Wow- eight reviews for my first chapter. That does my heart good.

So, in response to reviewers.

Masochist89 and psychobunny410: you guys are up-to-date on your Ranma. But Zim will not be turning into animals. There are over 10000 springs in Jusenkyo, after all.

Iza: Thank you so much.

NOTE TO EVERYONE ELSE: Invader Iza has just loaned me an unholy army of undead sporks. This is for people who think this should be a ZaDr. You have been warned.

Luna Moona: They do? I thought Zim said that thing about "oh, how will you breathe?" just to distract Dib and get him to look at Pustulio. (Man, that's such a great name.)

Ri2: No, no. The Nyannichuan was Spring of Drowned Young Girl. In vol. 24 we see that everything that falls into it become a very beautiful and well-developed young lady. That's the best part of the curse.

And Firefilly, Dark Ultimate 1 and My little pony freak: I didn't forget you. You rock!

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One Half

Some distance away from the spring into which Dib had fallen, an elderly Chinese man in Mao-style clothing was doddering over to a boy struggling out of one of the springs. "Ai-yaa!" cried the Jusenkyo guide (for that is who it was), "You most fortunate to fall in Nannichuan!"

The boy looked up at him through one purple-colored eye, the other shut tight. "Eh?"

The guide beamed. "Nannichuan! Spring of Drowned Young Man! Most customer search many year for Nannichuan! But you find it first! Much luck for you, traveler!"

The black-haired boy blinked slowly, and stared dumbly at the man before him. "What are you talking about, pig-human?"

A purple-haired girl in a trench coat ran up to the guide, jabbering on about aliens and water and curses. The girl pointed at the boy at the edge of the water. "You! Where's Zim!"

"What? Hey, I am Z-- who are you! And how do you--" his eyes widened. "DIB!"

"Yeah, that-- how do you know my name! I've never--" Dib stopped dead in his tracks. "ZIM!"

Zim was now pointing and staring in shock; namely at Dib's chest, but the rest of him scared Zim pretty bad, too. "You. . . you . . ." he stammered, quavering a bit.

"Zim. . . you. . ." Dib stammered back.

"You're female!" screeched Zim.

"You're human!" shouted Dib.

They screamed this at the same time. After a pause, a metal voice squealed, "LOOKIT ME! I'm a mongoose!" Sure enough, a mongoosey version of GIR shot out of some bushes and began dancing.

Zim and Dib watched GIR dance, metal tail waving back and forth, then slowly looked down at themselves.

In Nerima, Japan, some one thousand miles away, a black haired teenager with a single braid down his back turned to a giant panda. "Hey, pops? Hear that? I coulda sworn I heard two people screaming."

Back in Jusenkyo, both Zim and Dib were examining their new forms. Zim's self autopsy mostly consisted of him feeling his face (read, nose and ears) and muttering "no. . . NO. . ." repeatedly. He did note with interest that his pak was still attached, and still fully functional.

Dib's examination was this. He pulled the neck of his shirt out and looked down. Then screamed again.

His inner monologue (the one we get to hear somewhat often) turned to panic. What would Dad say? What would Gaz say? Oh, wait, Gaz had already seen him. (or was it her?) SO that's why she'd been so freaked out. But, he was a GIRL! He was 14! He was supposed to LIKE girls, not BE one! Especially not one that well-developed! Was there a way to reverse the curse? What if the class found out! What color was his hair, anyway? Wouldn't his particular haircut look weird on a girl? Would he have to buy bras? Would he. . .

The Jusenkyo guide prodcued a tea kettle from some pocket dimension and poured the steaming contents onto Dib and Zim.

Dib looked down, felt his chest, then smiled. "Yes! I'm a boy again!" Zim instantly started screaming, his green skin smoking.

"Over 10000 springs! Find cure at next visit!" the guide beamed. He picked up Dib and Zim, threw them into their respective ships. Mongoose GIR climbed into the Voot with Zim.

As the ships lifted off, the guide waved. "Come Again!"

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Yay! There you go!

Review!

Oh, and Masochist89 (taking an idea from Blahs Blah 2001) is going on the wall of people who got it right. So. . . what'll happen in the next chapter? Will there be any other jusenkyo madness?

Lemme know!