Challenge 116
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tthdrabblesTitle: Night Bus
Fandom: Buffy/Harry Potter
Challenge #116: Home Sweet Home
Word Count: 100
Willow stepped off the bus, glad to be back on firm ground. Served her right for getting on an obviously magical artifact she knew nothing about, driven by people she didn't know. (Although she hoped she and Giles could check out that interesting pub the bus had stopped at.)
The bus screeched off behind her, and was gone. Willow grabbed her bag and headed in to her apartment, flopping down on the couch once she was inside. Her broken-down car was (presumably) still in the road where she'd left it. Tomorrow, she'd send a watcher in training to collect it.
Title: War Gods and Demon Beasts
Fandom: Buffy/Wonder Woman
Challenge #116: Home Sweet Home
Word Count:100
"So why does Wonder Woman need my help?" Buffy asked, skeptically. She eyed the woman in the bustier up and down.
"Ares has sent demonic beasts to besiege my homeland of Themiscyra," Wonder Woman said. "I alone cannot defeat them, and men are forbidden on Themiscyra. You are a woman warrior of great power and skill, and also knowledge of demonic beasts. Together, we can free my people."
Buffy shrugged. "The Hellmouth's quiet. Let's go find out from Giles what the beasts are and how to kill them. You'll have to deal with Ares, but demon beasts I can do."
Title: Once More With Feeling
Fandom: BtVS/Muppets
Challenge #116: Home Sweet Home
Word Count: 100
"There was no parking anywhere! I think that hydrant wasn't there!"
Sweetums wandered around Sunnydale. Unlike most places outside the Theater, nobody gave him a second glance. There were monsters all around. And people were singing and dancing! It was just like home, only without Kermit and Miss Piggy to boss him around. He liked the frog and the pig, but sometimes it was annoying to answer to someone you could eat in one bite. (Well, maybe two for Miss Piggy.)
He'd have to tell the guys. It wasn't home, but it sure was a great place to vacation!
Title: Wibbly-wobbly
Fandom: BtVS/Doctor Who
Challenge #116: Home Sweet Home
Word Count: 200
" … Timey-wimey stuff, mixed with the volatility of a dimensional rift. And not any ordinary dimensional rift, either, more like a great big bowl of dribbles of rifty castoffs …"
Buffy sometimes felt guilty for tuning out Giles, or not understanding him. After all, Giles was very smart and knew a lot, and tried hard to help her be smart and know a lot. And if you knew all the stuff Giles did, he was probably very understandable.
She didn't feel guilty now. This guy might be smart and powerful, but he was also nuts. And she was pretty sure that what he was saying didn't actually make any sense.
"Doc. Bottom line. Can you get me home?"
He stopped and adjusted his glasses. "As I was saying, time and space go a bit wibbly in that place. With the aftershocks of a superpowered being such as yourself travelling through it with no protection or guidance—"
"My friends think I'm dead, my sister thinks I'm dead and will probably have to go to social services. Sunnydale may literally go to hell. Can. You. Get. Me. Home?"
He smiled and flipped a lever on the weird table. "Oh, yes."
Title: Now With Added Dragons
Fandom: Temeraire
Challenge #116: Home Sweet Home
Word Count: 200
A huge, scaly shape crashed down in front of Angel, smoke flaring from its nostrils. He leapt back and felt his back touch the brick of the building behind him. He had no sword, and vampires were highly flammable.
"You will send me home," the dragon said.
"What?" Angel asked.
"You will send me home. Your battle with the very nasty lawyers was what brought me here. If I'd known what was going on, I would have set them on fire! They tore open a crack between our two worlds, and I fell through. I want to go home. It's your fault that I'm here. My captain is not here! I want Granby!"
"Where are you from? Who are you?"
"I am Iskierka, of His Majesty's Aerial Corps," she said, "and I was fighting Napoleon before I was brought here, and I want to go back and fry his troops!"
"I was there during the Napoleonic wars," Angel said, shoving down memories of carnage. "There weren't any dragons."
"Not in this world," Iskierka said. "There are a lot of dragons in mine. You will send me home."
Angel blinked. "All right," he said. "I'll … see what I can do."
Title: Not hellish at all
Fandom: BtVS/Enchanted Forrest Chronicles
Challenge #116: Home Sweet Home
Word Count: 100
"As hell dimensions go, this is a pretty nice one," Buffy said. Trees and green plants, and nothing had tried to eat her yet. And humans, a good sign.
"I beg your pardon?" said the woman, Morwen. Her cats shared her disgust. "This is not a hell dimension, this is the Enchanted Forest. It's quite a nice place to live, as long as you're not stupid and follow the rules. You're obviously dimensionally displaced, but if you're going to be rude, I don't know that I should help you."
"Can you get me home?"
"My husband Telemain and I can."
Fandom: Buffy/Harry Potter
Challenge #116: Home Sweet Home
Word Count: 100
Willow stepped off the bus, glad to be back on firm ground. Served her right for getting on an obviously magical artifact she knew nothing about, driven by people she didn't know. (Although she hoped she and Giles could check out that interesting pub the bus had stopped at.)
The bus screeched off behind her, and was gone. Willow grabbed her bag and headed in to her apartment, flopping down on the couch once she was inside. Her broken-down car was (presumably) still in the road where she'd left it. Tomorrow, she'd send a watcher in training to collect it.
Title: War Gods and Demon Beasts
Fandom: Buffy/Wonder Woman
Challenge #116: Home Sweet Home
Word Count:100
"So why does Wonder Woman need my help?" Buffy asked, skeptically. She eyed the woman in the bustier up and down.
"Ares has sent demonic beasts to besiege my homeland of Themiscyra," Wonder Woman said. "I alone cannot defeat them, and men are forbidden on Themiscyra. You are a woman warrior of great power and skill, and also knowledge of demonic beasts. Together, we can free my people."
Buffy shrugged. "The Hellmouth's quiet. Let's go find out from Giles what the beasts are and how to kill them. You'll have to deal with Ares, but demon beasts I can do."
Title: Once More With Feeling
Fandom: BtVS/Muppets
Challenge #116: Home Sweet Home
Word Count: 100
"There was no parking anywhere! I think that hydrant wasn't there!"
Sweetums wandered around Sunnydale. Unlike most places outside the Theater, nobody gave him a second glance. There were monsters all around. And people were singing and dancing! It was just like home, only without Kermit and Miss Piggy to boss him around. He liked the frog and the pig, but sometimes it was annoying to answer to someone you could eat in one bite. (Well, maybe two for Miss Piggy.)
He'd have to tell the guys. It wasn't home, but it sure was a great place to vacation!
Title: Wibbly-wobbly
Fandom: BtVS/Doctor Who
Challenge #116: Home Sweet Home
Word Count: 200
" … Timey-wimey stuff, mixed with the volatility of a dimensional rift. And not any ordinary dimensional rift, either, more like a great big bowl of dribbles of rifty castoffs …"
Buffy sometimes felt guilty for tuning out Giles, or not understanding him. After all, Giles was very smart and knew a lot, and tried hard to help her be smart and know a lot. And if you knew all the stuff Giles did, he was probably very understandable.
She didn't feel guilty now. This guy might be smart and powerful, but he was also nuts. And she was pretty sure that what he was saying didn't actually make any sense.
"Doc. Bottom line. Can you get me home?"
He stopped and adjusted his glasses. "As I was saying, time and space go a bit wibbly in that place. With the aftershocks of a superpowered being such as yourself travelling through it with no protection or guidance—"
"My friends think I'm dead, my sister thinks I'm dead and will probably have to go to social services. Sunnydale may literally go to hell. Can. You. Get. Me. Home?"
He smiled and flipped a lever on the weird table. "Oh, yes."
Title: Now With Added Dragons
Fandom: Temeraire
Challenge #116: Home Sweet Home
Word Count: 200
A huge, scaly shape crashed down in front of Angel, smoke flaring from its nostrils. He leapt back and felt his back touch the brick of the building behind him. He had no sword, and vampires were highly flammable.
"You will send me home," the dragon said.
"What?" Angel asked.
"You will send me home. Your battle with the very nasty lawyers was what brought me here. If I'd known what was going on, I would have set them on fire! They tore open a crack between our two worlds, and I fell through. I want to go home. It's your fault that I'm here. My captain is not here! I want Granby!"
"Where are you from? Who are you?"
"I am Iskierka, of His Majesty's Aerial Corps," she said, "and I was fighting Napoleon before I was brought here, and I want to go back and fry his troops!"
"I was there during the Napoleonic wars," Angel said, shoving down memories of carnage. "There weren't any dragons."
"Not in this world," Iskierka said. "There are a lot of dragons in mine. You will send me home."
Angel blinked. "All right," he said. "I'll … see what I can do."
Title: Not hellish at all
Fandom: BtVS/Enchanted Forrest Chronicles
Challenge #116: Home Sweet Home
Word Count: 100
"As hell dimensions go, this is a pretty nice one," Buffy said. Trees and green plants, and nothing had tried to eat her yet. And humans, a good sign.
"I beg your pardon?" said the woman, Morwen. Her cats shared her disgust. "This is not a hell dimension, this is the Enchanted Forest. It's quite a nice place to live, as long as you're not stupid and follow the rules. You're obviously dimensionally displaced, but if you're going to be rude, I don't know that I should help you."
"Can you get me home?"
"My husband Telemain and I can."
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Date: 2012-02-20 04:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-20 04:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-20 09:15 pm (UTC)Ha! That's the Doctor all right.
and I was fighting Napoleon before I was brought here, and I want to go back and fry his troops!
(huge grin) Temeraire!
Wonderfully tempestuous.
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Date: 2012-02-20 10:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-23 07:51 am (UTC)The others were all excellent as well! Appreciated seeing such a variety of crossovers show up; I added the Temeraire and Enchanted Forest tags.
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Date: 2012-02-23 01:41 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-24 08:50 pm (UTC)"Oh, yes."
Buffy's real question should have been can he get her home within the same year as her 'death'. ;)
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Date: 2012-02-24 09:42 pm (UTC)