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It was on a rainy day that the lives of the Tendos changed forever. Some say for better, but most say for worst. But for Ranma it was just another bad decision on the part of his father. For on this rainy day, a panda was seen walking the streets with a struggling figure thrown over its shoulder. After it gets to the front gate of the Tendo Dojo and knocks, a great commotion was heard inside. The door was thrown open with a shout of "Saotome!" It grunted out a response as the man of the house and two of his daughters backed away when they saw a panda in the door. When it dropped its squirming bundle on the floor, the man became joyous once again and came up to hug the 'boy'. And this is where the story diverges from the main time line, to become forever something else.
As Ranma was scooped up into a big hug by the Tendo father, she cried out in shock and surprise. The top of her bag ripped open at the sound and a large mechanical spider came out. It pounced at the father, and he let go in fear of this new creature. "Now now, he didn't hurt me. I just got a little startled is all."
"Are you, Ranma?" Soun Tendo asked voice filled with hope.
"I'm Ranma Saotome, sorry about this."
One of the Sisters, the one with a page boy haircut, comes forward; and looks intently at Ranma. "This boy is a girl," she states as she reaches out to poke her breast. She draws her hand back when she hears a hiss from the metal bug on the floor. As her father faints she kneels down to look at it, "and what is this?"
"If we can come in, I can explain everything and hopefully clear up this mess." Ranma replies. After they move to the dining room where Ranma meets the third daughter and the father was slapped back into consensus. Ranma begins her tail of why she and her father are in their house in the state they are in.
"It happened a few weeks ago deep in China, we came upon the legendary training ground of Jusenkyo. That place has a curse on it, whatever dies in one of its dozens of springs you take the form of when you fall in. My father fell in spring of drowned panda." She says as she points to the panda next to her.
"You really expect us to believe that, that this panda is your father." Akane asks incredulously, disbelief coloring her voice.
"If you get us some hot water I can prove it." Kasumi gets up to fetch the water, she comes back shortly with a tea pot. The panda takes it with a grunt of thanks; it then pours the pot over its head and turns back into a person. The Tendos stare at him with shock.
"Saotome, is that really you?"
"Yes Soun old buddy, you don't know the horrors I've had to endure with this curse." Before he could get any farther, he was hit over the head by Ranma.
"Quite old man."
"Wait if he has a curse, do you have one as well?" Nabiki asked.
"Yes I do, it is the form you see before you. When my father came out of the spring as a panda, I'll admit I wasn't prepared for that. He used my distraction as a chance to hit me into a spring of my own. The only problem was that this spring was fenced off. When I came up the guide was babbling something about ancient space demons. He said she drowned there 2300 years ago, after fighting the surrounding tribes." At this point Ranma was splashed with the rest of the water from the pot. When the expected change did not happen, Akane jumped up.
"Hey I thought you said that you had a curse, why didn't you change?"
"If you had let me finish, I would have told you that the water needed to change me back is water at a full boil. The guide said this was because of conflicting magic between Jusenkyo and the space demon. Since this is very painful I've only changed back once since then. Right after that failure of a trip, pops got really nervous. And we came right back here, didn't even stop in any of the local villages till we got near Shanghai. All he said was that we had to come meet a friend of his, and that it was very important that we do so as quickly as possible."
Kasumi who had been looking and petting the robot spider, asked Ranma. "Ranma where did you get this nice toy?"
"I think that the guide's explanation of what drowned there may have been more accurate that I originally thought. On the way back the knowledge on how to make one filtered into my head, so I made it. It really liked to explore so I made more to keep it company."
"How many more of them are there?" Nabiki asked with slight worry.
"There are about two dozen, the others are between here and Shanghai. It's really cool, because what they find out I know as well. I can feel all of them in my head. So pop why are we here anyway?"
And so the story continues as it might have gone. The engagement was brought up, and immediately denied on all fronts. Since Ranma couldn't change back easily or often the choice was managed to be postponed until a cure could be found.
Meanwhile, in the country of America, in the secret military base under Cheyenne Mountain an important meeting was taking place. "So what does the general want with us now, I was about to go home for the weekend." Jack complained, as he Teal'c, Carter, and Daniel walked into the briefing room.
"I don't know sir; he just said that it was very important that we come." Carter answered, as they sat down.
When the general came in and sat down, he started off with tossing some papers on the table. "People we have a major problem, some of the people in intelligence came across this paper from Shanghai." When they looked at the paper it showed a raven haired girl standing on the sidewalk, but what caught their attention was the replicator on her pack and two more by her feet.
Daniel pick up the paper; "The headline says, `New Toys or Robot Invasion?` Let's see, it goes on to say that the girl, named Ranma, made these toys herself. That she is not intending to lead an army of them, to capture all of the movie stars, and force us to surrender when we get bored. And that she is headed to Tokyo, Japan."
"Capture movie stars?" Jack asked confused.
"Yes, it seems this paper is like the Inquirer and posts stories that most people don't think are real. And so they embellish their stories to make them sound better. I think that part is made up."
"Sir, even if part of the story is false; the fact that this girl claims to have made Replicators might mean she is similar to Reese." Stated carter as she thought of what might happen if the replicators got loose.
"I think you might be onto something there Sam," Daniel spoke up while staring at the picture. "The girl does kind of look like Reese, maybe she's another android like her."
"That's just what we need, another replicator girl on the loose." complained Jack.
"In any case I need you to head to Japan to meet this Ranma. See if she is a threat, and if necessary stop her before she loses control of them." Said Hammond as he got up.
"Looks like you need to brush up on your Japanese Daniel." Joked Jack as they left the room.
Life settled into a routine after the Saotomes arrived. They would wake up; spar, then Ranma would head to school with the younger Tendo daughters. Kuno would be attacked by Ranma's Replicators, by now Ranma had made six more, when he tried to woo the raven haired beauty. Boring school, then home for more sparing, do some exploring, have supper, then off to bed. As time passed the replicators kept spreading out looking for more information and technology to assimilate. Some snuck onto planes and now were destined for Moscow and New York. A week after their arrival, the field was going to change yet again as new players were introduced and others removed.
Kasumi went out to the Dojo to get Ranma for supper. Even though she didn't eat, it was nice to have her at the table for conversation. When she got there she was surprised to see Ranma sitting on the floor instead of practicing. "Ranma, supper is ready. Is something wrong?"
"Oh, hey Kasumi. You know when I said that the knowledge of how to build these popped into my head after the springs." Ranma replied as her hand reached down to pat the one that always stayed by her side. When Kasumi nodded she continued. "Well that wasn't the only thing that I remember from her. Her name was Oma, and I think she came here looking for her sister. Heh, at times she had a better life; she had caring parents and a little sister. But then they had to leave the place they were at, the only problem was that her sister was left behind. Her mom and dad wouldn't tell where she was or why she was left behind. So she set out to find her on her own, after sometime she came here and drowned in those springs. I need to go find her sister, if only to honor her memory."
"So does that mean that you might leave here soon?" She was sad at the possibility that Ranma might leave; she had grown used to having the girl around the house.
"Probably, but not for some time yet. If I can I would like to stay here"
"Of course Ranma, come on lets go in for supper now." As she got up so did Ranma and the replicator followed them out the door.
As the members of SG-1 walked down the streets of Tokyo, Jack turned to Daniel. "So Daniel, any idea on how to find the girl now that we are here?"
"Well we could look in some papers, and if that fails I guess we could ask around." Daniel replies as he heads for a paper stand. As he starts looking through them he comes across an article that mentioned large metal spiders wandering the streets of one of the wards. "See here we go, large metal spiders that sounds like what we are looking for." He said as he turned back to the group. "They have been seen in the Nerima ward, I say we head there and keep looking."
As they got off the train, Jack turned to the others; "Okay everyone, split up and see if you can find either a replicator or the girl."
"Sir, what do we do if we find a replicator? Should we destroy it, before it can make more?" Asked Sam.
"No, I think that would be a bad idea." Daniel interrupted; "Reese became very angry when we destroyed the one she made. If we destroy on of these the rest of them might attack, and we wouldn't be able to talk to the girl. I think it might be better if we just follow them and see if we can find her first."
"Daniels right, if we tip our hands to soon the girl could run for ground, and make a large number of the little buggers before we could find her again." Agreed Jack as they split up to search for the replicators.
After an hour of searching Teal'cs voice came over the radio. "O'Neill, I have found two replicators wandering around a school yard. I can also see another in one of the windows of the building; I believe I may have found the girl."
"Everyone make for Teal'cs position, we'll wait and see if the girl is there."
When they met up again, they sat down at a local cafe and waited till school was out. When school was out they went to the gate to see if they could find the girl they were looking for. As they heard the clicking of replicators coming, they saw the three they spotted earlier. They were walking with a black haired girl out of the school yard. "That's the girl we want, Daniel go and introduce us." Jack said as he pushed Daniel forward.
As Daniel staggered forward, he noticed that none of the other students even gave a second glance at the replicators. He came up to the girl that had one on her shoulder, and remarked to himself that she did indeed look like Reese. "Hello, are you Ranma?"
As Ranma was leaving school, she was thinking again that she should leave soon to go search for her sister. Still not completely realizing that she started to think of the girl from the spring as herself. She was startled from her thoughts when she heard; "Hello, are you Ranma." "Err, um yes. What do you need?"
When the girl jumped at his question, he was worried that she might run. On hearing that she was indeed the girl they were looking for he smiled. "My name is Daniel, my friends and I were wondering if you would speak with us about those Replicators you make."
"Look they are not toys for sale, you can't buy them, and the last sucker that tried to steal one is in the hospital. So if that is all Daniel-San I will be on my way. By the way how did you know they were called Replicators?"
"No look, we saw another that made Replicators a few months back, and we just wanted to talk with you."
"Another that could make Replicators? Reese is that who you found! Did you find my sister! Where is she?" Ranma asked hurriedly, thoughts of finding Reese soon filling here head.
"Yes it was Reese, and if you would come with us we can talk more in private." Daniel replied as he saw two more girls standing a little bit away.
"Nabiki, Akane, head on back to the Dojo I'll be there later." With that Ranma walked with Daniel back to the other members of SG-1.
Akane was about to protest about being dismissed when Nabiki grabbed her shoulder, "Fine Saotome, but you will explain this later."
"See no problems yet, let's hope she doesn't go on a homicidal rage like Reese." Jack commented as Daniel came back with the girl and her three replicator bodyguards. When they sat down in the cafe they waited in earlier, Jack started asking questions. "First thing I want to know is how many of those things have you made."
"I have made about four dozen of them, most of them are in Japan but some are spread around the world."
Jack cringed not wanting to hear that there were that many of them spread around the world.
"Look the only reason I came was because Daniel said you saw Reese. I have been looking for her for a long time. Tell me where she is and I'll be on my way."
"We did see her and she was our guest for a while, but there were problems when we parted ways." Daniel said, trying not to say that they killed her.
"What kind of problems? Where is she?" Ranma asked starting to get angry at not getting the answers she wanted.
"I had to shoot her," replied Jack. "She lost control of the Replicators she made, so I stopped them and her."
"You, you killed her! Are you going to kill me, because I can make them to?" She accused as she got up from the table. The Replicators she brought with her starting to hiss at them.
"No," said Daniel.
"Yes," said Jack as he and Teal'c got up from the table.
"I won't let you, where is her body? It is my right to have it; I need to take her back to our parents."
"Now everyone calm down, Jack we can't start a fight here, we're start to attract a crowd. Ranma, you have to understand she gave us no choice. The Replicators she made got out of her control, and were going to overrun our base." Daniel said as he tried to calm down both parties. "Ranma, we didn't know that she had family left, so we gave her body to some allies of ours."
"That settles it then, you will take me to these allies so that I might get my sister back." Ranma stated mater-o-factly.
"That's fine with me, you call back your Replicators and we can go back to the base." said Jack
"No, for if I do, you might just kill me. That way I won't go out of control and kill you all." She replied sarcastically; "they stay where they are. For insurance purposes you might say."
"She does have a point Jack, let's just go back to the SGC and see if we can contact the Asgard"
"I have to go back to the Tendos and tell them I'm leaving though." Ranma said as she stood and headed for the door. The members of SG-1 having little choice, made to follow her.
"I'm back," Ranma called out as she came through the door.
"Welcome back Ranma, Nabiki said that you were out with some friends. Did you have a good time?" Kasumi replied as she came out of the kitchen, a Replicator following her.
"Ya I did is the rest of the family in; I have an announcement to make."
"Yes they are, the fathers are playing shoji, Nabiki is in her room, and Akane is in the dojo. Ranma who are your friends?"
"Oh sorry, Kasumi this is Daniel Jackson, Jack O'Neill, Samantha Carter, and Teal'c." Ranma said as she introduced the members of SG-1. As Kasumi went to fetch her sisters Ranma went to her room to pack her bag. When she came back down everyone was gathered in the family room, seeing her pack Genma demanded to know where she was headed. "Everyone, as of now I will no longer be staying here. I have come across information that will help me in my search for my sister.
"Boy what are you talking about, you don't have a sister. Besides you have to stay here and marry a Tendo." Her father roared as he tried to make her stay.
"True, but I've been getting memories from the girl that drowned in the spring. In them she came here looking for her sister, these people have seen her recently. So I'm going with them to find her."
"You're getting her memories from this girl? Sounds like your being a weak little girl, to be moved by the memories. Besides the demon drowned there two thousand years ago, if she was looking for her sister she can't be around anymore. Now do the right thing and marry one of the Tendos, I think you and Akane would go well together."
"I'm not going to marry him! We haven't even seen him change back into a boy yet, so I doubt that he even can." Akane yelled in anger at the suggestion.
Ranma turned back to Sg-1," Can you guys go? If you have a place for me to meet you, I will come later this evening. This could take a while to sort out."
Daniel translated for Jack, as he was about to say no Carter speaks up. "Sir, I say we let them be for now, it looks like this could get ugly."
"Carter what if she makes a break for when we leave, there is no guarantee that we will find her again. Now that she knows we are on to her she could run."
"Actually Jack I don't think she will. It sounds like she really wants to find Reese and we are the only ones who can help her, she will come later." Grumbling Jack gives the ok, and after Daniel gives Ranma the address of another cafe SG-1 leaves.
After SG-1 leaves Ranma turns back to Akane, "You don't think I turn into a boy fine! Kasumi could you boil some water, make sure that it's got a good boil on." With concern on her face Kasumi goes into the kitchen to boil another kettle of water. "Now while she is doing that, I think I need to beet some sense into you old man about me being week." With that pronouncement she jumps at her father and knocks him into the back yard.
Five minutes of beating up his old man Kasumi comes back with the boiling kettle. "Ranma your water is ready," she calls into the yard.
"Alright watch closely I'm only going to do this once." Ranma says as she pours the kettle over her head. With grit teeth and a held back scream of pain, the raven haired girl gains a few inches in height and loses her curves. When the transformation was finished Ranma falls to his knees in pain, and looks at Akane. "See I told you I was a boy."
Each of the Tendos looked at the transformation with a different expression. Soun just looked over joyed that Ranma did indeed become male, now the schools could be joined for sure. Nabiki just looked at Ranma and saw that he was handsome, but it was tempered by the fact that he will spend most of his time as a girl. Akane just looked on in horror, now that Ranma was a boy she was sure that the fathers would push for the wedding all the more strongly. Kasumi looked at Ranma with concern in her eyes as she saw him sitting on the floor trying to getting his bearings back after the pain of the transformation.
Genma by this time has finally pulled himself back into the house from the yard, when he sees a male Ranma gets a big grin on his face. "See boy, I told you all you have to do is endure the pain like a man. Now that you are a boy again we can put all of this leaving business behind us and you can marry a Tendo." Soun hearing this stands up with his friend and nods his head.
Ranma was about to tell them off when the two Replicators in the room start to behave oddly, attacking each other and the furniture. "What's going on this hasn't happened before?"
Akane was ready to blow her top by this point, threat of a wedding and now these things were destroying her house. "Ranma get control of these things before I smash them."
"Fine just give me a moment." Ranma reaches into the part of his mind that connects him to the Replicators and finds that the link is gone. "I don't have a connection to them anymore, I can't tell them what to do!"
When Kasumi and Nabiki hear this they back away from them in fear of getting hurt. But Akane just gets more enraged and swings for Ranma knowing that this is his fault. Ranma still trying to figure out why he can't sense his creations didn't even see the swing coming. The blow send him right out into the yard and into the pond. As soon as he turns back into a girl the Replicators calm down, as she could feel them in her mind again. Ranma walks back into the house holding her head and soaking wet.
"Ok note to self I lose control of them if I'm a guy, good to know." She sees the look of anger on her father's face at being back in this form, and yells at him. "What, are you still going to push for a wedding? I can't stay a guy for more than a minute, and when I am I lose control of my Replicators."
Genma not to be out done by his child yells back, "If that is the only problem you will just have to destroy of them. That way nothing will come between you and you future wife. As for staying male that problem isn't that bad, you will just have to be a man and deal with the pain."
Ranma just growled in her throat and pushed the old man back into the yard for another beating.
While that was going on Soun looks at his daughters, "Well now that we know he can become a boy again it's time to figure out which one of you will marry him." Nabiki, wanting no part of this tries to push it on to Akane.
"Daddy I think that Akane would be a good choice, they both practice the Art after all."
Akane seeing that her father nodding his head in agreement, speaks up. "I'm not going to marry him, so what if he does turn into a boy. He will still be a girl most of the time, I don't want to be a part of the gossip that will create. How about Kasumi? She seems to get along with him, I'm sure they will be perfect for each other." Nabiki, not caring which sister is was as long as it wasn't her agrees with Akane.
Kasumi hearing this just gets a blush on her face as she pictures her and Ranma together. Soun looks happy that a choice has been made turns to Kasumi. "Congratulations, I'm sure that you and Ranma will do well together."
After about fifteen minutes Ranma came back in, leaving her father in the yard. "Anyone else want to argue?" Seeing no takers she turned to Kasumi and bowed. "Thank you for letting me stay in your home."
"Not at all Ranma, I enjoyed having you here. I guess with you leaving you will be taking your replicators with you." She said as her eyes dipped to the one next to her. It was the one that came with Ranma, and after the first day seemed to have adopted her. It followed her where ever she went, when she asked Ranma she said it liked her.
Ranma catching her meaning kneeled down to it, "I want you to stay and take care of Kasumi for me okay." It clicked and chirped in response as Ranma reached down to get her bag. "I guess if that is all I will be going now."
Soun clears his throat to catch Ranma's attention before she can leave. "Now son while I don't doubt that this quest of yours is important there is one more thing to take care of. Since you showed that you can become male again, I asked my daughters about the engagement. It was agreed that Kasumi here will be your fiancé."
Ranma looks over at her, "Are you sure that this is what you want? I can't be a boy for most of the time, I know that it will cause rumors about you."
Kasumi just looked at the floor with a blush on her face. "I know it will cause rumors, but you are a sweet and kind person. So I guess that it won't be too bad to be with you."
Ranma just shakes her head, "Ok if you are sure, but first I have to take care of finding Reese. When that's done I will come back and we will try this out ok?" Seeing her nod Ranma looked at the rest of the Tendos and bowed. "Once again it was a pleasure to meet you all." and walks out the door before Soun could argue further.
When the members of SG-1 walked back onto the street, and headed for the cafe. Jack turned to Daniel, "So were you able to follow what was going on in there?"
"Well when Ranma came back down, she said that she was going with us to find Reese. Then the bald man said she didn't have a sister and that she should marry a Tendo."
"A Tendo?" Jack asked in confusion.
"I believe that they were the girls that were in the room, since we were at the Tendo Dojo."
"Ok, that makes some sense. So I'm guessing that she didn't take it very well?"
"Here it gets a little confusing. She says she is getting memories from someone that drowned in a spring, so she was looking for Reese because of that."
"Could she have been offline then until recently, which would explain why we haven't been overrun with Replicators yet?" Carter thought out loud.
"That might be true, they said she drowned in a spring two thousand years ago. And that Reese couldn't be around after all this time. After that the bald man said that she should marry the youngest daughter, which she violently opposed. She said she wouldn't marry Ranma, and something about a boy to. Then she asked us to leave so she could sort out that mess."
"Ok, so she has been on Earth for two thousand years. But hasn't concerned it because she was drowned in a spring? You do realize how absurd that sounds." Asked Jack shaking his head.
"True, but it could be possible. They were saying that she was a space demon, what would you expect from primitives."
When they reached the cafe, they settled in for a wait. About an hour later Ranma comes down the street with her bag on her shoulder. "Sorry about the wait, but I'm ready to go now."
Jack on hearing this stood up and clapped his hands together. "Alright let's head home."
When they got back to the SGC, Daniel convinced Ranma to go to the infirmary to get a medical checkup. After that had her wait, while SG-1 and Hammond discussed her.
"Doctor what did you find out about our guest during your exam?" Hammond asked Janet after she sat down.
"Well sir, she is like Reese; a very realistic android. Right down to a pulse and warm skin, if I didn't know any better I would have thought she was human."
"Sir, as I was talking with her during the exam. She talked about her father and also her mother. It seems that Reese was left behind when they all had to leave for some reason. She came back to look for her, and take her home. I think that all she wants is Reese's body then she will leave." Daniel spoke up.
"I'm afraid that it is not that simple. The IOA have caught wind of our guest, they are pressuring me to turn her over. They feel that the opportunity to get something that can make and control replicators is too good of a chance to pass up." Hammond shook his head and sighed, "I don't know if I can get her out of this one."
"Sir, we can't do that. We promised to help her find Reese, not lock her up and turn her into some experiment. Besides, if we try and contain her she might have her replicators attack." Daniel exclaimed with concern at this plan.
"Don't worry Daniel; a few bursts from a P-90 will take care of those bugs. Besides all we have to do is take out her control chip." Jack, feeling good about this plan, agreed with the General.
As Ranma was brought into the briefing room she asked, "So have you contacted these Asgard about getting Reese's body back?"
Daniel came up to her; "Well there is a slight problem. You see we can't always contact the Asgard."
"Why can't you? Call them up and tell them to hand her over."
"The Asgard don't live on Earth." Daniel explained as he led her to the window. "That is a Stargate, with it we can travel to other planets. The Asgard live in another Galaxy, and we can't get a hold of them all that often."
"Oh, you have an Astria Porta here? That makes sense on how you found my sister." Suddenly she stiffened; the guards in the room brought their riffles to bare thinking she might attack.
Daniel growing concerned placed a hand on her shoulder. "What's wrong, what happened?"
Ranma turned back to the room, "One of my replicators in Russia was following a strange signal, and just found a few Replicator blocks, and they didn't have mine or Reese's signature on them. I told it to bring them to me."
The members of SG-1 cringed at that, thinking that they didn't have to deal with the Replicators from Thor's ship again. Jack nodded his head towards the girl in front of them as he readied his P-90. Daniel came up to Ranma, and reached for the spot on her neck that would open the disk slot. He knew that something was wrong when the disk slot didn't open.
"What are you doing?" Ranma cried outraged, she turned and shoved Daniel away. As the three Replicators with her jumped to attack him as well. Jack and the others opened fire on Ranma and her replicators as soon as Daniel was clear. As the bullets tore into her body Ranma managed to get a command off to the rest of the Replicators she controls. She told them to hide, build in numbers them come for her; confident that her internal self-repair would fix her eventually.
Daniel just looked at Ranma after the firing stopped, saddened that once again that help on finding ways to fight the replicators was killed. He stood back up and turned to the general, "Well there you go sir. One girl that can make Replicators ready for delivery to area 51. Just hope that the other Replicators spread across the world were destroyed as well. If they weren't we might be in trouble if they are now rouge."
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