Ranmaonehalf_thegundampilot: With great power comes great responsibility

Disclaimer: So, you've made it to the third episode. I'm impressed. I know I take too long to write the episodes. Well it's not my fault I'm lazy and most of the times busy reading other people's stories (well maybe it is, BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT!!!). OK, now back to business, I do not own Ranma1/2 or Gundam Wing, they belong to some other people that I don't know or have ever met.

OK, now let's get going.

Chapter 3:

"Now where was I? Oh yeah." Ranma-Chan addressed the two young pilots.

"This is a curse I acquired in a place called Jusenkyo; when you are there you'll see lots of small pools with bamboo sticking out of them. If you fall in the pool you'll take the body of the last person or thing that drowned there. I fell in the spring of the drowned girl; my dad fell in the pool of the drowned panda. The curse works this way: when the victim is hit with cold water, he/she transforms into his/her cursed form. When the victim is hit with hot water when in cursed form, the victim transforms back into his/her original body."

"But that doesn't explain why your clothes changed with you." Said Nabiki.

"Well I learned a few tricks on my trip to the alternate future"

"Why is it alternate now?" Nabiki asked

"Because either I transported into a different past or, my time traveling has changed the course of history. So it is, an alternate future, for you all." Ranma explained

"And, from what I remember, the colonies weren't supposed to be established until about, say, two hundred years later, and none of the five of you are supposed to be born yet." He added.

Every one was in deep thought. But they were snapped out of it when Ranma's watch started beeping. Ranma touched a button on it and an image appeared on it.

"Ranm.Ranma are you there?"

At first the image was blurry, but it eventually cleared and the two young pilots let out a gasp.

"Hey Heero, what's the problem?" Ranma asked, looking at the hologram.

"We're in a big trouble, someone stole the copies of the plans for the time machine before we could destroy them, fortunately, we still have the originals and the machine. It happened shortly after you left, so we still have the machine. Dr J will be coming shortly to make some modification to your Gundam since the only way we can access it is through your watch."

"Er.Heero, I think the history here has already been altered."

"What do you mean?" Heero said, his eyes narrowing.

"Hey Heero, would you mind coming here?" Ranma said to someone who couldn't be seen on the screen.

"Why would you want me to go there?" Heero asked, dumbfounded, then his eyes widened as he saw the other Heero on screen.

Heero looked at the screen, on it, was a younger version of himself. He blinked, and the other Heero blinked as well. He stared at the younger Heero.

"Hey would you cut that out!" the younger Heero said, eyes with a dangerous glint in them.

"Yep, that's me all right. But how did this happen? I wasn't supposed to be born until a hundred and something years later of your time. Now I'm glad that whatever you do there don't affect this future."

"What!!!" Everyone except for Ranma said, a confused look on his or her faces.

"It's a failsafe device on the time machine, we designed it so that the time machine wouldn't work without it. If anyone used the time machine to try and change history, he will end up on creating an alternate future instead. But there's something else as well, if the person wants to go to the future, he can only end up in my future, which we think is the original one, at about the time the time machine left." The older Heero answered

"Well, I don't know what happened, but we can only hope that things will turn out alright." Ranma said.

Needless to say, everyone but Genma didn't get enough sleep that night, having too much on their minds. The two Gundam pilots stayed in the extra guest room, for it was very late in the night.

The next day, everybody woke up to a strange sound emanating from the back yard, followed by a flash. Akane and the others walked downstairs to find Kasumi cooking breakfast in the kitchen.

"Good morning, Kasumi, what's going on?" Akane asked.

"Oh, good morning, Akane, an old man with a metal arm and leg came by, and he and Ranma disappeared in that flash of light." Kasumi said casually

Akane's face became one with the floor. It was then that Heero walked in.

"Oh, that must have been Dr. J" Heero said

"Heero, you seem to take this in quite easily" stated Quatre

"Hey, after seeing your older self talking to your self, it's hard not to believe it."

"Ok, when do you think they will be back?" Akane asked

"I don't know, why are you asking me?"

"Sorry." She said

Meanwhile, in the Gundam storage time rift, Ranma and Dr. J worked. They were adding a portable Time machine to the Gundam; it had exactly the same functions and effects as the original one, only that it was smaller. They were also thinking about adding a kitchen to the time-rift/subspace, since Ranma had a big appetite and who knows when he will be hungry. The good thing of the time-rift/sub-space is that time doesn't pass in it so the food won't get spoiled in there, however, since he couldn't use it to travel through time, yet. The amount of time he passes in there will pass in real time. They also added a new function to Ranma's watch, now only Ranma can use it. The watch runs a scan through the user's body, identifying and matching everything down to the DNA. All this only takes a second, if the user is not Ranma, the watch will render the user unconscious.

It took them days to finish, but now that they can use it to travel through time, Dr. J and Ranma returned to three hour after they left. Dr. J would have asked Ranma to take him back to the future, but he wanted to see the younger Heero.

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Akane got up from the floor after her face fault. She calmed herself and went to eat breakfast. The five boys excused themselves and were going to leave, but Kasumi and Nodoka insisted that they stayed and ate breakfast. Nobody could ever refuse Kasumi or Nodoka, so they stayed. Genma fumed about 'the boy running out of their morning match', but he stopped and pled a little once he saw Nodoka come in. Nodoka and Kasumi set up the table and every one ate.

After they finished the five young boys excused them-selves and left.

"Thank you for your hospitality" Quatre said

"But we have to leave now, if Ranma comes back please tell him that we went back."

"Ok, I'll remember that. Goodbye, you can come whenever you want." Kasumi said politely.

"Goodbye."

Two hours after they left there was a flash and two persons walked in. One was Ranma; the other one was an old man with white hair, strange glasses and a metal arm and foot.

"Hi everyone, this is Dr. J" Ranma said, pointing to the old man beside him. They looked at him with a strange expression and greeted them.

"Where is Heero?" Ranma asked

"Oh, he and the other four left two hours ago, they told me to tell you that they went back, but they didn't say where." Kasumi said.

"Don't worry, I know where they were talking about" Ranma said before he and Dr. J disappeared in the same light they appeared from.

Ranma and Dr J appeared later, with another flash of light, in front of the two pilots. They were very surprised when Ranma and Dr J appeared out of nowhere.

"So, you're Heero huh?" Dr J said "Yes, you are exactly the same as the Heero I know, only that you're younger" *and born two hundred and something years earlier than you're supposed to. * Dr J mentally added

"Well, I only wanted to see if it was true, but now I have to go. Ranma would you be as kind as to take me back to my own time?"

"Sure. Hey I'll be back later." He told the two pilots.

With that, Ranma and Dr J disappeared in another flash of light. In the future, Dr J was talking to Ranma.

"Now Ranma, taking care of the 'time gate' is a very big responsibility, I don't want you to go around and changing the history of your own time unless it's absolutely necessary." Dr J said to Ranma "But remember that we put a lock on the 'original' future so that nobody can change it, co any changes you make here will only affect this timeline."

"Yes SIR!!!"

With that, Ranma returned to the past and to what he now considered his 'home' time stream.
Authors notes: Well? Any comments? Heh he it's pretty funny the Idea of Ranma being the guardian of the 'time gate'. I will consider adding sailor moon to this crossover, or may be not.

The next episode: Ryoga is the prince of the saiyans once again!!! Ahem, I mean Ryoga appears again!!!