With several attempts at continuing from Shops Crusader that failed to really go anywhere, I've been trying to think of something that would work for that type of talent.
The problem is going from a super spy with psionic powers, and the training to match, to hunting demons in a city or even across the planet. It just has the feel of a step down, especially since only a few of the Buffy Villains match up to some of the people that John Hunter had gone up against in the Shadow Force Archer world.
Eva Frost would be able to take on Glory with a more than even chance of victory, simply because if Glory got a killing blow in, the Ice Queen would steal another body and come back for more. Then you have lunatics like Strik-9 with toxins that make the darts from TLW seem weak.
Then I reread my copies of the two novel trilogies that continue from Terminator 2. (New John Connor Chronicles and Infiltrator)
The idea of unleashing him on a universe based on a mix of the universes is something that would be fun to play with if I include the Sarah Connor Chronicles with it.
Several tie together relatively easily with the characters anyway. Jordan Dyson can be someone that let James Ellison take over the hunt for Sarah & John Connor after his brothers death (Miles Dyson is his brother).
Dieter Von Rossbach can easily be there if someone notices the fact that he looks like the T-800's sent back (He's an INTERPOL Agent). However, if Angel is in the timeline and thus Weyland-Yutani, he could have also gone by Dutch in the past which makes him getting involved a bit more plausible.
Eve can simply be doing the same thing she was programmed to do, namely wait for there to be no Judgement Day and recruit allies to transit back to the original Terminator timeline to help. (Unfortunately most of the other YJCC characters are the timetraveling commandos, but the researcher could be recruited)
The next question would be how to get Xander involved in it.
Well, a direct encounter would work, but there are others.
The current one would be to mention that Rory once worked in a Steel Mill in LA, he could have found a piece of the T-1000 that had ended up someplace where it wouldn't thaw as fast as the rest and the guy found the odd piece of metal and kept it (Terminator fragment in a bell jar anyone...)
With the T-1000 fragment, it could work that the electrokinesis power (Can allow direct interface with computer systems via touch) he could reprogram it and use it as a symbiote of sorts. The terminator had to be able to conduct at least some repairs in the field (Though most of the mass was destroyed and thus making it incapable of actually doing it at any real speed originally until it had at least another power source) and it has a very detailed knowledge of the human body making it possible for it to allow more control over the psionic problems Xander would be having (Without training the psionic powers can cause a lot of destruction and chaos if it slips out) as well as being able to speed healing (Crusader did leave him in rather poor condition at the end of it).
Now, once involved, Xander would need to start gathering allies, and those I already listed would work.
Ellison could be brought in by giving him the truth (Camera recordings of the Police Station attack in Terminator, and the Psych Ward escape as well as a few others), and Dyson would be easily brought in from there. Especially if it is timed at the "Robot Leg" sighting in the SCC Pilot.
Dieter could be added, and they could easily encounter Eve.
They could also, at least theoretically, recruit Silberman and a few others.
The Connors Time Jump would allow time for the team to prepare for what would be coming, and while they would have some covert recognition, remaining beneath the radar would be key as they do not want a Skynet team coming to kill them.
It would also allow other things to be introduced from other terminator timelines, perhaps adding General Brewster as their military contact.
Hell, there could be multiple, competing versions of Skynet with their own agendas and trying to deal with their own problems, one of which could be the T3 version and they need to rescue Kate.
Another could have sent back an I series Infiltrator.
And if the AvP universe is tied in (As through Angel) there are several other threats that could arrive.
The problem is going from a super spy with psionic powers, and the training to match, to hunting demons in a city or even across the planet. It just has the feel of a step down, especially since only a few of the Buffy Villains match up to some of the people that John Hunter had gone up against in the Shadow Force Archer world.
Eva Frost would be able to take on Glory with a more than even chance of victory, simply because if Glory got a killing blow in, the Ice Queen would steal another body and come back for more. Then you have lunatics like Strik-9 with toxins that make the darts from TLW seem weak.
Then I reread my copies of the two novel trilogies that continue from Terminator 2. (New John Connor Chronicles and Infiltrator)
The idea of unleashing him on a universe based on a mix of the universes is something that would be fun to play with if I include the Sarah Connor Chronicles with it.
Several tie together relatively easily with the characters anyway. Jordan Dyson can be someone that let James Ellison take over the hunt for Sarah & John Connor after his brothers death (Miles Dyson is his brother).
Dieter Von Rossbach can easily be there if someone notices the fact that he looks like the T-800's sent back (He's an INTERPOL Agent). However, if Angel is in the timeline and thus Weyland-Yutani, he could have also gone by Dutch in the past which makes him getting involved a bit more plausible.
Eve can simply be doing the same thing she was programmed to do, namely wait for there to be no Judgement Day and recruit allies to transit back to the original Terminator timeline to help. (Unfortunately most of the other YJCC characters are the timetraveling commandos, but the researcher could be recruited)
The next question would be how to get Xander involved in it.
Well, a direct encounter would work, but there are others.
The current one would be to mention that Rory once worked in a Steel Mill in LA, he could have found a piece of the T-1000 that had ended up someplace where it wouldn't thaw as fast as the rest and the guy found the odd piece of metal and kept it (Terminator fragment in a bell jar anyone...)
With the T-1000 fragment, it could work that the electrokinesis power (Can allow direct interface with computer systems via touch) he could reprogram it and use it as a symbiote of sorts. The terminator had to be able to conduct at least some repairs in the field (Though most of the mass was destroyed and thus making it incapable of actually doing it at any real speed originally until it had at least another power source) and it has a very detailed knowledge of the human body making it possible for it to allow more control over the psionic problems Xander would be having (Without training the psionic powers can cause a lot of destruction and chaos if it slips out) as well as being able to speed healing (Crusader did leave him in rather poor condition at the end of it).
Now, once involved, Xander would need to start gathering allies, and those I already listed would work.
Ellison could be brought in by giving him the truth (Camera recordings of the Police Station attack in Terminator, and the Psych Ward escape as well as a few others), and Dyson would be easily brought in from there. Especially if it is timed at the "Robot Leg" sighting in the SCC Pilot.
Dieter could be added, and they could easily encounter Eve.
They could also, at least theoretically, recruit Silberman and a few others.
The Connors Time Jump would allow time for the team to prepare for what would be coming, and while they would have some covert recognition, remaining beneath the radar would be key as they do not want a Skynet team coming to kill them.
It would also allow other things to be introduced from other terminator timelines, perhaps adding General Brewster as their military contact.
Hell, there could be multiple, competing versions of Skynet with their own agendas and trying to deal with their own problems, one of which could be the T3 version and they need to rescue Kate.
Another could have sent back an I series Infiltrator.
And if the AvP universe is tied in (As through Angel) there are several other threats that could arrive.