The Story So Far
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                        by Calle Dybedahl

  The young woman adjusted the top of her silver chain-mail bikini,
smoothed down her unruly brown hair and cleared her throat.
  "Ok, let's see..." she said, brow furrowing in thought.
"From an ancient alien artifact, Avon has gained the power to perceive
and change the universe at its most basic level, the level only
known as the Script. He, being the emotionally immature git he is,
used his new powers to drastically reduce the amount of clothing
worn by the female characters and to make sure that Jenna stayed
on when Blake left at the start of season three. Reached by a rumour
that his old lover Anna Grant languishes in a Federation prison facility
on the planet Gor, he had the Liberator go there in order to rescue her.
The rescue attempt quickly lost track of what it was supposed to be
doing in favour of a number of more or less gratuitous sex scenes--
in none of which Avon gets any, incidentally--and various
other complications. Servalan is drawn to Gor by the power of the Script,
and soon ends up chained naked to a wall. However, she is rescued
by Travis 1, who has somehow obtained the only thing that can
resist the power of the Script--a piece of pure plotdevicium.
We note that he *doesn't* provide any clothing for Servalan,
so maybe Avon isn't the only immature git in this story."
  She paused to take a sip from a jewel-encrusted goblet.
  "Having lost Avon, the rest of the gang decides to try to rescue
Anna before he returns and messes things up even further for them.
Some guards have told Jenna that Anna must be in the extra-high security
part of the prison, known as the Inner Volume. On their way there,
they meet an old enemy of Cally's from her school days on Auron,
a warrior woman by the name of Xena, and her 'friend' Gabrielle.
After some friendly fighting between Cally and Xena, our heroes
are told that Anna Grant isn't a prisoner, she's the *commander*
of the prison facility. They proceed into the Inner Volume,
where it soon becomes apparent that Cally's personality is being
contaminated by the personality of a character from another series.
She abducts Gabrielle, and teases Xena mercilessly.
While she and Xena fights, the others rescue Gabrielle, who leads
them to a recreation room where she tricks everybody to ingest
a strong aphrodisiac--and we have more gratuitous sex scenes until
Xena and Cally rejoin the gang and they proceed towards Anna.
Meanwhile, Anna has been told that Avon has been captured
in her prison, so she orders her amazons to bring him to her.
While they do so, they also encounter Servalan and Travis.
Not being impressed by the still naked Servalan's attitude,
they tie her and Avon together, drag them back to the Inner Volume
and chain them to opposite walls of a cell.
  She paused for a moment or three.
  "That's where we stand right now, as far as I know," she said.
  The other young woman sitting next to the first one looked
strangely at her friend.
  "Have you been smoking stuff again, Recapitulatrix, or what the heck
are you talking about?" she asked.
  The first woman looked down at the floor, blushing.
  "I'm sorry," she said. "I don't know what came over me.
It just sort of happens sometimes, is all."