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trillianastra) wrote2008-09-23 10:54 pm
trillianastra) wrote2008-09-23 10:54 pm
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Heroes Season 3 is here.... and it brought a plotbunny....
Title: Oh No You Don't
Fandom: Heroes/Torchwood crossover (early S3 Heroes, post S2 Torchwood)
Spoilers: Big one for the first episode of Heroes Season Three. None for Torchwood
Characters: Peter Petrelli, Jack Harkness, Ianto Jones.
Warnings: None.
A/N: AU, semi-crack. Basically just an idea that popped into my head after watching the new Heroes episode.
Peter raised the gun he’d taken from Claire, aiming it at Nathan, waiting for just the right moment to fire. Before he could pull the trigger, he felt cold metal press lightly against his temple.
“Hold it right there, pretty boy.” Peter’s gaze flicks to the left, where he sees a tall man in an old military coat holding a gun to his head.
“Drop the gun, right now.” Peter takes his finger off the trigger, and lowers it slowly. The man in the coat nods to someone he can’t see. “Great, now pass the gun to me, nice and slow.”
Peter rolls his eyes at being treated like a kid, but hands it over anyway, figuring that he can always take it back later. The man in the coat eyes him carefully, and holsters his own weapon.
Peter turns, looks the man up and down. He notices the other man – younger, darker hair, wearing a modern and impeccably neat suit. “So who are you two supposed to be, then?”
The man in the coat says. “Captain Jack Harkness, this is Ianto Jones. We’re Torchwood, and we’d like a word.”
“Never heard of you.”
“You wouldn’t have.”
Peter looks at him, raising an eyebrow. “You need to talk to me? Talk.”
Captain Harkness looks over at his companion. “You want to do it or shall I?”
“I think it’s more appropriate if you do, sir.”
Harkness shrugs, then – before Peter has time to react – slugs him hard across the face. As Peter stumbles back, he looks up at him. “What was that for?”
“Do you have any idea what your jumps have been doing to time-line continuity?”
“Uh… what?”
Harkness sighed in what Peter thought was an overly-dramatic fashion. “Okay, I see we’re going to need the basic version. Every time you decide to skip from one time to another, it affects time around you. When you then go and change events that are already established, which you invariably do, by the way, it makes the whole mess even more tangled.”
“Huh?”
“Your activities skipping around time like a hyperactive toddler are messing up the sequence of established events for this planet for the next twenty years, minimum.”
“Why do you care?”
“It’s our job to keep an eye on that kind of thing. We’ve been picking up the repercussions of your jumps for months now, and we’d like you to stop doing it.”
“But… I had to come back. I had to stop him” Peter points to Nathan on the podium “from making this speech, to stop it from destroying the future.”
“Did it occur to you that maybe the part of the future that you came from is meant to be like that? Oh, wait, of course it didn’t! You kids with your timetravel abilities, thinking you can change things for the better. There’s a reason Time Agents have to get through five years of extensive training before they make their first jump, you know. You need to be able to understand the repercussions of what you’re doing. Now, enough theory… how far did you jump this time?”
“Four years. Why?”
“I’m sending you back. And no more jumps – I do not want to have to track you down again.” Harkness taps commands into a small computer strapped to his wrist, then grabs Peter’s wrist. Before Peter can say anything, the hallway they were in has disappeared, and he recognises the world he came from. Harkness lets go of his wrist. “Remember, no more time travel!” The man grins at him before tapping the wrist-computer and disappearing in a flash of blue-ish light.
Jack Harkness reappears next to Ianto in the corridor four years previously. Ianto looks at him. “All sorted, sir?”
“Should be. Come on, let’s go home.”
Fandom: Heroes/Torchwood crossover (early S3 Heroes, post S2 Torchwood)
Spoilers: Big one for the first episode of Heroes Season Three. None for Torchwood
Characters: Peter Petrelli, Jack Harkness, Ianto Jones.
Warnings: None.
A/N: AU, semi-crack. Basically just an idea that popped into my head after watching the new Heroes episode.
Peter raised the gun he’d taken from Claire, aiming it at Nathan, waiting for just the right moment to fire. Before he could pull the trigger, he felt cold metal press lightly against his temple.
“Hold it right there, pretty boy.” Peter’s gaze flicks to the left, where he sees a tall man in an old military coat holding a gun to his head.
“Drop the gun, right now.” Peter takes his finger off the trigger, and lowers it slowly. The man in the coat nods to someone he can’t see. “Great, now pass the gun to me, nice and slow.”
Peter rolls his eyes at being treated like a kid, but hands it over anyway, figuring that he can always take it back later. The man in the coat eyes him carefully, and holsters his own weapon.
Peter turns, looks the man up and down. He notices the other man – younger, darker hair, wearing a modern and impeccably neat suit. “So who are you two supposed to be, then?”
The man in the coat says. “Captain Jack Harkness, this is Ianto Jones. We’re Torchwood, and we’d like a word.”
“Never heard of you.”
“You wouldn’t have.”
Peter looks at him, raising an eyebrow. “You need to talk to me? Talk.”
Captain Harkness looks over at his companion. “You want to do it or shall I?”
“I think it’s more appropriate if you do, sir.”
Harkness shrugs, then – before Peter has time to react – slugs him hard across the face. As Peter stumbles back, he looks up at him. “What was that for?”
“Do you have any idea what your jumps have been doing to time-line continuity?”
“Uh… what?”
Harkness sighed in what Peter thought was an overly-dramatic fashion. “Okay, I see we’re going to need the basic version. Every time you decide to skip from one time to another, it affects time around you. When you then go and change events that are already established, which you invariably do, by the way, it makes the whole mess even more tangled.”
“Huh?”
“Your activities skipping around time like a hyperactive toddler are messing up the sequence of established events for this planet for the next twenty years, minimum.”
“Why do you care?”
“It’s our job to keep an eye on that kind of thing. We’ve been picking up the repercussions of your jumps for months now, and we’d like you to stop doing it.”
“But… I had to come back. I had to stop him” Peter points to Nathan on the podium “from making this speech, to stop it from destroying the future.”
“Did it occur to you that maybe the part of the future that you came from is meant to be like that? Oh, wait, of course it didn’t! You kids with your timetravel abilities, thinking you can change things for the better. There’s a reason Time Agents have to get through five years of extensive training before they make their first jump, you know. You need to be able to understand the repercussions of what you’re doing. Now, enough theory… how far did you jump this time?”
“Four years. Why?”
“I’m sending you back. And no more jumps – I do not want to have to track you down again.” Harkness taps commands into a small computer strapped to his wrist, then grabs Peter’s wrist. Before Peter can say anything, the hallway they were in has disappeared, and he recognises the world he came from. Harkness lets go of his wrist. “Remember, no more time travel!” The man grins at him before tapping the wrist-computer and disappearing in a flash of blue-ish light.
Jack Harkness reappears next to Ianto in the corridor four years previously. Ianto looks at him. “All sorted, sir?”
“Should be. Come on, let’s go home.”