The characters of Ranma1/2 and Pokemon do not belong me. Nor do any of the other known characters that may appear in this story. The story is mine, however and it is made for entertainment purpose only, not for profit.
2 B a Master by Lioconvoy
Prologue: Returning home
Ranma felt as if the weight of the world was on his shoulders. Truth be told, it was only that of his fathers and his own travel packs. His old man made him carry both as they swam from Houenn back to Kanto. When they arrived in Fuchsia City their first task was to find some hot water, then Ranma's father promised to take his travel pack from him.
Well as luck would have it, bad luck, after they found some hot water someone recognized Genma, Officer Jenny. Apparently there were several warrants for his arrest and he was taken in. Mind you it had taken a squad of officers and their Growlithes to do it, but nonetheless Ranma's father was now in jail.
So after a bit of traveling in police custody, Ranma walked with Pallet Town's Officer Jenny to what he was told was his mother's home. Still carrying both travel packs Ranma had no idea what he should be feeling. His father was in jail, but he was about to meet his mother who he hadn't seen in years.
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Nodoka sat in the living room while her Mr. Mime was cleaning the kitchen. Mimey had always been a great help; her grandmother had given him to her as a pokemon egg when she was little. She sighed, how did her grandmother do it? Her grandfather had died, and her father was always on Pokemon journeys. How could grandmother stand living alone like this?
In Nodoka's case her husband was still alive but he had taken their son on not a Pokemon journey, but a martial arts journey. It's not like they even visited her at all during their training. Her sisters did visit from time to time, but she missed her husband and son. Maybe she should go to Cerulean City to visit her family. It had been a bit since she had seen her own father and mother.
Just then there was a knock at the door Nodoka got up to see who it was. To her surprise it was her friend Jenny. However, Jenny was in uniform so this visit was business. 'Dear god what did my husband do now' she thought to herself. Before she could ask what was wrong Officer Jenny spoke first.
"I have both good news and bad news for you No-chan"
"May I have the bad news first Officer Jenny?" Nodoka frowned still hoping for the best.
"We've caught your husband and resisting arrest has been added to the long list of charges to his name. The good news however is, I believe this belongs to you." Officer Jenny smiled; she and Nodoka had been long time friends, she was happy to be returning her son to her. She motioned for him to come to the door from where he was standing.
"Hi Mom?" Ranma knew he was more asking then stating a fact, but it had been over ten years since he last saw her and he didn't remember her face. However having the life squeezed out of him was a sure sign that this was his mother.
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After a brief talk with Jenny, Nodoka came inside to see Ranma coming from his room. "Welcome home Ranma."
"Thanks Mom." Ranma said nervously.
"So tell me, how has your training has been? Your father sent letters home and Jenny has told me of some of his other activities, but I'd like to hear how you've been." Nodoka could't help but smile, here after so many years, was her son. Despite the example Genma had set for him it seemed he turned out well. Maybe in his own obscene way Genma had kept his promise after all.
"Well it wasn't all that bad except maybe for the Neko-ken and Jusenkyo. Me and Pop's did allota lot of traveling and I've gotten pretty strong." Ranma smiled a bit happy his mother wanted to hear about his training. However he did wonder what she would think of him after she saw his curse. He wouldn't try to hide it from her though. She was his mother after all.
"Would the Neko-ken have something to do with the mutilated Meowth found in Lavender Town?" To this Nodoka frowned, there had not been any evidence that that particular incident was connected to her husband, but something told her it had indeed been another of Genma's travesties.
Ranma shivered as he remembered the training he had tried so hard to forget. He remembered pops throwing him in the pit of Meowth, he remembered how scared he was down there, and then he remembered after the third attempt to learn the technique he had gotten out of the pit himself, covered in the smell of blood. "Yeah…"
Nodoka saw this was something her son didn't want to remember anymore so she changed the subject. "What's Jusenkyo?"
"It's a secret training ground Pop had heard about in Houenn. What he didn't know it was secret because it was cursed and they didn't want people to get cursed themselves." Ranma replied. He saw that his mother looked a bit skeptical. "Um, where's the kitchen?"
"Are you hungry? I can have Mimey fix you something." Nodoka said quickly.
"Um, not really Officer Jenny fed me before coming here. I just need a glass of hot water and a glass of cold water." As Ranma said this, his mother's Mister Mime went to the kitchen and brought back the two glasses he asked for. Ranma took them and dumped half the glass of cold water on himself and changed into a smaller, red haired, female version of himself. "You see while we were training there we fell into the springs. Dad turns into a panda, and I turn into a girl."
Nodoka gasped as her son poured half the glass of hot water on himself, or herself until the water soaked him, and changed back to a male. It was now clear to her that her husband had not kept his promise. She then calmed her mind down before she showed her anger outwardly. Ranma's curse didn't seem to affect him too much, he hadn't tried to hide it, and maybe it wasn't so bad after all. It wasn't permanent and the more Nodoka thought about it, she had been alone for far too long to have Ranma fulfill the conditions of the promise Genma had made to her. He was her son no matter what. "Well Ranma it's a bit late and I'm a little tired. We will continue this talk in the morning."
Ranma watched his mother get up and walk to her room. He could sense she was disappointed. He frowned and made his way to his own room.
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Ranma laid in his bed looking up at the ceiling. This was his room, not some tent, not some cheap hotel, but his room. On the road he didn't have many things he could call his own. Now he had a room, a soft bed, a digital alarm clock, a dresser, and a closet.
Still the reason he couldn't sleep wasn't because of the joy of having a room, it was because he disappointed his mother. As much as he tried, he could care less if he disappointed his father. After all the old man had done to him in his life, Ranma was more than happy he was in jail. He knew he shouldn't be, and he could forgive his father for Jusenkyo, but his mother had unintentionally reminded him of the one thing he could never forgive his father for, The Neko-ken. It had taken Ranma a long time to even say the name of the technique with out recalling all the mutilated Meowth in the pit. Even to this day he feared any feline type Pokemon.
He knew why he disappointed his mother. He was only half a man. How could any mother be happy with that? Ranma turned his head to his clock. It was pretty late. Then he noticed the clock go dead, he got up to turn the light on but it wouldn't work either. In the hall he heard some noise so he went to check it out.
As Ranma got in the hallway he saw his mother's Mr. Mime chasing a wild Pikachu that had gotten in the house. Ranma had heard wild Pikachu like to chew on power cables, which was probably why the power was out.
As the Pikachu passed by Ranma it took the time to shock him and Mr. Mime. Of course with all the things his father had put him though it didn't hurt all that much, but still he didn't much care for electric rodents shocking him so he decided help Mr. Mime in chasing the Pikachu.
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Nodoka woke up with the sun shining through her window. She got out of bed and looked at her clock and noticed it was blinking 12:00. "Mimey!"
Mimey came in the room shortly carrying some tools and dressed in a pair of overalls. "Mime mime mime."
"I see, thank you for fixing the power. Were you able to catch the Pikachu?" She had known Mimey since she was a child, and somehow she could always understand him. Apparently a Pikachu had gotten in the house last night and chewed on the electrical wires. Mimey had fixed them himself.
"Mime mime."
"Ranma did?" Nodoka put on her robe and looked into the living room to see both Ranma and the Pikachu unconscious on the floor. The Pikachu had been lassoed but apparently that didn't stop it from shocking Ranma. Although it looked like it tired itself out trying to get away though.
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Ranma woke up to find himself, or herself she noticed, in her bed. She hadn't remembered getting back in her bed after chasing the Pikachu last night. What she did remember was lassoing it just before it shocked her into unconsciousness.
"Oh you're awake." Nodoka said as she entered her son's/daughter's room. "I'm sorry I had to turn you into a girl, but you were too heavy for me and Mimey to carry as a guy."
"That's okay Mom, uh what happened to the Pikachu?"
Nodoka held a Pokeball and handed it to her son. "He's in here. Tell me Ranma are you interested in becoming a Pokemon Trainer? I know you'd be starting a bit late, but still it might be something you'd enjoy after all the training you've done with your father."
"A Pokemon Trainer? Not really. I'd rather fight myself then have something else do it for me." Ranma looked at the Pokeball, she actually felt sorry for Pikachu trapped in it. Her father had a Snorlax that he would make her fight while he was busy stealing sometimes. Ranma had never liked it when his father would put the poor thing in its Pokeball.
"Well Ranma there are two reasons you should think hard about this. First while you're on a Pokemon journey you won't have to go to school, and second your father had made a promise to me. So far you've shown me that you are an honest young man, but your father had promised that when you returned you'd be a man among men. I'm willing to overlook your curse, but only if you can become a great Pokemon trainer. Otherwise you and your father will have to face the consequence of not fulfilling that promise." Nodoka had said that last part looking as mean as she could. To be honest she had no intentions of having Ranma kill himself, Genma was a different story, but she wanted him to make the right decision. If not going to school wasn't enough of a reason then the threat would be. Personally when her father had told her and her sisters they wouldn't have to go to school they had all jumped on it. Then again her mother had mentioned that her youngest sister didn't need such coaxing.
Ranma looked at her mother with her eyes wide open. She didn't like the sound of consequences, but no school sounded good. "Okay I'll do it."
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Two weeks after his mother convinced him to be a Pokemon Trainer, Ranma stood on a hill over looking Pallet town. It hadn't been difficult to get a trainer's license and with his Pikachu on his shoulder and his fathers Snorlax on his belt he was ready to start his journey.
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Lio's Corner:
-I don't know why but lately I've wanted to do a Ranma/Pokemon fusion. So here it is.
-Sorry like my other fics its updates are dependant upon inspiration. I'm still trying to figure out how to end the second chapter of "Out There", and "Slay Ranma" is on hold till I remember exactly how I wanted to do that story. For those few of you that have actually read "Personality", Hiraishin is holding that one up. I have been getting on him for it.
Update 22 Mar 09:
- There are some minor revision with some simple errors I missed and a couple rephrasing.