Ch 14 Storming the Stronghold

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Jonasan: Finally!

A/N What do you mean Finally"

Jonasan: You kept dragging this out, I thought we never would get to rescue my Ranma.

A/N hehe then let's not drag it out any longer.

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What took Ranma a mere couple hours, took the full party a full day worth of nonstop traveling to reach – the stronghold of the Musk. It was midday when they reached it. They decided to rest in a nearby cave while waiting for nightfall.

When nightfall came phase one of the storming operation commenced. This called for Nodoka and a flat black spray painted Mousse, well his duck form that is. Their job was twofold. One is to quietly take out the advance guards and two was a little light recon. They did their jobs perfectly. Genma was amazed at how quickly and silently Nodoka took out the advanced guards all by herself as Mousse scanned the area from above.

Step two was Genma's job. He was to climb one of the walls decided upon based on Mousse's excellent recon and drop a rope down so the others can climb up afterwards. Both Nodoka and Mousse was to provide cover for him while he scaled it. Being slightly out of shape, Genma had some difficulty doing this but he succeeded anyways.

After everyone was in the stronghold it was Shampoo's turn. She was transformed into her cursed form and was spray painted with the same paint they sprayed mouse with. Her job was to find and release both Ranma and Herb while the others created a distraction.

Shampoo found them quickly. Herb recognized Shampoo even though she was painted black. Moving stealthy to not let Ranma see her in this form she moved over to Herb. Herb let her know the Musk had used a pressure point on them that made them weak as kittens. That was not good considering the plan they had to escape on their own to rejoin the others and then to unlock their curses. Shampoo had no choice but to leave them and rejoin the others to report this development.

Luckily Nodoka said she knew the counter pressure point and could teach Shampoo it very quickly. The only down side is it must be administered to the form that was struck with the pressure point in the first place. After procuring the keys they needed, Shampoo made her way back to the captives in her cursed form. She of course freed Herb first while staying out of Ranma's site. Herb used the thermos of hot water Shampoo had strapped to her to wisely change Shampoo back before releasing Ranma.

Shampoo quickly told them the plan and that she knew the reversing counter pressure point. Upon hearing the stip0ulation of the counter pressure point Herb cursed. They used the pressure on his male body. Ranma snickered however and told them they made a mistake and struck his female body. Shampoo quickly used the counter pressure point on Ranma. All at once her strength returned. "Payback time."

They quickly stole the uniforms of three guards and rejoined the others. They kept the headgear off so the others won't get them confused with the other guards. After all everyone know Herb, Shampoo, and Ranma-Chan have very distinctive hair colors.

They quickly rejoined the other where Nodoka quickly unlocked Herb's curse and used the counter pressure point on him. She was about to unlock Ranma curse when Ranma refused. No matter what Nodoka said, Ranma would not allow here to unlock the curse.

Jonasan saw this happening and had enough. He wished he could do this later for they really did not have time for it now but Ranma's refusal demanded action right now. He marched over there and grabbed Ranma quickly and kissed her. Ranma melted into the kiss. Then while she was distracted still by that kiss, he sat down, pulled her over his knee, rucked down her pants, and spanked Ranma-Chan hard 10 times then let her back up.

Ranma could not believe he just did that, hell no one could. Genma was about to protest but Nodoka stopped him, "No dear. Sometimes a firm hand is sometimes needed."

"MOM!"

"Don't mom me dear. You deserved that and you know it."

Ranma-Chan looked down at Jonasan who was smirking back at her. "Why you," she said as she swung a mallet she called forth towards his head. Then just as quickly her subconscious mind remembers her pledge to him so she recalled it before it struck.

Jonasan was up at that instant confronting her. "Why what? Why did I spank you? It's because you did this to yourself without even talking to me first. Why?"

Ranma blushed. He was forcing this confrontation. "It's because I am not gay. I found myself falling in love with you in my male form too but the thought of gay sex repulses me."

Now it was Jonasan's turn to blush. "Are you saying you willing to try to have sex with me in this form?" Ranma nodded affirmatively.

At this point Ranma's parents walked away. It was getting to be too much information for them as well as everyone else. Besides there was one last step of the plan to perform – return Herb to Power. Unfortunately they would have to do that without Ranma's or Jonasan's help.

When they were alone Jonasan continued. "That is fine. I am repulsed by gay sex as well but you are not getting the bigger picture."

"Which is?" inquired Ranma.

"I am in love with the complete package, the yin and the yang, together in one person. What you did was effectively killed half the person I am in love with. Right now I am mourning the loss of your other self. I want it back. I want the complete you back. Ask yourself are you completely happy with your decision?"

Ranma smiled happily. Jonasan just admitted he was in love with not only her but with his male form as well. In truth Ranma was regretting her decision. Slowly she walked up to him, embraced him, and then kissed him. She then whispered into his ear, "I am in love with you too."

Ranma then went over to the kettle that still had some hot water in it and poured it over herself thus unlocking the curse. The male Ranma looked back at Jonasan, "We can finish this discussion later after we finish this plan of yours."

By morning, they had returned herb back to power. He in turn let them go being thankful for the rescue. By midmorning the dreary bunch entered the Amazon village where Cologne offered them safe haven to rest up before returning home.

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A/N

All's well that ends well. But wait this is not the end of the story true believers. Stay tuned.