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Recently I watched all of "The Sarah Jane Adventures" and I loved it. I haven't managed to write "Why Sarah Jane Smith and her gang are the best and you should watch them" yet, but in the meantime, have a crossover plotbunny that I will not write, no, definitely not:

One day, Clyde Langer appears in Atlantis. He's very surprised, because just one moment ago he was in Sarah Jane's attic, drawing a piece of alien tech, and then he turned it around just so - and suddenly he's in a big room with stained glass windows and the ocean and silver towers outside. The doors are closed, so he sits around for half an hour wishing he had his sketchbook with him and talking to the air, just in case Mr. Smith can hear him and bring him back.

Then a team of Marines find him. Clyde is relieved when he finds out they're humans from Earth, and they're completely baffled because he appears to be a teenager from England who shouldn't be here. They don't believe him, of course, but eventually Carson and Rodney have to admit he seems to be a normal human, and accidents with Ancient tech do happen all the time, even though Clyde doesn't even have the ATA gene. (I guess he could have, but I like that he's ordinary.)

Once they believe him they start wondering why he isn't freaking out more. He says things like "This planet is so much nicer than the last one" and "You shouldn't tell the Joduun that I left Earth because they grounded me - you know, the space police with the rhinoceros heads?" and "Do you have an alien supercomputer, too?" and "Have you met the Doctor? He has a time-and-space machine that looks like a blue police box" and isn't scared when he hears of the Wraith because he claims he saw weirder things. He's also extremely excited about Atlantis and steals Lorne's painting supplies as soon as he can.
Also he claims he saved the Earth a couple of times.

He listens to Rodney's technobabble and says that his best friend is a genius, too. Rodney is skeptical. Clyde mentions Luke is in Oxford, and Rodney is unimpressed and says that just because someone got into Oxford doesn't mean they're a genius. Clyde is offended on behalf of Luke. If Luke ever meets Rodney he'll be mystified why Rodney doesn't like him.

Clyde mentions UNIT to Elizabeth (or Woolsey?), because he thinks the SGC belongs to them. It doesn't, but Elizabeth/Woolsey have high enough clearance to know about UNIT. They are puzzled why a teenager is involved in hunting aliens. Clyde says he's great at hunting aliens, thank you very much, and also it's technically Lord Clyde.

Meanwhile Mister Smith has alerted Sarah Jane and Rani to the problem. He doesn't know where the device sent Clyde, but he knows that the energy signature belongs to a race called the Alterans and that there's a military organization in the US that has studied them for years. Sarah Jane contacts Maria and Luke, tells Mister Smith to hack the SGC and give the data to Luke, and has Mister Smith book Rani and her tickets to [airport near Colorado, idk.]

Maria occasionally catches aliens in the US (do we know which city she's in?) and on one such occasion met Sam. She has Alan find out Sam's number and calls her to ask if she knows anything. Sam doesn't, because the databurst from Atlantis didn't come yet. (Atlantis is low on energy and/or technical problem and they don't dial in immediately.)

Luke sorts through the data from the SGC and becomes more and more excited about the Gate network, and at the same time highly skeptical about the methods the SGC uses. He compares the data Mister Smith collected from the device with SGC research and concludes that Clyde was transported to Atlantis.

Sarah Jane, because she is awesome and has contacts and is not above blackmail, manages to arrange a meeting with General O'Neill on short notice. They try to find out what the other knows and find each other very annoying. Jack gives up and sends her to Landry.

Landry is not amused by this woman who shows up out of the blue with her teenage sidekick and informs him that a teenager was transported to Atlantis and Landry should get him back immediately, and he doesn't like how confident she is. And then the SGC is attacked and she pulls out a lipstick...

I don't know yet what happens next, except that Rani is envious that Clyde went and she didn't, but as a birthday present he draws her a comic book about Atlantis. Sarah Jane sees it, likes it, and has Mister Smith make copies for herself, Luke, and Maria. Sam sees it when she meets with Maria again, makes a copy, and sends it to Atlantis. The Atlanteans are (secretly) flattered. Lorne has a cousin who works with comics and Clyde gets his first job.

It would be so much fun.