AN: I decided to go with the fight, followed by Hotaru and the one other Senshi that decided not to fight Ranma doing the peacemaking after it. But which Senshi was bright enough to see that Ranma was not Sailor Chaos? You may be surprised so read and see.
And this chapter is short, seeing as all it is is the fight scene that should have ended the last chapter, if I had been able to make up my mind on it.
THE SENSHI OF CHAOS RETURNS
CHAPTER FOUR
A WARRIOR'S BATTLE
About one block down the street from Ukyo's okonomiyaki restaurant in Nerima Japan
Ranma stood on one side of the street, while eight young women in ridiculously short skirted outfits that semi resembled a cross between a schoolgirls fuku and a superheroine outfit by the way of an adult fantasy video maker, stood on the other, with poor Hotaru standing in-between them and off to one side, while looking back and forth at the two groups in obvious despair.
At the same time the residents of Nerima were either getting the heck out of the maximum know blast zone of Ranma's attacks, or making bets with Nabiki Tendo, whom had somehow magically appeared as she almost always seems to do when Ranma is going to have a big fight.
As the Senshi took in the idiosyncrasies that is every day Neriman life, especially when dealing with Ranma's actions, Ranma stated to them "Ladies, we really don't have to do this."
'Ahh, come on. Kick their asses Ranma!' Sailor Chaos mentally told Ranma, stating her obvious preference on the matter.
"Shut up." Ranma whispered back in reply.
"Unfortunately we do." The blond with the weird and long ponytails said sadly. "You may seem much nicer in this incarnation Sailor Chaos, but we can not stand aside while you control that poor person's mind. I will banish you again. Moon Gorgeous Meditation!" She shouted, sending an attack towards Ranma.
As Ranma jumped over the attack, she shouted "What kind of stupid name for an attack is that!?!"
"Hey! It's a good name!" the blond yelled back.
"Uh." Ranma said, shaking her head in disgust. "Moko Takabisha!" Ranma called out, sending a ball of confidence Ki towards her blond haired attacker.
"Oh Yeah? Well what kind of name is 'Fierce Tiger Ball' for an attack for that matter? Supreme Thunder Dragon!" a girl with long brown hair shouted at Ranma, then sent an attack at her afterwards as she was falling back to earth.
Twisting around the attack in a supposedly impossible midair display of agility, Ranma called out while now coming back down to earth while completely up-side down "It's a perfectly fine name for an martial arts attack! But then I doubt you'd know anything about that! Moko Takabisha Double!" Ranma shouted back at the girl who had insulted the name of an attack she had made up, then simultaneously attacking both of her previous attacker for good measure.
Just as it seemed that Ranma would land on her head, ending the battle very quickly, she went into a handspring and then from it, launched into a kick at a girl with short blue hair, hitting her hard with both feet in the head and then knocking her back into and halfway through a wall that was behind her.
As Mercury was pulling herself out of the wall while groaning in pain, and Jupiter and Moon were picking them selves up from the street where the double blast attack had sent them, and while Mars, Venus, Uranus and Neptune got Ranma trapped between them by getting into a box like formation, Sailor Pluto headed over to talk to Hotaru.
For Sailor Pluto was beginning to get the nasty suspicion that they had maybe made a minute mistake here in automatically assuming that Ranma must indeed be under the control of Sailor Chaos.
For one thing, she was acting like Ranma does when in a fight, what with all the taunts and the insults. Two, she was fighting with Ranma's martial arts moves, and had not transformed into a Senshi form to attack them with Sailor Chaos's formidable magical attacks. But reason three was probably the most important reason that Setsuna Meiou, also know as and currently in the guise of Sailor Pluto, was beginning to think they were in a fight with Ranma Saotome and not Sailor Chaos. And that reason was the longer the fight went on, the more apparent it became that Ranma was fighting to incapacitate her opponents, not to kill them. Sailor Chaos would not fight like that, but Ranma Saotome definitely would.
Upon reaching Hotaru, Setsuna said, "Hotaru, we need to talk."
"Uh, sorry Setsuna-mama. I didn't mean to runaway, I just got lost and fell asleep…" Hotaru began, when Setsuna said
"That can wait dear. Although it's good to hear you weren't running away. You shouted out earlier that Ranma's not Sailor Chaos. I've been watching Ranma's life for the past few months, and I'm starting to agree with your assessment. So I want you to tell me just what made you say that she's not Sailor Chaos, ok?" Setsuna said while looking at Hotaru with a level stare.
"Ok Setsuna-mama. You see Ranma woke me up this morning and…" And while Hotaru told Setsuna an abridged version of her day's events, highlighting why Ranma was not being controlled by Sailor Chaos, Ranma was still fighting the other seven Senshi, who hadn't even noticed the absence of Pluto.
Ranma had however, but was content to let her stay off to the side as it seemed all she was doing was talking to Hotaru. Besides, seven on one was enough of a challenge, even for her, at this moment. She wasn't going to go begging for trouble right now.
'What I need to do, Ranma thought to her self while dodging multiple magical attacks 'is take out about half of them, then get the other half in one good final attack. Good thing I listened to U-chan and went down the street. I'd hate to lose my all you can eat for free privileges by totaling her restaurant. Brr. Bad thoughts, very, very bad thoughts.'
Ranma then put her thoughts into action. Going after the weakest link in the opponent group's combative ability chain, she went over to the blue haired girl that she had hit into the wall earlier at Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken speed. For not only was she the worst physical combatant, but ever since her trip into the wall she was acting like she had a slight concussion.
Managing to get behind her, she knocked her out with a single hard blow to the back of the head that she hoped didn't make her concussion worse, if she did truly have one.
As the blue haired girl fell to the street unconscious, the other girls got very visibly upset.
'Perfect.' Was Ranma's only thought on the matter while giving a slight smirk.
A blond haired girl with extremely long hair was the next to go down a short while later, by getting a fist to the gut and then a knee to the chin. She was almost immediately followed by the blond girl with the strange ponytails, who had gotten a helicopter set of round house kicks to the face.
As Ranma landed and set her self up for the final blow, Hotaru asked Setsuna "Setsuna-mama? Shouldn't we stop them?"
Setsuna shook her head and said "No. It's already too late dear. The girls didn't take Ranma seriously enough. Really, by the factors numbers and power they should have won, but Ranma's skill and determination combined with those girls lack of seriousness, resulted in their loss. Ah here it comes, the end to this pointless fight." Setsuna said as Ranma shouted out
"Hiryu Shoten Ha!" And then, while the four Senshi were trapped within the vortex of energy, Ranma throw multiple blast of energy in the form of many Moko Takabishas into the mass of swirling energy, which ended up traveling around the vortex with the girls, hitting them over and over again.
After the storm of energy died down, and the four Senshi fell to the ground in a state of blissful unconsciousness, Ranma turned towards the woman with long green hair standing by Hotaru, who suddenly throw up her hands and said "Hey! I figured out a while ago that you probably weren't being controlled by Sailor Chaos and went to ask Hotaru about it. There's no need for us to fight right now, so why don't we gather these girls up and take them back to your friends restaurant and wait for them to wake up there so we can talk?"
Sensing sincerity from the woman, Ranma nodded and said "Fine." And then went to pick up the nearest girl.
AN: Ok, who here was honestly expecting Setsuna to be the one other then Hotaru that would deduce that Ranma was in fact not being controlled by Sailor Chaos? But I did say previously that she would be one of the more level headed ones in the Senshi's group, so you should have had her as a possibility.
In the next chapter, Hotaru and Setsuna play peacemakers while the rest of Nerima intrudes. God help them.