Okay, here's another one that I lost in that thumbdrive crash.
Ranma (mostly) fic, incomplete but several chapters long, a round-robin written by the "Bet" crew IIRC. Ranma has the wishing sword, and wishes for everyone's moms to come back. Gregg "Metroanime" Sharp's author avatar Grey(lle) is summoned by the wish because it requires a manual intervention to effect, involving Ranma offering his own energy to get it to work. The formerly-dead moms appear, and the fiancees basically pick them up and run off with them while Ranma, drained by the power of the wish, collapses on the ground. Nodoka, also summoned by the wish, comes across him and after he demonstrates the curse and they figure out their relationship, brings him home with her. For some reason I can't recall, the apotheosized Skysaber, who identifies himself as a Saotome child from another universe, appears and accidentally grants another wish that among other things turns a wrecked Ifurita unit in Nodoka's basement into a real Ranko. (Nodoka, it turns out, is an adventurer archaeologist and has all manner of bizarre kipple stashed in her basement.) And in the last extant chapter that I'm aware of, Nodoka takes her now two children to meet up with her (grand)father, who is Indiana Jones. Meanwhile, Ranma's fiancees eventually notice that they abandoned him in all the excitement, and when they get back and discover him gone, believe that he put so much of himself into giving them their mothers back that he basically melted away. The Kunos and the Tendos go to Hawaii to help their mothers recover (and Kodachi and Kasumi have a bonding moment over missing out on Ranma); the Amazons and Ukyo go to a closer beach and Shampoo and Ukyo similarly bond over their loss.
I know that's a terribly vague description , but hopefully it'll ring a bell for someone.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
Ranma (mostly) fic, incomplete but several chapters long, a round-robin written by the "Bet" crew IIRC. Ranma has the wishing sword, and wishes for everyone's moms to come back. Gregg "Metroanime" Sharp's author avatar Grey(lle) is summoned by the wish because it requires a manual intervention to effect, involving Ranma offering his own energy to get it to work. The formerly-dead moms appear, and the fiancees basically pick them up and run off with them while Ranma, drained by the power of the wish, collapses on the ground. Nodoka, also summoned by the wish, comes across him and after he demonstrates the curse and they figure out their relationship, brings him home with her. For some reason I can't recall, the apotheosized Skysaber, who identifies himself as a Saotome child from another universe, appears and accidentally grants another wish that among other things turns a wrecked Ifurita unit in Nodoka's basement into a real Ranko. (Nodoka, it turns out, is an adventurer archaeologist and has all manner of bizarre kipple stashed in her basement.) And in the last extant chapter that I'm aware of, Nodoka takes her now two children to meet up with her (grand)father, who is Indiana Jones. Meanwhile, Ranma's fiancees eventually notice that they abandoned him in all the excitement, and when they get back and discover him gone, believe that he put so much of himself into giving them their mothers back that he basically melted away. The Kunos and the Tendos go to Hawaii to help their mothers recover (and Kodachi and Kasumi have a bonding moment over missing out on Ranma); the Amazons and Ukyo go to a closer beach and Shampoo and Ukyo similarly bond over their loss.
I know that's a terribly vague description , but hopefully it'll ring a bell for someone.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.