Crossover Madness
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muccamukkSo not too long ago I found Twisting the Hellmouth, a site for Buffyverse crossovers with basically every other fandom in existence. That was a lot like giving me a lifetime supply of candy, and I have been enjoying it immensely ever since. Of course there are quite a few pretty awful stories in there, but here are a few that I really enjoyed.
Title: A Walk in the Park
Author: oldscout
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Highlander
Words: 3,610
Rating: FR7
Summary: Duncan MacLeod visits Sunnydale in search of a friend and meets the girl who hangs out in cemeteries.
Quote: Up ahead, a figure sat on the base of large monument, legs swinging back and forth a few inches above the ground. As he approached he realized it was a young woman and she appeared to be eating, if his nose interpreted correctly, a peanut butter sandwich.
Notes: I kind of love stories where worlds just brush lightly and never quite connect. Duncan meets Buffy; they have a short conversation and go their separate ways, but in that there's shadows of each world and some great Old School Buffy moments to boot. The prose is a tad clumsy, but done well enough to hold everything together.
Title: Enigmatic Absurdities
Author: eponine
Fandom: Angel/House, M.D.
Words: 20,845
Rating: FR13
Summary: House ends up with a very interesting patient, much to his amusement and his staff's lament. But honestly, how does one diagnose a vampire?
Quote: House threw his hands up in the air and feigned a defeated sigh. “Fine,you got me. The patient, whose name is Angel, is both alert and lucid,despite his hypothermia and lack of myocardic contractions. He’s very secretive and entirely too stubborn, as well as being a bit of a whiner, Chase has never seen a monster movie, and I’ve got Cameron researching things that go bump in the night, assuming she hasn’t gotten sidetracked by pictures of naked lesbian witchy voodoo rituals.”
Cuddy blinked. “Fine,” she snapped, turning to leave, “but you’re going to have to tell me what’s going on eventually.”
Notes: Bwahahahahahaha! This one totally cracked me up for basically the entire time. It's pretty much twenty thousand words of House tormenting the bejeesus out of everyone, with a large side of mocking Angel and Andrew. Also, the medical stuff seems very well researched and makes sense and everything.
Title: Bridges
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tassosss
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Stargate: SG-1
Words: 126,316
Rating: FR13
Summary: Xander's real family challenge: After the collapse of Sunnydale, Jack gets a call about a woman he knew over twenty years ago...and the son he didn't know he had.
Quote: “So you’re the dad, huh?” She didn’t seem too impressed.
“That would be me,” Jack affirmed.
“So if this pans out, you planning on becoming a fixture or is this a nice-to-meet-ya-I’m-going-off-to-Spain-w
“Uh . . .” Unsure just what she had asked, Jack suddenly wished Daniel were there to translate.
“Well?” Her sharp gaze just sharpened even more while he stood there like an idiot.
“What Buffy is asking is if you plan on being a part of Xander’s life if you are indeed his father,” Mr. Giles helped him out, though Jack swore that the two questions didn’t share a word.
“What he said,” reiterated Buffy impatiently.
Feeling like he was caught between a rock and a hard place with one in front of him and one behind, Jack nodded. “Yeah. If he’ll let me.”
“Good,” said Buffy taking a step closer and staring into his eyes. “Because if you back out I’ll rip off your arms, shove one down your throat and the other up your ass so you can twiddle you thumbs in your stomach. Do I make myself clear?”
Notes: There are a lot of some character from a crossover is one of the Scoobies's real father/mother/sibling/identical second cousin stories out there, and given how distant most of the parents are in canon, it's not a hard sell. I think this is the most plausible and well laid out that I've read. Too often crossovers rapidly degrade into info dumps of canon that superficially pass as bonding, but really just bore the reader while throwing everyone out of character. This story doesn't do that, and though there is the odd info dump, and on occasion Jack shares more with strangers that one would normally think he would, everyone feels real here. Both Jack and Xander wanting to invest in this connection makes sense, and the emotional turmoil they go through in the process really grabbed me. There is also an actual plot, which makes me happy.
Title: Magical Cage
Author: litgal
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Stargate: SG-1
Words: 45,838
Rating: FR18
Summary: Jack hates it when missions go wrong. Having a vampire with a couple of civvies show up after a wormhole/portal disaster is just the icing on the cake.
Quote: "So, you don't normally—" Jack didn't even have a chance to finish.
"Wot? Save the great unwashed like these sorry sods do every night of their wasted lives? Act like the do-gooding but tortured soul from some bodice-ripper romance like that wanker Angel? Bloody hell no!"
That's when Jack made the connection, and he could only blame the pain of his hand for distracting him from the obvious. Spike had told Willow he wouldn't let Xander get killed until he got his money.
"A mercenary." Jack said quietly, all his internal alarms ringing. Mercenaries promised the sun and stars on a silver platter and then sank a knife as deep as they could into your back. At this point, Jack wasn't sure what he disliked more on general grounds, vampires or mercs.
Notes: I do love Spike. He makes me profoundly happy, and he's in high form in this. It's all Jack's POV, and he's pretty much hating life for the duration, which is also pretty hilarious. I also love that there's adventures with plot, and again it's a case of two worlds coming briefly in contact, then splitting off as the story ends, which seems more real, in that these are not the sort of people who would make ties with each other given the choice. I'm not sure about Xander in this though, he seems a bit of a Sue. I've never got a good idea of him in canon though, so perhaps not.
Title: Misunderstandings
Author: DonSample
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Stargate: SG-1
Words: 34,223
Rating: FR15
Summary: An ancient ruin on a deserted island brings SG-1 into contact with the Scoobies. Is the threat extra or sub-terrestrial?
Quote: “No! No! No!” said Xander. “Greedo did not shoot first!”
“I have seen this movie several times, Xander Harris, and Greedo clearly shoots first, and misses.”
“That’s the Special Edition,” said Xander. “In the real Star Wars Han just blasts Greedo before he can pull the trigger.”
Murray stood for a second, considering. “That would make more sense. A warrior, such as Han Solo would not let his adversary take the first shot, and it would be impossible for Greedo to miss at such short range, with his weapon already drawn, and aimed.”
Notes: This is kind of the ultimate two worlds touch without ever really, truly figuring out what is going on with the other type story. It is also one of the most plausible ways for the SGC and the Scoobies to run across each other, each trying to stop the same threat, but thinking it is a totally different thing. There are some fun action sequences in here, and the character interaction is a hoot. Also, everyone gets to do something, which is difficult to manage when balancing this many characters.
Title: Days Like This
Author:killabeez
Fandom: Angel/Supernatural
Words: 9,200
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Tentacles. Why did it have to be tentacles?
Quote: Dean hesitated, no more than a second or two. No freakin' way was this guy a vampire -- at least, not like any he'd met before. But he could've snapped Dean's neck easy, back there, and he hadn't. Plus, he sure didn't act like he was all that worried about Dean's chances of stopping him.
What the hell. A metrosexual maybe-vampire who went by the name of Angel and hunted monsters? California was messed up, man. Don't ever let Sam tell him different.
Notes: Dean and Angel end up hunting the same thing in the sewers of LA, and things kind of go down hill from there, in every sense of the term, save for all the glorious snark involved, and there is angst, brooding and bonding, and fighting things with tentacles, which is always fun.
Title: Angels at the Roadhouse
Author:halachaiswords
Fandom: Angel/Supernatural
Words: c. 10,000
Rating: FR13
Summary: A collection of Supernatural/Angel-verse stories, centring on Ellen and Angel.
Quote: Angel's smile didn't change, but Ellen was suddenly aware of how alone she was, with this man she didn't understand, who wasn't human any more, if he had ever been. "Something you've been looking for. Information. A... friend of mine had it."
"Friend?" From what Ellen remembered of Angel, he wasn't the type to have friends.
Notes: Okay, I don't buy one of the central twists of this series, but I have a huge thing for stories with Ellen, especially Ellen the Hunter, and I just adore the dance she and Angel have going here. It's dark, and a little obsessive, not quite passion, and definitely not romance, but something else deep and compelling, a meeting of lonely souls, perhaps. Also, the Brothers Winchester encountering Angel is just funny.
Title: Floodlights on the Highway
Author:thassalia
Fandom: Stargate: SG-1/Supernatural
Words: 3,731
Rating: PG-13
Summary: So,cofax7 wanted Mitchell and Dean and freckles and a car show. Which is what she got.
Quote: "Big gun for just looking at automobiles," Vala says, and drinks her sake with delicate sips. Dean's eyes widen and he fumbles at his back while Vala's grin stretches out to predatory.
"I liked it better than I liked the cars," she grins. "Besides, I couldn't fit them in my pocket. But don't worry, I might be persuaded to give it back."
And now Cam's the guy who let the alien steal a probably illegal firearm from a civilian with multiple IDs. Great. All righty then.
Notes: Look, Ma, No Buffy! If there is one woman in the universe who could run over Dean Winchester so fast he would have no clue what hit him, it would be Vala. This also has some really lovely interaction between Cam and Vala, which we really never see enough of. There is not much in the way of plot, but it is short and holds together nicely as a fun ficlet with a side of Angst.
Title: A Walk in the Park
Author: oldscout
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Highlander
Words: 3,610
Rating: FR7
Summary: Duncan MacLeod visits Sunnydale in search of a friend and meets the girl who hangs out in cemeteries.
Quote: Up ahead, a figure sat on the base of large monument, legs swinging back and forth a few inches above the ground. As he approached he realized it was a young woman and she appeared to be eating, if his nose interpreted correctly, a peanut butter sandwich.
Notes: I kind of love stories where worlds just brush lightly and never quite connect. Duncan meets Buffy; they have a short conversation and go their separate ways, but in that there's shadows of each world and some great Old School Buffy moments to boot. The prose is a tad clumsy, but done well enough to hold everything together.
Title: Enigmatic Absurdities
Author: eponine
Fandom: Angel/House, M.D.
Words: 20,845
Rating: FR13
Summary: House ends up with a very interesting patient, much to his amusement and his staff's lament. But honestly, how does one diagnose a vampire?
Quote: House threw his hands up in the air and feigned a defeated sigh. “Fine,you got me. The patient, whose name is Angel, is both alert and lucid,despite his hypothermia and lack of myocardic contractions. He’s very secretive and entirely too stubborn, as well as being a bit of a whiner, Chase has never seen a monster movie, and I’ve got Cameron researching things that go bump in the night, assuming she hasn’t gotten sidetracked by pictures of naked lesbian witchy voodoo rituals.”
Cuddy blinked. “Fine,” she snapped, turning to leave, “but you’re going to have to tell me what’s going on eventually.”
Notes: Bwahahahahahaha! This one totally cracked me up for basically the entire time. It's pretty much twenty thousand words of House tormenting the bejeesus out of everyone, with a large side of mocking Angel and Andrew. Also, the medical stuff seems very well researched and makes sense and everything.
Title: Bridges
Author:
tassosssFandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Stargate: SG-1
Words: 126,316
Rating: FR13
Summary: Xander's real family challenge: After the collapse of Sunnydale, Jack gets a call about a woman he knew over twenty years ago...and the son he didn't know he had.
Quote: “So you’re the dad, huh?” She didn’t seem too impressed.
“That would be me,” Jack affirmed.
“So if this pans out, you planning on becoming a fixture or is this a nice-to-meet-ya-I’m-going-off-to-Spain-w
“Uh . . .” Unsure just what she had asked, Jack suddenly wished Daniel were there to translate.
“Well?” Her sharp gaze just sharpened even more while he stood there like an idiot.
“What Buffy is asking is if you plan on being a part of Xander’s life if you are indeed his father,” Mr. Giles helped him out, though Jack swore that the two questions didn’t share a word.
“What he said,” reiterated Buffy impatiently.
Feeling like he was caught between a rock and a hard place with one in front of him and one behind, Jack nodded. “Yeah. If he’ll let me.”
“Good,” said Buffy taking a step closer and staring into his eyes. “Because if you back out I’ll rip off your arms, shove one down your throat and the other up your ass so you can twiddle you thumbs in your stomach. Do I make myself clear?”
Notes: There are a lot of some character from a crossover is one of the Scoobies's real father/mother/sibling/identical second cousin stories out there, and given how distant most of the parents are in canon, it's not a hard sell. I think this is the most plausible and well laid out that I've read. Too often crossovers rapidly degrade into info dumps of canon that superficially pass as bonding, but really just bore the reader while throwing everyone out of character. This story doesn't do that, and though there is the odd info dump, and on occasion Jack shares more with strangers that one would normally think he would, everyone feels real here. Both Jack and Xander wanting to invest in this connection makes sense, and the emotional turmoil they go through in the process really grabbed me. There is also an actual plot, which makes me happy.
Title: Magical Cage
Author: litgal
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Stargate: SG-1
Words: 45,838
Rating: FR18
Summary: Jack hates it when missions go wrong. Having a vampire with a couple of civvies show up after a wormhole/portal disaster is just the icing on the cake.
Quote: "So, you don't normally—" Jack didn't even have a chance to finish.
"Wot? Save the great unwashed like these sorry sods do every night of their wasted lives? Act like the do-gooding but tortured soul from some bodice-ripper romance like that wanker Angel? Bloody hell no!"
That's when Jack made the connection, and he could only blame the pain of his hand for distracting him from the obvious. Spike had told Willow he wouldn't let Xander get killed until he got his money.
"A mercenary." Jack said quietly, all his internal alarms ringing. Mercenaries promised the sun and stars on a silver platter and then sank a knife as deep as they could into your back. At this point, Jack wasn't sure what he disliked more on general grounds, vampires or mercs.
Notes: I do love Spike. He makes me profoundly happy, and he's in high form in this. It's all Jack's POV, and he's pretty much hating life for the duration, which is also pretty hilarious. I also love that there's adventures with plot, and again it's a case of two worlds coming briefly in contact, then splitting off as the story ends, which seems more real, in that these are not the sort of people who would make ties with each other given the choice. I'm not sure about Xander in this though, he seems a bit of a Sue. I've never got a good idea of him in canon though, so perhaps not.
Title: Misunderstandings
Author: DonSample
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Stargate: SG-1
Words: 34,223
Rating: FR15
Summary: An ancient ruin on a deserted island brings SG-1 into contact with the Scoobies. Is the threat extra or sub-terrestrial?
Quote: “No! No! No!” said Xander. “Greedo did not shoot first!”
“I have seen this movie several times, Xander Harris, and Greedo clearly shoots first, and misses.”
“That’s the Special Edition,” said Xander. “In the real Star Wars Han just blasts Greedo before he can pull the trigger.”
Murray stood for a second, considering. “That would make more sense. A warrior, such as Han Solo would not let his adversary take the first shot, and it would be impossible for Greedo to miss at such short range, with his weapon already drawn, and aimed.”
Notes: This is kind of the ultimate two worlds touch without ever really, truly figuring out what is going on with the other type story. It is also one of the most plausible ways for the SGC and the Scoobies to run across each other, each trying to stop the same threat, but thinking it is a totally different thing. There are some fun action sequences in here, and the character interaction is a hoot. Also, everyone gets to do something, which is difficult to manage when balancing this many characters.
Title: Days Like This
Author:
killabeezFandom: Angel/Supernatural
Words: 9,200
Rating: PG-13
Summary: Tentacles. Why did it have to be tentacles?
Quote: Dean hesitated, no more than a second or two. No freakin' way was this guy a vampire -- at least, not like any he'd met before. But he could've snapped Dean's neck easy, back there, and he hadn't. Plus, he sure didn't act like he was all that worried about Dean's chances of stopping him.
What the hell. A metrosexual maybe-vampire who went by the name of Angel and hunted monsters? California was messed up, man. Don't ever let Sam tell him different.
Notes: Dean and Angel end up hunting the same thing in the sewers of LA, and things kind of go down hill from there, in every sense of the term, save for all the glorious snark involved, and there is angst, brooding and bonding, and fighting things with tentacles, which is always fun.
Title: Angels at the Roadhouse
Author:
halachaiswordsFandom: Angel/Supernatural
Words: c. 10,000
Rating: FR13
Summary: A collection of Supernatural/Angel-verse stories, centring on Ellen and Angel.
Quote: Angel's smile didn't change, but Ellen was suddenly aware of how alone she was, with this man she didn't understand, who wasn't human any more, if he had ever been. "Something you've been looking for. Information. A... friend of mine had it."
"Friend?" From what Ellen remembered of Angel, he wasn't the type to have friends.
Notes: Okay, I don't buy one of the central twists of this series, but I have a huge thing for stories with Ellen, especially Ellen the Hunter, and I just adore the dance she and Angel have going here. It's dark, and a little obsessive, not quite passion, and definitely not romance, but something else deep and compelling, a meeting of lonely souls, perhaps. Also, the Brothers Winchester encountering Angel is just funny.
Title: Floodlights on the Highway
Author:
thassaliaFandom: Stargate: SG-1/Supernatural
Words: 3,731
Rating: PG-13
Summary: So,
cofax7 wanted Mitchell and Dean and freckles and a car show. Which is what she got.Quote: "Big gun for just looking at automobiles," Vala says, and drinks her sake with delicate sips. Dean's eyes widen and he fumbles at his back while Vala's grin stretches out to predatory.
"I liked it better than I liked the cars," she grins. "Besides, I couldn't fit them in my pocket. But don't worry, I might be persuaded to give it back."
And now Cam's the guy who let the alien steal a probably illegal firearm from a civilian with multiple IDs. Great. All righty then.
Notes: Look, Ma, No Buffy! If there is one woman in the universe who could run over Dean Winchester so fast he would have no clue what hit him, it would be Vala. This also has some really lovely interaction between Cam and Vala, which we really never see enough of. There is not much in the way of plot, but it is short and holds together nicely as a fun ficlet with a side of Angst.
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Date: 7 Jun 2007 12:19 (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 7 Jun 2007 18:07 (UTC)There's also a decent overview of The Sentinel over at