Ranma looked down "not really, but... shes always with me! She sees that I'm only playing right?! That I'm having fun with a friend?!" Vegeta slapped him on the back a few times "women can be stupid when they want to be, so can we. Whats that?" he asked looking at the large light heading for them. Ranma looked up and snorted "their sending in a platoon to find and destroy what ever did all this. We should leave. They will be saiyjins on board and we would have to kill them because no ones set up to save so many lifes before they died from the loss anyways."
Vegeta blinked at him "why not killed them?" he asked. Ranma looked at him "we make regular trips to the suface to subdue cyborgs and take them to the Tinkerer so they can be saved and added into our population, we need the fresh blood to keep from poluting the gene pool. If we took that ship we would be needlessly killing hundreds of saiyjins we could have saved." Vegeta grunted shrugging as he climbed into the hover sled with him "you care about them?" he asked. Ranma nodded looking at the ship slowly coming in on the base now that they were more then a half mile away "yes, their innocent people who have been horribly mutilated and used against their wills. We like to think we're the victims here but.... they are. Nothing we face is half as bad as having your intestines removed so they can put a weapons generator into your stomach. Or having you breasts removed because it puts pressure on the chest plate they force them to wear. One poor woman we saved had a relay uplink where her womb should have been. Its monsterous what they do to them."
Vegeta scowled darkly at the idea "I see, what?" he grunted as Ranma
suddenly swerved to the left hard throwing them into their belts to avoid
the vehical that had been barreling down on them "thats the touble with
driving an invisible car, everyone but you has the right of way."
He nodded "where are we going?" he asked. Ranma looked grim "I think I
know who talked akane into sleeping with him, I want to make sure. Besides,
it would be too risky to head back right now with all those land scanners
on the hunt." he said grimly. Vegeta nodded smirking slightly "killing
the one that dares take whats yours is also a very good way to reasert
yourself." he agreed cheerfully. Ranma smirked at him "Saiyjins sure are
bloody, I think I kind of like it."
When Ranma and Vegeta arrived at the entrance to the underground colony they blinked seeing that there was someone standing guard over it "hold it right there Saotome! We've been ordered to detain you!" the guard snapped. Ranma looked curious and Vegeta looked at him for clues "its probably just them wondering why we didn't come back with Ryouga and Ukyo." he murmured. Vegeta nodded sitting back. After a moment of waiting they were ordered to park in a secondary dock where a troop of guards were waiting "give yourself over for examination Saotome, your friend too, you both were stranded out in a sand storm with an unknown group of people and only you two return, three months later." the guard captain said grimly holding his gun on him.
Ranma agreed slowly pulling his desert gear off and spread his arms holding them out to him "whats this?" Vegeta asked. Ranma sighed "they think we were captured by them and sent back as spies. Their checking for implants." he said.
The guard nodded waving the scanner over him and he looked at Ranma stiffly "the eye." he said firmly. Ranma snarled "you damage it like last time and I rip your head off." he spat at him. He ignored that and Ranma growled to himself slowly covering the left side of his face. Vegeta flinched a little when he heard a click and he pulled his eye out showing the imput jacks behind the normal ball "what in hell?" he hissed. Ranma snorted bitterly "Ryouga gouged it out when I was ten, I didn't want to share the sweet ration Tinkerer gave me with him so he attacked me. The bastard wasn't even punished for it."
The guard snorted "you know better then to horde food." he snapped. Ranma looked at him darkly and he sneered a little. Ranma took the eye back when he finished with it and looked it over carefully glaring. He put it back in hissing in pain and kicked the man when he finished "stow that crap Saotome!"
Vegeta grunted ill temperedly allowing them to run the scanner over his body then snapped the hand away from the control box for his stablizer making him shout in pain "whats going on?!" the guard snapped. The scanner winced rubbing his hand "he has an unknown peice of technology on him." he grumped. The guard turned his gun on Vegeta "hand it over." he growled. Vegeta snorted "over your dead bodies."
The guard snapped his gun up jacking a round home and Ranma got between him "whoa there man! You know me! Would I bring a spy here?" he demanded. He looked at him narrow eyed "he has unknown technology." he growled. Ranma waved it off "trust me man, you don't want to push it. Besides, its a holo imager the Tinkerer made him, its got like pictures of his family in it, I don't know man hes just really sensitive about it so lay off it ok?"
He looked at the serious look on Ranmas face then the deadly scowl on Vegetas and nodded "is it transmitting?" he asked the scanner. He shook his head "it has barely any energy source. I just never seen it before." He nodded "if it came from the Tinkerer then its not surprising. Alright, we'll allow your box, but we'll be watching you, one wrong step and we'll blast you into charred bones."
Ranma sighed walking out onto one of the metal walk ways that led across the lighted tunnel leading down into the earth before turning to Vegeta "now I remember why I dislike coming back home often." he grumped. Vegeta smirked "do they do that often?" he asked. Ranma nodded "did it to my sister. She got one of those electro tattoos eighteen likes so much and they practically raped her trying to find the source of the energy powering it." he snarled softly. He snorted "sounds like the people are as bad as the aliens who raped this world." Ranma snorted "you think? Come on, I gotta check in with my parents and theres no telling what could go wrong if you roam the tunnels alone." Vegeta frowned "I can take care of myself." Ranma nodded "and there are hundreds of people here who would attack you because your new and that would cause a blood bath knowing your propencity towards killing your attackers."
Vegeta snorted "sounds like low born Saiyjin scum." he growled. Ranma nodded "there are scum here I admit, but we need all the new genetic stock we can get to keep from killing ourselves." Vegeta nodded excepting that "a sad state." he grumped. Ranma nodded "but all we have. These next twenty the Tinkerer will bring in will save some poor girl from marrying some scum because her family hasn't mixed their blood with his. Its a sad state." Vegeta smirked "we had that as well, we called it the slums, the high born nobility lived in acomidations far better then this. The nobles were marked easily because of their intelegence and power." he said smirking at Ranma. He smirked as well "then Ryouga is definitely scum, makes my job better."
When they reached the lock Ranma was taking them to he blinked tapping in an access code and got a denied. He growled tapping it in again and got it again "come on damn it! Let me in!!" he bellowed at the door. A slot opened up and a suspiciously narrowed eye stared out at him "how do I know its you? Ryouga said you dead." the female grunted.
Ranma glared at her "open the door or I will drag you though that hole." he growled darkly. She blinked then grumbled opening it "our family shares space with Ryougas." he spat flatly seeing the look Vegeta was giving him. Ranma growled holding his fist at the pinched face little runt who scuttled away from the door "whos the stranger?!?" she bellowed at the top of her lungs catching the attention of everyone who was in the catacombs behind her.
Ranma looked at his family standing there looking calm and collected to the hibiki family standing on the other side of the room glaring at them suspiciously "what is this son? You know its frowned upon to bring home strangers." his mother murmured staying put. Ryougas father glared coming over with a knife in hand "maybe I should cut him open and see if hes a spy!" he sneered. Vegeta looked at him "want to live long?" Ranma smirked at him "its alright mother. This is Vegeta, he helped save me and Akane after Ryouga gave us the bumb rush and stole our car." he said glaring darkly at the boy standing across the room. Nodoka glared enraged "you dare!?" she snarled glaring at him. He glared back "the stupid fool was gonna get himself killed for strangers!" he snapped.
Ranma nodded when they looked at him "yes, a group of honest strangers in need of help. This low born scum stole our car and took off leaving us to die next to a processing station. They allowed us to escape long enough to make it to the Tinkerers place, we brought him twenty new bloods." he said simply. Nodoka beamed deeply in relief "thats good to hear!" she said almost sighing. Mr Hibiki glared "that don't mean theres one that can take Ryougas place as Rankos husband." he snapped leering at the girl standing behind nodoka.
She glared murderously at him and Ranma snarled "what is this?!" he growled deep in his throat. All of them blinked at the rage in his eyes. Nodoka sighed "the comunity council declaired that marrages would be held and rankos lot was chosen with ryougas." she said looking like she had tasted something bad.
Ranma nodded "don't worry mother, as long as I'm alive my sister will never marry a low born scum " he said cheerfully making them all twitch a bit looking at him "whats a low born scum?" Ryougas sister asked. Ranma smirked "a low born scum is a weakling sewer guard whos as smart as a dirt brick left out in the water. You know, your family." he said smiling.
The Hibikis snarled "how dare you boy?!" Mr Hibiki snarled. Ryouga snarled as well powering up right away and roared lunging at him. Ranma smirked flatly snapping him out of the air and slammed him into the side of the tunnel making the room shake "you talked Akane into fucking you, didn't you scum? She admited it to me." he said letting him go. Ryouga sneered at him "ya, I had your woman." he said looking victorious.
He sneered "why do you care anyways, your slept with everyone from Ukyo to my sister." he said looking at the girl. Ranma looked sick "thats sick you fuck! Why would I want to lay a pinched faced rat like that?!" He snapped him up again squeezing his neck in a crushing grip "for your information Scum. I have never slept with any girl in my life. Akane and I promised each other we would stay pure until we married when we were kids. You, you scum eating bottom dweller! You destroyed the trust we had between us! She understood that I would never cheat on her until you and those bitches you fuck all the time started in on her! Making her doubt me!" He turned around and walked to the door and yanked it open walking out onto the decking. He whipping him over the side sneering "can you fly yet Scum?" he asked amused. Ryouga glared at him hatefully as his father tried to stop him.
Ranma looked back when a blast went off and he smirked nodding to Vegeta who had blown him in half for jumping at him with a knife in hand. Ranma let go of Ryouga and leaned over the rail watching him fall. He looked up after a minute, the pleasing shreek cut off after a few seconds as gravity splattered him on the bottom when his father came out to him looking questioning "you realize you'll be banished from the comunity." he murmured softly. Ranma nodded "I want it that way father. This place is a stain. I hate it here. A place where people I know and love are forced to marry Scum because they are told to, good decent people forced to live with that." he said motioning to Ryouga's sister as she went over the edge screaming, Ranko dusting her hands off smirking. Nodoka grinned appearing and her mother joined the mess. His father sighed looking resigned "I guess thats that, where do you think we can go?" he asked. Ranma smirked "I got a place."
Vegeta came back out snorting "you realize you have a duty to your people before you go anywhere?" he reminded him. Ranma nodded "your right. Its time to do something thats needed to be done for years now." he said firmly. His family looked curious "what?" Ranma grinned seeing that some of the people on the levels above them and below were looking at them "I can home with an idea!" he called looking about. "An idea so simple, and so basic that I wonder why I never thought of it before. I realised that only a part of our population is worth the time of saving. I realised that there is a name for these people that polute our blood and force us to marry before we're ready! You want to know what that is?" he asked.
They nodded and a few shouted curious. Ranma smirked "they're called Low Born Scum. A people of such low morals and loyalty that they do what Hibiki did to me out there three months ago. We stopped to aid strangers in need of help! And he clubbed me and stole our car because he was worried for his own skin, he didn't care about anyone but himself. That is a low born scum. People like him." he snapped a blast off tagging one of the people sneering at him and he screamed falling to the floor on fire "and her!" he added blasting another "look at me." he called. He flew up and dragged the husband of one of his best friends off the balcony above him, he had been beating her lately "and look a this! They can't even fly. They don't have the energy to fly, compared to those that haven't had a chance to learn yet. These people are moral degenerates who beat their wives and children."
He counted off smacking him hard "they steal from their neighbors!" he punched him in the gut "they are Low Born Scum! Its wrong that we, the best of our people, have to live with this kind of person!" He released the man and listened to him scream as he plumeted to the floor. He nodded seeing the smile of thanks his friend gave hiding her face from the light. Ranma looked around him "you want to know where I got this idea?" he asked looking around. They nodded amused for some reason. Ranma nodded to Vegeta who flew upto him "this stranger is worth more to us, then all of us put together. You want to know why?" he asked. They nodded looking at the armored man.
Ranma grinned "he is, because he was born like this. Not a so many removed once Human, he was born like this because his parents and grandparents were born like this, never has a Human been in his family tree. It was his race the aliens killed to make the shock troops. He is a Pure Blood Saiyjin, the name of his race. The name of our race! Not only is he a natural born saiyjin, but he is a Prince of his people." Vegeta nodded at the wide eyed awe on the faces looking at him "I and maybe a handful of others are all that remains of my race. It was horrifying to see what they had done to yours. This after noon, young Ranma and I went out and we leveled the control station three hundred parsecs to the south of here. You want to know why we were able to do that?" he asked.
They nodded cheering. Vegeta grinned "because only those of noble birth had the power we carry. Low born scum was what we called the dregs of our race, the weaklings and cripples, the retards, we seperated the two, we allowed them their cities around our world, which they destoyed in their stupidity, and we had ours, a good place to be. Look around at yourselves. The nobles of our race were always beautiful people where as the dregs were ugly as sin. We would send these wastes of skin to the front lines of a battle so their bodies would be more useful in death then they were in life. We can't help that the scum live inside our blood, its a price we pay for the might we hold. Do not let yourselves be fooled into doing something with the scum, they only dirty you with their taint. In the old days we would kill a scum we found in our city, just for daring to be there. I would say you need to think about that, how much you want to bet the running of this city is so bad because scum are in control? Do you want a being who isn't worth the dirt at your feet controling how you live?"
They shouted angrily thrusting their fists into the air. Vegeta nodded
"then you know what to do! You must purge your home of scum so your children
can breath deeply without smelling their stink! Do you really want these
ugly people married to your offspring!? How many worthy families sleep
outside the comfort of home because scum are in them!?" They roared
in anger. Vegeta nodded "then you know what to do! Take back your homes!
Take back your pride! Free yourselves from this taint!! Round them up!
Ferret them out! Once you've done that get rid of them! Take them out and
let the aliens have them! Make them find their own tunnels! They can't
do an honests days work anyways so why should you work harder to feed them?!"