Here's my crossover fic, [I have scrapped More than one/Agent Nabiki; and
anyone who wants to is welcome to continue those]
I hammered this out overnight, so don't expect too much.
"There is no spoon"
-The Matrix
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Ranma 1/2 is property of Rumiko Takahashi, Shonen sunday comics, Kitty TV, and
Viz Communications
The Matrix is property of Warner Brothers Movies and Viacom [i think]
"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. 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!"
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:
"RANMA NO BAKA!!!!! Stop picking on P-Chan!!!!!"
"I wasnt picking on him, you uncute tomboy!"
*WHAM* *SPLASH*
[Ranma transforms into a girl]
"WHATDYOU DO THAT FOR?!"
"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."