Assassin Drones: The original saga
Fuyuki's training Arc. De Arimasu!
By Alex Young
The Don Viper's trading safe house within Hashima island, 1:38 am. April 11, 2003
A multitude of various buildings, once occupied by humans as part of a coal mine, have since been abandoned for 30 long years. This was nothing but the perfect place to establish a safe house within these hallowed halls.
Many criminal elements, including the Don Viper gang, has used the site to conduct secret, illegal trades without fear from the long arm of the law. The Don Viper gang has even taken it one step further in constructing many underground submarine docks ever since having gained an unabated monopoly over trade within the area.
"Here are the documents you requested." Venono replied to Tank Viper, who handed it to Spear Fisherman Viper for review. "If I'm not mistaken, I belive these are the blueprints for many variations on a sort of B.L.E.V.E. bomb. Thank you for your contribution, Venono." Spear Fisherman Viper declared, therefore adjourning the meeting and declaring Venono's mission complete.
The Tendo dojo, 3:59 pm
Ranma, Fuyuki, and Genma were all sitting cross legged discussing how to properly deal with Nodoka, and the ever present threat of seppuku. Fuyuki was involved primarily because he was concerned that the ritual seppuku may prove to be an insurmountable road block in his training.
With that, Fuyuki's world plunged back into potential uncertainty once more, hence the reasons for his involvement. "Stupid pops, making a promise like that without asking first." Ranma sneered in contempt.
"DO YOU EVEN REALIZE WHAT I WAS TRYING TO DO AT THE TIME, BOY!? I ONLY WANTED TO DEVOTE MY TIME TO TEACHING YOU THE INS AND OUTS OF ANYTHING GOES MARTIAL ARTS!" Genma spat.
"Yeah, well you didn't hafta make that damn promise neither!" "WHAT CHOICE DID I HAVE!? BESIDES, THAT WOMAN HOLDS FAMILY HONOR ABOVE ALL ELSE!" Ranma and Genma argued as Fuyuki proposed a "maybe I should do the honors of helping you commit seppuku, then" in his Latin tongue to the Saotome patriarch's horror.
"Surprise!" Raikoume and Kamikase sounded as they knocked the dojo doors down upon entry. "HEY, POPS! COME BACK HERE AND TAKE IT LIKE A MAN!" Ranma snarled before being ambushed by the raptor twins.
"YOU'RE THE ONE WHO SHOULD TAKE IT LIKE A MAN, YA KNOW!" "YEAH, OR A WOMAN!" Raikoume and Kamikase replied respectively to Ranma's hostility as they both worked quickly and dextrously to get Ranma dressed in the scorpion bra.
Strangely, as lady luck would have it, a bucket of cold water dropped itself on Ranma's head, turning him into Ranko in an instant. Before either of the raptors could unload their B.L.E.V.E. bombs, Fuyuki managed to drag Genma all the way back in to the dojo, and toss his ass at the both of them.
"Hey, mom! It's me! Ranma Saotome! Out here in the open!" Raikoume sounded as an expert in vocal mimicry before Genma broke her and Kamikase's grip on Ranko. Fuyuki worked just as quickly to remove the bra before it could control her.
Upon removal, Fuyuki got Ranko dressed in the clothes she was wearing before the assassin drones' ambush. By the time the B.L.E.V.E. bombs were armed, it was too late as they exploded sending both raptor twins flying into the stratosphere.
The cold rain also turned Genma into Panda Genma by the time Nodoka arrived in search of Ranma. "Hey, you're not Ranma." Nodoka resigned seeing as how when it came to her son, there was no fooling her.
"Oh, and my name's Fuyuki if you must know." Fuyuki introduced to Nodoka. "A pleasure meeting you, Fuyuki. Oh, and I would like my-" "Here's your sword back." Fuyuki interrupted as he presented Nodoka's katana to her in returning it, sheath and all.
Inside the Tendo residence, Nabiki was having a secret conversation with Venono within the comfort of her room. "It's Mr. Saotome. All you have to do is keep him from getting between Ranma and meeting up with the package." Nabiki requested using "the package" as a euphemism for Nodoka.
"Alright, you got it." Venono replied as he departed bringing his freezing cold rainstorm with him. Nabiki still had Rip Rat on the phone line when she said "As I was saying, I heard that your Ranko's mother had just arrived." \NO WAY! REALLY!?/ Rip Rat squealed in excitement.
"Yep, although you'll have to wait until tomorrow when you get to ask for her mother's approval." Nabiki finished. A brief \Wilco/ was Rip Rat's only reply before hanging up on Nabiki. Thus, her end of the plan was set in motion.
The Hinata residence, 6:00 pm
Ranma was invited by Fuyuki over for some consultation with the Hinata family about his situation with Nodoka and the seppuku contract. "Well, you see, I have this promise made by pops that if I aren't a man among men, that him and I would commit suicide by ritual disembowelment together by mom's hands." Ranma confessed patiently.
Natsumi cringed disgusted by the mere thought of blood and guts spilling out all over the place. All that, not to mention any super deadly diseases that may be transmitted in this way.
"Um, I'll tell you what. Akane has these leftover flowers, you see. How about we arrange a small bouquet for you to deliver to your mom in your confession." Aki proposed, however. \Sounds like a plan./ Ranma replied in the tape recorder as Raikoume turned it off with Soun and Genma listening in at 10:00 pm.
"That's basically the jist of it all." Raikoume finished. "So what do you plan on doing about it?" Kamikase inquired dangerously. "Genma! Oh why haven't you made Ranma into the man among men I dreamed of!?" A nagajuban clad Nodoka wailed in her sleep as she tossed the katana in Genma's direction, missing all the while as she returned to sleep.
"Whew! Someone needs to get some meds!" Kamikase groused to Raikoume's furor. "Can it, sis!" She growled in hammering her younger sister upside the head with her fist. "No! I won't let Ranma put us in danger of seppuku! Not while I still have a fighting chance!" Genma declared as Raikoume and Kamikase left the scene in satisfaction.
"Well, Saotome. Now I see full well why you would want to steer clear of that woman. If you and Ranma were to commit seppuku, our marriage plans will be knocked back to square one forever!" Soun cried, therefore, him and Genma were on the same page tonight.
Somewhere near the sewage canal, 10:00 am. April 12, 2003
{It'll be great! Your mom can't wait to see you, Ranma!} Akane's words swirled about in Ranma's head as he carried with him the aforementioned bouquet of flowers with him. Ranma also wore his communist worker uniform for this chance meeting with Nodoka.
"RANMAAAA!" Genma sounded in the stead of Gial with Raikoume and Kamikase for associates flanking him. "You wanna see your mother, huh? I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN YOU'D PUT BOTH OUR LIVES AT RISK, SO I'M GONNA HAVE TO STOP YOU!" Genma sounded as he motioned to sic the raptor twins on Ranma.
Ranma dodged both raptor twins as he kneed Genma in the noggin, and ran off. Raikoume and Kamikase were about to follow when they were both tripped up by Mousse's chains.
"Who the fuck just did that? If we ever find you, then you're gonna pay with your sad, pathetic, and miserable little life!" Raikoume screeched threatening death upon Mousse as Ryoga joined the battle about to unfold.
"Well, let's just consider that one payback for setting us up and selling us out to Giroro back a couple weeks ago." Ryoga stated as Mousse nodded in agreement. "Damn, when will you two let it go already?" Kamikase sneered as she untied her legs and joined her sister in baring their fangs against the martial artists.
Suddenly, Rotoran flew in from the sky and dive bombed Ryoga and Mousse with lots of hot lead, Nightslayer and company in hot pursuit. King Hiss and Riptile joined the fray as Kraank, Gaedool, and Gial rushed in to intercept.
This left Ryoga and Mousse a window of opportunity to look around for and pursue Genma along with Venono and his mercenaries. Ranma was just along the sewage Canal when Genma caught up and pelted him in with lots of goldfish bowls.
"Can't you see I only want to save you from ritual seppuku!?" Genma pleaded as he smashed Ranko's head in. Rip Rat suddenly sped in and picked up Ranko with his tow chain by the waist.
"Well screw you! Ranko's mine for the taking! YAHOO!" The lovestricken Rip Rat hollered as he hauled Ranko away from a bewildered Panda Genma. Kuroga, Moaghen, and Kuosinne accompanied by Jujohgi and Gatlinger as they headed into battle with the main rat pack.
Octo-breaker, Big Mouth, Thunderbear, Grizzlor, and Big Chill all dove in right into battle as Raukeren and Taembraki both joined the fray. Ranko took this chance to escape from Rip Rat's love crazed grip into a pulic bath house, and out the other side.
At the entrance to the park, though. "Genma Saotome! I won't allow you to ruin the pig tailed girl's reunion with her own beloved mother!" Tatewaki Kuno spouted as Ryoga, Mousse, and company all surrounded Genma, who's response was only to beat them all down one by one.
Ranma simply ignored it all and went straight into the park. However, Kuno and company have really been attacking a Mechadrone made to look like Genma. Therefore, Kuno and company killed it instantaneously.
Meanwhile, Nodoka was hiding out in some trees wistfully staring at Akane, who was clad in a hauntingly beautiful deep red kimono, a silver obiage, a white obijime, and a purple obi. She was also lying flat on her back with hands arranged together horizontally at the obi inside a marble coffin.
On the side of the coffin was a sticky note that read [only a man among men can ever hope to awaken this beautiful young maiden from her slumber,] as written by Nodoka herself in hopes to getting Ranma to show up.
This was when Panda Genma just ambushed Nodoka, and swept her away upon knocking her unconscious with a huge mallet. Not a minute later, Ranma arrived to kiss Akane in the lips in Nodoka's absence, again!
"Stupid pops!" Ranma sneered as he headed off after Panda Genma, Akane in toe. "This way. No, over there!" The still kimono clad Akane called out pointing to where Panda Genma was dragging Nodoka along the rooftops.
[Your mother would never bear to face you if you're covered in PIG SHIT!] Panda Genma growled as he threw a bucket full of Entelodont pheromone laced urine and feces in Ranma's direction.
Ranma and Akane both dodged, as the former intercepted still another, targeting Raikoume and Kamikase this time as they chased him down from the road.
However, after a fruitless while of trying to come to his mom, Ranma decided it best to let his mom come to him instead. In this case, a Japanese restaurant along Nerima's suburban outskirts.
Ranma and Akane also made the decision to have lunch in waiting for Nodoka to come to them. Whereupon having finished lunch, however, as Nodoka made her way into the restaurant, a biomechanical armature burst into the other entrance and kidnapped Akane.
"Ranma! You must save Akane if you truly are a man among men!" Nodoka cried too distant from Ranma to hear as he followed the arm into a super centipede like bus.
Ranma's dogged determination to save Akane from the kidnapper in question; Jiraiga Kobayakawa, would be proof enough of for Nodoka just how manly he was.
Akane was already inside by the time Ranma clamped his body onto the streamlined roof. The bus with its electric motors gunned it fro 0-60 mph in a little over 4 seconds attaining a quarter mile time just shy of 16 seconds even wih Ranma still on the roof.
"You're not getting away with this bullshit! WHOEVER YOU ARE!" Ranma screeched as the articulated bus executed a sharp turn onto the highway. This was as the still Entelodont pheromone clad Raikoume and Kamikase were in hot pursuit, albeit at a considerable distance.
Raikoume and Kamikase both realized exactly what the pheromones were for mid chase; it was all to attract an entire stampede of black ink Entelodonts! "SHIT!" "THE STAMPEDE! IT'S GAINING ON US!" The twins conversed in their horror looking over their shoulders.
It was Happosai who once again created this massive stampede, albeit infused with youma sorcery and mechadrone technology for an extra kick. A pair of A-10 Warthogs flew over Ranma's head to bomb the distant stampede behind him to kingdom come, which they did after a few runs.
The stampede did eventually grow back and multiply, this time sprouting anit-aircraft guns and missile batteries. A multitude of Centurion based fluid collection vehicles from the Sailor Order began to suck up the stampede in the front as the Warthogs returned for another bombing run, and several M1A1 Abrams tanks gunned them down in the back.
A flight of Sailor Order owned UV-22 Eagle Owl clean up vehicles quickly sucked up the rest of the ink, thereby neutralizing the black ink Entelodont stampede for its eventual chemical destruction.
Happosai took advantage of this opportunity to just cut and run as his abscence on the highway could attest. The main Rat pack, accompanied by Jackhammer, a Cizeta Moroder V16T, and Warp Speed, a Lamborghini Murcielago then showed up in street chaser mode as though pursuing the raptor twins to the end.
Further into the highway, Ranma still held on tightly as the centipede bus swerved to the left, then to the right. Ranma did eventually gather up the strength to move on ahead to the cockpit after it closed up all its segments and entered into boost mode.
"Assassin magic: Razorback slash!" Ranma screeched as he tore open the bus cutting the head off from the rest of the body before it crashed into traffic creating a pileup right behind.
The front of the bus found itself dangerously unstable at speed as it erratically careened about. Ranma then ripped the single left door open, dragged Jiraiga out, rescued Akane, and escaped the wreck on the container trailer of a moving delivery truck.
"YOU'RE GONNA REGRET DIS, RANMAAAAAA!" Jiraiga shrieked as Raikoume and Kamikase sped past him, followed far behind by the main Rat pack.
Ranma and Akane jumped from the truck a mere 15 seconds before Raikoume and Kamikase caught up to where they were. "Shit! Lost 'em again!" Kamikase spat.
"Never mind that, right now because we got bigger problems headed our way!" Raikoume reprimanded forewarning that the Rat pack will close in on them if they don't lose them as well.
At the middle of a construction site. "Wherefore art thou, pig tailed girl?" Kuno sounded with Ryoga and Mousse in toe. It would appear as though Rip Rat himself had splintered off from the rest of the group and is now all alone.
He was fine with these new circumstances, seeing as how he had already proven himself capable by himself, three against one. "Oh, no you don't, TATEWAKI KUNO!" Rip Rat snarled challenging Kuno to a fight.
Rip Rat then performed a special molecule morph he himself had been saving just for this moment being his 3-to-1 duel with Kuno; Omega Tank mode.
His treads were arranged in a Rhombus shape up at the very front. At the back, it's as though anyone can stand underneath it. These features give Rip Rat's new molecule morph a very threatening, if not scorpion-like appearance as the barrel extended from his mouth.
A pair of coaxial, counter-rotating, three barrel, .50 caliber Gatling guns, one on each side, formed in his cheeks. Several batteries of unguided rockets formed on his shoulders along his arms. A set of Grappler claws formed on his left, and dual flamethrowers formed on his right.
A battery of top attack missiles formed on his back inside the turret body itself, which had just enough clearance so that the 360 degrees of motion don't get blocked when moving it around.
A really, really, deadly combination, all things considered, as Rip Rat's overconfidence can attest. "OOOooooooohohhohohohhhhhhh! YOU'RE A BUNCH OF GONERS NOW!" Rip Rat screeched as he advanced on Kuno and company.
All three human martial artists dodged very quickly as Rip Rat sped on over to the other side, turned around, and tore straight back at them firing his main gun.
Kuno slash bombed each shot from the weapon, as Rip Rat opened the valves of his flamethrowers, and let loose the fire, emptying their fuel tanks. The fire itself was hot enough to melt steel in an instant.
Ryoga did get his hair singed up in getting grazed by the super hot flames, and retaliated with his lion's roar shot, which was countered by Rip Rat's rockets and main gun, creating another explosion.
Mousse then unleashed his hidden weapons, including several giant time bombs, which exploded, but caused Rip Rat only negligible injuries. That pissed him off so much that he unleashed all his weapons in hoping to kill all three of them.
One of the rockets streaked past Giroro, who was on the look out with Tamama the pilot in their tandem seater tilt rotor gunship. This near miss prompted Tamama to gun it in the rocket's direction of origin.
"Come back here, you! COME BACK AND TAKE IT LIKE THE SONS OF BITCHES YOU ARE!" Rip Rat screeched as he pursued Kuno and company taking the fight to the street giving them everything he has in his arsenal.
Just then, Giroro began proactively firing at Rip Rat, as though to save his rival Ryoga from getting killed by someone else. \Well, Ryoga. Let's just say you don't deserve to die by this asshole's insanity, alright?/ Giroro sounded through the speaker.
"Got you! SHISHI HOKODAAAAN!" Ryoga screeched upon calling his truce with Giroro in fighting Rip Rat in Omega Tank mode. Rip Rat took more damage than expected, yet still continued his rampage.
"YES! I AM FUCKING INVINCIBLLLLLEE!" Rip Rat screeched as he fired every weapon he has at them all, including his Grappler claw at the Keronian operated gunship.
Back at the construction site, Nodoka had just arrived as though very tired in waiting for Ranma to reunite with her. Soun and Genma were both absent as of now as she sat on the lever for a hot water pump, with not another soul in sight.
The resulting hot water geyser propelled her into the air, and in Ranma's sights as he took Akane with him. However, Ranma left Akane at the entrance to the construction site as he caught Nodoka mid air, and landed safely.
Akane rejoined Ranma as Fuyuki escorted them all to a quieter spot within the park where the first plan had unraveled. Gunfire is still audible, yet distant enough not to be too much of a concern.
"R-Ranma?" Nodoka moaned as she returned from unconsciousness. "Why, you saved me! I can't thank you enough for it." Nodoka then congratulated as she got back up on her feet.
"Now. Before we celebrate, there's a little something you should know about me. You see, Pops and I have gone over to this place known as Jusenkyo, where a vast assortment of cursed springs lies." Ranma began patiently broaching the subject to Nodoka.
"Not understanding so much as one word of Chinese, me and Pops dived right in to the training. I knocked him in to one of the springs first, turning him into a panda. Then, I myself got knocked into another spring, turning me into a girl upon exposure to cold water. Don't worry, I turn back into a guy upon touching hot water." Ranma added.
Nodoka was about to do the unthinkable, when. "Stop! Before you just kill me right away, I want to let you know that just because I can turn into a girl and get dressed in girls' clothing doesn't mean I'm any less of a man than I am now because of it." Ranma tacked on.
"In fact, I've grown more as a martial artist ever since that day. At first I wanted to get rid of it, but then I realized that there was so much more in the way of untapped martial arts potential that I could only easily access as a girl. In short, the curse changed me in body only, not in soul" Ranma finished as his convincing argument.
Thus, Nodoka lowered her sword, and retracted it back in to its sheath. "I. I didn't know, that you were Ranko the whole time, and that Mr. Panda was Genma, too. How fascinating. You were so honest in your confession, yet still very willing to face the music. That's how a man among men should be. Therefore, I decree the seppuku contract to be null and void upon Genma's success." Nodoka decreed.
Ranma began to look around, and spotted Soun and Genma hiding in the bushes. "Okay, Pops. You can come out, now." Ranma called out as Genma stepped forth.
"Are you sure about this boy?" Genma queried still uncertain when Ranma grabbed him by his clothes. "SURE I'M SURE! I WOULDN'T BE HERE SCREAMING AT YOU FOR IT IF I WASN'T!" Ranma screeched as Nodoka and Akane giggled to the notion of how much the former has grown in spite of what had happened before.
There is a saying that "What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger," naturally, finally seeing Nodoka as a man among men didn't kill him at all, but rather made him all the stronger.
The Saotome residence, 6:00 am. The very next day
Ranma had just woken up before anyone else and was out looking for breakfast. "Ranma Saotome. I'd have thought that your own mother had put you out of your misery. Now I see I was WRONG TO TRUST THAT SUCCUBUS WOMAN TO KILL YOU!" Kuno snarled as he slashed at Ranma, only to miss and cut Nodoka in the cheek.
This angered Genma to the point of intervention. In this case ramming Kuno in the side of his ribs. "You can humiliate me all you want! You can destroy my property! But don't ever threaten any woman around me, ESPECIALLY NOT MY WIFE!" Genma screeched.
"IT MATTERS NOT! FOR YOU WILL ALL JOIN IN DEATH BY SEPPUKU!" Kuno screeched full of contempt as ever for Nodoka not having Ranma commit seppuku. "Let it go, Kuno. Or maybe you should be the one to commit seppuku." Nodoka threatened as Raikoume and Kamikase knocked husband and wife down, pinning them by the chest with their talons.
"Unless the both of you want to commit hara-kiri! I suggest that you both get up and walk away, now!" Raikoume threatened as Kuno stepped forth. "On the contrary, I SHOULD DO THE HONOR OF KILLING THESE HELL SPAWN PARENTS OF RANMA SAOTOME!" Kuno snarled pushing the twins out of the way.
"Well, fuck you!" Kamikase spat as she unleashed her flamethrower on Kuno, who dodged in an instant. "We didn't wanna hafta do this, but YOU ASKED FOR IT!" Raikoume screeched as she unloaded her weapons within the household.
Ryoga, Mousse, and Ranma's fiancees all ganged up on the assassin drones, with Kuno and Ranma joining in. Gial, Ghallig, and Fuhinga, arrived shortly afterward through the house's roof. "Come back here, you!" Kuno growled with rivals and fiancees in pursuit of the retreating assassin drones into the sunrise.
Ranma Saotome won yet another battle, but at a terrible cost of home damages. Therefore, the Saotomes decided to all move in with the Tendos once more, Nodoka in toe this time.