X-men and Ranma crossover
Claws
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Chapter 4
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"Where the hell have you been?" Nabiki snapped as she leaned away from Ranma.
"Um, Canada and America?" Ranma said as he looked at her warily.
Seeing the expression on his face, Cologne chucked and said, "This is Nabiki Tendo, Ranma. You live with her and her family."
"But why do I live with them?" Ranma wanted to know while Nabiki stared at both of them in shock.
"Because, Saotome, you're engaged to my little sister Akane." Nabiki growled.
"What? Another one?!" he exclaimed and abruptly sat down on the chair behind him.
"What the hells the matter with you? You know all of this already. Quit acting like you don't know anything."
"But I don't know anything that you're talking about!" Ranma exclaimed and Logan decided to step in and help explain what was going on to the Tendo girl.
"Ranma had most of his memories erased when he was experimented on. He has no clue what you're talking about." He said and Nabiki turned her head to look at him with narrowed eyes.
"And who are you?" she asked coldly.
"Logan Chiba."
"Logan Chiba? As in the missing father of Nodoka Chibi?" she asked, surprised.
"Yes, he is." Cologne said from next to Ranma while everyone else just stared at them in confusion.
"Well, fancy that. Ranma's found his grandfather. Without even knowing it too, I'd wager." Nabiki said with a smirk as almost everyone screamed "What?!"
"My grandfather?" Ranma repeated dazed as he stared at Wolverine, who sat down hard in a chair near where he was standing.
"I'm a grandfather?"
"Congratulations, Logan." Xavier said from the crowd of other X-Men, which prompted the others to congratulate him too.
"But I though his daughter was Nodoka Chiba, not Nodoka Saotome." Jubilee protested.
"True, and if you want to know more, it will cost you some money." Nabiki said and Ukyo slapped some bills into her hand.
"You are forgetting something. Women take their husband's last name when they get married. So Nodoka Chiba became Nodoka Saotome when she married Genma and a year later had Ranma." Nabiki said, counting her money.
"How did you know so much about this?" Scott asked and she looked at his pointedly until he handed over $20 in American currency.
Sitting in a nearby chair, Nabiki started telling them. "When Kasumi told us that she thought that he ran away because he had found out that he was a mutant, Genma jumped up screaming."
*************** Flashback ***************
"Oh my GOD! Nodoka is going to kill me!" Genma shouted as he jumped up, gaining the attention of the others in the room.
"What do you mean?" Akane asked distractedly as she was still thinking about Ranma.
"What I mean is that when I took Ranma on the training journey, she made both of us sign a contract that said if I didn't turn him into a man above men, then both of us would have to commit Seppuku! And exactly how manly is he when not only he turns into a girl, but also turns into a fucking mutant freak?!" Genma screamed and the Tendos stared at him in shock.
"What?!"
"I got to get out of here!" Genma said and rushed up the stairs. He was back down a minute later with his pack and within seconds, he was gone.
"." The Tendo family stared after him for a minute before each went off to do their own things. Akane when out to the dojo to break more bricks while Kasumi cleaned up, Soun went over to the game board and started bawling again, and Nabiki went up to her room to find out what she could about Nodoka Saotome.
Within an hour, she gathered up some information about Ranma's mother from her contacts and had left the house to take a walk to think about what she had found out about Ranma's mother, and to see if the others had found him yet.
'So Nodoka is the daughter of Logan and Ryoko Chiba, both of which disappeared years ago. Ryoko was found in China not long later living with some amazons but Logan was never found. That is indeed strange, but not as weird as normal life around Ranma is.' She thought as she continued walking towards the business district. Suddenly she heard a scream and she hurried towards the voice, pulling out her little camera as she ran.
She got there to late though, as what ever had happened was already over and all that remained was the six neatly cut pieces of a giant spatula. "Maybe Ukyo knows what happened. That's her weapon after all." Nabiki said to her self as she hurried down the street.
When she received no response to her nocks on the door of the Ucchan, she crossed the street and opened the door of the cat café.
*************** End Flashback ***************
".and that's where I came in." Nabiki finished.
Everyone was silent for a moment after she was done speaking until Ranma said shakily, "She would actually try and make me commit seppuku?"
"She is a very honorable woman. So I'm going to assume so." Nabiki said, not unkindly.
"Do you have her address?" Logan asked as he stood up.
"Yes, but it will cost you." she said and he popped his claws in her face.
"How about I promise not to stick these in you if you tell me it right now?" he growled back. To Nabiki's credit, she didn't finch when she found those blades touching her throat in a clear threat.
"Well, I guess I could consider it a favor for Ranma." She said and handed him a paper with the address on it.
"Thanks ever so much." Logan snarled as he sheathed his claws and spun away.
"Wait! I'm coming too." Ranma said as he jumped up and ran after his newly found grandfather.
"You can't go with those claws sticking out like that, son-in-law." Cologne called after them and they both stopped at the door.
"What claws?" Nabiki asked.
"Use my gloves." Logan said as he fished a pair of fingerless gloves from the pocket of his jacket. They were ordinary leather gloves, except for the three small metal lined slits on the back. As Ranma slipped them on, the small claws that always stuck out slipped though the slits, making them look like they were part of the gloves.
"Thanks." He said and Logan nodded before they left.
"Should we follow them?" Scott asked as he watched them walk away.
"No, Scott. They need to do this on their own." Xavier said as he shook his head.
"What claws?" Nabiki repeated, as no one seemed to have heard her the first time.
"While they're busy over there, I think we should find a hotel to stay at." Beast said and the others nodded. As they turned to go, Nabiki said again, loudly, "What claws?!"
"Ranma's, pâté. Come on over here and Gambit will tell you all about it." Gambit said as the others started out the door. "You see, Ranma was kidnapped by de bad guys and they grafted adamantium to him after dey erase his memory." he said as he looped his arm around her shoulders and led her out the door.
Ranma and Logan were walking up the street that was on the paper, looking for the house when Ranma brought up something that had been bothering him. Actually two things.
"Should I call you Logan, Wolverine, or Grandpa?" he said and Logan almost tripped in surprise.
"Um, I don't know. Which ever you're comfortable with, I guess." Logan said slowly and Ranma nodded.
"Wolverine, do you think I might have to commit seppuku?"
"No. Even if she insists, I'll just over rule her. I'm not going to lose anyone in my family that I've just found." Logan said firmly and Ranma sighed in relief.
After a few more minutes of walking in silence, Logan spoke up again. "There's the house." They stopped in front of a huge house with a stone wall and a large gate around it. Taking a deep breath, they opened the gate and entered the neat yard. When they knocked on the door, they heard a pleasant voice on the other side. When it opened, they saw a beautiful middle-aged woman in a kimono on the other side.
"Yes, can I help you?" she said as she looked at them.
"Are you Nodoka Chiba.um I mean Saotome?" Logan asked and the woman threw him a surprised look.
"Why, yes I am, to both. Chiba was my maiden name."
"Can we come in? It's very important that we talk to you." Logan said and Nodoka nodded slowly before moving out of the door and gestured them inside. She wasn't quiet sure what to make of the pair of men that had showed up at her door. They were obviously related since they looked so much like each other. They also looked vaguely familiar, but she just couldn't place them. Both were wearing tight blue jeans with black t- shirts. The older man was wearing a baseball cap, which he took off when he entered the house while the younger one had black gloves that had spikes on them. Obviously he was a little punk.
Once they were seated and sipping tea, Logan and Ranma introduced themselves when she prompted them.
"My name is Logan Chiba and I'm told that I am your father." Logan said, going first. Nodoka looked at them for a moment before she stood up and quickly went over to a bookshelf where she grabbed a picture album and hurried back. Sitting down, she flipped through it to a page in the middle and showed it to them.
"This is a picture of my parents." She said, pointing to a picture that took up almost the entire page. It was a picture of Logan and Ryoko standing together under a cherry blossom tree in full bloom. They were holding each other and smiling at the camera. "As you can see, while you my look a lot like him, you are too young to be him. This picture was taken over twenty years ago, you can't be him."
"Yes, I am your father and the reason I look so young is because I'm a mutant. My healing powers make it extremely hard to tell how old I am. Now will you listen to what I have to say?" Logan snapped irritably, though he was trying to stay calm, but he was just so nervous!
"Twenty years ago, I was kidnapped by this organization in Canada and was experimented on. They wiped my memory, planting false ones and tried to turn me into the perfect soldier. They grafted Adamantium to my bones, forming these claws." He said, popping them out to show her briefly before retracting them.
"I escaped and traveled the world for a while until Professor Charles Xavier found me and brought me to his school for mutants. He's been trying to help me get my memories back for a long time now, but the first real clues we got was when the people who did it to me went after another mutant with healing powers here in Japan. We rescued him, but they had already wiped his mind and done the grafting. We got to him before they planted false memories though, so that wasn't a problem we brought him back here where we met with Cologne of the Chinese Amazons and she told us about my past, including my wife Ryoko and my daughter Nodoka. We also met a girl named Nabiki who told us that you were now a Saotome." He finished and she stared at him in shock.
"Who was the boy?" she asked dazed.
"Me. My name is Ranma Saotome." Ranma said and her eyes jerked to him in shock. She mentally compared this teenager to the little boy that she hadn't seen in over ten years and burst into tears when she realized that he was indeed her son.
"My baby is back!" she wailed as she threw her arms around his neck and hugged him tightly to her chest.
Ranma's first instinct was to get away from any girl who tried to hug him, but he ignored it and slowly wrapped his arms around her. Finally after a few minutes of weeping, she swiped her sleeve across her face and leaned away from Ranma.
"My dear, where have you been for so long? And where is your father? No, wait, you can't remember, can you?" she said, more of a statement than a question.
"Actually, a friend who we were staying with told us that when he found out that I had disappeared and I was a mutant, he ran away because of the seppuku contract you had us sign." Ranma said as she looked at him in shock.
"How did you know about the contract?" she asked.
"He told them and she told me. There is also something else you need to know. Can I have a cup of water?" Ranma asked as he stood up. At her nod, he disappeared into the kitchen and returned a moment later with two cups of water, one hot and one cold.
"You see, mom, I'm under a curse. When I'm splashed with cold water, I turn into a girl." He said and dumped the first cup over his head. Nodoka gasped in shock and stared at him as she listened to Ranma's explanation.
"And how do you change back?" she asked unsteadily.
"With hot water." Ranma said as he dumped the second cup on himself.
"Wha. I mean, how.did this happen?"
"I'm not sure, I can't remember. Maybe this Nabiki can tell us." Ranma said as he mopped his face and hair with the small towel he had brought out with the water.
"So now the question is, are you going to try an enforce the contract?" Logan asked quietly.
"I.It's the. honorable thing to do. He's. he's not a man among man." she trailed off, shock and indecision in her eyes.
"Well, he has shown himself to be honorable despite the curse he is under. He can not control his curse and does not willing change. Not to mention, as your father I forbid you to try and force him to full fill the contract." Logan said and she nodded in agreement, relief plain on her face.
Turning back to Ranma, she said, "You must move back in with me immediately, Ranma, father. You've both been gone for such a long time." She said as she gazed mistily at them.
Before, Ranma could say anything, Logan said, "We can't. He needs to be trained to deal with what they did to him, and we may be able to replace his memories soon. How about you move to the Institute with us so that we can still get his training under way, but you can still be with us?"
"Well, if that's the only way to see my father and my little boy, then I guess that I'm going to have to move in with you." She said with a smile and promptly hugged Logan tightly.
'My family is back. I'm so happy!' she thought. Little did she know how hectic that family's life was.
TBC ****
I was going to write more, but I thought that was a good place to end it for now.
Ja ne, Shini-chan
"Where the hell have you been?" Nabiki snapped as she leaned away from Ranma.
"Um, Canada and America?" Ranma said as he looked at her warily.
Seeing the expression on his face, Cologne chucked and said, "This is Nabiki Tendo, Ranma. You live with her and her family."
"But why do I live with them?" Ranma wanted to know while Nabiki stared at both of them in shock.
"Because, Saotome, you're engaged to my little sister Akane." Nabiki growled.
"What? Another one?!" he exclaimed and abruptly sat down on the chair behind him.
"What the hells the matter with you? You know all of this already. Quit acting like you don't know anything."
"But I don't know anything that you're talking about!" Ranma exclaimed and Logan decided to step in and help explain what was going on to the Tendo girl.
"Ranma had most of his memories erased when he was experimented on. He has no clue what you're talking about." He said and Nabiki turned her head to look at him with narrowed eyes.
"And who are you?" she asked coldly.
"Logan Chiba."
"Logan Chiba? As in the missing father of Nodoka Chibi?" she asked, surprised.
"Yes, he is." Cologne said from next to Ranma while everyone else just stared at them in confusion.
"Well, fancy that. Ranma's found his grandfather. Without even knowing it too, I'd wager." Nabiki said with a smirk as almost everyone screamed "What?!"
"My grandfather?" Ranma repeated dazed as he stared at Wolverine, who sat down hard in a chair near where he was standing.
"I'm a grandfather?"
"Congratulations, Logan." Xavier said from the crowd of other X-Men, which prompted the others to congratulate him too.
"But I though his daughter was Nodoka Chiba, not Nodoka Saotome." Jubilee protested.
"True, and if you want to know more, it will cost you some money." Nabiki said and Ukyo slapped some bills into her hand.
"You are forgetting something. Women take their husband's last name when they get married. So Nodoka Chiba became Nodoka Saotome when she married Genma and a year later had Ranma." Nabiki said, counting her money.
"How did you know so much about this?" Scott asked and she looked at his pointedly until he handed over $20 in American currency.
Sitting in a nearby chair, Nabiki started telling them. "When Kasumi told us that she thought that he ran away because he had found out that he was a mutant, Genma jumped up screaming."
*************** Flashback ***************
"Oh my GOD! Nodoka is going to kill me!" Genma shouted as he jumped up, gaining the attention of the others in the room.
"What do you mean?" Akane asked distractedly as she was still thinking about Ranma.
"What I mean is that when I took Ranma on the training journey, she made both of us sign a contract that said if I didn't turn him into a man above men, then both of us would have to commit Seppuku! And exactly how manly is he when not only he turns into a girl, but also turns into a fucking mutant freak?!" Genma screamed and the Tendos stared at him in shock.
"What?!"
"I got to get out of here!" Genma said and rushed up the stairs. He was back down a minute later with his pack and within seconds, he was gone.
"." The Tendo family stared after him for a minute before each went off to do their own things. Akane when out to the dojo to break more bricks while Kasumi cleaned up, Soun went over to the game board and started bawling again, and Nabiki went up to her room to find out what she could about Nodoka Saotome.
Within an hour, she gathered up some information about Ranma's mother from her contacts and had left the house to take a walk to think about what she had found out about Ranma's mother, and to see if the others had found him yet.
'So Nodoka is the daughter of Logan and Ryoko Chiba, both of which disappeared years ago. Ryoko was found in China not long later living with some amazons but Logan was never found. That is indeed strange, but not as weird as normal life around Ranma is.' She thought as she continued walking towards the business district. Suddenly she heard a scream and she hurried towards the voice, pulling out her little camera as she ran.
She got there to late though, as what ever had happened was already over and all that remained was the six neatly cut pieces of a giant spatula. "Maybe Ukyo knows what happened. That's her weapon after all." Nabiki said to her self as she hurried down the street.
When she received no response to her nocks on the door of the Ucchan, she crossed the street and opened the door of the cat café.
*************** End Flashback ***************
".and that's where I came in." Nabiki finished.
Everyone was silent for a moment after she was done speaking until Ranma said shakily, "She would actually try and make me commit seppuku?"
"She is a very honorable woman. So I'm going to assume so." Nabiki said, not unkindly.
"Do you have her address?" Logan asked as he stood up.
"Yes, but it will cost you." she said and he popped his claws in her face.
"How about I promise not to stick these in you if you tell me it right now?" he growled back. To Nabiki's credit, she didn't finch when she found those blades touching her throat in a clear threat.
"Well, I guess I could consider it a favor for Ranma." She said and handed him a paper with the address on it.
"Thanks ever so much." Logan snarled as he sheathed his claws and spun away.
"Wait! I'm coming too." Ranma said as he jumped up and ran after his newly found grandfather.
"You can't go with those claws sticking out like that, son-in-law." Cologne called after them and they both stopped at the door.
"What claws?" Nabiki asked.
"Use my gloves." Logan said as he fished a pair of fingerless gloves from the pocket of his jacket. They were ordinary leather gloves, except for the three small metal lined slits on the back. As Ranma slipped them on, the small claws that always stuck out slipped though the slits, making them look like they were part of the gloves.
"Thanks." He said and Logan nodded before they left.
"Should we follow them?" Scott asked as he watched them walk away.
"No, Scott. They need to do this on their own." Xavier said as he shook his head.
"What claws?" Nabiki repeated, as no one seemed to have heard her the first time.
"While they're busy over there, I think we should find a hotel to stay at." Beast said and the others nodded. As they turned to go, Nabiki said again, loudly, "What claws?!"
"Ranma's, pâté. Come on over here and Gambit will tell you all about it." Gambit said as the others started out the door. "You see, Ranma was kidnapped by de bad guys and they grafted adamantium to him after dey erase his memory." he said as he looped his arm around her shoulders and led her out the door.
Ranma and Logan were walking up the street that was on the paper, looking for the house when Ranma brought up something that had been bothering him. Actually two things.
"Should I call you Logan, Wolverine, or Grandpa?" he said and Logan almost tripped in surprise.
"Um, I don't know. Which ever you're comfortable with, I guess." Logan said slowly and Ranma nodded.
"Wolverine, do you think I might have to commit seppuku?"
"No. Even if she insists, I'll just over rule her. I'm not going to lose anyone in my family that I've just found." Logan said firmly and Ranma sighed in relief.
After a few more minutes of walking in silence, Logan spoke up again. "There's the house." They stopped in front of a huge house with a stone wall and a large gate around it. Taking a deep breath, they opened the gate and entered the neat yard. When they knocked on the door, they heard a pleasant voice on the other side. When it opened, they saw a beautiful middle-aged woman in a kimono on the other side.
"Yes, can I help you?" she said as she looked at them.
"Are you Nodoka Chiba.um I mean Saotome?" Logan asked and the woman threw him a surprised look.
"Why, yes I am, to both. Chiba was my maiden name."
"Can we come in? It's very important that we talk to you." Logan said and Nodoka nodded slowly before moving out of the door and gestured them inside. She wasn't quiet sure what to make of the pair of men that had showed up at her door. They were obviously related since they looked so much like each other. They also looked vaguely familiar, but she just couldn't place them. Both were wearing tight blue jeans with black t- shirts. The older man was wearing a baseball cap, which he took off when he entered the house while the younger one had black gloves that had spikes on them. Obviously he was a little punk.
Once they were seated and sipping tea, Logan and Ranma introduced themselves when she prompted them.
"My name is Logan Chiba and I'm told that I am your father." Logan said, going first. Nodoka looked at them for a moment before she stood up and quickly went over to a bookshelf where she grabbed a picture album and hurried back. Sitting down, she flipped through it to a page in the middle and showed it to them.
"This is a picture of my parents." She said, pointing to a picture that took up almost the entire page. It was a picture of Logan and Ryoko standing together under a cherry blossom tree in full bloom. They were holding each other and smiling at the camera. "As you can see, while you my look a lot like him, you are too young to be him. This picture was taken over twenty years ago, you can't be him."
"Yes, I am your father and the reason I look so young is because I'm a mutant. My healing powers make it extremely hard to tell how old I am. Now will you listen to what I have to say?" Logan snapped irritably, though he was trying to stay calm, but he was just so nervous!
"Twenty years ago, I was kidnapped by this organization in Canada and was experimented on. They wiped my memory, planting false ones and tried to turn me into the perfect soldier. They grafted Adamantium to my bones, forming these claws." He said, popping them out to show her briefly before retracting them.
"I escaped and traveled the world for a while until Professor Charles Xavier found me and brought me to his school for mutants. He's been trying to help me get my memories back for a long time now, but the first real clues we got was when the people who did it to me went after another mutant with healing powers here in Japan. We rescued him, but they had already wiped his mind and done the grafting. We got to him before they planted false memories though, so that wasn't a problem we brought him back here where we met with Cologne of the Chinese Amazons and she told us about my past, including my wife Ryoko and my daughter Nodoka. We also met a girl named Nabiki who told us that you were now a Saotome." He finished and she stared at him in shock.
"Who was the boy?" she asked dazed.
"Me. My name is Ranma Saotome." Ranma said and her eyes jerked to him in shock. She mentally compared this teenager to the little boy that she hadn't seen in over ten years and burst into tears when she realized that he was indeed her son.
"My baby is back!" she wailed as she threw her arms around his neck and hugged him tightly to her chest.
Ranma's first instinct was to get away from any girl who tried to hug him, but he ignored it and slowly wrapped his arms around her. Finally after a few minutes of weeping, she swiped her sleeve across her face and leaned away from Ranma.
"My dear, where have you been for so long? And where is your father? No, wait, you can't remember, can you?" she said, more of a statement than a question.
"Actually, a friend who we were staying with told us that when he found out that I had disappeared and I was a mutant, he ran away because of the seppuku contract you had us sign." Ranma said as she looked at him in shock.
"How did you know about the contract?" she asked.
"He told them and she told me. There is also something else you need to know. Can I have a cup of water?" Ranma asked as he stood up. At her nod, he disappeared into the kitchen and returned a moment later with two cups of water, one hot and one cold.
"You see, mom, I'm under a curse. When I'm splashed with cold water, I turn into a girl." He said and dumped the first cup over his head. Nodoka gasped in shock and stared at him as she listened to Ranma's explanation.
"And how do you change back?" she asked unsteadily.
"With hot water." Ranma said as he dumped the second cup on himself.
"Wha. I mean, how.did this happen?"
"I'm not sure, I can't remember. Maybe this Nabiki can tell us." Ranma said as he mopped his face and hair with the small towel he had brought out with the water.
"So now the question is, are you going to try an enforce the contract?" Logan asked quietly.
"I.It's the. honorable thing to do. He's. he's not a man among man." she trailed off, shock and indecision in her eyes.
"Well, he has shown himself to be honorable despite the curse he is under. He can not control his curse and does not willing change. Not to mention, as your father I forbid you to try and force him to full fill the contract." Logan said and she nodded in agreement, relief plain on her face.
Turning back to Ranma, she said, "You must move back in with me immediately, Ranma, father. You've both been gone for such a long time." She said as she gazed mistily at them.
Before, Ranma could say anything, Logan said, "We can't. He needs to be trained to deal with what they did to him, and we may be able to replace his memories soon. How about you move to the Institute with us so that we can still get his training under way, but you can still be with us?"
"Well, if that's the only way to see my father and my little boy, then I guess that I'm going to have to move in with you." She said with a smile and promptly hugged Logan tightly.
'My family is back. I'm so happy!' she thought. Little did she know how hectic that family's life was.
TBC ****
I was going to write more, but I thought that was a good place to end it for now.
Ja ne, Shini-chan