Assassin Drones: The original saga
Fuyuki's training Arc. De Arimasu!
By Alex Young
The Tendo dojo, 9:00 am. April 15, 2003
Days have gone by since the hoopla surrounding Nodoka's arrival and Ranma's inevitable reunion with her had died down, and seeing as how Fuyuki has no school for today due to a lengthy class management moderation process , he may as well take the time to squeeze some more training in.
Either way, we can all agree that Nodoka presence had just become another part of life in the Tendo residence. Genma has calmed down significantly ever since the father son seppuku contract with Nodoka had been nullified.
A sigh of relief, all parties that were involved deserve that much in the least, especially Fuyuki. This latest round of Fuyuki's training primarily involved learning to effectively channel the power that the Habu and Tarantula legend weapons in his possession.
However, the third in line so happens to be the Swallow bow and arrow, and much like all the other legend weapons, won't be unlocked unless absolutely necessary, that is only when all else fails.
"Take a deep breath, like this, and exhale slowly." Ranma instructed as Fuyuki dis just that in arranging his hands on top in a criss-cross, and moving one of them sideways in what is called the Habu summoning kata.
Lo and behold, there it was! The Habu kris! Ready for action! Fuyuki began swinging at Ranma with it, with the latter dodging. "Fer Christ's sakes, what was that? You dancing like a beheaded chicken hopped up on cocaine?" Ranma spat and Fuyuki took more swings with a little more grace and fluidity.
Fuyuki then performed a set of horizontal double criss-cross hand movements called the Tarantula summoning kata. There, the shuriken shield was summoned to Fuyuki's aid, as he tossed it in Ranma's direction, herding him all the way in to the Habu kris' yin eating dual fang blades.
Ranma dodged that cornering as well, albeit not without some scratches to the left shoulder and right lower leg. "Whoo damn! You must be getting better." Ranma commended.
"Aww shucks. It was nothing." Fuyuki replied humbly, rubbing his temples in so doing. "Ranma dear! When you're finished, I would like for you to see something." Nodoka called out to Ranma's attention.
Ranma set foot out of the dojo, Fuyuki in toe to see what exactly she was talking about. There it was, coming out of a food truck, was a giant (about the size of a horse), navy blue blob that slithered up to Ranma's sight.
The blob was in truth a rapid transportation form of something else entirely; a meta-material based combat nudibranch. Its true form was that of a somewhat bigger, red eyed, blue on white ocean slug.
"This is Nuda, and it will help you to fend off your rivals when going out on a date with Akane." Nodoka proposed. "Go right ahead, you two. Spar with it and see what it can do." Nodoka exhorted gently as her son, Ranma and his apprentice, Fuyuki both stepped up to the plate.
Ranma booted Nuda all the way up into the sky, when it simply crashed back down, flattening Ranma underneath upon impact. Ranma did eventually get up from that slimy predicament when the fingers on its left front "hand" extended and caught him by the waist to drag him back in.
Fuyuki wouldn't just stand by and watch his sensei get dragged back in, so Fuyuki summoned the Habu kris, and sliced the fingers clean in half. Almost too easily, he thought as the fingers were regrowing themselves in an instant.
Nuda's "mouth" began to open and shoot out wave blasts as it jumped, with Ranma deflecting and dodging. "KIRAIKIRI!" Fuyuki cried as his hateful cutter technique emerging from his pointer and middle fingers together in a pistol, sliced the nudibranch in half.
This was, only to have the two halves rejoin midair not 10 seconds later. The still gliding nudibranch turned around and fired several bullets at Ranma from its fingers.
Ranma bounded all around dodging the nudibranch's bullet fingers. Upon descent Nuda fired its laser cutter into the lawn, literally setting it aflame at the areas where the hot laser touched.
Just then, Fuyuki's hand began glowing in white again, much like with the Habu and Tarantula before. The Swallow bow and arrow kit was finally beginning to materialize before his eyes.
Therefore he sought to put the Swallow through its paces as he extracted an arrow from the shoulder strap quiver, and began drawing on the string. Given his time around a compound bow, it was plug and play from here.
Fuyuki finally let go of the draw string, and through the nudibranch it went, temporarily paralyzing it. The nudibranch eventually absorbed the arrow and spit it back out on Fuyuki's direction, who intercepted, and fired it again, setting it to explode at the adjustment of the arrowhead.
The arrow blew up upon contact with the sea slug, and rematerialized in the quiver. "Well done. Alright Nuda. You can stop now." Nodoka commanded gently as ever, and stop the giant nudibranch did.
"Man, wait till we see the look on Kuno's face when he sees this thing in the flesh." Ranma groused citing the surprise that Kuno is in for the moment he gets to combat the giant nudibranch as well.
On campus at Furinkan high, 7:40 am. April 16, 2003
"Behold, Ranma Saotome. The day of your untimely demise, hahahahahahahaaaa!" Kuno whooped like the madman he still was as Ranma and Akane simply walked on by him for some odd reason.
"DO NOT TURN YOUR BACK ON YOUR INEVITABLE DEFEAT, OR ELSE!" Kuno screeched as Nuda stealthily slipped in on campus through Toramasa's labyrinth complex. It was apparently vectoring in on the yet unaware Kuno.
Ryoga and Mousse did eventually join him in pursuing Ranma when Nuda intercepted and materialized into its true form before the rivals' eyes. "Fiendish slug demon! I, Tatewaki Kuno, blue thunder of Furinkan high, will slay ye in mortal combat!" Kuno bellowed as he and his compatriots began fighting the nudibranch together.
Ranma began to look over the homeroom window as Kuno and company continued fighting the meta-material nudibranch with the occasional chuckle in between pauses. "Man, get a load of Kuno." Ranma sniggered as the rest of the class joined him in watching this high speed performance.
"Show yourself, Ranma! Bakusai Tenketsu!" Ryoga snarled as his pointer finger connected directly with the nudibranch's head. The surface automatically hardened to the sheer stress, eventually cracking it, and causing the head to explode.
The rest of the body stayed surprisingly intact as the head reformed itself into its original state, shooting his wave balls at Ryoga in retaliation. Mousse tossed several of a wide assortment of shuriken at Nuda, the plasma scimitar variety being the only ones doing any real damage at the moment, only for Nuda to heal up quickly.
It was then the Kuno decided that the only option was to retreat, thus Ryoga and Mousse joined him in running off. Nuda pursued the threesome all the way like the relentless fighter hunter it was.
Any gaps in the doors that were small enough for the claytronic nudibranch to pass through were passed through in feasible transit. By the time Kuno actually found Ranma, the nudibranch was already on his tail, and smothered him into unconsciousness.
The nudibranch was more or less respectful of Ranma's wishes in the sense that he didn't want any of his rivals or fiancees dead, so the nudibranch simply wore them all down into unconsciousness, and then moved on.
"Heheh, now that Kuno had comin." Ranma spat laughing at the vanquished Kuno to himself. Yet another moment of brouhaha died down in Furinkan as Ranma and Akane continued to tackle what school had to offer.
The Kuno estate, 8:00 pm
Sasuke had just entered Kuno's room. "Master Kuno. I bring urgent news." Sasuke announced. "As long as it be about Ranma Saotome." Kuno replied as he turned to face his servant.
"You see, Ranma Saotome had just been qualified to run a martial arts class within Kissho Junior high." Sasuke reported. "So, Ranma Saotome spreads his evil influence outside of Furinkan high yet again, eh? I WON'T ALLOW IT!" Kuno decreed as Sasuke set out to summon Ryoga and Mousse to his aid.
Out in a more industrialized area neighboring the Tomobiki district, 12:00 pm. April 17, 2003
An enigmatic figure by the name of Herb had sent out the Daikage cell in order to retrieve Nuda to add to his ever expanding Musk dynasty army. Herb so happened to be the dragon prince of the Musk Dynasty, out in search of rare and powerful creatures to bathe in the water from the spring of drowned girl.
This was so he can copulate with the creatures turned girls and have them give birth to more hybrid male soldiers to recruit in his army. Nagato has invented a precision emitter based on a theory that Nuda responds best to infrasonic and electromagnetic signals.
Two of his associates, the wolf like Mint and the tiger like Lime, were there to ensure his plan flows smoothly. Gial and Fuhinga were also there inside to aid in capturing Nuda and advancing Herb's agenda.
Any girls that Nuda's would be curse form gave birth to would be donated to Aoryuzen for experimentation only. In this case, Nuda had come in just as Nagato had anticipated, with Daikage giving the order to fire.
The M.A.D. mesh network defense system kicked into action as Nuda advanced into the warehouse, taking fire every which way but up, absorbing the impact, and bouncing them all off one by one.
It was then that Ryosuke launched several sodium hydroxide filled boiling liquid expanding vapor explosion canister bombs at Nuda, dissolving a thin, outermost layer of its body. Nuda escaped with its life, only to be captured in Fuhinga's sticky goo trap.
Mint and Lime then proceeded to just up and grab the captive nudibranch having paid the Daikage cell off in advance. Gial and Fuhinga would follow mint some three minutes later with the Daikage cell having left the scene by then.
On one of many Shinkansen lines, 6:30 pm. April 18, 2003
Fuyuki was on his way with Momoka in toe attending a night class for the first time clad in their standard school uniforms, albeit with light blue dress shirts with navy blue accents, white ties, a white pair of dress pants for Fuyuki, a white skirt for Momoka, and gray sport coats, also with navy blue accents.
Kissho Junior high began to implement a weekend night class program for the first time so as to allow students to study harder and become all the more successful throughout the year.
Fuyuki and Momoka were just among a few out of the entire student body qualified to partake in the experiment. Of the night classes, included what may very well be a martial arts class, with Ranma Saotome as the qualified teacher, and Akane Tendo as his assistant.
Kodachi was there wearing her white blouse under a grayish brown skirt suit sitting down in the very train car that Fuyuki and Momoka were in as the car moved along. "I'm getting a little nervous for Ranma darling, but at the same time, I couldn't be happier for you and Momoka." Kodachi sounded with a smile.
"We here to ensure safe passage for you two, under crazy girl's order." Shampoo stated clad in Chinese amazon battle garb. "Yeah, consider yourself lucky that we're not out to get either of you." Ukyo reassured also smiling.
"Say, Fuyuki. You mind if we had something to eat on our way?" Momoka proposed as she presented two distinctly colored bento boxes. "Sure." Fuyuki replied as he took his beno box of choice, and had his packed dinner with Momoka.
It was then the Momoka and Fuyuki both stoop up, faced each other, and hugged each other, after having finished their dinner. It was right then and there that the two lovers closed the gap, and kissed once more before sitting back down.
Mint was also on the train, albeit in a different car in search of Nuda, who escaped Herb's clutches, but not without touching the water from the spring of drowned girl. The curse only afforded Nuda more opportunities for disguise.
Nuda could change from school girl to school boy and vice versa, wearing their respective school uniforms with their identical textures. Nuda's body may retain its original coloration, but not that of its clothes as they changed along with it.
Nuda's girl disguise began to sit down right in front of Fuyuki and Momoka as it changed into a middle aged man clad in its respective mask, a nondescript trench coat, the appropriate eye contacts, and a pair of reading glasses in picking up a newspaper to read.
"Excuse me, mister, but have you seen this white skinned school girl round here by any chance?" Mint queried of the man unaware that it's Nuda in disguise. "Sorry to say, young man, but no, I have not seen her. Maybe if you care to move on ahead, you'll see her." Nuda replied affecting the middle aged man's voice very well.
"Well, I'll keep moving ahead." Mint confirmed as he left that car, none the wiser to Nuda's clever ruse. In addition to being a capable combatant, Nuda is also very smart and highly resourceful about its surroundings.
The two lovers arrived at their destination, and disembarked along with the still disguised Nuda, who reverted back to its school girl form, leaving its pursuer, Mint behind on the train as it resumed its journey.
The result was that by the time Mint found out about the disguise, it was already too late. Kodachi, Ukyo, and Shampoo were surrounding Mint, weapons drawn. "I don't know who you think you are, you jackass, but you're not hurting even so much as a hair on Ranma Honey! Not while we're around!" Ukyo spat as she inched her spatula ever closer to Mint's throat.
"I dunno about you ladies, but you're all real cute when you're threatening me like that." Mint timidly replied citing his lack of seeing a single woman in his life. "Oh, shit! Oh, shit! Oh, shit! Oh, shit!" Ukyo panicked holding onto Shampoo as the sexual isolation induced perversity within Mint boiled up to the surface.
Just then, Lime walked in from behind also sexually isolated and highly lecherous because of it, yet he was more open about it all. "HOLY SHIT!" All three fiancees screamed panicking as both boys rushed to ensnare them, ending in failure.
It would seem as though, in the fiancees' panic, Mint and Lime were both knocked down as they all fled the train upon arrival at the next station. Completely forgetting their mission to recapture Nuda, Mint and Lime took to chasing after the three fiancees until the train began moving, again trapping them inside in transit.
Somewhere in Kissho Junior high foyer, Ranma was just waiting around for classes to get started, with Akane in toe. When Fuyuki and Momoka made their arrival inside still clad in their night class uniforms, Natsumi, Saburo, and Koyuki all arrived to ensure things go smoothly.
Dororo was inside the vents, installing as many of Kululu's limpet monitor cameras as possible for Saburo to see through. Koyuki stood guard just outside of the gym area, as did Natsumi on the other side.
Nuda's jusenkyo curse proved itself no obstacle as it reverted back into its transportation form to crawl up along the vents to find a bathroom to douse itself in hot water. The nudibranch did just that as it returned to the vents to watch over Ranma.
Fuyuki was in attendance as more a demonstrator, with Momoka as a teacher's pet. Fuyuki got dressed in his martial arts apparel, and jogged his way over to the podium as soon as Ranma finished giving the rundown on what martial arts class is currently all about, and stepped off.
"You know, about what had been happening as of late. You see, I kind of went and did it with Momoka, her parents got upset over it, and attacked some 4 months later, hence one of the reasons why I'm under Ranma's tutelage." Fuyuki paused mid statement.
"Another as I've been discussing in my paranormal class being the assassin drones and their activities." Fuyuki stated on the podium, strangely enough to the class, showing not one sign of stage fright.
The class would begin with a simple exhibition match, which would go on for so long as both combatants have not been knocked down. Midway into the fight, as Ranma executed a sweeping low kick. "Ranma Saotome! Have you not the decency to spare these children of your evil influence?" Kuno spat much to the class's displeasure.
"Yeah right!" "'Evil influence' my ass!" "Who do you losers think you are, anyways?" "Let's get him" The entire class cried out as Kuno stood his guard, with Ryoga and Mousse moving in as reinforcements.
The class dodged Mousse's hidden weapons barrage just in the nick of time, mistaking them all for clones of Ranma Saotome. "Which one of you Robo-Ranmas is the real Ranma, huh?" Mousse spat as Ranma smashed his nose in and put his glasses on.
"The frick are you taking about, Mousse?" Ranma sneered in disapproval as Ryoga landed a left hand hook on him. The class all joined Ranma so as to swarm the rivals and pound them to hell.
That's when Nuda dropped in from the vents, picked up all the rivals, ferried them out of school grounds, and dumped them all in a nearby alley. "YOU AGAIN!? I SHALL SURELY SLAY YOU YET HAATAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT!" Kuno growled in his thermobaric rapid fire sword thrust technique.
Even though Nuda was literally set ablaze with the aura energy fire, it just burned right out thanks to its meta-material properties. That is to say it grew a fire retardant shell on the surface area that the fire was touching and burning.
Any parts of the shell that were still burning were flicked off as projectiles against the rivals, Mousse deflected the flecks that were shooting out in his direction with his chain flail shield technique.
Nuda then shot several energy bullets through its back up into the air and ducked for cover as the hailstorm bullets all returned to Earth, rinsing and repeating until the rivals were severely beaten and tired.
Nuda set out to return to watching over Ranma, when Mint and Lime arrived on the scene of the bruised and battered rivals laying about in dishevelment.
"So the slug creature has had a bit of fun with you three, eh?" Mint sounded over the rivals defeated bodies. "We have this miracle potion that will not only fully revive you, but make you even stronger, too." Lime proposed as his offer.
An offer that Kuno immediately took up upon grabbing the potion, drinking it, and sharing it with his companions. "Ahh, yes! Much better, now." Mousse sighed in relaxation, much to the wolf henchman's and the tiger henchman's shared disdain, of course.
"HEY! You were supposed to give something else up in exchange, YOW!" Mint screeched upon getting clocked in the nose by Ryoga.
"Save your excuses for later! Right now were going to defeat that slug creature, or demon, or bio-weapon once and for all!" Ryoga sneered a bit confused as he, Kuno, and Mousse all ran off on Mint and Lime.
Of course, Nuda just reappeared from a manhole and swatted them all into the sky. Nuda then had to combat Herb's henchmen sometime later midway into their hot pursuit. "So there you are, at last!" Lime angrily seethed as he lunged at Nuda with all his monstrous strength.
That, only to have it all recoil very hard thanks to Nuda's ability to become dense and hard under massive stress. This was to a point where not even Lime could hope to break it apart in that one punch.
However, Lime kept on repeatedly hitting and hitting Nuda in the yet impossible hope of wearing it down. After a long while, Mint used his wolf fang slash bomb technique on Nuda, only to have it escape and hit his companion, Lime instead.
"Ugh damn! That slug is slipperier than I thought." Mint spat as he began to search the vicinity. Nuda began traveling by sewer, purposely exposing itself so that Mint and lime would both chase it around until the cows come home.
Fuyuki's room, 8:00 am. April 19, 2003
"Hmm, I remember reading something about a legendary battle suit of some kind, I dunno." Fuyuki mused as he rummaged the dresser for some clothes.
He slowly buttoned up his black dress shirt, tucked it in to his olive dress pants, and tied his olive tie around the collar.
After a while of looking into his mirror and a picture of himself in his olive dress shirt, white tie, and white dress pants, Fuyuki headed off to date with Momoka once more.
Back at the Tendo dojo, 11:00 am. April 20, 2003
Ranma had hauled a package sent to him from a priest upon Nabiki's recommendation that Akane somehow be able to fend off Ranma's other fiancees, including but not limited to Shampoo, Ukyo, and Kodachi.
Whatever it was, Ranma was all too eager to open the gift wrapped package and behold the contents inside. It was a battle suit, and it was purported to enhance the wearer's strength by a factor of ten.
Nuda in its constantly fighting Ranma's rivals and fiancees to keep them away when seeking privacy may not exactly be enough. This was now that it's Achilles heel with chemical dissolution was discovered by the Daikage cell during their mission to capture it for Herb of the Musk dynasty.
However, this initiative was more as a safety precaution because the rivals and fiancees have yet to discover this fatal flaw (although it doesn't look as though they're going to either). Also, even though the Daikage cell knows about this weakness, their mouths are sealed about the ingredients for the right chemical dissolving agent.
All is not lost in case Akane falls completely head over heels for Ranma, for Kululu has built one Akane two mechadrone replica to fit the legendary combat suit perfectly, and fit (albeit rather tightly) it did.
Of course, the replica, much like Akane, had very little in the way of womanly curves going for it, if at all.
It was right then and there that Ranma figured something else out as well upon closer inspection; the suit only really fits girls with little to no figure!
"There's that harlot right now!" Kodachi screeched as she and her cohorts made their most sudden advance on the fully battle suit clad replica, with Ranma having already taken his leave in the background.
Akane two braced itself for action as the fiancees continued their advance, and knocked them all down in just a few blows. That was the case, only for the fiancees to all get back up and engage it once more.
The mechadrone in disguise grappled Shampoo by the wrist, kneed it in, and flipped her over by the back in front of it as Ukyo tossed her spatulae at it. Akane two deflected the spatulae one by one, and threw them right back at Ukyo, who deflected them with her giant spatula.
Another window of opportunity for Akane two as it knocked Ukyo out cold, and then Kodachi with a back fist. It then picked up all the defeated fiancees and kicked them all out in one boot to the asses.
Akane two then proceeded to jog its way out of the dojo, only to stop and wait around for Ranma within the backyard.
Upon Fuyuki's arrival come 3:15 pm, as was to be expected as of these days, Ranma immediately escorted him to where Akane two was at.
As you should all know by now, Fuyuki was coming back from yet another date with Momoka clad in his martial arts outfit.
"You see, while we have Nuda for my rivals, we have Akane two for my fiancees. Even less unneeded distractions for us all." Ranma elucidated with the game plan set in motion for keeping any distracting factors at bay.
This of course, also entailed the new development of one Kiru-Ranma ZX-1 to temporarily keep the marauding, ever crafty assassin drones from interrupting him at the most inconvenient of times.
Such as his training of Fuyuki Hinata for the upcoming Nishizawa martial arts world tournament. This was when Shiclerin took to sniping at the both of them in a distance.
Ranma and Fuyuki both dodged very cleanly, and wanting to avoid any potential collateral damage, both gave chase after him.
Miezoen in Jet Manta form, circled above Ranma and Fuyuki as they followed Shiclerin into yet another hive mind capture trap location.
Akane two surged out ahead of them both, and kicked Shiclerin in the back, with Nuda not too far behind. This left our two martial arts heroes to walk back in the other direction in bewilderment, and resume the training session.