Monday, November 17, 2003

Dunno if anyone's interested, but here's a story I wrote back at Slippery Rock when I started this thing. Enjoy! It's a Hot Pink/ Reeses crossover. (aka. SW and SG-1) Oh, yeah, there's also some elements of my friend's fanfic in it, too!
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A figure ran toward a large, circular structure and the corresponding pedestal, seven angry men in metal armor and lion-headed helmets following. Their long, staff-like weapons traced golden energy along her path, coming only close enough to their target to encourage greater speed and agility. Yeah, Vandrof was right, she thought, darting to the left, I go anywhere in these clothes and it’s a dead give-away I’m not here to make an alliance with these trigger-happy idiots.

Soon, she reached the pedestal and smacked a few of the symbols on its broad, circular surface on the way to ducking behind it. She hopped up and dialed a couple more and again, but this time, she thought she felt her hand press against three instead of the two she needed. Even if I did dial wrong, if I get anywhere in one piece, it’ll be better than staying here. A large blue splash announced the opening of an active wormhole and she dashed into it. After a few moments of the whirling light show known as ‘gate travel, she found herself on another world with various humanoids that she’d never seen before staring at her. Immediately, she dove for the bare dirt ground; many staff weapon blasts were still searching for their target.

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Chaos had already reigned at the excavation site for four hours straight by the time the Gungan Vornskr landed on Sehkmet III. As the two freighter captains walked down the boarding ramp side by side, each observed a different aspect of the goings-on. Captain Lynsie Stormrider, a tall, cat-like half-breed, noted the utter shock and disorder felt by those who worked here. Her friend in life and rival in business, a Gungan named Jess Jess Cadyue, saw only a slightly more lively camp than the one here the previous day.

They approached a nearby off-white tent and Lynsie spoke to the make-shift guards flanking the entrance, about the only stationary figures within ten kilometers. “What’s happening that’s so extraordinary that you need a Jedi?”

The brown and cream Bothan on the right looked up into her green eyes. “This morning, we turned the artifact up on its side, like it was shown in the glyphs. About an hour later, this bright blue thing jumped out of the circle. Then she,” he explained, motioning to the interior of the tent, “walked out of the water looking thing in the circle.”

His partner, a human in his thirties, continued for him. “We weren’t sure if she was friend or foe, so we commed you.”
She nodded and led the Gungan into the canvas construction where they found a human wearing a loose shirt and comfortable jeans pacing around the small enclose. A small ditch had begun to form, marking her path.

The dirty-blonde-haired woman stopped and looked at the two alien beings in front fo her. “I can understand why you’re cautious to let me have free roam of this place, but what’s all the talk about whether I’m an Imperial or not? If you let me have a minute with the ‘gate and DHD, I’d be happy to leave the way I came and get out of your hair.”

Jess Jess frowned momentarily, the expression exaggerated on her face. “Those of us who are non-human don’t appreciate the Imperials’ anti-alien bias. That prejudice means that almost all Imperials are human. When you got here, at least three people were killed by the circle, two of which were non-human.”

Her eyes widened. “I had no idea… I thought everyone knew to stand clear when it dialed.”

Lynsie sensed her sincerity and honest confusion as well as… someone else who existed where the stranger stood, but didn’t control the words. This – other – felt many of the same emotions as the captive before her, but it had a different perspective on the situation. This puzzled the half-breed; never before had she encountered two beings in the same physical space. “There’s another mind where you are,” she blurted out.

The prisoner looked to the taller alien, surprise scribbled all over her face. “Yeah… So?”

This took Lynsie aback. “So what is it?”

She shrugged and dipped her head, kind of like an over-exaggerated nod. When her head came back up, her voice was deeper and echoed slightly. “Let it suffice to say that I am another life form which has probably not been encountered on this world."

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