PART 1


Things start off with a bang, as the Buffy-less Scooby Gang pursues two vampires in the Graveyard. Willow stands on top of a crypt and uses her telepathy to communicate with them. Spike dusts a Sumo-vamp by lighting him on fire and the Buffybot dusts the random vampire by lunging into him.

The next day, we join Willow, Tara, Dawn, Xander and the Buffybot at Buffy's house. Willow assures everyone that although the Buffybot is malfunctioning, that she will fix it. Apparently, the Buffybot must face her most dangerous challenge: Parent/Teacher Day at Dawn's school.

At the Magic Box, a fight ensues between Anya and Giles. Anya wants Giles to get on with his life, leaving her the Magic Box. After a quick slap-battle between the two, Xander breaks it up and barks at Anya for acting so immature. During a quiet moment between Anya and Xander, the two discuss their engagement.

Across town, the Buffybot's secret is revealed to a Shempy Vamp when the blood rat smashes a bottle across her face, showing her circuitry. Realizing that she is a robot, the vampire escapes.

The gang meets at Xander's apartment and discusses the resurrection of Buffy with the Urn of Osiris. Willow informs the group that Buffy can be resurrected because she didn't die a natural death.

Far from Sunnydale at a biker bar, the Shempy Vamp is whooping it up with a gang of demons named The Hellions. The vamp tells everyone about his discovery that the Slayer was a robot. To his surprise, the demon gang doesn't believe him. However, the vampire insists. Almost immediately, the demon drags the vampire to his boss, Razor. After pleading his case about Hellmouth being ripe for destruction, the Shempy Vamp is dusted by the gang leader, Razor.

Meanwhile, Willow is in the woods concocting her spell to raise Buffy from the dead. In a surprising turn of events, Willow draws a fawn from the woods and kills it. After draining the fawn's blood, Willow meets Xander, Tara and Anya at the Magic Box. Surprisingly, we find out that Giles has departed for England.

Unbeknownst to him, Giles is met at the airport by Willow, Xander, Tara, Anya and Dawn. The gang bids him farewell with gifts. As they hold back their tears, Giles boards his plane, knowing nothing of the planned resurrection.

At night, the gang gathers around Buffy's grave to bring the Slayer back from the dead. Cuts manifest on Willow's arms as a snake dispels itself from her mouth. Suddenly, the gang is attacked by the Hellions, who are led to the graveyard by the damaged Buffybot. As a fight commences between the Scooby Gang and the Hellions, Buffy's eyes open from inside of her grave.



PART 2


Things come back into focus as the Buffybot tries her hardest to fight off the Hellions and the Scoobie Gang retreats from their mission to raise Buffy from the dead. Fearing for their lives, the gang splits up as Xander carries the drained Willow while Tara and Anya head in a different direction. In a questionable decision, the gang decides to leave Buffy's grave. At this point they think that their attempt to bring their leader back to life was unsuccessful. However, inside the Slayer's grave, our hero begins to thrash around, confused.

As Xander, Willow, Anya and Tara hide from the Hellions in the woods, Spike attempts to protect Dawn from The Hellions, who are trashing Sunnydale. Knowing that a gang of nasties like The Hellions would never attempt an attack on Sunnydale if they knew that The Slayer was still protecting it, Spike and Dawn come to the conclusion that the word is out about Buffy's death.

Meanwhile, back at Buffy's gravesite, the Slayer's hand launches itself through the ground. Seconds later, Buffy pulls herself to her feet. She is a bloody and dirty mess. However, nothing can prepare her for what she sees next: her own gravestone. As havoc runs amuck in Sunnydale, the confused Slayer walks around in a daze. Meanwhile, Tara manages to send a mystical flare for Xander and Willow to follow back to the Magic Box. Spike continues to protect Dawn from the fear that has absorbed Sunnydale. At one point, Spike throws Dawn a football helmet as he dismantles a Hellion from his motorcycle. Realizing that they no longer have a functioning Buffybot, the rest of the gang decide to go and find Dawn and Spike.

In what must be another shock to her system, the resurrected Slayer watches from a distance as The Hellions pull apart the Buffybot with chains hooked onto their motorcycles. Unfortunately, Buffy screams and the demon gang begins chasing her. Suddenly, Buffy comes face-to-face with Xander, Willow, Anya and Tara. At first they think that the Slayer is the Buffybot, but quickly realize that she is the real McCoy. After they back the frightened Slayer into a corner, the Scoobies find themselves lured into a Hellion trap. Razor and six other demons attack and are almost immediately engaged in a brawl with the Scoobies and Buffy, whose fighting instincts seem to slowly be coming back to her. After Buffy shreds most of the Hellions, she runs away from the battle. In a climactic ending, the overwhelming power of Razor is brought to his knees as Tara plunges Xander�s battle-ax into the creature's back.

Buffy, still not fully in tune with reality, stands on what is left of Glory's ritual structure. As she contemplates reliving her tragic death, Dawn finds her. Unfortunately for the Slayer and her little sister, the structure begins to topple. Somehow finding clarity through Dawn's voice, Buffy saves the two by sliding to the ground on a steel cable. Glory's tower slams to the ground. We are left with Dawn hugging her confused, almost lifeless, sister.