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==By DrHunter=======

As you can tell by that ascii art, I'm bored. You
also may have guessed that this fic involves the
.Hack universe. What you may not have guessed is
that it is a crossover. And certain to provoke a
groan from the crossover community, is that it's
hitting it off with Ranma 1/2.

Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma 1/2 or .Hack and
am not making any profit from my usage of
characters or settings from either. Anything
else I happen to referance also does not belong
to me. I have money but I don't want to lose it,
so don't sue... please?

Setting: It's 2009, two years into the release of
the online game "The World". Ranma is 14, Akane
is 14, Nabiki is 15, and Kasumi is 17. The events
of .Hack//Sign have just started.

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:May 03, 2000:

Genma was trapped. Trapped in his own freedom.
In order to get Ranma out of his mothers
influence he had to promise Nodoka that Ranma
would grow up a man among men, or he and Ranma
would commit seppukuto redeem the family honour.

The greatest problem with this promise, was
that Genma didn't think it would be possible.
Lately Nodoka seemed to be getting fickle and her
idea of what makes a man a "man" changed from
what it was when he met her. Recently, it's been
more business oriented than heroic like before.
If she kept changing her mind, he didn't think he
could guess what it was she wanted by the time
they came back from their training trip.

A worse problem would be that she wouldn't
change her mind. Genma didn't have the first clue
to anything business oriented. Not anything legal
anyway.

Genma had a plan though, he'd get Ranma one of
those computer things. He'd heard that was how
businesses were run lately. Maybe if he just gave
the boy one of them, he could figure it out for
himself. And while the boy was busy with that, he
would teach him the art, he wouldn't make a good
heir for the Saotome and Tendo Ryu if he couldn't
fight after all.

This brings us to our current situation. Genma
is looking around an electronics store, weighing
wether it was really worth it to drag one of
these large machines across Japan. Just as he was
leaving and declaring to himself that it was a
lost cause, he spotted them. Flat board-like
items located at the far end of the computer
section.

'Perfect' he thought to himself. Then he seen
the prices listed underneath them, and shrugged,
it's not like he was paying for them anyway. He
picked out the most expensive one, equating that
the price would mean it's better than the others,
and remembered it's position in the store. He'd
be back later.

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:May 24, 2000:

The boy seemed happy with the computer, though
he wasn't quite sure what it did. As long as it
didn't interfear with the art, he could care
less.

While passing through Kichioji a store caught
Genma's eye. Inside was a fighting scene playing
on a television screen. Curious, he sent Ranma
ahead to collect funds while he went in.

It was astonishing. Here, in this simple little
store was a ton of combat trainers compacted into
these small boxes. By the looks of the rest of
the store, he assumed that the information was
somehow extracted by the computers and that the
boys laptop suddenly got alot more useful.

He was about to swipe a few items before he
noticed that this store was alot more aware of
thieves then the last store he found such items.
This would take persuation, and a bargaining
chip. Ranma would thank him later.

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:June 15, 2002:

Genma hummed a happy little tune as he dug a
hole in the ground. The boy had progressed much
faster than he expected, but still had a long way
to go before he could match up to his old man. He
figured this training method he found in a local
dumpster might help him along even further.

Looked over at Ranma, practicing on one of his
fighting simulations, Genma sighed. He just hoped
his boy wouldn't be as brave as his old man yet,
and face up to the cats. As he understood it, it
was necissary to gain an initial fear of cats to
help bring out an even further increase of power
and skill.

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:June 16, 2002:

Screams.

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:June 17, 2002:

Screams.

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:June 18, 2002:

Silence.

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The next chapter is Arrival.

AN: About June 16-18, 2002. Sorry if it's a bit
undescriptive, but I tried many ways to write
that last bit. Each one seemed to either not have
the effect I was looking for, or the descriptions
ruined the final effect. I'm still disappointed
with this version, but there is just no good way
I can put it all into words.

This is not going to be an all powerful Ranma
story. He is going to have computer skills, and
may yet try to immitate some of the games he's
playing, but I'm hoping to be able to balance it
all out, since he isn't training 24/7 like
before.

With that said, please send C&C to:
dr_hunterj@hotmail.com
And send flames & hate-mail to:
dr_hunterj@yahoo.com