The battle for Gateway
Chapter 12: New captain
Disclaimer: I don't own Ranma ½.
Ranma wakes up and looks at Nabiki still asleep in his arms and lightly kisses her neck lightly before he gets out of the bed and grabs his flight uniform and puts it on before grabbing his showering gear and heads to the showers and finds his squadron "HEY GUYS, LOOK WHO JUST GOT UP!" Whistler shouted and the others clap in response.
"Cut that out you guys."
They all stop clapping and go back to getting showered "so, what's she like in bed?" Jonesy asked, "Dude, when this war is over we're going to get you a girlfriend or a life, preferably both." Ranma replied making Jonesy laugh, "no… seriously, we are." Whistler added making everyone laughs "good luck, in finding someone more twisted than me." Came the reply from Jonesy before Ranma left after getting dried and back into his flight uniform and heads back to his quarters and finds Nabiki sat on his bed "and where did you go?" she asked.
"To get showered, we've been asleep for twenty-four hours love."
"Have we?" Nabiki asked before looking at her watch before getting dressed and borrows Ranma's showering gear and heads to the showers whilst Ranma changes his flight uniform before he leaves and heads down to the mess hall for some breakfast and sits at an empty table and expects McQuade to walk in and keeps "you know, he's never going to come back." Ranko said standing behind Ranma, "I know it's just that I'll never get used to him being dead." Ranma replied as Ranko sat opposite him "so, what's going on between you and Nabiki?"
"Well, we're in a relationship now."
"Congratulations, hope your both happy together." Ranko replied as the others of Rogue squadron walk in and head to where Ranma and Ranko are sat before Ranko leaves to start her shift on the bridge as Rogue squadron begin to talk about their plans after the war "when I get my own place you guys are always welcome." Ranma said and the others tell each other what they're planning on doing after the war when the sirens go off and all the pilots run to the hangers and strap themselves in and go over the systems before getting the order to launch and do so "coming in on our six, fast!" someone shouted before they break formation and try to get a few of the enemy fighters to follow them away from the fleet.
Rogue squadron help out the other squadrons that are in trouble "they're going after the fleet." Ranma said and Rogue squadron head after the fighters going after the fleet "thought you could use a little help from Alpha squadron." The squadron leader of Alpha squadron asked "cheers, try to keep them from the medical frigate." Ranma replied as they caught up with the enemy fighters and opened fire on them whilst dodging lascannon fire from the fleet, Ranma chases an enemy fighter as it heads towards the Sulaco and opened fire clipping it wing and it heads towards the bridge of the Sulaco "oh no you don't." Ranma said and opened fire hitting it's engines and could only watch as it crashes into the back of the bridge, on the bridge the crewmembers were dealing with the damage "EVERYONE OKAY?" Ranko shouted as she got up from the floor as everyone else replied in his or her own way "ANYONE DEAD?" someone else shouted "yeah, every officer on the bridge." Ranko replied as she looked at the captain who had died instantly from a broken neck before going back to the view screen watching the battle and sees the fighters on both sides fight and take each other out and spots Rogue and Alpha squadron working together for the first time destroying any enemy fighters that get too close to the medical frigate which is the lightest armed in the fleet before Nabiki runs onto the bridge.
"WHAT'S GOING ON?"
"WELL, ALL THE OFFICERS ON THE BRIDGE ARE DEAD AND ROGUE AND ALPHA SQUADRON ARE WORKING TOGETHER!" Ranko shouted over the noise of the sirens as Nabiki looks around and sees people putting out the fires, the battle in space was still raging and Rogue and Alpha squadron were taking care of any fighters that got through the other squadrons before they head back to the battle and help out the other squadrons in trouble before finishing off the enemy fighters and return to their respective carriers and land before getting out of their fighters and head to the showers and then go their separate ways, Ranma finds Nabiki sat on his bed.
"Ranko's acting captain."
"When did that happen?" Ranma asked as he sat beside Nabiki and put his arm around her shoulder "all the commanding officers were on the bridge and when that fighter crashed into the back of the bridge it killed all the CO's." Nabiki replied as she leaned her head on his shoulder "looks like we'll be having a few funerals later." Ranma replied as Ranko walked in "I just heard." Ranma told her as Ranko sat down "I didn't want to talk about this in front of the others, we're running out of fuel and supplies."
"That's not all I'm worried about."
"Huh?" Ranko and Nabiki say at the same time "those were short range fighters and there were no carriers around except the fleets." Ranma replied before Ranko left and Ranma goes to get his best uniform out ready for the funeral and Nabiki goes to do the same when Ranma finds an old photo of him and the Tendo sisters before putting it away and starts to get changed into his best uniform and waits for the funeral to begin "when I get back I'm going to have to see mom about the old man." Ranma muttered to himself before he sat on the bed and Nabiki returned and looked at Ranma.
"You ready?"
"Yeah, I've seen too many of these." Ranma replied before they leave for the funeral both holding hands and head to one of the spare hangers and find a few of the crew already there "hey guys." Nabiki said making the people that were there turn round and greet the couple in their own way before the rest of the crew turn up for the funeral. During the funeral several people give speeches and Ranma was one of them and gave a short speech before they left and head to the mess hall except Ranma who had been asked to stay behind by Ranko.
"You know our situation and I want you to keep it quiet."
"Yes ma'am." Ranma replied saluting and goes to leave "there's no need to call me that Ranma." She said before Ranma left and went to his quarters and got changed and headed to the reccy room and found it empty and sat down by himself. In the mess hall the crew were talking about their plans for after the war "anyone seen Ranma?" Whistler asked.
"He got asked to stay behind for something."
"I'll go find him." Nabiki said before she goes to find him "do you reckon they'll be making out if he's in the reccy room?" Jonesy asked making Whistler look at him "oh yes." She replied as Nabiki walked down the corridor and past the reccy room and out of the corner of her eye saw Ranma sat by himself and stops before going into the reccy room and sits beside Ranma "I cant tell anyone about our situation." Ranma said as Nabiki looked at Ranma and whispered something in his ear making Ranma go red in the face before she dragged Ranma away from the reccy room quite literally by his arms.
Meanwhile Ranko sat alone on the bridge at her old station before sighing and leaves the bridge and heads to the mess hall where the crew were drinking copious amounts of alcohol "SHIT, IT'S THE CAPTAIN!" someone shouted and the beer was hidden very quickly and Ranko walked in "what, you're not drinking?" Ranko asked, as the crew look at each other and in the blink of an eye the beer was brought back out very quickly making Ranko blink then look at her hand to find a bottle of beer and a bottle opener before she joins the crew in drinking.
Kasumi sat in the infirmary going through several photos before sighing in boredom before putting them away and leaves the infirmary to join in the party down at the mess hall.
Authors note: Sorry it took a while to get this chapter done, I got a call from team wolf II telling me that they had reformed Fearless Freak studios has reformed and they needed their three most reckless members back. Me, Mirai 12 and Team Wolf II… R&R