This is the standard disclaimer that all fanfics get.
The characters of Ranma ½ belong to Rumiko Takakashi. The
characters of Sailor Moon belong to Naoko Takeuchi. Tenchi
Muyo! Belongs to Kajishima Masaki. This is all for non-profit
reasons, so please don't sue me. I don't have enough to make it
worth while anyway. And now on with the story.
Note: This is NOT an SI fic.
Words in __ are thoughts.
From Weird to Weirder
A Ranma ½, Sailor Moon, and Tenchi Muyo! Crossover
By: Tomas Megerson.
Send C & C and flames to nighthawktm@yahoo.com
Chapter 6:
Betrayal and History
Ranma and Tomas walked along the fence as they headed
toward school. The sun was rising in the east as a few wisps
of clouds that hung in the air floated by. Once more the air
was crisp and dew was drawn upon the grass. The sky itself was
a merging of pinks, reds, oranges, and grays. As they walked
along, the two young men were in conversation.
"So, Ranma, what do you think of your cousin? You can
really see a family resemblance. And not just in looks."
Tomas tossed Ranma a wryly smile.
Ranma sighed as he thought back to the past. It was
only a year ago that he had been in a very similar situation as
Tenchi. With four fiancées trying to snare him (well, two
fiancées trying to snare him, one psycho trying to catch him,
and the fourth just beating him up.) If the three who were
left found him he would loose what precious little peace he
had. Yeah, very little, what with those girls who chased us.
"You know, I'd really like to help him out. I can't stand
thinking that there is some else out there with almost the same
problem that I had."
"I wouldn't worry about him too much. He actually has
it a lot easier than you did. I was talking to Aeka about it.
She told me that if Tenchi does become the Emperor of Jurai,
then he has to take two wives. That gives him a bit more
freedom than you ever had."
Ranma looked at Tomas with his eyes wide. "What are
you nuts? What happens if the two he chooses don't get along.
He'll never hear the end of it. He'd just get caught in the
middle of their fights like he does right now."
Tomas blinked a few times before he yanked Ranma off
of the fence and pushed him against a wall. "Alright, who are
you?! The real Ranma never would have come up with that!
Answer me!"
Ranma pushed against Tomas's arms trying to get them
off. "Hey, It's just that I've thought about this before. I
wondered what would happen if I could have married two of the
girls. It would have been messy." Tomas had released him
and the two were once more on the fence heading for school.
They continued their idle conversation until they entered the
school grounds.
It was like a thunderstorm. All of a sudden the
majority of the school population surrounded the two martial
artists. Questions bombarded them from all sides. There were
a lot of people asking how they had managed to defeat the
youma. A number of the boys were asking if they could be
taught. Most of the girls were asking for dates. Ranma was
asking why stuff like this always happened to him.
Tomas was trying to answer the questions. They could
defeat the youma because they had been training to fight for
many years. No, they couldn't teach anyone because it takes
to long and it is too dangerous. While he wouldn't mind a
date, this was not the time to ask for one. An finally,
"Ranma, this always happens to you because the Kami hate you
and because you're father constantly messed up your life."
"Yeah, I know. I hope things get better, though."
The late bell chose that moment to ring and the reluctant
crowed moved away from the two and started toward class.
Ranma sighed and glanced at the clock. "We better go as
well." The two followed the crowd into the building for the
start of another boring day.
***
It was lunch-time and the Sailor Senshi were sharing
their usual tree. They were in the middle of a discussion
concerning a certain pair of martial artists. Said martial
artists were currently on the other side of the grounds
surround once more by people who wanted to know just what they
had done and were they went after the battle.
After watching the crowed for a moment Makoto sighed.
"Look at them, not a care in the world. Do you think that
they are even scared of us? That they are worried we could
show up at any time?"
Rei gave her a disgusted look. "Of course they aren't.
If they were they sure wouldn't be here, now would they. And
why should they be? The two of them took out three of us while
severally injured. Do you think we could pose a challenge for
them when they are fully healed?"
Usa tried to look cheerful. "Well, they haven't done
anything wrong except for attacking us. Maybe it's just that
they were hurt and didn't recognize us. That could be it you
know."
Even Ami looked skeptical at this. "Usagi, we've been
in the news for almost three years now. Surely they've heard
of us. There is even merchandise in the stores that they
could have seen. Surely they knew who we were." Usagi's face
got downcast rather quickly after that. It got worse when the
Outer Senshi decided to show up, in full uniform and sprouting
speeches on why Tomas and Ranma were demons not to be trusted.
Usagi got even more worried when Tomas screamed something about
the psycho chicks that were trying to kill them last week.
Then everything was shot to hell when Ranma mentioned clearly
enough for everyone to hear how Uranus had such a flat chest
that he was surprised that she was a girl and not a boy.
Suffice to say a fight started very quickly after that.
***
Ranma threw Neptune right at Tomas who hit her with a
powerful round house kick that sent her at Pluto. The Senshi
of Time jumped out of the way in time to dodge Neptune's flying
form, but found herself right in the way of Uranus's World
Shaking attack. Before she could dodge out of the way Tomas
boxed her in by sending a pair of fireballs at each side of her.
Her partner's attack nailed her right in the chest sending her
toward where Tomas used to be. He was currently standing next
to Ranma discussing what they should do.
"I vote we get out of here. Sure, we're kicking their
butts, but remember that there are at least five more somewhere.
We could get swamped over very quickly if this doesn't end soon."
"Sure we can leave, but what then. They'll just chase
us like last time." Ranma turned toward Tomas with an annoyed
look on his face. "And besides, where would we go? We sure
can't lead them back home. Mom would never be able to defend
herself against them. Do we head to Tenchi's? I think he
would be pretty annoyed at the fact that we keep coming by when
ever we're attacked. So what's the plan?"
Tomas looked at Ranma for a few moments debating what
they should do. Too bad that Pluto's magical attack is
whispered since neither one of them could hear her say it.
The fact that neither could sense magic didn't help matters
either. The Dead Scream slammed into them like a pick up
truck. A cloud of dirt and dust shot into the air along with
screams from the two martial artists.
Uranus and Neptune pulled themselves up from their
respective holes as Pluto gave a slight smile. A twitch of
the lips was all, but for her it was a smile. "They are finished.
The future is secure." It was then that a form came out of the
dust cloud.
Ranma looked around for a few moments, taking in the entire
scene. The three Senshi who attacked them were together. None of
the others had shown up, and the school grounds were pretty much
disserted. Slowly, he lowered Tomas's bloody body to the ground.
Because of how they had been standing, Tomas had taken more of the
magical attack then Ranma. Ranma stood back up and looked grimly
at the three Senshi. "You've just made the biggest mistake you
could." The anger washed over him like an ice-cold glacier. He
didn't care any more. "I'm not going to hold back anymore."
Ranma's innocence had finally left him. He had come to the most
difficult decision he could. He was going into a fight with the
intent to kill. "You're nothing compared to me. I've torn a God
apart before! Now its you're turn!" His last words were with
biting rage.
He gave them no warning. One moment he was standing by
his fallen friend, shaking with anger. The next moment he was on
them, glowing bright blue and releasing devastating attacks. As
he fought he made no sound. Uranus took a pair of Tenshin
Armagurikans followed by a Mouko Takabisha as she flew backward.
Spinning, Ranma jumped over Neptune's Deep Submerge and launched
his Flaming Chi Wave. As soon as he landed he released a pair of
Twister Blades that slammed into her chest. He smiled as he
clearly heard breaking bones and the Senshi cry out in pain. Then
he turned to face Pluto.
The Senshi of Time was taken aback at the violence that
had just been displayed. She had never realized just what Ranma
was capable of. She had never come across anyone with the type
of power that he was radiating. And then he was on her.
Ranma enhanced his punches with his Ki and unleashed the
Tenshin Armagurikan straight into her solar plex. That was
followed by a crescent kick that sent Pluto flying into the wall
that surrounded the school. Ranma raised both his hands and
pointed into the wreckage that Pluto's body had caused. "DUEL
MOUKO TAKABISHA!" A pair of golden blasts leapt from his out
stretched hands and slammed into the rubble causing a tremendous
explosion. Once more Ranma took to the air, this time dodging one
of Uranus's World Shaking attacks. He watched as she drew her
space sword. Landing near the still downed Neptune, Ranma grabbed
her and hurled her towards her companion. Uranus, who had started
to charge forward, was caught by surprise and had to drop her sword
to catch the now flying Senshi. Then Ranma was in front of her once
more. Before she could react he slammed his fist into the ground
causing a virtual explosion of Ki to erupt underneath the pair.
Ranma gazed around the schoolyard. Out of those who had been
involved in the battle he was the only one still standing. Mass
amounts of damage covered the grounds as the majority of attacks
used had caused area damage. Feeling drained from the massive
amounts of Ki he had used, Ranma slowly made his way to Tomas's
still body. He bent down to pick up his friend when new voices
came on the scene.
"MARS FLAME SNIPER!"
He barely had the time to grab the slowly breathing form of
his friend and jump away before the ground he had been standing on
was fried to a crisp.
Looking up as he landed, Ranma saw four more of the
sailor-suited warriors of love and justice. He was rather proud
that he hadn't let the sigh he felt coming on be heard. Things had
been bad after Tomas had bee injured, but now they were desperate.
Ranma had spent a lot of his Ki in enhancing his body to take out
the first three Senshi to show. Ranma gritted his teeth and
prepared to fight.
There was a flash of light, an explosion, and the Senshi
started their traditional dodge and panic routine. Ranma looked
over his shoulder to see a familiar figure. It was the figure of
a space pirate called Ryouko. She was in her red and black armor
and launched another ball of energy at the Senshi. Ranma blinked
as she disappeared only to reappear right next to him. "Are you
okay, Ranma?" He slowly nodded. She smiled and turned to the
Senshi as they began to regroup. Her eyes flickered once at the
still body of Tomas and it was her turn to shake her head. "How
does he manage to get injured that much?" she wondered aloud. If
she had been paying more attention to the Senshi, she would have
noticed that Jupiter had started to use one of her more powerful
attacks while she was off to the side.
It was at this point that things started to get confusing.
Jupiter launched a Thunder Dragon, Venus (who hadn't been there
before) countered it with her Crescent Beam, Ranma launched a pair
of his Twister Blades at Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars, and Ryo-Ohki
finally appeared above the battle and dropped in Tenchi, Aeka, and
the Galaxy Police. The action that stopped everything was Venus
showing up. The problem was that she was wearing her old Sailor V
mask. Usagi blinked a couple of times, got hit by the Twister
Blade that was shot at her, and was slammed into the wall
unconscious. The same happened to Mars.
As it stood only Jupiter stood as a Sailor Senshi, While
Sailor V was across from her giving her a cold look. This was
enough to shock Jupiter into listening to her instead of speaking.
"I will no longer be part of the Sailor Senshi, Jupiter.
You've all turned what was originally a fight to protect this world
into a battle over pride." She pointed at the downed Outers.
"They started this mess by making a mistake, and they refused to
correct it. Instead they chose to eliminate it. I will not
standby and watch the Senshi kill humans. From this moment on let
the world know Sailor Venus is dead. I am once again Sailor V and
I will fight for what I believe in."
Everyone on the property had heard her speech. Even a news
crew that had shown up in time to film some of the fight caught it
all. The questions were in the air of the city now. Were the
Sailor Senshi still the good guys? Were the two boys they had
attacked really evil? And what about the people who had showed up
to aid them?
Ranma, however had a different question, this one for Ryouko.
"Can Ryo-Ohki get us out of here?"
"Yeah, no problem."
"Good. Do it, and bring her, too." Ranma pointed at the
now Sailor V. Ryouko decided that it would be best not to argue
for once and had Ryo-Ohki bring them all aboard. The cabbit then
headed for the stars.
***
Ranma looked at Tomas and sighed. "I'm supposed to be the
hero here. Why are you always the one to get injured?"
Tomas, wrapped in bandages and stretched out on a bed in a
guestroom just shrugged as he struggled to sit up. "Just lucky, I
guess. So how did we get back here, anyway? Last thing I remember
we were trying to decide to fight or run."
"Well, I took care of those first three, but then four more
showed up. That's when things got confusing."
"How so?"
"Well, first Tenchi and the others showed up, then one of the
Senshi decided to join our side since she feels that we're innocent
here. I managed to knock out another two of the Senshi and then
Ryo-Ohki transported us back here. You remember how they told us
she turns into a spaceship, right? Let me tell you something, I
almost dropped back into the Neko-Ken while I was on her. Being
surrounded b a meowing spaceship didn't do anything for my nerves."
Tomas laughed quietly at the thought of Ranma being trapped
in a spaceship that was meowing. "I'm not surprised. Still it
could have been worse, you could have actually gone into the
Neko-Ken."
Ranma shook his head as he looked at his friend. "Well, you
take it easy. I'm going downstairs. I want to find out more about
the blonde Senshi." Tomas nodded and closed his eyes. Ranma
sighed and headed out the door, making sure to close it before
heading down the stairs.
He walked into a kitchen filled with tension. His eyes went
around the room making sure that everyone who should be there was.
The only noticeable absence was Washu. Ranma quietly left the
kitchen not saying a thing as no one had noticed him. As he slowly
approached the broom closet where everyone said Washu had set up her
lab, his danger sense began to kick in. Being that he was in a
house with some of the most powerful people, some of which didn't
get along with one another, he chalked it up to another fight
starting. This place was almost as bad as the Tendo Dojo had been.
In fact, the only reason it wasn't worse was that Tenchi knew how to
defuse the situations sometimes. Whenever Ranma tried to get
involved he just made everything worse.
He knocked on the door and was surprised when Washu's face
appeared on it. "Come in." Ranma slowly opened the door and
stepped through. He stopped in shock at what he saw. While he had
been told that Washu's lab was something different, this was not
what he had expected. Washu was sitting on a pillow that was
suspended in the air. The area around her seemed more like a wild
life preserve then a laboratory. In front of her were numerous
transparent screens showing some type of readouts that Ranma could
never hope to identify. He approached Washu and waited quietly for
her to turn around. It really wasn't his choice to stay quiet, he
tried to talk, but nothing came out.
Finally, Washu turned around to face the silenced martial
artist. "Ah, Ranma, just the person I need to talk to. I've got a
question about your friend."
Ranma was rather thankful that he had finally recovered the
ability to speak. "So, Washu-Chan, what do you want to know?"
"Why does he always try to embrace death?"
Ranma's eyes widened in shock. "What do you mean embrace
death?"
Washu gave a small sigh. "Well, maybe not embrace it. It's
more like he doesn't seem to care whether he lives or dies. He'll
take either one."
Ranma gazed down at the ground for a while. When he finally
looked back up his eyes were slightly clouded. "Tomas has a rather
painful past. From what he's told me, he doesn't really seem to
care what happens to himself."
"What can you tell me about it?"
"Well, from what he told me, his parents died when he was
twelve or so. They died in some sort of car accident. He didn't
want to go into an orphanage, so he ran away. He didn't have any
living relatives to take him in. Anyway, after a few months of
travel he met a wandering martial artist. Kinda like what me and
Oyaji were doin'. The guy saw the pain in Tomas and took him in,
started to teach him the art to give him some control back in his
life. When Tomas was sixteen or so they parted ways. I never was
told why, but it wasn't that important. Tomas had made himself
quite a bit of money in tournaments and the like while traveling,
and rented an apartment in some small town. You know he's gaijin,
and this was in the US. Well, he went back to school and met this
girl. From what I could gather they were in love. One day she
turned up missing."
"What was her name? I don't think you've mentioned it yet."
"Her name was Maria." Washu and Ranma turned to see Tomas
in the doorway.
Ranma walked over to his friend, who just about collapsed in
his arms. "What are you doing here? You should be in bed."
"I was hungry, but it looked like World War Three was going
on in the kitchen, so I decided to come here. I was hoping you'd
have something I could munch on, Washu-Chan."
"Sorry, Tomas, but I don't keep food in the lab. Well, not
food fit for a human, anyway. I'm sure that the problems in the
kitchen will die down eventually, so why don't you continue the
story that Ranma started?"
Tomas looked down at the ground for a while before he gazed
back up. His eyes were holding a pain long buried. "Well, me and
Maria were in love. I'd probably would have asked her to marry me
one day. Well, I never got the chance. I was at a martial arts
tournament and one of her friends was going to pick her up from
work. Maria wasn't there when she arrived. Her family called the
police and they started to search for her. I was arrested in the
beginning, but her family came with video of the tournament. Since
I never used my locker room I was almost always in the background.
Anyway, after I was released I took up the search for her too. I
was passing a warehouse a couple of days after I had been released
when I caught a bad smell. I went into an ally behind the
warehouse and found what appeared to be a severed arm." Tomas
stopped to draw in a few ragged breaths. Even though he was
telling the story years after it had happened, it was still painful.
"Well, I called the police and waited for tem to show up. Once
they did we started to search inside the building. As we wandered
through we didn't find anything. Eventually I got so mad that I
slammed my fist into a crate. The stench that came out of it was
overpowering." Tomas closed his eyes as he began to shudder. Both
Washu and Ranma could see the pain that he was going through, and
it hurt them both. They were sure that they would not like what he
was about to say. "I opened the crate and there
was Maria. Well, her head anyway. And a hand too. The hand still
had my class ring on, too. It hurt finding her like that.
Kami-Sama, it hurt so much."
By that point tears were streaming down his face unabashedly.
The small clear drops drifted from his eyes to the floor, each one
carrying a little bit of the pain and the memories with it. Washu
floated over to him and gently wrapped her arms about him. Tomas
continued to cry into her shoulder as all of the old pent-up grief
flooded into the open. After what seemed like eternity to him,
Tomas regained enough control to back away from Washu and continue
his story. "That was all that we ever found of her. An arm, a
leg, and her head was all that was left. We practically tore the
building down searching. Well, we found some evidence, made an
arrest and convicted the asshole who did it. After the trial I got
up and left. All that I had left in my life by that point was the
art. I came overseas and met a martial arts master who saw the pain
in my soul. He helped me go from a suicidal inclination to where I
am now. I don't fear death, I just wait for it to happen. That's
the majority of why I am like I am. Hope that helps you
Washu-Chan."
Everyone was silent for a while after that. Only the sounds
that normally permeated Washu's lab were heard. When it seemed
that the silence was just about to reach the point of being
unbearable, Washu walked over to Tomas and put a hand on his
shoulder. "Just remember that you have friends on this side, too,
Tomas. They don't want to loose you."
Tomas smiled. "I know, Washu-Chan, I know. I'm not saying
that I'm going to go looking for death, just that when it comes,
I'm ready to accept it."
***
Usagi just stared blankly into the fire. She was hurting deep
inside and the pain was getting worse. Her mind kept going over
the incident that took place at school a few days before. Her team
was starting to fall apart. Sailor Venus died as she refused to
believe that the two boys were evil. The Outer Senshi refused to
speak to any of the Inners on why they had decided to attack at
school. Setsuna seemed to be getting more and more obsessed with
finding the boys and killing them. She was sure that they posed
some great threat to the future and that Minako's desertion of her
friends was simply the first sign. Pluto had then stepped back to
the Gates of Time and said she would search them out. When the
Senshi tried to contact Minako they found that she had left her
communicator in her house. She wasn't coming back to the Senshi,
everyone knew that now.
Rei was furious with the former Senshi of Love. It was
almost impossible for her to believe that anyone would just up and
desert Usagi like that. Sure she had wanted to get away from her
crybaby leader, but she would never turn over to the enemy.
Ami was thinking over what Makoto had told them. She could
see how Minako would be upset over everything that had happened.
She was the only one beside Minako who could see the fact that
Ranma and Tomas never started the fight. They were always
defending themselves from the restless pursuit of the Senshi. Her
mind was already going over everything that had happened as she
tried to sort her own feelings about the two boys. While she had
never met them, she was becoming more and more sympathetic to them.
Makoto was trying to figure out how everything could have
gone so wrong. The first problem that she knew was that the Senshi
had assumed that the two boys were the bad guys. They never
stopped to see what their side of the story was after they heard
the Outer Senshi's story. The second was that they had tried to
go too far. From what they knew the two guys were human boys, even
if they were incredibly powerful.
Michiru and Haruka simply wanted revenge on the two boys
that had humiliated them in public. It was bad enough that they
got seriously beat into the ground by them, but now people were
questioning whether they were good or not.
Hotaru was questioning the two boys motives. She recalled
how Tomas-san had saved her from the bullies, but also how the two
had seriously injured her parents. She was trying to come up with
a reason for the two totally different situations. She knew from
what Usagi had said that her parents had coming looking for the
two, but also that the two had seemed to egg them into the fight.
She just kept getting more and more confused by what was happening
in the world around her.
***
Minako Aino, a.k.a. Sailor V was currently wondering what the
hell she had gotten herself into. She had thought that the fights
between Rei and Usagi were bad, but they had nothing on Aeka and
Ryouko. There was literally energy flowing between the two of them
as they battled over Tenchi. Hmmm… maybe I should just leave the
room for a while… She started to back out of the room only to
bump into someone. "Oh excuse me for…" She trilled off as she
stared at a bare, well muscled chest. She looked up into Tomas's
face with little pink hearts in her eyes.
Tomas slid past her, followed by Ranma and Washu. Minako
didn't notice either of them however, as she stared at Tomas's
bare back. As his muscles rippled with each slow step her blush
grew. It finally reached the point where she had to turn around
to keep him from seeing any sign of embarrassment.
As for Ryouko and Aeka, well they just ignored the new
comers and continued to stare at each other in anger. Well, they
ignored each other until Tomas pushed his way between them, opened
the refrigerator, removed some leftovers turned around and headed
for the dinning table. The two just stood there and stared at him
as he sat down and began to devour the meal. Soon Ranma was beside
him with the platter between the two. In almost no time it was
all gone. Ranma then got up, walked between the two just as Tomas
did before, grabbed a few more dishes filled with food and sat at
the table. Not long after that, Mihoshi walked in the room. She
saw the meal that was disappearing and went to help.
As three people devoured a meal fit for eight, Minako moved
over and sat down at the end of the table. She gently shook her
head when Tomas pushed a couple of pieces of Sukiyaki towards her.
She stared in awe as the full plate became empty after a few
seconds. By the time the meal came to an end everyone had come to
sit at the table and watch the event. It was beyond anything they
had ever seen. After the meal was gone Tomas dropped backwards to
lay down.
"So, what's next on the agenda. I kinda think schools out
of the picture. And I don't think I could take another run in with
those underdressed girls."
"HEY!" Minako sounded rather offended by the comment.
Tomas rolled his head over to look at her. "Well, excuse me,
but if you can afford those little electronic communicator things,
you can sure afford to by some more fabric. Why the hell are your
skirts that short, anyway?"
Minako wasn't in the mood to be put on the defensive,
however. "They're so short so that men like you will be distracted
by our long, beautiful legs in battle."
"Distracted is right, they almost make me want to throw up."
He gave her a big grin just to let her know he wasn't serious.
His body was in such bad shape that he wouldn't be able to beat
Sasami in a fight, let alone a grown girl.
She gave him a rather seductive smile to let him know tat she knew
it was all in good fun. "And you're one to talk about modesty?
When you're walking around without a shirt on?"
"I'm not ashamed of my body. I think I look rather good.
Don't you agree?"
"If you two are through playing around we have something to
discuss here."
Tomas looked over at his friend. "Ah, Ranma, but flirting is
so much fun. You should give it a try sometime, you'll like it,
trust me."
"I've had enough problems with girls, thanks. Anyway, what
I want to do is go get my mother and bring her here. I don't like
the thought of her being at home alone. I'll do that tomorrow
morning. The rest of you had better begin thinking about how to
defend this place. Those girls already know we've been here once,
and they're sure to think of it."
Tomas slowly sat back up. "Fine then, I'm going with you."
"No you are not. Look you haven't asked yet, but you were
out for three days. You need time to recover and get back in
shape. This is the third time that you've been knocked out while
fighting. I've remained standing, however. That just proves that
you need to retrain yourself, and I won't take no for an answer!"
Tomas proceeded to swear up a storm.
Author's Notes: Well, I'm finally done. It sure took me long
enough to get this done as you know. I blame it on writing out
Tomas's past, Twin Black Phoenix, and Magic Squire Rayearth. I
hope that you enjoyed it, and know that I already have of
chapter 7 mapped out.
The characters of Ranma ½ belong to Rumiko Takakashi. The
characters of Sailor Moon belong to Naoko Takeuchi. Tenchi
Muyo! Belongs to Kajishima Masaki. This is all for non-profit
reasons, so please don't sue me. I don't have enough to make it
worth while anyway. And now on with the story.
Note: This is NOT an SI fic.
Words in __ are thoughts.
From Weird to Weirder
A Ranma ½, Sailor Moon, and Tenchi Muyo! Crossover
By: Tomas Megerson.
Send C & C and flames to nighthawktm@yahoo.com
Chapter 6:
Betrayal and History
Ranma and Tomas walked along the fence as they headed
toward school. The sun was rising in the east as a few wisps
of clouds that hung in the air floated by. Once more the air
was crisp and dew was drawn upon the grass. The sky itself was
a merging of pinks, reds, oranges, and grays. As they walked
along, the two young men were in conversation.
"So, Ranma, what do you think of your cousin? You can
really see a family resemblance. And not just in looks."
Tomas tossed Ranma a wryly smile.
Ranma sighed as he thought back to the past. It was
only a year ago that he had been in a very similar situation as
Tenchi. With four fiancées trying to snare him (well, two
fiancées trying to snare him, one psycho trying to catch him,
and the fourth just beating him up.) If the three who were
left found him he would loose what precious little peace he
had. Yeah, very little, what with those girls who chased us.
"You know, I'd really like to help him out. I can't stand
thinking that there is some else out there with almost the same
problem that I had."
"I wouldn't worry about him too much. He actually has
it a lot easier than you did. I was talking to Aeka about it.
She told me that if Tenchi does become the Emperor of Jurai,
then he has to take two wives. That gives him a bit more
freedom than you ever had."
Ranma looked at Tomas with his eyes wide. "What are
you nuts? What happens if the two he chooses don't get along.
He'll never hear the end of it. He'd just get caught in the
middle of their fights like he does right now."
Tomas blinked a few times before he yanked Ranma off
of the fence and pushed him against a wall. "Alright, who are
you?! The real Ranma never would have come up with that!
Answer me!"
Ranma pushed against Tomas's arms trying to get them
off. "Hey, It's just that I've thought about this before. I
wondered what would happen if I could have married two of the
girls. It would have been messy." Tomas had released him
and the two were once more on the fence heading for school.
They continued their idle conversation until they entered the
school grounds.
It was like a thunderstorm. All of a sudden the
majority of the school population surrounded the two martial
artists. Questions bombarded them from all sides. There were
a lot of people asking how they had managed to defeat the
youma. A number of the boys were asking if they could be
taught. Most of the girls were asking for dates. Ranma was
asking why stuff like this always happened to him.
Tomas was trying to answer the questions. They could
defeat the youma because they had been training to fight for
many years. No, they couldn't teach anyone because it takes
to long and it is too dangerous. While he wouldn't mind a
date, this was not the time to ask for one. An finally,
"Ranma, this always happens to you because the Kami hate you
and because you're father constantly messed up your life."
"Yeah, I know. I hope things get better, though."
The late bell chose that moment to ring and the reluctant
crowed moved away from the two and started toward class.
Ranma sighed and glanced at the clock. "We better go as
well." The two followed the crowd into the building for the
start of another boring day.
***
It was lunch-time and the Sailor Senshi were sharing
their usual tree. They were in the middle of a discussion
concerning a certain pair of martial artists. Said martial
artists were currently on the other side of the grounds
surround once more by people who wanted to know just what they
had done and were they went after the battle.
After watching the crowed for a moment Makoto sighed.
"Look at them, not a care in the world. Do you think that
they are even scared of us? That they are worried we could
show up at any time?"
Rei gave her a disgusted look. "Of course they aren't.
If they were they sure wouldn't be here, now would they. And
why should they be? The two of them took out three of us while
severally injured. Do you think we could pose a challenge for
them when they are fully healed?"
Usa tried to look cheerful. "Well, they haven't done
anything wrong except for attacking us. Maybe it's just that
they were hurt and didn't recognize us. That could be it you
know."
Even Ami looked skeptical at this. "Usagi, we've been
in the news for almost three years now. Surely they've heard
of us. There is even merchandise in the stores that they
could have seen. Surely they knew who we were." Usagi's face
got downcast rather quickly after that. It got worse when the
Outer Senshi decided to show up, in full uniform and sprouting
speeches on why Tomas and Ranma were demons not to be trusted.
Usagi got even more worried when Tomas screamed something about
the psycho chicks that were trying to kill them last week.
Then everything was shot to hell when Ranma mentioned clearly
enough for everyone to hear how Uranus had such a flat chest
that he was surprised that she was a girl and not a boy.
Suffice to say a fight started very quickly after that.
***
Ranma threw Neptune right at Tomas who hit her with a
powerful round house kick that sent her at Pluto. The Senshi
of Time jumped out of the way in time to dodge Neptune's flying
form, but found herself right in the way of Uranus's World
Shaking attack. Before she could dodge out of the way Tomas
boxed her in by sending a pair of fireballs at each side of her.
Her partner's attack nailed her right in the chest sending her
toward where Tomas used to be. He was currently standing next
to Ranma discussing what they should do.
"I vote we get out of here. Sure, we're kicking their
butts, but remember that there are at least five more somewhere.
We could get swamped over very quickly if this doesn't end soon."
"Sure we can leave, but what then. They'll just chase
us like last time." Ranma turned toward Tomas with an annoyed
look on his face. "And besides, where would we go? We sure
can't lead them back home. Mom would never be able to defend
herself against them. Do we head to Tenchi's? I think he
would be pretty annoyed at the fact that we keep coming by when
ever we're attacked. So what's the plan?"
Tomas looked at Ranma for a few moments debating what
they should do. Too bad that Pluto's magical attack is
whispered since neither one of them could hear her say it.
The fact that neither could sense magic didn't help matters
either. The Dead Scream slammed into them like a pick up
truck. A cloud of dirt and dust shot into the air along with
screams from the two martial artists.
Uranus and Neptune pulled themselves up from their
respective holes as Pluto gave a slight smile. A twitch of
the lips was all, but for her it was a smile. "They are finished.
The future is secure." It was then that a form came out of the
dust cloud.
Ranma looked around for a few moments, taking in the entire
scene. The three Senshi who attacked them were together. None of
the others had shown up, and the school grounds were pretty much
disserted. Slowly, he lowered Tomas's bloody body to the ground.
Because of how they had been standing, Tomas had taken more of the
magical attack then Ranma. Ranma stood back up and looked grimly
at the three Senshi. "You've just made the biggest mistake you
could." The anger washed over him like an ice-cold glacier. He
didn't care any more. "I'm not going to hold back anymore."
Ranma's innocence had finally left him. He had come to the most
difficult decision he could. He was going into a fight with the
intent to kill. "You're nothing compared to me. I've torn a God
apart before! Now its you're turn!" His last words were with
biting rage.
He gave them no warning. One moment he was standing by
his fallen friend, shaking with anger. The next moment he was on
them, glowing bright blue and releasing devastating attacks. As
he fought he made no sound. Uranus took a pair of Tenshin
Armagurikans followed by a Mouko Takabisha as she flew backward.
Spinning, Ranma jumped over Neptune's Deep Submerge and launched
his Flaming Chi Wave. As soon as he landed he released a pair of
Twister Blades that slammed into her chest. He smiled as he
clearly heard breaking bones and the Senshi cry out in pain. Then
he turned to face Pluto.
The Senshi of Time was taken aback at the violence that
had just been displayed. She had never realized just what Ranma
was capable of. She had never come across anyone with the type
of power that he was radiating. And then he was on her.
Ranma enhanced his punches with his Ki and unleashed the
Tenshin Armagurikan straight into her solar plex. That was
followed by a crescent kick that sent Pluto flying into the wall
that surrounded the school. Ranma raised both his hands and
pointed into the wreckage that Pluto's body had caused. "DUEL
MOUKO TAKABISHA!" A pair of golden blasts leapt from his out
stretched hands and slammed into the rubble causing a tremendous
explosion. Once more Ranma took to the air, this time dodging one
of Uranus's World Shaking attacks. He watched as she drew her
space sword. Landing near the still downed Neptune, Ranma grabbed
her and hurled her towards her companion. Uranus, who had started
to charge forward, was caught by surprise and had to drop her sword
to catch the now flying Senshi. Then Ranma was in front of her once
more. Before she could react he slammed his fist into the ground
causing a virtual explosion of Ki to erupt underneath the pair.
Ranma gazed around the schoolyard. Out of those who had been
involved in the battle he was the only one still standing. Mass
amounts of damage covered the grounds as the majority of attacks
used had caused area damage. Feeling drained from the massive
amounts of Ki he had used, Ranma slowly made his way to Tomas's
still body. He bent down to pick up his friend when new voices
came on the scene.
"MARS FLAME SNIPER!"
He barely had the time to grab the slowly breathing form of
his friend and jump away before the ground he had been standing on
was fried to a crisp.
Looking up as he landed, Ranma saw four more of the
sailor-suited warriors of love and justice. He was rather proud
that he hadn't let the sigh he felt coming on be heard. Things had
been bad after Tomas had bee injured, but now they were desperate.
Ranma had spent a lot of his Ki in enhancing his body to take out
the first three Senshi to show. Ranma gritted his teeth and
prepared to fight.
There was a flash of light, an explosion, and the Senshi
started their traditional dodge and panic routine. Ranma looked
over his shoulder to see a familiar figure. It was the figure of
a space pirate called Ryouko. She was in her red and black armor
and launched another ball of energy at the Senshi. Ranma blinked
as she disappeared only to reappear right next to him. "Are you
okay, Ranma?" He slowly nodded. She smiled and turned to the
Senshi as they began to regroup. Her eyes flickered once at the
still body of Tomas and it was her turn to shake her head. "How
does he manage to get injured that much?" she wondered aloud. If
she had been paying more attention to the Senshi, she would have
noticed that Jupiter had started to use one of her more powerful
attacks while she was off to the side.
It was at this point that things started to get confusing.
Jupiter launched a Thunder Dragon, Venus (who hadn't been there
before) countered it with her Crescent Beam, Ranma launched a pair
of his Twister Blades at Sailor Moon and Sailor Mars, and Ryo-Ohki
finally appeared above the battle and dropped in Tenchi, Aeka, and
the Galaxy Police. The action that stopped everything was Venus
showing up. The problem was that she was wearing her old Sailor V
mask. Usagi blinked a couple of times, got hit by the Twister
Blade that was shot at her, and was slammed into the wall
unconscious. The same happened to Mars.
As it stood only Jupiter stood as a Sailor Senshi, While
Sailor V was across from her giving her a cold look. This was
enough to shock Jupiter into listening to her instead of speaking.
"I will no longer be part of the Sailor Senshi, Jupiter.
You've all turned what was originally a fight to protect this world
into a battle over pride." She pointed at the downed Outers.
"They started this mess by making a mistake, and they refused to
correct it. Instead they chose to eliminate it. I will not
standby and watch the Senshi kill humans. From this moment on let
the world know Sailor Venus is dead. I am once again Sailor V and
I will fight for what I believe in."
Everyone on the property had heard her speech. Even a news
crew that had shown up in time to film some of the fight caught it
all. The questions were in the air of the city now. Were the
Sailor Senshi still the good guys? Were the two boys they had
attacked really evil? And what about the people who had showed up
to aid them?
Ranma, however had a different question, this one for Ryouko.
"Can Ryo-Ohki get us out of here?"
"Yeah, no problem."
"Good. Do it, and bring her, too." Ranma pointed at the
now Sailor V. Ryouko decided that it would be best not to argue
for once and had Ryo-Ohki bring them all aboard. The cabbit then
headed for the stars.
***
Ranma looked at Tomas and sighed. "I'm supposed to be the
hero here. Why are you always the one to get injured?"
Tomas, wrapped in bandages and stretched out on a bed in a
guestroom just shrugged as he struggled to sit up. "Just lucky, I
guess. So how did we get back here, anyway? Last thing I remember
we were trying to decide to fight or run."
"Well, I took care of those first three, but then four more
showed up. That's when things got confusing."
"How so?"
"Well, first Tenchi and the others showed up, then one of the
Senshi decided to join our side since she feels that we're innocent
here. I managed to knock out another two of the Senshi and then
Ryo-Ohki transported us back here. You remember how they told us
she turns into a spaceship, right? Let me tell you something, I
almost dropped back into the Neko-Ken while I was on her. Being
surrounded b a meowing spaceship didn't do anything for my nerves."
Tomas laughed quietly at the thought of Ranma being trapped
in a spaceship that was meowing. "I'm not surprised. Still it
could have been worse, you could have actually gone into the
Neko-Ken."
Ranma shook his head as he looked at his friend. "Well, you
take it easy. I'm going downstairs. I want to find out more about
the blonde Senshi." Tomas nodded and closed his eyes. Ranma
sighed and headed out the door, making sure to close it before
heading down the stairs.
He walked into a kitchen filled with tension. His eyes went
around the room making sure that everyone who should be there was.
The only noticeable absence was Washu. Ranma quietly left the
kitchen not saying a thing as no one had noticed him. As he slowly
approached the broom closet where everyone said Washu had set up her
lab, his danger sense began to kick in. Being that he was in a
house with some of the most powerful people, some of which didn't
get along with one another, he chalked it up to another fight
starting. This place was almost as bad as the Tendo Dojo had been.
In fact, the only reason it wasn't worse was that Tenchi knew how to
defuse the situations sometimes. Whenever Ranma tried to get
involved he just made everything worse.
He knocked on the door and was surprised when Washu's face
appeared on it. "Come in." Ranma slowly opened the door and
stepped through. He stopped in shock at what he saw. While he had
been told that Washu's lab was something different, this was not
what he had expected. Washu was sitting on a pillow that was
suspended in the air. The area around her seemed more like a wild
life preserve then a laboratory. In front of her were numerous
transparent screens showing some type of readouts that Ranma could
never hope to identify. He approached Washu and waited quietly for
her to turn around. It really wasn't his choice to stay quiet, he
tried to talk, but nothing came out.
Finally, Washu turned around to face the silenced martial
artist. "Ah, Ranma, just the person I need to talk to. I've got a
question about your friend."
Ranma was rather thankful that he had finally recovered the
ability to speak. "So, Washu-Chan, what do you want to know?"
"Why does he always try to embrace death?"
Ranma's eyes widened in shock. "What do you mean embrace
death?"
Washu gave a small sigh. "Well, maybe not embrace it. It's
more like he doesn't seem to care whether he lives or dies. He'll
take either one."
Ranma gazed down at the ground for a while. When he finally
looked back up his eyes were slightly clouded. "Tomas has a rather
painful past. From what he's told me, he doesn't really seem to
care what happens to himself."
"What can you tell me about it?"
"Well, from what he told me, his parents died when he was
twelve or so. They died in some sort of car accident. He didn't
want to go into an orphanage, so he ran away. He didn't have any
living relatives to take him in. Anyway, after a few months of
travel he met a wandering martial artist. Kinda like what me and
Oyaji were doin'. The guy saw the pain in Tomas and took him in,
started to teach him the art to give him some control back in his
life. When Tomas was sixteen or so they parted ways. I never was
told why, but it wasn't that important. Tomas had made himself
quite a bit of money in tournaments and the like while traveling,
and rented an apartment in some small town. You know he's gaijin,
and this was in the US. Well, he went back to school and met this
girl. From what I could gather they were in love. One day she
turned up missing."
"What was her name? I don't think you've mentioned it yet."
"Her name was Maria." Washu and Ranma turned to see Tomas
in the doorway.
Ranma walked over to his friend, who just about collapsed in
his arms. "What are you doing here? You should be in bed."
"I was hungry, but it looked like World War Three was going
on in the kitchen, so I decided to come here. I was hoping you'd
have something I could munch on, Washu-Chan."
"Sorry, Tomas, but I don't keep food in the lab. Well, not
food fit for a human, anyway. I'm sure that the problems in the
kitchen will die down eventually, so why don't you continue the
story that Ranma started?"
Tomas looked down at the ground for a while before he gazed
back up. His eyes were holding a pain long buried. "Well, me and
Maria were in love. I'd probably would have asked her to marry me
one day. Well, I never got the chance. I was at a martial arts
tournament and one of her friends was going to pick her up from
work. Maria wasn't there when she arrived. Her family called the
police and they started to search for her. I was arrested in the
beginning, but her family came with video of the tournament. Since
I never used my locker room I was almost always in the background.
Anyway, after I was released I took up the search for her too. I
was passing a warehouse a couple of days after I had been released
when I caught a bad smell. I went into an ally behind the
warehouse and found what appeared to be a severed arm." Tomas
stopped to draw in a few ragged breaths. Even though he was
telling the story years after it had happened, it was still painful.
"Well, I called the police and waited for tem to show up. Once
they did we started to search inside the building. As we wandered
through we didn't find anything. Eventually I got so mad that I
slammed my fist into a crate. The stench that came out of it was
overpowering." Tomas closed his eyes as he began to shudder. Both
Washu and Ranma could see the pain that he was going through, and
it hurt them both. They were sure that they would not like what he
was about to say. "I opened the crate and there
was Maria. Well, her head anyway. And a hand too. The hand still
had my class ring on, too. It hurt finding her like that.
Kami-Sama, it hurt so much."
By that point tears were streaming down his face unabashedly.
The small clear drops drifted from his eyes to the floor, each one
carrying a little bit of the pain and the memories with it. Washu
floated over to him and gently wrapped her arms about him. Tomas
continued to cry into her shoulder as all of the old pent-up grief
flooded into the open. After what seemed like eternity to him,
Tomas regained enough control to back away from Washu and continue
his story. "That was all that we ever found of her. An arm, a
leg, and her head was all that was left. We practically tore the
building down searching. Well, we found some evidence, made an
arrest and convicted the asshole who did it. After the trial I got
up and left. All that I had left in my life by that point was the
art. I came overseas and met a martial arts master who saw the pain
in my soul. He helped me go from a suicidal inclination to where I
am now. I don't fear death, I just wait for it to happen. That's
the majority of why I am like I am. Hope that helps you
Washu-Chan."
Everyone was silent for a while after that. Only the sounds
that normally permeated Washu's lab were heard. When it seemed
that the silence was just about to reach the point of being
unbearable, Washu walked over to Tomas and put a hand on his
shoulder. "Just remember that you have friends on this side, too,
Tomas. They don't want to loose you."
Tomas smiled. "I know, Washu-Chan, I know. I'm not saying
that I'm going to go looking for death, just that when it comes,
I'm ready to accept it."
***
Usagi just stared blankly into the fire. She was hurting deep
inside and the pain was getting worse. Her mind kept going over
the incident that took place at school a few days before. Her team
was starting to fall apart. Sailor Venus died as she refused to
believe that the two boys were evil. The Outer Senshi refused to
speak to any of the Inners on why they had decided to attack at
school. Setsuna seemed to be getting more and more obsessed with
finding the boys and killing them. She was sure that they posed
some great threat to the future and that Minako's desertion of her
friends was simply the first sign. Pluto had then stepped back to
the Gates of Time and said she would search them out. When the
Senshi tried to contact Minako they found that she had left her
communicator in her house. She wasn't coming back to the Senshi,
everyone knew that now.
Rei was furious with the former Senshi of Love. It was
almost impossible for her to believe that anyone would just up and
desert Usagi like that. Sure she had wanted to get away from her
crybaby leader, but she would never turn over to the enemy.
Ami was thinking over what Makoto had told them. She could
see how Minako would be upset over everything that had happened.
She was the only one beside Minako who could see the fact that
Ranma and Tomas never started the fight. They were always
defending themselves from the restless pursuit of the Senshi. Her
mind was already going over everything that had happened as she
tried to sort her own feelings about the two boys. While she had
never met them, she was becoming more and more sympathetic to them.
Makoto was trying to figure out how everything could have
gone so wrong. The first problem that she knew was that the Senshi
had assumed that the two boys were the bad guys. They never
stopped to see what their side of the story was after they heard
the Outer Senshi's story. The second was that they had tried to
go too far. From what they knew the two guys were human boys, even
if they were incredibly powerful.
Michiru and Haruka simply wanted revenge on the two boys
that had humiliated them in public. It was bad enough that they
got seriously beat into the ground by them, but now people were
questioning whether they were good or not.
Hotaru was questioning the two boys motives. She recalled
how Tomas-san had saved her from the bullies, but also how the two
had seriously injured her parents. She was trying to come up with
a reason for the two totally different situations. She knew from
what Usagi had said that her parents had coming looking for the
two, but also that the two had seemed to egg them into the fight.
She just kept getting more and more confused by what was happening
in the world around her.
***
Minako Aino, a.k.a. Sailor V was currently wondering what the
hell she had gotten herself into. She had thought that the fights
between Rei and Usagi were bad, but they had nothing on Aeka and
Ryouko. There was literally energy flowing between the two of them
as they battled over Tenchi. Hmmm… maybe I should just leave the
room for a while… She started to back out of the room only to
bump into someone. "Oh excuse me for…" She trilled off as she
stared at a bare, well muscled chest. She looked up into Tomas's
face with little pink hearts in her eyes.
Tomas slid past her, followed by Ranma and Washu. Minako
didn't notice either of them however, as she stared at Tomas's
bare back. As his muscles rippled with each slow step her blush
grew. It finally reached the point where she had to turn around
to keep him from seeing any sign of embarrassment.
As for Ryouko and Aeka, well they just ignored the new
comers and continued to stare at each other in anger. Well, they
ignored each other until Tomas pushed his way between them, opened
the refrigerator, removed some leftovers turned around and headed
for the dinning table. The two just stood there and stared at him
as he sat down and began to devour the meal. Soon Ranma was beside
him with the platter between the two. In almost no time it was
all gone. Ranma then got up, walked between the two just as Tomas
did before, grabbed a few more dishes filled with food and sat at
the table. Not long after that, Mihoshi walked in the room. She
saw the meal that was disappearing and went to help.
As three people devoured a meal fit for eight, Minako moved
over and sat down at the end of the table. She gently shook her
head when Tomas pushed a couple of pieces of Sukiyaki towards her.
She stared in awe as the full plate became empty after a few
seconds. By the time the meal came to an end everyone had come to
sit at the table and watch the event. It was beyond anything they
had ever seen. After the meal was gone Tomas dropped backwards to
lay down.
"So, what's next on the agenda. I kinda think schools out
of the picture. And I don't think I could take another run in with
those underdressed girls."
"HEY!" Minako sounded rather offended by the comment.
Tomas rolled his head over to look at her. "Well, excuse me,
but if you can afford those little electronic communicator things,
you can sure afford to by some more fabric. Why the hell are your
skirts that short, anyway?"
Minako wasn't in the mood to be put on the defensive,
however. "They're so short so that men like you will be distracted
by our long, beautiful legs in battle."
"Distracted is right, they almost make me want to throw up."
He gave her a big grin just to let her know he wasn't serious.
His body was in such bad shape that he wouldn't be able to beat
Sasami in a fight, let alone a grown girl.
She gave him a rather seductive smile to let him know tat she knew
it was all in good fun. "And you're one to talk about modesty?
When you're walking around without a shirt on?"
"I'm not ashamed of my body. I think I look rather good.
Don't you agree?"
"If you two are through playing around we have something to
discuss here."
Tomas looked over at his friend. "Ah, Ranma, but flirting is
so much fun. You should give it a try sometime, you'll like it,
trust me."
"I've had enough problems with girls, thanks. Anyway, what
I want to do is go get my mother and bring her here. I don't like
the thought of her being at home alone. I'll do that tomorrow
morning. The rest of you had better begin thinking about how to
defend this place. Those girls already know we've been here once,
and they're sure to think of it."
Tomas slowly sat back up. "Fine then, I'm going with you."
"No you are not. Look you haven't asked yet, but you were
out for three days. You need time to recover and get back in
shape. This is the third time that you've been knocked out while
fighting. I've remained standing, however. That just proves that
you need to retrain yourself, and I won't take no for an answer!"
Tomas proceeded to swear up a storm.
Author's Notes: Well, I'm finally done. It sure took me long
enough to get this done as you know. I blame it on writing out
Tomas's past, Twin Black Phoenix, and Magic Squire Rayearth. I
hope that you enjoyed it, and know that I already have of
chapter 7 mapped out.
