An Alternate World
In the alternate reality of "The Wish", created when Cordelia wishes Buffy had never come to Sunnydale, the Master, based in The Bronze, dominates Sunnydale; Willow and Xander are among his minions. Humans live in terror, hiding in their homes from dusk to dawn while the vampires run unchecked. The Master's consideration of humans as mere animals is made explicit by his blood extraction factory, in which humans are caged like cattle waiting to have their blood drained by a machine. The ensouled vampire Angel is held prisoner and tortured. Rupert Giles leads a small team of vampire-fighters known as the "White Hats", but they lack the proper resources to actually hurt them and are seen as little more than a nuisance.
During the course of "The Wish," Buffy winds up coming to Sunnydale (years after she was supposed to), and leads a battle against the Master. Buffy does not kill the Master but is killed instead by him. Nevertheless, right around this time Giles destroyed Anyanka's power-source, thus reverting the world to normal, though that time-line may still exist in some form, based on the events of "Doppelgangland."
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