Puck listened to the end of Harry's explanation then asked, "You're telling us that we can basically do anything we want and everything resets at the end of the loop?" She gazed down at the two thin glass rods on the living room table with gleeful smile. Harry had broken a couple of vases then reset the time loop to show them that things were working.

Harry said, "If we break the red rod then everything resets, if we run out of time everything resets, if we break the green rod then the time loop ends and we have to live with what we've done which means that we're not breaking the green rod unless everything is running smoothly."

Alex asked, "How much time do we have on this particular loop?"

Harry said, "Twenty four hours from when I cast the spell which means that we've got about twenty three hours and forty minutes because I reset things as part of the demonstration."

Sirius said, "Long enough to test things out and have some fun. I'm looking forward to doing some exploring."

Tonks said, "I'm looking forward to testing out some of the various rituals."

Luna asked, "Is that why Ariel and Gabrielle aren't in the loop with us?"

Harry sighed, "Pretty much, we're going to be testing various dangerous magical items and doing rituals on people for practice. They're a bit young to really understand the time loop. Besides, this way if we get everything perfect then sending Ariel or Gabrielle out with a time turner is an option."

Tonks looked at Harry questioningly and asked, "You're planning on copying them?"

Harry said, "They're cute. I wouldn't mind having a couple more of them around. I'm not saying that it's on the list of things I want to do in this collection of loops, I'm just saying that it's an option."

Puck said, "I wouldn't mind having a couple of extra munchkins around."

Luna said, "That's because you're naughty."

Puck looked at Hermione and said, "Speaking of naughty, we need to get some crazy sex toys that we'd never actually use normally and test them out."

Hermione said, "Let's get back on track."

Puck stuck her tongue out at Hermione playfully.

Jane asked, "Do we have a plan?"

Harry said, "We have a plan."

Hermione said, "We have several actually. I placed the transfigured wizarding cards in a bunch of different boxes. That should let us look through them and figure out which magic users to keep and which we don't need."

Jane frowned, "Please tell me that we're actually going to do some fun stuff."

Harry said, "Yep, we're going to work on some potions using some of Lily and Snape's potion secrets. The best part is that our samples will be exactly the same thanks to the time loop which means that we'll be able to tell which processes get the best results."

Puck looked at Harry, "That sounds suspiciously like work."

"Think of it as training for when we bribe the twins into showing us how they make most of their groundbreaking prank items."

Ginny said, "Okay, that actually sounds fun."

Hermione said, "Exactly."

Harry said, "I'd like everyone to grab a language candy or two every loop, by the time we're ready to break the loop we should have a nice collection of languages under our belts."

Puck said, "I'm looking forward to that. We have Japanese right? I'm sort of getting tired of paying attention to the subtitles on our anime. I'm also looking forward to reading through the books that aren't written in English."

Alex grinned, "I think we all are."

Sirius said, "That still leaves a bit of time..."

Harry said, "I figure the first couple of days will be spent exploring the town, practicing potions, sorting the wizarding cards and practicing rituals. I also want to copy Moody's eye enough times that we can give everyone an upgrade and have a couple to spare."

Hermione said, "We should probably copy the Philosopher's Stone. I'd like to know if we can do something other than create the elixir of life and turn things into gold."

"We also have the mirrors that I'd like to play with. I mean there has to be a reason they were locked up."

Alex said, "Probably."

Ginny asked, "What are you going to do with the glass rods?"

Harry said, "I'm going to take the green rod and stick it in the wall safe."

Ginny frowned, "We have a wall safe? Where?"

"If you can't tell me then you obviously don't need to know where it is." Harry smirked as he grabbed the rods and teleported to where the Fidelius hidden safe was. He really didn't want someone to break the spell in the middle of a crazy loop. He figured if he put the green rod in the safe at the start of every loop than nothing would happen to it until they were ready to break it.

Ginny sighed, "I guess he's got a point."

Puck walked over, picked up one of the Sunnydale books on magic items and sat on the couch, "We might as well get started."

Alex grabbed the book on making wands and foci then sat down next to Puck.

Ginny grabbed a book on demons and sat down next to Alex.

Jane walked over and grabbed the first box of wizarding cards, "Do you want to help me sort them Hermione?"

"Sure, let's use one of the spare rooms so we can ward it against them apparating out." Hermione headed toward the spare room.

Sirius grabbed the copy of Snape's potion book and headed toward the lab.

Luna looked at Hermione, "Where did you stick the magic mirrors?"

Hermione called over her shoulder, "In the third bedroom."

Luna grinned as she headed off to play with the mirrors. "Shiny."

Tonks walked over and grabbed one of the books on enhancement rituals and started checking for anything that might help with her clumsiness.


Harry dropped his book on demons, drew his wand and ran toward the third bedroom as soon as he heard Luna scream. He opened the door and stared at the scene within the room. The first thing he noticed were the shattered mirrors and twisted frames that were scattered all over the partially destroyed room. The next was the fact that there were two Lunas dueling. He shouted, "What the hell is going on?"

Both of the Lunas stopped casting their spells and looked over at Harry sheepishly then tried to pretend that they weren't the cause of the destruction in the room.

Harry pointed to the Luna on the right. "What's going on?"

Luna said, "I was exploring, I pulled the cover off one of the mirrors and another me jumped out. She sucker punched me then started casting curses at me."

Harry looked at the other Luna, "Is that true?"

Luna said, "Yep, I figured I'd kill her, take her skull as a trophy and make you a feast out of the rest of her. I mean you don't need two of us right?"

Harry stared at the evil Luna, "So it never occurred to you that I might want both of you around?"

The evil Luna pointed at the other Luna, "Sorry Master but she's got to die so that I can live. The only question is what do we do with her after I kill her?"

Harry asked, "You're a little homicidal aren't you?"

The evil Luna grinned, "Yep but I love you. You're welcome to punish me after I kill her." She giggled as she spanked herself.

Harry sighed as he realized that the evil Luna was apparently looking forward to being punished, "Let's move the fight to a better location where everyone can watch." It wasn't so much that he really wanted Luna to have to fight a crazy evil Luna but at the same time, it was good practice.

The evil Luna pouted, "I still get to kill her, right?"

Luna stuck out her tongue at her evil doppelganger, "Bring it."

Harry said, "You get to try once we get to the new location." He really didn't want the mansion trashed on the off chance that they somehow managed to break the green rod.

Luna said, "I'm going to beat you."

The evil Luna grinned, "I'm going to beat you then I'm going to beat you black and blue, kill you and cook you."

Luna frowned at the evil Luna, "I don't think I like you."

"I like you." The evil Luna looked at Luna and licked her lips.

Harry asked, "Can I trust that you won't attack anyone else or do I have to take your wands?"

Luna said, "I'm good."

The evil Luna pouted, "If you insist, I'll behave." She smiled as innocently as she could which missed the mark by a fair amount.

Harry summoned the evil Luna's wand to him, "I don't believe you."

The evil Luna giggled, "Fiddle sticks."

Alex stared as Harry and the two Lunas walked into the living room, "What's going on?"

Harry said, "Apparently one of the mirrors created an evil Luna."

Alex laughed, "You're telling me that we have a functional Mirror of Opposed Alignment?"

Harry asked, "Apparently."

"There were a couple of legends in the wizarding world about the mirror causing problems over the years. It's probably what inspired the creation of the game mirror."

Tonks asked, "Game mirror?"

Alex grinned, "The Mirror of Opposed Alignment exists in Dungeons and Dragons. They create a twisted duplicate of people that look at the mirrors. Good becomes bad and bad becomes good."

Tonks asked, "What are we going to do about the evil copy?"

"That's the problem, they have a driving goal to destroy their opposite."

Harry said, "I think we should go to the park and let them fight it out."

Hermione asked, "Are you crazy?"

"It will be good practice. Besides, we can always reset things."

Alex said, "He's got a point, the evil Luna is going to try to kill our Luna with everything she's got. She's not going to find a better person to practice against if she's looking for someone at her level."

Puck said, "This is going to be a messy fight."


The evil Luna smirked after she finally managed to decapitate Luna with a well placed household cutting charm. "I win."

Puck stared in horror at Luna's head as it rolled a couple of times before coming to rest with her eyes looking up at the sky with a surprised expression on her face. "I think I'm going to be sick."

Tonks winced as Puck vomited off to the side, "At least it gives us a place to start."

Sirius said, "Exactly..."

Jane looked away from Luna's head and looked at Tonks and Sirius, "How come you're so calm about this?"

Sirius said, "Because we can fix all of this by resetting things."

Tonks said, "It's practice and it's real. I know aurors that would pay good money to get this type of training."

Sirius said, "I'm guessing that Luna will push herself to get better so that she can do better the next time."

Jane asked, "You're planning on doing this again?"

Sirius said, "Of course."

The evil Luna walked over and picked Luna's head up, "Alas poor Luna, I knew her well." She giggled as she looked at Harry, "Can I keep it?"

Puck glared at the evil Luna, "No."

The evil Luna pouted, "That's not fair. I suppose you're not going to let me cook her for a feast for everyone either? She'll be really tasty."

Harry reached into his pocket and broke the red rod which reset the time loop.

Puck turned to look at Luna, "Are you okay?"

Luna tilted her head then tilted it back the other way before poking her neck a couple of times, "I think so. The other me was a bit crazy."

Tonks snorted, "More than a bit though she still seemed to like Harry."

Luna smiled at Harry, "That's because he's the best Master around."

Harry gave Luna a smile then looked around, "Is everyone else okay?"

Jane pulled Luna into a hug and squeezed her tightly, "No scaring me like that."

Sirius said, "We're fine, it's one thing to see broken vases and cuts repaired, it's quite another to see people come back from the dead." He was just glad that everything had worked out.

Luna hugged Jane, "I'm fine. I'll get her next time."

Hermione said, "Which mirror did your evil doppelganger jump out of?"

Luna said, "The silver one with the cute pink cover."

Harry said, "This is why we we're playing with the dangerous artifacts while we're in a loop rather than when we're not."

Sirius said, "He's got a point."

Luna said, "I think I'm going to read the books that came with the mirrors before I remove anymore covers."

Hermione said, "That might be for the best."

Alex asked, "Is it a bad thing that I'm sort of looking forward to fighting my evil doppelganger?"

Hermione said, "I'm not sure that's wise."

Alex asked, "Why?"

"Considering some of the spells we know and our abilities I'd rather not have evil copies of you, Harry or I running around."

Harry said, "I'd rather not have an evil you running around playing in your library." He looked at Alex, "Your evil copy scared me enough for one life."

Alex sighed, "Fine." She could sort of understand their points but at the same point fighting herself sounded interesting.

Hermione said, "Let's get back to work, we can have some fun after lunch."


Puck finished eating her lunch, "I found something that I think we should go after."

Tonks asked, "What's that?"

"I've been reading the book on famous and not so famous magic items from this world. I'm fairly sure that at least two of the items are in Sunnydale."

Harry asked, "Which ones and how do you know?"

Puck said, "The Gem of Amara and the Orbs of Nezzelfuck."

Tonks snorted, "Nezzelfuck?"

Puck said, "They're called the Orbs of Nezzla'Khan officially but I like my version better."

Harry looked at Hermione, "Your duplicate is a potty mouth."

Hermione shrugged, "She's cute and she came from a warped world. What makes you think the magical items are here?"

Puck said, "I used the point me spell a couple of times while walking down the street and the wand altered direction more than it should have if the objects were outside the city limits."

Harry asked, "What do they do?"

Puck said, "The Gem of Amara is set in a ring that gives a vampire wearing it virtual indestructibility."

Harry said, "That's probably one of those items that we should stick in the library for safe keeping just in case we ever find a world where vampires aren't soulless monsters."

Tonks asked, "What about the orbs?"

"They give the user a large boost to their strength and makes them nearly indestructible."

Hermione asked, "What are the downsides?"

Puck shrugged, "They're supposed to be fragile."

Harry said, "That wouldn't be a problem if we used them to give people similar abilities. We should probably work on grabbing both of those items as well as look for more magical items around town or maybe the world if we find something interesting enough."

Puck asked, "Does that mean we can go grab them?"

Harry said, "I don't see why not. Are there any other interesting items in Sunnydale?"

"I'm not sure but it's something to look into."

Harry said, "I found a couple of useful things while I was looking through some of the demon books that might be interesting."

Hermione asked, "How interesting?"

"I found out that Mohra demons have regeneration that they can impart to others through their blood and that there is a species of mouthless demon that gives people telepathy if you get their blood on you."

Ginny said, "Telepathy sounds good."

Harry said, "Until it makes you go crazy but we can probably fix that."

Tonks laughed, "That doesn't sound fun."

Alex said, "I think I can actually help with that."

Harry looked at Alex, "How?"

"One of the books has details for crafting magical items via an old mostly abandoned ritual that would normally be rather useless but in this case might be exactly what we need."

"That might need an explanation."

Alex said, "It's basically a hedge magician's ritual that was used when they were close to death from old age. They could use the ritual to impart one of their magical abilities in an item. It cost them the ability and it wasn't always as strong as their own ability but it was a way to give the next generation a boost."

Tonks said, "And with the loops we're not really losing anything by making magic items then sending them out of the loop with someone." She sighed, "I'm probably going to be making a lot of these."

Alex said, "I'm fairly sure that Harry and I are going to be doing the same with our various abilities."

Harry nodded, "Exactly. Let's get practicing."


Puck watched as the nasty looking demon walked through some type of shield. She whispered, "Do you think you can teleport past the shield and grab the orbs?"

Alex said, "I should be able to, if not then we'll figure something out." She flash teleported next to the orbs, grabbed them then teleported back to where Puck was hiding. She reached out, grabbed Puck and teleported back to the mansion as the demons started screaming and running around.

Puck laughed, "You rock."

Alex smiled as she walked over to the wall and put her foot through it, "They actually work."

Sirius shouted from the other room, "What the hell was that?"

Alex pulled her foot out of the wall, "Sorry about that, I was testing a magic item."

Sirius sighed, "That's why we have stuff set up in the yard."

"Sorry, I wasn't expecting it to actually destroy a section of the wall." Alex giggled as she thought about how much fun kicking Death Eaters would be with the orbs.

Sirius laughed, "Go tell Harry you recovered the orbs."

"Okay."


Harry leaned back on the couch focused on Luna rather than the large hole in the wall from Alex testing the orbs out inside, "You've got my full attention."

Luna said, "We've got several different types of mirrors. Some of them are little more than enchanted mirrors that give bad fashion advice, I think we're all familiar with this type of mirror. Some of them are communication mirrors and some of them are basically enchanted funhouse mirrors that distort your image but don't actually do anything else. I'm not even sure some of the funhouse mirrors are magic." She was fairly sure that at least a couple of them really were funhouse mirrors that some wizard didn't understand.

Alex asked, "What about the mirror that created an evil Luna?"

"It falls under the more interesting category. There are a few mirrors in that category. Two of the mirrors function like communication mirrors except that you can step through them and come out the other mirror like a vanishing cabinet. One of the mirrors provides entrance to a mirror world that doesn't have people."

Puck snickered, "A looting we will go."

Luna shrugged, "Maybe, the books mentioned some weird side effects."

Sirius was a bit curious what type of side effects the mirrors would have, "Oh?"

"Yeah, moving objects in the mirror world sometimes moved things in the real world, sometimes things just vanished as if someone invisible picked it up and stuffed it in a pocket. Some of the items they brought back behaved in a manor opposite from the original items. Sometimes they worked normally. The wizards eventually locked the mirror away after deciding that it was unsafe to experiment with."

Harry said, "That could be useful. Do any of the books tell us how to create them?"

Luna said, "The books have instructions for creating most of the mirrors. They don't tell me how to duplicate the Mirror of Opposition or the mirror that lets you enter a mirror world."

Harry shrugged, "We can probably copy both of those if we wanted to."

Alex said, "Something to think about, Luna's stuff didn't vanish when the evil doppelganger defeated her. I'm not sure but we might be able to duplicate items using the mirror."

Ginny said, "That would keep us from having to duplicate Kreacher in order to create items."

Harry said, "It's worth investigating."

"I'm looking for a rematch anyways." Luna was hoping to do better this time around than last time.

Tonks looked at Harry, "Let's get a bag of some of the stuff we want to duplicate. We can strip Luna or Ginny down and let them duplicate the bags without too many issues."

Luna said, "As long as you toss me a wand after my double comes out of the mirror."

Ginny looked at Sirius, "Your cousin is naughty."

Sirius shrugged, "She's a Black by blood, what do you expect?"

Tonks stuck out her tongue at Sirius.

Harry said, "I wouldn't mind seeing either of the girls naked." He looked at Tonks, "Actually, I wouldn't mind seeing all of the girls naked."

Tonks said, "I'll show you mine if you show me yours."

Harry said, "Deal, we can have some fun later tonight. Let's go play with the mirror of insanity."

Luna pouted, "That one gives me a headache."

Harry blinked, "What? There's an actual mirror of insanity?"

Luna snickered, "No but the look on your face was funny."

Sirius said, "Let's get back to work."


Luna stripped out of her clothes then held out her hand for the bag that Tonks and Harry had put together.

Harry held out the bag of supplies as he scanned the empty mansion room they were using for the duel. "Are you sure you want to do this?"

Luna took the bag with her hand that wasn't holding her wand. "Not really but Ginny and I are the best choices for this unless we want to copy Gabrielle or Ariel and I'd rather not." She walked over to the Mirror of Opposition and pulled off the cover.

A naked evil copy stepped out of the mirror carrying a bag in her right hand and her wand in her left. She had barely even stepped completely out of the mirror before Sirius had summoned the bag away from her. "Hey!"

Sirius grabbed the bag, "Sorry but I don't want you using the stuff in the bag to cheat."

The evil Luna pouted, "You're mean, she's got her bag of tricks."

Luna tossed her bag to Harry then smirked at her duplicate. "I'm going to enjoy beating you this time."

The evil Luna said, "The other evil Luna won, what makes you think that I won't?"

Luna conjured a shield, "Because I'm the hero of this tale and I know your tricks."

Sirius cast a shield over their group as the two Lunas started trading basic spells back and forth. "Keep an eye on your foot work."

Tonks said, "You shouldn't be helping the evil Luna."

"Either way it helps Luna."

Harry stared in surprise as the match ended abruptly when their Luna caught the evil Luna with a tickling hex then cut her throat with the same slicing hex her evil copy had used the last time around. "Are we sure that she's ours?"

Luna said, "Of course I'm yours."

Ginny looked down at the dead Luna, "Let's check the bags then I'm up next." She was looking forward to fighting against herself to see what she needed to improve.

Harry looked over the two bags with his magic sense and his x-ray vision. "They're the same as far as I can tell."

"Wicked." Ginny stripped down to her underwear then walked over to collect the bags from Harry and Sirius. "This seems a bit like cheating."

Harry handed Ginny his bag, "Good luck." He smiled as she turned and walked over to Sirius.

Sirius handed Ginny the bag of magical items, "Have fun."

Tonks said, "If you're not cheating you're not trying hard enough."

Luna walked over and picked up the evil Luna's wand. "It's always good to have a spare."

Puck pulled a roll of masking tape out of her bag and said, "Speaking of wands, I've got an idea." She walked up to Ginny, "Let me see your wand."

Ginny set the bags down and handed Ginny her wand, "Sure."

Puck grinned as she used a couple of pieces of tape to secure the wand to Ginny's leg. "That should help give us enough time to disarm her."

Alex said, "You should put a piece of tape over her mouth so that she can't cast before she rips the tape off."

Ginny mock glared at Alex, "Traitor."

"I'd rather be able to summon the bags without the other Ginny managing to put up a shield first."

Harry said, "It's a good plan."

Ginny sighed, "Fine."

Puck put a couple of pieces of tape over Ginny's mouth. "There."

Ginny scowled as she picked up the bags and walked over to the mirror.

Sirius and Harry both summoned the bags as soon as the evil Ginny stepped out of the mirror.

Both Ginnys grabbed their wands and ripped the tape off before shouting, "Die."

Jane watched in horrified fascination as the two Ginnys tried to kill each other as messily as possible. Shields were raised and curses exchanged as the girls moved around the battlefield looking for a way to kill the other. Unlike the evil Luna, the evil Ginny didn't bother with taunts as she fought. Jane winced as both of the Ginny's managed to nearly simultaneously kill the other with curses that caused their entrails to explode. "That was messy."

Alex winced as she watched bits of Ginny slide down the shield that Sirius had covering them, "Yeah..."

Kreacher asked, "Is Kreacher expected to clean up the mess or are you going to be using the bodies for something suitably nasty?"

Alex turned and blasted Kreacher with a stunner, "As much as I hate to say it, he's got a point, we could use their skulls to make some useful floating guardians that would help keep the mansion safe."

Puck frowned, "That seems rather ghoulish."

Sirius asked, "How good of guardians do they make?"

Alex looked at Kreacher, "We've got a couple of extra Kreachers. If we sacrifice a couple of them then I think we can make some floating skulls that would be completely loyal and be able to clean and defend the place with magic."

Harry said, "Then we can send them out of this loop with the remaining Kreacher."

Sirius asked, "How long would that take?"

"About an hour a skull."

"You and Alex work on that, we'll send the guardian skulls and wands back with one of the Kreachers when he takes the bags of magical items we want duplicated."

Jane stared at Alex, "I can't believe you're considering this."

Alex said, "Normally I wouldn't be but we'll get Ginny back when we reset things. This town is a demon magnet, it's not even remotely safe. If we do things correctly then we can probably use some of the duplicated cloaks to give the skulls the ability to turn invisible. We could have a couple of skulls watch out for Xander and Willow."

Jane sighed, "That's not fair."

Hermione said, "I don't like it either but the fact is this city isn't the safest place in the world."

Jane sighed, "Fine."

Harry said, "Let's get this done."

Luna asked, "Can I name my skull?"


Hermione looked at the rune etched floating skulls with glowing blue eyes, "You stuck duplicates of Moody's eye in the skulls, didn't you?"

Harry shrugged, "What's the point in having guardians if they can't see invisible creatures or see through walls. I'd have been happier if I could figure out a way to let them phase through walls but I guess that's something to work on for next time."

"I guess you have a point. This is still a bit creepy to use our friend's skulls for our project."

Harry smiled slightly, "I think the fact that Luna wants it as a pet is even creepier."

Hermione shivered, "Are you okay with what you did to Kreacher to make the skulls?"

Harry said, "That's one of the reasons I duplicated Kreacher rather than Dobby." Even still he was probably going to have a nightmare or two about stabbing him and cutting out his heart to embower the skulls with magic.

Hermione sighed, "I still..." She trailed off as she decided not to argue about house elf rights considering how nasty Kreacher was and the fact that he had gotten Sirius killed the last time around.

Alex asked, "What else are you planning before we reset things?"

Harry said, "Nothing, I figure we send the skulls and the bags back then we reset things and work on empowering people with the magic items." He really didn't like to leave people dead for longer than they had to.


Ginny looked around as she found herself back in the living room, "That sucked."

Alex pulled her into a hug, "Welcome back."

"Thanks, now what? Did I miss much?"

Puck snickered, "Just a bit of dark magic and Luna getting a new pet."

Luna said, "I think I'll call her Bones."

Ginny sighed, "Right..."

Sirius said, "I think we're going to have to work on your dueling skills a bit."

Ginny said, "I know, I got too caught up in trying to take the evil me out that I forgot to shield."

Tonks said, "Look on the bright side, she made the same mistake."

"Moving on..."

Harry said, "I want to track down the demon that gives telepathy so that I can work on creating a couple of telepathy items. I want the rest of you to wander around town and gather up any magical items that you can locate. That is unless you have something else to work on."

Sirius shook his head, "I can do that while hunting for vampires and demons."

Jane said, "I could use a break from reading or interviewing a bunch of corrupt wizards and witches."

Tonks said, "I need to work on crafting magical items so that I can make metamorphmagus tokens."

Hermione said, "I'm looking forward to getting that particular ability." She looked at Harry, "I'm also looking forward to acquiring the ability to sing like a phoenix."

Harry said, "Thanks for reminding me of that."

Jane asked, "How long do you think it will take to track down the telepath demons?"

Harry shrugged, "I can teleport around using the point me spell, I doubt it will take more than a couple of hours to get a couple of vials of blood from them. One that's done we'll see about having some fun."


Tonks sighed in relief as she finished the ritual that transferred most of her telepathy into a silver necklace. It had taken Harry a couple of hours to track the mouthless demons down and get a couple of jars of blood and it's heart, after that they had painted Tonks's chest with the blood then went back to reading books while they waited for her to develop telepathy. It had only taken an hour before she had shown the first signs of telepathy, after three hours she had been able to read most of the block and by five hours she had been going a little crazy thanks to the thoughts of half the city. Thankfully she had managed to pull it together enough to do the ritual. "Done."

Harry asked, "What am I thinking?"

"That you want to fuck me." She smirked at Harry's crotch that showed a noticeable bulge in his pants.

Alex looked at Harry then at Tonks, "You could have guessed that without telepathy."

Tonks rubbed her temples, "You're picturing me licking your pussy while Harry fucks me from behind."

Alex sighed, "Maybe she still has a bit of telepathy." She pictured five playing cards.

"You're also picturing five playing cards. It might not have been the best move to paint my whole chest with the blood..." She was fairly sure that her telepathy was still growing even after she had dropped it back to almost nothing with the ritual to imbue the necklace.

Alex said, "It should vanish once we reset things. If not then there is a ritual we can do that should fix it."

Tonks said, "My headache has cleared up and I feel horny." She wasn't sure if she was feeding off Alex and Harry's emotions or if she actually felt as horny as she felt but either way she wanted to have sex with the two of them.

Harry said, "In that case, drop your pants and bend over the couch."

Tonks laughed as she reached down and unbuttoned her pants, "Only if Alex drops hers. She's got amusing daydreams."

Alex unbuttoned her pants and slipped them off. "Is this what you wanted?"

Tonks smiled as she let her gaze travel over Alex's legs, "I want you on the couch with your legs spread, I want Harry to fuck me from behind while I make you scream. Then I want to morph to look like Harry and fuck you until you scream my name."

Alex laughed, "You've got a dirty mind."

Tonks slipped her pants and panties off then sashayed over to the couch so that she could rest her hands on the armrest.

Alex stripped the rest of the way then walked over and sprawled on the couch with her feet over the edge so that Tonks wouldn't have to strain much to lean down and lick her bits.

Harry let his gaze bounce back and forth between Alex and Tonks for a couple of seconds before he remembered that he really needed to not be wearing tight pants. 'Never thought I'd find a downside to having clothes that actually fit.' He carefully stripped out of his clothes then walked over and pressed himself against Tonks's bottom.

Tonks smirked as she pressed herself against Harry then she leaned forward and brought her nose down to Alex's crotch.

Harry reached down and ran the fingers of his right hand over Tonks' lips slowly, "Tell me what you want Miss Naughty Babysitter Lady."

Tonks giggled, "I want you to fuck me while I tongue fuck your sister. Then I think we should have some fun with your pets and some whip cream."

Harry stepped a half a step forward and slipped his finger inside of Tonks, "You want to play with Luna, you want to tease Puck, you want fuck Hermione," he slid his finger out then slid it back in, "and you want to make Jane scream that you're better than books." He smiled as he used his free hand to pull her against him as he worked his finger in and out. "How am I doing so far?"

Tonks said, "Fuck me." She buried her face in Alex's crotch and went to work with her tongue.

Harry pulled his finger out and positioned his penis so that he could slip inside of Tonks. He used his free hand to pull Tonks against him as he slipped inside of her and started sliding in and out.

Alex snickered as she watched Harry fuck Tonks from behind. "Telepaths." She reached her hand down and ran her fingers over her bits as she pictured a scene where she was using her tongue on Ariel while Sirius fucked Tonks from behind in his canine form. She added Harry fucking a dazed looking Gabrielle while the rest of the girls fucked each other in some type of debauched orgy with large strap-ons.


Sirius smirked as a red faced Tonks walked into the kitchen without any clothes, "Did you have fun?" Judging by the shouts and other noises he was guessing that she had had a lot of fun with the girls once they got back from grabbing the Gem of Amara..

Tonks walked over to the fridge to get a soda, "Alex has a dirty mind and she vanished my clothes." She opened the fridge.

Sirius laughed, "She's a girl, she's supposed to be evil. Besides, you'll get your clothes back when we reset things."

Tonks pulled out a soda and shut the fridge, "True."

"How are you doing controlling your telepathy?"

Tonks sighed, "Telepathy isn't all it's cracked up to be or at least the demon telepathy isn't. I've made two different necklaces and I'm still sensing people's thoughts. I'm looking forward to having a more stable and controllable version of telepathy."

Sirius asked, "Have you created something that grants people a version of your metamorphmagus ability?"

Tonks sighed, "That's next on my list. I'll help you set up the ritual to transfer your dog form into an item if you want."

Sirius sighed, "I might as well."

"What's the matter?"

Sirius said, "I'm just wishing that James and Lily were here, hell I'd settle for Remus getting off his ass and getting over here."

Tonks said, "I think his head would explode if we tried to explain about Harry and the girls or me and the girls." Popped the top on her soda then took a drink.

"Probably, I swear he's way too focused on what happens three days a month rather than what happens the rest of it."

"Probably. Either way, I'm done worrying about it. You're not going to object about Harry and I are you?"

Sirius shook his head, "Nah, Harry's old enough mentally to make his own choices, besides if you weren't my cousin and a little clumsy..."

She flipped him off, "Arse."

"Honestly, as long as you're being careful not to hurt the girls, I'm not going to object."

"Thanks..."

Sirius said, "Go have some fun. We'll probably be resetting things as soon as Alex and Harry have finished crafting their phoenix items and send them back in time."

"Good, my telepathy is getting to an annoying level again."

"In that case let's go make some magic items."


Xander Harris opened the door and stared as he saw a rather pretty blue skinned naked large breasted woman wearing a funny and vaguely familiar floppy white hat. He probably would have figured out why the girl's hat looked familiar or why she was blue if she hadn't shown up to his door naked, "Can I have you? I mean help you?"

Alex smirked, "No and yes in that order. We're looking for test subjects for a super soldier program to combat the rise in vampires and demons in town. Are you interested in gaining the power to make a difference?"

Xander gulped, "Are you a demon?"

Alex frowned slightly as she realized that there was no disbelief in Xander's voice or stance though he looked tense. 'At least I don't have to explain about demons. Still, what the hell?' She said, "I'm not a demon. I'm one of the early test subjects of the program." She smirked, "Don't worry the chances of turning blue are down to less than one in a thousand these days."

Xander glanced around and realized that none of the people walking by his parents' house were even looking at the naked blue girl, 'Maybe I'm dreaming or maybe something else is going on.' He asked, "What's the catch?"

Alex said, "It's an experimental process. There is a small chance of long term issues but the risk is small and our specialists will take every precaution to make sure that you come through the procedure in perfect health."

Xander asked, "Why me?" He wondered if this was just a crazy plan to get to Buffy through her friends.

"You're healthy, you're already in the know about demons and we think you can make a difference."

Xander asked, "How did you know that I already knew about demons?"

"We've got sources, are you in or not?" She was really hoping he said yes so that she could upgrade him without feeling horribly guilty.

Xander figured the program was something that Buffy should know about. Besides, the chance to have the power to help Buffy was too good to pass up even knowing that the blue woman was probably not on the level. "I'm in."

"Excellent." Alex smiled as she hit him with a stunner. She caught him as he fell toward her. "Sorry about that Xander." She hauled him into his house and closed the door. The muggle repelling charm she had used might cover her teleporting or they might not, no reason to draw even more attention to herself especially when they were considering not resetting this loop if everything worked out as well as they were hoping. She teleported back to the mansion to begin his upgrades.


Harry felt a little silly dressed in an expensive suit as he knocked on the door of Willow's home. 'This can't end well.'

A middle aged man opened the door and looked over the man in the expensive suit with brown hair that was going gray at the temples. "Yes?"

Harry hit the man with a mild confusion charm so that he'd ask less questions than he otherwise might, "I'm here with an exclusive research firm to talk to a Willow Rosenberg about an experimental program that we think she would be perfect for. She was selected because of her outstanding academic achievements."

"Of course, come in." Ira stepped back to let Harry in.

Harry tried not to wince as the man gave him a verbal invitation to come in, sure it was light out but it was still a bad habit to get into. He stepped into the house.

Ira turned and shouted up the stairs, "Willow there is a representative from an exclusive research firm here to see you!" He turned back to look at Harry, "Can I get you anything?"

Harry said, "A little privacy."

"I've got some errands to run." He grabbed his keys and walked out the door as Willow came down the stairs.

Willow asked nervously, "What's going on?"

Harry turned to look at Willow, "Let's get down to business, I represent a group that is looking for brave young extremely smart people that can help their country by participating in a secret super soldier program."

Willow stared at the older man in a suit, "Like Captain America? But that isn't real."

Harry smiled, "We're still working on increased agility but we've got super strength, near invulnerability and the ability to see in the dark down. I assure you the upgrades are very real."

"Why tell me?"

"Physical abilities are easy to boost, mental abilities not so much. Your test scores are high and I think you'd be a good fit for the program. It's your choice though."

"What happens if I don't want to be part of the program?"

Harry said, "Then, I offer your place to someone else."

"Just like that?"

"Of course, it's not like anyone will believe you if you told them about the program of course doing that would prove that you couldn't be trusted..."

Willow sighed as she realized that Buffy would probably need to know about the government running some type of program in Sunnydale, "Is it painful?"

Harry said, "Yes but we have excellent painkillers." He wasn't going to mention that they probably wouldn't help as much as she'd like.

"Drugs or..." She wasn't going to ask if it was magic because then they'd probably think she was crazy on the off chance that the program wasn't connected to the supernatural. She was fairly sure that saying no wasn't actually an acceptable answer no matter what he said.

"There are a couple of non addictive pain meds used during the enhancement process but we don't use drugs to achieve the enhancements."

"I'll come talk to your specialist." She was really hoping that they weren't just going to make her disappear.

Harry hit her with a stunner then caught her before she hit the ground, "Sorry Willow." He closed the door and teleported back to the mansion.


Jane looked up as Harry walked into the room, "How did it go?"

Harry said, "Alex dosed them with truth potion then asked a bunch of questions. They're actually demon hunters if you can believe it. Mostly backup for their friend Buffy."

Jane winced, "I feel bad about snooping..."

Harry said, "So do I but I wanted to make sure they were on the up and up considering what we were planning on giving them."

"How did that go anyways?"

Harry smiled, "Better than I was expecting actually. The Mohra blood we injected them with managed to prevent one hundred percent of the damage to their bodies that the rituals would have otherwise done."

Jane sighed in relief, "Good, what did they get?"

"Indestructibility, super strength, flexibility, fire resistance and the ability to see in the dark."

"How come you didn't give them the ability to see through walls?"

Harry said, "Alex wanted them to have some time to adjust to the other upgrades before she worried about it. Besides, she wants to have upgrades in reserve that she can offer them in exchange for favors or jobs on the off chance that we need something done without doing it ourselves."

Jane said, "I guess that also helps to keep Xander from sneaking peeks at the girls locker room."

Harry said, "There is that."

Jane asked, "Are we still planning on keeping this run through?"

Harry said, "So far as I know yeah which means don't go crazy and don't go into the mirror room." He figured they would make a judgment call on it in the morning after making sure that Xander and Willow were stable or at least mostly stable after their upgrades.

"I've got plenty of reading to work on and art projects with Ariel and Gabrielle."

"That's a good idea. I wouldn't want them to feel unloved or ignored."

"In that case you can come help."

Harry laughed, "Sure, I'm sure Alex will come find us once she's done."


Willow rolled over on her bed and grabbed the phone on the second ring, "Rosenberg home."

Xander asked, "Can you come over? I'm freaking out here Willow."

Willow sat up and noticed a picture of the naked blue skinned girl sitting on the nightstand, "Why are you freaking out Xander?" She picked up the photograph and realized that the naked girl was wearing a human sized Smurf hat.

"I think I did something stupid..."

"What?"

"Can I not talk about this over the phone?"

"You might as well come over." She yawned.

Xander said, "I'll be over in five minutes." He hung the phone up and headed for Willow's house.

Willow hung up the phone then flipped the picture over and read what it said on the back, "Please enjoy your new abilities, Increased Strength, Increased Durability, Scrying and Fire Resistance and the ability to see in darkness. If you have any questions, feel free to give me a call." She was fairly sure that 'Miss Smurf' wasn't her actual name but that's how she had signed it. She frowned as she realized that she could actually see perfectly even though the lights weren't on and there was no light coming through the closed curtains which generally meant that it was night out. The weirdest part was that she could still make out colors even though there was almost no light in her room. "Crap."

Xander knocked softy on her window, "Willow?"

Willow walked over and opened the window, "Hey..."

Xander climbed into the room, "Sorry for showing up late..." He stared at the picture in her hand of the blue skinned girl, "Where did you get the picture?"

Willow said, "It was here when I woke up. Do you recognize her?"

"She recruited me to a super soldier program... I know that sounds crazy."

Willow laughed softly as she carefully lifted the bed with her foot. "Just a bit."

Xander stared at Willow's bed and how effortless it looked for her to lift it clear off the ground, "Did you sign up as well?"

Willow said, "A guy showed up and said that I'd be perfect for the program. I didn't think he'd take no for an answer so I said I'd look at the information. I woke up in a lab where a blue girl asked a bunch of questions."

"Questions where you couldn't lie?"

"Exactly..." She gulped, "We should probably tell Giles about this."

Xander shook his head, "He might be able to fix this... I don't want to go back to being normal."

Willow glared at him, "What if something goes wrong?"

Xander pulled out his own picture of the naked girl, "We've got contact numbers, I'm guessing they'll have a better idea of what's going on than he will."

"What if the abilities are dangerous?"

Xander said, "Can we at least enjoy them for the rest of the night? I doubt Giles would appreciate getting woken up."

Willow smiled slightly, "Okay... we should probably run some tests on our new abilities." She figured she could tell Giles about it in the morning if they needed to.


Harry looked around at the group in the early morning, "Any reason that we shouldn't end the loop?"

Alex said, "Not that I know of, we're all safe. We managed to upgrade ourselves without dying or getting permanently mangled thanks to the Mohra blood. Willow and Xander are doing okay with their upgrades. Better than I was really expecting..."

Sirius said, "We also managed to quietly collect some magic items and destroy some vampires and problem demons while wearing disguises. We should probably check into a magical item that hides our scents better than a couple cleaning spells."

Hermione said, "Either way, I'm calling this loop a success."

Harry said, "In that case, let's break the loop and enjoy ourselves for a while. We can always toss up another time loop if we need to."

Alex said, "I'm in favor of breaking the loop and doing some physical training and stretches so that we can get in better shape. I want us more flexible for when we use the flexibility ritual."

Jane said, "I'm looking forward to going out with Willow on a date, hopefully the upgrades don't mess things up."

"We can hope." Harry teleported to the safe, grabbed the green rod and broke it which ended the time loop.