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.

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Golden Opportunity
Side Story - Pink Avenger Vs Irving Bob
Chapter 06
Cory D. Rose -
Gordon Stevenson - Gordon304shaw.ca
(c) 2004
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Automatic systems all across the house activated at once as wiring started on fire, as electronics in the walls died, and nearly ever electronic device in the house died. An EMP pulse could render a lot of things useless, but not everything, so it was no surprise that a small portion of the core remained operational even after everything else died. Certain fail safes didn't go off though so the damage was even more wide spread than expected.

Down in the chamber, Gina and Brianna both looked up as the lights suddenly flickered for a second before giving out completely, plunging the room into darkness. Gina was quite surprised when the battery powered back up didn't turn a few seconds later. She glanced at the others. "What was that?"

Shrugging, Britanny snuggled closer to Strype. "Got me, but I have a feeling that something major just happened."

Brianna nodded. "Me too, but I'm not sure what in the world could cause a all the power to be shut down like this."

"I do." Gina muttered. "I'm just not sure I want to believe it. Strype, Cheetah, could you try to open the door?"

"What about the security system?" Brit asked.

"If all the power is gone, so is the security. The door should be completely useless now. Just a piece of wasted steel." Gina explained as she stood up and adjusted her toga. The blasted things were starting to get on her nerves and they weren't comfortable at all.

Cheetah checked the door by tapping it a few times, then grabbed the handle and pulled with all her strength. Straining, Strype stood up and gave her a hand. Several seconds later the door slowly pulled back into the wall and allowed Brianna to step forward and push against the door. As they stepped into the lab Gina ran over to a console and tapped a few buttons, but it was completely dead.

"This one is dead too." Brianna said as she checked several others.

Gina frowned. "Did IB do this?"

"I don't think so." Brianna said. "He just wanted us out of the way."

Strype was over by the door when he heard something. "Do any of you hear that?"

The girls stopped to listen and could just barely make out something a couple rooms away. "Where is that coming from?"

"Brianna stepped out into the hall and noise became a little louder. "Whatever it is I'm surprised it's not dead like everything else."

"I think it's from my room." Brianna muttered, trying to recall if she had anything that made a similar noise."

"Go check on it, I want to make sure out guest in the other chamber is still there." Gina said.

Brianna nodded. "Daishi, I forgot all about him."

"I think we all did." Gina said as she ran across the room and looked through a window into a darkened room. Britanny and Strype walked over to give her a hand.

"It wouldn't do for him to be let loose now. We barely stopped him last time."

"I know, I've developed a couple of guns that can stop him if we need to." Gina explained. "I just don't want to kill him."

They nodded.

"I can just make him out, he seems to still be asleep, but it's just to dark in there to make sure."

"Go in and check."

Gina shook her head. "Not a good idea, the room is filled with a gas that keeps him asleep."

Leaning forward, Britanny pointed at something in the room. "There's a light on in there. I can just barely make it out and I think Daishi's knee is blocking just enough."

Peering in a little, Gina saw the small red light and frowned. "I'm not sure what it's for, I need to see what part of the machine that the light belongs to."

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From a nearby ventilation shaft, a small purple colored rat sat up, glowered at the girls, and snapped it's fingers. Then turned around and ran out of sight.

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As she moved down the hall, Brianna could see that her room was still full of smoke from the earlier explosion. She frowned a little as she heard the noise getting louder the closer she got. Though after listening to a kind of 'skree and shoop shoop' noise about fifty times, she was pretty sure what it was. She edged closer to her door and peeked into the room.

A flickering light was coming from her computer monitor and the printer was printing out pictures about twenty times faster than she thought possible. A pile of high definition photos were on the piled up in front of the printer and an even larger one on the floor. Frowning a little, she carefully entered the room and edged her way over to get a better look.

A picture of Ranma donning his VR suit looked back up at her. He was just pulling his shirt off to ask her a question about the machine. Even in profile he was good looking and she wanted to eat him alive. Shuddering a little, she had to remind herself to be patient, he would be hers in time. Another picture, this one of his fight with Daishi just before he got turned into a girl with that spring water PeeWee wanted.

Hundreds of more pics were scattered around, most of them focused on Ranma from over the last few weeks. Him working out with Julia, casting a spell just as it went wrong, or his bored look as he twirled a sword around. Ever picture showed his well formed muscles and the potential of what he would look like in the future.

She sighed and a piece of the ceiling suddenly fell and shattered around her head. Blinking a few times, she glanced up and saw that the ceiling and walls were covered in cracks, even the floor.

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Dani knelt on the floor and rolled Ranko over on her back. It was quite difficult, but after several tries she managed to do it. She'd never considered just how heavy a full sized android was when they weren't working. Ranko had to weigh at least five hundred pounds at least and Dani had to actually lever Ranko over onto her back.

After IB vanished she'd had to duck down as something happened to the very walls of the house as sparks and fires broke out all over the place. The fire prevention systems had activated almost instantly. Instead of filling the house with water and destroying everything, a foam had coated the walls of the room, but not before extensive damage had occurred.

She wasn't sure just how much damage Ranko had taken, but she could tell she'd weathered the attack a lot better than the house. Ranko's skin was actually warm to the touch and the most life like thing she'd ever seen. Unfortunately she couldn't find a way to get Ranko working again. That meant she would have to find Gina to get Ranko working again.

"Everyone in here alright?"

Dani turned around to see Asrial, Penny, and Charlotte standing in the doorway. "I'm fine, what in the world did you do? I was starting to think he was unstoppable."

Grinning, Penny and the others came inside. "That gun is a localized EMP blast capable of taking only affecting something the size of a house instead of an entire city."

"Amazing." Dani muttered.

"What happened to Ranko?" Asrial asked as she knelt by the girl. "The last I saw of her she was being used by IB."

"The pulse got her." Penny said as she looked down at the android.

"Can you get her working again?" Dani asked. She had questions to ask the android.

"Given time, no problem, but for now I think we need to find the others. Charlie, can you place Ranko on the couch? Asrial, we might as well start down stairs, they are more than likely in one of Gina's labs."

Dani wasn't surprised in the least when it took Asrial and Charlotte to lift Ranko off the floor and place her on the couch. "How is it that when she's moving around her weight isn't hampering her, like falling through floors, leaving cracks in cement when she walks, or things like that?"

"I'm not sure, Gina has never given me a chance to examine Ranko's internal workings. I think she's got some special systems that help to make he more human when she's active. Gina and I will get her working as soon as we can." Penny said as she headed down stairs into the lab areas.

The damage down here was even more extensive than upstairs, whole sections of the ceiling had given out and useless lasers were hanging from the ceiling. Penny was a bit surprised at the amount of damage, but also knew that an EMP gun did more than just fry electronics it also set off chain reactions.

"Which lab?" Asrial asked as Charlie took a second to examine something on the floor.

"I hear something." Dani said as she caught up with them.

"Me too, just down the corridor."

"Isn't this the level where Gina and Brianna have their bedrooms set up?" Asrial asked.

Penny nodded. "Yeah. Just be careful if you start to poke around, Brianna likes to play around with strange weapons and has an affinity with explosives."

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A pair of shapely legs were sticking out from underneath a large computer console and occasionally one of them would bend back. Or move around, twist, or just do flop around a little. Gina wasn't sure what was wrong with the computer just yet, but the longer she spent examining the damage the more she her theory was checking out.

Across the room Britanny was digging around in a locker and pulling out her usual adventuring outfit as Strype eyed her. She made sure to put in a little more wiggle as she dressed just to make sure he noticed her. It was a bit eerie getting dressed in a room with nearly no lights, but she figured Gina would have things sorted out soon enough.

"Any idea what happened?" She called out to Gina.

"I think some moron fired off an EMP pulse directly into the house." Gina called back. "Nearly all the circuit boards in the computers are fried. I'm just glad the core is protected from such a thing or years of work would be lost. Even irreplaceable things. "

Britanny adjusted her shirt and looked over at Strype as he blushed a little. She grinned. "Does that mean that IB is still around?"

At first Gina didn't say anything, but she had stopped moving as well. "He might." She conceded quietly.

"Then we need to erase him from the computer core."

"It's not that easy, sis." Gina muttered.

"You're the nerd around here Gina, so erasing a stubborn program should be easy."

Gina slowly crawled out from under the computer with several computer cards. She was still wearing her revealing toga combo, but she didn't seem to mind to much. She adjusted her dusty glasses and ran a hand through her hair. "He has such free run of computer systems that I'm not sure I can fully contain him. The only thing that has kept him from acting so far is that when the EMP pulse was fired it fried every connection to the core in the house. He's isolated here for now."

"What about putting the core in… what did you call it a few weeks ago. Saver mode?" Brit suggested.

"That's 'Safe Mode' and it's a brilliant idea Cheets." Gina said. We just have to get down to the core and set it up."

"Easy enough."

"Um…well…" Gina stalled and blushed a little.

"What?"

"Well you see, I set the core up below the house…" Gina started.

"Yeah, so what?"

"You can't just open a door, go down some stairs, and end up in the Core."

"I know I've never been down there, but it can't be that hard."

"Um, well, you see I set it up so that the room was closed off except for the cable access through about twenty feet of solid concrete."

Brit glared at her sister.

"Wellyouseeweneedtousethelightgatetogetdownthree,andwithallthecomputersdown,Ican'tactivateit,sinceitworksonadifferentsystem." Gina rambled out and looked embarrassed.

"You never thought of just using a set of…"

"No. Allowing anyone to go down there is just stupid, so I sealed the chamber off. If I was stuck in the chamber I could get out easily enough, but it has to be activated form inside the core."

"I am not digging through twenty feet of concrete just to reach your core." Brit growled and looked at her husband. "And neither is he."

"My artifacts should be able to get me down there easily."

"No." Brit snapped. Every time she thought about those things embedded in his body she had a horrible flashback to when she nearly lost him. "There has to be a different way. I also want to check on the others and see how Dani is."

"She should be fine Brit." Gina said.

"Maybe, but I want to check just in case."

"Well if you give me half an hour…"

"Forget it, I'll just walk upstairs like a normal person. You can geek out all you want, but I can be upstairs in two minutes or less."

"Alright, how about you check on everyone while I get the light gate working again?"

"Sounds good to me." Brit said with a nod.

Gina looked over at Strype. "I'll need your strength to do this, all my robotic assistants are down until I can replace and repair them."

"No problem." Strype said with a grin. He was relieved to finally have something constructive to do other than follow the girls around.

"Once that's done maybe we can get the grill working." Brit said dreamily.

"This isn't the time for that!" Gina yelled.

"Yeah, yeah." Brit muttered as she stalked out of the room, her tail lashing back and forth.

Gina bent down, flashed something at Strype that he really didn't need to see, and crawled under the next console. Then she started to wiggle back and forth as she worked. Blushing, Strype tried to look away. This was just not his day.

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Groaning, Mimi slowly opened her eyes and looked around. Squinting against the bright glare of the sun she noticed that Aloysius was sitting in her lap. He looked grump, his normal state, and his tail was lashing back and forth.

"Aloysius?"

"Humph!" He muttered and looked away.

Mimi rolled her eyes. "What is it now?"

"I go and do something heroic and you miss it all cause you are taking a nap."

"I was unconscious, there is a difference."

"Humph!" The cat closed his eyes, lifted his chin, and looked away.

"Oh don't be that way."

She glanced to the side and nearly had a heart attack. Barely biting back a scream, she scrambled back over the seat and out of the car in half a second. Dumping Aloysius on the floor of the car with a screech and a loudly yelled curse.

"Mimi!"

"What the hell is Debra doing sitting next to me?!"

"Who cares!" The cat yelled. "You dumped me on the floor!"

Completely ignoring the cat, Mimi tried to recall what was going on the last time she was awake and realizes that all she can remember is fighting Debra then waking up. "Did she beat me?"

Aloysius snorted and wondered if a certain broom would make a good scratching post.

Ignoring the cat, Mimi noticed that the car was lop sided. She knelt down to see that it was actually resting on top of two Peebos. It wasn't too surprising since the years was full of the broken bodies of hurt bots and various Peebos from an earlier fight.

A few yards away she saw blond haired woman sitting next to the tree where Rabid was tied up. They looked at each other for a second before looking away. Mimi wasn't sure who the woman was, but she had other things to worry about at the moment.

"Hey cat, where is Asrial? And Ichi?"

Aloysius's head popped over the side of the door. "I saw Asrial heading into the house a few minutes ago, but I'm not sure where Ichi is."

"I'm right here Mimi."

Spinning around, Mimi saw that Ichi was crouched on the branch of a tree still wearing that black revealing outfit. "What are you doing up there?"

"Woke up a few minutes ago when that gun fired and decided it would be a good idea to not be in the car if someone retaliated." Ichi explained as she jumped to the ground with a flip. She shook her head to keep her long black hair out of her eyes.

The blonde girl waved at them. "Penny Pencer fired an EMP gun, so if it's mechanical you can kiss it goodbye unless it was protected against such an attack."

"Who are you?"

The girl shrugged. "It's not important, you just need to know that the others went into the house if you want to find them."

Mimi nodded, but saw that Ichi was frowning at the girl. "What's wrong?"

"Nothing." Ichi muttered. "Let's head inside and find Asrial. I want to go home if this fiasco is overwith."

"MY BROOM!" Mimi yelled suddenly and ran for the side of the house. A few seconds later she reappeared, looking devastated as she carried what was left of her broom. Whatever hit her had turned it into kindling.

"Mimi, It's just a broom." Ichi said.

"It's broken, now I have to sit in this stupid car when we go home." Mimi muttered and looked depressed.

"You're a witch, use magic to fix it." Ichi said and shrugged.

Mimi gave her a scathing look, as if to say 'like it's that easy.'

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After inserting the last card Gina grinned as the inside of the computer suddenly started to hum quietly. She hadn't been entirely sure that the wiring was still working, but figured it was worth a shot. She crawled out from under the computer and pulled her toga down, the blasted thing kept riding up.

Looking the console over, Gina tapped a few buttons and saw that the terminal was starting to do a self repair routine she'd created. Once one computer stared repairing itself the rest would follow eventually. It could take up to a week but her lab would be functional again.

She tapped another button and brought up a diagnostic report of everything. "It looks like the core is still intact."

Strype nodded nervously.

"The core is now isolating everything that doesn't belong, but I can't actually erase or alter anything from here."

"Understood."

Gina leaned forward and studied the screen as a box popped up, then it flickered, and vanished before she could tell what it was. Seconds later they heard some noise as the door to the lab opened and Penny, Charlotte, Asrial, and Dani looked in.

"Gina!"

"Penny?"

"What the hell is going on?" Penny screamed. "I just got kicked out of my house and had to rush over here to save your ass and I want to know why!"

Nodding, Gina explained what they knew. "Other than that, I think your gun solved most of the problem."

"Alright, I can accept that, but why are you sitting around in a toga letting everything hang out?"

"Haven't had time to go and find anything decent. Containing Daishi over there was more important. Anyways Strype doesn't mind at all."

Asrial glanced over at the cat man and smirked as he looked away and blushed a little. "Right."

He coughed nervously.

Rolling her eyes, Penny resisted the urge to slap Gina up side the head with the nearest table. "I can't believe you made the core this hard to get to."

"It's a security measure." Gina snapped.

"There is such a thing as going overboard."

"Says the girl that owns an air craft carrier."

The girls glared at each other.

"Cut it out." Charlie said as she ruffled her wings. "Can't you two just be friends?"

"Where is Cheets, I want to talk to her." Dani asked.

"She left a few minutes ago, just before you four showed up." Strype explained.

"Was she okay?"

"Yeah, I think she went to find you and the others."

Dani nodded and quickly went to find her friend.

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Out in the front yard, under a fallen hover car, Peebri stirred to life. It's eyes opened and blinked several times. What ever was going through its mind caused another spark, this one arced to the car. Then the eyes finally focused and looked around.

"I-I'm stuck." It muttered, it's voice full of static.

Even from under the car it could see a couple of targets sitting next to a tree looking depressed. A man and a woman, perfect targets. Something inside Peebri's computerized mind snapped in that instant. It's back opened just a little and a two pronged device rose out and started to spark with energy.

"They will pay for violating the Master." Peebri muttered.

The weapon flared with energy lighting up the underside of the car bright enough to catch Barbra's attention. She scrambled to her feet as something underneath the car exploded. Throwing the car into the air as its undercarriage was blasted away and a beam of light fired from the middle of the explosion.

Diving to the side, Barbra yelled as the tree simply ceased to exist from midway up the trunk. Rabid, still tied to the tree yelled out in shock, finally paying attention to what was going on around him for the first time since they tied him up.

With the destruction of the tree his bonds were severed and he jumped to his feet and ran as fast as he could. Within seconds he was over a fence, across a neighbor's yard, and soon vanished from sight. In the other direction, Barbra hadn't ran away. She was trying to figure out what was going on and soon spotted the pissed off Peebo.

Her body swelled up and in the blink of an eye she was three times as big as before and covered in mucles. Her long blonde hair swirled around her head as she growled. "I've had enough of this."

"YeeeHaaa!" Peebri yelled as it surged forward. The weapon in it's back lowered down and a second one popped up. "FIRE!"

Lifting her fist high, Barbra 'Crush' Duncan slammed it into the ground with all her might. Shattering the ground around the Peebo and sending it flying into the air, but not before it fired its weapon. The beam missed hitting her, but Crush was two angry to notice as she glared at the Peebo.

"BWHAHAHAHAHAH!" Peebri yelled. "I'm the Birdie now! I can fly, I can fly!"

Running as fast as her muscular legs could take her, Crush tried to catch the little pest, but she wasn't fast enough. It landed, rolled a few times, and it's little tires left dust trails as it dodged though the broken down debris all around them. It's weapon swiveled around, lit up, and fired before Barbra could react.

The beam hit her in the chest, but instead of blowing a hole through her body, or knocking her off her feet, she found that the beam vaporized her clothing in an instant. She skidded to a stop, looking like a muscular body builder with well defined muscles, and saw that she was completely naked. From head to toe and then some.

"BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Peebri laughed as it made for the house. "So many victims and so little time! I must get them all!"

Screaming in rage, Barbra took off after the little menace. Seconds after Peebri made it into the house, Barbra was right behind it and the only thing heard was screaming and destruction as she plowed into the house.

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It wasn't even noon yet, and Dani felt like she needed to sleep for a week, but she had things to take care of first. She headed down the hall away form Gina's lab and wondered if Britanny had come this way. IB had done quite a number on the house, but Penny's EMP gun seemed to have done even more damage. Things were hanging down from the ceiling, out of walls, and the walls were covered in scorch marks from where wiring started to burn.

Even the walls seemed to have taken a hit of some kind, as they were covered in tiny little hair line cracks. She peaked around a corner to see if her friend was around just as she heard an explosion go off outside. She turned and wondered what in the world was going on. Was IB still around and causing problems?

Reaching to her side she pulled out her new baton and twirled it around a few times. She could hit him now so there was no way he would be able to get away from her again. As she neared the stairs that led to level above them she heard something just as a Peebo moving at full speed launched off the top of the stiars, bounced off the wall with an electronic laugh, and hit the ground still moving. It vanished down the corridor.

A loud growl of anger was easily recognized and Dani rolled just a very naked Crush vaulted off the stairs, fell to the floor below and left to foot print embedded in the floor as she landed. "Come back here you piece of &$#!" She screamed.

Gaping in shock, Dani started to grin a little as she realized that the little Peebo had just vaporized Barbra's clothing. It was a tiny bit of revenge, but Barbra deserved it as far as she was concerned. Climbing back to her feet she figured that Crush needed time to play before she would calm down.

"Now where would Britanny be?"

"In the kitchen."

Spinning around, Brit was looking down the stairs with a weird look on her face. Her tail was sticking out to the side and moving around a little. "Did you see Barbra…"

Brit nodded. "Yeah, we have to stop that thing before it gets anyone else, but for now I need a tuna sandwich."

"But she could be hurt, that little thing is trouble."

"At the moment I don't really care. She needs to suffer a bit for what she did to you and letting Brianna's toy play around with her works for me. I'll just belt her later just to make sure she understands the situation."

"What if it goes after one of the other girls?"

So far the thing is just destroying clothing, no harm in that." Brit said with an evil glint in her eys.

"You're an evil woman."

Brit grinned.

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Peebri zipped down the hallway with a maniacal grin on its face, its eyes shining bright, and a small pronged weapon poking up out of its back. Tiny little tires spun as it moved around a turn in the hallway quickly accelerated with a laugh. Just a few yards behind and enraged Crush ran as fast as she could, but the little menace just wouldn't slow down.

"Come back here!" She ordered.

In the lab Gina heard the yell and frowned as she looked up and tried to remember where she'd heard that voice before. Then she saw Peebri race by the open door and stood up just as Crush streaked by with a snarl. Heading for the door, Gina would later count it as one of her worse ideas, as she heard a crash just down the hall.

Then just as she was about to look out into the hall Peebri skidded to a halt in front of her. Laughed evily, and shot her in the chest. "Whoa Mama!" Peebri yelled and raced off.

Now naked, her toga vaporized, Gina just stood there blinking in surprise trying to process what just happened. Then Crush came back and glanced in the lab for a second and noticed Gina. "I know the feeling. That little &$# is going to die."

Gina blinked.

Across the room, Strype decided that a vacation would be a good idea for him and Brit. They didn't get out enough. Perhaps a beach, or some other isolated local where he wouldn't be exposed to naked girls and of all shapes and sized. After all a beach had nothing on the house today and he wasn't even trying to see the girls.

Gina screamed. "That little pest is going to meet its maker! Brianna!"

"Actually I found Brianna before I found you, Gina." Crush rumbled, reached to the side, and sat an equally naked Brianna down in front of her. "She seems to have met Peebri as well."

Now Brianna was blushing. "I swear I never program perverts."

"Brianna." Gina said calmly. "We are going to destroy that little monster or else I'll do something you will regret."

The girls scowled at each other.

"You don't have the cahonaes." Brianna growled.

"Don't forget what I did Peewee just a few months ago." Gina said. "That stuff is still viable."

"You wouldn't dare."

"After what you did, you bet I would."

The glared some more and Crush rolled her eyes. Then they suddenly heard Peebri's laughter and two screaming girls just up the stairs.

Hearing his wife scream, Strype raced out of the room before the girls could react. He just flew over their heads, bounced off the wall, and flew up the stairs. "Britanny!"

"Honey!"

Strype topped the stairs just a beam of light hit him in the chest, but it didn't slow him down, so he ignored it as he landed. The artifacts embedded in his skin were all glowing now that felt he needed to use them. Then he made a mistake and glanced over at his wife. His naked wife, standing next his wife's equally naked friend as they gaped at his lower body.

"Oh boy." Dani said in amazement. "I'd wondered what…"

"Dani!" Brit yelled and covered her friends eyes up. "This isn't the time.

Peebri cackled, spun a few circles, and headed for the door. Before it could get there, someone stepped through glowing with energy and glared around the room. Obviously female, it only took a second for Dani and Crush to see that Debra had finally woken up.

They groaned in unison.

The pissed off dragon girl seethed as she glared at Dani. "You are coming with even if I have to blow off your extremities to do it."

"Now Debra we have a little problem…" Dani started to explain.

"I don't care about your sexual nature or habits! You are under arrest!" Debra screamed just as Peebri blasted her, vaporizing what was left of her already destroyed outfit.

"BWHAHAHAHAHAH!"

With a sigh Dani shook her head. "I did try to explain."

Debra blinked in shock, looked at Peebri, at Crush, then finally back at Peebri who appeared to be trying to wag its back end at her. Then she completely lost it, threw her hand forward, and a bolt of energy fired out. Nearly three feet long, bright white with green highlights, it lanced right at Peebri.

The little monster shot forward with a cackle as the bold hit the floor. Dani tackled Brit before she had time to think. The bolt hit the floor and sent a ripple of energy spreading out in all directions for nearly four seconds before it exploded. By then it had formed a small dome of bright energy nearly as tall as the ceiling.

"Ah &$##$." Crush muttered.

Debra, having already ran back outside wasn't caught up in the loud 'thump' that echoed throughout the house, blowing out windows, obliterating the living room, and sending one of the couches flying through the wall and out into the yard. Of course it was the one with Ranko laid out on it.

It landed hard, shattering into pieces and dumping the android girl on the ground, shaking the hell out of her already damaged body. Ranko's eyes snapped open and she started to babble.

"I like cheese and tuna pudding."

Peebri spotted a girl wearing clothing, though skin tight and slightly ripped, and quickly removed the ugly things. Ranko, still out of it as systems started to reboot, only had one thing to say.

"3X2(9YZ)4A and cheese make the bathroom smell like pepperment." After that she started to sing something like 'I'm a little crow bar', a rather nasty and perverted limerick.

Inside the house Strype was peeling himself off the wall next to Crush, who had used her body to shield him. He blushed as he noticed that she had pressed herself up against him, pressing things around his head that he really didn't need around his head in the first place. Out of the corner of his eyes he could see that most of the living room had absorbed the brunt of the blast, leaving piles of ash here and there that used to be furniture.

Dani and Brit hadn't caught the full power of the blast, but it had still melted the floor in the kitchen and he could see smoke coming off of them. Now if only Crush wasn't unconscious, if his wife woke up and saw the way he was trapped he was a dead man. Being naked, in the arms of another woman, no matter the circumstances, was not a safe thing to contemplate.

"Help." He whispered in horror as he saw Peebri, now completely covered in ash, move out into his field of vision. The look of glee on its face was something he never wanted to see again. The pronged gun lowered into its back and a slightly larger version popped out a few seconds later.

The gun swiveled around, took aim down the stairs, and fired out a large bolt of energy that lit up the room. The whole house shook as the weapon did its damage and it still wasn't enough to wake up crush. Strype started to get angry. He was not going to take a fall for being in this position.

Using what little leverage he could muster, he managed to dislodge Crush's body and sat up with a shudder. He noticed that Peebri was turning to aim the weapon at him. "Let's see what it does to a living target."

Paling, Strype dove out of the way as the wall across the room just vanished in a nearly silent explosion of energy. He landed on his shoulder, rolled, and came up running.

"Come back stud muffin!" Peebri called in an imitation of Britanny's voice. Using the exact phrase that Brit used in the bedroom. Out of the corner of his eye, just as he was diving out the door, he saw a flash of bright blue light. Thinking it was another enemy, he turned to fend off yet another attack, but even as turned he saw something he hadn't expected.

A man stepping out of a swirling blue vortex of sparkling energy and looking around at the devastation. "What in the world?"

"Oh thank the gods you are here." Strype said.

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A portion of the ceiling had collapsed when Peebri fired the blast down the stairs. The pile of shattered rubble shifted as Brianna used the werecheetah given to her by Britanny. The large heavy piece fell to the side as she slowly climbed out of the pile. She glanced around for a second until she spotted Gina on the floor nearby.

"Gina?"

There was no answer as she carefully made her way over to the girl and knelt down just as Gina groaned and opened her eyes. "What the heck happened?"

"Some kind of explosion, it ripped one of the walls to pieces."

"This has to stop."

Brianna nodded. "We need to get into the core."

"You know how it's protected."

"Yeah, but do you think you're the only one that has been messing with the

light gate system?"

Blinking, Gina sat up and gave Brianna a look. "What do you mean?"

"Have a mini system set up in my own lab."

"But the EMP pulse…"

"Barely did anything because I protected the systems in my lab from just such a thing." Brianna explained as she helped Gina to her feet."

"Then lets go, but first we need to find some clothing."

"Forget that, we need to stop Peebri before she does anything worse. Strype won't mind and neither do I, lets just get to the core. Then we can find some clothing."

Gina looked like she might insist, but Brianna just grabbed her arm and pulled her out of the room. "Fix this now, clothing later. It's not like there is anyone here to see us running around in the buff and that little pest just might just get us again if we do."

"Alright, I've already lost two outfits, no need to lose anymore." Gina muttered. "Let's go."

They went down the hall and entered what was left of Brianna's room, crossed over to the corner where she kept her lab entrance. Luckily the door was normal instead of being powered in anyway, and they got in quickly enough.

Unlike Gina's lab with all it's computer terminals and various rooms, Brianna's lab was a little different. It had several large hard drives along the back wall connected to one large computer terminal set in the middle of the room. This was used to power Brianna's VR room set in the back corner. It was also where she constructed her Peebos when she needed new ones.

Gina walked over to a table and picked up a small Peebo body. "Isn't this a piece of that Peebo you sent with Ranma?"

"Yeah, B, he's about the same as most of my Peebos though I programmed in a bit of difference for Ranma's sake."

"Like what?"

Walking over to the computer Brianna started to power up the system to run a quick diagnostic to make sure everything was in working order. For some reason IB hadn't touched the system. "Well B is along more to keep Ranma occupied than to protect him, after all the guy can hold his own against mom for quite a while."

"True, so B is more of a distraction than protection?"

"More like a last resort. All my Peebo are bombs, B is just quite a bit more powerful than the normal Peebo."

"So that's what you wanted the Beta Tech for?"

Brianna nodded. Then she looked down at the computer and tapped some keys. "The system is working at 80."

"Why would you have this place protected against EMP?"

"Well I've been developing my own EMP gun, but didn't have anywhere to test it except in here. So I protected the lab as best I could."

"Why didn't you just use the plans for my own EMP gun?"

"I wanted to make my own." Brianna said.

The computer beeped and Brianna took a second to type a few things, then her and Gina vanished in a flare of light as the light gate activated. Seconds later, they appeared in the Core chamber. Motion sensors detected them and lights in walls slowly lit up to allow them to see. Gina shivered as she walked over to the Core, which looked like something out of a Stat Trek.

"I forgot how cold it was in here." She complained.

"Me too, let's get to work. IB is in this thing somewhere, we need to isolate and delete him completely."

Gina nodded.

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"Hiya Strype." Ranma said as she looked around the devastated landscape. Blasted parts for dozens of hurt bots covered the yard, shattered bit and pieces of exploded Peebos went as far as the eye could see. He could even see a few of them in the nearby trees. "This place looks like a war zone. Did you know you are standing in the front yard of the house au natural?"

Brits husband glowered at Ranma. "Like that outfit you're wearing is any better?"

Ranma looked a lot different than he did just a few days before. The most noticeable thing about him was that he was covered in bandages, one of his arms was in a sling, and two of his fingers were bound together. Below that was a skin tight mage suit that showed off every muscle and contour of his body while hiding the naughty bits to some degree.

He twisted his arm around and sat his large back pack down on the ground. "So who are we fighting?"

"That." Strype said and pointed at Peebri sitting at the edge of the house.

"A Peebo?"

"Yeah, that thing has a weapon that can vaporize clothing. It's gotten all the girls except Mimi over there."

Ranma glanced over at the red haired witch who was hiding behind the car and making sure it stayed between her and the little Peebo."

"You're kidding right?"

"Don't get cocky kid, that thing is dangerous."

Ranma snorted. "Fight a giant army of Undead idiots, that's dangerous, fight an undead lich king in the making, and then you'll know dangerous. A Peebo is annoying, but not dangerous."

"Guess you have to learn the hard way kid." Strype said. "We need to help the girls out if we can, that Peebo is the last thing we need to stop."

"No problem." Ranma said with a smirk.

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As the boys prepared to go and stop the evil Peebo of Perversion, Gina and Brianna were down in the core quickly setting up a number of programs to isolate and remove IB from the system. With all the main wiring leading out of the computer cut off, there was no way he could escape.

"Have you found him?" Brianna asked as she loaded in a special virus.

"Yeah, his program is running all over the system trying to escape, but he's so isolated that he can't figure out how to get out. We need to herd him where we want him to go." Gina explained.

Brianna smiled. "I was just thinking the same thing."

"You ready to start?"

"Yep, I've got a set of programs set up to activate with the stroke of a key. It's time for a little pay back."

Both girls started to cackle as they went to work, twin evil smirks on their faces as they started typing.

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Ranma watch as Peebri started to move towards Strype and him. "I suppose I could just blast the little pest."

"Brianna might not like that. She's been rather reluctant to do that even though a good portion of her Peebos have been destroyed already."

"I don't really see any other option really. Perhaps we could just pick it up and toss it in the neighbor's pool?"

"Maybe." Strype said with a shrug. "I really, really want to get into the house though."

"Why?"

"Who's the one standing here naked, boy?" Strype growled.

Ranma smirked. "Oh is that all."

He looked around and saw that Mimi wasn't by the car anymore, although her cat was standing on the good watching Peebri carefully. The little Peebo would stop every ten or so inches as sparks shot out of one it's eyes. Ranma had to admit that it was a rather disturbing sight, though with everything he'd seen in the last couple of days this didn't really bother him to much.

"I'm just going to break the thing. Brianna can always build a new one." Ranma said as he formed a ball of magic in his hand.

"Well alright, but just make sure you hit Peebri."

"Please, I could hit a fly at two hundred yards." Ranma snapped, thrust his hand forward and stopped just as he heard a yell. "What's that?"

They looked around just as Mimi, holding a broke piece of her broom jumped out from behind the car and started beating the little robot into scrap metal. Her eyes were close as she knelt there beating on it frantically.

"Hey! heyheyheyheyHey!" Peebri yelled under the onslaught. "I'm a fragile little weapon!"

Spinning the stick around, Mimi proceeded to impale the little robot through the head setting off a bright lash of light. Ranma and Strype turned away just as it went off. Then when it cleared they got a good look at Mimi. She was still kneeling in the same spot, except this time the only thing she was wearing were her glasses. Her bra and panties were gone, leaving her completely naked kneeling on the ground as two men look on.

Spinning around, she dove back behind the car as Aloysius started to laugh and rolled off the hood of the car. Mimi's head popped up along the edge of the car, she was a solid red and turning redder by the second. "Don't look

at me!"

Still holding the ball of magic in his hand, Ranma blinked a few times before powering down and giving Mimi a look over. "You okay there?"

"DON'T LOOK AT ME!"

"Right." Ranma said.

"HAHAHAHAHA!" Aloysius cackled as he rolled around in front of the downed car.

"Aloysius!" Mimi snapped.

"If only your sister could see you now. In all your glory to boot!"

Ranma was starting to get a headache as yet another girl hopped out of a nearby tree and walked over to Mimi. This one was a little short, oriental, and had long black hair that seemed to flow around her. What caught his eye was the fact that she was wearing what looked like a gloss black bikini.

So he had one naked girl hiding behind the car, a crazed Peebo causing problems, the rest of the girls weren't around as far as he could tell, and the standing next to him was completely naked as well and didn't seem bothered in the least. There was something seriously wrong with this picture.

He was seriously beginning to wonder what these people did when he wasn't around.

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Gina held up a CD and grinned. "Getting IB copied to this thing was too easy."

"What are you going to do with it?"

"Toss it in a file somewhere and keep him around I guess."

"What for?"

"He's like an AI in this form, a completely free thinking program. I want to see if I can figure out how he works so I can use the idea on my bots."

Brianna nodded. "My Peebos could use a bit of an upgrade in that department too. Lately they've been kind of unstable."

"True." Gina said with a nod. "Well let's head upstairs and see if everybody is alright."

"Sure, after I found something to wear, I'm tired of being naked."

Gina shrugged. "It's not that bad."

"Exhibitionist."

"Look whose talking." Gina smirked. "I seem to recall that one time on Hawaii…"

"Alrightalrightalright! No need to bring up things like that." Brianna yelled as she started to blush. "Anyway, how do you think it will be before we can get everything working again?"

"Not to long once I get some undamaged hurt bots working. Why?"

"After all this happening I want to spent a few hours sitting in the hot tub." Brianna admitted.

"That sounds like a great idea." Gina muttered. "But first, we need some clothes."

"Oh now you want to get dressed."

Gina stuck her tongue out at Brianna.

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"BWHAHAHA!" The small Peebo laughed as it made its way through the toobs between floors just like Brianna had done earlier in the day when she escaped the house. Although the Peebe was able to move around without any problems.

Its face was grinning as it used a mini laser to cut through one of the many wires that clogged the small toob. Then used a set of small pincers and a sodering iron to rewire a couple of things wires into a box. Even with the electricity slightly destroyed most of the wires were still working, they just needed some slight repairs and the Peebo had a plan.

"HEHEHEHEH!"

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Inside the house Gina and Brianna used the light gate system to exit the core after activating the repair systems. With the use of nanites most of the damage would be repaired within the next few days. The whole system was part of a separate area that had to be connected manually before it could activate and get things fixed.

As they appeared inside Brianna's lab they were greeted by a small Peebo stationed at the edge of the bed. It looked up at them and grinned. Gina noticed a small hole in the floor next to the bed just behind the little robot.

"Peebri?" Brianna said. "What are you doing here?"

"I'm going to blow you up!" The little Peebo cackled.

"What?!" Gina yelled.

"Peegi was just distracting the morons out in the front yard while I set everything up. Even if you run right now you won't make it out of the house and with the nanites activated the whole system will be up an running in a matter of minutes."

Backing away in shock, Gina glanced over at Brianna. "Brianna?"

"You aren't programmed to do things like this."

"I wasn't, but that was before IB opened my mind and gave me a life of my own!" Peebri said, a warped grin on her face. "It's so close, can't you feel it as the power slowly builds up around the house?"

Gina dove for the nearest computer, ignoring the rather large pile of pictures piled up on the floor. "We have to stop it! The nanites can't rebuild a while house."

"Peebri don't do this." Brianna snapped and started edging her way over to a gun she'd discarded on the floor earlier.

Peebri rolled around the edge of the bed and dropped down into the toob below and raced off. Half a second later Brianna landed by the hole, placed the large barrel in the hole, and pulled the trigger. For half a second happened but then the weapon shuddered and smoke started so spill out of the barrel as it failed to fire.

"&$#." Brianna yelled and threw it across the room.

Gina cursed as well as the computer failed to respond to commands as it continued to print out pictures. "We're screwed."

The two girls glanced each other, paled a bit as they realized what was going to happen, and then with a yell Brianna grabbed Gina. Throwing the girl over her shoulder, Brianna proved that she was indeed part werecheetah as she broke into a run. Heading down the hallway, up the stairs, into the living room and out the front door in a matter of seconds.

In the kitchen Britanny and Dani saw them race by and decided that they probably had a really good reason and followed them. They didn't stop until they were all beside Asrial's car at the end of the drive. Four heads peaked up above the edge of the car and watched the house in apprehension.

"How long do you think?" Brianna asked.

"Not long now. Remind me to kill you if we survive this." Gina snapped.

"It's not my fault!"

"You created that insane thing."

"She's been reprogrammed!" Brianna yelled back.

"Hi girls? Do anything interesting this weekend?"

Four heads turned to look up at the one person they hadn't seen in several days.

"RANMA!" Gina and Brianna yelled in surprise.

He smirked. "What's going on?"

"The house is about to explode." Gina stated.

He blinked. "Huh?"

"The house is about to explode in a giant fire ball of death and destruction that will take out most of the block, kill everyone, and probably make living here in Atlanta impossible for the rest of my natural born life." Gina snapped.

"And that explains why all the girls are naked?"

"Who cares about that!?" Brianna snapped. Mimi, by the edge of the car, nodded and glared at the black haired boy. So did a girl in a nearby tree even though she wasn't as naked as the rest of the girls.

"Anyone seen Asrial and the other girl?" Ichi asked from her position in the tree.

"They aren't out here?"

"They went into the house."

Gina paled even more. "Brit! Save them!"

The werecheetah vanished half a second later using her full speed, a sonic boom echoed over the property. Not even three seconds later Peeny, Asrial, Charlotte, and even Ranko appeared behind the car. They didn't even have time to do more than get pulled to the ground even as Ranma and Strype ducked down behind the car.

"Want me to help a little?" Ranma asked in a bored tone.

Panicking, Gina nodded about a hundred times.

"To late to save much, but I think it can channel the direction the explosion might go." Ranma explained as he sat down, crossed his legs, and started to glow. Then he held both hands towards the house, even if the car was in the way, and the girls saw something form around the house that looked like a giant bottled just before it vanished.

"Best I can do I'm afraid."

"Anything is better than…"

THUMP!

The ground heaved under their feet as something exploded under the house. A blinding white light shot out of the windows of the house right before the house seemed to implode from within. Instead flowing away from the house and destroying everything in sight, they all watched as the explosion stopped about ten feet from the house and started to rise into the sky.

"What the hell did you have down there Gina?" Penny asked in shock. "And why aren't we dead?"

"I had a simple self destruction set up, nothing that big was in place." Gina muttered.

"Right." Brianna muttered.

"Well, Peebri said that it had made some changes."

Ranma pointed at that rather battered Peebo on the ground. "That thing?"

"That's Peegi." Brianna explained.

"I thought it was Peebri." Mimi said. "It vaporized all my clothes!"

"You girls are really going to have to explain what went on this weekend." Ranma smirked as he looked them over.

By the car, Ranko's head snapped around as life seemed come back into her eyes and she stood up staring at Ranma. "You."

Behind them a column of fire rose into the sky several hundred feet before dissipating. Even then all of them could feel the heat washing over them as Ranma's shield finally fell under the onslaught. By then most of the fire was out, but Ranma didn't notice any of this as Ranko stepped up to him.

"Um, Ranko?" He asked.

Suddenly she grabbed him by the shirt, pulled him forward, and kissed him right on the lips. His eyes widened in shock and he froze, his pigtail sticking straight up. Then she released him and he saw something in her eyes that he'd never seen before. "Mmmm." She said. "Nice."

Brianna and Gina were gaping at the android.

Then Ranko suddenly pulled him forward again and started to rub Ranma against her chest.

"You go girl." Britanny cheered her on as Strype gaped as he recalled Britanny doing something similar to him.

Then Ranma shook off his shock and jumped away to land on the other side of the car. "What are you doing?"

Turning around hungrily, Ranko smirked a him. "Marking you."

Blushing, Ranma backed up a couple of steps. "Um…"

"He's mine!" Brianna yelled.

"Mine!" Ranko yelled and pulled Ranma over to her. She cooed at him.

Ranma shuddered. "Um…you really need to know…"

Smirking, Britanny glanced over at Ranma. "Is there something you need to tell us Ranma?"

"Well you see…" Ranma started, he was sweating nervously, and then a hand grabbed him by the neck of his mage suit and lifted him up off the ground. "Huh?"

Everyone glanced up, and up a little higher, to see Shiela's human form lifting Ranma above them with relative ease. He had this shocked look on his face as she growled at him.

"Um, Sheila, how you doing?"

"Ranma, why didn't you tell me you were going to have a little part when you got home?"

"Party?"

"Complete with naked girls and everything."

"Its not what it looks like!" Ranma started to flail.

Then things started to fall to the ground around them, having been tossed into the air by the explosion of the house. This included flaming bits of wood, lots of dust, and a rain of pictures, slightly burnt. The girls all stopped as the debris drifted down all over the area and a picture landed in Sheila's hair.

Reaching up she pulled it out, glanced at it and dropped Ranma in shock. Scrambling to his feet, Ranma got out of the large woman's reach before she did anything else. Slightly charred pictures were everywhere and Ranma picked one up off the ground to see that it featured him in the middle of one of his early morning workouts. "What that?"

"RANMA!" Sheila yelled. "What is the meaning of this!"

"Huh?"

"This picture!" She shoved it at him and saw that someone had taken a picture of him being kissed by Brianna.

"Wha?" He gasped. "But this…Brianna?"

The girl was about ten feet away and stopped tip toeing her way away from the group and broke into a run. She raced across the yard before Sheila had time to react. By then Sheila was running after her after changing into her much shorter and faster werejaguar form. She picked up a flaming board on the ground as she went.

Ranma just gaped at the scene, the picture still held loosely held in his hand. "What's going on? How did Brianna get this thing?"

Gina glanced over his shoulder, silently noting just how good Ranma looked in his black mage suit and it's skin tight fit. "Brianna mentioned that she recorded everything that happened in the VR room."

"Yeah, she had the best fighting games I've ever played before. So life like and everything."

"Well she hinted that the two of you did things in there other than play games."

Ranma blushed and looked away. "I don't know what you are talking about."

The blonde scientist smirked at him. "I'll bet you don't stud. You don't have to tell me anything, but you may want to explain what happened to your girl friend over there."

They watched as Brianna ran by with Sheila just behind her with a flaming board held high so she could hit the girl over the head. Before Ranma could respond a burst of light announced the arrival of more guests as Julia, Dr. Diggers, Gar, Luan, Carla, and Genn appeared a few feet away. The group was about to say hello when they caught sight of the house.

"What the hell happened?!" Julia yelled in shock. "Gina!"

"Over here mom."

"Gina why are all of you naked?" Julia growled. Theo looked a little flustered, blushed slightly, and decided that he didn't need to say anything. The rest of them just gaped at the house and tried to figure out what was going on. Then Gar noticed that his sister was chasing Brianna around the yard in a rage.

"You lot are never boring are you?" He said with a smirk as Sheila finally brained Brianna and stomped back over to the ground with her flaming board still in one hand, resting on her shoulder, and a smirk on her face.

"Sis."

"Brother."

"Your hair is on fire again."

The back side of Sheila's head was burning merilly as her regeneration quickly regrew the hair that burned, being twice as effective as a normal regeneration ability. Reacting normally, Sheila screamed, and started to run around in circles.

Not knowing what was going on, Luan and Carla moved off to the side and watched at Master Julia yelled at Gina, Dr. Diggers looked on disapprovingly, Sheila ran around in circles, and everyone just tried to figure out what was going on. The also picked a few of the pictures on the ground and got a good look at Ranma in his super tight shorts. They quietly pocketed several of them before anyone noticed.

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"&$# it just never ends does it?" Agent M muttered as he looked a group of papers just delivered by a building carrier.

About a week later

Agent M was going through the mail on his desk. The last week of his life hadn't been very good. After flying halfway across the world and back to his office he'd been called into a meeting with his boss and been screamed at for about three hours about his most recent actions.

Being on probation was bad enough, but his whole agency was on administrative leave of absence while they were audited by a couple of thugs that took perverse glee in finding even a penny of misspent money. He was averaging about forty write ups as each day passed and they were going to be auditing him for a couple of months. No his nice and eat life was not

going well.

After that had come Zane. After walking into the building in full Amazon Princess regalia she proceeded to rip his while office apart and toss him around like a rag doll. As part of his punishment he wasn't allowed to use his powers, if he was caught doing so for any reason, he would be in prison for some time to come.

To work for the FBI at his level meant that certain risks had to be taken. He hadn't seen Zane since and he wasn't event going to think about where she shoved that suit of hers.

He shuddered.

If they failed then he would take the fall for them. That led to his next mistake, Barbra 'Crush' Duncan. Someone found out how he was keeping super powered criminals in line through threats and a minor bit of blackmail. Typical for any kind of untrustworthy agent in the field and highly illegal. He took the fall for that too and Barbra been released from her duties and given her freedom.

The Irving Bob fiasco had embarrassed the FBI with the number of favors they were forced to call in and owe others. M knew the next few years of his life would be filled with arrogant agency heads calling on him to perform various favors that he would be forced to honor, or else the government would turn it's back on him. Then his life would descend into hell.

IB's body had vanished form the labs, all records purged, and M's involvement meant that it all rested on his shoulders. That hadn't stopped the worst thing from happening though. He was also responsible for cleaning up the mess the papers he was looking at was the first step. It was a law suit, Gina Diggers vs The Agency for the destruction of two hundred million dollars. From the loss of her house, her vehicals, her computers, and all related damage as well.

This included everything at Penny Pincer's mansion that needed to be replaced or fixed, new landscaping, and lost wages on research time for various projects. He shuddered. Protesting was useless because Gina had been helpful enough to list everything destroyed item by item, price by price, and references on how to find and buy new ones.

Rabid was backing prison.

Debra wasn't talking to him.

Dani Carter was also suing him for what he did to her and her reputation as a crime fighter.

He was so screwed.

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The purplish colored rat made its way through the pipe knowing that it would eventually lead to freedom, this was how it got in the house in first place. Eventually it spotted more light in the distance and breathed a sight of relief as it broke into a run.

'Freedom, sweat freedom.' It thought.

Some ways behind it something larger moved out of the shadows of the pipe, moving on wheels, a spotted Peebo smirked as it raced down the pipe. The rat didn't know what was going to hit it as soon as it hit the exit.

'BWHAHAHAH!' It laughed to itself.

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The End

The rat will be continued in a future chapter of GO. Gotta set up for morechapters in the never ending story.

Notes: Good place to end this I think. Sure I can go one for a while yet, but I don't think I need to. I covered just about everything I wanted to. Gina gets a fortune, a new house, more house guests, and the money to play around with things a little. Life is good for her.

Life for Agent M on the other hand is bad. In the actual comic Agent M isn't an asshole, just a budding FBI agent that used to be Mister Miracle. He's actually a mysterious guy who hired Strype to work for Agency. I didn't touch on that in the fic or much of Strype's powers for various reasons, this story is a tiny bit AU after all. Almost all of the history mentioned is in the comic though unless I say otherwise in a note like this.

Mister Miracle is the GD universe equivalent of Superman, but disillusioned about the fickle reactions he received from the public at large. When he did a good job he was worshiped like a god, but even the simplest mistake would cause things to spiral out of control. He believes that by keeping a low profile, nearly secret, that he can do a more effective job and does this with the help of the government. We will see more of him in future stories.

Dani Carter is NYC's version of a female batman. She's been doing the job since she was in college but is still naïve in a lot of ways. When Barbra did what she did with Crime Syndicate X, it came as a complete shock and betrayal. Giving in to blackmail for any reason was foreign to her. She is still learning and I expect to see more of her in the comic in the near future.

Oh, and Thanks to Kenko for the inspiration of Ranko's scene after the couch landed.

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