Chip and Dale's Rescue Rangers

"Sisters" preamble.

Written by Aivars Liepa

Characters herein are © Walt Disney corporation. Distribute freely, but do not modify.


                     Preambula.

      All fanfics have a preambula. And not only fanfics get a
"how it get made" things out, even "Flintstones" movie get one.
So i will follow mode and write one for my fanfic "Sisters".
Note - if you dont like me talking about myself, you may freely
cut it out and start read story himself. You dont loose
anything essential.

      It all started six years back, when into deep and could
winder evening i turned in TV to see, what was these "Disney
serials on russian TV", that get appear into tv-guide for
sunday afternoon. At that moment i had get rarely any disney-
related items or see movies. Sure, i know about the
'Cinderella' and "Snow White and seven gnomes", i had even see
fragments from them and some other disney movie films and
Donald, Mickey and Goofy cartoons.
      Still i wasnt prepared for what i meet...
      Rescue Rangers become my love for first time, and are
still my favorites. There may be some doubts about Gargoules
show, i don't see, but little possibly.
      I see all series, Russian TV shoved - for one each week.
Totally 52, and for a long time i thinked, that that's full
complect. Later i found out about 13 more series, but...
      At that time i made some notes, one of them being "Why
Lawainy and Gadget look so similar". It happened, that near
that time i get read a Wilkie Collins "The Woman in White", and
it get stuck into my mind - how about they both being sisters?
      I dont get much more that notes. It wasn't even script of
story, only idea. Idea, that circled a little in my head, end
on two pages with small thoughts about subject and how both
girls will react at that fact, and ended...

      Year ended, Rescue Rangers and DuckTales get changed to
Gummie Bears and TaleSpin. At half-summer Talespin get again
replaced with DuckTales, possibly after few hard plays about
poor and could Thembria.
      Then come more shiftings. Disney at Sundays shifted tv
channels, start New Winny Pooh and DarkWing duck. Still rangers
was my love.
      I gathered all ranger-related items, i get hands on.
Placats, calendars. Colouring books. When into Russia and later
into Latvia start get printed a children journal "DuckTales",
into what some numbers carry ranger-comics too, i buy them. But
they wasnt for long... Latvian one ended after year... Russian
lived little longer, but too died... It looked, that i will
newer again meet with rangers... Too little response...

      Then one day it all changed. My workplace get connected
to internet. And, because it covered part of high-speed-line
rent cost, it get royalty-free use of internet.
      I had discovered a new world. World, into that letters
from New Zealand to Latvia and back comes into less that 5
mins. World, where was possible all, even rangers!
      Not at begin, but slowly i discovered, that im not alone,
who likes rangers. Most was my wonders, whan i get into
rangermaniacs mailing list, moderated by Stephanie da Silva
, and look over its archives. Tons of info!
Pictures! And ... fan writed stories...
      "Gadget and Goliath" and "Dreams of Rarebit Ranger" by
Don WeatherWax (If you read this, drop me a note, friend, your
email no more is valid. Please!) was something i newer had
thinked about. Rangers dont die with the end of serial, they
still lived!
      I get with head into the conversations, discovered more
and more about fans and their works. I read not only disney-
related items, second my love was japan animation, particularly
stories about the "Dirty Pair" by Ryan Matheys (EMAIL HERE) and
other authors.
      And slowly i start feel need to write something for
himself.

      It wasnt my first experience with writing. At that time i
had writed few fat notebooks with my "Wild West Stories" -
inspired by polish puppet-film "Colargol at the Wild West". I
had writted rewiews of films and animation - i dont possess a
videorecorder, so it was my only chance to save something to
remember them.

      I want to write something similar to Don's great stories.
Yet there wasnt any good ideas.
      I played, rewritting stories, i remembered once seeing.
"For Whom the Bell Klangt", "The great Flight of Snow Duck",
"Balooest, of the BlueBlood", "Pilot school confidential" from
Talespin. Anime stories "Firebird", "Les aventuriers de'l
E'space".
      I had found by that time so great information sources,
that "Internet Gadget archieve", maintained by Paltiel
Goldstein, and "Center of Volative creative types"
by Wendy Welsh Lee (EMAIL HERE).

      And it stuck me prepared, when one day, cleaning out old
papers from boxes, i found my old notes about Gadget and
Lawainy. Old idea reborn with new possibilities, i now had -
knowing that its possible, that many mens are doing it before
me, and that others may found it great.

      I start writing. First in latvian. But soon i understand,
that i need translate story to more popular language to allow
other fans read it.
      And there i need say thanks to many of people, i meet
over the net, who helped me into this task.
      Thank you, Stephanie da Silva (ranger@taronga.com) and
Samantha L. Wilkinson (EMAIL HERE). You encouraged me getting
this task on my shoulders.
      Thank you, Paltiel Goldstein () for
putting my story up into your "Internet Gadget's archive".
      Thank you, Michael Gibby (monsoon@vii.com). Your stories
give me courage continue my work after first problems, i meet.
      Thank you, Roci Stone (roci@kaiwan.com). Your notes
helped me much. Also as your stories, i still need write about
to you.
      And last but no least, my most great thanks to Kim
McFarlend (negaduck9@aol.com), for you get the time to correct
these errors of english language, i had all over the text.
      And of course, thanks to all you, who had writed to me
after publicing of the first part of "Sisters" to encourage me
continue writing and finish it. I will do as you ask.

      Legal stuff.
      Yes, Rescue Rangers, Lawainee, and many other characters,
you may meet in my story, are thinked out by Disney company and
are their copyright, used here without asking. It may end into
sye, but i feel, they will leave poor latvian guy at ease,
because anyway they dont get money from me.
      Hackwrench-Fergusson family tree, Fransis and Alex
McDugal, and many other characters from story are fruit of my
imagination. If you plan to use them, please send me copy of
your work, otherwise you're free to do with them what you like.
      You are permitted made copies of this work and give them
away, place it on your web pages, ftp-servers or in paper
publishing, provided no changes are made to the story and that
you aren't making profit from these actions.