Subject: [FFML] Re: [Ranma/Matrix][draft] [C&C] Interface
From: "Kevin D. Hammel" <kevinsff@pacbell.net>
Date: 10/29/1999, 7:52 PM
To: stylusx@earthlink.net
CC: Fanfic Mailing List <ffml@fanfic.com>

C&C would be -GREATLY- appreciated. Be brutal!

Sorry, I can't do brutal on  such an interesting idea as this.

-------Actual story begins now.

Interface - A Ranma 1/2 / Matrix  Fanfic crossover
Authored By XStylus (Troy Alan Williams)

Begun on: 10-25-99
First draft completed on: Unfinished
Final draft completed on: Unfinished
Revisions made on: N/A

Notes to RAAC/TASS: This may be categorized as a one-shot
story. There shall be no forthcoming chapters or side-stories.

The Matrix is a copyrighted production of Warner Brothers Inc.
The Ranma 1/2 series and it's characters are the creation of
Rumiko Takahashi. I assume no ownership to any of the characters
listed herein. No infringement or disrespect for their creativity is
intended. Consider this story a parody.

Send comments to stylusx(@)earthlink.net.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

<...>
     Downtown Nerima Japan, early morning. Trinity parked
her motorcycle alongside the wall to the Tendo dojo. The doors to
it's entrance were wide open, so she took a small step inside. No-

Important rule: It's is a contraction of "IT IS". The
posessive form is its. Strange... but true.

<...>
     Trinity's dark glasses concealed her reaction, but had she
not been wearing them her eyes might have fell out in shock. She

                                       fallen

<...>
     "He let Akane to discover my new hiding place for some of

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her unmentionable treasures that I kindly appropriated just recently!
That's what!" Happosai raged.

Good, Ranma's developing SOME concern at last...

     "Dare I ask, where might that be?" Genma inquired.

     "Ranma's underwear drawer." he answered.

Doh! Spoke too soon!

     "Master, how could you do this to my poor son?!" Genma
yelled.

<...>
     Happosai, in one swift move consumed the entire contents
of the tea kettle, grabbed Genma's wrist, hurled the tea kettle into

Perhaps the reader realizes it's a tea kettle, making tea's 
second apearance in the sentance unneeded.

<...>
     "Pretty lady!!!" Happosai exclaimed, seeing Trinity standing
at the front entrance. Trinity caught a glance of the small piece of
living beef jerky, and then he disappeared. Strangely, she now felt

Living Beef Jerky... Now THAT is a new description of Happi
(good one!) Though it MIGHT be SQUID jerky...

<...>
     "Hello, this is Neo. Sorry I can't come to the phone right
now Trinity, but if you'll leave your message, the time you called,
and a few choice words reminding me of how much you love me,
I'll gladly return your call at my earliest convenience, or until you
calm down, whichever comes last. -BEEP!-"

Now... was he REALLY not there OR did he use his control of the
Matrix to EMULATE an answering machine?

<...>
     1.00 seconds. Man is incapacitated and collapses to the
ground. After a moment, it abandons the body it possesses and
morphs back to the form of it's original owner, an office secretary,
still unconscious with a pulped hand.

Frightening point... Could the Agent have taken over Akane
or Ranma?

<...>
     "...I know it's their choice, but they just attacked an agent!
They're dead if they remain, no matter how good they are. Forget
that blue pill."

Hmmmm... Interesting, But it IS what they would have to do.
Now the obvious question, is Moko Takabisha PART of the
program OR an expression of Ranma's innate ability?

<...>
     "What is the matrix, you ask? Look around. There it is. It is
the world around you. It is everything. It is the wool pulled over
your eyes to mask you from the truth."

Hmmm... to mask you from the truth OR just: to mask the truth?

<...>
     "Not so fast. I'm being totally honest here, so I must tell
you that there's no turning back once we do this. I offer you one
last chance. Take the blue pill, and life as you know it continues.
Take the red pill, and I show you just how big of a nightmare
you've been living, and what you can do about it." Morpheus held
a pair of each pill out to them.

I see... So he DOES pull the 'ol pill gambit... But the pill
IS required for extraction.

<...>
     "Think of them as video game henchmen using cheat
codes." Neo stated.

Now THAT'S a nice metaphor.

<...>
     "Not really, but hey, whatever it takes to get my life back
to an acceptable norm..." Ranma replied.

Boy those are BIG words for Ranma. Maybe to get some of the
craziness out of my... OUR lives.
(couldn't help myself. These too seem in love, though.)

<...>
     In a swift move, Trinity strapped a thick restraining belt
over Ranma's torso.

     "Let me GO!" Ranma yelled.

     "Got a lock!" Neo announced.

     Ranma flailed his arms around trying to grip -anything- that
he could use as a weapon. He knocked the glass of water,
shattering the glass and spilling the liquid on him. No-one noticed
Ranma change forms, all of them more concerned with their task at
hand.

     "Shit! I lost him!" Neo exclaimed.

Now THIS is a fine kettle of fish... Did the target just SWITCH?
But if it did, how did the pill switch? Also, if it did, it
might mean that the 'curse' actually involves TWO people.
(I HOPE not... In scenarios where Ranma is split, the girl part
 usualy gets the short end of the stick, thus I HOPE this is not
 the case here. I seriously doubt Ryouga and Genma involve a
 panda and a piglet, for example.)

Please IGNORE the babbling! We now return to your regularly
scheduled C and C...

"Wait... got him again!
What the...? What's up with these readings?"

Hmm... does the curse exist outside the Matrix?

<...>
     "What?" Ranma weakly inquired.

     "I just thought... uhm... that you were a guy."

Well he is... maybe.

~~~

     The walls... a sickly yellow with a greenish hue. These were
the walls of an interrogation room. The table... stainless steel, with
firm utilitarian chairs around it that were rough, but ergonomically
comfortable. At them, a boy sat opposite of another man who was
wearing a lab coat. Unlike most lab coats which were usually white,
this one was a mysterious dark grey, and since when does a
scientist wear dark sunglasses indoors?

Because they are Agents, perhaps?

<...>
     Ryoga snatched the pill and analyzed it carefully.

Too bad he doesn't have the Mercury Computer...
Darn, wrong Matrix crossover.

     "Do we have a deal, Mister Hibiki?"

     Ryoga inspected the pill further. "You know... I know this
is too good to be true. I know that when I put this in my mouth my
mind is telling me 'This is it! I'm gonna be cured!' After a mess of
false miracles, you know what I realize?" Ryoga questioned.

     The agent patiently awaited the forthcoming answer as
Ryoga ingested the pill,

DANGER Hibiki Ryouga! DANGER!

and then splashed himself with the ice
water.

     "Miracles really do happen!" Ryoga ecstatically concluded.

     "Then we have a deal."

     "When do we start?" Ryoga inquired.

     "We're already done." the lab-coated agent said.

So, what does THIS mean?

~~~
<...>
     "The machines must be getting sloppier than I thought."
Neo mused.

Yeah, that IS pretty lame... ;^)

<...>
     "What happened?!" Ranma mocked "Something -ain't-
happening, that's what happened!" she exclaimed as she dumped a
pot of hot water on herself.

Yep, they SAID they were gonna rescue you but they REALLY
Just splashed ya with Herb's ol' bucket!

Now THIS is an interesting development.

<...>
     "I will NOT calm down! I... I will... not... ooogg..."

     "Easy now sweets..." Tank said as he caught Ranma as she
fell unconscious..

ellipsis is 3 dots ...

     "WHAAAAAAAAT?!" Akane screamed from another room.

     "Enough of this. Tank, load them up." Morpheus ordered.

~~~

     "Ooog..." Ranma woke from his unconsciousness to find
himself on a comfortable bed, and back in his male form.

Okay, scratch the two body theory, this is a detached
Matrix, as I understand it. So, I guess Ranma IS a
girl... Interesting concept.

<...>
     "Morpheus, what in the hell is happening? Have I gone
crazy?"

You, you've gone sane.

     "(Sigh) We have a lot to talk about."

Boy, ain't THAT the truth! This is an interesting plotline.

~~~
<...>
     "That's a pretty rough way of looking at it, Akane. Would
you rather live in a fake world, or would you rather fight for a real
one?"

Trinity MIGHT point out that she's a soldier too.

     "My friends... my family..." Akane muttered.

     "They're not your real family, Akane."

     "HOW DARE YOU!" Akane fumed.

     "It's the truth, Akane! If I were to free them out of the
matrix right now and do a DNA test it would show that you're
totally unrelated to them. They're all random souls grouped to form
a family. It's all part of the illusion. None of it is real, Akane.
NONE of it." Trinity elaborated.

But, in a sense they ARE her family. Kasumi, Nabiki, and Soun
would still have the same feelings for her. The attachment they
felt is REAL, regardless of whether they are a biological
family. Kasumi was still there to patch up little Akane's
scraped knees, etc... even if only in the program.
Now HERE's an interesting question/idea are Cologne
and Happosai REAL or constructs?

     "None of it... none of it... not even my fiance..."

     "Fiance?"

     "Ranma's my... my fiance." Akane tearfully muttered.

     "Oh my god..."

     "AND ALL THIS TIME HE WAS A GIRL DAMNIT!
Why couldn't the damn machine have gotten THAT right?!"

Well the machine DID get it right. It made you fall
for, it seems, another girl.  I wonder, was Genma
a construct? One of a series of 'parental units' to
mold the excess population of females into
men? (or a crude parody thereof). clearly the Genma
model needs a (lot) of fine-tuning!

~~~
<...>
     Morpheus was silent for a moment.

     "Akane?" Morpheus inquired.

     Ranma nodded.

     "I see. That changes everything."

Indeed it does. I hope the Nebacadnezar has INTERNAL
armorplate!

~~~

     "You love her, right?"

     "Y-yea..." Akane nervously answered.

     "I grew up in the matrix, and I remember how strange a
woman in love with another woman was, but here in the real world
love is rare, too rare to let 'details' spoil it." Trinity explained.

     "But... if Ranma and I still... I mean... what will everyone
think?"

Yep, it's what others think... not what you or Ranma does,
right. But then that IS how it is...

     "They'll think that you two are the luckiest people alive."

Probably.

~~~

     "You mean that?" Ranma inquired.

     "Every word. I envy you, Ranma. When you left the matrix
you were able to take with you the only real thing you had. Your
love."

     A tear trickled down Ranma's cheek.

     "Are you ready to let go?"

~~~

     "Yes." Akane answered.

     "Are you ready to tell her that you still love her?" Trinity
asked.

~~~

     "Yes!" Ranma and Akane both shouted as they awoke
from the construct.

Oh no! it ends HERE, of all places??
I really like the last few scenes...
Good Luck!


Kevin D. Hammel
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kevinsff@pacbell.net
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