Kuno vs the fowl sorcerors
Ep 10: Nabiki meets the "Dark Lord"!
Authors notes: For those who don't know about Adam the cyborg thingy the trio took from the base,
he's the villain from season 4 of Buffy. Buffy was only able to defeat him after breifly gaining
god like powers thanks to some weird spell that Willow cast on her. She ended up ripping out
his power core and sending it to another dimension. Admonisher is a character from the Violator
side story in the spawn comics. His real name was never put in it to my knowledge so I made
one up. I think he's supposed to be a parody of the punisher. Basically
he's a very skilled mercenery with a few screws loose. Yomiko Readman is from the anime Read
or Die. These guys aren't my property. If you think they are your as crazy as Kuno. The
initiative is a secret government organization monitoring demon activities from season four
of Buffy.
Ukyo and Nabiki had been following up all the leads they could on Ranma. So far they had
narrowed down the most recent sighting to areas in Tokyo and Nerima. Neither of which were
anywhere near each other. Ukyo had left for Tokyo the other day while Nabiki checked out the
part of town Ranma was most often seen in. After a few hours of searching for clues it looked
like she wasn't going to find anything. Then she noticed someone who looked vaguely familiar.
It was a red haired teenager. He was one of the guys asking her about Kuno earlier. He was
waving at something in the sky. Then suddenly what appeared to be Ranma landed in front of him
carrying a McDonalds bag. He handed it to him with an emotionless expression on his face. Then
one of the other Americans came out and started smacking the red haired guy on the head and
yelling at him. Ranma really didn't seem to be paying attention to what either of them were
saying. After that all three of them went inside the garage.
"Something strange is going on here. Was Ranma taking orders from them?" Maybe they had
found some way of gaining control of Ranma. But that still didn't explain his new powers. Nabiki
snuck around the area trying to get a look inside. She was about half way around the building
when she felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned to see the same demon she had seen doing something
to Kuno in the hospital. she tried to scream but it put a hand over her mouth and took her inside
the garage.
"Graaauuggh!" said the demon waving to Andrew and Warren.
"Who is that?"
"She's a freind of the Jedi's!" said Warren getting up. "Doesn't look like she is a jedi
though. Your freind handeled her pretty easy."
"Uhhh what do we do with her? Can we freeze her in carbonite? Huh? can we?"
"Don't do anything yet. And have Ranma bot tie her up. I'm not confident in your demon
freinds pointy claws." Ranma bot grabbed Nabiki and tied her to a chair.
"Ranma! Why are you doing this to me? Who are these people?"
"Ranma? I thought you were a freind of Kunos. Oh man we really hit the jack pot! We
caught ourselves a double agent!" said Warren grinning.
"What do you mean?"
"Your pretending to be Kuno's freind but you actually work for the dark sorceror
Ranma!"
"Wait? If he's not Ranma?"
"I'm Ranma Saotome. Sorry about this."
"That's my state of the art combat robot. I thought it would be a convenient disguise. The
real Ranma is a powerful dark sorceror. The way I made my robot, anyone who sees him shouldn't
know the difference."
"Oh I see how it is now. You people must be joking. You bought into Kunos delusions and
are forming some hair brained scheme around them."
"Delusions? What do you mean? We have every reason to believe he's telling the truth!"
"Kuno believes it's the truth too, but that doesn't mean that's how things are."
"People who can cut apart demons with wooden swords always know what their talking about!
He's a jedi wudan master and a foe to reckoned with!" said Andrew.
"You people are crazier then Kuno! Untie me now you little twerps!"
"Now don't be so hasty!" Warren said advancing on her.
"If you join us we can give you riches beyond anything Kuno or Ranma could offer you.
Afterall, your talking to the future ruler of the planet!" Nabiki burst out laughing in
Warrens face.
"You? Ruler of the planet?"
"Yes you can laugh now but as you can see my technological genius surpasses those of any
of our worlds governments. And not only that but we have access to powerful dark magics!"
"First off, you people are wasting your time. I can see that the robot is very advanced.
I wouldn't have thought it possible to make something like that when sony can barely make one
that can walk up a flight of stairs. Listen, if you guys untie me, drop the supervillain act
and help me clear Ranmas name. I'll be willing to help you market your robots. We could be
millionaires."
"No. That won't do. I have my goals set higher then that. I won't settle for anything
less then to sit on the worlds thrown!"
"How can someone smart enough to build such a complex machine be such an idiot! Let me
out of here! What the hell is your name anyway?"
"I'm the dark lord Sauron!"
Andrew fumbled with his fake beared "And I'm Sarumon the fallen wizard!"
"My god! I have never met such idiots! If you don't let me out right now I'll mmmpph!"
"Quite! I can't stand bossy women!" Warren slapped some duct tape over her mouth.
"What are going to do with her now?"
"Oh yeah. I was going to interrigate her. I guess the duct tape will have to come off."
"Mmmmmppphhh!!!!"
"Can she be one of my wives when we rule the world? I think she's hot!" said Andrew
"Go ahead. I don't like bossy women."
"Can I uhhh.... touch your boobs? Were like going to be married and stuff so it's ok
right? I also want to marry Scully from the X-files. When were married both of you can have
sex with me at once."
"Mmmmmppppphhhh!!!!"
"Maybe we should get one of our pacifying devices first." but before they could do
anything more there was a knock on the door. "Andrew could you go get that?"
Andrew walked over to the door. He opened it and saw about fifty American operatives
dressed in black aiming machhine guns at the door. Andrew closed the door. "Uhhh... I think it's
for you."
"For me? Why the hell would anyone want..."
"We know your in there! Come out with your hands up!"
"Shit! It's the man! How did they track us down so fast?" a tear gas grenade
smashed through the window and several soldiers smashed through the door. Andrew and Warren ran
towards the back area with one of the Ranma bots. The soldiers began to walk into the area,
one of them began to walk towards the tied up Nabiki.
"Sir! We have a civilian here!" He began to untie her ropes, but before the soldier could
do anymore Ranma bot two had grabbed him by the neck and was holding him in the air. Two more
Ranma bots and Andrews dream demon stepped out of the shadows. The soldiers began firing on
them. The dream demon seemed to hurt from the bullet hits but they didn't kill it. The Ranma
bots weren't fazed at all.
"I'm Ranma Saotome. Sorry about this." all three of them said at once. One of them began
freezing soldiers while another let loose with a blast of fire. The last one fired off blasts of
lightning. It didn't take long for them to take down every last one of the soldiers. Nabiki
managed to get out of her ropes and ran out the back door.
One of the Ranma bots turned to look at her. "Exterminate! Exterminate!" it said in the
voice of the Daleks from Dr Who. Nabiki ran down the alley when the wall exploded and Ranma bot
three came out. She quikly ducked around a corner. She had to get out of here. Nabiki ran
through the alley until she found a bike that someone had left unlocked. In Japan, due to the
low crime rate people aren't as careful about things like bikes. Nabiki swiped the bike and
rode off.
When she got to a more crowded area of town she got off and looked around. It didn't seem
to have followed her. People were going about their business and shopping. Nothing seemed
unusual. Then Nabiki felt a tap on her shoulder. She nearly jumped out of her skin
but was relieved ,if somewhat annoyed to hear a voice say "Have you heard of Jehovas witnesses?"
Nabiki turned to tell off whoever tapped her but standing right behind her was Ranma bot.
"Have you heard of Jehovas witnesses?" he said.
"Oh no!" Ranma bot extended his blades on one hand and grabbed her around the throat with
the other hand. Several people tried to pry him off her but it was no use. Anyone who came
close was thrown back by an elecktric shock. Then there was a gun shot and Ranma bots head was
knocked slightly to the left.
"I'm Batman. Sorry about this." he said as he turned to see a wounded soldier holdling a
gun.
"Stop right there you freak!"
"I can't do that Dave." the robot dropped Nabiki and began to approach the soldier.
He fired repeatedly at the robot but it did no good. "I'm Ranma Saotome. Sorry about this!"
it grabbed the soldier around the neck.
"Not today stud!" A dark brunette girl came out of nowhere and side kicked the robot
across the face.
"Faith?" asked the soldier.
"We thought you might need our help so we were coming over."
"I'm here as well." said another voice that Nabiki recognized.
"Pantywhose Taro?" Nabiki said as she saw the effeminant Chinese boy with the Pantywhose
around his waste step out of the shadows next to her.
"Don't call me that!"
"Those teenagers!! They had some real monsters! They didn't activate Adam but it's almost
as bad as if they had." said the soldier lying on the ground.
"You said you probably wouldn't need us to deal with a couple of teenagers so we went to
go get something to eat." said Taro. Faith was barely holding her own against the Ranma bot.
"Great! Was admonisher and Yomiko with you?"
"This is like trying to attack a truck! How about a little help Pantywhose!"
"Don't call me that!"
"Ok! Ok! just help! Eaaaahh!" the Ranma bots pigtail shot out. It was connected to a cable
with sharp barb on the end. It impaled Faith on the arm and the Ranma bot sent a high voltage
burst out elecktrocuting her. Pantywhose dumped some water over his head and he changed into
his demonic looking cursed form. He grabbed the Ranma bot around the leg and smashed him into
the ground repeatedly.
The soldier crawled over to Faith. She was alive but unconcious. Pantywhose slammed the
robot through a nearby brick wall. Some of its clothes and fake skin was ripped off but other
then that it was undamaged. "Groouu!" said Pantywhose which roughly translated to "What the hell
is that thing made of?"
"Damn it Jim! I'm a doctor not an engineer!" the robot said as it got to its feet.
"I think it's time for a severe repramanding!" said a deep voiced and slightly crazed
male voice, a blond man with fairly short hair and lots of guns came out and began firing on
Ranma bot with two desert eagles. When he ran out of ammo he pulled out an assault rifle and
kept firing. That didn't work either. He was about to get out a grenade launcher when Ranma bot
walked up to the man and decked him with one blow sending him flying across the street and into
a ramen stand.
"Idiot!" said the robot.
"Oh really! I think you should have a time out Roosevelt!" The man pulled out a
detonator. Ranma looked down to see that before he had punched the man he had planted a
small explosive on his endoskeliton.
"I am invincible!" the robot shouted in a badly done Russian accent. And then it exploded
in a ball of fire.
"Take that Roosevelt!" Nabiki wondered for a moment why he was calling the robot Roosevelt
when the robot stepped out of the fire. Its clothes and skin were burn't off but it was still
going. "No way! You want another time out!?!"
"I told you I was invincible!" as soon as the robot said that what appeared to be a paper
air plane hit it on the head. the paper air plane impaled its metal skull and the robot jerked
around and fell down. "And I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for you meddling
sons of bi-" and the robot died.
A girl who looked like a young librarian with big square glasses ran up to Riley and
said "I'm so sorry we were late! The whole mission got ruined!"
"Don't be. It was my fault. I underestimated the enemy. I just thought they were a couple
of teenagers we could handle without you. But we can't make the same mistake again. From now
on we work together." Riley remembered back to his breifing on the situation.
"Now Mr. Finn. I'm sure after reading the report you are aware of our reasons for
choosing you for this mission."
"It's because of my experience in dealing with Adam, the prototype demonoid during his
previous activation."
"Correct. Were trusting your judgement with how to go through with this operation. You
will be working with four civilians we hired because of their special abilities. You are only
to allow them to go into action if Adam is activated."
"Why is that sir?"
"I was getting to that part. I believe you were breifly aquanted with one of them."
He handed Riley a picture.
"Faith!"
"Yes. The rogue Slayer who was incarcerated not long ago. We've agreed to undo her
sentance if she does some missions for us. She is a known felon, although she has agreed to
our terms I would like you to keep a closs eye on her."
Riley had some misgivings already. The last time he had encountered Faith she had taken
over his ex girl freinds body and slept with him.
"This next person is the mercenery known as the Admonisher. His real name is Jean Jaques
Caligula Cassidy. He's an extremely skilled hired gun. I want you to keep an eye on him as
well. He has the reputation of shooting first and asking questions later. And although it's
never been proven it's been rumored he sometimes works as a hitman for the mafia."
"With all due respect I'm really not going for this sir."
"I know. But these are the best people for the job. This is Pantywhose Taro."
"WHAT?!? I mean sir, that name!"
"Yes that is his name. He should be easier to work with then the other two. Just don't
call him by his full name. He's very touchy about that. About a year ago an iniative team
working in China was under seige by a large number of demons. They were saved by this man.
We offered to pay him to work for us but he declined. However he said he would be willing to
do it if we found a way to change his name. We made a deal with his village, they'll get
economic benefits from us and Taro would get his name changed if he worked with us for a year.
There's one other thing. When Taro gets splashed with cold water he's cursed to change into
a chimera like beast. Here's the picture. Other then that he's a virtual unknown to us."
"Sounds like he could be trouble too."
"This last person is Yomiko Readman. She's the only one among them who doesn't have
a checkered background. She's an agent of the British Royal Library."
"A librarian?"
"That's just a code name. The British Royal libary is actually a secret peace keeping
organization that will be working with us on this. Her code name is "The paper" due to her
power."
"What power?"
"You'll see when you meet her. I'm sure she'll be more then glad to give you a demo
of her abilities."
"Great! I'm going to be working with a woman who sexually violated me, a trigger happy
maniac, a guy named after underwear and a librarian."
"Well yes that's more or less how things are. But I must stress that you must do your best
at keeping them out of trouble. If you bring them with you to capture the teenagers most likely
they could end up dead. Only use them if it's absolately nessecery. In other words not unless
Adam is somehow reactivated."
"SIR!"
The present
Nabiki just stood there in awe watching her saviors brushing themselves off. "Just who
are you people?"
"I'm Riley Finn. I think you should come with us." Even as he was talking a large ball of
fire erupted in the area Nabiki knew was the hide out of those strange people who had captured
her.
"Shit! They must have had the place rigged!"
meanwhile
Some how Ranma and Ryoga had gotten themselves seperated from Happosai. They weren't
complaining. "Ryoga picked up another news paper. It just so happened to be the same paper
which had featured the demon bank robber story in an earlier issue. The headline was "Ranma
Saotome: Most wanted man in Japan, still at large!" There was a big picture of Ranma on the
cover and a small blurred picture in the corner that had the caption "Ranmas partner in crime"
Ryoga had almost come to terms with his issues with Ranma after the wedding but lately
it was all flooding back to him. All the humiliations he had at Ranmas hands. His curse which
happened because of Ranma. And how Ranma seemed to upstage him in everything they did. Ryoga
continued reading the story. "Angry Evangelion fans ransack Tendo dojo, the former home of
Ranma Saotome. When asked to comment Soun Tendo, the current owner burst out in tears
screaming "OH THE HUMANITY!". Soun Tendo had no idea of the boys current whereabouts."
Then Ryoga glanced at another area where they interviewed one of the people who had broke
into the Tendo dojo. "How dare Ranma wreck Mitsuishi samas car! This is an affront to fans of
Misato Katsuragi everywhere! I haven't been this mad since they killed her off in end of EVA.
I demand that Ranma Saotome and that bandanna guy be brought to swift justice!"
"Just who do you think the bandana guy is?"
"I don't know. But who cares! He's just some guy in a bandana."
"So! I'm just some guy in a bandana am I!?!" Ryoga ripped apart the paper.
"What's up p-chan?"
That was the straw that broke the camels back. The thin line between sanity and insanity
suddenly became very blurry for Ryoga. "Ranma! I'm the one who blew up that car
and they think you did it! How dare you take the blame for a crime I committed! Ranma this is
all your fault!"
"W-what?!?"
"Bakusai Tenkatsu!" Ryoga hit the floor they were standing on and they fell through the
pavement Ranma was standing on. Ranma back flipped away from him.
"Ryoga have you lost it! Were in public! We can't be seen!"
"Ranma! It's all your fault that everyone thinks it's all your fault!" Ranma katsu
tenshin Amarigurikened him in the face. Ryoga shook his head "Oh! Sorry. I didn't know
what came over me. What were we talking about?"
"Never mind! We've got to get out of here!"
Several cops and Happosai were rapidly approaching. "Their over here officers!" shouted
Happosai gleefully.
"Wow! We sure are lucky that senior citizens like you are so into helping public
servants."
"Just doing my duty!"
"Doing his duty my ass!" Ranma said as they both cleared a ten foot wall. They could
hear some thuds and groans on the other side. Happosai hopped over the wall and landed next
to them.
"I guess I lost you for awhile. You know it was much better when I did this sort of
training in China with Genma and Soun. I mean the only thing these pathetic cops are good
for is speed training. You'll get much better adversaries in China."
"I aint going! I've got to clear my name!"
"Oh really! Have you forgotten what's in China?"
"What's in China?" asked Ranma and Ryoga.
Happosai fell over "The spring of drowned man you idiots!". Of course Happosai had no
intention of letting Ranma into the spring but it would make good motivation.
"Oh yeah! Well in that case I guess we could go. How are we going?"
"How else? Were swimming! Ranma it's my opinion as your master that you could use
some improvement on your backstroke. Besides I'm such an old man I need a soft place to
rest and...." Ranma and Ryoga both stomped on him.
"Ran chan! You really are here!" Ukyo had heard the bakusai tenkatsu explosion and came
running.
"U-Uchan!"
"Oh Ranma! You aren't really a dark corceror are you?!? You aren't really Kunos dad!?
Please say it isn't true!"
Ryoga Ranma and even Happosai just looked at her in stunned silence "Uhhhh....."
was the only thing Ranma managed to say in response.
Ep 10: Nabiki meets the "Dark Lord"!
Authors notes: For those who don't know about Adam the cyborg thingy the trio took from the base,
he's the villain from season 4 of Buffy. Buffy was only able to defeat him after breifly gaining
god like powers thanks to some weird spell that Willow cast on her. She ended up ripping out
his power core and sending it to another dimension. Admonisher is a character from the Violator
side story in the spawn comics. His real name was never put in it to my knowledge so I made
one up. I think he's supposed to be a parody of the punisher. Basically
he's a very skilled mercenery with a few screws loose. Yomiko Readman is from the anime Read
or Die. These guys aren't my property. If you think they are your as crazy as Kuno. The
initiative is a secret government organization monitoring demon activities from season four
of Buffy.
Ukyo and Nabiki had been following up all the leads they could on Ranma. So far they had
narrowed down the most recent sighting to areas in Tokyo and Nerima. Neither of which were
anywhere near each other. Ukyo had left for Tokyo the other day while Nabiki checked out the
part of town Ranma was most often seen in. After a few hours of searching for clues it looked
like she wasn't going to find anything. Then she noticed someone who looked vaguely familiar.
It was a red haired teenager. He was one of the guys asking her about Kuno earlier. He was
waving at something in the sky. Then suddenly what appeared to be Ranma landed in front of him
carrying a McDonalds bag. He handed it to him with an emotionless expression on his face. Then
one of the other Americans came out and started smacking the red haired guy on the head and
yelling at him. Ranma really didn't seem to be paying attention to what either of them were
saying. After that all three of them went inside the garage.
"Something strange is going on here. Was Ranma taking orders from them?" Maybe they had
found some way of gaining control of Ranma. But that still didn't explain his new powers. Nabiki
snuck around the area trying to get a look inside. She was about half way around the building
when she felt a tap on her shoulder. She turned to see the same demon she had seen doing something
to Kuno in the hospital. she tried to scream but it put a hand over her mouth and took her inside
the garage.
"Graaauuggh!" said the demon waving to Andrew and Warren.
"Who is that?"
"She's a freind of the Jedi's!" said Warren getting up. "Doesn't look like she is a jedi
though. Your freind handeled her pretty easy."
"Uhhh what do we do with her? Can we freeze her in carbonite? Huh? can we?"
"Don't do anything yet. And have Ranma bot tie her up. I'm not confident in your demon
freinds pointy claws." Ranma bot grabbed Nabiki and tied her to a chair.
"Ranma! Why are you doing this to me? Who are these people?"
"Ranma? I thought you were a freind of Kunos. Oh man we really hit the jack pot! We
caught ourselves a double agent!" said Warren grinning.
"What do you mean?"
"Your pretending to be Kuno's freind but you actually work for the dark sorceror
Ranma!"
"Wait? If he's not Ranma?"
"I'm Ranma Saotome. Sorry about this."
"That's my state of the art combat robot. I thought it would be a convenient disguise. The
real Ranma is a powerful dark sorceror. The way I made my robot, anyone who sees him shouldn't
know the difference."
"Oh I see how it is now. You people must be joking. You bought into Kunos delusions and
are forming some hair brained scheme around them."
"Delusions? What do you mean? We have every reason to believe he's telling the truth!"
"Kuno believes it's the truth too, but that doesn't mean that's how things are."
"People who can cut apart demons with wooden swords always know what their talking about!
He's a jedi wudan master and a foe to reckoned with!" said Andrew.
"You people are crazier then Kuno! Untie me now you little twerps!"
"Now don't be so hasty!" Warren said advancing on her.
"If you join us we can give you riches beyond anything Kuno or Ranma could offer you.
Afterall, your talking to the future ruler of the planet!" Nabiki burst out laughing in
Warrens face.
"You? Ruler of the planet?"
"Yes you can laugh now but as you can see my technological genius surpasses those of any
of our worlds governments. And not only that but we have access to powerful dark magics!"
"First off, you people are wasting your time. I can see that the robot is very advanced.
I wouldn't have thought it possible to make something like that when sony can barely make one
that can walk up a flight of stairs. Listen, if you guys untie me, drop the supervillain act
and help me clear Ranmas name. I'll be willing to help you market your robots. We could be
millionaires."
"No. That won't do. I have my goals set higher then that. I won't settle for anything
less then to sit on the worlds thrown!"
"How can someone smart enough to build such a complex machine be such an idiot! Let me
out of here! What the hell is your name anyway?"
"I'm the dark lord Sauron!"
Andrew fumbled with his fake beared "And I'm Sarumon the fallen wizard!"
"My god! I have never met such idiots! If you don't let me out right now I'll mmmpph!"
"Quite! I can't stand bossy women!" Warren slapped some duct tape over her mouth.
"What are going to do with her now?"
"Oh yeah. I was going to interrigate her. I guess the duct tape will have to come off."
"Mmmmmppphhh!!!!"
"Can she be one of my wives when we rule the world? I think she's hot!" said Andrew
"Go ahead. I don't like bossy women."
"Can I uhhh.... touch your boobs? Were like going to be married and stuff so it's ok
right? I also want to marry Scully from the X-files. When were married both of you can have
sex with me at once."
"Mmmmmppppphhhh!!!!"
"Maybe we should get one of our pacifying devices first." but before they could do
anything more there was a knock on the door. "Andrew could you go get that?"
Andrew walked over to the door. He opened it and saw about fifty American operatives
dressed in black aiming machhine guns at the door. Andrew closed the door. "Uhhh... I think it's
for you."
"For me? Why the hell would anyone want..."
"We know your in there! Come out with your hands up!"
"Shit! It's the man! How did they track us down so fast?" a tear gas grenade
smashed through the window and several soldiers smashed through the door. Andrew and Warren ran
towards the back area with one of the Ranma bots. The soldiers began to walk into the area,
one of them began to walk towards the tied up Nabiki.
"Sir! We have a civilian here!" He began to untie her ropes, but before the soldier could
do anymore Ranma bot two had grabbed him by the neck and was holding him in the air. Two more
Ranma bots and Andrews dream demon stepped out of the shadows. The soldiers began firing on
them. The dream demon seemed to hurt from the bullet hits but they didn't kill it. The Ranma
bots weren't fazed at all.
"I'm Ranma Saotome. Sorry about this." all three of them said at once. One of them began
freezing soldiers while another let loose with a blast of fire. The last one fired off blasts of
lightning. It didn't take long for them to take down every last one of the soldiers. Nabiki
managed to get out of her ropes and ran out the back door.
One of the Ranma bots turned to look at her. "Exterminate! Exterminate!" it said in the
voice of the Daleks from Dr Who. Nabiki ran down the alley when the wall exploded and Ranma bot
three came out. She quikly ducked around a corner. She had to get out of here. Nabiki ran
through the alley until she found a bike that someone had left unlocked. In Japan, due to the
low crime rate people aren't as careful about things like bikes. Nabiki swiped the bike and
rode off.
When she got to a more crowded area of town she got off and looked around. It didn't seem
to have followed her. People were going about their business and shopping. Nothing seemed
unusual. Then Nabiki felt a tap on her shoulder. She nearly jumped out of her skin
but was relieved ,if somewhat annoyed to hear a voice say "Have you heard of Jehovas witnesses?"
Nabiki turned to tell off whoever tapped her but standing right behind her was Ranma bot.
"Have you heard of Jehovas witnesses?" he said.
"Oh no!" Ranma bot extended his blades on one hand and grabbed her around the throat with
the other hand. Several people tried to pry him off her but it was no use. Anyone who came
close was thrown back by an elecktric shock. Then there was a gun shot and Ranma bots head was
knocked slightly to the left.
"I'm Batman. Sorry about this." he said as he turned to see a wounded soldier holdling a
gun.
"Stop right there you freak!"
"I can't do that Dave." the robot dropped Nabiki and began to approach the soldier.
He fired repeatedly at the robot but it did no good. "I'm Ranma Saotome. Sorry about this!"
it grabbed the soldier around the neck.
"Not today stud!" A dark brunette girl came out of nowhere and side kicked the robot
across the face.
"Faith?" asked the soldier.
"We thought you might need our help so we were coming over."
"I'm here as well." said another voice that Nabiki recognized.
"Pantywhose Taro?" Nabiki said as she saw the effeminant Chinese boy with the Pantywhose
around his waste step out of the shadows next to her.
"Don't call me that!"
"Those teenagers!! They had some real monsters! They didn't activate Adam but it's almost
as bad as if they had." said the soldier lying on the ground.
"You said you probably wouldn't need us to deal with a couple of teenagers so we went to
go get something to eat." said Taro. Faith was barely holding her own against the Ranma bot.
"Great! Was admonisher and Yomiko with you?"
"This is like trying to attack a truck! How about a little help Pantywhose!"
"Don't call me that!"
"Ok! Ok! just help! Eaaaahh!" the Ranma bots pigtail shot out. It was connected to a cable
with sharp barb on the end. It impaled Faith on the arm and the Ranma bot sent a high voltage
burst out elecktrocuting her. Pantywhose dumped some water over his head and he changed into
his demonic looking cursed form. He grabbed the Ranma bot around the leg and smashed him into
the ground repeatedly.
The soldier crawled over to Faith. She was alive but unconcious. Pantywhose slammed the
robot through a nearby brick wall. Some of its clothes and fake skin was ripped off but other
then that it was undamaged. "Groouu!" said Pantywhose which roughly translated to "What the hell
is that thing made of?"
"Damn it Jim! I'm a doctor not an engineer!" the robot said as it got to its feet.
"I think it's time for a severe repramanding!" said a deep voiced and slightly crazed
male voice, a blond man with fairly short hair and lots of guns came out and began firing on
Ranma bot with two desert eagles. When he ran out of ammo he pulled out an assault rifle and
kept firing. That didn't work either. He was about to get out a grenade launcher when Ranma bot
walked up to the man and decked him with one blow sending him flying across the street and into
a ramen stand.
"Idiot!" said the robot.
"Oh really! I think you should have a time out Roosevelt!" The man pulled out a
detonator. Ranma looked down to see that before he had punched the man he had planted a
small explosive on his endoskeliton.
"I am invincible!" the robot shouted in a badly done Russian accent. And then it exploded
in a ball of fire.
"Take that Roosevelt!" Nabiki wondered for a moment why he was calling the robot Roosevelt
when the robot stepped out of the fire. Its clothes and skin were burn't off but it was still
going. "No way! You want another time out!?!"
"I told you I was invincible!" as soon as the robot said that what appeared to be a paper
air plane hit it on the head. the paper air plane impaled its metal skull and the robot jerked
around and fell down. "And I would have gotten away with it too if it wasn't for you meddling
sons of bi-" and the robot died.
A girl who looked like a young librarian with big square glasses ran up to Riley and
said "I'm so sorry we were late! The whole mission got ruined!"
"Don't be. It was my fault. I underestimated the enemy. I just thought they were a couple
of teenagers we could handle without you. But we can't make the same mistake again. From now
on we work together." Riley remembered back to his breifing on the situation.
"Now Mr. Finn. I'm sure after reading the report you are aware of our reasons for
choosing you for this mission."
"It's because of my experience in dealing with Adam, the prototype demonoid during his
previous activation."
"Correct. Were trusting your judgement with how to go through with this operation. You
will be working with four civilians we hired because of their special abilities. You are only
to allow them to go into action if Adam is activated."
"Why is that sir?"
"I was getting to that part. I believe you were breifly aquanted with one of them."
He handed Riley a picture.
"Faith!"
"Yes. The rogue Slayer who was incarcerated not long ago. We've agreed to undo her
sentance if she does some missions for us. She is a known felon, although she has agreed to
our terms I would like you to keep a closs eye on her."
Riley had some misgivings already. The last time he had encountered Faith she had taken
over his ex girl freinds body and slept with him.
"This next person is the mercenery known as the Admonisher. His real name is Jean Jaques
Caligula Cassidy. He's an extremely skilled hired gun. I want you to keep an eye on him as
well. He has the reputation of shooting first and asking questions later. And although it's
never been proven it's been rumored he sometimes works as a hitman for the mafia."
"With all due respect I'm really not going for this sir."
"I know. But these are the best people for the job. This is Pantywhose Taro."
"WHAT?!? I mean sir, that name!"
"Yes that is his name. He should be easier to work with then the other two. Just don't
call him by his full name. He's very touchy about that. About a year ago an iniative team
working in China was under seige by a large number of demons. They were saved by this man.
We offered to pay him to work for us but he declined. However he said he would be willing to
do it if we found a way to change his name. We made a deal with his village, they'll get
economic benefits from us and Taro would get his name changed if he worked with us for a year.
There's one other thing. When Taro gets splashed with cold water he's cursed to change into
a chimera like beast. Here's the picture. Other then that he's a virtual unknown to us."
"Sounds like he could be trouble too."
"This last person is Yomiko Readman. She's the only one among them who doesn't have
a checkered background. She's an agent of the British Royal Library."
"A librarian?"
"That's just a code name. The British Royal libary is actually a secret peace keeping
organization that will be working with us on this. Her code name is "The paper" due to her
power."
"What power?"
"You'll see when you meet her. I'm sure she'll be more then glad to give you a demo
of her abilities."
"Great! I'm going to be working with a woman who sexually violated me, a trigger happy
maniac, a guy named after underwear and a librarian."
"Well yes that's more or less how things are. But I must stress that you must do your best
at keeping them out of trouble. If you bring them with you to capture the teenagers most likely
they could end up dead. Only use them if it's absolately nessecery. In other words not unless
Adam is somehow reactivated."
"SIR!"
The present
Nabiki just stood there in awe watching her saviors brushing themselves off. "Just who
are you people?"
"I'm Riley Finn. I think you should come with us." Even as he was talking a large ball of
fire erupted in the area Nabiki knew was the hide out of those strange people who had captured
her.
"Shit! They must have had the place rigged!"
meanwhile
Some how Ranma and Ryoga had gotten themselves seperated from Happosai. They weren't
complaining. "Ryoga picked up another news paper. It just so happened to be the same paper
which had featured the demon bank robber story in an earlier issue. The headline was "Ranma
Saotome: Most wanted man in Japan, still at large!" There was a big picture of Ranma on the
cover and a small blurred picture in the corner that had the caption "Ranmas partner in crime"
Ryoga had almost come to terms with his issues with Ranma after the wedding but lately
it was all flooding back to him. All the humiliations he had at Ranmas hands. His curse which
happened because of Ranma. And how Ranma seemed to upstage him in everything they did. Ryoga
continued reading the story. "Angry Evangelion fans ransack Tendo dojo, the former home of
Ranma Saotome. When asked to comment Soun Tendo, the current owner burst out in tears
screaming "OH THE HUMANITY!". Soun Tendo had no idea of the boys current whereabouts."
Then Ryoga glanced at another area where they interviewed one of the people who had broke
into the Tendo dojo. "How dare Ranma wreck Mitsuishi samas car! This is an affront to fans of
Misato Katsuragi everywhere! I haven't been this mad since they killed her off in end of EVA.
I demand that Ranma Saotome and that bandanna guy be brought to swift justice!"
"Just who do you think the bandana guy is?"
"I don't know. But who cares! He's just some guy in a bandana."
"So! I'm just some guy in a bandana am I!?!" Ryoga ripped apart the paper.
"What's up p-chan?"
That was the straw that broke the camels back. The thin line between sanity and insanity
suddenly became very blurry for Ryoga. "Ranma! I'm the one who blew up that car
and they think you did it! How dare you take the blame for a crime I committed! Ranma this is
all your fault!"
"W-what?!?"
"Bakusai Tenkatsu!" Ryoga hit the floor they were standing on and they fell through the
pavement Ranma was standing on. Ranma back flipped away from him.
"Ryoga have you lost it! Were in public! We can't be seen!"
"Ranma! It's all your fault that everyone thinks it's all your fault!" Ranma katsu
tenshin Amarigurikened him in the face. Ryoga shook his head "Oh! Sorry. I didn't know
what came over me. What were we talking about?"
"Never mind! We've got to get out of here!"
Several cops and Happosai were rapidly approaching. "Their over here officers!" shouted
Happosai gleefully.
"Wow! We sure are lucky that senior citizens like you are so into helping public
servants."
"Just doing my duty!"
"Doing his duty my ass!" Ranma said as they both cleared a ten foot wall. They could
hear some thuds and groans on the other side. Happosai hopped over the wall and landed next
to them.
"I guess I lost you for awhile. You know it was much better when I did this sort of
training in China with Genma and Soun. I mean the only thing these pathetic cops are good
for is speed training. You'll get much better adversaries in China."
"I aint going! I've got to clear my name!"
"Oh really! Have you forgotten what's in China?"
"What's in China?" asked Ranma and Ryoga.
Happosai fell over "The spring of drowned man you idiots!". Of course Happosai had no
intention of letting Ranma into the spring but it would make good motivation.
"Oh yeah! Well in that case I guess we could go. How are we going?"
"How else? Were swimming! Ranma it's my opinion as your master that you could use
some improvement on your backstroke. Besides I'm such an old man I need a soft place to
rest and...." Ranma and Ryoga both stomped on him.
"Ran chan! You really are here!" Ukyo had heard the bakusai tenkatsu explosion and came
running.
"U-Uchan!"
"Oh Ranma! You aren't really a dark corceror are you?!? You aren't really Kunos dad!?
Please say it isn't true!"
Ryoga Ranma and even Happosai just looked at her in stunned silence "Uhhhh....."
was the only thing Ranma managed to say in response.