Get Your Kicks on Route 66

Fanfiction
Title:	Get Your Kicks on Route 66
Author(s):	Miss and Aisa
Date(s):	1997
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Fandom(s):	Xena
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Get Your Kicks on Route 66 is a Xena uber story by Miss and Aisa.

It is one of the first uber stories. It was also never finished.

Its Place in History

Bat's IS THERE A DOCTOR ON THE DIG was of course the first Mel/Janice tale and thus an uber, but even prior to this story some writers had already visited the uber concept. Over in the HERCULES fandom in January 1997, a writer named Terra Chang had posted a story named A MEETING OF CHANCE featuring modern-day versions of Hercules, Iolus, Xena and Gabrielle. That same month, the weekend after XENA SCROLLS first aired on TV, A Xenite named Darkone released the story WARRIOR'S HEART on a private mailing list. With the uber-Gabrielle as a rock dancer and the uber-Xena as her bodyguard, the story was publicly available on the Web by February 1997. "Uber" as a fanfic term was not being used as of yet but in the months ahead as more Xenites were inspired to write stories featuring versions of Xena and Gabrielle other than the originals, the term, first coined by Kym Tayborn from WHOOSH, became popular. Bards Miss and Aisa began posting an uber named GET YOUR KICKS ON ROUTE 66 which unfortunately was never finished but in July 1997 we got Bongo Bear's THE HITCH HIKER, which paired an architect and a military historian - and by the end of that summer we had three of the fandom's most beloved uber classics online, Della Street's western TOWARD THE SUNSET, Nene Adam's Victorian detective mystery BLACK BY GASLIGHT and the gritty modern-day spy thriller SURFACING by Paul Seely & Jennifer Garza. The uber genre was here to stay!

This is an alternate timeline XWP story based in the present day. Meet Zina, a tall raven-haired beauty on a Harley who is at the right place and the right time to save a young strawberry blonde when she's attacked on a lonely Arizona road. On her way to L.A., a grateful Bree finds herself fascinated with the leather-clad biker but soon realizes she may not get a chance to learn more about the stranger. Clever and promising tale.