1b: OOPS THERE GOES ANOTHER SPRING!
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"Besides, you've already made a bet." Toltiir
pointed a paw at one of the lines that Shen Long had marked.
"The one where Ranma met Doctor Who, or don't you
remember?"
"So, that entitles me to another!" Skuld blinked
as cutely as she could at the little black cat.
Toltiir hung his head. "Little fishies, no, not
again. Please not again."
"Well, can we at least see how it turns out?"
-----------------------The Invincible Catfist-------------------
"Ship decloaking!" Major Kira flagged an alert.
"Got it," Ensign Ehccstra brought a monitor
on line. "Ship registry...Nichieju VII?"
"Amazons on a Bird Of Prey?" Captain Sisko
blinked. "This is pretty far from Nichieju VII."
"Amazons?" Major Kira raised an eyebrow
as she said the unfamiliar word.
"Ship name?" Captain Sisko watched as more
information began to show on the monitors.
Registry: Nichieju VII
Ship Type: Klingon Bird Of Prey, 20 year old model
Registered Cargo: N'rii Singing Crystals
Ship Name: Catfist
The Captain's face went flat as he saw the
name of the ship. "The 'Catfist'? Oh no..."
"Catfist?" Major Kira looked from
the Captain to the monitor showing the approaching
ship. "Sir?"
"Ensign, are there any docking bays
off by themselves, no other ships nearby?"
"Twelve and Six, sir."
"Direct them to Twelve then. Six has
had some problems reported lately in fire suppressors."
"Aye sir."
"Major Kira, come with me."
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"So where's the stone?"
"Right there, see! I put in a tiny change
where they survived the Borg attack." Skuld
nodded happily.
"So are these Federation troubleshooters
or spies? And how does Sisko know about them anyway?"
"Yes. And he found out about 'em when
they crossed paths before. He was Captain on a
starship then."
"Troubleshooters AND spies? Chinese
Amazon Space Marines? Smugglers too if I don't
miss my guess." Toltiir blinked. "I like it."
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"So why are they here?" Major Kira blinked.
"You ran into them, what, six years ago? Maybe it's not
even the same ship. Just the same name."
"There's your answer." The Captain activated
a security monitor in Dock Twelve. Crew of the suspect
vessel were getting out. "Name me one other vessel with
a Vulcan Engineer, a Klingon Trader, and a group of
Nichieju Amazon Security Officers."
"Off the top of my head? C'mon. Do I look like
a Vulcan to you?"
"That's the 'Catfist' all right." Sisko
frowned slightly. "Watch out for that Klingon there,
we'll need to keep her away from the Ferengi..."
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Goes off different, ne?
Without an anime tie-in, this could be an
interesting Trek miniseries, dealing with missions behind
the events of the normal Trek events.
WITH anime tie-ins, this is the RAAC,
after all, we can have:
crew of the "Warthog"
Ryouga Hibiki, Klingon Rival, who has a crush
on one of the crewmembers of the "Catfist"
Akari Unreal, an AI program that has a crush on her boss.
Tatewaki Kuno, Klingon Warrior who also has a crush on
the same member of the crew of the "Catfist" as Ryouga
Kodachi Kuno, Klingon Medic who has a crush on the
dashing young captain of the "Catfist"
crew of the "Catfist"
Shampoo, Nichieju Security Chief who was defeated
by her Captain in HTH combat... Considers herself the most normal of
the various fiancees. Supervises a team of eight warriors. Sugar and Spice,
exosuit specialists. Rei Ga, tracker. Mousse, highly annoying security systems
specialist. Lehong and Huangxi, space marines. Seira and Tonfa, ship to
ship combat specialists.
Ukyou Kuonji, Vulcan Engineer who went into the ponfarr
when Ranma happened to be the only guy within fifteen parsecs. Now
considers it only logical that she's married to him.
Akane T'Ndo, Klingon Warrior. Her father and Ranma's
served in Starfleet together and came up with this idea of their children
marrying. Kinda likes the idea. (Consider what Klingon mating rituals
consist of...ouch.)
Nabiki T'Ndo, Klingon Trader. Can out-Ferengi a Ferengi
and enjoys doing so.
Kasumi Saotome, Ranma's big sister and the ship's medical
officer. (Sorry, Kasumi as a Klingon just didn't work.)
Ranma Saotome, perpetual wonderer of "Why Me?" Captain
of the "Catfist" and specialist in impossible missions. Had an
accident with a transporter that causes him to change genders at odd times.
Didn't make it past the first few people i showed the idea to, though the
"Akane as a Klingon" seemed to get some positive reaction. Most common
problem sited was the author's unfamiliarity with DS9 and general
burnout on Star Trek in general.
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"And this," Toltiir told his 'guest' with a somewhat
dejected expression, "was one of the oddest of the stones."
"Oh?" Varros' interest increased slightly.
----------------SCRAMBLED---------
----------------17:00:45------------------
Setsuna was alarmed, a little black cat
that had NOT been a moon cat had phased in
through a wall, spoken three words, then fled.
Toltiir, an elder god of mischief, had
looked on her with sorrow and said that "It comes
here."
Setsuna, sometimes known as Sailor
Pluto, was only concerned at that point. After
all, the little feline may have been playing a prank.
When she noticed that all the Yggdrasil substations
on the mortal plane were being retracted, she got a
little bit more concerned.
When Belldandy petitioned Kami-sama
to be allowed to take Keiichi to Heaven during the
emergency, word reached Setsuna and she upgraded
from somewhat concerned to worried.
When Kami-sama called her back and
not only approved, but told her to take Megumi
Morisato as well THAT was definitely worrisome.
When dimensional gates started flaring
up all over Earth, due to some massive exodus involving
damn near every psychic and mage capable of planar
travel, Setsuna upgraded from "Quite Worried" to "At
Least Vaguely Alarmed."
Everything seemed fine in local space, so
Sailor Pluto checked the timestream. There was no
tomorrow. Literally. Every indication was that the
future ended in sixteen hours, forty seven minutes,
twelve seconds.
Sailor Pluto was alarmed, and seriously
considering whether panic would be good.
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The Senshi got out their communicators
and listened. The first thing they noticed was that
calm, cool, unflappable Sailor Pluto was most
definitely on edge.
Then the news was relayed. This time
stream stopped, abruptly, in a little over fifteen hours.
The disturbance actually began in a little
place called the "Dark Horse Nebula" and spread
outward. From start to finish the odd ending of the
timeline occurred within three hours of the first
ripple. Every indication was that Earth's solar system
would cease to exist within a half hour of the event,
it taking the three hours for the effect to spread beyond
the furthest quasars.
Ami asked if this was related to the Bet.
Setsuna replied no, that was alteration, this
was destruction, and how the heck did Ami know about
that anyway?
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In a nebula with a large amount of dark matter,
which superficially resembled a horse's head, reality rippled
and began to fracture.
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In the Cat Cafe, Cologne stopped and frowned.
It was just a bad feeling, but she'd gotten to the point where
a bad feeling indicated to her far more than indigestion.
She reached out and swirled a cup of tea around,
waiting for the leaves to settle. Nodding at the result, she got
her pipe, a bottle of a fine Mongolian wine, and got comfortable.
She figured she might as well.
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"Ranmaaaaa, stop flirting with Shampoo."
"Ranma, come away from violent pervert
girl. Something wrong with Great Grandma, you come
maybe she cheer up, ne?"
"Nothing doing, honey. Ranchan's going to
take in that new Jackie Chan movie with me!" It had cost
her a considerable rental fee from Nabiki, and she wasn't
going to let go THAT easily.
"Why does this sort of thing always happen
to me?" Ranma's head hung. Nabiki had threatened to tell
Akane about his massive purchase of Tums, Di-gel, and
generic Imodium shortly after her announcement that she
was going to try a new recipe. He HAD to go out with
Ukyou.
"Oh, Shampoo, is Cologne sick? Would you
like me to make some chicken soup?"
"Ah, Kasumi. That be very nice. Airen can...
carry...AIYAAA!"
Ranma was about to protest the death grip
that both Shampoo and Ukyou had gotten his arms in
when he noticed what they had seen. "What the heck?"
The sky was falling. Large cracks has appeared
in the partly cloudy blue above them, and chunks of sky
were lazily falling away. Where they had vanished was...
pure white. No colors, no features, just a plain white
nothingness.
Kasumi backed up nearer to Ranma. Not that
he could do anything about this, but he seemed to be a
survivor.
Akane stopped stalking away from the scene
behind her, glanced up, and froze. She glanced back at
where Ranma and the others were, to see that scene crack,
and fall away in a slow tumble, seeming to get smaller and
more blurry as it went.
"R-Ranma? Kasumi?" More cracks spread out
from the area.
"They're gone, Akane," came Nabiki's quiet
voice. "Whatever this is, they're not here anymore."
"Ranmaaaaaa!" Akane screamed to the heavens.
This was not the way it should be. They were Fated to be
together, not... Akane ran towards the hole as cracks
continued to form. They _would_ be together.
"Akane, no! It's too late!" Nabiki watched as
her sister ran into the whiteness, and continued going.
Nabiki blinked. The white whatever-it-was wasn't hurting her?
Akane wasn't apparently damaged, for all that she was running on
nothing, breathing nothing, and not noticing that pieces of the Tendo
ancestral home were tumbling by her.
Nabiki took a deep breath, ran into the house, grabbed
her most prized possessions, and ran back out into the whiteness.
She turned and watched as pieces of her home broke off but were
strangely intact. She slipped her sunglasses on, as all this white
was hurting her eyes, and calmly waited for whatever was going
to happen.
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Earth crumbled away into shards that flowed into
the all pervading whiteness.
The cracks spread faster, reaching deep into the
Milky Way galaxy and out to the Magellanic Clouds. Time
and space were not really a consideration, as the cracks were
_in_ time and space.
From the massive fracture lines that clove through
entire galaxies came smaller cracks that clove through solar
systems. From those came tiner and tinier splits, down to the
final level. Chunks of roughly 45 square feet then dwindled
and shrunk, falling away to Elsewhere.
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The last shard of reality, a sputtering quasar at
the edge of the universe, faded. The whiteness was perfect,
unbroken, complete.
------------------------Elsewhere------------------------------------
"Yggdrasil functions offline." The voice was of
a pleasant woman.
"Marller's going to pay for this." A short man,
smoking a cigar, shook his head at the utter stupidity that
evil could sometimes inflict upon itself.
"She already is. Hell isn't very happy with this turn
of events either." The woman reclined partially against an
old fashioned easy chair. "Looks like the buffer was
corrupted as well."
"So we just can't push reset and cause everything
to go back to normal."
"If we do, everything gets scrambled. The Average
Joe won't notice a difference, but everything else..." She shrugged.
"Restore from a backup?"
"Marller got those too, or one of her agents did..."
"Senbei is unhappy?"
"Senbei...has been terminated." The woman smiled
in satisfaction. "Senbei was classified as annoyance level, but
taking part in something of THIS scale put him in MY jurisdiction."
Nathan decided not to ask. "How about the Aegis?"
"Disabled." Gaia shrugged. "In a few minutes our time,
some of the shards will reach dimensional nexus points and be lost.
Rifts Earth, the Dragon Highway, and Aramar look like they'll get
the lion's share from Earth."
"So it's reset and scramble time and space and identities,
or let everything remain until we can bring the remainder of the
systems online and reinitialize fully but we lose some segments."
"Tough call," Gaia admitted.
"It always is," Nathan Brazil sighed and materialized
a drink using one of the still operating systems. "At least we
got rid of all the Windows 98 that Marller uploaded, we can at
least bring back the old operating system from the backups of
THAT..."
"So what's it gonna be, Brian?" Toltiir stuck his head
in the door. "We've got Nabiki running a betting pool out here
which way you're going."
"Which one? The native or the apprentice you keep
trying to unload? Never mind, it doesn't matter much."
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It's obvious, isn't it? This could have taken either of
the paths mentioned. With everything scrambled, you have
Ranma falling in Kasuminichuan, his sister Shampoo, fiancee
Ukyou, etc. Only two people know how screwed up it all is
though, and it is THEIR story we follow. Akane & Nabiki.
Dragon Highway was developed back in 1981 as
a nonconventional Champions mileau. Post-apocalyptic kind
of world, where everything fell apart in 199x due to a dimensional
rupture. Now you have demons fighting superpowered heroes, and
the dragons are using the old highway system as territory markers.
Feedback: it's been done before.
Alternatively, i could do it this way, and even have
some artwork supporting such a thing:
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Ranma made his way through the ancient factory.
No food here. The thought made him grumble. He'd hoped to
find one of the ancient caches of food. Without some means
of getting food, he'd starve now that his baka oyaji had managed
to get them thrown out of another encampment.
Of course, when he'd found out just what his father
had done, they'd parted ways. There were some crimes even a
son cannot forgive a father, and that had been the last straw in
a long line of problems that had pushed the limits.
Rows of crystalline coffins beckoned in the next
room. He looked in the nearest one and his eyes widened. A
girl? Damn it, had oyaji been here?
Ranma ran his hands over the surface, trying to
find a control to open the lid of the coffin.
Elsewhere, a monitor lit up.
//Scanning: DNA of Intruder. Some drift has occurred but
pattern falls within acceptable parameters. Running Happosai program.
//DNA patterns recorded. Downloading data to full units.
//Unit: Atsuko 01...Beginning Activation.
//Downloading template. Atsuko 01, Personal
Defense Unit, Persona: Schoolgirl.
//Scans reveal Intruder Unit malnourished severely. Activating
Unit 02, Domestic Unit. Evidence of severe physical trauma in near past.
Activating Units 03-06, downloading Happosai program. Activation of
units will be complete in 12 seconds.//
Ranma came to a complete stop as the click-whish of various
lids could be heard within the complex. "Uh-oh."
The monitor cleared, then began filling again.
//Unit 01. Atsuko. Primary: Defense, Secondary: Mechanic. ACTIVE
//Unit 02. Shampoo. Primary: Defense, Secondary: Domestic. ACTIVE
//Unit 03. Ukyou. Primary: Domestic, Secondary: Defense. ACTIVE
//Unit 04. Kasumi. Primary: Domestic, Secondary: Medical. ACTIVE
//Unit 05. Nabiki. Primary: Finance, Secondary: Reconnaisance. ERROR 139
//Unit 06. Akane. Primary: Defense, Secondary: Domestic.
CANNOT INITIALIZE.
//Units 1-4 Active. Memory errors Unit 05. Unit 06 Inactive. Shutting
down Unit 06. Reloading Unit 05. Unit 05 loaded. Error 141. Repairs
needed. Unable to activate at this time. Shutting down Unit 05.
The monitor blinked twice more then shut down.
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Nabiki looked in on the reformed reality from outside as
she saw...herself. Akane was asleep now, resting nearby.
Nabiki wondered what would happen if...
She reached out through the window and touched the
cold cheek of herself, then managed a startled shriek as she was
drawn into her other self.
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//Unit 05 Repaired? Activating. Memory buffers at 65%.
Downloading Happosai program. Defragmentation program activated.
Memory defragmented. Downloading Reconnaisance programs.
Conflict between Happosai program and operant systems detected.
Adjusting... System synched and operational. Full activation.
//Unit 05 Self-repaired. Anomaly 01. Unit 05 detects as
cyborg, 50% original android, 50% human. Anomaly 02. Attempting
to determine source/origin of anomalies...
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Nabiki awoke, realizing that she felt GOOD. Beyond
good, incredibly healthy and full of energy.
A glance around her revealed she was in one of those
coffins she had seen through the distortion. A glance down at
herself revealed she was wearing a beige bra and panties. A
glance in the direction of a scream revealed Ranma running
flat out from a group of similarly attired women, including her
older sister Kasumi.
Nabiki thought Akane was probably still asleep,
and still within the distortion. The coffin lid over her sister's
android double was just now closing itself.
Nabiki smiled as she saw Ranma attempting to
flee. She had an advantage in this scenario the others did
not. She remembered. Therefore, she couldn't lose.
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Post-apocalyptic suffering in a resource-poor world,
where the meek inherited the earth and everyone else left. Sort
of a multiple crossover where the tone is largely Sabre Marionette.
Ranma is the Hero Of Prophesy, wandering this
landscape. He has not found his giant robot yet.
Kasumi, Shampoo, Ukyou, etc are androids designed
and built by the ancient tech-lord Happosai, Ranma's great
grandfather. This Happosai is into inventions and is otherwise
a combination of himself and Kame-senin.
There are 42 units. Only the first six have been shown.
Unit 07 (Kodachi) has a memory fault and will be unstable upon
activation.
The villain of the piece? Evil Overlord type who takes
unwitting, easily influenced or evil people, and seals them up in
giant robot animals that can then spread death and destruction
while searching for the Seven Dragonballs. Look for a Giant Robot
Panda to menace the village of Furinkan. Maybe a Giant Robot
Pig with a bad sense of direction...
Who is the evil techmaster? Happosai? Maybe...
Dropped because i was told THIS has been done before
too. Somebody tell me the URLs of these stories 'cause i'd love to
read these...
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ATC
"A TRUE crossover," Varros mused. His original
name had been much longer and more regal-sounding. The god
of hoarding, lord of vultures, and miser of the gods sounded
wistful. "None of this cast of one just finding themselves next
door to the cast of another. I mean a full-fledged, no holds barred,
history-and-everything crossover."
"Many times done." Toltiir felt like coughing up a
hairball at the idea. He did so. It ran off into the distance laughing
like a hyena on helium. "Even here, look."
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"Engaged me?!" The red-haired girl looked up at
the panda. "What was the idea of doing THAT?"
The panda growfed at the girl a few times, then
finally produced a sign. [We met during an earlier part of
your training journey. You got along with her when you both
were younger.] The sign flipped. [Besides she might know of
a cure.]
Ranma blinked at the sign. "You're kidding, right?"
The sign flipped. [No. Her mother and father were
both doctors. The father was into research, we met shortly
after you had studied under Ryuunoken.]
"Well then, what're we waiting for?!" Ranma
bowed and motioned the panda forward. "Let's go see if
this girl's all that."
The panda nodded.
"What's her name, anyway, Pops?"
[I met her father, and didn't know it at the
time. I made a deal that he'd get me out of a predicament,
and I'd give him my firstborn.]
"Pop, when you get evasive that usually
means I'm about to get hit with the nasty end of the
stick. Who's the girl?"
[Her name is Ami Mizuno.] Genma grinned.
If she couldn't come up with an answer...well, there were
others he'd sold the boy off to. First one to cure his poor
old father would definitely be the front runner. Maybe
that drinking buddy of his from college. Noboyuki? Nah,
he had a son. What about that tech-head, hadn't he gone
and married the head of Mishima Heavy Industries? If he
had a daughter, then THEY'D made a similar pledge back
in the frat days.
Then there was that time travelling sorceress...
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MOUSSE GETS A CLUE
Stone: Spells R Us store opens in Nerima, sowing chaos
and change throughout the region. First change is when
Mousse buys some magic glasses that give him perfect sight.
Mousse flipped back through the Amazon Law
book, delighting in these new glasses. Everything looked
so crisp and clear to him. No guessing as...to...meaning...
Mousse reread the section, then quietly got
up. This was an idea!
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"You want me to do what, sugar?" Ukyou
blinked from across her grill.
"Petition Cologne to become an amazon."
Mousse folded his arms into his sleeves and pulled the
book out of some inner pocket.
"Why would I want to do that?" Ukyou
turned her attention back to the okonomiyaki, sliding it
onto a plate with practiced ease.
"You could eliminate one of your rivals
for Ranma, strengthen your own claim to Ranma, and
expand your business at the same time." Mousse
smirked. THAT had gotten her attention.
"How so?" Ukyou said, recovering nicely.
Her hair was still sticking up oddly from the earlier shock,
which sort of gave it away.
"Cologne HAS to give you a chance. She'll
come up with three tests that you have to pass. One of
combat, one of honor, one of courage. If you pass all
three, you become a provisional member of the tribe."
Mousse paused. "I remember hearing your story. Ranma
defeated you daily while you were both quite young."
"Yeah," Ukyou's attention was fully on the
Chinese boy now. "He thought it was some sorta game. I
guess in a way it was."
Mousse smiled and his finger stabbed down on
one of the pages of the lawbook. "As an amazon then, you
would have a prior claim to Ranma. Shampoo would have
to drop her pursuit of Ranma."
"But I'd have to go live in that village then,
wouldn't I?"
Mousse nodded. "With Ranma." He smiled,
from Ukyou's expression he knew he had her now. Then
Shampoo would finally be his.
reason not pursued: i'm told someone else came up with
this idea as well. still waiting for the URL so i can read it.
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Losing AOL soon. narrowed it down to Internet Access or Mindspring
for a replacement. Ja ne. Happy Harvestfest/Thankgiving/Autumnal Season
holiday!
gregg