Wild Outers: Time Travel is a headache wrapped in a paradox [Episode 5361]

by Kestral

"Long ago, a... friend of mine once said 'If you think you understand all the problems with time travel, you've missed something.' Then again he also said that 'time travel is a headache wrapped in an paradox.' That's also the case with Wishcraft."

"Waitaminute," said Ranma, "what's that gotta do with one of my fiancees?"

Sailor Pluto frowned. "Okay. Let's try this again. Remember having to use the bathroom but Nabiki was taking her own sweet time in there? Then when she was done, she seemed to think she had hardly spent any time at all in there but by your reckoning you could have gone to use the men's room at the school and been back?"

"Hell yeah, happened all the time, and not just with Nabiki. Man, girls spend so long in there!" Ranma grumbled. He turned into a girl and man he never understood some of that crap.

"That's subjective time. Short time for her, long time for you. Objective time would be if both of you looked at your watches and found that fifteen minutes had passed," Sailor Pluto explained. "To you - that vase was just knocked over yesterday. To us, it all happened a long time ago where you met and got along with Haruka. So it all depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on."

"I'm confused," said Ranma.

"As my (ahem) friend would have said, 'you begin to understand.' In any case, in our past you used your abilities, got a minor powerup so that you didn't get so completely trashed every time a menace tried to suck out your energy, and became a hero. However, not all of your fiancees or rivals were happy that you went off to become some noble if not well educated heroic figure that was out saving the world from Menaces From Beyond. Especially as most of your associates were now fairly attractive women in short skirts."

Ranma nodded. "Okay, that I can see."

"So one of them has been plotting and planning on a method of getting you back and as she is one of your early fiancees, is obsessed and not thinking with a clear head."

"That could be any of 'em," pointed out Ranma.

"Yes, well, most of them have moved on or found other ways of dealing with things," said Sailor Pluto. "The one who is embarking on her little 'Turn Things Back To The Way They Were No Matter What The Cost' quest is:"

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(Posted Thu, 24 Oct 2002 15:37)


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