And here is where I'm hiding the Sergeant Preston fanfic. If you've made it here, you somehow found out that I set about playing Sergeant Preston of the Yukon in a League of Extraordinary Gentlemen RPG. I am, how you say, just the slightest bit compulsive at times; I cannot always get a character out of my head once I start playing them. Fortunately, this gives me material to write about, rather than disturbing the rest of my brain.
But you're not here to hear about me, are you? No, you're here for a certain legendary Mountie...
Obligatory disclaimer: this is fanfiction. I didn't come up with the character. I don't own the character. I have no rights to the character. I don't know who Sergeant Preston or anything affiliated with him belongs to these days, as I'm pretty sure WXYZ Studios got bought out by someone else, but I do know it's not me. No challenge to copyright, trademark, ownership, or anything else is intended by these stories. Just admiration and homage for a body of work I really enjoyed.
Entirely different disclaimer: I should note that the chronology in several of these fics is horribly inaccurate by real-world standards. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen game in which I played the Sergeant took place in 1936, you see. I got the GM's permission to muck with history; the Fairbanks gold rush took place in 1898 in that world, the Yukon strike came in 1903, and the Frank Slide happened in 1933 instead of the real-world dates. The Great War stayed where it belonged, though. So did the influenza pandemic that followed.
Feel free to email me if you have a problem with this, but considering that one Challenge of the Yukon episode sent the Sergeant to the vicinity of the NORTH POLE, I don't think my mucking about with the timeline is all that grievous a sin.
And now. On with our hero's story!
These stories are more or less in line with
the character of Sergeant Preston as he was presented in the radio series Challenge
of the Yukon.
Aside from a few chronological changes, none of the stories in this section
particularly deviate from 'reality' as depicted on the show.
Intention - According to the radio and TV series, Preston's father was a Mountie murdered in the line of duty. His son joined the Northwest Mounted Police to catch his father's killer, and earned his sergeant's stripes for that accomplishment. That is the sum total of everything we know about the man's personal history, but such momentous decisions are almost never so simple...
Weights and Measures- For a man so often depicted as honest, forthright, and straightforward, Sergeant Preston was remarkably good at schemes and tricks to trip up the criminal element. Such a talent almost has to have long-standing roots.
The Temptation of Corporal Preston - Young Corporal Preston finally catches up with his father's murderer. NOTE: This is not the story found in the Challenge of the Yukon episode "The Case That Made Preston A Sergeant". My collection of Challenge of the Yukon MP3's turned out to be missing several episodes, and I only learned this fact after I had already written this fic. I'm so sorry.
The Spanish Lady - This is the one I fear will get me in the most trouble. You see, despite the example set by Superintendent Samuel Benford Steele, I couldn't see the Sergeant (as depicted in Challenge of the Yukon- I haven't seen the TV series) as the sort to spend his entire life without ever getting married. I eventually decided that yes, he did have a wife at one point, even if he lost her before the game began; that necessitated an extraordinary young woman, to match an extraordinary man. I did my best to avoid making a Mary Sue of her. If I have failed in this, feel free to let me know. I promise I won't bite.
Loosed Upon The World - Remember how I said in the disclaimer that I moved the Frank Slide to 1933? This was a challenge fic- the theme was 'death' and the limit was between 200 and 1000 words.
These stories arose out of the League of Extraordinary
Gentlemen RPG in which I played.
While they are Sergeant Preston fanfic, they are set in a radically different
world from that depicted in the radio and TV series.
Diary of a Mountie - Being a True and Accurate Account of the Adventures of Sergeant Frank William Preston, RCMP, and his dog Yukon Prince during their membership in the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, 1936. At that time, the League consisted of Miss Mary Poppins, Mr. Hugo Danner, Lord Peter Wimsey, Mr. Tom Swift, a fellow who preferred to be known as The Shadow, the good Sergeant, and Miss Dorothy Gale, of Kansas.
Currently available: the prologue, all thirty-four known chapters, and the epilogue.
Justification by Works - What really prompted the people behind the League to tap Sergeant Preston for membership?
Grandfather's Legacy - New! The Diary presented to Inspector Moore was not complete; several pages were later found in a manila folder, which the Inspector never saw. It would appear the good Sergeant's return home didn't go as smoothly as he would have liked. An adventure in six parts: one, two, three, four, five, and six.
These stories are crossovers and probably shouldn't exist, but eh.
Ichneumon - Sergeant Preston / Starship Troopers. I had to promote the man; Heinlein specifically stated that all human members of the K9 corps of the Terran military are officers.
Reflection - This is actually a branch off the events described in Grandfather's Legacy, but. . . *sigh* Sergeant Preston and the Mirror of Erised. Please don't hit me.
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