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avocado_love) wrote2009-12-21 08:52 am
avocado_love) wrote2009-12-21 08:52 am
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Avatar/Stargate SG1 Meme
Hi all! It’s a Avatar/Stargate SG1 meme! I would dearly love to write more in the Rampage and Strangers universe, but I seem to be blocked for ideas. Woe. :( Could you please help me out? I’m hoping some great prompts could stir my writing juices again!
Some quick in universe rules:
- *Edit* Alternate timeline for Avatar. It's been a month since Sozin's comet has come and gone: The Gaang didn't win. The Earth Kingdom is mostly burned out, Azula is Fire Lord, and Ozai has declared himself Phoenix King.
- It’s early season 2 Stargate SG1. The Goa’uld are still the bad guys, and they don’t have access to faster than light ships yet.
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What happened that they got brought back without having even seen the 'gaters who took them
After Azula attacked… everything was fire and falling rocks and screaming… it wasn’t too much of a wonder that everyone had lost track of each other.
There must have been a spy in the ranks, Sokka mused, later on. How else would the mad Fire Lord know exactly where to strike them, and the best time – pitting her best imperial firebenders against the Avatar and the last of what remained of the Earth Kingdom.
They had gotten out thanks to Appa, mostly unscorched, with Katara grimly healing a wicked-looking burn on her brother’s shoulder.
“We have to go back,” Aang said. “We can’t leave them there...”
Loud booms echoed back over the distance. Azula’s zeppelins pelting the entire area with bomb after bomb. Katara’s mouth set in a thin line and she shook her head, forcing herself to pour all of her concentration into her water-healing. The Earthbenders were strong, she knew. They’d be able to burrow under the rock and keep safe – wait out the attack with the patient strength of their element – but the firebenders – those Zuko had convinced to desert his sister’s rule… she didn’t know.
“They’ll be fine, Aang.” Somehow she was able to keep her voice steady. “This won’t get Toph down, Suki can take care of herself, and Zuko… he never gives up.”
They weren’t able to get back until after-nightfall – keeping low to the ground and sneaking past enemy zeppelins looking for any sign of movement, of survivors.
Sokka was just on his feet again, and of course had insisted on going with them despite the fact that he was still wobbly on his feet and his face was ashen.
It made his reunion with Suki all that much sweeter.
Katara had been right: The small Earthbending army, led by former Dai Li, had simply dug a large borrow for themselves and had waited the assault out. Suki had taken refuge with them.
The rebel firebenders… hadn’t been so lucky.
And there was no sign of Toph or Zuko anywhere.
The look on Aang’s face was... something Katara had never wanted to see on him again. He stared out at the blackened scorch of earth, sad and lost and so horribly guilty. Katara went to him, touched his shoulder, and tried to figure out what to say. It was impossible. Tears were running down her cheeks and her throat seemed to have closed off any sound.
“I’m sorry,” seemed to fall desperately, sickenly short. Not when two of his best friends were dead, or captured. With Azula it was probably all the same anyway.
So she said nothing and after a bit Aang spoke. His voice was rough, but small… so small… “This shouldn’t have happened. It’s all my fault.”
“Aang…”
“If I stopped Ozai before the comet came… Maybe if I didn’t wait.”
“Aang,” she repeated, turning him to face her. “You knew you weren’t ready. You would have been killed—”
“And now Zuko and Toph are gone, and all of those soldiers! Is that any better?” he demanded, and of course she had no answer. His grey eyes glinted with something hurt and terrible and before she could answer he had flipped open his airglider and taken to the wind.
He needed to get away. She knew the feeling.
And far down, accidentally buried deep under the earth by the actions of half-panicked, desperate earthbenders, a ring of strange stone lay, waiting.
Re: What happened that they got brought back without having even seen the 'gaters who took them
Poor Aang.
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I really like the heartfeltness of Aang's reaction, and Katara's reaction to *that*, but part of me is a little surprised because Aang has always seemed like the eternal optimist; I half-expected him to try and concince Katara (and himself) that the
missing firebenders must be with Toph,(on re-reading, they're dead. whoops) they must have got separated, or tried to lead Azula's forces away...But the soul-cuttingness of Aang thinking they are "lost" is wickedly sharp.
And this poor world, the last of its hold-outs being forced to fall back so far they have to leave the surface of the world itself...
"This won’t get Toph down, Suki can take care of herself, and Zuko… he never gives up.”
That is so completely each of them in a nutshell. And yaye for including Suki. And the sweet aside to her and Sokka's reunion; it doesn't nee da description beyond that line, because if you know the characters you can see how it probably went in your own head.
The set-up line for the Gate is great. (Although by this point is it waiting, or was it already activated and that's why they can't find Zuko and Toph? Or are Zuko and Toph buried down there now *with* the Gate, unconscious, and that's why they haven't made an appearance? Oh, and while I like the gate being covered by the earthbenders during the fight, was it also *uncovered* during the same fight?)
Now you've done such a great intro for the story, I want to see the part two- the SG1's side, whatever activate the gate, them finding the two, etc.
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And since you did say "feel free to request any more,"...
in the middle of the continuity you've already concocted, "A new complication." Throw a nice juicy hunk of plot / plot-twist in.
Maybe the SG1 crew (who still haven't brought in that asian language specialist yet I guess) get what they think is clarification what is going on in the "Avatar" world, and they (mistakenly) think their own adversaries are at the heart of the problem and decide to get involved? You already dropped in some confusion over the nature of the Avatar previously, maybe they think he's a whatsit gone rogue and fighting against another whatsit, "the fire lord".
(or possibly this doesn't at all fit with whatever you have in mind. if it doesn't- show what you do have in mind!)
And since this is a meme, I give you an additional prompt!
Bonus: Someone creating a convoluted story behind Zuko referring to the Fire Lord as his father.
Re: What happened that they got brought back without having even seen the 'gaters who took them