Disclaimer: I do not own Sailor Moon, Ranma, Macross / Robotech. This is a fictional story only. It is made from a fan to the others, without malice or evil intent. The characters here displayed belong to their creators and owners.
Note: this is an alternate universe story, were a new timeline will arise thanks to a phenomenon that will bring Ranma, Akane, Usagi from their universes onto the Macross universe. Also since I lack a bit of Macross material I'll be using the Robotech names but will stick to the Macross Timeline.
P.S: On the last chapter I wrote a word in Japanese "Nee-chan"(for those of you that know the Latin way to speak vowels, use it when reading the Japanese words, since there isn't any sound difference between the Japanese vowels sound and the Latin ones) that it is used when you are talking about YOUR old-sister, while "Onee-chan" is used when you are talking about ANOTHER person older sister
Chapter 4 – Explanations, planning and settling down Part 1
Shortly after their surprise meeting with Tofu, Kasumi and Roy; Ranma, Ranko, Akane, Usagi, Serenity, Rick and Minmey brought them to sit in their house living room while they wait for Kasumi to wake up.
The RDF personnel that also had come along with Tofu and Kasumi were amazed by the good work done so far, and on seeing their sketches they become really interested and asked how they did come up with such ideas
"Well, the majority of it is nothing more than the result of a few brainstorm activities from all of us. My son here and his twin sister are good in thinking outside of the box, and have a good experience with buildings and house repairs, which includes electrical systems, water systems, and how to connect pulleys and support structure." Serenity said showed Ranma's work with the improvised house, its electrical systems, water system, sewer system and the workshop crane.
"Ranko here has a good knowledge of plants, including edible, medicinal and poison ones; that combined with my general science knowledge enabled us the development of a system that gave us some work, but allowed us to recycle in part our own dejects. i.e.: split the water and methane from the solid part. The water extracted from it is used to irrigate that small garden, the methane is pumped through the tubes into those cylinders over there, once they reach the desired pressure we use it for either feeding the stove or to maneuver of our space pod" Serenity explained
"But how are you splitting these prime sources from your sewer dejects, and how do you know that it is methane that you extracting" Roy asked
Akane raised her hand and motion for them to wait a bit while she moved to a corner were a partially damaged bookcase lies, then she picked a book before bringing it to the table. When they see the book cover they read the title "Oil & Gas Trainee Program Guide"
"I don't know how such a book ended up on Macross city, but this book inspired me and with its help we were able to successfully create that" Akane said pointing to a tower near the garden.
"That is a distillation tower, we have many heat sources here that are used to boil the sewer waste, and insert it into the distillation tower. I always got good grades in basic chemistry, so when I sow this picture here where the methane or ch4 as its written here, leave the tower through the top at a 20ºC, then it was only a question of math plus a bit of trial and error to correct craf our distillation tower." Akane explained
"But a common distillation tower is as tall as a battloid at last, so how did you made it?" Asked a girl with light blue hair, wearing glasses and an yellow coded RDF female officer with two round pins on her collar. All the time for some reason she kept giving Usagi glances, which unnerved Usagi.
Usagi that was about to question the young woman took a good look at her and noticed the name plate 'S.M. Jenius' and wonder 'I feel some thing familiar coming from her but what'
"Well miss…" Usagi started
"Jenius, Sara Mizuno Jenius."
"M-Mizuno… A-are you related to Ami Mizuno?" Usagi asked
"Ami Mizuno? … That's my mother maiden name, how…"
"Miss Jenius … What year are we?" Usagi that by now is trembling and white as sknow asked
Sara blink a few times before looking at her companions before answering "2009 why do you asked"
"My god… I… I I knew your mother… I… I and her…. Where best of friends, and… to me I… I saw her last month … at the Sakura holyday… of 1998"
"WHAT!" Asked the incredulous RDF personnel plus Rick and Minmey
"That's what has been bugging me too, since I and Akane were getting married that year as well when suddenly some crash parties arrived and in the middle of the …chaos that they caused, me … sis and Akane where enveloped by a blinding light, it hurt us as hell and when we recovered we were awaking here on this ship" Ranma explained
"He tells the truth." Kasumi said from the couch as she had just awoke at the end of Usagi's explanation
"I was there. I saw when little brother a-and … **sniff** A-Akane **sob** … Oh Ranma… **sob** **sob** it was awful … when … when the light vanished …. **sob** **sniff** all … all that was left of you… was … was… parts of your clothes … **sob … sob ** … and … **sniff** pieces of yours … flash, … blood … Oh Ranma…" Kasumi couldn't hold any longer and tackled Ranma in a fierce hug and started to cry her soul out on his chest. Ranma was surprised and a bit lost at what to do at first, but then he hugged her back and just let her get it out.
Roy and company minus Tofu and Rick were left speechless at seeing the Angel of Macross so saddened and crying like this.
"You really are a miracle worker Ranma. She was always depressed, cried a lot at home, blaming herself and Nabiki for what happened to you and Akane. … If … if I didn't returned when I did … she … she would have committed suicide" Tofu said with sadness on his eyes as he watched his wife finally starting to heal her soul.
"Ranma … as in Saotome Ranma" a security officer asked
"yes that's me. You are…"
"Masaki, Ryu Masaki, cousin to Tenchi Masaki, son of … **sigh** … Nodoka Masaki, once known as Nodoka Saotome. **sigh** sorry about this… brother. … **mumble**… 'We're cursed, the whole family cursed definitely'" Ryu answered, though Ranma heard his mumble
"W-what?" asked Ranma, Ranko and Akane shocked
"I … I know it's hard to believe, but now I know mom really told the truth." Ryu said
"Then…" Ranma started before glancing to Serenity then the others
"Yeah I know the full story, though I didn't believe mom fully until now. **smiling** But I'm sure that as soon as I take you to her she'll be very happy to see you again … COUSIN" Ryu elaborated and easily took the hint from Ranma about not revealing that Serenity is Ranma's 'Adopted' mother
"S-she … she is…" Ranko started with a trembling voice
"Yes she's aboard, as well as Sara's mother" Ryu said
"But Ryu-kun how is it possible? Mom and auntie told us that these guys died a long time ago" Sara inquired
"Not if you insert time travel into the equation, and the time of their supposed death match with this ship first de-fold maneuver. I can't for now elaborate how, but I believe that somehow a portion of the remaining fold energy had hit them, throwing them into some sort of pocket dimension." Ryu said.
By his side another officer a man in his early 30's and a uniform in the same color scheme as Sara started to ponder what had been said, then he pulled out a palm top and started tipping
"Hmmm by this numbers… err… guys could you inform me your weight and size? I need it to check if in some rare chance what Ryu here said is … plausible"
"What are you doing PO Long?" Roy asked
"Sorry sir, but as you know Sara and I work in the engineering room, and I'm one of the techs that were assigned to the fold device, so I imagined that if I applied the properties and energies that the ship is submitted during the fold maneuver to something small as a human body, and considering that time and space run at a different speed inside the fold vortex, then it could be possible that they were literally teleported to this ship." Long replied
"If that's so PO Long, why did they appeared only now?" Roy asked
"Because only now a window appeared for us to get out" Serenity responded
"What do you mean ma'am?" Roy asked
"Let me put it simply. The fold maneuver is like a tunnel that you drive your car through it, so you can cross the mountain way faster than you'd need to go around it. But on our case when we got in there wasn't an exit, and before we could return the tunnel entrance was also sealed off. So we were stuck inside it until someone from outside opened the door to us." Serenity explained.
"Hmm… makes sense, and I heard about the phase out theory. … Am I right to suppose that like each Valkyrie has its own system frequency so does the fold engine?" Roy asked
"Yes sir. You are right. Each machine has its own power and work frequency, so if it was this ship's frequency that opened the door to them…." Ryu started
"Only this ship could get them out, just like a safe's key, you don't need it to close it, but you do need it to open it." Sara finished
Ok I can accept that. We'll need a bit of work in creating new ID cards to you guys, since I doubt it that after the unification war we'll find your files, not counting that we're at our solar system border, which makes data transfer between us an Earth almost impossible" Roy said it dryly while he and the others started to lead the Saotomes, Akane, Minmey and Rick back to civilization
to be continued
