Spike had almost totally forgotten the incident until the night Dawn talked him into watching a Looney Tunes marathon. “Those characters really exist, you know,” he told her.

Dawn snorted. “I’m not five.”

“’S’truth,” Spike insisted. “Been there. Bloke in Hollywood had this sodding ray-gun—”

“And zapped you into cartoonland? No way.”

“Took a week to get back. Chicken with glasses had to hotwire the Martian’s space whoozie-whatsis.”

“Iludium Q-36 Explosive Space Modulator? You’ve gotta be kidding.”

“S’truth!”

The television abruptly squawked. They both stared at the duster-clad figure stalking across the screen:

“Be vewy vewy qwiet. I’m hunting Swayews!”

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Disclaimer: The Buffyverse belongs to some combination of Joss Whedon, Mutant Enemy, and the Kuzuis; the Looney Tunes characters belong to Warner Brothers.