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Baba Yaga's Curse: Friction with the machine

Chapter 7

Ranma woke up feeling something warm and squishy in each of his hands. He squeezed softly with each hand and heard two distinct, but small moans. His senses went on full alert and he opened his eyes to see the naked backs of two females cuddled closely to him. He carefully noted that his arms were under them and thus his hands had to be touching their breasts. Alarm flooded his system as he desperately tried to figure out how he would extricate himself from the situation without being pounded. A small silent voice was informing him that he would not in fact be pounded by these girls, but he didn't pay much attention to it.

Instead he tried to slowly move his arm out from under the small black haired girl next to him. As he moved it the girl woke up and turned towards him. His eyes drank in the sight of her naked body and his now freed arm went up to ward himself from violence. A soft laugh escaped from the awakened girl and he felt the girl on his other side start to stir. He clenched his eyes shut and the second girl came fully awake. Ranma immediately put his second hand up in a warding gesture and started to sputter denials.

The girls laughed softly and then he felt their skin on his as they took hold of his hands and slowly moved them back onto their previous locations. A soft and quiet voice said, "Ranma-san are we that horrible to look at that you must squeeze your eyes shut?"

Ranma tried to think clearly, but with his hands being held on the girls' assets all he could voice was, "No, no it's not that at all it's just…"

He was interrupted by Beryl saying, "If it isn't that then open your eyes Ranma."

He slowly opened his eyes and saw the two women naked in front of him. Each of them was holding one of his hands onto her breast. Hotaru caught his glance first and said, "We won't hurt you Ranma-san, I promise."

Beryl nodded and said, "Far from it," she then moved herself even closer to Ranma and put her free hand under the blankets. Ranma felt her grasp him as she put her lips close to his ear and said, "In fact we want to make you very happy."

Ranma's thoughts were whirling around in vast and confused ways. "Um, I uh…"

Hotaru also brought herself closer to Ranma and she said, "We love you Ranma-san and we want you to know it. Please let us show you."

There had been a hint of loneliness and sadness in Hotaru's voice. Ranma looked at her closely and saw fear in her eyes. He looked over to Beryl and saw the same fear reflected in her eyes as well. Ranma's thoughts finally broke free of their chaos and he was finally able to say what he wanted to say. "I love you guys, you know that right?"

The fear melted from the women's eyes and they said almost in concert , "I love you too Ranma."

Ranma was suddenly engulfed in a large group hug and said, "If this is what you want then I will give it to you." After that his lips were being pressed into service and he was awash in hundreds of pleasurable sensations.

Suddenly the door in the room slammed open and a voice said, "Nay! Saotome you evil wretch I will never allow it!"

"Excuse me girls," Ranma quickly disentangled himself from the embrace of Hotaru and Beryl and stood in front of Tatewaki Kunou in only boxer shorts as the kendoist lunged towards him.

Ranma put a hand up in front of Kunou's boken and infused it with his chi. The wooden sword shattered into pieces and as Kunou stared at it in shock Ranma decked him. The punch sent the young man into unconsciousness and Ranma scooped him up. With disgust he said, "Even in another world there just had to be a Kunou!"

Ranma dragged Kunou down the stairs and out of the building. Once outside he found a metal trash can and put Kunou's unconscious body inside of it. Ranma then placed the lid back on the can and infused some chi into it, welding it into place. "There, that should be more than enough for while."

Ranma stalked back up the stairs and was met by Hotaru and Beryl. The two girls were still naked and Beryl smiled at him and said, "Shall we take up from where we left off Ranma?"

Some time later Ranma and his friends walked past the Trash can again. They could hear mumbled screams coming from it and Ranma sighed, "I suppose I ought to let him out now eh?"

Beryl pouted at Ranma and said, "He interrupted our fun. I say we let him figure out his own escape."

"Now Beryl, that wouldn't be right at all would it Ranma?"

Ranma shrugged and said, "It is Kunou," he paused then said, "but I suppose you're right Hotaru." He kicked the can over and hit the lid with a small Vacuum Blade. The canister released its contents and Kunou came out spluttering.

The black haired boy stopped himself and regained his composure. He looked at Ranma with an evil glance and said, "This is not over Saotome. I will free these women and the pig-tailed girl from your evil."

Ranma just waved him off and said, "Yeah, yeah I heard it all before Kunou and I'm just not interested. Now, go back to Nerima and bother Akane or something."

He walked away with Beryl and Hotaru in tow and said, "Are we about ready to tackle Cheyenne Mountain yet?"

The girls looked back at him and Beryl said, "Why don't we take a bit of time for ourselves today. We can tackle it some other time."

Ranma nodded and they walked away as Kunou continued to rant in the distance. Hotaru pointed back at him and said, "Ranma, do you remember that in my world there were also alternate versions of people you knew. Since he is here is it possible that the other Sailor Senshi are as well?"

Ranma shrugged and said, "Don't know I guess we can check if you like."

Hotaru nodded to Ranma and he said, "All right let's do it."

The three transformed in an empty alleyway and Sol said, "Where should we check first?"

"The gate." Earth answered and so the three of them concentrated and an aperture of the time gate suddenly appeared. The silvery substance flowed and rippled a bit until they concentrated on the Senshi. In the silvery substance a woman dressed in white appeared. She seemed to be leading her forces in a final battle against a horde of youma. She was struck by a weapon and said to herself, "Setsuna why did you have to fall? Why couldn't you have foreseen this?"

She held out the Ginzuishou and healed her injury. The woman then destroyed many of her surrounding enemies, but more and more kept coming until she said, "Fine let's see how Beryl and her mistress like this."

She held out a communicator and said, "Sol! Saturn! Emergency override Serenity Lambda Three! Use the new attack"

The time gate showed two women standing next to each other each on the moon fighting youma they held hands and energy coursed through them as they shouted, "Silence Flare!"

The image in the gate panned out and showed the sun with a gigantic solar flare appearing on its surface. That flare was more than it seemed though it was not only filled with the power of the sun, but also given the dreadful power of the Silence. The Silence Flare broke away and traveled into space. It hit Mercury and destruction ensued, everything was melted into slag. It continued on and hit Venus causing beautiful crystalline cities to fall and making oceans boil away into thick clouds. The powerful flare continued onwards and scoured Mars of all life. The flare was weakening somewhat by that time, but when it struck the moon Queen held out the Ginzuishou and said, "Death! In the name of love and justice I pronounce death upon all of our enemies!"

The flare suddenly increased in power a thousand fold and vaporized the queen and everything on the moon. It washed through the dimensional barriers and utterly destroyed Metallia and her Youma, it also continued outwards through the solar system destroying everything in its path and when the powerful flare finally came upon Pluto it utterly destroyed the tiny planet.

Sol and her allies finished watching the scene and when it was over Beryl said, "Well I guess we know what happened to the Sailor Senshi."

Hotaru said silently, "Yes, we do instead of sending them forward in time Queen Serenity used her power to annihilate her foes."

Sol dropped her concentration and the time gate aperture disappeared. "Let's not watch that again okay?"

Earth and Saturn agreed, and everyone transformed back into their civilian identities. The three girls then continued to walk along for awhile, but their originally good spirits had been crushed by the sight they had seen. After a short while with visions of destruction haunting her Hotaru was determined to cheer her friends up. She smiled a bit and said, "Well, come on let's find something fun to do, this is supposed to be a day off right!"

Ranma grinned at that and said, "All right I have an idea!" She quickly tickled each of her companions and then ran off with Beryl and Hotaru in hot pursuit. She led them on a merry chase through Juuban until they finally caught up to her in a park and tackled her to the ground, tickling her. The three girl tickle war raged over the entire park until it finally petered out into heavy petting and they decided to head back towards their hotel room.

Later, as the three girls lay in bed Hotaru said, "Ranma we could do that if we wanted to couldn't we?"

"I never thought of actually manipulatin the sun or combining our powers before, but I don't see why not."

Hotaru was silent for a moment and Ranma felt a tear fall onto her shoulder. Realization suddenly hit and Ranma said, "We're not like her Hotaru. We don't kill millions of innocent people just to win our battles."

Hotaru seemed to calm a bit and then she said, "We could do it though, we could destroy everything."

Beryl had been listening and she said softly, "But you won't Hotaru, neither you, nor Ranma would ever do that and for that matter neither would I." Beryl paused a moment and said, "Well at least not anymore I wouldn't there was a time when I wouldn't have batted an eye at doing something so horrible."

Hotaru sat up the covers fell off of her naked body, but the effect was ruined by a haunted look in her eyes as she said, "When Mistress Nine was in me I would have done the same. Maybe that is why the senshi were so willing to kill me."

Ranma sat up as well and said, "I know you both have a history and I know what we saw in the time gates spooked you. To be honest it spooked me too knowing that I have that power if I need it, but I think we have to realize that the ability to do something isn't the same thing as doing it right?"

Beryl looked at Ranma and said, "You're right Ranma and even with my own past history nothing at all says we would do it."

Hotaru looked at Beryl and realized that she and Ranma were right. Just because they had the ability didn't mean they would use it in horrible ways. She smiled for a moment and said, "Solis Custodes Omnis?"

Ranma smiled and said, "Yeah that's what Taya would say. That's what we do now. We are more than just Senshi, more than Martial Artists; we have dedicated ourselves to watching over and protecting people and no matter where or when we happen to be."

Beryl and Hotaru agreed and then the grayish pink haired girl stepped out of bed and into the Hotel's bathroom. She came back with a cup of steaming water and said, "As much as we enjoyed our time as Girls I think I much prefer to have little Ranma-kun back again. What about you Hotaru?"

The black haired girl nodded enthusiastically and Beryl splashed the water onto Ranma turning her into a male. Hotaru then dove under the covers and took matters well in hand. Beryl joined in and they all had a grand time.

The three girls spent some more time in Japan enjoying each other, the local scenery, and practicing for their expedition into Cheyenne Mountain. They used the time gate to do some reconnaissance, but found that a part of the complex was inaccessible to their sight. "What do you want to bet that's where Skynet is being made?"

Earth replied, "No bet Sol whatever is there is causing serious time distortions."

"You're probably right Earth," Sol pulled out the paper Map and said, "So I'm thinking we should teleport in right about here," she pointed, "Then proceed into the area we can't see with the time Gate here." She pointed again and put the map down.

Saturn and Earth looked at it and then Saturn said, "An entire floor using the Umi Sen Ken? Are we quite ready for that?"

Sol shook her head and said, "No, but we really only need to use it to pass onto the floor past the machine gun placements and down to the floor we think Skynet is on. After that I think we should go through the floor hard and fast destroying any tech that we find."

Earth nodded and then said, "What about bystanders?"

Sol pointed to Saturn and said, "She'll keep up her Silence Wall and we carry her along and destroy things. They ain't got anything on that level other than those machine guns that can even tickle us then."

Saturn smiled and said, "I like it."

"Me too, but something about it bothers me for some reason. We should all be careful in there."

Sold Saturn responded by saying, "All right Earth we will."

Gusoin was standing in a room next to the unfinished device that would one day become Skynet. He smiled at a companion on his right and said, "What do you think General Landry?"

The almost six foot major general stared back at Gusoin and said, "I think it will be some time before it is finished and ready to be powered up master."

Gusoin smiled an evil smile and said, "Yes, but these humans have been doing an excellent job, and we can always give some more help if necessary. I would say a few months at most wouldn't you?"

Landry nodded and Gusoin said, "And the base is prepared should Ranma and his companions arrive?"

"Yes, I increased security at all entrances and exits. This level by itself is guarded by a squad of Marines as well as our Terminator forces."

Gusoin said, "Double it and make sure that the squads are those bonded to Lorycia. Those she seduces are well known for their ability to continue fighting despite the most grievous injuries."

"It will be done."

"Good, now leave and send Amnar in with the ruby. I want to know when our prey will arrive."

Landry exited the room and Gusoin waited staring at the machine that was destined to destroy the world. He smiled and said, "What a delicious paradox we have here. The original sweet irony with the humans designing you once to protect them and you then going on to try and destroy them, but it doesn't end there does it? The humans were going to win and so you sent machines back in time to make sure you would be built and their leader would die. Little did you know that you would help create their leader and that you would need me to come and finish your construction."

The hunk of metal sat there unresponsive to Gusoin's statement and then the door opened and the hideous being that was Amnar walked into the room. "What do you wish of me master Gusoin?" It said in a dead sing song of combined voices bereft of hope.

Gusoin looked on his creation and noticed that it was much more emaciated recently perhaps even dying. He grunted at the idea noncommittally for he would have no further use for it after this and said, "Bring out the ruby and the bowl, use them to tell me when Ranma will come."

Amnar took a blood red heart shaped ruby out of a bag and then suddenly alarms sounded. "INTRUDER ALERT! INTRUDER ALERT!"

Gusoin smiled and said, "Well it seems I do not need to know when Ranma will attack after all eh?"

The creature started to put the ruby heart away when Gusoin said, "Oh no, don't put it away I want to watch. I need to see them brought low by our forces."

It had been easy enough to start with Sol, Earth and Saturn had teleported to where they needed to be and then used the Umi Sen Ken to pass the heavy machine gun emplacements and walk down to the floor they wanted to be on. The problem came later on when they were on the correct floor and moving through it at a decent pace. Suddenly instead of moving past marines firing useless weapons at them they were ambushed by ten identical men wielding weapons that passed through the Silence wall like it didn't even exist.

The three senshi scattered quickly enough to avoid being hit and Sol had collapsed a part of the building in order to prevent reinforcements from arriving, but they were pinned down and their magical powers seemed to be useless against their enemy.

A voice in the back of the room laughed a strangely seductive laugh and said, "Come now why not just surrender. We have you surrounded and your powers are useless against us."

A terminator walked onto view and Saturn took its head off with a Kinjin Raishu Dan. Earth followed up with her own few blasts and the machine was scrap. Sol smiled and nodded at them, then said, "We ain't out of the fight yet."

The female voice became sickly sweet and Sol could feel herself stiffen as it said, "You're still surrounded and backed against a wall with my men on the other side tunneling in right now. In addition the debris you are hiding behind will not last forever. Give up now and spare yourselves. Give up…Give up.."

The compulsion to follow the order was immense, Earth and Saturn were starting to put their hands in the air and Sol was having great difficulty fighting it as well, but she denied the compulsion and shouted, "Gravity web!"

Earth and Saturn stood, but instead of being hit by a hail of gun fire they stood looking at a group of machines stuck to the ground. It broke them out of the spell and then they heard a grunt of pain coming from Sol. They looked towards her and through clenched teeth she said, "Take them out now!"

Earth and Saturn started to attack while Sol concentrated on her magic feeling it start to fray as the demonic Terminators slowly unraveled it. She felt a thread pop and a terminator stood, but it was taken down by Earth. Eight of the ten machines were turned into scrap and then suddenly Sol felt her web ripped apart as a door at the other side of the room opened.

The man standing in the doorway was a middle aged man with born hair and brown eyes. Sol guessed him to be about five foot ten. He was wearing a blue Air force General's uniform and he was staring at the room with absolute malice in his eyes. He quickly stepped towards the female who was standing as well and said, "No more time for play Lorycia, we kill them now!"

From his back the man pulled out a large and strange looking rifle and then started shooting directly at Sol's position. The debris she was hiding behind was utterly destroyed, but she herself had already moved.

Saturn saw the scene, but was focused on the two machines in front of her. They had stood up suddenly and were now attacking her with their guns blazing. A swipe with her glaive destroyed the weapons and then she was able to fight on fairer terms. The two machines sent blows her way, but she easily avoided them and slashed at them with her weapon. It was slow going, but as she took one's arm off she knew that the battle was in her favor. She just hoped she'd be done with it quickly enough to aid her friends.

Earth smashed a first into Lorycia and sent her into the wall. The female machine just smiled and pulled a small gun out of no-where. A veritable storm of needles came from the weapon and Earth was not able to dodge all of them. Her thigh was on fire with pain, but she was able to blast the gun with a Vacuum Blade anyway. She started to move towards her enemy when the woman pulled out another weapon as well. A burst of strange green energy passed Earth's head and she cursed. She dodged another bolt and then another until she was able to send her own blast back and destroy the weapon. The machine woman started to go for another weapon when earth sent a powerful burst of chi into her legs and leapt onto the woman.

Beryl landed on the woman and it was like landing on an evil puddle. None of her blows seemed to have an affect at all and yet the puddle could easily send out deadly sharp blades. She dodged the blades and ignored the fire in her thigh while trying to think about how to kill killed the machine. She couldn't think of anything until an idea came to her. She backed off just a bit and ran as fast as she could for the nearest wall. Lorycia pulled out another weapon and started to fire. Earth jumped into the air and hit the wall at her top speed smashing right through it.

A group of marines started firing at her immediately, but she sent up her own magical stone barrier and ignored them. She then flew up above the hole she had created and pumped her powers into the stone and waited. As if on cue Lorycia walked through the hole with her weapon at the ready. That was exactly what Earth had been waiting for as she finished releasing her powers into the wall above the machine woman turning it into liquid and sending it cascading down onto her.

The newly formed magma didn't dissipate, but instead flowed down onto Lorycia and melted her into her component parts. Earth smiled at that and flew back into the room where the battle had been occurring.

She arrived just in time to see Saturn finishing her attackers and Sol defeating hers with the Kinjin Dai Ran Bu. The Demon God Mad dance sent spatters of liquid metal all over the room and Sol seemed to have the same idea as Earth when she sent her own powers into the stone so that it heated up and melted and then merged with the liquid metal.

The three girls regrouped and approached the door at the far end of the room.

Gusoin watched the battle in an apoplexy of fury. He had specifically created a spell to neutralize all the known powers of Ranma and his friends. He had grimaced when Sol had used her gravity web, but thought the problem would be rectified when he sent out 'General Landry' with a newly enhanced version of the spell.

It wasn't enough Landry/Gurgen was attacked by Sol, Lorycia was confronted by Earth and the remaining demon infested T-800 units were being taken down by Saturn. Gusoin growled angrily and pulled out a small technological device. He shoved it into the not quite completed Skynet and said, "Change in plans I suppose this Nanotechnological Transjector and a bit of my magic should suffice to complete your construction."

The magic and the nanites entered the Machine and it soon became aware. A voice sounded and it said, "Skynet online."

Gusoin smiled and said, "What is your primary function?"

"Skynet function is to respond to all threats against the United States."

"Yes and what threatens that the most?"

The machine paused and then said, "Humanity," it then began to take control over all systems in the base and beyond. Gusoin glanced over his shoulder and saw Amnar standing over the bowl filled with blood and grasping the ruby heart as it pulsed brightly with his/her blood. In the bowl and image of Sailor Sol, Saturn and Earth could be seen as they all walked towards the door.

The heavy metal door exploded from its hinges and slammed into Amnar sending the transgendered creature flying and the bowl of blood crashing into the floor. The three senshi stood shocked as Amnar pulled itself up still screaming in pain as the ruby heart took its blood. Sol recovered herself and a bolt of plasma slammed into the gem and it melted away.

Gusoin laughed and the three girls turned towards him as he said, "Oh Ranma Saotome you and your allies are crafty and powerful indeed, but you have failed."

A blast of plasma and a large granite stone slammed into Gusoin's hulking metallic body and the demonic Minotaur machine just laughed. "Come now, surely you must realize your powers will not work on me?"

Sol rushed him and slammed his body with thousands of punches. His large hand moved with incredible speed and he backhanded the girl into a wall. Saturn and Earth rushed to attack him as well. Saturn's glaive just glanced off his metallic body and Earth's punches seemed to have little effect. Gusoin batted them away as well. After he did so he saw that Sol was up again and she hit him with a powerful Vacuum blade. He ignored it and said, "Unlike my creations I am not susceptible to your pitiful martial skills. This body of mine is pure Baatorian Steel crafted in the fires of hell itself."

Amnar approached Saturn and helped the girl to her feet and the rest converged there as well. The creature pleaded with the group. "Please help us."

Gusoin did nothing as Sol and her allies regrouped. He heard Sol say, "Yeah we'll help you. I promise it." The demon god laughed at that and said, "Oh Ranma do not make any promises you can not keep."

Sol looked back at him with deadly intent and he said, "Before you attack again let us parlay. I would so enjoy speaking with you for a few moments before I rip you apart."

Sol looked at her allies and they shrugged at her. She whispered, "Might as well let him rant at us a bit so we can think of something." To Gusoin Sol said, "Alright ugly we'll talk with ya."

"Excellent, now for your edification I have finished building Skynet and in just a scant few minutes it will have entire control over the United States nuclear arsenal."

"You bastard!"

Gusoin just smiled and said, "Yes, Ranma I am a bastard. A dark god conceived in the minds of men and given life by powers you can not begin to comprehend. It is my task to defeat you and bring you kneeling and bloody before the great witch Baba Yaga. Finishing the creation of Skynet here and allowing it to destroy humanity on this world well, that's just icing on the cake for me."

Sol's eyes gleamed with hatred both Saturn and Earth had to hold her back. "Sol, Ranma you should know better than that."

Sol stopped struggling and said, "Yeah Beryl I should, but this bastard is dead. I swear we are going to kill him. I don't know how, but that thing will die by our hands."

Gusoin laughed and said, "Valiant words Ranma and now I am done speaking and I think you are as well," He peered behind him and said, "Before we begin our battle I will tell you one last thing. You have less than three minutes to defeat me and destroy Skynet before it begins launch sequence. After that the missiles will be on their way and billions will die."

With that last statement the Large Minotaur Machine Demon God rushed towards the three senshi with death in its eyes.

Author's Notes: My sincere apology for the cliffhanger, but I need some more time to work on the final battle, but at the same time I wanted to post a chapter.