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Disclaimer: I do not 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 do not bother suing me. You'll just lose money instead of gaining any. And remember to leave a review!
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Chapter 51 – Third Act
Aang stared where Zuko the one that has hunted him ever since he was freed from his iceberg prison, who never stop trying to catcher him even as he failed many times, was now gone. It wasn't his death that shock him, no it was the look on his face as he fell that got to him. As far as he had seen him Zuko never had that look of peace on his face as he fell. As if in his death he had found something greater then what he could have found in life. Zuko the proud Prince of the Fire Nation that he viewed as a friend was now gone.
"Iroh," Ranma spoke drawing everyone's attention, "Did you see that look on your nephews face as he fell?"
"Yes I did," Iroh said sadly losing another young man that's close to him.
"He chose to live," Ranma stated.
"What do you mean?" Sokka ask as he continues to stare where Zuko had fallen. He knows that he always tried to kill them but he was still a fellow warrior.
"Most of his life he's been living up to the views of his father trying to get him to see him as his son not living his own life. He once told Zuko that he was lucky just to be born. Since then he's been living for his father and not for himself. Once he tore off that necklace that connected him to his old life, he was finally freed from that part of his past that held him down. For no matter how brief of a time it was he lived his life free from his father," Ranma said to them in the cold voice that only the Soul of Ice could make.
"I know that this day would happen," Iroh said, "I just hope that it wouldn't come so soon."
"Death is always meaningless to those who are still alive. But all of you will learn that one day. As all living things will live as all things must die," Ranma said before turning to Aang, "It's time for you to face me avatar."
"Aang no!" Katara said as she jumps in front of him.
Aang placed a hand on her shoulder and shake his head, "I'm sorry Katara but this is something that I have to do." He jumps into the air and glides over to where Ranma waited for him.
"This doesn't make any sense," Sokka said as Aang landed facing off with Ranma their teacher.
"No it doesn't but do not you see?" Iroh ask, "To the avatar Ranma is now an obstacle that he needs to face. That's why he has been able to live for this long."
"Aang," Katara muttered sadly as she watches as the two prepare to fight. Knowing that only one of them is going to be walking out of it alive but wondering why two people that have grown so close to each other have to fight like this.
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Where Aang and Ranma are facing off –
"Ranma why did you kill Zuko?" Aang ask as he staring at his teacher.
"He knew that facing me would only end when one of us died," Ranma said to his student, "You are going to have to learn how to deal with taking lives. To put an end to this war you're going to have to cross the last barrier that you haven't cross yet. Not on your own freewill anyhow. (1) To take someone's life with your own hands. I know this is hard to ask for you to do but to beat the Fire Lord you'll have to not only beat him but make sure that he won't ever be able to start another war. This isn't a storybook tale where a hero only has to dethrone to villain without killing him. For if you let him live afterwards he will just start another war later."
"You want me to become a killer?" Aang ask him.
"No a killer is one that kills for the pleasure of killing others. I want you to become a warrior who does what they need to do to bring peace to this world. Taking someone's life is a hard thing to do, but what you really need to fear is when you start liking dealing with death that's when you turn from being a warrior to that of a simple killer," Ranma explains to him.
"Will you kill me too if I fail to defeat you?" Aang said as he grips his staff tightly.
"If you can't expect the fact that you can die at anytime in battle you won't be able to become what you need to be," Ranma said as he unsheathed his sword from his back, "If you can't take the presser of knowing that you can die at any moment in battle then you have no business being the Avatar all of them knew what it meant when they went into battle. I will not hold back for I will be the obstacle that's standing in your way to the pathway to your goal."
"Fine let's fight and you better not hold anything back!" Aang shouted out as he uses his Air Bending to send his body flying at Ranma at super sonic speed reeling his staff back for a strike.
Ranma blocks the staff with his sword pushing him back making him back-flip through the air. The glider wings hidden in the top part of the staff open as Aang forces air to lift him up into the air. He flew high before making the wings pop back into the staff making him fall. As he fell he swung his staff creating air blades flying towards Ranma who block each of his attacks with a couple of swings with his sword. Aang saw Ranma's hand glowing as lightning cover it before letting out a blast at him. Aang tried to stop it with a wind strike but unlike water, fire or earth attacks lightning couldn't be stop by wind as it can't be affected by it but the same went with the other way around also. Aang quickly made the air push him over to the side as the lightning bolt flew past sizzling the air with static discharge as it past, the wind gash struck Ranma forcing him back as he's still riding on top of his cloud.
"Spirit Twister!" Aang shouted as he use Air Bending combine with ki to produce razor sharp blades made of air flying at Ranma.
"Spiral Wind!" Ranma shouted as he uses another sword move that his great-grandmother created. The sword by twisting it around as he swings it creates a twister of air that can block almost any kind of incoming attack. The spiral of wind blocking the incoming wind blades, "Aang I already know all of your moves. You are going to have to come up with something better then this to defeat me."
'He's right,' Aang thought to himself as over the days that Ranma has train him, Katara and Sokka he learn all of their moves by watching them, 'I got to think of something that he doesn't know I can do yet.'
Ranma flew backwards as Aang began combining his Air and his Fire Bending skills together creating twisters made of fire. 'So he's finally thinking outside the box,' Ranma smiles as he darted around as Aang throws more and more flaming wind attacks at him.
The two flew around the sky with Aang gliding around on his staff while Ranma rides his cloud. The two continue to blast at each other as they dogfight in the air. Ranma using his sword and moves to block each of Aang's attacks while throwing lightning at him. Aang could feel his body energy draining with each fail attack as he's pushing himself to the limit in just trying to defend himself from Ranma's attacks. He needs to do something that will get him to be able to fight Ranma on a more even level. Like how Zuko unlock the hidden power within him. Aang knows that he needs to unlock his if he has any chance at beating Ranma.
Seeing Aang's mind wondering Ranma acted quickly as he swung his sword sideways so instead of creating a vacuum blade he created a flying vacuum wall that slams into Aang. He fell back down to earth as the attack knocking him away from his staff. Aang blasted wind below him as he came close to one of the mesas stopping him from hitting the ground hard. A lightning bolt stuck the spot underneath him sending Aang rolling stopping with his face down. He look upwards just in time to see Ranma hands cover with lightning as he charging up before firing a massive thunderbolt at him.
"AANG!" Katara shouted bursting in tears as the bolt struck its target.
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Meanwhile in Ranma's homeworld (don't you just hate it when something like this happens) –
"Kim!" a young blond hair guy shouted as he ran through the halls of Middleton High to his best friend Kim Ann Possible. She's a Kung fu fighting cheerleader who saves the world and still finds time to be a top student. She's smart, confident, and assertive, with a very driven Type A personality. Kim is very good-hearted, has a very positive attitude, and has made a career out of helping those in need. However, she's somewhat bossy and quite a perfectionist, and can be extremely demanding of both herself and those around her. She also tends to easily become annoyed and impatient toward obnoxious or underachieving individuals. Oddly enough, her best friend Ron Stoppable is the very personification of Type B personality, laid-back ambivalence and randomness, and she seems to have learned some degree of tolerance through him.
Kim originally wanted to offer her services as a babysitter, but through a twist of fate ended up as a freelance secret agent doing odd jobs ranging from rescuing cats in trees to saving the world from mad scientists (particularly Dr. Drakken, her arch-nemesis). Her motto is "I can do anything," and she more than lives up to it, with a wide variety of skills ranging from martial arts to mountain-climbing to skydiving. However, although she's practically unstoppable in combat, she still sometimes suffers from the same social insecurities and growing pains as any other high school girl her age. Her only real weakness seems to be a strong tendency to be concerned about (and frequently fooled by) appearances, as well as a tendency to succumb to peer pressure, something she never really managed to overcome until a few months ago before Drakken tried to take over the world again.
As teenage heroes go, she's unusual in that she's a big hero and yet at the same time is one of the 'popular kids' rather than the typical misunderstood outcast, a role fulfilled by Ron. Despite the fact she's a secret agent, her work saving the world is no secret, as everybody in her life knows about it. They mostly just ignore it and treat her like any other friend, except for the rare occasions when her work interferes with her home life (such as when a villain attacks the school or kidnaps her cheerleading squad). Besides saving the world, her interests also include designer clothes and a series of Beanie-Baby style collectibles of mutated animals known as 'Cuddle Buddies'.
"What is it Ron?" Kim asked as she turns to face her hyperactive friend. She and Ron have known each other since preschool, and have been best friends for most of their lives. Ron is easy-going, cheerful, and kind-hearted, but also extremely clumsy, goofy, and lacking in common sense. Kim sometimes gets impatient with his randomness and weirdness, but thanks to his kind heart over the years she's learned to accept it. His motto is "never be normal".
The polar opposite of Kim, Ron Stoppable is extremely accepting and seems totally unconcerned with appearance and peer pressure. However, he is afraid of practically everything else (including monkeys, although he has slowly managed to overcome this), and as such, he's had to constantly overcome his various fears. Ron is also afraid of normal sized bugs, however when giant roaches were on a rampage, he show no fear to the large roaches and can also speak their language, though not while under pressure. Ron finds one and names it Roachie. However, Kim is afraid of him, and when he licks her, she fainted.
On missions, Kim usually uses him as a distraction, since he seems like he couldn't hit someone if his life depended on it (which it usually does). This may be due more to an aversion to violence rather than a lack of skill; Ron has shown to be quite gifted in the "Monkey Kung Fu" skill (Tai Shing Pek Kwar) introduced by Monkey Fist (whom Ron once defeated without any help). Ron has also proven highly formidable on the few occasions he's been motivated to actually fight an enemy. During his time at Yamonuchi, a ninja school in Japan, Ron was found to be worthy of the mystical Lotus Blade, which can take on the form of multiple weapons and be summoned at will (a right Ron earned by virtue of his 'mystical monkey power', which he received when he had to face Monkey Fist by himself.
Ron's greatest interests are food and video games. He also has recurring childhood flashbacks of a disastrous summer camping trip at the infamous Camp Wannaweep (an experience which can be pointed to as the cause of almost every phobia he has), as well as a few unrelated flashbacks. One involves a supposedly evil garden gnome (apparently, lots of people are afraid of garden gnomes) and a wild mechanical horse outside Smarty Mart which resulted in Ron's phobia of robot horses ("I lost two baby teeth that day," Ron explains, "Changes a guy").
Although he often appears to be somewhat clueless and thick-headed, this is only because he's usually so random and unfocused. On the rare occasions when he's been motivated to concentrate on something, he's actually proven to be quite bright. He once, accidentally, built a doomsday machine out of random junk after being kidnapped by Shego. Later, after a mishap that caused him to turn evil, he proved to be even more dangerous than Drakken by commanding fear and respect from Shego and almost succeeding in destroying the world. Ron's even managed to come to Kim's rescue on a few occasions. In their first encounter against Señor Senior Senior, he saved Kim from Senior's Spinning Tops of Doom (which is probably fair, considering that Senior built them on Ron's suggestion). Later, during a brief stint as the Fearless Ferret, Ron rescued Kim from a convention hall scaffolding after she fainted from a foul smelling stink spray, which earned him a hug from her after she woke up. He also saved Kim and the entire cheerleading squad in their first run-in with Gill, using the arts and crafts skills he honed at camp and a series of misdirection tactics to lure Gill into a trap and capture him (Kim also gives Ron praise for his rescue and points out to him that he does have actual abilities).
Ron is also an accomplished chef, and is renowned as the inventor of the Naco. A creation which earned him a royalties check of $99 million from Bueno Nacho (a nickel for every Naco sold). Unfortunately, whatever money he didn't spend away was promptly stolen when Ron was later captured by Drakken (apparently, Bonnie liked the idea of Ron carrying around the whole $99 million in his pants). It's unknown whether or not he's received any more royalties since then. However, Ron's cooking talents also surfaced when Steve Barkin their teacher put him in charge of teaching the Home Ec class (once he realized there was absolutely nothing he could teach Ron about cooking). He even opened a restaurant with Barkin in Middleton High's Home Ec room, where he was booked solid months in advance. Unfortunately, the Board of Health shut him down when they discovered a live rodent, Rufus, serving the food.
Speaking of the naked mole rat Rufus is in Ron's pocket eating some junk food. Ron and Rufus are inseparable, and Rufus can always be found riding in Ron's pocket. Rufus has similar interests and personality traits as Ron (such as a love of Bueno Nacho and video games), he often mimics Ron's actions, emotions, and facial expressions. Despite being a rodent, Rufus is actually very competent and level-headed, and often comes to the rescue of Kim and Ron when they're in a pinch. He has very good technical skills, and Ron often uses him to fix broken appliances. He also has extremely strong teeth, and can even chew through some metals. He's even an accomplished martial artist, and has Monkey Kung Fu powers, like Ron; in fact, he can control them even better than him.
Much like Scooby-Doo, Rufus is marginally capable of human speech (able to utter a couple of words), but mostly talks in high-pitched rodent jabber. Only Ron and, from time to time, Kim actually seem to understand him when he speaks (apparently, Ron has the ability to communicate with animals, but is somewhat impaired by the fact he's afraid of most of them).
Rufus is often used as a deus ex machina when the characters are in trouble.
Rufus is Ron's pet because when Ron was twelve, his parents told him he could finally have a pet… but no fur, because of his Dad's allergies to animal dander. Ron purchased his rodent friend at Smarty Mart. Ron chose to name him Rufus after an imaginary friend he had in pre-K. Rufus even has his own song: "The Naked Mole Rap" (though most of the vocals are by Ron).
"You'll never believe it!" Ron shouted.
"Believe what?" Kim asked hoping that it wasn't about the Dark Hunter video game again. She has already play it even managing to reach the secret level where she has to fight against Dark Hat who has already proven time and time again that he's just like his real life counterpart as no one who has found the level has manage to beat him yet even using cheat codes as the level cancels out all of the effects.
"I score us two tickets for the Hat sponsor fighting tournament! BOO YAA!" Ron shouted out.
"What! You did!" Wade gasp out appearing on the computer screen that's inside Kim's locket. Wade is a ten-year-old child genius who runs Kim's website, supplies her with her all of her gadgets, and gives Kim her missions through her Kimmunicator. As a genius, he has completed his high school and college education in eight months. He spends his time in his room, in front of the computer, with the lights off. He also seems to drink a lot of soda, since he's often seen slurping one down when communicating with Kim.
Wade practically never leaves his room, saying he hates the outdoors, and usually interacts with Kim and Ron through the Kimmunicator and various other technical wizardry such as a hologram, inside a virtual reality world, a robot called the 'Wadebot' and even through a garden gnome in Ron's garage by creating a specially tuned resonance effect. Kim and Ron have only once manage to meet him face to face: when he left his room to get revenge upon Team Impossible for destroying his entire computer system with a power spike.
"That's right no one could stop Ron Stoppable from getting these," Ron said as he showing them the two tickets.
"How did you get those?" Wade ask, "I mean they're all but impossible to get. I know I tried getting them when I heard about the tournament, but couldn't even get one. How did you get two?"
"Wait you tried getting tickets as in you would be willing to leave your room?" both Kim and Ron ask at the same time.
"Yeah well… I like watching the tournaments and I would like to at least once get to see one in person," Wade replied.
"You were saying Ron?" Kim asked him.
"Simple you see it seems like one of the Hat's like the Noco so much that one of them mail two tickets to me with a thank-you card and these tickets," Ron turns to Kim, "Do you know what this means?"
"What?" Kim asked knowing that he would tell her either way.
"We're going to see the most action pack fighting tournament ever!" Ron shouted as he's a fight fan as he loves watching wrestling and currently taking to fighting tournaments.
"You're inviting me?" Kim asked as she wasn't that into watching people fighting as she does it all the time, which takes out the fun in watching other people fight.
"Yeah it will be great and besides these are VIP tickets!" Ron said as he handed her one of the tickets, "We're talking about privet booths where we can make as much noise as we want without anyone telling us to stop. And I always wanted to see what it's like in one of those privet booths."
"Well I guess I can go," Kim said as she looks over her ticket.
"I'll go and find a ride for you two," Wade said, "And you guys can bring the Wade Bot with you so I can watch the fight."
"I just hope we do not get thrown out for it," Kim said wondering how it's going to turn out when they get there as something always happens when they do something like this.
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On a hunted island which the signs posted on it say it is anyways –
Kim Possible's arch-nemesis and most frequent foe, Doctor Drakken is a run of the mill mad scientist obsessed with world domination. His real name is Drew Theodore P. Lipsky and he isn't a real doctor (he actually dropped out of college, which may explain why his inventions hardly ever work). A lifetime of anger and bitterness has left him with blue skin that itches something fierce. Like Ron, Drakken's been an outcast most of his life, and is constantly trying to prove himself (albeit in a much more malevolent manner). Also like Ron, Drakken often comes across as clumsy and lacking common sense. Drakken and Ron have similar personalities and often act and speak similarly, but while Ron is fairly witty and prone to wisecracks, Drakken is normally oblivious to the absurdity of situations and is more of a straight man.
Drakken usually comes up with grandiose, overly-complicated plans, typically involving such wacky 80's villain staples as killer robots, mind control, and death rays. He also tends to steal his Evil Inventions, because the stuff he invents himself usually either malfunctions or tries to kill him (when Ron and Shego comment on this behavior, he angrily refers to it as 'outsourcing'). Like many supervillains, Drakken frequently fails to pay attention to minor details, and on several occasions he's been foiled by his own poor planning rather than by Kim herself.
At the beginning when he first met Possible, Drakken had his own private organization with henchmen, evil contraptions, and killer robots, but he often had financial difficulties and after several encounters with Possible, he appears to have downsized his organization significantly to just him and Shego. Since he spends money like mad when he has it, like when he stole Ron's money when he had that royalty check of $99 million from Bueno Nacho which Drakken took spending it all on a plot that failed before it even got off the ground. His main plans also tended to become less and less grandiose, and he has tried to take over the world with such unorthodox weapons as giant dinosaurs, doomsday Humvees, mosquitos, and rap music. However he did manage to scrounge together enough money to rebuild his organization for one last major attempt at world domination when he try to take over the world with toy robots that could transform into giant killer robots with state of the art weapons.
Drakken was originally Dr. Possible's best friend, but turned evil in college after constant teasing from Dr. Possible, Professor Chen and Professor Ramesh. When Drakken made badly made female robots for their prom dance. He also has an embarrassing, overbearing mother who, confusing him with a Radio self-help doctor with a similar name, believes his job is helping people with their emotional issues rather than trying to conquer the world.
Dr. Drakken's right-hand henchwoman and Kim Possible's deadliest foe (although "rival" could be a better term). She's easily the smartest and most competent of Kim's enemies, and (other than a strong sadistic streak) one of the sanest as well. She's also a sarcastic, violent smart-mouth who enjoys being snide to Dr. Drakken and fighting Kim Possible.
Like Kim, Shego has a rather dry sense of humor, and often makes sarcastic comments about Dr. Drakken's frequently absurd plans. Shego is actually pretty unmotivated (which may account for why she's still affiliated with Drakken even after his repeated failures), and spends most of her free time lazing around reading a villain magazines and filing her gloves. She's also quite impatient, and quickly gets angry at people when they're being obnoxious or weird (she's also particularly quick to blast men who try to flirt with her).
Kim and Shego have more in common than either would care to admit, and not just in terms of their intellect, skills, and temperament either. Shego actually used to be a super-hero, and like Kim, grew up using her powers to fight evil. However, she turned evil herself after (presumably) finally being fed up with the constant obnoxious stupidity of her family/team mates all of them her brothers. After deciding to become evil, Shego left her family and immediately joined up with Dr. Drakken. At first, she showed some degree of fear and respect towards Drakken, but through their dealings with Kim Possible quickly learned he was all bark and no bite. She has since taken a more dominant role in their relationship, and sometimes hurts Drakken when he's being particularly annoying… which happens alot.
"So what's the plan this time?" Shego said as she flips through a mangize wondering what kind of lame plan he hatched this time. Drakken is currently working on something as he building a new doomsday weapon or something.
"If you must know," Drakken said as he inserts the finally part into his new gadget, "As you know there's going to be a Fighting Tournament that's going to be held in San Diego being run by Top Hat right."
Shego eye's widen when the information sunk in, "Wait you're going to try something at the Tournament who the one running it is Top Hat one of the riches people in the world who is also the sister of Dark Hat who will tear out your spine if you try to harm any of his younger siblings, who has skin people alive letting them bleed to death while baking in the sun?" Shego said remembering what happen to those cops in L.A. who took justice into their own hands and paid for it as Dark skin them alive live on national TV after releasing that video of their crimes they made over the years even killing a cop who was going to rat out on them. (2) She was bad but she wasn't that bad as instead of killing them he just let them bake in the summer L.A. sun till they we're taking away to receive medical treatment as Dark wanted them to suffer as he told reporters asking him questions as none of the police at the scene wanted to make him anger at them. Dark said that they will never be able to regrow any new skin as he wants people to know who they really are inside, as they'll never be able to show their faces without people knowing who they are as they will have to wear bandages over their skinless bodies now. Last she check the court case for them is starting as ever since the showing of that news case, L.A. is becoming a hot spot as people are screaming for the cops blood, which in turn given the L.A.P.D. a black eye even worse then the Kings beating that cause the L.A. riots. She's beginning to see why Dark let them live as there are much worse things then dying.
"Well looks like its time to check the old want ads," Shego said as she grabs the villain mangize flipping to the want ads for henchpeople.
"What are you saying?" Drakken ask.
"Well if you want to go and make Dark Hat mad go ahead, I'm not going to help you in this one," Shego said as there's no why she's going to stick out her neck for this one, "Oh look there's an opening in W.E.E. (3)"
"What you think I'm scare of Dark Hat," Drakken ask.
"Well it says right here when they did a poll on 'Would you an evil villain try to steal something from Dark Hat' everyone who answer back wrote in that he's too scary for them to even think about," Shego said showing Dr. D the poll results in the mangize, "Everyone in the villain world are too scared of him."
"Well where they fail I will succeed," Drakken said as he show her an electron collar, "I'll go and slip this mind controlling collar on Dark and with his power at my command I'll finally take over the world! HAHAHAHAAHA"
"Well good luck with that," Shego said as she went back looking through the want ads hoping to find someone who is a better villain then Doctor D.
"Oh come on Shego I went through all the trouble of having these two tickets stolen and you won't come along," Drakken whined.
"Wait you stole two tickets to the Tournament?" Shego ask looking up from her reading.
"Yes I did, cost a pretty penny but it's worth it," Drakken said as he shows her two tickets which one was quickly taken by Shego.
"Alright I'll go," Shego said as this she couldn't miss the butt whopping that Doctor D is going to get.
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Elsewhere in New York City –
Jake Long is an ordinary thirteen-year-old Chinese-American boy living in New York City… except for the fact that he can transform into a mystical dragon. A descendant of a long line of dragons, it is his duty to protect the community of magical creatures secretly living among the masses in New York. He lives with his parents and his 7-year-old sister (Haley). His grandfather and sister are also dragons; the dragon powers skipped his mother's generation, and his father is unaware of his family being dragons. Jake is taught how to use his innate magical powers by his grandfather and a 600-year-old dog (Fu Dog). Jake needs these powers to protect the other magical creatures of the city from the villainous Huntsclan led by the Huntsmaster and other malevolent beings. His best friends are Trixie and Spud, with whom he skateboards, and he is in love with Rose, another schoolmate, also known as Thorn the Huntsgirl. Jake searcher's for a balance between his life as a schoolboy and his secret life as a powerful magical guardian.
Inside his gramps tech shop Jake and his friends Trixie and Spud came into the store after school was over with, "Hi gramps," Jake said as Fu called that gramps wanted him for something.
"Jake there's something important that needs to be done," Gramps said from behind the counter.
"What those mountain troll bikers at it again?" Trixie said as ever since she and Spud beat that biker gang of them Mountain Trolls, they are now afraid of two things dragons and them.
"We can handle them," Spud said as he tries to touch his nose while sticking out his tongue again.
"Well you know that big fighting tournament that's going to happen in a couple of days?" Fu asked.
"Yeah it's all over the news," Jake said as he and his friends are getting all the things they need to watch the fights.
"Well as you know ever since that Vampire Neclord reveled, magic to the world all kinds of things are happening with the magical world," Gramps explain.
"Yeah I know," Jake said thinking about what happen a few days after the raid on Neclord's tower dealing with Professor Hans Rotwood. Jake's schoolteacher's obsessive interest in magical creatures, and his quest to find the dragon that is Jake. He styles himself as an expert on mythical creatures, but his knowledge is superficial and his expertise a fraud. But after the world saw that magic is real Professor Rotwood suddenly came into the spotlight. Even with his limit knowledge on magical creatures his class has become very popular even making the news as Rotwood was the only professor in New York that did any kind of research on magic. Then after he wrote to Dr. Jones great-grandfather of Ranma Jones asking for information on magic and the supernatural, he was mailed several books on magical creatures that Jones made copies of as he wrote in his letter that Rotwood read to the class that with magic being shown to be real that it is Rotwood as a teacher to teach the younger generation that there's nothing to fear from magical creatures that live among them. This in turn changed Rotwood from trying to prove that dragons are real to teaching the class of the ways to tell what kind of magical creature they are likely to see or meet and how they tend to behave towards humans. This made the class more understanding to be around as Rotwood isn't mistaking one magical creature for another which he use to do.
"Well since everyone knows that magic is real now you guys do not have to be hiding all of the time," Trixie said as she and Spud are use magic now.
"Yeah like Jake you can join the Dark Hunters and get to meet Ranma and his team," Spud added in.
"Yes but the Magical Elders are still in an up roar about that power mad vampire in reveling magic to the human world," Gramps said shaking his head as he had taught that all of the dark vampire lords were all dealt with ages ago, "But the reason why I called you here is that the oracle twins have foresaw that something bad is going to happen at the tournament and its has something to do with the Dark Dragon."
"Wait why would the Dark Dragon try something when Dark Hat can easily beat him?" Spud pointed out, "I mean isn't he feared by gods and demons?"
"Yes that's true," Fu said, "But that only happens if Dark Hat gets mad at him so as long as one doesn't anger Dark Hat he won't bother you."
"So how is Jake going to get to the tournament when all of the tickets are all sold out?" Trixie ask.
"Well that's where you three come in," Gramps spoke up, "You see one of the people that's working for Top Hat is the daughter of an old friend of mine and already talk to her boss Top Hat about letting you keep an eye out for the Dark Dragon as its your job to safeguard the magical world. When the tournament starts she'll get you three in."
"Really sweet we get to watch the fights!" Spud shouted.
"And for free!" Trixie added in jumping in joy.
"Wait what's the catch?" Jake asked stopping Spud and Trixie who are hopping around as there's always a catch to something like this.
"You three will be selling snacks as that's the only cover she can come up with," Gramps said.
"Ahh Man," Jake said as he knew there was a catch.
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In the city of L.A. –
"Get those barrels in we're running late!" a truck driver said as he saw that the workers at the warehouse loading docks didn't have all of the barrels in the ridge yet.
"We're going as fast as we can," one of them shouted as they loaded all of the metal barrels into the truck.
"So what is in these things anyways?" one of them shouted.
"I never ask that's why I get paid," the driver said as he got into the driver seat. Looking in his rearview mirror he spots a pair of cops walking up to them.
"What's in these barrels?" a young Latina woman name Tina Hanlon asked as she looks at the great number of barrels being loaded into the truck.
"Look," the driver said as he shows them the forms for the transport, "Got all of the right paperwork right here so unless you two want to go and act like the prick Mackey and his guys you should just leave us be."
"Let me see this," the black cop Julien Lowe said as he looks over the paperwork while grumbling to himself about the scandal that Mackey cause. Detective Mackey was the leader of the Strike Team, a brutal four-man anti-gang unit. The Strike Team used a variety of violent and extortive methods to maintain peace on the streets, while maintaining their own profits through drug protection schemes and robbery. The Strike Team wasn't above planting drugs on and coercing confessions out of gang members. Which has caused lots of convictions being over turn as Dark Hat had reveled everything that they have done over the years live on national TV which has cause an uproar in the city against all cops.
"You two are from the same department as those skinless pricks," the driver said as he seen the video of cops that knew about what's happening but kept silent about it, "I can't believe that you guys are still cops."
"Hey not all of us are like him or his team," Tina said as she is reminded that Mackey and his entire team were all skin alive after Dark Hat showed on the news stations of their crimes.
"Yeah right," one of the dock loaders said as he loaded up the last barrel, "Why don't you two get going or someone will hire Dark to handle you two like he did with your friends."
"Yeah it only cost a hundred bucks to get the last cops," one of the dock workers said as Dark told them how much he was paid to do it. Before he left Vic and his team hanging from their hands, their now skinless bodies dripping blood on the floor until Lieutenant Jon Kavanaugh of Internal affairs with other agents came to drag them off to get some medical attention, before going off to their trials which would be taking place in a couple of weeks as Vic and the rest of the team needed to heal up for their court data. And with Dark giving Lt. Kavanaugh everything that he needs to put them behind bars and with public option against Vic's team, everyone at The Barn knows that they're going behind bars once they get out of the hospital as they're not going to get out on bail, as there was no way they're going to be given a chance to make a run for it.
"Come on everything checks out," Julien said as he saw everything is in order.
"Fine," Tina said as they headed back to their car as the truck drove off. When they were far enough away, "I hate this ever since Dark went and got Vic everything is falling apart now."
"I know," Julien said as respect for cops in the city as the rest of the country has fallen as peoples trust in them is at a whole time low. The top brass have been doing all they can to recover their ruin image, even as going as far as cutting Vic and his entire team from any cop union legal help as the public outcry is so big that giving them any kind of help would cause greater damage to their image then it already is, "That's why we have to take everything nice and easy or people will go and start hiring Dark in killing us off."
"I'm surprise that no one has tried suing Top Hat for what her brother is doing," Tina grunted.
"They do try but the lawyers that have tried have all been dealt with by Dark," Julien said as lawyers that have tried would turn up alive but with a large chunk of their bodies cut off, "After the first seven turn up alive with their body parts cut off of them no one has the guts to try. He really doesn't like lawyers."
"Well who doesn't," Tina said before turning back to the truck subject as they turn a corner as they had park their car a block away from the warehouse.
"Also since he has done Black Ops missions for the government no one up there wants to anger him or he'll might go and leak the operations that he has done for them. In other words as long as the government guys do not interfere with him he doesn't bother with them. And it also means once he's hired to take cops like us out, there's nothing stopping him," Julien explain to his partner.
"Do we follow the truck? Got a gut feeling about it," Tina said as there was just something wrong with it.
"No let's just call out APD on it," Julien said as they reach the car getting into it.
As he reach for the radio something landed on top of the car, "What the?" Tina shouted as a claw hand burst through the roof grabbing her head the claws digging into her flesh.
"Tina!" Julien shouted as he pulls out his gun firing at the hand making it let go of Tina who flops face down on the dashboard clearly dead. He jumps out of the car as the claw again burst through the roof nearly getting him. Looking to the roof of the car he spots a Hunter like the ones that were in Japan, "Oh shit." He fired his weapon as it jumps at him, bullets hitting its armored hide as its claws tears his head off. His head bounce across the street Julien saw it all happen as his brain wasn't dead yet as the blood that's still inside his head kept him alive before his brain cells realize that he's dead and began shutting off the brain nervous systems as Juliens life's blood drains away from him.
Up on top of a building a woman wearing black watch as the Hunter drags the two cop bodies down into the sewers. Then turn to the truck that's already a couple of blocks away driving out of sight, "While the cops are busy looking for who killed those two the cargo will be well on its way." She smile as she opens up a doorway stepping into it as a patrol car came around the corner after a call that she made of shots being fired, "These guys are so easy to control and mislead kill a cop or two in a bad neighborhood and all of the cops in the city will force on a few square blocks while that shipment of chemicals are on their way out of the city without any hassle from the law. American cops are just too easy."
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Back in the Avatar World –
Katara eyes adjusted as the lightning flash had blinded her as it struck Aang. When she could see clearly again she felt her heart drop to her stomach as she saw Aang laying motionless on the ground, pieces of rock covered his body. She turns to the one who did this, "Ranma how could you!" she shouted at him tears freely falling down her face.
"He did his best to defeat me," Ranma said sadly, "I couldn't have as for more out of him."
"So that makes this okay," Katara shouted gasping for breath as she gathers the water vapors around her making water to appear around her, "Fine then I challenge you!"
"Katara wait!" Sokka shouted as he watches as use the water she gathered to form an ice bridge over to where Ranma is disappearing as she ran on it stopping him from following.
"You really think you can beat me?" Ranma ask looking down at her, "Lightning freely moves through water anything that's wet makes lightning attacks stronger when they're hit. You can not beat me with Water Bending."
"I do not care if I'm weaker then you are or that my bending is weak against yours," Katara shouted at him, "I'll make you pay for what you have done!" The water surrounding her suddenly froze in midair making pieces of ice around her. She began waving her arms around causing the pieces of ice to take shape forming blades then aim everything at Ranma.
"Interesting," Ranma said as he dodges in the air as the ice blades flew at him swinging his sword to block any ice blades that he couldn't get out of the way fast enough. He fires a lightning bolt at Katara who forms an ice shield in front of her blocking the attack, "Clever in waters solid form my lightning attacks aren't able to break through."
"That's right!" Katara shouted as she starts bending water inside of Ranma trying to control him but found she couldn't.
"Trying to control the water inside my body?" Ranma ask her, "Sorry but as long as I can control lightning I can energize my body with lightning canceling out your water bending. But if you have forgotten I can do more then just bend lightning."
Katara eyes widen as Ranma fires an energy blast at her ice shield shattering it throwing her flat on her back. Iroh gasp in surprise as he never seen anything like it before, "How in the world was that?"
"It's called ki the energy that's comes from a persons spirit. Ranma has the ability to control it like bending," Sokka spoke up, "He has been teaching us how to use it but so far only Aang was able to use it."
"And I'm not going to give an inch to you till I beat you!" Katara shouted at Ranma as she causing pillars of ice spikes to shoot up from the ground almost hitting him as one of them pierce through his cloud destroying it, "Now without your cloud you won't be able to evade my attacks anymore."
"Really now," Ranma said smiling at her with a smirk. To everyone watching he suddenly disappear only to reappear standing next to Katara his right arm outstretch as an energyball being held in his hand glowed as it gathers power just waiting for him to firer it at her, "You have forgotten of how fast I'm able to move on the ground."
"Yes and you're the one standing on my trap," Katara smirked as the small puddle that Ranma is standing on suddenly shout up incasing him in a sheet of ice, "Got you!"
Katara smile faded turning to shock as the sheet of ice shatter as Ranma's hand shot out grabbing her shoulder giving her a small shock that knocks her off of her feet. Ranma breaks completely free from his ice prison, "Sorry but you're going to have to do better then that to beat me."
"Then how about I take it up a level."
They all turn to see Aang getting up his feet his eyes glowing blue as he unleashes his avatar powers. Ranma can feel huge amounts of power coming from him as he knew seeing Katara in danger would unlock the power that is locked inside of him. When he first started training Aang he knew that while he wasn't a powerful hand to hand fighter as an energy user he could become more powerful then Saffron as thousands of lifetimes worth of power flows through him. All it needed is something to unlock it.
"Aang you're alive!" Katara shouted in joy seeing him still alive.
"Yeah at the last moment I use what I know of Earth Bending to make a wall in front of me as the lightning hit," Aang explains.
"So you remember what I told you about how the only element that's strong against lightning is earth," Ranma said as he sees that Aang was paying attention to his lessons.
"Katara get back to safety I still have a fight to finish," Aang said to Katara who nodded back as she knows that she only get in the way.
"So you have finally unlocked your true power," Ranma said to him as he faces off with his student.
"Yeah and it's time for me to show you what I can do," Aang said as he powers his body letting out his hidden power out like how Zuko did before him. He reels his head back letting out a scream as the blue light coming from his brightly glowing form incases him in a powerful aura around him. The power coming from him came out in waves that made Ranma's eyes widen as he had not expected for Aang to hold that much power in him. When the fireworks were over Aang had gone under a transformation as he has become taller and gain a swimmers-built. His once baggy clothes now clung to his body showing his new built. His had that was once bald now grew to become long dark hair that reaches pass his shoulders, his arrow on his head only showing the tip of it underneath his new hair. While he was cute at fourteen year old form in his adult form he became as handsome as Ranma is.
"Interesting," Ranma said as he looks Aang over, "The power that you hold is so powerful that your younger body couldn't handle it so it transforms you so that when you unleash your full power you grow into your adult form."
"Wait you mean when Aang grows up he will look like that?" Katara ask as she stood next to her brother again, 'Wow he will sure grow up.'
"That's so unfair," Sokka said as Aang gets to become a man sooner then he could.
"This fight has gone long enough," Ranma said as he grabs Aang's staff throwing it to him, "How about we end this with one strike so do not hold anything back."
"Do not worry I won't," Aang said in a much deeper voice then the one of his younger self.
They stare at each other as they dash forth. As they ran pass each other their weapons clash together as they ran pass Aang using his Air Bending to increase his running speed while Ranma uses his Gale Rune to reach supersonic speed. They became blurs one a glowing blue the other red as they ran faster and faster trying to hit the other. Katara and the others as well the ones who are watching eyes couldn't keep up with them as they were running that fast. The only time they're able to see them is when their weapons connected with each others was the only time that they could make out their forms.
Ranma leaps into the air jumping over Aang who ran under him twisting around throwing his sword at his student. Aang feeling the sudden change in the air around him twists his body around as the sword hits where he would have been if he didn't stop. With his newfound power he could feel the very air around him sensing the air pressures and how the wind changes around him he's able to tell when an attack is coming at him even if he couldn't see it. Aang jumps into the air as he felt the air become static charge as one of Ranma's lightning attacks flew under him. He turns around facing Ranma as he flies at him spinning his staff so fast its nothing but a blur. Ranma raise both his arms blasting two beams of lightning at him. He continues to fly at him using his spinning staff to shield him from the full force of Ranma's attack powering his way through. He stops spinning his staff and lets Ranma's attacks hit him full force so that he can have an open strike at his teacher. With his staff spinning at that great speed and once it hits a target after spinning at that kind of high speed the damage would be intense. He knew that he might not live after delivering this attack but he needs to win as there's too much at stake for him to lose.
The shockwave that created from Aang's staff hitting Ranma's chest could be felt from where the others are watching the fight could feel hitting them as it pass. Aang and Ranma stood motionless as Aang grips his staff tightly as he embeds it into Ranma's chest his body reverberated back to his younger self as his older body took too much damage to stay in his transform form. Ranma arms are still outstretched as he stares into the face of his student smiling.
"You have done well Aang," Ranma whispered as his body started glowing, "From this moment on you will wield my power."
Aang stares as his teachers body starts breaking apart like a piece of paper that's has been burnt turning to ash breaking apart with the slightest touch. The pieces broke apart turning into sparks as they were absorb into his body, he could feel Ranma's power flowing through him now. His hands began to spark as lightning cover them.
"Thank you Ranma for everything," Aang said as his eyes shine with tears.
"Well done Avatar Aang," MadHat said as he reappears, "You put up one hell of a show. I went and opened a window to this world so that the people back in your world would be able to watch."
"What about Ranma is he gone forever?" Aang said as he fell to his knees as his body energy levels are about to give out.
"He can no longer take solid shape anymore that's the price that he paid for giving you his power. But don't be sad he's still around, just in a form that you can't see," Mad smiles at him, "I'll go and send all of you guys back to your world now."
"Good there's still that Fire Army to deal with," Sokka said.
"Do not worry I already handled them," Mad said as he had teleported all of them back to the Fire Nation, "They're all back at home it will take them awhile for them to get back to the Northern Fort. While the Viper Unit will take even longer to recover from the beating that I gave them."
"You did?" Katara ask seeing him nod back.
"I'm staying," Iroh spoke up, "I need to find Zuko."
"Alright," Mad said as Aang, Sokka and Katara vanish in a flash of light. Appearing next to Iroh casing an energy bubble around both of them, "I'll take you to your nephew." The bubble they're incased in floated up then flew down through the clouds to the land down below.
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Back in the Human World –
Sokka and Katara help Aang walk as he fell unconscious after they were teleported back. "We got to get him to bed," Katara said as she and her brother carry his body into the village.
"Guys you're back!" Katt shouted to them first to come out of the village gate, "We saw everything that happen to you guys."
"Yeah we already know that," Sokka said as they enter the village as the villagers surround them, "Mad took care of the Fire Army?"
"Yes he made them all disappear before he left," Katt said, "You guys can put Aang in my house."
"Thanks," Katara said as she and Sokka carry Aang to Katt's house for a well earn rest.
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In the Spirit World –
When they landed Iroh saw that they're standing in front of ancient ruins. Stone art works are covered with overgrowth as the forest that were cut down grew back. Broken cobble roads still made a thin outline of the streets of the city before it was worn down by the test of time. He could make see the tops of some of the buildings peeking out from the tree tops which had to be once a grand city. On top of one temple looks like a ship with a dragon figure head on it the ship is bigger then any ship that he has seen before. But without any water around for it to float on he couldn't see a reason for it being there, unless it could fly. (4)
"This was once a great city that once existed in the human world. But because they tried to take control of the Spirit World and this is the result of their greed, their entire city was blasted here in the very world that they tried to take control of," Mad explains to his passenger.
"Where's Zuko?" Iroh ask as he needs to give his nephew a descent burial.
"Over there," Mad said turning his face to where Zuko body lay.
The batter form of Zuko floated in a pool of water of an old stone fountain, being lit by a beam of light peeking through the cloud cover above them. His clothes are in ruins but his body seen to be untouched by Ranma's lightning attack. The pool he's floating in seemed to glow a strange glow that Iroh could feel. Every so often a spark of lightning would came out of Zuko's body radiating across the pool.
"What's happening to him?" Iroh ask as Zuko body began jerking each time a spark came out of him.
"He's changing," Mad smile knowingly, "Transforming into something else beside a Fire Bender."
"He's changing?" Iroh ask before figuring out what he meant, "He's changing into a Lightning Bender isn't he."
"Yes he is," Mad smiles, "Ranma decide to spare his life at the cost of his Fire Bending but Zuko is going to return as the first true Lightning Bender once he awakens. The pool he's floating in is a healing spring that can save a life even on the very edge of death's doors."
"I'll just wait for him to wake up then," Iroh said glad that Zuko is still alive. Then he notice that several small beings began walking up to him and the fountain. They're short standing only at three feet, Iroh notice that they came in three different types. They all look like dolls with yellow skins and solid green or blue eyes, no noses or ears. The difference between the three types is what kind of outfits they're wearing and what weapons they held. The ones arm with swords and shields wore blue colored armor with an acorn like helmet. The ones with bows wore green colored armor their helmets have a red feather sticking out from the top. The last ones wore red hooded robes holding staffs. (5)
"What are they?" Iroh said looking at the small creatures surrounded the pool staring at Zuko.
"They are the Nuts they use to serve as expendable soldiers for this city," Mad replies, "The ones with the swords are the Nut Troops, ones with bows are Nut Archers and the ones with the staffs are Nut Mages."
"Why are they here?" Iroh ask as they paid no mind to him only forcing on Zuko.
"They aren't born but made from factories made out of clay and metal. They do not need to eat but they still need energy to power them and the ancient people that use to live here could create a form of lightning to power them. When all of the people here died the Nuts had no one to keep them energize so they all powered down when they drain all of their power cells. But since Zuko being a Lightning Bender now…"
"With him sending out sparks like that he's refueling them," Iroh finish what Mad was saying.
"Yes and once he's awakens they'll follow him as they will follow the orders of whoever wakes them up. This city holds a way for you two to return to the mortal world without my aid. The Nuts will help you with that all you need to do once Zuko awakens is to find a Nut Mage wearing gray robes they're the only ones that can talk. The people here kept supplies in seal rooms and they're all still in good shape even the food supplies are still eatable," Mad informs him as he disappear in a flash of light.
"Uncle?" Iroh turns to see Zuko raising himself out of the pool he lost his balance falling but got caught by the Nuts around him. He gets a good look at them as well as where he and Iroh are, "Who are they and where are we?"
"Well you could say it's a long story," Iroh said as he has a feeling that this was only a new beginning for both of them.
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"Things went as planned," Ranma said as Mad appear again, "You're a lot like your sister."
"Yeah but only I would go for such a far fetch plan as this," Mad smiles, "Getting Aang to beat you so I can transfer the Lightning Rune into him so that all following Avatars will have Lightning powers as well. And leaving the former prince Zuko and his uncle at those ruins where once they look around will find the ship Iroh saw is able to fly once Zuko recharges its power cells with his new found lightning powers."
"Everything will work out for Aang and the others?"
"Do not worry they'll be fine you trained them well."
"Where are we now?" Ranma ask him.
"Why the next stage of production where else," Mad smiles as a gateway opens up in front of them.
"I hope you know where you're going."
"Well if you walk far enough you'll always get somewhere," Mad chuckles as they step through the gateway leaving behind a brighter future for the world they're leaving behind them.
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Next Time – We'll take a look of how Harry Thunders is getting along at Hogwarts in the next chapter and maybe a peek of what's going on in the combine worlds of Marvel and DC.
Author's Notes
1 – When Aang and the Ocean Spirit combined to destroy the Fire Army invasion force.
2 – Mackey and his team from 'The Shield'.
3 – World Evil Empire
4 – The Airship in 'Onimusha 2'.
5 – The Nut people from 'Breath of Fire'.
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