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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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The Rune's Strike –
In a rundown area of Tokyo a gang of young teenagers ranging from sixteen to ninteen. Taro Umetsu had been in with the Lotus-Blossom gang since he was twelve. His parents, both from traditional fishing families, had both been killed in a freak typhoon and he was supposed to have been brought up by his older brother Osamu. Although he had been failing school and into drugs and petty crime even before the loss of his mother and father. Their deaths had sent him right over the edge. He had gone off the rails and had rapidly become uncontrollable. His older brother with a new wife and infant daughter to look after couldn't cope with an unruly and sometimes violent criminal for a kid brother and had thrown him out.
Taro had quickly found a new home with his gang of like minded teenagers. They lived in the top attic level of a written off derelict warehouse in the dock's district. And there were currently seven of them not counting himself. Tao, Hajime, Yudai the eldest, Kane the youngest, and the twin girls Yuki and Mayumi. Both were street girls, runaways who had found relative safety in the gang, though at the price of free use of their bodies.
It was something both the girls had been shown the worth of early on and neither saw anything wrong or abusive in sexual bartering. In fact a few of the male gang members had also been introduced to sexual bartering on the streets, but no one really talked about that. The girls weren't really treated all that well, but at least they were safe within the gang and had beds to sleep in and dryness and warmth in winter time and they were fed adequately and the drugs kept them all entertained.
Plus there was the excitement of the not quite legal things they got up to after dark, and the more successful they found themselves the more extravagant their plans became. A few times they had been employed by one of the more established pseudo-Yakuza gangs to do some grunt work and that had been fun, a look at the other side, a bit of inside experience and more money than they usually made on their own scams, though the work was dangerous. They had lost three of their number on the last run, so now there was just the seven of them for the time being and they were avoiding the Yakuza for a while.
That's when they met the leader of the Rune's leader who appeared one day out of the blue. She gave them magic and all she asked in return was for them to pull some jobs for her every now and then. She disappeared as quickly as she came leaving the gang with magic base powers. Which got Taro thinking as he had read so many comics and mangas while growing up and came up with the idea for all the gang to dress in customes like in the comics. And the warehouse that they made their home in was an old storage building for customes for old tv shows that have long been off the air.
He now went by the name of Quackerjack the leader of a clown base gang. His appearance is of a twisted variation on the traditional clown getup. His wild tuffy hair resembles fire, and green makeup on his white face above his eyebrows suggests an unfriendly attitude. Evil, yellow eyes glare out of dark sockets, and he grins with a green-rimmed mouth of yellowed, protruding teeth under a big red nose. His fingernails are long and dirty, and his polka-dotted costume is stained with blood. He has a Fire Rune on his body and uses a small chainsaw.
Tao was now, Bonk a big, powerful, but surly enforcer / muscleman in the gang's ranks. Though amazingly strong, Bonk is not a thug who takes orders willingly. He's got a hair-trigger, and is liable to start up with anyone who gets in his way. His custome was his hands and head covered in white and wore a red long sleeve shirt underneath a black one shouldered overralls. He has an Earth Rune on his body now allowing him to cause quakes, he's also equipped with a massive hammer with a Killer Rune on it. He's able to deliver massive damage with this weapon.
Hajime was now, Chucko obese, with tight-fitting pink clothes and a clown mask. He is a nasty bullying type who truly enjoys inflicting misery on others. A head enforcer for the gang, he's a lot stronger and faster than his flabby gut would lead one to believe. True to his sadistic nature, Chucko's face is always hidden behind his mocking clown mask. He's a cyborg with a few deals he made with a Yakuza cyber doctor. He now has a ball wheel instead of his normal legs and carries a lightsaber-like object that glowed red that's hot enough to melt through most things when he uses the Fire Rune he had embedded on it. The ball offers more maneuverability than he previously had with his legs and the saber adds extra "oomph."
Yuki and Mayumi were now, the Dee-Dee's. They are cute, charming, funny, and completely rotten to the core. They both wore the same costume of white face paint with red dots on their cheeks, white hats with matching shorts and red tube tops, with matching long red boots. They use an acrobatics-based fighting styleas they are extremely athletic and skilled in fighting, and they demonstrate a remarkable ability to move, talk, and fight in a coordinated manner. Both of them have a Clone Rune along with a Gale Rune to incress their speed. Now they have the ability to instantly produce duplicates of themselves whenever sufficient kinetic energy is absorbed. They also now carry a whip with a Lightning Rune embedded on both of them which electrocutes the victim on contact.
Yudai was now, Ghoul he wears ragged clothing and has grey skin, numerous stitching/scar marks and skull-like features, he had altered his appearance to make himself look undead. A jaded young runaway from a wealthy home, Ghoul joined up with the gang for kicks. He's heavily into techno-goth music and has adapted the horror look into his costume. Ghoul is never without his plastic Halloween pumpkin container he had found when he first made his costume which he keeps filled with a number of monster-inspired weapons and tricks. Ghoul went to a cyber doctor and eventually returned with a spinning blade in his right arm which he can deploy or retract at will.
Kane was now, Woof who had asked to be able to transform like a werewolf. The Rune leader using her magic infused his cellular structure with that of a spotted hyena, Woof quickly transformed (some say devolved) into the giggling, bestial, nightmare that he is today. Though he sometimes appears to be nothing more than the gang's comical mascot, Woof's crushing jaws, sharp teeth and razor-like claws make him a deadly adversary. He also been fitted with cybernetic arms which allow him to run faster than he previously could. The arms are also able to gouge materials as hard as concrete and steel, as they are sharper and sturdier than his claws once were before they were replaced with metal ones.
They now called themselves the Mad Clowns gang and been having fun with small time robberys, breaking into small shops, mugging people, and stealing car parts as they made use of their new powers. They were told that they shouldn't make themselves known until she gives them their first job for her.
They were all around the tv watching the news of the nuke being taken to that island. The ships that tried to stop the ship from reaching the island were all trap on top of pillars of ice created by the leader of the Runes. All of the aircrafts that were sent to try to overtake the ship were shot down by the leader as well as she took them down with lightning. The reporters are now buzzing with not only the treat of a nuke but also the magic powers of the Runes who have allied with the refugess.
"Looks like everything is going downhill from here," Ghoul said as he and the others were busy eating the crate of snakes they took from transport truck.
"Yes they are," a new voice said causing all of the gang members to turn towards where the voice came from.
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In the Section 9 building a meeting was taking place they were watching the footage that was taken two days ago. On screen showed naval ships stuck on top of pillars of ice, the people on board the ships had to be air lifted off and they navy would have to wait till the ice melts to recover the boats. The footage was taken a couple of hours after all the members of Section 9 were attacked by the Rune's and most still recovering from that encounter. Not only they failed to stop Kuze and his people from escaping but they had also lost their transport tiltrotor and the two Operators in the copter when the Rune's took it after they had beaten the team.
The Operators are designed to handle various tasks within the government agency Public Security Section 9, such as operating computers, carrying equipment within the agency's building, and even crewing aircraft. Physically they are gynoids, seen wearing office lady-style suits and Section 9 have a couple of them as backups. Their physical appearance is of a female wearing an office lady's suit. They have brown hair tied in a pony tail with brown eyes. It should be noted that they happen to be some of the most advanced Operators besides Proto who is a prototype bioroid. And they're very costly too which was the main cause of the headachs of losing them.
"This operation was a total failure," Aramaki said as he read the reports the team had given him, and reviewing the video fee from their cyber brains.
"Well one thing we know now is that bullets have no effect on them," Togusa said as he and the others had wastes all of their ammo shooting at the Rune members. "I'm guessing all of their armor has magical defenses like in videogames."
"And we don't have anything that can cancel out their magic," Motoko said as she had to overhual her either body to be able to move again. The lightningbolt she was hit with thanks to the leader of the Rune's sent her body systems to their limits. "Our weapons have no effect on them and they're too strong to take on head on."
"Tell me about it," Ishikawa said.
"With the news of the Runes helping Kuze, there's a nation wide panic," Aramaki said. "All Sections are now working on ways of combating this new treat but as none have ever had to deal with magic before there's little hope in coming up with a way of countering them."
"What do they want us to do then?" Proto ask.
"All Sections are to research and find anything to do with magic that maybe able to help us," Aramaki said as he's still trying to get use to the idea of magic being real. But with everything that has happen up to this point there was no way of forgetting what he has seen.
"From what the Rune leader Estella said before she sent that golem after me. Is that for magic to work she needs ingredient's to be able to use magic," Motoko said. "She mention that the potion she used to make the golem didn't have water imp nails in it, and that it was very hard to find someone selling them, these days. I'm thinking that the golem wasn't suppose to be easily beaten like it did."
"Wait you called that easy?" Batou said as he had fired at the golem with AP rounds and it didn't even slowed it down.
"That's what I'm saying," Motoko said. "That the golem wasn't completed. If it was it wouldn't had been that easy to blown up like it did. From what I'm guessing is that their limit of using magic is the amount of ingredients that are needed for the spell to work. And sinceas Estella said the reason why there's no magic in the world today is that it's so hard just trying to find the ingredients even for the most simplest of spells. Sooner or later they will run dry on their supplies."
"Not soon enough," Paz said as a news flash suddenly pop up showing the area around the harbor of the city. Walking out from the sea were what looked like dozens of giant robots. But they weren't any model anyone had ever seen before as they were a mix of metal and rock. The members of the team that were there at that party when they first learned the name of the Runes, those things were golems.
One of the golem's stood in front of a news crew filming the invaders. This golem was equipped with a flail, an enormous studded ball attached to its left arm by a chain on the other arm a massive claw. And in the middle of it's chest was a tv screen, that suddenly turned on. The gasmask wearing leader of the Rune's appeared on the tv.
"Greetings Japan, as many already know but for the sake of those who don't, I am the leader of the Runes, Estella. Now as you must all be wondering why hundreds of golems are now marching through the streets is because that story of having a nuke on Dejima Island is false as the case the nuke was supposed to be in was empty. So I came up with another plan, all of the golems making their way into the city are walking bombs each one having enough power to take out everything in around ten city blocks, all spread out in the city. And before any of you think about shooting at them, they can't be destroyed from the outside as my magic protects them from anything sort of magical attacks which is in a very sort supply these days. My demand is simple, independants for Dejima Island. If not my golems will just have to continue on march until they reach the closest fault line and dig themselves deep into it and all blow up at the sametime. There are over eight hundred of them all with a powerful bomb enhanced by magic all blowing up inside of a fault line at once. It's never been done before as its too dangerus as any blast could jump start a huge earthquake all over Japan and might even cause all of the volcanos to go off as well. Well if the goverment doesn't answer back in twenty-four hours which is when the golems be out of my range to be called back, everyone will find out what happens when you use a bomb inside a fault line," the screen went blank and the golem continued on marching with its kin.
"All of them blowing up inside a fault line," Togusa said as he felt something cold go down his back. While nukes were deadly they could be dealt with thanks to the "Japanese Miracle", radiation scrubbers, which negate the effects of nuclear fallout. But earthqaukes and volcanos were something that couldn't be dealt with only try to prepare for and surviving. (1)
"Over eight hundred each can destroy ten city blocks...," Batuo said. "If they reach a fault line and blow up it could cause a quake all over Japan."
"Where's the closest fault line?" Aramaki ask.
"The nearest one is twenty miles from here," Borma said remembering a listing of fault zones he had seen on the news after a minor quake hit the city a few years ago.
"How do we stop magical golems from blowing up inside a fault line," Motoko said as she watches the police trying to stop the golems soon joined by the army that have been gathering around the city since the nuke was said to have been sent to Dejima Island. They were hitting the golems with everything they have but that wasn't stopping them as they walk through the gun fire like a light rain. The tanks and mechs that tried to stop them were either crush or thrown aside as the golems proved to be stronger then the robots and powersuits.
"Estella said that only magic can hurt them. I'm guessing the only way of fighting magic is with magic," Ishikawa said.
"Good luck in finding what has real magic and which ones are fakes," Paz said.
"What we really need now is someone who knows about magic," Togusa said. "But where are we going to find someone like that?" (2)
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Author's Notes –
1 – What would happen if you blow up a bomb inside a fault line or a volcano?
2 - Any ideas of which magic users I should use? And no I'm not going to add Sailor Moon I already did her before.
Also the movie Postal by the bad director Uwe Boll is coming out soon. You know the one who made House of the Dead • Alone in the Dark • BloodRayne • BloodRayne II • In the Name of the King the bad movies base on videogames. Whatever you do don't watch it, don't buy it and don't rent it. If enough of us gamers don't watch or buy his films he won't be able to make another bad videogame base movie again!
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