Assassin Drones: The original saga
Sex on the beach Arc. De Arimasu!
By Alex Young
The Hinata residence, 8:00 pm. November 15, 2002
Giroro was back in his tent after weeks worth of preparation for something particularly big in scope. From logistics to weapons, the dread red demon keronian had it all down to a t. "It's time." Giroro sneered in leering at the night sky before emerging from the tent to mobilize the rest of his platoon for their impending mission.
The Tendo residence, 1:40 am. November 17, 2002
Corporal Giroro cast a venomous shadow under the light of a silver moon, with the glistening flecks of light for stars dotting the night sky. He was just outside the Tendo residence as he slid the living room doors open, and closed them upon setting foot inside. Solely by jealousy be driven, he was dead set on keeping Ryoga away from Natsumi at any cost. How, you may ask? He plans to kidnap Akane and hold her hostage for a ransom. The ransom being to either step forward and fight, or never come near Natsumi ever again.
Giroro then stepped inside the hallways, and crawled his way upstairs. After methodically slinking his way into Akane's room, he fired his grappler gun at Akane's neck, and dragged her sleeping form all the way out of her room through the recently opened window. How Akane managed to sleep through it all was anyone's guess, but Ranma would catch on as soon as his ears picked up the resulting noises. Ranma was swift and fleet footed in his journey to Akane's room. Ranma found Akane to be missing upon entry into her room!
When Ranma chanced a look out the window, he could see Giroro dragging his betrothed towards a waiting V.T.O.L. transport within the backyard. Going it alone once more, Ranma gave chase after Giroro, who was already inside keronian aircraft as soon as it began taking off. Ranma grappled the underside of the craft clambering his way up to the roof, leaving Giroro never the wiser.
Raikoume and Kamikase were eyeing the entire scene from the koi pond before taking up a stealthy pursuit of the V.T.O.L. aircraft, themselves. Upon arriving at the near periphery Raikoume and Kamikase underwent a rather dramatic, if not drastic transformation; they turned into a red qipao clad Akane and Natsumi respectively in disguise!
"Hey big sis, how's your disguise holdin up?" Natsumi Kamikase queried. "Not too bad, I'd hafta say the same about yours. Although we might have to change our eye color." Raikoume Akane suggested. "Yeah, you're right." Kamikase Natsumi replied as both sisters changed their eye colors to match that of their respective disguises.
Once the aircraft landed on the transforming heliport, it descended as Ranma had a sudden inkling as to where he was. The frog aliens' base was established deep underneath the Hinata family home, and he's been there before. Ranma began to recall his three months recent confrontation with Gial, as well. Akane's still sleeping form was transplanted onto a cart when Ranma entered assassin magic stealth mode.
Unlike antibarriers, Assassin magic stealth can't easily be detected by conventional means as the then invisible Ranma followed Akane deeper into the medical chamber. This was more for gathering information on human martial arts than personal matters, although it's entirely the latter for Giroro. Ranma watched over the containment phase of the operation as bait for Ryoga to take.
"Assassin super magic: Temporal shift." Ranma emitted as he moved about swiftly knocking down Giroro and altering the latter's memories to seem as though Ryoga did it and not Ranma. Assassin magic: Temporal shift allows the user to go back in time by at most 3 hours. In this case, it was back to when Ranma and the craft departed from the Tendo residence.
Ranma and Akane were back in the latter's room. Ranma tucked Akane back into bed before getting into his pajamas and getting to bed himself. [Oh, there you are, my boy. Where have you been? There's a draft in here!] Panda Genma inquired. "It's a long story. Anyways, g'night pops." Ranma replied tiredly as he closed Akane's window as well as his own so that father and son can go back to sleep.
Along the mountainous back woods at the base of Mt. Fuji, 4:00 am. Thanksgiving eve, 2002
Ryoga had been trekking around lost in the freezing cold woods under a moonlit sky. "Damn it!" Ryoga shuddered moaning ever so sadly. "I'm gonna kill that piece of shit who took Akane from me, and I'll bring her back with me." The lost boy sneered before collapsing in tears mourning the fact that Akane was kidnapped by Giroro, thinking that he would never see her again if he didn't act quickly. Upon looking up, however, Ryoga could see the snow capped entrance to the underground bunker that Giroro mentioned in his ransom phone call a few days ago.
With all that, Ryoga stepped inside only to be greeted by silence. As Ryoga meandered deeper into the bunker tunnel, a barrage of bullets from several, ceiling mounted cyclical Gatling cannons shredded the eerie darkness to ribbons. The cannons themselves were cut to pieces by the tell tale chain blades from Mousse's hidden arsenal. The cannons dropped down one by one. "Mousse? What're you doing here?" Ryoga queried stunned by this sudden appearance.
"Let's just say I got this gut feeling that Xian Pu would be in grave danger from the same shitbag who kidnapped Akane, seeing as how I've been flirted with by one Angol Mois." Mousse explained. "That, and she felt kinda sorry for me for every time I was spurned by Xian Pu." Mousse finished citing his first encounter with her on that rain soaked night in mid August.
"We may all have different ambitions in life, but our bond as martial artists is forged in the fires of camaraderie, hence!" Kuno burst forth bombastically as he made his entrance into the adjacent bunker hallway with his fellow compatriots. All three of them hacked, slashed, blasted and pounded their way into the inner sanctum, where Giroro himself, and potentially Akane awaited them.
"BAKUSAI TENKESTU!" Ryoga howled as his pointer finger slammed the ground at the tip, causing it to explode with flying concrete shrapnel. The ED-209 robots were blinded when Mousse grappled them both with grappler claws and whipped them down hard into the concrete floor. Kuno, of course made some more leeway in collaborating with Ryoga to produce a thermobaric lion's roar slash bomb, tearing right through what looked like the last of Giroro's security drones, and destroying the inner sanctum door.
Once Ryoga and company set foot inside the inner sanctum, they couldn't help but see Akane and Natsumi captured, both clad in the same red qipaos that Raikoume and Kamikase donned a couple of weeks earlier when shifting into disguise. "Huhuhuhuh, HAA HAA HAAAAA! Welcome to your death, Ryoga! It's been a long time, hasn't it?" Giroro remarked as he stepped forward to meet Ryoga once more.
"What have you done to them, you fucking monster!" Ryoga snarled having vaguely remembered running into Giroro before. "COME ON! FIGHT ME!" Ryoga screeched tearfully as Giroro released Akane and Natsumi to embrace the sobbing and growling lost boy. "Choose wisely, first. If you embrace one of these Pekoponians, the other one dies by execution!" Giroro admonished warning Ryoga not to try anything stupid.
Not only would Ryoga ultimately embrace Natsumi instead of Akane, but he kissed her once more in front of Giroro. "Good bye, Akane." Ryoga moaned in regret as the air around Akane and Natsumi suddenly began to change. "Oh, I don't think so." Raikoume Akane spat as a scythe like weapon deployed from her right arm, and turned itself around on that arm.
Raikoume Akane and Kamikase Natsumi began to change eye colors as well, therefore reverting back into combat mode. Raikoume Akane slashed at the hover platform where Giroro used to be in two with her arm scythe. "BLACK DEATH SCYTHE STRIKE!" The assassin drone in disguise called out in so doing. Just as suddenly as the arm scythe appeared, it vanished out of thin air!
Raikoume and Kamikase would reveal their true colors immediately after that. This began with their legs as they reverted to digitigrade from plantigrade, then their faces began to deconstruct and reconstruct back into their original mechadrone heads. This was followed by their clothing sinking back into their skin with the dress flaps of their qipaos reforming into their tails.
Thus the transformation was complete with a simple change of skin coloration to black and the armored steel white. Their eyes changed to the original navy blue with white pupils and blood red sclerae. "What in the!? KHHGKIGKIGKI YOU GOTTA BE FUCKING SHITTING ME!" Giroro screeched upon having witnesses the gruesome biomechanical transformation.
"You see, we've been tasked to keep an eye on you, Giroro, and your combat skills specifically to assess your threat level, and judging by recent events and your attitude, it's pretty damn high." Raikoume confessed smugly. "Not only that, but we stopped by at that bar you just attacked and spread rumors about it along the way just so you can follow us right into our ploy." Kamikase added backing up Raikoume's earlier statement.
"You mean to tell me that I wasted my fucking time in KIDNAPPING YOU TWO MOTHERFUCKERS!?" Giroro crescendoed in anger. "Yep! that's right!" Kamikase teased. "You played right into our boss' hands the whole time!" Raikoume finished with a smirk and a wink with Kamikase blowing a raspberry.
"Go ahead, kicked that little fucker's ass." Raikoume and Kamikase egged on of Kuno in unison, to which he willingly obliged. "Alright, then. I, Tatewaki Kuno, Blue thunder of Furinkan high, doth stab at thee ye FIENDISH LITTLE RED SVENGALI, FOR DECEIVING US YET AGAIN!" Kuno snarled as he, Ryoga, and Mousse all motioned to pound the living hell out of Giroro for what had transpired.
"I, have, HAD IT WITH THESE DAMN PEKOPONIANS AND THESE FUCKING ASSASSIN DRONES FOILING MY REVENGE! NOW ALL FIVE OF YOU ARE GOING TO DIE IN HERE!" Giroro growled in his most hostile tone yet. "This is the part where we get off." Raikoume and Kamikase said in unison as they scurried from the inner sanctum, which is not all that large by comparison to the rest of the bunker area.
Giroro immediately deployed an emergency hatch locking himself along with the three musketeers inside as the inner sanctum began to move about. That room was actually an elevator in disguise as Ryoga noticed the lights moving upward. "What the fuck is going on around here!?" Mousse snarled as a glass screen formed in between Giroro and the three musketeers.
The concrete floor changed to steel as Giroro's half became a control room with the throne a control console. The rest of the inner sanctum walls and floor folded into the new wall causing Kuno and company to drop into an even larger inner sanctum. "You see, the inner sanctum is actually a large, elevating gladiatorial battle arena!" Giroro elucidated as a scorpion-like white Guysak Zoid activated right before the three musketeers' eyes.
"Now with all that out of the way, PREPARE TO MEET YOUR MAKER!" Giroro declared as the Guysak opened fire with its tail mounted bofors cannon, with Ryoga dodging by going underneath. "FASAAA-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT!" Kuno blindsided the Guysak with his thermobaric rapid fire sword thrust technique while Mousse crippled it in cutting off its legs.
"Yeah sure, well done, but HOW'S THIS!?" Giroro snarled as he pressed the emergency button launching the throne into the specially designed Guysak as the arena transformed in and around it into a Rynex space craft. The result being that the Rynex Guysak chimera was created with Giroro as the pilot and rest being along for the ride.
The direction changed from a slow descent, to a rapidly ascending take off as magma erupted from Mt. Fuji. Giroro, Ryoga, Kuno, and Mousse were now airborne as the latter three were "rescued" by Kamikase, Kuroga, and Raikoume respectively. Giroro was still piloting the Rynex Guysak as it launched its attack.
"We salvaged the laser cannon and the missiles from that moto mecha we fought, and installed them onto Kuroga , do you remember that one?" Raikoume piped up in her guncycle form. Kuroga and Kamikase, too had guncycle forms as well, though the latter looked identical to Raikoume's and the former looked more like a traditional helicopter gunship.
"Use our CIWS cannons to shoot at close range." Kamikase tutored of Ryoga, who fired at Rynex Guysak as Giroro made a pass in it. Kuroga, however was charging up his laser cannon and Ryoga began to use the "Shishi hokodan: Sniper bow," a combination of the lion's roar shot and the explosive breaking point techniques. His pointer stuck out as usual with the tip of the battle aura javelin forming in and around it.
For multiple shots, the compound bow stayed and the javelins were fired off at the Rynex Guysak strike fighter. Ryoga dismounted midair as he fired one last, really powerful javelin, this time letting go of the bow. Kuroga fired his laser cannon and missile battery at the same time. Ryoga, Kuno, and Mousse all landed dangerously, but with no tangible harm leaving the assassin drones to engage Giroro in mortal combat as morning greeted the planet from the east once more.
"Oh, Akane. I hope you're alright." Ryoga pondered after having been separated from Kuno and Mousse again. "Don't be silly, P-chan! Of course she's alright." Ranma groused approaching Ryoga with his casual attitude. "Y-You mean, that my rescue effort was ALL FOR NOTHING!?" Ryoga screeched in query. Ranma sighed with a face palm before having simply walked on home in the other direction leaving a stunned Ryoga literally out in the cold.
Out somewhere in the quarantined Hinamizawa district, 1:10 am. Thanksgiving day, 2002
Ranma and Akane had just been cordially invited to partake in a joint training exercise taking place in a P.A.W.S (Post-Apocalyptic Warfare Simulation) zone fashioned from the old Hinamizawa district. How was this possible you may ask? Lets owe it all to a xenomorph outbreak for that.
Ranma, Akane, Kuno, Ryoga, Mousse, Radon, Assassin unit X1, along with several undertaker cells, including the Daikage cell, were being inserted into the periphery of Takatsudo via some 20 Ka-60 Kasatkas. Of the 20 Kamov choppers, 4 groups each consisting of 5 helicopters are going there in line with in different spots.
Ranma, Akane, and X1 have already landed and were moving up ahead to scout for any viable positions, marking any traps that may be littered throughout the landscape. Radon, Kuno, Ryoga, Mousse, and the Daikage cell were close behind followed by the other undertaker cells.
Blood Scorpion, along with another EX.W.A.T.I. registered paramilitary unit; Los Muertos, based in Mexico with the designation Tango Omicron 749, would provide mostly air support through S.E.A.D. (Suppression of Enemy Air Defenses) aircraft, AH-64 Apache gunships, and the like.
Ranma and Akane spotted a pair of mechadrone training soldiers patrolling the woodlands. A Pave Low aircraft was patrolling the airspace behind a hill that was in front of them. Radon sniped both drones, causing them to go down as he circled around Ranma and Akane.
Horara laid a few traps of his own along the patrol route, including anti-vehicle mines, and a pit trap. Tarara and Dasasa sliced some more soldier drones from the sides. "Assassin super magic: Tunnel vision." Jirara hissed in shooting lasers from his three eyelets to take over one soldier drone's vision temporarily.
The others would attempt to sound the alarm as soon as one of them noticed something very off about their companion. This of course, put them right within striking distance of Ranma's "Assassin super magic: dead shiv storm!" The shiv barrage sliced open the rest of the patrol squad clearing a path for the rest of the infiltration to move forward.
As Ranma trekked further into Takatsudo, one of the mines exploded prompting the rest to hurry up into the next phase of the exercise. Nagato and Radon sniped the officers of an a radio comm position, and moved on ahead. When all of the infiltration groups made it to the Takatsudo marketplace as per the first phase, they were reminded of the next phase; guerrilla defense.
Nagato had already hacked into the enemy's local air defenses, and thus turned them over to the infiltrator's side. Prior to that, a Los Muertos owned and operated EA-6B Prowler aircraft had already jammed the radar, leaving an F4-G Wild Weasel V to destroy the air defense checkpoints further up ahead.
This essentially provoked the simulated enemy into launching an attack on the Takatsudo marketplace area, where all the units are assigned an area to defend within the second phase zone. The objective for the next phase is to hold off no less than three to five waves of enemies before moving up ahead.
In this case, Ranma, Akane, and X1 were in the store near the crossroads, and can switch places at any time with any other unit. Ryosuke installed a Gatling gun turret and mowed down several hordes of enemy drones mindlessly charging to their deaths. Nagato reactivated the SAM sites upon noticing some enemy Mil Mi-28 Havok gunships headed his way.
The SAMs themselves made short work of the Havoks as they came crashing down one by one. When the last enemy soldier was blown up amid the wreckage of lightweight technical vehicles, the guerrilla defense phase expired with Ranma, Akane, and X1, joined by Radon still sneaking around to clear a path.
The rest of the infiltration metamorphosed into an assault force with the inclusion of some Blood Scorpion spec M1A2 Abrams M.B.T.s (Main Battle Tanks). The Los Muertos task force was there, as well with XM97 Centurion mobile artillery platforms, along with several Dire Wolf unmanned supersonic gunships.
The assault force was tasked to besiege the neighboring district of Hinamizawa, which was occupied by the simulated enemy. While the assault force keeps the enemy preoccupied, Ranma and company sneak in to steal the data from a super computer, and shut it down on the spot after having retrieved the data, which they did without so much as a gunshot wound.
The third phase transitioned rather smoothly into the final phase of the training exercise, that being the extraction, which was a simple matter of designating and clearing a landing area for the waiting V-22 Osprey transports. All units have moved into the Takatsudo quarry for a landing area, and made it safely on board the transports with some more ground attack aircraft providing air support.
As though by sheer coincidence, the very woman who owned and operated Blood Scorpion; Xieng Tzu Lin, was the same person overseeing the entirety of this joint training exercise. Unsurprisingly, all units have performed admirably by her standards, but Ranma was the one to have performed exceptionally, along with Akane, Radon, and X1.
With all that said and done, Ranma and company parted ways with the other units, and all went home happy and satisfied. A day or two later, Gial returned to collect the various battle aura recording and sampling devices littered across the P.A.W.S. zone. Trokyushe in his tandem rotor cargo helicopter form, picked up Gial with the recorder/samplers in hand to be delivered to Aoryuzen for his personal review.
The Hinata residence, 11:00 am. December 10, 2002
Angol Mois was just ready to take her bath, which she did, even with Mousse's mister duck form watching her undress. When she got out of the bath, White Duck Mousse stepped on the edge of the tub, and slipped right in. Angol Mois's mister duck emerged as Mousse, bare naked and not knowing where his clothes are at.
"Excuse me." Mois reminded commanding that Mousse stay put as she got dressed to look for Mousse's clothing, which she found laying around near the dryer, and laid them down in front of him. With that, Mousse immediately got dressed and took the time to explain the situation to her.
"I think you're talking about a Jusenkyo curse if I'm not mistaken." Fuyuki began as he escorted Mois and Mousse into the dining room. "Specifically Yazunīchuan, otherwise known as the spring of drowned duck. Legend has it that a duck drowned in said spring some thirteen centuries ago."
"Nowadays, whoever falls into that spring, takes on the body of a duck when exposed to cold water only to revert back into their original form when exposed to hot water." Fuyuki elucidated citing his fascination for Jusenkyo curses. "Wow, so mister duck was actually-" "-Mu Tso in disguise? Yeah, that's kinda it, really. Oh, and my name's Mu Tso" Mousse interrupted as he introduced himself.
"Oh. My. God! More manga material for the win!" Aki cheered going gaga over the prospect of Jusenkyo curses in general. "That's my mom, Aki. She's full of enthusiasm as an otaku." Fuyuki explained to Mousse. "Oh, yeah, right. Thanks for everything!" Mousse called out as he made his exit through the sliding doors in the living room. "Come back, anytime!" Mois called out as Mousse hopped and skipped out of the neighborhood.