SGA fic: He Who Has Spoken

Originally posted for the men and machines challenge on sga_flashfic. Now that the challenge is over, I can mirror it here.

Title: He Who Has Spoken
Author: Eliyes
Rating: G
Primary Characters: John Sheppard and Rodney McKay.
Summary: Sheppard and McKay discuss cyborgs fictional and hypothetical.
Author's Notes: There may be some spoilers for movies and series that have been out for several years, and there are a lot of SF references. I double-checked to make sure everything is something you can at least find out a little about on Wikipedia, rather than put a list of everything in here and possibly spoil the fic.


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What if...? Changing Rictor's history.

What if it had been HYDRA that Louis Richter* narked off with a late gun shipment, instead of Stryfe?

What if it had been HYDRA to get their hands on Rictor, instead of The Right? Possibly as punishment for his father?

They're masters of brainwashing useful people, as we have seen with Madrox, Northstar, and Wolverine in the past few years. I'm sure they'd find a use for a powerful young earthshaker.

He'd have been a bad guy -- just imagine the X-Men or someone finding him, not in a machine shouting that he won't let himself be used/leave him to die, but deployed by his neo-Nazi masters as a living weapon. What would they call him? How would they break the brainwashing, if they even could? What would he do then?


*Rictor's dad.