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Xander Harris entered the warehouse, holding a sword in his hand and an axe in another, looking around.

After Buffy and Tara had been shot, he had called the ambulance quickly, and both had been sent off to the hospital, with Willow watching over them, and Dawn was with her too, hoping for the speedy recovery of both the women.

Xander had snuck away while they were busy being worried over Tara and Buffy, since if he told them of what he planned to do, they'd try to talk him out of it.

So he had gone off to the prison, and after requesting the officer in-charge, managed to get a conversation with Jonathan and Andrew, to ask them where Warren could be now.

Andrew was unwilling to tell, but a remorseful Jonathan had told him the places where they could find Warren, so Xander had thanked him and left.

This was his third warehouse, and as luck would have it, his opponent was here. He felt a gun to his head.

"So here you are, huh kid?" Warren mocked, laughing crazily, as Xander sneered. "What? Come on, hand 'em over."

Xander didn't resist so Warren took the sword and ax away, and then snarled. "What? You think I'm gonna shoot you?"

Xander didn't respond as Warren said. "You punch like a girl, I don't need a gun for someone as pathetic as you."

He slightly lowered the gun as Xander muttered. "Oh."

And then he pushed the gun hand away, making Warren drop his gun, before decking Warren's face hard and then rushed with him, ramming him into some barrels as the barrels fell here and there.

As Warren tried to resist, Xander kneed his gut, and ramming his back into a barrel, started unloading punches into his chest and stomach at a furious pace, the barrel behind Warren ringing from the impact.

Xander then decked Warren's face four times as well, but Warren blocked the fifth time and twisted Xander's arm, making him gasp before Warren decked his face, sending him down to the ground.

As Xander tried to get up, Warren kicked his face, sending him down again.

Xander looked up, but Warren kicked his face, throwing him down once more.

Xander lifted his head up again to look at the dropped gun, and tried to crawl to it, but was kicked on the face and sent down once more.

Warren then kicked Xander's chest as he tried to get up, slightly staggering him back. Warren then jumped and kicked Xander's face, making him fall back into some pipes.

He then leapt at Xander but Xander flipped him over to the other side, and then slammed his head down on the pipe two times, and then punched him hard. "I'm gonna make you squeal!" Another punch. "When I break your fucking neck!"

He then lifted Warren up and decked his face before kicking him hard, sending him falling down, only, he accidentally kicked Warren near his gun.

Warren then lifted his gun and fired as Xander ran off to avoid, going through a door, and hid somewhere on the other side.

Warren rushed after him, kicking the door open, and looked around, when Xander kicked him on the face from above a box and leapt at him, the two falling on a cart with wheels which moved to the front from the impact.

"I'M GONNA FUCK YOU!" He decked Warren multiple times before Warren pushed him off and kicked him, sending him falling down onto the stairs.

Warren tried to hit again but now Xander, bloodied, head-butted Warren, breaking his nose, and dazing him.

Xander then grabbed Warren in a chokehold and started dragging him up the stairs as Warren struggled. "Fuck you! I'm gonna fucking kill you!" One punch to the face. "I'm gonna fucking cook you!" Another punch to the face. "And I'm gonna fucking eat you!" Another punch to the face, followed by another.

Warren then suddenly grabbed Xander by the hair, pulling him back, and grabbed his face, trying to push him back, when Xander saw a chain hanging and grabbing it, wrapped it around Warren's neck quickly, pushing him off.

And then he grabbed the chain and sliding down on the railing, yanked it hard, sending Warren hanging up into the air and sliding forth, breaking his neck as his body hit the wall and all of his bones were broken, killing him at last.

Xander had now killed a human, but he knew Warren wouldn't stop, so he didn't regret it.

With this done, he returned to the hospital, where Buffy and Tara made a full recovery, and Buffy wasn't pleased at what he did, and Tara usually wouldn't have been approving but understood that Warren wouldn't have stopped in his craziness, and thanked Xander for ending him.

Willow and Dawn considered him a hero for killing Warren, and Xander was unapologetic for it, since the bastard got what was coming to him.

He was no longer the Zeppo, because he had killed the one foe who no one took seriously up until it was too late, and this foe was the realest of them all.

Xander had proven his quality.