Title: Old School Superheroics
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer/The Champions
Categories: Crossover, action/adventure, nostalgia-fest
Length: Medium (4,600 words)

Author Website: Batzulger's author page on Twisting the Hellmouth

Summary:
There is something unspeakably horrible lurking in the London drizzle. Slayers aren't the only ones hunting it.

Review:
The actual summary is "Bringing in some 60s awesomeness," which I have to agree with but isn't all that helpful. The awesomeness in this case are the three stars of a 1960s ITC show The Champions, who in retrospect are absolutely ideal crossover material with the Buffyverse. While in their own show they faced only mundane challenges (blame the TV technology of the time), they make the transition to dealing with supernatural in a very natural way.

The plot is fairly basic; two groups trip over each other hunting for a nasty, spend a while interacting and deducing each others' abilities, and team up to defeat the big bad. The story is all in the interaction; how the two sides get on and deduce little things about each other.

All in all it's a simple story nicely told, and a great comforting dollop of nostalgia for oldies like me.

Old School Superheroics