Unsung Part 4
Disclaimer: See Part 1
Xander walked thru the town a look of determination on his face. After the cops left his house Willow called with a lead. The Zoo Keeper at the Sunnydale Zoo had been the one to bring the Hyenas to Sunnydale also he according to Willow had been buy magical ritual items at the Magic Box the Local Occult shop.
Xander and Buffy were on their way to pay him a little visit. As they reached his office door Xander could hear someone chanting.
Finding the door locked Xander stepped aside as Buffy kicked the door in.
The pair were shocked when they found the Zoo Keeper or what remained of him on the office floor it seemed the Pack had been here and they had been hungry.
Buffy looked at the sight in horror the Man had been eaten alive.
"Well that's a dead end." Xander spoke as he took a step to the right avoiding the Slayer elbow that came flying at him.
"That's bad even for you Xander." Gripped Buffy.
"It helps break the tension." Xander told her as he started looking around the office of any information on how to stop the Pack. Pressing stop on the cassette recorder that the chanting was coming from Xander picked up a book and began skimming it.
Buffy could only stare at the bloody remains in front of her.
"Eureka." Smiled Xander.
"What did you find Xan?" Buffy asked moving around the gore of the Zoo Keeper.
Xander smiled as he held up a book.
"The Idiot's Guide to Magic" Buffy read as she rolled her eyes. Xander smiled as he went back to searching the office for anything of use.
"Xander I think I got something." Buffy said as she passed a book over to him.
Xander looked over and found what looked to be a spell diagram.
"Let get this back to Willow she can work this out." Smiled Buffy as she closed the book.
Xander and Buffy returned to the library. Books in hand.
Willow enveloped Xander in a hug as he walked in.
"I'm so sorry Xander." Willow whispered having heard about his parents.
Xander accepted the hug and held Willow for a minute.
"Thanks Wills."
"We need your help Willow. This note book has the spell that put the Hyena Spirits into Harmony and the others. We need to find a way to reverse it." Buffy told her as she watched Willow try and squeeze Xander as hard as she could.
Willow let go of Xander and took the book.
"I'll get started." Willow told them as she headed into the book cage.
Xander glanced at his watch. "No Pressure Wills but Harmony wants to meet on the roof in 4 hrs so we need something soon."
Willow nodded and began pulling books from the shelves.
Buffy followed her into the cage and began preparing weapons.
Xander walked over to Giles office.
Xander opened the bottom draw to Giles desk and pulled out a small strong box.
Opening the box Xander pulled out a pistol that Giles had shown him once. It had belonged to an American Soldier that saved his Father's life during World War II.
Xander carefully loaded the gun and tucked into the waistband of his pants letting his shirt cover it.
"Xander you Ok?" Buffy asked as she walked up to the office.
"Yeah Buff just taking a minute. My Dad is dead my Mom has been Kidnapped and it's taking every bit of Control I have not to running thru this town to find her." Xander lied.
Buffy walked up and hugged him. "I get that if anyone hurt my mom I'd want to find them too." Buffy whispered
Buffy looked up into Xander's eyes and saw something she never saw there before a fire and a hardness that was very attractive to her and the Slayer spirit in her.
"Thank you Buffy." He whispered as Buffy leaned up and softly kissed him.
The pair stood there for a moment as they both deepened the kiss.
"Guys I found something." Shouted Willow.
The pair broke apart with a start Buffy walked out with word but a blush growing on her face.
Xander just rolled his eyes. "You have a warped sense of humor you know that." He spoke toward the heavens.
Xander walked out after Buffy and found Willow at the main table on her laptop.
"What do we have Willow?" Xander asked his eyes avoiding Buffy.
Willow smiled at him. "While normally people who are joined with primal spirits can't be separated except by combat. Since they were unknowingly joined we can use a potion to separate them. All we need is a few things from the local magic shop the science lab and the cafeteria and we can make enough to free most of the Pack the downside is the Alpha still has to be beaten in combat after the potion hits her."
"So I have to fight Harmony?" Buffy smiled.
Xander smiled. "Let's go shopping."
With an hour to go before the meeting the Scoobies stood in Xander's Kitchen Mixing up the potion that would remove the pack from the fight and bring this fight down to a one on one.
Buffy smiled at Xander as he mixed a bowl of salt into her mixture of silver nitrate eye of newt and skin of boomslang.
Willow bottle the potion in several vials so they could hit the Pack with the potion and eliminate most of the threat.
Xander moved to the den and grabbed a bandoleer his Dad used for hunting and loaded the potions into as well as grabbing a hunting knife.
"Let's go we need to get my Mother back." Xander growled.
The Scoobies stood at the Entrance to the School.
"Buffy you and Willow go to the Library and go to the roof thru the fire escape in the back I'm gonna go thru the front like they want." Xander told her firmly.
"Xander you can't be serious." Willow whispered.
"As a Heart Attack Willow. I need you two to get my mom out of here and to safety. Will deal with the Pack long enough for Buffy to get back here and kick Harmony's ass."
Buffy snarled as she hated the fact Xander was right but she understood after all it was his Mother on the line.
"He's right Willow he has to go up alone." She told Willow.
"I'll be fine Willow I promise." Xander told her softly before he started toward the main stair case and the roof access.
Buffy and Willow made their way to the Library.
Once he saw that they were on their way Xander stopped and closed his eyes.
"Yo Alpha any insight you care to give?"
"Don't trust what you see if you only see one then they are all there be ready for an ambush. I'll watch your back." The Alpha smiled.
Xander opened his eyes and felt a tingle in the back of his head which he could tell was the Hyena.
Xander made his way to the roof slowly checking for any hint of attack.
Reaching the roof door Xander kicked it open loudly announcing his arrival.
"HARMONY." He yelled.
Across the roof out of the shadows stepped out Harmony.
"Hello Lover glad you decided to join me." Smile Harmony.
"Harmony I wouldn't fuck you with a stolen dick." Xander told her firmly.
Harmony snarled and charged him.
Xander smiled as the world turned blue and the gold graphics entered his vision.
His ability was kicking in as he had planned.
Xander scanned all the remaining members of the pack waiting in the shadows, the lay out of the roof the potion vials he carried his knife and the gun in his waist band.
The graphics swirled and highlighted what he needed and a plan formed.
Xander smiled it was time to act. Breaking into a run Xander ducked and slide under Harmony as she flew threw to the air. Drawing two vials Xander flung them thru the slamming them in a wall where they shatter the potion hitting 2 of the pack. Sending them screaming to the ground as the primal spirit were pulled from their bodies and sent back to the spirit world.
'Two down, now where's mom' Thought Xander.
"Xander we got her." Yelled Buffy as looked over and saw Buffy and Willow pulling his mom out of a storage locker near the fire escape.
Xander nodded and rolled as Harmony and Tor the last member of the pack tried to stomp him.
Pulling another vial Xander jumped up slamming the vial into Tor's head. Sending the Hyena spirit to the spirit world and Tor crumbling to the ground.
Xander spun around only to catch Harmony's fist in his jaw. Looking up Xander saw her eyes were glowing green.
"You Destroyed my Pack." The Hyena spirit causing her voice to reverberate.
"Oh Shit." Groaned Xander
"Heads up Bitch." Yelled Buffy as she steamrolled Harmony.
Xander groaned as he pulled the knife from his boot.
The Graphics began appearing again a new plan formed as Harmony slammed Buffy into a wall and began choking her.
"I smell him on you Bitch he is my mate." Snarled Harmony as she used her Hyena strength to try and crush Buffy's throat.
Yanking the Bandoleer from under his jacket Xander flung it into the air pulling out Giles gun Xander shot the vials of potion causing the potion to rain down on Harmony and Buffy.
"Grr." Growled Harmony as the Alpha spirit felt part of its link to the host break.
Buffy slumped to the ground as Harmony turned her attention to Xander.
Xander pulled the knife up and threw it right at Harmony as hard as he could. The knife flipped end over end until the butt of the knife slammed into her head knocking her cold.
"Holy shit." Coughed Buffy as she stood up.
"I know I amazed that worked." Xander told her.
The sound of police cars shattered the quiet moment.
"Cops?" asked Buffy.
"After dark?" asked Xander.
"What the hell?" both asked? The part walked over to the edge of the roof to see the grouping of squad cars pulling up to the school as Willow and his mother waved sheepishly from the group looking up him.
Unsung part 5
By
Disclaimer: See part 1
Xander rolled eyes as Detective Stern and the Mayor presented him to the key to Sunnydale.
He never really went in for this kind of public thank you because it seemed wrong.
He didn't start helping people for the thanks he did it because it was the right thing do.
Mrs. Summers sat snapping pictures of the ceremony as Buffy and Willow sat next to her acting as nurses to Giles whose gaze said one thing to Xander. 'GET ME THE HELL OUT OF HERE.'
As the ceremony end Xander smiled. He was free.
Or so he thought. Maury Parkman and his partner sat in a van just down the street following him to grab Xander for tagging and tracking but also for Maury to plan a hidden command in his brain that would lead him to Arthur Petrelli and Pinehurst when the time was right.
Xander's mental musing were cut short when he felt something tingle in the back of his head almost as if he was being watched.
The Van sped up and screeched to a halt as the door swung open and Xander's head filled with static as if there was a speaker feedback in his head. His eyes barely open Xander saw a man much older than him grabbing his head in pain.
Xander blinked and found him in his mindscape.
Looking around Xander looked around and saw his mindscape looked like a T.V. on the blink.
"I haven't felt this bad since the last time I watched Videodrome." Mumbled Xander as he looked as the black and white snow that filed his mind.
"It seems that someone is trying to enter your mind pup." The hyena told him before it appeared to Vanish into the snow which faded away leaving Xander standing in a mental construction of the Library.
A few minutes later a bloody and mauled man came flying thru the doors to the library looking as if he had been worked over by a wood chipper.
The doors flew open a second in came the hyena and it appeared to be dragging a wagon loaded with file boxes.
"What the hell is this?" asked Xander.
The Hyena cackled. "All the useful information this telepath had. He also will allow me to leave you pup so be good I won't be around to help you again." The Hyena smirked at him then grabbed the telepath and dragged him back out the doors.
Xander blinked and was back on the Sunnydale Street just in time to see the van next to him speed off.
"WHAT IN THE HELL WAS THAT?" Xander yelled wondering what the hell had just happened to him.
Xander walked toward his home and his bed so he could lay down and try and figure out what was going on.
As Xander walked down the street he saw Mrs. Sarah Chase walking towards him towards the sports car just past him.
As she walked past him Xander heard her voice in head in his head. "I would so love to blow him."
Xander froze as she kept walking past when her voice entered his head again. "Alright he noticed me. I wonder if I could get him into a threesome with Aurora sometime." She giggled as she walked off.
Xander shook his head. 'No way no freaking wayI just heard that. I need to go home and lay down this is too much stress I'm hearing things.'
Once Xander reached his house he headed straight to bed. He needed to sleep finding out he had a super power then dealing with Harmony and the Pack
Xander's Body slept his mind was active going over the files the Hyena had left him.
"I don't fucking believe it." Xander yelled as he read the file this Murray Parkman had showed him the truth about his past. 1. He was adopted 2. He was some rich guy's science experiment and 3. And most importantly of all he didn't have one Power he was given the ability to copy any power he came into contact with.
Xander began tearing thru the box of Files in his mindscape to find some way of disproving what he just read. He wasn't some lab rat he was a human being.
"Bingo." Xander smirked as he found a file about a supposed hidden lab and jail under Sunnydale College. Once he saw there was no secret lab he could believe that all the files were a lie left by the Hyena to screw with him as payback for trapping him. Because the files couldn't be real they just couldn't.
Xander's eyes opened as he stared as the alarm clock on the night stand. 4pm he still had a few hours before Sundown and meeting the Scoobies at the library. He wanted to know. No he needed to know the truth.
The Sun headed toward the pacific as Xander walked thru the Commons of Sunnydale University heading for the building under construction.
Here he would discover whether or not he was a freak created in a lab or some fluke of evolution.
Tracing a pattern into the mortar of a brick wall Xander's hopes of a normal existence was dashed as an iron grate slid away and showed a spiral stairway that descended into the underground.
Xander growled as he realized the Hyena told him the truth. He was a walking talking Lab Rat.
Xander walked down the stairs moving slowly hiding in the shadows.
The Stairwell opened to a staging area. Xander felt a biting pain in his neck and his world turned black.
Xander woke up in a office on a couch. Keeping his eyes closed Xander listened to a female voice talking.
"He is here he entered the emergency entrance with Parkman's access. I want him prepped for marking and how long to get the Haitian here to wipe him."
Xander opened his eyes just enough to see a stun gun on the table.
"I'll have him wrapped and ready. Goodbye Arthur." Smiled Walsh and she hung up the phone.
Dr. Maggie Walsh turned back to the unmoving Xander. "You'll be quite a challenge Alexander."
"More then you know. "Xander's eyes snapped open and he jammed the stolen Stun gun in Dr. Walsh. Climbing off the couch Xander looked over the Dr. Stunned Body and began checking her pockets.
Pulling out a key card and wallet Xander opened the office door and went into hall.
Xander moved quietly thru the halls of the base Xander smiled as saw a map of the base on the wall.
Making his way thru the base Xander entered the room marked Agent Supply.
Xander smiled as he saw what was in the room.
Unsung part 6
By
Disclaimer: I don't own Buffy or Heroes they belong to people in a higher tax bracket then I
Xander straightened the tie he put on as he slipped his stolen duffel bag over his shoulder. The bag loaded with a pair of laptops several guns and grenades and all the cash it would hold.
He was now armed he just needed a way out of here assuming he was still in Sunnydale.
'I really can't believe I got stuck feeding the freaks. Just cause I beat Parkman at darts' gripped someone mentally as he walked passed the storage room pushing a cart of something the wheels squeaking as he went down the hall.
Xander froze. 'Freaks maybe others like me?' Xander thought as quietly opened the door and followed the man as quickly as he could listening for the squeak.
Xander's face was set in stone as he moved thru the hallways trying to look like he belonged there and trying to avoid eye contact with anyone.
Stopping just before a bend in the hallway Xander froze the squeak stopped.
"Ok freaks feeding time at the Zoo." Growled out the man with the cart.
Xander watched as he man swiped a key card into a reader and opened a heavy steal door.
Pushing the cart in Xander ran to the door sliding in behind the man.
"Come on freaks time for din din." Laughed the man.
"Come on Asshole nap time." Smiled Xander as he cold cocked the man with his stolen gun.
"Who are you?" asked a blonde man who was in the cell in front of him.
"Harry Houdini and you are?" asked Xander.
The man stuck his hand out the door. "I'm Adam. Adam Monroe." Xander smiled and shook Adam's hand.
"I'll have you out of there in a minute Adam. Do you know how many others are in this prison?"
"I think that there are 5 of us in here total." Adam answered as Xander was searching for keys in the pockets of the man he knocked out.
"Hey what's going on over there?" came a voice from another cell.
"A jailbreak Samson." Yelled Adam.
Xander smiled as he came up with the keys and unlocked Adam's cell.
"That was easy." Smiled Adam as the door swung open.
"Half of everything is luck Adam." Smiled Xander.
"And the other half Harry?" asked Adam and he reached down and pulled the downed agent's weapon from his holster.
An alarmed sound.
"Fate." Xander answered. "Cover the door Adam." Xander moved thru the prison unlocking the cells freeing the other 4 prisoners.
"Adam time to go." Xander yelled. Adam nodded and opened the Door to the prison wing and motioned for the others to follow.
Xander covered the rear as the group moved into the halls. Grabbing the duffel as they left the prison.
"Freeze." Yelled a voice up ahead as shotgun sounded and Adam was throw against wall. The lower part of his gut hitting the wall ahead of him as he took the full brunt of the blast.
Xander growled at the sight of Adam's body.
"Allow me." Samson snarled as he looked at Adam's body and the body flew thru the air hitting the men with the shotguns. "Run" Samson yelled as he followed Adam's body stopping only to grab a shotgun from the fallen Agents.
Xander ran hustling the other down the hall till them came to an elevator. Xander looked at the elevator.
"Can you open those doors?" He asked Samson.
"Easy." Samson told him as he made a gesture with his hands and the doors slammed open.
"Go for the Ladder and start climbing boys." Xander told the escapees who didn't need to be told twice.
Samson first up the ladder followed by a young man about 20 and a middle eastern man and lastly by a man who just smiled at Xander before jumping onto the wall itself and climbing up the smooth surface.
"Who brought Spider-man mused Xander as he started climbing the ladder.
The group climbed for there lives as they heard alarms going off and the shouting of the people trying to find them.
"Look out." yelled the Spider as an Elevator car came moving up the shift fast.
The group flattened themselves against the wall as the car flew past them.
"Get moving they will know where we went rather quickly so we need to get moving." The Middle Eastern man told them.
Xander nodded and the sound of yelling from down the shaft convinced them that moving was the right move.
"I can see the top of the shaft." Samson yelled as he picked up the pace.
"Fuck against the wall the car is coming back down." Yelled the Spider.
The car dropped down the shaft and stopped at the level they entered the shaft in.
"I think they know where we are." The young man said as the doors across from them slid open and a group of agents stood there with weapons drawn.
"Hi we'll get the next one." the young man smiled. As he threw out his hand and sent arcs of electricity at the agents electrocuting them thru there guns.
"Haul ass fellas." Xander yelled.
Samson reached the top of the shaft and began trying to force open a hatch on the top of the shaft.
"I need some help here." Samson yelled.
The Spider jumped on the ceiling and laid his back on the ceiling and used his feet to stomp the hatch as Samson used his telekinetic power to force the hatch open.
The hatch groaned as finally gave way under the combined assault and slowly opened.
The Spider scrambled thru the opening first follow quickly by the other escapees. Xander followed last and found himself in the faculty parking garage on the Sunnydale campus.
"Now what?" asked the young Lightning rod.
"Now we run dumb ass." Samson told him told him as he started running.
The others just nodded and took off in different directions.
Xander took off for Sunnydale high and his friends.
Willow paced the library she and the others had been worried when Xander didn't show up earlier.
For the past six hours Buffy had been working her way thru Sunnydale looking for him.
The doors burst open and Xander ran in to find himself enveloped in a hug by Willow.
"Xander." Willow yelled as she tried to squeeze the life out of him.
Giles came running out of his office at Willow's yell.
"Xander where have you been? We've been worried sick." Giles asked.
Xander smiled as he helped Willow back on to the ground and dropped his duffel bag moved to a chair and sat down.
"I've had a day you wouldn't believe." Xander told them as they sat down at the table with him.
"What happen Xander and what's with the suit?" asked Buffy as she came into the library.
Xander looked up at Buffy and lifted his duffel on to the table.
"After the ceremony this morning I had a strange encounter with a man who seemed to read minds and when he tried to read my mind. I copied his power. It seems there is a group that monitors people with super human abilities. They have been watching me. I also learned that my ability is to copy the powers of others like me. So not only do I see probabilities I can hear thought." Xander explained.
"Ok but what's with the suit?" asked Willow.
"I stole it to escape from the people watching me along with a bunch of there stuff in case I have to run." Xander told them firmly.
"What did you steal?" Giles asked .
Xander opened the duffel bag and began setting his stole items onto the table.
Xander's swag
7 Company Pistols
1 Shoulder Holster
6 Flash Bang Grenades
2 Company Laptops
500,000 Dollars in 100, 50 and 20 Dollar denominations
Three Prepared False Identity packs (Driver's Licenses, Passports, Social Security cards and pre-paid credit cards, Just add Photos.)
And One Black Suit
"Good Lord." Giles Exclaimed as he saw what Xander had taken from the base.
Buffy and Willow both went non-verbal at they watched Xander stack the cash on the table.
"In case I need to go on the lam I am set." Xander smiled enjoying the look on the girls faces.
Xander began packing his swag back into the bag.
"Xander what are you going to do with that bag?" asked Giles.
"I'm going to bury it some place I know and leave it there just incase I ever need it. I don't want to attraction of the group that was watching me.
"Smart move." Giles smiled as Xander finished loading the bag.
"Look I've got to check in with Mom and hid this bag so I will see you all tomorrow morning." Xander smiled as he pulled the duffel over his shoulder.
Xander walked over to where the girls sat and gave each a kiss on the cheek and walked out of the library.
Xander smiled as he got home to his own bed. The Suit was now hung up in his closest and the back was in the garage under the floor in a old crawl space that used to hold his grandfather's gun safe before he moved to Montana and sold the house to his parents.
Now his only problem was that both of these so-called companies Primatech and Pinehurst knew about him. He needed to disappear and soon before his public profile dropped back to normal and they could grab him without anyone noticing.
Xander closed his eyes and drifted to sleep tomorrow he would begin to set up his escape from Sunnydale. He needed to be somewhere away from Buffy and Willow lest they get dragged into whatever he what now hip deep in.
As the Sun rose the next Day Xander found himself waking up.
Today began a new Chapter in his life and if he was right it would be the final chapter in Sunnydale.