Son Turned Daughter, Chapter 62

An unusual disclaimer: Ranma 1/2 is the trademark of Rumiko Takahashi and VIZ Communications, and its characters have been borrowed without permission. And Son Turned Daughter was originally written back in zz2002 by fanfiction author Tangent. Please see the first two chapters of this series under his pen name. This series has been written for noncommercial use only.

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According to Ah!/Oh! My Goddess, the Yggdrisil System controls every aspect of the universe. Glitches thus break pieces of that reality and are usually manifested as six-legged, furry bugs with bunny ears. Sun Turned Daughter sees the gods as wanting to create a multiverse so they can explore various What Ifs. And that explains any differences between what is here and what is in the Goddess canon.

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Chapter 62

Still half-blinded from the flash and her tears, Ranma sensed a threat: A cat! A very large cat! Her phobia took over and she spun around and ran!

"Miāo, Àirén!"

Surprised, confused, she stumbled. And was tackled! Cat, cat: The girl smelled of cat!

"Nyā, Ranma! I'm so happy you're back! Turn into a man!" The girl sounded like Shampoo. She didn't speak like her! She was, in fact, speaking perfect female Japanese(?)

Ranma pushed her away enough to roll over and finally look up at her. Under her nose, out of…. No, she couldn't deal with it, yet. Instead, she looked at the cat ears twitching from the top of her head, the same color as her hair. How much of a catgirl had the Kiss-of-Death warrior become?(!)

"Shampoo, get away from Ranma!" Akane yelled, yanking the purple-furred tail that had been swishing out from a gap between her Chinese top and pants.

Shampoo spun around; her nails like claws, she slashed! Akane backed away, keeping a grip of the tail to have some sort of threat to the part-animal! But it was little use against part-human as flexible as a cat!

Akane lost her grip when she saw the changed face, "You've got cat whiskers!"

Ranma wanted to help her best friend, but was still half paralyzed by fear. She just wished Shampoo the catgirl would just, "Go away! Go away!" She made the scat gesture.

It was the opposite of the beckoning gesture, the one a Maneki-neko made. In the tournament ring, the neko-ken Ranma had dared a demon to get close. It had fled. Close enough to this foe, Ranma's infused aura was able to shoot and break the hold of what was possessing Shampoo. A six-legged, yet spiderlike bunny puffed loose and leaped towards Akane!

"Bakusai Tenketsu!" Akane cried as her finger hit the critical weak point of the non-living thing. It broke into powder and was blown away by the wind.

"Āiyō!" Shampoo cried from side pain: She was no longer able to bend like she had been. She was back to being only herself (and pulling up her pants). "Bug gone? Benten right. Say have hit bug at right, small point!"

"And I hit it at the right point?" Akane asked. Then smiled, pleased with herself, "I did, didn't I!"

"A bug did that to you?" Ranma asked, back on her feet and forcing herself to be ready to face more of the chaos-makers. "I thought they were about messing with time!"

"Bug change reality! All like change reality in different way!" Shampoo told them in her usual Chinese manner. Then she noticed, "Why Airen wear costume of Pancake Girl?" She frowned, nearly accusing the redhead of, "You have fun-time?(!)" And she glanced at Akane, a girl she suspected would love to love girls. (And by how bedraggled the dogi was, she wondered how rough she liked things.) All-three have fun-time without her? "Last time Shampoo see Airen, Ranma man!"

"I'm all girl, now. But that's not what's important for now: Akane, what happened to the demony molester!?" She thought maybe her newly discovered technique could defeat him, too.

"Master Happosai? He took one look at our catgirl and ran!" Akane said. "And Pearl-san went after him." Then she got a wicked gleam in her eyes. "We have a special weapon against the pervert."

"No! I don't think we want to see him in Neko-ken Fever!" Ranma shuddered. Then turned to Shampoo, "Where can we find more bugs to exterminate!?"

"Answer too too clear." And Shampoo looked around them.

A fire hydrant had burst and left a pillar of ice. Traffic lines moved like snakes. A smoking Mount Fuji was visible. The noon sky above was day, but the midnight one was approaching.

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In a chemise, tap panties and an iron corset, Ranma didn't scream, but s/he did retreat behind Ukyo. "What? What's the matter, Ranma-honey!?"

"It's, it's noth, thing," s/he said as evenly as s/he could.

"It's that Accursed Cat!" Cologne cried, still cross at the creature with the yellow bandana around its neck. It had been cursed from her jug of Jusenkyo water instead of her great-granddaughter.

The otherwise ordinary-looking black cat paced the wall of Furinkan High, meowed a protest, but still jumped into a steaming puddle of water. It was far deeper than it looked!

"Hot!" Ryōga cried, leaping out of it, clothed.

Leaping onto the wall, yet another Ryōga tossed himself a janitor's bucket before leaping into the himself on the ground. "More muscle lost!" he grumbled, collecting most of the puddle in the bucket before tossing it into wind. "And stay in drops!"

"But there's still a puddle!" Cologne told him. "Hit it at it's weak point!"

"Benten's Breaking Point!? I don't know it!"

"The Hair-splitting technique will not defeat the bugs!"

"I know!" he cried in frustration. "But I'm doing what I can! Look how short I am already!" It was true: He had to have lost many centimeters of his height and his clothes baggy.

"Short?!" Cologne snorted as she hit the puddle trying to escape with her staff. Pop! And it disappeared into a dry poof, also to disappear. "That technique is how I became this size!"

"You weren't cursed in the Spring of Mummy Monkey? –Ow!"

"Did Benten tell you that!?" Then she remembered, "Benten!" and roofhopped away.

With no cat visible, especially that fearsome black cat s/he associated with a demon, Ranma was back to being himself as a her. "Hey! We've got to do something about these–" A tornado suddenly touched down on the street.

It was heading towards, "Ukyo!" S/he raced towards it, yelling, "Use your Dragon Blast!"

"Against a tornado!?"

"Do it!" Ranma ordered. And s/he leaped inside the battering wind that spun her rapidly around and around!

"Ra, Ra, Ranma." The thought of seeing Ranchan dead chilled Ukyo to the bone. A chill can be more pronounced in women. She was frozen on the spot.

Until the storm's wind was lifting her off the ground. Her arm went up faster: "Hiryū Shōten Ha!" Up was powered by her ki– her cold didn't mix with the tornado's in and chi cold. She was dropped as the storm was momentarily disrupted.

It was enough. Released from her buffeting, Ranma reached the bug at the center. S/he grabbed it and punched! Up it went with all of the static she could generate from inside her iron corset. Like the monsters in the Fine Dining Tournament, like the Red Hot Tea House Kunoichi, this bug was sent directly up to the North Star!

It helped that the North Dipper was now so close it seemed like it could almost be touched! Was it falling?

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Of all of the different problems with reality that was going on, how could a Japanese ignore an earthquake?! The low-rise buildings were starting to topple onto them!

Only to straighten and lean away, each in a different direction?! Shampoo noticed, "That places like rubber!" It was true that they weren't breaking apart. And the ground they were standing on was still felt solid. For now.

Ranma recognized the neighborhood from when she had confronted Asuka and her parade float of exploding flowers. She was told then that Nerima was famous as a center for manga! "Do you hear that?! The idiots think this is an anime and are playing music!"

"Stupid comic people!" Shampoo agreed. Sort of, "This no battle song! Too much peace!"

"Hit the buildings…hit their weak points…"

"Kasumi?" Akane looked around, suddenly afraid for her older sister.

"Music stop. Player break like people inside," Shampoo said.

"No, it's back," grumbled Ranma. "Whatever. We've got to do something!"

"...Hit the weak spots?" Akane suggested. She screamed as a third story came down towards her. She wanted to escape. But how would that help her sister. Or anybody. She charged!

"Aiya! Shampoo now remember!" And she ran towards the next office building. Ranma got the idea and took a third one.

As s/he had both minutes and years ago, Ranma saw a clear, crisp, very precise point to hit. This time with chittering. She struck the gummy structure, heard the pop, saw the powder leave and felt how hard the concrete now was. Her hand, though, was still good to take on other infected buildings.

And so was Akane's. "Where's the next one!?" she grinned looking for the next target. She was made even happier when she saw that the Great and Powerful Cui-whatever had to win with her fist. She could do it with one finger. She wanted to laugh when she saw that after Shampoo had called out her Roasting Chestnuts Attack, she was still hitting her building. Time after time

after incredibly rapid time. "Shampoo want find right weak point! Shampoo keep hit until–" *Pop!* Poof.

"Ahh, ya! Shampoo beat stupid building!" (She did shake her stinging hand.)

Akane blew her frustration out her nose. And she grumbled when the actor in her noticed, "The music's gone. No climax? We didn't even get a crescendo(!)"

"Forget music. Music too too nice for battle. Is for…." Shampoo reflexively looked up. Her eyes remained on the sky. Sweeping away the midnight half of the sky with her wings was, "Angel? What Grandmother say about one with angel wing? …Shampoo no can remember." (And trying to was causing her a headache.)

"Help me with these bugs!" Ranma was wet from the rain coming down from the burst fire hydrant. She had exterminated the bug that had cause it by turning the water into ice. And there were now others of the reality vermin that had somehow been forced out into the open.

Akane saw the one closest to her and went for it. "Angels(?)! Please, Shampoo! - Bakusai Tenketsu! *Pop!* Poof - They belong in manga!"

Out of the manga office building doors came the fantastic…

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The tornado now gone and Ranma was immediately looking for the next thing to attack. It turned out not to be a thing.

"Whoo-Hoo! The red-haired pigtailed girl has a twin!" Happosai cried as he leaped off a rooftop onto her.

She was caught entirely off-guard by the utter stranger. "Get off of me, runt Creep!" S/he threw a mighty punch. Then more as he kept just out of her reach, crawling all over her torso.

He was rigorously rubbing the iron corset she was in. Especially the iron cups. "Feel the electricity between us, Toots! Love Strikes! technique!

"I'll get the creep with a Dragon Blast!" Ukyo told her.

"Ha, ha! Sure, I've got the hots for Toots, but I'm not moving off of her!"

"Then I'll run in a tightening circle!" Ranma announced. "Get ready, Ukyo!"

Coming up from behind her, Ryōga told her, "I've got him!"

"Too late!" the ninja runt laughed. One last, great rub and all the static electricity was released!

The zappzzt was very painful!

The dirty, old man fell to the ground, very ill. "Male…male, yang energy… b, b, but her twin was filled with femininity!" He wanted to throw a tantrum. But he couldn't manage it and ended up in a fetal position, trembling.

Pearl-san looked down from the roof. "I was right. Benten did concentrate her Catylist's two essences. Heaven help us all." And glancing up,

she saw the North Dipper raising in the sky as morning followed soaring wings. "Kasumi," she said, greatly impressed. "She is a host of an unlimited goddess first class."

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The Yggdrasil System is tasked with finding potential divergent points that is worth the investment it takes to create a new universe. That is why Yggdrasil placed the two Ranmas in places where she and he would react to cats, Shampoo and Ryōga.

The music came from Kasumi and her goddess oversoul, Holy Bell, singing miracles into existence. She was mainly focused on keeping people from being hurt. If she had forced the bugs out into the open before there was anybody around to hit them, they would have just gone back to making chaos.

Shampoo's hands are stinging as she not only hasn't perfected her Tenshin Amaguriken technique yet, she has been hitting dozens of bugs: Repeatedly!

Happosai gets his vitality from stealing yin-energy (according to anime only: S2E20, S.O.S.! "The Wrath of Happosai". It has been adopted here). He becomes ill touching males (for too long). And, too, he was already weak from being trapped in the cave for over a decade.

Pearl-san is a host to the oversoul called World of Elegance that is a limited goddess second class.