another crazy idea. may have to go with this instead
 of "Saint Ranma" if interest higher in this project.

MARIONETTE GENESIS R

  Ukyou wrung her hair out in the "Japonesse History
Museum." She could no longer hear the Intruder, so the
alien warmachine was probably waiting out the rain the
same as her. She hadn't thought that with the Plasma
Cloud as intense as it was today, that one of the 
Intruders would even show up, but there it had been.

  The Intruders had just awoken, after two hundred years
of dormancy when everyone had assumed that they'd been
killed off. Obviously, Ukyou mused, everyone had been
wrong. Like antibodies, the leftovers from an ancient
civilization had gone amuck and were attacking people.

  Ukyou stopped and stared at the picture, feeling the
presence of her two companions behind her. Shampoo, of
the Warrior Caste of an allied kingdom, and Akane - her
intermittent childhood rival since their days at the
birthing creche. The other two, creche-mates of Akane,
were nearby somewhere. Ukyou trusted Nabiki to keep an
eye out for Kasumi.

  The idea of coming here and finding the rumored cache
of ancient weapons had been Nabiki's. Like many of 
Nabiki's plans, it had seemed that there were ulterior
motives aplenty.

  There was an indrawn breath from Shampoo. "So that 
what man look like. Aiyaa." 

  "Doesn't look so tough." Akane felt her eyes drawn
to the portrait, as if iron to a magnet.

  "Looks kind of like a Drone," Nabiki stepped out of
the shadows. "Though I've never seen a Drone smile."

  An abrupt click. The floor opened. Gravity remained in
effect. Ukyou yelped. Shampoo began a backwards 
somersault that missed the floor and safety by three 
inches. Nabiki swore. Akane screamed.

 Kasumi finished walking up to the trapdoor and looked
down. "Oh my."
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	"Ouch." Ukyou got up, finding herself at the
bottom of a long slide. Shampoo and Akane had made it
as well, though it looked like Nabiki had knocked 
herself out slamming into one of Shampoo's weapons.

	A sub-basement of some kind. Ukyou shared a 
smile with the other two. The very sort of place you'd
expect to find weapons hidden from the time that the
settlers had first made planetfall.

	The large crystalline coffin seemed to drag
her attention to it. Ukyou slowly approached it.

	Ukyou looked inside the "coffin" and gasped,
which brought the other two. It was a Drone, but it
wasn't. There was a strong resemblence to the picture
that had been the trigger for the trap door.

	"Is this...a Drone?" Ukyou reached out to touch
the case. She caught Shampoo and Akane doing the same
thing.

	A flash of light and whirring motors caused all
three to back up nearly the length of the room. The 
figure within the "coffin" slowly stood up.

	"I'm Ranma, sorry about this."
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yes, it's a Ranma/Eva/SMJ fusion. kinda sorta.
just one of those ideas i had to put down so i
 could get it outta my head on another night 
 where the painkillers aren't quite doing the
 job.

ja ne,
gregg
metroanime@aol.com