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Ranma ½

(Last names go first in Japan)

(Age 16, 3rd year) Saotome Ranma - Protagonist/Hero of Ranma ½, and one of the protagonists of this story. Fell in a cursed pond in Jusenkyo, China that turned him into a very attractive girl when splashed with water, and back to a handsome guy when splashed with hot water. It does not necessarily have to be a 'splash' but the exact amount of spread of the water, or the exact temperature, is as of yet unknown.

Saotome Genma - Ranma's father, fell in a Jusenkyo pond but turns into a panda instead. Same rules as Ranma's curse.

Hibiki Ryoga - Ranma's rival, stronger but less agile and skills than Ranma, though still supernatural in both aspects. Jusenkyo curse that turns him into a pig.

Tendo Akane - Ranma's fiancee. Has anger issues, hates perverts, always assumes that anything that can be seen as perverted from he limited knowledge of the circumstances is perverted, and that the person doing it is a pervert. Fights with Ranma a lot.

Detective Conan

(Age 16, 3rd year) Kudo Shinichi aka (Age 6, 1st year Primary School) Edogawa Conan - Protagonist/Hero of Detective Conan, and one of the protagonists of this story. Was force-fed a poison that shrunk him into a child by men in black that are part of a mysterious crime syndicate. Since then he is known as Edogawa Conan and lives with his childhood friend/crush/girlfriend and her father, though they don't know his real identity. Arguably the greatest detective in Tokyo, and therefor Japan, and therefor the world, as in this story all the greatest detectives congregate in either Tokyo or in Japan, and visit Tokyo a lot.

(Age 16, 3rd year) Mouri Ran - Shinichi's girlfriend/mutual crush/childhood friend. Great at Karate. Has decent deductive capabilities.

Mouri Kogoro - Famous detective, Ran's father, and 'Conan's' caretaker. Typically an incompetent detective, he'll became an above average detective when significantly motivated, but as that is a rare occasion, Conan is forced to tranquilize the detective and speak with his voice using a voice modulator invented and given to him by a friend. Filthy, unmotivated, lazy, skilled at martial arts, alcoholic, loves his daughter a lot, and has a good sense of morals.

Hiroshi Agasa - Also known as Agasa-Hakase or Professor Agasa, he is Shinichi's neighbor, a good friend, and first to know of his double identity after shrinking. He invents gadgets for Conan and helps whenever needed.

(Age Unknown, Year unknown) Miyano Shiho aka (Age 6, First Grader) Haibara Ai - An ex-member of the crime syndicate who shrunk Shinichi, she poisoned herself with the drug she made, APTX-4869, that was supposed to kill her, after being shackled in a room that would soon be burnt to a crisp, but miraculously it let her live as a child, allowing herself to escape her shackles and then the whole building she was in. She is an amazing chemist, highly above average detective, genius, and has a crush on Shinichi, though she'd never admit it. She knows Conan's identity.

(Age 16, 3rd year) Sera Masumi - Another high school detective, though not nearly at Shinichi's level. Has a crush or fascination in Shinichi, and knows who Conan really is, even if she's never said it to his face.

(Age 16, 3rd year) Hattori Heiji - An Osakan high school detective, equal to Shinichi in some areas of detective work, superior in others, while inferior in some aspects as well. A bit hotheaded, and has a crush on a girl names Kazuha his age. Knows Kendo.

"Hey, pops, I'm gonna head East to Edogawa. I heard rumor that a very powerful martial artist was there for a competition." Ranma shouted as he packed his bags, getting ready to leave, "Tell the Tendo's, Amazons, Ukyo, and the school that I probably won't be back for at least a week. Seya!"

"Grawrf." A guttural sound came from the bedroom, which Ranma took as an indication that he was heard and that the panda didn't care.

In fact, that was not what the sound was indicating. It was, in fact, indicating that the panda had not listened to what Ranma had said, and affirmed it anyways.

On the way to Edogawa...

"Hmm, I should stop off at the bank in Beika first, it isn't that far away from this stop…" Ranma decided as he picked up his bags and walked out of the subway that he had taken this far.

As Ranma walked towards the bank, he heard five children chatting behind him, though one only jumped in every once in awhile, and didn't seem that enthusiastic about it, and another seemed to showing off.

Deciding that he'd nothing better to do, he improved his hearing, having has gotten a lesson on consciously doing so from Cologne, using his Ki, and listened.

"Ne, ne, next, do… that guy! The one in the red shirt and the large bag!" The shortest of the bunch, besides perhaps the boy that had been showing off, a little girl dressed in pink requested.

The other two enthusiastic children, a lean boy and a large chubby boy, nodded twice.

"Well, I can tell he's strong, if not by the fact he has such a big bag, then by his build. I'd also say by his stance that he is definitely a martial artist, a skilled one at that. A gymnast as well due to his excellent balance. I'd say he knows several styles by his build, or if not, he takes extra care to exercise all his muscles frequently. That I can tell by how well built his muscles are. I'd say he travels a lot by how comfortable he seems wearing that large bag, and also that he is wearing chinese clothing. One last thing I can tell is that he has stupendous hearing. He keeps twitching while glancing back in our direction." The boy sent a smug smile in Ranma's direction when he finished that last part, causing Ranma to barely avoid face faulting.

As Ranma entered the bank, followed quickly by the five kids, he sent his Ki towards them in order to sense any anomalies. It was a technique he had learned from Doctor Tofu a while back, but never really had a reason to use. And the few times he had, he completely forgot about it. Because of that, he had been eager to use it, and so now that he had a reason, however small, he couldn't help using it. He was not very surprised to find that the abnormally silent child, along with the cocky brat, both had anomalies. What he was surprised was that they were in both the brain AND the body.

"The Ki in their brains show that they're geniuses, but not only that, it shows that they're geniuses and their brains have gone through at least part of puberty if not most or all. Also, all their Ki, excluding the Ki in their brains, was compressed. Tofu explained this type of phenomenon once, I believe he said… 'This is not altogether a bad thing, as it leads to a better sixth sense, but it can also lead to slight paranoia, or in worse cases, naivety and overconfidence. Thinking that they'll sense everything that comes their way.'"

As Ranma thought this, a bump came from beside him, and he swore he felt a hard L shaped object from when he was bumped, putting him on full alert.

Ranma got into position to attack at any time, which didn't go unnoticed by the little kid, who pointed a tranquilizer dart, ready to fire it, at him, thinking that Ranma was the one planning something.

Though that assumption didn't last for long, as soon after, five people spread across the bank, one of whom being the one who bumped into him, pulled out guns.

"Everyone stay silent!" A bank robber shouted, not wearing a mask, the one closest to the entrance, which he was now closing the shutters for so no one could see inside, shouted.

"Kid, I hate to ask help from children, but I can tell you're not normal. Hide in my bag and whisper me advice on what to do. I'm fully aware that even the strongest martial artist couldn't win as the circumstances are now without sacrificing a single life, at least not without a lot of maneuvering, which my instincts tell me you know how to do." Ranma whispered out of the side of his mouth.

Weighing the pros and cons of it, he nodded, and asked, "Are you sure you'll be able to carry an extra 30 kilos?"

"Phh, just look at what's inside my bags before you ask something idiotic like that." Ranma rolled his eyes.

Doing so, he almost… almost… shouted in shock, but instead entered the bag, which was half-filled with 1000-kilogram weights.

Instead of that, he got himself and Haibara inside, and told the others to act like the other citizens/victims until they concluded the event. They would have gotten the others in too, but Genta (The chubby kid) wouldn't fit unless they got rid of the weights, and that would be too suspicious. And if they let everyone besides Genta in, well, that was a bad idea. An alone Genta was not a good thing.

"So, kid, we need to get them into one place so I can beat them up without having to worry about them shooting a hostage." Ranma whispered to the boy in the bag.

"You can take on five armed foes?"

"You've obviously never been to Nerima." Was Ranma's response.

Conan didn't respond, and instead said, "Turn the bag upside down, Carefully."

Agreeing, though not understanding the point, he slowly and carefully flipped the bag onto it's head.

After a couple minutes where three of the robbers were binding everyone and taking their wallets, one of them came to Ranma and said, "Your wallet, phone, and any other valuables on you."

"Everything I own besides my clothing is in my bag." Ranma answered, starting to sweat slightly. What if one of them found the two brats?

The guy attempted to lift the bag, but failed, so he called over another, still failing, then another, and the trend continued, until at four people, Ranma realized what the goal of this was.

"What's in here anyway?" One of them asked, sweating profusely.

"Oh, I was supposed to deposit approximately 25 metric tons of gold into my employer's business account." Ranma shrugged, "Which is over 111.5 billion's worth in yen by the way." Ranma was glad that he had conversed with Nabiki before he left. She was always a good source for interesting facts when it came to money.

No longer thinking with logic, the fifth robber came over to help, and Ranma suggested, "How about rather than lift it, you try to roll it, all from one side?"

They blinked twice, and did as he suggested, only for Ranma to hit the back of two of their necks from the back, knocking them out, and then hitting a third before the other two were able to react at all.

One of the two, the one he judged to be the leader and most skilled shot away from the bag, leapt backwards in a summersault, and pulled his gun out, pointing it at the Martial Artist, while the other, tripped backwards, attempting to pull his pistol back out, though it was taking time due to his unfamiliar with having a hidden holster.

Ranma, ignoring the one who at the moment was missing a gun, shot at the armed opponent, and when he fired a bullet, Ranma used a small Ki blast, though invisible as this wasn't Nerima, nor China, so he didn't want to draw attention to his supernatural power, slowing it down enough for him to grab it out of the air, and throw it back at his opponent, causing a slight swelling on his forehead. As Ranma continued to rush forward, he did a side sweep with his leg, knocking his opponent to the floor, and then, as his opponent was still in mid fall, he brought his arm in a punch the falling man's head, causing him to literally fly headfirst into the room.

"Oops, might've put a little too much power into that." Ranma faked sympathy for the thief, then turned back to his less skilled opponent.

"Give up now and I won't do to you what I did to him." Ranma shot the criminal a craze-inducing glare. One that would suppress the criminal instincts in favor for the survival ones in all but the bravest of souls.

Sadly, for the criminal, his fear overpowered both his survival and criminal instincts, causing him to shoot, which Ranma dodged, already having calculated the approximate trajectory, and bolted towards the criminal, sticking a first into his crotch, and the other into the side of his head, forcing him to fly straight into the wall.

Ranma then walked over to his bag, picked it up easily, flipped it back over, very carefully, and was glad to find them still alive, though breathing heavily.

"You did it?" Conan gasped for air, "We really didn't need to go into your bag, it would've been easier otherwise."

"I think they might've noticed you whispering to me sooner rather than later if you didn't though," Ranma mentioned, "Not to mention that it was safer this way. Or, well, it would've been had your plan not revolved around them trying to access my bag."

The boy snorted derisively, "You're the one who told them the bag was filled with gold."

"What was I supposed to tell them, they were filled with iron weights that weren't even worth their time?"

"Touche."

Soon after the police were contacted, came, and dealt with the situation, thanking and warning Ranma for his efforts and the obvious idiocy of his plan should the criminals have not been idiots.

"Nah, I could've defeated them even if it were not them all being in the same place, I'da just needed to set a trap of some sort." Ranma waved them off dismissively, though they just ignored him and continued with their lecturing. Although he said otherwise earlier, at the time he hadn't known how dumb the robbers really were. The most intelligent part of their plan was not all starting in the same place.

After all that was done, Ranma was asked to escort the boy, who he learned was Edogawa Conan, and the silent girl, who he learned was Haibara Ai, back to their guardian, Hiroshi Agasa's, house.

"So, who are you kids anyways? I can tell you're not normal, even among geniuses. I've met geniuses, at many professions, and none of the ones younger than 14 thought like you, no, none younger than 15. My instincts tell me you're maybe… 16 to 20 years old? No, 16 to 18." It was mostly a guess. He knew that the mind was older than 14, and lower than 25 from the boy and girl's Ki's, and by their personalities likely the lower end, but that was really all he could tell.

"Huh?" Conan looked at Ranma with shock. How'd someone he just met figure it out? Seriously, the guy wasn't even a detective. Really, he didn't even seem all that clever.
"I've come into contact with mushrooms that alter the age of the consumer before… could you have perhaps eaten some of them and then not have gotten another one to revert you back? Or did you perhaps not figure out how to reverse it yet?" Ranma, unlike usual, was curious. How did someone other than the Nerima Wrecking Crew or their enemies, find some of those mushrooms? Unlucky things like this don't typically happen to outsiders, just people he knew or hated him.

"Did you say you've come across mushrooms that alter age?" Haibara asked, stunned. If that were true she might have a way to cure them, or at least find a way to do so by applying the mushroom's makeup to the antidote.

"Yeah. Don't know where I could find anymore though. If I meet Ryoga, the one who found them originally, I could ask him for the plant and animal life in the area, then we could narrow it down, but otherwise I just know it was in a forest." Ranma shrugged, then after a few moments, realized the significance of the girl's words, "Wait, you're saying that isn't what caused whatever it is that made you chibis?"

Conan and Haibara turned towards each other and had a silent conversation with their eyes, contemplating whether or not they should tell them, as he'd already guessed and he had a potential lead on the cure.

Next time…

Chapter 2…

Ranma moves into Beika…

What's happening in Nerima with no Ranma?

Ranma meets Ran

Ranma meets Sera (Who arouses his suspicion)

Ranma meets Sonoko (Who talks about her boyfriend, Makoto)