SMST: My Own Worst Enemy! – By DS Wynne

Disclaimer: SM, R1/5, ST and other genres belong to their respective owners.

Note: This is a multi-genre mini-series.

Special Note: This story takes place before the events of "Blackest Reign and a Dark Night". C&C are welcomed.

Author's Note: Lime scent alert!


Part 12


Thirty-eight weeks ago…

"We should be set," the Doctor said, as he seals the metal canister before handing it over to Jackie while in the TARDIS. "Once you achieved the required Earth coordinates, you know what to do."

Jackie looks at the canister, which contained the cure for all the Usagi-look-alikes on Earth-48. She was glad that a cure for the disease that was ravaging the people of this Earth was made. However, millions of Usagi-look-alikes had already perished because of the mad schemes of one entity: Requiem. Regardless of what happens today, one thing is clear:

She will find the source of this evil, and end it, one way or another.

"Jackie, if you need help-" Ranma began to say.

"No, I can do this," Jackie said. "It's my fault that I did not deal with this problem before now. No, I have to take the reins on this one."

Ranma nods his head in reply. He was concerned that what had happened on this world will cause Jackie to lose focus, since, out of all of them, she was the most caring person with a lot of heart…

"Everyone, the atmospheric conditions are at their apex," Donna said, as she was monitoring the situation on the TARDIS console. "We have to act now."

"All right, then," the Doctor said, as he stuck his hand into his pocket. "Off you go."

"Geez," Jackie replied. "I would think that I would have more encouragement than THAT…"

"Well, consider this," Ranma said, as he takes Jackie into his arms, and kisses her. Jackie embraced that kiss…

"Quit 'snogging' and get to work," Donna replied.

Ranma turns towards Donna.

"If you want some of this, why not say so?" Ranma said, as he grins in reply, which warranted a thrown object from her.

SWISH!

"Ha, ha, you miss-" Ranma replied, before chair successfully hits its mark.

BAM!

"I REALLY wish you two would just bury the hatchet," the Doctor said. "On second thought, never mind. I don't mean literally."

"I better get going," Jackie said with a smile, as she exits the TARDIS through the front door…

Once outside, Jackie sets the canister to the side, takes out her wooden hairbrush and taps the side of the TARDIS.

TH-BOOOM!

Thordis, the Lord of Asgard stretches her arms. She then takes the canister, and then takes to the skies. When she reaches the right altitude and spatial coordinates, she tosses the canister away. It was full of concentrated cure…

"Call Lightning!" Thordis roars.

ZARRK-BOOM!

With the contents released, Thordis then whirls her Mjolnir.

"I call upon the four winds to scatter the stuff…of life!" Thordis yells, as she creates the conditions that would successfully disperse the cure into the populace on this planet. "Let it also be known that the one who is responsible for this act of genocide will pay dearly!"

Thirty-seven weeks ago…

"I really appreciate this, Lord Rantsu," Miss San said, as she carried her carry-on bag into the house of the Saotome residents. "I don't know how that fire got started…"

"Well, I'm sure they will find the cause soon the fire that gutted your apartment building," Ranma said, as he sets his key down. "You can stay here until I find a new apartment for you."

"Thanks," San said, as she looks around the place. "Um, where can I…?"

"Bathroom is down the hall towards your left," Ranma replied with a smile.

"Thanks," San replied with a smile. "Now, it's no problem with your wife, is it?"

"Naw," Ranma said, as he picked up the mail that was placed on his floor, thanks, in part to the mail slot being at the front door. "I'll just let her know what's going on after I take care of business."

San smiles pleasantly, as she takes her carry bag to the bathroom…

After closing the door behind her, San looks at herself in the mirror. She looked like a typical librarian type, though it was just a façade that hid her real beauty.

Closing her eyes, she began her communion with Rei, the nerve center of the entity known as "Requiem".

"Report," Rei said telepathically.

"Thanks to Mr. Ni's handiwork, by setting fire to my building, the plan to infiltrate one of the homes of Lord Ranma is proceeding nicely," said San. "Furthermore, I have increased the level of pheromone of within me, so that Ranma's exposure to my body scent will undermined his resolve."

"When do you plan on seducing him?" Rei asked.

"Soon. I have to sew the seeds of discord between him and the Moon Princess in one form or another."

"Good," Rei said. "The less support the Moon Princess has, the easier it will be kill her. After all, love is what fuels her power, and it will be love that will prove to be her undoing!"

"In understand, Master," San replied. "I shall step up my efforts at seduction."

"Very well, carry on…"

With that, San's mind returns to the real world. She first removes her clothes before she examines her body.

"Not good enough," San said, as she looks at her measurements. With a simple thought, she expanded her bust and hip size a tad, while narrowing her waist a bit. She also de-aged her face a bit, making it cuter and more innocent, and made her rear-end rounder and heart-shaped. She also increased the level of pheromones that her body was producing, but not enough to be noticeable, while lengthening her hair.

"That's better," San smirked. "Within a week, I will have bedded the wild stallion. But first…"

San turns towards the door.

"HELP!" San said, as she purposely slipped on the tile.

CLUMP!

Meanwhile, outside the door, Ranma had begun to pay the utility bills, when he heard San cry out.

"HELP!"

CLUMP!

"Miss San?" Ranma said, as he got up from his desk, before running into the bathroom.

CHUNK!

"Miss San, are you alright-?" Ranma said, as he stopped in mid-sentence. Lying on the floor, in all her glory, lays San.

"Miss San," Ranma said, as he ignored the feeling of need, as he picks up the girl. "Alright you alright?"

San flutters her eyes open, as she looks into Ranma's blue-gray eyes.

"Oh, Lord Rantsu!" San said, as she grabbed a hold of Ranma. "I thought that my bad luck was going from bad to worse!"

"Er, now, it's okay," Ranma said, as he began to sweat. His male side was telling him to do things he never thought he would consider himself doing to this girl, while his honor was keeping him firmly in place…

However, the point was moot, when Usagi walks into the bathroom.

"What is going on here?" Usagi said tersely.

"Lady Rantsu?" San said in mock surprise. She knew that Usagi was planning on stopping by here, since she had left a message on Usagi's message phone right after she had called Ranma. No doubt, Usagi had guessed correctly as to where she and Ranma would be…

Ranma turns towards Usagi.

"Usagi, I can explain-"

"Oh, no, no need, Ranma," Usagi said sweetly. "You made a promise that you could not keep."

She then turns towards San.

"Miss San, you work 'under' my husband now. As tempting as it is to fire you on the spot, you draping your naked self all over MY husband is not related to your work performance. Besides, I don't want to be a 'witch' about this, since you lost your place."

"…"

Usagi turns towards Ranma again.

"She's your problem, Ranma," Usagi said, as she turns around. "I'll talk to you later…"

"Usagi-!" Ranma said, as he drops San on the hard tile in the bathroom.

BAM!

"Ow!" San said. Although annoyed by being this, this was a price worthy to be paid, thanks to her efforts paying off…

"Usagi!" Ranma said, as he steps outside the front door, only to see that Usagi was long gone.

"Damn…"

Meanwhile, a young man was sitting on the rooftop of a nearby apartment building with his riflescope. He can be described as a green-haired, red-eyed young athletic man with tanned skin that could be best described as a male Pluto in terms of facial features…

"Damn," said the man, as he exposed his wrist communicator to his lips.

CHIRP!

"Dr. Tempo, this is Taimu. Over!"

CHIRP!

"Tempo: here," came the reply. "Go ahead."

"You were right, doctor," Taimu said. "Requiem has been very busy."

"Of course he would be, my boy," came the reply. "Still, as predictable as he may be, Requiem is still dangerous."

"Right," Taimu said. "So, what's the next step?"

"One thing that we are lucky is that we can affect Requiem's agenda, both on Earth-Prime and the other fifty-two Earths. From your initial surveillance, it appears that Requiem has been using avatars to do his bidding, until a safe way of traveling between the 'Sub-verses' had been achieved."

"Well, it appears he has done that," Taimu said, as he leans back. He then takes a sip from his canteen. "He is using a female 'flesh-suit' to seduce the Ranma Prime."

"Goodness! Requiem is using the 'Honey Pot Method'!"

"Come again?"

"Basically, using women to not only collect intelligence, but to manipulate the men that they have targeted."

"Ah, like women usual do."

"Er, never mind that! I want you to keep and eye on the female that is with Ranma Prime, while I make preparations for contact with the Doctor and his companions."

"Will do," Taimu said. "I just hope that I don't get into a pointless fight to convince Ranma that Miss San is NOT whom she appears…"

Thirty-six weeks ago…

"What the heck happened here?" Ranma said, as he surveyed what was left of Earth-23. On this world, there was a war between man and machine, and the machines won. Ranma, Usagi, Ami Mizuno and Nabiki Kuno had inadvertently traveled to this world, and had assumed the guises of freedom fighters as 'Cybernauts'. When Reality rebooted, this world, formerly a virtual simulation, hidden deep within the Digital Web, had been given its own, real world status. However, the actions of what happened were transposed onto this world's version of Ranma ("Neo"), Usagi ("Serenity"), Ami ("Persephone") and Nabiki ("Trinity"). Still, for some reason, whenever Ranma is on that planet, he has the urged to say 'whoa' all the time…

Morpheus turns to see his old friend, who was also with one other familiar face. For weeks, a system virus of some kind had been ravaging technology across the planet. Normally, that would be a good thing, as far as the people of Zion were concerned, but it could also affect the systems that kept the people who were still trapped in the Matrix. Furthermore, it appears as if someone was attempting to control the planet through the Machines as well…

"Serenity?"

"Hello, Morpheus," Jackie said with a smile.

"It's…impossible," Morpheus said, as he examined both Jackie and Ranma. "When you two and Trinity left Zion to directly deal with the Machines, we never heard from you again."

"Things…happened," Ranma said. "But we came back when we heard what had happened."

"Then there is time to save Earth at last…"

Tbc.