Chapter 4

TITLE: The Power of XION
AUTHOR: Methos if ya want to host it somewhere else just tell me where ya putting it ok? ;)
DISCLAIMER: All things BtVS belong to Joss Whedon, Green Lantern, ION, Batgirl and any other mentions of DC characters belong to DC Comics ok? I own nothing ;)
SUMMARY: On Halloween Ethan's little costume stunt may have changed the future more that he know. and created something completely new in this dimension.
FEEDBACK: love it :) my first fanfic and so many reviews already :) more please lol
RELATIONSHIPS: None as yes, copious amounts of flirting yes but no relationships planned.
RATING: FR18
SPOILERS: Anything from the Halloween episode onwards. I plan on taking the story through to the bitter end of Buffy. Changing a few things along the way of course ;)


"Well Mr. ION." Giles started

"Please just ION."

"I can guess from your... abilities? Powers... yes powers that you're used to strange situations?" Giles lent forward. It was quite a strange experience for him. Sitting across from him was Xander. But he was displaying powers that even with his amount of knowledge couldn't classify.

"Well you could say that Mr. Giles," ION smirked at a personal joke. Having personally witness someone trying to restart the big bang or fighting super villains that could use sound or magnetism to their advantage was a usual day for him. Not to mention the fact that he was now pretty much omnipotent. He could exist in multiple segments of time and space at the same time and retail complete control over the environment he was in. "yes. I believe I can adapt to anything you tell me."

"Well, we should start at the beginning then. May I ask what you look like?"

ION was a bit taken aback by this question. He knew with his mask on it covered a bit of his face but not that much. Surely he could get a general idea of what he looked like.

"Allow me to explain," Giles started standing up from his chair and moving over to his office. "I believe that you are not in your universe anymore. Well I believe it would be easier to show you." Giles came back out of his office holding a small hand held mirror that Jenny had left there the previous day.

Passing the mirror to ION Giles again sat down in the 'chair', examining it in closer detail.

ION picked up the mirror and stared into it. Suddenly both the chairs disappeared.

Giles found himself laying flat on the floor whilst ION just suspended himself in the air glowing softly green again.

Sure enough he now understood what Mr. Giles question was about. He knew he was Kyle Rayner. He remembered everything from the fight with Hal on OA and the destruction of the Corps. His Fiancé Jen who he had recently granted her powers back to, and the dress down Superman had given him about letting humans control their own fate.

To him he was Kyle Rayner. He was ION. But looking into this mirror it was evident that he wasn't.

The image looking back at him was not his own. There was a resemblance but that where it ended.

His hair was short and spiky, unlike his hair now that was in curtains falling messily around his head. Pretty much like his hair was when he first became a Green Lantern.

His eyes were the same though. They had been this bright green since he became the ION. No matter what he did to disguise it his eyes always shone through with a hint of the power beneath them.

The main thing was that the body he was in was a lot younger than he was. He was twenty seven. He estimated that the body he was in now was about 10 years younger than that.

Looking over he noticed Mr. Giles picking himself up off the floor. Moving over he helped him up.

"I'm sorry, that just came as a bit of a shock. Did you know this person before me? I mean before he became me? I'm sorry this is a bit confusing." Kyle scratched his head and looked at Mr. Giles

"Yes I did," dusting himself off and sitting in one of the 'real chairs' of the library. Gesturing for ION to do the same he continued. "he was a student here at Sunnydale High school. Its Halloween you see and him and some of his friends were taking some of the children out trick or treating as part of a school project. Uh, do you mind if I get a cup of tea. it's soothing in times like this. Would you and... Batgirl is it? Like one also?"

"Please allow me Mr Giles." looking over Batgirl shook her head so Kyle just waved his hand and a construct of wonder woman appeared and walked over to the office. Shortly after they could hear a kettle boiling, then 'Wonder Woman' came back in with the 2 cups of tea, placed them on the table before vanishing back into the ether

Looking over at the shocked Mr. Giles he smiled. He had seen the same face on his mother when he first showed her his powers. He had the same look on his face the first time he himself had used a power ring.

"Well... thank you." Giles stuttered out before taking his glasses off and cleaning them. This was the third time he's done that in ten minutes. Some sort of nervous habit obviously Kyle thought to himself.

"I take it then that you don't have superhero's here then?" Kyle decided to get the explanation going again.

"Uh... no ION," placing his glasses back on his nose and taking a sip of tea before continuing. "You do in your world then?"

"Well there are quite a few. Me and batgirl are but a few I could name, there's the famous ones like Superman and Batman..."

"Please, let me interrupt you there. Superman and Batman are real where you come from?"

"Yeah. You should have heard the dressing down I got from superman just the other day, and Batman? He's just creepy." giving a theatrical shudder he smiled at Mr. Giles face. He looked like he'd just been told that Father Christmas was real.

"Well, I think I know a bit more about what's happened here then. You see in this universe you, and you," pointing at batgirl "are just comic characters I believe. I can't say I've actually heard of you ION but I have heard of Batgirl, and Batman and Superman. They are comic characters here so I believe that somehow the usual residents of this town have been transformed into whatever costumes they were wearing. This would explain the creatures you found yourself facing when you first arrived here. They were actually children that had been turned into their costumes,"

Standing up and starting to pace Giles continued.

"yes that's the only way I can think this could have happened. We need to find out how this happened and stop it before someone actually gets hurt or worse," turning to face ION. "can you help me, you see the world we live in has real monsters like the ones you contained but much worse. Vampires and the such. Now we do have a superhero of sorts. This young girl, Buffy," ION grinned at the name but said nothing letting Mr. Giles continue. "she helps slay the demons and vampires. I suppose she is an equivalent of a hero in this world."

Standing up ION looked at the girl. She didn't look much like a hero. She looked very much like an average teenage girl, but as he was quickly learning things were not always what they appeared to be in this dimension.

"Well can't we just wake her up and get her to help then?"

"No. If I am correct Buffy will have been changed into her costume just like you and you," Giles said pointing to both ION and Batgirl in turn. "I believe it best that he let her sleep through the thing while we find a way to reverse the effects of whatever's happening here."

"Well it's your world Mr. Giles, your Call. If I stay with you and try and find the source of this disturbance, Batgirl could you head outside and patrol the area. Make sure that no one is hurt before we manage to fix this ok?" smiling at Batgirl she quickly nodded then jumped in what was an impossible leap to Giles eyes over a book shelf and vanished out the window.

"Does she not talk much then?"

Smiling ION shook his head. "No, she's a mute. She may be quiet but she's effective. Trained by the best there is," He could say what he wanted about Batman but he couldn't disregard the man's training or obvious skill. The girl had the same skill levels. He'd only met her a few times but every time he was left impressed by what the girl was capable of. "How do you suppose we locate this disturbance then Mr. Giles?" ION asked, now looking at Giles intently.

"Well magic in this world leaves behind a trail. An energy, of sorts."

ION smiled at this.

"Energy you say Mr. Giles? If that's the case then I believe we have found out answer."

Giles just looked puzzled at this.

"Please allow me." with this he surrounded Mr. Giles in a protective shield and flew upwards. Phasing through the ceiling and the floors above him he quickly left the school building and flew a good hundred foot up in the air before coming to a stop and looking over.

Giles was amazed. Looking around he could see everything through the green bubble he had been placed in. Even though it was see through it felt as strong as steel. Looking down Giles could see the entire of Sunnydale and further. He could see the glow of Los Angeles on the horizon. Planes in the Sky and the moon over head. Admitted everything had a green hue to it but it was breathtaking.

Snapping his fingers to get Mr. Giles attention ION quickly reminded him of the situation at hand.

"Yes, quite. I'm sorry it's just... well..." Giles stuttered out waving his hand around at the view.

Smiling Kyle knew what he meant but this wasn't his world. If he was here did that mean he wasn't in his world? He couldn't answer these questions so he pushed them out of his mind focusing on the situation at hand.

Alarming Giles ION floated through the green bubble as if it wasn't there before forming two chairs for them to sit on again.

"You see Mr. Giles, energy is what I am. Well not what I am, I am human or was but... it's complicated ok? Look what I'm trying to say is that I'm very good with energy. This bubble. All of my constructs are energy in pure form given shape by my imagination and will." Trying to explain what he was about to do Kyle continued.

"You said magic leaves a trail. Right?" looking over he saw Mr. Giles nod still looking a bit dumbfounded.

"Well if I highlight the area's that have this 'energy' around them we should find the location of whatever's causing this. Am I right?"

"Well yes. But we're talking about the entire of Sunnydale. You have the power to do this?"

"Mr. Giles, I have the power to split atoms with a thought. To travel through time and space at a whim, I think highlighting some energy disturbance shouldn't be a problem." smiling again at Mr. Giles face he filed away the fact that there really wasn't anything like him or the other hero's in this world.

"Well... yes... quite..." Giles managed to finally say. To say the discovery of what this ION could do were disturbing to say the least.

Concentrating for a second Kyle scanned through the frequencies of energy around Sunnydale and came across one that he hadn't seen before. There were three hot spots of this energy on Sunnydale. Confident that he had found the right one he smiled and created spotlights on the top of the bubble shining down on the areas in question.

"Well Mr. Giles I believe I have found our energy. There are three areas where this energy seems to be the strongest." gesturing for Mr. Giles to stand up and look for himself he stood aside.

"Well yes that certainly helps. Yes, that's the high school beneath us. That would be the strongest beneath the school is a dimensional portal called the Hellmouth. So we can discount that at the source. So that leaves those two." looking over Giles couldn't quite see what the other two were.

"Ok so let's check the strongest one first then move on to the second. Does that sound good?" Without waiting for a reply Kyle took the bubble off at full speed to the area he had spotted with the second strongest amount of this energy around it. Within seconds they were on the ground again outside what looked to be a costume shop.

"Well this is it." ION said disappearing the bubble now it had served its purpose.

"Ethan. I bloody well should have known." Giles saw the name on the costume shop and went storming towards the front door kicking it open violently.

"Whoa, whoa there." Kyle rushed over grabbing him. "We should take this carefully. We haven't got a clue about what's inside there or what effect this 'magic' will have on me so can we take it a bit slower?"

"I know exactly what's in there ION. An old friend of mine Ethan Rayne. This stunt stinks of him. He worships the chaos god Janus and this little stunt is exactly the sort of trick he'd pull. Not caring a bit about the innocents harmed during it." storming away from ION Giles started making his way through the store to the back room.

Grimacing at this new turn of events Kyle just looked at Mr. Giles and followed him. He was almost scary during that rant, reminding him of Manchester Black back in his own world. Maybe there's more to his English friend than met the eyes.

Following through the costume shop Kyle peeked through the curtains Mr. Giles had gone through a minute or two before hand and saw him give a vicious right rook to another man.

"Ethan Rayne. I should have known." Giles looked down at Ethan. Smiling inside at the bloody lip he had just given him.

"This stunt is really all you." swung back his leg ready to kick then in the ribs while he was on the floor but found himself restrained by a glowing green barrier.

"ION! What the bloody hell do you think you're doing? This man is responsible for everything that's happened tonight and god knows what else." Giles was fuming but he knew there was no way he could break through these restraints.

"Well Mr. Giles if you beat the crap out of him how ya going find out how to reverse the 'spell' then?" looking over to Giles to see if he had made him point.

"If you just kill the fool then we could all be stuck like this forever. Is that what you want? Is it?" Kyle practically got right up in Mr. Giles face. "Let me handle this ok? I deal with trash like him everyday."

Walking over to Ethan, Kyle Knelt down and looked Ethan right in the eyes.

"Now you're going to tell me how to reverse the spell safely. Then me and you are going to take a trip down to the police station when you're going to tell them exactly what you've done. Ok?"

Laughing softly Ethan looked up at the Man before recognizing the costume from before. This was the ION Costume. The boy wearing it had obviously got the full effect of the spell, this really was the character from the books stood here.

"You really don't get it do you?" Ethan smiled up to ION. "The police won't do anything. They believe in magic about as much as they do in bloody superman."

Looking up and the scowling face of ION Ethan quickly assessed his options. None. He knew the character ION and knew what he was capable off. There was no way he could get away or distract the being knelt over him so he decided to go with the truth hoping that when the spell ended he's be able to get away in all the confusion that followed.

"The statue, break the statue. That will end the spell." he motioned over to the statue of Janus on the Table by the far wall.

Kyle quickly analyzing the man's voice to see if he was telling the truth. He quickly created some bonds around the man to hold him in place then walked over to the statue examining it.

The statue was a weird thing. Not of any god he knew but then again different world, different gods. He picked the statue up and walked over to where Giles was and released him from his bonds.

"Sorry about that. I just got thinking. If I'm here then what's going on in my universe while I'm not there to help? No offense but all this stuff about different dimensions gives me a headache anyway," smiling at Mr. Giles and Receiving a smile back he handed the statue over. "look when you break that more than likely we're all going to go back to the way we were before the spell so..." he waved his hand causing a startled Batgirl to appear.

"I take it everything went ok?" looking at batgirl and receiving an enthusiastic nod in response. "Well are you ready to go home then? I don't think this worlds ready for me and you just yet." grinning he looked over a Mr. Giles.

"Well then. It's been a pleasure working with you ION."

"Please, Call me Kyle." holding out a hand.

Giles shook it gratefully. "Rupert Giles. If you ever do come back somehow, please look me up. It would be interesting to learn more about your world and you're... powers."

"Well then Rupert I think it's about time we leave you, and return these body's to their right full owners."

Smiling at Rupert one last time he nodded his acceptance as Giles threw the statue down on the floor.

For a second everything went black.

"What the hell?" Xander quickly exclaimed. "G-man. What's going on? Where are we?"

Batgirl suddenly looking panicked tore off her hood to reveal Willow underneath.

Giles smiling at the use of the moniker for the first time just walked over to Xander and smiled.

"I never thought I'd be glad to hear you say they Xander. Now I think it'd be best if we make out way back to the high school where some explanations are in order. As for you Ethan..." Looking around the bonds holding Ethan no longer there. Neither was Ethan. "Bloody hell when I catch him..." Giles let the threat trail off as he led Xander and Willow back to the school collecting lost children along the way.

Back at the high school library.

"Giles, thank god. What happened tonight? The last thing I remember was walking to the school with Xander and Willow then everything kinda went black. The next thing I remember is waking up on the table over there. Giles this is extremely wigsome, what happened? Where have you been?"

Smiling at the questions Giles looked over at Buffy and grinned. All was right with the world.

"Buffy, why don't you go home and sleep it off. You too, you two." Giles said nodding to the group. "I'll see all of you tomorrow morning at school ok? Just let me know if anything strange happens ok?"

"Strange Giles? Like wh..." Buffy quickly went quiet at the look her watcher gave her and started walking for the door. "Ok Giles tomorrow. But it'd better be good ok? Come on guys." Buffy walked out of the library followed by Xander and Willow.

Looking down Giles noticed the two cups of tea still on the table. Smiling he went into his office and put the kettle on. Well maybe we haven't got super hero's like ION and Batgirl he thought to himself, but we always do alright in the end.

Smiling he sat down to enjoy his cup of tea.


Across town

After the spell had ended 'Supergirl' had come crashing to the ground. Luckily she had only been flying a few feet above the ground, flying towards a vampire when it happened.

Landing on her ass she quickly rolled to the side letting the blonde wig roll off onto the floor.

"Well that was different." she muttered to herself before looking up and noticing the vampire now standing over her.

"not so high and mighty now are you Supergirl." The vampire snarled sarcastically before grabbing his victim.

"Nooo!" came the scream before something unexpected happened. Trying to fight off the vampire, although knowing it was futile she pushed up into the vampire's chest as hard as she could.

Instead of laughing at her the vampire found himself being lifted on the ground and flying upwards at an amazing speed.

Looking at the vampire sailing towards the sky she could hardly believe her eyes. Even in Sunnydale this was weird.

Picking up her wig she started to make her way home. She'd figure it out tomorrow after school.


The next day at school

"Then Kyle Broke the statue and everyone reverted to their normal selves." Giles finished off the summery of the last nights events.

He could see from the shocked looks around the table that no one had expected this explanation of last night.

"Wait G-man so you mean I was actually flying? And I could create glowey green things?"

Smiling at the simplistic way Xander put things he nodded his head.

"Whoa..." Xander just slumped back in his chair.

He'd felt different as soon as he'd woken up this morning. He could feel the energy around him. Looking around now I could see the energy around people. He couldn't stop looking at Buffy though. The energy inside her was amazing.

Unlike everyone else whose energy just looked like a mess to him. The slayers energy was pure emerald brilliance. He'd have to look into it further but he could swear he'd seen something like it before.

He couldn't fly or anything like that yet though. He tried to make simple things appear but then just lasted a few seconds before disappearing back to where they came from.

Xander knew he should tell Giles but something was holding him back. Now he had some power. Now he could actually help Buffy. If he could just master it. When he did... he'd tell them then.

"Well as I said last night. Did anyone notice anything strange about themselves last night or today?" Giles looked around the group focusing his attention a little longer on Xander than the others.

"Yeah I can speak French now Giles. I answered every question in my French class in perfect French and then Mrs. Jacobs sent me to Snyder's for cheating." Buffy pouted crossing her arms.

"I noticed it as well Giles. My reflexes and agility are way above what they used to be. I mean in gym class I could vault, jump and climb better than anyone in the class. It was amazing. Mr. Ellis wants me to try out for the gymnastic team later on" Willow told the group bouncing up and down in her chair.

"Look"

As if to prove a point she reached over her shoulders and grasped the top of the backrest of the chair and kicking off the ground vaulted up so she was in a handstand on the top of the chair balancing it perfectly.

"Um... Wills? You do realize you're wearing a skirt right?" Xander interrupted her display grinning

Squeaking Willow let her concentration drift with the embarrassment she was feeling and cluttered to the floor in a mess of arms and legs.

Laughing Xander moved over to pick her up noticing she was bright red.

"What about that creep Ethan, do you think he'll come back?" Buffy asked picking up her bag.

"Not if he has any sense he won't. No Ethan's a strong survivor. He knows that if he comes back here we'll all be hunting him. I doubt we'll see his face again." And if we do I'll kick his teeth in. Giles mentally added.

"Well come on guys. We've still got classes and I don't want to have Snyder on my back again today." Buffy slung her bag over her shoulder and Xander and Willow picked up theirs and started walking over to the doors.

"What about you Xander? Any leftover effects?" Giles asked looking intently at Xander

Smiling as he reached the door's holding them open for the two girls to go through he turned and smiles back to Giles letting his eyes shine green with power. "Nah just seem to be better at drawing for some reason or another. Make sense Kyle being an artist and all." With that Xander quickly fled the library

Did his eyes just glow? Giles asked himself. No Xander would have told us if anything like that was left he rationalized. Chuckling to himself Giles made his way into the office to get some paperwork done.


Across town

Picking up a steel bar the young women bent it into a clean circle before tossing it aside. Turning her vision to a log in her garden she concentrated her vision until the log burst into flame.

Realizing what she'd done she quickly let out a blast of super breath blowing the fire out but also blowing down two of the trees at the end of the garden.

"Well it's going to take a lot of getting used too." she muttered to herself as she walked back into the house.

"Now weather to keep the uniform or burn it?" she chuckled to herself before folding the Supergirl uniform up and placing it in the back of a drawer.

Maybe someday I'll use it, but the blonde just isn't me. She smiled throwing the wig into the bin. Then sitting down she concentrated her vision on the wall until it slowly turned opaque, then totally see through.

Quickly turning off this power when she realized she was looking into another person's bedroom she laughed to herself again.

"Yeah, a lot of getting used to."

AN: heh yeah I'm evil not telling you who supergirl is yet. I bet a lot of you have theories but ya ain't gonna find out for a bit ;)
anyway hope you all enjoyed the start to my story. with Halloween over now the real fun can begin.
Xander, with ION's powers. this should be fun :)

M