<Scene opens to a dark room, where a single computer 
monitor sits, providing the only illumination. It appears 
to be very late at night, and everything is silent except 
for the quiet humming of the CPU fan and the ticking of a 
clock somewhere near by. 

Suddenly, this quiet scene is violently interrupted as a 
door, facing the computer, suddenly falls inward with a 
tremendous crash. Light spills into the room from the 
hallway, and we can see two girls standing in the 
doorway.>

Ukyo: Argh! Shampoo! You didn't have to break the door 
down!!

Shampoo: gomen... No worry spatula girl, Ryan sleep 
through world-war three.

<Ukyo shakes her head, and then both girls creep into the 
room, and Shampoo sits in front of the computer. She plays 
around with it for a minute or two, while Ukyo nervously 
looks over her shoulder, shooting the occasional glance 
back down the hallway.>

Ukyo: Hurry up! I thought you said you knew how to use 
these things?

Shampoo: I do! Just... Ryan has all his programs named 
funny...

Ukyo<snorting>: "Named funny??" kinda like "Shampoo??" 
<she breaks into a fit of giggles>

<shampoo shoots her an evil look, but then turns back to 
the computer screen>

Shampoo: Ah, here we go! This PHD 3!

<Both girls crowd around the computer screen and begin 
reading. Both girls look worried as they read through the 
first part, then Shampoo smirks at Ukyo.>

Shampoo: Aiya, Shampoo not know you such a pervert Spatula 
girl! And in front of Ranma and Tsubasa no less...

Ukyo<Who is beat red and looks ready to explode>: Uh.. 
lets uh.. skip this part...

<Shampoo shrugs and the girls continue reading until...>

Shampoo<face about the same color as an over-ripe tomato>: 
Aiya!!! What Ryan DOING!!!! 

Ukyo<Who is also flushing rather badly>: I can't believe 
he wrote this! PHD was a pretty good series before, but 
now this?!? He's going to ruin everything!

Shampoo: Who care if good story or not! He dragging proud 
Amazons through mud!!! <a bombari appears in her hand> 
Ryan pay for this... 

Ukyo: Not now Shampoo, You can beat him later... when I can 
help... but for now, we've got to do something about 
this!!

<Shampoo nods in agreement, then with a quick swipe of the 
mouse, she highlights almost the entire fic and hits 
"delete".>

Shampoo: There! Now can write better story in place!

<She writes a line on the screen>

Ukyo<reading over Shampoo's shoulder at what she's typed> 
"Ranma say "I love you Shampoo! I always have! We get 
married right now! I never really cared about violent-
tomboy or Spatula girl!" <Ukyo sighs>

Shampoo: Is good story! Go over well on FFML, you think?

<Ukyo unceremoniously dumps Shampoo out of the chair and 
sits down, muttering something about "uneducated 
simpletons" and starts writing.

Shampoo picks herself up and starts reading over Ukyo's 
shoulder. Suddenly a shadow falls on the two girls, and 
they both pause, slowly looking over at the figure 
standing in the doorway.>

Ryan<blinking sleepily>: wha.. what are you two doing??

Shampoo: Aiya!

Ukyo: Ah.. er... Ryan.. uh... what are you doing up at 
this hour? We were just, you know... reading over the 
advanced copy of PHD 3.

Ryan<still not fully cognizant> Oh? And what did you 
think?

Ukyo<big sweat drop>: Ah, well... you know... It was pretty good. 

Ryan<walking over to the computer>: Really? You think so? 
Oh I'm so glad, I was really worried... <he finally looks 
over at the monitor, and what he reads there is *nothing* 
like what he had written>... wah??? What is this!!

Ukyo<slowly slinking away from the computer>:Ah well, you 
know... we just sorta thought it could use a little 
editing, that's all....

Ryan<starting to look *really* peeved>: WHY YOU...

<Ryan never got a chance to finish whatever epitaph he had 
been about to label her with, however, as he suddenly 
found his ability to speak cut off by a bombari to the 
head.>

Shampoo<who looks a mixture of sad and angry>: You 
promised Shampoo that this her story! 

Ukyo<under her breath>: Yeah, just like he "promised" the 
FFML he'd have it done 3 weeks ago...

Shampoo<continuing>: But all you do is drag Amazon name 
through muck! You getting away from real story, and 
Shampoo no let you get away with that! And worst of all, 
SHAMPOO NO GET RANMA!!!

<Shampoo finally breaks down in tears and runs from the 
room(after hitting Ryan upside the head with her bombari 
again) Ukyo, shaking her head, also turns and leaves, 
leaving a bruised author laid out on the floor. Slowly he 
picks himself up and looks off sadly down the hall where 
his characters have disappeared to. Then he sits back down 
and reads over what Ukyo had written.>

Ryan<looking thoughtful>: hmm... this isn't that bad... 
heck, maybe I was wrong to try to incorporate that off-
the-wall idea (and you pre-readers know what I'm talking 
about) about the amazons into this story. Maybe this set 
back was just what I needed...

<Slowly, as the camera fades out, we see Ryan start to 
write once more...>

***

Yup, that's right folks, I'm completely re-writing PHD 3! 
I know, your all waiting for it and its been intermedibly 
delayed already, but the reason it was taking so long to 
write was that I was getting too far from the heart of the 
story and trying to incorporate some really wacky ideas 
about how the structure of the Amazon's worked. Don't 
worry, for those of you who read fore-mentioned idea and 
liked it, I'm not abandoning it, I'm just not going to put 
it in this fic... I'll probably write a completely new one 
revolving around that particularly-bizarre idea... ;) So 
yes, PHD 3 is going to be delayed *again* but this time I 
think the writing will go much faster, so all you pre-
readers, I still have your names on file and will send it 
out to you all as soon as I have more to go on. 

Oh, and as for that new fic (with the wierd amazon-tie-in) It's going to
be called "May you live in Intresting times" and i kinda got inspired
yesterday and wrote about half of it... Expect a teaser before too long.
It'll follow the exploits of Shampoo alot more closely than PHD, (it's not
a continuation fic) and we get some nifty flash backs to Shampoo's mother!
It promises to be quite the intresting exploration of why Shan pu is the
way she is...

Ja ne!

Ryan