Sparkgate: Agatha and the Grasp of the Serpent God

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Sparkgate: Agatha and the Grasp of the Serpent God by Samarkand is a crossover fanfic between Girl Genius and Stargate SG-1.

Agatha Clay's latest accident at Transylvania Polygnostic University sends her a long, long way from home... to a beach island? With SG-1 around, though, things never stay peaceful for long.

Tropes used in Sparkgate: Agatha and the Grasp of the Serpent God include:

• Accidental Pervert: Daniel.
• Bilingual Dialogue: Between a Repliclank Prime and anyone else.
• Blade Below the Shoulder: The Jaffaclank has a buzzsaw in its forearm.
• But for Me It Was Tuesday: Hilariously lampshaded.

Agatha shrugged. "Great. So I'm lost in an alternate world, an alien overlord wants me as his Daedelus, and the fate of the Earth depends on my work. No pressure!" "Definitely Tuesday." Samantha grinned. "Agatha? Believe it or not, this is where it gets fun."

• Call Forward: Jacob to Sam: "Did you blow up a planet yet?"
• Celebrity Paradox:

"I've already received spec proposals for ad campaigns," Brian continued, brandishing several folders. "Chiat/Day definitely wants in on this one." "Why not Phil and Kaja?" Alec said. "I saw some doodles Phil did when I stopped by his booth at Norwescon. They'd fit Agatha's style to a T." "They're independent comic book artists," Brian said. "They can't handle a national advertising campaign."

• Fun with Acronyms: Mk II "Military Assault Xenomorph Infantry Mechanism".
• Head Desk: Daniel's first reaction to snaked Jack.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: The general result of the Heterodyne Boys confronting villains.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Agatha's reaction after destroying her own locket sinks in.
• My Little Panzer: Agatha models a Ha'tak converted into an amusement park that retains its firepower.
• Neck Lift: Rhadamanthys does this to Agatha.
• Oh Crap:

Ever so slightly, Maybourne paled.

• Painting the Fourth Wall: When Agatha gets Sparky, Bold Inflation HAPPENS.
• Pay Evil Unto Evil: Rhadamanthys chooses hosts who were Evil so that he can take out all his inherent sadistic impulses on the host, who ostensibly deserves it, rather than on the innocents around him
• Rage Against the Heavens: The Spark version of the myth of Icarus features Daedelus stealing the secrets of the gods, storming Olympus, and overthrowing the Greek pantheon. Agatha has a very similar attitude towards the System Lords.
• Rant-Inducing Slight: Daniel has one after he and Agatha land from using her jetpack. Samantha has one seeing the Jaffaclank, and after seeing Agatha's self-reproducing clanks.
• Sanity Slippage: Agatha goes through a brief one in chapter eight. Then again, given she's a Spark, one could reasonably argue that her powers are based on sanity slippage.
• Shout-Out:
  • NO! A SUIT LIKE THE RAIMENT OF DARIUS OF INCANDESCENT! WITH DEATH RAYS IN THE PALMS!
  • "Squat [clanks], thin ones, square ones, spherical ones, some like pepperpots and some like wheels"
  • *A...A DEATH MOON!*
  • "Space Latveria"
  • One of Agatha's inventions is a toaster called the "Illudium Q-36 Modulator."
• Show Within a Show: Parodied with Cassie's comic based on Agatha that also happens to be called Girl Genius.
• Step Three: Profit: The "grand plan of Sparks".

Step One: Epiphany Step Two: Brilliant invention based on principles forbidden to God and Man Step Three: ????? Step Four: SCIENCE! and the groveling of your detractors at your boots.

• Stuff Blowing Up: Agatha manages to vaporize 700 meters of rock and blow a truck-sized hole in three feet of naquadah-laced Ha'Tak armor plating... with a toaster.
• Super-Powered Robot Meter Maids: Alluded to. "C'lack was quite obviously a war-clank, unless one's ideas of mechanical butlers involved assaults on fixed positions. Of course, she had heard a fair few Sparks considered that sort of dual-functionality a necessity."
• Thanks for the Mammary: Daniel holding onto Agatha when she was using her jetpack.
• Third Person Person: Rhadamanthys lapses into this.
• Training from Hell: Courtesy of Teal'c.
• Translation Convention: At first, Agatha speaks in mainly German and Daniel has to translate.
• We Can Rule Together: "Ho, he's running the classic 'take you out on the balcony and promising the land's treasures' gambit. He offered me a planet."
• Wrench Whack
• You No Take Candle: Agatha's early attempts at speaking English come out this way.