Disclaimer: This is a story that showed up on anime addventure written mainly by Black Dragon with lesser contributions from myself and others. Just reposting it for posterity and nostalgia.
So I don't own any rights to, well, any of this …nuff said.
Stop me if you've heard this before. So a martial artist, a blond, and a magic lamp walk into a dojo…. except magic lamps can't walk. Wait, let me start again.
The beginning of this tale is long and varied, but it's enough to say Sailor Pluto, the Time Guardian (also sometimes known as Setsuna), was having a very lousy day. Now this Pluto is one of those Plutos that believe the end justifies the means. Take out a world leader megalomaniac before they even cut their first tooth? No problem. Leave untold billions to die of cold and hunger so that the survivors can be easily subjugated? Bah, can be done in ones sleep. In fact, that was the preferred method.
The source of Pluto's vexation was one martial artist by the name of Ranma Saotome. Normally he wasn't a problem, but things changed due to a major magical artifact that belonged in Husaquahr, the world of magic beyond the Sea of Dreams. Throckmorton P. Ruddygore, master sorcerer, needed to get rid of a powerful item to save his world, the cursed wishing Lamp of Lakash.
In his mind, the only way to accomplish that was to wish it away. He wished it far into the universe and thought it lost for all time. Funny thing is that the universe is a huge place, but not huge enough for a certain good natured, if trouble prone, blond Galaxy Police officer named Mihoshi who somehow ended up meeting with an even more troubled cursed martial artist as the genie of the cursed lamp. To make a very long story short, Ranma Saotome had become a threat to Crystal Tokyo and needed to be eliminated.
Pluto had tried all sorts of things to clear the way for the future that she wanted. All of her subtle manipulations, very ethically questionable actions, or direct confrontations with the pig tailed menace all ended in corrupted time lines that didn't even bear a resemblance to the bright future that she championed. She gritted her teeth as she watched failure after failure appear in the Time Gates, each worse than the last. No, failure wasn't the right word for it. In Pluto's mind the word to describe what this was had yet to be invented yet and this was that word and a total one at that.
Since it didn't seem that a future copy of herself would appear any time soon to let her know what that word was going to be or how to fix this situation then she would just do it herself. That would show that stuck up future witch. Yeah, she may have had a falling out with her future self over this screw up. Anyway, Sailor Pluto was going to give it her all to fix this and get everything back to 'normal'.
