We open on darkness.

                                 AKANE (V.O.)
                    QUIET That's what changes, really,
                    in moments when everything warps.
                    How we look at things.   

Red letters momentarily glow on the screen.

                                RANMA 1/2

                                 AKANE (V.O.)
                    QUIET New ideas, new dreams, and
                    new (and in some cases, very
                    *strange*) people make us see things
                    in ways that we could never have
                    imagined before.  

Red letters momentarily glow on the screen.

                               SAILOR MOON

                                 AKANE (V.O.)
                    That's what happened last week, I
                    think.  After that, any illusions I
                    might have had about living in a
                    normal world were shattered forever.  

Red letters momentarily glow on the screen.

                          KIMAGURE ORANGE ROAD

                                 AKANE (V.O.)
                    And do you know something?  I don't
                    miss them at all, anymore.  BEAT
                    Well, maybe a little.    

Red letters momentarily glow on the screen.

                              TENCHI MUYOU

                                 AKANE (V.O.)
                    This is my attempt to describe, if
                    not explain what changed about my
                    world last week, so that I can
                    understand it better myself.    

Red letters momentarily glow on the screen.

                              OH MY GODDESS

                                 AKANE (V.O.)
                    And it's also the only record that
                    will ever be made of the War, I'm
                    told.  The War that cost so much.
                    BEAT Even now, I can hear those
                    final, horrible, beautiftul words
                    so clearly ...  

The voice which speaks now is so distorted and twisted that it is all but 
unrecognizable ... but the rage that the speaker feels comes through 
clearly.

                                 VOICE (V.O.)
                    What though the field be lost?
                    All is not lost; th'unconquerable will
                    And study of revenge, immortal hate
                    And courage never to submit nor yield
                    And what is else not to be overcome?  

Red letters momentarily glow on the screen.

                           EXOTICA CHRONICLES

                                 AKANE (V.O.)
                    This is the story of the War against
                    the Adversary.  If other readers can
                    learn from what's happened to me, my
                    family, and my friends ... so much
                    the better.  

Red letters are suddenly seared onto the screen.

                      "AND THE WORLD TURNED UPSIDE DOWN"

                             TOGETHER AGAIN
                                1996 Chapter

                      A Fanfiction by C. Richard Davies.