Xander nearly growled as Jonathan picked up the last of the plastic
guns. It meant that he would have to find an entirely new costume with the
cash he had, the two bucks he already planned on spending seemed small so
be smiled that he had a twenty, it just meant that he'd have to have one
burger as opposed to two for lunch for the rest of the week.
He glanced around deciding to try to find something that the troll wouldn't be able to give him a detention over. That's when he spotted it the perfect costume; it reminded him of good times before he knew about the darkness. The games that he, Jessie, and Willow had played for hours at Jessie's. His eyes widened even more, the costume only cost a buck, but it still needed something.
A glance into the bargain bin got him a small bagful of plain gold rings and various colored, oversized gems for another dollar, it surprised him, but it was a good kind of surprise.
Xander checked out while he watched Buffy moon over a noble woman costume.
"I'll catch you later," he yelled with a smirk as he slipped out, watching Wills and Buff reply with a wave.
The blue costumed Xander knocked slowly on Buffy's house's door. When Joyce answered, he chuckled at the odd look she gave him.
"And who are you supposed to be?"
"The fastest thing alive," he chuckled, "Sonic the Hedgehog!"
He had to duck to get through the doorway, the extra two feet the costume added with the spikes made him just taller than the doorframe. He chuckled as he leaned against the chair as Buffy and Willow descended the stairs.
"Xander, isthatwhatIthinkitis?" Willow started up with the rapid fire babble.
"Yep, Sonic the Hedgehog in the flesh," he said with a chuckle, "Or at least the cloth and plastic."
Buffy chuckled slightly and started to say something, but Joyce interrupted, "Well, you've got to get moving or you'll be late."
Xander nodded and dashed out the door.
"Spike, the strange man is mixing things all up," Drusilla chuckled as she slipped around the room as if dancing to a tune that only existed in her own head, "And the slayer won't be around for the moon."
"What was that Luv?" the blond vampire responded, "The slayer'll be out a commission?"
"But the blue one is coming, he scares Miss Edith and me, the birds won't talk about him," she said, seeming to pull back.
"Don't worry luv, we'll take a few others with us and we'll bag us a slayer!"
Sonic shook his head as he climbed to his feet. He wasn't where he had been, had he tripped and fallen through a barrier into a new Zone or something?
The blue streak chuckled to himself for a moment before a scream alerted him to trouble. He glanced into his pack, not remembering having grabbed it and his eyes opened wide.
Maybe he had hit his head and forgot the last few hours or something, because he was carrying a very large number of power rings and chaos emeralds.
"Well, I guess it's time to have some fun," he said as he burst off like a hurricane, his passage leaving a trail of set off car alarms and other such chaos as he rushed towards the scream.
He skidded to a halt besides a redhead staring at a sheet covered form on the ground.
"Waz up?" he yelled behind her, causing her to jump.
"Xander?" she said, staring at him, "IwashelpingthekidswhenIgotaheadachandfell overthenIwasstandingherelookingatmeinmycostume."
"Well, first off, I'm not Xander," Sonic shrugged, "And secondly, you sound like Tails does after he's had far too much sugar and caffeine
"What?" the hacker managed to stammer.
"Names Sonic," the hedgehog responded, "And I'll be right back with some help."
Then a flash and he was gone.
"Drat, I don't know where help is," he said as he skidded to a stop and shot back.
The girl appeared more shocked as he stopped in front of her.
"Uh, where is someone who can help?"
"In the School Library," she responded, pointing in the right direction, "five blocks that direction, Giles should be able to help."
"Thanks," Sonic laughed as he shot off again, "I wonder if they sell chilidogs there?"
He burst through the doors of the school and spent all of three seconds checking doors before he found the right one.
"Yes?" the Brit inside managed to say before he spun around and spotted the blue hedgehog standing there, "Good Lord!"
"You Giles?" Sonic asked, tapping his toe in impatience.
"Yes," the watcher barely managed to say before Sonic grabbed him by the wrist and dashed off, Giles in tow.
"The redhead said that she needed your help," the blue streak explained to the screaming Englishman as he hurtled through the city at nearly two hundred miles per hour, "Don't know what for, could be the little critters throwing a riot."
He skidded to a halt by Willow once more, Giles nearly collapsing as he did so.
"Willow," the watcher asked as he saw the curled up girl standing next to a sheet covered form, "What's wrong?"
"SomehowIbecameaghost, Idon't knowhowIdied, butI'mthereandhereandIcan't touchanything! XanderbecameSonicandIdon'tknowwhereBuffyisand..."
"Wait a minute, Xander became this creature?"
"Hey!" Sonic yelped, "I am not a creature!"
"Yeah, and I became a ghost," Willow said, slowing down now, "And I dressed as a...we...Giles we became our costumes!"
"Good Lord, I'll need my books, and what did you say about Buffy?"
"She dressed up as a noblewoman from a few centuries back."
"You two get to the books," Sonic laughed, "I'll find the girl and meet you there at double speed!"
He flashed off again as a car alarm went off with the shockwave of the hedgehogs passing. The freedom fighter not even touching the ground anymore, his raw speed was carrying him off the ground with the pulses of magic energy his super shoes were giving off.
Sonic avoided the creatures littering the streets with little effort, though several did go tumbling as he roared past like a missile. Then he pulled a barrel roll and id a grind along a handrail before coming to someone who at least seemed to fit the description of this Buffy, unfortunately, she was surrounded by humanoids with odd looking faces.
He reacted as he would if they were Swatbots and hit them with a spindash, turning seven of them to dust before they realized that they were under attack. Then the speed demon took a hit and went sprawling after smashing through a fence.
"See Luv," Spike chuckled to his girl, 'No blue freak can win."
Sonic climbed to his feet, anger rushing through him as a positively evil grin crossed his lips, "Sorry Chuckles, ready to die?"
"No blue rodent can win this one, I'll deal with you in a moment, a slayers blood is callin' me."
Sonics anger hit a new level and the ground started to shake and cracks spread, windows shattering and more alarms going off.
"Spike, the blue one is going to turn all pretty and nasty," the vampiress laughed as she stared at the hedgehog.
"Not now Luv, we've got the slayer now!"
Then Sonics anger burst forth as the emeralds in his bag burned their light through the bag, and a blast of light erupted from the warrior.
"What the hell?" the blond vampire said as he spun, now seeing a golden colored being standing there where the hedgehog had been.
Sonics spices tripled in length as a palpable aura of energy lanced out.
"Playtime," Super Sonic commented, "Is over!"
Then he seemed to vanish in a high pitched roar as both Drusilla and Spike vanished in a trail of light as the streak materialized back into the golden hedgehog on the other side.
"Well, my dear," the warrior said to the frightened noble lady, "I believe that now we get out of here, there are some people looking for you!"
"Now it's getting to freaking dangerous to stay out here," he said as he grabbed the girls wrists and launched himself skywards, leaving a burning streak behind him as he headed back to the library, feeling a strange pull similar to that given off by the emeralds when he was in this form.
His passage blasting the windows in, Sonic dropped the now shrieking girl into the library, "You know, for such an annoyance, you have a freaking large pair of lungs."
"Watch her kiddo's, I've got to check up on something," and he was gone leaving a fading image of himself where he had been.
"This is bad," Willow commented about their now flying ally.
"How so?" Giles commented as he saw Buffy collapse into a dead feint.
"Super Sonic is way up there in power level, and his very passing can cause things to blow up."
"Oh dear," the watcher stammered.
The being in question was hovering over a costume shop, lowering himself and drawing in the power as he touched the ground and shattered the door by his mere presence.
"What the hell?" Ethan screamed as the building shook as if a upper scale earthquake filled it.
"I believe that would be me," Sonic responded as he strode through the shop, eyeing a statue that the power seemed to come from.
"Chaos," the golden warrior laughed, "Raw chaos, in a loose form."
"Erm, yes," the chaos mage responded, still trying to figure this out.
Super Sonic held out the now glowing and vibrating emeralds from his bag that burned his eyes to look at them as they began to resonate and grow.
"Crystal resonance," the being said slowly, "Raw power unlike anything other than the master emerald."
The power surged through Super Sonic and the shaking grew worse as he laughed.
"I can now breach that barrier as well," he continued as he transformed again, Hyper Sonic bursting into being, and the building collapsed around him, crushing the mage and the statue, leaving only Xander standing there, the costume seeming to evaporate into him.
He glanced around at the ruins around him and a grin crossed his lips as he eyed the super emeralds, power rings, and the red shoes with white stripes.
"Cool," he said, "Although I have some strange cravings for chilidogs."
He glanced around deciding to try to find something that the troll wouldn't be able to give him a detention over. That's when he spotted it the perfect costume; it reminded him of good times before he knew about the darkness. The games that he, Jessie, and Willow had played for hours at Jessie's. His eyes widened even more, the costume only cost a buck, but it still needed something.
A glance into the bargain bin got him a small bagful of plain gold rings and various colored, oversized gems for another dollar, it surprised him, but it was a good kind of surprise.
Xander checked out while he watched Buffy moon over a noble woman costume.
"I'll catch you later," he yelled with a smirk as he slipped out, watching Wills and Buff reply with a wave.
The blue costumed Xander knocked slowly on Buffy's house's door. When Joyce answered, he chuckled at the odd look she gave him.
"And who are you supposed to be?"
"The fastest thing alive," he chuckled, "Sonic the Hedgehog!"
He had to duck to get through the doorway, the extra two feet the costume added with the spikes made him just taller than the doorframe. He chuckled as he leaned against the chair as Buffy and Willow descended the stairs.
"Xander, isthatwhatIthinkitis?" Willow started up with the rapid fire babble.
"Yep, Sonic the Hedgehog in the flesh," he said with a chuckle, "Or at least the cloth and plastic."
Buffy chuckled slightly and started to say something, but Joyce interrupted, "Well, you've got to get moving or you'll be late."
Xander nodded and dashed out the door.
"Spike, the strange man is mixing things all up," Drusilla chuckled as she slipped around the room as if dancing to a tune that only existed in her own head, "And the slayer won't be around for the moon."
"What was that Luv?" the blond vampire responded, "The slayer'll be out a commission?"
"But the blue one is coming, he scares Miss Edith and me, the birds won't talk about him," she said, seeming to pull back.
"Don't worry luv, we'll take a few others with us and we'll bag us a slayer!"
Sonic shook his head as he climbed to his feet. He wasn't where he had been, had he tripped and fallen through a barrier into a new Zone or something?
The blue streak chuckled to himself for a moment before a scream alerted him to trouble. He glanced into his pack, not remembering having grabbed it and his eyes opened wide.
Maybe he had hit his head and forgot the last few hours or something, because he was carrying a very large number of power rings and chaos emeralds.
"Well, I guess it's time to have some fun," he said as he burst off like a hurricane, his passage leaving a trail of set off car alarms and other such chaos as he rushed towards the scream.
He skidded to a halt besides a redhead staring at a sheet covered form on the ground.
"Waz up?" he yelled behind her, causing her to jump.
"Xander?" she said, staring at him, "IwashelpingthekidswhenIgotaheadachandfell overthenIwasstandingherelookingatmeinmycostume."
"Well, first off, I'm not Xander," Sonic shrugged, "And secondly, you sound like Tails does after he's had far too much sugar and caffeine
"What?" the hacker managed to stammer.
"Names Sonic," the hedgehog responded, "And I'll be right back with some help."
Then a flash and he was gone.
"Drat, I don't know where help is," he said as he skidded to a stop and shot back.
The girl appeared more shocked as he stopped in front of her.
"Uh, where is someone who can help?"
"In the School Library," she responded, pointing in the right direction, "five blocks that direction, Giles should be able to help."
"Thanks," Sonic laughed as he shot off again, "I wonder if they sell chilidogs there?"
He burst through the doors of the school and spent all of three seconds checking doors before he found the right one.
"Yes?" the Brit inside managed to say before he spun around and spotted the blue hedgehog standing there, "Good Lord!"
"You Giles?" Sonic asked, tapping his toe in impatience.
"Yes," the watcher barely managed to say before Sonic grabbed him by the wrist and dashed off, Giles in tow.
"The redhead said that she needed your help," the blue streak explained to the screaming Englishman as he hurtled through the city at nearly two hundred miles per hour, "Don't know what for, could be the little critters throwing a riot."
He skidded to a halt by Willow once more, Giles nearly collapsing as he did so.
"Willow," the watcher asked as he saw the curled up girl standing next to a sheet covered form, "What's wrong?"
"SomehowIbecameaghost, Idon't knowhowIdied, butI'mthereandhereandIcan't touchanything! XanderbecameSonicandIdon'tknowwhereBuffyisand..."
"Wait a minute, Xander became this creature?"
"Hey!" Sonic yelped, "I am not a creature!"
"Yeah, and I became a ghost," Willow said, slowing down now, "And I dressed as a...we...Giles we became our costumes!"
"Good Lord, I'll need my books, and what did you say about Buffy?"
"She dressed up as a noblewoman from a few centuries back."
"You two get to the books," Sonic laughed, "I'll find the girl and meet you there at double speed!"
He flashed off again as a car alarm went off with the shockwave of the hedgehogs passing. The freedom fighter not even touching the ground anymore, his raw speed was carrying him off the ground with the pulses of magic energy his super shoes were giving off.
Sonic avoided the creatures littering the streets with little effort, though several did go tumbling as he roared past like a missile. Then he pulled a barrel roll and id a grind along a handrail before coming to someone who at least seemed to fit the description of this Buffy, unfortunately, she was surrounded by humanoids with odd looking faces.
He reacted as he would if they were Swatbots and hit them with a spindash, turning seven of them to dust before they realized that they were under attack. Then the speed demon took a hit and went sprawling after smashing through a fence.
"See Luv," Spike chuckled to his girl, 'No blue freak can win."
Sonic climbed to his feet, anger rushing through him as a positively evil grin crossed his lips, "Sorry Chuckles, ready to die?"
"No blue rodent can win this one, I'll deal with you in a moment, a slayers blood is callin' me."
Sonics anger hit a new level and the ground started to shake and cracks spread, windows shattering and more alarms going off.
"Spike, the blue one is going to turn all pretty and nasty," the vampiress laughed as she stared at the hedgehog.
"Not now Luv, we've got the slayer now!"
Then Sonics anger burst forth as the emeralds in his bag burned their light through the bag, and a blast of light erupted from the warrior.
"What the hell?" the blond vampire said as he spun, now seeing a golden colored being standing there where the hedgehog had been.
Sonics spices tripled in length as a palpable aura of energy lanced out.
"Playtime," Super Sonic commented, "Is over!"
Then he seemed to vanish in a high pitched roar as both Drusilla and Spike vanished in a trail of light as the streak materialized back into the golden hedgehog on the other side.
"Well, my dear," the warrior said to the frightened noble lady, "I believe that now we get out of here, there are some people looking for you!"
"Now it's getting to freaking dangerous to stay out here," he said as he grabbed the girls wrists and launched himself skywards, leaving a burning streak behind him as he headed back to the library, feeling a strange pull similar to that given off by the emeralds when he was in this form.
His passage blasting the windows in, Sonic dropped the now shrieking girl into the library, "You know, for such an annoyance, you have a freaking large pair of lungs."
"Watch her kiddo's, I've got to check up on something," and he was gone leaving a fading image of himself where he had been.
"This is bad," Willow commented about their now flying ally.
"How so?" Giles commented as he saw Buffy collapse into a dead feint.
"Super Sonic is way up there in power level, and his very passing can cause things to blow up."
"Oh dear," the watcher stammered.
The being in question was hovering over a costume shop, lowering himself and drawing in the power as he touched the ground and shattered the door by his mere presence.
"What the hell?" Ethan screamed as the building shook as if a upper scale earthquake filled it.
"I believe that would be me," Sonic responded as he strode through the shop, eyeing a statue that the power seemed to come from.
"Chaos," the golden warrior laughed, "Raw chaos, in a loose form."
"Erm, yes," the chaos mage responded, still trying to figure this out.
Super Sonic held out the now glowing and vibrating emeralds from his bag that burned his eyes to look at them as they began to resonate and grow.
"Crystal resonance," the being said slowly, "Raw power unlike anything other than the master emerald."
The power surged through Super Sonic and the shaking grew worse as he laughed.
"I can now breach that barrier as well," he continued as he transformed again, Hyper Sonic bursting into being, and the building collapsed around him, crushing the mage and the statue, leaving only Xander standing there, the costume seeming to evaporate into him.
He glanced around at the ruins around him and a grin crossed his lips as he eyed the super emeralds, power rings, and the red shoes with white stripes.
"Cool," he said, "Although I have some strange cravings for chilidogs."