Boy! V
by
imortis

Ranma blinked looking from the fainted girl to his Akane and she shrugged. They looked up when someone hurried out of the house looking angry and battle ready and Ranma twitched looking at himself wearing a pair of boxers and a muscle shirt, missing about a hundred pounds of muscle. They stared at each other for a moment before he looked at Ranko and bellowed at the top of his lungs charging back into the house paniced "there are look alike demons on the porch!!" he bellowed to the house.

Everyone blinked at the door for a few minutes before two older men, and an older woman and Ranma came back out, all carrying weapons. Ranma hurriedly pushed Rankos hands down when she moved to blast them "ano, there seems to be a misunderstanding here." he said scratching his head.

They nodded sharply "your dopplegangers here to steal our places so you can do evil!" Soun shouted. Saiyjin Soun snorted choking "come on now! I am not that stupid!" he snapped upset. Ranma got between the two groups "come on now, we can't be doing this, theres little time." he said firmly looking at his family then the Humans.

Ranma nodded seeing the confusion on their faces and bowed "good day, my name is Saotome Ranma, we come from a parrallel dimension that is beside yours. We need your help to make sure your dimension isn't destroyed." They blinked at him for a moment and did it again. He cleared his throat "thank you for letting me explain." he said seeing the other Akane was awake "see. In your past, about twelve years ago, a time traveler from a different future came back to give warning of a monster called Cell."

He nodded when they jumped "yes, the time traveler came here a few times and stayed to aid in Cells destruction, I don"t know about that being from another time line. But suddenly this time line shifted into our time line making this one disappear. The only thing is that the man who was responsible for the time machine in the future had been watching the time stream since his grandson came to him here and discovered the colapse that destroyed this place and moved to save his family." He sipped the tea he was holding and rumbled pleased "this is good, what is it?" he asked the woman that looked sort of like Akanes sister, but this one didn't wear tight fitting clothes and have battle scars. She beamed "its tea." Ranma nodded blinking as the old woman sitting by the equally old man rumbled "so something happened to save us as well?" she asked.

Ranma shook his head "your time line ended. He and his family were shifted into the time line it became due to a time shift created by the damage the time machine his grandson used when it forced its way through. There had been shifts before but nothing big until then, the time line shifted into ours before it colapsed destroying this place. In our time line a group of aliens invaded the earth harvesting all of the Humans, changing them into a race of warriors they had destroyed a long time ago. I understand that in the unchanged time line that group of aliens were destroyed by the warriors. Sufice it to say. Your doomed." he said and smirked a little seeing the looks they gave them. "Stop teasing ranma this is the worst time." Nodoka scolded firmly.

Ranma winced nodding "see, we and the Doc came up with a way to safely travel in time to counteract the effects and save this place. So we were sent into the past a few weeks before the shift happened so we can prevent this places death. To do that we brought the exact number they sent to our world allowing us to create a circuit of sorts that will sustain the two long enough for someone to go back and fix the shift ending our time line. That will effectively combine our two lines strengthening your dying one." The humans looked horrified "but.. Won't you disappear?!" Akane asked shocked. They looked grim "we would be pleased if we would, our world is hell. The entire world is a desert, the only livable place is underground." her double said grimly.

Ranma nodded "we live in tunnels we carved into the mountains and dodge the aliens stripmining our world hoping to find a way to save ourselves. We figure either steal a space worthy ship and leave, or die when they finally destroy the planet to get rid of us." His double cringed a bit "that sucks." he grumped. Ranma snorted "you think thats bad, the comunity council tried to make Ranko marry that low born scum Ryouga and this is after he tricked Akane into cheating on me." The humans gapped as Akane looked away shamed "give her a break Bro, we all thought you were bedding the whole comunity." Ranko said glaring at him. He glared back harshly "ya! Hows that for friendship! I am a good and kind person "anko! If I see a girl depressed I cheer her up and make her feel good! I never, in all my life believed you thought so little of me as to act like a sewer swimming dreg and sleep around. I've never had sex before! But the first time Ryougas cunt girl friends start spreading the word I did, everyone believes them. Hows that for trust!?" he finished burning Akane with a look.

She looked away bowing her head and he sighed rubbing his face. He rapped his arms around her putting his forehead on her back "I'm sorry. I didn't mean to be harsh." he whispered. She rapped her arms around him turning around and buried her head in his chest. He sighed looking depressed and Ranko took over "we need a place to stay until the shift happens so we were hoping we could trade something for room and board?" she said pleadingly. Soun nodded hurriedly not taking his eyes off Akane holding Ranma tightly for comfort "o- of course. We wouldn't think of turning you away." he said kindly. She nodded smiling then looked at Ranma "why don"t you have a sister? And what was with that old lady down the street throwing water in my face?"

H-Ranma was sitting out by the pond meditating when his double came out to him looking curious "what are you doing?" he asked softly sitting down. He shrugged "looking at the stars, it helps me think. Akane really cheated on you?" he asked softly. S-Ranma nodded "its not her fault but... it hurts a lot and I can't help but lash out every now and then. And... it sad you know? I'm a nice person and I like taking time to make the people I talk to happy. So everyone thinks I flirt with girls, I'm not, I'm being playful so I can get a smile from them. In the tunnels a smile is the difference between life and suicide. I remember... when I was nine, a friend of mines older sister, she had been depressed for a while, people rarely wanted to make friends thinking misery is better left in many small packages instead of one large one. She kept.... drifting farther and farther away. She killed herself a few weeks later and.... my friend did as well. She had idolized her sister and she looked foward to seeing her."

Ranma looked dazed at the pond stunned at the sadness in his voice "I do it for them, anything to cheer them up, and... I do it for myself because I need the smile too. There are so many ways to die on our world but.... very few good ways to live. I had chosen a warriors death for myself, I had... started to suspect what Akane did and wanted to believe it wasn't true so... started pushing the safety factor. After a time it got so bad I would come home with burn scars from the cybrogs I had to kill to escape them. Sometimes I purposefully attacked them so I could fight away the pain in me. Truth be told, if those guys that came to us hadn't appeared I would have gotten myself and Akane killed that day." Human Ranma gapped at him "why?!" he said and a voice behind him gasped.

He looked back to see Human Akane standing with his Akane who looked depressed. He looked down "because I had proof Akane had cheated on me. See, the changes they made in us make it so your scent changes with every partner you have. I could smell Ryouga on her." The two Humans looked at each other twitching as Akane sniffled a little "I desperately wanted to ignore it because.... the promise we made each other, when we were ten, that we would be pure for each other when we married.... it was one of the few things on the list I have in my head to continue fighting for life." Akane sank to her knees behind him and rapped her arms tightly around him. He hugged her arms looking like he was in pain "but then Dr Briefs compound appeared before us and we had something else to concentrate on."

Akane presed into his neck hard and he gripped her head "it would have worked but.... she had to confess it when I found out no one trusted me. She did it in such a painful way too, she said 'well, only once but I figured you would stop when we got married.' like it was ok if we had been sleeping around." Both Humans gapped at them and S-Akane shuttered in pain. Ranma pulled her around and into his arms holding her tightly hearing her crying. He sighed resting his head against hers. "Why you so comforting if she cheat on you?" a voice behind him asked and he blinked looking at the purple haired girl that came into sight. Both Akanes glared daggers at her "shut up Shampoo!" H-Akane shouted angrily. H-Ranma glared at her a little upset at the question. Saiyjin Ranma looked at her "because I love her. Why would I not?" he asked simply.

She leaned forward smiling at him "but you deserve woman that loyal! She not, she sleep with stupid PigBoy!" she said in disgust. S-Ranma looked at her narrow eyed "I deside what I deserve girl. What I deserve and want is right here." he snapped. She snorted "new Ranma stupid like old one. Should marry worthy woman and have worthy children who strong. Shampoo very worthy woman, more worthy them both Akanes!" she said firmly looking superior. Ranma looked at her for a moment then looked at his double "you need to make your play mate go away, Akane has a temper and I don't feel like stopping her from ripping it apart." Shampoo hissed "you think weak cry baby girl stronger then Amazon?!" she snapped glaring. Ranma laughed at her "girl, this Amazon your talking about must be cut rate if your one of them."

He grinned seeing her turn purple "I mean you have a little refinement on you but your nothing!" he stood up and smirked circling her as the people in the house looked up hearing him "look at this and tell me.." he took Shampoos arm and jiggled it then took Akanes arm and stroked the delicate and tight muscles on her arm "which looks better? Which holds more power? My Akane is better then a hundred of you. And another thing." he walked over and gently tugged a blushing H-Akane to her feet "you may have some small skill girl, but this beauty has far more power then you do, its like a blinding light compared to your dim bulb." He smirked watching her boil "count down, tee minus six seconds." he breathed into Human Akanes ear making her burst out giggling making Shampoo exsplode and dart at her screaming.

Saiyjin Akane appeared clothes lining her into the ground before yanking her back up and dangled her smirking. She looked at the house and picked Cologne out watching them "this is where the big kids swim, you need to take this little girl and show her to the kiddy pool." She snorted dismissing them and Akane dropped the blinking girl. Ranma smiled at her walking over and kissed her gently. He sighed hugging her. He looked up at the sky and blinked looking awed by the sight before him. Akane blinked when Ranma started squeezing her against him and looked up at his face. She looked startled by it then looked up. Everyone blinked when akane shouted ducking her head down. She pulled away from a shaking Ranma looking afraid at the house "Mom, Auntie! Take everyone to the dojo now! The moons full!" she shouted in fear.

All of the Saiyjins there jerked standing up. The Mothers grabbed up their children and hurried down the hall with their grim Husbands looking at Ranma "what about Ranma?" Nodoka asked. Akane shook her head "its too late! I have to get him away from the populated area!" she grabbed Ranmas arm and blasted off into the air away from them as fast as she could. When the Humans came into the dojo they saw the Saiyjins huddled in a corner looking grim "whats going on?" Nodoka asked coming over to comfort a softly sniffling boy. Nabiki his Mother smiled in thanks. Saiyjin Nodoka looked stoic "it is the Saiyjins Curse, on a full moon we change into monsters and destroy everything we dislike. We never remember it and can't control what happens. We normally tried to do it back home but this world is too pretty to risk it."

Everyone blinked as H-Soun hurriedly wheeled the tv into the room "look at this!" he gasped plugging it in and everyone gasped looking at the roaring monster that appeared on the screen. "Not a few minutes ago while we were crossing the mountains we caught sight of this monster sitting by a river holding a young girl in its hand! When it caught sight of us it went berserk and started destroying the forest around it!" the reporter said deeply afraid. They all jumped when a second later a slightly smaller ape monster appeared roaring into the heavens beating its chest. The first one ignored her and continued chasing the chopper.