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Alright.  Having gotte feedback on the other ones, here goes the latest 
of Ranma 1/2: ....After All This Time?!.

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Episode 6:	"Here Comes the Rain Again"

(Nekohatten)

(We see Mousse standing staring at the door where Cologne has just 
vacated.  Anger is rising within him.  A boiling, senseless hatred of the 
unholy, evil little pogo'ing mummy.)

Mousse (shouting):	I! WILL! KILL! YOU!  YOU WILL NOT TAKE MY SHAMPOO FROM 
ME!

(He rushes out the door of Shampoo's room to find the ancient troll... 
unfortunately for him in his fury he had pushed up his glasses.)

(Ucchan's)

(Ukyou has place the puppy down and is now pacing.  She's quite visibly 
upset.  Something is nagging her quite badly.  She's, out of character 
for her angst in progress, whistling a happy tune.  Equally obvious is 
that she's worked her self up into a frenzy and has been at this for a 
while now.)

Ukyou (alternatingly mumbling and whistling):	It's (whistle a few notes) not 
(whistle a few more) NATURAL!!!  (She stops and screams pulling at her 
hair.  She looks upwards.)  WHY DID YOU DO THIS TO ME?!  AFTER ALL THIS 
TIME????  WHY?????????

(She begins ripping and smashing things with her spatula.  Tsu-chan looks 
terrified and scootles over to the spread newspapers and does his thing 
(You learn *QUICKLY* in a martial artist's household to use the 
newspapers when yer a mutt!).  Ukyou shreds her bed with methodical 
mania, cutting and smashing things...finally she stops.  Feathers and 
bits of stuffing are everywhere, covering everything.  She stops only 
because Tsu-chan started barking at her, breaking the spell.  She begins 
crying and scoops up Tsu-chan and curls into a ball on teh severly 
mutilated bed, pouring out tears.)

Ukyou (sobbing):	Ranchan...help me...(her voice gets slightly  
huskier, lower, for a moment) Acchan...(she dissolves into a flood of tears)

(Tendo's)

(The walls of the upper floor explode outwards.  The roof shudders, and 
shudders again.  One of the supports crumbles and the whole roof 
collapses on the upper floor, but amazingly (or as Nabiki notes, her 
improvements to the household since Ranma and Akane started to trash it 
have helped) next floor doesn't.)

Akane (in shock, as the explosion fades):	RANMA?!!

(She gets up and runs to the house.  Genma and Soun tackle her.)

Genma (trying with all his might to hold the young woman to the ground): 	
Akane, you can't go in there!

Soun(struggling just as much):	Listen to Saotome-kun, daughter!  
PLEASE!  (nearly lapsing into a bawling fit, pulls himself out as Akane 
nearly pulls herself free)

Akane (struggling hard to get to her Ranchan, wailing):	HE'S IN THERE!

(Nekohatten)

(Mousse rushes out into the corridor and down the hall.  He looks for 
Cologne, but cannot find her.  He rushes out in the resteraunt thinking 
to find her there, since she wasn't in the kitchen.  Seeing something 
believes to be the Ghoul he charges out the front door in pursuit.)

Mousse (in rage):	DIE, MUMMY!  (hooked chains and many, many 
weapons fly from under his sleaves as he races out the door in pursuit)  
FLEE WHILE YOU CAN, MUMMY!  (voice fading with distance)  I SHALL VANQUISH 
YOU!

Cologne (turning to a sad looking Shampoo who is carrying out a platter 
with bowls of ramen on it):	<What was that about?>

Shampoo (shrugging and looking a bit perplexed):	<Shampoo not 
know, ask blind Mousse!> (She turns and serves her customers.)

(Cologne shrugs.  Normally he calls her something along those lines, 
but...perhaps he ought to check whether he's really chasing her.  Oh 
well, no loss...)

(Ucchan's)

(Ukyou has fallen asleep, face still wet from her tears.  Tsu-chan has 
wiggled loose and attacks a pillow.  Ukyou doesn't notice, her exhaustion 
all encompassing.  Tsu-chan finally tires of his game and looks around, 
unsure what to do.  His eyes reach Ukyou and he barks startling Ukyou 
awake.  He barks more.  Ukyou pats him on his head and curls up once more 
and sleeps.  Tsu-chan can' stand that and pounces on her, grabbing her hair.)

Ukyou (grunting):	TSU-CHAN!  You naughty puppy!  STOP!  (she 
reaches for him, but he's out of reach.  She scoots towards him, but 
Tsu-chan isn't a stupid mutt and scoots back as well.  She finally grabs 
him and gets her hair back, covered in dog slobber).  You naughty, 
naughty boy!  (Tsu-chan leaps from her grasp and darts to the other side 
of the bed .  He barks at her.  She looks at him exasperated and dives 
for him, faking going one way, but actually going another, scooping him up.)
Tsu-chan no baka!  (She twaps his head and Tsu-chan nips her finger.  She 
yelps and drops him.  He, despite his small size, tackles her.  They 
wrestle in fun, worries forgotten for a time.)

(Tendo's)

(The two men continue to struggle with Akane.  Nodaka has joined the crew 
and still looks ill.  Kasumi is not with her though.  Nabiki, who has 
recovered, points to where Kodachi's eyeless, brainless, unoozing head 
is...but...)

Nabiki (gasping):	Guys...

(Akane, still struggling against genma and Soun)

Nodaka (looking at Nabiki strangely):	What am I supposed to see?  
There's not a thing on the stone house...let alone a ribbon at the mound's 
base...

(Then the sirens ring out, the police, fire department, and the like are 
on their way.  Kasumi seems to have kept her head yet again.  A soft maniacal 
laughter floats down just then, barely audible to the crew...Kodachi's laugh.  
Fading away.)

(To Mousse)

(He's wandering about, wondering where the Ghoul ditched him.  He's part 
way to the Tendo's, he thinks, but he's a bit disoriented.)

Mousse (anger having died down, muttering):	Where are you, you old 
hunk of mule haunch?  You can't have lost me that easily...

A voice (slightly insane, yet grandoise):	Hello, Mousse...

Mousse (who can't quite make out who it is for some reason):	Hello?

Voice (feminine, sultry, seductive):	How would you like to play with me?

Mousse (a little confused):	 Huh? (pushes down his glasses)

(A ribbon lashes out and wraps around his leg yanking him off his feet 
before he has a chance to react.)

Kodachi (smiling evilly, seductively):	Come here, big boy...

(Tendo's)

(The emergency crew have arrived and are in the process of searching the 
house, looking for Ranma.  The Tendo's attempt to explain what had happened.  
The Police are a bit incredulous.  A head?  With no blood?)

Inspector (talking to Nabiki, Soun and Genma are holding down Akane still 
while the rescuers are searching the house):	Now, you say that there 
was a head over on the stone house there on the mound, there, right, Ms 
Tendo?

Nabiki (nodding):	Hai!  Look, inspector, may I call you Leon?  You 
can get other people to be witnesses to the screaming to corroborrate 
that part of our story.  Something obviously strange has happened here, 
ne?  

Inspector (nodding):	Hai!  Something has, but based on what the
neighbours say something strange happens here *regularly*, Ms Tendo.  
Most have added sound proofing to their homes!  We ought to know!  We 
heard from them enough...

(Interrupting, a rescue worker has made his way down and upside, he's 
carrying a body.  Ranma's.)

Rescuer (panting, Ranma is a bit heavier than he looks):	Found him 
upstairs alright.  He just appears to be tired.  He was holding up part 
of the roof.  Took a bit of doing but we got him out...This kid is *STRONG*.  

(Akane, having an incredible case of hyperhysterical strength, she throws
off the older men and rushes up to the rescuer to take Ranma).

Rescuer (trying to prevent Akane from taking Ranma):	Miss, he's a bit 
heavy... 

Akane (determined):	I know.  Give him to me.  

Rescuer (frustrated):	Miss...

Akane (growling):	Now.

Rescuer (even more frustrated):	I...

(The arrival of Ryouga on the scene distracts the insepctor long enough 
from the Rescuer.  Seeing this, Akane rushes past the rescuer and turns 
quickly malleting him with her Extra Dimensional Mallet and scoops up 
Ranma before he hits the ground.)

Akane (taking Ranma to the ambulance, softly speaking):	Ranchan, here we 
go again...(climbs into the ambulance and it tears off, sirens blaring)

(Mousse, somewhere between the Nekohatten and the Tendo's, or so he thinks)

(Mousse quickly produced a blade from his robes and cut the ribbon 
wrapped around his leg.  Kodachi lashes out with a club that sprouts more 
spikes than on a porcupine, throwing it.  Mousse blocks it with his 
robes, but doesn't see it fall to the ground. A slight tug of weight 
yanks on his robes and a burning smell reaches his nostrils.  He dances 
away from Kodachi who is maniacally laughing yet again.  The club...was 
eating through his robes...it was changing...into a blob.  Kodachi 
laughs on.)

(Nekohatten)

(Shampoo is down stairs in the resteraunt.  She's pacing.  Mousse ran off 
a while ago.  No sign of where he has been...for a while now too.  She is 
quite obviously worried.)

Shampoo (muttering to herself):	Where stupid Mousse?  Shampoo wor-(she 
crushes that thought.  Her grandmother was right.  Shampoo was Ranma's.  
Unless Mousse defeated her...now there was a thought!  But...but....but.....
She couldn't live with herself if she didn't fight to her fullest all the 
time.  Oh the Dilemna!)

(She paced more.  But Mousse did not come.)

(Ucchan's)

(Ukyou has begun cleaning up her place.  Tsu-chan is barking and tugging 
at her feet.  She's mroe annoyed than amused.  She looks tired and 
bedraggled.  Very bedraggled.  Worry weighs heavy upon her.)

Ukyou (stopping and sighing; she looks down at her mutt):	What should I 
do, Tsu-chan?

(Tsu-chan mimicing her cocks his head and whimpers)

Ukyou (exhausted to the point of where she's actually thinking Tsu-chan
understands her and is replying to her):	Should I tell Ranchan 
and Acchan what I feel?

(Tsu-chan scoots away and whimpers again)

Ukyou (nodding and sighing):	True...this is very true...you're right 
Tsu-chan.  That would be stupider than Konou.

(Tsu-chan wags his tail)

Ukyou (smiling at the mutt):	Okay.  I won't say a thing.

(Tsu-chan growls throatily and backs away from Ukyou.)

Ukyou (perplexed):	Or should I tell them, Tsu-chan?

(Tsu-chan stops in the corner and starts barking.)

Ukyou (feeling something is wrong, turns around):	What?  What is it,
Tsu-chan?  A burglar?  (She looks up and sees a large, but not huge moth 
in the window fluttering around harmlessly.)  Silly dog.  (She grabs a 
jar and captures it and takes it outside.)

(Ukyou comes inside and then goes down stairs.  Tsu-chan happily, 
innocently follows after yapping, but not loudly.  Ukyou swats him 
affectionately and moves on.  She makes it to the kitchen - to fix 
herself a snack before bed - and Tsu-chan bites her heel.)

Ukyou (yelping):	TSU-CHAN!  (rounding on the puppy)  You little 
monster!  (She scoops him up and is about to aim for the stairs up when 
the phone rings and she gets this horrible sense of deja vu.)

(At the Hospital)

(We see Akane at the phone.  She's looking around and frustrated.  People 
bustle and swirl about her.  Ranma is nowhere in sight.)

Akane (muttering under her breath):	Ucchan....get the phone, damnit.  
Ranchan needs us again.

(Ucchan's)

(Ukyou is sitting there, staring at the phone.  Too terrified to pick it 
up.  She is scared.  No, terrified.  Terrified that Ranchan might be hurt 
again...or Acchan.  Tears form.  She sits there unable to move.  Staring 
at the ringing telephone.  Unsure, alone, and terrified.)

(Akane; at the hospital)

Akane (furious and shouting):	DAMNIT, UCCHAN!  PICK UP THE PHONE!  I 
KNOW YOU'RE HOME, PICK IT UP!  PICK IT UP!  (She's starting to crack 
too.  People stare at her strangely and step widely around her).  Ranchan 
needs you...

(Ucchan's)

(Tsu-chan barks snapping Ukyou out of her spell.  She reaches for the 
phone.  Tears leaking).

Ukyou (terrified and crying):	Ucchan's...Acchan?  (She brightens 
considerably.  Her mood crashes harder than an unrecoverable disk)  RANCHAN!

(Mousse)

(Mousse rid himself of the part of the robe that was being eaten away.  
Lucky carrying so many hidden weapons that you just happen to have a 
dagger in there.  He sprouts blades from the remainders of his sleeves 
and dances close to Kodachi.  She jumps back and away.  Anticipating 
this, Mousse too jumps and slices; removing her head, butchering her 
torso, and ravishing her arms.  She falls to the ground in pieces.  An 
arm in one direction, a bit of torso here, a bit of brain there.)

Mousse (landing lightly and avoiding the bits of the dead woman):  Whew!  
If she's that easy to beat, why does Ranma have such a hard time?!  
Hmph.  Shows he's a whimp and no proper suiter for Shampoo it does!  
He...(Mousse trails off as the bits of Kodachi melt and slime together; 
reforming into a mass of ooze.  Mousse dances away, but can't get his 
eyes off the slime; it is horrible, yet fascinating to watch.  No wonder 
Ranma had such a hard time!  SHE'S POSSESSED!)

(Kodachi reimerges from the slime, whole once more.)

Kodachi (laughing manaically):	HOHOHOHO!  You think I'm that easy to 
beat?  (thinking of the blades)  I do like how your fow^Hul mind works 
though.  (laughing again)  I absorbed this one and I'll absorb you too, 
Mousse!  (voice husky, alluring again)  Then I'll take your Shampoo, 
Mousse.  How would you like that?  (Carressing her own body; almost 
fondling herself from the inside)  How would you like that, Mousse.  I 
am going to take her like you never will-AND AS A WOMAN!

Mousse (lashing out with hooked and bladed chains):	DIE!!!!!!!!!!!

(Kodachi laughs as the chains hit her body.  Then something happened.  
Kodachi's body rippled and suckled at the chains hungrily, pulling them 
into herself.)

Mousse (trying to back away):	What *ARE* you? (He backs away until the
chains are taut and can't get any further.)

Kodachi (smiling so incongruently innocently that it comes across 
horribly):  Your fondest dream...(Her body ripples and changes, the body, 
nude, of Shampoo emerges from teh sliming bipedal mass) Nihao, Mousse.  
(bursting into flame)  We have hot time tonight?  (The chains are sucked 
into Shampoo's body and a rapidly increasing rate, Mousse kicking and 
screaming tries to pull away but can't.)

Shampoo (arms wide in a waiting welcoming embrace, her smooth unblemished 
skin unharmed in the midst of a roaring inferno):	 Come to Shampoo, 
Mousse!  Be Shampoo'ed!

(Ucchan's)

Ukyou (slamming down the reciever):	SHIT!  RANCHAN!  (She runs up 
stairs, scooping the puppy up and drops him into her bedroom.  She grabs 
some fresh clothing and chanegs while running down and out the door.  She 
starts running towards the hospital when sees a flame off to her right 
and hears screaming.  A man screaming.)

(Bouncing around to the roof top above, she looks down to see what is 
up.  She sees Mousse and his chains connected to a flaming and nude 
Shampoo???  And he's trying to get away?  Something was wrong she could 
tell that: Shampoo was there with open arms for Mousse!  Thinking 
quickly, Ukyou decided that she'd need to act quickly if she was going to 
do something; Mousse was almost drawn to Shampoo, just outside of the 
reach of the flames.)

Ukyou (nodding):	Right.  Once again to the breach...Here I come, 
Shampoo.  (She jumps off the roof, wielding her spatula and slammed it 
down on Mousses chains, breaking them [invoking anime physics here!])

(Mousse and Shampoo fly in opposite directions.  Ukyou and Shampoo 
recover first.  Ukyou rounds on Shampoo and hefts her battle-Spat.  
Shampoo merely smiles and reignites the flames.  Mousse crumples against 
the wall he hit, unconscious.)

Shampoo (stroking herself for Ukyou's benefit.):	Here, Ukyou.  I 
know what you want (she strokes herself between her tighs).

(Ukyou is shocked at first and stumbles back.  Shampoo merely walks 
slowly to her.)

Shampoo (alluring, sexy, a 'gotta have it'):	I know you need a woman, 
Ukyou...come to me.....

(Ukyou gulps and backs away.  She whimpers.)

Ukyou (whimpering that builds to a scream):	you...you can't Know THAT 
ABOUT *ME*

Shampoo (letting the flames go out; carressing herself):	I do know 
it, Ukyou, and I know what you want from a woman...

(Shampoo stands in front of Ukyou; she cocks her head and closes her 
eyes in readiness for a kiss.  Ukyou is unsure of what to do.  Then she 
remembered Ranchan and Acchan.....AND MOUSSE! She whirls around the 
battle-spat.)

Shampoo (opening her eyes):	Huh?  

(Battle-spat moving at hypersonic velocities connects with Shampoo's 
body.  What is the resulting velocity of the conserved system immediately 
after the collision?)

(Shampoo slams against the far wall and dribbles down it as a bloody 
pulp.  Yet she stands, a macabre sight, and smiles at Ukyou.)

Ukyou (hefting her spatula in a vicious gesture):	BACK OFF, BITCH!

(Shampoo smiles again and shimmers.)

Shampoo-thing (voice kodachi's though):	HOHOHOHOHO!  You have one this 
round, Ukyou.  I'll try for you again, fear not!  (It brightens in a 
horrible, bright, blinding light!)

(Ukyou covers her eyes with her hand to shade it)

Voice from within the Light (laughing, mocking, and androgynous):	
Fear not, my pretties!  I'll come for you!  I'll come for you!   
Especially for my Ranma-chan! (evil laughter)  Oh my darlings!

(A bright flash)

(A wall of air)

(Ukyou flattened to the ground)

Ukyou (getting up and dusting herself off):	What do I do now?  
(turning and seeing Mousse)  MOUSSE!  (She rushes over to him, checks him 
out, finding a few cuts and scrapes.  She realizes something.  How did it 
know?  NO ONE DID!)

(end episode 6)


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