Ranma winced as ryoga punch ruptured a vat or something
causing a wave of warm sticky substance to wash over him.
Ranma sputtered trying to get the stuff out of his mouth and
gasped rubbing at his eyes. "An opening!"

Ranma looked up as a blur flew at him and pain exsploded
through his body as ryoga smashed him through another one of
the vats bringing an ungodly amount of pain racing through
him "this ends now ranma! Never again will you hurt akane
with your honorless actions!"

By now ranma was beyond caring, the pain serging through him
brought to mind a cat for some reason and he gladly lets the
cat out as ryogas shout faded from him "SHI SHI HOKUDAN!!!"


"We don't really know saotome-san, your son has burns over
ninty eight percent of his body, when we check we get no
reaction when light is shined in his eyes....." tofu broke
off looking at the other enemy/friends of ranmas and frowned
at ryoga hugging akane supportively "excuse me officers?" he
said to the police men that had been with ranma when he had
been brought in "the burn scars, the damage done, theres
only one person I know of that could do that. Or would want
to." he turned back to the group and looked ryoga right in
the eyes "so, why did you do this, ryoga?"

Akane jerked away from him in anger and horror "you?!? you
did it?! You bastard!! No wonder you were so happy!!!" the
cops nodded walking over to ryoga "sir you are under arrest
for willfully destroying government property and attempted
murder." ryoga jumped "but.... it was an honorable
challange! Its his own fault he got hurt so bad!"

Suddenly a loud beeping sound came to them "ah shit!" tofu
ran back into the room along with a few doctors and nurses.
After a half hour tofu came back out pulling his surgeons
cap off his head. Tofu sat down in a chair and cupped his
hands over his bowed head "time of death; 9:13. I hope your
happy ryoga, your now a murderer."

Ryoga would have broken loose and ran for it if cologne
hadn't paralized him with a pressure point "when this wears
off, all the power you gained fighting ranma will be gone.
This is my punishment for your crime." the cops carted him
out of there with the help of a stretcher.

Akane walked to the door and almost got through it when tofu
caught her "no! You shouldn't see him like this!" he said
holding her tight "I have to! No let me see him! He
promised!! He promised he wouldn't leave me!!!" he held
onto the girl when she broke down into hystarics and wailed
on tofus shoulder "no he can't be dead! He promised we would
be together!! He can't leave me now! We've only been
married three days!!!!"

Everyone was shocked at what she said "what are you saying
akane?!" kisumi gasped. Akane pulled a necklace she hadn't
worn a few days ago out of her shirt, on it were two wedding
rings "we were keeping it a secret..... too many people who
would hurt us..... like ryoga!"

Ukyo snarled through her tears "you lying bitch! Ranma
didn't love you!!!" she screamed lunging at her. Suddenly
the air rippled around akane and ukyo went flying into the
wall, hard. ".... akane....." everyone chilled hearing it.
"Ranma!?"

Akane pushed away from tofu and looked at the ripple "....
save..... ranko.... shes.... dying....." akane ran into the
hospital room and saw the way the body rocked slightly
"shes..... inside him!" she gasped hearing the slight noise.
She raised her hand and brought it down hard with a battle
cry that broke a hole in the corpses chest. everyne screamed
in horror, akane gasped reaching in deeper "she is in there!
Ow!" she pulled her hand out and rubbed the sore spot before
grabbing the edge of the hole and pulled as she punched it
again. A hand came out and grasped hers tightly before it
started punching at the shell.

Akane grabbed a large part of the chest and heaved on it as
the girls hands from the inside pushed. Suddenly the whole
chest and part of the arm came off and ranko sat up. She
hugged herself and sobbed with relief, she looked up as
someone hugged her and rapped her arms around akane as she
started crying "oh thank you! I was so scared!" she cried.
Both looked up suddenly as a hissing sound filled the room
and everyone but the two hit the floor.

The two looked on in horror as men started filing into the
room and covered them with weapons "step away from the girl
maam!" one of them shouted. They clutched at each other
tighter "not a chance! I married him, hes mine!" they
looked at each other then back at her "maam that might not
even be human anymore."

Akane looked at ranko wide eyed as she snarled at the men
"what? You exspect me to just walk away from being boiled in
such things as human growth formula and lets see, what was
the other one? Oh ya, genetic mutagen. Let me guess, your
trying to nudge us into the next evolutionary step ahead of
everyone else."

ranko suddenly disappeared and they cried out in pain as she
reappeared slamming them into the walls akane gapped at her
for a minute until ranko blinked at her "what?" akane walked
around behind her and grabbed something that made ranko
jerk "what the hell.." she asked and grabbed it herself. she
blinked at the tail akane brought around to show to her.
she grinned petting it "neat!"

akane nodded hurrying out of the room after telling her to
stay put. when she came back she poured hot water over her
and smiled in relief see ranmas beautiful face peeking back
out at her. he smiled moving in for a kiss when she pressed
a pair of pants and a shirt on him "come on, lets get out
of here."

he nodded after a minute of thinking and quickly pulled the
pants on "so... what the hells happened to me?" he asked
trying to figure out what to do with the tail before rapping
it about his waist and pulled the pants up. she shook her
head "i don't know, is that you ranma?" she asked biting her
lip. ranma blinked "of course it is, you don't know how
scared i was that you weren't going to get the message and
come free me." he said shaking his head. letting her pull
him out of the room.