Now here is a funny and worthwhile fan fic project.  Good luck with
this one 'RpM'

regards, 
joe.ortiz@ci.slc.ut.us
London, Paris, Rome, Tokyo, Moab

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Subject: [FFML] Speaking of bad starts to fanfics... (FANFIC)
Author:  fanfic@fanfic.com at internet
Date:    5/16/96 9:26 PM


AUTHOR'S NOTE:  I apologize in advance... this ridiculous idea is stuck 
in my head and I can't get rid of it.  So I'm dumping it out on you 
guys. :P
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   Ranma wheezed and coughed, stumbing out of the cave, clutching a small
golden statuette.  It was SUPPOSED to have been a routine expadition, but 
now his guide was dead, the natives must've been woken up, and the ancient 
ruins were definitely trashed.  Ranma sighed as he stumbled slowly out of 
the mouth of the cave, brushing off cobwebs. 

   <Oh well, at least I got the statuette...>

   "SAOTOME!"

   Ranma looked up and smirked.  "Oh, hey there P-chan." 
   "SHUT UP!"
   "Whaddaywant _now_, Ryouga?"
   "The statue, Saotome, hand it over."
   Ranma couldn't help but laugh.  "Riiiight, stop wasting my time Ryouga."  
He confidently began to walk away when Ryouga suddenly belted out a loud 
sound, and dozens of them emerged from the forest:  primitive, savage, 
angry, and all looking right at Ranma.
   Killer Pigs.
   Ryouga smirked.  "It pays to know the local language, eh?  Now HAND 
THAT STATUE OVER!!!"
   Ranma quickly analyzed the situation he'd gotten himself into.  
Surrounded, unarmed, and vastly outnumbered.
   "Alright, Ryouga, you win."  Ranma reluctantly gave the statuette of 
the golden pig to Ryouga, glaring at him angrily.  Their rivalry had 
always been intense, but ever since Jusenkyo things had gotten pretty 
ugly.  Everyone at the college knew about the dueling archeologists, but 
Ranma always felt that things were getting out of hand.  Ryouga had no 
such problems.
   "There's nothing you can get that I can't take away," sighed Ryouga as 
he admired the artifact.  Then he held it up and yelled, "BWEEEEEEEE!!!"
   All the pigs bowed.
   Ranma took this moment to do what his father had taught him best: run. 
   Ryouga blinked.  Then he looked at the retreating form of Ranma and 
grinned an evil grin.  He pointed at Saotome, then squealed, "Bwee bwee 
BWEEE!!!!"  Immediately, the swarm of killer pigs chased after Ranma, 
while Ryouga stayed behind and laughed maniacally.

   "Gonnamakeit, gonnamakeit, gonnamakeit," muttered Ranma as he
approached the two-seater propellor airplane that was floating in the 
river.  He looked behind him, and the forest errupted with swarms of small 
black bweee-ing furies. 
   "START THE PLANE, HIROSHI!!!"  Ranma was 20 feet away, and closing in 
fast.  <Just... a little... further...>
   Hiroshi looked up from the cockpit and away from his magazine.  He saw 
the swarm of piglet power bearing down on Ranma and muttered, "I don't 
believe it..."  Immediately, the engine roared to life and zoomed down 
the river.
   "WAIT FOR ME YOU IDIOT!!!" yelled Ranma.  He scrambled into the 
into the passenger's cockpit and then sighed with relief as the plane 
took off, leaving behind dozens of angry squealing pigs.
   "So, how'd it go?" asked Hiroshi.
   "Don't ask."
   Ranma closed his eyes and leaned back... then suddenly tensed up again.
Something... something was down there at his feet.  He peered downward to 
get a better look.
   -meow-
   "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!!!"
   "WHAT?  WHAT?" asked a startled Hiroshi. 
   "THERE'S A CAT ON THE PLANE!!!"
   "Yeah, so?"
   "I HATE CATS, HIROSHI!!! HATE'EM!!!"
   "Aw, c'mon man, they're just cute cuddly little things..." 
   -meow-
   "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAUGGH!!!"

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  Ranma 1/2:  Raiders of the Lost ... Lost... er.... 
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to be continued... sometime.

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WRITER'S NOTE:

I just needed a break from working on The Pursuit of Happiness 
and The Surreal World (yes, I'm working on part 4 of THAT at the 
moment too) AAAND another project that I'm collaborating on
that I -just- can't talk about -yet-.  I have no idea WHY
I thought of plugging the Ranma 1/2 cast into the Raiders of 
the Lost Ark movie...

-RpM