The usual disclaimer. Ranma, Tron and all the related intellectual property making an appearance in this fic are someone else's property; the former originally Rumiko Takahashi's and the latter.. Walt Disney Company's? Steven Lisberger's? And whoever they've given/sold/transferred their rights to. I'm not and won't be making any money off of this.

Finalizer

In the end, Shinobu, who had indeed managed to get back to reality, had managed to convince the researchers at Encom Japan of what had happened to her, Nabiki and Ranma. Of course, it significantly helped that at the same time in the US, Kevin Flynn had returned from his own trip to the digital world. For a while, it seemed like they had perished at the mainframe crash, until they were found intact on the hard drive.

Unfortunately, this was of limited use to Nabiki and Ranma.

The virus they had been infected with had changed their program code. This altered their format so badly that the de-digitization process would not accept them. This alone would have required much extra research to fix.

Another problem for them was that MCP had been necessary for the digitization process to work, and with the complete wiping out of MCP at the crash, nothing could be digitized or de-digitized. Reinstalling MCP was not a risk anyone was willing to take, even discounting the fact that teaching MCP back to anywhere his previous level would have taken a long time.

After the Encom staff had investigated the options, Ranma and Nabiki had been restored from the hard drive. They wandered in the Encom mainframe, learning to utilize their new skills and abilities. Especially the former had been most happy when she had found the change plates that could shift her back to male. But even as they learned the rules of the land, they did not forget their hope to return to the real world... eventually.

None of the remaining Nerima crew had been happy with how things turned out. Well, with the possible exceptions of Ryoga and Mousse.

But nothing lasts forever. Especially not peace.

As the world went on, technology improved and wars were fought, Ranma and Nabiki left the Encom mainframe to wander together across the Internet.

After several years passed, they thought that no one remembered them. The world had bigger things to consider than some rumours of two ghosts.

They were wrong.

End of file.

AN: Whoa... after so many years, it's finally complete.

Thank you for reading this far.

I hope you enjoyed reading it more than I did writing it. If you ever enjoyed the story, you should direct the thanks to Gangsta Spanksta, Ozzallos, weebee, my reviewers - especially Natalie-E-G - and the Fukufics folks. Without them, the story would have an inane plot, fewer omake, more inaccuracies, more OoC characters and more grammar errors. It would also be either dead, incomplete or deleted (more often that it was now).

The part of MCP being necessary for digitization is from Tron 2.0 canon, so there is a reason for why they were stuck.

When I started writing this, I expected the whole story to be around forty to sixty thousand words - something quite OK for a first-time attempt for a longer fic (I think). Obviously, it became a tad longer than I thought. And all only because when I was wondering what new crossover to write, I saw the case of Tron 2.0 on my shelf.

I do not expect to write a sequel to the story. Ranma and Nabiki would no longer be the characters we know them to be, so writing the story would not make much sense. If I find Tron Legacy to inspire me enough to write a sequel, I just might invalidate this chapter (10) and just follow from chapter 9. Or maybe, if I'm feeling foolish, write the sequel as a Ghost in the Shell crossover without invalidating this chapter. I do have some ideas for it already, but I don't know GitS well enough.

In a way, now that I have seen people actually actively recommending this story to others, I feel sorry to have finished the story this 'soon' (in terms of words and chapters, not real-world time). Unfortunately, Ranma 1/2 doesn't really interest me nowadays and I didn't have solid plans where to take the story after the Users handled MCP.

I hope that my story inspires someone else to try writing another such an unlikely crossover - maybe even another Ranma/Tron crossover ;-)

Some of the things RanmaTronic never had against earlier plans or wishes:

- Ukyo being digitized with Ranma instead of Nabiki (Why can't I ever manage to write a Ranma/Ukyo matchup? This was attempt one out of three; all failed.)

- a fierce fight between Ukyo and Kuno when Ukyo and the computer club members were leaving the arcade in the middle of the night

- need for the message Poro wrote on the diskette

- Haruo and Eiko getting the Users and Poro to the Encom mainframe by a Trojan horse

- MCP kidnapping Shinobu when she's trying to call her husband

- ending where Shinobu, not being able to return to the real world, goes psycho

- Ranma removing functions from MCP a few at a time, making the fight a near copy of 2001.

- Ranma and Nabiki being recruited by Section 9

- a happy ending in which all Users return to the real world

In the end, I think you're better off with the fic being what it is.