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czytling · 2 years

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I really really want to read time travel! Top Gun AUs, but there aren't that many. Also, there is only like 5 TopGunMissionImpossible Xovers like really? Those two actually go mostly decently together. So like, I can't write to save my life and finishing projects is not in my vocabulary either, says my wip from 2017 that has had 4 more parts in my head that never got written for years, but here's an idea from time travel! TopGun - Mission Impossible x-over. Ignores MI: Fallout, because I haven't seen it

Backstory first:

after finishing top gun in 1986, and the Fallon mission, Maverick is instructor at TopGun for 2 months. Iceman remains in combat

The tensions are high and combat is getting dangerous, so Maverick requests to be moved to Iceman's unit (I can't leave my wingman, in sickness and in health, until death does us apart ... what do you mean that phrase does not mean what i think it means?)

The Wingmen are one if not the most successful team in Navy, doing the impossible ops all the time, with crazy stunts and ice-cold efficiency,

So when IMF needs aerial support for a mission, they ask for the best, and that is Maverick and Iceman (this is in late 80s, probably around 1988-90)

The mission goes really well, so the next time IMF needs aerial support, they request the same team, and again, and again

Especially Maverick, known for his mavericky unortodox ways and impossible crazy stunts, builds a great rapport with the IMF team

Soon, if they need a solo aerial, support, it will be Mav. Ice gets more and more promotions and leadership responsibilities and the wingmen's paths start to diverge

There is this mission in like 1990 or 1991 that requires a pilot that can also do some ground work. Maverick gets some basic training in ground work and espionage and runs the mission. For safety reasons, he asks to be known as Ethan Hunt - no need to risk Bradley and Carole if he doesn't have to

The mission goes really well. So well in fact, that Mav is offered full training, so he can be a reserve agent for such missions. Mav had fun on the ground, so he agrees

And so the legend of Ethan Hunt starts

(Don't mistake me. Maverick is still part of Navy, he just gets loaned to IMF from time to time... at first. He still flies jets, and missions for Navy, and does the missions for IMF from time to time; then more for IMF and less for Navy, then again more for Navy, it varies depending on the year, okay?)

(There are also some years when he does nearly exclusively Navy work, think in the years long gaps between the movies)

(Meanwhile Iceman becomes Admiral. Since he already knows about IMF, as he DID fly those first couple missions for them, he is one of IMFs contact points in Navy. And later also Mav's handler in the Navy)

('Where has Maverick disappeared to this time, he was supposed to serve on USS Truman and he is clearly AWOL?' Asks one of the other admirals. 'Oh, on a mission somewhere, sorry, I can't tell you more, classified, you understand' claims Ice; meanwhile Ethan Hunt is saving the world for the nth time. This is also where Iceman's guardian angel reputation for covering for Maverick at Navy again and again comes from)

And so it last for years, through loss of the team in 1996 (MI:1), the romance and marriage with Julia, Ice's cancer, and so on. There might be some IceMav there too. There aren't that many changes from the Canon, not until the second TopGun, and not even during that one (it just worked out better that way, though the Intel for the operation WAS supplied by IMF)

I had this wild headcanon that Julia, after MI:3, changes her name to Sarah for her safety and goes to the US. There she meets Admiral Kazansky, and rest, as the say, is history. Though the surprise when one day Ethan, Maverick, comes through the door of the Kazansky household as if he lives there is, wow, awkward. I mean, IceMav, EthanJulia marriage, TomSarah marriage, its just too much. Fortunately, OT3 exist and all of those people are used to keeping relationships on the down low

Wow, this got so long already, and I barely got to the time travel itself. So the rest will be in a followup post, so that I don't lose the part I already wrote

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