Disclaimer: This is a parody inspired by the works of Cartoon Network/Man of Action and Josh Whedon/WB/UPN . All characters that I have not created or borrowed from other sources are theirs. This is a Fan fiction and not meant to violate the rights of those who own the rights to the Ben 10 or Buffy the Vampire Slayer Series. I have no money and therefore not a good suing target. Uses dialogue from the second season episode "Halloween". Thank you very much.
Xan 10
Chapter Two
It was a couple of days before school started from Halloween, when the female teens who were dealing with the supernatural entered, they looked for their male friend who had the alien device. When they saw him enter, it seemed like nothing much had happened. What had told them something had happened was the wide smile on his face.
Since they had a little time before class, Willow asked him, "Xander? What happened? That smile is making me think you're up to no good."
"Yeah, spill." continued Buffy as she asked him what was going on. He looked around as if to keep this quiet. Then he spoke to them.
"I am now a self-made emancipated young man. I managed to get the paper work started, getting my parents to sign off on it, and now I am under my own guardianship. It did help I am now financially secure." said Xander as he continued to smile at the thought of being out of his less then desirable parents.
"Financial secure?" asked Willow, as she looked at him.
"What superhero fiction fails to mention, most of the time, are the financial benefits of superpowers. Lots of ways to make money. For example, using time travel to get information of a rising stock or the result of game of chance are illegal. Building a supercomputer to compute those results, is not."
Buffy was shocked and not happy, "You shouldn't abuse your powers like that. It's wrong."
"It's partly abusing my powers, but it's for a good cause. Since fighting the forces of evil is going to get expensive, especially when we're going to use my same alien I used for profit to help you out. Ben had a devil of a time when his aliens kept destroying things accidently. I would like to be able to have a source of income to pay for anything I break. Or anything a certain lovely blond slayer breaks. Medieval weaponry and ancient occult tomes don't grow on trees." was the answer the dark haired teen said as he pointed out the logical and even noble reasons to amass a fortune.
"It's great that you're thinking of using your money to help people, help us, help us help people. So what do I get the feeling..." reasoned Willow as she countered the reasoning.
"...That he's going to abuse his money too? I get that feeling too." continued the Slayer as pointed out a flaw.
"Cause it's true. There's nothing stopping a person from being noble and selfish at the same time. Much of the time it's called charity. Besides, who says I'm going to use my money alone. I'm willing to share my good fortune with my friends. Such as two lovely ladies, one a redhead and another a blond." He gave them a justification, as well as a bribe.
"Fine. So how did you make the fortune. Nothing illegal." asked Buffy as she decided she could accept the line of thought. Especially if they could help her get a cute outfit.
"Time travel, which allowed me to collect a number of antiques and store them for sale. Then I used that money to build a tech company, using slightly advance tech which may be just ten or so years ahead, to keep the money pumping. I also have a number of plans for asteroid mining for rare and expensive minerals for sale. That's just the top of my money making list I made. Well, the list which wasn't just listing Alien X over and over again. I am being care in using that alien." He stopped for a moment before turning to his backpack as he pulled out two boxes of something.
He passed them to the two women, "The latest of cell phone, smart phone technology. Based on what Grey Matter and Brainstorm believe phones will look like after studying current technology, in-progress development and parallel lines of future innovations. In the next ten years times that is. The newest and latest xPhones. It acts as a phone now, but once the network is up, it will be a mini touchscreen computer with multiple applications."
The phones vanished in seconds.
Xander continued, "Got my own place too. With some mods, like a danger room for Buffy and me to train in. Want to try it out after school?"
Later...
Giles was watching the training room from above with the computer controls being manned or womanned by Willow, given the tech illiterate and tech mastery of the two respectively. He had to admit the training programs were excellent in developing Buffy and now Xander's skills. All with relative minor injury for those involved. Just bruised and scratches.
Then came the training spars between Buffy and Xander new army of alternate identities. Like the one which he was using now for pure physical attacks, the red alien which was well named as Fourarms. Huge with small legs, four arms and eyes, red skin. All muscle. Strong enough to take hits from Buffy and hit her back. Gently from the look of it. Still Buffy was having a time trying to adapt to four arms on her opposition, since most of her foes having only two arms, or four limbs rather then six.
She tried to punch, and Fourarms managed to catch each hand. She kicked and a hand grabbed that. Meanwhile, as the Slayer was in one of the strangest locks known to man, Xander used his other hand to do annoying things. Flick her nose, poke her belly, tickle her. She was not please and was starting to loose her temper, trying to pull her held out body parts free from the lock.
He moved to the microphone which would broadcast to the training room before him, "Enough Xander or Fourarms. You've done a good job in neutralizing Buffy. Buffy, you're going to have to adapt to demons, or in this case aliens, with no standard humanoid forms. Instead of attacking straight forward, you should have attack his arms. Stun or break them, and he would be extremely limited for further forms of attack."
He was trying to teach his charge the best fighting skills for the situation she was in. Xander's variety would help with that. He saw Xander let Buffy go, the blond being back on the ground simmering with frustration. She called out, "I would have gotten him."
Giles answered, "Maybe, but you were closely matched. The fight would still end in a win for you fifty percent of the time. Which is good but we want to do better then winning half the time. Which is why you're training with Xander. So when the time comes, you will be ready to completely control the fight. Then you can sieze the victory."
Buffy grumbled about losing, but the Watcher knew how his charge would begin to work to improve. If only to go from getting her butt kicked by the formerly powerless young man, to kicking his butt again. Of course, that just meant that they would have to train Xander to defeat her again. Or use another alien. Or use multiple aliens rapidly.
'The training will give her an advantage which other Slayers in the past would not have. An advantage which might allow her to live beyond the limits of normal Slayers. Xander may play the fool, or might even be one much of the time, but he realizes the facts. The better all of us are trained and equipped for the worse, the more likely we are to come home.
Buffy could take down most vampires with an old stake and nothing else. It's the all too common, uncommon foes which will endanger her life. Xander's aliens help. While especially Buffy but also myself disagree with Xander using his powers for gains, they do provide aid in ways we didn't before.
Xander is going to abuse him wealth, many people have their vices which they don't need which they still spend their money on. God knowns how many rare books I would place in my library if I had a lot of disposable funds. Books I don't need.
He also knows money will make it easier for the girls and ourselves to keep safe. First responders like police and paramedics could do their jobs without funds, but it is easier with them. So too with the Watcher's council, even if I argue with what they provide us. Now we have a relatively independant source of resources. Which to quote him, Helps him protect his girls and the English gent too.
Still, Buffy's growing strength. Xander's aliens. A new source of great wealth. A streak of good luck. The question is what will happen when the other shoe drops?'
Author's Notes:
First to raxadian of Twisting the Hellmouth... You commented about another Xander gets a power up and crossover with Stargate. To each point.
1) Xander in the show seems to be the non-powered everyman who the audience, especially men relate to. Yet in fiction, he gets a lot of power-ups. Well, relative to his minor power ups verses the major ones of the female cast. I think of the comment. When we are kids we want to be Superman, but when we grow up we know we could become Batman (if we work our asses off). Well, while we know we can be Batman the facts remain we want to Superman. Maybe just with different powers. Which is why he tends to get power ups.
2) Stargate is in many ways is the Science Fiction sibling or twin of Buffy. Both has movies, which some consider lackluster. Then had great popular series. Both deal with a small group of people fighting evil within a masquarade. Both in a similar timeline. Both are well known.
Now he asked for other aliens, hostile or otherwise, which is difficult. Some series doesn't match up. Some series are not well known, well developed, or works as well. Of course, currently it's just one paragraph, once section. So rewrites are possible here. Assuming one doesn't just add more dakka, more cowbell, more aliens.
Continuing with this chapter or segment...
Why make Xander rich? One, is given his life and his persona, he does deserve something like this. Two, it allows him to build a base outside of the Library. Remember, even if they didn't blow it up, the Scoobies couldn't use the Library as a base when they finished school. Which is why the Magic Box, The Summer's home and other became more common in the later seasons.
Three, is the threat levels. It is likely to go up and/or change. Sci Fi in addition to Fantasy/Horror. With a Superhero genre mixing in with it. They also don't have the Plumbers or Kevin Levin's connections supplying they what they need. The Watcher's Council has wealth, but will likely only want to use it on Supernatural threats. Even then, funds might be limited. Buffy needs supplies just for her job as Slayer. Her weapons would have to be antiques, since owning modern replicas of such weapons is harder then owning antiques from what I have heard. Demonology books are going to be expensive, whether originals from the Dark ages or whatever, or copies from those expensive books. It would be interesting to calculate how much money it would cost to fund Buffy's career as a Slayer.
So there are those reasons, as well as those within the story.
As for the Omnitrix curing the Asgard... there are many elements on how this can go. Depending on what you see the limits of the Omnitrix is. Remember most of the genetic repairs involves having a source of untainted health DNA. The Asgard is missing that.
Then again between the brains involves and magic, they could get the DNA. Or fix the clones. Or create new bodies better then either originals or clones. Everything is up in the air.
This answers the current questions, reviews and commentary. Enjoy and help constructively.
