Aug. 20 - Helping Earth
Title: Helping Earth
Author: 3am_moonlight
Crossover: BtVS / Stargate Atlantis / Stargate SG-1
Rating: Gen / Teen. (Implied Willow/Sam UST).
Word Count: 1,252.
Timeline: Post-Chosen / SGA: S04/S05/post-S05. No comics or books for either.
Disclaimer: The Buffyverse belongs to Joss and the Stargate 'verse belongs to MGM.
Summary: Buffy and Faith fight Wraith and discuss their upcoming tour of Atlantis.
Author's Note: This follows last years 'A Face Full of Dust' and this years ' Hello Again', ' Dinner and a Guessing Game', ' Correspondance', ' Unanswered Questions', and ' Disasters and Teasing'.
It was May and the demonic apocalypse season was officially over for this year. All they had to do now was help the Stargate Program clean up the remains of *their* yearly alien almost apocalypse. According to her Slayer Dreams they had managed to stop the Superhive from culling Earth, but some of their smaller spaceships had managed to get past Earth's defenses.
Which meant Buffy and her Slayers were spread around wherever their Dreams had told them they would be needed. Buffy and Faith had gotten San Francisco, which suited Buffy just fine as that was where her Dream had shown her Atlantis would splash land. There were ten teams consisting of two Slayers and either a Watcher or a Witch or someone with some kind of useful power/ability. The excess of Slayers had more to do with their lack of knowledge of the Wraith, or rather their lack of experience with them. Daniel had been very helpful in answering all of Buffy's questions about them so that was very useful.
At the moment the two women and their resident geek, um make that novice Watcher, was standing at the edge of a park waiting for a spaceship to crash there. Both of their Dreams had been rather clear for a change, but the timing of the actual crash had been vague. So here they were, bored out of their skulls while waiting for the alien bad guys to make their flashy entrance.
Meanwhile, the brunette had a few questions for her. "So you're bumping uglies with another soldier?"
Resisting the urge to glare, Buffy replied, "No, we're just acquaintances. And he's an officer, not a soldier. Same with Riley. I saved him from a trio of vampires a few years ago, and he decided to try and hunt them on his own. He nearly became dinner before I rescued him again." She walked around their small area of the park, pacing, trying to use some of the built up energy. "He thanked me by attempting to hire me for his super secret program."
Faith gave an unladylike snort, "Of course he did, men either love or hate strong women."
"True," Buffy replied, "but I asked Daniel and he told me there is a more than humanly strong female alien on John's team, and apparently she kicks his ass every time they spar. She's also about my size." That got a grin from her sister Slayer. "So he isn't intimidated by me or condescending the way some men are but he also knows there are limits he can't cross. So, he plays nice."
"Nice enough that you're going to use this as an excuse to get us a tour of the Lost City of Atlantis."
They had spoken about it among themselves, just the Scoobies. And the debate had been running hot over who got to go with Buffy to sight-see in the mystical city. Giles had wanted to go for academic reasons, Willow also wanted to go for the academic reasons but mostly because she was hoping to meet her hacker crush there. Xander just wanted to see the Lost City, and so did Dawn. Dawn was also interested in Atlantis because of the Alteran language and it's similarities to the Scandinavian Runes. Faith had simply said she was going because there was no way in any of the hells she would allow Buffy to go near the military again without proper backup.
In the end, Buffy had vetoed everyone but Faith. She'd put a maybe on Giles and told him he could go if Daniel came along for the tour. Hopefully, the two geeks could distract each other while she and Faith could just enjoy being tourists for a change. Everyone else would have to be content with the reports afterward. None of them had been happy about it, but the only one who didn't complain loudly was Willow and that was only because all of them had already been promised a tour of the SGC. It also included an introduction to SG-1, which meant a guaranteed meeting with Samantha Carter.
Overhead a loud whining noise could suddenly be heard and the Chosen Two straightened up and followed the alien spacecraft with their eyes. It had clearly been hit and was trailing large amounts of smoke behind it. They made a half-hearted attempt to hide behind some bushes while a bright light somehow dropped off a group of tall, greenish looking men with long white hair and facial tattoos. A few seconds later the aircraft crashed into a huge tree, probably killing the pilot on impact.
The Wraith looked human for the most part, except for the very much non-human skin color. Upon closer inspection, they had reptile-looking eyes, which would definitely have gotten them noticed. The group, which consisted of five of these alien creatures, turned en masse and came straight for the two Slayers. Buffy looked at Faith and grinned, how very polite of the bad guys to come and greet them!
What followed was an okay fight. The alien bad guys were strong, sort of on par with a master vampire who had been undead for at least a century, but it still meant they weren't the monsters the military had made them out to be. The main difference was avoiding their hands rather than their fangs, but it was doable. One of them was kept alive for further study, but the other four were all killed. All of them were tagged and magically sent back to HQ in Cleveland.
Faith checked the pilot and it turned out he was very much dead. They spent a good twenty minutes covering the oddly shaped spaceship with a couple of huge tarps and then added signs around it so it looked like some kind of official construction work. Nothing to see here, move along. The trick was to make it look common, it lessened the chance of nosy busybodies taking a peek at things that didn't concern them. They had considered taking the ship, but had decided that one of the other teams could send their ship instead, especially if it was intact, so not everything was missing from their 'crime scene'.
"All set?" Faith asked once she'd given their handiwork a good look.
"All set."
They walked over to a parking lot a good distance away, there was no reason to chance getting the car damaged by parking it close by, and Faith drove them back to their hotel. Buffy rode shotgun and after quickly checking her messages she sent off one of her own to Daniel. It contained the locations of all of the downed spaceships and the bodies of the attempted alien invaders.
The International Defenders Council didn't normally do cleanup work for the government, but since the PTB had chosen to send them Slayer Dreams they had to do it. Actual cleanup, as in removing bodies and collecting parts and pieces from the crash sites were so not a part of their job description and since the military had a lot of people at their disposal they could get the 'honor' of doing that part of the job.
Back at the hotel, the Slayers showered and changed into something light and sexy, before they went dancing. Meeting up with John could wait until the next day, especially since he would probably be stuck in meetings explaining why Atlantis was floating in the San Francisco Bay rather than on an ocean somewhere in Pegasus.
Author: 3am_moonlight
Crossover: BtVS / Stargate Atlantis / Stargate SG-1
Rating: Gen / Teen. (Implied Willow/Sam UST).
Word Count: 1,252.
Timeline: Post-Chosen / SGA: S04/S05/post-S05. No comics or books for either.
Disclaimer: The Buffyverse belongs to Joss and the Stargate 'verse belongs to MGM.
Summary: Buffy and Faith fight Wraith and discuss their upcoming tour of Atlantis.
Author's Note: This follows last years 'A Face Full of Dust' and this years ' Hello Again', ' Dinner and a Guessing Game', ' Correspondance', ' Unanswered Questions', and ' Disasters and Teasing'.
It was May and the demonic apocalypse season was officially over for this year. All they had to do now was help the Stargate Program clean up the remains of *their* yearly alien almost apocalypse. According to her Slayer Dreams they had managed to stop the Superhive from culling Earth, but some of their smaller spaceships had managed to get past Earth's defenses.
Which meant Buffy and her Slayers were spread around wherever their Dreams had told them they would be needed. Buffy and Faith had gotten San Francisco, which suited Buffy just fine as that was where her Dream had shown her Atlantis would splash land. There were ten teams consisting of two Slayers and either a Watcher or a Witch or someone with some kind of useful power/ability. The excess of Slayers had more to do with their lack of knowledge of the Wraith, or rather their lack of experience with them. Daniel had been very helpful in answering all of Buffy's questions about them so that was very useful.
At the moment the two women and their resident geek, um make that novice Watcher, was standing at the edge of a park waiting for a spaceship to crash there. Both of their Dreams had been rather clear for a change, but the timing of the actual crash had been vague. So here they were, bored out of their skulls while waiting for the alien bad guys to make their flashy entrance.
Meanwhile, the brunette had a few questions for her. "So you're bumping uglies with another soldier?"
Resisting the urge to glare, Buffy replied, "No, we're just acquaintances. And he's an officer, not a soldier. Same with Riley. I saved him from a trio of vampires a few years ago, and he decided to try and hunt them on his own. He nearly became dinner before I rescued him again." She walked around their small area of the park, pacing, trying to use some of the built up energy. "He thanked me by attempting to hire me for his super secret program."
Faith gave an unladylike snort, "Of course he did, men either love or hate strong women."
"True," Buffy replied, "but I asked Daniel and he told me there is a more than humanly strong female alien on John's team, and apparently she kicks his ass every time they spar. She's also about my size." That got a grin from her sister Slayer. "So he isn't intimidated by me or condescending the way some men are but he also knows there are limits he can't cross. So, he plays nice."
"Nice enough that you're going to use this as an excuse to get us a tour of the Lost City of Atlantis."
They had spoken about it among themselves, just the Scoobies. And the debate had been running hot over who got to go with Buffy to sight-see in the mystical city. Giles had wanted to go for academic reasons, Willow also wanted to go for the academic reasons but mostly because she was hoping to meet her hacker crush there. Xander just wanted to see the Lost City, and so did Dawn. Dawn was also interested in Atlantis because of the Alteran language and it's similarities to the Scandinavian Runes. Faith had simply said she was going because there was no way in any of the hells she would allow Buffy to go near the military again without proper backup.
In the end, Buffy had vetoed everyone but Faith. She'd put a maybe on Giles and told him he could go if Daniel came along for the tour. Hopefully, the two geeks could distract each other while she and Faith could just enjoy being tourists for a change. Everyone else would have to be content with the reports afterward. None of them had been happy about it, but the only one who didn't complain loudly was Willow and that was only because all of them had already been promised a tour of the SGC. It also included an introduction to SG-1, which meant a guaranteed meeting with Samantha Carter.
Overhead a loud whining noise could suddenly be heard and the Chosen Two straightened up and followed the alien spacecraft with their eyes. It had clearly been hit and was trailing large amounts of smoke behind it. They made a half-hearted attempt to hide behind some bushes while a bright light somehow dropped off a group of tall, greenish looking men with long white hair and facial tattoos. A few seconds later the aircraft crashed into a huge tree, probably killing the pilot on impact.
The Wraith looked human for the most part, except for the very much non-human skin color. Upon closer inspection, they had reptile-looking eyes, which would definitely have gotten them noticed. The group, which consisted of five of these alien creatures, turned en masse and came straight for the two Slayers. Buffy looked at Faith and grinned, how very polite of the bad guys to come and greet them!
What followed was an okay fight. The alien bad guys were strong, sort of on par with a master vampire who had been undead for at least a century, but it still meant they weren't the monsters the military had made them out to be. The main difference was avoiding their hands rather than their fangs, but it was doable. One of them was kept alive for further study, but the other four were all killed. All of them were tagged and magically sent back to HQ in Cleveland.
Faith checked the pilot and it turned out he was very much dead. They spent a good twenty minutes covering the oddly shaped spaceship with a couple of huge tarps and then added signs around it so it looked like some kind of official construction work. Nothing to see here, move along. The trick was to make it look common, it lessened the chance of nosy busybodies taking a peek at things that didn't concern them. They had considered taking the ship, but had decided that one of the other teams could send their ship instead, especially if it was intact, so not everything was missing from their 'crime scene'.
"All set?" Faith asked once she'd given their handiwork a good look.
"All set."
They walked over to a parking lot a good distance away, there was no reason to chance getting the car damaged by parking it close by, and Faith drove them back to their hotel. Buffy rode shotgun and after quickly checking her messages she sent off one of her own to Daniel. It contained the locations of all of the downed spaceships and the bodies of the attempted alien invaders.
The International Defenders Council didn't normally do cleanup work for the government, but since the PTB had chosen to send them Slayer Dreams they had to do it. Actual cleanup, as in removing bodies and collecting parts and pieces from the crash sites were so not a part of their job description and since the military had a lot of people at their disposal they could get the 'honor' of doing that part of the job.
Back at the hotel, the Slayers showered and changed into something light and sexy, before they went dancing. Meeting up with John could wait until the next day, especially since he would probably be stuck in meetings explaining why Atlantis was floating in the San Francisco Bay rather than on an ocean somewhere in Pegasus.