"So, what do we do now?" Nabiki sighed. "Do I have to live with the urge to lick my paws every day?"

"We should check on the neighbors," Akane suggested. "So we can see if we're the only ones affected."

"Good idea," Ranma nodded. "I'll search the right side from the dojo, you search the left side."

"Got it," Akane nodded.

After the two martial arts youngsters had left, Nabiki shook her head. "They could have easily checked if they bring some special news on TV..." She reached for the remote control of the TV, taking a short look towards the two fathers.

Genma, who had the unmistakable fur pattern of a Snorlax, was sleeping on the floor, snoring loudly. Soun was draped over his old buddy's expanded belly, also fast asleep, looking like a Slakoth.

"Figures that those two would become two of the laziest Pokémon of the games..." Nabiki murmured before switching on the TV.

"...has no logical explanation for the sudden transformations that are spreading all over the world," a TV announcer just said. He was somehow looking like a pelican, with an enormous bill and a blue stripe on his head.

"Pelipper," Kasumi commented.

"Geneticists are searching for the cause of these abnormal changes and try to find a cure. Up to now, no success has been made.

Also, acts of violence have been spreading throughout Tokyo, mostly fights between groups of transformed people of a different type of 'element'. Those fights have been confirmed to happen all over the world, mostly in the big cities.

Various sources claim the new forms all humans on earth seem to turn into resemble the fictional creatures called 'Pokémon' from the video games of the same name... And now, Ladies and Gentlemen... The emperor of Japan would like to have a word."

When the emperor appeared on screen, changed into a humanoid version of a majestic Arcanine, Nabiki frowned and switched the TV off.

"Don't you want to hear what the emperor has to say?" Kasumi asked.

"I don't think it will make a big difference," Nabiki grumbled. "If the scientists have no answers to this, I don't think any fancy words of the emperor will change our situation..."

Just then, Akane came back into the room. "I looked down the street... all of our neighbors seemed to have transformed as well. Some of them asked if we were all right, and I assured them we were fine."

"Same on my side," a damp Ranma-chan grumbled as she entered. "Everyone has changed, even the old ladle lady... Now she's a shriveled... what's the name... Lombre, I think..."

Kasumi giggled. Then she realized something. "Ranma... your Pokémon traits... they have changed!"

Ranma looked down at her body. "Huh?" And Kasumi was right, she was still a bright red, but now it wasn't a lizard-like skin, it was fiery fur. Also, the flame on the tip of her tail had vanished... In fact, she now had more tails than one... she had a total of six.

"Amazing," Kasumi said. "When you changed gender, you also changed your Pokémon species... you're a Vulpix now!"

"Still a Fire Pokémon, right?" Ranma asked. She sighed. "Well, that's not weirder than changing gender, I can tell you..."

Just then, the doorbell rang. "I get it," Ranma said and went to open the front door.

When the antropomorphic Vulpix opened the door, she was looking at a familiar face... only was it covered with yellow fur. She could also easily see the nine majestic tails that were waving through the air.

"M-m-mom?" Ranma-chan muttered.

Nodoka Saotome beamed at her son-currently-daughter. "Ranma! Why, you look simply ADORABLE!" And she scooped up the young Vulpix in a massive hug.

"GAH! Mom! Lemme go! I can't breath..."

Kasumi giggled. "A Ninetails... how fitting!"

Akane smirked. "How do they say: Like mother, like daughter!"

Ranma just struggled against her vulpine mother's grasp.


"I was worried about you when I heard that EVERYONE was changing," Nodoka explained while they were sitting at the table, drinking some of Kasumi's fabulous tea. "So I decided to come over as soon as possible..." She threw her female son a loving glance. "But I never imagined that my Ranma would be similar to me... OR that he would look soooo cute."

Ranma blushed. "Mom... I'm only like this when I'm a girl..." she mumbled.

"What do you mean?" his mother asked. Ranma sighed, took the kettle and poured some of the hot tea over her head.

Now, once again a male Charmander morph, he put down the kettle. "See now? Only when I'm female, I'm a Vulpix. When I'm male, I'm a Charmander."

Nodoka smiled. "Oh, that's okay... After all, you look so much more... MANLY like this!"

Ranma groaned. He had expected that reaction.

"But anyways, think of all the cute bows we can put into your fur when you're a Vulpix..."

"MOM!"

She giggled. "Just kidding, dear."

Just then, someone else knocked at the door, and it sounded pretty urgent.

"Akane! Ranma!" a girl's voice shouted. "Please, you have to help me!"

Akane and Ranma exchanged a quick look. "That sounds like Sayuri," Akane realized.

Quickly, they ran to the door. When they opened, Sayuri stood in front of them, panting heavily, her feathery ponytail draped over her shoulder. It looked like she was going to be a Pidgey.

"Quick, you've got to help Hiroshi," she shouted.

"What happened?" Ranma asked. "Where is he?"

"Down the street," Sayuri replied. "We were just going for a walk when suddenly, we got attacked by two bullies. We weren't able to escape, so Hiroshi told me to get you... he wanted to distract them."

"Hiroshi wants to take on two bullies?" Nabiki wondered. "Small, wimpy Hiroshi?"

Sayuri blushed. "He... he said he wanted to protect me..."

Ranma hesitated no longer and ran down the street. Akane was able to keep up with him because of her new Jolteon speed.

When they reached the place, they could see how Hiroshi was crouching on the floor, his short muzzle twitching in fear. In his panic, he was clutching his Rattata tail to his chest.

In front of him, two half-transformed men were standing. The arms of one man seemed to have turned into deadly sickles, like those of a Scyther. The other one was part Machoke.

The Machoke smirked at his friend. "See, I toldya: All Normal-types are wimps!" He took one step closer to the cowering Hiroshi. "So, you wanna play hero some more?" he mocked and flexed his muscles. "You don't look that brave anymore, right?"

"Perhaps I should just cut his little tail off," the Half-Scyther grinned and raised his arms. Hiroshi yelped.

But before the Scyther could do anything like that, he got thrown back by a jump kick performed by Ranma. He fell to the ground with a small 'oof'.

"You wanna pick on someone your own size?" the martial arts Charmander snorted as he went into his battle stance. Next to him, Akane did the same.

The other man grinned. "Well, you seem do know martial arts, eh? But not as good as me, I'm sure. After all, I became a fighting-type, and you did not."

"Less bragging, more fighting," the Scyther hissed as he stood up and rushed at Ranma.

Ranma blocked the incoming scythes with his own claws and attacked with a flurry of his own swipes, sped up with the Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken.

Meanwhile, the Machoke was facing Akane. They were slowly circling each other. "C'mon, little girl," the bully mocked her. "Show me what you've got... YAAAAARRRRGGGGHH!" He screamed as Akane attacked him with a massive shock of electricity. In her rage, she didn't even think of touching him with her hands... she just directed the shocks into his direction.

Scorched and paralyzed, the bully fell to the ground.

At that time, Ranma had just kicked the Scyther into a wall, then, solely acting on instinct, he opened his mouth.

"CHAAAAARRRRR!" he yelled, exhaling a big flame that engulfed the man. His opponent yelled in pain, as he was weak against fire, as all bug-types were.

He rolled around on the ground until all of the flames were extinguished. "I give up, I give up," he shouted frantically.

Ranma just picked him up from the ground. "Get out of here... and don't come back here again, you hear me?" Then he threw him on top of his paralyzed pal.

They turned to Hiroshi and helped him up. "You okay, man?" Ranma asked.

"Y-y-yeah..." the Rattata-boy stuttered. "Um, thanks, Ranma... Akane..."

"Hiroshi!" Hiroshi got thrown against the wall as he was being hugged by a Pidgey-girl. "I was so worried," Sayuri said.

Then she looked at him sternly. "Never do something like that again, you hear me? You almost gave me a heart attack."

"S-sorry about this, Sayuri," Hiroshi said. "Won't happen again, I promise..."

Sayuri sighed, then hugged him again. "You baka..."

Akane smiled. "Awwww, isn't that sweet?"

"Come, I'll bring you two home," Ranma offered them. "I don't think it's too safe for a little walk today."

"Yeah, okay..." Hiroshi murmured, still a little shaken. "T-thank you, Ranma..."

"I'll tell your Mom you'll be coming later," Akane shouted after them.

After Ranma and the other two have crossed the corner, she threw a final glance at the unmoving pair of bullies, who were still lying on the ground.

She gave them one final zap ("Ow!"), then she went back home.

Ranma brought Hiroshi and Sayuri back to Hiroshi's front door, where his mother had already been waiting for them with worry. She thanked Ranma multiple times and asked him to come in for a while, but he politely declined and started his way back home.


Walking down another street in Nerima was Ukyo, the new Half-Cyndaquil. She was wearing a new top which she and Konatsu had put together in a hurry. It was kinda like the top of a bathing suit, but the back side was open, so the 'fire nozzles' on her back were free... in case she would erupt once more.

She was on her way to the Tendo Dojo to check on her Ranchan and Akane, when suddenly, she felt something on her... butt.

She snarled. "Happosai, you pervert!" she shouted and turned around to pound the ancient lecher into the ground.

But there was no one behind her.

"Huh?" the chef wondered. "I could've sworn he was behind me..."

Just then, she felt it again, this time a grope aimed at her chest...

"What the...?" Her hands tried to grab for whoever was fondling her, but she only got a handful of empty air. But this time, she knew she had seen a small, dark shape that had scurried away.

She looked around. "All right, Happosai, come out! I know you're around here somewhere!"

A chuckle came out of nowhere. "Now, my dear Ukyo... what's wrong with you? Can't see me? No, I didn't think you would..."

"I warn you, stay away from me," she grumbled. Already, a few sparks of ember came flying out of her back.

"But Ukyo-chan..." Happosai's voice continued. "Would you deny an old man getting what he desires?"

"If it's groping my butt and breasts, yeah, I'd say yes!"

She couldn't stop him when he once again groped her behind and vanished afterwards.

"These new powers are really neat," he cackled. "And no one will ever catch me..."

"Come out, you coward," Ukyo screamed.

Just when she yelled that, Ranma came around the corner. "Hey Ucchan," he shouted. "Is something wrong?"

Ukyo turned around. "Good to see you, Ranchan... Help me find Happosai, okay? He's hiding around here somewhere, the coward..."

"Okay, gotcha," Ranma nodded. He took a quick look at her new clothes. "Um, nice outfit..."

"Uh... thanks..."

"Ranma, my boy," Happosai said. "You've come to play as well? My, my, but I think I would prefer if it had been my darling Ranma-chan..."

"Where is he?" Ranma murmured. "I can't see him anywhere..."

Just then, one of the hydrants standing at the side of the street exploded, and a strong jet of water came flying towards Ranma.

He managed to step out of the way, but the water spray drenched him anyway. Luckily, it didn't hit his flame-tail before he transformed.

"Dang," the damp Vulpix-girl grumbled. "I really have to be careful from now on... when my tail flame is being hit by all that water that I seem to attract since getting my curse, things will become ugly..."

"Whoooooh..." Happosai shouted with glee. "FOXY LADY!" And suddenly, he was glomping on Ranma-chan's furry mammaries.

Ranma tried to get him off, but it was like her hands were passing through thin air. "Hey, geddoff! Stupid perv!"

Happosai gave her another quick fondle, then he... FLOATED back. "Trying to hit a ghost, eh? Well, that would be hard to do..."

"A ghost-type..." Ranma realized. "He has become a Ghost-type Pokémon..."

"Pokémon?" Ukyo wondered. "So, that's what we've turned into..."

"Right..." Ranma murmured. "And from what I know, normal attacks won't do anything against a ghost..."

He took a closer look at Happosai. He still looked kinda like his old self, but his skin was a dark grey and somehow looked more like it was made of cloth, not skin. And was that a horn on his head?

"You're right, boy..." the master of the Anything Goes school sneered. "And what you can't touch, you can't stop... HOTCHA!" And once again, he was flying at Ranma-chan's chest.

"VUUUUULLL!"

A blazing trail of flames engulfed the ghostly pervert and stopped him in his tracks. Scorched to a black figure, he still hung in the air for a short while and blinked.

Then, he fell to the ground with a groan. "Ow..."

Ranma grinned. "Normal attacks may not work... but fire attacks do!"

Ukyo grinned. So her Ranchan had turned into a Fire-type as well? That certainly looked like a sign from heaven...

Now that he was unconscious, Ranma was able to touch the half-Shuppet. He picked him up from the ground and gave him a hard kick that made him fly over the rooftops.

"Thanks for the help, Ranchan," Ukyo smiled. "Um... are your father and the Tendos all right as well?" While Akane was a rival, she and her family have turned into some sort of friends over the time Ukyo had been spending in Nerima.

"Yeah, they're fine," Ranma nodded. "Mom came for a visit, she's okay as well. Wanna come along?"

"Sure!"


When Ranma and Ukyo arrived back at the Tendo Dojo, they could already hear two female voices that were shouting at each other.

"I told you already, Ranma is not here! So go away already!"

"Shampoo not leave until Airen come back. Wanna see if he okay!"

"Like I said, he's fine! No reason for you to stay here!"

"Shampoo stay here! That a problem?"

"Problem? You took half of the wall down when coming here, you, you..."

Ukyo grimaced. "Sounds like Shampoo is here already..."

When they entered the living room, they could see Akane and Shampoo standing in front of each other. Akane's spiky fur was standing erect, and a field of crackling electricity surrounded her. Shampoo's skin had turned yellow, while a ring of leaves grew out of her neck. Also, her long hair had turned green instead of purple, and as Ranma looked closer, she could see that it wasn't really normal hair anymore, it was composed of grass and leaves.

"I say it one last time, Shampoo: Back off! Ranma isn't yours!"

"Ranma is Shampoo's Airen! Have said it many times! And if violent girl doesn't give up, she better be prepared for consequences..." She smirked as two vines grew out from under her arms. "Tentacle Rape!"

Akane yelped and jumped back. She sweated... Shampoo couldn't be serious... could she?

Before Akane could find out if the humanoid Bayleef would have really made her threat come true, Ukyo stepped forward and cleared her throat.

"I'm sorry to disappoint you two, but it looks like Ranchan would more likely be a match for me... See, we're both Fire-types. Shampoo would likely burn her leaves off if she approached him... And Akane... Sorry to say it, but I have the feeling Ranchan probably would get a... SHOCK... if he even touches you."

Akane snarled. "For your information, I can control my electric powers. And if you touch Ranma even once, I'll show you just how much volt is flowing through me now..."

"Violent girl would only make him light up like street lantern. Shampoo may be plant, but is also Amazon. So she's stronger than either of you."

"Come and try..." the Jolteon and Cyndaquil growled simultaneously. By now, Ukyo's back flames were once again burning brightly.

By now, Kasumi had enough. She stepped forward and spit out three quick jets of water, each one hitting one of the prattling girls.

(Splash) FFFFSSSSHHHHH... Ukyo groaned as her flames were being extinguished, and multiple trails of steam were floating upwards.

(Splash) CRACKLE! ZAP! Akane got a shock herself as the water hit her field of dancing electricity.

(Splash) "Bayleef?" In Shampoo's place now stood a complete Bayleef on four legs, looking down at herself in surprise.

Kasumi sighed. "Now, can we discuss this quietly?"

While the three girls were slowly recovering, and Ranma went to the kitchen for hot water, Cologne came floating through the hole that Shampoo had created while arriving at the Tendo Dojo. "So, I should have guessed it that Shampoo came here..." She chuckled and looked around. "You all seem to have changed as well..."

"Should it surprise me that the old ghoul can float?" sighed Ranma, as he returned from the kitchen. That earned him a bop on his head with Cologne's cane.

"She's a Meditite," Kasumi explained. "Through meditation, they can make themselves float over the ground, a state they can even maintain after their meditation."

The elder of the Amazon village took a critical look at the eldest Tendo sister. "Miss Tendo, you seem to know something about our new... states of being, correct?"

Kasumi nodded. "Um, yes! I believe all humans on earth are slowly turning into half-Pokémon... creatures from this game!" She raised her Game Boy Advance and the Pokémon Ruby game.

"Interesting..." Cologne murmured while floating closer. "Is there a way for me to inform myself a little further about those... Pokémon?"

"Sure!" Kasumi smiled and produced some sort of magazine. "Here, in this book is the official walkthrough to the game... and it also has much information about the various types, attacks and species of Pokémon."

"You mind if I borrow it for a while?"

"No, not at all!"

"Thank you!" Cologne took the book and looked down at her four-legged great-grandchild. She smirked. "I suppose while she doesn't turn into a cat anymore, the Jusenkyo curse will turn her into that kind of Pokémon she also is in her... more humanoid state."

Shampoo looked up at her great-grandmother. "Bayyy?"

"Come back home, child! There will be some hot water there."

The plant-Pokémon nodded. "Bayleef!"

Cologne sighed. "I apologize for the destruction of the wall..." Normally, she wouldn't bother to apologize, but after all, Kasumi had lent her the book.

Sitting down on Shampoo's broad back, Cologne rode back to the Nekohanten.

Ukyo sighed. "I guess I got a little carried away... Sorry, Kasumi..."

Kasumi smiled. "It's all right... as long as you have calmed down by now."

Nodoka took a look at her snoring husband, then back at Ukyo. "Ukyo, while my lazy husband had made a valid contract with your father, I'm afraid I can't agree with his way of acting... He only signed that contract to go after your father's cart after all."

Ukyo wanted to protest, but the Saotome matriarch raised a hand. "I know I can't stop you from going after my son, but I would advise you to give the whole situation some more thoughts. Think about how Ranma and you were friends back then... that's all I ask for."

Ukyo sighed and lowered her head. "Yes, Mrs. Saotome..."

Ranma put his hand on her shoulder and started to say something, to cheer her up, but she shook him off, gave him an uncertain smile and left.

Afterwards, Ranma stared at his mother. "Mom?"

Nodoka looked seriously at her son. "Ranma... I talked much about how I wanted you to be 'manly' and how I wanted many grandchildren... Well, it's kinda true, but... You really should make a choice soon. Your fiancees have been fighting over you for a long time now, and I think it's time to settle the thing, don't you agree? This new situation will make it even more complex."

Ranma was stunned. He had never believed his mother to think so seriously about the matter. "Um... yes, Mom..." he finally said.

The Ninetails smiled at him. "Good! Now, I think it's getting late... and I still have to go home. So, I think I will be leaving now."

"Are you sure you don't want to stay, Auntie?" Kasumi asked.

But Nodoka shook her head. "No, thank you, Kasumi-chan! I believe my son has much to think about... But I will come again this week. Have a good evening, everyone..." She glared at the place where a Snorlax and a Slakoth were still sleeping. "And if my husband will, by any chance, wake up some time later, tell him I have much to discuss with him."

She bowed and left.