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Chapter 6
HISTORY...WHILE RANMA WAS SLEEPING
MAKING HISTORY...NOW RANMA IS WIDE AWAKE AND CAUSING CHAOS…AGAIN
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Year 2000 A.D while Ranma was sleeping
The Second Millennium began with a flash of light (about one year after Ranma disappeared) when Washu (Self-proclaimed greatest scientist in the universe) detected a space time phenomena called a Hyperspace Fold Event happen just behind the dark side of Earth's Moon.
The hyperspace fold reveals a huge ship, over a kilometer long with markings of a Tirolian vessel, yet it was unlike any Tirol vessel ever built and neither Washu or the GP database has ever seen such a design, which peaks her interest in what kind of construction the Tirolian use to build it.
She sent long-range probes to have the alien ship an in-depth scans and the probes scans reveal the vessel to be brand new, perhaps only recently out of the shipyard. In addition, it has the tell tale signs of battles, as hundred of battle scars and hull breaches caused by weapons fire can be seen clearly enough, along with thousands of humanoid remains floating in the void near the ship.
Washu codename the alienship as the 'VISITOR' but the USAF Space Command who also saw the alien ship appeared calls it 'A.S.S.-1'or Alien StarShip 1
The Visitor would have crashed on Earth if not for the lack of forward momentum and the ship's still operational auto-navigations systems that kept it from falling to Earth, for if that had happen, the result would have been catastrophic.
Therefore, the ship stayed on lunar orbit at the dark side hidden from prying eyes coming from Earth
A week later, Washu told Tenchi Masaki and Yamada Seina of the Galaxy Police and in cooperation with members of the USAF Space Command, went up and investigated the alien ship, and what they found is a ship carrying incredible knowledge from a distant world, from a race of beings currently at war with itself at that time.
The Commanders of the U.S Space Command and the current American President at that time are the few, who knew the existence of aliens on earth living peacefully among them. Now the discovery of the huge vessel is a major salvage in technology for the US, and in accordance with the secret treaty with the Galaxy Alliance in the 1960 Treaty of Camp David that: derelict ships that enter Earth Space are free for salvage. Therefore, they hid the Visitor ship somewhere on Earth where scientists will study it carefully.
They also gave a Memorial for 5,000 remains found on board the visitor; they gave them a space burial in accordance to the culture of the race they came from.
Years have past since the visitor's arrival, whatever knowledge the Americans learned from that ship is unknown, for within the next few years, events altered the landscape of the world. On the eve of 2009 AD, Middle Eastern terrorist groups use a petroleum-eating bacterium against the fifty US states major petroleum reserves. America's loss of fuel brought the US economy in a staggering halt, which echoed across the globe and destroying the World Economy in just one week.
Then a month later, the petroleum-eating bacteria mutated into not only an airborne virus but also an all petroleum based eating bacterium, meaning that any objects and materials made from oil are at risks.
The bacterium spreads worldwide similar to avian flu, the virus struck the world's major oil producing countries, countries that supplies 80% of the planet oil dependent transportation and industry.
The world staggers to a halt and then warp back to a 19th Century Era kind of life at the end of 2010 AD as preventive means to stop the oil-eating bacteria came too late.
Horseback riding, horse drawn carriages, steam locomotive, sailing ships and pedal powered bicycles are the only means of transportation for many years before scientist could develop a cure for the petroleum eating bacterium.
It took a while for the world to accept Organic Plastics, synthetic oil that substituted petroleum and other alternative fuels that took the place where petroleum once was, and recycling became the everyday necessity, not to mention eco-friendly technology became big business.
By the end of the year 2015 AD, the UN signed 'The Eugenic Accord' laws that control and restrict the use of genetic technology for they fear that another kind viral epidemic of human creation may cause another more devastating effect than just loosing the world's petroleum reserves.
The law restricts the use of the knowledge in genetic manipulation as the science has become much more advance and refined that several applications are in actual use mostly in agriculture.
The U.S. argued, that the need to control and regulate the science is vital, as the science have progressed far enough that they can now actually modify a human being in the genetic level. Being the first nation to have suffered from the viral plague, the US public fervently demands it's strict control and regulation with no compromise.
From 2015 to 2040, the 'Age of Resource Management' came in play as more and new environment friendly technology replaces older and harmful technology. One of the new technologies is the new Mass Drivers or Magnetic Accelerators perfected by Europe Aerospace, Russian Space Command and NASA in 2020 AD, and this introduces Earth in the mass space exploration and colonization of space.
It wasn't long till the major industrial nations starts to establish their own space colonies for a permanent presence in space. Technological advancements in space technology made orbital satellite colonies safer as the first of five O'Neill type spacestations built in cooperation with 17 different nations using their own MA.
Advances and engineering hurdles in constructing the first spacestations were solved thanks to the USAF. (No one suspected that the USAF have been garnered the experience by the reverse engineering of several techs recovered from the Visitor)
Twenty-five years of peace have brought about humankind's technological progress with astounding speed, and then on 2060, war broke out that began with a series of bombing in the Middle East.
The Third World War (also known as the Resource War of 2060-66) began by the detonation of a 'Dirty Nuke' on the city of Tel Aviv, Israel, Cairo in Egypt, Amman in Jordan and Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. All four cities, irradiated by dirty nukes by the Great Asia Minor Alliance formed after the Middle East Conflict of 2025 to 2029.
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Before the plague, many fanatical religious sects in the Middle East mostly in Saudi Arabia whom secretly have finance terrorist cells like Al Qaeda are responsible for the plague. With such financial support and resources, they were able to reproduce and made a more virulent strain of the petroleum-eating bacteria in order to cripple the United States of America.
The plan to cripple the US work but it also crippled the rest of the world.
Their action led to all Oil producing nations' demise, as their livelihood as an oil producing country ended with their oil wells producing useless gunk. The countries of OPEC or Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries cease to exist as it fell into anarchy.
Arab Royals, Sheikh and wealthy Families, many who possesses rich oil fields, suddenly lost their means of livelihood and a country only industry. They blame the terrorist for their country's situation and supported the Western Alliances, who has recovered their military powers, (US, Great Britain, EU) and went on an all out war against the terrorists and the nations that continued to harbor them.
Middle East Conflict lasted for four years resulting in the death of millions of people and the demise of a dozen governments and the formation of the Great Asia Minor Alliance
The Great Asia Minor Alliance is a conglomerate of fifty nations that came together for social, economic and military goals, the GAMA bare ill will to the western powers for as they continued to progress beyond the confines of Earth and into Space they stood still with moderate to little progress.
The GAMA leaders were resentful of the lack of sharing to numerous technologies and access to space monopolized by the west.
GAMA created their own space program and their own Mass Driver from copied plans, however, it ended in a disaster for them and that GAMA claims sabotage was the cause of the failure and blames the west for what had happen.
2066 to 2099
The War ended in 2066 with the death toll of 155 million people, from 100 nations worldwide. During this time, a realignment of borders brought smaller nations to be absorbed by the larger more influential nations that started forming unions and federations after the war
A weaken US soon found itself dissolves in order to form the Atlantic Federation.
During the war, several technological advancements are lost or destroyed along with the country's best minds including the USAF Space Command at Colony 1, which regarded by the whole world as the centerpiece of America's technological superiority and the only known military base offworld.
Colony 1 was reported lost after an armed spy satellite of unknown origin fired six nuclear missiles. But what really happened that day, is that Colony 1 purposely drifted into deep space with 50,000 People on board and leaving only its locator beacon used for navigation, which was a good thing because the nukes were homing on the beacon itself.
Since then, Colony 1 fate remains unknown.
During the post war, a mutated strain of Influenza appeared and called it Type S Influenza.
Human immunity and antibiotics prove useless on the onslaught of the new viral epidemic. The only means of control is isolation, which furthers the change in map of the world.
In the year 2084, Dr. Tofu Ono the 3rd, the top geneticist in the world, has successfully enhanced a human DNA in the genetic level in secret, ignoring the UN Eugenics Law of 2015. Tofu 3 used a human gene with extraordinary traits he found stored in his grandfather (Tofu Ono the first) secret gene bank with the initials R.S.
April 1, 2084 George Glenn was born
2099 AD to year 1 of the Cosmic Era a new calendar adopted by the United Nation at the end of the War
George Glenn is the first to be known to the world as, the Coordinator.His early years have mark with incredible skills, strength and abilities and Einstein intelligence.
When George Glenn started his Jupiter Mission, he sent out a message on the World Wide Web on how to enhance a human being in the genetic level. During this time, Washu who still lives at the Masaki Shrine, monitored the web and saw George Glenn announcements an the DNA template they need to follow in order to enhance a human gene successfully.
Washu recognizes something about the DNA, a familiarity she can't place who. So, she made a thorough inquiry on the matter.
In her findings, the DNA template is very close match to Ranma own DNA matrix, which is supposedly unique only to him. She analyzed the data further and found the knowledge focused primarily on enhancing human strength, stamina, higher brain function and immunity. Such enhancement alters the human body that differs to a natural born one. For Washu the knowledge it is not that impressive to her compared to her vast knowledge. In fact, she would put a warning label like in cigarettes packs saying 'caution: genetic enhancements can cause infertility and sterility if used' and just like the cigarette packs warning label, they are always or never ever heeded.
Like cigarettes, which gives the person momentary pleasure, it's the after effects in the long term that will be catastrophic.
Washu tracks down who made it and trace it back to Ono the 3rd and when Ranma's families and relatives found out what Tofu Ono 3rd did, they were furious at him for experimenting on Ranma's DNA and even angrier with Ono senior for keeping any of Ranma's DNA and in so doing open a Pandora's Box across the world.
They could not believe how blatantly arrogant and Foolish George Glenn's actions and even more foolish are the people who think that genetically enhancing their children's genes was a good Idea.
One day, Ranma's family confronted Ono 3 and called him rapist. Then Mrs. Nodoka Saotome that's Ranma mother, drew a dull down sword rusty katana on Ono 3 and castrated with one stroke, right in front of Ono's gathered family and friends.
Shock at what happen, the Ono's and their friends tried to apprehend Mrs. Nodoka Saotome and the other but the Kimono wearing swordswoman gave them a beat down with a sheathed sword and the rest of Ranma family pounded down the others to a pulp. Though no one died, they left them needing immediate hospitalization.
Still Mrs. Saotome and the rest of her family are far angrier with Ono senior. No one knew that Ono had a hobby of collecting DNA samples from his patients, especially the exceptional ones like Martial Arts fighters with incredible skills and abilities that surpass any normal person to absolute super human. Knowing what they did to Ranma DNA, Mrs. Saotome and the others decided to remove it.
Therefore, while Mrs. Saotome is castrating Ono 3, Washu teleported to the Ono's Gene Bank and remove all of the stored DNA including Ranma's DNA.
Publicly, no one know that had happen
Thru the years when first generation coordinators have started to come of age, Ranma's families and their trusted friends watch humanity divide itself in what Washu have predicted of what will happen and fears of a cataclysmic event that will surpass the tragedy of all the World Wars combined.
The Year 2120 or the Year 20 of the Cosmic Era
A mass exodus of the Masaki and Saotome Family is finished along with hundreds of others who are descendants of friends and relatives of the two families. They established new homes among the stars, watch the Earth fell into a pit of hate and despair that soon exploded fifty years later.
Year 70 of The Cosmic Era, the First Cosmic War begins, one year later it ended with 200 million people dead worldwide.
Year 73 of the Cosmic Era
The Second Cosmic War began by the fall of Junius 7 to Earth, and ends 5 months later with 400 million people dead worldwide. The Atlantic Federation dissolves a month later; they divided EA armaments among the former Nations of the Federation.
Year 74 of The Cosmic Era, the Earth Alliance Assembly was established and remnants of the Earth Alliance Forces became the national armed forces of a new organization.
It was at this time, 'The Galaxy Alliance' secretly made contact with the newly formed Earth Alliance Assembly in order to restore contact with Earth.
That same time, the EAS Prometheus en route to Mars found Ranma Saotome inside a glacier; he has awakened, and joins the Earth Alliance Forces as Mobile Armor pilot, his call sign: Wildhorse of Terra
Year 75 of the Cosmic Era, Ranma is a awake…God help them
Macross Island
Dr. Emil Lang is now scolding Ensign Ranma Saotome for damaging a Shopping Mall at Orb and sending 4 ZAFT Soldiers on Shore Leave permission by the Orb Gov't, to a Hospital in full body cast, and one in mentally shock in stupor
"DIDN'T I TELL YOU NOT TO CAUSE ANY PROPERTY DAMAGE?" Lang screamed at him, which echoed through the walls of his lab office and Imitating Soun demon head look, Ranma sweatdropped for that look was a very familiar move he is doing
'Lang must be related to Mr. Tendo' he thought 'scary'
"Look at this" waving a message from H.Q. "when you punch that support pillar, it caused a weakening of the foundation that the owner has to reinforce the building because of the crack you caused and this," he placed down at the table, two newspaper headlines and tabloids (exaggerated, totally )
It reads 'EA Super Soldier pounded 4 ZAFT Soldiers, EA Wildhorse wrecks havoc at Orb arcade house' 'EA plans Wildhorse to breed super children, thousands of women are lining up for a quickie' and that last one pretty much made Ranma twitch at the obvious lie.
Meanwhile Dr. Lang pointed at the TV screen showing him holding a frightened Coordinator by one leg outside a 10 Storey building.
Many people in the area were carrying cameras or cellphone cameras and took pictures of him, and when a news broadcast got hold of it, they analyze Ranma speed, and found it to be phenomenally fast that one punch was actually a hundred punches in one second alone.
"Now I know it wasn't your fault Ranma," he said "But why, for the love of God did you made them become part of the building?" pointing at one ZAFT soldier whose face was body slammed thru the floor and then some, which left forming a crater indentation.
"Sir those guys are a bunch of jerks," he said defending his actions, "One of them shot me for beating him at video game and if I hadn't stop him, his buddies would have turned that Arcade into a real shoot out at the OK Corral"
"You stop them alright, but you also demolish the arcade in the process Ranma, look at that," Lang pointed at the TV screens replaying the scene again; Lang watches Ranma beat the crap out of four veteran ZAFT soldiers in just a minute and so easily. They were all battered and bruised to almost beyond recognition.
All four had every bone in their bodies broken; they lost all of their teeth's along with broken jaws that needed to be wired back. Their fingers look like someone drop an anvil on top of it, and their faces swelled up like someone used it as a punching bag a thousand times over, and that includes the lower half of their bodies like someone deck them between the legs with a sledge hammer several hundred times over
"Well those Idiots were asking for it, and its self defense," He argued, "I didn't start that fight, but I would definitely end it with pain and a large hospital bill but never kill them" which he did for he was really tick about those Idiots firing a gun at him,
"Yes, you did not kill them but beat them an inch of death," Dr. Lang said "Did you have to do that so excessively?"
"Sir, that was the second time I got shot at by these coordinators, Dr. Lang," he growled, "I take those things personally"
'Why is it that every time I had an encounter with Coordinators their first reaction is shoot me?' he took a deep and calm down a bit before continuing
"Major Mwu La Flaga was there along with Captain Murrue Ramius of the Archangel, they saw what happened and if I hadn't done what I did they could have been hurt as well"
"Yes, and thanks to their statements along with dozens of people who saw you with amazement, say the same thing" Lang pulled out a piece of paper and showed it to Ranma, it was for Lang the only good thing that came out of the havoc he always cause and gets out scot-free, Sometimes
"This came in an hour ago" he showed him
"It seems that the Orb Gov't was upset at the four ZAFT soldiers," he told him "They were secretly smuggling weapons into Orb when, Orb police raided their house and found an armory of weapons and Mobile Suits they have hidden along with their confessions about other hidden armory they built in Orb territory" he said
"They were quite cooperative"
Lang smiled at the young man's luck and bad luck because what he is going to tell him is going to make him furious, and Lang is hoping Ranma will not throw his anger at him next, for what H.Q. did is unfair, and Ranma is certainly going to object righteously this time
"Representative Attha sends her thanks. However, the owner of the Shopping Mall sends the bills of damages to EA H.Q. and H.Q. said they will deduct the damage done to the Mall from your salary"
He waited for a moment hoping that Ranma will not go into 'Super Saiyajin' on him like in those ancient Dragonball Manga, 'the kid is so scary if he does that,' which is why he readied a Riot shield the moment he finished telling him that
"What!" slamming his hand on his newly refurbished steel made office table "But that's not fair! Dr. Lang, I mean…. Sir" Ranma blinked at what he is seeing right now
"Sir, why are you hiding behind a riot shield?"
"Well, He, he…" he sounded very nervous and Ranma, well seeing that he just destroyed his desk. Again, he started to understand why he is holding a riot shield in front of him
"Sorry"
Ranma was later on, been seen stomping out of Lang's Office saying foul words about bureaucrats. Lang was relieved to live thru that, though he too thinks it was unfair for Ranma to get the blame, but it was necessary to keep good relations with Orb.
For Ranma however, billing him for damages was a bit annoying even though it was not his fault that the arcade was trashed, for it was to save lives. However, the owner did not see it that way… and in a way… it started to feel like home to him now
"Stupid pencil pushing whinnies, I can't believe they cut my salary!" he growled and stomping his feet, causing a few indentation on the floor.
"GIVE ME SOMEONE I COULD BEAT THE CRAP OUT IN A SPARRING MATCH!" he roars and pretty much every person in the area suddenly disappears in a cloud of dust in an instant.
He was mad as hell, and anyone who sees him like this is wise enough to step aside and let him pass or disappear from sight.
Finding no one around to asks to spar with him, Ranma went somewhere to throw off some steam out of his system, Ranma hop towards the nearest gravel pit site, and started smashing huge boulders into gravel for construction, to the delight of the crew working to get more gravel for the housing construction.
Still, Ranma would never really raise a fist in anger at Lang or anyone whom he considered his friend, even though he scares them sometimes
Earth Alliance Capital
Several Months later
The EAF Joint Chief of Staff is in a closed-door meeting with the President. Today they are watching some video footages of one Ensign Saotome, reducing boulders into rubble at some rock quarry, reducing a junk Mobile Suit into a pancake and going thru an insane live fire obstacle course with ease. The President whom just only now explained who he is and they are dumbfounded in what they are seeing after what their President told them a while ago.
The Joint Chiefs reaction was as the president expected it would be. They are skeptical and disbelieving especially when Ranma seems to have shattered wrecking ball with a single touch, then crash thru a concrete wall and then buried in a pile of rubble and then came out of that waving a tired hand with only a few bruises.
'HOW THE HELL DID THAT KID SURVIVE?' thoughts by some of them with sweatdropped in disbelief for seeing the kid alive after all that was too amazing
"Mr. President" Admiral Henry Gloval broke the silence first for he is not exactly sure what he just seen with his own eyes.
"Are you saying that this boy is from the past, and that the Prometheus found him frozen inside a Glacier floating between Earth and Mars, resurrected, and joined our forces?"
"Pretty much, yes Henry" he said "Now I know it's hard to believe it but its true, Ensign Ranma Saotome is from 2 centuries in the past, late 20th century to be exact"
"Mr. President really now," Adm. Hayes now spoke his mind after hearing and seeing that footage in disbelief "I find it hard to Imagine that there are people who can level a whole mountain with their bare hands then put thru that kind of hell who existed 200 years ago, this is a joke"
"Hayes, you're watching a boy make gravel out of a rock quarry and throwing energy blast coming out of his hand, and shattered a wrecking ball with only a touch and coming out of a rubble with only a scratch and you say it's hard to imagine?"
"With all do respects Sir, some of those Martial Arts stunts he's doing…It's like watching those ancient Kung Fu movies, I've seen Jackie Chan Movies and I am a big fan of his and this kid has some moves he's imitating from him" the President just smile on Hayes observation
"Well then Hayes, I have you know that this kid had some formal training with the Master himself which as you say imitating" he said smiling
"Really, I mean really Sir," he sounded excited for a moment, watching ancient movies is his favorite past time, especially 20th Century Martial Arts Movies
"Yes really Hayes, and thanks to him the VT project have progressed and ready for mass production" he showed them footages of the multi-mission fighter plane in training and simulation and explained to them the news from Emil
"The Ensign is a valued asset to the Earth Forces, and he is now somewhat of a hero to our soldiers despite the chaos that seems to follow him all the time and yet he always seems to come out on top" he opens up a new file
"Emil told me that the fabrication center will be in full production within the week. We'll have the first 500 new fighters rolling out of the production line in a matter of days" around the Briefing room are large screens which shows the new Mecha's
There are several models of Veritech Fighters VF-1S, VF-1R, VF-1J, and VF-1A. Lang and his Engineers are also developing an armored system for space combat, something that give them the advantage in the battlefield
The meeting went on for at least an hour discussing the many projects and operations of the Alliance; some of the project involves in the protection of expanding human presence beyond the Earth Sphere and across the vast distance of space to colonize new territories far from Earth.
The Screens images changes to show the new Colony Satellites under construction in the far off territories of the EA, and close to home, new ones are also being built but with the specification of mobility and long distance travel.
The new class of colony satellites still look like O'Neill class designs, but carries an added features, for at the back of it are 3 massive Ion Drive engines being installed (Picture Babylon 4, and Babylon 5 with rocket engines at the back)
The Earth Alliance and their space satellite states are pouring all their engineering resources and technical know how to the project and with EA Manpower coming from Earth, the colonization projects has accelerated considerably.
This massive undertaking made millions of people migrate from Earth to Space, for the demands of more people in the colony construction increased. More people are also need in the fabrication of new long distance colony ships in newly the built shipyards as well as the prospects of establishing new settlements and resource sites in the outer planets and even beyond the solar system are now possible.
Business, Trade and Investments from the other nations is also booming as the EA achieved prosperity far above those achieved during the Atlantic Federation or Logos ever thought possible.
The EA prosperity help military funding on projects possible as the EAF was able to return to its pre-war strength much faster and well-improved military force, and this bothered many nations especially their long time antagonist.
"Funding is not a problem," said the president "Our priority is to stick to the plan to hit the target mark for 'Operation Exodus' that means we keep the status quo and hopefully and god forbids it won't happen" he said, "but we will be ready should the need arises"
Right then, a phone rang and Admiral Global answers it
"Yes" expression slowly changes and reports to the president
"Mr. President, we have a priority message from Dr. Emil Lang and its being decoded as we speak"
"Emil sent a priority message?" he remembers, 'Lang took a ride on the Prometheus that was heading for Montana Colony a month ago. He thought 'he's there to help out a fellow colleague, Zefram' he remembers that from Lang saying 'an engineers club science experiment Zefram wants to show…hmmmn '
EAF Base
Fort Apache
Extended Training Facility
After the EAF command expunge all Blue Cosmos members and sympathizers in the military, the Joint Chiefs decided to keep the tens thousands of Extended soldiers in service, most of whom are no more than just kids only now entering their teens.
Five of whom are top Extended soldiers now in the midst of a friendly, hand to hand combat with a certain pigtailed Martial Artist who is kicking their behinds from here to Monday.
Ensign Ranma Saotome is teaching Martial Arts
Five to One odds match, five of the best Extended to be ever trained by Blue Cosmos, is on the floor mat with every part of their body aching after Ensign Ranma Saotome (on loan) did a number on them in this training/exercise in martial arts.
An audience of Earth Forces commanders, officers and Extended soldiers watches in disbelief when Ranma, challenges all five boys to remove the two bells hung on his belt. It is an idea he took from the Naruto Manga he read back in 1999 and heard that they made an anime from that manga along with half a dozen movie features, but it was lost due to the calamity of 2009 AD.
Ranma created a few techniques based on fiction that he likes from the Naruto series, recreating techniques in his Street Fighters Tournament days and others, and now he is using it on the five brats for a lesson in humility.
"Is that all you got?" he said, disappointed "The best of the best that Blue Cosmos has ever trained Extended soldiers could offer me," he 'snorts' "I know a bunch of Jarheads (Marines) better trained than you guys, minus, the brain washing or the psych conditioning you went thru. Heck! My old man entire training regimen would be considered beyond inhuman compared to that summer camp you came from" he referred to Lodonia, the Blue Cosmos Extended laboratory.
Ranma walk up to pick up and examines a Chinese sword called the 'Dao' a broad bladed cutting tool he recognize from Shampoo personal arsenal of bladed weapons she once uses and now used by one of the five Extended boys.
"Look at this Dao," he said "the balance is off, the hold is not right which is why you Wufei, lost it," he said to the one with the Shaolin braid and who is now scowling at him but Ranma ignore it "and what the hell kind of Wu Tang sword style was that anyway?" he asks
"That was worst than a pale imitation of the basics of the style and more of a mindless mob melee attack, Chang Wufei"
The individual Chang Wufei is a fierce warrior descended from a long line of Chinese warriors and thus despises weakness in character and body. Several years back, Wufei clan voluntarily entered him to the Extended Program hoping to hone his skills as well as get control of his anger, which became a big problem.
WhenChang Wufei challenges Ranma in single combat, Ranma uses a couple of chopsticks as his weapon while Wufei uses a Dao, which infuriate Wufei as if Ranma is not taking him seriously and attack him first.
Ranma disarmed him with the chopsticks and made Wufei fly 20 feet away towards a garbage dump, Grand Master Happosai style.
Wufei is not the only one got a lesson of Martial Arts.
Trowa Barton tried his Gymkata flying circus acts to attack Ranma and Trowa got a multiple foot on his face with Ranma's mid-air combat.
Quatre Raberba Winner and heir apparent to the Winner Conglomerate was no challenge so Ranma put him to sleep with a shiatsu accu-pressure attack and he went out like a light.
Duo Maxwell found himself tied up to his left leg with his long braid and a megaton wedgie.
Ranma found Duo, absolutely annoying for his hollow posturing his jester like attitude and how he fight by playing possum became irritating to deal with. Last is Heero Yuy
Heero Yuy was probably the only one Ranma could truly say, has what it takes to be a true warrior. That is if he could just go beyond the monotone, reckless and emotionless attitude of his which Ranma found it a bit creepy.
Of course, his 'Death Glare' is impressive but effective compared to Ranma's 'Soul of Ice' and so Ranma plans of making him his apprentice in the near future.
Yet admittedly, all of them have the potential and it only need is proper training and not the kind of like what Blue Cosmos indoctrinated them with.
All five rested and later on, stood in attention before Ranma and behind them are all soldiers of Fort Apache.
He spoke about Martial Arts
"Martial arts or fighting arts are systems of codified practices and traditions of training for combat. All Martial arts have a very similar objective: defend oneself or others from physical threat.
In addition, there is a connection, a link the spiritual beliefs such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Daoism, Confucianism or Shinto while others follow a particular code of honor, the warrior code.
So, whatever Blue Cosmos taught to you, indoctrinated you, I will bleed it out of you, Martial Arts Style" he said
"Currently, everything you know about the arts is a pale imitation after two centuries of brutal change and loss of knowledge have dulled and distorted of what remains of the arts. So, I am here to correct that"
Ranma raise his right hand, and slowly a ball of light started to form on his palm is a chi ball. Everyone stare at it, a pulsating and mesmerizing ball of energy on Ranma hand that seems to vibrate in the air like a beating heart.
"What I teached you is just an inkling of the glory of the arts, and you see now is the unlimited potential of the arts" he said as the chi gathered energy ball on his hand pulsated faster, gathering more power from his surroundings which is air or to be precise, the wind.
'I hope I don't get arrested for copy right infringement after this' he thought 'let see if I can take this to the next level'
"Throw away what you've learned and follow my lead and I will teach you the ways of the warrior, in order for you to walk the road of life"
Then like a baseball pitcher crying out 'Rasengan!' Ranma threw the chi wind concentrated ball towards a Dagger MS just 40 feet away and when it hit the upper torso, the ball rips the upper half into shred.
Ranma demonstration got everyone attention including a Zaft spy on a surveillance mission inside Fort Apache. The spy continued watching as Ranma, rushes towards a second mobile suit, jump up to fifteen meters and began dismembering it martial arts style from head to toe using a fusion combination of Saotome specialty, Mid-Air Combat, Katsu-Tenshin Amaguriken speed and the rock breaking Bakusai Tenketsu style.
Five seconds later, Ranma stood before the wrecks of two MS and a very impressed crowd of extended soldiers.
This was the peak of Ranma three weeks excursion to Fort Apache where Ranma's training regimen became a standard for all EA Forces soon enough.
The soldiers of Fort Apache are getting first hand knowledge of numerous fighting arts lost thru the centuries. As the master of all Martial Arts known and unknown, Ranma consider most of the martial arts taught across the world today as 'a pale imitation of the original' which is his opinion.
Ranma learned that Martial Arts currently being taught (mostly to military, police and mercenary armies) are reconstructed styles made from seeing old pictures or surviving movies that doesn't give a complete view of the arts.
Martial Arts schools are rare in this era and most of what they know are lost and forgotten. Ranma teaches the extended in groups of one hundred, the basic exercise of Kempo, Karate, Kung Fu, Taekwondo, Muay Thai and other arts.
He taught them meditation techniques and a number of physical and mental strengthening but it is the medium level version than the ridiculously insane ones that Ranma father Genma strengthens him long ago…that would be too cruel.
Mastering one art will take years, fortunately, extended possess superb learning abilities due to their training which is the only thing Ranma is grateful for Blue Cosmos as it cuts down Ranma own training time.
Throughout his stay, Ranma focus half of his attention to the five boys with the greatest potential to learn the Saotome School of Martial Arts. Something that will serve them well according to their abilities and even Wufei grudgingly admitted that the Wu Tang style Ranma is teaching him is better than the ones his clan taught him.
His time was cut short upon the call of duty, so when he was about to leave, the entire camp of Extended gathered together and bid him farewell by calling him 'Sensei' or 'Grand Master' and made Ranma Saotome smile. Then about 48 hours later, he found himself on secret mission from the president.
Chaperoning the EA President with his new VF-1S with the armored F.A.S.T. Pack and heading towards Montana Colony along with the EAF premier fighter squadron called Skull Squadron commanded by Major Roy Fokker.
Along the way, Ranma told him what he has done for the Extended forces retraining and the president heard what the instructors of the camp reported which was not at all positive.
"You actually gave all of the camp instructors a Wedgie? Isn't that a bit adolescent young man?"
"It was a bet Mr. President" he replied with a mischievous grin "A bet, that if I beat them up I get to change the training regimen of the base"
"But did you have to humiliate them like that; I mean, a wedgie of all things,"
"They were being patronizing Mr. President and I hated that," Ranma answered back "I did what I have to make a point and they underestimated me badly"
"Still, is it wise to teach them a knowledge that shapes you?" the president asks, "When you requested me to send you to Apache Base and allow you to teach the extended some of your martial arts skills, I was reluctant to say yes." He said and heaves a sigh
"However, the Joint Chiefs are more than happy to agree to your request as it will increase our forces combat skills and survivability in battle. Yet, I want to know from you is, why"
Ranma look back to the president for a moment and then look ahead in order to adjust his flight path and then he answered the president with a question
"Sir, what were you planning on doing to the thousands of coordinators who are no more than mere children? Are you going to let them go back into public, after what the EAF and Blue Cosmos have done to them?"
"Well…"
"They are all orphans. Now, do you think that anyone out there wants to adopt a 12 year old trained to break a man's neck in a snap of a finger?" he asks him and continued
"Only the criminal underworld wants that kind of a killing machine, but what of the average couple?"
The president could not answer that because that idea is very much the same prognosis the psychologist would say. His silence pretty much confirms Ranma words
"You should have killed them all ends the problem"
"We are not animals Mr. Saotome and we are trying to deprogram them as best as we could," the president answered defensively "It's slow going but it's working and…"
"Begging your pardon but, it's not enough Mr. President," Ranma cut him off the air felt suddenly cold all of the sudden
"It's not enough… which is why I wanted to go to Apache base to help them in the first place," he said, "Martial Arts is the way of the Warrior and more. I went there to teach them to become true warriors. The training regimen I gave them is a start to help them follow a path towards healing, but I need more time to remove the indoctrination that Blue Cosmos drilled into them if you let me help them"
"You can help them?"
"I can, if you let me continue," he answered
"But, why do you want to do this?" the president asks
"Because…I want to help them," he answered honestly
"My way is to make them into warriors, not killing machines…the only way for them to have a life worth living"
Ranma waited for an answer as the president is thinking about it but as he was about to answer Ranma, a call from Fokker came thru
"Terra One, we are nearing Montana Colony"
"Roger, Skull One, Terra One out," and then Ranma instructed his passenger to be ready "we are going in Mr. President"
"I'm ready and Ranma" he told him "I will give it some thought"
"Thank you sir,"
Montana Colony
During the weeks Ranma was on Apache Base, the Prometheus headed towards Montana colony with passenger Emil Lang on a request from Dr. Zefram Cochrane to help a science experiment. Captain Julian Ramius, Emil Lang and Zefram Cochrane are Academy friends and each is good in their field, like, Julian is a communications engineer, Zefram an engineer though he fancies himself as a physicist and Emil a Robotics engineer.
Dr. Cochrane called his academy friends in doing a little experiment that he wants to continue with the Phoenix his homemade spaceship that looks like a Minuteman III missile to the Prometheus ship.
While the president talks to Zefram Cochrane, Ranma talks with Dr. Lang and wants to know what 'The Great Experiment' is all about
"So Dr. Lang, what's this Experiment of your friend is doing anyway" Ranma asks and Lang looks up to him and before he answer he looked at the laptop screens, making sure that there is no trouble from the new drive systems being installed on the Prometheus.
"It's called WARP Drive Ranma and its based on the 1994 A.D. Miguel Alcubierre theory of stretching space in a wave which would in theory cause the fabric of space ahead of a spacecraft to contract and the space behind it to expand as a way of faster than light travel" he said
"We found datas on an old USAF nuclear storage bunker in Alaska near Joshua base in 72 CE, and at that time, Zefram was working on a theory to use 'Gravimetric Field Displacement Manifold' to create a new propulsion to replace the current plasma propulsion. Zefram saw the data and found out that the USAF was experimenting on FTL using Alcubierre theoretical engine centuries ago before the great wars. its an engine that creates a distortion field around a ship for an FTL experiment" Lang showed him a CGI of the theoretical warp engine Zefram built using plasma coils to…
Lang continued explaining, however his single student in class have somewhat gotten lost on the scientific mumbo jumbo (Ranma has a very short attention span when it comes to science and physics, usual) and just nods and answered what he could understand
"So basically, Dr. Zefram took it upon himself to develop his own FTL thingies…whatchamacallit those things…uhm… which he called… Warp n-nacelles yeah, 'snap of his fingers" he said, "That, he and the rest of the engineering corps here were building one during their free time like a hobby and it's finally ready"
"That's what I said" Lang glared at the young man and as he observes Ranma body language (sweating like a pig) he figured that he got lost in the lecture and sigh
"Ranma, how far did you get?" he asks as Ranma look red in embarrassment
"I uhm…I got lost after when you started explaining the math of warp physics…sorry" he smiled as he scratch the back of his head while Lang shook his head sighs at the individual who is an enigma, Ranma
'He supposed to have an incredible learning curve and yet at times, he has the attention span of a fidgeting ten year old'
"Saotome, you are impossible"
Within the next few days, the Prometheus tested its new FTL drive called Warp drive. The EAF tested it far from the Earth Sphere, far from the eyes of any Zaft reconnaissance forces and spy satellites.
The new drive systems is pushing the Prometheus to another milestone of achievement as it pass the speed of light intact. During this time, certain adjustments to smoothen out the rough operations of the warp field that help them accelerate.
Meanwhile, Ranma is learning to fly the Prometheus as its helmsman as part of his training. During the testing of the ship, Ranma listens to Zefram lectures to future EAF engineers that will one day maintain ships with warp engines.
Zefram tells the story of the first warp vessel, a ship, built from an old USAF ICBM Rocket found drifting in space. Dr. Zefram Cochrane and The Phoenix Team a.k.a. 'The Barnstormers of Montana'uses the old rocket for their experiment along with salvage parts from a dozen ships found in the Debris belt.
The engineers treated it is as a hobby for the Barnstormers is an Engineers club working on the ship in their free time, using salvage and repaired parts. The club is a way of keeping their skills sharp and finds ways to improve their ships efficiency and the warp drive engine is a project that got the attention of the EAF, which is now a fully funded project.
As the Prometheus finishes another test of the Warp Engine in deep space, the communication officer receives an S.O.S. near ZAFT Border,
"Sounds like a transport is in trouble" a female radar officer said
"Lt. Maki, we are receiving an SOS at the emergency UHF band at sector 20A at EAF/ Plants border. It's a transport shuttle," she reported
Lt. Commander. Maki Perano opens a line and listens in on the SOS call, and then asks another officer at another station
"That's over 750,000 kilometers from here" he said, "Do we have the ship on Radar?"
"Working on it Sir" said by the officer at the radar station. The radar operator adjusted the new radar system that does not use microwave, laser or radio wave but a different wave band they called the 'subwave' frequency or better known as 'subspace'. It gave them incredible range well beyond the conventional radars.
The screen show where the transport is with better detail and in realtime and to the Lt. Cmndr. shock, what he's seeing is disturbing.
"My God" quickly he tap on the PA "Captain to the Bridge we have an Emergency Situation, I repeat we have an emergency Situation"
The Captain arrived and quickly and Maki explains the situation at hand,
"A PLANTs Shuttle transport is under attack by 12 Strike Daggers and one Agamemnon class vessel, IFF signal says it's the EAS Vincennes, but according to the records the Vincennes was lost during the Battle of Yachin Due in the first war"
'That can't be good' the captain thought, "Maki, reconfirm the identity and show me a tactical display on the area wide view" he ordered "let see how good these new radars are"
"Yes Sir, tactical on screen Captain," Maki reported
Tactical view shows two Strike Daggers in EAF markings attacking the shuttle but are not actually targeting the shuttle but grazing it while the others seem to be waiting from behind.
"They could be pirates?" the captain said, "There are quite a lot of our ships still in the debris belt which are salvageable"
"I don't think so sir," Lt. Cmndr disagrees "look at sector 10A grid 4" he pointed as the tactical zoom in at an asteroid and there they notice a couple of Zaft's Laurasia class ships that seems to be hiding behind the asteroid to hide their presence just 500 kilometers within Plants territory.
"The Zaft ships are not moving to respond to the transport SOS call" the captain muttered, "it looks as if they are …just waiting there"
"Sir, we are detecting an Orb Izumo class ship identifies as the Kusanagi and itis on an intercept course. ETA, 20 minutes"
Hearing that, Captain Julian and his XO has some Idea of what was going on, and they did not like what they are seeing as they guess the tactics involved.
"It's a Set up, Sir!" Maki exclaimed
"This is an elaborate set up to discredit the Alliance" Maki slam fist on the console out of anger "The Kusanagi is a ship is full of dignitaries, the Press, journalist and businessmen we invited to Montana 2 weeks ago"
"Our public announcement, for the unveiling of the new warship but it's actually the warp drive we are showing" the captain finished and understood the plot "Whoever they are, they planned this to ruin our unveiling, a public relation nightmare for the EAF"
Everyone agrees with the captain for the repercussions of this unwarranted attack by an unknown force using one of EAF mobile suits and Warships could cause problems for them
Stepping on the bridge of the ship is Dr. Lang and the President has heard everything, of what the captain said and agrees with him.
"Bad PR is the worst thing we need right now" the president spoke up which startled everyone on the bridge.
"Sir" The captain and the XO saluted him
Ranma who is on the helm, look out into space to where the PLANTs is located, and it seems that old wounds is not healing. Ranma turns to look towards the captain and the president to suggest a course of action
"Captain, Sir, let's go there and kick their ass," suggested by Ranma and the captain answered him "We can't let them get away with this and with this ship, we can catch them by surprise"
"Ranma, do you know what you are saying? We can't do that, not with the president onboard and the only prototype FTL ship"
"What about the fighters we have?" he suggested "VF-1 with F.A.S.T. Packs can get there quick,"
"We are too far away Ranma," said the captain, cutting Ranma off "by the time you get there, they would have flee the area and the deed would be done," the captain told him but Ranma is not backing down
"But sir, we can't let them do what they want to do, especially if they are making the EAF the fall guys for a crime we didn't commit,"
"I understand your feeling Ranma, but we can't endanger this ship especially with the president onboard!" he said almost shouting and then the president spoke
"Do what is necessary to stop them Julian" spoke the president and that silence and surprised everyone
"Mr. President?" the captain looks at the president a bit shock at the order
"But Sir," the captain was about to object but was cut off
"I too want them stop, so think of me as one of your crewmen for the time being Julian, just stop them," he said, and the look he gave him shows he's serious
"Sir" Julian tried to argue, but the president calmly put his hand on the shoulder of his good friend and captain
"Your president has the greatest confidence in the skills and abilities of his people in service, which is why I am here" he stated and that swell up the pride of the crew listening
"My friend, this is our moment in history, so we mustn't let them take it away from us, like a thief in the night," the president said to him, and he agrees
Julian opens a comm line to engineering to talk with Zefram
"Zef, do we have power for a short burst FTL, lets say…two light seconds?" he asks and Zefram answered
"Sorry Julian," Zefram replied, "most of the coils is offline so we can't go to warp 1 right now, but we can go one quarter speed which will take about fifteen seconds travel time for the two light second distance"
"Well its better than nothing" the captain then open the PA "All hands, battlestations, charge up the guns and get the fighter armed and dangerous on the double" he closed the PA and then look towards Ranma ordering him
"Get your team ready Ranma"
"Sir?"
"This is your idea son, now get to your fighters and kick those guys ass or else, I'll kick yours!" he yelled at him but smiled
"YES Sir!" he stood up from his station and saluted to the captain and then the president before he ran towards the hanger bay and another crewmember took his place on the helm
"Good hunting Ranma" the president said
On the moment the Prometheus went into combat, it announces to the world that the Earth Alliance now possess the means to travel faster than light.
TBC
