Ranma chuckled softly looking strait ahead a few hours later when they had left the quick rush the people did and had left when they had forced the scum into the sewers under guard and marched to an older and run down tunnel system they had used once. Before they had left the new council had desided to send messangers to other comunities telling of the new way that had risen "you loved doing that don't you?" he asked Vegeta who grinned "I'm a Prince, I saw that girls face same as you did, it'll heal and most of her beauty will come back, but it made my high born blood boil seeing the smelly scum next to her."

Ranko behind him nodded looking grim "I wanted to beat the hell out of him everytime I saw her face but she would beg me not to, he would beat her when ever someone insulted him during the day, her cut her face like that a few weeks ago when her sister came over and he tried to come onto her and she snubbed him sharply." Ranma hissed "damn that fuck Ryouga. If I had been there I would have killed him the minute I found out, fuck the rules, let them put me out, I would have taken half the comunity with me." Nodoka behind him smiled nodding "the high borns loved you and the scum hated you, you could have easily become a councilmen if you had wanted to. Its probably why they wanted you gone." she murmured. Ranko smirked "ya, fear those that can easily take away what you stole in the first place." she snorted. Ranma nodded smirking.

Ranko and their Mother had come with them when he asked but his father had stayed behind, he had been asked to direct the council being a very smart and kind person. Ranma nodded "it could be why the aliens are always on the look out for that one car they blew up on me." Ranko nodded smirking "ya, they chased you all over the desert for two months until they destroyed that car of yours." she cackled. Ranma nodded when Vegeta looked at him "I'm a trouble maker, when a supply ship would come in I would hide myself near the dock and stow away on board. When the ship took off fully loaded I would kill the crew and dump the supplies near a comunity for pickup then blow the ship, I did that five times before they started looking for me, almost got me the last time!"

Nodoka scowled "and they would have if Tinkerer hadn't come out and gotten you, you were at his place for three months in traction." she said frostily. Vegeta cackled at Ranma "I pity you boy! Your mother has that same ice in her voice mine did!"he cackled in amusement. Nodoka smiled at him "do you mean that royalty are the ones that hold the most refinement and culture?" she asked pleased. He nodded "and power, royalty hold the most power any one family can hope to hold. " Ranko smirked "then our family would be royalty, Father was the strongest warior in the comunity until Ranma beat him in training. Both of our parents are fine warriors." she said smiling. Vegeta nodded "that would entitle you to the royal name." he agreed. Ranma smirked "I don't care really. All I want is freedom and the occational mayhem to spice it up."

Vegeta chuckled "I was the same way at your age. I was destroying things when I was five and demanding to be sent on missions because I dispized the Nanny they stuck me with and her constent bothering. It got so bad I blasted her out a window for bugging me while I was practicing." Ranma cackled not saying a thing as Nodoka hugged him "Ranma did the same thing when he was six, the Nanny was a rather pinched face shrew who disliked Ranma being so fit and tried to make him sit down the whole time she was there. He blasted her out the door and slammed it in her face looking upset. When I asked him what was wrong he glared at me and said 'I think its about time you stop annoying me with weaklings who insist they know whats better then I do when they don't have even a fourth of my intelect!" Ranko and Nodoka giggled at that.

Ranma smiled a little embarressed "she kept insisting two times ten was two hundred." he growled. Vegeta burst out cackling with them.

Ranma and trunks looked up from the console they were pouring over when Nodoka came into sight smiling "Ranma! The cloud cover is thin tonight, theres a chance the full moon might make a show, want to go wait with the others?" she asked smiling. Ranma shook his head "no thanks Mom, besides, when have they ever allowed the cloud cover to thin enough to let us go ape?" he asked smirking. Trunks looked at Bulma curiously "can I go see if I can see the moon?" he asked. She nodded smiling "of course, don't get in anyones way in case it does come out dear." He nodded hurrying off allowing Ranma to sit in his seat "what are you doing?" Bulma asked putting a hand on his shoulder.

He blinked shrugging "well, Trunks explained this thing to me and I got this idea yesterday. Instead of forcing the tunnel to disrupt by sending something down it, why not find a way to fold the two places you want to see together, or connect them through a short lived tunnel? It would cut down on the damage done." he murmured. Dr Briefs came over looking intregued "thats a brillent idea Son, how did you plan on doing it?" Ranma smiled "we did a few figures and ran with an idea on the full exstent of the time stream. Based on the data we got this is what it could be like." he hit a button revealing a series of branching tunnels that slowly lead away from each other, some dead ending.

He touched two of them, one of them strait, only a few kinks "this is your time line. We found it easily enough from the signature you had doc. Also, see how its been disrupted in some places? Thats the results of the time machine you said Trunks' future self used. By the way. The time line he came from?" he looked up at them, grimly touching one that had ended down the line a little "I think what happened to you happened to him, his time line colapsed ceasing to be, yours should have done the same but it didn't. Want to know what we think that means?" he asked. They nodded waiting.

Ranma grinned "we theorized that your presence here stablized the colapsing time line, using ours as a kind of guide and support. Like your lines tied to a stick holding up a plant with a broken stem. If you go back, your time line will cease to exist." They looked a little horrified "I am not living my life in this time line." Vegeta growled behind them. Ranma shrugged unable to help. Dr Briefs looked thoughtful "maybe...." he started. Ranma nodded along with the rest. He grinned "if we recombined the two time lines that should stabilize ours and free these people from what happened to them." he said simply.

They looked at him "how?" Vegeta asked. Briefs smirked "by building his time space door and destroying the shifted node that started this, that should force the time timelines to reconnect. Theres just a whole lot of problems with that idea." he mused looking upset. All of them jumped when someone chuckled "things like, we can't go ourselves." a second Briefs said walking into the light. The first Briefs nodded staring at him "indeed, we also can't do it from this time line." New Briefs nodded "I was in your position three weeks ago contemplating this problem when the idea that, this would be a lot easier if there were two of me, went through my mind, not a minute later a double appeared giving me this speach I am giving you."

He nodded "I had been thinking that. Do you see the other problems?" he asked. New Briefs nodded "if we recombine them with us here we will destroy both of them, the counter point being that if we went home, home would disappear." Briefs nodded "think of way around that?" He nodded "we have stablized our time line with us here. So we must send someone here to there to stablize this one so the two can safely combine."

Old Briefs eyes lit up "brillent! How did you come to that conclusion?" he asked. New Briefs smirked "I didn't, Ranma did. He just thought of it in fact and was about to suggest it." he said looking at Ranma. He nodded slowly "I did indeed, I was thinking we would have to send the exact number that came here to stablize the effects." Both Briefs nodded "yes. But who?" Nodoka blinked "why not mine and akanes family? My husband has a sister and she has two kids and a husband. Akane has three sisters and one of them has children."

Briefs nodded together "that would work." they mused as one. Older Briefs looked at his new counter part a little annoyed at that and he raised his hands letting it go "what about the same matter principle hawking founded?" he asked. His newer self smirked showing him the belt he wore "as simple as this it should keep anything that would disrupt stability away from its holder." Briefs nodded pleased "alright, are you going to stay and help me build it?" he asked. His double nodded "or course, I can't go back until I do."

Ranma looked curiously around gapping as he stepped through the portal and looked back hearing a gasp of awe and smiled at Akane excitedly "look at it! Its so beautiful!" he gasped in awe flying up from the ground breathing deep the air. He grinned as Ranko and Akane joined him in the air, the rest stayed on the ground examining the greenery. Akane looked at Ranma "its so beautiful." she breathed. Ranma nodded smiling softly at her and took her hand. She smiled exstatically at him clutching at his hand and beamed at the view again.

Ranma landed and looked at his family smiling and they beamed seeing that he still had ahold of akanes hand Aok, we need to find a secure place to put the family so they won=t get into trouble then find dr briefs. From the data the doc was able to get... akanes family should have a home in this area. Thats why we came out here. Ok, try to look natural.@ he said simply and floated into the air with them following.

Ranma frowned a bit hearing the startled screams from below them every now and then as they over flew the houses "we need to land." Akane voiced his idea. He nodded heading in for land in front of a gapping old woman with a ladle and bucket in her hand "where can we find..." he took the paper out and read it again "the Tendo Dojo, what is a dojo anyways?" he asked confused. She pointed down the street "two... two blocks that way, turn left, the large gates." she stuttered. He nodded thanks then blinked when she tossed a ladle full of water in his face watching him. They stared at her as she did the same to Ranko and sighed "oh well, it was fun while it lasted."

They looked after her for a moment and they hurried on when Ranko desided to beat her up. When they reached the gate they were looking for they rang the bell opening it in time to see someone came out in a pair of jogging shorts and a shirt smiling. She took one look at them, and herself and screamed at the top of her lungs.