Colliding Forces

Colliding Forces

A Ranma 1/2/Fatal Fury Crossover (kinda)

By Underlord Backlash

Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma 1/2 or Fatal Fury, or any of the characters thereof. So there.

Note: This can be considered a sequel to Jullian Soullard's "A Wolf in Nerima" series.

Part 2

"Awww, It's On Now!"

Ranma-chan and Terence-chan returned from their fight later that night. They almost got into another fight over who'd get the bathroom first, but Kasumi offered it to Terence-chan, since she was a guest. As angry as Ranma-chan was, and as much as Terence-chan hated getting special treatment, neither of them really had the stomach to argue with Kasumi. (Author's note: What kind of asshole actually could argue with Kasumi?)

Terence-chan stripped down, washed, and then settled into the tub for a good soak. Within moments, he was back to normal. However, he was still pissed as Hell. No one except Terry or Andy, or maybe Joe had ever given him a fight like that. And how in God's name did she move so fast? It was inhuman. Terence had trained under Terry for months before setting out to learn Anything-Goes, and even Terry had never been that fast. In a move typical for Terence, before heading to Nerima, he had gone to train at the training ground that had bested the school's prize pupil. Everything had gone fine until it turned out that the pole had been chewed on by something a while ago. (Terence's Chinese wasn't perfect, but he had distinctly heard 'panda' at some point from the guide.) Terence sunk underwater and sulked some more.

Ranma-chan headed to the training area of the dojo to smash a few cinder blocks to blow off some accumulated stress. This proved to be a mistake, since her hands were still throbbing from her fight with Terence-chan. Whatever kind of endurance training Terence had gone through, to Ranma-chan it had felt like she was pounding on steel. Ranma-chan promised herself that before a week was up, she'd send Terence to Dr. Tofu's. Preferably crying like a baby. When Terence poked his head in and jerked it in the direction of the bathroom, Ranma-chan replied by hurling one of the cinderblocks in his direction. Terence put up a hand in front of it and stopped it cold with one finger, without breaking it. It fell to the floor and shattered.

As Terence headed upstairs to bed, he consoled himself with the thought that he was getting to Ranma as much as Ranma was getting to him. Why in God's name had Terry suggested he train there?

***

(Two months ago, somewhere in the USA)

"TJ! Come down here for a minute, I need to talk to you!"

"Sure thing Terry!" Terence jumped off the top of the crane he'd been balancing on, and after a midair spin, landed in front of his teacher. "What's up?"

Terry Bogard sighed. "Your time with me. Sit down for a while." He gestured to a large crate. The two of them sat down and Terry looked solemnly at his prize pupil. "I've been thinking about this for a while, and after talking to Andy and Joe, I've made a decision. I can't train you anymore."

"WHAT?!" Terence jumped off the crate, then got on his knees in front of Terry. "Sensei, if I've upset you somehow, I'm sorry; but please don't give up on me!"

Terry shook his head. "It's not that. You've reached the limit of what you can learn from me. You can get stronger, but your skill's only going to increase if you learn from someone else…and I think I know just the person."

"Who? Master Jubei? Andy? Joe? Mai?" Terence's mind raced to all the others he had met while training under his sensei. "Uhh, Kim? Billy? Kyo?"

"None of them. It's not anyone you've met before. It's someone your age though." Terry leaned back and stared at the sky. "Where I'm asking you to go to train… is a really weird place. More chaotic than anywhere you can imagine. It's the Nerima district in Tokyo."

"What's so great about that place?"

"Just about everyone in the area is some kind of martial artist or another. In fact, it's probably the highest concentration of ki you're going to find anywhere on the planet."

Terence wasn't sure he bought this entirely, but he had too much respect for Terry to cut him off now.

"Anyway, I'll send some friends of mine a letter of recommendation to let them know you're coming. They'll train you, no question. But it's the guy who'll probably end up as your training partner that you should be ready for. His name's Ranma Saotome, of the Anything-Goes School of Martial Arts. It's one of the strongest schools of fighting I've seen, and I'm including the Hakyokouseyken and House of Stroheimm schools in that statement. Ranma's come within a hair of beating me before, and I'd really like you to train with him before I have my rematch with him."

Terence whistled. That was saying a lot. Terry and Krauser's schools were traceable back to one of the greatest warriors of all time. More than that, Terry had torn apart a manifestation of the God of War itself, and this Ranma had almost beaten him? "What kind of training has he gone through?" Terence had to experience it for himself.

Terry mentally breathed a sigh of relief. Terence was going to go there. Hopefully he and Ranma would both learn some stuff from each other. If everything went right, both of their egos would be deflated a notch or two, Terence might finally let go of his anger over what happened to his parents, and Ranma might possibly learn to understand the different reasons people fight. Terry looked fondly on his first, and probably last pupil. He had more potential than Terry knew how to handle. More power than Terence himself could imagine. And Terry couldn't think of a better place than Nerima to bring that skill and strength to the surface. He began to tell Terence about Ranma's training journey, as well as some of his more powerful opponents.

Unfortunately for Terence, his sensei left out the part about the curses, thinking he wouldn't believe it.

***

(The day after the fight…)

"You realize I hate you…" Ranma snorted at Terence.

"I wouldn't have it any other way, loser." Terence flipped his head upwards.

Soun and Genma sighed. They hadn't expected Ranma and Terence to stay civil to each other for long, but this was ridiculous. Ranma and Ryoga weren't even usually this hostile. This was more on level with Ukyou and Shampoo at their worst. The two adults were still surprised that the fight last night hadn't degenerated into an all out brawl. And it certainly wouldn't surprise them if one broke out in the next couple minutes. If it weren't for their plans based on what Terry had said about his pupil's potential, they wouldn't have put up with this. A slight breeze prompted them to turn around, to see the boys had disappeared.

***

The boys stood across from each other in a vacant lot. (Nerima seems to have an abundance of these.) They'd already set the terms of their fight. No killing attacks. They'd fight until one of them was knocked out or gave up. No leaving the lot. The winner would get three "wishes" from the loser. (Loser would have to grant any three requests of the winner. No embarrassing stuff allowed.) The two were circling each other, waiting for the other to make the first move. Neither of them suspected that their fight was being observed by Sasuke, who had been dispatched by Kunou when he heard a newcomer to Nerima was staying with the Tendos.

In the blink of an eye, Terence had leaped towards Ranma. Ranma crossed his arms in front of his chest to take it head on, but Terence pulled his arms and legs in, cannonballing into his opponent. Ranma was pushed back, leaving ruts in the ground, before Terence even came down. Ranma capitalized on that by soccer-kicking Terence skyward. Terence untucked and went into a freefall dive. Ranma prepped for Terence's attack by jumping upwards and firing an Amaguriken at Terence's face. Terence took a few hits, but did not relent at all. He grabbed Ranma's outstretched arm and planted his feet against Ranma's shoulder and armpit. Terence then flipped backwards, diving towards the ground and driving Ranma into it, hard. He then twisted Ranma's arm for good measure. It dislocated with a sickening 'pop'. Terence jumped back and assumed a defensive stance. Ranma got to his feet and popped his arm back into place. (If a person dislocates their arm once, it's relatively easy to do it back and forth from then on. Still hurts like hell though.) He winced and wiped away a trickle of blood from his nose. "You'll pay for that."

"Try and collect on it, if you can." Terence brought his feet together and crossed his arms across his chest. His face became strained as his aura flared violently. A red glow surrounded his clenched fists. He cupped them together and a blood red marble-sized sphere of energy pulsed madly between them. He raised his hands above his head and the sphere grew to the size of a beachball. Terence laughed. "Let's barbecue. INFERNO FORCE!!" He swung his arms downward and the sphere flew towards Ranma, leaving a trail of fire on the ground beneath it.

"You think I'm going down that easily?!" Ranma jumped over the fireball and dashed towards Terence. He pulled back his fist to strike. "You left yourself wide open with that one moron!"

"Did I?" Terence pulled his arms back towards his chest and the fireball stopped in midair. In a flash, it hurtled towards Ranma once again.

"What the?" With barely a thought to process the act, Ranma spun his legs into a familiar motion. "HIRYU SHOTEN HA!" His waves of cold ki hit the fireball, wrapping both him and Terence in a vortex. However, instead of the usual cyclone that resulted from the Hiryu Shoten Ha, a column of fire swirled around the two boys, sending them into unimaginable pain. The two of them blacked out, then their limp, smoking forms were hurled out of the pillar of flame. Their bodies lay motionless on the ground.

Sasuke left quickly to inform Kunou of what had happened.

***

Almost an hour later, Ranma and Terence's bodies began to move. They both jumped to their feet. Ranma looked towards Terence. He spit at him. "What the hell did you do moron? I almost got fried!"

Terence jumped to his feet and gave Ranma the finger. "Don't blame me you goddamned gaijin! It was your fireball that created that weird backlash! The Hiryu Shoten Ha's never reacted to an attack that way befo--" Terence froze. His arm shook as he pointed at Ranma. "What am I doing over there?"

Horror washed over Ranma's face. "I was about to ask the same thing…"

The two boys ran their hands over their faces and through their hair. They began to tremble as they realized what had somehow happened. They howled out their anger in unison. "NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!"

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(In case I haven't made it clear enough, Ranma and Terence are now in the other's body.)