Assassin Drones: The original saga
Silent Invasion Arc. De Arimasu!
By Alex Young
Gial's forward base on the Earth's moon, 4:00 am. August 19, 2002
Gial had just inserted himself into the now complete, and fully tested super gun. He had also armed a bomb set to destroy his forward base an hour prior to his impact with planet Earth. \Alright, Gial. Ready, aim, FIRE!/ Aoryuzen commanded as the gun fired Gial at the planet, more specifically, Japan. This is because Naozi had done some seismic scans to reveal that the hive mind was still there. With all that, the silent invasion can truly begin.
In Kululu's computer room, 11:45 am
"Well, I guess this is it, then." Kululu lamented as the techno organic meteor drew ever closer to the Earth's stratosphere. He continued glaring at the screen for a while when suddenly, his space skype phone began to ring. Kululu answered the phone to find a familiar voice on the line. "Hello there Kulu-san." Nabiki greeted in a business like fashion. "Oh, hi, Nibiru-san. I was just watching the meteor come down into Pekopon, kuku." Kululu answered.
"I was just asking you about a certain love pill that someone has in their possession." Nabiki requested of Kululu. "Oh, don't you worry about that. I've already compied the road map for that." Kululu sneered as he hung up on Nibiru-san. "Do it!" Kululu ordered with Dororo standing at the entrance. "Right away!" Dororo replied as he vacated Kululu's prescence in search of the fabled love pill with road map in hand.
In the Tendo foyer, 1:00 pm
Ranma was with Happosai as he was still stuck to that cute little octopus that's in love with him. "Get it offa me! Get it offa me!" Happosai cried in desperation as he struggled to detach the female cephalopod with the lifetime love pill inside from his head. "Whatever. Just shut up already you old freak!" Ranma cried out in protest as his fist hit the octopus on the head like a pile driver to force the pill out of her mouth. As soon as the pill shot out, the octopus simply lost interest in Happosai and detached herself from him, returning from whence she came. Happosai was too busy reeling from his sordid maritime affair to even notice this.
Ranma, with lifetime love pill still in hand, got glomped by Shampoo again. She was still begging for Ranma to ingest the day pill, even after all the commotion that went down at the beach concerning them had long since passed. "Ailen! Take day pill for Xian Pu, please." Shampoo pleaded adorably. "Shampoo!? Gah fine, I'll take the day pill." Ranma sighed resigningly as Shampoo inserted the all day love pill into his mouth. Then he decided to kiss Shampoo with pill still in mouth, and then he slipped the pill into her own mouth in his kiss, so that she would fall in love with anyone of the opposite sex regardless of age.
Her eyes were closed as it happened so Ranma grabbed Happosai by the nape and put him to her face. As soon as Shampoo opened her eyes, she swallowed the pill that Ranma was supposed to swallow and fell in love with the old letch, just as the octopus did with the lifetime pill. "Whoa, mama!" Happosai blurted out ecstatically. This was much to Mousse's bitterly jealous ire outside in the background. "I'LL SAVE YOU!" Mousse called out as he unleashed a bottle of super hot sauce on Shampoo in the hopes of dealing with the love pill. Almost immediately after being force fed the hot sauce, Shampoo exhaled fire like a dragon on the both of them.
After all, anything spicy like hot sauce is the only way to nullify the effects of any love potion. After her painfully spicy wake up call, Shampoo looked around to find Ranma missing. Then she turned her attention to Mousse, not the least bit appreciative of his selfless endeavor. "Stupid Mu Tso! What you do to Xian Pu!" She snarled. "I-I was just trying to save you from falling in love with the old crab here." Mousse explained nervously. Shampoo simply tossed Happosai in the blind weapons master's direction and stormed off in the opposite direction, apparently not in the mood to be going after Ranma now that her moment has been ruined by Mousse's super hot sauce. In the mean time, Ranma retreated into his room from this latest inane episode about love and fiancees.
He laid down with furrowed eyebrows glowering at the ceiling, and heaved a tired sigh. "Man, I can't believe the shit that girls do to get their mister right, sometimes." Ranma bemoaned thinking out loud with no one around to hear him out, or at least so it seemed. He noticed a shadowy dwarf ninja like figure sitting in a corner of the ceiling. It looked an awful lot like Sasuke Sarugakure, except it was scaled down to the size of Happosai.
The shadow dwarf croaked like a frog as it attacked Ranma, clocking him between the eyes with the blunt handle end of its ninjato before making off with the lifetime love pill. "Oww what the!? COME BACK HERE YOU!" {As though I have enough problems with those damned love pills as it is.} Ranma screeched as he gave chase leaping out the window after the thieving shadow dwarf who has the pill in its clutches.
Suburban inner Tokyo, near the Hinata residence. 2:00 pm
Ranma had heatedly pursued the dwarf ninja full speed ahead all the way near the Hinata residence. {Shit! This guy is fast, especially for some dwarf that took my love pill.} Ranma spat out begrudgingly impressed with the dwarf's inherent speed. Just then, the dwarf unleashed a superheated vapor bomb on Ranma, generating a fiery smoke screen for the young martial artist in its wake. However, it was all too late as a barely singed Ranma shook the blindness right off on the roof of a house right next to the Hinata residence.
Ranma slid down into the backyard to catch a clearer glimpse of the dwarf who landed just next door. However, as soon as Ranma took a peek, the mysterious shadow dwarf was no dwarf at all, it was a ninja frog standing erect! All much like his master Jirara, too! How was that even possible!? Was it the result of a cross-breeding experiment by some mad scientist within the Earth's core? Whatever it was, its greeting wasn't very friendly, as the display of a demon wind shuriken can certainly attest.
"Demon wind shuriken! Windmill of shadows!" The upright frog cried out as it spun the same shuriken from when Koyuki wounded Happosai's black Greek fire ox with a few months back and threw it in Ranma's direction. Ranma had one hell of a close call as the shuriken tore into the wood fence, with Ranma pulling his right arm away so it doesn't get sliced off (we certainly wouldn't want that happening now would we)! "Th-that dwarf. It looked so blue, so too were his eyes!" Ranma muttered in utter amazement. "Ah ah aah. I wouldn't draw that much attention with a stunt like that if I were you, Dororo kukukuu." Kululu chastised with a wag of his finger.
{Wait, what!? There's more of these little bastards!?} Ranma emitted as he snapped back around the corner of the damaged fence to chance another look. There was another upright frog, this time yellow, and wearing spiral glasses by the looks of it. What's more is that the blue frog's name was Dororo, plus the yellow one goes by the name of Kululu. Ranma even began to recall the time he pushed someone with a face just like it into a shed full of angry schoolgirls, so he could lose all the heat generated from Ukyo's sad story about her father.
All that raised but another question; are there more of these frog things out there? All that mattered to Ranma at that point in time was that he had to get that love pill back from them at all costs. So Ranma had an idea for a more subtle approach; Jumping onto the roof of the Hinata house, and sneaking around in it, when the entire family are all sound asleep.
Going into Fuyuki's room, We can see that he had just finished writing down an entry in his dream log so that he can read it to Alisa Southerncross and his sister, Natsumi. "Last night, I dreamed that I was in a dojo sparring with that same martial artist that I saw when I dreamed of nearly getting killed by the god-like figure." Fuyuki presented to his female audience. "Fuyuki?" Alisa asked with her finger pointing out the window. "Could this one be what you were talking about?" She queried with her icy a stare as ever.
"L-Lemme check it out." Fuyuki responded as he motioned to look out the window. In so doing, he caught a glimpse of a man hiding behind the fence, or at least a glimpse of his scorpion tail hairdo. He was the very man who was recurring in his dreams. That man was Ranma Saotome; heir to the Saotome school of anything goes martial arts. Of course, Fuyuki didn't know Ranma's name at all as he couldn't exactly remember the details of his dreams with him too well. Ranma hopped up the fence, back flipped on the roof on the neighboring house, and leapt across the yard onto the Hinata home's roof. "Did you see that?" Fuyuki uttered in amazement. "Ehh, no." Natsumi replied flatly as she and Alisa went on to conduct whatever matters that they were attending to. "Whew, hope they didn't notice." Ranma heaved, and thus began his long, cold, and melancholy wait in the attic.
The skies above inner Tokyo, 6:30 pm
It was a late summer evening, and something was barreling down from the heavens, But exactly what it was no one had known for sure. The Rapier fired off electromagnetic pulse waves from afar, thus knocking out power and communications within the immediate area, and providing a cover up for its insertion. The meteorite slammed head-on into the snow-capped top of Mt. Fuji, creating a cataclysmic avalanche as a result of the violent impact. Oddly enough, the object rode the resulting landslide all the way down the base of Mt. Fuji.
But then, as suddenly as the catastrophe began, it ground to a screeching halt, as did the power outage shortly afterwards. The amblypygid-like creature emerged from the aftermath, only to bolt off in a direction that's perpendicular to that of the avalanche. Luckily, nobody was seriously injured, nor was anybody even swallowed up by the chaotic disaster, but the locals could only help but gather round the disaster zone in shock and awe. Among the crowd was a keronian figure, with its upper body blocked by a shadow. "So, he's here at last." It mused as it followed the arachnid's trail.
As Akina Hinata tended to her vegetable garden, she was completely oblivious to the fact that the techno-organic arachnid was snooping around. After having reviewed its objective, the robotic spider creature proceeded deeper into the countryside. As soon as it clawed its way out of a large brush thicket, the robot found itself a stone's throw away from both the Nishizawa satellite antenna and Koyuki's house. The giant amblypygid used the traditional domicile for cover as it approaches the 50 story antenna with the intent to chop it down like a lumberjack would with any sizable tree.
It probed the antenna base for weaknesses and with jaws like a camel spider cross bred with any venomous snake, the robot bit into one support strut before heating it up with a plasma torch built into its mouth. As the antenna creaked under its own weight, the robot proceeded to cut into another strut, this time having removed more material on one side. The creature immediately fled the scene as soon as the antenna buckled and tipped over, emitting a deafening thud as it hit the ground. Koyuki and Lance Corporal Dororo have evacuated their wooden home just in time to bear witness to its destruction.
The media were poring over the wreckage as news helicopters illuminated the night sky with their searchlights. As local security forces scrambled around searching for the culprit, Our stealthy robotic ninja performed a little breaking and entering solely to hack into the mainframe before it cut the power. This unfortunate chain of events served a field day for many a conspiracy theorist, media skeptic, and paranormal buff. This group included Fuyuki, who during the early morning hours, took some time off of his hands to create and dedicated an entire blog to the robot amblypygid's late-night skulduggery.
It turns out that our alien arachnid is revealed to be Gial, the very same assassin drone deployed from the Rapier some 5 months ago. Additionally he didn't just come from the meteorite that crashed at the top of Mt. Fuji at all; he was the meteorite. Gial is but the first of several assassin drones sent in from space to gather information about what is known as a hive mind. It's coming from one very wealthy girl who has a love affair with him. Gial simply clicked his mandibles as he perched himself high up a native conifer tree at a safe distance away from the chaos of the now-disheveled Nishizawa compound, scanning the ridge line ahead.
In the A.R.M.P.I.T. base, within moments after the fact. 8:00 pm
By daybreak, the A.R.M.P.I.T. platoon's base is humming along as it did since it was first established, the Sergeant Keroro; it's leader, is sitting around and awaiting whatever new gundam models go on sale. All of a sudden, a familiar "Kuuuuuukukuku" rang thoughout the command center. The green frog alien's blood ran colder than it already was at that sound, his palms began to sweat, his feet were jittering, his black eyes darted around in anticipation, he grimaced in thinking of whatever torture was in store for he and the rest of his platoon.
Then, Sergeant Major Kululu through what is essentially space Skype said \Oh hello there sergeant, I was just letting you know that there has been a message from some guy out in the backwoods, it sounded most urgent from what I can surmise, kukuku./ \Erm, don't you mean 'Lance Corporal Dororo'?/ Keroro asked. \Ah, yes, I almost forgot about that one kuku, he said that there was this giant-sized bug robot thing or whatever the hell it was that chopped down a Pekoponian communications tower near where Tamama lives./
\Hiya Mr. Sergeant, Sir!/ Private Second-class Tamama Chirped through the space Skype intercom. \Right now, me and Momoka are running on emergency comm cables set up just for moments like this/ \Tch, most unfortunate circumstances, Tamama, kukuu./ \What the hell is this? Some kinda bug hunt?/ Corporal Giroro growled from his tent as he chomped on a piece of roasted sweet potato. Dororo, fashionably late as usual, slipped into the command center from the ceiling. "Well, at least you didn't forget about me this time." Dororo mused aloud in a calm and collected tone of voice as he dropped in near the sarge. "Well, I hope you guys got the message via hawk mail." "Oh, we were just talking about your message's contents warning of a deadly beast that belongs in some super sentai series." Keroro replied. "Ahh, so you got the message {now that's another step in the right direction.}" Dororo confirmed.
The Hinata residence's attic, 9:30 pm
Ranma had been sitting in the freezing cold attic for the longest time. One thing was for sure, though; He had to get that lifetime love pill at all costs. Ranma slipped out of the attic from an opening in the hall closet, sneaking all the way into the basement, all without the utterance of so much as a whisper. Ranma continued sneaking all the way into the A.R.M.P.I.T. base. As soon as Ranma crept into the vehicular deployment bay, he was greeted with all sorts of weird weapons, all of which have yet to pose any threat to our young martial artist at all.
This was due to the fact that they were all offline as per beddy bye protocol. As Ranma crept ever closer to where the lifetime love pill is at, however, he was totally surprised as an undisguised android prototype dropped in from above the ceiling. Its cold, electromechanical eyes shot a death glare at Ranma as he prepared to defend himself. Ranma opened up with a jab to the eyes, followed by a left hand hook to the hips. The prototype returned with its arms splitting up into tentacles, ensnaring Ranma in the process.
"Kuuuuuukukukukukukuuuuuuu! I got you, intruder. Thanks to me letting you in as to fool yourself into complacency. For your audacity, here's your lifetime love pill." Kululu offered as he put the pill into Ranma's hand. "Think of this as me exacting my revenge." Kululu sneered. "REVENGE!? WHAT FOR!?" Ranma snarled in reply. "This is for pushing me into that angry mob of schoolgirls back there. Now, to escort you out and erase your memories." Kululu sniggered upon pressing the button that activated an unconventional looking gunship/transport known as "Ouroboros."
"Ta ta, kukukukukukuku..." The yellow devil chortled on as Ranma was pick up by the rotating ring composed of nothing but V shapes with a huge, red "eye" in the center. Ouroboros did eventually transform from its takeoff and landing 'ring' form into its flight 'snake' form. Ouroboros' flight form had it eye up front instead of in the center. All that combined to make the Ouroboros one of the strangest looking, but highly functional spacecraft in the galaxy. Ranma, however, wasn't exactly one to agree with the Ouroboros as he would demonstrate very soon.
Ranma unleashed his biggest can of whoop ass yet on the Ouroboros with a guillotine drop kick, followed by his chestnuts roasting in an open fire super barrage. "Come back here! I ain't finished yet!" Ranma screeched towards an already freshly battle scarred Ouroboros. He swooped in and sealed the deal with a heavenly dragon's ascent ring out toss. "See ya later, alligator!" Ranma finished after having catapulted the Ouroboros a good 1000 mile distance. However, unbeknownst to Ranma, he had been given a limited production placebo love pill, designed strictly for evaluation purposes. Worse still was that the lifetime love pill had already been given the green light to go into production a la Kululu destroying the original to scan and attempt to replicate the ingredients If Happosai couldn't turn the world into a living hell with the love pills he had before, Kululu had the mass production capability required to do so in spades.
Just outside of Okonomiyaki Ucchan's, 10:00 pm
Radon had been loitering around underneath a street light to watch the night sky in its usual dark mystique. This would go on until he received a rather urgent phone call from Nabiki back in the Tendo residence. Radon answered his cell phone and held it up to his ear. "I know it's a little late and all, but I have some very important information for you. You see, not only did the moon suffer an explosion to cover 1/10 of its surface area, but a large, amblypygid like creature had just made landfall on Mt Fuji! I mean, you should see the blogs, they're on fire about this one."
"You'd best stay on your toes from now on, because shit just got real!" Nabiki forewarned. "Alright. I'll keep my eyes peeled for the monster. Keep me posted alright?" Radon affirmed as he hung up on Nabiki. With the impending dissolution of Kamui, the police are going to be looking for the one responsible for the assassination of their leader. What's more is that with Gial's arrival, the currently raging shadow war will never be the same again.
A/N: Rewriting the original four stories is gonna be pretty easy for me. It's just a matter of temporal placement so that the story flows smoothly that's the more difficult part for my assassin drones mobilize story.