The Cavern

Part 2

Xander made his choice and touched the design and woke up, in his old bed, in his old room, with two eyes. He was glad that he already had some experience with this type of time travel because of his memories from his "brother", from the world were on his Road trip he didn't stop in Oxnard instead had went to Montana and got kidnapped by a Predator and had to get home thru the stargate, and because of a dark elf opening the Hellmouth, getting sent back five years in time.

He stumbled to the bathroom to get ready; he had a week to get ready for Ethan and Halloween. He had a sense of what went wrong and Ethan's spell was the key to fixing it. When he saved Buffy life in the Masters cave, it caused an imbalance in the war between good and evil and the PTB were all about balance and there tool to keep the balance was the slayer and two slayers cause the balance to shift to the good side, to keep the darkside from wining, the PTB had to keep the war in a stalemate, "to keep every thing in a balance", so they tried to set things right by having Buffy die on Glories tower, to do that they killed Joyce. I the other worlds he Visited, things turned out fine because they ether didn't have to fight Glory or they didn't bring Buffy back.

Xander had a plan in that he can make Kendra the SLAYER and transform Buffy into a Mutant with simaler powers thus restoring the balance, he hoped, he had plans for the of the Scoobies and he hoped that it would go unseen by the PTBs.

He knew that there was a period of time before and after the spell use to key the costumes for the main Halloween spell in which Ethan wouldn't be in his shop, that's when he could slip in and place his slips of paper with the spell including info for his friends who weren't wearing a costume or one not from Ethan's, in the costume pile and later retrieve it.

This is what he had planed for:

Joyce, to keep her alive, the piece of paper he planed to slip in her pocket when he picks up Buffy and Willow will state.

Joyce Summers AKA Winifred Foster Jackson (see Disney's movie Tuck Everlasting)

Born 1899 – Drank from Tuck's spring in 1935 (she was drunk and depressed at the time)

Rupert "Ripper" Giles, Born 1101, while in Jerusalem with Louis VII, he drank from the Holy Grail becoming "immortal", and he was a Knight, as well as a Duke at the time.

Daniel "Oz" Osbourne, in December or January when his cousin Jordy bites him he will become a Lycan type of werewolf (see the movie Underworld) (the only one in this world).

Cordelia Chase, when Doyle kisses her and transfers his gift on to her it will trigger a change in her. She will be mutant with two abilities. The secondary ability is an enhanced healing ability (equal to a slayer) to counter the effects of Doyle's gift, the main ability is that any thing with evil intent will burn when she touches them.

Elizabeth "Buffy" Anne Summers in a Halloween costume, when the Master killed her the Slayer spirit left Buffy and went to Kendra taking away her slayer powers and allowing her mutant abilities to surface. The abilities are Spiderman's speed, strength, reaction time, clinging ability and 6th sense, no webs, as well as Wolverine's enhanced senses and healing abilities and claws, no adamantium, with the experience to use them safely.

Liam "Angel" O'Connell, born in 1727, turned in 1753, In 1898, he killed the daughter of a Romany (Gypsy) tribe, and the tribe changed him by turning the blood demon Angelus into a virus allowing Angel to regain control of his body (his soul never truly left it was locked away in the back of his mind) turning Angel into a Kindred type Vampire of the Ventrue clan (the only one in this world). He will be slightly stronger and faster will be able to go out into daylight after a fresh feeding. Can change shape (wolf, bird of prey) and see into the past of an object that was held by the dead person. Side effects: the curse is permanent no loop holes and the secret curse that Darla put on him to search out that that will break the Gypsy curse is broken.

Willow Rosenbergborn Patricia Crystal Parker in 1941 (see Dark Reflection, Archangels: "Crystal") an ageless Wicca practitioner of great power and training.

It took him awhile to come up with what he wanted to do especially the abilities he wanted to give himself. The creating the slips of paper with the info didn't take that long, he just uses the schools Computers, printers and paper. He made sure that the statement "The holder of this information will retain the memories and abilities of the being possessing this body after the spell is broken and the being is gone" was on the bottom of each slip. Getting the slips of paper on each person was the hard part.

With Joyce, Giles, Angel, Oz and Buffy it was easy, he just using a pick pocket technique he learned to slip it into a pocket, for Willow and Cordelia he had to talk them into caring it for him.

His gut said it will work, by changing Buffy she will no longer be one of their Chosen ones and the PTBs will see it as the balance returning and all of they except Angle would drop off of their radar. Angel would still be their Champion, the Vampire with a soul and that was all they cared about, but the changes would help him, with out the loop hole to worry about he will be able to do his job better, plus being a Kindred would give him a greater flexibility in his job and severed all ties he had to Darla, Spike And Drusilla. Willow would have the knowledge and experience to use her magic wisely, Joyce would not have a tumor and die this would keep everybody, especially Buffy happy. With Cordy he stopped Jasmine and exposed her plans to the other PTB.

As for himself he had to be in costume but retain his knowledge, so that he could stop Ethan's spell. He remembered the second Ball he touched were he was an Immortal Vampire hybrid trained by Methos, so he got a toy sword and a trench coat. On the slip of paper he put Alexander LaVelle Harris Immortal Vampire hybrid trained by Methos, from ball twos world, with the holders statement at the bottom, he told everybody he was an Immortal from the highlander show.

When the spell hit he found himself in the cavern and the ball turned gold with a new set of memories, abilities and two eyes.

TBC?

If you want to write a story based on this world go ahead. The world that the second globe is based on is the Story Bloody Hell by Rachelle Ryan (used to be in fanfiction. Net but can not find it or the author any more. I have the story save on disc if you want to read it.)