As the Cardinal Flies

Reveals for Crossworks are up; owing to a summer chock-full of complicated life events, this was my first exchange this year - but as the crossover junkie that I am, I wasn't going to let it go by. And I'm glad I persisted, both because my gift this year featured one of my more obscure fandom requests (executed thoughtfully and to very good effect) and because my author said some really nice things in their notes on the fic.

So here's the gift:

The First Rule of Supervillainy
Written by: Sealgirl
Fandom: Columbo, Defenders of the Earth (Cartoon)
Rating: General Audiences
Words: ~2600
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Characters: Lieutenant Columbo (Columbo), Ming the Merciless (Defenders of the Earth)
Additional Tags: Case Fic, Crossover

And here's my own contribution, in which I spun a three-and-a-half-way caper yarn featuring some of my favorite action heroines (and a villain I've always found entertaining).

The (Retroactively Classified) Triple Burglar Job
Fandom: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV), Leverage, Stargate SG-1
Rating: General Audiences
Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply
Words: ~2300
Characters: Parker (Leverage), Alec Hardison, Vala Mal Doran, Ethan Rayne
Additional Tags: Crossover, Heist, Bechdel Test Pass, Stealth Crossover, Xanatos Gambits

The Orb of Qin-Jao is in a safe in a Manhattan condominium. But is it actually safe from an alien, a rogue warlock, and the world's greatest cat burglar? 

Probably not....