least, but when he'd got here, Wanderius had turned out to be
Ryoga.

Wanderius? <chuckle> ok.

       Ranma stared at the mildewed curtains and the peeling
wallpaper.   "Ryoga," he asked, "what the heck are you babbling
about?"

       "You've been looking for me for several years," Ryoga said.

       "No I haven't!"

       "But I've been looking for you for a lifetime," Ryoga
continued, ignoring his rival.

       "Well I've been here all along," Ranma said.  "What's this
about, that bread thing again?  If you wanna fight, you don't gotta
to drag me all the way up here."

Ryouga's dialogue here was basically a total rip-off. Hate to be a pill,
but you could've made a bit more effort to adapt it to the it to suit
Ryouga/Ranma type conversation.

Namely because, the next scene doesn't work without some kind of trust...
or some other motivation for Ranma to participate.

Maybe if you tie in Ranma's search for a cure with his something else,
you'd get somewhere. Like the red pill giving him the truth about his curse
or something like that. 

Ranma: Is that a cure?

Ryouga: No... but it will give you the truth about your curse so 
        that you make your own cure.

       "I'm going to give you a choice," Ryoga said.  He held out
his two hands, then opened them.  In the left palm was a blue pill;
in the right palm, a red pill.

       "Swallow the blue pill," Ryoga said, "and you will wake up
on your futon, and life will go on for you as normal.  If you call
that normal.

       "On the other hand, you can take the red pill, and you'll see
this fictional world for what it truly is."

       "You never talked like this before, you know that?" Ranma
said.  "So, is this one of the ghoul's tricks?"

       "It's no trick," Ryoga said.  "Remember, all I can offer you is
the truth."

       "Yeah, whatever," Ranma said.  He grabbed the red pill and
swallowed it.  "There.  Are you happy now?  Is that all?  Can I
go?"

Considering all the poisonings Ranma goes through on the FFML, don't you
think he'd be just a tad reluctant to take something like that from anyone?
Especially the way it's worded here?

***

       Ranma awoke in a bathtub.  The water was cool, and she
was therefore female.  She cursed softly, climbed from the tub,
and began drying herself.

Here's the thing, would Ranma not have a curse in the real world?

       Ryoga sat in one.  Ukyo sat on the couch.  She patted the
cushion next to her, inviting Ranma to sit.

       Ranma took the other comfy chair.  Ukyo frowned.

Heh... old habits die hard.

       "I think you know our compatriots," Ryoga said.  "Over
here, we have Dr. Tofu.  He was the first to discover the FFML
matrix, and escape into the real world.  That's why he
disappeared from the original manga storyline, you know."

I recommend that you just call it "The FFML." It gets the point across nicely.

Note: Having Dr. Tofu being the one to be the first to get out makes some
sense.

I wouldn't make it Cologne or Happousai since they would stand to lose
instead of gain. Why would they even look?

       "Don't worry," Ryoga said, "it will eventually make sense to
you.  Now, sitting next to Dr. Tofu is, of course, Kasumi...."

       The eldest Tendo sister turned from her computer screen and
smiled sweetly at Ranma.  "Hello, Ranma!  How are you doing?"

Ranma is totally amazed that Dr. Tofu isn't climbing the walls and trying
to eat his shoes.

       "Don't worry, Ranma," Daisuke said.  "We got someone
good to play you.  Ever hear of Tenchi Masaaki?"

       "Uh... huh?" Ranma asked.

       "Don't let it worry you," Ryoga said.  "They've got
something going with Angus MacSpoon.  Quite funny, really."

Ha ha! Nice plug!

       "The world which you have known up until now is an
illusion.  It is a fiction, written by the people who exist in the real
world.  You and I, and all the others who are still trapped in the
world of fan fiction, are the pawns of the fan fiction writers,
forced to do every vile deed that they write down."

       Ranma considered this.  She seemed to be thinking very
hard.

       "If it comes to that," she said, "I mean... if it comes to being
forced into vile deeds... something tells me that it happens to me a
lot more than to you, or Ukyo...."

Yeah... especially Gary trying to turn Ukyou into a dog. ^_~

       "The oracle," Ryoga said, "told me that I'd eventually find
the one, and now I have.  You don't know how many years I've
wandered the earth, searching for the one... and I'll admit, after I
found you, I wandered for several more years, hoping against
hope I was wrong... but I wasn't.  It's you."

Bwahahahahahaha! That's great. Even in his search for the One, he couldn't
stand it being Ranma.

       "So I was prophesied?" Ranma asked.  "Are you trying to
say that I'm some sort of savior?  That I'm going to save the
anime world?"

<raises and eyebrow> Wonder where he got that idea?

       "But, now that you know the truth," Ryoga said, "you can
turn the tables on the fanfic writers, and seize your own destiny."

Can you say: REVENGE FICS?
I bet you wish you couldn't.

^_^

***

       "It involves a whole bunch of really neat martial arts.  It
involves me never being cursed again.  And it doesn't involve a
damned wedding!  Got that?"

Ha! Talk about a wish that doesn't backfire!

       Ranma let the receiver drop.  He glanced about the streets of
Nerima, then shrugged, and flew straight up, disappearing into
the clouds.

       From the dangling receiver came a very confused "Growf?"

Ha ha! Looks like there's one Panda that will never escape the FFML.


Well, I liked it... but thought that there are parts that are quite weak.
Of course, being a spamfic, that might've been the intention.

Hope you write more stuff... it was a fun ride.

See ya

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