That was the End of everything that was, or could ever be.
The terms of the wish weren't going to be easy to fulfill, but she had a job to do and aimed to do it.
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Shinji stared up the quiet, and lonely streets. Weird. Where was everyone? Shaking that thought to the side, the scrawny little kid approached a near by phone. After fishing the number out of his pocket, he made a call.
The world shifted.
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"The number you are dialing is currently busy, please try again later." Ranma blinked, only idly hearing the words as he immediately took notice of his surroundings. Where the hell was he anyway? Dropping the phone, he turned and gave the empty street a long, long look. Nothing. A ghost town maybe? Nah, that didn't make much sense.
He looked down at his shoes, frowning. They weren't his shoes. What the hell was going on anyway? He blinked, noticing for the first time the picture in his hand. Flipping it over, he quickly examined the photo. Ignoring the rather lewd comments written across it, he focused on the woman. There was something eerily familiar about her, it was just on the tip of his tongue.
"Oh! Ranma!" Mihoshi appeared, smiling brightly. "As per the wording of the wish, you've been exchanged with a character from one her manga! Isn't that neat?" she made it sound like it was the best thing that could of ever happened to him.
"Heheh." he scratched the back of his neck, nervously. "Uh, just which.. uh.. manga wasn't it?" he just had a bad feeling about this.
Mihoshi blinked, "Oh!" she frowned in concentration, tapping her chin. "Oh nuts, I had the name a moment ago! What was it?" she almost looked ready to cry.
Ranma tuned her when the ground started shaking. It wasn't an Earth Quake, as the rumbling wasn't a continuous thing, but evenly spaced out. He blinked as Mihoshi's voice was drowned out by rather large jet engines. That feeling of familiarity rose up with him again, like he had seen this before. When a rather large green figure emerged from the towering buildings, he whimpered, "Evangelion..."
Mihoshi snapped her fingers, "That's it!" she blinked as the rapid sound of guns blazing pretty much made any attempt at communication null and void. Waving her hand, the sound immediately ceased, even as the Angel started destroying the aircraft. "Now, before I let you run off and have fun.."
"FUN!?!" Ranma stared at her as if she had grown a second head. "What kinda fun is this!? I don't wanna go through all the hell Shinji did! How’s this any different from where I came from!?"
Mihoshi smiled cheerfully, "Well, there's giant robo to pilot, monsters to slay, a world to save. If that’s not fun, I don't know what is."
"You ever read the series?" Ranma deadpanned.
"Sure did!" she chirruped in reply, "Now! As per the wording of the wish, you've switched places with Shinji Ikari of this world. Had to work a little magic, but I think everything’s in order. You were born Ranma Ikari, your life pretty much following what Shinji's life would have. Whole abandonment mumbo jumbo, living with your uncle, enjoying the cello, all that good stuff."
Ranma sat down on the curb and wallowed about how life was unfair.
"The Djinn debated about de-aging you, but we thought it was too cliché and not nearly as fun. Just tell everyone you had a recent growth spurt.."
Maybe if he just let that big green dork step on him right now, his pain would end?
"Had to take a small bit of Shinji's soul and stuff it into you, it's the only way his mother could recognize you.."
Would seppuku really have been so bad?
"Well, if there's nothing else, I'll be going now! Shinji needs a briefing, see ya!" the ditzy genie blew up in a cloud of sparkling dust, leaving him to a fate just slightly worse then death.
Ranma gazed tiredly as a blue car zoomed up along the curb, the woman he realized was Misato Katsuragi opening the door.
Maybe if didn't say anything, or move, she wouldn't see him?
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