...Oh the cat came back, the very next day,/the cat came back, they though he
was a goner/but the cat came back the very next day/he just couldn't stay
away...
	I love that song, I really love that cartoon, I wonder if I can find a
recording of Railroad Bill and the Kitten.	Oh well, I've switched to another
cold medicine, but strangely enough, there doesn't seem to be any change in my
mental patterns.  That probably means that I'm going crazy.
	Oh well, I knew I would.  (Don't ask, okay?  All I'm really comfortable
saying is that Grandma managed to be lost in her own home for six months.  And
she was dead the whole time.  This does not say very much about those looking
for her, ne?)


	Insert generic disclaimers.
	Warning: there will be some citrus here.  You have been warned.
	C&C wanted, flames will be C&Ced, and encouragement liked.
 *** *** ***   *** *** ***   *** *** ***
Last time: Well, Akane is forcing herself on Ranma, Chichi was...trying for a
girl, apparently.  Gohan was stuck watching all of this.
     Oh, yes, and there was a mob chasing after Goten.

	*** *** ***
     There is the sounds of a small mob chasing after Goten.  The other, um,
squishing noises, Gohan's struggles against the chair, the chair zapping
Gohan, and villains -- and a few heroes & people of no particular opinion when
it come to taking over the world/universe/Nowhere, North Carolina, USA, Earth
-- munching popcorn and watching the show.  (Most had gone off to turn Goten
into a red smear, or at least watch, but some had decided that it was more
interesting to watch the two romantic pairs...)

	*** *** ***

     Goten turned a corner sharply, and sped up.  He wondered briefly why Bra
would say such a lie about him.  He then decided that he could figure that all
out later, if he survived.

	*** *** *** Off in the next dimension

     I blinked at the map, and then tossed it over my shoulder.  I decided
that I should never again by one of Hibiki's maps.  As a cartographer, he
stunk.  On the whole, he stunk.
     He had, after all, been dead sevral weeks when he sold me the map.
     I walked forward a little, and then noticed the little girl standing in
front of me.
	"Bra?"
	Bra sniffed, wiped her tears away, and looked up with me.
	"Bra-chan, how long have you been here?" I asked, offering her a tissue.  She
took it and blew her nose.
	"Donno..."
	"What can you last remember?"
	She closed her eyes and thought hard.  "I was on my way to where the spamfic
you had been working on was to be staged, and this...thing turned up out of
nowhere and killed me..."
	I made sympathetic noises and wondered, if Bra had been here, then who had it
been on the set?

     *** *** ***

     Goten topped abruptly.  "Bra-chan?"
	She who had taken Bra's place smiled evilly.  In an eldrich voice, she said,
"Sorry.  Wrong person."
     Those who had been chasing Goten caught up in time to see her lift up one
of her hands and fire a strange chi-blast at them.

     *** *** ***In the next dimension

     Future Trunks blinked.  What happened, he thought.  He looked around.
	He was on a tropical island, apparently.  The bits and pieces of old ship on
the beach told him that it was a popular place for shipwrecked people.
	He then noticed the wild, naked, women running towards him.
	"A new one!"
	"He's sooo cute!"
	"I saw him first!  I get him first!"
	"Hey!  You hog all the good ones!"
	"Can I help it if I'm faster then you?"
	"Oh, shut up and help me strip him."
	The drained near-corpse they had been carrying with them used the last of his
strength to lift his head and whisper, "Welcome to Kaitalugi..."  His eyes
rolled upwards and his face hit the sand.
     He was dead.
     Future Trunks suddenly was not as sure anymore if he wanted this nubile
women arguing over him.

     *** *** *** Elsewhere in the next diminution

	I poked Vegita with a stick while Bra asked his if he was okay.
	He lifted his head, muttered something to Bra, and fell back to the ground.

     *** *** ***Elsewhere

     Trunks blinked.  There as a strange woman poking him.  She was clearly
foreign, with her light skin, green eyes, and red hair.  There were several
strange designs on her face.
     Trunks decided to see how easily he could talk, and managed to totally
mangle "who?"
     The woman, however, did seem to understand him.  "Hello, Trunks.  I'm
Scotia.  And you are in the wrong next dimension..."

     *** *** ***Elsewhere again

     "More tea?"
     "But he couldn't have any more tea when he hasn't had any!"
	"I think I'm not supposed to be here," Goten said, walking away from the tea
party.

*** *** ***   *** *** ***   *** *** ***
	Notes for this bit:

Kaitalugi: A mythical island in Melanesia where ships are wrecked on the reefs
and the sailors are washed ashore. The sailors are awaited by a crowd of wild,
naked women who immediately seize the men and rape them. As soon as one woman
is finished with the man, the next one will take him. The men are soon
exhausted and die.

Scotia:  The Scottish/Pictish "Mother of All" or the primordial goddess for
which Scotland was named. She is usually an old hag with the tusks and/or
teeth of a wild boar.  Her name means 'of darkness.'


		--Ryo Hoshi
I'd be at a convention right now,
But small crowded places turn me catatonic