Now, normally I just occasionally come by this board and read your MSTings as you post, (Being too impatient to actually wait for the things to be released in one lump sum...) but after hearing about another RyogaMKN travesty that, as I understand it, will *not* show up on your MSTing roster, I had to go out and read it.
And seeing as how I am pretty much a reader and not a poster, I'm normally hesitant to post anything to the board. But I just can't resist this time! Sorry! So without more ado, here's:
10-Or-So Things I've learned from Ryoga's 'Mark of the Zenretsu'
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10) Military briefings and secret contacts are incredibly vague. But at least you'll know when you're facing an opponent who 'has the ability to defeat many people,' or that your relation to 'some person' will protect you from psychic power.
9) Superhero leagues are full of nameless, faceless, expendable minions.
8) 12 and 13-year-old children are fitting replacements when your eons-old hellbeasts spawned from the pits of nightmare get defeated. (And I'm not talking about demons disguised as kids like in Dogma...) This is both because beating up evil kids still gets you sued, and because human beings are immune to bigass swords.
7) The sentence 'But you still respect the hell out of each other, right?' makes me giggle uncontrollably, thanks to my Inner Snotling.
6) When your opponent has a psychic on his team, whether or not you change your team's uniform is crucial to determining your success.
5) When the villain's right-hand man is defeated, you are automatically privy to the villain's vital information. The villains all know this, so they keep their right-hand men out of fights. When the villain's best soldier is stronger than the villain, the villain will volunteer to fight the heroes to the death before sending in said soldier, due to the Rule of Escalating Power. (You know the villain is evil, because he's brown. Filipinos are also brown, therefore they are also evil. Ryoga says so.)
4) The words 'Jedi' and 'Pokémon' in the same sentence make me scream like a little schoolgirl.
3) When harrassing girls on the internet, always use your partner's screen name to avoid identification.
2) Sometimes your friends hide magical staves that will turn you into a dancing girl inside your hockey stick.
1) When the ancient evil is about to be ressurected, it's always a good idea to stop for lunch. If you turn out to be too late to stop the ressurection, you can always use a big net on it.
0) When you want the crossover meter to explode, but you can't think of any way to fit them into the plot, try pointless cameos! Nobody'll understand what the hell Slimer is doing in Secret of Mana, but the story's so inane that they'll probably forget all about it by the next chapter. (Why, God? Why?!?)
-1, for good measure) Even if hockey *does* turn out to be the secret final ingredient for world peace, Disney's 'The Mighty Ducks' still makes me want to violently murder.
Summary: "WAAAH! My friend's parents won't let him play with me. I'll write a fic in which they turn out to be demonic control freaks and get destroyed! Oh, yeah, and gotta plug the previous stories in the epilogue!"