This is my beta copy. PLEASE C+C it, I got absolutely NO response on my
alpha copy.
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"There is no spoon"
-The Matrix
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Ranma 1/2 is property of Rumiko Takahashi
The Matrix is property of Warner Brothers Movies
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Special notice: In regards to Whitewolf's unwarranted attack on my
Alpha copy...
As a sidenote, the first scene in my fic bears no more than a
passing resemblance to the scene that WhiteWolf claims I stole from
Matrix0.5.1. The joke that he claims I stole from it was in fact
inspired by Phillip Masters' message, the same one that I believe
inspired his use of the joke. However, he also claims that I stole
the entire scene, which is simply ridiculous considering the lack of
resemblance.
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"I assume you by now are quite confident that what I told you
before, wasn't exactly the literal truth."
"Yes, I figured that. As it turned out, I am the One."
"Well, then you may not want to hear what I have to tell you
this time."
At this, the man listening nodded slightly. "Yeah, I do."
"You see, it's not so clear-cut as it seemed before. You are
the one, but at the same time, you're not. There is another. Not
exactly the one, but not exactly -not- the one either. You might
call him the Half," She laughed, as if at her own private joke.
"You'll know him when you see him. This time, stay a while and
think." With this, she gestured Neo into the waiting room
The Oracle looked up at the sign over her door and smiled. It
said a different thing each time. The Last time Neo had been there,
it had read in Latin, "Know thyself." This time, although Neo had
not bothered to look at it, it read, in Japanese, "Rumiko
Takahashi's Ranma 1/2."
*** * * * ***
Neo did as the Oracle had told him, sitting down in an empty
seat. He noticed a stack of comic books that he didn't notice
before. "hmm... 'Ranma 1/2..' I have some time, might as well take
my mind off this.."
Little did he know that while reading those comics, his mind
was squarely on the issue at hand.
*** * * * ***
Back on the Nebuchadnezzar, Neo was telling the others about
this comic, trying to figure out if it had any significance. "So
then the guy who had been fighting him, turned into a pig, you know
like he turns into a girl... and then his fiancee she adopted him
as a pet! Ranma ends up getting really mad at him later, see,
because he sleeps in her bed! But he can't tell her because he swore
he wouldn't tell anyone!"
Trinity remarked, "Wow, I didn't know a comic could be a
slapstick and a soap-opera at the same time."
"You say that the Oracle told you to stay in the waiting room
a while after leaving?" This was from Morpheus
"Yeah, and this was the first time that comic was there, it
has to mean something. Well, anyway, The next day, he tries to sneak
in her room to pour hot water on him, and..."
Tank had been monitoring the screens while listening to Neo.
His eyes became more and more glued onto the lines of haphazard
binary code on the screens as he listened to Neo's explanation,
until finally, he decided this had to mean something. "Hey, guys,
you'd better take a look at this!"
They rushed over and looked at the screens. Although the
screens only showed lines of code from the matrix, they were able to
read it, and what they saw was this:
**---***--***---***--***---***--***---***--***---***--***---***---**
"Why... Why you!"
At this, a small black pig knocked the boy on the back of the
head, and he landed on top of the girl, who then woke up.
"Wait! It's not what you think... I can explain!"
Ignoring him, the girl then proceeded to beat the shit out of
him. He weakly attempted to explain himself even when it was clear
she wasn't listening.
"Wait!! Listen, Ryoga... he.."
"I don't see Ryoga, where do you see him?"
*CRASH*
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"What I saw before was even more consistent with what you were
saying... I think that's what the significance of that comic was."
"He's right. The Oracle wouldn't have sent me out into the
waiting room and told me to stay a while, and had those comics right
there, without a reason. This can't be a coincidence."
"Well, we can't really do much about it now," Morpheus yawned.
"Store the coordinates, we'll go in tomorrow."
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