BtVS/Stargate Crossover
Rating:PG-13
Timeline:Set after season 7 for Buffy, but season 7 of Buffy happened at the same time as season 2 of Stargate. I'm going to use BtVS timeline so for example May 2004 means the end of season 3 of Stargate.I hope it will not be too confusing.
Chapter 11 - Reason
December 2004, Earth(Tauri)
John slowly walked towards his new house in Denver. He didn't hurry and observed the people on the street. It seemed that all of them had someone to run to, talk to or just spend time with. He didn't have anyone. Not since the damned Asguard Loki cloned him and put him into this 17 years old body. Now he was John O'Neill, nephew of his former self and the only people who knew that were General Hammond and SG-1. It the beginning he found it cool to have a new life and the possibility to do anything he wanted but he soon realized the thing he wanted the most was the one he'll never have again. His friends, his team and the fight against the Goa'uld. His life. It wasn't his anymore , now he was a student in one of the high schools in Denver living in a small house the SGC bought him. No matter what Carter and Daniel thought about his knowledges John didn't have problems in any subjects even math and physics because what he had to learn wasn't exactly on the same level as Carter's wormhole theories. The most time he was bored during the classes. Even more than the other students which in the beginning he thought was almost impossible. It's not like he could stand up during the lessons about the Gulf War and walk away saying 'Been there. Done that.'
John entered his house and checked the post. Bills. What else would be there? The SG-1 didn't bother to write and he didn't have any close friends. He threw the bills away and went to his fridge to get some food. He took out one old Pizza and examined it's state of decomposition to find out if the consummation was life threatening. John decided he had eaten worse and put the Pizza into his microwave to prepare it.
Twenty-five minutes later John finished his Pizza and took a beer from the fridge. Because he was only 17 he couldn't buy it himself but John had made a deal with one of his older neighbors. He paid the double price for the beer and the neighbor bought it for him. John didn't mind spending the money because he got enough from the SGC to afford it. John started to drink suddenly feeling tired like he hadn't slept for days. He fell on the sofa dropping the beer bottle and losing consciousness.
Two figures dressed in dark blue outfit entered John's house and examined his motionless body.Then one of them took out a cell phone."Inform senator Kinsley we have him."
Meanwhile, planet Verona
Xander looked at the construction site with satisfaction written on his face. In the last three months his crew managed to build here a small naquadah mine. There was a large deposit of naquadah on an asteroid near Antara but because mining on it was problematic they decided to build this mine.Xander sighed. Buffy would be proud.
The Veronians agreed when Willow promised to help them with developing their own industry. Verona was an agricultural society that resembled the 17'th century Earth and their leaders requested help with creating machinery based on steam-power. No wonder Willow agreed. Verona's naquadah deposits were so huge that Xander's crew could mine here for decades. He had spent the last month on this planet and wondered about the situation on Antara. He wasn't much worried about Earth. He heard that Rona's slayers were cooperating with Dead Boy who was now in charge of L.A.'s branch of Wolfram&Hart and kicking some serious demon ass all over the world.
The situation of the second part of SWC was much different. After they had lost Buffy they tried everything possible to find her from Goa'uld sensors to Willow's locator spells and telepathy without any success. They knew Buffy was still alive because Willow could feel her presence through the Scythe but she couldn't tell where Buffy was. The villagers on the planet where Buffy disappeared had told them several of their people hadn't come back from the fields the same day which meant Buffy had been probably kidnapped by a Goa'uld. Willow had thought it had been Apophis who had taken her and she had gone with Faith and Dawn to his capital world to find her but the locator spell had shown them Buffy hadn't been on Apophis's planet. There are hundreds of Goa'uld worlds and they simply couldn't search all of them. Xander was glad he hadn't been the one to tell Giles about Buffy because he wasn't sure he could stand so many Dear Lords and Bloody Hells the Ripper had thrown at Faith and Willow. They all missed Buffy but Giles and Dawn had had the biggest problems to deal with the uncertainty of her fate. The first week Dawn had refused to leave her room and her brooding skills had reached a level where she could give Dead Boy a run for his money. Xander had realized she needed a change - to be where everything would remind her of Buffy would just make her feel worse. That's why he had offered Dawn to come with him to Verona to study their culture and arts. He had hoped it would force Dawn to focus on her work. In the beginning it hadn't worked and Dawn had spent the most time in her room just looking out of the window. It took her another two weeks before she actually started to be interested in Verona's history. Xander smiled. He knew the most important reason for the change in Dawn's behavior wasn't his help but a student named Kalim who studied history on the biggest (and only) Veronian university. Of course Dawn tried to persuade him the relationship with Kalim was just a friendship but Xander knew she had a crush and was glad about it. From his point of view the important thing was Dawn now felt better.
Meanwhile Willow had spent the last months trying to develop modifications of Goa'uld technology. She didn't have much luck but after a few failures she finally created the ASW (Advanced Staff Weapon ) prototype . After several skirmishes with Jaffa Buffy had come to a conclusion that staff weapon is unsatisfactory and had asked Willow if she could come up with something that would fire faster and be ... well ... shorter. The main obstacle had been that the staff isn't so long just to make it more fancy or more suitable for hand-to-hand combat. The interior of the middle part is a linear accelerator for the energy stream coming from the power source situated in the bottom end . If Willow had made it half shorter it's power would drop to 50 percent.The solution had been simple. Willow had used more (twelve) power sources to compensate the weaker acceleration. She had also added a zat gun power source, telescope, two-wave-lenght laser targeting (first laser was at 500 nm, the other was at 1300 nm and invisible to a human eye) ,infra and ultra vision connected to a LCD display. The weapon had three modes. In the first one it fired in rotation from each power source, the second fired from all sources at once and the shot was therefore six times stronger than the original staff weapon. The third mode worked as a zat gun. Willow also tried to create a Chappa-Ai memory buffer control program. Everything coming through the wormhole was always written into the Chappa-Ai memory before it's actual materialization. This fact would theoretically enable to write a program that would read and filter the objects in incoming wormholes and got rid of anything undesirable. The program didn't work yet but Willow said it's just a matter of time.
Xander turned his attention back to present. His work was finished for that day and he started walking towards the house he now lived in. It belonged to Tarun who was the most avowed architect on Verona. Tarun was fascinated by various Earth's architecture and Xander enjoyed describing the carpentry and construction methods. In return Tarun had told Xander about Verona's history. The Veronians had been brought to this planet 1500 years ago by the Goa'uld Anubis. About six hundred years ago Anubis had stopped visiting the planet but other Goa'uld had started occasionally coming to Verona for slaves. That's why 550 years ago the Veronians had decided to abandon their villages near the Chappa-Ai and destroyed all evidence of the existence of their civilization. The only thing left was an old abandoned Goa'uld naquadah mine. They had built ships to travel across the ocean to the second continent hoping the Goa'uld would think their civilization had been destroyed. The plan worked and the Goa'uld hadn't visited them ever since.
Xander entered Tarun's house and greeted his host. "Hi Tarun. Do you know where Dawn is ?"
"I think she went to the Three Oaks with Kalim."
Xander smiled and wondered what would Buffy do if she knew that Dawnie is spending her free time in a tavern. She would probably ground Dawn until the next ice age.
"I think they are celebrating." Tarun added.
"Oh. What's the reason this time? The neighbor's cat has kittens, there are no clouds, the fertility of onions is one percent higher than last year?"
"I think it's just the typical 'This day ends with a dusk' reason."
Xander laughed but his laugh stopped when he realized what Dawn's spending time with a guy in her age could lead to. God he hoped Buffy and Dawn had the 'Stork doesn't bring the kids.' talk.
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"I find that very strange Dawn." Kalim shook his head, his brown hair falling into his oval face. They were sitting by one of the ten wooden tables in the Three Oaks tavern drinking the blue wine which was a well known speciality. Dawn just finished her second drink and was already starting to feel the effect of alcohol but chose to ignore it and ordered another glass.
Dawn had to laugh when she saw Kalim's confused face. She had tried to explain to him the concept of computer games and obviously failed miserably. "You just have to give it a try. I'll lend you my laptop tomorrow and we'll try something simple like golf or fishing."
"That's another part I don't understand. Why would I play something that simulates for example shooting arrows when I can go outside and do it myself."
"You can here but try it in L.A. and you'll promptly find yourself in a mental institution, or jail or possibly a film agency."
"What's L.A.?" Kalim wondered.
"That's not important. The point is in computer games you are allowed to do things you can't in the real live. The fishing and shooting arrows weren't exactly the best examples." Dawn admitted.
"Oh. So you kill people in these games because you can't do that in real life. But you would like to?"
"No! It's just a way of spending time. Like sitting in a tavern and drinking with your friends." Dawn finished her drink suddenly feeling dizzy."That was the third one right? I think I should go back as long as I can walk and tell the difference between a bee and an Alkesh. He he get it? Bee and Alkesh? "
"Yeah. Let's finish the discussion about your computer obsession tomorrow." Kalim nodded seeing Dawn's condition.
"Hey! I'm not obsessed. I'm just..." Dawn tried to walk to the tavern's exit and tumbled over a chair.
Kalim barely managed to catch Dawn before she would fall to the ground."Drunk. I've noticed. Come on. I'll take you home."
"Taxi!" Dawn shouted as soon as they left the wooden building."Taxi!" She turned to Kalim. "Can you get me a Taxi?"
"I'm not familiar with that kind of drink and I think you had enough for one night." Kalim supported Dawn with his hand and started walking towards Tarun's house. When they came to the gate Kalim saw Xander and Vi waiting for them. "Uhm. Hi. Dawn's a little ... "
"I can see that only I would leave out that 'little'. " Xander snorted.
"I will take her." Vi said ,took Dawn in her arms and carried her to her bedroom.
Xander turned his attention to Kalim with an angry expression. "Let's have a chat."
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Dawn woke up feeling a major hangover coming up, her body protesting against any kind of movement, demanding at least another ten hours of undisturbed sleep. The last think she could remember was her talking to Kalim about computer games.
Dawn's POV
Shit. What happened after we left the tavern ? We didn't...Did we? OK Dawn calm down and think this over.
Look around. Where are you ?
On a bed.
Is it your bed ?
It is.
Is there someone else in the bed with you?
No.
Do you hear someone else in this room or in the bathroom?
No.
You should go check the bathroom anyway.
I stand up and go to the bathroom. It's empty.
Do you see any clothes that don't belong to you?
No.
Good. The probability of you still being a virgin just increased to ninety five percent . What are you wearing?
My night gown.
Do you remember taking off your dress and putting on the night gown?
No.
The above mentioned probability have just seriously decreased.
Shit!
End Dawn's POV
Dawn got dressed and rushed to the ground floor to find Xander sitting near the fireplace and reading some book about tools.
"Good Morning Dawn. Feeling well?" Xander smiled. The previous day he talked to Kalim after Vi had left with Dawn and act all 'Big Brother'. It was fun but this is going to be MUCH better.
"You know uhm ... about last night..."
"Yes?" he smiled trying to look innocent.
"Well ... do you know if I ... when I ... came home ?"
"I'm not sure. I guess around eleven. With Kalim."
"And Kalim ... left afterwards?"
"Yeah."
Dawn fetched a sight of relief. Maybe she overreacted and the situation wasn't as bad as it seemed.
"After about three hours." Xander added, pretending to continue reading, but was almost unable to control his desire to laugh.
"What? And you just let him be there?" Dawn shook her head, angry about Xander's lack of interest in her ... whatever happened the previous night.
"Well. It looked like you two didn't want to be disturbed."
"Right." Dawn's face got an cold expression."My bad to think you care."
Xander realized he had gone too far. He stood up and hugged Dawn."Of course I care about you. Kalim..."
"Left and I took you to your bedroom." finished Vi as she entered the room.
"You are spoiling my fun." Xander complained.
"You are so DEAD." Dawn threatened Xander who was now looking at the carpet suddenly finding it incredibly fascinating . "And why is Vi here?"
"We had a visit yesterday afternoon. The Chappa-Ai on the first continent activated." Vi informed them.
"Goa'uld?"
"Tauri." Vi shook her head."At least we think it was them. The group fit the description. They took some soil samples, then used some kind of small jet to scout the surroundings and left. Faith sent me with three Alkesh and forty slayers in case they would make any troubles. Interesting thing not all of them left to Tauri. The address was different.
"Maybe they have a colony on another planet?" Dawn suggested when Vi's transmitter started to blink.
"We have company." Vi announced. "Four Tauri just left the wormhole. Our Alkesh are waiting in the orbit and monitoring the situation. We should join them."
Xander nodded and the three of them left to the mine's control room where ring transport was installed. Vi's Alkesh took the air, cloaked and flew towards the first continent to find out what the Tauri are doing. In seventy seconds they reached the orbit above the stargate.
"So where are they ?" Xander frowned.
"You missed them. They entered the gate fifty seconds ago." Kennedy informed him. "They installed some kind of energy source and a probe near the gate and left."
"My God." Dawn looked at the sensor readings. "That's not just an energy source. It's a naquadah bomb!"
"What? I guess the Veronians are lucky they live on the other side of the planet." Xander remarked.
"You don't get it! There are naquadah deposits under the surface all over the planet. The explosion will..."
Dawn never finished the sentence. She didn't have to. The bomb detonated and a chain reaction of explosions swallowed the whole planet.
End Chapter
A/N:This chapter is based on Stargate's episode 4-15 Chain Reaction. In this episode General Hammond is replaced by General Bauer who orders to send a naquadah bomb to a planet with a lot of naquadah deposits without scouting out more then 50 miles around the stargate. The explosion of the bomb creates a chain reaction that destroys the whole planet.
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