Sailor Pluto felt herself grabbed and thrown clear before the "eye" of the storm closed and she had a last glimpse of Ranma Saotome before reality closed the seam.
Crickle
Pluto stared in alarm at the web of cracks running up her Time Key Staff. That would mean...
In the blink of an eye she was at the Gates Of Time and she stepped back in genuine horror. Cracks running the breadth and length of the two ornate doors. From those cracks the polychrome sparkle of chronal energy. The Gates had stopped the storm. For now. Any additional tampering on her part or that of any other time traveler, and they would burst like so much glass. She might be able to get away with a little nudge or two, but it would be a terrible risk.
Pluto did what she could. Her life had just been saved by the very person she'd been ready to eliminate, but now he was back in his own past somewhere. A time loop. If something didn't happen to sever that loop, eventually the Gates would burst and the entirety of Castle Pluto would quickly resemble a small nova. So, while she couldn't do much herself, someone had to make an alteration in the timestream to cut the loop.
It took Pluto over an hour to work out a mechanism that would work.
She couldn't directly enter the timestream but she could do a holographic sending of about five minutes duration before it would begin to increase pressure again.
So she could advise someone in the past, alter Ranma's development, and if she did it right - tie the advise line off as an automated message from the single area that itself was a Paradox Free Zone. The Gates themselves. He had to survive to the point of time she'd just left and there were an awful lot of events in his life he might not have survived if they'd gone differently. Of course, if he didn't go through some of the prior events - he might not have been in life-or-death later.
That left who to advise. She'd only get one shot at this and she had to consider carefully the consequences.
Crack!
Casting a worried glance at the newest sign of the strain, Pluto decided to send a message to:
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