Another World
Chapter 2
"I'm
Ranma Saotome. Sorry about this."
Gokou,
Gohan, and Bulma stare at the young lady before them as if they thought she was
crazy. Or maybe themselves.
"Ok,
that answers the question of who you are. But what happened to the guy that was
here before and what was his name." Gokou said and earned a sweat drop
from all present.
"I am
him." Ranma snapped.
"But
you're a girl!" Gokou said and Bulma promptly smacked him upside the head.
"Of
course, that's why this seems so familiar!" Gohan suddenly burst out.
"What?"
Ranma, Bulma, and Gokou said, startled
"Ranma
1/2!"
"What?"
Ranma asked again.
"My
favorite TV show. It's all about you! The latest episode was where everyone
found out about the dragon whisker and the curse it put on your hair."
Gohan said happily.
"..."
Ranma was silent as her hands went to her pigtail. "I'm actually a TV
series over here?"
"Yeah,
I have every episode at home. But I just have one question."
"What
is it?"
"Would
your mom actually do that? Make you commit seppuku?" Gohan asked softly
and Ranma paled.
"What?"
Gokou and Bulma asked confused.
Turning to
the two adults, she explained, "Because of an agreement pop made with my
mom, if I wasn't a man above men, we would commit Seppuku, and yes I think that
she would. I've met her a couple of times and she looks like she would like do
it. She is always carrying around that katana." Ranma said as she leaned
against the mirror.
"That's
horrible! Bulma said as she put an arm around the girl and led him to the bed
where she could sit down.
Changing
the subject, Ranma said, "I'm assuming that you are preparing for the
androids?"
"Yeah,
we decided to take a break for today." Gokou said with a soft smile at
Gohan.
"Well,
I know what is going to happen. Even though the episodes haven't aired yet,
I've read summaries of future episodes all the way until after Tru..., I mean
the guy from the future comes back." Ranma said to the surprise of all
present. Then asked, "Can I have some hot water?"
"Sure,
I'll get it." Gohan said and rushed out of the room with the empty glass.
He was back a moment later and just simply tossed the water in her face.
"Hey!"
Ranma shouted as he wiped the water from his eyes.
Gokou
started laughing as Ranma glared at Gohan.
"Don't
ever do that to me again." Ranma growled as he stood up, his tail lashing.
"Ok."
Gohan gulped as he backed away a little.
"I
have an idea, why don't we introduce you to the others." Gokou said and
Ranma finally stopped glaring at Gohan who was starting to look uncomfortable.
"That's
a good idea. I know who they are but I still have to gain their trust if I'm
going to help you guys against the androids. Oh and one more thing, let's keep
my curse a secret for now. It'll only complicate things right now." Ranma
said seriously and the others nodded in understanding. "Just call me Ranko
when I'm a girl."
"Ok.
Lets introduce you to everyone." Bulma said as she sat down at the phone
and started to call everyone.
Within an
hour, everyone one was at Capsule Corp. and they were ready to introduce Ranma
to them.
"Everyone,
I know you won't believe me but a goddess brought a fighter from another
dimension to help us with the androids." Bulma said and Yamucha began to
laugh.
"You
have to be kidding us, Bulma. Why would a goddess bring some one here? We have
everything under control." he said and Bulma glared at him, causing him to
shrink back in his seat while Gokou started to laugh at him.
"Believe
it or not but it is true. " Bulma snapped then said in a calmer voice. The
goddess also altered him when she brought him here. She made him into a
sayion."
At this
Vegeta sneered at her. "I was beginning to believe this story until you
said that. There are no more sayions."
"Believe
it vegetable head." Bulma snapped and left the room for a moment. She was
back a moment later dragging Ranma behind her.
"Everyone,
this is Ranma Saotome. He's the guy that was transported her by the goddess and
as you can see that even though he doesn't have the wild hair and black eyes
that most sayions have, he most certainly has the tail and temperament that the
sayions have." Bulma said with a smile at Gohan who was still a little
nervous since he had thrown the hot water in his face.
"Impossible."
Vegeta said shakily as he stared at Ranma. Everyone turned to stare at him.
"What's
impossible?" Ranma asked.
"You...you
look just like him." Vegeta said softly to the confusion of all present.
"Vegeta?"
Bulma asked a little worried.
"Tocati."
Vegeta whispered then blasted out of the room, via the open window.
"Who's
Tocati?" Gokou asked into the following silence.
'That name
sounds familiar.' Ranma thought to him self but he didn't know from where.
"I
don't know, but he seemed upset." Bulma said softly as she cast a worried
glance out the window in the direction Vegeta had disappeared leaving only a
vapor trail to mark his progress.
"Now,
to get back to business, can anyone teach me how to fly?" Ranma asked
suddenly.
"I
wonder where Ranma is." Ukyo said softly. It had been a week since he had
disappeared and she was starting to give up hope that he would ever be found.
Ryoga had
drifted in a few days before and he had been stunned by what had happened. Now
he was sitting at Ucchan's, eating something before he went out to look for
Ranma.
"I
don't know but it's still hard to believe that Akane did that to him and now
he's missing. It doesn't sound like either one of them." Ryoga said as he
finished his food.
"I can
believe that Akane did that. She was always beating him up for nothing. There
was a time when Ranma tried to make peace by getting her this beautiful
necklace. He had called the jeweler from a pay phone and from what I've heard,
she thought that he had been secretly calling one of us and had pounded him
over the skyline with out letting him explain. Sure, I admit that I was really
steamed that he was getting it for her when I found out but what she did got me
even madder." Ukyo said and Ryoga nodded.
He had been
there as P-chan at the time and had been happy that Ranma had gotten pounded by
Akane's mallet. He had jumped to the same conclusion that Akane had and had
later attacked Ranma as he was coming home from school. Now he realized that
Ranma had been trying to get it to work, not teasing her and trying to be nice,
even when she forced him to eat her cooking.
"I
wonder where he is. This is really not like him. He may have run out on our
duel, but he never ran from someone who had already hurt him, or he would've
left his father after the Neko-ken training." he said and she nodded. They
were silent until he left to go look for his sometimes friend.
"You
want me to what?!" Ranma shouted at Gokou.
"Jump off the roof. Gohan had to learn it by being tossed off a cliff, but I figured we could take it a little slower. I had to be brought up to the top of Corinth's tower and thrown off. The idea is to focus your ki enough so that you stop you falling before you hit the ground. Besides, it won't kill you." Gokou said cheerfully.
"…"
"Yeah, it's really not that bad." Gohan said from next to his father. The three of them were standing on top of Capsule Corp. Ranma had taken off the armor, but had left on the body suit because he didn't have anything else to wear at the moment.
An hour later, the suit was dirty and Ranma had grass in his hair though there were no other signs that he had fallen five stories numerous times. But there was a smile on his face as he floated a foot above the ground, upside down though no one watching, not even Ranma could figure out how he had ended up like that.
Sorry it took me so long to get this chapter out and I'm sorry that it's shorter than the first, but I've been working on some of me other stories and I almost completely forgot about this. It will be a while before I get the next out too, so I'm doubly sorry for everyone waiting for the third chapter. I don't have Internet connections at the moment. Thanks for waiting so patiently and I hope you liked it.
Shinigami-chan