EGO TRIP
Writen & created by Sean D'anna 
Inspired by the works of Rumiko Takahashi, and various other Manga\anime
sourses.
AN ORIGINAL FICTION WORK.

APPOLOGY: IT seems that sertain similarities between my Fic Spirit withinpart
7 and I'll met by starlight have been pointed out to me. I personally had not
read this fic at the time I wrote the story but Aparrently a freind of mine
had and suggested some things (actually alot of little things.) to me while I
was planning the story out a while back. [I usually plan what I want to happen
ahead of time to prevent writers block. It helps if I have major plot points
and an ending planned ahead of time. It's my own personal remedy.]  I am no
longer speaking to this person. (If you know Marcus Simpson of Orange Park FL.
please smack him upside his fat assed head again for me. P.S. he hates South
Park and therefore must die.) In the original I had Shampoo running around in
a mask [one of those porceline jobs ala Vega.] and cloak W\out Cologne, the
suicide (By cliffs or any other means), the diferent Identity via Jusenkyo,
(Mousse had only a slightly different role. I did have her bonbori exsplode in
her face and that may have been what triggered the jerk.) I was amazed at the
(admittedly unusual) seeming creativity of the rather simple minded fool. At
any rate it seems like I'm trying to shift the blame...I am.  Even I realize
that these while very good excuses...Are still just that, Excuses. Therefore I
must take full responcibility and as a common courtesty I must extend a most
sincere appology to the writer of "Ill met by starlight" (I must admit it was
rather good.)  Once again Gomen nassai. 
the eternally humbled
CATBERT

Forward: Those of you who are reading my other fics fear not I have not
abandond you! they shall be finished (Spirit within, Separation Anxiety and
I'll finish that MST as soon as I get ch 2 of 'Try me for real some time.'
(Someone send it to me if its already been posted!) I also plan to start Ranm
wars:special edition next month.) In the first few parts of this story you
will notice alot of similarities between this and another comic...this changes
rather Quickly, to a certain extent this is a parody of alot of different
manga but often it returns to the one I know the most about. Alot of the
characters are combinations of anime Characters and real people. Some are just
combonations of anime characters and others are just original. One character
"Mike" who appears later in the story is based on a person who asked to appear
in my short comic strips that I wrote for private distribution amoung my
freinds durring high school. He had a thing for Mousse you'll understand the
jokes I use him for when I write him later on better if you know this trust
me. Is the only real person to even appear in the strip (or the story as of
yet.) (The best jokes will appear at one point or another in this fic.) This
is not a short fic it is going to be run like a comic strip running
indefinitely until I have finished. It will not be short. Could go on 30-40
chapters. Because I have around Twenty characters lined up,  and I'm not going
to rush to get them to appear in the story a problem alot of authors have that
often ruins a good story. (Kinda like the second MK movie or that suck ass
street fighter movie or any of the recent batman flicks.) I do however have an
ending planed and written up. But it takes place far enough in the future on
the timeline that I have alot of leway. This is a comedy although you might
not be able to tell just  yet. In the original strip I was the main character
but I changed that because I am much more wonderful than this guy...really.
Also I broke alot of copy right laws with the original strip, I'd like to keep
this legal (although I'll be skimming dangerously close with one character who
appears later.) You may also note that this story starts in the middle of
things (Sort of.) Kinda like the Manga it likes to emmulate. Past will be
exsplained for our hero, and his friends., So fear not False sceptics! and now
before I bore you to death...on with the show!

	Ryo Cage walked towards his new school with a board exspression on his face.
<Japan is boring.> he commented in english dryly. Beside him his friend Philip
Gardener looked at him oddly. "What were you exspecting?" he asked in
accentless japanese with his ever emotionless face. The two boys had been
training with Ryo's father for about six years now, and had traveled through
out China for the last three. "I don't know sailor fukus super powerfull
martial artist I could challenge, you know that sort of thing." replied his
freind in equally good Japanese. "Every one elses life isn't like a manga ya
know." said Phil to his friend. "Yea, just us." grumbled Ryo. "Don't be so
cynical Ryokaku-san." snorted Phil. "Don't call me that, and who are you to
talk you couldn't even throw a decent punch to save your life." Ryo growled at
his freind. "Not every one is to be a warrior Ryo science can be a powerful
tool as well, besides, We could have traveled through China twice as fast if
you didn't stop to save every damn village we passed through from some bandit
gang or evil monster, your direction problem alone was enough to slow us down
several months. Although those people did seem to take quite a shining to your
exsploits, especially in Hong kong." said Phil looking at his friend without
exspression. [shut up Phil.]grummbled Ryo in Mandarin. Suddenly they were
slammed against the wall as a blurr shot by. "Move!" said a feminine voice.
Ryo groaned as he watched from the man shaped crater in the wall as it shot
towards his school. A smile began to form on his lips. "Why can't We ever go
any place normal?" Grumbled Phil from his own hole as he pulled his face from
the wall.
	Ryoko Mano raced toward her school at breakneck speed as she growled  at the
crowd already gathered at the front gate. She stopped and looked at them for a
moment. "Argh! there are twice as many today I'll never get to class on time
if I have to go through them!!" she growled. She turned and walked along side
the wall that separated the school from the street. 
	"Please go out with me Akemi!" cried the boy before her. Akemi looked down on
the capitan of the wrestling team with calculating eyes. "As I said, only if
you defeat Ryoko Mano and humiliate her before the entire school." said Akemi
Shino as she smile her prettyest smile at the boy. He staired helplessly as
she flashed the same smile to the crowd of boys before her. "Honor or no she
must die!" said a happless victim of Akemi's charm.
	The crowd of boys staired in disbeleif as the wall of the schools courtyard
wall exsploded and Ryoko dashed through the hole and towards the school . The
boys watched stunned as she reached the edge of the crowd closest to the
school and plowed through it towards the door. "KYAAAAAAA!" cried one of the
boys as Ryoko slammed his nuts into his chin with her kick. The crowd snapped
out of its trance and swarmed the girl. "Damn it almost worked." she thought
as she turned on the boys. She turned and saw some thing extreamly strange.
Two gaijin boys were watching the fight from the gate, and one of them was
pearched on top of the gate, twenty feet in the air. She dismissed it and
turned towards Akemi with a look of anger on her face. Getting her in school
was no good, but out here...
	Ryo watched from his pearch atop the enterance gate to the school with a look
of amusement on his face. "Man, this is too familiar." he chuckled. "Better
make sure your dad didn't get you two engaged." commented Phil. "Very funny."
said Ryo to his friend. "She is good I'll have to challenge her." Said Ryo
watching intently.
	Ryoko reached her destination only to find that Akemi was gone, and the
captian of the wrestling team was where she was. He lunged at her and she
dodged him only to tackle the last of his men. Ryoko looked around. "Cowardly
bitch!" she growled.
	"Akemi Shino." said the girl from below him with her sweet smile. "I think
I'm getting Saccirine poisoning." thought Ryo sickly.  "Ryo Cage." returned
Ryo politely. "Tell me Ryo-san how did you get up there?" she asked in her
High pitched cute voice that unknown to her truely anoyed the hell out of Ryo.
Ryo jumped down. "Why?" he asked. Akemi was about to answer when an enraged
voice came from behind her. "I've got you at last you evil BITCH!" Ryo looked
at the very angry Ryoko and smiled. "Hello." he said as Akemi ran behind him
and squealed in her cutest voice. "Save me!" Ryo's teeth ground. "If she does
that again I'll throw her to this angry looking girl." he thought.
	Ryo  smiled and looked at the girl. "Out of my way little man." she growled.
"Well you don't get someone that pissed by not doing anythung to them." said
Ryo as he stepped away from the shocked Akemi. "H-how dare you?!!" she
screached. "Look here cutie I ain't got nothin to do with this." commented Ryo
as he walked toward the school. Akemi growled at him as Ryoko stepped forward
looking pissed. "Uh-oh." said Akemi. Ryoko felt something wrap around her
waist and she was lifted into the air. She turned her head to see the wresling
team capitan had her prepaired for a suplex as he grinned evily at her. Ryoko
shifted slightly and jammed her leg into his crotch, he groaned and fell over
dropping Ryoko in the prossess. She turned and saw Akemi was gone. "Yuo bitch
I'll kill you!!!" she screamed. Oh well, there was always tomorrow.
	"A gaijin with a Japanese name?" thought Ryoko with mild interest. "Must be a
military brat." she said to herself with a scowl. The new boy Ryo took his
seat with his freind Phil sitting on the other side of the room. Then a
strange thing happened, he turned and looked at her. "He's asessing me." Ryoko
thought as she returned his gaze. It was not a sexual gaze they gave each
other but that of a warrior analyzing his opponent. He smiled an almost
predatory smile and turned to face the front of the class. "He could mean
trouble." she thought coldly 
	Durring lunch a large group of boys gathered around Ryo looking angrily at
him. "Akemi-chan didn't apreciate what you did gaijin." Growled the largest
boy who we recognise as the wrestling team capitan. The gaijin looked pretty
average only in reasonable shape and taller than most every one else because,
well if you've ever been to Japan you'll understand. Other than that he looked
rather normal. He smiled at the boy and coolly answered. "She'll get over it."
	Ryoko saw the gaijin boy walk from around a corner normaly deserted durring
lunch periods with a smile on his face. She walked over to investigate, and
stopped cold, her face hardening. He had easily beated several of the largest
boys in her school, badly. She could see that these boys would not be wakeing
up for several hours, this boy was very dangerous, If Akemi got to him she
doubted if she could handle him and the rest of her little fan club if they
ever decided to combine thier efforts.
	The next morning Ryoko arrived at school an hour early. Only to find  Ryo
standing by the gate. "Ryoko Mano, I challenge you." he said with a grin.
Ryoko stood stairing at him with cold eyes. "So she got to you." she said.
"What?" said Ryo looking confused. "Do you really think Akemi will go out with
you if you beat me gaijin?" she spat. "Super Hyper Saccirine girl? go out with
me? My teeth hurt just thinking about that." said Ryo looking at her oddly.
Ryoko got a puzzled look on her face. "Then why?" she asked looking confused.
"To test our skills. This is a request, if you decline I'll leave you be girl.
Don't worry about that." said Ryo gazing at her intently. "All right...I
accept your challenge." said Ryoko smiling a little after a moments thought.
"I know I can beat him alone." she thought confidently.




part 2:the challenge.

	Ryo looked at his opponent carefully assessing her form and found he didn't
recognise the style. "Must be a family style." he thought inwardly. Ryoko
looked at the boy standing in place with his arms behind him and rushed him,
her punch caught him in the gut causeing him to bend foreward quickly she
brought her knee into his chin with a satisfying poping sound as she poped the
joints in his neck. Ryo looked at her casually from the ground. "I felt
that...she is pretty strong." he mentaly noted as he calmly got up. If Ryoko
was suprised that he rose so quickly after a blow like that she didn't show
it. He took a couple of casual swings and hit her a few times lightly. "He's
testing my limits." she thought coldly. She turned and scowled at him. "If you
aren't going to fight..." she started but was interupted as he uppercut her
sharply, lifting her into the air and throwing her back several feet. She
turned and swept at his feet as she got up but he was already in the air.
Quickly she rolled away as he landed where she had been leaving a large
crater. "Damn he's strong." she grumbled to herself noticing the crowd that
had gathered around the battle. "I gotta end this now..." she thought.
	Ryo looked as his opponent rolled away, he landed creating a crater about
three feet in diameter she crouched behind him for a moment and he turned to
face her. Suddenly she cried out "RYU DANGAN!" and vanished before him, he
felt his head exsplode in pain. as he reeled back he saw her appear behind him
in a flying kick stance. "A chi attack?" he thought as he hit the ground. 
	Ryoko began to walk away when she heard something impossible "A chi attack? I
guess that means I dont have to go easy on you then." said the boy. She turned
in disbeleif "Noone can withstand that attack." she said dumbly as he stood
there with a large bruise bleeding over the right side of his face but other
wise showing no sign of ever being hit. Ryo grinned as she swung at him only
to miss and feel a hard kick to the gut. "Damn." she muttered, and prepaired
for her next attack.
	Ryo watched her stance carefully, "Not to early." he told himself. Ryo
watched as she once again called out. "RYU DANGAN!" and moved her leg ever so
slightly..."NOW." he said as he moved to the side.
	"He dodged it?!! she thought dumbly as she had not felt the kick connect,
impossible it moves faster that a bullet." she said as she turned to face him.
he stood unmoving in a strange stance. He looked at her and she saw his eyes
glowing red. "What?" she said looking at him coolly. "FLAME-" he said as a
small light formed in his hands. "Impossible..." she said. "-WAVE-" he
continued as the light grew and began to swirl around like fire. Her father's
voice ecchoed in her head. "Such attacks are impossible created for for fools
and games chi can only be used to improve your own body and movements..." it
said she didn't know wheather to laugh or cry she knew she was about to lose.
"-BEAM!" finished Ryo as he released the almost solid looking coloumn of
energy at her. She felt the energy seem to rip her body apart as blackness
engulfed her. as she drifted away her grandmother's voice  told her the words
her father never seemed to understand "Nothing is impossible."
	Ryo watched as Ryoko fell to the ground her closthes slightly charred and
steaming and her skin very lightly burned in a few places. Phil spoke up "You
old softie you let her live." he said in a very rare quip. "I wasn't trying to
kill her Phil." said Ryo looking anoyed. Some of the boys snapped out of their
trances after seeing the seemingly impossible and saw Ryoko lying on the
ground. "She's down get her!" said one of the boys. Ryo stood betewwn the
slowly advancing and growing crowd. "You'll have to go through me." he said
allowing a small ball of chi to form in his hands to make him look more
threatening. The crowd backed away slowly with looks of fear and anger mixed
in the eyes of the boys. Their dreams of a date with the cutest girl in school
destroyed beccause this boy would not let them near the downed girl. 
	In the clinic Ryo looked at Ryoko as she awoke and smiled. "Well now how is
my newest rival doing?" he asked her as she groggily stood up. "I'm alive?"
she asked. "You should have warned me that those idiot boys would try some
thing if I beat you." said Ryo dryly. "I had to guard the clinic."
	"Ryo is it? You realise that you have made a new enimy today. Honor demands
that I cannot rest until I defeat you, even if it means your death." said
Ryoko coldy to him. "I know. But I sugggest you rest and recover over the
weekend first. I don't think your in any condition to fight even those
cowardly boys now." said Ryo as he walked out. Phil looked at her calmly. "You
should be able to make it home safely, he has made it clear what will happen
if anyone attacks you today." he told her. "But I am his enemy now, why does
he help me?" she asked him. "Although it does not always seem so he has, some,
honor." said Phil as he too left the room. "Ryoko looked out at the feild. "I
will defeat you." she said angrily.
	At the Mano Dojo Ryoko looked at her father with shame in her eyes. "So you
have been beaten." her father stated. "Yes." she replied sternly. "Will you
challenge him again?" he asked looking at her oddly. "Of course." she said
coolly. Her father smiled at her, "How did he defeat you?" he asked. "With a
teceneique I've never seen before." Replied Ryoko. "Can you show me?" he
asked. "No." said Ryoko. "Why?" asked her father. "Because it was impossible."
replied Ryoko. Her father looked at her but said nothing. "For the honor of
our school I pledge I will defeat this boy." said Ryoko bitterly. Her father
looked at her again with another strange look. " Don't take this too far
Ryoko." he said as he mussed her hair and went back to his paper.
TO BE CONTINUED...