Welcome and enjoy the fifth chapter of Festival, this chapter was originally 13000 plus words so I broke it in half so I could release this segment now while I tidy up the last portion.

Disclaimer, I do not own Sailor Moon, Ranma ½, Quantum Leap, Seven Days, or Married with Children.

Also take into consideration this fact and it might help you enjoy the story more, when Al Bundy went to England the guy from lower Upton introduced himself as Salem or Winston well Al with his impeccable manners cept calling the guy, Marlboro, Newport, Benson and Hedges ect. Ect.

Also, Sam does not leap into the actual body of the person whose life he leaps into, I realize the area is a bit fuzzy but evidence from the show shows this to be true. A few examples: Sam leaped into an amputee who had lost both of his legs, before he leapt he stood up and was able to run. Also during the show Sam fathered a few children and Al informs him that those children wind up with his high iq but does not mention DNA. So if that is true then how is it that Sam appears as he does, it was explained that there is a self sustaining hologram around Sam. Also it has been shown that little children and crazy people can hear and see both Sam and Al as they truly are.

And finally I would like to thank James Axelrad for his help with the fine-tuning of this fic.

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Ranma was having the strangest dream, he thought he was laying in a cloud traversing the skies, when suddenly it was as if someone had managed to hook him with a fishing line and was trying to real him in. In his dream he felt so warm and comfortable that he did not try to fight the fisherman and allowed himself to be reeled in without a struggle.

Hotaru huffed in aggravation, how was she going to sacrifice herself when trying as hard as she could she could not even get the hunk of a mans boots off. Wiping a bead of sweat off of her head she signed again and thought, "So much for getting his boots off. I guess I'll just have to leave them on…"

Suppressing a slightly perverted giggle Hotaru stared at the not so confining cloth covering the man's manhood. She was nervous and had opted to stall a little by trying to take the mans boots off as she was feeling slightly uncomfortable with making out with the guy in his sleep.

It wasn't that she felt anything wrong about doing it while the man was asleep, no it was more a personal preference, after all she preferred to be awake when her momma and poppa did the same thing to her so it really was just a matter of personal preference.

Sighing forlornly that the man was not going to be waking up any time soon, Hotaru relented on the issue of the boots and allowed her Sailor transformation to fade away before going to her closet to look for something special to wear. Because even if the stubborn man was going to lay there sleeping while she sacrificed herself for the betterment of the future, she at least should have something special on.

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Earlier

Nodoka led the large troop of girls down the street, she was leading them back to her house so that they could talk and get a handle on what was going on. Namely why Ranma and Nabiki were just kidnapped.

So far she all she had managed to get out of anyone was that apparently for there to be a better future her son had to spread his seed. The only problem was that no one knew exactly whom he had to sleep with to ensure this better future. Sighing happily at the thought that her son was so manly the future depended on him to procreate with beautiful young magical girls, Nodoka almost missed the not so subtle grope on her perky butt.

At first Nodoka thought Bambi was up to her former tricks but discounted that almost right away as the formerly wrinkled old man, now platinum blond was walking abreast of herself several feet away.

Cautiously Nodoka turned her head wary over a sudden realization. See she knew that sometimes, whenever one evil is defeated a stronger greater evil always rises up to take its place. So in this case, now that Happosai was technically gone there was now room for an even dirtier cantankerous old man.

Relief flooded into Her eyes as Nodoka realized that her worries were for naught as the only person within groping range was that taller short haired blond, "Sailor Uranus" She thought.

Giving the girl a saucy wink Nodoka returned to the task of leading these young ladies back to her house, purposely putting a bit more sway into her gait as she was fine with the fact that the other girl groped her, just as long as it was not some dirty old man.

Feeling the stray hand return to her bottom Nodoka smiled and thought, "Still got it."

Sailor Neptune scowled at her supposed soul mate and huffed to herself, "Does she have to do that… So what if she's hot… She doesn't see me going around and blatantly flirting with every girl I see."

Usagi walked along caught in her own musings, today had been a real eye opener for her and now she wondered what she was supposed to do. Before today, her world had been perfect, she was a magically reincarnated princess from a long lost kingdom, she had friends who were devoted to her and fought along side her for justice and love, in fact the only down sides to her life were dealing with school work and the subsequent groundings she incurred when her homework was not done.

Now though, every thing had changed, "Well not everything." Usagi supposed. "I'm still a reincarnated magical princess from a lost kingdom and I still have my friends."

"So why am I upset."

FLASHBACK---- (moments after Ranma and Nabiki were kidnapped).

As Usagi stared in wonder at what just happened. Tuxedo Mask managed to climb back to his feet, still feeling the, pain from having been flung into the school wall by the red-headed shim's transformation.

Stumbling over to his future queen and soul mate, only one thought was on our Tuxedoed hero's mind and that was, how to save the redheaded shim from a lifetime of loneliness and intolerance just for being born the wrong way.

Mustering up his strength, he approached his dazed princess, silently noting that she too must have become overwhelmed about the poor fate of the gender confused girl.

Grabbing a hold of Usagi by her shoulders, Mamoru shook her to wake her up from her stupor. Not getting a immediate reaction his shaking became more desperate. Until she cried out, "Mam… I mean Tuxedo Mask, please stop your hurting me."

Relieved that his one true love was still alive and no longer under the shims spell Mamoru quickly exclaimed, "Sailor moon there is little time, for the safety of the future you must act now and cure the red headed shim of her cruel manliness so that I can show shim the true way to womanly pleasure."

Horrified at the words coming from her love's mouth Usagi could do little more than just stand there gaping like a fish.

Seeing the look on his Love's face Tuxedo mask could only curse the foul red headed shim once more as it was perfectly clear to him that the redhead's dire situation had managed to distress his love so much that she was rendered speechless. Making up his mind he decided that perhaps some small words of comfort shall snap his love out of her daze so he added, "Fear not my love, for although this harlot comes between us and the future I shall steadily, and unwaveringly do my duty as your prince. I shall be relentless in my task. And although it might take days… No weeks…. No months, I shall drive all remnants of her masculinity away with my boundless passion and undeniable masculinity."

"Rest assured my love that while I drive her to heights of womanly passion that most woman shall only ever dream about, that I only do so for you. For I must do this to ensure our future as it has been ordained that no one woman shall ever be able to sate my needs. But first I need you."

Stunned and going into shock at the garbage rolling out of what she had thought was her soul mates moth Usagi muttered weakly, "Need me?"

"Yes my love, I need you to heal her of the very thing she flaunts before you."

"Flaunts?"

"Yes Sailor Moon, You must rid the shim of its maleness so that I can begin my task."

"Task?" Usagi asked half hoping she was just having another too much chocolate induced nightmare.

"Yes my love, My Task, the one where you remove the manliness from the shim so that I can show her the true meaning of womanhood."

Rei had had enough and could not believe that she had ever liked this self absorbed jerk, couldn't he see that he was hurting Usagi. Even from her position several feet away she could see the tears streaming down from her future queens eyes. Oh how she wanted to lick those salty representations of failed love away and sweep her off of her feet to show her the true meaning of love.

Making up her mind she went to ball her fist but her magic spoke to her. Not in the, 'Rei Hino I am talking to you sort of way' but the small whisper that usually only surfaced when a new ability came to surface. Now reacting upon her instincts alone, she cried out, "Tuxedo Mask no Baka." And swung her arm out in an arc only to see a massive flaming war hammer appear to strike vengeance down upon the perverted prince of earth, sending him flying off into the distance.

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"Ohh yeah… Now I remember, the man I am supposedly destined to love turned out to be an utter loon."

"Well, okay, maybe not totally an utter loon, but definitely in the ballpark."

Sailor Mars otherwise known as Rei Hino wrapped her arm around her troubled preoccupied friend giving the girl a warm half embrace as they walked and said, "Don't worry Sailor Moon… Tonight you can stay at the shrine and I'll help you forget all about Tuxedo Mask, his deviant thoughts about shemales, and lame self absorbed speeches."

Feeling relieved that she had such a good friend to help her work through this slightly gray moment in her life Usagi smiled and wrapped her arm around her friends waist in gratitude of the emotional warmth being offered and totally missed what was muttered next.

After mentally reaching into her subspace pocket to check and ensure that a specific item was still there Rei cackled to herself and proclaimed, "Yes tonight… Tonight you shall be introduced to the burning fires of my youth."

Usagi smiled to herself as she was comforted by her best friend and wondered briefly what she would ever do without her. Turning her attention back to her good friend she missed what she had said and asked, "What did you say?"

Instantly realizing that she had said that last part out loud Rei attempted to cover with, "I said later tonight we can use the holy fire to make… cookies… ""Cookies? She's not going to buy that… Stupid… Stupid… Cool down Rei, you can't catch her on the rebound if you don't remain calm."

Usagi squeezed her friend with her one arm happily as she knew she could count on Rei to help her through this tragedy. She was about to pull back a bit when she realized that her friend would do anything to help her get over what Mamoru had said. See it was a commonly misconception that only Makoto could cook, but that was wrong. see, Usagi knew Rei could cook almost just as well as Makoto, but the things they made usually differed and there was one thing that Rei could make that Makoto could not ever come close to making with nearly as much delicious goodness as Rei. And that was pie. So in the hopes of getting a special treat Usagi asked, "Rei could you make that pie you make, you know the one I like."

Rei grinned, obviously Usagi had dismissed what she had said for at face value and not thought about any possible undertones so without thinking she said, "Oh Sailor Moon, of course there will be pie."

"Really?"

"Yes and this pie will be so good you might never want any other pie as long as you live."

Minako, who had been traveling slightly ahead of the duo turned around at that proclamation. The way Rei was talking about this pie, well it really sounded good and she wanted to try some for herself, so she asked, "Can I have some too?"

"Yeah me too Mars, you make the best pies, I really want to try this one." Chimed Makoto as she turned around right after Minako.

Ami hid her face in her hands at her friends. Sometimes she could not believe some of the things they did. Even she, the ever studious one who never got a date knew what Rei was really talking about. But she knew she could not say anything either as Usagi really did need some cheering up.

Rei blushed slightly and new that she had a slight potential problem on her hands and briefly wondered how the two most seemingly boy crazy out of all of them could miss the innuendo. Usagi she could understand as her naivety only made her more cute, but Makoto and Minako. Shaking her head ruefully she replied, "No tonight I just want to have Usagi over…" "Maybe some other time…" Caught in a almost overwhelming daydream about the future possibilities she added, "Once Sailor moon is feeling better than you can all come over and have pie, we'll make a night of it, a girls night."

This time Ami did groan at the over tones only to groan once more when she heard Michuru mutter, "And so it begins.".

"Looking back on it, perhaps Hotaru had the right idea. I mean sure I'd have to share, but at least there's a guy in there somewhere." Ami thought as she toyed with her communicator, desperately thinking up a possible reason to call up Pluto and ask her to pick her up.

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Nabiki stood silently contemplating her situation. Somehow when she had not been looking, chaos had managed to swallow her whole and dump her into the thick of things. "Well at least I'm not totally powerless, I do seem to have magic powers now so at least I should be able to hold my own for a bit." Turning her attention back to her green haired captor she asked, "Just why exactly am I here?"

Setsuna sighed, "Honestly young girls nowadays just don't know romance when they see it… Here I am standing right in front of the universe's greatest voyeuristic tool and she wonders on why she was there." Clearing her head she stated out loud, "Sailor Saturn ran off with your husband-to-be and you appeared to have objected so I am looking to see where they are so that I can re-unite you with your fiancée."

Nabiki nodded cautiously, something about the entire situation smelled literally fishy to her but then the vast chamber that she was in could be next to the docks for all she knew.

Setsuna nodded to herself glad that she was still as competent as always when it came to stretching the truth. Turning her attentions to the, until that point, inactive time gates, she raised her staff and commanded it to come to life.

Slightly alarmed that out of nowhere a maelstrom of colors erupted, leaving behind what she could best describe as some sort of holographic TV. Succumbing to her curiosity she asked, "What is that supposed to be?"

In her wisest sagest sounding voice Setsuna replied, "You are standing where few mortals before you have ever dared to tread. Welcome to the legendary gates of time, Nabiki and be awed in its presence."

"There," Setsuna thought, "Nothing ever impressed a girl more in the Silver Millennium than awing them with the time gates. Now all I have to do is get the gates to show a bit of history and she'll be all set"

Nabiki noticed the flashes across what she guessed to be the screen of the gates and began putting two and two together and despite the fact that she was from Nerima was still able to come up with 4. After taking a tentative sniff to confirm her suspicions she asked with clarity, "You use these to watch porn."

Startled that she had been found out Setsuna reeled in shock, not sure how to respond.

"You do don't you?"

Slightly offended at the accuracy of the statement she replied, "I use it for other things too."

"Still, porn, I mean think of what this baby can do." Nabiki stated as her mind was flooded with the ultimate handicapper for gambling.

As if reading her companions mind Setsuna replied, "I already have more money than what I know what to do with honey, trust me I've been sitting in front of these gates longer than the current incarnation of man has been using fire to cook their food."

Upon hearing what the older woman had said Nabiki's mind cycled through several facts and then went and ran multiple simulations. Having made up her mind she stepped forward, wrapped her arms around the exotic green haired woman and said, "Sailor Pluto, I think that this is going to be the start of a very beautiful friendship." Then as she trailed her hands along the woman's taught torso she purred, "And I can tell you right now that there will definitely be some very favorable benefits."

"Score!!!"

"So what do you say we do a bit of recreational voyerisming before you reunite me with my errant fiancée." "Besides," Nabiki thought, "If we arrive there too late then Ranma won't really be able to say anything to me about this, after all the lummox is probably doing the same thing, and if, according to this, woman he'll eventually have to anyway."

"Fiancée? Oh right, slipped my mind… Before we get too… Involved, perhaps we should check up on them…." Setsuna stuttered as the young woman clinging to her side found some of her ever so special spots."

Nabiki shrugged, truth be told she was about as hot to trot as she had ever been and just the thought of watching Ranma while she did what she was about to had her teetering over the edge.

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---- a bit earlier that day

Mamoru groaned, the impact with the ground really hurt that time, and probably had something to do with the fact that somehow he had de-transformed after being hit. Rolling onto his back he sluggishly moved his arms in a futile attempt to get the dizzying haze that he was currently calling his vision to stop spinning.

After just laying there for what seemed like several agonizing minutes the prince of earth finally came to his senses, and through his clearing vision, saw that he was not alone as there was now a rather imposing shadow looming over him.

"That was some fall kid, let me give you a hand."

Noticing that the man was speaking to him in English Mamoru smiled politely and replied in kind, "Thank you."

After being helped to his feet Mamoru was about to thank the man once more and be on his way as he had some very pressing matters to attend to, as in the defeat and total womanization of a certain redheaded shim, but stopped once he heard what the man said next.

"Let me guess, Woman problems, right?"

Mamoru nodded dumbly, this was one perceptive westerner, perhaps all Americans aren't as ignorant as what they appear to be.

Taking the younger mans nod for confirmation of his question the man went on and added, "Let me guess, you ran afoul of a redhead."

Shell-shocked Mamoru nodded but this time managed to get out, "How did you know?"

The man laughed, it wasn't a cruel laugh or anything, more of an I know something you don't know kind of laugh and replied, "Kid, your preaching to the choir." Then as if remembering something long forgotten the strange man added, "Names Bundy, Al Bundy and I think you might need my help, take this."

Mamoru reached out with his hand and took the offered item only to note that it was a business card. Flipping it over in his hand he took a brief glance down at it to read it. It said, Al Bundy -- President and founder of No Ma'am --- National Organization of Men Against Amazonian Masterhood

Thinking that this wise man from beyond the seas might be of great importance as he had already very accurately surmised what had happened to him, Mr. Chiba straitened himself up and asked, "Bundy-san, would it be possible for you to tell me more about this… No Ma'am group of yours."

Not caring that the younger man had yet to introduce himself Al appeared thoughtful for a moment before he consented with, "Of course my good man, Let's just head over to my office first and then we can talk about whatever you want."

"Of course Bundy-san… Where is your office?"

"Where else, I'm going to tell you something kid, rules to live by."

Chiba Mamoru."

"Huh?"

"My name Bundy-san."

"Ah yes very good Mamories, anyway where was I… Ah yes… Where are we going, you asked. To the one place that you can always count on to turn that frown upside down…"

"The Nudey Bar."

"Yes the Nudey Bar, that sounds pretty good… I should be doing my duty but I think I need to take some time to figure things out."

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Meanwhile back at Furiken High

Genma cowered in the small storage room that she had taken shelter in attempting to hide herself from the perverted Otaku fans that kept trying to either flip up her dress or hop on her saddle to give her a ride.

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Hotaru stared intently at herself in the mirror, double checking her appearance to ensure that she was presentable. Turning around she noticed that the prime specimen of beefcake was still sleeping soundly on her bed. She deflated a little at that, having hoped that the fact that she had been totally naked, albeit only briefly, would have been enough to wake the Adonis from his slumber.

Shaking her head at the though, Hotaru wondered what she should do next, she was still feeling a bit nervous about what she wanted to do. Resisting the urge to smack herself in the forehead Hotaru suddenly remembered what Haruka papa had told her to do when she got too nervous. With that thought in mind she made her way from her room to her pseudo parent's room to gather what Haruka papa termed 'the stress reliever aide.'

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Somewhere nearby a man sneezed.

"Are you alright Bundy-san?"

"Yeah… Honker??? It's the damndest thing. A few months ago my wife- the abominable redheaded spending machine sold my collection of Big'ums and well, At first I was upset, but lately for some reason… I just feel so proud… Like they are happy where they are and being used for something worthwhile." Replied Al with a strangely contemplative tone to his voice.

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"Girls, We are almost to my house, it's just around the corner." Nodoka stated happily as she noted that the stray hand seemed to have increased in its boldness.

"Thank you Kami!" Thought Ryouga-chan as she sighed in relief. As she like everyone else in the troop of girls were all still wearing the Uniforms that they had on earlier, though in Ryouga's, Nodoka's and Bambi's case it was because none of them knew whether or not their clothes would reappear when they figured out how to de-transform.

Hearing a loud sniffing noise followed closely by a low moan of pleasure that would sometimes be accompanied by a 'Soooo Manley', Ryouga dared to peek behind her only to shake her head with disgust because even though she had a new body she was still as much of a lecher as she had been before. Deciding that she wanted to be nowhere near the letch Ryouga-chan slowed down and allowed the platinum blond to move well past her.

"You know you should really do something about your friend there." Ami piped up, her face showing concern. "I know its not my place seeing that I don't know any of you yet, but Huffing is a very serous problem and it's going to cause some rather extensive damage to your friend their."

Ryouga paused briefly as if in shock before she replied nonchalantly, "That's not paint or anything she's breathing in."

Letting the confusion show on her face Ami replied, "If it's not, then what is it?"

"Ranma should really think of bottling this stuff up and selling it." Stated Bambi to no one in particular, right before she moaned out, "Soooo manly."

Sweat-dropping Ryouga deadpanned, "Well I guess if I had to call it something then… I would probably go with Ball sweat."

"You mean she's… And that's…. Wait a second didn't she just say that Ranma should bottle it and sell it?" Stuttered Ami as she tried to make sense of the situation.

"Yeah." Sighed Ryouga almost sadly, "But I think Michael Jordan already beat Ranma to it."

"Anyhow…" Ami stalled wanting desperately to change the subject and not walk down the street discussing guy's hygiene issues.

"Do you have a name? You know, something that we can call you?"

Ryouga half turned and stated matter of factly, "Of course I have a name, It's Ryouga."

Despite her newfound temporary walking companion's aggravation, Ami was glad that Minako had interrupted, and in the process managed to steer her away from the prior topic.

Minako blushed, embarrassed over the fact that she was not clear enough in her question and explained, "No not your real names…" Noticing the blank look come over the girls face she continued, "Codenames… Like for example, I'm Sailor Venus, your walking next to Sailor Mercury, Sailor Jupiter is next to me while Uranus and Neptune are following Nodoka, and then there's Sailor moon walking with Sailor Mars."

"Oh… I thought… Never mind… Then I guess that, no I don't have one of those yet." Looking down at her body Ryouga chan added, "This whole thing is sort of new to me and I really haven't had a chance to think about anything really."

"That's okay, I don't get a lot of time to think either."

Ami bit her tongue Minako was her friend as she was not going to say anything no matter how well the blond set herself up. So instead, once she was certain that she was not going to say something tactless or rude Ami said, "Well, you could always name yourselves after moons of the planets, Charon, Titan, Io, something like that?"

Ryouga looked thoughtful for a moment before she said, "But aren't you all named after the planets with the exception of your leader?"

Ami blinked briefly wondering how Ryouga realized that Sailor moon was their leader.

As if reading Ami's mind Ryouga replied, "It's simple, she is the most powerful out of all of you so it makes sense that she would be the leader."

"Oh." Replied Ami before she added, "So any thoughts on what you want your code name to be."

"Well" Stated Ryouga while rubbing her chin, "I suppose we could all just call ourselves the Eris scouts. After the tenth planet, but that just doesn't have a good ring to it you know… I got it, we can be the knights of Eris And Ranma can be the lady lord of Discordia."

After her proclamation Ryouga noticed something, the entire procession of magical girls had stopped walking and were all now staring at her. Blushing under their scrutiny she indigently stated, "What? I travel a lot and learn stuff when I can?"

Nodoka led the troop of girls around the corner and was about to point out her house to everyone but was stopped from doing so when out of nowhere a young girl walked into her.

"Oh I'm sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going." The girl apologized.

Nodoka waved her off and replied, "That's okay dear… "

"I don't mean to bother you ma'am, but I was wondering if you could help me… You see I'm a little lost and I know where I'm supposed to be, but this is my first time in the city and everything sort of looks the same to me."

Nodoka smiled warmly at the young girl who appeared to be around eleven or twelve years old and said, "Of course dear, just tell me where you need to go and I will give you directions… Better yet why don't you come inside my house there and I'll let you use the phone to call your family to send someone to pick you up."

The girl seemed to pale slightly for a moment before she pleaded, "Please ma'am, I'm sure that where I'm going isn't too far away from here and this is the first time my mother let me off on my own and I don't want her to…"

Placing her hand on the young girls shoulder with the intent of calming her down Nodoka replied, "It's okay dear… I'll help you out, this can be our little secret… Just promise me that next time you won't leave your mother without clearer directions on how to get where you are going."

"Thank you so much ma'am."

"It's no problem dear, now where is it that you are trying to go?"

"Hey look at that… It looks like a giant fireball falling out of the skies!" Exclaimed Bambi.

Nodoka turned and looked up at the skies to see what Bambi was talking about and got a sickening feeling in her gut, whatever it was it looked like it was going to crash into her house.

Noticing that it was getting closer to their positions Nodoka instinctively let seldom used impulses take over, causing her to fling herself on top of the young girl, acting as a human shield.

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Six Day's, three hours and roughly thirty minutes in the Future.

Location

Never Never land

i.e. somewhere in Nevada USA

Frank B. Parker sat lazily at the briefing room table waiting for Ramsey to get on with the briefing. Usually he would pay more attention but the details in this case were sketchy and unreliable at best. All he needed to know he knew already, and that was prevent Dr. Sam Beckett from dieing, as he was a very important scientist who was working on another top-secret program. Of course they weren't telling him what exactly he was doing, but it really did not matter.

The only Reliable information had come from a reporter from Chicago who had been there covering something to do with the man eating Japanese spider crabs. Miranda Veracruz de la Hoya Cardinale was the reporter's name if he remembered correctly, she had managed to get some footage of the events before Dr. Beckets death but it had been heavily edited by the japanese government so the only thing they really had to go on was the fact that Miranda Veracruz de la Hoya Cardinale was not very happy with her job.

"You getting that Parker?" Sneered Nathan Ramsey head of Security for Operation Backstep.

"Give it a rest Ramsey, Frank knows his job."

"Thanks Donovan. And Yes Ramsey I got it, I'm to Backstep, crash the pod in Japan." Frank replied in a patronizing tone, "Call in the Calvary and have them pick up Dr. Becket

"Try not to land in the city.." Chimed in Hooter 'aka' Andrew Owsley.

Frank nodded while looking over in Olga's direction, wondering what she would like for a souvenir from the trip as to him; the Backstep would probably among the easiest he had ever had to do.

"Alright people, if that's all we have a go." Stated Bradley Talmadge.

Not really hearing the order giving him a go, Frank continued to stare at Olga not really thinking of anything rather just sort of lost in her. He had actually managed to slip into a brief fantasy involving Saki the briefing room and her lab coat. He blinked as she seductively walk over to him leaning down and letting him catch a glimpse down her shirt.

"Mr. Parker."

"Oh Olga you can call me Frank."

"Oooh Frank but I like calling you Mr. Parker…"

"Mr. Parker…"

"Oh Olga."

"Mr. Parker."

Frank sighed again, he knew it was his imagination, but damn he really was crazy about their resident Russian Scientist.

"FRANK!!!!"

"Huh what?" Frank muttered as he snapped back to reality.

Donavon chuckled at his friend and said, "Olga was trying to get your attention but stormed out of here when you moaned her name."

Looking offended Frank fired back, "I did not moan out her name."

"Did too."

"Not."

"Too."

"Not."

"Too."

"If you two children are done here we have a Backstep to do." Interrupted Ramsey, having re-entered the room to see what was taking them so long.

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Setting down her papa's newly acquired copy of Big'ums, Hotaru sighed happily, her papa was right, those really were good stress reliever aides. Now she felt totally motivated to sacrifice herself for the betterment of mankind.

Giving herself a quick once over when she faced the mirror she noted to herself that, despite looking a wee bit flushed, her appearance was totally impeccable.

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Ranma sighed happily once more when he realized that the fisherman had let him go so he could resume his floating through the skies.

Shortly after his release though, Ranma began to feel the cloud giving him a massage. He could feel its hands roaming over his magically bulked up chest followed closely by a soft slippery tongue. He was about to give into the sensations when something hit him mentally.

Clouds don't have hands, nor do they have a tendency to lick you.

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Setsuna paused in her getting acquainted session with her newest friend and said, "We should get going."

Looking at what was going on in Hotaru's bedroom via the time gates Nabiki asked, "Why?"

"Don't get me wrong, I'm rather enjoying myself, but Ranma is not aware of what is going on and might try to run, and that would devastate little Hotaru."

Nabiki sighed, knowing that Setsuna was right, Ranma would bolt. "Alright lets go… But I reserve the right to continue this later."

"Deal."

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earlier that day

Sam Becket Appeared in a flash of light. Looking around his brilliant but Swiss Cheezed mind took in the details of his surroundings as well as taking note of what he was wearing.

Cursing his luck Sam looked up at the sky and griped, "Do you really enjoy seeing me in a dress that much."?

Hanging his head down in silent resignation Sam made his way over to a parked car to use the side mirror to get a better look at who he leaped into.

"Well, I'm Japanese, look to be somewhere around ten to twelve and am wearing some sort of uniform… I guess it could be worse, I could have leapt into a stripper like that one time in Chicago… Wonder how long Ziggy is going to take to get a lock on me this time… Somehow I don't think that I should be just standing on the side of the road… I'm a kid so there should be someone that would be looking for me." Sam muttered as he made his way back over to the sidewalk to wait around for some sort of clue as to what he was supposed to due.

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A short time later

"Sam."

"It's about time you showed up Al, what took you so long?" Sam hissed in greeting, wary of the fact that there were now a few people walking down the street.

"Relax Sam, Ziggy had you located almost the second you leaped in." Al replied while giving the surroundings a cursory glance.

"If Ziggy knew where I was then what took so long? She have problems figuring out why I'm here?" Asked Sam.

"Sort of, there wasn't a lot of information and Ziggy had to do some digging… Some things aren't adding up but Ziggy thinks that there is a 78 percent chance that you are here to prevent a woman or group of women or a woman and her son or even possibly a woman a cat and a gorilla from entering…" Al looked around for another minute while pressing commands on his handheld device before continuing, "That house over there."

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Meanwhile, back in the confines of Hotaru's bedroom

Although Ranma had been aware in his sleep that there was someone doing something to him in his sleep, his journey back to the land of the reality was subconsciously slow. If conditions would have been different he might have been able to pull himself away from his peaceful slumber more quickly, but there were several factors working against him. For one thing, he was used to sleeping on a thin futon for the majority of his life and had never really had the pleasure of sleeping in a real honest to goodness bed. Never mind something as soft and comfortable as the bed he was on as it was, unknown to him, a rather expensive bed.

Then there was the fact that Ranma had ingrained into him since he was a small child to be able to assess the threat levels of his surroundings in his sleep, and at the moment although he knew that there was a massive powerhouse of some sort around him, the intentions he was getting from that person were not something to set off any alarms as she had no ill intent.

At least there was the subconscious, fact that whatever this person, female if he was sensing her correctly, was doing something that his body was really starting to enjoy itself

So it really should not have been a surprise that once Ranma had managed to become fully aware of his surroundings that he feigned sleep knowing that as soon as he opened his eyes he would have to bolt out the door or risk the wrath of Nabiki and that was something that he was not willing to do.

"RANMA! WE HAVEN'T EVEN BEEN ENGAGED FOR A FULL DAY AND YOU'RE ALREADY CHEATING ON ME WITH SOME GIRL!"

"Nnnnaaabbbbiiikkiii." Ranma stuttered as he went from the laying comfortably on the bed to huddling in the corner like a cornered cat, "It's not what you think… I was asleep… I don't even know where I am…. I ate bad shellfish… Godzilla was attacking… there was a two for one panty sale at the mall and I wanted to get us both a matching set but I was ambushed by over one thousand ninja's and a squirrel… " Standing up on his feet and spreading his arms out wide Ranma pleaded, "Please Nabiki you got to believe me… it wasn't my fault…."

Even as he was pleading for Nabiki's forgiveness Ranma was looking for an escape route, Nabiki was at the door of the bedroom so that left him with the window, the only problem there was that he had no idea how high up he was. But that wasn't really that much of a problem as most likely he would just wind up with a sprain. With a course of action set Ranma started inching towards the window attempting to stave off Nabiki's wrath.

Well that had been his intent but he had forgotten about the other girl who had been there before Nabiki, luckily though if he moved fast enough he should be able to get past her. Deciding that a distraction was in order Ranma called out "Is that a picture of the emperor?" and proceeded to make a mad dash for the window.

Only to be stopped short by the appearance of a red-eyed, green haired woman wearing a fuku, standing right in his way.

"Going somewhere? Oh and to answer your question, yes that is a picture of the emperor, actually there's a rather amusing story behind it would you like to hear it?"

Ranma turned around and gulped; to him it looked like there was no way out. Resigning to his fate he slowly approached Nabiki and stood there waiting to see what fury she would unleash upon him. He watched as she reared her hand back and brought it forward, just before it was about to make contact he squeezed his eyes shut in expectation of the incoming pain only it never came. Instead, the hand that he had been expecting to hit him started to caress his cheek.

Opening one eye Ranma was surprised to see Nabiki just smirking mischievously at him with no hint of the former righteous fury that she had been directing at him just moments ago.

"Now Ranma-kun, you really need to learn to relax." Nabiki said as she began to herd the magically buffed out pigtailed teen back over to the bed.

"Huh? What?"

"You're right Nabiki, he does look rather cute when he has that totally clueless look about him." Said the tall green haired woman who now was assisting Nabiki in guiding Ranma over to the bed.

"Are we going to play hide the Salami now Setsuna-momma?" Groused Hotaru, upset at the fact that if not for being disturbed she might be well under way with sacrificing herself by now.

"First things first, While I am not against seeing Ranma in this form I would prefer if it was his actual body and not this…. Ahem…. Body." Finished Nabiki.

Looking over at Hotaru's bedroom clock Setsuna added, "We'll have to hurry up we only have 5 hours 23 minutes and forty seconds before we are going to meet up with the others."

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