Suddenly she was in the middle of the street, just standing and staring. She had just killed a man and picked up one of the most powerful weapons known to man, you'd think she'd be more excited. The five warriors that the powers had chosen for her stood around her. Faith was the first to break the silence.

"Gosh B, you got a new toy. Why the pouty?" She asked, walking up and touching the blade with awe. Buffy blinked and looked over.

"Yeah..." She nodded. "I-I dunno. What now, we seal the keyhole, don't we?"

Dante nodded. "Indeed. Though we don't know the exact location. It could be anywhere."

Buffy looked around. They were on the streets of Sunnydale again. But things were... hellish at best. Cars were on fire. Demons were chasing innocents around. This had to be the other reality, had it?

"Don't worry, I know exactly where it is..." Buffy responded. She just watched the people run screaming. Spike looked at her slightly confused.

"Don't be a hero now, luv." He said with his unique British sense of sarcasm.

"Dante... this isn't... This isn't my world is it?" Buffy asked, still watching the chaos. Dante looked at her and made a face.

"It's supposed to be. I guess the Heartless grew stronger while we were gone." He said, looking around.

"Oh..." Buffy nodded with an almost blank expression. Then without a beat, Buffy picked up a piece of broken glass from one of the smashed shop windows and hurled it at the head of the yellow-eyed ashen Heartless demon that was chasing innocent people around. The monster flew back and convulsed as it connected with his head, protruding from his forehead like an extra appendage. Then the black smoke inhabiting his body evaporated, leaving a demon corpse behind. "There's too much ground to cover between here and the keyhole. If I don't seal it now things could get worse..."

"Forgive me if I missed something, but where is the keyhole?" Faith asked. Vamp Xander was to her side and staring at her jugular, and Faith looked over and rolled her eyes, elbowing him in the gut. Buffy-bot just giggled.

"Faith, this is the hellmouth. Where do you think the lock to all evil is gonna be?" Buffy said, beginning to walk, taking no more time.

"The Hellmouth... Bollox, it's in that principal's office, isn't it?" Spike said, adjusting the collar of his duster as he followed behind.

"I'm willing to bet." Buffy nodded, not looking back, just walking and clutching the blade, never wavering in her direction. She walked with a purpose. Demons started appearing out of nowhere. Buffy punched one and flipped him behind her, then kicked another's feet out from under him, and continued to walk. Spike lept into action.

"No worries, pet. You're covered. Just go give that key a twist." He said, cracking another demon's neck. The others began their fight as well, but Buffy still walked.

When she arrived at the high school, she kicked in the locked doors and continued her tread. If one would see her now, they could describe her walk as one the Terminator couldn't even duplicate. Demons appeared out of the shadows on either side of her, but she twirled in a circle and remained on track. Every few feet a new demon would appear and would only be met by a quick death from her blade. Oh yeah. She was close. They wouldn't protect something so closely if it wasn't important.

Buffy reached the principal's office and kicked in the doors, and her eyes went wide.

"Oh..." She froze for a moment at the sight before her. There, writhing about, flailing its tentacles and it's multiple serpent heads as it rose through the new hole in the floor, it's scaly skin now black and it's eyes yellow, was the Hellmouth beast. The guardian that she had fought two times before. Once during her fight with the Master, once her senior year when the Sisterhood of the Jhe summoned him. Yep. This, was the place.

Buffy swallowed her doubts with one gulp, then gripped the keyblade tightly, and lept into action. She swung blindly, chopping off whatever she could, black ooze spraying all over her t-shirt and jacket. The keyhole was near, she could feel it. Literally, the key in her hand was vibrating. The beast snapped it's jaws at her, but she did a backflip and cut one of it's heads in half. Where was that damn lock? Buffy did an array of dazzling flips over it's many flailing appendages and landed on one knee, looking around. She couldn't beat this thing. She never did. The first time it disappeared when the Hellmouth was sealed, and the second time it was because of Willow and Giles' magicks. She had to be Brainy Buffy to win this fight, and something told her the keyhole would end this.

Another head lunged for her own, but she side stepped it and grabbed it's long, serpentine neck and twisted until she heard a satisfying snap. Then another onslaught of attacks from its tentacles which she quickly countered with her blade. While she fought, she noticed a glow emitting from below the monster's belly. 'kaching!' She thought, then she quickly tumbled until she was at the edge. Yep. There was a room below. The monster had emerged from a well that emitted steam and resonated with tortured screams.

"Well to hell?' Buffy thought, a little amused. Who knew the old ones were such poets? Buffy jumped in and hacked the steel of the blade into the monster's gut, and slid down quickly, using the monster's stomach as both a way down and a way to damage him. A large gaping wound was now in his underbelly and he shrieked in pain, and due to his size and confusion due to his pain, he just smashed about the room upstairs. Buffy had time.

She looked around quickly, looking for where it could be. But then the keyblade took on a mind of its own. It rose to her forehead, glowing and trembling. Buffy could see through the small gap in the blades a large keyhole on the opposite side of the wall. Suddenly she knew what to do.

She slowly rose the key until it faced the hole, and it was if the gods began to sing. The key shook ferociously and suddenly a brilliant light shot out of the tip. The demon howled. All the Heartless in Sunnydale howled. And in an instant, when the keyhole was sealed, the demon disappeared.

Halfway across town, Spike was having himself a real good time smashing in the face of one of them. But when they disappeared, he gave a sudden disappointed expression and put a cigarette in his mouth. "Bugger that."

Buffy looked at the key wide-eyed when the job was done. Such power... But her moment of awe was interrupted soon enough. A portal opened on the opposite side of the room. A battle was waging on the other side, and she could hear her friend's voices. Without a second thought, she stepped in.