AN: Yet another Ranma ½ Sailor Moon Crossover by me. What can I say? I like them. Any way this is the Prologue to my story, it's short and everything is pretty much explained in it, so I don't feel the need for a summery, so on to the DUM DUM DUM-

Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma ½. I do not own Sailor Moon. I do not own any fictional person, place or thing used in this story. I do not own any real person, place or thing used in this story. All original persons, places and things used in this story as well as the story it's self are mine though.

TIME'S MISTRESS, TIME'S SLAVE

PROLOGE

LOW PROBABILITY

A contemplative moment at the Gates of Time

Time. The others call me the 'Mistress of Time'. I, more often then not, feel like its bitch. Time is an integral part of the universe and no one, not even a true and powerful Deity, can control it. I should know. I've met a lot of beings, Deities included, in my service to time its self. Time is some thing that can be guided and shaped, yes, but never out right forced or controlled. I have gotten a lot of respect from beings far more powerful then I'll ever be, for my manipulation of the time stream to save earth. They don't care about my goals or what I'm fighting for, the survival of the human race, they just respect my progress. No one, not even some of the most powerful Deities and Demons I know of, have my expertise in manipulating the time-stream. Some of them even talk of making me the first Goddess of Time. They never could find any one that could possibly fill the role before I came along.

I don't care about that. If they ever do offer, I'll probably take them up on it. It certainly would make my job a hell of a lot easier. But I sincerely doubt it will happen. It could piss off the universe, something no Deity wants to do. Yes the universe is a conscious thing, and with time being an integral part of it, doing that just might piss it off.

But enough about that. I was busy tracking my, and even I will call it this, obsession, the outcome of Crystal Tokyo. It was running very, very low this week, and I intended to find out why.

This showed me that time still had tricks up its sleeve, for I found the cause of the problem. One Ranma Saotome. Oh he, and I guess that's the proper gender noun, for that's what he was born as, wasn't the real problem, nor was it his screwed up life. Watching that made me ill, something that had not happed in centuries. No it was his coming death that was the problem.

That's why I said that this showed time still had some tricks up its sleeve. For I never have had to save someone's life before to insure Crystal Tokyo. It's always been the opposite, I either had to kill them or outright remove them from the time stream it's self in order to preserve the out come I wanted.

So I knew this, guy's, I guess, past, and knew that his death would lead to a very, very reduced out come for Crystal Tokyo, but I didn't know how he would die, or why his death reduced my desired out come. So I went looking for that information. Seeing what he had just beaten, an immortal phoenix, I really didn't want to have to face what ever could kill him. Not that I couldn't handle that thing, but it would be close. Too close for my tastes.

The cause of his death would have been laughable, if it wasn't so fatally serious. He got stuck as a she yet again, along with the prince of the Musk, Herb. Herb was presenting the Locking Ladle to Ranma as a gift of fealty during a ceremony, and tripped, spilling it on both of them, getting them wet, changed, and locked.

Ranma had been decided as the new ruler of the entire Jusenkyo region after stopping the Musk and the Amazons from wiping out the Phoenix people after he left the last time, and after that, they decided on him as the new ruler of the three people.

Well after yet another locking, yet another battle royal started in response. But this time, Ranma died. He got struck with a Perfect Shishi Höködan from Ryoga, about fifty Hitö Ryü-zan Ha's from Herb and around one hundred and two various bladed instruments, mostly Scottish Claymores, by Mouse, while trying to shield Akane, whom was protecting his, now her, mother. Ranma was sliced to pieces and then atomized by the blast. Akane and Ranma's mother died as well.

That started an epic war in the Jusenkyö valley, and got the Chinse government into it. This started a civil war in China, and long story short, started World War Three.

So, simple solution right? Don't let Ranma get locked. Wrong. I learned a long, Long, LONG, LLLOOONNNGGG ass time ago that before you make any changes to the time stream, you make damn sure that your change will get you your desired result before you do so.

So I looked up what would happen if Ranma did not get locked. Well low and behold, it was almost the same, and maybe even worse. The Chinese government saw Ranma as an anti-government rebel leader, and went in to kill him and crush his so called 'Rebel Forces'. After getting their assess handed to them a few times by Ranma's forces, China got pissed off and dropped a Nuke in their own Country. Don't ask me what the hell they were thinking, because even I, with all my years of watching humanity, can't figure that one out.

Well they didn't warn anyone else that they were detonating a Nuke within their borders, and Russia's defense computers registered it as the start of a Nuclear War, and launched its missiles on auto-pilot. Thus we had a nuclear war and winter, thus killing any chance of Crystal Tokyo.

'Ok, that's no good.' I thought to my self after seeing that out come. So I then checked out what would happen if Ranma got locked as a female along with Herb, yet did not die.

"What the hell?" I asked my self out loud as I saw the numbers for that scenario. And I do mean numbers. As in multiple sets of them, reflecting multiple sets of outcomes.

They ranged from very, very, extremely bad, to very, very, extremely good. In fact it was some of the worst I've ever seen on one end, although not quite as bad as if he wasn't locked or had died, those two took first and second place respectively, to the best out come I've ever seen on the other end. Ninety Nine point Nine Eight Seven percent. That is amazing. I've never even seen it in the high Nineties, the highest I've ever seen it before, right after Galaxia was a little over Ninety Two percent.

So I decided that Ranma must be locked if Crystal Tokyo was to happen, yet I must continue to, guide, if you will, Ranma's life afterwards, to get the out come I so desperately needed, an almost certain chance at Crystal Tokyo.

So I sat at the Time Gates, scanned the time lines, and planed.

AN: Well another story off and running. I'm working on Chapter One now. Hopefully it will be out soon.