plot-bunny: NCIS / Dark Angel
I recently read The Search for Sandeman by laytoncolt which is an NCIS / Dark Angel crossover, based on the fact that the characters Tony DiNozzo and Logan Cale are played by the same actor, Michael Weatherly, a seriously beautiful man. It's a fun story, but in it she messes with the time line a bit and says that after the events of the Dark Angel series, Logan Cale goes into hiding as Tony DiNozzo. This inspired me to think that there should be another story in which Tony DiNozzo goes on to become Logan Cale.
In the Dark Angel backstory, there is a terrorist attack on June 1, 2009 that takes out all the electronic records in the US. It's devestating. This allows our child super-soldier Max to evade capture and grow up to be our main chicky who has a love story with Logan Cale, a crusaider pretty much running an underground justice system Eyes Only, who comes from a wealthy family with whom he has a whole mess of issues. His mother died long ago.
My thoughts are that our NCIS group was tracking down the terrorists back in 2009. They managed to get the bad guys but not before the bad guys set off the electro-magnetic bomb. In the proceedings Ziva and McGee both died. Gibbs was taken out of commission and Tony was left with pretty much nothing. So Tony walks away, returns to his family for a time to regroup. He stops using his mother's maiden name of DiNozzo and returns to using his father's name of Cale.
First names are easier to explain away. Maybe one of the first names was in fact a middle name. Maybe he decided to rename himself after Wolverine, becuase it seems like a Tony thing to do. (And the age issue I'm flat out ignoring. Consider it the manga loophole: there are three possible ages: child, adult, old. If you're not a child and you're not old, then you're an adult and there isn't a significant or even noticeable difference between ages of adults.)
Anyway, in a time of prevelant corruption, Tony/Logan starts the Eyes Only group, using the programs he has from McGee's last stand. McGee died a heroic death and managed to get into practically every database known to man all under a time crunch, and if only he'd had a few more minutes he might have been able to stop the bomb using the laptop set up that Tony took with him. Tony has ten years to learn how to use it and a lot of greif to work through that might well help him focus on becoming quite the hacker.
So there we have the character.
For the plot: Gibbs was taken out of commission in some way and was horrified to realize when he returned that he had no team any more. He had Abby and Ducky, but Ziva and McGee were both dead, and Tony had walked away. None the less, he holds it together, determined to stop future attacks. He occasionally sees the Eyes Only broadcasts but only when he's working on his boat, so he's listening but not actually watching them.
Then one day, Abby comes to him. "Gibbs. We don't have a hot case right now so I was bored and, and I think you need to come down and see this."
"What do you have for me, Abs?"
"Well, I was looking at the Eyes Only broadcast and wow, he has pretty eyes and suddenly I realized that I've seen them before. I mean, of course I've seen them before, in other broadcasts, but no, I mean I've seen them before in real life, but I couldn't remember where so I searched for them, and, and, they're Tony's."
"What?"
"Those are Tony's eyes, Gibbs. Tony is Eyes Only."
In the Dark Angel backstory, there is a terrorist attack on June 1, 2009 that takes out all the electronic records in the US. It's devestating. This allows our child super-soldier Max to evade capture and grow up to be our main chicky who has a love story with Logan Cale, a crusaider pretty much running an underground justice system Eyes Only, who comes from a wealthy family with whom he has a whole mess of issues. His mother died long ago.
My thoughts are that our NCIS group was tracking down the terrorists back in 2009. They managed to get the bad guys but not before the bad guys set off the electro-magnetic bomb. In the proceedings Ziva and McGee both died. Gibbs was taken out of commission and Tony was left with pretty much nothing. So Tony walks away, returns to his family for a time to regroup. He stops using his mother's maiden name of DiNozzo and returns to using his father's name of Cale.
First names are easier to explain away. Maybe one of the first names was in fact a middle name. Maybe he decided to rename himself after Wolverine, becuase it seems like a Tony thing to do. (And the age issue I'm flat out ignoring. Consider it the manga loophole: there are three possible ages: child, adult, old. If you're not a child and you're not old, then you're an adult and there isn't a significant or even noticeable difference between ages of adults.)
Anyway, in a time of prevelant corruption, Tony/Logan starts the Eyes Only group, using the programs he has from McGee's last stand. McGee died a heroic death and managed to get into practically every database known to man all under a time crunch, and if only he'd had a few more minutes he might have been able to stop the bomb using the laptop set up that Tony took with him. Tony has ten years to learn how to use it and a lot of greif to work through that might well help him focus on becoming quite the hacker.
So there we have the character.
For the plot: Gibbs was taken out of commission in some way and was horrified to realize when he returned that he had no team any more. He had Abby and Ducky, but Ziva and McGee were both dead, and Tony had walked away. None the less, he holds it together, determined to stop future attacks. He occasionally sees the Eyes Only broadcasts but only when he's working on his boat, so he's listening but not actually watching them.
Then one day, Abby comes to him. "Gibbs. We don't have a hot case right now so I was bored and, and I think you need to come down and see this."
"What do you have for me, Abs?"
"Well, I was looking at the Eyes Only broadcast and wow, he has pretty eyes and suddenly I realized that I've seen them before. I mean, of course I've seen them before, in other broadcasts, but no, I mean I've seen them before in real life, but I couldn't remember where so I searched for them, and, and, they're Tony's."
"What?"
"Those are Tony's eyes, Gibbs. Tony is Eyes Only."