Buffy Timeline After Forever- Before Intervention

Xander looked at his apartment never in a million years did he ever think that his house would be ground zero for a spell after the love spell from hell but here we are. Xander looked at his girlfriend sitting in the middle of the circle. "Are you sure this going to work?" Xander asked uneasy.

Anya looked at him with a child-like smile from her spot in a red spell circle. "Oh yeah, Halfrek is an old friend of mine. If she doesn't fast track the spell for our friendship. She'll fast track the spell for not being there for any of your childhood. D'Hoffryn won't like the missed job so she likely won't even show up in person."

Xander shrugged. "If you say so?"

Anya hopped out of the circle and went to the kitchen pulling out a book of matches. "Look, I know you don't like magic. I'm sure our experience with Olaf didn't help any. But in case you've been sleeping all this year we're in trouble. Glory is still around. She kicked all our asses without trying, Joyce is gone, everyone is off their A games and crying because Joyce is gone with Glory still out there, Buffy's a mess and if this afternoon showed me anything it's Giles' big answer is the hokey pokey. We need more people that can fight."

"Ahn" Xander held up his recently bandaged arm. "Not saying no, gave my blood for it. Just magic gives me the wigs."

Anya nodded in understanding. "Well hopefully this will help with that." She lit a match and threw it at the sand causing a great wall of fire to rise first blue, red, yellow, and finally purple.

Xander watched the scene intrigued as the fire dissipated leaving a black stained circle in the middle of his main room. "Well, there goes the security deposit. Well worth it if it works though."

Anya stepped into the circle and retrieved the only thing that was in it, Xander's VCR. "Well let's hook it up and see if it worked."

Xander went to get a drink before this. "Sure, so what's the plan, go into a domino's commercial and get some free pizzas."

Anya smiled. "Actually, I was thinking a three way." Xander spat his drink out covering the kitchen floor. "What? I know it's on your bucket list."

Xander looked at her. "I'm not cheating on you Anya."

Anya smiled finishing hooking up the VCR. "I know, you have my consent." She moves the entertainment center back a bit and pulled out a blank tape. "Besides, the other girl is going to be a younger version of me. Why don't you watch this a lot more? I mean I made it for you."

Xander smiled. "I never really had a reason to. You were always there even jumping me in the middle of your work days. Why watch a tape when the girl is right there and a recording can't compare?" Xander doesn't even think this would ever work honestly. He doesn't want to because a VCR copy seems weird and even if he did Troll Olaf was born for going with another girl no chance will past Anya go for it and she has to know this. He's curious about what Anya is up to more than anything.

Anya blushed touched. "Well, we're definitely running the test with this now."

Anya waited till Xander was right next to her before hitting play on the remote.

Anya walked into her room with a robe on. She wanted to get Xander a nice piece of jewelry for their one-year anniversary but she quickly found herself attached to money. This is a $20 rental from Bob's hardware and $3 for the blank tape.

"It worked!"

Robed Anya's eyes rose up as she turned around and saw Xander as well as herself. "What's going on?"

Anya smiled seeing her. "Well, we know it works now. Don't go for the gun."

"Why not?" Robed Anya asked though now she knows this is a future version of her, Xander doesn't even know about the gun yet.

Anya pointed to herself and Xander. "Time travel, Xander's had a rough go of it so I thought the three..."

Robed Anya smiled knowing exactly what this is. "Got it, are you two protected."

Anya pointed to the shelf. "You have them right over there, black ones."

Robed Anya shook her head. "Sorry, won't do anything unless my Xander is here too. I can maybe dance for yours though since mine went to have a slumber party with Buffy and Willow."

Anya smiled; she doesn't need to know they're being attacked by the first Slayer at the moment. "That's OK but can I ask a favor between me myself and I."

Robed Anya nodded. "Sure"

Xander walked out of the VCR portal in disbelief. "I can't believe you did all that just to get your underwear back."

Anya smiled she knew it wouldn't work but she got what she came here for and assured her past self they'll reappear as soon as she leaves. "Not just any pair, my favorite pair of panties that I lost over Christmas, besides now, I can put on that show for you." Anya reached into her pants pocket but felt nothing. "That's impossible I just had them."

Xander sighed seeing the obvious answer. "Well, that puts a cramp on some of the plans. The lightsaber plan just went right out the window. We must not be able to take anything with us."

Anya looked at him. "That cripples every plan, especially the main plan."

"I know!" Xander cut her off. "The important thing is while we lost a lot of ground the VCR still works. We're not done yet." Let's go to the video store we'll figure something out with all the tapes there."

Anya looked around the Blockbuster video looking high and low. "Hey, I know the main plan of going into Hercules and Xena and getting the hind's blood pendent went up in flames but there has to be another way for us to kill Glory in this place?"

Xander looked at the store Batman's utility belt, a lightsaber, tactical nuke, they all have the same problem. You can't take them out of the world. Xander smiled seeing a VCR tape of at least one of the things he wanted for his master plan. "Right now, the best way to fight Glory is to improve ourselves easier said than done."

Anya's eyes shot up and turned to him. "Ourselves huh?"

Xander nodded. "Well yeah, of course I want you with me on this. I love you and you run the magic shop. That has the life expectancy of one of those people that wave flags in front of the enemy army in an old school battle. If I can keep you alive longer than any of them I will."

Anya hugged him and kissed in the middle of the store. She doesn't care. Parents are seeing a lot more. "So, what's plan Z?"

Xander held up the tape he has. "This, and with the not stealing rule this is all I got, and I don't even know if this one will work with the lack of holes."

Anya shrugged they are definitely in uncharted territory. "I have no idea." They went to the children section and Anya grabbed a tape. "Hey, how about this?"

Xander grabbed the tape off her and looked. He quietly shook his head. "No, this won't do."

Anya looked at him confused. How can this not do? "Why not?" She looked at the copy of Spider-Man. "I mean we get bit and not only can we fight we'll know when something bad is about to happen to us."

Xander chuckled he loves that she knows all this. "Oh no, short term it's a great plan. Long term it's problematic."

"Why?" Anya asked knowing Xander isn't trying to shoot down her ideas he just saw a problem.

Xander smiled and grabbed another Spider-man tape and flipped it to the back. "About a year after getting bit we would start mutating gaining four extra arms before turning into pure spider mutants. Not to mention the radioactive goo problem for you... and maybe me."

Anya's eyes rose up in surprise she thought Spider-Man was a superhero. "He webs people up in radioactive webbing, that's sick."

Xander chuckled. "Ahn, not that goo." He makes a quick motion with his hand under his belt and Anya catches on.

Anya looked at him. "You can't be serious. You think that can kill..."

"Death by sex is not a new thing." Xander pointed out. "Also, exposure to anything radioactive over a long period of time leads to the big C word."

Anya shook her head processing this. "Yeah, but death by sex is usually a heart attack, over exertion, or the killer snuck in and stabs the poor girl doing cowgirl, or a two for one shish ka bob because of missionary. Or when I was working my old job, a client wished her ex would have sex with the fattest girl in the town who passed out after the big moment and smothered him in her sleep. You really think Marvel would write a story like this."

Xander thought it over in his head. "All I know is Marvel's default plan is to give Peter Parker shit. So, something like this really wouldn't surprise me so I don't want to take the chance with Spider-powers."

Anya nodded in understanding. "I get it. So no to Spider-man powers what about other super heroes? We could just appear in front of the fantastic four right when they become the fantastic four?"

Xander shook his head becoming a living golem is plan Omega. "No, no superheroes the ones that are on tv all have radiation in them at the moment and we won't have the time to learn from Batman. At the very least I'd rather have a mystical powers or at least controlled ones... OK got another tape but this one's at home already. But as for mystical powers how about?"

Anya followed Xander to the front of the store seeing a him pull out a vcr tape of three beautiful women. "No!" Xander looked at the tape before Anya continued. "And it's not just because Alyssa Milano never wears a bra."

Xander looked at her holding a tape of Charmed. "We poke a demon with a knife we get powers. We do what we always do and get a nice perk from it."

Anya shook her head. "The only way this would work is on witches. Which you won't do even knowing they are fake. So, when you take a demon's power, you'll be filled with Charmed dark magic which can corrupt a user to evil. Add in the hellmouth it could make an abomination of dark magic that can make you nuke yourself and all of Sunnydale. The literal going out with a bang, or is it boom."

"Excuse me!"

Anya and Xander turned around seeing a tiny man with black hair and an employee getup.

Xander smiled seeing a familiar face. "Hey, Johnathan what's up?"

Johnathan looked at the two. "Well, a lot of parents here were complaining about two adults discussing radioactive sex and death in the kids section. I shouldn't be surprised Anya had a hand in it."

"Hey!" Anya complained. "It takes at least two people to have a conversation about sex."

"Sorry" Johnathan apologized realizing Xander had just as much of a hand in it. "So, please stop, and what were you arguing about anyway."

"Nothing." Xander assured him. "But you're into comics stuff like me if you can go to a fictional world to get stronger. Where would you go?"

"Dragon Ball Z" Johnathan answered without hesitation.

Xander thought on it trying to remember the show. "You mean that old cartoon that was on at like 6:30 on Saturdays with Zero the monkey boy?"

"That was an abomination to the franchise. Stop by some point I'll show you some of the real show." Johnathan offered.

"Does tonight work?" Xander asked.

Johnathan looked at him surprised. "Sure, if you don't mind picking me up when my shift ends in an hour."

"Not a problem. We'll even bring Pizza." Xander replied heading to the front of the store and paying to rent the one VCR tape they got in the store. The whole no stealing clause has really put a bear trap in their plans.

That night Xander and Anya picked up Johnathan and the three made a quick drive to his house. They worked their way down to the basement where Johnathan had a couch and TV where they laid out the food. Johnathan went to his kind of uncomfortable stack of tapes looking for one in particular and put it in his VCR and hit play.

Anya watched the show on TV she doesn't know what she's watching honestly. She expected to see something like a super hero, instead she's seeing a blond haired man in orange pants fighting a purple and white tampon monster. "What the hell are we watching?"

Johnathan pointed to the man with blond hair. "That's Zero all grown up, but his real name is Goku."

Xander watched the fight seeing this Goku meet the monster blow for blow flying, super human strength, laser blasts he's pretty much a home-grown Superman. "He did all this by training?"

"Mostly." Johnathan answered watching the fight. "Although the blond hair is because he's an alien the humans got far stronger than anyone thought possible as well."

Xander watched the fight in awe. "Are there any episodes of this show that have time skips."

Johnathan looked at him. "A couple why?"

Xander finished his bite of pizza. "Can you write them down?"

Johnathan took a moment why would he only want to know about episodes with time... "Oh my god you're going in aren't you... how did you figure out a way to do this?"

Anya looked at him uncomfortable. "What, we're not going in. That's... that's ridiculous."

Johnathan looked at the two for a moment. "Guys, literally remade reality to make myself to be hellmouth Jesus remember. Not surprised entering a TV is possible. How did you two get in?"

"A simple spell but it requires the blessing of a vengeance demon to fully work and they don't do that a lot. Lucky me Halfrek and I go way back." Anya explained and at the boys looks confused looks and continued. "Most vengeance demons would have just given you a VCR with no way out or just say no."

Johnathan nodded. Is it good or bad that the whole thing made sense to him? "So, what's the whole plan?"

That night Xander and Anya ran a rough outline of what was happening on the hellmouth this year and their plan to even try to do something about it. Johnathan listened happy to just have friends over for the night as he offered bits and ideas when he could.

The next day they walked calmly to Buffy's house and knocked on the door. They waited patiently as Willow answered the door. "Xander, Anya... Johnathan? Please tell me he didn't make a problem? We can't deal with that right now."

Xander walked in with Anya and Johnathan right behind him. "Yeah, well nothing that drastic. I'm going to see Cordelia for a couple days and I figure Dawn might want two or four days away from Sunnydale and even bigger a reprieve from Glory."

Willow looked at him. "Do you really think now is the best time for this?"

"I need a break Will, after Joyce I need a sabbatical from Sunnydale." Xander replied. "Besides Angel will be there to protect Dawn from Glory with endless tunnels to hide in."

"And where he goes, I go." Anya said.

Johnathan turned to see Willow staring at him. "Oh, I'm just catching a ride to a comic convention."

Willow nodded Dawn would probably be safer in LA with Buffy going to a mysterious place with Giles fo who knows how long. "Dawn!"

The youngest Summers walked to the door. "What's up?"

Willow looked at her. "Well, Xander and Anya are going to take a couple days in LA to catch up with Cordelia and want to know if you want to come with."

Dawn nodded. "Yeah, that sounds like fun." Honestly, she just wants to get away for a bit after Buffy ditched her for a spirit quest of all things.

Xander looked at his best friend. "OK, so you and Tara have the house to yourselves. Go wild!"

Willow watches the four as they head to the car. She has a feeling deep in her gut that this going to be interesting and might cause her a headache, but she'll trust her Xander shaped friend. Whatever he's doing he has his reasons to get away. They all did after Joyce died.

Dawn waited till they were off the block before going. "You know if my mom hadn't just died that never would have worked right."

Xander chuckled. "Why do you think we waited till dad was long out of the house before making our move."

Dawn nodded. "Yeah, Giles definitely would have knocked you out for just wanting to see Angel. So, what's the real plan?"

Anya turned to the back. "We're going to Angel's so we can bulk up as much as we can and hopefully be able to kill Glory. Yohoo?"

Dawn shook her head. "No thanks, not on the road. So, any other stops before Angel's?"

Xander nodded and sighed. "Two first a tattoo parlor for a tattoo gun..."

Anya looked at him. "Don't be such a baby. We get a splash of blood from Angel's neck and all the tattoos are going to fall right off. I tried to get my underwear back again this morning and even in a cookie jar from our world they didn't get through so there's no telling if something written will come through because it was created on the other side branded on your skin is the better option because it will be a part of you."

Xander looked at her. "You took my cookie jar?"

"It came back." Anya assured him.

Dawn looked at the other two. "So, where's the second stop?" Dawn felt the temperature in the car drop a couple degrees.

Xander looked at her for a moment. "Dawn please be on good behavior."

"Where's the second stop!" Dawn asked in a raised voice

Xander shook his head this isn't going to go well but he can't really blame her. Well, if anything the trip to LA should be interesting.

Author Notes

I don't own Buffy and I don't own anything they are going to jump into.

I'm trying patterns of three stories from now on so I can get stories done and try new ones so for the foreseeable future the release schedule is going Sabbatical, 38 hours, Story I want to update.

Sabbatical isn't going to be long at longest is only going to be like 8 chapters.