Assassin Drones: The original saga
Sex on the beach Arc. De Arimasu!
By Alex Young
The wooded area near the playground, 3:00 pm. October 9, 2002
Ranma was leaning against a tree mulling over the challenge letter issued by Ryoga. Ryoga had been late for 10 days and 10 nights straight, affording Ranma the luxury of leaving to go to school, only to return afterwards. A few minutes later, and BOOM! Leave it to old lost boy to come popping up from the ground like a whack-a-mole straight under Ranma's feet! "Now where am I?" Ryoga pondered to Ranma's unpleasant expression. "Just what the fuck were you doing to be gone like this for 10 days and 10 nights straight, huh!?" Ranma snarled in hostile query.
"Well for one thing, Ranma, this world is huge beyond belief, especially in my case when I have no sense of direction." Ryoga elucidated knowing that it was rendered a moot point too long ago to be of any help. "Alright, Ryoga, you asked for a fight and here it is at last, KAIYAA!" Ranma shrieked in his advance on Ryoga, who in turn counterattacked with his lion's roar shot. *Kabawm!* Ranma was knocked away several feet landing on his back at the end. "What was that? C'mon musclehead, gimme all you got!" "Fine, Ranma, but you asked for it." Ryoga replied as he charged up again. "Shi shi, HOKO-"
Aboard the Rapier, 7:00 am. October 11, 2002
Aoryuzen was reviewing Zurunshi's footage of Ryoga's lion's roar shots during intense combat between himself and Ranma Saotome. Specifically over what was yet to be divulged to Aoryuzen as he rewound and fast forwarded the video over and over again. "This one with the scorpion tail on his head? Who is he?" Aoryuzen pondered as he stopped at the part where Ranma suddenly remembered his training as an X1 assassin, and evaded the incoming lion's roar wave blast in the speed of light.
\Hmph, fine then. If I can't fight you head on like I normally would, then I'll just hafta fight you like an assassin!/ Ranma shrilled as he undid his assassin super magic: zero dimension escape after Aoryuzen pressed the play button once more. Ranma dashed up to punch Ryoga in the nape. Ryoga would eventually recover from that injury and put the literal squeeze on Ranma, with an added \SHISHI HOKOHARIDAN!/ for good measure. Ryoga's enitre body was enveloped in a purple battle aura as it was shaped into lots of lethal spines that could purportedly stab through thick steel armor!
Ranma, of course, after having had enough of Royga's bullshit, booted him high into the atmosphere. With all that, Ranma simply walked on home with a satisfied smile on his face, and Aoryuzen turned off the video player to take a walking along several the Rapier's innumerable hallways. "These movements, that technique, could he be the one?" Aoryuzen then muttered to himself before calling a debriefing assembly within the main quarters at the Rapier's guard section. "Attention, all of you. Do you know why I've summoned you all here?" Aoryuzen queried pausing for emphasis.
"It is strictly because I may very well have found a potenial candidate for the hive mind scan, and eventual hive mind extraction." Aoryuzen added pausing once more. "This means that we steer clear of this person until the time is right. Until then, our mission now is to keep a close eye on him at all times. However, that's no guarantee that you won't be assigned onto another mission or two. Do any of you understand?" Aoryuzen finished with a unanimous "YESSIR!" in response showing Alpha 134's undying loyalty and commitment to their leader, ending the assembly at that.
The Hinata residence, 8:00 am
Fuyuki had just gotten himself dressed in a slightly dark green t-shirt and a pair of sage green house pants as he sat down on his computer to surf the internet. It was a weekend, and he didn't have to go to school. This was when he happened across a video where Ranma and Ryoga were basically doing battle two days earlier. "Whoa! So this is what it's like in suburban Furinkan, huh?" Fuyuki pondered in immediate surprise at that development.
Fuyuki then began to summarize his fighting style in paper; he might use his various martial arts weapons from time to time, but don't expect him to do so as he generally doesn't rely on them too much. He switches fighting styles in the middle of combat so as to confuse his opponents. He has no one signature move, no one trump card to utilize, and he doesn't really look like a fighter too, so you wouldn't know it right away. It's this stealth element that plays a rather interesting role in martial arts combat. He then slumped onto his bed afterward, and laid down to relax.
The Tendo dojo, 5:00 pm. October 12, 2002
Ranma was sitting down crosslegged trying to make heads and tails of the lion's roar shot in general, and it had something to do with a heavy aura. {Hmm, heavy aura, heavy aura, heavy aura, heavy heart!} "THAT'S IT! I GOT IT! The lion's roar shot involves a heavy heart! This means depression in Ryoga's case, so I'll just hafta feel more depressed then he ev-" Ranma was interrupted by an extremely faint "SHIN SHISHI HOKODAAAAAN!" in the distance.
"Oh shit! I am so fucked." Ranma bemoaned feeling rather miserable now that Ryoga's mastered the lion's roar shot, as indicated by the blinding purple light, followed by an explosion. "That's it. I did it! Ranma, prepare yourself for the afterlife!" Ryoga moaned falling to tears in the crater. This is a tstament to the awesome power that the lion's roar shot can pack, if in the right hands.
Furinkan High school, 12:06 pm. October 14, 2002
"I honestly don't know what to do now, Akane. Now that Royga's up and mastered the lion's roar shot and all." Ranma bemoaned feeling really out of it ever since having learned of Ryoga's mastery of the lion's roar shot. " Ranma Saotome! Get away from Akane Tendo post haste!" Kuno snarled charging at Ranma as usual. "Leave me alone, Kuno." Ranma ordered, but Kuno's persistence really pissed the man among men to be right off.
"I SAID LEAVE ME ALOOONE!" Ranma screamed as he, too unleashed his own lion's roar shot on Kuno. "I've heard from Nabiki that some kid posted something that you really ought to know about it. He said that focus was among the most important aspect of the lion's roar shot, and that when you're distracted, it gets reduced in power drastically." Akane broached.
"You know. about your fiancee problem. Let's make them all jealous, together." Akane requested highly sensual about it as she had Ranma stand erect along with herself. It was so she could kiss Ranma, which she did, in front of the entire male and female student bodies at Furinkan. Some were happy for Ranma and Akane, and others were really jealous, but none more so than Ryoga Hibiki as he emerged from the nearby bushes.
"You're dead! You're really dead! You are dead! You're totally dead! You are so dead that it makes the living dead look alive! Ranma Saotome! YOU ARE SO VERY FUCKING DEEEEAAAAD!" Ryoga screeched unleashing his lion's roar shot, which Ranma successfully dodged holding Akane in his arms. "Akane, this one is between me and Ryoga, understand?" Ranma requested, to which Akane simply nodded.
With that, Ranma bounded off to engage Ryoga with Akane trying to keep at just enough of a distance to see all the action with an acceptably reduced risk of getting hurt. Ranma tossed Ryoga up and over a distance, with the latter firing bursts of "Shishi hokorandan!" at Ranma. Ranma just kept on dodging and dodging all the way towards an entrance into the building with back turned so as to face Ryoga, bringing what's supposed to be his level of confidence to a suitably high level.
"You're really starting to piss me off, Ranma. Eat this! SHISHI HOKODAAAN!" Ryoga boomed firing his lion's roar shot at Ranma, whose confidence was unwavering because he had perfected a countermove of his own. "MOKO TAKABISHAAAA!" Ranma screamed as he unleashed a beam weapon technique of his own; the proud strike of the fierce tiger! The wave strike itself equaled the lion's roar shot in force, knocking Ryoga back several spaces.
"Now you've gone and done it, shishi hokodan SNIPER BOW!" Ryoga called out unleashing yet another variant of the lion's roar shot. It involved shaping the battle aura into a compound bow, then into an arrow as Ryoga pulled the draw string. "Drop dead at my feet, Ranma!" Ryoga growled as he let go of the draw string, sending the lion's roar javelin flying in Ranma's direction at mach 2. The bow itself became part of the javelin upon release from Ryoga's hand.
Ranma dodged and countered with an "ASSASSIN MAGIC: MOKO TAKABISHA!" in the process, this time enhanced with assassin super magic. "Do you really want to die that badly? In this case, SHIN SHISHI HOKODAAAN!" Ryoga shrilled as he shot a wave ball up into the air. "HOLY CRAP, IS THAT KUNO HUGGING AND KISSING AKANE OVER THERE!?" Ranma screeched out of desperation to avoid the new lion's roar shot.
"WHAT IN THE HELL!? WH-WHERE? KUNO, PREPARE TO FUCKING DIIIIE!" Ryoga screeched as he advanced towards Kuno heeding Ranma's distraction. Big mistake! The lion's roar sphere came crashing down on Ryoga, and sent the lost boy flying high into the sky! With that, Ranma simply decided to get on with school. Once Ranma and Akane walked up to the front gate after school, however...
"You know something, Ranma. You really ought not to tamper with my emotions! The way you kissed Akane, although all you ever do to her is pick a fight with her. In that case, prepare to die Ranma, ULTIMATE SHISHI HOKODAAAAN!" Ryoga shrilled as he shot what was a less spherical and more elliptical wave ball as part of an even more powerful version of the new lion's roar shot.
Ranma crouched down to punch Ryoga in the gut. "Hiryu Shoten Ha!" Ranma screeched catapulting Ryoga with the heat of his depression into the incoming energy mass. "ASSASSIN SUPER MAGIC: SHI SHI HOKODAN TO MOKO TAKABISHA!" Ranma called out as he unleashed a combined lion's roar shot and proud strike of the fierce tiger on Ryoga. This, along with the ultimate lion's roar shot, sandwiched the lost boy in between both energy masses.
The resulting explosion thrust Ryoga into the school building at such an angle as to land in Miss Hinako's classroom with Ukyo helping to put some desks away. "You jackass! I told you not to go up against Ranma honey, but you just had to make yourself look like a fool, did you?" Ukyo warned as she dragged Ryoga out from the crater resulting from Ryoga's impact.
"Eeeh, what? Whassa Ranma?" A Teru Teru Bozu faced Ryoga droned from what only resulted in total amnesia, much to Ukyo's confusion. That only compounded Ryoga's absent sense of direction, as a sharp blow to the forehead from a mop that was conveniently lying around. This sent the lost boy walking backwards all the way into a janitor's closet, with all sorts of objects crash landing on top of his head.
This served to restore Ryoga's memory, oddly enough. "Ranma Saotome, WHERE DID YOU RUN OFF TO!? THIS ISN'T OVER YEEET!" Ryoga snarled charging in exactly the wrong direction to where Ranma was at. Ranma and Akane were already on their way home by the time Ryoga stormed out of the building and further into the neighborhood in search thereof.
The Hinata residence, 3:10 pm
Natsumi was just on her way home from school with Fuyuki in toe when they both spotted Ryoga nearing collapse. "Th-That's it! I can't go any further." Ryoga moaned tiredly much to Natsumi's curiosity. "Ryoga? What're you doing here?" She pondered approaching the lost boy to pick him up. "Who's this?" Aki pondered also curious as she opened the front door to witness the interaction between Ryoga and Natsumi.
"Y-You don't hate me, do you?" Ryoga groaned struggling to get up a little, even with his heavyweight umbrella. "Don't be silly! Of course not! Come on in! Make yourself at home!" Aki offered as she helped Ryoga to his feet walking him into the Hinata residence. The Hinatas were a rather charitable family for the most part, doing well to take strangers in when need be, helping them to get back up on their feet so they can set off once more.
In Ryoga's case, it meant sitting around knowing that he has a roof over his head, which served to alleviate some of his misery. Also, two to three hours later into his stay at the Hinata residence, Ryoga found himself sitting down to dinner with the resident family. "Can you pass the salt, for me, Ryoga?" Natsumi requested with a smile. "Sure, why not." Ryoga affirmed beginning to sense something within Natsumi that he could never really feel around Akane.
Was it what almost everyone who's reading this story think it is? The answer would be revealed not at dinner time, not as Ryoga was given a nice and warm bath with Natsumi, not as they brushed their teeth together, and not even as the both of them decided to share Natsumi's room together. Natsumi offered to let Ryoga sleep on her bed as she tucked herself into his sleeping bag.
A yard or two from the Hinata residence, 7:30 am. The very next day
Ryoga was just taking his leave from the Hinata residence going with Natsumi on her way to school. This was because right then and there, and only then and there that the answer would be revealed to the audience. "Do you want to know why I felt so glad to be around you guys?" Ryoga pondered of Natsumi. "No really, it's our pleasure." Natsumi replied.
"It's not that at all! You see, I've never really had the luxury of actually getting to enjoy a nice, cozy place to live. I guess that it made my dinner all the sweeter, my bath all the more refreshing, and my bed time all the more relaxing. In other words, I couldn't be happier to have met you back then." Ryoga explained before pausing. "I love you Natsumi, and for what you have done for me last night, I would date with you, anytime." Ryoga finished tenderly declaring his love for her.
"Oh god! No way! That's too sudden! Well, yeah, I guess so." Natsumi replied. "You were kind, strong, gentle, starightforward, and honest." She finished beginning to declare her love as well. "I love you, too... Sweetie." Natsumi whispered as she kissed Ryoga's lips, parting ways after only a few seconds. "Until we meet again, baby!" Ryoga called out continuing his journey with Natsumi returning her trip to school.
Diakage's Playboy restaurant, 8:00 pm. October 19, 2002
Daikage had just finished paying his employees as per the usual shift rules. The chairs were all placed upside down into their respective tables, the dishes were done, and all the bills were paid in full. This meant that Daikage had much more freedom to speak with his clientele as an undertaker mercenary, especially seeing as how some of his clients are running their respective criminal enterprises. \Hey there, you're not one of them 'undertakers' are you?/ A voice that sounded an awful lot like that of the Don Viper oozed through the phone.
\I got this teensy weensy little favor to ask of your cell, along with 3 others; I would like for your cell to escort Mukade from the richer neighborhood where he resides to a poorer neighborhood where the the other 3 cells can ambush and eventually kill him. The Hummer H1 with which you'll be assigned to ride in is rigged with an EMP device programmed to go off at the specified waypoint. That's the signal for the other 3 cells to conduct their ambush and for your cell to assassinate Mukade on the spot./ The Don Viper elucidated over the phone.
"Lemme get this straight; you want us to escort this 'Mukade to his death, correct? Alright, you got it." Daikage replied in agreement with the Don Viper's payment of about four to six hundred thousand U.S. dollars. Daikage then motioned to call a meeting upon leaving his office. All the while Radon was on the rooftops in search of Shintagu's personal fortress for a residence. Radon also promised that he wouldn't try to kill the Don viper for well over 8 months, afterward! It was then that Kuroga leapt right in and bit into the barrel of his sniper revolver.
"H-Hey! Lay off, will ya!" Radon screeched as he kicked Kuroga's face in before the latter let go to back off. "Listen, Radon. You don't like me, and I don't like you for having stolen my kill back on planet Aquitaine, but you'd be a fucking idiot to refuse this offer." Kuroga stated backing off some more as Kuosinne and Moaghen landed on the roof. "What Kuroga here was trying to say was that there is an easier way to get at you prey, and that you need only trust us to show you." Kuosinne clarified with Moaghen in agreement.
"In other words, just leave it to us assassin drones to help ya out on yer hit. How about it?" Moaghen offered. "Alright, I'll accept your offer, on the condition that I'm the one that gets to kill Shintagu, got it?" Radon replied. "It's settled then, we, along with some other drones will create a diversion sending Shintagu into a panic as we launch our surprise attack from within that warehouse over there." Kuosinne confirmed pointing her left raptorial limb to one of the docks within the more industrialized Yokohama landscape. With all that said and done, Radon headed off to Yokohama with assassin drones in toe.