Chapter One
Ranma looked on in awe at the small space fighter that rested in front of him. The glistening metal, and dome of the cockpit as it drew his eyes in the sunlight, curving perfectly down to the vehicle's weapons; a pair of machine guns on either side, mounted under the cockpit on jutting supports. And above the machine guns resided rocket launchers.
Faye looked behind her as she climbed into the craft.
"You gonna sit there and gawk all day or get in?" She said.
Ranma blushed and grinned sheepishly as he followed her into the ship, it was a tight fit for the two, the ship being made for only one. However the two managed, it took some moving around so that Ranma wasn't pressed up against something he shouldn't be.
In the end, they settled on Ranma sitting on the edge of Faye's seat, pressed against the glass.
"Uhm, Faye-san?" Ranma questioned.
"Hmm?" She replied.
"Well uh... I don't.... well... I mean..." He stuttered.
"Spit it out already." Faye said.
"I need some clothes....." Ranma blushed, "I can't go around wearing scrubs forever can I?"
Faye face faulted, nearly sending the ship into a building as she flew over the city, she managed to pull up just in time, however, and realized what Ranma had said was true.
"I'm sure Spike or Jet has something you can wear...." She trailed off.
******
"Welcome baaaackkk!" Ed shouted as Faye's ship docked with the Bebop as it floated in the Ocean.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Faye said as she walked into the ship.
"Who's that?" Spike asked as he walked in, lighting a cigarette and nodding at Ranma.
"Ranma Saotome." Ranma said.
"You a fighter?" Spike asked him.
"I-I don't know....." Ranma told him, thinking for a second.
Spike grunted and walked up to Ranma, when he was about 3 feet away, he threw a quick jab at him, intending to test wither Ranma's uncanny grace was an act.
Ranma sidestepped and responded, sending a round house back at his attacker. It was easily blocked as Spike smirked at Ranma's look of amazement at what he had done.
"Well, if you don't know, you're body sure does." As he turned around, walking off.
"Spike," Faye stopped him. "The kid needs some clothes."
"Yeah, I noticed." Spike replied uncaringly.
"Well, give him some of your's." Faye told him
Spike grimaced, "Yeah, yeah, yeah... Common kid." He motioned for Ranma to follow him to his room.
"So, you gonna be staying with us?" Spike asked as Ranma was trying on a set of clothing.
"I guess so... Faye-san told me to stay here until I got my memories back.." Ranma struggled with the black tie, Spike having only one red one.
"You better talk to Jet then, Its his ship after all." Spike said as he moved forward and fixed the tie for him, and stepped back, surveying Ranma.
"Not bad." He said, Ranma blushed. Ranma wore the same light blue suite as Spike, being a few inches shorter than Spike, it was a bit baggier, not that he seemed to mind, he wore a black tie loosely around his neck, with a white undershirt, and stuck his hands in his pockets.
"You wanna spar?" Spike asked.
"Spar?" Ranma questioned.
"Yeah, its like fighting, but more friendly like, ya know?" Spike told him.
"Uhm, ok..." Ranma agreed.
Spike led Ranma to the deck, it was large enough for their purposes.
"You ready?" He asked Ranma, who stood there for all the world looking like a novice fighter.
"I guess." Ranma replied, as Spike charged at him, opening with a quick combo, jabing at Ranma's chest, then dropping low to sweep his legs out from under him.
Ranma moved like a man possessed, blocking the punch and leaping back out of range of the leg sweep, and charged back in with a roundhouse that was ducked. Spike tried an upper cut just as Ranma was pulling his leg back in from the kick. Ranma did a quick back flip, and stretched out his legs and caught Spike in the chin as he recovered from his uppercut, sending him skidding back across the deck a few feet.
"Not bad." Spike grinned, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand, there was obviously more to this boy then meets the eye.
"Thanks." Ranma said, still looking slightly unsure of himself, but with more confidence than he had at the beginning.
"Lets try that again eh?" Spike grinned again as he charged back at Ranma, he dodged to the left when Ranma attempted to stop his charge by doing a quick one-two punch combo aimed at Spike's chest.
This left Ranma wide open when Spike punched hard at Ranma's ribs. Ranma shrugged off the blow and swung his arm out from the its extended position, catching Spike unawares with a backhanded fist to the side of Spike's head.
Spike staggered back a few feet. It would seem he was going to have to go all out in order to beat this kid. He flowed into a different style that favored finesse over strength and charged Ranma again, this time he started with a jumping snap kick, catching Ranma in the chin and sending him flying. Ranma flipped in the air and hit the ground running back at Spike. He hit the ground and sweeped Spike's legs from under him.
Spike turned it to his advantage as he kicked his legs out from his horizontal position in the air and hit Ranma in the chest just as he was standing up.
This led to both fighters falling to the ground a few feet away from each other.
"Hey Spike!" Jet called from the doorway just as both oh them got back to their feet.
"Yeah?" Spike said.
"Who's the kid?" Jet asked, motioning at Ranma.
"Faye brought him, said he would be staying a while." Spike told him.
"Oh, ok" Jet turned to walk back into the ship and stopped suddenly.
"He WHAT?!" Jet turned back around and ran up to Spike.
"I dunno, ask her." Spike walked back inside, "Good fight kid."
"Thanks." Ranma grinned. This turned out to be a mistake as it drew Jet's attention to him.
"Just what the hell are you smiling at?! Do you realize how much it will cost me to feed you?!" Jet screamed at Ranma as he walked inside, Jet hot on his heels.
"Hey man I don't know anything about this ok? All I know is that Faye told me to stay here." Ranma replied, making calming gestures in Jet's direction, even though it didn't seem to be working.
"Whats all the shouting about?" Faye asked as she walked into the room.
"YOU!" Jet screamed at her, causing her to stop in surprise and stare at Jet.
"Me?" She asked.
"What the hell were you thinking? He can't stay here! I mean look at him! He probably eats as much as Spike does!" Jet ranted.
"More actually." Faye responded, examining her nails casually .
"MORE?!" Jet looked like he was about to blow an artery in his neck.
"Why would you tell him he can stay here if he eats MORE than Spike?!" Jet couldn't seem to wrap his mind around it, pointing at Ranma and flailing his arms like a crazy man.
"Didn't you see how the kid fights? I bet with him on our team, we can easily take out almost any target we want." Ranma opened his mouth to ask Faye about how she said it was until his memories returned, but was silenced at the look she gave him, he decided he would let this play out.
This settled Jet down some as he thought about what she had said. The kid DID fight well, even if he didn't seem like the type to use a gun, but that could be fixed easily enough.
"Alright.... I'll let him stay, for now." Jet allowed.
He turned on Ranma, "But if you're gonna stay here, and gonna eat here, you're going to damn well WORK here, understand?"
"No problem man, really, I'll do whatever!" Ranma said.
"But uh, what kinda work is it that you guys do?" Ranma asked.
"We're bounty hunters." Spike said as he came back into the room.
"Oh.... What's a bounty hunter?" Ranma asked, scratching his head.
"We hunt down criminals that the government puts a bounty on and turn them in, and we get rewarded for it.
"Oh... ok..." Ranma mulled over this fact.
"So... What's next?" Ranma asked as he accepted his new line of work.
"Now, we teach you how to shoot." Jet said.
"Shoot?" Ranma said the word with a small amount of disgust.
"Look kid, if you're gonna be a bounty hunter you have to know how to shoot ok?" Jet glared at him.
"Fine.... But I don't have to like it!" Ranma said as he followed Jet back onto the deck.
*****
"Now, aim, take you're time, ease the trigger back, thats it. Now, hold your breath and take the shot." Jet told Ranma as he aimed at the buoy sitting in the water about thirty meters out. A crack rang out and a small splash of water was seen just bare inches to the right of the metal buoy.
Ranma sighed as he failed yet again.
"Not bad kid, you're doing pretty good for your first time with a pistol. Now, try again. Jet was surprised as Ranma managed to hit it this time, a small amount of sparks shooting up from the point of impact.
Ranma grinned in victory as he lowered the pistol.
"Hmm, well I think thats enough practice for now, lets go on back in." Jet said.
"Ok." Ranma said as he followed Jet back into the Bebop, he sat down on the couch and pet Ein.
"Whats the dog's name?" Ranma asked.
"Ein, Einy-Whiny-Biney-BOOO" Ed responded from her place in front of her computer, moving her arms in ways most break dancers couldn't even dream of doing.
"Uhm, ok and who are you?" He asked.
"Ed is Ed." she said, twirling around to look at Ranma and pointing at herself.
"Right...." Ranma said.
******
Ranma walked by a small room with bonsai tree, Jet was pruning them carefully.
"Uh, hey Jet, is it ok if I take a shower?" He asked timidly.
"Sure thing kid, shower's down that way" Jet said, pointing down the hall.
Ranma passed Faye as she returned from the shower in a robe with a towel around her hair. Just as he was about to close the door to the bathroom, he heard Faye yelling.
"Jet what's wrong with the shower?! There's no hot water!" Faye yelled at Jet.
"There's no hot water, the head is broken...." That was all Ranma heard as he shrugged and closed the door. He could dear with a little bit of cold water.
As Ranma turned the faucet on, he couldn't help but feel uncomfortable for some reason. He shrugged and disrobed, setting the clothes Spike had lent him to the side and stepped into the shower.
He felt very odd for some reason, it seemed as though everything had just gotten several inches taller. He shrugged, probably just nerves, he told himself. He started to wash his hair with shampoo, or at least he thought it was shampoo.
When he dropped the bottle on the floor of the shower he noticed something odd....... He had breasts.
He stood up and rubbed his eyes, it must be a trick of the light or something.... Right?
It wasn't.
Ranma very slowly reached up a touched them, he gasped at the sensation it gave him. He gulped when his hands reached lower, hopeing beyond hope that it was still there and these beasts were just a figment of his imagination.
When he couldn't find what he was looking for, he felt light headed. When it hit him that he had obviously turned into a female, he screamed. He screamed at the top of his lungs, he screamed for all the pain, all the suffering he didn't know he had suffered, for the life that was taken from him, for the life he didn't want but had received. He screamed for the loss of his manhood, which meant so much to him, and he couldn't figure out why.
Just as the door burst open and Spike rushed in, prepared for an attack, but instead saw a naked woman, he stopped suddenly.
"S-Spike...."She said. Then she fainted and fell, Spike caught her mere instants before she would have hit her head on the wall, causing a concussion.
"Who are you?" Spike whispered to the girl in his arms. It was then that the others rushed into the room.
"What the hell is going on?!" Jet roared.
"I dunno! Someone screamed and I ran in and found her!" Spike grew uncomfortable holding such a beautiful naked woman in his arms.
"Where's Ranma?" Jet asked.
"What?" Spike responded, trying to keep his gaze from wondering to the girl.
"Ranma said he was gonna take a shower, but I don't see him anywhere, where could he have gone?" Jet wondered.
"How should I know? Just move so I can get this chick outta my arms already! She ain't as light as she looks.
Jet moved to the side and let Spike through, carrying the boxum young red haired girl out of the bathroom, he set her on the couch and laid a blanket over her to cover her nakedness.
******
Ranma awoke a few hours later, feeling oddly refreshed. It was then that he noticed that the others were all standing over him, even Ein was on the corner of the couch sniffing him oddly.
"What you all lookin' at?" Ranma demanded.
"Who are you?" It was Faye that spoke first.
"Are you kidding? Its me, Ranma!" he said with a small amount of fear in his voice, he didn't want to be forgotten already! He didn't even know who he was!
Then he noticed something odd about himself..... His voice seemed to be off... He looked down at his chest and saw a pair of large, round, breasts staring back at him.
"But.... Ranma's a guy...." Jet stuttered.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!"Ranma screamed, causing the others to jump in surprise.
"Would you quit doing that! Jeez. Why do you keep screaming anyway!" Faye asked annoyed.
"L-lookit me! I-I'm a girl!" Ranma couldn't believe what he was seeing... He couldn't remember much, but he KNEW he was a man, however the pair of breasts he now owned seemed to lay waste to that statement.
"OhmygodohmygodIhavebreasts!" Ranma jumped to his feet, causing a certain part of his new anatomy to move painfully, and the eyes of the current males in the room to move in time.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?!" Ranma screamed as he pointed at the four of them and their dog.
"Look chick, we didn't do anything to you ok? You screamed and I found you in the bathroom, for that matter, how the hell did you get in here in the first place." Spike demanded as he crossed his arms over his chest.
Ranma backed into the corner of the room and began to sob and slide down to the floor.
Spike, thinking he had caused her to cry started to move forward to apologize and comfort her when she looked up again.
"N-No! Stay back! I'm R-Ranma dammit! I'm a g-guy!" she began to cry again, the sobs racking her whole body until she started to hyperventilate. She slipped over to the floor, gasping for breath and vomited violently. Her vision became tinged with black, and blurry as she began to loose consciousness again.
"I-I-I-I'm a g-g-g-guy d-dammit!" She whispered one last time before the blackness took her.
******
Jet sighed. "Well, for whatever reason, she really does believe she's Ranma."
"But Jet, that's impossible! I mean look at her! She's what most women would DREAM to look like! Ranma was a hunk, and she's a fox! That's just not possible!" When Faye realized what she said, she blushed as Spike and Jet looked at her oddly.
"Not that I like Ranma or anything, its just uh, something all girls notice, ok?" Faye looked away.
"Right.. In any case, we better get some clothes on her, and clean up the vomit. Faye, why don't you give her some of you're clothes, I'm sure you have something more... appropriate in your wardrobe for her to wear." Jet said.
"I don't think that's such a good idea Jet." Spike interjected.
"Huh? Why not?" Jet asked.
Spike lit up a cigarette. " Well, if she truly DOES believe she's Ranma, then I doubt she'll respond well to waking up in a dress. I mean look how she went off just seeing she had tits."
"Ok then, what should we do?" Jet asked, putting his hands on his hips.
"Just put the clothes Ranma was wearing on her." Spike said , putting his hands in his pockets and walking away.
"Well who's going to do it?" He said, Faye put her hands behind her head and walked off in the opposite direction as Spike, leaving Jet alone with Ed, and Ein.
Jet hung his head. "Great." He said, "I don't suppose you wanna help me, do you Ein." Ein barked in response, wagging his small stub of a tail.
"Oh well." He said, heading to the bathroom to pick up Ranma's clothes. He came back and, blushing furiously, worked Ranma's limp body into the clothing, placing her on the couch. It was a funny sight to behold really, she looked to be almost swimming in the clothes, as they were made for a man of Spike's height, and she being nearly a foot shorter than Spike.
"What are we going to do with you?" Jet whispered, handing his head. He sighed and decided they had spent enough time on this planet, and it was time to move on.
Jet walked into the command room and prepared the Bebop for launch. He walked into Spike's practice room, and told him of the launch, to which Spike nodded. He knocked on Faye's door, but there was no answer, she was probably asleep, it didn't really matter to him as he walked back and sent the Bebop into orbit.
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Authors notes: In case you hadn't noticed, this is a cross between Ranma 1/2 and cowboy bebop.... As well as being my first fanfic to be published..... ^_^;
C & C to ssj_Gotenkun@yahoo.com (comments and praise welcome, flames....... just as good.... at least then I know you're reading it! .)
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More to come soon I hope
JA NE!
Chris AKA PHIP
Ranma looked on in awe at the small space fighter that rested in front of him. The glistening metal, and dome of the cockpit as it drew his eyes in the sunlight, curving perfectly down to the vehicle's weapons; a pair of machine guns on either side, mounted under the cockpit on jutting supports. And above the machine guns resided rocket launchers.
Faye looked behind her as she climbed into the craft.
"You gonna sit there and gawk all day or get in?" She said.
Ranma blushed and grinned sheepishly as he followed her into the ship, it was a tight fit for the two, the ship being made for only one. However the two managed, it took some moving around so that Ranma wasn't pressed up against something he shouldn't be.
In the end, they settled on Ranma sitting on the edge of Faye's seat, pressed against the glass.
"Uhm, Faye-san?" Ranma questioned.
"Hmm?" She replied.
"Well uh... I don't.... well... I mean..." He stuttered.
"Spit it out already." Faye said.
"I need some clothes....." Ranma blushed, "I can't go around wearing scrubs forever can I?"
Faye face faulted, nearly sending the ship into a building as she flew over the city, she managed to pull up just in time, however, and realized what Ranma had said was true.
"I'm sure Spike or Jet has something you can wear...." She trailed off.
******
"Welcome baaaackkk!" Ed shouted as Faye's ship docked with the Bebop as it floated in the Ocean.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Faye said as she walked into the ship.
"Who's that?" Spike asked as he walked in, lighting a cigarette and nodding at Ranma.
"Ranma Saotome." Ranma said.
"You a fighter?" Spike asked him.
"I-I don't know....." Ranma told him, thinking for a second.
Spike grunted and walked up to Ranma, when he was about 3 feet away, he threw a quick jab at him, intending to test wither Ranma's uncanny grace was an act.
Ranma sidestepped and responded, sending a round house back at his attacker. It was easily blocked as Spike smirked at Ranma's look of amazement at what he had done.
"Well, if you don't know, you're body sure does." As he turned around, walking off.
"Spike," Faye stopped him. "The kid needs some clothes."
"Yeah, I noticed." Spike replied uncaringly.
"Well, give him some of your's." Faye told him
Spike grimaced, "Yeah, yeah, yeah... Common kid." He motioned for Ranma to follow him to his room.
"So, you gonna be staying with us?" Spike asked as Ranma was trying on a set of clothing.
"I guess so... Faye-san told me to stay here until I got my memories back.." Ranma struggled with the black tie, Spike having only one red one.
"You better talk to Jet then, Its his ship after all." Spike said as he moved forward and fixed the tie for him, and stepped back, surveying Ranma.
"Not bad." He said, Ranma blushed. Ranma wore the same light blue suite as Spike, being a few inches shorter than Spike, it was a bit baggier, not that he seemed to mind, he wore a black tie loosely around his neck, with a white undershirt, and stuck his hands in his pockets.
"You wanna spar?" Spike asked.
"Spar?" Ranma questioned.
"Yeah, its like fighting, but more friendly like, ya know?" Spike told him.
"Uhm, ok..." Ranma agreed.
Spike led Ranma to the deck, it was large enough for their purposes.
"You ready?" He asked Ranma, who stood there for all the world looking like a novice fighter.
"I guess." Ranma replied, as Spike charged at him, opening with a quick combo, jabing at Ranma's chest, then dropping low to sweep his legs out from under him.
Ranma moved like a man possessed, blocking the punch and leaping back out of range of the leg sweep, and charged back in with a roundhouse that was ducked. Spike tried an upper cut just as Ranma was pulling his leg back in from the kick. Ranma did a quick back flip, and stretched out his legs and caught Spike in the chin as he recovered from his uppercut, sending him skidding back across the deck a few feet.
"Not bad." Spike grinned, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand, there was obviously more to this boy then meets the eye.
"Thanks." Ranma said, still looking slightly unsure of himself, but with more confidence than he had at the beginning.
"Lets try that again eh?" Spike grinned again as he charged back at Ranma, he dodged to the left when Ranma attempted to stop his charge by doing a quick one-two punch combo aimed at Spike's chest.
This left Ranma wide open when Spike punched hard at Ranma's ribs. Ranma shrugged off the blow and swung his arm out from the its extended position, catching Spike unawares with a backhanded fist to the side of Spike's head.
Spike staggered back a few feet. It would seem he was going to have to go all out in order to beat this kid. He flowed into a different style that favored finesse over strength and charged Ranma again, this time he started with a jumping snap kick, catching Ranma in the chin and sending him flying. Ranma flipped in the air and hit the ground running back at Spike. He hit the ground and sweeped Spike's legs from under him.
Spike turned it to his advantage as he kicked his legs out from his horizontal position in the air and hit Ranma in the chest just as he was standing up.
This led to both fighters falling to the ground a few feet away from each other.
"Hey Spike!" Jet called from the doorway just as both oh them got back to their feet.
"Yeah?" Spike said.
"Who's the kid?" Jet asked, motioning at Ranma.
"Faye brought him, said he would be staying a while." Spike told him.
"Oh, ok" Jet turned to walk back into the ship and stopped suddenly.
"He WHAT?!" Jet turned back around and ran up to Spike.
"I dunno, ask her." Spike walked back inside, "Good fight kid."
"Thanks." Ranma grinned. This turned out to be a mistake as it drew Jet's attention to him.
"Just what the hell are you smiling at?! Do you realize how much it will cost me to feed you?!" Jet screamed at Ranma as he walked inside, Jet hot on his heels.
"Hey man I don't know anything about this ok? All I know is that Faye told me to stay here." Ranma replied, making calming gestures in Jet's direction, even though it didn't seem to be working.
"Whats all the shouting about?" Faye asked as she walked into the room.
"YOU!" Jet screamed at her, causing her to stop in surprise and stare at Jet.
"Me?" She asked.
"What the hell were you thinking? He can't stay here! I mean look at him! He probably eats as much as Spike does!" Jet ranted.
"More actually." Faye responded, examining her nails casually .
"MORE?!" Jet looked like he was about to blow an artery in his neck.
"Why would you tell him he can stay here if he eats MORE than Spike?!" Jet couldn't seem to wrap his mind around it, pointing at Ranma and flailing his arms like a crazy man.
"Didn't you see how the kid fights? I bet with him on our team, we can easily take out almost any target we want." Ranma opened his mouth to ask Faye about how she said it was until his memories returned, but was silenced at the look she gave him, he decided he would let this play out.
This settled Jet down some as he thought about what she had said. The kid DID fight well, even if he didn't seem like the type to use a gun, but that could be fixed easily enough.
"Alright.... I'll let him stay, for now." Jet allowed.
He turned on Ranma, "But if you're gonna stay here, and gonna eat here, you're going to damn well WORK here, understand?"
"No problem man, really, I'll do whatever!" Ranma said.
"But uh, what kinda work is it that you guys do?" Ranma asked.
"We're bounty hunters." Spike said as he came back into the room.
"Oh.... What's a bounty hunter?" Ranma asked, scratching his head.
"We hunt down criminals that the government puts a bounty on and turn them in, and we get rewarded for it.
"Oh... ok..." Ranma mulled over this fact.
"So... What's next?" Ranma asked as he accepted his new line of work.
"Now, we teach you how to shoot." Jet said.
"Shoot?" Ranma said the word with a small amount of disgust.
"Look kid, if you're gonna be a bounty hunter you have to know how to shoot ok?" Jet glared at him.
"Fine.... But I don't have to like it!" Ranma said as he followed Jet back onto the deck.
*****
"Now, aim, take you're time, ease the trigger back, thats it. Now, hold your breath and take the shot." Jet told Ranma as he aimed at the buoy sitting in the water about thirty meters out. A crack rang out and a small splash of water was seen just bare inches to the right of the metal buoy.
Ranma sighed as he failed yet again.
"Not bad kid, you're doing pretty good for your first time with a pistol. Now, try again. Jet was surprised as Ranma managed to hit it this time, a small amount of sparks shooting up from the point of impact.
Ranma grinned in victory as he lowered the pistol.
"Hmm, well I think thats enough practice for now, lets go on back in." Jet said.
"Ok." Ranma said as he followed Jet back into the Bebop, he sat down on the couch and pet Ein.
"Whats the dog's name?" Ranma asked.
"Ein, Einy-Whiny-Biney-BOOO" Ed responded from her place in front of her computer, moving her arms in ways most break dancers couldn't even dream of doing.
"Uhm, ok and who are you?" He asked.
"Ed is Ed." she said, twirling around to look at Ranma and pointing at herself.
"Right...." Ranma said.
******
Ranma walked by a small room with bonsai tree, Jet was pruning them carefully.
"Uh, hey Jet, is it ok if I take a shower?" He asked timidly.
"Sure thing kid, shower's down that way" Jet said, pointing down the hall.
Ranma passed Faye as she returned from the shower in a robe with a towel around her hair. Just as he was about to close the door to the bathroom, he heard Faye yelling.
"Jet what's wrong with the shower?! There's no hot water!" Faye yelled at Jet.
"There's no hot water, the head is broken...." That was all Ranma heard as he shrugged and closed the door. He could dear with a little bit of cold water.
As Ranma turned the faucet on, he couldn't help but feel uncomfortable for some reason. He shrugged and disrobed, setting the clothes Spike had lent him to the side and stepped into the shower.
He felt very odd for some reason, it seemed as though everything had just gotten several inches taller. He shrugged, probably just nerves, he told himself. He started to wash his hair with shampoo, or at least he thought it was shampoo.
When he dropped the bottle on the floor of the shower he noticed something odd....... He had breasts.
He stood up and rubbed his eyes, it must be a trick of the light or something.... Right?
It wasn't.
Ranma very slowly reached up a touched them, he gasped at the sensation it gave him. He gulped when his hands reached lower, hopeing beyond hope that it was still there and these beasts were just a figment of his imagination.
When he couldn't find what he was looking for, he felt light headed. When it hit him that he had obviously turned into a female, he screamed. He screamed at the top of his lungs, he screamed for all the pain, all the suffering he didn't know he had suffered, for the life that was taken from him, for the life he didn't want but had received. He screamed for the loss of his manhood, which meant so much to him, and he couldn't figure out why.
Just as the door burst open and Spike rushed in, prepared for an attack, but instead saw a naked woman, he stopped suddenly.
"S-Spike...."She said. Then she fainted and fell, Spike caught her mere instants before she would have hit her head on the wall, causing a concussion.
"Who are you?" Spike whispered to the girl in his arms. It was then that the others rushed into the room.
"What the hell is going on?!" Jet roared.
"I dunno! Someone screamed and I ran in and found her!" Spike grew uncomfortable holding such a beautiful naked woman in his arms.
"Where's Ranma?" Jet asked.
"What?" Spike responded, trying to keep his gaze from wondering to the girl.
"Ranma said he was gonna take a shower, but I don't see him anywhere, where could he have gone?" Jet wondered.
"How should I know? Just move so I can get this chick outta my arms already! She ain't as light as she looks.
Jet moved to the side and let Spike through, carrying the boxum young red haired girl out of the bathroom, he set her on the couch and laid a blanket over her to cover her nakedness.
******
Ranma awoke a few hours later, feeling oddly refreshed. It was then that he noticed that the others were all standing over him, even Ein was on the corner of the couch sniffing him oddly.
"What you all lookin' at?" Ranma demanded.
"Who are you?" It was Faye that spoke first.
"Are you kidding? Its me, Ranma!" he said with a small amount of fear in his voice, he didn't want to be forgotten already! He didn't even know who he was!
Then he noticed something odd about himself..... His voice seemed to be off... He looked down at his chest and saw a pair of large, round, breasts staring back at him.
"But.... Ranma's a guy...." Jet stuttered.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!"Ranma screamed, causing the others to jump in surprise.
"Would you quit doing that! Jeez. Why do you keep screaming anyway!" Faye asked annoyed.
"L-lookit me! I-I'm a girl!" Ranma couldn't believe what he was seeing... He couldn't remember much, but he KNEW he was a man, however the pair of breasts he now owned seemed to lay waste to that statement.
"OhmygodohmygodIhavebreasts!" Ranma jumped to his feet, causing a certain part of his new anatomy to move painfully, and the eyes of the current males in the room to move in time.
"WHAT DID YOU DO TO ME?!" Ranma screamed as he pointed at the four of them and their dog.
"Look chick, we didn't do anything to you ok? You screamed and I found you in the bathroom, for that matter, how the hell did you get in here in the first place." Spike demanded as he crossed his arms over his chest.
Ranma backed into the corner of the room and began to sob and slide down to the floor.
Spike, thinking he had caused her to cry started to move forward to apologize and comfort her when she looked up again.
"N-No! Stay back! I'm R-Ranma dammit! I'm a g-guy!" she began to cry again, the sobs racking her whole body until she started to hyperventilate. She slipped over to the floor, gasping for breath and vomited violently. Her vision became tinged with black, and blurry as she began to loose consciousness again.
"I-I-I-I'm a g-g-g-guy d-dammit!" She whispered one last time before the blackness took her.
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Jet sighed. "Well, for whatever reason, she really does believe she's Ranma."
"But Jet, that's impossible! I mean look at her! She's what most women would DREAM to look like! Ranma was a hunk, and she's a fox! That's just not possible!" When Faye realized what she said, she blushed as Spike and Jet looked at her oddly.
"Not that I like Ranma or anything, its just uh, something all girls notice, ok?" Faye looked away.
"Right.. In any case, we better get some clothes on her, and clean up the vomit. Faye, why don't you give her some of you're clothes, I'm sure you have something more... appropriate in your wardrobe for her to wear." Jet said.
"I don't think that's such a good idea Jet." Spike interjected.
"Huh? Why not?" Jet asked.
Spike lit up a cigarette. " Well, if she truly DOES believe she's Ranma, then I doubt she'll respond well to waking up in a dress. I mean look how she went off just seeing she had tits."
"Ok then, what should we do?" Jet asked, putting his hands on his hips.
"Just put the clothes Ranma was wearing on her." Spike said , putting his hands in his pockets and walking away.
"Well who's going to do it?" He said, Faye put her hands behind her head and walked off in the opposite direction as Spike, leaving Jet alone with Ed, and Ein.
Jet hung his head. "Great." He said, "I don't suppose you wanna help me, do you Ein." Ein barked in response, wagging his small stub of a tail.
"Oh well." He said, heading to the bathroom to pick up Ranma's clothes. He came back and, blushing furiously, worked Ranma's limp body into the clothing, placing her on the couch. It was a funny sight to behold really, she looked to be almost swimming in the clothes, as they were made for a man of Spike's height, and she being nearly a foot shorter than Spike.
"What are we going to do with you?" Jet whispered, handing his head. He sighed and decided they had spent enough time on this planet, and it was time to move on.
Jet walked into the command room and prepared the Bebop for launch. He walked into Spike's practice room, and told him of the launch, to which Spike nodded. He knocked on Faye's door, but there was no answer, she was probably asleep, it didn't really matter to him as he walked back and sent the Bebop into orbit.
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Authors notes: In case you hadn't noticed, this is a cross between Ranma 1/2 and cowboy bebop.... As well as being my first fanfic to be published..... ^_^;
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More to come soon I hope
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Chris AKA PHIP