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Only Human

By Verse12

Verse12@hotmail.com

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Disclaimer:

I do not own these characters nor do I claim too, this is a simple fan based homage. Their creators and the companies they work for and with own the characters and all that pertains to them. (I.E. Rumiko Takahashi, Viz, Shougakukan, Pioneer LDC, Hiroki Hayashi, Ryoe Tsukimura, Akira Toriyama) This is just fans of the shows expressing their love for it for fun, no profit is involved or expected thank you.

Note: A little warning first, during the fight sequences I could only hint at some of the things that Ranma changed during the last twenty years. But now you will see some of the things that are different, and a lot of the DBZ cast will be OOC because the previous events that happened were totally different.

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Interlude One

Aftermath Part one

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Choices

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The Other World:

A large cloud with a mammoth structure resting on it sits in a pale orange / yellow sky. A trail of floating little clouds line up and enter the building. Off to the side a squat blue creature with antenna enters the structure after leaving behind two humans in orange gis that are jumping around and screaming in joy.

"ALL RIGHT I KNEW THAT GOHAN COULD DO IT! THAT KID OF YOURS IS SOMETHING ELSE GOKU!"

"OH MAN, CAN YOU FEEL HOW STRONG HE HAS GOTTEN THIS IS GREAT!" yells Goku.

After a while of jumping around on a cloud in the after life the two warriors collapse onto their backs laughing. Following a few minutes of happy laughter Ranma sighs and says, "I guess they're going to get the dragon balls by now, yep in a little while we'll be back on earth and then maybe I can finally, well you know."

With a sigh Goku smile fades away and says "yah I know, . . . Ranma, I have to let you know something, . . . I'm, . . . I'm not going back."

Ranma looks over at Goku next to him and asks, "What did you say?"

Looking away Goku says "I said, I'm not going back too earth this time."

"I know I heard you," yells Ranma in anger.

Confused the saiya-jin asks back "well why did you ask then?"

"because i can't belive you could be so stupid!"

"Hey, I'm not being stupid so cut it out."

"YOU ARE BEING STUPID, WHAT ABOUT YOUR FAMILY? HUH? ARE YOU JUST GONNA ABANDON THEM?" yells Ranma.

Standing up Goku looks onto Ranma as he to gets to his feet. "LOOK RANMA, I AM THINKING OF THEM, THIS IS ALL MY FAULT." Yells the spiky haired man, casting his hand in the direction of the line of little clouds. "ALL OF THESE PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE I WAS THERE."

Getting up in Goku's face screaming, "WHAT KIND OF THINKING IS THAT? THE DRAGON BALLS WILL BRING THEM BACK SOON ANYWAY."

Goku comes back yelling at Ranma, "THESE PEOPLE WERE GOING ABOUT THEIR LIVES, DOING THEIR THING UNTIL CELL CAME ALONG AND KILLED THEM. AND CELL WOULDN'T EVEN EXIST IF I WEREN'T THERE.

Taking a deep breath Ranma calms down before continuing, "Look Goku I've been there for you, and you have been there for me for over twenty years. When Gohan-Sensei died I held you as you cried, and was there for you, to teach you and help raise you. I love you like a brother, heck sometimes I even think that this is what having a son must be like. What did I do wrong? How can you think to take on all of this onto your shoulders?"

Calming down himself Goku looks at Ranma a tear in his eye, "Oneechan, (1) I don't know what I would be like if you hadn't been there for me. But you are one of the people who taught me that it is my duty as a martial artist to help protect the weak. These people need me to protect them; my family needs them to protect them and the best way to help them, . . . is for me to not be there."

"Goku, that is BULL, you can't leave them Gohan is just a boy he needs his father."

"I know that, but Gohan will be okay he's strong, LOOK, I'm doing this for THEM," yells Goku before flying away.

As Goku flies away Ranma holds his hand out too him as if to draw him back by force of will, as Goku disappears around the building Ranma drops his hand and head. With a sigh Ranma mutters too himself "stupid kid, that boy needs a dad, and if you aren't going to be that for him then I guess I may have to." And with that Ranma's halo faded away, just before he too faded back to earth.

To Be Continued in:

Chapter Six: Transitions and Changes

A Scene from Chapter 6 of Only Human:

Huffing in fury over another TV special over that phony Son Gohan. "One day I will get my revenge on him, for the laughing stock he of made my father, I will have my vengeance," fumes the young girl named Videl.

End Notes:

How was that, this was just a little transition piece please let me know what you think. So please review, thanks.

(1) - Oneechan means big sister. Yes big sister, remember Ranma was in female form when he arrived. He had amnesia at the time so he spent an undisclosed amount of time thinking he was a woman.

Signed: Verse12