Ranma 1/2 is the creation of Rumiko Takahashi and Sailor Moon is the creation of Naoko Takeuchi. This fan-fiction isn't intended for commercial use but is rather a tribute to Ranma 1/2 and Sailor Moon.
Ch10 Lies and Truths
~*~Jubian ward, Hikawa Shrine~*~
"Beryl, I've managed to get access to the Moon Kingdom's census data and its no where near the 20 to 100 billion estimate you constantly give."
"I always wondered about that number. The youma that did the calculations based on ki levels of the first humans we were able to contact after punching a small hole in the barrier. As I remember it was a town called Jericho about 177 youma generations ago. I personally poured over the figures and couldn't fault the math. The only thing that made sense was these humans weren't the ki generators that even peasants of the Earth Kingdom were and part of the ki was part of the support network. The later turned out way too accurate. However, it was the only number range we had so we went with it. I guess we repeated it so often that it effectively became true."
"We estimate Earth's population was about 1 to 15 million 12,000 years ago."
Beryl nodded. "That is about right. I would say around 4 million not counting the youma."
"Using modern ki levels for the average person the Mercury computer calculates a population of 85 million."
Beryl blinked. "How the mighty have fallen," she said shaking her head. "So the average human's ki drop to a twenty-fifth of what it was at the end of the Earth Kingdom."
"But even assuming that the numbers still don't add up. Here are the numbers using the modern human's ki as a baseline. Moon – 32 million, Mercury – 80 million, Venus – 84 million, Mars – 30 million, Jupiter's information is strangely missing, Saturn – 5 million, Uranus – 35 million, Neptune - 35 million, and Pluto at 500,000. That is a total of only 272 million. Using current Earth as a baseline I get around 11 million actual people."
Beryl shook her head smiling ironically. "Those little...they took the raw ki numbers rather then separating active, passive, and any reserve ki. Would not be surprised if they threw in animal and plant ki to pad out the numbers. I knew the Daimon clan could be manipulative but I never considered that I was be the target of their manipulation."
"You shouldn't be so hard on yourself," said Ami. "Queen Ohitzujiza said billions not millions. The tampering may have not been on their end."
"Whoever it was they played me like a flipping harp," Beryl growled. "They used my hatred of Queen Serenity and either crated or gave raw numbers that if I had actually been thinking I would have realized could not have been real."
Ami frowned. "You said something about passive and reserve ki."
Beryl nodded. "In many respects they are very similar. Passive ki is the result of a non living object being in a place with active ki for a long time – it picks up the ki energy in the area via the Second Law of Thermodynamics. By contrast reserve ki is ki intentionally stored for later use."
"Both the Moon and Earth Kingdoms made use of these forms of stored ki energy to the point if something happened to the population the city or planet wouldn't…" Beryl's eyes widened. "That idiot. That egotistical, absolute, beyond Genma levels of stupid, moron. Seems like Queen Hecate was not only a cruel sociopath but dumber then a bag of hammers as well. Does explain why you lot still have powers even though all but one of your planets and space stations are dead. Though so would the stories that the Moon Kingdom had ways of changing other forms of energy into ki." Beryl shrugged. "They were blown off as just that – stories."
"Two sets of reserve ki. One for the planet the other for the Sailor Sensei of the planet."
"An entire planet or space station of hostages. Follow my rule or watch your people die. No matter how bad I may paint Queen Serenity, Queen Hecate makes her look like a freaking saint."
"Your comment about energy conversion does explain something about the ki that powers us I found. It's close to active life ki but it is also off...like what ever was generating it wasn't really alive."
"Mercury, Venus, and the Moon convert heat and the gas giants convert the energy of their storms. But that leaves Pluto."
"If the Time Space Door is some form of Einstein Rosen Bridge it likely has similar energy dynamics to that of a Black Hole. There are several theories on how to turn that into a power source," said Ami. "The simplest would to use mirrors to generate energy via superradiant scattering. That could produce enough energy to qualify as a K2 civilization."
Beryl gave a whistle and then frowned. "Yet thanks to Queen Hecate being a vindictive little bitch very little of that energy went into forming the Dark Kingdom."
"As crazy as this sounds she may have not known. Even the Mercury computer is silent on how the Time Space Door actually works. I suspect that the information like nearly everything else over the first 5,000 years was deleted."
The first four notes of Beethoven's fifth symphony came from Beryl's hip pocket. Sighing Beryl pulled out her cell phone. "Beryl here." Beryl frowned and then went white. "I'll be there," she said coldly closing the phone.
"Beryl, what's wrong."
"One of the children they hit had just been diagnosed with cancer."
About an hour later Beryl was sitting with the youmanized girl's parents and Ami's mother, Saeko. "Thankfully the cancer does not carry over to her youma form." Beryl said.
"Why thankfully?" asked Doctor Mizuno.
"The youma equivalent of cancer is called being Term...short for Terminal. There are no treatments to delay its onset or mitigate its progress. The end is always the same – writhing on the ground in agony, screaming, coughing up your guts as black goo. That is why I came – to see if having cancer carried over into the youma form." Beryl sighed. "Thank the kami it doesn't."
"You're certain?" asked the girl's mother nervously.
"Yes. I had a knack to sense if a youma was Term but the skills I learned following Genma allowed me to refine that feeling into something more tangible, more certain." Beryl smiled. "Your daughter is definitely not Term."
"So this Pool of Drowned Youma can...cure cancer?" asked Doctor Mizuno.
"I don't think so. Hot water will return the girl to human form and while cold water is more common then hot odds are the transformation will happen at the worst time. Without a way to lock the curse it is a stop gap measure at best."
~*~Furinkan High School, Nerima~*~
"I'm not sure this is a good idea, Mistress Saturn," said Akane as she Ranma, Nabiki, and Hotaru walked to school. "At 10, isn't your flesh and blood component a little too young for high school?"
Mistress Saturn in what looked like a 16-year old version of her body chuckled. "I think I can provide my host with the needed maturity."
"It's not the maturity I'm worried about. You are jumping from, at best, Elementary Grade 5 to Senior High Grade 1. You are skipping the entire Middle School Grade set."
"Beryl said if a 10 year old with the reputation of a firm disciplinarian can teach high school then one can certain go to such a school as a student."
"What did she mean by that?"
"She said we would find out. Beryl said if there was any teacher that keep the Youmafied students here under control without becoming ki breakfast it was her. That is why Beryl went out of her way to convince the acting principal to hire her as our TanninNoSensei."
"Halt, my loves," proclaimed a youma whose features looked like a samurai in battle armor.
"Is this…"
"Yep," sighed Ranma.
"I, the Blue Thunder, shall free you from the hold of evil Queen Beryl."
"Oh for…," growled Ranma. "Kuno, sis is not the evil Queen you bokken wielding baka."
"Your disguise doesn't fool me, foul creature," proclaimed another voice.
"Oh great, it's the cane wielding buffoon, Tuxedo Moron," groaned Ranma as Kuno blocked Tuxedo Masks cane with his bokken.
"The evil Queen send her lackeys to test the metal of the Blue Thunder. I shall over come this evil and free all my loves."
"Oh no don't tell me."
"Yes, it is clear that this new black haired beauty is also in love with the Blue Thunder."
"Foul creature, does your appetite know no bounds?"
"Hey True Blunder, you do know my host is only 10, right?" asked Mistress Saturn her left eye developing a slight twitch.
"The Evil Queen has clouded my new love's mind."
"Don't worry miss, I Tuxedo Mask she protect you from this foul creature."
"Akane, M-chan, while these two idiots are busy fighting each other let's get to our homeroom," whispered Ranma.
Nodding the three slowly backed away and then bolted. At the homeroom Ranma fell against a wall. "If we are luck...what am I saying of course we aren't going to be lucky. We are going to have both those idiots to contend with on a regular basis."
As Ranma, Akane, and Mistress Saturn settled in to their seats what looked like a 10 year old girl with a stack of books. She walked over and sat her books down on the desk and wrote "Ninomiya Hinako" on the board
"Is that…?"
"Yep. Not what I was expecting though."
"Hello class. I am your new Tannin No Sensei. We are going to have so much fun."
"Definitely not what I was expecting."
The samurai looking youma burst into the room. "Don't worry my loves, I the Blue Thunder.…"
"Delinquent!" Hinako yelled pulling out a coin with a hole om the center. "Perhaps this will change your mind about bursting into my class room. Happö Go-en Satsu!" A black beam shot from a hole in the coin hitting Kuno. The beam then turned white.
"The Blue Thun…" Kuno then fell face forward as Hinako changed into a woman in her mid 20s and Tuxedo Mask ran into the room
"Do not worry I Tuxedo…
"Beryl wasn't kidding about this school," Hinako growled dropping the coin and forming a circle with her hands . "Happö Tsurisen Gaeshi!"
Tuxedo Mask slammed into the wall. "Look at all the pretty little stars," he said pulling himself out of the indentation in the wall…only to also fall face forward.
"That'll teach you about interrupting my class," proclaimed the now 10 year old teacher. She then sat up Kuno and Tuxdo Mask and pulling out a marker wrote 'baka' on their foreheads.
"Now. I trust there will be no more interruptions."
"No, Sensei!" said the class as one.
'Why do I have this feeling when the other shoe drops it is going to be a wallop?' thought Ranma.
At the end of the day as Beryl and Ranma sparred with each other an ash faced Ami enter the training area.
Holding up her hand to end the sparring session Beryl turned. "You ok?" Beryl asked.
"No, Beryl. I am anything but ok. I found the first secret of the Moon Kingdom and...well you are not going to like it." Ami looked straight at Beryl. "Get all the scouts that we have access to here. They as well as you and the Tendos need to see this."
About a hour later everyone was in front of a sheet of Hard Thought Beryl had set up. "Ok. What is with all the cloak and dagger?" asked Nabiki.
Ami started projecting computer code on the sheet of Hard Thought. "I was looking through the Mercury computer for something predating the data files and realized the system itself did and buried deep in the system was this."
"What?" asked a stunned Beryl staring at the image.
"It can't be," gasped Usagi.
On the screen, clear as day, was "Linux OS yearly update build 4967, primary kernel build year 2991. Source: Tegnum Renebris Inc. Founded 1971."
~*~Author Note~*~
And the 30th century part of Sailor Moon enters into the picture...but not the way you were expecting.