Another Chance to get Things Right Chapter 27

Disclaimer The usual stuff. It all belongs to Rumiko Takahashi. We all all just lucky that she brightened our life by creating Ranma. Otherwise I might be stuck writing romance novels for fun

A/N Wow. The Ryoga world tour is proceeding nicely. Happosai is free. Once he shows up in Nerima, Taro will be looking for him. On with the fun!

The day after the martial arts gymnastics competition

Ranma and Akane are taking a walk.

"Ya know Akane, it has been pretty quiet today. Ryoga and Shampoo have disappeared, Kuno is being hounded by those girls from his sister's school and our dads are off on that training trip. It's like the last calm before a major storm gets here." says Ranma.

"I agree. I wonder whats going to happen next. How long do you think it will be before Ukyo shows up?" Akane asks

"The way everything is messed up with us bein back, she could show up at any time. I am glad we did not go figure skatin or get involved in the martial arts takeout competition though." Ranma says

"It still feels funny that you would actually avoid any kind of martial arts challenge." Akane says.

"I guess that fight with Saffron showed me that there are more important things then accepting every stupid challenge that comes along. Most of them never were much of a challenge to our skills. In fact, too many of them were just easy enough to let our skills go downhill." Ranma says.

Ranma spots a yattai set up outside the park they were headed to. "Are you hungry Akane? I could use a little snack."

"You just had lunch an hour ago... oh, okay. I wouldn't mind something to drink." Akane says.

They go up to the yattai and Akane spots a little sign on it that says "Ucchans Okonomyaki" and pulls Ranma back a short distance and points out the sign to him.

"Well, I guess that answers the question of when Ukyo will get here." Akane says with a sigh "I don't know if I am ready to handle this though."

"We can't avoid her forever. We will just have to think this out a bit better then we did the first time." Ranma say and starts to pull Akane towards the yattai. "Let's go ahead and get it over with."

They head towards the yattai as the last of the lunch crowd finishes eating.

The Ryoga and Shampoo Tour of the Universe continues

Ryoga and Shampoo turn the corner to find themselves alone once more. They continue on in the direction they are facing.

"Now where are we?" Ryoga asks

"Shampoo not know. You one leading us weird places." Shampoo says in reply

sigh "Well, we might as well keep going this way. I am sure we have to find someone who can tell us where we are." Ryoga says.

They continue on for about 50 feet and see another corridor that intersects the one they are in. Suddenly a group of people in strange white armor go racing from the corridor to the left and disappear into the corridor to the right. Streaks of light go from one corridor to the other. They hear some one screaming something they can not understand and suddenly a man goes running across the corridor firing some kind of strange gun into the direction he is headed. A large man shaped creature with a weird looking crossbow in hand and a bandolier draped across it's body follows the others. Shampoo and Ryoga stop and look at each other perplexed and amazed at what they just saw.

"I don't think we want to find out what that was all about. What do you think?" says Ryoga.

"Shampoo agree." says Shampoo.

They hear the sounds of running again except this time the large furry guy is in the lead followed by the others. They disappear down the corridor to the left, sounds of gunfire and screaming slowly vanishing as they move further away.

"I think that we should try to find that Major Carter again. Maybe she knows why these guys are firing at each other." Ryoga says.

Shampoo nods her head and they turn back the way they came.

Some where close to Tokyo

Happosai is waking up from his tenth nap since being released from his captivity. He is still weak from being deprived if female Ki for so many years. However, he can now see Tokyo from the hilltop he is on.

'Soon I shall be able to recharge myself. I will find my students and teach them not to mess with me.' thinks Happosai.

Nerima, Gosunkugi's "lab"

'I still have no idea why my ritual didn't work. Nothing in this book seems to work. Hmmm... I wonder if this one is worth trying.' Gosunkugi thinks as he looks at another book he bought at a flea market. The title is "The Imp's Guide to the Kama Sutra, Illustrated version with demonic rituals".

He opens the book and starts reading. When he reaches the first illustration his eyes open wide and his nose starts to bleed. He feints after a few seconds as what he is seeing actually registers in his mind. It is a animated picture like one out of a Harry Potter movie of two demonic creatures having sex.

Grand Canyon, USA

Ryoga and Shampoo turn a corner and find themselves at the top of an extremely large canyon. There is a sign close by that reads "Welcome to the Grand Canyon. Please watch that first step since it is a long way down." and in small letters " Sign property of the Grand Canyon Humor Society. Do not fold, bend, staple, or mutilate upon threat of dire tickling" They see a person in a uniform shaking his head as he is removing a similar sign about 50 feet away from them. Ryoga and Shampoo turn to look around themselves and see a building about 100 feet from them. They head over to it and walk around the corner and find themselves someplace else.

A/N The tour is almost over. Thanks to George Lucas for creating such a marvelous universe as Star Wars. Gosunkugi is still the same inept voodoo "master" that he always was. He is going to continue to try to get Akane to notice him, but it is a lost cause. I may introduce someone for him later on. Let me know what you think of the idea.