Hero

Author: Cyclone <cyclone[at]citynet.net>

Feedback: Please be gentle.

Distribution: Gimme credit and a link. Plus, archived at http://fanfiction.net/profile.php?userid=62966 or http://fanfiction.net/~cyclone

Group: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/whirlwind-productions/

Rating: I'm gonna go say PG.

I'm STILL not sure what this qualifies as. Not a songfic, not a straight 'fic, not a teaser.

I guess you could call it a music video on paper, featuring scenes from my Xander 'fic worlds.

Five absolutely useless kewpie points if you can match each scene to its 'fic world. Not all scenes have appeared yet in the noted 'fics, but there's enough clues that an astute reader should be able to pick them out.


Chapter 1

"Where have all the good men gone...?"

(Xander dressed as Captain America throwing his shield)

"...and where are all the gods?"

(Xander dressed in red and black with a pigtail punching in Glory's face)

"Where's the streetwise Hercules to fight the rising odds?"

(Xander and Hercules fighting a mob of vampires surrounding them)

"Isn't there a white knight upon a fiery steed?"

(Xander riding a speeder bike with an orange lightsaber in hand)

"Late at night I toss and I turn and I dream of what I need."

(Anya, Buffy, Dawn, Tara, and Willow cornering a very nervous Xander)

"I need a hero!
I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night."

(Xander getting zapped by the Inquisitor)

"He's gotta be strong, and he's gotta be fast,
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight."

(Xander with a shotgun and sword fighting off a swarm of vampires and other demons)

"I need a hero!
I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light."

(Xander with the Zenith Caste mark flaring on his forehead)

"He's gotta be sure, and he's gotta be soon,
And he's gotta be larger than life.
Larger than life."

(Two Taras and two Willows surrounding an uneasy Xander)

"Somewhere after midnight,
In my wildest fantasies,"

(Willow and Xander driving out of Sunnydale)

"Somewhere just beyond my reach,
There's someone reaching back for me."

(Xander in military BDUs dropping a P-90 to grab Samantha Carter's hand and stop her from falling off a cliff)

"Racing on the thunder and rising with the heat,
It's gonna take a Superman to sweep me off my feet."

(Xander in the Thor suit rocketing into the air)

"I need a hero!
I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night."

(Xander with a large pistol in one hand, a crossbow in the other, and a mildly psychotic look on his face)

"He's gotta be strong, and he's gotta be fast,
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight."

(Xander in a wrecked hardsuit staggering into view)

"I need a hero!
I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light."

(Face-off between three slightly different Xanders)

"He's gotta be sure, and he's gotta be soon,
And he's gotta be larger than life."

(A column of destroids stomping forward)

"I need a hero!
I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night."

(Xander appearing in a flash of blue-white spheres)

"Up where the mountains meet the heavens above,
Out where the lightning strikes the sea,
I can swear that there is someone somewhere watching me."

(Xander aboard the Firefly-class starship Serenity)

"Through the wind and the chill and the rain
And the storm and the flood,
I can feel his approach like a fire in my blood."

(Xander in a steam-powered suit of armor standing the rain in the ruins of a battle-scarred medieval town next to Kira)

"I need a hero!
I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night."

(Xander of casting the spell over Tara's body)

"He's gotta be strong, and he's gotta be fast,
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight."

(Xander in black armor decapitating a vampire with the Demon Sword Soul Crusher)

"I need a hero!
I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light."

(Xander driving a car into a warehouse)

"He's gotta be sure, and he's gotta be soon,
And he's gotta be larger than life."

(Xander in dark robes waving a not-exactly-mystical-looking staff and creating a brilliant light)

"I need a hero!
I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night.
He's gotta be strong, and he's gotta be fast,
And he's gotta be fresh from the fight."

(Xander staggering out of the vineyard with a shattered baseball bat and a pair of pistols)

"I need a hero!
I'm holding out for a hero 'til the morning light."

(Xander standing over an Adam-like creature with Kennedy's face and watching the sun rise)

"He's gotta be sure, and he's gotta be soon,
And he's gotta be larger than life."

(Xander dressed in a Hellsing uniform and blasting at a hallway full of ghouls with a shotgun)

"I need a hero!
I'm holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night."

(Accelerating montage of Xanders from all my 'fics until they blur together)

The End