Assassin Drones: The original saga
Fuyuki's training Arc. De Arimasu!
By Alex Young
Kululu's computer room, 3:00 am. January 3, 2003
"Well, Kululu! Status report, NOW!" Keroro barked at Kululu. "Tch! I thought you'd ask. I've basically compiled a comprehensive database of all the possible martial arts moves from around the world." Kululu replied "Now, to utilize these moves to conquer all of Pekopon." "That's where I come in, Zuo." Hypnotist Zuoo interceded coolly as he sauntered up to Keroro's side to house of blues music.
"Whatchall cool cats got cookin, Zuo?" Zuoo inquired. "We're basically cooking up an invasion plan where we hypnotize all the Pekoponians within any given area into martial arts soldier slaves to help us take over all of Pekopon and kick EX.W.A.T.I. in the pants for their meddling." Keroro elucidated. "No worries! I got the hypnosis part down to a t!" Zuoo replied as he moved in to set up the hypnosis node off site.
Somewhere within a Japanese tundra, 6:00 am
Gial had been assigned to help Naozi hijack the hypnosis node that Zuoo set up an hour earlier. Keroro intends to zap several smaller radii at a time. Aoryuzen on the other hand, wants to zap just one larger radius close to the Tendo residence. The idea being to hypnotize the populace within that radius, and have them locate the hive mind and bring its host over to the designated drop zone for hive mind extraction.
Upon reaching their destination, Gial had a connector shot up his ass by Naozi as he connected him to the node, thereby completely subverting Keroro's invasion plan to fit Aoryuzen's main goal. Naozi typed in the coordinates, and Gial activated the hypnosis node, commencing the very next in a long line of hive mind capture plans to come.
The Hinata residence, 3:00 pm
Fuyuki had already gotten dressed in his martial arts apparel, and was on his way to Tsubasa's performance muscle taxi. Tsubasa delivered Fuyuki to his destination being the Tendo residence for some more training under Ranma's auspices. The original one free month now became five free months, along with several more weeks of free taxi rides with the prize 75,000,000 yen check that Nabiki cashed in to the bank.
Additional prize money was awarded so as to compensate for the prize tax that was to be charged therein. Momoka had already paid in advance for the rest of the months up to the Nishizawa challenge date. All with neither Baio nor Oka in the know about it all because she had tasked the Daikage cell to shift that money in there just last night. They've already been paid midway into their inside job.
Momoka's hidden donation made it so that Fuyuki and family won't ever have to pay for the lessons during the entire interim. That interim being between the day that the sex on the beach scandal came to a head, and the Nishizawa challenge date. Nabiki considered Baio's parental intervention bad for her business, therefore she used this as an opportunity to get even with him.
Ranma had made eye contact with Fuyuki once more as they both headed slowly into the dojo. "Next in line, we build upon the lessons from before, then we'll work on your stamina. It's the same as when we did before, except this time you grab the fireflies only as their lights shine." Ranma paused to take another breather
"At the same time, you avoid the scorpions like before on the dome platforms, except the platforms also become concave when you land on them and sink into the pit after some 10-20 seconds. Not only that, but you also have to deflect the steel rods that are shot at you at random intervals." Ranma explained the rules as he gave Fuyuki the cue to begin the game.
The purpose behind shrouding the dojo in darkness was to test Fuyuki's instincts with his mind's eyes; a sort of night vision if you will. "Why are you dawdling around like some brain damaged toddler on ice, for god's sake!" Ranma spat as Fuyuki jumped around faster and faster and grabbing the fireflies as their lights shine. All that, along with deflecting a few steel rods shot at him all at once.
Oddly enough, Fuyuki was wildly successful at this, having captured all the fireflies as their lights shone perfectly within short time. "That was quick." Ranma mused to himself as he quickly dismantled the sunlight blocking elements. Ranma then wrapped a pair of weighted chains, each around one of Fuyuki's two arms to add resistance.
"Okay,you need to throw at least one hundred and fifty jabs at that thick steel pole to pass this one, the next goal will be at two hundred and fifty." Ranma required of Fuyuki to build up his stamina and endurance for this one. Fuyuki then threw the first 10-20 jabs at the pole within 25 seconds.
"Who the hell taught you to throw a punch!? Mother Teresa!?" Ranma screeched as Fuyuki threw some 30 more jabs before beginning to show signs of fatigue, and finally gave out after only 110 jabs. That figure was pretty damn impressive seeing as how most students would give out after 30, even without the weighted chains.
Still, even after having seen Fuyuki go well beyond 300 jabs before tiring out the third time around, Ranma felt as though this effort was not quite enough, so he tried a different approach. As Ranma made for the pail to pour some cold water in it, though... "Uuuuuuhhhhhhn!" A hoarse, moaning sound resonated throughout the bathroom as though from a zombie.
Although, that sound did not actually come from within the house, but just along the periphery thereof. The doorbell was incessantly ringing when Soun rushed up to answer the door. "How may I help, you." Soun's face paled in the presence of a hundred strong horde of hypnotized zombies, snarling, sneering, growling, groaning, moaning, each one with pupiless irises glowing a deadly blood red.
Soun chuckled sheepishly as he closed the door on them, and locked it, and boarded up all the doors and windows within the Tendo family home. "What's all that racket about, Tendo?" Genma harshly catechized of his panicking companion. "Z-Z-Z-ZOMBIIIIEEES!" Soun shrilled in terror as he dragged Genma to the main foyer when their hypnotized neighbors for zombies forcibly broke the boarded up door in.
"Why I don't believe it! Nowhere to run, Tendo! We stand our ground, and that's final!" Genma declared. "Y-Y-You're right, Saotome!" Sound replied as terror turned into bravery. Soun clad himself in his battle aura samurai armor. "Saotome anything goes secret technique: Vambrace fist!" Genma cried out as the sleeves on his gi detached and turned into pitch black vambraces.
Said vambraces could purportedly make their wearer's fists as hard as diamonds. This was proven to be true as Genma swung a punch at a few neighbors, who oddly enough were protected by the hypnosis aura as it began to wear off. Fuyuki was still in the dojo awaiting Ranma's return, when some of the hypnosis zombies waltzed in on him and attacked at lightning speed.
Almost immediately thereafter, not wanting to become like them, Fuyuki unwound both of the weighted chains part way, with the rest of the bindings to be used as anchor points. Then, at that moment in time, Fuyuki began to flail the chains about with his arms, all blows landing on the heads and nowhere else. Soun, Genma, and Fuyuki have all discovered this fatal flaw with the Sarge's latest invasion plan.
30 minutes into the attack, all inhabitants within the Tendo residence had no more than 1000 zombies descending upon them. Of those 1000, the fighters have awakened about 250 of them, including Ranma, who was the only one that the zombies were going after for some odd reason. Then, just as suddenly as the zombies appeared, the remaining 750 have all awakened at once, with the dreadful aura dissipating around their bodies.
"Ohh, man." "What?" "Where am I?" "How'd I get here" "What's going on?" several neighbors that had turned back from zombies murmured to themselves upon waking up. In addition to the aura having dissipated, their eyes were restored to their original colors. "Isn't that strange, Saotome?" Soun murmured aloud with Genma only nodding in wholehearted agreement.
Why the sudden reawakening after mere hours into their hypnosis? We may owe that to one B-1C Thunderhound that discovered and bombed the hypnosis node, destroying it with an experimental small diameter stand off munition, or S.D.S.O.M for short. Gial and Naozi have already evacuated the site after have been alerted to the B-1C's prescence by Shiclerin at a safe distance a mintue prior to the bombing.
After all the neighbors have departed the Tendo vicinity, A familiar shape had pulled up near the back wall, followed by another, similar shape. Raikoume and Kamikase were those shapes as they undid their transformations to slink their way to Ranma's room. "When we go in after Ranma, it's speed vs. speed." "Oh, yeah." The twins smirked confidently clambering over the wall, and jumping clear across the backyard.
Ranma was just about to send Fuyuki off once more when Raikoume and Kamikase made a surprise entrance from the attic. In reality, the zombies were made to be a distraction for Raikoume and Kamikase to infiltrate the Tendo compound in broad daylight. Immediately upon arrival into the second floor, Raikoume and Kamikase began to set up all sorts of booby traps to be set off by silken trip wires.
Kamikase bit into a silk roll unwinding it with her metallic teeth and jaws, as well as her left arm. After having woven a literal web of their own machination, all Raikoume and Kamikase had to do was wait. Kasumi was making her way upstairs when she caught a glimpse at a few of the many entangled wires, tugging at one of them, with Raikoume and Kamikase flinching at it.
"Father! Mr. Saotome! There's lots of spider webs that are suspended upstairs." Kasumi called out in her usual tone, summoning the presences of Soun, Genma, and Fuyuki to the slowly unfolding situation at hand. "Well, didn't know spiders could weave a web that quickly in so little time." Soun remarked as Fuyuki began to intercede.
"No. I've seen these webs before during the summer's end festival, and spiders don't weave webs this shiny and metallic, not like this." Fuyuki elucidated as he motioned to take a closer look, still reeling from the zombie attack. Only so much as an iota of paranoia was to be shown as Fuyuki tugged at the wires as Kasumi did before, only much harder.
The harder that Fuyuki tugged on the wires, the more that his own battle aura began to show around the fingers that were in contact, eventually allowing him to cut them loose. Three wooden spears shot out from the side, all missing their marks. That was the first in a multitude of different booby traps that were set upstairs. They ranged from death spikes to proximity mines, from lead clubs to laser cutters, just to name a few.
Ranma was just looking around wondering about all the recent hub bub when he, too made contact with some of the wires. It was then that Raikoume and Kamikase pounced on the boy martial artist as a giant pair of steel bear trap jaws closed in on him from the floor. Ranma did escape, leaving his twin adversaries ensnared in their own machination.
"Hey, quit that!" "Yeah, you can't just use our own traps against us! It's no fair!" Raikoume and Kamikase bitched and whined calling foul play on their target's part. "All is fair in love and war, especially when it comes to anything goes martial arts!" Ranma shot back not wanting to hear it from either of them. It was then that Fuyuki joined the fray as Raikoume and Kamikase broke free from the giant bear trap.
Fuyuki rolled into an incomplete front flip as multiple death spikes shot up from the floor. He was in just such a position so as to dissapate the stabbing force as the spike points made contact with his body. He's been stabbed by them all, none of which were too life threatening. That didn't stop Fuyuki, however, as he slid underneath a log trap, From which the velociraptor twins lauched a surprise attack from the air.
Ranma aimed a laser cutter at a trip wire hooked up to a set of dual guillotine scissor blades. Fuyuki then foot sole launched the twins at the kill zone, who stopped short of being cut up as the angled guillotine blades shot up down like a pair of scissors. Ranma and Fuyuki both realized the true importance of their training together as they bounded across the death trap laden upstairs battlefield.
Ranma and Fuyuki both delivered the final blow as a dual uppercut sending both of their assassin drone adversaries soaring up into the ionosphere. "WE'LL GET you two for thiiiiii..." The raptor twins' voices both trailed off in defeat. "You gotta be kidding me." Ranma bemused to Fuyuki before they both pitched in to help the rest of the family dismantle all the traps that were laid by their opponents.
After all this thas their first time ever having fought together in real time, and the combat synergy between them was just beginning to build up. Fuyuki had been gifted with the terrifying power of observation. He had already learned to summon his battle aura before the fight, but he has yet to master its use, as he has a long way to go before then. Until that day when he is ready, Fuyuki will continue to pay visits to the Tendo residence.
Although, with what had happened with the assassin drones today, Fuyuki's going to go there much more regularly and for much longer than he once thought. It was then, as he went home and into his room, that it hit him. It dawned on him that he and Ranma both need to work on some collaborative techniques if they were to defeat Aoryuzen and his assassin drones together.
At the moment, Baio was a much more immediate concern, but it wouldn't hurt to at least be able to fend off the invading assassin drones in the process. Thus, Fuyuki contacted Ranma over the phone to discuss his forthcoming game plan. "Hello, Tendo residence". \Yo, Fuyuki. What's goin on?/ Ranma queried in reply as he picked up the phone.
"Say, Ranma. I was sort of thinking that we could use the sarge's base and his robot army to practice our collaborative techniques and team battling and such." \Hmm, team battles? That's not entirely out of the question, nor is using his base for a training ground./ "I'll tell you what, I can use the Tendo dojo for my individual skills, and we can use the sarge's base for our collaborative skills." Fuyuki proposed.
\Sure, why not./ "I'll get it cleared with the sarge on that one, buh bye." Fuyuki reported as he hung up the phone to tell the sarge about this. After a lenthy while, though... "GAAAAH ARE YOU CRAZY!? WHAT IF THAT RANMA RUNS HIS MOUTH OFF ABOUT IT ALL!?" Keroro panicked citing how Kuno, Ryoga, Mousse, and eventually Ranma started messing about with his invasion plans.
"Think about this; you can use our training to your advantage, and you can get even with Baio in ny defeating him and his wife Oka during the Nishizawa challenge. That, along with the assassin drones of course." Fuyuki pitched to the sarge, whose eyes were alit with glee, and then narrowed ominously. "Sure, why not." Keroro replied, before Fuyuki took his satisfied leave.
{Kerokerokerorin! When those two train together, me and Kululu will analyze their technique data and upload it to my underground invasion computer to cough up a blueprint, which will serve to help reproduce thousands upon thousands of copies of those two, each of which can combine to create an even more powerful, even faster, even more attentive super robot!} Keroro mused as he eventually returned to his task of building gundam models.
The Tendo dojo, 8:00 am. January 8, 2003
It was another snow day, meaning that Fuyuki had no school today. Therefore, he could afford to squeeze more hours of training in within the period of one day. The fact that he was all caught up with his homework also helped. Ranma and Fuyuki have already laid down the game plan, which was for the latter to train for build up their individual skills on week days, and for the former to come over and train with the latter on collaborative attacks and teamwork on weekends.
Today was a week day, therefore Fuyuki had already come over to resume his training. However, thing won't really begin as they usually would, as Ranma set out to finish what he was about to start five days ago. Ranma doused himself with cold water, and strode on up to the dojo after putting on some girl's underwear. The underwear was worn underneath the clothes that she was wearing when she changed into her Jusenkyo form.
"Hi there." Ranko breezed out to Fuyuki, who had already gotten down to warming up. Fuyuki had stopped midway, to turn around and gawk for a little bit, snapping out of it a second later. "H-Hey, Ranma, what're you-" "Don't fret, my little darling. You know you're doing this because you want that delectable nectar, that forbidden fruit you crave so much." Ranko oozed as she advanced on Fuyuki, eventually pinning him down with her own body weight.
Fuyuki had never been so creeped out by this move before, especially considering that Ranko's birth form was that of a guy. Ranko's eventually closed the gap with Fuyuki's as though she were a cougar looking for some jailbait as she undressed herself to partially expose her bra. Then, Fuyuki began to smirk, and unfurl into an equally sensual smile. Ranko slowly rose up because her mission was all but complete.
"RANMA! WHAT THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING!?" Akane screeched stompin ger way behind Ranko to slam a tea kettle chock full of searing hot water upside the latter's head. "OW! WHATDJOU DO THAT FOR, AKANE!?" Ranma screeched back immediately standing up to face her. "ARE YOU TRYING TO MAKE A PERVERT OUT OF HIM!?" "THIS AIN'T NONE OF YOUR BUSINESS, AKANE!"
However, as Ranma and Akane were engaged in yet another argument, the outside world around Fuyuki began to dissapate as he absorbed himself in his sexual fantasies with Momoka. Maybe, that was just what he needed; an escape, however perverse it may be. The result had become pretty apparent as Fuyuki closed his eyes, and rose up to stand erect.
Knuckles cracked, fingers stretched out, black fingerless gloves pulled back, and navy blue bandana tightened, and eyes opened was the all evidence needed to see that Fuyuki's innermost determinator was now fully awake and raring to go. This message was so powerful that stopped the argument cold. "Ranma. I-I had no idea. Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Akane queried in utter shock.
"For one thing Akane, you'd get the wrong idea and try to hit me across the head with something." Ranma replied. "Oh, yeah. I suppose you're right." Akane sighed slumping in defeat and resignment. In the background, we can see that Momoka was also in attendance. "Oh, Fuyuki. I'm rooting for you, all the way." Momoka breezed out approving of what Ranma was doing with her Fuyuki.
"Oh, my. It's nice of you to join us, Momoka." Kasumi replied as she served the mistress her breakfast. "That's Ranma for you, always having something up his sleeve, no matter what." Nabiki groused unsurprised at this turn of events. Suddenly, a silken tendril projectile shot out from the ceiling, linking up with Fuyuki's frontal brain lobe.
{I see, so you're the one under Ranma's wing, correct?} Gial's mind queried of the stunned Fuyuki. "Yes, so to speak." He replied as he tugged on the silk line, eveltually dragging Gial down to the floor upon cutting his connection loose. "Pinstripes?" Fuyuki gasped in shock as Gial's sudden arrival. "Wait, you know this thing?" Ranma mused in confusion.
"I think I saw this thing when I shot him down back at the shooting gallery in the summer's end festival. Could he be looking for payback?" Fuyuki replied as Gial took his leave upon having completed his intelligence mission. "I think it's best that we let Pinstripes go without giving chase. Besides, the upcoming is a bigger priority." Fuyuki recalled, as Ranma resumed the training with that little incident with Gial behind them.
The Don Viper's headquarters, 5:00 am. January 10, 2003
Three of the Don Viper's many henchmen have stepped forth to kneel before their boss; Corsair Viper, Spear Fisherman Viper, and the third known as Cloak and Dagger Viper. Coak and Dagger Viper was an advance scout within his group, equipped not with a dagger, but with a pair if naturally occuring, wrist mounted, retracting short swords for use in close quarters combat.
That in and of itself was one of a few mutations among the Viper species as a whole. Cloak and Dagger Viper was also equipped with a radio transceiver, none of which were naturally occurring among his peers, therefore had to be made. "So far, the complete merger of Kamui and Kurain into our gang should be underway." Cloak and Dagger Viper remarked citing the fact the both organizations should now have been absorbed into the Don Viper gang.
"Excellent, that Xiu Wong had better watch his step from now on." The Don Viper sneered satisfied that Kamui and Kurain are going to be fully part of his criminal enterprise. Several members within Kamui have defected before getting assassinated one by one. There was one who survived the purge, and went into seclusion. Most of the members that were within Kamui before, have stayed with them stationed in Japan.
Jishaku had been made into a cyborg after having been saved from certain death, with his Gatling shotgun having been revamped for a higher rate of fire, and more ammo capacity. This, along with another pair of arms that are mounted in the back and are used for mounting all sorts of equipment and weapons.
"Good, now keep an eye on his goddamn Rat pack for any new developments." The Don Viper waved off as he sent the three henchmen off to monitor the Rat pack and their activites, intercepting when they threaten their boss' assets. With all that, the Don Viper was rather confident, moreso than ever to the point where he could be in a better position to rival Xiu Wong in many facets of his business.