A crossover one-shot about Ranma getting a wake-up call and losing what makes him Ranma.
OOCness and bashing.
It was a normal day in Nerima, meaning Ranma putting his foot in his mouth, getting malleted by Akane, his fiancee, after she saw him 'flirting' with the other fiancees.
Shrugging the impact on the hard earth after being thrown into the air, he stood up, muttering about tomboys and annoying fiancees.
"Heeeh~! What a good chance to break the Ranma 1/2 series~!" a female voice reached his ear.
He turned to see a girl who was wearing a school uniform with a red skirt, she was a girl with a long-
"You know, 'Glendios'? The readers can see my picture on this story's cover as long as they read the PC version, not the mobile one, no need to make things more complicated than they already are~! Oh, everyone, I am Ajimu Najimi, a dimensional invader between the anime, manga and movie worlds." the girl known as Ajimu Najimi stated.
Ranma looked at her as if crazy, seeing her talking to air, then again he saw stranger things in his life.
"Uhh... What do you want from me now? Wanting to challenge me? Pop ripped you off and you came for revenge?" Ranma stated his questions to her.
"Oh no,no,no, I simply want to troll you, and please call me Anshin'in-san~! And I just want to play a game! You can take it as a challenge if you want." she told him cheerfully, bringing a Cardfight Vanguard deck.
Ranma looked at the strange girl, but that aside, it was completely normal, and didn't she just make a challenge?
"Bring it on!"
Saotome Ranma doesn't refuse a challenge, and he never loses!
He didn't see the sadistic and malicious aura that had appeared on Ajimu's figure for less than a second.
After Ajimu showed him the rules of the game and showed him the decks, she chose the Star-Vader deck.
Ranma chose a royal paladin deck.
"Stand-up, vanguard!" they said, and the game was on.
"You know Saotome Ranma, you sure are weak." Ajimu stated, looking at their fields.
Ajimu has 5 damage, and her current riding unit was Eternal Star-Vader, Illusion (the woman on the cover for Naruverse:Deconstruction & Reality Ensues).
She had 3 cards on her hands.
"Oh yeah? It seems that I am going to win though!" Ranma stated with his natural arrogance.
Ranma has 3 damage, Gancelot Zenith his riding unit, and having ten cards in his hand, along with his field full of rearguards while A jimu has only her vanguard and one booster rearguard and an intercept unit.
It really seemed that Ajimu will actually lose.
"Indeed, it seems like that." she said calmly.
"But when I said that you're weak, I didn't mean your physical powers or fighting tactics and abilities," Ajimu stated "but I meant your pathetic spirit." she told him mockingly.
That riled him up "Take that back!" Ranma was furious that even though she knew all what happened to him, as she managed to goad him to tell her about his 'mis'adventures, she called him weak.
"Oh so you're not mentally weak?" she asked him in a cheerful tone.
"Someone like you who allows two pathetic people dictate his life? Who allows his father to keep making problems and instead of making said father fix his own problems he allows himself to be dragged in them because of 'honor'? Who allows a woman who threw him to the wolves and practically abandoned him for more than a decade to start making unreasonable demands when it comes to her sense of 'manliness' although she isn't even 'manly' to decide it?"
Ranma was taken aback at the sheer uncaring sadism showing in Ajimu's aura.
Ajimu kept talking, not caring about him.
She knew, the entire thing wasn't even real. This entire conversation is just nothing more than a fiction, a story written by someone just for the heck of it, or it might have already became a fact in one of the many alternate realities?
"Do you want me to think that someone like you, who allows people to step over him as long as it is 'what honor demands', and tries to ignore all the bad habits of those around him, is a great person?"
Ranma couldn't reply or refute her, as she was in a way spot on as far as her analysis is.
"What do you expect from those around you? People who are by all rights nothing more than complete jerks and selfish and entitled existences?"
"That Akane fiancee of yours, nothing more than an abuser who attacks you for what she thinks you did, without checking her facts, and completely ignoring her own shortcomings?"
"That Ukyo woman who is by all rights a successful bussineswoman at the age of 16 but completely throws away her comfortable lifestyle just to gain some revenge even though you were as much of a victim as she is when her dowry was stolen, and even though the whole engagement was bogus anyway since your idiotic father had already made a previous engagement with the Tendos. And yet her father made her act like a boy although it's completely contradictory to his desire to make valid claim on your hands?"
Her argument was completely correct, and even he, with his dense attitude knew she was right.
"That Shanpu, the amazonian woman who you and everyone else apparently enjoy butchering her name and call her Shampoo, who by all rights shouldn't even have given the Kiss of Marriage or Death to either of your forms, as she was weaker than you, and you could have killed her right then and there or away from the village? Or the fact that you defeating her as a male was just her being careless? And yet you allow her to manipulate, drug, and kidnap you without any consequences?"
Ranma didn't stay silent at this.
"A martial artist doesn't kill, he protects!" he protested at the idea of killing, even if she made a really good point.
"So you say, but the army sure kill don't they? Or is there no martial atists in the armies? Just bunch of morons who flail with guns and deadly weapons or throw them while they're on their comfortable bases and simply pushing buttons and letting those atomic bombs drop on their enemies? Please! Martial artists kill too, they just make some random idiotic quotes on why YOU shouldn't."
Her statement pierced his heart.
"A martial artist doesn't kill, a martial artist is honorable, yet that Ryoga fellow who keeps shouting 'prepare to die Ranma!' and keeps using your honor to keep snuggling to Akane's chest while she sleeps, is he honorable? Don't think so. That Musi chinese fellow who you also butcher his name, calling him Moose, who wants to kill you to get 'his' Shanpu, and has no problem using lethal weapons to attain his goals, and has no pride to fight you fairly, and expecting you to lose on purpose so he can get Shanpu's hand. Is he honorable?" Ajimu asked him.
"No, they aren't..." Ranma admitted.
He hated to admit, but she was right.
"And that Happosai old man, who molests women left and right, including your female form? Or maybe Tatewaki Kuno, who everyone for some reason call him Kuno instead of Tatewaki, who keeps bugging your female form, believing he is a noble samurai, and expects that women will date him, and tries to take care of your male side because you are a 'foul sorcerer' who is brainwashing 'his dear girls'? You keep simply defeating him without actually taking his delusion in a final and permanant way. Do you enjoy being molested by those morons?" she asked him in the end.
"NO! I don't want to!" Ranma screamed in anger.
"Well, it surely doesn't seem like that to me, as far as I am concerned, you're an entity who doesn't even know what honor is." Ajimu told him.
Ranma's angry aura was visible.
"I KNOW WHAT HONOR IS!"
"Oh? Then what is it? Is it obeying others just because they said so? Is it allowing others to butt in your bussines and dragging THEIR problems for YOU to solve?"
Ranma went silent.
Ajimu made it clear that his idea of honor was simply letting others enslave you.
"... Honor is keeping your own word and promises." he stated lowly.
"Then it makes less sense why you are letting others control you. Let me ask you, were YOU the one who made the promise to the Tendos? To Kuonji, or the other families? Or was it your father?" she was sounding neutral, as she took one card from her left hand to her right one.
"... No, it was pops..." he admitted reluctantly.
"Were you the one who made that stupid seppuku contract?" she asked again, looking at Star-Vader 'Omega' Glendios.
"Well, pops made me sign it by saying it's finger painting, so I am bound to it." Ranma said, even though he was less confident.
This girl, in just few minutes managed to break a part of his own reality.
"So if I trick you to sign that you should be locked as a girl and get raped and violated without resistance, you'll do it because honor says so?"
"WHAT!? NO! I didn't know about it so I won't be obligated!" he screamed.
"Then by your logic, the seppuku doesn't work, not to mention, the entire case will automatically throw your own parents to the jail, as they are nothing more than abusers," Ranma dropped his head at that. "would-be-murderers, and madmen. You were 6 years old at that time, you didn't know how to read or write, also Genma said it to you, you were FINGER-PAINTING. You never even signed said contract."
Ajimu then took her card and...
"Break-Ride! Star-Vader 'Omega' Glendios!"
And then, things became bizzare as he was, in a way, used to.
The game started becoming alive, as the designs in the cards became real.
Ranma looked at Glendios, the entity looking intimidating, and Ranma felt dread from this figure.
"Saotome Ranma," Ajimu began, catching his attention. "You are weak, because you allow others to tell you what to do, you are weak because you let others define YOUR honor in your place, you are weak because you yourself abondoned your own wishes." she looked at him, uncaring boredom on her face. "That's why you'll never win against me, even if you are this world's protagonist, even if you are the strongest, you'll lose, because you don't even know who you really are. Because you don't have your own goals aside than what others expect you to have."
Ajimu then took a sadistic look.
"Break-Ride skill!"
She then shoulblasted 3 cards from her 'soul', and counterblasted 3 cards from her damage zone, and discarded a grade 3 card from her hand.
"I give +10000 power to Glendios, and I lock all your rearguards and I delete all your vanguards!" she declared.
"WHA-!?" Ranma looked stupefied, as his rearguards suddenly changed, turning into versions of him.
"Illusion, is a unique card, even more so than Glendios, Ranma-chan." Ajimu told him, as he looked at her.
She kept talking "You see, that entity, has the ability to take away things from the opponent," she nastily smiled. "mental, physical and emotional things including the supernatural and magical ones. As an example, your own gender curse!"
Ranma then felt it, the irritation that occured when he changed genders, as he looked, and saw himself turned into his female form.
"What is...?" He said in horror.
"Your curse got 'omega' locked, from now on, until Glendios is beat, by you, or you understand yourself, your curse will never get unlocked, and all cures other than the chinese ladle combined with the water from the spring of drowned man along with my soul, are pointless." she smiled at the now female martial artist who was horrified.
"RANMA!"
Ranma looked at the direction of the voice, and saw Akane, along with the other fiancees and his parents and Mr tendo.
"Ranma! I knew you're a pervert, going with other girls!" Akane was quite angry at him 'cheating' on her, completely ignoring the fact they're not even dating.
"Hehehe~" the chuckling Ajimu took everyone's attention.
"My, my, you sure know a pervert when you see one huh?" Ajimu smiled smugly at Akane "I wonder, just how many sexual adventures did you have so you became capable of knowing a pervert just by looking?" Ajimu's smug tone angered Akane and the fiancees something fierce, and went to attack, only to find a barrier that stopped them from reaching the two players.
"This barrier, will keep existing until this game ends." and with that she returned to the game.
"Ranma's honor-before-reason shtick. Lock!"
One of Ranma's rearguards were locked in a black sphere surrounded with two black rings with red glow. And Ranma felt something being destroyed in her mind.
Sadly it was just the start.
"Ranma's extreme obliviousness. Lock!"
It happened again.
"Your overly appeasing attitude. Lock!"
And again.
And again.
And again.
All of Ranma's rearguards were locked, and with a good side of his more than idiotic morals and attitude locked as well.
"With 5 or more of your rearguards being locked, I will win no matter what."
"Game Over."
Ajimu stated, and Ranma looked at her a little hollowly.
"Ultimate Break: World End."
A black hole appeared behind the numb boy-turned-girl, sucking her rearguards and obilerating her vanguard, as well as knocking her unconscious from pain.
The others were shocked as what happened defied their ability to understand.
Ajimu then started moving, leaving the comatose girl alone, the other will anyways take 'her' to their home.
No one stopped her.
Ranma was unconscious for days before he woke up.
When he woke up, he felt different, as if something was lacking.
He chcked himself, and realised that he was still a female, he tried to remember, and was able to do so.
He lost, and ended up being 'omega' locked as a girl, in Ajimu's words.
But strangely, 'she' didn't feel anything more than annoyance though.
He realised that he only need to go to china and jusenkyo, defeat Ajimu and this problem will end.
She stood up and exited her room.
The breakfast was a silent affair, as even Genma didn't try to steal food from Ranma, as the deadly aura generating from her was a good enough reason.
"Um, Ranma?" Ranma looked at Nodoka, his 'mother'-he felt she was an alien, not a real family.
"Why are you a girl, Ranma?" Genma asked this time.
"I've been locked in my curse by that entity." she stated calmly. She seriously felt weird about this.
"Waahhh! The schools won't be joined!" Soun wailed, while Genma ranted about Ranma getting soft.
Ranma rolled her eyes at the circus she was seeing.
"Whatever" came her uncaring response.
After her loss, she understood one thing; while she was by no means a saint, she was quite forgiving, but there's a limit to how much she can take.
And it seemed to her that whatever that crazy woman did made her reach said limit faster.
"RANMA NO BAKA!" Ranma was typically kicked to LEO via Akane Air as she was again caught 'flirting' with other fiancees.
Sadly for Nerima though, that would be the last time Ranma was 'seen' there.
Ranma understood what happened to her all this time in Nerima.
She was simply used as a magical solution to others' problems regardles of how unreasonable or simple they were.
Everyone who she knew kept making her deal with their own problems, Ryoga with his idiocy, as it wasn't her fault that he spent days searching for the lot that was behind his own house for their duel years ago, just as it wasn't her fault that he was cursed.
It wasn't her problem that she had many fiancees and more people chasing said girls, that was either her pop's fault or the woman in question's. If they raised a fuss, they can go to a lawyer or deal with her pops. She won't interfere in it.
After all her father is a martial artist.
Therefore he should take the challenge head-on.
The seppuku contract... well, if they wanted to use it, she'll just trick all of them to either kill or whore themselves if and when they wanted to use it against her, after all honor before reason, right?
As for the other problems like her 'fiancees' suitors', well, the fiancees should be good enough to deal with them.
Saotome Ranma never loses, and that's it.
She now understood what that Ajimu girl did to her.
She was given the thing that she needed.
She won.
It just was that the challenge was that she lose in a not-martial-arts battle.
And Ranma never loses, no matter how unreasonable the conditions.
In the sky, a white-haired woman wearing a traditional hakama looked at the redhead with clarity, few dozen kilometers meaning nothing to her.
"Good~ Saotome Ranma, break this pathetic comedic sociopathic show."
Ajimu Najimi was having a good day, her plan to destroy the Ranmaverse.
And with one of her skills that she gave to Ranma without his knowledge Devil Style, the skill to negate the 'coincidences and fates', Ranma will have the Normalcy controlling his life.
And he won't even care even if he knew.
Ajimu smiled.
She succeeded in her goal.
Eliminating Ranma's existence as a 'shonen jump' protagonist.
"Welcome Ranma Saotome," she said "The protagonist in my new reality."