Suitably creepy. It's rabbit season.

DUCK SEASON! FIRE!

Oh sorry, wrong work of fiction. :-)

My advice: get only chocolate eggs, and eat all of them as quickly as possible. :-)

Oh dear. (I seem to be saying that a lot lately) They're in a bit of trouble. *smirk*

At least this might go a little differently than in canon.

I wanted to shout "Don't go into the closet!" at Xander. He made the connection to the body snatchers yet still followed them into the trap. Argh.

Hey, even if you know it's a trap, you stick with the superpowered musclewoman instead of loitering around where you're helpless. :-)

Feel free to do your best Admiral Ackbar imitation. :-)

Ah! Once again continuously hitting "refresh" pays off!

"Apocalypsers" hehe, I like Xander neologisms. Buffy's Rosenmom is also a nice one.
Xander's wiggins-meter is pretty good.
Things usually go "bump" in the night, I like seeing that they can go "grr" too. Reminds me of the Mutant Enemey sort-of-jingle. I watch the entire ending credit just to listen to that.
A bezoar is a sort of stone that comes from a digestive system (I think it's relatively common with goats). On the other hand a *mother* bezoard sounds less mundane.

Sometimes the neologisms flow, and sometimes they refuse to emerge. So it's hit-or-miss. But I decided to stick with the terminology from the canon episode, and the mother monster is called a 'bezoar' even though everyone now knows (thanks to Harry Potter) that it's a concretion that forms in GI tracts, usually of ruminants, although even people can get them (usually from chewing on hair or fuzzy stuff or inedible stuff that shreds), and was once believed to be a magical antidote for poisons. Instead, I decided to use the word 'bezoar' as a Chekov's Gun to be fired off in a couple chapters.

I think you put slightly too much effort into naming all the eggs. Funny though.

I put too much effort into everything that's useless. :-) :-) I'm obsessive-compulsive. It should be pretty obvious from the level of detail that shows up in everything I write. (It's most blatant in my Phase stories.)

"Those salads were pure evil."

So true.

Xander ought to be eating them, since these are his 'salad days'. :-) :-)

Willow is sure taking that egg seriously! And it seems like Xander had a slayer type prophetic dream! Very disturbing. And I'm afraid that he is correct. Babies do end up making their parents very tired. Eggs however, usually do not...

Willow is going a little overboard with her egg. And Xander's dream sure seemed meaningful if you've watched the episode. As for making mommies and daddies tired, eggs full of creepy tentacle-y baby bezoar sure do. :-)

Doing it with Willow is *really* changing the way Xander is living through that egg thing. That means that the story is not following the episode anywhere near as closely as it did for the previous ones, and this is an appreciated change of pace.

We're far enough into the story that I won't be covering the episodes that unfold exactly as in canon, unless there's important Xander storyline that wasn't covered in the original episode.

Sounds like the eggs are draining them.

Egg-zactly. If you re-watch the episode, you'll see that even that first night, the baby bezoars are getting at least a few tentacles out of the eggs and doing something bad to the 'moms', then re-sealing themselves in the eggs.

Good chapter.

Thanks. It's just expository, and the reader knows far more about what is going on that Xander does.

There isn't a thing wrong with Turkey sausage! (Turkey Bacon and Turkey Pepperoni on the other hand just don't come out right.) But if you want something tasty, try Ostrich Sausage!

Oh well, at least you passed on having Xander do a Mr. Burns... =D

Oh, don't expect Xander to pass up the opportunity to do bad pop-culture puns and jokes. This is the guy who said:
"Does anyone feel like they've been Keyser Soze'd?"
and
"We're gonna need a bigger boat."

Yeah when your principal penalises you for breathing you know you have a problem!

Snyder has to hate Xander more than anyone else in the whole city right now. Of course, that's not good for Xander, but it might make things a little easier for Buffy.

Good insights. Also a Xander who actually wants Willow is an interesting twist to his Xena memories. I like how you still have him being mostly Xander.

He's basically 95% Xander, just with some freaky memories added onto his own.

Glad that you skipped Ted if it went mostly as canon. Brief summary was perfect.

I plan on doing that pretty regularly. Only episodes which advance *my* plot need to be delved into. That's why I only touched on Ford's visit after Halloween.

Poor Xander. Still getting bugged for "saving" Snyder.

Life is not fair. Life in Sunnydale as written by Joss is guaranteed to be the opposite of fair.