Ra-El Chp 9: Up, Up & Way Home

Two weeks, forty-seven arranged marriages by one Genma Saotome, several rounds of 30mm cannon fire from the Japanese air force while flying into Japan air space, and accruing proof that Genma was not his real father in no particular in that order; Ranma wound up somewhere in Juban area. He was glad that the aura technique he learned from Jo-El also had the ability to mask his true appearance, which meant that his face would not be in the Japan Sun's front page newspaper anytime soon after that aerial fiasco with the air force.

"They just had to put 48 holes in the only good shirt I got, regardless that it was torn when I found out I could fly," Ranma thought.

Ranma was currently at the Juban 8th division police station, where he was going over the some 6 stacks of files on Genma Ikari. Apparently one of the families that Genma screwed over by engaging Ranma to his daughter was the now chief of police of Juban and therefore was more than willing to help Ranma out in brining Genma to justice after along argument and agreeing that the engagement had no validity, as Ranma is not biological son of Genma and had no authority whatsoever in the Saotome clan.

Ranma found out Genma's real family name via countless police reports and outstanding warrants for theft and B&E's. Later he found several counts of child abuse and child endangerment after he married into the Saotome clan, a well to do family that currently resides in the area. The child abuse and child endangerment charges were pressed by several school social workers that treated Ranma on the rare times Genma allowed him to go to school. Ranma gathered enough information that should Genma ever cross his path ever; Ranma is sure to make him pay. Ranma had only one more thing to do as he looked over a map of Juban for the location of where the Saotome address that matched the birth certificate he acquired when started to dig around for his past. As Ranma stepped out police station he began to think about the day he left the Amazons and the life he could have had with Tsu-oap and accidentally found out that he could fly.

Flashback.

Several miles away from the Amazon village Ranma wandered through the dense forest. He took with him a small traveling satchel and a few necessities and the gifts imparted by Ku Lon. A few miles of walking later, he came upon a small canyon about an 8th of mile across with a large river below. Ranma had no intention of climbing down the small canyon, traverse the river and climb up the other side, nor did he want to waste time by walking around the damned thing. Ranma tossed his satchel into subspace tapped the Ley lines of speed and air about him and dashed toward the edge of the canyon.

Ranma then jumped as he got to the edge and arced over the canyon and river bellow. Ranma was quite upset that as his arc and trajectory were a little off and in few seconds was about to over shoot his intended landing zone. Ranma's momentum kept him air born far beyond where he intended to land and had not felt gravity affect him as he continued to sail over the forest canopy. Ranma began to flip over and he tried to right himself, but wound up only speeding the process. Upside down and still sailing over the forest canopy, Ranma tried once again to right himself by swimming, only to accomplish looking stupid. Ranma closed his eyes then focused his thoughts on stopping and immediately he felt his momentum stop. He opened his eyes and was still hanging upside down looking at the treetops suspended in the air by some unknown force.

"Great!" Ranma thought. "How the hell do I get…"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA" Ranma screamed as suddenly felt gravity pull him to the ground.

He crashed through several large branches and several jagged rocks on the forest floor. Ranma picked himself up and checked himself over of injuries, but found none. His shirt was torn but his kin had no scratches or cuts from the fall. Ranma craned his neck and looked skyward to judge the distance of his fall. It appeared to be a hundred and some feet fall. Ranma knew that even with ki enhanced jump that he could only go about 60 feet forward from a running start and 30 feet up from standing point. Even when he trained with Jo-El their jumps never went further than 60 feet. Was this the benefits the yellow sun his father mentioned imparts on their kind? Ranma pondered over what other abilities could he posses under the yellow sun. Ranma decided to test something out and once again tapped the Ley lines of speed and air causing a ripple in the air around him and jumped straight up. Ranma never felt such speeds before not even when he ran aided by the Ley lines of speed as he did right then. He rocketed heavenward and watched the land below him shirk as he went higher. Ranma focused this thoughts on stopping and he did and came to the conclusion that his ability to defy gravity is by his will. Ranma had another test he would like to try before he could celebrate. He turned eastward to Japan and thought about heading towards that directions.

"WWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHOOOOOO" Echoed across the skies as the wind ran through Ranma's shoulder length hair.

Ranma raced across the blue skies doing a cadre of aerial tricks and pushing the speed of his flight to it maximum limits. He realized that at the speeds he was going that Japan soon came onto the horizon. Ranma decided to slow down and enjoy the thrill of flight a bit longer. He then noticed that he was no longer alone in the skies as two jets that bore the Japanese Air Force insignia came from behind him.

"Awe, crap!" He thought as he tried to get away, but still being new to this flight thing didn't do a good job of it.

Ranma tried several times to out maneuver the jets but to no avail. The pilots saw the act of the bogie's erratic flight pattern as hostile and opened fire on it. Ranma tried his best at dodging the cannon fire but could not avoid most of them, after all there were two jets shooting at him at the same time. Ranma noticed that he was not ripped to shreds as 30mm. shells bounced off him and decided that retaliation might be bad thing, even though those pilots ruined one of his good shirts.

"O.K. Ya wanna play," Ranma thought.

Ranma boosted his speed and out maneuvered on of the jets and landed on its canopy surprising the pilot as he gave him the finger and zoomed off. That stunt cost Ranma as the other jet got a lock on him even at the speeds he flew and fired a missile towards him. Ranma tried his best to avoid the guided project tile but he couldn't shake it, he then dove towards the water. When he was about ten feet above the water he quickly turned and fire a ki bolt at the missile. The force of the explosion knocked Ranma into the water and when he surfaced he saw the jets headed to ward Japan. Ranma then hovered just above the waters and decided to fly low for now and headed towards Japan.

XxX

At the same exact moment someone shut off a large monitor in dark cave and tapped comm device on the ear-side of his cowl.

"Clark, we need to talk."

"Not now Bruce…I have a family situation I have to deal with."

"Clark, are you alright you sound…"

"I'm fine. I'll get back to you as soon as this is resolved. Ka-El out."

The brooding man leaned back on his large captain's chair and thought about the awkward communication with JLA leader. He then opened a come channel.

"Have you arrived?" He asked.

"The plane is about to taxi off to the runway." A stoic female said. "Your loaded and you send me on a coach flight instead of one of your privet jets." She added in dry humorless tone.

The man brooding in the cave had faint grin flashed on his face and suddenly disappeared before answering.

"You're going there as tourist, arriving in one of my privates jets could rile up the Chinese press and ruin my reputation, fraternizing with a girl half my age that was old enough to be my daughter."

There was groan at the other end of the comm.

"Seriously, stop taking humor lesson from Big S. I'll fill you in when I get there. Cassandra out."

End flashback

Ranma's thoughts were interrupted when a Cadillac sped by and nearly ran him over and were chased by two police squad cars. There were masked men hanging out of the rear windows of the Cadillac and firing assault rifles at the police before going back in side. Ranma gritted his teeth and flared his mask aura sped off after the Cadillac. Ranma stopped right in front of it slamming his hand on the hood of the speeding car. The Cadillac's abrupt stop caused the driver and front passenger who were not wearing a their seat belts to fly out the front wind shield. Ranma caught the two and slammed them on the hood of the car letting them fall on opposite sides. The two remaining assailants on the rear opened fire on Ranma only to be shocked when the bullets have no effects on him. One of the men reached down and took out a bazooka and fired it towards Ranma. Ranma not wanting to ruin another shirt sidestepped the on coming projectile, only to notice that it was now heading straight for a city bus.

"CRAP!" Ranma shouted as he took off for the projectile.

Ranma flew past the rocket just a few meters from the bus and crossed his arms as the rocket detonated when it hit him. The explosion knocked Ranma through the bus's front window. He quickly got up and noticed that on of the passengers were injured by flying glass. A young lady with auburn hair in Paige-boy hairstyle had a gash on her leg. Ranma gently raised the girl's leg and extracted a few bits of glass that were imbedded in her leg, making sure his aura flows through her to dull her pain. He then tore a piece of his shirt, exposing a well-toned abdomen that made the most of the ladies on board blush. He pressed a few pressure points on the girl's leg and wrapped the wound. He smiled at her making her blush darker and then flew out the bus window making all the women on board rushing to the front of the bus. Ranma rushed back to Cadillac and lifted it off the ground ala Action Comics #1 style and shook the remaining assailants in the car on to the street. By this time the press and a crowd have amasses around him as place the car down and collected the masked men. He looked at the logo on the car and it said TK-Tech on the back of a samurai wielding a boken.

After the masked men were taken away and the police showing their gratitude to Ranma's assistance the press and the crowd began to hound the young man with question and proposals.

"Who are?"

"Where do you come from?"

"Do you have a girlfriend?"

"Can I bare your children?"

All this began to annoy Ranma and he took of into the air leaving a bewildered, yet excited crowd below. Unknown to him that the girl whose wound he tended to was looking at him through a pair of binoculars before he disappeared from view.

"Great!" Ranma thought as streaked through the skies and landed on the top of Tokyo tower. "This isn't exactly the way I hope to start helping people out. Now lets see," Ranma thought as he took out a map of Japan and tried to figure out how to get to the Saotome home from here.

Three hour later and making sure that he asked for direction when he got lost, he arrived at the Saotome house and was shocked at what he saw. The house was huge compared to the neighboring houses near by. The gate that surrounded the complex was high and thick enough to make the compound look like a fortress. Suddenly there was a loud explosion coming from a house next door.

"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" came from a girl above Ranma falling with a smoke trail coming from the house that had an explosion from it.

Ranma instinctively caught the falling girl and noted the blond shoulder length hair and the rather cute light blue eyes behind large circular glasses.

"Ummm. Thanks. Now could you take about eight and a half steps to your right." The blond girl asked.

Ranma dumbly nodded and did as he's told when suddenly a giant metallic hand fell where he had once stood. Ranma placed the girl down and she took out a small device from her pocket and began to type codes into it. The giant metal hand then stated to crawl back towards the house it came from. The girl then turned to Ranma flashed him a killer smile that made her baby blues twinkle with delight.

"Thank you saving me. I'm Mina, Mina Kupida."