Friday Five: Chuck Fan Fiction – Action/Adventure Stories

This week’s Friday Five comes to us from atcDave, Chuck fanfiction guru and all around nice guy. You can usually find him hanging out at Chuck This Blog. 

For those more cynical sorts, who suspect this Friday Five is just an excuse for Dave to recommend five more Charah stories, well duh.  But I have chosen five stories that are a little more of an adventure.  I know not every Chuckster is a total ‘shipper; so that’s not a problem!  There’s plenty of fun to be had with these characters.  This time I’ll look at five that put the adventure front and center.

1. Sarah vs The Long Flight by Go-Chuck-Go. This is a very early story, started before Season One had even ended.  It actually has a separate prelude story that maybe isn’t quite as inspired; but the essential background would be, after Chuck overhears Casey and Sarah get the order to kill him, he drugs Sarah and runs off grid.  The story picks up with Sarah awakening from her unintended slumber more determined than ever to protect Chuck from a less than appreciative government.  But first, she has to find him, and convince him she means no harm.  I think only a very early story can work with this sort of set up, and this one works extremely well.  Sarah’s Long Flight is one of the very earliest of the really great Chuck stories.
2. Chuck vs The Frontier by NinjaVanish. This is a complete alternate.  Chuck is a watchmaker in the 19th Century.  It is still spy-fi and sci-fi. Really wild Jules Verne like sci-fi.  And if the role reversal that lies at the heart of the Chuck/Sarah relationship was amusing on the show, it is doubly so at this early date.  Many favorite characters show up in different, yet oddly similar sorts of parts. The Intersect itself gets a fascinating and appropriate sort of rework. And NinjaVanish just excels at fast paced action/adventure sort of writing, so this story is a blast from beginning to end.
3. Chuck vs a Normal Life and Chuck vs the Decision by Timewalker05.  This is two parts of the same story.  Set mid-Season Two, Chuck is seriously injured on a mission. The first part is both dramatic and humorous as Chuck struggles with reality and his own survival; while the second part involves more of a mystery and investigation as Chuck and Sarah try to do right, and right by each other.  This is a very appealing story of our heroes fighting to be together in spite of serious challenges from several sources.
4. Walker’s Eleven by Moonlight Pilot (Frea O’Scanlin). This is a different world where Sarah never became a government agent.  So this tells the story of a veteran con artist trying to pull one last job.  But when she is betrayed by her crew and left to face arrest she turns to a particular nerd for help.  This is loaded with lies, betrayal, adventure, romance…   and Jeffster.
5. Chuck vs The Time Warp by CostasTT.  How many classic World War II movie plots can you count?  That is a fun game to play while reading this wild mash-up.  This story sets the whole crew back in World War II to launch a secret mission into Nazi Germany.  Costas style always involves high adventure and low angst, and this is the very first example of his signature style.

5.5. Save You Later by mia2009.  Okay, I really can’t play by the rules.  There is just too much good stuff to choose from.  This story starts way back at the end of Season One.  Chuck is flown off to a secure government facility after his cover is blown.  But Sarah promised to protect him.  And Sarah takes her promises seriously. Of course it’s a little more involved than that.  But this is a fun adventure as Sarah sets off first to rescue Chuck, then keep him safe off the grid.