Review – Dishing it Out
Dishing it out is a crossover.
Background
Lili (image of a pregnant Naomi Watts is for educational purposes only)
False Bill and I wanted to put together a funny crossover story where both of our universes could collide.
Complicating matters was the fact that his chef character, the Caitian Naurr, disappears during the Romulan War in his fan fiction.
Therefore, there were some temporal limitations. This required that Lili be pregnant with Joss, but it also gave us an idea about temporal shenanigans.
Plot
Three storylines occur at what, to the reader, is the same time and place. But the reality is that they cover three separate years and two universes. In one storyline, the Mirror Universe version of Erika Hernandez works as a chef for the Empress Hoshi Sato. Hoshi is mulling over her next conquests and angry about the food on the ISS Defiant. In 2158, a very pregnant Lili, along with Naurr, is cooking at Reversal. Doug tells her to take it easy, and some of the interplay between them foreshadows later issues in Together and Fortune. The third storyline is in the deeper future, in the HG Wells timeline, as Rick Daniels, Carmen Calavicci, Otra D’Angelo, HD Avery, Levi Cavendish, and Kevin O’Connor all celebrate at a year-end banquet with some of their mirror counterparts, which are characters created by False Bill.
A dispute and a small prank pushes one of False Bill’s characters to send unauthorized cookbooks to Empress Hoshi’s time period. But the temporal transporters are only working to send people forward in time but not back! What to do?
Send in the chefs!
Story Postings
- Dishing it Out on Ad Astra
- also, Dishing it Out in In Between Days context
- Dishing it Out in Times of the HG Wells context
Rating
The story is Rated K.
Upshot
I like how the threads came together. We also had a lot of comedic fun with the story, adding an invading mouse army and a bit of slapstick humor. Others agreed, and it won the crossover challenge during the 2014 Twelve Trials of Triskelion on Ad Astra.
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