Ifurita and Master Roshi made their way thru the throngs of people that were exiting the stadium after the news was broadcast that the final match between Goku and Hercule was canceled because Goku pulled out. It wasn't easy for them as the teeming masses were going one way and the two interdimensional travelers were attempting to go in the other direction. "Come on Roshi-sensei," the pale android woman said as she griped his hand as she pulled him thru the crowded mob.
Roshi for his part was grinning from ear to ear at the pale skinned beauty holding on to his hand, sure she was just trying to make sure they were not separated but hey he thought, 'I'll take what I can get.' Ifurita glanced back at the perverted master and frowned, 'why are all old martial artists perverts?' she thought. "Muten Roshi," she called out sharply to get his attention, when he looked up she continued, "If you are done feeling my hand perhaps we could get on to the task at hand, humm?"
"Cough, cough, yes… uhm… sorry lets find the others," he said with a slight blush. With the two of them working together they were able to make it to the wall that surrounded the ring. Not caring who was watching the two of them slipped over the wall and down to the grass that surrounded the ring. As they made their way over to the fighter's waiting room the two of them reflected on all that may await them inside, and hoped that they may be able to forgo a huge brawl before they left a reality.
Surprisingly enough they were not stopped by any of the monks that managed the event and soon they were at the door to the waiting room, just in time to hear Krillan say, "what do you know about alternate realities." Upon hearing that the two of them glanced at each other and strode inside to see the large group of fighters along with Chi-chi and another young woman they had never seen before as they confronted their two friends. "Hello sorry to intrude," Ifurita said with a disarming smile, "Ranma, Krillan are the two of you all right?"
Ranma glanced over to the door to see his two other friends and he smiled, "yes Ifurita we're fine, come on in and help us translate things into baka, for the broom head over there," Ranma said with a nod towards a fuming Vegeta.
Only Human
By Verse12
Verse12(at)Hotmail(dot)Com
Disclaimer:
By do not own these characters nor do I claim too, this is a simple fan based homage. Their creators and the companies they work for and with own the characters and all that pertains to them. (I.E. Rumiko Takahashi, Viz, Shougakukan, Pioneer LDC, Hiroki Hayashi, Ryoe Tsukimura, Akira Toriyama, Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Artmic, Youmex, Bandai, C2) This is just fans of the shows expressing their love for it for fun, no profit is involved or expected thank you.
Chapter Thirteen
Ranma & Ifurita's Excellent Adventure Special
Or
Cool Down Part One
Bulma sat in the luxury box with the other Z-Senshi and their families and thought over the events of the last few hours. They had all come to see this new human fighter that Goku said could rival even a Saiya-jin. And while the others seemed to believe that the boy Uub was the one, and he probably was, two other fighters had popped up and astounded them all. One had defeated Goten while the other had actually beaten Mr. Buu and held his own with Goku for a short time.
Bulma listened to the others as they talked and debated over things that had happened. But all conversation came to a stop when Vegeta's thunderous roar is heard from the waiting room downstairs, "YOU DARE! YOU WILL DIE!"
Bulma sighed and stood up gathering Bra and turning to the others, "come one lets go see what's got him so riled up now." Leading her daughter with her the blue haired scientist walked out the door, muttering to herself about how much trouble 'That Man' could be.
Piccolo followed her out but not before wrinkling his nose at the wet spot that had appeared on Yamcha's pants, after Vegeta's booming pronouncement. The others followed soon after and the group tromped downstairs. "This is such a bad idea," this universe's Krillan said with shake of his head, as he followed his wife and daughter with the others.
When Bulma arrived at the back door to the waiting room, she just shook her head and sighed, Vegeta was struggling to get at a surprisingly unafraid Ranma. Her husband was being held back by Goku, Gohan, Goten and Trunks.
"Is he insane," she heard her long time friend Krillan whisper from her elbow as he beheld the new guys calm attitude at being inches away from Vegeta's wrath.
"Who knows," she said before she took a big breath and hollered, "VEGETA SIMMER DOWN OR… YOU… WILL… BE…SORRY!"
With that Vegeta froze in place turned his head to his wife, "you heard me buster," she repeated. "But," he began as he was still held in place by the other Saiya-jin, "NO BUTS MISTER!" his wife roared. "Now are you going to behave yourself? Or are the boys going to have to hold on to you till New Year?"
At some imperceptible lessening of his anger Bulma nodded to the men holding her husband and they gradually let him loose, "that's better, now" she said turning to the new guys, "what's going on here? I haven't seen him this worked up in years."
"Uh, sorry that would be my fault," Ranma said with a sheepish grin.
"And who are all of you?" Bulma said with an exasperated tone of voice.
"Uh, that is kind of a long story," Ranma stated sheepishly, "well first off we don't mean any harm. We're just kind of passing through here and we wanted to, well I wanted to join the Budokai."
"Mom, he mentioned something about 'Alternate Realities' a minute ago," Trunks replied as he strode over to his mother and sister.
"Alternate Realities?" the scientist in her questioned back.
"Yeah, know anything," the former neriman said back with a cautious air.
"Well," the blue haired woman said with a frown, "only just the general theories that science has speculated over for some time. Are you trying to say…?"
"Well… yeah," Ranma confirmed.
"Yeah right," Vegeta fumed from across the room as he stood with his arms crossed. "You expect us to believe this crap? What are you really after, you seem smart enough in your own way, you know you can't beat us in a straight up fight, so what is you plan, huh?"
Ranma sighed and shook his head before he looked at Goku, "I promised you I'd be straight with you and I am going to do so, whether 'his majesty'," he said mockingly, "believes me or not I don't care."
"Okay." Goku nodded as he studied the four unknowns in the room seriously, before he looked at the old man next to the pale woman, "JACKIE CHUNG!" he shouted in shock. "I haven't seen you since I was a kid, WOW, it's great to see you again. Where have you been?"
At this oblivious statement everyone and I mean everyone sweat-dropped and shook their heads in exasperation. Well everyone but the Roshi of this world, he shouted, "WHAT!" And the old pervert stalked over to the… other old pervert and proceeded to try and rip off the wig on 'Jackie's' head. After a brief scuffle and a sore head on the part of 'Jackie'
"Before we go off on two long of a tangent," Krillan interjected, "lets just cut to the chase. We're all from alternate realities, I'm Krillan Chestnut just like the little scaredy cat over there," he didn't pause at the other Krillan's audible objection to that comment, he just kept talking. "And he's master Roshi," he said as he pointed to the one rubbing his head after he had his wig yanked off, "just like the one from here."
"MASTER ROSHI IS JACKIE CHUNG!" Goku shouted in shocked disbelief.
"Great Goku it only took you thirty years to figure that out," Bulma said in resigned incredulity."
"Forget that," she continued, "What did you mean that you are all from alternate realities, how is that even possible, how do you cancel out the standsmore laws of continuity.
"How is a long story," Ifurita introduced herself into the conversation, "and as to the technical aspects, well we have a little time and if you want we can get together and discuss it later. I expect that Goku-san and the others would not be very interested in those more scientific aspects of pan reality travel."
"And as for an explanation of what do we mean that we are all from alternate realities… well just that," she continued. "For every choice there are possibilities and for every possibility there is a universe."
"How many of these other realities are there," Piccolo interjected from his place by the wall across from Vegeta. His concern over security and possible enemies from these other realities are plainly evident.
"It's limitless actually," Ifurita, replied, "some are very much like the world you know, with duplicates of yourselves like the Krillan and Roshi we have here with us. While others are so different that you wouldn't recognize anything."
"YOU AREN'T BUYING THIS CRAP ARE YOU!" Vegeta roared… again. "TELL ME THE TRUTH!" He said as he grabbed Ifurita by the throat.
Vegeta ignores the screams and yells from the others to let her go, a woman who to their senses was so weak that they couldn't even get a reading on her. All except one, Ranma… who calmly began to speak, "Ifurita," she moved her eyes over to Ranma, when he spoke. "I think twenty seconds of combat mode would be alright, don't you?" He said.
With that a glint appeared in her eyes and her tone turned cold and mechanical, "Acknowledged and engaged."
With that her arm flashed out and knocked Vegeta's arm away before she drove a stiff-arm blow into his jaw that knocked him momentarily airborne. Before he could move more than a couple of feet off the ground she jumped up and delivered a floating round house kick to the back of his head sending him into the floor.
Vegeta was stunned that this little slip of nothing girl was beating on him, but before he could get his bearings she was on him again. She kneed him in the face and grabbed him in an arm bar maneuver that held him face down on the ground.
'Never,' Vegeta thought, 'Never again,' his thoughts returning to when android 18 humiliated him and broke his arm, years ago. 'NEVER AGAIN,' his thoughts raged and he powered up with a roar as he flipped her to the ground. But she twisted around and landed on her feet with a smirk, Vegeta was quickly restrained by Goku and the others.
"How, How, How," the Krillan of this universe stuttered in shock over seeing a little slip of nothing woman wail on Vegeta.
"CAUSE SHE'S A #&ING ANDROID, YOU IDIOT," Vegeta screamed in rage from his place being restrained by Goku and the others.
All movement freezes in the room at this statement, their eyes track toward the pale woman in her sundress. They watch as she straightens her dress and dusts it off from where it had gotten mussed. She picked up her sun hat from where it had fallen on the floor, she looked up and smiled, "Vegeta is quite correct."
All the fighters released Vegeta and subtlety moved in front of all the non-combatants to protect them.
Ifurita smiled sweetly and non threateningly, "I am an Android," she said, "my apologies, I haven't introduced myself. My name is Ifurita, it's a pleasure to make your acquaintance," she finished with a gracious bow.
All of the Z-Senshi are kind of frozen in shock, here is what they thought was an enemy, but what kind enemy politely introduces themselves in such a manner.
Android # 18 broke the impasse, she moved her daughter Marron behind her husband and took a couple of steps forward. "So, were you created by Doctor Gero as well," she asked in her typically emotionless manner, though an edge of leery curiosity tinges her voice.
"Oh no," Ifurita giggled, "I'm much more advanced than something he could have created."
"Oh! No offense was intended," she added on seeing the huffy expression that appeared on #18's face.
"No I and the others of my kind were created in another reality on a world called El-Hazard. We were used as terrible weapons in a horrific war where we had no control over our actions. In the end that civilization fell and I was sealed away for the protection of what was left. Thousands of years passed until a young man awakened me with a kind and noble heart named Makoto. But unfortunately his enemy gained control of me and used me against Makoto's friend's people."
"Makoto had a special power, he could mentally connect to machines, he… saw… my soul and he… reached in… and freed me," she mumbled.
"Those enemies were defeated using a giant satellite from the old civilization, it was called the eye of god. A weapon that creates and manipulates cross-dimensional apertures, but another group sabotaged it to go haywire."
She looked at the listening fighters and continued her story, "one of my abilities is to be able to copy any notable technique of mechanical based energy signature."
"WOW," Bulma and Gohan interjected in unison at this.
"Yes WOW," Ifurita said with a smile at the two, she realized that they were the only ones who really understood exactly what that entailed.
She continued her story, "I was low on power but I knew what I had to do. To stop the rampaging device I used my abilities, I merged with the eye and shut it down. But in the process I was shunted to another reality, there I slept for another 10,000 years till I was awakened by my love, Makoto.
"You see Makoto wasn't from El-Hazard, he was from the same world, Earth, as Ranma here," she said with a nod at Ranma. And I… I was the one who sent him and his friends to El-Hazard in the first place, completing the circle of causality.
"Oh this is just so stupid," Vegeta interrupted in exasperation.
"If you would just let me finish, I believe things would be made clear," Ifurita said with exasperation at the Sayia-jin prince's attitude.
"All I hear is blah, blah, true love, blah, blah, blah," the prince said to her mockingly. "Look this is obviously a trick of some kind, and a stupid one at that," he said to the others, "lets just kill them and be done with it, I hungry and am tired of this idiocy."
"Now look here, I'm sorry for pushing your buttons earlier," Ranma said, "it's a bad habit I've had since I was a kid. But you don't have to worry about us; we aren't even planning on staying here for long we're just passing through this reality on our way to our destination. Me and the Vegeta back home were always arguing back and forth over everything, and its hard to separate people that you know from those that don't know you when you're traversing realities like we've been doing."
He looked intently at the Sayia-jin prince and continued, "look we're just being honest here, and if you don't want to believe us… well that's your problem. You know Krillan and my strength and well Master Roshi's good an all but hardly a world shaking threat, unless you're a dirty magazine that is," he said with a chuckle. "And as for Ifurita," he said looking at her, he saw her nod of permission and he continued, "well her systems are kind of damaged right now, that's one of the things we are hoping to fix when we get back to Makoto. She's operating on really low power and most of her combat systems are off line or jury rigged to let her do the little bit you saw."
He sees their listening and sees he's getting through to them so he continued; "look as much as I hate to admit it I have to agree with Vegeta on something."
He grinned at all their shocked looks, even Vegeta looked stunned, "I'm starving too, lets get something to eat, we can talk about all this there, okay?"
Grumbles fill the air from stomachs of all of those with Sayia-jin blood, the grumbles were even louder than the face faults from Ranma's comments, "OH YEAH, that's a GREAT idea," Goku yelled happily as he rubbed his stomach.
Bulma sighed in exasperation, "okay guys, I know a place near here, lets go," she smiled.
"And it'll be my treat," Ranma smiled as all the humans stopped and stared at him. "Uh? Do you know, how much Sayian's eat?" The Krillan of this world said in stunned shock.
"Oh yeah," Ranma grinned, "we have a ton of Zeni with us and its next to useless on my home world, so I figure what the heck."
"OH YEAH," Goku grinned as he rubbed his hand together in glee.
"If I hadn't seen it I wouldn't have believed it," Videl said in a stunned tone.
The other human's around the big table just nodded their heads in unison. Their one or two plates had been removed some time ago after they had finished, and as usual those of Sayia-jin blood were still going strong, eating plate after plate, bowl after bowl. But what wasn't usual was the fact that Ranma had a nice little collection of plates and bowls in front of him as well. While it was nowhere near as big or as expansive as the Sayian's portions it was pretty impressive.
"Ranma has always been a big eater," the master Roshi of Ranma's world said with a smile as he talked with his counterpart of this world.
"You sure he don't have any Saiyan blood?" Yamcha asked Ranma's Krillan, who was seated next to him.
"HAH, no he's only human," Krillan, said with a smile.
"Woo," the man in question said as he pushed his last plate away from him, as the Sayian's kept on going. "Yeah," he said with a smile, "I burn a lot of calories, and have a really high metabolism so I can keep up with them in their eating for a while but no where near the amount they can pack away."
"Thank you for the meal," Chi-chi said with politeness, "having someone else feed that vacuum of a husband of mine is a welcome treat. And I thank you for convincing him of not going off on some foolhardy crusade again."
"It's nothing," Ranma demurred.
"I would like to know how you copied my voice though," she asked.
"Well as I said before," the man in question began, "the way we travel has certain side affects. The energies in harnessed by Ifurita in cross dimensional travel has the affect of imprinting one unique… I guess you could call it a 'Super Power' on those who travel using it. Her Makoto gained his machine mind power thingy his best friend got the power to see through all illusions while his schoolteacher got some kind of super strength."
"So you got the power of super impersonation/ventriloquism," Trunks said between bites.
"I guess you could call it that," Ranma nodded as he popped a small bite of bread into his mouth.
"So what power did the two of you get," Bulma asked the other two dimensional travelers.
"Uhm well," Krillan said with a blush as Roshi said, "well you see." They looked at each other and kind of blushed, "we haven't exactly figured it out yet," Krillan said with an embarrassed grimace.
"How is that possible anyway," Android 18 asked. "Well its not like growing wings or something," the blonde haired Krillan with a nose said. "It could be something mental like seeing through illusions is, we'll find out what it is eventually."
"You never finished your story Ifurita," Bulma asked the pale android woman who sat across from her. "How did Ranma here come into thing?" She said with a nod at the man in question, she wasn't sure if she believed them yet but she had decided to give them the benefit of a doubt… for now.
"Well I sort of fell into a very tender moment," Ranma interjected with a grin from his seat on the other side of the table. At their quizzical expressions Ifurita began her tale again from her place between Ranma and Android 18.
"I had sent my Makoto and his friends across time and space to El-Hazard, so that he could free me in the first place. But the story didn't end there; after I had left El-Hazard Makoto tried his hardest to figure out a way to use the eye of god to come after me. And after a few years and several adventures he managed discover how to use my power key staff that I had left behind as a key for using the eye."
She looked around at the twenty or so people at the massive table in the private dinning room in the restaurant Bulma had taken them too. Some of them believed her she could tell that, while others still were not convened, so she did all that she could, she kept telling their tale.
"I had stumbled away from the place where I had slept for so long, outside I leaned against a fence as my power finally started to die completely. As the sun began to rise he appeared before me," she blushed and looked down at the table her hands began fiddling with a chopstick, in her nervousness.
"He got to me just minutes after I had sent him away, after our reunion he got out the power key staff he had brought with him. I need that to recharge," she explained to gathered Z-Senshi, "he began to recharge me with it but in the middle of my recharge we were interrupted by Ranma here," she indicated Ranma who nodded sheepishly. "I upset my then fiancé… she kind of, hit me several miles away with a mallet," Ranma said with a grimace of remembered pain.
"HAH!" Vegeta barked in laughter, Ranma just cast a glare at the prince.
On hearing of how Ranma had his impromptu flight all the women got interested looks on their faces. The significant others of the women failed to hide their grimaces at how interested the women were in tales of mallets.
Ifurita smiled and took over the explanation to the others, "Ranma crashed right into us and cracked the containment field around my power staff. The area was highly sensitized to cross-dimensional travel due to Makoto's travel from El-Hazard. The residual energies of his travel mixed with the uncontrolled energy that leaked from my staff and caused a Pan-Dimensional Explosion."
"My own nature protected me from it while Makoto's recent travel had sheathed him a protective aura of sorts," she continued with a glance at Ranma. "Ranma on the other hand… didn't have that protection, now we don't know why but for some reason he didn't end up in El-Hazard, something… reflected him away from going there out into the unknown regions of the multi-verse. He ended up on a world just like this one… only more than thirty years in the past.
Bra sighed as she listened to the romantic tale being told by the pale android woman. She Marron and Pan were seated at a small table off to the side. "Isn't it romantic," she said breathily as she leaned over to whisper to Pan.
"Uh, I donno," the black haired girl said with a shrug, "their could a been some more fights or stuff." Then she began looking for any food left behind on the volumeus plates and bowls she had finished.
"You are so immature," the little Saiya-jin princess said with a disgusted smile, as she listened in on the grown ups discussion.
Meanwhile, Goku looked confused and commented hesitantly, "uh… I don't remember ever meeting you before?"
Ranma nodded and looked over at him from his place at the other end of the table, "that's because it was in an alternate reality."
"Oh I see," Goku said with a grin, as he seemed to understand. Everyone went back to looking at Ifurita as she prepared to start her tale again, only she was interrupted by Goku, who once again looked confused.
In fact he raised his hand like if he was in school or something, much to the amusement of some of his compatriots. Ranma sighed good-naturedly and asked, "Yes Goku?"
"Uhm… I don't understand," the Saiya-jin confused.
"OH GEEZE," Vegeta groaned in disgust at Goku's apparent idiocy.
"What don't you understand," Ranma said with great patience.
"Uh, well Ifurita said we met when I was a kid and then you said I couldn't remember because it's an alternate reality," Goku explains the nature of his confusion.
"That's right," Ranma nodded.
"Okay," Goku said like he understood, everyone began to turn back to the discussion but then he asked, "Okay so… what's an alternate reality?"
Face faults abound in the room, "I mean everyone's been talking about it all night but I don't understand what all the hoopla is about, what is it?" Goku said with a confused explanation.
Vegeta stood up and roared, "you stupid lame brain…" he began only for Bulma to put her arm out to silence him. "Goku," she said, "the theory goes," she paused at this and looked the travelers, "well I guess it's more than just a theory. Well for every choice you make a new reality is created until you have an infinite number of realities, you see?"
Goku leaned his head to the side and scrunched up his nose, as he seemed to reflect on this for a moment, "no idea," he exclaimed with a sunny smile.
"Ohhh," Chi-chi groaned in exasperation, "let me try."
And try she did, and when that didn't work Gohan took a shot, nothing they tried seemed to get through to him. Vegeta seemed to get angrier and angrier and just before he exploded Ranma stood up from his seat and walked over to where Goku was seated at the end of the table.
"Goku," he said as Goku turned his chair toward Ranma who had crouched down in front of him and was looking him in eye. "Let me try to explain it to you," he said with a cheeky grin.
He stood up and grabbed an empty plate from in front of Goku he placed several items on it, a spring roll, some noodles and a few other assorted items, he placed this in front of Goku. "Okay Goku look at this plate," when he did Ranma continued, "imagine that this plate is the whole universe and that all of the things on it are everything in it. This bit of chicken lets say is New Namek and that this strawberry here is earth and these other things are other planets, do you understand?"
"Uh," Goku nodded with a grin as he paid attention to the food and by association the story.
"Okay," Ranma continued as he took another plate and placed the exact same things on it at as were on the first plate except for a peach pit some Sayian had left on the table. He placed that plate next to the first, "now Goku what's different between these two plates?"
"Uhhh, this one has an old peach pit on it?" Goku answered in hopeful expectancy as if he expected to be wrong. When Ranma said he was right he grinned so happily that Ranma grinned back and said he did good. "Now Goku if this first plate we're pretending is the universe, we'll also pretend that this second plate is whole different universe and its just like the one you know except that this one has this peach pit," Ranma grinned evilly at the confused Vegeta at this point.
"Lets pretend that in this second universe the planet Vegeta wasn't destroyed that's what the planet Vegeta is a big old peach pit," Ranma kept on grinning as he heard Vegeta grumble angrily.
"So…" Goku answered oblivious to the by play between Ranma and Vegeta, "what you're saying is that." He paused and looked back and forth between the two plates, parts of his brain not used for anything but eating getting more use than ever. "There are two… separate universes, that this is an 'alternate reality,'" Goku grinned up at Ranma with a childish grin seemingly very pleased.
"YOU GOT IT," Ranma grinned and threw his arms around Goku in a hug, he was so excited he seemed to forget that this wasn't his Goku.
And Goku was pretty shocked himself, here he was with this virtual… stranger, and he was hugging him. His shock really grew when the forty something year old man suddenly became a short 'cough' HEALTHY 'cough' redheaded teenager. "I've always told you that you can do anything," the man turned woman pulled back and looked Goku in the eye, "you are a smart man, you can do anything you want."
Goku was stunned, here he was a grandfather and this is the very first time anyone had told him he was smart. He didn't know what to say or do he just looked into her smiling eyes and he felt incredibly emotional, "thank you," he managed to choke out.
"Hey that's what's big sisters are for, you know?" she said with a loving grin.
"Big Sister?" Goku questioned.
"Of course," she said with a tilt of her head in confusion at his question. "What's wrong anyway, we went over all of this a long time ago?"
"…?" The man being questioned just looked back at her in stunned silence.
"Don't you remember?" She said with a cute frown. "Did you hit your head again or something?" she commented as she ran her hand through his hair, as she checked for any injuries.
"A hit on the head might help him," Vegeta interjected sarcastically.
"Be quiet you, you, you BROOM-HEADED BAKA," she shouted back. "My little brother Goku is Very smart," she said to the short man she had never seen before.
The Krillan not native to this universe just shook his head, "Akane-chan," he muttered in a melancholy tone at her appearance. After he heard her cheesy reply to Vegeta he muttered to his master Roshi, "she still has no ability at comebacks or put downs."
Roshi nodded his head sagely, "she has to sweet a nature to be any good at it," he said to Krillan before he returned his attention to the situation and both of them wondered if they needed to intervene, and what Ranma's female persona's reappearance again portended.
"WHAT DID YOU CALL ME YOU LITTLE &(#," Vegeta roared… again.
Several of Vegeta's allies of this universe began to chuckle if not outright laugh at the cute little put down on the Sayia-jin prince.
"Goku is very smart, he just needs special teaching due to his brain damage when he was a small child," she said in a stern tone of voice as she marched over to Vegeta. And even though he was not a tall man he was still about half a foot taller than the petite young woman, so he looked down on the angry and frowning face.
"Oh Really," he said snidely.
"Yes he is," she answered back, "I took several classes on dealing with children with disabilities and with problems learning. And because of that Goku not only graduated from Orange Star high school, he did so in the top third of his class."
This statement left the Z-senshi of this universe stunned at the prospect of this, in fact if Vegeta put on a frilly pink dress and skipped off to pick flowers in a meadow, they could not be more stunned.
When Vegeta heard this he took a step back in confusion, a frown on his face, "what…" he said in confusion at the odd statements from the man turned woman.
"Akane-chan?" Krillan called out at this point before anyone got more confused.
"Krillan?" she said when she turned to him, "I… saw you… earlier, at some kind of… tournament, how did you get a nose… what's going on?" she asked in confusion and a little evident fear at her sudden displacement in her eyes.
"Akane-chan?" he called out again as he got near her and placed a hand on her shoulder. "What's going on, I didn't think you could ever… you know… come out again. Not after what happened… you know, before?"
"Before?" she said confused as she put a hand to her head as if in pain, "I… I… don't know what's going… going… on," as she muttered this she fell into Krillan's arms as she passed out.
Moments later her eyes opened again only this time the look in their depths was different, "it happened again, didn't it?" Ranma questioned as he stood up with Krillan's help and with a frown of concentration he shifted himself back to male form.
Krillan just looked gravely up at his long time friend and nodded gravely.
"$#&>," Ranma cursed uncharacteristically in depression.
To be continued:
In Only Human: Chapter 14
A scene from chapter 14
"Yeah, in our reality Goku and Bulma got married," Ranma, said nonchalantly with a smirk.
"KAKKAROOOTTTTT!" Vegeta roared, "YOU AND MY WIFE! YOU… ARE… A… DEAD MAN!" With this Vegeta's power exploded in a torrent of energy as he flew at Goku with all of his strength.
Endnotes:
Soooo once again they still haven't moved on yet, This chapter just kept getting longer and longer so I decided to break it up so you guys can get an update sooner. BUT let me tell you that the next chapter will be the last one in this particular dimension… for sure. At the end of the next chapter they will move on to Ranma's home universe, I've been waiting for several years to be able to write that bit, I can't wait.
On that note this one was done fairly quickly for me lately, all of the great reviews and comments you have made have helped fuel my fire for writing.
In that vein here is a new section where I respond to those reviews.
Silverscale – thanks for understanding, hope this one wasn't so long a wait.
Gate – Yep as you can see this story is continuing, sorry I couldn't update 'Sundered' yet for you. But cause you asked me so nice I am moving it up on the list of things to work on.
Ebona Nite – Thanks for the compliment, and your right Ranma DBZ fics where he's not a Sayian are few and far between.
Happosai-sama – Well I'm glad to have you hooked and hope you like where things are going. Right now Ranma is a little fish in a big pond of DBZ but in his home universe he will be a big fish in a little pond. Will he be able to cope with that. Ranma is in his early forties now. And as for love interests… well he hasn't been dateless for twenty some years lets just say that. Also there is something I like to term 'The Nature of Things' in the DBZ universe events follow a typical pattern and in the Ranma universe another pattern. One thing the Ranma universe is known for; it's multiple relationship issues. And once Ranma gets back well those patterns will show up again although in the same way they did when he was a teenager. So let's just say things won't go as he hoped they would. Thanks.
Fallendrgn – here you go, hope you like it.
Also while I have some ideas as to the powers that Krillan and Roshi will acuire from transit using the eye of god power. I'm interested in if you all have any idea's, Let me know, okay?
Also a special thanks to my pre-readers Skunktrain and Taurock and of course Yonkokoro for all of their good ideas and work.
Thanks again, later.
Signed: Verse12