The sky was black as clouds covered the sky, the land was covered in snow and ice. The only thing moving was the howling wind.

Then the air distorted for a few seconds then a blue circular vortex appeared slightly above an empty lot. Ranma shot out landing face down on the frozen ground. The wind shot through him and he brought up his aura surrounding himself in order to fight the cold air, he then started to push himself up only to have another body came out of the vortex and land right on top of him.

"Oof" he blew out and now winded he said "Get off of me!"

The body rolled off of him, as he got up from the ground and as he turned he said "I told you I would be back, so why did you follow me Aka?" He cut himself off in disbelief as he was now facing the last person he expected to see.

"NABIKI"!

"Saotome, what's going on? What's the deal with...tha" She trailed off as she finally noticed her surroundings.

"I'll explain but first let's get to the dojo. It'll protect us from the cold and the wind as we make a fire to keep us warm."

She nodded allowing him to scoop her up. Then he ran down the streets to the dojo. As they did, they noticed that there was no signs of life animal or human anywhere. As they neared the outer wall of the Tendo compound, Ranma told Nabiki to hold on tight as he jumped over it landing by the front door.

Ranma put her down and then went to open the door only to find it frozen shut so he slammed his shoulder into it forcing it open. Once inside they split up to find some dry wood. They headed for the living room where Ranma started a fire. They then sat down,

"Alright Nabiki, before I tell you tell me why you followed me. I'm listening."

"Last night while I was going over the books and my door was open a bit, I heard you muttering to yourself. That usually means one of three things. You have been OFFICIALLY challenged by someone, you are going on a training trip, or Auntie has asked you to be in girl form for some reason. Of course there was a fourth possibility and that is you had finally chosen one of the other fiancees."

Ranma started to open his mouth but stopped and allowed her to continue.

"So I decided last night to follow you this morning. Then, like you, I waited and waited to see what you were up to. To my surprise you pulled out this black thing and it makes a hole which you jump into. I ran up to it and stupidly and reached out to it got sucked in ending up here."

"I see, well that hole Nabiki is a gateway to parallel Earths and this." He pulled out the remote showing Nabiki before checking the time limit on the timer before putting it back into his subspace pocket."is the timer this opens the portals and there are two main rules regarding the timer you need to know."

"Okay what are they?"

"We can not force it to open a portal because it will wipe our home coordinates out and we'll more then likely never get home."

Nabiki's face paled and asked "and the other rule?"

"If we miss the portal it'll be 29.4 years before we can slide again." Although it seemed impossible, Nabiki's face became whiter.

"Okay, so how much longer until the portal opens?"

"Thirty minutes."

"Why?"

"Why, did I choose this?" Nabiki nodded. "Until now, only Mom & Kasumi knew that I (sigh) was suicidal. When the oppertunity came to take a trip without being followed I took it. Now not only do I get a trip I get to see the what if's."

"What if's?"

"Yeah Nabiki, see every Earth we got to it's the same year and we are the same but everything else is different. For example if your father took you and your sisters to Jusenkyo or if I fought Shampoo in my normal form, or if and I'm not trying to be mean your Mother never died."

"Or if you had been born a girl." Ranma nodded." I get it. You wanna learn from yourself and learn which girl you would be better with." Again he nodded. Then from this point on they just sat until Ranma pulled the timer out getting Nabiki's attention.

"5...4...3...2...1"

Ranma pointed the remote. Twin beams shot out distorting the air as the vortex formed, Then they jumped in at the same time the vortex closed behind them.