Braids of a Feather II
By AlantisB
Disclaimer: I do not own GUNDAM or RANMA. Clear enough? ::winks::
A/N: Sorry it took so long for this to get out. I was just thinking about how I wanted the next few chapters to go. I already have several scenes planned but you know how that is, hehe.
You know, someone a while back suggested that I get 'Braids of a Feather' turned into a fan manga. That would be very cool and if someone would e-mail me and tell me they would do that it would be great! 'Cuz as soon as I figure out how to make a web page all my fanfics are going on it! AND the fan manga of Braids of a Feather . . . if one is made. Now I know its a lot of work to make one but it would be very cool if someone did. So if anyone wants to, tell me!
Oh yeah, enjoy the story would ya? I'd also loved to hear reviews!
"..talk.."
'..think..'
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Ranma looked around the forest they were in. They were currently eating breakfast really quick before heading towards the base again. Every few seconds he would have to grab Ryoga's shoulder (without breaking from eating) when the lost boy would get up to go somewhere and almost ending up getting lost again.
Fortunately, Ranma would catch him in time and glare at him while the lost boy would glare back at him. That was his warning glare to Ryoga, he said that if Ryoga got lost without him, when he found him again he was going to turn him into P-chan and stuff him in pop's dirty gi. It was good to know that the lost boy had some sense to not get lost again.
He knew he was close to the base, but he didn't really understand HOW he knew. He could just . . feel . . Duo's ki. It had a dark tinge that he suspected was from his recent demon side emerging just because the way the power seemed to just stand out as a beacon among normal human ki's. He hadn't noticed it before since his own ki and Ryoga's, were tinged with the same power from being near Duo. But when it dissipated and they finally took a break in the forest (which Ryoga seemed to be convinced that it was Juuban, Tokyo), he noticed the power off to the east. He estimated it to be about a half-hour's walk from here. That meant it would take them an hour to get there with Ryoga's sense of direction. He hoped they would make it time.
He sighed and packed up his cooking stuff and put out the fire. He shouldered his backpack again and glanced at the lost boy to make sure he was still here. He was surprisingly still there with a look of determination on his face as he stared off into the east. Ranma knew Ryoga could feel it too. He nodded in the lost boy's direction as the lost boy did the same. They then headed out in the direction of the ki. Surprisingly, Ryoga didn't get off the path once.
Maybe the gods were being nice to them today, he thought with an ironic smirk.
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". . you and Wufei grab Duo out of the cell while Trowa and Quatre use their gundams to distract the mobile dolls and suits." Sally told Heero as the gundam pilots listened to the mission. It sounded decent to Heero's ears but there was a slight problem he knew that Quatre would bring up.
"But Sally, the base is in Tokyo; one of the most populated cities on Earth. We can't start a battle there! People could die!" The blond told her as he looked at her with worry.
Sally pinched the bridge of her nose in frustration. This was the fifth plan she had told the pilots and they were all dismissing each she had thrown out. It was draining her nerves and if they didn't think of a rescue plan soon she was going to scream!
"Hn." Heero looked at Sally. "We could sneak into the base and then look for Duo, get out, and blow up the base before any mobile suits can be alerted."
"Yuy, are you forgetting that none of us are trained for infatuation. That was part of Duo's training by Dr. G." The Chinese pilot reminded the Perfect Soldier as he folded his arms and scowled.
"I know how to go in unnoticed." The usually silent boy spoke up as he gazed at them with one green eye while the other was covered by his bangs. "If you all follow my lead we should do fine."
"Good," Sally spoke up before anyone could disregard the decent plan. "Let's get started gentlemen! You have five minutes to get everything you will need in this mission. Now hurry up! There is only one hour left to get Duo." She frowned when she noted they weren't moving. "NOW!"
The gundam boys quickly left the room while Wufei mumbled about "Stupid onna" and "Its that time of the month" while Sally rolled her eyes and flopped back into her chair with a sigh. Which god had she pissed off lately? It seemed if they were all against her for some damn reason!
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Since it was a Saturday, Nabiki spent the day at home checking out her accounts on the net. She was very pleased that she managed to 'earn' at least 50,000 yen this week through blackmail and pictures. It was a decent profit and one that would go to repairs and food for the week.
Although 50,000 yen used to be able to stretch a lot farther then it had been in the last two years, ever since Saotome and his panda arrived they had been spending more and more yen on food! She was pissed that most of her own profit was cut from this but she knew that with Ranma here she had plenty of income.
She smirked as she logged off of the internet and got up from her chair. She walked across the room and kneeled next to some of the discolored floorboards and lifted them up with ease. She reached into the hole in the floor and took out a tin box. Here she kept all of her profits and any extra she managed to get from little odds and ends. With an almost loving caress, she lifted up the lid of the dented tin box.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!" cried an anguished scream throughout the entire Tendo household.
Kasumi looked up from her curry she was cooking for lunch with a surprised expression. She managed to some up the entire situation with two words.
"Oh my!"
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Duo stared at the corner in the dark cell with detachment. He had managed to knock out the delusional martial artist named Kuno, again, which brought him to some extent, relief. Although listening to the stupid boy was better then listening to the own workings of his mind, he thought with an odd bitterness toning his ramblings in his mind.
He just couldn't get over it. His most prized possession had been cut off leaving him with this, this stupid excuse for a hair cut! He screamed in his mind, the bitterness it caused him was finally getting to him. He still didn't eat anything that he was given in his cell, though. His hair was the only thing he could say he really owned other then his cross - which he had in a fit of anger - thrown across the room into the dark corner he was now staring at.
His precious gold cross was sitting against the cold floor.
He could hardly care less, actually. He hated the stupid thing now, what was it's worth for him now? Huh? Where was that god that Father Maxwell and Sister Helen preached about? Where the fuck was that son-of-a-bitch when he needed him? All that stuff his family at the church told him about a loving god that liked peace and wanted his children to be happy. Well wasn't he a child?! Where the hell was his happiness?
He felt like crying; he felt like laughing so hard that tears would come out of his eyes and his throat grew dry and ached. He wanted to scream at the top of his lungs and just kill something for the hell of it. He wanted to give in to bloodlust that his demon side taunted him with like a piece of string that this cat couldn't catch worth a damn!
Damn, there he went again.
He was acting like an insane person!
He chuckled dryly at his own private joke. Seems that the true crazy people never realized until it was too late that they were wacky. 'Well, guess that cat's outta the bag,' he thought with his odd sense of humor.
He didn't care he had about an hour until he died. He knew where he was going, straight to hell! Although it would be very funny and highly ironic if he ended up in heaven. Who ever heard of a demon in heaven? Certainly not him, not even in the bible is there anything about that. Although there were fallen angels in hell so why not risen demons? He smirked as he pulled his knees to his chest and wrapped his arms around them.
Risen demon. He snorted to himself, he wished!
Shinigami would just have to head to hell like all other bad demons.
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Ranma ducked down low as he stared at the military base with a keen eye. He was trying to figure out the best way into the base without alerting the guards to their presence. Although he knew he and Ryoga could take them down in a fight, he didn't know if he was up to dodging bullets and he knew that Ryoga wouldn't be able to. Fighting was one thing, but being shot for the kill is another!
Ryoga cracked his knuckles as he gazed at the base. This would be easy in and out! A few 'Bakusai tenketsu!' and 'Shishi Hokoudan!' and it would all be done with.
He glanced at Ranma and snorted. "Are we going in or not?"
"Don't be an idiot, Pig boy! We gotta have a plan. If we just go in their and start blowing up walls and stuff we'll end up gettin' shot and I don't about you but that bullet wound Duo had that he showed us before looked like it hurt like hell!" The pigtailed boy replied with an all-knowing tone.
"And I ain't willin to get shot 'cause your stupid bacon butt didn't think it through, P-chan."
"Don't call me that!" Snapped the lost boy as he glared at Ranma.
Ranma rolled his eyes and looked back at the base. "We're gonna hafta sneak in through there," he pointed toward the entrance - but not so much as that a guard could see them from where they were. "We head towards the middle of the base 'cause that's where most jail cells are. Got it?"
"Fine."
"If worse comes ta worse we can start blowin up walls with Bakusai Tenketsu."
Ranma glanced at Ryoga with a meaningful look. He knew that when he said 'worse comes ta worse' that Ryoga had caught on to what he was talking about. If they didn't get Duo out of there as quickly as possible, they might have to shoot to kill on their way just to get out safely.
Even if it meant breaking the Martial Arts Code.
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Hehe, now wasn't that interesting? Hmm, I told you Duo wouldn't be the same without his braid! I mean we all know he's a few screws loose to begin with, maybe this caused him to finally snap? Well you'll just have to find out, won't ya? Hope you liked this chapter cause I worked hard on it!
Bye! And please review! I live off all of my reviews and I love them so much!
-AlantisB
PS: After I finished this chapter, I did try and draw a scene from Braids of a Feather. Its the scene where Ranma is about to be smacked into LEO by Akane in the first chapter of BOAF. It looks good! ^.^ But It took me two hours to do -.-