I've alway been of the opinion that the Scout's transformation pen's just a memetic aid for the actual transformation spell, hence why they only used pens in the first series and hammerspace wands later. Course that doesn't explain the live-action's power rangers-esc henshin phones, but as they've only covered the Queen Beryl/Dark Kingdom in that format, it's a wait and see thing. Don't know what the stage musicals use pen/wand wise.
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If I recall correctly, they will all be at the same school. The school FMP is going to become a bit of a dumping ground for empowered / main characters, as its easier to keep track of them in one location. Zeke transfers in, likely the same with Kubiac, Lum is in stalking to torment mode with Zeke at that point.Rei is transfering in because she hates her old private school.. I'm not sure on the others. I don't think it was publicly decided if on some of that characters. I know Tenchi is involved, as well as Ranma, but I'm pretty sure they just meet Ranma on a mutual battlefield. If Tenshi is attending, rather than part of an Earth Youth defense force program... its easy to make him attend the same school as the Scouts.... he does blow his up at the end of term in one of the canons.
Its an open question about who is involved in the highjacking mess. It may be prudent to have that take place last term. Then raid the school itself.... making Gauron unexpectantly out gunned. Then after a random episode of 'When Magical Girls Attack' screws up his plan, then end up seeking out UEC in order to get some counter measures. That'd be more of a big reveal cluster though. Actually, thinking back I remember a subplot that would work well with UEC... blackaeronaut might remember this or not. In Lum there is this pocket dimension that the oni made back when they reportedly ruled Japam (Earth or something like that)... it was this vacation spot where all the aliens tend to hang out when on Earth. At one point I had te idea that the reason all these planet killers keep randomly ending up attacking Earth in such a short time is that when the oni made it, they screwed up ancient seals on all the crap the Moon Kingdom sealed away. Possibly things those before and after the Moon Kingdom sealed away. All the alien traffic and the fact the spot is now a major weak point in the dimensional fabric means that you can drop all kinds of stuf/beingsf on Zeke and Co. That that spot appears to be localized over Japan and east China will explain why all these things attack there first. The oni figured it collapsed and forgot about it until its time to raid it. Beryl and slaves got out first as they were seal in the ice cap on Earth proper. The Doom Tree idiots wandered in attracted by the easy jump point. The rest sense the weak point and/or can only access it from the sealed locations. Its the perfect location for a Legion of Doom base... UEC is just charismatic and neutral enough to stall out the in fighting... that and he sells detailed maps and cultural info. In other words he has atlases and a photocopier... plus internet access. Mistress 9 and Co got in a few years beforehand. She just used it as a jumping off point and didn't actually bother claiming it.  Necratoid Wrote:-3) SM style nonsense feel good ending.If that's what you seriously think Sailor Moon endings are all about, then you've completely missed the point of Sailor Moon. (Not a failing on your part, just an observation. Going by the same criteria, I suspect I've completely missed the point of Evangelion, and I know Ayiekie completely missed the point of R.O.D the TV, so you have plenty of company.) -- Rob Kelk "Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of the same sovereign, servants of the same law." - Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012  Quote:I just wandered in to say if that situation occurs -in any SM/FMP story, regardless of author- the result is going to be 1) Sailor Mercury's One Bad Day trigger-point 2) Mercury gains a level of bad-arseness 3) a localized ice age is going to occur at the location of the sensory deprivation tube.I suggest that if such a thing happens, BA, you might want to consult Nick "Nightelf" Leifker's "Xanadu" story http://shifti.org/wiki/Ami's_Song]Ami's Song for some ideas of what a properly inventive and pissed off Sailor Mercury might well do. If you're not already familiar with it, that is. -- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak. 
Sorry about the late reply, everyone. Just needed some time to absorb all this. That and resolve my lack of sleep. (^_^
 Quote:Necratoid wrote:This bears further reflection on my part, as well as some intense study of the arcs (read: watch the whole damn thing through). I want to be sure that this can be done without adversely affecting things. Good thing I got it all on my 1TB hard drive. As for the plot, you've pretty much got it down to a tee, such as it is so far. The only thing is the assassination attempt by Cardian - that takes place during the contest and the whole world gets to see Zeke call down a tornado and sic it on the Cardian - pretty much a one-shot deal because there was already a severe storm brewing and Zeke just tweaked it enough to boil over. After that, he just guided the tornado where to go, then turned it loose afterward - he wasn't too concerned since there wasn't much but uninhabited hill country for the next twenty or fifty miles. (Don't believe me? Take a drive from Austin out to a place called Marble Falls and tell me how many signs of civilization you see along the way.) For the ending, I had option five in mind: A long hard fought victory that ends with a epilogue. Said epilogue showing one of Zeke and Rei's descendants finishing the tome that is pretty much scripture to all Avatars - The Book of Zeke: The Dos and Don'ts of Being an Avatar. Avatars and Demigods are more commonplace in this new world and they serve to moderate and protect galactic civilization from forces both within and without. Think Jedi Knights, only they wield the power of the ying yang bomb. .... Okay, the whole idea of AMALGAM trying to yoink Ami is just made of pure win. *Stamps APPROVED* Quote:Necratoid wrote:Necratoid, you're either gonna love me or hate me for this... I've been toying with the idea of plunking them all into Mahora Academy, which has just opened a new wing dedicated to Specially Gifted Youngsters. Yes, it is a ploy by the Japanese government that is done with the backing of the UN (and, because they seem to be the UN's secret left hand, MYTHRIL as well). They realize that they have a heretofore untapped resource... and they intend to make sure that it is put to the best, most humane use by training these kids. For this reason, certain characters become regulars... Like Zeke's dad after he resigns his commission to teach Combat History and Tactics. Melissa Mao will be teaching the physical education (read: hand-to-hand combat) and Kurtz Webber is the firearms instructor. More stuff to come later. And yes, Negi's class is gonna wind up next door. I've only started reading the Manga, so I'll need a bit of time to assimilate everything. Fortunately, there's a resident expert here on the ship that I can call upon for advice. And before everyone starts screaming Too Many Characters!!! ...please relax. The main characters are Zeke and his harem. All others are secondary (but no less important). Remember, I am building an army for an epic battle. As for the field trip... Well, with all those powered-up teens... It might be best to sum it up with the encoded message AMALGAM receives: SITUATION MISSION FAILURE STOP TARGETS ACCOMPANIED BY PEERS WITH UNUSUAL AND UNFORESEEN CAPABILITIES STOP RECOMMEND LONG TERM SURVEILLANCE BEFORE FURTHER ACTION STOP MAHORA ACADEMY IS A POTENTIAL SOURCE OF NEW TOYS STOP REQUEST EXTRACTION FROM SOUTH CHINA SEA STOP I don't think the bomb is going to be an issue since that was loaded after the plane landed... though a smaller one might be a nice twist. Quote:Necratoid wrote:I do remember you mentioning this before - it's just been crammed so far into the back of my head lately... thanks for digging it out for me! This would be ideal to work with, yes indeedy! (^_^) Quote:Bob Schroek wrote:Thanks for chiming in, Bob! (^_^) It means a lot to me having a published author commenting. Anywho, I read through that short and loved every minute of it. I shall indeed be applying plenty of the Beware The Nice Ones trope to Ami. The only trouble will be in trying not to Flanderize her too badly. BTW: Can someone tell me where the hell they got this awesome SD-Chainsaw-Crazy-Aeris? ![[Image: 1151616432454-resized.jpg]](http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/1151616432454-resized.jpg)
Quote:If that's what you seriously think Sailor Moon endings are all about, then you've completely missed the point of Sailor Moon. The grand lack of detail in that statement is disturbing... not that I was terribly specific myself. So let me be a bit more clear. First off, anime series only for me... though a mix of dubbed through the Pharaoh 90 mess and the tail end from fandubs years ago. I don't have access to them anymore as my brother was the one harvesting them and the footballer, not soccer, in the hybrid fuku shooting explosive magic sweat balls from his arm pits traumatized him enough to delete the series rather than burning it. That covered, lets move on to correcting a Gloobleflarg. The ending I'm referring to is not the ones like how apparently in the dub, Tuxedo Mask and Artemis managed to move around 500 people out of a building before it collapsed... which would be great and all, except they'd all had the thing holding their souls to their body removed and eaten. Thus meaning at best they just managed to rack up huge bills for families with lingering coma patients... meaning up to several hundred families are bankrupted by bills or slaves to the medical community. Okay that is bad, but not quite what I mean. At least its not a canonically a Bleach crossover... or half a thousand instant Hollows were just dumped into the middle of a major metropolis. That or its much much easier for the authorities to collect the bodies... Though I'd imagine leaving hundreds of undamaged corpses, a demolition school building and no explanation is a political nightmare. I'm suprized I've never seen a fic were they are hunted for questioning. They refuse the be publicly outed, so the Japanese governemnt has no choice but to track them down. Anyway, the ending I'm referring to is the last five minutes of the subbed ending I saw. Basically Sailor Moon lets a purified Galaxia go. Galaxia promises to repopulate all those planets she slaughter with no explanation what so ever. Yeah! The baddy is redeemed and everything is happy, happy! Only we do know what happens in the future. One that wins out over the one that results in Sailor Chibi-chibi. We know that Usagi marries Tuxboy and not one of the Starlights. Chibi-Usa is the future. That future being that eventually Crystal Tokyo is founded under a Magical Girl Matriarchy and most of the planet is apparently depopulated. Also they eventually are owned by a group from the nonsailor senshied tenth planet Nemisis. Pwned eenough to get their past selves to come to the future and kill off the enemy leadership. We also know Nemisis is made of suck. Lets leave canon for a bit and bleed into rampid speculation mode: So why did people people move to planet Suck of all places? I don't know that this is answered beyond a place not of the MGM's ownership. It must have taken something major to make them move there... some have suggested that its Usagi magically brainwashing people so they can live in the CT. I don't think that is what happened. I think its a case of people simply voting with their feet. They had to leave the MGM controled area as something dangerous... or at least depopulation of Earth happy. My pet theory is that Galaxia kept her word. She did repopulate those planets... by removing Earth's population and sending them to those planets. How much infrastructure she took with them is pehaps why there are no real ruins. Galaxia ran off with entire cities and sent them elsewhere. CT and Nemisis are populated by those that Galaxia didn't get her hands on. Maybe the senshi eventually managed to off Galaxia. Thus solving the problem too late. The Doom Phantom is just a mad prophet that gave the people of Planet Suck someone to rage at. In reality they could have just moved back to somewhere on Earth... they just don't know or believe that Galaxia is toast. They are suffering from their own paranioa... and the beseiged CT just after they'd won one war. This makes sense to me, far more than Lawful Affable Evil Corrupt Usagi. They sent Chibi-Usa back because she was not needed for defense... Chibi Usa just got distracted by the shiney populated world and never got around to telling them that polotics behind the fight they needed themselves as back up for. A fifteen minute history lesson could have averted this. But they didn't get it in their past so they didn't tell theirselves what happened. Thus basically forming a time loop. Saturn is friends with Chibi Usa and Chibi Usa is her first good friend. However an alternate future is possible... its just there wasn't a reason to send anyone into the past... as Galaxia died then. Then their timeline was attacked by the Langoleers or something and they sent back the sword child to get past Usagi to just stab her already. Solving the abduction issue altogether. Chibi Chibi died as a result of her timeline croaking, not combat. Usagi, already knowing her future romantically never dates around. Thus ends up with the guy she did in a past and future life she knows of. No matter how many times she knows it end badly. The future is a matter of a 'Kill Galaxia [Yes?/No?]' choice box epilogue. Perfectly in line with a parody like Sailor Moon started off as. Crystal Tokyo is a shiney military base that is a model of a city Galaxia can't abduct. Their weren't any people around in the future as they are all in bunkers underneath. No one is OOC... just a simple don't kill choice... as a result of not realisizing Galaxia was messsed in the head long, long before Chaos picked her. The Outer Senshi are not in CT as they are doing their historical job, protecting the solar system from outside threats. No random alien invader surprise buttsecks for Earth. Again pet theory, but it makes more sense than the alternatives I've heard. ---Edit--- added 12: 40ish Gah.. consecutive update attack. Anyway, don't send them to Mahora Academy to start off with. It comes with several plot issues you may not have thought of... Location. Location. Location. for one. I'm for having certain events occur. Mahora Chao Festival, FMP's first season and let the characters have sometime to end up recognizable and skip needing to make every even fit in. They can notice random kids at FMP's school are giving whispered tell tail signs or something and think its a kidnappers' buffet or something. Combat potential comes later... at great material cost. What I mean by this is you want to deal with the Nemicites first. They are targeting Usagi and sending them near Mahora is asking to get them killed off pointlessly. Which you may want to do if their distractions or need characters to meet early.. Too many heavily armed mages around. Too many defenses. Though more importantly... if you wait till after Fumafoo you can the second school thrashed and use it as an excuse to dump them somewhere more secure. Having the school obliterated at the end of the term could be a running gag for the Senshi/Tenchi... its a little less damaged each time though. It will also let you level the cast up to the point that Eva mini estate would have any chance of of getting them inside. Also, it would let Zeke get good enough to be able to make items and manipulate kitbashed enchantments enough to effect her to the point she can even get a block away from campus for a bit or let her use even a minor amount of major at will. The issue is that no one can actually figure out what the hell the thousand master did in the first place. Zeke by that point will be use to not only thinking outside the box on these things... but cutting up lots of boxes and assembling coherent new boxes from the pieces. Also, if you wait it will give Zeke and Co. enough time to build up enough of a reputation to warrent a new wing in an all girl's school. I'm pretty sure that causing a tornado on interplanetary/international TV on something as widely watched as a Tag Game for the fate of the Earth, is simply too large an event to cover up... too many recorders and too many reporters covering it... and Zeke won't have been privy to the CG cover story... to that end you'll want this after Chao's festival. This will add a nice amount of pressure on Mahora to give into UN demands. Keep Usagi from one shotting the hoard. Of course I'm expecting the Tornado Incident to take place on day five and Alan to bring seven of them (7 days, 7 cardians drama queen attack)... and Lum to join Zeke in the only thing resembling shelter in near existance... then Zeke to tag her just after it finishes raging and moves on. Specifically he spots a camera pod in with them, remembers what they were doing tags her horns. Which confuses her for a moment... then she flips out and accuses him of cheating. Eventually its decided that random a demon lord type trying to assassinate both contestants, Alan drops a line about offering to run Zeke's severed hand across dead Lum's horns as a insane benifit of not fighting back. Thus Angry Lum is Angry. Enter the 'Darling' treatemnt. This should be embarassing enough for Lum to set that off, without losing her top on said televised event. The only issue then is picking a conversation path wonky enough to let Lum claim 'translation error' on her part (leading to at least a vague proposal of test engagement at least)... Something that can be blown off realistically, but Mr. Invader can say its out of his hands. Mr. Invader is not going to shoot Lum down when she finally shows interest in a guy, his wife would gut him. If Lum likes guys who can use attacks good enough to take down a space battleship in atmo that is Zeke's fault she is after him.. I'm expecting an F3 here, at least... hard to tell on the ground. This should end up giving Zeke some kind of impressive nickname Strombringer... or something far less generic. Meaning only the crazy and/or strong aliens will show up to challenge him for Lum's affections. At first Lum encourage this behavior... later on it will be discouraged by her (not like those idiots will care, incompatible physiology never stopped them). *shrug* Character development does that. If Tenshi is in the class of transfers... I'm fully expecting Eva and Ryoko to end up drinking buddies... lots of bonding of it progenitors the screwed up their lives. I'm sure Eva will feel better about her prison sentence thing actually include the ability to move around and have people to talk to.
If I may ask, how will the Senshi get enrolled in Mahora's new program? Aside from Rei, none of the Senshi are known to have any powers that would fall in this, unless their secret identities were revealed.
Re: Galaxia's repopulation: I think she was just going to resurrect as many people as possible. I don't know about the anime, but I do know that she had that ability in the manga. ----- Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea. "Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber." --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.
If by repopulate you mean turn them into slaves that can be killed by though alone... which only works on those with Senshi powers then I guess kind of. Mostly she uses this to activate star seeds and make the monster of the week out of senshiesk mutants... that get purified back to normal. realistically those people have been dead for long enough to rot to bones if not dust. So repopulation would mean zombie senshi would populate entire planets. She only kept the plantary senshi around this way, perhaps a population cap of less than 10.. So no indication of the ability to raise the dead past CPR/shock paddle range. Unless she is keeping the the entire populations of solar systems in preserving jars their is no indication of this working at all that way.
It should be noted that under Chaos' influence she went for the plantary senshi first and then made them slaughter their own worlds. So the displayed limit could simply be those that didn't get offed. OTOH it could just be that she has all those star seeds sitting around in her vehicle's trunk... though I'm sure most of them got NOMMMED by Chaos... which was kind of the point of her millennias long rampage.
... Whoah. (o_o
I didn't realize your expectations for the Tag Contest were that high. Seven in one blow, eh? Who do you think Zeke is, a tailor? Gonna have to kick it up to eleven, then.Mahora's a girls only school? I thought it was an escalator school with a boys and girls side. Wait one... ... ... ... ...Here we go. http://www.mangafox.com/m..._negima/v01/c001/20.html Okay, apparently the academy is a huge complex - appropriate of an elevator school - and they are in the Girls Only portion. Anyhow... I guess it can be held off for a while. In fact, let's make this into an even bigger running gag - until he gets to Mahora, every school Zeke goes to gets blown sky-high. It all starts when he goes to meet Rei at her school to lend a hand with the school festival... and then Lum cooked off all the propane tanks for the cooking stalls. *kA-bOoM!* It would conveniently explain why Rei suddenly had to change schools. Next, Aino Minako's school... Which is destroyed when Zeke and Rei combine air and fire for Mo Dakka in a monster-du-jor attack. Trouble is they wound up putting a little too much pepper on it and the school is shut down for repairs to the extensive fire damage. Next up, Zeke goes to Nerima for school... Sure, throw the Avatar of a God of Chaos into the same spaces as the Nerima Wrecking Crew! You might as well open a magnetic bottle of anti-matter. The building barely lasted ten minutes. Juuban didn't fare much better because the NWC had to start taking classes there as well. Some of the teachers are still receiving psychiatric therapy long afterwards. Jindai fared better. By this time the government noticed what was going on and a rapid-response team was posted on the school grounds to assist in whatever capacity needed. Even when Sousuke entered the picture - he was actually relieved to know that the government was aware of the situation and had assured him that there was no chance of things such as IEDs on campus. Of course, that all changed when AMALGAM launched a massed attack on the place. That got the UN's attention - not that they weren't interested in Zeke's well-being before, as he was officially a foreign dignitary (betrothed to a space princess, chosen to inherit their throne). In fact, they had been getting increasingly worried and the thing with AMALGAM was simply just The Last Straw. In a joint effort between Japanese contractors and the US Navy's Seabees a new building is built at Mahora Academy. It has dorms, classrooms, laboratories, workshops, a dining hall and kitchen, a gymnasium, a shooting range in the basement, an advanced medical center (right off the gym so it could be used for triage)... and it is built like a fortress. It was funded by the UN which leaned on the academy staff like an overbearing professional wrestler. The new wing is, much to the surprise of the students, is co-ed. A few students are transferred in - most notably the entirety of a certain class in the girl's middle school, and a group from Okayama. Strange people show up for the staffing positions.
EDIT: Jorlem: you haven't seen it yet since it was in the chapter I hadn't posted when my laptop got snapped up... but Zeke's father kinda hints that their identities are actually known within certain circles of certain governments. Zeke takes that and the higher meaning of the hint: don't do anything rash - you guys are doing a good thing and we honestly don't want to have to stop you. In other words, everyone's on a database: Tenchi and his group friends and family, Negi Springfield and his Homeroom class, the Senshi, the Whispered, the NWC, any and all extra-terrestrials... is it any wonder why AMALGAM is gonna get their collective asses handed to them when they attack Jindai?
Oh, here's something you'll enjoy. There's a bit of FMP background that is mentioned in the novels that isn't in the anime. Kaname father, who we never see onscreen? He's a U.N. High Commissioner. Yeah.
Edit: Here's the bit where it is said. It's the scene where the Mithril team is briefed. Quote:FMP Novel 1, page 38:----- Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea. "Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber." --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.
Yeah, if you pause the anime at the right moments, you can actually read said report. (^_^)
I think even the part about him being part of the UN was in there as well.
Really? I the text wasn't translated though, was it? I would hope I would have remembered that otherwise.
----- Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea. "Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber." --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia.
It was originally done in English. The idea is that MITHRIL is an English speaking organization, but to make the production easier on everyone's nerves they just speak Japanese. Kinda like how in some movies (Like The Hunt for red October) you know they are really speaking another language, but to make things easier on the audience, actors, and production crew they speak English for the most part.
In fact, isn't there a Trope for this?
Translation Convention
-- Bob --------- Then the horns kicked in... ...and my shoes began to squeak.
I think I need to go rewatch, and do so precision pausing then. Sorry about that.
----- Stand between the Silver Crystal and the Golden Sea. "Youngsters these days just have no appreciation for the magnificence of the legendary cucumber." --Krityan Elder, Tales of Vesperia. Quote:Next up, Zeke goes to Nerima for school... Sure, throw the Avatar of a God of Chaos into the same spaces as the Nerima Wrecking Crew! You might as well open a magnetic bottle of anti-matter. The building barely lasted ten minutes.Won't really work. Furinkan High has an unlimited repair and redecoration budget and effectively regenerates itself over night. What I mean is think of Principle Kuno. PK has waged a terror campaign against the school boared and they will give him anything he wants to keep him away from them. This is canon. To this end anything they can do to the school without leaving a blast crate that is dozen of feet deep will be fixed over night... even then within a week wouldn't be out of reality for the crater. For instance... in his in intro episode, Ryoga runs through the school past Ranma and does bother to use the stairs... he runs through (literally) the school. I may be miss remembering it a bit, but Ryoga was chest deep in the structure of the school without slowing down. I know he is that tough as he does run through a guard rail and a forest in a striaght line... literally. the guard rail is basically 'U'ed in both direction and trees fall over as the explode their trunks as he goes straight through them unhindered for speed. The damage in the school is repaired before school gets in the next day. You can have them break the school... have to deal with the princple and then leave... ASAP. Ranma is kind of stuck there. PK regularly resets the look of the school... look at his office. What he does to the school for insanity devised events. He also has enough control of the town that he set up an insane event and held the schools tests hostage in a hot air balloon... they could get it back he would destroy them and they all get zeros on a major test. The balloon got loose and the tests rained down over the area... were mysteriously gather up ended up in the hands of the evening news. Who read off the grades on air, live. When they get to Ranma's score, the anchor woman stops dead and asks if its legal to read this on the air... I'm pretty sure that Ranma didn't get so much a grade as an insane speach with a Hawain accents, that would be in the stage notes In other words, Furinkan is a regenerating, assault class, zombie mech used as an oni box for PK... its not there to educate so much as to contain PK from the rest of the world. Expesially the school board... that twice over. It is a sacrifice for the Greater Good. *a cluster of shadowed people in hooded robes echo, 'the Greater Good' reverently* In his own way, PK wants to give these kids a real education... he is just insane. Blowing up the school will just make him follow Zeke's class and add Zeke and who ever else was involve remotely as on his main target list. In other words, break it, then have them told school is still on the next day... curious on if the classes are going held in the rubble or something... see the school fully repaired with no sign of how. Then see PK and have him do am assembly speach... Tropical fruit based event occur involving the entire school Then Zeke and Co tranfer out imediately. Ranma is basically stuck as he has ended up as an odd combination distractionary jester/prison guard/miko hybrid. I wouldn't put it past Genma and Soun to have had Ranma contracted out to the school board to keep PK distracted. Genma is bizarrely and abruptly dead set on Ranma attending that particular school. Genma tends to pick schools as training apparently... and it is canon that the Tendo dojo does contract out for monster monster/ghost hunting, which it is well respected for. So unless you want PK following them around taking over their schools by force and administrating them... NWC can't attend. I would put it past Ranma to graduate the school ("the more time he is there the better", says the school board)... Only for Ranma to find out he is on perminent contract as the school's new Vice Principle. PK would be too much of a distraction story wise long term. I had reasons for saying Ranma randomly shows up. Also, without him constantly there it gives more reason for a guy time vacation to America. You can get way with a bit of recap in that chapter and Negi and Co. are off father hunting for the summer. Other wise things will go curb stomp on the DMC. The Death Busters can ramp things up themselves at least. Yoko Readman in a library full of traps and books soaking in a lake? This seems like cruel and unusual punishment for her... literally drive her insane... berserker insane. Seems like a bad idea. Either her or the canon library have to go. Quote:... Whoah. (o_oWell., for the record it goes like this. Zeke has soloed a cardian before and Alan knows this. So he'll send at minimum 2 for Zeke and one for Lum, as a diraction by screams if nothing else. He'll also stick around... he wants to see blood and death here. Lum will flash fry one and if Zeke has enough stuff to call a tornado, he'll have the gauntlet somewhere out of sight, but easily accessable. Lum always has her lightning after all and he only promised not to use it. So even if the guantlet isn't there he'll have supplies out of paranoia reasons. Once Lum drops one, at least temporarly, Alan will send at least two after her.. Lum won't kill the cardian to start off with. Lum may have some lawful evil tendacies, but off a humaniod life form on live TV? That would just be stupid. Mr. Invader is a sociable, politcal creature and I can't see him not teaching her about justifiable force levels. Zeke with have learned Rei paralysing ward by then... its her combat useful miko move of choice so it will be among the first things they talk about magic wise. He'll use one to at least slow down a Cardian, he won't have practiced enough at this point to be near as good at that more as she is yet... which means Alan will need at least one more to take down Zeke or Alan'll have to enter the fray early. By that point he'll be straining power reserves so he'll take a minute to summon the last one, he does want to leaves this battle alive and get the job done. Remember that they'll have a transport cabable of picking the tag participants up quicky after they finish this 'battle'. So Alan, having done research enough to last a few days, figures he has 10-15-20 minutes on the extreme outside to finish this before back up arrive... Mr. Invader will not like a dead daughter after all.... so likely less time. Hense the swarm for a bum rush attack. The Cardians are expendable here... so Cardian attacks on the way there will let Alan charge them up. Alan has to do hit fast and hard. So he'll need 5-7 Cardians and himself to pull this off realistically. Cardians don't have the brains or raw power for large scale bombardment and he'll want more than he thinks he need. I didn't think of the tailor thing consciously myself... but sevenish would allow a good margin of error and be enough to swarm then in time even when he has to bail. That Neji's class happen to have read that story recently is a coincidence. Maybe the broadcast reminded Neji of the story and it would allow him to get railroaded into watching it as a class movie. I don't see any flaws in this reasoning, and it will take a lot for Zeke to decide he can't last long enough for back up to arrive. I mean tornadoes are extreme blatant. The world governments are actively keeping a public veil on the magic thing. Come to think of it... I'm betting Zeke didn't end up as the tag participant in Chao's time line, Raven is powerful enough to alter the time line from such a future... I'm sure she'll also be surprised when she manages to get back to the future and things have changed inexplicable, in spite of getting stopped. Edit: *morphs into Jackie Chan's uncle for a second* One more Thing! Make sure if Zeke does have the gauntlet he tags Lum's horns with the one its not on... wouldn't want to risk the fate of the world on a minor technicality.
Well, I was thinking that it would either be something so extreme that Principal Kuno is taken out for an extended period of time... perhaps a coma? Later on, when he comes out and sees all the ridiculous shit that's gone on in his absence, Zeke obtains Special Friend status and PK becomes an on-again/off-again menace.
As for how? Easy. Lum gives Tatewaki Kuno some alien explosive device to use on Zeke - one that has the explosive capability to level the school in the manner you mentioned. Lum knows that Zeke's wily enough to escape any permanent harm, but whether or not he is defeated by it is questionable. The lead-up for that is that, due to his fame, Zeke is already regarded as awesome opponent material by the fighters at Furinkan. Ranma will initially challenge, but once Zeke says he doesn't want to fight, then that's that - Ranma's scruples keep him from fighting an unwilling opponent for sport. Ryouga, on the other hand... he got pissed off that Zeke refused his challenge. Turns out that Ryouga issued a formal challenge some time ago, but due to his eternally lost boy syndrome he never received Zeke's equally formal reply stating that he declined. Of course, Ryouga blows it all out of proportion and charges Zeke... who uses Ryouga hot-headed state against him with a simple aikido throw and a 'boost' of wind to hurry him along... through several walls. Tatewaki is impressed, but before he challenges, Lum shows up, scares the bejeezus out of him (ONI! AAAUUUGH!), and she offers him the bomb which he accepts, because Kuno is just unprincipled like that. Zeke recognizes the weapon, tells everyone to run like their lives depended on it (because they did)... but not PK. He thinks he can disarm the damn thing. Instead, he just cooks the damn thing off and lands himself in the hospital for an extended stay. Bonus: Zeke finds out about what Lum did and knows that giving an Earthman such a weapon is a huge no-no. This bit of blackmail material in hand, he threatens Lum with the prospect of telling her dad. the only reason he doesn't (and thus rid himself of her entirely) is because he's been studying crime and punishment among the Oni... and suffice to say, it isn't pretty. The NWC will attend at Juban, just long enough for Furinkan to get back up on it's feet (the school board isn't taking any chances in whether or not PK wakes up anytime soon)... but it's still long enough for something to happen. (I'm thinking of having one of the Senshi use that line that I see in someone's sig floating around here: "Did you do something rash?" "Yes, and it was GLORIOUS!") Later, when Soun and Genma receive the formal request to have Ranma and Akane transferred to the special wing at Mahora, they agree to go with it because they know that A) Zeke is there, B) weird shit happens around Zeke, C) It's a special training school - one perfect for the Anything Goes school. To avoid total curbstompage, not everyone will be around at all given times. Sousuke and the MITHRIL elements will have missions to run. Ranma will have new cures for his curse to hunt down. Zeke goes on walkabouts. Negi makes trips into the Magical Realm with his students. Miyuki takes on a few missions here and there. Kodachi occasionally has Yakuza business that takes her out of town (she has to fill in for her father while he's out cold). Matsuri's needed for a mission at the SSA. And the Government is perfectly accepting of all this - the entire point of the school is simply to keep better track of these people and make sure they don't do too much property damage. Also, there will be Big Bads in combinations as well by this time. As for Yomiko Readman, her domain is going to be the satellite library that is part of the Special Youngsters Wing... of course, she'll still make trips down there with the Library Expedition Team (hell, she'll probably become their Faculty Adviser). To her, the traps would just be training to help her keep her edge. Also, once she sees that the water is having some sort of preservation effect on the books she'll relax considerably. Reference here: http://www.mangafox.com/m...a/v02/c009/12.html It's preservation - books do not soak for fifty years and come out undamaged. Hell, even sitting on the shelf for fifty years it doesn't do them any favors. As for the Cardian battle, I'll go for it. In fact, I've thought of a decent intermediate weapon for Zeke - they happen to give him a full survival kit for pilots that have to ditch their aircraft... minus the pistol. This means he's got a decent survival knife on him. A knife he can charge with his spirit energy and use to good effect on a Cardian. It won't be Usagi's attack by a long-shot, but it'll be better than the weak infrared lasers from the VR Arcade. I can see him taking down one or two Cardians this way with Lum's help, but once he sees what he's really up against... yeah. And yes, Zeke is most definitely the result of a butterfly that decided (not) to flap it's wings at a particular moment. Chaos will be most displeased.
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