Disclaimer: Ranma ½ belongs to Rumiko Takahashi and Viz Video and Winx Club belongs to Iginio Straffi and Rai S.p.A (NOT 4Kids!!!). Songs 'Little Date' and 'Don't Mind! Lay-Lay Boy' belongs to Ranma 1/2.
Note: this follows the Rai version of Winx as the 4Kids version butchered it too much, like with every anime it dubs.
Chapter 24: Wash Clean! More Loose Ends!
Saotome Residence…
In the guestroom, the Winx were trying to get the lowdown on Ranma's latest date.
"So Tecna, how was it?" asked Musa.
"And don't spare us the details now, either!" added Stella.
Tecna could only blush as her friends were interrogating her. "Well, I have to say it was a very wonderful experience!"
"So what did you guys do?" asked Flora.
"Went to the Cyberworld."
They all looked confused at her answer.
"You mean… you went inside the computer or something?" asked Bloom.
"That's right! Literally!" replied Tecna. "That's not all. Along with playing around online, we also crippled Nabiki's computer in the process! She won't be able to blackmail people for a while now."
The girls could only laugh.
"Good one!" said Layla.
"Oh, but I'm far from done. I've reason to believe she's got some backups hidden somewhere, which she'll then try to blackmail Ranma again."
The girls frowned at that.
"That's not gonna happen! Not on our watch!" said Layla.
"In any case, the new week will promise to be interesting, yes?" said Flora.
You have no idea…
Opening (Ranma ½ season 2 style, 'Little Date')
Music starts. Numerous shots of Ranma and Ranma-chan are seen, followed by the 'Ranma Club' logo.
Tasogare wa itsu demo (Twilight always)
Fushigi no kuni mitai (Resembles a wondrous country)
Ranma is running to the left as if running on air.
Hoshi wo kazoesaseru no (Making me count the stars)
Ranma leans off-screen, and comes back in as Ranma-chan in Faerie mode.
At the five beats, it shows Nodoka, Shampoo, Ukyou, Cologne, and Kiko.
Dekki no ue Kappuru NO! NO! (On top of a DECK, a COUPLE No! No!)
Rushing past a chain-link fence, Faerie-Ranma-chan flies up and hovers over Furinkan.
Me no yariba ni doki-doki shichau (In the refuge of your eyes, (my heart) goes "THUMP" "THUMP")
The camera rushes past Bloom, Stella, Flora, Musa, Tecna, and Layla. Rear shot of the girls as they stand outside of Furinkan.
Egao kaesu tsumori ga (I intend to return a smiling face but)
I'm a lonely girl, so lonely girl.
Ranma performs a few katas before a watery background. During the kata, he takes out a random Specialist weapon and practice with it, then replace it with another.
Chansu to yuuhi ga sasayakikakeru (A CHANCE, the setting sun starts to whisper)
Ranma runs before a background showing off his enemies: Ryoga, Kuno, Happosai, Kodachi, Genma, Soun, Azusa and Mikado, and Satori.
Demo ne Aoi ribon wa hodokenai (But, you know... the blue RIBBON won't come untied)
Ranma upperkicks Ryoga away, back kicks Kuno in the gut, and blasts Happosai with a Moko Takabisha.
Shining, Dreaming Ikinari shiokaze ga kawaru wa (Shining, Dreaming, suddenly the sea breeze changes)
The Winx Club pop in and gather around Ranma, who looks flustered. Further in the back, Akane looks angry.
Ai shite 'nai wake ja nai (It's not that I don't love you)
Ranma walks away with the Winx girls. Akane stalks after with a red battle aura and her mallet.
Demo, ima wa kaeritai... (But, I want to go home now)
Before Akane could use her mallet, she gets nailed by a combined bonbori and spatula attack. Shampoo and Ukyou run up to join Ranma and the Winx.
Ends with a collage of the Ranma Club cast.
End opening
Furinkan High…
Nabiki couldn't understand it. All of her files containing the dirt on people as well as their debts were just suddenly gone. It wasn't just on her computer, but on her external hard-drives as well. It only got worse.
Flashback…
"So ladies, were you able to get the file copies I gave to you?" asked Nabiki.
Nabiki's two cohorts could only tremble. "Sorry, Nabiki, but they're gone…"
"GONE!? What do you mean gone!?" Nabiki shouted.
"You see, the disks and external backup drives containing our business info is all wiped out! It's as if the disks were brand new!"
"And the ones we've got hidden in the school?"
"Same thing! They're all empty of any data!"
Nabiki looked as if she was having a stroke. 'How could this have happened!?' "What of the paper files, then?"
"I'm pretty sure we still have them…"
End flashback
Nabiki sighed. The paper files were somehow still safe. It'll take some doing, but she'll be able to continue on with those, however low-tech and inconvenient it was. She had no right to complain.
She'll soon find out just how wrong she is.
Unknown to her and her cronies, the Pixies were had infiltrated their homes in search for said paper files. They were able to stay in touch with each other via comm-links provided by Digit.
"Digit! We've found our target!" said Lockette. Amore looked through a file in Nabiki's and saw the contents: names, monetary amounts, and dirt descriptions.
"Definitely the one." Said Amore to Lockette.
"We've found ours, too!" said Chatta as she and Tune were in another room. Tune skimmed through the file to see if it was the right one, and blushed at what she read.
"That girl is so rude! Snooping into other people's lives like this!"
Digit nods from where she and Zing were at. "Good! We've got ours! Let's rendezvous at the meeting point!"
Zing was dressed all in black with a black skully on her head. "This mission wasn't impossible!"
Each Pixie team used their magic to shrink down the files to their size in order to be easily carried out. They quickly port back to the Saotome Residence.
Furinkan High…
Throughout the day, Nabiki and her cohorts were tailing the Winx with cameras in order to steal a few snapshots of them to sell off for quick cash. By the end of the day, they must've taken at least twenty shots of each girl.
Once the day was over, Nabiki held a meeting with her lackies at the gate once everyone had gone home.
"So ladies, what's the verdict?" asked Nabiki.
"We did as you said and gotten several shots." Replied one of them.
"We've taken enough variety shots to sell a fortune!"
"Good. Print them out and start at fifty thousand yen a pop." Nabiki instructed.
The two girls nodded and went home. Nabiki smirks to herself. With the money she'll make on those photos, she'll be on the road to having herself set for life!
Unfortunately for the money-hungry Tendo, things won't go as she planned…
Saotome residence…
"We got the goods, Ranma!" said Digit as she and the other Pixies laid out the now grown files on the coffee table.
Ranma and the Winx sat around the table looking at the files of Nabiki. They were shocked to see some incriminating taboo materials on nearly all the students of Furinkan as well as a few teachers. Secrets that people pay Nabiki to keep quiet about.
"Just what kind of business does she run here!?" asked Layla.
"An information racket, definitely…" replied Tecna.
"This is definitely Nabiki's stuff…" said Ranma. He frowns as he finds some negatives of himself in girl form. The pigtailed boy closes the file in disgust.
"That's enough, girls!" said Flora. "Even though we won't blackmail people, it's not right for us to peer in on other people's personal secrets!"
"She's right. We're not racketeers." Said Ranma.
"So what do we do?" asked Stella.
"What else? Destroy the evidence!" replied Ranma. Stacking the files together, he looks towards Bloom. "Bloom? If you may do the honors?"
"It would be my pleasure!" said Bloom. Using her magic, she causes the file folders to levitate in the air, then follows up with a miniature tornado of flame. The flaming twister incinerated the incriminating taboo to ashes, effectively erasing all traces of its existence. The fire went out, taking the files with it.
"There, now no one will have to worry about Nabiki's scheming ways ever again." Said Ranma.
"But she could start over again, maybe even starting with us." Added Musa.
"Yeah, I think I was being tailed by her or her friends during school." Said Stella.
"If you're worried about Nabiki selling off taboo pictures of you, you've got nothing to worry about." Said Tecna.
"Oh? Same trick as before, Tecna?" asked Bloom.
"Sort of…" Tecna grinned deviously.
Nabiki's room…
"GYAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!!!"
The Furinkan Ice Queen fell out of her seat in horror at what she uploaded from her camera. On her screen were photos of sumo thong Kuno with sumo thong Nabiki, in very sensuous positions.
Two more screams were heard in Nerima after seeing the same thing.
Next day…
"Tell me you've got something!" said an exasperated Nabiki.
"Sorry, Nabiki, but our cameras turned up just like yours…"
"It gets worse! The files are gone as well!"
"WHAT!?" Nabiki looked as if she were about to have a stroke. "BUT HOW!?"
"Boss, maybe we ought to stop."
"Yeah. Both attempts to get photos of Ranma's new friends ended up in disaster!"
Nabiki frowned. She knew that Ranma was somehow involved with her recent failures in getting taboo pictures of the Winx girls as well as the sudden disappearance of her debt information. If not him, then his six gaijin girlfriends. If they did, then how could they have done it? Plus, aside from her firm belief that they were responsible, she had no solid proof. She decided to ease off for now and try again once their guard was down.
She'll be waiting for a while…
At the end of the day, Ranma was walking home with the Winx.
"Looks like Tecna's little message hit Nabiki pretty hard." Said Layla.
"Yeah! She hadn't tried to take pictures of us this time." Said Musa.
"That may be true, but we can't let our guard down." Said Ranma. "Nabiki's not the type to give up so easily."
All of a sudden, a black and white blur rushes up and glomps onto Flora, surprising her. The other girls gasped at the action.
"Oh, my Darling Shampoo!"
Ranma was a little more than steamed to see Mousse hugging on Flora like that. Once again, he wasn't wearing his glasses.
"E-excuse me, but I'm not Shampoo…" said Flora, trying to push Mousse off.
"She's not Shampoo, you moron! Now get off her!" shouted Ranma as he bonked Mousse over the head with his fist. He went down like a sack of potatoes.
The myopic martial artist slowly got back up and puts his glasses on. He was able to see Flora clearly now, as well as her Faerie classmates. "You're right, you're not Shampoo…" Even though he's got eyes for Shampoo, he couldn't help but blush at the beauty of the Alfea students. It was then that he turned to look at Ranma. "Saotome, you fiend! I shall take you down for your previous insolence!"
Ranma could only sigh as he then proceeds to dodge Mousse's attacks. The girls were surprised to see Mousse whipping out random objects from within his sleeves whenever he swung at Ranma: swords, sais, spears, a statue on a chain, morning stars, hammers, yo-yos, bats, katars, and any other melee weapon one could think of.
Mousse then jumps up and fires off a wave of his weapons-on-chains attack down on Ranma. The pigtailed boy quickly side-steps the attack, the weapons harmlessly stabbed into the pavement. Just as he lands, Mousse pulls out a chicken, which lays eggs. Catching the eggs in his other hand, he hurls them towards Ranma.
"Keiran Ken! (Hen's Egg Bomb!)"
Ranma quickly rolls out of the way just as the eggs explode with the force of grenades. Stella managed to create a light barrier around herself and her friends to block the explosion. Once it died down, they caught sight of Ranma dodging a barrage of throwing knives by Mousse.
"Egg bombs? That's pretty bizarre…" said Musa.
"Just how is that guy carrying all of that?" asked Stella as she and the others watched the fight.
"The guy's literally got tricks up his sleeves." Said Bloom.
Ranma effortlessly dodged the knives. Mousse then whips out a curved scythe blade from each sleeve and started to slash at him. "It's not enough for you to have Shampoo, but you also have to entice six more girls for yourself? You enemy of women!"
Ranma had a sickening feeling of déjà vu as he swerved in and out of Mousse's attacks, and just like before, he ended it. In a flash, he took out Brandon and Riven's swords and immediately diced up Mousse's blades to bits. Mousse was shocked at what happened, then was suddenly kicked by Ranma into the wall. Before he could recover, the pigtailed boy stabbed both swords in a cross formation into the wall, around Mousse's neck, effectively trapping him.
"Are you quite finished now?" Ranma asked in an even tone.
Mousse could only cringe at seeing two light energy blades encircling his neck. 'Just what are these things!?' "Damn you, Ranma!"
"That's enough, Duck-boy!" said Ranma. "What's the big idea attacking me out in the open like this?"
"To win back my precious Shampoo, of course!" Mousse replied matter-of-factly. "You've somehow enticed Shampoo to leave with you for two months to who knows where, taking her away from her future husband! You were probably having your way with her, no doubt!"
Ranma sighs. He didn't seem to get it at all. "Listen, Mousse, I've already told you that I'm not interested! Even if I were, you've no right to tell her who she can associate with!"
"You cad! I'll beat you at some point, and Shampoo will be mine!" said Mousse.
The pigtailed boy shook his head. "You couldn't beat me then, and with the new training and experiences I've had, you can't beat me now." He then pulls the swords out of the wall, causing Mousse to fall to the ground. "One of the reasons why I left was to avoid crap like this from happening to me again. I really don't want to fight you, Mousse, considering your reason has no ground."
"Just what do you mean by that?"
"I mean my engagement to Shampoo has been voided. In fact, all of them have been voided, by my mother. Even Cologne knows that. Therefore, you've got no reason to fight me."
Mousse was livid. Now that he thought about it, he does recall hearing about Akane's engagement being cancelled. At first, he thought this was just another one of Akane's rants of "never wanting to marry a sex-changing baka" as usual. However, to hear his own mother involved made more sense. Plus, Shampoo had been easing off of Ranma.
"And are you to have me believe you're good with this?" asked Mousse.
"I am, because I've met others." Ranma then looks over to the Faeries.
Mousse follows his gaze to the six gaijins. Saotome with new friends?
"He's telling the truth, you know." Said Flora. "Saotome-sensei had all of Ranma's previous engagements cancelled. Elder Cologne agreed to it due to historical circumstances we weren't even aware of."
Mousse looked over to Flora and couldn't help but notice her demeanor mirroring that of Kasumi Tendo. Not only that, as a martial artist, he could sense a different level of ki in her. Not just her, but the other five as well. "Huh?"
"Oh! Forgive me. My name is Flora."
"I'm Tecna."
"Name's Bloom."
"Layla."
"Call me Stella."
"And I'm Musa."
Mousse slowly gets back up. "Uhhh… M-Mousse…" He took a bow as he introduced himself.
"Psst! Are all Chinese fighters named after hair care products?" Stella whispered to Bloom.
Ranma turns his attention back on Mousse. "Your scuffle could've gotten them hurt, you know! And Shampoo considers them her sister Amazons! What do you think she would say if they got hurt because of you?"
Mousse flinched at Ranma's glare that his glasses slipped off. These girls were considered Amazons by Shampoo? If that's the case, Cologne might, as well. Hurting those girls, even by accident, would earn him Shampoo's wrath, not to mention the Old Ghoul's. Another thing he just realized was that Shampoo's new manner of dress was quite similar to those of the Faeries.
Mousse turns his attention back to the Winx. "I-I'm sorry about that! Please forgive me! Any friend of Shampoo is a friend of mine!"
"We're glad you think that way, Mousse, but we're over here…" said Layla.
Ranma and the girls sweatdropped at the Hidden Weapons Master, who was talking to six traffic cones on the side of the street.
Putting on his glasses, he turns around and looks at the group. "Oh, whoops. Well then, I guess I'll be on my way…"
He quickly jumps into the wall and bounds away.
"What was that about?" asked Musa.
"I can't figure him sometimes." Said Ranma, as he and the girls continued to walk home.
The next two days went off without a hitch, which seemed rare in Nerima. Ranma was glad for the break in routine. Nabiki hadn't tried to bother him or the Winx due to 'unexplained' events, Akane was kept at bay thanks to Ukyou and Shampoo, Kuno was considered a nuisance than an actual threat, Mousse hadn't tried to attack him again, and Ryoga was still wandering somewhere.
That last bit worried him more. Ranma knew that the Eternally Lost Boy would pop in at inopportune times. Usually, he'd find his way back to Nerima from who knows where in at least a week.
'I wonder when Pig-boy will show up? I'd better keep my guard…'
Ranma was out on an errand for Nodoka. He was to go pick up some pork cutlets for tonight's dinner. It was then he ran into Stella and Tecna.
"Oh, Ranma! Where you headed?" asked Stella.
"Stella! Tecna! I'm doing a little shopping for Mom. We're having pork tonight." Replied Ranma.
"Sounds pretty good." Said Tecna. "Since we're here, we might as well go together, if that's all right."
"Of course it is, girls." Said Ranma. "You don't need to ask me that."
"Well then, let's go!" said Stella.
Just as they rounded the corner, Ranma's danger sense went off. "GET BACK!"
Stella and Tecna did so immediately. Ranma looks up and sees a familiar silhouette coming down on him.
"RANMA, PREPARE TO DIE!!!"
The pigtailed martial artist quickly jumps out of the way just as the shape crashed into where he was a moment ago, kicking up dust and forming a crater. In the center was Ryoga Hibiki, in a crouching position with his umbrella jabbed into the ground.
"That guy…" said Stella.
"Also the pig…" said Tecna.
Like the rest of the Winx, Stella and Tecna knew of Ryoga from their trip in Ranma's mindscape.
Ryoga glared at Ranma with an angry expression. "I've finally found you again, Ranma!"
Ranma lets off a tired sigh as he looks at the bandanna-clad fighter. "I figured you'd show up sooner or later, Ryoga."
Ryoga stood up with umbrella held at the ready. "I'm gonna pound you to a pulp!"
With those words, Ryoga charged at Ranma. Like in the past, Ranma dodges all of Ryoga's rage-driven attacks.
"Predictable as ever, I see." Said Ranma as he swerved in and out.
"Damn you, Ranma! For all the hell you put me through and your insolence to Akane, I will punish you!"
Ranma finally retaliates by knocking Ryoga back with a well-placed upperkick. "Oh would you get over yourself!? I already told you that my engagement is over! I don't care what you do with her!"
Ryoga recovers and prepares to attack Ranma again. "Shut up! Akane will never be happy as long as you're around! I shall save her from your presence by erasing you for good!"
Ranma cringed when he saw that Ryoga reached for his bandanna. Several bandannas were thrown his wasn't worried about himself, but rather of Tecna and Stella.
'That idiot! Can't he see there are bystanders here!?'
The pseudo-faerie quickly burns down the flying bandannas to ashes with a few flame shots. "KNOCK IT OFF, YOU MORON!"
Ryoga paid no heed as he threw more of the make-shift shurikens at him. Ranma started to shoot off more fireballs at the bandannas to stop them from reaching him or the two Faeries with him. He managed to stop all but one, which whizzed past him.
"Oh crap! STELLA! TECNA! MOVE!"
Tecna and Stella gasped when they saw the bandanna hurtling towards them. Though it looked like a harmless piece of cloth, they could sense the destructive power behind it. Tecna leaps to her left, just barely avoiding it. Stella was a bit slow on the dodge. What Ranma heard next caused his blood to run cold.
"AAAAAGGHH!!!"
"STELLA!"
Tecna looked in shock to see her blonde friend with a gash on her upper left arm, caused by the ki-enhanced bandanna. Stella clutched her now bleeding arm in pain. The techno faerie rushes to her side to help keep her up.
"Stella! You all right?" asked Tecna.
"I'm all right… the cut's not deep, but that hurts!" replied Stella.
Stella's scream had caused Ryoga to finally realize that there were others aside from Ranma in the current area. He was so driven with his usual rage that he never noticed them before, and now it just occurred to him that he had attacked a girl, albeit accidentally. It was then that he felt the air temperature drop a few degrees, mostly around a certain pigtailed boy.
Ranma was steamed. No, steamed wasn't the word for it. He was absolutely pissed off. He started to emit a blood red battle aura as he faced off against Ryoga.
"You… BASTARD!!!!"
Before Ryoga could think, Ranma appeared before him and punched him hard in the face, knocking him back thirty feet.
"YOU HURT STELLA!!!"
Before Ryoga could skid to a stop, Ranma appeared behind him and punted him high into the air.
"I'LL BUST YOUR STUPID HEAD OPEN!!!"
Ranma suddenly appeared above Ryoga and slammed him down onto the ground with a hard axe kick to the head. The lost boy crashed face-first into the pavement, causing it to spider web around. Just as he was about to get up, Ranma stomps down on his back with both feet, knocking him down again. Picking him up by the hair, Ranma slams Ryoga into the wall and balls up his free hand into a fist.
"KATCHU TENSHIN AMAGURIKEN!!!"
Ranma lets loose a round of rapid-fire punches into Ryoga's gut. The fact that he was sandwiched between the punches and the wall made it all the more painful.
"NOW GET LOST AGAIN!!!"
Plucking Ryoga off the wall, Ranma punts him hard into the air and out of sight. The threat gone, he takes a few calming breaths before turning his attention to Stella and Tecna, who looked a bit shocked at the scene.
"Ranma…? You all right?" asked Tecna.
"Yeah… I'm just fine…" replied Ranma. "I should be asking you two that."
"Don't worry, Ranma. I'm fine…" said Stella as she held her arm. "What you did to that guy was pretty brutal!"
"I have to agree, Ranma. You pounded him pretty hard, though I can't really say he didn't deserve it." Said Tecna.
"Sorry, when I saw Stella get hurt because of him, I just snapped." Said Ranma. "That idiot is always so obsessed with wanting to beat me, he sometimes doesn't care who's in the way. If anything happened to any of you girls, I don't know what I'd do."
"That's so sweet of you, Ranma, but you don't have to worry so much." Said Stella. "We're not that fragile, you know, but I do appreciate the concern."
"The same goes for me, too." Added Tecna.
"I suppose not. You have been in dangerous situations before." Said Ranma as he scratched the back of his head.
"I'd better take Stella home. You should go finish your Mom's errand." Said Tecna.
"Alright. Will you two be okay going back?" asked Ranma.
"Count on it!" replied Stella as she did a thumbs up.
Tecna and Stella left, the latter being helped. She needed to have her injury treated by Nodoka. Seeing that the girls were fine, Ranma set off to do what he was supposed to before being rudely interrupted.
'Now I REALLY feel like eating pork.'
Tendo Compound…
Genma and Soun were at their usual spot in the patio playing shogi, or rather cheating each other in the game.
"This cannot go on, Saotome! The future of the Anything Goes is in jeopardy!" said Soun.
"Think I don't know that, Tendo? Things have only gotten more complicated when Nodoka took the boy away those two weeks!" said Genma.
"We have to get your son away from those girls somehow!"
"Easier said than done! Nodoka likes them and actually encourages the boy to interact with them! It's out of my hands!" Of course, Genma was mainly scared that Nodoka would slice him down to size should he voice his opinions about Ranma's choice in life.
"Then what can we do!?"
Suddenly, something crash-lands into the koi pond, causing a huge splash and drenching the two fathers.
*What in the world was that!?* Genma-panda signed.
"What was that noise?" asked Akane, who just came out from the dojo.
"Bwee! Bwee! (Curse you, Ranma!)"
A beaten and bruised Ryoga-piglet crawled out from the koi pond after being sent flying by Ranma.
"P-chan! Where were you? It's been weeks!" said Akane as she rushed up to pick up the piglet. "Come here, baby!"
"Bwee! Bwee!" Ryoga was instantly happy to be in Akane's embrace, but then squealed in pain from his injuries.
"P-chan? What is it?" Akane then looked to see that he was battered all over. "P-chan!? What happened to you!?"
"Bwee bwee…"
"Ranma must've done this to you, hasn't he?" The piglet could only nod slowly. "That jerk! He's always picking on you for no reason! Don't you worry, Mommy will make him pay for your injuries!"
P-chan could only grin.
Tendo dojo, later that evening…
P-chan sat by as he watched Akane do her usual training exercises. The floor had been littered with pebbles from the cinder blocks she's broken earlier.
The sliding door opened as Kasumi enters with a tray.
"Oh Akane! I thought you might want to have a break." Said Kasumi, holding up the tea.
"Thanks, Kasumi. Just set it down anywhere. I'll be there in a minute." Said Akane as she continues her kata.
Kasumi nods and walks over to the side to set the tray down. She then slips on some of the pebbles on the floor. "Oh!"
"Kasumi?"
Everything went in slow motion as Akane turned around to check on Kasumi. At the same time, the elder Tendo sister fell towards P-chan, whose eyes widened when he saw something over him. Because of his prior injuries, he couldn't move out of the way in time. To the piglet, it felt as if his life was flashing before his eyes.
Akane turned just in time to see Kasumi trip and fall on the floor, and the hot tea spill over her pet pig. What she saw next caused her to freeze in her tracks. Sitting where P-chan used to be was a naked Ryoga, trying to cover himself up. Kasumi eeped upon seeing him and quickly turned around.
"R-R-Ryoga!?" Akane stammered. It finally occurred to her what had happened. "YOU WERE P-CHAN!?"
"A-A-Akane… I can explain…" Ryoga started.
At that point, Akane's temper hit a new high. Sensing the air of impending doom, Kasumi wisely chose the time to exit the dojo.
"You…. PERVERT!!! YOU BAKA!!! YOU… YOU… YOU… PIG!!!! DIE!!!!"
From outside the dojo, one could hear the unbearable sounds of extreme violence coupled with shrieks of rage and screams of pain that could be heard all across the neighborhood. Several holes were created in the walls and roof as Akane continued to pummel the hapless Ryoga, adding even more to his previous injuries. By night's end, the dojo will be due for some serious repairs.
At the Saotome complex, the tenants could hear the faint sounds of Ryoga's screams as they ate dinner.
"Oh my, what a horrible sound…" said Flora.
"It's unbearable!" said Musa.
Ranma could only smile. To him, those screams were music to his ears.
To be continued…
Ending (Ranma ½ season 2 style, 'Don't Mind! Lay-Lay Boy')
A cardboard cut-out background shows up.
Yume demo mite 'ru mitai (As if I were dreaming)
Kimi ga ochikomu nante (You come crashing by)
A full body shot of Ranma is seen.
Senaka wo tsutsuita no ni (Though I kept on nudging your back)
Utsuro ni sora wo mite sa (You were just staring blankly at the sky)
Ranma throws some punches and kicks in a kata, then a Moko Takabisha.
Naisho shite 'ta kedo mae kara Wo Ai Ni (I've been keeping quiet about it but from the start I Love You)
Ranma stands, then suddenly, Ranma-chan in Faerie mode appears back to back with him. They look surprised at each other.
Genki makichirasu kimi ga suki da yo (You spread good cheer, I like you)
Sky, Brandon, Helia, Riven, Timmy, and Nabu pop out and shove the two Ranma forms together, causing them to fuse back into one Ranma. They all jump into him.
Don't mind! Lay-lay boy Egao no man ga Yi - Erh (Don't mind! China boy Your smile in a million One - Two)
Lay-lay boy Yume mite ite ne (China boy Go dreaming)
Blank slate. Full body shots of Bloom, Stella, and Flora are drawn in.
Don't mind! Lay-lay boy Mesomeso shite 'ru to (Don't mind! China boy Once you start whining)
Lay-lay boy Uwaki shichau zo (China boy I'll go for another)
Blank slate. Full body shots of Musa, Tecna, and Layla are drawn in.
Namida wa boi shichai na! (Tears go "boi"!)
Sekiyou ga warau (The setting sun laughs)
Blank slate. Ranma is seen again. He suddenly shakes and is transformed to Ranma-chan.
Namaiki Tobashichai na! (You naughty... I'll send you flying!)
Itsumo no kimi to... Kenka ga shitai na (I'd like to pick a fight with you as usual)
Ranma-chan turns into Ranma again. He starts changing in and out between forms, his body parts sometimes not even matching the right form.
End ending
Preview…
Bloom: Things haven't been going well at the Tendo Dojo.
Ranma: Who cares? I feel a great burden lifted from me.
Stella: The weekend is coming!
Zing: I'll give it a spin!
Musa: Wow! I love this sort of thing!
Ranma: I don't know about this…
Musa: You need to loosen up more, Ranma! Next time, on Ranma Club, 'Rhythm! Musa's New Groove!'
Ranma: 'Do I have the groove'? What does that mean?
Author's notes:
I've finally managed to put up the first update for 2009! Thank you readers who've stuck with me for this long! I've been so busy with RL lately. Hopefully, I can finish the next chapter soon.
NightmareSyndrom: I'd have to go with Flora. She controls plants, after all. My guess is that she could turn Pink and Link's creations against them.
Bloomforever: Sorry about that. I was just putting up something to look forward to. Heheheh…
OBSERVER01 & AndrewK9000: Yeah. Tecna by herself is already a huge threat to Nabiki.
God of all: To quote another author, "as long as I've got the creative juices flowing."
Dumbledork: Well, I kinda think Nabiki has to support the family financially, considering I don't see any other income to the home. Kasumi is like the housemaid, and Soun and Genma do nothing but sit on their asses all day playing shogi. Also, in Japan, after-school jobs are prohibited.
Jadesparda: Oh, I've got something already planned for Kasumi…
Princess Asuna: Ryoga had received worse now, eh?
7 Winds: How do you like what happened to Nabiki now?
Kopakanuvafan20: Thanks. When doing openers, I try to put in something appropriate for the content of the chapter. Considering it was Tecna's date, using a .HACK opening fits perfectly. Same with Layla's date and using Air Gear.
Chm01: Considering Ranma's lack of experience dealing with girls, using the thought boxes seemed to be the only way to go.
Wolf40k: Wow! You're good! Didn't think anyone would remember that. It was actually inspired by that.
Dark-Magician-41: It's Mrs. Claus! Oh, how was that for an explanation of how Santa delivers his gifts in one night?
Darkangel: Glad you like it, too. Keep the reviews coming!
Don't forget… Today's…
RAI vs. 4KIDS RANT!
It is much better to have incantations in a foreign tongue. Case in point, Episode 12 of 2nd season, "Winx Together!" (US: Truth or Dare)
When the girls create a titan to fight off the virus.
4Kids:
Bloom: "Layla! You start us off! *Layla makes the substance* Make it as big as you can! *Layla gets nailed*"
Stella: "Layla!"
Flora: "I'm going to try and give that thing some strength! Venus Vine Wrap!" *give blob a make-shift skeleton and makes a titan* (Strength? You're just giving it structure so it won't fall apart...)
Tecna: "I'll give it some brain power! Cerebrum Processus Implantus!" *gives titan a brain* (WTF? Again, abusing the '-us' suffix...)
Bloom: "Stella! It's your turn, now!"
Stella: "Sun Vision!" *gives titan sight* (Odd, how did Stella know what to do?)
Palledium: "Each of you must put something into it!" (Um... they're already doing just that...)
Musa: "Alright, you're up next, Bloom!"
Bloom: "Dragon Valor!" *gives titan a will to fight*
Tecna: "You go!" *titan fights off virus*
Bloom: "Yes! It's working!"
Tecna: "Are you okay, Layla?"
Layla: "Mmm-hmm..."
Flora: "I'm fine..."
Bloom: "Let's make the monster cough up the exit code!"
Palledium: "Girls! You need to give it the power to speak! Once it gets hold of the code, it has to say the spell with you!"
Musa: "My turn! Elequor!" *gives titan a voice*
Bloom: "Let's say the spell!"
All: "With the six of us, together as one, unleash our power until the monster is done!" (Lame.... and oddly enough, the incantation was made as if they EXPECTED a monster to show up and eat the exit code. Hmm....)
Rai:
Bloom: "Layla! You're the foundation! *Layla makes the substance* Layla, it has to be bigger! *Layla gets nailed and the blob figure loses structure*"
Stella: "Layla!"
Flora: "Uh-oh! It needs some kind of skeletal support! Bearing Branches!" *give blob a make-shift skeleton and makes a titan, but gets knocked aside*
Tecna: "It needs a brain! Central Processor! Creature! Hurry! Stand up!" *gives titan a brain, which then walks about aimlessly*
Bloom: "Stella! It can't see anything!"
Stella: "Sun Vision!" *gives titan sight*
Palledium: "It can't fight without a will of its own!"
Musa: "The monster's gonna destroy it!"
Bloom: "My turn! Flame of Life!" *gives titan a will to fight*
Tecna: "Oh no!" *titan fights off virus*
Bloom: "Yes! She's full of life now!"
Tecna: "Anything broken?"
Layla: "Mmmm..." (Layla looked like she's drunk here. lol)
Flora: "I'm okay..."
Bloom: *to titan* "Listen, you've got to get the light the monster swallowed!"
Palledium: "Girls, defeating the monster is not enough! Your creature has to say 'derimei ilussiamen' to open the exit!"
Musa: "Soundscreen, Power of Words!" *gives titan a voice*
Bloom: "Everybody ready?"
All: "Derimei ilussiamen! Derimei ilussiamen!"
At least in this one, there's explanation given on what each of the girls' contributions to the titan was. The 4Kids version was choppy at best (not known for explaining things clearly).
On an added note, the 4Kids version omitted the part in the sleepover scene where Layla haphazardly dresses in an overcoat and holds a broom, playing the role of Brandon.
Stella: "Do you know how I got together with my Brandon?"
Layla: "Hah! Let me guess! *dresses as 'Brandon' and speaks in a lowered voice* Hey girls! I'm the best fighter in the world and the best looking guy in Magix! Who wants to be my girlfriend? *normally* And you just fell at his feet!"
Stella: "Actually, HE fell at MY feet!"
See you all next chapter!