ranma sighed looking bored as he got off the transport and
shouldered his pack "this blows." he groaned walking to a
seat and sat down for a minute, he was not looking forward to
this. he sighed, he did not look forward to a return trip to
nerima.
he was grumbling as he left the space port and took off along
the superhighway looking bored and half tired. he grumbled
to himself as he spotted the remaints of the distrect, the
encroaching future had chewed away at it and now the
highschool was no longer there, he mused that that was for
the best, it was at the school she..... heres my turn off.
ranma slowed halfway down the market street and blinked
looking at the huge building where ukyos shop had been. he
looked at it and shook his head "no wonder i'm broke." he
sighed walking in the front door to be greeted by many women
in kimonos that to him, spoke of how dangerous it was to
mess with one. he looked around for a minute, thinking yet
again, that it was a mistake coming here.
"so. you came." he looked to his left and nodded shortly
to the regal looking matron that had aproached him. ranma
turned to look at konitsu "lets talk, i don't want to be
here any longer then i have ta." he growled looking around
at the spatula toting women dressed in mens work suits. the
konnachi nodded leading him to a door at the side of the
room. he motioned him to a seat "you don't even have the
honor to morn with us." he spat. ranma sat down and looked
at him "i may have married ukyo, but we both know she was
your wife, it was your kid that killed her, not mine."
konitsu tried to turn his anger on him but was too honest
with himself to punish ranma for having nothing to do with
ukyos death. he nodded covering his face "so why did you come
back?" he asked. ranma sat back in his chair "i've been in
the space merines for ten years now konitsu, ukyo used her
position as my 'wife' to apropriate my acumulated earnings,
she used it to exspand this franchiase your so proud of here.
you know as well as i do the reason i joined the merines."
konitsu nodded slowly, he had suspected that was where ukyo
had gottn the money "what is it you want?" he asked. ranma
looked at him "space merines are paid a lot of money
konitsu, i should have about a three and a half mil in
american in my hands, instead i have, as ukyos 'legally
married husband' a restraunt business i want nothing to do
with."
konitsu jumped up yelling "you dare say this is yours?!?!"
he roared. ranma nodded flipping him a piece of paper "under
the laws ukyo and i married under, everything owned by the
deceased goes to the other half of the married party,
meaning i'm supposed to aportion out what the 'kids' get. in
other words, the chain is mine. and on top of that, i find
i'm the restraunts major backer due to my investment of my
entire life savings. you may run this place, but i hold the
purse strings."
he sighed and looked at konitsu tiredly "the thing is, i
don't want anything to do with this district, or this planet
for that matter, too many people fucked me over while i was
here for me to ever be comfortable on earth again." he
looked tired. "what is it you want?" he asked. ranma smiled
at him "i'm willing to sell the whole thing to you. since
you know the whole thing, you know what its worth, and due
try to be honest. remember that this was ukyos life, try not
to dishonor her memory by buying cheap."
ranma sighed again as he left the restraunt and smirked
slightly "at least your a decent person konitsu, you don't
see that often these days from earthers." he mused softly as
he put the brief case in his bikes saddle bags and took off
down the road, this next part is going to be worse.
ranma pulled up outside the gates of a compound he didn't
recornize, he frowned seeing the old tendo schools sign, but
above that she saw a larger, more gaudy sign for the hibiki
school. ranma grimaced thinking about his options and had
just started turning the bike to leave when the gates opened
and a silver haired soun and a streeked haired nodoka stared
out at him. he sighed shaking his head "i guess there isn't
much of a chance to run away is there?"
they shook their heads "come in ranma, its been a long time
since you last came to see us." nodoka said softly. ranma
flipped up the visor on his helm "they don't think its cost
effective to send a star ship out for a merine that wants a
weekend pass mom." he grumbled rolling the bike between the
two and excepted nodokas hug, and souns more enthusiastic
one.
"we're sorry to hear about ukyo ranma." soun said softly.
ranma parked the bike and placed the helm on the handle
bars "ya so was i, i stopped by to give my condolances to
konitsu and settled with him." he grunted pulling the
napsack and brief case from the saddle bags and followed
them "what do you mean settled?" nodoka asked. ranma
chuckled softly "i gave him the option to outright buy the
restraunt from me instead of liquidating the place, figured
i'd give ukyos kids a fair shake."
nodoka looked down, as miserable as soun "ah, then you and
akane have the same type of marrage then." ranma blinked
stopping his efforts to light a cigar to blink at the
goddess of business that had just come down the hall "well
well, if it isn't the original millionaress." she smirked
"and if it isn't the pride and joy of the collonal merines,
i hear they've put an end to your fighting days." she
murmured. ranma snorted "they gave me a metal and a desk,
the four stars and everything, be proud mother, your boy
reached four star general by the age of thirty two, theres
only one other rank above mine."
she smiled proudly "whats that?" she asked. he grinned
"planetary governer. and as soon as i settle on a planet to
collonize, i'll get that rank too, the whole regiment i
comanded opted to collonize with me instead of going
elsewhere. we're gonna start setting it up in a week." he
said smirking at nibiki. she looked curious "your not going
to stay here?" she asked. he looked like he tasted something
back "fuck no. i hate earth. full of vampires and scumbags,
the good people number one to five hundred here, naw, i want
a clean world, for a clean start."
he looked up and that sad tired look came back to his face
seeing akane was standing in the hall looking at him. she
cuddled the baby she held close looking forlornly at him
before leaving the room. ranma shook his head "damn all
teenagers to hell." he spat looking like he was thinking
about leaving "what does that mean?" nibiki asked. he looked
at her "just what it sounds like. if i had half the guts
then as i do now, i woulda killed ryoga when he first showed
up."
nibiki nodded slowly "let me show you to a room."
ranmas eyes snapped open hearing something open, and not the
door. he scanned the room for a second before spotting the
movement, he watched the person for a minute before
recognizing the mousy little woman that akane had become.
"akane." he sat up and looked at the slightly fearful look
on her face as he turned the light on.
he looked at her for a minute and sighed, she was the
spitting image of the standard nursemaid, from clothes to
demeanor. "shouldn't you be with your husband?" he asked
grimly. she looked like she was about to colapse in on
herself "hes in china, martial arts tourniment." she
whispered. he nodded "so what can i do for you?" he asked
almost sullenly. she bit her lip "i... dad told me ... what
you said... about ukyo. did she really take all of the money
you earned while in the merines?" she asked sounding like
she was being greatly daring in speaking to him.
ranma nodded looking at the floor in front of him "yep, she
convinced the council that since i would be coming home to
her, and that she could put it to better use then instead of
now, she was able to bleed my account dry, i had to borrow
from a friend to get that bike." she moved closer and slowly
sat on the bed next to him, pleased when he didn't tell her
off.
he sighed "what happened akane?" he asked so softly she
barely heard him. she looked down "you know what happened,
shampoo drugged me into marrying ryoga." she whispered. he
nodded getting up "ya, but that wasn't your excuse when it
wore off was it? you stayed with him." he agreed looking out
the window. she looked down "i didn't think you would take
me. its a miracle he didn't get me pregnant." she said
looking miserable. he nodded slowly "didn't the fact that...
i only married ukyo because.... you told me there was no
chance of there being an us. and when she threw me out, i
did the only thing that seemed smart, i joined the merines
and shiped off planet."
he layed his head on the window "i don't think i've gone a
day without feeling the agony of you rejecting me. i told
you how i felt, told you the ryoga thing didn't matter to
me, but you still turned me away." he looked at her "what do
you want akane, i haven't been in the right frame of mind
for this shit since i was twenty." she looked like he had
slapped her and got up. she blinked as he was suddenly in
front of her and holding her against his chest "i'm sorry...
its just... first mom dumps me... then you dump me... then
ukyo. the women i loved were hurting me left and right and
no one wanted to help me."
she looked up at his face and blinked seeing tears in his
eyes. she took hold of his face and turned it to look at her
"i haven't let ryoga touch me since the drug wore off, i was
ashamed ranma, you were always there for me, but i wasn't
there for myself when it came down to it. and... there you
were, the perfect man, you didn't care that i had dishonored
myself with ryoga, you loved me anyways." she shook with
tears "i couldn't do that to you ranma. i was the dishonored
one, i couldn't let you stain your honor like that."
ranma held her while she cried, thinking about it. when she
stopped he kissed her hard and long. when he let go she was
looking wide eyed at him, not realizing he was baring her
back to the bed. he pushed her down and gently pinned her to
the bed "ranma we can't!" she gasped when he ripped her
dress from her body "yes, we can. i'm a widow and as far as
i'm concerned, you owe me. after this, we're level, on the
same footing, what we do after that, we'll talk about."
she looked shocked as he finished removing her clothes and
started kissing her again as he pinched her clit and stroked
the lips of her sex. she whimpered in need after a short
time and he grinned, she was ready. he hooked a thump in his
boxers and pushed them down "please... be gentle? its.. been
a while." she said letting him continue. he stopped about to
enter her when she said this and frowned "i won't hurt you,
but i won't be gentle, my lifes a miserable shit hole, and
its partly your fault, this way, i punish you, and we both
get what we want."
he took hold of her hips and suddenly flipped her over on
her stomach "yes! punish me, i deserve it!" she cried
lifting her hips up for him. he leaned over her and sank
himself all the way into her in a powerful thrust. she cried
out in shock as she was suddenly impaled by the man she
loved, and welcomed each painfully uncomfortable, gloriously
pleasurable thrust. she cried out again as she orgasmed,
against all her efforts to not enjoy it, ranma still made her
punishment a pleasure. she gripped the sheets and squeezed
him, hoping his sharp stabbing motions will hurt more.
he grunted as she came again and stopped panting softly "i
think your enjoying this to much." he growled, smirking
softly, he wanted her to enjoy it. he pulled himself from
her and spread her ass cheeks and rubbed some of her juices
around the edges before corkscrewing his finger into her.
she yelped in shock looking back at him "your going to do
that!?" she exclaimed. he looked at her as he pushed himself
back in her and pumped gently "your not going to be
satisfied unless your sore in the morning." he grumbled
"but... i wanted you to cum in me. ryogas refused to even
look at me since i rejected both of you. hes made me a
servent in my own home."
he blinked a few times and pushed another finger up her ass
and started thrusting purposefully gritting his teeth
feeling himself close now that he stopped holding himself
back. he groaned reaching under her and pinched her clit
"cum with me, when i leave, i want you with me." he hissed
in her ear as she panted into the matress and screamed with
him as he came deep inside her, driving her consciousness
from her.
nibiki looked up as her office door opened and smirked at
ranma "good show, akane refused to let anyone touch her
because of the guilt she felt over hurting you." she
murmured looking admiringly at him. ranma nodded "i was
afraid i'd have to ream her to help her get over it, some
women can't take that sort of thing."
she blinked at his candidness "you have changed." she said
admiringly. he nodded sitting down "i need two things from
you." he took out one of his cigars and lit it, sitting near
the window "i need to know if you have any combat specs on
ryogas enhancements." he said and she looked wide eyed at
him "your going to kill him."
he nodded slowly "he did to akane what ukyo did to me,
refused a divorce so he can keep his hands on the dojos
income. hes reduced her to the status of a handmaid in her
own home. second..." he leaned forward and looked her in the
eye "i want your company."
she almost choked before realizing from the smirk on his
face that he was joking "do you remember a few years ago
that story about that element that can produce a type of
super fuel that'll shoot a ship across the galaxy in days
with the right type of engine?" he asked softly. she nodded
and her eyes widened "its real?"
he nodded "i hope you keep this room proof against bugs." he
murmured. she nodded tapping a key on the phone on her desk,
he jerked seeing his pants leg catch fire "god damn it." he
put it out and looked ruefully at her "i knew someone was
out to jump my claim." he sighed before looking at her "i
found this planet see, earth norm, if a little more
boring then earth." she looked confused and he smiled
"earths weather system is eratic and volital. this place is
lucky to get a small typhoon." he chuckled. she nodded "so
what does your paradise have to do with the fuel element?"
he smirked pulling a small bag out of his pocket and pulled
a small glass cube with a small brown stone with a red sheen
to it "i found this, in a rock pile from a rivers lead off.
the river bed was bloated with the stuff." he grinned "this
little grain of sand, can power one of your transports for
twenty trips to and from mars. think about it." nibiki
looked hungry "how do you know this?" she breathed. he
smirked putting it away "i took it to a research ship a few
parsecs away and after slagging their radio i had them test
it, the results were better then i thought."
she rubbed her chin thoughtfully "whats your part in this?"
she asked. he grinned "they retired me as a four star, that
means that i get my pick of planets to settle, with the
money i have and the fact that every man in my regiment is
pitching their lot in with me, we have enough money to buy a
rather large company." he smirked at her and she grinned
getting the idea "but you have a better idea." he nodded
"see, when the goverenment finds out that we've dragooned a
planet rich in a resource their going to try to kick us off.
but, lets say for silly talk, you felt.. eh, you didn't like
earth anymore. your long time friend has this planet all to
himself, whats to say... he wouldn't be glad to welcome such
a large corperation to relocate there, and oh my, together
they realize, they are rich, since they can't touch a
military grant backed by a corperations funding and since
they were invited to move there... they would have home
steaders rights, as well as mining rights, under the
planetary governor, myself."
he smirked at the doubt on her face "think about it, not
only will you be close to the source, but you'll be living
with a regiment of the most highly decorated merines in
three galaxies, hell, all of them are practically rocket
scientists, i myself can build you an atmospheric escape
pod from the parts on a car. you'll have, communications
exsperts that know more about the classified military grade
stuff you civies would thing was magic, all of them are old
hands at space warfare, so all of us could work on defences,
with the supplies we can build our own ships and weapons,
all we need, is a company willing to throw in with us.
you'll have a defence force strait from the devils
nightmares."
she grinned in pleasure thinking about it "how do you mean
communications?" she asked. he grinned pulling out a holo
projector "with the technology we all are familiar with, we
can turn the other planets in the system into monsterious
transmition equiment, we can set up relays that can get you
the data quicker then you can get it in this room." he
chuckled letting her look at it with the lights off. she
shook her head "i think you offer more then i need."
ranma came back into the room they had given him about sun up
and saw that akane was just waking up "hey there sunshine,
you look better then you did when i arrived." he chuckled
setting the large case he held in his hand on the ground and
hit the button on the handle whistling a nice little tune.
the box popped open with a snap and he pulled the top off to
reveal a suit of armor. akane looked at it and gasped seeing
the labels "this is your battle armor!" she gasped. he
nodded "yep, smuggled it out so they wouldn't recycle it."
he said picking up a gaunlet and pulled the small box off
the wrist. he showed her the underside, all the small egg
like things had red stripes on them "concusive mini frag
granades, for those times when you just gotta spit something
in their face."
he did the same with the other gauntlet before pulling a
small packet of disks of out his pocket "i love these
things, none lethal but whoa baby what a mess it can make!"
he chuckled popping the clip out of the rist launchers and
carefully put them away before loading the disks in an empty
launcher and clapped it back on the gauntlet "why would you
need that here?" she asked. he looked at her "ryogas not
going to let me take you without a fight love."
he looked at her for a minute before pulling her into his
lap and looked her in the eye "i love you, theres slim to no
chance i'm coming back to earth once i leave it." he kissed
her softly "lets please forget the last ten years and start
over? i want you.... please say you'll come with me? you'll
love the world i found, its beautiful, at dusk, the sea
turns all golden and ranbow like formations fill the air for
a few minutes, its breath taking."
she smiled leaning into him "but... ranma, i still feel like
i don't deserve you." she whispered softly. he smiled "then
i guess a repeat of last night is in order huh?" he said
kissing her chin "we can continue to do it, until you feel
like i do, that the only think you need to do, is come with
me, or we find out your carrying my child." he said grinning
happily at that idea. she smiled back at him "yes, i'll... i
want you to take me until i've paid for hurting you." she
agreed. ranma face faulted "urk... then i guess that means
your coming with me, because i can't continue to punish you
if i'm not here." he said reasonably. she giggled covering
her mouth and nodded "i guess it does."
when the two came down to breakfast everyone blinked seeing
that akane was wearing a pair of ranmas pants and a shirt
too large for her, clearly stating whos room she had stayed
in last night. nodoka covered her mouth in shock "but son!
this is so improper!" she was shocked. ranma shrugged "try
spending six weeks rapped up in a thermo blanket buck naked
with a squad mate, and both of them men, don't tell me what
improper is! i almost got court marshaled when he groped
me."
she looked as sick at the others "why did you almost get
court marshaled?" akane asked hoping. ranma smirked at her
"i spaced him and kept the blanket myself. our ship had been
damaged and our powerplant couldn't keep the heaters going,
the ships temperature dropped below minus two hundred, the
thermos were like life jackets for extremely cold
temperatures. the scumbag got me wet and tried something, i
broke his neck, my squad mates, the greatest men and women in
the space forces." he raised a glass to the wall "suited him
up and catapulted him into the gas giant we were stranded
around. said he'd thought he could rig the radio antenna and
got knocked off the side of the ship by a passing rock, they
were pissed because i wouldn't share the blanket with anyone
else."
he looked at them "at that temperature water crystalizes,
hot water was a dream." they nodded understanding "so how
long were you stuck out there?" tofu asked interested, ranma
grinned around the table at the people, akane sat next to
him, nibiki sat by her side. kisumi sat with one teen and
two kids between her and tofu. akari, who had refused to
look at either of them since they entered, had the baby ranma
had seen akane with and a six year old, suprisingly, nodoka
had a small boy between her and soun "eight weeks, the girls
in the squad thought it was so hilarious when the body's cycle
kicked in and let me exsperiance my first period. the ship
that rescued us never found out why the captain was so pissed
off. the brass desided to view it as anger at letting my
transport get holed."
nibiki started the laughing and most of the others piped in,
even his mother. he glared soarly at them and looked at the
teens blinking in confusion "watch this." he said pulling a
small box off his belt and the field they didn't realize was
surrounding him blinked out "its a low level force field that
rapidly heats water thrown at me. i designed it." he set it
down and akane poured a glass of water over his head. nodoka
almost shreeked when the rinkle all of them had over looked
became a light pink scar running across her left eye and
cheek. she smirked "hey, great job they did in regrowing my
eye huh?"
nodoka was looking closely at it "what did this to you?" she
asked. ranma shrugged "buddies granade launcher got pegged,
blew up a few inches from my head, helmet absorbed most of
it, sent the face plate into my face though. woke up in a tank
filled with regen chems." she shrugged taking the tea cup
kisumi handed him and poured it over his head. the kids
looked awed by it. he chuckled putting the device back into
its holder. the boy between soun and nodoka came around the
table and looked at him "are you my brother?"
ranma blinked at him interestedly "well, you have my eyes,
my cheek bones, souns mouth... yep, your my brother
alright." he said scrubbing the little boys head. he grinned
"is it true you killed a dragon?" he asked. ranma chuckled
and nodded "yes i did. a mean bugger he was! but i've kill
lots meaner things since then." the boy looked wide eyed at
the idea "like what?" he asked ranma grinned "well, i met
this here thing, looked like a cross between a duck, and a
tyranosaur, big bugger, and twice as mean as that dragon."
he held up his finger before reaching into his sleave. the
next thing they knew he was pulling a inch and a half wide
tube out of his shirt, it was a foot long "this was one of
its smaller teeth, the rest would require a transport to
carry."
he grimaced "too bad it was only a infant though." he
remarked shaking his head. "why is that?" kisumi took the
bait innocently. he chuckled "we had to evac the planet when
its mother tried to eat our drop ship!" he cackled holding
out his hands "this kid was sixty feet tall, they sent me
out to kill it when it started harrassing the drop ship, its
mother tried to eat it in one bite. we had to launch a nuke
in its face to get it to let go, as far as i know, it
survived the blast, the captain of the ship that had taken
us there kept the tooth we found in the ships hull, mounted
in the bridge as a trophy."
akane giggled "come on! your kidding right?" she said
looking over the tooth clutched reverently in the boys
hands. ranma shook his head pulling a holo projector out of
his belt and hit the button on it a few times, flipping
through pictures of verious scenes with troopers in armor
or just sitting around drinking beer. he blushed seeing one
and looked apologetically at nodoka when they realized what
that trooper was doing with her rifle "i thought i had
gotten rid of that!" he laughed then stopped at one showing
a great gapping hole with white spikes in the scene "this
picture was taken from the dropships bridge."
he chuckled flipping it a few more times and came to a
picture of ranma holding a huge gun standing in front of a
large green and black head, the rows of teeth next to his
head going far up into the top of the holo "took six shots
from that thing to drop it." he said shaking his head. the
kids breathed in awe "were you scared?" one of tofus kids
asked. ranma sat strait "a space merine can laugh at the
devil at his scariest!" he said heroically then leaned close
"because we seen stuff a lot scarier!" he looked frightened
and grinned when they giggled. he smirked "i remember one
time, a buddy of mine, he done got himself eaten whole by
this... large crab thing, well we tracked it for a mile and
sure enough, we found the thing layed out dead on its side,
seems its stomach disagreed with the grenades he set off in
it." he said smirking "did he survive?!" another one asked
waiting excitedly. ranma shook his head "nope, the blast
shattered his face plate and the things belly turned him into
a bag of nasty gelly and bones, icky."
soun chuckled coming out onto the porch next to him and lit
a pipe "your good with kids." he murmured. ranma shrugged
"hey, you spend a lot of time riding herd on a bunch of jar
heads and kids are a sinch." soun smiled "the service seems
to have loosened you up a lot." he murmured. ranma shrugged
"eyes wide shut, thats me. finding out what life really is
tends to bring a dreamer to his knees."
soun nodded "what are your intentions concerning akane?" he
asked softly. ranma thought about it before taking a drag on
his cigar "i'm going to demand ryoga release akane from her
marrage and restore honor to akari. shes had two kids by him
and their not married." soun nodded "shes had to bare a lot
of things for love of that man." ranma nodded "if he
refuses... i'll make akane a widow."
at dinner he was confronted by the kids "tell us another
story!" they chorused. ranma seluted with his chop sticks,
before eating the pickle in them "ok.... lets see... nope,
can't tell that one, at least for a few years.... ah! we
were ridin' patrol though this wierd forest, the docs swore
the trees were made of silk so we were sent in to figure out
why the retreval teams kept disappearin'! well i was in this
one part of the forest, when i bumped into a low hangin'
branch." he rung his hands "the next thing i know, this
thing, it looked like the grand daddy of the biggest,
ugliest, and ickiest spider the devil ever cringed from. it
had twenty glowin' red eyed and its teeth was in its belly.
well, i end up strung up in the trees with this thing tryin'
ta get me in its belly." he held up his arm and flexed his
muscles looking brave "well, i screamed like a woman until
someone came along and shot it." he cackled at the
disgruntled look on the boys faces "it couldn't penetrate
my armor but wasn't givin' up on its snack, well i was
stuck, if i done like my friend with the crab it would shatter
my face plate, i didn't want to be an icky puddle, so i
screamed into my radio until someone came around to shut me
up. then they had the nerve to ask me what my intentions
towards the poor thing were."
he grimaced "they thought i was playing with it!" he said
looking weirded out. they chuckled "seems the 'trees' were
the base of a large suspended city of spiders. see, they
were breaking apart the city's supports so they sent out
gaurds to look after them. the langauge team had a bitch of
a time learning how they comunicated while the things were
chewing on the cages we sent them in with, one of the poor
fellows is in a padded room over coming a severe case of
icky."
"whats that?" tofus youngest daughter asked. he grinned
"well icky is when you see something slimy and just... icky!
its where you see it and just gotta shiver and rub your
arms. like when you walk into a spider web." he said making
a face. she nodded wrinkling her nose "icky!"
ranma pulled his bike to a stop and leaned against a light
post before lighting up a cigar and waited. after a minute
another bike pulled up and he grinned at his friend "brock.
hows your reunion going?" he asked. he snorted "my mother
remarried and my sisters husband ran out on her and three
kids."
ranma nodded taking a drag "same with my mother, got a
little brother now. wife died in child birth, sold her
restraunt to the father. boon though, got my girl back and
her sisters gonna throw in with us and relocate her company
there." he growled holding up a pamplet "fuck man! you got
tendo corps to come with us?! they're weapons manufacturers!"
he got on his knee "can i call you god?"
ranma chuckled "yes you may, not only is she the sole owner
but shes gonna get our stuff for us at a tenth the price we
thought we would have to pay, shes 'donating' her companies
flagship as transport as our 'sponsoring' company." he
chuckled. he whistled "thats sweet, the gov will be forced
to hang back a lot longer now." ranma nodded "the story is
that shes relocating her company there after excepting an
offer from me to get away from this shit hole, and the fact
that we can set up quicker with comerce next door."
he nodded "your our god, i'll spread the news, what do you
want us to buy?" he asked. ranma grinned "civy things if
you can swing a few jets please do, we can retro fit them
there. our corperate goddess is supplying all the
military equip we may need, all we need to do is put it
together once we arrive." he nodded looking admiring "any
chance someones entered a bid on the place?" he asked. ranma
grinned "yep! our partner entered one bare minutes before i
entered ours. tomarrow we'll go in together and post a dual
claim."
he nodded "they would be suspicious of a company alone but
since you threw in with them their more likely to trust
them, your as clean as a sheet of paper, regular boyscout."
ranma had just gotten off the bike when it exsploded forcing
him to dodge to the side. he looked up and smirked at ryoga
when he came out of the shadows "your going to regret coming
home bastard!" he snarled. ranma shrugged waiting "thats big
talk for an honorless father of bastards." he taunted
looking suddenly disaproving "you slimy bastard, you force
akane to stay in a marrage she doesn't want then you force
akari to disgrace herself just so you got something to
fuck!"
ryoga blanched then snarled "you shut up about them!!" he
yelled. ranma smirked at him "you only just got back haven't
you?" he mused then chuckled standing strait "hibiki ryoga!
i here by challange you! if i win you will release akane
from her vows and for gods sake give akari her honor back!
do you know how humiliating it is to know your kids can't
ever be recognized because your not married to the man your
sleeping with?!" he demanded. ryoga launched himself at him
"shut up and fight!" he yelled throwing lightning fast
punches, faster then the chestnut fist thanks to his
implants. ranma snorted blocking all of them and slammed him
into the outer wall "do you think you can take a space
merine boy!? hell i've taken things that would laugh at you
for daring to raise a fist at it! hear me now hibiki! if you
do not yield to this i will be forced to end your life! at
least your death will end some of the dishonor you force on
her everytime you go to her bed!"
ryoga stopped for a minute and tensed up "you shut up! you
don't know what your talking about!" he shouted. ranma
snorted "i know that you refused to end a marrage that
neither of you wanted and proceeded to make akari a nameless
mistress!" ryoga screamed enraged and ranma smirked waiting
for him to get close enough then fired his wrist launcher at
him. ryoga screamed in pain as the thing hit his chest and
eletricity burst around him before a white light flashed
and he crumpled to the ground "hey! what'd you do to me!?!"
he yelled struggling to the one leg that worked and his right
arm. ranma pulled out a water hose "EM pulse grenade, it
fries out any and all electronic device around you."
he motioned to the water hose "do i do it ryoga? you
remember what happened to shampoo, she got breast implants
and a langauge module implanted. you saw what happened." he
said softly. ryoga looked horrified "you... you would do
that... to me?" he breathed. ranma arched an eye brow "hell
i should do it because of what you did to my bike! but no, i
won't do it." he got in his face "if you sware on what honor
you have left that you'll end that sham marrage and make
akari official."
ryoga snarled softly at him "what? so you can have akane?!"
he demanded. ranma got closer in his face "i already have
her, make your choice quick, those implants i fried are
gonna start hurtin'." ryoga looked at the hose then at the
others, they had seen the whole thing, he paled seeing akari
look down from his question and nodded "i sware."
ranma tossed the hose away and pressed a small device to his
belt "it heats cold water." he explained as he helped him
into the house. after the hospital had been called and he had
been taken away akane and akari aproached him "would...
would you have really killed him?" akarl asked softly. he
nodded "you set aside your honor for the clueless idiot, if
he had made you do it knowingly i would have killed him. no
man has the right to force a woman to bare his children out
of wed lock."
ranma was sitting on the stone lantern with his back to the
wall when his little brother came out and looked at him
"how did you dodge his punches?" he asked. ranma looked down
at him and smirked reaching over and snagged the back of his
shirt. he yelped until he realized that he was bringing him
to sit on his lap "i trained in our family's martial arts
since i was four, its hard for me not to win a fight. then i
joined the space merines and learned the price of learning
the art of war. its not the most rewarding path, but it
does have some good points, its a way of life really. if
your not sure you want a life with the art and little else,
then you should take up something else."
he looked troubled "but you did it! you got lots of neat
things!" he protested. ranma looked at him sadly "did you
ever know the panda? ol' man genma?" he asked. the boy
nodded wrinkling his nose "i didn't like him." ranma nodded
"i grew up with him. i never had a choice in if i wanted to
learn the art. my pop forced it on me, said it was my duty.
he took me from momma, i didn't see her for the next twelve
years. you saw how momma acts around me right?" he asked. he
nodded "she acts like she does when a salemen she wants to
leave comes over." he agreed then his eyes widened in
horror.
ranma chuckled slightly looking away "ya, like someone she
wants to go away." he looked at the boy "martial arts ruined
my life bro. pop took me from mom when i was younger then
you, and i had no friends, rare was it i got to have fun.
then when he brought me back... mom didn't like me anymore."
he blinked his eyes a few times "everything i have, i got for
myself, they turned me into someone only others like me can
like, i only started having friends when i joined the
merines, because they were like me, no one let them have
peace when they were younger. i'm thirty two, and i'm only
now starting to make something for myself, everyone wanted
things from me, they never let me have what i wanted."
his brother sat there silently for a few minutes before
hugging him "do you think mom will hate me when i get
older?" he asked softly. ranma chuckled "no worries bro,
parental hatred is reserved for the oldest son. and thats me
you know? your lucky though, your the baby of the family so
everyone will love you." he looked up and saw tears in
ranmas eyes "do you love me?" he asked. ranma rubbed his
head "of course, why wouldn't i?" he looked down "i don't
know, mom said you might hate me." ranma made him look at
him "kanada, look at me." he looked deeply in his eyes "moms
got a lotta funny ideas about what being a man is, just
remember that she is not a man, only men really know what
being a man is like, and what ever you do... do ever, in all
your life, sign a contract with her. mom and pop ruined my
life by signing a contract. don't ever sign one or let
someone do it for you. you're your own person and they don't
have the right to force you into something you think is
wrong."
ranma let the boy go and sat there miserably for the next
half hour before soun and kisumi came out to frown at him
"did you have to ryle the boy so much ranma?" soun asked
softly. ranma took a drag on his cigar "givin' mom the third
degree huh?" he asked. soun nodded "he came in demanding to
know if we had any contracts about him. after we said no he
demanded to know why nodoka signed a contract to make you
miserable."
ranma chuckled softly "i'll be, someone who stuck up for me,
for once, kind of wish i'd had a brother growing up." he
shook his head before looking at the two "is he really wrong
soun?" he asked softly. soun nodded "you over simplified
it!" he growled. ranma looked at him "i lived here for three
years before shampoo did her thing, do you remember anyone
saying anything about the concept of ranmas birthday?"
soun started to say something when the realization made his
mouth drop open "you... never?" he asked aghast at the idea.
ranma laughed shakily "sure, my friend threw me a party this
year. before that... not after pop snatched me, my friends
were shocked three years ago when the records officer
comented on the date to a friend. they were horrified that i
didn't know what birthdays were for, i mean, i knew everyone
had one, but i never realized that i should have... had one
too." he chuckled wiping the tears from his eyes "but what
the hell, i was ranma, everyones whiping boy, not even worth
the two cents that they used to conceive me."
he looked at kisumi when she touched his arm "oh ranma...."
she started before hurrying back into the house "but thats
the past, from now on, i'm out to do things for me and those
who are my family, those that want me. its sad, i never
really felt wanted until after being in the merines a few
months, everyone back here was either an enemy or they
didn't care enough to love me. but they loved me, they took
pride in the fact that i was one of them, we took for
granted the fact that we would always back each other up,
like a real family i hear."
ranma looked up from his seat and blinked at akane, soun had
taken up a sitting position near him so ranma would see
that he wasn't alone in his misery. ranma smiled slightly a
her "whats the damage?" he asked and chuckled when she
blinked in confusion "its a military phrase, meaning what
did i do and how do you think i should fix it?" he asked and
she smirked at him "your mothers in an unholy snit about you
cluing kanada to what she was like when she was still
married to genma, she really has changed ranma."
he raised an invisable glass "i'm glad to hear it, bro don't
need that kind of pain. too bad the frosty disgust still
applies to me huh?" he asked stubbing out the last of his
cigar on the heel of his boot. he jumped down and sighed
"great, now i gotta get another bike." he muttered
remembering the slag ryoga had made of his other one. he
shook his head "don't worry soun, i'll get a room in a
hotel, keep from upsetting the kids with the truth."
ranma was sitting disconsolately in the hotel bar looking
out at the city when someone jostled his elbow. he looked up
and blinked at soun and tofu "hey there step dad! step
brother in law." he greeted them jovelly. soun sat down next
to him "we want you to come back ranma." tofu said softly.
ranma blinked at him "why? i'm shipping out for good in a
few days." he said and tipped a glass to the city below him
"your what?!" soun exclaimed. ranma nodded almost bowing
"yep! my platoon brothers and sisters and i all got together
and desided that we don't like earth all that much, i mean,
wheres the trees?! where i grew up trees were everywhere!
now you gotta go inna mall or someones yard to look at a
tree. well i'm sick of it! i joined the merines to save the
world from turning ugly, and i find out... our own people
did it for the bad guys!"
he looked at soun "what the hell happened to that tree that
was in the back yard!?!? it was one of the tallest in nerima
and now its gone! what the hell was i fightin' for?! the
earth i fought for no longer exists! i killed everything
they tol' me to kill to keep my earth safe! 'cept it don'
exist anymore. those that didn't care about keeping us safe
ruined it!" he looked about to cry "the planet itself has
rejected my efforts. i had nothin' but the dirt under my
feet and the trees around me, now thats gone. this place
ain't my home. so i'm turning colonist! got a good world no
ones touched yet, trees everywhere and these cute little
monkey things that love humans. we're gonna go there, and
we're gonna keep the bad guys out. they turned earth into
one big factory, well not gonna happen to our world!"
the bartender shook his head as soun caught him after he
crumpled from tofus tap on the neck "poor guy, how long was
he out?" he asked. soun sighed "ten years." he said. the
guy whistled "a career officer then! two years is the limit
they set because few want to be in the merines that long, he
musta been a real patriot." soun nodded "ranma felt very
proud of earth. hes just in shock over what its turned
into." the man nodded "ya, most of the people that survive
service ship out to the collonies like that, disheartened by
the fact that their sacrifice wasn't worth much."
tofu looked at the man "you a merine?" he asked. he nodded "i
knew my broken hearted brothers and sisters would sooner or
later stumble across me in their grief, so i stayed put and
when i see them, i talk them into shiping out. earth is a
dinosaur thats going to be a dead planet due to our own
stupidity. at least i know some of the worthy will survive
this planets last gasp."
ranma groaned waking up slowly and blinked at the ceiling
over his head. he frowned, it didn't look like the top bunk
in his room on ship, was he on leave? he sat up and blinked
at the room around him then sobered seeing his travel kit.
he sighed looking around him again and got up. he yawned
pulling his boxers on and looked out into the hall before
heading for the bathroom, absently rubbing the head of the
child he passed.
he blinked when he finished noticing his mother
waiting in the hall "i see you've taken up your fathers
hobby of drinking yourself unconscious." she said
disaprovingly. ranma didn't reply as he passed her and
walked back to his room to dress. he blinked seeing akane
in the door way "you look better then i would have
suspected." she murmured. ranma snorted "tofu put me out, i
can drink happosai under the table three times over and
still be able to kick ryogas ass."
she blinked "you didn't drink yourself out?!" she exclaimed.
ranma chuckled slightly "my body's partially immune to
alcoholic drinks, i once drank the comanding officers of our
regiment under the table on a bet, on leave of course." he
said winking at her. she giggled following him into the room
"my divorce was offical three hours ago." she murmured. he
stopped what he was doing and looked up at her. he grinned
walking over and took her into his arms "well yah for small
pleasures." he murmured pulling her tight against him and
grinned at her "time for another punishment?" he asked
huskily. she nodded grinning from ear to ear "oh yes, i need
you to punish me."
"ah... ranma can i please speak to you?" they looked up
seeing his mother in the door. ranma sighed "right now mom?
can't it wait a few hours?" he asked. nodoka shook her head
sharply and he rolled his eyes letting go of akane "let me
get my pants." he muttered pulling the things on and
followed her, looking like he was really annoyed with having
to do it.
when they got to the room she was taking him to she slapped
him "how dare you tell your brother such lies!?!" she hissed
angrily. he looked disinterested "and what is it that you
think was a lie?" he asked examining his fingers. she glared
"you told him i purposefully ruined your life because of
that damned oath!" she answered. ranma looked at her "didn't
you?"
she moved to hit him again and blinked when he was suddenly
on the other side of the room "if you weren't pressuring me
into doing the worst things you were demanding i stop doin'
things you found disgusting, face it mom, you ruined my
life. first you let that moron steal me away and then you
rejected me when you realized how much of a mistake that
was. then you tormented me when i was most confused, you were
just as responsable for akane resisting loving me as pop
was, you with your 'manly things."
he looked contemptiously at her "what the hell do you know
about being a man?! nothing thats what. you don't know the
first thing about it, how DARE you think you have a right to
judge my manhood. you may have been the woman that gave
birth to me, but i never had a real mother, a mother is
love. a child learns to love from their mother, i learned
duty and close mindedness. ya, you ruined my life." he
smirked grimly "you should be happy, theres an impossibly
large chance that you'll never see me again." he nodded to
the knowing look in her eyes "i'm leaving this mud ball for
good. this isn't the planet i grew up on, but then again,
thats how it always is for me isn't it? something sweet and
beautiful when i left, it turned into something ugly and
twisted, not even what i left any more."
when he came back into the bedroom he sat down on the bed
and covered his face with his hands. when akane came over he
rapped his arms around her and sobbed into her stomach
"whats wrong ranma?" she asked. he didn't look up "that woman
is not my mother, she looks like her and sounds like her...
but she isn't. my mother loved me once, i was a fool thinkin'
she would want me now. she... was happy i'm leaving, said i
was a bad infulence on my brother, said she didn't want me
ruining him with what i am." she hugged his head and just
let him grieve "she wants to erase me like something she
made a mistake with, like she mispelled something."
she pushed him back on the bed and layed down with him,
holding him close "i'm here ranma, i'll be with you as long
as you want." she whispered. he nodded hugging her then
blinked hearing the sniffle from the other side of the room.
he sat up and blinked seeing the little boy on the other
side of the room "kanada." he said softly walking over to
him and hugged him when he jumped into his arms "why are you
leaving? i only just met you!" he cried. ranma cried with
him "mom don't want me to be your brother kanada, she wants
me ta go away and stop bein' your brother."
he cried harder "but i want you to be my brother! everyone
else has a brother, why can't i?" he sobbed. ranma hugged
him "i wanna be your brother too, but i can't if mom says
no. she wants me gone and i have ta, shes mom and we gotta
do what she says. she loves.... you.... and feels it isn't ok
for us to be brothers. and... i love momma... so i'm gonna
go away, like she wants." he said choking on the words. he
let him go and looked at him, he was crying as much as ranma
was. he smiled and laughed softly "only known ya two days
and i love ya... i love ya and... maybe... maybe you come
visit me when your older?" he asked pleadingly. he nodded
crying softly now "ok, where are you going?" he asked. ranma
pinched his nose "don't worry, kisumi will always know where
to find me. or your dad."
he nodded wiping his eyes and bolted suddenly from the
room. ranma pressed his fist to the floor looking like he
was in pain "why is she doing this akane? i really wish i
knew what i had done..." he stood up and wiped his eyes
"fuck it. i have business to do today, the sooner we get it
done the sooner we can be gone." he said walking over to
his stuff and scrubbed his face vigoriously with the towel
before pulling out a nice pants suit in dark green and
pushed his pants down "can i go?" she asked. he smiled at
her "you've got packing to do love, as soon as i get back
we're gonna transfer to the space port hostel."
nibiki looked ranma over when he came into the den, she was
carrying a brief case, not unlike his and shook her head
"the sooner we're gone the better." she muttered. he nodded
"so lets go." he said and nodded to the others looking
almost like a robot his face was so devoid of life. she
sighed walking him to the car she called for them "tell me
again." she prompted. he sighed "i'm not really feeling like
talking much nibiki." he murmured softly. she nodded looking
sad "its not that big a deal, our mom died remember?" she
asked. he nodded sharply "your mother didn't come back from
the dead and write you off as a spelling error."
ranma looked up at the building they came to and nodded
starting up the stairs. nibiki blinked when he absently
returned the selutes given to him "come here often?" she
asked. he snorted seluting another "i served with a lot of
these men nibiki, if they don't know me personally then
they've had their asses saved by a platoon under my comand."
he murmured and got a chuckle from the merine in the
elevator "you can say that again, general saotome sir, its
an honor to see you again." he murmured shaking his hand
before exiting the lift. ranma smiled at him and crossed his
hands behind his back "the merine corps has the tendancy of
making all merines your brother or sister during your time
with them. only the ones that don't want to be a part of the
family bow out or die by misterious means." he murmured and
grinned at a man that chuckled at him "accidental general."
ranma entered the room and seluted the four men as they
seluted him "i must say, you've chosen rather quickly
general, any reason why?" one of them ask. ranma looked at
him stonily "i find that the stories of the merine returning
home and not finding it, are true. its still there, but it
isn't the home i left. and i find i am even less welcome
there then i was before joining. i also heard of another bid
on the planet i wanted by ms tendo here."
he motioned to nibiki and she smirked "i... confronted her on
her reasons for the bid and... was rather suprised." he gave
way to nibiki. she cleared her throat "as far as we know,
this planet is worthless to your company ms tendo." one of
the men murmured. nibiki nodded "i'm aware of that. i'm not
after its resources, if there be any, i found the generals
description of the planet... something i miss. i'm dearly
tired of the ugly heap that once was a beautiful city. i
grew up in nerima ward, it was a beautiful place a scant
fifteen years ago, now its... a shit hole, borrowing from
the generals phrases."
the four men nodded, they knew ranma as well as he knew them
"you want to take such an industrialized company as tendo
corps and move it to this world?" the american asked, not
liking the idea. ranma cleared his throat "she plans on
leaving all but the corprate offices here, only a minimal
manufacturing installation will be installed for planetary
defences, the main body of the company will be here."
the general blinked "how can you be sure of this?" he asked.
ranma smirked slightly "because i'll be damned in hell
before those skies are poluted, i'd bomb the place myself.
as you may know, the regiment i last comanded has... honored
me by requesting transport on the colony ship that will
take us to the planet i choose, i'm thinking the government
might not mind a planet out in that sector with a full
regament and... space potental?" he smirked at them, running
a finger along the side of his nose "sirs i am dearly tired
of civies and their short sighted behaviors, when i first
saw this place... i didn't want to leave, and i turned in my
report on it feeling sick at the thought of civies tearing
down the forests for more ugly factories. i want to set up a
haven for us jar heads that hate whats been done to earth."
all four of them looked pleased "and how are you going to
handle it?" the spaniard asked smiling. ranma grinned
"autonimious government, we'll make it so the conditions for
settlement is that you must have served at least two years
in the merines. that is, once we get set up. ms tendo likes
the idea. she yearns for the beauty lost as much as a merine
and has agreed to offer herself as a corperate sponsor, see,
if a company is already in residance then another company
can't claim that part of the charter laws."
they nodded "so your throwing in with one you know over one
you don't." one of them surmised. ranma nodded "what better
company to have on a planet settled by merines then a
weapons manufacturerer?"
nibiki was chuckling when they got back to the house "that
was a good one ranma, giving them the option to settle there
once they retire." she said. ranma smirked at her "i wasn't
kinding." she stopped at the door "are you serious?! you
want them to figure it out?" she demanded. ranma looked at her
"a general in the governments comand has one loyalty, to the
government. a retired general newly settled has one loyalty,
to the planet that welcomed him. he owes no aliegance to any
flag but the one that keeps his plot of trees standing."
she blinked at that and shook her head "you seem to think you
know them well." she said disgruntled. ranma chuckled "i
pulled the spanaird from a slagged tank as we were retreating
from 43209 of sector G, i saved the american from being
eaten on beta collony when the caroniverous rhinos were
discovered there. i know all of those men nibiki the only
merine i haven't met is the one that signed up within the
last six months, anything before that then i must have
fought beside him or saved her at one time or other. the
colonial merine corps is a very tightly nit group."
she nodded looking thoughtful "and thats why a whole regiment
of your peers are willing to gamble on your taste?" she
asked. ranma chuckled "every one of those men and women
would take a hit for me, the same here, if someone was gonna
shoot one in the back, i would take the hit then kill the
bugger. the merine corps is almost a brotherhood, you can't
help but love them." he said smirking. he smiled at kanada
when he walked up to him "hey there bro, whats goin' on?"
he looked at nodoka and soun and looked down "nothin'."
ranma nodded losing the happy look on his face and the mask
fell back into place "i'm gonna go pack." he murmured
leaving the room. nibiki glared in disgust at the two
parents "same here." she spat leaving the room "what?!" soun
exclaimed. nibiki stopped and looked back at them "i'm going
with ranma and akane, i hate whats happened to this world and
this family, i'll not let the poison that is in the air do
to any family i start do what it did to this one."
kisumi looked at tofu meaningfully and he sighed nodding "i
think maybe we should go with them too, i miss the times
when the sky was a clear blue color." he said looking sadly
at kanada before leaving the room with his wife. kanada
started crying and looked at his parents with betrayal all
over his face before bolting from the room. soun looked
grimly at the floor, torn about what to do. nodoka covered
her face and wept retchedly "why did he have to come back!?"
she cried softly. soun snorted in disgust and stalked out
of the room.
ranma came into his room and stopped reaching for his bag
seeing akane asleep in his bed. he smiled softly and took up
the bag quietly and started loading it "um? ranma?" she
called sleepily and looked at him. he smiled dropping the
bag "we're go hon, got your bags packed?" he asked softly
coming over to look at her. she smiled offering her arm. he
smiled leaning down and kissed her deeply "can we spend a
few hours in bed first?" she pouted. he smiled " i hear sex
in free fall is the best." he said coaxingly. she looked
really interested "really?"
when ranma and akane came out of the room and into the den
they blinked seeing everyone but nodoka holding suitcases or
travel packs "whats this?" he asked. kisumi smiled "i would
really like to have a real garden ranma." she said happily.
tofu smiled "its been a while since i could breath deeply
enough and not start coughing from whath evers in the air,
and i want my kids to know what the outdoors used to look
like." nibiki smirked "i want to see this golden sunset you
spoke of." soun came in with kanada looking wide eyed in
shock "ranma, you are our family, we will not permit
misplaced anger keep to us apart. your brother needs you."
ranma looked distressed "but... what about mom? you can't
just leave her! thats what pop did!" he said gripping the
sides of his head "how can you care what she feels after
what she did to you?" nibiki asked. he glared at her
"because! shes my momma and i know how much it hurt her when
pop took me from her! he abandoned her for twelve years! we
can't do it again..." he looked up hearing someone clear
their throat and blinked at nodoka. she looked down from
their eyes "if ranmas leaving takes my family from me...
then i have no choice but to ask if i can come too."
ranma looked at her "i won't let 'em abandon you momma, you
may hate me but i won't let 'em abandon you like pop did,
not for me, i'm not worth it!" nodoka couldn't look at the
pain in either of her sons faces and took a deep breath "may
i come with you ranma? i don't want to be abandoned either,
i know... i'm sorry i blame you... i can't help it. maybe if
i knew you as more then a face and a few details... can
we... try?"
ranma grinned as he stepped out of the lift and seluted the five
solders in the docking ring seeing to the loading of supplies
"sargent gorden!" he barked startling them and they all burst out
laughing after a minute of staring. ranma hugged all of them
tightly before turning back to the two that had come with him
"hey guys, i want you to meet, tendo nibiki, shes our supplier
and the one thats going to help make us all rich." he said
motioning to her. she smirked "i'm also going to set up my
company's head quarters on our new home, i hope ranmas descripion
of space merines isn't exajerated."
the taller of them chuckled walking up and kissed her hand softly
"if you can get us the stuff, we'll give you a military scarier
then the one we just came from." he rumbled winking at her. she
smiled slightly at the interested look in his eye and lifted an
eye brow at him "so whos the little trooper general?" a red headed
woman that kept the sides shaved and the rest as long as she could
said picking kanada up. he grinned at the pride on ranmas face
"this is my little brother kanada."
she grinned kissing his cheek "hes cute! doesn't look much like
you." she comented getting a chuckle "stow that soldier, so did we
get everything on our christmas list?" he asked looking at the
loading chart brock handed him "all but the in system propulsion
systems for the planet hoppers." he murmured. ranma nodded "we
would only have to refit them anyways, we gotta get down there
and figure out the requirements then make them ourselves."
he nodded "although..." he stoped biting his lip "well i was at
this convention for rock miners and i saw this system, it was
sweet, they're using it for retro burst regulations, but with the
right mods it could out do the f54's guidance systems but ten
points. the only problem was, they're not sellin'. if i could get
one i could redo it and upgrade all our tracking systems for a
six milli jump on everthing the corps has."
ranma nodded liking the idea and looked at nibiki. she
smirked "tell me who made it and i'll see what i can do."
she said calmly and brock grinned in pleasure "oh i like her
ranma."
ranma looked up from the view port in front of him as the
door opened and he nodded to his mother looking back at the
window, unable to look at her for long. she sighed sadly
walking over and looked at her feet "ranma. i know... we
never had the relationship either of us wanted after you
came back from training with... genma... you never tried
talking to me, when ever i came to see you... you always
found a way to dodge me. for a while... i thought you hated
me for letting genma take you from me. i admit, i wasn't
very willing to ajust to the way you were... i thought... i
thought you were happier as his son then mine."
ranma didn't speak for a minute "mom, i was a very confused
and unhappy young man when you finally found me at the
tendos. i had a lot of anger and pain in me that i couldn't
figure out where it belonged. no one was willing to fit me
in anywhere, i didn't know where i belonged and that made me
want to keep away from everyone. if i said i wasn't mad at
you i would be lying. all i could see was that.... you
promised me, before pop took me away, that you would be
there, and that you would love me when he let me come home.
when you found out.... you became less and less like the
person i needed as time grew on. i needed help, i was
stuck, i didn't know what i was or where i belonged, i was
upset because.... you were more of a mother to me before
you knew who i was."
he closed his eyes not wanting to look at the tears in her
eyes "i needed someone to rescue me from the pit i was in.
but no one ever even tried, and whats worse, no one wanted
me to escape. all i knew was that i had a hole in my chest
where i imagine love goes. no one loved me growing up, and
when the one person i depended on to ease this pain i had
found me, you turned your back on me. you were nicer to me
when you thought i was ranko. do you know how much that
hurt? that the one person i believed with all my heart would
save me from this thing i was drowning in, just watched me
sink."
he shook his head moving away from her "all i needed was
someone to ease my agony, someone who loved me. in all the
world, not one single solitatry person could muster more
then an idle curiousity about whether i lived or died. i
know.... some of this is my fault i should have said
something. but i could say the same for you. you never tried
to help me. all i got from you was disaproving looks and a
cold shoulder. that told me that you didn't want to know me,
you weren't going to keep your promise."
he looked up when a soft chiming sound came over the comm
"general, something you should see up here." a female voice
came to them. ranma walked to the door and touched the
button for the ridge "on my way." he looked back at his
mother "the fact that i came back, should be enough of a
sign that i want you to honor your promise."
ranma blinked walking into the bridge and blinked at the face
of a rather ugly purple lizard thing "i say again, this
planet has been claimed by the gokorian imperium!" he
hissed. ranma walked over and touched the ships captain on
the shoulder "let me talk to him." he murmured. he nodded
quickly leaving the chair and waving him to it, he was
scared shitless. ranma tapped a few keys on the board and
the lizard blinked at him "another human to whine at us?" he
spat. ranma smirked at him "no, i'm comanding general saotome
of the human empire. when can you tell me was a claim was made
on this planet?"
the lizard hissed loudly "saotome? the butcher of galon
three?!" he snarled. ranma smirked at him "so it seems. just
so you know snake, i've personally laid claim to this
planet. do you really think i'm going to let you take it
from me?" he rested his chin on his palm "this does not
matter!! you are a colony ship, i am two destroyers!" he
hissed in tryumph. ranma smirked at him slightly "i'll do you
a favor snake, scan my ship again and tell me if you still
feel brave." he looked off to his side "disengage ships cloak
for a minute." he comanded to brock who had comendeered the
sensor station when he sat down "cloak disengaging sir!" he
barked loudly and ranma nodded seeing the lizard jump and the
paniced hissing of his bridge crew when they got the
readings "how is dreadnought hid in colony ship?!?!" he
shreeked at his crew. ranma chuckled when he looked back at
him "i'm in a rather good mood right now snake, if you were
smart, you would forget ever seeing this system, or would
you rather no one ever see you again?"
after he'd cut off signal and brock reported their engines
starting the crew clapped softly "how did you know he would
pull out?" the captain asked, as awed by the inccident as
kanada who was looking on excited as hell. ranma chuckled
sitting back in the chair "snakes have a strange way of
associating things. my comand was sent in to pull out the
one already on the planet, we got there and we went down and
did our thing, this was back before we figured out that
sonics were there weakness, so the battle was long and
annoying."
he smirked "we were there for the ... fifth?" he looked at
brock. he nodded "fifth day. and we were assaulting this
valley where a platoon was pinned down. in this damned
valley was the largest bronze bell we'd ever seen, it was
huge, it was also where our platoon was." he rolled his eyes
"well we fought hard for three days and finally cut a path
through the ugly bastards when one of the peremeter scouts
found three legions of snakes coming to back them up. well,
we were surely dead at that point, we were four platoons of
the best earth had, but we were all tired and had exhausted a
lot of our ammo. but this scout, he was spotted heading to
warn us and shot down. he stands up and says fuck it! he
fires off a concussion granade at that damned bell,
figuring it'll be enough to make us call in help."
he chuckled softly "that granade hit and i sware i thought
we'd all gone deaf, the ones riding the sonar scanners did
go deaf. but where it annoyed us, it killed the snakes. we
found out that the bell was an early warning system set up
by the race who had once inhabited the place, that bell
could be heard for fifty kilos around. the effect was
shocking. the snakes stood up strait and their heads
exsploded, the three legions and the ones we were fighting
were desimated in seconds. after thinking about it for a
minute i ordered the platoon comanders to launch a granade
at every one of those bells they could find. fifty thousand
snakes died that day, we were sent in to pull out a troop
that had been overwelmed, came out having taken the system
as well as given the empire the means to cowing them."
he chuckled "ever since then they've cursed me solely for
their downfall."
akane smiled when ranma came into the mess hall and waved
them off when they started clapping "are you a story teller
now general?" one of the merines cackled. ranma scowled for
a minute then smirked "well i have to find something to do
with my time when i'm too old to fight, have to practice."
they laughed at him and he sat down next to akane "do you
think we'll have a problem with them claiming our planet?"
she asked. ranma smiled "of course we will! but thats why
you got us!" pretty much the whole room cheered him at that
"how long do you think we'll have before they attack?" she
asked worried. ranma shrugged and jerked spilling his coffee
when the ship rocked "red alert! red alert! we're under
attack!"
ranma hissed looking at the two destroyers they had scared
off two days ago along with two more "just enough to take out
a dreadnought." he murmured looking at the sensors. brock
shrugged "what do you want to do?" ranma smirked "do we have
jump suit capability?" he asked. he nodded grinning from
ear to ear "the belts?" he guessd. ranma nodded in an
undesided way "have they said anything?" he asked the
captain. he shook his head "not a peek." ranma nodded
thoughtfully "alright, i'll go." they looked reluctent
"look, we're close enough to the planet for me to jump to it
if you lose me so i'll be fine." he pointed out. brock
scowled for a minute before his face split in a wide grin
"see you on the surface sir!" he said seluting and the rest
of the troopers in the bay with them did the same. ranma
chuckled starting towards the open cockpit they had hastily
unpacked for him "no! you can't go out there!" akane
exclaimed grabbing his arm. ranma swayed with the rocking of
the ship and kissed her "either i go or we all die, choices,
there are none." he pushed her away gently and hopped into
the cockpit "i'll be ok, promise."
ranma chuckled boosting away from the ship as his comm came
alive "if you don't come back i'll see a monument is erected
to the memory of the foolishly stupid general." nibikis
voice hissed at him. ranma laughed "oh you do love me!" he
exclaimed looking at the ship in front of him "have they
seen me yet brock?" he asked smiling. brock chuckled "of
course not i'm blanketing their sensors." he assured him
"thats why i'm sure i'm coming back sis." he called and
chuckled at the silence "coming upon the first ship, do you
have the light show we talked about ready?" he asked. "yep,
we're warning them now."
"attention snakes, i know its hard for your kind to
understand this, but we are not relinquishing this planet to
you, it is positioned inside the empires borders and as is
our right, we are colonizing. if you wish we can blast you into
particals, what is your answer?" the captain said grimly. the
lizard came up on one of his secondary screens "we shall rid
life of that acursed human that killed so many of our
people. we shall destroy you!" ranma nodded grabbing an engine
support strut, no one ever seems to think about what would
happen if someone personally came at them. he pulled one of
the huge bombs off his suits back and tore a rent in the
hull and slammed it into it "ready." he called boosting in
the direction of the next one. he yelped setting down on the
hull of the sister ship as they detonated his first target
"thats one of your ships." the captain said lanquidly. the
lizard hissed and doubled his fire, and ranma quickly
boosted for the third not telling them yet. "blow them at
the same time brock." he called boosting away after he
finished "rodger." he said and ranma grunted feeling the
heat of the three ships exsploding, pushing him harder at
the planet "its all good."
ranma looked up suddenly feeling the rush of landing
boosters kicking in close by and smirked hearing the
cheering sounds coming from the ship at the sight of his
mech sitting in a lotus position with his palms cupped in
his lap, ranma meditating in its palms. he chuckled looking
at them "told ya." brock chuckled "thats the general for ya
boys! he don't need no platoon to frag a snake!" all of the
first landing party cheered for a minute before quieting
down when ranma whistled peircingly "alright jarheads!!
theres a reason your the first to come down! mobilize now! i
want water, soil and air samples done in the next three
minutes and i want it in two minutes!!" they stood at
attention and seluted sharply "yes sir!!"
ranma nodded to the medic that came up next to him as he
finished taking his samples and with blurring speed dropped
the water into the slots set up for the chem tests of the
waters purity. he blinked at it for a minute before walking
over to brock and four of the other chem scouts that were
working together "brock, i want you and your team to go over
my findings on the water source." he said formally. they
blinked in surprise "may i ask why sir? your better at this
then some of us." he pointed out. ranma nodded handing him
the chem board. he blinked at it for a minute "i don't
understand? is the board broken? can't you use it?" he
asked, by now the others have come over. ranma shook his
head "i did use it brock. look, you can just make out the
colors on the enzime reaction table, it has just enough in
it for what mankind needs to sustain itself, and heres the
thing, even though it has a mild form of rad rocks in the
stream beds, theres nothing on the radioactive reaction tabs,
its almost like this lake water is purer then anything found
in the deepest resevior earth has, its so pure its almost
impossible, i ran the tests four times with new equipmnent
each time and still, its the same results. i request that
you run them again for me."
by the time brock came back, the civilians had been brought
down, the sound of the drop ships an ever present hum in the
background "sir, its almost impossible for a planet to be
this human friendly, the soil can reproduce every type of
food we know of, and grow it better too! the water is sweet
to the taste sir!" the man looked deeply annoyed. ranma
nodded holding up a bottle of water "is this what a planet
not touched by intelegent minds is like?" he mused softly to
himself "and the air?" he asked. the man shrugged "earth
norm on solar rads and toxins.... in sixteen twelve." they
blinked at him for a minute "your saying that the air is
just as pure as the water and the soil?" brock asked, by now
as nervious at ranma. he nodded "i don't get it sir, its
almost like this place is being groomed."
ranma sat there thinking about it for a minute before
looking at them grimly "halt the colonial offloading and
start bringing down the hardware, i want a deep core scan
of this planet, i want the other planets in this system
scanned, collect a sample of the wildlife and test them too
see if they could be the reason, this just isn't normal." he
looked up when brock started to leave "and see that the
planetary cannon is brought down as well! no telling when
the snakes will come to bug us again!"
ranma blinked walking into his tent yawning hard after all
the work he just did and blinked seeing akane laying naked
on his temp bed. she grinned sitting up "i was wondering if
i had to walk into the comand tent like this to get you to
come to bed." he smirked "the guys wouldn't have cared if we
had fucked in front of them as long as i could answer their
coments halfway. she grinned riggling a little as he pulled
his pants and boxers off and watched him sway back and forth
as he neared the bed. he grinned crawling under the covers,
dipping down the run his tongue through her sex as he went
up. she groaned at the feel and pulled him against her
excitedly. he grinned letting her pull him in hard and both
grunted when he invaded her body. she pressed hard to him
and yelped happily at the almost painfully hard thrusts he
was making, loving it totally for some reason. he grunted
pounding her hard and soon gritted his teeth fighting his
way through her orgasm and continued.
ranma grunted stopping as he got a cramp and pulled out.
she blinked starting to ask something when he flipped her
over and plunged back in, she shreeked lightly in exstacy and
bucked back into him hard until he bellowed in orgasm ten
minutes later. ranma panted pressing himself firmly inside
her before settling gently on top of her. akane moaned
happily as wave after wave of pleasure washed over her body
loving the way his sweaty body rested lightly on top of
hers, his still firm manhood lodged deeply in her belly, the
soft humming of the thing sitting in front of her....
akane tried to jump away but with ranma firmly implanted in
her womb that wasn't going to happen. ranma blinked up and
rumbled curiously at the small creature and it cheeped back
happily before settling down beside akanes head.
she blinked up at him curiously and he chuckled softly
kissing her neck "as far as we can tell, their harmless." he
murmured and before she could say anything pulled himself
out half way before firmly sinking himself back in. she
moaned softly looking shocked "again..?" she groaned. he
nodded "i can do anything if its for you." he rumbled
pumping gently inside her, she cried softly in pleasure
her next orgasm quickly building higher. ranma grunted
twisting them about and she yelped suddenly sitting in his
lap as he rapped his arms around her. she cried out louder
as his fingers started pinching her lips as his rod started
pistoning inside her again.
shouldered his pack "this blows." he groaned walking to a
seat and sat down for a minute, he was not looking forward to
this. he sighed, he did not look forward to a return trip to
nerima.
he was grumbling as he left the space port and took off along
the superhighway looking bored and half tired. he grumbled
to himself as he spotted the remaints of the distrect, the
encroaching future had chewed away at it and now the
highschool was no longer there, he mused that that was for
the best, it was at the school she..... heres my turn off.
ranma slowed halfway down the market street and blinked
looking at the huge building where ukyos shop had been. he
looked at it and shook his head "no wonder i'm broke." he
sighed walking in the front door to be greeted by many women
in kimonos that to him, spoke of how dangerous it was to
mess with one. he looked around for a minute, thinking yet
again, that it was a mistake coming here.
"so. you came." he looked to his left and nodded shortly
to the regal looking matron that had aproached him. ranma
turned to look at konitsu "lets talk, i don't want to be
here any longer then i have ta." he growled looking around
at the spatula toting women dressed in mens work suits. the
konnachi nodded leading him to a door at the side of the
room. he motioned him to a seat "you don't even have the
honor to morn with us." he spat. ranma sat down and looked
at him "i may have married ukyo, but we both know she was
your wife, it was your kid that killed her, not mine."
konitsu tried to turn his anger on him but was too honest
with himself to punish ranma for having nothing to do with
ukyos death. he nodded covering his face "so why did you come
back?" he asked. ranma sat back in his chair "i've been in
the space merines for ten years now konitsu, ukyo used her
position as my 'wife' to apropriate my acumulated earnings,
she used it to exspand this franchiase your so proud of here.
you know as well as i do the reason i joined the merines."
konitsu nodded slowly, he had suspected that was where ukyo
had gottn the money "what is it you want?" he asked. ranma
looked at him "space merines are paid a lot of money
konitsu, i should have about a three and a half mil in
american in my hands, instead i have, as ukyos 'legally
married husband' a restraunt business i want nothing to do
with."
konitsu jumped up yelling "you dare say this is yours?!?!"
he roared. ranma nodded flipping him a piece of paper "under
the laws ukyo and i married under, everything owned by the
deceased goes to the other half of the married party,
meaning i'm supposed to aportion out what the 'kids' get. in
other words, the chain is mine. and on top of that, i find
i'm the restraunts major backer due to my investment of my
entire life savings. you may run this place, but i hold the
purse strings."
he sighed and looked at konitsu tiredly "the thing is, i
don't want anything to do with this district, or this planet
for that matter, too many people fucked me over while i was
here for me to ever be comfortable on earth again." he
looked tired. "what is it you want?" he asked. ranma smiled
at him "i'm willing to sell the whole thing to you. since
you know the whole thing, you know what its worth, and due
try to be honest. remember that this was ukyos life, try not
to dishonor her memory by buying cheap."
ranma sighed again as he left the restraunt and smirked
slightly "at least your a decent person konitsu, you don't
see that often these days from earthers." he mused softly as
he put the brief case in his bikes saddle bags and took off
down the road, this next part is going to be worse.
ranma pulled up outside the gates of a compound he didn't
recornize, he frowned seeing the old tendo schools sign, but
above that she saw a larger, more gaudy sign for the hibiki
school. ranma grimaced thinking about his options and had
just started turning the bike to leave when the gates opened
and a silver haired soun and a streeked haired nodoka stared
out at him. he sighed shaking his head "i guess there isn't
much of a chance to run away is there?"
they shook their heads "come in ranma, its been a long time
since you last came to see us." nodoka said softly. ranma
flipped up the visor on his helm "they don't think its cost
effective to send a star ship out for a merine that wants a
weekend pass mom." he grumbled rolling the bike between the
two and excepted nodokas hug, and souns more enthusiastic
one.
"we're sorry to hear about ukyo ranma." soun said softly.
ranma parked the bike and placed the helm on the handle
bars "ya so was i, i stopped by to give my condolances to
konitsu and settled with him." he grunted pulling the
napsack and brief case from the saddle bags and followed
them "what do you mean settled?" nodoka asked. ranma
chuckled softly "i gave him the option to outright buy the
restraunt from me instead of liquidating the place, figured
i'd give ukyos kids a fair shake."
nodoka looked down, as miserable as soun "ah, then you and
akane have the same type of marrage then." ranma blinked
stopping his efforts to light a cigar to blink at the
goddess of business that had just come down the hall "well
well, if it isn't the original millionaress." she smirked
"and if it isn't the pride and joy of the collonal merines,
i hear they've put an end to your fighting days." she
murmured. ranma snorted "they gave me a metal and a desk,
the four stars and everything, be proud mother, your boy
reached four star general by the age of thirty two, theres
only one other rank above mine."
she smiled proudly "whats that?" she asked. he grinned
"planetary governer. and as soon as i settle on a planet to
collonize, i'll get that rank too, the whole regiment i
comanded opted to collonize with me instead of going
elsewhere. we're gonna start setting it up in a week." he
said smirking at nibiki. she looked curious "your not going
to stay here?" she asked. he looked like he tasted something
back "fuck no. i hate earth. full of vampires and scumbags,
the good people number one to five hundred here, naw, i want
a clean world, for a clean start."
he looked up and that sad tired look came back to his face
seeing akane was standing in the hall looking at him. she
cuddled the baby she held close looking forlornly at him
before leaving the room. ranma shook his head "damn all
teenagers to hell." he spat looking like he was thinking
about leaving "what does that mean?" nibiki asked. he looked
at her "just what it sounds like. if i had half the guts
then as i do now, i woulda killed ryoga when he first showed
up."
nibiki nodded slowly "let me show you to a room."
ranmas eyes snapped open hearing something open, and not the
door. he scanned the room for a second before spotting the
movement, he watched the person for a minute before
recognizing the mousy little woman that akane had become.
"akane." he sat up and looked at the slightly fearful look
on her face as he turned the light on.
he looked at her for a minute and sighed, she was the
spitting image of the standard nursemaid, from clothes to
demeanor. "shouldn't you be with your husband?" he asked
grimly. she looked like she was about to colapse in on
herself "hes in china, martial arts tourniment." she
whispered. he nodded "so what can i do for you?" he asked
almost sullenly. she bit her lip "i... dad told me ... what
you said... about ukyo. did she really take all of the money
you earned while in the merines?" she asked sounding like
she was being greatly daring in speaking to him.
ranma nodded looking at the floor in front of him "yep, she
convinced the council that since i would be coming home to
her, and that she could put it to better use then instead of
now, she was able to bleed my account dry, i had to borrow
from a friend to get that bike." she moved closer and slowly
sat on the bed next to him, pleased when he didn't tell her
off.
he sighed "what happened akane?" he asked so softly she
barely heard him. she looked down "you know what happened,
shampoo drugged me into marrying ryoga." she whispered. he
nodded getting up "ya, but that wasn't your excuse when it
wore off was it? you stayed with him." he agreed looking out
the window. she looked down "i didn't think you would take
me. its a miracle he didn't get me pregnant." she said
looking miserable. he nodded slowly "didn't the fact that...
i only married ukyo because.... you told me there was no
chance of there being an us. and when she threw me out, i
did the only thing that seemed smart, i joined the merines
and shiped off planet."
he layed his head on the window "i don't think i've gone a
day without feeling the agony of you rejecting me. i told
you how i felt, told you the ryoga thing didn't matter to
me, but you still turned me away." he looked at her "what do
you want akane, i haven't been in the right frame of mind
for this shit since i was twenty." she looked like he had
slapped her and got up. she blinked as he was suddenly in
front of her and holding her against his chest "i'm sorry...
its just... first mom dumps me... then you dump me... then
ukyo. the women i loved were hurting me left and right and
no one wanted to help me."
she looked up at his face and blinked seeing tears in his
eyes. she took hold of his face and turned it to look at her
"i haven't let ryoga touch me since the drug wore off, i was
ashamed ranma, you were always there for me, but i wasn't
there for myself when it came down to it. and... there you
were, the perfect man, you didn't care that i had dishonored
myself with ryoga, you loved me anyways." she shook with
tears "i couldn't do that to you ranma. i was the dishonored
one, i couldn't let you stain your honor like that."
ranma held her while she cried, thinking about it. when she
stopped he kissed her hard and long. when he let go she was
looking wide eyed at him, not realizing he was baring her
back to the bed. he pushed her down and gently pinned her to
the bed "ranma we can't!" she gasped when he ripped her
dress from her body "yes, we can. i'm a widow and as far as
i'm concerned, you owe me. after this, we're level, on the
same footing, what we do after that, we'll talk about."
she looked shocked as he finished removing her clothes and
started kissing her again as he pinched her clit and stroked
the lips of her sex. she whimpered in need after a short
time and he grinned, she was ready. he hooked a thump in his
boxers and pushed them down "please... be gentle? its.. been
a while." she said letting him continue. he stopped about to
enter her when she said this and frowned "i won't hurt you,
but i won't be gentle, my lifes a miserable shit hole, and
its partly your fault, this way, i punish you, and we both
get what we want."
he took hold of her hips and suddenly flipped her over on
her stomach "yes! punish me, i deserve it!" she cried
lifting her hips up for him. he leaned over her and sank
himself all the way into her in a powerful thrust. she cried
out in shock as she was suddenly impaled by the man she
loved, and welcomed each painfully uncomfortable, gloriously
pleasurable thrust. she cried out again as she orgasmed,
against all her efforts to not enjoy it, ranma still made her
punishment a pleasure. she gripped the sheets and squeezed
him, hoping his sharp stabbing motions will hurt more.
he grunted as she came again and stopped panting softly "i
think your enjoying this to much." he growled, smirking
softly, he wanted her to enjoy it. he pulled himself from
her and spread her ass cheeks and rubbed some of her juices
around the edges before corkscrewing his finger into her.
she yelped in shock looking back at him "your going to do
that!?" she exclaimed. he looked at her as he pushed himself
back in her and pumped gently "your not going to be
satisfied unless your sore in the morning." he grumbled
"but... i wanted you to cum in me. ryogas refused to even
look at me since i rejected both of you. hes made me a
servent in my own home."
he blinked a few times and pushed another finger up her ass
and started thrusting purposefully gritting his teeth
feeling himself close now that he stopped holding himself
back. he groaned reaching under her and pinched her clit
"cum with me, when i leave, i want you with me." he hissed
in her ear as she panted into the matress and screamed with
him as he came deep inside her, driving her consciousness
from her.
nibiki looked up as her office door opened and smirked at
ranma "good show, akane refused to let anyone touch her
because of the guilt she felt over hurting you." she
murmured looking admiringly at him. ranma nodded "i was
afraid i'd have to ream her to help her get over it, some
women can't take that sort of thing."
she blinked at his candidness "you have changed." she said
admiringly. he nodded sitting down "i need two things from
you." he took out one of his cigars and lit it, sitting near
the window "i need to know if you have any combat specs on
ryogas enhancements." he said and she looked wide eyed at
him "your going to kill him."
he nodded slowly "he did to akane what ukyo did to me,
refused a divorce so he can keep his hands on the dojos
income. hes reduced her to the status of a handmaid in her
own home. second..." he leaned forward and looked her in the
eye "i want your company."
she almost choked before realizing from the smirk on his
face that he was joking "do you remember a few years ago
that story about that element that can produce a type of
super fuel that'll shoot a ship across the galaxy in days
with the right type of engine?" he asked softly. she nodded
and her eyes widened "its real?"
he nodded "i hope you keep this room proof against bugs." he
murmured. she nodded tapping a key on the phone on her desk,
he jerked seeing his pants leg catch fire "god damn it." he
put it out and looked ruefully at her "i knew someone was
out to jump my claim." he sighed before looking at her "i
found this planet see, earth norm, if a little more
boring then earth." she looked confused and he smiled
"earths weather system is eratic and volital. this place is
lucky to get a small typhoon." he chuckled. she nodded "so
what does your paradise have to do with the fuel element?"
he smirked pulling a small bag out of his pocket and pulled
a small glass cube with a small brown stone with a red sheen
to it "i found this, in a rock pile from a rivers lead off.
the river bed was bloated with the stuff." he grinned "this
little grain of sand, can power one of your transports for
twenty trips to and from mars. think about it." nibiki
looked hungry "how do you know this?" she breathed. he
smirked putting it away "i took it to a research ship a few
parsecs away and after slagging their radio i had them test
it, the results were better then i thought."
she rubbed her chin thoughtfully "whats your part in this?"
she asked. he grinned "they retired me as a four star, that
means that i get my pick of planets to settle, with the
money i have and the fact that every man in my regiment is
pitching their lot in with me, we have enough money to buy a
rather large company." he smirked at her and she grinned
getting the idea "but you have a better idea." he nodded
"see, when the goverenment finds out that we've dragooned a
planet rich in a resource their going to try to kick us off.
but, lets say for silly talk, you felt.. eh, you didn't like
earth anymore. your long time friend has this planet all to
himself, whats to say... he wouldn't be glad to welcome such
a large corperation to relocate there, and oh my, together
they realize, they are rich, since they can't touch a
military grant backed by a corperations funding and since
they were invited to move there... they would have home
steaders rights, as well as mining rights, under the
planetary governor, myself."
he smirked at the doubt on her face "think about it, not
only will you be close to the source, but you'll be living
with a regiment of the most highly decorated merines in
three galaxies, hell, all of them are practically rocket
scientists, i myself can build you an atmospheric escape
pod from the parts on a car. you'll have, communications
exsperts that know more about the classified military grade
stuff you civies would thing was magic, all of them are old
hands at space warfare, so all of us could work on defences,
with the supplies we can build our own ships and weapons,
all we need, is a company willing to throw in with us.
you'll have a defence force strait from the devils
nightmares."
she grinned in pleasure thinking about it "how do you mean
communications?" she asked. he grinned pulling out a holo
projector "with the technology we all are familiar with, we
can turn the other planets in the system into monsterious
transmition equiment, we can set up relays that can get you
the data quicker then you can get it in this room." he
chuckled letting her look at it with the lights off. she
shook her head "i think you offer more then i need."
ranma came back into the room they had given him about sun up
and saw that akane was just waking up "hey there sunshine,
you look better then you did when i arrived." he chuckled
setting the large case he held in his hand on the ground and
hit the button on the handle whistling a nice little tune.
the box popped open with a snap and he pulled the top off to
reveal a suit of armor. akane looked at it and gasped seeing
the labels "this is your battle armor!" she gasped. he
nodded "yep, smuggled it out so they wouldn't recycle it."
he said picking up a gaunlet and pulled the small box off
the wrist. he showed her the underside, all the small egg
like things had red stripes on them "concusive mini frag
granades, for those times when you just gotta spit something
in their face."
he did the same with the other gauntlet before pulling a
small packet of disks of out his pocket "i love these
things, none lethal but whoa baby what a mess it can make!"
he chuckled popping the clip out of the rist launchers and
carefully put them away before loading the disks in an empty
launcher and clapped it back on the gauntlet "why would you
need that here?" she asked. he looked at her "ryogas not
going to let me take you without a fight love."
he looked at her for a minute before pulling her into his
lap and looked her in the eye "i love you, theres slim to no
chance i'm coming back to earth once i leave it." he kissed
her softly "lets please forget the last ten years and start
over? i want you.... please say you'll come with me? you'll
love the world i found, its beautiful, at dusk, the sea
turns all golden and ranbow like formations fill the air for
a few minutes, its breath taking."
she smiled leaning into him "but... ranma, i still feel like
i don't deserve you." she whispered softly. he smiled "then
i guess a repeat of last night is in order huh?" he said
kissing her chin "we can continue to do it, until you feel
like i do, that the only think you need to do, is come with
me, or we find out your carrying my child." he said grinning
happily at that idea. she smiled back at him "yes, i'll... i
want you to take me until i've paid for hurting you." she
agreed. ranma face faulted "urk... then i guess that means
your coming with me, because i can't continue to punish you
if i'm not here." he said reasonably. she giggled covering
her mouth and nodded "i guess it does."
when the two came down to breakfast everyone blinked seeing
that akane was wearing a pair of ranmas pants and a shirt
too large for her, clearly stating whos room she had stayed
in last night. nodoka covered her mouth in shock "but son!
this is so improper!" she was shocked. ranma shrugged "try
spending six weeks rapped up in a thermo blanket buck naked
with a squad mate, and both of them men, don't tell me what
improper is! i almost got court marshaled when he groped
me."
she looked as sick at the others "why did you almost get
court marshaled?" akane asked hoping. ranma smirked at her
"i spaced him and kept the blanket myself. our ship had been
damaged and our powerplant couldn't keep the heaters going,
the ships temperature dropped below minus two hundred, the
thermos were like life jackets for extremely cold
temperatures. the scumbag got me wet and tried something, i
broke his neck, my squad mates, the greatest men and women in
the space forces." he raised a glass to the wall "suited him
up and catapulted him into the gas giant we were stranded
around. said he'd thought he could rig the radio antenna and
got knocked off the side of the ship by a passing rock, they
were pissed because i wouldn't share the blanket with anyone
else."
he looked at them "at that temperature water crystalizes,
hot water was a dream." they nodded understanding "so how
long were you stuck out there?" tofu asked interested, ranma
grinned around the table at the people, akane sat next to
him, nibiki sat by her side. kisumi sat with one teen and
two kids between her and tofu. akari, who had refused to
look at either of them since they entered, had the baby ranma
had seen akane with and a six year old, suprisingly, nodoka
had a small boy between her and soun "eight weeks, the girls
in the squad thought it was so hilarious when the body's cycle
kicked in and let me exsperiance my first period. the ship
that rescued us never found out why the captain was so pissed
off. the brass desided to view it as anger at letting my
transport get holed."
nibiki started the laughing and most of the others piped in,
even his mother. he glared soarly at them and looked at the
teens blinking in confusion "watch this." he said pulling a
small box off his belt and the field they didn't realize was
surrounding him blinked out "its a low level force field that
rapidly heats water thrown at me. i designed it." he set it
down and akane poured a glass of water over his head. nodoka
almost shreeked when the rinkle all of them had over looked
became a light pink scar running across her left eye and
cheek. she smirked "hey, great job they did in regrowing my
eye huh?"
nodoka was looking closely at it "what did this to you?" she
asked. ranma shrugged "buddies granade launcher got pegged,
blew up a few inches from my head, helmet absorbed most of
it, sent the face plate into my face though. woke up in a tank
filled with regen chems." she shrugged taking the tea cup
kisumi handed him and poured it over his head. the kids
looked awed by it. he chuckled putting the device back into
its holder. the boy between soun and nodoka came around the
table and looked at him "are you my brother?"
ranma blinked at him interestedly "well, you have my eyes,
my cheek bones, souns mouth... yep, your my brother
alright." he said scrubbing the little boys head. he grinned
"is it true you killed a dragon?" he asked. ranma chuckled
and nodded "yes i did. a mean bugger he was! but i've kill
lots meaner things since then." the boy looked wide eyed at
the idea "like what?" he asked ranma grinned "well, i met
this here thing, looked like a cross between a duck, and a
tyranosaur, big bugger, and twice as mean as that dragon."
he held up his finger before reaching into his sleave. the
next thing they knew he was pulling a inch and a half wide
tube out of his shirt, it was a foot long "this was one of
its smaller teeth, the rest would require a transport to
carry."
he grimaced "too bad it was only a infant though." he
remarked shaking his head. "why is that?" kisumi took the
bait innocently. he chuckled "we had to evac the planet when
its mother tried to eat our drop ship!" he cackled holding
out his hands "this kid was sixty feet tall, they sent me
out to kill it when it started harrassing the drop ship, its
mother tried to eat it in one bite. we had to launch a nuke
in its face to get it to let go, as far as i know, it
survived the blast, the captain of the ship that had taken
us there kept the tooth we found in the ships hull, mounted
in the bridge as a trophy."
akane giggled "come on! your kidding right?" she said
looking over the tooth clutched reverently in the boys
hands. ranma shook his head pulling a holo projector out of
his belt and hit the button on it a few times, flipping
through pictures of verious scenes with troopers in armor
or just sitting around drinking beer. he blushed seeing one
and looked apologetically at nodoka when they realized what
that trooper was doing with her rifle "i thought i had
gotten rid of that!" he laughed then stopped at one showing
a great gapping hole with white spikes in the scene "this
picture was taken from the dropships bridge."
he chuckled flipping it a few more times and came to a
picture of ranma holding a huge gun standing in front of a
large green and black head, the rows of teeth next to his
head going far up into the top of the holo "took six shots
from that thing to drop it." he said shaking his head. the
kids breathed in awe "were you scared?" one of tofus kids
asked. ranma sat strait "a space merine can laugh at the
devil at his scariest!" he said heroically then leaned close
"because we seen stuff a lot scarier!" he looked frightened
and grinned when they giggled. he smirked "i remember one
time, a buddy of mine, he done got himself eaten whole by
this... large crab thing, well we tracked it for a mile and
sure enough, we found the thing layed out dead on its side,
seems its stomach disagreed with the grenades he set off in
it." he said smirking "did he survive?!" another one asked
waiting excitedly. ranma shook his head "nope, the blast
shattered his face plate and the things belly turned him into
a bag of nasty gelly and bones, icky."
soun chuckled coming out onto the porch next to him and lit
a pipe "your good with kids." he murmured. ranma shrugged
"hey, you spend a lot of time riding herd on a bunch of jar
heads and kids are a sinch." soun smiled "the service seems
to have loosened you up a lot." he murmured. ranma shrugged
"eyes wide shut, thats me. finding out what life really is
tends to bring a dreamer to his knees."
soun nodded "what are your intentions concerning akane?" he
asked softly. ranma thought about it before taking a drag on
his cigar "i'm going to demand ryoga release akane from her
marrage and restore honor to akari. shes had two kids by him
and their not married." soun nodded "shes had to bare a lot
of things for love of that man." ranma nodded "if he
refuses... i'll make akane a widow."
at dinner he was confronted by the kids "tell us another
story!" they chorused. ranma seluted with his chop sticks,
before eating the pickle in them "ok.... lets see... nope,
can't tell that one, at least for a few years.... ah! we
were ridin' patrol though this wierd forest, the docs swore
the trees were made of silk so we were sent in to figure out
why the retreval teams kept disappearin'! well i was in this
one part of the forest, when i bumped into a low hangin'
branch." he rung his hands "the next thing i know, this
thing, it looked like the grand daddy of the biggest,
ugliest, and ickiest spider the devil ever cringed from. it
had twenty glowin' red eyed and its teeth was in its belly.
well, i end up strung up in the trees with this thing tryin'
ta get me in its belly." he held up his arm and flexed his
muscles looking brave "well, i screamed like a woman until
someone came along and shot it." he cackled at the
disgruntled look on the boys faces "it couldn't penetrate
my armor but wasn't givin' up on its snack, well i was
stuck, if i done like my friend with the crab it would shatter
my face plate, i didn't want to be an icky puddle, so i
screamed into my radio until someone came around to shut me
up. then they had the nerve to ask me what my intentions
towards the poor thing were."
he grimaced "they thought i was playing with it!" he said
looking weirded out. they chuckled "seems the 'trees' were
the base of a large suspended city of spiders. see, they
were breaking apart the city's supports so they sent out
gaurds to look after them. the langauge team had a bitch of
a time learning how they comunicated while the things were
chewing on the cages we sent them in with, one of the poor
fellows is in a padded room over coming a severe case of
icky."
"whats that?" tofus youngest daughter asked. he grinned
"well icky is when you see something slimy and just... icky!
its where you see it and just gotta shiver and rub your
arms. like when you walk into a spider web." he said making
a face. she nodded wrinkling her nose "icky!"
ranma pulled his bike to a stop and leaned against a light
post before lighting up a cigar and waited. after a minute
another bike pulled up and he grinned at his friend "brock.
hows your reunion going?" he asked. he snorted "my mother
remarried and my sisters husband ran out on her and three
kids."
ranma nodded taking a drag "same with my mother, got a
little brother now. wife died in child birth, sold her
restraunt to the father. boon though, got my girl back and
her sisters gonna throw in with us and relocate her company
there." he growled holding up a pamplet "fuck man! you got
tendo corps to come with us?! they're weapons manufacturers!"
he got on his knee "can i call you god?"
ranma chuckled "yes you may, not only is she the sole owner
but shes gonna get our stuff for us at a tenth the price we
thought we would have to pay, shes 'donating' her companies
flagship as transport as our 'sponsoring' company." he
chuckled. he whistled "thats sweet, the gov will be forced
to hang back a lot longer now." ranma nodded "the story is
that shes relocating her company there after excepting an
offer from me to get away from this shit hole, and the fact
that we can set up quicker with comerce next door."
he nodded "your our god, i'll spread the news, what do you
want us to buy?" he asked. ranma grinned "civy things if
you can swing a few jets please do, we can retro fit them
there. our corperate goddess is supplying all the
military equip we may need, all we need to do is put it
together once we arrive." he nodded looking admiring "any
chance someones entered a bid on the place?" he asked. ranma
grinned "yep! our partner entered one bare minutes before i
entered ours. tomarrow we'll go in together and post a dual
claim."
he nodded "they would be suspicious of a company alone but
since you threw in with them their more likely to trust
them, your as clean as a sheet of paper, regular boyscout."
ranma had just gotten off the bike when it exsploded forcing
him to dodge to the side. he looked up and smirked at ryoga
when he came out of the shadows "your going to regret coming
home bastard!" he snarled. ranma shrugged waiting "thats big
talk for an honorless father of bastards." he taunted
looking suddenly disaproving "you slimy bastard, you force
akane to stay in a marrage she doesn't want then you force
akari to disgrace herself just so you got something to
fuck!"
ryoga blanched then snarled "you shut up about them!!" he
yelled. ranma smirked at him "you only just got back haven't
you?" he mused then chuckled standing strait "hibiki ryoga!
i here by challange you! if i win you will release akane
from her vows and for gods sake give akari her honor back!
do you know how humiliating it is to know your kids can't
ever be recognized because your not married to the man your
sleeping with?!" he demanded. ryoga launched himself at him
"shut up and fight!" he yelled throwing lightning fast
punches, faster then the chestnut fist thanks to his
implants. ranma snorted blocking all of them and slammed him
into the outer wall "do you think you can take a space
merine boy!? hell i've taken things that would laugh at you
for daring to raise a fist at it! hear me now hibiki! if you
do not yield to this i will be forced to end your life! at
least your death will end some of the dishonor you force on
her everytime you go to her bed!"
ryoga stopped for a minute and tensed up "you shut up! you
don't know what your talking about!" he shouted. ranma
snorted "i know that you refused to end a marrage that
neither of you wanted and proceeded to make akari a nameless
mistress!" ryoga screamed enraged and ranma smirked waiting
for him to get close enough then fired his wrist launcher at
him. ryoga screamed in pain as the thing hit his chest and
eletricity burst around him before a white light flashed
and he crumpled to the ground "hey! what'd you do to me!?!"
he yelled struggling to the one leg that worked and his right
arm. ranma pulled out a water hose "EM pulse grenade, it
fries out any and all electronic device around you."
he motioned to the water hose "do i do it ryoga? you
remember what happened to shampoo, she got breast implants
and a langauge module implanted. you saw what happened." he
said softly. ryoga looked horrified "you... you would do
that... to me?" he breathed. ranma arched an eye brow "hell
i should do it because of what you did to my bike! but no, i
won't do it." he got in his face "if you sware on what honor
you have left that you'll end that sham marrage and make
akari official."
ryoga snarled softly at him "what? so you can have akane?!"
he demanded. ranma got closer in his face "i already have
her, make your choice quick, those implants i fried are
gonna start hurtin'." ryoga looked at the hose then at the
others, they had seen the whole thing, he paled seeing akari
look down from his question and nodded "i sware."
ranma tossed the hose away and pressed a small device to his
belt "it heats cold water." he explained as he helped him
into the house. after the hospital had been called and he had
been taken away akane and akari aproached him "would...
would you have really killed him?" akarl asked softly. he
nodded "you set aside your honor for the clueless idiot, if
he had made you do it knowingly i would have killed him. no
man has the right to force a woman to bare his children out
of wed lock."
ranma was sitting on the stone lantern with his back to the
wall when his little brother came out and looked at him
"how did you dodge his punches?" he asked. ranma looked down
at him and smirked reaching over and snagged the back of his
shirt. he yelped until he realized that he was bringing him
to sit on his lap "i trained in our family's martial arts
since i was four, its hard for me not to win a fight. then i
joined the space merines and learned the price of learning
the art of war. its not the most rewarding path, but it
does have some good points, its a way of life really. if
your not sure you want a life with the art and little else,
then you should take up something else."
he looked troubled "but you did it! you got lots of neat
things!" he protested. ranma looked at him sadly "did you
ever know the panda? ol' man genma?" he asked. the boy
nodded wrinkling his nose "i didn't like him." ranma nodded
"i grew up with him. i never had a choice in if i wanted to
learn the art. my pop forced it on me, said it was my duty.
he took me from momma, i didn't see her for the next twelve
years. you saw how momma acts around me right?" he asked. he
nodded "she acts like she does when a salemen she wants to
leave comes over." he agreed then his eyes widened in
horror.
ranma chuckled slightly looking away "ya, like someone she
wants to go away." he looked at the boy "martial arts ruined
my life bro. pop took me from mom when i was younger then
you, and i had no friends, rare was it i got to have fun.
then when he brought me back... mom didn't like me anymore."
he blinked his eyes a few times "everything i have, i got for
myself, they turned me into someone only others like me can
like, i only started having friends when i joined the
merines, because they were like me, no one let them have
peace when they were younger. i'm thirty two, and i'm only
now starting to make something for myself, everyone wanted
things from me, they never let me have what i wanted."
his brother sat there silently for a few minutes before
hugging him "do you think mom will hate me when i get
older?" he asked softly. ranma chuckled "no worries bro,
parental hatred is reserved for the oldest son. and thats me
you know? your lucky though, your the baby of the family so
everyone will love you." he looked up and saw tears in
ranmas eyes "do you love me?" he asked. ranma rubbed his
head "of course, why wouldn't i?" he looked down "i don't
know, mom said you might hate me." ranma made him look at
him "kanada, look at me." he looked deeply in his eyes "moms
got a lotta funny ideas about what being a man is, just
remember that she is not a man, only men really know what
being a man is like, and what ever you do... do ever, in all
your life, sign a contract with her. mom and pop ruined my
life by signing a contract. don't ever sign one or let
someone do it for you. you're your own person and they don't
have the right to force you into something you think is
wrong."
ranma let the boy go and sat there miserably for the next
half hour before soun and kisumi came out to frown at him
"did you have to ryle the boy so much ranma?" soun asked
softly. ranma took a drag on his cigar "givin' mom the third
degree huh?" he asked. soun nodded "he came in demanding to
know if we had any contracts about him. after we said no he
demanded to know why nodoka signed a contract to make you
miserable."
ranma chuckled softly "i'll be, someone who stuck up for me,
for once, kind of wish i'd had a brother growing up." he
shook his head before looking at the two "is he really wrong
soun?" he asked softly. soun nodded "you over simplified
it!" he growled. ranma looked at him "i lived here for three
years before shampoo did her thing, do you remember anyone
saying anything about the concept of ranmas birthday?"
soun started to say something when the realization made his
mouth drop open "you... never?" he asked aghast at the idea.
ranma laughed shakily "sure, my friend threw me a party this
year. before that... not after pop snatched me, my friends
were shocked three years ago when the records officer
comented on the date to a friend. they were horrified that i
didn't know what birthdays were for, i mean, i knew everyone
had one, but i never realized that i should have... had one
too." he chuckled wiping the tears from his eyes "but what
the hell, i was ranma, everyones whiping boy, not even worth
the two cents that they used to conceive me."
he looked at kisumi when she touched his arm "oh ranma...."
she started before hurrying back into the house "but thats
the past, from now on, i'm out to do things for me and those
who are my family, those that want me. its sad, i never
really felt wanted until after being in the merines a few
months, everyone back here was either an enemy or they
didn't care enough to love me. but they loved me, they took
pride in the fact that i was one of them, we took for
granted the fact that we would always back each other up,
like a real family i hear."
ranma looked up from his seat and blinked at akane, soun had
taken up a sitting position near him so ranma would see
that he wasn't alone in his misery. ranma smiled slightly a
her "whats the damage?" he asked and chuckled when she
blinked in confusion "its a military phrase, meaning what
did i do and how do you think i should fix it?" he asked and
she smirked at him "your mothers in an unholy snit about you
cluing kanada to what she was like when she was still
married to genma, she really has changed ranma."
he raised an invisable glass "i'm glad to hear it, bro don't
need that kind of pain. too bad the frosty disgust still
applies to me huh?" he asked stubbing out the last of his
cigar on the heel of his boot. he jumped down and sighed
"great, now i gotta get another bike." he muttered
remembering the slag ryoga had made of his other one. he
shook his head "don't worry soun, i'll get a room in a
hotel, keep from upsetting the kids with the truth."
ranma was sitting disconsolately in the hotel bar looking
out at the city when someone jostled his elbow. he looked up
and blinked at soun and tofu "hey there step dad! step
brother in law." he greeted them jovelly. soun sat down next
to him "we want you to come back ranma." tofu said softly.
ranma blinked at him "why? i'm shipping out for good in a
few days." he said and tipped a glass to the city below him
"your what?!" soun exclaimed. ranma nodded almost bowing
"yep! my platoon brothers and sisters and i all got together
and desided that we don't like earth all that much, i mean,
wheres the trees?! where i grew up trees were everywhere!
now you gotta go inna mall or someones yard to look at a
tree. well i'm sick of it! i joined the merines to save the
world from turning ugly, and i find out... our own people
did it for the bad guys!"
he looked at soun "what the hell happened to that tree that
was in the back yard!?!? it was one of the tallest in nerima
and now its gone! what the hell was i fightin' for?! the
earth i fought for no longer exists! i killed everything
they tol' me to kill to keep my earth safe! 'cept it don'
exist anymore. those that didn't care about keeping us safe
ruined it!" he looked about to cry "the planet itself has
rejected my efforts. i had nothin' but the dirt under my
feet and the trees around me, now thats gone. this place
ain't my home. so i'm turning colonist! got a good world no
ones touched yet, trees everywhere and these cute little
monkey things that love humans. we're gonna go there, and
we're gonna keep the bad guys out. they turned earth into
one big factory, well not gonna happen to our world!"
the bartender shook his head as soun caught him after he
crumpled from tofus tap on the neck "poor guy, how long was
he out?" he asked. soun sighed "ten years." he said. the
guy whistled "a career officer then! two years is the limit
they set because few want to be in the merines that long, he
musta been a real patriot." soun nodded "ranma felt very
proud of earth. hes just in shock over what its turned
into." the man nodded "ya, most of the people that survive
service ship out to the collonies like that, disheartened by
the fact that their sacrifice wasn't worth much."
tofu looked at the man "you a merine?" he asked. he nodded "i
knew my broken hearted brothers and sisters would sooner or
later stumble across me in their grief, so i stayed put and
when i see them, i talk them into shiping out. earth is a
dinosaur thats going to be a dead planet due to our own
stupidity. at least i know some of the worthy will survive
this planets last gasp."
ranma groaned waking up slowly and blinked at the ceiling
over his head. he frowned, it didn't look like the top bunk
in his room on ship, was he on leave? he sat up and blinked
at the room around him then sobered seeing his travel kit.
he sighed looking around him again and got up. he yawned
pulling his boxers on and looked out into the hall before
heading for the bathroom, absently rubbing the head of the
child he passed.
he blinked when he finished noticing his mother
waiting in the hall "i see you've taken up your fathers
hobby of drinking yourself unconscious." she said
disaprovingly. ranma didn't reply as he passed her and
walked back to his room to dress. he blinked seeing akane
in the door way "you look better then i would have
suspected." she murmured. ranma snorted "tofu put me out, i
can drink happosai under the table three times over and
still be able to kick ryogas ass."
she blinked "you didn't drink yourself out?!" she exclaimed.
ranma chuckled slightly "my body's partially immune to
alcoholic drinks, i once drank the comanding officers of our
regiment under the table on a bet, on leave of course." he
said winking at her. she giggled following him into the room
"my divorce was offical three hours ago." she murmured. he
stopped what he was doing and looked up at her. he grinned
walking over and took her into his arms "well yah for small
pleasures." he murmured pulling her tight against him and
grinned at her "time for another punishment?" he asked
huskily. she nodded grinning from ear to ear "oh yes, i need
you to punish me."
"ah... ranma can i please speak to you?" they looked up
seeing his mother in the door. ranma sighed "right now mom?
can't it wait a few hours?" he asked. nodoka shook her head
sharply and he rolled his eyes letting go of akane "let me
get my pants." he muttered pulling the things on and
followed her, looking like he was really annoyed with having
to do it.
when they got to the room she was taking him to she slapped
him "how dare you tell your brother such lies!?!" she hissed
angrily. he looked disinterested "and what is it that you
think was a lie?" he asked examining his fingers. she glared
"you told him i purposefully ruined your life because of
that damned oath!" she answered. ranma looked at her "didn't
you?"
she moved to hit him again and blinked when he was suddenly
on the other side of the room "if you weren't pressuring me
into doing the worst things you were demanding i stop doin'
things you found disgusting, face it mom, you ruined my
life. first you let that moron steal me away and then you
rejected me when you realized how much of a mistake that
was. then you tormented me when i was most confused, you were
just as responsable for akane resisting loving me as pop
was, you with your 'manly things."
he looked contemptiously at her "what the hell do you know
about being a man?! nothing thats what. you don't know the
first thing about it, how DARE you think you have a right to
judge my manhood. you may have been the woman that gave
birth to me, but i never had a real mother, a mother is
love. a child learns to love from their mother, i learned
duty and close mindedness. ya, you ruined my life." he
smirked grimly "you should be happy, theres an impossibly
large chance that you'll never see me again." he nodded to
the knowing look in her eyes "i'm leaving this mud ball for
good. this isn't the planet i grew up on, but then again,
thats how it always is for me isn't it? something sweet and
beautiful when i left, it turned into something ugly and
twisted, not even what i left any more."
when he came back into the bedroom he sat down on the bed
and covered his face with his hands. when akane came over he
rapped his arms around her and sobbed into her stomach
"whats wrong ranma?" she asked. he didn't look up "that woman
is not my mother, she looks like her and sounds like her...
but she isn't. my mother loved me once, i was a fool thinkin'
she would want me now. she... was happy i'm leaving, said i
was a bad infulence on my brother, said she didn't want me
ruining him with what i am." she hugged his head and just
let him grieve "she wants to erase me like something she
made a mistake with, like she mispelled something."
she pushed him back on the bed and layed down with him,
holding him close "i'm here ranma, i'll be with you as long
as you want." she whispered. he nodded hugging her then
blinked hearing the sniffle from the other side of the room.
he sat up and blinked seeing the little boy on the other
side of the room "kanada." he said softly walking over to
him and hugged him when he jumped into his arms "why are you
leaving? i only just met you!" he cried. ranma cried with
him "mom don't want me to be your brother kanada, she wants
me ta go away and stop bein' your brother."
he cried harder "but i want you to be my brother! everyone
else has a brother, why can't i?" he sobbed. ranma hugged
him "i wanna be your brother too, but i can't if mom says
no. she wants me gone and i have ta, shes mom and we gotta
do what she says. she loves.... you.... and feels it isn't ok
for us to be brothers. and... i love momma... so i'm gonna
go away, like she wants." he said choking on the words. he
let him go and looked at him, he was crying as much as ranma
was. he smiled and laughed softly "only known ya two days
and i love ya... i love ya and... maybe... maybe you come
visit me when your older?" he asked pleadingly. he nodded
crying softly now "ok, where are you going?" he asked. ranma
pinched his nose "don't worry, kisumi will always know where
to find me. or your dad."
he nodded wiping his eyes and bolted suddenly from the
room. ranma pressed his fist to the floor looking like he
was in pain "why is she doing this akane? i really wish i
knew what i had done..." he stood up and wiped his eyes
"fuck it. i have business to do today, the sooner we get it
done the sooner we can be gone." he said walking over to
his stuff and scrubbed his face vigoriously with the towel
before pulling out a nice pants suit in dark green and
pushed his pants down "can i go?" she asked. he smiled at
her "you've got packing to do love, as soon as i get back
we're gonna transfer to the space port hostel."
nibiki looked ranma over when he came into the den, she was
carrying a brief case, not unlike his and shook her head
"the sooner we're gone the better." she muttered. he nodded
"so lets go." he said and nodded to the others looking
almost like a robot his face was so devoid of life. she
sighed walking him to the car she called for them "tell me
again." she prompted. he sighed "i'm not really feeling like
talking much nibiki." he murmured softly. she nodded looking
sad "its not that big a deal, our mom died remember?" she
asked. he nodded sharply "your mother didn't come back from
the dead and write you off as a spelling error."
ranma looked up at the building they came to and nodded
starting up the stairs. nibiki blinked when he absently
returned the selutes given to him "come here often?" she
asked. he snorted seluting another "i served with a lot of
these men nibiki, if they don't know me personally then
they've had their asses saved by a platoon under my comand."
he murmured and got a chuckle from the merine in the
elevator "you can say that again, general saotome sir, its
an honor to see you again." he murmured shaking his hand
before exiting the lift. ranma smiled at him and crossed his
hands behind his back "the merine corps has the tendancy of
making all merines your brother or sister during your time
with them. only the ones that don't want to be a part of the
family bow out or die by misterious means." he murmured and
grinned at a man that chuckled at him "accidental general."
ranma entered the room and seluted the four men as they
seluted him "i must say, you've chosen rather quickly
general, any reason why?" one of them ask. ranma looked at
him stonily "i find that the stories of the merine returning
home and not finding it, are true. its still there, but it
isn't the home i left. and i find i am even less welcome
there then i was before joining. i also heard of another bid
on the planet i wanted by ms tendo here."
he motioned to nibiki and she smirked "i... confronted her on
her reasons for the bid and... was rather suprised." he gave
way to nibiki. she cleared her throat "as far as we know,
this planet is worthless to your company ms tendo." one of
the men murmured. nibiki nodded "i'm aware of that. i'm not
after its resources, if there be any, i found the generals
description of the planet... something i miss. i'm dearly
tired of the ugly heap that once was a beautiful city. i
grew up in nerima ward, it was a beautiful place a scant
fifteen years ago, now its... a shit hole, borrowing from
the generals phrases."
the four men nodded, they knew ranma as well as he knew them
"you want to take such an industrialized company as tendo
corps and move it to this world?" the american asked, not
liking the idea. ranma cleared his throat "she plans on
leaving all but the corprate offices here, only a minimal
manufacturing installation will be installed for planetary
defences, the main body of the company will be here."
the general blinked "how can you be sure of this?" he asked.
ranma smirked slightly "because i'll be damned in hell
before those skies are poluted, i'd bomb the place myself.
as you may know, the regiment i last comanded has... honored
me by requesting transport on the colony ship that will
take us to the planet i choose, i'm thinking the government
might not mind a planet out in that sector with a full
regament and... space potental?" he smirked at them, running
a finger along the side of his nose "sirs i am dearly tired
of civies and their short sighted behaviors, when i first
saw this place... i didn't want to leave, and i turned in my
report on it feeling sick at the thought of civies tearing
down the forests for more ugly factories. i want to set up a
haven for us jar heads that hate whats been done to earth."
all four of them looked pleased "and how are you going to
handle it?" the spaniard asked smiling. ranma grinned
"autonimious government, we'll make it so the conditions for
settlement is that you must have served at least two years
in the merines. that is, once we get set up. ms tendo likes
the idea. she yearns for the beauty lost as much as a merine
and has agreed to offer herself as a corperate sponsor, see,
if a company is already in residance then another company
can't claim that part of the charter laws."
they nodded "so your throwing in with one you know over one
you don't." one of them surmised. ranma nodded "what better
company to have on a planet settled by merines then a
weapons manufacturerer?"
nibiki was chuckling when they got back to the house "that
was a good one ranma, giving them the option to settle there
once they retire." she said. ranma smirked at her "i wasn't
kinding." she stopped at the door "are you serious?! you
want them to figure it out?" she demanded. ranma looked at her
"a general in the governments comand has one loyalty, to the
government. a retired general newly settled has one loyalty,
to the planet that welcomed him. he owes no aliegance to any
flag but the one that keeps his plot of trees standing."
she blinked at that and shook her head "you seem to think you
know them well." she said disgruntled. ranma chuckled "i
pulled the spanaird from a slagged tank as we were retreating
from 43209 of sector G, i saved the american from being
eaten on beta collony when the caroniverous rhinos were
discovered there. i know all of those men nibiki the only
merine i haven't met is the one that signed up within the
last six months, anything before that then i must have
fought beside him or saved her at one time or other. the
colonial merine corps is a very tightly nit group."
she nodded looking thoughtful "and thats why a whole regiment
of your peers are willing to gamble on your taste?" she
asked. ranma chuckled "every one of those men and women
would take a hit for me, the same here, if someone was gonna
shoot one in the back, i would take the hit then kill the
bugger. the merine corps is almost a brotherhood, you can't
help but love them." he said smirking. he smiled at kanada
when he walked up to him "hey there bro, whats goin' on?"
he looked at nodoka and soun and looked down "nothin'."
ranma nodded losing the happy look on his face and the mask
fell back into place "i'm gonna go pack." he murmured
leaving the room. nibiki glared in disgust at the two
parents "same here." she spat leaving the room "what?!" soun
exclaimed. nibiki stopped and looked back at them "i'm going
with ranma and akane, i hate whats happened to this world and
this family, i'll not let the poison that is in the air do
to any family i start do what it did to this one."
kisumi looked at tofu meaningfully and he sighed nodding "i
think maybe we should go with them too, i miss the times
when the sky was a clear blue color." he said looking sadly
at kanada before leaving the room with his wife. kanada
started crying and looked at his parents with betrayal all
over his face before bolting from the room. soun looked
grimly at the floor, torn about what to do. nodoka covered
her face and wept retchedly "why did he have to come back!?"
she cried softly. soun snorted in disgust and stalked out
of the room.
ranma came into his room and stopped reaching for his bag
seeing akane asleep in his bed. he smiled softly and took up
the bag quietly and started loading it "um? ranma?" she
called sleepily and looked at him. he smiled dropping the
bag "we're go hon, got your bags packed?" he asked softly
coming over to look at her. she smiled offering her arm. he
smiled leaning down and kissed her deeply "can we spend a
few hours in bed first?" she pouted. he smiled " i hear sex
in free fall is the best." he said coaxingly. she looked
really interested "really?"
when ranma and akane came out of the room and into the den
they blinked seeing everyone but nodoka holding suitcases or
travel packs "whats this?" he asked. kisumi smiled "i would
really like to have a real garden ranma." she said happily.
tofu smiled "its been a while since i could breath deeply
enough and not start coughing from whath evers in the air,
and i want my kids to know what the outdoors used to look
like." nibiki smirked "i want to see this golden sunset you
spoke of." soun came in with kanada looking wide eyed in
shock "ranma, you are our family, we will not permit
misplaced anger keep to us apart. your brother needs you."
ranma looked distressed "but... what about mom? you can't
just leave her! thats what pop did!" he said gripping the
sides of his head "how can you care what she feels after
what she did to you?" nibiki asked. he glared at her
"because! shes my momma and i know how much it hurt her when
pop took me from her! he abandoned her for twelve years! we
can't do it again..." he looked up hearing someone clear
their throat and blinked at nodoka. she looked down from
their eyes "if ranmas leaving takes my family from me...
then i have no choice but to ask if i can come too."
ranma looked at her "i won't let 'em abandon you momma, you
may hate me but i won't let 'em abandon you like pop did,
not for me, i'm not worth it!" nodoka couldn't look at the
pain in either of her sons faces and took a deep breath "may
i come with you ranma? i don't want to be abandoned either,
i know... i'm sorry i blame you... i can't help it. maybe if
i knew you as more then a face and a few details... can
we... try?"
ranma grinned as he stepped out of the lift and seluted the five
solders in the docking ring seeing to the loading of supplies
"sargent gorden!" he barked startling them and they all burst out
laughing after a minute of staring. ranma hugged all of them
tightly before turning back to the two that had come with him
"hey guys, i want you to meet, tendo nibiki, shes our supplier
and the one thats going to help make us all rich." he said
motioning to her. she smirked "i'm also going to set up my
company's head quarters on our new home, i hope ranmas descripion
of space merines isn't exajerated."
the taller of them chuckled walking up and kissed her hand softly
"if you can get us the stuff, we'll give you a military scarier
then the one we just came from." he rumbled winking at her. she
smiled slightly at the interested look in his eye and lifted an
eye brow at him "so whos the little trooper general?" a red headed
woman that kept the sides shaved and the rest as long as she could
said picking kanada up. he grinned at the pride on ranmas face
"this is my little brother kanada."
she grinned kissing his cheek "hes cute! doesn't look much like
you." she comented getting a chuckle "stow that soldier, so did we
get everything on our christmas list?" he asked looking at the
loading chart brock handed him "all but the in system propulsion
systems for the planet hoppers." he murmured. ranma nodded "we
would only have to refit them anyways, we gotta get down there
and figure out the requirements then make them ourselves."
he nodded "although..." he stoped biting his lip "well i was at
this convention for rock miners and i saw this system, it was
sweet, they're using it for retro burst regulations, but with the
right mods it could out do the f54's guidance systems but ten
points. the only problem was, they're not sellin'. if i could get
one i could redo it and upgrade all our tracking systems for a
six milli jump on everthing the corps has."
ranma nodded liking the idea and looked at nibiki. she
smirked "tell me who made it and i'll see what i can do."
she said calmly and brock grinned in pleasure "oh i like her
ranma."
ranma looked up from the view port in front of him as the
door opened and he nodded to his mother looking back at the
window, unable to look at her for long. she sighed sadly
walking over and looked at her feet "ranma. i know... we
never had the relationship either of us wanted after you
came back from training with... genma... you never tried
talking to me, when ever i came to see you... you always
found a way to dodge me. for a while... i thought you hated
me for letting genma take you from me. i admit, i wasn't
very willing to ajust to the way you were... i thought... i
thought you were happier as his son then mine."
ranma didn't speak for a minute "mom, i was a very confused
and unhappy young man when you finally found me at the
tendos. i had a lot of anger and pain in me that i couldn't
figure out where it belonged. no one was willing to fit me
in anywhere, i didn't know where i belonged and that made me
want to keep away from everyone. if i said i wasn't mad at
you i would be lying. all i could see was that.... you
promised me, before pop took me away, that you would be
there, and that you would love me when he let me come home.
when you found out.... you became less and less like the
person i needed as time grew on. i needed help, i was
stuck, i didn't know what i was or where i belonged, i was
upset because.... you were more of a mother to me before
you knew who i was."
he closed his eyes not wanting to look at the tears in her
eyes "i needed someone to rescue me from the pit i was in.
but no one ever even tried, and whats worse, no one wanted
me to escape. all i knew was that i had a hole in my chest
where i imagine love goes. no one loved me growing up, and
when the one person i depended on to ease this pain i had
found me, you turned your back on me. you were nicer to me
when you thought i was ranko. do you know how much that
hurt? that the one person i believed with all my heart would
save me from this thing i was drowning in, just watched me
sink."
he shook his head moving away from her "all i needed was
someone to ease my agony, someone who loved me. in all the
world, not one single solitatry person could muster more
then an idle curiousity about whether i lived or died. i
know.... some of this is my fault i should have said
something. but i could say the same for you. you never tried
to help me. all i got from you was disaproving looks and a
cold shoulder. that told me that you didn't want to know me,
you weren't going to keep your promise."
he looked up when a soft chiming sound came over the comm
"general, something you should see up here." a female voice
came to them. ranma walked to the door and touched the
button for the ridge "on my way." he looked back at his
mother "the fact that i came back, should be enough of a
sign that i want you to honor your promise."
ranma blinked walking into the bridge and blinked at the face
of a rather ugly purple lizard thing "i say again, this
planet has been claimed by the gokorian imperium!" he
hissed. ranma walked over and touched the ships captain on
the shoulder "let me talk to him." he murmured. he nodded
quickly leaving the chair and waving him to it, he was
scared shitless. ranma tapped a few keys on the board and
the lizard blinked at him "another human to whine at us?" he
spat. ranma smirked at him "no, i'm comanding general saotome
of the human empire. when can you tell me was a claim was made
on this planet?"
the lizard hissed loudly "saotome? the butcher of galon
three?!" he snarled. ranma smirked at him "so it seems. just
so you know snake, i've personally laid claim to this
planet. do you really think i'm going to let you take it
from me?" he rested his chin on his palm "this does not
matter!! you are a colony ship, i am two destroyers!" he
hissed in tryumph. ranma smirked at him slightly "i'll do you
a favor snake, scan my ship again and tell me if you still
feel brave." he looked off to his side "disengage ships cloak
for a minute." he comanded to brock who had comendeered the
sensor station when he sat down "cloak disengaging sir!" he
barked loudly and ranma nodded seeing the lizard jump and the
paniced hissing of his bridge crew when they got the
readings "how is dreadnought hid in colony ship?!?!" he
shreeked at his crew. ranma chuckled when he looked back at
him "i'm in a rather good mood right now snake, if you were
smart, you would forget ever seeing this system, or would
you rather no one ever see you again?"
after he'd cut off signal and brock reported their engines
starting the crew clapped softly "how did you know he would
pull out?" the captain asked, as awed by the inccident as
kanada who was looking on excited as hell. ranma chuckled
sitting back in the chair "snakes have a strange way of
associating things. my comand was sent in to pull out the
one already on the planet, we got there and we went down and
did our thing, this was back before we figured out that
sonics were there weakness, so the battle was long and
annoying."
he smirked "we were there for the ... fifth?" he looked at
brock. he nodded "fifth day. and we were assaulting this
valley where a platoon was pinned down. in this damned
valley was the largest bronze bell we'd ever seen, it was
huge, it was also where our platoon was." he rolled his eyes
"well we fought hard for three days and finally cut a path
through the ugly bastards when one of the peremeter scouts
found three legions of snakes coming to back them up. well,
we were surely dead at that point, we were four platoons of
the best earth had, but we were all tired and had exhausted a
lot of our ammo. but this scout, he was spotted heading to
warn us and shot down. he stands up and says fuck it! he
fires off a concussion granade at that damned bell,
figuring it'll be enough to make us call in help."
he chuckled softly "that granade hit and i sware i thought
we'd all gone deaf, the ones riding the sonar scanners did
go deaf. but where it annoyed us, it killed the snakes. we
found out that the bell was an early warning system set up
by the race who had once inhabited the place, that bell
could be heard for fifty kilos around. the effect was
shocking. the snakes stood up strait and their heads
exsploded, the three legions and the ones we were fighting
were desimated in seconds. after thinking about it for a
minute i ordered the platoon comanders to launch a granade
at every one of those bells they could find. fifty thousand
snakes died that day, we were sent in to pull out a troop
that had been overwelmed, came out having taken the system
as well as given the empire the means to cowing them."
he chuckled "ever since then they've cursed me solely for
their downfall."
akane smiled when ranma came into the mess hall and waved
them off when they started clapping "are you a story teller
now general?" one of the merines cackled. ranma scowled for
a minute then smirked "well i have to find something to do
with my time when i'm too old to fight, have to practice."
they laughed at him and he sat down next to akane "do you
think we'll have a problem with them claiming our planet?"
she asked. ranma smiled "of course we will! but thats why
you got us!" pretty much the whole room cheered him at that
"how long do you think we'll have before they attack?" she
asked worried. ranma shrugged and jerked spilling his coffee
when the ship rocked "red alert! red alert! we're under
attack!"
ranma hissed looking at the two destroyers they had scared
off two days ago along with two more "just enough to take out
a dreadnought." he murmured looking at the sensors. brock
shrugged "what do you want to do?" ranma smirked "do we have
jump suit capability?" he asked. he nodded grinning from
ear to ear "the belts?" he guessd. ranma nodded in an
undesided way "have they said anything?" he asked the
captain. he shook his head "not a peek." ranma nodded
thoughtfully "alright, i'll go." they looked reluctent
"look, we're close enough to the planet for me to jump to it
if you lose me so i'll be fine." he pointed out. brock
scowled for a minute before his face split in a wide grin
"see you on the surface sir!" he said seluting and the rest
of the troopers in the bay with them did the same. ranma
chuckled starting towards the open cockpit they had hastily
unpacked for him "no! you can't go out there!" akane
exclaimed grabbing his arm. ranma swayed with the rocking of
the ship and kissed her "either i go or we all die, choices,
there are none." he pushed her away gently and hopped into
the cockpit "i'll be ok, promise."
ranma chuckled boosting away from the ship as his comm came
alive "if you don't come back i'll see a monument is erected
to the memory of the foolishly stupid general." nibikis
voice hissed at him. ranma laughed "oh you do love me!" he
exclaimed looking at the ship in front of him "have they
seen me yet brock?" he asked smiling. brock chuckled "of
course not i'm blanketing their sensors." he assured him
"thats why i'm sure i'm coming back sis." he called and
chuckled at the silence "coming upon the first ship, do you
have the light show we talked about ready?" he asked. "yep,
we're warning them now."
"attention snakes, i know its hard for your kind to
understand this, but we are not relinquishing this planet to
you, it is positioned inside the empires borders and as is
our right, we are colonizing. if you wish we can blast you into
particals, what is your answer?" the captain said grimly. the
lizard came up on one of his secondary screens "we shall rid
life of that acursed human that killed so many of our
people. we shall destroy you!" ranma nodded grabbing an engine
support strut, no one ever seems to think about what would
happen if someone personally came at them. he pulled one of
the huge bombs off his suits back and tore a rent in the
hull and slammed it into it "ready." he called boosting in
the direction of the next one. he yelped setting down on the
hull of the sister ship as they detonated his first target
"thats one of your ships." the captain said lanquidly. the
lizard hissed and doubled his fire, and ranma quickly
boosted for the third not telling them yet. "blow them at
the same time brock." he called boosting away after he
finished "rodger." he said and ranma grunted feeling the
heat of the three ships exsploding, pushing him harder at
the planet "its all good."
ranma looked up suddenly feeling the rush of landing
boosters kicking in close by and smirked hearing the
cheering sounds coming from the ship at the sight of his
mech sitting in a lotus position with his palms cupped in
his lap, ranma meditating in its palms. he chuckled looking
at them "told ya." brock chuckled "thats the general for ya
boys! he don't need no platoon to frag a snake!" all of the
first landing party cheered for a minute before quieting
down when ranma whistled peircingly "alright jarheads!!
theres a reason your the first to come down! mobilize now! i
want water, soil and air samples done in the next three
minutes and i want it in two minutes!!" they stood at
attention and seluted sharply "yes sir!!"
ranma nodded to the medic that came up next to him as he
finished taking his samples and with blurring speed dropped
the water into the slots set up for the chem tests of the
waters purity. he blinked at it for a minute before walking
over to brock and four of the other chem scouts that were
working together "brock, i want you and your team to go over
my findings on the water source." he said formally. they
blinked in surprise "may i ask why sir? your better at this
then some of us." he pointed out. ranma nodded handing him
the chem board. he blinked at it for a minute "i don't
understand? is the board broken? can't you use it?" he
asked, by now the others have come over. ranma shook his
head "i did use it brock. look, you can just make out the
colors on the enzime reaction table, it has just enough in
it for what mankind needs to sustain itself, and heres the
thing, even though it has a mild form of rad rocks in the
stream beds, theres nothing on the radioactive reaction tabs,
its almost like this lake water is purer then anything found
in the deepest resevior earth has, its so pure its almost
impossible, i ran the tests four times with new equipmnent
each time and still, its the same results. i request that
you run them again for me."
by the time brock came back, the civilians had been brought
down, the sound of the drop ships an ever present hum in the
background "sir, its almost impossible for a planet to be
this human friendly, the soil can reproduce every type of
food we know of, and grow it better too! the water is sweet
to the taste sir!" the man looked deeply annoyed. ranma
nodded holding up a bottle of water "is this what a planet
not touched by intelegent minds is like?" he mused softly to
himself "and the air?" he asked. the man shrugged "earth
norm on solar rads and toxins.... in sixteen twelve." they
blinked at him for a minute "your saying that the air is
just as pure as the water and the soil?" brock asked, by now
as nervious at ranma. he nodded "i don't get it sir, its
almost like this place is being groomed."
ranma sat there thinking about it for a minute before
looking at them grimly "halt the colonial offloading and
start bringing down the hardware, i want a deep core scan
of this planet, i want the other planets in this system
scanned, collect a sample of the wildlife and test them too
see if they could be the reason, this just isn't normal." he
looked up when brock started to leave "and see that the
planetary cannon is brought down as well! no telling when
the snakes will come to bug us again!"
ranma blinked walking into his tent yawning hard after all
the work he just did and blinked seeing akane laying naked
on his temp bed. she grinned sitting up "i was wondering if
i had to walk into the comand tent like this to get you to
come to bed." he smirked "the guys wouldn't have cared if we
had fucked in front of them as long as i could answer their
coments halfway. she grinned riggling a little as he pulled
his pants and boxers off and watched him sway back and forth
as he neared the bed. he grinned crawling under the covers,
dipping down the run his tongue through her sex as he went
up. she groaned at the feel and pulled him against her
excitedly. he grinned letting her pull him in hard and both
grunted when he invaded her body. she pressed hard to him
and yelped happily at the almost painfully hard thrusts he
was making, loving it totally for some reason. he grunted
pounding her hard and soon gritted his teeth fighting his
way through her orgasm and continued.
ranma grunted stopping as he got a cramp and pulled out.
she blinked starting to ask something when he flipped her
over and plunged back in, she shreeked lightly in exstacy and
bucked back into him hard until he bellowed in orgasm ten
minutes later. ranma panted pressing himself firmly inside
her before settling gently on top of her. akane moaned
happily as wave after wave of pleasure washed over her body
loving the way his sweaty body rested lightly on top of
hers, his still firm manhood lodged deeply in her belly, the
soft humming of the thing sitting in front of her....
akane tried to jump away but with ranma firmly implanted in
her womb that wasn't going to happen. ranma blinked up and
rumbled curiously at the small creature and it cheeped back
happily before settling down beside akanes head.
she blinked up at him curiously and he chuckled softly
kissing her neck "as far as we can tell, their harmless." he
murmured and before she could say anything pulled himself
out half way before firmly sinking himself back in. she
moaned softly looking shocked "again..?" she groaned. he
nodded "i can do anything if its for you." he rumbled
pumping gently inside her, she cried softly in pleasure
her next orgasm quickly building higher. ranma grunted
twisting them about and she yelped suddenly sitting in his
lap as he rapped his arms around her. she cried out louder
as his fingers started pinching her lips as his rod started
pistoning inside her again.
