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phoenix64 ([personal profile] phoenix64) wrote2008-08-01 03:12 pm
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It's all about the hair

You really should read the funny and all too short (and sadly Chapter 2 has not actually arrived yet) dS/SGA crossover "Searching for Benton Fraser" by [livejournal.com profile] apetslife.

"Get that gun out of my face or I will kick you in the head."

As introductions go, this isn't actually the strangest that John Sheppard's ever heard, but it's close. The alarms had gone off, unauthorized entry through the gate. Shutdown the gateroom, yada yada, guns at the ready, yada. And then what had come through...

Edit: Now with an actual working link!
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[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/ 2008-08-02 12:11 am (UTC)(link)
THANK YOU for pointing that out--that is hysterical.

[identity profile] phoenix64.livejournal.com 2008-08-02 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
If there ever is a Chapter 2, I think it absolutely has to incorporate, "Bloom, close, kick 'em in the head."

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/_medley_/ 2008-08-02 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
YES. Absolutely. If not, there must be a Chapter 3.

[identity profile] travels-in-time.livejournal.com 2008-08-02 04:10 am (UTC)(link)
I'm Stargate-clueless, so I have no idea. (Gene? What kind of gene? What does it mean that he shut down the city?...The show is set in the middle of the ocean? I thought it was an outer-space thing.)

But it's still great, for the outsider look at Ray.

[identity profile] phoenix64.livejournal.com 2008-08-02 04:55 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, OK, quick SGA primer: Atlantis in this case is basically kind of a huge self-contained city that can and has traveled from the bottom of an ocean to the surface and even through space. Atlantis was built by the same race that built the Stargates, the Ancients, and most of this happened millions of years ago. When the Ancients left Atlantis behind they also left a trace of their genetic material (honestly, I'm unclear how this happened, if it was seeded purposefully or something else), and this specific gene is what allows the control of Ancient technology - it responds in a way that at times is virtually telepathic, but only to someone possessing the gene.

Very often a certain amount of training is needed to actually control this technology with any kind of accuracy, which can result in some wild results at first. Ray's panic manifested as the city sealing itself up and shutting down, therefore shutting down any possibility of him having to deal with the ocean.

How's that?
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