The following morning found Akane very wet and very angry as the young pair made their way towards Vegas, heading almost straight northeast.
"You didn't have to wake me up with a bucket of water Ranma. I am not that heavy of a sleeper."
"To the contrary, Trudy had been trying to wake you for almost an hour before I stepped in."
"Okay, so maybe I was a little more tired than usual, I did just get shot in the damn mellon."
"This I know. Who do you think cleaned up after the securitron drug your pretty butt into the doc's office? Those fiends shouldn't have been anywhere near goodsprings."
That comment was met by a silence that held for almost an hour. Finally, akane got tired of the silence.
"So Ranma, why wer-" Ranma cut her off as he cocked his head.
Motioning to her to hunker down, they crept to the top of the rise they were on. Below, Akane saw a deep valley filled with, what appeared to be huge hornets.
"Ranma-"
" Cazadores. Seven of them. Were you trained in ki attacks?" She shook her head, "damn, well, wait here, ill take care of them. Come down only when I signal its safe."
He promptly disappeared, shocking akane. She watched the cazadores buzzing around, then suddenly converge on one spot. Ranma appeared behind them suddenly and lashed out with a fist, ripping the wing off the nearest insect, then hopped away from the group, sending small blasts of blue energy at the creatures, all the while yelling " Moko Takibasha!" Akane shook her head in amazement, she knew she was good, but not nearly as good as he was.
Movement in her peripherals caught her attention and she spun around to face the new threat.
"AAAAAAIIIEEEEEEAAAAA!" The girl's voice echoed through the small canyon and threw Ranma off guard, allowing the cazador he was currently fighting to bite his arm. He growled in pain and quickly brained the thing with a hammer fist to its head and fired of a rapid succession of ki blasts at the remaining two, blowing off their wings and reducing them to writhing carcasses incapable of movement. He quickly spun and hopped up the embankment back to his charge.
Hearing sounds of fighting and gunfire, he quickly readied his ki blast. As he cleared the crest of the hill, he found Akane fighting two raiders. Hiding in the Umisenken technique, he watched her fight the two drugged up crazies.
She had spun and found two raiders trying to sneak up on her. Screaming loudly to get Ranma's attention, she quickly leapt into action. She sprinted for the raider on the left first, a large man with a sledge hammer. As she neared, he swung the weapon… and got a huge surprise when she caught the head of it with her bare hand. Yanking it out of his hand, she dropped, spun and swept his legs out from under him. Rolling onto her back, she brought her leg up and dropped her booted food directly on to his jaw, creating a guillotine effect and severed his head. She spun up and promptly dropped again as buckshot passed over her by as scant few inches. She rolled behind a rock and brought her newly found hammer out and readied it. Poking the hammer out above the rock, two shots went off.
Akane dashed out of her hiding spot at full speed and lifted the sledge up high ready to smash the other raider.
The raider fired off her two shots as she saw something stick out above the rock. Cursing, she fumbled for two more shells. She looked up and realized she was too late. The last image she saw was a mallet wielding tomboy, angry as hell, bringing a righteous fucking hammer down on her head.
"Not bad Tomboy," ranma said as he dropped out of hiding.
"Tomboy! At least im not an arrogant jerk who just took off and left a (formerly) injured girl by herself and then didn't help when two armed raiders showed up!"
"Hey, I had to clear the road ahead! You macho chick. You seem to be able to handle yourself pretty damn well. By the way, where did that hammer you just had disappear to?"
"What?" akane asked, confused by the suddeen change in topic. "Oh, that is a trick daddy taught me. You use ki to create a hidden space that moves with you. Most people cant do it, let alone maintain it. I can only do it with one item, but I can maintain it for weeks."
"You'll have to teach me that sometime. Now, there is a small town ahead. Lets scope it out."
Descending from the cliff they had recently occupied, they snuck their way over to a small mound with rock cover a few hundred yards outside town. Ranma set his pack down and took out a pair of binoculars. Scanning the town, he handed the binoculars to Akane.
"Three raiders. One armed with spiked knuckles, one with a pump shotgun and another on top of that burned out building with a rifle. How do we do this?"
"Honestly? You could sneak around back and take out the rifle. Take out the one with the shotgun with the rifle and I can take out the one with the spiked knuckles."
"Hmm. Sounds good. You sure a tomboy like yourself can handle spikey? She's decked out in comat armor and looks to be pretty good. But then again, I probably shouldn't be worried about at gorilla like you."
"Ranma!" she quickly whipped out the mallet and clocked him in the head, putting him out cold. "Baka," she snarled. He had to have a harder head than her if it could contain a level of jerk that strong. Seeing him start to stir, she quickly hid the mallet.
"What the hell was that for!" he yelled, jumping up quickly. "That hurts you know!"
"Quiet you jerk, and sit down. That's what you get for calling me a gorilla. Now, are you okay?"
"Im fine, it'd take more than that to take me out for long."
"Good. You go and take out the guy on the roof and the shot-gunner while I get into position for spikey."
A/N: This series is intended on being an AU set in the world of Fallout: New Vegas. Story arcs will be based on in-game content, one or two story arcs from the original i think would fit may be redone for this story, not certain though. Most, if not all, of the characters from the original series will appear in this storyline. I still dont know what order they will appear in, but for now, figure on the same from the series, with the notable exception of Genma. However, he will still appear in the story before even the Tendos. The character personalities will be about 95% the same as in the series, however this world (if you have ever played any of the fallout games) is much darker than the original series. Prepare yourself. This story will fully live up to its mature rating. Certain chapters (lemons and extremely dark ones) i will try to prepare so the reader can skip over them with minimal loss of story, they will be marked on the top of the page as such. Oh, i also plan this on Ran/ak/ry/uk/sp/m/na/ka/ku/ko/gos being at least 21 years old or older (add 5 years from start of manga). I will not be using much Japanese in the story other than the attack names and a couple other choice words. Please R&R.
