Assassin Drones: The original saga
Fuyuki's training Arc. De Arimasu!
By Alex Young
On a private beach in Maui, Hawaii, 8:00 am. Valentine's day, 2003
Ranma and Akane were out on the beach after having been secretly transported there by Kululu in his VTOL transport, along with Fuyuki and Momoka because none of them would have had any school today anyways.
Furinkan High had just been temporarily closed down pending an EX.W.A.T.I. sponsored investigation into last night's assassin drone activity. This left all four with an opportunity to go out on a double date, and have a little fun at the same time.
Ranma wore a pair of bathing shorts, Akane and Momoka both wore their bikinis, and Fuyuki wore his trunks. "Hey, Akane. There's been something I've been meaning to ask you for the longest time." Ranma began.
"Yeah, go on." Akane encouraged in reply. "Once this whole thing get's over and done with, will you marry me?" Ranma pleaded on proposal. "Sure, as soon as we get some things sorted out." Akane replied smiling in approval.
"RANMA SAOTOME! DOTH YE DARE TO PROFANE AKANE TENDO WITH THY INFLUENCE AS WAS DONE BEFORE? HMMM!?" Kuno bellowed quite loudly as he, Ryoga, and Mousse emerged from the native palm trees to meet Ranma. "Just drop the act, will ya? Shit's gettin too old, ya know." Ranma spat in reply.
With that, Ranma kicked all three of their pathetic asses into the sky! That left the two couples to play in peace. Fuyuki, now known as the young viper in the martial arts community, proposed that they play volleyball together.
Ranma and Akane were on one team, Fuyuki and Momoka were on the other. Hey, even a martial artist has to have a little fun every now and then to break up the monotony, right? The volley ball popped up back and forth like a hammer as the players' hands were whac-a-moles.
Zurunshi was watching with surveillance equipment as usual, doing well to report to Aoryuzen after departing the scene. "I see, so we wait to make our move." Aoryuzen declared coyly as he put yet another plan up on the board within the Rapier.
The Tendo residence, 1:00 pm
Nabiki was discussing with Happosai about dealing with Soun and Genma before going out to the Valentine's night club special event. "Soun, Genma. TAG! YOU'RE BOTH IT, HAHAHAAA!" Happosai chortled as he stormed out of the house with the patriarchs in maddened pursuit.
"Good, now that the cats are away, us mice will come out to play." Nabiki mused victorious in her plan as she called up her charges. This was to prevent Soun and Genma from getting the idea that the kids are going out to get down, tonight.
Somewhere out near the aforementioned night club, 10:54 pm
Fuyuki, Momoka, Ranma, Akane, Nabiki, Kuno, Ryoga, Natsumi, Mousse, Mois, Koyuki, Saburo, Shampoo, Ukyo, and Kodachi were all going out on a friends' night out tonight. It was times such as this that rivals and fiancees can enjoy themselves together.
Fuyuki was in a recently broken in light blue chambray tie made to look flush with the dress shirt he was wearing (sleeves rolled up to his elbows, by the way), an unbuttoned charcoal waistcoat vest and dress pants, his black belt, navy sneakers, and a white lined charcoal fedora.
Momoka was in a lavender, short skirt dress, and Koyuki wore much the same outfit, except in a minty green. Natsumi was in her qipao party dress with her odango hairstyle. Ryoga was clad in a navy sport coat worn over his yellow t-shirt and green pants.
Kuno and Mousse wore their more smart casual outfits, with Nabiki in her more business like gray skirt suit and black pantyhose, with Mois in her golden orange prom dress. Shampoo, Ukyo, and Kodachi all wore their formal outfits as Ranma's "concubines."
With a few special reservations, they were all let in, and they all took their seats. It turns out that Daikage's restaurant, also happens to have a night club section where party goers can have fun and dance the night away to their hearts' content.
Fuyuki, Momoka, Ranma, and Akane took their places on the dance floor, followed by Ryoga and Natsumi as Saburo, the resident DJ mixed into the next club song. Minutes later, a C sharp, old skool break beat remix followed with a martial arts theme to it.
All parties essentially incorporated their martial arts moves into their dance routine, with Fuyuki having changed into his black, raver's t-shirt and navy sweat pants, and Momoka into her workout clothes.
It was then that Raikoume and Kamikase, a pair of regulars at the night club, were challenged by the Kissho class couple to a martial arts raver tag battle. The dance floor became a battle arena as both teams took their corners ready to fight in cue with the bass drop.
Raikoume and Kamikase were the undefeated champions of the night club as they got into position with the DJ mixing in a more battle oriented rave song. It was essentially a mashup between Aquagen vs Warp brothers' Phatt Bass and Pantera's Fucking Hostile and Rise.
"If we win, the hive mind is ours." The raptor twins stated, to which Fuyuki and Momoka confidently agreed. As soon as the DJ dropped the bass, the fight began with Fuyuki landing the opening blow to Raikoume's head.
Any old fighting moves can be utilized, it's just that sometimes, the crowd prefers that all combatants fight in style. The raptor twins' superior speed gave them a significant edge right out the gate.
However, a minute into the battle as screaming guitar riffs and abrasive vocals blended with the beat, Momoka and Kamikase punched each other in their jaws. Fuyuki began to sense, and anticipate his assassin drone opponents' moves much more readily as he dodged them more often.
Fuyuki pulled a handstand on Raikoume's right arm, and swing kicked her in the chest. One attack flowed beautifully into another as Fuyuki raised his left leg up high and slam kicked Raikoume in the back of her neck.
Fuyuki rushed to assist Momoka, who already had Kamikase's attacks well under her control by then. Fuyuki then pulled a ring out toss on Raikoume at Kamikase, which hit, with the latter not budging too much.
However, Raikoume and Kamikase collapsed in fatigue as Momoka rushed up to Fuyuki's side to wrap his arm around her hip, and vice versa. Momoka's nicer side smiled from ear to ear as she and Fuyuki were declared the victors.
Momoka kissed Fuyuki on the lips, and her meaner side pulled her left lower eyelid down and stuck her tongue out at the defeated raptor twins. The twins respectfully bowed out according to the rules, and let Ranma keep the hive mind until the next time they met.
Until then, they were simply going to have to hang out and have fun with the victors; Fuyuki and Momoka. This just goes to show that sometimes, even the fiercest of rivals can become really good friends under certain circumstances.
Somewhere back out in the Juban area, 4:00 am. February 15, 2003
Soun and Genma both began to show very little signs of fatigue in their relentless pursuit of Happosai. These signs are too inconsequential to slow them down, however, as they both pursued them all the way to where that warehouse where Tzu Lin burned down to retrieve her prized underwear once stood.
"I don't think so, master!" Soun growled in his demon head attack aimed at Happosai. "We have him now, Tendo!" Genma declared as he moved in to immobilize the petrified-from-terror Happosai.
Soon afterward, all the women who were angrily chasing after Happosai caught up to and beat the lecherous master to an utter pulp, and got all their underwear back. "Well, I think we can all go home, now." Both fathers heaved in unison as they both hauled Happosai all the way home by sunrise.
A ski resort high in the Japanese alps, 10:00 am
Ranko was freezing cold and soaked to the marrow, along with Ryoga, now P-chan after yet another intense and heated bout with the latter. "Jeez. That idiot did not hafta make me so freaking wet and all." She sneered just before Akane snatched P-chan away.
"Ranma! What the hell did you do to P-chan?" Akane accused with a glare to back it up. "Don't ask me! Ask that pigheaded dumbass, Ryoga!" Ranko spat back returning the glare to sender.
"Well, ladies. How about the both of you settle your argument by participating in the all girls winter triathalon, today." Soun brought up when Ranma's fiancees stormed in. "We sign up too, you know." Shampoo spat with her natural born competitive spirit.
"CHAAAARGE! YER NEVER GETTIN IN THERE WITHOUT TSUBASA!" Tsubasa cried as he, too joined the ranks. "It's settled, then. We are all going to compete in tha all girls winter triathalon!" Ranko declared as all entrants rushed in to register.
Off into the distance, however. "Do it." Aoryuzen sneered as Gial, Gaedool, and Naozi rushed to prepare the final components of yet another hive mind extraction plan of his. Taembraki, too was involved as he dove into the ice covered lake with his chainsaw tracks in full rev.
More-Peach-Summer-Snow, Ranma's fiancees, the Keroro platoon, Pink, Link, Alisa, Tsubasa, Akane, and Ranko were among several girls all competing in the triathalon. Shiclerin and Fuyuki were both sitting on the sidelines to watch and study the action.
The first event was an ice skating race ot three, frozen solid, giant sized flan pudding cups arranged in a horizontal triangle pattern. Any girls who eat a sufficient quantity of this stuff within the alotted time limit can move on to the next round.
"I am not going to lose to a pervert like you, Ranma." "Don't count on it, Akane" Both Akane ad Ranko taunted as the countdown timer started with the firing of the event pistol. Shampoo, with her own bakusai tenketsu training, slammed both of her chui weapons into the flan, blowing entire chunks off of it, and licking it up as they melted.
Momoka and Ranko used impact wave guns and chestnuts roasting in open fire attacks respectively as they, too began eating the flan from the second cup. Akane simply punched the flan repeatedly until chunks began to fall off.
"Wind direction okay, over!" Pink and Link shrilled as they unleashed an incendiary venus flytrap attack on the third cup, unwittingly helping some of the others of them have their fill. Pink and Link had sprung into action to take bite after bite after bite of flan.
Unsurprisingly, More-Peach-Summer-Snow, Ranma's fiancees, the Keroro platoon, Pink, Link, Alisa, Tsubasa, Akane, and Ranko were the only ones to have made it to the ice fishing leg of the competition.
Paul Moriyama activated the giant, bluefin tuna torpedo and sent it in Momoka's direction. Ranko immediately heaved her fishing lure into its path as Dunkan Losteus took a bite into Momoka's lure. Eventually, an elasmosaur emerged from Alisa's fishing hole, along with Dunkan, and the tuna torpedo.
"Ohh, man! Why did I hafta get dragged into this?" Dunkan bemoaned. "Don't worry about it, Dunkan. I'm doing this for Fuyuki." Momoka reassured as one Maomolin emerged from one set of fishing lures, and Taembraki from the rest of the lures.
"HALT! YE FIENDISH, DEMONIC CREATURES! GO BACK FROM WHENCE YE BOTH CAME!" Kuno boomed as Ryoga and Mousse joined him in his endeavor to combat Maomolin and Taembraki.
All of a sudden, Gaedool emerged from Akane's fishing hole. "WAAAAUUUGH! TAKE THAT AND THAT AND THAT AND THAT AND THAT AND THAT AND THAT!" Akane screeched pounding the hell out of Gaedool, and eventually kicking him into the unfurling fray.
Taembraki sliced into Keroro's suicide bomb with his chainsaws, which sent the latter flying, along with the others as their bombs exploded as well, including Happosai. Eventually, only Ranko, Momoka, and Alisa made it to the final leg of the competition, which was the ski jump leg.
All the others were disqualified on account of the recent monstrosities chasing them all away. "Yoohoo! Akane! Up here!" Ranko teased. "I'd much rather hafta put up with you than any of those things! Honestly!" Akane scowled in discontent.
With that, the remaining three contestants all readied themselves for the big ski jump. Ranko had an advantage right out the gate as they started, with her "Katchu tenshin amaguriken!" style skiing thrusts to build up more speed.
However, Momoka employed boosters, with Alisa simply adusting the air current with her swallower entity forming wings to make themselves faster. Happosai landed on Alisa's breasts, and Keroro slammed into Momoka, clearing a path for Ranko to score another victory, a throphy, and bragging rights!
Akane shot a defeated scowl at Ranko, who was more than a little happy to show off her sweeping, stunning victory. Aoryuzen siezed his chance, with Naozi aiming the extraction machine, and pressing the button to begin the hive mind extraction prodecure.
Ranko felt something being sucked out of her system, and she jumped right into the maching to deliver a fierce tiger's pride blast to cause another feed overload. It didn't work, because Naozi and Gial were both quick to deflect the energy out into the ground.
What they didn't count on was that Fuyuki burst out running with only the second legend weapon; the Tarantula shuriken shield. He used it to deflect the many bullets incoming from Gial's Gatling gun in his ass.
Fuyuki's eight bladed shuriken shield began to rotate, he swung his left arm, and off it went into the air. The shuriken spun like an oversized rip saw into the machine destroying it before the assassin drones could hope to stop it in time.
The machine exploded in a blue fireball, and they all retreated, one by one. The hive mind ultimately returned into Ranko's system, and down she went on the ice. All thanks aside, all parties soon went on home for some refreshing (and extra rewarding for Ranko) lunches.
Air force base Alpha Zeta 88 on the outskirts of Ft. Worth Texas, 2:20 am. Feburary 19, 2003
Raikoume and Kamikase were staying low to the ground as they crept ever so slowly towards the barbed wire fence. They eventually crawled underneath it, when Shiclerin spotted an AH-91 Blue Devil on patrol.
Raikoume and Kamikase, given their history in tuning radio signals, tuned their hearing to detect the subtly distinct sound of the Blue Devil's rotor blades. They both ducked and threw up their dragon's curve fractal camo.
Combined with their faint presence, they were damn near impossible to detect, even under the searchlight and FLIR package. The patrolling aircraft continued its route, leaving Raikoume and Kamikase to resume their infiltration.
They both were at the runway when a Cessna/Vought EC-1A Whiplash twin engined S.E.A.D. turboprop airplane flew right over them in making a landing. "Our little phantom should be right around, here!" Kamikase pointed out when she tested the audio frequencies of the first hangar they were at.
One of the guards, who was out to relieve himself got a chill running down his spine as the two raptor twins quickly slunk into the side door. However, after a good 15 seconds or so, the guard thought no more about it as he re-entered the building.
A split second later, Raikoume pounced on the guard, with her jaws and teeth biting the carotid artery to pieces. This ambush killed him within seconds, and the twins made a quick meal out of his corpse immediately afterward.
Any remains were quickly burned into charcoal, which could be used to start fires any where, which they did as soon as she blew some hot exhaust into it. The twins had to be quick about the whole thing, lest they get caught.
Kamikase had jumped into the cockpit of the F-4 Phantom they were looking for, and got to work warming it up. Raikoume had installed several acoustic cancellation nodes to insulate the building against any engine noise coming from inside.
"C'mon, sis. How much longer?" Raikoume carped in keeping lookout for any danger. "Will you just keep your shorts on? I'm trying to figure out how to fly this thing." Kamikase replied as she figured out the various flight controls.
"WHAT THE FUCK!? WE GOT COMPANY!" Another guard screamed as they exited the hangar, with the Phantom's engines getting throttled up to temp. Raikoume got on to the aircraft, and deployed her bolt cannon on her left hand, and a multiple rocket powered grenade launcher on her right.
She fired off both weapons onto any incoming guards trying to intercept her and her sister on their mission. They had rarely ever made such a mess in their getaways on various missions together.
Raikoume eventually got inside the copilot's seat and they both took off into the night safe in the knowledge that they've retrieved the package. EX.W.A.T.I. would continue to track the stolen Phantom up until a moment when it simply disappeared somewhere over the middle of the Pacific ocean.
Aoryuzen, after having extensively studied its skeletal structure, and having came up with several replica drone Phantoms an hour later, then planned to use it as bait for an ambush he was about to lay for the search parties.
Aoryuzen took the aircraft apart with the help of several larvae, and dressed Kraank up in it as a disguise for part of his ambush. The parts themselves are pretty loosely bolted on so as to surprise the search party as much as possible.
In an underground cave system within Primorsky Krai, Russia, 1:01 pm. February 22, 2003
Kraank, who was pretty thinly disguised as the missing F-4 Phantom, hungered for flesh and blood as he awaited his prey. The EX.W.A.T.I. search party Uniform Tau 223, aided by some Russian soldiers, found what they were looking for, or so they thought at first.
A faint, purring growl resonated throughout the cave, prompting the soldiers to raise their guns in full alert. This included those from several L.M.V. (Lightweight Modular Vehicle), or Almvee buggies.
Kraank roared to life, unleashing his drive blades on the soldiers, cutting some of the unluckier ones to pieces in the process. Fuhinga rode on Kuroga's back as he sprayed some of the soldiers with a sticky, somewhat acidic glue.
This disastrous result prompted the rest to gun it at full retreat out of the convoluted cave system. This set off several explosives at the entrance they were about to get out of, leaving them to Kraank's killer appetite, and sealing their doom. One person made it out alive, however. It was Harper, with Frankie and Rebecca awaiting his return.
Ferdinand, their classy handler, was also present, as Harper dutifully recorded the search party's disastrous end. "They've just took apart our Phantom." Harper sighed. "No matter. Our mission today and the rest of this month is simply to study the assassin drones and try to counteract them." Ferdinand replied as they all went homeward bound.
Out in the Kissho district, 3:30 am. February 25, 2003.
"Yo, Fuyuki! Let's say you and me play the heroes in this town, kay?" Ranma proposed. "Sure, why not. This place has got plenty of crime going for it. All we hafta do is to start looking around." Fuyuki replied as they both begun their walk around the block.
Aoryuzen was perched up on a street lamp, eying Ranma and Fuyuki intently with Zurunshi and Gial by his side. Aoryuzen immediately located a more run down, crime ridden part of the neighborhood.
The current crime wave is but a small part of the aftermath generated by the Kurain war of succession. It didn't take long for Aoryuzen to find a gang of suitable candidates for his newest plan.
"The fuck do you want?" One of the gangsters spat as he came at Aoryuzen swinging with a steel pipe. Aoryuzen glared at the attacker and slashed the pipe in half with his zweihander. "I just want to get somethings out of the way, first. I have a proposition for you and your group." He then offered as Gial presented lots of heavy weaponry in a stainless steel trunk.
"You pick and choose a bank to rob or something, and when Ranma and Fuyuki interfere, me and Gial will take care of them." Aoryuzen proposed really meaning to capture Ranma's hive mind and to prevent Fuyuki from coming to his sensei's rescue.
The gang of criminal misfits accepted the offer as they scooped up the weapons by the dozen, and headed off to rob their bank of choice after carjacking a cargo van. "Hm, didn't expect things to go that smoothly, but what the hell, I'll just pitch in to lure Ranma into my master plan." Aoryuzen muttered to himself as he and Gial headed off in a different direction.
"Raikoume, Kamikase, Now's your chance to exact your revenge on Fuyuki." Aoryuzen authorized as Gial slunk into position above the bank. The gang of armed robbers made their arrival right on schedule.
The dominos were all falling right into place, all Aoryuzen needed to do, was wait for Ranma and Fuyuki to try and save the day to give Raikoume and Kamikase the go ahead to barge in and exact their heinous revenge on the latter.
"THIS IS A GODDAMN RAID!" "NOBODY MOVE!" "BACK UP AGAINST THE FUCKIN WALL!" The robbers screamed as they stormed the bank, when Gial already having disabled the silent alarm system just prior to their arrival.
the manager was forced to open up the bank vault at gunpoint, and shift the money into several burlap bags to go into the van's cargo bay. "They're in." Aoryuzen smirked to his intercom as Ranma and Fuyuki entered the bank to rip the robbers a new asshole!
Ranma and Fuyuki decided it best to let the robbers come to them as they nonchalantly walked in on the heist in progress. "That's a lot of guns they're packing." "Hah! Ain't jack shit fer us two." Fuyuki and Ranma conversed as they went up to the robbers.
"Hey there." "HANDS IN THE GODDAMN AIR, YOU MOTHERFUCKERS!" The robber with a 7.62 machine gun snarled. "Make me!" Fuyuki chuckled at the irate criminal as the latter pulled the trigger, only for the former to dodge it effortlessly.
Fuyuki then landed a crash land kick on his skull, and low sweep kicked another in a smooth transition. Ranma follwed suit as he hooked a third straight in the gut. Within only 30 seconds since their entry, the robbers' clocks were all cleaned.
Raikoume and Kamikase burst in from the back entrance hungry for payback for their loss at the night club. "Where's your little Momoka now, huh?" Raikoume taunted with her talons bearing down on Fuyuki's chest after having knocked him down.
Ranma slammed Raikoume on the side with what he calls a sledgehammer heel kick. Kamikase rushed in to strike at Ranma, when Fuyuki got back up on his feet, and punched her just as he did back at the night club.
Gial pounced from the ceiling to clamp down on Ranma's body when the latter and Fuyuki both intercepted him and tossed him out the door. Raikoume and Kamikase both retreated from the bank sensing danger thereafter.
News of this heroism spread rather quickly within Nerima, particularly in Furinkan where martial artists from all walks of life had come over to Kissho to help the two clean up the mean streets of any violent crime there was. With all that said and done, Ranma and Fuyuki parted ways yet again until the next training session.