Avenging Spirits
Arc II, Part I
By imortis

Ranma looked up from the floor of the ships main chamber and peered at Akane a few feet away. The Professor built the ship so that it had a rather large room at its middle that housed a large gravity generator that helped fuel the ships engines. That made for an ideal training room. She smiled at him weakly "rather smashing isn't it?" she gasped softly. Ranma smirked "your shirt doesn't weigh forty tons." he grunted. He looked at Goku half hidden by the gravity drives computer and smirked "I don't know about you guys, but this makes me rather horny." he mused. Akane blinked perking up a little "you too?" she asked.

The strain was gone, Ranma could hear the lust in her voice. He nodded looking at her grinning. He grunted slowly sitting up and looked at her determined "talk about excersize." Akane purred pulling herself to her knees. Ranma growled softly in his throat as he looked at her. She grinned pushing herself up to her feet slowly "talk about work before pleasure." she grunted softly. Ranma grinned at her "my clothes are heavier then yours, you come here."

She shook her head grinning as she stepped away from him. He growled at her putting his hands on the floor. He gritted his teeth pushing up with all of his might and shouted heaving himself off the floor. He grunted heavily landing and stood there shaking. He looked over and blinked seeing both Goku and Chichi watching them "hey, its a good way to execise." he grunted shrugging and took a halting step towards his softly purring wife. Goku looked from Ranma, slowly starting to follow Akane as she moved away from him teasingly, to Chichi. He blinked at the look in her eyes and grunted softly. She smiled starting to push herself up.

Ranma blinked tiredly looking at the ceiling over his head and smiled running his fingers through Akanes hair again. He looked curiously to his left and smirked seeing Goku and Chichi layed out on the floor a ways from them, their clothes draped across their bodies "you know, I think thats gotta be the best way to train in high gravities." he whispered kissing Akanes forehead. She smiled at him softly "ya, so lets start doing some normal training." she chuckled pushing herself up easily and grabbed her pants. Ranma smirked watching her dress before looking at the others hearing a giggle. He smirked at Chichi who giggled at them as she sat up "were you always so open about sexuality Akane?" she asked pulling her shirt on before getting up.

Akane grinned at her thrusting her naked breasts into the air "of course not. Normally Ranma was the one that ran around topless." she giggled letting Ranma pull her bra on the rest of the way. Ranma grinned "Akane was what they called a prude." he chuckled. Akane chuckled punching him and he yelped hitting the floor. He blinked at her arching an eye brow "did the gravity generator reset?" Goku asked curiously. Ranma walked over to the console and shook his head "nope, still set on a hundred times." he reported. He blinked seeing the red flashing light "wonder what this means?" he asked touching the radio switch. All four of them blinked at the professor and surprisingly his mother staring at them "Ranma, Goku, the system say you have the gravity set at one hundred times normal gravity." he reported looking at them.

Ranma nodded smirking as he rapped an arm around akanes shoulders "yep. Took us a few days to get used to the weight." he chuckled. Goku nodded "Ranma came up with a really innovative exercise routine." he chuckled. The girls giggled at him. Nodoka beamed as Genma came in sight "oh ya? Anything we could use down here?" he asked. Ranma blinked at him for a minute then shook his head looking at him normally "only works for saiyjins pop."

The Professor smiled "we called to check on you, we were worried the system might have malfuctioned and we wanted to warn you of a few things." They blinked and Chichi came forward "is something wrong? Is Gohan hurt?!?" she exclaimed in fear. They shook their heads not wanting to upset her, Chichis outbursts could kill a man. "No, they got caught in a solar wind for a few weeks but they reported back saying that they were on course. The problem is that our monitors are showing that you have a break in your outer hull, its causing a drag thats pulled you off course. You need to do something now, you're being pulled towards a star you would have passed if everything was working properly. Its a miracle you answered us on time. Go now, fix the break, then change your course." Ranma blinked then looked at Goku. Akane looked at the monitor as the two men dove down the stair well leading to the service airlock "whats the rest of the news?" she asked frowning.

He cleared his throat looking down from the two and Nodoka sighed "the kids are fine dears, they say that they were sent off course for a few weeks but that they have reached this namek place." she looked grim "I won't say anything Akane, they tell me that you were not aware that Bulma-san took Ranko and her friend Gohan with her." she looked so disaproving that Akane winced. Chichi glared "what? Are you saying theres something wrong with my son?!" she demanded glaring at her. Nodoka looked at her grimly turning her nose up "Ranko was a nice and gentle young lady before Ranma took her to meet his master." she said shortly.

Both girls glared at the monitor "are you saying theres something wrong with our friends 'mother'?!?" Akane hissed acidly. Nodoka looked shocked, then glared at her "how dare you speak to me in that tone young lady!?" she shouted angrily. Akane glared harder "what gives you the right to talk about our friends like that?! Both Ranma and I think that Gohan is the best thing we could have ever done for Ranko! We're exstatic that she likes him so much, we think both of them will benefit from the relationship."

Chichi nodded firmly looking angry "so do we! Rankos an angel and Gohan loves being around her, shes even got him excited to do his homework, she does it with him, she mastered calculus a few months ago when she asked Gohan to explain his work to her." she looked deeply pleased about that. Nodoka looked surprised and pleased "oh thats great! But... he talked her into leaving the planet!" she said plantively. Akane arched her eye brow "and we're back home in the dojo messing with your heads."

Ranma smirked slightly looking at the stars as he stepped out onto the side of the ship. He looked at Goku as he moved aside "have you spotted the break?" he asked looking around. Ranma shook his head as he started walking slowly along the side, his magnetic boots making the job hard. He looked up hearing Goku whistle and nodded walking over "looks like one of the heat shielding tiles broke away." Ranma comented as his tool kit clamped to the side of the ship. Goku nelt next to him and offered him a replacement tile after he finished removing the remains of the old one "no internal damage, must have been a small impact, it shattered the plate and the drag threw us off course." he reported gluing it in place firmly before looking up at him. He nodded "lets get back inside, get the ship into a different trajectory."

Ranma nodded standing up and blinked when his suit radio bleeped. "No good guys, once the computer said you were headed back towards the air lock we told it to get us back on course." Akane reported. Ranma blinked "whats that mean?" Akane sighed "it means the computer can't pull us away from the sun, can't you see how close we are to it? The computer said that we passed the safe zone for pulling away the minute you left the ship. It said this red giant is exerting a massive amount of pull. It hypothesizes that this star is a few thousand years away from colapse. Its ready to become a black hole guys."

Ranma looked at Goku wide eyed for a minute before looking at the glaringly red sun that was heating them up, even inside their airconditioned suits. He scowled at the violent erruptions he could see even this far away "its a very angry star." Goku murmured grimly. Ranma looked at him "twin beams?" he asked. He shook his head "they might cause its colapse, we don't know what it would take." he said scowling slightly. Ranma nodded "then lets cool the bastard down."

Ranma stood there glaring at the red giant as his aura flaired to life almost knocking Goku off his feet "dragon spiral?" he asked moving to a safe distance. Ranma nodded "it should give us enough thrust to escape its pull. No earth to stop us from rocketing away from it. And since we're casting it upwards..." He nodded blinking at him "thats engenius." Both looked up hearing someone clear their throat to see the girls standing at the hatch "and it won't work, unless we help. All four of us together should have enough to effect that monster." Akane said putting her hands on her hips. Chichi nodded "it will at least push us free."

Both Ranma and Goku looked at each other before shrugging "alright, form a square, equal distance away from each other, if your closer it will pull you along with it!" Ranma ordered concentrating. The girls nodded moving apart to form the square. Ranma nodded seeing that all three of them were ready and waiting. He threw his hands wide looking at the sun grimly, letting his power flair. He nodded feeling the others respond to it and jerked his right fist at Goku, arm strait ahead. He nodded feeling them do the same. He let his hand relax and stiffened his fingers strait. He smirked at Goku seeing him mimicing.

He enhaled deeply "direct your energy into the air in between us." he directed starting to move his hand about, waving it in a circular motion. He nodded seeing Gokus energy respond to his movements and nodded smiling slightly seeing the gently twirling cyclones of ki moving before them "pour your energy into it. When it gets big enough we'll launch it." he declaired encreasing the speed of his movements. The others nodded and the four swirls of turbulence started blending together and started swirling around as one between them. Ranma grinned barely seeing Goku after a while and looked at the sun "now!" he barked willing his power to flair up and all four bellowed forcefully setting it loose.

Ranma watched as the massive tornado of brightly flairing energy took off at the sun and looked shocked when the tiles he stood on cracked as he was pushed back hard. He continued to will the tornado on as he looked at the remote system his suit had, it was routed to the main ships computer. He glared "it didn't work! We're almost past the limit where the ship can boost us away!" he called. Instently all four of them came together and cupped their hands as one at their side "contain them together guys! Aim for the same spot!" he called drawing the energy together quickly.

He bellowed loudly as he launched his hands skyward and saw three other beams flash off around him after the tornado. Ranma nodded angling his beam and grinned when the other three glanced off it and they merged "oh my god!" Goku gasped falling to one knee as they were hit hard by the velocity it created. Ranma let the blast go and helped him up "lets get inside and get out of here!" he shouted.starting off right away "what about these tiles?" Chichi asked. Ranma waved that off "it would take an impact to make them a danger to us."

When Ranma sat down at the chair he looked shocked at the computer screen "its monitoring our efforts. Remotely, the Professors doing this." he said. They looked closely "The Kame Hame Wave has passed the cyclones attack, it should hit the surface first." the Professor said speaking up. Ranma nodded watching the controls as they boosted away, and pushed the engines to max. All of them grunted as the computer had to increase the ships gravity a lot to do it "oh god!" Akane gasped in pain. Ranma nodded in sympathy, his tail was under him too.

The Professor gasped looking awed "I'm.. I'm instructing the computer to do a simulation based on the data the outside sensors are getting!" he gasped. Ranma blinked as a holo appeared and looked at the sun as the blast hit. All of them looked shocked when it burrowed through the suns super hot outer layer "it picked up a lot of extra power!" Prof said softly.

All four of them looked shocked seeing it slam into its core and grabbed the side of their chairs feeling the ship start to rock "its the first wave of gravity distortions!" he shouted. Ranma blinked and shouted in pain as he was compressed into his chair very hard "oh kami! The gravity generator just upped the gravity to five hundred times normal!" he cried in fear. Ranma looked back at the screen as the smaller monitors to the side exsploded "it chewed a hole through the core." Akane breathed raggedly. Ranma nodded, then gapped as the rocking stopped and they saw why.

The sun went boom when its core was breached, but when the tornado hit it, it did just as he wanted it to, it ate up all the energy around it growing stronger. They watched in shock as the super nova was slowly overwelmed by the galactic winds that were tearing it to peices. Ranma looked at the screen after it ended, the last image still in his eyes, of a pitch black donut disappearing, the tornado casting that last bit of light on it as it flickered out of existence.

Ranma slammed into the floor after rolling off the chair, careful to not catch his tail beneath him as he rolled over the edge. He hissed in pain feeing the blood roll down his leg, the edge of the chair acting as a swords edge at this gravity. He crawled slowly towards the remote comm station for the gravity drive and blinked, the stand for it had colapsed, but by some miracle of fate, the console itself was working. He painfully, and slowly, tapped the emergency shut off code into it.

All of them cried out when the weight went away and Goku got up. Ranma cried out when he rolled him "jesus Ranma! Did you fall on a sword?!" he exclaimed in shock. Ranma looked down and blinked seeing that the wound had just stopped at the bone "its a good thing our bones can take this." he grunted in pain. He nodded "remind me to round off those edges." Akane murmured pushing a senzu bean into his mouth. He sighed laying back and grunted softly feeling the gravity come back on "lets make repairs before continuing."

Bulma looked shocked at the kids before her as she hung up the radio helm after the connection ended. She blinked a few times looking awed "that was dad." she said softly. Krillin nodded looking at Choutsu who had come at the last minute "ya? So what did he say? When will the guys get here?" She blinked at him "um... they had an accident and were sent off course too. The ship was lightly damaged and it was caught in the gravity well of a decaying red giant." She looked at them zoned "they desided to fire off a blast to push them away from the thing, only.... when the blast hit the sun.... it exsploded."

They looked at her shocked "wow!" Gohan exclaimed. Ranko beamed "our parents are the best!" she cheered. Gohan chuckled nodding, Krillin looked worried "were they hurt?" he asked. She blinked "thats the thing, they launched a tornado at the sun first.... when the blast caused the sun to supernova... the tornado consumed all the energy it put off! They snuffed out a supernova!!"

They looked at each other gapping "wow, I knew they were powerful, but that!" Choutsu gasped. Bulma nodded "dad said they had to cut thrust in half to effect repairs, a lot of the ships systems were destroyed by the super velocity the ship went through when the stars gravity well erupted, dad said the gravity got up to five hundred times higher then we're used to." They gapped at her again "that must have hurt." Krillin said wincing. She nodded, then looked determined "that means we have at least another two weeks to wait before they get here. Thats almost a month guys!" she said firmly.

They nodded grimly "what do we do? They'll find us sooner or later!" Kirllin protested. She nodded grimly "I know, but thanks to Vegetas efforts Frieza can't detect the dragon balls anymore. He's searching blind now." She glared at the three basketball sized dragon balls they had "what do we do?" Ranko asked softly, she had been a lot quieter since they had run into Vegeta, for some reason he had been nice to her, well, nicer then he was to Krillin, and had even attacked one of the solders when he got through her defences.

"I say we take off." Krillin said glaring. She shook her head "we can't, they destroyed our ship." she reminded him. He shook his head "I say we take the three of them and sink them in lakes at least a few hundred miles from each other. There are five of us, and thanks to Bulmas dad making these comunicators for us we can guard them and report when one or the other group finds them." They looked undesided for a minute before crying out jumping when Vegeta landed between them suddenly "good idea, theres no way we can attack Frieza as is. That was a neat trick, hiding your power signatures from my senses, I guess its a good thing I kept the dragon ball monitor I got off you last time we met." he chuckled darkly.

Krillin and Gohan glared moving in front of the girls "stay away from us!" Gohan shouted. Vegeta snorted looking at him "right now you and the girl are just a tad less important to me then getting those dragon balls away from Frieza." he said shortly. He crossed his arms looking at the sky "you are, after all, the only remaining children of our race, even if your half breeds." he grumped. The two blinked at him "your not going to hurt us?" Ranko asked softly.

He looked at her for a minute "not if you don't get in my way. Why the hell did your parents let you come here anyways? Don't they realize how important you are?!" he demanded angry. They blinked at him for a minute, just staring. Krillin scratched at his head "actually... their parents didn't know we left until we were half way here." he said smiling weakly "thats why their heading here now, to get us." Vegeta snorted at them "and how did you get away from them? I figured it would be hard to take a child from its parent." he grumped looking around warily.

They nodded "daddy helped make auntie Chichi a saiyjin so uncle would be more interested in her." Ranko piped up. Vegeta blinked at her "you dad, Ranma right?" She nodded smiling, not at all afraid now. "He turned a human into a saiyjin?" he said softly. She nodded blinking "humans are as close genetically to saiyjins as a race can get." Bulma said crossing her arms herself "Ranma found a way to make the saiyjin gene cells overwrite the human ones, thats how he and Akane became saiyjins."

He looked at her "they were human?" She nodded "Ranma was a human." she said satisfied. He nodded scowling "not even real saiyjins." he growled. Ranko glared "my parents are too! Just because they weren't born that way doesn't mean they aren't! They became that way because of an accident. He said he would have easily beat you if you hadn't found the one weakness the Neko-Ken has."

They looked at her in surprise "Ranma could have won?" Kirllin asked, Ranma hadn't said anything around them. Gohan nodded as ko explained "its how he killed Napa, the neko-ken is speed and deadly movements, he has two boosting techniques like that, one is the Kao-Ken, and the other is the Neko-Ken. The Kao-Ken boosts your strength and power and makes it very hard to hurt you, the Neko-Ken makes you very hard to hit. Daddy said he would have had you if a peice of your armor hadn't hit him in the eye, he paused long enough for you to hit him."

Vegeta looked at her for a moment before nodding "whats your name girl?" he asked sitting down against a tree trying to look disinterested in her. She beamed "my names Saotome Ranko! This is Son Gohan, thats Krillin, Choutsu and Bulma. We want to wish Piccolo back to life so Kami will come back with our dragon balls." she exclaimed cheerfully. He looked at her weirdly for a moment "why are you talking like that?!" he growled.

She smiled "because, now there are six or us!" she said cheerfully. He snorted "no one said I was with you."
She shrugged walking over and held a comunicator out to him smiling. He blinked "whats this?" She smiled "its one of our communicators, its so we can keep in contact with each other even across the world!" she looked innocently happy.

He frowned at her, scowling grumpishly. He looked at it for a moment before slipping it on wordlessly "when can we expect your parents?" he grumped. They looked at Bulma and she cleared her throat "my father said they had to stop to repair the damage a supernova did to the ship." she said after a minute. He looked at her "what supernova? There are no supernovas between here and earth." he hissed. She nodded "thats because Ranma and Goku made a sun go supernova."

He fell over in shock, then glared at her "thats impossible!" he snarled. Krillin shook his head "not really. They blasted a hole through the red giants core while escaping its gravity well, then they used the tornado Goku and Piccolo used on Napa to stop the blast from destroying their ship. The Professor said that the tornado contained the blast then slowly sucked it dry of all its energy."

Vegeta looked shocked out of his mind "its that powerful...!" he gasped. They nodded "daddy is a master of all the fighting styles created on earth. Hes the best." Ranko said happily. He growled softly at her looking away."not even a natural born saiyjin." he grumped. Ranko pouted at him before walking back to the others "if we're going to do this then we should choose up partners." Krillin said finally, then grabbed Choutsus arm "I got mine!" he shouted.

Gohan grabbed Ranko "I got mine!" Bulma and Vegeta blinked at them, then at each other before growling at them. "I'll stay with the comunications system." Bulma said firmly. Vegeta snorted looking away "fine, I work better alone anyways." he grumped. Krillin picked up his ball "if you spot Friezas people call." Bulma warned looking at them sternly. Gohan nodded picking up theirs. The three groups took off in three different directions.