Time Loop
Numbers In Nerima
Chapter Two
Disclaimer: I own none of the series involved, they belong to their respective owners.
Nove was wearing a red sweat-suit as she looked over the skating rink and rubbed her eyes. "Why are we here at five in the morning?" She asked Ranma, who was putting on his ice skates and shrugged at the shorter redhead.
"Simple, no one else is." He chuckled and looked at Cinque, wearing a light blue one-piece suit and standing, slightly unsteadily, on her skates as she rubbed her good eye. "You okay?" Cinque nodded at him and smiled softly.
"Good." Ranma rubbed his hands together. "Okay then." He smirked as he got on the ice and started moving around. "Been awhile since I did this." He chuckled as he remembered just how hard it had been for him to learn to skate properly.
Cinque shrugged, wondering how hard it could be.
She and Nove both found out a moment later when they went crashing and sliding all over the ice, causing Ranma to chuckle and shake his head in amusement. So that's what it looked like way back when. He thought to himself and smirked. "Not that easy, huh?"
Nove grumbled as she pushed herself up and moved so she was on her knees and shook her head, getting some ice shavings out of her hair. "I thought I'd be better on skates than this." She grumbled, getting a laugh from Ranma in response.
"Don't worry about it. Even if you're used to roller-blading, ice skating is different. Thinner surface on your blades and there's a lot less friction."
"But Break Liner doesn't have friction." Nove said as she stood up, slightly unsteadily.
"Magic, not real physics." Not that he used them much anymore. "Anyway, the two of you..." He trailed off, grinning. "We'll start simple... Race around the ice rink until you can stand on your feet."
"Sounds easy enough." Cinque said as she started to move on the ice, a bit slowly at first, but quickly picking up speed, before her eye widened as she saw a large stone, one used for the game "Curling", slide right in front of her. "WAGH!"
Ranma, spinning another stone on his fingertips, shook his head. "Focus, Cinque." He said, before giving Nove a push, causing her to speed out of control. Or so it seemed as Nove, just before she crashed into the wall, actually managed to turn and start skating on her own. "Good, Nove." He said before pushing the stone at her, causing her to jump over it and land awkwardly on her skates, causing the short redhead to fall over onto her butt.
"What the hell?!" Nove looked at him with an expression that showed hurt and confusion.
"Get used to it, Nove, Cinque. Mikado and Azusa are going to do a lot worse." He nodded at her dumbfounded look and smirked. "But, hey, at least you get more time to learn than I did."
"How long did you get?" Cinque asked as she was hit in the face with a ball of fluffy snow.
"Hmm... About three days my first time, I think." He shrugged, it wasn't important.
"Where did you get that snow from?" Nove asked, before ducking a hockey puck.
"Ah ah ah... If you have time to chat, you have time to dodge." Ranma grinned at the two, who suddenly both felt really, really nervous for some odd reason.
---
"Surprised to see you up and out here so early, Wendi."
Blinking, the redhead turned and saw Tre, dressed in workout clothes, walking towards her as she sat in the bleachers, looking down at the ice rink as Ranma worked Cinque and Wendi over. "Oh, hey." She muttered and turned back to the rink, sighing as she watched.
Tre blinked, wondering what was up with that attitude. Wendi was one that gave the least amount of bad attitude to anyone. "What's wrong?"
"The bed was cold this morning." Wendi pouted, getting a nod from Tre as she sat down next to Wendi.
"Uno and Ranma were both gone by the time I woke up this morning. I admit, it... It is rather chilly when you don't have a warm body next to you to wake up to." The tallest of the Nerimaian cyborgs said as she looked at the trio on the ice. "So, Wendi..."
"Hmm?"
"Why Nove?"
Wendi shrugged. "I dunno, I just like her. How about you? You chose the doctor." Wendi blinked as she caught sight of Tre blushing, BLUSHING! Oh dear lords, Tre never blushed in public. "That good?"
"That good." Tre said with a grin as she nodded.
The two stopped talking and just stared at the rear ends of the people who shared their beds as they raced around on the ice.
On the ice, Cinque wondered why she felt left out of something and why she felt it was probably for the better.
A couple hours later, Nove found herself on her back on the ice, her stomach growling loudly as she panted and tried to sit up. "Urgh..." She looked up and waited until she saw Ranma look down at her. "You're sadistic."
"And you're short." Ranma chuckled and helped her up. "But, we should head back, it's almost time for everyone to be up and eating anyway." Nove, when she got up, noticed that Cinque was taking off her skates while talking to Tre and...
"Wendi?" Oh gods, had Wendi seen that debacle out there on the ice? And why was she holding two glasses with steam coming off of them?
"Hey, Nove." The taller redhead smiled and held one glass out to her. "Hot chocolate?"
Blinking a few times, Nove accepted the drink and sighed as she drank the hot liquid and it went down her throat and warmed her body up. "That's good."
Wendi giggled softly at seeing Nove slowly enjoy the hot chocolate. Try as she might, she found the sight of Nove doing something so normal to be very cute. It probably didn't help that Nove didn't frown all that much, at least in irritation, unless she was the one irritating her.
Ranma looked at Tre and blinked at her. "So, what brings you two out here so early?"
"Our beds were cold." Tre muttered and looked around. "Huh, looks like the girl that Cinque's facing down is coming out here."
"With Mikado." Ranma muttered and tapped his chin, before shrugging, it wasn't important. "Come on, let's get back to the dojo." The three nodded and started to follow him.
"You! Short girl! Azusa's sickeningly sweet voice yelled, getting Cinque to grimace and look at the annoyance in her life. "I hope you're prepared to lose Antonette to me."
"His name is Bonta-kun and he's not yours!" Cinque growled at her, causing Wendi and Nove to step away from their short silver-haired sister. Who knew she had such a temper? Nove turned and was prepared to leave the bubbly girl to Cinque's wrath when she ran smack-dab into some guy's chest. Looking up, she blinked at his short, brown hair and blue eyes as he smiled at her.
"My, my. I must admit, my partner is fairly annoying at times." Mikado said, ignoring the way Azusa was wailing about how unfair Mikado was being. "Allow me to make up for her impertinence."
Before Nove could say anything or react, Mikado had lowered his head as his lips claimed hers, causing her eyes to bug out in shock.
A moment later, Mikado raised himself up, smiling. "Ah, your lips make ooomph!" He yelped as he was blasted in the head by a pink blast, sending him flying head over heels onto the ice, where he crashed on his head and spun around a bit.
Wendi, panting as she held her smoking surf-board, glared as she looked at Mikado. "Keep your lips OFF of my girlfriend!"
Sitting up, Mikado chuckled softly. "Well, for what it's worth, she's a very good kisser." He said lightly, only to get blasted again.
"Go on! Say it again! I'll shoot you more if you don't shut the hell up!" Wendi growled, pointing her board at him as Azusa jumped on her back and tried to pull the board away from her.
Ranma, unconcerned with that, was helping Nove up. "You okay?" He asked, cursing himself for forgetting about Mikado's... Unhealthy obsession with kissing people.
Nove twitched slightly and glared at the ice. "...Am I allowed to kill him?" She still had her skates on and she was relatively certain that she could beat his ass in.
"If you want to." Ranma put a hand on Nove's shoulder when she moved towards the rink. "But then the current situation would be ended needlessly soon and would be very, very boring and we'd have nothing to do for the next two weeks."
Everyone turned to blink at him, except for Mikado, who was smoking slightly on the ice.
He shrugged. "What? It would be boring for the next two weeks."
Nove grumbled. "Fine." She turned and started hopping away as she undid her skates. Wendi and Cinque followed her, as did Tre when Ranma nodded to her.
Groaning as he slid up to the edge of the ice rink, Mikado groaned. "Oww... That hurt."
"I bet." Ranma said and looked at Mikado with a very, very cool expression. "Probably not as much as this will though."
"Huh?" Mikado blinked a couple of times.
Then the pain hit.
Tre, Wendi, Nove and Cinque stopped walking as they heard Mikado start screaming. Turning around quickly, they blinked as Ranma was walking towards them, dusting his hands off.
"What did..." Tre trailed off as she saw Mikado... Or what was left of Mikado, on the ground twitching. "...Eww..." She didn't think human parts were supposed to bend that way...
...Or that they could.
---
"It's not funny." Nove complained as Akane, Deed and Otto were all giggling next to each other. "Seriously, it's not!" Her outburst only got the three to start laughing more.
Looking at Uno, who had apparently been up and helping Kasumi around the house, Nove gave her a pleading look. "No, Nove, I am not going to discipline your sisters because they find it funny that a guy kissed you in front of your girlfriend."
Nove groaned and slumped as Otto and Deed laughed louder.
"Don't worry about it." Nabiki shook her head. "That guy, other than traumatizing girls, isn't that dangerous, just annoying."
"He didn't kiss you while your girlfriend was right there." Nove pouted and picked at her food, before blinking as she was picked up and sat down in Wendi's lap. "H...Hey!" Her face turned red as Wendi hugged her from behind.
Soun, previously forgotten by most everyone, finally looked away from his newspaper to see the spectacle in front of him. "Excuse me." He cleared his throat to get Wendi and Nove to look at him. "While it is more socially acceptable for two women to be lovers in this day and age, I'd appreciate it if you two didn't do anything overly romantic at the dinner table."
"Who are you and what did you do with my father?" Nabiki asked after a few moments of blinking.
"WAAAAHHH!! MY DAUGHTER DOESN'T RECOGNIZE HER OWN FATHER!!" Soun suddenly started crying, waterfalls of tears flowing out of his eyes.
"Muuuuch better." Nabiki nodded and went back to eating, ignoring the crying man.
"WAAHHH! Everyone's ignoring me!"
"Anyway..." Ranma spoke up, ignoring Soun as he cried some more. "Nove, Cinque, we'll head back to..."
"No you won't, boy." Genma spoke up, looking at his son seriously. "I've allowed this... Farce to go on long enough, but you need to go to school and..."
"I do?" Ranma blinked, interrupting Genma, who looked at him indignantly.
"Yes! If you don't then..."
"Tre." Ranma said, getting the purple-haired woman to nod and pull out a slip of paper and toss it to Genma. "As you can see, I was prepared for this, since Tre and I went to the school and did some placement tests during the past few days."
"When the heck did you find time?" Genma asked, blinking, he was sure that he hadn't seen Ranma doing anything other than building the extra rooms for all the girls or training Deed for that gymnastics match.
"I had to leave Deed alone for a few hours while I was training her." Ranma smirked as Deed blinked a few times. "Well, Tre and I went to the school and I did some placement testing." He shrugged and chuckled. "Turns out that I'm far too good for any school in Japan, so I've got the equivalent of a High School Diploma right now and I could easily go to any University in Japan if I felt like it, but..." He shrugged. "I'm being lazy for awhile, so, no thanks."
"Bu...Bu...Bu..."
"Is he part pig or something?" Sein asked, poking the larger man as he seemed to be in a state of shock.
Ranma chuckled and shrugged. "You know, I never did find out. Anyway, later I..." He blinked as he caught sight of Tre giving him a look from the corner of her eyes. "Actually, Nabiki..."
"Hmm?" She blinked at him a few times. "What?"
"You know how to deal with Mikado and Azusa..." When she groaned and nodded, he smirked. "You take Nove and Cinque for a bit, I got some stuff to deal with for a bit."
"Why should I? Just name one good reason why I..."
"Sinestro."
"..." Nabiki grimaced and sighed. "Fine..." She looked at Nove and Cinque. "Alright, you two, come with me to the rink, anyone else who wants to follow is welcome to." She got up and left, followed by Cinque, Wendi and Nove, the last one looked at Ranma who waved at her as she shrugged and left.
Who was she to ask what Ranma was going to do in his spare time?
Otto, Deed, and Sein blinked as they watched Uno and Tre take Ranma upstairs, well, they were going upstairs before stopping to let Dieci come downstairs, rubbing her eyes and sitting at the table. "Morning." She muttered. "Where's everyone else?"
"You overslept." Sein smiled at her sleepy sister. "As for..." She trailed off as she heard Tre start screaming loudly, causing her to blush. "Okay... I think I want to leave now..."
Akane, Soun and Genma all twitched for different reasons.
Akane because there were three perverts doing *that* in her house.
Soun because he saw his dream crashing down around him.
Genma because he really didn't like either Uno or Tre. They were far too headstrong in his opinion.
As for Kasumi?
She was in the kitchen, smiling and humming softly. Oh, she didn't mind what Ranma was doing with his girlfriends. After all, it was his business what he did with them.
---
Later Sette found herself and Dieci walking down the street, enjoying the sights of everything around them. Sette was rather liking the fact that her tie-dye shirts, bell-bottom pants that hugged her legs and curves, bandanna and yellow sunglasses got her free flowers from American tourists and the neat necklace with a peace sign on it that she was wearing now was a nice addition in her opinion.
"Why do you dress like that?" Dieci asked as the two turned the corner.
Sette shrugged. "No clue. Dad gave it to me, I like it though."
"You're a lot livelier than you used to be." Dieci said softly as she smiled at the pink-haired girl. "I'm glad."
"Me too." Sette smiled and blinked as the two came across a park where a kid ran up to them, crying. "Uh..."
"Ne...Neechan..." The little girl sobbed at Dieci and Sette, getting an uncomfortable look from the two.
"What's wrong?" Dieci asked as she knelt down to the girl.
"A meanie took all my money." The kid sniffled and nearly dragged the two to the park. A tent was set up in the park that had one side open, a table in front of a rather large man that looked...
"Is that a living King of Hearts?" Dieci asked as she looked at the man.
"Nope!" The man smiled at her. "I'm known as the Gambling King. I never lose any card games that I play."
Dieci scratched her head. "Isn't that impossible? The statistical odds of such a feat are so low that there's no possible way for a normal person to win. Especially using cards like those."
The man chuckled and shook his head. "Not at all. Just sit and watch as I win again." In front of him, a little girl was sniffling angrily as she reached for one of the cards in the Gambling King's hand.
Sette blinked as the girl pulled away a card that had an old woman on it and cried in dismay. "Say, Dieci.."
"Yeah?"
"Did he have a card that was stuck out and that girl picked it?"
The brown haired cyborg nodded as she narrowed her eyes at the rather fat guy. "He's cheating."
"Yep." Sette nodded as she saw what the guy did right there. "Hiding cards up his sleeves." They were rather thankful for their enhanced eyesight, allowing them see him moving his hands so fast.
"Wish Sein was here." Dieci muttered softly, she could get over this easily enough.
"Someone say my name?" Sein said as she popped up behind them, getting her sisters to jump out of fright. "Gambling? Isn't that illegal?" She asked the fat guy in the tent, who shrugged.
"Maybe, but no one's said I have to stop."
"Sounds good to me." Sein said, shrugging and blinking as Sette whispered into her ear. "You sure?"
Sette nodded and took over for the girl when she lost. "So..." She pulled out some money and put it on the table. "How about we play a quick game? If I win, you give everyone their stuff back."
"If I win, I get your money, huh?" The Gambling King smiled and shuffled the cards. "What game should we play? But, you see, I won a lot more than that amount of money, I don't think it would be fair if we played for that amount of money."
Sette shrugged. "I could always just rat out that you're gambling with children." Granted, she was technically a child too, but...
The Gambling King frowned and dealt out some cards. "Fine... Poker then. One hand."
Sette nodded and picked up her five cards and frowned softly. How the heck did one play Poker anyway?
Behind the Gambling King, just over his shoulder, was Sein, looking in on his hand as he had some cards of various amounts, but they were all over the place and of different suits. The blue-green haired girl blinked as he quickly, far quicker than most people, but not her, could keep up with, reached into his sleeves and pulled out some Aces, four of them, of different suits, causing him to smile brightly.
Sein frowned, that just wasn't right, she didn't know anything of Poker, but she did know when someone cheated. Grabbing his chair, she used her IS power and made it phase through the ground, causing him to fall to the ground with a crash, his cards falling out of his sleeves.
"Well, I think that means I win, right?" Sette said, smiling as she pointed to all the cards falling out of his sleeves.
"No! Just a fluke, there's no urk!" His eyes widened as he was lifted up calmly, slowly and looked into the face of Dieci as she glared at him while squeezing his neck.
"You torment children for fun, profit and a lot of other things. I bet if someone gave you enough money, you'd strap a six-year-old to a table and do horrible experiments to them, wouldn't you?"
"Well..." The Gambling King said in a strained voice. "M...Urk."
"I thought so. Now..." Dieci's eyes flashed a bit. "You will give all these children back everything that you stole from them, or I may... Get upset." Seeing his eyes widen, she nodded and put him down as he agreed to her.
The Gambling King couldn't empty his pockets fast enough and pack up.
"Oh..." Dieci spoke up as he started to leave. "If I see you in this town again..." The Gambling King's eyes widened as a large cannon popped into Dieci's hands out of nowhere. "I'll be using you as target practice. Got it?"
"Y...Yes!"
Dieci smiled pleasantly. "Good."
---
Hours later...
Kasumi blinked as Nove and Cinque nearly dragged themselves into the house. Nove looked like her hair had frostbite while Cinque's hair was horribly out of place as they dragged themselves into the house. Wendi followed them, looking horribly shell-shocked as Nabiki pushed her into the room, shaking her head. "What happened, Nabiki?"
"You'd think that they never went through a training session." Nabiki shrugged.
"Ice... Flying... Not normal." Nove muttered as some frost dropped from her hair and splattered on the ground.
"Okay, so maybe I shouldn't have used Saotome's methods of training on girls that aren't used to it and didn't ask him to be their teacher." Nabiki muttered softly. She wasn't the only one of the loopers that still got nightmares on occasion from Ranma's training.
And she had thought that Genma was bad when she first heard about it.
---
Later on, Otto was driving her bike, rather slowly by her standards, down the streets, just enjoying herself before stopping as she saw a small piglet running, full speed, from that kleptomaniac that was bothering Cinque lately.
"Charlotte! Charlotte!" Asuza yelled happily as she chased the scared pig through the crowds. "Don't go to that ugly girl, Charlotte!"
Otto twitched, badly. Compared to her twin, Deed, or any of her other sisters she wasn't the prettiest or most feminine girl around, but she didn't think she was ugly. "...Ray Storm." She said softly as she held up her hand.
The resulting explosion and the flying kleptomaniac wasn't quite as soft.
Looking at the pig, Otto was silent for a moment. "...Ryoga, right?"
"Bwee?" The pig looked surprised and blinked several times as Otto got it right in one guess.
"Thought so." Otto said and put the pig in her lap. "Lemme go find you some hot water." She revved her bike up and roared down the street, the cursed form of Ryoga trembling from the wind and worried he'd fly off at any given moment. Super tough as he was, his pig form just wasn't designed to handle the poundings he could.
"Here you go." Otto said as she put the pig down after a few minutes of driving on the street.
"Bwee?" The pig looked around, not sure what to make of this.
"Public baths, have fun." Otto drove off, leaving Ryoga, who was considerably happier, to run off across the street.
Which was sad, since he meant to turn around and run into the building behind him.
---
Two weeks later...
Nove, dressed in a red skin-tight body suit, sighed slightly as she stood on her ice skates in the entry way to the skating rink. Looking at Cinque, who was dressed in a similar looking outfit, only light blue, she shook her head. "Are you sure you wanna go through with this?"
Nodding, Cinque put a light blue eye patch over her bad eye and sighed softly. "Well, I doubt I'd win any beauty awards like this." Cinque smirked as Nove rolled her eyes. "Anyway, yes, I do want to go through with this." She twitched and growled slightly. "That... Brat!" She spat the word out with such venom that Nove looked around, wondering if maybe the walls were starting to melt. "She wants my Bonta-kun! That's mine, not hers, dammit!"
"Uh..." Nove sweat-dropped, unsure how to explain it, but just shrugged it off. It didn't matter, she was actually looking forward to facing down that asshole who kissed her.
In the stands, Ranma shook his head as he sat near the ice rink. "Well, this will be fun." He chuckled as Tre and Uno sat on either side of him, Otto and Deed sat in front of them while Sette, being as tall as she was, sat right behind them. He didn't get too many chances to actually see this match without taking part in it somehow.
"You'd think so." Uno said with a small smile on her face as she got settled in. "So, why are they fighting again?" She honestly had forgotten since she had taken a job. Dr. Tofu was an interesting medic, but he really needed to get over that phobia of that Tendo girl.
Really, what kind of doctor went to pieces so easily?
"Where's Wendi, Dieci and Sein?" Otto asked, looking around for her sisters.
"Welcome, ladies and gentleman to the ack!"
"Sorry about that folks!" A new voice spoke up over the loud speakers. "My name is Sein, and these are my sisters, Wendi and Dieci!"
"HEY!" Wendi yelled happily, getting several people to wince from the volume.
"Yo." Dieci said in a much calmer tone of voice.
"We're your announcers for the evening!" Sein was heard giggling. "So... Let's get this show... On the road!" Anyone who could see Sein would see her standing up while holding the mic, making dramatic poses before pointing at the ice.
"Coming out first from the red corner, is the champions, the Golden Pair, from Kolkhoz High, Azusa Shiratori and Mikado Sanzenin." Dieci was heard speaking up.
"BOOO!!!" The vast majority of the males in the audience were jeering Mikado as he skated onto the ice. Interestingly enough, there were a few female boos in there, not that they were easily heard over the males due to the numbers involved.
Sweat-dropping as Wendi, thankfully without her mic up at her face, joined in on the booing, Sein pointed to the other corner. "And the challengers! From the blue corner! Cinque and Nove!"
Most people didn't know how to cheer for the newcomers, it didn't stop most of the audience for yelling at them to try and beat the pants off of "Golden Pair".
In the stands, Otto blinked and looked around. "Not well liked, are they?"
"Well, when one steals everything and gives it a French-sounding name and the other one is a sexual predator in the making, you have an easy time hating them." Ranma shook his head as he looked at the ice. Idly he wondered how well Nove and Cinque would do, but it was okay, he'd support them regardless.
Back in the booth, Wendi grabbed her mic and cleared her throat. "Here are the rules."
"There are rules?" Sein asked her, blinking and looking down at her paper. "I thought that there were no rules?"
"Just that you can only fight if on skates." Dieci said as she looked at the paper in front of her. "Other than that, have fun."
"So..." Sein began, grinning.
"START!" All three yelled at the same time.
On the ice, Mikado and Azusa took off like a rocket in comparison to Nove and Cinque, who moved in seperate directions to avoid the first attack. The Golden Pair split as Mikado chased after Nove and Azusa chased after Cinque.
"I must say, you do skate quite well." Mikado said casually to Nove as he slid out of the way of one her punches. "Your fighting style on the other hand, it could use some work." He smirked and grabbed her arm. "Perhaps I could show you a few moves after we've won the match?" He smiled charmingly.
"Get bent." Nove said as she slipped from his grasp, dropped to the ice and tried to sweep his feet out from under him, only to have him jump over her sweep, grab her shoulders and start to spin in place while holding her.
"Well, I must say, it's too bad for you, your girlfriend annoyed and insulted me and the ice, I think I shall punish you for that."
Nove winced as she started to get pummeled by his attacks. She fought back as well as she could, but considering that she was spinning before the blows were rained on her body, it made it harder for her to try and fight back. Thankfully, even though each blow was fairly strong, none of them were able to really hurt her. Gimacing as Mikado kneed her in the gut, she was sent back and skidded along the ice, grabbing her stomach as she circled around. "Dammit." She muttered to herself and looked over as Cinque, hoping she was doing better.
The smaller cyborg wasn't doing so good herself as she and Azusa traded blows. It wouldn't have been so bad if the little brat hadn't tried to kick at her eye-patch and threaten to damage it. If there was one thing Cinque hated more than someone trying to take her Bonta-kun was someone trying to destroy her eye-patch. The eye-patch was simply because she liked them and they kept people from freaking out about her missing eye too much.
Gimacing, Cinque flowed backwards from one of Azusa's attacks, trying to get some breathing room. Better than I thought. She thought to herself as she met up with Nove while Mikado and Azusa skated towards them.
"It looks like the challengers are having some problems. Can they over-come this unbelievable onslaught of offense from the champions and win?" Sein's voice was heard.
"COME ON, NOVE!" Wendi was heard yelling. Not through her mic, but over the roar of the crowd, she was just that loud.
In the stands, Sette was frowning softly. "Those two are better than this..."
Ranma shrugged, though he agreed with Sette on the matter. "They're not used to fighting on ice, and even with myself and Nabiki training them, they've still only had a couple of weeks to get ready." Granted, it only took him a couple of days to be somewhat prepared to fight on the ice, it still wasn't easy for him.
Then again, not everyone had the same learning curve he did.
Back on the ice, Nove and Cinque met up and were skating next to each other. "Nove." Cinque looked at her younger sister. "If we don't do something, we're not going to win this."
The redhead nodded before smirking. "Remember what we were told? Their best move?"
Cinque winked a few times. "The couple cleaver? You want to go through that?" Her sister must have been insane to do it.
Nove nodded as she chuckled and grinned. "Yeah... Ready?"
"This is suicide, alright," Cinque sighed and grabbed Nove's outstretched hands, "here we go."
"What's this?" Sein spoke up over the loudspeakers. "It looks like the challengers have a plan, or at least it seems like it. Nove has Cinque's hands and is spinning... Like a top..."
"Not quite that fast." Dieci said and looked at Mikado and Azusa. "It seems like the champions have their own plan to counter this, Mikado has Azusa's legs and is lifting her up... Azusa caught Cinque's legs, now they have the challengers set up!"
On the ice, Mikado smirked and suddenly started spinning around and around, faster and faster as he held Azusa, who held Cinque, who was holding Nove, the three females in the air spinning around faster and faster.
Tre winced as she watched that. "Okay, now that would make me sick."
"Think they have a plan?" Otto asked Deed, who shrugged, she was as clueless as her twin.
"NOW!" Cinque and Nove yelled as the same time as they let go, causing Nove to fly up into the air. Almost as if it was on cue, Mikado let go of Azusa as the kleptomaniac let go of Cinque, sending her crashing into the wall that surrounded the ice rink, getting it to collapse slightly and cover her in debris.
As she flipped up into the air, Nove glared down at the guy who kissed her weeks ago. She didn't mind kissing, but only if it was someone she liked, and boy, she did NOT like this jack-ass. Summoning up her Break Liner, just enough to cover her hands, she put her hands behind her, forming an invisible wall, before she pushed off, her feet first. "Super..." She started calling out, concentrating her magic around her blades. "Nove..." She formed another Break Liner under her hands and gave herself another push down. "KIIIIICK!" She screamed as she rushed forward, like a rocket.
Smirking, Mikado ran a hand through his hair. "Oh really? Spinning Diamond Pirouette Counter!" He called out, doing a quick spin in place before kicking straight up at Nove as she came down, their blades crossing and creaking.
Nove glared down as she seemed to be held in place in mid-air while Mikado smirked up at her. That is, until Nove gave a small grin and twisted her leg, getting a surprised look from Mikado as the blades cracked and Nove seemed to fall straight off of the blades, bouncing on the ice before sliding to her knees, her right skate blade, the one she used to kick at Mikado, was cracked and chipped.
Mikado chuckled at her. "Is that all?"
"Check your blades." Nove smirked at him, causing Mikado to look up as his blade cracked, chipped, before shattering on his skate, causing him to lose his balance and fall to the ice.
Growling, Mikado got up and glared at Nove. "No one... And I mean NO ONE, makes a fool out of me on the ice!" He cried out angrily and pushed towards Nove, riding on his one good blade.
"Woah! It looks like the champion has snapped!" Wendi called out through over the loud speakers. "He's barely moving towards his opponent, who's just standing there, what is going through the challenger's mind?"
Nove winced slightly, her skate was shot, however, it was still together, unlike his. Smirking as she ducked under a punch, Nove grabbed Mikado from behind and wrapped her arms around his mid-section, her hands crossed and grabbing each of her wrists. "Well, as Subaru always says... With a single blow..." She then lifted Mikado up, getting a surprised yell from him and a shocked look on his face as gravity left him. "DESTROY!" Nove screamed as she bent over backwards and SLAMMED the back of Mikado's head into the ice, knocking him out in an instant.
"WOAH! Nove did a German Suplex on ice! That was spectacular!" Sein yelled as people in the stands cheered for what just happened.
"Is that even possible?" Dieci asked, looking as Sein and Wendi, both of whom shrugged at that.
On the ice, Nove's damaged skate decided that it had enough abuse and shattered, causing Nove to slip and crash onto her back on the ice, since she hadn't let go of Mikado, she was still in the suplex position. "Oww..." Nove groaned slightly. "That hurt."
"Mikado." Azusa gasped as she saw how her partner was beaten. "Grr..." She glared at Cinque, who was getting out of the light rubble at that moment. "You... Your fault!" She screamed, jumping in the air and lashing out with a kick at Cinque's head.
Calmly, Cinque reached up and blocked the attack with one hand, causing Azusa's eyes to widen in fright before Cinque tapped her blade and threw her back a couple of feet.
Flipping in the air to land on her feet, Azusa pouted and skated forward again, intent on finishing this in the next blow.
It never came.
The instant that Azusa landed on the ice, Cinque calmly snapped her finger, whispered something and Azusa's skating blades exploded, causing her to squack indignantly as she tumbled across the ice.
"Looks like I win." Cinque said as Azusa crashed into the wall, head first, knocking herself out.
"And the winners are the challengers! Nove and Cinque!" Sein and Wendi said at the same time as people in the stands cheered loudly.
While he wasn't cheering loudly, Ranma still had a smile on his face as he looked at the two standing proudly after their victory. "That was cool."
Uno chuckled softly. "Never would have thought to use Break Liner like that myself." She smiled and looked at Ranma. "Thanks for making sure that I didn't miss this."
Tre narrowed her eyes at Cinque and Nove. "...Mind if I spar with them later?"
"Wow! I gotta learn how to do that kick!" Sette was practically bouncing in her seat as her eyes sparkled under her yellow-tinted sunglasses.
Otto tapped her chin and looked back at Sette. "But you don't use a lot of kicks in your style, even though your legs are built for it."
Deed smirked slightly. "Hey, dad, think we'll have more challenges like this in the future?"
Listening to them all, Ranma could only chuckle at hearing all of this. "Well, Deed, to answer your question, this is Nerima, martial-arts weirdness capital of Tokyo, Japan. There will be plenty of weird things to have fun with later on."
---
Later in the changing rooms, Nove sighed as she finally got out of that chilly one-piece and started to put on regular clothes. "I'm glad that's over." Looking at Cinque, Nove was still slightly put off by just how smug her shorter sister was at that moment, but Nove guessed that if anyone had a right to be smug, it was Cinque.
"NOVE!" An upbeat voice nearly made her jump out of her skin as she was hugged from behind tightly. "You did wonderful out there!"
"Wendi!" Nove gasped as she was swung around. "I'm not dressed!"
Blinking, Wendi conceded that part and put Nove down. "Sorry, but I got so excited watching you beat the crap out of that jerk that I couldn't wait."
"Trust me, she almost jumped out onto the ice." Dieci rolled her eyes as she stood at the doorway, before stepping to the side, allowing Ranma in.
"HEY!" Nove yelped as he walked in. "Can't I get some privacy?" She was only in her bra and panties after all.
"You ain't got anything I ain't ever seen before, Nove." Ranma smiled at her, but looked away out of courtesy as she scrambled and got on a black pair of pants and a red shirt. "Anyway, you two did great out there."
"Thank you." Cinque smiled as she adjusted her coat.
"Yeah, well..." Nove blinked as things began to shake before the wall behind the lockers suddenly exploded inwards. "What the hell?!" She yelped as she grabbed Cinque out of the way of debris and fell onto her back.
"Ranma... Shampoo kill!" A purple-haired, red-eyed girl in a short dress holding a metal beach ball on a stick in each hand glared at Nove. "Short hair no trick Amazon." She lunged for Nove, her arms above her head, intent on smashing Nove's head with the bonbourii in her hands, Nove's amber eyes were wide as the maces descended down in painfully slow motion.
They never reached as the purple-haired girl found herself without her weapons, sending her off-balance and tumbling across the room to slam into the wall.
Blinking, Nove looked at Ranma, who was tossing the weapons out the hole in the wall where the girl came from. "Run." He whispered to her, jerking his head to the hole as Nove nodded, got up and ran, Wendi, Dieci and Cinque following her.
"Who you?" Shampoo looked at Ranma with narrowed eyes. "You helping enemy of Amazons, you die." She lunged forward with the intent of taking his head off in one blow. After all, no mere male could withstand an Amazon's power and fury. No one in the world could.
That didn't explain why she found herself flat on the ground, gasping for air as an insanely over-powered force pushed her into the ground, sucking out the very air she was breathing.
"Head home, little girl before I actually get angry." Ranma said very, very calmly. "If you wanted to fight with Nove, that's fine, but you don't ever try to kill her or her sisters when I'm around."
Shampoo shivered, she could have sworn that the male was tapping into some sort of version of the Soul of Ice that her great grandmother spoke of but hadn't shown her yet. "Ama...Amazon not... Not stop until enemy is dead." She looked up and tried to force herself up as she looked at Ranma's retreating back. "Sh...Shampoo kill..."
Ranma stopped walking at the hole and turned to her, his eyes narrowed at her as the force on her body seemed to triple in an instant. "Last warning. Head home. You want to come back, make sure you bring Cologne. If I see you trying to kill one of those girls without Cologne around, I'll make sure that you can never live as an Amazon again." With that, he was gone.
No one threatened Ranma's girls. Especially since most of them thought of him as a father.
---
When the small group was walking to the Tendo home, Nove turned and looked at Ranma with narrowed eyes. "What was that all about?! Why did she get me confused with you?"
"Yes, I'm rather interested myself." Uno said as she walked alongside Ranma. "Maybe the rest of our sisters should be worried that they'll be confused for you?"
Ranma shook his head and sighed softly. "Well, you know how I loop in this universe, right?" The others nodded as he stretched slightly. "Anyway, my loops start right around the time I arrive in Nerima. However, I still have past history from before that likes to follow me around. Case in point, that Amazon."
Wendi twitched heavily. "Can I shoot her?"
Ranma smiled at that and shook his head. "Not right now. If she shows up later on her own, feel free to, but..."
"You still haven't explained it!" Nove all but exploded at him. "Come on! What's going on with her?!"
Ranma sighed. "Well, a few months, this world's time, ago I was in China and I met her as she won her village's yearly martial arts tournament."
"Jilted lover?" Uno asked, but blinked as Ranma laughed.
"Hell no. Well, anyway, I was, still am, to be honest, under a curse." When the others stopped, he blinked. "What?"
"Curse?" Cinque and Dieci asked as the same time as Ranma nodded.
"Oh yes. Fell into some springs in China where I would take the form of whatever drowned in that pool last with a splash of cold water and warm water turns me back to my original form."
"So..." Nove trailed off as Ranma smiled softly.
"Spring of the drowned girl. Turned me into a short, redheaded female version of myself."
"Short... Redheaded... Girl..?" Nove twitched with each word that she muttered out. "...How does..." She trailed off as Ranma's form seemed to shimer, shrink and change, his hair turning red, his body losing mass and gaining curves as he turned into a she.
"...Nove has a twin?" Wendi asked, goggling as she looked at the now female Ranma.
"Other than the hair length, they do look alike." Uno said as she recovered from the shock. "Wait, can you two.."
Ranma chuckled and moved right next to Nove.
"Oh my god! Nove does have a twin!" Wendi squealed and hugged both of them. "They look the same!"
"ACK!" Nove gasped and flailed her arms up and down. "Wendi, let go!"
Dieci cleared her throat as Wendi did just that. "Might I ask how this applies to Nove though?"
Ranma shook her head and with a shimmer, she was a he again. "Okay, well, as a girl, myself and Genma went into the village and ate food at the grand prize table." Seeing the deadpan looks on their faces, he shrugged. "Yeah, not my best moment. Well, the champion, Shampoo got pissed about it. I thought "hey, martial arts tournament, I'll just beat her and prove that I was better, so I'll be the champion"," Ranma sighed heavily.
"No wonder she followed you all over the place." Nove grumbled. "Okay, so she thinks that I'm you just with cut hair and I ate her prize food."
"If it was that simple, she wouldn't have bothered coming from nearly Tibet all the way to Japan." Ranma shook his head. "Turns out that her people have laws concerning outsiders and combat. If an outsider female should defeat a female Amazon warrior, the defeated warrior shall kiss the one who beat her on the cheek and chase her down to the ends of the Earth to kill her."
Wendi twitched as Ranma raised an eyebrow at her. "...What about if a man beats a woman?"
"Kiss on the lips and then marry them. The two kisses are called the Kiss of Death and Marriage respectively." Ranma shook his head. "Amazons are very bull-headed and determined. When they say "ends of the earth", they will literally chase you anywhere in the world."
"So I gotta worry about her trying to kill me in my sleep?!" Nove exclaimed, suddenly nervous. Granted, she could go several days without sleep, but it never helped her when she went that far if she had to.
"Nah, I'll deal with it." Ranma waved her concerns off. "Some Amazons are more reasonable than others, so, don't worry about it." He walked off, before stopping, turning and smiling at them. "Come on, let's go out for dinner, just the six of us."
Nove didn't know why, but for some reason, she felt a lot better because of that. "Sure."
---
As she watched the group eat, Shampoo narrowed her eyes. By law, she was supposed to give the male that had beaten her the kiss of marriage. However, as full of Amazon pride as she was and how stubborn she was, she still was able to recognize that she was fully out-classed by the person sitting in that restaurant eating with her target.
It annoyed her, if she was honest, because she was an Amazon, a true warrior, a hunter, someone who never stopped at what she was doing.
And it meant nothing to that jerk, as good-looking as he was, who could stop her with just a glance and that weird ability. She had never heard of or felt anything like that before. Hell, she had felt the elders get snappy at various outsiders before, and even at their strongest, at least from what she had seen, none of them had done anything like that before.
Another thing that bothered her was that he knew of her great-grandmother. Not only did he know of her, he called her by name. Not many could do something like that, even fewer would do so without an ounce of fear.
The only question she had was...
What should she do now?
The simple answer was, of course, to head back to China and explain things and hopefully, hopefully not get into too much trouble.
Oh, who am I kidding? I go back and those old crones are going to punish me somehow. Shampoo sighed and got up from her spot as the group in the restaurant got up and paid for their meal.
Dying in battle was one thing, but getting slaughtered by someone who far outclassed you without back-up was just stupid.
(---)
Nove looked at Ranma, who was chuckling softly, in confusion. "What is it?" She blinked as he smirked at her.
"Seems like that Amazon doesn't know what to do right now. She was watching us eat dinner."
"She was?" Wendi frowned and really, really wished that she was better at long range sniping. Maybe she'd ask Dieci to help her out in the near future to deal with stuff like that.
"Nah, I don't know for sure," Ranma laughed as he heard Wendi and Nove face-fault into the pavement while walking next to Uno, "but I know how Amazons think, even if she wasn't going to attack us, she was going to do some recon work to find out what she could before making a decision." Over the time he had spent looping, his power and ability had grown to a point that it was actually harder to sense people who basically "blended into" the background like Amazons tried to do. He wasn't the only one, so many of the loopers didn't have any ability to sense weak people like the non-loopers.
Nove rubbed her forehead. "Fine, fine..." She sighed as she walked with Ranma, Uno and Wendi silently for awhile. "Hey... Ranma?"
"Hmm?" He looked at her, there was a look of concern and worry on her face. "What is it?"
"You've been looping for a long time, right?" He nodded at that, wondering what she was going for here. "I just started looping but... What was it like? At first before you started meeting others?"
"Before everything got weird?" He sighed. "Lonely, actually. I was the only one in this universe that was looping. At first I thought, 'hey, I can settle all the problems that have occurred, I can make things right' and tried to but..."
"They never ended, huh?" Uno asked him, frowning slightly as he shook his head slowly.
"Never. That was... Well, several millennium ago, at least." He sighed while shaking his head. "I lost count after the first... Couple thousand loops in this universe, never mind all the other weird loops. Why do you ask?"
"Do... Do you think that we'll end up getting like you and the others?"
"Like me? How?"
"Unhinged and weird for starters." Nove blinked as he laughed at that. "What?"
"Most likely, most likely." Ranma shook his head, chuckling. "The fact is, Nove, you either have to become a little unhinged, or you'll go insane, and it's never fun."
After hearing that, Nove was rather quiet the rest of the way to the dojo.
(---)
Tre looked up as the group came into the house and frowned, though it wasn't out of anger, but rather worry, considering she saw Nove and Wendi both silent and contemplative. Such a thing... "What happened?" She looked at Ranma, who waved it off.
"Just food for thought." Ranma smiled at her and looked around. "Where's the others?"
"Otto went for a bike ride and Sette went with her, Deed got a visit from that girl that she beat in the match."
"Kodachi?" Ranma interrupted Tre and frowned softly. "What did she want?" Nothing good could ever come from...
Tre shrugged and jerked her thumb at the dojo. "They went there about an hour ago and I haven't... Ranma?" She trailed off, blinking as Ranma took off for the dojo, well, he didn't run, but he moved at a brisk pace that was, frankly, worrying. The five looked at each other for a moment before they followed Ranma, stopping only when he opened the door to the dojo and stared stupidly in.
Cinque, Nove, Wendi, Uno and Tre blinked as they looked in. On the floor was Kodachi and Deed, both sitting with various instruments around themselves and chatting peacefully.
Such a thing was so unheard of in Nerima that Ranma could have sworn he felt the world try and split open, just to correct the "wrongness" of having something peaceful happen at the Tendo Dojo.
Deed blinked and smiled at her sisters and 'father'. "Hi dad. Kodachi was just helping me with my technique and we've been talking about how to best use this stuff to deal with people outside of matches."
"I...See..." Ranma blinked, his mouth slightly agape. "Um... Good job, keep it up and don't destroy anything."
The next moment was rather unsettling in its own right as both Deed and Kodachi started laughing... Very similarly.
It was more than enough to get Tre, Cinque, Uno, Nove and Wendi to scramble away from the door while all Ranma did was twitch slightly. After dealing with the ten Naga clones all laughing at the same time, this was nothing. It was still troublesome though. "Uh... Right... Good job." He twitched slightly and walked away.
In the living room, Wendi trembled and looked at her sisters. "Deed's lost it! How can she just laugh like that?!" She got no answers from Uno, who had a shocked expression on her face, nor anything from Nove, who was rubbing her ears, or Tre or Cinque, both of whom had hair sticking out at odd angles due to the shock of Deed, dear lords DEED, laughing like that.
Walking into the room, Ranma shrugged and shook his head. "Not sure, but she's having fun, so... Don't stop her when she's not hurting anyone." The others could only nod.
It was safer that way.
Clearing her throat, Tre, having finally recovered, looked at the small group and frowned softly. "Why'd it take you so long to get back from the rink?"
"Had a crazy lady attack Nove and then Ranma took us to dinner to explain." Cinque muttered and twitched slightly, the sheer thought of Deed laughing like that still gave her shivers. She needed to have a talk with Deed and ask her to never do anything like that again.
"Oh." Tre said, slightly upset at that. She would have liked to have gone as well.
Nove blinked as she could feel the tension rising. "Excuse me." She mumbled and quickly left the room, Wendi and Cinque following her.
None of them wanted to be in the room at that time. Passing Akane, who was just coming out of Nabiki's room, Cinque warned her that it might have been a good idea to not be downstairs at that moment.
Ranma sighed and walked over to Tre and pulled her to the couch, sitting down and pulling the tall, purple-haired woman into his lap and held her gently. It took Tre a few moments before she finally relaxed and held herself against him. It didn't hurt when Uno slipped up behind her and put a hand on her shoulder to give quiet support.
It felt nice, very nice, to just sit there, relaxing against Ranma with Uno there. She liked this feeling. For some reason, she had the feeling that she wouldn't be feeling this if it wasn't for this particular loop.
She just wished that this moment would last.
Unseen to the three Genma and Soun both frowned at the display, though for different reasons. Soun, because he couldn't see convincing any of his three daughters to marry Genma's son if things kept going like this.
The reason Genma was frowning?
He honestly missed holding his wife like that. But with the curse...
"What are you doing?" A voice spoke up behind them, getting them to jump in shock and spin, blinking as Sein was leaning through the wall, not damaging it.
"Gah, girl!" Genma hissed and herded her and Soun away from the living room, causing the blue-green-haired girl to blink a few times. "What are you doing?"
Sein shrugged at the larger man. "Nothing much, just saw you two and wondered why you were spying on Uno-nee and Tre-nee."
"That boy's cheating on my daughters!" Soun exploded at her, getting a weird look from Sein as he continued to rant. "He's supposed to marry my daughters but he's sleeping with those women!"
Sein shrugged at that. "Well, Uno-nee and Tre-nee are special cases, that's all."
"Girl, I need to ask you something... How is it that you can fit through walls like that?" Genma was curious and he needed to clarify this with someone.
Sein shrugged and smirked. "Just my IS, Deep Diver, it lets me go through any solid matter I want."
"IS?" Genma blinked at her. "What's that?"
"Just Inherited Skills. All Combat Cyborgs have them." Sein wondered why Genma was asking this, it was common knowledge. At least among her sisters.
Sein honestly didn't even think that other people didn't know what an IS or a Combat Cyborg was. It wasn't her fault that she had only really existed around people who knew what those were.
"Combat Cyborgs?" Genma frowned softly, this was interesting. "Tell me, girl, are those two out there Combat Cyborgs as well?"
"Well, yeah." Sein nodded. "Uno-nee and Tre-nee were two of the first ones that were made."
"I see..." Genma trailed off at that.
Things were definitely going to get interesting now.
---
While things at the Tendo Dojo were happening, Otto and Sette were enjoying the feel of wind through their hair as they drove through the Nerima prefecture. There wasn't much going on, but it was a nice feeling. "I wonder something, Otto."
"Hmm?" The shorter and boyish girl asked as Sette held her tightly as they took a sharp turn. "About what?"
"What do you think about what dad told us?"
"About our futures if dad hadn't looped into our world?" Otto blinked a few times as she pulled the bike to a stop at a local park before taking off her helmet and shaking her head. "I'm not sure. Sounds really..."
"Sucky, huh?" Sette pulled out her sunglasses and looked around the park, before smiling. She was going to enjoy the park today. "Me, Tre-nee and Uno-nee stuck in prison, with you, Deed and Sein-nee working for the church and the rest of our sisters adopted and living with Subaru and Ginga?" She grimaced at that. That really did sound bad.
"Yeah..." Otto nodded as she sighed after locking up her bike to make sure that no one would steal it. "So, what do you want to do next?"
"I'm not sure." Sette admitted as the two walked through the park, just admiring everything. "All this looping and dad still helps us out..." She trailed off as she thought about it.
Otto looked up at her. "What are you thinking?"
"We should get dad a gift." Sette nodded as she smiled softly. After all, Ranma didn't have to do any of what he was doing, so this was, incredibly nice.
(---)
Tatewaki Kuno was enjoying his day, the birds were chirping, well, those that were out at this hour of the day, since the sun was starting to hang low in the sky, and the park was devoid of most commoners at this time except for... "Goddess!" He gasped, seeing his pink-haired goddess in the park. This was his chance, he would finally get to know who she was as he jumped over the hedge that separated the park from the sidewalk before running to the pink haired goddess.
He was less than four feet from her when a green beam suddenly collided with his chest and sent him flying up and out of the park. "The path of the righteous is slow but sure!" Kuno cried out as he disappeared into the distance.
Blinking as she saw a green flash out of the corner of her eye, Sette turned and looked at Otto. "I think you blasted someone."
"Huh?" Otto blinked a few times and looked at her hand, which was smoking lightly. "...Weird."
"Yeah... So, what do you think dad would like as a gift?" Sette asked as the two changed the subject and planned what they were going to do next.
---
Back at the dojo Tre was sleeping, or at least it seemed like it, as she rested her head on Ranma's lap, the rest of her body was across Uno's lap as the three sat on the couch.
"Say, Ranma..."
"Hmm?" He glanced at her, raising an eyebrow. "What is it, Uno?"
"I was wondering, with all the looping that you've been doing in your life, have you ever tried to get out of the loops?"
"Many times." Ranma rolled his eyes as he ran a hand through Tre's short hair, getting a sigh from the sleeping woman. "Why?"
She smiled at him softly, both because he was making things so good for her and her sisters, and because of how he was treating Tre at that moment. "Is there any attempt that you tried that you regretted?"
"Regretted? No. Been looping so long that there's hardly anything I regret anymore." Ranma shook his head at her.
"Well, any attempts that you honestly wish you hadn't tried?"
"Well, no, but there was one that I really screwed up..." Ranma trailed off, sweat-dropping as he thought about it. What the hell had he been thinking?
Flashback...
"You sure this will work?" Professor Saotome, an older man in a lab coat with unkempt gray hair and a gray chin beard, asked Ranma, who shrugged helplessly.
"At this point, no. But considering that the energies in question can make something happen as long as there's even the smallest chance, we don't have much to lose, do we?"
Scratching his head, the scientist shrugged. "Alright then." He tossed a green stone at Ranma. "Give that to Kamina then."
"Right." Ranma nodded and walked up to Kamina, who was just standing against a wall. "So... You know what to do, right?"
"Turn my Spiral Power to max when I grab that G-Stone and the professor will bombard me with Getter Rays..." Kamina smirked at him. "What's the worst that could happen?"
Both the Professor and Ranma shrugged as Ranma tossed Kamina the G-Stone and the professor hit the switch to bombard Kamina with Getter Rays.
Moments later Ranma blinked as he was on the train to Hogwarts, before he groaned. "Well, that's what it's like when someone divides by Zero, huh?"
End Flashback...
"Suffice to say, we never tried that again." Ranma said with a slight shrug as Uno sweat-dropped heavily. "Live and learn, and in the process destroy a few universes while you're at it."
Uno made a mental note to never try anything that crazy in the future.
End Notes: Yes, Deed acquired the skill "Noblewoman's Laugh" from Kodachi. If any of you saw the Slayers OVA where Naga was proving she could out-laugh ten of her clones, then, yes, it's just like that. Only worse, since it's Deed, as any Nanoha fan knows is very quiet compared to the likes of Nove or Wendi.
No, I've never seen any version of Getter Robo, but I do know that Getter Rays work like Spiral Power from Gurren Lagann, and the G-Stone from GaoGaiGar is effectively a safe version of both of them, but has the same powerup properties.
Oh yeah, nearly forgot... I had Nove do a shout-out to Gunbuster with "Super Nove Kick" when fighting against Mikado.