Hello, all!

Well, this is my first official Story piece submitted to the list.

It is also something of a challenge, a co-writer 
request, and a desperate cry for help.

I'll get into that after this bit here. But first,
here is the Mysterious Disembodied Voice, with the 
usual disclaimers.

yO! nONE OF THESE CHARACTERS BELONG TO JASON. tHEY ARE THE PROPETY 
OF THOSE PEOPLE AND/OR COMPANIES THAT MADE AND PRODUCED THEM.

...

Good enough, I guess... ^^;;

Anyway - on with the fic!


The Temple at Infinity's End proudly (or not so proudly, as the 
case may be) presents,

An Argos Production:

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Scattered Pieces

Prologue:

Knocking Over The Board

*** ROUGH ***

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   Most people think that Ranma Saotome leads an interesting 
life. Not necessarily a good thing, but they'd all say it wasn't 
boring.
   Those people, however, never asked Ranma's opinion on the 
subject.
   In actuality, Ranma felt his life was in a rut. A very active 
rut, but still a rut. The fights he got into - that he constantly got 
into - might as well have scripted and choreographed, for all the 
variation in them. 
   Take the fight he was currently involved in. It had started when 
he saw Happosai with a fully repaired Nanban Mirror. Happosai began
 ranting about going forward in time and then coming back with nifty
 toys to make every girl, including Ranma's female form, his love slave.
 Naturally, Ranma had taken offense to that, and tried to take the Nanban
 Mirror away from the little pervert. This started a chase.
   Then Akane saw them, and joined in because she thought that the two
 of them were up to something.
   After getting out of the Tendo grounds, Ryoga saw the three of them,
 and added himself to protect Akane from Ranma and Happosai.
   The Kunos, Ukyo, and the China Gang all joined in as well as the 
traveling fight passed by there respective living and/or working places.
   Which led to the now. The brawl wasn't moving anymore, which was 
good. What was bad was that they were busting up Ranma's favorite video 
rental store! "Aww, man!" He said out loud, looking at one of the broken 
tapes as he took a breather from the fight. "They even finally got in
 some more of the Tenchi series"
   "Ranma!" Akane yelled to him. "Stop whining about your stupid show 
and HELP US!!" She honestly didn't see what Ranma liked in that Tenchi 
Muyo show...
   Fortunately for Ranma, this time he had some ammunition to fire
 back at Akane with. "Hey look, Akane, they even had some of that new 
Oh! My Goddess series in."
   Akane's eyes blazed. "Happosai, DIE!!" she screamed, ripping the 
door of the store off its hinges and throwing it at the diminutive freak...
   Who leapt up, bounced off the flying door and landed on Akane's 
chest. After a quick glomp, and before Akane could rip him off, he 
reached up and rubbed an onion - Ranma briefly wondered where he got 
the onion - into Akane's eyes, and caught the tears in the Mirror, and 
then leapt away.
   "Nanban Mirror, take me..." Happosai intoned, seeing his plan 
actually working. But he was interrupted.
   Ryoga, seeing Happosai attack Akane, yelled, "No!! SHISHI HOKODAN!!" 
and threw blast of ki directly at Happosai. Happosai, distracted, acted 
without thinking, and blocked the ki-blast with the first thing he had 
access to.
   The Nanban Mirror.
   Cologne shrieked as she saw the ki blast hit the mirror, and dived 
behind sales counter. The rest didn't even notice Cologne's actions as 
the mirror exploded, covering the rest of the fighters in sparkling dust.
   "Ranma! Now look what you've done!" Akane yelled at Ranma.
   "What I've done?! Ryoga threw that blast!" Ranma retorted.
   "Yeah, but if you hadn't insisted on chasing Happosai none of this 
would have happened!"
   Then the mirror frame began to shake. Happosai set it down and tried 
to run, but before he could get more then a couple feet away, the mirror 
seemed to explode again. It took Ranma a moment to realize that it wasn't 
exploding, it was sucking everything the mirror dust had touched like a 
black hole!   Happosai started to scream, but it was cut off as he disappeared 
into the frame. Tatewaki, Mousse, Ukyo and Kodachi soon followed. Ryoga and 
Shampoo held on a bit longer, but were also sucked it.
   Ranma was holding onto one of the store shelves, trying to resist the 
pull. He was also holding on to Akane, whom he caught when she flew by. 
"Hold on Akane!"
   Akane grabbed Ranma's arm with both of hers. "I'm trying!"
   But just when the pair thought they might make it out alive, the 
shelf Ranma had grabbed broke off, and they went flying. Akane had let 
go of Ranma in the shock, and was sucked in before she could utter a 
sound. Ranma joined a moment later, screaming her name. Then the mirror 
itself disappeared.
   Cologne looked out from around the counter, and sighed in despair. 
According to the legends of the Amazons, the only way Cologne had to get 
the children back would be to find where the Nanban Mirror had hidden 
itself this time, wait for it to fix itself, and then use it to retrieve 
the children from wherever they ended up. She wondered if there was a way 
to claim that she could only bring back Ranma and Shampoo...

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   Ranma blinked.
   He hadn't honestly thought he'd see anything again. And here he 
had been thinking his life was in a rut! That had definitely been DIFFERENT!
   He looked at his surroundings. Standing by a lake, out in the 
countryside. A lone tree stood on a small island not far away. In 
the distance he could make out a small mountain/big hill, with what 
seemed to be a shrine on top of it. All together, it was vaguely 
familiar to Ranma, though he didn't exactly know how. He was 
disappointed to see that he was the only one there. He hoped Akane 
and the others were all right.
   His thoughts were interrupted by a whining sound that grew 
steadily louder. Looking up he stared wide eyed at what he saw 
coming down at the lake. When it hit, he barely registered being 
knocked off his feet, and didn't register the change in sex at all.
   After all, watching it on a cartoon was very different than 
seeing the Yagami splash-down in real life.
   Still watching the ship with moderate disbelief, Ranma had a 
nearly overwhelming urge to say "Oh, boy!"

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Well, I promised an explanation, right?

A while back on the FFML - I don't remember how long - someone 
mentioned an idea that no one really ran with.

That idea was a Character Insertion - take a character from one 
anime series, dump him or her in another, in the usual self-insert 
role. You know, they have a basic idea of what's going on, the 
natives don't know squat about the insert character, and it's up to 
the inserted character to interfere or not as he or she sees fit.

Well, this idea just came to me a little while ago, and I started 
sketching out what I wanted to do with it. After I sat back, and 
looked at the VERY rough plot I had set up, I realized something. 
The story I had set up involved only two characters, but the rest 
were involved. I couldn't very well leave them hanging, but I 
couldn't come up wit good ideas for what to do with them, or ideas 
I felt comfortable writing.

And that is what I am asking for help with.

My story will involve Ranma and Akane, on the worlds of Tenchi and 
Oh! My Goddess, respectively. I would like at least four other writers 
to take up what happens to Ryoga, Ukyo, Shampoo, and Mousse. If anyone 
wants, Happosai, Tatewaki and Kodachi Kuno are also available. Or heck, 
if someone out there really wants to write about Nabiki or Gosunkugi, 
or another Ranma character, I can adjust the prologue accordingly.

(Hell, as I pointed out at the beginning, this is a rough draft. I 
will probably change it a lot anyway.)

Anyway, for some guidelines, only one character per author, only 
one character per world (i.e. no one else can use Tenchi Muyo or 
Oh! My Goddess, as those worlds have been taken. Sorry.)

If possible, I'd also like to know a general idea of what you 
want to do with said character on said world. Otherwise, they 
will be given out on a first-come, first serve basis. I'll send 
some general guidelines for the story to my choices. (Don't worry, 
mostly common-sense things, but I do want to be sure everyone's on 
the same footing.)

Also, any C&C will be appreciated, but Private Replies, please! For 
both submissions and C&C. No need to fill the whole list for this. 
Please reply to j-ryu@writeme.com  send it there it will get to me.

When I have enough, I will post who's doing what.

Thanks for your time,
Jason, Victim of the Longniichuan, J-ryu

IT MEANS SPRING OF DROWNED DRAGON PEOPLE! PLEASE STOP ASKING! GEEZ!





"Something tells me we're gonna be dealing with a lot of morons for a long time to come..."
    -Tamuro Gomi, Wasted Minds part one
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