A/N
Season 2 AU for Buffy being in early 2010s.
AU for the crossover with the series beginning about seven months later then it did in its canon.
This will be like a made for TV version as the actual fic will definitely be rated M if I do it.
Buffy stood ready to attack a sword in her right hand and an axe in her left. Suck it Barbara. She moved with deadly like grace surrounded by six adversaries. She moved with her right cutting two heads off and spun around avoiding her next attacker. She buried her axe in her next attacker's skull. She ran with her sword and cut off her next two opponents heads before burying the axe in last attacker's head with a backhanded motion. "That's right, slayer ballerina."
Buffy caught her breath a trail of human blood on her face running down her cheeks but none of its hers. "Who's next?" Buffy looked behind her and saw 50 more all slowly limping towards her. "Oh no, why don't they stop!"
"Buffy we're good to go!"
Buffy turned to the helicopter and ran right into the passenger seat. "Please tell me you know how to work this."
A blood soaked Xander had his hands on headphones putting it on his head and gave a nod. "Yeah I got it, fifty cent pilot dog tags who knew. Flight control Tokyo this is the Kojima military base we're sending a helicopter into the sky."
"Negative Kojima you are unauthorized to take this flight."
Xander shook his head frustrated even after all this they're still following orders. "Yeah, this was more of a FYI call Tokyo. This place crawls with them."
Buffy watched as the blades spun louder and louder. She watched her enemies walk into their path. The helicopter blades acted as twin swords creating a circle of death cutting their heads off. Giving them blood splattered windows. "Those blades are going to break off or muck up with blood eventually."
"I know!" Xander assured her pulling down as the helicopter left the floor and he let out a smile going up and up. "OK, we're clear. Now let's go find the others."
Buffy looked at the night sky it's so peaceful here compared to what's below now. "How did this happen?"
Xander looked out the window and shook his head. Hard to believe it was another day of school in the morning. "I don't know. All we can do is survive it for now."
12 Hours Earlier
Willow walked into the new school. Laws are a lot more lax in Japan. She, Xander, and Buffy each have their own apartment here. Her parents were proud of her for wanting independence. She thinks the Harris family was happy with one less mouth to feed, and Buffy... Willow took a moment to catch her breath and quickly reached into her pocket and pulled out a medallion she put around her neck. She needs this or no one is going to understand what she's saying and she won't understand what she's reading and listening to. She ran into the building and was cut off by a guy in the black school uniform and three of his friends.
Willow shook her head. "I, I don't really have time right now I'm late for class."
The boy let out a smile. "I just want to talk."
Willow shook her head. "Look, you seem like a nice guy, I just can't talk right now." Willow went to leave and the boy grabbed her arm rattling her as she freaked out hitting his arm desperately. "Get off of me!"
Willow shook her head seeing an old friend running behind her as Xander ran up and slugged the boy knocking him down.
Xander shook his head this is an interesting way to start the morning. "Get your hands off her."
The boy's friends flanked him as he got up to his feet. "And what are you going to do about it butt head?"
Xander glared at them he just wanted a normal day of school, how hard was it to have that. "Oh please I can beat the three of you in three…" Xander stopped hearing someone walk up next to him. "Forty five seconds"
The boys looked at them and it was almost like their opponents weren't human with the looks they were giving them. How can an attractive ninety pound blond girl in a tight white shirt and a green miniskirt look so intimidating. They backed off and went to class.
Xander looked to his left and let out a smile seeing his best friends rocking catholic schoolgirl looks in green miniskirts and white shirts that are tight around their chests. "I love seeing that sight."
"Strike one" Buffy warned. She'll never forgive Giles for signing them up for formal wear seeing Xander in the same black clothes as the rest of the boys.
Xander nodded. "Yeah, yeah, I got Kendo workout to do. Still can't believe Giles signed me up for that and it counts towards extra curricular activities. See ya around Will."
"See ya around Xander."
Xander looked at her for a moment simply muttering "yeah" as he left.
Buffy watched him leave almost with a smile. "That was civil; I was waiting for him to tell me to go forget myself."
Willow gave an honest shrug. "That was the most friendly Xander has been to you for a while maybe he's letting go a bit."
Buffy smiled hopeful to just get back to common gorund but the smile quickly fell. "If I had done what I needed to do. When I had the chance…"
"I don't blame you." Willow assured her cutting her off. "And deep down neither did Xander. He told me himself it's just every time he sees you… he sees Angel... then he goes bull seeing red."
Buffy nodded understanding Xander needed a fall guy. Things went to hell so fast after her seventeenth birthday party. Angel lost his soul after having sex with her. He killed Jenny's uncle leaving Buffy, her, and Giles to find the corpse. She had a chacne to kill him at the mall but she couldn't bring herself to do it. Angel would make her pay dearly for her mercy. The next week Willow's almost boyfriend Oz was sired by Angel and turned at his viewing. Xander staked him while he was trying to tear through Willow's clothes and Oz told Buffy Angel sends his love as he dusted. Then Valentine's day they were hit with the triple whammy. Drusilla killed her mother, as well as Ms. Calendar, whom was working on restoring Angel's soul and to add to Buffy's friends list. Angel threw Xander down from the second floor of his room and broke Cordelia's neck. It was supposed to leave Buffy feeling helpless knowing Xander and Willow, her two best friends were next and she still couldn't stop it.
It had the exact opposite effect. Killing Cordelia enraged Xander whom ran off into the night. And although he's not willing to share any details Giles has confirmed Angel, Drusilla, and Spike are dead and dust. Also whatever Xander did caused Giles to call the council and swap out Kendra and Buffy and force them to move to Japan within mere days not even getting to stay for the funerals.
Xander threw a thrust with a kendo stick as his opponent almost effortlessly blocked it. He threw a parry knocking his opponent back. He rushed the advantage and his opponent took advantage of his eagerness and cracked him a couple times in the arms and legs as he fell to the floor.
Xander's opponent took his mask off revealing black hair as he put his hand out. "Care for another round?"
Xander shook his head and got up sore and almost limping. "No you thoroughly won the last round for the day, so are you the Captain or something?"
"Second best and I don't even come close to the captain. She makes everyone look like an idiot child." Xander's opponent replied. "You got some moves though." Xander still won 3-2.
"Yeah a crazy British crazy guy has been teaching me." Xander nodded. "Think I'm gonna scrape up my dignity and get some air."
"See ya"
Xander gave a quiet nod and left the room.
Xander stood outside in an empty stairway catching his breath. He looked across and saw a boy talking to a pink haired girl in a conversation that constantly uses the word stupid. He sighed and looked back to the main gate seeing someone leaning against it as the PE teachers greet the man behind the gate.
Xander watched as one of the teachers bounced the man's head off the gate. The sheer force likely knocked the poor drifter out cold on the fence. "What the hell kind of school is this?" Why couldn't there be teachers like that at Sunnydale.
To Xander's surprise the man behind the gate bit one of the teacher's arms and in a powerful bite too. The teacher collapsed blood gushing down his arm as his skin went pale. The crazy bastard must have got an artery.
Xander watched as the gym teacher got up and tackled one of the female teachers to the floor as he bit her neck and ripped and bit her throat out.
Xander looked away green all over his face. "Or, there are zombies in Japan."
Xander ran into the building as if whatever deity's whip he believed in was right behind him. He ran right up to the class he was looking for and banged on the open door getting everyone's attention.
The teacher looked up and it's his least favorite of the English exchange students. "Mr. Harris it's bad enough you darken my door at 5th period what do you want?"
Xander just focused on the class seeing Buffy and Willow. "666"
Buffy and Willow immediately got up and left class following Xander as the three made a dash for the library.
Giles looked at the three practically barge into his office just like old times. "Can I help you three?"
Xander looked at him concerned. "We have a 666."
Giles looked at him astonished. Giles rushed him out of the country and Buffy and Willow chose to follow. All to avoid situations like this... and others. "Xander, what did you see?"
"Zombies" Xander answered easy enough.
Buffy looked at him. "There are no zombies in Japan, there's no hellmouth."
Xander rolled his eyes. How can he have to explain zombies to a slayer? "Hey the guy outside the gate bit the PE male teacher, the male teacher died, got up and started biting everyone else and they came back to life. I call it as I see it."
Buffy turned to her watcher. "I think it won't hurt to look right."
They all held their head hearing the sound blare of the PA system.
"This announcement is for all the students. An emergency situation is taking place inside the school right now! All students must follow your teacher's instructions and evacuate in an orderly fashion. I repeat… Get away from me! Get back! Help! Help! Heeeeaaaaagh!" The principal's screams echoed through the building.
Willow looked at them nervously. "Hate to sound like a coward but shouldn't we be going."
Giles nodded walking to a locked bookcase. His slayer right behind him and her friend's right after wondering what he's doing.
Buffy looked at him in confusion. "Giles what are you doing zombies eat brains, not books." Buffy watched her watcher work the keys. She moved here to get away from things like this. Although she also thought it wouldn't be over because of who she was as a slayer. Once Giles opened the door she realized he shared a similar opinion.
Xander looked at the entire case full of weapons from axes to daggers, stakes, and even some likely new additions for him. "Cool!"
Giles looked at what was set up. "I believe someone once said if you want peace prepare for war."
Buffy took out a baseball bat bolted to a crowbar and handed it off to Willow. She looked over her weapons and took a crossbow for herself along with a long sword and a couple daggers. Willow grabbed a dagger for herself and some powders for some things Ms. Calendar might or might not have taught her to try to keep her safe from Angel.
Giles simply grabbed a sword and a dagger all he needed. He grabbed a much different black sheathed sword and handed it to Xander.
Xander took a moment to appraise the sword and took it out of it's sheathe revealing a double edged katana a dragon carved into the sword at the bottom of the blade. "Whoa, what is this?"
"I mean to give this to you after your first win in um Kendo. Now seems like a more appropriate opportunity." Giles replied.
"Thanks Giles, for everything." Xander sheathed the sword and used a pack in the bookcase to put it on his back and saw it had room for a lot more so he might as well use it. He took a wooden battle axe and strapped it on his back next to the sword. He took two of the newer additions to weapons as commando guy took over and checked the guns both very clean and very useable. He packed them on each side and took all of the magazines he could pocket.
Buffy opened the door of the library. "Let's get downstairs and get the hell out of here."
Giles instantly cut her off knowing Buffy. She'll fight till her last drop of blood is spent. "Going downstairs in this would be suicide. If what Xander said is true, then even if just one of the zombies gets a hold of you it's all over."
"And where there's not… them, there will be humans packed in and panicked. It will be like going against six hundred really dumb dogs." Xander replied, he agreed with Giles. "So how do we get out of here before we're all late night snacks?"
Giles thought on it and got a plan together. "Simple, we climb up the roof, and go down the fire escape."
Xander let out a smile. "Sounds good to me."
Buffy slammed through the door with quite a bit of force making it out onto the roof. It's like a frigging Romero movie already up here. She ran out and cut one's head off. Xander ran up behind her and cut one of the zombie's heads off.
Xander turned around and was greeted by a brunette haired zombie schoolgirl. He froze up looking at her and quietly backed away. The girl grabbed Xander by his head and Giles acted quickly and cut the girls head off with his sword. Xander shook his head as if clearing it. "Thanks!"
Willow looked across and saw three students desperately fighting one two boys and a girl. "Guys over there."
Buffy ran over and was trying to pull the zombie off, and even with her strength she was finding it difficult to pull it off as it turned to her.
Xander acted quick and got the axe handle in its mouth to keep it from biting the guy. "Will someone please bash this thing in the skull already?"
One of the other students grabbed his baseball bat and brought it down on the creature's head and he stopped instantly.
A white haired student in the boy's uniform holding the zombie caught his breath. "Thanks Takashi."
The brown haired student Takashi watched Giles cut another one's head off as he got close. "Holy crap! What kind of librarian are you?"
Giles shook his head. "Now is not the time to explain this who are you three?"
The girl stood up with what looked to be a broken broom handle. Red hair and the girls short green skirt and white uniform. "I'm Miyamoto Rei." She pointed to the white haired. "This is Igou Hisashi, and the on with the bat Kimuro Takashi."
Giles gave a calm nod. "Well I'm Mr Giles. the new librarian, and they are Harris Alexander, Rosenberg Willow, and Summers Buffy."
Hisashi looked to Giles. "Does the school have a plan for this?"
Xander looked around and handed a crowbar to Hisashi. "Right now the plan is not get caught by those things. You can't fight them unarmed puts you in biting distance and it's just like the movies, they bite you, and it's all over."
Hisashi took the new weapon. "So what's the plan?"
Giles looked around the roof. "Right now the plan is to climb down the fire escape. It's going to be a massacre inside the school."
Rei smiled finally an actual plan to escape this hell. "It's across the roof."
Takashi smiled tightening his grip on the bat. "Then what are we waiting for?"
Xander crushed one's head in two with his axe as Buffy simply cut her zombie attacker's head off. Between all seven they easily cleared a path to the other side. Xander looked at the drop to the metal steps it's not that big they can jump it. "Why doesn't this start at the roof?"
Rei gave an honest shrug. "It's only supposed to be used to evacuate from the school not the roof."
Buffy turned to the others she's the most flexible. "I'm going first lightest person and it's only a floor drop." This way she can help the others down.
The others nodded as Buffy dropped to a loud racket landing on steel. Buffy turned around and almost instantly three of them crashed through the window.
Xander turned around and saw every single zombie now coming in their direction. Xander shook his head and pulled out one of his guns. Eighteen zombies, don't miss. "Get her up now!"
Buffy listened to gunshots as she struggled against one. After a moment she realized what she was up against and let him push her back. Giving her perfect leverage to throw the undead boy off the fire escape to the concrete below. She kicked the next one in the face and he tumbled over the railing. She grabbed the last one's arm and just threw him off before the grey faced teacher could take a bite. Buffy looked down the steps and saw a whole army of ugly dead teachers and students hobbling up the steps from the first floor. They're cutting off the escape, how are they this smart?
Hisashi and Takashi quickly leaned over the railing and each put a hand up.
"Summers you have to get out of there now." Takashi ordered.
Buffy looked up and nodded. Right, Japan last names first. Buffy ran up the wall and with each of her hands grabbed one of the boys and they pulled her up.
Xander looked around and saw if anything it made it worse seeing zombies banging at windows and everything else. "So what do we do now?"
Rei turned to Takashi as she quickly remembered. "Can I have your phone I need to call my dad? He's a cop."
Giles looked at her in confusion, though with everything going he couldn't blame her. "Young lady, don't you think the police would have already been called?"
"It's a special number for emergencies only." Rei assured him. "He might be able to tell us what's going on?"
Willow looked around seeing the chaos and them powerless to stop it. Teachers and students alike are jumping out the windows in fear and madness. Down below she sees the creatures eating the women's volleyball team as they shout in pain desperate to flee but they're up so high there's not a thing they can do. "What's going on, it's like a nightmare come true?"
Xander and Buffy just hugged her and tried to get her to look away. He doesn't want to imagine what's going on in the school. Xander looked out and saw portions of the city on fire. "Guys, it's not just the school."
Hisashi looked down all around the city smoke was rising fires were burning… they're everywhere. "Rei, tell me you got through."
"I did." Rei let out in a smile hearing someone pick up the phone. "Dad"
"Takashi, is Rei with you? You must have gotten this number from her."
Rei looked at the phone. "Dad it's me."
"Takashi look we're overrun here, help isn't on the way; the city is already in panic mode you have to get out."
"Dad, can't you hear me?" Rei asked fear creeping into her voice as clung to the phone.
"The city is already in panic mo…"
Rei's eyes widened in fear when she heard the dial tone. "But I don't understand things were normal just a little while ago. How could he not hear me?"
Xander looked around. All this crap and not a hellmouth in sight, they could have stayed at home for this crap. "We're gonna have to go through the school aren't we?"
Giles gave a somber nod watching the girl's volleyball team get up a lot deader. They all might not make it. "I'm afraid so."
"Gorram it." Xander muttered and clutched his axe tight ready to split some heads open as Buffy kicked in the door.
Buffy turned to them. "I'll lead the charge don't fall too far behind."
Willow watched in the back. If this is happening all over their world is over. If they want to stand any chance in the new one they'll all have to work together to survive the world of the dead.
Author's Notes
High school of the dead is owned by Daisuke Sato
