It's another typical day in Nerima, and everything runs smoothly….well, as smoothly as one can imagine. As Ranma has been beaten by Akane, glomped in a painful way by Xian Pu, hit on in a SERIOUS fashion by Ukyou, and assaulted by Kodachi's poisons, you can infer how bad his day has been thus far.
He's presently sitting on the roof of the Tendo dojo and wondering what he's gonna do with himself….or possibly staring off into space..not sure.
The sun's presently going down, however, so he decides that he's gonna go in…until an angry Ryoga Hibiki jumps onto the roof with him.
"Damn you, Ranma Saotome! I have you now!" he yells.
"Glad to hear it, pig-boy I've been itchin' for a good fight all day!" Ranma snaps back…okay, it isn't true, but he has to act like nothing that had transpired that day had bothered him, or Ryoga would get all weird.
Ryoga launches a series of punches and kicks, none hitting Ranma's iron defenses. Ranma launches a single snap-kick aimed at Ryoga's chest and lands it, sending Ryoga flying into the koi pond.
"Ha-ha, bull's-eye!" Ranma laughs as P-Chan climbs out of the koi pond, bruised and beaten.
It's about this time Akane realizes that Ranma just hit something into the koi pond and P-Chan climbed out of it, so she jumps on the roof, her battle aura flaring and her invincible mallet ready to go.
"RAAAANMAAAAAA!" She yells, throwing swing after swing at the pigtailed martial artist.
"Dammit, Akane, why're you swingin' at me!" Ranma shrieks, barely able to dodge her attacks. Unfortunately, talking made him lose concentration and allowed her downswing to nail him in the face, sending him through the roof and to the dojo floor.
"That'll teach you for hurting my P-Chan!" Akane calls down to his twitching form.
Ranma awakes to a strange environment to see a man a little taller then him wearing long, black robes, and a hood to hide his features.
The man looks at Ranma and smiles inwardly at his luck. He motions for Ranma to listen to him as he says "It begins. It all begins now…the fate of all mankind rests with me, and you shall become part of me!"
"Huh? Become a part of you?" Ranma asks, "Uh, mister, who are you?"
The man doesn't move, doesn't flinch, doesn't even acknowledge Ranma's presence, just repeats his previous statement, "It begins. It all begins now…the fate of all mankind rests with me, and you shall become part of me!"
"Wow, uh…you got this creepy-hooded guy thing down, huh?"
"It begins. It all begins now…the fate of all mankind rests with me, and you shall become part of me!"
"…"
"It begins. It all begins now…the fate of all mankind rests with me, and you shall become part of me!"
"Okay, this is freaking weird, you mind NOT being a freak for a minute and tell me where I'm at or how to get out of here or ANYTHING important-"
"It begins. It all begins now…the fate of all mankind rests with me, and you shall become part of me!"
"….Not getting anywhere, huh?"
"It begins. It all begins now…the fate of all mankind rests with me, and you shall become part of me!"
"…thought not…."
AN: OK, not the best beginning, but I can promise you guys it's gonna get a LOT better if you keep reading!
