Unsung Part 7

by Freddyfrmelmst...

Disclaimer: See part 1

Xander walked down to the kitchen where he found something rather odd sitting on
his kitchen table. A TV and VCR combo and a briefcase sat on the edge of the
table with a note on it that said "Play Me."

Xander pulled the note off the screen and pressed play much to his surprise an
image of himself appeared on the TV.

"Howdy stranger this Howser." The TV Xander smiled.

Xander blanched at this for a minute before the TV Xander started cracking up.

"I'm sorry I couldn't resist." He laughed before going serious again and in a
passable Arnold voice said "Get your ass to Mars."

Xander chuckled.

"I guess you'll be laughing as well about now. If you gonna do something like
this you should do it with some style and a bit of humor."

"I guess so." Xander commented.

"If my friend timed this right you should get this message the day after you had
your underground adventure. Listen buddy boy I know you're planning on leaving
town but there are a few things you need to do and need to know. First you
already know about your power what you need to learn is control and also not to
absorb an unstable power also if you absorb too much too soon your body shuts
down to protect itself. Meaning you go into a coma until your body fully adapts.
Second you can only copy powers that are non-mystical in nature. So don't get
any ideas that you can become a Slayer just because you get close to Buffy."

"Well that kills that fantasy." Xander grumbled.

"And third and final. Once you leave Sunnydale go to New York City." TV Xander
holds up a picture of Xander a Brunette a Blond and another guy. "You need to
find this guy his name is Peter Petrelli he is like and has the same powers as
you. You too will be great friends. He was even best man and my wedding." TV
smiles and shows a Wedding ring on his finger.

Xander opened the briefcase and yelled as a can of rubber snakes shot out.
Xander muttered as he saw the note that said gotcha ya on top of a stack of file
folders.

"I may have to rethink my sense of humor if I'm still like that after I'm
married." Xander griped as he opened the first folder.

"Marcie Ross. The Invisible girl." Xander read as he sat at the table and
began reading.

After looking over Marcie's file Xander looked at several other files and
checked the briefcase for anything else. Inside he found a stack of comics named
9th Wonders, an envelope inside he found a birth certificate, a driver's
license, a passport and social security card with his picture on them in the
name Alexander Knight. And a second set of identification with Marcie's picture
with the name Audrey Hanson

"I guess I have to make friends with a ghost." Xander smiled and he began
looking at the comics.

"Yes Sir I have the list right here." Noah Bennet told his boss.

"Adam Monroe was stopped from Escaping he is being transfer to the main prison
facility in Hartsdale. I had one of the Telepaths strip his memories of being
here just in case."

"We don't know who lead the escape because Walsh's head injury and the fact we
had no cameras in the cell block. The Lightning bug kept shorting them out. The
other three were only there for a few hours they weren't tagged yet."

"Noah I have a lead." Claude smiled as he put a photo on the table.

"I'll call you back after we checked out this new lead." Noah smiled as he hung
up the phone.

Buffy and Willow sat in the library.

"Willow I know how you feel but Xander is not normal anymore. You don't have to
like it but it's the hand he was dealt."

"But Buffy if he's special and I'm not how can we be together?"

"I don't know Willow but it doesn't mean you can't be together my first
boyfriend Pike was normal."

"Buffy I don't know that I could handle life without Xander."

"Willow I don't think that will ever be a problem. You are just a big a part of
his life as He is of yours.

"Excuse me Ms. Summers?" A voice asked.

Buffy and Willow turned to see two men in suits at the library entrance.

"Yes who's asking?"

"I'm Claude Raines. I'm an Insurance Examiner. I'm investigating the death of
Anthony Harris."

"How can I help you?" Buffy asked.

"I'm looking for Mr. Alexander Harris. I have some papers that he needs to
sign."

"That Xander has to sign?" Willow asked.

"Yes ma'am Xander was named beneficiary by his father for his Life Issuance that
he bought and the policy thru his job is in his Mother's name so I need
Alexander to sign his papers before we can pay out on both policies." Claude
smiled.

Willow nodded. "Xander is visiting his Grandparents he and his mom left
yesterday after the Ceremony."

"Do you know when they will be back?" Claude asked.

"Yes he'll be back tomorrow night." Buffy smiled.

"Thank you both very much."

Little did Claude know this was a story concocted by the Scoobies just in case
anyone came asking about him because of their attempt capture Xander.

Once Claude was outside the library he pulled out a cell phone and dialed his
partner.

"Noah it's not the kid. He left town after the little Ceremony they did I just
confirmed it from his friends and the school. So it looks like that it's wasn't
local talent that hit us."

Xander sat in his basement he was hiding from the outside world trying to get a
handle on the Powers he absorbed from the men he broke out of prison. He didn't
want to accidentally hurt someone because he couldn't control these new powers.

He had seen one man pull a spider-man by climbing a flat wall, another pulled a
Jean Grey and used Telekinesis. The one that was not much older than he was
throwing around electricity and the other two men didn't use a power so Xander
guessed he hadn't absorbed anything.

He was trying to access these powers but so far all he was able to do was get a
few sparks when he snapped his fingers.

It was quite hard to make these powers work.

Xander looked over to the stairs where a six pack of Dr. Pepper rested.
Reaching out his arm Xander focused on one of the can and tried to pull it too
him

"Nothing." Smiled Xander. It was going to take a while to learn how to do this.

Xander got up and grabbed a soda. His training wasn't going as well as he hoped
but he still needed to do it to protect himself and his friends.

Rupert Giles was unsure what to do. He knew what he was suppose to do per his
Watcher training he was suppose to report Xander's abilities to the council and
call in a team to capture him for study. But in his heart he knew he couldn't
betray the young man that saved his life.

He was torn between his duty as a Watcher and his honor as a man.

Alexander Harris was a good hearted brave and occasionally annoying young man.
And he was required to turn him over by his oath as a Watcher. But to perform
his duty he had to betray his conscious.

Giles looked around his office and down as the wounds he had sustained at
Harmony's hands.

A tear rolled down his cheek. He knew he would never betray Xander and he cursed
himself for ever considering it.

Xander moved along the halls of Sunnydale High School. He was trying to avoid
the Scoobies as well as anything else that maybe lurking in the halls of the
School.

Xander walked into the Band room. He walked over to a stand and pulled a candle
and lit it.

` What is he doing in here ?' Xander heard in his head.

Looking over his shoulder Marcie saw that he pulled a notebook out of his
jacket and flipped it open. Inside she could see names and pictures of all the
students of Sunnydale High that had been killed or disappeared since they
started.

Turning to a blank page Marcie held her breath as she saw Xander pull her
picture out of his pocket it and put it on the page. Pulling out a roll of
scotch tape and a magic marker Xander taped the picture down and wrote on the
page Marcie Ross 1980-1996 and She may not have be noticed by everyone but she
will be missed.

Marcie was in shock Xander thought she was dead someone noticed she wasn't there
someone looked for her. Someone knew she was alive.

"Marcie Ross a young woman that was invisible to many people. She deserved
better than that. I hope that where ever she is that she is in a better place
then here." Xander spoke. Turning back to the stand Xander turned to the Candle
and solemnly moved it to the band room window. "A candle to remember those whose
flame as put out too soon."

Marcie watched as Xander packed up his things. `He knows who I am and he knew I
as gone. He even had a funeral for me.' Xander picked up on these thoughts as he
got his things together.

Xander walked toward the door sparing a glance back to the candle. His future
self wrote down this little show as a way to get Marcie to begin to trust him.

Going to his Locker Marcie watched over his shoulder as put in his combination
into his lock and put his book into the locker and headed toward the library.

Xander smiled as he heard the dial on his locker spinning.

After his little service for Marcie Xander went home and to bed it had a long
day of training

Tomorrow he would be reentering Sunnydale High.

As Xander stripped down and closed his eyes he lay slowly drifted to sleep he
felt a weight on the bed and someone lay down next to him and stroke his hair.

"Thank you for noticing me." Whispered Marcie.

Xander took a chance and wrapped an arm around Marcie hoping she bought he was
asleep as pulled her close and mumbled something pinning Marcie in bed with him.

Xander felt her relax and snuggle into him.

`SOMEBODY WANTS ME.' Marcie shouted in her head as she felt warm and wanted.

Xander smiled as he drifted to sleep for real.

Note: if anyone has a Heroes character they would like to see or an original character they would like to see in this story feel free to let me know full credit will be given to the Creator.

Xander smiled as he woke up and still felt Marcie in his arms.

Marcie sighed as she felt Xander wake up.

"Hello Marcie." Xander whispered to her.

"You can see me?" Marcie Whispered.

"Yes I can and I can't tell you how glad I am to see that you're ok. I thought we lost another one to the Demons and Blood suckers around here." Xander smiled.

"You noticed me?" Marcie whispered still unable to believe that Xander noticed her and could see her.

"Marcie we've been in the same classes for four years I think it's safe to assume our paths have crossed. You always seemed to be hanging around Cordelia so it was kinda hard to get close to you." Xander smiled.

Unknown to Xander his words were preventing a major slide into mental instability for Marcie.

Noah looked over at his partner.

"Claude any thought on who our mystery intruder was?" asked Noah as he sipped his coffee.

"Well partner I was thinking it may have been a case of the Defender hitting us."

"The Defender I thought he just a myth?" Noah asked as he raised an eyebrow.

"I thought so too but this seems like one of the rare instances where it might be true. The rumor goes that he pops up now and again to protect certain kinds of people from outsiders. Kids and pacifists mainly. If there powers are non-violent or they are kids an Unknown man interferes and frees them or block the capture."

"We'll see." Noah smiled.

"Don't forget a teddy bear for Claire." Smiled Claude as he downed his coffee.

Xander walked into the High School smiling. Despite what appeared to be a major crush on him Marcie had become a friend.

Buffy and Willow smiled as Xander entered the library.

"Welcome back Xander how was your trip?" Buffy asked.

"It was alright I miss anything good?"

Willow smiled as sat next to Xander. "Just a guy from your dad's insurance company had some stuff you needed to sign."

Xander nodded. "Yeah mom went to their office this morning to take care of all that."

Buffy and Willow nodded as they stood up and dragged Xander to his feet.

"Come on Hero we have Gym first period today." Buffy smiled at Xander as he groaned.

Xander rolled his eyes as the girls dragged him to the doors. It was good to enjoy these little moments.

Larry Blasiedale was not having a good day. He decided to try and show how much better of a man he was then Xander Hero Harris by taking him out in the dodge ball game. Not only had the punk dodged his shot he caught it on the rebound and used it to knock him out of the game and he did it for ever game they played. He had gone from star Quarterback to Second String Hero to a joke in the space of less than a week.

Despite the pleasure at making the jocks that had so often tormented him Jesse and Willow look stupid, Xander was not having a good day. The video his future self told him he still had things to do in Sunnydale and he couldn't help but think something was coming around the corner and it was coming right at him.

The bell rang ending their gym period and Xander was grateful for that.

As he walked to the locker room Xander did a double take as could've sworn he just saw a man standing there with a sword strapped to his back.

The feeling of something coming at him just grew.

Xander decided that he needed to speak to Giles and fast.

Walking down to his next class Xander kept his eyes moving searching the crowds in the hall ways for the swordsman, He wasn't sure what he wanted but a guy carrying a sword in the school was often not a good thing.

And neither was English class. Xander's mind wandered as the class moved on. He sat there for 30 minutes trying to remember all the details of the Swordsman.

The remaining minutes of the class ticked away as Xander's adrenaline shot up he looked out the window and saw the Swordsman standing under a tree watching him.
"Now he thinks he's Michael Myers." Xander groaned as he waited for the bell to ring so he could get the Library.

The bell that ended the class might as well have been a starting gun. Xander bolted thru the halls heading to the library and the weapons cage.

"Giles we have a problem." Xander called as he saw the Watcher in his Office pouring a cup of tea.

"Giles did you hear me?" Xander walked over to the Brit and was shocked as he noticed the tea pouring from the kettle. It was frozen unmoving.

Backing into the book cage Xander reached into shelf and pulled out a lock box opened it and pulled out one of the pistols he had take from the base.

"Xander Harris."

Xander spun and pointed the gun at the source of the voice.

Standing ten feet in front of him stood the Swordsman.

"Who wants to know?" Xander asked.

The Swordsman smiled. "My name is Hiro Nakamura I have a message you sent from the Future."

"Then what's the password?" Xander asked.

"Come with me if you want to live." Hiro told him.

Xander lowered his gun.

"What's the message?"

Hiro smirked and placed a video tape on the counter.

"You were the first of us. You need to be the teacher. When you get to New York Find Peter. When he comes to you teach him to be what we need him to be. Peter will connect you to the others you need to be ready to teach those who will come later. Remember this Save the Cheerleader save the World. It will be important to the future."

Hiro gave a bow and then disappeared.

"Xander where did you come from?" Xander smiled as Giles stopped pouring his tea.
Xander laughed. "You wouldn't believe me if I told you."

Xander sat at the library TV he put the tape in.

"Hey partner if you're watching this then Hiro delivered the message."

Xander smiled.

"Save the Cheerleader save the World. That is a Message Hiro is going to pass on to Peter several years from now. So you have a while to go before you have to worry about that."

"So what are I am supposed to do now?" griped Xander.

"If you'll stop griping I'll tell you what you're supposed to do now. Hiro's visit gave you the ability to Freeze and bend time and space. Translation you can Teleport anywhere in Time and Space."

"You're going to have to learn control it because you going to have to do some time jumping into the future. And I know what you're thinking you can't go back and save Jesse. If you do it will cost you the lives of both Buffy and Willow. I tried many times to save them all. You can't you can save Jesse or the girls that's the choice you have to make and as much as I needed Jesse the world needs Buffy and Willow more."

Xander looked at the screen with a great rage. All these powers and he couldn't save his best friend.

Xander saw a flash before his eyes and looked down and saw Electricity arcing between his hands.

On the TV Xander gave an ashamed look to the camera.

"I'm sorry to drag up that hurt Xander but you needed to feel that rage to get the powers to trigger. You need to learn how they work and how to use them."

Xander took a few deep breaths to control himself so he didn't accidentally fry someone or something with this power.

"Xander?" Xander looked over at the door and saw Giles was looking at him wide eyed as Electricity arced in his hands.

"Let me guess you saw everything?" Xander asked as Giles only nodded.

"Take a seat Giles I'll explain everything."

Buffy sighed as she squeezed Mr. Gordo. Ever since that night when they fought Harmony she couldn't help but think back to what had happened between her and Xander. Pretending to be his girlfriend for the Cops and that kiss in Giles office. That kiss she sighed again she hadn't has a kiss like that since Pike and when she kissed Xander she could feel the heat between them.

"Honey?" Joyce called as she opened the door.

"Hi mom."

"What's wrong Buffy?"

"I'm having a dilemma."

"Oh?"

"I kissed Xander the other night during that thing with the gang. And I can't stop thinking about it. I'm attracted to him I think. But I don't want to hurt Willow because she's been in Love with him since she was 5 years old. Also I thought I was falling for another guy. In short I'm confoozled."

Joyce gave her daughter a small smile when Buffy said she was confoozled it was her way of asking for advice without asking.

Joyce sat on the edge of the bed and looked at her Daughter. "Buffy Xander has been thru a lot lately. His father getting killed, His mom kidnapped, that whole thing at the Zoo it's a lot to happen in just a few days so I suggest you wait a bit until things settle down then you sit down with Willow and talk things out then talk to Xander about your feelings."

Marcie smiled as watched Xander acting lick a Jacobs Ladder letting electricity arc between his hands.

"Well at least you'll never need a bug zapper." Marcie laughed.

"Oh hardy hardy har." Gripped Xander as he gave her a look.

"Just trying to find a silver lining for you Xander.

Xander closed his hands

"I know Marcie it's just you know that we have to leave Sunnydale soon and quite frankly I'm more than a little Scared."
"I can understand that Xan"

Just as Xander was about to respond the TV turned on.

"Hey Xander this is yourself."

Xander winced this was getting annoying.

"I know this is getting annoying that's why this is the Last time you're going to hear from me bro. Tomorrow evening the Master the Head Vampire in Sunnydale and the oldest living Vampire in the World will send a group of three Vampires after Buffy and Darla his favorite Childe will also come after her. You have to kill them all. After which you have to leave Sunnydale. There are some events that you'll have to time travel to fix later but right now you gotta go before Pinehurst or the Company finds you."

Xander nodded it was time to go the final act was about to start.

"So this is Xander Harris signing off and I leave you with this one last piece of advice. Watch your back." The Tape wound down and ended.

"Xander what does this mean?" asked Marcie"

It means Marcie that tomorrow is my last day in Sunnydale