Only to find at the Gates Of Time that there had been some redecoration. A human sized scratching post? A catnip mouse the size of a beanbag chair? A frilly maid's outfit... oh wait that was hers.
Far far far more concerning was the hidden picture of Prince Endymion getting out of the shower was missing. Instead there was a picture of Ranma doing something very similar and... hmmm. Interesting. Wild stallion indeed. Was it getting warm in here?
Shaking her head, Sailor Pluto decided to go forward in time to Crystal Tokyo where she would find.
"She loves you,
Niaow, niaow, niaow,
She loves you,
Niaow, niaow, niaow,
With a love like that,
You know you should be glad,
Mewwwwwwww!"
Sailor Pluto blinked at finding herself at a catgirl rock concert. She quickly stepped back to the Gates Of Time to contemplate this. Had she gone to the wrong era? Maybe if she tried again, but fast forward an hour.
"Cat girls just wanna have fun!
Yea catgirls just wanna have fun!
They just wanna, they just wanna!"
Sailor Pluto stepped back to the Gates Of Time. Nope. That was definitely the right time period and that was definitely a heavy crowd in front of the palace, and catgirl performers on a stage, and definitely Crystal Tokyo. The future had been changed it seemed. For one thing, she couldn't remember seeing an Earthrise ever from Crystal Tokyo, nor the presence of space stations.
Maybe if she appeared in her own suite in the palace there would be a clue?
Sailor Pluto stepped out and noticed the bed was occupied. Yes, that was definitely her future self there, sprawled inelegantly out across the sheets with a tousled look to her and the...
Details like scents and the utterly satiated smile on Future Pluto's face suddenly clicked into focus.
"So this is what a heart attack feels like," murmurred Sailor Pluto as she clutched her chest.
Future Pluto stirred and looked around but she was alone at that point.
Ranma was looking around. His catgirls were getting along well with the other girls. In fact, the situation was kinda...
It took the pigtailed martial artist several minutes to come up with the right word. Nice didn't quite work. The situation was peaceful and people were talking excitedly or happily and making plans and nobody was getting mad or threatening to kill anyone or anything. Boring wasn't quite the right word either. Peaceful? Tranquil? Finally Ranma decided to just go ahead with "nice" - as he just didn't know what to call it otherwise.
Man, if he'd known that retroactively creating a bunch of nice catgirls would work out this well, he'd have done it before now. Heck, he'd wish for a whole lot more catgirls to be around.
Unnoticed by Ranma or anyone but Rei (who frowned slightly and wondered what that odd sensation was from), the odd blue tattoo flared to life along his forearm and palm.
Sailor Pluto had taken some time to track it down and had come finally to the Celestial Library. (Though dedicated to Serenity, it was doubtful the Queen would ever actually go inside the building.) That it hadn't been present in the original Crystal Tokyo was one of the reasons she hadn't gone there first.
She had several questions and was only now beginning to get answers.
Francine Nadia Stein, mad scientist who had created the Kitty Senshi, had attempted to create an entire breed of supersoldiers.
Then, in a classic screwup, had insisted on making tweaks of her first mistake instead of going back to square one.
So the mad scientist ended up fighting the Senshi and Kitty Senshi over and over again. Sometimes victory had been by a narrow margin, but in THIS timeline at least, the heroes had been victorious and then had purified the bad kitties to make them good kitties.
One of Stein's last projects had been a magical Catgirl Gun! Anyone struck by the large satellite mounted cannon-like device turned into affectionate pseudo-feline eyecandy! (It should be noticed that Dr. Stein didn't like men too much even if her catgirls generally preferred the male gender as cuddletoys.)
Which was why, when the dust was cleared and Dr Stein had tragically fallen to her death (rather than let herself be pulled to safety by a male - Mamoru Chiba in this case) of the world population of six billion - two billion were catgirls.
Sailor Pluto watched a tape of the American President in 2001 appointing the first American catgirl to a high post - Catzalisa Riaow.
The Senshi of Time continued to watch as catgirl soldiers tracked down with their enhanced senses terrorists in a global campaign and it was truly known for the first time exactly what would happen when innocent children/kits were slaughtered in front of catgirls. The catgirls were it seemed: cute, cuddly, friendly, attractive, and capable of getting completely and thoroughly nasty if their protective instincts were engaged and given a target.
Sailor Pluto watched as mankind began going into space and trying to accomplish Great Things. (Many critics attributed this to the fact that the catgirls were quite often fascinated by guys doing Great Things or at least attempting them. Other people told the critics to shut up as long as it worked.)
The time of the Great Freeze came. And...
Well, frankly the menace wasn't ready for a world that had catgirls with attentuated senses and the occasional superpowered catgirl defender of love and justice.
No Great Freeze. Not that there weren't losses and destruction, but compared to losing 95% of Earth's biomass - it wasn't nearly so bad to contemplate a little under one billion dead. Still a horrible loss, but not nearly as bad as it had been.
Earth's reaction to this latest attack by evil forces out of the stars had not been to settle back down into a single city or community, try to forge a new utopia, turn the other cheek, and hope that nobody would bother them. Uh uh.
The appearance of the catgirls, particularly the superpowered mystically empowered ones, had caused people to reconsider the news of youma and supernatural evil. The Catgirl Wars had convinced the vast majority of the planet that magically empowered or not - catgirls were neither wimps nor particularly weak. The attack that should have been the Great Freeze proved that supernatural evil was still interested in finding humanity and exterminating it.
Sailor Pluto winced at the worldwide reaction to the news that there was real, no holds barred, absolute, soul devouring, Evil out there that was seeking to kill them. Roughly 3% of the population voted for conciliation, trying to understand the bad guys and find common ground, and to open a dialogue.
The other 97% started building armed spaceships, developing anti-supernatural-evil weapons (investigating what was effective in destroying Monsters From Beyond and then improving on them), training their grandmothers in psychic warfare, etcetera.
They took every hour and day that there was no attack as a gift to invest in, and after a decade had boiled into space with superdreadnaughts and space battlecruisers that could take out minor godlings. They ran into other planets that had had minor problems before and quickly formed treaties of mutual alliance and treaties of mutual defense. They continued to seek out supernatural evil and on finding it brought into being terms like Planetary Bombardment and Zero Negaverse Tolerance.
Chibi-usa was born, grew up in this world, joined a military academy, and was currently the 25 year old Lieutenant Usagi, Specialist (White Magic) aboard the United Space Force StarCarrier Serenity. Their slogan: "We will kill no demons before its time. Its time." Everyone expected her to eventually reach the command crew and then on to captaincy. Pink hair and all.
Sailor Pluto put the newsviewer away and began to pace back and forth.
There were advantages and disadvantages to this new timeline, as she saw it.
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