Atlanta, Georgia

"Aaaah!" Ryoga said, running as fast as he could (safely) through the house, with the expression of fear on his face.

Ranma, in his male form today, was suddenly beside him, running at the same speed. Only Ranma looked like he was jogging and he was going backwards. Ranma could tell Ryoga was currently fearing for his life. His wolf's tail was fizzed out and his pupils were really, really small.

"What up, Ryoga?" Ranma asked as they flew out into the yard.

"There's an insane cat woman chasing me!" Ryoga said.

Ranma glanced at who had rocketed out of the house.

Brianna was going about twice as fast as Ryoga.

"Oh, Ryoga!" She shouted in a loud singsong voice, her voice suddenly turned angry, loud, and downright scary, "GET BACK HERE!"

"AIIIE!" Ryoga put on as much speed as he could, screwing the fact that he might kill himself.

Ranma had tripped and fallen on his ass when Brianna had turned from her normal peaceful self to an evil demon. Ranma watched, stunned, as she blew past him.

Brittany landed beside him.

"Wh…" Ranma said, "What was that?"

"I told you, Brianna is a raving nymphomaniac," Brittany said, "I believe she's fallen in love with Ryoga."

"Why's that?" Ranma asked, standing, his own tail fizzed out.

"Because Genn and Séance haven't turned up pale and unconscious in the house in days," Brittany said.

Ranma stared at her.

"What?"

Ryoga turned up the next morning. Genn and Séance were looking at him with an expression of obvious respect. Ranma and Brittany were also staring at them. Even Theo and Julia occasionally glanced at them.

Mainly because Ryoga only looked slightly dazed, while Brianna had fallen asleep on her pancakes.

"You are a greater man than I have ever known," Séance said.

"Ranma?" Brittany's voice called out, "You out here?"

"Oh, hey Brittany," Ranma said.

"What are you doing out here?" Brittany said as she climbed out the window.

They were both sitting on the roof of the house, looking out over the city.

"I always did this back in Japan," Ranma said, "When I couldn't sleep."

"It is pretty," Brittany said as she sat next to her brother.

A silence fell over them.

"You know," Brittany said, "Something's been on my mind."

"What?" Ranma asked.

"What was your life like?" Brittany asked, "You know, before you lost it that day."

Ranma sighed. He knew that he hadn't really told anyone about his life with Genma and the Tendos. The others never told. No one had really asked, they just understood that it wasn't pleasant.

"Well," Ranma said, "Right after Genma and Nodoka adopted me, Genma started to train me in martial arts. That's his entire life. Nodoka was like a friend to me. I never really looked to her as a mother, and she never to me as a son. I was her friend."

"Then, that bastard Genma took me away from my home, to go on a training trip that took ten years. It was horrible. The Saotome style Martial Arts depends on deception and half assed training methods to teach a student as fast as possible and as thoroughly as possible. I hate to admit it, but the only reason why I survived this long is because of him."

"I arrived at the Tendo's about two months after Jusenkyo, and it got a thousand times worse. Akane beat me. Nabiki robbed me blind constantly. Kasumi, my god she's a nice girl, but she's so incredibly dense that she would smile through a nuclear blast. Soun was a crybaby who whined all the time. Kuno was an idiot who wanted to kill the male me, and make love to the female me. Kodachi, his sister, was the opposite. The Principle had a pineapple fetish and the urge to cut everyone's hair. Shampoo was… well, she's not anymore, but she WAS after me constantly. Cologne was occasionally my teacher, occasionally the bane of my existence. Mousse was a blind obsessive freak that tried time after time to attacked me. Ukyo was clingy and, although my friend, treated me like a possession. Happosai is still a perverted freak. And Genma made it all worse, constantly."

"I could go on all night about what happened," Ranma said, "Let's just say that it got worse. Akane was ALWAYS angry, even when I was trying to save her ass from dying all those times. Even after a killed a goddamn GOD for her."

"You what?" Brittany asked.

"The Phoenix God Saffron of Jusendo, the water source of Jusenkyo," Ranma said, "A big guy with wings that could throw around fireballs bigger than this house as easily as breathing."

"He was THAT powerful?" Brittany watched Ranma nod, "Then… how the hell did you kill him?"

"Because he was weak, at least physically," Ranma said, "He had never been through training, so any hit I gave him hurt him like hell. Of course, being magical, any hit he gave ME hurt like hell too. And he regenerated, I didn't."

"How'd you beat him?" Brittany asked.

"Akane had been dehydrated so bad that her body had turned into a doll, she couldn't move very much, but at the last second, just as a fireball was hurling at us, she hurled herself away from me. Luckily it caused a whole to appear in the fireball, allowing me to see Saffron throw it. The only reason why I survived the attack was because I had a staff that could be used to freeze things, Saffron had its brother, the staff that could be used to burn things. I froze myself early on, so my body was abnormally cold."

"Abnormally cold?"

"I froze myself in the middle of one of the fireballs, so I didn't freeze myself solid," Ranma said, "But even with that hole, the last possible way to win, I didn't have any strength left. The fireball would have most definitely had killed me."

"How'd you survive?" Brittany asked.

"I transformed," Ranma said, "My strength came back enough for me to release my final attack. I used my cold aura to shoot a blast of frigid air through the hole in the fireball. It hit his square in the chest, and impaled him with ice shards. I have to admit, that Saffron looked really scared when he saw my hybrid form."

"Scared?"

"I don't know why," Ranma said, "But he looked absolutely horrified. That's why he fired the last blast. He was screaming like a girl when he did it. When I transformed, that's when Akane flew out of my hand."

"Did she die?" Brittany asked.

"Almost," Ranma said, "As soon as I could, I started looking for the water that could hydrate her again. That's when Cologne saw my hybrid form. I managed to go human again and save her. And she actually got better. She didn't get angry or anything until two days after getting home, when the wedding fiasco happened."

"…what?" Brittany asked, "Wedding fiasco?"

"Yeah," Ranma shook his head, "It was a nightmare. Nodoka almost got killed. I was so pissed that I almost transformed right there, but I managed not too. And after that, Akane went back to beating me up for no apparent reason and hating me. She even got worse. She'd flip at me for being in the same room as her. Two months later, I lost it."

Brittany sat there, thinking for a moment. Ranma just stared out over the horizon.

"Ranma isn't you real name," Brittany said.

"Huh?" Ranma asked, "Wha… how'd you know?"

"Because," Brittany asked, "When we were first connected, I knew who you were. When I heard your name, it didn't sound right."

"Well, you're right," Ranma said, "Genma was stuck on the fact that I would be a proper Japanese boy, even though I don't look at all Japanese. He forced Nodoka and I to have my name changed."

"What was your real name?" Brittany asked.

"My true name is Rhys."

"Very good," a man of short stature said, "How is it going?"

"The DNA was very sufficient," A bald woman said, "Splicing the DNA into these new people will be quite a challenge for you, Pee-wee."

"As long as it gets me living werecreatures, I don't care how hard it is."

Ranma suddenly spasmed. Everyone looked at him.

"You okay?" Brittany asked, eating another piece of chicken.

"Right now, yeah," Ranma said, "It's something that I developed on the training trip. Something bad is about to happen. Something… really bad."

"Are you sure?" The bald woman asked.

"Yes," Pee-wee said, "They might not be the most sane of people, but they are some of my greatest creations. They are loyal, and they will follow my orders exactly."

"How do you know?" The bald woman asked.

"Because of the law of infected werecreatures," Pee-wee smirked, "Those that are turned into werecreatures must follow the commands of the one that infected them. I have genetically coded them and myself so that the law makes them obey me."

"ALERT"

"ALERT"

Ranma and Brittany glanced up at the speaker that was blaring at them.

"What's that?" Ranma asked.

"The warning," Brittany said, "We have unwanted visitors."

"Pee-wee," Brittany said as she walked into the back yard.

"Hello again, Brittany," Pee-wee said.

"What do you want?" Brittany asked.

"Do you really have to ask?" Pee-wee said, "And this time, I will not fail."

"Oh no," Ranma said, glancing at the people in front of him.

"A-Akane?" Ryoga stuttered.

Standing before them was a collection of people from Nerima. Akane, Nabiki, Genma, and Soun stood there, next to Mousse, Kuno, Kodachi, and even Pantyhose Taro. And none of them looked normal.

Akane was a hulk. She still looked human, but her hair was a strikingly less blue and more brown, and she was looked twice as strong and twice as fast. She had an odd tail behind her and her hair had odd patterns in it.

Nabiki was taller, but lithe. Her hair was a new blonde color. She even had a cheetahs' tail.

Genma and Soun didn't look any different, but they definitely felt different. They both now reeked of power. And their expressions were rather… disturbing.

Mousse was no longer wearing his long shirt. He wasn't wearing a shirt at all. All over his body, there were several guns and knives covering him. His eyes were now completely black, he had a wolf's tail behind him.

Kuno now held a long katana, that, to all the werecreatures there, glowed a slight blue, signifying the presence of silver. He, like all the others, wore an odd outfit. Around his neck was a metal collar.

Kodachi looked normal, but if you looked closely, you could see metal patches on her skin.

Taro was in his cursed form. But he looked very scary. Very… very scary. His cursed form was now twice as horrible, with tubes and metal running all over it.

"Meet my new friends," Pee-wee said.

All of the Nerima Locals dashed forwards at one.

Chaos ensued.