Challenge: 58
Crossover with The Hobbit/LOTR, Spike catches himself when he is thrown from the tower in The Gift. He makes it back up just before Buffy jumps, drains some of her blood despite the pain and jumps. The portal closes and he finds himself in middle earth around the time of the Battle of Five Armies. Several months later in the Buffyverse, an attempt at reviving Spike instead pulls the whole Scooby gang into Middle-Earth around the time of the Fellowship, will they get home? And what are these legends of a great warrior called "William the Bloody"?
Must haves:
1. The chip doesn't work from the moment he goes through the portal, and he knows it
2. Spuffy
3. Spike/Dawn friendship
4. Spike being friends with Aragorn, who was six when Spike showed up
5. Spike having connections to the White Council
6. Vamps in middle earth being different, no sunlight allergy, human strength by day, almost troll-like power at night
7. The duster does survive unharmed
8. Spike and at least two of the Scoobies being involved in one of the major LOTR battles
9. Willow goes magic addict with Sarumon
10. When they get back to earth, Angel attacks Spike, Spike beats him easy.