Didn't write all that much today. I didn't have much free time to write
and I need to go to sleep early. Gotta get up early to head out to
Vermont for some snowboarding. Let's hope I don't take a nasty spill and
mess up my wrists^_^;;;
If you missed previous parts/chapter this series/fanfic, you can find
iton my webpage at http://www.anime.sobhrach.com/~jeffwong/
Enjoy^_^
Jeffrey "OneShot" Wong
Before long, Shinji leaned his back against the Lance and slid down to
a sitting position on the ground, the back of his head resting against
the shaft of the Lance.
"I'm screwed. My wielding the Lance is outta the question,"
"What does that mean?" the Angel asked.
"It means the only option I have left is fighting Ranma in hand-to-hand
combat,"
<new stuff 12/28>
Shinji hung his head low.
He was still by where the Lance stuck in the ground, still sitting on
the ground and leaning his back against the weapon. Standing silently
nearby was the Angel, awaiting command. He would be needed soon since it
was only a matter of time before the seawater in the process of filling
up the giant crater will eventually converge on Shinji's location.
For the past half-hour, he visualized the kind of battle he would have
against Ranma, all of them ending with the same result, the easy and
utter defeat of Shinji.
Shinji knew, without a shadow of a doubt, that he would not be able to
beat Ranma.
Sure, there were many movies about how a student eventually grew to
surpass his or her master....
"But this ain't the goddamn movies!" Shinji said, "What the hell am I
gonna do?!"
As he continued to look toward the ground, wondering what he was going
to do, he heard the Angel say something.
"Someone is coming this way," the Angel repeated, pointing.
Shinji turned toward the Angel, "Huh?"
Did he hear that correctly? Someone was coming this way? How was that
possible? Everything was incinerated within several thousand miles from
where he was.
Looking toward where the Angel was pointing, Shinji caught sight of a
figure indeed walking toward them.
He squinted, wondering who could it possibly be and how it was possible
that someone was there in the first place. He got up to his feet but
stood where he was, very confused.
Before long, Shinji found himself recognizing the figure as she got
close enough for him to distinguish her features.
"R-Rei?"
Rei was naked. Although she was naked, Shinji seemed to be completely
unaware of that. This was because he was simply in a state of shock
He looked at her and noticed that this was not the Rei he recently
helped evacuate from Nerv. This was the Rei he knew. This was the one
from his own world.
"W-w-what...h-how...." he stammered.
"I'm here to help you," she said.
"W-where did you come from?" he managed to asked.
"I was always here. The difference was that I didn't become Ranma,"
Rei and Ranma were merged as one person once.
When they were split, Rei was every bit as susceptible to becoming what
Ranma became. Everyone seemed to have forgotten that. Actually, the only
person that knew Rei was safe from the fate that Ranma suffered was Ranma
himself. Ranma had determined that he and she both had AT Fields.
It was a conversation long forgotten that had occurred between the two
of them when the Angels attacked this world.
Rei remembered the conversation quite well, like it had happened
yesterday. It was a time when she had he had been alone one day...
"Rei, can I speak with you?" Ranma had asked.
Rei looked up at Ranma and softly said, "Yes,"
She and Ranma were alone. Everyone had gone on ahead toward, having
decided to visit the bathhouse after spending half the day at the beach.
It was nearing evening.
"What is it you wanted to speak to me about?" she asked.
"Remember that night you walked in on me while I was in the bathtub?"
he began.
"Yes,"
"Well, after our little talk, I bumped into Saffron," he said, "We
talked for a short while...about you,"
"Oh?" she said, blushing a bit. She didn't really know what to think.
"Anyway, Saffron mentioned about you having a strong will," Ranma
said, "And it got me thinking. You're like an Angel, just like I am.
Since I have an AT field, that means you must have one also,"
"I don't understand what you are saying," she replied.
"I think that is what makes you so strong," Ranma said with a warm
smile, "While I have some kinda physical AT field, you have a mental
one. Perhaps that is why you are able to deal with so many situations
without simply breaking down and crying, because you have a strong AT
field,"
Rei was silent.
"Anyway, I just wanted to letcha know that it's perfectly all right to
let that AT field down and simply cry. Afterall," He smiled, "I
remembered seeing you laugh back there at the bathhouse over two months
ago, you were actually having fun,"
Rei was silent. All she could do was smile a bit.
Through the spoken word, Ranma was slowly neutralizing Rei's
impenetrable AT field that she had put up so long ago.
Ranma placed a hand on Rei's shoulder,
"C'mon, let's catch up with the others,"
Rei did indeed have a strong will, a strong mental AT Field. She had
always had one, thus, her general lack of emotions. Her AT Field was
every bit as powerful mentally as Ranma's was physically.
That was why her personality never became similar to Ranma's, because
she was able to fight off that pervasive personality that had consumed
Ranma's. That personality was basically a disease that she was immune to
due to her strong mental AT Field.
She went on to explain all of this to Shinji as Shinji tried to
comprehend what he was hearing. When she was done, he seemed to be in a
state of shock.
Wanting time to think to himself, Shinji excused himself. By then, he
finally realized that Rei had been naked all this time when speaking to
him.
Although she seemed unbothered by it, Shinji was. He summoned an Angel
to come by so it could go fetch some clothes for her. The Angel showed up
by Shinji, was told what to do, and then took off toward the west,
leaving behind Shinji and Rei and the Angel.
Shinji could've sent the Angel waiting next to him to fetch some
clothes for Rei but he decided against it. He wanted an Angel around all
the time because he had no real idea when the seawater rushing in to the
crater would eventually reach where he was. He needed the Angel to fly
him out of trouble when the time comes.
When the Angel arrived with a pair of clothes, a Chinese outfit similar
to what Shinji was wearing but only small, Rei put them on.
"How is it possible that you're here now?" he asked, "I-I saw you dead,
like everyone else,"
"It took me a few days before I came back," she answered.
Shinji said nothing. He remembered how it took him a few days to come
back after he was first killed. If that was true, then that could explain
it. He suddenly blushed at the thought that he had buried Rei. If she
recovered from her injuries much like him, then she would've found
herself buried alive. His kind gesture to give a place of rest seemed to
have been anything but that for Rei. As to how she got out, he didn't
bother asking.
"After a few days, I came back, I came looking for you," Rei said, "But
you were gone,"
Shinji said nothing once again. He was only gone from this world for
only a day or so before he brought back the Ranma that killed himself. By
the time she had came back to this world alive, Ranma had killed himself
and Shinji had left for the other world.
His eyes widened. If that was true, then that was why Rei's grave
looked disturbed when he came back with Unit-01 and the others. She had
gotten out of her grave and had probably been wandering around looking
for him for the past week or so while he was gone. However, what didn't
make sense was that he had been on this world for a few days before he
lost in a dismal fight against Ranma, resulting in the loss of billions
of lives and Unit-01.
"I was here for a while," Shinji said, "How come we didn't bump in to
each other before?"
"When I came to, I noticed you had left," Rei said, "I went to the
world where you were,"
"Y-y-you were on the same world as me?!" Shinji's eyes widened.
"I was on the world where you were," she said, "By the time I realized
you had left that world, I came back here and found Japan destroyed,"
Shinji suddenly realized that Rei was referring to the first world
where Jun and that other Ranma existed. She had never been to the second
world where he brought back Misato, Ritsuko, and Asuka.
"How come you went to that world?" he asked, "Heck, how did you know to
go to that world in the first place? How did you even get there?"
"It was the most logical world where you would've gone or would've been
sent," Rei stated, "If I needed help, I would go there as well to seek
that world's Ranma's help,"
"Um, you're right, but I was there for only a day or so before I found
him and came back," Shinji said, wondering if Rei had always been smart
enough to figure something like that out. Then again, he wasn't aware
that she knew Shinji had loved Emiko all that time even before Shinji
realized it, something people found out with surprise shortly after
Shinji had gone to Emiko's world and after her.
Then again, there could be a chance that being merged with Ranma for so
long that some of his qualities started rubbing off on him. It was
obvious that some of her qualities rubbed off on him, like him having
Rei said, "I wandered around that world looking for you. When I didn't
find you, I came back here only to find this crater. It seems like you
failed to defeat Ranma with Unit-01,"
"H-how'd ya know that?" Shinji asked, confused.
"This is the same amount of destruction as when the other Unit-01 blew
up when Ranma and I were merged as one person," Rei answered, "It's not
that hard to realize that you must have gotten a hold of Unit-01 and
brought it to this world only to have it destroyed in your encounter
against Ranma.
Shinji scratched his head, "Um, I guess you have a point there. You're
right, I did get a hold of Unit-01 and it was destroyed. Man, how'd you
figure something like that out based on just seeing a giant crater?"
Rei shrugged.
Shinji's lips became a thin line. Rei never shrugged her shoulders.
That was a quirk Ranma used to do all the time. Could that perhaps mean
that she being merged with Ranma all that time had made their
personalities somewhat similar? If that was true, then what part of her
personality was there in Ranma?
Little did Shinji know that he seemed to do the same thing as well,
shrug his shoulders. Could that mean something as well?
Rei's personality slowly becoming much like Ranma's could explain why
she seemed to act differently. Of course, the real reason had never
crossed Shinji's mind. Rei tended to interact more freely with someone
she had in common with. Rei interacted freely with Ranma much like the
way she now interacted with Shinji, because they were very much a like
now.
"Um, do you have any idea how we are going to defeat Ranma?" Shinji
asked, wanting to change the subject.
Rei walked over to where the Lance was and picked it up with no
problems. Shinji's jaw dropped to the floor when he saw that. The Lance
was insanely heavy but she held it as if it weighed nothing.
"H-how'd you do that?" he had to ask.
"I used to have these powers when Ranma and I were merged," she said
softly, "I needed a short while to remember how to use them. You are
learning powers that I've learned long ago,"
"C-can you show me how to use 'em?" Shinji asked quickly, "I don't know
how to lift it,"
Rei stuck the Lance back down on the ground, "Just accept what you have
become and simply 'will' yourself to possess the strength to do so,"
"Urd said the same thing. I tried do that but I doesn't seem to work
for me," Shinji said, "I don't know what I'm doing wrong. Do you know?"
Rei said nothing for a moment, "It doesn't make sense why you shouldn't
be able to lift it,"
"That's what I've been trying to ask myself all this time,"
Shinji assumed a role he had been used to for most of his life,
following someone else's instructions.
He and Rei found themselves waiting patiently, Shinji sitting on the
ground and leaning his back against the Lance while Rei stood, her back
toward Shinji and leaning against the Lance as well.
At Rei's suggestion, he decided that it was indeed best that they wait
for Urd and Ranma to show back up. When they did, he would fight against
Ranma to distract him so that Rei could make the killing blow with the
Lance. Besides, it was much better this way since Rei would be of no use
trying to actually fight against Ranma since she had no fighting
abilities.
Another reason was that Rei seemed to have the ability to steel her
emotions so that she could make the killing blow, Shinji's momentary
hesitation in doing so resulting in Unit-01's destruction.
More importantly, Rei was the only one that could wield the Lance.
Sure, Urd could wield it, but she might be needed to distract Ranma as
well. That way, if she and Shinji were distracting Ranma, it was more
probably that Rei could succeed with landing the killing blow.
Shinji had resigned himself of trying to lift the Lance. That was why
wielding it should be Rei's responsibility. Perhaps he just wasn't meant
to wield it, even if it was meant specifically for him and Urd and Rei
said he should be capable of lifting it.
"I hope they show up soon," Shinji said, trying to make conversation,
"I have no idea when this crater will be filled up,"
Rei said nothing, ignoring the comment.
"Um, you think we should summon some Angels as well?" he asked, "They
could be of help,"
"They're useless," she said, unbothered about making that comment in
the presence of the one Angel still by where they were.
Shinji glanced over toward the Angel standing nearby, "They're not
useless. They helped me out greatly on the other world,"
Of course, if he thought about it, the only help he would have needed
was for the first Angel to be taken in to Unit-01, if that constituted as
help. That way, he wouldn't had needed to go through all that he had gone
through to attain Unit-01. Of course, it would also mean that that world
would most likely be worse off, what with it not long having Unit-01 to
protect them, than it is now. Shinji staying there and removing the
threat of attacking Angels was a good choice.
Rei continued to stare off toward the horizon. What was funny was that
it wasn't even the horizon she was looking at. The edge of the crater was
located so far away that it stretched beyond the curve of the Earth of
which she was seeing.
"Um, do you think Urd'll be coming by anytime soon?" he wondered aloud,
"Last time I waited for a few days for her and Ranma to show up,"
"Why does it matter?" Rei commented softly, "It's not like we need
sleep or food,"
Shinji was silent. Now that he thought about it, that was very true.
When was the last time he actually felt tired and went to sleep because
he was sleepy? When was the last time he ate because he was hungry? Him
eating with Misato, Ritsuko, and Asuka when they were in Germany was
merely out of curiosity, not necessity.
"Um, well, if we hafta wait too long, then this crater will've filled
up with seawater," Shinji commented, "I know how if you wanna be found,
you should stay in the place where you were last seen, but what are we to
do, wait over the ocean for them to arrive?"
"If it must be, then fine," she said.
"I can't fly. I dunno if you can, but I sure can't,"
Urd showed up around an hour after Shinji and Rei met up with one
another.
In similar fashion as before, she fell down from the sky, crashing to
the ground nearby where Shinji and Rei were. However, unlike before, when
Shinji ran up to where she was, she was unconscious, bleeding profusely
from a large gash on her head and several others all over her body.
"Oh my god!" Shinji gasped, checking Urd's pulse, "Her heartbeat's very
faint,"
Why the heck Urd even had a pulse, what with the fact that she is God
afterall, was something that seemed unimportant at the moment.
"Ranma will be showing up shortly," Shinji said in a hurried voice,
"We've got to get ready,"
Rei walked over to where the Lance was and picked it up out of the
ground. Without saying a word, she headed off away from Shinji and Urd.
They didn't need to go over the plan. As crazy and insane as the plan
was, Shinji and Rei had talked enough about it to know exactly what to
do.
Shinji and Ranma would fight. Rei would silently stand a short distance
away, waiting for an opportunity to launch the Lance in to Ranma's back
once Shinji had managed to manipulate him in to a position where his back
was toward Rei.
Although Shinji was no match for Ranma in hand-to-hand combat or
anything else for that matter, he knew that he was at least capable
enough of drawing his attention away from Rei long enough so she could
use the Lance to finish him off. Besides, it wasn't as if Ranma would pay
her any mind since he would not view her as a threat and would thus not
even pay attention to her.
All Shinji needed to do was circle around Ranma while Ranma just
pivoted to continuously face him, eventually resulting in Ranma's back
facing toward Rei.
Shinji's heart started racing at the thought of the inevitable fight.
Looking up at the sky, he saw him descending from the heavens at an
insane speed. Thinking fast on his feet and remembering what happened the
last time, Shinji grabbed Urd and pulled her away from where she lay
unconscious. A second later, Ranma struck the ground with both of his
feet with thunderous force, a crater forming from the impact.
When the dust cleared, Shinji and Urd were a safe distance away, Urd
moved over by where Rei stood. Since Ranma needed to get to Urd, perhaps
there was a chance Rei might have an opportunity to strike him down with
the Lance when he close to her when he approached the unconscious Urd.
This was just in case Ranma had decided to ignore fighting him and head
straight for Urd that is.
When the dust cleared out, Ranma had an annoyed look on his face as he
knelt in the middle of the small crater and looked up toward Shinji,
having seen what he had done.
Ranma stood and climbed out of the crater as Shinji nervously watched.
<all ive got so far...>
Ranma: I just noticed something.
Misato: That no guy on this planet has ever watched 'Sailor Moon' without
thinking, at least once, all the senshi having hot lesbian sex?
Ranma: ................
Misato: That it's kinda depressing for females to have a crush on their
favorite anime characters because the females will get older and older
while anime characters stay forever young meaning there's a gap
difference that's constantly growing?
Ranma: ................
Misato: That it seems to be the exact opposite for guys? Because as guys
get older, it doesn't matter if they have a crush on someone
significantly younger than themselves?
Ranma: ................
Misato: Fucking A!! Guys can get away with so much!! Why can they get
away with wanting to fuck the 'bitch' right outta Asuka while girls can't
show Tomahome that Miaka isn't woman enough for him?!?
Ranma: Calm down. You're gonna pop an artery.
Misato: (Sighs)Anyway, what is it that you noticed?
Ranma: I noticed that Yotsuya from the manga series, Maison Ikkoku, never
seems to have his mouth opened whenever he's talking.
Misato: ................
-OneShot
Jeffrey "OneShot" Wong
http://www.anime.sobhrach.com/~jeffwong/index.html
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