People have e-mailed me about how Ranma's claws could be curved and if so, how could he move his wrists. Well, in answer to that, it's going to be magic because it's physically impossible but it will be a major part of the story. And anyway, it's my story! I can do impossible things if I want.

X-men and Ranma crossover

Claws

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Chapter 3

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As Ranma leapt out through the broken window, he wondered why this freak and the freak he was working for wanted him. It's not like he was that important, right? He's just a kid.

"Come back here, twerp." Sabertooth growled as he too jumped out the window. They landed in the front yard of the school and Sabertooth immediately charged at Ranma, who dodged him gracefully.

With a running leap that took him twenty feet into the air, Ranma put his hands together and shouted, "Moko Takabisha!" as Sabertooth looked up in confusion, Ranma released a blue ball of energy that smashed into him, causing him to be smashed a few feet into the ground as it exploded on impact.

The other X-Men just stared at him in shock as he touched down easily and jogged over to the hole. As he leaned over it, trying to see through the smoke, a huge hand, tipped with claws, reached out and grabbed him by the ankle. With a shout of surprise, Ranma went down hard, landing on his back with enough force to make him lose his breath in a huge whoosh.

"Not bad, but not good enough to defeat me." Sabertooth said as he stood up and stepped out of the hole, dangling Ranma from his fist so that he was a foot off the ground.

Ranma lashed out with his free foot, hitting his adversary with enough force in the side of the head to make him drop him. Ranma scrambled out of the way as soon as he had touched the ground.

Bellowing, Sabertooth charged at him again, swinging wildly. Ranma waited until almost the last second, then jumped over his head. As he landed behind him, he let loose with 800 punches using the Kacchu Tenshin Amaguriken

Sabertooth roared in pain and collapsed to his hands and knees as Ranma calmly walked around him until he was stand in front of Sabertooth's bowed head. As soon as the huge mutant had raised his head to snarl at him, Ranma sent a powerful punch across his face, knocking him out.

As soon as he had collapsed, Ranma turned to the X-Men, who were starring at him in shock. "What should we do with him?" he asked and Cyclops snapped out of his shock.

"Let's bring him and secure him. Maybe we can get some answers from him."

"Sure. Just tell me where to put him." Ranma said as he calmly bent down and picked Sabertooth, slinging him over a shoulder and headed back into the mansion by way of the window he had jumped out of not five minutes ago. Sure, Sabertooth's arms and legs dragged along the ground, but it didn't stop Ranma from carrying him easily.

Xavier led him to a room near the Warroom and motioned Ranma inside. "Put him into the chair and snap the cuffs over his wrists." He said as the others entered the room.

"Sure Professor." Ranma replied as he followed the instructions and stepped back.

"How did you do those attacks?" Jubilee asked as she put a hand on his shoulder.

"The Moko Takabisha is a ki attack. Basically I gather up my ki and force it to form a ball in my hands. They I just release it in the direction I want to. The Kacchu Tenshin Amaguriken is just an Amazon technique that uses the person's ki to enhance the strength and the speed of their punches. I think I might be able to change it to work with kicks, too." Ranma said thoughtfully and Jubilee numbly nodded.

"So what do you think Magneto wants him?" Jean asked Xavier as she went to stand next to him.

"I don't know. But what ever he's up to, we must protect Ranma from him."

"From what I've seen, he doesn't need protection."

"Yes, but don't forget, his skeleton is laced with metal now, which means that Magneto could control him very easily." Before Jean and the Professor cold continue their conversation, Sabertooth straightened in the chair and tugged at his restraints. As he growled in anger, Ranma walked up until he was just a foot away from the angry mutant. "What does your boss want with me?" he demanded coldly.

"Why would I tell you anything, Runt Jr.?" Sabertooth snarled with a nasty grin. He lost the grin fast enough when Ranma held up a hand right in front of his face and gathered some bright blue energy there.

"This is why, and what's with the Runt Jr.?" he snarled in irritation.

"Easy, you and the Runt look so much like each other, that it's obvious that you're his son."

"Why, because of these?" Ranma asked as he dissipated the ki and popped his claws.

"No, kid. As in you look exactly like a younger him." Sabertooth snapped, getting irritated at Ranma's denseness.

"What?!" most of the people, including Ranma exclaimed. As one, everyone, turned to stare at Wolverine, who in turn was starring at Ranma with a shell-shocked look on his face.

While they were distracted, Sabertooth exerted his full strength against the cuffs, snapping one off. Quickly he swiped at the other with his claws, tearing it away. As soon as he was free, he lunged at Ranma, who still had his back turned, roaring in triumph.

Jubilee was closest to Ranma when she heard the roar and acting on impulse spun and threw a bolt of multi-colored energy at the charging Sabertooth.

Sabertooth took the blast full in the chest and it sent him flying threw the wall and out on to the front lawn of the school.  As soon as he had stopped rolling, he jumped to his feet and dashed away, leaving the others far behind him as he hurried to tell Magneto what he had learned.

Ranma, Wolverine, and the other X-Men had charged out the hole to continue pursuit, but by that time, he was long gone. Silently they had headed back into the building, each lost in their own thoughts about what had just happened.

'That guy said that I looked just like a younger version of Wolverine.' Ranma thought as he studied the older man. Indeed, the more he looked at him, the more a like he realized they were. They had the same wild black hair, though Ranma kept his in the pigtail and Wolverine left his loose to spike up in two ridges on the sides of his head that almost looked like wings or maybe ears of an animal. Their eyes were the same piercing blue and the rest of their faces and even their builds, to a certain extent, were similar. 'Maybe he is related to me somehow.' He thought silently to himself as he sat down in a nearby chair.

'They are similar, and neither remembers anything about their pasts. Maybe they are related. We should check this out some more before we jump to any conclusions.' Cyclops thought and voiced it quietly to Jean, who nodded.

'Dis is getting confusing. Da kid looks like Wolverine, but he way to old to be his son. Wolverine look to be about 30 at most, but the kid, his is like 16. Wolverine had to be to young to have him.' Gambit thought to himself, and then remembered all the teenage pregnancies all over the world. Shaking his head, he turned towards the Professor, who looked like he wanted to say something, but was unsure of what he wanted to say.

Finally, Xavier spoke up, gaining everyone's attention. "Sabertooth has brought up a good point. Both Ranma and Wolverine do look a lot alike. As neither has their memories at the moment, we won't be able to discover if it is true that way. I think we should bump up the vacation to Japan and try to figure this question out by talking to Ranma's parents, Genma and Nodoka Saotome."

"When do we leave?" Wolverine asked quietly.

"Tomorrow morning. Everyone, get packed." Xavier said and turned his floating chair around to follow his own directions.

Ranma went to his room as soon as the Professor had left and locked the door behind him as he flopped on the bed. 'What is going on? First I get these new claws after being kidnapped, and then these people rescue me. Then I get attacked by yet another person, who wanted to kidnap me, but I fought him off and he says that I look like a younger version of the guy that saved me. Now, we're going to Japan to talk to my parents. Nothing makes sense.' He though to himself

Exhausted and confused, he drifted off to sleep, his last thought being of how much alike he and Wolverine really were.

Wolverine was in the gym, working out after he had split away from the others. As he went through a complicated kata, he thought of what Sabertooth had said. 'Could he be my son?' he thought as he did a high kick that flowed into another move. 'No, he has parents, this Genma and Nodoka. So that rules that out, but maybe I was related to him in another way, maybe an uncle or something.'

That thought shook him up so much that he put too much force behind a punch that he almost bungled the next move. Finally realizing that he wouldn't find out anything until they went to Japan, he pushed the thoughts out of his mind and concentrated on his form as he went into a more complex kata that was designed to leave his mind and body in perfect harmony.

At six o'clock in the morning, the X-Men assembled in front of the Blackbird with Xavier as they prepared to take off. "Now, remember, we have to take things slowly for now. We don't know what's waiting for us over there." Xavier said quietly as Ranma and Jubilee entered the ship, Jubilee almost hanging off one of his arms as she chattered away at top speed. "I'll…tell Jubilee later." He said with a smile, then motioned everyone to follow the teenagers as he maneuvered his chair to the right position for it to be brought on board by the ramp that slid up into the ship for that exact reason.

As soon as they were all on board and buckled in, Scott lifted off and directed the plane to their destination.

"So Ranma, what do you think of the School so far?" Jubilee asked as she looked over at him in the seat next to her.

"It's ok. I like my room and the training area is great, more than enough room to practice." he said as he smiled slightly at her.

"Practice? Practice what?" Jubilee asked confused, as he hadn't been with any of them to the danger room to practice fighting with the team yet.

"My style."

"Your style?!" she repeated, getting a mental picture of him dressed up in fashionable clothes trying to look cool with suave walk.

"Yes, my style. Anything Goes Martial Arts?" he prompted her slightly and she blushed at her misunderstanding.

Chuckling, Logan leaned over and handed her an old brochure for a dojo proclaiming it to be the only dojo that trained their students in the unbeatable style of Anything Goes Martial Arts. "I found this in an old box in my room. I think I picked it up about twenty years ago on a trip to Japan. I think it was during the time I stayed at a monastery in northern Japan."

Ranma took the offered brochure and opened it to see a wrinkly old man about two feet high throwing around a couple big men as they attacked him. Reading it, he notice that the Grandmaster and creator of the style was Happosai and he had been developing the style during his three hundred years alive and that the only one to defeat him was a Chinese Amazon using amazon wu shu. Also in big writing, it declared all beautiful women would be taught for free if the would give the Master a chance to cuddle with them. With a sweat drop, he handed to Jubilee who looked it over before handing it back to Logan.

'That Happosai sounded kinda familiar. I wonder if he was someone I knew.' He thought and then shook his head mentally. 'No way did I hang around a pervert like that.'

"So what style is Anything Goes?" Jubilee asked and almost everyone directed their attention to Ranma for his answer. After seeing what he had done to Sabertooth yesterday, they were curious about it as well.

"Well, Anything Goes just means that anything goes. It started out with one style and then a bunch of different styles were absorbed. Anything I learn, I can work into my style, but we specialize in midair combat." Ranma said proudly.

It took them about six hours (I'm guessing) to reach Tokyo, where they then turned towards one of its districts, Nerima. On the way, Xavier erased the mental trauma, like he had promised. They landed on a tall building to hide the Blackbird, and then planned to proceed on foot to the Tendo Dojo.

(Everything from now on is in Japanese and the English will look like Ranma's when he was wearing the translator at the school.)

Just before they landed, those that couldn't speak understand Japanese were fitted with translators while Ranma took his off.

As soon as they were landed and the hatch opened, Ranma scooped Jubilee into his arms and leapt out, right over the side of the five-story building. "What?!" "Ranma, don't!" "Are you crazy?!" were just some of the shouts from behind him as Ranma started his decent. Jubilee was screaming the entire way as he rebounded against trees and street lights to make a gentle landing on the sidewalk.

"It's ok, Jubilee. See? We're back on the ground. You can let go of my neck now." Ranma said as he put her on the ground and tried to unwrap her arms from their chokehold around his neck. Hearing a thump neck to him, he turned his head to see Logan as he got up from his landing. He had followed Ranma's example and had jumped, rebounding against the things around him to slow his fall. After a moment, the others were down as well, though by a much safer means.

Ranma opened his mouth to try and get Jubilee off of him again when suddenly, a huge spatula came down, smashing Ranma into a nearby wall while leaving Jubilee untouched. "Ranma!" Jubilee shouted as she rushed forward, but was stopped by the giant spatula.

"Hold it right there, Sugar. No one glomps on my Ranchan except for me. And he knows better than to grab just any old person like that." Ukyo said as she stepped in front of Jubilee. She had been attracted by the screams and had arrived just in time to see the girl clinging to him with his arms wrapped around her. Turning, now, to Ranma, she approached and scraped him off the wall to puddle on the ground.

"I don't believe you, Ranma. You disappear and worry me to death and now you come back, wrapped around a little tart? I can't believe you Ranchan!" Ukyo shouted as she brought the spatula down with all her strength on his head. But instead of flattening him, he thrust a hand between him and it and suddenly, the spatula hit the ground in six neat pieces.

"I don't know who you are, but I want to know how you know my name." Ranma snarled as he pushed himself to his feet.

"Don't know…? Ranchan! It's me Ukyo! You know, your cute fiancée!" she said as she staggered back, as if he had struck her.

"Fiancée?!" Ranma shouted, almost falling over in shock.

"Yes! Don't you remember? Genma stole my dowry back when we were six so now we have to get married, besides, we love each other!" she said as she latched onto his arm as everyone stared at her in shock.

Before anyone could say anything, a bicycle came own out of nowhere and landed on Ranma's head. "Ranma! You back!" Shampoo exclaimed as she jumped off her bike and glomped him.

"Who the heck are you people?!" Ranma shouted as he struggled to get away from the two girls.

"Do you think we should help him?" Rogue asked as she watched the threesome in front of them.

"Nah, Gambit want to see how he get out of dis one." Gambit said as he wrapped an arm around her waist with a smile.

"You no know wife? Violent tomboy must have hit airen to to hard again." Shampoo said as she started running her hands over his hair in an attempt to see where he had hit his head.

"What the heck are you doing?! Let me go!!!" Ranma shouted as he wrenched himself away from Ukyo and Shampoo who exchanged glances before they each grabbed an arm and started dragging him down the street.

"Airen need to see great grandmother. She know what to do." Shampoo said.

"Let me gooooooo!!!!" Ranma wailed as he was dragged into a ramen shop called the Cat Café.

"Um, I think we should go after them." Logan said while the others nodded, sweat drops on everyone's head. They followed the two girls and Ranma into the shop to find a small, wrinkled old woman on a cane running her hands over Ranma's head.

"Well, I can't find anything wrong, but there must be a reason why he can't remember us." She muttered to herself before turning to the X-men. "I'm sorry, but we're closed right now."

"That's ok. We're with Ranma." Scott said as he scratched the back of his head.

"With Ranma? Would you happen to know what happened to him then?" Cologne asked as she looked the group over. She stopped when Ranma batted her hands away and she turned to scold him, thereby missing who stepped forward to answer her question.

"Yes, we do." Spinning around at the sound of the deep voice that spoke, she stared at Logan in shock before she hopped over as fast as she could to look directly into his eyes, her face only an inch from his.

"Well, I'll be. Wolverine, it's been 20 years since I last saw you. How is your daughter doing?" Cologne said as she hopped back.

"Daughter?!" Logan repeated, shocked. He seemed to have been in shock almost continually since he had meet Ranma.

While Logan was speechless, Xavier approached and started to explain things. "Both Wolverine and Ranma have been kidnapped and experimented on. They can no longer remember at lot of things."

Hearing this, Cologne looked at both of them sympathy while her granddaughter leapt to the wrong conclusions. "You hurt Shampoo's airen! Now you die!" she screamed as she pulled out her bonbori and lunged at the closest person, who happened to be Logan.

In the blink of an eye, he had dodged her blow and sliced the clubs into firewood kindling.  As she stared at the handles, all that remained of the clubs, she failed t notice Logan's fist arching towards her face until it smashed into her jaw, sending her into darkness before she even hit the floor.

"I'm sorry for my great granddaughter. As an apology, free ramen on the house for everyone." Cologne said before asking Ukyo to carry Shampoo up to her room. Ukyo reluctantly agreed and in no time, she was back and everyone was eating ramen as Logan questioned the old Amazon for what she might know about his past.

"How did we meet? Let's see, it was 40 years ago and I was leading a group of amazon women that were searching for strong husbands. You were teaching at a dojo at the time and we showed up. One of my girls challenged you to a fight…" Cologne started.

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Flashback

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"Soap challenge teacher to battle for marriage." A tall beautiful amazon girl exclaimed as she stood in the door way to the dojo. She was 5'9 with long green hair, purple eyes and a figure clad only in green silk shorts and a tiny matching top that barely covered her enormous assets.

"I'm the teacher here, but I'm already…whoa!" Logan exclaimed as he ducked out of the way of a vicious swipe of a staff that Soap carried. He dodged a few more swipes, then kicked the weapon out of her hands with a kick. As she was distracted by the stinging pain in her hands for a split second, he used her distraction to knee her in the stomach, followed with a strike to the back of her head with both fists clenched together. The entire fight had only lasted about a minute and a half and it left the other amazons that were standing in the doorway speechless. His speed has excellent and it had seemed that he had moved like Soap had been in slow motion.

"Well done, Son-in-law. You have defeated my granddaughter Soap in combat." A gravelly old voice said from behind the girls, who moved out of her way.

"Son-in-law? I'm not your son in law!" he shouted as he backed up.

"Yes, you are. That's my granddaughter you just defeated and according to our laws, you are her husband." Cologne said as she approached Logan.

"Listen, old ghoul, my name is Logan Chiba and I already have a wife!" he growled at her as another woman, this one with long brown hair and was nine months pregnant, came up to him and clutched at his arm.

"Logan, we have to get out of here now!" she said and he looked at her quickly before turning back to the amazons, who were helping Soap up.

"What's wrong, Ryoko?" he asked.

"It's time. I need to get to the hospital right away." She gasped as a contraction shook her form. She started to collapse, but Logan turned and grabbed her, supporting her for a moment until the contraction passed. As soon as she relaxed slightly, he turned and started carrying her towards the door.

"Will you people get out of the way?! I need to get her to the hospital!" he exclaimed as Cologne stay in the doorway blocking his way.

"It's already to late. You can send for a doctor to deliver the child, but until they get here, I'm going to have to do it." She said and he stared at her in shock. "Don't just stand there, get her to the house." She snapped.

Looking down at his wife, Logan saw her nod before he hurried towards the house, the amazons just behind them.

Within an hour, a baby girl was born and Logan confronted Cologne after assuring himself that both his with and their daughter were ok. But before he could even open his mouth, Cologne held up a hand.

"I know. I am absolving the marriage between you and Soap as you are already taken. I am sorry for doing that to you.." She said with a respectful, but small bow. After all, a matriarch shouldn't bow to anyone.

"That's ok, I guess. Thank you for helping my wife with her delivery." He said in return. "Call me Wolverine. Everyone else usually does."

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End Flashback

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"After that, we would visit every once in a while when we were in Japan, but about twenty years ago, you disappeared without a trace. Your wife later joined us in our village while your daughter opened a flower shop. I haven't seen her since then, though, so I can't say what happened to her after that." Cologne finished and sipped her tea while the others contemplated the story.

"Wow, you must be really old, Wolverine." Jubilee said and immediately blushed in embarrassment as everyone stared at her for a moment, before they started laughing.

"Logan's exact age is hard to pinpoint because of him mutant gift of healing." Xavier said and Cologne nodded in understanding. She had been wondering why he had looked the same as when she had last saw him.

"I have a few questions of my own though." Cologne said and everyone turned towards here. "The first one is why do you have claws?"

"When I was kidnapped, the experimented on me by grafting adamantium onto me skeleton. The claws are part of it, though we can't figure out why they appeared." Logan said and took a sip of his tea. "The same thing happed to Ranma, though the claws are a bit different." He added after a moment and Ukyo, Cologne and Shampoo, who had just come back downstairs with a huge bruise on her cheek, stared at him in shock for a minute before they turned to Ranma, who gave them a  wary look.

Before he could stop her, Cologne reached out and grabbed his hand. Looking at the small spikes sticking out, she winced as she realized that whenever he punched someone, he would also leave slashes too, like a cat's. "Show me the rest of them." She snapped and packed away a little to she wouldn't get skewered.

As they sprang out, Logan came up beside him and popped his own. As the three women studied them, the door opened and Nabiki came in without knocking. Seeing the crowd, she opened her mouth to apologize for barging in when she caught sight of Ranma standing with Cologne, Shampoo, and Ukyo with another man standing next to him.

She stood there for a moment in shock before she rushed forward and threw herself at Ranma, who barely caught her. After giving him a huge hug, she released him and snapped, "Where the hell have you been?"

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