Déjà Vu All Over Again…

Chapter 004 – Rinse and Repeat…

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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, & 13.

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Xander stared at the ceiling, eyes glazed while his mind went hundreds of miles per hour. October 31st was visiting him once again. However, instead of the year later, it was the same year over and over again. The first time around, he went as Phil Conners from one of his favorite movies. In that time around, the world ended in a fate worse than Hell.

The second time around, he had thought the experience was just a vision, a glimpse of the future for some reason gifted to him. With the "future" granted to him, he decided to go as Wolverine from the X-Men, so that if the Hellworld once again came into being, he would be able to ride it out. That time, it went differently.

For some reason, the first time around, the "Halloween Wave" gained power, snowballing into an effect that wouldn't and couldn't be stopped. However, that time, it went in reverse. From what he could tell, it had left the storefront used by the warlock Ethan Rayne at nearby at nearly the same power as when it encountered the stretch of ocean south-east of Madagasgar. The location was on the opposite side of the world, from which the event started, so the power of the event was, with how it was multiplying, nearly-infinite.

The power somehow crossed with him, but lost power, ending with almost nothing at the same exact place where it ended the previous time. However, somehow, instead of him somehow "falling" back in time via sleep, he died and came back. Xander didn't know how, as a result of the fact that Wolverine had advanced regeneration; a rate of healing so powerful it was thought that decapitation was the only way to kill him. On top of that, his adamantium-covered skeleton was something that would slow down any attempts to end his life.

"So…" Xander muttered to himself, "how did I die with him…?"

Something had killed him about ten minutes, something that had moved so fast, that he had only seen it was coming half a second before it hit him. With that, he had woken into his third day of Halloween. With that, he had been stunned. He had spent the following two "replays" investigating whatever the hell had happened to him. Those days had been spent in solidarity, and he had believed that he had found something that could possibly explain the Clusterfuck of a situation.

Phil Conners. The reporter who had been the main character in the movie Groundhog Day, a film whose plot was based around the idea that said reporter was trapped inside a "time loop", an event where a certain amount of time would "replay" itself, ranging from a day, to an entire lifetime. From what was happening, he was guessing in the district of a day to three, but it could be anytime within a week. Now, on his fifth day (the first being the Phil Day, the Second the Wolverine day, and the last two being research days), he had no idea on what to do.

Should he try and replay Halloween again? Should he try and see if Giles or the others had any ideas? What should he do? After about ten minutes, he got out of bed, took a long, hot shower, and brushed his teeth. "Ow!" He yelped. He had accidently cut himself on the side of his arm; about three inches long, not too wide and very shallow. "Ugh, it'll fade…gotta get to school, I'll figure out what to do on the way…"

As he walked out the door, he didn't notice the scratch on his arm slightly sizzling, before slowly closing up…