Rescuing/Protecting John

[kriadydragon.livejournal.com]

I'm looking for gen stories in which the team or a team member (extra bonus points if it's Rodney but I'll take anyone) goes ballistic/dark side trying to save or protect Sheppard.

Comments

[trystings.livejournal.com]

Not quite ballistic, but certainly frantic.

After (http://maisierita.livejournal.com/10485.html) by maisierita.

I read it as gen / Sheppard & McKay friendship.

[riani1.livejournal.com]

Intervention May be Required--John's held by the Genii, Elizabeth is not inclined to negotiate. Neither is Rodney--he's just going to get John back by whatever means necessary http://crazy-obsessed.livejournal.com/9248.html

Situation Normal All Fucked Up--John's held by someone else, Rodney decides to go get him. Lorne asks if he'd like some help, Rodney cooly assures him that he doesn't need help. He doesn't. http://smiley.zonezine.net/html/32000.html

[csad21.livejournal.com]

I second Situation Normal All, Fucked Up by sardonicsmiley (http://smiley.zonezine.net/html/32000.html). That one's honestly one of the best for the genre, simply because of how frightening Rodney is in it.

But I'd also recommend:

1) Certain People Got a God Complex by eleveninches (http://dejabu.robot-army.org/sgagodcomplex.html)

Summary: An old friend needs McKay's expertise, so he takes Sheppard as collateral. Getting Sheppard back may prove to be harder than expected when McKay realizes they're dealing with a lunatic.

This is the story where the mission is to a homophobic planet, and everyone tries to tell John he shouldn't go, on behalf of him being rather... camp, and oblivious to it. The John in this story is hilariously Too Dumb To Live (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TooDumbToLive).

2) The Proof of Absense by teh_helenables (http://teh-helenables.livejournal.com/1164.html)

Summary: Rodney won't acknowledge John's death, and for good reason. (McShep.)

"[...] You nearly lost your mind trying to find the Colonel, Rodney. It isn’t healthy. Do you feel more for him than you should?"


3) To Safeguard the Future by sian1359 (http://archiveofourown.org/works/28220)

Summary: Beware of Ancients bearing gifts.

An off-world team returns with a mysterious box that compels them to give it to John under any circumstances. Despite all precautions, just touching the box is enough to make John disappear. Turns out Chaya has gotten a "get out of jail" card from the other Ancients in return for messing with John and the timeline, and is still petulant and unable to understand just why what she's doing is wrong. (Note: This is also a very minor fusion with "Torchwood" and "Ronin Warriors"--as in, the seeming OCs being from those fandoms. Additionally, while there's a happy ending, it *is* a bit anticlimactic, so make what you will of that.)


4) I'll also give you this link: kidnapped!john (http://www.delicious.com/csad/kidnapped!john), since I don't quite remember how many of those fit your parameters as well as those I recced above.

[(Anonymous)]

Over Vales and Hills (http://gaiaanarchy.livejournal.com/11039.html?format=light&#cutid1) by gaiaanarchy. Gen, Teen-rated, desperate vindictive Rodney POV Shepwhump with vegetal gore, non-sexual nudity, and infirmary ending. A nicely unsettling take on a cracky concept.

[shibela.livejournal.com]

Although this story is McShep Pairing, the pairing is negligible to the story in "Just A Scholar" (http://archiveofourown.org/works/12933) by ca_pierson & darkmoore -- Rodney goes back to a planet after being booted off, but his team-members were kept, & ends up loosing the wrath of an Explosive-Happy Genius upon the planet in consequence...features protective!Rodney & his feelings of family for his team. (The pairing part gets all of maybe two sentences in the middle & a short blurb in the last paragraph that's G-rated.)

Original response deleted to add: I wouldn't have found this one without the aid of csad21. :)