Matrix Ranma Style
Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma ½ or the Matrix. Sorry for the long update, does anybody care? (Looks around.) Really? I'm sorry man. Well here it is.
Chapter 5: New Job
(This is pointless, sending me out to find Akane.) Ranma was searching high and low for his fiancé.
An hour later, Ranma walked back home. (This is serious I can't find Akane anywhere! Where the hell did she go?! She certainly isn't here that's for sure.) Ranma was sulking. He entered the house. Soun and Genma were engaged in a game of shogi. Genma was digging into his bag of chips.
"Well?" They both asked at the same time.
"I couldn't find her."
"What?!!!" Soun screamed.
"I searched everywhere, I couldn't find her."
"Then you can't stay here until you do!!!!" Genma ran and grabbed Ranma and kicked him outside.
"What the?!" Ranma was furious. (Akane, why do you always need me to save you? Grrrr.) He continued his search again.
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(In order to free him, I must first study him and his habits. I need to take advantage of his weaknesses. I need information about him. Let's do a little reconnaissance shall we?) Suzaki walked along the sidewalk until he saw a boy hammering voodoo dolls into telephone poles.
"Are you Gosunkugi?" Gosunkugi jumped up at the sound of the voice and accidentally hammered his finger.
"Ahhh!" He waved his hand quickly up and down. "Oww, huh? Who are you?"
"You don't need to know."
"You're not going to kill me are you?" Gosunkugi asked nervously.
"No! I just need you to do something for me, I'll pay you for it."
"Really? What is it that you need?"
"I want you to take pictures of Ranma so I can discover his weaknesses, habits, and other things that I can take advantage of."
"Are you with Kuno?"
"What?"
"Uhh never mind. Hehe."
"When you have the photos, bring them here at this telephone pole where you uh, have your voodoo doll nailed to."
"O-o-okay."
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"How are you Mousse?" Akane greeted.
"I've been better. You know where we are? I was just sitting on a chair and suddenly I'm here."
"I don't know."
"Here." Akane and Mousse both turned around to see Tomoko and another girl.
"Tomoko!" Akane yelled.
"Saya!" Mousse yelled.
"Saya?" Akane inquired. She looked at Mousse.
"Uh she was the one that explained to me what was happening."
"Oh."
"Ahem," the girls both said in unison. We already know Tomoko, except she wore some sleek black leather clothes. Saya on the other hand was the driver from earlier, she wore the same clothes layout as Tomoko.
"What?" Akane and Mousse both turned at once.
"We'll here to show you the Matrix." Akane thought about it.
"Wouldn't be easier to just tell us about it?" she asked.
"Well I suppose that would be faster but where's the fun in that?" Tomoko commented. "Let's start off with the obvious, where the hell are we?"
"I don't know," Mousse and Akane both said at once. Saya stepped up.
"Well this place is called the Construct. You can do whatever you want in here. I mean ANYTHING you WANT." Saya winked at both of them. Akane only blinked though. (Huh?) Saya's attempt at subtlety had failed. "Whatever, this place you can get whatever you want and bring it to the Matrix. Kind of like a wishing zone ya know?" Akane's face brightened up a bit.
"Really?"
"Yeah!"
"Cool, example?" Mousse asked. Tomoko rubbed her chin.
"Hmmm, what do you want?"
"All I really want is just Shampoo but that's impossib-," a shampoo bottle appeared out of nowhere in Mousse's hand. "Huh?"
"You asked for shampoo right?" Akane saw this and laughed.
"Tomoko, he meant a girl named Shampoo," Akane added.
"Oh, well if you want a girl named Shampoo, ask Koji."
"What was that?" Mousse asked disappointed.
"Never mind, you'll meet him soon enough. He's really just a pervert though."
"Oh, okay, I guess you made your point about the Construct but what the hell is this Matrix?" Mousse said as he threw away the shampoo bottle.
"Well the Matrix is a computer generated world that you guys used to live in. When you live in this world, machines harvest your body heat for energy that makes the world go round," Saya explained.
"What?" Akane confusedly asked. Saya let out a sigh.
"Here." The white space disappeared to fields of human beings in red bubbles. Weird thing was, they were floating in the air.
"Whoa!"
"This is the real world. Billions of people sleeping in little tubs of red goo only to have their body heat used to power the machines."
"Why us? Why not just use animals or whatever?"
"I guess since we wiped out every species in the world when we blocked out the sun had something to do with it."
"What? Blocked out the sun?" Mousse interjected.
"Well yeah, take a look up." Tomoko pointed to the sky. The sky was dark, I mean really dark.
"Why did we do that?"
"Because we humans are borne with intelligence and stupidity. Come on, there have been many dumb moments in history right? We may be smart, but we'll also stupid. This was just a dumb mistake that made our entire population into slaves for a freak'n robot. Damn those retards."
"I guess you don't really think highly of the human race do you?" Akane asked.
"Well of course I do, just not the humans that messed up our world."
"Wow, this is all so much to take in. Besides that, where's this Koji?" Both Saya and Tomoko rolled their eyes.
"Jeez, you guys took this pretty well. I remember when I was first told this I was screaming like a maniac." Akane raised an eyebrow.
"I guess we should have expected this, crazier things have happened to us before."
"Wow, really?" Akane smiled. The field of humans disappeared to be replaced with white space again, except with a few couches.
"Yeah, I all started when me and Ranma first met…" Akane continued with the story. Mousse paid attention with interest as with Tomoko and Saya.
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(I GIVE UP!) Ranma was tired and returned back home. He was met with Genma and Soun.
"Well?!!" they both yelled.
"No." Both Genma and Soun lowered their shoulders. Soun looked beyond Ranma and into the rest of the city.
"Where are you Akane? Ranma! Did you look everywhere?!"
"Yes, I couldn't find her. I'll bet she'll come home later on. I need some sleep." Ranma yawned and walked into the house. Soun turned his attention to Genma.
"Should we send him out again?"
"Wha?" Genma mumbled with his mouth full of chips.
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"Well I do believe that Mousse has disappeared somewhere."
"Yes, I know that Grandmother but where Mousse?"
"I don't really know, I'll bet he's all alone and crying without you. He really is pathetic.
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"Hahahaha! Really? I can't believe he's scared of cats!" Tomoko and Saya were both laughing. Mousse did have a look of amusement on his face. (I guess Ranma isn't really as bad as I thought I was.)
Shin was looking at the image translators of the Construct. (There's more to this Ranma than I thought, I thought he was just some ultimate fighter that Suzaki's obsessed with. That reminds me, where is Suzaki?)
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Suzaki was sitting down in front of Koji.
"Uh Captain? I thought you said the Construct."
"Construct's busy right now, the nobodies are in it. I opted for the Matrix instead."
"But isn't that a little dangerous? I mean the agents you know."
"That's the point." Suzaki was sitting in a comfy recliner while Koji was tied to a cold steel chair with chains.
"What was that Captain?"
"You see, I'm going to leave you here for the agents to come and tear you up."
"Hehehe, isn't that a little extreme?" Koji replied nervously.
"Don't worry, it's not like I'm going to let them KILL you. I'll just let them BEAT you to a pulp."
"Come on Boss, it was just a little mistake."
"Little mistake?! What are you, an idiot?" Suzaki looked at his watch. "That should be enough time for now, I'm going now. If you need help, just yell alright?"
"Hehehe, um, s-s-sure." A sweat drop appeared on Koji's head.
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"I don't believe it! They kicked me outta the house until I come back with Akane! Stupid pop, ugh I hate this! Dammit Akane, where the hell are you?!" Ranma was seriously pissed as he was wandering the streets until he reached his favorite bridge. He saw somebody else there though. "Koji?!" Koji looked up and recognized Ranma.
"H-h-hey!!! It's you! Could you help me out of here?"
"Sure." Ranma broke the chains that kept Koji to the chair. Koji relaxed as he stretched out his muscles.
"I'm so relieved, good thing you came here when you did. Say, what are you doing out this late anyway?"
"Funny, I was about to ask you the same thing."
"Well-," a car pulled up next to them. "Aw crap!"
"What is this?" Koji had a sweat bead on his head. Three men came out of the car, all dressed in black suits and wearing sunglasses.
"Koji, I see you have a new acquaintance with you," one of the men asked.
"Y-y-yeah."
"Koji, who are these guys?" Ranma whispered.
"These guys are agents." Koji got on his knees and started to beg. "Please don't kill me! I-I don't even have a wife and kids yet!" The agents smiled. They are reached into their pockets for an object. Ranma spotted this and shifted into a ready stance.
Ha! Ranma versus the agents, what will happen? What is this new job Gosunkugi has to do? When will Genma stop eating chips? All will be answered in the next chapter, except for chips part. R&R!