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…"
