Challenge 1
In the BabyVerse, write a story (long or short, plot or not) where Angel &
Baby lose their souls (you don't have to explain how). You can kill off anyone
you want to (including Spike, Cordy, Buffy, Baby, Angel, etc.). Wes losing his
soul is optional (can be before or after he is vamped). Include the following
as either an item or a phrase: an explosion, a drawing. There is no deadline,
and the results will not be considered BabyVerse canon (hence the being able
to kill off people) so you can pretty much do whatever you want. All ratings
(G through NC17) are acceptable.
Responses:
Goodbye
Cordelia by WillowWood
Bed of Roses by Ebony Silvers
It Takes Two by Kai
The Pearl Necklace by Ditto
Challenge #2 - "Bewitched,
Buggered, and Beshagged"
Taking place sometime before "Bed of Roses," this story will involve
Xander having his huge love spell from "Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered"
re-activated. This happens either when he's in the Hyperion Hotel with The Scourge,
or starts elsewhere and he seeks refuge in the Hyperion. It would not be canon,
so you would be able to play with the characters any way you wish. The important
factors are these:
- All members of The Scourge
must be in the Hyperion while Xander's there. (Having members of The Pride there
as well is optional)
- The love spell doesn't have to involve women; it could fill Spike, Angel,
and Wes with sudden love for the Xan-man.
- This is real love on the part of the people affected--they should be willing
to fight and die like they would over any of their spouses.
- There must be fighting between spouses, with one desperate to get their hands
on Xander.
- No three-ways; the specifics of the spell would make any one person in love
with Xander too jealous to share him.
- If someone does not actively stop the spell, it will wear itself out in 2
days.
The following things have to be used:
-A bottle of champagne
- A length of chain
- Xander wearing Spike's duster
- Angel or Cordelia in a bathtub
- The Hyperion's pool
Responses::
Bewildered,
Bewitched, Buggered, and Beshagged by Ditto
Challenge 3 - Ten's
Challenge
Write a story in the BabyVerse. The first line must be:
-Baby looked at her doctor in disbelief. "There ain't no way in hell I'm
pregnant!"
You take it from there.
Note: As a rule, we as a group do not like pregnancy fics, however, we thought it would be fun to see how creative we could be with this. Ten is personally giving inspirational credit to Herself (a talented writer at fanfiction.net) for her Buffy baby story line.
Responses::
Baby
Blues by Ditto
Baby, Oh Baby by Ten
Challenge 4 - Willowood's Challenge
Send any members of the Pride, the Scourge and the Scoobies to Baby's original
home dimension (where she lived before she hooked up with Spike).
- It can be set anywhere
in the Babyverse timeline.
- Xander from the canon BtVS dimension (i.e. The dimension where Buffy nearly
staked Baby) must be taken along so that Baby can have a go at him for his treatment
of Spike during all of Season Six. The Baby who goes off on Xander can be either
Spike's Baby or the Baby from before she met Spike.
- It must be caused by a spell gone wrong that was performed by Willow.
- Also please can it be Niblet friendly, so that I can read it. (No rating higher
than PG13 or must have a PG13 version as well as an NC17 one)
- I'd like them to be sent to Baby's world where Btvs is a tv show, and the
Xander I'd like to see sent along with them is Season Six left-Anya-at-the-altar
Xander, and I want Baby to smack him one.
Responses:
Challenge 5 - "Worst
of the Worst"
This will be non-canon . . . unless Ebony likes the idea too much and wants
to make it a parallel universe that our dimension-jumping Scourge can visit.
Angelus is freed of his soul. Just him. But it's my personal belief that Angelus is a bit different each time he's able to emerge, his years living under the yoke of the soul changing him a bit each time. This time Angelus doesn't hang back as much, doesn't leave scary drawings and whatnot. He still plays the psychological games, but this time it's with things like a car driven through one's house or a pipe bomb slipped through your mail slot. He wants to make himself totally different from his souled self, so he shaves his head, grows a goatee, and gets tattoos up and down his arms--very much a Biker Angelus, or Rock 'N Roll Angelus. He'll wear leather vests instead of a jacket, so he can show off his tattoos.
There's one other requirement: Angelus must be so filled with rage at Spike making a successful life for himself in New Orleans that he goes to New Orleans and kills Spike, and makes Spike's childer his own. At least one of the childer must be kept alive. You can make your story from that point. And this can happen at any point in the Babyverse history that you choose: early days, after "The Call" or even after "Bed of Roses." Hell, you can do it in the middle of "Slept So Long Without You" while they're all in Season 6 Sunnydale and give a whole different spin to that story!!
Responses:
Challenge 6: Return
To Blighty
Besides Spike, who are the
favorite Brits in the Babyverse? Wesley and Drusilla, of course! Problem is,
nobody seems to want to write a story with Wes & Dru actually in Britain!!
So that is my challenge--to craft a story where Wes & Dru are visiting England
for the first time in many years and noting all the changes. Maybe they're honeymooning
there--they get married on Feb. 14, 2003, so you'd be able to show them in a
very contemporary "Cool Britannia" kinda place. (Even better, what
if Wesley is taking Drusilla to meet his Mum? Where should she live--in Stretford?
The Lakes Region? Wolverhampton? You British girls would get to decide!) It
could also be a more involved plot, something requiring them to go to England
for some reason. It could happen many years from now (like when Wesley's been
vamped, sometime after 2016)--or hell, you could have them fall through a hole
in time and visit Charles I before he loses his head or stand in Henry VIII's
court, or dodge French cannonballs at Trafalgar! Just make sure that Wes &
Dru go back to England and that that place becomes integral to the plot--it
can't just be incidental window dressing and jokes about how Wesley's laptop
can't plug into those European wall sockets. (Although scathing comments about
Euros and the lines at Heathrow are certainly allowed)
Responses: