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Chapter 36: Taking Out the Competition
The ringers continued to the stare at Shampoo.
"I knew what I was getting into." Sighed Ryoko.
"No you didn't." said Ran.
"What you know about her?" asked Ryoko.
"She's my roommate and occasional sparing partner." Said Ran.
"I don't know if you're lucky or not." Said Ryoko.
Ran nodded…
"You know the actual delivery girls are still angry." Pointed out Ranma-Chan.
The delivery girls began to mob them.
Meanwhile at the spectator's area, Belle was on her cell phone.
"Thank you so much Kodachi." Said Belle.
She hung it up.
"So did Kodachi give you permission?" asked Cologne who was let in on the plan.
"She did since it nodded messing with her brother." Said Belle.
"What's the plan again?" asked Suzette.
"We're going to trick him into leaving the house and lead him into a wild goose chaise." explained Hikaru.
"So Cutie Marks for idiot tricking!" said Blossom.
"Wait what would a cutie mark for idiot tricking look like?" asked Suzette.
"I don't care." said Haruka.
"Cutie Mark Crusaders Idiot Trickers is a Ago!" they yelled.
"Wait…" said Chiyo.
"What is it?" asked Belle, "It isn't about tricking Kuno."
"No… it's just that…" whispered Chiyo, "Who's going to accept the food?"
There was an awkward silence… when they all realized that none o them could expect the food, not because neutrality… but due to the face that they wouldn't be able to eat of the food given to them.
"Who can we get who will be completely neutral in this and will be willing to eat any food?" asked Belle.
"If only Ryoga wasn't lost again." Whispered Chiyo.
Meanwhile in the fight, the real delivery girls began to unite more than ever.
5 of them tried to mob Momo, but she just dodged like it was nothing humming and skipping along the way.
She has also used her mallet to destroy one of the devilry girls food, but only managed to hit one.
Meanwhile Alex and Akane team up to deal with a large group, using the sword and their kicks they were hard to beat.
Meanwhile Ranma-Chan and Azusa happened to team up by chance.
Ranma-Chan shouted "Kachu Tenshin Amaguriken!"
She punched out half of the delivery boxes.
Azusa began to kicked the boxes with her roller skates which did heavy damage.
"Azusa didn't think you would be a good martial artist." Said Azusa.
"Why because of my crying?" asked Ranma-Chan.
"Then again Mikado does have effect on some girls." Said Azusa.
Ranma-Chan laughed when she said that.
The two continued to fight the remaining delivery girls.
Meanwhile... Kuno was waiting for his "beloveds" when the doorbell rang, he ran to the door and knew it had to be one of them.
"Oh! My beloved!" yelled Kuno only to find it was Diana, "Oh that really weird waitress from that Chinese Food Restaurant who lives at the Tendos."
Diana wanted to magically send him flying but this was the better way.
"The girls have asked me to give you this message." Said Diana handing him a note.
Kuno read it, "Meet us at the train station." Read Kuno, "We wish to discussions whole thing with you."
Kuno smiled, "I must go!" yelled Kuno running off.
Diana smiled and took out her cell phone.
"Have you found someone yet?" asked Diana.
"Not yet." Came Hikaru's voice from the other end, "But we will."
"I hope you find one soon." Sighed Diana, "I really would rather not eat meat."
Meanwhile back with the race, Shampoo continued to decimate her opponents with just a poke.
"You know, I just realized" said Ran, "This is a race!"
"Hey you're right." Said Ryoko.
The two unleashed both the Rainburst and Demon Speed. Along the way destroying a few boxes.
Shampoo scowled, "You no win!"
"Um… Shampoo I think you're taking this a little too seriously." Said Akane.
"This is all supposed to be in good fun." Said Alex.
Shampoo glared at them.
Looked like her Amazon pride got in the way of that.
Shampoo decided to chase after the anything goes martial artist runners.
"Hey! There's only five here!" yelled one of the real delivery girls.
"Let's get them!" yelled another.
"Should we finish these girls off?" asked Ranma-Chan.
The other four reaming nodded.
Meanwhile at the train station Kuno had arrived.
"Where are they?" asked Kuno who began to look around.
That was when he felt someone tugging at his sleeve he looked down and saw it was Blossom.
"You must be Alex's younger sister I heard so much about." Said Kuno.
"That's right." Said Blossom, "My sister wanted me to give you this."
"We have changed the meeting spot, meet us in the park." Was the note said.
"Excuse me! I have to meet them in the park." Said Kuno running off, "I'm coming my beloveds!"
Blossom sweat dropped as he ran off.
Meanwhile in the race, Ranma-Chan dusted her hands off.
"Looks like all of the real delivery girls are out." Said Ranma-Chan.
"Now the race really begins." Said Azusa.
She skated over to Momo with the cake box in her sights. Azusa tried to destroy the cake box but Momo dodged. Azusa tired the same, but Momo continued to dodge.
"Hey!" yelled Ranma-Chan, "I hate to say this but I think we should actually get to the finish line before we start fighting."
"That's a good idea." Said Akane.
"Come on follow me!" said Momo skipping towards the finish line house.
Meanwhile Diana was pacing back and forth, until that someone would show to act as the finish line.
That was her phone rang.
"Hello?" asked Diana.
"I found someone we know who promised would be completely neutral." Said Hikaru.
"It's a teenaged boy." Said Diana.
"How… how did you know?" asked Hikaru.
"It is not Shou, is it?" asked Diana.
"No it's someone else from our class." Said Hikaru.
"I understand." sighed Diana.
She hung up the phone and sighed.
This really was going to well.
Meanwhile both Ryoko and Ran exited both Demon Speed and Rainburst.
"All right! Let's do this!" said Ran.
"It's on Rainbow Dash!" said Ryoko.
The two began to exchange blow to each other food item but they managed to doge every time. Any spectators watching got dizzy from the fast paced strikes and dodges.
That was when someone almost got at Ryoko's sushi box, Shampoo who managed to catch up.
"Sorry but Shampoo wins race." Said Shampoo.
Shampoo tried to destroy Ran's pizza but Ran dodged.
"Sorry Shampoo but you have to deal with two Marital Arts runners." Said Ran.
"That's right." Said Ryoko, who sighed, "I'm going to lose this race? Aren't I?"
That was when they heard cheerful humming and Momo skipped passed them.
"You're not getting away from Azusa!" yelled Azusa chasing after Momo.
Shampoo, Ran and Ryoko sweat dropped.
"How far did we leave her?" asked Ryoko, "Because it seems like she should have caught to us that quickly by just skipping."
"Just don't think about it too much." Said Ran who then shuddered, "Also never have her chase you… ever…"
"What?" asked Ryoko.
"Don't ask." Said Ran.
There was a silence.
"Make a break for it?" asked Ran.
"Oh yeah." Said Ryoko.
The two ran away from Shampoo.
"Rainbow Dash." Growled Shampoo.
That was when Ranma-Chan and Alex ran passed her while Akane skated.
"Shampoo aren't you going to catch up or will you be left behind?" asked Ranma-Chan.
Shampoo began to steam in anger, she ran towards them and caught up to them.
"Hey Shampoo you're pride is showing." Said Alex.
"What that supposed to mean?" asked Shampoo.
"This is all for fun…" said Ranma-Chan, "I mean sure me and Akane didn't have a choice."
"And Rarity just about guilted me into this." Said Alex.
"You're taking this way to seriously." Said Akane.
"I mean Akane is riding a skateboard… while wearing a kimono." Said Ranma-Chan.
Indeed Akane's outfit for the race was a kimono.
Shampoo sighed, "Fine… Shampoo will loosen up." Sighed Shampoo, "And Shampoo won't use that box breaking point, Shampoo win on her own merits."
"You have something else planed, don't you?" asked Ranma-Chan.
Shampoo only smiled when she said that, causing the other four to sweat drop.
Meanwhile at the Kuno Compound the doorbell rang. Diana took a breath and answered it. She breathed a sigh of relief when she saw who it was.
"Get in here now!" said Diana grabbing the poor schmuck that recruited for this.
Less than a minute later, Momo arrived humming a happy song, she stop when she saw that it was a he mansion.
"Holy moly! This guy is rich!" yelled Momo.
That was when Azusa skated up to her.
"Now you will get this!" said Azusa.
That was when noticed the mansion as well.
"Oh wow… Azusa didn't know there was mansion that big!" said Azusa.
This was when Ryoko and Ran caught up to them.
"Seriously! How were you able to maintain speed while skipping!" yelled Ryoko.
"Yes it's a big mansion, should one of us ring the bell." Said Ran.
"Oh right!" said Momo, who was the one who rang the bell, just as Akane, Alex, Shampoo and Ranma-Chan arrived.
"I think the randomly chosen person bribed them?" asked Ranma-Chan.
"I have no idea." Said Akane with a sweat drop
The doors opened to reveal… Daisuke?
"What a Tweest!" yelled Momo.
Ran stared at Daisuke, "You're this rich?" she asked.
"No actually, this is Kuno's house." Said Diana making herself known.
Ranma-Chan, Akane, Momo, Ran and Alex all sweat dropped.
"Oh yeah, today is that day… isn't it?" asked Ran.
"So where's Kuno?" asked Akane.
"I'm guessing the park." Said Diana.
Meanwhile Kuno arrived at the park and began to look around for his "beloveds". That was when he felt someone tugging at his sleeve again.
"Oh you must be Belle's younger sister, I heard so much about you." Said Kuno.
"My sister wanted to give this to you." Said Suzette.
Kuno read the note.
"We have decided to change the meeting place again, meet us by the river bank." Read Kuno, "All right! Then I shall go to the river bank!"
Kuno left running where Suzette was sweat dropping.
Back at the Kuno compound… everyone sweat dropped at that.
"I'm guessing there's some weird going on." Said Ryoko.
"Yeah… I'll tell you later." Said Ran.
"I would have done it, but I am afraid I would have a bias." Said Diana.
"Why, because you work for the cat café?" asked Azusa.
"No, because I'm a vegetarian." Answered Diana.
Both Ryoko and Azusa nodded realizing that she wouldn't have eaten, their foods as well as Akane's eel.
"Hikaru asked me if I could be Kuno's stand in for the race." Said Daisuke.
"Do you have permission from the house's owner?" asked the announcer suddenly showing up with a microphone.
"Yes, Kodachi Kuno who is away is well aware of what is going on." Said Diana.
"Then it's acceptable." Said Daisuke.
"So I guess we have to get him to eat up out food." Said Ryoko.
"Oh wow! This sounds like fun." Said Momo.
"Let the next phrase of the anything goes Marital Arts Take Out Race begin!" shouted the announcer.
All of the delivery girls took out their food items so that Daisuke would eat it.
"Hey does it have to be the whole cake or just one slice?" asked Momo.
"It can be just one slice." Said the announcer.
"Okay good!" said Momo.
Azusa tried to attack Momo's cake, but Momo managed to assault her with a piece of cake.
"Why did you throw cake at me!" yelled Azusa.
"Because it's fun!" said Momo.
Akane held out the eel and ran towards Daisuke. However Shampoo used her own chopsticks and grabbed it, forcing feeding the Eel to Ranma-Chan.
"Eel all gone." Said Shampoo.
Akane pouted, though silently admitting it was a good method.
Momo on the other hand continued to assault Azusa with cake… however.
"Oh no…" whispered Momo, "I sued the last slice."
"And so it appears, the cake is a lie." Said the announcer.
Akane grabbed the remaining rice from the eel plate, and threw it at the announcer.
"Okay, I deserved that." Said the announcer.
Azusa began to celebrate defeating Momo.
"All right! Azusa beat Momo!" cheered Azusa.
However the combination of being on roller skates and being covered in cake was a bad combination, and she ended up slipping, dropping the beef bowl in the process.
"Epic fail!" yelled the announcer!
Both Ran and Ryoko laughed, they had to. Then Ryoko turned to her rival.
"I think you know what time it is." Said Ryoko.
"All right! One final attack." Said Ran.
"Time to settle this." Said Ryoko.
The two ran towards each other and struck the other food… it was so fast that… well…
"Oh come on!" yelled Ran.
"Another tie? Come on!" yelled Ryoko.
"Well it looks like there's only noodles left…" said the announcer.
"All right I think I can get to Daisuke." Said Alex.
That was when Ranma-Chan grabbed the bowl out of Alex's hand and dropped it on the floor.
"Sorry no offence Alex." Said Ranma-Chan.
Alex shrugged… no skin off her back.
Ranma-Chan and Shampoo stared each other down. They were the final two.
"So its whittled down to two different contestants." Said the announcer.
"Um… no offense…" said Daisuke, "But can you have the final fight… near by mouth."
However Shampoo the two began to exchange blows.
"I think they started sparring." said Alex.
Daisuke sweat dropped, the only reason why he came was free food.
After a few minutes, both of them realized.
"Weren't we supposed to force feed Daisuke or something?" asked Ranma-Chan.
"I don't like where this is going." Said Daisuke.
Shampoo at an evil smirk that made Daisuke sweat.
Shampoo used her chopstick to gab her noodles and force them around Daisuke's head, causing everyone watching to gape.
"The only way you can escape it's grasp to eat though it." Said Shampoo.
They waited a few minutes, but thankfully Daisuke ate though it.
"Remind me… never do this again!" he yelled out before collapsing.
"The cat Café wins!" said the announcer.
Shampoo smiled and cheered, while the losers shrugged.
"Is anyone hopping that we get recruited next year?" asked Momo.
"That was pretty fun." Said Ran.
During this Diana made her call to Hikaru.
By the riverbank, Haruka waited for Kuno when Hikaru suddenly teleported in front of her.
"Race is over?" asked Haruka.
"Yes." Said Hikaru, "Shampoo won."
Haruka pouted, she really wanted Rainbow Dash to win… or at least get a chance to mess with Kuno.
Hikaru held her hand.
"Are you ready?" asked Hikaru.
The two teleported away… and thankfully Kuno arrived a minute later.
"I guess I should wait for them then." Said Kuno.
That night at the Tendo Residence… Shampoo was barricading the gates.
"I don't think they're going to break down the doors because you won." Said Rainbow Dash.
"Get the traitor to all delivery girls!" yelled voice from the other side.
"She's an Amazon from a hidden Chinese village! She's too good to be one!" yelled another voice.
"Our sport must be avenged!" yelled a third.
"I'm going to get Applejack, Twilight and Luna." Said Rainbow Dash flying inside the house.
Shampoo felt like crying… for the first time in her life… she really wished she hadn't won a competition.
Next Time: A great evil comes to the Tendo Dojo, what is it? Why is there? What ties does it have with Soun and Genma? As well as Cologne! What is it? Find out next time!