Subject: [FFML][ranma][teaser]how many times has this been done?
From: metroanime@mindspring.com
Date: 3/1/1999, 10:07 PM
To:

just a really really weird idea i had, but since "all" my "ideas have
been done before by people who actually know how to write" i 
thought i'd throw this out and see if someone would just send me 
the URL so i can read and be amazed and enlightened.
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a concept i may have to somehow work into A Very Scary Bet,
if Jared-san doesn't use it...
            Wild Honey. char owned by various others. strange
kinda fusion come up with by metroanime@mindspring.com
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          A demon and a cat were sitting in a bar. Well, actually
the demon was "slumming" because he didn't have anywhere
else to go, and the cat wasn't a cat. But you knew that.

        "Damn Aesir," said the demon, adjusting his icepack.
"I ain't no 'hellspawn' and why do they gotta be so violent."

        "You tried to organize an anime club. In Asgard. Using
subtitled tapes of series nobody's heard of. THEN you started
fixing okonomiyaki!"

        "Damn Aesir," repeated the demon swigging deeply
of his drink.

        "Shouldn't you go easier on that stuff? You've had, what,
three so far?" The cat shook his head.

        "Nah. I don't have a lactose intolerance any more. Ed! 
Another Coney Island Special." Grey considered how only
this disreputable section of Asgard could have a soda jerk
who was a dark elf named Ed.

        Ed walked up and regarded the demon with amber
eyes. "I agree with Coyote here. You've had enough, sugar."
 
       Grey grumbled but couldn't bring himself to yell at
her. Edema had troubles too.
  
        "What YOU need is to get your mind off your troubles!"
Toltiir proclaimed in the manner which caused more prudent
beings to seek shelter. "Behold!"

 The mirrors behind the bar fogged up.

 "You better clean up when you're done, kitty
cat." Ed glared at the Trickster. 

 "Please, my dear Edema. I'm not certain other
mischievous spirits. Observe three scenes from the same
timeline, though at different times and locations."

 Demon and dark elf observed.

 A blackhaired boy who looked very familiar,
sitting in a bar with tear tracks running down his face.

 "Ranma Saotome," said the deity of 
mischief. "The darkest day of his life. The divorce has
just been finalized and he is Alone. And likely will be
for life and he knows it. The tender moments between
he and Akane grew further and further apart at the end,
till they stopped entirely."

 "Heavy," agreed the dark elf. "Is that Irish
looking guy he's talking with one of your avatars?"

 "Merely a shadow projected into his 
presence. Ranma is talking about all the mistakes he
made, and how he somehow turned into his own
father. Not bad in the Art, but not adept at Life. Or
this moment over here."

 Another mirror cleared, revealing a woman
in a scene out of a holocaust. A bombed out building,
and the red-haired girl cradled a young man's body to
her and silently wailed her grief to the Heavens.

 "The young man is named Chokkei Danbei,
and he has just been killed by an agent of a Darkness
known as Panther Zora. The woman is actually a 
superbly crafted, well, android is the common belief.
Her name is Honey Kisaragi."

 The third section of mirror cleared, revealing
a middle aged blonde girl, who watches the couples
passing her by in the mall, sipping on something clearly
alcoholic. A faint trail of wetness can be seen on her
cheek.

 "And here we have a girl named Minako
Aino, who went from being the lone champion of
justice, to a starring team-member, to someone who
was relegated to the second string, and finally to
a soldier in peacetime. And one unappreciated for
the most part. Even her cat left her, to go start a
family with the cat of a certain princess. She is now
more alone than she's ever been in her life."

 "Geez, that's all pretty dark. No offense,
Ed." The demon paused. "Ain't your style at all,
you usually TRY for happy endings, Puck."

 Toltiir looked a little annoyed at the
use of an old name, but let it pass. "Yes it is.
Now hold on while I turn up the sound."

 "I...just wish..." Ranma sighed, a
melancholy ache in his heart.

 "...that somehow, someway,...."
Honey told the still form in her arms.

 "...I could do it all over again," 
said Minako with a sniffle.

 "...and make things come out
better this time!" Ranma finished.

 "...that I could have made 
more of a difference," added Honey
as her own wounds began shutting her down.

 "That I'd been better at all that
stuff," Minako added with a vague gesture.

 "...that I could've had someone
who actually loved me. Not a dojo pledge,
not a dowry stealing, not any of this stupid
Law of Strength," grumbled Ranma. 

 The sound of Ed's blender suddenly
switching on nearly caused the demon to fall
of his seat. Ed was clutching her chest and 
glaring at the cat on the counter.

 The cat was grinning again and
turned a mad expression towards the two others.
"It's showtime!"
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 Genma knocked his son towards
the spring. The boy impacted the water.

 Then three bolts of lightning 
interrupted the Guide talking about Nyannichuan.
Each of the bolts struck the spring directly.

 A moment later, a redhaired girl
floated to the surface of the Spring.
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 Nabiki considered carefully the
small group before her. "A curse? A gift?
Which is it?"

 "Curse," said Ranma immediately.

 "Gift," declared Shampoo simultaneously.

 "Well, can you demonstrate for us?"
Akane was a little skeptical. Curses? In this day and
age?

 "Nabiki? Do you swear never to reveal
what I'm about to do here?"

 "Okay, Ranma." Nabiki smirked. "I'll
swear. Don't think that this'll get you out of this
engagement thing though, Daddy's pretty 
stubborn."

 "That's right. It couldn't be so bad
that it will stand in the way of the marriage."

 "You do it?" Shampoo blinked, then
grinned and bounced up and down a few times.
"Shampoo just love this! Yes!"

 "Honey Splash!" Ranma touched
the odd mark near the juncture of neck and
shoulder and suddenly seemed to be surrounded
by water that didn't touch anything else.

 For a moment, it seemed his clothing
had washed away, then his form was obscured
for a moment. When the moment had passed,
a busty redhaired woman twirled, clothing 
being formed out of the watery column, to cover
her nakedness.

 There were the sounds of jaws
dropping all over the living room. 

 "Ai no senshi, Wild Honey," the
woman proclaimed with a wink. 

 "Oh my," Kasumi summed up.

 "Yaaay! Do other one! Final
stage transformation that reason Great 
Grandmama send Shampoo with friend Ranma
to help defend Earth (and Amazon Village)
from evil bad guys!"

 "Venus Crystal Power! Make UP!"
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 i gotta admit, i hope someone sends
me the URL on this story. i really want to read
it.

oh, and i got this weird idea while watching a
download of the "Cutey Honey Flash" opening
animation and noting a superficial resemblence
between the blonde Honey-chan form and 
Minako as far as dressing styles/hair length...

gregg, who now returns control of your 
remote contro/d
/q