Two Fish Run Into a Wall

 

Author: Tipper

 

Disclaimer:  I own neither the Seven nor the A-Team.  I didn’t create them; I only write about them.  I’ve borrowed from a handful of A-Team episodes again, but only bits and pieces. Favorite lines that just stuck with me….

 

Notes:

 

1.  This is a sequel.  I made over the A-Team into the Old West in a crossover story called Alpha Males.  This one is not much more serious than that one, and, yes, I again used my memory of A-Team eps as a basis (as before, certain scenes and turns of phrases may be recognizable).  Anyway, you definitely don’t have to read that story to read this one, but I might recommend reading the first part of that story to see how I dressed up the A-Team as cowboys.

 

2.  There are some rampant allusions in this one.  Just ignore them.  To my mind, allusion bunnies are almost as bad as plot bunnies.  Hopping around, throwing themselves into perfectly decent plots, getting in the way…kinda like when your cat sits on your keyboard.  The most obvious one is near the beginning, when one of my favorite children’s book writers wandered in, had a brandy, and fell asleep on the couch for the span of an entire scene.  Don’t you hate when they do that?

 

3.  Spoilers for Penance. 

 

4. This story does not quite fit into my little chronology of stories.  Usually I write them with the ones I’ve written before in mind.  This one is a little off that track.  I think I’ve written too many – I can’t keep ‘em straight anymore.  

 

5.  If it seems rushed…it is, especially the first part.  I realized too late that the A-Team was taking over the entire first half of this story, and I wanted to get to the M7 part so I started to rush it.

 

6.  Sorry about the bad jokes. Oh, and the names of the townsfolk went from general crops to the names of apples for some reason, in part because I found a bag of cortlands, coxes and baldwins that I’d picked last fall in my fridge that I’d forgotten about.  And my grandmother’s name was Ethel Frances Anthony, in case you’re wondering.  She went by Frances and was one of the most wonderful people I’ve ever known.  All this will make sense once you start reading.

 

7. Can you believe I put 7 notes on this?

 

Description (finally! No more notes!):  Nuns in trouble again.  The A-Team goes to help a convent in trouble, and, when they end up under water themselves, it’s the M7 boys to the rescue.

 

Acknowledgements: THANK YOU HEATHER!

 

Parts:

 

Chapters 1-4

Chapters 5-7

Chapters 8-13

Chapters 14-17

Chapters 18-20

Chapters 21-24

Chapters 24-26

Chapters 27-29

Chapters 30-32

Chapters 33-34

 

 

Chapter 35-End

 

 

 

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