And here we are at Chapter 5. About time for the guests to arrive (or rearrive, if your name is Washu). We have the food, we have a few extra guests, and I foresee more of both. (One will be necesary, the other's just because I'm in charge. ^_^) Of course, we still have Friday morning to get through, and Sakura's gonna hate me for not forgetting about it.

Anyway, for those of you who'd rather not see what my demented mind did in the last four chapters, we'll go over it briefly:

Sakura's having a slumber party, and most fighting game girls and quite a few anime characters are scheduled to appear.
Washu arrived via spaceship, and Mihoshi stuck herself there by crashing said spaceship.
Mihoshi ate all the food for the party while stuck at Sakura's house, and tried to make up for it by cloning some more in Washu's lab on the ship. Instead, she fired up the still-running dimensional gateway, and hence has brought most of the regular characters from Ranma 1/2 into the picture.
Furthermore, since no one who had an idea of how to turn the thing off (or operate it at all, for that matter) has tried to close the gateway, it's allowed for some lab equipment to be stolen and Kasumi (the one from Ranma 1/2, not the one Lilith's invited) to walk into The Vision of Escaflowne.
And, while Kasumi went to Gaia, Merle decided to walk through and see what was behind the gate and what buttons she could push. And she's even left the thing on.

We won't specifically mention any new people in this chapter, though we will have a few hop through the gate for reasons of partycrashing or worse. So, having one section of the opening we're able to skip over, we can get straight to the fanfic...

So, let's get on with it, shall we?