Capture
Episode 4
Sunnydale High Basement:
"The human that was sacrificed did not have enough blood to activate the seal," Spike spoke to the Bringers.
The First was in the form of Spike. It was addressing the Bringers about the seal.
"Bring the other human back here! I will use his blood to activate it instead!" Spike shouted.
The Bringers quickly left the basement in a hurry. They needed to find Andrew so that his blood could be used to activate the seal. Spike stood there, peering down at the seal.
"Very soon," he spoke, "Very soon."
Buffy's House:
Spike approached Buffy while she was in the basement doing the wash.
"Buffy, I need to speak with you," he said.
"What is it, Spike?" she asked.
"I've been killing."
"Excuse me?"
"I've been killing people and burying their bodies in some abandoned house."
"But the
chip?"
"I'm not sure. It must not
work anymore."
Buffy was shocked about what she had just learned. She didn't believe that Spike had been killing people.
"Sometimes, I wake up in strange places. I have no memories of what happened before."
"Alright, Spike. Take me to this house and show me the bodies."
The Basement of an Abandoned House:
"Down there," he pointed, entering at the top of a flight of stairs.
Buffy pushed him out of the way, and made her way down the stairs to the dirt floor below. She noticed that the dirt had been freshly moved, like someone was creating graves.
"So, you're letting her in on all our secrets?" Spike asked.
Spike turned around and came face to face with himself.
"You still haven't fulfilled your end of the bargain, Spike," he said.
Ignoring him, Spike made his way down the stairs after Buffy.
"I think I buried them there," he told her, pointing to some patches of loose dirt.
"Stop telling her everything!" Spike shouted.
Spike didn't say anything; he just continued to ignore Spike. The other Spike began to hum a tune.
"No," the real Spike whispered.
Apparently, Spike was seeing this other him in his mind. Buffy couldn't see or hear him.
"No what, Spike?" Buffy asked, not turning around.
Spike's features began to transform. His brow pulled back and so did his lips, revealing fangs. The other Spike stopped humming. Spike picked up a fireplace poker and swung it at Buffy, knocking her to the ground. Then he rushed over to bite her.
She spun over and kicked him in the chest, sending him flying into the stairs.
"What the hell, Spike?" she questioned.
Suddenly, hands shot up from the ground.
"Oh great," she said sarcastically.
She grabbed the fireplace poker from Spike. Five vampires pulled themselves from the ground and attacked Buffy. She plunged it into the first vampire. Instantly, it exploded into dust.
"Silly girl," Spike said, "Doesn't realize what is going to happen to her."
The real Spike just sat there on the floor, looking at himself. Both were watching Buffy get attacked by these newborn vampires. Unfortunately for them, Buffy was winning.
She swung the fireplace poker and beheaded two more vampires. She swung it around and without looking, shoved it into another's chest, hitting the heart. It flew to the ground but was dust before it hit. She gave the final vamp and roundhouse kick, which sent it flying back into the far wall. She threw the poker like a javelin, piercing the last vampire's heart. It burst into dust.
Two more vampires burst out of the ground and grab Buffy by the arms. She is unable to break free of their grip.
"Taste her," Spike told him and started humming again.
The real Spike vamped out again and walked up to Buffy. He smiled and licked his fangs. He brought his tongue to a cut on Buffy's check and licked it. Suddenly, he backed down and held his head in pain. Buffy jump kicked him back, sending him flying into the stairs again. She broke the other vamps' grip and dusted them both with the fireplace poker.
"She's going to kill you now," Spike said to the real one, "It's all over."
Buffy approached the real Spike. He was holding his head, crying. The other Spike disappeared.
"Go ahead, do it fast," Spike told her, "He said you would."
"What? Who said I would?" Buffy questioned.
"Me. It was me. I saw him. I was here the whole time, talking and singing. There was a song," he said.
"What are you talking about?"
"I don't know. Please, I don't remember. Don't make me remember. Make it so I forget again! I did what you wanted!"
"There's something here."
"Oh, God, no, please. I need that. I can't cry the soul out of me. It won't come. I killed, and I can feel 'em. I can feel every one of them."
"There's something playing with us. All of us."
"What is it? Why is it doing this to me?"
"I don't know."
"Will you... help me? Can you help me?"
"I'll help you."
Buffy's House:
"Look, the First is messing with Spike," Buffy told her friends.
Everyone was gathered in the living room. Buffy and Spike had just returned from their little encounter with vampires in the basement of the abandoned house. Spike was sitting down the basement, by himself, wrapped in a blanket like he was in shock or something.
"What do you mean?" Giles questioned.
"It's controlling him, making him go crazy," Buffy replied.
"Controlling him how?" Willow asked.
"He claims that someone else is there sometimes and that this other person talks to him, tells him things," she went on, "If we're going to find out more about the First, than we're going to have to get close to Spike."
"Not such a good idea there, Buffy," Xander said.
"I know that it's dangerous but we need to find out more about the First Evil," she replied.
Just then, the doors burst open. Several Bringers entered the house.
"What the hell?" Buffy shouted.
Several more Bringers burst in through the window that Xander had just finished boarding up. They drew their axes and daggers. Buffy and everyone else stood up and the fight began.
One Bringer attacked Buffy with a dagger. She tripped it and took the dagger from his hand. Another came at her and she shoved the dagger into its chest, killing it. The four potentials weren't fairing so well this time. Annabelle was getting shallow cuts. She couldn't dodge the daggers fast enough.
Kennedy, Molly, and Julia were just barely fairing against them. Kennedy managed to kill the one attacking her, so she ran over to help Annabelle. She came up behind the Bringer and threw it into a table, which shattered, sending splinters flying everywhere.
"Are you alright?" she asked Annabelle.
"Yes, just a few shallow cuts," Annabelle replied.
A Bringer rushed Annabelle and Kennedy, knocking them to the ground. It reached for a dagger, but Buffy stepped in the way and snapped its neck. She picked up the second dagger and stabbed another Bringer with it. Annabelle and Kennedy stood up and rejoined the fight.
"Cindy, look out!" Jake shouted as a Bringer came up behind Cindy.
It brought its axe down. Luckily, Cindy barely dodged it. She swung her foot around and knocked it to the ground. She took the axe, which lay on the ground and brought it down on the Bringer's head. Jake was suddenly knocked to the ground. Another had tackled him and reached for its dagger.
Jake rolled out of the way and kicked its head into the floor, knocking it out. Cindy came over and sliced its head clean off the shoulders. She then noticed that Julia needed some help. The Bringer threw her into the wall and attempted to stab her with its long dagger. Cindy shouted duck and Julia did. The Bringer's head came clean off its shoulders and the body fell to the ground.
"Thanks," Julia said.
"Hey, no problem," Cindy replied.
Buffy was managing to hold off the three that she was fighting. That's when it hit her! Where was Giles? She stabbed one and tripped the other two. She glanced around the room, looking for Giles.
"Giles!" she called, and stabbed another Bringer.
Suddenly, a Bringer came thudding down the stairs, splattering them in blood. Giles quickly followed. He pulled the dagger out of the Bringer that was just killed and stabbed another.
"I'm all right, Buffy!" he called back.
Buffy stabbed the final Bringer and glanced around to see how the others were doing. They were all finished with the Bringers. There were no more left alive. Buffy caught her breath while noticing the bleeding bodies all over her house.
"Where's Spike?" she quickly realized.
She turned and ran down the basement, which was where Spike was staying.
"Spike!" she shouted as she reached the bottom of the stairs.
The basement was empty. Spike was gone. She noticed that the basement door had been smashed open. The Bringers had taken Spike. She headed back upstairs, with a not so happy look on her face.
"Spike's gone," she said, "They took him."
The others were all moving the bodies, to clear a path so they could walk. They had killed at least thirty of them.
"How?" Willow questioned.
"They broke through the basement door and took him," Buffy replied, "It's like they were after him the whole time."
"It seems like the First isn't through with Spike yet," Giles concluded.
"We have to get him back!" she exclaimed, "He's another muscle around here."
"We will, Buffy. We will," Giles comforted.
Sunnydale High Basement:
"Did you really think that I was through?" Spike asked the real Spike.
"What do you want with me?" the real Spike asked in a weak voice.
He had been taken from Buffy's basement by the things called Bringers. They had returned even after they'd been beaten by Buffy and the others a few weeks before. Spike was now chained to a large wheel with an upside down star carved in it.
"Now, now," Spike said, "I wanted to use that other weak boy, but he fled. So you'll have to do."
"What are you talking about?" the real Spike asked.
Two Bringers stepped forward and began carving strange symbols in his bare chest. He screamed in pain. Blood began dripping from his wounds.
"Turn him upside down!" the fake Spike shouted.
Another Bringer began turning handle that caused the wheel to hang upside down. Spike's blood began dripping from these severe wounds onto the Seal of Danthalzar.
Spike transformed into Buffy.
"Now Spike, are you ready to see what a real vampire looks like?" she asked.
The blood had now completely filled the star on the seal. The star began to fold up until the seal was open. A deformed-looking hand shot up from the opening, followed by another. The two arms pulled up the rest of the creature. The creature was now standing on the edge of the seal. It growled in fury and rage.
