Inspired by
m_mcgregor and his 1-minute Buffyverse fanfiction, I give you (with spoilers for the stories themselves, obviously):
Divine Interventions
ALEXA: I am evil! I worship OSIRIS and steal spells from TOLKIEN!
RACK: I'm not dead anymore!
CORDY: Here I come to save the day!
ETHAN and BETH: Being in prison sucks.
DAWN: Do you know what the RITE OF ISIS does?
ETHAN: No.
DAWN: Oh. Here, break out anyway.
ETHAN and BETH: Yay!
AMY: Hey, the author likes me too!
CORDY, ETHAN and BETH, DAWN, and AMY team up and go to BRAZIL to visit WILLOW.
ALEXA and RACK: Take this! STAFF OF TOTH, activate!
[WILLOW is broken into GOOD!WILLOW and BAD!WILLOW.]
BAD!WILLOW: Cool! Now I can go take over the world!
GOOD!WILLOW: Cool! Now I can go commune with the universe!
ETHAN: Have sex with me, DAWN.
DAWN: Okay.
[ETHAN dreams.]
DRUSILLA: *has cameo*
[ETHAN wakes up.]
ETHAN: I know what the RITE OF ISIS does!
[RITE OF ISIS happens.]
OSIRIS: Now I can kill you all!
EVERYONE BUT WILLOW: Oh, shit.
BAD!WILLOW and GOOD!WILLOW: No you can't!
OSIRIS: Oh, shit.
[AMY reunites GOOD!WILLOW and BAD!WILLOW.]
[RITE OF ISIS un-happens.]
DAWN: Wow, a lot of people died. I suck.
GILES: Here, have a promotion.
CORDY: Wait, I was supposed to save the day!
[MADDY cleans up dangling plot-threads at ludicrous speed!]
THE END
It's scary how easy it was to condense a 16-chapter, 30,000-word fic into just a couple of lines.
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Richard the Third, Act Two, Scene Three, Line Sixteen
[EVERYTHING turns out to BE A LIE.]
VAL: What are we going to do?
PETER: Nothing.
[VAL does something anyway.]
PETER: You suck.
[VAL and PETER become HEGEMONS anyway.]
[VAL and PETER blow up the PLANET.]
VAL: Yay! Now I get to see Ender again!
ENDER: I'm all angsty now.
VAL: Wow. People suck.
[PETER has KINKY YET OFFSCREEN SEX with PETRA.]
[PETER and VAL have UST.]
[VAL and PETRA KISS.]
PETER: Wow, my girlfriend and my sister. That's hot.
VAL: You suck.
THE END