elkes_obsession (elkes_obsession) wrote in hidden_treasure, @ 2008-04-01 22:47:00 |
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A Faint Hope, by Lara Bartram and Mike Loader
Fandom: Ranma 1/2 crossover with Star Wars: A New Hope
Type: Fanfiction
Title: A Faint Hope
Author: Lara Bartram and Mike Loader
Pairing: Akane Soro/Ranma Saotome, sort of...
Warnings/Rating: suitable for general audiences
Where to find more by this author: Lara's Fanfics
Link: A Faint Hope
Why should people click?
Because big governments and big rebellions never have only one operation going on at once...
(...and because you never in a million years would have imagined a workable Ranma 1/2 crossover with Star Wars, would you?)
Characters from Ranma 1/2 are interspersed into the plotline of A New Hope... Tofu Ono is a Dark Lord of the Sith, R2-HT is a perverted little astromech who steals ladies' underwear, C-KN0 tranlates and spouts horrid poetry, Soun Tendo is a widowed moisture farmer neighbor of the Skywalkers...
The Jundland wastes were hostile, barren, forbidden, and very, very boring. So young people did what young people always do in such places - drive souped-up vehicles at ludicrous speeds through narrow, dangerous areas.
In an area noted for this, Kasumi Tendo was widely regarded as the Nicest Person In The Anchorhead Area, Most Likely To Make Some Lucky Man A Great Wife, and Most Likely To Smear Herself All Over A Canyon If She Keeps Driving That Repulsorlift With Seats The Way She Does.
R2-HT is carrying a secret message from a pig-tailed princess (Ranma Saotome) to Obi-Wan Kenobi, Nodoka's ex-husband, concerning Project J... information vital to the Rebellion.
There's a second layer going on in addition to the expected action of A New Hope with Leia, R2-D2, C3P0, Luke, Han and Vader... with a few small changes to tie the two together more closely.
"Yes. The Force is... well..." Nodoka frowned, and flicked her hand. To Kasumi's vast surprise, a fairly-clean cup on a low table floated over to the kitchen, rinsed itself out in the sink, and proceeded to be filled with wine from a newly airborne bottle. "Obi Wan always spouted a lot of philosophical gibberish about it holding the universe together, but I mostly find that it saves a lot of bother. Your father used to be quite good at it."
Ukyo is an Imperial officer with a grudge...
It had involved a lot of sacrifices... renouncing her femininity, devoting every waking hour towards honing her command skills, learning how to use a men's urinal without embarrassing herself. But it was worth it. She wanted to do her part to crush the Rebellion and bring the galaxy firmly under the New Order. Her part, as she saw it, was the position of Grand Admiral.
She hadn't always been such a anti-Rebel stalwart. But that was before her engagement was broken by that damn royal bastard, who's lot was promptly thrown in with the Alliance. Ukyou had been humiliated, rejected, spurned. Once the New Order was in total control, that sort of thing wouldn't be allowed. She'd show them. She'd show them all.
Akane Soro and Chawbaka (who she calls C-Chan) pilot a little smuggler ship...
There have been sleek, elegant ships. There have been blocky, solid, durable ships. There have been lean, pointed, menacing ships.
And then there are lovable, beat-up, ragtag freighters oozing with character.
The _Impudent Hedgehog_ wasn't any of these. It was a ship that had been built from the remains of two different craft, blown to bits, patched up with the remains of yet a third, and carrying spare parts from at least a dozen other vessels. Most of the spare parts looked like guns of some sort.
They zoom out of Mos Eisley around the same time as Han, Chewie, C-3P0, R2-D2, Luke and Obi-Wan...
The inhabitants of Mos Eisley looked up in mild interest as a spacecraft gracefully rocketed out of a landing pit, leaving the echoes of blasterfire behind.
A minute later, they hit the dirt as a landing bay on the other side of town exploded in a superheated fireball, out of which drunkenly rose the _Impudent Hedgehog_.
Believe it or not, the Ranma characters' plotline actually shores up some holes in the canon A New Hope plotline for me, while still maintaining the crazy mayhem style of Ranma fandom. I love this story.
A Faint Hope