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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!

Just to let you guys know that I'm doing a combine fic with Matthew Talbain. He's doing the story from his point of view and I'm doing from my point of view. So bare with the sidestories as they pop up every now and than.

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Chapter 54 – Unexpected Arrival (Sidestory)

The enemy made up of Harmonia and the new Underworld army had retreated from the multitude of battlefronts that took place since early morning to the twilight hour. But it didn't matter to the residents of Windia Castle or the other castles that serve as a front to protect the Grassland villages. Their leader the one that united the factions of the Grasslands, has been taken from them. And this time, he was alone with only Estella and Jeane who were caught in the blast according to Rody who was with them when it happened during the battle. It has been some days since that green blast had stolen their leader from them, and they were getting along without him. As he wouldn't have wanted them to dell on him when he's gone, but still...

Everyone seemed dead to the world. Hopes were falling, and dreams were slowly being crushed. Reni, who had been depending on her father to return, was the worst off. She now had nobody. Her former mother, though Reni could see the tears in her eyes when they saw each other, she scared her to no end. And her father, her only source of comfort, was gone. The other women are trying to help her but they couldn't replace her father or the bond she once shared with her mother.

The master of Lake Castle who is friends with the leader of the Grassland forces, took his friends disappearance hard. Without his friend he felt alone as he was the very first one that greeted him becoming friends when he first came to the Grasslands. Now with him gone it fell onto him to keep both Lake Castle and Windia Castle running as well both of the castles armies. There is another who could lead the Grasslander's armies but he still hasn't summoned the strength or the will to do it yet. The army from Zero with its leader's from the Zero Unification War, are helping with maintaining order within the army but that could only go so far.

People were jumpy, as well, fully expecting a full-out assault at any given time. At the vaguest sign of magic being use, every single fighter in the place had their weapons drawn. They had three of their number forcibly removed; they would not allow another to be taken so easily. Rody with his sister gone spent most of the time with his nose in a book, studying up on magic. Ms. Hinako who has lost her friend Jeane buried herself into opening up the school that both of them work together to open. All of Ranma's girls, however, indeed, most of the girls of the castle, were in a volatile mood. The man they loved had been taken, an insult that would soon meet dire consequences.

It was, therefore, understandable why a whole army or women, and some men, gathered underneath the portal that was forming just in front of the castle. The swirling, rippling energy filled them all with dread, and their grips tightened on their weapons.

Suddenly, a familiar voice was heard to be screaming profanities as the portal began to shrink. The crowd collectively shook their heads. It couldn't be. There was no way.

But there was. As quickly as it had appeared, the portal began to coalesce and shrink, solidifying into a humanoid form. In mere moments, the swirling energy took on some definite color, and finally, the magic aura was gone, leaving a pig-tailed young man to fall to the ground, screaming, it seemed, at a tiny red ball of light that was following him.

"I DON'T CARE IF IT WAS THE QUICKEST WAY, I DON'T WANN-OH SHIIIIIIIIIT!"

The crowd winced as the young man was embedded into the ground face-first. He gingerly picked himself up, glaring at the red ball of light, and dusted himself off. He turned to the ball of light and sighed.

"Din, I'm sorry, but I kinda don't like bein' chucked outta mid-air like that. Now, what were ya sayin' about your sisters and their champs bein' here soon?"

The ball of light bounced up and down, apparently speaking to the young man with its odd, musical language, and he shrugged.

"Okay, so they'll be here in about twelve hours? Cool. Maybe I can get some more spell practice in, then…"

Suddenly realizing he was being watched, he sheepishly put his hand underneath his red-streaked pigtail, completely forgetting that his arm was now a silver gauntlet. "Um…hi. Sorry 'bout all this. My name-"

A tall young woman with a jade ponytail interrupted him as she latched onto him, sobbing into his chest. She was followed by two young girls, one with a pink ribbon in her blond hair, and one with short silver hair, in hugging him and crying their eyes out.

"Oh, god, Ranma, you're alive! You're alive and you're back! Oh, god, thank you. I can't believe you're back!"

The young man simply looked down and patted the girl awkwardly on the back.

"Umm….sure. Just one question."

The girl looked up, tears sparkling in her eyes, as the man she loved looked back into hers.

"How do you know my name?"

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At another place –

"Okay stop it right there," Leknaat said as they watched what's happening at Windia, the viewing globe they're watching with stop like a TV phase scene, "Why did this Goddess, Din sent a counterpart of Ranma to this world?"

"Yeah you see she and her two sisters have four siblings of Evil. They have freed this evil man named Ganondorf and, though they have taken an Artifact from him that gave him super power, they instead gave him powers from their brother, Karn. With this, Ganondorf opened a seal into other worlds, and the brother's greed brought them into the vast universes. They have afflicted two other worlds with their powers. Now, all of the Creation of Kami-sama himself is threatened by their powers. Atrophy, Ignorance, and Terror. These are the powers of the brothers, Karn, Ciylu, and Malkore. Their sisters, Nayru, Farore, and Din possess the opposites of Ignorance, Terror, and Atrophy, being Wisdom, Courage, and Power. The sisters have chosen three champions to fight against their brother's champions and they needed a base of operations. That's why he's here with the other two on their way," Chaos explains to her.

"Why doesn't Dark Hat go and handle these brothers instead?" Leknaat ask knowing that he could easily handle four gods.

"Well the reason why is that he doesn't like to clean up messes that Gods made. Kami along with his counterparts with making so many laws and rules have trapped themselves in their own systems, with them ending up being unable to do anything without destroying their system that maintains the universes. So when something like this happens he usually steps back and watch the show, since if the universe is destroyed he and the rest of the Hat's won't be affected as they have no connections to the systems that Gods and Demons uses. And if they do something that angers him enough they know once that happens they're good as dead, game over. That's why the Goddess chose this world for their champions to set up their base for going to the worlds affected by their brothers. Everyone is just plain scared of him to even to try to do something somewhere that they know he's watching."

"Than how did the sisters get Dark Hat to agree to this?" Leknaat ask puzzled.

Chaos gives her a cat grin, "Well they went and 'entertained' Top Hat and some of her girls. So that Top can get Dark to let them send their champions here."

"So did they?" Leknaat began to ask blushing, a deep red as she remembers her own encounter with the voluptuous eldest sister of the Hats, and how long it took her to be able to sit on something besides pillows afterwards.

"Yup they got more than they expected," Chaos grins, "Just like you when you and Top were having some fun. You really should have known that you wouldn't be able to keep up with her, instead of asking her 'not to stop' or 'don't stop' over and over."

"Well it was a long time since I…" Leknaat said blushing like crazy, "Let's just go back to the other Ranma."

"Alright fine," Chaos said as he started the globe again where they had left off.

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Back In Windia –

The meeting room of the castle was filled to its limit as many (mostly the women of the castle) were there. They all waited for Mind to finish with her testing of the young man that looks and says he's Ranma but doesn't know anyone there with the exception of the ones from Nerima. He's quite surprise to see Ranko. He looks like their Ranma but looking closer he doesn't carry himself as theirs does and doesn't have the hair style that theirs had adopted thanks to his sister Yun. Or has one of his arms replace with a metal one.

"Well?" Tina asked as her little sister looks over her data on her labtop as she did several test on this Ranma.

"Looking through all of these tests that, I have done on him he is Ranma but! According to this data he isn't our Ranma. He's not related to either Natsume, or Kurumi or is he related to Dr. Jones either. My best guess is that he's from another dimension," Mind said looking over her data.

Ranma in question is tied to a chair with cables and wires hooked up to his body connected to Minds computer, "Can you unhook these things already?"

"A goddess went and sent you to this world so that you'll be able to stop four evil gods from conquering worlds?" Ukyo ask him.

"Yeah that's right," he replied.

"Knowing darling something like this would happen to him," Kodachi said who made this Ranma jump in his skin when he first saw her.

"Something like this would have bond to happen," a werecat Shampoo said whose making Ranma real jumpy as while she's only half cat his fear wasn't affecting him as badly but he could feel it swelling up underneath the surface.

"Mind did big sis send you anything about this?" Tina asked knowing that she always had a hand in something like this.

"Nope," Molly said shaking her head in response.

"So my counterpart has all of you girls after him?" Ranma ask as he looks around the room.

"Yup," Molly said, "All of them are in love with your counterpart."

"Wow and I though that, I had girl problems," Ranma said looking at the crowd of women, "How did he survive having all of you girls fighting over him."

"Hey!" the women all shouted.

"Yup he's really Ranma, how he was before he matured," Kodachi growled as she doesn't like to be reminded of how she use to treated 'her' Ranma.

"I had almost forgotten how mad, I use to get at him," Ukyo said reaching for her weapon.

"He has a lot to learn before he can become a man," Hinako said who was in the room as well.

"You better come with me," Molly said as she frees him from the chair, "Before they decide to teach you a lesson."

Seeing the familiar looks and huge battle auras around the women in the room, Ranma decided that he should go with the girl whose reminds him of Washu from the anime show. "So where are we headed?" Ranma ask as he follows her through the doors and down some stairs.

"To my lab," Mind said smiling sweetly. (1)

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On the boarders of the Grassland –

"Master, I have important news for you," Starfire said as she enters his privet chambers in the underground fortress.

She found Anarchy setting on a chair in front of a desk as he uses a mirror to talk to his agents across the map and beyond, "What is so important that you interrupt me with my latest project?" He was speaking with the Ship's Guide in the latest world that he opened a gateway to.

Kneeling down she bows her head, "Master, Ranma has return from his banishment. The spies in Windia have confirmed his return."

Anarchy merely looks at her and in a tried tone, "I know but he isn't the Ranma that was banished. He's a counterpart from another dimension."

"How is that possible?" Starfire ask.

"There are four evil gods rampaging across dimensions and they have three sisters who want to stop them. These goddesses have chosen champions to fight against these gods but they needed a base for their champions to rest between battles without a sneak attack from their brothers. Dark Hat has already made it quite clear that he won't look too kindly on any god or high level demon that enters this world making it an ideal place for them to set up camp."

"Sir how did you?" Starfire stopped when her master raised a hand for her to stop.

"Remember when I gave the hired ninja that bag of gems for payment for those blueprints he stole?"

"Yes," she answered as she remembers the amount he was paid for that job.

"I was exploring that world where, I was gathering some resources, when those brothers came to free that Ganondorf fellow from the Golden Land that he's been imprison in. The Tri-force which is giving them vast amounts of power is powerful but will be useless when my grandmaster plan begins as there's a fatal flaw to that wish granting artifact created by those three goddesses. So, I left that world behind after attaining some usable items as well a vast sum of gems that are use for money instead of metals coins as it seems that gemstones are very common in that world," he explains to his most loyal general.

"Master won't Dark Hat just go and kill off those four evil gods?"

"No he won't. It's the same reason why he allowing me to finish this plan of mine. He hates gods and doesn't bother in doing anything that would destroy everything thing that they have built. I'm just lucky that he didn't come after me when Fight got humiliated by Blight. Getting hurt is one thing but doing that to any of his siblings is another."

"Forgive me for wasting your time," Starfire said as she left the room.

"Those four have always been trouble," a blond woman with a figure that's comparable to Top Hat said as she steps out of the shadows.

"I see that you have recovered from the special treatment Dark Hat put you through," Anarchy said not bothering to turn to face her, "To remind you that you can't do anything anymore without stepping into the light."

The woman growls, "This plan of yours? Do you really think you'll be able to pull it off?"

"Besides you, no one else knows the full extent of my grandmaster plan," Anarchy said in a dye tone.

"Yes but why do, I have this feeling that you're hiding more than you're letting on?"

"It's too bad that even with your power you can't read my mind as you have always done with your pawns before. But you have grown too use to having everything come easy for you like the rest of your kind. That's why someone like Ranma gets under your skin so much," he chuckles at her.

"Don't think that just because you have that blasted Rune that you're as powerful as I am. I can crush you anytime I want," she said firmly.

"Yes but if you do than your last chance to maintain your place in this world will be gone as you can no longer get help from others of your kind as they're all been scared off by Dark Hat. With those axes of his that can destroy any god, demon and anything that's been created by either, he can handle anything they might throw at him."

"This isn't over, once this plan of yours bares fruit. I'll decide whether or not, I'll keep you around," she snaps as she teleports away.

"And that's why Dark hates your kind so much," Anarchy said as he turns back to his magic mirror. In the mirror an image of a creature with a flaming horned skull appears, "I need you to keep an eye on something for me."

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Back in Windai –

In the school that Hinako had built, Nash who's been missing for days now lay on a bed in an underground room. He's been striped of all of his equipment and clothes leaving him only dress in a simple shirt and shorts. He's been kept in this room ever since he discover Little Viki's secret and was kept in by a magic bracelet that Jeane put on him after Pesmerga caught him sneaking around.

"How are you doing?" Hinako ask as she enters the room.

"Fine," Nash said, "So what you want?"

"Well since you won't tell me anything about what you know. Before Jeane disappear she sent someone that will make you talk," Hinako said as she needed to know if he has any information that would lead to the return of Ranma, Jeane and Estella back.

"And how are you…" Nash began but stopped when he saw who enter the room.

"Been enjoying your stay in the Grassland?" the chalk white skin woman said as she walks up to him.

"I'll leave you two alone," Hinako said leaving the pair alone.

"I heard that Jeane has disappeared and that you might know something," the woman said as she looks at the sweating man on the bed as she saddles his stomach, racking her nails across his chest, "Now my dear husband. Tell your wife all you know." She smiles baring her sharp fangs.

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Author's Notes

1 – He's going to wish that he stayed and let the girls tear into him once Mind is done with him.

To all of you people out there who say my fic sucks. I'll like to see any of you do better so unless you have something to tell me to improve my fic through flames go and read something else!

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