Anything Goes Pokémon Training

It was a quiet rainy day in the Furinkan community of Nerima located in Tokyo, but that quiet was soon interrupted by the sound of footsteps.

Running on the neighbourhood street were two people, well, one person and one animal. A red pig-tailed girl was running away. She wore Chinese clothes which were a red shirt and black pants. She also has a travel bag. Chasing after her, was a Panda, with its white and black fur.

When the Panda was close range it swift its leg for a kick but the girl dodge it by jumping. When she landed on her feet she threw the bag away.

"Hey, you." The girl said taking a martial art stand. "That's enough already!"

In mid-air, the girl delivered a kick to the panda's head. The panda was sent skidding across the ground. It lay still for a moment before slowly standing up again. Both gained the attention of people walking on a rainy day with umbrellas, some had Pokémon alongside them, and they gaped at the sudden appearance of the animal.

"Is that a panda?" one spectator asked.

"A big one," another confirmed.

The panda wiped its face and spit onto the ground. It then adopted a combat stance. In a single heartbeat, it lunged at the girl with a flurry of punches. The girl easily dodged them and leaped back.

"You know," the girl muttered as she dodged a kick from the panda. "You could have at least had the decency to ask me about this whole fiancée thing!"

Before the Panda could do anything, something hit it in the head. On top of the Panda's head was a small blue anthropomorphic canine Pokémon. It has a black torso and legs, a blue tail, and a yellow collar. It has rounded bumps on the backs of its forepaws. It has a black "mask" and red eyes, two black appendages that hang down from its head. It stands on its toes instead of its entire foot on the panda's head.

The girl smiled. "Thanks, Rio!"

"Rar!" The Riolu, who the girl called Rio, barked happily.

The girl grabbed the panda's arm, prompted Rio to jump off its head, and hurled it over her shoulder. "For you to pick my fiancee like that!" It collided with a street sign, knocking it over. The girl and Pokemon looked at each other, they smirked before they high-fived.

The girl and Pokemon stood over the panda, the former huffing slightly in agitation.

"I'm goin' back to China, old man," She stated firmly, putting the bag over her back. "Don't wait up. Come on, Rio."

The two then turned to leave. They failed to notice that the panda rose up, they only took a few steps before the panda slammed the girl over the head with the street sign it had knocked over, shocking Rio. The girl slumped over and the panda hefted her over its shoulder. It grabbed the backpack the girl had dropped, Rio growled at the panda and before it could do anything a large hand shoved it to the floor from behind.

The Riolu groaned, turned its head and saw that it was a large, bulky, ape-like bipedal Pokémon. Most of its shaggy fur is brown, along with the semi-circle patterning under its eyes. Its face, chest, hands, and feet are lighter in colour. Its brows are thick and jutting, and it has a large, pink, pig-like nose. Around its neck is a white collar of fur that extends over the top of its head before ending in a small tuft. It has large, five-fingered hands, as demonstrated how it pinned down Rio, and two-toed feet. This is Slaking, the Lazy Pokémon.

"Is that a Slaking?" A spectator asked.

Rio struggles to break its hold, it makes the Slaking smirk, the panda takes one step facing the Pokémon while the Emanation Pokémon glares at it. The unusual animal lifts its right arm, its palm holds a ball, half red and half white separated by a black line with two small circles in the middle, a Poké Ball. Rio's eyes widened, it struggled even harder to get escape but its attempts failed as a red light came out of the middle circle and hit the Riolu, the Pokémon's entire body was enveloped in red light, and before long it turned into red energy and retracted to the Poké Ball. The panda safely puts the Poké Ball in the bag, it then brings another Poké Ball, pointing at the Slaking, the panda growls and the Poké Ball shoots the red beam at it before going back to the ball.

"Did… did that panda call back those Pokémon?" Another spectator asked, bewildered by what she and the others had seen.

The panda puts away the Poké Ball and grabs the bag, and begins to walk down the street.

"Wh-What's going on here?!"

"A panda that knocked out a girl and recalled Pokémon as if it was a trainer?!"

"What's this world coming to?!"

After it heard the spectators, the panda looked at all the spectators and roared menacingly, scaring them all away. Satisfied that it wasn't going to be followed, the panda set out toward its destination.


"Today is the day Ranma will finally arrive!" A man declared. He is a middle-aged man with shoulder-length hair and a mustache. The only clothing he wears is a brown gi. This is Soun Tendo. He held a postcard with a picture of a panda and tears came running down from his eyes.

"How I've waited for this day!" He exclaimed dramatically.

With him were two Pokémon on both sides, the one on his left is a white, long-bodied Pokémon with a small head and small, triangular ears. Its forehead has a purple spot adorning it as well as a yellow one on its snout. It possesses a pair of long, yellow-tipped whiskers which have split ends. Its arms are almost completely covered by a large amount of fur that is tipped in purple and split at the end. Its torso has one purple ring of fur around its midsection. It also has purple fur on the bottom section of the torso, which resembles pants, and its bottom paws are clawed. It has a long, skinny tail that, like its paw fur, is tipped purple and split at its end. This is his partner, Mienshao.

The one on his right is a bipedal, humanoid Pokémon whose body resembles a flowing gown. Most of its body is white, but its hair, arms, and the underside of its gown are green. Its hair curls over its face and down the sides of its head. Behind its red eyes are short spikes, resembling a masquerade mask. It has long arms with three fingers on each hand and slender white legs. A red, fin-like horn extends from its chest, and a shorter, more rounded horn extends from the back. A band of green on its chest extends to the center of the front horn and connects to its sleeve-like arms. This is Gardevoir.

Both Pokemon stare at the man, then look at one another both have the expression of wonder.

Soun turns around facing the backyard and shouted. "Oi! Oi!"

"Kasumi! Nabiki! Akane!" He called out everyone throughout his home, also known as the Tendo School of Anything Goes Martial Arts dojo.

A young woman turns on the fire on the stove in preparation for making food in the kitchen. She is a beautiful young lady who appears she could enter her 20s soon, she has long brown hair tied in a ponytail with a ribbon hanging over her right shoulder and brown eyes, she wears casual clothes but with an apron.

Helping her by her side is a humanoid Pokémon with four well-muscled arms. It has bluish-gray skin, red eyes, and pale yellow lips. On its head, there are three brown ridges right above its eyes. It has two arms on each side of its body: a pair located in the normal position, and another pair directly above that attaches on the top of the shoulders. The back shows that it has black markings that resemble briefs and wears a golden power-save belt. Its legs have considerable muscle tone, and its feet have two toes each. However, it wears a pink apron, ruining the masculine image… but it doesn't mind. This is her partner, Machamp.

"Kasumi!" Soun came to the kitchen, gaining her attention.

"What is it, Father?" The woman, Kasumi, asked, turning her head, as Machamp also looked.

A girl was chillaxed in her room, resting on her bed reading a magazine. She has brown chin-length hair in a bob cut and brown eyes, she wears casual clothes.

Beside her, sunbathing by the window is a slate gray, fox-like Pokémon with red and black accents. Its ears are triangular with dark insides, and it has a large tuft of fur tipped with red on top of its head. It has greenish-blue eyes with red eyelids. There are circular, red markings above the eyes that resemble eyebrows. Its muzzle is short and tapered with two small fangs seen in the upper jaw when its mouth is open. It possesses a ruff of black fur around its neck and four short limbs tipped with red, and its tail is short and bushy. This is Zorua.

"Nabiki!" Soun opened the door and called.

"Huh?" Nabiki turns her attention to her dad, as Zorua opens its eyes.

And lastly, Soun opens another door to another room. "Akane!"

But when he saw that no one was in it, he called out. "Is Akane here?"

The answer is soon answered, inside the dojo we see a girl with long blue highlighted hair and brown eyes. She wears a gi, indicating that she is a martial artist. She was on one knee, with two concretes seated in front of her, she focused on those before raising her right arm and slamming at them, breaking them apart into many pieces. There are no signs of cuts, bruises, or any other injuries that a regular person could have.

"Phew! Not bad!" She said, before turning her eyes to her right. "Right, Maku-chan?"

The one she addressed was a bipedal Pokémon with a bulky build. Most of its body is yellow, but it has a black marking on its chest that extends around its neck. Its round hands resemble black boxing gloves, but its feet are yellow with two visible toes. On its cheeks are red, ring-shaped markings, and it has slit-like eyes. On top of its head is a knot, which causes it to resemble a punching bag. This is her Pokémon partner, Makuhita, or Maku-chan.

"Maku!" Maku-chan nodded its head in response.

But then the two heard a flash and turned their attention towards the source. It was Nabiki holding a camera, beside her was Zorua.

"There you go again, Akane. It's 'cause you're always doing stuff like this that the boys don't like you in a normal way!" Nabiki said, Zorua snickers at that remark.

"Mind your own business!" Akane snapped. "Unlike you, Nabiki, I hate boys!"

Maku-chan shocked its head, it knows well that its trainer hates boys ever since that day caused by that moron.

Zorua snickers again at the emphasis of the word 'hate'. An idea came to mind, it jumps and rolls in midair before turning into a crimson light, there in its place was a teenage boy who is less attractive and blowing kisses at the martial artist. Akane grew angry, glaring at the Tricky Fox Pokémon, prompting it to turn back, snickering further.

Nabiki chuckles at the little prank, before turning away from the dojo as her Pokémon follows. "Really? Then I guess this has nothing to do with you."


"Fiancé?" Kasumi repeated what their father had said.

Right now, the Tendo family was in the living room as Soun called them for a meeting, meanwhile, the Pokémon were outside listening to the discussion. Right now, he had told them about something important that would change.

"Yes, he's the son of my very good friend. His name is Saotome Ranma. If one of you three girls were to marry him and carry on this training hall, then our family legacy would be secure." Soun explained. What he said is true, the Tendo family practice a martial art known as Anything Goes Martial Arts. A style that teaches one in learning and adapts many different styles of martial arts, taking what works and discarding what doesn't. He had once revealed that two schools practice the art; the Tendo and the Saotome.

Soun's Mienshao clearly understands what he's saying, the Pokémon was there on the night his trainer and his friend made the vow to join both schools, so it was no wonder why he was so dramatic back then. So, the day has finally come, it wonders which of his trainer's daughters will marry him?

"Hey, wait a minute! You can't just decide it like that! Count me out!" Akane exclaimed. She didn't like the idea of marrying some boy, no way she would. Maku-chan sighed, knowing that its trainer would complain about the idea.

"Maybe you should wait until you meet him. You never know, he might be more handsome than you think." Nabiki said. She changed her casual clothes for a kimono, to make a good impression on the boy who'll arrive. "Right, Daddy?"

Soun chuckles then brought the same postcard. "He'll be here very soon. Saotome and his son have been on a training mission. Recently, they crossed into China." He said, getting up from his sitting spot and looking outside.

"Oh, China!" Nabiki chirped.

"Just 'cause they trained in China doesn't mean they're strong." Akane retorted.

"Father, how old is this Ranma?" Kasumi asked.

"Is he handsome?" Nabiki asked.

"I hope he isn't younger than me." Kasumi wondered, she doesn't like the idea of marrying a boy much younger than her.

"What kind of Pokémon does he have?" Nabiki asked. She also likes the idea of him having an interesting Pokémon. "Well, what kind of guy is he?"

Soun laughs for a moment, until a few seconds of silence before turning to his daughters. "I don't know."

"You don't know?" Nabiki asked, not liking the response.

"I've never met him." Soun simply responded.

PAFF-!

Every Pokémon, except Gardevoir, faces fault by the sudden truth of Soun not knowing what Ranma is like, with Mienshao sweatdropped. Meanwhile, Soun's daughters were disbelieved, with the way how their father spoke about this Ranma sounded like he knew him.

'I don't believe this.' Akane thought, still not liking the marriage idea.

"L-Leggo, you fool! Lemme go, I said! I told you, I don't want any part of this!"

Everybody heard a voice coming and the door opening from down the hall, indicating that people had entered their home.

"Oh, my! We have visitors!" Kasumi said.

"It must be Ranma!" Nabiki said excitedly, getting up.

"Saotome! We've been waiting!" Soun exclaimed. Happily runs towards the visitors with Nabiki following suit.

Both Kasumi and Akane are left, they get up from their seats and walk towards them, with the Pokémon observing with curiosity. "I hope he's older than me." Kasumi said.

Before they could go any further, Nabiki and Soun run back, while a panda walks following them. The father and daughter stop as they stare at the panda in disbelief, with Kasumi and Akane, and the Pokémon, also staring at it.

"C-C'mon! Y-You're scaring 'em! Stop!" A girl being carried by the panda shouted.

"Are these your friends, Father?" Kasumi asked. Soun shook his head nervously.

"If they're not your friends, then what's a panda doing here?!" Nabiki asked, it was unusual for a panda to walk in and carry a girl, aside from Pokémon with a variety of them being intelligent of their own. Soun shook his head nervously, again.

The panda came to a stop, in front of the nervous family. Feeling their trainers' nervousness, the Pokémon all keep their guard in case of a fight should the panda get hostile. The animal places the girl in front, everybody stares at the girl.

"Y-You wouldn't be... Ranma?" Soun asked, nervously pointing at her.

"I'm Saotome Ranma. Sorry about this." Ranma introduced and apologized.

"Oh, I see! So you are Ranma!" Soun exclaimed.

"He is cute!" Nabiki exclaimed.

"Oh, it's so good of you to come!" Soun declares, embracing Ranma. But then, Soun noticed something odd. "Hmm?"

A few seconds later, Soun presses Ranma a few times, he releases his hug from Ranma and takes a few steps back as he stares in disbelief. Nabiki saw the nervousness on his face, she stared at Ranma until she noticed 'his' chest was bulged, she poke it and then groped.

"Um, please stop that." Ranma politely said, not feeling comfortable about the gesture.

Nabiki turns back to her father and says. "100% female, I tell you!"

"A-A girl?" Soun was shocked that he fainted.

"Father!" Kasumi gasped.

Everybody was gathered in the living room, in the middle Soun was resting on the futon as they all sat beside him. The revelation that Ranma is a girl shocked the man deeply, he was looking forward to the unification of both schools but it all came down.

"Oh, poor Father. He must be so disappointed." Kasumi spoked.

"I'm the one who's disappointed! I was looking forward to finding out what kind of man he was." Nabiki complained, no longer wearing the kimono and went back to her clothes, with Zorua on her lap.

"Then I get a look at him, and it turns out he is a she."

"Stop it, Nabiki! She came a long way to visit us." Akane said.

Suddenly, there was a popping sound and a flash of white light energy came out of the bag, hitting on the floor the energy dispersed to reveal itself to be Rio. It shakes its head to the left and right to look before it sees Ranma.

"Too late, Rio." Ranma said.

Rio turns its head to see the Tendo sisters then to the bedridden Soun then to the Pokémon and the inside of the house, before it looks at the panda and glares at it. The panda starts to get a bit nervous, but the Pokémon stops and sighed, shaking its head.

Meanwhile, the sisters stare at the Pokémon with surprised expressions in their eyes.

"Oh my." Kasumi awed.

"That's a Riolu." Akane exclaimed.

"We don't see that kind of Pokémon everyday." Nabiki said.

Akane turns to Ranma. "Is that Pokémon yours?"

"Yeah, it's mine." Ranma replied.

Before Akane could ask any more, Soun opens his eyes.

"Look, everyone! Father's waking up." Kasumi said.

"This is all your fault, Daddy! Couldn't you have checked if he was a boy or a girl?!" Nabiki scolded.

"Saotome told me that he'd been blessed with a son." Soun complained, he was certain that his old friend told him that.

"What part of this looks like a boy? What part of this?" Nabiki asked, groping Ranma.

Meanwhile, Zorua snickers at the gesture but Rio wore a sweatdrop when seeing it.

"Um, please stop that." Ranma politely said.

"She's right! So what if she's a girl, Sis. A guest is a guest!" Akane retorted. She then approaches Ranma and asks. "Hey, you wanna come to see our dojo?"

"I'm Akane. You wanna be friends?" Akane asked. Ranma stares silently before smiling and nods in response.

Rio stares at the two girls as they get up and Akane leads Ranma to the dojo. Just then, Maku-chan follows them, not wanting to leave its partner alone, Rio follows them.

The two girls and two Pokémon arrived at the dojo as Akane opened the door and they entered.

"You study kenpo, right?" Akane asked.

"A bit." Ranma answered.

"Hey, why don't we have a little match?" Akane suggested.

"A match?" Ranma asked. Rio stares at Akane in wary, what exactly does this girl planned?

"Yeah! For fun." Akane responded before taking her position.

Ranma went to the center and faced Akane, though she had both arms behind her back. She then saw Rio standing, staring at them. "No worries, Rio. Just sit back and relax, nothing too serious is about to happen and I can handle myself." She said.

Reluctant, Rio has to listen to its partner and walks to a wall, it sits down with its back on the wall. On its left was Maku-chan, sitting beside and smiling.

Akane looks at Rio. 'Her Pokémon must be protective.' She thought, with the way Ranma told Rio not to worry.

"Don't worry, I won't attack you for real." Akane reassured both trainer and Pokémon.

After a moment, Akane charges first and throws a punch, Ranma easily dodges it by jumping high. Landed on the floor, Akane then throws a kick but the pigtailed girl dodges it by bending her body to the right. She then throws a punch but Ranma dodges it, then throws another punch but even that was dodged, she even swung her leg for a kick but Ranma even dodge that by leaning back.

The Pokémon watch the match with full attention and each has its own opinion. Maku-chan stares bewildering, not once was there anyone who has to dodge its trainer's blows, that girl must be well-trained, perhaps even better. Rio's expression hasn't changed but it knows that this is a one-sided match, there are clearly huge gaps between the two, and this match is already set.

"What's wrong?! Attack me!" Akane exclaimed before throwing more punches as Ranma dodged them.

'I-I can't get through! Is she reading my moves?' Akane thought. 'Okay, then, this time for real!'

"Here I come!" Akane declares and charges straight and throws a punch at Ranma, but the pigtail girl jumps high in the air letting the fist hit the wall, creating a hole. Ranma lands right behind her and pokes her head.

Akane turns her head to stare at Ranma in disbelief. Ranma giggles before Akane follows suit. Both Pokémon stare at the exchange, then they look at each other before they laugh.

"You're pretty good." Akane commented. She then walks away. "I'm so glad you're a girl."

"Huh?" Ranma blinked, even Rio caught up to that.

"It's just…" Akane turns to look at Ranma. "well, I couldn't stand losing to a boy."

As she said that, she went back to walk before Maku-chan joined her. She then stares at Rio who went towards Ranma, there she added another thing. "You got a pretty neat Pokémon."

"Huh? Oh… hmm!" Ranma nodded, before Akane and Maku-chan got out of the dojo.

Both the pigtail-girl and the Emanation Pokémon stare at her, but then Rio looks at Ranma, the girl notices its stare. "Yeah, I know. It'll be a problem."


"So that's how it was." Soun said, tears on his cheeks. The man recovered from his shock, after that he went into a depressive state until he got a surprise.

Sitting in a seiza position, facing Soun, is a stocky, middle-aged man, who wears glasses with a frame that wraps around his ears, a white bandanna that covers his head, and a white gi. The man also has tears running down his cheeks.

Both are sitting in seiza in the living room with the sunset light. Mienshao was beside Soun, while the Slaking was laying down on the floor beside the mystery man.

"'The path of a true martial artist is fraught with peril…'" Soun quoted looking at the sunset.


Kasumi leads Ranma and Rio upstairs and they stop by a door.

"Ranma, please use this room." Kasumi opened a guest room. They entered it, and Ranma placed the bag on the floor.

"Why don't you go down right now and take a bath." Kasumi said, and presented a towel to the girl. Rio fidgetted, a nervous sweatdrop formed, if its partner takes a bath it'll go bad.

"Uh, no thanks."

"You have to! You must be sweating from all that exercise, right?" Kasumi assisted, giving her the towel.

"Yes…" Ranma responded in defeat.

Kasumi then walks downstairs to prepare dinner, leaving the trainer and Pokémon.

Ranma noticed Rio staring at him with a look of disapproval on its face. "Don't look at me like that. I just couldn't say no." She sighed, walking towards the hall. "Come on, the bathtub awaits us."


Nabiki enters the kitchen before asking Kasumi. "Hey Sis, who's that strange man in our living room?" When she walked past the living room she saw the man sitting with her father.

"Who knows?" Kasumi answered, and closed the fridge, also having no idea who the man was. Handing the bottle to Machamp and asking her sister. "Nabiki, would you go tell Akane to take her bath?"

"Okay."

Both don't know that doing so will cause a stir.


In the bathroom, Ranma was inside, naked, as she filled a bucket with water, once it was full she poured it on her.

"Brrr! That's cold!" She cried, shivering by the cold water. She then responds to Rio beside her. "Don't you give me that 'do you have to pour cold water on you' look. And I can tell by your aura you're sending it to me."

Unknown to the trainer and Pokémon pair, Akane entered the bathroom, after Nabiki told her. She noticed a basket with clothes on it, she recognized them as Ranma's

"Guess she's already in there." She said, deciding to join her as she undo her gi.

Meanwhile, in the bathtub room, a boy with black hair and a pigtail was in the water-filled bathtub with only his head out of the water. On the corner of the bathtub was Rio, feeling relaxed by the warm temperature of the water.

'What am I gonna do? They're bound to find out sooner or later.' The boy thought.

'Oh well. Might as well go out like I am.' The boy thought and rose from the water.

Then suddenly, Rio's appendages rose, sensing an aura from the other side of the door. It was about to warn the boy but it was too late.

Slide

Both the boy and Rio looked towards the opened door and saw Akane naked and holding nothing but a towel at the entrance, staring at the boy. Akane, seeing the boy who has one leg on the tub's wall, then lowered her head where her eyes were directly looking at something and before long went back inside, and closed the door. The boy blinked, before looking down at his private part.

The boy turns around and addresses to the Pokémon. "Did she… see it?"

"KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"

Both the boy and Pokémon hear the scream of the girl from the other side, most likely outside of the bathroom.

"That would be a yes." He didn't need an answer from a Pokémon. He went back to Rio. "Is your aura sense not working? You could have told me!"

Rio sinks into the water, embarrassed by what has happened and couldn't help.


Everybody in the Tendo household, both human and Pokémon, heard Akane's scream as the girl ran around the house. She reached the living room, where her father and the strange man were having a toast, while Mienshao and Slaking were having berries. She grabbed the table and lifted it over her head while the two men grabbed the drinks and snacks that were on it.

"I'm gonna beat him to a pulp!" Akane declared. On cue, her sisters and the Pokémon came to the living room and saw her.

"Akane? What's the matter? What are you doing with that?" Kasumi asked.

"There's a pervert in our bathroom!" Akane exclaimed.

"So why didn't you clobber him, then?" Nabiki asked. Usually, her little sister is always beating down perverts.

"How could I?! I was scared!" Akane retorted. She was also disgusted by the one thing she saw.

"Maku?!" Maku-chan was shocked to hear that Akane spotted a pervert and got scared.

"That's odd. I thought that Ranma was in there right now." Kasumi wondered. She's also a bit worried, if there was a pervert in the bathroom then where could the girl be?

"Excuse me..." The three girls and their respective Pokémon turn their attention towards the same boy from the bathroom. He wears similar clothes that Ranma wore. And on his left was Rio, sticking close to him.

"Who?" Kasumi asked.

"Ma?" Machamp repeated what its trainer asked.

"Who are you?" Nabiki asked.

"I'm Ranma Saotome." The boy introduced himself. "Sorry about this." He apologizes as Rio bows in apologetics.

The people and Pokémon in the room just stood there, after what they heard. The Tendo's Pokémon tilted their heads, signalling that they are confused. Akane was so confused that she lowered her grip, letting the table touch the top of her head.

After a while, everybody settled themselves as they were all sitting, facing the two newcomers. The Pokémon were outside as they watched.

While the humans were taking their time to proceed, Maku-chan the Makuhita turned its attention to Rio the Riolu, who was beside Slaking. It speaks to the Emanation Pokémon, asking it as to what is going on, where those two people come from and why the boy has the same name as the girl. Rio responds that it is a complicated story and it will be better to listen to the humans.

"Let me introduce them once more." Soun turns his attention to his daughters and introduces the newcomers. "This is my dear friend."

" Genma Saotome." The man introduced. He then gestures to the boy. "And this is my son,"

"Ranma." The boy introduced himself as Ranma. But then he noticed Akane glaring at him.

"What is the meaning of this?" Nabiki asked, she was confused.

"Are you really her? The same girl from before?" Kasumi asked. She wonders if the boy truly is the same girl that came.

"Well…" Ranma tried to answer but he was feeling ashamed to give any proper response, leaving only silence.

Genma adjusted his glasses, before breaking the ice. "Well, I just don't know where to begin." He gets and grabs Ranma by the shirt. "All right, then."

"Why don't you take a look at this, for starters." Genma said, turning around facing the backyard and throwing Ranma at the koi pond while the Pokémon ducked. The boy cried and fell to the pond, making a splash.

The three daughters got up and went to look at the pond, the same goes for the Pokémon. Bubbles appeared on the pond, and after a few seconds, rising from the water was the same red-haired girl they'd met this afternoon.

"What are you doing?!" She demanded.

"Oh, my." Nabiki said, surprised by what she saw.

"He turned into a girl." Kasumi stated.

"I cannot bear to see my son like this!" Genma exclaimed, walking and stopping in front of the pond, tears on his cheeks. The sight of it and hearing it made girl-form Ranma angered.

"Ranma, your father… Your father is in such agony!" Genma dramatically declared. Ranma jumps off the pond, landing behind Genma before kicking him, making him fall into the water.

After a few seconds, what emerged from the water was a panda. The Tendo sisters, and their Respective Pokémon and Gardevoir, reacted at the scene. Getting out of the water, Ranma glares at Genma-now-a-panda.

"Why, you! You're in no position to talk!" Ranma retorted, punching him at his panda belly.

"Father, you certainly have some unusual friends." Kasumi commented.

"I, myself have yet to hear all the details." Soun said. He was aware of their misfortune through Genma when he turned back to normal. "Their strange physiques seem somehow related to their dangerous training in China."

"Before we go any further, let's give them a few moments to come back to themselves." Soun said as Ranma and Genma quarreled, trying to punch one another.

After a moment, Ranma and Genma finished their quarrel (for now), and turned back to normal. Genma begins to explain how the two went all the way to China to train. They journey to Mt. Quanjing, Bayankala Range, Qinghai Province, where they found the training ground, supposedly to be legendary.

The training ground was called Jusenkyo, also known as Cursed Spring Ground. The area consisted of multiple springs with bamboo trees growing out of the water. Together with the Jusenkyo Guide who helped them reach the destination, the two begin training by jumping on bamboo trees as the Guide was trying to warn them but it was no use. The father and son Saotome did not know of the true horror of Jusenkyo.

Legend has it that when something is immersed in one of these pools, the pool becomes cursed, and anyone falling into that pool will become whatever first fell in or drowned there. It was demonstrated when Genma was kicked by Ranma, fell into one of the springs, and emerged as a panda, to which the Guide said he fell into Shonmaonīchuan, Spring of Drown Panda. Ranma was so shocked to see his father turned into a panda and learn the truth, Genma kicked his son and he fell into a different spring. There, he, or rather she, emerged from the water, and Guide told her that she fell into Nyannīchuan, Spring of the Drowned Girl.

Thus, their fates are sealed with the curses.

"Jusenkyo, the legendary training ground of cursed springs! Its true horror has been shrouded in mystery until now." Soun commented.

Ranma wore an angry frown, while his brows trembled, hearing the story reminded him of the experience. "Whaddya mean, true horror?"

He turned to Genma. "You, Old Man! You just had to take me to that stupid training ground in China!"

"Ranma, you sound like a girl!" Genma exclaimed, picking up his son before throwing him at the koi pond again.

"Were you not prepared to lay down your life for the sake of the art?!" Genma asked.

"My life, yes. My manhood is another story!" Ranma exclaimed. She ran towards Genma with a bucket of water and splashed the contents all over Genma. The man quickly vanished to be replaced by a large panda with his clothes just barely fitting.

"You just had to go and seek out that training ground, even though you didn't speak a word of Chinese!" Ranma complained while everybody watched them quarrel again. Rio watched the father-son locked hands (or locked hands-paws) and sighed. They've always bicker at each other, but because its trainer got the curse it had gotten worse, and they fight whenever Genma triggers Ranma with that subject.

The first time it saw Ranma turning into a girl, the Pokémon was shocked. It can sense Ranma's negative emotions after he gets the curse, humiliation, depression, despair, anger, and resentment. It had tried to cheer him up, by saying that he was lucky that it wasn't worse but to Ranma having your own gender swap is a nightmare. All Rio could do is wait for its trainer to get a hold of himself… and to let out steam by beating Genma up, the wait pays off but Ranma is still ticked off. They actually planned on staying in China to cure their curses, only for a problem that forced them to leave China.

"This is certainly tragic." Soun said. He brought a kettle and doused the hot water over Genma, who yelped over the heat. "However, when doused with hot water, you return to normal!"

"That was just a little hot there, Tendo!" Genma breathed, stinging by the heat.

"And in Ranma's case, being doused with cold water makes him a girl. But hot water turns him back into a boy!" Soun exclaimed trying to douse hot water over Ranma next only for the boy-turned-girl to step back as the water hit the floor.

"You don't gotta boil me!" Ranma complained.

Soun laughs it off and says to Ranma. "Well, now! Your problem isn't so terrible after all."

He then turns him to face his daughters. "Look! My eldest daughter, Kasumi! She's nineteen."

They turn to Nabiki. "My second daughter, Nabiki. She's seventeen."

And to Akane. "And my third daughter, Akane. She's sixteen."

"Pick whichever you want. She'll be your fiancée." Soun said.

"It's settled, then. It's Akane." Kasumi said.

"They're made for each other." Nabiki agreed.

"This isn't funny! Why does it have to be me?!" Akane complained, looking at her sisters.

"You hate boys, right?" Nabiki reminds her.

"That's right! How fortunate that Ranma is half-girl." Kasumi added.

In truth, the two sisters did not want to get wrapped up with a boy that turns into a girl.

"No way! Don't expect me to marry that pervert!" Akane retorted.

"Hey, hey! Whaddya mean by pervert?" Ranma argued, getting close.

"You saw me in the nude, you molester!"

"Wait a minute! You're the one who walked in on me!"

"It's different when a girl sees a boy!"

As the two bicker, the fathers laughed.

"They're already the perfect couple!" Soun commented, failing to see that they don't get along.

Both Rio and Maku-chan wore worried expressions. The fathers planned on uniting both schools but both of their trainers don't get along. Rio couldn't blame Ranma, he was just afraid of how everyone would react to his curse that he wanted to keep it a secret and to hide his humiliation. Akane came to the bathroom at the wrong time and it was just an accident but it can't blame her, not after what she experienced.

"We're having a fight here!" Akane snapped at her father, stomping her foot. Turning back to Ranma. "The point is, I absolutely refuse to marry someone like you!"

"I refuse, too! Goodbye." Ranma agreed before turning around.

"Look here, Ranma! Where are you going?" Genma asked.

"Back to China!" Ranma responded. "I've gotta find a way to change back for good! This is no time for fiancées."

Ranma turned back to Akane and spoke. "By the way, I noticed that you took a pretty good look at me, too."

Rio winced. She couldn't possibly mean where Akane looked at…

"Also, since I've seen my own female body so many times, it's no big deal for me to see a naked girl." Ranma said.

Rio titled its head, that's what she was talking about? Well, in that case, if he has seen his female body many times then he must be used to seeing women's bodies. Though, it noticed the frown on Akane.

Ranma turns her back with arms behind her head as she boasts. "And my proportions are better anyway." She began to laugh.

That made Akane mad, she grabbed the table and lifted it, she smashed hard at Ranma to the point that the boy-turned-girl hit the floor. Soun had quickly got out of the way where Ranma was standing.

"Now that one was Ranma's own fault." Genma said as he and Soun looks at her.

Rio yelped by the scene. It has forgotten that Ranma has a habit of boasting and bragging. The Pokémon saw him doing it many times that got on people's nerves but only with certain people.


After Ranma was sent to the room for resting, she woke up and went to take a bath to change back. Angry grumble what kind of girl Akane is, then reminiscing about her asking to be friends, unfortunately, that idea just got flushed considering that she found out that she is a he and she hates boys. Meanwhile, Akane was so angry about what Ranma said, did not like how he made fun of her, and asked what kind of boy he is. On top of that, it was the first time that any boy ever made fun of her, none of the guys at school ever did. Unfortunately, the two bumped into each other in the bathroom, both naked, with Akane finished and Ranma who was about to go in. The end result was a hand slap to the cheek.

"But you were both girls this time! That makes it okay, doesn't it?" Nabiki asked. Everybody was back in the living room, with the three sisters sitting around the table, Maku-chan and Zorua were beside their trainers.

"It's not okay! Not okay at all!" Akane retorted. Maku-chan pats its trainer's back.

Akane turns to Maku-chan. "Maku-chan! If that pervert sneaks into my room tonight, pulverize him with Force Palm!"

Maku-chan winced, it didn't want to hurt someone with Force Palm, its trainer always said that. But regardless, she was in a foul mood and her temper won't go down until a certain time. Reluctant, it gives a salute, giving its answer. "Maku!"

Meanwhile, Ranma and Genma, and their Pokémon, were sitting on the edge of the floor, outside.

"So she's got spunk! That makes a fiancée even more cute!" Genma said.

"She is not cute." Ranma retorted with an angry frown, he had a red mark on his left cheek. He turns his head to look at Akane while the girl turns her head and looks at Ranma as well. Akane turns her head with a 'Hmp!' and Ranma turns back.

"Not cute at all." He repeated, resting his chin on his left hand only for him to wince in pain when touched his left cheek. "OW!"

Rio approaches Ranma and pats him on the back, prompting the teen boy to turn to his Pokémon. "At least, you're the only one who shows me sympathy."

Both Pokémon and Trainer sighed in sync. But for Rio, it's getting a feeling that this marks the start of their new strange life.


FINALLY DONE!

I had this idea from a long time ago and started to write a very, very, short beginning scene but did not make progress since then. Now, as you may have all figured out, this is the same old Ranma ½ story but with Pokémon, and there will also be references to the anime adaptation to it. And what divides this story from any other stories, is that in this idea there will be both Pokémon AND animals with Genma's panda form as proof, I mean, in the early days of the Pokémon anime we've seen some animals and made references of them. I found several Ranma x Pokemon stories, but most of them are about transporting into the world of Pokemon, I wanted a story that is a fusion of both worlds. But unfortunately, there wasn't any Pokémon battle in it. What would you get if you have the Ranma ½ casts who are martial artists themselves training Pokémon, considering some animals that are strong through training?

This took me a while to write this, and finish it. Part of the reason was the cast's lines from the canon, and observing the actions the characters do when talking either before, between, or after.

There was also the idea of the casts' Pokémon. I've been racking my brain about them a while back, for Ranma, it was obviously a Riolu. It was through the discussion in spacebattle that I managed to make a list of each cast's Pokémon and their nicknames in progress.

Ranma;
Riolu: Rio
Kubfu
Panpour
Marshadow

Akane;
Makuhita; Maku-chan
Stufful
Grimmer

Genma;
Slaking; Mochi
Pangoro
Snorlax

Soun;
Mienshao; Itachi
Hitmontop; Nesshin
Gardevoir; Kii (His deceased wife's)

Nabiki:
Zorua; Kit.

Kasumi:
Machamp; Kairi-chan
Cherrim; Cherry-chan
Vulpix (Alolan); Ro-chan

Kuno:
Galarian Farfetch'd
Dewott

Ryoga:
?

Kodachi
Roselia
Gloom
Lopunny

Shampoo:

Happosai:

Cologne:

Ukyo:
Mr. Mime

Konatsu:
Male Primarina
Greninja
Kecleon

Mousse
Swanna
Skarmory;

There's still some room for improvement.

Been meaning to post another Ranma ½ idea after I was in the mood, but I still got some more. Meh. I'll just post a list of them with summaries and how I want them to go.

Well, with this idea shown, I bid you farewell and see you next time.