Alastor stood on the rooftop of a building and he held Vergil's sword tight in his hand. From where he was standing he could see where the three slayers went, and with that knowledge he decided to perform his ritual. He slammed Vergil's sword into the center of the roof and started reciting words from a book he is holding. Alastors blood ran down the sword and a pentagram formed on the roof.
Alastor: Now for the slayers blood.
He pulled out three little vials that contained blood in them, and he poured it on the hilt of the sword. The blood dripped down onto the circle and black smoke emerged from the circle.
Alastor: Now, go and infect everyone around them!
Alastor started laughing as the smoke flew over to the headquarters of Buffy and the Scooby gang. We cut to three potentials in the courtyard as they watch the smoke fly over the area.
Potential 1: What is that?
Potential 2: Maybe we should go tell someone?
Potential 3: Ill be back, I'm gonna get Buffy.
As the potential turns around a little bit of the smoke enters their noses and they grasp their throats. They gasp for breath as the smoke starts to take over their systems. Their eyes go red, and their muscles bulge, and their heads knock to the left. Then the infected potentials turn around and walk toward the doors of the headquarters, and when they open the doors the smoke piles in and infects everything in its path. We cut to Giles, Andrew, Willow, Anya, Xander, and Dawn looking out of the window.
Giles: What could that be?
Xander: I don't know, but I think we should go tell Buffy.
Giles: Right, right. Xander and Andrew go find her.
Dawn: I'm going too.
Giles: It's too risky, we don't know what this thing is, and I don't want you getting hurt.
Xander: So you send us in?
Anya: Just get going this could be bad.
Xander kisses Anya on her cheek and him and Andrew runs to the doors. The smoke disappears from outside the window.
Willow: It's gone now, I don't think we need Buffy.
Andrew opens the door and the smoke piles into the room and they start to begin their horrible transformation. We cut back to Buffy and Vergil in the library reading the book he found.
Vergil: He slams the sword into the ground and a pentagram form, he can open it because his blood is already on the sword. He then uses our blood and pours it onto the sword, the blood drips off the sword and falls on the pentagram and a black cloud of smoke emerges. He then can control it to go where he wants it too, in this case he's sending it here. It then infects the first thing near the targets, and once an entrance to a building can be made the smoke keeps going until everyone inside except the target is infected.
Buffy: We have to go warn everyone!
Vergil: We better hurry, the ritual could have been started anytime.
Vergil closes the book and runs to the door but he stops when he hears something metal being dragged on the floor outside the door.
Vergil: Do you hear that?
Buffy: Hear what?
The sound of metal being dragged on carpet gets louder until it finally stops. Vergil holds his index finger up to his lips, and points to a chair in a corner of the room. He throws a knife to her, she catches it and she runs behind the chair and ducks down. He backed up to the center of the room and stood there in plain site, then the door bashed open and standing there was a potential holding a halberd.
Vergil: Holy shit!
What he saw was a horrible creature, he could still tell that it was a potential, but her eyes were blood red, her head was cocked to left and it looked like it didn't move, and her muscles were huge. They were twice as big as they started out, she held that halberd like she knew what she was doing. She moved a little farther into the room and brought up the halberd over her head, and swung down hard at Vergil. He didn't want to move he was mystified at what the cloud did, but he just kept staring at it as it came down.
Buffy: Vergil, move!
Hearing Buffy's voice woke him up, and just as the halberd got close to his head he rolled to the left, and the halberd slammed into the floor cracking it, but as the potential tried to pull it back up, she couldn't, it was stuck.
Vergil: Do I get to hurt her, or what, seeming she almost split me in half!
Buffy: It doesn't look like we can hurt her.
Vergil: There is always a way with me!
He ran toward the potential, raised his fist, and struck as hard as he could against her face. Her head bobbed back a little and it came back with her eyes bulging.
Vergil: Shit!
She grabbed him by his neck and raised him up high. He grabbed her hands to try and break her grip but he couldn't, she was too strong, he kicked her in the stomach but that didn't even hurt her, she just gripped tighter.
Buffy: Vergil!
She ran toward the potential holding the knife, but as she got close enough the potential swung her arm and it hit Buffy in the face making her fly back into one of the bookcases.
Vergil: Bu…ff…y!
Still gasping for breath Vergil got an idea, and quickly put it into action. He reached down to his right leg and pulled out a knife from a sheath and with all of his strength he slammed the knife into the girls wrist, and as he hoped she dropped him, and he scrambled to his feet. He didn't care about breathing at the moment, Buffy was hurt, so he ran over to her and tried to wake her up.
Vergil: Come on Buffy, wake up!
He shook her a little bit and her eyes opened slowly and then they widened, he looked back and saw that the potential who strangled him had a nice recovery, and was holding an axe from off the wall, and had swung it down on them. Vergil grabbed Buffy and with his strength, they rolled out of the way before the axe hit the ground.
Buffy: Now, how many times is that you have saved me?
Vergil: It doesn't matter we have to go.
Vergil launches off of the ground and runs toward the potential, the potential swings the axe at him, and he catches it. He raises the axe and slams it into her neck.
Buffy: Vergil no!
The potential falls down to the ground and she returns to her normal self.
Vergil: Well that's unexpected.
Buffy: I guess that's the only way to stop the infection.
Vergil: Good, I can't wait.
He picks up the axe and hands it to Buffy.
Vergil: Go find Faith, I have a feeling that she's in deep trouble.
Buffy: You don't have a weapon.
Vergil: I'm sure Ill find one sooner or later.
Buffy: So you are going to go alone?
Vergil: Ill be fine don't worry.
Buffy puts her arm around Vergil's shoulder and they share a passionate kiss.
Buffy: Be careful, and don't hurt any of the potentials too much.
Vergil: I will and Ill try not to hurt them too bad.
They both exit through the door, Buffy goes to the left, and Vergil goes to the right. We follow Buffy going down the left side of the hall. As Buffy rounds the corner to the stairs she sees two potentials with crossbows coming up the stairs, and she takes off past the stairs. She pushes the button on the elevator and waits as it comes to her floor, then two arrows fly past her head and hit the elevator doors, and she turns back and sees that the potentials have found her.
Buffy: Great.
But as the potentials load more arrows into the crossbow the elevator doors open and Buffy almost steps in, but she sees Xander in there.
Buffy: Not you Xander.
Xander charges for her, and she flips him on his back outside the elevator, and enters it and closes the doors as fast as possible. She presses the basement floor button and rides down to the third floor when she hears something drop onto the top of the elevator.
Buffy: What now?
A sword emerges from the top of the elevator and it starts to cut a circle in the roof, Buffy ducks down as the circle starts to get complete, but then the elevator stops at the second floor. She holds the axe in a striking position just in case anything unexpected bursts into the elevator. The doors open and Faith is standing there holding an axe.
Faith: What the hell is going on here?
Buffy gets out of the elevator and closes the doors as soon as the potential with the sword falls down into the elevator.
Buffy: We need to go find Vergil fast, because we have to go fight Alastor.
Faith: I'm all for hitting these potentials, I don't really like them that much.
Buffy: That's good, but lets go find Vergil.
Faith: Oh I see, you have a thing for him don't you?
Buffy blushes a bit.
Buffy: Lets just go find him.
They take off running down the hall and turn towards the stairs. We now cut to Vergil's part after him and Buffy split up.
Vergil: I'm gonna get my sword back from you bastard.
He hears another person walking down the hallway he went through, so he gets up against a column in the wall and waits until the person pasts. The person walks by and he sees it to be Willow holding a broadsword, so he pulls out a knife and slowly creeps up on her. He stabs the knife into her neck, then he takes it out fast and she drops down on the ground and returns to normal.
Vergil: I'm sorry Willow.
He picks up the sword and continues down the hall. We cut back to Alastor still standing on the building, which we now identify as a library. Michael is standing next to Alastor.
Alastor: It looks like the spell worked
Michael: Yes it did sir. The potentials are attacking the slayers.
Alastor: Are you ready for the second part?
Michael: Yes sir, we are ready.
He pulls out a radio from his pocket and turns it on.
Michael: Cut the power. Over.
We cut to a vampire down by the Scoobies headquarters messing with a circuit breaker.
Vampire: Roger. Over and out.
The vampire cuts the power, and the whole building grows pitch black. We cut back to Alastor and Michael standing on the library rooftop.
Alastor: Now it has begun.
Michael nods in response.
Alastor: Get ready to go in.
Michael: Yes sir.
He bows down and goes down the roof access stairs.
Alastor: This is going be fun.
We cut to Faith and Buffy walking down the halls as the lights go out.
Buffy: This cant be good.
Faith: Well its gonna be a lot harder to see in the dark.
Buffy: You don't have to make the situation more obvious.
Faith: Lets just go.
Buffy: I have an idea.
Faith: What is it?
Buffy: Lets get out of here through the front doors, I mean were only one floor above the exit.
Faith: Or we could jump out a window.
Buffy: Yea that is true.
Faith: Aren't you considering the V factor?
Buffy: What's that?
Faith looks at her like she is stupid, but seeming its dark she doesn't know if she is really looking at her.
Faith: Vergil!
Buffy: I almost forgot about him. We need to go find him.
Faith: Let's just split, he can take care of himself, its not like something else is gonna happen.
A mysterious force throws Faith through the door next to her. Buffy looks dead ahead but only sees darkness, and then she is thrusted through the same door. We cut back to Vergil after the power is cut.
Vergil: Great, what now!
He squints around the room and sees he's on the second floor from the sign on the wall, above the stairwell door. As he reaches for the door handle, a hand grabs his neck from behind and starts to choke him, while dragging him down the hall. He struggles to get free but he can tell its another potential, he tries to use his sword but he realized he lost it when he got grabbed. He tries to pull out a knife but is then thrown into a room, he hits the floor and hears a loud crack.
Vergil: I hope that didn't come from me.
As soon as the potential steps into the room, the floor cracks, and it breaks making him fall through. We cut back to Buffy and Faith on the floor in a room. The door slams and they both look in the direction of the door.
Buffy: It's a vampire.
Faith: Do you still…
Faith is interrupted by a loud cracking sound coming from the ceiling. They both look up and see the ceiling collapse, and down with some plaster and wood comes a figure. The figure starts coughing and he sits up.
Figure: That was a wild ride.
They both realize its Vergil, and he sees them too.
Buffy: We were just trying to find you.
Vergil: Well I just dropped by.
Faith: Ha ha, very funny, can we just go now.
After Faith finishes talking she is picked up and thrown into a chair at the back of the room. Vergil gets up quick and gets behind the vampire and puts on hand on the top of its head, and the other hand on its neck.
Vergil: Surprise!
He twisted the vamp's neck and it snapped, and it fell down and turned to dust. He helps Buffy up and they go over to Faith and help her up.
Vergil: So where do we go now?
Faith: Out the front doors.
Buffy: Unless we could drop down there somehow.
Vergil: The joke is overused.
Buffy: Ok.
Faith: How do we get weapons, seeming none of us have any more?
Vergil went to the center of the room and picked up two sharp pieces of wood, and he hands one to Buffy and the other to Faith.
Vergil: There you go.
Faith shakes her head at him and they all exit the room and stand out in the middle of the hall.
Faith: Which way do we go?
Vergil points down to the right side of the hall.
Vergil: The stairs are that way.
Buffy: Looks like we are going down the stairs.
They all walk toward the stairs Faith in front, Buffy in the middle, and Vergil bringing up the rear. They enter the stairway door and head down to the main lobby.