Antarctic Drift (by smilebackwards) (T)
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stargateficrecShow: SGA
Rec Category: Alternate Universe
Characters: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, Radek Zelenka, Carson Beckett, Jack O'Neill
Categories: M/M
Warnings: Nil
Author on DW:smilebackwards
Author's Website: See the AO3
Link: Antarctic Drift on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: This is a gripping and clever fusion with Pacific Rim, with Rodney as a frustrated Jaeger designer and John as an almost washed-up ex-Jaeger pilot, wounded when his connection to Holland was abruptly severed. As the summary says, "He’s not eager to go back, but the right Drift partner might just convince him." But wait, there's more! Smilebackwards also made a vid - Antarctic Drift - for this fusion, which is superb as a trailer for the fic. The ending will make you cheer!
“Will you just try again?” Rodney demanded.
“Rodney,” Carson sighed. “You know it won’t work. We’re not Drift compatible.”
No one in this entire forsaken Shatterdome was Drift compatible, Rodney thought sourly. Atlantis Prime was the best Jaeger ever built—of course it was, Rodney had built it himself. Mark-6 with a plasma cannon and an honest-to-god ZPM reactor, sixty times more powerful than the naquada reactors in the Mark-5s. And it was sitting in the Antarctic Shatterdome, gathering dust.
Rodney had thought his exile to Validvostok would be the low point in his career. Then he’d been assigned to Antarctica.
Technically, the Antarctic Shatterdome commanded the largest area of the Pacific. In reality, it was about the lowest you could go—latitude, temperature, political importance.
Just the place for a beautiful, unusable Jaeger.
“Fine,” Rodney snapped. “I’ll pilot it myself.”
Rec Category: Alternate Universe
Characters: Rodney McKay/John Sheppard, Radek Zelenka, Carson Beckett, Jack O'Neill
Categories: M/M
Warnings: Nil
Author on DW:
smilebackwards Author's Website: See the AO3
Link: Antarctic Drift on AO3
Why This Must Be Read: This is a gripping and clever fusion with Pacific Rim, with Rodney as a frustrated Jaeger designer and John as an almost washed-up ex-Jaeger pilot, wounded when his connection to Holland was abruptly severed. As the summary says, "He’s not eager to go back, but the right Drift partner might just convince him." But wait, there's more! Smilebackwards also made a vid - Antarctic Drift - for this fusion, which is superb as a trailer for the fic. The ending will make you cheer!
“Will you just try again?” Rodney demanded.
“Rodney,” Carson sighed. “You know it won’t work. We’re not Drift compatible.”
No one in this entire forsaken Shatterdome was Drift compatible, Rodney thought sourly. Atlantis Prime was the best Jaeger ever built—of course it was, Rodney had built it himself. Mark-6 with a plasma cannon and an honest-to-god ZPM reactor, sixty times more powerful than the naquada reactors in the Mark-5s. And it was sitting in the Antarctic Shatterdome, gathering dust.
Rodney had thought his exile to Validvostok would be the low point in his career. Then he’d been assigned to Antarctica.
Technically, the Antarctic Shatterdome commanded the largest area of the Pacific. In reality, it was about the lowest you could go—latitude, temperature, political importance.
Just the place for a beautiful, unusable Jaeger.
“Fine,” Rodney snapped. “I’ll pilot it myself.”
