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Fic: The Rod of Asclepius (11/15) (BtVS/DrWho/SG-1)
Title: The Rod of Asclepius (11/15)
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moragmacpherson
Rating: PG-13
Timeline: This story takes place during that sixty year block that I glossed over between chapters three and four of "Another Side of the Sky". Buffy's about twenty-five years old, so it's before the Beeyadeen Kibra incident she tells Spike about in "Better With Two". Thus our characters here are still-slightly-stuffy Tenth Doctor and still-slightly-spacey Buffy. In the Stargate universe, it's early season four.
Disclaimer: If it's a character or a place, I don't own it.
Archive: Here, TtH, Teaspoon, the pit, I think. If you'd like it, let me know.
Author's Note: Un-beta'd.
Summary: Another storage closet, another dimension? Set during "Another Side of the Sky," Buffy and the Doctor slip into the Stargate universe and a whole new set of problems.
Buffy settled the helmet on the Doctor’s head and couldn’t control her grin. “What? You’re the one who insisted.”
“No, Jack did, and if I’ve got to wear body armor, so do you. Your hair is going to be so cute after this.” She donned her own helmet and looked her lover up and down. “I like the way the pants sort of give you an ass.”
“Buffy!” In the helmet’s shade she could see the Doctor’s cheeks burning.
“You two ready then?” Daniel came over, bearing two staff weapons, but the Doctor waved.
“No, just for Buffy. I’ll need my hands free.” The Doctor hefted the case containing the Reproducer in one hand and held up the sonic screwdriver in his other.
“Oh, right.” Daniel handed the one weapon to Buffy and clutched the other by his chest. “Well, usually they keep me in the middle, but it’ll probably be you then. I’ll be right behind you.”
“That’s right.” Jack clapped Daniel on the shoulder. “I’ll take point, then Buffy, then you and Jackson, followed by Major Carter and Teal’c covering our behinds. But we all cover everyone’s behinds, you got that?”
“Any time Jack,” blurted Buffy, causing all three men to blush. “Oh what?” She charged her weapon. “I’m more concerned about the ass-kicking right now anyway.”
Jack nodded. “You stay with the Doctor. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but it’s vital that he survive to carry out this mission.” He looked the Time Lord in the eye. “We’re behind you the whole way.”
“Thank you Colonel. I’ve got it so the delay should be down to fifteen seconds now. But that’s still going to feel like a long time up there.”
“All right. Thor! We’re ready when you are.” The rest of the SG team charged their weapons. Thor waved, and in a flash, they were onboard the Replicator ship.
“The swarm will move here quickly. Bridge is this way.” Sam pointed, and Jack led the way. Sure enough, they were soon being followed by a large collection of bugs, but for now, Jack held off giving the command to fire.
Buffy watched the bugs uneasily, the metallic clicks of their legs vibrating in the staples still holding her shoulder together. Quietly and swiftly, the team moved through the ship.
A few yards from the bridge, one of the Replicators jumped at the Doctor. Daniel fired his weapon at it, but momentum and the delayed effect left the Doctor in danger. Fortunately, Carter yelled “Duck,” which the Doctor did, leaving the air open for Buffy to swing her staff like a baseball bat, bashing the airborne bug into the bulkhead. It twitched for a few seconds before going still.
The Doctor met Jack’s look. “Run!”
Jack nodded. “Carter, Teal’c, cover fire, let’s move!” The Doctor, Buffy, and Daniel moved ahead towards the bridge as the others began firing rapidly. The Replicators rushed at first, then became more hesitant as the front lines slowed then became obstacle corpses, blocking the rush. Teal’c measured the delay in heartbeats, Sam in her head, Jack shouting the count. Yet the onslaught continued.
Daniel and Buffy were hardly happier about the situation. The Doctor took precious seconds opening the bridge, and once it was open, it was a sea of the monsters. Daniel continued firing while Buffy took the more physical approach, sweeping through the herd with her staff so that Daniel could take them out with a single blast and the Doctor could sneak past.
“Doctor! Hurry up!” Buffy picked one off of Daniel’s leg and threw it into a clutch in the corner, then blasted them.
“Just a second.” The Doctor struggled to apply the screwdriver to the queen machine while dodging her pincers.
“How’re things going in here?” Jack and the rest of the team arrived in the bridge room, their blasts clearing out the rafters while Carter shut the door.
“We’re working on it!” Daniel gasped as a Replicator claw grazed his hip. Buffy cleared it with a shot.
“You okay?”
“Fine, your left!” Daniel pushed her head down and deflected the spider with his staff. Teal’c’s welcome shot began to disable the creature.
“Queen’s reprogrammed and disabled, I’m releasing the Reproducer now.” The Doctor pointed the screwdriver at the box, and the engineered creature popped out of it. Attention from the bugs suddenly turned to the highest technology in the room, and Jack took a moment to catch his breath.
Carter pulled out a small communicator. “Thor, this is SG-1, first objective achieved, ready for transport in thirty seconds.” She looked over her friends. “We will be, right?”
The group nodded. Buffy took a large flat bandage out of her pocket as Daniel leaned against a pillar. She looked at his grimace, then pulled his pants down on his right side. “Just a bad scratch.” Buffy placed the bandage over Daniel’s wound. “I came prepared this time,” she winked at him, putting his pants back into place. “Anybody else need one?”
“All good,” panted Carter.
“I’m good,” smirked Jack.
“I am unharmed,” stated Teal’c.
“Just fine for now,” grinned the Doctor.
Daniel’s blush had almost disappeared by the time they were transported, the Doctor using the sonic screwdriver at the last moment, freeing the Reproducer to seduce the rest of the ship. He shifted his jaw as they materialized on the next ship. “We’ll need to hurry. They know we’re here, and pretty soon, they’ll start to chase the other one.”
Carter nodded. “Your girl going to be in charge of that ship so quick?”
“She’s probably in charge by now. Poor thing.” The Doctor started moving. “Allons-y.”
The corridors seemed longer in this ship, and the going slow, as they had to fight the whole way down them. Buffy kept one arm around the Doctor, whose advanced gadgets and tall, wiry frame were a constant target for the jumping spiders. “This thing’s a better club than a laser, Doctor!”
“Glad you like it so much.” He kept fiddling with his sonic screwdriver, finding the occasional setting that helped slow the Replicators down.
Teal’c slipped after placing his foot down on a dying Replicator and fell into Daniel, who yelped as they hit the floor together. Buffy and Carter moved over them, providing cover fire while Jack and the Doctor helped the pair to their feet. “You okay?”
“I think so.”
“There is a stinger.” Teal’c leaned over and the Doctor pulled the leg fragment out of his left knee. He pulled some gauze out of the vest pocket and stuffed it into the bleeding puncture.
“We’re almost there!” shouted Carter. The Doctor shifted Teal’c’s weight over to Daniel as he saw the door.
“Doctor!” Buffy shouted. She had missed the bug, plunging towards at the Doctor’s head, catching only out of the corner of her eye. Jack launched himself and knocked it away with his head, his helmet crunching with the impact.
“We’re in, shift!” The Doctor grabbed Jack by the arms and pulled him into the bridge, setting him by the door. Carter brought up the rear, allowing him to shut the door, leaving them in a dim circle of light under the arch, the rest of the bridge black. She and Buffy began clearing out the path to the Queen, with Teal’c and Daniel providing intermittent fire.
“Doctor, how’s Jack?”
“Fine, bump on the head, cut on his cheek, but we should get him out soon.”
“Should get all of us out soon.” Buffy tossed a glance their way. “Hold on guys, this is gonna get scary.” With a quick exhalation, she jumped back a few feet, then ran towards the swarm as the rest of them shouted “No!” Buffy leapt into the scrambling blackness, a few blaster shots ahead of her. Carter and Teal’c kept firing, unsure of whether they were helping or hitting her.
Then the corpses started raining from the rafters.
There was a pulse in the dark, and a few more flashes of isec particles at high velocity. Teal’c saw a glint out of the corner of his eye, then dropped to his knees, missing the wave of Replicators that smashed against the wall above him.
Buffy emerged from the dark. “C’mon Doctor, it’s now or never!” She grabbed his hand and pulled him into the black. “See if you can get us some lights!”
He heard her grunts and struggles as they fought through the path. Daniel, Carter, and Teal’c’s blasts became faint. “Where the hell is it?”
“You're going up, Doctor. Get ready.” He felt Buffy hoist him up by the waist and toss him into the faint orange glow of the rafters. With a gasp he grabbed hold of one.
“You coming?”
“No, finish this Doctor!” Buffy screamed. It was pain and frustration, and then the tail end of it was fresh pain. The Doctor pulled himself up and took out the screwdriver. Reprogramming the queen would be the work of only a few seconds, but Buffy was down there alone and hurt in the dark.
He bit his lips. Best to get it done. “All right, Buffy, Carter, we’re through!” He shouted at the top of his lungs.
“Transport in five seconds Doctor!”
He was still waiting for a reply from Buffy when the Asgard whisked them out of their dark hell.
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Author:
moragmacpherson Rating: PG-13
Timeline: This story takes place during that sixty year block that I glossed over between chapters three and four of "Another Side of the Sky". Buffy's about twenty-five years old, so it's before the Beeyadeen Kibra incident she tells Spike about in "Better With Two". Thus our characters here are still-slightly-stuffy Tenth Doctor and still-slightly-spacey Buffy. In the Stargate universe, it's early season four.
Disclaimer: If it's a character or a place, I don't own it.
Archive: Here, TtH, Teaspoon, the pit, I think. If you'd like it, let me know.
Author's Note: Un-beta'd.
Summary: Another storage closet, another dimension? Set during "Another Side of the Sky," Buffy and the Doctor slip into the Stargate universe and a whole new set of problems.
Buffy settled the helmet on the Doctor’s head and couldn’t control her grin. “What? You’re the one who insisted.”
“No, Jack did, and if I’ve got to wear body armor, so do you. Your hair is going to be so cute after this.” She donned her own helmet and looked her lover up and down. “I like the way the pants sort of give you an ass.”
“Buffy!” In the helmet’s shade she could see the Doctor’s cheeks burning.
“You two ready then?” Daniel came over, bearing two staff weapons, but the Doctor waved.
“No, just for Buffy. I’ll need my hands free.” The Doctor hefted the case containing the Reproducer in one hand and held up the sonic screwdriver in his other.
“Oh, right.” Daniel handed the one weapon to Buffy and clutched the other by his chest. “Well, usually they keep me in the middle, but it’ll probably be you then. I’ll be right behind you.”
“That’s right.” Jack clapped Daniel on the shoulder. “I’ll take point, then Buffy, then you and Jackson, followed by Major Carter and Teal’c covering our behinds. But we all cover everyone’s behinds, you got that?”
“Any time Jack,” blurted Buffy, causing all three men to blush. “Oh what?” She charged her weapon. “I’m more concerned about the ass-kicking right now anyway.”
Jack nodded. “You stay with the Doctor. I can’t believe I’m saying this, but it’s vital that he survive to carry out this mission.” He looked the Time Lord in the eye. “We’re behind you the whole way.”
“Thank you Colonel. I’ve got it so the delay should be down to fifteen seconds now. But that’s still going to feel like a long time up there.”
“All right. Thor! We’re ready when you are.” The rest of the SG team charged their weapons. Thor waved, and in a flash, they were onboard the Replicator ship.
“The swarm will move here quickly. Bridge is this way.” Sam pointed, and Jack led the way. Sure enough, they were soon being followed by a large collection of bugs, but for now, Jack held off giving the command to fire.
Buffy watched the bugs uneasily, the metallic clicks of their legs vibrating in the staples still holding her shoulder together. Quietly and swiftly, the team moved through the ship.
A few yards from the bridge, one of the Replicators jumped at the Doctor. Daniel fired his weapon at it, but momentum and the delayed effect left the Doctor in danger. Fortunately, Carter yelled “Duck,” which the Doctor did, leaving the air open for Buffy to swing her staff like a baseball bat, bashing the airborne bug into the bulkhead. It twitched for a few seconds before going still.
The Doctor met Jack’s look. “Run!”
Jack nodded. “Carter, Teal’c, cover fire, let’s move!” The Doctor, Buffy, and Daniel moved ahead towards the bridge as the others began firing rapidly. The Replicators rushed at first, then became more hesitant as the front lines slowed then became obstacle corpses, blocking the rush. Teal’c measured the delay in heartbeats, Sam in her head, Jack shouting the count. Yet the onslaught continued.
Daniel and Buffy were hardly happier about the situation. The Doctor took precious seconds opening the bridge, and once it was open, it was a sea of the monsters. Daniel continued firing while Buffy took the more physical approach, sweeping through the herd with her staff so that Daniel could take them out with a single blast and the Doctor could sneak past.
“Doctor! Hurry up!” Buffy picked one off of Daniel’s leg and threw it into a clutch in the corner, then blasted them.
“Just a second.” The Doctor struggled to apply the screwdriver to the queen machine while dodging her pincers.
“How’re things going in here?” Jack and the rest of the team arrived in the bridge room, their blasts clearing out the rafters while Carter shut the door.
“We’re working on it!” Daniel gasped as a Replicator claw grazed his hip. Buffy cleared it with a shot.
“You okay?”
“Fine, your left!” Daniel pushed her head down and deflected the spider with his staff. Teal’c’s welcome shot began to disable the creature.
“Queen’s reprogrammed and disabled, I’m releasing the Reproducer now.” The Doctor pointed the screwdriver at the box, and the engineered creature popped out of it. Attention from the bugs suddenly turned to the highest technology in the room, and Jack took a moment to catch his breath.
Carter pulled out a small communicator. “Thor, this is SG-1, first objective achieved, ready for transport in thirty seconds.” She looked over her friends. “We will be, right?”
The group nodded. Buffy took a large flat bandage out of her pocket as Daniel leaned against a pillar. She looked at his grimace, then pulled his pants down on his right side. “Just a bad scratch.” Buffy placed the bandage over Daniel’s wound. “I came prepared this time,” she winked at him, putting his pants back into place. “Anybody else need one?”
“All good,” panted Carter.
“I’m good,” smirked Jack.
“I am unharmed,” stated Teal’c.
“Just fine for now,” grinned the Doctor.
Daniel’s blush had almost disappeared by the time they were transported, the Doctor using the sonic screwdriver at the last moment, freeing the Reproducer to seduce the rest of the ship. He shifted his jaw as they materialized on the next ship. “We’ll need to hurry. They know we’re here, and pretty soon, they’ll start to chase the other one.”
Carter nodded. “Your girl going to be in charge of that ship so quick?”
“She’s probably in charge by now. Poor thing.” The Doctor started moving. “Allons-y.”
The corridors seemed longer in this ship, and the going slow, as they had to fight the whole way down them. Buffy kept one arm around the Doctor, whose advanced gadgets and tall, wiry frame were a constant target for the jumping spiders. “This thing’s a better club than a laser, Doctor!”
“Glad you like it so much.” He kept fiddling with his sonic screwdriver, finding the occasional setting that helped slow the Replicators down.
Teal’c slipped after placing his foot down on a dying Replicator and fell into Daniel, who yelped as they hit the floor together. Buffy and Carter moved over them, providing cover fire while Jack and the Doctor helped the pair to their feet. “You okay?”
“I think so.”
“There is a stinger.” Teal’c leaned over and the Doctor pulled the leg fragment out of his left knee. He pulled some gauze out of the vest pocket and stuffed it into the bleeding puncture.
“We’re almost there!” shouted Carter. The Doctor shifted Teal’c’s weight over to Daniel as he saw the door.
“Doctor!” Buffy shouted. She had missed the bug, plunging towards at the Doctor’s head, catching only out of the corner of her eye. Jack launched himself and knocked it away with his head, his helmet crunching with the impact.
“We’re in, shift!” The Doctor grabbed Jack by the arms and pulled him into the bridge, setting him by the door. Carter brought up the rear, allowing him to shut the door, leaving them in a dim circle of light under the arch, the rest of the bridge black. She and Buffy began clearing out the path to the Queen, with Teal’c and Daniel providing intermittent fire.
“Doctor, how’s Jack?”
“Fine, bump on the head, cut on his cheek, but we should get him out soon.”
“Should get all of us out soon.” Buffy tossed a glance their way. “Hold on guys, this is gonna get scary.” With a quick exhalation, she jumped back a few feet, then ran towards the swarm as the rest of them shouted “No!” Buffy leapt into the scrambling blackness, a few blaster shots ahead of her. Carter and Teal’c kept firing, unsure of whether they were helping or hitting her.
Then the corpses started raining from the rafters.
There was a pulse in the dark, and a few more flashes of isec particles at high velocity. Teal’c saw a glint out of the corner of his eye, then dropped to his knees, missing the wave of Replicators that smashed against the wall above him.
Buffy emerged from the dark. “C’mon Doctor, it’s now or never!” She grabbed his hand and pulled him into the black. “See if you can get us some lights!”
He heard her grunts and struggles as they fought through the path. Daniel, Carter, and Teal’c’s blasts became faint. “Where the hell is it?”
“You're going up, Doctor. Get ready.” He felt Buffy hoist him up by the waist and toss him into the faint orange glow of the rafters. With a gasp he grabbed hold of one.
“You coming?”
“No, finish this Doctor!” Buffy screamed. It was pain and frustration, and then the tail end of it was fresh pain. The Doctor pulled himself up and took out the screwdriver. Reprogramming the queen would be the work of only a few seconds, but Buffy was down there alone and hurt in the dark.
He bit his lips. Best to get it done. “All right, Buffy, Carter, we’re through!” He shouted at the top of his lungs.
“Transport in five seconds Doctor!”
He was still waiting for a reply from Buffy when the Asgard whisked them out of their dark hell.
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