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.

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

From now on, whenever "Terence" is mentioned, it refers to his mind in Ranma's body, and vice versa.

Part 3

"Swapped"

The two boys jumped to their feet and pointed at each other in perfect unison. "What the hell did you do to me?!" They each gritted their teeth as nerves stuck out on their foreheads. "STOP DOING THAT!" They both shut up at that point, still freaked out as all hell and pissed off as twice all hell. Ranma stomped over and grabbed Terence by the collar, shaking him furiously.

"Fix this NOW!"

Terence swatted Ranma's arms away and smacked him in the back of the head. "And how would you like me to do that, moron? I don't have a better idea of how this happened than you do! You think I wanted to be stuck in this scrawny body? It probably can't take a hit half as well as mine!"

Ranma shoved his hand upwards into Terence's jaw. "Watch your mouth punk, I feel like I'm being weighed down with sandbags. You're way too slow."

"Bite me Saotome." Terence flipped him off and started to walk away. Strangely though, he started skipping.

Ranma raised an eyebrow and called after him. "What are doing? You trying to make me look stupid?"

"Like you need the help." Terence looked down at his feet and then looked back at Ranma. "Like I said, this body's a lot lighter than mine. I'm just trying to walk normal, and this happens." He scowled.

Ranma was also bearing an expression like death warmed over. He walked over to Terence and reached into his shirt.

"Watch your hands, ya fruitcake!!"

"Shut up stupid." Ranma pulled out two flasks, and splashed their contents onto himself and Terence before he could react.

Terence-chan sputtered and crushed one of the flasks against Ranma-chan's head. "What the HELL did you do that for? Wasn't I enough of a feather-weight already?!"

Ranma-chan rubbed the side of her new head. "I don't want anyone seeing me walk like that; and news flash, if you ever intend to get your body back, lay off."

Terence-chan nodded a grim consent. "We'll finish our fight as soon as this is fixed."

Ranma-chan smiled smugly as she narrowed her eyes. "Wouldn't have it any other way." She looked Terence-chan up and down, then shuddered. "It's too creepy looking at my body from the outside."

"Tell me about it." Terence-chan looked at the roofs of the nearby houses. "Hmmm…" She jumped up to one of the rooftops, almost slipping off in the process. She mentally screamed at herself, 'I can do this.' She glanced back at Ranma-chan, "You coming or not? I'm taking this thing for a test drive." She set off in the direction of the dojo.

Ranma-chan rubbed her forehead as her eye twitched. She drove her fist into a wall, putting a five-foot wide hole through it. She stared at the opening, then at her fist. "If his girl form can do this…" A smile crept across Ranma-chan's face. "This might be useful." She laughed to herself, thinking of how Terence-chan had referred to the switch as a 'test drive.' "Well, next time I see Ryoga, I think my test drive will be a demolition derby." She laughed to herself as she left the lot and attempted to jump onto a fence to head home. Unfortunately, she hadn't adjusted to the increase in weight just yet, and fell over the fence and into the water. She came back to the surface, sputtering. "How'd he adjust so quick? Why can't I?" A tiny voice in Ranma's brain suggested that Terence might have some more skill, but that part was squished by his ego. "This is going to be a long day…"

***

Genma Saotome was at an extreme state of unease. Something was most definitely wrong. He didn't know what it was exactly, but something inside of him was telling him that something, most likely not good, had happened to Ranma. Genma was far from being the freak father figure that Soun had been since his wife's death, but he did truly care about his son. If Ranma and Terence's fight had gone over the limit, the boys could very well have ripped each other apart. Terry had mentioned in his letter that Terence was the only person he'd ever found who could rival Ranma's potential, so Genma had no difficulty believing that the two boys were capable of a confrontation that would eliminate both sides, permanently. The sound of the front door sliding open sent Genma bolting towards it. He saw his son in female form there, looking fit to kill. "RANMA! You're safe!" Genma immediately grabbed her in a bear hug.

Terence-chan tried counting backwards from ten and taking deep breaths. Didn't work. "GET OFF ME YOU FREAK!!" She broke out of Genma's hold and attempted to deliver a Crackshot, but ended up falling to the floor. "Aww man, this is really embarrassing."

"Well what do you expect boy? You've only seen that technique used a few times before, and I've never seen you practice it, did you really expect to be able to pull it off?"

"I'M NOT YOUR 'BOY' YOU OLD FART!" Terence-chan screamed at the top of her lungs. "I'M TERENCE!" She crossed her arms in front of her chest and glared at him with a look that could fry eggs, peel paint, or even possibly give someone a nice tan. "Our attacks combined somehow and now I'm in his body and he's in mine. Don't ask how it happened, cause if we knew, we'd have fixed it already."

"Oh please Ranma, do you really expect me to believe that? Where is Terence by the way?"

"RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU, YOU DAMNED OLD FOOL! YOU THINK I'D MAKE THIS UP?!!"

Tensing to run if necessary, Genma stared into Terence-chan's eyes. They weren't Ranma-chan's by any means. This was not his son, in any form. "Unbelievable…"

Terence-chan snorted. "Yeah, well… believe it." She stomped towards the kitchen. "I'm going to get a kettle." She turned back to Genma. "When Ranma gets back, tell him I'm training so I can get used to being such a lightweight, and that I suggest he practice in my body as well. I don't want it to get out of shape." She walked off.

***

One hour later

Terence jumped into the sky as Ranma hurled a cinder block at him. He executed a spin kick in mid-air, deftly sending it back at Ranma, in two pieces. Ranma shoved his head forward and smashed each piece with his forehead. Akane was sitting nearby, watching with her eyes wide, still shocked by the most recent turn of events. "I just don't believe it."

"Don't believe what, Akane?" Soun turned his head to his daughter. "That Ranma is trapped in Terence's body, and vice versa, or that they're both adapting so well this quickly?"

"Both, otousan. This is probably the weirdest thing that's happened to Ranma yet."

"Really, I'd think the issue of body-swapping would faze you less than most."

Akane's eye twitched, recalling the incident with the cursed doll. She sighed, "At least it's summer vacation. Having to figure out an excuse for Ranma acting like someone else, or being out of school for a while would be another problem to deal w--"

"Incoming!" Akane looked up to see a stray cinder block headed straight for her. Ranma jumped in front of her and caught the block in his gut. He coughed, but seemed otherwise fine.

"Ranma, daijobu?" Akane stood up.

Ranma scratched his stomach. "I'm fine." He glared at Terence, who was standing on the stone lantern by the koi pond. "Yo! Gaijin! You could' a hurt someone!"

Terence gritted his teeth and forced an uneasy smile. "Heheh, gomen nasai. My foot slipped."

"If you weren't using my body, you'd be missing some teeth for that 'slip.'"

Terence raised an eyebrow, and glanced between Ranma and Akane. He thought to himself, 'So, Terry was right about those two.' Fortunately for him, Ranma and Akane missed his glance.

Kasumi stepped outside. "Oh Terence, there's a phone call for you."

He moved towards the house. "Thanks Kasumi-san."

***

"Hello?"

"Oh, hi Ranma, is Terence there?" It was Terry.

"Sensei! Umm, this IS Terence." Terence gulped; sure he was going to get chewed out for this.

A snort was heard from the other end. "Come on Ranma, quit fooling around. It's nice to hear from you and all, but I need to talk to Terence."

'Here we go,' Terence thought to himself. "Okay sensei, it's kind of a complicated story so I might as well get started…"