The young woman stared into the night after her departed savior, 
still too disoriented by the night's events to make her way up the stairs.  
At that moment, she knew she would never forget the mysterious masked man.
        "He was so handsome... I think.  He didn't take off that silly cloth 
the whole time... oh well... it certainly got cold all of a sudden..."  With 
that the woman adjusted her clothes, only to find that she had less then she 
had started the night with.
        She was right about one thing, she would never forget her encounter 
with Ryouga... and if she ever got her hands on him....

                                    *** 
 
       Ryouga looked at the undergarments in his hands and thought, "What is 
happening to me? Have I turned into some sort of pervert?" Unconsciously, 
Ryouga slips the silkies into his backpack where they rest beside a fairly 
large number of others. " Everything was fine until... that day..."
                                         
                                    ***
 
       It was actually quite interesting the way some new discoveries come 
about.  For instance, take Ryouga's latest discovery.  The Baksi Tenketsu was 
developed by the Amazons for use in mining, but over the years, the Amazons 
gradually ran out of places to mine so the technique was more or less 
relegated to the roll of a neat combat trick. 
        That and the added endurance it provided, via the training, were 
enough to keep the technique from fading out entirely.  
        The warriors still trained in the method for at least a century, but 
even the most destructive warrior woman used it no more than, maybe, a half 
dozen times a month.  
        Since most combats were just duels with other Amazons, it became even 
more pointless.  I mean, what's the point in using an attack that your 
opponent is just as immune to as you are.  The only fights where it came in 
hand where with  outsiders, and those and dwindled greatly in past years as 
all outsiders soon became either too wise to encroach on the Amazon territory 
or too  powerful to challenge directly.
        Ryouga, however, was a different story. 
        He had a much easier time of getting from place to place if he could 
just "remove" obstacles instead of walking around them (sometimes several 
times).
        That meant one thing: practice.  And lots of it, too.  With daily 
(sometimes hourly) use, Ryouga began to unlock some of the secrets of the 
Blasting Point that had been buried by the sands of time.  
        The greatest and most important of these was that an object had not 
one, but multiple points that would cause it to pulverize.  Each point had 
it's own unique "flavor."
        Over time, Ryouga managed to hone his skill to the point where when 
faced with an obstacle like  a 2 ton boulder, he could make it explode into 
millions of razor sharp pieces, fall apart into fist sized chunks, vanish into 
a mound of sand, or just fall in half, all with the touch of a finger and a 
liberal jolt of chi.
        Besides that, Ryouga made another discovery, he found that he didn't 
get lost as much underground.  
        That meant, when Ryouga was near to his destination (usually the Tendo 
Dojo), he would begin to "tunnel" instead of walking on the surface.  Three 
times out of seven he got where he was going in a matter of hours instead of 
days, which, for Ryouga, is a remarkable percentage.
        Though it took him quite a while to figure out exactly how far down 
he had to be to avoid the water pipes.
 
                                    ***
 
        Deep in his lair, the old one slept the sleep of the dead.  Which 
wouldn't be anywhere NEAR as frightening if he actually was dead. 
        Suddenly, there was sound in the crypt of the ancient master.
        A faint yell followed by one wall caving in.  Then a form... a human 
form walked into the forgotten prison with his lantern held high.
        "Hmmm, that's strange, this isn't the surface...." it said.
        Maddened by his years of imprisonment and pained by the strange 
radiations that had tormenting him for the last twenty years, the old man was 
incapable of rational thought... 
        Well, he did have one thought: "That... human... humans... put... 
me... here... take...away... panties... must... hurt..." 
        Too late did it notice the wizened form on the ground now in the 
middle of a leap.

                                    ***
 
        Ryouga screamed as the... thing... bit into his arm.  He swung his arm 
wildly and eventually managed to dislodge the creature which then bounded away 
down the tunnel.  Fire crept into the bite, which caused it to pulse and 
throb, and his mind filled  with desires and voices not his own.
         He had to get out of here, had to get back... to Akane... had to... 
find... some... panties...
         And with that he lapsed into unconsciousness.
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To be continued? Well, send me a comment and tell me what you think! If not, 
my lazy behind will never manage to finish it up... 


Author's Notes:
        Ok, so I finally got it cleaned up :) I hope it's a lot better now, 
but my style needs a little work, I'm a bit rusty and all. 
        This whole thing was brought about by a thought that drifted through 
my head while I was mowing the lawn: "My pervert senses are tingling!" 
        Um, I'd appreciate any and all criticism and comments.  This thing 
didn't really get proof read too much but I ran a spell checker over it (well, 
on this version) and I've decided that I'll probably continue it into a series 
if I get positive results out of this posting...  Though I'm still a little 
stuck on where to go from here.  I'm going to stick in a scene with Dr. Tofu 
analyzing the mutation of Ryouga's DNA and maybe a scene with Akane, though I 
really can't write her very well.
     The title is from Saturday morning cartoons, since that's where I saw 
most of my Spiderman, etc.  If you can't tell, this is meant to be very comic 
bookish in the American sense (heavy on the original Spidy).  I'd appreciate 
any ideas on "powers" I can stick in for Ryouga... though I'm not sure how 
being able to cling to breasts upside down will get worked in... Oh, well. 
     Oh, and I'd really like to thank AloshaSitaJasmine (a.k.a. Sailor Avalon) 
for his C&C of this because it would have been totally lost to the mists of 
time without his post (ie, my Eudora ate the original... I only had one copy, 
which was stupid of me, but his post didn't disappear and is where this whole 
thing came from).  I took most of his suggestions, though he made the comment
that my revision of the Breaking Point was unbelieveable... umm... and the 
original version of it is? *grin*
     I have some thoughts for another project (actually a pair of projects) 
that involve Discworld (Terry Pratchett :) and either (or both) OMG and 
Ranma... ideas for either would be appreciated... though I think Ranma vs. 
Genghis Cohen would be pretty neat... or maybe Gosunkugi enrolled at Unseen
University... that could be neat... though the odds of them getting written
(especially any time soon) are pretty slim.

Later :) Tim Williams

twillia4@utk.edu     rogerl@usit.net

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address since I check it more often.