Saiyan No Baka

by CRose

Ranma is sent to another world by Urd, but when he returns all hell breaks loose as he bumps heads with the Scouts, old enemies, and his father.

2. Chapter 01

Notes - Rewrite of Saiyen 1/2 by Fanboyimus Prime (With Permission), stumbled across this thing while mining in the deeper and unused areas of FF.Net and had to do something with it. ^_^

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Saiyan No Baka
Chapter 01
By Cory D. Rose
ertle2@msn.com
(c) 2002
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Four years ago on the DBZ world

In a burst of energy, Vegeta came down out of the sky and landed before the Capsule Corporation building. He kicked the door open and dragged her into the house where he and Bulma lived. Dragged her down the hall, down some stairs where her head bounced off the steps, down another tunnel and into the lab where Bulma was working. Bulma had stringy looking blue hair and looked to be about thirty or so, but she had kept her looks and figure over the years. Her clothing was a pair of jeans, a sweater, and a lab coat with tools sticking out of her pockets. She looked up as Vegeta walked in and frowned when she saw that he was dragging a body behind him like and unwanted sack.

Thump, thump.

"I don't want you to drag your bodies in here Vegeta! You kill enough people without having to bring them home to play with in your spare time." She snapped.

"Shut up, Onna! I wanted you to look this girl over and see if you can help her." Vegeta growled.

Walking over, Bulma looked down at the unconscious girl and frowned again. "Where did you find her and why are there sticks and leaves sticking out of her hair?"

"I don't care about how the little shit takes care of her hair! There's something odd about her, that's all and I though you might like to have a look at her."

"Look at those clothes, they're nearly shredded enough to fall right off her body."

"I found her like that."

"Hmph!" Bulma huffed as she noticed that the little red head had bigger breasts than she did. "Pick her up and put her on the table, I'll examine her and see what I can find out about the little trollop."

Grabbing her by her shirt, Vegeta lifted her up and tossed her on the table with little concern for causing her more injuries. "There."

Bulma swats him across the back of the head. "Idiot! You have to learn to treat other people with a bit of courtesy, you could have caused her even more injures!"

"Quiet woman! I did as you asked, what else do you want me to do?!" Vegeta growled back.

Another swat.

"Get out of my lab before I make you sleep on the couch again!"

"Don't tell me what to do Onna! Or you will feel my full power as I take you tonight!"

Grabbing a broom, Bulma whacked him over the head and swatted at him until he moved out of the room, cursing the whole way. He didn't run, but he moved at a brisk walk so that it looked like it was his decision to do so. She glared at him as he turned around to look at her before the door shut, but he just smirked in that way that gave her a little tingle and made her knees go weak. Bulma sighed as the door shut and turned back to the red haired girl on the table. "I'm not a doctor, what the hell am I going to do with this girl?" She muttered to herself.

The clothes would have to go, they were way to ripped up and shredded, it was obvious that fixing them would be impossible. Luckily getting a new set of black pants and a red shirt would be easy enough, this was Capsule Corporation after all and they were one of the biggest companies in the world. Grabbing a pair of scissors off of a nearby table, she cut the clothing off her and noted all the bruises and scars that covered her body. Bulma held up a pair of boxer shorts, white with yellow dots and quite thread bare, her eye was twitching as she tried to figure out why this girl was wearing them. Had she borrowed her boyfriend's clothes after a night on the town and wandered off? She also noticed that there wasn't a bra anywhere and with breasts that big they had to bounce around quite a bit. Bulma noted that the scars covered her entire body in a fine crisscrossing pattern that had turned white as they healed over a long period of time.

Grabbing a needle she took a quick blood sample and set it up to run some basic tests that would let her know if this girl needed to go to an actual hospital or not. Being around all these fighters had taught her that they did certain things at certain times and rarely deviated from that pattern, all of those scars suggested that this girl had to be a fighter, she had injuries from old battles and newer battles. Though some of them had to have come from the way Vegeta had dragged her all over the place, he must have flown through objects on the way here, like trees and bushes. That would account for all the new scratches and destroyed clothing, he didn't really respect anyone unless they had defeated him in battle at some point. Taking a rag and some warm water she started to clean the girl up, getting rid of the blood and bandaging some of the deeper scratches. After about five minutes she finished what she was doing and had been careful not to use to much of the water so that she would be easier to dry off when she was finished. Then she decided to dress her in a robe until she woke up on her own, turning around she bumped the table and dumped the bowl of warm water all over the girl. Now she had to clean it up...

"Aghaaaaaaaaaa!!!"

The door to the lab exploded and Vegeta burst into the room to see who was going to die for attacking his woman. His aura flared and his eyes promised that death would be quick and very painful if he got his hands on whoever it was. Instead he found Bulma standing over by a table with a naked guy on it, she looked a little pale and might possibly faint at any second. He ran over to the table, raised a fist and started to gather a gigantic amount of power, the guy would die for this, no one treated his woman like this. "Die!" He growled.

"Vegeta! What are you doing?!" Bulma yelled as she noticed what he was about to do.

"He attacked you so he dies!"

"He did not attack me you moron! He's still unconscious!"

"What?! So what is he doing here? Are you cheating on me?!" Vegeta yelled, jumping to next obvious possibility.

He ruled that possibility out when Bulma started to laugh. "Baka! That girl turned into this guy when I accidentally spilled some warm water on her. I screamed in shock."

"Well he's dead anyway, I won't let him get away with this." Vegeta growled and raised his fist again.

"You will do no such thing." Bulma snapped.

"But..."

"No! Now get out of here!"

"Don't push me woman and stop giving me orders! I am royalty!"

"I. Don't. Care! Now get out of here!"

Vegeta growled as he stalked out over the shattered door muttering about freaks and a slow painful death.

Turning back to the table, Bulma gasped, the boy's eyes were open and he was scanning the room around him. "Hello." She said.

"Hi, where am I?"

"Capsule Corp." Bulma said.

"What's that?"

"You've never heard of us? We are one of the richest companies on the planet and provide Hoi Poi Capsules to the public."

"Oh."

"I knew you would get it." Bulma said happily.

"Um, yeah, what are Hoi Ploy Capsules?"

Bulma facefaulted and decided to try talking to the guy, there was something odd about him. "Do you remember how you ended up here?"

"Not really, but I seem to recall falling through a hole in the air while I was in the middle of a fight."

"Well my boyfriend found you and brought you here to get you cleaned up."

"Oh, I'll have to thank him."

Bulma nodded. "So what's you name?"

"Ranma Saotome of the school of Anything Goes Martial Arts." Ranma stated proudly.

"I thought you were a fighter."

"How did you know?"

"You're covered in scars and show signs of years of training. How old were you when you started?"

"About five or so, my father took me out on a ten year training trip." Ranma muttered as he noticed that there was air touching him in all the wrong places. "Why am I naked?"

"I had to clean you up." Bulma said with a shrug. She wasn't about to admit that she liked the view and hadn't bothered to cover him up.

"Where's my backpack, I need to get a change of clothes." Ranma said as he blushed and covered himself up with his hands.

"Vegeta didn't bring a pack with him, didn't even mention seeing one."

"Oh, it's probably back at the campsite with pops."

"Can I ask you another question?"

Ranma nodded as he sat up, deftly maneuvering to keep his privates covered as best he could. "Sure, go ahead."

"How do you change gender? Vegeta brought you in here as a girl and when I was cleaning you up you changed into this male aspect." Bulma said and pointed at him.

"I was a girl? Are you sure?" Ranma asked nervously.

Bulma folded her arms and nodded, giving him the 'look'.

"Eh...heheheh." Ranma laughed, then sighs and mutters to himself. "Stupid curse."

"A curse?"

"Y's" Ranma mumbles.

"How does it work?" Bulma asks excitedly, she's never heard of anything like this before.

"Cold water turns me into a girl, hot water turns me into a guy."

"I see and which form do you prefer?"

"MALE! I HATE MY CURSE, IT'S RUINED MY LIFE AND I'D DO JUST ABOUT ANYTHING TO GET RID OF IT!" Ranma yelled and pounded the table in frustration. He'd only had the thing for a little less than a week and already it had made things worse for him.

"Don't you yell at me again young man." Bulma said and wagged her finger in his face. "Or I'll sic Vegeta on you."

Looking a little pale, Ranma nodded. "Sorry, but the curse just irritates me to no end."

"Well if you let me I can spend some time studying you and see if I might find a way to cure you."

"You have a cure?"

"Idiot! I just said I might be able to find one if you let me study it in actions and run some tests." Bulma snapped.

"Oh." Ranma said with some disappointment.

"By the way..."

"What now?" He muttered darkly.

"Are you going to cover yourself back up or are you giving me a free show again?" Bulma asked with a smirk and made a point of looking down.

"Eeep!"

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A few months ago in the current universe

Deep out in space, between the great distance between planets where there was nothing but space dust and the random comet, there came a white sphere or pod flying along at great speed. There was no discernible form of propulsion on the thing, but for some reason the small device was moving at several time the speed of light and leaving a trail of light almost three miles long as it moved. The light that formed the tail surrounded the craft and seemed to be almost solid as every now and then a bit of rock would hit the energy and shatter into smaller pieces. It was quite a light show, but no one was around to appreciate it. If they had they would have tried to recreated it and record it for later use or sold it for mass production.

There was a door that took up all of one side of the craft and had a small red window set into the top of the door that allowed one to look inside to see a large well muscled man sleeping inside. He was wearing a yellow fold around shirt with yellow ties going from his neck to his shoulder and down the side. Old worn pants with the shins wrapped in rope and a tiger striped bandana that held his hair out of his eyes. He had his arms folded and looked like he was resting peacefully or unconscious, it was really hard to tell in with the lack of light. The interior of the craft was quite small, with just enough room to allow him to sit in the chair comfortably, but otherwise there was no room to do anything else, it was even to small to stretch out. There was a small control panel set on the inside portion of the door, it had a little screen and several dozen little buttons inset into the metal. A series of rocks hit the energy field around the craft and it shook a little from the high speed impact.

One of the dials on the control panel lit up and some strange symbols flowed across the small screen in a strange language, even the guy sleeping through all of this wouldn't have known what they said since this craft didn't actually belong to him. He just slept on as the sphere, with a significant pause, took a sudden turn and continued on it's way with more rocks being shattered on the energy field. It was unknown what had caused the change in course, but this time it was heading right for an asteroid belt that it had picked up on it's scanners. The occupant didn't wake up as the pod entered the field of floating rocks, nor did he wake when several of them bounced off the tiny hull and shattered on the energy field. These rocks were bigger than normal space debris and shook the ship with every impact and made him bounced around inside the sphere like a pin ball. Next time, when he woke up, he would remember to use the seat belt when he was unconscious in the pod.

It took about an hour to make it through the asteroid belt and the little pod took little damage, once on the other side it altered course again and increased speed and vanished into the distance. The stars rushed past, it flew by several large planets, and passed through the cold emptiness of space for several hours. It was only than that it realized that it had made a wrong turn and turned back to retrace its course and made a note in the log to inform the creators about the flaw in it's navigational array. Surprisingly it had only popped up during the time that it's current owner had been using it, they visited the most interesting of places.

Sudden left turn...

Straight down for two hours...

Sudden right turn and straight on till dawn.

***

Ranma stood on top of the fence about a mile from school and considered what had happened to him today at school and why those girls had attacked them. It was supposed to have been his first day of school and he couldn't remember the last time he had this much fun playing around. He felt good and wanted to do that again, it was a bit perverted, but he was a guy after all. It wasn't often he got a chance to just let loose like that and it was probably going to be his last day of school for some time to come too, not that he minded, school had always sucked. His mother wouldn't be to happy with when she found out he had leveled the school in a fight with the Scouts though. He watched the smoking remains of the school in the distance and winced a little for his loss of control, then shrugged it off and grinned lecherously as he saw a girl with a set of blonde pig tails run away from the scene, her friends close behind. He supposed he would have to make a stop somewhere to make amends for what he just did, but he still considered it their fault for not leaving him alone like he had asked.

During the time he'd spent with his friends in the other world, Goku, his son Gohan, and even Vegeta had changed him in ways that even today he found almost remarkable. He knew this, but hadn't really thought about it all that much except to acknowledge that he was very immature when he arrived and had grown up quite a bit as he trained with beings like Vegeta and Krillin, even spending a bit of time with Mutenroshi and a few others that had really altered his world view and expanded his horizons. He had been raised to be a man among men by his father after all, and once they had learned of this little fact they had all helped in their own ways to bring what they considered to be that kind of personality out of him.

It had worked too, for the most part, his mother had nearly swooned when he told her some of his other world adventures and actions. How she considered a pervert to be manly was beyond him, but he was willing to step up to the plate every now and then to make her happy and this would make her day. So long as she kept hands away from his pants he knew she would go along with these kinds of actions. Her views were a bit weird even for him, but who was he to complain, he liked to play with the girls whenever he could. Bulma had been a surprise as had several of the other females he met during his time there, he was in no way as innocent as he had been when he first arrived. He had been exposed to too much in the last four years and it had affected him in ways that made him the person he was today, making him into a very powerful being. Him and Happosai would have been great friends if they were to ever meet, so his actions were kind of explainable. Juuhachigou had been fun to pick on like that, she was into fashion, but didn't seem to care if people saw her in the buff and with her newly created human body she was a fox.

She did have that attitude problem though and he had tried to cure her of that little problem, it hadn't worked out though.


***


Usagi was in a bit of a dilemma herself, but glad the rest of her family was out of the house by the time she ran in the front door. She didn't want to get caught by them and have to explain the weird body armor she was wearing, the stupid thing hadn't gone away when she powered down either. Running home hadn't been as easy as she thought it would, that pervert's little gift seemed to grow more insistent as she ran and there wasn't a thing she could do to move it without looking really perverted to anyone that might have saw her. She thanked god that the jerk had only created a flat vibrator instead of a invasive one, that would have driven her into shock.

She rushed into the bathroom on the second floor and spent a few minutes getting out of the strange outfit, flushed and panting heavily by the time she got it off, she tossed the offending thing to the floor and stomped on it a couple of times to make sure it wouldn't work again. It took her several minutes to calm down before she had the energy to get herself cleaned up and changed into a set of normal clothes. For some strange reason she wasn't all that mad at Ranma, only disappointed in his actions, then she looked out the window to see Ranma hovering there with a smirk on his face.

"PERVERT!!" Usagi yelled, ripped the sink off the wall and threw it through the window and bounced it off his head with no noticeable effect. Okay, she was just a little mad at him, just good at hiding it better than others.

"I didn't peak, though I wanted to." Ranma said before entering through the broken window and moving to stand in front of her.

"Then why did you kiss me in class!?" Usagi asked with a glare, her heart pounding a mile a minute as she recalled the 'kiss', she blushed.

"Needed to wake you up, you looked as bored as I was, and I know I was way better than that Mamo-Chan's name you where drooling in your sleep." Ranma replied by folding his arms and flexing his muscles like Vegeta did when he was chasing Bulma around.

Usagi couldn't help but nod here head a few dozen times. "Yes, you were."

Ranma grinned and puffed up in pride. "Look, about earlier, I don't want to fight you and the others anymore. I'm afraid I'll accidentally kill you all completely by accident and I 0don't want to do that if I can help it."

"Oh yeah, RIGHT, just like when you 'accidentally' blew up the school without even trying?" Usagi asked sarcastically and poked him in his muscled chest, it was firm, and warm, and chiseled oh so perfectly. She had to suddenly resist the urge to rub herself all over that perfect body and...the sudden warmth that suffused her body, she blushed and stepped back and giggled nervously.

Ranma ignored her finger as he nodded. "Exactly, I didn't really power up all that much and it was still was devastating enough to level the school, I wasn't using all that much power when I used those ki blasts and look what happened. Look, how about if you girls don't bother me and I won't bother you. OK?" Ranma said, he was kind of wondering what that strange look on her face was, but figured she was just getting mad at him.

"I don't know..." Usagi hesitantly said as the door to the bathroom suddenly opened and Mamoru rushed in and saw his girlfriend and Ranma standing there. Ranma gave a small wave, as if standing in a girls bathroom was a pretty common thing for him.
"Hi'ya!"

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE!" Mamoru yelled as his world turned red and he launched himself at the invader trying to hurt his girlfriend. He would pay for humiliating him like he had earlier.
"DIE!! AGHAAAAAAA!!!"

***

Back in Nerima Genma was sitting in front of the Shogi table with Soun and also thinking about what happened over the last few days. His son had returned from where ever he had ran off to and was strong enough to make the Dread Master seem like an irritating little bug. He wasn't sure what to do, but getting the truth out in the open with his friend had to be done. He drank a little of the sake that Kasumi had brought him earlier and took a few seconds to get his thoughts in order. Eventually, after a few half hearted attempts to distract Soun and rearranging the pieces to his favor, Genma came up with a partial plan.

"Soun I think we might have a few problems to work out before our families can ever be joined together." Genma said.

"What kind of troubles Genma?" Soun asked as he tried to figure out which pieces his friend had moved. "Look a blimp!"

"Huh?" Genma said and turned to look before turning back to see what his position was now. "That aura we felt the other day was Ranma, I know it was. I made up that story I told you because I had no idea what had really happened to him three months ago, one night he just vanished and I had no idea if he ran away, was abducted by aliens, or killed by those Amazon."

Genma moved a piece.

"If that was indeed your son, then he's a powerful warrior and will make our grandchildren just as powerful or more so. We have to get him here, he will marry one of my daughters and attract new students to the dojo, we'll make enough money to live like kings." Soun said.
Soun grinned and moved a piece, he was about to win.

"That may be true, but as I was training him to be the greatest martial artist in the world, I've done a few things in the name of training that he didn't like very much and has never forgiven me for them. That ungrateful little snot, I'll eventually teach him to respect me, but I seriously doubt that he will just forget about them." Genma replied. "Look, Lone Wolf and Cub!!"

Soun turned to look as Genma rifled the game board to give him a strategic advantage.

"What kinds of things?" Soun asked as he turned back to survey 'his' new status in the game, it seemed like he was about to lose and Genma had the sudden advantage.

"The kind of training the Master gave us of course, a few near death training experiences, some forbidden techniques, and a cursed training ground or three. You know, normal stuff." Genma replied as he moved his piece into a potential winning slot.

"But wouldn't he want to follow what honor demands?" Soun asked, unable to understand why anyone would not like that kind of training. They had survived it and look how he and Genma had turned out, they were powerful fighters that few could withstand.

"Before he left I had him tightly controlled and willing to do anything I wanted with just few little insults, but now I don't know, I honestly have no idea if he will obey or not and with that kind of power he can do anything he wants." Genma said with a nervous shrug.

"Fire, Fire, Fire!!" Soun yelled suddenly and grinned as his friend dove off the porch and into the koi pond, he took a moment to reset the board as his friend dragged his soaking fur covered body out of the water and pulled out a sign. The panda seemed to be just a little irritated.

*That was low, even for you.* Was written on the sign

"Anything Goes old chap."

***

Back at Usagi's house Ranma just blinked as Mamoru's fist shot forward to hit him right in the face with a loud crack. Mamoru screamed in pain as several of the bones in his hand broke under the force of the blow. He whimpered and bounced back as Ranma grinned at him for his stupidity. Mamoru noticed that he hadn't even broken the skin or made a bruise, there wasn't a mark on the guy's face. He reached into his coat with his good hand to grab his Rose and transform, he had to save his daughter from this monster if he could. Oh yeah, and Usagi too.

"That was really stupid, you know that?"" Ranma said conversationally.

He noticed that Chibi-Usa was glaring up at him from behind Rose Boy and wondered why she looked like she was fading in and out of reality, it was like she was a ghost or something. He hoped the fading out of existence like that wasn't as painful as it looked, that weird look on her face was hard to ignore, that and her tears as she glared up at him the look of death.

"What?"

"I hate you." Chibi-Usa yelled.

Ranma bent over and raised an eyebrow. "So what?"

The little girl gasped as Ranma 'smiled' at her. "Um..."

"You leave my daughter alone you monster!" Mamoru yelled and punched Ranma again, screamed out in pain, again, and dropped to his knees as he shattered the bones in his other hand as well. It had to be the most pathetic thing he'd ever seen, no, Mr. Satan back in the other world held that position. This guy was just as bad though, Ranma shrugged and thought about 'disciplining' the guy. Then ruled it out as totally useless, it was like picking on the weak deliberately and there were just some thing he wouldn't do. Now picking fight with an idiot was an entirely different story, Vegeta had taught him that one on their training trips through the city.

Ranma smirked down at Usagi's broken boyfriend. "Man you are one stupid moron aren't you? What's this crap about this girl being your daughter? Does your girlfriend here know you've been cheating on her?"

Usagi blushed again. "Um...actually she is my daughter, she's been sent back in time so that she can train with me as a Sailor Scout. She's a pest at times, but for the most part she is doing a good job except for a couple of things."

With a loud wail Chibi-Usa fell to her knees and started hugging her father as she faded in and out of existence again, though there were a couple of seconds there where for some unknown reason the only thing that vanished was her clothing. Ranma blushed in surprise. "I'll never get the chance to grow up, to date, get married and have kids of my own to torment and embarrass!" She cried with a case of massive sniffles.

"OK can someone please explain what that was all about?" Ranma asked in complete confusion, what was it with the girls in this area lately, were they all like this? Or was he just attracting the weird ones for some odd reason, it was like they were everywhere or something.

"Well..." Started Usagi as she explained about Chibi-Usa and the whole time travel thing in a bit more detail as she knelt down and hugged her fading daughter with a bit of worry. She didn't understand why this fading thing was happening now, it wasn't like Mamoru had dumped her again. They were destined to get to get together in the future and she was looking forward to it with all her heart. She kept telling herself that as she gazed up at Ranma, it was the perfect angle to see something that wasn't all that obvious from a standing position.

"You're kidding?"

"Nope, it's always been like that."

"Weird, oh wait a minute that explains how a guy like Trunks did something similar from where I came from. If time travel works like it did for him, even with the time line altered you and your future will still exist, but as a once possible or ghost of a future and can still travel to this timeline easily, any number of times." Ranma said, more to himself than Usagi.

Usagi's eyes were glazed over and she looked like she was about to fall asleep on her feet as she mumbled to herself. "No...school...it hurts my head..."

Ranma sighed loudly and broke her out of her trance with a start. "You didn't understand a word of what I said, I know it's complicated, it took me about two months to figure it out when Bulma told me about the theory's myself. I still don't get everything she told me though." Ranma said.

"You think Mamoru is going to be alright?" Usagi asked suddenly and looked a little worried for her boyfriend as he staggered to his feet and ran out of the room.
"I'll get you for this!" Mamoru yelled as he vanished down the stairs.

"I could've given him a Senzu Bean if he hadn't run out of here like that, I'm not totally heartless and he did get hurt because he attacked me." Ranma said with a shrug.

"A what?" Usagi asked.

"Senzu bean, a bean that instantly heals people and gives them a small boost in power. I intend to grow some as soon as the weather gets a little better." Ranma replied.

"Oh." Was all that Usagi could say to that.

"Well I have to go for now, so goodbye, I'll see you again some time Meatball Head." Ranma said with a grin as he leaped out the window and flew away in a burst of energy that nearly blew Usagi off her feet.

"What did you call me?!!" Usagi yelled and almost dropped Chibi-Usa.

***

Ranma really didn't feel like going home as he flew out of Usagi's bathroom window, he had destroyed the entire school and just knew his mother was going to yell at him for it. He rose up above the city and hovered there as Piccolo would when he was meditating, after several minutes of thought he decided that a visit to Tenchi's place would be fun and he had to meet with is grandfather again for some more training. With a burst of Ki he took off towards the old Temple that was situated some distance just outside of town. Sure he could have teleported there, but where was the fun in that?

He zoomed across the city and out over the forest in a matter of minutes and was soon closing on the Temple, Ranma smirked, three hours by land if had taken the train and buses here, but only ten minutes by Saiyan Air power. He preferred his method as he dropped into the trees and played a bit of tree tag to see how fast he could dodge between them, him and Vegeta had done this for hours on end back when he had been training. That had always been a lot of fun mostly because Vegeta liked to cheat, when he got bored he started to go though the trees instead of around them. Then he would start to attack with blasts of energy that could vaporized entire houses in a matter of seconds, those were the good old days.

With a burst of light he zipped around a couple of trees and rose into the air above the Temple, Ranma could see the huge tree that marked the property as it spread out in all it's glory. He flew over to land on the small island where the tree was sitting, this place was always been filled with a very strong kind of Ki that made him feel better and happier than he felt in some time. He landed and sat down to relax while he waited for someone to find him, almost immediately he sensed someone heading his way and shook his head. He'd hoped for a couple hours of rest, but the his grandpa had always been a crafty old bugger.

"Hi Grandpa!" Ranma called out.

"Ranma? What in the world are you doing here? I thought you decided to stay with your mother for few months?" Katsuhito called out as he stopped at the edge of the small pond and watched as his grandson rolled to his feet.

"I got into a bit of trouble and decided to take a break from it." Ranma said with a smirk.

"Humph!! Knowing you I would guess that you blew something up."

Ranma nodded in embarrassment and rubbed the back of his head as he floated across the water and landed beside Katsuhito. The old man had seen Ranma's powers in action the last time he was here so he wasn't all that surprised, though this was the first time he had seen Ranma actually fly like this. He could do it himself with the power of Jurarian, but it took lots of energy, something that Ranma made look like he was walking across the street.

"Well boy, you can stay, but you have to call your mother and let her know you're here. Then I want to do a little sparring with you, it's been a while since I had a proper fight, are you up for it?" Katsuhito asked as he pulled a bokken from his robes.

"Are you up for it old man, I don't want you to break a hip or something?" Ranma asked with a smirk.

"This 'old man' will kick your ass."

"Heh, prove it."

The old man just smirked and bopped Ranma over the head. "You have a phone call to make first."

"Yeah, yeah." Ranma muttered as he took to a nearby path that led to the main house where the only phone was located. Twenty minutes later Ranma and Katsuhito were using one of the Temple's training grounds, moving at speeds that could barely been seen. Tenchi and Sassami stood off to one side and watched as Ranma trained with their grandfather. It was a rare sight to see his grandfather being pushed to his limits and a bit of a shock that someone as young as Ranma could do it, but his intense training had made Ranma into a fighting machine that few could match.

Ranma had other things on his mind as he fought, he had mastered the ability to think on multiple levels from Goku, a trick that Vegeta had never been able to pick up and one that had allowed him to figure out how to fight a strong opponent even while in the midst of battle. He thought about how the last few days had gone and knew that he had nothing to fear from the the Sailor Scouts that he hadn't already dealt with, they just did not compare to his training while in the other universe. Of course he wouldn't have feared them before his little trip, but now that he had seen them in action and been more than a little disappointed in their actions. There was potential there, but they were way to dependent on that green haired chick to be effective or dangerous, they needed training in fighting, team work, and group tactics. Just like he had gone though to make the changes in his life and get away from Genma's training and assert his own independence instead of the strange kind of slavery that had been forced on him since he started this training trip.

They moved around the small clearing, nearly shattering the bokken for the thousandth time when suddenly a giant, organic looking spaceship came down out of the clouds and slowed to a hover over the main house. This actually caught Ranma by surprise and he accidentally lashed out at Katsuhito's bokken with to much Ki fused into the wood and his opponents bokken into a several tiny little pieces that fell apart in the old man's hands as they bounded away from each other. Ranma turned to look at the ship, he had seen the Saiyan pods that his friends used and a copy of the larger one that Goku had when he went to the Namek home world, but never one made out of wood. It was the strangest thing he'd ever seen, there was no way wood could stay air tight in the vacuum of space. Even stranger was that he could sense a powerful Ki signature coming from inside and the craft itself, that meant that it was alive, a living space ship.

"What in the hell is that?"

"That looks like the Tsunami, the royal trees ship of Azusa, Funaho, and Misaki the rulers of Jurarian and our great-grand parents." Tenchi said form off to the side

Ranma facefaulted. "Where in the hell did you come from?!"

"Um...the house?" Tenchi said, he looked a little confused.

"No shit?" Ranma asked with a smirk as he turned back to the ship. "Looks like I get to meet my great-grand parents now. This should prove interesting."

"Shall we head down and see what they want?" Katsuhito said and gestured at the ship.

"Let's go." Ranma said and started bounding through the trees.

They all missed it as a large round wooden pillar that phased out of the shadows and followed along behind them. It moved silently as the men ran along in front of it, the lens set into the upper portion of the wood was focused on Ranma as he bounced along. Kamendaki would have smirked, but it didn't have a face, so it gave the impression of a smirk. Then it tripped over a root, how I don't' know, and slammed into the ground with a crash. Kamendaki groaned, wobbled back into the air, tried to pretend it hadn't just tripped and floated through the air, it was impossible for it to trip over anything.

Yeah, that was it.

***
Up in the Space Ship Tsunami, Azusa, the Emperor of Jurarian sat upon is throne and glared down at the house where Yosho or Katsuhito as he liked to be called on this planet lived with his grandson. He really hadn't wanted to waste his time coming to backwater planet in the middle of nowhere again, but when his son had invited them to visit, his two wives Funaho and Misaki had jumped at the chance to visit the children again. Of course his wives had to make a vacation out of the whole trip, but all he wanted to do was drag his son back home and put him on the throne so that he could finally step down as Emperor. He would find a way, being Emperor was a job he didn't want anymore and there was only one person in the whole universe that could take the job from him and that was Yosho. The boy would come back with him on this trip or he would be kidnapped from his bed in the middle of the night by the royal guard themselves.

He nodded, it was the perfect plan.

Of course that would probably never happen because he knew his son so well, but he could always have a little hope that things would go his way for once. Azusa was a tall man, with a black hair and a bearded streaked with white, he had been on the throne for a very long time because of his stubborn son. So here he was being dragged back to visit the ungrateful bastard and to meet yet another of his grandsons, hopefully this one would be better than the last one he had met. That spineless pansy was a disgrace to the Jurian name and status and would never get a chance to be on the throne if he had any say in the matter. They beamed down and appeared in front of the house in a sparkle of light and looked around just as Ayeka and Sassami came barreling out of the house to hug Misaki, she was nearly knocked the woman off her feet. They squealed happily, Azusa winced, then Funaho got into the action and he had to back off before they tried to get him as well.

"Momma!!"

"Ayeka, Sassami, how are you doing?"

"Very well mother."

"It seems that there is another heir to the Jurarian throne."

"Why didn't I know about him before this!" Azusa growled.

"He was missing, I hadn't heard from him in over ten years and thought him either dead or unavailable." Katsuhito said as he walked out of the woods with Ranma and Tenchi following along behind him.

"Still, I would have liked to have known about him long before this."

Katsuhito shrugged. "Why dredge up something that could prove to be a lost cause?"

"Where is he?" Funaho asked as she detached Sassami from her leg and looked around.

With a gesture Katsuhito pointed at Ranma, who was looking over the wooden ship above them. "Ranma..."

"What?"

"These are your great-grand parents Ranma."

Double Glomp!!

"He's so handsome!" Funaho squealed as she rubbed herself on Ranma in a somewhat disturbing manner.

"He's perfect!!" Misaki yelled an instant later and joined in.

Azusa took one look at the nervous boy and snorted. "He's a wimp!"

Tenchi started laughing and was soon rolling on the ground along with Sassami, Ryoko, and Ayeka.

"Azusa, don't be an idiot!!" His wives yelled at him.

"Look at him, I'll bet he can barely move around let alone fight his way out of a paper bag."

Strangely enough Ranma wasn't even mad, he had been around Vegeta to long to get angry over someone calling him weak. No, he'd learned that he always had to prove himself before anyone would take him seriously. The reaction had always been a mystery to him, it wasn't like he didn't stand over six foot tall, had a set of huge muscles that gave him the incredible definition like Goku had. He remembered that Mutenroshi had said something similar to him when they met and Ranma had nearly punched the old guy for even suggesting such a thing. He'd been more accommodating after he'd had to swim back to the little island when the old fart had kicked him out into the ocean. Then just to add insult to injury the old pervert had kicked the crap out of him and made a mockery of his training under Genma. Three days later he was running all over the main land delivering milk and tilling fields with his hands with a two hundred kilo metal turtle shell on his back. It had been hell.

"You shouldn't do that Azusa, he is a lot more than he appears at first glance." Washu said as she appeared beside Ranma.

"Why not woman, he's just standing there like an idiot and not even reacting to my insults, he's a spineless moron." Azusa sneered.

Ranma snorted and figured he would have to show this guy what he was made of. "Fine, if you want to stand there and insult me all day go ahead, there isn't a thing you can do to hurt me and you don't look all that tough anyway, perhaps you are the spineless moron instead?"

"You'll pay for that boy." Azusa yelled, the veins on his neck stood out as he tensed for combat.

"But..." Started Washu, but Ranma cut her off.

"I've met jerks like this before, they always have to prove they are better than others to make themselves seem bigger. This loser couldn't touch me if he wanted to."

Azusa growled evilly as Funaho and Misaki paled, recognizing the signs of their husband when he was about to lose his temper. "Now Azusa calm down, you remember what happened last time you got angry like this. Ranma has to live to take the throne you know..."

"DIE YOU PATHETIC WIMP!!" Azusa screamed and threw a punch for Ranma's head that was powered by the full fury of Jurarian's power.

"NO DADDY, DON'T!!" Sassami yelled.

Ayeka just smirked, maybe her little plan to do away with this Saiyan wouldn't have to be used after all. Then she saw an aura flare around Ranma in an instant before Azusa's fist would have hit him. The thing sprang up so fast and with such power that it knocked Katsuhito and Tenchi off their feet from several feet away, his hand came up and caught the energy charged fist and he sneered at the shocked look on Azusa's face. There was an explosion of energy that blew everyone else still on their feet to the ground and sent up a blast effect that filled the area around them with a huge explosion of power. Seconds later Ranma's aura pushed the dust and smoke away from them and found to his surprise that his entire arm was numb, he grinned at Azusa's shocked face as it slowly lifted to look a him with respect and fear.

"You're strong, I'll give you that, but you can't come close to my power old man and if you continue to attack me I'll punt your ass clear out of the atmosphere with without your precious little wooden ship. Got that?" Ranma said pleasantly and squeezed his fist.

"I-Impossible..." Azusa muttered.

"Humph!!" Ranma said and let go of Azusa's hand. "Grow up old man, there is always someone stronger."

"Lord Azusa, Ranma is 7/8ths Saiyan and..." Washu said as she started to stand up again and dust her clothing off.

"Saiyan!!" Funaho and Mizaki yelled in unison.

Ranma folded his arms arrogantly and grinned. "Heh, I'm more powerful than anything on this planet."

Azusa was shocked and backed off a few steps to take another look at Ranma, one in an entirely new light as he shook his injured hand. The women didn't need to know that the boy had just broken several of his fingers, they would be healed within the hour anyway. He had met Saiyan's in the past and knew that were some of the worst possible people he had ever had the misfortune to encounters of his life, they had more power available to them than they could handle and the strongest of them could blow up entire worlds if they wanted to. They had a reputation as conquerors and killers of incredible power, though he recalled that he had also been told that they were extinct, killed off long ago by a meteor when it destroyed their world.

"How in the world is it possible for you to be a Saiyan, boy? They've been extinct for thousands of years."

"Let's just say I ran into a strange situation and leave it at that because even I have no idea how it happened. They tried to explain it to me and no matter how many times they went over it I just couldn't understand it." Ranma said with a shrug.

Washu started to cackle and Ranma knew he had just made a mistake.

***

The instant Ranma had flew away from the Tsukino house Sailor Pluto had taken the time to appear in Usagi's room just as she was coming out of the bathroom. "Usagi, we must talk!"

"AGHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! DON'T DO THAT!" Usagi yelled as she clutched her heart and gasped for air as she slammed into the wall and her hair tried to climb the wall.

"That boy is dangerous!"

"Yes he is and so long as we leave him alone he won't bother us or get in our way."

"Crystal Tokyo is slowly vanishing because of him, we must get rid of him before that future dies completely."

"Pluto, he hasn't hurt anyone yet." Usagi pointed out.

"Look what he did to your school!"

"You and the others attacked him just like I did."

"Then look what he did to your boyfriend..."

"Mamo-chan attacked him first, it's the baka's own fault he broke his hand in the way he did." Usagi said in a huff and folded her arms.

"But Usagi, I was only trying to protect you from that monster." Mamoru whined from the stairs where he was standing.

"Humph! I saw the way you were holding Chibi-Usa." Usagi said as she took them to the kitchen and took a set out bowls out of the cupboard set a bit of ice cream for them to eat as they talked.

"He knows who you are now, he knows where you live, why don't you just wear a shirt with a bull's-eye on it!" Sailor Pluto bellowed. "He's dangerous!"

Usagi handed her one of the bowls with a spoon. "He seemed nice enough, he even apologized to me for attacking us and Chibi-Usa hasn't faded out once since then." Usagi said. "Rocky Road or chocolate?"

"SEEMED NICE!?" Pluto yelled as she glanced at the ice cream Usagi had pulled out of the fridge. "Chocolate, please."

"THE MAN IS A WALKING PLAGUE THAT DESTROYS EVERYTHING AROUND HIM!!!" Mamoru screamed.

Usagi sighed, she hadn't wanted this to happen and Ranma had said on a couple of occasions now that he didn't want to bother them and if they left him alone he would do the same. Plus she really didn't want to bother someone that had taken on the entire team and wiped the floor with them, then turned around and walked away as if it had been a complete waste of time. He had just been irritated with them attacking him for no reason, the guy had a good heart.

"He broke my hand!" Mamoru yelled.

Usagi's eyes flared with anger as she glared at her boyfriend, she almost forgot to eat her ice cream, almost. "You tried to hit his titanium hard skull!" Usagi yelled and added. "Honestly if he was an enemy he probably would already have used mind control on you by now, you certainly seem to enjoy being dominated enough."

Pluto flinched and hoped Usagi hadn't seen it.

"Don't bring that up." Mamoru complained as he blushed.

"If he was an enemy you would all have been vaporized long before he decided to stop by and talk things out with me. If things followed along the way they do I would have been forced at some point in the next couple of months to hit him with an attack from the Silver Crystal and killed him anyway." Usagi said.

***

Ryoga Hibiki growled and his snapped up to look in the direction of Japan the instant Ranma had stepped back onto this Earth, he marveled at his enemies power and took the precaution of hiding his own aura an instant later. This would better than he thought, but it would mean that more time would be needed to set his plans in motion. He had to make sure Ranma didn't interfere before he was ready for him, revenge was close at hand and there was nothing that bastard could do to stop him. It had been some time since they had last met and he wanted to make sure this one took place at the correct time and place of his choosing. He started to laugh insanely as images of a battered and broken Ranma knelt before him and begged him to stop the torture, it was the perfect dream and he planned to make sure ever image of it came true.

Shrugging his pack off he sat it down in the middle of the large clearing and reaching in to pull out a small jar. There were what looked like a small seed sitting within giving off a slight glow, with this little item all his dreams of revenge would be brought to frutation. Litterally, he cackled as he put it back in his pack. He would use it later, right now he had to find something to eat now that he could rule his home world now that he was home. Everything he had ever wanted to do was in the palm of his hand. He glanced back at the crater his space pod had made in the wooded area around him and shrugged, he probably wouldn't see it again now that he was home. Revenge was his main goal, but even he needed food to survive the coming months. He moved to leave when something hit him in the back and exploded, he stumbled a couple of steps in surprise and blinked at his burning clothes. He turned around to see dozens of soldiers leveling their guns at him and screaming something in a strange language, one of them was reloading a bazooka of some kind. His landing must have attracted some attention and these guys were sent out to investigate.

Ryoga grinned, his longer than normal fangs glinting in the sun
light.

"I always like to play."

***

Dinner at the Temple was a bit of a surprise for Azusa when he found out his youngest daughter had cooked dinner for them, like some common cook. A glare from Mizaki, who had already experienced her daughters skills in the kitchen, caused Azusa to calm down and take a different path. "That meal was incredible!" Azusa shouted and added. "How did you learn to cook like that little one?"

Sassami giggled and hugged her father and whispered in his ear. "I watched a lot of cooking programs when Ayeka was flying all across the galaxy acting like Captain Ahab."

"Capt...who?"

"I'll explain later daddy."

Azusa grunted and returned to eating, he had to find a way to get his daughter out of the kitchen, it wouldn't be right for a princess of her standing to be mucking about with the common rabble, even acting like one of them, she had responsibilities to live up to. Now that he had ruled Tenchi unsuitable for the throne, the only logical thing he could have done under the circumstances, he had to make a decision on Ranma. If it hadn't been for his very tiny amount of Jurarian ancestry he wouldn't have even considered it, but the boy showed more potential than some of the others he could name at a time like this. There was one other things that was putting him off as well, he glanced over at Ranma who was on his tenth serving and still shoveling food down his throat like a starving dog.

A Saiyan's eating habits had certainly outlived their race, they were said to be the biggest gluttons in the universe. 'Fucking Loser.' Azusa growled under his breath and glared at the body as he downed an entire pitcher of tea.

"What was that father?" Katsuhito asked.

"Nothing!!"

Masaki whapped him across the back of the head just as the doorbell rang. Ayeka got up and went to answer the door. She ignored her mother 'politely' whispering in Asuza's ear, he looked a little pale. She returned a few seconds later and pointed at Ranma as she made her way back to her seat.

Glomp!!

Ranma nearly chocked on all the food in his mouth and started coughing. "Hi mom, (cough, cough) when did you get here?"

"I got a call from Tenchi earlier and he told me some of my relatives were here for a visit and I wanted to see them. I also wanted to talk to you about what happened to the school today." Nodoka replied with a grin.

"It'll be rebuilt eventually, luckily no one was hurt though."

"That's why I decided to have you placed in a new school for the time being, they weren't to pleased with you, so you'll start at the new place tomorrow."

Ranma groaned, he did not need this right now.

"Just because the last one was obliterated doesn't mean you can just stop going to school." Nodoka said as she bopped him on the head.

"Tenchi didn't after Ryoko trashed his school and things turned out just fine." Ranma pointed out. He ignored Ryoko perking up and latching onto Tenchi's arm and snuggling into his chest. Ayeka snarled and Tenchi just looked embarrassed.

"Oh Tenchi!" Ryoko said, then whispered something into his ear.

Tenchi almost melted into a puddle of embarrassment right there at the table, he was frozen in shock.

"Get away from my Tenchi you horrible, horrible woman!" Ayeka yelled.

"Ranma, Washu had me sitting in her lab for those two months the school was being rebuilt. She was home schooling me..." Tenchi finally managed to get out, he really didn't want to think about where Ryoko's tail was right then.

"I used to be a member of a collage on Juri sometime back, one of the professors, I always loved to educate the kids." Washu said, she grinned evilly.

"I already know everything they're trying to teach me anyway." Ranma protested.

"You need to go to school, not for an education, but to find some friends and get yourself a nice girlfriend and me some grandchildren. Try not to blow this one up or you'll have to rebuild the next one by yourself." Nodoka said as she walked off, but not before giving him the parental glare of death.

Ranma gulped and nodded.

"See, these Earth kids are total wimps!" Asuza yelled.

Whap! Sassami blushed as she hid her hand in her apron and retreated to the kitchen, her mother just nodded at her approvingly.

"See you old fool, even you daughter thinks you're taking this crap to far." Funaho yelled at him.

***

It was about midnight when Ranma stepped out of the house and headed into the woods behind the house. This small valley would be the perfect place for him to take care of something he'd been putting off with all the attacks lately. He took his time as he walked and took in the scenery around him, there really hadn't been enough time to just enjoy himself in the longest time and he needed a break. There was just enough light in the sky to let his Saiyan enhanced body could see perfectly even though it was very dark out. It was quiet too, totally quiet, he couldn't even hear any animals in the trees or anything. This seemed to give the whole world a strange and dangerous feel, it was just the kind of thing he needed to relax a little.

Stopping by the lake he looked out over the water and listened to the waves as they played against the shore and the wind as it blew across the lake to ripple his clothes and threaten to blow him into the water below. He resisted and smiled, after that he followed along the shore and headed deeper into the woods. There had to be some place on the gounds that weren't visited very often and needed to find it. It had to bee off the main trails and far enough away that some random hiker wouldn't stumble across it by accident. He skirted the side of a hill of trees for several minutes before he found what he was looking for, the vegitation was thick and over grown enough that it was obvious that they hadn't been touched by human hands in years.

Rising up above the thick bushes and trees he moved into the air and floated above the trees, he found a place about twenty feet ahead where he could land safely. It was a tiny little grass covered spot with trees spreading out from it in all directions. There wasn't even anything in the way of thick bushes to hinder his quest, with a grin he reached into his pocket he pulled out a small bag and pulled out a seed and held it up. He only had a limited amount of them and had to be careful how he used them, they were such a complicated life form. The conditions had to be just so for them to flourish, isolation and lots of surrounding life force like that provided by a forest.

Pulling out three more seeds, Ranma put the bag away as she knelt down and plunged his hand into the ground. There was plenty of moisture for them about a foot down so he pocked three finger sized holes in the earth and dropped a seed into each of them. Then he concentrated for a second and channeled a massive amount of pure Ki into the ground around the seeds for several minutes as he packed the earth right over the seeds. It was a royal pain, but in the end it would be worth it so long as the seeds sprouted. It was slow growing plant and only produced a couple seeds every six months or so and would be worth millions if sold to the general public.

Kirrin had made him promise to take his own life to protect the seeds from people that did not deserve them. Ranma was glad to give that promise, it had allowed him to get the bag of seeds he now held and it was highly unlikely that anyone would ever come across this spot for years and even then they wouldn't know what they were looking at. Once he was finished planting the seeds he stood up and dusted off his hands and flew into the sky. He buzzed the lake just out of reach of the water and used his aura to keep it from touching his body, eventually he slowed down and landed on the dock and looked into the sky again. That had only taken about an hour or so, hopefully no one would notice what he was doing.

"Ah Hah! I caught you!"

Ranma turned around to see Ayeka wearing a demure blue robe as she walked out of the house and stalked over to him. Asuka and Kamendaki appeared on either side of her as she came over to glare hatefully at him. "I knew you were up to no good! You're Saiyan after all and its common knowledge that your race can't be trusted and now I've caught you!"

"Keep it down Ayeka, you'll wake everyone up." Ranma whispered.

"I WILL NO KEEP MY VOICE DOWN YOU TRAITOR!!"

He raised and eyebrow and shook his head, why did things like this seem to follow him around like a stinky dog? "What are you talking about?"

"YOU WON'T GET AWAY WITH THIS!"

"Um...huh?"

"Asuka, Kamendaki, attack!"

"What?"

Twin beams of red and blue light lanced out of the colored crystals near the top edge of the large wooden guardians and caught the confused Ranma right in the chest. He was blown back wards by the blow and his shirt took most of the damage, then before he could get back up dozens of little logs appeared around him and started arching with electricity. "Crap!" Ranma muttered as they all focused on him and started burning holes in his clothing as she sat there trying to block the attack. It didn't really hurt him physically, but his clothes were a different matter.

"You won't get away with your evil plans now Saiyan, I've heard all the stories about your kind." Ayeka cackled.

Heaving a loud sigh, Ranma waved his hand sent a concussion of Ki charged air at Ayeka and blew her off her feet. "Cut it out, I haven't done anything to you or anyone one else." He said with obvious irritation.

Asuka and Kamendaki moved to protect Ayeka as they were ordered to do and fired another set of beams, but his time Ranma was expecting them and put up a shield of Ki and blocked them with ease. He briefly considered blowing them to splinters and letting the 'princess' clean up the mess, but he wanted to know why she was attacking him first. Turning back to her he took a blast of energy into his side and gritted his teeth in pain, he'd underestimated her. "Cut this out Ayeka, why in the world are you attacking me. I haven't done anything to you."

"Hah!"

Ranma threw his hands up in the air. "I do not believe this crap. I'm going to bed you can play around out here all you want."

"PERVERT!" Ayeka yelled and started firing blasts of energy at him again.

His hand flared with energy and blocked each blast of energy as it came at him, but this only proved to piss the princess off even more. Ranma was quite surprised when the blasts started to get stronger and stronger, though she had to take a second to gather the energy before she fired it now. He was forced to gather more energy as well to block her blasts, but other than that he didn't plan on causing her any harm. So far he hadn't figured out why she was attacking him, but figured she must have jumped to some strange conclusion and blamed him for something. Then he started to sense something at the edges of his awareness that didn't feel right.

"Pay attention to me while I kill you." Ayeka growled.

By this time Ayeka had woken up everyone in the house and they were standing out on the lawn trying to figure out why she was attacking him. Ranma ignored them as he looked around the property, there was something out there and he didn't like what he was sensing. He hadn't felt anything like this that fight with Majin Buu, that sucker had some of the evilest Ki he had ever encountered and in the end only Goku with the help of his friends had been able to stop that monster. What he was sensing was along the same lines and he didn't like it one bit, there were still things he had to master before he would be ready to fight at Buu's level of chaos. He didn't have time to play with Ayeka right now, if this was what he thought it was then he had to take it out before someone was hurt.

"Enough!" Ranma muttered as he shot forward and tapped several of Ayeka's shiatsu points to freeze her in place.

"Do you guys feel that?" Ranma asked out loud.

"What do you mean Ranma?" Tenchi and Ryoko asked.

"That aura of pure evil that seems to be everywhere."

"YOUR TALKING ABOUT YOURSELF!" Ayeka yelled as she tried to move.

Ranma turned to yell at her, but stopped when he saw the a bit of smoke wrapping around Ayeka. His senses were running at full power now and he could see all the bugs as they moved through the area, could smell everything around him, and one look at Ayeka was enough to tell him that he had been right. It seemed to hover over the girl as he watched, caressing her chin and whispering into her ear. Evil energy was wafting off Ayeka in droves as it moved about her, through her hair, down the front of her dress for a quick feel, and out the bottom of her robe.

"Ranma quit staring at Ayeka like she was a chocolate cake and tell us what is going on." Ryoko yelled.

"Can't any of you see it?" Ranma asked in confusion.

"See what Ranma? That Ayeka is pissed off at you for some reason?" Katsuhito asked and looked his half sister over.

"That evil smoke that is surrounding her..." Ranma muttered as he watched in fascination, he had to resist blowing the girl out of existence. He could feel that if he waited to long that there would be no way to save Ayeka from this thing. She was seemed to be possessed in some way. There was a barely perceived laughter in the air as several tendrils of smoke reach out to touch Asuka and Katsuhito. Ranma watched as their expressions changed almost instantly from confusion to anger, they drew out a pair of wooden handles that turned out to be energy swords of some kind and attacked him an instant later. He was on the defensive almost instantly, blocking one attack while dodging another. Both men were expert swords man and their blades seemed to grant them some kind of strange protection that he hadn't encountered yet.

"Stop it, I don't want to hurt any of you!"

"Die Saiyan, I will never let you taint our blood with your filth." Asuka hissed.

"You are not wanted here, leave and never return." Katsuhito growled.

It hurt, but Ranma understood that they were being manipulated by something evil. He would not let them be used like this, there had to be something he could do. "Don't make me hurt you." Ranma said and took a stance.

Ryoko suddenly started to writhe and growl, Tenchi and the other stepped away from her hastily and tried to figure out what was going on. She formed an energy blade, floated into the air, and down on him to join in the fight with Asuka and Katsuhito. Ranma started to power up, while on the defensive he could hold them off for a very long time. But it was beginning to look like he would be forced to fight back and he didn't want to, they were family. Then Ayeka broke out of her paralysis and charged in to help, he could see that the evil smoke was surrounding all of them and he was being pressed to defend himself from being attacked from so many angles.

His aura flared and Asuka and Katsuhito went flying back, crashing through the outside wall of the house. Ayeka and Ryoko screamed in anger and flared with more energy to attack him in unison, they were girls, so a part of Ranma always held back against them. Through out the whole thing he heard someone laughing at him and forcing the fight to continue, he racked his brain for some way to stop this. Then the girls got a little to close and he grabbed Ayeka by the arm and tossed her over his shoulder and into the lake. Ryoko, though female, was a fighter and had years of experience so he knew she could take a hit. In a blur he slammed her to the ground and tossed her right at Ayeka as she tried to swim back to shore. The cat like woman slammed into Ayeka butt first and squawked as they were both nearly drowned.

Focusing on the smoke like being, Ranma threw out a punch and let off a wave of Ki charged with happiness. He didn't use the old style attack with his emotions very often anymore, but every now and then they did come in handy. The smoke became visible to the rest of the family and they could hear it screaming in pain as they gaped at it. Ranma pressed his attack by firing a blast at it, but this time the smoke wasn't affected, instead it flowed around and took on the shape of a girl. By the time it was done forming Ranma wondered what the heck was going on. The girl stood up slowly, her long white hair seemed to go out in every direction and to move on his own. She had a light brown skin and cruel looking eyes, there were red glowing slashes above each eye and triangles below them. Her clothing nearly gave him a nose bleed, it was all black leather and silver bits, the halter top held her large breasts solidly, thigh high black boots with silver decorations, a black leather jacket with an evil grin on the back, fingerless gloves, and a cute little hat.

"Mortal, attacking me will be the last mistake you ever make."
She snarled and flared with evil energy.

Ranma stepped back as the evil aura hit him, it was even worse now that it was being directed at him. Control a sudden burst of fear he took a stace and smirked. "A cute girl like you shouldn't be playing with fire, you could hurt those tiny little hands of yours."

"I am the Demon Mara and you are one dead mortal." She snarled and built up a large amount of energy.

"Calm down little girl and lets talk about this." Ranma said.

"DIE!!" Black lightning fired out of her hands and slammed into the ground at Ranma's feet. It exploded upward and blew him through several nearby trees.

Everyone else dived for cover.

Smoking and with even more of his clothing destroyed, Ranma tossed a fallen tree off to the side and sat up to see Mara stalking towards him as more of that black lightning started to surge off her half naked body. It had been a very long time sine he'd been hit with something that strong and to his growing surprise did she didn't even look winded. Rolling to his feet she just grinned at him and held her hands out to fire off another blast of energy, this time it was a large ball of black energy. It reminded him of a Ki blast so he reacted in kind and fired off his own to block it. He had to gape in shock as his Ki blast went right through it and vanished as it left the other side and the black ball slammed into with the force of a truck.

He came to a rest after passing through several more trees and gasped in pain, this girl was something else. Pain, he hadn't felt anything like this since that practice fight with Vegeta had gotten out of hand and he had spend a week in the rejuvenator with every bone in his body broken. He grinned, one of the down sides he'd found while training with Goku and Vegeta was that once one reached a certain level of power nothing short of god like power could stop him and even if this girl was giving off an evil aura she was powerful. This was what he had been looking forward to for some time now, though he had hoped it would be more of a Rival than a some deranged evil woman.

"Heh."

Mara stopped a few feet away, there were downed trees and a groove in the dirt from where Ranma had landed. Hearing him laugh while several trees were on top of him was a bit of a surprise. She cocked her head to the side and charged up a bit of energy to finish the mortal off. Urd had taken an interest in this guy and anything Urd might have a hand in was something she had to stop. She had been manipulating things from behind the scenes for a few weeks now and everything had been going according to plan until she had tried to manipulate that Ayeka girl while out in the open. Who would have thought this mortal would be able to sense her while she was working? Trying to influence the rest of the family hadn't worked to well either because this guy had a heart of gold, her spells just bounced off him. His willpower was strong enough to keep her magic from taking hold and had gotten on her nerves. Then he had attacked her and given her a reason to end his life and take a direct hand in ruining Urd's plan.

"Quit laughing and let's finish this mortal." Mara snarled and fired the ball of energy into the pile of rubble over Ranma's body. The wood pile exploded around her with bits of wood and splinters bouncing off a force field, it felt good to let go like this, it was such a rare opportunity to just cut loose and kill someone. She waved a hand behind her just as Tenchi attacked her with the Tenchiken, picking him up, as he screamed in shock, and tossing him across the property and into the lake. Then she turned back to see Ranma landing on the ground nearby, his aura was flaring up higher and higher as she watched.

"Now you die." Mara said in a calm voice and smirked.

"Oh, I don't know, your strong I'll give you that and you made sure those two old men couldn't do stop you. Still, I am Saiyan now and that comes with some really cool abilities, some of which can stop you." Ranma said as he returned her smirk, his hair started to flicker between black and yellow at the edges and his aura started to buzz with power.

Mara just blinked and cringed a little as she read his rising power level. She hadn't encountered a Saiyan in a very long time and very few of them had been able to reach this level of power, the Legendary Super Saiyan was supposed to be the ultimate fighter for those could reach this stage. Ranma screamed as his aura turned yellow and his hair turned into a spiky mess of yellow, his eyes turned a pale green and his eyebrows turned yellow. Trees, splinters, rocks, and leaves were blown away as his power surged into the stratosphere and lit up the night.

"Now where were we?" Ranma asked, his voice had changed slightly and to Mara's surprise there were these slashes above and below his eyes*. She paled in shock and wondered if she might have just broken one of the cardinal rules.

"How do you warrant having those symbols on your face, you're mortal." Mara asked and backed up a bit.

"What symbols?" Ranma asked in surprise and pulled out a mirror to look at himself.

Mara facefaulted. "How could you not know?!"

"Like I've ever stood in front of a mirror and looked at my face while in this form, I had better things to do." Ranma snapped and put the mirror away.

Spitting out leaves, Mara stood up and made a decision. She smiled at Ranma, waved, and vanished in a burst of bad smelling smoke. "Bye!"

"Hey!" Ranma yelled and thumped a nearby tree, shattering it into little tiny pieces in his anger.

Reality suddenly flickered and Ranma developed a migraine all of a sudden, he'd just been doing something, but couldn't figure out what it was. He unconsciously powered down and headed back towards the house and tried to figure how why he was out in the forest in ripped up clothes. Behind him the destroyed forest sparkled and suddenly became perfectly normal and undamaged, from there it followed along behind Ranma as he walked, over took him and fixed his clothes, and changed everything in his path that had been damaged. From there the Ultumat Force altered memories and made the needed changes to set things right.

Up in the sky Urd hovered in the darkness, she looked a little singed in her form fitting negligee, with the stars flickering behind her and sagged in relief, that had come very close to really screwing up the the flow of time. She had her orders to follow and a fight between Ranma and Mara would have destroyed all of Japan and the rest of the world after that. They were just lucky Father had blasted her with a lightning bolt and told her to go and fix the little problem. This assignment got more and more complicated as the days went on and it didn't help that she had so many idiots, Sailor Pluto, trying to get in her way. She yawned and watched as the house fixed itself and everyone vanished. None of them would remember this happening in the morning.

There was only one last thing to do really, she pulled a flask of whisky from out of nowhere and chugged it in a few seconds. Belching loudly, she hovered over to the small isolated spot that Ranma had just recently planted his seeds and channeled a bit of power into them and the ground around them to speed things up, he would be needing them soon. Father had also told her to make sure the plants flourished only in this valley, orders were orders, so she did her job and teleported back to the little shrine that Belldanday was staying at with her boyfriend Keiichi.

"Easy as pie..." She slurred and teleported home, staggered down the hall, opened a door, and fell into bed.

Keiichi jerked awake as Urd crawled into bed with him and he started to sweat and shiver violently and though to himself. 'What did I do to deserve this kind of life?'

The smell of whisky filled the room and it was at this time that Keiichi noticed just what Urd was wearing.

"Help." He whispered.

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To Be Continued..

End Notes - Well I hope this lives up to what everyone was expecting for the second chapter, it's gone through some major rewrites and revisions since I started is a few months ago. Thanks to everybody at Delphi that gave me a hand when I hit a rough spot with this and had to ask for help. The next chapter will see Ranma heading to Nerima and meeting some of the Tendos while at Furinkan High. Low and behold, chapter 2 happens to be done too.



* This does not mean what you think it means. ^_^;;