The Power of Change:

A Ranma ½/Dragonball Z crossover

Disclaimer: Ranma ½ and Dragonball Z both belong to someone OTHER than myself. (Rumiko Takahashi & Akira Toriyama respectively) This is for fun, not profit.

Enter in the midst of a massive battle. A huge ball of flame strikes a man wearing a torn up Chinese style kung fu outfit. He is blasted backwards through the air and impacts in the side of a hill. The hill erupts in a massive explosion, and when the smoke clears, the man in nowhere to be seen.

This is Phoenix Mountain in China. The mighty Phoenix King Saffron found himself in a relatively pitched battle upon ascending to godhood. The ceremony was interrupted when our favorite Japanese aqua-transsexual showed up angry over the kidnapping of his friends/fiancés. A mighty battle ensued showing just how powerful Ranma had become.

"HA! The boy who can not even fly thinks he can match a god. However, the fool boy turned out to be a fast little cockroach. Not many beings exist that can force my hand and cause me to display true power…"

Saffron laughs while flying above the pile of rubble.

Akane… Well, the dried up, nearly dead shell of Akane was what caused this. She needed to be gotten to water fast, or she would die. Ranma attempted a hasty, potentially lethal move: Using the power of Saffron's mighty flame, and the molten wreckage of earth around him, he let off a massive revised Hiryuu Shoten Ha. The power would potentially kill Saffron, but it would propel Ranma towards the waters spilling around into Jusenkyou.

It half worked. Saffron sensed the Soul of Ice in time to move out of the path of the whirlwind caused by the overpowered technique. It propelled Ranma back with Akane, he desperately tried to get her to the water and save her life, and right as he was about to succeed, a massive blast of fire knocked him sprawling.

As he stands back up and takes stock, he cannot see Akane anywhere. Thinking Akane dead, he berserker-like tried to take on the godly lord Saffron head to head. Getting in return, the blasting of his carcass straight into the hill and the following explosion.

Akane sputters and gasps for air. When Saffron's blast hit behind Ranma, she was shielded from the explosion, but the force of the impact shot her away from Ranma, partly into the water. She, unable to swim, nearly drowned, but managed to get back ashore. She gasps some more and coughs up some water, and takes a look around at what was happening.

She chooses the moment before her fiancé impacts to look around, and watches helplessly as he is caught in the epicenter of an explosion that levels the hill.

She silently starts to cry.

"He… He's fine. It's Ranma… He'll be okay…"

Several seconds pass, then a minute, and not a stirring. Suddenly, in desperation, the severity of the situation finally sinking in, Akane scream as loud as she's ever screamed in her life.

"RANMA!! NOOOOOO!!"

Under the rubble a beaten, broken Ranma hears Akane's scream. He can not move a muscle. He can sense his own life force weakening. His body is a mangled wreck. She keeps screaming and all the while the screams echo in his ears until he wishes he could just hurry and die so he wont have to hear it anymore.

He begins to struggle to break free, despite several broken ribs, a punctured lung, dislocated shoulder and a compound fracture in his right leg. He can barely move.

His anger builds. Because of Saffron, his own failures and the failures of everyone in his life, mostly his father, he knows he can't take it anymore. His anger builds at all his problems, and his energy builds. He forces his ki to flow through his body and make it move.

He can feel the strength build, even though he knows he is weakening. The limbs that shouldn't be able to move are, and just starts ripping at the rock to try to get out. Thrusting his hands up he shatters rock and builds speed.

Soon he is going much faster than the Amaguriken attack. He can see the light ahead. Against all odds he can see he will escape. He breaks free from the rubble and limps weakly forward. His heavily broken leg won't allow him to carry his own weight, and he collapsed forward.

Akane gasps as she sees Ranma come up, bleeding and broken. She starts to run to help him.

Saffron continues to watch as the maggot breaks the surface and staggers forward. Something is different about the boy. Something Saffron doesn't like.

As Ranma falls, Saffron shouts out to the annoying boy.

"YOU DAMNABLE PEST! YOU HAVE ANGERED A GOD! I WILL MAKE YOU SUFFER!"

Swooping down he snatches Akane up from the ground. Akane starts to scream for Ranma to help her.

Ranma struggles to get up and face Saffron. As he does, Saffron crushes the neck and throat of the still screaming Akane. A sickening crunch is heard and drops her still and lifeless body to the ground, dozens of feet below.

Ranma watches in horror as Saffron kills the one person that he's loved since he was forced to leave his mother all those years ago. Life as it might have been and never will be again flashes in front of his eyes. For only a second he remembers her smile, the caring she can show when the two aren't fighting, and all the good things that have happened over the year he was with her.

Only one single second second, then with the sound of her neck snapping echoing in his ears, he snaps.

No one saw it.

There he was in the rubble and then suddenly he was catching Akane's falling body in his arms 40 feet above the ground. Rather than fall, he rises at Saffron, keeping Akane's limp form lovingly cradled in his arms. With his aura blazing around him, he ascends. His aura grows, changed from his normal blue to a deep crimson.

He looks up at Saffron and a single tear runs down his cheek.

His aura starts to pulse, changing from crimson to a deep green and back. He suddenly screams out at the sky. His aura blazes larger and larger as Ranmas continued scream echoes.

His aura begins to expand. It blazes out to a 2 meter diameter, then 5, then 10…. The colors flare and fade… 15… 20 meters… every expanse changing colors. His muscles start to expand as the power starts to course through his body, flashes of white and gold creep through his aura. His braided pigtail comes undone and his hair starts floating about as if in water. All those around him can feel the intensity and the hatred in the ki.

The unbridled anger, the gigantic increase in his power and the intensity of his feelings makes the air feel thick, his pain and anger tangible. The power they can sense keeps growing, nearly exponentially and his hair starts to form into spikes. It starts to flash from black to gold, the same color of gold as the flashes in his aura. His eyes flash from empty white to an emerald green in time with the changes in his hair and flashes in aura. Finally as the flow of power starts to ebb, his aura explodes out to nearly 400 meters in diameter. His aura changes completely to gold, as does his hair, and shrinks to normal, but now resembles a fire, roaring around his body.

He disappears.

No one but Saffron is close enough to watch his gentle kiss to Akane's forehead as he sets her down upon the wasted ground of the battlefield below. He ascends again towards Saffron.

Saffron, wordlessly shocked at the entire display, finally starts to laugh. In a whisper heard only by himself, he speaks.

"And I thought her death would break you… How foolish…"

Suddenly he snaps his head back up and glares at Saffron with his bright green eyes and speaks one simple word…

"DIE!"

With that he disappears, suddenly reappearing directly behind Saffron and tapping him on the shoulder.

Saffron slowly turns to face him, to face his awaiting death.

Ranma places his hands, with a growing ball of energy, directly in front of him as Saffron fully faces him. Saffron's eyes widen at the immense amount of power being released into the ball before him, and he tries futilely to get away.

Ranma fires.

The blast expands directly out of his hand and completely engulfs Saffron's body. The blast reaches it's apex and is nearly 40 feet around. It plows into the Phoenix Mountain, and drives down nearly 100 feet before finally exploding. As the explosion continues to grow Ranma stands still, high above the ground in the center. The explosion grows, reaching nearly half a mile in diameter and close to 200 feet high at the center, catching Ranma somewhat in the approximate center of the hemisphere of pure explosive energy.

When the smoke clears, not even an ash is left of Saffron. Phoenix Mountain was instantly vaporized, and the entire area has been turned to a pit of molten slag. And Ranma stands untouched by the explosion or heat. Not even a scorch mark is left on what remains of his clothing.

He disappears, and Akane's body is missing as well.

Where he has gone unknown to anyone but the one watching from a lookout far away..

The watcher turns around and calls out to his associate.

"I certainly hope the boy remains on our side Mr. Popo… I really do."

Mr. Popo turns to his superior

"What now Kami-san?"

"Mr. Popo… Our little Ranma has found his heritage. We have a new Super Saiya-jin on our hands… May the Supreme Kai help us…"

Authors notes:
Well all. Here's the first part of the new revision of Power of Change.
I think it's a little longer, and personally, I think it's quite a bit better.

I'll leave the entire old PoC posted on my website for those of you who want to read it. For the time being, I have (obviously) decided to re-post one chapter at a time while I work on this. I'm going to be removing all of the old PoC on Fanfiction.net, so if you want to read the old stuff cuz you can't get enough of the new first chapter, go to http://fiendangelical.0catch.com/fanfics/fanfics.html