A Wild Pony in Equestria
A Ranma ½ - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic crossover fanfict by Tangent
Pre-reading and editing assistance by:
Lord Talon;
Nevrmore;
And some guy named Steve
DISCLAIMER: 'Ranma ½' and all characters therein belong to Rumiko Takahashi, Shogagukan, Kitty and Viz Video. 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic' and all characters therein belong to Hasbro. This fanfict has been produced for my own enjoyment and to pass on without profit. Other characters that come into play in this fanfict may or may not be pulled from other sources (including other fanficts, RPGs, manga, anime, literature, or possibly even *GASP* American comic books!).
A WORD FROM TANGENT: Believe it or not, I just recently entered bronydom by way of the authorized fan-made episode 'Double Rainboom,' And then literally backtracked and watched as many episodes, fan videos, fan reactions, read fan fictions, perused pony art (although I knew about pony creators for over a year now), and so on.
Surprisingly enough, I haven't seen much of anything involving any sort of Ranma ½ crossovers with MLP:FiM other than a 'My Little Dashie' variant. Frankly, I think this total lack of the wild horse in Equestria needs corrected…
FYI: Just to reassure my readers, 'A Wild Horse in Equestria,' is not going to be what Bronies refer to as a clop-fic. If anything, Ranma is finally going to get a chance to have the sort of relationships he actually needs: friends - no strings or obligations attached. So rest assured that the types of shenanigans that began infecting Magical Guardian Ranma: Beta Edition around chapter five and pretty much comprise almost all of Quests of Chaos should not be showing up in this fic…
[EDIT]: Changed probable fic title from "A Wild Horse in Equestria" to "A Wild Pony in Equestria" due to Dumbledork having used the other title already. Granted, i suppose i could have left it go and kept using Wild Horse, but i'd actually like to see more of Dumbledork's story myself, so I conceeded the issue. Especially since this is still in the 'idea' phase.
PRELUDE: A Horse Arrives in the Everfree Forest…
Ranma wasn't sure exactly where he was. He had awoken some time ago in an unfamiliar forest, with no supplies, and no clear recollection of the previous days events or how he got here. About the only thing going in his favor was the fact that he was wearing his usual Chinese outfit, so he was neither naked nor wandering around in his underwear.
Even his rather extensive knowledge of flora and fauna was failing him, given that despite being able to recognize several varieties of plants and animals as being either safe or unsafe due to roughly ten years of experience living on the road, there were also quite a few that he didn't have any previous knowledge of.
Granted, the wolves made of sticks had been kind of fun until he destroyed them enough times that they stopped pulling themselves back together.
Good times…
Distinctly less fun had been running from the lion-thing with the bat wings and scorpion tail, which his cat-fist training rendered him unable to fight directly. Ranma had finally gotten away from it by sheer chance when he discovered that it wouldn't follow him into a field of blue plants. While this led him to be somewhat suspicious of whatever the plant was, pure terror kept him dead center in the field until the cat-thing not only left, but he couldn't sense it stalking him anymore. And even then he remained extremely cautious as he left the field.
As tempting as it was to just leave it go in case it was something as innocuous as an unpalatable scent keeping bat-kitty away, Ranma knew better than to leave himself exposed to strange plant oils any longer than absolutely necessary. So, following his ears, he eventually found a creek large enough to bathe in, and thoroughly washed both himself and his clothing as best as he could, becoming a girl once again in the process.
Better that than have to deal with the results of being exposed to a potentially poisonous plant.
Given that the sun was beginning to set by the time Ranma had her bath, she hung her clothes where she figured they would best catch the morning sun and finish drying, then proceded to set up camp by collecting rocks, twigs, sticks, and leaves that she knew were safe. First setting up the stone circle for a campfire, then assembling a makeshift lean-to from the greener plant debris and stockpiling the drier tinder for a decent fire, which she didn't bother to start until she actually had a couple of fish and crayfish from the creek to cook.
Ranma's opinions on Chinese Amazons were many and varied, ranging from being perplexing, annoying, stubborn, annoying, good cooks, and annoying, but he certainly never faulted the usefulness of their fighting techniques.
The chestnut-fist, for example, was not only a great rapid repetitive striking technique, it was also a highly useful for non-combative purposes requiring speed and accuracy, such as catching fish barehanded or starting a fire one handed with a fist full of dry twigs and leaves.
Somewhat satiated for the moment, the nude redhead looked up at the darkening sky to try to get her bearings from the emerging stars.
"Oh, you have got to be kidding me…"
With a sense of dread, Ranma nimbly hopped up the branches until her head cleared to forest canopy and she got a better look at the moon and stars.
While the stars themselves were damning enough, given that the few constellations that she recognized were in completely different positions in relation to each other than should even be possible no matter where you viewed them from, it was the moon itself that confirmed just how lost Ranma was.
For on the face of the moon was a distinct pattern of craters and shadows that created a silhouette of a unicorn's head…
Ranma Saotome, heir to the Saotome School of Anything Goes Martial Arts, official fiancé in at least three mutually exclusive arranged marriage contracts, and supposed runaway husband according to Chinese Amazon law, was now, to the best of his knowledge, no longer on Planet Earth.
Quite frankly, while waking up the next morning as a pony was definitely yet another problem she neither needed nor wanted, it was nowhere near as surprising as it should have been…
O O O
POSSIBLE STORY DIRECTIONS:
Ranma wanders into Ponyville shortly before the events in MLP:FiM Season One begin. While Ranma does NOT replace any of the Elements of Harmony, I can easily see the Wild Pony becoming part of the group anyway. Especially since Ranma's first instinct when Nightmare Moon appears would most likely be to ATTACK!
Probable: By confronting (and probably befriending) Zecora alongside Twilight Sparkle when she appears, the whole issue of the Mane Six becoming exposed to Poison Joke is bypassed, severely delaying Ranma's eventually discovering that the blue plant is responsible for his becoming a pony.
Possible: Ranma sees the similarities between Flutershy and Kasumi Tendo, and begins to see the kind pony as a surigate surigate sister of sorts. Most likely to occur shortly after the neko-ken is revealed (as Fluttershy is the most likely pony for neko-Ranma to lable as 'safe'), although it may start happening before then.
Probable: Ranma will enter Rarity's Botique more or less of her own free will until he finds out about her pet cat (which will cut the 'willing' visits down to zero. At least for a while. Ranma's pony friends start thinking of SENSIBLE ways for Ranma to deal with her phobia and the very dangerous hyper-aware state it can trigger.