Breaking the Monotony
A Doctor Who/Ranma ½ Crossover
by Ran-san (Randy McCullick)
(Disclaimer)
The idea for this fanfic was spawned by me reading my old "Ranma ½" manga while the new "Doctor Who" series was premiering on the Sci-Fi Channel. The resulting dream that night became the basis for this work.
Ranma, Akane, and the rest of the Nerima crew are the intellectual property of Rumiko Takahashi, whose shoes this humble one is unworthy to lick.
The Doctor and the Tardis are the property of the British Broadcasting Company (BBC), and currently under the control of BBC Wales and Russell T. Davies.
This work of fiction takes place a few weeks following the end of Volume 38 of the "Ranma ½" Manga, and in the future of the current "Doctor Who" universe. All events in both the Ranma ½ Manga and anime are considered to have occurred, with the Manga taking priority over the anime where events overlap.
Prologue
Somewhere in the depths of space/time, a box traveled through the void. Inside the impossibly large control room, man stood next to a central console, looking like he was doing his best to fight off a dismal depression…and not quite succeeding.
That's another one come and gone, The man called The Doctor thought to himself.
This had been one of his happier good-byes, true. His young companion, Deborah, had fallen in love with a man on Artemian, where they had had their last, and now final adventure. The Doctor for once had managed to stick around for the wedding. He was still wearing his Tuxedo. Next to him, on the console, was a half-eaten piece of wedding cake. He had snuck out and left during the reception. He hated good-byes.
Still, there were worse good-byes, he thought, trying to cheer himself up. Good-byes like Sara's, like Adric's, like Rose's. That thought had sprung up unbidden, and now he was even glummer. And now, he was alone again. The same old life. The last of his people, without a home planet, traveling hither-thither throughout the universe. Taking in the wonders, and not a friend in the universe to share it with.
A universe that seemed not to be able to get along without him.
You're getting old, Doctor, he chided himself. You can't keep this up forever. Someday you'll need an apprentice.
He shook his head at the insane thought, and continued steering his ship though the cosmos.
After all….who would deliberately spend their life in a constant life-or-death struggle with the forces of evil that had become a daily routine to him for centuries?
In Nerima, Japan, a teenaged black-haired pigtailed boy sneezed in his sleep, waking him. After a reflective moment, he rolled over, but not before kicking the loudly snoring panda on the futon next to him, and wondering, not for the first time, how a panda managed to snore in the first place.