This is just something I'm toying with, it was
an 
idea that I discussed with some folks in a chat
last night, thought I'd put 
it down. This won't be
anywhere near the length of Insertion. Like I
said, 
this is really just some fun on my part.

 

    Insertion: Reflux

 

    Part 1

 

    A whole new mess!

 

++++++++++++

 

    L-sama, the Lord of Chaos...was bored.

 

    Over the course of time they had grown used to
their 
station in the universe. It had been eons
since their own ascension, the flow 
of time had
gone on as always, and their time upon the worlds
they had 
created had ended long ago. Now, to most
they were mere legends, if they were 
remembered at
all.

 

    Still, things continued on as always, ruling
the 
universes was time consuming, and now, a
special time for them was coming in 
their fourth
creation.

 

    Carrot sighed as he looked down from the
heavens at 
the fledgling universe and frowned.
"This one is so...normal."

 

    "That was the point," commented 
Xianfu
irritably.

 

    "Yeah, but we already know what'll happen
here," 
responded Carrot.

 

    "So?" said Ranma.

 

    "What should we do then?" asked Pissant
cheerfully. 
"I'm kinda bored myself."

 

    Dan snorted as something seemed to hit him
suddenly. 
"Carrot, you wouldn't."

 

    "Already done!" said Carrot cheerfully.

 

    Hotaru walked up to him, she was as young as
ever, 
her mortal life long since ended. "What are
you doing?"

 

    L-sama turned to look at her, suddenly growing
rigid. 
"N-nothing dear..."

 

    "What have you done now?" she said with a
small sigh 
as she walked up to what they were
doing and peered down. "Again? Can't you 
just
leave him alone?"

 

    The god smiled at her weakly. "No, not
really."

 

    Hotaru sighed and hung her head. "I suppose
there's 
nothing I can do about it. Thinking about
retiring already?"

 

    "No, we were just bored," said the Supreme
Being 
cheerfully.

 

    "Well, I suppose there's nothing I can do,"
she said 
with a small sigh.

 

    "Come on, it'll be fun!" responded 
L-sama
cheerfully.

 

    Hotaru smirked at this and shook her head.
"All 
right, just don't be to hard on him." She
turned and walked away.

 

    "Man that was close," muttered Carrot as he
turned 
back to the universe again.

 

++++++++++++

 

    Sesshomaru frowned as he looked at the small
books in 
his hands. "Pathetic," he muttered as he
flipped through the pages. There 
were several
small volumes that the girl, Kagome, had dropped
in her 
travels with his pathetic half brother. Rin
had grown quite attached to 
them.

 

    He sighed and continued to read, not certain
why. He 
wasn't aware of it, but over the course of
time, the girl had lost almost the 
entire
collections. Now, most of that was now in his
possession.

 

    "These humans are pathetic," he muttered as 
he
frowned at the book. "Surely, I, Sesshomaru, would
do a much better job 
of telling such tales than
this." He pondered this for a moment and stood 
up.

 


    Taking a pen in his hand, he began to scrawl
on a 
scroll he had hidden in his robes.

 

++++++++++++

 

Amelia Wil De Seyruun sat in the library of her
father's palace. It was 
a stuffy place, with books
lining the walls from one end to the other. 
She
blushed guiltily as she flipped through one of the
small books she had 
discovered in the corner. She
had read them all, and now she was doing it 
again.

 

    They were tails of wonderful fantasy, from
lands 
distant and impossible. It was a wonderful
feeling to immerse herself in 
them. Unfortunately,
she was supposed to be studying. She knew she
would 
pass any test she was given though, so she
allowed herself the pleasure. She 
did feel bad
about doing it though anyway.

 

    With a small wistful sigh she clutched one of
the 
books against her chest and smiled. "I wish I
could write such wonderful 
stories!"

 

    After a moment of enjoying the warm fuzzy
feeling, 
compounded with guilty pleasure, she
blinked. "Hey. Why can't I?"

 

    She looked around and found several unused
scrolls 
sitting on one of the desks nearby. With a
shrug of her shoulders, she walked 
over and picked
one of them up.

 

+++++++++++

 

    Guy Daigoji was bored.

 

    It wasn't so much boredom, as much as his
collection 
was still in storage. He had just moved
into his small apartment. Having 
heard of a
project that could fulfill his dreams. His dream
to become a 
Sentai hero, and pilot a Giant Robot.
It would be just like his beloved 
Gekkigengar!

 

    Unfortunately, in his rush, he'd grabbed the
wrong 
box. Now, he had to wait for his beloved
Gekkigengar recordings to arrive 
with the movers.
There were several other manga spread out on the
floor 
around him. He'd been nostalgic for a time,
having read them all in his youth 
before. Now, he
really wanted his Gekkigengar back.

 

    "Man, this sucks! No great transformations, no
saving 
the galaxy from evil from beyond space,
no..." He sighed and hung his head as 
he looked at
the manga for a moment. "No really big fists
crashing through 
buildings on its way to crush the
enemy! No Gekkigen Flare..." He was almost 
to the
point of tears.

 

    Suddenly, and idea hit him. "Hey. Why can't
these 
stories have all that?" He glanced around at
the manga, with a maddening idea 
forming in his
head. It was good, too good.

 

    "That's it! I'll make one!"

 

    He chuckled at his own genius and pulled a
small 
laptop computer over from the corner. "Man,
this will be so cool!"

 

+++++++++++++

 

    Faye sat staring at...well nothing. The
computer in 
front of her flickered as she simply
bored holes into the screen with her 
eyes as best
she could. She lazily tapped one of the keys 
and
sighed.

 

    The Bebop was still a week away from 
anything
interesting, and she had nothing to do but wait.
Spike and Jet 
were probably grunting like animals,
and Edward...well she was doing much the 
same
thing she was. The young girl was over in the
corner in a sort of 
daze.

 

    She glanced over at the girl and rolled her
eyes as a 
tiny string of drool fell from the
girl's mouth as she stared into her 
goggles and
typed.

 

    "This is pathetic," she muttered to herself as
she 
noticed the dog staring at her.

 

    It whined and perked its ears up, lifting its
head to 
look at her.

 

    "What the heck are you staring at?" she
grumbled 
irritably.

 

    The dog yipped and jumped out of the chair,
scurrying 
away to somewhere safer.

 

    "I just wish I had something to do," she
muttered as 
she turned back to the computer
screen.

 

    With a small sigh, she opened an old folder
that she 
had read many times over the course of
her voyages. Images flickered on the 
screen, manga
images that she'd seen a hundred times before.
"I've read 
all this before, I need something new.
Maybe I should pick up another disk 
when we
finally get wherever it is we're going," she
sighed and closed out 
the file, opening a new one.

 

    A word processor. She furrowed her brow and
glanced 
over at Ed for a moment. "I'd never live
it down if the others found out 
about this." She
decided that she would delete the files after she
had 
finished writing. It was just to pass the time
anyway.

 

    She started typing.

 

++++++++++++++++

 

    Jusenkyo, once again fate played its role.
Ranma 
Saotome felt the icy chill of the spring
cover his body as he fell in. The 
shock numbing
his body for a moment and leaving him senseless.

 

    A familiar sound, one that another like him
had heard 
once before. The sound was bigger this
time, like four astral coconuts 
slamming into one
another. The echo sending ripples across the
fabric of 
space and time.

 

    The coconuts all rubbed their heads in
irritation and 
were immediately confused by their
situation.

 

    Time stood still for a single instant. The
tiny bits 
of souls taken from those writing,
formed into more complete beings in a 
half
second's time; each trying to exact the changes
needed to start the 
story they desired.

 

    Unfortunately, the stories they desired were
all 
completely different, and something shorted
out once again.

 

    This time, it really was some sort of 
grand
design.

 

    Ranma climbed out of the water as the guide's
voice 
registered inside his head; no, her head.
"Oh sir! You fall in Spring of 
Drowned Girl!"

 

    The redheaded pigtailed girl blinked and
looked down 
at her new breasts. Anger rose, then
was quickly released as she found a 
target for her
rage.

 

    The panda that was looking at her dumbly from
just 
outside the springs.

 

    "Old man! Prepare to die!"

 

    The chase was on.

 

+++++++++++++++++

 

    "STOOOOPPPPP!"

 

    Ranma slammed to a stop, his father continuing
onward 
in front of him. "Huh?"

 

    "Where am I? I'll destroy you for this human!
How 
dare you..." snarled an angry male voice.

 

    "Whoa," muttered another male.

 

    "Um, excuse me," said a quiet female 
voice
nervously.

 

    "What the hell? Where am I?" said another
voice, this 
time, an angry woman.

 

    "Who's there? Come out!" said Ranma a she
whipped 
around and put up her fists to be ready
for anything.

 

    "Um, I don't think that's going to be
possible," said 
the quiet female voice.

 

    "When I get my claws on the foolish sorcerer
who 
would dare do this to I, I will tear him apart
slowly, so he will feel an 
eternity of agony
before I allow him to die!"

 

    Ranma blinked, unable to do much else. "Huh?"
Her 
hand moved up to her forehead and she clutched
at her temples for a moment. 
"This is definitely
not good," said her own voice. However, she 
was
certain she hadn't said a word.

 

    "Oh shit," agreed herself in a more 
masculine
tone.

 

    Ranma screamed and fell to her knees, only to
find 
her own fist hooking across her jaw.

 

    "Human! How dare you bring me to my knees!
I'll 
destroy you!" snarled the angry voice.

 

    Ranma's mind broke, and she passed out cold.

 

+++++++++++

 

    A few moments later, she found herself walking
again. 
Actually, she woke up walking. "GAH!" She
stopped cold and there was silence. 
"Oh god. I've
gone insane!"

 

    "Don't worry! We'll find a way to fix this!"
said the 
young female voice firmly.

 

    "We'd better," agreed the woman.

 

    "What the heck is goin on?" muttered the
confused 
sounding male.

 

    "It appears we have been stuck, inside the
mind of a 
human," snarled the vicious voice. It
had calmed considerably though. "No 
doubt, some
foolish sorcerers spell. We'll find a way to break
it, and 
then I'll kill you all for inconveniencing
me."

 

    Ranma blinked, she'd heard that voice 
before
somewhere. She couldn't place it though and
sighed. "What's going 
on?"

 

    "We're stuck in your head," said the woman.

 

    "Who are you people?" muttered 
Ranma
forcefully.

 

    "My name is Amelia Wil De Seyruun," said the
youngest 
of the girls cheerfully.

 

    Everyone else was silent at this announcement.

 

    "That's impossible!" said the woman in shock.

 

    "Hey, poor kid. Must have cruel parents to
name you 
after someone like that," commented the
male.

 

    The angry voice snorted in disgust, but said
nothing. 
It was easy to tell he's surprised.

 

    "You've heard of me? Well, I guess I am 
a
princess..."

 

    "Who are you really?" snapped the woman. "Quit
joking 
around! This is serious!"

 

    "Enough of this! I, Sesshomaru, will not 
allow
such..."

 

    If everyone could have stared at him, they
would 
have. As it was, they simply remained
silent. The voice paused when he 
realized this and
stopped his speech. "So, you know me as well it
seems. 
Good, then you know my power! I'll..."

 

    "I bet this is Spike's idea of a joke!"
snorted the 
woman. "I'll get him for this."

 

    "Sesshomaru?" muttered Amelia with a slight
wavering 
to her voice. "You're...Fluffy?"

 

    "Yes! It is...what?"

 

    Ranma couldn't help it. He burst into
laughter.

 

    "Be silent! Or I'll..."

 

    "You'll what? Tear your own throat out?"
snorted the 
woman.

 

    Sesshomaru growled at this angrily. "I 
just
might."

 

    "Well, if we're doing this, I might as well
play 
along until we figure this out," said the
woman with a small sigh. "My name 
is Faye
Valentine."

 

    "And I, am Guy Daigoji!" announced the last
voice 
proudly. "Soon, I'll be the star of my own
Sentai adventure! Well, as soon as 
I get my
security clearance anyway. So, I can't stay
long...I've got 
too..."

 

    "I'm sensing a pattern here," snorted Faye
irritably. 
"This has got to be some kind of joke."

 

    "How is it I know all your names?" 
snarled
Sesshomaru. "You should be honored that I know of
you, to not be 
completely beneath my notice is..."

 

"Will somebody shut him up?" said Ranma irritably
as she simply sat in 
the dirt and stared at the
tree line around them.

 

    "What? You dare!"

 

    "What's your name kid?" asked Faye.

 

    "Ranma Saotome," replied the redhead as she
hung her 
head and simply looked at the dirt. "I
think I've just gone crazy."

 

    Silence reigned once again.

 

    Finally, she found herself being pulled to her
feet 
by her own body once again.

 

    "What are you doing?" said Sesshomaru
irritably. He 
had calmed down once again, and was
trying to work out the spell that had 
done this to
him.

 

    "Going back to Jusenkyo, maybe we can get some
help," 
said Amelia.

 

    "Bah! I have no need of help! I'll destroy
this 
spell, and its worker, easily." snorted
Sesshomaru.

 

+++++++++++++

 

    The guide began to sweat as he stared at his
captor 
fearfully. "I no can help sir!" He was
hanging upside-down on a tree branch 
near his
home. His entire body was wrapped in a thick rope.

 

    "Choose your words carefully, Human," snarled
the 
redhead.

 

    "Sir! Please! I am just humble guide to
Jusenkyo! I 
not know magic that make cursed pools!
It very tragic story!" whimpered the 
man
pathetically.

 

    "Are you sure we should be doing this?" asked
Amelia 
in a sort of horrified tone as she watched
helplessly. "I mean, he's 
so...harmless."

 

    "We're only scaring him right now, don't
worry. 
Besides, Fluffy is doing a good job. Maybe
we can get him to give us some 
information about
what happened to us," said Faye.

 

    "Still, it seems so wrong! We should at least
give 
him the chance to..."

 

    "No way! I've got an appointment to keep! I'm
gonna 
get my very own Gekkigengar next week!"
cried Guy.

 

    "Shut up Yamada," snorted Faye.

 

    "My name is...!" started Guy indignantly.

 

    "Yamada Yojiro," replied Faye calmly.

 

    "It isn't right! We should cut him down!" 
said
Amelia.

 

    "No way! Not until he fixes this!" 
snapped
Ranma.

 

    "You won't interfere!" snarled Sesshomaru.
"...and 
desist in calling me Fluffy!"

 

    "Sure thing, Fluffykins," said Faye
fearlessly.

 

    "I shall be sure to deal with you later,"
snarled the 
demon angrily. He turned his attention
back to the guide.

 

    The man whimpered as the rather intimidating
young 
girl narrowed her eyes at him and put her
nose up to his face. "If you won't 
help, I don't
have any use for you."

 

    "Wait! Curse of Jusenkyo have cure!" cried the
man 
suddenly.

 

    "Oh?" asked the girl.

 

    "Yes, hot water return to normal, but only
until next 
time hit by cold water!" cried the
Guide.

 

    "Very well," said the girl as she turned away
and 
walked towards his home. The man was left
hanging there.

 

    "Sir, you cut me down now? Yes?"

 

    "Be glad you're still alive, human," snorted
the 
redhead as she closed the door behind herself.

 

+++++++++++

 

    "I'm a man again!" cried Ranma in triumph.

 

    "What? He lied to us!" snarled Fluffy.

 

    "I don't think he did," said Amelia.

 

    "Explain," said Sesshomaru with a dangerous
cool to 
his voice.

 

    "I mean, from what I've read, the springs of
Jusenkyo 
don't do things like this to people. It
just changes their body."

 

    The demon went silent and thought about it for
a 
moment. Finally, he sighed. "So, it is someone
else at work. Very well, we 
shall leave and search
this fool down."

 

    "Hey, what about Pop?" said Ranma as he halted
them 
suddenly.

 

    "What about him?" snorted Sesshomaru.

 

    "Yeah? Why should we wait for that fat
bastard?" 
snarled Faye.

 

    "At last! Genma Saotome can be brought to
Justice!" 
exclaimed Amelia.

 

    "Huh?" said Ranma dumbly. "What the heck are
you 
talking about?"

 

    "It's...nothing," said Faye. "In any case,
he's 
right. We've got to find a way out of this
mess."

 

    "We don't even know where to start though,"
pointed 
out Amelia.

 

    "I grow tired of this!" snarled Sesshomaru as
he 
tried to force them to walk again. The others
countered his efforts, and he 
found himself unable
to move.

 

    "I've got a feeling, that we're stuck like
this for a 
while," said Faye.

 

    "You have no idea," said an unfamiliar voice.

 

    The group turned around and found themselves
staring 
at a man with a smirk on his face. He was
leaning against the doorway and 
watching them
calmly.

 

    "Who are you?" snorted Faye.

 

    "L-sama," responded the man.

 

    "Wha?" said Amelia in shock.

 

    Sesshomaru went completely rigid. "It 
can't
be..."

 

    "Oh come now Sesshomaru, you exist, why
shouldn't I?" 
said the man with a small chuckle.

 

    "You'd better explain what's going on! You did
this 
didn't you?" snapped Ranma.

 

    "Stand down," said Sesshomaru firmly, he was
watching 
the figure cautiously. Absolute terror
and awe seemed to fill every part of 
his body.

 

    "You all got exactly what you wished for,"
said 
L-sama calmly. He waved his hand, and Ranma
passed out again.

 

    The others were still awake though. "I thought
I'd be 
nice and explain what happened to you,
since no one else will."

 

    "What's going on? Who is this guy?" asked
Faye.

 

    "If what he claims is true, then he is L-sama,
the 
Lord of Chaos," said Sesshomaru as he tensed
his body. "No Demon, no matter 
how strong, would
dare make a claim to that name if it was 
not
true."

 

    "He's a demon?" asked Faye.

 

    "More like a god," said L-sama with a small
shrug. 
"In any case, none of you are going home."

 

    "What?" cried Guy in shock. "No, I've got..."

 

    "And you're going to take that test. You four
are 
nothing but part of the original soul. It
happens whenever someone writes a 
story like the
ones you had started. Quite simple really, you
shouldn't be 
aware at all. A little piece of you
goes into the story, to create the 
reality you
desire in your mind. However, the four of you all
started the 
same story, at the same time. So, you
shorted each other out so to speak, and 
became
aware. The real you, is in another universe,
completely unaware of 
what's happening."

 

    "So, we're stuck like this?" asked Amelia 
in
shock.

 

    "Yes. You can't tell Ranma what I've told 
you
either," said L-sama with a small chuckle. "You'll
remember 
though."

 

    "Why shouldn't we?" asked Faye irritably.

 

    "You can try, but you won't be able too," 
said
Sesshomaru with an unusual calm about him.

 

    "So...no Gekkigengar?" whimpered 
Guy
pathetically.

 

    "Enjoy your new life," said L-sama.

 

    "Great," grumbled Faye.

 

    "Wow," agreed Amelia.

 

    "I cannot endure this humiliation! To live as
a 
human? I'd rather be destroyed!"

 

    "Oh and Sesshomaru?" said L-sama.

 

    The young boy's head snapped up to look at 
L-
sama.

 

    "I like you, but Inu Yasha wins," said the man
as he 
chuckled and vanished.

 

    All that was left, was the young boy standing
there 
with his mouth hanging open.

 

    "Um, maybe we should find this kid's dad?"
asked Guy 
as he finally broke the silence.

 

    "..." said Fluffy.

 

    "What are you kidding? We need to be as far
away from 
that jerk as we can get!" snapped Faye.

 

    "..." said Fluffy.

 

    "I can't bear the thought of taking a son away
from 
his family, but Miss Faye is right!" agreed
Amelia strongly.

 

    "..." said Fluffy.

 

    "That man isn't fit to be a parent," said Faye
as she 
glared at the door for a moment.

 

    "..." said Fluffy.

 

    "It wouldn't be just to subject Mr. Ranma to
such a 
horrible man! I can't allow it!" agreed
Amelia.

 

    "..." said Fluffy.

 

    "So, what do we do now?" asked Guy.

 

    "..." said Fluffy.

 

    "Come on, we're getting out of here. Is there
a 
spaceport around here?" asked Faye.

 

    "..." said Fluffy.

 

    "They don't have space travel in this 
time,
remember?" grumbled Guy. "No robots, not even
little ones." He 
sounded like he was about to cry
again. "My life is over."

 

    "..." said Fluffy.

 

    Ranma groaned and opened his eyes. "What
happened? 
Where the heck are we?" He blinked when
he noticed them opening the door. 
"Hey, where are
we goin?"

 

    "..." said Fluffy.

 

    "Away from here," said Faye.

 

    "..." said Fluffy.

 

    "What fer? Where's Pop, we can't just leave
him 
here," said Ranma as he glanced around.

 

    "..." said Fluffy.

 

    "Why not?" asked Faye.

 

    "..." said Fluffy.

 

    And so it went...the beginning of 
something
new.

 

++++++++++

 

    TBC...

 

    Next Time: Nerima.


 

Perfect Carrot- Consuming the universe, one Aspect at a time.


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