Methos meets the Xmen

This is actually already posted in previous comments, but since I'm using this journal as a pasture for my rabid plot bunnies, I wanted to give it it's own entry. Thus, here is my very basic plot bunny for Methos (my crossover character of choice, good for practically all occasions) meeting the X-Men.

The X-men randomly run across Adam Pierson doing whatever, shopping for socks maybe, and go, "hey, wasn't that you in the military base, stealing our kids?"

Methos says, "you must have gotten me confused with someone else."

Prof X says, "There's an easy way to figure this out. I'll just take a look in your head."

Methos says, "that's pretty much a really bad idea."

Then Prof X goes into a seizure then coma as his mind goes into Methos and Methos' quickening gobbles it right up like it would if it were the free-floating quickening of another immortal.

The Xmen are horrified. "What did you to do Prof X?"

Methos blinks innocently, "Don't you mean what did he do to me? He tried to get into my head! I told him it was a bad idea."

Of course, what I'd really like is to get Methos and Eric Lehnsherr together. Not necessarily in a slash sense, but just interacting.  I can see them getting along a lot better than Methos and Charles Xavier. I can also see Methos being a lot more comfortable with the Brotherhood than with the Xmen.

The Xmen are a bit condescending in their belief that non-mutants are innocent bystanders while the Brotherhood is honest in their belief that non-mutants are a danger. Methos might not approve of their methods, but he would understand both their motives and methods a lot more than the Xmen.

Plus, I think the general population would probably find the Brotherhood more comforting, in a backhanded sort of way, than the Xmen, because the Brotherhood with all their powers and their anger are bad guys who are successfully defended against. They are a demonstration that humanity doesn't actually have to fear mutant powers too much because even when they're being used to destroy the world, well, it's not that successful. The Xmen, on the other hand, set themselves up as benevolent quasi-deities who are only intent on defending humanity, and thus humanity is just waiting to figure out the catch.

Anyway, one particular way of implementing the crossover would be: 

Methos is confronted by the Xmen which results in Prof X in a coma. He retreats but is later found by Magneto and after a few sarcastic comments about making targets of oneself, Methos and Magneto become friends.

Meanwhile Duncan meets up with the Xmen after getting some odd reports about where Methos was last seen. They get along fine until he discovers that Methos is with the Bad Guys. He calls Connor for advice.

Due to Connor's daughter Rachel's history with concentration camps and the fine line between mutants and immortals, the elder Highlander sides with the Brotherhood in this particular fight.

Joe bangs his head against the bar and finally decides that maybe the original watchers had the right idea with their "observe but never interfere" bit, because when you interfere you have to pick a side and that gets really messy really fast.

I don't have any idea where this story would go but the character interactions sure would be fun.


If anyone writes it, or has read something like it that I've simply missed before, please let me know.

Peace. mg
   

Willow and Hackers

There have been "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" / "Hackers" crossovers before. i've read several. Some of them are good, some of them are not so good, but none of them have really been ideal.

In "Hackers", there is this whole hacker style that involves everything from clothes to music to jargon. In the big climactic scene at the end, we see little snippets of hackers other than our main characters and it's clear that hackers come from all social circles, but our main character still consider it necessary for real hackers to have all the frills. The stories I've read all buy into this idea and thus, when Willow meets up with the hackers, she's dressed in tight leather and using equally unusual speech patterns.

I would like a story in which Willow, she of the comfortable clothing and California-speak, were to meet the hackers.

My current idea sets it after the end of the series, (I haven't read the comic books at all beyond noticing that Dawn has become a giant), and have Willow getting her teacher certificate so that she can go back and be properly certified in order to teach at the new Slayer Academy. As her experience is with computers and teaching such, she becomes a student teacher at Stuyvesant High School, helping out with the computer classes.

Dade, Kate, and the rest of the hackers are taking this class for the easy "A" they can get. They sneer a bit at the overly cheerful Willow. Then they realize that their easy "A" is going down the drain because the computer system there has been upgraded to the point where they have to work together (and learn their lessons) in order to hack the system, and the lessons Willow is teaching are *hard*.

They try to figure out who she is. Discover that she's the IT person for an apparently unhackable organization based out of Cleveland. Then it's pointed out that she's not scared of anything. She's all light and fluffy and working in a major New York highschool and nobody scares her.

She is surprisingly cool despite appearances.

Of course that's not really a plot, just a starting point. For a plot, I'm thinking one of them gets annoyed with her messing up their grade scheme so hacks her government files and makes changes, like they did to that one FBI agent in the movie. However this time, they did it to the file of someone who the US Army is extremely nervous of and sort of wants to kill on principal for the whole almost-ending-the-world thing.

The rest of the hackers then need to save her, let the army know that she wasn't making changes to her own files, and possibly learn a few things about magic and demons in the mean time.