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 was making $ from it I'd update a heck of a lot faster. :p

Review Responses:

(Ch8)

AnimeHanyou39: I'll explain when I can, if it doesn't interfere with the story. The freak out wasn't as big as it could be. But then Daphne had some warning before hand.

Oliver and Buffy Always: There won't be a lot of shipping. There will be some but a lots still in the air. I hope the comedy/fun keeps rolling on for you.

sired-by-spike: I enjoyed writing Fred and Spike. Even if they aren't the cartoon characters. Fred is the hardened skeptic.

slaygal166: Bwahahahaha It's my evil plan to take over the world! (Not now Pinky.) :P

Allen Pitt: Yeah they do have a mean sense of humor. But since I haven't spent any real research time on this. I thought that the Buffy Bot comes out later in season 5. (I could be wrong.) As it was I think there was enough humor as such. I'll be making the exact point in the timeline clearer soon. But right now it's before Joyce passes away. BTW see my authors note below for my reason for not updating sooner. I will be doing mucho research on that story.

Sean Malloy-1: Like I told Allen above, look below in the author note for my delay.

mentallyinsane: hopefully this will keep you entertained until the men in white suits can come and get you.

Setting Notes:

The chapter opens just as Buffy has gotten home and seen Fred slumped down onto the carpet from Spikes little joke..

Chapter Nine Buffy's House pt2:

The front door opened and a certain blonde came walking into the living room.

"Just what the hell is going on in here. Who are all these people in my house. Xander you better have a good explanation."

Daphne turned around to see who was doing all the complaining. They noticed each other simultaneously.

"Oh My God!"

This is gonna be good. Xander thought to himself.

Both Buffy and Daphne had been shocked by seeing their double. Daphne was expecting a good likeness from what everyone was saying. But this was almost like looking in a mirror. Buffy came into it cold though. And surprising a slayer with somebody collapsed on the floor isn't really a good idea.

Buffy started reaching for Mr. Pointy.

Oh no she's going for... Both Dawn and Xander cried out. "Buffy it's alright!"

Buffy had already pulled Mr. Pointy out, and had started moving toward Daphne. Everyone was still a bit disheveled from the fight. But even before she's heard the warning she started pulling up. There were also signs of bandages and the smell of disinfectant. So it seemed like any fighting that had occurred was over with for now.

"I want explanations NOW. After I get them I'll decide on who I'm gonna stake." Dawn looked over at Xander as if to say this is your mess you clean it up.

Oh shit I am in soooo much trouble. Buffy looks ready to kick my ass, for this one and Dawns not going to make it any easier.

Alright lets watch useless get his but kicked. Spike thought as he tried to get out of Buffy's line of sight, he knew all about her temper and didn't want to get staked because of it.

Why oh why did I think surprising Buffy was a good idea? Xander had that sinking feeling that he'd managed to somehow not put just one foot in his mouth. But both feet all the way up to the kneecaps. Which Buffy was looking pissed enough to break.

"Well Buffy it's kinda like this…"

(AN: What you think I'm going to rewrite ch1-8 just for you? Give me a break. I'm to lazy to do something that smacks to much of work, so read it yourselves.)

The Scooby gang was watching Buffy like they were dear caught in the headlights. They saw how much of a blur her movements were. They wouldn't stand a chance. The one good thing was that Buffy was not amused. And Xander was target number one of her ire.

A little later.-

"Xander your little joke could have gone real wrong, you know that don't you? You didn't do it deliberately but things could have gotten reel ugly if I hadn't held up when you called out." Turning toward the Scooby Doo gang.

"Daphne I'm sorry I nearly staked you. But when I came in. Well things were going all wiggy."

"That's ok. From what I've seen tonight you have reason to be jumpy."

Jumpy? I'm not jumpy. Who does that blonde bimbo think she is? "Your all invited to stay for awhile." (Knowing that Dawn hadn't actually invited them into the house. Sunnydale reflexes can be murder on common courtesy.) "I don't want to almost stake and run but the vampire attack on you and what I found have my spidey senses tingling. I think another big bad has moved into town. So I better make some calls and get the whole Scooby gang over here."

giggle Dawn hated it when she giggled it made her sound like a ten year old.

The Scooby Doo gang exchanged a set of lifted eye brows. Remembering that Dawn had been with Shaggy and Scooby and that something was up.

"Dawn this isn't time for one of your giggle fits."

"Dawnie that was a large number of fledglings. Someone is recruiting." Now that Xander was out of the direct path of Buffy's anger he didn't mind drawing some of her attention to himself again since she had seemingly calmed down.

"Boy's right. Of course even a busted clock is right two times a day." Spike marked up another point on his mental chalkboard for that one.

Buffy was amused by the bantering but didn't want to get drawn into it with strangers around. "Enough joking around, I better call in the rest of the Scooby gang."

Ha ha ha

Dawn was practically falling down laughing.

"Dawn why are you laughing at me?"

Dawn thought it might be best to not annoy her older sister anymore for now. Especially since she has super strength. "I'm not laughing at you Buffy. I'm just kind of amazed no ones figured out why it's funny yet. Particularly you Xander"

What could I be missing? Xander simply couldn't see it.

Dawn saw the look on her friends faces and decided to spell it out. "Think about it. Four people traveling around together named Daphne, Fred, Velma Shaggy and they have a Great Dane named Scooby."

Dawn can't be serious can she/ That would mean they're cartoon characters. She can't mean what's she's implying. If she's serious I just said… Buffy's mind was going around in circles at the concept.

Xander had a thunderstruck look on his face. "Dawn I have to agree with you. I should have realized it, right after I met them. But how often do you meet your cartoon idols in the flesh?"

"Wait a minute. Are you saying they're cartoons?" Buffy looked at Xander as if he'd lost all of his common sense. That or Willow had had another spell go kerblooeey.

"Buffy I'm sure I've told you and everyone else in the gang at one time or another that the cartoon characters are based on the adventures of real life people."

Trying to process the information Buffy said the first thing that came to mind. "You chased after ghosts?" Looking directly at Daphne.

Daphne had to smile at that considering what Buffy and the rest of them seemingly dealt with regularly. "Not exactly, in real life we did chase after hints of the supernatural. But all of the rubber masks and meddling kids bit, came from it being made into a Saturday morning cartoon show.

Originally we tried to make our "adventures" (you could hear the quotes in her voice.), a drama/mystery series. But you let even a little hint of the supernatural creep in and well the suits at the time instantly thought of it as a kids show."

"Just what in the bleeding hell is going on here? Who are these blighters?" Spike was just a little upset that everyone else knew what TV show they were talking about. But if it wasn't Passions or football (proper football, not that nancy American version) then he wasn't interested.

Xander figured he'd better explain. "Spike you know how we call our little group the scoobies?"

"Yeah always thought that was a stupid name. What the bleeding hell is a Scooby anyway? Sounds like something unpleasant."

Scooby had to bristle at that comment, and the rest of the gang kind of chuckled a little.

"That's a Scooby." Pointing at Scooby Doo. Xander couldn't resist needling Spike just a little more. "There was a popular and very successful cartoon show about a group of meddling kids and they're dog who the show was named after."

"So your telling me that these…"

"These are the real life people that inspired the show. But a lot of it was changed to make the whole thing more cartoonish for the kids."

"Well that explains how you could understand it geek boy."

Daphne interrupted before it could escalate into a fight."Going back to the cartoony bits. We all knew they were going to take aspects of our character and exaggerate them. So we all made some minor requests. I knew they were going to make me danger prone Daphne. So I made certain that I wasn't done up as a blonde bimbo. So they made the cartoon version of me a red head."

I can't let her get away with that simple of an explanation. Fred thought. "Generally they took one or two personality quirks and blow them all out of proportion. When she was young Daphne was a bit of a klutz. But she eventually grew out of it."

"C'mon Fred tell the whole bit. She won her weight division in the national full contact karate championship, not once but twice."

Daphne was blushing a bit from Shaggy's bragging on her. That was years ago. Before she became a psychologist.

"Hey is that why they had that actress…, (Xander snapped his fingers) Sarah Michelle Gellar who played you in the movie, since she was a martial artist?" Looking at Daphne.

"We didn't have much of anything to do with the movie other than collect a royalties paycheck."

Xander wasn't really paying attention. And wasn't watching his mouth. "Man was she hot."

Buffy and Daphne gave Xander a very old fashioned look. Dawn's wasn't as good but she tried.

Realizing his goof. "But she's nowhere neat as good looking as the lovely ladies in this very room. Be still my heart." Before Buffy decides to reach into my chest and rip it out, or Daphne smacks me upside the head.

"She's not a cute as Allyson Hannigan. I loved her in American Pie. And I felt she would have been a great Daphne since I always pictured you as a red head." Terra was looking at Daphne until she noticed her reaction, and then looked around. "Oops did I say that aloud?" Terra's face was turning all sorts of interesting colors.

Buffy was wanting to get the conversation back on track, she still had a lot of work ahead of her.

"Well all of that's neat. But why did you spend all that time and effort chasing the supernatural? Now that Xander mentioned it I vaguely remember something about you guys breaking up and going your separate ways about the time the cartoon made a big hit."

Shaggy stepped in seeing how uncomfortable this line of questioning was making Daphne andf the rest of the gang. "We did break up. Some of us got tired of chasing after things that went bump in the night and couldn't take the strain anymore."

Buffy and the rest (other than Spike) could all agree that knowing that things aren't always as normal as they seemed could be a real problem.

"We can all agree to with that. But why did you start chasing after (looking at Shaggy) things that go bump in the night?"

Scooby had been watching and listening very carefully. He'd been weighing what would be safe to reveal. Giving Shaggy a look, he stepped forward right in front of Buffy.

Scooby Speak Alert.

"Rhey ried ro relp me." (They tried to help me.)

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Authors Note: This chapter took a long time to do. You can blame Allen Pitt for that. His review of ch8 caused another story idea I'd been mulling over in my head to gel. I've already written chapter 1-4 and I nearly have ch5 done.

I won't be publishing it until this story is done, and I have most of the next one written. It won't be yet another of the interminable Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings or Stargate stories that seem to comprise the largest part of the story selection here.

Chapter Ten Scooby Speaks: