Ranma 1/2: Anything Goes in the Apocalypse
Disclaimer: This is a fan-fiction and not an official Ranma 1/2 Storyline. All rights to the official name and official characters are reserved for their proper owners.
Before you Read: As the Chapter title suggest, I am starting this story at the same point as the Ranma 1/2 Anime.
Another thing: ++++ Represent any setting change or time-skip.
Episode 1: Here's Ranma! . . . Ranma? /Episode 2: You'll Know, Just Not Soon Enough
"RANMA, get a grip, we got to barricade the house and the dojo! There's no telling when there will be more of those things!" Ranma was in a daze and didn't understand until he looked at the strong, but mortified blue-haired girl in front of him, mailing boards to the entrance and windows. He was so confused, where was he, why was this girl yelling at him? Why was there blood everywhere? Wait, BLOOD?! There was blood covering everything, the floors, the walls and even the pond seen outside was a scarlet red, and there were a few corpses in the courtyard, but why was this happening. He began to cry, where was pops, where was he in this hellscape?! Sure he could be terrible as a person and even worse as a father, but he was all Ranma had because he didn't know who his mother was. Then he heard what could only be described as a blood-curdling scream in the distance, so loud, he felt he might go deaf. "Ranma, what the hell are you waiting for, we're screwed if they get in!" Ranma then heard footsteps, then three figures ran into wherever the heck he was, two women, just barely looking older than the girl he had just met, and an older gentlemen dressed in all brown, whom he assumed was their father. "Akane, Ranma, you both hear that just now? Quick, we have to get to the safe room, hurry!" As he is running to the safe room with these strangers, Ranma hears a loud crash behind him, followed by a slightly quieter but still deafening screech. The four have entered the next room waiting for him to hurry. The panicked blue haired girl then looked at Ranma, mortified before shakily saying, "Oh my God. RANMA, FUCKING RUN IT'S RIGHT THE- '
As a Panda carrying a small red headed child on his shoulder, he notices people beginning to stare has he walked. This gave him the idea to just roar at anyone staring to scare them off, hoping they won't call the po-po. The Panda then walks on getting close to his destination. As the Panda and the girl reach their destination, the Tendo household, there are four people inside talking. They are Soun Tendo, a father of three daughters, Kasumi Tendo, the eldest of the three, Nabiki the middle child and last but not least the youngest of the three, Akane Tendo. The conversation goes as follows
-" I have to do WHAT!? Marry the son of YOUR friend to honor an agreement from over 10 YEARS ago!?" argued an extreme pissed and man-hating Akane.
-"Well he IS the same age as you, and you never know, maybe this will help you actually like men instead of wanting to take their heads off." reasoned a calm, yet smug looking Nebiki.
-"Your sister is right Akane. There is also the matter that you haven't even met the boy yet, you both might have something in common if you would just take the time." Said by Soun, a visually nervous wreak, shaking at the thought of his daughter being wedded, but calm to know who it is to be.
-"There is also the fact that they came all the way from China to meet with you after training for many years." said a composed and modest Kasumi.
Footsteps are heard over the sound of cold rain and the television. The Tendo daughters, now fixated on the door that would reveal their new guest and a new fiancee.
As their father greeted their out of sight guest, the Tendo daughters held their breath to hear the voices just outside. All they heard. . . . . . was just their father making noise. "Huh", "It's really you Saotome?" Just how did this all happen? Then, just as Nebiki was going for a quick look, the doors of their home shot open and the sight was . . . really something to behold. A black and white panda, holding a small red-headed girl, was now in their common room. After a few moments, the three sisters were confused "Was this really Akane's new fiancee!?, she was a girl!" Dad, who is she? You know Akane's straight, right daddy? Yes, father, I wonder the same thing, why is there a girl here instead of a boy?
After hearing the hiss of hot water, the panda became a MAN!? "What sort of trick was this?" the sisters thought. Hello to you all, I am Genma Saotome, your father's best friend from when we trained together as students of the Anything Goes Martial Arts! This is my trainee SON, Ranma Saotome. All the girls, including Soun, gasped at the sight. THIS was the fiancee that Akane was to marry one day. At the sight of everyone staring at her, or more likely her chest, she immediately stood up.
-The girl woke up with a scream, "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH" followed by heavy breathing until she realized that it was only a nightmare. But she looked around and hugged her father immediately. "Dad, I'm so sorry that I too you for granted!" As the girl sobbed, Genma was taken by a mix of fear and surprise, he didn't understand why his son would actually apologize to him for something like taking him for granted, let alone apologizing at all!
-Control yourself boy! Genma then knocks his son on the head, trying to snap some sense back into his son. Ranma, regaining some of her composure then saw who else was in the room and fainted AGAIN looking like he had saw some kind of ghost or monster!
-Genma, is Ramna alright, and is she really a he?! I need some answers right now, a now confused Soun trying to piece together what just happened. As the two started to talk, the three sisters took the fiancee to Akane's room because, as Nebiki states, "It's your fiancee, he's goin in your room tonight." Akane protested but conceded to taking the fainted red headed girl into her room to sleep.
The next morning, they all woke up to see that the red head was replaced by a taller, more muscular and conscious, BLACK-HAIRED boy.
-The three then sprinted towards the boy, who look identical to the girl from the previous evening! "Who are you!?" the three said in unison.
-"Sorry, we haven't properly met,my name is Ranma Saotome and I train in the Anything Goes School of Martial arts!" But as he finished the sentence, he stared at Akane, but only Akane, with a worried look in his eye.
-I know we just met, but can I ask, what's your name?
-Akane Tendo, nice to meet you, these are my older sisters, Kasumi and Nebiki. How do you do Ranma? Nice to meet ya, Ranma.
-She noticed that his eyes became almost alarmed by her name, she had to fin out why, but that request was granted when he, with a nervous tone asked her a question.
-"Hey can we talk in private for a sec? I need to talk to ya."
Soun and Genma, not seeing the odd expressions, took this as the first step between the relationship between the two fiancees.
-Wow Saotome, your son seems to have taken the initiative and my daughter seems okay to be to talking to a man in private, alone at that. THANK THE GODS!
-"Okay Ranma, what is it, I also have some questions." Akane just wanted to know what in God's name happened last night!
-"Alright, but first, I need to know. Have there been any recent, I don't know, zombie infections as of late?"
-What the-, biological infections? Zombie infections? What in the world was this guy talking about? But something worried her, his eye told her that this was no laughing matter, he was deadly serious.
-No of course not, the closest Nuclear power plant isn't even close to Nerima! Internally, Akane is thinking, "What is with this guy, first there's last night and now this? I don't know how much more I can take of this."
My turn Ranma, I really need some answers right now!
-Okay Akane, shoot.
-First of all, WHY AN YOU TURN INTO A GIRL?
-That is because of an incident with a very long story my pops is probably tellin Mr. Tendo.
-Then what about last night, looked me and my sisters like we were moving corpses, why was that?
-Oh . . . that was . . . that was . . . Ranma's expression turned to pure and terrified dread, Akane could've swore she saw something move in his eyes, like he was seeing a memory that haunted and disturbed him
so much he couldn't even think about it without going completely silent and still, too still. "You don't have to answer right now, it could b-" "Ranma? Ranma!? DAD, Mr. SAOTOME! Something is wrong with Ranma! He's not moving and he's barely breathing. I'm scared dad!"
-What happened before he became like this! Genma, living every father's worst nightmare, thought of what he could do.
-I asked him about last night! I wanted to know why he looked so horrified by the sight of us, so I asked and he became like this immediately.
-As soon as Genma shook him, Ranma came back to life, not knowing what just happened.
-What is it! What are ya all lookin at me as if I died! Said a normal, annoyed Ranma as he jumped to his feet. "Hey Pops, we eatin breakfast or what?!"
- Akane, Soun and Genma looked at each other, silently vowing to never mention that night ever again... For the sake of Ranma's wellbeing and health.
The days passed as they normally did, Ranma and Akane went on with their shenanigans, met the Kunos and all had forgotten about that day, that was except for someone not present. That someone, was Nabiki Tendo, looking to profit off the situation as per usual.
-Hello father, lets you and me go for a walk, we need to discuss something privately. Nebiki said with innocence in her voice. "Sure, hey Kasumi, don't prepare servings for me or your sister, Nebiki. We're gonna go for a walk and we may get back late!"
-Okay father you two stay safe now!
Tip: I recommend using this music for the next section, to add to the rising emotion of the beginning. watch v=3DoHEvS6HA4 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
As the two left the residence, Soun started off with "So Nebiki, what did you want to discuss as we walked in the rain?" Soun thought this would be a great time to connect with his daughter who seemed to always be busy.
The words came like a deafening silence, even when spoken in such a casual tone. "I SAW WHAT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT" said the daughter, ready for her father to give into her scheme like the rest usually did. But this was a different story. "Do you want to hear what he is so afraid of that he almost DIED because he can't look at us after remembering something such as that." Her father had a cold tone that not ever her eldest sister had heard before.
-It was just an ordinary nightmare wasn't it! Why are you talking like it's gonna happen-
-Soun cut her off "Yes or no, which is it Nebiki." As soon as she heard her her name, she got goosebumps, what was her father about to tell her?
-"What I'm about to tell you, you cannot ever mention to Ranma, not even a word of it. Should he hear anything, he will enter a state that can only be compared to death itself, DO YOU UNDERSTAND?"
-"Death!? I understand, tell me what you know."
- As you know, when Ranma fainted the first night, you three took him to Akane's room. But what you do not know is that we used a hypnotic technique where Ranma would tell us what he saw in that nightmare. The technique allowed for us to figure out what had Ranma so spooked that he would faint. What he told us, I will never forget.
After explaining what he saw, Soun added details that even under hypnosis Ranma was almost too traumatized to say them. The corpses in the courtyard that he mentioned, were of his own parents, Genma Saotome and Nadoka Saotome, a mother he had long forgotten. Another thing that he mentioned was the fact that there were dozens of bodies in the dojo itself, people that Ranma had seen at school, at the local stores and even those of the Kuno family, except for one. The thing chasing young Saotome . . . was the son himself . . . just sprinting with all his might to KILL young Saotome.
After many minutes in the rain, there stood a long silence for both Soun and his daughter. "Do you understand now? This is what Saotome saw. He saw everyone he had ever known, dead and bloodied. Even the only family he has, was gone in that moment."
-"I...I had no idea. Can we even help him? DADDY IS THERE A WAY TO HELP HIM?!" Nebiki said, show the rare emotions and sympathy she had, gripping her father's clothes, hoping that there is something they can do to save him from his suffering?"
-Soun, looking up at the rainy sky, simply stated "No, there ins't a technique or spell out there that can save Saotome from this suffering." Soun and his daughter looked up at the rain, neither trying to show emotion to the other.
-"All we can do right now is allow young Saotome to live his life with his curse as a normal person" He says as he hugs Nebiki tightly, she doing the same in return. "Lets go home before everyone else worries about us."
-As they arrive at the Tendo family home, all are asleep for the night. As Nebiki passes the guest room though, she sees Genma watching his son, a female at the moment, resting peacefully. As she walks past the room, a tear falls silently from her eye wanting to save this young man from his suffering. Something she herself had a hard time believing. Her feeling bad at not being able to help someone else.
End of Episode 1:Here's Ranma! . . . Ranma?
Chapter 2: The Secret
As Ranma Saotome lives his life as a boy who can turn into a girl, he feels as if something is off with his life. Sometimes when he walks past Nebiki, he can feel her aura change from whatever she was feeling, to something deeply saddening. All it took was the sight of him, or her depending on when she saw Ranma. And she wasn't the only one. All of the Tendo's and even pops had this same effect, even though their faces said otherwise. Ranma was deepest disturbed whenever Akane was going on her usual rant about him, she would suddenly stop and look away, her aura changing the same way as the others. Even though Ranma barely knew her, he knew that this was NOT a normal occurrence. The only Tendo whose aura didn't change was Kasumi. Her and all the other students at school looked at him normally. He had been here for only weeks now, but nothing felt as it should. The only normality he felt, was when he fought his usual opponents at school, the clubs, Kuno, the principal, just anyone who won't look so sad around him.
It was already October, a fall month that had a feeling different from every other month. There were people preparing for the western holiday of Halloween, there were school festivals in the works and the energy changes he was becoming so used to, suddenly vanished. Thing were finally looking up for once. He was starting to feel welcomed, like he had a place to go home to every night. He even started to get closer to Akane despite their constant shouting matches that were heard throughout the home. Everyone had forgotten about the horrifying nightmare they had heard from Ranma Saotome in his hypnotic state entirely, like the whole event was a nightmare in itself. Things were back on track again. Ranma was fighting foes and trying to rid himself of his curse, Akane was right there alongside him, fighting his battles and occasionally fight him herself. Genma and Soun were playing their hour-long games of Shogi, Genma of course always losing and trying to cheat his way to victory. All was right in the world. D.
One day as Ranma and Akane are returning from another day of school, in another screaming match as per usual, they notice that there are two extra pairs of shoes in the doorway, but it is dead silent in the common room, they were put on-guard as this was extremely abnormal. They then took a walk around to the dojo.
-Hey Akane, any idea what everyone is planning?
-I was't told a thing, if anything, I would've thought that your Dad would've told you something!
Both, now annoyed by the situation, walked into the dojo, without notice and saw the two guests.
Ranma! A woman with dark red hair exclaimed, "She appeared to old enough to be his mother. Could she actually be?" Akane thought as she looked with shock at the beautiful woman.
RANMA! An furious looking boy called Ranma, ready for a fight. "And who the heck was he supposed to be, a gay fiancee that Mr. Saotome set up?" "Then again, does he really know these people? They know him, that's for sure." Akane thought, analyzing the situation while looking back and forth between Ranma and their unknown guest.
"So . . . Who are ya guys again? Pops, who are they, do you know?"
Before the woman could speak, they boy rushed up to Ranma:
Ranma, it's ME, Ryoga Hibiki! We went to junior high together before you moved here!
Ranma took a second, then a minute, the several minutes before saying:
OH YEAH! You're the guy who challenged me an never showed up!
WHAT!? That's it, we're gonna fight here and no-
"RYOGA, do you not remember what we discussed?!", interrupted a demonic-looking Soun.
yes, sir. Said a frightened Ryoga.
And who're you supposed to be? Another person that's gotta grudge against me?
The woman looked half defeated, but half overjoyed. " No Ranma, it's me . . . . your MOTHER." Ranma seemed to hear what she said but couldn't register the sentence he had just heard.
"You're not jokin are ya? This has to be a misunderstanding-" Ranma was almost hysterical but then was then cut off by an ashamed Genma. "No boy, it's true she is your mother, Nadoka Saotome."
Ranma ran the her and they embraced each other. "Mom! after all these years of not knowing who you were *sob*" Ranma spoke in between sobs, not caring who saw. "After I *hic* heard about a boy defeating local terrors, I jut knew *hic* it was you, my son!"
After leaving the three to reconnect as a family, the Tendo's and Ryoga went into the common room to relax themselves. Akane and Nebiki turned on the television, Soun started a game of Shogi with Ryoga and Kasumi started lunch for the Tendo's and the Saotome's. In the dojo, a family was reuniting once more.
-So Ranma, Genma, where has our training taken you two? I want to know everything!
-"So where should we start Pops? When I first started trainin? China? When we started livin here? About my now fian-"
-Hush boy, I'll start when you first started trainin-" ! Now Nadoka cut off Genma, with a malicious aura now taking place over her peaceful one.
-Ranma, that last thing, what were you about to say?
-Oh? Dad didn't tell ya? Before I was born, these two boneheads created a marriage contract saying I would marry one of Mr. Tendo's daughters.
-O Y? Nadoka slowly turned to face Genma. "I'M GONNNA BE A GRANDMOTHER, THIS IS A DREAM COME TRUE!" She started to fantasize about what her grandchildren would look like, "What color would their hair be?' "Would they get Ranma's looks" etc.
-"Huh?!" Genma and Ranma said in unison, confused by the sudden mood change.
The three talked some more and as Ranma left, Nadoka was about to follow their son, but Genma held her back:
-There's something you should know, that happened the day we arrived. This information is never to even be spoken in Ranma's vicinity.
Nadoka, worried abut hers son sat down, wondering what could be so wrong in a home that seemed so happy.
In a serious tone, Nadoka asked:
-Okay, tell me, what is so bad that it could harm my very son by just hearing it? What happened to my son.
Genma then proceeds to tell Nadoka everything, the panic, the fainting, the hypnosis and finally, the promise made.
-Who else knows about this? TELL ME! WHO ELSE KNOWS HOW MY SON ALMOST DIED?! A now distraught Nadoka yelled
-Calm down Nadoka-
-Calm down?! CALM DOWN?! You just told me that reminding our son of a nightmare could KILL my baby boy. I haven't seen him since he was two Genma. How do you expect me to calm down.
Nadoka fell silent remembering the day that Ranma was born. His smile was so bright. She remembered his first steps, remembering her boy the last she had seen him.
it hasn't affected him since then. The only people aware of this are me, Soun, Akane and Nebiki. Ranma himself isn't even aware.
As Ranma entered the common room, he sat next to Akane, watching television. Soun, not seeing his best friend or his wife coming back from the dojo wondered and asked Ranma:
-Saotome, where are your parents? Are they still in the dojo?
-Yeah, Pops said that they had to discuss some private matters, and I didn't want to stick around and find out what THAT meant.
Soun, thinking about the two decided not to interfere. But his thought was interrupted by the sound of Ranma's parents running behind him into the common room.
-"Dad, come look, QUICK!" Akane sounded scared of something, but what?
As both families and Ryoga sat in front of the television, it was an emergency broadcast that was sounded by the national emergency alarm used for things such as large earthquakes or tsunamis. But this was different. It didn't show an earthquake or a tsunami. It showed something very different.
The Prime Minister of Japan walked into view.
|| WARNING: THIS IS A SPECIAL BROADCAST FROM THE PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN, PLEASE STOP WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND PAY ATTENTION TO THE FOLLOWING BRIEFING FOR THE DAYS AND WEEKS TO COME||
PRIME MINISTER: TO THE PEOPLE OF JAPAN, THIS IS AN EMERGENCY, AN UNIDENTIFIED BIOLOGICAL INFECTION HAS SPREAD IN CHINA. WE DO NOT KNOW OF IT'S SEVERITY OR HOW IT AFFECTS THE HUMAN BODY.
ALL WE KNOW OF THIS INFECTION IS THAT IT IS SPREADING QUICKLY AND IT'S PLACE OF ORIGIN. THE ORIGIN OF THIS INFECTION IS SAID TO BE THE PLACE KNOWN AS . . . . . . . . . THE CURSED SPRINGS OF
JUSENKYO TRAINING GROUNDS. THIS PLACE IS LOCATED IN THE BAYANKALA MOUNTAINS OF THE QINGHAI PROVINCE. WE KNOW THAT THE INFECTION SPREAD FROM THESE CURSED TRAINING GROUNDS TO A
NEARBY VILLAGE OF A FEMALE-DOMINANT TRIBE. IF YOU OR ANYONE YOU KNOW HAS BEEN TO CHINA RECENTLY, QUARANTINE THOSE PEOPLE IMMEDIATELY AS THEY MAY BE INFECTED! IF YOU SEE SOMEONE ACTING
STRANGELY IN PUBLIC, DO NOT APPROACH THEM, AS THEY MAY BE INFECTED ALREADY. TO STAY SAFE, BOARD UP ALL WINDOWS AND DOORS WITH BARRICADES. IF A PERSON ASK TO ENTER YOUR HOME, DO NOT LET
THEM ENTER, DO NOT EVEN MAKE NOISE AS TO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU ARE HOME. IF A PERSON TRIES TO ENTER YOUR HOME WITH FORCE . . . .THEN. . . . . THEN YOU HAVE FULL AUTHORITY TO . . .TO . . . . TO . . .
. TO USE DEADLY FORCE TO PROTECT YOURSELF AND THOSE YOU LOVE. PREPARE TO BE HOME FOR WEEKS AND EVEN MONTHS. I PRAY FOR THE SAFETY OF EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU AND MAY GOD HAVE MERCY ON US ALL
||THIS WARNING WILL BE IN EFFECT UNTIL WE CAN BE CERTAIN THAT THE INFECTION HAD BEEN ERADICATED. UNTIL THEN, THIS MESSAGE WILL PLAY EVERY TWELVE HOURS EACH DAY||
End of Episode 2: The Secret