After Dinner everyone was seated around the living room once again. Ranma had tried to use his best manners but had still managed to finish faster than anyone else. Kyle had said it reminded him of how fast Wally used to eat. Who that was, Ranma had no idea.

Linda looked to Clark and got a slight nod to some unspoken question. She then sighed as if to gather courage for what she had to say.

"Ranma, we told you when we first met that Clark and I were originally from America, well, there was more to it than just that. What do you remember from the Age of Heroes?"

Ranma took a moment before responding. "I remember some stuff they told us in school and on TV, something about superheroes back before I was born. All about people who had special powers and abilities but lost them when a purple light hit the planet or something."

Linda nodded. "That's the gist of it. There was more too it than that but you have the basic idea. There was the old Justice League as well as a few other groups who fought supervillains to protect the people without powers. Anyway, this is something that A-chan is old enough to know now and has to do with you as well Ranma, You see, Clark and I used to be Superman and Supergirl."

A-ko's jaw sagged in shock as many little things about her family suddenly fell into place. She had heard all the stories about Superman and Supergirl when she was younger. It had been well known that Clark and Linda Kent had been friends with them when they had lived in Metropolis. There were even documentaries about the friends of superheroes.

Then she remembered the other thing that had been in those same documentaries. "Wait a minute, that means you two are cousins! Ahhh! I'm an incest baby!" A-ko proceeded to do an excellent imitation of Tendo Soun.

Linda planted her face in her hand and shook her head while Clark scratched the back of his head nervously.

"No Ariel, we are not cousins," Linda interrupted, "It's a little complicated but basically I'm a Supergirl from another dimension who took Clark's cousin's place to save her life. I pretended to be Superman's cousin for a few years until he let on that he knew I wasn't Kryptonian. I liked it here so much that I decided to stay after the crisis had passed and Clark and I fell in love. It wasn't until after the Act of God that we were married and I gave birth to you."

A-ko had calmed down with Linda's explanation thus allowing Ranma to ask a question. "That explains A-chan's abilities I guess, but why tell me too? Didn't you guys keep your identities secret or something?"

Kyle decided that was his cue. "Well, that's because of me. You see, I used to be the Green Lantern." He held up his hand to show the Jade ring on his ring finger.

Ranma smirked at his 'uncle'. "So you were part of that Justice Squad too huh?"

"That was the Justice League, and yes I was one of the core members with Diana and A-ko's parents here."

"So you guys don't have any powers anymore?"

Diana shook her head. "Not since the Act of God. Everything except technological powers suddenly stopped. We lost a lot of good people during that period."

"If it wasn't for my Amazon princess here I don't know if I'd have survived," Kyle said with a kiss to Diana.

"Y-y-you're an Amazon?" Ranma exclaimed.

Diana could understand Ranma's reaction, given his experience with the Chinese Amazons.

"I am from the original Greek Amazons. I'm not sure what connection there is, if any, to the Chinese Amazons but I can assure you there is nothing to be nervous about from me. We certainly don't have silly marriage laws, especially since there are no men on our island," Diana explained.

Ranma's eyes grew wide at the thought of an entire island of Shampoos. He resolved then and there to never set foot on the island. His luck, marriage laws of no, he'd end up engaged to the lot of them, he just knew it.

After a few more minutes of small talk, something occurred to Ranma. "A-chan, if nobody has superpowers anymore, then why are you so strong and tough?"

A-ko had never thought about it before, not knowing about her parent's abilities before that night.

Kyle decided to answer, "The Act of God seems to have only affected the current generation of powers. Bruce theorized that some kids in your generation would start manifesting powers once they were old enough. The fact that Ariel was born with super strength and minor invulnerability gave a lot of support to that theory."

"She's getting stronger too. Much like I did when I was a teenager," Clark added.

"I don't understand. Why would I be born with superpowers then get more when I was older?" A-ko asked.

"Our powers are similar but come from different sources. A-chan was born with my powers but her Kryptonian heritage is coming out now. It's entirely possible that she'll get Clark's heat vision and ability to fly among other boosts."

"So she's the new Supergirl eh?" Ranma said, giving A-ko a teasing grin, "Better than being a magical girl."

"Oh I don't know, I think I'd look good in a fuku. Fighting for love and justice with an animal companion to give me advice." A-ko got little stars in her eyes as she imagined Ranma in a tux fighting alongside her against demons and aliens bent on draining people of their life energies.

Ranma cringed as he remembered just what those animal companions usually consisted of. No way was he going to let A-ko be a magical girl if she was gonna have a cat around all the time.

Diana seemed deep in thought before she leaned over and whispered in Kyle's ear. He seemed to frown before sighing in resignation.

"Ranma, Diana just brought up an interesting idea. Ever since the Act of God, my ring has been nothing more than a decorative piece of jade. It was keyed to only be used by someone genetically related to me. Seeing as how I don't have any children of my own, and you are my closest living descendant, I'd like to see if you could use it."

Kyle pulled the ring from his finger and reluctantly handed it over to a speechless Ranma. He held the ring up so he could examine it. It wasn't stone like he thought at first, in fact, it seemed more like metal. Not any metal he's ever seen before though. With a nervous gulp, Ranma settled the ring on the same finger Kyle had been wearing it on. It felt warm and his ki sight could clearly see power beginning to build around the artifact.

There was a flash of emerald light and the ring glowed brightly as a Jade colored Japanese stone lantern appeared on the coffee table.

"Wow," A-ko said breathlessly.

"I've never seen the battery change shape like that before," Kyle commented.

"Uh, what do I do now?" Ranma asked nervously.

"Hold the ring to the lantern and say your oath to charge it."

Ranma nodded and cautiously placed the ring against the glowing stone.

"With the rising sun,
evil must flee the Justice
of emerald light."

"A haiku?" Linda asked.

Ranma shrugged. "It seemed appropriate. So now what?" he asked Kyle.

Kyle shook himself out of his stunned state and began to describe to Ranma exactly what the ring was capable of and how to use it.

"Are you sure about this place? I mean, as run down as it looks, if they had any gold at all they would have used it for home improvement you know."

Gina Diggers, Archeologist extraordinaire, gave her younger sister an evil glare. "Brittany, this temple is several thousand years old. It's been abandoned for at least a thousand of those years. Of course it's going to look run down."

"So, if it's abandoned, how do you know they didn't take all the treasure with them when they left?" Brittany asked as she ran a finger over some obscured runes carved into the rock of the passageway they were moving down. She stuck her tongue out in disgust as the finger came away black from grime.

Gina looked a little sheepish. "Well, I don't really. From the legends I've uncovered about the site however, there was a neighboring temple that was at odds with this one and they supposedly placed a curse on this temple. It was quickly abandoned after that."

"A curse? There's a curse on this temple? Gina!"

"Oh come on, you don't really believe that do you?" Gina protested.

"A curse is the reason we have a new sister currently visiting Jade if you remember," Brittany responded.

"Ok, you have a point. But what are the odds of it happening twice?"

"Sis, you really have to learn to stop giving fate such obvious cues."

Gina let the comment slide as she went to work translating the hieroglyphic runes on the temple walls.

"The main chamber should be somewhere behind this wall. See if you can find a hidden switch," Gina said.

It only took a few minutes to find a hidden latch that allowed a stone panel to swing open. It took Brittany's strength to force it open enough for them to go through because of the debris filling the hallway.

As the two Digger sisters entered the main hall of the temple, old mechanisms came to life that slowly lit up, bathing the room in a eerie blue glow.

"What I don't understand is how something like this could be under Boise, Idaho without anyone finding out?"

"Considering the collapsed Lava tube we had to dig out to gain access to the temple I'm not surprised. The only reason we know about it is because I found that reference at that other ruin in Nevada," Gina explained

"Whatever, let's just find some gold. I got credit card bills to pay off."

"You always have credit card bills to pay off," Gina teased, "Oh jinkies! Look at this place! With the level of technology here, there might be something more important than just gold."

"We're not going to have to fight another mummy dinosaur are we? I'm still freaked out from the first time."

Gina shook her head. "I don't think so. This temple isn't nearly as large as the city complex in Nevada. The scale seems off as well, more human sized."

"Whatever, go do your nerd thing. I'm going to have a tuna sandwich."

Gina bristled at the nerd comment but refused to take the bait. She moved down the aisle to the dais where there was a podium that she hoped had an interface with the main systems of the temple. Just as she thought, there was a terminal with a keyboard made of stone keys. The monitor showed a series of lines bouncing around and she realized it was a screensaver. She tapped a key and a little window popped up prompting what she assumed was a password. Gina smirked, convergent evolution of operating systems meant it would be easier to hack.

She decided to start with the most obvious password, the name of the god the temple was dedicated to. When panels opened in the ceiling and what were obviously gun turrets descended and trained on Gina she realized she'd put in an incorrect password. Another window popped up next to the one prompting for the password with what was an obvious countdown. Gina knew she had to put in the correct password before the counter reached zero or she was toast.

Brittany was just starting in on her sandwich when she saw the guns appear and point at her sister.

"Gina, what's going on?" She shouted nervously.

"Hold on, I've only got a few seconds before they open fire."

Gina typed in another password. The timer suddenly lost ten seconds. Not only was the timer counting down, but she was being penalized for each incorrect password. In desperation she began typing passwords that she felt were most common. Each incorrect entry cost her another ten seconds off the timer. The muzzles of the gun turrets began to glow red as they powered up.

Brittany had by this point put down her lunch and was getting up, ready to get her and her sister out of here.

"Damn!" Gina swore as the timer turned red, showing the final few seconds. She only had one more chance at this. Desperately she typed. Hitting enter, the screen suddenly went black as the whole terminal shut down. She could hear the guns begin to whine as the prepared to fire.

Brittany began running towards her sister as the turrets began to fire. She knew she wasn't fast enough. These were lasers. Brittany couldn't even break the sound barrier let alone go the speed of light. Fear gripped her. Her sister was going to die and it was because she wasn't fast enough. Feeling it was hopeless, she pushed herself anyway. She ran as fast as she could, pushing herself beyond her limits in the futile attempt to save her sister.

Suddenly everything seemed to slow down as Brittany felt herself break through a mental barrier of some kind. Brittany could literally see the laser beams slowly coming out of guns in the ceiling as if they were shooting through molasses. Not bothering to question her sudden good fortune, Brittany quickly ran up and grabbed her sister who seemed stiff in her arms as if she were frozen in place. Turning tail (literally) she hoofed it out of the chamber leaving multiple sonic booms in her wake. It was a few seconds before Brittany realized they were no longer in the temple and slowed down to a stop. She felt Gina 'thaw' out and slump in her arms.

"Um, what the hell just happened?" Gina asked.

"I'm not sure really. I saw the guns shoot so I just grabbed you and ran. It looked like time slowed down for a second, everything was moving in slow motion."

Gina finished checking herself over for injury and raised an eyebrow at Brittany's smoking clothing when she finally took note of their surroundings.

"Ok, so how do you think we ended up in Seattle?" Gina asked as she stared at the space needle in the distance.

The Megami's had insisted that Ranma stay, and had put him up in the guest room for the night. Not that Ranma had really slept. With everything that had happened in the last two days he found he couldn't sleep. He laid on the single bed in the guest room and stared at the ring on his finger. He had Green Lantern's ring. Ranma knew about the old superheroes, hardly anyone on the planet hadn't heard about them. But it was all from before Ranma had been born, it had never really seemed real before. After his 'Uncle' Kyle had explained to him what the ring was capable of, Ranma really wanted to fly off and practice but restrained himself because of a certain redhead who had hold of his arm.

Ranma wasn't sure of his feelings but knew spending time with A-ko was more important than anything else in his life right now. There would be time to play with the ring later. The other thing keeping Ranma up was the goodnight kiss A-ko had given him before she went to bed. He'd kissed her before, but the kiss brought back feelings Ranma had thought long buried. He wasn't sure about where his life was going but it was clear that A-ko was prepared to pick up where they left off. That left him feeling confused and unsure of himself. It wasn't that he was unaware of the effect he had on women but he was used to being considered a prize in some contest of fiancés. The fact that A-ko was willing to accept him even after everything he'd been through and seemed a little worried about being rejected herself made Ranma wonder if maybe he could have a life with the redhead.

Setting himself back on the bed, Ranma realized he wouldn't be able to sleep anytime soon so he began to plan how to best prepare for a life with A-ko.

"Ugh, my head..." Ukyou whined.

"Oh good, you're finally awake. Here, drink this." A hand offered what looked like a glass of orange juice to the hung over chef.

She downed the glass then blanched at the flavor only after it was empty, "Bleah, what was that?"

"Family recipe for hangover, orange juice, eggs, Tabasco sauce, that kind of thing."

Ukyou's head winced at the sound of the voice. To her it boomed in her ears. After a moment she became aware enough to take a good look at her caretaker.

"Ryouga?" She cringed at the sound of her own voice, "What the hell are you doing in my room?"

"Ah hehe, well, you were pretty out of it yesterday so I locked up for you and put you to bed to sleep it off," Ryouga said as he rubbed his neck nervously, "What's going on that you had to get drunk?"

The previous day's events slowly came back to Ukyou and she felt tears coming to her eyes.

"Ranma doesn't love me..." she said before breaking down sobbing.

Ryouga felt his familiar anger building. First he hurts Akane, now it's Ukyou. Ryouga knew the time was coming soon for Ranma's reckoning.

Slowly over the next hour he got the rest of the story from Ukyou. He'd seen what he'd done for Akane at Jusendo and had finally decided to give up on Akane and try to make things work with Akari. Hearing what happened at the Cha-no-Yu slightly stunned him. He had no idea Ranma was good at any of that stuff and was surprised that Ranma would actually try to settle things once and for all. What he couldn't believe was that Ranma would give up his family name and become ronin. There had to be some ulterior motive that he just wasn't seeing yet. If Ranma had given up his name then that also meant he'd given up his family's art. It would be dishonorable to fight someone who couldn't fight back so Ryouga wasn't sure what to do if he met Ranma again. It would require some thought. For now though, he had to concentrate on helping Ukyou.

The okinomiyaki chef managed to collect herself while Ryouga was digesting everything he'd learned. She'd have to get cleaned up, the store wouldn't run itself and she hadn't seen Konatsu since the failed wedding.

"Ryouga, could you wait downstairs while I get cleaned up? I'll fix some breakfast as soon as I'm done."

Ryouga nodded and left the room on his second try, leaving the cook alone with her thoughts again.

"Ok, gently now." Ranma said as he placed the steel ball bearing in A-ko's hand.

They were sitting in the back yard. A-ko's bracers were sitting off to the side, along with some broken eggs, and several shattered rocks. Ranma had started her off with trying to hold eggs without breaking them but had been forced to move up the hardness level to granite rocks then to the tempered steel balls.

"I'll never be able to do this!" A-ko whined as she accidentally put her fingerprints into the hardened steel.

"Relax. Your mom and dad learned how to do it without help and you have me teaching you so you'll have it in no time."

"Maybe I should put the bracers back on." A-ko suggested.

"That's part of the problem. You've been relying on the bracers to limit your strength so long that you never learned to control it properly on you own. Your mom and dad meant well but that was the worst thing they could have done. See, as long as you're not thinking about it, you're doing fine!"

A-ko looked at her hand and saw she was holding the ball bearing with no problems. She smiled and her hand twitched, squeezing the steel like soft clay through her fingers. She threw the iron down in frustration, driving it deep into the earth. The two teens sweatdropped for a moment before they broke into laughter.

From an upstairs window, Clark and Linda watched them practice.

"They really are good for each other aren't they?" Linda asked.

"I haven't seen her this happy in a while. We really shouldn't have ignored her training for so long but Ranma is doing a good job of catching her up," Clark responded.

"Maybe they could use the training rooms up at the watchtower. Everything should still be operational shouldn't?"

Clark nodded. "Nobody's been up there in years, ever since the teleporters were taken offline. Ranma should have no problems getting there once he has some practice with Kyle's ring."

"Supergirl and the Green Lantern. It has a nice ring to it don't you think?" Linda said as she watched Ranma give her daughter encouragement outside.

"It makes me wonder. It's too convenient for this to be an accident. Ranma's coming back just as A-ko's Kryptonian heritage begins to manifest. This reeks of manipulation."

"You think someone's doing this on purpose?" Linda turned to look at her husband.

"Maybe, I wouldn't be surprised if we start seeing other heroes begin to appear soon. Maybe I should call Bruce and see if he's training a new protégé."

Linda began to respond but was cut off by a flash of green down in the yard below. Looking down they saw a horrified A-ko and no sign of Ranma. Running downstairs the two former superheroes arrived to see their only child crying her eyes out.

"What happened?" Clark asked.

"R-r-ranma asked me t-t-to spar w-w-with him," she said through sobs, "I didn't m-mean to hit him that h-hard!"

Linda looked around for any signs of the boy only to have Clark tap her on the shoulder and point up. There was a point of green light gradually rising as it headed southward.

"He'll be ok A-chan. The ring will protect him," Clark reassured his daughter, "Let's go inside and wait for him to either call or come back."

As the Megami family entered the house, none of them noticed the flash of light off a pair of glasses in a nearby bush.

Nabiki was working on the family budget for the month. With Ranma out of the house, there would be less damage from jealous fiancés and angry rivals. However there would also be less income without Ranma to make money off of, either directly or indirectly. The fact that Genma was still living in the guest room meant there would be a huge dent in the food budget. She'd either have to make him get a real job or convince her father to kick his fat ass out.

There was another crash from the dojo on the other side of the house. Akane was going through bricks too fast as well. It was starting to get more expensive than it was worth to keep the girl's temper down. Nabiki briefly wondered what breaking bricks had to do with martial arts outside of a demonstration anyway. Maybe she could get Genma to work at a construction site doing cleanup and that way he could bring the leftover boards and bricks home for her sister.

As she weighed the merits and possibilities of getting the fat panda to actually work, there was a flash of emerald light followed by a huge splash in the koi pond. It was only by sheer luck that Genma and Soun caught the majority of the water and prevented Nabiki from getting soaked. She got up and walked over to where the two soaked masters of Anything Goes were staring at the pond. Taking a look herself, she saw a familiar red pigtailed girl float to the surface.

Ranma sat up and sprayed a stream of water from her mouth. "Man, she hits harder than Ryouga and the Tomboy combined."

"Welcome back Ranma. You made quite an entrance," Nabiki teased.

"Nabiki?" Ranma looked around, "Figures, I would just happen to land in the koi pond after being knocked clear back to Tokyo. The Kami must love messing with my life."

Somewhere in Okinawa, Hal Jordan sneezed.

Soun and Genma came out of their stunned stupor and realized that Ranma had come back. That obviously (to them) meant that he was here to apologize to Akane and marry her right away.

"Boy! It's about time you came back to marry Akane!" Genma bellowed.

"The schools will finally be joined!" Soun cried.

"Ah geez! I knew this would happen," Ranma said as he glanced at Nabiki who gave him an apologetic look.

Genma chose that moment of distraction to pounce on Ranma in order to subdue him. Unfortunately, there seemed to be a green wall between Genma's face and Ranma's person. Genma slid down to the ground before standing up and assessing the situation. Was this a new technique? He knew his son was a genius when it came to martial arts, all due to his teaching obviously.

It was Nabiki who answered his unspoken question.

"Where did you get a Green Lantern's ring Ranma?" she asked, her eyes open wide in surprise.

Genma's eyes also widened, but not in surprise. Greed was the first thing on his mind. First, there was the thought of selling the ring. Then he realized that with a working Green Lantern's ring he could become the greatest martial artist of all time! He could defeat the dread Master! People would see him for the great hero he knew he was and lavish him with praise, and gifts, can't forget the gifts!

Ranma watched in disgust as her father began to drool. Using the ring had been almost instinctual, now she was regretting it. Deciding it was too late anyway, she quickly formed a cube around the two men.

"So what brings you by Ranma?" Nabiki asked as she smirked at the two men beating against the midori barrier.

Ranma laughed nervously. "Is there somewhere we could go without the eavesdroppers?"

"If that's a real ring then we can go anywhere. You know how to use it right?"

"Uh, yeah. Uncle Kyle told me how it works. It's pretty easy once you get the hang of it." Ranma rubbed the back of his head nervously.

"Good, lets go get some pizza and you can tell me all about it," Nabiki replied, walking up to Ranma.

"Uh, ok. I need to make a phone call first."

"Not a problem, you can use your ring to make the phone call."

"Really?" Ranma exclaimed, "That's cool."

Nabiki nodded as she took hold of Ranma's hand. As Ranma put an emerald aura around him and Nabiki and lifted off the ground, there was a loud cry of rage from inside the house.

"RRRRRRAAANNNNMMMMAAAAA! Get Back here you pervert! How dare you kidnap my sister!"

"She's still mad?" Ranma asked in astonishment. He dropped the cube holding the fathers and they both began ranting at him alongside Akane.

"Yeah, it's impossible to sleep in with all the noise."

As the dojo shrunk below them, Ranma looked to Nabiki. "So where did you want to go for Pizza?"

Nabiki seemed to think for a moment before responding. "Chicago sounds good."

Author's Rants: Ok, I know where I'm going on this fic. I'm just not sure how to get there from here. While this is going to be a Ranma/A-ko match-up there will also be a strong Nabiki presence in this fic. Why? Because I think she's hot for a fictional character. If you didn't figure it out, Brittany from Gold Digger just accessed the speed force and pushed her into the role of the Flash. How will she get along with a Green Lantern who's terrified of cats? I'm still looking for other characters from anime and independent comics to fill more roles of the JLA. I would be interested to hear any suggestions. I need a detective, an Amazon (thought about shampoo but would like something more original, maybe a sailor scout), and one other. I have someone already in mind to fill the Martian Manhunter's role. I would like to have a core group of seven. Once that's done, I can tell the first story of the New Justice League.