Ranma ½ Pigtailed Time Loops
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Ranma was bored, bored, bored, bored. He was so bored he was going through the loop normally so far and was the only one awake. He just could not think of what to do this time. He was currently a she at the moment going to meet Kuno and she realized what she could do. Kuno would never see it coming.
She stood there as Kuno tossed his rose but before he could go into his speech about his affections for her she attacked, granted it was hard to look like she was going all out without doing so, but she was up to the task.
"Why are you attacking me? I only wanted to date thee."
Pausing the attack she asked, "You know what a red rose means right?"
Upon his nod she resumed her attack. "Wait I do not understand?"
She looked at him incredulously. "You did just toss me a red rose right?"
Again he nodded and she resumed attacking. "Why do you keep attacking?"
Ranma tried to look as confused as possible. "Red roses are a declaration of a blood feud between samurai families... Didn't you know?"
He shook his head; of course he didn't she was lying.
"You don't give out roses to girls do you?"
Kuno was too perplexed to think it through and nodded.
"How many blood feuds have you started?"
Kuno started to sweat.
"Really if you are that dumb as to start blood feuds without thinking the only reason you are still around is others must have taken pity on you for your own ignorance. How many other things could you have done that have tarnished your family honor? I mean if you really liked a girl a black rose would be less insulting but still a sign of arrogance." She knew he hit a cord as he was obviously thinking of his sister.
"My apologies I must attend to things please forgive this transgression. I had not known." With that he bowed and left.
Ranma found out later he transferred out of Furinkan High.
She stood there as Kuno tossed his rose but before he could go into his speech about his affections for her she attacked, granted it was hard to look like she was going all out without doing so, but she was up to the task.
"Why are you attacking me? I only wanted to date thee."
Pausing the attack she asked, "You know what a red rose means right?"
Upon his nod she resumed her attack. "Wait I do not understand?"
She looked at him incredulously. "You did just toss me a red rose right?"
Again he nodded and she resumed attacking. "Why do you keep attacking?"
Ranma tried to look as confused as possible. "Red roses are a declaration of a blood feud between samurai families... Didn't you know?"
He shook his head; of course he didn't she was lying.
"You don't give out roses to girls do you?"
Kuno was too perplexed to think it through and nodded.
"How many blood feuds have you started?"
Kuno started to sweat.
"Really if you are that dumb as to start blood feuds without thinking the only reason you are still around is others must have taken pity on you for your own ignorance. How many other things could you have done that have tarnished your family honor? I mean if you really liked a girl a black rose would be less insulting but still a sign of arrogance." She knew he hit a cord as he was obviously thinking of his sister.
"My apologies I must attend to things please forgive this transgression. I had not known." With that he bowed and left.
Ranma found out later he transferred out of Furinkan High.
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Ranma was looking at the ceiling in the room at the Tendo's he shared with his father. It seemed he was the only one awake, in both meanings. He sighed and pulled out a book.
"Let's see, nothing off so far." He stated as he was writing, "Will need to complete the loop to ensure that destroying the moon in one loop doesn't affect the next. Due to normal looping rules this should have effects however since the loop was not ended early there was the possibility of it having no effects."
"After initial testing has confirmed no obvious alteration on the loop I will need to repeat several times. Then I can try aiming the debris toward the world's capitals while ensuring the loop can continue to observe any effects."
He put the book into his pocket in his sub-space pocket then pulled out another book.
"Sociopathic tendencies seem to have increased during the loops. I will need to monitor further, however currently I am going through the dubbed phase two of Temporal Recursion Psychosis. In which I have clearly begun doing things that I would have found completely unlike myself."
"Amended note, stop watching American TV and try not to get a white furry cat and make weapons of mass destruction to see if I can cause a charismatic hero to appear and stop me from one of my tests."
He pondered a moment then scratched out some of the last line to make it read: "˜Try to get a white furry cat and make weapons of mass destruction to see if I can cause a charismatic hero to appear and stop me from one of my tests.'
Reading over the last line he nodded as he added more, "In the future if the above test proves successful try and find a way to work it to my advantage and cause a, "he paused thinking then remembered a good term, "thirty sue pileup and see if it's possible to turn them against each other."
He shrugged, it would be his next series of tests he surmised but figured it would be interesting.
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Dozens of loops later he started one without the usual hit to the head. Looking around his eye twitched then he pulled out his book on various test results, "Sue civil war was a colossally bad idea, never do it again."
"Let's see, nothing off so far." He stated as he was writing, "Will need to complete the loop to ensure that destroying the moon in one loop doesn't affect the next. Due to normal looping rules this should have effects however since the loop was not ended early there was the possibility of it having no effects."
"After initial testing has confirmed no obvious alteration on the loop I will need to repeat several times. Then I can try aiming the debris toward the world's capitals while ensuring the loop can continue to observe any effects."
He put the book into his pocket in his sub-space pocket then pulled out another book.
"Sociopathic tendencies seem to have increased during the loops. I will need to monitor further, however currently I am going through the dubbed phase two of Temporal Recursion Psychosis. In which I have clearly begun doing things that I would have found completely unlike myself."
"Amended note, stop watching American TV and try not to get a white furry cat and make weapons of mass destruction to see if I can cause a charismatic hero to appear and stop me from one of my tests."
He pondered a moment then scratched out some of the last line to make it read: "˜Try to get a white furry cat and make weapons of mass destruction to see if I can cause a charismatic hero to appear and stop me from one of my tests.'
Reading over the last line he nodded as he added more, "In the future if the above test proves successful try and find a way to work it to my advantage and cause a, "he paused thinking then remembered a good term, "thirty sue pileup and see if it's possible to turn them against each other."
He shrugged, it would be his next series of tests he surmised but figured it would be interesting.
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Dozens of loops later he started one without the usual hit to the head. Looking around his eye twitched then he pulled out his book on various test results, "Sue civil war was a colossally bad idea, never do it again."
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Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
Well I tried not to make it a crossover fic. I wanted Ranma to be undergoing Sakura Syndrome or at least the mad science portion of it. I called it "Temporal Recursion Psychosis" for the simple reasons that I heard someone else called it similar and it sounds like it fits.
The last line implies that he caused a FUBAR loop due to his causing a large number of "Mary Sue" type people to come into conflict causing a massive disaster.
It was done with Ranma mostly talking to himself as it needed someone talking otherwise it became more tell then show. Besides who doesn't want to see Ranma pulling a James Bond type villain?
quick side note when searching Ranma on google images you get Ranma images, when searching Ernst Stavro Blofeld the james Bond Villain in question you get his pictures, when searching Ranma Ernst Stavro Blofeld you get MLP images oddly???
Well I tried not to make it a crossover fic. I wanted Ranma to be undergoing Sakura Syndrome or at least the mad science portion of it. I called it "Temporal Recursion Psychosis" for the simple reasons that I heard someone else called it similar and it sounds like it fits.
The last line implies that he caused a FUBAR loop due to his causing a large number of "Mary Sue" type people to come into conflict causing a massive disaster.
It was done with Ranma mostly talking to himself as it needed someone talking otherwise it became more tell then show. Besides who doesn't want to see Ranma pulling a James Bond type villain?
quick side note when searching Ranma on google images you get Ranma images, when searching Ernst Stavro Blofeld the james Bond Villain in question you get his pictures, when searching Ranma Ernst Stavro Blofeld you get MLP images oddly???
while I would also like to see some of the older stories continued we have an odd problem with that, or rather problems. The closest thing is 'The Bet.' It had far less of an issue since the concept was an intro followed by a self containing story. each story was seperate and did not interact with each other.
For this we have each author telling a part of a greater story, some loops reference other loops and there is no time line. worse yet is the fact that with all the authors involved it would be hard to claim full credit (innortal would get most of the inital credit anyway I think) This leads to a where to put it problem, this forum is nice, but with all the comments that follow it could be hard to track a story as the posts containing chapters would be hard to find. FF.net can be fickle where ownership of stories comes in, it sometimes only takes one complaint and they might take them all down. Ignoring all these problems we have the issues that few people are even writing anymore. I have resurected mutiple loop threads with new content but there are not many other writers.
All things concidered we only really need two things, a good place to act as a proper place to post to (that isn't ff.net) which we can control so chapters do not get lost. And more writers. I would like to see some of these loops continued too (but I am only usually good for one shots most of the time)
For this we have each author telling a part of a greater story, some loops reference other loops and there is no time line. worse yet is the fact that with all the authors involved it would be hard to claim full credit (innortal would get most of the inital credit anyway I think) This leads to a where to put it problem, this forum is nice, but with all the comments that follow it could be hard to track a story as the posts containing chapters would be hard to find. FF.net can be fickle where ownership of stories comes in, it sometimes only takes one complaint and they might take them all down. Ignoring all these problems we have the issues that few people are even writing anymore. I have resurected mutiple loop threads with new content but there are not many other writers.
All things concidered we only really need two things, a good place to act as a proper place to post to (that isn't ff.net) which we can control so chapters do not get lost. And more writers. I would like to see some of these loops continued too (but I am only usually good for one shots most of the time)
I wrote this for a pony loop thread some time ago, a "Ranma's first loop in MLP:FiM" snippet. I just recently learned of this thread (I only read the fanfiction.net's version) and of a previous snippet dealing with the scenario. I decided to post it anyway since it deals with Ranma.
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Ranma Saotome was going on a walk, getting used to this new body and loop.
He was on a new loop, of that he was certain, after distracting the Lovely Angels into a mission to a G-Stone powered Death Star, whose predictable result was the destruction of the whole galaxy. Honestly, given how bad the loop ended he was surprised he wasn't on Eiken. 'Then again, better lose a G-Stone and a Death Star than deal personally with Kei and Yuri when Awake…', Ranma shuddered at the thought of what could have happened again.
Then there was his body: a dark blue-colored small horse. While it wasn't the strangest body Ranma has inhabited, having replaced the bodiless Voldemort a few times, the lack of fingers felt just plain weird. Though… he didn't seem to stand out, in this population of small horses as colorful as the rainbow. It actually made him remember Nanoha's tale of a certain unicorn, a new anchor, she met some time ago. Probably he was in the unicorn's loop.
Apparently his name here was Rapid Hooves and the town he was in was named Ponyville, a nice enough place at first glance, 'though with my luck I can only hope it stays like that'. Still, better be careful: learn the ropes now to play pranks later.
"Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" an acute shriek filled the air. When Ranma looked at the direction he saw a cloud of smoke going into his way, whose cause was apparently a bright pink colored horse with a cotton candy-like mane, probably a she.
The mare rounded Ranma a few times looking at him carefully while his sense of panic started to fire like crazy and he finally realized three things: first, he was definitely a stallion here; second, he didn't remember seeing any males; and third, he was naked. 'Why I always have to get the crazy ones?’ To his surprise though, the crazy pink mare just stopped, looked at him in the eye and began running in another random direction.
That was strange.
***
"Twilight! Twilight!" The pink earth pony jumped by Twilight Sparkle's side.
"What's up Pinkie Pie?" The unicorn kept reading her book.
"I met a new pony today!" That made Twilight stop reading. She knew Pinkie Pie knew everypony who lived in Ponyville from her custom to launch "Welcome to Ponyville" parties, and then even extended to Equestria since the loop the Pincesses asked Pinkie Pie to make a census of Equestria's pony population. To have Pinkie Pie meet somepony she had never met before it was very strange. 'Unless...'
"How does this new pony look?" On this question Pinkie Pie started to jump again, even more quickly.
"Oh! Oh! Oh! I know that one! Let me see... he was an earth pony who had two eyes, two forelegs, two hindlegs and a mane. Also he was dark blue in color and had his mane in a black braid." That solved a few things, she didn't remember an earth pony with a braid other than Applejack. "Oh! and I also found him by following the most strange doozy: left ear three round right, right ear two rounds left and four pulls from my tail."
Twilight frowned a little. "That's a new Pinkie Sense, what does that mean?" One of there loops she had to understand how that worked.
"I'm not sure, but I've only felt it once before, when we met Hiccup and you weren't around." Pinkie tried to show how big Hiccup's dragon had been.
'That loop? Then that means...' "Ok Pinkie, you win. Looks like you'll host your first 'Welcome to Equestria's Loop' party. I want to inform the Princesses though, they are awake this time."
"Okie dokie lokie! I'll prepare my Party Cannon Mk. Pi for this new friend!" Pinkie said, putting her right hoof in a salute.
Twilight Sparkle put a leaf inside the book to continue reading it later "All right Pinkie. By the way, what's his-" but by the time Twilight looked again at her friend Pinkie had already left "- name?". Ok, never mind. Better find Spike, she had a letter to send.
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Dear Princess Celestia,
I send this letter to tell you information of great importance. Not five minutes ago I received a visit from Pinkie Pie to tell me she found a pony she has never meet before, who she believes is actually a looper. As such Pinkie decided to throw him a 'Welcome to Equestria' party.
Since Pinkie Pie is already making preparations for the party I believe it will start within the hour. Should you and Princess Luna wish to attend it I think you should teleport directly into Ponyville Library.
I'm sorry to send this letter so little time beforehoof but Pinkie Pie was very enthusiastic to throw the party quickly. Nevertheless, I have great hopes in Pinkie Pie and everypony to make this party a success, both as a student of the Magic of Friendship and as Equestria's Anchor.
Your faithful student,
Twilight Sparkle
"...and send it, Spike."
The child dragon looked at the scroll suspiciously "Looper? Anchor? You aren't making any sense, Twilight."
The purple unicorn just threw him an apologetic look "Sorry, I'll explain later. Please just go along for now, OK?"
"Fine," and with a burst of flame Spike sent the now rolled letter to the Princess. "Letter on its way. Now what?"
"Now we find the girls. Let's meet at the Library in half an hour." Twilight said.
Hearing that, Spike started to run. "I'll go to Carrousel Boutique first! See you later, Twilight."
Twilight Sparkle just smiled.
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"Hey!"
Ranma looked around for the voice who was calling him, but saw nobody.
"Hey, you, new pony!"
Well, if there's nobody around there must be... 'Up there!'
"At last! You'd swear nopony ever looks up." That was a light blue horse, apparently standing in the cloud looking down on him.
"I don't remember seeing you around here, and Pinkie Pie said she had met somepony new today." And apparently he was wrong, as when flying down the cloud he realized the horse was actually a pegasus, a pegasus whose mane was literally as colorful as the rainbow.
The pegasus grinned "I'm Rainbow Dash, the coolest and fastest pegasus of all Equestria and local weather manager. Your name?"
"Ran-pid Hooves. I just arrived here."
Rainbow Dash looked at Ranma as if measuring him. "Rapid Hooves, huh? So, how fast do you are?"
"Never really pushed myself, but I think I can do pretty good." Technically true. After all he had just found himself in this body.
"But not as fast as me." For Ranma the feeling of a yet-untold challenge from a stranger met just by walking around was... nostalgic.
Not being one to stand down, Ranma upped the ante. "You'd think, but you're the fastest pegasus only because I don't have wings."
"All right Rapid Hooves, it's on! See the tree by the end of the street? That's Twilight's house, the first pony to enter the house wins."
Why not? After all a bit of a run may help to understand this new body. "Just say the word, Rainbow Dash. And prepare to lose."
"At the count of three. One, two, three!" And then they started.
In the end Ranma wasn't sure who won the race as he got entangled with Rainbow Dash to enter through the designed-for-one-horse door. He knew neither he nor Rainbow was going as fast as they could, though, and he suspected the pegasus also knew it. Overall, the body may need a little time to get used to but he had the whole loop for that. Still, he’d miss having fingers.
Now that he thought about it, it was strange… the door was opened yet it was dark inside--
"SURPRISE!"
Ranma looked around the now lit room to what looked like a surprise party: balloons, confetti, foods, drinks and some cake on tables... for the pegasus perhaps? It wasn’t like he knew anybody yet in this world. Until he looked at a giant banner over the horses and unicorns.
Welcome to Equestria's Loop
"What?"
"It's him, right? The looper you found, Pinkie Pie." Rainbow Dash called to the crazy pink mare from a while before.
"Yes Rainbow!" Pinkie looked even more like she was in a sugar rush. She took Ranma's equivalent to right hand into of her forelegs and shook them energetically. "Hi, I'm Pinkie Pie. What's your name? How long have you been on Equestria? What is your world called? Do you like cake? Everypony I know loves cake, and that's one of the reasons I love to work in Sugarcube Corner here and why I want to..."
"Pinkie! Let him stand up." A purple unicorn interrupted Pinkie Pie. Thankfully.
"Oops, sorry." Said the pink horse... pony? Before letting go of Ranma.
After standing up, the looping male pony asked the group "So let me this straight. All of you are Awake right now."
"Except Spike here, yes." The purple unicorn pointed to the little lizard by her side.
"And she found me and realized I was also a looper." Ranma asked pointing to Pinkie Pie.
"Yes." The unicorn answered again. You'd expect one of the bigger unicorns in the back might be better choices to play spokesperson.
"And then you decided to throw a welcome party for me?"
"Actually the party was Pinkie Pie's idea." The unicorn said while pointed to the pink mare.
"I wasn't going to let the chance to throw a 'Welcome to Ponyville' party go, but in your case you were new to Equestria so the other banner wouldn't work here; to think I'd have the chance to make a welcome party for somepony from another world... I think I'd have used few more star-pattered balloons because stars and worlds are so close but I couldn't find them, and then I decided on starfish but I realized 'aren't we too far from the sea to get starfish?' so I threw away the idea and decided to go with the multicolor balloons..."
"Wait, just one question: how did you realize I was a looper too?" Ranma asked, stopping Pinkie Pie's rambling once again.
"But that’s obvious, because I know everypony who lives in Equestria." Wait, just like that?
"Everyone everyone?"
"Nope, everpony." The others don't seem to be surprised by the answer… so it was probably true.
"Well, I think I'll take your word from it. Better start with introductions: my name here is Rapid Hooves, but you can imagine that isn't my real name because I'm looping too. My real name is Ranma Saotome."
"What?! The first anchor?!" The purple unicorn was about to start talking excitedly when a single word stopped her.
"Twilight..." From one of the bigger unicorns in the back, the white one... they also have wings too, so pegacorn.
The purple unicorn flinched before throwing her a short apologetic look and returning to business. "Oh yes, sorry Princess. My name is Twilight Sparkle. I'm Equestria's Anchor and my friends here are the other loopers from this world..."
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In the end, Twilight Sparkle was the unicorn anchor who had met Nanoha. She introduced herself as the local librarian and calling herself a student of "Magic of Friendship." 'No wonder Nanoha seemed to like her'. The party itself had gone without incident other than some spontaneous firing of cannons from Pinkie Pie. Oddly, it happened to use a table with tablecloth, a punch bowl, glasses and snacks as ammunition... a trick to check later.
Now there was time to meet the Princesses, something Ranma was a bit wary of. Apparently they had to make the party private so nobody realized they were here.
"So, do you have any plans for this loop?" Celestia asked.
"Not really, Your Highness" Better be polite with royalty, they always know how to screw with you.
"Princess, please." The Sun Princess corrected.
"Oh, right. Well, Princess, I just started this loop and I was actually thinking of going and learning how things worked in this world."
"I can see that, there are many things that are better to learn first hoof. But please, if you have anything you'd like, big or small, don't be afraid to ask Twilight Sparkle. We are in constant communication." As on cue Spike appeared and burned a rolled scroll, which vanished and appeared right in front of her.
"Well, Princess..." why did his weakness have to be women? "…in my own experience, most rulers who are as generous as you claim to be always have something you do for them." Even a non-looping Seto Kamiki Jurai can be a pain after she got her sights on you.
"Oh, but there is one little thing you can do for me..." Celestia told Ranma, closing her eyes with a predatory grin, and Ranma felt the blood draining from his face. Looked like he was too quick to evaluate this loop.
"W-hat is it P-princess?"
Princess Celestia opened her eyes as if she was a child entering a sweet shop. "Stories of your previous loops, of course!"
Huh?!
Celestia's composed yet cheerful tone continued "According to Twilight Sparkle, Equestria's loop is relatively new in relation to other worlds, and I'm even not Awake as often as I want! Twilight has told me about other places but I've been out of Equestria only a few times. But sadly we have an important mission here in Equestria, as I raise the Sun every day and my sister raises the Moon every night.
"I understand that by your looper standards I'm just a filly so I want to learn more of this situation. This is the most interesting development we've had in centuries, and I want to help them," Celestia pointed to the other ponies in the room, "as much as I can."
Internally Ranma sighed in relief. 'For one moment I thought the mares were going to-'
"But there's also another reason." Celestia told him when the dark blue pegacorn... alicorn walked to her side, Princess Luna, both hardening their expressions and shifting their positions into a more regal one.
"Even before the loops started my sister Luna and I have ruled Equestria for over a millenia, and we are proud to believe in its founding principles: Harmony and the Magic of Friendship. We believe in friendship and redemption, in always working together so the next day, even if that day is in the past, is better than today, and in always have a place to call home and return."
Princess Luna continued where her sister left off "And 'tis with conviction and knowledge, true and certain in equal measure, that a soul may become heavy in the course of long life; that we, the Diarchs of Equestria, offer you, Ranma Saotome, together with any other Looper willing to accept, be they pony in form or no, our fair land as a place of sanctuary and respite from the wearying travel 'twixt worlds and loops."
Ranma was dimly aware that the other ponies kneeled on their forelegs to the Princesses while he weighted what he was really being offered.
After coming to a decision, Ranma sighed heavily and stood tall in front of the Princesses, nodding one. "Sure, let's give it a shot." Who knows, it may even work for some time before the inevitable looper madness settles in. They all seem to be a nice enough group.
He was going to miss having fingers though.
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No, the ponies won't be able to keep the looper madness away forever (they are going to try though). It helps the Princesses understand immortality (or at least extreme long-livedness) and are wise enough to extrapolate they are way out of their depht.
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Ranma Saotome was going on a walk, getting used to this new body and loop.
He was on a new loop, of that he was certain, after distracting the Lovely Angels into a mission to a G-Stone powered Death Star, whose predictable result was the destruction of the whole galaxy. Honestly, given how bad the loop ended he was surprised he wasn't on Eiken. 'Then again, better lose a G-Stone and a Death Star than deal personally with Kei and Yuri when Awake…', Ranma shuddered at the thought of what could have happened again.
Then there was his body: a dark blue-colored small horse. While it wasn't the strangest body Ranma has inhabited, having replaced the bodiless Voldemort a few times, the lack of fingers felt just plain weird. Though… he didn't seem to stand out, in this population of small horses as colorful as the rainbow. It actually made him remember Nanoha's tale of a certain unicorn, a new anchor, she met some time ago. Probably he was in the unicorn's loop.
Apparently his name here was Rapid Hooves and the town he was in was named Ponyville, a nice enough place at first glance, 'though with my luck I can only hope it stays like that'. Still, better be careful: learn the ropes now to play pranks later.
"Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" an acute shriek filled the air. When Ranma looked at the direction he saw a cloud of smoke going into his way, whose cause was apparently a bright pink colored horse with a cotton candy-like mane, probably a she.
The mare rounded Ranma a few times looking at him carefully while his sense of panic started to fire like crazy and he finally realized three things: first, he was definitely a stallion here; second, he didn't remember seeing any males; and third, he was naked. 'Why I always have to get the crazy ones?’ To his surprise though, the crazy pink mare just stopped, looked at him in the eye and began running in another random direction.
That was strange.
***
"Twilight! Twilight!" The pink earth pony jumped by Twilight Sparkle's side.
"What's up Pinkie Pie?" The unicorn kept reading her book.
"I met a new pony today!" That made Twilight stop reading. She knew Pinkie Pie knew everypony who lived in Ponyville from her custom to launch "Welcome to Ponyville" parties, and then even extended to Equestria since the loop the Pincesses asked Pinkie Pie to make a census of Equestria's pony population. To have Pinkie Pie meet somepony she had never met before it was very strange. 'Unless...'
"How does this new pony look?" On this question Pinkie Pie started to jump again, even more quickly.
"Oh! Oh! Oh! I know that one! Let me see... he was an earth pony who had two eyes, two forelegs, two hindlegs and a mane. Also he was dark blue in color and had his mane in a black braid." That solved a few things, she didn't remember an earth pony with a braid other than Applejack. "Oh! and I also found him by following the most strange doozy: left ear three round right, right ear two rounds left and four pulls from my tail."
Twilight frowned a little. "That's a new Pinkie Sense, what does that mean?" One of there loops she had to understand how that worked.
"I'm not sure, but I've only felt it once before, when we met Hiccup and you weren't around." Pinkie tried to show how big Hiccup's dragon had been.
'That loop? Then that means...' "Ok Pinkie, you win. Looks like you'll host your first 'Welcome to Equestria's Loop' party. I want to inform the Princesses though, they are awake this time."
"Okie dokie lokie! I'll prepare my Party Cannon Mk. Pi for this new friend!" Pinkie said, putting her right hoof in a salute.
Twilight Sparkle put a leaf inside the book to continue reading it later "All right Pinkie. By the way, what's his-" but by the time Twilight looked again at her friend Pinkie had already left "- name?". Ok, never mind. Better find Spike, she had a letter to send.
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Dear Princess Celestia,
I send this letter to tell you information of great importance. Not five minutes ago I received a visit from Pinkie Pie to tell me she found a pony she has never meet before, who she believes is actually a looper. As such Pinkie decided to throw him a 'Welcome to Equestria' party.
Since Pinkie Pie is already making preparations for the party I believe it will start within the hour. Should you and Princess Luna wish to attend it I think you should teleport directly into Ponyville Library.
I'm sorry to send this letter so little time beforehoof but Pinkie Pie was very enthusiastic to throw the party quickly. Nevertheless, I have great hopes in Pinkie Pie and everypony to make this party a success, both as a student of the Magic of Friendship and as Equestria's Anchor.
Your faithful student,
Twilight Sparkle
"...and send it, Spike."
The child dragon looked at the scroll suspiciously "Looper? Anchor? You aren't making any sense, Twilight."
The purple unicorn just threw him an apologetic look "Sorry, I'll explain later. Please just go along for now, OK?"
"Fine," and with a burst of flame Spike sent the now rolled letter to the Princess. "Letter on its way. Now what?"
"Now we find the girls. Let's meet at the Library in half an hour." Twilight said.
Hearing that, Spike started to run. "I'll go to Carrousel Boutique first! See you later, Twilight."
Twilight Sparkle just smiled.
***
"Hey!"
Ranma looked around for the voice who was calling him, but saw nobody.
"Hey, you, new pony!"
Well, if there's nobody around there must be... 'Up there!'
"At last! You'd swear nopony ever looks up." That was a light blue horse, apparently standing in the cloud looking down on him.
"I don't remember seeing you around here, and Pinkie Pie said she had met somepony new today." And apparently he was wrong, as when flying down the cloud he realized the horse was actually a pegasus, a pegasus whose mane was literally as colorful as the rainbow.
The pegasus grinned "I'm Rainbow Dash, the coolest and fastest pegasus of all Equestria and local weather manager. Your name?"
"Ran-pid Hooves. I just arrived here."
Rainbow Dash looked at Ranma as if measuring him. "Rapid Hooves, huh? So, how fast do you are?"
"Never really pushed myself, but I think I can do pretty good." Technically true. After all he had just found himself in this body.
"But not as fast as me." For Ranma the feeling of a yet-untold challenge from a stranger met just by walking around was... nostalgic.
Not being one to stand down, Ranma upped the ante. "You'd think, but you're the fastest pegasus only because I don't have wings."
"All right Rapid Hooves, it's on! See the tree by the end of the street? That's Twilight's house, the first pony to enter the house wins."
Why not? After all a bit of a run may help to understand this new body. "Just say the word, Rainbow Dash. And prepare to lose."
"At the count of three. One, two, three!" And then they started.
In the end Ranma wasn't sure who won the race as he got entangled with Rainbow Dash to enter through the designed-for-one-horse door. He knew neither he nor Rainbow was going as fast as they could, though, and he suspected the pegasus also knew it. Overall, the body may need a little time to get used to but he had the whole loop for that. Still, he’d miss having fingers.
Now that he thought about it, it was strange… the door was opened yet it was dark inside--
"SURPRISE!"
Ranma looked around the now lit room to what looked like a surprise party: balloons, confetti, foods, drinks and some cake on tables... for the pegasus perhaps? It wasn’t like he knew anybody yet in this world. Until he looked at a giant banner over the horses and unicorns.
Welcome to Equestria's Loop
"What?"
"It's him, right? The looper you found, Pinkie Pie." Rainbow Dash called to the crazy pink mare from a while before.
"Yes Rainbow!" Pinkie looked even more like she was in a sugar rush. She took Ranma's equivalent to right hand into of her forelegs and shook them energetically. "Hi, I'm Pinkie Pie. What's your name? How long have you been on Equestria? What is your world called? Do you like cake? Everypony I know loves cake, and that's one of the reasons I love to work in Sugarcube Corner here and why I want to..."
"Pinkie! Let him stand up." A purple unicorn interrupted Pinkie Pie. Thankfully.
"Oops, sorry." Said the pink horse... pony? Before letting go of Ranma.
After standing up, the looping male pony asked the group "So let me this straight. All of you are Awake right now."
"Except Spike here, yes." The purple unicorn pointed to the little lizard by her side.
"And she found me and realized I was also a looper." Ranma asked pointing to Pinkie Pie.
"Yes." The unicorn answered again. You'd expect one of the bigger unicorns in the back might be better choices to play spokesperson.
"And then you decided to throw a welcome party for me?"
"Actually the party was Pinkie Pie's idea." The unicorn said while pointed to the pink mare.
"I wasn't going to let the chance to throw a 'Welcome to Ponyville' party go, but in your case you were new to Equestria so the other banner wouldn't work here; to think I'd have the chance to make a welcome party for somepony from another world... I think I'd have used few more star-pattered balloons because stars and worlds are so close but I couldn't find them, and then I decided on starfish but I realized 'aren't we too far from the sea to get starfish?' so I threw away the idea and decided to go with the multicolor balloons..."
"Wait, just one question: how did you realize I was a looper too?" Ranma asked, stopping Pinkie Pie's rambling once again.
"But that’s obvious, because I know everypony who lives in Equestria." Wait, just like that?
"Everyone everyone?"
"Nope, everpony." The others don't seem to be surprised by the answer… so it was probably true.
"Well, I think I'll take your word from it. Better start with introductions: my name here is Rapid Hooves, but you can imagine that isn't my real name because I'm looping too. My real name is Ranma Saotome."
"What?! The first anchor?!" The purple unicorn was about to start talking excitedly when a single word stopped her.
"Twilight..." From one of the bigger unicorns in the back, the white one... they also have wings too, so pegacorn.
The purple unicorn flinched before throwing her a short apologetic look and returning to business. "Oh yes, sorry Princess. My name is Twilight Sparkle. I'm Equestria's Anchor and my friends here are the other loopers from this world..."
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In the end, Twilight Sparkle was the unicorn anchor who had met Nanoha. She introduced herself as the local librarian and calling herself a student of "Magic of Friendship." 'No wonder Nanoha seemed to like her'. The party itself had gone without incident other than some spontaneous firing of cannons from Pinkie Pie. Oddly, it happened to use a table with tablecloth, a punch bowl, glasses and snacks as ammunition... a trick to check later.
Now there was time to meet the Princesses, something Ranma was a bit wary of. Apparently they had to make the party private so nobody realized they were here.
"So, do you have any plans for this loop?" Celestia asked.
"Not really, Your Highness" Better be polite with royalty, they always know how to screw with you.
"Princess, please." The Sun Princess corrected.
"Oh, right. Well, Princess, I just started this loop and I was actually thinking of going and learning how things worked in this world."
"I can see that, there are many things that are better to learn first hoof. But please, if you have anything you'd like, big or small, don't be afraid to ask Twilight Sparkle. We are in constant communication." As on cue Spike appeared and burned a rolled scroll, which vanished and appeared right in front of her.
"Well, Princess..." why did his weakness have to be women? "…in my own experience, most rulers who are as generous as you claim to be always have something you do for them." Even a non-looping Seto Kamiki Jurai can be a pain after she got her sights on you.
"Oh, but there is one little thing you can do for me..." Celestia told Ranma, closing her eyes with a predatory grin, and Ranma felt the blood draining from his face. Looked like he was too quick to evaluate this loop.
"W-hat is it P-princess?"
Princess Celestia opened her eyes as if she was a child entering a sweet shop. "Stories of your previous loops, of course!"
Huh?!
Celestia's composed yet cheerful tone continued "According to Twilight Sparkle, Equestria's loop is relatively new in relation to other worlds, and I'm even not Awake as often as I want! Twilight has told me about other places but I've been out of Equestria only a few times. But sadly we have an important mission here in Equestria, as I raise the Sun every day and my sister raises the Moon every night.
"I understand that by your looper standards I'm just a filly so I want to learn more of this situation. This is the most interesting development we've had in centuries, and I want to help them," Celestia pointed to the other ponies in the room, "as much as I can."
Internally Ranma sighed in relief. 'For one moment I thought the mares were going to-'
"But there's also another reason." Celestia told him when the dark blue pegacorn... alicorn walked to her side, Princess Luna, both hardening their expressions and shifting their positions into a more regal one.
"Even before the loops started my sister Luna and I have ruled Equestria for over a millenia, and we are proud to believe in its founding principles: Harmony and the Magic of Friendship. We believe in friendship and redemption, in always working together so the next day, even if that day is in the past, is better than today, and in always have a place to call home and return."
Princess Luna continued where her sister left off "And 'tis with conviction and knowledge, true and certain in equal measure, that a soul may become heavy in the course of long life; that we, the Diarchs of Equestria, offer you, Ranma Saotome, together with any other Looper willing to accept, be they pony in form or no, our fair land as a place of sanctuary and respite from the wearying travel 'twixt worlds and loops."
Ranma was dimly aware that the other ponies kneeled on their forelegs to the Princesses while he weighted what he was really being offered.
After coming to a decision, Ranma sighed heavily and stood tall in front of the Princesses, nodding one. "Sure, let's give it a shot." Who knows, it may even work for some time before the inevitable looper madness settles in. They all seem to be a nice enough group.
He was going to miss having fingers though.
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No, the ponies won't be able to keep the looper madness away forever (they are going to try though). It helps the Princesses understand immortality (or at least extreme long-livedness) and are wise enough to extrapolate they are way out of their depht.
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I know that now but I didn't know of it or this thread when I originally thought and wrote the snippet. And since I had already written it, why not post it.
A red haired, pigtailed girl look around her surrounding as she waited for her the loop memories to kick in.
"Great... starting the loop as a girl... This can't be good." she muttered as she walked towards the window.
"Where am I this time?" She thought as she looked round, suddenly finding herself looking out to a spectacular view of a city though one of the windows than lined the whole outer circumstance of the room...
Soon she discovered she at Tokyo Tower after overhearing one of the many students currently attending a field trip there.
A glance down quickly tells her she one of the students herself.
Her thoughts are interrupted as she suddenly blinded by a bright piercing light and hear what sounds like the voice of a little girl desperately calling out.
"This world... Please save Cephiro! Oh, Legendary Magic Knights!" The transparent vision of a lovely little girl called out through the glaring light, with overflowing locks of golden hair and sad blue eyes that sparkle like the ocean.
It was a miracle she make out anything at all.
Next thing she knows, she free falling with two other girls... and it is that this precise moment that the loop memories decided to kick in.
"Crap! I knew this was going to be trouble!" she screamed as she fell, right before landing on a giant flying fish.
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I'm surprised there no looping magical knights rayearth, let alone a single cross over till now.(considering ranma female form does look allot like hikaru) I know one thing, I'm pretty sure Hiakru, Fuu, and Umi would like a chance to save Princess Emeraude from her fate.
also, Ranma is replacing Hikaru in the loop. May add more later.
"Great... starting the loop as a girl... This can't be good." she muttered as she walked towards the window.
"Where am I this time?" She thought as she looked round, suddenly finding herself looking out to a spectacular view of a city though one of the windows than lined the whole outer circumstance of the room...
Soon she discovered she at Tokyo Tower after overhearing one of the many students currently attending a field trip there.
A glance down quickly tells her she one of the students herself.
Her thoughts are interrupted as she suddenly blinded by a bright piercing light and hear what sounds like the voice of a little girl desperately calling out.
"This world... Please save Cephiro! Oh, Legendary Magic Knights!" The transparent vision of a lovely little girl called out through the glaring light, with overflowing locks of golden hair and sad blue eyes that sparkle like the ocean.
It was a miracle she make out anything at all.
Next thing she knows, she free falling with two other girls... and it is that this precise moment that the loop memories decided to kick in.
"Crap! I knew this was going to be trouble!" she screamed as she fell, right before landing on a giant flying fish.
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I'm surprised there no looping magical knights rayearth, let alone a single cross over till now.(considering ranma female form does look allot like hikaru) I know one thing, I'm pretty sure Hiakru, Fuu, and Umi would like a chance to save Princess Emeraude from her fate.
also, Ranma is replacing Hikaru in the loop. May add more later.
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Actually.. Cephiro presents a fairly unique problem to a anchor... an Anchor is not allowed to leave the loop except by ending it...
Cephiro would count in my opinion as leaving.
BAD things can and likely would occur if he left.
He also looks like a dead ringer for Kotetsu, sadly I see no loop snippets using that series either(I would Love to see some though) .
Actually... that would depend upon if this is OAV or TV continuity... While I could certainly see him wanting to save the land and people of Cephiro I seriously doubt Ranma would want to save the TV continuity princess all things considered... boy was I utterly devastated when I learned of the complete plot to the series and just how much she contributed to her own issues. Felt more like beating her face in toward the end.
This Ranma, a looping Ranma, is not near a canon Ranma... I could easily see him coming to a different solution.
Cephiro would count in my opinion as leaving.
BAD things can and likely would occur if he left.
He also looks like a dead ringer for Kotetsu, sadly I see no loop snippets using that series either(I would Love to see some though) .
Actually... that would depend upon if this is OAV or TV continuity... While I could certainly see him wanting to save the land and people of Cephiro I seriously doubt Ranma would want to save the TV continuity princess all things considered... boy was I utterly devastated when I learned of the complete plot to the series and just how much she contributed to her own issues. Felt more like beating her face in toward the end.
This Ranma, a looping Ranma, is not near a canon Ranma... I could easily see him coming to a different solution.
Oh. That didn't occur to me. What if the loops starts in Cephiro, instead of Tokyo tower? I wanted to included the second arc of the tv series, but then they would have to stay through the first one though instead of going back to their world.
I thought personally that the human world was tided to Cephiro considering it can be viewed from Tokyo tower without traversing since the windows magically change to that continent when being thought of.
Also, I had plan ranma pulling out the Silver Crystal from his space pocket (from a embarrassing loop when he had replaced sailor moon) and using it to purify the corrupted Princess Emeraude shorty after finding out he was sent there to kill her, before safely deposing with the pillar system, and then have him smash the pillar system from the get go in his next loop in Cephiro.
I thought personally that the human world was tided to Cephiro considering it can be viewed from Tokyo tower without traversing since the windows magically change to that continent when being thought of.
Also, I had plan ranma pulling out the Silver Crystal from his space pocket (from a embarrassing loop when he had replaced sailor moon) and using it to purify the corrupted Princess Emeraude shorty after finding out he was sent there to kill her, before safely deposing with the pillar system, and then have him smash the pillar system from the get go in his next loop in Cephiro.
The deus ex rock is for the first time. The magical knights didn't find out they were sent to kill her after they killed her lover, and she became corrupted/evil after he died and tried to kill the magic knights in vengeance.
This is supposed to be ranma first time in that loop, and since the silver crystal has purifying properties...
After the first time he just goes and explain things to Emeraude upon later revisits, unless he wants to change things up.
This is supposed to be ranma first time in that loop, and since the silver crystal has purifying properties...
After the first time he just goes and explain things to Emeraude upon later revisits, unless he wants to change things up.
Ehhh... how can that possibly be ok... if the anchor ascends, they bust out of the loops, but destroy their universe because they are no longer there... likewise, leaving the universe within a loop should destroy that universe, since the respective anchor/anchors are not there...
So, while I don't track the Nanoha loops (partially due to the series having a rabid fan base with horrible morals). But if it has Nanoha or Fate *leaving* their universe for Cephiro *inside* of a loop, then that breaks the purpose of them being anchors, and would result in their universe being destroyed.
If it has them starting in Cephiro as a loop, then that is ok.
Now... a looper/awakened doing so should be fine, such as Nabiki, as while she is one of the more capable loopers (of the loop threads I've read), she is not an anchor...
So, while I don't track the Nanoha loops (partially due to the series having a rabid fan base with horrible morals). But if it has Nanoha or Fate *leaving* their universe for Cephiro *inside* of a loop, then that breaks the purpose of them being anchors, and would result in their universe being destroyed.
If it has them starting in Cephiro as a loop, then that is ok.
Now... a looper/awakened doing so should be fine, such as Nabiki, as while she is one of the more capable loopers (of the loop threads I've read), she is not an anchor...
It's probably best to think of it as "the same universe, just a different aspect of it."
Besides, I don't think anchors get chewed out for visiting their subspace pockets, and there's no way that's technically the same world; so long as they're CONNECTED to their worlds, I doubt they really need to be IN them.
Besides, I don't think anchors get chewed out for visiting their subspace pockets, and there's no way that's technically the same world; so long as they're CONNECTED to their worlds, I doubt they really need to be IN them.