Robotech Nibunoichi: Chapter Three
By Valkryie01 ()
[Legal Stuff: Ranma 1/2 is created by Rumiko Takahashi and is distributed
In the US by Viz. Communications. Robotech is the property of Harmony Gold
with the novels written by Jack McKinney and published by Del-Rey. I'm
only borrowing these characters.]
****(Notes before you begin: The events in the Ranma 1/2 Anime/ Manga
takes place in 2010-2012 in this story to maintain continuity with the
Robotech storyline.)*****
(Previously in Robotech Nibunoichi: Tokyo was destroyed and the surviving friends and family of Mousse move to Macross City. They all are initially staying at the White Dragon, but the Saotomes' and the
Tendo sisters are feeling cramped and have been looking for a place to move in to. Ranma put Kyle down hard for threatening to hit Minmei.
Minmei and Nabiki hit it off and are good friends.)
June 2013
Akane and Ranma had grown much closer in the last few months, their meddling fathers being a non-issue now. Kuno for some reason had seemed interested in girls at the school other than Akane. He was still obsessed with the pig-tailed girl. He had seen Ranma-Chan dash inside after a sudden spring shower during gym class. Ranma had asked Kuno about this and he'd responded that because everybody that would have seen him as dishonored for giving up on Akane was dead that he no longer would try for her. Afterward, Kuno had attacked Ranma to try and free his pig-tailed goddess.
School had gone well for most of the Neriman teenagers. Nabiki and
Kuno had managed to graduate from Macross High School. Ranma, Akane and
Ukyo had just finished the year also and were looking forward to summer break. Mousse and Shampoo having never attended a real school were going to be stuck in summer school to catch up. Even with this they were still going to be a year behind the others. They had a Zentraedi classmate in
Kazianna Hesh though. But before anybody could enjoy summer break there was work to do.
Moving day was here again. This time though Ranma and his mother were moving into a place with the Tendo sisters. Ranma and his mother had found the house on the edge of town. The place was big enough to take both the Saotome and Tendo families. Nabiki had gone to negotiate the rent and finagled a contract for deed instead. (Basically rent-to-own for a house)
Ukyo had found an apartment in downtown Macross a few weeks before.
Konatsu had amazingly not moved into the same building but was living across town. The Amazons were going to continue to stay with the Lynn's at Mousse's request. Kuno had moved out of the restaurant only a couple of days after arriving, evidently some of his money had survived somewhere.
Nodoka had taken a job as a teacher at a local daycare and Akane was going to start a summer job there soon.
Nodoka had decided to throw a combination graduation (Nabiki
& Kuno) /beginning of summer/ housewarming party for everybody after getting settled in. Max and Lena had insisted on catering the event.
Minmei was going to perform for her friend Nabiki and had gotten permission to invite most of the SDF-1's bridge crew (Lisa, Claudia, Kim, Sammie, & Vanessa) and also the Skull leadership. (Rick, Manxman Miriya.) Little Jack Baker was also invited. Cologne had stayed behind to run the White Dragon.
Everybody was having a blast. The backyard of the house, a reproduction of the yard at the Tendo dojo back in Nerima, was decorated with lanterns, streamers, and balloons of many colors. Ranma and Akane had even danced together a couple of times. Ranma had seen how upset
Shampoo and Ukyo were over this and decided to intervene before the party was ruined. He dragged Akane, Mousse, and Konatsu around to the side of the house to suggest something.
"Akane I'm going to ask both Shampoo and Ukyo to dance with me,"
Ranma suggested, "And I'd like to tell you before so you won't get upset."
Akane was getting upset very quickly, Mousse a Konatsu saw what
Ranma was up to though and kept their mouths shut.
"Ranma, I thought we were making progress lately," Akane replied gritting her teeth.
"We are. That's why I'm telling you beforehand. I'll make it up to you with a slow dance. I don't plan on doing any of those with the other two. Hands off dancing only, okay," Ranma replied, "Mousse the reason I want to talk to you is that I want you to ask Akane to dance while
I'm with Shampoo and then dance with Shampoo while I dance with Ukyo.
Konatsu I want you with Ukyo while I'm with Shampoo or Akane.
Akane, I'll even dance with your sisters to show you that I'm not showing favorites to Shampoo or Ukyo okay. Please trust me?"
"Okay, I'll trust you just this once, Akane answered.
"Good plan Saotome," chimed in Mousse," this will be a great chance for me to get closer with Shampoo."
The plan was working out beautifully until Kuno showed up. (He was invited!) Tatewaki saw Ranma dancing with Ukyo and got quite upset.
Kuno thought," Here I do fellow survivor of Nerima a favor and give up chasing the beautiful Akane and now he chasing the other girls.
The wretch is not deserving of such good fortune and I shall punish him for his transgressions."
Kuno then spoke aloud, "Saotome how dare you show affections for another after I bequeathed the fair Akane to you!"
"Oh no," groaned everybody who knew Kuno. Nodoka chose this moment to intervene.
"Tatewaki Kuno, you will dishonor this house if you fight here today.
If you do such; I, being your guardian, will require that you commit
seppuku to regain your honor," Nodoka calmed her voice and continued," besides it's only proper that a manly host dance with all the girls."
Lynn-Kyle was quite upset. He brought his car to a screeching stop in front the Saotome/Tendo home. Minmei had cancelled a concert in Monument City to attend a housewarming party. Never mind that she had only postponed it one night and done those two months in advance. There was going to be hell to pay and these people from Nerima were going to pay up. Kyle proceeded quickly into the backyard.
Minmei stopped singing with a start when she saw Kyle. She hadn't expected him to be in town today and she was supposed to meet him in Monument City tomorrow.
Ranma had noticed the stop in the music and turned to face the rapidly approaching threat. He saw that Kyle was upset and out for blood. Ranma fell into a fighting stance. Ranma, for once, wished Cologne was here so she could just knock him out with her shiatsu point attacks.
Kyle threw a wicked right chop and it was immediately blocked by Ranma.
Ranma jumped over Kyle's head and came down behind him. Before Kyle could react, Ranma knocked him forward onto his stomach. Kyle lashed out with his left foot and knocked Ranma down next to the Koi pond.
Ranma was furious, he had been trying to hide his curse from the authorities and now the leaders of the RDF had almost seen him transform in person. He took this anger out on its cause, one Lynn-Kyle.
Ranma lashed out at Kyle with a vicious kick to the head. Kyle blocked this and returned the maneuver. Ranma was not about to be taken by his own tactics and decided to end this quickly but without, hopefully, much damage. He concentrated and then went into a Kachuu Tenshin Amaguriken; Kyle managed to block a few punches but the sheer speed of
Ranma's attacks were relentless. Kyle was quickly knocked out.
Rick and Max walked over and picked Kyle up. They looked at Ranma warily. Kyle had been Macross's most notorious fighter and had just been put down very quickly by this young man. Lisa walked up trying to figure out exactly what happened.
"I'm glad that's over, let's get back to partying," Ranma shouted.
Minmei was too shocked to sing. She'd seen her cousin take on some tough opponents and come out none the worse for wear, but Ranma had been unbelievable. She walked over to check on Kyle and found him to be only knocked out.
Kyle was taken to the White Dragon by Mousse and Lena. They returned to the party which had restarted in earnest.
When they got back Lynn-Max was apologizing to Ranma, "My son, Kyle, is such an embarrassment, he's gotta learn to let go sometimes.
"Yeah I know what you mean sometimes, I'm looking at a summer with nothing to do.
"Ya know I probably will need a delivery person over the summer.
Shampoo is good but her and Mousse's summer school classes in the daytime don't allow me to provide delivery during the day," Max informed Ranma.
Max then whispered, "I hate to say this about my son but Mousse is lousy at deliveries anyway because he refuses to wear his glasses in public."
Ranma stifled a laugh.
"I'd be pleased to help you out; I'll be there Monday morning."
Shampoo walked up," Ranma do I get my dance with you now?" Her
English and Japanese had come a long way since she started attending school with everybody else. The instructors had seen that she was intelligent and took it upon themselves' to help her with her language skills and she had made enormous strides.
Minmei finished her song and Nodoka walked up on stage and announced, "It's time to give Ms. Lynn a break. Let's do some karaoke for a while. Nabiki I believe that you asked to go first, didn't you?"
"Yes, I did," replied Nabiki as she took the stage. She started to sing the song she had selected.
Minmei was listening intently. She knew from speaking with Nabs that Nabiki was musically talented. She was surprised by her voice though, Nabiki could really sing. Minmei started thinking about something she wanted to ask her later on.
Ranma and Shampoo were dancing to the song. They barely paid any attention to the music. Ranma was trying his best to keep Shampoo's hands from his nether regions. Luckily Mousse had returned in time and had asked Akane to dance with him, thus is distracting her.
Ranma felt lucky when the song was over. Lisa had volunteered to go next. Mousse had snagged on to Shampoo for the next dance and Ranma had sneaked into the house. He ran into Rick who was coming out of the bathroom.
"Hey Ranma, I'd like to ask you something," inquired Rick.
"What?"
"Where did you learn to fight like that?" inquired the pilot.
"I've been training nearly my entire life. My father believed that the Art was all there is to life. Fighting against Cologne, Happosai and
Ryoga has also helped me greatly," Ranma answered, "and as far as I know
I'm the best there is. Well, except for possibly Cologne, but she's 300 years old.
"Hmm, I got an idea. How's about you teach me a little and I see if I can get you a ride in a Veritech with me or Max?" asked Rick.
"You can do that?"
"I don't think it'll be a problem. I mean Minmei and Lisa have been up and Max and Miriya take politicians flying with them all the time," replied Rick.
"Meet me here at 6:00 AM on every day, starting the day after tomorrow," Ranma instructed him and with that Ranma and Rick headed back outside to the party.
The rest of the night went smoothly. Akane got her slow dance and Kasumi even got in one short dance with Ranma. Shampoo even danced with Mousse. Nodoka was everywhere with everybody until it was all over.
Two days later on Sunday morning Rick was in the backyard at the Saotome residence to receive his first lesson. Ranma wasn't impressed at Rick's skills. Rick was in excellent shape but he was grossly untrained by Ranma's standards.
Ranma started Rick of doing some basic katas and made him practice them until they were perfect. Rick was a fast learner and was soon ready for the next part of Ranma's lesson. Things went very well from there and they called it quits at about 8 o'clock.
Rick and Ranma were also great friends by the end of that first morning.
Monday morning after finishing Rick's lesson Ranma showered, shaved both forms (face as a guy and legs as a girl) and dressed in his regular red shirt and black pants for work. Lynn-Max said to dress comfortably because he would be on the go almost all day. Ranma was right on time for work.
Ranma's first delivery was to the top floor of a local apartment building. He knocked on the door only to hear three bumbling idiots trying to all open the door at once. Rico, Bron, and Konda often ate at the White Dragon and when they found out that delivery was possible they ordered immediately. Much to their dismay Minmei was not the delivery person.
"White Dragon delivery for Rico, Bron, and Konda. That will be $25.50 please," Ranma stated to the three Zentraedi. They fumbled for the money and exchanged it for the food.
Ranma quickly found out that the Dragon was among the favorite eateries for "micronized" Zentraedi. Evidently it was widely known that
Minmei occasionally stayed there plus the addition of Cologne's cooking on top Max's and the new waitress in Shampoo had the place overflowing by the time Ranma was done. Ranma was also amazed by how much he'd made in tips too. He was thinking, "Man just the tips alone make this job great let alone the fact that Mr. Lynn is paying me."
The next few days were even better once word got around among the local offices that there was daytime delivery of the food. Mr. Lynn knew about the curse and Ranma decided to use this to his advantage. He often made deliveries to fancy offices in his girl form so as to get even better tips. Ranma had bought a bike after his second day working with some of his tip money to speed up his deliveries.
Things were going great until Ranma (in his guy form) met up with a disgruntled Zentraedi. Ranma didn't do anything more than be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Kevyn'Na was so sick of these weaklings that surrounded him. All these Micronians' talked about was peace. "How could I let myself be 'micronized'? How can I exist without war?" His Zentraedi conditioning had him just itching for a fight and he lashed out at the nearest object. This just happened to be Ranma on his bike.
Ranma went flying into a wall and the bike's wheels were bent beyond repair.
Ranma picked himself up and was pissed. This guy had destroyed his bike and attacked him. Ranma could've and would've let this slide except the guy was now attacking a little girl and her mother.
Kevyn'Na was still angry. He decided to see who else he could hurt. The next thing Kevyn'Na knew was the fact that this man was in front of him. Ranma lashed out with his right foot and tagged the guy. Kevyn'Na went down and rolled back out what he thought was of Ranma's reach. The girl and her mother wisely ran away.
Rick and Lisa were out enjoying a rare afternoon off. They heard a commotion and rushed to see what was going on. They turned a corner and saw Ranma taking on a Zentraedi factory worker.
"Isn't that the Ranma guy you're taking lessons from?" Lisa inquired.
"Yea it is," replied Rick," This won't last long I bet."
Ranma darted forward and punched the Zentraedi in the gut. Kevyn'Na countered with a hard right cross. Ranma simply ducked, this guy was so easy that Ranma was actually starting to have fun with it.
Rick stated, "I think Ranma's toying with him."
"Why do you say that?" asked Lisa.
"Remember, this is the guy who can take down Lynn-Kyle. You think that
A Zentraedi malcontent is going to be a threat against him?"
"Oh yeah, this should be fun to watch." replied Lisa.
Ranma finished this guy off quickly, but not before a friend of
Kevyn'Na's saw him go down. Quinlan'n was pissed and a full size Zentraedi to boot.
Ranma's danger sense was going nuts. He spun around and darted to the side just in time to avoid being stepped on.
Lisa saw the full size malcontent and whipped out her cell phone to call headquarters.
"Sammie, get a pair of Destroids to the intersection of Fokker street and Elm."
"On their way boss," came the reply.
Ranma was thinking, "Oh shit, I'm in trouble." He decided to fight on anyway. Ranma knew that conventional attacks were not going to amount to spit against this guy. He started off by jumping up and performing a
Kachuu Tenshin Amaguriken on the giant's gut. Ranma noticed that the guy was pissed and started to work a spiral pattern around the guy. When
Ranma had calmed himself and cooled his Chi he cut loose with a Hiryu Shoten Ha (Rising Dragon Hurricane and picked Quinlan'n up off his feet.
Ranma then drew on all his confidence and launched a Moko Takabisha
(Fierce Tiger Ball) and knocked him out with the blast.
Rick and Lisa were stunned. They couldn't believe their eyes. Ranma had just used energy attacks that were more powerful than some of the new handheld laser weapons being developed by Dr. Lang. They ran over to find out what the hell was going on.
"Ranma Saotome, just what the hell was that?" asked Lisa Hayes.
Ranma spun around and say Lisa and Rick approaching him quickly and replied, "Oh hi guys. Just a little fight, nothing to worry 'bout."
Lisa was exasperated, she turned to Rick and said, "'Just a little fight' he says. He takes out a full size Zentraedi with his bare hands and all he has to say is 'Just a little fight.'"
Ranma just said, "Aw heck, what did I do now?"(1)
"Ranma I think she means what were those attacks and how did you do them?" Rick told Ranma.
"Oh those, I learned those from Cologne. When your training is far enough along I could teach them to you," Ranma replied cockily.
Lisa gathered her wits and then said in a commanding tone," Ranma, I think you need to come with us."
Chapter 4: Introspections coming soon.
(1) I know it's a cheesy outtake from the series but I couldn't resist.