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apocalypse nowish's plot


"Be brave. Live. For me."

Those were the last words of Buffy Summers, before she threw herself into the life draining portal that Glory had opened. You all know the story. The portal killed Buffy, and in doing so, kept the world from going into complete chaos. Everyone lived happily ever after, right?

Wrong.

Everything you know about that story is about to change. Buffy jumped, all right, but it didn't make everything better. It did the opposite, in fact. At first, it seemed as if the demon's portals and dimensions had all closed, and all was well. The Scooby gang buried their fallen friend, and continued with their life. Willow went to Los Angeles, and told the Angel Investigations what had happened, before returning to Sunnydale. It was small changes, at first. A few extra demons here and there, a few extra deaths. Nothing that Sunnydale hadn't seen before. What the gang didn't know, was that Buffy's death had severely upset the balance. It wasn't her that was supposed to die. It was Dawn. There were small tears in the dimensions, that had been left open after she had jumped to her death. And those tears were getting bigger. Letting more, and more demons through, from various dimensions. Hell dimensions. And all the demons seem to flock to one spot. The Hell Mouth.

Soon, those few extra demons became a lot of extra demons. And what could the Scoobies do? They were short a Slayer. All they had left was Willow, Tara, Xander, Dawn, Anya, Giles, Spike, and an extra peppy robot. While they were able to hold their own for the time being, the demons kept coming. People started to talk, and the smart ones started to leave. Who could blame them? The 'crime rate' had skyrocketed in the last couple of months. People were dying left and right. The government, of course, said it was gangs on PCP. Wasn't that their excuse for everything, these days? The gang were going their best, but they needed back up. They needed help.

Enter Angel Investigations.

Angel and the gang had gotten a call from Willow, explaining to them what was happening in Sunnydale, since Buffy had died. So, they did the only thing they could do. Angel, Gunn, Fred, Wesley, and Cordelia packed their things, and went to Sunnydale. The odds were looking better for the Scoobies. After all, they now had two vampires, two witches, one ex demon, an ex key, a carpenter, a seer, two guys who could hold their own, and that same peppy robot who didn't seem to know the appropriate times for sex talk. They were still short a Slayer. Mean while, things kept getting worse. More demons were coming. Not just from other dimensions, but from around the world. Sunnydale was the place to be if you were a demon. Not so much for the human types. Finally, Wesley suggested the seemingly perfect idea. They were going to get themselves a Slayer.

Enter Faith

What? You thought I was talking about Buffy? Be patient! Faith was the one who Wesley decided to bring to Sunnydale. So, he went to the 'correctional facility', and told Faith what was happening. She hadn't been cooperative about leaving, at first. After all, she only had twenty five more years left to go. Why would she ever want to extend it to life, for breaking out of jail? All it took was for Wesley to tell Faith that Buffy had died. "Step away from the glass. And then she was out. After fighting off the prison guards, the two made their way back to Sunny D. While a few of the members of the group weren't ecstatic to see the once rogue Slayer, they all agreed that it was needed.

It wasn't enough.

They kept the chaos to a minimum for a while. There was only so much they could do, however, when hundreds of demons started to make Sunnydale their place of residency. The demon population knew that Buffy was dead, and they were having a field day. More people started to leave Sunnydale, as more demons made their way in. Things were looking hopeless for the gang. It came to the point where they dreaded sun down. Eight months passed since the night Buffy had sacrificed herself for the world ( with all the good it did, eh? ), and it got to the point where they could take it no more. Willow would be the one to finally decide that it was time to bring their friend back. She decided, however, to only let Xander, Anya, and Tara in on the idea. Everyone else would be left in the dark, in case the spell didn't work. Oh, it worked, all right. How were they to know that she'd come back wrong?

Enter Buffy.