Willow and Hackers

[marbleglove]

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.

Comments

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

This seems fun... but you could also add Oz to it, he has been scouted by several companies out of high school and didn't go to any one, and his style would be closer to the hackers but not... and in my mind after all that happened he and Willow would still keep in touch.
What would her netname be?

I like the differences and the plotline, but isn't the slayer academy allied with the military branch Riley Finn works at? (or is that from the too many fanfics I have read?) and Willow might have some alarms in place to see if someone had messed with her files or any of the scoobies and assume it was much larger than a prank because of recent supernatural badness and so when the branch of the armed forces that wants her dead domes knocking there is the surprise and then the whole saving willow thing and unmaking the changes
and all.

Hackers used to be may one of my favorite movies, thought now it is really weird to Angelina Joilie looking so young!


I wonder how they would handle the discovery that during graduation day the teacher's school blew up!

[lita-of-jupiter.livejournal.com]

do you have any recs about those cross overs you've read?
right now I am dying to read one!!