Lets get this out of the way first.

I do NOT own any Buffy or Scooby Doo characters. This is just for fun, and no money is being made from this. (If I owned anything I'd be rolling in it.)

Character thoughts will be in brackets and italics.

Setting Notes: I haven't watched season 5 of Buffy in a bit. And since this is just for fun, I'm not going to be doing a lot of research regarding canon. So any deviation from the set story line of BtVS will be from the butterfly effect (or the real fact that my memory is a bit faulty.) And changes will happen from there.

The Scooby Doo cartoons release timeline has been mangled greatly for this story. New stuff (The adventures of the Pup named Scooby Doo.) was coming out even as Xander was entering high school. The Scooby Doo gang is roughly in their late twenties. I haven't seen any need yet to pin it down more precisely.

Chapter Opens just after the Scooby Doo gang ran into Xander outside of the Bronze.)

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Chapter Four The Bronze:

"Hey Buffy!" Why is she ignoring me? I guess she's to busy talking with those newbies. I'll yell louder, I bet she'll be glad for the help, keeping an eye on them.

"Buffy!"

The gang turned around and looked at this weird guy jogging up to them calling out some strange name.

"Uhm can we help you?" Daphne inquired while keeping a wary eye on this stranger.

She's looking at me as if she doesn't know me from Snyder. Could she be under some kind of spell? "What are you talking about Buffster I was just wanting to know what's up?"

"Excuse me why do you keep calling Daphne, Buffy? "Velma inquired.

"Yeah why?" Shaggy interjected.

Oh boy I may be in trouble. Buffy's undercover for some reason and I put my big foot right into the middle of it. Or…could it be she isn't Buffy I better offer my hand just to check. "I'm sorry it's just you look like a spitting image of my friend at first. My names Xander Harris, sorry for any trouble." As he sticks out. his hand. If it's Buffy she could use some slayer strength to warn me off.

"That's alright my names Daphne this is Fred Velma Shaggy and of course his dog Scooby." Everyone indicated by a nod when they were introduced, and took Xanders hand.

She's not squeezing my hand to the point that I know it's her. But she does have a good grip. But theres something about the way she's carrying herself, capable but not like a Slayer. Not to mention the eye's. She doesn't have the Buffsters age old eye's. There is a hint of seeing things that no one should have to bear, but nothing like Buffy. "I just can't get over it. The resemblance is uncanny even up close. If I didn't know all of Buiffy's family I'd almost be willing to bet you were a long lost twin. Of course you realize the Twin has to be evil according to all conventional wisdom according to Hollywood." With his signature sarcastic charm.

"Really? That sounds interesting."

"Yeah Buffy would flip meeting you." Mischief was ripe in his voice. "You guys going to the Bronze?"

"That's right, how'd you guess and why do you want to know?" Fred was acting just a little suspicious of this new guy. But Scooby hadn't given any sort of signal that they should be careful.

"I'm from around here and used to hang out here a lot. Other than the Bronze there simply isn't much here. As to why… Well wouldn't you guys like to see just how close the resemblance between Daphne and Buffy is? If your going into the Bronze I could possibly get her to swing by. I'd love to see the look on her face."

Sensing the planning for a major prank Shaggy decided to give him a shot at it. "Why don't you join us. We had some car trouble and were forced to stay at…"

"That flea trap? Oh boy I feel sorry for you."

"How did you know where we were staying?" Velma sounded like she was starting to be intrigued.

"Like I said I live here. Over the years I've probably been in every nook and cranny in and around town, multiple times. Plus the fact that the flea trap your at is the only hotel in convenient walking distance to here. Let me place a call right quick before you go into the Bronze, they really don't like cell phones in there so you better switch it to vibrate or off completely." It's late enough she might have already gone on patrol I better just call the house. Buffy has made it clear were never to call her when she's out unless it's an emergency. Any distraction could prove deadly. As he stepped a few feet away for a little privacy.

"Hey sunrise is big sis there?"

"Nope she left just a few minutes ago. If you need some back up.." Dawn was starting to sound excited.

"Nothing like that. I was just wanting to chat for a bit. Maybe arrange to bump into her, if she's not busy." Uhm if Dawn saw her leave just a little while ago then Daphne simply can't be Buffy. Unless something weird is going on. On the other hand. When the Hellmouth is involved nothings ever straight forward. "Well when she checks up on you why don't you tell her I'll be at the Bronze for awhile."

"Xander whats going on? Your sounding tooo casual if you know what I mean, Is it something to do with Vamp…" Scooby perked his ears up at Dawns comment unnoticed by anyone but Shaggy.

"No no no. Nothing like that," interrupting Dawn, "I just found someone I'd think she would get a kick out of meeting, that's all."

"Oz? Please tell me it's Oz."

"Sorry Dawn it's not Oz. I know you miss him, I do as well. I'm kinda surrounded by too many female Scoobies."

The Scooby gang exchanged a wry look trying to avoid breaking up. Scooby himself looked a bit depressed, even if he thought it was funny.

"Buffy said she would check back every thirty minutes to an hour or so. But not to start worrying unless she's gone an hour and a half without checking in. She might be busy."

"You know if she thinks she needs help she'll call all of us don't you? So don't worry your pretty little head over it. Look your Moms going to be gone for a few days. So Buffy and the rest of us will take care of you. I promise to tell her that your concerned If I see her. I'll even make sure to swing by in a couple of hours, if it will make you feel better."

"It would thanks Xander. See ya when I see you." As she hung up. I wonder who Xander wanted Buffy to meet? If it's Slayer related she'll make sure to keep me in the dark. The big meanie. I better keep my eye's and ear's open.

"Lets head on into the Bronze. While the music's pretty good and the foods decent, don't go off with any strangers to where they can get you alone. Some of the regulars here are pretty unsavory characters."

A bit later inside after having a bite to eat.

Xander looks over at Shaggy. "How long you been been bringing your dog into places like this with your blind act?"

The question startled the entire Scooby Doo gang but particularly rocked Shaggy. "How'd you know?"

Xander was looking a little smug. "I'm pretty darn observant. You have to be in this town if you want to live. "A couple of non verbal cues didn't track. Your new in town and this is your first time in here. But the guiding was just a little to smooth."

Indicating Scooby. "You let him lead you. But in this place with how chaotic everything is you went too easily to the path of least resistance, by reading when a grouping was almost about to split up." Velma just had to speak up.

"Your not just observant your very observant. This is the first time since they started running this scam that anyone's caught on. But what were the other cues you talked about?"

"A couple of them are hard to explain. Just the way that Shaggy carried himself. The major one was how easily he kept track of where all the food and condiments were. While everyone was watching the last act, I moved around a couple of things and asked Shaggy to pass one of them to me after the last break. He didn't hesitate a second and passed me the right item."

Shaggy looked a little annoyed that he'd been found out so easily since he and Scooby had done this for years. "What are you a cop? You going to turn us in.

I'm not a cop. Maybe I should be insulted by that. The cops in SunnyDale couldn't find a clue if it was surrounded by donuts. I can see he looks to be clean and well behaved. In this crowd he would have to be. Or he would have already gotten you into trouble. So I don't see any harm as long as he keeps it up. I doubt that many others would notice., but if you don't mind me asking. Why? I just can't figure out why your taking the risk of trying it in the first place."

"Scoob loves live music as much as I do. We've been doing this since we first snuck into a ZZ Top concert"

Scooby suddenly sat up straighter and looked much more alert as he started to softly growl.

"Well well what do we have hear." Xander had a chill run down his spine as he recognized the voice.

"You finally decided to trade off your old friends other than useless here for some newer models?"

Xander turned around and looked behind himself. I knew things were going to smoothly.

"Hello Spike."

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Bwahahahaha yet another cliffy.

There's no real authors notes this time beyond what little I tacked on at top. I'll acknowledge the reviews for the last chapter and this one in the next chapter.

Chapter Five, Enter Spike: