Unstoppable Ch. 8

Episode 8 (Lovers Walk)

Things seemed to slow down for a bit, so I took the opportunity to go and set up some things, departing from Sunnydale for a few short weeks. I should have known better. When I came back it was to find that Cordelia was in the hospital, quite literally everyone romantically involved suddenly wasn't, and it was all because of Spike, who had blown in and out of town in just a couple days.

It was probably the first time in a while I'd just stood there for several moments with my jaw on the floor.

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Episode 9 (The Wish)

I got over it of course, and got back into the swing of things. Luckily, there was no need for me to depart again anytime soon, so I went back to tearing my way through Giles' supernatural library, of which I was almost done with.

Thus, that was where I was when I felt the change, felt the magic ripple through the air around me and looked up to see the world different in a million almost imperceptible ways. I frowned and stood up to investigate when a familiar voice drew my attention. Giles had just come out of his office and was staring at me in confusion, "Who the bloody hell are you? What are you doing in here?"

I have a general idea of what's going on, but for tradition's sake, I do the old song and dance anyways, "Come now Rupert, you know who I am. Assistant Librarian by day, possible eldritch abomination you haven't figured out how to kill yet by night."

He looks confused so I just flash my fangs and eyes at him and smile. This gets a reaction, as he ducks back into his office and comes up with a fully loaded crossbow, which he immediately fires in my direction. I catch the bolt of course, raising an eyebrow, "Well now, you've never kept weapons in there before. You're so very jumpy in this new dimension Rupert."

He ignores my words in favor of shooting at me again, so I dodge around the second bolt, flash forward to stand before him, and take the crossbow from his hands violently, "Enough of that. You can't kill me."

He immediately starts backing up, and I know he's going for a stake or some other sort of weapon he's hidden close by. I opt for rolling my eyes instead of continuing into the office after him, "Right then, I can tell when I'm not wanted. I'm going to go ahead and go now, take a look around and see exactly what's different. I could just tear it all from your mind, but where's the fun in that?"

With a wave of my fingers, I depart the Library to scope out this new world I suddenly found myself in. Over the next few hours I discovered some interesting things. No Buffy, and no sign of Xander or Willow throughout the day.

From what I could tell, the only one who seemed as out of place as I was happened to be Cordelia and that was because she stuck out like a sore thumb with the bright colors she wore, compared to the muted dark clothes everyone else was sporting.

When everyone fled to their homes before sunset, I followed after Cordelia, getting a better idea of just what was different about this universe by the way the booming vampire population came out of the woodworks to paint the town red.

That was how I finally found Xander and Willow, the scent of undeath on both of them as they suddenly accosted Cordelia. She didn't have any idea what she was dealing with of course, and I prepared to step in if they moved to kill her, not entirely sure if I needed her to get things back to the way they should be or not.

Shefinally figured out what was wrong when Xander and Willow bared their ugly vampire faces at her. Cordelia immediately took off running, with the two chasing after her, seeming to enjoy the hunt. I prepared to make the hunters my prey when they cornered her, only for Giles and a ragtag band of high school students to swoop in and save the day, fending off Xander and Willow with crosses and crossbows and gathering Cordelia up into their van before driving off.

Blinking, I decided to follow the vampires over the humans, having a pretty good idea of where I'd find Giles and Cordelia if I had to look for them. Xander and Willow led me to the Bronze, where I finally got a good look at this character that they'd always called the Master. Part of me was tempted to confront him then and there, but something told me this wasn't the time or place.

Not enough witnesses, it'd be boring otherwise, and this opening of a Plant that he talked about as he raged about Xander and Willow letting Cordelia go had interesting implications. Once again I followed the two vampires from the shadows as they led me back to the High school and right to Giles and Cordelia.

Finally I acted, as they locked Giles in the cage and prepared to kill Cordelia. Swooping in, I grabbed both of them by the scruffs of their necks and pulled them back from her right before they could sink their fangs in, "No, bad vampires. No snacking on the pretty human."

Everyone turned to me and stared for a moment in incredulity, before Xander and Willow tried to attack in unison. My grip shifted to the front of their throats as I locked eyes with them both and brought them under compulsion, "Ah! Be still now darlings. Not in the mood to mess around too much here, so you came, you killed Cordelia, and now you're going to leave and report your success to the Master. You will not remember me until the next time you lay eyes on me."

I release them and the two immediately begin walking out in a daze, headed back to the Bronze where their Master awaited them. I just smiled at the two remaining humans in the room before sing-songing at the female of the two, "Right then, Cordelia, did you do something naughty?"

She flinches violently at that, "I… I…"

I chuckle and shake my head in response, "Cordelia, there's no point in trying to lie here. If I wanted you dead, I would have let those two drain you. If you want to fix things, you're going to need to fess up."

Cordelia shuddered but nodded, looking to Giles, who was still trapped in the cage, staring at the two of us as if unsure what to think, "This world isn't right, like I said Giles. Buffy is supposed to be here. Vampires aren't supposed to have the run of the town like this, she's supposed to be slaying them! She's the Slayer!"

I roll my eyes at the rambling and walk over to the cage to let Giles out, "Long story short, call for the Vampire Slayer because the Master is going to be unveiling some sort of terrible plan for the humans of Sunnydale very soon. Once you get Buffy here, you can work on figuring out exactly what Cordelia did, and how to go about fixing it."

Giles looks at me with underlying fear mixed with incredulity and disbelief, "Who are you? What are you?"

I grin at that and settle for winking, "Wouldn't you like to know Rupert. Get to work now, I'm going to get moving and scout out this Master and his master plan."

With that, I depart the Library and then the school, but not before hearing Cordelia offhandedly throw out, "I'm pretty sure he's like a Super Incubus or something." I couldn't help a small smile as I went.

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Going back to the Bronze, I'd been able to just catch the large group of vampires as they headed out to the Plant that the Master had mentioned. It turned out to be some sort of factory, judging by the conveyor belts and what not. I watched along with the assembled vampires and the large group of human prisoners as one of the humans was put on the conveyor and drained of her blood.

I couldn't help it, as the Master filled a wine glass with her blood and made some great speech about mass production. I found myself scoffing as I appeared before him, revealing myself, "You are an insult to the title you hold!"

He freezes at my appearance, legitimately shocked by both my speed and brazen words, not even getting a chance to drink the blood from the glass he was holding only an inch from his lips. Now frowning, he brought it down and stared at me, "I'm sorry, but who are you?"

I grin wickedly, my gold and black eyes coming to the surface and my double set of fangs presenting themselves, "I… am the Master."

He looked incredulous and a moment later began to look infuriated, but before he could really get going, I was on him, one hand in his chest holding his undead heart and the other around his throat as I pushed him down on the conveyor. His claws scrambled at me, but I was more focused on ranting in his face.

"This isn't Mass Production you fucking idiot! This is genocide! You don't fucking eat the humans like cattle, you drink their blood. If you fucking put the time and effort into things, you could have an endless supply of blood instead of killing your food source through this stupid factory idea. How long before the town dries up because you've drained every single human in Sunnydale?"

My grip on his throat has slowly been growing stronger and stronger as we talked, and with a sudden crack and pop, my hand closed into a fist and his head came off, bouncing onto the conveyor belt and then off onto the floor. I blink at my loss of control before realizing the outright silence prevailing through the factory.

Looking up, I find a sea of slack jaws and wide eyes staring back at me, both humans and vampires staring at me in shock. And behind the vampires stand Buffy and Angel, arrived just in time to watch my little show, probably here to kill the Master and save the day. Sighing I drop the vampire corpse and straighten up, flicking the hand drenched in blood to the side and grimacing.

"Apologies… I don't usually get that worked up, but his whole plan was just really really stupid. If you're going to hunt and kill humans because you enjoy doing so, then do it. But this sort of thing? If you're going to set up a factory and a production line, you should be keeping the source of your product alive. That's just simple sense, isn't it?"

I get no responses, so I wave a hand in Buffy's direction, "Anyways, that there's the Slayer. You lot should probably either run or try to kill her. Whichever strikes your fancy."

As one, the vampires turn to Buffy, their eyes just as wide as before. The girl barely has the time to shoot me a dirty look before she's fighting for her life. Angel has the sense to open up the cage holding the humans, and everyone arms themselves with wood of some sort and begins fighting.

I stand back and watch as vampires and humans fall left and right, Angel dying to a stake meant for Buffy, Xander dying to Buffy herself, and Willow staked by Oz. Very shortly, the Slayer stands before me, clearly prepared to do battle and fight me, having decided I'm just as much an evil as the vampires who were still fighting the humans all around us.

I just smile at her as I take in this beaten and broken Buffy. She has more physical scars than the Buffy I know, but it's the metaphysical ones I can see about her, her entire personality dead, gone to the Slayer. She is a woman with a death sentence. I let her stab me through the heart with her stake, and use it to grab her and pull her close, shocking her when I don't die and turn to ash.

I smile as I hold her close to my chest, my legs blocking hers from the kick to my nuts she instantly tries to deliver. Soon enough though I have her locked down even as she struggles ineffectually against me. I chuckle down at her, "Ah, darling. You are in some serious need of love. And I just happen to be more than willing to give it to you."

I move in before she can reply and capture her mouth, kissing her heatedly, passionately even as she struggles but can't quite avoid the deepening kiss. Our eyes locked and after a moment she isn't even struggling anymore, grabbed by my hypnotic gaze as my tongue swirls around hers.

I prepare to take things to the next step, I'll bend her over the conveyor belt next to the Master's fresh corpse and fuck her if I have to. Ready to do just that, I begin to pull away from her accepting mouth only for everything to flash white. In an instant I find myself back in the Sunnydale High Library, sun streaming through the windows and the clock on the wall reading around the time that things went wonky earlier that day.

My lips pursed together, I had to restrain myself from killing him outright when Giles walked out of his office with a book in hand. Our eyes met, and a moment later Giles turned around and walked back into his office. Turning my own eyes back to the book open in front of me, I brought my fingers to my lips.

Buffy Summers was not the best kisser I'd ever known. She was not the most experienced, talented, or even the most beautiful woman I'd ever known. But I didn't make habit of letting the ones who got away stay that way.

Before the end of this year, I would take the first Slayer to bed like I had the second, this I knew now. Now it was only a matter of when.

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