It happened again. He got into an argument with her and the next thing he knew, he was in LEO. Last time, he wound up just a few miles outside of the school, and the time before that he had to take the train to get back. So, where he lands it's a wonder. To add on that he's a girl at the moment, he hopes he doesn't land where there's some pervert that drools over school girls.
Going on at the same time, in the time stream, a man with short brown hair, who wished it was ginger once, was trying to land before he wound up dead yet again. It wasn't that he needed to land, he's died in the time stream before, but his ship was damaged and he needed to repair it and the last time this happened, it was several hours before he woke up, so he'd rather have it on tera-ferma broken than in the time stream broken. He would like to have time to wonder how he got to this point, but priorities and all prevent him from doing so. Just as soon as he pushed the last button, he lands and opens the doors…
WHAM
…only to collide with a flying red head and fall to the floor of his ship.
Five minutes later, a figure awoke feeling strange… shaking it off, the figure opens the doors and sees that its night and where the figure was, a fountain, was empty. The figure took its time to get its bearings, then looked at its reflection via the water and saw… a red headed woman, appeared to be in her late 20's/early 30's, hair in a medium pig tail, and that she was in a man's shirt, tie, and brown suit. After giving her new, yet at the same time familiar, orbs a squeeze, she had only one thing to say, in an accent that was a mixture of British and Japanese, and literally of two minds…
"It's different… yet the hair's nice."
(Theme music, Visuals)
Nabiki Tendo…
Akane Tendo…
Doctor Who.
"The Half-Doctor"
By Digifan316
Two years. For two years, Ranma Saotome had been declared "Dead." Nodoka and Genma refused to call him as such, for they refuse to believe their boy ran away, especially since Akane admitted to sending him as, in her own words, "As far as the Sea of Japan." Plus, after seeing the mess that his life was, some of his friends and family assumed that he went to clear his head and since its Ranma, let's just say they figured Rome wasn't built in a day.
Thanks to all the pictures and bets, Nabiki was able to invest and keep her family afloat and get into college. This is her second year, Akane her first and both of them have the same class coming up.
"Akane! Nabiki!" They heard a voice yell while heading to their classes. It was the one time rival Xian Pu greeting them. With Ranma gone, the Amazons gave up clam at the "persuasion" of Nodoka. It hurt the champion of the tribe, but over time she started to get over it and became good friends with Akane and her family. Plus, over the last couple of years, her Japanese has improved vastly. "Glad I ran into you guys, I don't suppose you're taking the same class I am?"
"Advanced English?" Nabiki asked.
"Yep. We're supposed to get a new professor this year, new to everybody."
"Whoever he is, I hope he's ready for 3 of the NWC." Akane said with a chuckle. A year ago, you would have been lucky to get a smile out of her. Ranma vanishing was hard on the woman, it got to the point where she promised the first chance she got, she would tell Ranma those three words. For months, she was in her room, depressed, and mopping, until Ryoga talked to her and convinced her there was more to life out there and Ranma wouldn't want her to be depressed and moping. That was enough for her to try and now she's here, with her sister Nabiki, and a friend going to their class.
It was a typical college class room. Everybody was relaxed, talking to their friends, catching up on people they haven't seen since the end of the spring semester, getting to know some new exchange students and freshmen. However, that all stopped once the new teacher walked into the room. He looked to be in his late twenties/early thirties, his face was Japanese. The way the man kept himself however, his stance, his posture said that he was a man beyond his years. After putting his suitcase on his desk, he looked at Akane and Nabiki and the two Tendos thought there was something strange about him… and that pig tail looked familiar.
"Good morning class," the teacher said, "are we sitting comfortably?"
Meanwhile, at Kuno's manor, the young would be samurai met with Japanese officials, hence why he was not at class at the moment.
"And you're positive these will improve our army? The US is counting on us to help win the war on terror Mr. Kuno."
"I know, but fear not, with our tech at your disposal, we shall come out on top." The young man said with an air of arrogance. Just then, Kodachi joined them, holding a tea kettle of freshly made tea for when the men ran out.
"Are you sure your scientists were able to adapt? And what about the face alter--"
"My dear General," Kodachi interjected, "If we were afraid of them, what about the enemy?"
"That's a good point, but--"
"Sir, trust me, the House of Kuno will give Japan the army it deserves." Accepting this answer, the men put down their tea, bow, and leave. Once they were out of ear shot and left the building, Kuno and Kodachi looked at each other.
"'The army it deserves' indeed brother dear." Kodachi said with a smile.
"Too long we've be at the becoming of other countries," Kuno said with some anger, "but thanks to the general and his volunteers, Japan will be the power it once was and WE'LL be in power."
"Just like the Kunos should." Kodachi said as she and her brother were eyeing each other, and looked over the plans for their soldiers.
Back on campus, and after class, the new teacher was getting to know the staff better, who intern were talking to him about the teacher he replaced.
"Just the dangest thing, said she won last night's million yen jackpot, but she never even entered."
"Huh, just fascinating." The pig tailed teacher said with a smirk while thinking 'New personality, old tricks.' "So, what's this I've been hearing about military testing?"
"Ah yes," the staff member said while taking off his glasses and pinching his nose, feeling a migraine coming. "The Kunos got a huge military contract and decided to demonstrate their newest weapons on campus as a part of the International Student Fair the government set up to celebrate Tokyo's exchange students. It's being done, in their words, to show 'The might of Japan to the world.'" The man then sighed and wish the coffee he had was something stronger. "Don't get me wrong, I'm as prideful of my country as the next Japanese person, but those two Kunos… there's something about them…"
'Tell me about it.' The pig-tailed man thought. "And how long until the ceremony?"
"Sometime this week, tomorrow night as a matter of fact."
"I take it you're not going to be there by choice?"
"Attendance is mandatory mister… I'm sorry, who are you?"
"Hmm? Oh, I'm sorry I'm--"
"Gonna have to talk to one of your students for a moment." The pig tailed man heard behind him and saw Nabiki looking smug and triumphant as usual. How'd he miss that.
"Oh, and what can I do for you Miss. Tendo?" The man said with a smile, and an accent Nabiki recognized right off the bat.
"From London I take it?"
"Oh, I'm from here and there. I get around really." The man said dodging the issue, a ploy Nabiki can work around, and the man knew it.
"Uh-uh. And in all your travels, I don't suppose you encountered any martial artists?"
"Oh, aren't you the inquisitive one? Let's just say I met one and he's been a part of me since." The man said with some joy in his voice.
"I figured as much," the brown haired woman said. "After all, you have the same pig-tail he did, Mister…?"
"Oh, just call me The Doctor."
"Doctor…?"
"Just The Doctor." The man said with pride and causing something that he rarely seen in Nabiki, if at all, a look of confusion.
"Ok… but what's yo--" But before the Tendo girl could finish, her cell phone rang and she saw it was her sister. "Sorry, but I have to take this, good luck to you this semester." Nabiki said as she answered her phone and left.
"And to you Miss. Nabiki Tendo, good on ya." The man said with joy in his voice and a smile.
Later that night, outside the school's record keeping hall, two women were going over why they were there in the first place.
"Admit it Akane, you wanna know why this guy seems familiar too."
"Well, yeah Nabiki but…"
"And I tried hacking in but when I got to his file, I wound up with a computer virus I've never seen before, so this is the only way."
"But, what if we get caught?" Nabiki then showed the nervous girl the keys to the building. "Do I wanna know how?" She said with a dead pan look to match.
"Let's just say there's some of the old Furikan me left over." Nabiki smirked as she opened the door. "Ok, I think the hall of records is this way."
"You don't know?"
"Never had to come down here in person." Nabiki said as a matter of factually. Without a map, the hall went from being a mere building to a labyrinth of twists and turns, stairs and floors, doors and windows. Several rooms and not a one was the record hall, so they thought it would be downstairs.
"Are you sure about this?" A tired Akane asked.
"We tried all the doors on this floor already, so let's try downstairs and work our way up." Nabiki said out of frustration. They headed downstairs and opened the first door they saw and found something that didn't belong, namely a blue police box in the middle of the room.
"Wh…what… is…?" Akane said a little shocked. "What's this blue box doing here?"
"I don't know, maybe it's a prop or something." Nabiki said with her usual tone, trying not to be as shocked as Akane, but even she was wondering why something from Brittan was in a Japanese building, let alone something from the 60's.
"Hey! That's my ship you're referring to!" The two heard a British voice say. They knew that voice since he was the one that taught them earlier in the day, but when they turned around they saw something, something that made them realize why he's so familiar. The way he was standing, the air of self confidence, and that smirk…
"Hello Akane, Nabiki. It's been a long time, and yet this is also the first time we've fully met. Well, for you Akane, Nabiki got to know me a bit more in the teacher's lounge."
"YOU PERVERT!" Akane yelled out of habit and was about to mallet the man… only to have him grab the mallet and her wrist, but in a restraining manor, not a hurtful one.
"You know, you should really wait before you wallop somebody. That's how your fiancée got into this mess in the first place." The man said as he let go after reminding Akane of a certain event.
"Wait… what do you…?" Nabiki asked, not being able to hide the confusion she was feeling. Normally, she's good at hiding the confusion and shock she feels with some of the events that go on in her life, but even this seems weird. "Aren't you Ranma?" The man then turned to her with a smile.
"Not exactly." The man said as he opened the door to the box. "For all purposes, please call me The Doctor, even though I'm not entirely him ether." The man walked in and Nabiki and Akane were wondering where he could go in such a small box… until they got a peak on the inside and when The Doctor saw their faces, he couldn't help but smile.
"That's how everybody looks when they see this thing. I'll admit, if it wasn't for what happened, Ranma probably would've given that same look but by that token, The Doctor would've been amazed at his skills and curse." The man started fiddling with various levers and buttons until the machine made a whooshing sound.
"What are you doing?" Akane asked.
"Taking you girls home." The man said with a happy tone of voice. "I'll tell you all about me when we get there, but for the time being I don't think it'd be good to tell the cops you were in the record hall searching for little ol' me."
"And just who are you exactly?" Nabiki said, having enough but hiding the anger with her ice queen persona. "You say you're Ranma, but you're not. You say you're a doctor--"
"The Doctor, I'm not A doctor, I'm The Doctor. Just that."
"Fine, you say you're THE Doctor, but then say you're not, so who exactly are you?" Nabiki said as her persona was showing cracks as she was starting to loose patients.
"I'm the best of both worlds and the worst of two men." The Doctor said with a smile, knowing it gets under Nabiki's skin. He then snapped his fingers and turned into a redheaded woman, with the same style. "Or whenever I feel like it, I'm the best of him and the best of her." The woman snapped her fingers and turned back to normal and smiled at the jaw dropped expressions of both women. "Look at that, I shocked the ice queen! How many people can say that?" Then the machine turned quiet, signaling The Doctor they were at the Tendo Dojo. "We're here!"
"Wait, what do you mean we--" Nabiki couldn't finish because she was shocked that they went from the university to their home in a blue police box. Akane wondered what was going on and saw the same thing and was in shock.
"Wh--what--" Akane couldn't finish that thought because she got interrupted by The Doctor.
"Haven't you two figured it out yet?" The man said with a smile and a bit of joy to his voice. Finally, it dawned on Nabiki.
"You… you're only half of Ranma, aren't you?"
"DING! We have a winner!" Ranma said with even more joy in his voice.
"But… how is that possible?" Nabiki asked.
"'Half of Ranma?' What are you talking about sis?" Akane asked, wondering if she could take anymore.
"Well, thanks to you, Ranma Saotomae and a Time Lord called 'The Doctor' collided in the middle of regeneration and here I am a brand spanking new persona with all the memories of both. The skills of Ranma and the intelligence of The Doctor with the ability to switch genders at will all rolled into one."
"But… but…" Akane said ready to faint.
"I'll explain all of this and why I've been gone for two years after a bite to eat with your folks. By the way, Genma still live with you?"
"No," Nabiki said while regaining her composure in all of this and ready to catch Akane if she's going to faint. "Once Ranma was declared dead, the panda moved back with Nodoka so they could comfort each other."
"Good, I wanna save my visit with him for last. In the meantime however, I'm ready for a midnight snack." The man said with his stomach growling.
"Same ol' Ranma." Akane said with a giggle.
"Actually, until we're separated, can you guys just call me The Doctor?" The Doctor said with a smile.
NEXT TIME…
Nabiki: Its some tech Kuno found a couple of years ago and his country landed the contract for it.
(Metal hitting concrete in a marching motion can be heard)
Kuno: And thus I show you all the true strength of Japan!
(The metal sound gets louder and louder)
The Doctor: Nononono!
(Louder… and louder…)
The Doctor: I've seen them before! To be more accurate, my Doctor side has!
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I don't own Ranma or Doctor Who. Ranma TM Takahashi, Kitty, Viz Media, all rights reserved. Doctor Who TM the British Broadcasting Company, all rights reserved.