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My Weapon is an installment of the Adventures of a Line Hopper Series Fic that crosses over Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Doctor Who. Consisting of 13 chapters, it was first published from March 4 to March 16, 2013, preceded by Paradox and followed by Not a Sword. In the chronological order, it is preceded by The Facksisil of Balime and followed by Riley Finn Doesn't Hate the Doctor.

In this fic, the Daleks are attacking Sunnydale in search of Buffy. The Doctor comes to the rescue, but he has difficulty figuring out what is the Daleks' motive since whatever power Sunnydale has, the Daleks already have them. As it turns out, there is something powerful from Sunnydale that the Daleks would want, and it involves the Great Vampires hence the Daleks want info from Buffy the vampire slayer.

My Weapon contains examples of:

• Attack Its Weak Point: Discussed. Buffy has notes based on what she hears from the Doctor that the Daleks are weak in their eyestalk. She never gets the chance to test it as she gets shot by a stun ray when she tries to.
• Big Damn Heroes: Chapter 3 ends with the Doctor arriving in the TARDIS to rescue Buffy and Riley just as the former is paralyzed and the latter is going to be exterminated by the Daleks.
• Buffy Speak: Buffy refers to the force-field containing her and Riley as "invisible barrier thing".
• Call-Back:
  • It's explained multiple times that the Daleks are back from extinction due to an incident involving the Doctor and Winston Churchill.
  • When the Doctor asks what kind of enemy goes to Sunnydale and just collects things, Willow answers Spike when he wants the Gem of Amara while Riley mentions the demons trying to perform the Sacrifice of Three; so basically, villains after a MacGuffin.
  • Buffy convinces the Doctor to let her help him by pointing out that Elizabeth manages to help him defeat the Daleks when she is still fresh, studying in Hemery High School, something he tells her pretty early in Don't Be.
  • The Daleks know that the Doctor is lying about nobody alive in the universe has met the Great Vampires, because he has fought their king himself.
• Cliffhanger: Chapter 11 ends as the Daleks' countdown for the activation of the Genetic Disintegrator reached 1.
• Continuity Cavalcade: When the Doctor finds out about Buffy's notebook that has informations about the future, he gets angry and reads several of them out loud, giving nods to multiple past/future events in a single paragraph in process: deadly GPS, Henry van Statten, Torchwood (a rather general nod), and stone statues at Wester Drumlins.
• Continuity Nod:
  • Buffy mentions Adam at one point while Riley mentions Polgara demons multiple times, establishing that the fic takes place after "Goodbye, Iowa".
  • When things are getting romantic between them, Buffy remembers that Eleventh Doctor has a wife or a girlfriend, having met River Song during the Doctor's date with her in Date Night.
  • When the Doctor tells Buffy to hit the weirdly behaving TARDIS monitor, Buffy refuses to get between the Doctor's relationship with his ship again, referring to Blue Box Bad where her drunken self tries to stake the TARDIS out of jealousy.
• Disney Death: Willow is seemingly killed by the Daleks when they blow up the mausoleum she is in, only to turn up alive later with the Doctor since he rescues her just in time.
• Dragged by the Collar: When the Doctor insists on leaving Buffy behind somewhere "safe" while he faces the Daleks, Buffy makes use of her Super-Strength to yank him away from the TARDIS console by his collar.
• Establishing Character Moment: The Daleks make their proper debut by rounding up people to be interrogated, then killing an entire family when they can't answer, just in case you don't believe the Doctor and Buffy's words on how evil they are.
• Fist of Rage: Buffy clenches her fists as she tries to hold back her rage after the Daleks seemingly kill Willow despite their promise and they start threatening Riley's life as a leverage as well.
• Flashback Within a Flashback: Chapter 12 starts with Buffy and the Doctor's unspoken plan already working before it flashes back to Buffy's infiltration of the Dalek's ship, and the flashback contains flashbacks to several moments prior when Buffy and the Doctor are still planning it.
• Have We Met Yet?: Riley meets the Doctor for the first time, but the latter is already very familiar with him, knowing this must be their first meeting from Riley's perspective since he doesn't hate the Doctor yet to Riley's confusion.
• I Have a Family: A woman interrogated by the Daleks begs for mercy by saying she has kids. The Daleks responds by killing both her and her kids.
• I Have Your Wife:
  • When capturing Buffy alive, the Daleks take her boyfriend Riley as well which Buffy and Riley recognize as a way to ensure Buffy's compliance. The Doctor notes that it is unusual for the Daleks to do so, although the full explanation is only given in a later fic.
  • At the climax, the Daleks have captured Buffy and threaten her so that the Doctor would fix their Genetic Disintegrator. The Doctor seemingly complies, but he and Buffy have planned this out so that the Daleks don't notice that before getting captured, Buffy has already sabotaged the machine so that it will kill the Daleks when the Doctor "fixes" it.
• If I Wanted You Dead...: Inverted. When giving himself up to the Daleks, the Doctor complains about how they keep threatening to exterminate him, pointing out that if they really want to, they would have done so already. He is right, as the Daleks still need him.
• I'll Kill You!: When the Daleks go back on their words and blow up where Willow is after Buffy hands herself over, Buffy shouts "I'll kill you for that" to them. The Daleks are unfazed and just keep ordering her to follow them.
• Instantly Proven Wrong: In the first chapter, Buffy notices that the Daleks refer to her as an "unidentified humanoid life form" and thinks they must have not known how Slayer genetics look like. The very next line is the Daleks proclaiming, "DNA CODE MATCHES THE HUMANOID FEMALE KNOWN AS 'SLAYER'!"
• Just Friends: Buffy and the Doctor assure Buffy's actual boyfriend Riley that they are just friends, nothing more, so he doesn't have to be jealous. It's left unsaid how much he buys it for now.
• Just One Second Out of Sync: The Fountain of Kulkmattoll is hidden in a pocket dimension in Hellmouth that is one half second out of sync from time, a trick from the Time Lords to hide things, but one that the Daleks can get around.
• Kiss of Distraction: After letting it slip to Riley that the Doctor is an alien, Buffy gives him a kiss, hoping it would distract and make him forget any train of thought about handing the Doctor over to the Initiative.
• Layman's Terms: The Doctor tries to explain the weird readings that the TARDIS has on Hellmouth using Technobabble, which Buffy naturally doesn't understand, so the Doctor re-describes it as, "The Daleks opened the Hellmouth, and then they opened it again. While it was already open."
• Malaproper: Buffy mispronounces the Fountain of "Kulkmattoll" as "Kulk-my-gold" in chapter 8.
• The Namesake: The title is relatively meaningless until the Doctor and the TARDIS show up and Buffy calls him "[her] weapon". They proceed to go on debates about whether they are each other's weapon until the last chapter.
• No-Sell:
  • Defied at the start when Riley wants to attack the Daleks using his guns, but Buffy stops him, having figured out that the Daleks are probably Immune to Bullets.
  • Willow's magic attacks initially work against the Daleks, until they activate their magic dampeners at which point Willow's attacks just fizzle out upon hitting them.
• The One Thing I Don't Hate About You: When Riley first meets the Doctor, the latter reveals that he knows about the Initiative and considers them very amoral, although he appreciates their (futile) effort to handle vampires without killing them.
• OOC Is Serious Business:
  • Discussed. Buffy knows that the Daleks are serious business before even meeting them since the usually carefree Doctor talks about them with great fear.
  • Also discussed multiple times concerning the Daleks' behavior. It is said that if the Daleks don't kill you on sight, they are probably planning something more serious. And the Daleks are not as murder-happy as usual for most of the fic, so the Doctor suspects that something is afoot.
• Percussive Maintenance: Attempted. When feeling that the readings on the TARDIS monitor makes no sense, the Doctor hits it (which only hurts himself) then orders Buffy to hit it too since she's stronger. It doesn't do anything since there is nothing wrong with the monitor in the first place; the Daleks are the ones behaving oddly.
• Planet Destroyer: The Fountain of Kulkmattoll, which the Great Vampires used to use to drain the life out of planets and the Daleks are planning to do the same to activate the Genetic Disintegrator.
• Red Baron: Discussed in the last chapter where Buffy asks whether the Doctor is only known by his fearsome nicknames by the Daleks. The Doctor confirms some of them, but notes that several races also know him by their own other scary nicknames.
  The Doctor: Destroyer of Worlds, Bringer of Darkness, Dark Lord — those are all Dalek. Of course, there are others. The Sevateem call me the Evil One, the Galayari call me the Sandman, the vampires call me the Bringer of….
• She Is Not My Girlfriend: A variation. When seeing the Doctor and Buffy interact for the first time and hearing from Willow that they have a "weird and confusing friendship", Riley assumes that the Doctor is Buffy's ex, something both of them denies.
• Shoo the Dog: After realizing that the Daleks have the Fountain of Kulkmattoll, the Doctor sends Buffy, Willow, and Riley to Giles' house before trying to leave alone. Buffy gets back inside the TARDIS just as she is leaving, calling out the Doctor for thinking she needs to be protected like that.
• Some Kind of Force Field: While being captured by the Daleks, Buffy and Riley are caged inside an "invisible barrier thing" that Buffy can't just punch through.
• Subverted Catchphrase: Phrase Catcher in this case, but the effect is the same. The Doctor assumes that Riley is going to say that the TARDIS is "bigger on the inside" when first seeing it like most people do, but Riley actually wants to say it's "alien".
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: When asked about how come the Daleks are back when they are supposed to be extinct, the Doctor claims that it "certainly has nothing whatsoever to do with me or Winston Churchill."
• Tricked into Escaping: Buffy and Riley escape their initial confrontation against the Daleks who want to capture Buffy, only to realize the next chapter that the Daleks pretty much let them go and are probably planning something worse. It's revealed several chapters later that the Daleks are intentionally making their capture of Buffy longer so that they have more time to steal something from the Hellmouth while the Doctor is busy helping her.
• Unspoken Plan Guarantee: Chapter 9 ends with the Doctor telling Buffy that he has a plan, before the next chapters immediately moving to the part where the plan is executed and seemingly fail as Buffy gets caught. When the plan suddenly succeeds at chapter 12, the rest of the chapter is dedicated to showing the planning stage and Buffy executing the important part before letting the Daleks see her.
• [Verb] This!: When the Daleks announce that they have activated their psychic field dampeners in response to Willow's magical attack, she responds by telling them to "Dampen this" before attacking again. The attack doesn't work.
• Verbal Backspace:
  • Riley asks Buffy to make sure that she gets information on the Daleks from a "friend" because she already says so. Buffy backtracks, claiming she gets it from research before giving up and admitting it's from a friend.
  • Buffy confirms to Riley that the Doctor is her "weapon", until the Doctor asks again in protest.
    Riley: That guy? That guy is your weapon?
    Buffy: [smiles] Yep.
    The Doctor: I'm your what?
    Buffy: [stops smiling] Nothing.
  • The final scene has the Doctor mentioning scary nicknames he gets from other species, but when he mentions that vampires call him a "Bringer" of something, he stops himself mid-sentence and backtracks, claiming they call him "Oncoming Storm". Buffy realizes that he has done something terrible in her future to earn it, but doesn't push further as the Doctor clearly doesn't want to talk about it.
• "You!" Exclamation: When the Daleks try to blow up Willow in spite of their promise to spare Buffy's friends, Buffy angrily exclaims "You!" to them before following it up with I'll Kill You!.
• You Said You Would Let Them Go: Buffy offers to let the Daleks capture her in exchange for them sparing the cornered Willow. They agree, before blowing up the mausoleum Willow is in anyway (she lives).
• Your Answer to Everything: When the Doctor says that his plan to deal with the Fountain of Kulkmattoll is to throw it into a black hole, Buffy comments that it seems to be his answer to everything.