Aliens – Nerima Hive

Ranma ½ belongs To Rumiko Takahashi, Viz video and others. Alien belongs to a host of movie companies, etcetera. Any other works belong to their respective people as well. I don't own any of this so just sit back and enjoy the tale, oh and don't sue me please that would be bad.

Authors Notes: This story is set just before the very end of the Ranma1/2 manga continuity and so it may contain spoilers of that content. It is also loosely based on the events that occurred in the Aliens vs. Predator movie also titled AvP.

Chapter 3

Ranma, Ukyou, and Akane arrived outside the Neko Hanten to see the destruction left in the wake of the alien attack. A police line surrounded the building and an Ambulance was busy taking someone away. Ranma's mouth was open in amazement until a voice behind them said, "Son in law, close your mouth you'll attract flies."

Ranma glanced down behind him and saw Cologne standing there. "Old Ghoul! You're alright. What about um uh." He glanced at the girls next to him and his thought process petered out.

"She is fine Son in Law. She is traveling with the paramedics to take the blind fool to the local hospital. Mousse, however was not so lucky. The demons that attacked our restaurant had acidic blood and it went all over him. As it is his situation is touch and go, but I have confidence that he will survive and it is lucky for him that the fool has real glass in his glasses and that he was wearing them or he really would be blind forever."

Ranma took in the new information and said, "The glass didn't melt? I think I have an idea."

"That's my son in law. You caught on right away. The glass in Mousse's glasses was unaffected and so you are thinking that you can use glass to protect yourself from the demonic blood?"

Ranma nodded and Cologne peered at him and said, "Come with me Son in law and we shall visit the warehouse."

"Warehouse?"

The ancient Amazon looked at Ranma and said, "Come now son in law did you think that I was in Japan for you alone and nothing else? That a matriarch of the Amazon tribe would be wasted in a husband hunt for more than a year?"

The pigtailed youth just stared back at Cologne and said, "Uhm I did, but now uhm maybe I'm not so sure."

Cologne cackled and led the group to a small warehouse. She pogoed up to its heavy security door and entered a code on a key pad. Then she put her hand on the door, one of her fingers lit up with chi and she traced a pattern on the door with her chi. Then she took a key and opened the door. As the door opened and the lights went on all around the young teens. They could see hundreds of scrolls, weapons, paintings and other ancient artifacts of great value. The ancient Amazon elder closed the door and then said, "Behold the treasures of the Amazons safe from prying Chinese government officials."

The group stared at the gathered items and then Cologne said, "Enough gawking come we shall find the items we need and then be gone."

Then a slight commotion occurred as a voice at the back of the warehouse said, "Where on earth am I now?"

Ranma grinned and said, "Hey Ryouga! I'm amazed, well I would be if you had actually intended to get past some of the most advanced security I've ever seen. Instead I'm betting you got lost in a closet and somehow ended up in here."

Ryouga headed towards the pigtailed boy with anger in his eyes. Then Akane conked Ranma on the head and said, "Ranma stop picking on Ryouga! Besides you need his help, you moron!"

"Alright, alright. I'm sorry Ryouga."

Ryouga stopped in mid stomp and was taken aback. Then he calmed down and joined the assembled group saying, "Okay, what's happening around here. It must be important if Ranma is apologizing."

Cologne looked at the youths in front of her and said, "Come on follow me I will explain everything to you all." Then, she walked off and the group followed her to a large chest. Once again the Amazon elder lit a finger with chi and traced a symbol, but this time on the chest. When it opened the group saw a mixture of obsidian and ceramic weapons and armors.

Cologne lifted up a set of wrist blades made out of an exotic metal not found on earth, on it was the same symbol that Cologne had been sketching with her chi. Along with the wrist blades Cologne also held a small screen and keypad with alien lettering on it. The screen glowed with an eerie green light as Cologne started her story. "A long time ago, a time that is lost to most historians the Amazon tribe lived in a different place. In that place we had been appointed guardians of a sacred temple. A temple where a demonic queen lived for the sport of another species of intelligent life. These beings, called Predators or in their own language Yautja, were more powerful and stronger than any human and they had great technology and weapons. They lived for the hunt and had given the honor of guarding their temple and joining their hunt to the Amazons."

"Every ten to twenty years they would come and send a group of young hunters along with a group of young Amazon warriors and a number of goats and cows into the temple. The demonic queen would use the livestock so that she could create progeny for them to hunt down and kill. To all known accounts the demons were black and covered with chitinous armor, they had acidic blood, and would serve their queen tirelessly."

"One year the hunting party did not come back from the temple and some demons came pouring from the temple and attacked the Amazon village itself. That was when a great ship came from the sky and landed in the village that was when an entire clan of Yautja came from the ship. Together they and our warriors fought bravely side by side. But, unless the demon queen was trapped again or destroyed and her brood along with her the demons would never stop coming. That was when the Yautja elder and our queen Diana directed a group of their best and most powerful warriors to go with them deep into the heart of the temple while the rest of the village was sent away on the ocean. There sailing away in the waters what was left of the Amazon tribe saw a great light in the sky and knew that the temple and the demons had been destroyed forever."

Cologne once again held out the wrist blades and the alien device. "These two items are the only ones left that were given to the tribe by the Yautja. This chest is all that is left of the armors and weapons that were crafted by the ancient Amazons themselves. The techniques they used are now lost to our tribe, but the items may still serve us well." She then pulled out a light outfit made with very thin and flexible crystalline fibers saying, "This is made from spun glass. Do not ask me how it does not break and is so flexible, because I am unsure. Take it and the blades with my blessing son in law."

She handed both items to Ranma and he stared at them in his hands. He sat staring at them for a few moments and then he looked at the ancient Amazon matriarch, but words escaped him. She looked back at him and said, "Why Son in law I do believe this is the first time I've seen you speechless." Then she pointed to the chest and said, "All true warriors here may take a weapon and armor with some conditions."

Ukyou stepped forward and said, "What conditions?"

Cologne held out a two outfits pieced together with thin ceramic tiles, a large thick ceramic broadsword as well as two smaller swords that looked much like Ninja-to. Cologne said, "Before you take these weapons think carefully. By taking them you are declaring yourself an ally of the Amazons for all time. Is that your wish?"

"I won't give up Ran-chan for these if that is what you mean."

Cologne just smiled and said, "Ahh youth it thinks in such linear terms and is so short sighted. Have no worries Ukyou Kuonji being an ally to the tribe will not diminish your claim to Son in law in any way." Then a glint came into the ancient womans eyes as she said, "Did you not realize that he was not required to take the oath? Perhaps you should think on that carefully. In doing so maybe you will realize that being an ally of the tribe could only enhance your claim to young Ranma."

Ukyou said, "Alright, but I don't need the extra outfit or all three of those weapons. The broadsword and one outfit will be fine."

"What about your young Kunoichi will you bring him into battle unarmed?"

Ukyou was abashed and then said, "But, he didn't agree to become an ally of the tribe can you give these to him without that agreement?"

Cologne said, "I have faith that he will agree as long as you do."

Ukyou nodded and said, "Alright, I'll take them." Cologne handed her all of the items. The young chef bowed as she received them and said, "Thank you Cologne-san."

Ryouga stepped forward and said, "I'll agree." Cologne handed him a black obsidian broadsword. Ryouga hefted it and realized that it was as heavy as his umbrella. He then looked at the weapon and could see a metal pole running through the length of the glass. As he was examining the weapon Cologne also handed him a heavy suit of solid interlocking ceramic plates. "I doubt the weight of either item should affect you very much young Ryouga." Ryouga shook his head.

Then, Akane stepped forward and Cologne looked at her and said, "Go home girl. Go home before you get yourself or someone else killed."

The young girl steeled herself and her anger rose as she said, "I'm a martial artist too!"

The Amazon elder said, "That may be true, but are you a warrior girl? Are you prepared to fight in life or death battle? Are you really ready to kill if necessary?"

Cologne's eyes stared into Akane's soul and she quailed for a moment and then saw the rest of the group and remembered her own promise to herself. She said, "I am ready and I'll agree to be an ally of your stupid tribe too. You'll see Cologne I'm a martial artist and I will prove it if it is the last thing I do!"

Cologne sighed and handed her a ceramic Katana saying, "That is what I am afraid of child. Now take this weapon and I want all here to remember that you have joined of your own volition. The dangers you are facing are real. I will not be held responsible from this point on. Do you understand?"

The assembled teenage warriors nodded and Cologne said, "Good, now let us go get young Konatsu and Shampoo and then you will all head into the sewers to find and destroy the demon queen and her brood."

"What about you Old Ghoul? What will you be doing?"

Cologne held up the glowing green screen and said, "I am going to call for more assistance. I called my tribe sister on the phone, but they will most likely not be here soon enough. Perhaps the Yautja have faster means of travel."

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Lieutenant Yoshiro Amakitsu special investigator for the Tokyo City Police Department was unhappy. In fact he was very unhappy. After arriving at the Neko Hanten restaurant the two had told him that the place had been busted up by a couple of boys high on some sort of drug. It fit in with his theory from yesterday. That is it fit until a group of officers went into the sewer to check it out the damage that had been caused by the drug crazed youths.

At first everything seemed fine, but then a scream came from down in the sewer a scream that was followed by gunshots. Then a voice came from his walkie talkie saying, "We're surrounded, they are everywhere! Retreat, retreat, someone call for back up! Get the SWAT team the Defense forces. Oh please someone help me!" Then there was silence.

Yoshiro had then followed procedure and called for backup. Backup had arrived, ten officers arrived on scene and this time he had gone down in the sewers with them. Their flashlights shone on blood and pieces of flesh as they walked along. Yoshiro examined it and then saw some strange marks on the walls the same marks he had seen in the Neko Hanten and the showers at Furinkan high school. He followed the marks with his flashlight and the beam landed onto a dark black carapace. The creature was hanging from the ceiling and it would be staring right at him if it had eyes. Then the creature hissed and attacked, it eviscerated two officers and then ran down the sewers. The group ran after it firing their weapons as they ran. As they went forward Yoshiro saw more and more markings on the walls and for some reason the marks just didn't look man made anymore. In fact the walls themselves were starting to look less like sewer walls and more like organic substances. He touched a wall as they went by and it felt sticky in his hands and then the sewer opened up into a large room.

In the room were hundreds and hundreds of eggs and in the darkness in the center of the room was one gigantic black alien creature. The creature looked at the group entering the room and he could have sworn that she smiled just before she hissed and then there were smaller black alien creatures everywhere they swarmed the group and that was the last thing he could recall. Then he woke up, he was stuck up to wall by the gooey substance he had felt earlier and right next to him was a large white ovoid egg. Then the sides of the egg slowly opened and he saw what was inside. Lieutenant Yoshiro screamed and screamed...

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In outer space the tribe or predators had finally defeated the alien prey that had been infesting their ship. The vile abomination had take four of their number, when the ancient leader of the tribe had taken it down in hand to hand combat. He was mounting his prize and the entire tribe was about to leave the Sol system for new hunting pastures when he noticed a signal coming in. It was an old signal that spoke of distress and the need to clean up a hunting ground. He motioned to two of his tribe mates and pointed to the screen, then he pointed back at his own trophy. The two other hunters understood and went to the back of the ship. There they proceeded to get into a smaller vessel and launched themselves towards the Earth.

The ancient tribe leader then sat back with the rest of his tribe and they waited...