Eclipse by jedibuttercup

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Rec Category: Crossovers (Stargate SG-1/Pitch Black)
Pairing: team
Category: crossover, action/adventure, team, novella
Warning: PG due to language and the action sequences
Author on LJ: jedibuttercup
Author's Website: Jedibuttercup.com
Author's Summary: SG-1, Pitch Black. The team steps through the Gate onto a world with three suns. It does not go well.
Link: "Eclipse"

Why This Must Be Read: "Eclipse" is one of the best action/adventure stories I've ever read and I was very surprised that it hadn't been recommended yet, so I decided to remedy that oversight.  jedibuttercup does an amazing job of writing SG-1 in this story and nails the character voices perfectly, as well as how the team would handle a situation that is so extreme and 'out there', even for them.  The action sequences and tension are also very well written, making this longish story (14,000 words) one that you won't want to stop reading until you've come to the end of it. Edit: This story is complete, jedibuttercup just forgot to change the WIP designation in the header of the story chapters.  2nd Edit: headers now reflect the story's complete status.

Snippet of fic:

Sam turned her face away, bracing herself, and managed not to flinch when the actinic flash of a freshly-lit flare bloomed in the corner of her vision. A high-pitched scream sounded from behind them, and she turned sharply in time to see a strange shape retreating back up the canyon, a wide head flaring out to blunt points like that of a hammerhead shark above a mouth full of long, sharp teeth.

Rattling noises at the tops of the cliffs announced the presence of more of the creatures, and Sam shivered, wrenching her attention away from them toward the Jaffa camp from whence the more immediate danger was likely to come. She couldn't immediately see what they were doing beyond the row of lights, but the flash of staff energy blasting against the cliff above them was answer enough to her worries. Another creature screeched loudly as the blast detonated, sending a shower of rock fragments down over their heads, and somewhere between their position and the Goa'uld camp one of the prisoners began to scream.

"We're going to have to move," she blurted. "We don't have enough cover here. The Jaffa will be able to target us before we get anywhere near them, and we'll be exposed on all sides to the creatures if we leave the canyon."

"Fuck!" Jack hissed again, sounding as furious as she'd ever heard him. "We're going to have to retreat."

"To where?" Sam replied.

"We'll figure that out as we go. Just move! And for God's sake, stay in the light!"