Andromeda's Wild Horse
By The Unknown 007
Disclaimer: I don't own or have any part in either series. If you sure me, prepare to get nothing out of it. I AM POOR!
' ' – Thought
Prologue
'Whoever said that life would be easier, lied through their teeth.' Ranma thought as he looked at the horizon from the Tendo's roof. 'I mean seriously, can't that tomboy see that I have be kinder, and thinking before I say something. But, nooooo. If I am late, it's because I am with my 'harlots'. Or if Ryoga picks a fight with me, it's 'Ranma stop picking on Ryoga'. Geez, I mean seriously I killed to get her back safely, the least she could do is be thankful.' Ranma lost himself in his thoughts until the sun when down.
"RANMA! WHERE ARE YOU!" Akane yelled. She had been looking for him, so that he could try her latest 'gourmet' cooking. Granted it was pulsating, and it was fluctuating from read to blue to yellow, and back to red. But it was her treat for Ranma. "He's probably with his cheap whores," she said as she went to Ukyo's to see if he was there.
Ranma noticed Akane leaving home with something pulsating. 'Great, Akane is on her "I can cook too" thought. I wonder why she does not taste the bloody thing and see for herself how bad it is.' He took a deep breath, 'Sometimes, it doesn't pay to get up out of bed in the morning.' With that thought Ranma slipped into his room and went to bed.
The next day
KA-BOOM!
Another explosion caused Ranma to run faster so that he could get the group away from anyone that could get hurt. He would occasionally look back to see if the 'Wrecking Crew' was still following him. Sure enough, almost everyone was there, Akane, Ryoga, Mousse, Kuno, Ukyo, Shampoo, and Kodachi. They were all following him. It was then that he noticed another dust cloud running parallel to him. He moved to get closer, and saw Happosai leading a group of women. However, unlike before where it was just him. Soun and his father were accompanying Happosai in his run away from the women.
'Geez, no wonder he didn't wake me up for 'training',' Ranma thought. He suddenly caught a glimmer coming from Happosai's belt. 'Could that be the Nanban Mirror. No it's complete, the Nanban was fractured. Still knowing Happosai, it's probably magical. Let's have a look-see,' Ranma thought as he got closer and closer to Happosai. And sure enough, it was a mirror that Happosai was carrying. Ranma quickly ran up to him, he pulled out a pair of panties, which he used to distract Happosai. Happosai fell for it as he lunged toward Ranma. Ranma quickly swiped the mirror, and flung the panties behind him. This allowed the women to pounce on Happosai, which blocked the men from getting to Ranma.
Under a bridge
Ranma was looking at the mirror. He could not believe what he had read. According to the Chinese text, the mirror requires blood to use, and it was a one-way trip. He knew from past experience that if he wished foolishly then he would never get what he wants. He decided that he needed to get ready, and plan the whole thing out. He quickly headed to the Tendo Dojo to gather his things.
After, getting his backpack and supplies, which he put into a subspace pocket. 'I may have to thank Mousse for his technique,' Ranma thought as he thought back to his previous training trip. He gave false information to where he was going and spent the month training himself. He was able to use Mousse's Hidden Weapon technique, Kuno's air strikes, Ryouga's Bakusai Tenketsu, Cologne's Sameken, and Genma's Umi-Sen-Ken and Yami-Sen-Ken. He, also, studied some of Tofu's books on acupuncture and Shiatsu. He was currently trying to learn how to wean himself off of using emotions as a channel for his chi, but it was slow going.
But that was not his greatest accomplishment, for years he had been hiding the fact that he knew more than the others. Where Cologne and Happosai focused most of their attention towards the martial arts, Ranma decided early on not to focus too much on only one field. He maintained his grades, even with interruptions and sleeping in class. He embraced the Anything Goes towards all fields of study. Currently he was the secret holder of many patents under the name Keichi Sato. All the while hiding his talents from those that would try to manipulate him to giving them their "fair" share.
Ranma shook his head as he approached the bridge; he took a sheet of paper and began to write down what he would say to the mirror. He spent an hour getting the sentence right so that it would leave no chance to backfire. As soon as he was ready for his statement, disaster struck.
Akane was trying to figure out where Ranma had gone. At first she thought he was with his "Sluts", which meant that she needed to go out and punish him. As Mallet-sama appeared, Akane stomped over to Ukyo's to find her errant fiancé. As she was going she saw Ranma running toward Furinkan High. 'He's probably going to meet one of his "sluts",' Akane thought as she began getting working up, until suddenly. "RANMA!" Akane yelled as she pulled out a 200-pound Mallet-sama.
'Crap!' Ranma thought as he saw Akane chasing him. 'You would think that the gods stop this, and take pity on me.'
In Heaven
Urd was standing in front of a huge blackboard. All around her were gods, goddesses, demons, and demonesses each holding a stub, and yelling at Urd.
"TWENTY ON RYOGA COMING NEXT!"
"TEN ON KUNO COMING NEXT!"
"THIRTY ON THE OTHER FIANCEES!"
"FIFTEEN ON MOUSSE SHOWING UP!"
Everyone quickly became quiet as they watched who would come next. It was a good day for everyone; Ranma was one of the fine points in their life. Course no one told Ranma that.
Kami-sama's Office
Kami-sama was watching today's episode, he knew that Ranma was getting close to losing his mind. He hoped that Ranma would forgive him for what he was about to do. 'Course no one doesn't have to know what I am going to do,' Kami-sama thought with a smile. He watched the monitor and waited.
Back on Nerima
'Damnit I can't go anywhere without these idiots following me,' Ranma thought as he glanced behind him. Sure enough the entire Wrecking Crew was behind him. Ryoga, Kuno, Mousse, Ukyo, Akane, Shampoo, Happosai, Genma, and Soun, all wanting him to do things their way. Ranma knew that he had to get rid of the group if he wanted to succeed, so he took a deep breath and summoned one of Happosai's favorite techniques. "Happo-Fire Burst!" Ranma said as he threw the bomb behind him. As it exploded, Ranma poured on the speed to quickly get away.
The Roof of Furinkan High
Ranma was ready. He took the mirror out and bit into his thumb to get the blood. Once he did that, he smeared the blood on the outer edge of the mirror. He went to the ledge and held the mirror at arms length. "I wish to be sent to someplace where I am appreciated and wanted," Ranma said. He soon felt the mirror begin its magic, he then let go of the mirror and as he faded away he say the mirror fall.
Kami-sama's office
Kami-sama's computer beeped, it then proceeded to list Ranma's wish. Kami-sama smiled. Only he knew what the mirror truly was. He knew the mirror as the Kami's wish mirror; the reason was that like the Relief Goddess wish, and anyone found worth of the wish could get it. Which meant that people like Happosai could never receive a wish. Furthermore, only Kami-sama, and not Yggdrasil could grant the wish. Kami-sama smiled as he began to type on the computer. 'I hope that she doesn't mind having the Wild Horse become a part of her captain's crew,' he thought as he finished his typing. Once he pressed Enter, he wondered if his little light would visit him to ask him what he had done.
In another place in space and time
"BATTLESTATIONS! BATTLESTATIONS!" a voice yelled as a mass of people was running to get into position. "ALL CREW MAN YOUR BATTLESTATIONS!" it continued as the alarms blared.
"Three minutes, five, three minutes, six, three minutes, seven," a man with bone blades on his forearms cried out as a crewman ran past him. "MOVE IT THOMPSON!" he cried as the crewman passed him.
Another man walked up to the ladder and dropped down the hole, as floor by floor passed him, he waited until he finally pressed a module on his belt, which slowed him down until he landed safely.
"I wish you wouldn't do that," a voice said to the man, "What if your anti-grav harness failed and I could catch you in time."
The man smiled as he turned the module off. "Oh, Andromeda, you wouldn't let that happen because then you would have to break in a new captain. As he walked down the corridor, he heard crewmembers call out, "Point Defense station Five manned and ready," "Point Defense station Six manned and ready." He walked up to the bone bladed man and said, "Report!" Seeing the man salute he returned the salute.
"Captain! All stations report manned and ready." The man replied.
"Elapsed time: three minutes, twenty seven seconds." Andromeda reported.
Both men did not look pleased, "Too Slow!" the bone bladed man yelled.
The captain who was close to the other man widened his eyes and calmly said, "Too loud." As he walked away, as he was walking he passed by a station and walked up to it. "Thompson," he said. "You forgot to activate your secondary battery, Andromeda had to do it for you."
"Yes sir," Thompson replied. "Sorry sir, it won't happen again."
"It had better not," the bone bladed man said. "All hands stand down!"
"Ship wide, Rommy," the captain said, as he heard the call to stand down. "This is the captain. Not bad people but I am not doing any cartwheels. Team leaders coordinate additional sessions, you know what to do, let's get it under three minutes. Dismissed."
"We suck," Thompson said under his breath.
The captain smirked and patted Thompson on his shoulder. He then walked away. When he and the bone bladed man were walking, he heard the comments that the man had to say. Before he could reply, Andromeda interrupted him.
"Captain?"
"Yes, Andromeda?" the captain replied.
"I am picking up a distress beacon… it seems to be a life pod." Andromeda replied.
The captain was curious, "How can that be?"
"I don't know, it just appeared on sensors." Andromeda said.
The captain looked at the bone bladed man, "What do you make of it?"
"It could be a bomb or a trap to lure us into an ambush." The man replied.
"Always the cynic, Andromeda…"
"Captain, we're receiving a hail from a System's courier ship. It's indicating a stellar level emergency." Andromeda said.
The captain looked worried and the two began to run, as he said, "On our way."
As they reached command, they received an update of the courier ship. "Are we close enough for real time?"
"Range is one light-second." Andromeda said.
"Establish communication," the captain said. As soon as the screen was active, the courier ship message was replayed.
"This is the System's Courier ship, Alta dismissive. Do you copy?"
"Go ahead, Missive," the second in command said.
"It's a rogue black hole, Hephestaus System. They're trying to evacuate but there aren't enough ships." The woman said.
"Hephestaus has a population of nearly half a billion sentients." Andromeda responded.
"You're the first ship, I've contacted." The woman said.
"Plot a course to Hephestaus, and pick up the life pod. Bring it to medical. We'll deal with it later." The captain said. "Keep moving notify everyone you can.
Meanwhile the rest of command was active, getting ready to go to Hephestaus.
"Ship wide. This is the captain. All hands prepare to receive refugees, rig the ship for maximum capacity." The captain said.
"Ejecting cargo from bays one through five." Andromeda said. "Getting life pod and sending it to medical."
"Approaching transit point." The insectoid said.
"Brace for slipstream." The captain said. "Dom transit to slipstream on my mark. Three. Two. One. Mark."
A portal opened and the ship went into slipstream.
Author's notes
Well this was interesting. I wanted to get this out since there was a demand for it. I hope you enjoy it. I won't be doing much on this, so consider this a teaser. From time to time, if I am not too busy I will continue this plot line. Just to let everyone know, this will focus on the Andromeda storyline, with Ranma play a role in it. How big has yet to be seen.
Finally, I need some pre-readers to help with reading my story. I had some but they are no longer available. If your interested email me and let me know.