Summary: Xander's pops flogs him off at a young age.
Crossover: Ranma 1/2
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Pre-fic Comments:
As before, "* blah *" indicates foreign speech. Translations get put in curly braces after foreign speech if it's in the original foreign speech.
This fic is my 'fun' fic, to counterbalance Esoteric.
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Xander looked blankly at the sheet in front of him, trying to figure it out.
"Who the hell is this Franklin guy?," he wondered out loud.
Willow elbowed him. "You don't know who Benjamin Franklin is?!"
Xander shrugged. "If it ain't martial arts or food, Genma didn't teach us about it."
Willow wasn't sure she believed this excuse. "What about school?"
"Uhhhh...."
Xander manfully tried to remember, then elbowed Ranma.
"Mmmm... udon... ow! Nani des ka?!"
"When was the last time we went to school?," Xander asked him.
"With Ryouga. Have we finished class yet?"
"No. Haven't you been paying any attention?," Willow asked the Japanese boy. She was beginning to believe they'd never gone to school.
"What for?," Ranma asked, genuinely confused. "The best part of school is--"
**RIIIING!!!***
"Lunch!," the two chorused, jumping out the nearest window with bags in hand.
Willow sighed.
* * *
"Sounds like they could help," Buffy said. She, Willow and Giles were in the Library, as it was lunchtime.
"I-I'm against civilians helping us," Giles said.
"They can jump thirty feet straight up and smash boulders," Willow said.
"Perhaps they could be of use," Giles allowed.
"Wow! So they fight just as good as they look?," the Slayer asked.
Willow nodded.
"Well, you'd better go get them, because Cordelia and the Cordettes were talking about them."
* * *
"So we'll see you at the Bronze, then?," Cordelia asked Ranma.
"Uh, I guess," Ranma said. "This pie stuff is good!"
"Mmm!," Xander said. They'd had food donated to them by the Cordettes. "It's been too long since I had one of these."
"You've been overseas?," Harmony asked.
"Well, Japan mostly, although we were in China for a year," Ranma replied for Xander.
"Oh my God!," Cordelia exclaimed. "I travelled to Japan once. What's China like?"
"Full of people," Ranma said around the pie. He'd just about finished it, and was eating it slowly to enjoy it.
The two boys finished their food at the same time, then got up.
"Hey, do any of you know where Willow got to?," Xander asked.
"Library," Cordelia said.
"Uh, thanks," Xander replied.
* * *
"Speak of the devil, and he shall appear," Giles said as the Library swing doors opened to reveal the two boys.
"Hi, Xander, Ranma," Willow said. "This is Giles the Librarian, and this is Buffy Summers."
"Uh, hi," Buffy said. Giles made a similar sound.
"Nice to meet ya," Xander said. Ranma bowed slightly.
"Buffy is the Slayer," Willow explained.
"Ah, the cheating girl," Ranma said out loud, connecting her to Willow's explanation last night.
"Who're you calling a cheat?," Buffy asked belligerantly.
"All your strength and speed come from magic," Xander said. "Not from hard work and training. So you're a cheat."
"Come here and I'll show you cheat!"
Giles sighed. The Slayer was in fight mode -- he sincerely doubted he'd be able to dissuade her.
"Willow, help me shift this table. There. You two can sort it out between yourselves."
Buffy got up, leaving the stake on the table. The boy was only human, after all.
"*Ranma, do you want to beat her, or should I?,*" Xander asked his friend.
"*I'll do it,*" Ranma said.
Ranma did the polite thing and bowed slightly to Buffy. Buffy did the pissed off American thing and charged him.
Ranma effortlessly dodged the blonde's first punch, and subsequent attacks. A year of Slaying didn't stack up against ten years of training under a complete bastard who knew more about the skill than Giles had read books.
"Fight me!," Buffy said. "Stop cheating!"
"Hey!," Ranma protested. "I'm not cheating! I worked hard to get this skill! You just got some magic! /That's/ cheating!"
"*Stop playing with her,*" Xander shouted out to Ranma.
On Buffy's next kick, Ranma quickly threw the small girl onto the floor, then held her in a submission hold.
"Do you submit?," Ranma asked.
"No!," Buffy said, trying to move. Her face hurt, pushed against the Library floor!
Ranma sighed, and pushed her shiatsu spot to knock her out.
* * *
Post-fic comments:
When Buffy's in fight mode, the only part of her brain that's working is the smart-alec remarks part. She's the Akane figure, sorry. Deal.