Assassin Drones: The original saga
Fuyuki's training Arc. De Arimasu!
By Alex Young
The Tendo residence, at the dead of night. February 12, 2003
The anything goes school patriarchs haven't had a wink of sleep over a recent violent bout between Ranma and Akane. "The future of anything goes martial arts is looking to be very bleak, Tendo." Genma lamented as he and Soun conversed with each other rather inaudibly so as not to disturb their children's sleep.
"At this rate, unless we address this dire situation now, we'll have to wait until the next generation to merge both of our schools, Saotome." Soun replied in a grim undertone. "Say, Tendo. I think I remember Ranma announcing that he'd rather stay a girl just so he can be better able to communicate with Akane." Genma brought up as he formulated a rather hair brained scheme.
"Ah, yes. Now that I think of it, Saotome, I remember hearing an old legend about some Yin-Yang thank you ma'am personality splitter incense." Soun piped up in reply. "Remember, Tendo. This incense also has specialized parchments that work on anyone whose gender is opposite to the person the incense is being used on."
"Well, why not slip one of these parchments onto Akane while she's still sleeping and bring her over to Ranma." "You do that, Tendo. I'll slip in and steal the incense and the parchment from our master's room, then I'll rendezvous with you in Ranma's room." With that, both fathers moved forward and executed their insane scheme.
Genma crept into Happosai's room to bag the incense and the parchment, while Soun slunk into Akane's room and slid his arms into the underside of her sleeping form. Genma and Soun met up at Ranma's room with all the necessary ingredients for their inane plot to cone into fruition.
Soun laid Akane next to Ranma before exposing her back. "Ohh, stupid Ranma trying to grab me like that." Akane mumbled in her sleep. Soun carefully rubbed the parchment down to make it as flush with her back as possible. Both fathers wore breathing masks so as not to let the incense get inside their breathing orafaces.
Genma lit the incense in the brazier and fanned it to Ranma's nose. The 17 year old boy martial artist took a deep whiff and it went in only because he willed it in himself. With that, Ranma's yin energy emerged from his body, and was forcibly pulled into Akane's body.
The parchment attached to Akane's back was designed to attract yin energy derived from the personality splitter incense. Akane did wake up, but not as her usual self. In fact, she was glowing in a very phantasmal neon turquoise aura. So, too were here eyes once she opened them.
"Awake, my love. Awake." She commanded in an unnaturally sensual tone, at least for Akane. The fathers found themselves hiding just outside of Ranma's room as he woke up. "Mmmm nnmmmoh man, what in the? Akane? W-what're you doin 'ere?" Ranma queried waking up at a loss for explanation.
Akane smiled and collapsed dragging Ranma with her. She even hugged him by his bedside. "What the hell was that all about?" Ranma pondered to himself before he simply shrugged it off.
"By George, Saotome I think we got it." Soun whispered. "You're right, Tendo." Genma whispered in reply. That caught Ranma's attention, and he was plenty annoyed at that. "Hehehehahahahaha. So, any last wishes?" Ranma clucked in his throat as he forced himself free of Akane's grasp.
"Grrow why you dirty mother, I'M GONNA BOOT BOTH A YER ASSES INTO NEXT WEEKEND!" Ranma shrilled as he kicked both culprits as far as he could. Satisfied with that, he huffed and drifted back into sleep with a very bewildered Akane at his bedside.
The usual route to Furinkan High, 7:00 am. The very next day
Both fathers found themselves hobbling about on walking sticks after Ranma shot them out into near Earth orbit. They were on their needlessly arduous journey home when they had a bit a run in with an unusually dark looking Ryoga Hibiki.
"So, what have you two done to Akane?" Ryoga inquired rather murderously, which caught Soun by surprise. "Why, me and Saotome split Ranma's yin personality and placed it into Akane with a special parchment." Soun replied nervously.
"I suspected as much, now take this! Bakusai Tenketsu! Rapid fire!" Ryoga boomed as he unleased his rapid fire breaking point attack. All to collapse the section of road where the fathers stood into the sewage trench below. "SHI SHI HOKODAN!" He finished with his recently mastered lion's roar wave shot into the landslide to seal the deal.
"Hmph, that takes care of that." The lost boy sighed as he resumed his walk to Furinkan High. Surprisingly enough, Soun and Genma both survived this unfortunate run in with Ryoga. All that, while looking none the worse for wear than before.
"Saotome, are you all right?" Soun asked as he dug himself out of their shared predicament. [I think so, yeah. Now let's get out of here.] Panda Genma replied as he assisted Soun in their escape with very powerful panda claws.
After what felt like an hour or so but was really a few minutes, the patriarchs clambered up the landslide and escaped the aftermath. "Well, I've seen much worse. Let's go home Saotome." Soun suggested. With that, the panda simply nodded and both fathers tiredly resumed their painful homeward bound pilgrimage.
Meanwhile, on board the Rapier
Aoryuzen looked to be very troubled today, moreso than before. Gial was at his side, wondering as to what was going on with his leader. "Gial, I can no longer sense the hive mind as well as I used to. Not because of our future battle with the humans, but the hive mind has changed hands very rapidly and without any feasible explanation." Aoryuzen elucidated.
"You see, not only has the hive mind changed hosts rather quickly, but it did so silently with no harm to the hive mind. That should not have happened, because if it did, I'd have felt it myself, but I didn't." He added.
"Now get down to Nerima, Gial and find out why." He ordered. \Affirmative commander./ Gial replied via his transponder as he prepped himself for deployment in Nerima. All while Aoryuzen began to formulate a plot all his own based on this latest transpiring.
On campus at Furinkan High, 7:10 am
Ryoga Hibiki had just arrived on campus with Tatewaki Kuno and Mousse awaiting the lost boy's arrival. "You're late, Ryoga Hibiki." Kuno reproached gently. "Yeah, what took you so long?" Mousse queried.
"Sorry about that, guys. I had a run in with the patriarchs. Took care of them though." Ryoga explained. "No matter, for I, Tatewaki Kuno, blue thunder of Furinkan High, doth call our gentlemen's assembly on the inside of that nearby gardener's shed." Kuno gently proclaimed as he pointed his bokken at the shed.
With that, Kuno and company entered the shed and had their meeting. "So, what doth ye know about this latest of direst developments?" Kuno inquired. "For starters, Nabiki told me that the patriarchs have put Ranma's yin energy into Akane." Ryoga replied. "Oh yeah, that's the work of the yin yang thank you ma'am personality splitter incense!" Mousse chimed in.
"Correct, Mousse, and here I doth present the offendng incense!" Kuno bellowed as he presented the incense brazier responsible, much to his compatriots gasping shock. Their formal dicussion about the fathers latest plot to marry Ranma and Akane would last until the school hour began.
"Fie! Oh buddha almighty! I SHALT NOT BE LATE FOR CLASS! COME GENTLEMEN, I MAY NEED THY BACKUP!" Kuno cried as he and company executed a mad dash towards the main building in Furinkan High.
At the end of Miss Hinako's English class some three hours later, Ranma stared into his desk while Akane stared off into the sky. "I had this dream that we were at the amusement park, and boy you were the cutest damn thing around." Ranma reminisced to Akane.
"I know right, and god you were so handsome, that I could eat you all up." Just then, Ranma snapped back into reality. "Pshaw! Like I'd let some uncute and unsexy tomboy like you cook my ass, chew it up, and spit it out. I mean hell would hafta freeze over first, all seven levels of hell at that!" He weakly growled lightly insulting Akane's horrific culinary skills.
"Oh yeah, like I'd even want to take you out of all people, because you'd be going around fucking snatching up some more shitty fiancees left and right!" Akane snarled back much more strongly in insulting Ranma's tendency to have the girls following him all the time. "Stop it! Stop it right now!" A tearful Miss Hinako sobbed.
"Whatever, I'm goin to the bathroom." Ranma shot out rather blandly to Akane as he made walked out to the bathroom. Akane ran out into the hallway after Ranma and dumped a bucket of cold water onto him.
"Well, one thing I've learned from you is that not only are you built like a frickin wrecking ball, but you as sure as hell hit like one, too!" Ranko spat at Akane as she lifted the bucket from her head and tossed it aside like an unwanted doll.
"Mrrir why you stupid, do you practically ENJOY torturing me like this, day in and day out!?" Akane screeched as she hauled Ranko by her chest up against the wall. "Speak for your own damn self, Akane!" Ranko answered with clenched teeth as she made a choke hold on Akane.
"Okay, that does it! Happo 50 yen coin satsu!" Miss Hinako screamed as she emerged running for disciplinary reasons. "Oh, my. Remember, kids. No fighting in class." The adult Miss Hinako reprimanded.
Kuno and company had just arrived when this went on, much to their ire. "XIAN PU!" "AKANE!" Mousse and Ryoga screeched upon seeing Ranko and Akane fluttering about like paper to the wind.
"Do tell me, oh vile succubus minion of Ranma Saotome, what hast thou done to Akane Tendo and the pig tailed girl?" Kuno growled daring to qestion Miss Hinako's motives. "Why, they were fighting and I took disciplinary action." Miss Hinako replied.
"Gentlemen! Let's show this witch the errors of her ways!" "YEAH!" Kuno's gentlemen bellowed out as they proceeded to beat the shit out of the teacher for her "transgression against Akane Tendo and the pig tailed girl."
"YEYEYAAYAAW! You naughty keikis nooo be a fightin in mah school, not while da big Kahuna is in town!" The school principal Kuno made that grandiose as ever entrance of his while he plunged into the fray with the clear intent to give his son Tatewaki Kuno and his two accomplices some well deserved buzz cuts.
In the meantime, Akane and Ranko got away from the chaos of the hallway into the bathroom upon regaining their strength. This was also where she became Ranma by virtue of touching hot water, from the bathroom sink. "Whew, sorry 'bout what I said to you back there." Ranma panted. "Don't worry about it." Akane replied smiling.
Both anything goes martial arts heirs said what they've been saying so as to prevent the whole class from really getting the idea that they're lovers. Not only that, but to also keep both their fathers from marrying them off at too early a time before they're ready on an emotional level. After all that jazz, the rest of the school day was more or less uneventful to say the least.
After school at the Cat Cafe, 2:20 pm
"Eat up, boys. You get this dragon's whisker porridge free of charge." Cologne chided as Kuno and company chowed down on their dragon's whisker porridge. "Thank you for the meal!" They all called out as the left the cafe as happy campers knowing that their buzz cuts aren't going to be around for much longer.
Cologne was not so happy as she glared into the sky. "This is not good, something terrible has happened to Ranma and Akane." Cologne lamented as she decided it best to let fate fix this predicament.
Kissho public library, 2:40 pm
Fuyuki opened the door to the library to find that the anti barrier clad Kululu had just helped him to finish scouring up some data concerning the yin yang thank you ma'am personality splitter incense that Nabiki told him about via her code name, via the computer that he was sitting at.
"Well, I just thought that you'd be interested in things of this nature, so I decided to save any and all data concerning this incense into your hard drive for your viewing pleasure, after that I backed all that data up into my personal hard drive for my viewing pleasure, kuku!" Kululu groused. "Gee, Kululu. Thanks for letting me know, and thanks for getting me interested." Fuyuki replied in thanks.
After a short while of poring over the data in his hard drive, Fuyuki left for home to change from his school uniform, to his personal martial arts costume rather quickly. He then left for the Tendo dojo immediately afterward. "I'm off!" He said on his way out the door; that is, on his way to earning the right to Momoka's affections.
Meanwhile, back in Furinkan high
Sasuke Sarugakure had been tasked to shadow Kuno while he is in the quest for some credible confirmation regarding the personality splitter incense. Kuno turned to none other than Toramasa Kobayakawa for the answers.
Kuno approached the seemingly abandoned secondary school store section to where Toramasa lived. "So, you came to see me about an incense, eh?" Toramasa asked upon noticing Kuno delivering the incense to the table. "Yes, indeed. What doth thou knowest about this enigmatic incense in mine hand?" Kuno inquired.
"Well, as far as I could tell, some chinese aristocrat was willed into falling in love with himself by a witch he had spurned earlier. His jealous wife enacted revenge by concocting this incense and having him breathe it in, thereby splitting his personality in two and ultimately showing him the error of his ways; IN DEATH!" Toramasa finished in a rather punctual, but grim overtone.
"Oh, thank the buddha for this astonishing revelation from ye as per usual, ahahahahahah..." Kuno whooped and dashed out the door, much to Toramasa's apparent bewilderment. Of course, Sasuke was watching from the vents, catching everything that was said with a tape recorder.
The pygmy ninja would eventually make haste and report this finding to Kodachi. "Of course, Fuyuki would be interested in this sort of thing. Thanks, Sasuke rohohohohoh..." Kodachi howled as she exited the Kuno estate's courtyard with blinding speed.
Along the outskirts of Tokyo, 3:00 pm
A black cloak clad Kodachi Kuno bounced around leaping from rooftop to rooftop in search of Fuyuki Hinata; the boy who she knows can stop this crisis in the making. She eventually found herself in a dark alley where she didn't bump into Fuyuki, but stepped on Gial's cephalothorax for a head instead.
Gial was also scrounging about for any new information regarding the personality splitter incense. Gial took this as a threat and therefore tried to slice her legs off with his plasma blade but to no avail. Kodachi responded by whipping Gial in the back of his abdomen with her gymnastics ribbon.
With this, Kodachi now found herself in something of a staredown with the amblypygid invader. "Who are you and what are you doing here!?" Kodach cried before Gial shot a strand of silk at her frontal lobe, the end of which stuck to her skin and established a neural link with her brain.
{Why, my name is Gial, and I'm searching for some information as to why the hive mind changed hosts.} Gial spoke his thoughts through Kodachi's auditory lobe. {This is the only way I can communicate with you hearing what I have to say.} Gial added. "Well, mm Gial, I think I know a child by the name of Fuyuki Hinata who is hiding the key to solving this problem." Kodachi proposed.
{I've been there before, having broken into Kululu's computer room, and I can easily do so again if need be. In other words, I will take you there at your behest.} "Sounds like a plan." {Indeed, I'm glad that we're on the same page.} Gial finished as he cut off his silken link with Kodachi, who then hopped on his back, and rode with him as he did the jumping around, this time to where they both need to go; The Hinata residence.
The Hinata residence, 3:05 pm
The still hooded Kodachi and Gial have just arrived within some 40 minutes or so after Fuyuki's departure for another training session with Ranma in preparation for the upcoming battle with Baio and Oka Nishizawa.
"Alas, Gial, this is where we part ways. You do whatever you need to do, I'll continue shadowing that boy." Kodachi quipped with an air of mild regret as she leapt off to continue her pursuit of Fuyuki with her trademark laugh echoing in the air.
Gial on the other hand stayed behind to probe the backyard for that secret trap door that he fell through some 6 months ago. Upon finding it, Gial hacked into its controls, and opened it. He jumped right in through the deployment shaft as usual, shot a silken bungee cord from his mouth to attach to the ceiling above the vehicle bay, and executed a perfect upside down landing on it.
Gial had been coming from and going to the keronian base intermittently ever since that day. He's also been paying these visits at highly irregular intervals so as not to give the keronians the proper time of day to prepare for future break-ins.
After a while of skulking around, Gial slipped his way into Kululu's computer room to try out his newly enhanced active stealth system against the yellow devil's standalone security system.
Success! Gial seamlessly eluded Kululu's prying eyes and proceeded to copy the data concerning the personality splitter into his hard drive whilst retaining the original data that was being gathered. All that before hurriedly skittering his way out of the entire base through its ventilation system unnoticed.
Just outside the Tendo dojo, 4:30 pm
After another exhausting training session with Ranma on some intermediate hand to hand combat. That, and some strength training involving the punching force strong enough to break through a rather thick, quadruple reinforced steel concrete composite block. Fuyuki was left reeking of sweat as usual. His outfit soaked that sweat right up, along with all the energy that he put into his training.
The sweat can easily be washed off, but the energy deposited by the sweat will remain on his clothing, to be used on demand; a sort of wearable sweat based capacitor if you will. This meant that the sweatier he was now, the more energy deposited from said sweat he can use later.
It's also very reliable as his own sweat is a near infinite energy source, because when he's working that hard to stand a chance against Baio, sweating is to be expected. Thankfully he had a bag of M&Ms to satiate that resulting sweet tooth of his.
"Aaaah, nothing like some candy to satisfy you after a hard day's training." Fuyuki chided smugly to himself as he flung the candy coated chocolates into his mouth. "Nothing like it." He finished as he proceeded to step inside the Tendo family room.
"Almost as sweet as that nectar that I want so badly." He mused somberly as he sat down to read some articles on magical incenses, whereupon which his ears suddenly picked up the sound of rapid footfalls coming from outside closing in from behind him.
Just as he was about to turn around to see who it was, *THWAP!* The boy was struck in the temples by Kodachi as she pulled him by the chest and bounded off towards the Kuno estate mansion.
On top of the Tokyo Tower, 5:15 pm
A rather faint, yet highly desperate "WHERE AM I NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWW!?" could be heard from Ryoga in the distance. Technician Bakuku and Sergeant Maroro were perched on top of the Tokyo Tower scanning over the urban landscape, with Moriri tuning his signature reverse bullpup compound crossbow in the background.
"What have you found out at all about this latest development?" Maroro queried respectfully. "Not good, I must say." Bakuku began. "When I Looked into miss Akane's dreams, I couldn't help but taste a very dark aura. Therefore, she has been possessed!" He finished dramatically.
"I see, we'll report this shit to Kiruru immediately! He needs to hear of this whole thing! I mean all of it!" Maroro concluded urgently as he and the rest of his squad retreated back to their base.
The Kuno estate, 6:00 pm
Fuyuki was dazed in waking up to find himself hogtied to a tatami mat. "Oh, man! I really gotta stop the curse from coming full circle!" Fuyuki muttered as he silently struggled his way out of his penance as Kodachi conversed with Shampoo and Ukyo about the personality splitter curse.
He eventually cut himself loose after a while, and proceeded to sneak right out of here. "Haiya! Is emergency, no!?" "You're right, Kodachi! It's up to us, gals, as well as that nerdy jackass to stop it!" Shampoo and Ukyo exhorted of Kodachi respectively citing the urgency of the unfolding situation at hand.
Fuyuki discovered that he wasn't the only one listening in on the ladies discussion as he discovered a mechadrone larva discreetly recording information from the ceiling. {What the? Didn't know the assassin drones were interested in this as well.} He mused as he slunk past his unwitting ex-captors.
When Fuyuki felt as though he were near the exit of the Kuno estate, Sasuke dropped in from the ceiling and ambushed the 13 year old with a chainmail drag net. "Hahaah I got you!" Sasuke gloated as Fuyuki broke free and rose to glare at the pygmy ninja with a darker attitude.
"You will show me the way out, lest you end up dead at my feet!" Fuyuki threatened in his latin tongue as Sasuke cowered before him "Okay, just don't kill me." He eventually pleaded. "Good, then lead the way." Fuyuki commanded gently as Sasuke dutifully lead him out of the estate, while Fuyuki simply jogged the rest of the way home.
Back at the estate, we could see that Kodachi and company were desparate in search of our escapee, when Shiclerin began sniping from a mount on Trokyushe's cargo helicopter form. "Sorry 'bout thart, ladies but I ehn't got the time of day to steck around." Shiclerin declared as he left the scene to assist his squad mates.
On the highway a few klicks near Furinkan high, 10:00 pm
Fuyuki was riding shotgun with Radon in his invisible supercar after having called him up an hour earlier. "Well Fuyuki, let's just say I'm definitely with you on the curse coming full circle. Hell, I wouldn't want a friend to fall victim to shit like that." Radon pointed out as he looked in his rear view mirror to find the rat pack closing in on him.
"Oh hell, no!" Radon spat as he activated the car's jump kick feature to launch itself high over the wall into the street below. Much to Radon's pleasant surprise, Rip Rat was more than a little too busy trying to get past the cops to notice.
Not only were Tanaka's squadron chasing down the main rat pack, but Gial, Gaedool, Raikoume, Kamikase, and Kuroga joined the chase from behind and Naozi from the air. Gial and Gaedool were donned in their mobile armors, which not only look like race cars, but go like them too.
The chase itself is yet another reference to Future Grand Prix Cyber Formula. "Pull over, Rip Rat, and nobody get's hurt!" Tanaka commanded of Rip Rat crossly. "HELL ITSELF'D HAFTA FREEZE RIGHT OVER FIRST, YOU FUCKING PIGS!" A hostile Rip Rat screeched back as he rammed several sleeper units off of the road.
"WHERE'D THAT RADON PUNK RUN OFF TO!?" Rip Rat snarled in query. "He can't have outrun us by that large a margin! He cant!" Darkclaw wheezed in reply. "Yeah! What he said!" Slaughtersjaws backed up in agreement.
Shiclerin aimed his sights and sniped a few A-10 warthog sleepers from out of the sky to cut off the pursuers from the assassin drones as they burst on ahead. "OH NO YOU DON'T, PIGS!" Rip Rat gorwled as he, Slaughtersjaws, and Darkclaw performed a special molecule morph into their true respective animal forms.
"So the rat plays his trump card. Well so will we!" Slash Cat declared valiantly as he, Sand Stinger, and Taran-Chewa transformed into their true animal forms to combat the rat pack. "You go on ahead, Tanaka. We'll deal with the rat." Slash Cat ordered as Tanaka and her sleeper unit resumed their duties, only to get chased down and sniped at by Shiclerin, Trokyushe, and Miezoen.
Just outside of Furinkan high, 11:00 pm
Radon and Fuyuki were particularly early as they noticed the assassin drones' mobile armors fleeing the scene. "Look's like they got here first. Oh well, could use a little help with this one anyways." Fuyuki mused undefeated by this as he made a beeline for the entrance with Radon providing lookout from the roof of a nearby home.
The assassin drones Gial, Naozi, Raikoume, Kamikase, Gaedool, and Kuroga all activated their optical camouflage in their assigned positions in the backyard of the school building, standing by for further orders.
\Once the hive mind gets and stays within the engagement zone by midnight, that's when you get in there, capture the hive mind, and get out!/ Aoryuzen ordered through the intercoms as his subordinates on the ground intently eyed the landscape for any sign of the hive mind.
As soon as the clock struck at midnight, Ranma, already under the influence of Akane's posessed form, were among the next to arrive escorted by Soun and Genma for some fun under a moonlit sky.
Akane wore her full Furinkan high winter uniform at that night. Ranma's fiancees were among the very last to arrive as Kodachi led the way sneaking into the school building from the back. Fuyuki and the fiancees ran into one another in search of Ranma.
"Well, have you seen Ranma darling, anywhere?" Kodachi queried as Fuyuki got off the intercom. "Ranma had just arrived at the front courtyard." Fuyuki then replied. "So that's it then?" Ukyo sneered as she and her compatriots raced towards the front courtyard.
*Kchik* The camera shutter clicked as Ranma and Akane took a very evil valentine's midnight kiss to the patriarchs' apparent delight. "All's well that end's well, that's what I say Saotome." Soun remarked.
"You can say that again, Tendo. With their marriage just around the corner, the future of anything goes martial arts is secure and WE GOT IT MADE FOR LIFE! HAHAHAHAAAA!" Genma chortled maniacally as Ukyo snarled out a "So that's what you were up to, then! You fucking jackasses!" as she cut the air to ribbons with throwing spatulae.
"Guess that's our cue to get out of dodge, Tendo." "Exit, stage-" "HALT! SOUN TENDO! GENMA SAOTOME! RELEASE AKANE TENDO FROM RANMA SAOTOME'S GRASP AT ONCE!" Kuno growled as the rivals and fiancees motioned to box the patriarchs in.
This was the perfect opportunity for Gial to unleash an ultra low frequency scream, which he did not hesitate to take as the group of rivals, fiancees, and patriarchs dropped unconscious one by one.
\NOW! DESCEND UPON THOSE TWO!/ Aoryuzen commanded as the assassin drones scattered with the exception of Naozi who stayed behind to control the spirit extraction apparatus mounted on Gial's lower thorax.
"No way! Pinstripes knocked them all out already?" Fuyuki mused worriedly as he received yet another transmission from Radon. \It was a directed infrasound wave designed to stun people without killing them; a knock out scream./ He elucidated as Fuyuki suddenly felt a full set of razor sharp steel teeth bearing down on his right arm.
It was Kuroga, and he had absolutely no intention of letting Fuyuki getting between them and captruing the hive mind without a fight. "Where do you think you're going, kid?" The creature snarled as he catapulted Fuyuki into a wall.
"You stay here for a while, we'll take care of business!" Kuroga ordered as he bounded off to join his comrades in battle. Akane, of course, knocked them all back with a telekinetic pulse as her eyes glared with a more intense, ghostly turquoise. All save for Gaedool, who scuttled into Toramasa's secret underground labyrinth complex.
Fuyuki rushed out the entrance to meet Ranma and Akane, who were well on their way to becoming as one. Gial snarled himself back to life as he launched himself with a barn door for a maw, fully open at Akane from the rear, only to get tossed into the front of the school building.
Gial then decided to try again, only to get tripped up, this time ramming the posessed Akane, and spinning at a horizontal arc trajectory upon having impacted the principal's statue. Gial squealed and bucked trying to get up and kicking up a dust storm upon a less than comfortable landing, which he did, along with Raikoume and Kamikase of the platinum triple play.
"Ranma, please! You hafta wake up!" Fuyuki pleaded rather feebly of Ranma as Gial lifted Raikoume and Kamikase high up into the stratosphere with his abdominal catapult apparatus. The raptor twins were quick to begin performing their collaboartive hypersonic dive bomb technique.
Kuroga, already up and about, was quick to advance with his light speed dash technique as he closed in on Ranma from the hallways of Furinkan High. "R-Ranma, what are you..." Fuyuki was interrupted as Gaedool's drill claws grappled at Akane's legs and Kuroga burst from the main entrance.
At the same time, with mouth open and teeth bared like fangs, Ranma lashed out at Fuyuki as the latter braced himself. This was when Kuroga with his own dagger like fangs bared and claws streched out at full flash, crash landed onto Ranma, and donkey kicked Fuyuki into the entrance.
"I thought I told you to stay put! Didn't I?" The #11 assassin drone sneered as he pinned Ranma to the ground, with his sisters as their fangs clamped onto Akane's arms. Gaedool pulled himself out, dragging Akane into the pit the #10 assassin drone created, knocking down the principal's statue and trapping her in it as Raikoume and Kamikase let go of her arms.
Naozi then activated Gial's spiritual extractor as the amblypygid approached Akane, completely sucking Ranma's yin energy as well as that of Akane, strangely enough into his body.
The hive mind was also sucked in because it naturally gravitates towards yin energy. This instance was another testament to Alpha 134's coordination, timing, and flexibility as a unit in their execution of every plan ever conceived by Aoryuzen.
The still influenced Ranma struggled himself free of Kuroga's grasp before rushing in to rescue "Akane" from Gial's grasp, eventually locking horns with the alien amblypygid machine.
Kuroga rushed in to pry Gial and Ranma apart when Radon began sniping at him. "It's you, again! WHY I OUGHTA!" Kuroga snarled putting his own personal vendetta with the boy hitman above the seemingly completed objective.
The vindictive raptor entelodont hybrid took dead aim with dual side mounted missile launchers, destroyng the sniping position that Radon was formerly in. Why, you may ask? This was because Kuroga had his high priority political kill stolen from him by Radon on planet Atakawa a few years back, when the latter had just become a fully fledged hitman.
Gial was still locked in a mortal embrace with Ranma as he lifted the latter up off the ground standing erect on his back legs. He did move around in them with several smallish circular arcs, only to collapse backward shortly thereafter.
It was then that Fuyuki noticed something glowing in white on the palm of his right hand. Gial bucked desperately trying to pry himself free of Ranma, while the hive mind separated itself from Gial and was about to enter Ranma's body.
That glow metamorphosed into what looked like the short sword "Habu," the very first of seven legend weapons to be unlocked in battle according his scroll delivered to him on New Years day.
Fuyuki burst into a run towards the tussle between Ranma and Gial. The turquoise energy that is Ranma's and Akane's fused yin energy was desperately trying to hold onto the hive mind as Fuyuki closed in for the kill.
Fuyuki then leapt, and slashed his short sword through the yin energy in Gial, thereby allowing the hive mind to seamlessly slip back into Ranma's body. Ranma was already starting to regain control of himself by the time Gial finally found the opportunity to kick Ranma high out of the way.
Although, that being said, Ranma had absolutely no memory of what happened in school tonight. Ranma executed a perfect landing, only for his left leg to temporarily give out on him.
Poor Ranma just could not make heads or tails of the whole thing until he caught a glimpse of Fuyuki with the Habu short sword devouring the wailing yin energy specter, thereby absorbing it as it converted into yang energy within his apprentice's body.
The curse had been averted and the associated evil had been permanently destroyed. This sent the assassin drones packing with tails tucked between their legs upon mission failure with the mobile armors moving in to take Gail and Gaedool away.
"Sacre bleu! Weht ehp you gahs!" Naozi cried as he, too joined his compatriots in fleeing the school grounds turned warzone. "The fuck was that all about!?" Ranma spat still very confused about the entire situation.
"Well, whatever just happened, I'm glad that you and Akane are back to your normal selves." Fuyuki reassured as he grabbed Ranma's hand to help lift him up off the ground as he gave him a "Thanks, Fuyuki. I owe ya one." Ranma returned, for this latest hair brained scheme of the patriarchs had only further cemented what had already become life long friendship between master and student.
Akane would remain trapped in the pit that Gaedool left her in until Ranma and Fuyuki took upon themselves to dig her out, and extract her from her horrendous predicament. "In short, you two were possessed!" Fuyuki reminded of Ranma and Akane crossing a mischeivous smile, inciting a "WHOA!" in reaction from both parties.
"I knew that Pops was up to no good back then, but I didn't know that he and Mr .Tendo would stoop so low as to have us both possessed into nearly marryin each other without our express consent! I mean, all we're asking for is a little time to think things through before we actually commit." Ranma vented on.
Eventually, Ranma calmed down enough to pick the still unconscious Genma up off the ground with Akane lifting Soun off the ground as well. Fuyuki waved his goodbyes as he returned home with Radon knowing that he and Ranma would meet again and again, until the day he is ready for the challenge that's up ahead.