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, and 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
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
© 2004
Brit yawned, her tongue hanging out, and stretched her seven foot tall frame as much as she could. Even her feet were hanging off the end of the bed but she barely noticed that. She was barely conscious as she cuddled up next to her husband and wondered what the day would bring. She had a shopping trip planned to help Dani cheer up a little. Her motto was 'shopping cured all ailments' and proved it by being on a first name basis with ever store employee in a ten mile radius.
Glancing down, she admired her husband's naked body, barely covered by a sheet and drooled a little. No matter how many times she saw it, experienced it, she was always impressed with her catch. She leaned over to kiss him awake, something she did quite often, but something else happened that made her pause.
She heard something and blinked a few times as she sat up and looked out the window. It was a lot earlier than she thought it was. There were days that she didn't even get out of bed until at least noon. "Geeze, it's barely dawn. What the heck am I doing up this early?"
Suddenly she heard a beep and turned to look at one of the control panels beside the door. One of the lights was blinking, but she couldn't remember what Gina said it meant. Though a red blinking light did mean danger of some kind and this one was quite red. She moved to get off the bed and check it out when it suddenly shifted and swung around. It nearly threw her off but the foot of the bed lifted up and rolled her back before she could do anything. Her husband had just enough time to open his eyes as the bed repositioned itself in front of the large balcony window as it opened automatically.
"What the hell!" She yelled as the bed catapulted them out the window.
"Aghaaaaaaaaaaaaa! Strype save me!"
Strype, blushing like a beacon, managed to realize what was going on and managed to keep the sheet with them as he went flying after his wife. In mid air he wrapped it around his waist.
Britanny wasn't to worried, she knew Strype would save her and she looked down to see that they were about to land in the pool. A shiver ran up her body as she decided that she didn't want to get wet this early in the morning. The water would be freezing.
"Strype!" She yelled just as she landed in the pool with a giant splash of water. Strype was just half second behind her, sending even more water into the air as they both plowed through the water and lightly bounced off the bottom, rebounded off the side of the pool.
Brit surfaced a few seconds later, spit out a bunch of water, and said a rather nasty curse word. Then she turned to Strype as she surfaced a little ways away and shook his head, throwing off a bunch of water. "Oh Strype."
He came up next to her. "Interesting way to wake up in the morning."
"Why didn't you catch me?" She sang again, and then she noticed that he was naked. "Gah..."
"I seem to have misplaced the sheet." Strype muttered calmly, looked around, and spotted it floating just below the surface a few feet away. He quickly grabbed it and wrapped it around his waist. "There we go."
"Gah..." Britanny muttered again, her eyes slightly glazed over.
"Let's get back in the house and see what in the world happened to the bed."
Purring, Britanny suddenly grabbed him and started to rub herself all over him. "I've got other ideas what we should do."
He sweat dropped. "No Honey, we need to see if anyone else is having problems."
Boy was that an understatement. Within the mansion all hell was breaking loose as some kind of energy wave passed through the house turning machines on and off every couple of seconds. Lights flickered, computers booted and rebooted over and over again.
In her room, an alarm was going off and it woke Gina at her desk in her underwear. The night before she meant to log a few things into the computer before going to bed and fell asleep in her chair. Again.
She grumbled a little as she looked around and saw that her computer system was going nuts. She gasped and reached for the key board, but a it suddenly sparked and sent her flying away from the desk. She landed on the bed slightly dazed as her hair, sticking out in all directions, smoked.
"HAHAHAHAH." Appeared on her computer.
"What the #$%%?!" She yelled as she suddenly sat up.
Then a panel in the ceiling pulled back and a laser weapon dropped down and locked in place. Gina paled as she realized what was going on and dived for her computer, she had to shut the system down. Even as her hands touched the key board the laser powered up and with a loud whine sliced her bed in half. Then the laser started to rotate around and aim at her and she paled as the computer refused to do what she wanted it to do.
"I'm the only one aware of all the weapons I've installed in the house to prevent another episode like Peachbody and his attack boy." She muttered and dodged as the laser fired, blowing away one of her speakers next to the monitor. The next shot, fired as she was in mid dodge and sliced a corner off her bed. "Gotta run, gotta run, gotta Run!" She yelled as she dove for her work table beside the door and grabbed a remote control.
The table was instantly sliced in half length wise and six months of research went up in flames in an instant. She nearly burst into tears as she dove out in the hall and came up running. Just up the hall Brianna's door exploded outward as a dozen Pebbo Tie fighters swarmed out and started to blasting every thing in sight with their mini lasers. They locked onto Gina, turned in midair and swarmed after her with wide cute and happy sounds.
"Target locked! Fire!"
"Whaaaaa!" Gina cried as she ran away as fast as she could. "Britanny!
HEEEELLPP!!"
Asrial was asleep in her car. She had her hair tied back and was wearing a pair of overalls she kept in the trunk of the car at all times. She hadn't been able to sleep during the night so she got up to work on her car and try and repair some of the damage it had taken the day before when it went off the road.
It had a number of scratches all over the bottom of the car that would take her weeks to fix. Then there was the electrical burns around the computer core in the trunk that helped control the car's flying ability. Overall the car was in good condition and would only need some cosmetic touches.
In the corner of the garage, a small camera paned back and forth like it was supposed to, but every now and then it would stop and point directly at the Princess. She hadn't noticed yet, but throughout the house noises were beginning to filter up into the garage. They were just loud enough to wake her up.
She opened her eyes and blinked a few times as she sat up and scratched her head, trying to wake up enough to see what was going on. Screaming and laser fire were noises that very few people could ignore. Her ears twitched to attention as she recognized the sounds of laser fire, but she wasn't sure what it could be.
"What could be causing that?" She wondered as she hopped out of the car and started for the door.
Then she heard the screaming getting louder as if someone was running right towards the garage and she backed up a couple of steps. Suddenly there was a loud bang and the door developed a very large dent, pushed several inches into the room. Then her training took over and she dove to the floor as half dozen laser bolts sliced through the walls like it was paper. Just to the side of the door she could see a panicked Gina sitting on the floor gasping for air, while wearing her underwear.
Then Gina scrambled to her feet and dove into the garage as more lasers sliced through the air all around her, blowing holes in the floor as she moved. She sprawled on the ground for barely a second before Asrial saw the lens on the security camera light up and fire a laser of its own.
"&%$#!" Gina screamed and rolled out of the way. "Helpmehelpmehelpmehelpme!"
Asrial grabbed her, pulled her out of the way of another laser beam, and dragged them behind the care where the lasers couldn't get them. The two girls took a second to gasp for air as the room lit up with lasers cutting holes in Asrial's car. There was still a bit of smoke coming off Gina's hair from her earlier shock
"What the hell is going on?!" Asrial yelled.
"The house's security system seems to think everyone in the house is an intruder." Gina gasped as she gulped in air.
"Just how dangerous is this system?"
"Um, it shouldn't even be able to do this."
The camera in the corner suddenly fired multiple lasers into the side of the car, ripping the fender to pieces. Asrial was glad she had taken the time to make her car out of some harder than diamond acrylics the last time she took it off world, but it was still her car betting banged up.
"My car!" Asrial yelled.
"Forget the stupid car; we have to get out of here!" Gina growled.
"What about the others?"
"I don't know." Gina muttered, suddenly looking worried. "I need to get to my main computer to try and stop this. The lasers nearly wrecked the one in my room and then turned on me next."
"The one down in the basement levels? In your lab?"
Gina nodded.
"What about the one in Brianna's room?"
"Won't work, the lasers chased me out and away from there. I can't even get close..."
The whole house suddenly shook as something below them exploded and they could hear heavy ordinance going off.
"Brianna's aware of the problem. That's her signature explosion if I've ever heard it." Gina said. "Sounds like she retrieved her Ion Cannon as well."
Asrial gapped at her. "Please tell me you're kidding?"
"Nope."
"This is going to be fun." Asrial said with a grin. "You didn't happen to see any of the others as you were running through the house did you?"
"No, but I wasn't looking either."
"What do we do then?"
Gina frowned and wished she had her glasses with her, she thought better when she had them on. They also had a few defensive gadgets built into them, but she left them on the floor as she ran for her life. "We need to...disable the computer core."
"Sounds easy enough."
Tears came to Gina's eyes. "I just rebuilt it! I don't want to lose it again and it's nearly impossible to get to it anyway."
"Then we need to cut the power lines."
Gina shook her head. "The computer generates its own power supply, that way I can use it even when the rest of the house has been blocked off. It's a security measure."
"Why isn't that thing firing?" Asrial asked, realizing that the car hadn't taken a hit from the laser in several seconds.
A Peebo rolled out from under the car and looked up at them. "Hi."
"Um...hi?" Asrial said, looking confused.
"FIRE IN THE HOLE!" The Peebo yelled suddenly.
"Ah &%$#!" Gina yelled, and slapped the thing as hard as she could and screamed.
It flew underneath the car smacked the back wall and exploded, taking most of the garage door with it. Smoke filled the room instantly and fire retardant spray rained down on them for several seconds. Then the rest of the garage door suddenly fell to the ground with a loud bang that made them wince. Gina peaked out over the edge of the car gasping for air again.
"Why did it do that?" Asrial asked.
"I have no idea, but..."
Boom Boooom!
"Traitors!" Brianna's voice yelled from somewhere below. "Take that, and that! And more of the same!"
"I think they are attacking Brianna as well." Gina said as they listened to the echoing explosions below them. "I hope Bri isn't destroying the whole house."
"Aghaaaa!!" Brianna screamed and they heard what sounded like shattering
glass landing on the floor for several seconds. "Ooops..."
"Oh boy."
Dressed in a loose tank top and panties, Brianna growled as she held a couple of very large guns, one in each hand. Her room was shot full of holes as she hid behind her over turned dresser as laser guns lowered from various places in the ceilings and walls and continuously fired beam after beam.
If Gina hadn't made her furniture so strong Brianna would have been in trouble, but she knew how much damage they could take, so she wasn't to worried. She just wanted to know why she was being attacked.
"BWHAHAHAH AHAHAHAHA!" Several Peebo's laughed as they flew around above her, dodging laser fire and trying to find the best way to get to her and blow up.
"You traitorous bastards!" Brianna yelled and shot two of them out of the air and blowing a couple of holes in the back wall. "Take that!"
She jumped up, thumbed the power level up on the Ion cannon and fired it half a second later. The rest of the Peebo's were destroyed, but a laser suddenly shot right through the gun. Shattering it into hundreds of little pieces.
"Eeep!"
Using the other gun, she shot the door off its hinges, set the self destruct, and tossed it on the floor as she dove out of the room. In the hall more lasers lowered down from the ceiling and fired all around as she dodged as best she could. Brianna could not believe that something she helped to design could fire this badly though, it was starting to irritate her. Gina designed all the laser systems, but Brianna distinctly recalled programming the computer to fire the weapons with stunning shots. This was not he program!
Gina and she were going to have a talk about not altering her plans. Sure, she didn't want to die, but she had some pride, and a weapons system should take out the enemy after all. It was completely unacceptable behavior. Gina must have made some changes she wasn't aware of and thrown the whole thing out of whack. She nodded herself.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" A Peebo laughed as he flew out of her room just before the gun she left behind self-destructed.
"This is going to be an interesting day, I can tell." Brianna muttered as she headed deeper into the lab. She needed to get to her armory and start taking out all the lasers before they cut her to shreds. She'd already taken out all the ones in he room in the earlier fire fight, along with the large glass table.
"I'll get you my pretty!" The Peebo yelled as it flew by her still laughing.
"HAHAHAHA!"
Now she was starting to get a little freaked out. She had an automatic program that gave her Peebos limited Artificial Intelligence, but never anything on this scale. Though B, the Peebo she sent with Ranma, had been a bit unstable now that she thought about it. Maybe that had something to do with it.
"Armor, I have to get to my armor and my Ion Cannon. Baby needs to be aired out once a month at least." Brianna muttered as she dropped to the floor and rolled around the corner just as the ceiling lasers blasted the floor. She knew how they fired and at least that patter was holding, but she wasn't sure how long that would last. Something odd was going on and she couldn't figure it out. That would be up to Gina.
As the lasers stopped firing and gave her a chance to look around, she came to a stop and stared at the Peebo sitting on the floor before her. An experimental model designed just a few days before on a lark. She didn't even have a name for it yet, she just knew that she based it on Gina when she made it. Even its AI was modeled on Gina for the most part. The programming for that had taken her several hours to work out and even that had only been able to model sixty percent of Gina's personality.
It was colored pink and white, with a metal fedora hat on it head and a pair of glasses. Peegi still had all the basic insides of her basic Peebo, but its AI was something else all together. One of the most advanced ones she's built to date.
"Peegi?" Brianna gasped.
"...Jinkies." It said in a high pitched version of Gina's voice.
Brianna smirked a little.
"I seem to be functional, how odd."
"Let's get you back to the lab before something else happens to you as well, things are getting..."
Peegi's back opened up and a portable laser lifted out and aimed at Brianna. The girl had a feeling something like this might happen, but it was still a shock to see it.
"Master, it seems I have to kill you now." Peegi said happily.
"Ah, no you don't." She tried and went to step around the corner, but jumped back when a laser nearly took her foot off. "Eeep!"
"The voice says I can play with you Master, isn't that great?" Peegi said as it rolled forward. "I want to explore, to find treasure, like..."
Now Brianna's hair was standing on end from shock as she looked down at her creation as it tried to get a lock on her. She used the speed given to her by Britanny and barely dodged as the laser sent out a powerful shot that went right through the wall. She hadn't even installed any weapons in it's body when she built it. Though she had been meaning to and recalled setting several items out to just that the next time she worked on the little thing.
She instantly recalled that she hadn't calibrated the laser intensity yet. Just that it was mounted on a small frame while she tinkered with the AI program. The large hole in the wall, made from the same stuff as the table upstairs, melted like butter. She had to stop the thing before it went completely out of control.
"Peegi, stand down, code alpha Brianna one six six Gina is an Uber Geek." Brianna said.
The little robot stopped and Brianna sighed in relief, then it blinked at her. "Stand down order ignored, let's continue the fun I want to see more of you! HAHAHAHAHA!"
"&%$#!" Brianna yelled and ran down the hall the laser went berserk, blowing holes in the walls and ceiling. She had to admit that Peegi was shooting a lot better than the house lasers. If she hadn't dodged she would have been hit several times.
"Much better."
Now the rest of the lasers built into the hallway lowered and started firing even as Peegi laughed and continued blowing holes everywhere.
"Come my dumpling! I just want to taste you!" Peegi yelled and raced after Brianna.
Sweat dropping at the odd wording, Brianna ran for all she was worth.
"Wahaaaaaa!"
'What do we have here?' A voice said.
Ranko, who lay in bed looking at the ceiling, looked around to see if there was anyone in the room with her, but she was alone as far as she could tell. She stood up and adjusted the nightshirt she was wearing and looked out into the hall, but it was completely empty. Then she realized that the voice was in her head, but coming from somewhere outside her body. She frowned, even Gina had a problem accessing her memory programs and neural net.
'You will do nicely and your even more mobile than those little bombs that are all over the house. Excellent.'
"Who are you?"
'You can hear me? HAHAHAHAH.'
"Get out of my head; you don't want to piss me off." The Ranma portion of Ranko's program growled. She started to think of several ways to kick the voice out of her head.
'You can't get rid of me that easily.'
"Who are you?"
'I am now your master.'
Ranko growled, but then her eyes went blank and she slowly fell over and crashed to the floor with a thump. One of the lasers in the ceiling lowered down, aimed at her, and fired. Instead of missing, it struck her right in the back of the head.
The laser wasn't strong enough to shoot through Ranko's head though, instead it was like a flash light, illuminating her head. Then a spark of electricity fired from the laser right into her head and Ranko's body stiffened for several seconds.
Her body shuddered several seconds later and it slowly rose to its feet and looked around with a grin on her face. This wasn't a grin that Ranko would have used, but a leer that only a man could pull off. "IB is ready to party."
'Get out of my head.' Ranko raged as she tried to reestablish control.
"Tut tut, I'm in charge now and there's nothing you can do about it." IB said and laughed. "Time to teach that little girl that nothing can stop me. Hear that you little superhero wannabe?"
Then Ranko could feel him sifting through her memories and no matter how hard she tried she couldn't stop him. They eventually stopped on a picture of Dani as she headed to bed after dinner. Ranko could actually feel IB's glee as he walked over to the door, punched it off it's hinges to test her strength, and headed down the hall.
'Stop this at once!'
"Be quiet or I will erase you!' IB said. "I plan on playing with you later though, so I'll wait for now. I want to see if you are fully functional or not, oh the ideas I'm coming up with, but right now you're annoying me."
'Wha?'
Suddenly Ranko found herself locked within her own programming, in a kind of electronic prison. She panicked for a few seconds, then growled and lashed out in anger. Then the world around her changed and she felt like she was floating, and yet, able to see and experience everything around her as IB moved. She could feel the air as they moved, taste it on her lips, in her eyes and it absolutely amazed her.
"HAHAHAHAHAH!" IB laughed. "I still can't believe what has happened to me either, but that woman will get what's coming to her."
IB stopped and looked into a rather singed room and Ranko realized that it was Brianna's room with a large hole in the floor. She wasn't able to talk to IB anymore, heck, she could barely think as a thousand different signals seemed assault her every time her body moved. IB didn't seem to even consider her a threat anymore as he used her body to move into the room. A thick layer of smoke hung in the air as IB moved over to the closet.
"Now I believe it should be right here..." He muttered.
The closet door came open easily enough, IB just ripped it out of the wall and tossed it over his shoulder. It bounced off the wall and landed on the bed. Ranko was developing a headache trying to figure out which pronoun applied to IB now that 'he' was in 'her' body. The inside of Brianna closet was a nightmare, half burned clothing, dirty clothes tossed on the floor, the occasional hand grenade, and even half a Peebo with cheetah spots looking up at the legs and back, it even had a tail.
"Did I tell you that I'm amazed at the level of technology in this house? Everything in the house is run by computer or tied into one in some fashion, it's bloody brilliant. This place was made for me. Your body for instance is amazing, even more advanced than some of the other items in this house and it's adapting to my new body in ways I didn't expect, but that's alright, I'm just going to steal it from you."
After digging around in the closet for a few seconds, IB found what he was looking for, a can of spray paint. He took a second to spray his initials over Ranko's chest, on top of the nightshirt, and grinned wickedly.
"Bloody perfect."
They walked out of the room, headed down the hall, and stopped in front of a door. IB ripped the door off it's hinges and tossed it behind him as he stepped into the room. "Oh hero, I'm here for you now."
Being so early in the morning, Dani was still asleep as he entered, but she sat up and looked at her sleepily. "Wha?...Ranko, what do you want?" Dani muttered.
"I'm here for you!" IB yelled dramatically.
Though, since Ranko was wearing a nightshirt that fell down to her ankles, had little hearts and flowers on it, and looked like a cute little doll, the statement was a little hard to take seriously. Dani gaped for a second before she started to giggle.
IB stomped his foot. "I will have my revenge!"
Dani, still giggling, took a closer look at Ranko as she stood there and
noticed the IB on her chest and gaped. "What are..."
Ranko jumped forward, only to take a kick to the back of the head that sent her sprawling to the floor beside Dani's bed. She looked over her shoulder to see Ichi, still wearing her Dirty Pair outfit, stalk into the room. "Whoa, where were you?" IB muttered and realized he hadn't seen her on any of the cameras for some time now.
"I'm a ninja and I can do ninja like...things." Ichi said with a smirk. "I owe you a little pay back girl."
Ranko gaped for a second and then started laughing.
Dani paled as she recognized it instantly. "YOU'RE DEAD!"
Ranko smirked as she rolled to her feet and posed, in her nightgown. "I have risen from the grave to get my revenge! BWHAHAHAHAH!"
Then Ichi kicked her in the head and sent Ranko flying into the wall with a loud thump. "We need to get out of here."
Flinging the sheets off, Dani jumped out of bed wearing her pink nightie and panty combo and ran after the other girl, glancing behind her as Ranko slowly rose off the floor with a growl of anger. Suddenly laser beams started to rain down on them from the ceiling as gun after gun lowered, fired, and rose back up. Ichi dodged them easily, but Dani didn't have the type of training that Ichi did, so she wasn't able to dodge them all.
"AGHAAA!" Dani yelled out as she took one in the shoulder.
"Revenge!" Ranko yelled as she ran down the hall behind them.
"Who is that?" Ichi asked in a calm tone of voice as they ran down the hall, down the stairs, and headed for the living room.
"Someone that I thought was dead." Dani said and explained how she originally met IB about a month before.
Suddenly Ichi gave Dani a push to the side just as a laser beam sliced down from the ceiling and neatly cut the couch and TV in half. Dani stumbled for several steps and realized that she was seriously out of practice and would have get back into the game if she wanted to survive this. IB was out to kill her. She knew what she needed to do, but her costume wasn't around anymore.
"I need a mask." She muttered under her breath and suddenly rolled to the side to dodge a beam.
"Excellent reflexes!" Ichi yelled out as she easily dodged three at once, flipped through air, and ran along the wall, jumped off and landed beside her. She grinned. "This is just like training against Lendo's troops back home."
They looked up just as Ranko vaulted over the stairs and landed at the bottom with a smirk. "Thank you for waiting."
"You get outside." Ichi said as she stepped in front of Dani. "I owe her a little more pay back for what she did to me last night, the little traitor."
"Ah, pretzel girl, so good of you to wait for my manly embrace." IB said with a leer. "And you are still wearing the outfit I designed for you. I like the way it hugs those luscious curves of yours."
Ichi looked down at her outfit in shock, and a little confusion as Ranko looked her over like a piece of meat and grinned lustfully. "You pervert!"
Dani just gaped at the android, this was definitely IB, she could recognize that leer anywhere. She just couldn't figure out how he survived and made his way here of all places.
IB laughed and nodded. "The change seems to have done me quite a bit of good if you ask me. By the way, every girl in this house is running around in their underwear and I've got cameras recording the whole thing for my memoirs and by the end of the day all of you will be calling Master."
The girls gaped at him for a second and shuddered, those words, coming out of Ranko's mouth were just too weird to comprehend. Ichi shook herself and considered ripping the clothing off for a second, better nude than wearing the outfit anymore, and then she shrugged and looked over her shoulder at Dani. "Do you find it weird that situations like this keep popping up every couple of months? I wonder how many more idiots I'm going to come across next month?"
The blonde superhero just snorted. "About once year I'll run across a moron like this, though never one with such an ability."
Ichi shrugged. "I've got the perfect pervert repellant."
"Now it's time to take your medicine." IB said and started forward.
She didn't really think about it, but Ichi was in motion before anyone could even think of what to do and went to kick Ranko in the head. Instead of connecting, Ranko's hand reached out almost at slow speed, grabbed the front of Ichi's chest support, and grinned lustfully at her. "What a magnificent specimen. I shall teach you to respect the kind of man I am."
Ichi wrapped her arms and legs around Ranko's arm and tried to use her weight to throw the girl, but Ranko didn't budge. "Ah, crap."
IB stopped grinning, looked a little panicky, and suddenly flapped Ranko's arm up and down at high speed while screaming. "Get off get off get off!"
Losing her grip, Ichi went flying right at Dani. She used her ninja training to alter her flight just a tiny bit and grinned as she wrapped her arms around the shocked blonde girl and they flew right through the glass patio door into the back yard. Several yards away Britanny and Strype looked up just as they flew out of the house.
"Dani!" Brit yelled and shot forward with a sonic boom. She had to catch them before they hit the ground.
IB shuddered and froze in place as a memory suddenly overwhelmed his mind.
One month ago
"CLEAR!"
"Go!"
The EMT growled as he placed the paddles against the guy's upper and lower chest and his partner pressed a button on the machine. The body arched up for a second before the power topped and it fell lifelessly back to the ground.
"No!"
"Again!"
They repeated the procedure, this time leaving the paddles charged for nearly ten seconds before turning the power off. Cursing, the EMT and his partner tossed the paddles to the side as they tried to use CPR to save the man, but his heart refused to start back up again. They ignored the small crowd of people around them as they worked.
Most didn't care if the guy lived, he'd already beat that poor girl unconscious after all, right before she shoved a 220 watt electrical line into his stomach. She survived and was currently on her way to hospital. Among the crowd lurked a man wearing a business suit, wearing small glasses, and an irritated look on his face.
He glared at the body and wondered where he'd gone wrong. As far as he knew the jerk hadn't been that dangerous and he was the perfect pawn for his plan, but as always, the plan didn't go quite the way he expected. Reaching into his jacket he walked over to a cop and showed him his ID Badge.
"You're FBI?"
"Yes, what exactly happened here?"
"Why do you want to know?" The cop asked suspiciously.
"I work with the FBI in regards to super powered humans. The body over there is one of the SP's we've been watching lately."
"I see. Well one of the local heroes took him down after a hell of a fight, that she did." Officer Offanigan explained.
"A local hero?"
"Miss Justice?"
"No sir, she's been out of action for some time now. This was Avenger."
The man nodded. "The one in red leather and the cape?"
"That's the one."
"Has she been placed under arrest for murder yet?"
The cop gave him a shocked look. "Don't be daft man, she tried to stop him in the middle of a bank robbery, in broad daylight no less. Pretty rare for that gal, even these days."
"She killed him, she should be under arrest."
"I think I've heard just enough out of you. I don't care who you work for, get out of here before I have you carted down town."
Nodding, the man glared at the dead body again before he walked out of the bank. A woman with purple hair met him outside. "Sir." Debra said.
"Well?"
"I stopped her before she could do anything stupid."
"Where is she?"
"In the van."
"Excellent, let's go and have a talk with Mrs. Duncan."
The turned out to be about half a block away. A very tall woman was leaning up against the side of the van as they approached. She was over seven feet tall, had more muscles than some body builders and had long brown hair. Her clothing made her stand out even more, a simple white blouse, black suit coat, and a high cut black skirt that went to her knees.
She was also asleep as she leaned against the van, snoring lightly.
Debra rolled her eyes as they approached. "ZAAAAANE!"
The woman jumped five feet in the air in shock and landed on top of the van
gasping for air. She looked over the edge fearfully. "Um..."
"Zane, you are in so much trouble." Debra growled, her eyes glowing.
"Agent Zane, where are your glasses?"
The woman pouted a little as she reached into her breast pocket and pulled them out. "Right here sir."
"And why aren't you wearing them?"
"Because I don't like them?"
"ZANE!" Debra yelled. "Put them on NOW!"
The girl sighed as she jumped off the van and landed beside the pair, then put the small bifocals on. "Better?"
"Much, you do have to keep a low profile you know." The man explained calmly.
Debra rolled her eyes and wondered to herself how the woman could do that when she looked like she did. She was about to say something when they noticed that a pair of ambulances were pulling away from the bank and heading for the hospital. One quite faster than the other.
"What are we going to do about the man that died?" Debra asked.
"We need to pick up the body. Did you manage to place that spell?"
"Yes sir, I could track him anywhere in the country."
"Excellent."
"What about the witnesses?"
"We'll leave this one alone. There are too many for us to find on our own and we are to small to have access to the resources some of the other agencies use."
Debra nodded. "What about the girl?"
"She, will get off with a slap on the wrist." The man muttered. "I will see to it that she pays for killing that man though, she went too far. Now, let's go and talk to Mrs. Duncan I think she has quite a story to tell us."
They headed behind the van opened the doors and climbed inside. Barbra Duncan was tied to a chair in the center of the van. She didn't look to happy and the power nullifier strapped to her ankle wasn't making things any better. She glared at them as they entered and shut the doors.
"Barbra."
"M, I am going to beat you unconscious." Barbra growled.
"I told you to report Miss Carter's actions to me Barbra. Why is it that I had to find out about this situation from our police connections?"
"We were just following the guy." Barbra snapped.
M glared down at the bound woman. "You disobeyed orders..."
"I did no such thing! We had no idea he'd just waltz into a bank like that!"
"His MO is quite easy to understand Mrs. Duncan, now why didn't you call in and report?"
"I already told you."
"Indeed and look where it's gotten you. Perhaps freeing you from prison wasn't' the right thing to do after all. Maybe you really do need to spend the next twenty five years behind bars to atone for what you did with the Crime Syndicate." M said coldly.
Barbra gulped. "S-sir, we had no idea he would pull something like this.
When he went into the bank he already had a bag full of money with him."
M glanced over at Debra and she nodded.
Zane was getting hungry, and bored.
"We found no money on the scene."
"He had it with him!"
"I DON'T BELIEVE YOU! NOW WHY DIDN'T YOU CALL IN AND REPORT THIS!" M yelled, his eyes were starting glow.
Paling a little, Barbra didn't know what to do. When it came to Danielle Carter, M didn't seem to think straight for some reason. All of them had noticed it from one time to another and they weren't sure why he acted like this when she was involved. Even Zane had noticed, and she could be oblivious to an exploding volcano.
"I'm telling the truth." Barbra insisted, barely above a whisper.
M glared at her for several seconds. "We shall see, and if you are lying to me I will make sure you are tossed back in prison." He said coldly, made his way towards the front of the van, and climbed into the passenger seat. "Let's get back to the office and set the plan in motion."
Debra hesitated for a second before she shrugged and headed for the drivers seat. "Yes sir."
Agent M reached for the phone resting in the dashboard and typed in a quick series of numbers. "Yeah, it's me and I need a favor...."
The tabby cat Aloysius let out a loud snore as it rolled over onto its back, his legs spread out in every direction to give him a very undignified look. Next to him, taking up the rest of the bed, Mimi Masters slept soundly. All around the room laser blasts and screams could be heard though the walls as the two slept peacefully. Brianna cussing up a storm as she tried to find a way to fight back with guns that weren't computer controlled, Dani and Ichi's stand in the living room, and even Asrial and Gina in the ground level garage.
Mimi didn't hear any of it, she curled up a little tighter under the covers and sighed a little. Before heading to bed the night before she used her magic to place a spell around the bed that blocked out all sounds except her alarm clock. She knew how loud the Diggers girls could get from the few times she encountered them before.
To her the world was full of peace and quiet. Even Aloysius' snores weren't enough to awaken her form her perfect world. She didn't need to get up for several more hours and that suited her just fine. Mimi hadn't allowed herself a vacation in a very long time and this was just what she needed. The unwanted house guest on the other hand had other things in mind.
Above her, a panel in the ceiling slid back and a laser turret slowly lowered down and took aim at the red headed witch as she rolled over and scratched a rather shapely leg.
Aloysius grumbled, rolled over, and nearly fell off the bed as he sensed something. "Mimi..." He mumbled just as the laser fired and blasted a small hole in the bed with a burst of light. "Ahgaa!" He yelled and jumped off the bed in fright.
Mimi opened her eyes as some sixth sense warned her of danger just as the laser fired a second time and she looked up just as the side of the bed shuddered and collapsed as the supports gave out. She sat up just as the laser drilled through her pillow and nearly set her hair on fire.
"Aloysius!" Mimi yelled as she jumped out of bed, her night shirt flaring up enough to give us a glimpse of her panties.
She landed in a crouch, held her hand out and blasted the laser with a magic bolt that melted the weapon before it could fire a fourth time. Panting in shock, she took a second to calm down and try to figure out what just happened. Then she realized that something big was happening throughout the house as the noises suddenly reached her now that she was outside the spell that was blocking the noises.
"I'm too old for this kind of crap." Aloysius muttered as he limped over to Mimi. "How often do I have to fall out of bed?"
"Listen to that Aloysius."
The cat flicked an ear. "Sounds like quite a fight."
"The others must be in trouble, we have to help." Mimi said just as a speaker next to the door turned on and they heard a horrible voice.
"HAHAHAHAHA! Think you can stop me little pest?" IB's voice echoed through the room. "Think again! All of you will pay for helping the that little &%$#!"
Mimi gaped at the speaker, unsure what the heck was going on, when half the ceiling pulled back and a dozen lasers lowered down, took aim, and powered up. She gasped, quickly picked up Aloysius and they vanished from sight just as every laser sliced the room to bite sized chunks.
"Mimi!" Aloysius yelled.
They appeared in the back yard with a flash of light, on a branch about fifteen feet from the ground and stood there for a second to make sure they were out of the room. Mimi looked around and frowned. "This is not where we were supposed to end up."
"You have to concentrate better than that!" Aloysius yelled just as the branch broke under their weight. "I've told you a hundred times!"
"AGHAAAA!" The red head yelled.
Instead of teleporting again, Mimi reached for a branch on instinct alone and ended up hanging from a small limb for a few seconds before it too broke under her weight. Then they ended up upside down and Mimi's dressing gown caught on some more limbs and pooled around her head.
"This is not good." She muttered.
"You think?!" Aloysius yelled in a panic as he hung by his claws. "This dress it the only thing keeping us from falling!"
Riiiiiiipppp!
"&%$##$%&!" Aloysius yowled in fright. "Weredeadweredeadweredeadweredead!"
Just as she was the dress gave way and she fell, Mimi felt a pair of arms wrap around her and stop her from hitting the ground. She blinked in shock as she saw Aloysius land on all four feet, his fur sticking up in fright and panting from shock. Then she realized that she hadn't hit the ground, but it took a few seconds for the information to reach her brain.
"There you go, no harm done." The male voice said as he swung her around to set her on her feet right next to Aloysius. She turned to look into the face of Britanny's husband Strype.
He was wearing a bed sheet around his waist and nothing else but fur and bulging muscles. "Strype?"
He smiled at her. "You caught me by surprise there, I almost didn't see you appear in that tree."
She nodded, still shocked that he was wandering around outside in a bed sheet and nothing else.
Aloysius on the other hand wasn't silent. "Oh sure, save the cute girl, but let the cat fall to his death!" He yelled sarcastically. "You humans are always the same, I tell you..."
"Quiet Aloysius." Mimi said.
"Mimi!" The cat yelled indignantly.
Then they saw Britanny walking over to them holding Ichi and Dani draped over a shoulder. She glared at her husband for a second. "Oh sure, you can save her, but you let me fall in the pool."
"I see you like letting the cats fall, but catch all the girls. Huh?"
Strype sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose.
"GAGHAAAA!" Aloysius yelled as he moved to close to the bed sheet around Strype and saw something he didn't need to see. "Put some underwear on man!"
"Honey quit flashing 'little Strypesy' around like that. The girls are going to start talking." Britanny sang and turned her back on him. She still had Dani and Ichi cradled under her arms.
Right then and there Strype decided to cut his losses and went to find something to wear.
"Hurry back dear, we need to go and help Gina, I can hear her fighting something in the garage."
"Give me a few minutes."
Britanny nodded as she sat Dani and Ichi down on the ground. They were a little groggy, but seemed to be okay as far as she could tell. "Now what happened to you two? What threw you out of the house?"
"It was Ranko!"
"Something's wrong with Ranko, she attacked us." Dani said.
"She's Possessed!" Ichi yelled.
Brit and Mimi looked a little unconvinced. "You're kidding right?"
Dani shook her head. "No, I think that's exactly what happened. She's got 'IB' initials painted on her chest and started talking like a guy while she attacked us. Even telling Ichi here that she would 'show her what kind of man' she really was. It was a really strange thing to hear come out of a girl's mouth."
Brit sighed. "We need to get Gina, The Uber Geek will know what to do with an out of control robot wandering around."
"What the hell is going on?" Asrial muttered as her car took yet another hit from the laser. The blasted things wouldn't let up long enough for them to even move out from behind the car and run out into the yard. For some reason it was keeping them pinned down instead of hitting them.
"Like I said, the security system has gone hay wire, but we need to hurry before the next level of defense kicks in." Gina said, wincing a little as the door to the car nearly collapsed under the constant barrage of laser fire.
"These things are killing my Baby!" Asrial screamed.
Gina sighed, fixing this was going to be time consuming since Asrial's car was anything but original parts. She decided to wait till later to bring the subject up and pointed to the work table at the back of the garage where a number of boxes were piled up. "I have a bunch of old experiments and tools packed away over there, but with these lasers cutting off our escape routs I'm not sure how to get to them."
Asrial glanced over at the pile of boxes that dominated that area of the garage. "It would take us hours to sort through that for anything useful."
"Actually I know what's in each box, but I need at least five seconds free of the lasers so I can get out a few things that will help us." Gina explained calmly.
"You're not worried about this at all are you?"
Gina shrugged. "Sure it's dangerous, but lasers are kind of tame compared to time traveling dogs and insane Elvis loving magic users bent on world domination."
Asrial had to acknowledge that one then she had a thought. "Have you noticed that the lasers are intentionally missing us?"
Nodding, Gina peeked over the edge of the car. A laser singed her hair and she ducked back down and gasped for air. "Now that you mention it, yeah. Brianna designed the firing system too, it's usually a lot more accurate."
"It's keeping us pinned down for some reason."
"Now that I'm thinking about it, those lasers should be able to slice this car into scrap easily enough." Gina muttered under her breath.
Asrial glared at Gina. No laser was going to turn her precious car into scrap. "Is there some kind of security override to turn them off?"
"Yes of course, but I didn't really think of trying it. This attack seems to have taken over the whole house and is able to control everything."
"Might as well give it a try." Asrial snapped. Irritated that the girl hadn't even tried to shut the system down before now.
"COMPUTER, OVERRIDE GINA 11010111101101 LASERS." Gina yelled out.
The lasers stopped firing and the slightly melted car finally got a chance to start cooling down. Gina looked a little surprised as she realized that it worked. "Jinkies, I didn't expect that."
Asrial just sighed, this exactly like something some of the morons in Quagmire would have pulled. "Now let's go and get the computer fixed before it starts up again...Eeeep!!"
Turning, Gina gaped as one of her Hurt Bots grabbed the car they were hiding behind and lifted it off the floor and tossed it across the garage, where it slammed into the wall, and crashed to the floor. Then it turned its red eyes on them. "Time to meet your Master."
"HURT BOT 113 STAND DOWN!"
"No can do Mrs. Diggers, I've got control of all the computer systems in this house now. It's time to change my strategy I think." The Hurt Bot said in a voice Gina had never heard before.
"Who are you?" She snapped as they stood up.
"Call me IB, Master Lover and all around Cool guy. I'm currently having an Out of Body experience." IB said and started to laugh.
"IB?" Gina muttered, trying to recall where she heard the name before. "The guy that died a few weeks ago?"
"My body died, I just moved on into something else." IB said and looked her over, almost leering. "Nice panties."
Gina gasped and tried to cover herself. "You pervert!"
"HAHAHAHAHAHAH!" IB/Hurt Bot 113 laughed then suddenly lunged at Asrial, grabbed her coveralls and ripped them off her body.
The blonde haired princess just stood there in her Dirty Pair outfit, having left it on the night before, and gaped at the Hurt Bot in shock.
"Ah, much better. If I'm going to fight girls I want to them to be properly dressed."
Asrial growled as she started to get angry. "You just destroyed my car, then you rip up my clothes, and now you have the gall to stand there and tell me how I should dress!"
"Yesssss." IB said. "It always takes blondes several explanations before they can do anything. It's why they have such problem with elevators. The concept just escapes them."
"AGHAAAAAAAAA!" Asrial screamed just before she went into a forty five hit combo and completely decimated the Hurt Bot, sending parts and bits of plastic all over the garage. Then stood in what was left gasping for air and still looking pissed. "I am a Princess of the Royal Family of the Salusian Conglomerate, I will not stand for this kind of treatment!"
"Thanks for the distraction Asrial." Gina said happily as she finished digging around in a box, pulled out a belt, a weird looking gun, and a fedora. She strapped the belt on over the band of her panties, checked the gun, and donned her hat. "Let's go kick some keester."
"You are one weird person Gina."
She laughed. "You haven't seen me on when I really get going."
Asrial started to look worried as Gina grinned, well, like a geek."
The locker opened easily enough once Brianna took a second to disable the electronic locking system. By using a hammer on the hinges and lock. She reached in and quickly pulled out her spandex shorts, a shirt, and some running shoes with a pair socks stuffed inside them. It only took her a few seconds to get dressed and reach inside for the final item in the locker.
She always liked to have something around that could be used for protection, even in a pinch. The Gyrojet Pistol was one of her first working designs. It came with 20 round clip of ammo of various types, depending on the situation. Over the last couple of years she had built much better weapons, but they all had a lot of computer systems to make them more reliable.
The large caliber ammo slammed home as she cocked the Gyrojet and aimed it at the back wall to test the gun's sight. It was like finding an old friend again. She turned around and shot the camera that was watching her. Then Peegi slowly came around the corner and looked up at her with innocent looking eyes.
"Mistress."
Growling, Brianna pointed the Gyrojet at Peegi. "Listen here you jerk, stop using my babies like this."
Peegi started to laugh. "Why shouldn't I use them like I want? They make such good diversions and are doing exactly like I programmed them to do."
"Don't make me shoot you." Bri threatened.
"Shoot all your toys, I don't mind one bit."
"Who are you?!"
"Call me IB and this house and everything in it belongs to me now."
"I won't let you get away with this." Brianna snapped.
"It's far too late for that cute stuff." IB said. "Well I'm done reprogramming this little Peebo of yours now, thanks for the chat sweet cheeks. Gotta go, see you around ye'hear?"
Brianna could only watch as Peegi seemed to change before her eyes as IB's programming took effect. Rings of energy seemed to flow around the little bot as she watched. Whoever this IB character was he was smart, very smart. He was already adapting Gina and Penny's experiments with Beta Tech to his own uses.
"I never should have installed that mini beta tech enhancer in my latest creations." She muttered, aimed the Gyrojet Pistol and fired. A tear ran down her cheek as the gun went off.
Instead of hitting her creation it blew a hole in the floor right next to it. Brianna just couldn't shoot her creation. The little bot looked up at her as the field started to shift. "Mistress, I can't control my systems anymore."
"Peegi you have to shut down." Brianna said.
"Unable to respond, defense mode activated due to hostile threat. "
"Ah nuts!" She yelled and ran out of the locker room with Peegi following her.
There was only one option yet, getting to the core to shut everything down seemed to be the best idea. She just couldn't do it on her own and all her weapons were untrustworthy with this IB character in the system.
"You can't run forever." IB said from a nearby wall speaker.
She ignored him as she ran, Peegi just a few yards behind her, she had an idea suddenly, and smirked. Peegi sped up and skidded around the corner as a mini gun rose out of its back, but came to a complete stop. There was no sign of Brianna anywhere.
IB watched from a nearby camera and growled in frustration. One of them managed to get away and he didn't even know where she was headed. He activated the rest of the house defenses since the rest of the girls were outside now, or in the garage. Brianna, according to the records he scanned through during the night, would be a problem, but it was Gina he really had to worry about.
The other sister, the werecheetah was fast, but wasn't very smart so he wasn't too worried about her. He figured he could ignore the rest of them since they hadn't done anything to stop him yet. The alien destroyed one of the robots, but they were all expendable. As the defenses started to send data through the core he spotted a couple of things he hadn't expected.
"Interesting, this should keep them occupied at least." IB muttered as he moved through the core, splitting himself up into several different pieces. The other was more important to him though, something in a restricted part of Gina's lab that she was keeping secret from her sisters. It was to much to pass up and he went to investigate.
Leaning forward, Gina tapped Ranko's forehead a few times and frowned.
"What's wrong with her?"
"It probably just malfunctioned or something." Asrial said. "Just reprogram her when you get a chance and it will be perfectly fine."
"Ranko can't be reprogrammed like that, she's an android with a fully functioning AI system capable of allowing her to learn and adapt."
"Maybe, but right now it's a paperweight." Asrial said. "Let's see if we can get the core fixed, Ranko can wait for later."
Gina glanced at Asrial and shrugged. "I guess, though I could use Ranko's speed and power for this plan."
As Asrial was about to answer, she gasped as Strype ran by the broken window with a sheet wrapped around his waist. "Gah..." She muttered.
Spinning around, Gina caught a glimpse of him as well and ran outside to get a better look. "Looking good there Strype!"
"Gina!" Britanny yelled as she stalked up. "What he hell is going on here!"
Shaking her head, Gina made a mental note to get some pics of Strype for her collection before turning to Brit. "The security system seems to have been corrupted by an outside hacker or program."
"Whatever." Britanny muttered. "How do we shut it down?"
"Well we need to hit to the manual shut down switch in the basement, but the whole house is compromised. It's already done what it's programmed to do when it it's activated, throwing everyone out of the house."
"It threw me out of the house, literally!" Brit snapped. "Right out of a window in my own bedroom. I fell in the pool!"
Dani walked over them looking a little nervous. "I had a chance to talk to him a little while ago."
"He? Well he was being a pervert when he was using that hurt bot against us." Gina said as she considered the information.
"He called himself IB." Dani muttered. "That's the name of the guy that died while I was fighting him."
"Really?" Gina gasped. "That changes things. We could be dealing with a ghost that wants revenge or something like that."
"Ghosts Gina?!" Brit said with a tired sigh. "You are not going to go looking for ghosts again! You nearly leveled the house the last time you tried to build a posotronic whatisis to fight ghosts with."
"A nuclear powered anti-photon charged gamma transference back pack and storage system." Gina automatically corrected her. "And that would have worked too, if a certain sister of mine hadn't tossed that ball of yarn into the anti mater stream during final testing."
"Yeah right." Brit snapped.
"I have a question." Ichi spoke up to keep the two sisters from fighting.
Gina looked over at her. "What?"
"Why are all of you running around in such clothing?" Ichi asked, motioning at all the abundant panties, bras, and nighties among the group."
"We didn't have time to grab anything when we were running for our lives a little while ago." Brit explained.
"Well I think that we need to fix that problem first, running around like this is a pain." Ichi muttered.
"At least yours is a real outfit." Gina said.
"Maybe, but I'd rather have my ninja outfit."
Brit shrugged. "We've got other things to worry about."
"Like what?" Gina asked.
"There is someone else here in the back yard and I can just smell him at the edge of my senses."
"What?!" Gina yelled. "Where is he?"
Stepping forward, Britanny sniffed the air a few times before looking up at the roof of the house. "On the roof."
The girls moved out into the back yard so they could get a better look at the house. "Sis I don't see anything."
At first they really couldn't see anything, then they spotted a shimmer in the air near the edge of the roof as he walked to the edge and landed on the ground. His body shimmered and the girls got their first glimpse at their visitor.
"Ladies." He said. He was wearing a beat up trench coat, a hat, fingerless gloves, and had wild black hair.
"You!" Brit yelled. "What he hell are you doing out of jail?!"
He smirked. "Made a deal."
"I'll make sure you stay there this time!" Brit snapped and stalked forward.
He reached into his jacket and pulled out a wallet and held it open for them to see. "I'm working for the government now Kitty. Agent Rabid. I'm here to arrest Danielle Carter for First Degree Murder."
To Be Continued...
Notes: One thing I like about GD is the little hentai scenes that crop up every now and then. Gina is usually right in the thick of them too.
Gina, as the daughter of Theodore Diggers tried to become a magic user when she was younger but she was really really bad at it. Eventually Theo had to give up and handed his daughter a science book and told her that if magic didn't work there were other things she could. Gina has a talent with machines and understands them in ways very few can. She threw herself into learning everything she could and until she was in college she was the very image of a Geek. This is why Britanny calls her the Uber Geek.
While in College Brit stopped by one day, saw that Gina hadn't even made any friends or anything, just spent twenty or more hours a day studying. Brit didn't think this was at all health for her adopted sister and gave Gina a wake up call of sorts and told Gina that there was more to life than machines and proceeded, with a few simple actions, to let loose the repressed emotions Gina had always had within her. From there Gina still studied, but she also started to really, really notice that certain guys. Hence her Collection of buff looking guys and her stalking habits. It's even been hinted at in the comic that before she met Ryan she was even more wild, including a threesome with two other guys while on an adventure.