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Chapter 3

As Xander and his group followed the Fantastic 4 into their living area he kept an eye on them warily, hopefully they would be safe here for awhile, 'the place seemed pretty safe' he thought, 'but that could easily change.' He wanted to have a chance to sleep until now, it was fear and adrenaline keeping him up and now fatigue was setting in.

"Umm," Xander said, "is there a place where we can rest? I am pretty tired and I would like to get some shut eye he said."

Reed said, "Yes there is, I know you must all be quite exhausted after this ordeal, you should get some rest."

"Thank you sir," Xander said respectfully.

"Please, call me Reed," he said.

As Xander was about to go to sleep he decided to take a look in his coat pockets to see if there was anything to snack on when he found a note, he began to read it,

Dear Xander:

It's fairly dangerous for you to be here right now, so Buffy and I decided we would send you to a dimension where you could be safe and we think you're gonna like it. It's a place full of superheroes, isn't that exciting, you're gonna have the time of your life

Willow and Buffy.

Xander looked at the letter and sighed, 'I guess I will just have to murder them when I get back.' As he fell asleep his dreams were of Buffy and Willow being chased down by a gaudy looking superhero zombie.

Four hours later, he woke up and got out of the room provided to him by the FF, when he saw them with MJ and Frank talking around a table about what do next. MJ saw him come in and she waved him over with her hand.

"Hey, Xander looks like we finally have a plan," she said, "it looks like Nick Fury is gathering the uninfected heroes on the helicarrier and the FF want us to go with them too."

"Yes son, I believe you are a very capable young man," Reed said, "anyone else probably would have just shut down from the shock of these horrible times."

"Yeah, I guess I have been doing alright, but let me tell you something if it weren't for gooey and my solider and hyena I probably would have become a meal for some zombie." Xander said.

Susan looked at the young man and realized there and then that he suffered from poor self esteem and resolved to help him get over it before it killed him and most likely them as well.

"Hey kid," he heard the big rocky guy known as Ben say, "don't let things get you down, you managed to keep several people alive, they would've went down like nobodies business.

Johnny Storm looked at him and asked, "by the way, what did you mean Hyena and solider?"

"Where my school is, it's the mouth of hell; literally, it's a mystical convergence where the powers of darkness are naturally drawn too."

Xander went on to explain his years of high school from the praying mantis lady to Ethan Rayne and finally and most recently the Judge and Angelus.

They had sat still for the story, most of the heroes were horrified to hear of such a place and when they heard about the slayer, one girl chosen in the entire world to fight alone against the darkness the demons and the vampires

"Excuse me Xander," Susan said, "why is it a girl?"

"Well, I heard Giles explain it one time and he said it had something to do with women being biologically tougher than men, but I think it has more to do with the fact that the people who created the slayer essence found that women were easier to control than men."

Susan snorted, "You're probably right, it doesn't matter what dimension you're in."

"Well Xander, that is a very interesting story and we will do our best to get you home, but right now we have our own problems to worry about," Reed said.

"Yeah, I saw that, no way in hell I am gonna expose my home dimension to this kind of shit. Sunnydale is shitty enough with out super powered zombies looking for meals."

"So, lets get going, the longer we stay here the more chance some hungry zombie will find us," Reed said.

As they got ready to leave, Xander asked, "What should we do about the children in the group; will this helicarrier be safe for them?"

"Yes, it should be safe for them, most of the infected who can fly are mostly staying close to the ground looking for humans," Reed said.

As they headed to the helicarrier, Xander watched the destruction of the city from the air and realized as bad as he thought it seemed from the ground, it was even worse from the air. He saw whole neighbourhoods ruined, he saw blood everywhere on the sidewalk and on the streets, it was horrible and due to his now enhanced senses he could literally hear the screams of the infected and of the dying.

As they approached the helicarrier, Xander thought to himself, 'who pays the taxes for that thing?' It was huge and it was surrounded by a bunch of smaller aircraft that surrounded it, he could see that a lot of them were filled with survivors who were being taken to the helicarrier.

As Xander's group and the FF landed on the helicarrier, they were greeted by Nick Fury, "hey guys, welcome to the 'lets try and get our asses outta this one' group," he said with a sarcastic remark. "You guys gonna introduce me to your new friend?" he said looking at Xander.

"Yeah," said Ben, "this here is Xander, he apparently came from some other dimension and got stuck in New York on the worst day ever, poor kid."

"How do you know he isn't responsible for this," a shield agent said with a bit of venom in his voice, "for all we know, the plague could've came from his dimension."

"Yeesh," Xander said, "yeah it did and I decided, for the fucking hell of it, to come with it and die in the most horrible way possible."

"Be that as it maybe Xander, I would like you too surrender yourself to our custody until we can verify your story," Nick said.

"Lovely, now I am getting treated like a criminal," Xander groused, "DO YOU THINK I WANTED TO BE HERE!!" Xander screamed.

MJ walked up to Nick and slapped him, "he saved mine and May's lives and I don't think he has anything to do with this," she said with anger in her voice.

"Well then, he should just let himself be put in custody then," a shield agent said, "if he is innocent then he has nothing to hide."

Frank had enough of people slandering the kid, he had come to respect. He stood in front of Xander and said, "Well then, I guess I will have to start shooting anyone who comes near him with handcuffs."

"Enough!" Reed called out, "we can keep an eye on Xander, Nick you trust me right?" At Nick's nod, Reed said, "then let Xander join up with up with the Fantastic 4 and then we can keep an eye on him for you."

"Very well," Nick said, "but one of you has to stay with him at all times and his access in the Helicarrier is restricted. He will be allowed to attend meetings but I want him to stay with the refugees, is that agreeable to you son?"

"Yeah, I guess, but I will expect an apology for this treatment when I have my innocence proven," Xander said.

Nick looked at him and said, "Son, right now my world is facing possible extinction, so you're lucky that you're still alive and if you are proven innocent then maybe you get an apology after the crisis is over."

Xander and May walked with the children to where the refugees where being held he saw alot of people crying over someone they had lost or just in general. He had heard one person say they had heard that the infection had reached Europe because of the super fast heroes and villains who were infected and how the infection was spreading out of control.

May held onto to the children and whispered to Xander, "its over isn't it, our world is going to end and all that's going to be left are the damned and the dead," she said with tears in her eyes, "and now you're going to be stuck with us."

"No May, don't think like that, I mean we are still alive right? And where there is life there is hope right?" He said.

May looked at Xander and said, "Would you mind calling me aunt May? You remind me so much of Peter and right now, you don't have family in this universe, so I want to be your aunt."

"Sure, Aunt May he said.

"He has us too," he heard Johnny Storm say, "the FF has always been a family and now we would love to add you to our family because we trust you, how about it Xander?"

Xander blushed at all the attention he was getting, it wasn't something he was used to really and now he suddenly had an aunt and team members who cared about him.

Meanwhile, in the darkness between the universes, the Living Tribunal had sensed something from a different Multiverse all together landing on Earth. He would go investigate this disturbance and, if need be, eradicate it from existence.

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