Warning: I do not own the rights to the television show Buffy the Vampire Slayer, its spin-off series Angel, its dark horse comics continuation series, or any of the characters created by Joss Whedon and others in the Buffyverse.
15 years +, Mild to Strong Violence, Sexual References.
F/F, F/M, M/M, Other +

Xander, Dawn, Faith and Giles may have found their way out of Sunnydale 2.0 with some unexpected additions but there were still many people still to face the shadow demon's many challenges and next up was Spike who had an unexpected companion in Buffy and Angel's lovechild Tristan Summers.
Spike knew instantly where Tristan and he had wound up after exiting their portal when they found themselves in an elevator within the initiative, the place that had treated him like a Guinea pig and implanted him with a chip in his head which led to the peroxide blonde haired vampire's very unexpected redemption.
Although this place was another worldly version of the initiative the moment the vampire and the male slayer found themselves within the elevator Spike instantly felt like he was back within the very same place he was briefly captured.
"I get elevators can be triggering for claustrophobics and such but I kind of expected the shadow demon's challenge to be a little bit more creative than this." Tristan said to Spike, while still holding the shadowsong blade in his right hand, the light from the mystical sword lighting up the dark and damp elevator. "I mean the thing lived inside of me long enough to pick out something far worse than this!"
"This is not just some elevator…outside those doors is the initiative the very place which shoved a chip inside my head!" Spike replied to the male slayer.
"Oh, I get it, so this is your challenge, and I am just a long for the ride." Tristan realized, before noticing Spike was nervous about walking through those doors. "Look I know we are not exactly the best team, but I got you on this one!"
"Do not blood pity me kid," Spike snapped before charging ahead, as the doors open and walked into the corridors of the initiative. "You just make sure that lamp shade blade cuts as good as a normal sword if we go up against anything which we will more than likely have to do to get the hell out of here!"
"Well that teaches me for trying to be kind to Spike of all people." Tristan mumbled to himself as he quickly followed the vampire into the initiative.

Tristan knew the shadow demon would put him through a few challenges before the shadow demon would allow him to leave, if the shadow demon would allow him to leave which he doubted highly when he put into consideration that he was the only equipped with the weapon that could potentially kill the powerful demon, whose capture led to the creation of the slayer line, but never did he think one of those challenges would be having to be alongside the vampire Spike.
He did not quite understand what it was about Spike that rubbed him up the wrong way, maybe it was the fact the vampire helped Mandi escape him a long time ago or that Spike was his mother Buffy's on/off lover but one thing he knew for certain is that he'd rather be in hell than be tortured by Spike's company.
"You could have just waited in the elevator while I handled this one you know." Spike complained to Tristan, as the two of them continued walking through a large hallway within the initiative.
"Sure, so you could find the next portal to god knows where and leave me behind." Tristan replied to the peroxide blonde haired vampire. "I think I'll stick to your side no matter how torturous it might be until we get the hell of out Sunnydale."
"If we do not wind up killing each other first." Spike stated, as the two walked through another set of electronic bunker style sliding doors to find themselves within the main operations room of the initiative where they were shocked to find Adam stood there waiting for them both.
"I'm going to guess you're some kind of demon/robot hybrid?" Tristan guessed, aiming his question towards Adam.
"Actually, he's a bit of everything made by a mad scientist who went by the name of Professor Maggie Smith." Spike answered the male slayer.
"My name is Adam; you must be the son of Buffy Summers it was be a great pleasure tearing you apart and sending the pieces of you back to your mother." Adam greeted Tristan chillingly before turning to Spike. "As for you, killing you in order to get another shot at Buffy is going to be very fulfilling."
Adam charged at them both without hesitation as Tristan sped his way towards the enhanced cyborg, swinging the shadowsong blade in Adam's direction, who dodged the attack of the blade before grabbing the hand of Tristan and applying enough pressure until Tristan dropped the shining blade on the ground.
He then punched the male slayer repeatedly in the stomach before throwing him with force across the room causing Tristan to hit the ground with force, as Spike took the opportunity to run at Adam before punching him across the face to which the cyborg did not even so much as flinch much to Spike's dismay.
Adam deliver a series of punches from both of his hands across Spike's face before kicking the peroxide vampire in the gut and causing him to fall to the ground, just in time for the cyborg to turn his attention back to Tristan who was slowly getting back on his feet.
"It took a lot for your mother to beat me the last time," Adam boasted as he began slowly walking towards a now fully standing Tristan, while Spike began getting back onto his feet. "I can already tell you are nowhere near as strong as here; you may as well give in to your impending death now!"
"Here's the thing see once you die once or twice, it loses its edge." Tristan replied to the modern-day version Frankenstein's monster.
"I see you have your mother's awful sense of wit," Adam told the male slayer before punching him across the face and picking up his body, lifting it until Tristan was above him as he tightened his grip on the slayer, planning to break him in half. "I wonder if you bleed like her."
Spike knew there was little time to save Tristan and so he acted fast as he ran over to where the swansong blade was laid on the ground causing the surface beneath it to shine with the blade's luminous glow before he tried to lift it up only for the handle to burn the vampire.
"Son of a bitch!" Spike shouted, before covering his hand with a part of his jacket, picking up the blade by it is handle, then shouted towards Buffy's son. "Catch!"
Spike launched the swansong blade towards Adam and Tristan, Adam's hands too busy holding Tristan above him to catch it, as Tristan managed to free a hand to catch the blade and quickly launched it through the top of Adam's head, pushing harder and further through the cyborg's skull until Adam fell to the ground, with Tristan falling on top of the human made monster.
Tristan quickly climbed off the enhanced cyborg, getting back onto his feet before looking at Adam to see he was now completely lifeless much to both Tristan and Spike's relief.
"I thought the thing would at least injure him did not think it was powerful enough to kill the bastard!" Spike admitted as he walked over to Tristan, surprised by Adam's death.
"Yeah well this thing is powerful enough to hurt the shadow demon somehow…figures it would kill the wannabe monster of Frankenstein." Tristan replied before he bent over, grabbed the handle of the swansong blade, and pulled it out of Adam's skull slowly.
"Why does that thing not burn you? Has it got something against vampires or something?" Spike wondered as Tristan began using Adam's trousers to wipe the blood off the swansong blade.
"I have no idea…I am still working this thing out myself." Tristan responded, as he began looking at the swansong blade, which he was holding in his hand once more.

Trips down memory lane were never particularly good in anyone's case particularly the ones that you wish you had no memory of in the first place but for Spike, going back to the very place that began his redemption story proved rather awarding to him.
The initiative installed a chip inside his brains to which years later they removed following Spike's soul being restored and therefore his redemption truly began, so because of that very reason the initiative did not hold power over him in fact he realized he had come to a place in his life where he would consider himself somewhat thankful to them.
"Big blue portal, can only mean we have somewhere else to be." Tristan stated as he and Spike stood within the main operations room within the initiative, Tristan holding the shadowsong blade in his hand firmly, the two of them standing in front of a large, blue, other world like portal. "Here is hoping it is home, wherever that is these days…"
"Somehow I doubt defeating commander cyborg was the only mission we had before we get back to a world that makes a little bit more sense than this freakshow." Spike replied to the male slayer, cautious about walking into another portal.
"Perhaps you are right but if we hope for the best who knows we may be separated this time around." Tristan teased the vampire, hiding the fact that he too was nervous about where the portal would lead.
"Well that's bloody nice is it, you know you are just like your mother not even thanking me for saving your rotten life just straight to the insults!" Spike snapped before taking a huff and storming his way into the portal, the vampire disappearing into the portal before the portal itself disappeared too.
"Something tells me that is not a good sign!" Tristan mumbled to himself, realizing wherever Spike was going that he was not going with the vampire.

LEVEL 9 = COMPLETED
SPIKE = CHARACTER UNLOCKED