An American Batman in Nerima
Chapter 2: Flashbacks
By Crystal Moon
6/10/2002
e-mail: crystalcollins19@hotmail.com
Batman Beyond belongs to whoever owns him and Ranma belongs to Rumiko. I do not own them so please don't sue me. I'm just a poor little girl who's doing this for fun.
I've gotten several e-mails and reviews (more that I thought possible, thanks people I appreciate it) and a good amount of them ask how Ranma became Terry's mom. I was originally going to write it in a little at a time throughout the story but I decided to answer that question with this chapter which, I'm sorry to say, is going to comprise mainly of flashbacks. Sorry to all those people who hate flashbacks.
It is a good idea to have Mary actually be Ranma's daughter but that wouldn't really work out well with what I have planned. It is a very good idea though.
However, out of the 25 reviews that I received so far there was one review I did not like which I responded to at the bottom. I appreciate all reviews even if they are a little negative but this one is just plain uncalled for and if I could remove it I would. I do not appreciate stuff like this and I'm sure no one else does either. Crystal^_^
***
Mary lied in her bed staring up at the ceiling thinking about the past, thinking of how much things changed. Thinking about how much she has changed in the past seventeen years. She was now a fashion model in one of the leading fashion magazines in Gotham City so she always had enough creds, she even had some put back for her two sons future education.
She rolled over on her side and stared at the picture on her nightstand. It had Warren, Terry, Matt and herself on it, all of them was dressed causually as the picture was taken during a picnic they had together several years after the divorce. In a way she blamed herself for Warren's death, if only they weren't divorced then maybe she could fight off the people who murdered him.
"I wonder how Akane and the others are doing?" Mary asked herself.
A tear fell from her eyes as she thought about the girl she left behind in Nerima, the girl she was going to spend her life with until Herb ruined it all. It was Herb's fault that she was trapped ads a female but at least the Musk Prince was now the Musk Princess since he was stuck as well.
**Flashback**
Ranma was so close to the kettle that would unlock the curse and she would be a he again, all she had to do was reach it before Herb did and she would be free. Ranma froze as a ki blast flew past her and struck the ground in front of her. Ranma whirled around to see another ki blast heading toward her.
"MOKO TAKABISHA!!" Ranma called out as she threw her own ki blast to intercept the oncoming attack. The two attacks collided with each other and resulted in a huge explosion that tore apart the mountain top along with her only hope of ever becoming male again.
When Ranma woke up she was in a hospital room surronded by Akane, Nodoka, Ukyo, Cologne and Soun. She looked up into her mother's tear stained face and froze as the woman held a old parchment in her hands.
"Ranma." Nodoka said, laying a tanto blade on the bed next to Ranma.
"M-Mom?" Ranma asked, somewhat weakly since her head was pounding with protest.
"Your father explained everything dear." Nodoka cried, "As soon as your out of hear you can go through with the ceremony."
"C-ceremony?" Ranma asked as the blood drained from her face.
"Your father and you made a promise…" Nodoka started before being cut off from her son turned daughter.
"Seppuku," Ranma whispered, "Y-you can't be serious!"
"Ranma." Cologne said pogoing over, "There is no other way to unlock the curse and since you're commiting Seppuku we're going back to China tonight. Your no longer a suitable husband for my Shampoo." As she poggoed out of the room Ranma could her her muttering, "What a waste."
"The school's will never be united now!!!" Soun wailed as Ukyo and Kasumi escorted him from the room.
"You c-can't be serious a-auntie." Akane sobbed.
"It is family honor." Nodoka said as she walked calmly out of the room.
"I'm so sorry Ranma!" Akane cried as she rushed over and embraced the red haired girl.
"It's all right, Akane." Ranma said returning the embrace.
"I l-l-love you." Akane said before kissing the red head deeply for the first and last time. Akane fled from the room in tears leaving Ranma alone to try and figure out what she was going to do. The only consolation she had was knowing that the Musk Prince was also trapped as a girl and more importantly was that Akane had truly loved her.
**End Flashback**
It was hard thinking about that even after seventeen years. That was the end of her life as Ranma and the birth of Mary Smith after she fled from Japan and to America. That was when she meet Warren who was at a bar that she was at drowning her sorrows during his seventeenth birthday, the idiot bartender didn't even bother to card her then.
**Flashback**
"Aren't you a little young to be in here?" A man asked sitting down next to her at the bar.
"Go way j-jerk." Ranma slurred, already pretty drunk.
The man ordered himself a beer and turned an appreciative eye back to the girl and smiled, "I am not a jerk and I am twenty one but how old are you? Sixteen, maybe seventeen?"
"Mind your own buisness!" Ranma snapped back at this annoyance.
"Warren." the man said.
"W-Warren what?" Ranma asked motioning for another beer from the bartender.
"That's my name." Warren said, "Warren McGinnis. I'm an executive over at Wayne Powers."
Ranma looked at this guy for a few moments and decided it would be nice to have somebody to talk to. "My name's Mary Smith."
The two made small talk while they both drank way more thatn they should of and they eventually left and Mary somehow ended up at Warren's apartment where they started making out. Something in the back of Mary's mind kept screaming at her but her drunken state combined with these new feelings that Warren's touch caused as he caressed her body overcame reason.
She woke up and was startled to find herself in an unfamiliar room with light filtering in through the curtains that covered the window. Her body was sore and it hurt a little when she stood up and noticed she was naked. She quickly threw on her clothes as she remembered what happened the previous night and almost threw up. When the man from the previous night came into the room carrying a tray with food and a single rose she bolted past him knocking him down.
For the awhile she struggled barely making ends meet when she started getting sick on a regular basis, especially in the mornings. She went to the emergency room and found out something that out something that scared her more than a room full of cats. She was pregnant.
She solemnly returned to her small apartment and almost broke down when she saw what meager belongings she had scattered in the hallway with an eviction notice taped to the door. She gathered her stuff and managed to stuff it all into a small pack and left. She knew she hadn't paid rent for the last two months but she was trying and truly thought that something like this wouldn't happen.
She walked down the darkened street until she bumped into the cause of all her problems, the jerk who took advantage of her while she was drunk. She growled and about pounded him when all the stress finally got to her and she collapsed into his arms crying loudly. After she cried herself out he asked if she was hungry which she gave an eager nod.
She easily polished off three sandwiches, a large fry, half of his large fry, a strawberry milkshake and a piece of apple pie.
"How long has it been since you've eaten?" Warren asked in shock.
"I'm eating for two now!" She snapped then regretted it immediately as the blood drained from his face.
"Am I, well…" Warren said.
"Yes!" she snapped again as a fresh wave of tears escaped. Warren moved to the other side of the booth next to her and held her making shushing noises and rubbing her back. At first she was going to finish what she was about to do earlier before giving into his embrace. For some reason it comforted her, it actually felt kind of good.
What was she thinking! She was a man, not a girl. Instead of pulling away she just cried harder. She was a girl now, there was no way to become a man again.
After she cried herself out and some serious discussions they decided to keep the baby, as if Mary would have had an abortion anyway. This child was innocent of all of this and deserved a chance at life and that brought another realization to her. This was 'her' baby, a living thing growing inside of her. That thought should of scared her more but it didn't, it only brought a warm smile to her face.
During the duration of her pregnancy she moved into the spare room in Warren's apartment where he took care of her. At first all the attention that he was giving her was really annoying but she slowly grew to like it. In fact, after a while she actually admitted to herself that she enjoyed it and enjoyed Warren's company. She was actually starting to like him.
Shortly before Terry was born Mary made an important descision, she decided to take Warren's offer of marriage because she didn't want Terry to grow up without a father and Warren was a kind, gentle man who really seemed to care. He wasn't likely to abuse their child like what her own father did to her. In a way, she was kind of lucky to have somebody like him.
After all, she was a girl now and she needed to accept it and move on with her life. She wouldn't forget her old family and friends and deffinately not Akane but she needed, she wanted to make her own family now and this was going to be the only way.
As soon as Terry was old enough Mary started teaching him the anything goes style of martial arts while her husband watched the two fondly. She was always encouriging her son with a kind word and never insulted his skill which was actually very good. Unfortunately, it wasn't to last long.
Shortly after having her second son they divorced and Terry moved in with his father which broke her heart. She still had Matt and counted her blessings on that even though she still missed Terry. After awhile, Warren started coming over with Terry and they did things as a family but they just couldn't reconcile their relationship.
Mary was glad when Terry moved back in with her but the circumstances of that hurt her deeply. Time after time she wondered if she would of just gave in and slept with Warren more often like he wanted then maybe they'd still be together and he'd still be alive. He may of said that that wasn't why he wanted the divorce but she knew better and that knowledge hurt alot and that hurt a lot.
She still stayed close with Warren's mother, after all the woman was responsible for Mary's career as a fashion model which paid a lot more that she could have ever imagine. Nabiki would probaly have a heart attack if she found out just how much Mary actually made doing hardly nothing at all.
**End Flashback**
She wondered why things had to turn out the way they did, it wasn't fair that Warren had to die like that. It hurt both her children badly, but it affected Terry even worse since he was the closest to his father.
She couldn't think of that at the moment, she had to get some sleep if she was going to start training Terry in the anything goes style of martial arts again starting tommorow and try and teach both of her children Japanese. After all, there wasn't much time left before there trip to Japan.
***
Shinji Ikari (shinji_ikari72@hotmail.com)
errrr no this story don't sit right with me you seem to forget that Ranma really didn't enjoy his curse infact the only part he liked about it was the treatment he got when he went out to eat or something. Your story is based around a completly f***** up idea that Ranma would actually even consiter having kids IN HIS GIRL FORM!!! What on f****** gods green earth gave you this f***** idea?!?! I sugguest a revise a complete revise. Instead make it so Terry's mother had some sort of fling with Ranma before she got married and Terry was the result. The story is still completly do able even though I don't like the idea of Ranma being with any on but Akane you can work it out to where she takes Terry and Matt to japan to visit an old friend (ranma) because his wife just died or got a devorce. It all works out the same basicly you'd have way more to work with than this trash plot. I mean with my idea here you can have a romace start between Ranma and terry's mother and have ranma train terry in the any thing goes style. thats what you were going for it seems in the first place.
To even think Ranma would embrace his girl form to bare children is completely laughable. If you don't belive me go watch or read the series again. In fact if your memory is up to par remember when Ranma was kissed by Mikado Sanzenin when he was a girl? he went berserk on his ass and hit him 518 times and all but destroyed the rink (in the manga any way). The only time ranma enjoyed being a girl was when he hit his head in the pond and thought he was a girl after waking up in girl form but this was ended after another blow to the head cured him. Long story short your idea has no grounds. I don't care what the other reviews say this is straight from the manga sitting infront of me.
If you want to do this idea then do it right and follow by what I sugguested.
Have a nice day
***
I don't appreciate reviews like this calling somebody's story trash nor do I appreciate all the cussing in it. Cussing in a story is one thing as long as it's rated properly but I do not approve of cussing like this in reviews, summaries or titles that are on this site. In fact, I believe it is against the rules if I'm not mistaken. The asterixes are censoring the words because I don't believe my story is rated high enough to have this kind of stuff in it.
It's good to have your own oppinion and everything and I do appreciate suggestions and such but stuff like this is completely uncalled for. This IS a fanfic which means many different things such as different realities in which anything is possible including Ranma having kids.
Take for example two of my favorite stories "Genma's Daughter" and "Equal Halves" where Ranma was actually born as a girl. That is completely different from the manga and are still great stories. If you'll looking for fanfic that follows the manga exactly I'm sure you'll find some but not many. I myself have read many Ranma fanfics and almost none of them followed the manga. Alternate Realities, divergences, cross-overs and fusions; almost none of those will follow the manga to a T.
You don't have to read a story if you don't like it and I'm sure nobody appreciates reviews left like this one. People who leave reviews like this one may try to make the author look like idiots but in fact all that they end up doing is making themselves look like mean jerks.
Crystal^_^
Chapter 2: Flashbacks
By Crystal Moon
6/10/2002
e-mail: crystalcollins19@hotmail.com
Batman Beyond belongs to whoever owns him and Ranma belongs to Rumiko. I do not own them so please don't sue me. I'm just a poor little girl who's doing this for fun.
I've gotten several e-mails and reviews (more that I thought possible, thanks people I appreciate it) and a good amount of them ask how Ranma became Terry's mom. I was originally going to write it in a little at a time throughout the story but I decided to answer that question with this chapter which, I'm sorry to say, is going to comprise mainly of flashbacks. Sorry to all those people who hate flashbacks.
It is a good idea to have Mary actually be Ranma's daughter but that wouldn't really work out well with what I have planned. It is a very good idea though.
However, out of the 25 reviews that I received so far there was one review I did not like which I responded to at the bottom. I appreciate all reviews even if they are a little negative but this one is just plain uncalled for and if I could remove it I would. I do not appreciate stuff like this and I'm sure no one else does either. Crystal^_^
***
Mary lied in her bed staring up at the ceiling thinking about the past, thinking of how much things changed. Thinking about how much she has changed in the past seventeen years. She was now a fashion model in one of the leading fashion magazines in Gotham City so she always had enough creds, she even had some put back for her two sons future education.
She rolled over on her side and stared at the picture on her nightstand. It had Warren, Terry, Matt and herself on it, all of them was dressed causually as the picture was taken during a picnic they had together several years after the divorce. In a way she blamed herself for Warren's death, if only they weren't divorced then maybe she could fight off the people who murdered him.
"I wonder how Akane and the others are doing?" Mary asked herself.
A tear fell from her eyes as she thought about the girl she left behind in Nerima, the girl she was going to spend her life with until Herb ruined it all. It was Herb's fault that she was trapped ads a female but at least the Musk Prince was now the Musk Princess since he was stuck as well.
**Flashback**
Ranma was so close to the kettle that would unlock the curse and she would be a he again, all she had to do was reach it before Herb did and she would be free. Ranma froze as a ki blast flew past her and struck the ground in front of her. Ranma whirled around to see another ki blast heading toward her.
"MOKO TAKABISHA!!" Ranma called out as she threw her own ki blast to intercept the oncoming attack. The two attacks collided with each other and resulted in a huge explosion that tore apart the mountain top along with her only hope of ever becoming male again.
When Ranma woke up she was in a hospital room surronded by Akane, Nodoka, Ukyo, Cologne and Soun. She looked up into her mother's tear stained face and froze as the woman held a old parchment in her hands.
"Ranma." Nodoka said, laying a tanto blade on the bed next to Ranma.
"M-Mom?" Ranma asked, somewhat weakly since her head was pounding with protest.
"Your father explained everything dear." Nodoka cried, "As soon as your out of hear you can go through with the ceremony."
"C-ceremony?" Ranma asked as the blood drained from her face.
"Your father and you made a promise…" Nodoka started before being cut off from her son turned daughter.
"Seppuku," Ranma whispered, "Y-you can't be serious!"
"Ranma." Cologne said pogoing over, "There is no other way to unlock the curse and since you're commiting Seppuku we're going back to China tonight. Your no longer a suitable husband for my Shampoo." As she poggoed out of the room Ranma could her her muttering, "What a waste."
"The school's will never be united now!!!" Soun wailed as Ukyo and Kasumi escorted him from the room.
"You c-can't be serious a-auntie." Akane sobbed.
"It is family honor." Nodoka said as she walked calmly out of the room.
"I'm so sorry Ranma!" Akane cried as she rushed over and embraced the red haired girl.
"It's all right, Akane." Ranma said returning the embrace.
"I l-l-love you." Akane said before kissing the red head deeply for the first and last time. Akane fled from the room in tears leaving Ranma alone to try and figure out what she was going to do. The only consolation she had was knowing that the Musk Prince was also trapped as a girl and more importantly was that Akane had truly loved her.
**End Flashback**
It was hard thinking about that even after seventeen years. That was the end of her life as Ranma and the birth of Mary Smith after she fled from Japan and to America. That was when she meet Warren who was at a bar that she was at drowning her sorrows during his seventeenth birthday, the idiot bartender didn't even bother to card her then.
**Flashback**
"Aren't you a little young to be in here?" A man asked sitting down next to her at the bar.
"Go way j-jerk." Ranma slurred, already pretty drunk.
The man ordered himself a beer and turned an appreciative eye back to the girl and smiled, "I am not a jerk and I am twenty one but how old are you? Sixteen, maybe seventeen?"
"Mind your own buisness!" Ranma snapped back at this annoyance.
"Warren." the man said.
"W-Warren what?" Ranma asked motioning for another beer from the bartender.
"That's my name." Warren said, "Warren McGinnis. I'm an executive over at Wayne Powers."
Ranma looked at this guy for a few moments and decided it would be nice to have somebody to talk to. "My name's Mary Smith."
The two made small talk while they both drank way more thatn they should of and they eventually left and Mary somehow ended up at Warren's apartment where they started making out. Something in the back of Mary's mind kept screaming at her but her drunken state combined with these new feelings that Warren's touch caused as he caressed her body overcame reason.
She woke up and was startled to find herself in an unfamiliar room with light filtering in through the curtains that covered the window. Her body was sore and it hurt a little when she stood up and noticed she was naked. She quickly threw on her clothes as she remembered what happened the previous night and almost threw up. When the man from the previous night came into the room carrying a tray with food and a single rose she bolted past him knocking him down.
For the awhile she struggled barely making ends meet when she started getting sick on a regular basis, especially in the mornings. She went to the emergency room and found out something that out something that scared her more than a room full of cats. She was pregnant.
She solemnly returned to her small apartment and almost broke down when she saw what meager belongings she had scattered in the hallway with an eviction notice taped to the door. She gathered her stuff and managed to stuff it all into a small pack and left. She knew she hadn't paid rent for the last two months but she was trying and truly thought that something like this wouldn't happen.
She walked down the darkened street until she bumped into the cause of all her problems, the jerk who took advantage of her while she was drunk. She growled and about pounded him when all the stress finally got to her and she collapsed into his arms crying loudly. After she cried herself out he asked if she was hungry which she gave an eager nod.
She easily polished off three sandwiches, a large fry, half of his large fry, a strawberry milkshake and a piece of apple pie.
"How long has it been since you've eaten?" Warren asked in shock.
"I'm eating for two now!" She snapped then regretted it immediately as the blood drained from his face.
"Am I, well…" Warren said.
"Yes!" she snapped again as a fresh wave of tears escaped. Warren moved to the other side of the booth next to her and held her making shushing noises and rubbing her back. At first she was going to finish what she was about to do earlier before giving into his embrace. For some reason it comforted her, it actually felt kind of good.
What was she thinking! She was a man, not a girl. Instead of pulling away she just cried harder. She was a girl now, there was no way to become a man again.
After she cried herself out and some serious discussions they decided to keep the baby, as if Mary would have had an abortion anyway. This child was innocent of all of this and deserved a chance at life and that brought another realization to her. This was 'her' baby, a living thing growing inside of her. That thought should of scared her more but it didn't, it only brought a warm smile to her face.
During the duration of her pregnancy she moved into the spare room in Warren's apartment where he took care of her. At first all the attention that he was giving her was really annoying but she slowly grew to like it. In fact, after a while she actually admitted to herself that she enjoyed it and enjoyed Warren's company. She was actually starting to like him.
Shortly before Terry was born Mary made an important descision, she decided to take Warren's offer of marriage because she didn't want Terry to grow up without a father and Warren was a kind, gentle man who really seemed to care. He wasn't likely to abuse their child like what her own father did to her. In a way, she was kind of lucky to have somebody like him.
After all, she was a girl now and she needed to accept it and move on with her life. She wouldn't forget her old family and friends and deffinately not Akane but she needed, she wanted to make her own family now and this was going to be the only way.
As soon as Terry was old enough Mary started teaching him the anything goes style of martial arts while her husband watched the two fondly. She was always encouriging her son with a kind word and never insulted his skill which was actually very good. Unfortunately, it wasn't to last long.
Shortly after having her second son they divorced and Terry moved in with his father which broke her heart. She still had Matt and counted her blessings on that even though she still missed Terry. After awhile, Warren started coming over with Terry and they did things as a family but they just couldn't reconcile their relationship.
Mary was glad when Terry moved back in with her but the circumstances of that hurt her deeply. Time after time she wondered if she would of just gave in and slept with Warren more often like he wanted then maybe they'd still be together and he'd still be alive. He may of said that that wasn't why he wanted the divorce but she knew better and that knowledge hurt alot and that hurt a lot.
She still stayed close with Warren's mother, after all the woman was responsible for Mary's career as a fashion model which paid a lot more that she could have ever imagine. Nabiki would probaly have a heart attack if she found out just how much Mary actually made doing hardly nothing at all.
**End Flashback**
She wondered why things had to turn out the way they did, it wasn't fair that Warren had to die like that. It hurt both her children badly, but it affected Terry even worse since he was the closest to his father.
She couldn't think of that at the moment, she had to get some sleep if she was going to start training Terry in the anything goes style of martial arts again starting tommorow and try and teach both of her children Japanese. After all, there wasn't much time left before there trip to Japan.
***
Shinji Ikari (shinji_ikari72@hotmail.com)
errrr no this story don't sit right with me you seem to forget that Ranma really didn't enjoy his curse infact the only part he liked about it was the treatment he got when he went out to eat or something. Your story is based around a completly f***** up idea that Ranma would actually even consiter having kids IN HIS GIRL FORM!!! What on f****** gods green earth gave you this f***** idea?!?! I sugguest a revise a complete revise. Instead make it so Terry's mother had some sort of fling with Ranma before she got married and Terry was the result. The story is still completly do able even though I don't like the idea of Ranma being with any on but Akane you can work it out to where she takes Terry and Matt to japan to visit an old friend (ranma) because his wife just died or got a devorce. It all works out the same basicly you'd have way more to work with than this trash plot. I mean with my idea here you can have a romace start between Ranma and terry's mother and have ranma train terry in the any thing goes style. thats what you were going for it seems in the first place.
To even think Ranma would embrace his girl form to bare children is completely laughable. If you don't belive me go watch or read the series again. In fact if your memory is up to par remember when Ranma was kissed by Mikado Sanzenin when he was a girl? he went berserk on his ass and hit him 518 times and all but destroyed the rink (in the manga any way). The only time ranma enjoyed being a girl was when he hit his head in the pond and thought he was a girl after waking up in girl form but this was ended after another blow to the head cured him. Long story short your idea has no grounds. I don't care what the other reviews say this is straight from the manga sitting infront of me.
If you want to do this idea then do it right and follow by what I sugguested.
Have a nice day
***
I don't appreciate reviews like this calling somebody's story trash nor do I appreciate all the cussing in it. Cussing in a story is one thing as long as it's rated properly but I do not approve of cussing like this in reviews, summaries or titles that are on this site. In fact, I believe it is against the rules if I'm not mistaken. The asterixes are censoring the words because I don't believe my story is rated high enough to have this kind of stuff in it.
It's good to have your own oppinion and everything and I do appreciate suggestions and such but stuff like this is completely uncalled for. This IS a fanfic which means many different things such as different realities in which anything is possible including Ranma having kids.
Take for example two of my favorite stories "Genma's Daughter" and "Equal Halves" where Ranma was actually born as a girl. That is completely different from the manga and are still great stories. If you'll looking for fanfic that follows the manga exactly I'm sure you'll find some but not many. I myself have read many Ranma fanfics and almost none of them followed the manga. Alternate Realities, divergences, cross-overs and fusions; almost none of those will follow the manga to a T.
You don't have to read a story if you don't like it and I'm sure nobody appreciates reviews left like this one. People who leave reviews like this one may try to make the author look like idiots but in fact all that they end up doing is making themselves look like mean jerks.
Crystal^_^