History Fanfic / MarchToTheFuture

* ScheduleSlip: When this fanfic was originally conceived in July 2007, the author planned to produce one chapter every month, with a planned completion date in December 2011. As of January 2012, four chapters have been written.

* CreatorBreakdown: The reason for the schedule slip, as Wild Goose is currently suffering the latest of a series of HeroicBSOD.

* BadassDecay: The Fianna made an impressive showing in ''Cry of the Falcon'', but hasn't performed spectacularly in it's current outing. Justified in that the trip back in time screwed with the avionics, and the team are still trying to work the bugs out.

* NeverLiveItDown: Of a sort. According to the FictionalDocument that opens Chapter 3, Yzak's failed raid is taught at ZAFT Academy as an example of what ''not'' to do.

* {{Expy}}: Two obvious ones: [[AceCombat Marcus Snow]] and [[Franchise/GhostInTheShell Saito]].

** [[AceCombat5TheUnsungWar "Ten years ago, there was a war that engulfed the world."]]

** Snow referring to Jack, his usual wingman, as [[AceCombatZeroTheBelkanWar Buddy]].

** At one point, Jack is strongly channeling [[{{Series/Band of Brothers}} Ronald Speirs]].

** Jack's opening speech, exhorting the kitbashed mobile wing, is a ripoff from [[TengenToppaGurrenLagann GurrenLagann]].

** Saito's beam smartrifle - a weapon that appeared in GundamSentinel - is named Caladbolg.

* BiggerStick: Zigzagged with the Gamma-variant Fiannas used by the Snow Team. Though obselete in CE 81, in CE 71 the Fiannas are 1.5 generations ahead of the Heliopolis G-Weapons. The Fianna still lags behind the Preybird in firepower, being a FragileSpeedster.

* FragileSpeedster: The Fiannas.

'''This fic contains examples of the following tropes, in addition to those already present in the source material:'''

* {{Expy}}: Two obvious ones: [[AceCombat Marcus Snow]] and [[GhostInTheShell Saito]].

** The Snow Team's usage of [[GhostInTheShell cyberbrains and cybercommunications]].

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3863677/1/March_to_the_Future March to the Future]]'' by {{Tropers/Wild Goose}} is a [[GundamSEED Gundam SEED]] fanfic set in The Verse formed by Solid Shark's ''{{Fanfic/Birds of a Feather}}''. Ten years after the Heliopolis raid, sometime after the conclusion of ''Cry of the Falcon'', Section Nine pilots Marcus Snow, Jack David and Saito take part in an a military experiment into teleportation. The experiment succeeds in a case of GoneHorriblyRight: the trio are flung backwards in time and space to the Heliopolis colony, moments before its destruction, getting a front-row seat to the ''Archangel'''s escape.

** The Fianna Gamma is an expy of the Commander's model SV-51''y'' from MacrossZero.

* FunetikAksent: Jack uses an approximation of a [[JamesHerriot Yorkshire accent]] when speaking to Snow, attempting to justify it by his supposed Yorkshire blood. Snow [[NoSell shoots him down]] with the reminder that culturally, he's Chinese with a shot of Welsh, and no Yorkshire.

** Section Nine's armorer is mentioned to be one [[PrinceRoger Sergeant Julio Poertena]].

** The title is a nod to the titles of the first three PrinceRoger books, which involve marching somewhere. The author had also planned to continue the story into ''Cry of the Falcon'', titling the project ''March to Destiny''.

* FunetikAccent: Jack uses an approximation of a [[JamesHerriot Yorkshire accent]] when speaking to Snow, attempting to justify it by his supposed Yorkshire blood. Snow [[NoSell shoots him down]] with the reminder that culturally, he's Chinese with a shot of Welsh, and no Yorkshire.

* AscendedExtra: The Snow Team.

''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/3863677/1/March_to_the_Future March to the Future]]'' by [[http://www.fanfiction.net/u/344589/Wild_Goose_01 Wild Goose]] is a [[GundamSEED Gundam SEED]] fanfic set in The Verse formed by Solid Shark's Birds of a Feather. Ten years after the Heliopolis raid, sometime after the conclusion of ''Cry of the Falcon'', Section Nine pilots Marcus Snow, Jack David and Saito take part in an a military experiment into teleportation. The experiment succeeds in a case of GoneHorriblyRight: the trio are flung backwards in time and space to the Heliopolis colony, moments before its destruction, getting a front-row seat to the ''Archangel'''s escape.

An AlternateUniverse take on ''Birds of a Feather'' with the original author's blessings, ''March to the Future'' looks at the Falconverse and asks, How much more of a Chessmaster would Ken [=DiFalco=] be with foreknowledge and the next generation of technology?

* BadassDecay: The Fianna made an impressive showing in ''Cry of the Falcon'', but hasn't performed spectaculary in it's current outing. Justified in that the trip back in time screwed with the avionics, and the team are still trying to work the bugs out.

* BoisterousBruiser: Jack attempts to invoke this in-universe, being somewhat HotBlooded. It suceeds in annoying everyone.

** Snow referring to Jack, his usual wingman, as Buddy.

* ScheduleSlip: When this fanfic was originally conceived in July 2007, the author planned to produce one chapter every month, with a planned completion date in December 2011. As of January 2011, four chapters have been written.

* TheVerse: As noted on the ''Birds of a Feather'' page, ''March to the Future'' is set within the Falconverse setting but is not canonical due to the Time Travel AU nature of the story. ''Beware the Left Eye'', being Saito's backstory, is canonical for both verses.

* ScheduleSlip: When originally conceived in July 2007, the author planned to produce one chapter every month, with a planned completion date in December 2011. As of January 2011, four chapters have been written.