Disclaimer: I don't own any of this, and the name of one of the characters IS Ash, but he won't be the guy from Pokemon. I just couldn't resist doing it.
Chapter 1, A man's first Pokegirl, and she has to be a lesbian. :D
In a forested area that, if one had been there about six hundred years ago, would have been the Nerima district of Tokyo, Ranma Saotome hit the ground with a thump. For those who are interested, he had just fallen from a clear sky, which wasn't at all unusual, but the fact that he had just appeared five feet above the ground was.
Groaning, Ranma rolled over from his back to his side, his whole body protesting violently. He didn't know what the old letch had hit him with, but it had hurt like hell. Looking down to his leg, where Happosai's blow had impacted, Ranma saw a small piece of mirrored glass, disintegrating into tiny flecks. Where it was, a tiny cut was left in his leg, but there were no other problems.
"This is what hurts so much?" Ranma thought, looking down at the shallow cut. Dismissing it, he stood to his feet, wobbling slightly before stabilizing himself. Taking a quick look around, he saw a forest clearing, with the sound of a running stream nearby. He knew that he was asking for trouble, but since there didn't seem to be anything else around, and he didn't have the supplies to set up camp, Ranma began to head towards the river.
HR
Ash Ketchit walked down the road, his small Tamer's pack balanced on his shoulders. His mother and the professor had advised against it, but he had decided to find a Pokegirl to capture on his own in order to start on his journey in a few days. Since his village was pretty far from the traditional stomping grounds of dangerous types, He thought that he'd be fine. Trying to be stealthy, he crept through the tall grass, until he came across a girl who was kneeling next to a pool of water, taking a drink. Creeping closer, he held up his new Pokedex to get a reading on her. As he flipped it open, the Pokedex began to speak. "Buzzbreast, the swarming Pokegirl. This Pokegirl, in the wild, is currently considered a class three hazard to all Tamers. You are recommended to leave immediately."
Ash gulped, as the Feral Pokegirl's head shot up from her activities, apparently hearing the sound of Ash's Pokedex speaking. Abandoning all stealth, Ash began to run in the opposite direction, scooping up a rock in one hand. As the Pokegirl started towards him, he flung the rock at it, catching it in the forehead. To his astonishment, it fell over, unconscious. "Wh, what the?" He asked, as he started to walk towards the downed Pokegirl. "I… I did it? I caught my first Pokegirl!" He shouted, in a state of euphoric shock. Quickly, he pulled out the Pokeball his parents had given him on his sixteenth birthday and prepared to catch it.
That, of course, was when he heard the buzzing. It sounded as if there were hundreds of insects heading towards him, and Ash lowered the hand that held the Pokeball uncertainly. As he backed away from the single Buzzbreast, six more burst from the trees around him. "I… guess that's why they call you the swarming Pokegirl." He said, weakly, before turning tail and running as fast as he could in the opposite direction from the swarm.
HR
Ranma was pushing herself up from the pool of water, and cursing herself for walking in this direction. "I heard it, and I came over anyways. Man I'm dense sometimes." She complained, as she rung out her hair. She couldn't remember precisely what she had tripped on in order to send her into the water. In fact, she hadn't tripped on anything. In the modern world, about 90 percent of the population was technically Jusenkyo cursed, and the springs' spirits were going to have their fun with the only one who could still change back and fourth.
As she hauled herself up the side of the riverbank, Ranma heard a rather peculiar sound. It was a little like a nest of hornets buzzing. She had, however, heard that far more times than she would have liked to during her father's speed training sessions, and this sounded a little heavier. As she considered the sound, she heard another that got her sprinting towards it's maker as fast as possible. "Help!"
Ranma ran through the forest, jumping over deadfall and low branches as she went. As she continued, both the buzzing and the cries for help became louder, and the cries became more and more desperate. Breaking the tree line onto a path, Ranma skidded to a stop as she saw a boy about her age, running franticly from a horde of short women, with wings.
She blinked rapidly as she took this in. The women, numbering six in all, were all naked and had insect like Antennae on top of their heads. They also had rapidly beating wings, which apparently had created the buzzing sound she had been hearing. She would have been embarrassed at seeing so much bare flesh, if the strange nature of the situation, and the obvious panic of the young man, hadn't stopped her from doing so. Making her choice quickly, Ranma jumped out in front of the insectoid women. "Hey you, what'd this guy do to you?" She asked, however the buzzing creatures didn't answer, simply lunging at her.
Jumping out of the way of the attack, Ranma frowned. "Well then, if that's how ya wanna play it…" She said, before cracking her knuckles. One thing she found odd, however, was the fact that the insect women kept lunging at her with their chests pointed out, as if they wanted to hit her with their breasts. Jumping over a fast lunge from one insect, she turned, using it's head as a pivot point, and landed her foot in the small of it's back. It seemed pretty fragile, as it hit the ground and didn't get up. Normally, Ranma didn't like getting in fights with women, but this was a special case and they didn't seem to want to talk, so she smashed the next one in the face with her fist, watching as she flew away to land in a crumpled heap on the trail.
By this time, Ash had stopped running, noticing that the Buzzbreasts weren't following him anymore, and was watching in astonishment as the girl proceeded to beat the hell out of them. As Ranma finished off the sixth and final one, she turned around, dusting her hands off. "Piece of cake." She said, laughing. "Now you wanna tell me why they were attackin you?"
Ash was surprised. This was quite obviously a Pokegirl, no human could deal with any Pokegirls with the moves she'd used, no matter how tough they were, but she seemed perfectly coherent, so she wasn't Feral. Deciding to answer her before doing anything else, he spoke up. "Well, I'm a new tamer and I wanted to catch a Pokegirl of my own. Those Farels just got the jump on me, that's all. By the way, my name's Ash." The strange Pokegirl was about to open her mouth, when one of the previously defeated Buzzbreasts reared up behind her. "Look out!" Ash yelled, as Ranma spun around only to get two breast mounted stingers stuck into her torso.
Ranma staggered back in surprise, as a numbing sensation began to spread out from the parts of her stomach that were hit by the stingers. "What happened?" She asked, as she began to slump to the ground.
Ash looked worried as his only source of protection crumpled to the ground right in front of him, and began to back off as the still conscious buzzbreast advanced on him. Now, it would take him too long to find a rock or other object to throw, and he was being slowly backed up. Deciding that he had no other hope, he lashed out with a fist, clocking the Pokegirl in the face. Fortunately for him, she had already been weakened by Ranma's attack, and crumpled to the ground like a rather light sack of potatoes. He was about to hightail it out of the area, when he saw Ranma laying on the ground. He knew that the buzzbreasts were going to be awake soon, and Ranma had already been injected with a fair amount of their poison. Making a decision, he grabbed his Pokeball, flinging it at the Red haired girl who had come to his rescue. To his surprise, the reddish light flickered for a moment, and he feared that the ball was defective before it absorbed the girl in a flash of red light and returned to his hands. Looking down at his first Pokegirl, Ash smiled. He didn't know what type she was, but she was sure to be very strong.
HR
Ranma woke in a black void, with a soothing feeling of warmth enveloping her. She could move again, if you could call random floating moving, but she didn't know where she was at all. The last thing she remembered, she had been talking to that boy she'd rescued from that group of rampaging insect girls. Then again, that was such a strange memory that she was inclined to believe it to be brought about by Akane's cooking's hallucinations, rather than any real event. Of course, that still left her with the question of where the heck she was now. Extending her rather rudimentary aura sight, Ranma felt that where she was was very small. In fact, it seemed WAY too small for her to fit inside of, but she was. Also, something seemed to have a pretty strong grip on her Chi energy, seemingly holding her inside of where she was. With this information, she quickly deduced that she was in a prison of some sort, and set about trying to escape.
She reached out with a hand to find a wall or something, only to have it hit nothing but empty space. She flailed around with both arms for a while, before she got tired of that and decided to try other methods. Pointing one arm out, she let off a small Moko Takabisha, watching as it streaked off into the distance and then faded, sucked in by the same thing that was sucking in her Chi. She growled under her breath, accidentally producing a small battle aura, as she got slightly angry. As the aura flared, it was contained as well, but she began to notice something. Whatever was containing her seemed to manipulate her Chi by use of the female balanced half of it. Doing her best to focus an attack that only used the male half of her spirit, Ranma fired it, and the blackness around her flared in a bright white light before she found herself sprawled out on the ground, on top of the boy she had saved earlier.
"Huh? What happened?" Ash asked, as he pushed the weight off of his back. Looking to the ground below him, he saw vaguely Pokeball shaped shrapnel scattered everywhere, and the red haired Pokegirl was now standing, after getting up from off of his back. "You, you broke open a Pokeball?" Ash asked, stupefied. The device had indicated that she had been successfully captured, so that should have been impossible.
"Did you put me in that thing, Ash?" Ranma growled, glaring at the boy.
"Um, well I couldn't just leave you there unconscious and I really wanted a Pokegirl and well, Yeah, I put you in there." Ash said, uncertain of how the girl would react. Most Ferals who a tamer attempts to capture react badly if it fails, or so he had been told. The girl was no exception, as she reared back to smash Ash into the stratosphere, only to stop several centimeters from hitting him with her fist.
Ranma blinked rapidly, as her fist refused to move forward, no matter how much she ordered it to. She really wanted to hammer this guy into next week for putting her into that little prison, but for some reason she couldn't connect with a blow. Every time she tried, she just stopped dead. "Well, I'd kill ya for that, If I could seem to hit ya." She grumbled, as she lowered her fist.
"You're not going to hit me?" Ash asked, surprised, as well as relieved.
"That's what I said, now let's get goin wherever you were goin." Ranma said, still slightly annoyed. Unfortunately, she still didn't know where she was, and hanging around with this kid until she found her way somewhere recognizable was probably her best bet. She knew that Ash was only a couple of years younger than she was, but his painfully obvious lack of martial arts or self defense training automatically labeled him as a kid to her anyways.
"Well, since I don't have my Pokeball anymore, I guess I've got to go home." Ash said, sadly.
"All right then, which way to your home town?" Ranma asked, and Ash pointed the way before starting to walk.
A few seconds later, curiosity began to tug at Ash, and he pulled his Pokedex from his bag.
"What's that thing?" Ranma asked, looking at the red notebook sized computer.
"It's called a Pokedex." Ash explained, holding it up to Ranma and pushing the button to make it identify her. For a long moment, the device's processing light blinked, before it spoke. "Subject Pokegirl Unidentified by latest model Pokedex. Recommend you seek immediate update. Subject's apparent power level, Megami or above. Type, Normal."
Ash nearly dropped the Pokedex as he heard these words. "Y, you're a Megami?" He stuttered, looking at Ranma in shock.
"No, I'm Ranma. I sure as hell ain't a goddess!" She said, vehemently, refusing to take such a blow to her male self image, even if she currently was a girl. After all, Kuno had called her Osage no Megami a few too many times.
"All right, cool off." Ash muttered, wondering why this rather strange Pokegirl, who apparently called herself Ranma, was so sensitive about being called a Megami. It WAS one of the more powerful breeds, after all.
A few seconds later, after a rather uncomfortable silence, Ranma asked a question. "So, what's this 'Pokegirl' thing you keep callin me anyways?" She finally asked, not wanting to sound stupid, but she had tried to remember anything she knew about it, and drew a blank.
"You don't know what Pokegirls are?" Ash asked, incredulously. This girl, Ranma, was becoming stranger and stranger every second he spent around her. He spent a moment trying to think of how to explain what a Pokegirl was, but then gave up, calling up the "Pokegirls 101" primer that was stored on his Pokedex for quick reference and handing it to her.
Ranma read the text on the screen for a moment, and then her face started to become progressively greener. "This, this is a joke, right?" She asked, pointing to the line that described a Pokegirl's taming needs.
Ash looked surprised. "No, that's not a joke. It's the most up to date text on Pokegirls in this area."
"But you gotta do… that? With guys?" Ranma asked, turning even more green. "Sorry buddy, but I can definitely tell ya I'm NOT a Pokegirl."
Ash looked confused for a moment, before taking his Pokedex back, scanning Ranma with it and nodding. "Well, my Pokedex says you are, besides, Pokeballs don't work on humans, and I caught you with mine."
Ranma shook her head. "Nope, sorry. The thought of doin… that, with a guy just plain makes me feel sick, and I've never heard of Pokegirls before. You got the wrong person here." She said, and really wanted to run away from this crazy guy, as fast as she could. Unfortunately, for some reason, she couldn't do that either.
"You mean you don't like guys?" Ash asked, looking down.
Ranma shook her head emphatically.
Ash looked up at the sky, and had to laugh. "Just my luck, my first Pokegirl and she's a lesbian."
END.
End notes.
Note: Pokeballs work a little differently here than they do in the original Pokegirls series. I did this so that Ranma won't kill Ash the second she gets out, because if they were made the way they are in the real story, we'd have one dead Tamer on our hands.
Also, Ranma's doing some OOC things here, like not knocking Ash into next week a few times, and not just running the hell away. This will be explained, probably next chapter. The reason she doesn't just tell him about the curse is because of the reactions he usually gets to it. She's just hoping she can get to this town and get away from him without having to say anything about it. And for those who question, No I didn't lock the curse, and I WILL NOT pair Ranma with a guy in my fics for reasons I explain in my author profile.
PS: Ranma's not a god, erm, Goddess. Megami can be defeated; they're just less common Pokegirls. There are several types that can beat them out, and their varied enough that Two Megami of the same stat level may be of drastically different practical strengths.
Osage no Megami The pigtailed goddess.
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