The Great Hunt
Blue eyes of brilliant sapphire open slowly as the light from the waking sun glares into them. Their owner gazes around at the unfamiliar place that they wake in their long crimson locks sway side to side as a breeze whispers through the destruction around them. The walls around them are scarred and burnt twisted lab equipment lay broken all around them. Hanging on the wall is a mirror the girl wanders over to it for yes this is a girl. She looks herself over in the mirror the girl appears to be of Japanese descent her almond shaped eyes gaze at her clothes. Whatever happened to the room she was in didn't leave them unscathed. Her clothes were torn and tattered barely leaving anything to the imagination. The girl admires her figure she had a petite heart shaped face with lips that pouted out slightly, her body was almost hour glass shaped her breasts were about a C or D cup she had long legs as for height she was a little on the short side maybe 5 feet tall.
The woman runs her hands through her hair, turning around she faces the room and takes in the destruction that seemed to consume it more thoroughly. Shattered glass seemed to be strewn all over the room as well as twisted and wrecked lab equipment. She notices a large metal security door. As well as a shattered window that leads to another room. First trying the security door and having no luck getting it open, she climbs through the shattered window into the other room. The woman has to cover her mouth to not be sick as she gets a good look around the room. Three corpses that were mutilated by glass shards were sitting in chairs in the room a fourth corpse lay closer to another metal security door this one had a large piece of glass embedded in its skull. After gaining her composure the woman tries to open the security door and is unable to open this door as well. A blinking light on a nearby console grabs her attention pressing a button under the blinking light she is shocked as a miniature hologram of a woman appears in front of her. The woman is dressed in what looks to be an armored suit that hugs her figure.
"My god Ranma am I so glad you are alright I was afraid that explosion did you in. you aren't hurt right"
"Ranma is that my name? Who are you? What is this place?" Ranma looks at the woman curiously as she sighs and mutters something that she can't hear the woman pulls out a strange looking gun and starts shooting at something just outside the image. Ranma hears muffled weapon fire outside the room she's in.
"Look I don't really have time to play twenty questions but your name is Ranma Saotome. My name's Nabiki Tendo our families used to be great friends and I've come to rescue you from this place. Now one of the corpses behind you should have a way to open that door."
The hologram of Nabiki cuts off abruptly. Turning back to face the corpses Ranma gives a apology to the corpse that's mostly intact before taking everything off of it including the black robes it's wearing as well as a strange flashlight. She finds a security card in a pocket of the robes she's wearing. Going up to the door she Slides the card in a slot on the wall, the door makes a swishing noise as it opens. Before she has a chance to step outside she's tackled by a small body back into the room. The door closes as a explosion rocks the corridor outside sending tremors through the walls and causing dust to rain from the ceiling. Ranma looks up at the person who knocked her down and blinks owlishly at the child. Ranma closes her eyes and opens them again to make sure they aren't playing tricks on her. When she opens them again the child who knocked her back into the room is holding out a petite little hand to help her up. The child is wearing a similar suit of armor as Nabiki was wearing. It looked like it was well worn with use scuff marks and burn marks adored the metal armor suit like badges of honor each telling their own story. Strapped around the girls torso where grenades a rocket launcher peeked above the girl's right shoulder two toy looking guns were holstered one on each of her hips. The child looked down at Ranma with confused blue eyes her head cocked to the side causing the girls short bob cut pink hair to fall over her left eye.
"Well are you coming Oneechan? We need to get out of here before they clear through the debris." Ranma in shock reaches up and takes the little girls hand. The little girl pulls her to her feet.
"Who are you? And what was that explosion just now?" The little girl looks around the room before climbing through the shattered window to the room Ranma woke up in. Ignoring Ranma for a moment she goes to the back wall of the room and begins knocking on the wall after doing this for a couple minutes she gives a nod of her little head and attaches something to the wall before turning back to Ranma a big smile on her face.
"I'm Nabiki-Chans partner Nanami" Nanami leads Ranma back through the shattered window and ducks down behind the wall on the other side Ranma stares through the window at the device that Nanami attached to the wall.
"You might want to get down Oneechan I'm sure you're not shrapnel proof" Ranma looks confused at the little girl who gets a big smile on her face as she pulls out a cylinder with a button on it. Ranma dives for the ground as the little girl presses the button. Ranma's ears ring as a large explosion resonates through the room she can feel the heat on her back as she cowers behind the wall. After a minute she feels a tap on her shoulder she looks up into the eyes of the smiling pink haired little girl who motions for her to follow her. Climbing through the window Ranma stairs in shock at the huge hole in the back wall and then at the little girl one thought runs through her mind. Who the hell in their right mind gives explosives to a kid?
"Come on Oneechan we need to get to Nabiki-chan."
Nabiki cursed as more soldiers poured around the corner. She fires her blasters dropping the first two before rolling to cover behind a couple of durasteel crates.
Hopefully the runt has already found Ranma if this goes on to much longer the Imps are going have this placed locked down so tight we'll never get out of here alive. Poking her head around the barrel Nabiki fires off a few more blaster bolts taking out a three more soldiers as the try and take her down. Slipping a grenade off her belt Nabiki primes it and then slides it across the floor in the middle of a group of Imperial soldiers before dashing across the corridor as the grenade explodes sending pieces of the Imperial soldiers everywhere.
I remember when all I had to do was try and keep our dojo intact. Now look at me I'm running a rescue mission to save the idiot. It was his friends who would tear the dojo apart. This is that god's doing the one Ranma beat up to save my sister. He came to Nerima to pay his respects to the victor, as he put it and instead froze us all. It's too bad the bastards long dead I wouldn't mind having a crack at him. After he froze us, we were passed around to all the kingdoms as trophies. All of us but Ranma that is. Ranma he kept personally as his own little trophy. Our world later ended but not before we were smuggled off world by some random pirate gang. We were used as precious art pieces I was the first one to actually be thawed out to bad it was by a Hutt. A alien species of greedy slugs who are famous as crime bosses. Just glad I managed to bargain with him for my freedom and training. His sources were useful as well to try and find the others. But sadly we were passed through so many hands, it took years for me to just find her. She was the one who could truly help me find my sisters and family. But it seems her memory has been messed with by that bird brain. I really wish I could…
"Exterminate" Nabiki looks up and notices she's surrounded by battle droids. Spotting some crates she slides behind them as blaster cannon fire whips past her dodging form.
"Crap this is not good I was trained better than to let myself get distracted" Nabiki tosses an EMP grenade frying the circuits of one of the battle droids.
"Where is Chaos-chan when I need her?" Nabiki pulls another EMP grenade but before she can throw it she feels the barrel of a pistol at the back of her head.
"I'll take that. Now turn around slowly" Nabiki turns around and is given a Rifle butt to the stomach by the Imperial trooper. "This is Goda I got one of the intruders captured near the shuttle bay. What should I do with them copy eliminating target now" The soldier Goda raises his pistol to kill her seeing a glimpse of pink behind him she smiles and throws herself back over the crates she was hiding behind as a explosion rips through the area she just vacated. Getting to her feet she pulls out two grenades and tosses them at the battle droids that went into idle when the soldier had her cornered.
"Took you long enough to catch up Chaos-chan"
"Sorry Nabiki-chan" Nanami poked the ground with her armored foot sheepishly. Nabiki walked up to the child and tussled her short pink hair that's alright you arrived just in time that idiot almost had me. Nabiki said pointing over to the remains of the Imperial Soldier. Nabiki turned to face Ranma.
"Long time no see Saotome I know you have questions but I'd rather we discuss them somewhere a little safer." Ranma Looked at Nabiki faded memories started to come to her mind.
"Alright but I want answers soon Nabs." Nabiki shakes her head a slight smile coming to her lips.
"Nabs… that'll cost you Saotome but we'll work out payment later it's good to see you again Ranma." Nabiki walks towards two large steel doors after she tries to open them manually and noticing they won't open she blasts the control panel with her blasters the door slowly opens to reveal a big bulky hunk of clear glass and metal two turrets sit in mounts one on top and one on bottom of the ship
"What is that thing?" Nabiki looks back at Ranma and gives a small evil smile
"It's a starship Saotome welcome to the Galaxy." Nabiki walks up a ramp and into the ship. Ranma follow's her up the ramp. As she gets inside she notices Nanami head up a separate corridor to her right and decides to follow her she finds herself in what looks like the cockpit of a Aircraft. Nabiki brushes past Ranma and sits down in what she assumes is the pilot seat.
"Strap yourself in Saotome and don't break anything or you buy it." Nabiki turns to Nanami "Whats up with the blast doors can't get them open?" The little pink haired girl shakes her head no with a frown on her face.
"They have us completely locked out of the system Nabiki-Chan" Nabiki sighs 'Fine if they won't let us out we'll blast our way go man the guns Chaos-chan" the little girl shouts out in joy and runs out of the cockpit. Nabiki shakes her head and chuckles "That kid loves blowing things up way too much."
Nanami runs down the ships corridor and slides down the turret access ladder strapping herself in she spins the turret guns around and lights up the hanger doors blowing them off their hinges in the first five shots. Up in the cockpit Nabiki jams the ships throttle to full and blasts through the wrecked hangers doors.
As they exit the planet's atmosphere Nanami climbs out of the turret and heads to the cockpit. Passing by a white knuckled Ranma she smiles and sits down at the copilot seat.
"Turrets secured Nabiki–Chan" Nanami frowns "I was hoping I could blow up something else" Nabiki Smiles and shakes her head.
"Another time runt now let's get out of here." Turning around Nabiki smiles at Ranma "As I said before welcome to the galaxy Saotome, We've got much to talk about."
Author's Notes: Hello Readers After a long absence I have once again decided to pick up the pen so to speak. My muse came up with this idea out of just the words brilliant sapphire eyes and my want to play swtor. Sadly my friend couldn't play at the moment. So I sat down and started to write. This is what came to my mind. The grammar might be a bit rough, but I hope it should be a lot better than some of my previous work. I'll try and iron out the grammar errors after i get this up than I'll post a revised chapter. Anyway I dedicate this chapter to my friend Zeltronica or Zelly for short. Told you I'm not dead. :P Now lets just see if my muse can keep this up wish me luck oh and in the meantime go read zelly's stories they're pretty good.
