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Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters here that belong to Ranma 1/2. The Ranma 1/2 cast belongs to Rumiko Takahashi. Nor do I own Suikoden 3 or any other characters that I put into this story except for my own OCs. Neither do I own any of the character in any of the crossovers I do. I'm just using them in this fanfiction and I have no money so don't bother suing me. You'll just lose money instead of gaining any.
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Chapter 19 – Gathering Storm Part 2
Ruined Police Station, present day –
Two weeks have passed since the attack on the station. The death rate of the Army and Core forces during the attack had been very high at around sixty-three percent out of the numbers that were there since they had the heavy weaponry and so were the main defending force. So they were hit the hardest during the attack. Out of the police forces that were on duty at that time only fifty-three percent of them survived. Most of the ones that were still alive had ended up in the hospital. The officers that are off duty have been called in since their numbers are severely depleted.
Sakeo was still in the hospital since her meeting with the Tyrant called Bloodsmash. She suffered a blow to her head and still hasn't woken up. Kotobuki had been released from the hospital since he had only suffered some minor damage to his body from his fall. His family wanted him to stay home, but he told them he needed to see this to the end. His son and wife said they would stand by him, but still believe that he should rest and leave the situation in someone else's hands. He's been ending up in the hospital too many times and the next time might be his last.
The station is still being repaired and cleaned up. Most of the damage is not critical making it unnecessary to level the place first. The fires in the station didn't damage the building as bad as they first thought at first. The real damage to the building was caused when the helicopter smashed into the building and that is being repaired as well.
Currently Army and Core units are patrolling the streets very heavily armed since they do not want a repeat of what happened at the station. It's better to be safe than sorry. They are also on the lookout for any surviving monsters that might still be in the area. They never did find the body of Nemesis. They look all over the place where he fell looking threw the rubble but came up with nothing. Ryo knows that if he is anything like the one in the game the monster is still alive and the next time they meet will be badder than before.
Kotobuki leaned back in his chair. His left arm is in a sling and he has a bandage around his forehead. "So, Ryo, what did you found out about Ranma?" Ranma Wild had disappeared two weeks before the attack and he wants to know why he and his group weren't there to take care of the monsters. The two men are in his office that had somehow managed to stay intact during the fight. He would have taken care of this earlier, but with all the PR and paperwork caused by the attack he had been busy. The only one he could send out to check up on Ranma was Ryo and that had been yesterday after Ryo had been able to get himself back together.
Ryo took a seat in front of the desk. "I asked Dr. Tofu why Ranma wasn't in the city at the time of the attack. The man tried to cover up, but I was able to get some information by digging into his files. It turns out that the sword move that Ranma used to take out the first Tyrant took a lot out of him. In fact it almost killed him."
Kotobuki's eye twitched. "So that's the reason why he wasn't in the city," he said more to himself than Ryo. "If word had gotten out that he almost died and was still recovering then he would have been a sitting duck. The city would have been next."
Ryo nodded. "Yes. He stayed at a small island resort to recover along with the rest of his group. They came back a little while after the attack. One of his bodyguards came by and asked around what happened. Since then they've kept to themselves like they usually do."
Kotobuki nodded, pleased. "Good. At least we'll be able to count on his support for the next attack. He has recovered fully right?" Ryo nodded again. "Very good. Are there any leads with the lab?"
"None so far. It looks like the people who know are too scared of Neclord to speak up," Ryo said leaning on the back of the chair.
"Before, I forget Lt. Wen thanks you for the guns that you kept in my office. The people on this floor managed to destroy the monsters on this level and help the other floors as well thanks to them," Kotobuki said remembering what Wen wanted to say to Ryo.
"No problem. I figured that keeping the heavy weapons all in one spot would be a big problem so I spread around my collection as much as I can just in case. So what about the new weapons that the Army and the Core are sending to us. When do they get here?" Ryo ask knowing that they need more firer power to deal with the monsters.
"Tomorrow at the latest."
"Good. Our guys could use some major heavy firepower to take care of those monsters. I saw what those peashooters did to most of the deadlier monsters during the attack. All the bullets from those nine-millimeters just bounced right off! At least with the new guns should give them a fighting chance," Ryo signed.
Kotobuki hesitated a bit, then said, "My daughter Sayo also told me about a certain rune that that she has on her right hand. It turns out that the tattoo on her hand is really a magic rune that allows her to make lightning weapons out of anything she holds. The round jewel she found long ago is actually a magic rune that came from the winger Landis. She used it before when she fought the monsters that she faced."
Ryo didn't look any different, but inside he's a bit shocked. "Your daughter has magical powers?"
Kotobuki nodded. "Yes, but can you try to keep this to yourself? I don't want reporters to know about this."
"Sure. Does she know how to use it?" Ryo asks.
"Yes. She showed the family and me the power of the 'Lighting Sword' rune as she calls it two days after the attack. Ran and Yamato both thought it was cool while my wife is now worried about other people finding out about her magic. She's really turning into a nervous wreck from everything that's been happening."
"I don't blame her. Knowing those army guys they'll see her as a new weapon to use. Don't worry, this information won't leave this room," Ryo said to his old friend.
"Thank you my friend."
Ryo soon left the room after he gave the rest of his report to the police chief. As soon as the doors closed, "Whoopee! Let's see how 'grateful' Lt. Wen is!" He went off to hopefully get some nookie from the gorgeous woman. (1)
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At the Kotobuki household -
Sayo is preparing for what's to come. She knows that Neclord will strike again sooner or later but this time she'll be ready. She won't be a child anymore. She will fight back. The rune has given her great power. Now it is time to use it. It's time to become a hero. No one hurts her father and gets away with it!
However, her parents are right. She can't let anyone else know who she really is or her enemies will go after those she cares about. She needs a costume like the heroes in the mangas, the imported U.S. comics and anime shows to hide who she really is. But it has to be a cool looking one and NOT those spandex costumes that most of the heroes in the comics wear. Well, maybe when she has a figure to show off she'll think about it. Looking down on her still young and developing body she's hoping that she'll have a nice figure when she's older. But in the meantime it has to hide who see she is and give her protection at the same time.
It's a good thing that Ran has a whole lot of old clothes that she had outgrown but will fit her. All she needs now is a weapon that she can fight with. Looking through the attic Sayo found an old hook cane that her grandfather used before he died. She always thought that it looks a lot like a candy cane. It is a long sturdy cane and with the hook on it she will be able to trip people up. She can use it sort of as a sword as well. Next time she meets one of Neclord's monsters she will be ready for them.
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Elsewhere -
"So, Baker, this is the first of the new Golem series?" Neclord asked as he looks inside the tube holding the first of many.
"Yes, but we still need to test this prototype first to see how it does in combat," Baker said as he looked over a clipboard on the results of the testing he's been doing.
"Combat ah. Well I have been waiting for a chance to fight Ranma for a while now. So when I do fight him I can use him for backup. What about the damage that the tyrants received during the raid?" Neclord ask the head doctor.
"They're all in the healing tanks right now. The damage they received weren't that bad as it first look. Also those bikers that you sent to kill Wild came back. Only four of them came back though sir," Baker said still going over the papers on the clipboard.
The stasis tank in front of them is the first of many in a long line of tanks. The Golem series are stronger and bigger than the Tyrant series but are harder to make and costly to make too so they can only make a few at a time. Their bodies are designed to be almost indestructible. Only the firepower of a tank can take one out or massive damage from heavy firepower. The other people working in the lab have nicknamed them Fossils for good reason. The stasis tank is fifteen feet high and at least ten feet in diameter. It is filled with a clear red liquid and enveloped in the fluid and attached to tubes and wires that ran through the top is the monster.
Baker imagined that they are called Fossils because of what it looked like. It looked at least partly like some kind of a dinosaur though not one that has ever walked on the face of the Earth. The ten foot tall creature is pale colored; its pebbled flesh is a glowing pink because of the red liquid that surrounded it. It has no tail but has the thick skin and powerful legs of a dinosaur. It is obviously designed to be able to walk upright. It has small eyes and a heavy and rounded snout of a carnivorous dinosaur such as a T. Rex or a Velociraptor. It also has long and thickly muscled arms and hands with slender grasping fingers. As impossible as it sounds it looks like the mutant offspring of a man and a dinosaur.
It is currently asleep or in some kind of coma, but it is definitely alive. Connected to a thin hose is a small clear mask that covered its nostril slits and a band of plastic is tied around its thick snout to hold the giant jaws closed. Baker couldn't see them but he had no doubt that there are rows of sharp teeth in the creature's wide and curving mouth. An inner eyelid, a thin layer of purple skin, covers its beady eyes. Everyone can actually see the slow rise and fall of its thick chest and the gentle bobbing motions of its massive body in the red goo.
Once he tested the first of the Fossils Neclord will know what their strength and weakness and what they have to improve in their design before the rest of them be let out of their tanks. First casting a spell on the testing Fossil to make sure that it will obey only him once he let's him out Neclord shut off the power to the tank and awakened the beast waiting inside. He also has a gift for it since he knows it will be hungry when it wakes up.
The creature designated Golem series ReH1a, more commonly known as Fossils, are all motivated purely by instinct and it only has only one, to eat. All of its actions are all stemmed from that single primal urge. If there is something between it and its food Fossil will destroy it and if possible eat it. If something attacked or tried to stop it from finding food Fossil will kill it then eat it if it can. There are no reproductive impulses because all of the Fossils are sexless just like all the other monsters.
The tank that it is sleeping inside of opened. The monster opened its eyes and saw a man standing in front of him. It looked at the man thinking about eating him at first, but then he saw that it is its master. Then it turned its attention to the other people in the lab. It is hungry from its long sleep. The lab people all began making their way out of the lab as it gave them all a hungry look.
"No! They are not for eating!" Neclord said to Fossil, knowing what it is thinking of doing. He cannot let it eat his lab workers. It would be hard to get new people to work for him if his monsters would start eating people in the lab.
Then the doors of the lab opened and Faceless came in dragging along a man with his arms tied behind his back. "I brought the spy as you said," Faceless said, pushing the man in front of Neclord and Fossil.
Neclord smirked at the cowering man. "You really think I wouldn't know that someone was sent to spy on me? Foolish man," Neclord turned to his newest monster. "Fossil, he's yours."
The man that the army had sent in undercover to find the lab could only scream as he's lifted into the air by the monster in front of him. The wailing screams turned to an inhuman pitch and then stopped as the sound of a bloody wet crunch is heard throughout the lab. (2)
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At the temple two days after Akari and Ryoga's arrival -
Ranma is in the middle of his training when Molly came running into the room.
"Ranma, come quick! There's a dried up old troll in the temple!"
"What? He's here!" Ranma screamed as he ran outside with Molly right behind him.
Outside the rest of the temple members, the females anyway, are chasing after a dried up old man who Ranma knew too well. Happosai is carrying a bundle that is filled with female underwear that he had stolen from women in the city. All of the girls, even Sakura and her friends who came over for lunch, are after him. Even Ayame who came to the temple for another go with her sister was with them after Happosai grope her and took her underwear. Iris, Reni and Yun are sitting at the dinner table watching the older girls chase the dirty old pervert around the temple. The guys of the temple are watching as well since they didn't want to get caught up in the girl's fury.
Ranma scowled as he saw the old man feeling his rage raising. "Happosai! What the hell are you doing here?"
Hearing Ranma's voice Happosai jumped away from the girls and making the ones in front stop and tripping the others behind them in a heap. "Ranma my boy! It's been awhile! I like the new hairdo by the way. I see that you managed to attract some young, shapely girls like you always manage to do. Good job my boy! So many girls for me to grope!" Happosai looked like he's in heaven.
"Why are you here?" he growled.
"Why I'm here to make sure that my prize student will carry the school's art of course!" Happosai said as if he is commenting on the weather. "Besides, your parents asked me to bring you under control. They will be here by tomorrow." He mumbled something about damned police and private eyes holding them up. "Now be a good boy and come along while I take care of these beauties here!" He grinned lecherously at the women.
Ranma got in front of the girls so they form a mob against the old but dangerous man. The guys who previously didn't do anything formed behind him as well. Only the kids, Jones and Piccolo stayed out of it since they knew they'd just get in the way. Even Katsunishiki and Mr. Green Turtle are in the fight (Kodachi had ordered her pet not to eat Akari's pet, which it didn't mind since it would rather have a certain winger anyway since it like the taste of him so much). Landis is also there even though Happosai didn't even bat an eyelash at the winger since he has seen many things in his long life. "Forget it Happosai! There's no way I'm going to carry on the Anything Goes art and let you pick on my friends and loved ones! I have my own school now!"
Happosai scowled at him. "Respect your elders foolish boy! You WILL carry on MY school and not some other pathetic martial arts!"
"Screw you! I'd rather date a guy than respect YOU!" Ranma growled.
Happosai's battle aura flared up. "Looks like I'll have to beat it into you first!"
Everyone tensed up. At an unseen signal the Ranma's group converged on the old man.
Even though he's badly outnumbered Happosai proved he's a lot tougher than Cologne was. Even if they punched and kicked him he would grope one of the women for a quick recharge and thus making Ranma and the others madder and sloppier. Happosai, with all the women in the group, can be refreshed with every touch while his opponents could not. They did a very good job of trying to beat him, but with his everlasting battery they couldn't keep up with all the injuries they sustained. Soon everyone is in piles groaning in pain.
"HAHAHAHA! You could never beat me before! What makes you think you can beat me now!" taunted the old man.
Ranma through sheer willpower tried to stand back up. "…no…way…am I…losing…to you…old leach!"
The kids, Jones and Piccolo who previously didn't do anything helped him stand up. They glared at the old pervert.
Haposai just sniffed disdainfully. "Hmph! You are too weak to take me on." He saw to his side and saw something. "Sweeto!"
During the fight Kasumi's clothes got ripped up and her top came loose. Everyone can see her bra. The old man jumped towards the twin mountain's of flesh intent on relieving it of its clothing and fondling the two beauties underneath.
Jones and the others got out their weapons and went to stop him from abusing the defenseless Kasumi. Ranma, however, is on his knees staring at the scene with vacant eyes.
Jones and Piccolo are doing the most damage; or rather they are basically keeping Happosai from getting any closer to Kasumi. However, Soun and Genma's master saw the other girls in defenseless states as well and lunged for them. The ones who could tried to get away from him as much as possible.
Ranma stared as Happosai kept on going from one of his girls to another. The others are barely able to keep him from touching the vulnerable girls. If he didn't do something soon Piccolo and the others will not be able to protect them anymore.
The last lunge had been too close. He almost reached Sakura that time.
Ranma's hands shook. His eyes grew darker as he whispered something in the darkest voice anyone had ever heard coming from him and almost imitating his future brother-in-law. "Yami yori mo nao kuraki mono."
The defenders are getting tired while Happosai is still fresh. Happosai keeps on jumping around like a kangaroo on sugar high and made hitting him tough. And he keeps on grabbing a girl for a recharge every now and then.
Ranma eyes turned into a deep shade of black as if there is no light within them. His hands formed as if holding a basketball between them or as if he is about to use his Moko Takabisha. "Yoru yori mo nao fukaki mono."
Yun missed with her magic attack and Happosai is able to cop a feel of Kohran before he moved on. Kohran protested weakly but she couldn't even lift a finger to get at one of her gadgets.
As he stood up the Chaos Rune's blood red side went totally solid while the blue side faded to almost non-existence color. Ranma's hands twitched and between them a ball of black energy formed. "Konton no umi ni tayutaishi!"
Everyone finally noticed what's going on with the pigtailed one. However, by this time it is too late.
"KONKIKI NARISHI YAMI NO OU! ARRRRGGGGHHH!" (A)
The ball of black energy erupted from his hands as a beam of mid-night black energy that absorb all the surrounding light into it. Everyone expected it to be loud and deafening. However, instead it is completely silent as the ground that the black energy touched just…disintegrated! The beam headed right for the old leacher who is luckily standing by himself. Tina who saw it thought it was just like one of her older brother's most powerful attack.
There was no big explosions, no giant mushroom clouds, nothing except a big ball of dark energy condensing on the spot the Master of Anything Goes Martial Arts stood at. It solidified for a few seconds then died down. Where the ground used to be it looked as if the very ground had been cut with a laser. It is as smooth as glass!
Everyone gawked at what happened. They kept looking at the crater and Ranma back and forth. Said wild horse is still standing with his hands outstretched and his eyes pitch black.
Then suddenly his eyes returned to normal and Ranma fell over like a puppet whose strings had been cut. Everyone that are able to were about to rush to his side when there came a moan from the crater.
Happosai dug himself out of the ground underneath the bottom of the crater. While it hurt a lot he was able to survive whatever it was that Ranma used. His body is pretty beaten up. His clothes are ruined and making those who saw what is underneath the gi feel like puking. A few did. "Ow! That HURT! That ungrateful whelp! He'll pay for disrespecting his master like this!"
"Really? Why should he?" Piccolo asked as he walked up to Happosai.
"Piccolo!" Everyone exclaimed.
Piccolo waved his hand in a dismissing manner. "Don't worry. I can take him on now that I do not have to worry about protecting someone."
Happosai chuckled evilly even if his body is seriously damaged. "Really? You shouldn't fight against older people you know."
Piccolo just looked seriously at him. "I heard from Ranma that you are the master of Anything Goes Martial Arts and is over 300 years old. There is one thing you should know. I'm just as old as you are and I'm still better looking," he smirks as he brought out his cane.
"Well let's see what you got!" Happosai shouted, seeing that he is dealing with a magic user. The battle shouldn't be too hard. Cologne tended to use magic every once in awhile when she fought him.
"Fine then take this 'Thor's Hammer!" Piccolo shouted bringing down a one of the strongest thunder base magic onto the dirty old man.
Happosai was hit but wasn't down yet. Even with the pain from Ranma and Piccolos powerful attacks his pride wouldn't let him give in. "Take this Happo-Mega Ring of Fire!" he shouted throwing a firework bomb at Piccolo.
"Water Shield!" Piccolo said making a stream of water appear in front of him. And dosing the bomb as it flew threw it making it fall harmlessly in front of Piccolo.
"You're good I give you that but you will have to do better to bring me down!" Happosai shouted knowing that he needed to think of something quick to bring down this powerful magic user down.
Piccolo smirked. "Fine then let's end this then. I wanted to test out this spell. Freeze Arrow!" He used the spell he and Magic Hat had developed from the Slayers series.
Happosai tried to jump out of the way of the magic attack but the ice arrow followed him wherever he went. No matter where the perverted master went it followed. He tried the old dodge at the last second so it hits something else trick, but he found out the hard way the arrow makes really tight turns as well. It hit him and incased him inside a block of ice.
Piccolo made a show of dusting his hands of the imaginary dust. "So much for him."
Edge chuckled from his position on the floor. "Wow. You still got it."
Fred limped over to the block of ice. "So what do we do with him?"
Viki stood up with help from her daughters to stand in front of the frozen old man. "I know where to put him!" She pointed her staff right at the ice, which disappeared soon afterwards.
Others started to pick themselves up from the floor as well. "Where did you send him?" Kanna asked.
Viki's smirk would have rivaled Ranma's after he had learned a new technique. "To the coldest part of the South Pole."
Kohran blink blinked. "Isn't the South Pole usually below freezing? If he's incased in a block of ice then he could be trapped there for year's even centuries even!"
All the females in the group grinned. Some even started jumping around despite their injuries. "YES!" and "Whoohoo!" became common sounds.
While the women are celebrating the men moved on to another important thing, Ranma. They lifted up his limp body and brought it into the temple where Piccolo is using his magic to heal everybody. Yun had also gotten out a few of the medicines from the other world. All the while everyone not celebrating the perverted master's demise is thinking, 'What was that?'
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Awhile later -
"HAPPOSAI!"
As he got rid of his unconsciousness Ranma tried to remember how he ended up in that state in the first place. He searched his head even as his systems went online. Then he remembered whom he is up against. He screamed his opponent's name as he bolted up.
"Whoa whoa whoa!" Piccolo said as he held down the young man. "Calm down. He's not here."
Ranma looked around the room and saw that he's in his bedroom with Piccolo and Jones on chairs next to his bed. After getting his bearing back he asked, "What happened? Where's Happosai? Did we win?"
"That's what we would like to know Ranma," his great-grandfather said. "Happosai is gone. Piccolo was able to defeat him and Viki teleported him away to the South Pole."
Ranma sighed in relief. "That's good. So what is it you wanted to know?"
Piccolo looked seriously at the young man. "How did you do that spell young one?"
Instead of getting an explanation the two old men are met with a confused expression. "Huh? What spell? I didn't use any magic except my Gale Rune."
"I meant the spell that you used against Happosai. The one that you created a ball of dark energy and made no sound whatsoever," Piccolo asks again.
"I don't know what you're talking about grandpa. Last thing I remember is…is…is HAPPOSAI GOING AFTER KASUMI! I'LL KILL HIM! I'LL TORTURE HIM SO BADLY HE WILL FEEL IT IN THE AFTERLIFE! I'LL HAVE VIKI GET HIM BACK AND I'LL…!"
The two old men held down the enraged young man. "Calm down Ranma! He's gone! You don't need to worry about him now!"
It took a few moments for the furious Ranma to calm down. When he did he recounted what he remembers.
"That's it?" asked Piccolo. "You don't remember that spell you used at all?"
Ranma shook his head. "Nope. I just remember being really, really angry and then nothing afterwards. Next thing I know I'm waking up here."
Piccolo and Jones shared a look. They then turned back to the young. "Don't worry about it for now. Just get some sleep. Your parents and the Tendos are coming here tomorrow after all."
Ranma frowned at that. 'So they're coming here to force me to do what they want are they. No way am I doing anything they say!' Various scenarios played out in his head.
Seeing that the young man is in a world of his own the two old men got up and left the room. When they opened the door loud noises of partying met them. Downstairs the female population of the temple and the house next door are celebrating the demise of the ancient perverted master of Anything Goes Martial Arts while the reporters outside the walls (the entrance made by Ryoga had been sealed up) are wondering what the hell they are celebrating for.
Out in the hall Jones and Piccolo looked at each other worriedly. "What do you think?" asked Piccolo. "I don't like it that Ranma doesn't remember what he did."
"Neither do I. Something that powerful being done unknowingly is a very bad thing. I do not like this situation one bit," Piccolo said still deep in thought. Then he remembered a spell read about, 'Could he have used that spell?'
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Next time – The parents are coming over the next day. What's going to happen? Find out in the next part of Chapter 19 – Gathering Storm!
Author Notes-
1 – Okay how many people saw that one coming?
2 – Got this guy from the book series.
Co-Writer's Notes
(A) I hope those are the right words. It took me a long time to find them online. For those of you who recognize what it is good for you. Just please don't tell others. Feel free to gloat if you want. Whatever. Anyway I want to surprise as many people as I can even though I know it is futile. Before you think it the answer is no. It is NOT Sailor Saturn's attack.
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