Déjà Vu All Over Again…
Chapter 003 – Ironing out the Facts…
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Xander, instead of going as a soldier, takes a different route. Now, he is trapped, stuck repeating the day over and over again. The day in question; Halloween, the same day the Ethan Rayne comes to Sunnydale. The path in question; Phil Conners, a certain weatherman. Now, watch as Xander tries to fix what has happened, using methods and meeting people good, bad, and funny.
Continuation of Chapters 11 & 12.
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After spending ten minutes staring at his ceiling, mind running several million miles an hour, Xander slowly slid out of bed, robotically doing his usually routine. After only what felt like five minutes, Xander felt someone tapping him on his shoulder. Turning his head fast enough that he was surprised that he didn't get whiplash, he was amazed to find himself inside the school library, Buffy and Willow standing in front of him, along with Giles.
"Xander, finally!" Buffy exclaimed. "I've been trying to get your attention for the past ten minutes! What are you, deaf? Anyway, are you still up to going to that new Halloween shop later?"
Xander slowly blinked before turning his head to look at the Blonde Slayer. "Halloween…Halloween's today?"
Buffy scrunched up her face in a questioning manner. "What the hell Xander, don't you remember the day? It's October Thirty-First, All Hallows Eve, the day when we get candy!"
"…Wasn't Halloween yesterday?" Xander said, confused, before rubbing his eyes confusedly. "Never mind, it must have just been a dream…sure, I'm coming."
After a few hours of school, in which he and the rest of the gang were pressed into service by Snyder to guide Trick-or-Treaters on their journey, and he was almost forced into an encounter a fight (an one-sided fight, but a fight none the less), but he was able to avoid it with his eerie Déjà Vu-like future sight which was making him start to think the "dream" he had wasn't so much of a dream and more like a prophecy.
When he got to Ethan's with the girls of the Scooby Gang, he immediately passed up the barrel full of extras he has seen in what he was calling "Groundhogween", or GHW. He also made sure to stick to the opposite side when he got to the isle holding the toys Fawkes the stuffed phoenix and Phil Jr. the stuffed groundhog. However, when he looked up, he saw that, unlike his GHW world dream, the toys weren't up there.
After he had chosen a non-possible GHW initiating costume, he took it up to Ethan, who he made sure to be wary around, just in case, and proceeded to go home and get dressed. "Well," he muttered to himself as he made sure the costume was on correctly, "At least if that dreamy vision thing turns out to be true and the world does go to hell in a hand basket, I'll be more-or-less safe…"
After that, he proceeded to head over to the Summers household, where the eldest summers got a look at his first (since, in a way, it was the first costume) costume for the Halloween night. Afterwards, he and the Summers sisters, along with Willow, headed over to the high school. As Xander walked along, he glanced over at Dawn; somehow, he had changed the present-like timeline-ish situation to the point where she had changed her costume from Resident Evil's Alice to Hermione Granger, if he guessed correctly anyway.
What followed afterwards was the same as last time, in a way; somewhere around Eleven P.M., Xander could feel something approaching. As quickly as he could, he pulled a note out of his pocket, just in time for the wave of chaos energy to hit Sunnydale. However, this time, it was different. Instead of building energy and power as it traveled around the world, it was reversed; infinite power, at least as close as it can get in our world without disintegrating everything around it anyway, exploded out of the store known as Ethan's, losing power as it traveled the world, only absorbing enough residual energy to maintain itself and everyone into their costume, if only for a short amount of time.
While chaos rapidly spread around the world, the person possessing Alexander Lavelle Harris climbed back up after being knocked over by the blast. Before he could do anything other than look around in confusion, he noticed the note in his hand. "Well," the body of Xander said scratching his head while unfolding the note "perhaps this will explain why I'm waking up out here in a mysterious place and not waking up in bed with that blonde hottie, and who to gut for said situation."
Dear Chuck (Let's see how you like it),
If it turns out I am right, then tonight the town of Sunnydale, and the rest of the world at that, are going to be turned into their costumes by an unknown event. Yes, I did say costume. I don't know whether or not you are a fictional being given life by the event, or if your place were all real, that there were just some people, gifted people, that could somehow 'see' your world, and that in reality the author of your tales here were just acting as those that would chronicle these places, that what they saw was just to fantastic to stayed bottled up. I would explain more, but if I'm right, than I shouldn't take up too much of your time reading this. I do not know about the worlds, but one thing I DO know is that if you don't help, I will die, and because of this situation, you will too. To summarize, James Howlett Logan, or to prove I know at least a bit about you, Wolverine A.K.A Experiment X of Project X, please help a teen and his town hold some semblance of hope for at least a while.
From, Alexander "Xander" Harris
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Hey all, its me! I know this is a bit late, but it wouldn't upload yesterday, so…here it is now. And…uuhhh…yeah. Chapter Four shall be out hopefully today as well, but it may be a day late as well.
Oh, and if you see any typos, flaws, or just any parts where the story doesn't match up, let me know, be it by PM or Review. I don't remember which can be blocked against anonymous messages, but I made it so it's open so no-members/ unlogged people can still let me know.