Time Loop

by Nanya

Based on the "Time Loops" by Innortal. First they tormented Midchilda with pranks, and now they followed Ranma to Nerima. Now it's time for the Numbers to learn how to have fun and live. It's too bad that they looped to Nerima.

5. Beach Numbers

Time Loops

Numbers in Nerima 4

Beach Numbers

Disclaimer: If I owned any of this, I'd be impressed with my non-existent drawing talent.

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Looking out at the beach, Cinque, dressed in a light blue one-piece, couldn't help but smile softly as she sat up from the lounging chair. They had just arrived at the beach a few hours ago and Ranma had declared that they should have some fun while he and Wendi got a surf board. Wendi had argued that since she had one, why would she need another?

It had been amusing to see Ranma grab her board, stuff it up a sleeve and go "what board?". Considering that he had been wearing a tank top at the time made it all the more amusing.

"Cinque-nee!" One thing didn't change though, Cinque realized amusingly, was Sein being loud and fun-loving. Oh well... Turning, Cinque raised an eyebrow as she saw Sein in a blue-green bikini, Deed in a black and orange one-piece behind her and getting a lot of attention and...

"Otto?" She couldn't believe it. Otto was wearing black male swim-trunks and a white t-shirt. "What the heck?"

The boyish girl rubbed the back of her head nervously. "Um... I just kinda figured since I don't really have any sort of breasts that I could go without looking like a girl."

Cinque shook her head and laughed softly. "You do know what happens when you wear a white shirt, right?" It could be amusing to see if Otto got embarrassed by it.

Her sister could only shrug at that. "Like I said, it's not like I have much of a chest, even if my shirt gets soaked it's not like anyone's going to be able to tell unless they grope me."

Wincing slightly, Cinque got up and walked over to Otto and patted her on the shoulder. "Hey, it's okay, let's just have fun."

"Ohohohohohoho!" Cinque suddenly froze as she felt Deed pick her up. "Indeed! We should have a LOT of fun! BANZAI!"

Watching Deed basically kidnap Cinque and rush to the water, Otto on their heels, before they jumped in, Sette looked at Tre in confusion. "Is that normal?"

"I'm beginning to think that this world just makes everyone in it act completely crazy." Tre smirked softly as she stood there in a dark blue bikini. She didn't truly like the design, as it didn't completely cover her rear-end, but she had to admit, the way that people would look at her was rather satisfying for some odd reason.

Sette nodded, she had a blue headband on her forehead and a blue-green bikini on her body, before she bent down and picked up the volleyball that was by her feet. "So... Know how to play this game?" She asked as she and Tre went over to the set-up net on the beach where Nove and Dieci were waiting for them.

"Not a clue."

"I saw some people playing earlier." Dieci, dressed in a black, backless one-piece, spoke up as they got closer. "We're supposed to keep the ball bouncing in the air, not let it touch the ground and try to get it to hit the ground on the other side of the net."

Nove, in a red bikini top and short-shorts, nodded, then frowned. "HEY!" She pointed at Tre and Sette, both of whom blinked at her. "You two can fly, this won't be fair!"

"Um, we'll stay on the ground?" Tre muttered, blinking as Sein came out of nowhere and stole the ball from Sette before running through the net, literally. "Well, that's one good thing, but now it's three on two..."

"And you two are the strongest, what's the big deal?" Dieci said with a wink and smirk at them.

Tre narrowed her eyes at her sisters. "It's on."

Sein could only giggle and grin, it was nice seeing everyone getting along.

(---)

"Why do we put up with them?" The question came out of the blue and Nabiki, laying on her front, turned her head away from the volleyball game and looked at her sister, who was dressed in a one-piece bathing suit, her arms were crossed over her chest and she looked a bit upset.

"You mean besides the fact that they're rather amusing?" Nabiki raised an eyebrow and turned away from Akane. "Mostly because none of them have anywhere else to go and Ranma did build them all separate rooms for their own purposes."

"Bunch of perverted..." Akane grumbled and sighed as she sat down on an open lawn chair. "Why aren't you..."

"Taking advantage of this?" Nabiki asked, shrugging. "I'd rather not get Ranma mad at me. He's rather fond of those girls."

"I'm rather fond of him myself." Uno said as she, in a fairly modest swimsuit, said while reading a book and looking through her sunglasses. "I'm honestly surprised that Tofu did let me have today off though."

Nabiki smirked softly, oh, she knew the reason, it was rather obvious that Tofu liked the help, since he often times never had much of any, other than a panda and a sometimes cat, assistance, so it was most likely appreciated. Plus there was the whole fact that she was actually competent. Well, at least more than a Chinese girl who could barely speak Japanese and a panda who couldn't speak over the phone.

Akane looked at Uno and frowned lightly. It was true that the woman was less... Grating than some of her sisters, but something about her just felt off. She just couldn't put her finger on it. "So, where's your boyfriend?" Akane asked Uno, who actually blushed somewhat.

"I'd like to think of him like that, but he's not my boyfriend." The taller woman chuckled nervously.

Nabiki snapped her head at Akane, her eyes wide. "You did not just ask if someone was Ranma's girlfriend, did you?" There was a nervous bead of sweat going down her face at that moment. The last thing they needed was a bunch of hammers to slam down on their heads because she pissed off Skuld.

Akane and Uno could only blink at her in confusion.

Meanwhile out in the water, Ranma, dressed in blue swim trunks and hit white tank top, sat on his board as he and Wendi, dressed in a red skin-tight body suit, paddled out fairly far into the water. "So... What do you know about how you're supposed to fight?"

Wendi scratched her head and grinned lightly. "Well, from what I was told, you're supposed to surf a giant wave while getting close to your opponent, knocking them off their board and keeping them from getting back on by the time you get to the shore."

Ranma chuckled, he had never had to go through this, so it was new to him, even. It was rather fun! "Interesting... Any rules?"

Wendi shrugged. "Just have to be on your board by the time you get to the shore. If you don't, then you both have to go back out and do it again, and again, and again..."

"I get it." Ranma laughed at her lightly. "So, what do you know about this guy?"

"Not much, he's big though and he's apparently the best at this." Wendi gulped at the smirk on Ranma's face.

"Well then, how about we start practicing, hmm?" Though to be honest, Ranma had no real idea how he was supposed to help Wendi with this, oh well, it could be fun.

(---)

"Got it!" Tre yelled as she jumped up and spiked the volleyball down, past her shorter sisters incredibly fast and missing the boundaries completely.

"Too much." Sette said casually, causing Tre to groan.

"I know, I know." She sighed as Nove ran off to get the ball. Tre, though, frowned as she saw Nove come across the ball... or rather, the two people next to the ball.

Sette could only blink as she saw a purple haired girl and a small... thing with a fairly tall staff next to her go up to Nove. "Who are they?" She asked as she moved a strand of long pink hair out of the way of her eyes.

"Trouble." Tre muttered and started moving in that direction. She really didn't like the thought of dealing with them right now.

Watching this unfold, Sein, Sette and Dieci looked at each other, shrugged and followed Tre.

"What do you want?" Nove frowned at Shampoo and looked at her hands, they didn't have anything in them, but for some reason Nove wasn't convinced that she wasn't dangerous.

"You, I challenge!" She yelled and pointed at Nove, who could only blink in confusion.

"Huh?"

"I think she's challenging you..." Sein spoke up helpfully.

"I kind of figured..." Nove muttered. That wasn't what she wanted to know. "Why?"

Shampoo shrugged and smirked evilly at Nove. Her grandmother had said she couldn't kill or cripple her opponent, normally that made no sense, but since she had met that male that had taken it on himself to protect the no good outsider female... Well, there were always ways around what she was told.

Nove's eyes widened as she jumped back from a kick in the sand from her opponent, who had pulled out some steel balls on sticks and was smirking at her. "What the hell?"

"You I challenge, unless you is coward." Shampoo hated the fact that she could barely be understood in Japanese, but she found the language silly anyway.

"What the hell?!" Tre yelled as she narrowed her eyes at Shampoo and lunged at her, only to find that her arm was suddenly twisted, causing her body to flip onto the sandy beach.

"Now, now. It was a legitimate challenge." The older woman's voice spoke up gravelly. "I'm not sure that it would reflect well on the man that's watching over you." Cologne cracked a small smirk at the hesitation that appeared on the face of the purple haired woman. "Of course, there's nothing stopping me from joining in the fight if I wanted to..." She trailed off as she avoided a kick from Tre. "My, my. Your temper really does cause problems for you, doesn't it?"

"Only when someone's trying to hurt my family." Tre growled at the shorter woman, who just smirked openly at her.

Cologne spared a glance at Shampoo and mentally frowned. The girl she was fighting wasn't that skilled, but she was still able to avoid Shampoo's attacks fairly well, not that any of her attacks were getting through. "Hmm... Your sister doesn't seem to be doing too well. After all, things always can happen in a fight that you just can't..." Cologne jumped up and grimaced as Tre, using momentum from her punch into the ground, pushed herself straight up in to the air. The old Amazon raised an eyebrow as she looked at Tre's upside-down face. "Is that frown always stuck on your face?"

"Must you always talk?" Tre growled as she lashed out with a strong punch at Cologne's small body, who seemed to just flow around it before jumping away towards the water.

"Not always." She said as she stood on the water. "But you make it so easy." Midair combat wasn't her strong point, but Cologne could improvise when she needed to.

(---)

"What's going on?" Nabiki asked Dieci, who could only scratch her head in confusion.

"I'm not sure. Those two showed up, the purple-haired girl said something about challenging Nove and started attacking, then Tre attacked the small monkey and they started fighting."

She was going to say something when Genma and Soun came out of nowhere to start commenting on how Cologne, being a master of the martial arts could stand on the smallest of twigs in the water and stay afloat with ease. "Where the hell were you two?" She asked, before noticing the ice cream on Genma's face, the half-eaten cone in Soun's hand and, now that she took the time to really pay attention, the tray in Kasumi's hands that had a bunch of different cones in it. "Is that chocolate?" She asked, before plucking one of the cones from the tray and starting to eat.

"Should we do something?" Sette asked, torn between wanting to help Tre and wanting to stay out of it, since it seemed like something bad would happen to her "father" if she interfered.

Nabiki shrugged and held up another cone for Sette. "Vanilla?"

"Nabiki!" Akane growled, causing her sister to sigh.

"Look, Akane, unless something bad happens or one of the fighters doesn't stop, I'm not getting in there."

Akane was about to say something when someone was heard clearing their throat and glaring at the group. "Uh..."

"Hey, Ranma." Nabiki said casually. "Kasumi got us ice-cream, want some?" She could only look on slightly amused at the narrowed eyes.

"Where'd you two come from?" Genma asked as he looked at Wendi, who was looking on nervously, and Ranma, who was looking at the two fights going on at that moment.

*Flashback...*

Ranma shook his head as he sent Wendi crashing into the water again. "Oh please, the ice wasn't that bad..."

Wendi shot up from the water and wiped her hair from her eyes. "Says you."

Chuckling, he nodded at her, before narrowing his eyes. "Wendi..."

"Hmm?" She asked as she crawled back onto her board. "What?"

"Can you feel that?"

"What?" She blinked as he sighed.

"You really can't sense an increase in magic and chi?" It was barely noticeable, but there was a fluctuation that he just couldn't ignore.

"Uh..." She scratched the back of her head. "No, not really. Why?"

"Remind me to teach you how to sense and feel out various kinds of energy." Ranma muttered as he turned to shore. "For now, follow me."

Wendi nodded, wondering what he meant by that.

*End Flashback...*

"And we ended up here, so, why are Nove and Tre fighting?"

Sein looked at Wendi and shrugged. "The purple haired girl challenged Nove and Tre started fighting the little monkey."

Sighing, Ranma could only look at the fights in slight annoyance. "Fine." If they got out of hand, there would be problems, but for now...

"Dad?" Otto asked as she, Cinque and Deed walked up to them. "What's going on? Umph!" She pulled the towel that was thrown at her face off.

"I don't care if you're going to try and trick people into thinking that you're a boy, Otto, but don't wear a white shirt."

"Since when are you one for female modesty?" Nabiki asked with a roll of her eyes. "You can't even tell that Otto's a girl unless you get close enough anyway." Seeing the glare that he was giving her, she raised her hands up in a defensive measure. "I'm just saying..." It was probably different, since Otto saw Ranma as her father and Ranma really didn't have much of a clue as to how to respond to that.

Otto didn't know why, but she felt her face flushing from the banter between Ranma and Nabiki.

(---)

Tre quickly discovered that, much to her displeasure, an opponent who had to look up just to see your shins was damnably hard to hit at all. Doubly so because she had an impressive amount of speed and agility to avoid her attacks, well, most of them, at least she had managed to kick the old woman out into the water. She wondered if the old bat could swim.

She twitched slightly as Cologne seemingly landed on the water, not breaking it as she held her staff in front of her, seemingly mocking her with the smug look on her face. How the hell the old... Thing could just stand there was anyone's guess. Her senses picked up something about a true master of martial arts was able to stand on even the smallest twig as if it was solid ground from Genma, but that couldn't be true.

She was proven right a moment later when a shark raised its head out of the water and seemingly looked at her.

"Let's see how well you can float without the shark!" Tre smirked and in a blur was out in the ocean, her leg striking the head of the shark, sending it flying, as she did that, Cologne moved, her body leaping at Tre as her staff struck out at her foe's body. The tall cyborg's eyes widened and she cried out as she landed in the shallow water, grabbing at her butt, as it hurt the most, but various points on her legs and back throbbed in pain as well. Cologne landed right at the water's edge and smirked at her handiwork, before frowning as her staff broke into pieces.

Watching that, Ranma frowned, that attack really seemed to screw up Tre somehow. As he watched Tre sluggishly get up and channel, or rather, attempt to channel magic, he narrowed his eyes at that, not only was her magic sluggishly moving, but her body seemed to stiffen up and move, at least to his trained eye, extremely sluggishly.

"Tre-nee's in trouble!" Sein pointed out the obvious as it looked like her sister was starting to have real trouble.

"Full-body paralysis." Ranma commented. "It's supposed to hit several points along her body, but Tre was moving too fast for Cologne and her body's a bit tougher than a normal person's."

"Full-body paralysis?" Sette asked, frowning and materializing a boomerang on her right side. "Should we..?" She trailed off, blinking as Ranma shook his head and waved her and Cinque, who had pulled out a knife, down.

"Not right now. If it worked the way Cologne wanted it to, Tre wouldn't be moving right now." Plus he was curious as to what Tre could do if her body wasn't at full ability. Plus, he was kind of curious just why she could move with her muscles locking up like they were. 'Maybe it has something to do with her cybernetic implants?' He idly thought to himself as he watched.

"And the strike to her ass?" Nabiki asked sarcastically as she watched Tre and Cologne circle each other warily. Cologne wouldn't be so worried if her staff hadn't broken apart and Tre could probably easily win if her body and power wasn't screwed up like it was right now. Nabiki didn't have Ranma's ungodly senses for fighting, but after a few hundred loops, even she could figure things out.

"Additional humiliation if her muscles locked up completely." Ranma commented, shaking his head.

"Makes sense." The Tendo girl said as she calmly licked her ice-cream cone. Honestly, she didn't really care too much for any of the Numbers. The few times she had met them she had to fight against them. Sure, most of them turned out to be rather decent people in the end, but it was still hard for her to reconcile the mostly normal, if a bit psychotic, girls in front of her and the bunch of whacked-out psychopaths from Nanoha's universe. The interesting effects of having someone treat them all human and not make them do anything horrible, not to mention teaching them things, really did change people.

"Um, how does that "full-body paralysis" work?" Sein asked, blinking at him.

Ranma chuckled softly. "There are a lot of pressure points on the body. Hitting the right ones causes the muscles to tense and stiffen up tremendously, making it impossible to react properly. Hit enough and all your voluntary muscles lock up, making movement impossible for a few hours."

"Oh." Sein blinked a few times. "So why..."

"I'm not sure myself." Ranma muttered softly as he continued to watch.

(---)

Tre grimaced, she could feel her magic, but it was like someone had just put up a dam in her body and only a small trickle of her power was getting out.

"You should just give up." Cologne smirked at her. "You can't possibly win this fight as you are now."

Tre felt an eye twitch from that. It was weird, she could have sworn that this person was just purposely trying to piss her off. "I dunno, you don't have your walking stick anymore, maybe I should get you a wheelchair so you don't have to worry about busting a hip."

Cologne had to admit, that wasn't too bad. "Indeed my dear, but you're the one who's most likely going to break a hip at this rate." Suddenly she narrowed her eyes and frowned as she felt Shampoo's chi levels start wavering rather quickly. "Sadly, I do not think we have time for this, I'll have to finish this then."

Tre glared and shifted her stance as she could feel the old woman start to really unseal her power as the air around her started to get hazy and warped, even to her senses. Ride Impulse is out... Guess I could try that... She didn't like the thought, but she'd rather hurt herself than lose this fight.

"MACH!"

(---)

His eyes widening, Ranma shook his head. "She's not seriously going to try that, is she?"

"IMPULSE!"

"Guess so." He muttered, before disappearing, a gust of wind kicking up and scattering dust all around everyone standing there watching.

"What the?" Genma asked, looking around, where was his son?

(---)

Tre could feel her body protesting what she was going to attempt to do, though on the bright side, she managed to get more of her magic to flow through her.

A moment before she could try anything, she felt a hand gripping her wrists, a pair of hands on her shoulders and a very upset pair of eyes looking her in the face, getting her to stop what she was doing, both startled and nervous.

Across from her, Cologne had to raise an eyebrow at this, she hadn't thought that he had a technique like her Cat's Hair, though those clones were far more solid.

"Dammit, Tre!" Ranma hissed from behind her softly, getting a shiver from the cyborg, not to mention that there was a troublesome tremor of worry in his voice. "You haven't even finished perfecting that move yet. You black out when you use it normally, your body's screwed up right now, were you trying to kill yourself?"

Wincing, Tre really could hear the worry that undercut the anger in his voice. Maybe it was because of the way that he only talked this way to her when he was trying to reassure her, or maybe it was because when she stopped to think about it, she really did see that move nearly, or completely, killing herself if she had tried it at that moment.

Ranma would have said more, but a sudden burst of power and a yellow flash of light caught his, Tre's, Cologne's and the rest of the group's attention as they looked down the beach as a spiraling golden path weaved its way into the sky.

"NOVE!" Wendi, Sein and Cinque called out, the three of them reacting faster than the others as they raced off, Cologne and the rest of the group right behind them a moment later.

Other than Ranma and Tre, who stayed behind as he held her body with his clones. "We'll talk about this later, Tre." He said as his clones disappeared. "There's always a place and time to do things in a fight. Right now, let's make sure that Nove's okay."

She nodded as he let her go and the two rushed off to make sure that no one was dead.

(---)

Nove grimaced as she rolled away from a kick downwards at her legs. "Hey, watch it."

"Shampoo show outsider why is bad for mess with Amazons." Both Nove and Shampoo winced at the mangling of the language.

"That was just bad."

"Shampoo agree." The two nodded, finally agreeing about something before Shampoo lashed out with a roundhouse kick at Nove's head, causing the shorter redhead to duck and kick up, only for Shampoo to move her body in such a way that she took the blow, but it lost a lot of momentum against her, since it only grazed her body.

Nove grimaced as she got her footing back, that blow just wasn't going to cut it and she knew it, mostly because the strike just wasn't that hard.

Shampoo smirked as she saw Nove rushing at her. Her opponent wasn't bad, no match for an Amazon to be sure, but she wasn't bad. Those yellowish eyes were weird, but Shampoo wasn't concerned about that. When Nove was close enough and tried kicking at her, she twisted around the strike and smashed Nove in the side with her bounbourii, causing the redhead to cry out as she tumbled on the sand.

Grimacing, Nove clutched her side and got to her knees as she saw Shampoo rushing in. "Try this..." She muttered as she got to the balls of her feet, her hands still on the ground. "Lock on! Nove Drive..." The short redhead pushed off with her feet in a sudden burst of speed that Shampoo wasn't prepared for, kicking her in the knees with her right leg, her left leg lashed up and hit Shampoo in the jaw, making her see stars for a moment and sending her up into the air. "SMASHER!" Placing her hands on the ground, Nove pushed up into the air and got above Shampoo, who was just clearing her head as Nove straddled her chest before the redhead hooked her arms under Shampoo's knees, practically curling her into a ball, before Nove threw her head back, causing the two to flip, end over end down into the sandy beach below, where Shampoo crashed onto her back, a giant cloud of sand was kicked up, covering the both of them.

Panting as the sand came crashing down, Nove looked at Shampoo, who had her eyes closed, before she sighed and let go of Shampoo's legs and got off the girl. She winced as she felt the pain in her knees and side act up. Her knees were mostly just scuffed and skinned up, so that was a minor consequence to her, her side felt rather bruised from that metal ball smashing her side.

Had she stayed on top of Shampoo for another moment, she would have seen Shampoo's eyes snap open a moment before she got to her feet and yelled wordlessly, causing Nove to stop and turn wide eyed just in time to have both of Shampoo's weapons strike her, one in her back, the other to her head, causing her to scream in pain as she flew away from her opponent.

Shampoo panted as she watched her opponent crash onto her back and slide into a pier post. She smirked to herself. That outsider was good, but that defeat back in the village was just a fluke. Now all she had to do was get her great grandmother here to confirm that she had won and she'd have no more reason to be in this stupid land with its stupid language.

Groaning in pain, despite the blows she had just taken, Nove's eyes snapped open, her amber eyes seemed to turn a brighter shade of yellow as she got up and screamed loudly. "Airliner!" She called out, a yellow road appearing under her and heading straight for Shampoo's feet, before rushing so fast that she blurred, her roller-blades and geared armor appeared on her feet before she planted a knee in Shampoo's gut at such high speeds that the amazon went flying backwards before Nove rushed after her, rolling ahead of her and kicking straight up, hitting Shampoo in the back of the head as she tumbled end over end straight up into the air.

Shampoo could only look, through the stars as that yellow road appeared around her and her opponent sped around her, a fist clocked her in the side, a foot connected to her ass, a knee to her jaw, an elbow to the small of her back, another punch to her chest, each blow sent her higher and higher as she bounced around like a ping-pong ball in mid-air.

Nove rushed ahead of Shampoo and glared down as she mentally commanded her Airliner to make paths under the prone body of her opponent. "Super..." She growled as she raced down on her road before jumping off and kicking down, "Nove..." she was rewarded as her foot connected with Shampoo's midsection, forcing the air out of Shampoo's lungs. "KIIIICK!" She screamed as she drove Shampoo through several levels of her Airliner.

Shampoo quickly learned that despite the fact that the surface of Airliner was made of magic, any surface strong enough to support massive weight was also hard enough to hurt when you crashed through it and many, many other levels of it as she was forced through the layers of magic before crashing into the beach, hard.

This time, she didn't get up.

Nove was panting as she looked at the downed form of her opponent. Had she been thinking straight, she would have stopped right then and there. Despite how angry she could get with her sisters, especially Wendi, and how violent she could get while sparring, Nove was, at heart, a kind girl. However, that hit to the head she took caused her to partially get knocked out and had her running on instinct alone and her built-in combat cyborg subroutines had over-rode her rational mind and had her fight until either she was incapable of fighting anymore or until the opponent was dead.

As Nove got off of Shampoo, she raised a foot up to attempt to crush her opponent's head under her foot, before she got tackled from the side, causing her to crash into the sand and slide a few feet, causing her shorts to push off her hips a bit as she was straddled by someone yelling her name loudly.

Blinking a few times, her eyes cleared as she got a good look at Wendi, wild, crazy and slightly psychotic Wendi, looking down at her with a worried expression as she pinned down the shorter redhead. "Wendi?" She blinked, wondering why her butt felt like there was hot sand on it.

"You okay?" Wendi asked as it looked like Nove finally was relaxing under her.

"Yeah..." Nove nodded with a soft voice, blinking at her sister a few times. "What... Happened?" The short redhead groaned as the pain in her head registered in her skull. "Oww..." Moaning, Nove reached up to rub her head gently.

"I'm not sure what happened..." Wendi admitted as she got off of Nove and helped her up, before dusting off Nove's back and rear of the sand, the shorter redhead blushed as she felt Wendi's hands move around on places on her butt that they shouldn't be. It probably didn't help Nove that Cinque and Sein had gotten there at the same time as Wendi and were watching Wendi rub the sand off of her ass. Thankfully they refused to comment and even looked away as Nove bent down to grab her shorts, which had fallen to her ankles, her face turned red as Wendi wiped sand away that had gotten a bit "high up" between her legs. "Not now." She hissed as she finally pulled her shorts up and buttoned them up, just in time as the rest of the group, sans Ranma and Tre, who got there a few moments later, managed to get to where Shampoo was down.

"Is she dead?" Otto asked and tapped Shampoo's body with a toe.

"She's breathing at least." Sette commented, before leaving the girl and walking over to Nove and looked her over. "...You have sand in your..." She looked Nove over a bit more. "Everywhere."

Nove grimaced and squirmed slightly. "Got more on me when Wendi tackled me." She could STILL feel the sand between her butt-cheeks.

Nodding, the tall cyborg walked up to Nove, grabbed her by her shorts, giving the girl a wedgie, before tossing her into the water, getting a sweat-drop from Wendi as Nove screamed in the air before she splashed into the water. "Wash off then."

"What brought that on, Sette?" Wendi asked, wishing she had thought about that when Nove's shorts had been around her knees.

The tall pinkette shrugged, she honestly had no idea. "It's funny?"

Nove glared at Sette as she spat out salt water. "Sette..." She growled softly.

"You sure did make a mess, girl." Cologne said as she looked over Shampoo's prone body, shaking her head, before she looked at Nove, raising an eyebrow. "Not bad, I have to admit." She chuckled and pressed a few pressure points on Shampoo's body, dulling the pain.

"Will she leave me alone from now on?" Nove asked, eliciting a laugh from the old woman in response.

"Oh please." Cologne rolled her eyes at that. "You think the fact that she got the beating of a lifetime will stop an Amazon? Much less my heir?" The old woman shook her head. "No, if anything, this will just entice her to train harder." She really couldn't be more pleased by this situation.

"Aren't you worried I'll kill her next time?" Nove asked as she got out of the water.

Cologne shrugged at that. "Death is a part of life, but I would like it if you wouldn't kill her."

"Then keep her away from me for awhile." Nove muttered as she walked past the old woman, anger and loathing in her eyes. She blinked as she felt a hand on her arm, turning, she looked at Cinque, who was looking at her with concern in her eye. "Cinque-nee?"

"Come on, let's talk." She said softly, pulling Nove away as she did so, nodding at Ranma as they walked away.

Dieci looked at Uno, who shook her head. "Hey, come on, excitement's over, let's go and relax before we hurt someone." The eldest of the girls said, getting her sisters to start moving, at various speeds, out of the area. The last ones there was Ranma and Tre. Tre because she was having trouble moving and needed Ranma's help to even stand up and Ranma because he was looking at Cologne.

"Well?"

The old Amazon chuckled. "You were right, this "Nove" girl is a great sparring partner for Shampoo."

Ranma nodded, smirking softly. "Just make sure that Shampoo knows enough not to try and kill Nove, otherwise I will get upset."

"Of course." Cologne nodded as she picked up Shampoo and bounded away.

(---)

"Nove, talk to me." Cinque said as she looked at her pacing sister. "None of our other sisters will bug you right now, okay?" Wendi might have, considering she was only a few feet away, but she wasn't moving, so Cinque didn't think she'd interfere. "You won, right? You're okay?"

Nove growled and kicked a rock, shattering it completely. "It... It wasn't me that won." She finally spoke up as she sat down on the sand, ignoring how it felt, she hugged her legs and pulled them close to her head. "She hit me hard in the head, then... Everything went blank, except for... rage and pain... Next thing I know, I'm on my back, almost lost my shorts and that girl's nearly dead."

"Nove..." Cinque started to speak, but her sister wasn't going to stop ranting.

"I can see it now, what I did... It was completely automatic, no emotion to it... Like... Like I was a machine..."

"That bothers you then..." Cinque said as she walked up behind Nove and rubbed her back.

The redhead nodded, not even bothering to hide the fact that tears were starting to fall down her face. "I hate it... I hate the fact that I acted like that."

"It's a part of who we are." The smallest cyborg said soothingly to her younger sister. "It's hard for us to control it sometimes."

"I..." Nove sniffled, tears falling out of her eyes more. "I like the fact that no one expects us to be that around here, that no one wants us to be like that. I like... I like it when people treat me like I'm human, but that... It just reminds me how much..."

"Nove..." Cinque said softly and hugged her sister from behind. "You aren't a machine, or a robot. It's in all of us." She closed her good eye as she held her trembling sister. "You know what I see when I look at you?"

"A robot that should shut down before she hurts someone?" Nove said, sniffling miserably.

Cinque shook her head. "No. I see someone who argues with her sisters, someone who enjoys the morning spars with me, Sette, Tre, the panda and Ranma, someone who hurt someone badly and now feels bad about it." She opened her good eye to see that Nove had turned to look at her, eyes red and tears running down her face. "So, you aren't a robot, Nove. You're just Nove. My precious little sister who doesn't know how to deal with guilt." She gave Nove's cheek a chaste kiss and smiled softly.

"Cinque-nee?" Nove blinked in confusion as Cinque smiled at her. The wind picked up and blew her long silver hair from behind her to surround and frame her face as she sat down next to Nove.

"You're my sister, not some mindless machine. That's all there is to it." She wasn't surprised when Nove hugged her a moment later, thanking her for that.

After all, it was an uphill battle for all the combat cyborgs. To live life as a human when you were built for battle wasn't easy. It just took time and patience.

(---)

"I still can't believe you convinced me to allow that." Tre muttered softly.

Ranma raised an eyebrow at her. It had been a few minutes since the fight and the rest of Tre's sisters, except for Nove, Cinque and Wendi, who seemed to be off at a different part of the beach, were finally starting to relax and play in both the water and volleyball. At least Otto had taken his advice and had changed into a darker tank top. Was gray, but it still wouldn't be see-through when it got wet as she and Deed each took turns jumping off of Sette, who was ducking herself under water, before pushing up, and the twins then jumped off her shoulders when she hit the peak of her lunge upwards, causing them to fly up, laughing as they came down with a splash.

"What?" He asked as he rubbed some oil on his hands and looked at Tre, who was laying on a beach chair, on a towel, bare naked. The two were up by the beach houses that they were using for this trip and Tre was looking around, almost nervously. It was one thing to fight and get disrobed, it was another thing to be caught naked and vulnerable. Especially as Ranma got above her and started to rub the oils into her back while pressing several points and kneading the tense muscles in her skin. "Getting Nove and Shampoo to fight like that?"

"Yeah..." She muttered, sighing softly as she rested her head on her arms, which were crossed and acting as a make-shift pillow.

He shrugged as he worked his way down her back, towards her butt. "To be honest, I had originally planned for Nove to spar against Ryoga when he was around, but when Shampoo decided that Nove looked a lot like my girl form, the idea just sprung into my head." He didn't intend for Nove to look so upset about it though, and it did bother him that she gotten upset about it.

Tre hissed and groaned as his fingers pressed into her butt. "I'm surprised." A new voice spoke up, getting Tre to blink and move her head, since the rest of her body was still numb and sluggish, only for Tre to nearly groan as she saw Uno's amused face. "You get embarrassed when people see you like this, Tre, I'm surprised you're doing this in the open."

Tre rolled her eyes as Uno sat down on a chair near her. At least it was Uno and not some stranger. "Only in the bedroom." She muttered, her face red as Ranma chuckled at that. "What's so funny?" She asked, wincing as tiny pinpricks went through her leg.

"Nothing really." He shook his head as he rubbed her leg down. "There is a difference between being seen naked and being seen naked and vulnerable after all."

Blinking, the two looked at him, well, Uno looked at him, Tre just kind of turned her head as best she could. "It's hard, for someone who wants to be seen as strong and powerful to get caught in a vulnerable position, even if it's just something like nudity, or sleeping with someone." Blinking, Ranma looked up into the sky, thinking about it for a moment before nodding. "Especially if you're caught sleeping with someone."

Tre's face was red and she sighed as she looked down at the sand. "...I don't like being weak."

"I never said you were." Ranma commented and slapped her butt, not hard, but it was enough to get her to tense up. "Relax. I know that you tease your sisters by walking around in a large shirt and your underwear."

"That's... Different." Tre muttered as Uno fought back the urge to laugh. "I'm in control there, not..."

"Not like when you're in bed with someone, you have to let down all your defenses to enjoy it..." Uno said softly, shaking her head and cupping Tre's face, getting a blink from the more combat-oriented woman. She shrugged and smiled. "It's always why you need to go first." She laughed as Tre's face turned red and she pulled away, getting another laugh from Ranma, who was now massaging her upper back, getting a small hiss from the tall cyborg in the process.

Still, even while he laughed, Ranma looked over to where he could feel Nove, Cinque and Wendi. He just hoped that Nove didn't try something stupid.

(---)

"I can't believe him." Akane glared up at Ranma as she watched his hands rub the side of Tre's body. "Fondling that..."

"Cyborg?" Nabiki asked as she looked at her sister, who was standing up and glaring at Ranma, before the younger girl spun on her sister. "What?"

"Can't you see what's going on?" Akane hissed as Nabiki shrugged.

"Her body's not the same as yours, little sister." Nabiki shook her head as Akane's eyes seemed to flash. "To be fair to her, I don't think Ranma's ever used pressure points to combat a cyborg before." Well, except maybe pleasure pressure points, but only Subaru or Ginga could honestly say one way or the other, since the Numbers had, until Ranma took over as Jail, been enemies.

Akane snorted at that. "He just has to be all over that floozy..." She growled and twitched as she saw Ranma slapping Tre on the butt.

Nabiki rolled her eyes, got up and walked behind Akane before striking out incredibly fast, her hands a blur, though she was going fairly slow in her opinion and watched as Akane crumpled like a sack of potatoes.

"H...hey!" Akane tried to struggle, but her muscles wouldn't respond.

"See, little sister?" Nabiki leaned in and whispered softly to Akane. "Tre was hit with that, yet she kept going. Her body's different enough that she was able to keep moving even if her muscles were screaming at her to let them relax and work it out for themselves." When Akane didn't say anything, Nabiki nodded and pressed a few points on her back, causing Akane's eyes to widen as she could feel her muscles respond to her again. "It's different for Tre and her sisters. Ranma's actually testing the waters and seeing what works."

"Did he have to slap her... On the..."

"Butt? Rear end? Ass? Gheddo Booty?" Nabiki smirked as her sister turned red and yelped indignantly. "Who knows? Knowing him, he probably thought she needed to relax."

Akane grumbled and walked off, leaving Nabiki to sigh and sit down on the beach chair. She wondered what was going through Akane's head, but shrugged it off, her sister was crazy at times. Then again... She mentally trailed off as she looked down the beach where Sein was playing catch with her father, Kasumi and Genma in his panda form. It was rather fun to watch actually. She had honestly expected Genma or Soun to try something by now, but they just looked like they were having fun.

"More peace for me at least." She muttered to herself and leaned back on the chair. Lazy days were always the best.

(---)

Later that night...

Nabiki shook her head and wondered why Ranma had told her to go to the camp fire that was going off in the distance. Knowing him, he probably set up some sort of booby trap that will strip me naked and take pictures. She thought to herself before shaking it off. Ranma hadn't done anything like that since nudity stopped being any sort of taboo. So what if she was naked? Naruto had run around a whole loop naked once just because he was playing a prank.

When she got to the campfire, dressed in a white jacket over her shoulders to ward off the cool air and a maroon one-piece, she raised an eyebrow as she saw Otto, wearing the same clothes that she had from earlier, sitting there, looking nervous. "Otto? What are you doing here?"

"Uh..." Otto blinked and tapped her hands together.

Nabiki sighed and sat down near the boyish girl. "Lemme guess, Ranma told you to come here?"

Otto shook her head, getting a blink from Nabiki. "I wanted to, um, go on a date, and..."

"Wait, wait..." Nabiki rubbed her forehead as she interrupted Otto. "You wanted to go on a date with me?" When Otto nodded, Nabiki groaned slightly. "He set me up on a blind date, that jerk, I'm going to break his legs!" If she could. Hell, Nabiki would have better luck trying to blow up one of Ranma's Death Stars in his pocket universe with a wooden toothpick than breaking Ranma's legs with an atomic missile.

"So... You don't want to then?" Otto asked, getting Nabiki's attention as she caught a glimpse of honest hurt in the girl's eyes as she started to get up. "Sorry, I guess..."

"Wait..." Nabiki sighed as she got up and walked around the fire to put her hands on Otto's shoulders. "Look, you're cute, okay, but I'm more upset that no one told me about this, that's all." Seeing the confusion in her eyes, Nabiki shook her head. "Look, I'm not against hanging out or spending time together. But do you even know what you want?"

Otto scratched her head and slowly, reluctantly, shook her head, getting a small smile from Nabiki.

"I didn't think so." She said and sat down, pulling Otto with her.

"Uh..." The boyish girl blinked as Nabiki smirked at her.

"What? The campfire seems nice and it would be a shame to waste such a nice night by myself." She winked at Otto, who blushed.

Mentally, Nabiki just shrugged. What was another loop in a lesbian relationship anyway? She had been in plenty already, one more wouldn't hurt. Even if she preferred men.

A bit away from the two, Deed, who had been watching Otto and Nabiki quietly got up and walked off, her mind spinning awhirl.

(---)

"What are you doing out here?" Dieci blinked and turned to look at Sein, who smiled at her. "I thought you'd be inside."

Dieci shrugged as she stood outside, looking at the beach at night. "Maybe, but it's really peaceful right now."

Sein nodded and walked up to her sister before leaning against the railing that Dieci was gripping. "Yeah, it is nice." The two stood in silence for awhile.

"This world is a bit weird though." Sein chuckled softly. "Martial Arts Figure Skating? Martial Arts Surfing? What's next, Martial Arts Take Out?" The two sisters shared a laugh at that, like something that stupid could actually happen.

"Still..."

"What?" Sein looked at Dieci, who shook her head.

"I dunno, I just feel kind of naked since Ranma took my cannon away to work on it." Dieci admitted with a small blush on her face.

Sein suddenly laughed. "Oh please! The only one of us who would run around naked would be Wendi." Dieci couldn't help but laugh at that. "Besides, Ranma said that he was going to make it better."

"Yeah..." The brown-haired cyborg sighed softly. "But do you think that maybe he's doing too much?"

"Huh?" Sein was confused, what brought this up?

Dieci shrugged as she looked out at the beach. "Maybe we should do something for him? I mean, he's working hard to help all of us, but there's ten of us, it can't be easy."

Sein nodded at that. "So... What do you wanna do?"

"...I'm not sure." Dieci looked at Sein, who shook her head.

"Me neither." Sein sighed softly.

(---)

Later that night...

"What are you still doing up?"

Blinking, Nove, who was sitting on the roof of the beach house that she, Wendi, and Cinque were using, turned and saw Ranma, who was laying on his back while looking up at the stars, his arms crossed behind his head. "Huh?"

"Thought you'd be asleep by now." He said, it was late, everyone else had gone to sleep, though he hadn't seen Otto or Nabiki and figured that they were still out by the campfire.

"What about you? Won't Un-nee and Tre-nee miss you?" Nove asked curiously.

Ranma chuckled at that. "I'm heading back in soon enough, but I felt you out here and I wanted to talk."

"Oh?" Nove blinked at that as Ranma sat up and looked at her seriously. "About what?"

Ranma sighed as he shook his head slowly. "From earlier, I didn't expect you to get so upset over what happened." When Nove flinched and turned away, he frowned softly. "Was it because you hurt her?" When she didn't respond at all, he took a stab in the dark, though he had a feeling that he knew what was wrong. "Or is it because of how you did it?" There was a moment of tension, just brief, but it told him everything he needed to know. "Thought so."

Nove whirled on him, frowning, but her eyes were more curious than angry. "What do you know about it? About how..."

"How you must have been hurt and angry, the only thing you wanted at the time was to make the rage, the pain and the frustration you were feeling go away, no matter who you had to lash out against and hurt?"

Nove stared at him, speechless after he had interrupted her. "...how?"

"Been there myself. Met a lot of people across the multiverse who have a similar problem." Ranma shrugged. "None of them ever asked for it, it was in their blood, and when it was done, some of them came out of it surrounded by dead bodies of their friends and family." Sighing, his eyes gained a distant look in them. "They always came out of it feeling horribly guilty, even though all of them knew that they couldn't control it."

"None of them were machines though..." Nove muttered, getting a snort from Ranma. "What?"

"Maybe not, but they all felt like monsters after they were done." Ranma sighed softly. "To be honest, Nove, the fact that you feel like this..." He trailed off, smiling at the short redhead as she looked on in confusion. "Just means that you're human, just like me, your sisters, the Tendos, or people like Nanoha or Fate." Granted, Ranma wasn't a normal human after all this time, Nanoha was a freak of nature, Fate was a clone and her sisters were all cyborgs, but that wasn't the point.

When Nove hugged him tightly, thanking him, he smiled and rubbed her back tenderly as he hugged her back. No, this was the point.

Honestly, he wondered when he became like this, but he shrugged it off. Millennia of actually having friends that understood what he was going through made him a lot more empathetic than what he had used to be.

Well, that and he really did care about these girls.

The next morning found Wendi, dressed in loose shirt and her underwear, stretching with her arms above her head, allowing anyone who was up and looking to see her green underwear that she was wearing as she walked outside incredibly early, the sun was just beginning to rise and she wanted to watch a sunrise by the ocean just once in her life.

"Ah, good, I was just about to get you up." She blinked a few times and turned to look as her reddish eyes widened as she saw Ranma standing there in a wetsuit, smirking at her.

"You're up early."

Ranma laughed at her. "Come on, let's get practicing before the others wake up." He chuckled at her and tossed her a dry wetsuit. "Get changed. You're not at the water in five minutes, I'll drag you out, regardless if you're naked or not." He smirked at her. "Unless you want someone to see you trying to surf in the buff." Not that he'd let her go naked, plus he doubted that she cared, but he was interested in her response.

Wendi shrugged at that. "Going naked around you? Don't you think Un-nee and Tre-nee would be upset?"

"What about Nove?" He asked her as she smirked at him.

"Could be interesting." She said with a laugh.

"I think Cinque or Sein might be embarrassed if you ran around naked though." He said as he turned around and started walking to the water. "That's just me though."

A few minutes later Ranma smirked as he saw Wendi coming towards him in the skin-tight wetsuit. "Glad you decided to not go naked."

Wendi rolled her eyes at that. "So, where's the boards?"

Ranma smirked at her. "You'll see."

Hours later...

Nove stretched as she and Cinque walked out of their beach house. She had to admit, it was rather nice not to be woken up at the crack of dawn for once. Still... "Nove!" She blinked and turned to Sein, who was pointing down to the ocean.

Turning, her amber eyes widened in shock as she saw Wendi, one arm slung across Ranma's shoulders, being helped back to the beach house. Strangely, Wendi looked as if she had gone through a war zone against several S-Rank mages, her body was scuffed up, bruised, her clothing was in tatters and she looked half dead. "Wendi?" Nove asked as she got closer to the other redhead. "What happened?"

Blinking, the taller girl whimpered and clung to Nove. "He's horrible!" She squeezed Nove tightly. "His training's sadistic!"

"Uh... I know." Nove muttered as she hugged Wendi and looked at Ranma, who shrugged. "Or did you forget what he did to Cinque and I at the ice rink?"

"Waaaah!" Wendi bawled out, leaving Sein, Nove, Cinque and Ranma sweat-dropping.

"Maybe I shouldn't have frozen the water when she was riding that wave." Ranma muttered absently.

It was this scene that Nabiki and Otto, still wearing what they did last night, both covered in a touch of sand, stumbled on. "...You put her through what you've put Keiichi through?"

Ranma shook his head. "Keiichi couldn't survive what Wendi can." The aforementioned redhead whimpered and Nove gave him a bit of a sharp look. "Look, let's get some food, I'm rather hungry right now."

Sighing, Nabiki nodded. "Right. Let's go."

"That's it?" Nove asked as Ranma, Nabiki and a sleepy Otto moved back to the beach houses.

"The next time you're back in your universe, ask Fate about some of the training she's seen him put others through." Nabiki responded, sighing lightly as Otto leaned against her.

Cinque shook her head and patted Nove on the back. "I don't think it's too bad. Wendi's just not used to what he was doing. When he trained us, he stopped before we got hurt."

Nove sighed softly. "You okay, Wendi?" It was slightly uncomfortable having to support Wendi's weight fully, but nothing she couldn't handle. Well, that and people were watching her, that always made it more embarrassing.

"Water turn to ice, I go splat." The other redhead mumbled softly and squeezed tighter.

Nove sweat-dropped, at least nothing was broken.

Sein frowned softly and rubbed Wendi's back. "You sure you're okay?"

The taller girl blinked a few times before shaking her head. "Uh... Sorry, yeah, I'm okay, just kind of shocked..."

Nove dropped Wendi to the ground out of exasperation. "Come on, let's go eat." She said as she helped Wendi to her feet. Annoying as Wendi could be, Nove cared for the slightly psychotic girl.

Then again, was she any better?

Later...

Dieci blinked as she and the others were at a fairly large restaurant, in front of her was a large stack of western-style pancakes covered in maple syrup. "This is good?"

Ranma laughed at her confused look. "A lot of American and tourists come through this place and the staff just decided to make the meals more appealing to them."

Blinking, Dieci started in on the pancakes in front of her, before her eyes widened. "That..." She swallowed her food. "Was GOOD!"

Akane sweat-dropped as Dieci tore into the food. "...Is that normal?"

Nabiki coughed quietly and gestured to the others, all of whom were eating large amounts of food as well. "They burn a lot of calories." Well, most of them did, Uno was only eating as much as most normal people were.

"I guess..." Akane blinked as she went back to eating.

"So, Wendi, what did he do to you?" Sein asked around a mouthful of juice, getting twitches from the redhead. "Was it that bad?"

Wendi twitched a few more times as she thought about how it happened.

Flashback...

"Seriously, this is nuts!" Wendi muttered as she felt her concentration waver and she nearly fell off her board again. "GAH!" She screamed as a funnel of water came out of the wave and drilled her in the gut, sending her up and over the top of the wave and into the water below.

Ranma shook his head as he sunk under the wave and came up after it had passed to look at Wendi, who was looking at him helplessly. "You could have done better."

Whimpering, the redhead just knew she was going to have it worse the next time.

"But at least you can focus your energy like I wanted you to." Ranma smiled at her proudly, getting a nervous chuckle from Wendi. "Now we just have to work on your ability to hold it while under battle pressure." The smirk on his face did nothing to reassure her. Especially as he formed a semi-solid board under him out of the water he was standing on.

A moment later, she joined him as she created a board, very similar to his, though it tended to flucutate between solid and liquid, causing her to nearly fall in the water again.

"Almost there." Ranma smirked at her. "Let's go again."

End Flashback...

"Then he froze the wave I was on..." Wendi muttered, rubbing her head. "That sucked, I went splat." She emphasized this by slapping her hands together, getting sweat-drops from her sisters that were listening in.

"So, when is this surfing contest again?" Nabiki asked around a bite of food.

"A couple of days." Ranma smirked at her, then turned to Wendi. "Trust me, you'll thank me for this later."

"Be careful son, you're starting to sound like me." Genma intoned, only to get a glass of water in the face for his troubles and a grumpy panda appeared.

"Please, he's only horrible to his true students." Nabiki rolled her eyes at that. "Then again, they asked to be trained by him, so they really were asking for it."

Ranma grumbled as Uno rubbed his back softly. "You're just upset because I made you fight Gozer that one time."

"One time?" Nabiki raised an eyebrow.

"Fine, fine..." Ranma muttered and went back to eating. He hadn't been lying, he was rather hungry at that moment.

"Where were you last night anyway?" Akane asked Nabiki as they continued to eat breakfast. "You and Otto were gone all night."

Nabiki shrugged and smirked at her younger sister. "Wouldn't you like to know?" She didn't say anything more as Akane turned red and said nothing more, though Akane had wondered just when her sister had turned into such a complete pervert.

Looking at Otto, Sette frowned lightly and put her hand on Otto's head, getting a sharp look from the boyish girl. "...You still have sand in your hair. Are you okay?"

Otto scratched her head and nodded. "It'll wash out."

Sette nodded at that. "True, but it gets uncomfortable if it gets into places that are hard to reach or clean."

"So, what are you going to do today?" Soun asked Ranma, who shrugged at the question and swallowed his food.

"Well..."

"OHohohohohohohoho!" A familiar laugh broke out, getting startled looks from most everyone at the table, except Deed, who perked up and turned to the door. "My esteemed friend and her family here at the beach when I, the Black Rose, decided to come here before it gets too cold to enjoy the surf and sun." Kodachi Kuno announced loudly, getting several soft groans from the people at the table.

Deed smiled as she waved Kodachi over to her table. "Good to see you too."

"Yeah, no kidding..." Tre deadpanned as she got up. "I think I need to do some running right now." Her legs still felt a bit stiff and tingly from yesterday.

"I'll join you." Nove and Sein said at the same time as they left the table, thankfully their plates were mostly empty by that time, so no one really gave it much thought.

Well, that and Kodachi slipped in between Deed and Otto, giggling softly. "I do have to admit though, you could do with some... More sophisticated of a palate than just Western breakfast."

"Maybe, but the stuff's pretty filling, which is great if you work out a lot or plan on working for the next eight or so hours straight." Ranma commented to her. "Plus it's fairly cheap for the amount that you get."

"Growf!" The panda at the table commented as he licked his plate clean.

Kodachi just blinked as she looked at him. "Quite a... Trained panda you have here."

"True," Nabiki smirked at her, "we just have to make sure that it gets enough bamboo to eat. But we do need to take him in to get his shots. Can't have him getting rabies."

"Growf?!" The panda looked at her in alarm.

"Yep, plus we may have to sell it to the zoo for breeding purposes." Ranma added with a laugh, getting a terrified yelp from the panda, and a confused look from everyone else, Kodachi because she couldn't believe that the panda knew what was going on, and the others because they knew Genma was a human.

Not funny! The panda "yelled" as he held up a sign.

"Sure it is." Ranma smirked as he stood up. "Come on, Wendi, we need to keep practicing." The redhead dropped her head on the table, causing all the table-wear to clatter as she groaned. "It'll be easy this time."

Groaning, Wendi pulled herself from the table slowly as she followed Ranma out of the room.

Cinque shook her head in amusement and looked at Uno, who nodded. "I'm sorry, but Uno and I were going to spend some time together today."

"I'll come with you." Otto said as she got up and got a shrug from Uno in response.

"Sure, not a problem." The eldest of the cyborgs smiled as the three of them left the table, just leaving the Tendos, Sette, Dieci, Deed and Kodachi at the table.

Kodachi blinked and frowned softly. "I do not think that your sisters like me very much."

"My pink haired goddess! I shall, IEEEE!" Sette blinked and looked at the door and the human-shaped hole next to it just as Otto, Cinque and Uno left.

"What was that about?" Sette asked no one in particular.

Dieci was too busy slowly licking the syrup off of her fork to really comment. This stuff was really good. She would have eaten more, but she was so full now and just wanted to enjoy the taste.

(---)

"Otto, you may want to shower before we go out." Cinque commented, getting Otto to scratch her head, sand falling out of her hair, in response.

Behind them, Uno frowned softly. "Otto, what was with you shooting that boy with your Ray Storm?"

Blinking, the boyish girl turned to her sister and just looked at her in confusion. "What boy?"

"What..?" Uno blinked a few times when it became obvious that Otto had no idea what she was talking about. "...Nevermind." She sighed. "Just go get washed up."

"Sure." The brown-haired, flat-chested girl smiled softly.

It was sometime later that Uno, Otto and Cinque found themselves outside of a large building, looking at it curiously, before Cinque let her curiosity get the better of her and went to open the door, but stopped as she saw Nove, Tre and Sein, all changed into clothes that were better suited for running, and waved them down as they jogged by. "Hey!" The three stopped as they heard Cinque calling out to them. As they got closer, Sein fell to her knees panting. She might have had more stamina than most people, but Nove and Tre really took the cake. She was just glad that she didn't even try to keep up.

"You'll cramp up." Nove muttered and helped Sein to her feet. "What's up, Cinque-nee?" She asked as she looked at her older sister, then at the building.

"Wanna come inside?" Cinque jerked a thumb at the building.

"Why not?" Tre said as she and the others followed Cinque inside, wondering what they'd see.

Inside, the six didn't know what they were expecting, but a fairly nice atmosphere, bright lights, several lengths of polished floor, separated by a dip on each side that led down to a bunch of upright items that some people were rolling balls down the lengths of floor to knock over. There was a counter with a man by a till standing behind it. Otto and Cinque looked to the left of the doorway and saw a section that had people standing around, talking and seemingly having fun, before they went that way, they were curious.

Tre frowned as she watched what was going on. "What are they doing?"

"Never been bowling?" The man behind the counter asked, getting the attention of herself, Sein, Uno and Nove. "It's a fun game."

Uno shook her head. "Sadly, no. We, um, didn't really have much human contact before now."

"Heh, it's obvious." The man chuckled. "You wanna play?"

"Why not?" Nove shrugged, this could be interesting.

After getting new shoes for the game and an explanation on how it worked, the four had found balls that they could fit their fingers in.

"Remember, Un-nee, you're not supposed to go beyond that line." Sein said with a small grin. The four had decided that they'd just go in order of their names.

Nodding, Uno took a few steps forward before releasing her ball, and frowned as it seemed to veer off course and only hit a couple pins on the side. "Well, that wasn't fun." She muttered, before turning to grab another ball.

"Hey! That's mine!" Nove muttered as Uno picked up the one she had chosen.

"Well, I don't have another one, so what am I supposed to do?" She asked, before turning and, repeating what she did last time, rolled the ball down the lane, this time it veered in the opposite direction, knocking over a few more pins. At the end of the first frame, she had knocked over six pins.

Nove pouted, now she needed to get another ball. She watched as Tre grabbed her ball and took a step forward to bowl, but blinked. "Hey! Our balls came back." Nove pointed as the two bowling balls came out of a hole and rolled in line.

Uno blinked a few times. "...I guess it wouldn't make sense for people to have to get new balls all the time."

Nodding, Tre took a few steps forward before rolling the ball down the lane, a lot faster than Uno had, before it smashed into the pins, literally, as some of the shattered into pieces. "...Oops?" At least she had knocked them all down.

"Maybe we shouldn't use our full strength?" Sein muttered, just low enough that only her sisters could hear her. The four of them nodded as the manager had to come out and clean up the mess.

After the debris had been cleaned up and new pins put into place, the four continued their game. It took a little bit for the four to get the full hang of the game, but they did end up enjoying themselves.

By the end, Tre ended up with a decent score of 138, Nove ended up with 135, Uno had a final score of 102 and Sein only had a final score of 88, which caused the greenish-haired girl to pout as they took their shoes back to the counter. She just couldn't knock over all ten pins at all.

"Where's Otto and Cinque?" Nove asked, looking around for her sisters.

"Not sure." Uno said before catching a glimpse of silver. "That way." She pointed after she put her shoes back at the counter and slipped her outdoor footwear on.

The four made their way to the area where Cinque was and stopped as they got there, hearing people cheering Cinque and Otto as they threw some darts at a board. Otto was hitting various places, but she was getting pretty good scores.

Cinque, without her summer coat, which revealed that she was wearing shorts and a light blue sleeveless shirt, on the other hand, was getting perfect bulls-eyes, except the one time she needed the lone point to get to zero, she hit the one point just outside of the bulls-eye area, getting cheers from the men in the room.

"No matter how many times I see it, I'm still amazed!" One of them chuckled. "And she's doing it with one eye..."

"And she needs to throw them upwards too." Another man, this one with a beard, said in slight awe.

"That boy's not too bad either." The first man commented.

"Better than you." His friend next to him laughed as Otto took one extra turn to get to zero. It wasn't her fault, she just wasn't as good as Cinque when it came to throwing things. Still, it wasn't too unlike aiming her Ray Storm at someone.

Though, now that she thought about it, she hadn't really shot anyone with her Ray Storm in a long while.

Clapping to get their attention, Uno smiled at them. "Pretty good, but we should probably head back." They had been gone for hours. "Unless someone called back?"

The two shook their heads and Cinque grabbed her jacket and turned around, before stopping as Tre grabbed the darts Otto had been using and threw the three of them, into the triple 20 slot, getting a raised eyebrow from the shortest girl in response.

Uno sighed as Cinque put her jacket back and picked up the darts she was using. "Might as well sit and watch."

Otto laughed softly at that. "It's surprisingly fun."

"I bet." Uno commented as she, Sein and Nove sat down to watch the match between the two.

It was surprisingly good. Especially when someone suggested that they change games and try to hit each value once, starting with 1 and working their way to the bulls-eye. Cinque only won because Tre missed the 15 value once.

Idly Sein wondered if this world had some sort of weird martial arts dart throwing or martial arts bowling.

(---)

It was weird, Dieci had decided as she, Sette, Deed and Kodachi walked through the local shopping mall, other than her laugh and the way she would go on about being the best gymnastics woman in Nerima, after Deed, Kodachi really wasn't bad company, just really weird and high-strung. Sure, she seemed to be a bit haughty and prideful, but under that, Kodachi didn't seem like a bad person, unlike what Quattro had been.

It should be known that if anyone who lived in Nerima for any length of time had heard Dieci's thoughts they would have wondered if the world was ending.

But to those who looked at the four just found them to be normal, well, mostly normal as Sette towered over the other three as she followed behind silently. It was interesting for anyone who looked on to note that Dieci was just as quiet as the tall pinkette. Sette was just noticeable since she was so tall.

"I must admit, Deed..." Kodachi spoke up as she looked at Sette, then Dieci. "Your sisters are rather quiet, is this normal?"

Deed giggled softly and nodded. "Oh yes. Sette doesn't speak much, except to dad. Dieci's just naturally quiet."

"Am not." Dieci spoke up, lightly glaring at her younger sister. "I just like sitting back and watching Nove and Wendi make fools of themselves at home."

Deed laughed at that. "Plus it's fun to tease them in the morning when they're not getting smacked around in the back yard by the panda."

"Panda?" Kodachi asked as Dieci giggled at that. Sette, on the other hand, grimaced slightly and rubbed her shoulder. Silly-looking or not, that Panda could hit pretty hard when he was actually trying. "Oh, the trained pet at the table." She shrugged at that. "If it's so dangerous, I could... Arrange for it to be taken to the zoo."

"I don't think that dad would like that." Sette commented, getting Kodachi's attention. "He seems to like having the panda around for some reason." Plus it was rather funny to watch him argue with the panda over what went where when he was making the add-ons to the Tendo home for the extra rooms.

Kodachi shrugged at that. "It was, after all, a suggestion. Besides, pandas are, after all, a very endangered species. The zoo would help increase the panda population."

"Uh..." Deed sweat-dropped, even as Dieci clamped her hands over her mouth to keep from laughing and even Sette cracked a smile and started to snicker lightly. "I don't think it would work out..."

"Now I know why dad was laughing earlier." Sette mused aloud, getting a confused look from Kodachi in response. Sometimes things were only funny if someone who didn't know what was going on commented on it.

Kodachi blinked, but shrugged it off, she was enjoying the company she was in, and they didn't seem to mind her laughter. Well, there was some cringing from Dieci and Sette, but other than that, they weren't bad company and it was a pleasant change from normal. Well, normal for her at any rate.

(---)

A few days later...

"Where are... I don't even need to ask, do I?" Tre finished as Ranma grinned at her and nodded while chuckling.

"Nope." He pointed and Tre groaned as she watched the events unfold.

"And welcome to, ACK!" The announcer cried out, before a thumping noise was heard as he was pulled out of the box, much to the confusion of everyone who didn't know what was going on.

"HELLO everybody!" A new voice was heard over the loudspeakers. "This is your new announcer Sein, with my co-announcers Nove and Cinque!"

"Hello." Cinque was heard. "I'm hoping for a really good match-up."

"Kick his ass, Wendi!" Nove called out, getting sweat-drops from everyone listening.

"Sometimes I wonder if they just do that to cheer for each other." Sette wondered aloud as she looked at the beach, where Wendi, dressed in a green bikini was standing and waiting, before blinking as several people, most of them taller than her, not to mention far more muscular, not that Wendi was complaining about that, all wearing swim trunks and carrying boards were heading her way.

"Well..." The one in the middle said as he stepped out. He had short blond hair, green trunks and had sunglasses on as he held his board in his hand. "I'm surprised you even bothered to show up at all." He chuckled as he took off his glasses and tossed them to one of his friends. "I, Surfer Joe, am going to show you just what this sport's all about."

"Who the heck is he?" Tre asked, frowning, she really didn't like this guy.

"Someone from Hawaii?" Ranma could only shrug in response, he had never met the guy. Or if he had, he had just forgotten. He honestly didn't care too much about most of the people he only met one time and never saw ever again.

Some girl in a thong bikini and pin-stripe top walked out to the two, "Okay, you should know the rules." She spoke up, ignoring the way several people were staring at her ass, that was only to be expected, in her opinion. "You're to surf out until you catch a large enough wave and ride it back in. While doing so, you are to use any means necessary to knock your opponent off of his or her board without getting knocked off yourself. The match ends as soon as one person either gives up, can no longer go out and surf anymore, or one person remains on his or her board by the time that you both come in." She looked at Wendi. "...Where's your board?"

The redhead smirked as a nearly transparent board seemingly materialized in front of her. "This work?"

The referee shrugged. "Works for me. On your marks!" As she said this, both Wendi and Surfer Joe ran to the edge of the water. "Get set..." The boards were on the water as both looked at each other and smirked, this could be fun. "And go!"

As they watched Wendi and Surfer Joe go out into the water, Tre turned to Ranma with a confused expression on her face. "How can she do that?"

"Just an adaptation of her Aerial Rave skill." Ranma chuckled softly at her look. "Really, it's not that hard to imagine is it?"

"But... How?"

Ranma laughed at her confused look. "It's not hard, honestly. She just needed to visualize the energy in the form of a board. She still has problems making it out of pure energy." Gesturing towards Wendi as she and Surfer Joe swam out on their boards, he smiled softly. "She's using some water and air right now. It shouldn't be too long until she can make it out of energy."

"But her Aerial Rave is just her ability to use her board better than anyone else..." Uno trailed off as Ranma shrugged and smirked.

"Please, if all you have is a hammer, you need to learn how to use it in various ways." He held up a screwdriver for Tre and Uno to look at. "What do you see?"

"Screwdriver." They said at the same time.

"Yep. But I also see a chisel, a spear-tip, a bludgeoning object, an electrical outlet..." He trailed off as the two sweat-dropped slightly. "That's the same thing with Wendi's ability. It's one thing, but it can do other things as well. It doesn't just have to work with a board, she can use stuff around her, and if she works at it enough, she'll be able to do it without a physical object." Honestly, Ranma wondered if Wendi would get that good. If Subaru was any indication, then most of the cyborgs should have a pretty good learning curve.

After all, not many people could create a technique, or some variation of a technique, from scratch after seeing it used only once. Most everyone had to be walked through any sort of technique from start to finish to make it work.

(---)

Wendi grimaced as her concentration wavered slightly, before she focused again, making the board more solid as she and Surfer Joe rode up on the wave as it started to form. "Woah!" She ducked under a shell that was thrown at her eye. "Hey, watch it!"

"Of course, just give up and nothing will happen." He chuckled as he surfed right at her and punched at her face, which she caught. "Not bad." He commented, his eyes widening as she lifted him up and off his board, before throwing him at the water.

"Heh, I win." She smirked, only to frown as he seemed to snap a long bandanna out of nowhere and wrap around his board and pull it to him in an instant.

"Don't think so." Surfer Joe smirked. "I've long studied the best ways to humiliate people while surfing and how to keep myself on the boards!" He crossed his arms and chuckled at her expression as they rode the flow of water before he suddenly turned and surfed by.

Wendi ducked under something that he threw at her face and laughed. "Ha! You missed!"

"Did I?" He chuckled as he held her bikini top, causing her to look down and flush as she saw her large breasts sway freely. "Heh, you're pretty perky, makes me wish for a camera." He laughed as he pocketed her top, like a prize.

Wendi covered her chest with one arm as she glared at him. It was one thing to be naked in public. It was another thing to get stripped in public by someone she didn't like. "You..." She growled slightly. It wasn't in her nature to get angry, at least not too angry, she was more like Sein, she preferred having fun, laughing and being crazy to being angry like Nove or Tre did when they fought. "JERK!"

Surfer Joe's eyes widened as Wendi snapped her wrist out, a blue-white ball snapped out from the palm of her hand, missing him by millimeters, but it didn't miss the wave he was on.

(---)

"WOAH! Would you look at that!" Sein called out from the announcer's booth. "The wave just turned to ice!"

"How'd that happen?" Cinque commented, dumbstruck. "It's hot enough outside to melt ice cream in three minutes."

Ranma stared, before chuckling softly for a few moments before falling back into Sette, who was right behind him, before laughing, getting Akane and Nabiki's attentions. "I...I can't believe it! She's a natural!" Everyone looked at him in confusion as he continued to laugh.

What made him laugh the most was the fact he had only frozen the wave once against Wendi.

He'd tell the others when he finally calmed down.

(---)

"WOAH!" Surfer Joe cried out as he fell down, headfirst into the ice, his board sunk into the ice next to him as Wendi, on her "board" surfed up to him, grabbed her top from his pocket, put her top on and grabbed his board.

"See you at the finish line." She commented as she took off, leaving him to groan in dismay as he stared at her retreating ass.

(---)

"And your winner! Wendi!" Sein and Nove called out at the same time as the redhead stood at the edge of the beach grinning and laughing proudly.

Wendi giggled softly as her sisters came up to her to congratulate her. "You were right." She grinned at Ranma. "He wasn't as bad as you were."

Laughing, Ranma nodded. "Told you." He chuckled and looked at the rest of the cyborgs. "Well, it's not like we have much to do..." He trailed off as some of the girls started to get some downcast expressions. "But, Wendi, I was impressed with the ice powers you manifested."

The redhead rubbed the back of her head, embarrassed at the praise. "I don't know where it came form, just... Came to me."

Ranma smirked at that. "Well, I think a few more days here won't hurt, and Wendi, I'm going to work with you so that you can control it better."

The redhead groaned in dismay as Nabiki shook her head and patted Akane's shoulder.

"What?"

"This is why so many people don't learn new things, he forces us to perfect it before he'll let us go." Oh well, it would do Wendi some good.

Nabiki was curious just how interesting things were going to get with Wendi able to manipulate ice in the future. Though she was slightly more concerned what kind of combat monster he could turn Otto and Tre into with their powers.

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Omake 1: (Sorry to any Canadians reading this, I had to.)

Dieci looked at Ranma as he ate and just had to know. "What's this sticky stuff?"

"Maple syrup."

"...Can we get more?"

Ranma looked at her hopeful face and groaned softly. "You're not Canadian, are you?" A moment later his head jerked as Nabiki slapped the back of his skull. "What?"

"Bad joke."

Omake 2: (Courtesy of Sect)

Wendi frowned as she looked at the tall blond man. "So, you had someone who wanted to go against me, right, Joe?" she asked, crossing her arms underneath her breasts, covered in a light blue bikini top that matched her boy shorts. Behind her, the rest of her family stood behind her, either paying attention to the conversation or playing in the sand.

To his credit, the blond surfer, clad in the same green trunks and shades that he wore the last time they met didn't tarry his eyes long on the movements caused by Wendi's actions. "That's 'Surfer Joe', li'l grommet. But yeah, I got your opponent right here," he replied, stepping to the side revealing a short, blond haired, blue eyed girl wearing a grey short john wetsuit, leaving her calves and entire arms bare and fitting nicely to her curves. "This here gidget is Helga Van Dyke, my li'l cute protege." The girl smiled wildly, showing off white teeth, while looking up and down the Cyborg surfer.

"Good morning. I'm REALLY excited to go up against someone who beat my teacher," she said, with a thick Swedish accent. "A cute someone," she continued, still scanning the Cyborg's body. "A cute someone with a nice body," she added, very unnecessarily.

"Riiiight..." Wendi drawled, really not wanting her to continue to creep her out.

"Van Dyke..." Ranma mused, before snapping his fingers. "You don't mean Fred Van Dyke, legendary surfer?"

"Nah, no relation," Surfer Joe replied for her. "In any case, the ref is here," everyone noticed her, since she seemed to be wearing a string bikini bathing suit again, "so you kids get ready." All of the spectators not drawn to the referee's thong clad body retreated to the sands near the announcer's table.

"Okay, you both got your boards, wait, you don't... oh, there it is. Anyways, you know the rules, but I have to copy and paste for everyone just tuning in." The referee coughed, ignoring the fanboys drawn to the bouncing. "The two of you surf out, and grab a large enough wave to surf on. Use anything to knock your opponent off their board without getting knocked off yourself. First one to get to shore and is still on their board wins, unless the other gives up or is unable to surf any more. Any questions? No? Good," she said, ignoring any potential requests for information. "Now, let's wait for the announcer to start up..."

A few moments passed before the ref's eye began twitching. "Hey! Announcer guy!"

"I'm not doing it!" a faint voice shouted from the announcer's booth! "I'll just get beat up again!"

"Stop complaining and get in the damn booth!"

With a heavy and defeated sigh, the announcer's voice crackled over the PA system. "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to oh no, what are you doing, stop that," the voice cried out in a monotone before being cut off. A few moments passed before a new voice sounded off.

"Good morning, and welcome to the show! This is your hostess, Sein! And returning with me is Wendi's cute girl, Nove..."

"I'm not her girl!"

"... And little big sister Cinque."

"Hello everyone. It's good to be back."

"Today is another Anything Goes Surfing duel, between returning champion Wendi Saotome," she paused for applause from the Saotomes plus many guys rooting for the hot girl in the swimsuit, "and for the first time here, the student of reigning loser, Surfer Joe... Helga Van Dyke!" Again, many guys rooting for the hot girl in the wetsuit.

The referee sighed, then turned back to the two surfers. "All right, on your marks... get set... and go!" The two girls pounced onto the water and paddled out to the point where they could catch the best waves.

As the two girls began to ride a wave, Ranma glanced over at the American surfer. "So, is your 'protege' any better than you are, Joe?"

"Hmph, that's 'Surfer Joe', dude," he snorted, before adopting a serious look. "Truth be told, though, in terms of ability... I'm actually better than her."

Ranma looked at him with disbelief. "Seriously. Then why bother?" Surfer Joe adopted a sharklike grin.

"Well, there's other factors about this contest that puts her at an edge above myself."

Ranma could only blink. "'Other factors'? Like what?" Just then, the audience heard a loud ripping sound, a startled cry from Wendi, and increased cheers from hormonally charged men.

"Ah, the 'Hang Twelve' technique," Surfer Joe mused, as Ranma followed his gaze, beginning to develop a tick in his eye. "The thing is, Helga is a hundred times more perverted than I. And when she's up against a pretty girl, well, her determination to dominate rises a hundred fold."

The ancient looper facepalmed. "Dear gods... you don't mean that she's a Super Pervert?" he groaned. Surfer Joe could only nod sagely, ignoring the squeaks of protest out on the waves, a perverse laugh following, increasing cheers, and a redhead yelling from the announcer's booth.

"You could say that, dude. It was her one saving grace back when she was just a kook. Why, just a few months ago she took on three other girls in Australia; by the time they came out of the tube, all three of them were already bare and ravished. Righteous, really," the veteran surfer reminisced with a drooling grin. The adoptive father of the Cyborgs could only sigh.

"Well, excuse me, Joe, while I go protect Wendi's virtue," he muttered, preparing to go out into the surf. A finger tapping on his shoulder and a shout of "SCREW THIS! AIRLINER!" halted him, though.

His tall, pink haired "daughter" pointed to the blue sea. "Nove's already on that, Dad."

"Hey you! Hands off!" a watery explosion erupted from the surfers.

"Nove! You do care!" loud, exaggerated smooches were heard.

"H-hey! Don't do that! And put clothes on!"

"Oooh... two pretties! Here I come!"

"BUG OFF!"

Sein's voice came on over the P.A. "Well, it looks like Helga's being awarded the win, on account of disqualification of Wendi for interference by a non participant. Jeez, what a rip off!"

(---)

"Right, right, that's enough of that." Hayate Yagami sat behind a desk, brown TSAB uniform and beret donned, with a thick, obviously false mustache attached above her lip. "This omake's gone far enough. Started off as a pleasant day on the beach, a surfing rematch. Got rather promising with the lesbian surfer, but, honestly, it's now too much. An unskilled surfer who uses special techniques on random buxom Australians? Facing off against a girl who can make boards out of water molecules?

"Besides, the least they could have done was actually show the goodies being bared." A frown could be seen on the Lieutenant Colonel's mustachioed face. "What's the point if all of the wonderful yuri skinship isn't going to be shown except for semi humorous snips of conversation that only tease at the unseen action. Why, if I were there, I would-"

"Hayate?" Fate's voice called out. Hayate frantically yanked the mustache off her face, wincing at the glue pulling at her skin, and hid it in her desk. "Hayate, I have the... what were you doing?" the blonde asked suspiciously.

"Oh..." the pervy commander wheedled. "Nothing, really. Just sitting here, minding my own business." Fate frowned at her, and glanced at a nearby DVD box.

"Hayate... were you watching Wendi's surfing competition again? Also... are you wearing a skirt under that desk?"

"... Yes." The enforcer's stare darkened.

"Yes... to what?"

"Well it's not like I have to explain myself to you!" the brunette explained exasperatedly, throwing her hands in the air. "It's my office," she lectured, standing up and stalked around her desk, uniform jacket barely covering her panty clad derierre, "and I could go about, walking around all funny like," illustrating her point with a hopping half step on her left foot followed by a sweeping lunge on her right, "all I want!"

Fate could only sigh. "Hayate," she admonished, moving towards her long time friend, two hops on her right foot diagonally, a half step slide backwards, repeated with the left foot, "just because you have an ungodly amount of personal and political power doesn't mean that you can abuse it for your amusement." She moved behind her thoughtful friend (a curving set of pirouettes, rather difficult in heels) and placed her hands on her shoulders.

"I know..." Hayate mumbled, feeling ashamed of herself, and rather drafty. "It's just... I never wanted this job." Fate blinked.

"... Seriously? Because, you know, you kind of created this unit..."

"Yes, I know that, but what I really wanted to be was-"

(---)

Major Genya sat behind a desk, looking as stern as ever. "The previous scene, which deemed the scene before that to be 'too silly', has now been judged to be 'too silly', not to mention ripping off on too many Python skits. All those responsible have now been sacked."

"They've bin sint back tu Sveden," the møøse sitting beside him remarked.

(---)

-- The writers of this omake apologize for the inconvenience. The ones responsible for the sacking of the ones who sacked the ones who've been sacked have also been sacked. --

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Cinque got kidnapped to the water, I couldn't help it. Also couldn't help the naked Tre scene.

Yeah, I'm playing up Otto looking like a boy. I like the thought.

Is it wrong that I imagine Cinque as the best dart player ever?