Just a plan
Author: Poly
Authors note:
Ghost in the Machine: I think I'm going to do a little more reseurch for my
next fic.
Adyen: She has seen Sailer Saphire. We know how observent she is
though (P-chan)
Leeyiankun: I use Akane for comical relief in this story. I don't want to go
in to a discussion about who likes or dislikes Akane. There isn't even any
interaction between Ranma and Akane in this fic. (Except chapter 1). I
don't think it has any relevance here.
dogbertcarroll: Artemis is paranoid, Luna isn't. You can blame that on
Luna helping with the neko-ken. Rei just doesn't want to admit Usagi is
right.
Disclaimer:
What do you mean they're not mine! Are you sure?
PART XVI
Oh my!
"What about over there." Akane suggested.
Sakura shook her head. "I don't want to take down the other posters."
"We just move them." Akane said. "Take down the group shot and the
Sailor moon poster and put them over there." She pointed to the other
wall. "Then we should have enough room to put up the new Sailor
Sapphire poster."
Sakura nodded thoughtfully. "I think that might work. Let's try it."
It took both girls only a couple of minutes to remove the old posters and
hang them on the other wall. They unrolled the new poster carefully. It
was a really big one and would easily fill the space the other two had
occupied. They attached the double-sided tape and Akane climbed on a
chair to attach the poster to the wall. Sakura gave Akane directions if the
poster was hanging straight or not. When they were done they both stood
back with satisfied grins.
Akane looked at the poster and frowned a little. The poster was a drawing
of Sailor Sapphire in Anime style. It was the same as with most of the
other Sailor Senshi posters. Good quality photos of the real thing were
hard to come by after all. Something about the picture of this latest Scout
seemed to stir a memory. She just couldn't put her finger on it. Somehow,
in someway it made her mallet hand twitch.
* * *
Ranma groaned. This was starting to become a bad day. Picking up a
mystery guest that turned out to be Kasumi wasn't so bad. It was walking
into a fight between a monster and the Sailor Senshi that bugged him.
Ranma lightly grabbed Kasumi's arm and began leading her away from
the scene of the fight.
"Oh my." Kasumi exclaimed. "I never expected to see the Sailor Senshi in
real life. I wonder if I can get their autograph."
Ranma resisted the urge to face-fault. Kasumi just witnessed a brutal fight
and all she could think about was getting their autograph? He sighed and
pulled Kasumi further down the street while keeping a wary eye on the
ongoing fight. The Senshi seemed to be doing alright, though. If he was
lucky he wouldn't need to help.
The monster they were facing was one of the now common and
unidentifiably human shape variety. It seemed to consist of condensed
mist. Physical attacks didn't seem to phase it and, although magical
attacks were evaded most of the time, the five girls were wearing it down.
Ranma narrowed his eyes. If there was one thing he was good at, it was
tactical analyses in battle. A few things about his previous encounters with
those creatures clicked into place. The creatures he and the Senshi fought
seemed to adapt after every encounter. Because he had faced and
finished a number of them before the senshi could, the development
seemed mostly focused on him. He had to admit that the rock creature he
had faced in the park would have been tough without the help Ryoga had
provided. This mist creature would have probably been even harder for
him to face. He relied a great deal on his hand-to-hand abilities and those
would do him no good in a fight against this thing. Ki attacks would work,
but with the rate this thing was going, he would probably run his reserves
dry before finishing the job. No matter how good he was he didn't think he
could match the raw power the senshi had at there disposal.
He grinned when one of Sailor Mercury's attacks hit dead center and froze
the monster in place. That girl was smart. She figured out the monster's
weakness and used it. Now that the monster was a stationary target, the
others would be able to finish it off. He wondered if he could have used
the soul of ice technique to freeze the monster. Something to think about
later.
All five girls fired their attacks and blew the monster to dust. Ranma
grinned. He didn't have to do a thing and, although he wouldn't have
minded going up against the monster, there would have been no way he
could have done that without blowing his cover with Kasumi here.
Ranma looked to his side to see if she was alright. He blinked when she
wasn't there. Hadn't she been standing there a minute ago? He looked
around frantically until he noticed Kasumi had somehow managed to get
to the Senshi and was chatting with them while asking for their
autographs. He gnashed his teeth. He would have preferred to stay away
from the senshi in his normal form. From what he had seen from both
Minako and Makoto's boy crazy behavior, it wasn't safe around them in
anything else but his girl form. With a sigh of resignation, he approached
the girls as carefully as he could.
"Kasumi?" He tried to get her attention. "I think we should go now. Mom
is probably waiting."
Ranma grew increasingly uncomfortable when six pairs of eyes focused on
him.
"Yes, you two better go. He he." Sailor Moon laughed nervously. She
recognized Ranma's male form and knew Minako and Makoto's reputation.
She scratched the back of her head in embarrassment while still laughing
nervously.
"I can't agree more. He he." Ranma laughed nervously as well. He
scratched the base of his pigtail in embarrassment.
The group blinked hard upon seeing those closely identical gestures being
made between the two of them. Ranma took advantage of their
momentary distraction and grabbed one of Kasumi's arms and high tailed
it out of there.
"Oh my." Kasumi responded.
* * *
Five colored lights penetrated the inky darkness. The group just finished
watching the battle between the Sailor Senshi and there latest creation.
"It lasted relatively well." The blue light started the conversation. The
other four lights hummed in agreement.
"There was no sign of the unknown element though." The red light said.
"Perhaps we have focused our attention too much on this element." The
purple light responded. "We must not lose track of our original goal."
"I agree." The green light said. "We can not..." The green light went quiet
for a second. "I think someone's coming."
In a wink, all five lights disappeared.
After a couple of seconds, several creaks were heard. Suddenly, a stream
of light flooded the dark space.
"There it is." Earl the janitor grabbed the broom from the closet and
closed the door.
It was quiet for a moment and then the five lights appeared again.
"I thought you said nobody ever used this place!" The green light said
irritably.
The purple light flickered in embarrassment. "Nobody hardly does." He
tried to defend himself. "I was a little preoccupied lately to check. Let's
just forget about it and continue with our next move."
* * *
Ranma and Kasumi arrived at the apartment in good time. His mother
greeted them at the door. Soon Kasumi and Nodoka were chatting quietly.
After a few minutes of pleasantries, Ranma was already bored. It was
then that his mother turned to him.
"Ranma. Be a dear and run to the shop for me. I think we're all out of
sugar."
Ranma sighed. "Sure thing, mom. I won't be long."
"There is no need to hurry, dear. Take your time."
Ranma just shrugged and left the apartment. The moment the door of the
apartment closed, Nodoka turned towards Kasumi with a serious face.
"I wanted to ask you a few questions about Ranma now that he is gone
for the moment."
"Ah yes." Kasumi responded. "You mentioned something about that on the
phone. Something about a boyfriend?"
Nodoka nodded. "That was what I heard one of Ranma's new friends say.
I'm not sure if it is entirely true, but Ranma has been spending a lot of
time in girl form lately. Perhaps you could observe him while you are
visiting?" The older woman sighed sadly. "I'm afraid you might know
Ranma better than I do."
Kasumi gave her a sympathetic look. "I'm sure it's nothing serious. I do
know that Ranma allows 'herself' more freedom when in girl form. Ice
cream parfaits are a good example of that. You would never see male
Ranma eat them, but female Ranma, on the other hand, would."
Nodoka looked thoughtful. "Perhaps you are right. It's probably nothing to
worry about. Ranma's new friends don't know about his curse, after all."
Kasumi smiled. "It's nice to see Ranma make new friends. That reminds
me. I met those nice senshi girls on our way here. They look so cute in
those outfits." She sighed dreamily.
Nodoka's eyes went wide.
* * *
Ranma was walking down the street, one hand behind his head and the
other holding a bag of sugar. He lazily whistled a tune. His mother said
not to hurry so he could take his time. He strolled past a group of teenage
boys that were hanging around at the corner of the street when he heard
some of their conversation.
"Would you look at that." One of them said mockingly. He was holding a
magazine and pointing at a picture. "She doesn't even have the bow right.
Those costumes are stupid anyway."
"Yeah." One of the other punks said. "I bet they're not so tough. I could
beat them easily." He boasted.
The rest of the group laughed, although some of them somewhat
hesitantly.
The first boy, apparently the leader, shrugged and threw the magazine in
a nearby trashcan. "Let's go to the arcade." He said "I'm getting bored
here." The group started walking of.
Ranma waited until the group was gone before he took a look at the
magazine that was thrown into the trashcan. His eyebrow twitched. There
was a picture of Sailor Sapphire on one of the pages. It was now obvious
what those boys had been talking about. This really ticked Ranma of.
Those punks had the nerve to call his costume bad! He had worked hard
on that. If there was one thing Ranma couldn't stand it was injured pride.
And one of them even had the audacity to claim he could beat the senshi!
Ranma was now mad. "Stupid punks." He growled. "I'll show them." An
evil gleam appeared in his eyes. He would scare them so bad they would
go running to their mommies crying. Nothing permanent, of course. They
weren't martial artists after all. Just a good scare. He chuckled evilly.
Looking around, he went in search of a quick splash of water. A nearby
drinking fountain proved to be helpful. A quick trip into an abandoned ally
and a change of clothing was the next step. A couple of seconds later
Sailor Sapphire was roof hopping to the nearby arcade.
* * *
"Ohohohoho!" Pluto laughed evilly. She just couldn't contain it. Her captor
wasn't present at the moment anyway. She raised her hand and looked at
it. Small arches of electricity were shooting between her fingers. She
could feel the power lying behind it and ready to be released. The feeling
was incredible. It wasn't the power itself that generated this feeling, but
the hard work that went with gathering the power. It was a feeling of
accomplishment.
"Soon." She mumbled. "Very soon." She cackled evilly again.
When her captor returned she would start again. She estimated she
needed roughly two days to gather the remaining energy she needed. It
all depended on the amount of energy she could persuade him to use in
there little games. It was always satisfying to see one of his creations
withher and die, the energy added to her own reserves.
"Yes, my pretties. Come to me. Your energy will be mine!"
* * *
END PART XVI
Additional authors note:
Another chapter done. I hope you all enjoyed it. Next episode of "just a
plan". Has Pluto gone mad? What will Ranma, or should I say Sailor
Sapphire do when she reaches the arcade? And Kasumi might not be as
oblivious as we all think.
Author: Poly
Authors note:
Ghost in the Machine: I think I'm going to do a little more reseurch for my
next fic.
Adyen: She has seen Sailer Saphire. We know how observent she is
though (P-chan)
Leeyiankun: I use Akane for comical relief in this story. I don't want to go
in to a discussion about who likes or dislikes Akane. There isn't even any
interaction between Ranma and Akane in this fic. (Except chapter 1). I
don't think it has any relevance here.
dogbertcarroll: Artemis is paranoid, Luna isn't. You can blame that on
Luna helping with the neko-ken. Rei just doesn't want to admit Usagi is
right.
Disclaimer:
What do you mean they're not mine! Are you sure?
PART XVI
Oh my!
"What about over there." Akane suggested.
Sakura shook her head. "I don't want to take down the other posters."
"We just move them." Akane said. "Take down the group shot and the
Sailor moon poster and put them over there." She pointed to the other
wall. "Then we should have enough room to put up the new Sailor
Sapphire poster."
Sakura nodded thoughtfully. "I think that might work. Let's try it."
It took both girls only a couple of minutes to remove the old posters and
hang them on the other wall. They unrolled the new poster carefully. It
was a really big one and would easily fill the space the other two had
occupied. They attached the double-sided tape and Akane climbed on a
chair to attach the poster to the wall. Sakura gave Akane directions if the
poster was hanging straight or not. When they were done they both stood
back with satisfied grins.
Akane looked at the poster and frowned a little. The poster was a drawing
of Sailor Sapphire in Anime style. It was the same as with most of the
other Sailor Senshi posters. Good quality photos of the real thing were
hard to come by after all. Something about the picture of this latest Scout
seemed to stir a memory. She just couldn't put her finger on it. Somehow,
in someway it made her mallet hand twitch.
* * *
Ranma groaned. This was starting to become a bad day. Picking up a
mystery guest that turned out to be Kasumi wasn't so bad. It was walking
into a fight between a monster and the Sailor Senshi that bugged him.
Ranma lightly grabbed Kasumi's arm and began leading her away from
the scene of the fight.
"Oh my." Kasumi exclaimed. "I never expected to see the Sailor Senshi in
real life. I wonder if I can get their autograph."
Ranma resisted the urge to face-fault. Kasumi just witnessed a brutal fight
and all she could think about was getting their autograph? He sighed and
pulled Kasumi further down the street while keeping a wary eye on the
ongoing fight. The Senshi seemed to be doing alright, though. If he was
lucky he wouldn't need to help.
The monster they were facing was one of the now common and
unidentifiably human shape variety. It seemed to consist of condensed
mist. Physical attacks didn't seem to phase it and, although magical
attacks were evaded most of the time, the five girls were wearing it down.
Ranma narrowed his eyes. If there was one thing he was good at, it was
tactical analyses in battle. A few things about his previous encounters with
those creatures clicked into place. The creatures he and the Senshi fought
seemed to adapt after every encounter. Because he had faced and
finished a number of them before the senshi could, the development
seemed mostly focused on him. He had to admit that the rock creature he
had faced in the park would have been tough without the help Ryoga had
provided. This mist creature would have probably been even harder for
him to face. He relied a great deal on his hand-to-hand abilities and those
would do him no good in a fight against this thing. Ki attacks would work,
but with the rate this thing was going, he would probably run his reserves
dry before finishing the job. No matter how good he was he didn't think he
could match the raw power the senshi had at there disposal.
He grinned when one of Sailor Mercury's attacks hit dead center and froze
the monster in place. That girl was smart. She figured out the monster's
weakness and used it. Now that the monster was a stationary target, the
others would be able to finish it off. He wondered if he could have used
the soul of ice technique to freeze the monster. Something to think about
later.
All five girls fired their attacks and blew the monster to dust. Ranma
grinned. He didn't have to do a thing and, although he wouldn't have
minded going up against the monster, there would have been no way he
could have done that without blowing his cover with Kasumi here.
Ranma looked to his side to see if she was alright. He blinked when she
wasn't there. Hadn't she been standing there a minute ago? He looked
around frantically until he noticed Kasumi had somehow managed to get
to the Senshi and was chatting with them while asking for their
autographs. He gnashed his teeth. He would have preferred to stay away
from the senshi in his normal form. From what he had seen from both
Minako and Makoto's boy crazy behavior, it wasn't safe around them in
anything else but his girl form. With a sigh of resignation, he approached
the girls as carefully as he could.
"Kasumi?" He tried to get her attention. "I think we should go now. Mom
is probably waiting."
Ranma grew increasingly uncomfortable when six pairs of eyes focused on
him.
"Yes, you two better go. He he." Sailor Moon laughed nervously. She
recognized Ranma's male form and knew Minako and Makoto's reputation.
She scratched the back of her head in embarrassment while still laughing
nervously.
"I can't agree more. He he." Ranma laughed nervously as well. He
scratched the base of his pigtail in embarrassment.
The group blinked hard upon seeing those closely identical gestures being
made between the two of them. Ranma took advantage of their
momentary distraction and grabbed one of Kasumi's arms and high tailed
it out of there.
"Oh my." Kasumi responded.
* * *
Five colored lights penetrated the inky darkness. The group just finished
watching the battle between the Sailor Senshi and there latest creation.
"It lasted relatively well." The blue light started the conversation. The
other four lights hummed in agreement.
"There was no sign of the unknown element though." The red light said.
"Perhaps we have focused our attention too much on this element." The
purple light responded. "We must not lose track of our original goal."
"I agree." The green light said. "We can not..." The green light went quiet
for a second. "I think someone's coming."
In a wink, all five lights disappeared.
After a couple of seconds, several creaks were heard. Suddenly, a stream
of light flooded the dark space.
"There it is." Earl the janitor grabbed the broom from the closet and
closed the door.
It was quiet for a moment and then the five lights appeared again.
"I thought you said nobody ever used this place!" The green light said
irritably.
The purple light flickered in embarrassment. "Nobody hardly does." He
tried to defend himself. "I was a little preoccupied lately to check. Let's
just forget about it and continue with our next move."
* * *
Ranma and Kasumi arrived at the apartment in good time. His mother
greeted them at the door. Soon Kasumi and Nodoka were chatting quietly.
After a few minutes of pleasantries, Ranma was already bored. It was
then that his mother turned to him.
"Ranma. Be a dear and run to the shop for me. I think we're all out of
sugar."
Ranma sighed. "Sure thing, mom. I won't be long."
"There is no need to hurry, dear. Take your time."
Ranma just shrugged and left the apartment. The moment the door of the
apartment closed, Nodoka turned towards Kasumi with a serious face.
"I wanted to ask you a few questions about Ranma now that he is gone
for the moment."
"Ah yes." Kasumi responded. "You mentioned something about that on the
phone. Something about a boyfriend?"
Nodoka nodded. "That was what I heard one of Ranma's new friends say.
I'm not sure if it is entirely true, but Ranma has been spending a lot of
time in girl form lately. Perhaps you could observe him while you are
visiting?" The older woman sighed sadly. "I'm afraid you might know
Ranma better than I do."
Kasumi gave her a sympathetic look. "I'm sure it's nothing serious. I do
know that Ranma allows 'herself' more freedom when in girl form. Ice
cream parfaits are a good example of that. You would never see male
Ranma eat them, but female Ranma, on the other hand, would."
Nodoka looked thoughtful. "Perhaps you are right. It's probably nothing to
worry about. Ranma's new friends don't know about his curse, after all."
Kasumi smiled. "It's nice to see Ranma make new friends. That reminds
me. I met those nice senshi girls on our way here. They look so cute in
those outfits." She sighed dreamily.
Nodoka's eyes went wide.
* * *
Ranma was walking down the street, one hand behind his head and the
other holding a bag of sugar. He lazily whistled a tune. His mother said
not to hurry so he could take his time. He strolled past a group of teenage
boys that were hanging around at the corner of the street when he heard
some of their conversation.
"Would you look at that." One of them said mockingly. He was holding a
magazine and pointing at a picture. "She doesn't even have the bow right.
Those costumes are stupid anyway."
"Yeah." One of the other punks said. "I bet they're not so tough. I could
beat them easily." He boasted.
The rest of the group laughed, although some of them somewhat
hesitantly.
The first boy, apparently the leader, shrugged and threw the magazine in
a nearby trashcan. "Let's go to the arcade." He said "I'm getting bored
here." The group started walking of.
Ranma waited until the group was gone before he took a look at the
magazine that was thrown into the trashcan. His eyebrow twitched. There
was a picture of Sailor Sapphire on one of the pages. It was now obvious
what those boys had been talking about. This really ticked Ranma of.
Those punks had the nerve to call his costume bad! He had worked hard
on that. If there was one thing Ranma couldn't stand it was injured pride.
And one of them even had the audacity to claim he could beat the senshi!
Ranma was now mad. "Stupid punks." He growled. "I'll show them." An
evil gleam appeared in his eyes. He would scare them so bad they would
go running to their mommies crying. Nothing permanent, of course. They
weren't martial artists after all. Just a good scare. He chuckled evilly.
Looking around, he went in search of a quick splash of water. A nearby
drinking fountain proved to be helpful. A quick trip into an abandoned ally
and a change of clothing was the next step. A couple of seconds later
Sailor Sapphire was roof hopping to the nearby arcade.
* * *
"Ohohohoho!" Pluto laughed evilly. She just couldn't contain it. Her captor
wasn't present at the moment anyway. She raised her hand and looked at
it. Small arches of electricity were shooting between her fingers. She
could feel the power lying behind it and ready to be released. The feeling
was incredible. It wasn't the power itself that generated this feeling, but
the hard work that went with gathering the power. It was a feeling of
accomplishment.
"Soon." She mumbled. "Very soon." She cackled evilly again.
When her captor returned she would start again. She estimated she
needed roughly two days to gather the remaining energy she needed. It
all depended on the amount of energy she could persuade him to use in
there little games. It was always satisfying to see one of his creations
withher and die, the energy added to her own reserves.
"Yes, my pretties. Come to me. Your energy will be mine!"
* * *
END PART XVI
Additional authors note:
Another chapter done. I hope you all enjoyed it. Next episode of "just a
plan". Has Pluto gone mad? What will Ranma, or should I say Sailor
Sapphire do when she reaches the arcade? And Kasumi might not be as
oblivious as we all think.
