The set of Universes known collectively as the 'Ranmaverse' had a single common factor - an individual recognisable as Ranma Saotome, though sometimes going by other names, who was usually a martial artist, but sometimes studied another art, and was always a strange attractor. In other words: a chaos magnet.
In most of the Universes where Ranma was a martial artist he usually aquired a curse at Jusenkyo. Mostly this was a gender flip curse, but in a small subset a variant curse was acquired. Different versions of him had been cursed to turn into almost everything from aardvark to zuchinii.
Ryoga hatted those alternate universes. Whatever Ranma's double was cursed to turn into, his own doppleganger was cursed into something simmilar or worse. Never better. Never!
He tried to tell himself that it was just part of the devilish torture, but deep down he knew that the multiverse was out to get him. Ranma always got a quality curse. Always.
He watched once more as the familiar scene unfolded. Genma leapt onto a pole and challenged Ranma. Headless of the guide's warnings, Ranma followed then the twain began to spar. Sometimes Genma was knocked into a pool first, other times it was Ranma. Very, very rarely did Ranma escape from Jusenko dry and this time was no exception.
Ryoga watched as Genma exploited an opening in Ranma's defenses sending the boy hurtling towards the water. The cammera panned in slow motion as his body hit the water and sank out of sight. The water rippled for an eternity until Ranma emerged to reveal that it had been the spring of a drowned ...
(Posted Fri, 01 Nov 2002 07:31)
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