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Jeffrey "OneShot" Wong
"If you help me, I can give you death," Shinji said, knowing that this
was a
long shot. Shinji recalled Ranma hated his existence so much that perhaps
Shinji
could use that to his advantage.
Ranma's eyes perked up, Ranma interested in that last comment.
"Go on, I'm listening,"
<new stuff 11/23>
Shinji and Ranma stood in front of the library. Jun remained in the
library, asked not to take part in the conversation since it was a
delicate matter at hand and there was no need for her to know even more
than she knew.
"I know you don't remember me, but I remember you," Shinji said, "In an
alternate world that was similar to this, the alternate you resurrected
me. In the process, I was somehow bestowed your powers. The problem is
that they're currently dormant and I have no idea how to make them
surface,"
"And what makes you think I know?" Ranma let out an annoyed breath,
wondering if it was even worth his time to listen to Shinji.
"Because you were the one that gave me those powers," Shinji said, "If
you were the one that gave it to me, then you must also know how to
unlock it,"
Ranma said, "Even if I did do it, what makes you think I know. I barely
understand my own powers,"
"Your power is infinite," Shinji said, "That's why this world isn't
raining, because you somehow did something to make the rain stop,"
"I stopped it because it was annoying," Ranma commented.
Shinji nodded, "I'm sure it is. But do you see what I mean? You were
the one that stopped it. How did you stop it?"
"I didn't want it to rain so it stopped," he said matter-of-factly.
"I know, but how did you stop it?" Shinji asked, "If you know how to do
something like stopping it from raining, then something like unlocking my
powers should be no harder,"
Ranma said, "I don't know how I stopped it. It just stopped when I
wanted it to,"
Shinji's eyes widened, "You're kidding me, right? You have no idea how
your powers work?"
"I know how some of them work," he commented.
"Like what?" Shinji asked.
"Like how to bring people back to life," Ranma stated, "It's easier to
bring a person back to life if I accidentally kill them than to let them
stay dead and deal with the consequences. It's annoying dealing with
everyone as they try to 'apprehend' me for murder,"
Shinji gulped. He forgot about that. Ranma was a murderer. He had no
qualms about taking one's life if need be. That was the main difference
between this Ranma and the Ranma he knew. The Ranma he knew would never
kill someone. This Ranma seemed the type that would kill a person if he
or she crossed him. The thing to take in to consideration is that if this
Ranma is anything like his previous self, then he only killed when
provoked.
"Can you show me how to bring someone back to life?" Shinji asked.
"No," Ranma said flatly.
"Why not?"
"I don't feel like it," Ranma said, "I'm not obligated to do anything
for you if I don't want to,"
Shinji pinched the bridge of his nose, "You're making this really hard
for me, Ranma,"
"So?" Ranma said, "I don't care about you or what you're expected to
do. If I think about it, it's better if I do nothing, because if I don't
help you, then you'll fail and everything would cease to exist, even
myself,"
Shinji said nothing for several moments.
"You hate your very existence," Shinji commented, "If you help me, then
if I succeed, I'll make sure you don't have to live on,"
He wondered exactly how he was going to go about doing something like
that, but he was sure Urd could come up with something. Besides, she
would owe him.
"So what? If I don't help you, the same result would occur but under
different circumstances," Ranma said, "It's a win-win situation for me,"
Shinji sighed, "Man, I wish I didn't tell you about what would happen,"
Ranma smirked, "It's too late now. I already know and I have no care to
help you,"
Shinji tried to think of what to say that would convince him.
"If I fail, everything will cease to exist, Jun as well," Shinji
commented, wondering if it was worth it to try and play the sympathy card
with someone with no sympathy.
Ranma shrugged, "It don't matter to me,"
"Um, she likes you," Shinji said, "What, you don't like her and would
want something like that to happen to her?"
Ranma paused for a moment, "She likes me?"
"Um, yeah, s-she told me herself," Shinji lied. He just assumed she had
some kind of feelings for Ranma. Whether it be that of friendship or
something more serious, he honestly didn't know.
"You lie," Ranma said, narrowing his eyes at Shinji.
"I'm not lying," Shinji said, hoping it didn't look that evident that
he was lying, "Um, if you think about it, if you help me, and I succeed,
time will continue on as usual. Over time, Jun and you will most likely
get together and eventually get married,"
Ranma was silent.
"However, if you don't help me, then it would most likely lead to my
failure," Shinji added for more impact, "And if I fail, you two will
never eventually get together,"
Ranma thought about it for a moment. He did like Jun or at least
tolerated her more than anyone else he had ever encountered. It did pique
his interest in what might happen if they had time to perhaps develop
their casual friendship in to something more serious. He was curious as
to what might happen. He had been proven wrong once before.
When he had first met Jun at the library, he believed that they would
be nothing more than acquaintances. Instead, they were more or less
friends, at least that was what Ranma considered it. On occasions, they
would have lunch together or even catch a movie together, two instances
that meant nothing to Ranma since he neither got hungry nor cared about
movies. However, the company he had seemed to make it somewhat enjoyable.
"Well, what do you say?" Shinji asked, hopeful.
"Hmph, fine,"
Shinji approached Jun. Ranma waited outside the library while Shinji
went in to get Jun. It had been decided that Ranma and Shinji would go to
Shinji's world. Although they had no real idea exactly how to trigger
Shinji's dormant powers, they figured it was better to try and figure it
out there. This was because, while there, Ranma could resurrect Shinji's
friends. They might be able to help as well.
Ranma had wanted to say something to Jun before they left and Shinji
had eagerly accepted to get her for him while he waited outside.
"Um, how goes your talk with Ranma?" Jun asked, "He didn't sound all
that willing to help. If you want, I'll ask him. Perhaps I can convince
him. Surely, even he can realize that something like this can't be
ignored,"
Shinji scratched his head, "Actually, if I think about it, if I came to
this world perhaps a year earlier, around the time when I first came to
the alternate version of this world, Ranma would not had helped me,"
"And now?" she seemed hopeful.
"He's a bit, um, nicer," Shinji gave a meek smile, "However, I think I
know why,"
"Why?" she asked, curiously.
"It's because he's been friends with you for, what, over a year?"
Shinji said, "That seemed to have mellowed him out. He's not quite as
cold and uncaring as the one I remembered,"
Jun smiled slightly, "Well, I think I know where you're coming from.
Ranma was really mean back then. As I spent more time with him, I started
to get to know him and realize that he's not as bad as he's made out to
be. If you think about it, what made him so cold was his upbringing. Keep
in mind the name 'Ranma' is a name that's disgusted on this world. He had
a bad childhood and grew up hating people so I guess I understand why he
seems to hold so much contempt toward people in general,"
"Just curious, exactly what did you do that made Ranma seem to, um,
mellow out?" Shinji asked.
Jun scratched her head, "What do you mean? I did nothing. We just hang
out every here and there,"
Shinji shrugged, "Well, whatever you do, it works,"
"Um, okay," she was a bit confused.
Shinji and Ranma emerged from a portal and on to Shinji's world.
It was pouring out and the sky was pitch black. Neither of them had any
idea whether it was day or night. The two of them were soaking wet within
seconds after emerging from the portal.
"H-how did you do that?" Shinji asked, confused, "How'd you open a
portal to this world?
Ranma shrugged, "I don't know. It's the first time I tried it,"
Shinji wondered when he would be able to 'will' a portal open and
travel to different worlds. It would be kind of fun, to be able to visit
other worlds and not risk not being able to come back since a breakable
nanban mirror would no longer be involved.
Shinji looked around and noticed how dark it was, "Jeez, is it me or is
it really dark out?"
"Is that supposed to be a joke?" Ranma asked coldly.
Shinji gave a meek smile, "No. It was just an observation. I can't tell
if it's night or day because those clouds are so thick and dark,"
"It's day," Ranma said, "There ultra violet light is more noticeable in
the day than at night. What little light that's coming in is coming from
the sun and not from the moon,"
"Huh? You can see ultra violet light?" Shinji asked.
"Yes," he said, "What, you can't?"
Shinji said, "Um, no. I don't think anyone but you can see it,"
Ranma shrugged, not all that amused whether or not he could.
"Um, your world had clouds and rain like this, right?" Shinji asked.
"Yeah, so?" Ranma replied coldly.
"Can you show me how you do it?" Shinji asked.
"Just dismiss the clouds and it'll go away," Ranma said in annoyance,
"That's what I did,"
"How?" Shinji asked.
"Like this," Ranma muttered, making a wide waving gesture across above
his head, palm toward the sky.
As if a miracle had occurred, most likely because that was exactly what
it was, the clouds started parting to reveal the bright sun shining high
above. The clouds continued to part, disappearing in to the horizon, too
far away to be seen. Before Shinji knew it, the sky was perfectly clear,
not a single cloud in the sky.
"Wow," Shinji said in amazement, looking up at the clear sky, "That was
really cool,"
Ranma shrugged, not amused.
"All you did was merely think of the clouds parting and disappearing
and it did just that?" Shinji asked.
Ranma nodded, "Yes. I thought that in particular, the rain stopping and
the clouds disappearing right afterwards,"
"That's really cool," Shinji said.
Ranma shrugged.
"Man, now that the clouds are clear and there's light, I can get a good
look at the destruction," Shinji said, "Man, it looks like an N2 mine was
set off in the heart of MegaTokyo. I can't believe there's so much
destruction,"
"Where are we supposed to go?" Ranma asked, changing the subject. What
this world looked like was trivial to him.
Shinji looked around. It took him a moment before he noticed where he
was. Although it was basically devastated land in every direction, Shinji
found himself using the giant crater not too far from where he was as a
reference point. He had buried his friends right by the southern portion
of the outer rim of the crater.
Shinji pointed, "Over there. I buried my friends there,"
"Where is this so-called weapon?" Ranma asked.
"Oh, near where I buried everyone," Shinji answered, "I was told I can
find the weapon in the garage of what used to be my home. I buried my
friends in the backyard of my place so I guess we're lucky. Heading over
there, we'll be killing two birds with one stone,"
"Let's get going," Ranma smirked.
"Right," Shinji followed.
Even though it was a different Ranma, Shinji felt more comfortable
knowing that Ranma was in charge of things once again. Funnily enough,
now that he thought about it, after he brings everyone back from the
dead, Ranma would be, once again, the person that made everything better.
"I've changed my mind,"
Shinji gave Ranma an odd look, "Huh?"
"I've changed my mind," he smirked, "I've decided that I don't want to
help you,"
"W-what?" Shinji asked.
Ranma smirked. It had taken him a while, but he had found what he was
looking for. While Shinji had been busy digging nearby so he could
unearth his dead friends, Ranma had been searching through the debris
from the weapon Shinji had mentioned.
"I've decided I'd rather have everything ceasing to exist than to let
it continue to exist," Ranma said, "I've rather have death than to
continue on living,"
"W-what are you trying to say?" Shinji said, blood draining from his
face, "W-what about Jun? Are you going to leave her?"
Ranma said, "Don't try and play the sympathy card with me. I can't die.
I will outlive Jun. As tempting as it is to live and perhaps find a bit
of happiness with Jun, I know that that would never last since I will
outlive her,"
Shinji gulp. This was not happening!
Ranma gestured toward a giant Lance that was in his hands, "It's
obvious that this is the so-called weapon capable of killing God. If it's
got the powers to kill God, then it has the capability of killing me,"
Without saying another word, Ranma pointed the sharp end of the weapon
toward his chest. It was obvious that he was going to plunge the weapon
in to his chest so he could kill himself.
"Kinda brings back memories, doesn't it?" Ranma smiled.
"What do you mean?" Shinji asked.
"I remember my previous life," Ranma said, "I remember Angels trying to
kill me and such. Don't ask me how I remember, I simply do. I was sorely
tempted to come to this world and kill Ranma myself for going back on his
promise. I remember you from back then. It's your fault for assuming that
I don't remember you. Not once did I ever say I don't remember or know
you,"
Shinji stammered, "Y-you remember everything?"
"Yes," he said, "And since you already know me, or at least my previous
self, you also knew what I tried to do after I got the Lance,"
"Y-you tried to kill yourself," Shinji state.
"Yep," Ranma said, "And today, I'm going to try and succeed where I
failed last time,"
"Wait!" Shinji said.
"What?" he asked in annoyance.
"H-how could you do this?" he asked, "How can you choose death over
life? Can your life be that horrible that you don't want to live?"
Ranma said, "You're not me,"
Without saying another word, Ranma plunged the weapon in to his chest.
"No!!!" Shinji shouted.
"Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!"
Shinji repeated that probably a thousand times as he paced back and
forth.
Ranma had succeeded in killing himself. He lay motionless on his back,
the Lance protruding from his chest. The Lance remained protruding
because, no matter how hard he tried, Shinji was unable to remove it, the
Lance too heavy for him to lift. He didn't even want to bother trying to
comprehend what made the Lance so heavy.
If it weren't for the fact that Shinji was so distraught over what had
happened, he would've noticed that there looked to be a sense of peace on
Ranma's face.
"What am I gonna do?" Shinji asked himself.
The best way to describe his current situation was that he was 'shit
outta luck'. The one person that could've helped him had killed himself.
What made it worse was that Shinji never suspected it. He should've
noticed that something was strange when Ranma expressed more interest in
the weapon than anything else.
In a way, Shinji was right back at square one. No, he was worse off. At
least when he was at square one, he still had a purpose, to find Ranma
and ask for his help. Now, he didn't even have that. He had no idea what
to do, where to go, or how to do it.
He could've perhaps been a little better off had Ranma bothered to
resurrect his friends before taking his own life, but it seemed that
would've made it to easy for Shinji.
The sky darkened as black clouds formed about, blocking out the clouds.
It also started pouring a moment later. It seems that now that Ranma was
no longer around to 'will' the bad weather away, it reverted back to the
way it used to be.
"What am I gonna do?"
Shinji paced back and forth in the pouring rain as he continued to
ponder what to do. Several hours had passed since Ranma had taken his own
life and he still had no idea of what to do now.
Several times he had tried to lift the Lance, trying to force some of
his dormant powers to work, all attempts failing. He guessed that the
Lance probably weighed several thousand pounds, far heavier than he could
lift.
"I don't understand how my powers work," Shinji said, "Ranma even
showed and told me how to mess around with the weather and I can't get
that to work,"
He tried to 'will' the bad weather away, much to no avail.
Shinji glanced over toward the small mound of tired just off to the
side where the Lance stuck out. Ranma rested there. Since Shinji could
not move the Lance, he had simply buried him right where he lay, letting
the Lance act as a tombstone.
"Damn you," Shinji sneered, "How can you be so damn selfish?"
Unfortunately, he was never going to know. It had been his mistake
assuming what he assumed. Never had it occurred to him that Ranma had
somehow kept his memories nor have he ever believed Ranma would try
something like take his own life once again.
"Goddamn rain," he muttered.
What he could use right now was a nice dry and clean pair of clothes.
However, what he needed to worry about first is to get the bad weather to
go away. Once that was gone, he could dry off and look around to getting
some clean clothes.
Shinji felt like an idiot as he found himself waving his hand across
the sky and saying random sayings like, 'Leave', 'Go away', 'Disappear',
'Be gone', 'Shoo', ''Fucking leave already', and many other sayings, none
of them working. As he did that, he constantly visualized the clouds
disappearing.
Shinji found himself starting to get annoyed as he couldn't figure out
what to do. He wanted to rain to go away so he could be dry but nothing
was happening....
The raining suddenly disappeared as the clouds started parting,
revealing the clear night sky.
Shinji was in a state of shock as he tried comprehend what had just
occurred.
"D-did I just do that?"
<all ive got so far>
OneShot: Guess what?
Ranma: That you've wrote 'Artemis' Lover' under the secret alias of
'Oscar' and that you purposely made your writing style that way to
totally fool the readers from knowing that it was actually you that wrote
it?
OneShot: ................
Ranma: That you also MST'd that fic with Megane6.7 to make people think
that it wasn't you when it really was?
OneShot: ................
Ranma: So what is it?
OneShot: I just wanted to make the comment about how that white female
hamster in that anime named 'Hamtaro', the one with the blue bow....that
she would probably be really hot if she were a human female.
Ranma: You're sick.
-OneShot
Jeffrey "OneShot" Wong
http://www.anime.sobhrach.com/~jeffwong/index.html
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