THE NERIMA FREEDOM FORCE
A Ranma fanfiction by Invader-Zam4
Disclaimer: I don't own Ranma or Freedom Force. Please don't sue me, I have no money
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Issue 2: PANDAMONIUM STRIKES!
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The cover of this issue of NFF is a mysterious, towering black figure that stands triumphant over the felled NFF with the caption "WHO IS THIS NEW FOE THAT IS CONSUMING ALL OF THE WORLD'S PRODUCE?"
Previously, on NFF…
Ranma and Akane had just been imbued with the mysterious energy X. Akane had gained the power of flight and fire. Ranma power is still unkown. Ryoga had met up with the duo, with the thought of revenge! However, Akane's innocence, sincerity and kind words have quelled the beast within Ryoga! Now he swears to fight along side them as a champion of justice!
"Oh give me a break…" replied Ranma as he saw Akane hugging Werechan.
"RANMA-HONEY!" replied a very familiar voice.
"Ukyo?" asked a puzzled Ranma. "Where are you?"
"Right in front of you silly!"
A magical circle appeared in front of Ranma and Ukyo suddenly teleported before them.
"WHOA!" said Ranma. "WHERE DID YOU LEARN THAT TRICK?"
"I don't know. Must have been when that purple beam hit me. OH! I made you a pizza!" Ukyo said as he gave Ranma another one of her patented heart shaped pizzas. Ukyo suddenly saw Ryoga.
"EEK!" she said as she went behind Ranma. "WHAT IS THAT!"
"Don't worry Ukyo" said Akane. "That's just Ryoga."
"Ryoga?"
"Yeah. Hi Ukyo."
"What happened to you?"
"Same thing as to you. That purple beam seems to hit just about anybody, changing them drastically."
"Wait a second…" said Ranma. "I was hit by that beam and I don't feel any different!"
"AH! YOU HAVE ALL GATHERED. THAT IS GOOD" said a booming voice.
"AH! WHO IS THERE!" asked Akane.
"DO NOT BE AFRAID. I AM A FRIEND."
Suddenly, an entity of pure purple energy manifested before them.
"Oh this day just keeps getting weirder" sarcastically said Ranma.
"Who are you?" asked Ukyo.
"I AM AFRAID THIS IS NOT THE PLACE TO SPEAK OF THESE THINGS. ALLOW ME ONE MOMENT…"
The space around them crashed and were sucked into a void. Before they knew it, they were in outer space. Stars surrounded them all, but they were still standing. It was like a planetarium.
"WOW! WHAT IS THIS PLACE!" asked Ukyo.
"IT IS THE SPACE BETWEEN THE PAST SECOND AND THE FUTURE SECOND. TIME HAS STOPPED HERE. I HAD TO DO THIS TO ENSURE THAT WE WILL NOT BE INTERUPPTED AS I TELL YOU ABOUT YOUR MISSION."
"Mission!" said Ranma. "I didn't sign up for no mission!"
"YOU SEE…" the being continued. "YOUR WORLD IS AT PERIL. AN EVIL ALIEN EMPIRE HAS GIVEN POWERS TO UNWORTHY PEOPLE. THEY WILL NO DOUBT USE IT FOR EVIL. I HAVE GIVEN YOU YOUR OWN POWERS THAT YOU MAY COMBAT THEM."
"HEY!" said Ranma "ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME."
"But why did you choose us?" asked Akane.
"BECAUSE YOU ALL ARE YOUTHS OF GREAT IDEALISM. YOU ALL HAVE A DORMANT SENSE OF JUSTICE. I GAVE THESE POWERS BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN YOU. NOW YOU MUST BELIEVE IN YOUR POWERS."
"I DIDN'T ASK FOR ANY OF THIS WEIRD CRUD!" said Ranma
"BUT TIME IS GROWING SHORT. I CANNOT STAY WITH YOU FOR MUCH LONGER. IT IS TIME FOR US TO PART. AND FOR YOU TO BEGIN YOUR MISSION TO SAVE YOUR WORLD."
"HANG ON THERE" cried out Ranma. "If you are going to impose this on us, why don't you at least tell me what you gave me!"
"AH RANMA. YOU HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE GREATEST POWER OF ALL. ONE THAT YOU, AND SO MANY LIKE YOU, HAVE BEEN SO DESPERATELY SEEKING. YOU HAVE THE POWER OVER YOUR GIFT."
"My gift?"
"CLOSE YOUR EYES." Ranma obliged. "YOU LIVE AS ANOTHER FORM. A SOFTER FORM. TRUE?"
"If your talking about Ranko, yes."
"IMAGINE HER. IMAGINE YOUR FEMALE FORM. HER CRIMSON HAIR. HER BEWITCHING FACE. HER FIRM YET SLENDER FRAME. NOW OPEN YOUR EYES."
Ranma opened his eyes and saw that he was in her girl form.
"What…how…"
"WATER HAS NO DOMINION OVER YOU ANYMORE. YOU CAN CHANGE TO YOUR SWORD AND CHALICE FORMS ON WILL."
"On will? So technically, I can just stay in my male form permanently right?"
"YES."
"So…I'm cured?" a smile came over Ranma's face. He was free from the curse. He was about to jump in jubilation when he saw Akane, Ryoga and Ukyo.
"WAIT A MINUTE!" yelled Ranma. "YOU GIVE THESE OTHER GUYS FIRE, POWER AND MAGIC AND ALL YOU GIVE ME IS THE POWER CHANGE MY FORMS!"
"WELL…YOUR MALE FORM IS STRONGER AND YOUR FEMALE FORM IS FASTER."
"Oh so you mean I can out run cars and lift buses?"
"NO. I MEAN YOUR JUST A LITTLE STRONGER AND A LITTLE FASTER. LIKE IF YOU COULD DUMBELL 150 POUNDS, NOW YOU CAN DUMBELL 185 POUNDS. AND IF YOU COULD RUN AT A TOP SPEED OF 30 KM/HR, NOW YOU CAN RUN AT A SPEED OF 45 KM/HR."
"SO YOU ESSENTIALLY JUST GAVE ME THE CHANGING ABILITY!"
"WELL WE FIGURED YOU WOULD BE THE TYPE TO LIKE A CHALLENGE."
"…"
And that is the secret origin of TAIJITU
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KABOOM
With a loud explosion, the four youngsters were brought back to reality.
"What the…" said Ryoga.
"IT IS TIME" continued the being. "THE FIRST OF MANY BATTLE IS UPON YOU ALL. GOOD LUCK. WE WILL MEET AGAIN…" with that the being faded away.
"Guys." Akane said. "We know what we have to do. Lets protect this world for everyone we love and all who live in it. Lets fight for GREAT JUSTICE!" Akane then raised her hand triumphantly to the air.
"FOR GREAT JUSTICE!" replied Ryoga and Ukyo, also raising their hands in the air.
"Yeah whatever" said Ranma. "Lets just go turn those EVIL DOERS into EVIL DONTERS…did I just say that?"
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"AAAAHHH! AN MONSTER IS RAIDING THE MARKET PLACE!" cried out an innocent civilian as dozens of citizens started fleeing the marketplace for their lives. A black and white monster started breaking carts and eating large amounts of fruit. The monster brought out a sign.
FOOLISH HUMANS! ALL YOUR PRODUCE ARE BELONG TO US! FOR I AM…
The monster flipped the sign over.
PANDA-MONIUM!
Panda-monium laughed a maniacal bear laughter as he reveled in the chaos he had caused and all the free fruit he would eat.
"Cease and assist Panda-monium!" said a voice from nowhere. "Turn yourself in, or we are going to give you four reasons to!"
Akane flew up, leaving a trail of hot cinders in her wake. She swirled her hands and created more fire to circle around her. She was wearing her martial arts uniform, but it had been dyed dark blue. Pictures of fire was tye-dyed all over the suit. She was also wearing an elaborately designed laboratory goggles with the same fire motif.
"REASON ONE! PMS!"
Ryoga burst through a wall, landed with great authority, making a crater around him. He squealed at the top of his lungs and smashed the concrete floor with his boar fists. He was wearing tattered jeans with metal, spiky knee guards. He was also wearing a large, leather belt that slung around his shoulder and waist, hanging diagonally.
"REASON TWO: WERECHAN"
Ukyo teleported to the scene via magic circle. Lights spun around her and she winked, making a small heart appear. She was wearing bright red, knee high leather boot with matching long leather gloves, a very short white miniskirt, a white sundress that was cut at the waist and little angel wings behind her. She spun around her spatula, which also had little angel wings as well as a pentagram drawn on the flat part, and posed.
"REASON THREE: OKONOMAHOYAKI!"
Ranma roof hopped towards everyone else. Upon reaching the market, he jumped high up into the air and did several moon sault corkscrews. He landed gracefully on his feet. He was wearing his usual Chinese shirt and pants, but the left side of the shirt and the right side of the pants was white, while the right side of the shirt and the left side of the pants was black. The symbol of yin and yang was at his back and he was wearing a thin black blindfold with two holes as a mask, ala Robin.
"REASON FOUR: TAIJITU!"
YOUR GRIZZLY ENTRANCE WAS THE MOST UN-BEAR-ABLE OF ALL. Fiendishly remarked Panda-monium.
"SHUT UP!"
ANYWAY, THE NERIMA FREEDOM FORCE! WHAT TOOK YOU ALL SO LONG? I ALMOST WENT INTO HIBERNATION
"How does he know who we are? We were like formed 20 minutes ago…"asked Taijitu
"Who knows what goes in the criminal mind!" said PMS "Come quietly with us Panda-monium, and we wont get rough with you!"
LET ME THINK PAW-NDER ON IT. Panda-monium then immediately brought out a new sign. NO. He then threw the "LET ME PAW-NDER ON IT" and "NO" signs at PMS.
"Take this!"
FWOSH
PMS burned the first sign with a fire blast.
"And this!"
FWOSH
Burned the second.
"Is that all you can…oh my blaze…"
Panda-monium threw a fruit cart at the high flying hot headed heroine.
"PMS!" cried Werechan as he jumped and caught the fruit cart.
"Thank you Werechan!"
"HOW DARE YOU HURT PMS! HAVE A TASTE OF YOUR OWN MEDICINE!" said Werechan as he threw the fruit cart back at Panda-monium.
Panda-monium was unfazed. With one panda punch he broke the fruit stand in two.
"GAH!" cried Werechan. "He's stronger than I thought!"
"Werechan! PMS!" cried our Okonomahoyaki. "We can't just use raw strength to beat him!"
"What do we use then?" asked Werechan.
"our WITS!" replied Okonomahoyaki.
"HUH?" asked Taijitu
Okonomahoyaki raised her hand and created two magical balls. She then threw her hand to the ground and from the two balls; two magical throwing spatulas came flying out. They flew above Panda-monium and cut two support beams that was supporting a plank that was carrying several sacks of rice. The rice came falling down on Panda-monium.
"YATTA!" cried out Okonomahoyaki
"Good job!" said PMS
"All right!" said Werechan
"Why didn't you just aim for his head?" cried out Taijitu
Panda-monium then burst out of the rigorous rice pile. CURSE YOU NERIMA FREEDOM FORCE I WILL MAKE YOU ALL ENDANGERED SPECIES! He then picked up two tomatoes and threw them at Werechan and Okonomahoyaki.
"AH!"
"HE'S BLINDED ME!"
"No!" cried out PMS as the fiery flaming female flew towards Panda-monium. Panda-monium then got a bucket of water and threw it at her.
"OH MY BLAZE!"
As her flame subsided, so did her flight and PMS hit the ground.
HAHAHAHA. Advertised Panda-monium. I HAVE BEAR-OKEN THE FOOLISH NERIMA FREEDOM FORCE! BUT WAIT! I THINK I AM MISSING ONE! I WILL COUNT YOU ALL SLOWLY, LEAVING MYSELF VERY OPEN, BECAUSE I AM THAT SURE OF MY VICTORY! OKAY ONE…TWO…
Taijitu then came from the side with a flying kick
POW
That sent Panda-monium staggering. Taijitu then launched a devastating hay maker to his opponent's sternum
WAP
OOF said Panda-monium. Taijitu then finished him off with a spinning wheel kick that connected at Panda-monium's head.
SHEBOYGAN
Panda-monium was sent flying. Taijitu started walking towards his felled foe!
WAIT! Advertised Panda-monium. TAIJITU, THERE IS SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW.
Panda-monium slowly got up and brought out a new sign. HHOOOO HAAAAA HOOOO HAAAA. TAIJITU, I AM YOUR FATHER.
"YOU IDIOT!" said Taijitu as he picked up a nearby 2X4. "I ALREADY KNOW THAT!" and swung it towards Panda-monium
SUNBURST
NOOOO cried Panda-monium as he fell once more. The rest of the NFF rallied behind Taijitu.
CURSE YOU NERIMA FREEDOM FORCE! Advertised Panda-monium. LOOKS LIKE I HAVE TO GET SERIOUS. BEARY SERIOUS.
"Bring it on! We are ready for anything" said Taijitu.
TIME TO CALL THE CUBS! PANDA-MONIUM TIME!
Before their very eyes, Panda-monium split into two. Then those two spilt into four. Then those four became 21! Oh! The NFF is outnumbered and outpawed! What will we do.
"Don't worry guys!" said Taijitu. "If we just believe and trust in each other, we can accomplish anything! What the hell am I saying?"
"Taijitu is right! We have to keep fighting! For hope and great justice!" said PMS
HOW BEARY TOUCHING signed Panda-monium. ARE YOU ALL PREBEARED TO GET MAULED!
"HAVE AT YOU PANDA-MONIUM!"
GYA! Signed all the pandas. They ran a few steps. Suddenly, the all fell to the ground, exhausted.
WHAT? Asked Panda-monium. WHY AM I OUT OF BREATHE AND STRENGTH?
"Oh I get it…" said Taijitu "Looks like you haven't been doing your homework Panda-monium!"
WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?
"You power isn't a multiplication ability. It's a DIVISION ability. You didn't replicate yourself, you divided yourself! Your strength, speed and energy as well! And your energy / 21 not much!"said Taijitu
CURSE YOU! NEVER MIND! PANDARMY! DIG DEEP AND ATTACK!
The pandas got up and still charged.
"NFF!" cried Taijitu. "DEPART!"
With that order, everyone scattered.
"I'M ONE HOT TAMALE!" cried out PMS as she fired a downwards fire blast, sending many panda's flying.
FWOSH
"GET READY FOR MY RAGING BOAR-DOZER" said Werechan as he rushed and sent several pin-shaped pandas flying. From out of nowhere, a STRIKE sign flashed.
KAPOW
"HAVE A TASTE TEST OF MY ULTIMATE ATTACK!" said Okonomahoyaki.
NOWS OUR CHANCE! Said Panda-monium. WHILE SHE IS CHARGING FOR HER ULTIMATE ATTACK! RUSH HER!
The pandas rushed her. She finished twirling her giant spatula.
COME ON, SHE STILL NEEDS TO POSE BEFORE SHE CAN ATTACK!
Suddenly, Okonomahoyaki. Opened her eyes.
"TIME FOR THE SPECIAL! PAN PIZZA HOMERUN!"
With a swing of her mighty spatula, she sent the pandas flying away.
WAPAK
The pandas surrounded Taijitu.
YOU WILL PAY BEARLY FOR RUINING OUR PLANS
They rushed him. Taijitu punched.
POW
He then kicked.
KAPOW
UGH. HE'S TOUGH said one panda
I KNOW! HE MAY BE STRONG, BUT HE AINT FAST! LETS BOMBARD HIM said another
They then began throwing dozens of signs at Taijitu.
"Would you like to wager upon that statement!" said Taijitu as he ran straight into the signs.
WHAT IS HE PLANNING! HE'S CRAZY!
Taijitu suddenly changed into his girl form. And using his female balance and speed, he weaved through the hail of signs and reached the pandas.
GORO? Asked the pandas.
With one mighty kick, Taijitu sent the pandas flying away.
JAMBOREE
The pandas were defeated. The other pandas immediately disappeared, leaving one Panda-monium.
"I don't believe it. He can change gender? Wait, are you a he or a she? Argh! Curse you and you androgenimity!"
The innocent civilians came out of nowhere and started cheering
"YAY!"
"THEY DID IT!"
"HOORAY FOR THE NERIMA FREEDOM FORCE!"
"USA!"
"WHERE DID YOU GUYS COME FROM?" bellowed Taijitu.
Suddenly confetti started showering and a marching band started playing.
"Sigh I'm gonna stop asking questions now…"
A police officer came and shook their hands.
"Oh thank you soh mahch Neraymah Freedom Force. I daht know what we would have done if Panda-monium went running amok, don't cha know."
"All in a days work officer" said PMS
As Panda-monium was being carted away in the paddy wagon, he cursed the NFF one last time.
CURSE YOU NERIMA FREEDOM FORCE! YOU MAY HAVE WON THE BATTLE, BUT THE WAR IS JUST BEGINNING! YOU HAVENT SEEN THE LAST OF PANDA-MONIUM!
"Will someone get those signs away from him" yelled Taijitu
"I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS! PMS! WERECHAN! OKONOMAHOYAKI! ANDROGENA!"
"…WHAT DID YOU CALL ME!" said an enraged Taijitu.
"Let him go Taijitu" said Werechan. "Let him go."
"Come now friends!" said Okonomahoyaki who started levitating. "It is time we ride towards the sun!"
"Yeah whatever. This day can't get any weirder anyway." Said Taijitu.
And so the NFF started flying, levitating, running and roof hopping towards the sunset.
And so ends the first adventure of the Nerima Freedom Force! But many more challenges and battles await our heroes! But no matter, wherever there is oppression, injustice and discrimination on a metahuman scale, the NFF will be there to fight for truth, justice, honor and donuts! So stay tune true believer for the next exciting issue of NERIMA FREEDOM FORCE: BEWARE THE BEWITCHING BALLAD OF BLACK OPERA! Same metahuman time, same metahuman channel!
