BGC: Ranma
Prelude
By CH33T4H GRL
Co written and edited by The Senshi of Valis
CH33T4H: Yo everyone, this is a Bubblegum Crisis and Ranma crossover/fusion type of deal. I know Ranma took place before BGC but guess what, the characters may not be mine but the story is so that means I can pretty much do whatever I want. (Laughs maniacally.)
PIROKO: So you are writing a story with characters made by Rumiko and AIC and using characters from Megatokyo created by Piro to do the editorial stuff.
LARGO: She's 3VIL I tell you…We need weapons…Lots of weapons before she can summon her zombie horde.
CH33T4H: Oh look, an AMD system that isn't being overclocked. Whatever shall I do?
LARGO: Where, where? (Runs off looking for said computer)
CH33T4H: Enjoy the show folks.
Priss stared out of the window of her immobile bus into the rain as she thought about what today was. It was the anniversary of the death of the last part of her old life, the death of her sometimes rival, sometimes friend turned boyfriend. He was the second person that she had ever been serious about and the only one who ever really showed her that he cared after they got together. The first person she was serious about was an arranged marriage and though she came to love them they never really showed that often that they cared about her. In fact, more often than naught she would be malleted for some perceived or imagined wrong that she never did in the first place.
Funny how things turn out though, all those years ago when she first met the person she was arranged to marry if someone told her that she would end up falling in love with a guy she would have beaten them to a pulp. Back then she was a very powerful martial artist, one of the best of her generation if not the best.
That wasn't all she was though, back then she had been a guy, a cocky, overconfident and sometimes egotistical jerk named Ranma Saotome. She had no problems admitting to herself what she was back then, she was obnoxious and didn't really blame people for rejecting her and turning her away.
Though she was a guy, she was also a girl half of the time thanks to a curse when she met her fiancé. Together they went on many wild adventures and saw so many crazy things that it would probably make good content for an anime or magna series. Several times during those adventures she was trapped in her girl form but had managed to undo the lock each time except for the last time. When Herb came to reclaim the unlocking kettle apparently he had given a samples of both the waters from the ladle and the kettle to Cologne in payment for her help in retrieving the kettle. She had used the waters to punish Mousse several times until he had gotten fed up with it and destroyed the entire stock except for one vial of the ladle's water. A few months after the failed wedding Ranma was surprised by Mousse and splashed with the one vial of locking ladle water that was left locking Ranma in her girl form.
To her surprise Ryouga had offered to go with Ranma secretly to China to get Herb to undo the lock and return her to normal. Ryouga's only condition was to stop off at Jusenkyo and ask the guide if any cures to Jusenkyo have been found so he could marry Akari. They planned to leave in the middle of the night leaving only a note about going on a short training journey and that they would be back in a month.
The trip to the Musk's territory was uneventful but very bad news awaited them when the finally talked to Prince Herb. In order to avoid another such accident the King had reluctantly destroyed both the kettle and ladle and that there was no way of reversing the lock now.
The trek to Jusenkyo after leaving the Musk Empire was made in mostly silence as Ranma walked in despair. She was going to be stuck as a girl for the rest of her life. How could she be a man among men while stuck as a girl? How was she going to give Akane the ring she had bought not long before Mousse sprung his little trap? How was she going to prove that she was still capable of carrying on the family's art? The answer to all of it was she couldn't…She was screwed and her life was over just because the little asshole Mousse couldn't get it through his thick head that Ranma wanted nothing to do with Shampoo.
After checking with the guide and finding out that there still wasn't any cure, not that it seemed Ryouga was really holding his breath for one they returned back to Japan to find Tokyo and much of the surrounding area for miles devastated from the largest earthquake ever recorded in history anywhere in the world.
There was no way for either of them to get a hold of anyone because of most lines being down so they had to travel as quickly as possible. The first stop for them since it was on the way and Ranma didn't want Ryouga to get lost was Akari's farm. The devastation there was indescribable and it was the first time Ranma had ever seen Ryouga cry. The entire farm was destroyed and they found Akari's dead body in the wreckage. They gave her a proper burial and headed for Nerima hoping that everyone was okay there. The closer they got though the worse the devastation grew until they reached the border to Nerima where police officers stopped them. It seemed Nerima was one of the hardest hit wards with only about a half dozen survivors who were on a list. Unfortunately, the officer told them that they had found all of the survivors and they all had their names on the list. None of the Tendos or Saotomes were on it which meant they were dead.
At first Ranma tried to kill herself, her depression becoming overpowering but each time she did Ryouga was there to stop her. After awhile the two had actually started getting closer and closer as they both came out of their depressive shells as they helped each other overcome their grief. Neither one knew how or when but they had fallen in love and stayed close to each other as the rebuilding slowly went under way.
After a time a company named Genom developed boomers which made the work so much easier and quicker but some people didn't like them. Some people was even worried about them malfunctioning but Ranma never thought much about it until one went rogue and attacked Ranma and Ryouga. They tried to fight it off but they couldn't hurt it much. Ryouga sacrificed himself and in a large explosion which knocked Ranma unconscious the boomer was destroyed but so was Ryouga. After that Ranma gave up the art. What good was it to her if it couldn't help save the last person in her life that she cared about? So she also gave up her name since she no longer believed she deserved even it. She changed her name to Priscilla S. Asagiri or Priss for short. She couldn't completely get rid of her name no matter how much she wanted to so the S. meant Saotome but she refused to tell anyone what it stood for. It was actually very easy to do this since a lot of records were destroyed in fires and the devastation surrounding the quake.
After not having anything left to live for Priss started turning to drugs and for a very short time they actually seemed to help her until she no longer could afford to pay for them. Her dealer wanted her to do things in exchange for more drugs, things she didn't want to do. He tried to force her but she was more than capable to still protect herself but she didn't have to. A motorcycle gang was riding through and their leader spotted what was going on and stopped it, beating the shit out of the dealer.
The next few months were difficult for Priss as the motorcycle gang's leader helped her overcome her addictions to the drugs and find other reasons to live. He said that Priss had the most beautiful voice that he had ever heard. Some of the other members of the gang knew how to play instruments so they taught her how to read the music and how to write it and how to play some of the instruments. The gang leader loved it as Priss slowly became a little happier and then a lot happier as the two grew closer together.
It wasn't meant to last though as the dealer murdered the gang leader in retaliation before the rest of the gang got him. After that the gang slowly split up and went their separate ways except for the few who had gotten closest to Priss. They formed a band and became regulars at Hot Legs where Priss and the Replicants became somewhat famous. The AD Police had ruled the murder an accident since the friends and family of the dealer was bigger in the community and had more pull. All of this had started Priss hating Genom and the AD Police for all the pain they had caused her.
The rogue boomers kept growing and the number of innocents injured in their attacks also grew. Priss tried to fight against one that she had found attacking some children in order to buy them time to escape. She didn't really expect to live through it but she was saved by a woman in some kind of hi-tech battle armor. It was Sylia Stingray and she offered Priss a way to fight against the boomers which Priss immediately accepted making her the second member of the Knight Sabers. In the following months two more recruits were also added to the group, Nene Romavova and Lina Yamazaki.
Now Priss had a whole new life and though she did love it she could never forget the past and all those who she loved and lost. Though she had been lost for a time she knew that she was stronger now, she was no longer the young, brash and egotistical jerk she once was as that foolish boy. She was much smarter now, much more mature adult woman who had responsibilities that she took seriously and no longer too afraid to admit if she liked someone. Life was too short for those childish games she once played with Akane and now regretted.
Shaking her head to clear it Priss checked to see if the rain had stopped and sighed in relief. It had finally stopped and the sun was actually coming out from behind the dark clouds. She needed to get going if she was going to make it early enough for rehearsal before tonight. Pulling on her jacket and grabbing her keys and helmet she started to leave when her computer beeped letting her know that she had a message. Looking at the subject line Priss's face paled, it said "I know who you are Ranma." With her hand shaking she reached out to open the e-mail.