Disclaimer: I do not own Ranma ½, Birdy the Mighty, Tenchi Muyo, Dirty Pair Flash, or any of the other animes mentioned.

Author's Notes: Multi-cross ahoy! As if my already overactive imagination was bad enough, now I'm dragging other poor anime characters into the chaos. For those of you wondering if Ranma or Birdy will show up, fear not! I have a plan! (Insert maniacal laugh #74 here) So, with that out of my system… let's get on with the show!

Kikuko the Mighty

Chapter 2

Life has a funny way of doing things to you. You join the Galaxy Police and find yourself partnered with a person who defines the term "idiot savant", get into numerous bar fights over karaoke, and get paired up with the Dirty Pair. To normal person this would be a catastrophe, but to Kikuko Saotome of the Anything Goes Style Martial Arts and Galaxy Police officer, this was actually kind of fun. If her mom were here she'd probably flip. She reflected on these things as they flew along in the Lovely Angel, the ship of the 3WA trouble consultants they were assigned to help. Officially, the Lovely Angels were in charge, but they gladly deferred to the GP officers. When asked why they replied that they didn't want to do it in the first place. Mihoshi being related to one of them was kind of a surprise. Kei seemed to be a loose cannon, but you couldn't doubt her skills. Whether it was with guns or hand to hand, she seemed to be the better of the two girls, but her partner Yuri was no slouch either. The laser blade she wielded could cut through three-inch titanium. That was certainly nothing to sneeze at. Her mind drifted lazily back to the meeting in the office.

Director's Office-

The Director sat at the desk, hands folded in front of him, waiting for them to come in. He had to stop his involuntary reflex when he saw Kikuko step into the room. The girl was an absolute fox. He mastered his growing desire and forced down his hormones. It was time to be professional. The banes of his existence were standing at attention next to the redheaded girl and the blonde. That much loveliness would have overloaded the brain of a lesser and induced a fit of lust so great it would make Happosai gape in amazement, but he was better than that. Someone clearing their throat brought him back.

"Ah yes! You are officers Mihoshi and Kikuko, correct?" he asked. The girls stood a little straighter at attention. The Director absently wondered if that was how real professionals were supposed to act before proceeding.

"This is an urgent matter calling for total cooperation between the 3WA and the Galaxy Police in the apprehension of a cyber criminal that has been running around on World's World. Toma was the first person called when the computer began going haywire, but he needs help to protect him from the external threats. Basically, you let the expert do his job and you do your jobs. Understand?" he asked. Kei was picking her ear and nodding absently while Yuri stared at the ceiling, humming a tune. Mihoshi and Kikuko on the other hand were nodding attentively before striking a smart salute. Mihoshi may not have been listening either, but at least she made it look like she was listening. She knew she could trust Kikuko to remember anything important. The redhead in question knew without looking that it was all up to her to keep the group going. The Director groaned at the lack of attention from his operatives, but dismissed them anyway. When the girls left, his phone rang.

"Hello? Yes, they're on their way. Don't worry, all is going according to plan." He assured the person on the phone before hanging up. With a strange smile he sat back in his seat and propped his legs up on his desk.

"They'll never know what hit 'em!" he laughed maniacally before overbalancing and falling down with a loud thud.

The Lovely Angel-

Kikuko stared out the window as the powerful ship effortlessly flowed through space. Their own ship couldn't move like this and it sort of made her testy. The other girls were chattering away without a care in the world. The redhead was feeling a little resentful. She only had one Mihoshi to worry about usually, but these other two were about the same maturity level as her it seemed. With a sigh, she leaned against the wall more. She could probably perform a reasonably powerful Shishi Hokodan with the amount of depression she was feeling. Couple all these problems with her upcoming birthday and it was easy to realize why she was upset.

Mihoshi kept sneaking glances at her friend. Normally her pal was a cheerful person, but right now all traces of that were gone. She was a fairly good judge of people, but it didn't take an expert to figure out that she was depressed. The police girl wondered how she was going to make her feel better. At the inquisitive looks she was getting from her cousin, she gestured to Kikuko. A look of understanding passed between them. Unbeknownst to the girl in question, her three companions were really talking about how to make her feel better, but also how to find out what had her depressed in the first place.

"Why is she so down?" Kei asked.

"I'm not sure, but we should do something." Mihoshi suggested.

"Stop worrying! We're going to World's World you know. It's a huge amusement park. There must be a ton of fun things to do. All we should worry about is finding out what she likes to do." Yuri said.

"That's easy! She loves martial arts and practices almost constantly. You're ship is nice and fast, but it doesn't have a cargo bay big enough for her to train in like ours does. That could be part of why she's upset." The police girl said.

"Maybe we could get her to teach us! You think that would cheer her up?" her enthusiastic cousin asked.

"If she's depressed than more work won't make her feel better." The pilot said scathingly. Mihoshi looked over to Kikuko with a speculative look.

"Hey!" she exclaimed. Once she had the girl's attention she continued. "We'll be arriving on World's World shortly. Since there will be so much space down there, think you could teach us some of your school?" The redhead seemed to consider it for a moment.

"Well…Okay." She didn't sound all that enthusiastic, but to Mihoshi she looked happier. The Dirty Pair…I mean…Lovely Angels looked at each other in surprise. Someday they hoped to be that close, but neither would admit it to the other. What they weren't counting on was the trouble that would erupt as soon as they reached their destination.

World's World-

Everything looked normal in the skies above the resort planet. It was hard to believe that anything sinister was going on down there. The last time the pair had been here was with Toma and that was pure hell. Sure, it was fun, but the almost negligent way the man had acted in the face of the danger he was in had worn their nerves down to nothing. Now they were back to once again protect the man who had no concept of personal safety with two Galaxy Police officers along for the ride. Yuri wanted to cry. If this turned out anything like the last time then she was going to have some words with the director. It would certainly feel good to act like Kei for once. Her partner was having roughly the same thoughts, but in her mind she was wondering what bone to break first or if she should emasculate him. The com unit buzzed. Kei picked up the receiver.

"This is the Lovely Angel requesting clearance to land." Might as well appear professional. The voice crackling through the handset was worried.

"Kei? You have to get out of there! The automated defense systems have been overridden and there are several jets chasing you!" Toma's voice crackled through. Kei was about to say something, but Yuri's panicked exclamation cut through whatever it was she was going to say.

"We have several bogies after us!" she brought them up on the rear view screen. They looked like perfectly normal jets until the wings extended outward more, twin blasters pop out from hidden weapon caches as well as a plasma disk shooter. Until that point Kei was ready to discount them as nothing, but now she was close to gibbering. That much heavy artillery was crazy.

"This isn't good is it?" Mihoshi asked worriedly. Her cousin shot her a look.

"No duh! Yuri, get us out of here!" the girl from Workoh dropped into the copilot's seat and fastened herself in. Her purple haired companion was getting ready to take off when the blonde exclaimed.

"Where's Kikuko?" she asked, almost in hysterics. A quick scan of the ship produced no results, but when the entry hatch near the rear opened, they tuned in just in time to see the redhead flip out and onto the top of the ship. She stood with her feet spaced evenly, fists clenched at her sides. Her ponytail was waving in the breeze like a fiery banner. The enemy planes' blasters suddenly trained on her. With a grin she brought both arms up over her head, a distortion of wind gathering around her hands before she suddenly slashed down with a double knife hand. The distortion flew quickly at two targets before shearing through them effortlessly, destroying the two planes and any too close to them when they exploded.

"What the hell was that?" Kei practically screamed.

"Wow…I've only seen her us the Kishin Ryu Dan once…It creates vacuum blades that can cut through nearly anything." Mihoshi told her expertly. The only reason she knows so much was because she nearly walked in front of the lethal attack and Kikuko had to tell her about it. The other two boggled at the implications before staring at the screen again as the girl held her right fist out, her left hand gripped her wrist tightly as if bracing for something. She shouted something, but there was no audio. If they could read lips they would have understood the attack. "Golden Halo Blade" Her hand lit up with a bright golden glow before a massive blade of pure life energy erupted from her clenched fist before she whipped it around in a wide arc that sheared through the remaining attackers. With a grin, she prepared to jump back into the ship until the intercom system blared to life.

"Can you do anything about what's coming at us?" Yuri sounded panicked over the com system. The redhead looked to what she was talking about and blinked. It looked like a naval destroyer, but it was flying. The front had opened up into a massive cannon with a long prong coming out from the barrel. The prong began glowing white at the tip as particle energy began gathering into the barrel, the sheer amount of power gathering made the girl's hair stand on end. The three in the cockpit groaned as she merely stood up and held her palms out. It looked like she was trying to surrender, until a ball of blue light gathered in her palms. The smile on their friend's face was positively frightening as she threw her hands forward, launching the ball of ki into the barrel of the ship. She dived back inside the Lovely Angel, crying out into the com unit.

"Get the hell outta here!" Yuri didn't need to be told twice as she hauled upward on the wheel, clearing the ship just as a rumbling was heard deep inside the war machine. The powerful weapon exploded in a blaze of heat and sound that shattered windows all the way up and down the street of the city scene. When the flaming wreck crashed down, it smashed into a power transformer that was right next to a gas station with real working gas pump. That little touch would cost the besieged planet dearly as a single spark ignited and blew the gas station into oblivion. The gas pipes interlocking through the simulated city streets erupted in flames and massive explosions. Buildings that were meant to withstand even sudden atmospheric depressurization were twisted into molten wrecks of steel of concrete. The whole city below the majestically soaring ship collapsed in upon itself as flames soared higher and higher. The crew stared in utter wonder and awe at the devastation. Kikuko was brought out of her thoughts by a clap to the shoulder.

"That was better than we coulda done!" Kei said enthusiastically. The redhead merely buried her face in her hands and groaned.

World's World Nerve Center-

The Lovely Angels had certainly lived up to their reputations. While they personally didn't blow everything to smithereens, they were directly responsible for Kikuko Saotome and the Blonde Wonder, Mihoshi, being there to do it for them. According to the camera footage, a bolt of blue energy, akin to high-grade plasma, erupted from the redhead's palms and down the barrel of the massive particle gun. While the ship was made to neutralize its own core to prevent explosions of this magnitude, it just had to land on the only gas pump in the city. Luckily the planet had been evacuated of all non-essential personnel, currently all living in the Nerve Center.

Toma was thrilled to see them. The lanky young man with the glasses and light brown hair was smiling wide. Despite his blue body suit, he reminded Kikuko of Doctor Tofu. It was easy to like him. The young man contracted a mild case of Tofu syndrome in the presence of Yuri. It was almost painful for the young redhead to watch as he barely managed to keep it together in the purple haired vixen's presence.

"Toma!" she squealed happily as she rushed forward to greet her friend.

"Hey Toma!" Kei called with some enthusiasm, but not even half as much as her bouncy friend. Mihoshi and Kikuko spared a glance at each other before snickering wildly. The way that the three of them were acting was comical to the two older girls. The young man seemed nice enough, but unfortunately this wasn't the time or the place for socializing.

"Excuse me." The redhead interrupted. When she had everyone's attention, she smiled.

"Who are they?" the computer expert asked.

"We're from the Galaxy Police! I'm Mihoshi and this is Kikuko!" the ever cheerful blonde indicated herself and her redheaded companion. He seemed to take them both in at a glance before his eyes went back to Yuri.

"We're here to protect you again." The girl said with a sweet smile. Kei sidled over to the officers while Toma and Yuri caught up, quickly finding something funny to talk about as the computer tech headed back to his work. The shorter girl following after.

"She pretended to be totally indifferent to him the entire time we were here last time, but when it looked like he had died, she was the first to cry. She claimed it was cuz she didn't wanna go back with a failure, but it nagged me y'know? Yuri could have any guy she wants, but they're always the wrong type. Yet Toma is kinda nice and can be wild on occasion." Kei confided as the owner headed over from behind Mihoshi.

"Well, as much as I would like to help along the course of love, we need to keep a level head at all times. Still, it wouldn't hurt to actually have someone who cares about him keep an eye on him. If he's comfortable than protecting him will be easier and he'll be less likely to question strange requests. Mihoshi, you help Yuri okay? I know how good you can be if you focus! We can't screw this up. After our interesting entrance, we have several strikes against us. Kei and I will form the investigative team. Toma can handle things on this end, but if we can find the external source, the investigation can be cleared up and we can go home sooner. Got it?"

The president of World's World blinked in astonishment at the level of organization being displayed before him. Kei thought that Mihoshi was the senior officer, but with the way her cousin deferred to the redhead, it seemed it was the other way around. Still, a plan was better than nothing, and a good plan was even harder to come by. The impulsive girl sighed as she realized that she was growing up. Mihoshi knew that she wasn't the best at what she did, preferring direction as opposed to giving it, so her partner's sudden step in as leader took a lot of the weight from her shoulders. A gentle cough interrupted them.

"Welcome back to World's World, Kei. Where's Yuri?" the man asked.

"She's with Toma. Oh yeah, this is Kikuko and Mihoshi. They're from the Galaxy Police." Kei introduced the two as they stood briefly at attention.

"Who is the leader?" he asked. Kikuko flushed when her partner at Kei both pointed at her. It felt nice, but she also realized that if anything went wrong, it would all fall on her head.

"Apparently I am." She responded.

"It's never easy to bear the mantle of leader, but you look capable. We have an idea about where the trouble may be coming from. I was worried about how to get you inside, but with this morning's stunt…" the three gulped "A great number of security systems were knocked out so it shouldn't be hard. Oh Mihoshi. You're staying with Yuri? Okay. Right through there." He gestured. The ditz wandered off to join Yuri while the other two listened patiently. Apparently the target was a place in the southern edge of the city. It hadn't been hit as hard as the other areas, but it would still be rough going. Some of the melted places were still hot so caution was of the utmost necessity. It was the exact same place as the computer criminal used during their last time here. This was going to be so simple, Kei thought. Her redheaded companion had a different thought.

"This is way too easy." She thought grimly.

Computer Lab-

Mihoshi sat on the floor with her back against the wall, a manga in her hand. She was forced to endure the boring and grueling task of watching a computer geek do what he does best: being a geek. The young man was playing with holographic view screens that were situated all around him, emanating from his lap top. He seemed to be staring somehow at all of them at once, much to Yuri's amazement. The blonde couldn't understand how such an active girl would fall for such a geek, but then again love was blind, and apparently silly too. She didn't have the full background story so she didn't understand anything about what was going on. With a frustrated sigh, she went back to her manga. As soon as her head went down, Yuri flashed an irritated look at her. Toma was pretending to be oblivious, there was no point in losing his cool. It obviously bothered his purple haired friend.

"I can't believe that girl." She muttered peevishly.

"It's alright Yuri, she didn't do anything." He tried to placate her.

"Exactly! She doesn't do anything and then has the nerve to ask if you got solitaire. I don't like trusting your safety to her." She folded her arms under her chest angrily. Toma had to fight a fleeting thought about how cute she looked. He knew that she could be scary if she directed that look at you, but right now she was cute.

"Whose turn is it to go on patrol?" the blonde asked from behind her comic book. Yuri visibly fumed.

"I went the last time…and the time before that…and the time before that…oh yeah! I did it two more times as well! It's YOUR TURN!" she shrieked. They had been sitting there for over four hours and it was really getting to her. She could swear a vein was getting ready to explode from her forehead. Her fingers itched to whip out her beam sword or to try out her new toy, the bloody card. Either one would get the job done. Surely Toma would allow that. She looked hopefully towards the genius programmer who simply reached out and lightly ruffled her hair. The touch soothing her and she felt a smile cross her face. He went back to his work and she went back to being calm, but Mihoshi picked that time to groan.

"Oh fine! I'll go…ya meanie." The police girl grumbled mutinously as she stood up and made sure her blaster was secure before flicking the safety strap off for quicker drawing. The girl shuffled out as if she didn't really care or had sleep problems. Either way, it instantly annoyed the already frazzled girl. Toma touched her hair again and she calmed back down. She looked shyly at the young man who merely gave her a simple smile before going back to his work.

"…She's not all that bad." Yuri found herself admitting.

"Hm?" Toma murmured.

"I mean, she can be a ditz and a klutz, but she's pretty nice. Mihoshi just gets on my nerves. She acts like…like…" she faltered.

"You?" the young man asked as he keyed up a few more sub routines.

"No way do I act like that!" Yuri became furious until he waved a finger at her.

"Not anymore, but when I first met you I could scarcely believe that you were capable of anything but being cute. Now I see you as you are. A kind, caring young woman who does her best and always tries her hardest. Back then you didn't care about anything but fashion and having the time of your life. I'm glad to know you." He stated simply and quietly. The girl could feel her heart thudding in her chest as he turned back to his work, but something seemed to be distracting him now. Finally he put the laptop down and disengaged the holographic screens.

"W-what is it?" she stammered. 'Dammit! Why am I so nervous now?' She thought furiously. As he turned to her, she quietly slid forward until they were closer. It was like magnetism, two polar opposites drawn to each other by a force bigger than themselves to create a greater whole. The kiss was absolutely mind blowing for the young girl. She'd been kissed before of course, but nothing this sweet. He didn't demand anything and she was ready to give him her all.

It would have continued, but a thunderous explosion rocked the room just seconds before Mihoshi executed a triple flip and a perfect landing from the shadowed entryway, blaster drawn and spitting hot laser death. Yuri quickly interposed herself between Toma and the menace that suddenly appeared. It was fully eight feet tall and looked just like the androids created for the park. It roared in mechanical fury as it stepped closer, ignoring the numerous laser burns and holes that peppered its body.

"Yeah eat this!" Mihoshi cried as she suddenly withdrew a huge buster rifle from her police issue cube storage and jacked her blaster into it. She mounted the massive weapon on her shoulder. It was fully six feet long with a grip at the middle of the gun and one on the side created by the integrated blaster. It had a shoulder mount to be more comfortable. It looked like two cylindrical segments were joined together by a strange metal spiral. The gun began revving up, energy arcing along the whole length of the weapon, but before she could fire the thing's hand lashed out to decapitate her.

"Get away from her!" Yuri shouted as she whipped out her blade and severed its arm from its body. The android was dumbfounded by the loss of an appendage and the police girl took full advantage of the situation to fire off the buster rifle. The burst of energy erupted from the barrel and struck the thing solidly in the chest, disintegrating it.

"All right! We did it!" Mihoshi exclaimed happily.

"We sure did! Right Toma?" Yuri turned to ask him, but stared in horror. The spot they had left him in was now dominated by a large hole, plenty of debris, but no Toma.

"T-Toma…? Toma!" she screamed as she rushed to find him. Mihoshi glowered angrily at the hole. Something inside of her had snapped. Without any flourish, she activated the cube and suddenly was wearing her combat outfit. She looked like a bunny girl, but the look in her eyes told anyone who looked that the cheerful girl was taking a holiday.

"…Come with me or stay here. If you want him back, you'll come with me." The blonde said seriously before jumping down the hole. The purple haired girl stared after in shock, but quickly got over it as she jumped down after her.

Downtown-

Kikuko and Kei were amazed at the sheer level of devastation that had been wreaked on this town. The redhead felt even more embarrassed when her current partner slapped her on the back again, laughing her head off. The reports of the heat were more than accurate. In some places, liquid steel still dripped from the buildings, gathering in pools. It wasn't too hard to dodge, but it still took up their concentration. An authentic recreation of a construction site was where they were set. The android manufacturing plant had been torn down because of its easy accessibility, but a good number of vital hook ups were still there.

"Wow, sure looks different than the last time I was here…" the orange haired girl said in surprise.

"Good thing we knew where to look or we'd never have seen it." Kikuko figured it was a good place, right out in plain sight. Usually that was the best place to hide things, but obviously it worked against them this time.

"I wouldn't want to see what kind of security system this place has." Kei mused to herself until she suddenly felt a vibration run through the ground. She didn't even need to look to know that her companion had felt it too.

"Where is it?" the girl from Workoh asked even as she whipped out her custom blaster.

"Right below us…but I can force it up!" the redhead announced even as she began gathering her power in just before striking the ground with two fingers.

"Bakusai Tenketsu!" she cried. The two girls leapt away from the rapidly collapsing ground, but true to her word, the horror below the earth was forced to the surface. It looked like a giant snake with a drill on the "nose". Thick treads lined its body all the way down. Twin Vulcan Guns popped out from the head portion as a plasma disc launcher popped out under the head. The girls landed, taking stock of their situation.

"You were right about bringing that thing to the surface!" the girl exclaimed. As she pulled out her blaster, a clear capsule suddenly appeared, revealing Toma. Kei blinked in astonishment before reorienting her gun and firing. The snake dodged downward and the blast glanced off the capsule.

"Stop! That thing's too fast! We need to slow it down…" she thought even as an idea came to her. Slipping into the Umi-Sen-Ken, she lunged at the metal monstrosity, but a sporadic burst from the Vulcan guns forced her back to the ground, bullets through her shoulder and hip. Kei reached her just in time to leap away with the girl in her arms. She wasn't fast enough as she sensed the drill plunging for her back. If something didn't happen soon she was skewered! A man's angry shout echoed across the destroyed cityscape.

"Moko Takabisha!" the powerful blast of ki rocketed out and demolished the thing's head. The capsule shattered, dumping out an unconscious Toma, but before he could strike the ground, a red blur snagged him out of the air and set him down gently. As Kei made her way back, she took notice of the man first. He was easily five-foot-ten or so wearing red and black, his black hair was tied back in a pigtail. The woman was a little shorter with the same red hair, right down to the purple and blue that Kikuko had. The girl in her arms stirred, bullets visibly being pushed from her rapidly healing flesh, her eyes flashed open.'

"Is it gone?" she asked groggily, but a pleasant voice got her attention.

"Yes it is dear." Kikuko sprang out of her rescuer's arms and ran to her mother to give her a big hug. Her father also wrapped his arms around them.

"What are you doing here?" she exclaimed in surprise.

"We couldn't forget your birthday now could we?" the man chuckled. Kei blinked. 'Birthday? Is that why she was so down?' she wondered.

"Where are your manners. Whose your friend?" her mother asked.

"Oh sorry! Mom, Dad, this is Kei. She's one of the girls I work with. Kei, these are my parents. Ranma and Birdy Saotome." Kei looked startled beyond belief. She's heard of them before, who hadn't? They were legends in law enforcement! Able to do things that ordinary beings could never hope to accomplish even separately, but together they were unstoppable.

"O-oro…?" she asked in confusion before fainting dead on the spot.

End Chapter

Author's Notes: Gomen nasai! I didn't realize I was behind on my writing, but I'm glad that I could finish today. The next chapter will have two people that everyone was wondering about. Ranma and Birdy. The ones who started it all, but can even with these two legendary super cops, can they hope to succeed against a planet turned against them? This will be one brawl that will go down in the record books! Tune in next time for the next installment of Kikuko the Mighty.