That's Not What Happened
Chapter 1(Part 1 of 2) (revised)
History:
Original Draft on Monday, August 27, 2001(FFML release)
Revised Draft on Tuesday, August 28, 2001(no release)
Revised Draft on Friday, September 5, 2001 (Ranchan Total Cross Out release)
A Ranma 1/2 , Sailor Moon Super and others Crossover
By Oberon
Ffml_use@hotmail.com
"LAGUNA BLADE!" with the final phase a blade of black energy appears between in Ranma's hand as he blacks out.
A few days earlier…
Ranma in the guise of Mizuno Ami meditated on the floor of Ami's bedroom. He could have sat there for days, or hours or minutes but he could not really tell. Usagi's voice had come though Mercury's communicator some time ago but he ignored it. After that her phone had not stop ringing ever since. "Doesn't that girl ever give up." thought Ranma. Refusing to be distracted by the annoying attempts to gain his attention, Ranma refocus his efforts on the task. What he needed was somewhere in the mind of Sailor Mercury, all that was required was to know where to look.
Ever since that day Ranma had realized a great deal of knowledge was sealed away in Mercury's mind, even to Mercury herself. In that brief and critical moment when he fought with the Von, the mental barrier that kept the truth from Mercury had weakened to allow Ranma a brief peep. The truth that Ranma saw was knowledge too dangerous even for his liking. Sure learning the Chestnut Fist was dangerous; he could have easily caused permanent damage his hands. Certain the Amazons considered the Chestnut Fist dangerous; why else would they keep it such a closely guarded secret? Then there was the Mouko Takabisha, an attack that uses the user's own life force as a weapon. When forcefully flaring one's own life force then concentrating it into a small area, one little mistake and his heart will explode.
However, all this, the Chestnut fist and the Mouko Takabisha is nothing compared to the power of the Laguna Blade and the consequences that comes with it in a miscast. As Ranma had learned earlier a miscast not only mean the death of its cast but also damnation for the rest of humanity. The last time that he used this spell the world was only saved from eternal nightmares due to the compassion of Sailor Moon and the power of the Mystical Silver Crystal, and for that Ranma was eternally grateful to the girl. It was stupid of him really, to attempt to cast a spell with no knowledge of its purpose or requirements that it will place on his body. On the bright side, the enemy was defeated and Ranma found something that could potentially be the answer he had be searching for so long.
That is what Ranma is doing now. Meditating and putting the memory techniques Genma taught him, no matter how unintentional it was, into good use. However, searching in the mind of a being that had been dead for thousands of years was not what those techniques was designed for. To say that Genma was an incompetent sensei was not that far the truth, his teachings of instant recall during battles had served Ranma well in the past but this time it is failing him utterly. To think, in order to learn this technique he had sit in a room full of those people who called themselves "Trekies" talk on and on about something call Star Trek just so he could learn how to recall trivial details. Giving those hard-earned techniques one more shot, Ranma tried once again to break into the library inside his head to no avail. Every time he was able to hold on to a tiny morsel of knowledge it just slips away leaving him to wonder what is it that he thought he found. With the final failure Ranma realized that their must be something actively keeping him away from what he wanted to find. "Maybe one of those damn cats knows something about it. I heard Usagi said they could do something call the Lunar Mind Meld." Ranma thought as he pulled himself out of the meditative trance.
Returning to a somewhat more normal state of consciousness Ranma finally notices that the phone is ringing off the hook. Standing up Ranma gave his muscles a stretch then reached for the phone on Ami's desk. "Mizuno residence." Ranma announced. "Oh hello Usagi… You want me do you a favor?" Ranma paused giving the girl's request some thought. "Sure as long as I don't have to transform again… Alright I'll be there in five… No really I'll be there in five minutes." Ranma hanged up the phone then left the house after putting on something worm.
Mugen Academy…
"Wow! So many students are here even though it's cold and snowy. They must by study-aholics." commented Usagi on the organized mob of students outside Mugen Academy.
"They're totally different from you." Mars teased their sleep-aholic leader.
"Don't remind me." shouted Usagi in response to her friend's jab at Usagi's own ineptitudes.
"Sure ya want to go in with me? It'll be a lot easier for me to go in alone since none of us have a pass." Ranma asked trying one last time to dissuade the others.
"Hmm." nodded the others in unison.
Turning around Ranma looked toward the building that the others think is the headquarters of the Death Busters.
Inside Mugen Academy…
In a crowd of hundreds, five students from Juuban try to blend in but they were doing a terrible job. For all their efforts, it was quite easy to tell them apart from everyone else. The most obvious thing that set them apart was that fact that everyone else was in cram sessions mode while the five was chatting. Their strange behavior when compared to the other students was probably what drew Viluy Yuri to the small group. At first Viluy was curious as to why those students could be so casual on the eve of the hardest exam in their life. Viluy, like every other members of the Witches 5, was also very competitive and jealous of other people's abilities. How could those students act so casually while mere moments from what will be literally the last test of their lives? They must know something that she is ignorant of, thought Viluy. Parting the thong of students the way an intercontinental ballistic missile parts the clouds, Viluy Yuri homed in on the small group.
Approaching the small group, the crowd parted to reveal the back of a short blue haired girl. There was only one person that would fit the girl's description and Viluy was certainly surprised to see her here. Especially when Viluy hacked into the pre-high school exam registry specifically looking for her and found that she had not applied. Immediately suspicion rose in Viluy over the girl's sudden appearance at Mugen. Viluy knew, as a matter of fact that the dictatorial clerk at the exam registration office would not make exceptions for anyone. There was simply no way that Mizuno Ami can take this exam after the deadline for registration had passed. Seeing it as her duty as a Death Buster, Viluy approached Ami intending to find out why she is here.
"Are you Mizuno Ami?" asked Viluy to the back of the blue haired girl. The girl did not respond. "Are you Mizuno Ami?" Viluy asked again. This time the girl did turn around to face her but only after some signals from her friends.
"Oh, were you talking to me?" the girl responded completely without tact.
At this point, Viluy was pissed. "How dare this girl walk in here and ignore me. Who does she think she is?" thought Viluy but did not let any of it show. Putting on a false smile Viluy continued. "My name is Viluy Yuri and I was just wondering are you Mizuno Ami, the girl that always takes top marks in the nation wide exams?" Viluy asked without any of the malice in her thoughts.
"Sorry for ignoring you Viluy-san but I was just… distracted… yea that's it distracted." Ranma lied. He was not distracted, he just had not gotten used to having someone unexpectedly call her Ami. Sure, over the last few months he had learned to respond when teachers and parents call him Mizuno Ami but when it came to some stranger calling him by that name in a public area it always catches him off guard. Worse than that, whenever this happens he had to come up with some excuse for ignoring that person and we all know that Ranma is not the best of politicians.
"You must be Mizuno Ami." Viluy continues her act. "I have wanted to meet for so long."
"Why's that Viluy-san." Ranma asked.
"I have always wanted to meet the person who had the same score as I on the last exam." continuing her cat and mouse game with Ranma.
"Oh! Took top marks!" Usagi butted into the conversation, exclaiming to an event that she thought was impossible for anyone besides Ami.
"Who are you?" Viluy asked out of politeness.
Instantly, Usagi was embarrassed to be in the presence of some one so smart let alone some one who asked her who she was. "I'm not worthy to have my name mentioned." Rubbing her head dumbly, she tries to shrug away from the white haired girl's attention.
"As Ami's friend you must be an intelligent student. What are your best subjects?" she asked Usagi.
"An afternoon nap and lunch break." Usagi replied with her face red with embarrassment.
"You're good at jokes!" said Viluy. "Ami this is good timing. I have something to show you. Come with me." Before anyone could object, Viluy had a firm grip on Ami's arm and started to drag her away from her friends. It was the perfect plan, isolate Ami away from her friends and she could easily get her tongue to slip.
Not wanting to blow his cover, Ranma allowed the strange girl to drag him away. Perhaps the others can search the building without him.
Viluy had brought Ranma to the basement of Mugen Academy, which also served as a laboratory for the science club. In the dark and ominous basement, Viluy brought Ranma in front of a domed shaped device that generated a mist which covering the table it was situated upon. "What is this?" Ranma inspected the device with curiosity.
"It's a mini sized universe, which the science club created. It's it beautiful?" replies Viluy with amusement.
"Oh" said Ranma suddenly loosing interest in the device. He never did have a head for scientific stuff let alone listen to an explanation he had no hope of understanding.
"You don't sound euphuistic Ami. I thought you of all people will be interested in experiments of this caliber?"
"It's not that Viluy-san. It's just that I'm really nervous about the exam." Ranma lied badly again. His facial expression gave it away even before the absurdity of his lie.
"No doubt she's trying to snoop around. I'll just have to get rid of her before I take everyone's pure heart crystals." Viluy thought. "Tell me Ami, how much longer are you planning to play dumb?" said Viluy now sure that Ami was one of the Sailor Senshi.
"What are ya talking about?" Ami asked confusedly.
"There's no longer a need for formalities betweens us Ami. Let's show our true colors."
"Wha… What?" Ranma stammered, not knowing what to do or exactly what happened. Is Viluy coming on to him or does she suspect something? Ranma tries to back away from the girl but finds his way block by the table with the mini universe.
"Come on Ami I know you're a Sailor Senshi, your act to cover it up is pathetic really." Closing in on the kill Viluy intended to force Ami into transforming. "Go on Ami transform." she paused "And take your medicine." Viluy snared as she shed away her school uniform to reveal the attire of a Death Buster. Before Ranma could recover, Viluy extended her hands toward Ami and started her attack. "Magic Buster" she shouted while sending a blast of electricity toward Ranma. To her amazement, the other girl was able to jump over the attack at point blank range, avoiding it all together by leaping into the air. Even though Viluy had not expected the other girl to be able to avoid her attack, Viluy was nevertheless able to angle her attack he intercept her target. Thinking that she had hit her target for sure Viluy did not even react when she heard the shout "Meteoroid Kic…" just before she was knock unconscious.
T.B.C.
Author's note: Here's the first part of chapter one. Part 2 should be along shortly. I bet you never thought you'll ever read another chapter of this story again with not so soon. By need for pre-readers still exists so if anyone's interested… By the way you probably noticed that this scenes in this story is written out of sequence. Just wanted to try something new. Let it be known that I do have an original bone in my body. As always C&C is welcome.
Many thanks to my pre-reader Saotome Genma Saotome_Genma@hotmail.com
And Vampire vamp.666@wanadoo.fr
That's Not What Happened
Chapter 1 (part 2 of 2)
By Oberon
Ffml_use@hotmail.com
Ranma watched with embarrassment as Viluy roughly threw away her own school uniform. "Will it ever end?" he shouted silently. Here he is, stuck in a girl's body, and girls are still throwing themselves at him. "Can it get any more perverted?" he wondered. Trying not to look at the girl, who he had no doubt was naked, Ranma danger sense suddenly flared. Though years of "Ranma prepare to die." Ranma reacted with trained instincts. Making an impossibly high jump into the air, he was actually relieved to see that the girl, Viluy, was not naked but rather in an outfit as ridiculous as Mimet's. Ranma did not have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that the girl is part of the Witches 5, the energy blast she was trying to hit him with was a dead give away.
The witch appeared to be surprised but that did not stop her from trying to change the trajectory of her blast to intercept Ranma. Angling her arms upward, Viluy's Magic Buster missed Ranma by mere inches. "Wow! That was close!" thought Ranma. If Viluy had angled her attack a little steeper, he would have been deep-fried. "But it's too late for you!" he grinded, realizing he would be in range for a counter strike before Viluy could fire off another Magic Buster. "Meteoroid Kick" Ranma announced aloud his attack. In one swift blow to Viluy's head, Ranma send his opponent flying toward the wall. With a loud thud that corresponded to Viluy's head smacking into the wall, Viluy was at least temporary sent to lala land. "And to think, not so long ago I would had trouble hitting girls. Oh well, at least we know for sure this is the nest of the Death Busters." Moving around the ruined laboratory Ranma decided to ignore the bell that signified the beginning of the exams and opted for a detailed search of the basement.
Viluy awoke some time later with a blinding headache. It was the not the kind of headache that was associated with a hang over, not that she would know what that felt like. It was certainly not half as pleasurable. No, it was the kind of headache if her head collided with a solid conceit wall and the wall cracked into a spider web. Now that Viluy saw the state of the wall, she realized it was exactly that kind of headache. Picking herself off the floor Viluy stood up weakly trying to regain her balance while her eyes could barely focus. "I get you for this you little twit. I tried to be nice but now you're gonna get it." Viluy vowed to herself while shaking her fist at the concrete above her. "Ouch" suddenly overwhelmed by the dizziness. "As soon as I get some Aspirin and an ice pack."
"The waves are becoming restless and the ocean is getting wild." Michiru spoke cryptically while unconsciously mimicking Setsuna's usual senseless drivel. That is saying a lot considering Setsuna's usual drivel gives more glimpses into the future than the predictions of the best psychics on their best days. However, unlike Setsuna's rambling there was at least one person, besides the speaker, who understands what is being said.
"Michiru, you feel it too?" Haruka confirmed her lover's feelings on the state of the world.
"Yes. Something strange and unexpected is coming."
"There's a ghostly and horrifying energy circumventing in the building…" Haruka suddenly whirled around feeling strange in the air. "…I've felt it a long time. I'll find out what's in here this time." Haruka vowed to discover why she and Michiru were drawn to this school in the first place.
"Do you want to go down stairs?"
"Yes. We need to face whatever is there…"
Deeper and deeper the two outers went and deeper and deeper into the heart of the Death Buster. Finally, with no more stairs to descend and no more hallways to run through, the duo came to a door. It was not the inviting kind of door with the words "This way to unimaginable earthly pleasures" written in big neon letters. No, this is the kind of door that is titanium reinforced and requires a digital ID card to open. So, why were two students with student IDs able to open this so-called secure door with a swipe of their identity cards?
With a gentle push on both sides of the double doors from each senshi, the door opened to reveal a pitch-black room. Inside the room was an atmosphere that obscured the floor with a yellow acidic looking mist. Walking deeper into the throne room of Mistress 9, the two outer sailors saw the master of the Death Busters herself. Atop a short flight of stairs sat Mistress 9. On her throne and with a small contingent of stuffed animals behind her, little Hotaru looked every bit like child ruler in a bad mood. With a gasp, the outers realized who the little girl was.
"Messiah of Silence!" Michiru exclaimed.
"The ultimate root of evil! We'll get her this time!" Haruka shouted in declaring their intensions.
Hotaru's face was hidden in the shadows while the shadows themselves danced around her. With a teddy bear in her arms, Hotaru did nothing to distort the outers' perception of her character. Realizing this was there best opportunity to correct the mistake they made earlier in letting Hotaru escape, the outers charged into action.
"Stop!" the outers heard someone familiar yelled from behind them.
Turning around, Haruka and Michiru confronted the person that had interrupted their mission. Standing proudly before the two outers was one of their most hated individual. Ranma Saotome presently in place of Mizuno Ami was not the favorite of the outers for a very simple reason. It was Ranma's direct interference with the outers attack on Sailor Saturn that allowing the Messiah of Silence to escape, this alone was a sign of evil in the eyes of the outers. As anyone in their position would understand, stopping Haruka and Michiru's attack on Hotaru again only further support the misconception that Ranma has allied himself with the forces of evil.
"Touch one strand of hair on her head and I'll hunt ya to the ends of the earth." Ranma promised the two outer senshis. It was probably not in Ranma's best interest to have said that, but he said it anyway without thinking first. Proving once again that Ranma's condition of sticking his foot in his mouth is quiet permanent. Ranma's little threat also proved to the outers that without a doubt he is working with the Death Busters.
"You fool! She will destroy you when she brings about the Silence." said Haruka emotionally.
"Ya can't be sure of that." Ranma countered. "She's just an innocent girl who is being used by the Death Busters. So what if she is Sailor Saturn, the soldier of destruction and all that, she's still a little girl. Even the soldier of destruction can choose her own path. There's no way that she would destroy the world for no good reason." showing every bit as much emotion as Haruka.
"Stop trying to confuse us with your lies! We could see right through you!" shouted back a belligerent Haruka who was itching to teach the arrogant baster a lesson. And if he should some how get hurt in the fight then so be it, it will just mean a few weeks in the hospital for Ami once they get rid of Ranma. Having exhausted all words of piece and persuasion in their last meeting, what it has comes down to is a confrontation between two martial artists.
"Who ya calling a liar ya unisex sissy!" Ranma replied in anger.
"Come on you body stealing parasite, let's settle this right here, right now." Haruka challenged the Martial Artist.
Giving the tall girl a confidant smirk Ranma moved into his usual fighting stance. "Come and get some."
"Any time bitch." Haruka readied herself in a kenpo stance.
Seeing this might endanger the success of their mission Michiru tried to stop the fight between Haruka and Ranma. Putting a hand on the shoulder of her lover, Michiru reminded her life mate why they where here. Through some unspoken link that only exists between two people in love, Haruka knew what her partner was trying to convey to her. Shifting her gaze to her beloved, Haruka gave Michiru a small nod to signify that she understands and is ready. Without saying a word, the two lovers sudden turned around and started to make a run for the Bringer of Silence.
"Cowards." Ranma swore to himself as he saw what the two were doing. Jumping from his position, Ranma leaped over the older girls and landed between them and Hotaru. Turning around Ranma returned to his stance intending to deter the two from reaching and killing the little girl Hotaru. "Stay right there!" he tried to command the outer senshis with an unspoken threat.
"Found you at last!" said a fourth voice from the doorway, instantly sky rocking the tension in the room. Viluy appeared in the room. After waking up from the beating she received from Ranma, Viluy had spend almost half an hour searching for the aspirin and ice pack while trying to hunt down the person how had beaten her. The nurse's office turned out to be a bust as the nurse herself was out to lunch and had locked away the supplies. Busting down the supplied cabinets got her as far as the ice pack but she had accidentally melted the plastic wrappers around aspirin. Pissed and in extreme pain Viluy decided to find then make the Mizuno girl die slowly and painfully. When professor Tomoe confronted her on why she had not began her mast crystal harvest she actually told him to fuck off. He was certainly pissed at her insubordination but she was even more pissed at Ami. So after flipper the professor, Viluy continued her search for Ami while cursing her name every other step. Now that Viluy had found her in the basement, she did not even care that her boss was in the room or about the two other Mugen students and just starting blasting. "Magic Blaster." Viluy shouted in one swift as motion she threw away the ice pack that comforted her bruised face then extended her hand toward Ami. Unfortunately, in her raged mindset, Viluy failed to realize that Haruka and Michiru were in the way of the blast.
Equally unfortunately were Haruka and Michiru who had done nothing to provoke Viluy but was blasted never the less. Falling on the ground, there bodies twitching from Viluy's Magic Buster, the two outers received no sympathy from Ranma as he prepared to face Viluy.
"Die!!!" Viluy shot widely at Ranma. This time the distance between them actually worked to her advantage as her rapid berserk shots kept Ranma at the defensive.
"Shit." Ranma swore while narrowly dodging another shot from the insane and probably brain damaged witch.
"Stop dodging!" Viluy fired another round.
"If only I could get close enough. Arrr!!!" Ranma screamed, the latest volley actually managed to glance his leg while he was dodging in med air. Landing on the ground while still twitching from the electrical attack Ranma saw that Viluy was already preparing another attack, and this time he would not be able to avoid it. "Mouko Takabisha" Ranma threw his ki blast at Viluy hoping it would distract her long enough to recover.
As Ranma fired off his ki blast Viluy also fired her Magic Buster. The electrical attack and ki ball collided closer to Viluy than to Ranma. The concussion force resulted from the explosion defected the trajectory of the Magic Buster into the wall and knocked Viluy off her feet. Taking the opportunity, Ranma charged the berserker attempting to subdue her before she has the opportunity to retaliate. With every ounce of his ki he could muster Ranma pushed his burning muscles into overdrive hoping that it will be enough.
Viluy was thrown off the ground but it did not take her long to recover. In less then 1.5 seconds after being knocked down Viluy was getting ready to attack again. Just like last time Viluy was not fast enough. Just as she was about to fire, Ranma was already upon her. "Kachu Tenshin Amagouriken." Viluy heard her opponent shout just before her opponents arms disappeared and Viluy felt herself pummeled by unseen forces. In Viluy's insane state of mind, she was able to ignore completely the pain from the blows. If not for the concussion force of the blows and the short distance between her and Ranma, Viluy would have fired. That soon became impossible when one of the blows knock her arms out of firing position. With the last blow, Viluy was once again flying though the air.
Ranma was in terrible pain. After executing the Chestnut Fist his arms felt like unresponsive dead weights. Unresponsive, but it did not mean he did not feel the protests of his over exerted muscles. The rest of his body was not very happy either, his leg feels like it would barely support him and he felt like he would asphyxiate at any moment. "It least she's in a worst shape." Ranma mused. Falling to his knees Ranma thought that relaxing his muscles a bit will allow him to recover but as the seconds ticked by the pain only increased along with increased difficulty in breathing.
"HA HA HA HA." Viluy's the laughter got Ranma's attention. "You fool! The nanites I programmed are stabbing into your body and soon only your heart crystal will remain." The witch laughed again at Ranma's plight. "Now die!!!" screamed Viluy as she prepared one more dose of nanites to finish the job. It was probably the stupidest action Viluy ever performed in her life. It probably had a lot to do with banging her head on the wall earlier or it was just her over confidence in her own technology. Whatever the case Viluy did not notice the crack in her nanite control gauntlet as she fired the final blast. Viluy really should have checked the integrity of such a delicate device before firing, especial after it had been though such a tough battle. As it is, Viluy's attack backfired and her nanites turned on their own creator. Those nanites that were not part of the malfunction were left without an intelligence to direct its actions and ceased functioning while still inside the bodies of Ranma and the outers.
"It's sad really. All that techno stuff and it couldn't even take a good old fashion ass kicking." Ranma smirked but then he seems to realize what is happening to Viluy. Viluy could do nothing but lesson to Ranma as the nanites decomposed her body to nothingness. "I'm sorry." Ranma added just before Viluy's body vanished completely.
Like all action adventures in the spirit of India Jones, the throne room started to crumble just as the villain was defeated. Stone arches and concrete started to fall on the ground as the room shocked violently with the formation of a portal behind the Messiah of Silence. A cloud of falling debris obscured the swirling vortex of darkness as it quickly shucked in the mountain of stuffed animals even as it lifted the Messiah along with her throne into the air. When the cloud cleared enough for Ranma to see through, Hotaru was already disappearing into the vertex. Not wasting another opportunity to rescue Hotaru from the clutches of the Death Buster, Ranma tried to enter the vortex before it closes. Running toward the closing vortex at the top speed that his tired and abused muscles would allow Ranma used all his remaining energy to make one critical jump for the vortex.
Alas, our story would have had a completely different ending if he had made it. In one possible scenario would be that Ranma was killed on the other side of the portal as he was still too weak from the Magic Buster. In another scenario, the Death Buster would have been unprepared for Ranma's arrive though the vortex allowing Ranma to rescue Hotaru. In any case, these talks of what it would have been are irrelevant seeing as to the fact that Ranma fall face first on to the ground only foots away from the portal. With the last of his energy spend Ranma could only watch as the portal closed before him.
T.B.C.
Author's note: it has been brought to my attention that unisex and sissy could not exist in the same insult but I think it could, and here is why. If think of muscularity and femininity as two opposite extremes then unisex would be between the two extremes. Now according to definition "sissy" is some a man who acts or looks like a woman, this is an obvious reference to Haruka's crossdressing. The insult is not that Haruka is unisexed but rather it is an assault on her femininity and sexual orientation, for a sissy is still a man. Thanks to my pre-reader Saotome Genma Saotome_Genma@hotmail.com
P.S. I'm no longer looking for pre-readers, one is enough in my opinion. But if I were to increase the number I currently have I already have someone in mind. If my need should expand beyond 2 pre-readers I would make another announcement.
Chapter 1(Part 1 of 2) (revised)
History:
Original Draft on Monday, August 27, 2001(FFML release)
Revised Draft on Tuesday, August 28, 2001(no release)
Revised Draft on Friday, September 5, 2001 (Ranchan Total Cross Out release)
A Ranma 1/2 , Sailor Moon Super and others Crossover
By Oberon
Ffml_use@hotmail.com
"LAGUNA BLADE!" with the final phase a blade of black energy appears between in Ranma's hand as he blacks out.
A few days earlier…
Ranma in the guise of Mizuno Ami meditated on the floor of Ami's bedroom. He could have sat there for days, or hours or minutes but he could not really tell. Usagi's voice had come though Mercury's communicator some time ago but he ignored it. After that her phone had not stop ringing ever since. "Doesn't that girl ever give up." thought Ranma. Refusing to be distracted by the annoying attempts to gain his attention, Ranma refocus his efforts on the task. What he needed was somewhere in the mind of Sailor Mercury, all that was required was to know where to look.
Ever since that day Ranma had realized a great deal of knowledge was sealed away in Mercury's mind, even to Mercury herself. In that brief and critical moment when he fought with the Von, the mental barrier that kept the truth from Mercury had weakened to allow Ranma a brief peep. The truth that Ranma saw was knowledge too dangerous even for his liking. Sure learning the Chestnut Fist was dangerous; he could have easily caused permanent damage his hands. Certain the Amazons considered the Chestnut Fist dangerous; why else would they keep it such a closely guarded secret? Then there was the Mouko Takabisha, an attack that uses the user's own life force as a weapon. When forcefully flaring one's own life force then concentrating it into a small area, one little mistake and his heart will explode.
However, all this, the Chestnut fist and the Mouko Takabisha is nothing compared to the power of the Laguna Blade and the consequences that comes with it in a miscast. As Ranma had learned earlier a miscast not only mean the death of its cast but also damnation for the rest of humanity. The last time that he used this spell the world was only saved from eternal nightmares due to the compassion of Sailor Moon and the power of the Mystical Silver Crystal, and for that Ranma was eternally grateful to the girl. It was stupid of him really, to attempt to cast a spell with no knowledge of its purpose or requirements that it will place on his body. On the bright side, the enemy was defeated and Ranma found something that could potentially be the answer he had be searching for so long.
That is what Ranma is doing now. Meditating and putting the memory techniques Genma taught him, no matter how unintentional it was, into good use. However, searching in the mind of a being that had been dead for thousands of years was not what those techniques was designed for. To say that Genma was an incompetent sensei was not that far the truth, his teachings of instant recall during battles had served Ranma well in the past but this time it is failing him utterly. To think, in order to learn this technique he had sit in a room full of those people who called themselves "Trekies" talk on and on about something call Star Trek just so he could learn how to recall trivial details. Giving those hard-earned techniques one more shot, Ranma tried once again to break into the library inside his head to no avail. Every time he was able to hold on to a tiny morsel of knowledge it just slips away leaving him to wonder what is it that he thought he found. With the final failure Ranma realized that their must be something actively keeping him away from what he wanted to find. "Maybe one of those damn cats knows something about it. I heard Usagi said they could do something call the Lunar Mind Meld." Ranma thought as he pulled himself out of the meditative trance.
Returning to a somewhat more normal state of consciousness Ranma finally notices that the phone is ringing off the hook. Standing up Ranma gave his muscles a stretch then reached for the phone on Ami's desk. "Mizuno residence." Ranma announced. "Oh hello Usagi… You want me do you a favor?" Ranma paused giving the girl's request some thought. "Sure as long as I don't have to transform again… Alright I'll be there in five… No really I'll be there in five minutes." Ranma hanged up the phone then left the house after putting on something worm.
Mugen Academy…
"Wow! So many students are here even though it's cold and snowy. They must by study-aholics." commented Usagi on the organized mob of students outside Mugen Academy.
"They're totally different from you." Mars teased their sleep-aholic leader.
"Don't remind me." shouted Usagi in response to her friend's jab at Usagi's own ineptitudes.
"Sure ya want to go in with me? It'll be a lot easier for me to go in alone since none of us have a pass." Ranma asked trying one last time to dissuade the others.
"Hmm." nodded the others in unison.
Turning around Ranma looked toward the building that the others think is the headquarters of the Death Busters.
Inside Mugen Academy…
In a crowd of hundreds, five students from Juuban try to blend in but they were doing a terrible job. For all their efforts, it was quite easy to tell them apart from everyone else. The most obvious thing that set them apart was that fact that everyone else was in cram sessions mode while the five was chatting. Their strange behavior when compared to the other students was probably what drew Viluy Yuri to the small group. At first Viluy was curious as to why those students could be so casual on the eve of the hardest exam in their life. Viluy, like every other members of the Witches 5, was also very competitive and jealous of other people's abilities. How could those students act so casually while mere moments from what will be literally the last test of their lives? They must know something that she is ignorant of, thought Viluy. Parting the thong of students the way an intercontinental ballistic missile parts the clouds, Viluy Yuri homed in on the small group.
Approaching the small group, the crowd parted to reveal the back of a short blue haired girl. There was only one person that would fit the girl's description and Viluy was certainly surprised to see her here. Especially when Viluy hacked into the pre-high school exam registry specifically looking for her and found that she had not applied. Immediately suspicion rose in Viluy over the girl's sudden appearance at Mugen. Viluy knew, as a matter of fact that the dictatorial clerk at the exam registration office would not make exceptions for anyone. There was simply no way that Mizuno Ami can take this exam after the deadline for registration had passed. Seeing it as her duty as a Death Buster, Viluy approached Ami intending to find out why she is here.
"Are you Mizuno Ami?" asked Viluy to the back of the blue haired girl. The girl did not respond. "Are you Mizuno Ami?" Viluy asked again. This time the girl did turn around to face her but only after some signals from her friends.
"Oh, were you talking to me?" the girl responded completely without tact.
At this point, Viluy was pissed. "How dare this girl walk in here and ignore me. Who does she think she is?" thought Viluy but did not let any of it show. Putting on a false smile Viluy continued. "My name is Viluy Yuri and I was just wondering are you Mizuno Ami, the girl that always takes top marks in the nation wide exams?" Viluy asked without any of the malice in her thoughts.
"Sorry for ignoring you Viluy-san but I was just… distracted… yea that's it distracted." Ranma lied. He was not distracted, he just had not gotten used to having someone unexpectedly call her Ami. Sure, over the last few months he had learned to respond when teachers and parents call him Mizuno Ami but when it came to some stranger calling him by that name in a public area it always catches him off guard. Worse than that, whenever this happens he had to come up with some excuse for ignoring that person and we all know that Ranma is not the best of politicians.
"You must be Mizuno Ami." Viluy continues her act. "I have wanted to meet for so long."
"Why's that Viluy-san." Ranma asked.
"I have always wanted to meet the person who had the same score as I on the last exam." continuing her cat and mouse game with Ranma.
"Oh! Took top marks!" Usagi butted into the conversation, exclaiming to an event that she thought was impossible for anyone besides Ami.
"Who are you?" Viluy asked out of politeness.
Instantly, Usagi was embarrassed to be in the presence of some one so smart let alone some one who asked her who she was. "I'm not worthy to have my name mentioned." Rubbing her head dumbly, she tries to shrug away from the white haired girl's attention.
"As Ami's friend you must be an intelligent student. What are your best subjects?" she asked Usagi.
"An afternoon nap and lunch break." Usagi replied with her face red with embarrassment.
"You're good at jokes!" said Viluy. "Ami this is good timing. I have something to show you. Come with me." Before anyone could object, Viluy had a firm grip on Ami's arm and started to drag her away from her friends. It was the perfect plan, isolate Ami away from her friends and she could easily get her tongue to slip.
Not wanting to blow his cover, Ranma allowed the strange girl to drag him away. Perhaps the others can search the building without him.
Viluy had brought Ranma to the basement of Mugen Academy, which also served as a laboratory for the science club. In the dark and ominous basement, Viluy brought Ranma in front of a domed shaped device that generated a mist which covering the table it was situated upon. "What is this?" Ranma inspected the device with curiosity.
"It's a mini sized universe, which the science club created. It's it beautiful?" replies Viluy with amusement.
"Oh" said Ranma suddenly loosing interest in the device. He never did have a head for scientific stuff let alone listen to an explanation he had no hope of understanding.
"You don't sound euphuistic Ami. I thought you of all people will be interested in experiments of this caliber?"
"It's not that Viluy-san. It's just that I'm really nervous about the exam." Ranma lied badly again. His facial expression gave it away even before the absurdity of his lie.
"No doubt she's trying to snoop around. I'll just have to get rid of her before I take everyone's pure heart crystals." Viluy thought. "Tell me Ami, how much longer are you planning to play dumb?" said Viluy now sure that Ami was one of the Sailor Senshi.
"What are ya talking about?" Ami asked confusedly.
"There's no longer a need for formalities betweens us Ami. Let's show our true colors."
"Wha… What?" Ranma stammered, not knowing what to do or exactly what happened. Is Viluy coming on to him or does she suspect something? Ranma tries to back away from the girl but finds his way block by the table with the mini universe.
"Come on Ami I know you're a Sailor Senshi, your act to cover it up is pathetic really." Closing in on the kill Viluy intended to force Ami into transforming. "Go on Ami transform." she paused "And take your medicine." Viluy snared as she shed away her school uniform to reveal the attire of a Death Buster. Before Ranma could recover, Viluy extended her hands toward Ami and started her attack. "Magic Buster" she shouted while sending a blast of electricity toward Ranma. To her amazement, the other girl was able to jump over the attack at point blank range, avoiding it all together by leaping into the air. Even though Viluy had not expected the other girl to be able to avoid her attack, Viluy was nevertheless able to angle her attack he intercept her target. Thinking that she had hit her target for sure Viluy did not even react when she heard the shout "Meteoroid Kic…" just before she was knock unconscious.
T.B.C.
Author's note: Here's the first part of chapter one. Part 2 should be along shortly. I bet you never thought you'll ever read another chapter of this story again with not so soon. By need for pre-readers still exists so if anyone's interested… By the way you probably noticed that this scenes in this story is written out of sequence. Just wanted to try something new. Let it be known that I do have an original bone in my body. As always C&C is welcome.
Many thanks to my pre-reader Saotome Genma Saotome_Genma@hotmail.com
And Vampire vamp.666@wanadoo.fr
That's Not What Happened
Chapter 1 (part 2 of 2)
By Oberon
Ffml_use@hotmail.com
Ranma watched with embarrassment as Viluy roughly threw away her own school uniform. "Will it ever end?" he shouted silently. Here he is, stuck in a girl's body, and girls are still throwing themselves at him. "Can it get any more perverted?" he wondered. Trying not to look at the girl, who he had no doubt was naked, Ranma danger sense suddenly flared. Though years of "Ranma prepare to die." Ranma reacted with trained instincts. Making an impossibly high jump into the air, he was actually relieved to see that the girl, Viluy, was not naked but rather in an outfit as ridiculous as Mimet's. Ranma did not have to be a rocket scientist to figure out that the girl is part of the Witches 5, the energy blast she was trying to hit him with was a dead give away.
The witch appeared to be surprised but that did not stop her from trying to change the trajectory of her blast to intercept Ranma. Angling her arms upward, Viluy's Magic Buster missed Ranma by mere inches. "Wow! That was close!" thought Ranma. If Viluy had angled her attack a little steeper, he would have been deep-fried. "But it's too late for you!" he grinded, realizing he would be in range for a counter strike before Viluy could fire off another Magic Buster. "Meteoroid Kick" Ranma announced aloud his attack. In one swift blow to Viluy's head, Ranma send his opponent flying toward the wall. With a loud thud that corresponded to Viluy's head smacking into the wall, Viluy was at least temporary sent to lala land. "And to think, not so long ago I would had trouble hitting girls. Oh well, at least we know for sure this is the nest of the Death Busters." Moving around the ruined laboratory Ranma decided to ignore the bell that signified the beginning of the exams and opted for a detailed search of the basement.
Viluy awoke some time later with a blinding headache. It was the not the kind of headache that was associated with a hang over, not that she would know what that felt like. It was certainly not half as pleasurable. No, it was the kind of headache if her head collided with a solid conceit wall and the wall cracked into a spider web. Now that Viluy saw the state of the wall, she realized it was exactly that kind of headache. Picking herself off the floor Viluy stood up weakly trying to regain her balance while her eyes could barely focus. "I get you for this you little twit. I tried to be nice but now you're gonna get it." Viluy vowed to herself while shaking her fist at the concrete above her. "Ouch" suddenly overwhelmed by the dizziness. "As soon as I get some Aspirin and an ice pack."
"The waves are becoming restless and the ocean is getting wild." Michiru spoke cryptically while unconsciously mimicking Setsuna's usual senseless drivel. That is saying a lot considering Setsuna's usual drivel gives more glimpses into the future than the predictions of the best psychics on their best days. However, unlike Setsuna's rambling there was at least one person, besides the speaker, who understands what is being said.
"Michiru, you feel it too?" Haruka confirmed her lover's feelings on the state of the world.
"Yes. Something strange and unexpected is coming."
"There's a ghostly and horrifying energy circumventing in the building…" Haruka suddenly whirled around feeling strange in the air. "…I've felt it a long time. I'll find out what's in here this time." Haruka vowed to discover why she and Michiru were drawn to this school in the first place.
"Do you want to go down stairs?"
"Yes. We need to face whatever is there…"
Deeper and deeper the two outers went and deeper and deeper into the heart of the Death Buster. Finally, with no more stairs to descend and no more hallways to run through, the duo came to a door. It was not the inviting kind of door with the words "This way to unimaginable earthly pleasures" written in big neon letters. No, this is the kind of door that is titanium reinforced and requires a digital ID card to open. So, why were two students with student IDs able to open this so-called secure door with a swipe of their identity cards?
With a gentle push on both sides of the double doors from each senshi, the door opened to reveal a pitch-black room. Inside the room was an atmosphere that obscured the floor with a yellow acidic looking mist. Walking deeper into the throne room of Mistress 9, the two outer sailors saw the master of the Death Busters herself. Atop a short flight of stairs sat Mistress 9. On her throne and with a small contingent of stuffed animals behind her, little Hotaru looked every bit like child ruler in a bad mood. With a gasp, the outers realized who the little girl was.
"Messiah of Silence!" Michiru exclaimed.
"The ultimate root of evil! We'll get her this time!" Haruka shouted in declaring their intensions.
Hotaru's face was hidden in the shadows while the shadows themselves danced around her. With a teddy bear in her arms, Hotaru did nothing to distort the outers' perception of her character. Realizing this was there best opportunity to correct the mistake they made earlier in letting Hotaru escape, the outers charged into action.
"Stop!" the outers heard someone familiar yelled from behind them.
Turning around, Haruka and Michiru confronted the person that had interrupted their mission. Standing proudly before the two outers was one of their most hated individual. Ranma Saotome presently in place of Mizuno Ami was not the favorite of the outers for a very simple reason. It was Ranma's direct interference with the outers attack on Sailor Saturn that allowing the Messiah of Silence to escape, this alone was a sign of evil in the eyes of the outers. As anyone in their position would understand, stopping Haruka and Michiru's attack on Hotaru again only further support the misconception that Ranma has allied himself with the forces of evil.
"Touch one strand of hair on her head and I'll hunt ya to the ends of the earth." Ranma promised the two outer senshis. It was probably not in Ranma's best interest to have said that, but he said it anyway without thinking first. Proving once again that Ranma's condition of sticking his foot in his mouth is quiet permanent. Ranma's little threat also proved to the outers that without a doubt he is working with the Death Busters.
"You fool! She will destroy you when she brings about the Silence." said Haruka emotionally.
"Ya can't be sure of that." Ranma countered. "She's just an innocent girl who is being used by the Death Busters. So what if she is Sailor Saturn, the soldier of destruction and all that, she's still a little girl. Even the soldier of destruction can choose her own path. There's no way that she would destroy the world for no good reason." showing every bit as much emotion as Haruka.
"Stop trying to confuse us with your lies! We could see right through you!" shouted back a belligerent Haruka who was itching to teach the arrogant baster a lesson. And if he should some how get hurt in the fight then so be it, it will just mean a few weeks in the hospital for Ami once they get rid of Ranma. Having exhausted all words of piece and persuasion in their last meeting, what it has comes down to is a confrontation between two martial artists.
"Who ya calling a liar ya unisex sissy!" Ranma replied in anger.
"Come on you body stealing parasite, let's settle this right here, right now." Haruka challenged the Martial Artist.
Giving the tall girl a confidant smirk Ranma moved into his usual fighting stance. "Come and get some."
"Any time bitch." Haruka readied herself in a kenpo stance.
Seeing this might endanger the success of their mission Michiru tried to stop the fight between Haruka and Ranma. Putting a hand on the shoulder of her lover, Michiru reminded her life mate why they where here. Through some unspoken link that only exists between two people in love, Haruka knew what her partner was trying to convey to her. Shifting her gaze to her beloved, Haruka gave Michiru a small nod to signify that she understands and is ready. Without saying a word, the two lovers sudden turned around and started to make a run for the Bringer of Silence.
"Cowards." Ranma swore to himself as he saw what the two were doing. Jumping from his position, Ranma leaped over the older girls and landed between them and Hotaru. Turning around Ranma returned to his stance intending to deter the two from reaching and killing the little girl Hotaru. "Stay right there!" he tried to command the outer senshis with an unspoken threat.
"Found you at last!" said a fourth voice from the doorway, instantly sky rocking the tension in the room. Viluy appeared in the room. After waking up from the beating she received from Ranma, Viluy had spend almost half an hour searching for the aspirin and ice pack while trying to hunt down the person how had beaten her. The nurse's office turned out to be a bust as the nurse herself was out to lunch and had locked away the supplies. Busting down the supplied cabinets got her as far as the ice pack but she had accidentally melted the plastic wrappers around aspirin. Pissed and in extreme pain Viluy decided to find then make the Mizuno girl die slowly and painfully. When professor Tomoe confronted her on why she had not began her mast crystal harvest she actually told him to fuck off. He was certainly pissed at her insubordination but she was even more pissed at Ami. So after flipper the professor, Viluy continued her search for Ami while cursing her name every other step. Now that Viluy had found her in the basement, she did not even care that her boss was in the room or about the two other Mugen students and just starting blasting. "Magic Blaster." Viluy shouted in one swift as motion she threw away the ice pack that comforted her bruised face then extended her hand toward Ami. Unfortunately, in her raged mindset, Viluy failed to realize that Haruka and Michiru were in the way of the blast.
Equally unfortunately were Haruka and Michiru who had done nothing to provoke Viluy but was blasted never the less. Falling on the ground, there bodies twitching from Viluy's Magic Buster, the two outers received no sympathy from Ranma as he prepared to face Viluy.
"Die!!!" Viluy shot widely at Ranma. This time the distance between them actually worked to her advantage as her rapid berserk shots kept Ranma at the defensive.
"Shit." Ranma swore while narrowly dodging another shot from the insane and probably brain damaged witch.
"Stop dodging!" Viluy fired another round.
"If only I could get close enough. Arrr!!!" Ranma screamed, the latest volley actually managed to glance his leg while he was dodging in med air. Landing on the ground while still twitching from the electrical attack Ranma saw that Viluy was already preparing another attack, and this time he would not be able to avoid it. "Mouko Takabisha" Ranma threw his ki blast at Viluy hoping it would distract her long enough to recover.
As Ranma fired off his ki blast Viluy also fired her Magic Buster. The electrical attack and ki ball collided closer to Viluy than to Ranma. The concussion force resulted from the explosion defected the trajectory of the Magic Buster into the wall and knocked Viluy off her feet. Taking the opportunity, Ranma charged the berserker attempting to subdue her before she has the opportunity to retaliate. With every ounce of his ki he could muster Ranma pushed his burning muscles into overdrive hoping that it will be enough.
Viluy was thrown off the ground but it did not take her long to recover. In less then 1.5 seconds after being knocked down Viluy was getting ready to attack again. Just like last time Viluy was not fast enough. Just as she was about to fire, Ranma was already upon her. "Kachu Tenshin Amagouriken." Viluy heard her opponent shout just before her opponents arms disappeared and Viluy felt herself pummeled by unseen forces. In Viluy's insane state of mind, she was able to ignore completely the pain from the blows. If not for the concussion force of the blows and the short distance between her and Ranma, Viluy would have fired. That soon became impossible when one of the blows knock her arms out of firing position. With the last blow, Viluy was once again flying though the air.
Ranma was in terrible pain. After executing the Chestnut Fist his arms felt like unresponsive dead weights. Unresponsive, but it did not mean he did not feel the protests of his over exerted muscles. The rest of his body was not very happy either, his leg feels like it would barely support him and he felt like he would asphyxiate at any moment. "It least she's in a worst shape." Ranma mused. Falling to his knees Ranma thought that relaxing his muscles a bit will allow him to recover but as the seconds ticked by the pain only increased along with increased difficulty in breathing.
"HA HA HA HA." Viluy's the laughter got Ranma's attention. "You fool! The nanites I programmed are stabbing into your body and soon only your heart crystal will remain." The witch laughed again at Ranma's plight. "Now die!!!" screamed Viluy as she prepared one more dose of nanites to finish the job. It was probably the stupidest action Viluy ever performed in her life. It probably had a lot to do with banging her head on the wall earlier or it was just her over confidence in her own technology. Whatever the case Viluy did not notice the crack in her nanite control gauntlet as she fired the final blast. Viluy really should have checked the integrity of such a delicate device before firing, especial after it had been though such a tough battle. As it is, Viluy's attack backfired and her nanites turned on their own creator. Those nanites that were not part of the malfunction were left without an intelligence to direct its actions and ceased functioning while still inside the bodies of Ranma and the outers.
"It's sad really. All that techno stuff and it couldn't even take a good old fashion ass kicking." Ranma smirked but then he seems to realize what is happening to Viluy. Viluy could do nothing but lesson to Ranma as the nanites decomposed her body to nothingness. "I'm sorry." Ranma added just before Viluy's body vanished completely.
Like all action adventures in the spirit of India Jones, the throne room started to crumble just as the villain was defeated. Stone arches and concrete started to fall on the ground as the room shocked violently with the formation of a portal behind the Messiah of Silence. A cloud of falling debris obscured the swirling vortex of darkness as it quickly shucked in the mountain of stuffed animals even as it lifted the Messiah along with her throne into the air. When the cloud cleared enough for Ranma to see through, Hotaru was already disappearing into the vertex. Not wasting another opportunity to rescue Hotaru from the clutches of the Death Buster, Ranma tried to enter the vortex before it closes. Running toward the closing vortex at the top speed that his tired and abused muscles would allow Ranma used all his remaining energy to make one critical jump for the vortex.
Alas, our story would have had a completely different ending if he had made it. In one possible scenario would be that Ranma was killed on the other side of the portal as he was still too weak from the Magic Buster. In another scenario, the Death Buster would have been unprepared for Ranma's arrive though the vortex allowing Ranma to rescue Hotaru. In any case, these talks of what it would have been are irrelevant seeing as to the fact that Ranma fall face first on to the ground only foots away from the portal. With the last of his energy spend Ranma could only watch as the portal closed before him.
T.B.C.
Author's note: it has been brought to my attention that unisex and sissy could not exist in the same insult but I think it could, and here is why. If think of muscularity and femininity as two opposite extremes then unisex would be between the two extremes. Now according to definition "sissy" is some a man who acts or looks like a woman, this is an obvious reference to Haruka's crossdressing. The insult is not that Haruka is unisexed but rather it is an assault on her femininity and sexual orientation, for a sissy is still a man. Thanks to my pre-reader Saotome Genma Saotome_Genma@hotmail.com
P.S. I'm no longer looking for pre-readers, one is enough in my opinion. But if I were to increase the number I currently have I already have someone in mind. If my need should expand beyond 2 pre-readers I would make another announcement.