SMSTSS 21: The Return of the Hulkusagi! – By DS Wynne
Disclaimer: SM, R1/2, ST and other properties belong to their respective owners.
Note: This is a two-part, multi-genre story.
Special Note: This story takes place in present day.
Part 1
Tokyo, Japan.
"Usagi!" Ikuko Tsukino said, as she yelled towards the kitchen. "We need more food!"
"Coming, Mom!" Usagi said, as she carried the dishes on a large platter like a professional waitress. After all, she did work as a wait staff years ago…
"Honestly, Mom, we're just having family dinner for Shingo, you know."
"Dear, it's not just 'dinner'; we're having a birthday party."
"Okay, but are all these party favors necessary?" Usagi said, as she points out the kiddy paraphernalia.
"Maybe it's a bit much, but your father and I were dead for a few years. As a result, we missed Shingo growing up," Ikuko said with a sigh. "And today is his eighteenth birthday, so, please, let me have my moment, please?"
"Okay," Usagi said with a gentle smile. "As one mother to another, I understand."
"See what I mean?" Ikuko said tearfully. "I'm already a grandmother, and missed that as well."
"More like great-grand mother and ancestress, but I understand, Mom."
"…"
"Anyway, I had to beg Baldur to come down from Asgard, since he doesn't want to leave his wife Nanna behind-"
"Wait, Shingo is married?" Ikuko said.
"Um, it's kind of complicated," Usagi said. "Everyone from Nerima and Juuban have a Norse guise, either of the Vanir or of the Aesir. You know that girl that Shingo likes?"
"Oh, you mean Mika Kayama?"
"Yes, her. Mika's Norse guise is Baldur's wife Nanna. However, Mika herself is not married to Shingo."
"Wait, I don't understand."
"In other words, Shingo can be with someone else here on Earth."
"WHAT?"
Just then, Shingo steps out into the backyard.
"Mom, I'm going to see Mika," Shingo said.
"You're going to do more than THAT, young man!" Ikuko said sternly. "I will NOT have you dishonor your family with your liaisons."
"Huh?"
"I want you to invite Mika here, so that we can plan a proper wedding for you and her."
Shingo turns to look at his older sister.
"You HAD to tell Mom about Nanna, huh?" Shingo replied.
"I kind of let it slip, little brother."
"Then, let me slip something in return," Shingo said, as he turned towards his mother. "Mom, Usagi is having an affair again."
"Wha-wha-what?" Ikuko said.
"I'm not having an affair!" Usagi yelled. "I've been monogamous for…weeks, now."
"Whatever."
"Usagi, I don't you having relations outside your marriage vows," Ikuko said. "What would the neighbors think?"
"That they might have a chance?" Shingo said with a smirk.
"SHINGO!" Usagi yelled.
"Still, that doesn't excuse the fact that both of you are surely lacking in this regard," Ikuko said. "Shingo, I want you to marry Mika, so invite her and her parents here, so we can make arrangements."
"Okay, Mom."
"And Usagi, you and Ranma will come with your father and I to a joint marriage counseling session, so that you can learn how to be monogamous," Ikuko said.
"Mom, just to remind you, Ranma has wives, while I have a few husbands," Usagi said. "We do have relationships outside of that, not to mention intended fiancée and fiancé respectively."
"I understand that, and I am willing to accept your arrangements, if you and Ranma avoid obtaining new relationships from this point on," Ikuko said.
"Mom, that's no fun."
"Usagi, please."
"Oh, okay…"
"Ha, ha," Shingo laughed, as he points at his older sister.
"Oh, shut up!"
Meanwhile, across town…
"Ranma!" Akane yelled, as she stormed into the art class. Her rage was enough to scatter the female students at this prestigious art school.
"Oh, brother," Ranma said, as he rolled his eyes. He knew posing nude would get him in trouble, which is why he avoided telling Akane of his appreciation for fine art. And by that, he meant allowing the world to appreciate his awesome body.
He did work at it, after all…
"I beg your pardon!" said the art teacher, as she adjusted her glasses. "We are in the middle of class."
Akane turns towards the instructor.
"Who the hell are you?" Akane said angrily.
"I am Madam Marie-Claire Bidet, guest lecturer of this fine art institution," Ms. Bidet said. "And you are…?"
"I'm Mrs. Akane Saotome, Ranma's WIFE."
"Ah, the fiery one," Ms. Bidet said with understanding. She then turned towards Ranma.
"You never mentioned that your Akane was a real person."
"What?" Akane yelled. "Ranma, what is going on?"
"I've known Ms. Bidet since the 1960s," Ranma said. "We actually dated while I was studying to be a cook at the Cordon Bleu Institute in Paris."
"You never told me you knew how to cook professionally."
"That's because you never asked," Ranma said sarcastically. "And besides, you always complain about the fact that I like Western cuisine. I know for a fact that you get a chip on your shoulder whenever I point out the fact that I'm better at the things YOU do."
"I don't have a zillion years worth of life-experiences, you know!"
"This is perfect," Ms. Bidet said, as she got out a blank canvas from underneath her desk, and places it on an easel. "Such raw emotions…I must capture it!"
"Hey, don't do that!" Akane yelled, as she turns towards Ms. Bidet.
"Would you care to pose nude for me?"
"What?"
"Ah, don't bother," Ranma said dismissively. "Akane ain't going to do it."
"And why not?"
"Because you're too ashamed of your body, that's what. You know why I do this?"
"No, enlighten me."
"I do this because I believe in myself, that's why. And, I view my body as an instrument of perfection, both as art and as a weapon to be used at my leisure."
Pause.
"Can you say the same thing?"
Akane squint her eyes.
Five minutes later…
"When we get home, you're going to get IT," Akane said through gritted teeth.
"Yeah, I know," Ranma said, as he held his wife in his arms. With his perfect control over his body, he could relax around his wife, who was now also nude. Both Ranma and Akane were poising in front of the class.
"Wonderful!" Ms. Bidet said. "I can feel the passion!"
"But I'm going to enjoy every moment of this…moment."
Akane growls in reply.
Meanwhile, in United States, at a government facility known as "Gamma Base", Dr. Robert Bruce Banner was looking at the new data he had just discovered, after encrypting the latest files that had once belonged to Madam MODAM, the successor of MODOC, and the Leader. With Madam MODAM reverted back to her human self while the Leader was converted into an unconscious energy being that is floating out somewhere in space. Unfortunately, ever since then, a series of events known as "The Scorched Earth Protocols" have been occurring, consisting of a series of failsafe contingencies created to destroy the world, in case Madam MODAM and the Leader, along with their partners within the so-called "Intelligencia", failed in their bid to dominate the world, especially if they failed to destroy the Moon Princess in the process. After all, if they dictate the future of Humankind, they certainly don't want some "magical girl" named Sailor Moon to do so. Well, Madam MODAM's reasons for wanting to destroy Usagi were more personal, but the end result was the same…
Thus, every day, Banner and his "Hulk Family" had to keep an eye out on yet a new "contingency" released according to some schedule Banner has yet to figure out how to discontinue, let alone comprehend.
"Hmmm," Banner said, as he read the data.
"What's up, cousin?" asked Jennifer Walters (aka the Sensational She-Hulk, cousin of the Hulk and wife of Hulkma). She, Elizabeth "Betty" Ross Talbot Banner (aka the Red She-Hulk, wife of the Hulk), Elaine Walters (aka the Blue She-Hulk, daughter of the She-Hulk and Hulkma), Elizabeth "Liz" Banner (aka the Magical Sailor Hulk, daughter of the Hulk and Hulkusagi) and Lyra Walters (aka the Savage She-Hulk, and daughter of the Femizon warrior Thundra, descendant of Ranko Tendo, and the Hulk), had just got back dealing with one of the contingencies that had popped up overseas.
"It appears that one of the Intelligencia's contingencies is about to make an appearance in Japan," Banner said.
"Really?" Jennifer said with concern. "Is the target…Ranma and Usagi?"
"Apparently," Banner said, as he punched up the calculations unto the main monitors. "Whatever it is, the impact will occur soon."
"Then, get them on the line," Jennifer said, as she turned to leave to pilot the Gamma Jet, the transport she and the other so-called She-Hulks have been using to deal with the Intelligencia and their machinations. "And let Lyra know that I'll be back soon, and let Elaine and Liz know that they are to come with me to Japan."
"Alright," Banner said, as he punched up the video interface. What he didn't tell his cousin was that the threat that Ranma and Usagi would be facing was something that would be used to psychologically terrorized its target, as well as affect their bodies.
"And should they deal with this crisis, I wonder if those two will be willing to return to the Hulk Family in full," Banner mused.
Meanwhile, the contingencies make their appearance onto Japan.
"So, nice little place," said the Maestro, a future, evil version of the Hulk. This version was balding, had white hair, a white beard, and was even more massive than his younger counterpart. When he first arrived into the past, he had been stripped of both his powers and his memories by his intended mate, the Hulkusagi. Afterwards, he had spent some years trying to get his powers back, until the Intelligencia captured him. Oh, they restored his powers, but they had placed him into stasis, to be used as a failsafe weapon, in case the Red Hulk failed in his mission to destroy the Hulk. With the Intelligencia defeated, the Maestro was now free to seek his revenge against the Hulkusagi, but not without a contingency plan of his own…
"So, are you ready to do this…Jennifer?" asked the Maestro, as he turns towards a meaner version of the She-Hulk, but with a pony-tail and a streak of white hair in the front) while having sharp horns growing from each shoulder. She was attractive in a severe sort of way…like a wicked witch or something.
"I prefer the name 'Shulk', 'Bruce'," Shulk said, as she folded her arms.
"Just remember that it was I who resurrected you," the Maestro said.
"Just like SHE who resurrected you and me," said the Abomination, as he points to a familiar figure, who was watching the full Moon, as day became late afternoon…
"And restored the Abominatrix' powers while recreating the Cosmic Hulk."
"No one did me any favors!" the Maestro said.
"On the contrary, I did," said the Misstro, as she turns to face the other gamma beings that made up the so-called "Dark Hulk Family". She looked like a bigger version of the Hulkusagi, but with white hair in the Odango hairstyle. Over her left eye was an eye-patch. She was partially covered with the remains of Iron Man's armor (with the face mask used as a shoulder gauntlet), had her Mjolnir on X-Men belt, and Captain America's shield on her arm.
"I came back to this era to get revenge on both my younger counterpart and Ranma Saotome…my husband," Misstro said.
"I still don't understand," Shulk said.
"If your brain wasn't addled with all that radiation you soaked up over the years, you might be able to," Misstro said.
Shulk merely growled, but said nothing.
"My point, is that 'Hulkusagi' is too soft. I want her humanity to be taken away completely, so she can be Hulkusagi full time, so that she can protect her future. As far as I'm concerned, 'Sailor Moon' is a liability that cannot exist."
"But she is still mine, right?" the Maestro said.
"She's yours to do whatever you want."
"But…isn't she you?" the Abomination asked.
"She WAS me, if you get my drift."
"Oh."
"As to why I want revenge against Ranma: he abandoned me, when he left 'Beyond the Rim' with the alien. Oh, he's going to pay for that."
"Wow," the Abomination said. "I hate to be married to you…"
Tbc.