A Ranma ½ Get Backers crossover fanfiction
Disclaimer: I don't own Ranma ½ and Get Backers, although I dream about it every other day, especially a certain someone who wants nothing more but to find out his own limitations in battle, ah, sweet bloody sword.
The story of a world headed towards destruction
It's not all that scary when I'm with you…
A Life Renewed
By Insane Blight
Chance Encounters
A woman was walking through the streets of Shinjuku. She has blonde hair that reaches her legs and she has golden eyes. She's wearing a casual business suit and is carrying a small suitcase. She stopped in front of a medium-sized house, knocked a couple of times but there was no answer. Her eyebrows started to twitch and she was about to kick the door open when she noticed that it was already open.
She quietly entered the house, the blonde glanced around the first floor before going upstairs and onto the bedroom. The blonde sighed as she caught sight of a familiar pigtailed boy that was sprawled on the bed. She sat beside the sleeping boy and softly poked his side.
"Ran-kun? Hey, wake up." she whispered to his ear.
"Mmnnn…? Go away old ghoul… I don't want any…" Ranma mumbled out.
The blonde glared at the pigtailed boy. "Ran-kun! Wake up sleepy head! If you don't wake up right now I won't give you a job for a month!" she yelled into Ranma's ear.
THAT worked better than the woman hoped, Ranma was up on his feet in an instant. "A job, a job… wha?! Hevn? How the heck did you get in here?!" he asked in surprise.
Hevn smacked him on the head. "You left the front door open stupid."
Ranma got into Hevn's face. "Be that as it may, you shouldn't sneak up on me like that! You know what I do in those kinds of situations! For all I know, you could've been blasted onto the next town!"
The blonde sighed. "I know… I'm sorry okay? Anyway, I have a job for you… a big one."
The pigtailed boy raised an eyebrow at that. "Big money for me or for you? You tricked me last time around, I only had a tenth of what you received for that mission!"
Hevn sweated, she forgot that Ranma has a way of knowing about these sort of things. "Errr… okay so I slipped up about that one but I promise you that you'll receive more than I do in this one… honest!" she said while reverting to the puppy-dog routine.
Ranma reluctantly agreed to it. "Sigh… so what's the mission this time? A transporter job? Recon? What?" he asked.
"Infiltration…"
The pigtailed boy's demeanor turned serious. "What's the target?"
Hevn opened her suitcase and pulled out a large document file and a folder of pictures. "A computer disc containing valuable business information was stolen a few days ago. The client wants to have it back as soon as possible before the culprits get any chance to fully use it against his company."
Ranma began reading the document as Hevn gave him the specifics on the mission. He then opened the folder and glanced at the pictures in it. One was a map of the building, the rest of the pictures were the photographs of those who were supposedly responsible for the theft. He glanced at the pictures one more time before turning towards Hevn.
"Is this it? Why not assign this to the Get Backers? This is their line of work as well… getting back the disk, I mean."
The golden-eyed girl sat comfortably on a chair. "Ban-kun and Gin-chan can do the job but the client specifically asked for your services, he has heard a lot of great things about the so-called 'shadow mercenary' of Shinjuku even though you refuse to meet your clients in person. Anyway, you have a lot more experience than those two in stealth missions so I also felt it was right to give this job to you."
The pigtailed boy thought about it for a minute before nodding. "Fine, I'll take it. Just normal infiltration right? Ah, well… at least I'll have something to do for a few days."
Hevn smiled, she was about to leave when she remembered something. "Oh! I almost forgot, even though the client highly praises you and your accomplishments he is still a bit weary of you. That's why he hired another one for this mission, the two of you shall work together with you as the infiltrator while the other one shall be the transporter."
Ranma bit his lower lip. "Damn… I work better alone but I guess I have no say in the matter. What's my 'partner's' name?" he asked, although he has this sinking feeling in his stomach…
The blonde shrugged. "I dunno, the client never mentioned it. He said that the two of you shall meet at the southern warehouse tomorrow midnight. That place will be your starting point for the mission."
'Yup, I knew she'd say that…' "Gee, would it hurt to just ask? I have no idea who this guy is! Heck! For all I know he could be in on the whole thing!" he screamed at the blonde.
"Well… it's too late for that now, I'll call you as soon as I find some info on this guy alright?" she said, trying to assure the pigtailed boy, and failing miserably.
Hevn left the house after that while Ranma stood at the middle of his room. He then went into the bathroom and stared at himself through the mirror. 'Well… time to go to work.'
He got dressed in a light blue Chinese clothes with the sleeves rolled up and his usual baggy black pants and Chinese shoes. He glanced at the broken pendant on his desk before leaving the room.
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Inside a room in a classy Shinjuku Hotel, Hevn got out of the shower with a sigh. "Whew, that was refreshing. Hmm… Ran-kun certainly was moody today, I've known him for well over four months and I still have no idea what's really under that mask of his."
She poured a glass of wine for herself before she sat down on the sofa. 'Our first meeting wasn't exactly in the best of terms… it brought back a lot of memories from my past with… him…'
===Flashback===
Hevn was on her way to meet a new client, her job as a mediator was fairly easy compared to what the retrieval team goes through in their missions so she really doesn't have anything to complain about. This was an exception though, the meeting place isn't exactly her cup of tea. It was somewhere deep in the slums of Shinjuku so she has every reason to be nervous.
"Miss Hevn right?"
She jerked when someone grabbed her shoulder from behind. She turned around and saw a fairly tall man, his face was being covered by a black scarf.
"Are you the client?" she hesitantly asked.
The man nodded. "Yes I am. I have a job for your Get Backers, I hope that they will do this one right."
The two talked about the specifics of the mission for a few minutes before the man decided to take his leave. Hevn just shrugged and thought that Ban and Ginji can take care of this one with little to no problem. She was almost out of the slums when her path was suddenly blocked by five men that were grinning from ear to ear.
"Hey girl, want to have some fun?"
Hevn told them off and proceeded to walk right past them but her eyes widened when her arms were suddenly gripped rather tightly and she found herself facing a brick wall.
"Let me go! Help!" she screamed.
One of the men laughed. "It's useless, there's no one here to help you unless you count that kid over there, haha!"
The blonde turned to her side and true enough, there was somebody there. He was curled up on the floor, his chinese clothes were torn and bloody, his body was covered in cuts and bruises and his eyes showed no signs of life. Despite knowing that it was useless, she still cried out for help. The men started to advance towards her and she was about to resign to her fate…
"Help… please…" she implored one more time.
"I told you it's useless girlie, now be a good girl and do as you're told and maybe we'll let you live."
The blonde raised her head and spat on the man's face. "Like hell scumbag! Let me go!"
The man's face was filled with anger, he leaned back and was about to slap the woman when he found himself on the receiving end of an uppercut. The other men stared at their fallen friend while Hevn resisted the urge to cry out in joy, she was saved! Hevn looked for her savior and blinked at what she saw. 'The boy from earlier?'
The boy was standing a few feet from the man he knocked out, his eyes were showing some small signs of life. The rest of the men got out of their daze and began to glare at the boy.
"You little punk! Get him!!!"
The bruised and wounded boy met them head on, he delivered a flying kick to the first thug he reached. He used that thug to catapult himself onto the next one and performed a spinning kick to the second thug's head, knocking a few teeth loose in the process. The third one was stunned for a minute before he gathered enough wits to resume his attack. The boy ducked the oncoming punch as he planted his feet on the floor, he punched the thug's chest with more than enough force that sent shockwaves to the wall behind the thug.
Hevn couldn't believe her eyes at what she was witnessing, she sat down hard on the floor. 'Wow! He's really something, I wonder where he learned to fight like that?'
The fourth one got a steel pipe from a corner, he charged the wounded boy as he swung the steel pipe. His eyes widened when the boy blocked it with his left arm, from the looks of it, the arm seemed to have been broken by the impact but the boy didn't seemed to be fazed by the attack at all. Said boy grabbed the bent pipe with his good arm and he swung at the man causing him to be knocked out with his neck in an awkward position.
The boy looked at the awestruck woman before offering his hand to her. Hevn nodded and stood from where she was at and dusted herself off. Hevn noticed the boy was about to leave so she decided to speak up.
"Um… thanks for the help, I really appreciate it."
The wounded boy nodded slightly before he started to walk away once more. The blonde was about to go after him when she found herself being held at gun point.
"Hey kid, don't think you'll get away that easy! Make one wrong move and she gets it!"
A vacuum blade was the boy's response, it sliced the gun in two and scared the man silly. The wounded boy ran towards the frightened man and delivered a high knee strike to the man's face. He then grabbed the man's head and slammed it to the ground.
Hevn's sigh of relief was short lived when another one got up and pointed another gun at her from a distance, she then found herself knocked to the side as the gun went off. Her eyes widened as a memory hit her.
"Hevn, you should get out of here!"
"Eiji!!!"
She was snapped back into reality when she saw the boy knelt down in pain. His already injured left arm was shot and so was his right leg. The thug approached the two and pointed his gun to the boy's head, Hevn gaped in awe as a greenish glow surrounded the boy.
"Shi… Shi… Hokodan…" he mumbled. Hevn could've sworn that she saw tears fall from the boy's face as he said that out loud.
A wave of ki blew the man away, sending him flying to kami-sama knows where. The boy looked at Hevn before he lost consciousness due to blood loss.
===End Flashback===
Hevn sighed. "He was quiet for some time after that incident. All he ever said was that his name is Ranma, that's it. The doctors said that he will be fine physically in a few weeks but emotionally is another matter. I wonder what happened to him to have that look the first time I saw him? Sigh… I'm still wondering why he accepted this line of work so easily."
She finished her glass of wine before she decided to go look for some information regarding this transporter that the client hired. 'Maybe I can ask Paul about this one.'
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At a somewhat small café named Honky Tonk, a man was sitting on the counter while reading today's newspaper. He was probably in his thirties, has dark-orange hair and his eyes were being covered by his round sunglasses. The man heard the front door open, he turned his head slightly to see who entered the café, he smiled as he recognized the person.
"If you're looking for those two idiots, they haven't returned yet. I think that those two are becoming really desperate in making money and you know how those two will react if they catch you here." He said with a laugh.
The blonde smiled. "Actually, I don't have a job for them yet Paul so I would prefer to not bump into them today. I have a favor to ask of you." she requested.
Paul's eyebrow shot up. "Oh?"
"I want to find out about the person that my client hired. His job for the mission is a transporter, my best retrieval agent is a little cautious about this mission if you could believe that." she explained.
Paul chuckled a bit. "It's rather unusual for the Ranma we know to act like that. I thought for sure that he will accept any job no matter what the conditions are. If I didn't know better, I'd say that he doesn't care whether he survives the mission or not."
Hevn was a little crestfallen at that statement. "Yes, that's what I thought so too…"
Silence ensued inside the café, remembering the time when Hevn brought the wounded teen right here at the café. A little while later, Paul motioned for Hevn to follow him upstairs to his computer. Hevn was still amazed at the large amount of information the man in front of her has.
"Let's see… ah! Here it is…" Paul clicked a button and showed the image of the man.
Hevn's eyes widened while Paul let off a low whistle.
"Your client must really need that item of his to assign someone like him to be teamed up with your talented retrieval agent. I think that the mission is as good as done with those two together… if they can find a way to work together that is." Paul chuckled.
Hevn immediately dialed Ranma's cell number, but she cursed out loud when no one answered.
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"I… I am…"
"No, no, you're not, you 're not…"
"Listen to me please! I'm begging you… please… listen to what I have to say."
"I don't know you! I-I've never met you in my life! Get away from me… stay away!"
"Nooooooooo!!!"
Ranma woke up with a start. His eyes were wide from the nightmare he just had and his body was covered in sweat. He got up from his bed and directly went into the kitchen, he drank a glass of water like his life depended on it. He noticed his reflection on a mirror just as he was finishing his glass, his grip on the glass tightened before he threw it towards the mirror, causing both to shatter to pieces.
"If only you weren't such a coward back then…" he said to his reflection from the shards on the floor.
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Next day, Ranma was walking around Shinjuku with a sad look on his face. In his mind though, the same words kept repeating themselves. Coward, useless coward…
Stay away from me you… freak! I don't know you! I don't know anyone like you!
"Damn it…" he whispered into the air.
He was shaken out of his thoughts when he heard two men screaming at each other. One has brown spiky hair and blue eyes, he was wearing a baggy white button down shirt, black pants, leather shoes and round sunglasses. The other one has blonde hair and brown eyes, he's wearing a white shirt, a green jacket, brown shorts and a pair of sports shoes.
"Ban-chan… I'm hungry…!" the blonde whined.
"Shut up and help me with these flyers! There hasn't been any client for days so we don't have any money for food!" the other one replied.
Ranma shook his head. 'Get Backers huh? Raitei Amano Ginji and 'Jagan' user Midou Ban… a weird pair if you ask me. Come to think of it, Hevn did say that they almost always get the job done as well. Speaking of which, who the heck is my partner anyway? I got a bad feeling about this mission… sigh, eheh, maybe I can finally find it after this is over.'
The pigtailed boy walked passed by a certain high school on his way back to his house. He noticed a couple of girls looking at him with hungry eyes but he decided to ignore them.
"Who's the hunk?"
"He's so cool! Don't you think so Natsumi-chan?"
"What? Um, I don't know… maybe?"
Ranma sighed as he passed the school. 'Yeah, that's what they think… until they see my damn curse…' he thought angrily. Then he chuckled slightly as a memory suddenly hit him.
===Flashback===
Hevn heard Ranma's front door open, she was patiently waiting for the pigtailed boy's return from the easy job she has given him.
"Ran-kun…? Did you finish the job…? Who are you?!" the bewildered blonde woman shouted.
Ranma-chan scratched the back of her head as she bowed her head. 'Dang… I forgot to change…' "It's Ranma…" she whispered, shuffling with her feet.
Hevn looked at Ranma-chan suspiciously. "Oh, you mean you're Ranma's girlfriend? I didn't know he already had one! And I didn't know he had it in him to make a move on a woman before so…"
The red-head resisted the urge to twitch before he slammed her hands on the table. "I said… it's me, Ranma! I'm Ranma! Yeah, that pigtailed boy! I work for you remember?!" she bellowed.
The blonde blinked at the outburst. 'She does look a lot like him…' "Ranma? H-how?"
"It's a curse I got from China. Cold water turns me into a girl, hot water turns me back to normal."
Hevn was still skeptical of the whole thing but a quick demonstration quickly took care of that. Ranma allowed the blonde to rest on his bed after she fainted from shock. Hevn was silent after she woke up a few hours later but that didn't last for long, the blonde actually took the whole thing rather well, she just said that being around people with unique abilities did the trick.
"I can go undercover with my cursed form while I can do the other jobs with my true form."
The blonde nodded. "I see it now. I wonder what Paul would say when he sees this!" she exclaimed.
"He'll probably think I'm a freak." Ranma-chan muttered as she hung her head. Her blue eyes widened as he received a comforting hug from the one whom she thought was just like Nabiki. "Thanks Hevn…"
Hevn released the hug. "Don't mention it. So, how did your mission go? I hope…"
===End Flashback===
Ranma shook his head and went on his way. 'That was probably the only good memory I have of this curse… though the look on her face… haha…'
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Ranma arrived at the Southern Warehouse meeting point a few minutes before midnight, he was wearing dark chinese clothes that seemed to match the seriousness of his face. 'Who the heck is my partner anyway? Hevn no Yarou… when is she gonna call me about it?'
He tensed as he felt another presence in the room. He turns around and saw a man in long, dark trenchcoat with matching black hat that covers his eyes. The man removed his hat and smiled at the pigtailed boy.
"So… you're my partner for this mission?"
"Hai, Kuroudo Akabane desu."
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AN: I just had to write this darn idea down, it's been bothering me for months. Anyway, R&R please, I want to know what you think about this. Good? Bad? Need some more work? Oh, this takes place just before the start of the anime series for Get Backers. Ranma ½ a few months after the Ryu Kumon arc.
Ranma has changed, this fic will revolve around him and why he became like this, the rest of the Ranma ½ cast will appear later on. Why Get Backers? I just thought that a certain smiling, somewhat psychotic doctor from that series was perfect for the tone of the fic. Oh, and he'll meet a few other 'interesting' people along the way.
Till next time, Ja ne!
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