After looking his medical device the Doctor expressed "You called me for that, civilian? A small bruise in your ribs? I will get out of here" he walked back to the spot the appeared "EMH off" nothing happened "Computer, EMH offline" nothing again "Where's the devices, where is the ship, where am I ?"
"Sir you are in Sunnydale California, or you may call it the Hellmouth, strange things happens here I made a documentary about this, I could show it to you if you come with me..."
"Hold on, do you mean California, Earth-California?" he hologram indicated signs of confusion.
"Yeah, here in this city everything can happen"
"I'm really getting into the spirit of it kid"
"But you can get accustomed to live here, I did, but the city got a little empty now" Andrew said.
"Wait a minute" the Doctor got closer of Andrew pointing his index finger to the face of the boy, I've got a impression that you may need another kind of medical help." And he moved his analyzing device around Andrew's head "Psychiatric"
Andrew stepped back "Hey"
"Kid, You open you chest, I know that something bothers you"
"No, I do not, maybe a little, but from a real doctor"
"Pre-concept! I have more the 1000 volumes of psychiatric information on my database, I can threat you, almost, better than any human doctor"
"I'm sure that you can" Andrew tried to ran out, felt on the fell on the floor and resumed his running. The doctor only looked it intrigued.
He entered Dawn's room and closed the door and threw the key away, when he felt safe the Doctor materialized in front of him. "Do you think that the patients can run of the EMHs, another advantage."
Andrew sled besides to get into the close but the Doctor kept coming closer. A very opportune baseball bat was found there I will thank Dawn later, a smart girl. Andrew hit the Doctor in his left shoulder with the bat, the impact wasn't strong enough to knock the Doctor, but he stepped back, his hologram structure kind of absorbed the power of the impact. Anyway it was enough to Andrew get out through the window, when he put his feet in the roof he sled and rolled down to the ground, he did not got injured because he fell in the top of some bushes. Useless, the Doctor was already outside when Andrew stood up. "Damn you, I tough you were cool! I understanding that Dr. Crusher do not like your kind... maybe only the Voyager's EMH was cool" Andrew geek speech do not intimidate the Doctor.
"I know it could be old fashioned but a little incision on your right lobe may help you with this madness" he raised his hand holding a scalpel.
"Alright Sunnydale, where's the random demon attack when we need it!"
Andrews wish was made! A huge biker vampire grabbed the Doctor from behind, trying to put his fangs in the neck of the hologram, Andrew watched an unusual battle, the photonic structure of the hologram was not made to react to a vampire attack so some bug effects were visible.
Andrew ran to the street and a noise of a sliding doors sounded behind him, he turned back and saw a big door, in the center of the street, standing up in the air without a wall to support it, looking through it a corridor could be seem. Andrew approached it and notice some computers panels near the door post.
"I must be dreaming" he recognized the similarity of that door, it must be ... "Computer off" and a second after he said this phrase all street and houses around melted away in a electronic effect leaving around him a small cubic black room with thin red squares painted on walls and floors. "This is so not happening"
"Captain, are you okay?" a young beauty brunette asked him outside in the hallway.
"How is you?" the overwhelmed Andrew asked her
"Lieutenant Kayla Truelove, sir, I am taking command of the engineering on the night shift. We are glad that we rescued you"
He walked out of the room and got more shocked with the environment, it was so real "What?"
"I know you may be kind disoriented, it took almost 10 years, you have lived all this time inside the fiction, but it worked, my team freed you"
"Tell me more" he kind liked the experience and acted like he knew what was going know.
"10 years ago, you were on the command of the USS Olimpio-dos-Santos, NCC-0081-B, this ship" she showed around " and you were taking some free time on the holodeck running some vampire program and the ship were attacked by a borg vessel, all personnel were killed and the ship was carried by them and later was abandoned, affected by the damage you were unable to leave the hologram program. About 5 weeks ago this ship was found by the Enterprise near of the system of Seti-Alpha. After some analysis we found that you stayed alive, we checked the logs and we found that you, all these years, you have lived completely well in the fiction, you did became that Andrew character. Another very interesting topic was the system malfunction also showed you some images of starfleet's records as TV show named Star Trek, kind of bug hmm ?"
All that information was sounding very good and plausible, it explained why he got so close of the show and why he became a compulsive trekker "Were are we?" 'the captain' asked.
"Deep space nine. We attached our EMH program added to an old game (Doom) to the holodeck to the system to overpass the photonic barrier, you should have take some unusual experiences lately, some unreal presentations like a flying object, Imp demons, time lapses and an anomaly wall on the street. All forced images to bump you off of the unreality"
"Cool" He started to smile, a dream was coming true, but was interrupted by some fire sparks behind him inside that holodeck room.
"It should have gotten too overdosed, we should leave it now" she tapped a symbol hanged in her uniform close of her breast and said "Lt. Truelove to DS9 Transporter room 1, two to go quickly"
A very strange feeling took him from inside, in few seconds he was in a different place, a room with a some platform and a guy behind a console, he assume that he got beamed to the space station. When the Tele-transportation device finished the process they fell a impact that thew him and Kayla on the floor, the operational officer was thrown over his console landing near them.
"Damn what was that" Kayla complained and checked the 'flying' officer, she raised his sight "He's dead captain"
"Wow" Andrew was double shocked when another impact hit them, all the ground forced them up, it was worst than a earthquake.
"Escape Pods! The Olimpio-dos-Santos has exploded and deck 1 is very damaged, please proceed with escaping procedure calmly" The intercom warned all decks.
A blow was hidden outside the room, Andrew figured that transporter room 1 should be on the deck 1, so he felt that the end was coming
Suddenly the automatic door opened and behind it a familiar face made Andrew feel the coldest shiver that he ever have. In result of a probably heavy malfunction on the holodeck Andrew's escaped earlier and photonic image flashed in the front of him. It was Warren entering the room the same way he did when killed Tara. When he flashes sometimes he mutate to the form of the Doctor that was seeking Andrew, that fusion of the photonic systems, the holodeck + the EMH, should have gotten really strange, it made possibly the image of the holodeck walk out of it, a property only of the EMH.
Andrew sweated very cold. Shaking in fear
"Do you think you're gonna get away like this?"
Warren shot twice on Kayla deathly.
"Damn!" It was the last word of Andrew and Warren pointed the gun to his forehead. Then pointed to the left to someone else behind Andrew.
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Amanda.
Amanda felt the electricity leaving his body as she left the barrier, and she opened her eyes he found herself sat on a chair in front of Buffy on Sunnydale's High School counselor's office. It was like she got back in time, a real dejavu, the same scene that happened months ago when he spanked a guy on school and was sent to the counselor.
"Amanda, when a someone bother you, I mean in High School, it's a signal of love, the guy who did it have (after that the incident he might) 'had' a crush on you."
It is real enough to her, like all the last months happenings were just a glimpse of time, a blur in her mind, like when you lose the focus in the conversation for some moments, imagine some irrelevant topic and then gets back knowing that you did not listened the last speeches. Were all those vampires and potential slayer tale just fruit of her imagination? What a long moment it was.
Buffy dismissed her and he got away through the school corridor, it was crowded in the break time, and turned in the girls restroom to think what have happened in a more peaceful place. She entered the room and face herself in the mirror.
"Weird" she focused the world going out of her own lips in the reflex. "It's at least a relief, all that responsibility of save the world was gone"
"Manda?" a voice got out behind her.
Through the mirror she saw a latin fat girl
"Manda, your mother has called me on the phone"
"Who is you??"
"It's me Karin, what happened to you, you seem shocked" the girl seemed very closer to Amanda like they were best friends, but Amanda have never seem her before "Your mother got a little angry when the principal called her but she got over it because she had great news, you will not believe, no kidding, remember that ticket that you bought from that guy on the beach last Sunday? You did, you wined that kind a informal lottery, you got a very expensive car!"
Amanda did a bitter face what a crap is that?
A chubby man opened the door "Were you are! Miss Summers explained to me Amanda, I came her to ask to you to apologize me.
"Hi Principal Flutie" Karin saluted him
Amanda's photographic memory recognized him from a picture on a news paper from six years ago that she had read and got very impressed. He was the former principal of the high school and he got eaten alive by hungry dogs, what he was doing there? alive? And what the hell he was going getting inside the girls restroom?
She realized that it was too scarier. All this reality breakup, could it be a parallel universe? She also could not remember what she did earlier, all those fake memories of being a slayer faded out more and more every minute, as strange it could be it started to seem very normal.
Karin conducted Amanda on the street, the first impact was that Sunnydale High was the old one, that one the exploded years ago. The people on the street were old fashioned, a mixture of tendencies of 1996 till 2003 all together, Amanda felt it but could not say exactly what was different. Karin stopped in her house to grab a thing, in the mailbox could be read 'The Trueloves', Amanda could not understand at all how she didn't remember anything of Karin.
When she was waiting in front of Truelove's house, Dawn Summers passed on the other side of street. At least a familiar face though Amanda.
"Hey Dawnie!" Amanda called the teen that looked surprised to her, Dawn crossed the street and came closer.
"What do you want from me? You Freak!" Dawn attacked orally "I told you to not cross my way anymore" she dropped her binder in the pathway in a menacing act of start a struggle
Amanda couldn't remember even understand why Dawn was so cruel and mad of her, a blue strap of Dawn's hair indicated that something was really strange, she was not the Dawn that she knew.
Karin truelove appeared in the front door of her house "Hey this Dawn bitch is here!" staring angry to Dawn, she entered back and a second later she came out with a big knife. In reaction of it the Dawn's companion girl took from her backpack a bigger knife and threw to Dawn that grabbed it in the air showing slayer ability, the companion also took to herself a small dagger.
Amanda stepped back, her face expressed completely desperation mode. "Girls, what the hell?"
The struggle begun, Amanda dodged Dawn's attacks avoiding to hurt her, meanwhile the others to girls dueled rolling over the floor of the balcony. Tired of defense position Amanda took impulse and kicked Dawn's belly with two feet, the impact hurled Dawn some meters away. Amanda stood up and looked to Dawn twisting in pain on the ground. A millisecond look to the other girls' blood overflow was needed to decide to get fast out of that place. Karin was probably dead.
Amanda ran like a crazy horse, bumping into some people on the street, she felt in the ground when she hit a mail box.
The land in the checked cold marble floor terrified her, she was down in the Sunnydale high corridor, how?
"Tell me what is the most terrifying event that could happen?" a voice asked her
"Be crazy? I think I am."
"Something very like that" An strange priest entered in the corridor, now we know that he was a lookalike of Caleb, but that time he was a stranger to her. "I'm here like a guide" He keep approaching gesturing a lot "I think you'll be not here to be the graceful ending but the future reserves something bigger to you." [1]
"What?" she sat on the floor.
"This is not important, I'm the entity of the Timeless, you can call me Kimey, I know everything of all time and alternative dimensions, I know all you desires too. You and your friends are just here for a while, it's necessary step to reintegrate your body structure back to the time-space. As I didn't receive visits frequently I created a world of illusion for each one of you, just to mess with you mind. Very funny. How I said, in your case, that are a very serious girl, nothing would bother you, it was a challenge, the only thing that would work was the reality-absence. You could not deal with do not trust even in the physic's laws, your family and friends were messed up, you could not even know what time it was, some facts rerunning, others facts out of place."
"This was no funny" she stood up very mad for the bad joke.
"Sorry, it was necessary" he seemed very trustable "It will help you in the next events that are going to happen. You are going to be unique."
She expressed a interrogation face.
"OK. You will have to live it for yourself. Time to go, follow your friend." He clicked his fingers and disappeared.
A shot could be heard in the end of the corridor, a racing Andrew bending the corner of the hallway almost sliding down "Amanda!! Run!" he passed trough her, she looked to the direction that he went and looked back seeing a electronic-affected man holding a gun coming. She bolted out following Andrew's path.
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Spike.
Spike saw the light of the thunder, the light of the his cigarette indifferent of the lights of the city below him. He was in the top of the world, he could feel the place and the time even knowing that he haven't been there in that place and that time, but it not bothered him, the lights of the city freed him from his thoughts of loneliness, it was June of 2001, Buffy was dead and he was on the top of WTC Tower 1.
"You have lost you toy." a female British-accented voice came to Spike's ear
That voice, what a nostalgia, that voice was all what he wanted to hear, he closed his eyes and smiled deeply and whispered "And you came here to take care of me!"
A beauty hand petted his hair, her nails were painted in black with the white stripe in the edge of it, her hand slowly lowered and he kissed it very lovely.
"My pet" he stood up turning back
And she was really beautiful, the first real love of Spike's life, Drusilla. He hugged her very tight.
"Calm down darling" she whispered softer
"I thought that I've never would see you again my love"
"You have being a bad boy being a good boy helping the toy, the slayer toy"
"Don't be jealous my love, I have always eyes for you"
"That's a interesting topic, doggie!" she said and did some grunting sounds.
"Don't bugger your beautiful mind with this unkind thoughts, tell me about you"
They sat in a lower pavement. His smile was huge, a happiness that was expressed like a continues sigh.
"How could you?" she asked "You threw away all that I gave to you"
"I did not my pet!" he shook his head without lose his smile.
"I taught you the good of being evil" she looked to the other direction lowering her head in shame "I should not guilty you, I always have know"
He stood up and walked to sat in the other side of her, he haven't got yet the main idea of her thoughts, her madness was her style but all of her crazy talks always have a bottom of truth and overseen sense. Sometimes it was visions too. Understand her was like solve a puzzle.
"You got it on our lottery" her opened and looked deep in his "Our demon lottery, when you are sired you can got the real mad bad evil one, like Angelus, or you can get the little Casper friendly ghost inside, like you William, the poet."
"Pet..."
"Don't try to tell me all about how many little teens you have played with, introducing railway spikes in their small body, I know all, It was only to impress me. How can I forget that two pour slayers, pity pity, all of them for me, I can only thank you. It was very beautiful, I recognize it, but you never can compete with Angelus, you got your time when he was good, when he got back ... you just could not hide anymore. All the time and efforts to care about me, thank you Billy!" She kissed his forehead. "Training you have became a real warrior, better then many warrior born ones, killer of many demons too... But inside, your companion demon, is nothing more than a little mild cat."
This words hurt his feelings, he felt sat in the floor in front of her. He didn't like the speech, but it was to him, anyway, the complete truth.
"Spiky, that chip in your head only expose it, and now you have the soul back."
Confusion, he remembered of getting his soul back, but it was after... what bloody day time it was?
"I am very like Dru, am I?"
"You are Dru, my dear!" he stood up in front of her.
"Call me Kathleen" Instantly the girl there was very similar to Dru, but was not her, never was, some damn lookalike teased him. The panicking surprise worried Spike.
She grabbed his shoulder and pushed his chest very strongly, he floated and hit the floor very near of the edge of rooftop, and stayed there suffering a great pain. She came closer and lifted Spike grabbing his blouse suspending his feet of the floor.
"What about fall 111 floors?"
"What a heck is you?" Spike tried to think quickly, he assumed that it was not The First, because It was unable to touch anyone.
She walked pushing him out of the building, but before it happens two guns bangs was heard. She looked beside and a someone shot in her face, making Spike fall over her, he ducked quickly to get out of the edge. "Too weird" he exclaimed when he realized who have shot.
It was Warren! Andrew was there too sat on the floor beside of a body. "Spike, what's that?"
The fake-Drusilla agonized on the floor when Warren pointed the gun back to Andrew, but Warren had his neck hold attacked by Amanda that came running behind him. Spike ran and socked Warren's face heavily enough times to make he get knocked out, Warren felt in the ground and blinked in a holographic effect.
"What are you all doing here in the restroom?" Amanda asked?
"Restoom? The trade center? How we are in the trade center?"
"Guys, it's a space stations, what hell are you talking about?"
Each one was seeing the environment that they previously were.
"How do we get here? It started good but it turned to a terrible nightmare!" Andrew complained. "What's real?"
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Spike, Andrew and Amanda saw the surroundings fade away and reveal a street they left when they have jumped into the anomaly to get out of the prison made by the time-stop effect that affected him earlier.
"Nothing was real" Spike said "I think it was the price to cross the barrier, the price to pay when you play with the time continuum and try to jump over it, crap, what a headache it did to me"
They shared their experiences and realized that all the happenings were a expression of each one's wish to leave the responsibility of save the world and gone to a place that was safe or with some one was the person could fell safe, or in Andrew's case his place of safety was a piece of his imagination, the escape pod for convict storyteller. The time changes that happened were also commented by them. And they agreed that someway it lead to a crazy embarrassing situation. Just crazy.
"Cool, now I got it! It was like when Hoshi got stuck in the transporter for some seconds and but for her it take hours, in that Enterprise episode"
"Damn nerd boy, don't you think you already have too much sci-fi adventures today" Spike expressed displeasure.
"It is never enough!"
But any one told any other about the main happenings, the facts that touched each one's heart.
Amanda didn't remembered clearly thing about Kimey, neither how he looked like, but the words didn't got out of her head.
Spike felt relieved and proud. That demon he got in the lottery, as Fake-Dru said, was all that made him special. Special to love. Special to ignore the demon within.
[Title] Mix of Buffy's 7x03 "Same time, Same Place" that people were in the same place seeing different things, and Enterprise 2x09 "Singularity" where Hoshi rave the reality of his existence during one second of the transporter beam.
[1] I watched Buffy 7x22 "Chosen" where Amanda got dead (not for a long time in my writings)
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To Be Continued
Next (6): Here Comes the X
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Chapter Five
"Same Singularity"
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
TIMELESS
Important Disclaimer: This chapter is optional, the events that are going to happen here are hallucinations that our three heroes had when they trespassed that barrier that had made the time stop at the surrounds of Buffy's house. The events may be kind of confusing, will lead to a massive crossover extravaganza and may not damage the resuming of this history. But you should take a look, it will display a different point of view of each one's mind.
[Title] Mix of Buffy's 7x03 "Same time, Same Place" that people were in the same place seeing different things, and Enterprise 2x09 "Singularity" where Hoshi rave the reality of his existence during one second of the transporter beam.
[1] I watched Buffy 7x22 "Chosen" where Amanda got dead (not for a long time in my writings)
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To Be Continued
Next (6): Here Comes the X
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