De-chipping Spike

[desoto_hia873]

When I started reading Buffyverse fanfic, the first big archive site I found was All About Spike. Which worked for me because he was my favourite character. Anyway, one of the things that I was quite delighted with was the wide variety of ways that people came up with to get the chip out of Spike's head.

Being old and fogey as I am (and becoming more so every day), I now can't remember half of the dechipping methods that I've read about. In fact, I can only come up with three. I don't want to spoil people for any stories that they haven't read, so I'm putting this very short list under the cut - click at your own risk.



rahirah has Willow magic the chip out in Necessary Evils. The twist on this method is that Willow didn't ask Spike before she did it and didn't want him to stop her mid-spell, so she 'recited' the incantation in American Sign Language with her hand behind her back. No one said spells had to be verbal, right?

cousinjean had Spike inadvertently remove it himself by wishing it out in a conversation with Halfrek (Perfect World).

missmurchison had Tara magic it out in her charming Spara story Quick and Bitter, Slow and Sweet. Tara was in the process of losing her het virginity to Spike and she didn't want to ruin his pleasure by having the chip go off as he entered her.

ETA: Oh yeah, cousinjean also had Spike's chip modified in a futurefic so that he could fight humans in self-defense (Future Imperfect). I guess that sort of counts.



I know there were so many more. What ways have you read?

Comments

[tabaqui]

Like julia_here said. I despise the chip and find it much more fun to write Spike without it, so, let's see... 'Notice' has him getting accidentally electrocuted in a fight and it's toast. 'Sweeter Far Than Flowing Honey' has Rack killing it. 'Compass Rose' has Drucilla making a glamor that 'fools' it and basically it doesn't work anymore since no one is human to it anymore. 'Credence' has it being fried 'cause the Initiative is going down and, you know, explosions and etc. and it was being tinkered with... Had one with an MRI machine being used but - a computer chip wouldn't actually be affected by a magnet since it has no magnetic storage on it, so that was a mess-up on my part.

If you want the stories at all, they're all on my site.
:)

I've also read Vamp!Xander hooking him up to a car battery and in a Te story it seems maybe Dru dug it out - it's never really made clear. Also lightening has fried it. I don't have links to those stories, unfortunately.

[desoto-hia873.livejournal.com]

Wow! You're very imaginative - ME should have hired you. :-)

[tabaqui]

Heeee.
Computer chips are pretty damn fragile when it comes to electricity, so actually frying the thing would have been super-easy.

Ah well.