Astral Minds
Disclaimer: Ranma ½ and
all related characters do not belong to me. None of the X-Men belong to me
either.
* *: Thoughts
Capital letters: Shouting
or loud noises
{ }: Author's own thoughts
_ _: Stressed words
[ ]: Chinese Language
: Psychic
Projections
Chapter 3
School Daze
A dark figure silhouetted
be the setting sun behind him outside of the huge room sized windows. He stared
at a large screen that had fluctuating charts all over it most of them going up
but one certain graph stood out above the rest. "Remarkable!" The man
said in a dark voice as he stared at the one chart that was continuously going
up wards and never fluctuating.
The man stood from his
large thrown like chair and walked over to another large machine with many computer
screens around it. He looked at the chart and examined it. "According to
this the boy is a telepath." He looked at the data for a few more seconds
and then clicked a small button on his large purple bucket like helmet that
adorned his head. "Quicksilver." He said, seemingly into thin air.
A voice on the other end
of the helmets communicator answers Magnetos call. "What is it
Father?" The younger voice asked. Magneto continued.
"How many people work
for the brotherhood in Juuban, Japan?" On the other end there was a rustle
of papers that ended as soon as it had started.
"There are no mutants
working for us in Japan." Quicksilver replied.
"Which of our
operatives live closest to the area?" The dark Mutant asked.
"More rustling
ensued. "Just one. In a district nearby called Nerima."
"Good." Magneto
said with a dark yet pleased voice. "Contact this person immediately and
have them find a way to get close to this new mutant."
"Yes Fa...."
Magneto shut the connection down. And walked towards the large window. He
stared at the sunset with a gleam in his eyes.
"A telepath would be
a perfect asset to the Brotherhood."
*************
(Saotome Residence)
Ranma, Marina, and Nodoka
sat at the dinner table with the x-men at the other end. Cyclops sat at the
front and the rest of the x-men sat scattered around behind him doing random
things. Cyclops took a sip of tea which Nodoka had prepared just before they
had come in.
"You were
saying?" Ranma asked. Cyclops set his cup down and sighed.
"As I was saying.
Magneto who is an evil mutant who lives in a place called the savage land is
more than likely to be coming after you because of your unnaturally high power
level. He and the brotherhood are quite dangerous mutants who are bent on having
Homo-superiors rule the earth over normal humans." He said.
Bobby Drake, otherwise
known as Iceman looked at Ranma with a frown. "Hey how come you don't just
read his mind and get all the information for yourself? I thought you were some
big telepath?" Ranma smiled.
"Well I'm sure that
Mariko, and my Mom here would like to know more about it." He said. Bobby
crossed his arms in front of him.
"So why didn't you
tell them?"
"Be quiet
Bobby." Storm said as she took a sip of her own cup of tea. "We don't
want to hear it. Not today." Bobby considered continuing trying to make
sense of the situation but dropped it in favor of just sulking. Beast sat down
in between Scott and Storm and looked over to Marina.
"So Marina? What is
your power?" Marina looked confused.
"Well I-I-I don't
know." She said. Hank looked at her questioningly.
"Well being that you
have such a snake like appearance perhaps your powers have something to do with
venom or some other snake like attribute." Hank continued to go on about
what her powers might be Marina just sat there under his stare with a blush on
her face, although you couldn't tell for sure through the scales. She wasn't
used to this much attention.
Scott continued his
conversation with Ranma. "Well Ranma how would...." Ranma cut him
off.
"No thanks Scott I
would not like to join the x-men. My martial arts and will keep me from harm
and I already can control my powers very well. Marina?" Marina blessed all
of the gods for the distraction that Ranma had given her. She was getting very
flustered at Hanks analysis.
"What? What is
it?" She asked having not been listening in on Ranma and Cyclops' exchange
of words.
Ranma repeated it for her.
"Scott wants to know if we wanted to join the x-men and move down to
America to join they're school for gifted youngsters. It's a place for young
mutants to learn more about their powers and how to better control them."
Ranma said. "I've already declined his offer just to let you know."
Marina thought about it.
She had missed communicating with other people and this school sounded like a
good place to do just that. However Ranma wasn't going, and he had promised her
to teach her martial arts. She had just been offered a place to stay at Mrs.
Saotome's house and now they wanted her to move all the way to America? She had
made her decision. "No thank you. I would like to stay here."
Cyclops nodded to the
people and motioned for the others to follow him. The other X-Men piled out the
door where they came across a drunk Genma who was currently stumbling into the
house. Ranma groaned as he watched his father trip over his own feet trying to
walk. *Oh _Great_!* He thought sarcastically. *The great _master_ of the
anything goes is here to Wow everyone with his _skill_.* The teenage psychic
rolled his eyes at the site.
Genma grabbed Hank with
one hand to steady himself and looked up at the mutant. With calculative eyes.
He looked at the rest of the X-Men who all wore clothes that matched, but the
images were distorted. Genma pointed at them with one shaky hand.
"Y-Y-Your all M-Mutantsh! He said as he backed up away from the team of
Homo-Superiors. He looked back in the house to see the snake girl sitting at
the table beside Ranma. The fat Martial Artist swung his arm around banging it
on the doorframe doing so pointing it at Marina as he stalked towards the
younger girl. "WHAT are you doin ere?" He asked with menace in his
voice.
Nodoka stood up and
confronted her husband. "GENMA!!" She yelled as the man in question
continued to walk in their direction. "What do you _think_ you're doing
coming in drunk like this. Especially while we have guests!?!" She yelled
Genma pushed past her and leaned on the table to get a better look at the
mutant girl.
"He took one look at
the clothes she wore and flipped. "THOSHE are NODOKA'S Clothes he yelled
as he reached forward to grab the front of her shirt. Ranma had seen enough. He
sent a bolt of telekinetic energy towards his father. It knocked him clear
across the room and he slammed into a wall. Breaking off a piece of it.
Cyclops moved to do
something about this current turn of events but Ranma stopped him. "You
might as well just go Scott. There's nothing to see here. He's perfectly
fine." With that he walked up the stairs to his room. Marina followed
behind and the two teenage mutants slammed the doors to their rooms once the
were inside.
Nodoka looked to the other
mutants and blushed. "I'm sorry about my husbands behavior he's got a
drinking problem and he doesn't like mutants much at all. You should
leave." Scott and the rest of the X-Men gave their understandings to the
woman and headed out towards the blackbird where they entered and soon took
off. Their destination New York.
Nodoka grabbed Genma and
dragged him upstairs to their room she pulled out a futon for the man from the
closet and set it on the floor of her room. She did not want to sleep in the
same bed with him tonight.
**************
(The Next Morning)
Ranma was sleeping
peacefully in the bed that he hadn't seen in ten whole years. He was more
comfortable than he had been in the longest time. After sleeping on the hard
ground for all the time he had been away, it was a _Very_ welcome change. He
was currently dreaming about food, friends and comfortable soft cushiony beds
with big fluffy pillows....
He felt something on his
shoulders and he awoke to see who was interrupting his blissful rest. his eyes
drew open to see His mother who was currently shaking his to get him awake.
"Ranma hurry up and
get out of bed. You'll be late!" It was too early for Ranma to use his
powers to see what she was talking about. He didn't care anyway he wanted
sleep!
The young martial artist
rolled over on his side away from his mother "Go, way...don,wanna."
He said as he pulled his sheets up over his shoulders. Nodoka frowned as she
watched her only son just sleep through the day.
"Honestly!" She
said as she put her hands on her hips. "He's just like his father."
With an exasperated sigh she headed to the bathroom. Shortly after running
water could be heard. She entered back into the room and got ready to hurl the
contents in the bucket she held at her son.
Ranma had already fallen
back asleep as soon as his mother left. "So sooooft." He mumbled in
his sleep as he nuzzled the pillow with his cheek, not unlike a cat. All of a
sudden Cold fluid covered his body and he felt a familiar change occur. A
change that he had gotten used to the past couple weeks.
"Wuh, Huh...WHAT
THE?" Nodoka giggled at her son..er..daughters spastic surprise. She put
her hand to her mouth and giggled at the site. She looked so cute like this.
Ranma groaned seeing what her mother held and figuring out exactly what had
happened. "Moooom!" She moaned as she took off her shirt and wrung it
out. "Why'd you do that?!" She asked fixing her mother a glare.
Nodoka frowned as her son
turned daughter took off her shirt so casually, baring her breasts without any
thought. "Ranma!!" She yelled giving the shorter red head girl a
glare of her own. Ranma paused looking up at her mother with a confused look.
"Uh what'd I
do?" She asked. Nodoka frowned more.
*To not even realize she's
doing it! I can't belive him!* She thought. "Ranma." She said a
little quieter but still just as stern. "I know you are a man but when you
are a girl you _should_ have at least a _little_ bit of feminine modesty!"
Ranma let the words soak into her head and looked down at her chest. Sure
enough she was female.
"Oh." Ranma said
as she grabbed a shirt from her nearby dresser and slipped it over her smaller
frame. The shirt was way to large for her tinier form and she almost literally
swam in the thing, being that it was made for Ranma's male half.
"Sorry." She continued as she blushed a little bit and shrugged.
Nodoka smiled. Ranma's
girl form was so cute. She looked so much more like her, it was uncanny.
Ranma's red hair was much like Nodoka's had been at a younger age. Her's had
however lost some of it's vibrancy with the years. Ranma went about getting
dressed and she went down stairs to prepare breakfast.
************
Marina woke up oddly she
knew in an instant that something was different. She sat up and noticed she was
on a bed. It was comfortable. She had been waking up in garbage every morning
for the last to years of her life. She was used to waking up every morning and
rooting around in the same garbage hoping to find something to eat.
She looked around the room
she was currently in. It was clean, it had flowers in lovely yet simple vases
set up around the room. She sighed as she let her head hit the pillow beneath
it. She hadn't had the pleasure of sleeping on a bed in a long time, let alone
such a large one with several pillows. She giggled as she rolled over and
played with one of the pillows.
She smelled one of the
pillows. It was fresh and clean, an experience she was more than willing to
have. She looked down at the clothes she was wearing and smiled even brighter
than before. She sat at the edge of the bed, pinching herself to see if it was
real or not. Her scales kept it from causing her any pain but she could feel
it.
She jumped up and met Mrs.
Saotome in the hall heading down to the kitchen to start breakfast for her
family. She smiled at the young mutant. "Good morning Marina. How did you
sleep?" Marina gave Nodoka the biggest and brightest smile she could
possibly give. She had to considering that the older woman was 100% human and
wasn't showing any menace on her features.
"I slept better than
ever before!" Marina exclaimed. As she walked with the Saotome Matriarch
down the stairs. Nearly skipping the whole way down.
Nodoka being ever the kind
host asked. "Say Marina? Would you like to help make breakfast? I always
wanted to have a daughter to teach how to cook." Marina's eyes sparkled
with pure joy.
"Really!?" She
asked. Fearing that it may not be real, that it may all be a hallucination.
Nodoka nodded. Marina squealed with delight. *A daughter.* The snake like girl
thought. *She thinks of me like a daughter already.*
Marina followed Nodoka to
the kitchen and they began preparing the meal.
*************
Genma woke up with a
terrible head ache. *Ooooh!* He thought while he tried to sit up on the futon
holding his head in pain with one hand. *What happened to me?* He couldn't
really remember what had happened last night. He looked around the room and
realized he was in his wife's bedroom. He stumbled towards the door on his way
down to the kitchen hopefully No-chan had some aspirin.
As he opened the door he
came across Ranma, who was currently going down to get breakfast. "Hey
_Pop_!" Ranma said. Genma held his head in agony. His, er, daughters voice
came through his mind like a bull horn.
"H-hello Ranma."
He said as he walked down stairs. Ranma looked at her father in disgust.
"Stupid old
drunk." She grinned evilly and, using telekinesis pulled the rug out from
under her fathers feet. Sending him crashing to the ground. Ranma stepped on
top of the overweight martial artist as he passed by and sat at the table.
"Gee Pop! You should watch where your going." She said as she sat
down at a random place at the table.
Genma growled. "RANMA
YOU RESPE.... Ite." Genma quikly learned that hangovers and yelling didn't
mix. He painfully dragged his body over to the table where he sat across from
Ranma. "Stupid boy." He muttered quietly to himself. "No respect
for your elders."
Ranma smiled at her Pop.
*Ha, ha! Serves you right fool.*
**********
Marina looked over at the
two martial artists at the table. More specifically she looked at Genma, in
fear. Nodoka noticed this and put her hand on the young mutant girls shoulder.
"Don't worry Rina-chan, I'm sure he'll warm up to you." She said with
a motherly smile.
This did little to comfort
the snake skinned Marina who could only smile weakly at the older woman.
"I better stay out of site until then." She replied. Walking back to
the steaming pot on the stove Marina continued to make breakfast. Nodoka
frowned.
*He better!* She thought.
************
Nodoka soon walked out to
the dining room where her family sat waiting. She carried the meal to the table
and set the many pots and pans of food out. Genma drooled at the sight of his
wife's home cooked meal. His headache now forgotten he dove into the food
shoveling it into his mouth. Ranma too attacked the food.
Genma and his heir quickly
began their martial arts dining. Each competitor taking every chance to steal
food from the other. Neither noticing Nodoka standing their with a disappointed
look on her face. "RANMA, GENMA!!" She yelled. Both of the Saotome
males stopped their battle to stare at Her. "_What_ do you think you're
_doing_?! Where's your table manners?!" She said fixing them both a glare
with her hands on her hips.
Ranma and Genma apologized
quickly and picked up their chopsticks. They began eating at a much slower and
civilized pace. This was about the time Genma noticed that Ranma was in his
cursed form. He looked to his wife in fear and then back at Ranma, then back to
Nodoka again. "No-chan. Ranma didn't happen to tell you about any curse by
chance did he?" He asked with sweat pouring down his face. Nodoka nodded.
"Oh you mean
Jusenkyo? Yes he told me all about your curses." She said as if it were
nothing. She promptly proved her point by pulling out a glass of water out of
nowhere and dumping it over her husbands head. Changing him into his Jusenkyo
cursed form.
Nodoka, this being her
first time seeing Genma's cursed side was a little jealous now. She thought
that Her husbands cursed form would be no different than he was. Fat, Lazy, and
not exactly the best looker. Instead Genma looked well, beautiful. She was
pretty enough to be a model she was sure. And his ponch was completely gone.
"Genma?" She
asked stunned. "You look, you look, _amazing_!" She proclaimed in
amazement. Genma wilted under her wife's gaze.
"Uh thank you?"
She said hoping that it was the right answer. But she was thinking something
along the lines of: *I'mdead I'mdead I'mdead I'mdead I'mdead I'mdead I'mdead
I'mdead I'mdead I'mdead* Genma continued eating her dinner at a slow pace. Not
feeling any anger emanating from Nodoka she felt brave enough to talk.
"Uhm this is a, uh, good breakfast Nodoka. It is a good change to have
such a nice home cooked meal.
Nodoka smiled. "Thank
you Genma _Chan_. Marina helped me cook it." She said with a smile. Genma
froze.
*Marina?* She thought. A
picture of a snake skinned mutant ran through her head. Genma proceeded to spit
out all of the food she was currently chewing on."PPPFFFHTTTT!! THAT
MUTANT IS STILL _HERE_!?!!!" She screamed. Nodoka frowned.
"GENMA! This is _MY_
house! If I choose Marina to stay here that is _MY_ choice!!" She yelled
back. Genma Bristled at her wife's statement.
"She's a MUTANT!!
No-chan how could you commune with a MUTANT!?!" Genma spat. Nodoka was
very upset now. How she could have married such a racist was beyond her.
Ranma sat in between her
parents watching the whole thing. She was getting upset. She thought that all
that would be over now that Marina was staying here with them. She decided to
but in and try to break up the tension. "Mom why don..." She never
finished.
"GO TO
SCHOOL!!!" Both Genma and Nodoka yelled at her. Ranma nearly wet her pants
at the double demon head attack. Just then she remembered.
"Where's the
school?" She asked. Nodoka pulled out a bento from seemingly nowhere and
tossed it to Ranma.
"You'll be going to
school in Nerima, at Furinkan high!" She said. Ranma wilted.
"HUH!?!" She
cleverly exclaimed. "NERIMA!?! That's a whole _district_ away!!" She
said. Almost unable to grasp the fact that she would have to travel so far to
get to school.
Nodoka frowned at her
daughter now. "Then you'll just get some good exercise running there! You
are a martial artist so it should not be a problem!" Ranma sighed and her
shoulders slumped.
"Fine!" She said
walking out the door with a downcast look. She didn't even realize that she was
a girl at the moment. No soon er had she left the house her parents continued
their argument. Ranma covered his ears as he jumped to the rooftops. *Oh I wish
they would just shut up!* She thought as she traveled full speed towards The
Nerima district.
Ranma knew the way
directly to Furinkan. Actually she knows her way all around Japan. She, when in
Male form had pretty much downloaded memories of places from all peoples minds
so that he would never get lost so he knew his way all around Japan by heart,
unlike a certain lost boy that were all familiar with. So Ranma was able to
find Furinkan no problem at all.
Being on time was the
tricky part though.
************
Ranma was breathing
heavily she had to run at full speed _with_ chi boosting. She had gotten to
school but there was only about two minutes before the bell rang. He ran
through the gates with the wooden plaque beside it with the words 'Furinkan
high' engraved in it. Ranma decided to walk the rest of the way. She was
however stopped by a boy wearing samurai clothing. "Hold fair
maiden!" The boy had called.
Ranma looked over at the
guy in annoyance and down at herself in disgust. *Oh great!* She thought. *I
forgot I'm a girl right now!* "What yah want? I'm late enough as it
is."
Kuno held out a rose that
he pulled from his uniform. "Alas, that I be granted with the presence of
a fair flower such as yourself. The gods must truly shine on me. Tell me fire
haired goddess. What be thy name?" Ranma urpressed the urge to beat this
guy to a pulp or send him to the moon.
"My name is
Ran..." The boy cut her off.
"Wait! Is it not
proper to give ones own name first?" He said. "Very well than. Mine I
will give." Ranma shook her head.
"Is this guy for real?"
She muttered to herself. Kuno rambled on.
"I am the champion of
the high school fencing world the speeding bullet of Furinkan High Kuno tate...
Where are though going?" Ranma ran past the guy seeing that she now only
had about one minute to get to class.
*Man!* She thought. *I
haven't even gotten my schedule from the office and I got idiots rambling about
bullets and flowers! I do _not_ need this!* Tatewaki Kuno ran to intercept her.
Ranma however did not want to be intercepted and she booted him away and into a
tree. Using her telekinesis to make the impact much more
forceful"Loser!" She called back as she entered the building.
************
Later Ranma wandered the
halls looking for her class room. "Lessee. 12-b, 13-b, 1-E. Ah that's the
one!" Ranma entered the classroom. And all eyes there were on her. The
teacher who was an old guy looked over at the interruption of his class.
"Eh who are you? What
do you want I've got a class to teach." Ranma walked up to the man and
gave him a slip of paper. He looked at it for a second squinting his eyes to
see it better. "Oh I see! Well little girl," Ranma's eye twitched.
"I'll just introduce you to the class and then you can take your
seat."
Ranma faced the class and
the teacher began his introduction. "Well class it seems we have a new
student in our midst. Her name is Ranma Saotome." Ranma bowed to the
class. "You can go take your seat now Ranma." The old man said and
Ranma went to an empty desk in the back. A girl with long black hair with blue
highlights looked back at the boy turned girl and offered a hand.
"Hi. I'm Akane
Tendo." Ranma took her hand and shook it.
"Uh Ranma
Saotome." Ranma said. They let go and Akane turned back.
"I'm just glad you
aren't a _boy_. We've got enough of them perverts as it is." Ranma
twitched at the statement the girl made.
"Well class. It's
time for the test." Everybody groaned seeing as this was math class.
"Everybody take a paper and pass the rest on." The teacher continued
to explain the rules for writing a test but no one listened.
Aknae being ever the
talkative one turned back to the new student. "To bad you had to come in
right on a test. Sensei Kuromoto always gives the hardest tests." Ranma
shrugged.
"It can't be that
hard." She said. Akane turned back.
"Don't say I didn't
warn you." She said as she began to write her test that had been passed to
her. Ranma received her test right after Akane had handed it to her. She looked
over it and shrugged.
*This doesn't look to
hard.* She thought. *Hell, compared to all those mathematicians minds I've read
this should be a walk through the park.* Ranma tapped Akane on the shoulder and
motioned that she needed something to write with Akane dug through her pencil
case and gave him a pencil. Ranma nodded his thanks and began to write the
test.
(Lunch)
Ranma walked out side and
looked around for a place to sit to eat her lunch. She spotted a nice, large,
shaded tree over in the middle of the court yard. She walked over and sat down
where she opened up the bento and began eating. She felt a presence behind her
and looked around to see Akane who was planning on sneaking up to surprise her.
Akane had two other girls with her.
"Hi" She said
with a little wave. Ranma nodded to her in greeting as well.
"Hey"
"Is it all right if
we eat with you Ranma? This is Yuka," Akane indicated the one girl beside
her who smiled and waved at Ranma, "and Sayuri." She said motioning
to the other girl beside her. Ranma gave each of the new girl a small wave and
quickly returned her attention to her lunch.
The girls didn't wait for
Ranma to give her permission and they sat down around her in a small circle.
The girls began talking But Ranma was only interested in the food. She wasn't
into all that girl stuff. Hell! Considering she's not really a girl it's
understandable. "So Ranma." Yuka said. "Where do you live?"
Ranma shrugged.
"Juuban." She
continued eating her lunch despite the disbelieving stares coming from the
three girls.
"You're kidding.
Right?" Asked Sayuri with a joking tone. Ranma shook her head.
"Naw! My mom said
that it would be good exercise for a martial artist like me to get a good long
run in the morning." Ranma said with a cocky smirk.
"You had to
_run_!?!" Inquired Sayuri and Yuka simultaneously.
"Martial Arts?"
Akane asked not following with her friends. "You do martial arts?"
Ranma shrugged "Yeah.
So? I've been training all my life." Akane's smile grew wider.
"Do you want to spar
sometime?" She asked enthusiastically. Ranma shook her head. Akane's smile
quickly turned into a frown. "What! Why Not!?"
Ranma picked a rice ball
from her lunch and popped it in her mouth. "I don't hit girls."
Akane, Yuka, and Sayuri blinked. She didn't hit girls?
Before Akane could
continue the argument there was a large booming sound accompanied by the ground
shaking, as if there was an Earthquake. Akane and her friends fell to the
ground. Ranma shot to his feet to see what was going on. In the center of the
school yard there was a large Fat guy.
Ranma blinked in confusion.
*Boy I wish I had my psychic powers right now. Cause fat guys falling from the
sky is awfully strange.* She thought as she looked at the large tub of lard. He
was soon accompanied by a man with silvery white hair. He was dressed in a
green spandex suit, and seemed to appear out of nowhere. A frog-like guy with
curly black hair dropped down to the ground. Ranma looked to the air where she
saw A man in a purple and black cape who descended from the sky with him was a
girl in a red uniform. Each of the mutants wore matching black helmets.
*Shit!* Ranma thought.
*This must be the Brotherhood Cyclops was talking about!* She dropped into a
fighting stance on instinct.
"W-What the _hell is
going on!?" Akane shouted. Ranma just held out his hand to her.
"Just stay out of my
way Akane! I can handle these guys." Akane frowned.
"I can take care of
these stupid mutants!" She called. "I'm not defenseless!" Ranma
frowned. She was about to retaliate with the girls comments, but Magneto chose
that time to speak.
"Where is Saotome
Ranma!" He asked in a threatening and commanding voice. Ranma wistled to
the mutant leader of the brotherhood.
"Yo! BUCKET-HEAD! I'm
Ranma!" She called out to him. "What do ya want!?!" Magneto
turned towards the boy turned girl. He stalked towards her, his long purple
cape sending menacing shadows that shaded his features and made him look more
sinister.
"I was informed that
you were male. Saotome Ranma. It seems my sources have failed to state the
obvious." He said in an almost amused voice. "I have come to give you
an offer."
"_Can it_!"
Ranma said. I already know of you and your mutant underground. And I don't want
_No_ part of it!" Magneto nodded in understanding.
"I see.!" He
said. "So reasoning will not join you to our side. I will have to stoop to
more _extreme_ ways of persuasion." He said as he powered up his magnetic
energies for an attack.
Ranma grimaced as she
dodged out of the way of the magnetic force blast. *DAMN IT! This is going to
be a lot harder without my psychic powers!*
She jumped far back to get
more fighting space. She sized up generally what each mutant's power was and
what was the extent of her power. Ranma nodded. And was about to rush forward
in an attack against the frog boy and the guy in green tights when the guy in
green tights who Ranma guessed was quicksilver all of a sudden dissapeared or
rather moved to fast for the eye to see. Quicksilver was upon Ranma in an
instant sending a flurry of punches that only Ranma was able to follow.
Quicksilver had planned on
quickly ending the fight by knocking the girl out with a lightning fast barrage
of punches. To his surprise Ranma blocked every blow. And he retaliated just as
fast knocking quicksilver across the schoolyard knocking him out. *Impossible!*
Was his last thought as he landed at Magneto's feet.
Ranma took a general
anything goes stance and motioned for the others to bring it on in.
**********
(Off in the shadows beyond
the school walls.)
*[This is impossible! That
boy knows about the chestnut fist! That is a secret technique of our tribe that
is forbidden to outsiders knowledge. How could this girl know of this?]*
Shampoo thought as she stared at the smaller redhead girl who was fighting the
strangely dressed foreigners with the strange powers and appearances. *[I must
inform great-grandmother of this.]*
The young amazonian
fighter stalked off to her small hotel room. Where she would find a telephone
to contact her village.
************
(In the Furinkan
schoolyard.)
Ranma dodged another Hex
blast from the Scarlet Witch. She also had to evade the earthshaking blows from
the ever unmovable Blob, the agile Toad leapt from the walls and trees in the
schoolyard, and she was under constant barrage from Magneto and his mass
powers.
The young telekinetic
martial artist dodged one of toads kicks and sent the frog boy to the wall of
the school with her telekinesis. Toad smashed into the brick wall knocking him
unconscious, He fell to the ground and was no longer a threat to Ranma.
Ranma now had three
opponents to take care of. Ranma formed his Astral katana and leapt towards the
Blob. Getting ready to strike at the incredibly fat mans head. She was stopped
however by Magneto who snatched the girl out of the air with his Magnetic
powers. Ranma struggled but it was no use.
"Looks like you win
Magneto." She spat. "I guess that now you'll take me to your supposed
Mutant utopia and brainwash me huh?" Magneto shook his head and hovered up
to the boy turned girl eye to eye.
"Young mutant. I only
ask that you join us. It is not our want to destroy humanity but to show them
the errors of their mutant hating ways. We are not freaks you and I but rather
the next level of mans evolution." Ranma would have knocked the guy flat
on his ass were it not that she was at his mercy.
"Save it Bucket-head!
I told you that I won't be joining your little group of human haters. I am a
part of humanity and damn proud of it so you can take your offer and shove it
up your..."
Magneto cut her off and
continued. "I will not give up on you Ranma Saotome. I need somebody of
your particular skills. It would make my world vision a much simpler task to
accomplish." He said in a calm cool voice that belayed his emotions. Ranma
however could see the mans raw hatred for the human race in his eyes as clearly
as day.
"You know what?"
Ranma asked the man. "You sound a lot like Hitler." Ranma continued.
"Yeah according to my sources(reading peoples minds) Hitler thought that
his Aryan race was the next Evolution of man. Yeah he said that that was his
world vision. Just like you." Magneto was visibly getting angrier.
"Don't talk to me in
such terms girl. _I_ am the master of magnetism. The humans are afraid of the
power we possess so they wish to destroy us! We must act first! We can not
allow them to systematically destroy us! Join the Brotherhood and you will
_see_!" Ranma powered up his telekinesis and let loose a telekinetic force
blast, breaking the magnetic barrier around herself.
She kept a telekinetic
field up so that he couldn't do it again. She stepped back and took a martial
arts stance. Magneto looked down at the girl with understanding. "Well
young one you will see the error of your ways. I see you will not come with us
without a fight. Very well then, we shall take our leave." Magneto called
out to the remainder of the brotherhood that was still standing and he used his
Magnetic powers to carry the ones that had been knocked unconscious.
The man took off into the
distance and soon the brotherhood was gone. It was about that time that the
school bell rang. Ranma casually walked into the school as if nothing had
happened. The Furinkan gossipers were buzzing around the school for the rest of
the day about the mutants and of course, the new kid.
************
(Tendo Dojo later that
day.)
Kasumi answered the phone
and called into the receiver with the ever pleasant tone that was often
melodious in it's serenity. "Hello? Tendo residence." Her smile
faltered into a serious tone. "Yes? Alright then. When should I...? Yes.
Okay I'll try. Bye." She finished off in her beautiful caring voice again
and hung up the phone.
In the distance off into
the house Soun Tendo sat looking out into the backyard at the koi pond.
"Who was it Kasumi? He called out to his daughter. The eldest of the three
Tendo girls smiled pleasantly. {like she ca smile anyway else?} "It was no
one father. Just a pesky salesman. Soun nodded. He had secretely hoped that it
would be his good old friend Genma.
Soun had gotten a letter
in the mail a few days ago saying that Genma was bringing Ranma from china
where he had at long last finished the boys training in the art. Soun sighed.
He sighed heavily. *where are you Genma?* He thught gloomily. *You should have
been here by now.* Soun sunk deeper and deeper into his depressive funk. When
the phone rang again. We waved it off choosing to ignore the ringing to sit and
moon over his problems. "Could you get that Kasumi?" He called out
into the practically empty house.
"Okay father."
Came the sweet reply as Kasumi walked over to pick up the phone to answer.
"Moshi Moshi?" She stood there holding the receiver to her ear and
just listened for a few seconds before covering the mouthpiece with one hand
and calling out Soun. "Father? There's a call for you. Somebody named
Genma Saotome. Do you know...?" Soun was at the phone before she could
finish tearing the receiver from her hands.
"Hello? Hello? Genma?
Oh how good it is to hear your voice! I've been so worried! Where's Ranma? Why
haven't you brought him over like you said?!" Soun looked angry again but
his expression quickly changed as he listed to the other end. "Oh Nodoka.
Never mind then old friend, all is forgiven."
Soun nodded a couple times
as he listened to the man on the other end talk for a bit. "Right then so
dinner at your place tomorrow? Well be there."
***********
{Well that's the third
chapter of Astral minds. The battle with the Brotherhood has ensued and
promises future trouble. And what are Soun and Genma up to? (Do you need to
ask?) And what was that mysterious phone call that Kasumi received? This
stories coming along very well and I'd like to thank several of my readers for
giving me their ideas. They certainly contributed much to bring you this next
chapter. This story is far from over though.
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