Subject:
          another omake
    Date:
          Sun, 24 Feb 2002 19:26:27 -0700
   From:
          <metroanime@mindspring.com>
      To:
          "Richard Robinson" <RICHARDROBINSON@prodigy.net>
      CC:
          "White Pheonix" <skysaber@qwest.net>, "Shade"
<rowan_phoenix@333.org>,
          "Andrew Greaves" <angreave@yahoo.com>,
<Piccolo181@aol.com>




i thought of the "daddy" and what might result. Not
satisfied with it, but
it might do for a laugh.



"Look, being a better father than Genma Saotome is like
being a better
father than Gendo Ikari or a better mother than Doctor
Ikagi." The guy in
the baseball hat proclaimed.

"Your point?" The cat looked up at the fellow.

"What you want to do is a *worst* father than Genma, but in
what way. Is
Ranma being not as good in the martial arts enough, or is
there some other
criteria?" Hermes adjusted his hat. "How do we specify a
standard?"

"Do you want to see what you can do?" Toltiir eyed his old
associate. Hermes
wasn't exactly fatherhood material, but that might be his
plan.

"Actually, I've got a 'pinch hitter' to play the part in
this," said Hermes.
"Much as Raideen did."

"Why do I have a feeling that you're going to pull someone
completely
bizarre out of your hat?"

"Because, after the past few centuries, you've gotten to
know me a little,
I'd say."

------

Worse Father Than Genma?
a continuing set of omake, by Gregg Sharp/Metroanime

-------

"You've never met him?!" Three girls being at least
moderately upset to find
out that all their hopes and dreams and plans to this point
had been
actively discarded and stomped upon by their father without
any prior
warning.

"He should be here at any moment," Soun replied, completely
misreading the
moment.

Nabiki wasn't that upset with the concept. She could
eventually become
wealthy as long as this guy wasn't *too* traditionally
minded. The Japanese
wife took total control of the finances after all. Besides,
she was getting
a little desperate on a personal front. While the cold Ice
Queen image was
fine for being a wannabe-Yakuza, it tended to cut down on
the number of cute
guys one could meet. Those who weren't intimidated either
wanted access to
her money or were after access to Akane. So an engagement to
a potentially
cute guy wasn't the end of life as she knew it, more an
opportunity that had
to be evaluated.

Kasumi masked her disappointment and creeping sense of
horror as best she
could. As the eldest, the burden of honor fell on her. "Life
is lighter than
a feather, duty heavier than a mountain." She might have to
marry someone
completely unacceptable. Why hadn't her father given them
more warning
though?

Akane growled under her breath. Boys=perverts=targets. There
had to be some
way out of this!

"Mmmmfff! Mmmmfff!"

"That must be Ranma!" Nabiki declared, everyone in the
neighborhood tending
to avoid the Tendo home as if it were a nest of vampires.

Nabiki got to the front door and was immediately surprised
by the sight.
There was a panda, beating on this pile of ropes and chains
and padlocks
with a four-by-four. "What?!"

[I think he's unconscious.] The panda held a sign up
briefly, then flipped
it around so that a different sign was showing. [Let's get
the ceremony over
with *now* before he comes to.]

-----------

The three daughters fidgeted and stared. The panda had
turned into a portly
figure with piggy little eyes who had turned out to be their
father's old
friend. Said old friend would turn around and pound
repeatedly on the odd
bundle whenever it began moving.

"Isn't the priest here yet?" Genma asked despite the obvious
lack of
priests.

"So where's your son, Saotome?" Soun asked.

Genma thwacked the bundle a few more times. "Right here."

Three girls looked at the bundle and figured out that it was
just the right
size for a human body.

"He's dead?!" Akane was relieved. A dead boy wasn't a
problem.

"Mmmff!"

Genma repeatedly thwacked the bundle until it stopped moving
again. "No.
Wouldn't be much point in marrying the boy off if he was
dead. Oh, Tendo,
it's so horrible!"

"You turn into a panda, so is this related? Does your son
turn into some
horrible monster?" Nabiki was really considering how far did
she want to get
away from this.

"No, actually when I tested his martial arts abilities and
received my own
curse, he managed to avoid falling in any of the pools,"
replied Genma. "If
I didn't take precautions like this, he'd have escaped and
I'd never be able
to get him back here."

"Ah, very clever of you, Saotome." Soun nodded. "Reminds me
of some of the
old Master's training techniques."

"Oh dear," said Kasumi, wondering how the boy could breathe
like that.

"Oh," said Akane, disappointed. It sounded like her father
was still set on
this thing.

"So what's the story on this, why is all this necessary to
keep Ranma from
bolting?" Nabiki thought the level of chains and ropes were
a bit excessive.

"It all started when Ranma was five, I had just broken up an
incipient
childhood friendship that might have caused problems to the
Tendo marriage
later." Genma wept at the thought. "When I sold Ranma to
this priest in
order to get enough money to rent a lot, then I would be
able to train Ranma
in an unbeatable technique known as the Catfist!"

"A priest?" Nabiki looked at the pile of chains and ropes.
"What kind of
priest?"

"You wouldn't have liked him," said a new voice.

Genma flinched and then reached out to part a loop of rope
and chain to
reveal - the bundle was empty now. "Uh oh."

"Anyway, these are my daughters: Akane, Nabiki, and Kasumi.
Which one should
marry Ranma?" Soun asked Genma as apparently Ranma was being
unreasonable.

"I was kind of tied up, but I think now that I've got the
time - might I say
what I think of this arranged marriage idea?" A tall looking
boy seemed to
materialize out of the shadows.

"He'll marry her," Genma said, picking one at random.

"Oh, by the way, I'd just like to say one thing," said Ranma
in a sweet
voice.

"WHY ME?!" Akane yelled. "Why should I have to marry some
idiot BOY! They're
all perverts!"

Genma had leapt at his son, ready to subdue him immediately.

Ranma smirked evilly. "DRILL BRAND!"

Explosions seemed to fill the Tendo home.

Looking around him with a satisfied air, Ranma dusted his
hands and walked
away from the smouldering crater that was once a house and
dojo.

His fiancee threw rubble off of her in order to rise up.
"Hold it you!
You're not getting away with this!"

"FREEZE ARROW!"

Akane blinked from where she was imbedded in a pillar of
ice.

Genma began trying to sneak up on the boy. He wasn't ready
to let his
retirement go just yet.

"FIREBALL!" Ranma said without even looking. "Not gonna
catch me twice with
that. Takin' Ranma Saotome prisoner ain't exactly a smart
move."

Ranma vanished down the street, whistling a little tune as
he walked.

After a few more minutes the rubble shifted and Nabiki and
Kasumi climbed
out of the crater.

"I'd say he was even less happy about this situation than we
were,"
suggested Nabiki, wondering if anything survived from her
wardrobe.

"..." Kasumi looked towards where her kitchen used to stand.

Nabiki let out a deep breath. "Come on, Kasumi. I think I
can find us a
place to stay while the house is being rebuilt."

"Well, I *did* want to get out of the house more," Kasumi
said in reply. "I
just didn't have quite this resolution in mind."

"SA-O-TO-ME!" Soun pulled himself out of the wreckage.

"Let's go get a drink, Tendo, this has been a really rough
day." The
smouldering and blackened Genma wondered why this sort of
thing happened to
him. He was the most reasonable person he knew, he didn't
deserve this.

"Then we can plan on how to get that ungrateful son of yours
back," agreed
Soun.

Akane blinked repeatedly as she realized that she had been
left alone and it
was getting darn cold in here.

----------

The cat blinked. "Hold the phone, Jackson."

"That's Hermes. Call me Mercury and everyone will start
looking for that
pathetic little blueberry."

"Ranma's a 'Slayers' type mage, fairly high level? That's
been done before.
Not very often with a nasty sense of humor either. Who'd you
get for the
daddy?" Toltiir looked around. "HIM?!"

"What if Xellos had raised Ranma," said Hermes. "Terrible
Tragic Story. At
least for anyone who crosses him."



-----------
"Look within yourself. Within is a fountain of good, and it
is always ready
to bubble up, if you always delve." - Marcus Aurelius


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Rick Robinson
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If violence is not solving your
problems you're just not using enough of it.

     Misato

"I guess I'm just an old-fashioned sentimentalist at heart.
I refuse
 to accept a no-win scenario.  I hate the thought of a
universe without
 justice.  If the maneuverings of dark powers can't be
exposed and
 defeated by the pure of heart, then there's no point in
anything.  I
 can't believe that."
                               -- Benjamin Hutchins



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