Evyl was sitting at the kitchen table at the hotel when Kiraan suddenly burst in the back door. He immediately stormed over to the table and flipped it over to the side, knocking Evyl on his backside. He snatched Obi up by the front of the shirt, claws out, his eyes glowing fiercely.

"Your /Pet/ just tried to seduce Aliya," Kiraan spat in Evyl�s face snarling. Evyl barely managed an �eep� and a confused stare of shock as he realized he feet weren�t touching the floor.

"Put him down," Exar said from the doorway, still in his nightrobes. Kiraan growled at him, and Kun took a step back.

"Stay out of this," he snarled, then turned his attention back to the clone. "/You/ created that thing, you fix it, /NOW/!" he growled menacingly, mere centimeters from Evyl�s face. Kiraan half-dropped, half-tossed him onto the floor, then stormed out of the building, slamming the door behind him with an angry wave. Evyl blinked stupidly, then it occurred to him.

"Demon."

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Spyke was zoned out on the couch, snoring away with the drapes shut. Ulic came into the room, then paused, glaring momentarily at his prone form. He smirked unpleasantly, morphing into Demon�s blue-skinned self. He morphed again into Evyl as he walked toward the couch. He leaned over the couch, kissing Spyke. The clone-pyre startled awake.

"Hey stake-boy, wanna play?" he purred in Evyl�s voice, grinning. Spyke scrambled away and fell off the couch, startled. Demon/Evyl pounced after him with a grin and a growl, knocking over an end-table.

"Demon!" Maul snapped from the door. He turned his head toward Maul with a snarl, morphing back into his blue self as he did.

"Get off him, freak," Maul snarled, drawing his lightsaber from his belt.

Demon hissed, backing up to a crouch, tail swishing angrily behind him. Maul ignited one end of the �saber, and Demon vanished in a poof. Maul growled for a moment longer, warily waiting with weapon active. Kun and Evyl appeared at the other doorway, and he snarled momentarily before pausing to study them. He deactivated the lightsaber and sighed.

"What in the twelve hells is going on in here?" Kun demanded. Maul just glared at Evyl as he crossed the floor to help Spyke up.

"Your pet Demon just tried to molest Spyke," Maul growled, helping the stunned clone-pyre to stand.

"Molest!?!" Spyke said angrily. "Try flat-out about to shag me against my will!" he exclaimed, scared and upset. Kun�s expression darkened, and Evyl gaped in disbelief.

"I... he wouldn�t..... he can�t...." he stammered, dumbstruck. Maul glared.

"He did," he said, then looked preoccupied for a moment. "It�s not the first time," he said, then looked at Spyke, who still looked between indignant and terrified.

"I know. Kiraan was just here, apparently Demon�s been visiting the club, too," Kun said.

"If he hurt Aliya, I�ll kill him myself," Xanatos said, having appeared by the doorway without anyone noticing. Maul glared suspiciously for a moment before checking for Xan�s presence. He relaxed, then sighed.

"How the hell are we supposed to keep track of a creature who can turn into anyone he wants, and teleport away at will?" Maul demanded to no-one in particular. Evyl just shook his head, stricken.

"How could...." he began, "I... I mean, he was so nice, then...." he said, then shook his head again.

"Now I know how Qui-gon must�ve felt," Xan muttered, arms crossed anxiously. Kun nodded thoughtfully, unsettled.

"So, what do we do about him?" Spyke asked.

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Demon was perched on the roof behind the scrollwork at the top of the tower, watching the street below while remaining hidden. He watched Kiraan enter the Lemon, then twitched his tail behind him uneasily. Perhaps he�d gone a little too far this time. Sneaking up on Maul had been relatively easy, once he knew what he wanted to see. Spyke, however, was just a pet project to annoy. Too bad he couldn�t just make himself look like Buffy, then he�d have Spyke under his every command.

He sighed, staring at the club as the shades in the windows upstairs closed one at a time across the entire building front. Okay, so playing with Aliya was a bad idea. Doing so as Xanatos had proved... insightful, however. He smiled to himself, very insightful indeed. The only thing he�d done wrong was forget that Aliya didn�t like anyone but Zek to call her Ali.

He faded himself to invisibility, all but a faint gold glow were his eyes were. Another strange mutation of his newly-inherited shape-changing abilities.

Suspicion led to discovery, and discovery led to an ass-kicking, as he�d almost received from Kiraan before he managed to teleport away. Perhaps he�d be better off somewhere were people were more gullible, and less used-to strange things happening around them. Someone with such interesting new powers could do interesting things elsewhere.

Very interesting things, if someone as single-powered as Exar could amass as much power as he�d had before being stranded here.

Demon rumbled and smirked to himself, changing into his alter-form while still invisible.

Very interesting things.......

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"Are you sure you want to do this?" Xanatos asked Evyl, who was curled up on the couch, his knees to his chest. He nodded distractedly, not sure, but willing to go along with it anyway. Xan looked up at Exar, who looked preoccupied.

"You sure you can still do it?" he asked, and Exar looked up, frowning, then sighing.

"Yes," Exar said, "It�s been a while, but I think I can...." he said, then sighed. "I just have to remember the procedure, and hope it works in this Force-forsaken universe," he said, rubbing his eyes wearily.

"Just as long as I never have to see Evyl nekkie again, shapeshifter or not," Spyke muttered, then looked at the group as they stared. "Wasn�t my fault! Demon poofed himself into my room, and...." he began, then stopped, looking away in embarrassment. "He poofed away when I yelled at him," he added in explanation, then shrugged.

"He forgot to poof away his tail when he did the shiftie thing," he mumbled, sulking.

"Actually," Xan began, thinking. "That�s one good thing, he always ends up forgetting something that gives himself away," he said.

"He might be doing it on purpose sometimes, though, to see if we notice he�s not what we think he is," Exar said. Xan nodded, then paused, looking around curiously.

"Where�s Ulic?" he asked. Kun shrugged.

"Asleep still," he said, then paused, blinking oddly. He suddenly stood and walked out of the room, heading for the stairs. Everyone waited for a few minutes, then heard him stomping down the stairs again, furious.

"First, I�m going to kill the little bastard, then, I�m going to get a camera and take a picture of Ulic before he unties himself," Kun said as he entered the room. "Actually, picture first, this is just too hilarious," he said, breaking into chuckles at the end.

"What?" Xan asked, standing. Exar just chuckled, then retrieved Zek�s �lost� camera from behind some books on the shelf, smirking.

"Go see for yourself," he said, then snickered. "After I take the picture though, I want that look of indignant rage preserved for all eternity," he said, heading for the stairs again. They waited a full three seconds out of confusion before jumping en-masse to their feet and heading for the stairs.

Exar was standing outside the open door to his room, laughing, camera hidden safely behind his back. Spyke was the first to peer around the door.

"Oh my god," he exclaimed, laughing himself into hysteria. Xan shoved him out of the way as the group struggled to see. Everyone immediately started laughing. Well, everyone except Ulic.

Ulic was wearing nothing but an apron with "Martha Stewart�s f'-toy" written on it, bound and gagged with duct-tape and tied to Exar�s bed. A large red bow was tied completely around the bed and Ulic�s waist, with a paperclip where a sheet of paper had been attached to the ribbon.

"The note says �You�re a sick bastard who doesn�t get enough. Try screwing something that doesn�t have a padawan braid or scales. Get a life, I�m taking over your galaxy. Sincerely, Demon, soon-to-be Emperor of anywhere I can conquer.

I�m off to rampage around the universe anywhere I can. Thanks for being the biggest bunch of freakish assholes I�ve ever met, (and this is coming from a certified mutant freak, mind you.)

Ps: Thank Obi for being the most amazing �shag� I�ve ever had, and for creating me. He may kindly now screw Exar for all eternity, which is what he�s always really wanted anyway." Exar said, reading from the letter.

"Damn," Xan said, stunned. "He�s not just turned to the dark side, he�s turned pure evil!" he said, awed. Ulic mumbled a curse, struggling with his bonds.

"Careful, Ulic, Don�t struggle too much, unless you want everyone to see your, well, �Lightsaber�?" Kun taunted, and Ulic immediately froze, glaring pure death and intent at Exar. Kun laughed, then shoved the audience away from the door.

"I�ll cut him loose, you boys go play somewhere else for a minute or two," he said, shooing them away. "We need to talk," Kun said, glaring at Ulic as he closed the door behind himself.

Ulic emerged wearing a pair of Kun�s pants, glaring daggers and carrying an aura of rage strong enough to scare the dust-bunnies as he stormed into his own room and slammed the door. Kun appeared in the doorway, looking out at the curious heads poking around their doors.

"It�s safe to come out now, Ulic�s not going to kill anyone," he said, then paused, looking toward Ulic�s door. "Not yet, anyway," he said, then turned and reentered his room, closing the door behind himself.

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It was a full night at the club, complete with the usual table full of Klingons, and the mandatory TSA agent watching for time-space tears due to portal activity. Demon was in his human form, almost completely unrecognizable and quite happy with his surroundings.

Then something odd caught his attention.

"Pleeease? Come on, I swear I�m legal age, look, here�s my id," a girl at the edge of the room was insisting to this week�s bouncer. /Woah, how�d they manage Crunk for portal-duty?/ he briefly wondered, then started to recognize the girl.

"Hall pass, Bayside High, no id, no in club," the large purple being said, shoving the tiny card back at her and pointing at the wall. "Crunk no /that/ stupid," he said. Demon stepped up beside him.

"Hey Crunk, isn�t puppet pals on soon?" he said. Crunk looked at his watch in a panic.

"Crunk miss puppet pals?!?! Noooo!" he cried, then rushed past the girl and dove into the portal.

"Whew, thanks," she said, stuffing the card into her purse. Demon laughed.

"Kitty, it�s me, Kurt," he said, laughing. She blinked in surprise, then leaned closer to scrutinize his face. He grinned.

"Ohmigod! that /is/ you!" she cried, recognizing him, then paused. "Waaait, you�re a little /old/, aren�t you?" she said, suspicious. He shoved a lock of hair out of his face and did his best �innocent me� impression.

"I�m a parallel version of your Kurt," he only half-lied. "I�m older, and I can shapeshift like my mom," he said, then shrugged with a smirk. Kitty grinned.

"Cool, that means we can get into a lot more trouble then, right?"

Demon grinned mischievously. "Yah," he said, then chuckled. "You vant a drink? The bartender doesn�t check id at the bar," he said, jerking his thumb toward the bar. Kitty grinned.

"Coooool, let�s go!" she said, then grabbed his arm and dragged him toward the bar. He grinned, liking the way whatever this version of Kitty thought.

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"What do you mean Kitty disappeared through the wall? She always does that," Logan growled.

"Yeah, but she didn�t come out the other side, and there were all these weird lights when she went through," a teenaged Jean Gray said. A few of the other cartoon-era X-men stood around her, including the Kurt that Evyl had taken the sample from.

"Maybe she vas taken by that weird guy that stabbed me in the butt?" he asked, then shrank down in embarrassment at the disbelieving glares.

"Not /that/ again," Rogue grumbled.

"No, wait, I think he may be on the right track here. You said the guy disappeared into a big swirly glowing portal, right?" Scott said.

"Ya," Kurt said, perking up.

"It look anything like the wall Kitty disappeared through?" he asked. Kurt sat up straighter and blinked.

"Yah," he said, sounding surprised.

"Well, then we find the wall and see what�s up," Scott said.

"Brilliant, we can paint a picture of her there until she rematerializes," Rogue said.

"Maybe the portal�s still there," Scott sniped back. Rogue poked her tongue out at him.

"Children, please," Spyke (the non-vamp OTHER Spyke, Storm�s nephew) said.

"He�s right, let�s go find Kitty, before Xavier finds out I snuck you all out of bed for a night on the town," Logan said.

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"Whoo-baby! I think I like it here!" Kitty said, laughing. She hadn�t even touched her drink, content to watch the crowd around her. Londo and G�kar had gotten into an argument with a Jawa over a stolen pocketwatch, and the Klingon clan-fight had moved back into their own world. The tables were being cleaned up already while the partying resumed.

A semi-sober alter-universe Obi-wan was onstage in leather pants and body glitter, singing Bowie songs and trying not to get his padawan braid tangled in the microphone cord. An alternate-Maul, obviously from the same universe, looked ready to drag him off-stage. Whether for his previous terrible rendition of �Barbie Girl� or to drag him into a back room and bonk him senseless, there was no way of telling.

"Yah, vell, I don�t," Demon said, on his third glass of Evyl�s favorite sour green apple liquor.

"Why not?" Kitty asked, laughing and applauding as Maul finally dragged alter-Obi offstage. He shrugged, glaring at the stage.

"I just vish I vas home," he said, giving his best lonely sigh. Kitty tilted her head and smiled slightly.

"Awwwww, then why don�t you go?" she asked. He hid a smirk and sighed.

"Can�t, I lost the portal home," he lied, then looked up at her with all the pleading sadness he could muster. "Could I come back to your vorld?" he asked. she looked surprised.

"Umm, wow. I dunno," she began.

"Please? I von�t be a bother, and I�m even house-trained!" he joked. She smiled, then grumbled in hesitation. He flashed his most dashing �lost puppy� smile.

"Awwww, okay, just for a while though. I�m gonna be in enough trouble as it is when I get back," she said. "Logan snuck us out for my birthday, and...." she began.

"Your birthday? How old are you now?" he asked. She shrugged and smiled.

"Nineteen." Demon grinned evilly, then hid it.

"Woah, what was that?" she asked, leaning her head at an angle curiously. He faked a cough.

"Vhat?" he asked.

"That. The smirk, the thing that just made you look like a serial killer on prozac," she said. He shrugged, staring at his glass. He was silent a moment, trying to think of something, then he smirked sadly with an embarrassed shrug.

"Vell, um, I just realized you�ve grown up," he said, then shrugged. "We�re almost the same age now," he said quietly, trying to sound embarrassed and suggestive at the same time. She lifted an eyebrow at him, frowning.

"Sorry, I, um, I had a crush on my vorld�s Kitty," he half-lied, shrugging again. She smiled, then looked around warily.

"Well, I kind of, um," he began, then bit her lip. "I kind of have a crush on my world�s Kurt," she admitted quietly. "I mean, I think he does too, but he doesn�t know I have," she said, then rubbed her forehead in frustration.

"I understand," he said, hiding a half-smirk. "Hey, pack up your drink and ve�ll try to head back, see if the portal drops you out vhere we belong," he said, shrugging.

"Right," she said, then stared at her glass. "Umm, nevermind, let�s just go," he said, standing and leaving the glass on the table. He smiled, then stood.

"Right," he echoed. The headed off arm-in-arm for the portal wall.

"Demon!" someone shouted behind him. He spun, growling. Kitty jumped in surprise.

"Hold it right there, Creature," Xanatos said, stalking through the crowd, Maul at his shoulder.

"You�re not going into that portal, freak," Maul snarled.

"Dis from a man vit horns and tattoos?" Demon mocked. "Please, I thought you�d be glad to be rid of me," he said, turning away. Xan grabbed his shoulder.

"One more step, and I�ll let Maul bisect you," Xan warned.

"Back, off Xani, I�m leaving, and I�m going somewhere vhere you and your former-Jedi-freak friends can�t come," he said.

"Wanna bet?" Exar said, grabbing his other shoulder as he stepped out of the crowd. Demon spun, snarling. Exar kept his grip, looking at Ulic, who had suddenly appeared on Demon�s other side.

"Now," he said, and Demon looked over in surprise as Ulic grabbed his other shoulder. He screeched in pain as Exar shoved his hair aside and grabbed the back of his neck with his free hand, muttering something to himself.

Demon morphed out his new wings, knocking Exar�s hand away and knocking Ulic�s grip loose at the same time. He hissed viciously, completely changing into his alter-form, talons and all. The back of his neck was in searing pain, distracting him. He vaguely noticed Kitty had bolted for the portal, and was about to enter it.

He teleported himself in front of her, grabbing her arm as her momentum knocked both of them into the portal. Ulic stepped toward the portal, then paused, looking back at an exhausted-looking Exar Kun.

"We have to go after him," Xan said, looking at them both. Kun shook his head.

"He�s marked. If he starts causing trouble, I�ll know, and /then/ we go after him," Exar said, then blinked oddly, rubbing his forehead. "Damn, I forgot how much that hurts," he muttered, shaking it off.

"At least we�ve got a way to follow him now if he starts causing trouble," Maul said. Kun nodded.

"Yes, but unfortunately, follow /to where/ becomes an issue," he said, looking up at the portal wall.

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"And, and, and then he sprouted wings, and then he just, boom! and then he jumped in front of me, and we both fell through the wall," Kitty was saying, pointing to the wall behind her, which was now solid.

"An alternate universe version of Kurt?" Scott asked, incredulous. The rest of the �rescue� party looked equally doubtful and stunned.

"Maybe, he said...." she began, then shook her head. "No, there�s no way he was Kurt. I mean, he.... well, they called him Demon, for one thing, and those guys... they did some sort of, I dunno, something between telekinesis and magic to him, and he changed." She paused, shivering.

"He was scary, ugly. Even though he still had Kurt�s face, he was terrifying," she said, then shook her head.

"Come on, let�s get you home," Logan said, bending down to help her to her feet.

Above them, on the edge of the neighboring roof, a silhouette with glowing gold eyes watched them leave. The dark outline unfolded wings from behind himself, flying off into the night sky.

He was home, one way or another.

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