First FAN FIC

Okay, so I've written my first fan fic. Its not done, not by a long shot, but it is a start. Its basically, what if the team of Stargate SG1 got stuck in one of my favorite video games? World of Warcraft. What classes would they play? What would they do in the world? How would they fit together as a team in that world? The part I have been able to write, lets call it chapter one, is just them finding themselves on the character creation screen and having to choose their characters before they are logged out for inactivity, but since at the moment they are purely digital, they don't want to find out what "logged out" means for them.

Stargate SG1/World of Warcraft Mashup

Chapter One:

                “Whoa!” Jack wheeled around on his heels, still trying to grip his P90 that was no longer in his hands. Noticing this he dropped his hands in an aggravated gesture, muttering “I hate it when that happens…” Sam, Daniel, Tealc, and Emma looked similarly confused and aggravated as they evaluated their…. Lack of surroundings. They found themselves in seemingly empty space, reminding Jack of some of their experiences on Asgard planets, like Cimmeria or K’Tau where the room they were teleported to held practically nothing. But here, there really was nothing, not even an obvious floor. It was like walking on a solid surface of….. air. “Alright, Carter? What’s goin’ on here?”

                “I … don’t know sir. I have no idea where we are or how we got here.” Carter put her hands on her hips as she looked around the … room? “I don’t even remember exactly what I was doing before we got here.” She looked to the others who gave agreeing nods and shrugs.

                Jack gave a short nod to Carter, pursed his lips and slipped his hands in his pockets. “Okaaaay.” Looking all around, then up, he considered a moment before yelling “Hello! I dunno who you are, but what’s next here?” He tipped his head, waiting for some kind of response before slightly lowering his head to check his friends reactions.

                A flash of light came before they found themselves inside a city made almost entirely of crystal, with small thumbnail pictures of different faces from different races, male and female, floating above them, and other thumbnail pictures off to either side of the group that made no sense to them. Well, most of them. Emma seemed familiar with them somehow, but still a bit confused. “Emma? Do you know where we are?”

                Still looking puzzled, she nodded. “It … at least looks like the character creation screen in World of Warcraft, the video game I’ve been playing.”

                Daniel held up a finger on one hand. “Wait a minute… Are you saying we’re in a video game?”

                Emma shrugged, still thoughtful, and looking at the floating images surrounding them. “That’s what it looks like anyway. I mean, these are the races you have the option to play,” she gestured to the pictures of the races, “and those are the classes those races have the choice to play,” she finished, pointing to the other images.

                “Alright, how could that happen?” Jack asked incredulously.

                “Without more information, I’m not sure sir.” Carter replied thoughtfully.

                Silent until now, Tealc finally spoke. “O’Neil… you will want to see this.” Jack walked over to his friend and followed his gaze to words scrolling in a circle on the floor. You will be logged out for inactivity in twenty-four minutes, the message read, circling over and over.

                “Carter-“ Jack started.

                Daniel cleared his throat. “Um, Sam, what happens if we’re ‘logged out’ but we’re physically in the game?” The question came out in his usual rushed voice, slightly more rushed since it also had a hint of panic to it.

                Sam winced. “Don’t think we should wait to find out.”

                Daniel gestured in a kind of moving forward sign. “Okay… so what do we do from here?:

                “We choose characters and enter the game?” Emma suggested turning to the others.

                Tealc- as usual, the calmest of the group- pointed out the obvious, again as usual. “You are the only one of us who has any knowledge of this game. How are we to choose characters without it?” he asked, his eyebrow showing the only amount of expression on his face.

                Emma tipped her head a bit considering. “Well, I think I’ve played enough of this game to be able to choose characters that would suit your personalities and have a well-rounded group for the game. And we are limited on time, so I suggest that.” Everyone either shrugged or nodded agreement. Tealc’s nod was simply his token slight bow of acknowledgement, but gave the idea. “Okay, I’m not sure if we’ll be in the game long enough for it or not, but I think we should at least be prepared to have to go into dungeons. So we’ll need-“

                Jack interrupted. “Excuse me, dungeons?”

                Emma shook her head. “Not like medieval castle dungeons or prisons or anything. They’re … special quests that take you to a separate part of the game…. Harder levels that you need a group for.” Since that seemed to satisfy him, she went on. “We’ll need a tank- a character to be able to take the brunt of the damage, and keep all the enemies focused on them.”

                Tealc stepped forward. “I volunteer.”

                Emma nodded. “Figured that. Your best bet for that is a paladin. They’re basically holy warriors with a lot of taunts, plate armor, and emergency heals. The taunts keep the enemies focused on them. Oh, also, at level ten, everyone gets to pick a talent specialization, depending on how they want to play their character. When the time comes, you need to choose protection.” Tealc rose his eyebrow slightly before giving another slight bow and shifting away slightly since the focus was no longer on him. “We’ll also need a healer, which I’ve done a lot of. And fairly good at it, if I do say so myself. So I’ll be a druid. The rest of the group is typically dps- damage per second. Jack-“ she turned to Jack with a slight smile. “One of those classes is hunter. You get a pet, get to shoot stuff, track a number of different enemies, and the ammo never runs out.”

                “Oh yeah?” Her description seemed to be agreeing with him.

                “Yeah, it used to, but they changed that in one of the expansions. Also, you used to have to wait till level ten to get the pet, but now you start with a pet right away.”

                “Okay. What kind of pet do I get?” he asked, his eyebrows with interest.

                Her head tipped a bit again, with a slight grimace. “That depends on what race we choose. But we’ll have to pick classes first, cause not all classes are available for each race, they all have their specialties.” His face fell a bit, but he kept listening.

                Daniel spoke up. “What about us?” he asked motioning to him and Sam.

                Emma stepped a little closer to the two scientists. “I always thought Sam would be a good mage. For one thing, the base stat you need to watch as a mage is intelligence, and you obviously have a lot of that. One good thing about mages, in later levels, if we get to those levels, can make portals to the major cities, or can teleport themselves. They can also summon food and water.” Sam pursed her lips slightly and gave something like a nod. “Daniel… “ she paused to think, biting her lip slightly. “You might be a good shaman. For one thing, it might be a good thing to have a backup healer. But depending on the talent specialization, you can also do wicked dps.”

                “How does shaman work exactly?” he asked, seeming to pinch the air in front of him and squinting.

                Emma winced. “Honestly? That’s the one I know the least about. I know you work with the elements, and with totems. But there are a lot of people who know how to do it well. Including a very good friend of mine. So we could probably ask him in game. But I do think you’d be good at it, and could figure it out.”

                “Okay, so that’s all the classes figured out, what about races?” Sam asked.

                Emma thought for a minute again. “I think we should try to stay at least in the same general area. Same part of the world anyway. And the only two races that can play druid are night elf and worgen, but worgen are extremely isolated, so that leaves me with night elf. Which is what I would prefer for that anyway. Luckily, hunters and mages are pretty much available to …. I think almost every alliance race. Paladins are available to humans, dwarves, and draeni. Their capital city is only a boat ride away from night elf lands. A very short boat ride at that. And shaman are only available to draeni and dwarves. I think jack and I could start out as night elves, and the three of you could start as dreani.”

                Yellow lights started flashing lightly from the floor, and the message circling the floor started flashing as well as circling, now reading, You will be logged out for inactivity in fifteen minutes.

                Emma started talking faster. “You guys should be able to figure things out on your own. Quests are given by people all over the world, you’ll find yellow question marks over their heads. When you’re done, it’ll change to a yellow question mark, and they’ll give you rewards. Either currency or armor or useful items. Mages wear cloth armor, Shaman wear….. leather, I think, and Paladins wear Chainmail, at least till you hit a certain level, then shaman wear chainmail and Paladins wear plate armor. As you level up, you’ll learn new spells automatically. A lot of the stuff, it might give you tips on what you’re doing, assuming you’re a new player.”

                Sam held her hand out in front of her, asking for a minute. “If we’re in separate areas, how do we find you later?”

                “Every race has a starting area. Draeni and Night elves are failry close. Until about level twelve, you’ll do quests in your own area. Once you hit that level, there’s a boat by the main city Exodar that’ll take you to Rutherin Village. Exodar is the city that looks like this one here.” She gestured to their surroundings. “We’ll meet you at Rutherin Village and move on from there. Both races have to go through there to move on anyway.”

                They all nodded before Sam pointed out one more thing. “Won’t we need some kind of screen name in the game?”

                Emma searched her memory a minute. “Oh yeah.” She checked the message on the floor. They were down to about seven minutes. “Okay… we’re short on time… wait, does everyone remember when we were in that underground city, under the ice and they’d put memory stamps on us?” Everyone nodded slightly. “Do you remember the names you had?”

                Daniel nodded. “Yeah, I was Karlan, Sam was Thera, Tealc was Tor, Jack was Jonah and you were Evellyn.”

Emma nodded back. “Yeah, lets use those. How about it?” Everyone else nodded agreement, except jack, who simply shrugged. “okay, So that’s decided. By the way, don’t turn down any bags. The more bag space you have, the better off you are. We should be able to add each other as friends in game and talk to each other.”

“How?” Daniel asked. No one had time to answer though, because everyone seemed to have a button in front of them with their class, race and names over them, reading “confirm”.

“We’re running out of time. Hit confirm, and we should be able to figure it out in there.” The lights around them started flashing red, and everyone rushed to hit their buttons. As they did, each saw a blinding flash of light before being distributed in the game.