Disclaimer: I do not own any rights to either Ranma 1/2 nor Sonic the Hedgehog. These franchises are owned by... um, a bunch of companies and business entities that I, the author of a thousand failures, cannot be bothered to look up. I know Rumiko Takahashi created Ranma Nibunnoichi, but it's owned by a bunch of publishing companies and stuff, and Sonic is owned by Sega of America among other things, so at least I'm not totally clueless.

Summary: "Oh what a shameless son I have, running off with some -man- like some giggly little -girl-!" "Hey! It ain't like that! Besides, it's Sonic the Hedgehog!"

Author Note: Usually I put these at the bottom, but this one I'd like to put here. I've seen at least a couple Ranma and Sonic crossovers over the years, so I was honestly a little surprised to find that there was only a couple of them in the Ranma and Sonic crossover section. I guess the two franchises don't cross much, but whatever. I guess what I'm saying is that if you spot a Ranma and Sonic crossover that isn't in the section, maybe let the author know so it can be put in the right place.

Alright, with that done, on with the show!

Chapter 1 - Timeskips Ahead

The wild streets of Station Square were often active even during rainstorms, though the traffic was usually much thinned by the unpleasant weather.

"What were ya thinkin', pop?" A small red-furred girl groused as she walked down the street next to a large panda.

"Quit complaining, boy! This is all for the Art!"

"Yeah? And how're ya gonna explain this, huh?" The girl waved her arms to indicate herself, as though pointing out something obvious.

"We'll just tell them the truth. And then you can marry one of Tendo's daughters, unite the schools, and take over his Dojo."

"Oh yeah? And what if they don't wanna marry a freak?"

"They will do as honor requires, just as you will, boy."

The girl snorted, turning her head away and striking a pose, "I ain't exactly a boy right now, am I?"

There was a moment of silence, and then the panda put one hand to his chin, appearing to think, "Well, perhaps Tendo has a son he never told me about..." He was interrupted when a small fist embedded itself into his face.

"DON'T EVEN JOKE ABOUT THAT!"

The panda got himself back to his feet after hitting the ground with a bounce, "Then shut up and stop complaining! Honor binds this agreement and it was made before you were even born! So get over it!"

"Yeah? So what made you decide that now was a good time to tell me, huh? Shouldn't we even get cured first!"

"Just quit complaining! There's plenty of time for that later!"

While the citizens of Station Square were at least largely used to seeing Anthros walking down the street, let alone arguing with one another, they didn't usually carry on such easy conversations while apparently fighting tooth and nail. After all, when a fight broke out, usually the only sounds to be heard was a lot of shouting and cussing.

"FUCK YOU OLD MAN!"

"GET BACK HERE!"

Yes, that sounded about right.

Soun Tendo smiled as he surveyed his daughters; his beautiful, understanding daughters. They were taking news of their engagement very well, as far as he saw, though his youngest seemed a bit grumpy, her arms crossed over her chest and frowning to the side.

For a few quiet moments he simply sat there, contemplating how different life would be once one of his daughters was married; whichever one did so would be the one to inherit the dojo, and the house with it, but he was sure that they wouldn't begrudge her father his home. The other two, whichever it came down to, would probably stay a while, but eventually leave on their own to build their own lives.

He wondered which would be the one to take the engagement, but left that topic to the side for the moment; after all, Ranma would get first pick.

He heard a knock, "Ah! That must be them now!" Suddenly he stood up and quickly turned down the hall to the door, his oldest following shortly behind, no doubt curious about her possible Fiancé.

He heard some rumbling through the door and a smile blossomed on his face, "Genma old friend it's good to-" He opened the door, and his smile dropped, "Oh."

The panda seemed ready to say something, but stopped, "What's wrong?"

"Oh! Sorry, I was expecting someone else." Soun looked the panda over. There was something familiar about him, but he couldn't quite place it... was it the glasses?

"Tendo, it's me." The panda adjusted the bundle on his shoulder, causing the fluffy, limp tail to flutter slightly.

Soun frowned, trying to place the face. "Who?"

"Look, it's a long story, could we get some hot water?"

"Hot water?"

"Yes, it'll explain everything. Trust me."

A voice from behind the Tendo Patriarch responded softly, "I'll get it, father."

"Ah, thank you Kasumi."

"So who's this?" Akane poked her head around her father just as the red bundle over the panda's shoulders started to groan. Watching her wake up gave the Tendo's a few moments of amusement; first she just groaned and resettled herself, apparently finding her location comfortable. Then her hands explored the large furry shoulder that she was slung over like baggage. Then her body stiffened and the long fur on her tail stood on end, making it almost look like a giant puff-ball of red and white fur just before she started yelling and jumping off the panda, "HEY LEMME GO!"

Before the Tendo's could comment, the girl looked around herself, "Hey, where are we now?"

"The Tendo's, boy."

"The wh-" she turned around, looking up at the tall man at the door; it didn't surprise her anymore that she barely came to the man's waist, it was normal for Anthros after all. "Oh no way! I told you, old man! We have to go back to China and get cured! There has to be a cure!" She'd turned on the panda halfway through her tirade and started waving her black-furred fist around.

The panda didn't even acknowledge her threat, instead just rolling his eyes, "Oh just quiet down, boy. Besides, it's for family honor-" no one noticed the tall Human's face paling, "Not to mention for uniting the schools. I told you a dozen times, this agreement was made before you were even born."

Akane frowned in confusion; these... people were acting as though they were expected. She looked up at her father, about to ask him for answers when she noticed his pale face and shaking hand, which was coming up to point at the furry newcomers. "Y-you... it-"

"Here you are, father." Akane made way for her eldest sister, who handed a lightly steaming teakettle to the shaking man, who looked at it with a puzzled, frightened expression on his face.

"Ah, thank you Tendo." The panda took the kettle and promptly poured some over the girl.

"NO! WAIT YOU IDIOT! I HAVEN'T GOT ANY PANTS ON!" Indeed, the moment that the little red-furred girl was replaced by a tall black-haired young Human man, the red silk shirt that was if a bit big at least tasteful, was suddenly no longer big enough; the girls at the door blushed explosively, even though they hadn't seen anything, the girl-turned-boy having put her-then-his hands in the appropriate place to hide what needed hid.

He kicked the elder, balding human that the panda had become, "Idiot, give me my pants."

As the boy grabbed his pants from the other man's pack, using said man's bulk to hide from view while putting them on, Mr. Tendo had gone completely pale, pointing shakily directly at the now human man standing shirtless before him, "G-genm-ma?"

Genma nodded, and Soun promptly fainted. "Tendo? Soun! I told you I'd explain! Ah, girls can we come in now?"

Akane, seeing that her sister had started fanning her father, turned to the man, "Does he have his pants on?"

The boy came around his father's side, "Yeah."

"Good." She then smacked him and retreated back into the house.

Genma nodded sagely while his son rubbed his cheek, "Yes, I'd say you deserved that."

"What? Hey, you're the one who changed me back without any warning!"

"A Martial Artist's life is fraught with peril! You should be prepared for anything!"

"Idiot! You know I don't wear pants like that!"

Their argument was interrupted by the girl fanning her father, "So you're really her? You're really that girl?"

"Er, yes?"

"Oh good. Would you mind helping me get father to the living room? He's very heavy."

"Oh yeah, sure."

"Jusenkyo."

"Well that's a strange name. Where is it?"

"Er, yeah, it means Springs of Depression, or something like that, and it's in China. It's this whole field of these springs with bamboo poles sticking in the air-"

The large man, identified as 'Genma' metaphorically jumped in at that point, interrupting Ranma while taking a storytelling pose, "Yes, the horrors of Jusenkyo have been unknown to the outside world for centuries! And it's 'Pools of Sorrow', boy."

Ranma gave the man a cross, yet somehow still curious look, "Since when do you know Chinese?"

"Foolish boy! I had thought you would pay more attention to the place that changed your life forever!" Ranma only snorted while Genma settled back down, adjusting his glasses and settling back into his 'Wise Sensei' pose. "Now then, about a year ago I decided it was about the right time to polish off the boy's training, so I decided to take him abroad to make him more worldly and to expose him to foreign Martial Arts styles. And while in China, I had decided we would visit the most legendary, if not the best known Training Grounds available."

"Yeah, but ya' never learned Chinese, did ya'?" Ranma sneered at his father from the side, his arms crossed and posture defensive.

"Quiet boy!" Genma kept his eyes on Ranma for a moment, waiting for another interruption. Finding none coming he adjusted his glasses again and continued, "Now then, where was I? Oh yes, we went to several, but it was Jusenkyo that I will remember until my dying day." Ranma grumbled something, something about his stomach, but Genma ignored it, seeing that he still had the Tendo family's full attention, "We had found a Guide to take us to them, and once there we judged it to be of no great value."

He stifled a dramatic sob, "Oh! If only we had known! May we never have jumped atop those bamboo poles!" Ranma rolled his eyes, "But jump we did! And the battle we had! Oh! It was Magnificent Tendo!"

Soun, in response, wailed out, "Tell me about it, Saotome!" No one noticed his girls scooting a few inches further from their father.

"It was magnificent! Leaping magnificently from pole to pole, trading blows and never falling! Why, after such a time that I can't rightly say just how long the battle was, it was interrupted only when the weak Bamboo pole I had chosen to land on proved not to be able to support me-" Ranma coughed and Genma gave him a sour look, which he returned. After a moment of Ranma being visibly defiant Genma acquiesced, "Fine. The boy got in a lucky shot and knocked me down. I, thinking that this was what the springs were there for, to cushion a fighter's fall, angled myself into a nearby Spring."

Ranma butted in, "Yeah, the Spring of Drowned Panda. 'Very tragic story of Panda who drown in spring three thousand year ago. And now anybody who fall in spring take form of Panda!'"

As understanding was starting to dawn in the girls, Genma grunted that Ranma had interrupted at probably the best moment for him to do so. "Yes, exactly. I, however-"

"So what did you fall in?" The youngest girl interrupted with a heated finger at Ranma, "The Spring of Drowned Fox, and then Girl and it mixed somehow?"

"No, it was-"

"As I was saying!" Seeing he had everyone's attention again, Genma settled down back into storytelling mode, "When I came from the Panda spring, I hadn't noticed my changes, so I simply went back into battle, knocking Ranma down while he was distracted with my change."

"Cheap shot." Genma merely gave the boy a hit on the shoulder.

"When the boy came back up he was both a Fox and a Girl. That, of course, is when I noticed that I had changed as well."

Ranma, seeing that the girls still wondered at exactly what the spring was of, simply said "Spring of Drowned Vixen."

"Yes, that's what the Guide called it."

Soun suddenly stood, laughing as though something great had just happened, "So that's all? You turned into a girl, and now it's over? Wonderful!"

"Nah, it ain't that easy." Hearing this, Soun turned on Genma, who nodded solemnly.

"Yes. Hot water reverses the curse, but cold water will trigger it. The guide suggested that there was no cure he knew of, and that even trying it again at Jusenkyo within a year or two would just cause the curses to mix, or some such garbage like that. So here we are."

"I see! Well, your problem isn't so bad!" Soun stood, all smiles, as he gently guided Ranma toward his three daughters, "Kasumi, she's nineteen. Nabiki, she's seventeen. And Akane, she's sixteen. Pick whichever one you want, and she'll be your fiancée."

"Uh, what? But I-"

"Just pick one, boy."

"Hey pop! Butt out!"

"Quit whining, boy! Do your du-"

"Oh he wants Akane!"

"Yes, definitely, Akane would be perfect!"

"What? Why me?"

"You hate boys, right? Well Ranma is part girl!"

"But that's sick! I can't marry a girl!"

"Ah, you're just jealous 'cause I'm better built than you." Ranma snickered for a moment, right up until a table landed on his head, sending him to unconsciousness.

Silence reigned for a few moments, broken up primarily by Soun's sniffling, before Genma spoke in a low grumble, "Now that he had coming."

Don't Mind Me, I'm Just A Friendly Time Skip

As he approached his destination, Ryoga couldn't help but to smile vindictively, crushing yet-another hapless walnut between his thumb and forefinger as he contemplated what he would do to his rival once he caught up with him.

Or, at least he was pretty sure he was approaching his destination. It was hard to tell through all the trees.

While he was munching on the tasty fruit of the nut, Ryoga noticed a young man his own age standing next to a wall that hadn't been there a few moments before. So he decided to politely ask for directions.

Lifting the guy in the air by the front of his shirt, Ryoga gave him his most polite stare, "Where is Furinkan High School... please?"

The boy struggled against the hand that was holding him up for a moment, then gave him an odd look before pointing at the plaque right next to him, at which Ryoga stared for a few moments before putting him down with a mumbled "Thank you."

Ignoring the stares, Ryoga then set to put up his tent... right beside the school gate. He got a lot of stares, a lot of people whispered at him, but after a while someone finally approached him.

"Excuse me, but why are you camping right outside our school?"

When his intense gaze fell on the girl her heart skipped a beat... and then he started stuttering. That was a turn-off, though he did finally manage to regain control of himself to look her straight in the eye and ask, in all seriousness, "Where is Ranma Saotome?"

Instead of answering, the girl looked off to her left, causing Ryoga's gaze to follow hers (miraculously), where he saw the aforementioned bane of his... well, his summer so far anyway. He was wearing a red silk shirt that seemed just a bit long with a white sash attached around the stomach, black kung-fu pants, and black slippers; his long black hair was done up in a pigtail, and he had a curious look on his face as he waved in greeting, "Yo."

"Finally." Ryoga pulled his umbrella off of his back and settled into a fighting stance, "Ranma Saotome, I challenge you!"

"Huh? Sure, but why?"

"To finish our match! Don't pretend you don't know!"

"What? Who?"

"... you don't remember me, do you?"

"Ranma, do you know him?" The girl standing next to Ranma asked, looking both concerned and accusatory at the same time, an expression that Ryoga found very becoming of her.

"Yeah! Just... gimme a minute." Ranma then made a big show of attempting to think while staring into the face of the mysterious yellow-and-black-clad youth. "Aha! I got it! It's Ro... Rocky?"

"Idiot! That's a movie!"

"Hey lemme alone! It's something like that, anyway!"

As the pair started to bicker, Ryoga growled, pulling several bandannas off of his forehead, "How dare... HOW DARE YOU FORGET ME, AFTER WHAT YOU DID TO ME!"

Sensing the incoming danger, Ranma dodged out of the way, noting with pride that Akane had managed to do the same, though a girl in the background shrieked when a bandanna smacked into a tree just inches from her, cutting almost halfway through it.

"Hey whoa! Watch where you're throwin' those!"

"SHUT UP RANMA, AND TAKE YOUR PUNISHMENT LIKE A MAN!"

Keeping up with the unusually quick attacker's kicks and punches and umbrella strikes, Ranma complained, "Aw come on, couldn't you at least tell me your name?"

"QUIT WHINING AND FIGHT ME!" Unexpectedly Ryoga pulled a bunch more bandannas off his forehead and threw them, his umbrella unfurling and following them. Ranma dodged all of the danger, but unfortunately a cut in his shirt proved that his clothes weren't quite as safe as his actual skin.

"Aw come on! That was my favorite shirt!"

"You sound like a GIRL Ranma!" Ryoga attempted an overhead kick, but when he spoke Ranma's expression darkened considerably, his dodge melting into a counter-attack that threw him over a retaining wall, where he landed atop a fountain with the power turned off.

"DON'T CALL ME-" Ranma appeared just above Ryoga, causing him to jump away as quickly as possible just as a kick landed on the hapless fountain, "A GIRL!" The suddenly destroyed fountain sprayed water everywhere, revealing a red fox-girl, who was suddenly swearing and tightening the white sash on her suddenly dress-sized shirt.

"Ranma you idiot!" Ranma turned to the voice, seeing Akane leaning over the school wall and giving her a low, accusatory look.

"What?"

"Ranma? Is that you?" Ryoga's voice distracted Ranma from Akane's growing glare.

"Yeah it's me, laugh if you... Ryoga?" Stopping, Ranma looked over... her opponent? Where Ryoga's pants were still pooling on the ground, there now stood... a black, anthropomorphic pig, still wearing Ryoga's headband (headbands?) and still holding the same umbrella.

The pig, whose shirt had apparently not been designed to stay in place during a significant shrinking spell, gave Ranma a look-over. He then nodded, "Yeah, that's a good idea, I'll have to ask where you get your shirts."

"Eh, had to fix 'em myself."

"I see. Is that elastic in the shoulders?" Ryoga tried to tighten the shoulders of his own shirt as he asked this.

"Yeah. And it's long enough it covers when I change back."

"Clever."

"Uh, Ranma?"

"Yeah Akane?"

"If you're done talking about your clothes, class is about to start."

"Yeah, okay!" Turning back to Ryoga Ranma tried the diplomatic approach, "Hey, if ya stay here I could get you one of mine, I keep a couple spares in my locker in case I lose 'em."

"What about our fight?"

"Could it wait till after school?"

"... only if I can join you for lunch."

"You got it, just don't go getting lost."

"Don't worry, just get me back to my tent."

"Sure, come on." It didn't even occur to Ranma to celebrate that she'd somehow managed to remember Ryoga's name. If asked, she would claim to have known all along.

This Time Break Asks, What About Kuno?

A young man is seen in his classroom, studiously studying the material that the state and especially the Emperor deemed necessary for him to know.

Suddenly, for no reason, he looks up, as though just realizing someone were there. He then says, apparently for no reason whatsoever, "I'm not into furries. ... except the fierce tigress."

A chalkboard eraser then flies into his face, where it leaves white marks. "No talking, Kuno! Study time is now!"

Rubbing his face, Tatewaki Kuno blinked with confusion before nodding, returning to his silent reading.

This Time Break Thinks That Was Really Stupid

"YOU VILE KITSUNE, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH MY RANMA-SAMA!"

This Time Break Jumped In Just On Time

"Shampoo need kill fuzzy, girl-type Ranma."

This Time Break Thinks The Author Is Getting Lazy

"HOW DARE YOU HURT THE LOVELY SHAMPOO'S FEELINGS!" Mousse flew overhead, his wing-arms giving him quite the advantage in being able to literally fly overhead while dropping massive ordinance with his feet, precision strikes occurring in the form of random dive-bombing runs.

"Too too stupid Mousse! Fly back to coop!" The female known as Shampoo stuck her tongue out at the flying duck-boy, "Nyaaaa!"

"Sh-Shampoo!" Mousse then became worried when the cat-girl started coughing, "SHAMPOO!"

"HACK! HAIRBALL! HACK-ACK!"

This Time Break Knows The Good Stuff Is Coming Soon

"Then why don't you just find a good GUY and marry HIM!" Akane followed this statement by kicking hard at the small fox girl that was her Fiancé, sending her and her superbly fluffy tail flying over the horizon.

She then huffed, "Ugh, honestly!" So angry was she that her arm lashed out without her thinking about it, "He just makes me so MAD!" At the end of her swing there just happened to be a concrete wall... and somehow, almost miraculously, she managed not to hurt herself, but instead hurt the wall, causing it to break into pieces.

This, of course, made her stare for a few moments before she smiled happily, glad to see that her training, as frustrating as it was, was finally starting to pay off.

She barely noticed the approach of two hulking monsters, and by the time she had taken a defensive stance, it was already too late, she'd already been sedated.

The last thing she heard was a mechanical voice stating, "Target Acquired."

This Is An End-Chapter Marker

If you're wondering about the Sonic gang, they start showing up next chapter. *grins*

For now, Chao!

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