Here I go again.
Well since it is time for the second revenge fics I thought I would 
throw in my two cents. C+C welcome, I guess.


	More than One way to skin a cat
	by
	John Trombley
	(Trom)

	There I was just hacking away on the keyboard.  After reading a 
couple of fics I was also inspired to write one also.  I was all alone, 
my cousin just moved out and everyone else was doing what they did.  I 
myself had no idea, what they did, none of my business.   The dog was 
getting a little rowdy, so I put Bear out.  Sara and Kitter Kat were 
sleeping somewhere probably on my bed getting it all dirty.
	I was kind of stumped during an emotional part of the fic, (I 
have this problem with emotional stuff).  Outside the dog started 
barking, which was strange since there wasn't any vehicles coming into 
the drive way.  So I just blew it off. Until there was a knock on the 
door.
	Boy I must have been spacing out of something usually no one 
gets that close to the house with out my hearing them.  It kind of 
spooked me, so that much that I fell over in my chair.
	Going to the door I flipped on the outside lights and saw a 
couple of Asian guys.  One was taller than the other and looked like to 
be Chinese wearing a white long shirt top with coke bottle thick glasses 
perched on top of his head covered with flowing long black hair.  While 
the other seemed to be Japanese, were a bandana keeping his unkempt hair 
out of his eyes. He also had on his back a way to large backpack.  
(Having spent time the Orient during my tour in the Army, gave me a 
better understanding of the small differences between different Asian.) 
I knew who they were right off.
	I mean after hours of watching the Ranma ½ videos as well read 
many of the fanfics as well as wrote some.  Mousse and Ryouga, two of 
the most misunderstood characters of that particular series, at least in 
my opinion.  OK you may think that I was acting a little calm having two 
animated individuals on my porch.  Well I guess you don't really know 
me.  In fact I was very happy, I mean I thought I had finally snapped.  
Cool, I always knew it would happen some day, I was just waiting for it 
to happen.
	Seeing how it was Ryouga and Mousse, one practically blind and 
the other had the directional sense of hog to slaughter (please excuse 
the pun).  I wondered how they found me.  Oh sure I make no claim to be 
hiding out or anything, its just that not to many people know where I 
live and I don't usually advertise.  Oh well time to have some fun, for 
there's probably one or two reasons for them to be visiting me.  The 
only real reason is for that one fic that I wrote, for all the others 
are kind of mild except for a few that didn't even have those two in it. 
 Either way if they were here to help me, well then whoops. 
	Seeing on how it is close to Halloween, I get to try out my 
surprises a little earlier than expected.  You see this year I wanted to 
try out something I found in a magazine.  It didn't really cost me all 
that much but now it would well worth it.  
	"Which way to John Trombley's house?" Ryouga asked,
	"Well truth be told your about sixty miles south of it." I 
replied, I hoped they wouldn't leave to soon, I guess I'll have to 
insult some more smarter anime characters next time.  "Although I don't 
know why you guys would be looking for my father."
	Mousse dropped his glasses onto his face and looked at me more 
closely.  "John Trombley doesn't have any children."  A guess that was a 
smug look on his face, I've never really seen one before.  
	"How would you know?" I shot back.
	"We have a extensive file on one John E Trombley, it helps to 
have Nabiki Tendo around to help find our targets."  He had a slight 
smile on his face, so I guess he was pleased with himself.
	"John Trombley Sr. or Jr."  By now Ryouga was really confused.  
It also shocked Mousse, I guess his information did not have everything.
	"Uhm, hmm, let me check." Mousse mumbled, with that he pulls out 
a slim portfolio out of his sleeves.  Now that really depressed me, I 
mean it wasn't even two inches thick.  Sure I'm only 22, still you'd 
think my life would be bigger than that. 
	"Lets see, John Trombley, five foot seven inches, one-hundred 
and eighty pounds, strait black hair, Brown eyes-"
	"Hey! My eyes are hazel." I got a good look from Ryouga on that.
	"They look brown to me." he simply stated.
	"That's because its dark out." With that I flipped the light 
switch, "See?"
	"Oh Ya." he replied.  With that I kind of got frustrated and 
snatch the folder from Mousse's hands and started reviewing the file.
	OK, lets see here.  Graduated from high school 1993 three days 
later joined the Army.  Note that was quite chunky going in, the 
military was good to me in that aspect at least.  Hmm, Yea, Korea, got 
into Role Playing games then.  How the heck did they find that out?  
Correspondence classes with The School of Wicca, did not finish.  I am 
still a little upset at that.  Yada, Yada, Yada. Advanced brown-belt in 
the Korean Art, Moo Gong Do. 
	Ok they got most of the stuff right although not the important 
stuff, stuff that not even my family knows.  To bad for them.
	"Oops, sorry guys come on in." I invited them in, I'm not 
usually that rude to people, well actually I'm worse but in a different 
way.  You don't come across with an attitude with two people who could 
whip the tar out of you without breaking a sweat. 
	"Alright enough of these games, I guess you found me, but call 
me Trom."  Its the new Internet name I'm using, I'm ashamed to say I 
just finally figured out how to do that.
	"Trom?, why Trom?" I guess they weren't expecting me to be 
taking this so well.  I mean fictional characters in the real world?  
They don't know me very well do they?  Well time to start playing the 
good host, besides Bear started barking outside again.
	"Can I get you something drink? Orange juice? Iced tea? Water?" 
That one caused them both to start looking weary.  How many times have 
they been trick by that I don't know but it looks like they finally 
learned.  With that I walk into the kitchen to get the dog a bone to 
shut him up.  Just as soon as they passed under the entry way, I clapped 
my hands twice.
	With the sound of a mechanical whirl and a scream followed by a 
crash.  I looked back to see Ryouga on top Mousse, who was wondering 
what the heck was going on.  Still that mechanical whirling sound as 
they glance up to see my Dropping Spider readied for its next victim.  I 
couldn't help it, it was a little quirk of my, I loved to scare people. 
 I had gotten that spider a year ago and still haven't gotten over the 
looks on peoples faces when it comes at their faces.
	"Hahaahaaha!" for all I knew they were here to do something to 
me so I might as well have my fun while I can.  I started laughing even 
harder when they tried to get untangled from each other.  Still I was 
curious on which world they came from which should be easy to figure out 
once we got to the living room and my computer.

	Stepping over them as they argued among themselves still trying 
to get loose.  It can be quite a disadvantage for Mousse to have all 
those weapons on their person.  I then sat down at my computer, opened a 
cabinet to palm something.
	"Enough of this foolishness." Mousse stated trying to give me an 
evil look before Ryouga turned him around to face me.  Just as they were 
going to cross the threshold into the living room, I told them to stop.
	"Why?" they both suddenly looked ready for anything, I guess I 
kind of shocked them.  For I opened up my hand to show them what I was 
holding.
	"What's that? A weapon?" Ryouga braced for an attack.
	"No, just a remote." I replied with a smirk.
	"A remote? For what?" This was from Mousse.	
	"Oh nothing special just this." with that I pushed a button.  
Suddenly both of them were drenched with water.  Did I tell you I love 
to startle people.  Remote squirt guns, I love it.  Even though my house 
mates do not.  In front of me stood two young women, one with white 
feathery hair and wings on her back.  The other still had dark hair but 
also little piggy ears and a small cute piggish nose.  That did it.  I 
knew which fic they came from.  While not my favorite one, it was really 
the only one when I did something to the Ranma ½ characters.  ‘Life's a 
*itch, and then some.'  
	"So, how are the kids doing?"  If they were looking daggers at 
me before, now they were looking javelins.  I guess right there and then 
Ryouga-chan would have bashed my head in if not for Mousse-chan being 
there.  For she growled and tried to lunge at me.
	"No, killing him would be to easy on him." Mousse-chan replied. 
 Again the evil smirk.
	"Mousse I can understand being mad at me. But why you Ryouga?"  
As if I didn't know.
	"Why?!" he screamed at me. "You ask me why after you have me 
make love to Ranma and Happosai! Happosai!  Then you get me pregnant, 
stuck in this body for nine-months, the pain of childbirth!" OK I guess 
I could understand that last part.  Still, I thought it was a good idea, 
sue me.
	"What?" I replied with fake shock. "That you finally got to 
defeat Ranma and Kill Happosai.  Making you the toughest fighter in 
Nerima, possibly the world.  You have two loving children and a whole 
bunch of kids that think of you as an Uncle or Aunt."   Now I really 
start laying it down thick.  "You did even better than if you had 
married Akane, your all very good friends now.  You all love each other 
more than anyone else could. Your no longer lonely and when you get lost 
they're there to look after your kids.  So I guess you owe me a debt of 
gratitude." I finished smugly.
	I guess he got kind of speechless at that.  That was until he 
got angry again, figures trying to use logic on him was like trying to 
put three quarts of water in a two quart canteen.  I kind knew that 
wasn't going to work.  So sue me, I'm taking a public speaking class in 
school.
	"Well so what are you going to do to me?" I asked kind of bored 
like.  "If you know anything about me, then you know I would welcome any 
physical changes you could make to me."  I guess that kind of stumped 
them.  From reading past revenge fics I noticed that the standard 
procedure was to dump Nyannican or what ever its call.  Of course seeing 
as I compounded their curses they would also dump some kind of drowned 
animal water on me as well.
	"Or you could beat the crap out of me." I suggested helpfully.  
Now I really got them looking at me strangely.  "Come on take a couple 
of shots, just to let off some steam."  Taunting them on.  I could do 
this all night.
	Just then my cat Sara deciding to come in the living room.  
Seeing as there were new people in the house she did what came naturally 
to her.  She hissed at and then scratched Ryouga's ankle before sinking 
her teeth in.  Kami, how I loved that cat. Don't get me wrong it took me 
quite some time to get her like that, she even attacks dogs.  
	"Yow!" Ryouga-chan screeched before grabbing her by the neck and 
picking her up.  Ooh, not that got me upset.  They could do anything 
they wanted to me.  I'd probably even enjoy it being done to me.  But 
hurt my pets, grrrr.
	Mousse-chan noticed my reaction and smiled.  "So, you don't like 
that do you?"he then looked at Ryouga-chan, "why don't you break its 
neck, Ryouga."  From the grin Ryouga sprouted I think he was going to.
	"Do that, and I'll kill you." I said, in a cool calm tone.
	"Oh really? Do you think that you could take us both on?" Mousse 
replied smugly.
	"You miss understand me." I began.  Even if I could kill you 
now, you would just come back to life in some other fic.  No, no, that 
wouldn't do at all."   It was then that I got the look on my face when I 
start thinking those bad thoughts.  
	"To really kill you, no, destroy you.  I would have to wipe you 
from existence.  Being as your anime characters, kind of like gods, as 
long as someone knows about you, you'll still exist.  That wouldn't do 
at all."  
	"How can you destroy us." Ryouga-chan asked, "Like you said 
someone else would just call us forth from the minds of our creators."  
Huh? Since when did Ryouga talk like that, I guess my mind is slipping 
again.
	"Oh it would take a while, but I could do it." I began.  "Hmm, 
well I guess I probably should start at the top.  I wonder how long it 
would take me to save air fair to Japan?"  Their faces became even more 
bewildered.  "It shouldn't take me long to find what's her name 
Takahashi, I think.  Don't you just love copyright laws?"  Again the 
blank looks.  It makes it easier to found people, of course then I would 
have to find anybody who even worked on the Ranma Universe wether Anime 
or Manga." 
	"What would you do when you found them?" Mousse asked.  I just 
looked at him like he was stupid.
	"Why kill them of course." I stated as if it was obvious.  They 
looked even more shocked.  "Of course I couldn't stop there.  I would 
have to go to Canada and take out Viz Communications.  Heck I might as 
well find everybody who are on the ending credits to the videos.  Just 
to make sure.  You wouldn't believe how easy it is cause a buildings to 
have accidents. You know fires, faulty outlets.  What if for some reason 
all the doors were barred while it was happening, during a recording 
session.  Oh the loss of life." I mocked them.
	"It wouldn't be that easy that kill us off, there are still the 
other fanfic authors." Mousse- chan put out defiantly. 
	"Oh don't worry, I'd get to them eventually.  Don't you love the 
new computer age, I'm sure it wouldn't take to long to find a computer 
geek who's into viruses.  I'm sure they would look forward to the 
challenge to create a virus to shut down the Internet and everything on 
it."  I continued on pointedly ignoring them.  "It'll be fun to hunt 
them down. One by one.  Either way one of us will die.  You and I'll 
keep my word, or me and I'll be finally allowed the peace of death.  
That is until I'm reincarnated in my next life.  I think I'd like to be 
a tree then."
	They just looked at me.  Then Ryouga-chan exclaimed, "You would 
kill all those people over a cat?!"
	Hey you have your priorities and I have mine. Besides, do you 
expect me to break my word to you? I mean I like you guys to much to do 
that."  That got an even bigger shock from the two.
	"If you like us, then why did you do this to us?" Mousse-chan 
asked bewildered  
	"Because that's what fanfic authors do. Would you rather fade 
into limbo waiting for those guys at Viz communication and in Japan to 
make another Anime, when you got all these authors giving you all the 
life and adventure anyone could want?"	
	 "I don't know I still we should hurt him somehow." Ryouga-chan 
scowled "I don't believe he would do all that."
	"Personally I wish you wouldn't, I love that cat.  Still it 
would give me a purpose in life.  A goal to look forward to." I replied.
	"Well you think I should?" that he put to Mousse-chan.
	".........................."
  
	What happened?  I guess you'll find out, one way or another.