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Jeffrey "OneShot:" Wong




  When the dust cleared, Shinji and Urd were a safe distance away, Urd
moved over by where Rei stood. Since Ranma needed to get to Urd, perhaps
there was a chance Rei might have an opportunity to strike him down with
the Lance when he close to her when he approached the unconscious Urd.
This was just in case Ranma had decided to ignore fighting him and head
straight for Urd that is.
  When the dust cleared out, Ranma had an annoyed look on his face as he
knelt in the middle of the small crater and looked up toward Shinji,
having seen what he had done.
  Ranma stood and climbed out of the crater as Shinji nervously watched.
 
  




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  "R-Ranma!" Shinji stammered.
  Ranma regarded Shinji rather curiously, showing no signs of animosity
nor friendship toward the young man. 
  "Um, I'm not going to letcha hurt Urd anymore," Shinji said.
  "And you intend to stop me?" Ranma sneered.
  "Yeah," Shinji replied, slowly beginning to circle Ranma.
  Ranma stood where he was, regarding Shinji cautiously, unaware of what
he was up to. However, Ranma started moving as well, pacing in the same
direction as Shinji, making it seem like they were walking toward the
side in the same direction.
  Shinji stopped, the color draining from his face. This was quite
unexpected. What was even worse was that there was a chance that Ranma
had already caught on to his and Rei's plan, what with Ranma being so
darn perceptive.
  Figuring it was a fluke, Shinji tried to circle Ranma was again, Ranma
also stepping in the same direction as he.
  Ranma narrowed his eyes on Shinji. He then looked over toward Rei and
Urd where he saw Rei holding a weapon. The gears in his mind started
turning. A moment later, he suddenly realized what was going on, that
Shinji was most likely trying to distract him so the girl could use the
weapon on him when he wasn't looking.
  Ranma stopped.
  Shinji stopped as well.
  Is he reading my moves, Shinji wondered. Does he know what's going on?
Should   I try and improvise or go with the original plan?
  Figuring it was better to go with the original plan, what with the fact
that he had no contingency plan to go on, he decided to start circling
him once again.
  Ranma remained standing, watching cautiously.
  Before long, Shinji managed to circle around Ranma so that Ranma's back
was toward Rei as he continued to face the young man. 
  "Now!!" Shinji shouted toward Rei. 
  Rei didn't hesitate for one second as she threw the Lance. 
  Shinji was shocked when he saw her launch the weapon like the way an
Olympic athlete would launch a javelin, throwing the Lance with
tremendous force, so much that the ground below split from the speed,
much like the way water would part when a plane flew over it.
  To Shinji's surprise, Ranma bobbed toward the right where the Lance
flew right by where he was a second ago, missing him completely. The
Lance flew right past Shinji where it hit the ground at a sharp angle and
became partially imbedded in it, landing a good hundred or so yards
behind Shinji.
  Shinji's eyes widened as he realized what had just happened. 
  Ranma had somehow known about their plan and dodged at the very last
second, Rei missing because of that.
  This led Shinji to realize just formidable an opponent Ranma was. Ranma
was easily capable of realizing the trap they had set simply from
observing his surroundings. The fact that Shinji was seeing Ranma's
perception was unnerving.
  "Pathetic," Ranma sneered at their failed attempt.
  Shinji gulped, his mind racing as he wondered what he should do next. 
  Rei seemed to know her role as she seemed to recover and realize she
had missed. Without showing any sign of surprise, she headed in the
general direction of where the Lance had impaled the ground, taking care
to circle around Ranma in the process.
  Ranma, realizing where Rei was headed and believing her having the
weapon might be a threat, decided to block her path. He turned his back
toward Shinji and stepped toward the side to block Rei.
  Rei stopped dead in her tracks. Although her face showed no signs of
worry, she did find herself nervous as to what she should do. She knew
that Ranma had now turned his attention on to her. 
  Ranma dodging, resulting in her missing him with the Lance, wasn't a
part of the plan. Even worse, Ranma turning his attention on to her meant
she could not get the Lance without having to deal with him first.
  She glanced past Ranma where she caught sight of Shinji running in the
direction of the Lance. Seeing this, she realized that Shinji was going
to try and retrieve the Lance in hopes of wielding it himself.
  I need to distract Ranma, Rei thought.
  "Where do you think you're going?" Ranma said, slowing taking steps
toward her.
  Rei didn't bother walking backwards in an attempt to keep a constant
distance between them. Even if she tried to keep a gap between them, Rei
knew it was useless. Ranma could cover that distance in a fraction of a
second and land a killing blow on her. Since it was useless to even
attempt to do anything against him, she stood still and awaited for him
to reach her.
  "Do you remember me?" Rei asked, already knowing the answer.
  "No," he replied.
  "We used to be one and the same," she said. 
  "I don't care," he answered coldly.
  Rei glanced past Ranma where she caught sight of Shinji as he attempted
to removed the Lance from the ground.
  The Lance didn't budge no matter how hard he tried to lift it.
  Shinji had a panicked look on his face as he realized that he was no
better off trying to lift the Lance now than before. He was not going to
be able to used the Lance no matter what.
  He and Rei made eye contact.
  'I'll use the Lance. Just distract Ranma.' Shinji saw Rei's eyes
convey. He didn't need to hear her say the words to know what was up.
  Shinji gave up trying to lift the Lance and faced Ranma's back. At the
moment, Ranma was facing Rei, his attention on her and not Shinji.
  "L-leave here alone!" Shinji stammered through all his nervousness.
  Ranma turned his attention toward Shinji. When he did, Rei slowly began
to circle around Ranma.
  "I'm your opponent!" Shinji said, picking up a rock and throwing it
toward Ranma with extreme force.
  To Shinji's surprise, Ranma didn't flinch as he brought a hand up and
caught the rock before it struck him. He then began to flick it up and
down in his hand.
  Shinji gulped, wondering what Ranma was going to do with the rock.
However, before he could react, Ranma threw the rock right back at
Shinji, hitting him right in the chest.
  The rock pierced right through Shinji's chest and heart, shattering his
spine upon exit. Shinji fell backwards and on to the ground, a delayed
reaction to Ranma's projectile. 
  Sitting on the ground, Shinji looked down at his chest where he saw a
hole in his shirt where the rock had ripped through. Looking down and in
to the hole, he saw no wound, the devastating injuries sustained having
miraculously healed.
  Not really knowing what had happened, Shinji had a funny feeling that
he didn't manage to dodge the rock in time. Of course, the only
indication of it was the hole in the front of his shirt. It wasn't as if
he felt the pain that usually accompanied such a wound.
  Ranma narrowed his eyes as he noticed Shinji getting back up to his
feet. He knew he had inflicted a fatal wound on that mortal so why was it
possible that he was getting back up? That defied even Ranma's own sense
of logic.
  Confused, Ranma stood where he was, trying to figure out what had just
happened. It didn't last long thought before Ranma surmised that Shinji
seemed to have the same powers as him.
  So, conventional means can't stop him, Ranma thought. Well, I guess
I'll have to do with my bare hands then. Perhaps he can be hurt in the
same fashion as Urd.
  Ranma glanced over his shoulder toward where Rei was and saw that she
had managed get far enough away from him and was now currently making her
way over to where the Lance was. 
  Not really worried about what that girl was capable of, what with the
fact that she was going to try and use a conventional weapon on him,
Ranma decided it was best to focus his attention on Shinji. If Shinji had
powers similar to him, then perhaps he could be a threat.
  Ranma started walking toward Shinji. If Shinji was going to be a thorn
in his side, then it was best that he be dealt with first.
  Urd was unconscious so she wasn't going anywhere.
  Wait a minutes, Ranma realized. Why was he even bothering with Shinji
anyway? His main objective was killing Urd. Shinji was merely an obstacle
that could be avoided. 
  Realizing this, Ranma decided to turn his attention away from Shinji
and on to Urd as she lay unconscious a good distance away from him.
  "Oh shit!" Shinji gasped as he saw Ranma heading toward Urd.
  Shinji swallowed the lump in his throat as he dashed toward Ranma. He
needed to stop Ranma somehow, in any way possible.
  Glancing toward the side, he saw Rei picked the Lance back up out of
the ground a good distance away. If she was going to attempt using the
Lance a second time, she would need to get closer to where the action was
or risk missing Ranma once again.
  Shinji ran toward Ranma as Ranma walked away from him. Not really
knowing what to really do, he figured it was best to attack him from
behind. If this Ranma was anything like the Ranma he knew, then that
meant he was extremely open to being hit from behind.
  He ran toward Ranma's back, fighting the urge to run in the opposite
direction and away from him. 
  Just as Shinji bent at the waist, keeping his head low, and was about
to dive toward Ranma's back, Ranma turned around to face the young man. 
  Without showing any signs of surprise, Ranma extended a hand and
pressed down on the back of Shinji's neck. Doing so made Shinji lose his
balance, his forward momentum and Ranma's hand too much for him to remain
afoot.
  Shinji ended up falling down flat on his stomach right by Ranma's feet,
Ranma crouching down by where he was, his hand still on Shinji's neck,
pressing his face in to the ground.
  "You really think something like that would work on me?" Ranma sneered,
"How asinine,"
  Ranma stood back up and waited for Shinji to get back to his feet. 
  As Shinji tired to get back up, Ranma brought an elbow down on the back
of Shinji's head, sending him in to the ground with such force that a
massive crater twenty-feet in diameter was formed.
  Ranma ended up losing balance where he fell down and on top of Shinji
as the crater was formed.
  When the ground stopped shaking, Ranma got back to his feet and
proceeded to climb up and out of the crater. To his surprise, he didn't
make it far before he was stopped as a hand closed over one of his
ankles.
  Ranma turned his attention toward what was holding one of his ankles
and found himself looking at a bloody Shinji.
  Shinji was hurt badly. He didn't know why, but his powers didn't seem
to protect him from that blow to the back of his head. He was still
feeling the effects of being hit by such a devastating elbow and it made
him feel very nauseous. His vision was slightly blurred as it seemed like
he was fading in and out of consciousness.
  Little did Shinji know that attacks inflicted on him by Ranma could not
be brushed off like other attacks from different people. This was because
Ranma's attacks had divine properties and Shinji's powers did not protect
him from such attacks. In a way, it was as if Shinji's own powers were
being cancelled out by Ranma's own. As to how Shinji was even able to
remain conscious after being hit so hard, no one knew, not even Ranma or
Shinji himself.
  Ranma reached down and grabbed Shinji by the hair, picking him up.
  Shinji screamed as he gripped at Ranma's extended hand and tired to
pull himself up to alleviate the weight pulling at his hair.
  Before he knew it, Shinji found himself being slammed down face-first
hard on the ground, the wind getting knocked out of him. 
  When Ranma let go and looked down at Shinji, Shinji coughed several
times, trying desperately to catch his breath. He found himself looking
at the ground as he pushed himself back up on to his hands and knees.
  Looking down at the ground, Shinji could see a small puddle of blood
forming from the blood falling from his mouth and nose and various gashes
all around his face.
  Shinji winced in pain, completely unused to this level of pain. He had
sparred against Ranma before, but had never managed to remain conscious
after receiving such devastating attacks. He was usually bestowed
unconsciousness long before he could suffer this badly.
  It was disgusting just how nasty this Ranma could be. Ranma was
fighting with every intent to kill. This was far worse than some
so-called sparring match. It was as if it was a sparring match gone
terribly wrong where Ranma wanted to teach Shinji a lesson where he had
no idea what it was.
  Shinji looked up slightly and saw the bottom of Ranma's legs as Ranma
stood where he was looking down at his opponent. 
  I need to continue to distract Ranma, Shinji thought. Rei is counting
on me. Everyone is counting on us stopping him. 
  With a burst of strength and renewed energy, Shinji banished the pain
coursing through his body and dove toward Ranma's legs. This surprised
Ranma because he had been momentarily surprised that Shinji was still
able to remain conscious.
  Shinji grabbed Ranma's waist, wrapping his arms around his waist where
he intertwined his fingers by the small of Ranma's back. Following
through with his execution, Shinji tightened his hold over Ranma's waist,
the act making Ranma involuntarily bend backwards at the waist.
  Shinji took that opportunity to lean forward, bringing his right leg
forward and wrapping it around the back of one of Ranma's legs to prevent
him from regaining his balance. 
  He did all of that in one fluid motion, ending up bringing his weight
down on Ranma and falling down to the ground along with him. 
  Unfortunately for Shinji, he had not anticipated in actually managing
to tackle Ranma to the ground, let alone Ranma reacting to such a
technique.
  The moment Ranma's back hit the ground, he arched his back, bringing
Shinji's forward momentum continuously forward where they ended up
tumbling, eventually resulting in Ranma coming to rest on top of Shinji.
  Shinji's eyes widened as he suddenly realized Ranma had reversed the
takedown move and was now in a very advantageous position, Ranma in a
mounted position on top of him.
  Ranma smirked as he looked down at Shinji and noticed the panicked look
on the young man's face. 
  Without a moment's hesitation, Ranma punched Shinji right in the face,
the impact sending Shinji's head cocking backward and hitting the ground
below him. The punches rattled Shinji's brain in his skull and made him
see more and more white spots with every successive punch.
  Shinji instinctively brought his hands up in an attempt to shield his
face from the punches raining down on him. When he did, Ranma seized his
right arm and pivoted his entire body around it, bringing one leg up and
around over Shinji's face, executing an armbar.
  However, much to Ranma's and even Shinji's own surprise, Shinji's body
moved under its own accord, rolling toward the side along with Ranma,
somehow managing to snake his way out of the attempt armbar before it
could be administered fully. Doing so resulted in Ranma's loss of hold on
Shinji's arm as he rolled on the ground and back up to his feet, Shinji
rolling to his feet as well.
  Ranma had an amused look on his face, hiding his surprise at just how
skilled Shinji was. It looked more along the lines as if Ranma had been
toying with Shinji all along.
  Where the hell is Rei, Shinji thought, breathing heavily. 
  Shinji's legs were shaking, threatening to give out under his own
bodyweight. Blood trickled freely from his mouth and nose, his lips cut
up badly from his own teeth from when he was being punched. His right arm
hung rather limply by his side, the slight hyperextension of his elbow
before he broke out of the armbar hold causing him intense pain.
 He couldn't believe how much his arm hurt. To have is own moves used
against him made things much more difficult and put things in
perspective. It felt like he was fighting a astronomically more skilled
version of himself. His assumption that Ranma would not use grapple move
on him, what with Ranma preferring straight-up punches and kicks, was
totally wrong. Ranma was so versatile that he could immediately change
his fighting style to suit the situation.
  Shinji was screwed. He could not change his fighting style as easily.
He had gotten used to using grapple moves over the past few months that
it was hard for him to break away from it.
  Ranma dashed toward Shinji, executing a roundhouse at the young man,
hitting him in the head before he could even react. The move was so fast
that Shinji didn't even know what hit him until he slid to a stop
part-way up the crater.
  Oh god, is this how skilled a fighter Ranma really is, Shinji thought
as he slowly got back up to his feet. I can barely even see his attacks.
Whenever I sparred against him, I could see him attacking me and at least
try and dodge or react to it. Has he been holding back that much all this
time?
  Shinji got back to his feet and staggered a few times, clutching at his
ribs. It hurt to breath. A couple of his ribs were broken. The fact that
he felt the pain and that his ribs didn't heal made it realize that his
powers weren't going to help him anymore. Either Ranma was hitting him
with such powerful blows that his own powers have trouble compensating in
healing him, or Ranma's own powers were canceling out his own. It was a
good chance it was the latter.
  When Shinji looked up to see where Ranma was, he saw Ranma standing
right in front of him.
  "Die!" Ranma sneered.
  Ranma executed another roundhouse toward Shinji's side. 
  Shinji, throwing caution in to the wind, noticed the position of
Ranma's grounded foot and assumed that he was going to kick him and
attempted to block it even before the move was executed. He raised one of
his legs up, pointing his shin toward the shin of Ranma's incoming leg.
  Their shins collided with one another. Shinji was sent flying backwards
where hit the incline of the crater outline and tumbled right out of it,
landing a short distance away on his back.
  Shinji sat upright as he felt this burning sensation enveloping his leg
and looked down at it. To his surprise, the bones of his shin wasn't
broken. This was all due to the fact that Shinji was too light and the
force of the impact sent him flying before the bone broken.
  Unfortunately for him, even though his bones weren't broken, it felt
like they were as he rolled around in a fetal position rubbing at his
shin with on hand, clutching at his ribs with the other.
  Through the tears of pain, Shinji glance toward the side where he saw
Rei quickly making her way toward where he was.
  Rei rushed to his side and dropped the Lance in the process.
  "Are you okay?" she asked, concern in her voice. She couldn't help but
feel like the roles had been reversed, that they were back on their own
world meeting for the very first time, in the EVA bay, right before
Shinji was to be sent out to fight an Angel in Unit-01 for the very first
time. She had been in obvious pain when he rushed to her side after she
had fallen out of her hospital bed after she was wheeled in to the EVA
bay. 
  "I-I c-can't go on..." Shinji said in a faint voice. He wanted to close
his eyes and go to sleep.
  Rei gently tried to help him to his feet but he seemed unable to do so.
The broken ribs was having a devastating effect on him and it took all
his energy just to breath.
  "We have to stop Ranma," Rei said in a worried voice. She had no idea
what kind of pain Shinji was in, but she was very sure that it was
excruciating.
  Shinji forced himself to get back up to his feet. When he did and
looked in the direction of the crater, he saw Ranma slowly making his way
out of it and toward him.
  When he saw Ranma take a mad dash toward him, Shinji shoved Rei out of
the way. A second later, Shinji was hit in the chest with hard shoulder
ram, falling backwards and on to the ground a short distance away.
  Gasping for air, Shinji was unable to do anything as Ranma walked up to
him and grabbed one of his ankles. 
  Shinji gave out a yelp of surprise when Ranma picked him up by the
ankle and slammed him back down on the ground, only to pick him back up
and slam him back down a second time.
  Satisfied that Shinji was finally done and over with, Ranma turned his
attention toward Rei as she picked the Lance up and faced him.
  Taking several steps toward Rei, Ranma was caught completely off-guard
when he was hit hard from behind. This caused him to stagger several
steps forward trying to regain his balance.
  Staggering forward, he looked down toward his waist where he saw
Shinji's arms wrapped around him from behind. He suddenly realized Shinji
was trying to tackle him to the ground.
  "You don't stay down do you?!" Ranma sneered.
  Pissed off, Ranma reached down and gripped both of his hands on each of
Shinji's forearms and squeezed them hard. This caused Shinji to scream in
pain as he lost his grip on Ranma's waist.
  With Shinji no longer holding on to Ranma from behind, Ranma shoulder
threw Shinji over his head back down to the ground. The impact caused yet
another crater, the wind further knocked out of Shinji's body.
  Wanting to finish him off once and for all, Ranma straightened the
fingers of his hand in to a knife-hand. 
  Ranma sneered, slicing his hand through the air and right in to
Shinji's chest, his steel-like fingers piercing right through Shinji's
ribcage.
  Shinji looked up where he saw Rei standing nearby, Lance in hand.
  He smiled toward Ranma. 
  This confused Ranma as Ranma regarded him.
  Eyes becoming unfocused as his life blood left his body through the
gaping wound around Ranma's embedded hand, Shinji slowly raised his arms
and gripped it around Ranma's forearm, tightening his grip, preventing
Ranma from being able to pull his hand back out of Shinji's chest.
  With his last once of strength, Shinji twisted his body while still
gripping Ranma's arm, the motion causing Ranma to fall to the ground
where Shinji rolled over and ended up on top of him.
  "Fucking die already!!!" Ranma tried to jerk his arm free, using his
free hand to try and shove Shinji off him, much to no avail.
  "Y-you first..." Shinji said in his dying words, giving himself to
death. At that brief moment of clarity, Shinji had finally realized that
the prophecy of the Lance of Longinus was going to come true, that he was
going to die in tragic fashion. 
  Everything finally made sense to him. This was for the best anyway.
Eventually, he himself would become corrupted by his own powers and it
was best that that not happen, that he not become the man he had to
destroy.
  He shouted, "Rei, kill us both!!"
  Without a moment's hesitation, the Lance plunged right through Shinji's
own back, impaling him completely and exiting from his own chest where it
impaled Ranma in his own chest as well.
  Ranma's eyes widened as he looked down and saw a Lance impaling his
chest. His heart was pierced as the Lance exited out of his body, spine
shattered in the process. 
  Ranma looked up where he saw Shinji's cloudy but determined eyes
looking down at him, the young man's own blood flowing freely from his
wounds and dripping down on to Ranma.
  "I-I'd rather die by Rei's own h-hands than your own!" Shinji sneered,
trying to remain alive.
  Ranma struggled to free himself, but Shinji's hands held fast to his
forearms. Even when he broke all of the bones in Shinji's hand with in
his free hand, Ranma realized that it was useless, that he was going to
die.
  The wound had been fatal and there was no way for him to escape death.
A moment of realization dawned on him. Why would he want to escape death
anyway? His ultimate death was his main objective all this time. Whether
it be death by Shinji's and Rei's own actions or destroying existence
through the death of Urd, it served the same purpose.
  He was going to be released.
  "Good job," Ranma said, smiling slightly.
  With that said, Ranma closed his eyes and died, happy to have finally
achieved death. Even though there was a chance he could be resurrected
once again since Urd was still alive, it was something that was now out
of his control. 
  Lance still impaled through his chest, Shinji weakly turned his head
where he saw this shocked and tearful look on Rei's chest. Seeing her
made him realize that Rei had made an ultimate decision that he could
not. Rei was so much better than he was and to be able to make such a
decision proved it.
  "I-I'm s-sorry," was all Rei could say, her emotions tumultuous.
  "I-I d-did well, didn't I?" Shinji asked, closing his eyes.
  Rei crouched down by Shinji's lifeless body.
  "Yes, you did,"

  Shinji opened his eyes.
  He was disoriented and didn't know what was going on or where he was.
  Looking around, he noticed that he was sitting in a bed located in what
looked like a huge open space with a dozen columns placed in a circular
fashion that were supporting a ceiling that wasn't there. The walls of
the room were so far away that they couldn't be seen. All that could be
seen was darkness. Little did he know that he was actually in the
'central headquarters' of Heaven.
  "Hello?" Shinji asked, looking around. 
  When no one answered, he thought about exactly where he was and how he
got there. It didn't take too long before he realized what had happened
to him previously. He remembered clearly his fight against Ranma and
having been killed in the process.
  "Am I in Hell?" Shinji gasped, looking around some more. 
  Was this what hell was like, complete and utter solitude for eternity?!
  "No, you're not in Hell," came a female voice.
  Shinji glanced around, wondering where the voice around. He yelped in
surprised when he turned around and found himself staring at the cleavage
of Urd's low-cut outfit. How she had appeared right behind him without
him knowing was something Shinji didn't understand.
  "U-Urd!" Shinji said, taking a step back in surprise, "You surprised
me,"
  Urd smiled warmly at Shinji, regarding him intently. This made him
blush and self-conscious of himself.
  "W-what?" he asked nervously.
  Urd continued to smile, "Nothing much. It's just amazing seeing how
much you've changed. Now that everything's done and over with and I'm
able to get a good look at you, I can finally see just how much you've
grown up since we last saw each other,"
  "Last saw each other? Be we saw each other only a few hours ago," he
said.
  Urd nodded, "True, but this was the first time I got the chance to get
a good look at you since all that has happened. Y'know, with Ranma and
all,"
  Shinji said nothing for a moment, "Um, where are we?"
  "We're in Heaven," Urd answered.
  "H-Heaven?!" Shinji said, remembering what had happened before, "D-does
that mean-"
  "Yep, you're dead," Urd said.
  The color drained from Shinji's face.
  Urd couldn't help but chuckle, "Don't worry. It's not as bad as you
think it is. True, you are dead, but this so-called Heaven is different
from what you think it is. Think of this place as a meeting place,"
  "Um, okay," Shinji was confused.
  "I'm here to explain everything to you," she said, "With us being here,
it's just the two of us so there's no interruptions. This is the same
'room' where I've talked to Ranma and Rei before when they showed up in
Heaven after they caused their respective Third Impact,"
  "Oh, okay," he said, sitting down on the bed.
  "First off, you and Rei succeeding in defeating Ranma," Urd said, "I
wish I had been conscious to see what you had done but from what I heard
from Rei, it was a pretty vicious one-sided battle all the way until the
end,"
  "Rei, where is she?" Shinji asked.
  Urd waved a dismissive hand, "She's fine. She's alive and well. She's
actually here in Heaven as well, just a different section. The entire
world was put on hold while I talk to you and explain everything,"
  "What about?"
  "Like what's going to happen now," she answered, "The world that you
know it no longer exists. I'm going to recreate it from scratch,"
  Shinji said nothing, listening intently.
  "The reason behind this meeting is to get things cleared up with you
and ask you for your decision," she continued on, "The world that you
left behind, it was seriously messed up. Nothing's good gonna come from
it. Too many lives were killed needlessly and I'm going to right that by
recreating it from scratch. I want to ask you for your input on from
where you want it recreated,"
  "What do you mean?"
  Urd smirked, "All the people that were killed, they're going to be
resurrected. That means you're going to be able to see all your friends
once again. You'd like that, right?"
  Shinji couldn't help but feel a great sense of happiness envelop him,
"Yes, I'd really like that,"
  "The world is going to be recreated from the moment when you left for
Emiko's world to get her back," Urd said, "That way, no one will
remembered what really happened. None of your friends will know about
them having been killed, and that world won't know of all the horrible
stuff that has happened to it, like the destruction of Unit-01 killing
billions,"
  "That sounds like a good idea," he said,  "But if you recreate that
world, doesn't that mean everything will repeat all over again?"
  Urd shook her head, "Yes, it will if I recreated it exactly. But for
this one, there are going to be a few changes,"
  "What changes?"
  "I plan on recreating the world from that point in time, but I'm gonna
have all your friends remember what had happened," she answered, "That
way it'll help make the blow to them less of an impact,"
  "What do you mean?" he asked.
  "Ranma requested that he not be resurrected," she said, "Ranma no
longer wants to take part in living on that world and wishes to stay here
in Heaven,"
  "What?!" Shinji's eyes widened. He truly believe that after all of
that, after all that had happened, everything would be returned back to
normal. He had no animosity toward Ranma for what had happened. He knew
Ranma had been a different person. 
  "Ranma's not coming back," Urd said, "After I'm done talking to you,
I'm going to be going over and talking to your friends. Basically, the
world will be recreated with only you and your friends knowing of what
really happened,"
  "But-" he began.
  Urd sighed, "Perhaps it's better that Ranma be here to explain it. I
hate being the middle-man, I mean the middle-person,"
  A portal suddenly appeared which surprised Shinji, causing him to
shield his eyes. When the light disappeared, Ranma was standing where the
portal used to be.
  "Yo," Ranma said.
  Shinji said nothing, not really knowing what to do. 
  "Don't worry," Ranma said, "I'm not the person you fought before. I'm
the Ranma from before all of this crap happened to you,"
  Shinji remained silent. Suddenly, tears started to flow down his
cheeks.
  "Hey, you okay?" Ranma asked, concerned.
  "I-I'm fine," Shinji said. He was actually shedding tears of happiness.
Even though Ranma looked like the same Ranma that tried killing him just
a short while ago, he knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that this was
the Ranma that he knew. It was his good friend, Ranma Saotome.
  "How come you don't want to come back home?" Shinji asked.
  "Because, my job is done," Ranma said, "I've accomplished what I was
originally meant to do and have decided to call it quits once and for
all,"
  "W-what do you mean?" Shinji asked, "What do you mean by your job is
done?"
  "First off, I'm really sorry for all that has happened," Ranma began,
"You shouldn't hafta go through what you had to go through,"
  "I-I don't think anyone should hafta go through what I went through,"
Shinji said.
  Ranma smirked, "I guess we're even,"
  Shinji gave a confused look, "What do you mean?"
  "Remember a while ago I mentioned that I know what would've happened to
you had I not showed up on your world?" Ranma began.
  Shinji nodded, "Yeah, you said that something really really bad
would've happened. But you never told me what,"
  "Well, I think it's about time you find out," Ranma said.
  Urd stepped forward, "Ranma, no! Don't!"
  "Sorry, but I'm not going to go on pretending," Ranma said, "It's about
time Shinji knows the truth about everything,"
  "W-what truth?" he asked, "What the heck are you all talking about,"
  "I'm sure over the course of this so-called adventure, you figured out
that, for some odd reason, everyone I seem to come in contact with's fate
seems to get disrupted when our paths cross,"
  Shinji nodded, "Yeah. I have noticed that. But that's because you
seemed to have escaped fate, and in you doing so, that's some kinda
contingency that was never supposed to occur,"
  Ranma nodded, "That's right. However, there's a much deeper underlying
factor to it that you don't know. It all centers around what happened to
you,"
  "I don�t understand," Shinji said.
  "There are basically two versions of you," Ranma said, "There's you,
and then there's the you that lived had I not showed up on your world
like I did,"
  "I still don't understand,"
  "Shinji, had I never shown up, your world would've been destroyed,"
Ranma said, "Everyone would've been wiped out. The only survivor would've
been you and Asuka and Rei and your mother,"
  "What?!" Shinji said, "M-my mother?!"
  "I'll explain," Ranma said, "Had I not showed up, your world would've
gone to Hell in a hand-basket. Seele would've actually succeeded in
causing the so-called Constructive Third Impact. The problem is that
Seele never anticipated that Third Impact is ultimately destructive no
matter what. Unlike our home world where Third Impact had occurred, your
world was never recreated and remained destroyed,"
  Shinji said nothing.
  "That's the thing about Third Impact that no one knows about," Ranma
said, "It ultimately destroys the world where it occurs. What needs to be
done afterwards is that it needs to be recreated afterwards.
Unfortunately, on your world, it was never recreated and only you and Rei
and Asuka and your mother survived. You were the only people left alive
on the entire planet. Everyone else died when they were turned to LCL
liquid,"
  "How does my mother fit in to this? She's dead," Shinji said.
  "You and Asuka survive," Ranma said, "But the thing is is that Asuka
actually possessed three souls, your mom's, Rei's, and Asuka's. In a
sense, you and Asuka, that is, Asuka possessing two separate souls, were
the only two people left on the entire planet,"
  Shinji was silent, totally speechless.
  "Neither of the two of you survived long after that, what with the fact
that there was nothing to keep you living since the world was utterly
destroyed," he said, "Picture it as nothing more than a tiny island with
nothing on it and a sea of LCL surrounding that island. Asuka died first
and you died soon afterwards,"
  "We starved to death?" Shinji asked.
  "Not quite," he said, "You two basically gave up living completely so
in a sense, you let your body die. Once your mind goes, your body soon
followed. The thing is is that right before you died, you made a dying
wish to God and it was answered,"
  "I did?" he asked.
  Urd stepped forward, her head hung low, "Yes, you did. I was the one
that relayed your dying wish to God before you died,"
  "What was my wish?" he asked.
  "That no one ever have to suffer such a fate as yourself," she
answered, "You didn't want an alternate version of yourself to suffer
like he did and that wish actually came true. In actuality, no one has
ever suffered such a fate as your other self had,"
  Shinji asked, "My dying wish was to have Third Impact prevented so
alternate versions of myself never suffer such a fate?"
  "Much like the way Asuka would go back and prevent Second Impact on an
alternate version of her world, Ranma did the same for his own world,
preventing the 'Nerima Massacre'," Urd said, "This is why you made such a
wish, because you never want yourself to ever suffer what you went
through. This wish caused a chain reaction,"
  "What kinda chain reaction?" Shinji asked, "I still don't understand,"
  "After I relayed your wish to God, he set everything in motion," Urd
said.
  "God killed my friends and family," Ranma said, showing no signs of
animosity toward a past that had passed by decades ago, "He set in motion
my inevitable path to end up on your world,"
  "What?!"
  Ranma gave a slight chuckle, "God works in mysterious ways. He made me
go through what I went through so that I will eventually discover the one
item that would mysteriously send me to your world. During a trip to
China to cure me of my curse, I discovered a box that should never have
existed on that world. That box sent me to your world. Guess who placed
that box there?"
  "God?" Shinji asked.
  Ranma nodded, "Yep. Now that I think about it, it kinda makes sense.
Exactly where that box came from and how it sent me to your world was
something that could never be explained away. Now we know why, because it
was God's will that I find it and get sent to your world,"
  "B-but-"
  "Why did He go and kill my friends and family?" Ranma asked, "Because,
once again, God works in mysterious ways. It seems like in him doing so
made me become what I am, where I would be of use when I did go to your
world. Had I been sent to your world before I trained for all those
decades in China on a training trip, I would've been of no help. I
would've been killed shortly after I got there, most likely killed when I
was caught up in the blast when the Angel self-destructed,"
  "Oh man," Shinji gasped.
  "In a way, your wish killed my friends and family so that I would end
up showing up in your world and playing my given role, that being the
prevention of Third Impact," Ranma said, "Don't worry, I don't have a
grudge or nothing. I'm no longer bothered about what had happened to me.
I'm content with the knowledge that I was of great use because of the
death of my family. Heck, if you think about it, I saved your world,"
  Ranma chuckled. Of course, he did so because it helped hide the hurt
that still existed within in. He would always have a pain in his heart
for the loss of his friends and family in the 'Nerima Massacre'.
  "I was basically a tragic tool sent to save your world," Ranma
shrugged, "Of course, I never knew that and neither did anyone else. Only
God knew. Heh, that kinda puts the saying 'God knows...' in perspective
since it's actually very true.
  "So what happened after that?" Shinji asked.
  "Well, I continued on with my life," Ranma said, "After my so-called
adventure on your world, I brought you and everyone back to my world.
Whatever I did after that, didn't really matter since I had did what I
was supposed to do. I was free to continue on with my life. I found out
about my 'role' in everything the night when I died in the hospital,
after Asuka and I came back home after we prevented Second Impact,"
  Urd said, "Yes. I told him everything,"
  "I-is that why your original self chose to die that night?" Shinji
asked, eyes wide.
  Ranma nodded, "Yeah. He was pissed off when he found out he was a tool
but eventually learned to accept it. After he accepted what he was, he
decided it was best to die so he can be with my friends and family that
had died during the 'Nerima Massacre'. Keep in mind that that was my
original self. He's dead and remains dead. I, on the other hand, was
recreated from him so I'm not really the real Ranma,"
  "You are to me and everyone else," Shinji commented.
  "I may seem like it, but I'm not," Ranma said, "I'm not the original
Ranma. No matter what kinda a person I am, I'm never going to be the
original one. The original will always be considered the first and the
best. Me, I'm just some alternate version of an alternate version of an
alternate version of the original. I'm actually three degrees of
separation from the original,"
  "What do you mean?"
  "There was the original that died that night in the hospital," Ranma
began counting on his fingers, "There was the one that was born from
Unit-01 that died fighting the Angels. There was the one that was
mysteriously resurrected but in Lina's and Luna's and Emiko's world. He
disappeared when he caused Third Impact on the world where the previous
Ranma had been born. There was the Ranma that emerged from the one where
Ranma and Rei merged as one person. And last but not least, there's me,
recreated once again after the death of that Ranma,"
  "It doesn't matter, you're still the same," Shinji said.
  "The original Ranma died a human death because he was human," Ranma
said, "I'm not even human anymore. I'm some bastardized version of the
human Ranma, the Angel Ranma, and God Ranma. I happen to possess the same
memories and personality as the original, but I'm not him,"
  "It doesn't matter,"
  "Well it does to me," Ranma said, "That's why I've decided I'm not
coming back,"
  "No, don't say that," Shinji said.
  "Sorry," he said, "I'm going to assume to role of the original Ranma.
I've accomplished my goal of saving you and your world and have decided
that it was best that I no longer remain alive on your world anymore,"
  "Why do you hafta think like that?" Shinji said, "Why not just continue
on living?"
  Ranma smirked, "Cause I did try and this is what it got me. Keep in
mind that I wasn't aware of my role after I got back from the world where
I was born from Unit-01. That's why I was so upset when I found out my
original self died. Had I known he chose that after I found out about his
role, I wouldn't feel all that upset. When I died fighting those Angels,
I was prepared to remain dead, forever. But what happens? I get brought
back by Rei after she becomes God. Once again, I'm running around alive
and well. This time, I hafta go out and becoming God myself to get to Rei
so I could rescue her. When I was God, I found out about who I am and why
the 'Nerima Massacre' happened. After I came back, I decided that I would
try and live my life since the original Ranma had accomplished his goal
and I want not that same Ranma. What happens? This happens and you are
forced to do whatever you could do to kill my corrupted self, all because
I decided to continue on living instead of remaining dead. Now that I
have the choice again, I'm choosing to remain dead,"
  "But-" Shinji began.
  "I'm sorry, but that's my decision," he said, "You and everyone else
don't need me around anymore. You'll all do fine without me,"
  "But-" Shinji tried to say.
  "Before we part, I'd like you to do me a favor," Ranma said.
  "What?"
  "I want you to carry my memories with me back to our world while I
stay," Ranma said.
  "Your memories?" Shinji's eyes widened.
  Ranma nodded, "Yeah. Everyone's gonna be asking you a barrage of
questions about what's happened to me so it's better that you know what I
experienced what I experience to realize why I'm making the decision I'm
making. That way, you'll be able to answer on my behalf without having to
second guess or assume why I made that decision,"
  Shinji was silent.
  "Will you do me this favor?" Ranma asked, "I feel a bit bad that no one
will every really know everything that I've been through. For instance,
you only know about me after you met me. You don't know anything about my
past or where I came from. At least this way, at least there's some kinda
legacy of me being left behind,"
  Shinji was silent for several moment.
  "Don't worry, my memories won't affect you or nothing," Ranma said,
"You'll remember it like you were there but you'll know that it wasn't
you that did it. That way, it won't make you think you've done things you
haven't done. Will you do me this favor?"
  "Fine," Shinji said after a long pause, "I'll do it,"
  Ranma took a step toward and touched Shinji's forehead with his hand.
  Shinji's eyes widened as all of Ranma's memories were transferred to
his. 
  A few minutes elapsed as Shinji stood very still, trying to comprehend
the images and memories that had flooded his mind.
  "You okay?" Ranma asked.
  "Man, you shouldn'tve done that," Urd scolded Ranma.
  "Bah, if it fucks him up, we can undo it," Ranma grinned, "That's one
of the benefits about having powers of God,"
  "You do know I'm gonna remove those powers after everything is done and
over with, right?" Urd said, "There's no need to have two Gods,"
  Ranma shrugged, "Go right ahead and remove all my powers. It's not like
I need them after all of this is done and over with,"
  "I guess you have a point," Urd nodded.
  Ranma turned toward Shinji, "Shinji, are you all right? Say something?"
  "Yeah," Shinji said, "I think so,"
  "Good," Ranma said, "So, now that you share the same memories as
myself, now you know why I'm staying?"
  Shinji was silent for several moments. If he said no, then he would be
lying and Ranma would know right away. In reality, now that he knew
exactly what kind of life Ranma had, he could confidently agree that he
himself would choose the same path as Ranma.
  An image of Ranma's past, when he was cursed, flashed through Shinji's
mind.
  Shinji smirked, deep in thought, "Wow, so that's what you looked like
when you were in your cursed form. I knew about how you turned in to a
girl, but I never suspected it would be someone so cute,"
  Ranma narrowed his eyes toward Shinji, "Ha ha,"
  "Are you sure it has to be this way?" Shinji became very serious, "Are
you sure you won't reconsider coming back?"
  Ranma nodded, "I'm sure. I'm staying right here,"
  "What will you do?" Shinji asked, looking about, "It doesn't look like
you can do much around here,"
  Ranma said, "What you see isn't Heaven. It's just an interpretation of
it that you are currently seeing. Heaven is more of a state of mind than
a place. Anyway, I'll chill up here in Heaven with Urd. Isn't that
right?"
  He placed an arm around Urd's shoulder and grinned toward her.
  "Whatever you say," Urd said, blushing slightly and twitching a bit.
She didn't really like Ranma acting all familiar toward her. She was
still pissed at him for attacking her before like that, even if it really
wasn't him. Maybe over time, she could grow to get used to him. He
definitely added an element of spontaneity that she probably wouldn't
mind having around.
  "Um," Shinji tried to think of something. Everything was moving so
fast.
  "Yeah?"
  "What's going to happen to Asuka, Misato, and Ritsuko?" he asked, "The
ones that I brought from the other world,"
  Urd said, "They'll remember everything. Shortly after you get back
home, they will show back up in your life. As to what happens after that,
it's up to you,"
  "Oh. Okay," Shinji said, trying to think of more questions. He didn't
want to part company just yet. 
  He asked, "Why I don't understand is why you would choose to stay dead
when you've yet to have children,"
  Ranma said, "C'mon, you know why,"
  "Because the only version of you that could have children died in the
hospital," Shinji answered his own question.
  Ranma nodded, "Yep. That's why I chose to adopt you, Rei, and Asuka as
my own children,"
  "How come you never told us that? That on paper, you adopted us without
us knowing?" Shinji asked.
  Ranma shrugged, "No reason. I wanted it to be considered more along the
lines as your benefactor, but adopting you guys would have more benefits
in the future, since that would make you guys legal heirs to the Anything
Goes School of Martial Arts. Whether or not you guys decide to take it
over is entirely up to you guys,"
  Shinji was silent. He already knew that. He knew everything about Ranma
now. All the mysteries surrounding him had been explained away in the
memories transferred to him. Even mysteries like who he loved or why he
never truly settled down had been answered in those memories.
  "I never would've thought you were in love with-" Shinji began.
  Ranma interrupted Shinji, "Just because you know all the answers
doesn't mean you should go telling everyone everything about me. Telling
her that I fell in love with her shortly after I met her would only make
her very sad because I know full well that she is in love with me,"
  "So why dontcha go back and spend the rest of your life with her?" he
asked.
  "You already know why," Ranma said, sighing, "You already know all the
answers to the questions you wanna ask me so there is no need to ask any
anymore,"
  "Still," Shinji said.
  Ranma smirked, "When the girls back home start barraging you with
personal questions about me, don't give away too much. It's best to leave
some behind  some unanswered questions to me,"
  "I understand," Shinji said.
  Ranma smiled warmly, "Well, I guess now that we've got everything
cleared, it's best you be sent on your way,"
  Shinji tried to think of more things to say.
  "Well, this is where we say goodbye," Ranma said.
  He stepped forward and gave Shinji a warm hug, much like the way a
father hugged a son. That was one of the most shocking revelations about
receiving Ranma's memories, that all this time, Ranma viewed Shinji and
Asuka and Rei as his children. All this time, he had thought Ranma viewed
them as friends that needed looking over until they were out of the
house.
  When they both broke their embrace, they glanced over toward Urd where
they saw tears trickling from her eyes.
  Urd, realizing that she was being watched, quickly wiped at her eyes,
"Something got in my eye,"
  Ranma smirked, "Yeah, they're called tears,"
  Urd said nothing. It was such an emotional moment that she had trouble
steeling her emotions. 
  "Shinji, you did real well," Urd walked up to Shinji and gave him a
hug, "You have my deepest gratitude. I'm forever in your debt and I'll be
sure to watch over you and make sure nothing bad happens to you or your
friends,"
  "Thanks," Shinji said, returning the embrace, "I'll keep that in mind,"
  Ranma grinned, "Man, aintcha lucky? You've got God on your side,
literally. Can't get any better than that, except, say, being God that
is,"
  "Well, Shinji," Ranma said, "Do you have any last words to say before
we part?"
  Shinji was at a loss of words, unable to form the questions and words
he wanted to say. There were a million things he wanted to say to him, to
ask him. Unfortunately, he couldn't form the words.
  "Will I ever see you guys again?" Shinji was able to ask after a long
pause.
  "No," Ranma said.
  Shinji was silent, still unable to form the words.
  "Well, I guess it's best we part. I wish you a happy life," Ranma said,
"I'll miss you and everyone else. It's been nice knowing you,"
  "T-take care, Ranma," was all that Shinji could say.
  Without that said, a bright flash of light appeared around Shinji and
enveloped him. 
  A second later, the light disappeared, Shinji along with it.
  Ranma had a sad look on his face as he turned toward Urd.
  "You do know it's still not too late to go back home," Urd said, "I can
send you back home just as easily as everyone else,"
  Ranma shook his head, "No thanks. I trained Shinji well. Let him
continue on my legacy,"
  "You knew this was going to happen, huh?" Urd asked.
  Ranma nodded, "Yeah. A long time ago. So long as you recreate the world
exactly like it was before, minus what happened that is,"
  Urd nodded, "I can do that. No problem. You've caused enough havoc on
worlds that I can do that with my eyes closed, what with my always having
to fix your mess,"
  Ranma chuckled, "Good. Then I have nothing to worry about,"
  "Whatcha mean?" Urd asked.
  "I wrote a letter a few years ago, during the time when my world was
being attacked by Angels," Ranma said, "It's addressed to Shinji. He will
receive it not too long from now,"
  "What's that letter say?" she asked.
  "It's a secret," Ranma smiled.
  "I'm God! You don't keep secrets from God!" Urd said, not liking having
secrets kept from her. Besides, be female made her love hearing secrets.
  Ranma smile.
  "Just watch over Shinji and you'll soon find out,"




<all ive got so far...>



Priss: I just noticed something.

Misato: That it's guaranteed that every guy that saw Ben Stiller get his
nut sack caught in his zipper in the movie, 'There's Something About
Mary', cringed in pain as if that had happened to them?

Priss: ....................

Misato: That Ranma doesn't have sex because he doesn't wanna suffer what
all guys suffer the morning after sex?

Priss: And what would that be?

Misato: The inability to piss straight. It's if there was a strand of
hair running vertically down the front of their pee-hole, and their
stream of piss goes both to the left and to the right but never straight
toward where they're aiming.

Priss: .................

Misato: That ain't it? 

Priss: No. I just wanted to say I noticed that it would suck being a
reindeer working for Santa Claus if you're not the one leading the sleigh
and you have trouble stopping quickly. Your nose would be in reindeer ass
all the time since Santa's constantly stopping at so many houses.

Misato: ...............





-OneShot
Jeffrey "OneShot" Wong
http://www.anime.sobhrach.com/~jeffwong/index.html






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