"CONNER?!"
"He said I wasn't the real Superboy. kff! ...He was wrong. I just forgot for a little while... We all forgot... Don't let them forget again."
"Just hang in there, okay?
"kfft!"
"You did it Conner. You saved the Earth. You saved everyone."
"I know, Cass. Isn't it cool?"
Fade to black.
Eyes snapped open, only to blink furiously at the sudden barrage of light.
Staggering, off-balance, he would have fallen if the wall hadn't held him up.
He was in a teenage girls room, complete with pretty teenage girl staring at him in shock. "Superboy?"
His head turned automatically at the sound of his name. He waited a moment, but she didn't say anything else.
"Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore," he said to himself. "And somehow, I don't think this Heaven, either."
That was when his legs gave out under him.
"Say WHAT?!?"
"Just what I said," said Conner evenly as he took a drink from a glass of water Nabiki had brought him. "You're a character in a popular anime series in my world, Ranma 1/2."
"You mean there's a series about our lives, and it stars Ranma?!? Thats! Thats... Actually, that makes a strange sort of sense. And it definitely answers some questions I've had," said Nabiki thoughtfully. "It's just such a strange thought! Us reading your adventures, you reading our adventures... I wonder if someone somewhere if reading both!"
"Or reading this as we speak!" Conner laughed, and after a moment, Nabiki joined him.
There was an awkward, almost paranoid silence. Nabiki started to look nervously over one shoulder toward the fourth wall, when Conner grabbed her by the hand.
"No, no," he said. "Not in this fic."
"You're right," said Nabiki. "That's a different thread entirely. Although, I hear it's mostly an excuse for lemon."<1>
Conner shrugged. "As long as Gorgeous Gilly isn't invited, it's all good." <2>
Shaking his head, Conner picked up the comic Ranma had been banished into. "Well, there isn't much here, but it looks like Ranma's been set at the beginning of my life. The Newsboys just broke him out of Project Cadmus and gave him a leather jacket. Which reminds me, how long has Ranma been here?"
Nabiki pursed her lips. "Complicated. I remember him being here for almost two years. However, according to the calender hanging on the wall behind you, Ranma arrived two days ago."
"So I'm at the beginning of his series, too," Conner said to himself. "This has possibilities."
"Like what?" Nabiki asked, taking a drink, but she was a little careless setting the glass down. It teetered, tipped, and fell, the water dripping onto the bedspread.
And onto a suddenly female Conner Kent. She was blond and had a body that gave new meaning to the phrase, 'Peaks and Valleys.'
She gaped at herself for a long moment before raising her eyes to the ceiling. "Somebody is going to die for this." She looked back down at Nabiki, who was poking and groping her breast. "Would you stop that?"
1: The 4th Wall is indeed a short-lived lemon thread on Anime Addventures. Look it up if you don't believe me.
2: Superboy #86: Superboy meets Gorgeous Gilly, THE most physically repulsive woman ever born, who just happen to have the innate, automatic, and constantly functioning ability to make any man who sees her fall absolutely and totally in love, regarding her as the ultimate expression of feminine beauty... But only while she remains within eyeshot.
Read the comments on this episode
(Posted Fri, 17 Apr 2009 10:37)
Questions? Problems? Suggestions?
Send a mail to addventure@bast-enterprises.de
or use the contact form.
らんま1/2 © Rumiko Takahashi
All other series and their characters are © by their respective creators or owners. No claims of ownership of these characters are implied by the authors of this Addventure, or should be inferred.
The Anime Addventure is a non-profit site.