Boy! II
by
imortis

Goku looked at his son then ahead at the young man who was speeding along at a very good clip, not that they couldn't catch up with him. He looked startled seeing them "desided to die with me?" he asked amused. They nodded "not that we'll die." Goku said smirking. He nodded amused "so whats your name? I like to know who I=m going into battle with." he asked smirking. He grinned "this is Gohan my son, I'm Goku. Whats your name?" he asked. The man smirked at him "my names Ranma, that was Akane back there, that soon to be dead meat is Ryouga. Good to know you." he said and darted to the side as a beam of energy flashed down cutting him off "thats the orbital defence platforms firing stun bolts." he shouted at them as they came back together. "How long until we reach a hiding place?" Goku asked. Ranma shook his head "got me, I'm flying blind."

Goku looked at him startled then looked around hard scanning the horizon that was just starting to appear to them "over there!" he shouted pointing to the east. Ranma blinked looking and silently nodded blasting off after the two "hope you got a plan!" he shouted to him as he looked back seeing dark spots on the horizon. "Yes! We stand and fight!" he shouted at him. Ranma looked at him like he was insane "are you nuts?! We can maybe take one at a time but theres got to be at least twenty back there." he shouted back upset. Goku smirked "I want to see what we're up against, if we stand together we will win!" he said confedently.

Ranma stared at him for a moment then burst out laughing "I like you guys!" he cackled bursting to a stop alongside them "theres a chance we won't make it out of this." he said getting himself ready, powering up as much as he could. He looked over at the two and gapped in shock seeing them effortlessly ascend into the powers he worked to attain. He gapped at them for a few moments then cleared his throat "hey, friend." he called looking at Goku. He nodded waiting. He grinned a little "if we make it out of this, will you teach me some things?" Goku blinked then smirked at him "if we make it out of this I'll train you." Ranma nodded pleased standing there looking battle ready "alright then! Lets get this slaughter underway!"

Both saiyjins smirked at that as golden bullets exsploded from the transports and shot at them. The three of them tensed looking grimly ready as the androids came into sight and Ranma bellowed his battle cry slamming into the one that came at him looking gung ho. Both Goku and Gohan darted forward and pounded their targets from the air making their implants exsplode. Ranma looked up from his bloody target and gapped as they took out another pair then another. Ranma looked from them to his new target and shrugged slamming his fist into a cluster of implants and grinned seeing them exsplode sending a reaction to the others making him drop from the sky screaming. Ranma darted after the two warriors and took out one that was attacking Gohan with another. He grunted nodding in thanks taking his out.

Goku stopped as the fighting stopped and looked at Ranma "you people are afraid of those?" he asked. Ranma nodded "we didn't realize the implants would aford a weakness. Come on, lets take that transport sitting there." he grunted flying towards the hovering car and they shrugged doing the same. Gohan and Goku blinked as Ranma set the hover tank on the ground after destroying its auto pilot and hurried out the door "what are you doing?" Goku asked. Ranma looked at him grimly passing one of the unconscious cyborgs in to him "when ever we are able to over come them we take them to the Tinkerer and he helps them become the person they were before they were taken." he said quickly passing a barely covered female missing her left breast and half her face "they're innocent people?" he asked horrified.

Ranma nodded "the computers they place in their heads puts their brains into a state of unconsciousness they won't wake up from until they stop, we have to hurry, we do not want these guys waking up before the Tinkerer gets done with them." They nodded shuttering a little and hurried to help him "won't we be detected?" Goku asked. Ranma shook his hed "its all good. All they see them as will be transport and squad moving to new location until they drop off their maps." he said grinning. He hurried up front and tapped three buttons on the control board and they shot off into the air "here, help me." he grunted turning one of them over and carefully pulled the slowly flashing box off the mans spinal cord and showed them the tines on it "pull them out carefully or you'll sever their spines. These are tracking devices."

Goku and Gohan looked grimly at each other and hesetently started helping him pull the boxes from their backs. After they were finished Ranma ripped one of the padded wall plates down off the wall and started silently stabbing the boxes into the pading. They looked cluelessly at him humming to himself as he strapped a bomb to the top of the pad and smirked opening the door "throw them off out trail." he explained putting it down and grabbed the box on the side of the door and grunted hard wrenching it loose. He smirked showing them the flashing box inside the reinforced housing "signal beacon." They nodded watching him place this at the end of the pad and gently dropped it out the door. He sighed waiting for a moment for them to get far enough away then detonated the bomb shocking them at its force "are you crazy setting that off so close??" Goku exclaimed.

Ranma smirked "if it isn't an exsplosion they will regester and admit could take out the whole squad they wouldn't be fooled by that." He closed the door and went to sit in the pitots seat "won't we be spotted flying without the cover of the storm?" Goku asked. Ranma shook his head "all of their craft are automatically dismissed in the scanning process, they won't realize this is a rogue transport for at least a day."

Gohan and Goku looked confused at Ranma when he stopped the transport hovering a good two hundred yards from a cliff face and jumped out on top "hey! Doc! I got something for you!! Come on man! They'll be waking up real soon!!" he bellowed at the top of his lungs dancing about on top of the ship. They two blinked as the cliff face faded out and a large door appeared opening "stop acting like a fool and get them in here boy!" a voice both of them tensed up at snapped at them. Ranma nodded grinning and jumped back down in the ship "who is that?!" Goku demanded glaring. Ranma blinked "its the Tinkerer. Hes helped save hundreds of us. He helped the first escapees survive and rebuilt their implants, we owe everything to him." he said cheerfully moving the ship into the bay.

He grinned seeing the robots that came out to them startling both saiyjins "androids!" Gohan hissed. Ranma nodded walking out the door "yo Seventeen! Hows everything?" he called smiling at the black haired android that had terrorized their world for a while. "Pretty good Ranma, how are you? What have you brought for the doctor?" he asked calmly looking into the ship. He blinked at the two and nodded smiling "hi, new friends?" he asked hefting one of the saiyjins and passed him out to an android "how many did youi get Ranma?" the voice from before asked and both hurried out of the ship to look shocked at the Gero they remembered fighting standing there smiling at Ranma. He smirked "twenty, a whole squad. This is their transport so all their spare parts should be there too. These are my new friends, Goku and Gohan." he said smiling. Gero offered his hand to them "its always good to meet fellow resistance."

He blinked when the two slowly extended their hands and shook his "you seem a bit dazed." he murmured. Goku rubbed at the back of his head "we... never thought we would meet the Tinkerer. Its just a shock." Gero smiled kindly "well you should get over it, all of the people I help come back to see me sooner or later, although, you don't look like you've ever come to me before. Your whole." he mused. Ranma nodded quickly "they're second generations doc." he said simply. He nodded understanding "so good to see life can still survive on this world. If you will all excuse me, I need to get to work right away and help these poor people." he said turning to follow the line of robots that had finished taking away the unconscious people "thanks Doc! Your an angel!" Ranma called grinning.

Gero nodded "I still have that hover sled you left with me last time you raided the transports, you should go and make sure your families don't worry too much." he said waving them off. Ranma waved "sure thing Doc! Thanks!" he called grinning at the two saiyjins "isn't the Doc great? Hes a real saint. He is the reason the first ones to escape didn't die out in the sand." he said pleased. Goku nodded "he seems like a good man." he said quietly. Ranma nodded leading them from the bay and down deeper into the lab until they came in contact with the blond haired Eigheen working at a terminal "I figured I would see you when I heard you had come in." she said calmly not looking at him. Ranma smirked "oh come on gorgeous, don't be that way. You know I love you." he said grinning widely.

She snorted not looking up "like you love all the rest right?" she asked amused now. He nodded "of course, its my duty to protect pretty girls." She snorted disgusted "what do you want?" she asked shortly. He chuckled "I need to know where you've squirreled away my hover sled." he said looking at her with adoring eyes. She snorted pushing him off her desk letting him fall to the floor "its in the secondary dock, where you left it nine months ago, as you should remember." He sighed standing up "thanks sunshine. I'd get you a flower if I could find one." he said galently. She snorted not looking up from her work "cheap talk, go away Saotome." she said firmly. Ranma looked forlorn gripping his heart Amy dear, you stab me deeply at times." he said sounding pained. She smirked "too bad it isn't permenent. Do I need to ask the Doctor to restrict you from the control room AGAIN?" she asked.

He sighed "no need my dear, I'll leave quietly. See? With my tail between my legs." he said and she chuckled softly seeing his tail dip between his legs. She shook her head getting back to work. Ranma chuckled getting into a elevator "I thought you and that Akane girl were together?" Gohan asked. Ranma blinked and nodded "we are sorta, our parents want us to marry, and we do love each other, but neither of us are ready for that yet. What does that have to do with anything?" he asked. Gohan frowned a bit "you were hitting on Eighteen." he said firmly. Ranma looked surprised and then burst out laughing "that? You call that hitting on? Nonono! Mother worked with the doc for a few years helping him with his work and I got to play with his metal men as I called them. I know all of these guys very well, Eighteen and I have been friends for years. Theres nothing going on between us."

He chuckled at Gohans assumption "me and Eighteen." he laughed walking out into the bay the elevator opened up into "Twenty! Your never going to believe what I just heard!" he called grinning to the large android that was working on a car near by "what is that Ranma?" he asked cheerfully. Ranma grinned "someone acused me of cheating on Akane, by flirting with Eighteen." he chuckled leaning on the car. Twenty looked startled at that then burst out laughing in the little kid voice he had "you are kidding right?" he asked wiping a tear from his eye. Ranma shook his head "imagine, me and eighteen." he chuckled. Twenty chuckled with him "Eighteen loves Fourteen and won't even compute flirting with anyone else." he said grinning. Ranma jumped "you saying that I would?!" he asked outraged. His head appeared briefly grinning widely and Ranma snorted kicking at him indignantly "wise ass android." he sulked walking over to a silver domed hover car "the shine brightened?" he called. Twenty nodded "did it yesterday!" he called making Ranma grin. "Thanks Twenty."

Ranma sighed relaxing once they were out on the dunes running along at a good clip and smirked "I didn't think it would be cool." Goku said pleased reclining in his seat. Ranma nodded "the dome that covers the car has many uses. Not only does it reflect light and heat mimicing the sand, but it causes the scanners that sweep the area to think its a slight shift in the sand like what you get with wind so its automatically filtered out. So we're invisible to radar. The great thing is that it creates a pocket of coolness inside the car." He nodded "my kind of car. Whats that?" he asked seeing something on the horizon. Ranma smirked "its a resource center, its where they build all of their vehicals and spare parts, heavily guarded."

Goku looked at it thoughtfully "why are we heading for it?" he asked after a moment. Ranma grinned "I have a hideout only I know about hidden under the center, its great for training and building things like this car, the energy signature is hidden among the constent construction going on in the center." He blinked at that silently as he pulled the car around the side and came to a halt suddenly "Son of a Bitch, someones in my hideout!" he exclaimed looking angry,. Both saiyjins looked out at the spot before them and looked at him "how can you tell?" Gohan asked. Ranma glared at it "because. The only reason for the vehical bay to not open when I come is if the place has been breached or theres a vehical in it." he grumped hitting a button on the control over his head.
A sand dune lifted up revealing the car briefs had brought out for the others "how the hell did they know about this place?!" he exclaimed getting out and hurried into the garage grabbing a large device "since they so rudely used my garage I have to park outside." he grumbled about to do something when Gohan walked over to the car already in there and it disappeared into the capsule he caught. He smirked at the look Ranma was giving him and continued on into the compound. Ranma moved his car in and closed the door getting out "how did you do that man?" he asked catching up with the two.

Ranma came to a halt looking stunned at the change to the largest room in his hideout and gapped at all of the equipment in sight "what have you done to my training room?!" he asked upset. Doctor Briefs looked up at him from the device he was working on and nodded "we are borrowing it for a while, if you wish I can set you up a gravity training room." Ranma nodded barely mullified "alright then, wheres Akane?" he asked looking around. He blinked "shes in back, she said she wasn't feeling good." Ranma looked concerned leaving the room quickly. "That boys feelings are crystal clear." Bulma chuckled softly not letting up on the work she was doing. Briefs nodded amused "want to help me set up a gravity chamber for the two dear?" he asked amused. She nodded "sure, with the ruckus that place above us is making we can easily tap into their power source for the stablizers power." Briefs nodded smiling "it was good of the girl to think of this place."

Ranma hurried back into the sleeping chamber and blinked seeing Chichi and Akane sitting around a table looking morose "hey." he called softly making them look up. Both looked excited and Akane jumped into his arms "are they ok?" Chichi asked softly. Ranma beamed "those two make my best look whimpy. One punch and the cyborgs were dropping like flies." he said grinning. Akane snorted "ya right, how did you escape?" she asked not letting go of him as Chichi left the room. Ranma shook his head "no, I'm telling you the truth Akane. They punched a cyborg in its implant housing and they shorted. I started doing that and suddenly I'm dropping them like flies! It was so awesome. We brought twenty of them to the Tinkerer before coming here. On that note I got a question for you." he said sitting down.

She nodded looking pleased. He scowled suddenly "how did you know about this place?! I thought it was secret!" he hissed. Akane looked sheepish "its not really. Your parents know about it, so do mine, they had been following you trying to... make sure you weren't cheating on me." she said meekly. Ranma looked outraged "what the hell kind of thing is that for them to do?! What the heck are they thinking?!" he demanded loudly in anger. Akane looked down meekly "well, its... everyone knows your a playboy ranma, half the girls back home sware you've slept with them!" she said looking sullen. Ranma looked aghast at her "and you believed them?" he asked softly. She looked down unable to answer him that and he clinched his fists "you think I sleep around on you?" he asked softly.

She shrugged not able to meet his eyes. He looked at her for a moment then looked shocked "have you ever.... with a man?" he asked softly. She ducked her head down a little looking ashamed "only... once, but I didn't think it would matter with all the girlfriends you have! I mean, once we get married you'll stop right?" she asked looking at him pleadingly. Ranma sat there staring at her feeling cold. He slowly stood up and left the room feeling numb. Akane sat there watching the door confused by his behavior when a snort of disgust came to her from the other half of the room where Vegeta was sleeping "I haven't seen a burn like that since homeworld was destroyed." he said amused. Akane looked at him "what do you mean?"

Vegeta smirked at her "that boy is a virgin girl, hes never been touched by a woman before. You can tell because his smell is a lot like his mothers, when he has sex his smell changes into a mixture of the person they slept with and their own. Its a wonder he never noticed it on you." he chuckled. Akane looked numb sitting there.

Ranma walked out into the training room and slowly sat down on a seat looking blankly at the floor . He blinked snapping out of his daze when Goku clamped his hand down on his shoulder "lets get some training done, Dr Briefs set up that new training room for us." he said smiling. Ranma blinked at him for a while them nodded letting him lead him to the new door in the wall Gohan was standing in front of. Ranma blinked looking into the room. Goku and Gohan blinked at him seeing that he didn't notice the pressure tugging at him at all. They shrugged setting the gravity and tried to engage him in a sparring contest.

Dr Briefs and Bulma looked up from what they were staring at when Vegeta and Trunks came into sight blinking at the flashing light that was bathing the later half of the room. They blinked coming over to the door they were staring into and looked startled seeing Ranma and Gohan fighting furiously through the window, the flashes of light coming from Ranmas fists and feet as they impacted against Gohans guard making him wince slightly as they went. Suddenly Gohan slipped up a bit and Ranmas foot flashed out almost too fast to be seen and slammed into his head hard sending him slamming into the wall. Ranma stopped looking blankly at the wall before him for a minute then looked at Gohan who was rubbing his head still laying on the ground. He looked over at Goku who was watching the match a little grimly.

Vegeta sneered a little when Goku waved him off and entered the room "whats the matter Kacarot? He a little too much for you?" he sneered. Ranma looked at him silently as Goku got up "ranmas a very focused fighter. He picked up every attack I used against him after the second time, hes amazing." he murmured softly walking past him. Vegeta sneered looking at Ranma "is that so? Think you can take me boy?" he asked looking at Ranma.
Ranma didn't coment still standing there staring at him. Vegeta sneered aproaching him pulling his outer shirt off and looked ast him sneeringly getting ready. Ranma stared waiting for a sign of agression from his new opponent then burst into blinding motion assaulting the shocked prince.

Vegeta grunted quickly powering up to his strongest and glared looking at the emotionless face staring at him and roared firing a blast at him. Ranmas hands flashed out ripping it to peices and suddenly hit him in the chest slamming him into the wall hard. Goku aproached Vegeta "getting angry and attacking again only gets you tired. Somethings wrong in his head." he rumbled softly. He nodded understanding "clear the room. I will talk with him." he grumped. Everyone blinked at that as he took Ranmas arm and led him across the room looking grim. After everyone was gone Vegeta sighed "I know how you feel boy. The female you love has let another man have her. Its enough to make a man want to howl in rage."

Ranma nodded slightly and vegeta smirked "your not going to feel better until you cause a little massive destruction, its the only way to over come this and even begin to find forgiveness." he rumbled sounding sagely. Ranma looked at him "how... how can I forgive her?" he murmured softly. Vegeta snorted "easily. Its easy to forgive boy, just don't forget. To forget history is to repeat history." he grumped. Ranma looked down for a moment then nodded "your right. We... we love each other. Akane...... she doesn't trust me." he murmured softly.

He shrugged "someone as playful with the girls as you are has to be ready for that." he said shortly. Ranma nodded "I know but... I never thought she would betray me just because I'm friendly with women." he murmured softly. Vegeta shrugged "the connivence of women is legendary boy, she said most of the women you charm declaired that you had bedded them." he rumbled. Ranma looked down "I thought they were my friends!" he hissed. Vegeta shrugged "they probably are, they probably thought you slept with the others but not them and said you did them to not feel left out. Women are weird boy, you have to forgive them their failings."

Ranma nodded not looking up "oh. Want to go destroy something with me?" he asked softly. Vegeta smirked "like what?" Ranma looked up "a comand station, they wouldn't have any saiyjin slaves on hand, just robots and alien workers." Vegeta grinned "sounds like fun." Ranma nodded "normally I wouldn't dare attack one but... I feel like threatening my life right now." Vegeta smirked "lets go then, nothing like putting your life on the line to clear you head." he chuckled standing up with him. Ranma walked silently past everyone, not even noticing Akane when she tried to get his attention when he passed her. Vegeta took her arm to stop her from following him "it would be best to wait a while before talking to him, hes had a massive blow to the very foundation of his manhood and needs to release a lot of rage." he said looking at her.

Everyone looked confused and Vegeta smirked "Ranma is a flirt and everyone believes he sleeps around, Akane said why not and bedded another man thinking Ranma wouldn't mind. Ranmas a virgin and hasn't even thought of sex before." he explained turning to leave. "Where are you going?" Bulma asked. Vegeta smirked "to ram our heads against something hard until we feel better, or his, hes the one hurting." Akane looked depressed slumping in on herself and turned away starting to shake and Vegeta waved leaving the room.

AUTHORS RANT!!!

chapter two! i guess having only two reviews, one being my own, is the required number, though i think it sucks that no one else felt the need to let me know if they like the story. if you like it, drop me a line, if you hate it, drop me a line so i can scoff and cackle at you, i really enjoyed the threats of death i got in my e-mail over Lets Talk! that was fun. i'm reviewing another story i have which i originally took the start of Avenging Spirits from when the story plot hit me for the possible upload potential i think its a good story and you might like it too, it just needs some major proofreading! i cringe at the amount of spelling errors i found in it ^-* besides the normal name corrections and caps that need to be done, that and breaking it into chewable bites for those that dislike big chapters. originally i wrote three big chapters but i think i'm going to turn them into story arcs since they head off into new things in each one. i think i can get at least seven chapters out of each one! ^-^ after this i'm going to work to render the next chapter of Avenging Spirits before working on anything else, i hope the guy doing the proofreading on Werewolf Claws, Vampire Fangs gets back to me soon with the proof drafts soon.

ja ne, minna!

imortis