21. Kodomotachino yumemamore! Animeni musubu yuujou (17. An Animated Mess)

   In the middle of one night, the light was still on one of the windows of a building.  The reason of this being Hiromi, who worked with making of Sailor V movies.  She was one of the best workers, but could never beat her best friend, Kazuko.
   "No, I shouldn't...." Hiromi whispered to herself as she stared at the pen she had shared with her best friend, Kazuko.
   "No...."
   Then with a puff of smoke, Nephrite appeared.  "Oh, yes!!!" he said.
   "No!!!"
   "Yes!!"
   "What?"
   "Yes!!"
   "Um..yeah?"
   "That's it!!" Nephrite smiled evilly.  "Say it again!!"
   "Yeah!!" No sooner Hiromi had said the last word, a blue mist surrounded the pencil Hiromi was holding, and influeced her as well.  A dark red streak passed her eyes, and she looked up to find Nephrite, who was grinning at her charmingly.  She grinned back, but not her usual sheepish one.  Nephrite's signature appeared on the pencil, and Hiromi grinned once more as she started drawing madly on blank papers.
   "I'm gonna make it so that Ranma appears and kill off Sailor V..." she murmured as she sketched an image of Ranma with Ryouga.  "Then I'll make Ako try to fight Ranma for no reason......"  The pencil flashed.  Unawared of being watched, Hiromi drifted into no more thoughts, and kept drawing.  Luna has seen it all.  Jumping off from the window, she started running toward the Tsukino residence.
   "I've got to tell the Sailor Senshi."  Also unawared of being watched by a dark, tall figure, Luna ran and ran and ran and ran.  Nephrite didn't even make any feeble attempt to kill her.   "HAHAHAHA....."
 Nephrite laughed maniacally.  "Those meddling Sailor Senshi are dead meat!  Or, at least, they very soon will be."

   "You mean, whatever she draws with that pen will come to life?"
  "Yes, and this is a serious problem, because last time I saw her, she was drawing Ranma and Ryouga!!"
   "Who the heck is that?"  Makoto mused outloud.
   "That's-" Ami was trying to explain, when rudely interrupted by a shriek.
   "Cool!  Then if I draw Mamo-chan, there'll be another Mamo-chan?!"
   "Uh..I..think so," Luna stammered as a large sweatdrop appeared on the back of her head.
   "Sugoi!!! I'm getting that pen within my grasp, no matter what!" Usagi yelled and rushed out the door before anybody could stop her.

   "So...what am I supposed to be doing here?"  Ranma was walking home when all of a sudden the whole scenary changed.  Tall buildings, no Akane next to him anymore.  Surprised but not really surprised since so many surprising things have surprised him in his very surprising life, he was not very surprised. "Hmm, this is still Tokyo, though..." feeling the same kind of air, Ranma murmured to himself.
   "Hello."
   Ranma jumped to his feet and got into his attack position when an unfamiliar voice called him from behind.  But seeing that it was only a little girl, he just laughed off.  "Why, hello there."
   "I guess you're lost too.  I need to find Sister Seira..help me..." the girl grabbed his pant all of sudden, revealing his red underwear.
 Startled, Ranma pulled it back up in embarassment, and started shouting at top of his lungs.  "Let me GO!!!!"
   "But you've gotta help me...." the girl pleaded.
   "No!!! Not a brat like you!!!"
   All of sudden, the sky darkened.  In the middle of the 'racing', the two anime characters stopped to look up into the sky, where a huge spaceship appeared.  They gasped at the scene and saw to it coming down...and landing...right next to them!!!  Ranma gulped, holding the frightened girl in his arms.

   "So other anime characters are just MARCHING into OUR Story?"
   "No way!!" Minako wailed.  "But we don't even get enough showtime of our own usually!! How can the authors do that to us?"
(Michelle: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHA)(^_^;; -Cheryl)
   "Who is responsible for this, anyway?  Ami, try to figure out how many Anime characters are coming in......" Bossy Mars ordered around.
   "It's a girl named Hiromi," Luna answered her first question.
   "She works at Sailor V movie-making place, and she was about to use her pen she had promised to her friend not to use unless she has her permission.  Nephrite used a mind trick on her, and it seems that he put some spell on that pen as well..."
   "Why did she promise such a stupid thing to her friend?" Minako wondered outloud as the Sailor senshi' weird gazes directed to her. Minako got defensive. "I mean, come on, what if she's taking an exam and that's the only pencil she's got after breaking about 3 pencils?"
   "That pencil was an expensive one, and they shared a dozen of those pencils..it's supposed to make you draw better or something."  Luna looked at the script, and gasped.  "Oh no!"
   "What is it, Luna?"
   "We spent too much time doing nothing as usual!! We have to find Hiromi and stop this madness!! Senshi, Transform!!!"

   "...and I'm Darth Vader."  the tall figure from the spaceship spoke through his black mask, breathing heavily.  "I'm also known as Dork Vader to some people," he added.  Ranma thought he was weird, but the little girl thoght he was cool.
   "What's your name, little girl, anyway?" Ranma asked out of pure curiosity, patting on her shoulder.  She flinched a bit, but didn't
seem to be upset.
   "I'm Meimi," she answered.  "I can transform into Saint Tail!!"
   "Oh, nice to meet you... I'm Ranma Saotome." Ranma sighed heavily, then stood up from the rock he has been sitting on the whole time. His two companions stared at him. "What the hell am I doing here, anyway? I'm supposed to take Akane to the supermarket!!"
   "So what are we supposed to be doing here?  I was just about to tell Luke that he was my son!"  Darth Vader let out a big sigh as well. "Now I'll have to cut his hand AGAIN!"
   "You guys don't really belong here, do you?"  a feminine voice startled them, and the three turned around to find a woman in a
swimming suit-like uniform. Ranma and Darth Vader whistled, while Meimi tried to hide her embarassment.
   "How did you know?"
   "Oh..anybody can tell that you guys don't belong here,"  The woman, appeared to be about 18, smirked.  "For one thing, your faces look like they were done by different artists."
   Ranma narrowed his eyes.  "How about you?  Doesn't look like you belong here either."
   The woman simply answered by grinning.  "Nope, I'm A-ko, from Project A-ko."  then she added, "I do some...well, hunting and spying."
   Meimi rolled her eyes in a weird way, and caught A-ko's glance.  "..the point being?"
   "I heard this thing a black cat was saying to bunch of teenage-girls, and it seems we got some..problem." A-ko reluctantly sat on one of the rocks.  "I didn't know WHAT I was doing here when I fell from the sky, until I heard that story. It goes like this...."
    The next half an hour was spent on A-ko explaining them what has happened.  Meimi wanted the pen, and decided she should give Asuka Jr. a notice, but didn't tell her companions.  She had to find Sister Seira first anyhow.
   "So basically, there are still some more people coming in here, and  we should take the pencil away from Hiromi?"
   "Yup," A-ko answered merrilly.
   "But what good is that going to do?  How can we return home?" Meimi demanded.
   "If we can find those drawings and burn them...we'll disappear from here."
   Ranma's frowned expression suddenly disappeared, having heard the good news.  "Well, what are you waiting for, then?"  He wondered outloud, of course, intended to make everyone hear him.  "Let's go!!!"

   "I'm so tired..." Hiromi decided to take a break from her drawings, still staring at them proudly.  She started for Crown Game Center, but deciding her precious drawings were just too precious, took them in her pocket and hurried off.
   About five minutes after Hiromi was gone, the four characters approached the building of Sailor V animation.
   "How should we get in without making much sound?" Darth Vader grumbled.  "If we don't get in, we'll never prevent that Hiromi girl from bringing in OTHER characters as well!!"
   "Leave this to me!!" Meimi said proudly, and started to shout her own attack phrase, without even transforming.  "Falling Wrath of He..... AAHHHHHHHHHH!!!"  Suddenly a bright disc-shaped object was lunged toward Meimi, who was scooped up by Ranma just in time.  The object spinned around, and hit Ranma on the back of his neck, and he fell to the ground, with Meimi screaming.
   "Oh no!!"  A-ko shouted, seeing Ranma's dragon hair falling on the ground... his hair was UNDONE.  "Ranma!! Get up and find your dragon hair! It fell off of your hair!!"
   "Where, WHERE?"  Ranma shouted frantically as he woke up, startled, and started searching the ground for it.  But everyone has seen it- his hair.  His hair started growing longer, longer, and longer...in ten minutes, to everyone's horror, his hair has reached from one house to the other, and STILL grew.  His companions & friends whirled around to find the source of this misery; Sailor Moon.  She was standing sheepishly, and just murmured a soft 'Gomen Nasai...', but this didn't seem enough.  But even this kind of a situation didn't last very long.
   "We need the pen!!!"  a bunch of new characters came in, having overheard the other charcters' conversation, they knew what they needed and had to do.  One of the characters stared at Darth Vader with a weird expression on, who stared back at him as well.
  "Hey!" Terius shouted, pointing at Darth Vader.  "What are you doing here?  You're not an anime character!! You are not even from Japan!!!"
  "So what?" Darth Vader smirked triumphantly.  "I'm cool enough."
   "He's the Dark Joker!!"  Ririka shouted.  "Prepare to receive my vaccine!!"
   "I must have that pen!!" Meimi ran for the pen that laid on the desk. (*Note- they broke in that building already; who knows how...)
   "Oh no you don't!!" Sailor Moon cried, taking off her tiara.  "On  behalf of the Moon, I will punish you!!!"
   "Hey, wait a second there!" Ranma yelled back, still looking for the dragon hair.  "I thought good guys were supposed to only punish bad guys!  And We're good guys, therefore you can't punish us!!!  HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"
   "Oh...doh..." Sailor Moon whispered in disappointment, and the Moon Wand dropped to the ground helplessly.

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