Notes - This side story takes place during the time that Ranma is visiting Jade and getting into a rather large mess. As such Ranma won't be in this story, but it will have the Ranko-bot, the Digger Girls, the Ninja High School crowd, and a villain that fits this series to a 'T' It's written with the help of a friend of mine named Gordon Stevenson.

The villain Irving Bob was created by Dan McCllelan from when him and Gordon used to role play using the character and used in this story with permission

C. Rose

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Disclaimer: Gold Digger and Ninja High school are notorious for cute girls running around with large guns and giving lots of panty shots. This story is not exception to that rule, so expect some lime scenes though I'll never move over into lemon territory, I might hint at it though.

Golden Opportunity
Side Story - Pink Avenger Vs Irving Bob
Chapter 01
Cory D. Rose -
Gordon Stevenson - Gordon304shaw.ca
(c) 2004

It wasn't even dark when Gina got home from her little visit to Ryan's place. Although she did feel a million times better than she had the day before, more satisfied and content. She pulled onto the driveway as the ground lifted up let her enter the underground parking garage. She never actually parked in the main garage because it was used for storage mostly. A few seconds later she entered the area where she kept all vehicles she used while out on missions.

Brianna kept a couple of things down here as well, but she usually retooled the unused vehicles instead of making her own. Unless you wanted to count the Lazy Boy-O-Doom, complete with its hover jets, missile defense system, rotary gun, and a few other gadgets that shouldn't be mentioned. The thing was a flying death trap that could level entire towns if it used right.

Gina ignored the contraption sitting at the back of the garage going through yet another overhaul. She was just glad it wasn't being used for anything at the moment. She walked over to a door and entered the elevator that would take her to the first floor.

Her time with Ryan hadn't worked out quite as she planned, but she figured she might have been pushing him a bit much lately. In the end she managed to get what she wanted though. Once the elevator stopped she opened the door, made her way over to the kitchen and started to smell something really good.

"Strype?"

"In here Gina, I'm just cooking dinner." Britanny's husband said as he flipped some steaks on the grill.

The blonde just grinned, she'd been so busy lately that she hadn't had a chance to eat any of Strype's cooking. "That's making me hungry just looking at it."

"An old friend of Britanny's stopped by earlier so I figured this would be a good time to make something special."

"We have a guest? I didn't see a car I the driveway."

"Britanny called her Pinky."

"PINKY! Oooh, I haven't seen her in a long time!" Gina said and bounced around a little. "Where is she?"

"They're out using the hot tub, I just took them some drinks a little while ago. The two of them are having a talk about something."

"Oh? I'll have to go out and find out what it she's been up to lately."

"Something bad I think." Strype said.

"Oh?"

"She was crying."

"Well I'll let Brit take care of that problem, but I still want to talk to her. I'm going to go and get changed and then head out to the hot tub."

"I'll bring dinner out for everyone."

"Excellent!"

Dashing out of the kitchen, Gina ran to her room, tossed her clothes across the room and quickly put on a simple green striped bikini with white highlights. It didn't fit her, the thing stretched across her body like a small skin tight glove. A bit modest for her tastes, but this was only Pinky after all and Gina just felt like relaxing anyway. She'd skinny dip if she wanted someone to notice her.

Now if Ryan was there, she wouldn't have bothered with the bikini at all. She blushed as she ran out of the room with a large fluffy towel over her shoulder. As she was heading down the hall from her room she ran into Ranko. The Android was just coming out of her room.

At one point it had been part of another room, but after Ranko arrived Brianna had taken it upon herself to convert something for the android that would give her a place of her own. Gina glanced inside and noticed that as usual, there were about twenty books floating around, numerous magazines, and even a pile of computer print outs.

"What are you reading about these days Ranko?"

"I'm trying to understand culture."

Gina blinked at the odd topic of choice."

"There are several books in the computer library that you might want to look at"

Ranko nodded. "I read them all yesterday."

"Well we can talk about it tomorrow when I've got a bit more free time if you want."

"Of course."

She wasn't sure why, but Gina had a feeling that Ranko wasn't working right. Lately the android had been rather dull and confused. Gina hasn't been able to figure out why either, just that the android seemed to be unmotivated. Waving, Gina headed down the hall and headed for the living room. Ranko's face was blank as she watched Gina walk off.

A few seconds later she opened the door and sauntered out onto the deck. "Hi Brit!"

"Gina, hop on in!" The werecheetah said and made some room in the large tub.

Dani looked a little shell shocked as she realized Gina was going to join them, then shrugged. "Hi Gina, long time no see."

"I've been busy."

"I'll bet, how was the three day weekend over at Ryan's place?" Brit asked with a glint in her eye.

Blushing again as she stepped into the hot tub, Gina took a second to get comfortable in the hotter than normal water. "Not bad, though I think I wore him out. It was quite a…um, chase."

"That boy always runs." Brit said.

"I know, but he's fun to catch. It reminds me of the first time I met him."

"Yeah, he stole that thing from you."

"Yeah, but he said I was cute even as he did it." Gina said.

"And he liked your hat too." Brit said with a laugh. "It took ten minutes for your hurt bots to get you calmed down."

Gina stuck her tongue out at Brit.

"This sound like an interesting guy." Dani said and drank some of the wine Strype brought earlier. Gina noticed and quickly poured herself a glass, though she did drape herself over Britanny to do it.

"Hey, get off!" Brit growled. She didn't like having certain things pressed into her, even when it was her sister doing it.

"Hold your horses." Gina snapped. "Jinkies, this stuff is pretty good."

"Well get off me before you drink anymore! You know what happened last time you drank anything."

"Hey, I didn't mean to level the building…" Gina muttered, then looked around for something else to talk about. "So Pinky, what brings you by anyway, besides listening to me and Brit arguing?"

Dani sighed and started to look depressed again.

"Ah not this again!" Brit yelled. "Hey, it was not your fault and you know it. The guy took his chances and paid the price."

No matter how many times they told her it wasn't her fault, Dani just couldn't stop feeling guilty about it. She was starting to wonder if coming here was a good or bad idea. Then she heard something familiar, something she hadn't heard in over a month.

"What's that?" Gina asked.

"Oh not now…" Brit muttered and started to stand up.

"Hey, it sounds like we…umph!" Dani started to say as a shadowy figured bounced off the roof, flipped around, and planted a foot right between Dani's eyes. Then she sprang off and landed on the edge of the porch and running further into the back yard. Dani whimpered as she fell over as her mind finally registered the sight of a flared skirt and a panty flash from just a second before.

"Dani!" Brit yelled and grabbed her before the girl could fall.

Gina finally had a chance to catch up and turned around to look at their guest. "Ichi what the hell do you think you are doing?"

"DIE YOU &%%$##$% %$# &%$# $%# %$ !!" Asrial screamed as she landed on the edge of the roof wearing her battle armor. Missile packs on her shoulders lifted up and started to fire.

Dodging and flipping around the back yard, Ichi just laughed as the missiles missed by a mile. In mid air she made an underhanded throw an sent several knives spinning at Asrial. "DIE!!"

Jumping off the roof, Asrial used Brit's head as a spring board and sent more missiles of death flying at Ichi. Brit growled as she fell over and glared at the girls laying waste to the back yard. "Gina…"

"Right." The blonde said and tapped opened up a small box beside the hot tub and pressed a couple of buttons inside. "Done."

"What did you do?" Dani muttered.

Gina pointed at the upstairs window. "That."

Brianna's head was sticking out her bedroom window as a dozen Peebo's flew out into the back yard and they heard Brianna's voice. "Sick'em!"

The PeeboTie fighter shaped devices soared out over the battle zone, and complete with tie fighter sound effects, dove at the two girls. "AGHAAA!! For the Queen!"

Then they got close to the two fighters and started to explode one by one. Brianna ran out onto the back porch in a bathrobe. "Take that!"

Finally silence descended and all they could see was smoke rising from the spot where the two girls were fighting. Then the smoke cleared and they could see to unconscious forms lying across each other on the ground, smoke wafting off them. Two of the PeeboTies circled around them and glaring at the enemy, they looked a little disappointed to be the back up instead of the first wave.

Brianna danced around. "Two more down for the mighty Peebo army."

The doorbell rang.

Turning around, Brianna yelled into the house. "Strype, could you get that!"

"He's not a butler." Brit muttered as she sat back down in the tub.

"He's there, I'm here, simple logistics." Bri muttered as she moved out into the back yard. "Who were we fighting anyway? I couldn't see who it was from my window."

"Asrial and Ichi." Gina said from behind her. "They came out of nowhere, fighting as usual."

"Well that's normal for them. I hope I didn't hurt them to much."

"Asrial was in her armor and you know how strong she is." Gina said as she reached down to pick up one of Ichi's swords. It was bent at a 45 degree angle and slightly charred. "Though you might have used a wee bit to much blasting gel Brianna."

She shrugged. "Eh."

"Hi everybody!"

They turned to see Mimi, with her cat sitting on her shoulder, waving at them from the porch. Gina blinked a few times, she couldn't recall the last time she saw Mimi outside of a battle of some kind. "Mimi?"

"What the heck is witch girl doing here? Think they might be in trouble?" Brianna asked.

"I'm just confused." Gina muttered. "You grab Asrial there and I'll get Ichi."

"You need any help?" Brit called from the hot tub.

"We got them." Brianna yelled back as she placed Asrial's unconscious form over her shoulder. "Need help Gina?"

Gina struggled to lift Ichi, but alls he was doing was dragging her a few inches. She glared at her smirking sister. "No, I just need to run into the house for a second."

Snorting, Brianna grabbed the remains of Ichi's shirt and lifted her up to her other shoulder. "Let's get them inside before anything else happens."

"Aghaa!"

Brit jumped out of the hot tub as the switch Gina used earlier sparked and melted. "What the heck!"

"Bri, get those two down the infirmary. I'll see what Brit's done now."

"Yeah sure, make me do everything."

"Bri."

"Yeah yeah."

Gina ran forward suddenly. "Don't splash water on it!"

To late Brit tuned around as she went to send an arm full of water at the little fire. Dani gasped and vaulted out of the tub just as the whole hot tub electrified. Slightly fried, Britanny sank down into the hot tub dazed and confused.

Gina quickly cut the power to the hot tub and so the electrical fire would go out. "Geeze, all action and no thought."

"She'll be alright." Dani said as she adjusted her towel. "I've seen her take more than that and survive."

"Yeah, me too, I just wish she would learn from her mistakes."

"Eh."

"I want a tuna sandwich." Britanny mumbled as Dani started to pull her form the hot tub. "TUNA TUNNA TUUUUNNNAAA!" She sang.

The first thing that Asrial saw when she opened her eyes was a little silver and blue peebo glaring down at her from a nearby dresser. It didn't look to happy to see that she was moving around and wondered what was going on. Then she noticed several more peebos sitting on the floor of the room glaring up at her, though these were red and silver.

"I see the prisoner is awake!" The blue and silver one shouted. "Number 868, please go and inform the Brianna that the prisoner has come around." One of the other Peebos suddenly turned on its wheels and raced across the room and through a little dog door set into the wall.

"Prisoner?" Asrial muttered and gasped as her head started to throb painfully. "Migraine, migraine, migraine!"

"You will not move from that bed until told to do so, failure to obey these orders will result in a the rather quick destruction of this room and you."

"You can't…"

The door slammed open suddenly and Brianna stalked into the room holding a pair of large guns. "Asrial."

"Brianna, what the heck is going on here?"

"You and your friend destroyed the back yard during your fight!"

"I did no…" Asrial started to say, and then noticed that she wasn't in her battle armor.

"You were throwing around mini missiles by the dozen. The back yard is full of little holes from the detonations."

"But why am I a prisoner?"

Brianna looked confused. "Who told you that?"

"He did." She said pointing at the blue and silver one.

"Sergeant Peebo?"

"I confined her to quarters until we could determine the best way to punisher her, SIR!" The little Peebo seemed to try and come to attention. An amazing feet considering it was a quarter inch from the wood of the dresser and had to move around like a little remote control car.

"Well she's free to go."

"SIR, YES SIR!" The little Peebo yelled and rolled off the dresser, somehow landed on its wheels, and dashed out of the room with the others forming up squads to follow him.

Brianna winced as Sergeant suddenly started to sing in cadence the rest sang along. Off Key of course. The sound vanished down the hallway a few seconds later. "Um…yeah."

"Those things are downright scary at times Brianna." Asrial said as she sat up. She was wearing a bra, under clothing and nothing else. Her ribs were bandaged, but didn't appear to be bothering her very much as she moved around. Grumbling, she swung her legs over, sat on the edge of the bed, and carefully stretched a little. "What the heck really happened."

"Well, you and Ichi were fighting and kind of set off the houses defenses, so several of my Peebo TIE fighters flew out and…, exploded when they got in range. Um…knocking the two of you out." Brianna explained, as she suddenly recalled just how strong Asrial was when she got angry.

"And my armor?"

Brianna blushed. "Um, a little dented?"

"Excuse me?"

"Well I used a little to much gel and damaged your armor. I'll have it fixed tonight."

Asrial sighed. "Find, have it put in storage mode and placed in the trunk of my car."

"No problem, I'll even have your car moved into the garage. Still, I can't believe you tried to kill Ichi like that." Brianna muttered.

Asrial pouted a bit. "We were just playing."

"Right. Well Ichi is still asleep in the next room. It has only been an hour since you two arrived and Ranko has been helping Strype set up the table for everyone. It has been a while since we had a crowd this big." Brianna said as she started to count the number of people in the house.

"How is the android doing?"

"She's been quiet lately. We're not really sure why though, we think she's still adjusting to the fact that she can do whatever she wants. Gina wanted to have Ranma talk to her when he got back from his vacation on Jade."

"I was wondering where he was. How is his magic training going? It hasn't been that long since the last time I was here."

"About like you would expect, he learns fast and uses the magic in odd ways." Brianna said with a laugh. "He caught dad off guard the other day with this simple cantrip spell. Set off a mini hurricane in the back yard when he used too much power. We had to extract a swing set from the neighbor's pool by the time the spell ran its course."

"Oooh! I wish I could have seen that, it sounds like a lot of fun." Asrial said as she stood up. "Now where the hell are my clothes?"

"What happened to your metal bikini?" Brianna asked with a smirk.

"It's around. I'm royalty you know, get me some clothes!" The princess commanded royally.

"Kiss my keester." Brianna said and motioned for Asrial to follow her over to the wall. She pressed a button and the closet suddenly opened up to reveal a strange machine. "Sis still hasn't perfected this thing, but it saves time when you need clothes fast and don't have time to go shopping. Since your clothes didn't survive your fight with Ichi, just press this and it will give you about two hundred selections. Just input your sizes and it will make them for you in about five minutes."

"Cool! I haven't seen a primitive version of this machine since I was in kindergarten and we went on the field trip to the museum." Asrial said as she started to play with knobs and dials. "How quaint."

As a partial clone of Gina, Brianna couldn't help but be irritated that Asrial was badmouthing the machine. "Humph!"

Asrial smirked. "Not much to choose from here, is there?"

"There's enough, just pick something will you. I'll be waiting for you down in the dinning room with the others. I need to check on Ichi as well. That dress she was wearing was ripped to shreds in the blast."

Asrial shrugged. "I'm going to take a shower first. This should be done by the time I get done, so I'll be down in about twenty minutes."

"Okay." Brianna said as she left the room. "See you then."

Ever since coming online in Gina's lab a few weeks before, Ranko spent most of her time trying to adapt to the way things happened around her. Gina's programming was quite thorough and to the point, but there were basic things missing. Like a personality, sure she was programmed to care about the family and people around her, but for some reason she didn't feel it.

Her android brain allowed her to feel feelings to some degree, but even Gina wasn't all knowing when it came to her design. So here she was, sitting in the living room, as the others prepared for dinner, watching TV and wondering where she fit within the house. No matter how hard she tried she just didn't understand what was going on around her at times.

She tried to emulate the girl's actions, but because she didn't understand what the actions meant half the time, she usually messed up. Like when she tried take a shower the day Ranma left on his trip to Jade. Only to have Brianna yank her out of the shower stall and tell her that she was going it wrong.

First she had to take her clothes off, then supposedly use some weird looking substance that her sensors detected as toxic to her skin, to clean her body. Completely illogical, though it smelled nice at least. Even more baffling was the fact that soap came in two different forms, solid and liquid. So to use the items she decided to clean her clothes, wash her body, and her hair all at once. And the clothes, washing them while you washed yourself seemed perfectly logical to her. No one else seemed to think so.

She even found clothing to be completely useless even though her programming mentioned something called morality and dignity. Whatever those were, the program didn't say. Though Gina described them as emotional states of being. Whatever that was, not explanation there either.

So she just placed it in the growing list of notes she made on human behavior and silently wished she was normal again. Killing people was so much easier than worrying about what they thought about you. One little thrust of her hand and they wouldn't bother her anymore, but her new programming made it impossible for her to do that. Stupid reprogramming.

The shower incident was behind her and she knew what to do now, but apparently there were other thing she had to learn. Like why was TV telling her that she needed to "Get rid of that unfresh feeling' by running across a beach and holding hands with a wimp in a some kind of bathing suit that was about to fall down around his ankles.

She could almost swear that half her programming was missing. Getting up she wandered over to the kitchen and helped Strype set the table. He thanked her as she finished and prepared to go back to the TV and start learning about humans again, when she had an idea. She paused for a second and decided that it was good idea, maybe it might even be a good way to learn something from a human that she didn't know.

"Where are you going Ranko?" Strype asked as she started to leave the room.

"To help that girl get ready for dinner."

"Brianna is already doing that."

Ranko nodded and smirked a bit, though she didn't seem to be aware of it. "I know, but there are two of them, I'll handle the other one."

Strype looked a little confused, but he nodded. "I should be done here in about half an hour, just enough time for the girls to get cleaned up and find place to sit."

She nodded and bounced up the stairs.

Once she was out of site Strype wondered if the android had a screw loose, again. Then he shrugged and went back to grilling his feast.

A few seconds later Ranko stopped in front of the door to the room where they placed the one called Ichi. Names tended to confuse her at times and she wondered what was so itchy about the girl. Did she have fleas? Or something that could be described as a 'not so fresh feeling'? She shook her head, stepped inside and shut the door to see a panty clad, topless girl jumping at her from bed.

Preprogrammed reflexes took over and Ranko grinned, very much like Ranma would have. She completely ignored the punch and kick Ichi sent her way and grabbed the girl's ankle and let her mind wander for a second. By the time she finished, Ichi was groaning in pain and shock as Ranko dropped her on the bed.

"Thank you for waking up Ichikun, Strype asked me come and help you get ready for dinner in a little while." Ranko said evenly. "Now over here in this closet you will find…"

Ichi shuddered a little, what the hell was going on.

Brianna was about to knock on the Ichi's door when she heard a commotion inside the room, she quickly opened the door and ran inside. It took a second for the scene for the register, then she started to snicker. Ranko had decided to check up on Ichi, and Ichi didn't like to be shown up, so she wasn't in a good mood.

"&%$#." Ichi muttered.

"Ranko, what did you do?" Brianna asked.

Glancing over at Brianna, Ranko shrugged. "She tried to attack me when I came in to help her get ready for dinner."

Attacking Ranko was like attacking one of Gina's hurt bots. A hurt bot would just attack until the attack stopped or the opponent stopped. Ranko has similar programming now, but she relied on Ranma's martial arts knowledge and skills. So Ichi's surprise attack was reversed on her. Ranko, for some reason, had also folded her up like a pretzel and tossed her on the bed.

Brianna started to laugh.

"It's not FUNNY!" Ichi yelled and wiggled her toes, which were by her ears.

Ranko just looked satisfied as she glared down at the argumentative girl and smirked. "Want some more? Or do I have to get rough with you?"

"Grrrrrr."

"Oh quit whining. Ranko, did you show her how to use the machine yet?"

"No, she attacked me before I could show her anything. I was about to when you came in."

"I'll take care of it since I'm here. You head downstairs and finish helping Strype out."

The android shrugged as she left the room. "Alright, but if she causes another fuss I'll come back and kick her ass."

Ichi growled again. "I'll get you for this!"

When the red headed android was gone Brianna just started to giggle again as she tried to figure out how the she pretzelfied one of the most skilled fighters in the area.

"It's not at all funny." Ichi growled, though she was blushing a bit.

"Right. Heheheheheh."

Over the next few minutes Ichi managed to sort herself out and was doing some stretches at the end of the bed as Brianna explained the machine to her. She got up and walked over to the machine, ran her fingers through her long black hair nervously, and tried to figure the thing out. For some reasons she never really got along with machines that well.

"There isn't much to chose from." She muttered.

"True, but mix and match designs and colors and you can come up with some pretty wild outfits." Brianna explained.

The dark haired ninja shrugged and quickly chose five items. "How long did you say this would take?"

"About ten minutes for all that."

"All right, I think it got it. I'm going to take a shower and get cleaned up."

"Dinner should be ready any time now, so don't take to long getting ready or I'll send Ranko up to see what's taking so long."

Ichi growled and looked around for her swords. "Where are my weapons?"

Brianna shrugged. "Got me, they may still be in the back yard."

"They better by in good working order."

Sweatdropping, Brianna backed out of the room before her face could betray her. She figured hiding would be a good idea once Ichi found out that her swords were a little bent now. Gina had them down in the lab and planned to fix them eventually, but it wasn't too high on her list.

She headed down to Gina's lab to tell her that Ichi was looking for her swords when she noticed something from one of the unused areas. The door to one of Gina's sub-basement storage areas was wide open. There were some dangerous items down there that needed special handling.

A quick check of the door didn't reveal any kind of tampering or forced entry either. She headed down the stairs and grabbed a large hand held ion cannon off a wall display. Who knew what was down there, better to have weapon with a little stopping power at the very least. It's power readings were still in the green so she wouldn't have to worry about recharging it.

"Hello baby, it looks like we may get to have some fun tonight after all." Brianna muttered to herself. She was thinking that the daemon rat might have come back for another try at them. "Ready or not, here I come!"

The room below was full of boxes tossed down here when they got in the way up in Gina's lab. Most of it was labeled for easy retrieval, but sometimes it took a computer to remember just where a box was if they needed anything. The walkway at the bottom of the stairs was about fifty feet long and just wide enough for her to move around.

In the distance she could hear a soft beeping sound. For a brief second she dismissed it, and then remembered that everything down her was supposed to have all the batteries removed. Ever since that incident a few years back when one of Gina's high school lab experiments went amuck and trashed the house during a lightning storm.

Brianna shuddered, that thing gave new meaning to what she thought of a bubblegum machine. She shook her head and wondered what ever happened to that thing. At the end of the walkway she spotted a box with a loose panel and bent down to check it out.

"What do we have here?"

According to the label there was a hurt bot in the crate, an early model that Gina didn't use anymore. The wodden panel looked as it was slightly charred as she examined it and she could see a pair of eyes looking out at her from inside the box.

"mommy?" Something said.

"Aghaaa!" Brianna yelled and scrambled back, pointing the Ion cannon at the crate. "What the hell?"

"I was about to ask the same question."

Brianna spun around and nearly screamed again, before she noticed that it was just Gina. "Wha…what is that thing in there?"

Kneeling down in a rather interesting pose, Gina reached inside and pulled out a little furry robot. "It's an old experiment. I forgot he was down here."

"What is it?"

Gina grinned. "It's Beeper!"

Brianna fell over as it beeped happily. "Right, and why did you make it?"

With a squeeze Gina turned it off and eyes went dark again. "I built beeper back when I was in middle school. It's a pretty simple design, but back in those days it was my greatest invention ever." Gina said as she happily cradled it between her breasts.

"How did it turn on?"

The blonde scientist looked around and pointed at the ceiling. They could see a large grey and black scorch mark on the ceiling that led down the wall and right to the crate. "Looks like some kind of power surge from the wiring in the ceiling. I'll have to look into that when I get a chance. The damage is new, less than a day I'd say, so it shouldn't be to hard to track down."

Getting to her feet, Brianna quickly powered down her Ion gun. "Ichi was looking for her swords earlier, I was on my way down to tell you about it when I heard beeper there."

"I'm not sure I can repair the swords, they were completely bent out of shape by the blast. I'm sure we can replace them though, just like what we did when we made Mom's sword for the tournament a few months ago."

"You know how stubborn Ichi can be."

Gina shrugged. "It's not like we can do much about it now, she'll just have accept it."

"So what were doing before I bothered you?"

"Me and Penny are setting up a network between our main computers to perform an experiment we've been wanting to work on."

"Oh? Anything you need my help with?"

"It's not a weapon, just a program for some of our Beta technology experiments."

"I can help with that…"

"Well lets see what happens, I was thinking you might want to meet Ranma when he gets back from Jade."

Brianna perked up. "Now there's an idea that could be fun."

"I still can't believe you pulled that Virtual Reality stuff with him, he doesn't even understand how a TV works."

Whistling nervously, Brianna just smirked. "Oh, he knows a few things now."

Gina glared. "I don't want to hear anymore. Eeesh, you kidnapped him and forced him to do something he didn't want to do."

"That's what you think." Brianna said as she walked off and cackled loudly.

"That was weird." Gina muttered and wondered if Brianna really did do what they thought they did. She was a bad liar when she was after a guy she liked. "She's acting stranger than normal, I'll have to look into this, later. Right now I have other things to do."

Laughing, Gina put beeper back in the crate, secured the loose board, and headed back to her lab. She turned the lights out as she headed up the stairs, turned off Brianna's Ion gun as she walked by, and made some mental calculations to relay to Penny.

In the shadows nearby, something small moved around and looked around as its eyes seemed to almost glow in the dark. Then it ran across the room, jumped on a crate and looked up into the shadowed corner. The AC vent cover was missing and the small form jumped into the duct and vanished a few seconds later. It was obviously a rat, but what was it doing there?

Bad mood didn't describe what Barbra was feeling as she stalked up the steps to the Federal Bureau of Investigations building in New York. Even this late in the day the almost every light in the building was on as various agencies struggled to do their jobs and solve cases. She glared at an intern that was coming down the stairs and made sure the girl didn't come within five feet of her. Agent M was going to pay for what he did to her even if she had to kick his ass across every square inch of New York to do it.

Dani was missing and hadn't been seen since the day she stopped the bank heist. She knew a dead body was found at the scene and instead of the usual protocol that Agency Zero used in cases like this, to recruit new members, they sat back and did nothing. It didn't help that her supervisor, Debra had arrived and told her point blank that if she went into the bank she would find herself back behind bars with several decades tacked on for good measure.

That girl wasn't completely human, but whatever her abilities were she was able to frighten every agent into doing what she wanted to do. One of their newest recruits, Agent Zane was a massive Amazon, at least eight foot tall with the body and muscle of a god. Though Barbra wondered why the girl wore glasses even if they did look good on her. Zane wasn't at the office today, she'd made a big production about what she planned to do on her day off and gone into some rather grotesque detail. Barbra shuddered a bit, along with the height and muscle, it seemed Zane also came with the Amazon libido and went after everyone that even caught her eye.

It took her a few minutes to pass through building security, but it didn't' take her to long to make her way over to the elevator and make her way up to the top floor of the building. This was where some of the most under budget agencies were located. Though Agency Zero had the best set of offices on the floor simple because they rebuilt and designed them on their own. Otherwise they would have had a closet with a TV tray and a folding chair.

She glared at one of the agents as he left the office and he paled a bit and ran off before she could even growl at him. For a second she considered kicking the door down, but she wasn't even transformed, and so she just slammed it open and stalked inside. Debra, who was wearing a simple white dress and had flowing blue black hair in weird style, glanced up from her desk.

"Mrs. Duncan? Why are you here?"

"I came to 'talk' to Agent M."

"He's busy at the moment, come back when you are supposed to be here and he might be able to see you." Debra snapped. "Now leave."

Barbra growled. "No, this will be dealt with now."

Debra stood up. "I'm afraid you don't understand Mrs. Duncan, you will leave, one way or the other." Her eyes started to glow as a ghostly aura formed around her.

"It's alright Debra, Agent Duncan can come in and talk." Agent M said as the door to his office opened.

"But sir, there's no reason you should…"

"Debra."

"Yes sir, but I protest this."

"Noted." Agent M said as she motioned for Barbra to enter his office. "This way Agent Duncan."

Barbra nodded and quickly entered his office before the guy changed his mind. She was wearing one of her stretchable outfits today, so she wasn't too worried about changing if she had to. As the door shut behind her, she waited for him to calmly walk back to his desk and sit down. She decided she would stand and yell at him, this wasn't the time to be calm and collected, not after what he did to her friend.

"I take it this is about Mrs. Carter?"

"You're damned right it's about Dani, how in the world could you do that to her!"

"She killed a man." Agent M snapped. "She deserves far worse than what I did to her. Maybe a few years in prison will soften her up a bit. What do you think?"

"Everyone here at the Agency knows that there was something funny about that guy's body when it was examined."

M just stared at her.

"You don't care anymore do you?" Barbra snapped. "Everything in your life is devoted to this Agency and nothing else matters."

"We are a thousand times more effective now, working in secret, than we ever were as the Wonder Friends. While we were in the public eye we could not work effectively to stop super powered criminals. But as Agency Zero we work from the shadows and take them down before they can even get organized. No matter how many times I tried to explain it to Dani she would not listen."

"So you take advantage of the a situation and make sure she can never be a hero ever again!?" Barbra screamed in his face. "You arrogant little weasel!"

"Don't tick me off Agent Duncan." M said mildly, although there was a hint of power in his voice. "You know as well as I do that I can break you if you attack me."

"You ruined my friend's life because she wouldn't agree to be your lackey. I will not forget this or that you made Debra prevent me from going to her aid inside that bank just so you could set this up. I respected you a little before this, but you don't deserve that anymore." Barbra snapped and tossed her badge down on his desk. "Effective immediately I quit."

"If you walk out of this room I will have you back in prison faster than you can shift forms."

She stopped with her hand on the door handle and could sense Debra just outside the door waiting for her to leave.

"Well?" Agent M snapped. "What will it be?"

Turning slowly, Barbra glared at him with every bit of hate she had.

Asrial wasn't in a good mood as she stood in front of the mirror in her room. After programming a simple outfit into the machine Brianna showed her, Gina's machine had given her something else entirely. After trying to get the machine to give her something else, she eventually gave up and tried the outfit on. She glared at the outfit, then posed a few times just to see how it looked and giggled. She felt a little naughty.

The Dirty Pair look wasn't what she had in mind, but she had to admit that it showed off her best assets. The top was tight and the shorts gripped her thighs like paint. Though the initials 'IB' on her pack pocket should have been was a little strange. She wondered if Gina had the machine put that there to designate where the clothing came from.

She'd have to ask Gina about it. There had to be a programming error inside the machine if it could turn a simple dress into this. She wiggled a little and giggled again, the look was beginning to grow on her. To bad Jeremy wasn't around to see her like this.

He'd fall over with a nose bleed after gapping at her for several minutes. At least the outfit wasn't yellow. She wasn't sure how to describe the color either, kind of like a shimmering silver edged in deep black. After posting for a few more minutes and sticking her tongue out at herself, she shrugged and figured what the hell.

As far as she could tell, the only man in the house was Strype and he was devoted to Britanny. So it would be just the girls tonight and she had a feeling that something was going to happen. She sauntered across the room and opened the door, stepped out into the hall.

At the same time, Ichi growled as she stepped out of her room in an identical outfit as Asrial, but reversed colors. A dark black top and bottom edged in a thin strip of gleaming silver as if outlining her curves as she moved. Then she saw Asrial gaping at her.

"All hell!" They yelled at the same time.

"How dare you wear that outfit without telling me!" Ichi snapped.

"I had no choice, it's all the machine would make!" Asrial yelled back. "Now go put something else on."

"You do it!"

Brianna peaked around the corner, saw the girls yelling at each other, and wondered why they were acting like Dirty Pair Otaku. Although, considering the way they fought each other they weren't to far off the mark. She grinned as she walked over to them.

"What's up with the outfits? Got some games planned for later?" She asked with a dirty smirk.

"It was that stupid machine!" They yelled.

Brianna just grinned. "I thought you said the machine was so simple that a kindergartner could operate it?"

Asrial blushed a little and muttered something under her breath.

"What was that."

Asrial snarled and stomped down the stairs and headed for the dinning room as Brianna just laughed. A few seconds later Ichi just shrugged and followed after her rival. Her ninja outfit was just as revealing as her current outfit, so she didn't mind wearing it and it was black after all. She just wished that Jeremy were there to see her wearing it.

After the girls were gone Brianna stepped into Asrial's room and went over to the machine. She tapped a few buttons to have it make a hat. A few seconds later the drop door opened and spit out a hat exactly as she wanted. A diagnostic on the machine even told her that it was working perfectly.

She shrugged and decided that Asrial just didn't know as much as she thought she did. "I'll have to ask Gina to look into it one of these days."

As she was leaving the room Mimi stepped out of a room further down the hall. Brianna wasn't surprised to see that Mimi was still wearing her black dress outfit and that her cat was draped over her shoulder. Aloysius yawned as he glanced over at Brianna.

"Dinner is almost ready."

"Thank you for the chance to get cleaned up." Mimi said

"No problem, it's a good thing you and the others showed up. Strype made to much food again. Every time he cooks we have leftovers for the next week and a half."

"Well I've heard some stories about his cooking, I'm looking forward to it."

"You won't be disappointed." Brianna said.

Ranko stepped out of Mimi's room. "Are you sure you wouldn't like to borrow the clothes making machine?"

"No thank you Ranko, I like to wear simple clothing like this without all those artificial materials. The machine doesn't seem to work well with all natural fibers." Mimi explained.

Ranko nodded and moved past the girls and headed downstairs and saw that Britanny's friend was gaping at their other two house guests wandering out in their strange outfits. Dani moved off and took a seat at the table and nearly had a heart attack when she took a closer look at the blond girl's outfit. Especially 'IB' on their bums.

Tears welled up I her eyes and she had to look away to keep from crying. That man's jacket kept flashing before her eyes. She'd always thought it was his name, but if these girls were wearing 'IB' on their clothing, then it must have been a clothing line.

"What the hell are you two wearing?!" Gina yelled as she entered the dinning room wearing a pair of jeans and a t-shirt with 'GD' on her chest.

Ichi huffed and just looked away as the smell floating out of the kitchen drove her mad with hunger. On the other hand Asrial grinned, stood up from where she was sitting, and posed.

"Do you like it?"

"You look ridiculous." Gina snapped. "That's something you should wear to the beach where the guys can see you. Not the dinner table!"

Ichi snorted and muttered under her breath. "Stupid machine."

"Then blame your machine Gina, I asked for a dress and got this lovely outfit." Asrial explained. "Though it's growing on me."

"My Tailor 200 is perfect!" Gina said. "You just programmed it wrong."

"Nope, I followed the instructions for a dress and got this, you made a mistake somewhere."

"Why you!"

Britanny came out of the kitchen and started to set some food down on the table. "Down Geek, worry about your toy later."

Gina huffed and picked up her fork as Strype came in holding a giant platter of bar-b-qued meats. She noticed that even as Brit was sitting down Brianna seemed to materialize next to her.

"Dani are you alright?" Brit asked her friend.

"Yeah, just a bad memory."

"Well we'll help you get through this. Here, try a steak." She said and placed a large steak on Dani's plate. "There you go, that will cure all your problems."

She gave Brit a bewildered look.

Gina and Brianna nodded as they took their own helpings.

"She doesn't have to if she doesn't want to Honey." Strype said as he helped Asrial and Ichi get theirs.

Ten seconds later Dani was helping herself to her second steak and wondering if she could borrow Strype from Brit for a weekend.

Brianna stuck her tongue out at Asrial.

Ichi wasn't eating, she was to busy realizing that there was a man two feet from her with more visible muscles than she'd ever seen in her life. She drank some water just to cool down a little. It took her a second to recall Jeremy's name by the time she looked away. Strype didn't even seem to notice as he grinned down at her and placed some more food on her plate.

"There you go."

"Gah."

Britanny frowned as she looked over at Ichi, but she didn't say anything about it. She knew her husband just had that kind of effect on women no matter what he did. At the moment she was more worried about her friend Dani. The girl was going into denial and trying to forget about what happened.

She just hoped that the shopping trip she had planned would help cheer Dani up. She also wanted to have a little talk with Barbra Duncan. Britanny growled as she thought about the woman. She would need to teach her a lesson about loyalty the next time they saw each other.

There was a sudden silence around the table.

"Brit?" Gina asked. "Are you alright?"

Brit gave her sister a confused look. "Why?"

"You just ripped a portion of the table into little shreds with your bare hands." Brianna muttered and motioned with her fork.

Britanny looked down and saw that she had the edge of the table in her hands. She grinned nervously. "Ooops, excuse me."

"Are you sure?" Ichi asked a little hesitantly.

"I'm fine." Britanny said as she looked down at the reinforced carbonate wood replica piece Gina used to make the table.

"Have you gotten stronger?" Gina asked as she took the piece from her sister's hand and looked at the twisted and mangled fragment. "Jinkies."

"I can repair that if you want." Mimi said.

"How?"

"Magic of course." Mimi said and Aloysius, sitting her shoulder nodded.

"Naw, I can take care of it tomorrow." Gina said.

A little while later, down in Gina's lab a computer flickered to life and started to run picture after picture from the house's security cameras. Showing the girls in their bedrooms, sleeping peacefully, Brianna wrapped around a giant pillow, Gina passed out in her chair sitting in front of her computer, Britanny and Strype sleeping next to each other peacefully.

Then the picture panned to another bedroom where Dani was sleeping and focused in on her face. For several seconds nothing happened, but then a window popped up on the screen with a number of actions available. Suddenly they highlighted one at a time until it stopped on 'House Defenses incase of Invasion'.

It activated and several seconds later systems throughout the house started to activate. And 'HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!" Printed across the bottom of the screen as window after window popped up and an selections chosen faster than they could be seen.

Over in Brianna's room and around the house hundreds of Peebos suddenly stopped playing tag, their eyes went blank, and started to show bits of information scrolling by at a super fast rate. Below the house the main computer core roared to life and file after file was suddenly accessed.

Electrical outlets throughout the house sparked for several seconds before quieting down. No one noticed except a little visitor running around in the AC system. It eventually found a place to hide, but had to spend about an hour gasping for air.

To Be Continued…

Notes: When Britanny gets really angry she sings her sentences as she tries to control her temper. Gina tries to avoid this at all costs, unless she's built up an electric charge to 'poof' Britanny when she's in cat form.

Even without Ranma running around, there is plenty for the girls to do. They've all led some rather harrowing lives up till now and things are about to take a turn for worse as the house turns against them. Gina is still thinking to much, Brianna's gun fetish is going to get her in trouble, and what the heck is up with Ranko?

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