YES!!!

It's Snake Saotome in:

_Escape from Hell 13!_

Coming soon to a theater near you!

I like it!



At 12:47 AM 1/1/99 -0500, Hallstrom Consultants wrote:

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  Ranma was dead, to begin with. Quite thoroughly, and unequivocally
deceased. He knew this fact because of the two big, burly figures who
had materialized out of thin, er, water immediately after he hit the
river bottom.

<Snip!>

  Master Li grinned evilly, "My boy, I've been here for centuries now
and I've kept my eyes open. With Ox's strength, your fighting skill,
and the plan I worked out we may have, so to speak, a hope in Hell. 
You see, I've bribed some of the guards thoroughly, and found out how
to get over the wall of this Hell. And also where they store the body
clay, so we can make new ones to use on earth. And one more thing."

  Ranma leaned forward and narrowed his eyes, "What's that?"

  Master Li's eyes nearly disappeared into his wrinkles, "I know where
they keep the keys to the main gate."

  Ranma sat back and considered briefly. It would almost certainly
get him in even worse trouble than he was now. But it was a way out,
_if_ it worked. He thought of the faces he knew in Nerima, he thought
on a watery grave, and he thought of a small girl, even now clinging
to his leg. And he made his decision: he might be dead, he might be
damned, but he didn't have to take it laying down. "Okay," he said,
"I'm in. Now what?"

  Master Li grinned and leaned in close, "Now here's my plan."

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Scott Pollert [pollerts@hsonline.net]