Assassin Drones: The original saga
Fuyuki's training Arc. De Arimasu!
By Alex Young
The Tendo residence, 2:50 pm. January 22, 2003
"Prepare to die, Ranma!" Ryoga exclaimed ravenously as he advanced on Ranma as the latter closed the door in front of his long time challenger. Ryoga, however knocked the door down with a single jab.
All the while, Fuyuki was just kicking back to relax in the living room as Nabiki uttered out a "Talk about door busters." Ryoga caught up to Ranma, grappled him by the shoulders with his arms before flipping him upside down, and stopping short of smashing the latter's body in with a power bomb maneuver.
Ranma, not the least bit appreciative of that stunt, countered by grappling Ryoga by the neck with his legs in a hand stand, and catapulted him outside by contorting his body forwards.
Ryoga's face slammed into the go board that Soun and Genma were playing on with Ranma taking the fight outside. Fuyuki, not too comfortable with the idea of cross dressing, found his face flushing severely as he was clad in a girl's Furinkan high winter uniform.
Suck as it may, Fuyuki told himself that he may as well get used to it. Well, not that Fuyuki would be one to simply let his cross dressing consume him, you see, he wouldn't. With that, Fuyuki took the opportunity to inch closer outside to watch Ranma and Ryoga doing battle outside. "EAT THIS, BAKUSAI TENKETSU!" Ryoga growled once more launching his usual breaking point attacks at Ranma, who consistently dodged every one of them.
All that, while Zurunshi is the invisible eye in the sky watching and recording it all as more footage for Aoryuzen to review. However, Zurunshi was now streaming the footage directly over to the Rapier due to some new, recently installed equipment that allows for just that.
"Hmm, Fu, Yu, Ki, huh? That's a mouthful if I ever heard of it. Welp, Fu-Yu-Ki. Let's see how your cross dressing game works out." Aoryuzen smirked having a little trouble really pronouncing Fuyuki's name right, but curious to see what lies ahead for him and his cross dressing game plan.
The Hinata residence, 7:00 am. January 31, 2003
So far, the cross dressing game plan had gone rather smoothly for Fuyuki after a while of accommodating himself to wearing girl's clothing. In fact, he had learned the basics of martial arts dining with an unnamed Frenchman, martial arts tea ceremony, martial arts figure skating, and martial arts rhythmic gymnastics, all in eight days straight.
What's more was that the assassin drones never really attempted to capture the hive mind from Ranma ever since yesterday, although they were keeping close tabs on him. Now though, it's about that time that he step in to some more familiar territory as he wore a gray dress shirt with black pinstripes running down its length, a black tie, and black dress pants.
This was the case for him, although he was no longer required to abide by the dress code by now. In fact, he's been wearing his shirts and ties quite intermittently ever since the start of June, but what's to say that he'll stop wearing them entirely?
Huntsman Moriri, along with three other keronians, General Kiruru ZX-1, Sergeant Maroro, Technician Bakuku, and a new member of this seemingly motley crew, Lance Corporal Nagigi, were all sitting at the roof of the Hinata residence.
"Looks like Gial's been mingling with this one." Bakuku brought up with his ability to read people's minds and memories, possibly feeding on their dreams and nightmares. "Gial. My, I've been waiting for this for too long, now" Moriri sneered loading up his signature bull-pup compound crossbow.
Moriri was still itching to strike Gial down, and adorn his skull on a special place within his late father's trophy room. "Good, now SCATTER!" Kiruru barked as his comrades dutifully fanned out hopping all over the place for any signs of assassin drone activity.
Somewhere near Furinkan high, 7:10 am. February 1, 2003
"What the fuck do you guys want?" Ranma spat with he, Hiroshi, Daisuke, and Fuyuki being cornered by Gial, Moaghen, Kuosinne, and Shiclerin. "Hand over the goddamn hive mind, or else!" Moaghen snarled with Gial in a threat display to back it up.
"You four creeps had better stop harassing my students, Happo fifty yen coin satsu!" Miss Hinako cried as she drained the four assassin drones of their energy. Weird, their skeletal structure seems to be intact.
Well, that left them all really famished and they needed a bite to eat. Gial definitely provided in raiding a passing food truck. All the other assassin drones joined to dig in themselves as Miss Hinako escorted the students to the principal's office.
Gial, after having finished restoring his energy, followed them all the way over to Furinkan high. "Well now, what have we heah?" Principal Kuno queried as all four students landed on the floor at the Principal's desk.
"Sir. These students were caught dawdling and playing hooky on their way to school." The adult Miss Hinako reported. "That, and this, thing had followed me all the way over here." She finished as Gial trotted up to her side snuffling all around her figure.
With that, the Hawaiianized principal simply pulled the chain, and down the "delinquents" went into the detention pit of utter regret. In it, there was a bust like statue of the principal himself in all his dopey ass glory.
What puzzled Ranma thus far was that if the principal knew that Fuyuki was a boy cross dressing in girl's clothes right from the get go, then why didn't he take action up until now? Miss Hinako, too was down there having turned into a child a few seconds ago.
Fuyuki wore his martial arts apparel as he usually did when training with Ranma. "Now be a good boy and bow down to the statue." Miss Hinako instructed as Ranma suddenly got behind her and blurted out a "If it's soooo good for you, then why don't you do it, Teach?"
Of course, this angered Miss Hinako into using her Happo five yen coin satsu with Ranma hiding behind the statue. Her body did turn into an adult, with none of her charges suffering for it.
All that hate and resentment for the principal that was built up over the years had accumulated in her body as she was knocked back staggering. "Alright, where's that dirtbag principal?" The now delinquent Hinako spat as she furrowed her eyebrows and stood erect.
The principal had already left the office via a secretly placed escape hatch. "Oooh my, da big kahuna's in deep doo doo, now." The principal Kuno shuddered as the four assassin drones from before slithered up to meet him, not even including one Gaedool that popped up from out of the ground.
"Listen real good, now. We already know that the delinquent shadow energy had gotten into Miss Hinako, and we're willing to help, if you help us capture Ranma so we can get the hive mind form him, understand?" Kuosinne proposed to the principal, who gladly accepted the offer, much to the reader's surprise.
This startling new development left Ranma and friends no choice but to go on the lam from these guys as they began their hunt for the now rogue Miss Hinako. Akane was in Daikage's playboy restaurant with Ukyo, Shampoo, and Kodachi all discussing the recent happenings with the assassin drones.
"Well, the more that I look at it, the more worried I am that Ranma might not make it because these things might kill him." Akane conversed with her rivals With Ukyo in her boys' uniform, both she and Shampoo in their Furinkan girl's uniform, and Kodachi wearing her St. Hebereke Uniform.
Ranma was seen out and about still looking around for Miss Hinako with Fuyuki already having split off from the group. "Honestly, I'm sitting here worried sick and Ranma's prancing around playing hooky." Akane bemoaned as she and friends all left tips seeing that they have finished their meals.
Ranma's search finally bore fruit when Miss Hinako was spotted chowing down on some ramen still engaged in her vengeful hunt for the principal. {Oh yeah! I think I remember Fuyuki telling me that the only way which that dark aura can be released is when the principal gets his just desserts.} Ranma spat out in revelation as he entered the restaurant, with Hiroshi and Daisuke following him in.
"Yo, Teach! Where have you been? We've been looking everywhere for ya!" Hiroshi and Daisuke clamored in non unison as Gial stealthily slunk up on the ceiling blending very perfectly into the background, awaiting his signal once he got into position.
"RANMAAA! RAAAANMA! Shouldn't you be in school?" Akane spat looking to pick another verbal fight with Ranma. "Speak for yourself, Akane. Oh, and me, Hiroshi, and Daisuke here are on the lam from the principal and those damned a-drones at the moment." Ranma replied keeping his tone significantly lower than Akane's, even in apparent anger.
"Happo zero yen hatred bazooka!" Miss Hinako roared as she sent Gial flying out of the restaurant and into the street. Just then, the ground began to shake and crack as Gaedool emerged from the underground hungry with lechery as ever.
Several sniper bolts began ripping through the restaurant, with Ranma and company ducking for cover just in time. One waiter was not so lucky as he was dropped dead right before Ranma's eyes.
It was Shiclerin, and he stood atop of the roof line with Moaghen, Kuosinne, and the principal in company. "Behold, the fahve wicked, terrible phantoms of Furinkan, no?" The principal cried out to Miss Hinako's delinquent furor.
"Launching a sneak attack, huh? I expected nothing lower from a dirty motherfucker like you, so come down here and take me on like a man! Unless you're too chickenshit to get ripped apart!" Miss Hinako shouted as she flipped the bird at the principal.
"HEEEY! MISTER PRINCIPAL! TELL KUNO THAT ME AND AKANE ARE GONNA GO KISS HIM ON THE LIPS AS OUR APOLOGIES FOR PLAYING HOOKY, OKAY!?" Ranko chirped in her siren song.
"Ranma!" Akane cried in complaint. "Shh! Don't worry! I got this!" Ranko shushed Akane as the both of them came to terms with the new plan. "Hmph! This'll be interesting." Miss Hinako scoffed flippantly as she joined the forming parade.
"ALLLOOOOHHAAAAAAAA EVERYBAHDYYYYY! DEESE TWO WAHINES WOULD LIKE TO APOLOGIZE FOR PLAYING HOOKY BY KISSING MY TACHI ON DE LEEPS!" The principal announced as he rode on Gial, with Ranko and Akane following behind both clad in their uniforms.
"Anyways, you two had better make this quick or else." Moaghen barked as he pushed both girls along the path that the other students had laid bare for them. That path was leading to none other than Tatewaki Kuno himself.
"Akane Tendo and the pig tailed girl surrendering themselves to my grace and elegance? Am I dreaming?" Kuno spat out failing to make sense of what was transpiring as Ranko and Akane both hugged him in the sides.
"Just follow my lead, Akane." Ranko reminded as she was the first to step in front of Kuno, and kiss him on the lips. Kuno's eyes were rollers with a coin dispenser as both landed [Jackpot!] and little pink hearts began to stream from out of his mouth.
Kuno then collapsed under the weight of this advance a second later. "C'mon. Up and at 'em, Kuno." Ranko teased as Akane moved in front of Kuno to deliver her kiss to the still reeling Kuno. Akane swallowed her pride, and kissed Kuno on his lips herself, much to a less than distant Ryoga's furor.
"KUNOOOOOOOOO! PREPARE TO DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEE!" Ryoga screeched as he made his advance on Kuno, with Ranko and Akane taking the opportunity to get clear of the action.
"DON'T JUST SIT THERE, PRINCIPAL! THEY'RE GETTIN AWAAAAAYYY!" Moaghen shrilled urging the principal to deliver his punishment to our to runaways. Actually, Ranma had just doused himself with hot water after using his useful "Assassin magic: Quick change-of-clothes!" to change into his usual red martial arts shirt.
"OH NO YA DON'T, PRINCIPAL! I'VE GOT A SCORE TO SETTLE WITH YOU!" Toramasa rasped as he popped up from his secret labyrinthine tunnel complex waving a report card. "WEHT! WAT DA!? YOU GEEV DAT BACK TO ME, OLD MAN!" The principal Kuno spat back as he prioritized his reputation over disciplinary action, which was highly unusual.
One has to wonder why, though, as the principal gave chase leaving Ranma and Akane to the assassin drones. "STEP AWAY FROM AKANE TENDO AND THE PIG TAILED GIRL, FELL CREATURES!" Kuno screeched as he met the assassin drones in combat. "You take Akane and run, Ranma." "Yeah, We'll keep these assassin drones busy for you." Ryoga and Mousse urged as Ranma and Akane took heed.
Ranma's Fiancees also joined in on the action in keeping the assassin drones busy, save for Gial, who side stepped out of the way going after Ranma and the hive mind he unknowingly harbored.
Ranma and Akane have other plans as they led Toramasa straight to where Miss Hinako was, with the principal virulently giving chase. Toramasa handed out copies upon copies of said report card that so happens to belong to the principal himself! Apparently, the principal never graduated high school because he got a big, fat, red F in English!
"Now's your chance, Miss Hinako!" Toramasa signaled with the entire student body cheering the still delinquent Miss Hinako on. "Thanks, you old fart! Alright, HAPPO ZERO YEN WAVE CANNON!" Miss Hinako screamed sending the humiliated principal flying into the stratosphere.
Fireworks followed shortly thereafter as Miss Hinako reformed into a child without any knowledge of what had happened. With that, all of the students returned to class, including Fuyuki, who apparently told Ranma's rivals about the whole thing as it unfolded. In the background, we could see Gial and the other assassin drones on campus beating a hasty retreat once more.
Aboard the Rapier, 4:00 am. Setsubun eve, 2003
Gial was in the mobile armor deployment bay when Aoryuzen was testing out a new theory that Naozi and Fuhinga have both cropped up when extensively studying the space drill virus.
As we could see, Gial was just about to be outfitted with a brand new component type weapon armor. A pair of devices were attached to Gial's corresponding club arms, and the final piece was landed on the back, for hive mind storage.
On each weapon arm, two drills popped up from the front, and another, more specialized drill emerged from Gial's mouth, not to contaminate, but to capture the hive mind from Ranma.
Testing of the weaponized, more aggressive space drill virus was officially completed, now dubbed "Gial's drill virus" because of it. Thus, Gial found himself fully ready to deploy, with Raikoume and Kamikase equipped with more Gial's drill weapons as backup.
At the local park, 3:20 pm. Setsubun day, 2003
Fuyuki was out with Momoka on the Setsubun holiday in the local park deciding to deter any oni demons together with their bean scattering containers chock full of beans. Fuyuki was in his golden olive dress shirt, white tie, and white dress pants. Momoka wore an edo komon kimono with a white bamboo pattern made to match her white obi and obiage. Her kimono also had a golden olive background that matched Fuyuki's dress shirt.
The two had spotted some drill zombified townsfolk on their walk, scattering their beans to keep them from getting any closer. It did back them off as the drill virus' power began to dissipate significantly.
After a while of celebration, however and the zombies all coarsely moaned and groaned back to life, madder than ever about their bean scattering. It was right then and there that Fuyuki had realized the sinister genius behind Aoryuzen's latest, most dastardly plot; don't kill outright, but create panic, spread it around, and induce intense fear.
It's this level of fear that Aoryuzen will hopefully create in Ranma, thereby exposing the hive mind for ease of capture. However, with the special drill in Gial's mouth, it can bore up Ranma's ass to force the hive mind out of his system.
One way to capture the hive mind in case the other fails in one attempt, now that goes above and beyond the definition of clever. However, Ranma does not get scared very easily, except with cats.
The five fighting furies of the Reaperclan would provide reinforcements as Fuyuki and Momoka went home. "Hey, you! We've got big problems!" Ranma forewarned with he and Akane already inside the Hinata residence.
Just then, a shriek of pure terror shot out from Ranma's mouth as the five cats stood right nearby him, "Rrrriirr. Mmmmrrrrrreeeeaaawrr!" Ranma roared as his ways became more and more like that of a cat.
This was the end result of a time when Genma threw him into a pit full of starving cats back in November of 1991. That, and he's still evolving so that the current situation with the cat fist may not be for long.
At the moment, Neko Ranma was carnivorously looking for a fight with the incoming zombies. Surprise surprise, Aki was neither at home nor was she infected among the zombies at home.
Then again, neither was Alisa Southerncross, who was cleaning up with Miss Hinako at another area far away from where Ranma and Fuyuki were presently at. Fuyuki and Momoka both changed into their martial arts apparel at the drop of a hat and in the blink of an eye.
"If I'd have known any better, I'd say these zombies are closing in on us right around, this radius!" Saburo elucidated with Nabiki, Kasumi, and Kululu at his side citing that the zombies had yet to enter the home.
Just then, Koyuki, the Kuno siblings, Shampoo, and Ukyo, had joined them. Ryoga and Mousse were both already present after a change of clothes and Jusenkyo form. "Well, it's not only our duty as martial artists to protect this world at all costs, but to take any holidays to whole new extremes!" Ryoga declared.
"You see, we don't simply celebrate any old Setsubun, we celebrate MARTIAL ARTS SETSUBUN!" Mousse screeched as Soun and Genma, both zombified by the drill virus, tore the front door down in an instant.
Mousse then tossed several bean scattering bombs, complete with short, yet lit fuses. The bombs themselves exploded producing the desired effect as the virus' power waned to a point where its victims were no longer under its influence.
It was right then and there that Gial made his move from the backyard as he slid open the sliding doors, and led some more zombies in. The same tactics procured much the same results from Mousse, but Gial didn't care at all.
Raikoume and Kamikase rushed in from a neighboring backyard as they joined the fray. Both were armed with wrist mounted, articulatory cabled drill spears. That's where the similarity ends with their armaments, as Raikoume packed a six barreled Gatling gun, and Kamikase packed a battle aura projectile sniper cannon.
Raikoume and Kamikase mounted their weapons in the backyard and front entrance respectively, and fired away peppering any windows and doors in the firing line with bullet holes and burn marks. Neko Ranma rushed into the fray, who was surprisingly careful to keep his asshole just out of the drill zombies' reach.
Neko Ranma crashed and slashed into the horde, leaving Kuno, Ryoga, and Mousse plenty of opportunities to feed them Setsubun rice rolls to return them to normal. A majority of the zombies have all returned to normal at a dozen per second.
At that rate, the zombie apocalypse plan had gone down the drain just as quickly, if not more so than as it got started up. "You gotta be kidding me, this shit can't be happening." Raikoume deadpanned sarcastically at this sudden turn of events.
Gial, dangling from the ceiling at the second floor, opened up his mouth to reveal the special, hive mind extraction drill mounted on the component armor in the back. Gial made stab after stab at Neko Ranma, who was rather nimble in dodging them with all the cat like reflexes entailed from the cat fist trauma mode.
The fighting five furies then swiped at Gial with utmost fury, leaving Raikoume and Kamikase no choice bout to deal with the still bounding about Neko Ranma. Gial stormed out the front entrance with Starclaw and her other compatriots still fighting to hold on to him in his skeletal, dragon viper like head.
"Sit still, you son of an ass!" Kamikase spat firing her battle aura cannon and Raikoume pitched in to herd Neko Ranma into Gial's position. It was then that Gial simply delivered a sharp blow to Neko Ranma upside the head, thereby ending the cat fist's grip over him, until the next time he comes across enough cats.
Giroro, Kululu, and Dororo bombarded Gial with laser guns, sound waves, and energy swords respectively, not giving the Amplypygid enough room to successfully implement his critical phase of Aoryuzen's Setsubun plan.
"HEY, NUMBSKULLS!" "BET YER IDOLS ARE CHEATIN ON THE BOTH A YA RIGHT NOW, HA!" Raikoume and Kamikase both taunted as they flashed and scatter tossed various pictures of Ryoga with Natsumi, and Keroro with Mois into the air, much to Giroro's and Tamama's ire.
"Catch us if ya can, ya stupid ass chickenshits!" They both taunted some more as they transformed into motorcycles and stormed off with mobile armored Giroro and super Tamama in hot pursuit.
"NOBODY CALLS ME A CHICKENSHIT, AND LIVES!" Giroro screeched as he fired off his Gatling guns on his left, and a railgun blade on his right. "TAMAMA IMPACT!" Tamama screeched as he fire off his signature Tamama impact attack. Rakoume and Kamikase blasted back with their weapons as they all took the chase to the public highways.
By the time Ranma had come to, he had no idea what had just gone down while he was under the cat fist's influence. "It's him again!" Ranma sneered as Gial clashed with Dororo, vorpal plasma blade to energy swords.
It was at that very moment that Gial cooked up a plan on the fly, as indicated by him shooting his drill into the ground, and up Natsumi's ass upon emerging! Natsumi moaned not like a zombie, but in sexual ecstasy.
It was now known that Gial had not inserted his virus at all, but rather Gaedool's mutation known as the sexy drill virus! Ryoga rushed out the disaster area that was the front entrance to check on the now flirtatious Natsumi.
"Mmmm, I wanna dig holes with you forever, Ryoga." Natsumi moaned sexually as she stripped down to her bra and panties! "WHAT THE!? HEY, PUT YOUR CLOTHES BACK ON!" Fuyuki spat not wanting his sister and Ryoga to both die from embarrassment.
The plan was to get Ryoga to turn his back flushing and with a severe nosebleed so she can get her twin drills in to his ass as well! Ranma then landed on Ryoga's head as soon as that happened, though. All except that the drill didn't go in the asshole!
"Here, eat this." Ranma suggested as he fed Natsumi a Setsubun rice roll cooked up by Kasumi. Lo and behold, when feasting on the rice roll while staying in one direction and not talking for a moment, both drills simply stopped spinning, fell out, and disappeared, thereby reversing the virus' effect, and destroying it entirely.
"It's that 'Gial' character, he did this to you." Ranma elucidated bracing himself for punishment, when Natsumi found herself totally pissed off with neither Keroro nor Ranma, but Gial instead!
Natsumi rushed back in to her room to get dressed to dole out her punishment, with Kodachi, Koyuki, and Mousse rushing out to pin Gial to the street! Gial, of course simply spun his indestructible shield cocoon in worried anticipation.
Natsumi burst out from he bedroom window in her own martial arts garb, all a deep blood red! She wore a black steel bra kit underneath an olive flak jacket that was hanging out and a pair of hot rod flame wrapped, boot cut pants! She also wore a dog tag around her neck, in addition to a pair of fingerless biker gloves just like Fuyuki.
Her fingers became razor sharp, battle aura talons like those on any bird of prey. "AADADADADADADADADADADADADADADAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGAGA." Could be heard from Natsumi as she constantly swiped at Gial's cocoon hardened carapace.
Just then, Natsumi's screeching growl ripped up the air as her legs became depleted uranium pile drivers. Both of her feet slammed into Gial's carapace with all the energy of several hundred thousand nuclear weapons going off at once! All on one point!
\This is bad! Gial! Retreat!/ Aoryuzen as Gial coughed up a pitch black smokescreen blinding even the still furious Natsumi, and scurried his way out of dodge after having broken his bondage chains, cables, and tendrils. By the time the smoke had cleared, Gial was nowhere in sight! Whew, that was close!
"That, was, AWESOME!" Fuyuki cheered with a greater appreciation for his older sister than ever! "Well for one thing, I did offer her a few pointers on battle aura concentration, and how to properly/effectively utilize it as well. That, along with some Bakusai Tenketsu training to get her started." Ryoga explained rubbing his temples.
"Whatever it was, it certainly helped us to repel the assassin drones, that's for damn sure." Ranma interjected as all parties began laughing the day away, eventually going homeward bound shortly thereafter.
Gial, in his retreat, had a run in with the adult Miss Hinako, accompanied by Alisa. Both girls were in a battle synergy link up, where they could simply pool their energy into one, hyper powerful attack!
"HAPPO ZERO YEN MEGA WAVE BLAST!" Miss Hinako and Alisa shrilled in unison sending Gial flying high into the sky for Trokyushe to pick up. "Gial, it might not have been enough, but you did well, soldier, and I definitely salute you for that." The giant, old grouch replied with Gial nodding in agreement as both headed off for the Rapier.