marcicat

Some snippets from a Power Rangers (2017 movie) fic I started. They've been sitting in my email drafts for a year, so I think it's time to release them to the wild.

( post-movie snippets )

Title: Matching
Author: marcicat

Fandom: Independence Day, Independence Day Resurgence
Rating: G

Characters: Jake Morrison, Charlie Miller, Rain Lao, Alicia Cade, Dylan Dubrow-Hiller
Wordcount: 1000

Summary: The matching t-shirts missing scene from 'Downtime Curve.'

( (a very important coda) )

Title: This Family Just Keeps On Getting Bigger

Author: marcicat

Characters: Han Solo, Kylo Ren, General Hux, Captain Phasma, Maz Kanata, Knights of Ren, Rey, Finn, Poe Dameron, Padme Amidala, Anakin Skywalker, Obi Wan Kenobi, Leia Organa

Fandom: Star Wars, Star Wars TFA

Summary: Han shows up as a ghost, and starts to realize he missed a lot more than he thought in those fifteen years he was rattling around the galaxy.

Note: Title is from ‘Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas,’ which shows how long ago I started writing it (Christmas, not 1977).  Snoke is still the bad guy, Leia’s still the best at everything, and everyone else is somewhere in the middle.  In a much nicer AU, a lot more things turned out to be not quite what they seemed.

Warning: Past Force-based mental manipulation is a key plot point in this story. More details after the cut.

( This Family Just Keeps On Getting Bigger )

Title: Some Days There Are Dinosaurs
Author: marcicat

Fandom: Avengers MCU, Jurassic World
Rating: T
Words: 4100

Characters: Betty Ross, Pepper Potts, Darcy Lewis, Wanda Maximoff, Pietro Maximoff, Janet Van Dyne, Maria Hill, Greg Quill, Peter Quill, Nebula, Gamora, Owen Grady, Harley Keener

Summary: It turns out a lot more of life is about making friends and knowing people than we were led to believe. Also, dinosaurs.

Author’s Note: The prologue to this fic is actually the set-up for a much different story, that takes place in a non-alternate dimension. But once I set it up, suddenly there was the raptor squad, and I couldn’t resist. Since it also, however vaguely, explains why this particular set of people might have ended up in a meeting together, I left it in.

( Some Days There Are Dinosaurs )

Title: Pack It Up
Author: marcicat

Fandom: Jupiter Ascending
Word Count: 6300

Characters: Jupiter Jones, Caine Wise, Aleksa Jones, Vladie Bolotnikov, Susi Wise, Seraphi Abrasax, Mikka Bolotnikov, Lang, Ibis, Razo

Tags: happy ending, group cuddles, pack fic

Summary: There's no shooting in this story, just a lot of talking and hugging.

( Pack It Up )

Title: There’s Always Tomorrow (unless you time travel into the past)
Author: marcicat

Fandom: Annie (2014)
Characters: Isabella, Lou, Nash, Andrea, Annie, Will Stacks, Grace, Tessie, Pepper, Mia

Summary: Annie got her happy ending. What about the rest of them?

Tags: ridicu!fic, time travel, happy ending

Author’s Note: starandrea’s post-viewing question: ‘what happened to the rest of the kids?’ was one I couldn’t pass up answering. Given that it’s me, it turns out that (although it wasn’t quite just a misunderstanding) things weren’t exactly what they seemed, either.

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( There's Always Tomorrow )

Title: Heroes Don’t Look Like They Used To
Author: marcicat

Rating: T
Word Count: 5300

Fandom: MCU (Avengers, Captain America: TWS, Amazing Spiderman)
Characters: Gwen Stacey, Peter Parker, Flash Thompson, Jane Foster, Darcy Lewis, JARVIS, Tony Stark

Author’s Note: Title is from the song ‘Nothing More,’ by The Alternate Routes. Story ignores everything about TASM2 except for Gwen’s offer to go to London.

Summary: Gwen Stacey got on the plane.

( Heroes Don't Look Like They Used To )

Title: The biggest room in the world
Author: marcicat

Rating: T (language, themes, violence)
Word Count: 9600

Author’s Note: Post-Season 1 finale fix-it fic. OnStar is like magic, Katrina actually is magic, and George Washington was the President of the United States, dammit. Someone must know something. (Title comes from the question: “What’s the biggest room in the world?” “Room for improvement.”)

Summary: Hell’s forces expect the game to last seven years. The internet generation begs to differ.

Characters: Jenny Mills, Abbie Mills, Ichabod Crane, Katrina Crane, Frank Irving, Cynthia Irving, Macey Irving, Luke Morales, Jeremy Crane, Yolanda

Warnings: The characters begin in the same peril they were in for the season 1 finale: car accident, arrested, abducted, buried alive, and trapped in Purgatory.

Tags: switching POVs, happy ending, everyone’s fine, OnStar, magic powers, family, First Lady’s tech-savvy fighters of evil, cats, unlikely rescues, platonic sleeping together, Katrina is a Disney princess, awkward conversations, welcome to the future, crows, roses, magical tattoos

( The working title of this fic was sleepy hollow rock and roll. )

Title: Four Weekends
Author: marcicat

Rating: T
Word Count: 3740

Summary: Cynthia told Frank if he cancelled another weekend, she’d fight for sole custody. He gets some unexpected help in making sure that doesn’t happen.

( Four Weekends )

Title: Criminal Mastermind
Author: marcicat

Rating: T
Word Count: 16,700

Fandom: Iron Man Armored Adventures AU

Summary: What if Gene kidnapped both Starks from the beginning?

Author’s Note: The working title for this fic was ‘The Criminal Mastermind AU I’ve Always Wanted.’ And then I couldn’t let it go, obviously. Each new file got an all caps section heading, including:
THE SAGA CONTINUES
MORE SAGA! MORE RINGS!
THE LET’S BE FRIENDS EDITION
PLENTY OF KITTENS TO GO AROUND
TEEN DELINQUENTS & INCONVENIENT RELATIVES.

Chapter 1 covers the first season of IMAA. There are no actual kittens in this fic.

( Criminal Mastermind )