Subject: [FFML] [c&c]tap out
From: Esa Karjalainen
Date: 6/7/2000, 9:52 AM
To: ffml@fanfic.com


<snip>
...Ookay, that was so OOC that it isn't funny...
read on.

Akane watched in fear as her fiancée trained with Genma. In the six
months since they had last seen Ryoga, Ranma had become increasingly
abusive towards her. >Not physically, but verbally, and to the point where
his sheer presence frightened her.

So... it's not mutually abusive?
I can sorta see that, with this Akane from Twilight Zone.
Not that Ranma would act the way he does if Akane didn't but...


Then there came a shout. "SAOTOME! I CHALLENGE YOU!"

Ranma turned, "Dammit Kuno, didn't that beating I issue to you last week
knock and sense into you? And what the heck are you doing out of the
hospital so early, it takes more than a week to recover from a broken
back...."

...An Ill met by starlight Ranma?


Ranma laughed out loud. "Like that'll ever happen. Deal, Ryoga. Prepare
to die."

...


Ranma assumed his usual loose fighting stance. He expected Ryoga to
charge in blindly, like he usually did, but was surprised as Ryoga assumed
a defensive stance.

"This is new," Ranma said.

"You'll find I'm just full of surprises." Ryoga dove down, and floored
Ranma with a textbook leg-sweep. 

Pheh. Leg-sweeps can't touch Ranma, for the simple reason that he can
evade them by going UP.
RL humans can't manage multi-hundred feet leaps.

Ranma 'uffed' as he landed. Ryoga followed up by locking Ranma into a
kneebar.

A style like this WOULD fit Ryoga. I can't see anyone getting out of his
grip, well, mebbe Ranma.

"Oh, I see. Pig-boy starts watching a bunch of Ultimate Fighting tapes
and suddenly thinks he's got the key to beating me." As he said this,
Ranma rolled onto his back and used his free leg to kick at Ryoga's head.
UFC has more rules than usual Ranma-Ryoga brawls, So Ranma has an
advantage here. (Not a *huge* advantage though, since they usually fight
pretty fairly.
well, in Canon, anyways.


"Something like that." Ryoga caught Ranma's free leg and flipped him up
into the guard position.

"What the hell is this?" Ranma struggled to kick Ryoga off, but couldn't
with his massive strength. Ryoga wailed away with fists to Ranma's
head. It was all Ranma could do to cover-up.

'This was impossible,' Ranma thought, 'Ryoga was beating him..' And
there was very little he could do about it. Almost all of Ranma's
offensive attacks required the opponent to be on his feet and standing at
least a foot away, not pinning him down and wailing away at his face.
...Aand someone *has* offensive movements for that situation?

Finally, Ranma was able to roll onto his side, but Ryoga simple wrapped
his hands around Ranma's gi and started to choke him out with it.

"Tap out, Ranma. It's the only way to end this aside from you passing
out or dying."

RANMA:"MOUKO TAKABISHA!"
Lotsa space.
Then again, the divergence was before that storyline.

"Hghff," was all Ranma could respond.

Ryoga finally let up and began applying blows to Ranma's left
shoulder. Ranma shoved him off and tired for a spinning back punch. Ryoga
grabbed his arm and >applied a jujigatame (cross-arm breaker).
He caught his arm? mid-movement?
We've replaced Ryoga with a saiyajin, let's see if anyone notices...

Anyways, in this situation, Ranma, well, canon-ranma would've had the
upper hand again. 


Ranma struggled to his feet and slammed Ryoga against the Dojo wall,
trying to yank him off his arm.

Umm... he has two legs and the other arm free, and he's standing up?
And Ryoga's still winning?

Ryoga responded by working his legs around Ranma's back, then quickly
cinching his arms around Ranma's throat and shoulders.

Aand how did he do that? Ranma's main asset IS, as Ryoga put it, he's very
good at running away. Also, most of the time, Ranma fights
defensively. Also, Ranma prefers punching to kicking, and punches are
*nasty* against grapplers.

Akane watched in amazement 
as does the audience.
as Ryoga applied a triangle choke. Ranma fell forward, struggling for
air. Finally, it was too much. Ranma tapped out
We've given Ranma tranquilizers, let's see if anyone notices.


Ryoga released the hold and collapsed in exhaustion. He'd won, he'd
finally beaten Ranma Saotome. And he'd made him tap. 

Ryoga? Exhausted, after such a short and easy fight?



Ryoga got on his knee and took her hand. He gulped slightly, this was
far more scarier than facing down a Gracie or fighting Ranma.

"Akane Tendo, if you're free Saturday night, would you like to have
dinner with me?"

Akane smiled again, tears in her eyes. "I'd love to."



The End

*****

Author's Notes: I've never seen a fic that dealt with Ranma and the
world of Mixed-Martial Arts/Shootfighting. It would seem logical that a
person like Ranma, who relies heavily on magic/ki and flashy kicks and
punches for his offense, would be completely lost in a UFC type match-up,
and thus would get destroyed. My apologies for any OOC that you may not
have appreciated. But then, this wasn't written by Takahashi or the TV
writers, so anything I have them do is automatically OOC.
Oh, don't worry, the TV writers do OOC, too.
The problem in this is, I don't understand what was the point.
To demonstrate a style Ranma's weak against, you went to great lengths to 
make everybody as OOC as possible, and the Ryoga-Akane matchup, which
seemed
to be the point in this, was just too stupid for words.
I think I'll write an OOC matchup too!

***

<SAOTOME RANMA is facing UNRYUU AKARI>
RANMA:"Akane's a mean bitch. Let's have wild animal sex."
AKARI:"Sure!"
<WILD ANIMAL SEX ensues>

"Tomorrow sees undone what happens not today.
 Indecision brings delays, 
 days lost lamenting lost days"

http://www.ratol.fi/~eruuska/
Martial arts.
Enlightenment.




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