This chapter is going to introduce something new. See if you can spot it!
~~~~~~*** MONDAY MORNING TROUBLE ***~~~~~~
~~ Somewhere in another district ~~
Akiko Mishima was just preparing to leave.
Suddenly, a pair of women in black and pink jumpsuits came into the room. "Lady Akiko. Poison One is ready to launch."
"Good, I'll be there in a few minutes."
As the two of them left, Akiko smiled. "I'll get you today!"
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"Ugh... I wish we didn't have to go today." I was nursing my head, which was slightly dizzy for some reason.
"Well, I don't really see why you feel so bad. I feel pretty good!"
"I don't know... I just feel dizzy!"
"Well, take a bath, maybe you'll feel better."
"Good idea." I got up and made my way to the bathroom, intent on calming my head down.
As I walked down the hall, just the movement helped to kick my eyes awake and helped to calm my head down.
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"Well, I feel better!" I came out of the room feeling much better than when I went in. It didn't take long so I didn't interrupt the household too much.
But man, Monday's really suck!
Getting dressed I managed to keep my belts underneath the uniform the school had started requiring I wear. 'I don't know why they make us wear these things.' I looked the thing over. 'I mean... it doesn't even look all that good!'
Sighing, I decided to just go along with it, like I had been for the last month or so. 'Has it really been that long?'
"Hey Ranma, you ready?" I fastened the belt to my sword sheath around my waist. It was something I felt I might need.
Ranma was now waking up. "Hey! I can use my arm!" He was giving it a few test runs. "Look! No pain!"
I rolled my eyes. "Yeah, that's great Ranma. Now get ready for school. Today is one day I do not want to be late for."
"Oh yeah, we leave today, don't we?"
"Yeah, we do." 'I don't see why we have to go for the whole day first though...'
"Okay, I'm coming!" He jumped out of bed and ran to get his stuff ready for school. Then he noticed that I was in the room. "Hey, that sword makes you look different."
"Hmm..." I didn't really feel all that much like talking right then. A tear fell from my eye as I let out a huge yawn.
"Boy! Time to go!" About five minutes later a large, wet panda walked in the back door of the house.
Yep, we're back to normal.
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"If Kuno bothers me today I swear I'm going to cut that sword of his in half!!!" I really didn't feel like dealing with that idiot today. I was slightly impatient and rather tired, as I didn't get a whole lot of sleep last night.
"If he even LOOKS at me wrong I'm going to grind his face into the dirt!" Ranma still hadn't forgotten about the other day.
"I'll probably just kick him like I always do." Akane had no real motivation for revenge on this particular day.
At this time we were running early. This was one day we didn't want to be late for, and so we planned to be early. And besides, we had all that stuff to carry!
When we got to the schoolyard it was full mostly of those students who had the same idea we did. Get there early to get your stuff there.
"Well, it seems a little empty around here, but at least the Hentai gang is still here." I pointed toward the group of boys in the corner who were eyeing us rather unsuredly, as they have been for some time now.
We stood there for a time, having already put our stuff away, when we heard some shouting from just outside the schoolyard walls. "Wonder what's going on?"
"YEAAAHHAA!!!" Suddenly, a girl riding a bike somehow jumped over one of the walls and landed on her rear wheel. She looked to be having fun too.
Balancing on the rear wheel she rode the bike over to the bike-rack and let it down. Her laugh sounded rather like some kind of little-kid's laugh and had a little screech at the end
Getting off her bike she stood, looking around. She suddenly smiled and put one fist in the air. "YEAAAAHH!! My first day of new school!! HAHAHAH!!"
The way she moved said that she didn't seem to understand what all those boys in the Hentai gang were probably thinking about her.
Akane and I shot a rather angry glance at them, and Ranma started rolling up one of his sleeves.
They quickly went to playing with their fingers.
Feeling rather perturbed, I walked over to the purple/pink haired girl, all the while keeping my eye on the gathering in the corner. I believe they were probably watching that sword of mine as it swung back and forth.
"Hello there, are you new here?"
She suddenly opened her eyes and looked at me with a shocked expression on her face. "Yeah!! How did you know!?"
I do believe the sweatdrop I formed could fill a small cup. "Um, you said this was your first day."
"Oh!" She looked at me for a second, then smiled in a ditzy way. "I did?" For the first time that day, my head hit the pavement. It was rather painful. "Papa-san says I have a habit of saying what I'm thinking without knowing..." Then she looked at me. "Doesn't that hurt?"
"Yes, very much." I nursed the new bruise on my head and stood to face her. "Hello, my name's Lila, and these two are Ranma and Akane."
"Hi!" That voice had a screechy sound to it... not to mention something I couldn't quite place. "My name is Atsuko Natsume, but everybody calls me Nuku Nuku!" Her smile never left her face.
I could only shudder at what kind of thoughts the Hentai's could be having right then.
Nuku Nuku then looked over at the entrance. "Hey! It's Amy!" Running over to the entrance she met up with a girl with bronze-gold hair and ruby-colored eyes. She was wearing a Furinkan uniform and dragging a rather large backpack. "Amy! What are you doing here?"
As we went over we saw the girl drop the strap to her pack. "I transferred here too, Nuku! And guess what?"
"What?" Nuku was leaning over in expectation.
"I have something for you! Turn around and let me get it out!"
"Okay!" Nuku started acting rather excited as she turned around.
"Just stay right there!" Amy got into her bag with a rather interesting smile on her face. But about the only thing that really perplexed me was how short she was. She looked like she ought to be in middle school! Not in high school!
"You can turn around now!" Nuku turned around and looked at Amy.
"AAHH!!" Nuku jumped back excitedly when she saw the large, black minigun that Amy was pointing at her.
"Now, DIE!! NUKU NUKU!!!" The expression on the smaller girl's face said that she was totally obsessed with killing that Nuku girl!
"RUN!!!"
"Why?"
Nuku was dumbstruck at the response to her call. She had yelled out for everyone to run, but now everybody was just standing there, like there wasn't a homicidal maniac standing there waving a high-speed military-issue repeating rifle. "What do you mean 'Why'?
Amy looked rather annoyed. "Nuku Nuku! JUST DIE ALREADY!!!" She pulled on the trigger and started to laugh insanely.
CLICK!
"Huh?" She pulled on the trigger again, and this time she fell on her butt as the large weapon simply fell in half just beyond the stock.
"Firearms are not allowed on school grounds." Kuno put his sword back into place and stood to full height.
"HEY!!! WHAT DID YOU DO!?!?! DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHO I AM!?!?"
"No, and I don't care to." He then turned around and faced Nuku. "Now YOU however. I wouldn't mind to get to know!"
"IDIOT!!!" I struck him across the back of the head, leaving a rather large bruise and his face in the dirt at Nuku's feet. "Oops, did I hit too hard?" The answer came when he didn't get up for a minute or so.
"HEY!! WHO ARE YOU!?"
I turned around. I looked the shorter girl straight in the eye. "That doesn't matter. What matters is that weapons like that are not allowed on school grounds."
"JUST GET OUT OF MY WAY!!!" She jumped forward and thrust a fist straight for me.
I was already in defensive position when Nuku shoved me to the side. "WATCH OUT!! AAAUGHH!!" She yelled out as she took the hit in the side of her face.
"I'LL KILL YOU!!! NUKU NUKU!!!" Amy barely looked human the way her eyes were practically taking over the whole of her face in her blind rage.
Akane looked a bit shocked. "So they're fighters too?"
"Their style is a bit crude. But they do appear to be fairly strong." Ranma was speaking his take on the situation before them.
The Hentai's were watching on with interest. There was another beautiful girl in school. She could also fight well, and probably easily break their backs too. But she seemed like she would be easy to talk into anything.
But these thoughts were far from my mind as I picked myself off the ground. 'Darnit!' I was starting to get angry. I did NOT want to be late today! And if this went on, I would never get to class!
"STOP IT!!!" I pulled the bands off my arms and legs, taking an attacking position.
"Huh?" Nuku managed to look at me from underneath the other girl.
"GOTCHA!!!" Amy started glowing and was hitting Nuku with some kind of energy attack that made her scream out. All that she seemed to be doing was holding on though.
"I said..." I ran at the two. "KNOCK!" I rammed my fist into the smaller girl's face. "IT!!" As she flew through the air I grabbed her hand and "OFF!!!" swung her around and threw her through the concrete wall at the side of the schoolyard.
Looking at the hole I had made I growled out something more. "I do NOT want to late today!"
Nuku got off the ground and looked at me disbelievingly. "Wow! How did you do that?"
I didn't really feel like explaining the basics of fighting, but I felt that this could be a special case. "I hit her." I could practically hear Ranma rolling his eyes.
Nuku looked over the damage I had done with a look of wonder in her eyes. And I took the time to gather my weights and test out my hand. It felt almost as if I had hit a solid wall! 'Hard head...'
After a little while Nuku Nuku walked back over to us and the general atmosphere of the schoolyard returned to the milling about that it normally was.
"So your name is Nuku Nuku, huh?" Ranma decided to start the conversation with a simple question.
I was looking over Kuno... who was still on the ground. "I didn't hit him THAT hard... did I?"
"Yeah! My name is Nuku Nuku!"
"Are you from around here?" Akane was prying for information from the girl.
"Not really, I spend most of my time over there." She pointed to a direction that would take you toward a junction in the district lines.
"Do you live in Nerima?" Akane again.
"We live right on the border, but I usually spend my time in Nerima!"
"I'm gonna go wake him up... see if he's still alive." I wasn't really paying attention to the conversation, being too busy worrying about Kuno. He usually got up right away.
"What about that Amy girl? Is she always like that?"
"Yeah! Amy and me fight all the time!" She smiled and laughed shortly. "We have LOTS of fun!"
I made my way to Kuno, who seemed to have managed to turn over to his back. He was now face up.
"Tell me, Nuku, is there anyone else after your life?" Ranma asked that question.
And bleeding!!
"Yeah, if there's one there's usually many." Akane's observation came from experience with Ranma.
I was about to start panicking when I noticed his expression. His eyes were open wide and he had a silly grin on his face. The blood, of course, was coming from his nose.
"I have enough experience with THAT to know!" Ranma rolled his eyes at the revelation.
Then I figured it out. When he woke up he turned over to his back. From there he had a perfect vantage point to see up the dresses of two particular girls. Nuku and Amy.
"Just one!" Nuku cringed.
Feeling a vein pop out on my forehead I took his head and rammed his face into the pavement.
Nuku suddenly looked thoughtful. And then, out of the back of her head came two strange-looking, ear-like appendages made of some kind of metal. They had white sides and yellow bordering. As she moved her head around they twitched, as if they really were ears!
Ranma and Akane were backing away, taken by surprise for a moment.
"Mama-san!"
I heard Kuno mumbling about something. I picked up his head to see what he was saying.
"Your mother?" Akane sounded like she didn't believe it.
Ranma suddenly took a defensive stance, something didn't feel right.
Nuku backed away from the two while staring into the sky with a frown on her face.
"Oh! The great heavens above have sent me another angel!!"
A red helicopter with two rotors, one in each wing, suddenly appeared just above the skyline. Inside, Akiko was screaming "FIRE!! FIRE FIRE FIRE!!" over and over at her two sidekicks. Arisa smiled angrily and hit a red button on the control. Immediately three missiles shot out of the belly of the plane directly at Nuku Nuku.
Nuku gasped jumped backward. Moving quickly she grabbed the two at the side and used her foot to stop the third.
Kuno got another taste of the dirt.
Arisa was just about to fire another volley when she noticed that Ranma was hanging off of the cockpit top.
Angrily, he rammed his fist through one of the tempered windows and leaned in. Grabbing the control he pulled back, sending the helicopter into a nose-first forward roll.
He then kicked the nose down and put his hands on the area where the rotors would have been on a normal helicopter as the thing continued to roll until it was upside down.
"AAHH!! HE'LL BE CRUSHED!" Nuku put the missiles down, careful not to set them off.
I got up and looked at what was happening, at this particular point, Ranma was holding a red helicopter off the ground, upside down.
The three inside managed to crawl out through the window.
Ranma yelled angrily at them. "WHAT ARE YOU!? INSANE! NO MISSILES ON SCHOOL GROUNDS!!!" He then looked up at the machine he was carrying. "And as for this..." Crouching down for a second or so, he tossed it into the air.
In mid-air he met up with it and kicked it up higher.
When he landed he pulled both fists back and looked up into the sky, where the thing was currently in free-fall.
Throwing both fists forward he shouted out his attack-call. "MOKOU TAKABISHA!!"
Like a small sun, a ball of white light erupted from his hands and flew through the air.
Upon impact the attack caused the useless pile of metal to erupt in flames. The explosion was seen for miles around, even though it didn't seem to be all that spectacular from the ground.
"Well, I guess that works..." I shielded my eyes from any debris that might fall. Ranma looked fairly pleased with himself as he looked down at the three on the ground.
"And I would prefer if you didn't do that in the future!" His smile said volumes.
As they sat on the ground, we began walking into the school, while Nuku Nuku begged for Ranma to tell her how he did that.
Amy came through the wall, still with an angry look on her eyes. "NUKU NUKU!! I'M STILL NOT FINISHED WITH YOU!!!"
She ran up behind us, intent on doing everything she could to get at Nuku.
She soon found her head buried in the concrete, the imprint of a mallet clearly written across her face.
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Kyusaku 'Papa-san' Natsume watched intently as his cameras picked up on everything that happened all those many miles away. "HA! I guess those rumors about super-strong kids at Furinkan were more than just rumors! I'm such a genius!!"
"Dad. Are you taking me to school now?" Ryunosuke was all ready to go. His ride was going somewhere else now and he really kinda missed the 'Bicycle Express'.
"Oh yeah! You're riding with me now!" Kyusaku grabbed some toast and scrambled to get his coat. "Come on! Let's go!"
Ryunosuke sighed as he watched his father run into the closet. "I really wish he wouldn't stay up all night like that." He slowly made his way to the JEEP and got in, waiting for his father to find his way there.
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"My lady? What should we do?" Kyouko pleaded with her boss to give them guidance.
"We leave." She stood and stomped off angrily. "It's obvious that Ryunosuke isn't here. So we have no need to be here any longer."
Arisa had to be dragged away as she was shivering too much to stand on her own. "More... androids!!! It can't be!!!" There was general fear in her eyes.
~~~~~~*** Ended Here ***~~~~~~
Well, that's the end of another spectacular chapter! I've been planning that encounter for quite a while too!
Well, I don't know how long it will take to get this chapter, or any chapters after this, out to the web. The primary reason is that I'm at the mercy of floppy disks. Floppy disks that have a tendency to screw up royally. They mis-handle data and badly represent my art!
WAAAHH!!! I CAN'T STAND IT WHEN MY ART IS SCREWED AROUND WITH SO!!!
So, in order to prevent any kind of messing up... I am now going through a series of checks to make sure that the WHOLE thing is transferred from writing station to posting station without fail and without flaw.
Thank you for your patronage and your patience with my data problems.
Alex Ultra: Stupid floppies!
Alex: So why don't you get a Zip drive?
Alex Ultra: [Sobs] I'm too poor!!!
Alex: Oh... that. Right...
Lila: It's so sad when an author is reduced to this...
Alex Ultra: WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!!! I'M ALWAYS LIKE THIS!!!
Lila: [Cringes] Really? I never knew that about you!
Alex Ultra: Then you haven't been around me enough, have you?
Lila: -_-''
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