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"Talking"
"Talking on the Radio"
'Thinking'
Chapter 1
The Road Home
It has been 6 months after EA Fleet arrive above Mars orbit, of in that short period of time, they set-up a resources colony on one the small asteroids orbiting the red planet. There they began the mining and refinement of the ores they found to be used to build the foundation of the new orbital Habitats using Mobile Suits called Strike Daggers refurbished to do labor work.
Meanwhile not far from the resource colony, a certain Pigtailed Martial Artist is flying one of the EA Mobile Armor Fighter as a trainee. Ranma pilots a Mass Produced Mobile Armor known as the TS-MA1 thru an obstacle course dodging harmless laser fire and paint loaded missiles from every direction, he weave pass obstacles with ease without being hit once while firing his linear guns and missiles hitting target after target without missing once.
Ranma Saotome had decided to join The Mobile Armor Corp. after he recovered his strength, it was hard work for him, but thanks to his incredible learning curve that come from years of Martial Arts training, Ranma is now applying it to piloting skills, and in less than 2 months he mastered the skills to fly a Mobile Armor for the Prometheus.
On the Prometheus, engineers watch his MA fighter status carefully. as it shows, the TS-MA1 is being push beyond its limits, Ranma uses 100 of its capability and making it move like no one else can or thought possible, that made the Mechanics complained a lot because he pushes his machine too much but that was ok, for they understand that if someone who can pull the 100 of its machine capabilities means that he's an excellent pilot.
'PERCFECT SCORE 100' showing on his screens at the end of the Obstacle Course. Ranma stops his thrusters, did a 180 degree about face to look back at the course he went thru, and sees every target destroyed. The crew and other pilots cheered in doing a perfect 100 before the Captain voice came over the radio
"Okay Ensign Saotome, time to go back to the barn" the Capt. Ordered that surprised him
'He called me Ensign' he understands what that meant
"Roger, Wildhorse is heading back"
Ensign Ranma Saotome is a new recruit to the MA Corps whom have just graduated as one of the MA pilots of the Prometheus. The Crew gave him the codename Wildhorse.
An Appropriate name since it's just an English translation of Ranma's name and an appropriate one at that. The name fitted him because of his fast pace maneuvers and chaotic movements that makes it impossible for anyone to lock on to; he was wild and free to do anything when it comes to flying.
In his 6 months on board he took the time to absorb 2 Centuries of World History while recovering his wounds. The Doctors are also trying to absorb knowledge of his amazing recovery as broken bones, bruises and cuts disappeared right before their eyes.
He explained his 'Ki' technique that was created by the Martial Arts Masters. But Two Centuries have past and the Martial Arts World seems to have faded into the shadows as people seems to have lost Interest in the Art, few skills becomes nothing more than recordings for people to read or watch, no one practice the art seriously anymore.
So much Knowledge lost. It took thousands of years to create and to perfect have been totally lost in history, now it seems that Ranma is the last Master of the Arts, here in a time of uncertainty he wonders if there is a place for the practitioner of the Arts in this world. That question he kept it in the back burner for now, as he educate himself about this New Era of Spaceships, Space Colonies and Giant Robots known as MOBILE SUITS
He learns about the Genetically Enhanced Humans its origins and the problem it brought that divided Humanity between Natural and Coordinators. The Tensions between them brought conflict, and that resulted in two destructive wars claiming nearly hundreds of millions people the like of which not even in his own time has ever seen. He found a few reason why and who caused it.
The Factions known as Blue Cosmos and Logos manipulated the world into conflict due to their political economic and military powers, which resulted in the massive death toll during the Wars Their manipulation of people's emotion was all for profit, all for power. And using Hatred to one another was their tool, which resulted in catastrophic events that benefited them in the end.
Only a handful of people were able to stop them and restored peace, the same people that stops the first war and it was an Alliance of Naturals and Coordinators.
He dug deeper into the Coordinators origins; Ranma found one familiar name standing out Tofu Ono II
'Dr. Tofu kid?" he thought he put it away for now but promise to look at it later on.
Ranma still had a lot more for him to learn but for now he has to earn his keep on the ship. He asks the Captain about that, Ranma ask him if he could join the military as part of the Crew. The Capt soon enlisted Ranma in the MA Corps, Ranma also teaches Martial Arts and created a new training regimen to the aches and pains to some of the crew.
Ranma can't use his normal techniques in space. So he created The Anything Goes School of Zero G Hand to Hand Combat a new fighting skill that uses zero gravity, although they do have hand to hand combat training, he found their skills lacking. His training is rather different as he demonstrated to them by sending two dozen soldiers and crewman to the Infirmary every time they take his class or try and skip class and he tracks them down.
In a span of less than 6 months, Ranma absorbed knowledge like a sponge on water and when it was time for his Graduation, he is now a top class Mobile Armor Pilot with the highest rating skills than anyone on the fleet.
In a simple ceremony the Captain gave Ranma the Rank of Ensign; he is now a member of the crew "Congratulation Ensign Ranma Saotome" he saluted him Ranma returns it
"Thank you, Sir" he step back and saluted him and the whole crew sheered him.
To the Officers and Crew of the EAS Prometheus, they couldn't help but admire the boy that came from the past. He carries an enormous potential that they are still trying to measure, even Dr. Jennings is ecstatic to find remarkable discoveries from the boy, for even in his blood alone she finds strong anti-bodies and immune systems that are much better than theirs or even among the coordinators, yet she still don't understand how he can manipulate that 'Ki' energy Ranma is referring to.
What makes him more amazing to them is that he's purely Natural, if he was a Coordinator, then that could explain some of his abilities, and yet this is someone who came out of a glacier after 200 years of being frozen then burst out alive, and those energy manipulations of his is unbelievable.
They started a party to honor Ranma becoming Ensign. The Capt and a few officers are in a meeting to decide what to do next. He reviewed the gathered data on the test and examination they have done since the day they found him Maki Perano suggested once they return to Earth they would send Ranma for more examination.
"Captain HQ needs to know more about him" he said and wonders about his decision to let the boy join the MA Corps
"I don't know why you register him as an MA Pilot despite what he told us which is too unbelievable to say the least, he is still a stranger heck he could be an alien" everyone look at him to either absurd idea or…well maybe
The Captain shook his head "HQ would probably put him thru a battery of test as to why he's alive Maki, despite what we ourselves put him thru" he said looking outside the view port of his office, he can see Mars and the construction crew working on the colony and floating nearby is a 2 feet thick armour plating with a hole. He sighed
"He finished that obstacle course with a perfect score of 100 without once getting a scratch. 5 times he went thru that at a Level 5 difficulty Rate. That would be like going thru a battalion of Mobile Suits and a fleet of Warships firing all together aiming at him constantly" He said in amazement to the boy skills
"No one can do that by flying a Mobile Armor and coming out alive without a scratch" looking back to his officer
"Reinforcements will be here tomorrow, we will be going home but I will not handover the boy to HQ just to be turned into another guinea pig, and if that happens I'll tell the world first of what we found out here" he said as though he was daring his superiors to do something which worried his officers
"Look," he said explaining his rather defensive attitude for the boy "Ranma possess a power no one has in our Era. That 'Ki' manipulation is a Myth even in his time, and now we discovered that it's real. Look what he did to that amour plating" he pointed outside the viewport "that's 5 inch thick solid titanium, and he did with that Ki blast of his" one focused beam of Ki blasted thru it in seconds which awed everyone
That demonstration of raw power was both amazing and frightening. The Captain sat back to his seat. "The Phoenix Incident" he thought out loud.
"There's a lot he never told us about what did he do over there?" he asks none answered
"Well, we won't ask about that for now, have the ship prepared for departure"
He stood up, righted his uniform and said "it's time to go home"
A day later, the reinforcements arrived and the Prometheus leaves along with 5 cargo carriers laden with resources from Mars
The powerful Impulse Engine came to life and pushes the Prometheus on a path back to Earth. On one of the observation deck an anxious pigtailed boy watch Mars slowly becoming smaller and then look forward to a blue star in heaven and smiled
'I'm coming home'
TBC