TRTSS3: The Trans-dimensional Trek! – By DS Wynne


Disclaimer: R1/2, SM, ST and other properties belong to their respective owners.

Note: This is a multi-genre story.


Part 28


Meanwhile, at Furinkan High School…

As Miss Hinako continued to drain the energies from the Inner Scouts and the female members of the Nerima Wrecking Crew, Sailor Moon attempted to look up.

"What's happening to us?" Sailor Moon cried out.

"It's…like we're facing a youma!" Sailor Jupiter said through gritted teeth. She was desperately trying to regain her focus, so that she could attack.

"She isn't," Akane said. "She is a martial artist who learned a technique that can drain the energy of others."

"What…what terrible power!" Sailor Rei said.

"Tell me about it…"

However the situation was grim, Miss Hinako neglected to focus on one of the students that had yet to succumb to Saffron's attention.

"What's going on?" Gosunkugi said, as he takes a peek from within the utility closet near the foyer. After calling Nabiki for help, he had generally remained hidden from everyone. But upon hearing Akane and the others' cries, he takes a peek outside of his hiding place. He looks arounf to see Miss Hinako floating above everyone while attempting to drain them of their life's energy.

"I have to do something," Gosunkugi said, as he swallows hard. He looks around the utility closet and sees a wet mop hanging on a bolted hook. Swallowing hard, Gosunkugi removes the wet part of the mop from the handle, steps out of the closet, and then threw the mop at the back of Miss Hinako's head.

With a splat, Miss Hinako's concentration was broken.

"What?" Miss Hinako said, as she turned her fury to face Gosunkugi. "How dare you, you delinquent!"

"Ulp!"

Taking advantage of Miss Hinako's distraction, Sailor Mars let loose a volley of ofuda wards at Miss Hinako, which stuck upon contact.

"Akuryo Taisan!" Sailor Mars yelled.

"Ulp!" Miss Hinako said, as she froze in mid-air.

"Venus Love Me Chain…Encircle!" Sailor Venus said, as her chain made from light construct entangled Miss Hinako.

"Now, to finish her off!" Sailor Jupiter said, as she threw a concentrated ball of electricity at Miss Hinako.

"Ah!" Miss Hinako said, as she plummets to the floor of the main foyer of the school.

"You guys did it," Akane said, as she gets up.

"Years of teamwork helped," Sailor Mercury said.

"Something we lack," Shampoo said, as she shook her head in disgust. She didn't like the idea that she could be defeated so easily…

"We should tie these guys up, and finish the job," Ukyo said.

"Yes, we should," Kodachi said, as she breathed a sigh of relief.

"After we take care of everyone, we can turn them all back to normal," Sailor Moon said.

"You can do that?" Akane asked.

"We can try, at least."

"Um, Akane, are you okay?" Gosunkugi asked nervously.

"I am, thanks," Akane said, as she gave her classmate a peck on the cheek. "I don't think you could have done any better than Ranma."

"R-really?" Gosunkugi said, before he feinted. "Ohhhhh…"

"Gos-kun?" Akane said. "Are you okay?"

"Somebody's in LOVE," Sailor Moon said.

"Oh, be quiet, 'Dumpling-head'," Sailor Mars replied.

"Biiii!"

Meanwhile, in the lot near the Tendo Home…

"You can do it, Ranma!" Nabiki yelled, as she and her sister Kasumi sat on the sidelines, as Ranma, Ryouga, Kuno, Mousse, Ranma's father Genma and Soun fought Saffron.

"Oh, my!" Kasumi said, as she gasped in fright, Soun narrowly avoids getting fricasseed by Saffron. "Please be careful-!"

"Daughter, I shall endeavor to do just that," Soun said, as he leaps out of Saffron's path. He then flips backwards, raises his right fist into the air, and then slams it into the ground.

With a thunderous roar, the ground erupt a ki attack, thanks to Soun's ability to manipulate his ki to affect the ley lines of the Earth.

Saffron was momentarily startled, as he was nearly slammed by the attack.

"Since when did Mr. Tendo have such an attack?" Ranma said, as he points both palms, and then discharged a pair of Moka Takabisha ki-based attacks at Saffron.

"If I could develop my own forbidden martial arts technique, Soun certainly can develop his," Genma said, as he broke his vow never to utilize the Yamasenken, by creating a volley of vacuum blades to overwhelm Saffron. "You should've seen him back in his youth."

"You don't say…"

"You think this will stop me?" Saffron said, as he used his wings to negate Genma's and Ranma's attack.

"Perhaps I will," Kuno said, as he swung down his wooden sword in a single stroke. A wave of razor-sharp ki was emitted towards Saffron, which successfully cuts off one of Saffron's wings.

"Ha!" Saffron replied, as he grew his wing back instantaneously. "I am of the Phoenix; I can regenerate instantaneously."

"Yes, and while we were having this conversation, you've been set up."

"Wha-?"

Saffron found himself wrapped in chains with heavy weights, thanks to Mousse, as he fell to the earth.

"Oof!"

"Now!" Mousse yelled.

Then, Ryouga called out his attack.

"Shi-Shi Hokodan…PERFECT!" Ryouga roared, as unleashed a giant ki attack that erupted upward, before falling down on top of Saffron.

"No!" Saffron yelled, as Ryouga's attack hit home.

"Look out!" Ranma yelled, as he and his fellow warriors leapt out of the way of the epicenter of the attack.

The ground shook, as the attack drilled Saffron into ground.

"Oh, my," Kasumi said. "If this keeps up, our neighborhood will be destroyed!"

"Not to worry, sis," Nabiki said. "I'll be making a killing from all the insurance policies I sold since 'Ranma-baby' came to Nerima Ward to live with us…"

"Is he dead?" Mousse asked, as he looks into the hole while adjusting his glasses.

"I doubt it," Ranma said, as he cracked his knuckles. "When I fought him, he was way tougher than this-"

Suddenly, the ground erupts molten lava, almost consuming Kasumi and Nabiki in the process.

"Father!" Kasumi yelled in fright.

"Daddy!" Nabiki replied likewise.

"Daughters!" Soun said, even as he rushed to protect his girls, at the cost of his life.

Suddenly, something fast moves to intercept the girls, avoiding being struck by the splatter of the lava.

"Are you okay?" Dr. Tofu Ono said, as he looked at the older Tendo sisters, even as he sets down.

"Dr. Tofu," Kasumi said, as she had a dreamy look.

"You…you aren't stuttering," Nabiki said in amazement.

"When do I stutter?" Tofu asked.

"Whenever Kasumi is around."

"K-Kasumi?"

"Please, calm down," Kasumi said, as she gently touched the local clinic physician's hands with her own. She knew that Tofu had a crush on her, but felt that her obligations towards her family were more important than pursuing any romantic liaison with a good man.

"And thank you for saving us, doctor."

"You're…you're welcome, Miss Tendo," Tofu said.

"Please, call me Kasumi."

"Kasumi," Tofu said with a smile, as he began to relax.

"Thank you for saving my daughters' lives, Dr. Tofu," Soun said, as he checked the conditions of his daughters.

"The pleasure was all mine," Dr. Tofu said. "We had begun to evacuate the neighborhood after it was attacked, when I realized that you and your daughters were missing."

"We had gone over to the Hakawa Shrine at the Cherry Hill Temple, over in Juuban," Nabiki said. "We were actually trying to…hide from Saffron, hoping that he would simply go away."

"Unfortunately, he didn't," Tofu said. "This Saffron attacked the neighborhood, and then the school, creating an army of birdmen in the process."

"We know, Dr. Tofu," Genma said, as he comes up to Tofu, Soun and the older Tendo sisters. "And the battle with Saffron may have gotten intense."

"He's returning?" Soun said in horror.

"He never 'left'," Genma said. "Doctor, is there a place for you to go?"

"Yes, the evacuees have left for a different part of Tokyo," Tofu said. "But…"

"What is it?" Soun asked.

"I'm no geologist, but if this Saffron can control fire, and if Japan sits on a volcanic island chain…"

"My god!" Soun said.

"This is bad," Genma said. He then turned towards where his son and his friends were continuing their assault on Saffron, as the Lord of the Phoenix Folk emerged from the hole that was made after Ryouga's attack. Saffron's corona flared and widened, as he raised his weapon, the Kinjakin, into the air.

"Know that I respect your prowess, even though you were born to die at my hands," Saffron said, as the Kinjakin was collecting the ambient energies from all around him. "TENKA SHUNMETSU KOUKYUU DAN…PERFECT!"

A huge fireball erupted from one outstretched hand. This one was white-hot instead of the usual orange-red in color.

Ranma grunts, as he utilizes a cold version of the Horizontal Hiru Shoten Ha, using a modification of the "Soul of Ice Technique", in an effort to drill a hole into the Saffron's attack. "HA!" Ranma yelled, as his colder attacked drilled into Saffron's attack-"

"Urk!" Saffron said, as he was pierced into the heart.

"I did it!" Ranma said.

"Ranma!" yelled Genma, as Saffron's attack continued onward, as he and his fellow fighters were about to be overwhelmed.

"No!" Ranma said, realizing that although he might have one his fight with Saffron, he and everyone around him were still doomed.

"Ahhh-!"

"I got it," Ronin said, as he held Saffron's attack with one hand.

"Wha-?"

"Amazing," Soun said, as he reads Ronin's aura. "His power is stronger than the masters!"

"You're right," Genma said. He then cups his mouth.

"Boy, we're going on a training journey next week!"

"Yeah, and with me doing all the work as always!" Ranma yelled back.

"How is he able to do that?" Ryouga said, slightly jealous of Ranma's potential, after witnessing Ronin in action.

"I tell you how!" Kuno said. "Sorcery, that's what!"

"I hope my Shampoo doesn't see this," Mousse said in fear. His Shampoo might try to go after this version of his hated rival.

"What are you doing?" Ranma asked.

"I'm drawing the energy from Saffron's attack," Ronin replied. "When all the energy has been consumed, the attack will immediately dissipate."

"And what's happening to your eyes and hair?"

"I went to the next level of my martial arts prowess," Ronin said. "Basically, I went 'god mode'."

"You don't say…"

"I say, false god!" said a familiar voice.

Ronin felt the Kinjakin pierce through his back, and out though his chest.

"Blurgh!" Ronin said, as he coughed up blood.

"No!" Ranma said, as his face felt wet with his doppelganger's blood.

However, Ronin ignored the pain, as he continued to absorb the attack.

"Why won't you go down?" Saffron said. "You should be dead!"

"I have the same concern about you, after what Ranma had did," Ronin said, as he glances backwards.

"I am the Phoenix God, that's why! You, the other you and anyone else will know that I am a god for all men to worship, starting with the people of Japan!"

"Heh," Ronin said with a cocky smile. "Japan survived its past, and will continue to survive to create a new future for the world. And, to paraphrase an old friend's worlds to another so-called 'god-king', all will know that even a god can be cut."

"DIE-!"

"Shi-Shi Hokodan!" Ranma said, as dark energy began to form around him. Seeing himself, albeit an alternate timeline version, gutted like that, brought something to the forefront that he has never felt before: fear. The dark energies increased his power significantly, but that same fear was tempered by his unwavering confidence that he could overcome his fear. "Moka Takabisha PERFECT-!"

Ranma unleashed a torrential storm of destructive energy that engulfed both Ronin and Saffron.

"Auggh!" Ranma yelled, as his the veins on hands popped, haven't ever used such a violent combination. However, when the smoke cleared, both Ronin and Saffron were down.

"We…we did it!" Ryouga said.

"Ranma, hang on," Tofu said, as he checked on Ranma, as he withered in pain.

"Don't...don't," Ranma replied. "Check on Other Ranma…"

"I'll attend to Ranma," Kasumi said, as she kneels by Ranma's side.

"Okay," Tofu said, as he goes over to Ronin.

Meanwhile, Kuno finds the Kinjakin.

"What a weapon," Kuno said, as he reaches to pick up Saffron's weapon.

"Don't touch it!" Mousse said.

"Or what?"

"It's supposed to be hot to the touch, that's what," Ryouga said. "And we don't know

"Feh, as if I am afraid of a little of a little heat," Kuno said with a scoff, as he picked up the circular weapon…

Suddenly, flames flared up around him, as Kuno was engulfed in flames.

"Gah-!"

"Kuno!" Ryouga said.

"I told you that I cannot be defeated!" Kuno said in Saffron's voice.

"No!" Ronin said, as he hobbled over to Kuno, grabs the kendoist, and drew Saffron into himself.

"Ohhhh," Kuno said, as he feints.

"Arrgh!" Ronin said, as he fought Saffron from within.

"What are we going to do if Saffron takes over Other Ranma's body, Saotome?" Soun said.

"Then, we will have no choice but to kill my son…so to speak," Genma said grimly.

But before Genma or anyone else could respond, Sailor Cosmos, all of the Sailor Scouts and the rest of the Nerima Wrecking Crew appeared, after the Sailor Scouts initiated a group "Sailor Teleport".

"Husband?" Sailor Cosmos said, as she takes the Blade of Ixion in her hand from the box that Sailor Pluto was holding.

"Now!" Ronin yelled.

With tears in her eyes, Sailor Cosmos plunges the Blade of Ixion into Ronin's heart…

Tbc.