This was a very entertaining tale. There wasn't much in the way of action but despite that I couldn't stop reading until I finished this story. This was a plausible look at one way the SGC and Scoobies could have come together. I really liked the interactions between Xander and Anise-Freya. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for reading. As I developed the concept, I just didn't see a way to make it turn into an action-adventure, so it stayed mainly as character studies. Sam Carter just stayed too rational and incharacter to start a war with the Scoobies, and nothing wanted to charge in through the stargate. :-)

If you really enjoyed the story, I would appreciate a recommendation, or at least your considering reading some more of my work.

I don't know what to say. Stargate x-overs are actually something i'm used to ignore. I don't know why but because of you that definitely gonna change(although i'm not sure if others gonna be good as yours), and you didn't even have a definite plot. just an event that happens(which is already something that recruited a lot from you(what you wrote was genius)), or maybe that the reason of your success. Anyway it was a while since i read such good story(others stories i read also good but your was positively refreshing then any other i currently read). So thanks for that. I'm going to take a look at your others stories(as well as what sequel you wrote to it), so see you next time.

Thanks for the kind review. I wouldn't mind a Recommendation either! :-)

There are a LOT of Stargate crossovers, both here and at fanfiction.net (and at sites I don't read). Sturgeon's Law applies, as it does to everything. But two that I like are "Bridges" by Tassos and "Life's Ending, Life's Beginning" by becuzitswrong (which are - unsurprisingly - the number 3 and number 1 stories on this site).

I've been spending some time reading various fics on this site, and I often think to myself "bah! this is really badly written." or "Arg! That's stupid! X should/shouldn't have happened" or even "How can this author write on that topic when (s)he so obviously has no idea what (s)he talking about!"
And that's not when I'm searching through the depths of this site for obscure fics either, but when I'm reading stories from the Top Fics category, or Crossing Over Award winners. And this site definitely didn't seem mediocre to me when I discovered it, so the probelm is probably with my assesment.

But then I noticed that this happens even more often when I read BuffyXStargate Crossovers, and I realized why I reacted this way : you spoiled me. Without even realizing it, I hold every story up to the same standards as yours, and whenever I spot something which isn't as tightly built, well explained, deeply researched, faithful to the original work or as fluidly narrated as your regular work (and especially this specific story), I feel the story I am reading is sorely deficient.
Whenever there's a "Scoobies meet the SGC" story, I not only *demand* it to match every single expectation I had for that sort of event, I also want it to address satisfactorily all the detials you pointed out and that I had never noticed before reading Xander and yet ANOTHER demon. Which is completely unreasonable, but it *is* an irrational response.


So after going over almost all the top fics from the main Top Fics sections and also a coupe dozens from the Crossing Over Awards ... it turns out that there are *very* few writers that can stand up to those exacting standards. From those I actually started tracking, there's Chilord, dreamfall, EleriMcCleod, jAkL, litmouse, MMcGregor, ShayneT, Tanstaafl and theICEBear. With you, that's 10 writers.
And most of them haven't posted anywthing in years T_T

Anyway, I'm going to have to make an effort to remember that different authors write differently, and just because they don't have all your qualities don't mean that they can't write very good stories!
And thanks for writing such excellent stories and *keeping* on writing them ; I'm not sure what I'd do without my regular doses of Alex Mack, Xendra and TRTC. Thanks a lot.



As a side note, while the comparison with your work underlinging the faults of the other authors stories spoils my enjoyment a bit, it is also educational. It lets me see more precisely what makes your stories so great and how to write well. (although knowing what makes a good story and making a story that'll be known as good are very different things indeed)


PS: phouka is one of the authors who's in the "different from DC* and writes excellent stories nonetheless" category. I really didn't find DireSquirrel funny, I'm still trying to slog through the Deadpool/HP crossover hoping it'll get better. I rarely find the humor in this story entertaining, I don't see any relation between his Harry and the original one (so it reads less like a rewriting and more like an original character), and I don't find his characterization of Deadpool to be any good. So I've laughed more reading a single XAYAD chapter than a dozen of DireSquirrel's HP/Deadpool crossover.

Also, thanks a lot for recommending Stingers by Tanstaafl, I probably wouldn't have found it otherwise and that would have been a terrible shame.

*Diane Castle, not the comic books editor

(I corrected a few spelling mistakes, typos, etc...)

Wow. I am stunned by a review this amazing. Thanks. Oh, and I think you have excellent taste in authorship, since I've rec'd most of the other authors on your list. Might I also recommend phouka (and her brother phoukabro) and some of the cheery work of DireSquirrel (seriously, who would have expected a Deadpool/HP crossover to work)?

Hilarious and smart at the same time, and I find myself liking pretty much every single character, even ones that I've never had any connection to before, and that is no small thing.
Another indicator of how good this is? I actually stared picturing some of the scenes, as if I was watching it on tv. I'd watch the hell out of a crossover like this! Too bad all the legal people won't let it happen.
Thank you very much for writing, and I'm off catch up with more of your stories. :)

Thanks for the glowing review. (And thanks for the rec!) I don't really write a lot of character bashing: even the characters I didn't like when I saw them (like Anise) can usually be redeemed in one way or another. (Or the villains can be made more complex or smarter.)

This is the best story I've read in a while. I love me some Xander. It was funny and interesting and totally believable. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the kind review. I also appreciate the Rec! I'll take every recommendation I can get. I'm just like that. :-) I have other stories on this site, and even further stories elsewhere on the web.

Love this!

Thanks. If you want to give it a recommendation too, I'm good with that.

I think Buffy must have been one of the more talented Potentials. Not just in personality but physically.

Well, Bruce Lee started as a dancer before he became a martial arts legend, so it's possible.

I always wanted to see what a Slayer could *really* do as a cheerleader.

I like that without a crisis, Xander could go "hang out" with Anise for 2 hours before more debriefing.

Xander has had some VERY demanding girlfriends over the years.

Ah, I giggle. Jennifer has all of the facts, man!

Some facts you do *not* want to have.

You do something here briefly that I see you do more in depth in your later story about Alex Mack, that is authority figures acting thoughtfully in using their authority to get better results than blind use of authority. It's a good subtheme to your stories... parallels between heroic figures (with individual power) versus socially granted authority.

One of the things I really liked about Stargate SG-1 was the 'Reasonable Authority Figure' trope. They had a lot of them, instead of a lone hero facing untold numbers of incompetents and troublemakers. And it's a trope that plays well in 'Alex Mack', because both of her parents are caring adults who really try for their children. They were both *crushed* when they found out their children hadn't been willing to tell them about Alex's powers.

I repeat back to you your clue for inspiration. Daniel thinking, They definitely had to find a way to make Xander the official SGC ambassador to the Tok’ra.

That's yet another possible sequel hook, but I don't have a story to go with it yet. I'm just waiting to see if my muse brutalizes me over it some evening.

I like Sam, but sometimes she almost deserves having a bad day. Comes with the job of working for the government. Can't be helped. : )

In re-reading this, the flow is working very well from chapter to chapter and the exposition parts are not lagging.

>she brought nearly a dozen teenaged hok’tar to Atlantis as warriors against the Wraith

You, hopefully, will do an Atlantis sequel sometime ;-)

It's a possibility, but right now my muse is really not interested.

I just reread from "chapter" 22 after the latest chapter of 'Missing Scenes' and it seems I never wrote a review, though I certainly thought about it at the time I read this story, mainly out of frustration then.

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Like said in a review somewhere below, Xander's jokes aren't really funny and his repeating of that smart guys/girls line gets annoying after a while, those lay the stupid a bit too thick.

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Without thinking too much about it, plan H is a funny and entertaining part of the story. Sadly, you don't have to think too hard to think too much about it. At least the attack part, though possible problems with the research part immediately before aren't that difficult to think of either.

It's reckless, negligent, stupid and other such epithets. Xander had no idea what alien weapons could do, and provoking a shooting at a superhumanly fast target in a closed room with any sort of weapon is incredibly stupid anyway.

Demonstration of physical prowess of a vampire? All okay, but they didn't have a way of knowing it wasn't a real attack. They could have just as well shot Xander as the mastermind behind the attack, or just by accident. It's what should in fact have been expected. It's a wonder nobody but Harmony got shot.

It's a prank that should have gone horribly wrong.

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If your response to the unpredictability of alien weapons for vampires is "magic", that ties in with my complaint about your science-magic distinction.

Putting a name on it that isn't "science" doesn't make it fall out of its purview. Combustion, nuclear energy, DNA, archaeology, language, a table, a chair, gods,... all sorts of things material and immaterial, existent and nonexistent have their own name that isn't "science", but still strive to be as scientific as possible, can be fitted in or explained, now or in the future. As long as the results are replicable, it's "science", so "magic" falls under that. For fuck's sake, you have Willow give a scientific presentation and it's still not so-called "science", as far as I understood that thread and its conclusion through the story.

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The frustration I mentioned up above came from an overarching problem I had with the story.

The fast updating was nice, but the updates felt too light, not chapters but scenes, no, parts of scenes. Looking at the chapter titles is just more proof of that. Looking at the word count however, you wouldn't say that, but that probably shows more how the ideal chapter size differs between stories and writers.

That and other little annoyances combined with the interesting and engrossing story was probably the biggest cause of frustration. It made the little annoyances perhaps more felt, and the story annoying to read, with chapters seemingly scattered over several days and the multitude of small cliff hangers per week because of cut-up scenes defeating the joy of quick updates. It also feels perhaps a bit like cheating, because the story seems to me to be more like four to eight chapters long instead of the 34 chapters it has now, which would've been two to four chapters per month.

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Still, it's a good story, especially now that it's complete and free of scattering.

Thanks for the review. Every bit of constructive criticism that I receive helps me learn something new.

Oh, and yes, I did write it as a series of scenes. I'll take the fact that my chapters (which are of average size for this site) seem too short as a compliment. :-)