Infinity's Shore Chapter 1
By James Barnhill

Thanks go out to Jerry and the Ranma Fanfic Forum for C+C and urging
me to 
continue this fanfic. 

Legal Disclaimer:  Nothing illegal going on here, uh uh, not now or ever.
 I'm just borrowing these characters from their perspective stories without
the intention of making (much) money.

Satisfaction Disclaimer:  You may not like this fanfic (actually Im sure
you wont).  Should you hate fanfics where the Senshi and or Ranma 1/2
characters get cast unfavorably then dont read this.  Also I have never
claimed to be the worlds most PERFECT fanfic writer.  So if any of you
must have perfection.....then read something else.  I warned you.

Health Disclaimer:  This fanfic has been known to cause severe insanity.
 Should you begin to think that you are insane, then keep reading cause
your not insane.  But if you feel that you are sane and well adjusted
to both reality and this society...THEN GET HELP, GET HELP RIGHT NOW
BEFORE YOU HURT SOMEONE!

Namely me!

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Deep blue eyes looked out of one of the apartment's few windows.  His
visitor for the moment forgotten.  

He still remembered.

A year and a half ago he used the Nan-ban mirror to go back in time with
the intent of trying to change Happosie from a lecherous freak into a
honorable sensei.  It had seemed like a really good plan too, until the
mirror deposited him before a woman wearing a fuku.  She said her name
was Sailor Pluto and that she needed his help.  Showing him two futures
that were both possible, one that showed the Earth as a wasteland and
the other showing.......the people of Earth unified in peace and harmony.
 Or to him it looked like they were at least happier then they would
have been in that wasteland of a future.  Pluto then asked him to help
her create that brightfuture.  He had of course agreed, though now he
wished he hadn't.  

What she had never told him after that night was the price needed for
that bright future.  But he'd seen the clues appear when he moved to
Juuban.  One by one they had happened by accident.

She gave him this apartment......no, this prison cell to live in.  She
told him that for certain events to occur he would need to stay hidden
from public view.  So he'd stayed in this apartment for months with only
schoolwork to do.  Sometimes in a great while he and Setsuna would talk.
 It had helped him to pass the time.  That and the Nan-ban mirror that
she had changed so that it would only show you places around the world
instead of taking you to those places.

He'd seen Ukyou meet Zoicite one night in a park.  They became friends
within the week.

He'd seen Akane become a sailor scout, or rather Sailor Io.  She became
cold and distant to everyone that wasn't a Sailor Scout, possible proof
that her past life was catching up to her.

He'd seen Shampoo get defeated by Mamorou, how he could not tell, as
the 
mirror had fogged up at that point.  He learned from Setsuna that Shampoo's
tribe would later become the Imperial Guards for the King and Queen of
Neo-Tokyo.  He also learned that Shampoo would die ten years later defending
Sailor Moon.

He'd seen what would happen to the Sailor scouts and who they ended up
with.  Originally he didn't really care about the other Sailor Senshi,
but after a while he became curious as to whether or not they were as
cold and distant as Sailor Pluto and Io acted.  He was surprised at the
amount of yelling that would take place at their meetings during lunch
at school.  It was entertaining most of the time, but it really made
him wonder if they could defend the Earth.  He started to wonder if he
was missing something.....

Rei would meet Hiroshi and the two immediately hit it off.  Minako would
meet Ryouga when he accidentally wondered into her house.  It looked
like love at first sight.  At least with the way Minako got infatuated
with him.  Those hearts that appeared in her eyes were scary.  Ami would
meet Mousse when he mistook her for Shampoo.  Mousse would later come
to her house and apologize, and Ami's mother used that opportunity to
clean the house and force them outside.

To him the arrangements had been.....unusual.  At least for him to contemplate.
 And why were these Senshi's love interests from Nerima?  Was Pluto trying
to do something else besides ensure the creation of that bright future?
 It was hard for him to think like this for any length of time, especially
before going to sleep.  But somehow he got the impression that when Pluto
wasn't visiting she was watching him through that portal of hers.  If
that was true then he couldn't give away his suspicions.  The next morning
he learned of his parents' death.

He remembered crying the night after the funeral of his parents.  At
the cemetery Akane had been cold and distant.  They were the only ones
there as Akane had been sent to make sure that he didn't try to meet
with anyone else before or after seeing his parents graves.  He'd tried
to speak to her but she brushed him off like some insect and left.  Never
had he felt so alone, so vulnerable.

Two months ago he was allowed to help the Sailor Senshi fight Wiseman.
 For some reason he couldn't quite grasp Wiseman seemed to know how he
fought or evaded attacks and throughout the battle scored some painful
hits on him while leaving the Senshi alone for the most part.  After
the battle he'd been attacked by his ex-fiancees 'and' the Sailor Senshi.
 He would never forget the pain he felt when Rei put that spirit ward
on his forehead.

And here he was, again standing before Sailor Pluto.  She told him he
could leave now, that he was no longer needed.  But he didn't believe
her, he would never believe her again.  He *knew* that she was going
to kill him, it was the only thing that made sense to him.  Cause when
she showed him the future, he wasn't there, but everyone he knew was.
 It was logical though; to create such a bright future people like him
that attracted chaos on a daily level would have to be........dealt with.
 

It explained why his mother and father died in a 'freak' earthquake.
 And why he wasn't allowed out of the apartment.  Because if he went
to school then he would gain new fiancees and enemies, and thus the cycle
would start again.

He wasn't afraid though.  He'd had weeks to deal with this conclusion.
 He'd talked to his fiancees, who just wanted to be friends, except for
Akane, who now felt that talking to him was beneath her new station in
life.  The Sailor Senshi acted like he was contagious, staying at least
six feet away, looking around them like they were afraid to touch anything
he'd touched.  Rei in particular seemed to hate him with an inhuman passion,
blaming his curse for everything.

Even Soun didn't want to speak to him, as he blamed Nodoka and Genma's
death, as well as Akane's change in attitude, on Ranma.

The fear was gone now, leaving behind an icy calm that made him turn
around before stepping out the door, to see Setsuna pointing her Time
Staff at him.  From outside the apartment he felt the auras of the other
Senshi plus Shampoo, Ryouga, Ukyou and Mousse.  All of them willing to
destroy him if he got away from Pluto.

Right now he was just relieved that the wait was over.  Now nobody would
ever control him again.

He smiled at her, to show he had no regrets.  "Finish it, Pluto."  

He could hear the staff weapon charging up with a dull whine.  Along
his arms he could feel the small hairs rising up as if they were being
attracted by a static charge.  Now the air began to feel and smell differently,
not very strongly but somehow wrong.  He shifted his weight to his right
foot, the straps of his backpack were digging into his shoulders.  Slowly
he moved his left foot an inch back, ready to move it further when the
time came.

Smiling, he took out the mirror from his backpack, hoping her attack
would give it the jump start he needed to escape and warn everyone else.
 His right leg bent at the knee as he pushed his left foot further back,
bracing himself for what would happen next.  Opening his eyes as he raised
the mirror like a shield he made sure to wink at Pluto before her 'Dead
Scream' hit the Nan-ban mirror.  

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Authors Notes:  Given the problems surrounding the resurection of the
FFML I thought I would limit this story to the first chapter instead
of posting all seven chapters at once (which would total up to around
200+ KB in wordpad) to save bandwidth and your own time.  Though if you
want to see what happens next you can find more chapters of this story,
or some of my other stories, at the following sites:

http://phu.anifics.com/

Phu's collection of fanfics, quite a few good stories here so try it
out.  Currently this ones the most up to date as it has Chapter 7 along
with two of my other stories.

http://ranmaxovers.tripod.com/

The Lost Ones page.  Has chapters 1 to 6 at the moment.

http://tannim.anifics.com/

And here, last but most certainly not least, is Tannims webpage.  It
really surprised me when he first asked if he could add my Ranma of BORG
story to his site.  And to this day Im still getting E-mails from people
that want me to continue the story, boy do I have to work on that!


P.S. If you feel the need to flame me despite the warning I posted above
then by all rights go ahead, it wont be the first time and it will be
far from the last.  Though if the flames should be about where the story
starts at then please wait for ch8 which will answer some if not all
of your questions, or atleast those questions which wouldnt need me to
disclose what I intend for the future chapters of this story.


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