Ranma The Hex Factor
Chapter 3 – Part Two: "Falling Dominos"
Ranma-chan stalked through the doors of the mansion to be confronted by Ororo at the base of the steps. She tried to walk around her but Ororo moved to prevent it.
"Bad day I take it?"
"You could say that, Look I just want to get some hot water and do some kata for a while to cool off ok?" Ranma said in an exasperated tone.
"You haven't spent much time in your cursed form sent you got here." Ororo said simply.
"If you turned into a guy with cold water, would you spend any more time than you needed to as one?" Ranma accused.
"That's the point I'm trying to make Ranma, you need to spend time in your cursed form to learn control of your powers. That is why you came here to begin with isn't it."
Ranma sighed, why was it that she could never win an argument with anyone.
"Ok, alright. I'll spend more time in this stupid body, just not right now ok? It really has been a long day and it's only half over."
Ororo smiled. "Ok Ranma, I'll see you at dinner."
"Thanks."
................. [Xavier's Study, School for Gifted Youngsters]
Ororo walked into the study and closed the door behind her. Xavier was sitting behind his desk and seemed to be doing nothing more than staring out the window. If you believe this however, then there might be some under-valued naturally irrigated land in Florida you might be interested in.
"I believe that young Ranma is on edge Professor. With what we have heard about his life before we came here I thought he would have taken this as par for the course."
"I think we need to have a few one on one talks with some of the other children here. I believe the reason that Ranma is so frustrated is that he believed that he would be getting some what of a reprieve from the constant battle of his life. What he found instead was the trouble that seems to follow him has started right back up where it left off. People react harshly when hope is taken away from them. I want you to try and talk to some of the students that seem most involved in the recent events. Coming from me would make it too official, but perhaps a gentle prodding will get them to cease some of the activities that are bothering Ranma. We can't afford someone with those kinds of powers becoming to stressed, there is far too much chance for someone to get hurt."
"I'll see what I can do Professor."
"Thank you Ororo." After Ororo had left the Professor looked down at a small business card that Nabiki had given to him yesterday, he smiled briefly at the haggling he had to do to get it. Picking up the telephone he proceeded to punch in a long stream of numbers and then waited for a short time before the phone on the other end started to ring.
"Mushi, Mushi."
"Yes can I speak with a Doctor Tofu Ono?"
..................................... [Streets of Bayville, NY]
Nabiki slowly walked back towards the direction of the mansion, once again wondering just what she was thinking coming here. At first it had been a spur of the moment, gut level decision. Something at the time she didn't even question, having learned long ago to trust those types of feelings. Now however there was no fooling herself, she didn't know exactly when it had happened, but somewhere along the way she had fallen for Ranma.
She sighed, it should have been easy. She was the only familiar face in 10,000 miles, in a strange country and one of the few people that spoke his native language. It seemed as though her luck or more specifically Ranma's luck simply wasn't that good. Chaos seemed to be intrinsic in his life. It wasn't all bad though, he seemed to slowly be opening up to her. She just had to make sure that she didn't fall into the same trap that Ukyo did. In a way she could almost thank the other girls for their actions, if there was any sure way to drive away Ranma it was to look like you were pursuing him.
She was nervous about his disappearance today though, it could only mean trouble, and since there was no readily apparent damage to the town it meant that it was still brewing. In her experience around Ranma, the longer it took to manifest the worse it would be. Picking up her pace a bit, she continued towards the mansion.
.................................
Mystique watched from the shadows as a girl she didn't recognize walked through the gates of the Mansion. 'It seems that Wanda is not the only new recruit Xavier has collected. She looks Japanese; I wonder what abilities this girl possesses? It might do to have the brotherhood lean on her a little and see if they can find out what kind of threat she is without tipping her hand. I also have to ask them if any of them have had contact with Wanda yet. I wonder how Xavier found her, and for that matter how he convinced her to work for him?' All questions that needed answering before Magneto found out to much about what was going on here.
........................... [Ranma and Kurt's Room, Xavier Mansion]
Ranma was staring out of the window when he heard the familiar sound that indicated his roommate had made another one of his entrances.
"Hey man, vere did you disappear to after lunch today, disappearing is supposed to be the Fuzzy dude's job, eh?"
Ranma couldn't help but crack a small smile at Kurt's attempts at humor. Kurt was one of the few people at the mansion that he was actually becoming friends with. Maybe it was because neither was particularly happy with the form they were stuck with from time to time that it gave them enough of a common ground to form a friendship. It could simply be that it was nigh impossible not to like the blue menace. He was very different from Kasumi, but he spread smiles nearly as quickly. Ranma had learned quickly however to avoid the subject of Kitty around him. Kurt seemed to have something of a crush on the girl and didn't take to Ranma's complaining about her attempts to get him on a date well.
"Cold water splashed me at lunch; I went to the bathroom to change back only to find that your school doesn't have any hot water taps! Then I had to hide in the stall until everyone was back in class. To top it off just as I was leaving the bathroom some small smelly guy crashed into me and groped my breasts. I figured that I had enough for one day and decided to come home early."
"Some vone small and smelly? Sounds like Toad, I zhink he had a crush on the girl you look like. He's part of zhe brotherhood zhat zhe professor warned you about."
Ranma groaned, "Great that's all I need, a smelly version of Kuno. This place is getting more and more like Nerima each second."
.................................... [Back Lawn, Xavier Mansion]
After a while Ranma decided he had had enough brooding and decided to work off a little frustration by doing some high-intensity kata. To appease Ororo, and because she did have a valid point, he decided to try it in his cursed form. He was about thirty minutes into and just starting to get warmed up and forget about the day when something blurred across his vision and came to a stop in the landing zone of his current kick. Twisting deftly in mid air she managed to avoid the person and came to a rest in a ready stance. After a brief examination of the kid's posture and face Ranma's tactical brain came up with its preliminary conclusion: 'Kuno, with intelligence.'
"What?" Ranma asked in an irritated tone, not particularly pleased with being interrupted. Ranma noticed that whoever it was seemed to get nervous when he heard the tone of the voice.
"Wanda....So Toad wasn't just hallucinating. Listen I don't blame you for running, hell I would have to had dad tried to do to me what he did to you. But why are you here with the X-geeks. I mean I can understand not going back where he could find you again, but why here, he's sure to find you hanging around here."
Ranma gritted his teeth in frustration, if one more person called him Wanda he was going to use them to test his powers on. After taking a moment to calm herself she spoke.
"Look, I don't know who you are, but I'm not this Wanda person ok. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I'm pretty sure she died about three months ago. I'm sorry. However much I look like her; I'm not ok?"
"Wanda...what are you talking about?"
Ranma let out a low growl but was prevented from an impromptu training session by a voice from her left.
"You'd better get going Pietro. I don't think the Lady's in the mood to talk tonight. And if you stay it won't just be her you talk with, get my drift?" Logan's voice was a distinct mix casual mocking and serious threat. Between looking at a pissed off Wanda and Wolverine Pietro proved that he was indeed more intelligent than Kuno and made a strategic withdrawal. As he ran towards the brotherhood house he decided that he needed to get in contact with his father, the consequences for not passing on this information to him did not bode thinking about.
................................... [Late that night]
Ranma heard someone start down the roof towards him and waited for them to take a seat beside him.
"Hey Nabs, Stars sure are clear here aren't they?"
Nabiki smiled at the nickname, it was the first time he had used it. Then she sighed and stretched out on the roof next to him.
"It'll get better Ranma."
"I guess we'll see."
To Be continued in Chapter 3 part 3...........
Chapter 3 – Part Two: "Falling Dominos"
Ranma-chan stalked through the doors of the mansion to be confronted by Ororo at the base of the steps. She tried to walk around her but Ororo moved to prevent it.
"Bad day I take it?"
"You could say that, Look I just want to get some hot water and do some kata for a while to cool off ok?" Ranma said in an exasperated tone.
"You haven't spent much time in your cursed form sent you got here." Ororo said simply.
"If you turned into a guy with cold water, would you spend any more time than you needed to as one?" Ranma accused.
"That's the point I'm trying to make Ranma, you need to spend time in your cursed form to learn control of your powers. That is why you came here to begin with isn't it."
Ranma sighed, why was it that she could never win an argument with anyone.
"Ok, alright. I'll spend more time in this stupid body, just not right now ok? It really has been a long day and it's only half over."
Ororo smiled. "Ok Ranma, I'll see you at dinner."
"Thanks."
................. [Xavier's Study, School for Gifted Youngsters]
Ororo walked into the study and closed the door behind her. Xavier was sitting behind his desk and seemed to be doing nothing more than staring out the window. If you believe this however, then there might be some under-valued naturally irrigated land in Florida you might be interested in.
"I believe that young Ranma is on edge Professor. With what we have heard about his life before we came here I thought he would have taken this as par for the course."
"I think we need to have a few one on one talks with some of the other children here. I believe the reason that Ranma is so frustrated is that he believed that he would be getting some what of a reprieve from the constant battle of his life. What he found instead was the trouble that seems to follow him has started right back up where it left off. People react harshly when hope is taken away from them. I want you to try and talk to some of the students that seem most involved in the recent events. Coming from me would make it too official, but perhaps a gentle prodding will get them to cease some of the activities that are bothering Ranma. We can't afford someone with those kinds of powers becoming to stressed, there is far too much chance for someone to get hurt."
"I'll see what I can do Professor."
"Thank you Ororo." After Ororo had left the Professor looked down at a small business card that Nabiki had given to him yesterday, he smiled briefly at the haggling he had to do to get it. Picking up the telephone he proceeded to punch in a long stream of numbers and then waited for a short time before the phone on the other end started to ring.
"Mushi, Mushi."
"Yes can I speak with a Doctor Tofu Ono?"
..................................... [Streets of Bayville, NY]
Nabiki slowly walked back towards the direction of the mansion, once again wondering just what she was thinking coming here. At first it had been a spur of the moment, gut level decision. Something at the time she didn't even question, having learned long ago to trust those types of feelings. Now however there was no fooling herself, she didn't know exactly when it had happened, but somewhere along the way she had fallen for Ranma.
She sighed, it should have been easy. She was the only familiar face in 10,000 miles, in a strange country and one of the few people that spoke his native language. It seemed as though her luck or more specifically Ranma's luck simply wasn't that good. Chaos seemed to be intrinsic in his life. It wasn't all bad though, he seemed to slowly be opening up to her. She just had to make sure that she didn't fall into the same trap that Ukyo did. In a way she could almost thank the other girls for their actions, if there was any sure way to drive away Ranma it was to look like you were pursuing him.
She was nervous about his disappearance today though, it could only mean trouble, and since there was no readily apparent damage to the town it meant that it was still brewing. In her experience around Ranma, the longer it took to manifest the worse it would be. Picking up her pace a bit, she continued towards the mansion.
.................................
Mystique watched from the shadows as a girl she didn't recognize walked through the gates of the Mansion. 'It seems that Wanda is not the only new recruit Xavier has collected. She looks Japanese; I wonder what abilities this girl possesses? It might do to have the brotherhood lean on her a little and see if they can find out what kind of threat she is without tipping her hand. I also have to ask them if any of them have had contact with Wanda yet. I wonder how Xavier found her, and for that matter how he convinced her to work for him?' All questions that needed answering before Magneto found out to much about what was going on here.
........................... [Ranma and Kurt's Room, Xavier Mansion]
Ranma was staring out of the window when he heard the familiar sound that indicated his roommate had made another one of his entrances.
"Hey man, vere did you disappear to after lunch today, disappearing is supposed to be the Fuzzy dude's job, eh?"
Ranma couldn't help but crack a small smile at Kurt's attempts at humor. Kurt was one of the few people at the mansion that he was actually becoming friends with. Maybe it was because neither was particularly happy with the form they were stuck with from time to time that it gave them enough of a common ground to form a friendship. It could simply be that it was nigh impossible not to like the blue menace. He was very different from Kasumi, but he spread smiles nearly as quickly. Ranma had learned quickly however to avoid the subject of Kitty around him. Kurt seemed to have something of a crush on the girl and didn't take to Ranma's complaining about her attempts to get him on a date well.
"Cold water splashed me at lunch; I went to the bathroom to change back only to find that your school doesn't have any hot water taps! Then I had to hide in the stall until everyone was back in class. To top it off just as I was leaving the bathroom some small smelly guy crashed into me and groped my breasts. I figured that I had enough for one day and decided to come home early."
"Some vone small and smelly? Sounds like Toad, I zhink he had a crush on the girl you look like. He's part of zhe brotherhood zhat zhe professor warned you about."
Ranma groaned, "Great that's all I need, a smelly version of Kuno. This place is getting more and more like Nerima each second."
.................................... [Back Lawn, Xavier Mansion]
After a while Ranma decided he had had enough brooding and decided to work off a little frustration by doing some high-intensity kata. To appease Ororo, and because she did have a valid point, he decided to try it in his cursed form. He was about thirty minutes into and just starting to get warmed up and forget about the day when something blurred across his vision and came to a stop in the landing zone of his current kick. Twisting deftly in mid air she managed to avoid the person and came to a rest in a ready stance. After a brief examination of the kid's posture and face Ranma's tactical brain came up with its preliminary conclusion: 'Kuno, with intelligence.'
"What?" Ranma asked in an irritated tone, not particularly pleased with being interrupted. Ranma noticed that whoever it was seemed to get nervous when he heard the tone of the voice.
"Wanda....So Toad wasn't just hallucinating. Listen I don't blame you for running, hell I would have to had dad tried to do to me what he did to you. But why are you here with the X-geeks. I mean I can understand not going back where he could find you again, but why here, he's sure to find you hanging around here."
Ranma gritted his teeth in frustration, if one more person called him Wanda he was going to use them to test his powers on. After taking a moment to calm herself she spoke.
"Look, I don't know who you are, but I'm not this Wanda person ok. I hate to be the bearer of bad news but I'm pretty sure she died about three months ago. I'm sorry. However much I look like her; I'm not ok?"
"Wanda...what are you talking about?"
Ranma let out a low growl but was prevented from an impromptu training session by a voice from her left.
"You'd better get going Pietro. I don't think the Lady's in the mood to talk tonight. And if you stay it won't just be her you talk with, get my drift?" Logan's voice was a distinct mix casual mocking and serious threat. Between looking at a pissed off Wanda and Wolverine Pietro proved that he was indeed more intelligent than Kuno and made a strategic withdrawal. As he ran towards the brotherhood house he decided that he needed to get in contact with his father, the consequences for not passing on this information to him did not bode thinking about.
................................... [Late that night]
Ranma heard someone start down the roof towards him and waited for them to take a seat beside him.
"Hey Nabs, Stars sure are clear here aren't they?"
Nabiki smiled at the nickname, it was the first time he had used it. Then she sighed and stretched out on the roof next to him.
"It'll get better Ranma."
"I guess we'll see."
To Be continued in Chapter 3 part 3...........