Urusei Ranma

by kurenai ryu

We all know the story of how Ataru was chosen to go against Lum in that game of tag for the fate of the world, but what if fate had chosen another? What if a certain Wild Horse was chosen instead? Read and let us explore yet another interesting corner of the Ranmaverse in this tale of love, martial arts, and misunderstandings.

12. Give Me That Cure Gun!

Gimme That Cure Gun!

Lum yawned as she got up and stretched. She looked at her clock and saw the time. She smiled and got up and dressed in her usual tiger striped bikini and boots before flying out the door of her spaceship towards the window of her Darling's room.

"Good morning, Darling!" She cried out happily. But when she looked around, there was no Ranma to be seen.

"Darling?" She called again as she went around Ranma's room looking for any sign of her beloved.

"Good morning, shnookums!" Kurama cried out gleefully as she burst through the door. But she found no Ranma, just Lum frowning on his bed.

"Hey! Where is he?" She said looking around. "Hey Lum, where's Ranma-kun at?"

"I don't know." Lum said dejectedly. "I came in to wish Darling a good mourning, but when I got in he was nowhere to be found. I'm worried."

Kurama lost her glare as she saw the sad and worried look on Lum's face. They may be rivals for Ranma's love, but she did consider Lum a friend. She walked over to the green and blue-haired Oni and sat next to her.

"Don't worry Lum. I'm sure Ranma-kun's alright. Wherever he is." She said. Lum sighed as her friend and rival tried to reassure her.

"Yeah. I guess." She said. Just then, Nodoka was in the doorway looking at the two sad looking girls.

"Oh. Hello girls." She said. The two aliens perked up at seeing the mother of their shared love interest.

"Mother-in-law!" Lum said as she flew over to the older woman.

"Mother-in-law, where's Darling! We came in to greet him and he was just gone!" Lum said in a panic. Nodoka smiled and sighed at one of her future daughters-in-law.

"There's no need to fret girls." She said. "Ranma left early today. It turns out the author of one of his favorite mangas just died and he went to the funeral."

"Manga?" Kurama asked.

"You mean those thick, black and white comics that Japan is known for?" Lum asked. Nodoka nodded.

"Yes, that's right. You see, Ranma told me that he was a big fan of the Dragon Ball series while he was traveling on the road with Genma. He always tried to scrape some money from that dead beat to buy a volume of it. The author died and so Ranma went to go and pay his respects."

"I see." Lum said.

"So, any idea when he'll be back form the funeral?" Kurama asked. Nodoka shrugged.

"Not really. But when he gets back I'm sure he'll be hungry. So, why don't you girls come down to the kitchen with me and we'll make something delicious for Ranma when he gets back?" Nodoka said. The two aliens looked at each other and shrugged.

"Sure, I guess." Lum said as they walked with Nodoka to the kitchen.

Meanwhile with Ranma, who was dressed in on all black Chinese outfit, we find our hero standing with a bunch of other fans of the late author, Akira Toriyama. He still couldn't believe it, the author of his favorite series, Dragon Ball, was gone. Like his mother mentioned to the girls, Ranma would always find some way to get a volume of the series whenever he could get some dough from his old man.

Reading about the adventures of Goku and his friends always made Ranma smile when he was growing up on the road. And reading about how Goku and sometimes even his son, Gohan, would train in the craziest ways to defeat their foes made him want to do the same and train even harder. And now, here he was, paying his last respects to the author of a series that kept him going for so long.

"Fancy seeing you here Ranma." Came a familiar voice. Ranma turned his head and saw none other than the Vegeta of his life, Ryoga, who was dressed in an all black version of his usual outfit. Ranma couldn't help but smile at his rival.

"Yeah, but honestly, I'm surprised to see you here Ryoga." He said with a smile. Ryoga smiled back at his rival.

"Heh. Don't be too surprised Ranma. After all, you're not the only one of us who was a fan of Toriyama-sensei." He said as walked up beside Ranma.

Both men looked at the grave of the manga artist they both admired. They both took a deep sad breath and sighed. They both just stood their for a while, thinking back on all the times they would read Toriyama's work. Imagining themselves as the heroes from the pages of his manga, arguing over which of their favorite characters was truly stronger than the other, all those sorts of things.

"Welp, I guess there's only one thing left to do." Ranma said.

"Yep." Ryoga nodded.

Both boys brought their hands to their sides, Ranma having one hand over the other and Ryoga having one hand behind the other. They both closed their eyes and took a deep breath as they imagined themselves about to fire the signature attacks of their favorite characters.

"Kamehameha." Ranma said as he slowly thrust his hands out.

"Galick Gun." Ryoga said as he did the same.

The two young men stood there like that for a few seconds before lowering their hands and sighing again. They opened their eyes to see the grave once again.

"Whelp, not much else to it I guess." Ranma said as he looked to his rival.

"Say, in the spirit of our little truce, you want to swing by my place and get some real food to eat?"

Ryoga gave a small glare at Ranma.

"I don't need your charity." He said, only for his stomach to growl at him. Ryoga gave a sheepish smile and chuckled.

"Well, then again...I guess I shouldn't pass up a free meal." He said as he turned to make his leave, but turned to see Ranma still looking at the grave.

"You coming?" He asked.

"Give me another minute." Was all Ranma said. Ryoga nodded and walked to stand by a nearby tree so he wouldn't get lost while waiting for Ranma.

Ranma sighed again as he looked at the grave of the man who wrote the manga series that helped him through his lonely childhood. No matter where he went, there was always a shop that sold a copy of Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z. Growing up, he idolized Goku and strived to be at least half as good as his hero.

Ranma smiled a sad smile as a tear slid down his cheek. He brushed the tear away and knelt down to be able to talk to the tombstone of the late manga author and artist.

"Hey Toriyama-sensei. Name's Ranma, I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for creating a great series that helped me through some tough times. I'm sure you've heard that a lot today, but from me, it's the truth. I never stuck around one place for very long, no mother to comfort me and a bogus dad that only looked out for himself. The only real comforts I had in life were my martial arts training and your manga."

"You created heroes, villains and stories that made traveling more barrable for me. After a long day of all the crap I had to go through, it always made me happy to pull out a copy of one of your manga and just lose myself in its pages. Domo arigato Toriyama-sensei. Sarabara."

And with that, Ranma got up and turned to walk over to where Ryoga was waiting for him. Unknown to the two young martial artists, there was one other person paying his respects to Akira Toriyama. But unlike them, this person idolized the villains. Freeza, Cell, Buu, Zamasu, Goku Black, these were the heroes of this person.

The man was only about a year or two older than Ranma and Ryoga, of decent height, slim athletic build, but the most noticeable characteristic of this person was his hair which arced off in two different directions as it swooped out backwards like a pair of horns. He took a deep breath and sighed as he turned to head off on his own.

Normally by now he'd be off to find his next prey. A strong fighter, a master martial artist, or some idiot going around calling himself a 'Hero of Justice' or something like that. But not today. Today, since it was the funeral for a man he respected, he decided that he'd take a few days off from his 'hunting'. But after about a week or two, it'll be back to showing the world what a real monster could do.

Meanwhile, back at Ranma's house, Lum was sitting in Ranma's room, reading through some of his Dragon Ball manga to see just what it was about these things that Ranma liked. As she flipped through them, she did have to admit that the fights where pretty entertaining and some of the men looked handsome (But she still that that Ranma was more handsome than any of them).

She had heard Ranma mention something about this Goku person being his favorite and as she read through another one of said main character's fights, she couldn't help but picture Ranma in the man's place. She blushed, mostly because it also brought to mind that Goku had a son and now she was imagining her and Ranma having a son of their own. Kurama walked in and saw Lum reading on the bed and walked over to her and tried to look at the pictures over her shoulder.

"What cha reading?" The Tengu girl asked.

"Oh, just one of the manga that Darling likes to read. It's one of the ones that was written by that guy whose funeral Darling went to." Lum said as she flipped a page in the manga. Kurama looked at the pictures and couldn't help but whistle at the muscles on Goku.

"Mmmm. Yummy. I don't know who that is but if Ranma-kun had muscles like this, I'd never let him out of bed." Kurama said as she ogled the artwork.

"Oh you." Lum said with a smile. "But honestly, I think Darling looks better with the slim and sexy look."

"Meh, yeah. You got a point." She said as they both giggled. Lum flipped another page and stopped as she looked at another character, Bulma, and took a look at her outfit.

"Say, do you think I'd look good dressed like this?" Lum asked her friend and rival. Kurama looked at the picture in question and thought for a moment.

"I guess...Hey wait a minute!" Kurama shouted as she pointed an accusing finger at Lum.

"I know what you're up to! You think you can score more points with Ranma-kun by dressing like one of the girls in his favorite manga!" Kurama said, startling Lum.

"W-what!? I don't know what you're talking about." Lum said, blushing at the fact that she had been caught.

"You can't fool me Lum. I'm on to you." She said. But Kurama's tirade was cut short when she saw another person in the manga that she might be able to pull off dressing as. She grinned and took the manga and pointed at the other girl on the page, Chichi.

"Well, if you're going to dress like that girl, then I'll just dress like this one and we'll see which one Darling likes best!" Kurama said triumphantly. Lum growled, but she bit back her outburst, not wanting to let her rival in love know that the girl she picked to try and dress as was the wife of the main character.

"Grrrr! Oh ok, fine! But I guaranty that Darling will still think I'M hotter than you, bird brain!" She said as they glared at each other.

Meanwhile, back at the Tendo household, Akane was working out in the dojo and was about to smash some bricks when she heard a cough that caught her attention. She turned and saw Nabiki standing in the doorway, looking as if she were annoyed.

"Oh, hey Nabiki. What's up?" Akane asked as she stood up.

"I don't know, sis." The way Nabiki put emphasis on the last word made Akane nervous. Her nervousness only grew as Nabiki walked closer to her, an aura of ice seeming to surround her as she walked to Akane with a cold, calculating stare.

"You know, sometimes I feel like we don't talk much anymore. Like...you're keeping things from me." Nabiki said as she actually started making Akane take a few steps back.

"Uh...Come on Nabiki. I don't keep things from you. Honest." Akane said, not really knowing where her sister was trying to take this.

"Oh really?" Nabiki said, not looking convinced at all. "Soooo, you haven't been keeping secrets? Like say...that Ranma was cured of his curse?"

Now Akane knew what was going on. She had totally forgotten that she never told her family about Ranma being cured of his curse. And apparently Nabiki was not happy about losing what she considered to be her biggest cash cow.

"Oh...uh...did I forget to mention that?" She said as she backed away even more nervously.

"So...mind telling me just how Ranma got rid of his curse?" Nabiki said as she backed Akane up to a wall. Akane gulped.

"L-look. So I forgot to mention that Lum made a gun that removed Ranma's curse. You're just going to have to find some other person to make money off of. No more girl Ranma for you." She said. And no sooner had she said that the wall next to her exploded and Shampoo the Amazon burst into the dojo.

"HUH!?" Akane cried out in shock.

"Aiya! You mean that greedy money girl was right and male Ranma and female Ranma were one in same!?" She cried out in shock. Nabiki only nodded her head.

"See? Told you." Was all she said. Akane gasped, realizing what he had just done. Ranma was free of someone who wanted to kill him and now she accidentally just restarted this Amazon's score to settle.

"No wait! I was lying!" She tried to say, but the purple haired Amazon wasn't buying it.

"You no fool Shampoo angry girl! Now Shampoo know she been dupped and she go after male Ranma! But first, how did alien girl cure him?" She demanded. But Akane wasn't backing down. She steeled her face and resolve and took a fighting stance.

"No way. You want that info you've got to pry it out of me!" She said as she attacked the Amazon.

But Shampoo wasn't as easy as the pervy boys she was used to dealing with. As Akane came in with a strong right punch, Shampoo countered it with a parry and tripped the tomboy off her feet. Shampoo grabbed Akane by her long hair and used it to yank the girl onto her knees.

"Now, answer our guests question. How did little miss E.T. cure Ranma?" She asked. Akane glared at her sister and spat at her.

"Go to Hell, Nabiki!" She said. But before she could say anything else, Shampoo started hitting spots on her head and the angry tomboy started to go blank eyed. Nabiki's own eyes went wide as she saw what the Amazon had done.

"What did you do?" She asked.

"Shampoo use ancient Amazon pressure point technique. It allow Shampoo to manipulate other person and even make them tell information. Now, how he get cured?" The Amazon asked. Akane, in a trance, answered.

"Lum created a gun from the Spring of Drowned girl water. She used the gun to cure Ranma of his curse." She answered blankly. Nabiki and Shampoo nodded their heads.

"That all Shampoo need to know." Said the Amazon as she dashed off to resume her stalled hunt. As for Nabiki, she flicked her sister in the head, making her fall, and headed back to the house.

Akane blinked her eyes and snapped back to her senses. She gasped as she remembered what Shampoo had done to her and ran to the out the hole the Amazon made.

"What have I done!? I hope I can get to Ranma before that Amazon does! Oh Nabiki! You've done a lot of crappy things but why go this far!?" She said as she took off for the home of Ranma, Nodoka and the aliens.

Back with Nabiki, she was already strategizing on how to best make use of this new information she had just received. Ranma being cured was one bad thing because now she couldn't cash in on his female form, but a gun that could cure Jusenkyo curses was something that she could make a small fortune on.

"Now how best to spread the word on this little miracle gun?" She asked herself.

"What miracle gun Nabiki?" Her father asked as he walked into his daughter. Nabiki looked up at her dad and shrugged to herself.

"Oh, just some gun that man stealer Lum created that can apparently cure Jusenkyo curses." She said.

"NANI!?" Cried Genma as he burst into the same room as the father and daughter.

"What do you mean a gun that can cure Jusenkyo curses!?" He cried. Nabiki smirked and held out her hand.

"Pay up." She said. Soun shook his head at his daughter.

"Look Nabiki, we're not going to..." But Tendo was cut off when Genma shoved a bunch of money into Nabiki's outstretched hand.

"That's all I've got, now spill!" He said. Nabiki counted the money, put it in her pocket and looked to Genma.

"All I know is that Lum made some gun that took away Ranma's curse." She said. Genma clenched his fists and growled.

"That little brat! Here I am, suffering from my own curse and he's been living it up free because his little pet alien girl made him a cure on top of screwing up our plans!? Well, it's about time I got something for all this crap she's put me through!"

And with that, Genma charged off to get that gun that Ranma had, not knowing that the gun only worked on people who had the Spring of Drowned Girl curse. As for our pigtailed hero, he and Ryoga had just gotten to Ranma's house.

"Ok, mom doesn't like riots, so no fighting between us while we're inside. Deal?" Ranma asked his long time rival.

"Deal." Ryoga agreed as they nodded and shook hands.

Ranma took out his key and unlocked the door before opening it up.

"Mom! Lum-chan! Kurama-chan! I'm home!" He said, only to be tackled by green and black blurs.

"Darling/Shnookum's!" Came the voices of Lum and Kurama as they cuddled their lover. Ryoga was about to say something, but he was cut off by a slight nosebleed. Ranma tried to get up to say something, but was cut off guard when he saw that Lum was dressed in Bluma's outfit from the 23rd world tournament arc of Dragon Ball and Kurama was dressed in an outfit similar to Chichi's, only tighter fitting and shorter at the bottom to show off more of her legs.

"HUH!? Uh...hey girls..." He said, blushing up a storm as the two girls tried to take up his whole field of vision.

"What do you think, Darling? Do I look good in this?" Lum asked.

"Not as hot as me, right?" Kurama asked, giving him the bedroom eyes.

Ranma gulped as he fought against his libido to say something, but his tongue was tied in knots. Fortunately, Nodoka decided to save her son before things could get worse for the poor boy.

"Ok girls, let the poor boy up. I'm sure he's hungry." She said.

"Awwww!" They both said as they got off Ranma. He sighed as he managed to get up and get himself back under control.

"Thanks mom." He said still dazed.

"You're welcome sweetheart. And who might this be?" Nodoka asked, looking at Ryoga. Lum growled at the lost boy.

"I remember you!" Lum said, lightning arcing off her. Ryoga chuckled nervously.

"Oh, uh...he-hello." Ryoga said.

"Long story short, he's a rival of mine. But we were both at the funeral so I promised we'd be civil, and I asked him if he'd like to come over for lunch." Ranma said, then leaned in to whisper in Lum's ear.

"Don't worry, if he tries anything, I'll let you zap him into next century."

"Ok. But I don't trust him." Lum said, rubbing her side where Ryoga once smashed her with a telephone post.

A little while later, the family and their guest sat down to a nice meal cooked by Nodoka and Lum. Ranma and Ryoga licked their lips as they got ready to eat. But before Ryoga could even take a bite, he found himself hit by a small jolt of electricity in the leg. He yelped and looked to see Lum who was humming away with an innocent look on her face.

"This looks great mom. Thanks." Ranma said. Nodoka giggled.

"You should be thanking Lum-chan. She was a big help in the kitchen." She said. Lum blushed from the praise while Kurama glared at her love rival.

"Well then, thanks to you too Lum-chan." Ranma said. Lum's smile grew.

"You're welcome Darling."

Before anyone could say anything else, the wall exploded. Everyone screamed in shock and Ranma found himself with a pair of arms around his neck. Ranma thought it was one of his girlfriends, but soon found that it was someone he thought he wouldn't be seeing again.

"Nihoa Airen!" Came the voice of the Amazon Shampoo!

"YYYYYAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!" Ranma screamed as he tried to break away from the Chinese assassin.

"HEY! What are you doing here!?" Lum shouted at the purple haired girl.

"And what are you doing latching onto our man you slut!" Kurama added in. Ranma managed to wrestle himself free of the Amazon's grasp and jumped away from her and landed a ways away.

"Look bitch, I don't know who you think you are, but here in Japan we don't like people blasting down our houses!" He said as he took up a fighting stance.

"Oh, Shampoo no fight you Airen. Shampoo love you Airen!" Shampoo said as she jumped towards Ranma, only to end up with a foot to her face.

"First off, my name's Ranma. I ain't no guy named Irene. Second, I've already got two dates. I don't need a third." He said as he used his foot to push Shampoo away.

"Oh silly. Airen no name. It mean husband." Shampoo said with a cute smile on her face.

"HUSBAND!?" Ranma shouted.

"HUSBAND!?" Lum, Kurama and Nodoka exclaimed.

"I am so totally lost." Ryoga said as he scratched his head.

"I ain't your dang husband!" Ranma said, waving his hands in a panic.

"Yeah! He's MY husband!" Lum shouted.

"Don't you mean OUR husband?" Kurama said, folding her arms across her chest. Lum scratched her head sheepishly.

"Uhh...right." She said.

"Yes you are. It Amazon law." Shampoo said defiantly.

"Ranma, what on Earth is this woman talking about?" Nodoka asked, and then whispered.

"And isn't she the Chinese girl you said was trying to kill you when you had your curse?"

"Yeah, she is." Ranma said. "But I have no idea what the heck she's talking about now. She's never really seen me as a guy except in passing."

"Shampoo already know about curse, Airen." Shampoo said, turning the blood in Ranma and the other girls' veins into water.

"Uh...what curse?" Ranma said, a sheepish and nervous smile forming on his face as he backed away.

"Shampoo heard from greedy girl about Airen's curse. And since Airen man and not truly girl when he beat Shampoo, then by Amazon law, Shampoo and Ranma to be married!" The purple haired Amazon said as she latched onto Ranma's arm.

"Say what!? What greedy girl..." Ranma's words trailed off as he realized who she was talking about.

"Nabiki..." He growled.

"Say, I thought your stupid laws said that when someone beats you people in a fight it means you have to hunt them down and kill them?" Ranma asked as he tried to wrench his arm free of the purple haired girl.

"That only apply to women. When men beat Amazon, law say Amazon and man who beat them be married." She said. "And you beat Shampoo, so we together forevEeEeEeEeRrRrRr!"

She was cut off by a blast of lightning that got both her and Ranma. Lum growled, her hair swapping between colors as she surged with rage at having yet ANOTHER rival for Ranma's love.

"BACK OFF YOU BIIIIIITTTTTCCCCCCCCHHHHHHHHH!" Lum shouted as she cut the charge.

"I've got enough trouble with bird brain here! I don't want another home wrecker snooping around my man!" Lum said as she picked up Shampoo and gave her the boot right back through the hole in the wall she came from.

"RANMA-KUN! Sweety, baby, are you ok? LUM! You didn't have to blast him too!" Kurama shouted at her friend and rival as she cradled a toasted Ranma.

"OH MY GOD NO! Darling, I'm sorry! I didn't mean to hit you too!" Lum said as she knelt down by Ranma's side. Ranma shook his head as he got back up.

"Ow. Well, next time, wait till I separate from that witch, ok?" He said.

"I'm missing a lot of details here." Ryoga said as he put more food into his mouth.

"Ranma, if that woman wanted to be in a relationship with you, you didn't have to..." Nodoka started to say but was cut off by death glares from Lum, Kurama and even Ranma that made her think that maybe now would be a good time to shut up.

"Um...never mind." She said.

'Plus, from the way Ranma reacted, I don't think he'd consider that woman as a possible extra lover.' She added in her thoughts.

"RANMA!" Came a voice that made all present look to see Akane rushing towards the house.

"Ranma! Huff...huff...I guess I'm a little late." She said in between breaths.

"Late for what?" Ranma asked as he arced an eyebrow.

"Shampoo!" She exclaimed. "She showed up at my house with Nabiki and they forced me to tell them about that gun that cured you of your curse. I'm sorry! I'm really sorry!" She said bowing.

"That witch." Ranma muttered.

"And now thanks to her, that psycho assassin wants to steal Darling form us!" Lum said as she clutched onto Ranma's arm.

"She WHAT!?" Akane shouted.

"Apparently in her culture, if a guy beats one of them, they're supposed to get married." Ryoga said as he walked around the wreckage, missing part of what Akane said earlier.

"Oh." Akane said. But then she turned her head and saw Ryoga. He gulped and smiled sheepishly.

"Um...hi." He said. Akane narrowed her eyes at the man who she NOW knew used to be her pet P-chan.

"You..." She growled. But before she could go further, Genma jumped through the hole in the wall and charged at Ranma and the girls.

"RANMA! YOU UNGRATEFUL SON!" He shouted as he and Ranma ended up in a dead lock struggle.

"How could you have a cure to your curse and not give it to your old man!?" He shouted.

"SAY WHAT!?" Ryoga shouted as he ran up to join the struggle.

"YOU HAVE A CURE!" Ryoga shouted as he helped Genma overpower Ranma.

"Well...kind of." Ranma started to say.

"YOU BASTARD!" They both said as they forced Ranma up against a wall.

"BOY! You give me that cure RIGHT NOW!" Genam shouted.

"And me too! You creep! I can't believe that you...YyYyYyYyYyYyYyYyYyYyYyAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaAaHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHhHh!"

The lost boy and the panda man were cut off by Lum firing her lightning at the two of them. They fell to the ground in a heap and tried to get up, only to see Nodoka glaring at them.

"First off, I'm surprised at you Ryoga. This is the thanks I get for opening my home to you as a guest? And you Genma. Have you already forgotten that you and your pal, Tendo, are not to come within a hundred feet of me or MY son?" She said, flicking the hilt of her sword out of its sheath.

"Forget your stupid restraining order!" Genma said as he got back to his feet. "That boy has a cure that that home wrecking alien cooked up and as his father I have a right to it too!"

"And this bastard owes me! It's his fault that I'M cursed in the first place! So I deserve to get that cure!" Ryoga shouted in a rage.

"Forget it. It wouldn't do you two any good." Ranma said. The two angry cursed men glared at Ranma.

"You just want to keep that cure for yourself! You cheeky...!" Ryoga started.

"HEY! You back off my man mister pig boy!" Kurama said as she yanked Ryoga back.

"Back off bitch!" Ryoga said, only to get a fist to the back that sent him flying, curtesy of Ranma.

"Say that about one of my girls one more time." Ranma said.

"Forget that boy! Just...OOOPPPPHHHH!" Genma said as he was knocked back by Ranma's surprise kick.

"Back off pops." He said. Lum and Kurama gushed at Ranma but then looked to their foes, then each other and nodded.

"Darling, let US take out the trash!" Lum said as she and Kurama cracked their knuckles.

"Yeah, we've got a new tag team move we want to test out." Kurama said. Ranma and Nodoka tilted their heads.

"Tag team move?" They both said. Lum and Kurama grinned evilly.

"Just watch." Lum said as her hair started to change colors again as her energy surged. Kurama pulled out her leaf fan and wind started to circle around her.

"LIGHTNING TWISTER!" They both shouted as Kurama fired a twister at the two enemies of her lover as Lum fired lightning into the wind funnel.

Ryoga and Genma both screamed as the blast came right at them. The twister swept them up and the lightning electrocuted them as they were carried away. Shampoo tried to crawl back through the hole, anger evident on her face, but she screamed in fright as she too was carried away by the electrified twister!

As the three house crashers were blasted away, Ranma and Nodoka just watched and whistled. Ranma turned to his two his two girlfriends, who were smiling satisfied at their handy work.

"What the...How did...when did you two learn how to do THAT!?" Ranma asked in shock.

"Oh, it's just a little something that we've been working on while you were off training at those two dojos of yours." Kurama said. Lum nodded happily.

"We got the idea from one of those video games you showed us the other day. We figured it'd be a nice little surprise." Lum said. Ranma smiled at his two girlfriends.

"Wow...you girls are awesome, ya know that?" He said. Lum and Kurama blushed cutely at the praise.

"Oh, it was nothing Darling~." Lum said bashfully.

"We figured you'd be impressed." Kurama added. Ranma smiled at his two lovers but then frowned as he looked at the damage the short melee had caused to his mom's house.

"Aw man...There goes my commission from the Emperor this month."

The next day, Ranma was walking around town heading towards the Kazama dojo, trying his hardest not to let what had happened yesterday bother him. But try as he might, he couldn't get his mind off the fact that not only did he have a new crazy girl to deal with, but now he had to deal with the fact that his father and Ryoga now knew of the gun that Lum crated that cured his curse. Not only them, but also Nabiki as well.

He couldn't help but growl. Nabiki was nothing but a pain in the neck from the moment he met her, and now she went and blabbed to his idiot father and his archrival that there was a machine that cured his curse. That witch also had to get involved with that Amazon Shampoo. And just when he thought his beef with her was over for good too.

"Man, can my life get any worse?" He asked no one in particular.

"Nihao Airen!"

Ranma went rigid as he heard the accented voice of the very Amazon he had been thinking about. He ducked just in time to avoid the purple haired girl trying to tackle him from behind. He stood up in a fighting stance as Shampoo rolled and came back to her feet, looking right at the object of her misguided affections.

"Nihao Ranma! Shampoo come for date!" She said as happy as could be. Ranma growled at her.

"How many times do I have to tell you that I am NOT INTERESTED!" Ranma shouted at the Amazon.

"You spend almost a year trying to kill me, and I'm to just suddenly forget that just because your dumb, stupid laws say that I'm supposed to marry you? Just like that!?"

"Exactly!" Shampoo said. "Is law. You man who beat me, so we to be wed!"

"And what, I don't get any say in the matter?" Ranma asked with an incredulous look.

"Why wouldn't you want to marry Shampoo?" She asked, confused. "Shampoo is cute, good cook, good fighter, and will Airen very happy! And we make good strong children too!"

"Is that all you care about?" Ranma asked. "I mean, you know NOTHING about me and I don't know anything about you. Not only that but, and this is a big important one...I'M SPOKEN FOR!"

"It no matter!" Shampoo said in a huff. "Amazon law say that Shampoo is your bride, and Amazon no share!"

"Well beat it sister." Ranma said as he turned to walk the other way. "I'm not interested and if you think I'm going to dump Lum-chan or even Kurama-chan for a two-bit knock off like you then you can forget it!"

Shampoo growled at Ranma's stubbornness. How could he turn her down for those two alien freaks!? And he had the nerve to call her a two bit knock off!? Sure she and the multi color haired girl with the horns had similar hair styles, but SHE wore it better. Shampoo would NOT lose her destined husband to some alien whores!

She charged at Ranma's retreating form but was caught off guard when Ranma caught her hand that was going for a pressure point strike and found herself on the ground and twisted into a painful arm lock. Ranma applied pressure to her elbow, causing Shampoo to scream in pain.

"Nice try lady. But I'm a much different fighter than I was when I beat you before." Ranma said as he applied more pressure.

"Now you better get this through your thick head. I'm. Not. INTERESTED!" Ranma twisted Shampoo into a goose neck lock, bringing the screaming Amazon back to her feet.

"Now, get lost. Or else I'll use you to practice some of the other new tricks I've learned."

And with that, Ranma twisted Shampoo's arm and turned his lock into a throw and then struck her HARD in the gut, knocking the wind out of her. Ranma got back up and dusted his hands off before walking away from the gasping woman.

Shampoo was not happy. This wasn't how things went for Amazons usually. Most men would slit their throats to be with one of the women from her tribe. And yet here a man was actually choosing some other women over someone as beautiful as her? It made no sense.

Shampoo couldn't help but think that if he had been a man when they fought back at her village and he had learned about the law then, then he'd be hers by now. But she was NOT going to lose to some star-crossed women. She managed to get back up and headed after the man that was HERS by Amazon right. But before she could try again at her betrothed, her feet where knocked out from under her!

Ranma heard the sound of Shampoo screaming and turned around and saw Asuka getting up form a crouching sweep kick. Shampoo looked at the woman who was now standing in her way and growled.

"Now what!? Are you another homewrecker?" She asked. Asuka scoffed at that.

"Homewrecker? That's rich considering the conversation I just heard. I'm just a friend of Ranma's and I don't like troublemakers messing with my friends!" She said as she got into the fighting stance of the Kazama ryu.

"Hmph! You no stop Shampoo!" The Amazon said as she got up, only to be struck in the neck by Ranma. Asuka groaned in disappointment.

"AAHHH! But here I was all ready for a fight..." She said as she crossed her arms and pouted cutely. Ranma couldn't help but chuckle at her antics.

"Sorry Asuka, but I was getting tired of her. And besides, I may have just saved you from a lot of headaches." He said, causing her to tilt her head in confusion.

"Huh?" She asked.

And so, Ranma and Asuka, after tying Shampoo up and leaving her in an ally, walked off to the Kazama dojo with Ranma telling his her about his dealings with the purple haired Amazon. Asuka couldn't help but whistle at the story Ranma told her.

"Sheesh. Talk about crazy people. But you know, you may be the only boy I know who would actually turn down a hot Amazon wife." She said with a smirk. Ranma blushed and chuckled.

"Yeah well, I've got standards I guess." He said. He would have gone on, but his danger sense kicked in, Asuka's too, and they both jumped out of the way of Genma, who crashed right in front of them.

"It's bad enough that you ruined YEARS worth of planning when you ran off with that alien woman, but now you're parading around town with yet another girl instead of your rightful fiancé!?" He bellowed. Ranma pinched the bridge of his nose in frustration at his father's complaining.

"Will you just drop dead already? I mean seriously, you're starting to sound like a dang broken record."

"Yeah, and he's not 'parading around' with me! We're not even dating! We're just friends who train at the same dojo!" Asuka chimed in. But all she did was add fuel to the fire.

"Oh I see, so not only to you turn your back on EVERYTHING I've taught you about the Anything Goes but now you're going to a style that a scrawny little girl like this goes too!? Haven't you brought enough shame to our family!?" The fat man whaled. Ranma and Asuka both started seeing red at that last comment.

"SCRAWNY!?" Asuka screamed. But Genma kept going like she hadn't said anything.

"But I'm willing to forgive you Ranma, if you cut out this nonsense and let me have that gun that cured your curse and marry Akane and dump this weak little schoolgirl."

"Pop, you're dead." Ranma said. And before Genma could say anything else, Asuka charged in with a double lift kick (Jumping front snap kick), a right cross hook, an uppercut followed by a downward elbow to the gut and then a hip throw.

As Genma landed on the ground, Asuka wrapped his leg in a painful lock and twisted until the fat dope felt like his leg was about to break. Genma screamed in agony, but his screams were cut off when Ranma stomped on Genma's head hard enough to knock him out. Asuka got up and gave the fat man one last kick for good measure.

"How a nice guy like you came from a sexist bastard like this I'll never know." She said as she and Ranma walked away.

"Yeah, same here." He said.

"By the way, what did he mean by a gun that cured your curse?" Asuka asked. Ranma sighed, this was going to be a long story.

But he told her anyway, as his friend she deserved to know what she was getting into from just being mixed up with him. He told her about Jusenkyo, the gun that Lum created from the spring that he fell into, and she used it to temporarily turn him back into a girl during the stuff with Ryuunosuke and Shampoo down at the beach yesterday. Asuka whistled at the story Ranma told her. A magic spring that could turn people into whatever drowned there last? It sounded too bazar to believe, but her family had a history of dealing with the supernatural, so it wasn't that far-fetched to her.

"Sheesh. Just when I thought I heard it all. But still, that gun Lum invented got rid of that problem for ya right?" She asked. Ranma nodded.

"Yeah. But good thing the old man or any of the other nut cases who know about it don't know that it can give back my curse. Otherwise, I'd be dealing with a whole new set of problems."

Little did Ranma and Asuka known, a certain someone had been listening to them this whole time. A certain brunette boy who was only coming down this way to scope out Asuka. But when he heard the conversation about a gun that could turn girls into boys and apparently boys into girls, that got him thinking. And what he was thinking was NOT good. At least not for Ranma or any other man who got in the womanizing way of one Ataru Moroboshi.

"So...Ranma could become a girl until that gun Lum made, made him a man full time huh?" Ataru said to himself with a perverted snicker.

"Well then, if that gun can turn him back into a girl...Heh heh heh heh! And why stop at just Ranma? If that gun can curse anybody, then I can use it on every guy around. And make myself the only man in ALL of Japan! AH HA HA HAH! HELL, THE ONLY MAN ON EARTH! That way, every woman would have no choice but to go out with me because there'd be no competition! AH HAHA HAH HA HAH!"

And with that, Ataru dashed off to where Ranma lived, fully intending to get his hands on that gun and create his own personal 'World End Harem'. But little did he know, he wasn't the only one who was spying on Ranma. Nabiki grinned from her hiding place as she went through all the implications of what she had just heard.

A gun that could not only cure curses but also curse someone? That could be a big boom to her business. Heck, if that gun could turn Ranma back into his female form again, then she could get back her biggest cash cow. She pulled out her phone and started making some calls. Ranma was about to find out why NO ONE messed with the Ice Queen of Nerima.

As Ataru was looking up at the spaceship that hovered above Ranma's house, he started making plans as to how he was going to get up there. If Lum was the one with the gun, then that ship would be the best place to look instead of the house. And after his last dealings with Ranma's mom, he wasn't all that keen on risking a confrontation with her again.

Ataru climbed to the top of the house and started planning on how to get in, when the ships' hatch opened up and Lum flew out. Ataru yelped and jumped down to hang from the dege of the roof so that Lum wouldn't see him. Once he knew she was gone, he thought hard on how he was going to get in, only for someone to answer that for him.

"Pst! Moroboshi!" Ataru looked down and saw Nabiki waving her hand at him.

"What are you doing here!?" He asked.

"We both want the same thing and I'm here to help you get it." Nabiki answered.

"How?" Ataru asked again. Nabiki grinned evilly.

"I called in some help." And with that, she snapped her fingers and out came Kuno.

"What's he doing here?" Ataru asked as he scratched his head. Kuno scoffed.

"Don't get the wrong idea. The only reason I'm here is to retrieve the instrument that will return my pigtailed girl to me." He said as he pulled out a grappling gun and tossed it to Ataru. He grabbed it but was still confused.

"What pigtailed girl?"

"Never mind, you'll get it soon enough. Just get up there and get that gun." Nabiki said.

Ataru shrugged and took aim with the grappling gun. He fired and as soon as the grappling hook was locked onto the ship, Ataru hit the retract button and up he went as fast as greased lightning, screaming all the way. The two Nerimites winced as Ataru banged hard against the haul of the ship.

Ataru shook his head and forced the door to the inside open and slipped in. Ataru sighed in relief as he began to look around for the gun that would cement his future as the harem king of Japan, if not the world. After almost 15 minutes of ransacking the place, Ataru finally found the gun. But as he was pulling it out, he found a few pictures with it. He looked at them and was surprised to find that they were of Ranma. But not just male Ranma.

In one hand, he held the picture of the man he hated most in life. The man who stole the hot alien chicks and the right to have a harem that should belong to HIM! Ranma was smiling in the picture, making Ataru growl. But the other picture had a BEAUTIFUL AND BUSTY red-haired girl! But something else caught the horny boy's eye. She looked like she could pass as Ranma's twin sister. It was then that the words of both Ranma and Kuno came back to him.

Ranma mentioned that he had a female cursed form before Lum's gun cured him and Kuno said something about a pigtailed girl. It couldn't be a coincidence. Ataru remembered Nabiki also trying to mention that she had pictures of a hot new girl to sell before she said she ran out of stock. Ataru grinned his evil horny grin.

"Soooo...THIS is the hot, busty, pigtailed girl! HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH HEH!" Ataru grinned as he made his escape.

Down below, Nabiki and Kuno were waiting for Ataru to get back down, when suddenly, the boy in question broke through one of the windows of the ship and leapt away as if he were as good at roof hopping as Ranma!

"HUH!?" Both Nerimites said as Ataru bound away.

"HA HA! So long suckers! This gun and that pigtailed girl are ALL MINE!" He said as he used the grappling gun to propel himself faster away towards where he knew Ranma and that hottie Asuka where going.

"WHAT!? How DARE YOU!" Kuno said as he charged after Ataru. Nabiki was mad too, but she still saw this as an opportunity to make things more interesting. She pulled out her phone and dialed a few numbers.

"Hello? It's Nabiki. Tell some of our regulars that if they want their pictures of that red-haired girl, then they better head to Tomobiki."

Back with Ataru, he was running towards the Kazama dojo, chuckling perversely at how he was going to be swimming in babes before this day was over. As he bounced away, he looked down from the rooftop he was on and grinned so wide his face was about to split open. Down below, he saw Ranma walking solo. It was odd that he wasn't wearing his usual Chinese clothes, but Ataru didn't care!

He took aim and fired the gun at the unsuspecting target. After the flash from the beam hitting the mark faded, Ataru leapt from his perch and dive bombed the boy turned girl to envelop her in a hug as he rubbed his face against her.

"HEY HOT STUFF! You look much better as a girl Ranma!" He said.

"I'M NOT RANMA YOU MORON! AND I'M ALREADY A WOMAN!" Came a very angry woman's cry as she smashed her elbow into Ataru's face, stomped on his foot and threw him as hard as she could into a lamp post.

Ataru groaned in pain and took a good look at the woman who threw him. And it WASN'T Ranma! It was a black-haired girl who looked like Ranma but without the pigtail and had brown eyes instead of Ranma's blue. She was wearing a red shirt that read 'Ocean Lover' in kanji and was wearing white pants and black shoes.

"You stinkin' perv! What's the matter with you!? Don't you know not to molest a girl like that!?" She said as she ran at Ataru and tried to nail him with a flying side kick.

Atau yelped and rolled away as the girl's kick snapped the lamp post in half. Ataru gulped as the Ranma look-a-like glared at him.

"And what was that thing you just shot me with? And why were you planning to shoot my friend Ranma with it?" She said as she cracked her knuckles.

"(Gulp) Uh...well...See ya!" Ataru said as he dashed off as fast as he could. Ryuunosuke growled through her teeth as she walked off.

"Man! What a creep!" She said.

"Hey! Ryuunosuke! Up here!"

Ryuunosuke looked up and smiled as she saw her first two real female friends, Lum and Kurama, flying down to see her. She waved at them as she ran to greet them as they touched down.

"Lum, Kurama! Hey guys!" She said.

"Say, was that Ataru that ran away from here a second ago?" Lum asked. Ryuunosuke tilted her head to the side.

"Ataru? You mean that creep who was trying to molest me a moment ago?" She asked as she pointed in the direction Ataru ran in.

"Yeah, that's him." Kurama said. "He thinks he's God's gift to women and tries to hit on anything that looks female."

"Why was he going after you Ryuunosuke?" Lum asked.

"Heck if I know. First he shoots me with some weird light gun and then tries to get fresh with me while thinking he shot Ranma." The look-a-like said.

"Why would he glomp onto you if he thought you were Ranma?" Lum asked herself.

"Beats me. But he said something about Ranma looking better as...a...girl..." She trailed off as a light bulb went off over all their heads. And then, they all gasped as realization hit them hard.

"NO! It couldn't be!" Lum said.

"You don't think he's got the Spring of Drowned Girl gun, do you!?" Kurama added in shock.

"If he does, then Ranma's in danger!" Ryuunosuke exclaimed.

"Come on! Darling should be at the Kazama dojo today. If we hurry we can catch Ataru before he gets the chance to shoot Darling with that gun!" Lum said.

And with that all three girls dashed off to save the unsuspecting pigtailed boy from being recursed. As they ran, Ryuunosuke couldn't help but wonder something.

"Hey! Why would Ataru be so fixated on turning Ranma into a girl!? He does know that hot water would just turn him back into a guy, right? I mean, just cause he looks like a girl doesn't mean he'll act like a girl. Even if he did, I'm dead sure he wouldn't go for an asshat, butt-wipe like that Ataru creep."

"From what I've seen, it doesn't matter if he turns back or not to that bastard Ataru." Kurama said through gritted teeth.

"As long as it's a girl's body, that ass will try to hit on it no matter what."

"When I get my hands on him, I'll shove that gun down his throat until he chokes to death." Lum added.

Meanwhile, at the Kazama dojo, Ranma was being shown some new moves by Asuka's father. Ranma nodded to his sensei and worked on the techniques with Asuka. Call him crazy, but he had this really weird feeling that her dad was pairing them together because he was expecting something to happen between them.

He shook his head at that. What man would actually try to set his daughter up with a guy taking lessons at his dojo? That would never happen, even with his crazy luck. Ranma smiled as he worked on the technique with Asuka. All the time, he couldn't help but think that in another time, if he hadn't met Lum or Kurama...

He shook his head to knock those thoughts out of it. He had to focus. As he and Asuka practiced, they suddenly heard the sound of the door busting open...and the most HORRIFIYING laugh they had ever heard in their lives.

"OOOHHH HO HO HO HO HO! Oh my dearest Ranma-honey! Why are you wasting your time with this fool of a harlett when your beautiful black rose is right here!" Came the voice of Kodachi Kuno.

"What the!? Ranma, who is that...that siren?" Asuka asked as she unplugged her ears.

"Yet another pain in my neck. And my ears too." He said.

"Scram Kodachi! I've told you before that I DON'T! LIKE! YOU! Plus I'm spoken for!" He said as he dodged Kodachi's ribbon.

"OH HO HO HO HO! Oh Ranma! I don't share with anyone! Least of all some alien tramp and that red headed slut." The nutty black rose replied.

Hearing that remark about his Lum being an alien tramp got Ranma seeing red. He leapt at his hated stalker, spun in the ari to avoid the lashes of her ribbon, and decided to attack her using a move he learned from master Bang.

"Ryusui Gansaiken: Ichi no kata..." He said as his hands became covered in glowing blue ki. Kodachi laughed again and twirled her ribbon in a spiral, hoping to entrap Ranma.

"Minamo Giri!" And with that, Ranma swiped his right hand in a horizontal motion, and actually sliced Kodachi's ribbon as if it were cut by a sword!

"WHAT!?" She screamed in shock. And the next thing she knew, Ranma lashed out with a round house kick with his left foot, which was also covered in ki, and nailed Kodachi across her cheek, sending the crazy psycho flying into the wall.

As Ranma landed, he flipped his pigtail to the side as he looked to see Kodachi collapse to the ground. He couldn't help but chuckled to himself.

"That'll teach ya." He said. Asuka and her father were impressed by what Ranma just did.

"Ranma! What was that!? That move you did was amazing!" Asuka said, stars in her eyes. Ranma smirked as he rubbed his nose in a cocky manner.

"That was one of the moves Bang-shishou thought me. It's a move that was meant to be used with a sword but was reworked to be used with either the hands or feet. It can either cut through oncoming objects or be used as a powerful chop or kick. Case in point." He said as he pointed towards the downed form of Kodachi.

"Well, I must say it was a good move." Asuka's dad said. "But if you're really learning from a man as skilled as Silver Fang Bang-shishou, why continue to train here?"

"Because, I like your style." Ranma said with a smile. "And I'm a mixed martial artist. I take a bit from all styles to crate my own."

Asuka and her father shook their heads at Ranma. But still, it was a good enough answer.

"Yeah well, let's hurry and get miss crazy out of here..." Asuka was cut off when She was swept off her feet by a blur that turned into none other than Mikado the kissing thief.

"Hello my dear. Please allow..." He was cut off by Ranma pulling his hair and tossing him towards Asuka's dad, who used a simple move to trip him up and hurl him towards the door, only for him to be saved by his partner Asuza.

"Be more careful, dummy." She said as she spun them to a stop, revealing that they were on roller skates.

"How dare you stop me from saying hello to this beautiful woman you cur! And you don't have any right to tell me to be careful you Midget!" He switched between shouting at Ranma and then Asuza.

"If by 'say hello' you mean rape her lips like you try to do to every woman you meet...Then I see it as me just doing a public service, mister 'A guy being my 1000 kiss'." Ranma said with a smug look, causing his rival/annoyance to turn red in the face.

"THAT DIDN'T COUNT!" Mikado screamed at Ranma, who was just snickering.

"Forget that! Let's just smash him for what he did to Asuza! And then get that whatever it is that will get me my Miss Scarlett!" The bratty Asuza said, throwing another one of her tantrums.

"Miss Scarlett?" Ranma asked, tilting his head in confusion. Mikado cleared his throat as he covered Asuza's mouth.

"What she means is, reveal the location of that strange gun you have. The one that will reveal the location of that pigtailed girl with the red hair!" Mikado demanded.

"Pigtailed girl..." Ranma's eyes widened with fear as he started to understand what Mikado was getting at.

"Uh...oh..." He said. Then he shook his head to clear it of shock. "How-I mean, I don't know what you're talking about."

"Liar liar liar liar liar!" Asuza shouted. "First you beat up little Asuza and mess up her perfect face and now you lie about Miss Scarlett! I want to take her home with me even if big bully Mikado wants to kiss her! I want..."

"Zip it twerp!" Mikado shouted at his small partner. Ranma shook his head at the two of them. Not waiting any longer, he speed towards the two of them and let loose a barrage of punches that sent the two of them flying towards the door.

"Why don't you two take your stupid squabble outside and leave us grownups out of it?" Ranma said to the two annoying pets. Asuka and her father pinched their noses at the two punks that tried to intrude on their dojo.

"Boy, what kind of troublemakers do you get involved with?" Kazama-sensei asked his young pupil. Ranma shook his head.

"I really couldn't tell ya." He answered. He then turned to his friend and her father and bowed deeply.

"Sensei, Asuka I'm sorry for the three creeps bursting into your dojo and nearly wrecking the place." He said, but before the two Kazamas could say anything in return, Ranma's danger sense went off and he quickly dodged a strange blast of energy that nearly hit him dead on.

"What the heck!?" Ranma asked in shock. He looked to where the blast came from and saw Ataru holding a gun he was ALL TOO familiar with.

"Damn it! I missed!" Ataru exclaimed in frustration.

"Where and how in the heck did you get your grimy hands on that gun!?" Ranma said in shock. Ataru growled back at Ranma.

"Just shut up and turn into a girl already jackass!" Ataru said as he took aim and tried to shoot Ranma again.

Ranma yelped and jumped away, doing his best to avoid the ray that would recurse him yet again! As Ranma bounced around the dojo like he was Spider-Man, Asuka and her father tried to piece together what was going on. Asuka was the first to get it.

Thinking back to her earlier conversation with Ranma, Asuka remembered how he told her about the curse he used to have and how Lum created a gun that cured him of it. And given the exchange that just happened between the two boys, then that means the gun Ataru was shooting at Ranma must be the gun Lum made!

"Oh crap! Dad! We have to help Ranma!" Asuka said as she dashed at Ataru at top speed.

Ataru was taking aim again but was cut off when a tatami mat came flying right at him! He yelped in surprise as the mat hit him dead on, knocking him from his perch. Ranma jumped towards the falling boy and nailed him with a flying side kick and tried to take the gun but he was wrapped up by a ribbon and yanked back towards Kodachi.

"HEY!" He shouted. Kodachi just laughed at the pigtailed boy.

"OH HO HO HO! Oh Ranma-darling! Why are you playing hard to get? Why don't you just..." Kodachi was cut off by the fist of Asuka hitting her in the face.

"Leave him alone you BONEHEAD!" She shouted as her fist sent her flying. Ranma spun in the air and unwrapped Kodachi's ribbon from around his body as he landed on the ground as the crazy gymnast was sent flying.

"Thanks Asuka." Ranma said. Asuka smirked at her friend.

"No problem. But who threw that tatami mat?" She asked and they both turned their heads and saw Asuka's father dusting off his hands, a empty spot where a tatami mat once lay right next to him.

"Dad!?" Asuka shouted.

"Thanks sensei!" Ranma said to his mentor. Asuka's father smiled at the praise.

"No problem son. Now, where's that boy who was shooting in my dojo?" Kazama-sensei asked. Ranma and Asuka both looked around for Ataru, and saw him laying on the floor a ways back...and aiming for Ranma again with the gun!

"Good bye Ranma!" He said as he fired. "And hello hot BABE!"

"YIKES!" Ranma shouted as he dived out of the way. However, Asuka yelped as she was hit with the blast!

"ASUKA!" Ranma and Kazama-sensei both cried. But as the light from the ray faded, Asuka was still standing there, same as always.

"Huh?" Was all she could say. Ranma blinked and then laughed.

"Ha ha ha! Oh yeah! She was already a girl and that gun only works on men! Ha ha! We freaked for nothing." He said as he and Kazama-sensei both sighed and wiped sweat from their foreheads in relief.

"Oh. Well, lucky me." Asuka said, then looked over to Ataru. "You little crap head! Are you THAT desperate for a girlfriend!? You pathetic little weeb!"

Ataru growled, but then he smiled his stupid perverted smile and leapt towards the angry tomboy.

"Well if you're offering baby!" He said, only to get close lined by Asuka's father, who then did an axe kick to the downed boy's nose, breaking it.

"Stay away form my daughter you utter worthless shit!" He said as he kicked the gun away from him.

"I've got it!" Ranma said as he dived for the gun, only for it to be snatched away by Asuza.

"HEY!" Ranma shouted. Asuza laughed at the poor boy.

"Hahahahaha! Too bad girly boy! Now Asuza can get her miss Scarlett. If only I knew how this was to bring her to me." She said as she looked at the gun, only to trip as her partner, Mikado, tripped her up and caught the gun as she dropped it.

"Stupid girl. That red-haired, pigtailed girl is destined to be MY prize! Now, if what that Nabiki woman said was true then all I have to do is..." He was cut off by Ranma's fist nailing him in the face.

"OOOOOHHHHH no you don't!" Ranma said as he took the gun from his foe.

"Being cursed ONCE in a lifetime is more than enough, THANK YOU!" He said as he was about to smash the gun when a grappling hook snatched the gun out of his hands.

"HUH!?" He said and looked to see Ataru reeling the gun back to his hand as he nursed his broken and bleeding nose.

"HA HA JACKASS! Now hold still and just let me hit you!" He said as he tried to shoot Ranma again.

Ranma dodged each shot and so did Mikado, not truly wanting to be hit himself. But before Ataru could fire off more than three shots, Asuka grabbed him and did a combination disarm and throw technique on Ataru, riding him of the gun and throwing him towards the door.

"DARLING!?SHNOOKUMS!RANMA!" Voices came from the door to the dojo. Ranma and the others turned to see Lum, Kurama and Ryuunosuke bursting through, calling out for Ranma.

"Lum-chan! Kurama-chan! Ryuunosuke! What are you guys doing here?" Ranma asked the three girls.

"Saving you, DUH dude!" Ryuunosuke said as she grabbed the prone form of Ataru and punched him before shaking him violently.

"Now where's that gun, butt munch!" She shouted at the bruised boy.

"Uhhhh, you mean this?" Asuka said as she held the gun. Ryuunosuke and the other two girls blinked.

"Oh...Eh heh heh heh." Ryuunosuke said. "I...uh...I guess you've got THISSSSS!?" She was cut off when Ataru tried to snuggle against her chest.

"Hey sexy! Since you've got me..."

"BUZZ OFF YOU PERVERTED CREEP!" Ryuunosuke said as she threw Ataru out into the street.

"Sheesh! Just how bad can ya get?" She asked, then she looked and scratched her head as she met Asuka.

"Um...thanks. Uh..?"

"Asuka. Asuka Kazama." She said as she took a good look at Ryuunosuke.

"Wow. You really DO look like Ranma. But you two together and give you a pigtail and some blue contacts and I couldn't tell you apart." She said. Ryuunosuke blushed.

"Well, yeah. I get that." She said. "But just remember, I'm a girl just like you."

No sooner had she said that, Mikado tried to swoop her off her feet.

"Well, it's a pleasure to...OOOOOWWWWWWWW!" The poor boy was cut off By Ryuunosuke smashing her foot into his crotch.

"Buzz off creep! You ain't my type! And Ranma already warned me about you!" She said as Mikado dropped to the ground in a huddled ball.

"Ouch." Asuka said. Next thing she knew, a little black pig jumped up and snatched the gun from her hand.

"HEY! WHAT THE!?" She said as the pig bounced out of the dojo.

"Charlett!" Asuza said as she skated off after the little pig. "Come back to Asuza!"

"RYOGA!" Ranma cried out. "Quick, followed that pig!"

And with that, Ranma and the others chased after the little piglet.

"Why are we chasing a pig!?" Ryuunosuke asked.

"Cause that's no pig! That's my rival Ryoga. He has a curse like I did but his turns him into a pig!" Ranma said.

"Oh." Ryuunosuke said.

"Wait, but doesn't that mean the gun won't work on him since he doesn't have the same curse you did?" Asuka asked.

"We tried to tell him that last night but he didn't listen!" Lum said.

"Enough talking! Save your breath so we can catch that pig!" Kurama shouted.

And with that, the five teens chased the pig for a good while until he came to a restaurant that had hot water boiling. He jumped in and as soon as he did, out popped Ryoga.

"YEOW!" He shouted. "Thanks."

And with that, he pulled some spare clothes out of no where, a pale-yellow sleeveless shirt and some blue Chinese pants with black shoes, slipped them on and ran out as fast as he could.

"Come back here Ryoga!" Ranma shouted as he and the four girls gave chase.

The chef watched the chase happen, pulled out a bottle of wine and tossed it out into the streets.

"I quit too." Was all he said as he decided to close up early.

Ryoga kept running for his life as he tried to escape the pursuit of Ranma and his apparent harem of women. Despite his position, he couldn't help but chuckle. At last, a cure to his pig curse was LITERALLY in the palm of his hands! All he had to do now was get away from Ranma and those women long enough to figure out how the gun worked and then he could use it on himself. What happened after that he really didn't care.

"Quit it Ryoga! I'm not playing!" Ranma shouted as he caught up to his rival until they were running side-by-side.

"Fat chance Ranma!" Ryoga shouted as he took a few swipes at Ranma with his free hand.

Ranma ducked Ryoga's wild swipes and back fisted his rival. Ryoga blocked it and tried to trip Ranma up. Ranma managed to avoid it and then grabbed Ryoga's arm and stuck just above his elbow and attempted to put him in an armbar.

Ryoga yelled in pain as Ranma pulled him down and went for the gun, only for him to throw it away as he tried wrestle himself free of Ranma's grasp. As the two teens fell to the ground, Ryuunosuke, who was ahead of the other girls, ran for the gun.

"I've got it!" She said, only for someone to use her head to jump towards the gun.

"You're wide open!" Came the voice of Ryuunosuke's father as he flipped in the air and landed in front of the gun and picked it up triumphantly.

"Dad!?" Ryuunosuke exclaimed in shock.

"Ryuunosuke, I'm disappointed in you. Spending time with these people and letting them make you girly when you're supposed to be manning up to take over the cafe!" He shouted, his usual delusional stupidity still as obnoxious as ever.

"I let them make me girly because I AM A GIRL!" She shouted as she got up and prepared to fight her old man.

"I'll fix that. With this...OOPPPHHHHH!" He was cut off by a fist landing on his face, curtesy of Genma Saotome.

"Forget you're dumb problems!" He said as the gun landed in his hand. "Now I can be cured of my curse!"

"FAT CHANCE OLD MAN!" Came Ataru as he smashed Genma over the head with a mallet.

"I'M using this thing to get my world harem! And I'm starting with you Ranma! Say goodbye to being a man! AH HA HA HAH AHHAH!" The deranged boy said as he fired at Ranma and Ryoga.

"AAAAHHHHHHHH!" Both boys said as they rolled away from each other and the blast. It missed them, but just by a hair. Ranma got up and growled at the horny maniac of Tomobiki.

"Hey stupid! You do realize that even as a girl, I'd still be me RIGHT!?" Ranm said as he prepared to make a mad dash towards the sex maniac.

"I'll risk it! A few years as a girl and you'll see things my way! You won't have a choice!" He said as he prepared to fire again, only to be struck on both sides of the neck by Kurama.

"Lights out skunk." She said as she wen to pick up the gun, only for it to be yanked away by the ribbon of Kodachi Kuno.

"OH HO HO HO HO! No you don't, you feather brained harlett. This gun belongs to..OPH!" She was cut off by a bokken to the head.

"Oh no you don't, twisted sister! This here gun is said to be able to set free my beloved pigtailed girl! So none but I, Tatewaki KunOoOoOoOoOoO!" The long winded Kuno was cut off by Lum's electric shock.

"Drop dead already you cockroach!" The Oni girl said as she swooped down for the gun.

"Klause! Pierre!" Came the voice of Asuza as she tackled Lum and tried to pull her horns off.

"OOOWWWWW!" Lum screamed. "Get OFF you little brat!"

"Don't worry Lum! I've got it!" Asuka said as she went for the gun, only to be caught by the other half of the Golden Pair.

"We meet again my dear." Mikado said.

"Buzz off bub!" Asuka said as she sued his momentum to throw him into a rising Ataru.

"OPPHHH!" Both young men cried out as they ended up in a pile with Ataru on top of Mikado.

"Get OFF ME YOU BASTARD!" Mikado said as he pushed Ataru off.

"Like I'd want to be on top of you ya jackass!" Ataru shot back as he got back to his feet.

"Yeah, you'd prefer to be on the bottom. AAHHH HA HA HA HA HA!" Ranma said as he and a few of the others burst out laughing.

"Good one Ranma-kun! Ha ha ha ha ha!" Kurama said.

"Quit joking and get this bitch off of me!" Lum shouted.

"Give Asuza Klause and Piear!" The little brat said as she kept pulling on Lum's horns.

"Hang on Lum-chan!" Ranma said, only to be cut off by a blast of light. Ranma just barely managed to avoid the fatal ray that would have returned his curse, and turned to see pop trying to shoot him.

"Before I cure myself, I'll give you back your curse you disrespectful boy!" Genma said as he started shooting at Ranma. Ranma yelped and did everything he could to avoid the shots.

"DARLING!" Lum cried as her anger boiled over.

"GET OOOOOFFFFFFFFFFFFF!" Lum shouted as she zapped the annoying brat in pink. As Asuza fell off the Oni girl, Lum dashed towards her Darling, only to be cut off by a flying side kick from Shampoo.

"If anyone save Airen, it be Shampoo! Not alien homewrecker!" She said as she ran for Ranma and Genma.

"Nihao Ranma!" Shampoo started to say, only to be interrupted by a kick to the gut by Kodachi.

"If you want a homewrecker, look in the mirror you foreign slut!" She said, as she got up to run for Ranma.

"Don't worry Ranma-baby! You're beautiful Kodachi will..." The rat-tailed girl was cut off by a diving kick from Kurama.

"Back off bitch. Ranma-kun, duck!" She said as she swung her fan and shot a powerful gust of wind at the father/son pair.

Seeing the wind coming for him, Ranma dived to the side as the gale hit Genma full on and blasted him into the recovering Fujinami. Both dimwitted fathers got up and glared at each other as their anger started to boil over.

"Hey! Watch where you're going, Chowder Head!" Fujinami said to the fat martial artist.

"You watch it you kelp head!" Genma shouted back.

"Stop your stupid arguing and get that gun!" Ataru shouted. Both fathers looked to see that the gun was indeed laying in the middle of the street in between all of the combatants in this crazy mixed up melee.

(Insert Song: Fight! By Ron Wasserman. A.K.A. The Mighty RAW)

All parties looked around at each other and then at the gun. They all clenched their fists as they inched closer to the gun, not taking their eyes off the foes all around them. As all the contenders of this massive free-for-all ground their feet into the ground, tensing for a quick charge, they all had the same thought on their minds: Who would make the first move?

And the answer...they all moved at the same time! Ranma was the fastest of the large group and made a dive for the gun but Mikado skated in front of him and swiped the gun just as Ryoga ended up tackling Ranma.

"Tech! Ryoga you nitwit!" Ranma said as he elbowed Ryoga and rolled to get out of the lost boy's grasp.

As Mikado was celebrating his victory, Fujinami tripped him up with a sweep kick, sending the skater to the ground. Mikado growled in pain as the gun flew from his hand and into the waiting arms of Shampoo.

"Shampoo have it!" She said, only to get hit by a flying kick from Lum.

"Oh no you don't!" She said as she tried to take the gun from the purple-haired girl. "Now give me that gun!"

"Grrr! Back off alien! Shampoo use this gun to get Airen! And you in way!" She said as she kicked at Lum. Lum clutched her stomach in pain from the kick and growled as the Amazon got back to her feet in a Kung Fu stance.

"Don't think I'm an easy opponent to beat." Lum said as she took up a Pigua chan stance.

As the Oni and the Amazon prepared to face off, Kodachi tried to sneak attack them, only to have herself in a choke hold and then thrown to the ground by Kurama.

"Sorry sister, but no one takes out that Oni but me." She said as she took up her own stance. Kodachi growled as she got back up.

"You stupid bird woman! No one stands in the way of The Black Rose!" She said as she struck out with two gymnastics clubs.

Kurama dodged the swings and twirled behind the psycho girl and hit her in the kidney with a spinning elbow before dropping into a spinning leg sweep that continued into to more spinning kicks that nailed the falling Black Rose in the face and then the chest. Kodachi landed on her back as Kurama tried to jump onto her fallen foe, only for the female Kuno to lash out with a double kick that kicked the Tengu princess back as she flipped back to her feet.

"Oh, so the bird has talons, eh?" She said as she leapt at Kurama.

Kurama was hunched over in pain and barley had enough time to roll out of the way of Kodachi's attack as she avoided a Kali style barrage of strikes from her clubs. Kurama rolled to her feet and struck with a back kick before switching to a back fist, spinning crescent kick, and then a jumping back kick.

The last blow managed to hit Kodachi in the stomach, bending her over and giving Kurama the chance to smash her in the head with a knee strike and then jump over her and spin the crazed woman around in the air three times before throwing her straight to the ground.

"Going DOWN!" Kurama said with a mad grin as she threw the gymnast to the ground.

As the girls dealt with their own rivals, Ranma was trading blows with Ryoga. Ranma kicked, Ryoga blocked and retaliated with haymaker. Ranma ducked under the savage blow and struck with a left cross to the ribs before following that up with a right uppercut, side elbow and a side kick that sent the lost boy stumbling back. But before Ranma could continue, Genma seized him from behind and charged into Ryoga, sending both boys to the ground.

"Sorry boy, but it's time you learned who's the master around here!" Said the fat man as he tried to charge at the girls with the gun. Ranma and Ryoga exchanged a look, nodded and charged to tackle Genma's legs.

Genma yelled as he fell to the ground before the two rivals twisted his feet into painful locks before doing a double elbow drop onto his back.

"Yeah. WE ARE!" Said the boys as they got up and charged for the Oni and Amazon while reigniting their own exchange of blows.

Shampoo struck with a palm strike and a round kick, but Lum managed to parry one and then block the other before striking Shampoo in the nose with her own palm strike before grabbing her collar and a takedown throw that Ranma had been teaching her. Shampoo yelped as she slammed into the ground, losing her grip on the gun as she did.

"I've got it!" Lum said, only for the Amazon to do a spinning sweep kick that knocked her to the ground.

"No you don't." She said as she got up to run for the gun, only for her to charge right into Lum's extended foot, right in her gut.

"You don't either, bitch." Lum said as she did a crouching high roundhouse kick to the Amazon's head sending her reeling as she flipped back to her feet and struck out with the whipping strikes of the Pigua style, forcing Shampoo to focus on defending herself from the blows.

As Lum dealt with Shampoo, Mikado and Asuza went for the gun themselves, only to get hit with a jumping split kick from Asuka. As she landed, she went for Asuza and threw her into her larger partner before doing a spinning side kick that that sent both skaters down into a heap.

"Stay down ya creeps." She said as she ran for the gun, only to be stopped by the groping hands of Ataru.

"Hey there sexy thing!" He said with his perverted grin as he tried to nuzzle himself against the busty girl. Asuka growled as she smashed her elbow into Ataru's head and twisted him into an arm lock that took him down while his arm was braced up in the air behind him.

"You perverted bastard." She said as she applied more pressure, threatening to break Ataru's arm at the joint. As Ataru screamed in pain, Asuka soon found herself swept up in the arms of Mikado.

"I'm sorry for the constant interruptions." He said as he tried to kiss Asuka, only to have her knee land in his crotch.

"Back off doofus!" She said as she pushed the playboy off and reared her fist back before sending him flying with a strong punch to the face.

Ataru, seeing his chance, made a break for the gun that lay just in front of him. He grinned, thinking about all the hot girls that would be born thanks to him shooting guys with this gun. He didn't really know about the fact that they could turn back to guys with hot water, and to be honest, there was a high possibility that he didn't care. His libido was the only thing he cared about.

"Thanks babe! Now the world of my dreams is..." He was cut off by the bokken of Kuno.

"Back vile nave!" The Kendo idiot said. "The one to free the pigtailed girl is me!"

And with that he made for the gun himself, only to be struck with a punch to the gut and then thrown aside. The last thing he saw before he passed out from the pain that hit his head from the impact was the face of Fujinami.

"I don't know or care what you're talking about, but the only one using that gun for anything is me to cure my son!" He said.

"I'm a woman you dumbass!" Ryuunosuke shouted as she came at her father with a flying side kick. Fujinami dodged the kick and tried to take aim at his daughter with the gun.

"You're a man now act like one!" He said as he shot at Ryuunosuke. She jsut grinned and ran right at him, taking the blast head on. The mad rush was worth it as she landed a strong punch to the gut and then an uppercut to her father.

"Ouch! That really hurt. But it was worth it to cure you of...HUH!?" Fujinami cut him self off as Ryuunosuke pulled up her shirt to show that she still had her breasts wrapped up by her chest binding wrap.

"WHAT!?" He shouted. Ryuunosuke smirked.

"That gun only works on men to turn them into woman, dumbass! Since I'm a woman, it can't turn me into one again."

'Of course, I DO kind of wish it made my breasts a little bigger. Not a lot bigger but maybe just one cup size bigger. Oh well.' She thought to herself.

"GRRRR! This thing is USELESS!" Fujinami shouted as he threw the gun aside and took up a fighting stance.

"I guess I'll just have to smack some sense into ya the old-fashioned way." He said as he charged at his daughter. Ryuunosuke got back into her fighting stance as she prepared to face her father.

"Bring it old man!"

And with that, the two Fujinamis clashed. Ryuunosuke struck with two punches to the chest and then to the face, but her father blocked the punches and struck with a knee strike of his own. Ryuunosuke bent over from the strike as her father grabbed her head and smashed his other knee before putting her into a guillotine choke and tried to choke her out.

Ryuunosuke struck her father in the nuts and then pried herself out of his grip before kicking his feet out from under him. As Fujinami fell to the ground, clenching his legs together from pain, he looked up to see his daughter trying to stomp his lights out.

He rolled away and tried to sweep kick her. Ryuunosuke avoided the kick and then the follow up uppercut from her father and went for a backfist and reverse punch combo. Fujinami took the blows and then felt the pain of a follow up front kick and then spinning back kick, sending her deadbeat father backwards.

Fujinami growled at his daughter as she came in with shuffling side kick and a spinning hook kick. He dodged the kicks and did a downward punch to Ryuunosuke's head which she blocked but she was left wide open for the follow up gut punch and a round house kick to her left leg and one to her right rib. Ryuunosuke back peddled as her father came at her with a spinning back fist, side kick combo that transitioned into his triple spin kick combo. One jump spinning heel kick, then a crouching spinning sweep kick and finally a spinning hook kick.

Ryuunosuke was forced to block and dodge the barrage of attacks, and once she saw an opening, she struck with a punch to the face, a round house kick to the rib and a double high-low punch that hit her father in both the face and the stomach. Fujinami reeled from the pain and growled as his daughter came in with a low to high round house kick combo, but he managed to block both kicks and retaliate with his own high round house.

As the father and daughter duo kept on fighting, Kurama saw the gun land next to her feet and tried to go for it, only to be cut off by Kodachi.

"Where do you think you're going?" She asked as she whipped out a bladed hoop and tried to slash Kurama's eyes. She yelped and leaned back in time to avoid the deadly attack and growled at the psycho gymnast.

"You know, you're really getting on my nerves!" The Tengu girl said as she swung her fan at her rival and sent out a wave of wind at her.

Kodachi leapt away and hurled her hoop as well as her ribbon at the alien beauty. Kurama dodged the hoop but the ribbon wrapped around her arm as Kodachi laughed her annoying laugh and pulled on the ribbon.

"Oh ho ho ho! Got you now, little birdie!" She said. Kurama only grinned.

"I hate to disappoint you, but I am stronger than I look."

And with that, Kurama yanked HARD on the ribbon and pulled the crazy girl towards her. Kodachi screamed as she was yanked off her feet and nailed with a close line by Kurama who then did a spinning stomp kick on Kodachi's stomach, knocking the air out of her. Kurama scoffed at the girl, but felt panic as she heard Lum's voice. She turned and saw her friend and rival struggling with Shampoo.

"Lum!" She said as she ran to help her rival and friend.

Lum was fighting her hardest against Shampoo, but as good as she had become, it was clear that the Amazon was a much better fighter. Lum struck with a palm strike after palm strike, but Shampoo either dodged blocked or parried each blow. Lum went for a double round house kick but the Amazon grabbed the kick and punched Lum once in the stomach and once in the face before throwing her to the ground.

Shampoo was about to break Lum's arm in a joint lock, but Lum, having had enough of this bitch, charged her body with electricity, shocking the Amazon and sending her backwards. Lum rolled on the ground and launched a kick to Shampoo's gut before wrapping her hands in electricity and doing a double palm strike that sent her flying. But the Amazon righted herself in time to see Lum shooting another blast of lightning at her and dodge it.

Shampoo ran at her rival and executed a ariel spinning double kick that knocked Lum down and then did a flipping axe kick that smashed her to the ground and knocked the air out of her lungs. Shampoo was grinning at her enemy and was about to finish her off but was caught off guard by a pair of arms wrapping around her.

"Back off my friend you bitch!" Kurama shouted in rage as she flew into the air and called up a wind to wrap around her body.

She spun with the wind and dived down to the ground, intending to smash the Amazon's head in. Shampoo panicked and struggled to break free, but Kurama had a surprisingly strong grip. Kurama grinned as she smashed her victim into the ground.

"Izuna Otoshi!" She cried as she and Shampoo crashed into the ground.

"Kurama!" Lum cried. But as the dust cleared, Kurama got back onto her feet smiling as Shampoo's body fell to the ground, unconscious.

"Don't worry, I'm ok." She said, causing Lum to smile. Kurama smiled back at her friend and then panicked.

"Sleezy perv's going for the gun!" She cried out, making Lum look to see Ataru was indeed going for the gun again.

"Oh no!" Lum said as she and Kurama charged after the pervy boy.

Back with Ranma and Ryoga, the two boys were locked in an evenly matched battle of skill. Ranma fired off a quick succession of punches and followed up with round kick and hook kick. Ryoga caught the kick and kicked at the knee on Ranma's standing leg, causing it to buckle. As Ranma fell, Ryoga attempted to put him in a leg and ankle lock, but Ranma managed to spin out of the lock before it was set and kicked at Ryoga.

Ryoga rolled with Ranma's kick and blocked Ranma's next few punches before punching Ranma in the face with a hook punch. Ranma's vision began to spin from the force of the punch as Ryoga followed up with two uppercuts and a front stomp kick before doing a jump, spinning back kick that knocked Ranma to the ground.

Ranma coughed to get the air back into his lungs as Ryoga tried to do a jumping stomp on his downed rival. Ranma spun and as soon as Ryoga crashed onto the ground, Ranma did a spinning handstand kick to Ryoga's head before a 360-tornado kick to the lost boy's head. Ryoga stumbled form the last kick and was caught off guard when Ranma got up close to him and unleashed a rapid barrage of punches coated in blue ki on his rival.

Ryoga was pelted with blows until Ranma ended the barrage with an uppercut, elbow, spinning back fist, and finally, a jump spinning heel kick to the head. Ryoga went flying to the ground and Ranma finally thought he had some breathing room, until he felt a tackle from behind.

"AGH!" Ranma shouted as he felt the tackle turn into a hold.

"You let your guard down Ranma!" Came the voice of Mikado. Ranma growled at his other rival.

"That's dirty pool pal! Attacking me while I'm dealing with another fight!?" Ranma growled as he struggled. As they struggled, they heard the annoying laugh of Ataru and looked to see him aiming the gun at Ranma!

"See ya Ranma! It's time to get your GIRL ON! AH HA HA HA HA HA!" Ataru said as he fired the gun.

"DARLING!" Lum cried with tears in her eyes as Ataru fired before she could reach him.

"YOU BASTARD!" Kurama shouted as she prepared to smash Ataru's face in.

Time seemed to slow for Ranma as he saw the blast coming. He panicked. There HAD to be a way out of this! As the blast came at him, Ranma realized that he had one trick left. And if it failed, it was back to gender swapping for him.

"Ryusui Gansaiken, Ni no kata: Mizu Guruma!" Ranma shouted and in front of all to see, he coated his body in a blue aura and started flipping straight towards Ataru's blast in a spinning wheel motion, taking Mikado with him.

Another moment later, the blast struck home! Only it wasn't RANMA who was hit by the ray gun's blast...it was MIKADO! Ataru and the others gasped as not only did the skating boy get hit by the blast, but it caused him to let go as Ranma kept spinning straight towards Ataru and as soon as he got close to him, he ended his spin with a ki enhanced axe kick that sent Ataru straight into the sewer below! Lum and Kurama both gasped and then broke out into smiles as Ranma stood up and flipped his pigtail, still a man.

"DARLING! You're ok!" Lum cried as she jumped onto Ranma and hugged him.

"Yeah I'm...the gun!" Ranma shouted as Genma dived for the gun.

"AHA! It's mine!" He shouted.

"Quick! Grab him!" Kurama shouted as she and the others dived for the fat man with the cure gun.

Ryuunosuke ended up back to back with Asuka as their opponents charged at them. The two girls looked at each other, then back to their opponents and smirked. Fujinami came at Ryuunosuke as Asuza skated towards Asuka. Both girls cartwheeled out of the way as the two charging foes crashed into each other.

"Close one." Ryuunosuke said.

"Yeah no kidding." Asuka add. Both teens looked at each other and shook hands.

"By the way, I'm Asuka Kazama."

"Ryuunosuke Fujinami."

"Guys help!" They turned their heads and saw Ranma and the others struggling with Genma and Ryoga for the gun.

"Ranma! Guys! Hang on!" Ryuunosuke said as she charged to help her friends.

"We're coming!" Asuka added in as she followed the other young woman. They both crashed into the small group as Asuza and Fujinami and even Kuno crashed in after them.

Lum growled as the free-for-all turned into a dog pile wrestling match for the gun she created to help her Darling. She growled as her hair started to flash different colors as her electricity charged up.

"I've had ENOOOOOOOOOOOOUGH!" She cried out as she let lose a large-scale blast that shocked everyone in the dog pile. Lum then blasted away from the group of people and grabbed the gun that was the cause of all the trouble.

"I'm going to do what I should have done a long time ago!" She shouted as she charged up the gun with electricity and destroyed the gun in front of everyone.

All the enemies that had come to take the gun looked on with wide eyes and dropped jaws as they saw the gun destroyed right in front of their eyes. Ranma laughed at the sight, a load off his mind and soul at seeing the very thing he both hated and was thankful for being destroyed.

"Nice one Lum-chan." Ranma said with a groan.

"Yeah, but next time, how about NOT frying us too, huh?" Ryuunosuke add.

"Yeah, we're on your side remember?" Asuka said as she and the others got up form the pile of people.

"You BITCH!" Genma said as he jumped back to his feet.

"You destroyed the gun! Now I'll have to live with this curse forever!"

"How could you destroy the prison of my pigtailed girl!?" Kuno added.

"WHY YOU LITTLE! NOW how am I supposed to get cured!?" Ryoga shouted in rage.

"Ryoga, I've been trying to tell you and my idiot dad, that gun only works on people who were hit with the Spring of Drowned Girl curse." Ranma said. Ryoga and Genma both went limp at that.

"Huh!?" They both said, the others whining and not really listening to the explanation.

"It's like I tried to tell you," Lum said as she touched down on the ground. "I originally created that gun using water from the spring Darling fell into. It only works on those who had that curse originally. If it were to blast anyone else, it would only give them the curse of the Spring of Drowned Girl."

They paled at that. And as if to prove Lum's point, a feminine voice came from where Mikado fell. All those gathered looked to where the voice came from and saw a very pretty looking girl who looked like a female version of Mikado rise up and shake her head as she looked at the crowd looking at her.

"What are all you looking at?" She asked.

"Um...who are you?" Ryoga asked. The woman looked at him like he was stupid.

"I'm Mikado Sanzenin! Rising star of the Martial Arts Figure Skating world! Don't you recognize..." She cut off as she placed her hand on her chest and noticed for the first time that she had breasts. She looked down, blushed and screamed.

"AAAAHHHHH! What happened to me!? I'm a girl!?" She screamed. Ranma smirked and burst out laughing at his rival.

"AAAAHHH HA HA HA HAAAAAA! KARMA! Karma karma karma! HA HA AH AHAHAHAHA!" He burst out as he and the others nearly fell over themselves laughing.

"SOOO CUTE!" Asuza screamed as she latched onto the now female Mikado. "I want to take her home with me! Come on Flora! Come home with Asuza!"

"Let go you idiot! It's me! Your partner, Mikado!" The now female Mikado screamed as she tried to fight off her partner. Ryoga and Genma looked at the scene in front of them and then back to the laughing group of Ranma and the others.

"See? It's just like they told ya! Hahaha! You guys almost turned yourselves into girls! AAAHH ha hah ahahaha!" Ryuunosuke said as she laughed her butt off.

"Good thing too. The fat guy would have made one UGLY woman! Ha hahh!" Asuka laughed.

Genma and Ryoga both looked at each other and just made inaudible noises before collapsing to the ground. Kuno, feeling bad that he was robbed of seeing his pigtailed girl again, dragged his sister away as Mikado ran from Asuza...and right into the arms of Ataru.

"Hey there cutie pie! Say, how's about a date!" He said, creeping Mikado out like nothing ever had before.

"Get away you freak! I'm not a woman! I'm a man! Get away from meeeeeee!" Mikado screamed as she skated away like the devil was chasing after her, with Ataru and Asuza right behind her.

"HA ha ha ha! Ahhhh. I have never been happier at another person's misfortune." Ranma said as he looked at his friends.

"Say, what do you say we get out of heerrreeee!" Ranma screamed as he tripped and fell right on top of Asuka...lips first.

"EEEHHHH!?" The three girls cried in shock as Ranma and Asuka blushed and then scrambled away from each other.

"I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm so sorry!" Ranma cried out.

"No no, I'm sorry!" Asuka said, face as red as Ranma's hair once was.

"DARLING! YOU LITTLE CHEAT!" Lum screamed in fury as she sparked with lightning.

"Lum-chan wait! It was an accident! Honest!" Ranma pleaded with his angry girlfriend.

"Lum! Chill! It was an accidennAAAHHHHH!" Ryuunosuke screamed as she tripped too and fell onto Ranma. Her lips landing on his.

"What AGAIN!?" Kurama screamed in rage.

"WHY YOU!" Lum fired lightning at Ranma and he ran for his life with Lum and Kurama in hot pursuit, all the while Asuka was chasing after them to try and help calm Lum and Kurama down before she killed Ranma. All the while...

"My first kiss. My actual first kiss." Ryuunosuke was sitting on the ground, her brain trying to wrap itself around the fact that she had just gotten her first kiss. And it was from Ranma.

The next day, after everyone had had a chance to calm down and talk it out, Lum was waking up in her bed on her ship. She stretched out and went to brush her teeth, all the while thinking about how she should apologize to Ranma for trying to fry him. But now she felt like she had to keep an eye on Asuka and Ryuunosuke. As she was getting herself changed, she saw her computer going off, showing that she had an incoming call from her father.

Lum yawned and walked over to her computer and pressed a few buttons to answer the call. But as soon as she did...

"WAKE UP YOU CHOWDER HEAD!" Came the voice of her father. Lum freaked and fell over her seat as she screamed in shock.

"Daddy! What the heck?" She asked.

"You dummy! Did you forget what day it is!? You were supposed to be here last night! We're all waiting!" Her father said.

Lum blinked her eyes in confusion and looked at her calendar. As soon as she did, she gasped in shock!

"Oh no! Is that today!?" She said as she ran to her calendar.

"Oh my gosh! I was so busy with helping Darling I totally forgot! It's Setsubon!"

On Lum's home planet of Oniboshi, a red-haired, green-eyed girl on an air bike grinned at what was to come. Today, Benten would have her day!