[Note from Author : If you're curious about Ash's rendition of events, I'm using the Regeneration time line for this story]

Ash sat, spread out over Giles' sofa, his Chainsaw hanging down the side, and his shotgun resting beside him.

"So let me get this straight" he said "you fight vampires ... huge bags of ugly with bad teeth and a blood complex, using stakes, maces, crossbows, and other medieval warfare paraphernalia from the blood ages, and you call ME extravagant?"

Giles looked over to him "well ... yes I suppose when you put it that way, my collection of weaponry does make your chainsaw and shotgun seem insignificant, it just seems so ... brutish"

Ash rolled his eyes "and of course, vampires require only the finest most refined form of slaying, huh? Gimme a break".

He looked over the room to Buffy, who was standing with her back to the wall

"I suppose its to be expected when your slayer is such a pretty young thing. Hey baby, ever heard of heavy weaponry? Or would it break a nail?"

Buffy growled at him "for your information, I am the slayer!"

Ash opened his eyes wide in mock fascination. "ohhhh, I had no idea you'd got a TITLE, that makes EVERYTHING better. Listen up, toots, I've been through hell and back, fighting zombies in more places than you've ever dreamed of. I think I know a bit more about it than you"

Buffy went to say something, but Giles stepped in "Listen, I know you have ... different thoughts on what makes a slayer, but now that you're here I suggest you get on with it!"

Buffy sighed and nodded slightly, while Ash got up and walked over to her

"The old man is right, why should we be fighting when we should work together!"

he threw his arm around her back and pulled her close

"Gimme some sugar, baby!" he said, winking to her

Buffy growled and gave him a punch to the face. Ash stepped backwards, knocked back, a look of shock on his face.

"Hey!!! what did I do?"

the door opened, and Spike ran inside, holding the regular blanket over his head to protect himself from the rays of the sun.

"Hey there ... Thought I should just let you know that ... " and then his eyes landed on Ash ... who turned to stare at him, leapt from the sofa, and ran to him boomstick in hand. He pushed the gun against Spike's chest as Buffy pushed him away

"Leave him alone! He's a friend!"

Ash sighed "Great, I might have known. The first nasty that I see here and I can't kill him because he's a "friend". Maybe I'm missing the meaning of the word "slaying" here".

Spike sighed "who the bloody hell is this?"

Giles looked up "Oh, this is Ashley Williams. He's a zombie hunter from another dimension it seems"

Ash looked up at him, annoyed by the monotonous way he said it

"Sure!" he shouted "say it like its normal, and the name's ASH!"

Giles turned "well this is all we know at the moment. If you'd care to enlighten us with why you're here then go ahead, we would enjoy hearing it"

Ash smirked "Alrite. It all started with a book ... the book, The Necronomicon Exmortis, Roughly translated, ..."
"The book of the Dead, yes, I know of it" Giles butted in
"Not heard of that book for many years now, thought it was a myth" Spike said, curiously

"ERM! Do ya mind? I WAS telling the story here!" Ash shouted angrilly.

"The book likes to disappear, taking all those around it into new and strange places. First I found it at a cabin in the woods, where it killed off the ones that I held close to me one by one. I was found, and they threw me in an insane asylum. I mean come on, who'd believe a nut-job surrounded by the corpses of his friends with a CHAINSAW attached to his arm when he tells ya it was the deadites that did it? Anyway I thought it was over, but then they came back, and as usual, I was the one who had to save the day. Once that was over I thought I could finally rest, but no, they decided another portal was needed, and so here I am, right next to you, and annoyed out of my skull!"

He sighed to himself, when they heard a noise outside, and then another, and then a crash as something was knocked over. Ash gulped, he didn't know what was out there, but he had a fairly good idea.

The team (minus Spike. It was getting late but the sun hadn't completely gone down yet) went to see what was going on, and who was lurking around outside. They could hear a strange voice muttering to itself. Ash listened carefully

"Oh no!"

"what is it?" Buffy asked

"Oh god no, not him, anyone but him!"

Then from nowhere, a small creature leapt out of the shadows "ASH!"

Buffy quickly pulled out a stake, impaled the thing's heart, and it exploded

"there, no more , what was that thing, a nemesis?"

Ash looked around, searching for something "Not as such"

"Then what is it?" Buffy asked, before having her attention pulled away.

There was a noise like electricity, and they turned to see the small creature appearing from the ground. He was ... a small human, with one side of him zombified

"Ey! What did'ja do DAT for, HUH?" he shouted

Ash slapped his forehead with his hand

"... The sidekick"