Fic: GhostSlayer (6/?)

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GhostSlayer, Part Six.
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"Puffy Xander? No way!" Willow stared at the Slayer 
incredulously. "Giles? Buffy's gone bye-bye." Getting no response 
from the ex-librarian, she turned and saw Xander and Giles glued to 
the window.
"No way," Xander commented, "does my ass look that big."
Willow joined them at the window. Her mouth became an elongated 'O'.
"How the hell are we gonna kill *that*?" she demanded. Then an idea 
hit. "Cross the streams," she muttered. Giles blinked and came out of 
his stupor. 
"Didn't you once say that crossing the streams would be bad?" he 
questioned.
"I'm fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing." Xander said. "How bad?"
Willow chewed her lip. "Try to imagine every molecule of your body 
exploding at the speed of light. Or, there's a possibility of total 
protonic reversal. Either way..." she shrugged. "It could be 
interesting."
"Cross the streams!" Giles groaned.
Xander prodded Buffy with the toe of his boots. "Buffy doesn't seem 
to be with us anymore. What do we do?"
Willow stared at the Slayer. "I could enter her mind and find out 
what's going on in there..." she ventured.
"That would be extraordinarily risky!" Giles cautioned. "Not to 
mention disturbing!"
Willow nodded, then she walked over to Buffy and slapped her silly. 
It had no effect, so she pulled out the SuperSoaker 2000 and let rip.
Buffy blinked. "I'm good!" she claimed. "Let's go kick this nimble 
little minx's ass!"
"Where do you hide that thing?" Xander asked.
Willow just grinned.

*

Buffy, Willow and Xander stared down the street as a big Puffy 
Xander *crumped* its way closer. Giles stayed behind with the car in 
case the scoobs needed to beat a hasty retreat. At least, that was 
*his* story.
Buffy glanced at Willow who stood with her chest thrust out 
heroically. Buffy looked to Xander, who had his nuclear accelerator 
held in a dashing pose. She collapsed in a hysterical giggling fit 
when she realised they resembled the cover of Charlie's Angels.
"Buffy!" Willow admonished. "We need you focused!"
"Yeah," Xander chipped in. "Get with the program."
The Slayer pulled herself to her feet. "You know," she said, "this 
could be our last few moments on this earth... So I really have to do 
this." She grabbed Willow and gave her a soul-crushing hug, clamping 
her mouth on the surprised wicca's. Xander goggled, and Willow's 
expression seemed oddly reminiscent of the time Giles had hugged her 
after finding out she wasn't dead; it'd been an alternative her.
"What's wrong?" Buffy asked Willow. "You didn't seem to mind last 
night...?" She giggled at Xander's expression. His eyebrows were 
attempting to achieve orbit.
"P..p..p..public!" Willow stuttered.
Buffy fought off the hysterics once more and fired up her neutron 
accelerator. "Let's commit deicide!" she exclaimed.
Willow gave her an impressed Look.
Buffy blinked. "I do study, you know."
Willow continued with the Look.
"Well, sometimes." Buffy amended as Willow fired up her own nuclear 
accelerator. Xander fumbled for a moment, and made with the decibels.
"Well..." Buffy shouted over the din, and the *crump* *crump* of the 
approaching Godxander, "Its been fun!" She made with the special FX.
"Liar!" Xander grinned, and his own beam of wavy light smacked into 
his alter-ego.
Willow just shook her head as she let rip. Unexpectedly, she went 
flying backwards, her feet at least 3 feet off the ground. She came 
stumbling back to join the other scoobs.
"First time?" Buffy asked sympathetically.
Willow nodded.
"Caught me that way too," Buffy said. "You have to lean forward when 
you press the trigger."
"Thanks for the belated info." Willow agreed.
Despite the force of three protonic beams against its immense bulk, 
the large Puffy Xander continued to edge its way closer.
"Now!" Willow cried. "Cross the streams."
The other scoobs did as they were told, and the large Puffy Xander 
exploded.

*

"Ptooie!" Buffy said, as she got coated in falling slime. "Why can't 
Gods just turn to ash like vampires."
"Bugger," Xander muttered, so coated with green slime that he looked 
just like Swamp Thing.
"Hey!" Willow cried out. "We're still alive!"
The scoobs, relieved and gooey, made their way back to Giles' car.

*

Buffy lay in bed and regarded her partner.
"You must have realised," she accused.
"I didn't, I swear!" Willow claimed, her ears red with embarrassment.
"You did! You lying little witch!" Buffy sat up and crossed her arms.
Willow giggled. "How did you guess?"
"I knew it!" Buffy tickle-attacked Willow. "It was the way you 
giggled when Xander turned on the radio in Giles' car! You *knew* 
that green slime we all got coated with was Mood Slime!"
Willow leaned forward and licked Buffy's ear.
"Let me make it up to you," she whispered.

*

End Part 6.