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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. And remember to leave a review!
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Chapter 48 – Enter the Vipers
A lone Fire Nation ship sailed into the sights of the Northern Army base. The passengers of the ship are mostly females as the vessel carries one of the most deadly units of the Fire Nation army. When the Fire Nation army has problems in taking a town, a city or when there's an army that stands in their way and they can't spare the time or the effort in taking them out, they call in the Vipers. This unit is under the control of Princess Zula, who personally gathered the strongest female Fire Benders that could be found at the right age to be trained into powerful fighters and who follow orders without question. The unit is made up of seven members, all of whom were the only ones that manage to get through the intense training program.
Each of one them were trained as specialist in their field of combat. Each of them have, a color coded name by a color, Violet, Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, Red and White with Zula having code name of commander Black. They also serve as body doubles of the princess. They're the elite of her all female Army unit each having a unit of twelve that follow under them. All of them wore colored bands on their arms that show what platoon captain they belong to. (1)
Captain Violet the lowest rank of the female captains is the archer of the high-ranking officers who can hit a target at over one-hundred yards away. Her unit can rain arrows on enemy camps or positions before they know what's happing. Blue is in charge of water born operations being a powerful swimmer and is an expert in spear fighting. Green is a forest commander who can lead her troops through the thickest of forests. She uses twin axes to fight. Yellow is an artily commander and her unit rarely miss a target. She likes to use a hammer and chain to fight with. Orange's unit can sneak easily into enemy bases and gather, information or weaken their defenses. They normally use claws and knives. Red unit are the attackers that use their speed to quickly overwhelm enemy troops before they can put up a defense, uses a board-sword. As for Captain White her unit is the personal guards of Zula who are the most highly trained of the Viper Army, besides the unit that Zula leads. Their skills in Fire Bending are only seconded to the Princess out of all the Fire Benders in the Army. As for Zula she leads the Black Unit who are the most ruthless of all the female soldiers. The unit is made up of Fire Benders who have been trained along with Zula as they were growing up so that besides the Captains of the other units only the ones that Zula trusted or showed great power in Bending got into the Black Unit.
In the Ships operation room, where all of the maps and plans are kept, Princess Zula is meeting with the Captains of her personal army. They were all seated around a large table as the maps of the lands around the Army Base that they're going to be docking soon. They have been getting reports of the actives that been going on around there as hawks flown in and out of the ship delivering reports from the base.
"As you all have read, my brother has been training all of this time since he found out that we're coming to take out that Lightning Bender," Zula said to her captains.
"Well that brother of yours won't be much of a problem," Red said who is a hothead.
"I wouldn't be so sure of that," White said, the one who can remain clam in the middle of combat, "He has been chasing the Avatar for nearly three years now and has Iroh with him for all of that time. The reports don't really say how powerful he has become."
"He couldn't have gotten that strong," Green snorted as she leaned back on her chair.
"I wouldn't count on that," Violet said in a soft voice as she's a very soft spoken person.
"She has a point there," Blue said as she fingered her spear that she always carried around with her, "He did live through having his ship being blown up with him in it."
"But there's only him and Iroh as his crew abandon them," Orange pointed out as she sharpen her metal claws.
"What do you think boss?" Yellow ask their leader who she cast a shadow on since she's the tallest of the women there at over six feet tall.
Zula tap her fingers on the metal table in deep thought, "My guess is that he has gotten stronger then the last time I saw him two years ago. But he isn't a prodigy like me and I'm sure while his skills have improve I still have the edge over him in terms of power."
"Ma'am what about your uncle?" White asks.
"My father's orders are clear that he must be taught a lesson for stopping the killing of the Moon Spirit."
"But ma'am," Violet spoke out, "If the Moon Spirit had died who knows what would have happen without the moon pulling the ocean."
"Yes you have a point but he also helped in causing the defeat of the Invasion force and cost our army greatly in terms of soldiers and equipment both will take some time to recover," Zula said. Since that blow to their forces all of the planned attacks that were going to happen in the Earth Kingdom would have to wait as all of their forces needed time to recover from the major defeat that was stuck on them, "That's why getting this Lightning Bender on our side is so important. With the power of Lightning on our side we'll be able to finally win this war."
"So boss what do you want us to do then?" Green asks, "Go and take him by force?"
"No we want him to come to us," Zula said, "If we take him by force he'll be able to cause our side great harm before we can take him down. And even if we do have him he won't go and help us willingly. He would have to be watched for any signs of escape he spots he will try to take."
"Then what will we do then?" Blue asks.
"Simple that's why when father got the reports of the Lightning Bender he sent us. Since we're the only all female Army Unit he thought that we would be able to get him change this Benders mind in which side he should be on."
"You mean using our female charms on him?" Yellow asks then turn to Orange sitting besides her, "I'll leave it up to your unit."
"What because no guy would ever ask you out?" Orange reminded the taller girl.
"That's because unlike you I'm not easy," Yellow smirked at the shorter woman.
"Why you!" she growled at the much taller and stronger woman.
"Enough!" Zula snap at the two.
The silence was broken when Blue spoke up, "Ma'am I know that we have been able to get many to change sides before but how do we know that this Lightning Bender will be swayed by one of our women?"
"That's why we have this," Zula said as she places a blue bottle on the table, "This is made from the droll of the Ant-Weasel. As some of you remember that the droll from an Ant-Weasel (2) tongue can paralyze a human for hours given the amount that's been given to the subject. If someone is able to get close enough to him and pour this on him he'll be putty in our hands. Since he's the only Lightning Bender and who knows how long it would be for another to be born his powers must be put into good use and since the Vipers do have the most powerful women Fire Benders the chances of him passing his power to any of his children would prove to be too good of an opportunely to pass up."
"Wait you mean you want us to drug him then for us to have sex with him?" Red asks as for the rest of the women there all had different thoughts of this.
"Yes as some of you know that the comet that allow my father to make his first strike against the other Kingdoms giving us Fire Benders a power source that made them stronger then ever before is going to come again by summers end. With the power of the comet we'll be able to conquer the rest of the remaining Kingdoms that aren't under our rule already. If this Lightning Bender manages to slip through our grasp and goes underground there's no telling how many children he will sire, which might prove to be very troubling for us in the future. So instead of killing him and waiting for another one to be born we just catch him and use him to breed an army of Lightning Benders that are loyal to the Fire Nation."
"Well I wouldn't mind having children that would be powerful benders," Green said as her family has always tried to get the best genes into their bloodline.
"But don't we get a say in this," Blue asks.
"I really don't think that I'm up for something like this," Violet whispered.
"Besides we don't even know what he looks like," Red pointed out.
"I for one not going to give myself to someone that I don't even know what he looks like or that be might be ugly or old," Yellow said before leering down at Orange, "But she on the other hand is already use to it."
"Hey I have standards too you know," Orange glare at Yellow.
"Ma'am what does the reports say about him?" White asks Zula.
Reading for the report that describes the Lightning Bender, "It says here that he's a young man around the age of twenty. They didn't get a good look at him as he's wearing a cloak each time he shows himself but he moves swiftly and he moves like a fighter so it would mean that he keeps himself in good shape. Which mean's that he should have a good body on him, so none of you will have to worry about him having a fat body. There's also a report here that says that he has a strange weapon that lets him fire beams of energy that's attach to his left arm."
"Well we will have a good look at him once we reach the shore," Green said.
"Boss what about you?" Yellow ask, "If he is good looking will you take part in this breeding program?"
"That depends on how he looks first," Zula said as while she didn't like that she might have a child so soon as she turning sixteen soon but then again having a powerful benders blood running in the royal family thanks to her might allow her to take her brother's place as the heir of the Fire Nation.
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In the cabin of Ranma –
Ranma watch as Aang read through the scrolls that he had written for the fighting style of Bagua for him to study on. Katara is also reading up on the scrolls that he had given her to prefect her fighting style, since he didn't want either of them trying anything big indoors. Sokka on the other hand is busy doing pull ups with the weights on as he wants to build up his body building up a good amount of sweat as he did so. Momo is busy stuffing himself with some berries that was part of their dinner that night.
"The Fire army base is getting some reinforcements in a day or two," Ranma spoke up.
"They are?" Sokka said as he lets go of the beam he was using for pull ups.
"Good thing we have been getting stronger all of this time," Aang said.
"And that the wall is built now," Katara added.
"They won't attack right away so that will give us some time to get ready for them," Ranma said as he's been sneaking into the army base gathering up information for weeks now.
"So we have sometime to get ready for them," Aang said.
"Yes I have already told the rest of the village about what I found out," Ranma said, "So you three should rest up for tonight because tomorrow I'm going to double your training."
"If it will get me stronger, I'm fine with it," Sokka said as he vowed to become a warrior like his father.
"Get some sleep tomorrow you'll be getting up at the crack of dawn," Ranma said as he got up for the front door, "I'll be out for awhile so don't wait up."
"Okay see you tomorrow then," Aang said as he continues to read the scroll he's been reading for awhile now.
Once he was outside Ranma jumped onto a tree branch right over a sleeping Appa. He leap from tree branch to tree branch as he race around on the tree tops, heading for the boarder of the hill forest area with the rocky seashore coastline. He stops as he reaches the boarder waiting for him to arrive as the plan he hatched would only work if all of the actors did their parts…
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Two days later –
The ship carrying princess Zula and the Viper Unit dock into the pier of the Fire Nation army base. The army troops at the base quickly help with the unloading of the cargo as the female soldiers march off of the ship that they have been riding on for weeks now. They're clearly glad that they're at last off of the ship as they all had relax looks on their faces. All of the female soldiers have colored bands on their rights arms to tell people which unit captain that they are serving under.
"Took a bit longer then expected but at least we got here," Zula said as she and her captains step off of the ship, "Now where's that brother and uncle of mine?"
"Ma'am your uncle is at the courtyard of the base," one of the soldiers who's helping with the unloading of the ship said to her, "He's been waiting for you since the first sighting of your ship."
"Waiting for me?" Zula turns to her captains, "You girls don't interfere with this that's an order understand."
"Yes ma'am," her seven captains said to her following her into the army base.
Walking into the courtyard Zula quickly spotted her uncle Iroh sitting at table drinking tea that someone set up for him, "Princess Zula been a long time since I seen you," he greeted her calmly drinking his tea.
"Hello uncle you know why I'm here besides dealing with the Lightning Bender," Zula said as she, signal to her troops to back away from her and her uncle.
"Yes I know," Iroh said as he finishes drinking the tea, "But your brother has something to say about that."
"Really?" Zula smirks, "So where is he?"
"Right here sister," Zuko said as he came into her view standing underneath a doorway.
"So brother come to fight me?" she turns to face him but what she saw wasn't the same boy she had last saw nearly three years ago. He' was taller and matured into a young man. She can see that he's grown stronger since she had last seen him. She notices that he's wearing a set of red armor. Two pairs of arm and ankle bracelets and a red vest he's walking tall staring into her eyes, "You have changed from that weak boy that I last saw but you still have a long way from reaching my level."
"You're wrong there sister I have been training myself ever since I first heard that you were coming. The only way you're going to get to uncle is by going through me first," Zuko said.
"Please brother dear you beg for father not to fight and he gave you that scar," Zula smirks at him.
"There you're wrong I didn't want to fight father but for you I'm not going to hold anything back," Zuko said as he walk to his uncle's side.
"Well then brother show me what you have learned then," Zula said as Iroh got out of the way for his nephew and nieces before they start fighting.
The two face each other as each of them keeping a good distance from each other as they lit flames onto their hands. A crowd quickly formed around them as they watch the two siblings face off with each other. Zula was the first to attack with an open palm strike that launches a fireball at Zuko. He quickly blocks the attack and launched himself into the air drawing his hands together he from a massive ball of flames and throws it at his sister. She was taken aback at how powerful he has become as few Fire Benders could gather that much fire and still have control over it. She jumps back as the attack hits in front of her kicking up dust and smoke into the air. Zula side-steps as Zuko burst forth from the smoke and dust with a leg kick to her face. He quickly follows up with a punch, a jab then a kick testing her defenses. Both of them jump back from each other as they fired fireballs at each other, their attacks canceling each others out. Zula jumps forward at her brother counter-attacking with a stream of fire that he blocks, a punch he catches it and pulls her forward that nearly making her fall. She whips around as she flies past him, hitting his backside with a spinning back fist that's powered up with fire.
"First blood is mine," Zula smile as she faces with her brother, "I thought that you said that you were better then that."
"Oh I am just seeing how powerful I have grown for these last three years," Zuko said as he started to take off his bracelets, "But for your information I have been handie-cap this whole time."
Zula was about to ask him how when he drops his right bracelet to the ground the made a heavy thud as it hit the ground quickly followed by the left one. Her eyes widen as she quickly pieced the pieces together, "You been wearing weights this whole time."
"Yes I have been training with these for awhile now. Not even taking them off when I sleep so that my body is force to adapt to them quickly," he takes off his ankle bracelets that made a heavier thudding sound then the arm ones then took off his vest. He bundle the bracelets with his vest and threw them to the side making a loud thud sound as they hit, "At first the weights only weighed all together at fifty pounds but I had them be made heavier. The arm bracelets weigh at ten pounds each, the ankles at forty each, and the vest at sixty. I nearly kill myself with those weights but being banish from home did one good thing for me. And that is that I now have the will power now to overcome any short coming's that comes before me."
"So you took off some weights I'm still the most gifted Fire Bender alive right now," Zula said as she ready herself for attack.
"No you are not. You were born gifted but just because you were born gifted doesn't mean you have nothing left to learn from someone stronger," Zuko said as he still knows that he still has far to go to reach Raiden's fighting level.
Zula growls as she cups her hands powers up and fires a massive fireball at him. But to her surprises he just stands there staring as her attack flies at him. As the fireball was about to hit he flew into action, he punch the fireball hitting it with his own fire engulfing it adding it to its own strength before he threw it back at her. Zula eyes widen as Zuko threw her own attack back at her stronger then it was sent before. She raise her arms as the fireball struck her sending her flying back as it came too fast for her to cancel out. Her troops gasped as they saw their leader blast through the air by her brother who they all heard was a weakling.
Zula hits the ground hard and rolls to a stop as she gasping from the force that she was hit with… then she saw his shadow covering her, "You lose sister," she turns her head to met with his, "Until you can beat me you or your troops will not lay a hand on our uncle got that!"
"Fine," Zula she growls as she picks herself up, "But it's only a matter of time before I reach your level and surpass it."
"I know," Zuko said to her, "And I'll be waiting for that day."
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In Ranma's homeworld –
In a hotel room in the city of San Diego, four thieves were making plans. A dark hair man in a red coat sat in one of the chairs of the room facing his three partners. Arsene Lupin III watches as the news flash about a Fighting Tournament that won't be like any other as all of the fighters from the best known and some unknown are invited to attend it. Already fighters from all over the world are arriving to San Diego as in four weeks the Tournament will begin. The one behind the Tournament is none other then Top Hat who is rumor to be the riches person in the world right now as her stocks and market output are well in the black. Since coming to San Diego she poured a lot of money into the city and with the businesses that she's opening the employment rate has rose up. The tickets for the Tournament are already all sold out as this is going to be the biggest Fighting Tournament ever. And that means a whole lot of money to be stolen. (3)
"Okay guys even with most of the tickets being sold at movie ticket prices the amount should be in the millions not to mention the prize money that's being offer for the winner of the Tournament. They haven't said how much let but it should be big for a Tournament this size," Lupin explains to his team.
"Yeah but the only people that know where the Tournament is going to happen at is Top Hat," Jigen said as he checks his handgun, frowned slightly, and wondered if maybe he should go for the Glock instead of his old Ruger for this job.
Goemon the swordsmen just raised an eyebrow, "That means we can't plan ahead of how we're going to steal the prize money or the money from the box-office."
Fujiko smirks at her sometimes-rival, "And you still haven't explained of how we're going to get by Top's Security force. Not to mention if that big scary brother of hers go and takes a dislike of us stealing from his sister."
"Don't worry from what I seen he doesn't appear unless we try to harm either Dr. Jones who's a VIP to the Tournament or his siblings. As long as we don't try to harm any of them we don't have anything to worry about."
"Okay we cover how not to get killed by Dark Hat and now the question is how are we going to get to the Tournament? The tickets for the Tournament are already sold out and trying to get in by posing as workers won't work as only ones that will be able to get anywhere near the place where the Tournament is going to take place at are the ones working for Top Hat and even if she does hires the most monitories she always does a full background check on everyone that she hires. And anyone that's caught trying to slip someone in that has a bad background without letting Top Hat look over their file first for a go ahead are always booted out. So we can't bribe someone working for her to give us a fake ID card," Fujiko pointed out.
"Don't worry I already got that part cover," Lupin said as he pulls out four tickets to the Tournament, "Once I heard about the big fight I went and brought each of us tickets."
"Lupin," Jigen said, "Don't you think that they'll be looking for people like us? I'm sure the people looking at the security screens will be well informed in watching out for people like us since Top doesn't take any chances in hiring other security companies other then her own. And from what I have heard these guys are better then most army base security."
"We just change our appearances with mask or makeup," Lupin said.
"I won't be needing that ticket," Goemon said as he pulls out a letter with a seal of a Top Hat on it, "I have been invited to take part in the Tournament."
"You are?" Lupin asks.
"Yes so you three are on your own as this is my chance to see how powerful I am when put up against the strongest fighters in the world," Goemon said.
"Well good luck with that," Jigen wish his friend luck.
"But what about the cops?" Fujiko ask.
"Top is already making sure that the police and law enforcements are staying out of the Tournament and if they try to push their weight around she's going to let Dark handle the matter for her," Goemon answered.
"Well then maybe we can use this then," Lupin smile as a plan is quickly forming in his head.
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Back in the other world –
Two of the Orange members being led by a Green member of the Viper Unit are sneaking through the hill forest. They been sent to look around and try to find where the Lightning Bender is at and what he looks like as the soldiers that have seen him were never able to get a good look at him. They follow a small stream as they hid in the bushes and shadows of the forest. The Green soldier showed the two Orange members paths in the forest as they in turn help her stay hidden in the forest.
The Green female hand signals to two Orange members, 'Can you believe that the boss wants us to have sex with a guy that we don't even know what he looks like.'
'Yeah like I want to throw myself at some guy just because he's a Lightning Bender,' Orange 1 signals.
'I'm only here because I can draw detail pictures of a person just by memory,' Orange 2 hand signs.
'There's someone in the hot-spring up ahead,' Green signal to them as she saw light up ahead and that some of the soldiers back at the base told them about some of the hot springs that are around the stream.
They move quietly as the approach the location keeping out of sight. What they found was a young dark haired man bathing in the spring his wet hair is covering his forehead. His body is marked with scars, rippling with muscles that any man would kill to have, and any woman would kill to have on their man. Naked before them is one of the most beautiful men that they had ever seen. Even the patchwork of scars didn't detract from his gorgeousness, only serving to speak of the suffering he had endured in his short lifetime and giving him character. The scars on his body seem to enhance the muscular definition of his body, which made him seem more experienced and mature. The angle was just right for them to look at his front and back as he rose out of the water toweling off his hair as he finished his bath. The words 'buns of steel' quickly came to the three young women's minds as they stare at his rump. Then looking down they saw...
"Are you drawing this?" Orange 1 asked the woman next to her in a quite voice as she didn't care if he hears them or not.
"I am, I am," she said as she quickly draws the man's picture in her notebook and once she makes some copies of the pictures she can sell them for a lot of money from the other girls of the Viper Unit.
"Quite someone else is coming," Green said as she continues to stare at him while staying low to the ground to not be spotted by the man.
"Hey Ranma can you teach me how to bend lightning now," a young man teen said with Air Bender markings on his head, as he runs up to the older man as he ties the towel around his waist.
"Sure," the man name Ranma said as he puts on some sandals. Then he turns to the location where the three Fire female soldiers are hiding, "Alright girls the shows over I already told you girls to stop spying on me when I take a bath!"
The three Fire soldier were surprises as young women suddenly pop out of hiding places all around them running from the sight of the man Ranma who the Avatar says is the Lightning Bender. They quickly took off as the Earth village women were all running through the forest and that if they run with the crowd they wouldn't be notice as being with the Fire Nation. Each of them knows that they have to report this at once and that the other two have to get a copy of the picture that the third one had made of that first hunk man. And all of them thinking that maybe it wouldn't be so bad at forcing him to have sex with them.
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Next Time – Aang is learning to become more powerful then any of his predecessors. While the Viper Unit are making plans to attack the Earth Village as Zuko and Zula continue to battle with each other. Mad Hat is up to something as he pokes around. And why is Top sending Shinji and his girls to another world for and why does it have people wearing tights running around in it for? (4)
Author's Notes
1 – Like the Red Ribbon Army in DragonBall where all of the high-ranking officers are code named by color of their unit.
2 – That beast the female bounty-hunter rides on.
3 – An idea that one of my reviewers gave to me awhile back.
4 – Alright going to do a little comic crossover but I leave the choice of which comic world I send them to Marvel or DC up to you guys! So submit a review on which comic world I send them to and those two are the only ones that I really got the knowledge to write about so no voting for any other comics but giving an idea for another crossover is okay.
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