'Tender Loving Care'
"YES!" Akane shouted out holding an ancient looking videogame console with the word 'Atorii' written on it in Russian. Giddily, she ran from her room, and downstairs into the tea room. As if she couldn't do it fast enough, Akane worked to connect it to the television. "Please, please still work!"
Crossing her fingers, she switched it on, and turned the TV to channel 4. She released her breath, and giggled, as the game prompt screen "Atori Classic" was displayed on screen. What a relief, sometimes it was just near impossible to get these old game systems to still work.
She hit the action button on the old joystick to start the play. Boy had she missed this game! She had completely forgotten it when she had to hide it from her mother long ago. Now she was able to relive some much appreciated nostalgia.
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Somewhere, a few hundred miles above earth, a long dormant satellite awoke; it's powercells fully charged from it's rest surging energy through out the complex, second hand Russian electronics.
_______________________
Akane forgot how long this thing took to load; a sad problem with older game systems. No matter, she was patient. Her wait paid off, as an 8 bit rendering of earth appeared on the screen. It then blinked out, before reappearing over a rough map of Japan. The picture flickered out again, before it showed a general map of the Tokyo districts. Below the image, text scrolled, "Please choose your target district."
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Ranma walked out of the hardware shop, grinning happily. So, Akane thought she was a contender, Ranma resisted the urge to cackle wildly, lest the people around him stare at him funny. By the time he was done with the bratty upstart of a tomboy, she would be begging for his mercy, presuming she was still capable of any speech or motor functions.
Oh yes, the day was certainly looking brighter yet. In fact, it just seemed to be getting brighter at the moment. Ranma blinked, that was weird, the day was suddenly nearly blinding, and when did the sun get such a pink tint to it?
Ranma shielded his eyes, and looked up. Why, it wasn't just getting brighter, it looked like the sun was coming closer to the earth...
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"DAMN IT!" Akane shouted, as the little digitized digitized sprite edit of Super Mario, complete with an 8 bit pigtail, leapt out of the way of the red line. Scrunching her face in concentration, Akane was ready to game. She may have forgotten the difficulty level, but it certainly wasn't enough of a challenge to put her off of the fun!
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Ranma turned slowly to the spot he had just been standing in, staring wide-eyed at the fifteen feet wide molten crater that inhabited what used to be part of the sidewalk and a building. The sky had returned to it's normal color, so he decided to cautiously approach the devestation, hoping to figure out a sign of its origin.
Just as he did so, the sky started to turn hot pink again. Quickly, he leapt onto a nearby rooftop, and to the next adjacent building. Just as he cleared the gaps between them, the first building was bisected by a roaring whitish-pink ray. If Ranma didn't know better, the energy signature of that beam seemed typically Russian.
"Oh crap," Ranma shouted, running for the next building as the sky changed color again. He just barely made it, as he felt the intense heat upon his back, and the two story store collapsed. He was pretty positive who was behind it, but sincerely doubted that *she* could get ahold of a Russian death satellite. He priced those suckers a while back, and decided they just weren't worth the cost for their reputation of durability. They had a shoddy warrenty behind them, too.
If it was indeed Akane, he was certainly going to mock her for her cash sense. Just leave it to a girl to spend money on such an overpriced piece of crap.
He held that thought, as he dove for cover once again.
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"Akane?" Soun called out, as he came back downstairs from carrying his middle daughter to her room. "Dr. Tofu should be here in a few minutes or so to check up on Nabiki. Unfortunately your sister had a bad spill, so it would be greatfully requested if you could possibly keep the roughhousing with Ranma down to a minimum?" There, Soun exercised his authority as a parent. Now he was ready exercise his legs, if Akane so much as looked at him wrong.
"Alright, Dad," Akane called out, distractedly. She growled in fustration, as the pigtailed Mario zipped around, dodging the red beams. Didn't Ranma realize how hard it was to aim with an old Atorii joystick? They weren't exactly analog sensitive, after all.
"Hmm? What's this?" the patriarch of the Tendou family enquired, as he entered the tearoom cautiously, and found his daughter engrossed in a videogame he used to recall her playing avidly when she was younger, "Oh, where did you find this?"
"Back of my closet," Akane quipped, before snapping her fingers; she almost had him.
"Indeed," Soun replied, relieved that his daughter was playing something as passive as a videogame, and not wreaking mass destruction on the populace...
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Ranma was starting to become a little worried as he glanced back to the path of demolition behind him. There was a bee-line of demolished buildings, as well as destroyed streets, cars, and other constructs left in his wake. He just knew he was going to get blamed for all this. He picked up the pace, as the sky turned pink again...
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"I must say, that does look like fun," Soun finished, before turning to leave the room, "I hope you continue enjoying yourself.
Akane paused, and looked at her father with a thoughtful expression. Even if he wasn't turned around, Soun felt a shiver run down his spine under his daughter's scruteny. "Hey, Dad, you want to try?" Akane asked, suddenly, holding the joystick to him.
Soun gulped, not really wanting to be in the room with her too long, but knew refusal was about as good idea as shoving an angry cobra down the front of his boxers, "Well, I suppose I have a few moments."
Akane smiled, as she scooted over to allow her father to sit in front of the television.
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Ranma wiped the sweat from his brow, glad the deadly rain finally ceased, if only for the time being. The shots were starting to come pretty close, and even if he was confident they wouldn't ever hit him, he was beginning to feel uncomfortably murky from the blasts' heat.
He groaned, as the tell-tale tinge of the air around him told him breaktime was over. Ranma deftly leapt away from where the blast just landed, then suddenly yipped, and dodged again. Before his feet barely hit the ground, he was forced to dive once more.
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"Persistant fellow, isn't he?" Soun commented, jovially, as he repeatedly tapped the button in rapid succession. Akane felt a little jealous, not having ever realized that she could fire off rapid blasts by tapping the button instead of holding it down. Oh well, at least her father was having fun, it seemed.
"Hello? Mr. Tendou?"
"Hello, doctor, Nabiki's upstairs," Soun called out, absently, "O-ho! almost had him that time!" Tofu looked in to find the father of the Tendou family, playing videogames with his daughter. Tofu shook his head in mirth at the touching scene of family bonding, and headed upstairs to Nabiki's room.
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Ranma rolled, then dove, then leapt backwards from the trio of beams that seemed to have been anticipating exactly where he was going to land. He now had doubts Akane was behind it, since she was far from good enough to anticipate his moves like that. Still, that was the only lead he had, and decided to ensure that it wasn't his bratty rival instigating it all.
In full focus mode, Ranma made a furious dash, ensuring that his path was erratic as possible. Everywhere he zipped, a large hole of magma or molten tar was left in his place. Despite this, Ranma remained confident. It would take more than an orbital instrument of destruction to defeat him!
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"Well, it just looks like a bad sprain in your wrist and ankle," Tofu stated, checking Nabiki's ankle, "As well as a minor concussion, nothing too serious. Should be okay in a few days, but you'll have to rest until you can heal."
"keep off of it? You mean like remain here... in this house...?" Nabiki whimpered, instantly trembling at the thought.
The good doctor blinked at the reaction, "Uh, yeah, well you can go to school in a in a day or so, I guess, but I wouldn't suggest exessive travel, heh heh."
"Tofu, I have to get out of here, now!" Nabiki demanded, panicked.
Tofu looked at her with a queer expression, "What's so important that you have to leave in such a rush?" Tofu smiled warmly at the girl, hoping to convey the message that whatever couldn't be more important than her health.
"Akane... SHE'S RE-AWAKENED!"
Tofu's smile twitched, but remained in place, "Well, I just remembered. I recently joined the Peace Corps, and I'm supposed to participate in a peace mission in Zapatista. Hope you feel better soon!" With that, Tofu turned, and quickly bolted out of the room.
"WAIT! TAKE ME WITH YOU!!!" Nabiki futily shouted, before struggling to pull herself out of bed, and falling flat on her face.
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"Why, I remember when I used to be one of Japan's champions in Galaga!" Soun bragged, really finding himself working hard to pin the spry sprite.
"Uh huh, I see," Akane replied, a bit bored. It was nice of her father to show interest, but she was rather irked that he was bogarding her game.
"Akane- dear, what does this '100%' thing mean?"
"Oh, you have full burst," Akane replied, disgruntled. She wanted to use the full burst. "Just hold the button down, and the beam will fire while you can still control it.
"Interesting, I shall win this, yet!" Soun proclaimed, holding the button down.
Neither paid attention, as Tofu flew down the stairs, gave a curt fairwell to Soun and Akane, before reaching the front door. As he opened it, he was met with the sight of Ranma leaping over the bordering wall, being trailed by a wide, pink laser. "Oh..." was all Tofu could comment.
"Hmm, interesting, that princess with the mustached ogre fellow seems quite a bit like us, does it not, Akane?" Soun observed, before laughing heartily.
Akane's eyes went wide, "GET DOWN!!!"
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Ranma was almost home free, but the laser behind him suddenly wasn't cutting off. Instead of stopping like he intended to, Ranma raced through the front yard, leapt up and onto the roof of the Tendou home, and launched himself as far as possible, ignoring the way the laser cut through the house like a red hot razor blade through luke warm butter.
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"What... interaction..." Soun chocked out, as stoically as possible with his hair sticking out on end. Akane sat up, and shreaked at the sight before her. The TV and game system were practically demolished, with the TV's picture rolling the game's completion message in Engrish "A Winner is YOU!". Both the TV and console exploded almost immidiately afterwards.
"NO!"
_______________________
The satellite 'Sbuttlick' powered down, no longer recieving signals from the control console, never to be utilized again.
_______________________
It didn't take a genius to put the fact together where the attacks were originating from, since they ceased as soon as the Tendou home was cleaved in half. Akane was too dangerous to toy around with, Ranma realized, it was time to put her down.
"Brothers, we take this respite from conflict, to heed the words of the messiah, who has deemed it fit to visit upon us, and praise us with his everlasting GLORY!" Brother Joe proclaimed, inciting his brethern to a zealous frenzy, "Let us hail our new age savior, RANMA!!!"
"Hey guys," Ranma greeted, walking out onto the platform with a happy smile, "I have a little problem that really needs to be taken care of..."
"YES!" Akane shouted out holding an ancient looking videogame console with the word 'Atorii' written on it in Russian. Giddily, she ran from her room, and downstairs into the tea room. As if she couldn't do it fast enough, Akane worked to connect it to the television. "Please, please still work!"
Crossing her fingers, she switched it on, and turned the TV to channel 4. She released her breath, and giggled, as the game prompt screen "Atori Classic" was displayed on screen. What a relief, sometimes it was just near impossible to get these old game systems to still work.
She hit the action button on the old joystick to start the play. Boy had she missed this game! She had completely forgotten it when she had to hide it from her mother long ago. Now she was able to relive some much appreciated nostalgia.
_______________________
Somewhere, a few hundred miles above earth, a long dormant satellite awoke; it's powercells fully charged from it's rest surging energy through out the complex, second hand Russian electronics.
_______________________
Akane forgot how long this thing took to load; a sad problem with older game systems. No matter, she was patient. Her wait paid off, as an 8 bit rendering of earth appeared on the screen. It then blinked out, before reappearing over a rough map of Japan. The picture flickered out again, before it showed a general map of the Tokyo districts. Below the image, text scrolled, "Please choose your target district."
_______________________
Ranma walked out of the hardware shop, grinning happily. So, Akane thought she was a contender, Ranma resisted the urge to cackle wildly, lest the people around him stare at him funny. By the time he was done with the bratty upstart of a tomboy, she would be begging for his mercy, presuming she was still capable of any speech or motor functions.
Oh yes, the day was certainly looking brighter yet. In fact, it just seemed to be getting brighter at the moment. Ranma blinked, that was weird, the day was suddenly nearly blinding, and when did the sun get such a pink tint to it?
Ranma shielded his eyes, and looked up. Why, it wasn't just getting brighter, it looked like the sun was coming closer to the earth...
_______________________
"DAMN IT!" Akane shouted, as the little digitized digitized sprite edit of Super Mario, complete with an 8 bit pigtail, leapt out of the way of the red line. Scrunching her face in concentration, Akane was ready to game. She may have forgotten the difficulty level, but it certainly wasn't enough of a challenge to put her off of the fun!
_______________________
Ranma turned slowly to the spot he had just been standing in, staring wide-eyed at the fifteen feet wide molten crater that inhabited what used to be part of the sidewalk and a building. The sky had returned to it's normal color, so he decided to cautiously approach the devestation, hoping to figure out a sign of its origin.
Just as he did so, the sky started to turn hot pink again. Quickly, he leapt onto a nearby rooftop, and to the next adjacent building. Just as he cleared the gaps between them, the first building was bisected by a roaring whitish-pink ray. If Ranma didn't know better, the energy signature of that beam seemed typically Russian.
"Oh crap," Ranma shouted, running for the next building as the sky changed color again. He just barely made it, as he felt the intense heat upon his back, and the two story store collapsed. He was pretty positive who was behind it, but sincerely doubted that *she* could get ahold of a Russian death satellite. He priced those suckers a while back, and decided they just weren't worth the cost for their reputation of durability. They had a shoddy warrenty behind them, too.
If it was indeed Akane, he was certainly going to mock her for her cash sense. Just leave it to a girl to spend money on such an overpriced piece of crap.
He held that thought, as he dove for cover once again.
_______________________
"Akane?" Soun called out, as he came back downstairs from carrying his middle daughter to her room. "Dr. Tofu should be here in a few minutes or so to check up on Nabiki. Unfortunately your sister had a bad spill, so it would be greatfully requested if you could possibly keep the roughhousing with Ranma down to a minimum?" There, Soun exercised his authority as a parent. Now he was ready exercise his legs, if Akane so much as looked at him wrong.
"Alright, Dad," Akane called out, distractedly. She growled in fustration, as the pigtailed Mario zipped around, dodging the red beams. Didn't Ranma realize how hard it was to aim with an old Atorii joystick? They weren't exactly analog sensitive, after all.
"Hmm? What's this?" the patriarch of the Tendou family enquired, as he entered the tearoom cautiously, and found his daughter engrossed in a videogame he used to recall her playing avidly when she was younger, "Oh, where did you find this?"
"Back of my closet," Akane quipped, before snapping her fingers; she almost had him.
"Indeed," Soun replied, relieved that his daughter was playing something as passive as a videogame, and not wreaking mass destruction on the populace...
_______________________
Ranma was starting to become a little worried as he glanced back to the path of demolition behind him. There was a bee-line of demolished buildings, as well as destroyed streets, cars, and other constructs left in his wake. He just knew he was going to get blamed for all this. He picked up the pace, as the sky turned pink again...
_______________________
"I must say, that does look like fun," Soun finished, before turning to leave the room, "I hope you continue enjoying yourself.
Akane paused, and looked at her father with a thoughtful expression. Even if he wasn't turned around, Soun felt a shiver run down his spine under his daughter's scruteny. "Hey, Dad, you want to try?" Akane asked, suddenly, holding the joystick to him.
Soun gulped, not really wanting to be in the room with her too long, but knew refusal was about as good idea as shoving an angry cobra down the front of his boxers, "Well, I suppose I have a few moments."
Akane smiled, as she scooted over to allow her father to sit in front of the television.
_______________________
Ranma wiped the sweat from his brow, glad the deadly rain finally ceased, if only for the time being. The shots were starting to come pretty close, and even if he was confident they wouldn't ever hit him, he was beginning to feel uncomfortably murky from the blasts' heat.
He groaned, as the tell-tale tinge of the air around him told him breaktime was over. Ranma deftly leapt away from where the blast just landed, then suddenly yipped, and dodged again. Before his feet barely hit the ground, he was forced to dive once more.
_______________________
"Persistant fellow, isn't he?" Soun commented, jovially, as he repeatedly tapped the button in rapid succession. Akane felt a little jealous, not having ever realized that she could fire off rapid blasts by tapping the button instead of holding it down. Oh well, at least her father was having fun, it seemed.
"Hello? Mr. Tendou?"
"Hello, doctor, Nabiki's upstairs," Soun called out, absently, "O-ho! almost had him that time!" Tofu looked in to find the father of the Tendou family, playing videogames with his daughter. Tofu shook his head in mirth at the touching scene of family bonding, and headed upstairs to Nabiki's room.
_______________________
Ranma rolled, then dove, then leapt backwards from the trio of beams that seemed to have been anticipating exactly where he was going to land. He now had doubts Akane was behind it, since she was far from good enough to anticipate his moves like that. Still, that was the only lead he had, and decided to ensure that it wasn't his bratty rival instigating it all.
In full focus mode, Ranma made a furious dash, ensuring that his path was erratic as possible. Everywhere he zipped, a large hole of magma or molten tar was left in his place. Despite this, Ranma remained confident. It would take more than an orbital instrument of destruction to defeat him!
_______________________
"Well, it just looks like a bad sprain in your wrist and ankle," Tofu stated, checking Nabiki's ankle, "As well as a minor concussion, nothing too serious. Should be okay in a few days, but you'll have to rest until you can heal."
"keep off of it? You mean like remain here... in this house...?" Nabiki whimpered, instantly trembling at the thought.
The good doctor blinked at the reaction, "Uh, yeah, well you can go to school in a in a day or so, I guess, but I wouldn't suggest exessive travel, heh heh."
"Tofu, I have to get out of here, now!" Nabiki demanded, panicked.
Tofu looked at her with a queer expression, "What's so important that you have to leave in such a rush?" Tofu smiled warmly at the girl, hoping to convey the message that whatever couldn't be more important than her health.
"Akane... SHE'S RE-AWAKENED!"
Tofu's smile twitched, but remained in place, "Well, I just remembered. I recently joined the Peace Corps, and I'm supposed to participate in a peace mission in Zapatista. Hope you feel better soon!" With that, Tofu turned, and quickly bolted out of the room.
"WAIT! TAKE ME WITH YOU!!!" Nabiki futily shouted, before struggling to pull herself out of bed, and falling flat on her face.
_______________________
"Why, I remember when I used to be one of Japan's champions in Galaga!" Soun bragged, really finding himself working hard to pin the spry sprite.
"Uh huh, I see," Akane replied, a bit bored. It was nice of her father to show interest, but she was rather irked that he was bogarding her game.
"Akane- dear, what does this '100%' thing mean?"
"Oh, you have full burst," Akane replied, disgruntled. She wanted to use the full burst. "Just hold the button down, and the beam will fire while you can still control it.
"Interesting, I shall win this, yet!" Soun proclaimed, holding the button down.
Neither paid attention, as Tofu flew down the stairs, gave a curt fairwell to Soun and Akane, before reaching the front door. As he opened it, he was met with the sight of Ranma leaping over the bordering wall, being trailed by a wide, pink laser. "Oh..." was all Tofu could comment.
"Hmm, interesting, that princess with the mustached ogre fellow seems quite a bit like us, does it not, Akane?" Soun observed, before laughing heartily.
Akane's eyes went wide, "GET DOWN!!!"
_______________________
Ranma was almost home free, but the laser behind him suddenly wasn't cutting off. Instead of stopping like he intended to, Ranma raced through the front yard, leapt up and onto the roof of the Tendou home, and launched himself as far as possible, ignoring the way the laser cut through the house like a red hot razor blade through luke warm butter.
_______________________
"What... interaction..." Soun chocked out, as stoically as possible with his hair sticking out on end. Akane sat up, and shreaked at the sight before her. The TV and game system were practically demolished, with the TV's picture rolling the game's completion message in Engrish "A Winner is YOU!". Both the TV and console exploded almost immidiately afterwards.
"NO!"
_______________________
The satellite 'Sbuttlick' powered down, no longer recieving signals from the control console, never to be utilized again.
_______________________
It didn't take a genius to put the fact together where the attacks were originating from, since they ceased as soon as the Tendou home was cleaved in half. Akane was too dangerous to toy around with, Ranma realized, it was time to put her down.
"Brothers, we take this respite from conflict, to heed the words of the messiah, who has deemed it fit to visit upon us, and praise us with his everlasting GLORY!" Brother Joe proclaimed, inciting his brethern to a zealous frenzy, "Let us hail our new age savior, RANMA!!!"
"Hey guys," Ranma greeted, walking out onto the platform with a happy smile, "I have a little problem that really needs to be taken care of..."