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kasihyaMartha Jones and the Year That Never Was: Multifandom Crossover Edition
[Doctor Who, Sherlock. Community, Supernatural, Young Wizards, House]
This has such potential for all of the crossovers, ever and I guess it's not as appealing because Martha Jones is not the Doctor, so she can't have shiny adventures the same way, but I'm big on ordinary people saving the day and beating the grand schemers, so here we go. Martha's Adventures in America!
Okay okay okay, Martha Jones and the Year That Never Was. Martha Jones, walking the earth, walking across America, when she runs into the hunters’ network. Think about it: a network of people who are already used to working under the radar, hiding, and adapting. Sure, their world has probably been rocked off kilter by freaking aliens arriving in the middle of their paranormal activities show, but they’d adapt, and they’d want to fight back.
Which is how Martha would end up hiding out with Bobby Singer, obviously. Maybe Sam would be there; if I’m syncing the two shows up correctly, then the YTNW starts after Dean is dead, and I’m guessing that there’s no point in bringing him back from Hell if there are motherfucking aliens running the show now. So, so far in that world, there are no angels yet present. Death implies that the angels only have jurisdiction over this planet, not the whole of creation, so I’m guessing that they’re laying low right now. Demons, too, because what the hell.
Anyway. I just want a vignette of Martha camping out with Bobby and Sam for a few days, talking to them and getting them to utilize their network to get the message out to as many people as possible. They’ve probably heard of her by the time she makes it to America, and Sam has a hero complex so he wants to travel with her, except that that would be incredibly dangerous: both for him, and for her mission. Instead, she lets him take her to the next safe point, and from there, he leaves her to go spread her message exactly.
In fact, I think it would be wonderful to have a whole series of shorts that’s just ‘Martha Jones travels from fandom to fandom and meets people.’ I already have Molly and John down from Sherlock. Oh god, can you imagine Nita and Kit? And Dairine. If they survived … I seem to remember that New York becomes completely demolished, so they might not have … That’s depressing. But if they did! Let’s say that they escaped. The Rodriguez and Callahan families are probably hiding together. Their priority would be to ensure that Life survives, right? So they’d be doing ordinary-people things to save people, but here’s the thing. There are already aliens invading and taking over, so everyone knows about aliens now. What if part of what they do is trying to get people off the planet? Use the worldgates to send them to the Crossings, running some sort of scheme that would relocate people temporarily on another Earthlike planet. Mars is too close, and the Motherboard is too far away to be reached easily. Somewhere new, then.
And for those who didn’t want to evacuate Earth, then Kit and Nita, Dairine, Darryl, Tom, and Carl, they’d stay behind and do what they could to thwart the Toclafane. When Martha came around, I think there would be a lot less explaining, a lot less of her shouldering the brunt of the burden. Wizardry is just words, right? Words and intent; and if Martha ran into wizards, then they’d know what she was trying to accomplish. They’d get the word out through their networks, too, and the wizarding network spans the globe, doesn’t rely on technology, is impossible to detect by the Toclafane.
That could be how Martha gets contacts. There’s got to be hunters who are wizards, right? She probably meets hunters out on the West Coast, which is how she gets passed along to Bobby’s house. En route, she stops at a gathering in Colorado, where she meets Shirley and Andre Bennett, and their son, and oh god, poor Shirley. Her God isn’t answering her prayers, and it’s the end of the world. Maybe Abed is also there, but not his dad — his dad is dead. Abed … oh god, how would Abed react to an apocalyptic scenario? Abed two years before he goes to Greendale, so he and Shirley don’t know each other as classmates, they know each other as fellow refugees from the Toclafane.
I feel like Abed would deal with it by inhabiting a character. Probably Han Solo. It’s easier to be a badass movie character than a minor character in someone else’s story, and he’s genre savvy enough to know that he’s only a minor character here, and he’s not going to save the day. I kind of think that people would appreciate someone like Abed in this situation. Not necessarily the movie-referencing part, except insofar as it helps them figure out how to survive. But the emotionless, detached façade that he has, and his ability to analyze people and predict how they will react, that would be very useful to whoever was in charge. I think that he’d likely adopt the persona a competent, likeable character, and would be someone that people would depend on. It would leave him a drained wreck, of course, but there you have it.
And when Martha comes to visit, she talks to Shirley and Abed; Shirley because she has no faith, and so desperately needs some, and Abed because he will help to relay her message.
On one of Martha’s stops across the Midwest, she meets someone between both worlds She travels from there to the other safe places that the wizards have marked: both wizardly, and those run by ordinary people. At one point, she runs into Allison Cameron, who takes her to the hospital to talk to the hundreds of people there who have been injured at the shipyards. House is dead, of course — rebellious to authority, and this is one unyielding authority — and probably Foreman too, heroically sacrificing himself, but Cameron and Chase are still working as ordinary doctors because that’s what Earth needs now, and Cuddy is still running the hospital under the thumb of the Toclafane. From Princeton, Martha makes her way up to Kit and Nita.
Wizards are probably how she managed to get from continent to continent, too. Maybe not human wizards, but cat wizards are good with worldgates, right? And Martha has met cat people before, so she’s not so confused by talking to ordinary cats as some might be. The cats who maintain the worldgates can get her to South America to a place that isn’t so closely guarded by the Toclafane. From South America, she can go to South Africa, again by worldgate, because they’re harder to detect for the Toclafane, so they’re useful in a way that her jetpack isn’t.
And when it’s all over, I’m sure that Martha calls up each and every one of the people who helped her. I’d like to think that she makes a list of them, names and phone numbers, and she calls them to see how they’re doing.
I don't actually have that many fandoms, and of those that I do, I can't really include the ones that don't take place on earth, which precludes a lot. So the only one missing that I didn't do is Glee, because I honestly don't think it would be worth mentioning. They're just a bunch of show choir kids, and their world is so small and self-contained that it wouldn't be anything outline-worthy.
[Doctor Who, Sherlock. Community, Supernatural, Young Wizards, House]
This has such potential for all of the crossovers, ever and I guess it's not as appealing because Martha Jones is not the Doctor, so she can't have shiny adventures the same way, but I'm big on ordinary people saving the day and beating the grand schemers, so here we go. Martha's Adventures in America!
Okay okay okay, Martha Jones and the Year That Never Was. Martha Jones, walking the earth, walking across America, when she runs into the hunters’ network. Think about it: a network of people who are already used to working under the radar, hiding, and adapting. Sure, their world has probably been rocked off kilter by freaking aliens arriving in the middle of their paranormal activities show, but they’d adapt, and they’d want to fight back.
Which is how Martha would end up hiding out with Bobby Singer, obviously. Maybe Sam would be there; if I’m syncing the two shows up correctly, then the YTNW starts after Dean is dead, and I’m guessing that there’s no point in bringing him back from Hell if there are motherfucking aliens running the show now. So, so far in that world, there are no angels yet present. Death implies that the angels only have jurisdiction over this planet, not the whole of creation, so I’m guessing that they’re laying low right now. Demons, too, because what the hell.
Anyway. I just want a vignette of Martha camping out with Bobby and Sam for a few days, talking to them and getting them to utilize their network to get the message out to as many people as possible. They’ve probably heard of her by the time she makes it to America, and Sam has a hero complex so he wants to travel with her, except that that would be incredibly dangerous: both for him, and for her mission. Instead, she lets him take her to the next safe point, and from there, he leaves her to go spread her message exactly.
In fact, I think it would be wonderful to have a whole series of shorts that’s just ‘Martha Jones travels from fandom to fandom and meets people.’ I already have Molly and John down from Sherlock. Oh god, can you imagine Nita and Kit? And Dairine. If they survived … I seem to remember that New York becomes completely demolished, so they might not have … That’s depressing. But if they did! Let’s say that they escaped. The Rodriguez and Callahan families are probably hiding together. Their priority would be to ensure that Life survives, right? So they’d be doing ordinary-people things to save people, but here’s the thing. There are already aliens invading and taking over, so everyone knows about aliens now. What if part of what they do is trying to get people off the planet? Use the worldgates to send them to the Crossings, running some sort of scheme that would relocate people temporarily on another Earthlike planet. Mars is too close, and the Motherboard is too far away to be reached easily. Somewhere new, then.
And for those who didn’t want to evacuate Earth, then Kit and Nita, Dairine, Darryl, Tom, and Carl, they’d stay behind and do what they could to thwart the Toclafane. When Martha came around, I think there would be a lot less explaining, a lot less of her shouldering the brunt of the burden. Wizardry is just words, right? Words and intent; and if Martha ran into wizards, then they’d know what she was trying to accomplish. They’d get the word out through their networks, too, and the wizarding network spans the globe, doesn’t rely on technology, is impossible to detect by the Toclafane.
That could be how Martha gets contacts. There’s got to be hunters who are wizards, right? She probably meets hunters out on the West Coast, which is how she gets passed along to Bobby’s house. En route, she stops at a gathering in Colorado, where she meets Shirley and Andre Bennett, and their son, and oh god, poor Shirley. Her God isn’t answering her prayers, and it’s the end of the world. Maybe Abed is also there, but not his dad — his dad is dead. Abed … oh god, how would Abed react to an apocalyptic scenario? Abed two years before he goes to Greendale, so he and Shirley don’t know each other as classmates, they know each other as fellow refugees from the Toclafane.
I feel like Abed would deal with it by inhabiting a character. Probably Han Solo. It’s easier to be a badass movie character than a minor character in someone else’s story, and he’s genre savvy enough to know that he’s only a minor character here, and he’s not going to save the day. I kind of think that people would appreciate someone like Abed in this situation. Not necessarily the movie-referencing part, except insofar as it helps them figure out how to survive. But the emotionless, detached façade that he has, and his ability to analyze people and predict how they will react, that would be very useful to whoever was in charge. I think that he’d likely adopt the persona a competent, likeable character, and would be someone that people would depend on. It would leave him a drained wreck, of course, but there you have it.
And when Martha comes to visit, she talks to Shirley and Abed; Shirley because she has no faith, and so desperately needs some, and Abed because he will help to relay her message.
On one of Martha’s stops across the Midwest, she meets someone between both worlds She travels from there to the other safe places that the wizards have marked: both wizardly, and those run by ordinary people. At one point, she runs into Allison Cameron, who takes her to the hospital to talk to the hundreds of people there who have been injured at the shipyards. House is dead, of course — rebellious to authority, and this is one unyielding authority — and probably Foreman too, heroically sacrificing himself, but Cameron and Chase are still working as ordinary doctors because that’s what Earth needs now, and Cuddy is still running the hospital under the thumb of the Toclafane. From Princeton, Martha makes her way up to Kit and Nita.
Wizards are probably how she managed to get from continent to continent, too. Maybe not human wizards, but cat wizards are good with worldgates, right? And Martha has met cat people before, so she’s not so confused by talking to ordinary cats as some might be. The cats who maintain the worldgates can get her to South America to a place that isn’t so closely guarded by the Toclafane. From South America, she can go to South Africa, again by worldgate, because they’re harder to detect for the Toclafane, so they’re useful in a way that her jetpack isn’t.
And when it’s all over, I’m sure that Martha calls up each and every one of the people who helped her. I’d like to think that she makes a list of them, names and phone numbers, and she calls them to see how they’re doing.
I don't actually have that many fandoms, and of those that I do, I can't really include the ones that don't take place on earth, which precludes a lot. So the only one missing that I didn't do is Glee, because I honestly don't think it would be worth mentioning. They're just a bunch of show choir kids, and their world is so small and self-contained that it wouldn't be anything outline-worthy.
