Plot-bunnies: action flicks
I have a couple of action flick type fics that I'd like to see:
(1)
In several recent action movies there have been these chase scenes which take place through apartment complexes. I'm not talking about the hallways or public areas either, they go through windows and kitchens and living rooms and bedrooms and all, disturbing various families. Sometimes the people in the apartments rear back in fear, sometimes they yell and throw things. Both the bad guy and the good guy who are running through these apartment are big and bad and they get through. Sometimes the chasee gets away sometimes the chaser manages to catch up.
I would desperately like a story in which one of those apartments is the residence of some even more dangerous type.
The chasee runs out of one apartment and into another, there's a person in this one too but instead of screaming, this time the guy pulls out a sword, skewers him and then hides the body. The chaser then tries to find out how the chasee managed to escape. There's probably a scene in which the chaser is questioning the apartment residents and the killer is acting innocent and fragile and like he couldn't hurt a fly even if he wanted to.
It's possible that someone else recognizes the innocent-looking killer.
Specifically:
Maybe Jason Bourne and villian-of-the-day are racing around Mexico City and villian-of-the-day tries to make his get away through Bruce Banner's apartment.
Maybe 005 thinks he can make a quick get away via Adam Pierson's apartment. 007 would then have to interview all the residents and would get within 50 paces of the apartment, stop dead in his tracks and go, "oh no!" (becuase, of course Bond is immortal.)
(2)
There are several movies with the premise of underground fighting championships. Sometimes the participants are eager volunteers, sometimes they're coerced by love or loyalty or somesuch, and sometimes they're flat-out kidnapped and forced to fight. A somewhat sillly premise, but go with it. There are certainly a lot of script writers who have.
So I have this idea that Duncan MacLoed has somehow been either forced or coerced to compete. Possiby some woman tried to coerce him with emotional blackmail which didn't entirely work but did work enough for her to get him somewhere where he could be forced. Anyway, so there he is, fighting for his life against some of the best fighters in the underground fighting world. (He is still significantly better than almost all of them: he's been fighting in an underground fighting world for centuries after all.)
Then he's in the ring, waiting for his next opponent, wondering if he'll be able to get out of this without either killing some poor misguided mortal or allowing himself to be killed. Then he feels the buzz of an approaching immortal: oh no! However it's Methos to the rescue.
He reams Duncan out about getting himself caught up in this, whines about the trouble he had to go to in order to get himself kidnapped the same way, and then they both break out together.
Of course, while they were chatting they were putting on a show of fighting, using flashy moves and the like and generally joking around with sparring.