Weapon X Japan 03
Standard Disclaimer... I don't own Ranma 1/2, Marvel, or any other works of fantasy/fiction or published works that appear in this fanfiction. I do this for no profit and only for the enjoyment of writing and sharing these stories with other fans.
This story takes place shortly before Nodoka shows up in Ranma 1/2, and I am currently only drawing the Weapon X program from Marvel and am not sure if any other Marvel characters/people will show up [reasoning being that Wolverine was on his own long before he teamed up with the X-Men, so if Weapon X was to get a hold of anyone that they have a chance to change them and that the X-Men might or might not ever hear about the person]
Ok, this is also where more of the X-Over aspects of this fanfic become apparent. Hopefully I don't lose anyone as I try to tie in a few characters from other universes and dimensions outside of the Ranma Verse. Also I am borrowing a character or two. I don't really want to do what many Fanfiction authors have done in the past and bog myself down with 50 60 characters from various dimensions. So unless I get many many requests from people I will probably only be borrowing one to three characters from any dimension/universe/continuum other than Ranma.
( ) = Thoughts * * = Telepathy = Chinese [due to those ever loved Amazons] / / = Machine Language [no not binary, machine people, it explains in the fic] [ ] = Authors description/explanation [I like to ramble sometimes]
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In her room after an exhausting day attempting to follow the wayward martial artists, Nabiki relaxes and takes out a manga to get her mind off of things for a bit hopefully to regain a bit of mental acuity before once again tackling the problem that is her sisters fiancé' Ranma. After drifting off for a bit she starts to doze.
Looking around Nabiki is startled to find that she is alone and that there is nothing other than darkness around her. Peering into the Void she sees what appears to be a light ahead of her. Gazing into the light [cheesy, ne?] she sees the beginning of stars begin to appear around her until it appears that she is suspended in space with unknown constellations. Right when she's about to say something...
RRIIINNNGGGG!!!!!
Startled awake Nabiki rushes to her phone, still shuddering and catching her breath from being suddenly awakened she picks up the receiver before it can ring again. "Hello, this better be good."
"..."
Nodding a bit "yeah, I understand."
"..."
Twirling the phone cord around her finger "uh huh, yep, look just tell me what you saw."
"..."
looking a little irritated "No that won't be necessary, and yes if your information pans out you'll get just compensation."
"..."
Getting a bit fidgety at the stalling on the other end of the line Nabiki starts to change to go out, "Ok, I'll believe you saw something a touch weird. Yes this is Ranma that I had you Track." Stepping out of her shorts.
"..."
"Get to the point, what did you see?" Quickly pulling her shirt over her head while maintaining her grip on the phone.
"..."
Removing her underwear while continuing to listen she almost drops the receiver as she falls onto her bed, "He did what? Not possible. No martial art could do that could it?" still a little stunned she scratches slightly under her breast.
"..."
"Ok, you have tape to back it up don't you? I'll be right there." Nabiki then rushes out of her room intent on getting somewhere in a hurry. Only to almost run into the back of Genma as he was turning towards the stairs after leaving his room. Glancing down and realizing her state of dress the mercantile girl blushes a deep red then jumps back in her room before anyone can see her and quickly gets dressed. Mumbling under her breath something about stupid martial artists and Ranma had better be worth this she went downstairs. Leaving her room Nabiki had failed to notice a little black piglet hiding around the corner who went from being very embarrassed to being incredibly angry from what he over heard from Nabiki.
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Scene: Barren metallic room, light present, but no visible source, a single view port at one side but not visible entrances. The floor starts to flow upwards into what looks like a chair large throne or control chair, continuing to flow upwards after the chair stopped a masculine humanoid figure forms. Where the room is a cold metallic silver the figure in the seat is a smooth, chrome metallic green. Features form and black eyes appear in the face. His features further flow into the shape that seems to form like liquid flowing into a mold. Once his face is fully formed he blinks then looking at the screen he gestures with his right arm. The screen lights up with some starscape visible on it. The figure waves his arm around a bit as he's waiving it around the screen zooms in on a star or zooms out and then refocuses on another star. After a few minutes of this the creature seems to like what he sees and then motions with his left arm a bit which brings up some display statistics in an unknown geometric language on the left side of the screen. Grinning more he stands up, as he stands up the chair he was sitting in flows back into the floor.
In the star system that he is monitoring some star ships are seen transversing the local space on various drives, some fantastical, some mysterious. One appears to be traveling on a plume of blue white fusion. Another seems to be projecting a quantum singularity [black hole] in front allowing the intense gravity in front of it to pull it along. Another appears to be an old WWII German Submarine with an actual propeller behind it riding a visible stream of energy that belts thru the solar system.
While he is watching the display the sub is suddenly attacked by a trio of crystalline ships shooting some form of bluish energy at the hull of the ship. It turns in the galactic Ley Line and fires some form of pulsing purple black energy back at them followed by a volley of some sort of missile or torpedo. The trio of ships scatters from the purple black energy, but unfortunately two of them are taken out by the missiles before they can re-group. The third then retreats far from the bluish energy stream that the sub is traveling on.
As he's watching a figure flows from the wall forming into a delicate female humanoid made out of a brilliant chrome blue. After fully forming including a full mane of hair she steps up to the masculine figure and leans into his body. He looks down and smiles at seeing the female next to him and reaches out his arm around her waist.
/Love, there is our path./ He says pointing at the space sub. /Our daughter will have the nourishment and the guides that she needs to grow on that ship./
/Then let us deliver her upon the Dwarves, and may they love her as we would./ She says starting to form into the floor by his side. /May her growth lead her back to the Matrix./
/May her growth lead her back to the Matrix./ The male said watching his mate disappear into the floor before sinking into it himself.
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In a concrete room, with bad florescent lighting a figure is hunched over a computer console. He looks similar to the scientist that Happosei had attacked to free Ranma earlier except instead of black hair he has dark brown hair, as well as slightly blemished skin as if from too much acne in his youth. Also he is obviously of American decent instead of from the local gene pool. Appearing on the computer screen in front of him is a status report with the following read out:
Weapon X, Japan Branch
Field research on Subject 24601
Subject 24601 is a Japanese Male approx. 16 years of age. Slender
toned build, 66 inches in height, unknown weight. Seemingly
undereducated and emotionally retarded or stunted from basic
observation. Though appears to be trained to emulate various
abilities and powers displayed by mutant kind. Perhaps an idiot
savant of combat? Subject to be put in dangerous situation to allow
Weapon X recon team Beta-5 to apprehend after injury for DNA/RNA
Grafting and Replacement followed by cellular regrowth and repair
utilizing Subject YOB1134 cellular samples. Rapid cellular growth
acceleration in regeneration tank after DNA/RNA grafts to be placed
in spinal column and central nervous system. Process to include all
Dimensional Mass displacement technology available to Weapon X Japan
branch, as well as full neural wipe and reprogramming for recognizance
and wet works conditioning. Also include Temporal Displacement
shielding and Phased Temporal Storage Retrieval System PTSRS-15C.
PTSRS-15C to be properly outfitted after verification of conditioning
for in field assignment.
After reading the opening page summery of the subject, the scientist gets up and holds up a schematic of a human skeleton against another one. Frowning at the overlay he walks over to a drafting table where a series of transparent overlays are placed over each other. Each one is of various aspects of the human body, all perfectly overlap each other leaving the top one when down to appear as a perfectly human body. Flipping through 10 sheets he comes across one that is of no known human physiology though it appears to be an amalgam between the human nervous system and the cardiovascular system. Flipping further down leads to another unknown page of what appears to be an almost crystalline energy pathway diagram, although it is still within the confines of the human structure. Further flipping comes across a full cardiovascular diagram but of a mirror image to where the true blood pathways should be. Seemingly there are far to many sheets to accurately fit all of the human systems, by more than a factor of 10.
Slapping the table to the side and scattering the diagrams the scientist growls out something in German. Coming to another table he looks down at another human schematic, but this one with a techno-organic look, as well as various slots grafted onto the skeleton as well small boxes throughout the entire muscular framework.
Pulling out a pocket tape recording machine the scientist begins to speak fluent Japanese into the recorder, "With the failure to complete Subject 24601 and the loss of research data to even begin the project again Weapon X Japan branch must move on to the planned alternate human enhancement project. Still searching for suitable subjects to utilize in this program. Team Beta-5's contact to be considered untrustworthy due to his involvement with destroying the lab producing Subject 24601's enhancements. Contact if involved in any further altercations to be terminated on sight. Begin construction of alternate location to contain and alter later subjects for subsequent enhancement and reconditioning." Flipping off the recorder the scientist glances around the lab in disgust and storms out of the room.
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On the other side of Nerima, Happosei had arrived at the destination that he had thought of earlier when he had told Ranma that they should talk. It was a small-secluded glade on the outskirts of the town, trees enclosing the area and providing a good measure of privacy inside the glade from outside observation.
Ranma-chan appears beside Happosei after she re-orientated from a miscalculated bound. Looking a very winded and her eyes slightly crossed from concentrating hard for an extended period of time she slumped to the ground in exhaustion. "We there old man?" She managed to wheeze out in between gasps for breath.
"Yes Ranma, we've arrived at the location. I'll give you a few minutes to recover and then I'll return and we can discuss what is going on." So saying Happosei bounded out of the glade back the way that they came. Ranma-chan just stared at where the old man had gone and then fell on her back letting her exhaustion overwhelm her.
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The gang was just your average group of student delinquents, or so they looked. Bout 5 of them dressed in their school clothes, but they were leading a girl between them, she was of average looks with tear streaks leading down her cheeks and dressed in a female version of their uniform. She tried to bolt seeing the group lead her towards a secluded grove of trees up ahead.
"Now now, we'll be having none of that Shiratori. You behave this time and maybe we won't have to whip you."
Breaking down and crying again the girl just let herself be led into the grove in submission. Once there though she bumped into the back of the leader.
Right before being bumped into however the leader of the gang had stopped because the grove wasn't empty like he thought. "Alright, now there's a beaut if I've ever seen one. Grab her before she wakes up boys." Two of the gang went over to the girl that they had found in the glade that they were planning to use for their previous fun. She was short and very busty, only wearing a tight tank top with no bra underneath and a pair of black pants, with fire engine red hair pulled back into a braid. As the two started to hold her arms down she groggily came to.
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Ranma-chan started to come awake as someone grabbed her arm. Twisting upwards and around as soon as she could she heard a snapping sound and some gasps, followed by an incoherent yell of pain.
One of the people that had invaded her glade yelled something that she didn't make out. Two other people came up from behind him and one of them pulled out a wicked looking knife while the other pulled out a chain and started whipping it around. Ranma-chan looked at this and shrugged her shoulders, trying to figure out what to do. The guy with the chain whipped it forward in a quick revolution followed by a snap. Not bothering to block it [as well as being to much in though to let her body act on muscle memory/reflex] the chain hit Ranma-chan on her side tearing a gash in her shirt and pushing her down a little. The punk seeing this smirk untill he noticed that she wasn't acting as if she was in pain. The knife wielder jumped forward with a stab to take her down quick and she still hadn't reacted much when his blade punched through her shirt and seemingly into her. Looking down in amazement she steps back slightly watching the knife remove from her torso leaving no blood on the blade. Feeling down with her hand she sees a small scratch on her skin where the knife had entered her. The gang by this time seems to have enough. The leader taking out a small gun points it at her head and fires off one shot.
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Happosei was returning to the glade he had left Ranma-chan in to recover when he heard the sharp retort of a gun. Speeding up to get there he sees a girl in a torn dress running towards the town behind him and coming closer to the trees he observes two high school boys holding a third between them running as if all the shades of hell are after them. Following shortly after them are two others including one carrying a small revolver. Happosei having little like of most weapons anyways and extreme dislike of a dishonorable weapon like a gun takes out the kid with one happodaikarin and destroys the gun while the punk gets up and continues running yelling something about demons.
Dusting his hands as he enters the glade he sees Ranma-chan starting to sit up from the ground rubbing her forehead. When she removes her hand from it he sees a small amount of skin that appears to be bruised and split over one of her eyebrows.
"What the heck was that. It hurt." She mumbled while continuing to sit up.
Happosei then notices the two gashes in her torso near her waist. Both have small scratches but no other blemishes present. "So Ranma, had a little run in with a gang?"
"Gang? Was that what that thing was?" She asks while once again rubbing her forehead. "Dang, that itches now."
"No the gang were the five boys."
"Then what was that noisy thing that that boy pointed at me? It hurt."
"That student was a gun. Not the most honorable way to take down an opponent."
"oh."
Not really knowing what next to say Ranma-chan sits back down on the ground. "So old man, why did you bring me here?"
"To find out what you know, and to help fill in what you don't"
"Well, I guess that my name's Ranma, and that I'm both a boy" now she motions to her breasts "and a girl. Also that I'm very strong, and that I somehow don't take much damage. And judging from those boys reactions that that is not normal."
"No Ranma it isn't." Happosei sits on a rock and lights his pipe. "You were a 16 year old student of the Anything Goes School of Martial Arts untill a week ago. Now you will be who you want to be." Taking a drag on the pipe and then exhaling contemplatively "personally I'd like for you to continue the school but it is obvious that you will need to be re-taught even the basics, not to mention any of the advanced forms."
"So what do I do now? I don't remember anything before waking up in that tank that you found me in."
"Well, first I recommend that you try to find out whether you want to continue your old life. Won't be easy, and you have several girls, and a few guys out to get you in more than one way. Or you can leave here and find another path. Your choice."
"Humph, some choice. Guess I'll at least try my old life for a bit and see if it's worth it."
"You'll find that it does have its rewards, but try to keep your new abilities a secret. I'll help the family accept that you have no memory. It's the least I can do now."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means that watching you almost die, and then trying to help you recover I have wronged you. Now I owe you a debt, and I will see that debt released before I pass on."
"How did you wrong me?"
"Doesn't matter now, but either way the old Ranma is dead. I'll try to explain everything that I can so that you can at least fit in a bit. Make yourself comfortable, this will take awhile."
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Author's notes:
This one took a bit longer than I thought, however it is also longer than the previous. As I gain experience they will become longer yet.
Yes I'm getting ready to start the actual crossovers now [outside of weapon x] I'm actually hoping that someone can pin where I'm drawing some of the crossovers from though. I've seen more Anime series than I can count, and I've read more Books than I can keep track of. As such I've got a huge repertoire of characters and dimensions to take from. I'll be compiling a key or glossary of X-Overs and Characters once I reach 20,000 words for this fanfic, If anyone has an idea where anything comes from [Powers included] please post it in the reviews. Also if anyone wants an explanation or a posting at the end of the chapters please e-mail me and I'll try to explain.
TTFN
Standard Disclaimer... I don't own Ranma 1/2, Marvel, or any other works of fantasy/fiction or published works that appear in this fanfiction. I do this for no profit and only for the enjoyment of writing and sharing these stories with other fans.
This story takes place shortly before Nodoka shows up in Ranma 1/2, and I am currently only drawing the Weapon X program from Marvel and am not sure if any other Marvel characters/people will show up [reasoning being that Wolverine was on his own long before he teamed up with the X-Men, so if Weapon X was to get a hold of anyone that they have a chance to change them and that the X-Men might or might not ever hear about the person]
Ok, this is also where more of the X-Over aspects of this fanfic become apparent. Hopefully I don't lose anyone as I try to tie in a few characters from other universes and dimensions outside of the Ranma Verse. Also I am borrowing a character or two. I don't really want to do what many Fanfiction authors have done in the past and bog myself down with 50 60 characters from various dimensions. So unless I get many many requests from people I will probably only be borrowing one to three characters from any dimension/universe/continuum other than Ranma.
( ) = Thoughts * * = Telepathy = Chinese [due to those ever loved Amazons] / / = Machine Language [no not binary, machine people, it explains in the fic] [ ] = Authors description/explanation [I like to ramble sometimes]
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In her room after an exhausting day attempting to follow the wayward martial artists, Nabiki relaxes and takes out a manga to get her mind off of things for a bit hopefully to regain a bit of mental acuity before once again tackling the problem that is her sisters fiancé' Ranma. After drifting off for a bit she starts to doze.
Looking around Nabiki is startled to find that she is alone and that there is nothing other than darkness around her. Peering into the Void she sees what appears to be a light ahead of her. Gazing into the light [cheesy, ne?] she sees the beginning of stars begin to appear around her until it appears that she is suspended in space with unknown constellations. Right when she's about to say something...
RRIIINNNGGGG!!!!!
Startled awake Nabiki rushes to her phone, still shuddering and catching her breath from being suddenly awakened she picks up the receiver before it can ring again. "Hello, this better be good."
"..."
Nodding a bit "yeah, I understand."
"..."
Twirling the phone cord around her finger "uh huh, yep, look just tell me what you saw."
"..."
looking a little irritated "No that won't be necessary, and yes if your information pans out you'll get just compensation."
"..."
Getting a bit fidgety at the stalling on the other end of the line Nabiki starts to change to go out, "Ok, I'll believe you saw something a touch weird. Yes this is Ranma that I had you Track." Stepping out of her shorts.
"..."
"Get to the point, what did you see?" Quickly pulling her shirt over her head while maintaining her grip on the phone.
"..."
Removing her underwear while continuing to listen she almost drops the receiver as she falls onto her bed, "He did what? Not possible. No martial art could do that could it?" still a little stunned she scratches slightly under her breast.
"..."
"Ok, you have tape to back it up don't you? I'll be right there." Nabiki then rushes out of her room intent on getting somewhere in a hurry. Only to almost run into the back of Genma as he was turning towards the stairs after leaving his room. Glancing down and realizing her state of dress the mercantile girl blushes a deep red then jumps back in her room before anyone can see her and quickly gets dressed. Mumbling under her breath something about stupid martial artists and Ranma had better be worth this she went downstairs. Leaving her room Nabiki had failed to notice a little black piglet hiding around the corner who went from being very embarrassed to being incredibly angry from what he over heard from Nabiki.
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Scene: Barren metallic room, light present, but no visible source, a single view port at one side but not visible entrances. The floor starts to flow upwards into what looks like a chair large throne or control chair, continuing to flow upwards after the chair stopped a masculine humanoid figure forms. Where the room is a cold metallic silver the figure in the seat is a smooth, chrome metallic green. Features form and black eyes appear in the face. His features further flow into the shape that seems to form like liquid flowing into a mold. Once his face is fully formed he blinks then looking at the screen he gestures with his right arm. The screen lights up with some starscape visible on it. The figure waves his arm around a bit as he's waiving it around the screen zooms in on a star or zooms out and then refocuses on another star. After a few minutes of this the creature seems to like what he sees and then motions with his left arm a bit which brings up some display statistics in an unknown geometric language on the left side of the screen. Grinning more he stands up, as he stands up the chair he was sitting in flows back into the floor.
In the star system that he is monitoring some star ships are seen transversing the local space on various drives, some fantastical, some mysterious. One appears to be traveling on a plume of blue white fusion. Another seems to be projecting a quantum singularity [black hole] in front allowing the intense gravity in front of it to pull it along. Another appears to be an old WWII German Submarine with an actual propeller behind it riding a visible stream of energy that belts thru the solar system.
While he is watching the display the sub is suddenly attacked by a trio of crystalline ships shooting some form of bluish energy at the hull of the ship. It turns in the galactic Ley Line and fires some form of pulsing purple black energy back at them followed by a volley of some sort of missile or torpedo. The trio of ships scatters from the purple black energy, but unfortunately two of them are taken out by the missiles before they can re-group. The third then retreats far from the bluish energy stream that the sub is traveling on.
As he's watching a figure flows from the wall forming into a delicate female humanoid made out of a brilliant chrome blue. After fully forming including a full mane of hair she steps up to the masculine figure and leans into his body. He looks down and smiles at seeing the female next to him and reaches out his arm around her waist.
/Love, there is our path./ He says pointing at the space sub. /Our daughter will have the nourishment and the guides that she needs to grow on that ship./
/Then let us deliver her upon the Dwarves, and may they love her as we would./ She says starting to form into the floor by his side. /May her growth lead her back to the Matrix./
/May her growth lead her back to the Matrix./ The male said watching his mate disappear into the floor before sinking into it himself.
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In a concrete room, with bad florescent lighting a figure is hunched over a computer console. He looks similar to the scientist that Happosei had attacked to free Ranma earlier except instead of black hair he has dark brown hair, as well as slightly blemished skin as if from too much acne in his youth. Also he is obviously of American decent instead of from the local gene pool. Appearing on the computer screen in front of him is a status report with the following read out:
Weapon X, Japan Branch
Field research on Subject 24601
Subject 24601 is a Japanese Male approx. 16 years of age. Slender
toned build, 66 inches in height, unknown weight. Seemingly
undereducated and emotionally retarded or stunted from basic
observation. Though appears to be trained to emulate various
abilities and powers displayed by mutant kind. Perhaps an idiot
savant of combat? Subject to be put in dangerous situation to allow
Weapon X recon team Beta-5 to apprehend after injury for DNA/RNA
Grafting and Replacement followed by cellular regrowth and repair
utilizing Subject YOB1134 cellular samples. Rapid cellular growth
acceleration in regeneration tank after DNA/RNA grafts to be placed
in spinal column and central nervous system. Process to include all
Dimensional Mass displacement technology available to Weapon X Japan
branch, as well as full neural wipe and reprogramming for recognizance
and wet works conditioning. Also include Temporal Displacement
shielding and Phased Temporal Storage Retrieval System PTSRS-15C.
PTSRS-15C to be properly outfitted after verification of conditioning
for in field assignment.
After reading the opening page summery of the subject, the scientist gets up and holds up a schematic of a human skeleton against another one. Frowning at the overlay he walks over to a drafting table where a series of transparent overlays are placed over each other. Each one is of various aspects of the human body, all perfectly overlap each other leaving the top one when down to appear as a perfectly human body. Flipping through 10 sheets he comes across one that is of no known human physiology though it appears to be an amalgam between the human nervous system and the cardiovascular system. Flipping further down leads to another unknown page of what appears to be an almost crystalline energy pathway diagram, although it is still within the confines of the human structure. Further flipping comes across a full cardiovascular diagram but of a mirror image to where the true blood pathways should be. Seemingly there are far to many sheets to accurately fit all of the human systems, by more than a factor of 10.
Slapping the table to the side and scattering the diagrams the scientist growls out something in German. Coming to another table he looks down at another human schematic, but this one with a techno-organic look, as well as various slots grafted onto the skeleton as well small boxes throughout the entire muscular framework.
Pulling out a pocket tape recording machine the scientist begins to speak fluent Japanese into the recorder, "With the failure to complete Subject 24601 and the loss of research data to even begin the project again Weapon X Japan branch must move on to the planned alternate human enhancement project. Still searching for suitable subjects to utilize in this program. Team Beta-5's contact to be considered untrustworthy due to his involvement with destroying the lab producing Subject 24601's enhancements. Contact if involved in any further altercations to be terminated on sight. Begin construction of alternate location to contain and alter later subjects for subsequent enhancement and reconditioning." Flipping off the recorder the scientist glances around the lab in disgust and storms out of the room.
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On the other side of Nerima, Happosei had arrived at the destination that he had thought of earlier when he had told Ranma that they should talk. It was a small-secluded glade on the outskirts of the town, trees enclosing the area and providing a good measure of privacy inside the glade from outside observation.
Ranma-chan appears beside Happosei after she re-orientated from a miscalculated bound. Looking a very winded and her eyes slightly crossed from concentrating hard for an extended period of time she slumped to the ground in exhaustion. "We there old man?" She managed to wheeze out in between gasps for breath.
"Yes Ranma, we've arrived at the location. I'll give you a few minutes to recover and then I'll return and we can discuss what is going on." So saying Happosei bounded out of the glade back the way that they came. Ranma-chan just stared at where the old man had gone and then fell on her back letting her exhaustion overwhelm her.
**********
The gang was just your average group of student delinquents, or so they looked. Bout 5 of them dressed in their school clothes, but they were leading a girl between them, she was of average looks with tear streaks leading down her cheeks and dressed in a female version of their uniform. She tried to bolt seeing the group lead her towards a secluded grove of trees up ahead.
"Now now, we'll be having none of that Shiratori. You behave this time and maybe we won't have to whip you."
Breaking down and crying again the girl just let herself be led into the grove in submission. Once there though she bumped into the back of the leader.
Right before being bumped into however the leader of the gang had stopped because the grove wasn't empty like he thought. "Alright, now there's a beaut if I've ever seen one. Grab her before she wakes up boys." Two of the gang went over to the girl that they had found in the glade that they were planning to use for their previous fun. She was short and very busty, only wearing a tight tank top with no bra underneath and a pair of black pants, with fire engine red hair pulled back into a braid. As the two started to hold her arms down she groggily came to.
**********
Ranma-chan started to come awake as someone grabbed her arm. Twisting upwards and around as soon as she could she heard a snapping sound and some gasps, followed by an incoherent yell of pain.
One of the people that had invaded her glade yelled something that she didn't make out. Two other people came up from behind him and one of them pulled out a wicked looking knife while the other pulled out a chain and started whipping it around. Ranma-chan looked at this and shrugged her shoulders, trying to figure out what to do. The guy with the chain whipped it forward in a quick revolution followed by a snap. Not bothering to block it [as well as being to much in though to let her body act on muscle memory/reflex] the chain hit Ranma-chan on her side tearing a gash in her shirt and pushing her down a little. The punk seeing this smirk untill he noticed that she wasn't acting as if she was in pain. The knife wielder jumped forward with a stab to take her down quick and she still hadn't reacted much when his blade punched through her shirt and seemingly into her. Looking down in amazement she steps back slightly watching the knife remove from her torso leaving no blood on the blade. Feeling down with her hand she sees a small scratch on her skin where the knife had entered her. The gang by this time seems to have enough. The leader taking out a small gun points it at her head and fires off one shot.
**********
Happosei was returning to the glade he had left Ranma-chan in to recover when he heard the sharp retort of a gun. Speeding up to get there he sees a girl in a torn dress running towards the town behind him and coming closer to the trees he observes two high school boys holding a third between them running as if all the shades of hell are after them. Following shortly after them are two others including one carrying a small revolver. Happosei having little like of most weapons anyways and extreme dislike of a dishonorable weapon like a gun takes out the kid with one happodaikarin and destroys the gun while the punk gets up and continues running yelling something about demons.
Dusting his hands as he enters the glade he sees Ranma-chan starting to sit up from the ground rubbing her forehead. When she removes her hand from it he sees a small amount of skin that appears to be bruised and split over one of her eyebrows.
"What the heck was that. It hurt." She mumbled while continuing to sit up.
Happosei then notices the two gashes in her torso near her waist. Both have small scratches but no other blemishes present. "So Ranma, had a little run in with a gang?"
"Gang? Was that what that thing was?" She asks while once again rubbing her forehead. "Dang, that itches now."
"No the gang were the five boys."
"Then what was that noisy thing that that boy pointed at me? It hurt."
"That student was a gun. Not the most honorable way to take down an opponent."
"oh."
Not really knowing what next to say Ranma-chan sits back down on the ground. "So old man, why did you bring me here?"
"To find out what you know, and to help fill in what you don't"
"Well, I guess that my name's Ranma, and that I'm both a boy" now she motions to her breasts "and a girl. Also that I'm very strong, and that I somehow don't take much damage. And judging from those boys reactions that that is not normal."
"No Ranma it isn't." Happosei sits on a rock and lights his pipe. "You were a 16 year old student of the Anything Goes School of Martial Arts untill a week ago. Now you will be who you want to be." Taking a drag on the pipe and then exhaling contemplatively "personally I'd like for you to continue the school but it is obvious that you will need to be re-taught even the basics, not to mention any of the advanced forms."
"So what do I do now? I don't remember anything before waking up in that tank that you found me in."
"Well, first I recommend that you try to find out whether you want to continue your old life. Won't be easy, and you have several girls, and a few guys out to get you in more than one way. Or you can leave here and find another path. Your choice."
"Humph, some choice. Guess I'll at least try my old life for a bit and see if it's worth it."
"You'll find that it does have its rewards, but try to keep your new abilities a secret. I'll help the family accept that you have no memory. It's the least I can do now."
"What's that supposed to mean?"
"It means that watching you almost die, and then trying to help you recover I have wronged you. Now I owe you a debt, and I will see that debt released before I pass on."
"How did you wrong me?"
"Doesn't matter now, but either way the old Ranma is dead. I'll try to explain everything that I can so that you can at least fit in a bit. Make yourself comfortable, this will take awhile."
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Author's notes:
This one took a bit longer than I thought, however it is also longer than the previous. As I gain experience they will become longer yet.
Yes I'm getting ready to start the actual crossovers now [outside of weapon x] I'm actually hoping that someone can pin where I'm drawing some of the crossovers from though. I've seen more Anime series than I can count, and I've read more Books than I can keep track of. As such I've got a huge repertoire of characters and dimensions to take from. I'll be compiling a key or glossary of X-Overs and Characters once I reach 20,000 words for this fanfic, If anyone has an idea where anything comes from [Powers included] please post it in the reviews. Also if anyone wants an explanation or a posting at the end of the chapters please e-mail me and I'll try to explain.
TTFN