Disclaimer: I do not own or pretend to Ranma 1/2 or Power Rangers.
Authors note: this begins before the Ranma series and during the green Ranger saga.
Rita Repulsa, self-proclaimed mistress of evil, was worried. Despite all of her attacks, she just could not seem to be able to find a way to defeat the Power Rangers. She was, even, beginning to believe that there was a traitor among her people. She stood on her balcony brooding about this problem when a metaphorical lightbulb popped on. She had tried many times to destroy the Rangers by creating copies of them, but she had never tried to destroy them by using a real one. Before her defeat at the hands of Zordon's original Rangers she had taken one of the Rangers down. To be exact, she had killed the Green Ranger. She pulled the green power coin from its sub-space pocket pondering the possibilities. First, she had to find a suitable candidate. Someone who was good at martial arts, but not so good to challenge her. Some martial artists could control their Ki and that would hamper her magic. A little known fact is that a being with a lot of life energy and control over it could fight the effects of magic spells.
She decided she would not tell any of her minions about her new plan. If there was a traitor among them, they would not be able to spoil her plan by telling the Rangers. Now fortunately, or unfortunately, her magic telescope was at that moment pointed at the country of Japan. How it got there only the gods know, but it was there nonetheless. So, when Rita went to look for her new Ranger she saw a certain pigtailed martial artist named Ranma Saotome. Now, if Rita had been in a more patient mood she would have seen that Ranma had a lot of unfocused life energy or Ki. But because she had been literally wooped all week by the Power Rangers, she was not in the mood to take another look. So, she did what she does best and knocked Ranma out with a lightning bolt. She then teleported the now unconscious Ranma into her room. None of her minions would dare to enter their mistresses private room and if they did they would find an unpleasant surprise awaiting them. Namely, a bunch of hard to detect magic traps. Now to get to work on the bonding of the power to her perfect specimen.
Ranma woke slowly with a pounding headache. The last thing he remembered was waiting for the lost boy, Ryoga, when out of nowhere a lightning bolt strikes from above. He opened his eyes slowly and saw nothingness. A nothingness unlike any that can be conceived by the human mind. Even in the void of space there is light, but this was unlike any type of void he had ever heard of. Ranma fell a brief twinge of an emotion that he swore was fear, but that couldn't be because Ranma Saotome doesn't know the meaning of fear. With that thought another lightning bolt hit him. He yelled, "who did that? Why'd you do that?"
A voice echoed out of the emptiness, "in this place, you may not lie to yourself. If you do that will happen every time."
"Huh," Ranma replied smartly, "I didn't lie."
The voice said, "every living thing has the emotion fear. If they did not have that emotion, they would not have the will to survive. And I assume you wish to live?"
Ranma blinked and thought this over. He did wish to live and if what the voice said was true then he had a right to feel fear, but his father had always drummed into him that fear was a womanly emotion. Ranma did something he rarely did. He sat down and used that neglected muscle called his brain. ( well if you can say that you can sit in nothingness.) He knew that his father was an idiot, but he never really thought that thought through. As he continued that thought, he came to the realization that maybe not everything was about martial arts like his father had taught him. Then he realized that no lightning bolts had hit him. So, that meant he was on the right track.
A question popped into his head, "uh, voice, who are you?"
"I am you."
"How can that be? I'm me."
"Well, it's kind of complicated. You remember the Nekoken training?" Ranma shivered. "I see you do. Well the Nekoken shattered your original personality."
Ranma, "huh?"
The voice sighed, "what that means is that you are no longer one person. When you learned the Nekoken you locked away part of your mind. The parts that you locked away gained its own life. So, therefore, you are not the same person you would have been if you had not shoved away those parts of your mind."
Ranma stated, "so, you're saying that when I locked those parts of my mind they gained consciousness. What about the Nekoken personality? And what parts did I block?"
"The Nekoken is an outside personality. You were not the only thing that was mauled by the cats. They also killed each other. One of their souls entered you and that is why you can go cat. You blocked away the parts of your personality that is your logic control."
"OK, next question, where are we and how did we get here?"
"We are currently inside of your mind, but I cannot tell you how we got here. I remember the same thing you do."
"Well, this is quite the predicament, huh?" Ranma stopped, blinked, and asked, "did I just use the word predicament?"
"It seems the longer we are in here the more we become complete."
"Um, is that a good thing?"
"In the long run, but right now only for you. See, the more we join the less you will hear from me."
"Oh," was all Ranma could think to say.
At that moment, the Nekoken personality decided to show. It took the form of a gigantic, glowing panther. Now, usually, Ranma would have been out of his mind as soon as a gigantic cat appeared, but for some reason the panther did not evoke the overwhelming fear that cats usually evoked in him. The panther stated, "I know how you got here."
Ranma blinked and started screaming. After about ten minutes, he finally stopped and asked, "OK, how?"
The Panther, "an evil sorceress named Rita Repulsa captured you way she can make you her personal warrior."
If Ranma had not been sitting down he would of plopped down. Instead he put his head in his hands and said, "my life sucks."
The Voice asked, "how do you know all of this?"
The Panther replied, "just because I'm trapped within him doesn't mean I don't know what's going on. Ranma may never pay any attention to TV, but I did."
"You were awake?"
"Yep."
At that time, a light appeared which when the two visible beings looked at it they found they could see the outside world. It was not the all encompassing view that a TV provides, but the limited view of mortal eyesight. Ranma, finally, realized something was going on and asked, "Panther, do you know what's going on?"
Panther, "I have absolutely no idea." Within the vision light appeared a hideously dressed woman who said, "ah, my perfect warrior. How are you feeling?"
A new, but familiar, voice said, "like I have been stuck in a coin for 10,000 years."
"Sorry, my pet, I couldn't find a body that suited you." Not to mention the fact that I was in a prison for the last 10,000 years thought Rita. Unknown to Rita, Ranma and the other two personalities could hear her thoughts.
Ranma asked, "Panther, did we just hear what she was thinking?"
Panther, "yes, you did."
"How is that possible?"
The Voice answered this time, "Ranma, when our personalities were split we lost some of our abilities. Among them was our psychic abilities. If we had remained whole, we would of been one of the most powerful psychics on Earth. Now that we are returning to our original self you're regaining those abilities."
Back at the vision light, Rita was asking, "how did you end up inside of the green power coin, anyway? I know you were expecting it, because of the note you left but it didn't tell how, Shadow."
"Well, it all started about a month, earth time, before your arrival. I had gone down to finish the Rangers, once and for all, but it was a trap. They had pretended to be hurt by my monster. I was caught by surprise and defeated easily, but before I could die I sent my soul into the nearest power coin which happened to be the green power coin. Now, tell me whose body am I inhabiting?"
Rita, "oh, I see. Well, the current body you are residing in is named Ranma Saotome. I checked out his past history while I was waiting for you to wake up. Its seems that his father is an idiot not that Ranma is much better. His father has engaged him to at least 10 girls one who Ranma believes is a boy named Ukyo. Also, the boy is a natural warrior. If I didn't already have you I would have kept him to be the Green Ranger."
Ranma and the others have been listening to this whole monologue very carefully trying to discern what was going on. This last part really helped. None of them were too happy about the fact that they were possessed. Ranma, especially, wasn't happy with the fact that his father had engaged him to so many females. He was stunned by the fact that Ukyo was a girl. But most of all Ranma was starting to really get pissed. He was stuck in an unknown place accompanied by two beings that were supposedly part of his personalities and, now, he was possessed by some guy named Shadow. A rage that would have done Akane proud, if she had met Ranma in this story, erupted forth within him. He started glowing red and then a gigantic yell came from him. The red energy flew into the white vision light and Shadow started screaming.
Rita yelled asked, "Shadow, what's happening?!"
Shadow replied, "Ranma is trying to get out and he's really pissed. His rage is incredible and ....!" Before Shadow could finish the sentence, Ranma's body passed out and Shadow found himself within the Void. For the first time, he came face-to-face with Ranma, but Ranma wasn't alone. Panther stood beside him and a new form appeared. The Voice had finally taken shape. It looked like Ranma, but he was wearing a blue Chinese shirt where Ranma wore red.
Shadow looked around and asked, "where are we? Why have you brought me here?"
"We want you out of our body," stated Panther with a growl.
Shadow laughed and snorted, "and how are you going to make me?"
Voice smirked and said, "like this." He then jumped forward and started raining blows upon the darkly caped figure. Ranma and the Panther joined in, but unfortunately they were 100 years short of skill. Shadow avoided everyone of their attacks with ease. What they didn't notice was Shadow leading them into a spiral and even if they had they wouldn't have known why. Shadow finally reached the center of the spiral and shouted, "Hiryu Shoten Ha!" Immediately, a tornado appeared sucking up the three individuals leaving Shadow on what passed for ground in the Void. Sneering at the three individuals, Shadow turned and jumped through the portal he had come through.
