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Spike wasn't as angry about that as he should have been. The bugs colonized the Island.

So Sebastian died in a blaze of glory. A suicide run on the ship to keep it steady while the other bugs escaped via bugs, and the ship acted as a missile to blow up the Easter Head Eldtritch monster that Sucky had raised without knowing she can't control them. Thanks Sucky.

Meanwhile Sebastian (head bug) and Frisky etc were plotting a well-intentioned mutiny because they thought Spike was being overwhelmed my succubus charms. But all that insight just helped him get clarity, and realize she's heading to a hellmouth because she must havesome shard of the seed. They fight, she escapes and she's just placed the shard on the hellmouth. And now we're in the part 5...

... is left after Buffy destroyed it (and all the world's source of magic). He meets a succubus already on the hunt, they team up against the reptiles. Then against the Creepy Twins (Angel&Faith live through this), and they both go to find another hellmouth on the Easter Island. She offers her services, very persistently, and then he gives her that speech. And realizes that he's basically the Buffy in this scenario.

So the gist is that Spike is in a funk because pregnant Buffy who he thought he was going to save turned out to be a robot (buffy 9, vol.1). The bugs that crew his space ship and call him Master (still no idea how that happened, we're just rolling with the weird here) try to cheer him up with a fake beach, which somehow ends up with him being kidnapped by a reptile crew, and forced to show them where the Egg/Seed

"I'm not some empty vessel that you can pour all your expectations into. I don't exist just to give you purpose, to be your achievement. I've got my own problems, my own life." .... mmmm, sounds familiar, Spike?